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The Trouble with Older Fathers
By Anita Slomski // Spring 2013
As science has attempted to accommodate women’s desire to prolong their childbearing years, men have tended to worry much less about the ticking of their biological clocks. But new research from Iceland suggests older men don’t get a free pass. In the largest study to date, whole genome sequencing was performed on 78 nuclear families—father, mother and child—to find genetic mutations that appear only in the child. Spontaneous mutations that occur at the time of conception—known as de novo mutations—are important in natural selection, helping delete the function of genes that may be disadvantageous to the species. But about 10% of de novo mutations are considered harmful, giving offspring a higher risk of autism, schizophrenia and other disorders and diseases.
Fathers pass on nearly four times as many de novo mutations as do mothers, and the older the father is, the more mutations the child receives. Because men make approximately 200 million sperm a day, the precursor stem cells that turn into sperm are continually dividing—and creating opportunities for mutations to arise. According to the Icelandic study, the mutation rate doubles with every 16.5 years of age and increases eightfold in 50 years.
“One out of 30 people is born with a de novo mutation that results in the loss of the function of a gene,” which is bound to have some impact on that person’s traits, says neurologist Kari Stefansson, chief executive of deCODE Genetics in Reykjavik and an author of the study. Given that half of all human genes affect the brain, coding errors in DNA are particularly likely to contribute to neuropsychiatric disorders such as autism and schizophrenia. Stefansson notes that people with those largely inherited disorders tend to have few children, so logically the diseases should become less and less common. “Yet autism is on the rise today, and the prevalence of schizophrenia has remained the same for the past 100 years,” he says. “There must be a very significant contribution by de novo mutations.”
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Caribana, the Greatest Celebration:
The Greatest Celebration
by Cecil Foster, Chris Schwarz,
People Who Make a Difference
by Brent Ashabranner, Paul Conklin,
After Geometry:
The Abstract Art of Claude Tousignant
by James D. Campbell,
by Terry James,
Yukon:
Spellbound under Northern Skies
by Theo Allofs,
Brief Reviews - Gift Books - Diversity of Gifts
by Diana Brebner
A few years ago, at my eldest daughter's elementary school book sale, I found a small, simple, perfect book called From Ben Loman to the Sea, published by Nimbus Publishing. It consists of a long folk poem by Lance Woolaver, with, on every other page, facing the verses, a bright, "primitive" painting by Maud Lewis, Nova Scotia's "Grandma Moses". This was my chance introduction to the folk art of Nova Scotia.
Nimbus has recently reprinted the very popular and useful exhibition catalogue Nova Scotia Folk Art (Nimbus, 49 pages, $12.95 paper), edited by Bernard Riordon, the curator of a Canada House exhibit that circulated in the UK in 1989 and 1990, showing everything from portraits to weathervanes, quilts, gunracks, embroidery samplers, wooden sculptures, and even a crocheted armchair. It was a great success and the catalogue had become a collector's item. This new printing is welcome and a copy would be a great gift for anyone with an interest in folk art.
Two other new books from Nimbus are less esoteric and fall perhaps into the category of "tourist book". Yukon: Spellbound under Northern Skies (Nimbus, 129 pages, $29.95 cloth) is the kind of coffee-table book from which my European relatives develop their peculiar ideas about Canada. The photographer Theo Allofs, originally from Germany, comes to the Yukon with the same European fascination with wilderness, frontiers, and open space. He is, technically, an excellent photographer with a romantic sensibility, a somewhat conservative sense of composition, and an open-eyed use of colour that reflects the vitality of the Yukon and Yukoners. In the midst of magnificent landscape photographs there are also lively and whimsical shots: a man with three llamas in Kluane National Park, calf-roping at the Whitehorse rodeo, some fetching grizzly photos, a patient sled dog having his felt booties adjusted, and my favourite, "Curious Eyes", which depicts a sled dog peering out in resignation from his transport box.
Somewhat less successful is Terry James's Nova Scotia (Nimbus, 96 pages, $19.95 cloth), which errs too often on the side of caution, even for a gift book. While the photographs are pleasant enough I never had the sense of passionate interest that was evident in Allofs's book. Only one photograph, a winter scene of a Hereford oxen race, jumped out at me as being fresh and interesting, so I wasn't surprised to read that James is also the author of In Praise of Oxen. There are few photographs with people in them and I couldn't help but notice that almost all the active people in his photographs are white and male. Although brief mention is made of the African-Canadian, Acadian, and Micmac communities in the brief introduction, there are no photographs of these people, while women and girls fare not much better-they appear in historical dress at Louisbourg or performing traditional Highland dance. Now, a Nova Scotia from George Elliott Clarke or Rita Joe, that would be interesting!
The African-Canadian community is definitely evident in Caribana (Ballantine Books, 96 pages, $16.95 paper), which is less a gift book than a souvenir album. Cecil Foster and Chris Schwarz have collaborated to produce a big, splashy, colourful book that explores the origins and events of the Caribana festival that is held every August in Toronto. In early years the festival occurred in an atmosphere of radicalism but also in one of hope for change in attitudes. This was a time of visits to Toronto by Malcolm X, Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture), Martin Luther King, and a young Derek Walcott, whose play "Dream On Monkey Mountain" was produced as part of the first Caribana festival.
The authors capture the excitement and energy of the parade/street dance/celebration, and also go behind the scenes to capture the invisible hands and faces of those who make the elaborate costumes and provide support to the performers. This book is sure to bring smiles of recognition to Caribana "regulars" and to pique the interest of those of us who've never been there, done it, got the T-shirt.
Now, a very different kind of gift, and book is People Who Make A Difference (Viking/Penguin, 218 pages, $50.00 cloth). What can I say about a book whose sub-title is Photographers and Friends Against AIDS without sounding like a heartless scrooge? First of all, I come from the left-hand-not-knowing-what-the-right-hand-is-doing school of giving so I would be embarrassed to have a big, do-gooder coffee-table book lying about where people could see it. That aside, I still have problems with People Who Make A Difference. This is not a book of photographs of people with AIDS who have made a difference (which might have been more interesting) but of "famous people" like Roberta Bondar, Jean Chr�tien, and Douglas Cardinal. Artists, writers, designers, and dancers mix with bank presidents, George Cohon (McDonald's head honcho in Canada), and Mr. Dressup. One wonders, too, whether some of the subjects are included because of the size of their pocketbooks. Margaret Atwood in her introduction says, "This book, too, is sort of sublime irrelevance." How true. I'll just write a cheque, thanks, and do without this expensive, tree-chomping, picture book.
A big book for a big show is Lost Paradise: Symbolist Europe (Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 500 pages, $125.00 cloth), which features works from an exhibition this year at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. I have always associated the name "symbolism" with what I thought was primarily a literary movement, in particular with French poets of the nineteenth century such as Mallarm� and Baudelaire.
This superbly produced and sumptuously illustrated book shows us links between writers, painters, sculptors, and designers from almost every European country. These works are what I was educated to call, somewhat derisively, "decadent art". The organizers and essayists respond to this point. Was symbolism a decadent movement or a modern one? Was it renovatio or innovatio? Its most obvious heirs are Art Deco, German expressionism, and surrealism, which all recombine many of the themes, symbols, and forms of representation found in symbolist work, and which continue to reflect the despair, disconnectedness, and disruption of fin-du-si�cle and early twentieth-century art and life.
Myth, symbol, narrative, and the figure all have a large role in symbolist work. Many pieces in the exhibit are "bad art", according to contemporary criteria, and symbolist art is, I think it fair to say, an acquired taste. What is fascinating in this book is to see, amid the works of rather obscure artists, interesting ones by Redon, Burne-Jones, Rodin, Klee, Klimt, Gauguin, and Munch. Also arresting is the surreal lyricism of photographers such as Frederick Holland Day and Anne Brigman. The writers of the essays have gone to great lengths to show us how all these works are connected to the symbolist movement, with varying degrees of success but always with a laudable sense of exploration and re -evaluation.
Always one to eat my red Smarties last, I've saved and savoured After Geometry: The Abstract Art of Claude Tousignant by James D. Campbell (ECW Press, 179 pages, $65.00 cloth, $500.00 limited edition with signed monochrome). Where Lost Paradise is sumptuous verging on voluptuous, After Geometry is cleanly beautiful. Carefully and intelligently written, with colour plates selected from rarely seen paintings in the artist's own as well as private collections, this book is an art lover's delight.
Campbell is a distinguished writer on art and a frequent contributor to such magazines as Espace and Parachute. In 1996, ECW will publish his Abstract Art in Canada: A Concise History.
He traces Tousignant's career from his early years. The recent work includes his well-known "monochromes" and the very interesting charcoal and graphite series "Suite Wittgenstein", which is reproduced here. The book's crowning glories are the last two chapters. In "Some Implications of an Abstract Art", Campbell tries to answer his opening questions:
"How can one meaningfully come to terms with a corpus so cohesive, implicit in which is such an implacable logic and such a genetic process of making? How can one fathom so svelte an evolutionary arc? What would be the implications of treating Tousignant's abstract practice as a radicalized form of writing and reading? Does it make sense to suggest that a monochrome painting can be interpreted as a semantic space?"
He concludes eloquently, intimately, and somewhat playfully, with "The Anatomy of a Painter's Doubt", using such examples as "Le voyage au bout du bleu" and the white and white monochrome "Blanc et blanc" (what else would it be called?) to explore Tousignant's constant evolution as an artist.
Tousignant has always worked towards creating art devoid of reference and allusion. No narrative, literary, or representational elements here, only the search for pure chroma, a continually reinventive approach to abstraction.
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Survivalists get ready for meltdown
Survivalists believe in preparing to cope after the total collapse of society
They move to remote areas and stockpile food, water and guns and ammunition
Disaster scenarios include global hyperinflation and climate change
Survivalism has been linked with far-right political views -- which advocates deny
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By Paul Willis for CNN
LONDON , England (CNN) -- Derek is compiling a survival guide on how to cope after the total collapse of society. It is, as you can imagine, a big job.
Survivalists believe in preparing against the worst: stockpiling food and guns.
Already he has 58.8 gigabytes of material stored on his computer, he tells me impressively.
Derek (this is not his real name -- he says he doesn't want me to use his real name "for obvious reasons" that he never gets round to explaining) considers himself a survivalist.
The survivalist movement grew up in America in the 1960s. Encouraged by Cold War-era government's calls to build nuclear fallout shelters, and concerns over currency devaluation, individuals and groups began to take steps to prepare themselves against the worst.
Many survivalists in the U.S. relocate to the northwestern state of Idaho, stockpiling food, and quite often guns and ammunition, and learning how to be self-sufficient in order to survive or "disappear."
To those who have heard of it at all, survivalism is sometimes associated with extremist views. In the U.S., the movement has occasionally been hijacked by far-right groups attracted by its rejection of much of government and its fierce defense of the right to bear arms.
For example, Oklahoma bomber Timothy McVeigh was obsessed with survivalism as a teenager, setting up a generator and a store of canned food and potable water in his basement.
Gaia straits: Planetary doctor says condition terminal
'Two dead' inside doomsday cult cave
Jim Rawles' Survival blog
Apocalyptic daze
For defenders of the movement, like Jim Rawles who runs a survivalist blog and lives "in a very lightly populated region west of the Rockies" this perversion by a "lunatic fringe" distorts the true message of survivalism, which is, in many ways, just about personal freedom.
Derek, 60, who moved from London to the countryside in the southeast of England four years ago, puts it another way.
"There's going to be absolute pandemonium when it does happen, so I just want to be prepared so that I'm not a burden on anyone," he says.
What this disaster might be is anyone's guess, says Derek, but he's got his hunches.
Climate change is high up on the list. Also up there is the fallout from a global economic collapse, possibly resulting from a state of peak oil -- the point where oil production reaches its peak and thereafter goes into freefall.
Even so, Derek suspects he may not live to see the meltdown he predicts is on its way.
This is perhaps why his own preparations are rather spartan. Aside from the survival manual, he has a backpack filled with a few essentials - what survivalists term a "bug-out." He keeps the rucksack in the trunk of his car; it contains a stove, dried food, blankets, boots, clothes and "a spare set of me and the wife's pills."
Jim Rawles is taking no such chances. A former U.S. army intelligence officer, he lives on a ranch in an undisclosed location with his wife (who he refers to in his blog affectionately as "the Memsahib") and their children.
Their life is almost entirely self-sufficient: They keep livestock, hunt elk and the children are schooled at home. Stored away in the ranch somewhere is a three-year supply of food.
For a city dweller it sounds almost idyllic, though Rawles -- a gently spoken and affable man -- insists it's a lot of hard work.
"The majority of survivalists live in suburban areas and they see a life away from that as an ideal," he says. "Unfortunately, from a practical standpoint it's not possible so I think for some of these people we're living out their fantasies."
When he's not looking after the ranch or re-ordering the food supply, he devotes much of his time to the blog, which he says now receives up to 70,000 visits a week.
A life-long devotee of survivalism -- he had his first "bug-out" packed when he was just 14 -- the 48-year-old has become an unofficial spokesman for the movement.
He has penned a number of books on preparedness, including a novel called "Patriots: Surviving the Coming Collapse." Set in the near future, it imagines a period of hyperinflation and socio-economic collapse, providing guidance on how to cope.
Although a work of fiction, Rawles believes the reality is not far off.
"I've come to the conclusion that the biggest lynchpin is the power grid. If it were to go down, either through economic collapse or a terrorist atrocity, then the cities are going to become unglued."
Of course, none of this kind of talk is that new. The nature of the threat may have changed but groups of various descriptions have been predicting a breakdown of society since biblical times -- and very occasionally they've been right.
What does seem to have changed, according to Rawles, is the type of people willing to take that threat seriously.
Not only does he believe that the movement is experiencing its largest growth since the late 1970s, but he counts among the new converts an increasing number of greens and left-wingers.
"They're worried by peak oil; the climate shift; the fragility of the economy. They share a lot of the same concerns as our conservative readers," he says.
But with so many possible doomsday scenarios to choose from, isn't it difficult to know what preparations to make?
Rawles says you need to be versatile. For example, a home shelter, he says, should be able to serve as a storm shelter against hurricanes, a pantry, a secure room for storing weapons, and as a fallout bunker in the event of nuclear attack.
It all sounds vaguely terrifying -- but Rawles insists he's not being paranoid.
"I really don't consider it alarmist, and knowing what I know about the fragility of society I wouldn't sleep soundly if I hadn't taken the preparations that I have." E-mail to a friend
From psychiatrist to 'Butcher of Bosnia' Why trial could take years
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Memphis Made Brewery to tap into Cooper-Young area in summer 2013
by Christopher Whitten | MicroMemphis Reporter
If beer and Memphis go together, according to Drew Barton, then so do Cooper-Young and Memphis Made.
Barton has purchased the 6,000 square foot space at 768 Cooper, which he plans to transform into a brewery that will be brewing about 1,000 barrels a week once it opens this summer.
The brewery will offer an India Pale Ale and a Kolsh to start, but that’s a little bit further down the road, Barton said. For initial tastes, beer enthusiasts will have to resort to finding the local brew in Memphis-are bars and restaurants, the list, Barton said, he is keeping to himself for now.
Barton is a founding member of the Cooper-Young Regional Beerfest committee and part-time bartender at the Flying Saucer. He spent five years working his way from delivery driver to head brewer at French Broad Brewery in Ashville, N. C. He has been brewing from home for about ten.
“I started home when I was in college," Barton said. "As soon as I made that first batch, I knew that that’s what I wanted to do with the rest of my life."
A graduate of White Station High School, Barton and his wife recently moved back to Memphis.
“[North Carolina] was great,” Barton said. “But what I really wanted was to come back home and open a brewery in my hometown.”
So he’s doing just that.
“It’s going slow, but I don’t know what timeline is right,” Barton said. “Some time this summer, we should be up and running. ”
He is still in the buildout phase of his dream right now, but he said the state and Federal licensing should go smoothly.
“I started home when I was in college. As soon as I made that first batch, I knew that that’s what I wanted to do with the rest of my life." Drew Barton, Memphis Made Brewery owner
He and his wife had both lived in Cooper-Young previously, so that’s where they started looking. But the search didn’t produce many prospects early on and Barton had started looking in other parts of town when the commercial space was finally listed for lease.
Barton’s brew will be competing with another brand set to tap into the market this year, High Cotton, opening in the Edge district near Downtown Memphis.
Memphis Made and High Cotton join the likes of Boscos and Ghost River, all ready being produced and sought out by many.
Barton said Memphis has plenty of people to support the multiple brands, and doesn’t worry about the competition.
“There’ll be a lot of different beers in the market which will be good,” Barton said.
John Anderson, frequently meets with his friends at a local pub and said he always orders local beers when they are on the menu.
"I love Bosco's and I brew at home," Anderson said. "Memphis Made sounds like they are on the right track to get my order. I can't wait to try it."
Barton said he plans to man to his brewery alone at first and hire as needed. While he plans to put out his maximum capacity this year at about 2,000 kegs, he will extend his production as soon as he can. Barton said he hopes eventually to offer a tasting room, tours and on-premises keg and growler sales.
Until the brand makes its way out of planning and onto local restaurants’ menus, visit www.memphismadebrewing.com for more information.
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FFBC Blog Tour & Giveaway: The Girl I Used To Be (April Henry)
The Girl I Used to Be
by April Henry
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)
Release Date: May 3rd 2016
Genre: Young Adult, Mystery, Thriller, Contemporary, Suspense
When Olivia's mother was killed, everyone suspected her father of murder. But his whereabouts remained a mystery. Fast forward fourteen years. New evidence now proves Olivia's father was actually murdered on the same fateful day her mother died. That means there's a killer still at large. It's up to Olivia to uncover who that may be. But can she do that before the killer tracks her down first?
Follow the The Girl I Used To Be by April Henry Blog Tour and don't miss anything! Click on the banner to see the tour schedule.
I write mysteries and thrillers. I live in Portland, Oregon with my family.
If you've read one of my books, I would love to hear from you. Hearing from readers makes me eager to keep writing.
When I was 12, I sent a short story about a six-foot tall frog who loved peanut butter to Roald Dahl, the author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. He liked it so much he arranged to have it published in an international children's magazine.
