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__label__cc	0.714804	0.285196	alanwoodruff.com Why Change? A Balanced Plan for Deficit Reduction September 26, 2018 October 15, 2018 Benjamin Dunn The deficit, and the growing national debt, will be major issue in the current campaign — and they should be. We must reduce the federal deficits and the national debt. But we must do so in a responsible way. The Republican plan calls for massive spending cuts, and no tax increases on the wealthy. This is not a responsible plan. When President Clinton was elected, he proposed a balanced approach that included both spending cuts and tax increases. Not a single Republican in either the Senate or the House of Representatives voted for the legislation, but it was passed by a Democratic Congress. By the time Clinton left office, the federal budget deficit had been eliminated and we were beginning to pay down the national debt. And during the Clinton years, the economy was the strongest it had been in decades. Now compare the Clinton plan with the plan pursued by the Reagan-Bush administration and the George W. Bush administration. After Reagan passed his signature tax reduction legislation: The federal deficit increased every year of the Reagan-Bush administrations. During the Reagan years alone, the national debt tripled. In eight years,Reagan added more to the national debt than had been added in nearly 200 years. Then came George W. Bush who reduced taxes on the wealthy in 2001 and again in 2003. Prior to the 2003 tax cuts, a group of over 400 prominent economists, including 10 Nobel Prize winners, authored a full page article in the New York Times [February 11, 2003] warning that “passing these tax cuts will worsen the long-term budget outlook, adding to the nation’s projected chronic deficits.“ No one in the Bush administration listened, and during the Bush administration the national debt almost doubled. Now the Republicans want to return to the policies of Reagan and Bush. We cannot let it happen. HISTORY HAS PROVEN THAT THE REPUBLICAN PLAN IS WRONG Republicans love to point to Ronald Reagan and claim that his tax reductions — in 1981 — lead to economic growth in the 1980′s. But they conveniently ignore the fact that, in 1983, when it became obvious that the 1981 tax cuts were hurting the economy, Reagan was also responsible for the largest tax increase in American history. In fact, Reagan increased taxes nine times during his administration. Phil Roe is solidly with the Republican leadership. He wants to return to tax reduction policies that have been proven to be dangerous for the country. We need a balanced approach to controlling the budget and reducing the national debt. We need a Congressman who actually understands tax and economic policy. Phil Roe has taken a pledge to never increase taxes — especially on the wealthy — no matter how necessary that may be. I am committed to responsible deficit and debt reduction. Equality vs Equality of Opportunity September 26, 2018 October 8, 2020 Benjamin Dunn Ultra-conservative Republican politicians are constantly trying to divide the voters by claiming that the Democrats want to make us all “equal” by penalizing the wealthy (with higher taxes) and creating “give-away” programs for everyone else. This is just another Republican effort to divide us. Democrats don’t want to make everyone equal. All they are trying to do is give everyone an equal opportunity. A child whose family is homeless — or who goes to school hungry — does not have an equal opportunity to learn. The children of the average working family cannot afford the rising cost of a college education. Without the federal assistance programs the Republicans want to eliminate they don’t have an equal opportunity to get a college education. The person whose job was shipped to China, and doesn’t have the skills needed in what remains of our economy does, not have an equal opportunity to provide for his family’s future. We cannot assure that everyone succeeds, and we shouldn’t try. But we should assure that everyone has an equal opportunity to succeed. I don’t believe in government give-aways to people who will not try to help themselves. But I do believe in helping anyone who will also do his or her own part to succeed. There are many people who cannot — for reasons of health, physical or mental impairment or other reasons — fully provide for themselves. As a moral, civilized and charitable Christian society, we must respond to their needs. Here are also some people who will not do what do what is needed to provide for themselves. As a civilized society, we cannot allow anyone to starve. But we have every right to expect something in return for our help. We do not live in the America of our Founding Fathers. When our nation was formed, most people were farmers or had small businesses. The skills they required to succeed were minimal, and formal education was not essential. Everyone had an equal opportunity to succeed. But that is no longer the world we live in. Today, most Americans have work for someone else, and the forces that govern the economy — and everyone’s financial well-being — are controlled by someone else. While some of our Founding Fathers were undoubtedly very wealthy by the standards of the day, the nation they created was intended to be governed by the people. They had just fought a war to rid themselves of control by a wealthy aristocracy that suppressed the ability of the people to control their own destinies. Today, we have a new aristocracy – big corporations and the very rich. With their money they control who gets elected. With their political influence, they protect and extend their power. Poverty, and the need for public assistance, do not exist simply because people don’t want to work. Poverty exists largely because we have failed to adequately educate people for the job market. Poverty exist because the jobs for which people of limited education are qualified have been shipped overseas. Poverty exists because, in many parts of the country, big corporations will not pay their workers a decent wage. Obviously, the real problem is more complex than this. The point is that the “blame” for poverty does not rest entirely with the people who are poor. Political commentators like to show graphs showing the continuing divergence in the income of the middle-class and the top 10% since 1980. But it is not just a coincidence that 1980 was about the time that the first generation where a high percentage of people with college degrees were reaching their peak earning years. The solution is not to ignore the poor. The poor are often faced with complicated problems that most people don’t think about. Everyday items like toiletries are not readily available as many people live paycheck to paycheck. They need help with making sure that they know where their next meal is coming from or help with credit repair and financial education so they are able to adequately participate in our society by way of being able to rent a home and eventually buy a home. The solution is not to end all programs of public assistance. The solution is to fix our failing educational system and fix our system of jobs training. The solution is to make skill training an integral part of our public assistance program so that people have an opportunity to succeed. The solution is for government to work with business to create jobs, and fill them with people who want to work but don’t have the opportunity. We have a major “dropout” problem. Too few of our citizens finish high school, and we have to do something about that. But the Republican (and Phil Roe) response is, “Too bad. You were irresponsible. Live with it.“ I disagree. A foolish act as a youth should not condemn anyone to second-class citizenship. We need to expand our commitment to adult education and job training (and retraining) for adults. If someone is willing to help himself, we have a duty to provide them with the opportunity.	cc/2022-05/en_head_0052.json.gz/line3
__label__wiki	0.626612	0.626612	For new mothers, feeling low in social status poses risk to health When it comes to the link between socioeconomic status and health, perception can be as important as reality. A study published by the American Psychological Association finds that new mothers who see themselves as lower on the socioeconomic ladder have worse health outcomes one year after their child’s birth than new mothers who see themselves as higher status., When it comes to the link between socioeconomic status and health, perception can be as important as reality. A study published by the American Psychological Association finds that new mothers who see themselves as lower on the socioeconomic ladder have worse health outcomes one year after their child’s birth than new mothers who see themselves as higher status. Among women whose basic material needs are met, this self-perceived status can have a stronger effect on health than their actual income and education level, the study found. It was published in the journal Health Psychology. “Our findings highlight one way in which socioeconomic status may influence maternal health disparities,” said study author Christine Guardino, Ph.D., of Dickinson College. “This could be particularly relevant right now, given the pandemic-driven upheavals in employment that may be affecting people’s perceptions of their own social status.” Poverty has long been linked to adverse health outcomes, and some previous research has found that that subjective social status–people’s perception of their own social status relative to others in the U.S.–can also affect health. But the question of whether subjective social status affects biological markers of health had never been explored in women during the year after the birth of a child, according to the researchers. Guardino and co-author Christine Dunkel Schetter, Ph.D., of the University of California Los Angeles, analyzed data from 1,168 new mothers in five areas–rural, suburban and urban–across the U.S. The data came from Community Child Health Network, a research study funded by the National Institute for Child Health and Development that focused on low-income families. The participants enrolled in the study during hospital stays following the birth of a child. During home visits at one month, six months and 12 months after the women gave birth, researchers collected health data including participants’ blood pressure, body mass index, cholesterol and cortisol levels. They also collected demographic data including education level and household income. And they asked participants to rate their subjective social status using an established method in which they showed the participants a picture of a ladder representing where people stand in the U.S. and asked them to indicate the rung on which they saw themselves (1 being the lowest and 10 being the highest). The researchers found that participants who perceived themselves as having higher social status had lower allostatic load–a combined measure of multiple health variables that reflects “wear and tear” on the body due to stress. In fact, the strength of the association between participants’ perceived social status and allostatic load was stronger than the association between their income and allostatic load. However, the researchers also found that the association varied depending on participants’ income and education–it was strongest for participants whose incomes were higher than 153% of the federal poverty level and who had completed high school or more education. “People living near or below the federal poverty level are often coping with inadequate food, shelter and access to health care, all of which influence health,” Guardino said. “Perceptions of social status may have stronger effects on health when people’s basic material needs are met.” The study is the first to look at the health effects of subjective social status in postpartum women, according to the researchers, and provides further evidence that people’s perceptions of their own social status can affect their health even beyond objective measures such as income and education. More information:Christine M. Guardino et al, Subjective Social Status and Allostatic Load in Mothers One Year After Birth,Health Psychology, (2022),DOI: 10.1037/hea0001148 Journal information: Health Psychology Provided by American Psychological Association	cc/2022-05/en_head_0052.json.gz/line5
__label__cc	0.568661	0.431339	Is Something Brewing? TPS Not in the Mix for Nepalese Iowa Encapsulates America’s Immigration Debate Greg Siskind I spent a week last month biking across the beautiful state of Iowa in RAGBRAI, the world’s largest bicycle ride that has been held in that state for the last 46 years. RAGBRAI, sponsored by the Des Moines Register newspaper, stands for the Register’s Annual Great Bike Ride Across Iowa. Iowa is gorgeous (surprisingly hilly by the way) and the people are wonderful. If you are into bikes, you need to put RAGBRAI on your bucket list. RAGBRAI was also a reminder to me just how much immigration impacts rural and small communities as much as large cities in highly populated states. Iowa lived up to its reputation when it came to corn. Days of riding were dominated by cornfields (as well as soybean and other crops). And farms today are only surviving with the help of large numbers of immigrant workers. The Department of Labor estimates that 46% of the roughly two million farmworkers are unauthorized immigrants while some experts put that percent as high as 70%. I spoke to Iowans along the way who are genuinely fearful of tariffs driving up the costs of their crops. If you add a major spike in prices as a result of agricultural workers being deported, that would probably destroy the agricultural industry in Iowa (and the rest of the country). And