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Exception: ArrowInvalid
Message: JSON parse error: Missing a closing quotation mark in string. in row 99
Traceback: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 153, in _generate_tables
df = pd.read_json(f, dtype_backend="pyarrow")
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 815, in read_json
return json_reader.read()
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1025, in read
obj = self._get_object_parser(self.data)
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1051, in _get_object_parser
obj = FrameParser(json, **kwargs).parse()
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1187, in parse
self._parse()
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1403, in _parse
ujson_loads(json, precise_float=self.precise_float), dtype=None
ValueError: Trailing data
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1997, in _prepare_split_single
for _, table in generator:
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 156, in _generate_tables
raise e
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 130, in _generate_tables
pa_table = paj.read_json(
File "pyarrow/_json.pyx", line 308, in pyarrow._json.read_json
File "pyarrow/error.pxi", line 154, in pyarrow.lib.pyarrow_internal_check_status
File "pyarrow/error.pxi", line 91, in pyarrow.lib.check_status
pyarrow.lib.ArrowInvalid: JSON parse error: Missing a closing quotation mark in string. in row 99
The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/job_runners/config/parquet_and_info.py", line 1529, in compute_config_parquet_and_info_response
parquet_operations = convert_to_parquet(builder)
File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/job_runners/config/parquet_and_info.py", line 1154, in convert_to_parquet
builder.download_and_prepare(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1029, in download_and_prepare
self._download_and_prepare(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1124, in _download_and_prepare
self._prepare_split(split_generator, **prepare_split_kwargs)
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1884, in _prepare_split
for job_id, done, content in self._prepare_split_single(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 2040, in _prepare_split_single
raise DatasetGenerationError("An error occurred while generating the dataset") from e
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Tiree Community Council – Oct. Meetings
This was delayed a week because of the school holidays.
There was therefore plenty to talk about, including a discussion about Island Bonds, whether we should get back to face-to-face meetings, future improvements in broadband, and a planning application at Vaul.
But first, the monthly report from our local police station highlighted two significant thefts: in one, a power saw was taken from a site in Crossapol; in another, a substantial amount of cash was taken from a car. Thefts like these are unusual on Tiree, and Steph asked the community to be vigilant over the next few weeks.
The Scottish Government has promised to give out 100 Island Bonds of up to £50,000 to encourage young people to live and set up businesses on islands where population numbers are going down – like Tiree. We have been asked to comment on this idea. While we obviously welcome the idea in general terms, we have some issues with the detail. First, the scheme has to stretch to almost 100 inhabited islands, so it doesn’t go nearly far enough. We also felt that the priority needs to be retaining our own young people.
Argyll and Bute Council is now asking the question: should the community council get back to face-to-face meetings in An Talla? There are a number of people who definitely prefer the old way. There are others who aren’t able to get out in the evenings or who just find it more convenient to watch from their living rooms. We councillors certainly like the new digital democracy. Numbers attending our Zoom meetings have gone up, the chat function allows members of the public to make comments throughout the meeting, while screen sharing allows us to show photographs and plans. Mull Community Council even puts recordings of their meetings online for people to watch later, but there wasn’t much enthusiasm for that idea here. Another big plus of Zoom meetings is that they will allow people to listen in Gaelic (of which, more below). The ‘hybrid meeting’ – where the councillors meet in public in the hall but where people can also join the meeting online – sounds like the best of both worlds but is technically quite tricky. Let us know what you think. We will put out a SurveyMonkey poll, but you can contact us in all the usual ways too. Or you can write direct to Melissa Stewart, Community Council Liaison Officer, Kilmory, Lochgilphead, PA31 8RT or at communitycouncils@argyllbute. gov.uk.
An update to the broadband improvement programmes R100 and gigabyte was given. In their current format, it looks as if they will leave quite a lot of homes and businesses below the promised 30Mbps. There are ongoing discussions with interested parties to see if this can be improved. In the meantime, if anyone is thinking of applying for a voucher under these schemes, could they please contact the community council or Tiree Broadband as one option being considered is the pooling of vouchers.
We also discussed a planning application at Vaul. A number of parties have expressed concerns about how the proposed long access track could affect the grazing above the shoreline. It may be that another shorter track to the site from the south might be better. We also noted that part of the proposed site is in the protected ‘Countryside’ area. We will write to the planner with our views.
Following our letter to the Hebridean Trust, we have had two meetings with their trustees and local organisations about a possible way forward for the Hynish complex. Our hope is to keep these historic buildings – currently providing housing and holiday accommodation – under some sort of community control. It’s early days, but we have made some progress in the last few weeks. A number of experts will be surveying the buildings and asking the question of what businesses could flourish there. Fingers crossed!
We got word that the next community council elections will be in October 2022. And finally, this year’s Remembrance Day service at the Scarinish war memorial will be on Saturday November 13 at 2pm.
Dr John Holliday chaired the meeting, and Phyl Meyer, Gerard McGoogan and John Patience were in attendance. As always, do contact if you think we can help: 220385, doc.holliday@tireecommunitycouncil.c o.uk, via our website or Facebook page. – Dr John Holliday
GAELIC COMMUNITY COUNCIL
The November public meeting of Tiree Community Council will break new ground by becoming the first Scottish council to have its meetings simultaneously translated into Gaelic. Those tuning in to the meeting on Wednesday November 10 will have a choice of buttons: English or Gaelic. Proceedings will be translated by Iain MacIlleChiar. Iain hails from Rannoch in Perthshire, and has spent his life teaching Gaelic in a number of schools and colleges. The three month initiative, funded by Argyll and Bute Council, will suit native speakers and learners who would like to hear the language being used for everyday business. As such, it is expected to attract interest from outside the island as well as from islanders. At the end of the pilot, the project will be evaluated to see how well it has gone. Go to our website nearer the time for details.
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Artists’ Collaborative Theatre Of New England (ACT ONE) is a New Hampshire tax-exempt, not-for-profit arts and education organization established in 1997 to present, produce, and promote the fine arts, with special emphasis on professional theatre production.
1998-1999 ACT ONE’s first theatrical production and outreach programming explored New Hampshire’s rich cultural history. With a generous grant from the New Hampshire Humanities Council, ACT ONE developed “A Visit to the Isles of Shoals,” a 4-part series of lecture series that toured the libraries in Peterborough, Rochester, Littleton, Claremont, Hopkinton, Manchester, Gilford, and Portsmouth.
With funding provided by the Isles of Shoals Steamship Company, the New Hampshire Humanities Council, Rosamond Thaxter Foundation, and WMUR-TV, ACT ONE developed the professional theatre production, Of Pirates & Poets – A Visit to the Isles of Shoals with Celia Thaxter. This one-woman multi-media presentation captured the fascinating history of the rocky archipelago that lies just off our coast and celebrated the life and works of poet, folklorist, and New Hampshire native, Celia Thaxter.
In May 1999, Of Pirates & Poets toured nine theatres and opera houses across New Hampshire, including Keene’s Colonial Theatre, the Claremont Opera House, the Lebanon Opera House, Gilford’s Performing Arts Center, the Exeter Town Hall, the Rochester Opera House, Concord’s City Auditorium, Manchester’s Palace Theatre, and The Music Hall in Portsmouth. The play received high critical acclaim and enjoyed a return engagement to the Audi, the Palace Theatre, and The Music Hall in September 1999.
2000-2004 When a real estate developer purchased the Hampton Playhouse barn theatre and adjoining property, the result was the closure of that theatre in late 1999. A group of residents of Hampton, NH approached ACT ONE about keeping alive the fifty year-tradition of professional summer theatre in their community.
With generous support from Greater Piscataqua Charitable Foundation, Lily Software, and Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New Hampshire, ACT ONE presented an eight-week season of professional comedy, musicals, and concerts at the Performing Arts Center at Winnacunnet High School In July and August of 2000.The first year of this “rescue mission” was a success, drawing over 6,000 enthusiastic theatre patrons. Thus was born ACT ONE’s Hampton Summer Theatre.
ACT ONE’s Hampton Summer Theatre continued for four additional summers, presenting professional comedy and musical theatre, and Concert Series that featured such well-known artists as Arlo Guthrie, Ed Gerhard, Tim Sample, and the Shaw Brothers. Expanded arts programming included children’s theatre workshops and performances.
During these formative years, ACT ONE’s Hampton Summer Theatre was awarded grants from the Greater Piscataqua Charitable Foundation, the NH State Council on the Arts, the Fuller Foundation, the NH Charitable Foundation, the Partnership for Effective Nonprofits, and the Getz Foundation. In addition to this invaluable support, membership in ACT ONE’s Circle of Friends grew as loyal and enthusiastic theatre patrons stepped forward with tax deductible donations.
In August 2004, the Hampton School Board informed ACT ONE that the Performing Arts Center would have to be closed the following summer for construction and asbestos removal but that ACT ONE was invited to return in 2006. Once it was clear that no interim venue could be secured in the Hampton area, ACT ONE’s Board of Directors was forced to conclude that “going dark” for a season would result in substantial loss of momentum for this fledgling enterprise. Thus Hampton Summer Theatre closed at the end of the 2004 season. ACT ONE began searching for a new performance venue.
2006 Pontine Theatre, now established in the newly air-conditioned West End Studio Theatre in Portsmouth, invited ACT ONE to take part in an August performance series of historical theatre. Of Pirates & Poets was adapted into a 75-minute format for the August series. At the conclusion of the performance series, Pontine’s co-artistic directors offered ACT ONE the opportunity to lease WEST for the following August.
2007-2018 Thus began ACT ONE’s annual Festivals at the West End Studio Theatre. This year marks the twelvth season that ACT ONE has presented professional theatre, concerts, and storytelling in the wonderfully intimate 50-seat black-box theatre space at WEST.
ACT ONE’s Festival began as a 3-week season but has grown considerably over the years, now running from August through October. One of the hallmarks of ACT ONE’s Festival is the presentation of original theatre pieces, often premieres, by remarkable solo artists such as Susan Poulin, Pat Spalding, James Haller, Leslie Pasternack, Roland Goodbody, Liz Korabek-Emerson, and David Kaye. ACT ONE is also committed to giving full productions to new works by regional playwrights and has mounted productions of plays by Jack Neary, David Mariello, and Stephen Faria.
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By Julia Jackson • 6 years ago
Refraining from using sexist language is more than just politically correct
Refraining from using language that is sexist, derogatory and violent towards women is not just about being politically correct, like some political figures (Donald Trump) try to convince us. Refraining from misogynist and sexist language is about refraining from continually degrading a specific group of people. Words have a powerful impact. And when those words are being used to belittle the biggest group of marginalized people in the world, (women make up almost half of the world and encompass all walks of life) then that has a powerfully negative impact on the individual woman and society as a whole. How can you go out into the world and do amazing things when you are constantly coming up against language and actions that treat you like you don’t matter? Being a woman, or other group of people, who others are constantly putting down through language, and eventually, in actions, gets into individuals’ and societal’s psyches. And yet, this is something Trump, and others like him, refuse to see.
Since being called out on his comment about Megyn Kelly (which, he says. wasn’t referring to menstruation) Trump has written, “So many ‘politically correct’ fools in our country. We have to all get back to work and stop wasting time and energy on nonsense!” Sure. Why not avoid being derogatory, while also “getting back to work”? I don’t see how watching one’s mouth conflicts with getting things done. In fact, it is quite the opposite.
The other day, this man came to the grocery store where I sometimes cashier, and berated me about “political correctness” and attacked my character when I kindly asked him not to call me “cutie pie”. It’s like calling a full-grown man something like “little champ.” I feel as though I’m being knocked down a peg, reduced to a child when someone calls me names. So it’s just a respect-thing to me. But this guy couldn’t see it that way and instead loudly accosted me at my place of work, calling me “ugly,” and then saying, “You just wanna be called Julia, with a capital J.” In hindsight that’s a hilarious statement, because, yeah: That’s my name, and all name’s are capitalized. So yes. The next person who came through my line was a frequent customer and a nice guy, so I told him about the encounter when he genuinely asked how I was. But he just mansplained the whole thing away.
History is written in words, which are written by the winners. And perceptions of the world around us are dictated by the diction available to us. Words may not physically break bones, but let’s face it; Everything we think or say, boils down to the language we have available. Words are the building blocks for intellect and interaction. So what happens when people degrade women through language? Let’s take a look at English curse words, for example. (Caution: Curse words ahead.)
Have you ever thought about just how many offensive-towards-women-words there are? B*tch, slut, c*nt, ball buster and whore, are just a few examples, with cringe worthy feelings associated with each of them. Nearly all the curse words available do not have male counterparts. Have you ever thought about why?
I happen to appreciate the occasional, well placed curse word. I think it adds flair and spice to conversation. The F-bomb is a lovely descriptor, in my opinion. But I wish there was more of a rainbow of curse words available, instead of the sh*t sandwich of degrading-to-women curse words we have today. The variety of derogatory-women-words makes it all the more easy to verbally degrade women more so than men.
If the majority of curse words are referring to women, how does that make us view women? It can get into the human psyche. “Oh son of a b*tch.” So the root of what is wrong in this situation is a son who came from a “bad” woman … hmm. Lets try another. “You p*ssy!” So the person in question is not being strong and is therefore equated with a slang word for a female body part. Even negative words meant to describe men are rooted back to females or female actions. “What a douche bag.” A douche bag is something women sometimes use.(Hopefully sparingly, or not at all though, since it can be harmful.) So, doing a female-related action in this scenario is equivalent to something negative? Say you’re expressing discontent with someone and trying to diminish him or her verbally: “Yeah yeah, suck my dick.” To perform oral sex on a man is often an action hetero-women do. So yet again, we’ve come back around to whatever women do or are associated with, is linked with a bad word. Often times, this is not at the forefront of the speaker, but it is always there within the word.