My dream of writing went dormant until I was in my 30s, working at a corporate job, and started writing books on the side. Those first few years are now thankfully a blur. Now I'm very lucky to make a living doing what I love. I have written 13 novels for adults and teens, with more on the way. My books have gotten starred reviews, been picked for Booksense, translated into six languages, been named to state reading lists, and short-listed for the Oregon Book Award.
I also review YA literature and mysteries and thrillers for the Oregonian, and have written articles for both The Writer and Writers Digest.
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16 December 2013 Mariusz Szczygieł as the Journalist of the Year according to Press
Mariusz Szczygieł – a journalist for Gazeta Wyborcza and a guest of the first edition of the Conrad Festival – was selected the 2013 Journalist of the Year. It is an award for professionalism, promoting global standards of work in the media, and following the ethical principles of the profession. Nominations are submitted by editorial meetings of Polish newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations, and online portals. Congratulations!
Mariusz Szczygieł is a graduate of the Faculty of Journalism at the University of Warsaw. He began working for the Na przełaj weekly right after his matriculation examination. He has worked for Gazeta Wyborcza since 1990, and he has been the editor of the Duży Format supplement since 2004. In the years 1995-2001, he hosted the Na każdy temat talk show on Polsat. He published two books: Niedziela, która zdarzyła się w środę (1996) and Gottland (2006) – translated into 8 languages. Awards he received for it include the Readers’ Award in the 2007 Nike competition, two Warsaw Literary Premiere Awards – the Book of the Month and the Book of the Year, the Beata Pawlak Award, and Prix Amphi in France. Awarded the Gratias Agit Prize by the government of the Czech Republic (2009). He received the 2004 Melchior Prize from the Polish Radio for his reportorial work on Czech-related issues. He conducted original workshop seminars on reportage at the University of Warsaw. Together with Bożena Dudko, he was the originator of the concept of the Ryszard Kapuściński Collection and its editor (published by Agora, 2008). He established the Institute of Reportage (2009) along with Paweł Goźliński and Wojciech Tochman. He lives in Warsaw, but his spirit – as he says – remains in Prague.
Festival meetings with emerging writers, winners of the Krakow, the UNESCO City of Literature Award 15 October 2021
Film band at the Conrad Festival 8 October 2021
About the book market for professionals but not only – Book Congress during the Conrad Festival 6 October 2021
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Less Carbon taken by trees in warmer climate, save Earth!
Save forests for this Beautiful Earth!
Contrary to conventional belief, as the climate warms and growing seasons lengthen subalpine forests are likely to soak up less carbon dioxide, according to a new University of Colorado at Boulder study.
As a result, more of the greenhouse gas will be left to concentrate in the atmosphere.
“Our findings contradict studies of other ecosystems that conclude longer growing seasons actually increase plant carbon uptake,” said Jia Hu, who conducted the research as a graduate student in CU-Boulder’s ecology and evolutionary biology department in conjunction with the university’s Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, or CIRES.
The study will be published in the February edition of the journal Global Change Biology.
Working with ecology and evolutionary biology professor and CIRES Fellow Russell Monson, Hu found that while smaller spring snowpack tended to advance the onset of spring and extend the growing season, it also reduced the amount of water available to forests later in the summer and fall. The water-stressed trees were then less effective in converting CO2 into biomass. Summer rains were unable to make up the difference, Hu said.
“Snow is much more effective than rain in delivering water to these forests,” said Monson. “If a warmer climate brings more rain, this won’t offset the carbon uptake potential being lost due to declining snowpacks.”
Drier trees also are more susceptible to beetle infestations and wildfires, Monson said.
The researchers found that even as late in the season as September and October, 60 percent of the water in stems and needles collected from subalpine trees along Colorado’s Front Range could be traced back to spring snowmelt. They were able to distinguish between spring snow and summer rain in plant matter by analyzing slight variations in hydrogen and oxygen atoms in the water molecules.
The results suggest subalpine trees like lodgepole pine, subalpine fir and Englemann spruce depend largely on snowmelt, not just at the beginning of the summer, but throughout the growing season, according to the researchers.
“As snowmelt in these high-elevation forests is predicted to decline, the rate of carbon uptake will likely follow suit,” said Hu.
Subalpine forests currently make up an estimated 70 percent of the western United States’ carbon sink, or storage area. Their geographic range includes much of the Rocky Mountains, Sierra Nevada and high-elevation areas of the Pacific Northwest.
Study co-authors included David Moore of King’s College London and Sean Burns of the National Center for Atmospheric Research and CU-Boulder.
As a result, more of the greenhouse gas will be left to concentrate in the atmosphere.”Our findings contradict studies of other ecosystems that conclude longer growing seasons actually increase plant carbon uptake,” said Jia Hu, who conducted the research as a graduate student in CU-Boulder’s ecology and evolutionary biology department in conjunction with the university’s Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, or CIRES.The study will be published in the February edition of the journal Global Change Biology.Working with ecology and evolutionary biology professor and CIRES Fellow Russell Monson, Hu found that while smaller spring snowpack tended to advance the onset of spring and extend the growing season, it also reduced the amount of water available to forests later in the summer and fall. The water-stressed trees were then less effective in converting CO2 into biomass. Summer rains were unable to make up the difference, Hu said.”Snow is much more effective than rain in delivering water to these forests,” said Monson. “If a warmer climate brings more rain, this won’t offset the carbon uptake potential being lost due to declining snowpacks.”Drier trees also are more susceptible to beetle infestations and wildfires, Monson said.The researchers found that even as late in the season as September and October, 60 percent of the water in stems and needles collected from subalpine trees along Colorado’s Front Range could be traced back to spring snowmelt. They were able to distinguish between spring snow and summer rain in plant matter by analyzing slight variations in hydrogen and oxygen atoms in the water molecules.The results suggest subalpine trees like lodgepole pine, subalpine fir and Englemann spruce depend largely on snowmelt, not just at the beginning of the summer, but throughout the growing season, according to the researchers.”As snowmelt in these high-elevation forests is predicted to decline, the rate of carbon uptake will likely follow suit,” said Hu.Subalpine forests currently make up an estimated 70 percent of the western United States’ carbon sink, or storage area. Their geographic range includes much of the Rocky Mountains, Sierra Nevada and high-elevation areas of the Pacific Northwest.Study co-authors included David Moore of King’s College London and Sean Burns of the National Center for Atmospheric Research and CU-Boulder.
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Super Gran Facebook
All grandparents are awesome, that is an undeniable fact of life. But some are more awesome than others, and Lillian Lowe ranks highly in my opinion.
How old is the oldest person you are friends with on Facebook? I’m guessing none will be as old as Lillian Lowe from Tenby in Wales. Because at 103-years-old, she is believed to be the oldest person in the world to use Facebook. Even more amazing is the fact she accesses the social networking site via her Grandson’s iPad.
Already known to her grandchildren as Super Gran, they have now re-nicknamed her Superhighway Gran after she joined Facebook despite being several generations older than the average Facebook user. At the moment Lowe has around 30 friends, mostly family, but with the story of her presence on the site spreading around the Web that is sure to rise. That is, at least, if she decides to accept the mountain of friend requests heading her way.
Lowe told Tenby Today:
It’s a wonderful way of finding out about things, but I must say it’s a dreadful time waster!
Her grandson Steve Lowe, who helped set her up on the site and who lends her his Apple iPad to check it regularly, commented:
What’s great about Gran is that she’s not afraid to take things on and is always willing to learn – she’s a great inspiration to us all.
Lowe is thought to be the oldest Facebook user in the world as the former holder of that title, Ivy Bean, sadly passed away earlier this year at the ripe old age of 104. Bean was also considered to be the oldest Twitter user as well, but though Lowe knows what Twitter is, she isn’t yet using the site. Give it time.
This may be a fun little story on the surface but actually it’s one that demonstrates age is no barrier to using technology and the Internet. The iPad, and tablets in general, could help older people take the plunge and begin to explore computers and the Web. And that is something I’d love to see happen more and more.
10-year girl becomes mother in Spain : Father 13 Year Old
10 year old Mother in Spain- Courtesy 9 News
MADRID: 10 year old girl has given birth in southern Spain and authorities are evaluating whether to let her and her family retain custody of the baby, an official said on Tuesday.
The baby was born last week in the city of Jerez de la Frontera, said Micaela Navarro, who is the Andalusia region’s minister of social affairs.
Navarro told reporters the father of the baby is also a minor, and both the mother and the baby were in good health. Her department declined to give further details , such as the sex of baby.
The father of the 2.9-kilo (6.4-pound) baby was 13 years old and had remained in Romania, she said, describing him as her daughter’s former boyfriend.
The young mother “is very well, very well, like the daughter who is very well and very pretty,” Olimpia was quoted as saying.
The 10-year-old, discharged after three days at a hospital in nearby Jerez where she gave birth, “is very happy with her daughter. This is a great joy. It is not a drama,” she reportedly said.
National daily said the number of births to girls aged under 15 in Spain had climbed to 178 births in 2008 from 80 in 1997.
Telenor Ad’s Disgracing and giving Disrespect to Women
BY : Mrs. Mehvish Imran
Telenor - Applying Western Culture
Telenor’s new TV commercial ‘internet more” is based on disgraceful words used against women who form more than 51% of the population of Pakistan. Labeling a college girl as “Taza Hawa Ka Jhonka”, it shows the degradation of society as a whole. It is a source of resentment and an assault on sanctity of women for many believing in social values.
The misuse of technology i.e. mobile internet service has been promoted unethically targeting immature minds of college and school going students. Setting aside the responsibility as a corporate entity, telenor preferred immoral language to promote its services among present and prospective users across the country.
“Jisay Moqa Patay hi Talha Nain Kar Dya TAG” is an offensive street language used in Telenor’s advertisement against women. It’s an insult to one’s intelligence and need to be condemned widely.
Multinationals are expected to follow values that show respect to individuals. Whenever they derail from this, they not only offend their customers but also the larger community they operate in. They are least expected to pick the regressive parts of popular culture and give them a lease of life.
Media’s power to influence public opinion is on the rise in Pakistan. The spread of a message has been increased drastically with the coming in of private TV Channels. At this point of time commercial entities promoting goods and service must work with the highest sense of responsibility. Can Telenor avoid letting down those who are struggling for better gender sensitive society in Pakistan?
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PayPal’s CEO says his father is the leader he most admires, teaching him the value of humility and listening
PayPal CEO Dan Schulman can boast at least one great business mentor, having spent eight years being personally mentored by Virgin founder Richard Branson.
But he credits his father with teaching him one of his most valuable leadership lessons.
Schulman spoke to the Financial Times about his journey transitioning online payments giant PayPal into a broader payments platform and his views on cryptocurrencies.
He was also asked to share some leadership advice and asked to name his leadership hero. He chose his father, Mel Schulman, described as a World War Two veteran and chemical engineer.
"He always said: ‘You aren’t what you say you are, you are what you do — be as authentic as you can," Schulman told the newspaper. "Things change on the ground: whatever we talk about today, tomorrow will be different. But you and I are the same person."
He went on to explain that his father taught him his first leadership lesson — one that has continued to serve him throughout his career.
"My Dad said something to me early on in my life: ‘Real respect, real leadership comes from softer things like humility, listening to people, respect — that’s what inspires people,’" Schulman said.
There has been growing awareness over the last couple of decades as to the effectiveness of leaders who display traits like emotional intelligence, empathy, and kindness over those who are tough leaders or excel at driving profits.
Soft skills have become even more important since the beginning of the pandemic, as employees have struggled with the burnout, uncertainty, and loneliness of remote work.
Schulman has previously been CEO of Virgin Mobile between 2001 and 2009, an executive at American Express and Verizon, and joined PayPal in 2014 just after it had split from parent Ebay.
His time at the helm has coincided with PayPal’s transformation from a company that he describes as one a lot of people thought "had seen its best days" to a business with a market capitalization of more than $320 billion.
He has a reputation for his empathetic leadership.
Insider previously reported Schulman raised wages after learning that PayPal employees were struggling to cover their basic living expenses. In 2014, he spent 24 hours living on the streets in New York to experience what it felt like.
Schulman credits Branson with teaching him that successful businesses put their employees first and has previously said that the Israeli martial art of Krav Maga had impacted his approach to business and leadership because it had taught him how to pick his battles.
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Wittgenstein's Drachenflugexperiment
Thanks to my grandfather and a number of his contemporaries, I do not speak German. As you might have gathered, however, I am a huge fan of the late W.G. Sebald: a German author, who, despite speaking excellent English and living most of his adult life in Norwich, wrote almost exclusively in his native tongue. English monolinguals like me have Sebald's excellent translators, Michael Hulse and Anthea Bell, ably assisted by Sebald himself, to thank for the English translations of his masterpieces The Rings of Saturn, Vertigo, The Emigrants, and Austerlitz. We also, incidentally, have the same Anthea Bell to thank for the magnificent English translations of many of the Asterix books. But I digress, as usual.
In order to try to get my head around Sebald's writing, I am currently working my way through a rather academic book entitled W.G. Sebald—a Handbook (review to follow). I am enjoying the book very much—particularly those sections which I can understand. This is not mock-modesty on my behalf, as it turns out that a couple of the sections of the book are written in German, without any English translation.
As I was flicking uncomprehendingly through these German sections yesterday, a short Sebaldian paragraph leapt out of the page at me:
Auf den Pennines. 1910. W. und der Freund Eccles. Das Drachenflugexperiment. W. schaut dem Drachen nach, der immer mehr an Höhe gewinnt.
It was, of course, the word Pennines—the hills in which I now live—that caught my attention. I knew that Sebald had lived in Manchester for a number of years, and he mentions the Pennines once or twice in his writing, but I was intrigued to understand what the above paragraph meant.
Thanks to Google Translate, I have an answer. The above paragraph apparently translates as follows:
On the Pennines. 1910. W. and his friend Eccles. The kite-flying experiment. W. looks at the dragon that is gaining in height.
Ah, yes, but who is ‘W’? The obvious, although incorrect, answer is that it is W.G. Sebald himself. We know this is incorrect for three reasons:
W.G. Sebald was not alive in 1910. It could be argued that 1910 refers to 7:10pm, but it clearly does not;
W.G. Sebald's full name was Winfried Georg Maximilian Sebald. For personal reasons, he tended not to use the names Winfried Georg—one reason being that his first name sounded like a girl's name to his English friends. He much preferred to be called Max. Therefore, if Sebald were writing about himself in the third person, using only an initial, he would probably have put either ‘M’ or ‘S’;
an English footnote to the German chapter makes it perfectly clear that the ‘W’ in question is none other than the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein.
What's that you say? Ludwig Wittgenstein flying a kite in the Pennines?!
Anyone who has read Sebald will suspect that there is probably more than an ounce of truth to this story. And so it turns out. A bit more Googling soon revealed the following in John Dobson's online ‘Scrapbook’:
Wittgenstein Flies a Kite
It is not generally known that the famous philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889 — 1951) was an early researcher into the aerodynamics of flight. His first research post was at the University of Manchester (then known as Owens College) in the summer of 1908, when he moved to a kite-flying station at Glossop (near Manchester). In return for “constructing, sending up, and recovering the instrument-bearing kites” used for meteorological observation, he would get to use the equipment there for his own kite research. Apparently he was inexperienced, for he wrote home from Glossop that he first observed and then learned how to make a kite.
The work at the station was arduous and continuous. Sometimes there would be eight or ten ascents a day until as late as nine or ten at night. The kites would be sent up as high as 5,000 feet (naturally this demanded a train of kites). Sometimes the kites would escape or come down and then a correspondingly long distance would have to be traversed over rough pathless heather moors to recover them. The winch system used for that instrument-carrying kite system may well have been Cody's man-carrying kite system, and Cody likewise became interested in solving the problem of heavier-than-air flight through such inventions.
The photograph show[s] Wittgenstein (on the right) with his close friend and mentor William Eccles and the instrument-bearing kite on the moors above Glossop in the summer of 1908.
The story of this period of Wittgenstein's life is well researched and well told in Wittgenstein Flies a Kite by Susan Sterrett (Pi Press, New York: 2006), though the book is mainly concerned with his more successful and ground-breaking research into the philosophy of language.
Furthermore, there is even a website entitled In the Footsteps of Wittgenstein, which recently celebrated Wittgenstein's pioneering aviation work with a mass kite-flying over the Glossop hills.
We only get a few measly decades on this planet. How am I ever going to cram all this fascinating information in?
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: germans, philosophy, sebald
Nite Owl says:
Wittgenstein was a beery swine.......
He was just as sloshed as Schlegel, by some accounts.
From the fact that he had a friend called Eccles, do we deduce that Wittgenstein was in fact a character in the Goon show?
Apparently, the character of Bluebottle was based on Wittgenstein.
I am still working my way through Spike Milligan's war memoirs & am up to 'Where have all the bullets gone?'
I always thought that Goons was a reference to the name P.O.Ws gave to the German guards. Apparently, they were faceless baddies in 1930s cartoons.
Incidentally did you know that Nitzsche wrote the song 'Hard workin' man' which Capt. Beefheart recorded for the movie Blue Collar?....and Marcel Proust had an haddock!!!
Peter McGrath says:
13-Jun-2012 at 03:16
I went to secondary school in Glossop and lived there for a rainy, dismal year. I will look on it in a different light now I know that Wittengenstein flew kites there. That's on a par with discovering that J S Bach went lamping in Basingstoke.
Citizen for a day
Life imitates Gruts
Carter is an entertaining and well-read author. His work is filled with poetry, literature, history, and wider theoretical discussions and the humour is never forced upon the reader […] Bookshops are filled these days with books about nature. Few of them understand that nature is an interaction between human society and the wider world. Richard Carter’s walks and rumination remind us of the connectivity between all things, and they might lead you up a path, onto a moor and a walk to touch a trig point.
—Resolute Reader blog
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Some of our accomplishments over the years
By David HaaseApril 19, 2014Community, News, Uncategorized
The Health Association of African Canadians (HAAC) has identified diabetes as a priority issue as a chronic disease affecting many within our community. We have and continue to dedicate time and resources to raise awareness of the seriousness of the disease, particularly amongst youth.
Regional Outstanding Partnership Award (2010)
HAAC received the regional outstanding partnership award from the Canadian Diabetes Association in July 2010
Certificate accompanying the regional Outstanding Partnership Award.
National Outstanding Partnership Award (2010)
HAAC received the National Outstanding Partnership award from the Canadian Diabetes Association later in the same year.