then there is meat processing. Iowa is home to hundreds of pork and beef plants. I biked past many along my 428-mile route and the first town I stayed overnight in has more than half of its workers employed by beef and pork producers and processors. The town, not surprisingly, is largely populated by Hispanic immigrants who have moved there for the ready work. The town happens to also be in the congressional district of Republican Congressman Steve King, the infamous legislator who has made a career out of attacking immigrants. This amazes me because it’s pretty clear that the economy in his district is completely dependent on foreign workers and there is no way those workers will be replaced by US workers who have, not surprisingly, flocked to higher paying, less back-breaking jobs. King is in a competitive race for Congress for the first time in years against J.D. Scholten, a young Democrat with a considerably more progressive view of immigration. I happened to meet J.D. during the ride and talked to him about what immigration means to the western part of his state and he gets it. He’s about solutions to make the process work better for his state and for the country. Not about scoring political points by raising the fear level of his would-be constituents. By the way, if you want to donate to a campaign where it would make a difference, send J.D. some love. Of course, if you’re reading this in late August, you have likely heard the news of Mollie Tibbetts, a young woman in Iowa who was killed in Iowa after a weeks-long missing person’s search for her. While I was riding across the state, I saw a number of posters and signs with Mollie’s face asking people to please aid in finding her. It’s heartbreaking to know now that she was killed. Police have arrested an unauthorized immigrant for the crime. While this crime is tragic and the killer should be brought to justice, it is also terrible that demagogues use a single crime to paint the entire 11 million people in the US without documents as a criminal class. The victim’s family asked that people not politicize the crime and the arrest. But that has been soundly ignored. Consider Newt Gingrich who was all too enthusiastic to make this crime a campaign issue for November. The Cato Institute has done a good job providing real facts on the issue. Immigrants are far less likely to commit crimes than their native counterparts. Cato’s Alex Nowrasteh debated the issue with Tucker Carlsen on Fox News and, well, you can judge for yourself who had the better arguments. Iowa will be an important state for Democrats if they are to retake the House of Representatives in November. The Cook Report has moved two Iowa House seats currently held by Republicans to the tossup category. And as for Steve King, his race recently moved from solid Republican to safe Republican. But something tells me that race is going to get closer, despite the efforts of extremists to paint immigrants as a threat to Iowa. Partner at Siskind Susser, PC - Immigration Lawyers Greg Siskind is a partner with Siskind Susser, PC - Immigration Lawyers. After graduating from Vanderbilt University, he received his law degree at the University of Chicago. He created the first immigration law web site in 1994 and the first law blog in 1997. He's written four books and currently serves on the board of governors of the American Immigration Lawyers Association. He can be reached by email at gsiskind@visalaw.com. Latest posts by Greg Siskind (see all) Immigrant of the Week: Charlize Theron - March 6, 2020 Immigrant of the Week: Alberto Pérez - March 2, 2020 Immigrants of the Week: Andrew Cherng & Tsiang Cherng - February 24, 2020 © Theme Starz & Fruitful Code, Powered by WordPress	cc/2022-05/en_head_0052.json.gz/line7
__label__wiki	0.559878	0.559878	Botswana: Parliament Opens Published: 26/Jul/2020 Source: Botswana Daily News By By Mmoniemang Motsamai Gaborone — The topical Constitution (Amendment) Bill, dubbed floor crossing, is expected to take center stage during the third meeting of the first session of the 12th Parliament scheduled to commence today. The Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, seeking to amend the legislation to among others, align the age of majority set out in the Interpretation Act which reduced the it from 21 to 18 years, will also be tabled. It will be tabled by Minister of Nationality, Immigration and Gender Affairs, Ms Annah Mokgethi. The age of majority is a threshold of adulthood and a person who has attained the age of majority assumes full legal capacity and can, without assistance of his or her guardian, enter into a legally binding contract, sue or be sued in his or her own name. Section 9 of the Citizenship Act makes provision for registration of persons under the age of 21 as citizens where the father or mother of such a person has become a citizen of Botswana, while Section 15 makes provision for dual citizenship up to the age of 21. It is therefore proposed that Sections 9 and 15 of the Citizenship Act be amended so that the provisions are consistent with the age of majority which has been reduced from 21 to 18 years. Read further: https://allafrica.com/stories/202007270101.html Themes: Acquisition of nationality, Loss and Deprivation of Nationality Regions: Botswana Botswana: Parley To Debate Citizenship Amendment Bill Citizenship and Statelessness in the Member States of the Southern African Development Community Botswana: Lawmakers condemn unjust immigration law Autorisation pour l’adhésion du Togo à la Convention sur la réduction des cas d’apatridie 400 Batswana renounce their citizenship	cc/2022-05/en_head_0052.json.gz/line13
__label__wiki	0.823383	0.823383	Mr. Arabin The Rev. Francis Arabin, fellow of Lazarus, late professor of poetry at Oxford, and present vicar of St. Ewold, in the diocese of Barchester, must now be introduced personally to the reader. He is worthy of a new volume, and as he will fill a conspicuous place in it, it is desirable that he should be made to stand before the reader's eye by the aid of such portraiture as the author is able to produce. It is to be regretted that no mental method of daguerreotype or photography has yet been discovered by which the characters of men can he reduced to writing and put into grammatical language with an unerring precision of truthful description. How often does the novelist feel, ay, and the historian also and the biographer, that he has conceived within his mind and accurately depicted on the tablet of his brain the full character and personage of a man, and that nevertheless, when he flies to pen and ink to perpetuate the portrait, his words forsake, elude, disappoint, and play the deuce with him, till at the end of a dozen pages the man described has no more resemblance to the man conceived than the sign-board at the corner of the street has to the Duke of Cambridge. And yet such mechanical descriptive skill would hardly give more satisfaction to the reader than the skill of the photographer does to the anxious mother desirous to possess an absolute duplicate of her beloved child. The likeness is indeed true, but it is a dull, dead, unfeeling, inauspicious likeness. The face is indeed there, and those looking at it will know at once whose image it is, but the owner of the face will not be proud of the resemblance. There is no royal road to learning, no short cut to the acquirement of any valuable art. Let photographers and daguerreotypers do what they will, and improve as they may with further skill on that which skill has already done, they will never achieve a portrait of the human face divine. Let biographers, novelists, and the rest of us groan as we may under the burdens which we so often feel too heavy for our shoulders; we must either bear them up like men, or own ourselves too weak for the work we have undertaken. There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily. Labor omnia vincit improbus. Such should be the chosen motto of every labourer, and it may be that labour, if adequately enduring, may suffice at last to produce even some not untrue resemblance of the Rev. Francis Arabin. Of his doings in the world and of the sort of fame which he has achieved enough has been already said. It has also been said that he is forty years of age and still unmarried. He was the younger son of a country gentleman of small fortune in the north of England. At an early age he went to Winchester, and was intended by his father for New College; but though studious as a boy, he was not studious within the prescribed limits, and at the age of eighteen he left school with a character for talent, but without a scholarship. All that he had obtained, over and above the advantage of his character, was a gold medal for English verse, and hence was derived a strong presumption on the part of his friends that he was destined to add another name to the imperishable list of English poets. From Winchester he went to Oxford, and was entered as a commoner at Balliol. Here his special career very soon commenced. He utterly eschewed the society of fast men, gave no wine-parties, kept no horses, rowed no boats, joined no rows, and was the pride of his college tutor. Such at least was his career till he had taken his little go, and then he commenced a course of action which, though not less creditable to himself as a man, was hardly so much to the taste of the tutor. He became a member of a vigorous debating society and rendered himself remarkable there for humorous energy. Though always in earnest, yet his earnestness was always droll. To be true in his ideas, unanswerable in his syllogisms, and just in his aspirations was not enough for him. He had failed, failed in his own opinion as well as that of others when others came to know him, if he could not reduce the arguments of his opponents to an absurdity and conquer both by wit and reason. To say that his object was ever to raise a laugh would be most untrue. He hated such common and unnecessary evidence of satisfaction on the part of his hearers. A joke that required to be laughed at was, with him, not worth uttering. He could appreciate by a keener sense than that of his ears the success of his wit, and would see in the eyes of his auditors whether or no he was understood and appreciated. He had been a religious lad before he left school. That is, he had addicted himself to a party in religion, and having done so had received that benefit which most men do who become partisans in such a cause. We are much too apt to look at schism in our church as an unmitigated evil. Moderate schism, if there may be such a thing, at any rate calls attention to the subject, draws in supporters who would otherwise have been inattentive to the matter, and teaches men to think upon religion. How great an amount of good of this description has followed that movement in the Church of England which commenced with the publication of Froude's Remains! As a boy young Arabin took up the cudgels on the side of the Tractarians, and at Oxford he sat for a while at the feet of the great Newman. To this cause he lent all his faculties. For it he concocted verses, for it he made speeches, for it he scintillated the brightest sparks of his quiet wit. For it he ate and drank and dressed and had his being. In due process of time he took his degree and wrote himself B.A., but he did not do so with any remarkable amount of academical �clat. He had occupied himself too much with High Church matters and the polemics, politics, and outward demonstrations usually concurrent with High Churchmanship to devote himself with sufficient vigour to the acquisition of a double first. He was not a double first, nor even a first class man, but he revenged himself on the university by putting firsts and double firsts out of fashion for the year and laughing down a species of pedantry which, at the age of twenty-three, leaves no room in a man's mind for graver subjects than conic sections or Greek accents. Greek accents, however, and conic sections were esteemed necessaries at Balliol, and there was no admittance there for Mr. Arabin within the list of its fellows. Lazarus, however, the richest and most comfortable abode of Oxford dons, opened its bosom to the young champion of a church militant. Mr. Arabin was ordained, and became a fellow soon after taking his degree, and shortly after that was chosen professor of poetry. And now came the moment of his great danger. After many mental struggles, and an agony of doubt which may be well surmised, the great prophet of the Tractarians confessed himself a Roman Catholic. Mr. Newman left the Church of England and with him carried many a waverer. He did not carry off Mr. Arabin, but the escape which that gentleman had was a very narrow one. He left Oxford for awhile that he might meditate in complete peace on the step which appeared to him to be all but unavoidable, and shut himself up in a little village on the sea-shore of one of our remotest counties, that he might learn by communing with his own soul whether or no he could with a safe conscience remain within the pale of his mother church. Things would have gone badly with him there had he been left entirely to himself. Everything was against him: all his worldly interests required him to remain a Protestant, and he looked on his worldly interests as a legion of foes, to get the better of whom was a point of extremest honour. In his then state of ecstatic agony such a conquest would have cost him little; he could easily have thrown away all his livelihood; but it cost him much to get over the idea that by choosing the Church of England he should be open in his own mind to the charge that he had been led to such a choice by unworthy motives. Then his heart was against him: he loved with a strong and eager love the man who had hitherto been his guide and