But even in other languages, such as Spanish, we come up against the problem of curse words disproportionately disfavoring women. In Spanish, the term “hijo de perra/puta” translates to “son of a bitch/slut“. When I lived in Chile, one of the most common cursing-phrases people would say was, “Concha de tu madre” which roughly translates to “your mothers p*ssy”. But the worst one, in my opinion is valio madre, which means “it was worth mother” meaning, “something is fucked” and not worth anything. Wow.
Recently, a term has emerged that, for a change, doesn’t degrade women, and actually describes a male. F*ckboy has become a term to describe a guy who is sexist, arrogant and plays girls. On Urban Dictionary you can find definitions such as: “F*ckboys are mostly heterosexual young men who use sexist language, throw around homophobic slurs, think all girls are either sluts or objects, thinks rape jokes are funny, believes the friend zone is real, usually are quite misogynistic and embody ignorance on every level.” and another definition, stating, one “…who is into strictly sexual relationships; he will lead a girl on and let her down, then apologize only to ask for “pics” once the girl has welcomed him back into her trust. Boys like this will pretend to genuinely care about the girl but always fail to prove the supposed affection. ” Granted, some of the definitions on Urban Dictionary for f*ckboy use the problematic term p*ssy, which merely makes my point again. Some may view the appreciation of the term hypocritical, yet the reason I view the term f*ckboy as progress, is because terms like this are helpful in making women more able to express their concerns, for a change, about what happens in their lives. And this word knocks bigotry, another plus. Without the language to express emotions, it is challenging to legitimize ones experience, especially when the majority of curse words are stacked against you, describing women.
The first Urban Dictionary definition brings up another point: The use of the word rape, colloquially. I cringe to my core every time I hear someone casually throw the word around. “Oh dude I just totally raped you in video games!” This is a statement I actually heard in real life one day. My response was “Hey, do you think you could use a different word next time?” But how do people think it is ok to throw a word around like that? It diminishes one of the most heinous crimes that, affects hundreds of thousands of people for the rest of their lives.
The hardest part about getting people to realize how screwed up it is to use the word rape casually, is that there is no comparison. You can’t say, “Look, using the word rape, is like X.” It’s hard for some people to really get it. Rape is a unique and horrific crime that affects both women and men, but women disproportionately. Women live in fear of rape. So tossing the word around like it’s no big deal, personally, really gets to me. Because it normalizes the most horrific of crimes.
Ultimately, we need better terms in order for female actions to become normalized and women’s experiences and actions to be less marginalized. Refraining from using sexist language is an important piece to empowering women. How can women become fully equal and empowered, when use of language does the opposite? Women need to be a part of the words that we all form our worldly and societal perceptions around, and not just in curse words and the absence of sexism. We need to make our own widely used words, positive and negative. As a start for the positive side, whose with me on bringing the word bitchin’ back into style and calling each other queens? (Broad City anyone?) Words are not only at the forefront of interaction and thought, they are also the building blocks of subconscious levels of thought, which can, and do, become reality.
Have you ever walked into a grocery store and come out with a song stuck in your head that you hadn’t realized was playing in the store? That’s what I think about, when I think of the impact of language. You don’t always notice it, but it is there, getting stuck in your head. That vocabulary, which is so stuck in all of our heads, defines how we think and interact with the world. Words matter. So lets get rid of the sexism and get some better lady-terms up in here. Word up.
Disclaimer: This post was written by a Feministing Community user and does not necessarily reflect the views of any Feministing columnist, editor, or executive director.
Julia Jackson
Julia is traveler and a truth seeker. She is an avid writer and researcher, works for the university where she also studies, and has spent years examining society. She is pursuing a Masters in Curriculum and Instruction with a Women's and Gender Studies certificate, and immensely enjoys being outdoors, hiking, playing soccer, blogging and playing music with her rad girl-band.
Julia is an avid writer and researcher, works for the university where she also studies, and is a musician for a rad girl-band.
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The Death of Adolescence in American Culture, Part III
All of the films thus far discussed contain multiple overt references to initiation, to what Hillman describes as the initiation of the puer into puer-et-senex consciousness (239). The union of the sames. Consideration of another recent trend in the film genre of action thrillers reveals the same process but from the perspective of the senex. That is, the initiation of the senex by the puer into the senex-et-puer.
In the popular Taken trilogy starring Liam Neeson, The Equalizer with Denzel Washington, and John Wick with Keanu Reeves a wifeless protagonist returns from the exile of retirement, puts his “particular set of skills” to use killing his antagonists, and in so doing unites with a re-awakened puer aspect in himself.
In The Equalizer, Washington’s character, Robert McCall (pictured above), is a particularly striking if not entirely subtle example of such a senex figure. In an early scene in a diner he meets a young prostitute whom he is going to protect and become friends with over the course of the film. She sits at the counter; he sits at a table reading The Old Man and the Sea. McCall also times himself as he dispatches his many antagonists. If Katniss Everdeen, the huntress, resembles a young 21st century Artemis, then the stopwatch-wearing McCall is a modern-day Chronos, a death-dealing Father Time.
In the context of the present blog series these contemporary versions of Artemis and Chronos need each other. They need to reunite with their respective senex or puer pole. This reunion is the “metamorphosis” which Jung alludes to when he writes, “We are living what the Greeks called the kairos—the right moment—for a ‘metamorphosis of the gods,’ of the fundamental principles and symbols” (CW 10: para. 585). Hillman appropriates this passage from Jung for use as the second epigraph to his 1967 essay. The third and final epigraph from English astronomer Fred Hoyle is meant to convey the same idea: we are in a “transitional phase” from a primitive puer and senex to a sophisticated puer-et-senex way of life (30).
That men and women over the age of 18 (and sometimes into their 40s or 50s) read Young Adult fiction suggests that unconsciously if not consciously they may be seeking initiation into this more sophisticated way of life. The films thus far discussed suggest several characteristics or qualities of this way, i.e., the new puer-et-senex. First, the films and books end somewhat ambiguously or ambivalently. Rather than a decidedly triumphant tone at the end, the land and the people in it, the survivors, are emblematic of what Hillman calls the “scarred wound” or “weak-strength.” “Soft-hardness” (239). These characters experience nightmares, deal with loss, and suffer betrayal, yet they are able to go about the business of rebuilding their homes, their communities, and their relationships.
Related to this rebuilding is the role played by memory at the conclusion of these stories. In almost all of the tales the characters have the option of restoring or removing their memory so that they do or do not remember that which has gone before. Likewise, at the end of The Hunger Games series honoring the memory of the tributes and others who have died over many years is of particular importance. If as Hillman argues history has become “The Great Repressed” with the splitting of puer from senex, then their reunion undoes this repression (80).
Hillman concludes his first essay in Senex & Puer by reiterating the notion that the ego or willful mind which has caused the split between puer and senex cannot bring them back together. In fact the ego must get out of the way. He writes, “In the absence of ego and into its emptiness an imaginal stream can flow, providing mythical solutions for the psychic connection or ‘progressive mediation’ between the senex/puer contradictions” (66).
The films discussed above are the imaginal streams of which Hillman writes. Their ideas and images provide solutions that are needed now. Psychologically these solutions can be labelled the puer-et-senex and senex-et-puer, the adolescent who has “died” or been initiated into adulthood and the adult who has reunited with his or her inner child.
Mythically these solutions are Katniss Everdeen and Robert McCall.
Note: This post concludes “The Death of Adolescence in American Culture” blog series. The next post will appear in October.
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The Death of Adolescence in American Culture, Part II
Posted on July 27, 2015 by Chris
In actuality, in the first film in The Hunger Games series the conflict between puer and senex takes a while to materialize. At the beginning only one side or extreme is evident and that is the senex in its negative form. Played to perfection by Donald Sutherland, the aged President Snow (pictured above) rules over the thirteen fenced-in districts of Panem in such a way that all inhabitants live in abject poverty. Once a year in each district a male and female name are drawn from a glass bowl, a process called a Reaping, and these two individuals, or tributes, fight to the death against tributes from other districts in a televised event known as the Hunger Games.
The strict enforcement of rules and regulations, the creation of physical boundaries and the control of populations—all of these characterize the negative senex. So, too, do the coldness of the president’s name, his unfeeling proclamations, and his presiding from the Capitol like Saturn, god of agriculture. The annual reaping of male and female tributes is his harvest.
In Senex & Puer Hillman writes that Saturn also has a problematic relationship with the feminine. One incarnation of this relationship, or of Saturn’s feminine aspect, is Dame Melancholy, a figure who is depressed and moody. Sometimes she can also be the source of wisdom (263). As Saturn holds a soft spot for his feminine side, he often keeps it a secret or even imprisoned.
At the beginning of The Hunger Games the heroine of the film, Katniss Everdeen, is more Dame Melancholy, more senex adult, than she is puer rebel and idealist. Not only is she more a mother than a sibling to her younger sister Prim but at times she appears only a step or two away from the same sadness and grief that have immobilized their mother. Played by Jennifer Lawrence, Katniss also has something of a special relationship or status with President Snow; they agree not to tell lies to each other, and on more than one occasion he promises to let her live if she does what he asks.
This compact between them which lasts through much of the series begins to change just over an hour into the first film when the twelve year-old character Rue is killed during the games. Rue’s youthful innocence and selflessness remind Katniss of Prim, and her senseless death awakens something within Katniss, namely her puer aspect. After covering Rue’s lifeless body with flowers, Katniss turns and gives a farewell salute to everyone who is watching the games back home. Members of Rue’s District 11 immediately begin to riot. Something has been awakened in them, too.
Uprisings against tyrannical authority are very much in keeping with the puer trait which Hillman describes as verticality or, citing H.A. Murray, “ascensionism” (158). Hillman writes, “[W]hat matters is verticality – the break in and break with the horizontal outlook of the daily world and its incessant continuity” (159). In The Hunger Games, the incessant oppression of those living outside the Capitol must stop. The Hunger Games themselves must stop, and they do at the end of the second film, Catching Fire, when Katniss breaks through the force field over the arena and is lifted skyward into the waiting rebel hovercraft.
Ascensionism also is evident in the Divergent and Maze Runner film series. In Divergent the young heroine Triss joins with other rebels to break the tyranny of a caste-like system which divides inhabitants of a post-apocalyptic Chicago into five groups or factions. Not only must Triss confront the leader of the Erudite faction, i.e. her President Snow, but to end the faction system once and for all she must journey to the other side of the enormous fence surrounding Chicago. As a result of her actions Triss no longer is the penned-in puer. She and her fellow inhabitants are free.
Like Katniss, Triss is what Susan Rowland in Perpetual Adolescence: Jungian Analyses of American Media, Literature, and Pop Culture calls a “feminine puer” rather than puella. That is, Katniss and Triss have “the qualities of the puer hero in feminine form” (38). Qualities like fearlessness and the skilled use of weaponry in combat. As noted by Susan E. Schwartz in the same book, the puella, or adolescent female, on the other hand is “driven by desires to be seen, to excel, and to be loved […].” “Her presence lights up a room as she performs for the adulation and praise of others” (204).
On several occasions in The Hunger Games Katniss must perform in this manner as puella. She must dress up for the enjoyment of others and become “the girl on fire,” but she does so reluctantly, against her will. She prefers the peace and quiet of hunting in the woods, a bow in her hand, a quiver of arrows on her back.
Finally, the protagonist in The Maze Runner is a more traditional puer, a teenaged boy by the name of Thomas. He must lead his group of rebels through the Maze and out of the incessant continuity of life in the Glade which is their prison. With those in charge of the Maze seemingly dead or incapacitated, the first film in the series ends with Thomas and other survivors in a helicopter flying up and over the Maze walls to freedom…
Note: “The Death of Adolescence in American Culture” will conclude next month with Part III.
The Death of Adolescence in American Culture, Part I
Last September chief film critic for The New York Times A. O. Scott wrote a long and wide-ranging review of American culture as reflected in television and cinema. He called his piece “The Death of Adulthood in American Culture.” In his review Scott argues that the decline of patriarchy and the adult male in American society as depicted in “The Sopranos,” “Breaking Bad,” and “Mad Men,” has created a vacuum largely now filled by infantile escapism, i.e. the refusal of American citizens to grow up and enter the world of relationships and responsibility.
This refusal is evident in such male-driven cinematic fare as the innumerable comic-book movies which endlessly play on our movie screens or the equally ubiquitous bro-mance comedies like “The Hangover,” “The Forty-Year-Old Virgin,” and “Knocked Up.” But the boys are not alone; female-centric TV shows such as “Girls” and “Broad City,” are rebellious in their own right. Scott states that these latter shows are characterized by “a freedom to be idiotic, selfish and immature as well as sexually adventurous and emotionally reckless.”
Young Adult fiction receives a similarly generous dose of Scott’s ire. Toward the beginning of his essay he writes:
“I will admit to feeling a twinge of disapproval when I see one of my peers clutching a volume of ‘Harry Potter’ or ‘The Hunger Games.’ I’m not necessarily proud of this reaction. As cultural critique, it belongs in the same category as the sneer I can’t suppress when I see guys my age (pushing 50) riding skateboards or wearing shorts and flip-flops, or the reflexive arching of my eyebrows when I notice a woman at the office has plastic butterfly barrettes in her hair.”
Finally, toward the end of his critique he adds:
“Grown people feel no compulsion to put away childish things: We can live with our parents, go to summer camp, play dodge ball, collect dolls and action figures and watch cartoons to our hearts’ content.” “It is now possible to conceive of adulthood as the state of being forever young.”