The National Outstanding Partnership Award (alternate view)
In 2008, HAAC successfully secured funding from Public Health Agency of Canada for an African Nova Scotian Youth Diabetes Prevention Project. It is in part of the work done in partnership with the Canadian Diabetes Association for this project that HAAC received both the regional and national outsanding partnership awards. For more information visit Canadian Diabetes Association – Volunteer Awards (2010)
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The Atlantic Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health (ACEWH) recognized women’s leadership in health through the Leadership Award for Women’s Health in Atlantic Canada. HAAC was a recipient of this award which recognized leadership on the part of individuals and organizations working in our communities, universities (students included), healthcare facilities, and a wide range of private and public sector services.
Leadership Award for Women’s Health in Atlantic Canada (2002)
Leadership Award presented to former HAAC Board chair, Phyllis Marsh- Jarvis in 2002
Award recipients made significant contributions to the improvement of women’s health throughout Atlantic Canada.For more information visit: ACEWH – Women’s Leadership in Health Award
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Review essay
How oppressed are Muslims in India?
Nida Kirmani
Updated 02 Aug, 2016 08:38am
Muslims offer Eid prayers at the Jama Masjid, Delhi | Reuters
Muslims in India form the largest religious minority in the country. According to the 2011 Census, they comprise 14.4 per cent of India’s total population — roughly 174 million people. To use the word ‘minority’ for them, therefore, is misleading: they are the third-largest Muslim population anywhere in the world, after Indonesia and Pakistan. Minority status, however, refers to a group’s relative power vis-à-vis other groups rather than to its numbers alone (note the case of women everywhere or blacks in South Africa during the apartheid). In that sense, then, Indian Muslims certainly are a minority, particularly when one considers the growing influence of Hindu right-wing forces since the 1980s.
But just how oppressed are Muslims in India? For Pakistanis – and particularly for those whose families migrated from India – this question is a source of endless curiosity, not the least because the answer either justifies or undermines the very notion of the Pakistani nation-state. If Indian Muslims, in fact, are oppressed then – regardless of Pakistan’s myriad internal troubles – the people of Pakistan can still breathe a sigh of relief that they live in a land of their own. On the flip side, if Indian Muslims are not oppressed, then what exactly was the Partition trauma about? As academic literature produced on Indian Muslims in recent years tells us, there are no simple answers to these questions.
This sense of marginalisation has been steadily increasing since the rise to prominence of Hindu right-wing ideologies
Scholarly interest in Indian Muslims is not recent and can be traced to the colonial period. Orientalist scholars during the British era presented the subcontinent as a patchwork of different religious groups — an understanding that informed the policies of the colonial state and made its task of ruling its Indian subjects manageable. This understanding was echoed by the indigenous Hindu and Muslim elites who used religious identity as a means of shoring up their own power (a practice that continues even today on both sides of the religious divide and, indeed, on both sides of the India-Pakistan border). On the whole, this approach hindered the fluidity of beliefs and religious practices across communal boundaries which has always existed in the subcontinent, and which persists despite hindrances even today.
Saba Naqvi has documented the subcontinent’s syncretic traditions in her book In Good Faith: A Journey in Search of an Unknown India. She highlights many instances of boundary crossing that regularly take place across religious divides despite the best efforts of right-wing forces. For the most part, however, scholarship on religious communities in India has continued to repeat the notion that the most significant divide in that country – and the one that creates conflict most frequently – is the one between Hindus and Muslims. While this simplifies a much more complex reality, it subtly reinforces the logic of the two-nation theory.
Most of the scholarship on Indian Muslims produced in the last 50 years mimics the Orientalist approach in two important ways: it views one of the largest Muslim populations in the world as a homogenous and unified group; and, for the most part, it views that population through the lens of the north Indian urban elite. Books such as Hasan Suroor’s India’s Muslim Spring: Why is Nobody Talking about It? deny the vast diversity that exists among Indian Muslims in terms of region, class, sect, gender, and caste.
Hindu extremists demolish Babri mosque in Ayodhya, triggering widespread Hindu-Muslim violence in 1992 | AFP
His work, instead, focuses largely on middle-class, urban, north Indian Muslims as he argues that there has been an “awakening” among India’s Muslims which is driving them away from their supposed historical insularity and conservatism. In order to underscore his argument, he implies that there are two categories dividing the Muslim population of India: “good Muslims”, who are liberal and moderate in their political and religious leanings, and “bad Muslims”, who are conservative and fundamentalist in their outlook. Such a division is not just without any scholarly basis, it is also troubling as it drastically reduces the myriad political and religious views prevalent among Muslims living in different parts of India.
Similarly, Salman Khurshid, a prominent Congress politician since the 1980s, has recently made his own attempt to diagnose the problems of Indian Muslims. His book At Home in India: A Restatement of Indian Muslims is more a memoir than an academic study, but it suffers from a similar malaise as some other books, in that it attempts to represent all Indian Muslims through the experience of a few members of the urban elite. Much of the book is dedicated to revisiting debates over Muslim personal law – which preoccupied many writers throughout the 1980s and the 1990s – along with recounting of the history of Aligarh Muslim University, the quintessential bastion of the north Indian Muslim elite.
Though both Suroor and Khurshid raise the issue of a growing sense of marginalisation among Indian Muslims, neither is able to deal with this question in a meaningful way because their work is not sufficiently grounded in field research. Both are also, sadly, apologetic in tone, taking great pains to prove that Muslims are loyal subjects of the Indian state — a strategy used by minority elites to secure their position within the power structure since the colonial period.
Fortunately, such simplistic approaches to the study of Indian Muslims are waning. A new generation of scholars is emerging from different disciplines whose work is grounded in empirical research. Two recent books, for instance, shed light on the complexity and diversity among Muslims in India through the lens of political history.
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The first, Muslim Political Discourse in Postcolonial India: Monuments, Memory, Contestation by Hilal Ahmed takes an innovative approach to understanding the evolution of Muslim politics in north India. The author focusses, in particular, on the discourse related to Indo-Islamic historic buildings such as the Jama Masjid in Delhi and the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya as a means for understanding the construction of Muslims as a political group by a variety of actors. In the process of unpacking how Muslim unity is asserted through these key sites, Ahmed cleverly demonstrates the constructed, contested and evolving nature of Indian Muslim identity itself.
His approach is important in that it does not take the category of Muslims as a given; rather, it traces the construction of this political category as a process that is both contested and continuously evolving. The book also moves away from simplistic binaries such as communal/secular that have plagued many other discussions of Indian Muslims.
One of the most notable recent contributions to the understanding of Muslim histories in India is Mohammad Sajjad’s Muslim Politics in Bihar: Changing Contours. It moves away from the former centres of Mughal power which have generally been the focus of studies on Indian Muslims. Sajjad’s carefully researched work outlines the rich history of political mobilisation among Muslims in Bihar, the third-most populous state in India and one with a significant Muslim population, from the colonial period to the present. The author highlights the resistance amongst Bihari Muslims to the two-nation theory. This has largely been overlooked in studies of the pre-independence period which generally focus on Punjab, Uttar Pradesh and Bengal.
Sajjad, however, points out that Muslim political groups in Bihar were both anti-colonial and anti-separatist in orientation and regularly allied with Hindu groups in their political struggles. In the postcolonial period, he describes the movement for the promotion of Urdu – which began in the 1950s and continued through the 1980s – as a mass-based campaign, not carried out in religious and communal terms, but instead, on the basis of the rights guaranteed to linguistic minorities in the Indian constitution.
Sajjad points to another subject hitherto untouched by other scholars: the question of caste among Muslims. Though Muslim elites in India would have us believe that there is no caste system among Indian Muslims, the 1990s witnessed the emergence of two significant movements: the All-India Backward Muslim Morcha and the All India Pasmanda Muslim Mahaz. These two movements campaigned for the rights of lower-caste Muslims in Bihar.
Sajjad’s contribution is important in two ways. First, it focusses on a part of India that is under-researched when it comes to the study of Indian Muslims. Second, it not only highlights the issue of caste amongst Muslims but also focusses on mobilisation among – and also led by – non-elite groups. For this reason, his is a welcome addition to the existing literature on Indian Muslims.
Prayers being offered on the last day of the holy month of Ramzan at Jama Masjid, Dehli | Reuters
Though many Muslims in India occupy various important positions in the state and the society – which mostly depends on where they come from and what are their class, caste, and gender – a growing sense of marginalisation among Muslims across India is hard to deny. This sense of marginalisation has been steadily increasing since the rise to prominence of Hindu right-wing ideologies and organisations during the 1980s, when the Babri Masjid/Ram Janmabhoomi issue was used to sharpen religious divides across India. While the occurrence of communal violence has declined since the 2002 Gujarat pogrom, the alienation felt by religious minorities – including Muslims and Christians – has continued to increase, particularly after the victory of Narendra Modi as prime minister in the 2014 election.
The marginalisation of Muslims in India is, indeed, well documented. In the mid-2000s, the Indian government commissioned two studies — the Sachar Committee Report of 2006 and the Misra Commission Report of 2007. These highlighted a higher prevalence of discrimination towards Muslims and socio-economic deprivation among them as compared to other religious groups. Little concrete action, however, has been taken to address these issues at the policy level. If anything, the situation has only worsened.
The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its partner organisations in the Hindu right have started a concerted campaign against all religious minorities, including Muslims. The main features of this campaign include protests against the so-called ‘love jihad’ – Muslim men allegedly converting Hindu women to Islam by trapping them in love affairs – and ‘ghar wapsi’ (homecoming) initiatives which convert Muslims and Christians ‘back’ to Hinduism. Moves towards Hinduisation have also been taking place across India.
While Hindu nationalist groups are waging a concerted campaign against all religious minorities in their efforts to Hinduise India, Islamist forces are doing the same and even worse to religious minorities on this side of the border.
For example, the government in the state of Maharashtra – where the Shiv Sena has successfully drummed up anti-Muslim sentiments for years – recently imposed a ban on beef trading. This will disproportionately harm poor Muslims working in meat and leather industries. All of these are signs of growing intolerance and a gradual yet steady process of de-secularisation, which do not bode well for religious minorities in India.
As a result of these shifts in the Indian polity, academics have also begun to investigate the issue of marginalisation more seriously. One issue that has received attention in recent years is that of the spatial segregation of Muslims, particularly in urban areas. Two recent books discuss this issue in depth. The first one, Muslims in Indian Cities: Trajectories of Marginalisation, is edited by two French scholars, Christophe Jaffrelot and Laurent Gayer. It is a collection of studies on Muslim mohallas – exclusively Muslim neighbourhoods or ghettos – in cities across India. Each chapter is dedicated to a different city and includes portraits of major cities such as Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Delhi and Lucknow.
The book also includes research on cities which are rarely the focus of studies on Indian Muslims. These include Cuttack in Orissa, Kozhikode in Kerala and Bangalore in Karnataka.
By providing detailed studies of such diverse geographical sites, Muslims in Indian Cities draws attention to the vast diversity of experiences that exists among Indian Muslims. It provides a nuanced understanding of the issue of marginalisation, highlighting the fact that the reasons for spatial segregation of Muslims vary in different cities depending on the context. In cities such as Ahmedabad and Mumbai – where large-scale communal violence has taken place in the past – the level of spatial segregation and insecurity among Muslims is predictably high. In cities in southern and eastern parts of India, where Hindu nationalist groups have historically had less of a presence, Muslims are generally in a relatively secure position vis-à-vis other religious groups. This may be changing, however, as the Hindu right wing rapidly makes inroads into those parts of India as well.
An Indian Muslim man walks into a mosque in New Delhi. A portrait of Mahatma Gandhi hangs on the wall of the Delhi Police Headquarters in the background | AP
My own book Questioning ‘the Muslim Woman’: Identity and Insecurity in an Urban Indian Locality focusses on the issue of marginalisation and insecurity among women living in Delhi. The book deliberately focusses on the experiences of Muslim women, who had previously only been viewed in a simplistic manner through the lens of the veil and personal law. Based on research conducted over the course of a year in Zakir Nagar, a neighbourhood situated in Delhi’s ‘Muslim belt’, my book highlights multiple and shifting factors that determine one’s experience of insecurity even within the same locality. If a range of experiences can exist within such a small geographical area as Zakir Nagar, one can only imagine the diversity of experiences that may exist within a huge country.
At the same time, Questioning ‘the Muslim Woman’ demonstrates a growing sense of marginalisation among all Muslims which is tied to the historical memory of various incidents of violence, beginning with the Partition. I conducted my research almost a decade ago and Muslim localities – including Zakir Nagar – have continuously grown since then. This points to the fact that marginalisation amongst Muslims is not decreasing, and may actually be growing as the forces of Hindutva become stronger across India.
Also read: Who feels safe in Pakistan
The state, too, has contributed to this sense of marginalisation. Since the Mumbai terror attacks in 2008, Muslim men have increasingly become the targets of the state’s security forces. They face human rights abuses during siege and search operations carried out under the pretext of anti-terrorism operations, both within and outside the confines of the law. Two young men were killed in 2008 in the infamous Batla House encounter, which occurred in the same area where I had conducted my research; many others have been arrested without charge from that same area and countless more from across India.
Manisha Sethi’s book, Kafkaland: Prejudice, Law and Counterterrorism in India, carefully documents the dark underbelly of counterterrorism in which fake encounters and illegal detentions are regularly used as a means of asserting state power against unwanted citizens. Such state excesses have only increased the sense of alienation among Muslims — particularly those living in urban areas. Consequently, along with Dalits and Adivasis, Muslims make up a disproportionately high percentage of the prison population, mirroring the situation of African Americans in the United States.
One positive outcome of these negative developments is that there seemingly is a steady decline in generalist studies of Indian Muslims. Most of the recent literature, instead, suggests a growing maturity among scholars marked by an awareness of the diversity that exists within this vast population. There is also a shift towards empirically grounded studies. There are, however, still several areas that require further exploration, which is good news for budding scholars. These include the issue of caste among Muslims (a subject that also requires attention in Pakistan), which has remained a taboo for too long.
There is also a gaping hole in academic literature when it comes to studies of Muslims living in the southern and eastern parts of India – particularly in Assam – which houses the highest percentage of Muslims in the population of any state in India.
In order to correct the elite bias that has existed for long within academic literature on Indian Muslims and to properly understand the issue of socio-economic marginalisation among the community, more research needs to be conducted on poor and middle-class Muslims who comprise the vast majority of the Muslim population in India. Finally, more attention must be paid to the gendered experiences of being Muslim, moving beyond the simplistic notion of Muslim women ‘behind the veil’ and taking into account the growing insecurity among Muslim men.
Finally, to return to the fraught question with which I began this essay: just how oppressed are Indian Muslims? Though the formulation of this question is problematic for multiple reasons – not least of which is the assumption of uniformity amongst this group – I will hazard an answer: while Indian Muslims are undoubtedly facing increasing insecurity and marginalisation – particularly as Hindu right-wing forces become more powerful – they are still in a more secure position than religious minorities in Pakistan.
While Hindu nationalist groups are waging a concerted campaign against all religious minorities in their efforts to Hinduise India, Islamist forces are doing the same and even worse to religious minorities on this side of the border. The marginalisation of Muslims in India, therefore, must be viewed within the wider context of growing religious majoritarianism in South Asia as a whole — a process that began picking up steam in both India and Pakistan during the 1980s.
Also read: Heart of Darkness: Shia resistance and revival in Pakistan
Additionally, India is still officially a secular state where the rights of religious minorities are enshrined in the constitution, despite Modi government’s best efforts to the contrary. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said of Pakistan where the Objectives Resolution solidified a second-class constitutional status for non-Muslim Pakistanis and where the definition of ‘Muslim’ itself is continuously shrinking. Rightly or wrongly, for many secular-minded Indians who are concerned about the deteriorating situation of religious minorities in their country, Pakistan stands as a warning of what might be in store for them in the not-too-distant future if they fail to quickly correct their path.
This was originally published in the Herald's April 2015 issue under the headline 'The Muslim question'. To read more subscribe to the Herald in print.
The writer teaches sociology at the Lahore University of Management Sciences.
Satire: Diary of Asif Ali Zardari
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Divided Memories
LPAC Studio X
Elio Catania (Laboratorio Lapsus)
‘Chilean refugees in Italy. Interpreting difficult heritage through collaborative practices’
Sopra il vostro settembre is a collaborative web-documentary and online archive. It aims to bring to the forefront a host of stories representing the collective memory of those who went through the repression, the resistance, the exile and the return of around one million political refugees in the 17 years of the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet in Chile. Drawing on the interviews to Chilean political refugees in Italy, the project examines the complex, divisive and difficult heritage of the 1973 coup, the participation in the resistance and the cultural shock of the exile. It also attempts to outline a new account and to bring to the forefront suppressed voices, especially those dissonant with the received narrative imposed by the Chilean regime during the transition to democracy (1988-91). Sopra il Vostro Settembre is a crowdfunded, public-oriented historical project composed by an 11 episode documentary which was released in various episodes from September 2018 to January 2019; a digital archive with interviews and documents from the personal collections of the interviewees, and a website to connect the refugee community with a wider public. The presentation also explores the role of co-creation and digital technologies in addressing the difficult memorialisation of the infamous “pacto del olvido” (oblivion pact): the post-dictatorial normalisation and ‘taming’ of collective memory, in order to prevent free expression of dissent and avoid public figures being trialled. The strong collaborative approach, focused on the participation of the interviewees in the construction of the narration, is key in enabling a meaningful investigation on the construction of a public memory in the South American country after the military dictatorship, and also in exploring uncharted territories, such as the resistance to the military juntas.
Elio Catania
Researcher/Education Manager
Laboratorio Lapsus
Elio Catania has a bachelor degree in contemporary history from the Universita degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, and is a co-founder of Laboratorio Lapsus, a not-for-profit organisation with the aim of researching contemporary history and promoting a better understanding of it. Started working on Chilean memory refugees in 2017 and published “Sopra il vostro settembre” in 2019.