yearned to follow his footsteps. His tastes were against him: the ceremonies and pomps of the Church of Rome, their august feasts and solemn fasts, invited his imagination and pleased his eye. His flesh was against him: how great an aid would it be to a poor, weak, wavering man to be constrained to high moral duties, self-denial, obedience, and chastity by laws which were certain in their enactments, and not to be broken without loud, palpable, unmistakable sin! Then his faith was against him: he required to believe so much; panted so eagerly to give signs of his belief; deemed it so insufficient to wash himself simply in the waters of Jordan; that some great deed, such as that of forsaking everything for a true Church, had for him allurements almost past withstanding. Mr. Arabin was at this time a very young man, and when he left Oxford for his far retreat was much too confident in his powers of fence, and too apt to look down on the ordinary sense of ordinary people, to expect aid in the battle that he had to fight from any chance inhabitants of the spot which he had selected. But Providence was good to him; there, in that all but desolate place, on the storm-beat shore of that distant sea, he met one who gradually calmed his mind, quieted his imagination, and taught him something of a Christian's duty. When Mr. Arabin left Oxford, he was inclined to look upon the rural clergymen of most English parishes almost with contempt. It was his ambition, should he remain within the fold of their church, to do somewhat towards redeeming and rectifying their inferiority and to assist in infusing energy and faith into the hearts of Christian ministers, who were, as he thought, too often satisfied to go through life without much show of either. And yet it was from such a one that Mr. Arabin in his extremest need received that aid which he so much required. It was from the poor curate of a small Cornish parish that he first learnt to know that the highest laws for the governance of a Christian's duty must act from within and not from without; that no man can become a serviceable servant solely by obedience to written edicts; and that the safety which he was about to seek within the gates of Rome was no other than the selfish freedom from personal danger which the bad soldier attempts to gain who counterfeits illness on the eve of battle. Mr. Arabin returned to Oxford a humbler but a better and a happier man, and from that time forth he put his shoulder to the wheel as a clergyman of the Church for which he had been educated. The intercourse of those among whom he familiarly lived kept him staunch to the principles of that system of the Church to which he had always belonged. Since his severance from Mr. Newman, no one had had so strong an influence over him as the head of his college. During the time of his expected apostasy Dr. Gwynne had not felt much predisposition in favour of the young fellow. Though a High Churchman himself within moderate limits, Dr. Gwynne felt no sympathy with men who could not satisfy their faiths with the Thirty-nine Articles. He regarded the enthusiasm of such as Newman as a state of mind more nearly allied to madness than to religion, and when he saw it evinced by very young men, he was inclined to attribute a good deal of it to vanity. Dr. Gwynne himself, though a religious man, was also a thoroughly practical man of the world, and he regarded with no favourable eye the tenets of anyone who looked on the two things as incompatible. When he found that Mr. Arabin was a half Roman, he began to regret all he had done towards bestowing a fellowship on so unworthy a recipient; and when again he learnt that Mr. Arabin would probably complete his journey to Rome, he regarded with some satisfaction the fact that in such case the fellowship would be again vacant. When, however, Mr. Arabin returned and professed himself a confirmed Protestant, the Master of Lazarus again opened his arms to him, and gradually he became the pet of the college. For some little time he was saturnine, silent, and unwilling to take any prominent part in university broils, but gradually his mind recovered, or rather made its tone, and he became known as a man always ready at a moment's notice to take up the cudgels in opposition to anything that savoured of an evangelical bearing. He was great in sermons, great on platforms, great at after-dinner conversations, and always pleasant as well as great. He took delight in elections, served on committees, opposed tooth and nail all projects of university reform, and talked jovially over his glass of port of the ruin to be anticipated by the Church and of the sacrilege daily committed by the Whigs. The ordeal through which he had gone in resisting the blandishments of the lady of Rome had certainly done much towards the strengthening of his character. Although in small and outward matters he was self-confident enough, nevertheless in things affecting the inner man he aimed at a humility of spirit which would never have been attractive to him but for that visit to the coast of Cornwall. This visit he now repeated every year. Such is an interior view of Mr. Arabin at the time when he accepted the living of St Ewold. Exteriorly, he was not a remarkable person. He was above the middle height, well-made, and very active. His hair, which had been jet black, was now tinged with gray, but his face bore no sign of years. It would perhaps be wrong to say that he was handsome, but his face was nevertheless pleasant to look upon. The cheek-bones were rather too high for beauty, and the formation of the forehead too massive and heavy: but the eyes, nose, and mouth were perfect. There was a continual play of lambent fire about his eyes, which gave promise of either pathos or humour whenever he essayed to speak, and that promise was rarely broken. There was a gentle play about his mouth which declared that his wit never descended to sarcasm and that there was no ill-nature in his repartee. Mr. Arabin was a popular man among women, but more so as a general than a special favourite. Living as a fellow at Oxford, marriage with him had been out of the question, and it may be doubted whether he had ever allowed his heart to be touched. Though belonging to a church in which celibacy is not the required lot of its ministers, he had come to regard himself as one of those clergymen to whom to be a bachelor is almost a necessity. He had never looked for parochial duty, and his career at Oxford was utterly incompatible with such domestic joys as a wife and nursery. He looked on women, therefore, in the same light that one sees them regarded by many Romish priests. He liked to have near him that which was pretty and amusing, but women generally were little more to him than children. He talked to them without putting out all his powers and listened to them without any idea that what he should hear from them could either actuate his conduct or influence his opinion. Such was Mr. Arabin, the new vicar of St. Ewold, who is going to stay with the Grantlys at Plumstead Episcopi. Mr. Arabin reached Plumstead the day before Mr. Harding and Eleanor, and the Grantly family were thus enabled to make his acquaintance and discuss his qualifications before the arrival of the other guests. Griselda was surprised to find that he looked so young, but she told Florinda her younger sister, when they had retired for the night, that he did not talk at all like a young man: and she decided with the authority that seventeen has over sixteen that he was not at all nice, although his eyes were lovely. As usual, sixteen implicitly acceded to the dictum of seventeen in such a matter and said that he certainly was not nice. They then branched off on the relative merits of other clerical bachelors in the vicinity, and both determined without any feeling of jealousy between them that a certain Rev. Augustus Green was by many degrees the most estimable of the lot. The gentleman in question had certainly much in his favour, as, having a comfortable allowance from his father, he could devote the whole proceeds of his curacy to violet gloves and unexceptionable neck ties. Having thus fixedly resolved that the new-comer had nothing about him to shake the pre-eminence of the exalted Green, the two girls went to sleep in each other's arms, contented with themselves and the world. Mrs. Grantly at first sight came to much the same conclusion about her husband's favourite as her daughters had done, though, in seeking to measure his relative value, she did not compare him to Mr. Green; indeed, she made no comparison by name between him and anyone else; but she remarked to her husband that one person's swans were very often another person's geese, thereby clearly showing that Mr. Arabin had not yet proved his qualifications in swanhood to her satisfaction. 'Well, Susan," said he, rather offended at hearing his friend spoken of so disrespectfully, "if you take Mr. Arabin for a goose, I cannot say that I think very highly of your discrimination." "A goose! No, of course, he's not a goose. I've no doubt he's a very clever man. But you're so matter-of-fact, Archdeacon, when it suits your purpose, that one can't trust oneself to any fa�on de parler. I've no doubt Mr. Arabin is a very valuable man--at Oxford-- and that he'll be a good vicar at St. Ewold. All I mean is that, having passed one evening with him, I don't find him to be absolutely a paragon. In the first place, if I am not mistaken, he is a little inclined to be conceited." "Of all the men that I know intimately," said the archdeacon, "Arabin is, in my opinion, the most free from any taint of self-conceit. His fault is that he's too diffident." "Perhaps so," said the lady; "only I must own I did not find it out this evening." Nothing further was said about him. Dr. Grantly thought that his wife was abusing Mr. Arabin merely because he had praised him, and Mrs. Grantly knew that it was useless arguing for or against any person in favour of or in opposition to whom the archdeacon had already pronounced a strong opinion. In truth, they were both right. Mr. Arabin was a diffident man in social intercourse with those whom he did not intimately know; when placed in situations which it was his business to fill, and discussing matters with which it was his duty to be conversant, Mr. Arabin was from habit brazen-faced enough. When standing on a platform in Exeter Hall, no man would be less mazed than he by the eyes of the crowd before him, for such was the work which his profession had called on him to perform; but he shrank from a strong expression of opinion in general society, and his doing so not uncommonly made it appear that he considered the company not worth the trouble of his energy. He was averse to dictate when the place did not seem to him to justify dictation, and as those subjects on which people wished to hear him speak were such as he was accustomed to treat with decision, he generally shunned the traps there were laid to allure him into discussion, and, by doing so, not infrequently subjected himself to such charges as those brought against him by Mrs. Grantly. Mr. Arabin, as he sat at his open window, enjoying the delicious moonlight and gazing at the gray towers of the church, which stood almost within the rectory grounds, little dreamed that he was the subject of so many friendly or unfriendly criticisms. Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity, it is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so. It is hardly too much to say that we all of us occasionally speak of our dearest friends in a manner in which those dearest friends would very little like to hear themselves mentioned, and that we nevertheless expect that our dearest friends shall invariably speak of us as though they were blind to all our faults but keenly alive to every shade of our virtues. It did not occur to Mr. Arabin that he was spoken of at all. It seemed to him, when he compared himself with his host, that he was a person of so little consequence to any that he was worth no one's words or thoughts. He was utterly alone in the world as regarded domestic ties and those inner familiar relations which are hardly possible between others than husbands and wives, parents and children, or brothers and sisters. He had often discussed with himself the necessity of such bonds for a man's happiness in this world and had generally satisfied himself with the answer that happiness in this world is not a necessity. Herein he deceived himself, or rather tried to do so. He, like others, yearned for the enjoyment of whatever he saw enjoyable, and though he attempted, with the modern stoicism of so many Christians, to make himself believe that joy and sorrow were matters which here should be held as perfectly indifferent, these things were not indifferent to him. He was tired of his Oxford rooms and his college life. He regarded the wife and children of his friend with something like envy; he all but coveted the pleasant drawing-room, with its pretty windows opening on to lawns and flower-beds, the apparel of the comfortable house, and--above all--the air of home which encompassed it all. It will be said that no time can have been so fitted for such desires on his part as this, when he had just possessed himself of a country parish, of a living among fields and gardens, of a house which a wife would grace. It is true there was a difference between the opulence of Plumstead and the modest economy of St. Ewold, but surely Mr. Arabin was not a man to sigh after wealth! Of all men, his friends would have unanimously declared he was the last to do so. But how little our friends know us! In his period of stoical rejection of this world's happiness, he had cast from him as utter dross all anxiety as to fortune. He had, as it were, proclaimed himself