Perhaps unknown to Scott is the fact that this concept of adulthood as the state of being forever young is not new to the rank and file of analytical psychology. As early as the winter of 1959-1960 Marie-Louise von Franz gave twelve lectures which were published together a decade later as her seminal text The Problem of the Puer Aeternus, the problem of the eternal youth. At the outset of her book von Franz writes, “In general, the man who is identified with the archetype of the puer aeternus remains too long in adolescent psychology; that is, all those characteristics that are normal in a youth of seventeen or eighteen are continued into later life […]” (7). Characteristics like riding skateboards and wearing plastic butterfly barrettes. A. O. Scott would do his unsuspecting co-workers a favor, then, were he to secretly replace their dog-eared volumes of Harry Potter and The Hunger Games with von Franz’s attractively packaged and undeniably incisive Puer Aeternus.
Or would he? In fact the present post argues that such books as Harry Potter and The Hunger Games—as well as their cinematic adaptations—provide the very solution to the problem under discussion, i.e., the youth who remains forever young and immature. Indeed, careful consideration of the narrative and imagery of these works yields a potential cure for “The Hangover” and “The 40-year-old Virgin,” a possible path to womanhood for the “Girls” of “Broad City.”
The distinction made here between problem and cure with reference to specific films and shows owes a debt both to the 6th century Roman philosopher Boethius and the archetypal psychologist James Hillman. In The Consolation of Philosophy, Boethius writes “But it is rather time,” saith she, “to apply remedies, than to make complaintes.” This statement is the first of three epigraphs to Hillman’s essay “Senex and Puer: An Aspect of the Historical and Psychological Present.” Originally presented and published in 1967 and now found in Volume 3 of his Uniform Edition (pictured at top), Hillman’s essay marks his first of multiple important writings on the subject of the puer. Scott and von Franz may lodge the complaint about the youth who remains forever young, but Hillman provides the remedy.
Essential to the application of this remedy is Hillman’s distinction between the archetypal background and the neurotic foreground of the puer. The archetypal background of the puer shines through such recent film series as The Hunger Games, Divergent, and The Maze Runner, all of which have captured the public imagination precisely because they communicate timely and transcendent, or archetypal, “messages from the spirit.” Hillman also refers to these messages as “calls to the spirit” (50-51).
These messages or calls, however, are obscured by and in the puerile films and shows criticized by Scott. Such stories of arrested development concern parental complexes of the personal unconscious rather than healing messages from the collective unconscious or spirit. See Adam Sandler. The tics, twitches, and tomfoolery of his many characters, their temper tantrums, reveal little more than their place front and center in the neurotic foreground of the puer. Such characters may be funny in a sophomoric way but rarely if ever do they graduate to a higher, or deeper, meaning and significance.
Seeing through the foreground of the puer to its healing archetypal background begins with the recognition that the puer is one half of what originally comprised a single bipolar archetype, the puer senex or puer senilis. The youth-age polarity (35). Hillman notes that these two poles or faces of the same puer senex archetype are evident in Jewish mysticism via The Holy Old Man as Attik and in Roman mythology via Saturn, both of whom sometimes conceal themselves as if with a hood. Or as we might say today, “The Holy Old Man in a hoodie.” These and other examples given by Hillman demonstrate a degree of original identity shared by the two poles, an identity he refers to as “a union of sames” (60-61).
Today these two poles are split. The ego or willful mind has separated the puer senex archetype into the puer and senex. The union of sames has become a conflict of extremes (61). In The Hunger Games (shown above), Divergent, and The Maze Runner—as in our own world—this conflict of extremes manifests as extreme conflict, one side pitted against the other. Not utopia but dystopia, i.e., the dystopia of Panem, post-apocalyptic Chicago, and the wasted world outside the Maze…
Note: The above represents the first part of a twenty minute presentation I gave July 10th in Connecticut. In Los Angeles on July 24th, I expanded this material into a two hour lecture.
Boyhood, Part II: Another Look at Richard Linklater’s Non-Millennial Millennial Film
Posted on May 31, 2015 by Chris
Toward the end of Richard Linklater’s Boyhood protagonist Mason Evans Jr. (Ellar Coltrane) drives alone in his pick-up through a desert landscape. He is on his way to college for the first time. At a gas station mid-trip Mason pulls out his camera and takes pictures of objects around him: a rusty lantern; a red fire hydrant; a broken traffic signal. The song “Hero” plays over top the sequence: “Let me go. I don’t wanna be your hero. I don’t wanna be a big man.”
This song by Family of the Year provides a moving and melancholic contrast to an otherwise annoying thematic refrain on heroism that appears throughout the film. In particular the heroic traits of responsibility and ambition are trumpeted by numerous characters—and not always in a positive manner. Early in the film Olivia (Patricia Arquette) complains about the fact that responsibility to her children necessitates the sacrifice of her own personal desires. She has taken the difficult and often unpleasant path forsaken by the kids’ irresponsible absentee father (Ethan Hawke). Other characters that harp to Mason on responsibility, ambition, duty, and discipline include Olivia’s second husband Bill (Marco Perella), her third husband Jim (Brad Hawkins), Mason’s photography teacher Mr. Turlington (Tom McTigue), and Mason’s boss at the restaurant Mr. Wood (Richard Robichaux).
Mason, however, marches to a different and perhaps less ambitious or disciplined drummer. His is an artistic sensibility which lives in the moment and values the experience of beauty over self-advancement and muscular achievement. In other words, the dictates by which he lives are those of his heart and not those of heroes or “big men.”
His orientation toward life, then, is marked by a natural preference for being over doing. This preference is most evident in the closing lines of the film. Foregoing freshman orientation Mason sits outside in Big Bend National Park next to Nicole (Jessi Mechler, pictured above) who as a dancer shares Mason’s artistic sensibility. She says to him, “You know how everyone’s always saying ‘seize the moment?’ I don’t know—I’m kind of thinking it’s the other way around. You know, like, the moment seizes us.” Mason looks at the beautiful landscape around them and replies, “Yeah. Yeah I know. It’s constant. The moment—it’s like it’s always right now.” How the present moment contributes to future gain is not their concern. For Mason and Nicole the one true gain can only be found here and now.
Their shared philosophic rapture is matched by the ecstatic union experienced by their companions Dalton (Maximillian McNamara) and Barb (Taylor Weaver). The latter couple stands off at a distance howling like coyotes toward the heavens. For the four friends the beauty of the moment has unfolded into an experience of wholeness and harmony with nature.
Psychologically, the innate preference of Mason and his friends for introspection, creativity, harmony, and openness to the present moment corresponds to the INFP typological designation in the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). Evolving out of Jung’s writing on typology, MBTI often takes the form of a computer questionnaire given in a manner similar to that described in the scene from Boyhood mentioned last month. INFP stands for introverted intuitive feeling perceiving.
In Compass of the Soul: Archetypal Guides to a Fuller Life Jungian analyst John Giannini also characterizes INFP as right-brained, feminine, and tender-minded or tender-hearted. He calls the INFP the sensitive soul. These qualities are evident in Mason’s tendency to daydream, his hairstyle and fingernail polish, his photographs centered on feelings and the feminine, and his sometimes gloomy disposition. What is described above as artistic sensibility is his soulful sensitivity.
Opposite INFP is ESTJ, or extraverted sensing thinking judging. People who identify with this type tend to be outwardly assertive, value hard facts and concrete reality over imagination, and possess a black-and-white sense of right and wrong. They are task-oriented, disciplined, and duty-bound. Their soul is that of the warrior or hero. The examples from Boyhood noted in the second paragraph exhibit ESTJ traits which Giannini also describes as left-brained, masculine, and tough-minded.
The juxtaposition between ESTJ and INFP energies in the film brings to mind the following statement from Jung: “Therein lies the social significance of art: it is constantly at work educating the spirit of the age, conjuring up the forms in which the age is most lacking.” (CW 15: 130). With Boyhood Richard Linklater beautifully educates the spirit of this age. As evidenced by bullying, performance enhancing drugs, substance abuse, and religious and cultural fundamentalism, our collective temperament has become overbearing and even pathological in its heroism. What the hero lacks and most desperately needs is not more or better heroism but the healing presence of the sensitive soul.
Note: The above two-part post expands on ideas found in my film review of Boyhood published in Psychological Perspectives: a quarterly journal of Jungian thought, Vol 58: Issue 2, 2015. Deeper exploration of this material has taken the form of two-hour lectures given here and here.
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Boyhood: Another Look at Richard Linklater’s Non-Millennial Millennial Film
Posted on April 30, 2015 by Chris
The conventional wisdom surrounding last year’s much lauded film Boyhood is that its theme and subject matter concern the early life experience of the millennial generation. For instance, regarding the film and its director Richard Linklater, Tribecafilm.com writer Andrew Bell states that, “From ‘Harry Potter’ to Facebook to ‘Twilight’ to Wii, Richard Linklater captures the millennial generation in his latest masterpiece.” Bell’s comment notwithstanding, what is curious about Linklater’s film is the key ways in which it is anti-millennial or at the very least not limited in scope or meaning to one single generation. Indeed, a case can be made that the meaning and import of this justly celebrated film is multi-generational.
According to Pew Research the term millennial is a sociological designation referring to the generation of individuals born between 1981 and 1996. The use of technology is the chief characteristic uniting these individuals followed by education, politics, and economic outlook. Millennials have “taken the lead in seizing on the new platforms of the digital era—the internet, mobile technology, social media—to construct personalized networks of friends, colleagues and affinity groups.” In short, millennials are “digital natives.” They are able to navigate their way through these platforms and networks with an ease unmatched by members of prior generations.
With this description in mind, the thematic tone of Boyhood takes a decidedly anti-millennial turn in one scene in particular. While on a road trip to Austin, Texas, Mason Evans Jr. (Ellar Coltrane) and his girlfriend Sheena (Zoe Graham) discuss the former’s desire to delete his Facebook page. [See above image]. Instead, Mason wants to “try and not live [his] life through a screen.” He wants “some kind of actual interaction. A real person…” He also makes fun of the significance given to email and cell phone messaging. He clearly no longer wants to be a digital native.
Analysis of a later scene suggests that to find the film’s theme viewers not only must turn away from millennial considerations but the sociology of generations entirely. Here sociology gives way to psychology, specifically the psychology of types. As Mason readies to leave home for college for the first time he tells his mother Olivia (Patricia Arquette) that a computer program has placed him with his new roommate based on their shared interests and traits. His anti-millennial bent still showing, Mason exclaims “…Isn’t that kind of crazy though, that a computer knows who you are from just twenty questions off a form? I guess there are really only like eight types of people in the world.” He then mentions the existence of “subsets” to these types as well as the incredible 100% success rate of the computer program.
Mason’s words in this scene mirror those found in a passage on typology in Sonu Shamdasani’s Jung and the Making of Modern Psychology: The Dream of a Science. Writing about Swiss psychiatrist C. G. Jung, Shamdasani states, “Jung developed a schema of eight main types. These fell into two main groups – introverts and extraverts. Each of these was further subdivided into four sub groups, characterized by the main function of the individual” (p. 77). The functions alluded to here are thinking, feeling, intuition, and sensation. Placing the words introverted or extraverted in front of these functions yields the eight main types.
Introduced into the narrative near the end of Boyhood this scene involving typology is the third prominent reference to psychology in the film. The first reference concerns the classical conditioning theory of Ivan Pavlov and occurs in a university lecture given by Bill Welbrock (Marco Perella) who becomes Olivia’s second husband. The second reference is given by Olivia herself while teaching a class on John Bowlby’s attachment theory. As in the prior scene, a future love interest for Olivia is introduced, this time in the form of her student Jim (Brad Hawkins).
What is interesting about these three references is the manner in which the characters involved unsuccessfully embody the psychological principles discussed. Bill succumbs to a Pavlovian-like instinct to satisfy his need and desire for alcohol while Olivia fails to establish a healthy lasting bond with Jim. Also, her exclamation that her life is over now that Mason is leaving for college possibly points to an all-too-strong maternal bond with her son.
In contrast to Bill and Olivia Mason quite admirably manages his instinctual desires for physical and emotional satisfaction. Again, he knows better than to give into the constant urge to check email and social media outlets. He also has established a healthy bond with his parents, survives his break-up with Sheena with his self-esteem intact, and at film’s end appears on his way toward establishing a healthy intimate relationship with his new friend Nicole (Jessi Mechler).
A similar progression can be seen in Mason’s father, Mason Sr. (Ethan Hawke). An absentee parent in the early stages of the film, Mason Sr. gets a degree and a job as an actuary, remarries, and settles down with his new wife and child. Whereas other characters in the film represent the type of wisdom figures who through their own example impart the wisdom of how not to act, Mason Sr. conveys to his son through word and deed the rewards gained in pursuit of an excellent life. Such excellence depends upon the cultivation, realization, and sharing of one’s own innate talents and calling—a fact he makes known by singing the individual praises of John, Paul, George, Ringo, and, yes, Mason Jr.
The cultivation, realization, and sharing of one’s unique talents and calling comprise a key aspect of what in Jungian parlance is called individuation. The first English translation of Jung’s Psychological Types was given the subtitle “The Psychology of Individuation” out of the awareness that typology and individuation are inextricably linked. What Boyhood suggests through the characters of Mason Sr. and Jr., then, is that in addition to learning to relate to one’s instinctual and emotional needs in a healthy manner individuals also need to develop and follow their innate typological compass. This holds true regardless of the generation to which they belong. Next month’s post delves more deeply into the specific typological argument at the heart of Linklater’s multi-generational film.
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Inside Brunelleschi’s Dome
Ron Hartwig | September 20, 2010 | 3 min read
Italy is full of extraordinary, breathtaking round-the-corner experiences. You round a corner in Rome and find the Pantheon. In Pisa it could be the Torre Pendente di Pisa, better known as the Leaning Tower.