Dan Ellin (University of Lincoln)
‘Which dot was a firestorm? Visualising data to challenge perceptions of the bombing war 1939-1945 at the International Bomber Command Centre’
The history of Bomber Command is considered difficult heritage, and is frequently reduced to binary narratives of the heroes who destroyed the Eder and Möhne dams, or the villains who destroyed Dresden by firestorm. Rather than being judgmental however, the International Bomber Command Centre (IBCC) aims to promote recognition, remembrance and reconciliation. Taking an inclusive approach to the heritage of the bombing war, its exhibition is based on material held in its digital archive, and incorporates multiple perspectives and shared experiences – on the ground and in the air, military and civilian, and on both sides of the conflict. The exhibition was designed following the belief that ‘The most effective interpretation is provocative rather than instructional, encouraging audiences to ask questions about what they have learned’ (Locker, 2011. p. 54*). To encourage its visitors to question their understanding of Bomber Command’s campaigns during the Second World War, the RAF’s bombing operations were placed in the context of other strategic bombing campaigns in Europe via a visualisation of data taken from multiple sources. A seven meter screen shows a ten minute projection of the strategic bombing campaigns in Europe 1939 – 1945, and the resulting animated map replaces the more traditional museum timeline in the exhibition. It shows the escalation of the bombing and portrays how widespread it became. The interpretation effectively challenges the popular narrative of blame and retaliation by hiding the attacks on the Dams and Dresden in the visual ‘noise’. This paper discusses how such an interpretation of data can illustrate and/or question abstract concepts of difficult heritage and convey the bigger picture to exhibition visitors, and how visualisations of data can supersede traditional graphic panels of text or still images in museums and exhibitions.
*Locker, P. 2011. Exhibition Design. London: AVA Academia.
Dr Dan Ellin
Archivist, IBCC Digital Archive
Dan Ellin was responsible for the content of the International Bomber Command Centre’s exhibition. He continues to work building an open-access digital archive containing over 1,000 newly created oral history interviews with veterans and survivors of the bombing war, as well as collections of letters, diaries, logbooks and photographs.
Zeno Gaiaschi (Laboratorio Lapsus)
‘Italian internees in Germany. Using technology to explore Italy’s difficulty past’
The fact that Italians had responsibilities in the deportation and internment of tens of thousands of people during WWII still constitutes a problematic legacy. Public discourse struggles to come to terms with the country’s past, and celebrations are too often based on stereotypes and narratives self-insulating from refutation. Education providers hardly tackle this topic, in doing so reinforcing the long-standing myth of “good-natured Italian versus blood-thirsty German”. Even less attention is given to the consequences for today’s society, namely the rise of negationist and revisionist stances. In 2018, Laboratorio Lapsus and ANED (National Association of former Deportees in Nazi camps) have designed and delivered an online training course on deportations and their difficult post-war memorialisation. This partnership has allowed the development of a user friendly, usable tool specifically aimed at under-20s. It combines history lectures in video format, testimonies of survivors, and digitised documents. Within its 38 thematic units, the course examines the complex system of concentration and extermination camps, the planning of mass deportations, the creation of categories of “undesirables” among the population, opportunism and collaboration, as well as the exploitation of the internees subjected to slave labour. The presentation will explore the challenges at the intersection between cultural heritage digitisation, difficult heritage, and compulsory schooling, also highlighting how the course can be a way to engage meaningfully with part of the nation’s heritage that would otherwise be neglected and lost. It will also outline the challenges of the opportunities of a partnership between ANED (with its 70-year-long effort to keep alive the memory of the deportations) and the digital-based, public-oriented approach of Lapsus. Lesson learned can be relevant to other comparable initiatives. The course, to be released in the in the first half of 2019, will be presented for the first time outside Italy.
Zeno Gaiaschi
Project Manager/Researcher
Zeno Gaiaschi, bachelor degree in contemporary history, is a co-founder of Laboatorio Lapsus, a not-for-profit organisation with the aim of researching contemporary history and promote a better understanding of it. Since 2018 Zeno is the project manager about the online training course on nazifasci deportation in Europe.
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Author of Rajesh Khanna’s Biography Gives Special Perspective on Superstar’s Rise and Fall
The rise of Jatin Khanna, better known as Rajesh Khanna, Bollywood’s first superstar who commanded a colossal female fan following, reflected the socio-political changes simmering in India of his time, according to his biographer, Gautam Chintamani, whose book is the starting point for Nikhil Dwivedi’s just-announced biopic.
The 1962 Sino-Indian War, said the author of ‘Dark Star: The Loneliness Of Being Rajesh Khanna’, led to the questioning of the Nehruvian worldview and his version of socialism, and for the first time since Independence, the vote share of the Indian National Congress dipped in the third general election. The rise of the actor mirrored the growing sentiment against the status quo.
In a conversation, Chintamani shared anecdotes from the actor’s life, demystified the enigma that Rajesh Khanna was and spoke about the subsequent dethroning of the actor by Amitabh Bachchan, who continues to be very much a part of India’s showbiz story.
Explaining why he chose Rajesh Khanna as the subject of his book, Chintamani said: “If you think of filmstars or cultural icons such as Rajesh Khanna, then there are very few people whose life warrants to be told like a story. For me, he’s someone who captured the zeitgeist, redefined it and left such a big impression that for generations, film actors have followed that template. That’s what got me interested in Rajesh Khanna.”
Despite his success, the superstar never meddled with the scripts or the director’s vision. “He never forced filmmakers to change their scripts for the purpose of accommodating his stardom,” Chintamani said. “He was a very confident actor.”
Talking about the skills of the superstar, Chintamani underlined two of them. One was the actor’s way around with silences and the other was how he blended seamlessly with the staging, blocking and overall arrangement of a scene.
“An actor’s prowess also comes across in his silences,” Chintamani said, adding: “And if you see some of the best Rajesh Khanna films, he is a part of the whole mise en scene, where he may not have dialogues at times, but his presence is so powerful that you get an idea of what a confident actor he is.”
For all his superstardom, Khanna couldn’t escape a dramatic reversal of fortunes. Khanna had a falling out with the screenwriter duo Salim-Javed, who, just like Khanna, changed the rules of the game (in terms of writing) and played a huge part in the creation of Amitabh Bachchan as a subsequent superstar.
Chintamani explained: “The writing on the wall became clear with the arrival of Amitabh Bachchan as the angry young man in 1973 and the falling out Mr Khanna had with screenwriters Salim Khan and Javed Akhtar combined somewhere. It was very clear that Rajesh Khanna’s romantic films would no longer be the mainstay of the industry. The emergence of Amitabh Bachchan, along with the popularity of Rishi Kapoor as a young hero, all happened at the same time.”
Chintama added: “Between 1973 and 1975 there were films such as ‘Aap Ki Kasam’ and ‘Roti’, which were very big hits, but post 1975, with the success of ‘Deewar’ and ‘Sholay’, the entire scenario changed.”
It is not that Rajesh Khanna did not keep in touch with the changing times. What changed was how the audience perceived him. And it coincided with the rise of a new and brighter star. Bollywood’s first superstar soon found himself being sucked into a black hole.
“He did try to shift gears and keep up with the times, but he was so good in what he did as a romantic hero or a dramatic star that it was difficult for people in the industry to imagine him doing action films. If you see the transition between 1975 and 1980, it was a very difficult phase for Rajesh Khanna,” Chintamani pointed out.
The author concluded by talking about the man behind the superstar. “He was very close to his daughters and he counted that as one of his greatest achievements,” Chintamani recalled. “Although my book doesn’t look at Rajesh Khanna as the family man because it doesn’t focus a lot on that, he was very fond of his grandchildren and children.”
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Arnold Schwarzenegger Donates 25 Houses to Destitute Veterans
Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger has donated 25 houses to homeless veterans in Los Angeles, after teaming up with the Village for Vets programme.
Schwarzenegger paid $250,000 to purchase the structures, located in West Los Angeles, according to Fox11, and donated them to those who previously fought in the US armed forces but are now facing homelessness, reports femalefirst.co.uk.
The 74-year-old actor tweeted about it.
He wrote: “Today, I celebrated Christmas early. The 25 homes I donated for homeless veterans were installed here in LA. It was fantastic to spend some time with our heroes and welcome them into their new homes.
“I want to thank @villageforvets for arranging the homes and being a fantastic partner, @secvetaffairs, @amvetshq and everyone who worked with us and made this possible. We proved that when we all work together, we can solve any problem.”
One veteran named Bruce Henry Cooper told Fox11 the project had been a “life-saver” for him and other homeless veterans this Christmas.
He added of the ‘Kindergarten Cop’ actor: “He has not forgotten us.”
The Village for Vets project has been working with retired service members who have resorted to living on the streets since 2016, by setting them up with tiny houses that are fully equipped with water, heating, electricity and air conditioning.
Schwarzenegger also told Fox11 in an interview that he considered the joy he felt after his charitable deed to be “the greatest Christmas gift” he could have received.
He said: “It makes me feel good that I can give something back to this country that has given everything to me. I had this great success, only because of America a Whatever I tackled, I achieved because of America, so to me it’s always great to give something back.”
Uttar Pradesh School Kids’ Pledge for ‘Hindu Rashtra’ Rakes Up Controversy
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London’s reputation as one of the world’s major tech hubs is in jeopardy as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.
At the start of the last decade, a cluster of start-ups began to form around East London’s Old Street roundabout (technically a gyratory system), leading the area to be nicknamed “Silicon Roundabout.”
Then-British Prime Minister David Cameron latched onto their success and branded the area in and around the hipster Shoreditch neighbourhood “Tech City.”
Since then, London’s tech ecosystem has expanded to other corners of the capital including King’s Cross and the West End. Today, tech companies and their employees span the entire city.
Homegrown start-ups like DeepMind, Shazam, Revolut, and TransferWise have become well-known names in their respective industries, while U.S. tech giants including Amazon, Facebook, Google and Apple have also set up huge new offices for thousands of staff.
But the coronavirus pandemic is threatening to change the landscape.
Given the very nature of their work, tech firms can often embrace remote working far more easily than companies in other industries.
A sprawling mansion in the heart of London which was presented as a marital home to Maharaja Duleep Singh’s son
Glen Coutinho Real Estate
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Review: Silent Hill: Homecoming (Microsoft Xbox 360)
Mark B. | October 17, 2008 | Archive, Video Game Reviews, Xbox 360 | 3 Comments
Silent Hill: Homecoming
Genre: Survival Horror
Developer: Double Helix Games
Publisher: Konami
I used to be a big fan of Silent Hill. I mean, the games play like crap across the board, let’s not kid ourselves, but they’ve often been absolutely fantastic at basically giving players the ability to play through an exceptionally horrific and surreal story and world, almost as if someone jumped into my head and found out that what I REALLY wanted was to spend my time playing a game based off of Jacob’s Ladder (memo to any game developers out there looking for the next big horror property: PLEASE DON’T MAKE THIS, IT WOULD BE BAD). So, we get games that generally play badly, but are often so easy to make it through that it doesn’t matter, because often, all we REALLY want is to pick our way through the storyline, and the gameplay is secondary to that desire.
And then, somewhere in there, we got Silent Hill Origins, a game that didn’t particularly play well, wasn’t a lot of fun, and generally didn’t do a lot of the things the prior games had done. Now, players can point at the third game and note that it wasn’t as impressive as the second, or they can point at the fourth game and note that for a game called Silent Hill, it really didn’t have as much to do with the titular town as one might expect, but make no mistake: Silent Hill Origins was basically the point where the franchise basically put off a lot of players. Whether or not the story was good wasn’t the issue; rather, the issue was that many gamers who had no difficulty progressing in the prior four games simply COULD NOT fight their way through the game, which was somehow worse than the four preceding it on a gameplay front. But, hey, fine, it’s only one game, right? Konami just made a mistake handing off the game to Climax, right? Well, by all indications, Konami simply has no interest in developing the franchise anymore (which, in the case of Konami, wouldn’t be the first time; see also the PS1 Contra games for another big example of this practice at work), as they handed off the newest game, originally titled Silent Hill 5, to what was formerly known as The Collective but has since become Double Helix Games, so said because the company is a merger of The Collective (who are best known for the first Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Mark Ecko’s Getting Up) and Shiny (who is best known for Earthworm Jim and a bunch of games that either nobody played or nobody liked). Surprisingly, it’s a better game than Silent Hill Origins. Unsurprisingly, it’s still not what Silent Hill fans were really expecting.
The story of Silent Hill: Homecoming follows one Alex Shepherd, a young man who has just returned home from the Army to the sleepy little town of Shepherd’s Glen. It seems that his hometown has been having significant problems in his absence, and that he’s apparently been having some terrible nightmares on top of it. Upon returning home, Alex finds out that his brother, Josh, has gone missing, and since Alex’s bad dreams concern his brother, he sets out to look for Josh, both to save his brother and to hopefully understand what’s going on with his town, which just happens to border Toluca Lake, which Silent Hill fans will realize pretty fast is the same lake that borders the town of Silent Hill. So, as you might expect, it’s not long before Alex ends up poking around in both his own town and the town of Silent Hill, looking for answers that won’t come easy to questions he probably shouldn’t be asking. In general, the story comes off okay, and a lot of the plot developments and concepts presented in the story work well enough that the player can understand them and fit them into the mythology of the series easily enough. I mean, hey, it makes sense that an evil town wouldn’t be content to just remain evil to its own townspeople, so why wouldn’t it expand its influence to other towns in the surrounding area, right?
That said, there are two significant plot hiccups, and both of them can be attributed to adaptation decay. The first significant problem is that the town of Silent Hill, being a malicious entity as it is, was never a RANDOM malicious entity, and the fact that it seems to be acting as such in this game is bizarre. In the first and third games, and in Origins, the town largely restricted its activities to terrorizing those who had some sort of influence on the birth of Samael, while the second game focused on the town tormenting people who seemed to deserve it and the fourth game was based around the town empowering a malicious entity to do bad things. Again, all of these specific acts had some sort of purpose to them, a method to their madness if you will, but this is the first game where the town simply seemed to want to torment EVERYONE, and the fact that something like half of the town has gone missing indicates that Silent Hill has apparently decided to say “The hell with it” and menace anyone it can get around to menacing. Now, the game DOES try to make sense of it to a point, what with making sacrifices to demons and whatnot, and that’s… fine, but it isn’t really Silent Hill as players know it, and while the franchise certainly has a malleable plot, there’s a difference between shaping a concept and completely re-writing it to suit your needs, and the latter is on display here. The other problem is with Alex himself, in that the writer was trying really hard to basically model Alex after James Sunderland (which is arguably an accusation one can lay at the feet of Travis Grady as well). Now, again, many people consider Silent Hill 2 to be the best game in the series, so it makes sense that if one were given the reigns to the franchise, one would want to make a tortured protagonist like Sunderland, since that’s part of the appeal of the game in the first place, but Alex Shepherd fails in one basic respect: much like Travis Grady, and completely unlike James Sunderland, Alex’s plot twist in the game revolves around what is wrong with him, not what he has done wrong. James’ plot revelation made him a complex character, and was (at the time) shocking, because it was something we could empathize with because he tortured himself over it (hence finding his way to Silent Hill in the first place); Alex’s plot revelation simply makes him look like a sad, pathetic man, and doesn’t make us empathize with him so much as pity him, which isn’t even remotely close to the same thing. It isn’t so much that Alex is even a bad character as it is that he’s not a terribly compelling one, and in a franchise that lives and dies, in large part, by its writing, this is not a good start.
Visually, Homecoming looks quite good; the character models are generally interesting, both for humans and monsters, and are well animated across the board. The monsters are appropriately disgusting and horrific, as we’ve come to expect from the franchise, though the human characters, while nice looking, don’t look entirely right (partly because they don’t look as, well, sickly as characters in past games, and partly because their faces look odd at certain times). The towns of Shepherds Glen and Silent Hill both look appropriately disheveled and hard luck, and the mirror versions look as rotted and bleak as ever, though the game has an odd tendency to repeat random decorative items for no apparent reason (why is there laundry in the hidden room in Alex’s house, for instance). Aurally, the game is spot-on: the voice acting is pretty much strong across the board and the various sound effects and environmental audio snippets are as good as one could possibly imagine them to be, which once again brings the experience to life. Best of all, however, is that Akira Yamaoka has once again contributed the score for Homecoming, as he has for the prior franchise titles, and once again, it is EASILY the very best thing about the entire game.
The Silent Hill franchise has certainly never been known for its gameplay, so it might be a little astonishing to know that the gameplay in Homecoming is surprisingly good. Movement and looking around are assigned to the left and right sticks, respectively, and Alex can search his environment, look through his weapon and item inventories and check his map at the press of a button. Holding the left trigger enters into combat mode, and its here that the game goes into completely new territory. For one thing, Alex has two melee attacks, one light and one heavy, which you can use in succession to create combos. You can also hold the heavy attack down to charge up an attack, which will deal significant damage to an enemy if it lands. For another thing, Alex can now dodge, dive, and weave into and out of battles at the press of a button, meaning he can dodge and counter enemy attacks, dive out of the way or assaults, and dip into and out of an enemy’s attack range, making combat more involved and more controllable than in prior games. For a third, while gun combat is still set up as normal control-wise, you can now aim at the enemies, which allows you to target specific parts of their anatomy, giving you further control over your ranged battles than ever before in the Silent Hill franchise. In short: combat is no longer a sloppy mess, and fighting monsters is now a streamlined, easy-to-control affair. This is good, because monsters are now more resilient to damage and are more complex to fight than ever before. Even early in the game, some monsters can take several hits to kill, making combat a fairly more involved part of your experience that can also involve the expected Active Time Events we’ve come to expect from games today. Boss monsters are also significantly more involved than they were in prior games; in earlier titles most bosses could simply be killed by hitting them a lot, but in Homecoming you’ll see more than a few situations where pattern recognition and careful attacking/dodging will be more vital than any amount of damage you can do. The combat and control mechanics feel more like something from Resident Evil 4 than prior franchise titles, which is by no means a bad thing (as RE4 played fine), but it will take some adjusting for fans of the prior games to get used to.