to be indifferent to promotion, and those who chiefly admired his talents, and would mainly have exerted themselves to secure to them their deserved reward, had taken him at his word. And now, if the truth must out, he felt himself disappointed--disappointed not by them but by himself. The daydream of his youth was over, and at the age of forty he felt that he was not fit to work in the spirit of an apostle. He had mistaken himself and learned his mistake when it was past remedy. He had professed himself indifferent to mitres and diaconal residences, to rich livings and pleasant glebes, and now he had to own to himself that he was sighing for the good things of other men on whom, in his pride, he had ventured to look down. Not for wealth, in its vulgar sense, had he ever sighed; not for the enjoyment of rich things, had he ever longed; but for the allotted share of worldly bliss which a wife, and children, and happy home could give him, for that usual amount of comfort which he had ventured to reject as unnecessary for him, he did now feel that he would have been wiser to have searched. He knew that his talents, his position, and his friends would have won for him promotion, had he put himself in the way of winning it. Instead of doing so, he had allowed himself' to be persuaded to accept a living which would give him an income of some �300 a year should he, by marrying, throw up his fellowship. Such, at the age of forty, was the worldly result of labour which the world had chosen to regard as successful. The world also thought that Mr. Arabin was, in his own estimation, sufficiently paid. Alas! Alas! The world was mistaken, and Mr. Arabin was beginning to ascertain that such was the case. And here may I beg the reader not to be hard in his judgement upon this man. Is not the state at which he has arrived the natural result of efforts to reach that which is not the condition of humanity? Is not modern stoicism, built though it be on Christianity, as great an outrage on human nature as was the stoicism of the ancients? The philosophy of Zeno was built on true laws, but on true laws misunderstood and therefore misapplied. It is the same with our Stoics here, who would teach us that wealth and worldly comfort and happiness on earth are not worth the search. Alas, for a doctrine which can find no believing pupils and no true teachers! The case of Mr. Arabin was the more singular, as he belonged to a branch of the Church of England well inclined to regard its temporalities with avowed favour, and had habitually lived with men who were accustomed to much worldly comfort. But such was his idiosyncrasy that these very facts had produced within him, in early life, a state of mind that was not natural to him. He was content to be a High Churchman, if he could be so on principles of his own and could strike out a course showing a marked difference from those with whom he consorted. He was ready to be a partisan as long as he was allowed to have a course of action and of thought unlike that of his party. His party had indulged him, and he began to feel that his party was right and himself wrong, just when such a conviction was too late to be of service to him. He discovered, when such discovery was no longer serviceable, that it would have been worth his while to have worked for the usual pay assigned to work in this world and have earned a wife and children, with a carriage for them to sit in; to have earned a pleasant dining-room, in which his friends could drink his wine, and the power of walking up the high street of his country town, with the knowledge that all its tradesmen would have gladly welcomed him within their doors. Other men arrived at those convictions in their start in life and so worked up to them. To him they had come when they were too late to be of use. It has been said that Mr. Arabin was a man of pleasantry, and it may be thought that such a state of mind as that described would be antagonistic to humour. But surely such is not the case. Wit is the outward mental casing of the man and has no more to do with the inner mind of thoughts and feelings than have the rich brocaded garments of the priest at the altar with the asceticism of the anchorite below them, whose skin is tormented with sackcloth and whose body is half- flayed with rods. Nay, will not such a one often rejoice more than any other in the rich show of his outer apparel? Will it not be food for his pride to feel that he groans inwardly while he shines outwardly? So it is with the mental efforts which men make. Those which they show forth daily to the world are often the opposites of the inner workings of the spirit. In the archdeacon's drawing-room, Mr. Arabin had sparkled with his usual unaffected brilliancy, but when he retired to his bedroom, he sat there sad, at his open window, repining within himself that he also had no wife, no bairns, no soft sward of lawn duly mown for him to lie on, no herd of attendant curates, no bowings from the banker's clerks, no rich rectory. That apostleship that he had thought of had evaded his grasp, and he was now only vicar of St. Ewold's, with a taste for a mitre. Truly he had fallen between two stools.	cc/2022-05/en_head_0052.json.gz/line14
__label__cc	0.74756	0.25244	Deconstructing Images Before going to Central Park, where he makes bubbles for tips for a living, Nathan Freeman sits on a bench as a group of curious tourists pass by on the morning of Tuesday, August 12, 2014, at Columbus Circle. Freeman, who does not have a permanent home, spent the previous night on the steps of the Columbus monument. Photo by Leif Reigstad. An African vendor showcases his accessories on 125th street outside of the Apollo Theater in Harlem, NY, on Thursday, August 7, 2014. Photo by Mikayla Vielot. A woman takes a cigarette break while speaking on the phone in the garment district on Thursday, August 14th, 2014. Photo by Tal Trachtman Alroy. An NYPD officer Serrano and a Rockefeller Center security guard Conald Pierre socialize just outside the British Empire Building in New York City on Wednesday, August 13, 2014. Photo by Saif Alnuweiri. A woman sits with her younger neighbors on footstep of her apartment on West 136th St. in Hamilton Heights, New York City on Sunday, August 24, 2014. Photo by Mohamad Yaghi. Women sit in front of a bodega eating mangoes at W. 173rd and Amsterdam Avenue in Washington Heights, NY, on Thursday, August 7th, 2014. Photo by George Steptoe. Eon Okami, 23, sells comic books in front of the Bronx Criminal Courts in New York City. Photo by Justine Calma. Angel P., 22, on Madison Street in Ridgewood, Queens, NY on Sunday, August 24, 2014, where he works as a car washer. “We do this everyday, wash cars, repair them, paint rims, smoke, drink; everything,” Angel said. Photo by Antoine Goldet. A woman waits for someone to help carry her groceries in Jackson Heights, Queens on Wednesday, August 13, 2014. Photo by Myra Iqbal. A woman passes in front of a store in Washington Heights on Broadway and 161st Street on the morning of Saturday, August 23, 2014. Photo by Asthaa Chaturvedi. A hair dresser looks out of the window of the salon where she works in Washington Heights, NYC, on Saturday, August 23, 2014. Photo by Asthaa Chaturvedi. Just outside a basketball court on West 112th Street in Harlem, a young couple shares a romantic moment on Wednesday, August 6, 2014. Photo by Olivia Lace-Evans. A youth from the Bronx, New York, makes a slam dunk in his makeshift basketball hoop in the mid-afternoon heat on Wednesday, August 13, 2014. Photo by Emily Palmer. An elderly woman has a conversation with her dog, overlooking a Bronx street on Wednesday, August 13, 2014. Photo by Emily Palmer. Yorel ‘Exile Child’ Oheem and his boa constrictor on West 59th Street, New York City on Thursday, August 21, 2014. Photo by Liz Lucking. A dog takes itself for a walk in the West Village of New York City on Wednesday, August 13, 2014. Photo by Jacqueline Williams. Barbara Lorber shares her ice cream cone with a friend in NYC’s the West Village on Sunday, August 24, 2014. Photo by Jack Crosbie. Zeus the cat isn’t a particularly helpful gardener in the West Village, NYC, on Sunday, August 24, 2014. Photo by Jack Crosbie. Brooklyn, 9, Remy, 7 and Alfie, 3 play in the back garden of their new home in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York on Saturday, August 9, 2014. Photo by Chloe Mamelok. Lloyd McNeill, 89, getting lunch at Pepe Rosso Social, one of his usual spots in New York City on Monday, August 25, 2014. Photo by Alina Abouelenin. Emily Hope Price, cellist in the band “Pearl and the Beard,” composes a song for the anniversary of her friend’s death at her apartment in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn on Thursday, August 7, 2014. Photo by Chloe Mamelok. Israel Martinez demonstrates a salsa move during a dance rehearsal at his studio in Long Island City, Queens, on Wednesday, August 13, 2014. Photo by Meridith McGraw. Jessica Chrustic, an urban beekeeper, relaxes with her cat just after the adrenaline rush of inspecting the hive in her backyard on Thursday, August 7, 2014. She pauses in front of a family photo gallery wall in her home in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. Photo by Maya Albanese. After Beetle Bum the Magic Clown’s show, children wait to eat a birthday cake in a Brooklyn home in New York, on Sunday, August 12, 2014. Photo by Miriana Palau. A fabric salesman, originally from India, at the B.K. store in the Garment District in New York City on Thursday, August 14, 2014. Photo by Tal Trachtman Alroy. Russel, 32, takes a break from his shift at the Kabab King restaurant to eat in Jackson Heights, New York on Wednesday, August 13, 2014. Photo by Myra Iqbal. A commuter at the Utica Avenue train stop walks past a police advertisement requesting information about a homicide in the Bed-Stuy neighborhood of Brooklyn on Thursday, August 14th, 2014. Photo by Lonna Dawson. Utilizing subway time: Isamar Jimenez freshens up on the subway at 96 Street before meeting her boyfriend at the movies on Monday night, August 19, 2014. Photo by Jenny Luna. Adrian Michna looks out at Coney Island, New York, from the F train on Saturday, August 9, 2014. Photo by Gautham Thomas. Commuting on a mini motorcycle: Lexington and Martin Luther King Blvd., East Harlem on Wednesday, August 6, 2014. Photo by George Steptoe. Richard Powers, transformed into Beetle Bum the Magic Clown, walks down Fort Hamilton Parkway in Brooklyn, New York, on Sunday, August 12, 2014, on his way to entertain children attending a nearby party. Photo by Miriana Palau. A woman walks past New York Criminal Court in Chinatown, New York City, on Wednesday, August 6, 2014. Photo by Tess Owen. Marqui, a.k.a. “Andy LaSalle,” walks on a bench near a playground at the General Ulysses S. Grant Houses in Harlem, on Thursday, August 7, 2014. He says it’s a concentration exercise he does often. Photo by Leif Reigstad. Carlos Konig, 48, plays “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” for 20-month-old twins Michiho, left, and Michiya, right, along with their mother, Rieko, in Central Park in New York City, on Saturday, August 23, 2014. Photo by David Ok. A young man looks at his phone at the intersection of 116th Street and Malcolm X Boulevard in Harlem on Friday, August 22, 2014. Photo by Miriam Sitz. Alberto Jose “A.J.” Pichardo at work at Katz’s Delicatessen in New York City on Thursday, August 14. Photo by Alanna Weissman. As tourists and workers walk by, Màiri Mason, 23, plays Celtic music with her bagpipe in front of Grand Central Station in New York City on Sunday, August 17, 2014. Photo by Arianne Alcorta. Two local residents joke around on Nostrand Avenue in Crown Heights, New York City, on Saturday, August 9, 2014. Photo by Tess Owen. Peter Allen, 20, spends his day visiting friends in the Hunts Point section of the South Bronx on Thursday, August 28, 2014. Photo by Benjamin Bergmann. Sikandar Khan, 64, relaxes in the square near his local mosque before the next prayers at Jackson Heights, Queens on Friday, August 15, 2014. Photo by Myra Iqbal. Robert Leslie, a 23-year-old musician who has built a following from subway performances, plays at Karma Bar in lower Manhattan on Thursday, August 14, 2014. Photo by Isabelle Muge Niu. A woman sits outside her shop in Chinatown, New York City, on Saturday, August 9, 2014. Photo by Emily Silber. A group of elderly people play a board game and chat late at night near Hester Street Playground in Chinatown in New York City on Thursday, August 7, 2014. Photo by Darwin Chan. Right to left: Friends Joshua Walton, 35, Tenzin Woiser, 22, and Pedro Velez, 28, celebrate after Woiser took the ALS ice bucket challenge on the rooftop of Walton’s apartment in Manhattan’s Lower East Side, New York, on Thursday, August 21, 2014. Photo by Shivam Saini. Learning to photograph New York City The 2015 class at Columbia Journalism School just survived what was, for most of them, their first training in photojournalism & DSLRs. Though it was difficult, they produced work that's thoughtful and engaging. We talked to some of the students whose work we’re featuring here, and asked them about their first experiences photographing New York without smartphones. by Abbey Adkison on October 10, 2014 Categories: In the field • Tags: Adam Perez, alanna weissman, aline abouelenin, alumni, Angela Jimenez, Anna Hiatt, antoine goldet, arianne alcorta, asthaa chaturvedi, benjamin bergmann, Bob Sacha, chloe mamelok, cuj15, david ok, Derek Poore, emily palmer, emily silber, gautham thomas, george steptoe, isabelle muge niu, jack crosbie, jacqueline williams, jenny luna, justine calma, Kathy Kmonicek, Katja Heinemann, Kirsten Luce, Leeor Kaufman, leif reigstad, liz lucking, lonna dawson, maya albanese, meridith mcgraw, mikayla vielot, Mike Kamber, miriam sitz, miriana palau, mohamad yaghi, myra iqbal, new york city, olivia lace-evans, photography, photojournalism, Preston Merchant, Ramin Talaie, saif alnuweiri, shivam saini, tal trachtman alroy, tess owen © Columbia Visuals 2013 \| Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism	cc/2022-05/en_head_0052.json.gz/line17
__label__wiki	0.799443	0.799443	Silk Road in Rare Books Narratives on cultural heritage along Silk Road with figures and photographs from rare books. Digital Silk Road > Silk Road Narratives > Silk Road in Rare Books \|\| 日本語English A Lesser Known Route: the Qinghai Route Another Route Linking Central Asia and China China is connected to Central Asia by a long, narrow corridor-like passage called the Hexi Corridor, which in Chinese means the “west of the Yellow River.” With important oasis cities such as Dunhuang, Jiuquan, Zhangye, and Wuwei located along its path, the corridor has long served as an artery connecting Central Asia and China. In contrast to this much-traveled passageway, the region directly to the south, which is located on the Tibetan Plateau with highlands of more than 3,000 meters above sea level, had long been considered utterly unsuitable as a transport and trade route because of its severe climate and rough terrain. Recent excavations, however, have found that the region had also played an important role in connecting Central Asia and China—functioning as a southern alternative route. Almost completely neglected till now, this alternative route, known as the Qinghai route, has recently been gaining attention.