When you arrive at the Florence train station, you walk down Via Panzani, turn onto Via de’ Cerretani, and just around the corner you see it: the Duomo, the cathedral church of Florence, dominated by its magnificent cupola designed by Filippo Brunelleschi and built over a 16-year period between 1420 and 1436.
View of Brunelleschi's dome from the first gallery. Photo courtesy of ECHO (European Cultural Heritage Online), Project for the Photographic Documentation of the Cupola of St. Maria del Fiore in Florence
When you first see Brunelleschi’s dome, you can’t help but wonder how such a massive structure—the first octagonal dome in history built of brick without a wooden support frame—could possibly have been constructed in the 15th century. In fact, for more than 100 years scholars have had a vision of gaining access to the archives that would provide the answer to this question, and to the many others that have been asked since the dome was first envisioned.
In 2000, the Getty Foundation, joining other participants, agreed to provide a grant to support just such an effort, begun in 1994 as the Years of the Cupola project. This database of documentary sources on the administration of Florence Cathedral during the construction of Brunelleschi’s dome incorporates unabridged archival sources on Florentine society and material culture during the Renaissance.
It includes the history of the Cathedral organization, its work site and personnel, its finances, its relationship with the clergy, and its daily routines, from the discipline of the workers to details such as the wine served on feast days. The transcription, annotation, editing, and data input of some 21,000 records provides the user with a window on medieval life, a boon for art scholars and researchers.
Gabriella Battista of the Years of the Cupola project team consulting a manuscript from the archive. Photograph courtesy of the Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore
When I was in Florence this past spring for an announcement about the Getty’s Panel Paintings Initiative, also funded by the Foundation, which focuses on the conservation of panel paintings and the training of the next generation of panel panting conservators, I had a chance to meet Peggy Haines, the highly regarded art historian who has led the development of this informative and history-making database.
Imagine my excitement as we climbed the steps in what once had been the cardinal’s palace, located on the Piazza del Duomo, to a room overlooking Brunelleschi’s masterpiece, as I watched Peggy carefully take one of the hundreds of archival books from a shelf—this one dated 1421—and as we read entries dealing with that particular day’s purchases, the workers’ assignments and accomplishments.
Then imagine historians now being able to find, as Peggy did during this project, incredible detail about every aspect of the dome’s construction, as well as archival evidence putting to rest beliefs that have been treated as fact for centuries. Legend had it, for example, that the majority of workmen who built the dome were foreigners, mostly coming from Lombardy. It turns out only a few of the workers were from outside the Florentine dominion. It was believed that Lorenzo Ghiberti, famous for the “Gates of Paradise” doors on the Duomo’s Baptistery and a Brunelleschi competitor, spent six times as much as Brunelleschi building his model of a cupola for the Duomo during the competition to select the winning architect. But, according to Peggy, that misinformation grew out of an interpretation by a Brunelleschi partisan—as documents in the archive now make clear.
Take a look for yourself here. (See the full digitized image of the page pictured below here, and the text transcription here.) Understanding Italian and Latin, or having a translator nearby, will help, but using this database to learn the context in which this incredible structure was built provides a whole new perspective for historians and scholars.
One of the 21,000 digitized documents in the archive (Codex II 2 1, fol. 177, dated June 23, 1431). Brunelleschi's name is highlighted in yellow. Written in Latin, the sentence begins: Filippum ser Brunelleschi cum salario florenorum auri centum (Filippo Brunelleschi, with a salary of 100 gold florins). Photograph courtesy of the Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore
Manuscripts and Books
Ron Hartwig
I've been vice president of communications at the J. Paul Getty Trust since 2005. I came to the Getty from Hill & Knowlton, Inc., where I was executive vice president and chairman of its California operations. Before joining Hill & Knowlton, I worked for 12 years at General Motors; I also served in the Carter Administration as director of public affairs and counselor to the secretary of the U.S. Department of Commerce.
Jim Sloan on November 7, 2010 at 6:20 am
Very interesting article about the creation of a masterpiece. I had never realized the challenge that Brunelleschi went through just to design the dome in the first place.
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History of Dungeness
Dungeness comes from the Old English ‘næss’ meaning ‘headland’ with ‘mersc’ as ‘marsh’ and ‘denu’ for ‘valley’; therefore, ‘headland near the marsh of the valley district’.
Shingle formed a barrier across the bay between Hythe and Fairlight - in Sussex. Silt built up in the bay, brought in by the river Rother. Trees began to grow, and about 1000BC, the sea flooded turning the area into a bog. The shingle continued to spread separating Romney Marsh from the sea, and creating Dungeness.
In 1883, the South Eastern Railway built a line from Appledore to Dungeness, with the prospect of the development of a cross channel port. The port never materialised, however, a number of the workers who built the railway, purchased disused railway carriages, and moved them from the tracks, for holiday homes.
There have been six lighthouses or warning beacons at Dungeness. The first, being just a beacon, as a warning to sailors. Then the first lighthouse came into use in 1615, although, replaced 20 years later by a lighthouse nearer the sea. The erection of a newer lighthouse became necessary in 1792 as the headland extended further, and yet another in 1901, finally the latest in 1961.
There are two nuclear power stations at Dungeness, the first built in 1965, and the second in 1983.
Dungeness railway station opened on 1st April 1883 and closed 70 years later. The Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway, a 1 ft. 3 in (381 mm) gauge light railway, opened to New Romney in 1927 and extended to Dungeness a year later.
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ANAYA ON AZTLÁN
The myth of Aztlán was important in the 60's because we had become a displaced people. We were losing our language; we were losing our culture. We didn’t have access into positions of power in the society. We felt we didn’t belong. So we had to find a way to turn that around. And one way to do it was to say: "We have been here a long time. This is our land. We belong here. Our ancestors, our great ancestors, lived here, passed through here." We knew that there had been great migrations that took place in what we call the Americas. From north to south, from south to north.
IN SEARCH OF AZTLAN
DOCU-COMEDY EXPLORES ORIGINS OF CHICANO HOMELAND
In Search of Aztlán is a one-hour video docu-comedy starring the Chicano comedy trio Culture Clash (Richard Montoya, Ric Salinas and Herbert Siguenzas), Lupe Ontiveros and Mauricio Mendoza. It is a co-production of Carmona Productions, LLC and Barrio Dog Productions, Inc. In the video, the Culture Clash trio finds an ancient map showing that the original location of Aztlán, the ancient homeland of the Aztec people who founded the empire of Tenochtitlán in the year 1325 A.D., is in the Southwestern United States. The threesome set out in a 1952 Chevy lowrider to comb the Southwest looking for the ancient homeland of their Indian ancestors. In Search of Aztlán interweaves dramatized comedy scenes with documentary interviews as it follows the comedy troupe on their whimsical journey.
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Charles Alfred Meurer – American Artist & Tromp L’Oeil Artist
Charles Alfred Meurer (American, 1865 to 1955)
Cincinnati-based artist Charles Meurer painted in the tradition of the American trompe l’oeil masters, William Michael Harnett and John Frederick Peto. The artist traced his fascination with trompe l’oeil painting to seeing Harnett’s still lifes at the Cincinnati Industrial Exposition of 1886 and other works by Peto in Cincinnati art galleries in the 1890s. Born in Germany in 1865 to American parents, Meurer was raised in Tennessee. [...] Click here to continue reading.
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Maurice Sendak was a Caldecott award-winning children’s book author and illustrator. The Brooklyn native illustrated more than 80 books by other authors before writing one himself: in 1963 he turned the children’s book world upside down with his first masterpiece, Where the Wild Things Are. Sendak’s dark, moody illustrations were a shocking contrast to the comparatively light and happy fare typically found in children’s books of the time. [...] Click here to continue reading.
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In 1968, following the deaths of two of her children, Chicago native Lee Godie reinvented herself as an artist and future icon of the Chicago art scene. She began to sell her canvases – paintings that she compared favorably with Cezanne’s – at the entrance to the Art Institute of Chicago, thus associating her creative identity with the Art Institute’s renowned collection of late nineteenth-century French art. The [...] Click here to continue reading.
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Vestie Davis was born in Baltimore, moved to New York City in 1928, and never left. He worked many jobs, among them train conductor, circus barker and ticket taker, undertaker, church organist, and subway newsstand operator. Davis did not begin painting regularly until he was in his forties and never trained in art. As described in the introduction to the one-man exhibition Vestie Davisa€™s New York at the [...] Click here to continue reading.
Bartlett, Morton – American Artist
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Morton Bartlett was a private man whose artistry became public after his death. The adopted only son of a Boston Brahmin couple, he left Harvard two years before graduating with the class of 1932. Various jobs followed, including gas station manager and printer’s broker, while he devoted himself to creating a fantasy family of perfectly sculpted children. Bartlett photographed these meticulously dressed and posed figures in staged scenarios [...] Click here to continue reading.
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Mackintosh, Dwight – American Artist
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Dwight Mackintosh was committed to a mental institution at the age of 16 and released a lifetime later in a mass displacement at the age of 72. On his release he was encouraged to attend sessions at the Creative Growth Art Center in Oakland, California. Always introspective and limited in his verbal communication, he began to draw with great focus and concentration, paying attention to little else. He [...] Click here to continue reading.
Evans, Minnie Jones – African-American Artist
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Born into poverty, Minnie Evans was raised in North Carolina by her grandmother. Too poor to continue in school after the sixth grade, despite loving history and “reading about the Gods”, Evans labored as a fish-seller on the Delaware River Sound. In 1918, she became a domestic worker at an elegant estate whose beautiful surroundings inspired her first wax crayon paintings in 1935 (now at New York’s [...] Click here to continue reading.
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Edward Mumma (who called himself Mr. Eddy) was born in Milton, Ohio, in 1908. Mumma and his wife, Thelma, farmed and ran an antiques and junk business until her death in 1966, when he retired to Florida to be near his daughter. Mumma joined an art class with his daughter’s encouragement, then quit when his teacher called his work “too sloppy”, continuing to paint on his own. Most [...] Click here to continue reading.
Nice, Don – American Artist
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Don Nice made monumental single images of familiar American animals and objects, inspired by the meticulous precision of the 19th c. illustrators John James Audubon and Ernst Haeckel. While he is known for his American buffalo, commissioned for the United States Bicentennial in 1975, it is the animals with whom he shared a Hudson Valley home that are the icons of his work. He draws attention to how [...] Click here to continue reading.
Savitsky, John (Jack) – American Artist
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Jack Savitsky, also known as “Coal Miner Jack” is best known for documenting the hard life of the Pennsylvania coal miner in detailed, colorful, almost cheerful paintings, but his subjects ranged wide, from animals to religious scenes. He worked from memory on canvas as well as found materials, his style always illustrative and often warmly humorous. Suffering from black lung disease, Savitsky retired in 1960 and began [...] Click here to continue reading.
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Luis Sanz Menéndez
Email: luis.sanz [at] cchs.csic.es
Office: 3D1/3D13
Departamento de Ciencia e Innovación
Group: Sistemas y Políticas de Investigación e Innovación (SPRI)
PhD in Political Science and Sociology at the Complutense University of Madrid (1983). Betwen 2004 and 2015 has been Director of the CSIC Institute of Public Goods and Policies (IPP). He has been member of the CSIC Scientific Advisory Board (2004-2008). In October 2007 he was elected Chair of the OECD Committee of Scientific and Technological Policy (CSTP) representing Spain (Ministry of Science and Innovation).
Previously, between 1982 and 1993, he had been lecturer and assistant professor at the Complutense School of Political Science and Sociology, and visiting scholar and research associated in different foreign universities and research centres, among them the University of California at Berkeley (1992-94). He also has experience in Public Administration: he has been Deputy Director General for Planning and Monitoring in the State Secretariat for Scientific and Technology Policy at the Ministry of Science and Technology (2000-2002) and, earlier, in executive positions in different Departments of the Regional Government of Madrid (1981-1989), where he was Head of the Studies and Analysis Unit of the Economy Department.
He has published more than a hundred papers on research systems and science, technology and innovation policies, both in book chapters and in journals [international such as EASST Review, International Journal of Technology Management, Internacional Studies on Management and Organization, Regional Studies, Research Evaluation, Research Policy, Science and Public Policy, Scientometrics, Technological Forescasting and Social Change, etc. or in Spanish, such as Agricultura y Sociedad, Arbor, Ciudad y Territorio, Economia Industrial, Ekonomiaz, Inguruak, Papeles de Economía Española, Papers. Revista de Sociología, Presupuesto y Gasto Público, REDES Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios Sociales de la Ciencia, Revista Española de Investigaciones Sociológicas (REIS), Revista Española de Ciencia Política, Revista Internacional de Sociología (RIS),Sociología del Trabajo, etc.]. He also has published one of the reference books on the analysis of the Spanish Science and Technology policies [Estado, ciencia y tecnología en España (1939-1997), Alianza Universidad, Madrid, 1997] and other books, national and international, such as: Análisis sobre ciencia e innovación en España (Luis Sanz Menéndez y Laura Cruz Castro, eds. (2010), Madrid:FECYT, 849 pags; Conocer para transformar: Produccion y Reflexión sobre cienca, tecnología e innovación en Iberoamerica (Hebe Vessuri, Pablo Kreimer, Antonio Arellano y Luis Sanz Menéndez, eds (2010). Caracas: UNESCO-IESALC). Evaluación de la Acción IDE (Incorporación de doctores a las empresas). (Luis Sanz Menéndez, Laura Cruz Castro y Jaime Aja Valle, 2004). Madrid: Fundación COTEC, 2004. 175 pp. or Management and New Technologies, (Clara E. Garcia & Luis Sanz Menéndez, eds. (1998). Brussels: CEC-COST, 560 pp.
In 2006 he was awarded with the Prize of the Spanish Political Science Association (AECPA) to the best scientific paper in 2005.