Aside from the combat, most of the rest of the game will feel like old hat to veterans of the series. Puzzle solving is back and as interesting as ever, with most puzzles either involving fetch quests, actual puzzle solving, or a combination of the two, so fans should be able to acclimate to this easily enough. You still have your flashlight and radio, as always, with the former lighting up darkened hallways (but also making you a visible target to monsters) and the latter making noise to indicate when monsters are in your vicinity; using both to your advantage will be crucial, as always, and fans and newcomers alike will find this to be a tricky proposition, as always. In another interesting twist, however, environmental navigation has changed in two ways. For one, you will now frequently come across obstacles that cannot be passed by conventional means, and will often require you to bypass them by using one of your weapons, IE cutting open a sheet with your knife, hacking open wooden barriers with an axe, and so on. These not only serve as puzzling deterrents, but also serve to show you areas you cannot yet access, giving you reason to return to locations later, when you have the needed items to open the locations you’ve missed. Further, while in prior games you would often load from one section to the next by opening doors (which would mean escaping monsters by loading into a new area), in Homecoming most areas are massive and feature no loading… meaning going into a room may not save you if the monster you’re running from follows you in, which makes running a more risky proposition than it ever was. Again, these are simple changes, but they help to make the experience more tense and harrowing than ever.
Other little things make the game interesting and/or worth playing through, perhaps more than once, for fans of survival horror and Silent Hill alike. Little details, like Alex turning his head to look at interesting things, Alex keeping a journal that contains all sorts of useful and interesting data, and branching conversation paths with NPC’s make the game more interesting than it might seem at first glance. Your first playthrough will take about eight to ten hours, give or take, and will provide you with all sorts of interesting secrets to unlock and use (including upgraded weapons and such) which can also influence you to undertake a second playthrough, especially if you missed something cool the first time around. There are also a whopping FIVE endings, a bunch of unlockable costumes, and a couple neat weapons (including an old favorite) to unlock, and a bunch of Achievements to, uh, achieve, if you’re down for that sort of thing. You’ll have plenty of reason to replay Homecoming if you enjoyed the first go-round, and it’s good to see that this staple of the franchise has carried over to this most recent game.
However, even with the retained bonuses and upgraded combat mechanics, Homecoming still isn’t quite all it wants to be. The biggest problem is that the combat system, while fabulous in theory, isn’t so great in practice. Silent Hill has never been a game that focuses on combat primarily, and making a new game in the franchise where the combat is involved and relatively detailed was probably not the ideal direction to head in, but every franchise can certainly change to meet demands. The combat in Homecoming, however, is often frustrating and unenjoyable; even if you can appropriately master the mechanics and work with them effectively, fighting monsters is often a tedious process, because many monsters early in the game can take as many as ten or fifteen good, solid whacks to go down, or can block your attacks entirely. Aside from the tedious nature of spending several minutes fighting one monster, this sort of significant change to the combat is going to put off gamers who enjoyed the relative ease of the prior titles; it’s nice that a complex play mechanic has been installed, but many Silent Hill fans were casual gamers with limited skills who enjoyed the story and were fine with the game being easy to play, and with the change to a complex control mechanic, a lot of people are going to be left out in the cold. Further, running from battle is now a significant hassle, both because of the frequency of enemy appearances and the fact that most of the game takes place in cramped locations. As such, there will be many instances where you will HAVE to fight an enemy in front of you because you can’t squeeze past them, and again, this makes things more annoying than anything else. This is doubly depressing when one notes that there is no adjustable difficulty for the puzzles, something many Silent Hill games offered; as such, if you were the sort of person who enjoyed easy combat and brain-busting puzzles, you’re out of luck here.
Beyond that, however, there are other little annoyances to the game that pop up here and there. It’s interesting that the game has added in the “you need this weapon to move through this obstacle” mechanic from Condemned, but it seems stupid that you can’t simply interface with the obstacle and instead have to go to your inventory, equip the needed weapon, interface with the obstacle, then go back to your inventory and change to your original weapon in order to proceed. Also, it seems silly to have a tarp block the way through a location. It’s a TARP, kick it or something and it’ll give way eventually. Further, there are oddities here and there that disrupt the flow of the experience; aside from the Active Time Events (which, of all the franchises in the world that needed these, Silent Hill was ABSOLUTELY not one of them) and their disruptive and annoying nature, there are also occasional scenarios where tiny enemies come after you that can be killed in one hit, but are incredibly annoying to deal with, and these scenarios are all too frequent and all too annoying.
The bottom line is that Silent Hill: Homecoming is a perfectly fine game, though it’s not really a perfectly fine Silent Hill game, and people expecting the latter might well be put off by the fact that this isn’t what they were expecting at all. The game is presented well, plays perfectly fine, offers plenty of replay value, and is more or less a solid survival horror experience that fans of the genre will want to check out. Silent Hill fans, however, may be put off by the free and easy re-imagining of the franchise storyline, the heavy focus on combat over puzzle solving and storytelling, the difficulty of the combat, and the odd mechanical issues and Active Time Events. It’s not that the game is bad at all; it isn’t, and if you’re looking for a fun, solid horror game, Homecoming isn’t bad… but it really isn’t Silent Hill, and for fans, that’s probably going to be something of a significant problem.
The Scores:
Story: MEDIOCRE
Graphics: GOOD
Sound: UNPARALLELED
Control/Gameplay: GOOD
Balance: ABOVE AVERAGE
Originality: ABOVE AVERAGE
Addictiveness: ABOVE AVERAGE
Appeal: MEDIOCRE
Miscellaneous: ABOVE AVERAGE
Final Score: ENJOYABLE GAME.
Short Attention Span Summary:
Silent Hill: Homecoming is a solid attempt at trying to replicate the appeal of the franchise by a new developer, but while it’s generally a solid game, it’s not a game Silent Hill fans are going to be entirely thrilled about. The visual and aural presentation is solid, the gameplay is significantly stronger than it’s ever been, and there’s plenty of atmosphere and extras in the game to keep players interested for at least one, if not multiple, play sessions. However, the storyline doesn’t really work as well as it could in comparison to other games in the franchise, and the focus on (and increase of difficulty of) combat, smattering of Active Time Events, and downplaying of puzzle elements make the game feel less like Silent Hill and more like Resident Evil 4, which really doesn’t work properly with the atmosphere the games have cultivated. As a game it’s perfectly fine, but as an experience it’s not what fans have come to expect, and may well be something to rent before purchasing outright.
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Mark B. is the Senior Editor at Diehard GameFAN, mostly because he’s been on staff for a decade. He has previously written for 411Games, InsidePulse Games, Not a True Ending, Retrograding and Beyond the Threshold, and he maintains multiple infrequent columns, as well as a Hitbox stream on Saturdays. You can check out his archives and non-game related work over at markbwriting.com, and follow him on Twitter at MarkBWriting or Facebook at MarkBWriting. (Special thanks to J. Rose for the artwork.)
J. October 17, 2008 Reply
Pretty fair-handed review. You seemed to have reached the same conclusion that I did, one that is hard to put into words exactly what is wrong with it. “Fine” fits the game as a whole, but it just feels lacking. I’d still suggest it to Silent Hill and survival horror fans, but just don’t get your hopes up for another SH2.
Mark B. October 17, 2008 Reply
Thanks. I didn’t really get the Silent Hill vibe from it, personally, as it felt more like RE4 than Silent Hill, but, yeah, different things to different folks.
Yeah, agreed, and that’s in no way to dispariage RE4. It just wasn’t a Resident Evil game. I can understand wanting to move away from the old tank controls, but trying to cash-in on RE4’s success rather than trying something new is a bit lazy and insulting to fans.
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Villa 5 on Lake Como
This charming Villa is a complex of buildings and gardens, rich in history, built between 1400 and 1800. It was the property of the different noble families till the year 1980 when it was purchased by public organization of Varenna for public use. Mainly the villa is owned by the Municipality of Varenna.
The Villa is situated in a charming spot on the shores of the lake of Como.
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The Villa, an ex- princely mansion, was built in the XVI century as a summer residence for Cardinal Tolommeo Gaul in the town of Cernobbio. The Villa is one of the most beautiful architectural works of the XVI century and the model of garden art. Surrounded by a private park of 10 hectares, the villa buried in the wonderful flavors and colors at all times of the year. Uncountable variety of plants transformed park at the Botanical Garden: magnolias, wisteria, laurels, jasmine, camellias, hydrangeas, and among them - stone oaks, chestnuts, palm trees, cypresses.
The Grand Hotel Villa Serbelloni is one of the oldest and most elegant hotels in the Lake Como area and the only 5 star de-luxe hotel in Bellagio. It is immersed in one of the most beautiful panoramas in the world.
Set in the splendid surroundings of Lake Como, where the blue waters meet the green mountains which soar above the lake, the Villa Serbelloni enjoys a breathtaking position on the promontory which juts halfway out into the lake, separating the two branches.
In the town of Tremezzo, in a corner of rare beauty, the Villa Carlotta is placed.
The building of the villa was made in 1600 for the Marquis Giorgio Clerici. The building was surrounded by magnificent gardens in the romantic Italian style, stretching up to 70 thousand square meters, with stairs going down right to the water.
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The Advantages of Being “Out at Work”
In 1995, at a time when there were very little to no legal protections whatsoever for LGBT employees, studies were being conducted clearly demonstrating the benefits of coming out in the workplace far outweighed the benefits of staying the closet. For example, people who come out in the workplace tend to rank higher in social well-being and psychological adjustment.
More recently, the Harvard Business Review reported that 85% of Fortune 500 companies have protective policies that address sexual orientation—up from 51% in 2000. In addition, most states have enacted legislation to include sexual orientation and gender identity in their employment discrimination laws. However, there is currently no federal law that protects LGBT employees from workplace discrimination. As a result, many companies have taken measures into their own hands by enacting workplace non-discrimination policies aimed at protecting the rights of their LGBT workers. Yet despite such measures, about half of the college-educated gay and lesbian workforce remains “closeted” at work, according to the recent findings of the Center for Work-Life Policy. With an abundance of anti-discrimination workplace policies in place, why does the current LGBT workforce remain reluctant to “come out” at work?
Fear is one possible explanation. “Coming out” is never easy, but the workplace can provide added stress, especially when it is impossible to determine how co-workers or managers will react to such news. The isolation of closeted LGBT employees has the potential to hinder workplace performance by disallowing LGBT workers to fully immerse themselves into their jobs. As a result, LGBT employees often report being dissatisfied with their place of employment. The aforementioned study by the Center for Work-Life Policy revealed that 73% of closeted employees are likely to change jobs in the next three years. Although isolation and job dissatisfaction are the potential downsides of remaining closeted at work, the decision of LGBT workers to come out is not as straightforward as it may seem.
Another possible explanation for the reluctance of LGBT employees to come out at work is the lack of enforcement of workplace policies. Although many companies have non-discrimination policies on the books, many critics believe some corporations are simply interested in the appearance of equality, but do nothing to actually integrate these policies into the workplace. What more can companies do? Brian McNaught, author of a CNN article titled “Why gays should come out at work”, suggests corporations have to get their “music” in sync with their “words.” Until the actions and attitudes of managers and co-workers line up with the company’s stated policies, LGBT employees will continue stay in the closet at work.
With all that said, for decades studies have shown that “coming out” at work may be a positive career move for LGBT employees. Not only does being open at work have the ability to improve job performance, it also has the ability to increase overall job satisfaction. How? LGBT employees who choose to completely separate their home life from their work life are more likely to feel isolated at work. The Harvard Business Review reported some 42% of closeted employees said they felt isolated, versus only 24% of openly LGBT employees. The difference – open LGBT workers engage in collegial banter with colleagues, oftentimes discussing personal relationships and weekend plans, an act which helps to develop and foster workplace relationships.
Coming out at work is a heavy decision and the choice may not be for everyone. LGBT workers, however, should be aware of the benefit associated with being open at work. The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) website provides information for deciding whether or not to come out at work, which includes researching the company’s non-discrimination policy and assessing the workplace atmosphere, and provides practical tips for moving forward such as identifying and talking to a fellow LGBT or LGBT-supportive colleague or simply placing a picture of your partner on your desk. Furthermore, Lambda Legal provides a helpful tool kit for workplace equality which acts to inform LGBT employees about their workplace rights so that they may feel more comfortable and secure in their jobs.
**Angela D. Giampolo, Principal of Giampolo Law Group maintains offices in both Pennsylvania and New Jersey and specializes in LGBT Law, Business Law, Real Estate Law and Civil Rights. Her website is HYPERLINK “http://www.giampololaw.com” www.giampololaw.com and she maintains two blogs: HYPERLINK “http://www.phillygaylawer.com” www.phillygaylawer.com and HYPERLINK “http://www.lifeinhouse.com” www.lifeinhouse.com. Please feel free to send Angela your legal questions at HYPERLINK “mailto:angela@giampololaw.com” angela@giampololaw.com.
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David Washington Pipes
Washington Battery, Field Artillery, Louisiana
David Washington Pipes was born in East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana on February 20, 1845. He was the son of David Pipes of Beech Grove Plantation and the grandson of Windsor Pipes who first settled in Louisiana in 1781. David attended Oakland College in Mississippi, was primarily a cotton planter and was also active in banking and business in his parish. He was active in politics and served in both the State House of Representatives and the State Senate from his district. He enlisted in the 4th Company, Washington Battery from Clinton, Louisiana on February 23, 1863 at the age of 18. His unit was at Gettysburg and I have recently obtained a copy of a letter that David W. wrote in November of 1928. This letter was written to a Mr. Reily and the first three paragraphs speak of business items, but the rest of the letter describes some of his involvement at Gettysburg. I have included that portion of the letter here, just as it was written. David passed away in 1939 and was said to be the last surviving soldier of the Army of Northern Virginia. He was twice married and fathered eight children, one of whom, Henry Alexander, was a graduate of West Point. David Washington Pipes is the brother of William Henry Pipes who served as an officer in the 15th Tennessee infantry. David Washington Pipes
Excerpt from a letter written by David Washington Pipes in 1928:
"A few things did happen in the Civil War, which I cannot forget, one especially was Pickett's charge at the Battle of Gettysburg, this charge was made through our Battalion, the Battalion of Washington Artillery of five companies, one in the army of Tennessee and four in Lee's army. We had sixteen pieces, each piece had twelve horses and one caison or ammunition wagon. We were all on the battle field on the 3rd of July 1863 and the third company fired the cannon that opened the fight at three PM in the evening. There were 500 pieces of artillery making music at the same time and carrying death and destruction with it, and the noise made could be heard for 80 miles. My caison was blown up and my piece was disabled, a piece of shell striking it in the muzzle, and nine of our twelve horses were killed or wounded. We were ordered to form a new line of defense when Pickett's troups were replused and we did so carrying our piece with three horses with us. This new line was formed about five-thirty. We recruited another piece of artillery and impressed 1/2 dozen Pennsylvania Connestogas, horses, untrained and as bigas half grown elephants. We were then ordered to Williamsport to protect Lee's ammunition train. All night long through the mud and rain for it rained all night, all of next day and night, and reached Williamsport at day light, the men all dead on their feet. At sun up, before we had any time to cook a bite, we were ordered into action and fought until 8:30 P.M. when we drove Kilpatrick with 5,000 calvary from the field; we had only 3,000 and a good many were wounded, but fighting. The Potomac River had to be crossed. We waded across it going to Pennsylvania, but now it was swollen and a pontoon bridge, made of small boats and weather boarding from the houses for flooring, was what we had to cross the river on. Eleven of us boys had removed our shoes (so called) and climbed on the Pier. Captain Buck Miller was director. The horses had to go some forty feet into the water before we reached the abutment of the bridge. By bad handling the horses had gone to the side of the bridge instead of to the end. I knew they could not pull us and the pier on the bridge on the side, and I said to Captain Miller: "Captain, I think if you will have the horses turned and approach the bridge from the end of the bridge, we will have no difficulty in going over." The Captain looked at me very savagely and said, "You think - dam you what right have you to think - get off of that pier every one of you and by hand to front", which being interpreted, means get hold of the pier and put it on the bridge, and this we finally did. The water was waist deep, and we were all wet again. That night I was put on guard at nine o'clock, two hours on, four off, cannon was loaded and I was ordered to fire if any noise was heard in my front, death penalty for sleeping on post. I heard no noise, slept in rain for two hours. Officer woke me up and said, "You were asleep on your post sir," and I said, "Yes Sir, asleep on my post." That was the end of it."
A newspaper article written to commemorate his 94th birthday quotes him as saying about the battle of Gettysburg: " All through the war he remained under Captain Albert Norcomb of the Fourth company. He was in the Battle of Gettysburg, served at the Peach Orchard of that field. He tells how he worked at his gun 'swabbing and loading' over and over again in the bloody hell of that conflict" [This refers to the third day when the Washington Artillery was involved in the hours long cannonade that preceded Picket's charge. Some accounts indicate that his company opened the shelling with the first shot.]
[ There are other written memoirs by David about his Civil War experiences and they are on the front page where they can be requested. Many thanks go to Bertha Dooling for sending me a copy of this insightful letter and to Glenny Warzewski for the copies of the newspaper articles]
Some interesting photos:
A picture of a small group of Washington Artillery men.
A picture of B. F. Eshelman who commanded the Washinton Artillery
A Picture of William Miller Owen. He was an officer in the 4th Company and wrote a book of their adventures.
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Suzanne Farrell
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Suzanne Farrell (born August 16, 1945) is an eminent 20th century ballerina and the founder of the Suzanne Farrell Ballet at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.
She was born as Roberta Sue Ficker in Cincinnati, and received her early training at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. In 1961, she was selected to study at George Balanchine's School of American Ballet with a Ford Foundation scholarship; she started there in 1960, and joined the New York City Ballet (NYCB) in 1961.
Early career at NYCB
Initially part of the corps de ballet at NYCB, Farrell soon moved on to dancing featured roles. The first roles created especially for her came in 1963, and in 1965 she was promoted to principal dancer. George Balanchine quickly fell in love with his "alabaster princess", and created many roles for her. Farrell described learning choreography from Balanchine as a collaborative process, saying, "When Mr. B was working on a ballet, something would just spill out of his body; he could rarely duplicate it, so I tried to see precisely what he wanted the first time." Fragos, Emily. , BOMB Magazine, Fall 2003. Retrieved 20 July 2011. In 1965 he created Don Quixote, thought to be a valentine to his newest "muse." In 1968 he cast her as the lead in the "Diamonds" section of his three-act plotless ballet "Jewels".
Balanchine was married to the polio-stricken former ballerina Tanaquil LeClerq,...