（Map(1)）. A new theory suggests that the main Silk Road route running from Central Asia to China divided in two at Mīran: one path following the Hexi Corridor through Dunhuang, and the other more southern route passing through the Qinghai region. This southern Qinghai Route began at Mīran and continued through Altin Tag to the west of the Qilian Mountain Range. It then entered the Zaidam Basin passing Lake Qinghai, continuing on to the valley of HuangShui, which is near modern day Xining. From HuangShui, the route then led on to the Wei Basin to the east or in to the Sichuan Basin to the southeast. The Qinghai region, at first glance appears to be a very out-of-the-way place surrounded by towering mountains and far from the center of Chinese culture. But considering its geography- with Mongolia to the north, Northern and Southern China to the east, Tibet to the south, and Central Asia to the west- it became an obvious trade route standing as a practical intersection of five routes (The Positional Relationship Between the Qinghai Regions and the Neighboring Areas(2)). In short, the region occupied one of the important areas connecting Central Asian countries to Northern and Southern China, andrecent excavations have gradually been revealing various till now unknown aspects of the Qinghai route. An Unexpectedly Important Route: Qinghai The Tuyuhun and the Tubo were the Tibetan tribes that dominated the Qinghai region and facilitated trade and transportation between west and the east through the Qinghai route. The Tuyuhun, in particular, actively utilized the trade route. The Tuyuhun were a nomadic tribe that flourished in this area from the fourth to the seventh century, corresponding to the period when China was divided between the Northern and Southern Dynasties. It is said that their origins can be traced back to the Murong clan, a tribe related to the Xianbei from Northeast China. This clan broke away to found the Tuyuhun tribe and came to dominate the native Tibetans in the Qinghai region. The tribe got its name from an ancestor of the royal family, called Murong Tuyuhun. Because of a feud with his siblings, Murong left the tribe, escaping with his family to the west, traveling to the the Yinshan area on the southern Mongolian Plateau. Then at the beginning of the fourth century, when the Eastern Jin Dynasty relocated its government to the south during the Yongjia turmoil, Murong took advantage of this state of political turmoil and entered the Qinghai region. Excerpts from the Travels of Song-Yun, written by the Buddhist monks and travelers Song-Yun and Hui-Sheng, tell us something of the importance of the Qinghai route as a transportation route. In 518, by the order of Empress Dowager Hu, the monk Song-Yun headed for India from the Tang capital of Luoyang with the aim of obtaining Buddhist scriptures. Instead of taking the main route through the Hexi Corridor, Song-Yun took the Qinghai route, which was under the control of the Tuyuhun and traveled along the Qinghai Route to Shan-shan (Loulan), which was located on the southern route of the Silk Road. The fact that such an important person used the Qinghai route suggests that not a few people did in fact utilize this alternative route, which was under the protection of Tuyuhun. The Tuyuhun, it seems, served as the intermediaries in trade the various nations of Central Asia and China along the Qinghai route. One of the Chinese histories, the Book of Zhou, features a story about a provincial governor (Cishi 刺史) of the Northern Zhou who ordered the attack of a royal envoy of the Tuyuhun, on their way back from a visit to the Northern Qi, in Northeast China in 553. The scale of the envoy’s traveling party was so large that it included 240 Iranian merchants and 600 camels, carrying an enormous amount of silk. This record shows that the Tuyuhun generated large profits by acting as the middlemen for Central Asian merchants to China. At the same time, records from the Southern Dynasties tell us that the Tuyuhun also mediated between Central Asian countries and Southern China. According to a chapter from the Book of Liang, people of the Tuyuhun tribe, known as “Henan” in the Book of Liang, worked as interpreters between the Central Asian nomadic Hephthalite tribe (also known as the “White Huns”) and China. The Southern Qi History also tells us that when people from Loulan traveled to the Sichuan Basin, they took the Qinghai route, which was controlled by the Tuyuhun. By serving as mediators in the trade between the countries ofCentral Asia and Northern and Southern China, the Tuyuhun must have made tremendousprofits. In additions, they were able to extend their power as far as far north as Mīran and Charchan along the Silk Road’s Southern Route. By controlling Mīran, which stood at the junction of the Hexi Corridor and the Qinghai Route, the Tuyuhun were able to make sure that more goods would be routed along the Qinghai route, instead of the Hexi Corridor, providing for themselves even greater advantage in the east-west trade. Watching the Tuyuhun growing rich, dynasties such as the Northern Wei (Emperor Taiwu), Sui (Emperor Yang of Sui), Tang (Emperor Taizong) attempted in turn to subdue their power. In 445, when the Northern Wei subjugated the Tuyuhun, the chieftain of the time, Muliyan, left the area and invaded Khotan, killing the king and many people there, before continuing on westward to Kashmir. Later, another Tibetan tribe, the Tubo, overthrew the Tuyuhun and came to control the Tibetan Plateau from the seventh to the mid-ninth century. In 663, the Tubo occupied the Qinghai (Koko Nor) region, and after defeating the Tuyuhun, they then invaded the territory of Chinese under the Tang Dynasty. When the An Shi Rebellion (755-763) weakened the Tang court, the Tubo poised a grave threat to the Tang capital of Chang’an, and seized the Hexi Corridor in order to strengthen their base. Around that time, the Mogao Caves in Dunhuang were also under the control of the Tubo. For a certain period, the Tubo controlled the traffic routes between the Tarim Basin and the Hexi Corridor, wielding enormous power over the area. But its territory was gradually reoccupied by the Tang, which had formed a coalition with the Uighurs. In 855, when the Provincial Governor of Dunhuang, Zhang Yichao, formally submitted to the Tang, the Tubo had at last lost its control over the region (Painting of Zhang Yichao’s Troops on the South Wall in Cave 156(3)). After the Tang dynasty, the Qinghai route has rarely been mentioned in historical records. Mīran: Standing on the Southern Route of the Silk Road For the Tuyuhun and the Tubo, the town of Mīran was an important and strategic gateway between the Southern Route of the Silk Road and the Qinghai Route. Meanwhile, due to its location on the Southern Route of the Silk Road, Miran was also a city in which culture from the West made its existence known . And representing this dual heritage, two completely different kinds of ruins are to be found in Miran, dating from different periods. The first are Buddhist shrines dating back to before the end of the third century. Marc Aurel Stein, a British archeologist, discovered and surveyed the remains of Buddhist shrines in Mīran in December 1906 and in January 1907 (Photos of M.III-VI(4), Site Plan of Mīran Ruins(5)). At Miran, he found murals and stucco images created in the Greek and Roman style. As Stein put it, the designs and colors were more obviously Greek and Roman-influenced than any other paintings he had encountered north or south of the Kunlun Mountains (On Ancient Central-Asian Tracks). The art seemed to have been strongly influenced by western cultures. Among the most surprising art works discovered by Stein was a painting of a Winged Angel(6), which was discovered in ruined shrine M.III, Mīran (Photo(7), Plan and Elevation of Ruined Shrine M.III(8)). The corridors on the foundations of the stupa were stacked with rubble fallen from the vaulted ceiling or the upper parts of the surrounding walls. Among the debris, a part of the wall painting on the stucco suddenly came into sight. When I saw the angel elaborately painted on the dado 1.2 meters above the floor, I was first caught off guard and stood there motionless. How could I imagine that I would come across cherubim painted in Greek and Roman style at the desolate shore of Lake Lop Nor in the interior of Central Asia? (On Ancient Central-Asian Tracks) In the same M.III shrine, Stein also discovered other wall paintings in vibrant colors, where the Buddhist figures were with cheerful expressions; with widely-opened eyes and wavy lips (Painting of Buddha and the Disciples(9), Fragments of Murals(10)). Similar to the M.III shrine, the fifth shrine had a square-shaped structure with a stupa in the s center. There, Stein found a 5.5-meter-long wall painting which portrayed one of the stories of the Buddha’s previous lives the story of Vishvantara (Vessantara or Sudhana) Jataka (Painting of Vishvantara Offering a White Elephant(11)). But the mural was too vulnerable to remove, and the painting was recorded only in photographs. (12) (13) (14) At M.II shrine, Stein found several stucco images of Buddhas (Colossal Head of Buddha in Stucco(12), larger‐than‐life, laid in rows (Remains of Colossal Stucco Images of Seated Buddhas(13), Heads of Buddha Dropped Between the Laps(14)). Inscriptions in Kharoshthi script written on the paintings showed that these shrines had been abandoned at the end of the third century. Other documents in Kharoshthi were also found at Loulan, Niya, and Endere, suggesting the way Indian culture influenced these areas. Mīran was a city where both western cultures, which came through the southern route, and Indian culture thrived. More Facts on Qinghai Route are being revealed Influenced by western cultures, Buddhism thrived in Mīran. But the city seems to have been deserted around the end of the third century. Experts found other ruins built several centuries later there. These ruins reflected another side of Miran’s history; specifically its role standing as the gateway between the Silk Road’s Southern Route and thethe Qinghai Route. At Miran, Stein discovered Tibetan forts (Photo(15), Plan(16)). According to the Tibetan Documents(17) gathered from the layers of rubbish, they were built by the Tubo between the eighth and the ninth century. This shows that the Tubo used Mīran as a base to rule Central Asia. From Stein’s work, it became known that the Tubo wielded power and influence over Mīran. Despite many insights into the history of Miran, still little was known about the Qinghai Route. However, recent excavations have unearthed more and more ruins indicating a vibrant east-west trade that existed along the route. In particular, excavations of the ancient Tubo tombs at Dulan (Map of Qinghai Region(18)), to the south of the Qaidam Basin, have been attracting much attention since the 1980s. At Dulan, more than 1,000 Tubo tombs have been found, which shows that this area served as an important relay point on the Qinghai route. The tomb of Xuewei M1 is a large-size tomb with flat-topped quadrangular mound similar to other royal tombs of the Tubo. It is situated facing the south, is 33 meters high, 55 meters across, and 37 meters long. Inside the tomb, more than 700 horses, cows, and sheep were also interred. Researchers have unearthed leather shoes, Tibetan wooden manuscripts, painted or wooden-carved animals, grains, and a large number of silk products. The tomb is also surrounded by dozens of small accompanied tombs. Around this area, gold coins of the Eastern Roman Empire, silver coins of the Persian Sassanian Empire, and over 350 silk products were found as well. Many of these silks have peal roundel designs which originated in the Sassanian Empire. What role did the Qinghai Route play during Silk Road times? Almost nothing was known about the route historically. But as the excavations progress, more and more facts have been unveiled. Hisao Matsuda, Tōzai Bunka no Kōryū (Cultural Exchange between the East and the West). Tokyo: Rokkō Shuppan, 1987. Siruku Rōdo Gaku Kenkyū vol.14. Chūgoku Seikaishō ni okeru Siruku Rōdo no Kenkyū (Studies of the Silk Road in Qinghai Province, China). Nara: Research Center for Silk Roadology, 2002. M.Aurel Stein, On ancient Central-Asian tracks: brief narrative of three expeditions in innermost Asia and North-Western China. London: Macmillan, 1933. Beijign Daxue Kaogu Wenbo Xueyuan & Qinghai Sheng Wenwu Kaogu Yanjiu Suo (School of Archaeology and Museology, Peking University & Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology of Qinghai Province) ed., Dulan Tubo Mu (Dulan Tubo Tombs). Peking: Science Press, 2005. 