He is member of the Advisory or Editorial Board of diverse journals such us Science and Public Policy (United Kingdom), Redes: Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios Sociales de la Ciencia (Argentina) and Zona Abierta (Spain).
He also lectured on graduate programmes at the Universities Autónoma de Madrid [Master on Science, Technology and Society (CTS) organized by the European Interuniversity Association on Society, Science and Technology (ESST)] and Carlos III de Madrid [Master on Analysis and Management of Science and Technology].
Between 1997 and 2000, he was elected member of the Board of the European Assotiation for the Study of Science and Technlogy (EASST) and from 2004, he is a member of the Executive Committee of the Network of Excellence PRIME (Policies for Research and Innovation in the Move Towards ERA) and he was the Chair in 2004-2005.
Adittionally, he has been involved in several international S&T policy advisory activities, both representing Spain and at request of the international bodies, such us the European Commission (Directorate General for Research), OCDE, UNESCO, Interamerican Development Bank (IDB), UNIDO, COST, etc. Among them could be mentioned the participation in the EU High Level Group (HLG) on "Benchmarking of National RTD policies, Excellence and Networking of National RTD Programmes" (1999-2000); the EU High Level Group on "the Future of Foresight" (2001); the EU Expert Group on the "The future of key actors in the European Research Area" (2005-2006) and the EU Expert Group on "Rationales for the European Research Area" (2007-2008).
He has been involved in diverse evaluation exercises of science, technology and innovation policies, both at the international [such as the evaluation of COST framework for S&T cooperation (1996), the UNESCO Basic Science Networks in Latin America (2000), the Evaluation Panel of COST (2001), or the Chairmanship of the International Independent Panel for the Evaluation of the Mexican Research, Development and Innovation Policy (2001-2006)] and national levels, among them, his involvement in the National Committee for Monitoring and Evaluating of the National R&D Plan (COSEP) since 2005.
He has developed analysis and advisory work for the responsible entities of science and technology in different countries, such as United States (NSF), Sweden (Ministery of Industry), etc.. In the region of Latin America he has worked as advisor of the Foro Consultivo para la Ciencia y la Tecnología de México, the Asociación Mexicana de Directivos de la Investigación Aplicada y el Desarrollo Tecnológico (ADIAT), the Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONACYT) in México, the Regional Office for Science and Technology (UNESCO-ORCYT), the SENACYT and the CONCYT in Guatemala, etc .
In Spain, he also has provided expert advise, to different national and regional authorities on charge of the science and technology policies, such as the Interministerial Commission for Science and Technology (CICYT), chaired by the Prime Minister, the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Regional Government of Madrid, the General Secretariat for Science and Technology Policy of the Ministry of Education and Science, etc. He had been member of the Scientific Board of the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT) and Coordinator of its Social Sciences Commission (2004-2006), and he also advise other entities such as the Fundación COTEC para la Innovación Tecnológica in the development of the Annual Report on Technological Innovation. More recently he has been member of the GRENCYT, that elaborated the National Strategy for Science and Technology (2008-2015), approved by the Conference of Government Presidents (National and Regionals), and the 6th. National R&D and Innovation Plan (2008-2011).
His research interests focus in science, technology and innovation policies, especially from a comparative perspective. He has worked on the institutional and organizational aspects of the research systems, R&D centres and universities, and on human resources for S&T, research careers and the construction of indicators for R&D. He also has worked on the role of the evaluation and foresight, and Parliamentary technology assessment.
Recent Selected Publications:
Sanz-Menéndez, L. & Cruz-Castro. L. (2019). «The Credibility of Scientific Communication Sources Regarding Climate Change: A Population-Based Survey Experiment». Public Understanding of Science 28 (5): 534-553. https://doi.org/10.1177/0963662519840946
Sanz-Menéndez, L. & Cruz-Castro, L. (2019). «University academics’ preferences for hiring and promotion systems». European Journal of Higher Education 9 (2): 153-171. https://doi.org/10.1080/21568235.2018.1515029.
Cruz-Castro, L.; Holl, A.; Rama, R. & Sanz-Menéndez, L. (2018): Economic crisis and company R&D in Spain: do regional and policy factors matter?, Industry and Innovation, 25 (8): 729-751. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13662716.2017.1355231 *
Cruz-Castro, L., Benitez-Amado, A. and Sanz-Menéndez. L. (2016) ‘The proof of the pudding: university responses to the European Research Council’, Research Evaluation, 25 (4): 358-370. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/reseval/rvw015
Cruz-Castro, L. and Sanz-Menéndez, L (2016) "The effects of the economic crisis on public research: Spanish budgetary policies and research organizations", Technological Forecasting and Social Change 113 (part B) 157-167. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0040162515002413
Martínez, C., Cruz-Castro, L and Sanz-Menéndez, L. (2016) "Innovation capabilities in the private sector: evaluating subsidies for hiring S&T workers in Spain", Research Evaluation 25 (2) 196-208. http://rev.oxfordjournals.org/content/25/2/196.abstract
Sanz-Menéndez, L. and Van Ryzin, G.G. (2015) “Economic crisis and public attitudes toward science: A study of regional differences in Spain”. Public Understanding of Science vol 24 (2): 167-182. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0963662513489790
Cruz-Castro, L. and Sanz-Menéndez, L. (2015). ‘Policy Change and Differentiated Integration: Implementing Spanish Higher Education Reforms’, Journal of Contemporary European Research. 11 (1): 103-123. http://www.jcer.net/index.php/jcer/article/view/628/519
Sanz-Menéndez, L., G.G. Van Ryzin and E. del Pino (2014) “Citizens’ support for government spending on science and technology”. Science and Public Policy vol 41, 2014 (5): 611-624. http://dx.do.org/10.1093/scipol/sct091
Sanz-Menéndez L, Cruz-Castro L, and Alva K (2013) "Time to Tenure in Spanish Universities: An Event History Analysis". PLoS ONE 8(10): e77028. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0077028
Cruz-Castro, L.; Sanz-Menendez, L.; Martinez, C. (2012) “Research centers in transition: patterns of convergence and diversity”. Journal of Technology Transfer 37 (1):18-42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10961-010-9168-5
Osuna, C.; Cruz-Castro, L. and Sanz-Menendez, L. (2011) “Overturning some assumptions about the effects of evaluation systems on publication performance”. Scientometrics 86 (3): 575-592. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11192-010-0312-7
Cruz-Castro, L. and Sanz-Menendez, L. (2010) “Mobility versus job stability: Assessing tenure and productivity outcomes”. Research Policy 39 (1): 27-38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2009.11.008
Sanz Menéndez, L. & Cruz Castro, L. (eds.) (2010). Análisis sobre Ciencia e Innovación en España. Madrid: FECYT. http://icono.fecyt.es/informesypublicaciones/Documents/Analisis_Ciencia_...
"Research Evaluation in Transition: Individual versus Organisational Assessment in Spain" (L. Cruz-Castro & L Sanz-Menendez), The Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook, [The Changing Governance of the Sciences. The Advent of the Research Evaluation Systems, (Richard Whitley y Jochen Gläser, eds.)], vol 26, 2008, p. 205-223. DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-6746-4_10
"New Legitimation Models and the Transformation of the Public Research Organizational Field" (L. Cruz-Castro & L Sanz-Menendez), International Studies of Management and Organization, vol. 37, n.1, 2007, p. 27-52. DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825370102
"Explaining the science and technology policies of regional governments" (L. Sanz-Menendez & L. Cruz-Castro), Regional Studies, vol 39, n. 7, october 2005, pp. 939-954.DOI: 10.1080/00343400500289945
"Competition for funding as an indicator of research competitiveness: The Spanish R&D government funding" (C. E. García & L. Sanz-Menendez), Scientometrics, vol 64, n. 3, August 2005, pp.271-300. DOI: 10.1007/s11192-005-0251-x
"Politics and institutions: European Parliamentary Technology Assessment" (L. Cruz-Castro & L. Sanz-Menendez), Technological Forecasting and Social Change, vol 72, n. 4, May 2005, pp. 429-448. DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2004.01.007
“The employment of PhDs in firms: trajectories, mobility and innovation” (L Cruz Castro & L.Sanz Menéndez) Research Evaluation, vol. 14, n.1, april 2005. 57-69. DOI: 10.3152/147154405781776292
"Bringing S&T Human Resources back in: The Spanish Ramón y Cajal Programme" (L. Cruz-Castro & L.Sanz Menéndez), Science and Public Policy vol 32, n.1. February 2005, pp. 39-53. DOI: 10.3152/147154305781779687
"The Evolution of Knowledge Management Strategies in PROs: The Role of S&T Policy in Spain" (L.Sanz-Menendez & C. E. García) en OECD (2003) Turning Business into Science: Patenting and Licensing at Public Research Organisations. Paris: OECD, 2003, pp. 203-222
"Coping with environmental pressures: public research organizations responses to funding crisis" (L. Sanz-Menendez & L. Cruz-Castro) Research Policy, vol 32, n. 8, September 2003; pp. 1293-1308. DOI: 10.1016/S0048-7333(02)00120-8
"Understanding technology foresight: the relevance of its S&T policy context" (L. Sanz-Menendez, C. Cabello & C. E. Garcia) International Journal of Technology Management, vol 21, nº 7/8, 2001, pp. 661-679. DOI: 10.1504/IJTM.2001.002942
"Interdisciplinarity as a multidimensional concept: its measure in three different research areas", (L.Sanz Menendez, M. Bordons & M. A. Zulueta) en Research Evaluation, vol. 10, n. 1, april, 2001, pp. 39-50. DOI: 10.3152/147154401781777123
"Explaining changes and continuity in EU technology policy: the politics of ideas" (L Sanz-Menendez & S. Borrás), Simon Dresner & Nigel Gilbert eds. (2001) Changing European Research System, Aldershot: Ashgate Press, pp. 28-51
"Expectations and learning as principles of shaping the future" (L.Sanz-Menendez & C. Cabello), Nick Brown, Brian Rappert & Andrew Webster eds.(2000) Contested Futures: A Sociology of Prospective Science and Technology, Aldershot: Ashgate Press, pp. 229-249.
"Overturning some assumptions about the effects of evaluation systems of publications" (C.Osuna, L. Cruz-Castro & L. Sanz-Menéndez ). Scientometrics DOI: 10.1007/s11192-010-0312-7
"Research centers in transition: patterns of convergence and diversity" (L. Cruz-Castro, L.Sanz-Menendez & C. Martínez), The Journal of Technology Transfer DOI: 10.1007/s10961-010-9168-5
"Mobility vs. job stability: Assessing tenure and productivity outcomes" (L. Cruz-Castro & L Sanz-Menendez), Research Policy, 39 (1), 2010, pp.27-38. DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2009.11.008
Cruz-Castro, L & Sanz-Menéndez, L. (2018): Autonomy and Authority in Public Research Organisations: Structure and Funding Factors. Minerva 56 (2): 135-160. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11024-018-9349-1
Mobility vs. job stability: Assessing tenure and productivity outcomes (L. Cruz-Castro & L Sanz-Menendez), Research Policy, 39 (1), 2010, pp.27-38. DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2009.11.008
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Douglas Hayward at the Original
ABBOTS BROMLEY PUPPET MUSEUM
Prior to its re-location to Shugborough in 1993, Douglas Hayward's Puppet Collection was housed in its own Museum in the Staffordshire Village of Abbots Bromley.
The building, a former shop premises, was located in the main Village High Street and had a large front room housing the main exhibition, a middle room used for serving refreshments and a further room at the rear of the premises devoted solely to the work of Waldo Lanchester.
The main room also housed Douglas's fully equipped permanent Proscenium Marionette Stage, which was used for demonstration purposes. This stage had previously been used for marionette performances during the building's former life as a Theatre (Opening Ceremony performed by Waldo Lanchester in 1975).
Several Exhibitions and Festivals of the British Puppet & Model Theatre Guild were held in Abbots Bromley during the 1980s, with the Puppet Museum forming the focal point for activities. On these occasions, puppet performers, makers and enthusiasts from all over the Country converged on the village and events spread to the Village Hall and other Function Rooms to accommodate the large number of attendees.
The Museum played an important role in British Puppetry and over the years, hosted performances, films, workshops, meetings, lectures and exhibitions by both British and overseas puppeteers, as well as providing a unique tourist attraction for the visiting public.
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USA: Keurig Green Mountain to be bought by JAB Holding
Home Mergers & Acquisitions
December 9, 2015 By Innovation Editor - North America Keurig Green Mountain In Mergers & Acquisitions, Non-Alcoholic Drinks, North America
Coffee firm Keurig Green Mountain, the firm behind the Keurig Hot and Keurig KOLD beverage systems, has accepted a bid of $13.9 billion for the business from private German fund JAB Holding.
The deal established the payment of $92 per share, in an agreement that represents a premium of approximately 77.9% over Keurig Green Mountain's closing stock price on 4th December 2015, according to a company statement.
Company president Brian Kelley commented: "This transaction will deliver significant cash value for our shareholders and offers an exciting new chapter for our customers, partners and employees by combining Keurig Green Mountain with JAB's global coffee platform. JAB fully supports Keurig Green Mountain's culture and values as we continue to pursue our commitment to deliver innovative beverage solutions for consumers at the touch of a button".
JAB Holding president Bart Becht added: "Keurig Green Mountain represents a major step forward in the creation of our global coffee platform. It is a fantastic company that uniquely brings together premium coffee brands and new beverage dispensing technologies like the famous Keurig single serve machine. Keurig Green Mountain will operate as an independent entity to ensure it will further build on its coffee & technology strength and continue to serve all its partners to the best of its abilities".