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NEWMAN & COMPANY
It can be lonely at the top. Many CEOs/Presidents, especially in small- and medium-sized companies, struggle to find a trusted advisor who has the broad business knowledge, experience and perspectives that their senior management teams need:
- A confidential advisor they can bounce ideas off of and use for sanity checks;
- A skilled communicator and negotiator who can participate effectively at critical meetings with staff, vendors, customers or potential partners;
- An experienced resource to consult with when new opportunities surface that their management team has little or no background evaluating;
- A strong analyst who understands how to assess potential risks and returns and present clear options for moving forward.
That’s the Management Advisory portion of Newman & Company’s practice. The goal isn’t a one-size-fits-all, standardized approach – it’s informed counsel based on proven business and strategy principles and a deep understanding of the client organization’s specific underlying strengths, weaknesses and capabilities.
Across Newman & Company’s advisory relationships, the common thread is rapid growth in an industrial or technology market and client leadership that values an experienced, outside perspective. The range of issues typically addressed with clients is broad, often including:
- product-line, marketing and pricing strategies
- manufacturing and control improvements
- organizational planning and senior-level candidate evaluation
- financial/cash management questions
- acquisition analyses
- longer-term planning evaluations
REPRESENTATIVE NEWMAN & COMPANY RELATIONSHIPS
- Extraordinary Growth in Specialty Pharmaceutical Packaging. As an advisor to the President, evaluated potential acquisition candidates resulting in the purchase of a $3 million seafood-packaging company. Helped define the new organization and hire the management team. Over the next several years, participated in the assessment of numerous marketing, product-line and distribution opportunities which resulted in a new strategic direction and market focus on the pharmaceutical packaging industry and the introduction of innovative product lines. Rapid growth created the need for additional facilities. Assisted in the analysis and selection of a new plant locally, two additional domestic plants to expand manufacturing and distribution throughout the U.S., a European licensing arrangement to establish manufacturing overseas, and distribution agreements in other international markets. Sales at this 20-year client continue to grow rapidly and are approaching $100 million.
- Private Equity Operational Due Diligence. Have conducted 15 operational due diligence assessments of potential portfolio acquisitions for a major, middle-market private equity firm. These evaluations include an overview of current operating capabilities and potential benefits from the implementation of an aggressive continuous-improvement program. Typical findings include potential expense savings, asset reductions, production bottlenecks and anticipated capital requirements, gaps in manufacturing support systems and organizational issues.
- Launch of an Innovative Composite Pilings Company. Advised the President during the launch of a new division focused on composite pilings for marine and construction applications. Subsequently worked with the management team on marketing initiatives and priorities, distribution channel options, competitive pricing models, etc. Developed the valuation methodology and assisted in negotiations that resulted in the President subsequently purchasing the business. Assisted in the selection and layout of a new facility. This 15-year relationship with the President continues with ongoing work on marketing and growth opportunities.
- Project Prioritization at a Carbon-Fiber Engineering and Manufacturing Shop. The founder of an innovative carbon-fiber design and fabrication shop needed help prioritizing marketing opportunities and managing growth. Over the past 10 years, worked with the management team to define the most attractive longer-term business opportunities, restructure the bidding/estimating process, develop an organizational plan, and improve shop-floor management practices and controls. Assisted the President in evaluating and purchasing a new manufacturing facility. Company is now achieving extraordinary growth in its targeted markets.
- Organic Growth at a Fiberglass Specialty Products Manufacturer. Advised the management team on a broad range of strategic, investment and operational improvement issues. These included evaluation and implementation of major equipment additions and upgrades, an aggressive program to eliminate late shipments, a significant reduction in WIP and finished goods inventories, and appropriate tracking metrics. Helped on the evaluation and due diligence of an acquisition candidate and the justification for and layout of a second fabrication facility to handle new product lines. Participated in the identification, interviewing and selection of key members of senior management team. Joined the Board of Directors in 2013.
- Manufacturing Rationalization of Oilfield Valves. As this private-equity portfolio company was assembled through the acquisition of 6 separate companies, numerous overlaps in product lines were identified. The management of the $100 million valve division required assistance in structuring and evaluating manufacturing rationalization options. The analysis resulted in the closure of one of four facilities and shifting of numerous product lines to better focus the remaining plants. The expense and asset reductions were significant.
- Growth and Merger of an Injection Molding and Rapid Prototyping Client. The President of a stagnant $3 million tooling business needed to generate growth. Assisted in the evaluation and decision to start up an innovative rapid prototyping facility which became the largest service center in New England. Participated in numerous conversations with potential acquirees, acquirors and other prospective partners. After the business had grown to $25 million, served as a member of the team conducting prolonged, successful merger negotiations with a similarly-sized, Midwest molding company. Continued advising the combined $50+ million company as both a consultant and member of the Board of Directors until the company was sold.
- Rapid Expansion of a Liquefied Natural Gas Terminal. The President of a $200 million LNG terminal needed help upgrading the facility’s operating capabilities to handle a planned expansion to $500 million in revenues over two years. Key improvement metrics in operations, logistics, utilities and support inventories were identified. Served as the facilitator for a series of cross-functional teams that achieved dramatic improvements, enabling the Company to meet its objective of tripling the number of annual cargoes received at the terminal.
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Simone Ferretti: Becoming a change-maker in the creative and digital industries
Simone Ferretti, becomes a professional photographer, social media expert
As a youngster, he has shown his brilliance as a professional video/photographer, social media expert, and coach.
A few years ago, when experts hinted at the massive growth of the digital world, only a few individuals took it seriously. However, it has today become our reality, and more and more people, brands, and businesses have capitalized on the digital wave to survive and thrive in their respective industries. “This was the need of the hour,” says one such extremely passionate talent named Simone Ferretti, a young man who has excelled beyond boundaries with his creative thinking abilities and his technical knowledge in videography, photography, and social media.
Simone Ferretti is an Italian content creator and a creative soul when it comes to capturing the right moments and expressing emotions through the lenses as a video/photographer. His effortless transition into becoming a coach today proves the resilience and sheer talent of the 25-year-old. Simone Ferretti started focusing on his creativity at 19 years of age when others were still deciding about their careers. He began his journey as a model and came second in the nationally famous “Mister Italy” beauty competition. However, Simone knew he was meant for more in life, hence he kept pursuing his dreams. In 2017, he moved to Hong Kong to keep working as a model and as a personal trainer in a fitness centre.
While In Hong Kong, he fell in love with videography and photography and decided to share his talents on various social media, which have constantly grown since then. Gradually, he began to create video commercials to promote products and services of external businesses, which further increased his stocks in the industry. Today, this man is more than what meets the eye. He has also turned into a social media expert and content creator: he helps brands reaching exponential visibility, presence, and reach on TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube. So far, he has worked with top-notch brands like Xiaomi, Mercedes-Benz, and many others.
Given his deep passion for photography, Simone Ferretti also teaches online classes where he shares all the tips and tricks behind the photography and social media world. In 2019, he moved to London to study business and, since then, worked towards scaling his social media presence through his photography and social media tutorials on TikTok and Instagram.
The kind of recognition and name he has earned for himself can be proved by the massive fan following he enjoys across his social media handles. Do follow him on Instagram @sferro21 to know more.
Contact Person: Simone Ferretti
Website: https://www.simoneferretti.net/
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Genre: History (x)
Time period: British Colonial History (x)
Places of publication: Charleston, SC (x)
South Carolina -- History (1)
South Carolina--Description and travel. (1)
William Gilmore Simms (2)
Southern Teachers (1)
The Youth of South Carolina (1)
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The Geography of South Carolina
British Colonial History | History | Babcock & Co. | 1843
The Geography of South Carolina, written as a companion piece for the 1842 edition of The History of South Carolina, was published by Babcock & Co. in 1843. Simms conceived of The History and The Geography as parts of a single project and initially desired the two books to be published together in one volume.[1] Sean R. Busick notes that such a publication was cost-prohibitive; thus, The History and The Geography were published separately.[2] In the preface to The Geography, Simms suggests another reason for their separate publication: by breaking up his subject ...
The History of South Carolina, From Its First European Discovery to Its Erection into a Republic
British Colonial History | History | S. Babcock & Co. | 1840
Believing it “necessary to the public man, as to the pupil,” Simms undertook The History of South Carolina explicitly for the education of the state’s young people, so as to tell them the vibrant history of the state and the distinguished accomplishments of her leaders.[1] There is evidence to suggest that Simms was particularly motivated to write such a history in order to provide an historical account of South Carolina and notable South Carolinians, to his eldest child Augusta, who was attending boarding school in Massachusetts in the late 1830s.[2] Simms seemingly ...
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bohemian rhapsody oscar nominations
In light of the nominations, it stands to earn even more as 20th Century Fox, New Regency and GK Films roll out a special sing-along version of the Queen film in locations across the U.S. and Canada. Credit: Bohemian Rhapsody continues to ride high on box office success and awards season glory. The 91st Annual Academy Awards will air live on Sunday, February 24 on ABC. Rami Malek has had quite the awards season run with his portrayal of Freddie Mercury in “Bohemian Rhapsody.” But now, with the film landing five Oscar nominations including one … The 37-year-old actor was living his dream as he accepted the award for his portrayal of Queen frontman Freddie Mercury in the biopic Bohemian Rhapsody but now it’s back to work for the star. Interview: How 'Bohemian Rhapsody' sound team put moviegoers inside the … The film depicting the life of Freddie Mercury and the creation of legendary band Queen picked up best sound mixing, sound editing, and film editing, while Rami Malek … Olivia Colman has been given a nod within the Greatest Actress class for her function in The Favorite whereas her […] It won four out of five of those awards. Alex Bailey/Fox. Still, Singer thanked the Globes after the movie took home best drama motion picture on Sunday night. Malek won Best Actor at the 2016 Emmys and Critics’ Choice Awards, in addition to receiving back-to-back nominations at the Golden Globes (2016-17).”Bohemian Rhapsody… Queen biopic BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY was a champion last night, taking home four Oscars, the most wins at the 91st Academy Awards. Features. Bohemian RhapsodyDirected by: Bryan SingerTotal nominations: 5Starring: Rami Malek, Lucy Boynton, Gwilym Lee, Producer Graham King knew the only way he could make a Queen biopic was to get the blessing of the band itself (specifically, members Brian May and Roger Taylor). 20th Century Fox “ Bohemian Rhapsody ” will earn four Oscar nominations on Tuesday (Jan. 22). Best Picture. Reblog. "Bohemian Rhapsody" won four awards at this year's Oscars hosted at LA's Dolby Theatre on Sunday. The winners will be revealed at this year’s ceremony on Sunday, 24 February, starting at 8PM ET. Bohemian Rhapsody earned five Oscar nominations Monday, but can the Queen biopic shock the Academy Awards like it did at the Golden Globes? 'Black Panther,' 'Bohemian Rhapsody' score multiple Oscar nominations Danai Gurira, Chadwick Boseman, Lupita Nyong'o, and Florence Kasumba in 'Black Panther.' Introducing ... PEOPLE's Products Worth the Hype. Get the latest updates, photos and videos for the 91st Academy Awards. Queen biopic BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY was a champion last night, taking home four Oscars, the most wins at the 91st Academy Awards. The movie had to overcome quite a bit of controversy during production. Entertainment Weekly may receive compensation for some links to products and services on this website. Oscar Nominations 2019: Bohemian Rhapsody Up for Best Picture, Rami Malek for Best Actor Also nominated: Bradley Cooper, Willem Defoe, Viggo Mortensen, Christian Bale By Noah Yo o The Favourite and Roma both have 10 nominations each. “Bohemian Rhapsody” has been removed as a best original film nominee at this year’s GLAAD Media Awards, following new accusations of sexual assault and misconduct against director Bryan Singer. This morning the Oscar nominations revealed the movie was up for Best Picture and Best Actor for Rami Malek. On Feb. 24, winners will be crowned at the 91st Academy Awards. Posted on 2019-01-22. Both movies are nominated … How ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’s’ nominations explain the people-pleasing Oscars This biographical film about the British rock band Queen focuses on … RELATED: How Rami Malek Transformed Into Freddie Mercury for Bohemian Rhapsody. Bohemian Rhapsody is nominated for Best Picture for Oscars 2019. Please review our Terms of Use which changed in the United States and Canada on 04/14/20. American actor Rami Malek has received 14 awards from 46 nominations. News ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’, ‘A Star Is Born’ Among The Nominees For The 2019 Oscars. Share. Here are all 70 puppies competing in Puppy Bowl XVII, The best books to keep you warm this January, How Rami Malek became Freddie Mercury in Queen biopic. Text us for exclusive photos and videos, royal news, and way more. “It was a challenging task to take someone’s life and form that into a two-hour and 15-minute film,” says the veteran producer. Bohemian Rhapsody is officially an Academy Awards contender. You'll get the latest updates on this topic in your browser notifications. And then there is a human being who can be reclusive and lonely behind closed doors.”, RELATED VIDEO: ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ Star Aidan Gillen Says Film ‘Deserves’ Award Attention. The film, which has become the highest-grossing music biopic of all time, tells the story of Queen lead singer Mercury, played by Malek, and the band’s rise to fame. Oscars: Will Bohemian Rhapsody lose its Best Picture nomination following Bryan Singer allegations? Bohemian Rhapsody received 16 major nominations in 2019, winning 9 awards. California. "Bohemian Rhapsody" earned five Oscar nominations last month, including best picture. In light of the nominations, it … These five Oscar nominations come after Bohemian Rhapsody took home the Golden Globes for Best Motion Picture – Drama and Best Actor – Motion Picture – Drama for Malek. Keep checking back at EW.com this week for spotlights on contenders in all the major categories. Christian Bale, Vice Bradley Cooper, A Star is Born Willem Dafoe, At Eternity’s Gate Rami Malek, Bohemian Rhapsody Viggo Mortensen, Green Book. Offers may be subject to change without notice. Bohemian Rhapsody continues to ride high on box office success and awards season glory. Ivor Novello Award to Mercury for "Bohemian Rhapsody" 1977 Brit Award: Best British Single … 2019 Oscars: ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’, ‘A Star Is Born’, and All the Nominees… The winners will be announced at the 91st edition of the awards on February 24th He has won one Academy Award, one British Academy Film Award, and one Screen Actors Guild Award from four nominations. Actor in a Leading Role. That’s more than A Star Is Born … Find out what your cat is trying to tell you with a new cat app, Princess Diana died when Harry was just 12 years old, Engineer Creates App To Translate Your Cat, The Sweetest Photos of Princes Harry with Diana, Sean Connery's Cause of Death Revealed Weeks After He Dies at Age 90. Bohemian Rhapsody is a 2018 biographical film about Freddie Mercury, lead singer of the … Singer, 53, was let go for allegedly being “unexpectedly unavailable” for several days on set. Bohemian Rhapsody scores 5 Oscar nominations, including Best Picture. Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody won big at the Oscars Sunday night. Robot star, 37, studied Mercury’s life and mannerisms very closely, he previously told Entertainment Weekly. It won the award for best motion picture, drama, and Malek also took home best actor in a drama at the Golden Globes. Find out the full list of nominations below or skip the end to watch the live stream video of the nomination … Queen biopic, Bohemian Rhapsody, received five Oscar nominations this morning as the list of 91st Academy Award nominations were announced in a presentation by the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences. ... Oscar nominations predictions: From A Star is Born to Roma. BLACK PANTHER is right behind with three wins. Share. Robot (2015–2019), Malek has been nominated for a Primetime Emmy … Bohemian Rhapsody surpassed expectations in its opening weekend, bowing to a whopping $50 million total. Oscar nominations were announced this morning, and many stars are responding after being recognized by the Academy.. Rami Malek scored a nod for best actor in a leading role for "Bohemian Rhapsody" with his portrayal of Freddie Mercury.. Malek told "Good Morning America" he was in Paris when he heard the news. "Bohemian Rhapsody" won four Academy Awards at Sunday's Oscars, while “The Godfather,” nominated for 11 awards in 1973, won only three that year. “Bohemian Rhapsody” won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture — Drama as well as Best Actor for Malek, who played Mercury. The Academy unveiled its 2019 Oscar nominations early Tuesday morning, with The Favourite and Roma leading all films with 10 nods apiece. BLACK PANTHER is right behind with three wins. We’re predicting that this biopic of Freddie Mercury, lead singer of … Rami Malek has won the Oscar for best actor at the 91st Academy Awards for his role as Freddie Mercury in Bohemian Rhapsody.. Malek defeated a strong field, … Where it lands when the Oscar nominations are announced on Jan. 13 remains to be seen. BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY heads into the Oscars with Queen legend Brian May praising fans, dismissing critics and blasting the BBC: 'It's amazing how little they matter.' Additionally, Singer has had multiple accusations of sexual misconduct levied against him — which he has vehemently denied. Its first director, Bryan Singer, was fired and replaced by Dexter Fletcher. But before the red carpet is rolled out and envelopes are opened, Entertainment Weekly has inside intel on the 2019 nominees. EW Staff. LOS ANGELES -- Rami Malek had difficult moments making "Bohemian Rhapsody," but he has an Oscar to show for it. Coyote Ugly Turns 20: Where Is the Cast Now? The film was nominated for five awards including Best Picture. In a statement reacting to the nominations, King gave a “heartfelt thank you to the Academy for recognizing a film that has been a true collaboration from a team with a specific vision and determination to honor Freddie Mercury and Queen.” He also added that he was “extraordinarily proud of all of the nominations and the entire Bohemian Rhapsody team. “We hit it off extremely well, and I think they respected the film side,” King tells EW, about informing the rockers of the project — before asking them for permission to use their music. January 22, 2019. The Academy has a history of revoking nods, but only based on technicalities The Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody has scored a massive 5 Oscar nominations. Bohemian Rhapsody netted five nominations days after it crossed an astounding $800 million at the worldwide box office. Malek has also received one Golden Globe Award from four nominations and one Primetime Emmy Award.. For his work on Mr. Monday 25 February 2019 07:00. https://ew.com/oscars/2019/01/22/bohemian-rhapsody-oscar-nominations Image: matt kennedy/disney/marvel ... the “Bohemian Rhapsody” soundtrack has been certified gold and “Rocketman” isn’t there yet. The performance will be a little unusual since Bohemian Rhapsody is nominated for Best Picture but not Best Song. By Bohemian Rhapsody Oscar nominations include Best Picture, Best Actor. On Feb. 24, winners will be crowned at the 91st Academy Awards. Black Panther BlacKkKlansman Bohemian Rhapsody The Favourite Green Book Roma A Star is Born Vice. The 2019 Oscar nominations in full. 