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__label__wiki	0.580766	0.580766	EDDIE TRUNK ON BECOMING A VOTING MEMBER OF THE ROCK N’ ROLL HALL OF FAME, “IT WOULD HAVE BEEN PRETTY IDIOTIC FOR ME TO TURN IT DOWN BECAUSE HERE’S THE OPPORTUNITY FOR ME TO ACTUALLY HELP MAKE A CHANGE” February 20, 2016Dana 6 Comments Shut Up & Rock On conducted an interview with Eddie and touched on topics such as his career, the future of That Metal Show and the Rock N’ Roll Hall of Fame. Highlights from Q&A appear below. Shut Up & Rock On: What first made you want to pursue music as a career? Eddie Trunk: Well, for me it was all about how can I share music that I love with other people. That’s all that mattered to me, it wasn’t about trying to become well known or anything. It was how can I take the music I love- that I thought was being very under appreciated- and get it exposed to more people. So when I was in high school I started writing stories in my high school newspaper, working in a record store, working for a management company, working for a record company and started in radio all in my first couple years out of high school. And basically, it was just all these things that I could do, all these different avenues that I could take the music I cared about and deliver it to other people and tell them that it existed…it’s still about anything I can do to sell and push the music, but I also have to keep in mind that yes I also make a living…and support a family, so I have to make sure that I’m also working as well. But that was the number one driver from the beginning…to elevate the bar, give this music the respect it deserves and maybe get away from some of the clichés that come with it too- that always kind of bothered me. I think there’s a lot more people into this music than people would know, but because they think they can figure it out just by how you look, it’s not really the truth so I was trying to break down some of those walls. Shut Up & Rock On: Now you went to college, but you didn’t graduate right? Eddie Trunk: I barely went to college. Shut Up & Rock On: Did you go for music or something else? No I didn’t go to college for anything. I went to a community college by my house and I lasted about two months, and I got a job working at a record store which at the time was like my dream job and so I was like ‘that’s it!,’ back then record stores were really something. I just decided that. I was never really good in school, and it wasn’t that I wasn’t smart, it was because unless it was something that interests me I didn’t apply myself at all. So what happened was I got the job that I always wanted, working in a record store, and I wasn’t really into going to college and I started to get into radio [a] little bit and then my parents we’re like ‘we don’t want to waste money if you’re not really gonna get into it.’ So, they said if you’re gonna go and really apply yourself then we’ll help you how ever we can, but when they saw that I was really only half into it I think that’s when they realized, you know, at that point I’m just going to kind of go on my own path. And I have to be careful when I say that because I don’t say that to discourage anyone from going to college, I just say that because for me it…it wasn’t something I really wanted to pursue. I didn’t feel that what I wanted to ultimately do for a living you could learn in school- which you can’t. You have to do it through experience. Shut Up & Rock On: When you were younger, like back then, did you ever think you would end up, career wise, where you are right now? Eddie Trunk: I thought I would just be a big music fan, that I would always love music and support music and be around it as much as I could. Go to as many shows as I could and be involved in it where I could. I figured maybe it will be a part time job when I got into radio- like I said to myself ‘okay, well maybe I’ll be able to do radio on the weekends and have my full time job, whatever that ends up being, during the week’. But I never really thought of the music being my sole career until my radio show moved from New Jersey into New York City, and that was in ‘94. And then that was when things opened up a lot more, that’s when I started to get a lot more interest and reach to a lot more people and started making better money. Then when that happened I said ‘okay maybe I’m going to just stay with music, maybe I’m actually going to make a career just doing this music thing’. And that’s fortunately how it’s been ever since. Very different things, you know, my world is very up and down as far as money, there’s not traditional hours, there’s nothing traditional about it. But I’m an independent contractor on everything that I do, but at the same token you know, if you are good with managing yourself and managing money and everything it’s okay. So I found a way to make it work, but I am very lucky to have taken my passion and made it my career. Shut Up & Rock On: What made you want to start a podcast? Eddie Trunk: I had resisted doing a podcast for a long time. The reason why is because I said ‘well I already have two radio shows a week what am I going to go on a podcast? How is it going to be different?’ I also was concerned that if I’m going to interview somebody, do I need to do the interview 3 times now for the same thing? It would be redundant. But a company came to me about a year and a half ago called PodcastOne…and they told me that they really don’t care what I do as long as you give us new content one time a week, I said okay I’ll give it a shot. So I started it, I guess it’s about a little over a year and half ago and it’s done tremendously well. I mean it’s amazing how many people listen to it and download it and I hear from people all over the world and it’s really cool. You know I can’t play music on the podcast because of publishing issue- but it’s cool how just hearing me talk about something or recommend something is enough to get someone to go out and buy it. Shut Up & Rock On: I assume you still don’t know that much about what’s happening with That Metal Show. In the case that it doesn’t get renewed, what do you think you’ll be doing? Eddie Trunk: We’re hoping to know what the future of the show is in the next month or so and we’re certainly hoping that we continue with VH1 classic or we find a new home for it. When we know that we’ll go to the next step but you know, nothing lasts forever and one day the show will go away. And if it’s now or in five years we don’t know…but when the day comes that the show does end- and I told everybody the same thing. I’ve been working in the music industry for twenty five years before That Metal Show even existed, nothing’s gonna change for me, I’m gonna keep doing what I always do. Keep doing my radio shows, keep doing my podcast and keep looking for new opportunities in TV or radio or whatever. So, nothing will change I’ll just keep fighting the fight and seeing where it takes me. It’s all I can do. Shut Up & Rock On: How do you feel now that you’ve gotten to vote for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? Eddie Trunk: Well, they are well aware of me screaming about them for a long time. And I think that, um, my take is that they really are starting to want to make some changes. I really do want to try to make it better and they’ve shown some signs of doing that. And there’s a bunch of people that are on the inside and part of the committee there and everything that had been pushing them for a long time to bring me on as a voting member. So, the last guy to actually really push and put my name in was Tom Morello and I got a call from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s office just before this voting panel and they said ‘we were referred to you by Tom Morello and we would like to see if you would like to be a voter’. But, you know I thought about it for a second and really for me yelling and screaming about the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, it would have been pretty idiotic for me to turn it down because here’s the opportunity for me to actually help make a change and I’m saying no? That would be just dumb, so I thought about it for a second and I said ‘yeah, sure!’ Just to be clear on it, I don’t pick who is eligible, I pick from the list they make of eligible artists- the eleven or twelve people each year- and I vote from there. So, this was the first year I got to vote and three of the five people I voted for made it, so that’s a pretty good ratio. I wish I could pick the football games that well. Read more at Shut Up & Rock On. source: shutupandrockon.com ‹ SINGER JOE LYNN TURNER ON RITCHIE BLACKMORE’S RAINBOW SHOWS, “I THINK THE FANS DESERVE BETTER THAN A COVER BAND” 2/20: HEADED TO S FL FOR MONSTERS OF ROCK CRUISE AND MORE! › elliot goldberg on February 21, 2016 at 1:41 am eddie, can you make a change for $100? Bryan Kirby on February 21, 2016 at 5:25 pm Now Eddie’s gonna turn into an elitist snob just like Stern did. RTunes68 on February 22, 2016 at 11:58 am Having listened to Eddie since 1984, I think your prediction will turn out to be incredibly WRONG. From back in the days when Eddie was doing 7 minutes of Metal News once a week on WDHA, the guy’s love for and attitude towards Hard Rock/Heavy Metal has not changed one bit. His venues may have changed and he’s obviously more famous now, but the guy has been incredibly authentic and consistent throughout (sometimes to the point of annoying me – like, with regards to KISS). The problem is that there are certain fans who just don’t want their favorite DJ/band to change, and any change (or greater level of acceptance) is seen as “selling out” or baseless predictions are made like “Eddie’s gonna turn into an elitist snob.” Fact is, everyone progresses. The problem is when you don’t progress – then you’re obsolete. KISS doesn’t play with Ace/Peter. Stern doesn’t do “Lesbian Dial-a-Date” every other day. Eddie is a member of the RRHoF committee. It’s progress. Mark Ellis on February 22, 2016 at 12:51 pm I remember when the Metallica purists freaked out about their new haircuts. Good show getting a vote for the RRHOF, Eddie. Hard Rock/Metal has an influential voice and informed vote inside the walled city of the elites now. No sleep till…Scorpions! Mike Anderson on February 22, 2016 at 12:54 pm Seriously- I listened to Stern for almost 2 decades, and he is so awful now. He became someone, that he would rallied against in his younger days. Now he has the model wife, the Hamptons house, hanging with A-listers. Don’t ever become that guy Eddie. Congrats on getting on the HOF Voting Committee. Maybe you can rally for Maiden & Priest to get recognized as the greats they are. Plus maybe, Journey, Bon Jovi, J Geils, Boston, Bad Company, Foreigner, Thin Lizzy, Ozzy, and of course UFO. Kenneth Stratemeyer on February 23, 2016 at 9:21 am Eddie’s on the inside of the RNRHOF now. Strange World. Two groups you rarely hear about when there’s talk of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame snubs are Grand Funk Railroad and Blue Oyster Cult. GFR sold out Shea Stadium faster than The Beatles, and were such a good live band that Peter Grant had their power shut off when they were busy blowing Led Zeppelin off the stage. BOC’s first 5 albums are stellar, and they also had two really good Martin Birch produced ones in the early 1980s. They are so much more than that band with the cowbell. Good luck with TMS. I’m keeping my fingers crossed.	