In the coffee space, JAB, which is "focused on long-term investments in companies with premium brands, attractive growth and strong margin dynamics in the Consumer Goods category", has a controlling stake in the recently-formed Jacobs Douwe Egberts as well as Peet's Coffee & Tea and Caribou Coffee.
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Sarah Conant
About Sarah Conant
Born and raised as a Dairy Farmers Daughter In PeeWee, WV. The youngest of three girls and the lucky daughter of two loving parents. I started singing by the side of the piano with my sister Mendy. I'd stand on my tip toes over the side of her shoulder and belt it out. I would sing every opportunity I got, talent shows, Churches, Festivals, Fairs, Family gatherings, the shower, anywhere i could sing a tune. At 15, my Dad took me into the studio to record my first CD, it was called "Gods Eyes." He booked me at 2-3, sometimes 4 Churches a weekend. The calender was booked and me, mom and dad would take off with my little Karaoke machine and go where the doors were open! In 2002, I lost my Dad, manager and biggest supporter. For a while, I kind of let the music set on the back burner while I had to re evaluate everything in life and what I was suppose to be doing with myself. In 2003, i would meet my new biggest supporter, my best friend, my husband, Arnold. At this point, I knew if i was gonna keep singing, I would need something new, a bit of a change. So, having the Country roots that I did, we started a Bluegrass band. No more soundtracks for this girl! It was the real deal and I was loving it, Guitar, Banjo, Fiddle, and upright bass. But, this to came to and end. At this point, we moved to KY and I started searching for a new musical direction. I soon got a call from a guy who had heard me in Charleston, WV playing with the bluegrass band. He was persistent that I get him a demo. He said he had a friend in Nashville that he wanted to hear it. So I went into a studio in KY and recorded three songs and put together a little "package," Not really thinking much about it, I happened to get a phone call a couple weeks later. The guy on the other line was the guy from Nashville and he wanted us to come and meet him. We packed up and took a road trip and hit it off with the Country Producer. We started traveling once a month to Nashville and then before i knew it...one day, we looked at each other and said it's time to make the big move. Bags packed within a week or two, we were out the door and on our way to Music City! I was gonna be the next Country Star, Or...so i thought. Months in, studio time, songs being pitched to me, something just wasn't jiving. The songs they were pitching always got the same response from me, "that song is incredible, and you know what, i'm gonna probably hear that on the radio in a few months, but it's just not Sarah conant." So, my producer encouraged me, maybe you should give writing a try. I was skeptical at first, mainly because I had never written a song or seen myself as a songwriter. Despite my doubts, I sat down and tried. I wrote one song, called "Blue skies." I took the song to him to see what he thought and it turned out, that even though it wasn't Country, it was good. I kept writing and the songs that followed weren't country either, much to our suprise. This would send me in a new direction and set me on the course to discovering the Artist that I believe I was born to be. This was the turning point, and for the first time in my life, I wasn't just singing other peoples songs, I was creating them. Since that time, I've wrote quite a few songs. I feel like I've finally discovered myself and who I am as an Artist and person. Currently I'm living in Nashville, writing songs every chance I get and doing every thing I can to get my music out there for the world to hear. What this whole process has taught me, is that even though things don't always work out the way you planned, if you just keep going, they will work out
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By James W. Conroy, Ph.D. May 2021
From 1908 to 1987, about 10,600 people lived at Pennhurst. We don’t know for sure how many people died there, but it was probably around half. Over the years, many people were discharged, ran away, or, toward the end, moved into small family-like community homes.
It was called the Eastern State Institution for the Feeble Minded and Epileptic when it opened in 1908, later the Pennhurst State School and Hospital, and finally just the Pennhurst Center.
It was designed and intended only for people with the disability now called developmental disabilities, or intellectual disabilities – and in the past we used terms like feeble-minded, idiot, imbecile, moron, and mentally retarded. Those terms are now out of date and offensive to our brothers and sisters who live with this kind of disability.
Its fundamental purpose was to get these people far away from society and never let them reproduce. The theory was that, eventually, they would be removed from the human gene pool.
By 1970, America had 293 places like Pennhurst, with nearly 200,000 Americans in them. Their conditions, in spite of the fervent efforts of caring workers, became horrible beyond description. It was the lack of funding, and the gross uncaring of society that wanted them "hidden away," that made it impossible for the workers to provide a decent humane abuse-free life.
(Pennhurst and places like it were never intended for our citizens with mental illness. Those citizens endured their own huge and abusive system called "state psychiatric hospitals." Their story is completely different from that of Pennhurst and developmental disabilities.)
So why is Pennhurst so important in the disability rights movement?
Because three huge social changes began here, with three great legal battles of right against wrong.
A right to education (PARC versus Pennsylvania, 1972).
A right to live in regular homes in everyday neighborhoods (Halderman versus Pennhurst, 1978).
A right to treatment to improve their lives without abuse and neglect (Romeo versus Youngberg, 1982).
In 1978, after a long trial, a Federal Court (Halderman versus Pennhurst, 1978) decided that the people at Pennhurst were illegally segregated, abused, and harmed.
The judge ordered that every person get a chance to live in a regular home in a regular community with whatever supports and services they needed to thrive.
The idea that the people at Pennhurst could or should live, learn, have fun, and work in regular everyday neighborhoods was revolutionary in 1978. It was by no means clear that it would “work.”
There were 1,156 people at Pennhurst in 1978, and they had very serious differences from “normal” citizens. About 8 out of 10 had been found to have IQs below 35. (The average is 100 among all Americans. IQ is not talked about very much in modern disability work. But it was the main diagnostic tool back then.) About half used verbal communication very little or not at all. About half had not learned to be continent and were kept in diapers – mainly because there were not enough staff and not enough time. A third had epileptic seizures. More than a third had learned to attack others to protect themselves in the institution, which was then called “maladaptive behavior.” Actually it was very adaptive. It wasn’t until the 1990s that survivors who could speak revealed that almost all of them had been hurt, abused, and raped while living there. For those who could not speak, who were the most vulnerable of all, no one knows. The people at Pennhurst were not mad or violent or dangerous when they got to Pennhurst, usually as children. A few became that way after being at Pennhurst for a few years. But they too were children from loving families when they got to Pennhurst.
One by one, with careful planning, the people moved from Pennhurst to three-person “Community Living Arrangements,” now often called group homes. This process began under court order on March 17, 1978, and continued until closure on December 9, 1987. Nearly all of the people went to three person group homes that had staff on duty 24/7. They were everywhere, located in neighborhoods all across Southeastern Pennsylvania.
Q: Were the People Better Off After Leaving Pennhurst?
A: Yes, in practically every way we knew how to measure.
The now world-famous and classic Pennhurst Longitudinal Study was set up to follow the people from Pennhurst to their new community homes and find out how they fared after leaving Pennhurst. The study followed all 1,156 people who lived at Pennhurst in 1978. Every person was visited face to face every year, extensive quality of life and service data collected, and every family was sent a survey about their perceptions. We learned more about their quality of life over a long time than any other group of people with disabilities in history. The study had one question: “Are the people better off than they were at Pennhurst?”
How many wound up homeless?
How many wound up in jail?
Did they live longer than they would have?
Yes, by at least 6 years.
Were they healthier?
No, they were about the same, and got reasonable health care.
Did they become more independent?
Yes, by at least 14% on a very accurate scale, shown below.
Did their challenging behaviors decrease?
Yes, by at least 3%.
Did they receive as much service to assist and learn?
Yes, much more, by about 19%.
Were their homes better?
Yes, much higher quality on three scientific measures.
Did families think they were better off?
Yes, overwhelmingly. Look at this graph.
Did the people themselves say they were better off?
Yes, overwhelmingly, those who could speak said Yes. In 14 years of interviews, only 6 reliably said they wished they could go back.
Did it cost more in the community?
No, the opposite, Pennhurst folks had far better outcomes and quality of life in the community with 15% less taxpayer dollars.
Because of what we learned from Pennhurst, how many people moved from institutions to community homes – or avoided moving into institutions – in the past 50 years?
About 150,000 moved out of public institutions, and about a half million never went into them.
Moving people from institution to community was one of the most successful social changes of the late 20th century.
As of 2021, fewer than 15,000 people live in public institutions (down from the 1969 peak of 190,000), and 17 states have no public institutions at all.
The Pennhurst experience contributed powerfully to a great civil rights movement that very few people know about.
The terror and agony of the people who lived there was not in vain. It changed America and the entire world.
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The Issue Won’t Go Away: Where Was Obama Born?
The issue of where President Obama was born just won’t go away. I wrote an article 18 months ago that posed the question: “The President could put this whole thing to rest simply by releasing his detailed birth certificate. Why won’t he do that?” I believed at the time, as the evidence indicates, that he was born in Hawaii, and I still believe it. I also still wonder why the President won’t put an end to the debate.
Now some Democrats are asking the same question. The new Democratic governor of Hawaii, Neil Abercrombie, said he’s “going to take care of that.” It isn’t clear what he plans to do, but he’s apparently working on determining whether there is some way for him to release all or part of the information on Obama’s long-form birth certificate. One thing is certain, though; if President Obama doesn’t want that information released, Governor Abercrombie may find that the President has a very long arm.
And it isn’t just Hawaii’s new governor who has raised the issue of late. MSNBC’s Chris Matthews, certainly no enemy of the President, said recently “Will there be any harm done by releasing the original document?”
Meanwhile, the “birther” conspiracy theorists are tenacious, doggedly seeking a copy of “the original document,” the long-form birth certificate on which Hawaii’s Certificate of Live Birth is based. They generate repeated requests for the document to the State of Hawaii, to the point that two state government staff members spend an hour a day responding to requests for the birth records.
Governor Abercrombie says he knew Obama’s parents during the period in which he was born. He saw them at social functions, together with the baby. He may not have been present in the delivery room, but that’s pretty good evidence. Birth announcements were routinely published in two local newspapers. Beyond that, no credible evidence has emerged to prove that Obama was born elsewhere.
Accepting that President Obama was born in Hawaii, we’re left with the obvious question asked by Chris Matthews and millions of other people: Why not release the birth records? There are all kinds of wildly speculative reasons:
The name of the father is blank, despite what the Certificate of Live Birth shows.
The father’s name is not Barack Hussein Obama, despite what the Certificate of Live Birth shows.
The father’s name is Barack Hussein Obama, but there’s an indication that his parents weren’t married.
The records contain information that would call into question the President’s citizenship.
The records contain facts that would reflect adversely on one or both of the parents.
The records indicate birth anomalies of some kind.
That kind of speculation is irresponsible because we don’t know what the facts are, and that’s my point — simply releasing the records will put the whole thing to rest. Or maybe not. There are other official documents, quite a few in fact, that Obama hasn’t released. If the birth records raise other questions, then there could be significant pressure to release other documents, some of which the President might not want to release.
There’s another possibility that’s Machiavellian in the extreme. Once the “birther” conspiracy theory became prominent, perhaps Obama and his political strategists decided to just let it build. Then at an opportune moment they could release the birth records and completely discredit the birthers and Republicans who supported them to any extent. Strange, yes, but this is politics.
I think we’ve gone too far in demanding that politicians reveal every detail of their personal lives. However, modern political reality makes it impossible for high-level politicians, especially the President, to expect the same kind of privacy that normal citizens enjoy. We’ve come a long way from the days when the press was willing to ignore President Kennedy’s sexual romps in the White House out of respect for his personal privacy — much to the regret of President Clinton.
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6 Responses to “The Issue Won’t Go Away: Where Was Obama Born?”
Dan Miller | January 2nd, 2011 at 8:36 am
The “birthers” are considered by some to be weird conspiracy theorists, akin to those who claim that space aliens are living among us secretely and plotting the destruction of civilization as we know it. However, it’s worth keeping in mind that under Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution,
No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President . . . .
If President Obama was neither born in one of the states nor abroad to parents in the service of the United States (as was Senator McCain), he simply is not constitutionally qualified to be the president. The Constitution is rather an important document but is too often ignored.
I wrote here back in August of 2009 that assuming that President Obama was, in fact, born in Kenya or on the far side of the moon,
The practical and legal problems revolve around the fact that he was elected to the office, sworn in as president, and in the intervening more than six months has signed into law several major pieces of legislation.
There are few possible legal ways to force him to cease functioning as the president, and none of them seem likely to work. Even if he were to announce tomorrow that he was born in Kenya, that he had accepted in good faith the fiction that he had been born in Hawaii and has only recently learned the shocking truth that he is not constitutionally qualified but that he will nevertheless not resign voluntarily because the people elected him and trust him and need his wise leadership, so what?
I do not know where President Obama was born, and the persistent refusal to release his long form birth certificate combined with the equally persistent refusal to release a long list of other stuff is puzzling and disturbing. I agree that “we’ve gone too far in demanding that politicians reveal every detail of their personal lives.” I also think that using their sweet little children as campaign props is unfortunate. However, I do not consider President Obama’s constitutional qualification or lack thereof to be in the “every detail” of his “personal” life category, no matter how broadly it may be interpreted.
What to do about it? The only thing that occurs to me is for the states to require adequate proof — well beyond a mere affirmation based on personal belief — of constitutional qualification as a requirement to be on their ballots and to do so sufficiently in advance of the next presidential election to make a difference and to avoid such questions in the future. To the extent that the “birther” stuff may cause legislation doing that it has been a worthwhile exercise.
Tom Carter | January 2nd, 2011 at 8:58 am
Dan, as you know, some states are enacting laws that would require presidential candidates to prove their eligibility for the office before they could be on the state’s ballot. I think that’s fine; it’s a serious question, and there’s no reason states shouldn’t require proof that a candidate is eligible. I would point out, however, that Obama’s Certificate of Live Birth from Hawaii is legally adequate for that purpose. If a state declined to accept that document, I expect they would lose a court challenge.