'Black Panther,' 'Bohemian Rhapsody' score multiple Oscar nominations'Black Panther,' 'Bohemian Rhapsody' score Best Picture Oscar nominations Mashable, could you have possibly meant “clinch”? Bohemian Rhapsody wins multiple Oscars and people are furious 'Every time Bohemian Rhapsody wins an Oscar, God kills a bunny' Jack Shepherd @JackJShepherd. Bohemian Rhapsody might have won the most Oscars at the 2019 Academy Awards with four wins, but Green Book ended up scooping the big one of Best Picture. The Oscars headed towards redemption, but fell at the final hurdle. A Star Is Born racked up 8 nominations and Bohemian Rhapsody picked up five. Christian Bale (Vice) Bradley Cooper (A Star Is Born) Willem Dafoe (At Eternity's Gate) *Rami Malek (Bohemian Rhapsody) Viggo Mortensen (Green Book) Actress in a supporting role Usually, the nominees in that category are … Box office hit Bohemian Rhapsody has earned five Oscar nominations including Best Picture and Best Actor. Interview: How 'Bohemian Rhapsody' sound team put moviegoers inside the Queen Live Aid concert Review: Rami Malek makes a fab Freddie Mercury, but 'Bohemian Rhapsody' will not rock you Bohemian Rhapsody has earned five Oscar nominations including in the categories of Best Picture and Best Actor for Rami Malek’s portrayal of Freddie Mercury.. In total, Bohemian Rhapsody netted five nominations days after it crossed an astounding $800 million at the worldwide box office. RELATED: Rami Malek Confirms Relationship with Bohemian Rhapsody Costar Lucy Boynton: ‘You Are My Love’. How ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’s’ nominations explain the people-pleasing Oscars This biographical film about the British rock band Queen focuses on lead singer Freddie Mercury's (Rami Malek) life. Entertainment Weekly. It has taken nearly a decade to bring this project to the screen, so to see the world celebrate this film is incredibly thrilling.”, As King noted, Rhapsody has faced multiple delays and production issues since it was first rumored more than a decade ago, including the alleged firing of director Bryan Singer more than halfway into production. In total, Bohemian Rhapsody netted five nominations days after it crossed an astounding $800 million at the worldwide box office. The controversies around 'Green Book' and 'Bohemian Rhapsody,' explained. Oscar nominations 2019: Black Panther, Bohemian Rhapsody get Best Picture nod, Bradley Cooper snubbed Oscar nominations 2019: The Academy has revealed … Oscar nominations 2019: Black Panther, Bohemian Rhapsody get Best Picture nod, Bradley Cooper snubbed Oscar nominations 2019: The Academy has revealed its list of nominees for 91st Academy … These five Oscar nominations come after Bohemian Rhapsody took home the Golden Globes for Best Motion Picture – Drama and Best Actor – Motion Picture – Drama for Malek. Bohemian Rhapsody won an Oscar and people are furious. “I think we’ve made the best version of a Queen story.”. Tweet. If you would like to opt out of browser push notifications, please refer to the following instructions specific to your device and browser: this link is to an external site that may or may not meet accessibility guidelines. The Queen biopic, which has set box office records despite mixed reviews, will go up against Black Panther, BlacKkKlansman, The Favourite, Green Book, Roma, A Star Is Born and Vice in the category of Best Picture. Though Singer’s exit from the project was unforeseen, King chalks up the early pre-production snags due to his and screenwriters Peter Morgan and Anthony McCarten’s desire to depict the strongest story they could about a legendary group and its lead singer. Get push notifications with news, features and more. “It was a huge moment for me in my life to meet with them.”, That moment has now translated into five Oscar nominations, including Best Picture and Best Actor (for Rami Malek’s take on frontman Freddie Mercury). Bohemian Rhapsody is nominated for Best Picture for Oscars 2019. The nominations for the 91st Academy Awards have been launched, with a number of Brits taking the lead in a number of the most prestigious classes – with The Favorite and Bohemian Rhapsody sweeping the board. In addition, the feature was recognized in two other technical segments: Sound Mixing, […] “I would consistently go back to his interviews and performances just to understand the [different] sides of him,” Malek said. “Obviously, there is a very brave, brash entertainer who hits the stage. this link is to an external site that may or may not meet accessibility guidelines. To secure the title, the Mr. Fans of Queen‘s 1975 hit “Bohemian Rhapsody” are no doubt belting out the classic song after Tuesday’s announcement that the blockbuster Freddie Mercury biopic and its star, Rami Malek, scored best picture and actor Oscar nominations. The film Bohemian Rhapsody, Queen’s biopic, was nominated for 5 categories at the 2019 Academy Awards, or simply, the Oscar’s. Get the latest updates, photos and videos for the 91st Academy Awards. Oscars 2019 winners: Best picture, best director, best actor from Bohemian Rhapsody, Netflix to Green Book and more. © Copyright 2021 Meredith Corporation. Bohemian Rhapsody received 16 major nominations in 2019, winning 9 awards. Nominations were announced on Tuesday morning by Kumail Nanjiani and Tracee Ellis Ross.The Academy Awards will air live Feb. 24 at 5 p.m. PT/8 … This morning the Oscar nominations revealed the … “Bohemian Rhapsody” won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture — Drama as well as Best Actor for Malek, who played Mercury. Entertainment Weekly is a registered trademark of Meredith Corporation All Rights Reserved. His firing also came amid reports that there was tension between him and Malek. 2019 Oscar nominations: 'Black Panther' & 'Bohemian Rhapsody' fight for best picture You don't lose your sexuality as you get older, says Glenn Close Vin Diesel 'crowdsources' casting call for 'xXx 4' Two movies are tied for the most nominations this year. At first glance, Bohemian Rhapsody would seem to have the odds stacked against it for any kind of Oscar contention. Business. The 91st Annual Academy Awards will air live on Sunday, February 24 on ABC. On the review aggregator site, Bohemian Rhapsody scored a bleak 62, while Vice came in at 64. There are two nominations for the strongest categories of the Oscars, Best Picture and Best Actor (Rami Malek interpretation of Freddie Mercury). Let go for allegedly being “ unexpectedly unavailable ” for several days on set Among the bohemian rhapsody oscar nominations for 2019! '' earned five Oscar nominations on Tuesday ( Jan. 22 ) Awards glory... 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[12], When the house of Katzenelnbogen became extinct in 1479, the city was passed to the Landgraviate of Hesse, and was seat of the ruling landgraves (1567–1806) and thereafter (to 1918) of the grand dukes of Hesse. The old city centre was largely destroyed in a British bombing raid on 11 September 1944. Hello, We are mid - made in darmstadt, a young collective of german designers full of energy and curiosity. Count Johann August of Solms-Rödelheim-Assenheim, 14. A large number of avant-garde composers have attended and given lectures there, including Olivier Messiaen, Luciano Berio, Milton Babbitt, Pierre Boulez, Luigi Nono, John Cage, György Ligeti, Iannis Xenakis, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Mauricio Kagel, and Helmut Lachenmann. Frankfurt Egelsbach Airport (Flugplatz Frankfurt-Egelsbach) is a busy general aviation airport located 5 km north of Darmstadt, near the town of Egelsbach. 21 Some efforts have been made ⦠The territory of this grand duchy is much smaller than its neighbors. Christiane Wöhlert-Made is on Facebook. Hotel Bockshaut was built in 1580 for a church presbytery. The similar 'Schloßgrabenfest', which is more live music-oriented, is held in the same location every year in May. Combined with the decoration, the detail shots will be simply gorgeous. [10] 'Dar-mund' in Middle Low German is translated as "Boggy Headlands", but it could be a misspelling in local dialect of another name. Charlotte was a daughter of Prince George William of Hesse-Darmstadt (1722-1782) from his marriage to Countess Maria Louise Albertine of Leiningen-Falkenburg-Dagsburg (1729-1818), daughter of Count Christian Karl Reinhard of Leiningen-Dachsburg-Falkenburg-Heidesheim.. The couple lived in Hanover, where Charles served as Governor-General for his brother-in-law, King George. Princess was born on June 22 1911, in Tatoi Palace. In former times it was part of the Royal Gardens used exclusively by the dukes of Darmstadt. (Publisher's Version) Darmstadt, Technische Universität, DOI: 10.25534/tuprints-00011800, [Ph.D. Thesis] 2017 View Christine Darmstadt’s profile on LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional community. Margravine Johanna Elisabeth of Baden-Durlach, 24. In 1880 there were 39 Darmstadt families living in New York. Christiane a 3 postes sur son profil. Its origins are unknown. Peter Krauß's research while affiliated with Technische Universität Darmstadt and other ... Christiane Thielemann ... metal catalyst. View Christiane Kellner’s profile on LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional community. Besides them private schools exist, e.g. A 'read' is counted each time someone views a publication summary (such as the title, abstract, and list of authors), clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the full-text. The two main centres for Jugendstil art in Germany were Munich and Darmstadt. DARMSTADT - Am Sonntag endet nach gut anderthalb Jahren für Oliver und Christiane Made das Kapitel mit der Koppel. The TU Darmstadt is one of the important technical institutes in Germany and is well known for its research and teaching in the Electrical, Mechanical and Civil Engineering disciplines. Caroline of the Palatinate-Zweibrücken (Henriette Caroline Christiane Louise; 9 March 1721 â 30 March 1774) was Landgravine of Hesse-Darmstadt by marriage to Louis IX, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt.She was famed as one of the most learned women of her time and known as The Great Landgräfin. To create a firestorm, a number of explosive blast bombs are dropped around the city before the incendiary bombs are dropped, thus beginning a self-sustaining combustion process in which winds generated by the fire ensure it continues to burn until everything possible has been consumed. These were Bavaria and Württemberg. It was the residence of the counts of Hesse-Darmstadt, later as Grand Dukes of Hesse by the grace of Napoleon. Grand Duchy Hesse & by Rhine (1806 - 1918) capital: Darmstadt The Grand Duchy of Hesse and by Rhine is situated on the banks of the Rhine. She was an efficient administrator and made Darmstadt the cultural centre of the time. Together with other tertiary institutions, the TU is responsible for the large student population of the city, which stood at 33,547 in 2004. Darmstadt is furthermore connected to the Frankfurt S-Bahn system and being served by regional bus lines. Snowfall is most likely in January and February, but mild winters without considerable snowfall can occur. Count Georg Ludwig of Solms-Rödelheim, 29. Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, Darmstadt became home to many technology companies and research institutes, and has been promoting itself as a "city of science" since 1997. Darmstadt is a centre for the pharmaceutical and chemical industry, with Merck, Röhm and Schenck RoTec (part of The Dürr Group) having their main plants and centres here. Christine Darmstadt (1901 - 1941) How do we create a person’s profile? Foto & Film Hochzeiten & Familien We collect and match historical records that Ancestry users have contributed to their family trees to create each person’s profile. Christiane Arnold is on Facebook. It was used by the Russian imperial family and court during regular visits to the Tsarina's brother and family in Darmstadt. Christiane (1679-1722) ∞ 1699 Duke Philipp Ernst von Schleswig -Holstein -Sonderburg- Glücksburg ( 1673-1729 ) After the early death of his first wife he married in 1681 for the second time the Princess Marie Sophie of Hesse- Darmstadt ( 1661-1712 ), daughter of the Landgrave Louis VI. Darmstadt was the first city in Germany to force Jewish shops to close in early 1933, shortly after the Nazis took power in Germany. Countess Maria Elisabeth of Leiningen-Dagsburg-Hartenburg, This page was last edited on 26 January 2021, at 19:51. These two festivals attract 700,000[28] and 400,000[29] visitors respectively. Furthermore, regional rail lines (R64, R65, R66) connect six secondary railway stations within the city. Darmstadt can be easily accessed from around the world via Frankfurt Airport (Flughafen Frankfurt am Main) which is located 20 km (12 mi) north of central Darmstadt and connected to it via Autobahn 5, S-Bahn, several bus lines and a direct express bus-link ("Airliner"). The Russian church, St. Mary Magdalene Chapel, is named in honor of the patron saint of Tsar Nicholas' mother and was built of Russian stone on Russian soil brought to Darmstadt by train. The airport ranks among the world's busiest airports by passenger traffic and is the second-busiest airport by cargo traffic in Europe. It included six principal installations in Darmstadt and nearby Babenhausen, Griesheim and Münster, plus several housing areas, an airfield and a large number of smaller facilities as far away as Bensheim and Aschaffenburg. As of 1993, the Darmstadt military community also assumed responsibility for the remaining U.S. Army facilities in the Frankfurt area. Christiane Paul, Steffen Groth, Martin Feifel and Peter Simonischek pictured during an on set photo call for the film 'Der kleine Diktator' on November 4, 2015 in Darmstadt, Germany. precipitation / Mean sunshine hours (1981–2010), DWD, City Center with Luisenplatz, the Castle and the Market Square, This page was last edited on 20 January 2021, at 02:06. Darmstadt is also the seat of the world's oldest pharmaceutical company, Merck, which is the city's largest employer. €15 million investment made over 2014-2016 in biotech facility located in Tres Cantos, Spain • 50% increase in production capacity and 20% staff increase • Extension of manufacturing plant will help meet worldwide demand for fertility and growth hormone disorder treatments . Countess Anna Elisabeth of Daun-Falkenstein, 28. While the column still stands, the square is today surrounded by mostly modern buildings. Countess Katharina Polyxena of Solms-Rödelheim, 15. Christiane Paul, Ernst Wilhelm Rodriguez, Steffen Groth, Martin Feifel and director Dani Levy pictured during an on set photo call for the film 'Der kleine Diktator' on November 4, 2015 in Darmstadt,... Get premium, high resolution news photos at Getty Images Although, during the early 20th century, the word was applied to only two-dimensional examples of the graphic arts, especially the forms of organic typography and graphic design found in and influenced by German magazines like Jugend, Pan, and Simplicissimus, it is now applied to more general manifestations of Art Nouveau visual arts in Germany, the Netherlands, the Baltic states, and Nordic countries. [11] The city, then called Darmstait, became a secondary residence for the counts, with a small castle established at the site of the current, much larger edifice. In 1844 the Ludwigsäule (called Langer Lui, meaning Long Ludwig), a 33-metre (108 ft) column commemorating Ludwig I, first Grand Duke of Hesse, was placed in the middle of the square. The magazine was instrumental in promoting the style in Germany. Regional train at Darmstadt Lichtwiese station. They had 4 children: Ludwig Ernst Andreas von Hessen und bei Rhein and 3 other children . Their children were: Princess Katharine Amalie Christiane Luise (13 July 1776 - … These are:[21]. 275 likes. In 2000, its region also scored Rank 3 amongst 97 German regions in the WirtschaftsWoche test ranking Germany's high-tech regions.[11]. Charles resigned from his post in Hanover and moved to Charlotte's mother in Darmstadt, who then took care of his children (both Frederike's and Charlotte's). Darmstadt was first bombed on 30 July 1940, and 34 other air raids would follow before the war's end. Also during this period, in 1912 the chemist Anton Kollisch, working for the pharmaceutical company Merck, first synthesised the chemical MDMA (ecstasy) in Darmstadt. Christine has 8 jobs listed on their profile. Expand your Outlook. Classic McEliece – one of the NIST PQC Round 3 Finalists E. "Ruth" Darmstadt, age 92, of Painted Post, passed away on Wednesday, October 2, 2013 at Absolut of Three Rivers. Other important squares are the Marktplatz (see image) near the old city hall and the Sabaisplatz at the Mathildenhöhe. In her master thesis she focused on a project funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, where she analysed practices of transnational and state governmentality in the field of garbage collection in ⦠Darmstadt was the capital of an independent country (the Grand Duchy of Hesse) until 1871 and the capital of the German state of Hesse until 1945. The weather is often volatile with the summers being warm and humid with frequent thunderstorms, the winters mostly relatively mild with frequent periods of high fog. Georg married Princess Cecilie von Hessen Darmstadt (born of Greece & Denmark) on month day 1931, at age 24 at marriage place. This was about 46% of all the recorded Darmstadt's in the USA. The European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) of the European Space Agency is located in Darmstadt. Darmstadt is served by several national and European bus links which connect Darmstadt with other German and European cities. Works by sculptors Manfred Emmenegger-Kanzler (* 1953), CW Loth (* 1954) and Christiane Messerschmidt (* 1963) made of steel, clay, wood, and stone will be shown on around 450 square meters in one of the former machine halls in the heart of the campus … It is well known as a high-tech centre in the vicinity of Frankfurt Airport, with important activities in spacecraft operations (the European Space Operations Centre, European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites), chemistry, pharmacy, information technology, biotechnology, telecommunications (substantial Deutsche Telekom presence) and mechatronics. Darmstadt Hauptbahnhof – Train hub for southern Hesse. The princess was first engaged with the hereditary prince Peter Frederick William of Oldenburg, but the engagement was dissolved again as a result of the onset of Peter's mental illness. Other important parks are the French style parks Prinz-Georgs-Garten and Orangerie, the modern style Bürgerpark ("People's Park") in northern Darmstadt and the mystical Park Rosenhöhe, ("Rose Heights") which also serves as the cemetery for the dukes, with two impressive mausoleum buildings in its remote parts. the catholic secondary school Edith-Stein-Schule, the Adventists' Schulzentrum Marienhöhe, an anthroposophic Waldorf School, a Comenius School and other faith based private schools. Bei der Produktion ist … ^2019 JKVGSS inaugurated in Darmstadt City, Rhine-Main-Area (Frankfurt Metropolitan Region), European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites, world's busiest airports by passenger traffic, Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik, Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung, Protestant University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt, The former private chapel of the last Tsar of Russia, List of twin towns and sister cities in Germany, "Wanted: Suitable name for unstable, heavyweight element", "Essential Facts (brochure from the official city website)", "Establishment of TU Darmstadt (in German)", Darmstädter Stadtgeschichte 20. Christiane Baumgart Lovestories. 39 reviews of Steven Darmstadt, DDS "I had been suffering excruciating pain because of my wisdom teeth. Zumindest, was die Bewirtschaftung der ⦠The most Darmstadt families were found in the USA in 1880. mid - made in darmstadt. The Jazz-Institut Darmstadt is Germany's largest publicly accessible jazz archive.