cc/2022-05/en_head_0052.json.gz/line28
__label__wiki	0.585232	0.585232	Islands belong to sea, not people Han-shen Pan [1]Translated by: Julian Clegg [2] 2012-10-15 As a manager acceptable to all members of the global community, Taiwan could define the sea around the islands as an international marine reserve and such an arrangement could be a model for peace in East Asia. (▲ Diaoyutai Islands / Associated Press) Recently, territorial disputes, such as the spat between South Korea and Japan over the Liancourt rocks — known as Dokdo in Korea and Takeshima in Japan — and the stand-off between Taiwan, China and Japan over the Diaoyutai Islands (釣魚台) — known in Japan as the Senkakus — have escalated. Countries surrounding the South China Sea have also been making overtures in relation to islands and shoals that they all claim as their territory. What all these disputes share in common is that they are all seen from the standpoint of continental peoples, those who view the sea as belonging to the land. The idea is if a country gains control over greater numbers of islands then it can access more of the marine resources they offer. However, it would be better for Taiwan if it started out from the standpoint of a maritime people by proposing the progressive and peaceful notion that islands belong to the sea. Such an approach would be an effective safeguard for Taiwan’s security. The 2009 ecological film Home contains a speech attributed to Chief Seattle of the native American Suquamish tribe in which he asks: “How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land?” Fishermen might ask the same question when they lose access and are driven away from what were once common fishing grounds. Vandana Shiva, a leading Indian advocate of farmers’ rights, says that in her experience of working with UN agencies, many social problems to do with the environment and the distribution of resources are defined as much by global powers as they are to do with religious and ethnic conflicts — an interpretation that is favorable to their interests. Behind a lot of the conflict regarding sovereignty over islands in East Asia lie issues such as oil exploration, fishing rights and access to shipping lanes. Taiwan could apply the traditional wisdom of Austronesian people in terms of working out how to manage East Asia’s natural resources in a sustainable way. In the worldview of the Tao people of Lanyu, the land belongs to the sea. When you consider that more than 70 percent of the Earth’s surface is covered by sea, even the largest land mass — Eurasia — is still an island. Island tribes traditionally share the use of nearby fishing grounds, applying traditional wisdom and taboos to manage time and space. Before Han people on Taiwan began using big mechanized fishing vessels to fish intensely in all seasons, traditional fishermen did not exploit the sea in such a destructive way — the so-called tragedy of the commons — and nobody ever thought of occupying unpopulated islands to claim the fishing grounds that surround them. Common sense tells us that tides and currents come and go, fish swim wherever they like and the wind blows in all directions, so how can humans sitting on firm, unmoving land grab hold of the naturally flowing world using their hands or machines? Besides, humans are only very recent arrivals on this planet which has been in existence for close to 4.6 billion years. Just as the Earth is a home for all species, the Diaoyutais should be home to the grass, plants and tiny animals that live on the islands and provide a stopover for migratory birds. At most, they should serve as shelters and rest stops for fishermen. They do not necessarily have to belong to one or another of the surrounding nation states — not even the Ryukyu Kingdom that was annexed long ago. The fierce dispute over the Diaoyutai Islands is tied up with the historical enmity between China and Japan and Taiwan should make itself a buffer that both sides can trust. As a manager acceptable to all members of the global community, Taiwan could define the sea around the islands as an international marine reserve and such an arrangement could be a model for peace in East Asia. Taiwan could be a permanently neutral country in East Asia, as Switzerland is in Europe, to provide the backing for its democratic and prosperous society. The precondition for that is that people in Taiwan must have the confidence to treat friends from all countries as people and for the government to be willing to take the initiative to make islands that it has long occupied by virtue of having got there first more open to the international community in some form. Itu Aba (Taiping Island, 太平島) lies 1,600km away from its supply base, Kaohsiung — several times the length of the island of Taiwan. For historical reasons, Taiwan exercises effective control over the island and people from Taiwan have had a continual and active presence there. However, the building of an airstrip on the island in 2006 was done without first carrying out an environmental impact assessment and the Control Yuan proposed corrective measures with regard to the project’s destructive environmental impact as well as the way the policy was decided and carried out. Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Legislator Lin Yu-fang (林郁方), who wants Taiwan’s military presence on the island to be strengthened, is using his position as elected representative to call on the Control Yuan and environmentalist groups not to criticize the project anymore. For our part, we would like to ask what national sovereignty is for? Does it serve the purpose of protecting our democratic system and values, or is it a way for governments to monopolize environmental resources? Posted by Taipei Times on Sep 10, 2012 [3] Chinese version [4] Han-shen Pan： Han-shen Pan is a central executive committee member of the Green Party Taiwan. blog: 為地球嗆聲 [5]。 Translated by: Julian Clegg [1] http://en.wildatheart.org.tw/user_post/504 [3] http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2012/09/10/2003542383 [4] http://zh.wildatheart.org.tw/story/10/7186 [5] http://panhan3.pixnet.net/blog	cc/2022-05/en_head_0052.json.gz/line32
__label__cc	0.72462	0.27538	September 2, 2019 by Sharon Fennell Kennedy \| St. Petersburg, FL: Pinellas County Leave a Comment Labor Day is synonymous with the end of summer, but its true significance is to honor the contributions and resilience of working Americans. Labor Day has been celebrated as a national holiday since 1894. Although there is some speculation as to who exactly came up with the idea, most historians credit Peter McGuire, co-founder of the American Federation of Labor. Estelia Mesimer, RE/MAX Metro Its date, the first Monday in September, was chosen because it was halfway between the Fourth of July and Thanksgiving. The first Labor Day parade took place on September 5, 1882, in New York City. The labor movement in the United States stemmed from the need to protect the common interest of workers. Organized labor unions fought for better wages, reasonable hours and safer working conditions. It efforts led to stop child labor, give health benefits and provide aid to workers who were injured or retired. The rights and benefits we enjoy today were not simply handed out to America’s working men and women. They were fought for by men and women of courage and conviction, from the factory floors of the Industrial Revolution to the shopping aisles of today’s superstores. These brave workers stood up and spoke out to demand a fair shake; an honest day’s pay for an honest day’s work. Many risked their lives; some gave their lives. Songs of the American labor movement over the 20th century voiced grievances, affirmed the value of the worker to society, and expressed hope for life in a more just world. Classic Labor Songs from Smithsonian Folkways is a collage of these voices – champions of the movement, singing songs with a passion and love for their fellow workers that rings just as true today as it did then. Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Joe Glazer, the Almanac Singers, and more chronicle the history of the American labor movement in stirring song. (www.folkways.si.edu) Let’s never forget that much of what we take for granted including the 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, health insurance, paid leave, pensions, Social Security, Medicare, all bear the union label. It was labor that helped build the largest middle class in history. Happy Labor Day from the Mesimer Team! The Only Thing that Can Save Us: Why America Needs a New Kind of Labor Movement, by Thomas Geoghegan The March on Washington: Jobs, Freedom and the Forgotten History of Civil Rights, William P. Jones Working: People Talk about What They Do All Day and How They Feel about What They Do, by Studs Terkel St. Petersburg Communities: Placida Bayou – St. Petersburg, FL Allendale Terrace Bahama Shores Coquina Key Greater Pinellas Point Historic Kenwood Historic Old Northeast Historic Roser Park Historic Uptown Old Southeast Placida Bayou Snell Isle If you’re interested in any of these of communities or live in one of them and are thinking of selling, please call Estelia today. www.Estelia.com	cc/2022-05/en_head_0052.json.gz/line34
__label__cc	0.68065	0.31935	Home » Articles » The Coming of Neo-Feudalism, by Joel Kotkin The Coming of Neo-Feudalism, by Joel Kotkin Reviewed by Stephen Nash Joel Kotkin who writes out of California has built a reputation as an iconoclast and a challenger to much of the conventional thinking around Urban issues. At the heart of his concerns is the tendency of present policies whether economic, social, or urban to restrict and constrain the socially upward mobility of the middle classes. Using modern day California as a template he sees urban planners designing out the middle class family from cities with densification policies (the book’s subtitle is “A warning to the Global Middle class”), and he demonstrates the demise of secure employment in manufacturing that historically gave substance to the American dream in the 50s and 60s. He has tracked the rise of a new elite and the new era that people find themselves in. In this book he has attempted to broaden his argument and see how world-wide trends are conspiring in one direction. He describes this as the coming of Neo Feudalism and he hopes that by clearly identifying what is happening we can take appropriate action to challenge and reverse these trends. Indeed, this is a bold argument taking in historical analogy, the social control exercised by a new elite, the rise of China, and the urban environment. Kotkin doesn’t pull any punches in cataloguing our present condition. The book is not for the faint hearted and you could emerge from reading it feeling somewhat downbeat as you are hit with just about every kind of worrisome prophecy. Given our present Covid world experience you may feel Kotkin’ s hard hitting approach is needed, but let’s not forget that this book was written before the pandemic struck and therefore the trends were well established pre-Coronavirus. Many of the issues that Kotkin highlights have simply deepened and speeded up under our current public health emergency. There is a broad historical sweep to the book with Kotkin claiming we are returning to a more restrictive feudal society as opposed to the broadly individualistic and materially liberating era of capitalism. Lorded over by a new clerisy (which is shorthand for the tech sector, academia, and the public sector) the working class and the middle classes are seeing their employment and career opportunities becoming more and more restricted. Trying to draw too many analogies with life in Medieval Europe aside, the point is well made. Why are issues of freedom of speech, freedom of association and even freedom of thought under the spotlight today? It can only point to a fundamental reversion to pre-capitalist norms when the Catholic Church, for example, was able to police speech and thoughts and so maintain social cohesion. The new clerisy that has arisen has had a long gestation but has arisen alongside the expansion of credentialism that people put such faith in. A change in social values since the counter-cultural revolution of the 1960s has also provided a new ethos for the clerisy to follow. As Kotkin describes it “a new priesthood of power based on scientific expertise seeks to replace the bourgeois values of self-determination, family, community and nation with ‘progressive’ ideas about globalisation, environmental sustainability, redefined gender roles and the authority of experts.” Kotkin is on slightly weaker ground when he looks at the global picture, i.e. China. Whereas the clerisy in the western world actively looks at ways to restrict economic activity and control what people think through universities, cultural institutions, and the non-profit sector, clearly the issue for the governing elite in China is rather different. They might notionally look the same – hence Kotkin’s use of metaphor and historical analogy throughout – but there are fundamental differences. While China’s hukou system of residential permits keeps millions of migrant workers in an oppressed position, we still have legal freedom of movement in the UK (albeit currently revoked under Covid rules). While the West has the stealthy growth of CCTV cameras or Facebook and Twitter storing masses of personal data, China is rapidly advancing towards an all-pervasive surveillance society. Yet China’s is not a clerisy of secular intellectuals guiding society (a definition, we learn, that was first coined by Samuel Coleridge Taylor) – but a massive state-sponsored, centrally-coordinated, social control machine. Kotkin returns to his home territory in the new geography of feudalism. For Kotkin urban planners are very much at the heart of the clerisy. They favour densification in the urban centres based around public transport and green lifestyles. Indeed, we have seen how deeply ingrained this thinking is during our recent Covid emergency and subsequent economic depression. Based on the theory of the 15-minute city and the creation of a city of neighbourhoods, local authorities in London and Paris have used the Covid emergency to close down roads and to greatly increase the space dedicated to cycling. As Kotkin points out in reference to Medieval feudal society 80% of Europe’s population never went more than 20 miles from their place of birth so we may be getting closer to the feudal world than we imagine. For Kotkin “the new urban paradigm elevates efficiency and central control above privacy, class diversity and broad-based property ownership.” He has little time for concepts such as the Smart City where algorithms would control our way of life and he warns that the digital city is “perfectly suited to the neo-feudal order.” An argument could be made against Kotkin on so called gentrification. Where Kotkin sees a plot to lure the business elite and expel the working classes from the city others might see development of run-down inner cities bringing benefits to the wider society including the aspiring working class. It is a contested area and open to interpretation. Kotkin draws out the fundamental tension at the heart of modern society. People still strive for improvement, upward mobility, and material progress but the ruling ideas in western society negate and restrict this striving. Rather than a deterministic trend towards a neo-feudal future we are witnessing a struggle between competing outlooks. The closure of roads in London has led to local protests as people realise they are being penalised for using public roads to go about their day to day business. Kotkin himself recognises in votes such as the Brexit vote and the vote for Trump a visceral rejection of technocratic rule but he looks elsewhere for solutions. Returning to his feudal theme “the key to resisting neo-feudalism today lies in the same kind of people who bought the first version to an end, a numerous and politically vigorous class of town dwellers.” These need to be people who “own some property and often their own business and who build communities around the needs of their families.” Setting aside the conjuring up of old ghosts; Mrs Thatcher and the property-owning democracy of the 1980s comes to mind, Kotkin is right to highlight a dilemma. We need a challenge to dead-end identity politics (divide and rule) to be replaced with an argument for a politics that reflects the needs and desires of aspiring families. Sadly, I suspect many would reject Kotkin’ s solutions even if they agreed with some of the analysis and would tend to look to the State for redistributive action and more regulation rather than a freeing up of growth and individual opportunity. Kotkin’ s book is perhaps a little over-ambitious and would have benefitted from a greater focus on the Western world where the issues are a bit clearer. Nevertheless, I have a great deal of sympathy for his unapologetic argument that places the upward mobility of the middle class at the heart of his ideas. It is a book that defends democracy, progress and challenges many reactionary orthodoxies and for that it is to be applauded. There are times when forces conspire against people: to restrict their energy and this is one of those times. Fortunately, such times are countered by a book like this that promotes the drive for self-reliance, critical engagement, self-improvement, and material advance. Stephen Nash Buy this book on Amazon.	