As to conspiracy theorists, they don’t necessarily have to believe that there are aliens living among us. I think the evidence that Obama was born in Hawaii is more than sufficient, and to continue insisting that he wasn’t (or might not have been) rises to the level of conspiracy theory. The same is true of the “truthers” who continue to insist that the government was in some way complicit in 9/11. All this stuff is aggressive ignorance on the part of people who have an agenda and lack ammunition.
All that brings me back to the basic question: Why doesn’t Obama put the issue to rest by authorizing the release of his birth records? Aside from the Machiavellian possibility, I can imagine why he wouldn’t.
Last point: If it emerged that President Obama is not eligible to be president, I think you’re right that it would be just about impossible to force him from the office if he didn’t want to go. I suppose impeachment would be a possibility, but I don’t know if this would meet the “high crimes and misdemeanors” requirement, especially if he didn’t know the truth to begin with (as you postulated). Of course, “high crimes and misdemeanors” means what the House thinks it means on any given day and nothing more or less. But I’m not sure that enough votes could be found in the House to impeach, and I’m virtually certain that the Senate wouldn’t convict. Frankly, that kind of constitutional crisis is the last thing we need right now, and I hope it never happens.
Dan Miller | January 2nd, 2011 at 11:47 am
Tom, an almost infinite number of permutations can be imagined, some of them not entirely imaginary. Just for fun, let me suggest a few:
Sally Jones, the unemployed civilian U.S. citizen wife of Captain Jones, a U.S citizen stationed on an accompanied Eighth Army tour with the U.S. Army in Korea, gives birth to little William Jones at a military hospital there. However, Captain Jones was sterile and William was conceived through the marvels of modern technology courtesy of a sperm donor. The identity and citizenship of William’s biological father are unknown.
Ditto, but substitute Captains Sally Jones and Susan Smith, a married lesbian couple.
Ditto, but substitute Sergeant Juan Gomez, a Mexican citizen — U.S. Army NCO married to Kim Choe, a Korean national. Further assume either traditional conception or the intervention of an anonymous sperm donor.
Assume traditional conception resulting in the birth of little Bertrand Smythe-Jones to the wife of the chargé d’affaires at the British Embassy in Washington, D.C. The birth takes place at a hospital in Washington subject to U.S. jurisdiction and not within the confines of the embassy compound.
Assume that the daughter of two Mexican nationals is born in El Paso, Texas. Personally or through the intervention of her parents upon returning with her to Mexico she thereafter renounces her U.S. citizenship but at the age of thirty becomes a naturalized U.S. citizen.
Assume that Bill Johnson and his wife, Mary, both U.S. citizens, produce a little boy in their native state of Nebraska. He is clearly a “natural born” U.S. citizen. Bill Junior at the age of eighteen joins the army of North Korea and forfeits his U.S. citizenship. He thereafter returns to the U.S. and becomes a naturalized U.S. citizen.
It does get a tad complex and I don’t know what the results might be should one of the U.S. citizen offspring aspire to the U.S. presidency; a “natural born” U.S. citizen? I have done no recent research, but am not aware of any adjudication of the constitutional questions by the Supreme Court. I doubt that historical (or even hysterical) analysis would provide many answers.
Lisa | January 2nd, 2011 at 12:05 pm
I do not want to imagine what would happen in this country if it was revealed that Obama took the oath of the presidency under false pretenses.
As for future presidents, I am more concerned that they have proven senior executive leadership experience requisite of the office. I am tired of legislative action officers and scholars who have no street smarts running the country.
Tom Carter | January 3rd, 2011 at 6:24 am
Geez, Dan, you’re giving me a headache!
I’m with you, Lisa. Only the most out-of-touch right-wingers would welcome the prospect of Obama turning out to be ineligible for the presidency. It would tear the country apart. As for future presidents, I couldn’t agree more. The biggest problem with Obama is not his ideology; he’s proven that he can adjust to political realities when he has to. The problem is he’s just not up to the job. I hope we’re smart enough next time to elect a president — Democrat or Republican — with some serious executive management experience. That means, practically speaking, having been a successful governor, a very senior military officer, or a successful high-level business executive, or better yet some combination of all three.
Dan Miller | January 3rd, 2011 at 1:20 pm
Be of good cheer and have no concern! Headaches are a form of penance, to prepare for the Day of Rapture. It will come on May 21 of this, the last year; the world will end on October 22. This, according to the most e-mailed story from Yahoo today. There is, therefore, no need to worry about President Obama’s place of birth or anything else.
My only unhappiness is that President Obama will not find time in his busy schedule to increase engagement with Africa; to that end, he tried unsuccessfully while mercilessly burdened with other matters of state during his brief and modest vacation in Hawaii to contact incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo of the Ivory Coast by telephone. Failing that, he wrote a letter “offering him an international role if he stopped clinging to power and stepped down.” May the Farce Force be with him; or something.
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General Electric Co's oil and gas unit aims to boost its order book by 5-10 per cent in the next few years by buying technology and securing more deals from companies pursuing deepwater, liquefied natural gas (LNG) and unconventional projects, senior executives said on Wednesday.
Oil and gas orders at GE grew from USD 1 billion in 1994 to USD 15.7 billion in 2011
US conglomerate, GE, is riding on a global resource wave, as explorers try to tap oil and gas reserves in harder-to-reach deepwater fields and as companies pour money into LNG projects in Australia to meet growing demand from energy-hungry Asia.
"Our ambition is to grow anywhere from 5 to 10 per cent," Prady Iyyanki, vice president of turbomachinery at GE Oil & Gas, told Reuters on the sidelines of the World Gas Conference. He was referring to growth for the unit's order book.
"We want to get broader and deeper."
Oil and gas orders at the unit grew from USD 1 billion in 1994 to USD 15.7 billion in 2011, mainly through acquisitions, he said. The company provides technology and machinery to the oil and gas industry while also offering maintenance services.
"In South America, it's the offshore and if you look at the US, it's the unconventionals. In Asia, it's just the GDP growth," Iyyanki said when asked about potential growth areas. "In the Middle East, we see aging units which needs upgrade."
GE is in talks to provide equipment for Malaysia's floating LNG project, after securing a contract to supply steam turbine and compressor to Royal Dutch Shell's Prelude project.
Australia is expected to surpass Qatar as the top LNG exporter by the end of the decade, but swelling costs, tightening credit and mounting foreign competition to supply Asian buyers may slow projects, according to reports.
"We do see a little bit of a slowdown in LNG prospects but it depends on how North American gas exports come into play," Iyyanki told
Rising costs for oil and gas exploration is demanding better and more efficient technology especially in fast-growing deepwater areas, Iyyanki said.
The global average cost of producing a barrel of oil equivalent per day is expected to rise to USD 92, nearly double the USD 48 a barrel in 2011, GE said.
The company is also investing in new technology such as compressing natural gas in a box for home use and micro LNG, one-tenth of the size of a usual liquefaction plant, that can be used on ships.
GE is on the lookout for more buys in technology and regions such as emerging economies where it expects strong growth, Iyyanki said.
The Fairfield, Connecticut-based company makes electric turbines, water-purification systems, medical equipment and other infrastructure equipment that developing nations invest in as they industrialise.
"We put the big building blocks in place. There are niche technologies which will be relatively small acquisitions," said John Lammas, vice president engineering at GE Oil & Gas.
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Why do we call this man ‘Alexander the Great’?
Posted by admin on Mar 6th, 2017 in Alexander and Porus, Alexander the Great, Alexanders attack on India, Mauryan, Stories, The battle of the Hydaspes
I can understand the western world, the English or the Americans calling him ‘Alexander the Great’. After all, Ancient Greece is seen as the ‘cradle of Western Civilization’, the birthplace of democracy, rationalism, philosophy and the arts. Western powers, such as the Americans see themselves as heirs to this legacy, a legacy that stretches back through time in an unbroken line to the city-states of Ancient Greece. This is why, the Greek classics are considered to be the foundation of every modern liberal arts program across American Universities today. Even the American Government seems to use words such as ‘freedom’ and ‘civilization’ in much the same way as the Greek writers and politicians did millennia ago when talking about the Persian Empire.
Given all this, I can understand why he is called ‘the Great’ by western historians and I can understand why he is considered a national hero by the Greeks. But I cannot understand, why we, in India, refer to him as Alexander the Great and not as Alexander the Barbarian.
As an Indian, when I look at Alexander, I see an aggressor who attacked India with no previous history of rivalry or any just cause, I see a bloodthirsty tyrant who repeatedly massacred populations who had surrendered to him against oaths, and a barbarian who fought against all established codes of warfare then extant in India (this is described by Megasthenes in his book Indika and is also there in the notes section of my book). When I look at facts, I also strongly suspect that Alexander, might not, in fact, have won the Battle of the Hydaspes (purely a conjecture, which I have described in the notes section of my book).
Why do we, then, call him Alexander the Great in Indian history books? Chengiz Khan conquered far more territory than Alexander and the empire he built helped trade, commerce and the exchange of ideas between the East and the West for a number of centuries. The Mongolians call him ‘The father of the Mongols’. And yet, in the western consciousness, there is an image of him being little more than a bloodthirsty conqueror, a barbarian. Another conqueror Attila is called ‘the scourge of God’ while the propaganda against Napoleon used to be that he was the anti-christ.
Undoubtedly, this was what it seemed like to the nations who bore the brunt of these conquerors aggressions. So what should we and our history books see him as? I vote for barbarian.
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Amitabh Mukhopadhyay says:
We call him great because he also built karezes, the underground irrigation channels that still work in places like Syria and Afghanistan. Besides, he was Aristotle’s pupil, well versed in philosophy.
Incidentally, Greece was not part of any ‘Western’ world, because arguably, a “western’ world did not exist those days. What existed was trade and commerce between Greece, Persia, Indian subcontinent and China. So a great exchange of ideas on face-to-face democracy and other concepts marked those times.
OK. Point taken.
Kushagra Asthana says:
I don’t think that still qualifies for evergreen title of “the great”.
Well, maybe he does but then so should Chengiz Khan! Else, for Indian history he is a villain as far as I’m concerned
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So many combinations in China, why can TFBOYS can become a pet? Yi Yi Qi is a member of the TFBOYS combination. This combination can be said to be big from the small fire. At the age of others, they are trying to sing dancing; when others are still unknown children, they already Started a dream. Recalling that these three little boys have just been out of time, there is an unparalleled courage and wisdom in the young appearance. Compared to Wang Jun Kai and Wang Yuan's lively and kindness, Qian Lu gives people more calm, don't like speech, every step of this boy has a strong power, cute little, he can say it is The group pets, the thickness is thin, and it shows us different. In the past, the little boy who is not a particularly eye-catching now has become a mature and attractive big boy, and the years have been ten tough and courage. His mind is too long, 18 years old, "this is The street dance "is the captain, and becomes a champion. Although he is young, but singing is cool and stable. It is a big boy who is a cute big boy in the cold. Subsequent "Changan 12 hours", "yours of you", he is such a treasure boy who giving a surprises everywhere. In "Friends, please listen to the good", the three flavors of Qianlu, He Wei and Xie Na, also gave people a comfort of the soul in this fast-paced and stressful life. I still remember that there is a fragment in the program, the Qian Lu is not late, and He Wei is changing, because he knows that he is a small generation, so he can't sit on the host. People can shape, but these are deeply educated and detail in the bones, they can't hide. This millennium born boy is involved in actors from a traffic star into an actor with high value. On the day of "This is the street dance" finals, a "Yi Yulian is tied to the chain" on the chair "on the chair", is it handsome and hysterer, is this not Disney to flee a knight? "Flame" The audience, the flammable device returns to the stage, and the red light is skilled in the dance, and the beauty is beautiful. The same Yi Yi Qian Lu has a very high commercial value. He recently added 7 high-quality endorsements, high luxury brand Armani's make-up and men's skin care product endorsement, and the two high luxury brands in a short time can be seen. His strength. The car endorsement is generally difficult to get it. Qianlu has also obtained the title of BMW BMW and the spokesperson. It has to be praised him. He also got the endorsement of Bao Li's global fragrance before, he is like this. It can always bring you endless surprises and wealth. In the eyes of the Qian Lu, there is no number of stars in flashing, laughing two cute little pears, which can be domineering and soft, definitely to save the Milky Way in our last life! It seems that the Qianlu can become a group pet, and it is not surprising. The next month is full of 20 years old. Three small only, who do you like the most! Welcome to leave a message comment.
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Flying-wing bomber unveiling forecast by aviation experts
2018-05-09 11:14China Daily Editor: Li Yan ECNS App Download
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China is likely to soon unveil one of its most anticipated weapons — a new-generation long-range bomber, aviation industry observers said amid disclosure of the plane's appearance by its developer on Tuesday.
Aviation Industry Corp of China, the nation's leading aircraft maker, displayed a front view of what appears to be a flying-wing aircraft concept at the end of a promotional video. The video was published on its WeChat account to mark the 60th birthday of Xi'an Aircraft Industry, an AVIC subsidiary in Shaanxi province that is China's major builder of bomber aircraft.
The video shows an artistic rendering of a triangle-shaped plane under two English words and ellipses, "The Next……". The scene closely resembles a moment in a 2015 promotional video from United States aerospace and defense technology company Northrop Grumman that depicted what is now known as the B-21 Raider, the U.S.'s next long-range, stealth strategic bomber.
AVIC did not explain the six-second episode, placed at the end of the video in an unmistakable attempt to highlight the plane's significance and mystery.
Despite its brevity, the video seems to have ended debate among Chinese military fans and aviation industry observers on whether the country's new bomber will adopt a conventional aerodynamic configuration or a flying-wing design previously used only by the Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit stealth bomber.