[30]. The military newspaper European Stars and Stripes also had its headquarters there. Consultez le profil complet sur LinkedIn et découvrez les relations de Christiane, ainsi que des emplois dans des entreprises similaires. It is due to its past as a capital city that it has many architectural testimonies of this period. A Microsoft 365 subscription offers an ad-free interface, custom domains, enhanced security options, the full desktop version of Office, and 1 TB of cloud storage. Sections of this page. This airport can only be reached by car or bus. A separate small hall (Kammerspiele) with 120 seats is used for chamber plays. These buildings still exist and are used for various public and private purposes. In the beginning of the 20th century, Darmstadt was an important centre for the art movement of Jugendstil, the German variant of Art Nouveau. As part of the U.S. Army's ongoing transformation in Germany, the Darmstadt military community, by then designated U.S. Army Garrison Darmstadt, inactivated on 30 September 2008. Many of its major architectural landmarks were created by Georg Moller who was appointed the court master builder of the Grand Duchy of Hesse. [8] The Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR) is an international accelerator facility under construction. Sehen Sie ⦠2009 MADE IN CHINA, Kunstverein Ludwigsburg, Germany, (c) Wild Card, Gallery UP art, Neustadt (Weinstr. View Christiane Heisse’s profile on LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional community. The Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt, harboring one of the world's largest collections of post-war sheet music,[31] also hosts the biennial Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik, a summer school in contemporary classical music founded by Wolfgang Steinecke. Among the museums in Darmstadt the most important are the Hessisches Landesmuseum (Hessian State Museum), the Porcelain Museum (exhibition of the ducal porcelain), the Schlossmuseum (exhibition of the ducal residence and possessions), the Kunsthalle Darmstadt (exhibitions of modern art), the exhibition centre Mathildenhöhe and the Museum Künstlerkolonie (Art Nouveau museum). The website of the 66th Military Intelligence Brigade claims they moved out in 2008, but Google Maps and Bing satellite imagery still show a respectively full and quarter-full parking lot,[original research?] Darmstadt is connected to a number of major roads, including two Autobahnen (Bundesautobahn 5 and Bundesautobahn 67). [23] The grand-ducal palace of Darmstadt is located in the city centre. The European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT) and the European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) are located in Darmstadt, as well as GSI Centre for Heavy Ion Research, where several chemical elements such as bohrium (1981), meitnerium (1982), hassium (1984), darmstadtium (1994), roentgenium (1994), and copernicium (1996) were discovered. Christoph Grund 2020 "Christoph Grund is a musician, who knows perfectly well how to give well known music the aura of the new and how to make the audience feel the trace of his intellectual tradition when performing the unknown. Darmstadt has a rich cultural heritage. Life. We've developed a suite of premium Outlook features for people with advanced email and calendar needs. Henriette Karoline Christiane Louise was mother of 6 children and lived (1721-74). ... Beto Perez, Made in Heaven - Espenau, dm-drogerie markt Deutschland, MDF Dienstleistungen Fischer and more ... Others Named Christiane Laubach. Today it is a public park, heavily used in every season of the year. The Protestant Stadtkirche church,[26] built in 1369, is in the pedestrian zone of the downtown city center, next to the historic Hotel Bockshaut. SV Darmstadt 1898 e.V. Darmstadt is home to many research institutions such as the Fraunhofer Society (Fraunhofer IGD, Fraunhofer LBF, Fraunhofer SIT) and the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung (GSI, "Society for heavy ion Research"), which operates a particle accelerator in northern Darmstadt. Sehen Sie sich das Profil von Christiane Kellner auf LinkedIn an, dem weltweit größten beruflichen Netzwerk. Countess Charlotte Sibylle of Ahlefeldt, 31. Countess Eleonore Barbara Marie Cratz of Scharffenstein, 7. Alix of Hess-Darmstadt was born on June 8, 1872 in Darmstadt, Germany. This attack was an example of the firestorm technique, which was subsequently used against the historic city of Dresden in February 1945. Over the years, the U.S. military community Darmstadt – under a variety of designations – served as home for thousands of American soldiers and their families. He was previously married to Charlotte's older sister Friederike, who had died in childbirth. Join Facebook to connect with Christiane Wöhlert-Made and others you may know. [34] It draws its support from the nearby U.S. Army Garrison Wiesbaden. The "Small Hall" (Kleines Haus) is mostly used for plays and dance and has 482 seats. The Russian Chapel in Darmstadt is a Russian orthodox church which is still in use. Charlotte Wilhelmine Christiane Marie of Hesse-Darmstadt (5 November 1755, Darmstadt – 12 December 1785, Hanover), was by marriage Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. The historically important local airfield August Euler Airfield [de] is closed to aviation at large, being reserved for the use of the Technische Universität Darmstadt. [citation needed] In fact, the stream received its current name much later, after the city, not vice versa. The name is taken from the artistic journal, Die Jugend, which was published in Munich and which espoused the new artistic movement. The present building has been in use since 1972 and has three halls which can be used independently. New York had the highest population of Darmstadt families in 1880. Darmstadt was selected as the secondary target for the raid, but was promoted to the primary target after clouds were observed over the primary which would have hindered any reconnaissance of the after-effects. Darmstadt (/ˈdɑːrmstæt/, also UK: /-ʃtæt/, US: /-stɑːt, -ʃtɑːt/,[3][4][5] German: [ˈdaʁmʃtat] (listen)) is a city in the state of Hesse in Germany, located in the southern part of the Rhine-Main-Area (Frankfurt Metropolitan Region). Vapiano: Vapiano- a good choice - See 364 traveler reviews, 60 candid photos, and great deals for Darmstadt, Germany, at Tripadvisor. Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube. Around 40,000 employees work to further develop technologies that improve and enhance life – from biopharmaceutical therapies to treat cancer or multiple sclerosis, cutting-edge systems for scientific research and production, to liquid crystals for smartphones and LCD televisions. Friederike was born in Darmstadt the eldest daughter of Prince George William of Hesse-Darmstadt, second son of Louis VIII, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt, and Countess Maria Luise Albertine of Leiningen-Dagsburg-Falkenburg. She thus became stepmother for her sister's five surviving children - her nieces and nephews. Darmstadt was formerly the capital of a sovereign country, the Grand Duchy of Hesse and its successor, the People's State of Hesse, a federal state of Germany. Even after the garrison inactivation, however, there is still one unit active in Darmstadt: The 66th Military Intelligence Group at the Dagger Complex on Eberstädter Weg,. The Staatstheater Darmstadt (State Theatre Darmstadt) dates back to the year 1711. My original appointment at 7-Day Dental had to be canceled and the next available date was going to be 2 and half months later because their oral surgeon only comes in once a week, not on Fridays. The City of Darmstadt offers students a broad variety of public primary, secondary and tertiary schools. Christiane studied human geography in Munich, Frankfurt and Groningen. Besides that, a number of regional trains connect secondary railway stations within Darmstadt and the region with Darmstadt Hauptbahnhof (main station), offering a net of inner city and regional train links. During this fire attack an estimated 11,000 to 12,500 of the inhabitants burned to death, and 66,000 to 70,000 were left homeless. Charlotte married Charles of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (who later became the Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz), on 28 September 1784 in Darmstadt. Schlawitschek, Christiane (2020): Numerical simulation of drop impact and evaporation on superheated surfaces at low and high ambient pressures. German Art Nouveau is commonly known by its German name, Jugendstil. Jahrhundert, "Mittelwerte 30-jähriger Perioden, Tabelle A, 1981 – 2010", 2019 JKVGSS inaugurated in Darmstadt City, Discover Darmstadt – City Tourist Website, Cities with more than 100,000 inhabitants, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Darmstadt&oldid=1001524142, Articles with dead external links from December 2017, Articles with permanently dead external links, Short description is different from Wikidata, Pages using infobox German location with unknown parameters, Articles with unsourced statements from August 2017, All articles that may contain original research, Articles that may contain original research from January 2018, Articles with German-language sources (de), Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from EB9, Wikipedia articles with MusicBrainz area identifiers, Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Source: Daily mean / Avg. Born in Jasper, she was the daughter of Wayne and Elcy (Drake) Mayo.Ruth graduated This entry was posted in cbcrypto on August 13, 2020 by Christiane Peters . The rural areas east of the city in the Odenwald are accessed by several secondary roads. Darmstadt (/ ˈ d ɑːr m s t æ t /, also UK: /-ʃ t æ t /, US: /-s t ɑː t,-ʃ t ɑː t /, German: [ˈdaʁmʃtat] ()) is a city in the state of Hesse in Germany, located in the southern part of the Rhine-Main-Area (Frankfurt Metropolitan Region).Darmstadt had a population of around 157,437 at the end of 2016. Sieh dir an, was Christiane Made (christianemade) auf Pinterest, der weltweit größten Sammlung von Ideen, entdeckt hat. Other History posts I made of Baden: Amalie Christiane of Baden, which you can see on this link. The Botanischer Garten in eastern Darmstadt is a botanical garden maintained by the Technische Universität Darmstadt with a fine collection of rare plants and trees. Christiane has 1 job listed on their profile. [16] In 1942, over 3,000 Jews from Darmstadt were first forced into a collection camp located in the Liebigschule, and later deported to concentration camps[17] where most eventually died. By its main railway station "Darmstadt Hauptbahnhof", which is located in the western part of the central city, Darmstadt is connected to the rest of Germany and Europe by the Intercity-Express network and other long-distance trains. Join Facebook to connect with Christiane Arnold and others you may know. Surviving examples of the Jugendstil period include the Rosenhöhe, a landscaped English-style rose garden from the 19th century, recently renovated and replanted,[24] the Mathildenhöhe,[25] with the Hochzeitsturm ('Wedding tower', also commonly known as the 'Five-Finger-Tower') by Joseph Maria Olbrich, the Russian Chapel in Darmstadt and large exhibition halls as well as many private villas built by Jugendstil architects who had settled in Darmstadt. [10], Darmstadt was chartered as a city by the Holy Roman Emperor Ludwig the Bavarian in 1330, at which time it belonged to the counts of Katzenelnbogen. Although Russian orthodox churches also exist in other cities outside Russia, the Russian Chapel in Darmstadt was the only official Russian church used by the Tsar outside the Russian Empire. She was an efficient administrator and made Darmstadt the cultural centre of the time. [11], Darmstadt has nine official 'Stadtteile' (boroughs). As an almost surreal building, it is internationally famous for its almost absolute rejection of rectangular forms, down to every window having a different shape, the style being a trademark of Hundertwasser's work. It is sometimes stated that the name derives from the 'Darmbach' (a small stream formerly running through the city). The roots of Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences goes back to 1876[20] along with Technische Universität Darmstadt(the first electrical engineering chair and inventions fame), when both these Universities were an integrated entities, a need for a separate industry based research educational institution was felt in the early 1930s, finally University of Applied sciences emerged as a separate industry based research educational institution in 1971 and is the largest University of Applied Sciences in Hesse (German: Hessen) with about 11,000 students.
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By Paul Bradbury, 06 May 2016, 11:52 AM Destinations
If you are looking for a cycling region of Croatia which has it all, look no further than Central Dalmatia, a tourist paradise which has a wealth of diversity and challenge for cyclists of all levels. The regional tourist board has worked hard in recent years to promote cycling tourism as one of its key year-round activities, and there are now almost 3,000km of marked trails, with much more to come in 2017, as well as dedicated bike maps for inland Dalmatia and the islands of Brac and Hvar. The whole region will be covered by the end of 2017.
Where to start with this paradise? Perhaps in the heart, the Dalmatian capital of Split, one of Europe's hottest destinations after years of being known simply as 'the Gateway to the Dalmatian islands'. With its very own UNESCO World Heritage Site in Diocletian's Palace, Split is a city which has it all - culture, gourmet, beaches, nightlife and enviable neighbouring attractions. For the cyclist in town, don't miss exploring the lungs of the city, Marjan hill, which also offers the best views of this gorgeous city.
Gateway to the islands it may be, but whichever way you turn, there is magic. Another UNESCO World Heritage Site, the old town of Trogir, is just up the coast, a little further along than the seven castles of Kastela which are also home to the original Zinfandel, while a little to the south is the Split Riviera which was named in 2016 as the best 12-month destination in Croatia.
Or head inland for what is perhaps the most underrated and rarely explored part of Croatia, the region of Zagora. Pass by the mighty Klis Fortress, now a famous Game of Thrones filming location, into a region which is rich in nature, heritage, gastronomy, and tradition. Don't miss the Alka knight town of Sinj and its fascinating new museum, the unique Red and Blue Lakes of Imotski, the 600 year-old mills at Grab, or the divine source of the Cetina river.
Or island hop. There are four magnificent islands which are yours to discover - timeless Solta, heavenly Vis, and the two main cycling islands, Brac and Hvar, both of which has developed trail and maps. Brac, home of Croatia's most famous beach at Zlatni Rat, as well as the source of some of the stone in The White House in Washington, also has a famous cycling patron, and former London Mayor Boris Johnson's endorsement of Brac as a cycling destination had more than 1.6 million hits soon after its release.
Or island hop on to Hvar, the lavender island, the sunniest in all Europe, and an island with its very own UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Stari Grad Plain. Olive groves, vineyards, historic towns and villages, all laced with spectacular views - no wonder Hvar was recently included in Duvine's list of top 10 coastal cycling destinations in Europe.
Exciting new projects such as Medpaths and the Dinaric Trail are really opening up Central Dalmatia as a cycling destination, and there are a growing number of cycling-themed events coming to the region, which can only add to the appeal. The big one of course is the Tour of Croatia, but others, such as Cetina Adventure and the new Dalmacija Ultra Trail are showcasing the region as a stunning adrenaline destination nationally and internationally.
For an overview of the region and its cycling, visit www.dalmatia-bike.com, the official regional tourist board website.
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A Large Demand for Cycling Guides in Croatia, and a Tourism Opportunity with a Good Paycheck
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It starts in 2025 with a description of a horrific heatwave in India which will stay with me for a very long time. As well it should as, in the book, it kills 20 million people. In response, India send thousands of aircraft up to 60,000 feet to spray aerosol particulates of sulphur dioxide into the stratosphere, in defiance of the international conventions banning such activities, to deflect some of the solar radiation with the aim of reducing the probability of future heatwaves for a period. By how much or for how long or with what other consequences is unknown.
As we build up to COP26 in Glasgow in November this year, in the book we start with the results of COP29 in Bogota, where the organisation which would come to be known as The Ministry for the Future (and the title of the book by Kim Stanley Robinson) was set up “to advocate for the world’s future generations of citizens, whose rights, as defined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, are as valid as our own. This new Subsidiary Body is furthermore charged with defending all living creatures present and future who cannot speak for themselves, by promoting their legal standing and physical protection.”
The Indian crisis happens a few months later. The new head of this body, Mary Murphy, is briefly held captive by, Frank, one of the survivors of the heatwave in her own flat in Zurich (the book also feels like a love letter to Zurich) and challenged to do more:
It’s not enough. Your efforts aren’t slowing the damage fast enough. They aren’t creating fixes fast enough. You can see that, because everyone can see it. Things don’t change, we’re still on track for a mass extinction event, we’re in the extinctions already. That’s what I mean by not enough. So why don’t you do something more?
This has a profound impact on Mary, who keeps in touch with Frank and his troubled suffering life throughout the book. It also leans her towards effectively endorsing the involvement of her No 2 in “black” operations to ensure certain people are “scared away from burning carbon”.
Indeed the book is suffused with eco-terrorism. Technological progress has partly displaced the state monopoly of violence, with drone technology in particular meaning that no aircraft or ship or surface navy is safe from a well-enough organised group by the end of the book. People stop flying when aircraft start being shot down regularly, and those that still do fly use carbon-negative airships, where solar panels generate more power than the ships use. Davos attendees get taken hostage and given a compulsory seminar at one point. Tax havens become obsolete when all money becomes digital and tracked.
Mary’s interactions with central bankers are probably the closest this book ever comes to comedy. In the first, she tries to argue for a “carbon coin”, a digital currency which would be paid out to organisations and people who could prove they had removed carbon from the environment. This would be the incentive to work alongside the carbon taxes. The contemptuous response from the Federal Reserve and others at first is “not our purview”, however by the end they are on board with this and many of the other ideas developed along the way.
There are so many ideas in this book, far too many to cover them all here: some of them familiar to me from economics (carbon quantitative easing, Jevons’ Paradox, Modern Monetary Theory, Gini Coefficient – these each get a short chapter among many other ideas and interspersed with riddles) and others not so. The Indian techno fix is the first of many: some successful, like sucking out the meltwater under glaciers to slow them sliding into the ocean and others not so, like the billionaire wanting to refreeze the oceans. Russia dyes parts of the Arctic yellow to reflect more sunlight back. Huge areas of land are rewilded.
What strikes me most is that the arguments we tend to have here and now about which course to take (Freud’s phrase is quoted here in the book – “the narcissism of small differences”) seem largely moot in this one imagined near-future: all of them are tried there – it’s not techno-fixes or de-carbonisation of transport and heating, it’s both. It’s not carbon QE or re-wilding, it’s both. If something doesn’t work, it’s abandoned. By far the most important determinant of which of the IPCC future scenarios we end up on seems to be how quickly we start. Economists come in for particular ridicule there – whatever course of action is planned, they can find one group who thinks it will have one effect, one who think it will have the opposite effect and one which thinks it will make no difference at all. The difference is that the economists are no longer guiding policy there, but facilitating and post hoc rationalising it.
There is a wartime feel to the book throughout, with people doing what they feel needs to be done in desperate circumstances. The choices are all different levels of bad, but bad is almost incalculably better than worst. And the overall impression is of a world changing rapidly, with one of its herd animals belatedly getting into better balance with the others. Even at 560 odd pages the impressions are inevitably just that – one chapter is just a list of different organisations working on aspects of the climate emergency in different countries, described as about 1% of the total number active. It is like the shards of a smashed wing mirror picking out details from the vanishing world behind. I have never wanted to apply the word polymesmeric (which I first saw on the cover of Catch 22 by Joseph Heller) to a book as much as I have to this one.
The hoped-for outcome of all of this? In one conversation this is described as a “success made of failures” or a “cobbling-together from less-than-satisfactory parts”, which I think sums it up nicely.
And I definitely want to visit Zurich one day. Probably by airship.
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