General Ma Xiaotian, former commander of the People's Liberation Army Air Force, told reporters in September 2016, "We are now developing a new-generation, long-range strike bomber that you will see sometime in the future." Ma's remarks put an end to years of speculation on whether China would develop a new aircraft to replace its half century-old H-6 bomber series.
Shi Jian, senior editor at Aviation World Monthly magazine, said the latest AVIC move indicates that the State-owned defense giant believes the new bomber's design and technologies have advanced enough that the company wants to let people know of the program's progress.
"I think the new bomber will be unveiled to the public in the near future," he said. "It is now not uncommon for the PLA to make public its top weapons before their delivery thanks to the increased level of transparency and confidence brought about by our technological advancement."
He said the flying-wing design should not have been difficult for Chinese engineers when they designed the bomber, explaining the real challenges lie in the plane's flight-control system and engines.
Fu Qianshao, an aircraft expert from the PLA Air Force, anticipated that the new bomber would be better than the U.S.'s B-21 in flight range and carrying capacity.
He said it will probably have an operational range of at least 12,000 kilometers and a maximum payload of 20 metric tons of bombs and missiles.
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Slavery then: abortion now
Here at Christian Spectrum we’re committed to the sanctity of human life. We’re each created equal in the image of God. We have no right to decide one person has more intrinsic value that another. Indeed, God conveyed his heart for the weak and vulnerable when he gave the Law to Moses:
(God) defends the cause of the fatherless and the widow and loves the foreigner, giving him food and clothing (Deut 10:18).
In Proverbs we are encouraged to:
Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute. Speak up and judge fairly; defend the rights of the poor and needy (Prov 31:9).
Throughout history however, man has taken it upon himself to decide who should live and who should die, and for what reason. One manifestation of this ungodly attitude is the field of eugenics, which we explore in this article.
Eugenics (meaning ‘good in birth’ in Greek) captured the hearts and minds of America’s leading thinkers, including social scientists, educators, judges, philanthropists and clergy in the late 1800’s and on into the 20th century. The father of the modern eugenics movement was Francis Galton, an English statistician.
Influenced by Darwin’s evolutionary theories
Galton was influenced by Darwin’s evolutionary theories, the rediscovered genetic experiments of Mendel, and the secularised philosophy of Herbert Spencer. His belief that some people are superior to others, the core principle of eugenics, motivated him to see if the human gene pool could be improved by ‘positive eugenics,’ i.e. encouraging the procreation of the ‘best’ genetic stock.
Charles Davenport
Galton’s theories were implemented by American Charles Davenport, the director of the Station for Experimental Evolution in Cold Spring Harbor, NY, from 1904 onwards. His vision was to create a superior Nordic race by forcibly sterilising untold thousands of Americans who were selected on the grounds of their ancestry, national origin, race or religion.
US states instigated mandatory sterilisation
At the beginning of the 20th century, 27 US states instigated mandatory sterilisation laws. Marriage prohibition laws were passed to prevent racial mixing. The ultimate plan was to systematically eradicate unsuitable people worldwide until only a pure Nordic super race remained.
The victims
The victims in the US were initially poor urban dwellers, immigrants from across Europe, Blacks, Jews, Mexicans, Native Americans, epileptics, alcoholics, petty criminals, the mentally ill and anyone else who didn't resemble the blond and blue-eyed Nordic ideal.
Limited procreation
Galton’s aim was to limit the procreation of anyone with developmental and physical disabilities and those with inheritable moral failings such as criminality, alcoholism, promiscuity and pauperism, for example. By the time eugenic sterilisations ended in the US in the 1970’s, nearly 70,000 Americans had been sterilised on the basis of legislation.
Hitler and the Nazi movement
The international eugenics movement affected us here in the UK, but mostly shifted to Germany. Between 1935 and 1945, 250,000 disabled Germans were murdered. The eugenic vision caught the imagination of Hitler and the Nazi movement, fuelling Hitler’s Final Solution. He took eugenics beyond the ‘superior Nordic race’ to striving for the ‘Aryan master race’ and this led to the Holocaust.
Carnegie Institute behind the eugenics movement
Without the backing of the intelligentsia and academic elite of the day, implementation of eugenics would not have made much progress. The scientific rationales that drove the death camps in WW2 were conceived at Cold Spring Harbor and financed up until 1939 by the Carnegie Institute, which was openly racist, strongly anti-Semitic and anti-immigration.
The Rockefeller Foundation and Ivy League
The Rockefeller Foundation verified the research of the Carnegie Institute by giving massive research grants over many years. Leading scholars from the Ivy League universities validated eugenics, financed by the special efforts of the Harriman railroad fortune.
After WW2
In his book, ‘War Against the Weak’, Edwin Black concludes with an ominous warning:
After Hitler eugenics did not disappear. It renamed itself. What has thrived loudly for decades quietly took post-war refuge under the labels human genetics and genetic counselling.
Over the last 30 years, academics and bioethicists have embraced attitudes reminiscent of Davenport and others – ideas which equally threaten the most weak and vulnerable. In an article in National Review, Wesley J Smith remarks:
As with the old eugenics, the new eugenics is led by the intelligentsia and academic elite. Once again, the most respected foundations are funding it. Today, the belief in the inherent moral equality of all human life has been badly undermined by advocates who would judge human moral worth upon subjective ‘quality of life’ criteria.
Modern genetic engineering
Since eugenics became known as genetics, we've become used to hearing about GM (genetically modified) foods, and cloning has also been a subject of speculation. Scientists and policy makers began to take the prospect of cloning seriously in the 1960’s, when Nobel Prize winning geneticist Joshua Lederberg advocated it, sparking debates with conservative bioethicists.
Dolly the cloned sheep
Since Dolly, the most famous sheep in modern history, was born in 1997, the technology for cloning mammals has reached the point where its implementation has become inexpensive compared with many other scientific processes. Some scientists argue that human cloning attempts will be made in the next few years and may well have already begun.
Reproductive cloning
While reproductive cloning is a different branch of scientific research from cloning technology for curing diseases and prolonging life, it raises serious ethical issues. For example, it would bring about a change in the family structure since a female donor would technically be the clone’s twin rather than their mother. Man is now playing God.
We watch developments with interest and prayerful concern, mindful that there may well be a sinister agenda behind recent developments which are not being broadcast. Eugenics is one outworking of an ugly, deceptive spirit which can keep reinventing itself. Only when God’s kingdom comes in its fullness will we see the complete eradication of this kind of evil, but in the meantime we need to remain vigilant and expose the evil.
The international eugenics movement affected us here in the UK, but mostly shifted to Germany. Between 1935 and 1945, 250,000 disabled Germans were murdered. The eugenic vision caught the imagination of Hitler and the Nazi movement, fuelling Hitler’s Final Solution. He took eugenics beyond the ‘superior Nordic race’ to striving for the ‘Aryan master race’ and this led to the Holocaust . . .
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Analysis: Obama's 'blame me' means 'move on'
President Obama says to blame him, adds, "We didn't draft these contracts"
Obama likely to be unscathed, but other problems could hurt him, experts say
Sen. Christopher Dodd says he, Treasury Department had role in bonus loophole
AIG paid out millions in bonuses after receiving billions in bailout funds
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By Kristi Keck
(CNN) -- President Obama topped a town hall appearance Wednesday by claiming responsibility for the bonuses paid out to executives at the bailed-out insurance giant American International Group, saying, "I'm outraged, too."
President Obama said he takes responsibilty for the AIG controversy. He added, "We've got a lot on our plate."
Cushioned by high approval ratings, analysts said Obama can emerge from this controversy relatively unscathed, but there's only so many times he can get away with saying, "Blame me."
AIG accepted more than $170 billion in federal assistance in the past six months. It was revealed this week that since accepting those funds, the company doled out more than $165 million in bonuses.
In the stimulus bill passed last month, Congress had an opportunity to put a stop on those mega-bonuses. But in a last-minute adjustment the language of the legislation was changed.
Sen. Christopher Dodd, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, told CNN on Wednesday that he was partially responsible for adding the loophole after coming under pressure from the Treasury Department. At the time, he said, the changes "seemed like innocent modifications." Watch what Dodd says about his role »
"I know Washington's all in a tizzy and everybody's pointing fingers at each other and saying it's their fault, the Democrats' fault, the Republicans' fault. Listen, I will take responsibility. I'm the president," Obama said Wednesday at the town hall meeting in Costa Mesa, California.
But the president's mea culpa wasn't all encompassing.
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"We didn't draft these contracts," he said. "We've got a lot on our plate. But it is appropriate when you're in charge to make sure stuff doesn't happen like this. So for everybody in Washington who's busy scrambling to try to figure out how to blame somebody else, just go ahead and talk to me, because it's my job to fix these messes even if I don't make them." Watch Obama claim responsibility »
Those comments, said economist Peter Morici, were hardly apologetic.
"I think frankly it's a disingenuous comment because he isn't doing very much about the problem, and after all it was the White House that leaned against Sen. Dodd regarding that amendment in the stimulus package," said Morici, a professor of international business at the University of Maryland and the former chief economist at the U.S. International Trade Commission.
Stephen Hayes, a CNN contributor and columnist for the conservative magazine The Weekly Standard, also wrote off Obama's words as "phony."
"He tried to take responsibility for it, but then he followed that up immediately by saying, look, we didn't write these contracts. I didn't create this mess. So, it felt a little bit like phony responsibility to me," he said.
Obama's remarks followed denials from Dodd that he had anything to do with the controversy and assurances from Obama's economic advisers that they had no control over AIG's bonuses.
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Now, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is facing criticism from some Democrats and calls from some Republicans to step down, and the Obama administration is left with yet another bump on the road to restoring public confidence in government.
In responding to the situation, professor and political adviser Drew Westen said Obama got it right, but his message was drowned out by the response of this economic team.
"But watching some of the president's chief economic advisers publicly throw up their hands in helplessness, suggesting the government could feed the monster but couldn't control it, was a reminder of what happens when presidential surrogates speak without proper media training, a unified message and a clear sense of why getting their message right on this really matters," Westen wrote in a commentary for CNN.com. Read Westen's advice for Obama
"The president needs to make clear where his policies -- and values -- depart from those of the previous administration if he wants people to hang onto their tenuous, newfound belief that maybe this time government is part of the solution and not the problem," wrote Westen, who informally advised Obama's presidential campaign.
In Obama's case, "blame me" is political code for "move on," said Candy Crowley, CNN's senior political correspondent.
Obama's approval ratings have hovered around 60 percent in recent weeks, slightly higher than his predecessors' numbers near the same time.
Given those ratings, Crowley said, Obama "is well-positioned to weather out this storm."
"He faces some political risk in the face of the revelation that his Treasury Department pushed for and got a legislative loophole, which AIG walked through to dole out its bonuses. Still, at the moment it is difficult to see the president taking a major blow," she said, noting that most of the outcry has been directed at AIG and Geithner. iReport.com: Share your thoughts on AIG and Obama
Bill Schneider, CNN's senior political analyst, pointed out that taking responsibility is different than "getting the blame."
"It's vaguer. It means, 'Because I'm president, I am ultimately responsible for what happens, even if I didn't do it,' " he said.
Schneider said it's not likely that the public will blame Obama for the bonuses, but the president must reassure Americans that he is on their side.
While the president has room to take blame for this problem, Crowley said, if this hiccup is followed by a series of squalls, "the picture changes."
"The president needs to take his own advice now, and move on -- or at least try. Whether he is forced to address it again depends on circumstances and whether his critics are able to capitalize on the moment to suggest things are not being properly watched," she said.
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Natalie Cole needs kidney, gets offers during show
During "Live King Live," dozens e-mail offering to see whether they are a match
Singer to Larry King: "I'm on a very long list, which is why we are looking to donors"
Natalie Cole says she was diagnosed with hepatitis C in February 2008
She links the illness to her struggles to stop using cocaine and heroin
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(CNN) -- Singer Natalie Cole told CNN's Larry King she is searching for a kidney after an illness caused both of her kidneys to fail.
Singer Natalie Cole continues to tour, despite being on dialysis three times a week.
Before she finished telling King Tuesday night about her battles with drugs, illnesses and her search for a kidney, dozens of e-mails flooded the CNN studio.
They were all offers from people saying they would get tested to see whether their kidney could be donated.
King handed a thick stack of paper to Cole.
"These are all e-mails from dozens -- dozens of people offering to be tested to see if they can match, who want to give you a kidney," King said.
Cole stared at the papers for a moment.
"There are some great human beings out there. That's all I can say," Cole said. Watch Natalie Cole's interview with Larry King »
"I'm on a very long list, which is why we are looking to donors," said Cole, the daughter of legendary crooner Nat King Cole.
Cole said her kidney troubles date back to February 2008 when she was diagnosed with hepatitis C. Cole said she attributes the hepatitis C from her well-publicized struggles to stop using cocaine and heroin. Cole said she has been sober for some time now after two stints in a rehabilitation clinic.
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Cole said she underwent chemotherapy in an aggressive way to fight the virus. Within four months of getting chemotherapy, both of Cole's kidneys failed.
"I couldn't breathe. I -- I went into -- literally, my kidneys stopped functioning. They stopped, you know, processing the fluid that was starting to build up in my body."
Since then, Cole has been on dialysis three days a week and has been searching for a kidney, she told King in one of the first public interviews about the issue.
Cole won six Grammy awards for her 1991 critically acclaimed album "Unforgettable ... With Love ," a jazzy tribute to her father. She won a Grammy this year for her new album "Still Unforgettable" and another Grammy for her work on another album.
Cole said that she has still been able to tour this year even with her kidney ailment.
"I have been on dialysis in Istanbul, Milan, Indonesia, Manila, London. It's -- it's amazing," Cole said.
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