cc/2022-05/en_head_0052.json.gz/line40
__label__wiki	0.53123	0.53123	Newell, Edwin George Name recorded on Highfield War Memorial. His name was also found in the Highfield School headteachers log listed as an old boy, lost during World War 1. See Highfield School Roll of Honour. Name recorded as both Edwin George and George Edwin. Birth registered for Edwin George Newell, Oct-Dec 1894, Blandford, Dorset, Vol. 5a, page 216. In the 1901 census, Edwin G. Newell (b.1895, Blandford, Dorset) was living at 192 Portswood Road with his family. His father, Edwin G. (b.1873, Blandford, Dorset) was a General Labourer (Corporation Worker). His mother, Louisa (b.1874, Blandford, Dorset) and siblings; Daisy M. (b.1898, Charlton, wiltshire) and Lilly R (b.1900, Southampton) were also present. The family had a boarder; their nephew Charles Bennett (b.1881, Blandford, Dorset) who was a builders labourer. Source Citation: Class: RG13; Piece: 1069; Folio: 7; Page: 6. George Edwin Newell, born Shorton, Blandford, Dorset, died on the 7th August 1917, from wounds received during the 3rd Battle of Ypres. He was a Corporal in the 185th Seige Battery of the Royal Garrison Artillery (service number 38208). He is remembered at the BARD COTTAGE CEMETERY, in Belgium. Grave Reference: IV. A. 33. He was awarded the British and Victory medals. According to enlistment records, his father was also called up in January 1917 to serve with the RCC RE (Railway Construction Company, Royal Engineers). He served as a Pioneer in the 306th Royal Engineers. His papers are very damaged but do show that he was married to Anne L. Newell and she lived at 335 Portswood Road. His service number was 227971 (later WR21174) In 1919 he appears to have been “rejected” from the services without disability. He received the British and Victory medals.	cc/2022-05/en_head_0052.json.gz/line41
__label__cc	0.524688	0.475312	Although long-range weather forecasts, such as the 3-month seasonal forecasts that are issued for winter, spring, summer, and fall, are notably less reliable than short-range forecasts, they usually don't go as totally wrong as the forecasts for the winter of 2011-12 did. Below are first for temperature, then for precipitation, comparisons of what actually happened to what was forecast. I included both the official NWS forecasts and the winter forecast from Accuweather, although the latter combined temperature and precipitation in its forecasts, so the same map is compared to what actually happened for both temperature and precipitation. After the graphic comparisons, I'll briefly discuss how the forecast compared to the actual winter pattern. - - - - - - - - Actual - - - - - - - - - - - - - - + - - - - - - - - Outlooks - - - - - - - - - - - - Looking at the temperature maps, it is clear that the official NWS forecast got very little right. There were pockets of cooler-than-normal along the Pacific Coast, which was forecast to be cool; and LA, AR, AL, and east TX were, as predicted, warmer than normal. But just about everything else was wrong. As would usually be expected in a La Nina winter, which this was, the Great Lakes west to Montana were predicted to be colder than normal. Instead, they were much warmer than normal. Meanwhile, New Mexico, predicted to be much warmer than normal, was the only state that, overall, was cooler than normal, though only slightly so. The very warm weather also covered the mid-Atlantic and Northeast regions, which were considered to have an equal chance of above or below normal temperatures, with a record warmest winter in the Hudson Valley. Except for Florida, the Accuweather forecast fared no better, with "Worst of winter cold and snow" predicted for the Great Lakes and Upper Midwest, which turned out to be much above normal. The Northeast, predicted to be "stormy and cold", was much above normal, with, as noted, a record warm winter in part of this area. Meanwhile, like the NWS forecast, the Accuweather forecast had the southwest "Mild and Dry," when it turned out that was the location of the only state that had below normal winter temperatures. The precipitation forecast from the NWS fared a little better than its temperature forecast, but not much. As predicted, OH and nearby areas were wetter than normal, and FL and nearby areas northward through the costal Carolinas were drier than normal. Also consistent with the forecast was the wetter than normal weather in SD, NE, and eastern CO, and the dry winter in southern CA. But again, there was more that was wrong with the forecast than right. The stretch from northern MN westward to WA and OR was predicted to be wetter than normal, but nearly all of this area was drier than normal, and often much so. Southwestern MT, squarely in the wettest part of the forecast map, experienced its driest winter on record. Meanwhile, TX, OK, and southern NM, predicted to be very dry, in fact were wetter than normal. Also wetter than normal were eastern CO, KS, NE, IA, and northern MO. Of these, only northeast CO and northern NE were predicted to be wet, while the rest of this area was predicted to be either near normal or drier than usual. As for the Accuweather forecast, the area from ND eastward to ME, predicted to be snowy and stormy, was mostly drier than normal. And the parts of this area that were wetter than normal - IA, northern MO, and much of IN and OH, got rain, not snow - many of these areas had among their least snowy winters ever. Meanwhile, the one place in the country that did get its normal amount of snow, the 4-Corners region, was predicted by Accuweather to be mild and dry. So what, besides the inherent difficulty of long-range forecasts, seems to have gone wrong? The big culprit likely is the Artic Oscillation. Normally with a La Nina winter, you get cold, wet weather compared to normal in the northern U.S. and warm, dry weather compared to normal in the southern U.S. This is what the forecast reflected, and it is what happened the previous winter, 2010-11, also a La Nina winter. But this year, that usual La Nina pattern seems to have been trumped by a positive phase in the Arctic Oscillation (AO), which resulted in warmer and drier weather in much of the country, especially across the northern third except for part of the Midwest, which was also warmer than usual but also wet. Generally, a negative phase of the AO favors cold weather in the United States, whereas a positive phase keeps the cold air locked up farther north, as happened this winter. You can read more about the Arctic Oscillation here. Interestingly, the month of March - counted climatologically as spring, not winter, looked much more like a La Nina winter pattern in the southern third of the country, which became quite warm and dry after the violent storms of early March, and in the northwest, which finally got the cold, wet pattern usually associated with La Nina. But in March, the warm, dry pattern well-established through the winter persisted across the north central and northeast parts of the country, to the point that much of the northeast was experiencing major wildfire problems by mid-April. Return to Winter Weather observation page	cc/2022-05/en_head_0052.json.gz/line53
__label__wiki	0.681512	0.681512	The Merciad • March 21, 2011 • http://merciad.mercyhurst.edu/1987/arts_entertainment/project-abolition-deals-horrors-human-trafficking/ 'Project Abolition' deals with horrors of human trafficking This past weekend “Project Abolition,” an event to teach audiences about the relatively unknown problem of human trafficking, took place in the Taylor Little Theatre. This event was collaborative in nature with many groups teaching the audience through artistic expression and true-life stories. The most powerful moments were provided by Theresa Flores who spoke about her heartbreaking story. She was forced into the sex trade for two years, all the while having to hide it from everyone because if she didn’t, they would kill her family. She says the only thing that got her through this unbearable time was her faith in God. Flores has now written a book telling her full story and has founded the Gracehaven House in Ohio, a therapeutic home for girls under 18 who have been victimized by sexual exploitation. Senior Lindsey Smith originally started this project after learning about human trafficking about two years ago. This weekend’s performance was intended to raise awareness, and because of the expressive nature of performance, those involved were able to provide an image of what it is like to be trafficked. Local dance school Erie Dance Conservatory performed “Grace,” a piece full of metaphors of the cold felt by trafficked victims and the grace that comes to save them. Smith’s own choreography, “Cry Freedom,” displayed the trapped and tortured lives victims are forced to live. Girls’ names are replaced with numbers, they don’t get to sleep more than three or four hours a night and never keep the money they earn. In “Faces of Trafficking,” SoMar Dance Works collaborated with local composer Erik Meyer and musicians Lynn Johnson, Anna Meyer, Marika Koch and Gloria Rhodes-Evans. The piece was a poignant portrayal of the tragic stories of victims of sex trafficking. It shocked audience members by bringing to the stage the hidden real-life situations of helpless girls who are coerced into becoming prostitutes and raped on a daily basis. Project Abolition taught a lot about the problems of human trafficking, as the dancers spoke about the lives of victims. The traffickers regularly drug the victims so girls become addicted to drugs and alcohol to numb the pain. If they tell anyone, they know the traffickers will kill their family members. Sisters Barbara Daugherty and Laura Wingert are part of the Collaborative Initiative to End Human Trafficking, whose mission is to educate and advocate for the prevention and abolition of human trafficking. They made clear that human trafficking is not just the sex trade, but also sweatshop labor, nannies, maids and custodial services. It is basically the illegal buying and selling of people for labor of any kind. They stressed the importance of spreading awareness about the problem and the necessary support for legislation to end human trafficking. The tragedy of it all was brought to life in the event’s dances and was supported by the poetry readings of Thomas Forsthoefel, Ph.D., professor and chair of religious studies at Mercyhurst. He’s also the 2010-2011 Poet Laureate of Erie County. His poem “I Leave” told of the struggles of gay religious figures and the standards of the church that they must combat. Another poem he read called “Tsunami,” to commemorate the recent disasters in Japan, adverted to the cause and effect of natural disasters and persuaded listeners to acquire mindfulness on the issue. Junior Kristen Marincic also recited her self-written poem, “The Ghost Within.” It revealed the inner struggles of human traffic victims and how the ghost of child rape stays with a person forever.	cc/2022-05/en_head_0052.json.gz/line58
__label__cc	0.520752	0.479248	HomeArmy News402nd improves the lives of Soldiers in Alaska throughout 2020 402nd improves the lives of Soldiers in Alaska throughout 2020 January 4, 2021 thorntoon Army News 0 Photo By Katie Nelson \| A food kiosk was added to better support roughly 400 Soldiers who don’t live near the Fort Wainwrights DFACs. The kiosk is stocked with everything from drinks and snacks to grab-and-go fresh sandwiches and salads. FORT WAINWRIGHT, AK, UNITED STATES Story by Katie Nelson 402nd Army Field Support Brigade Fort Wainwright, ALASKA— Soldiers and families experienced a boost in the quality of life initiatives offered throughout the Army footprint in Alaska in 2020. While improvements have been made, the work remains ongoing. “Even though we made significant improvements to the training, dining and transportation needs of Soldiers here in Alaska, we are still engaged and working closely with the garrison to ensure their needs continue to be met,” said Lt. Col. L. Pily Restrepo, commander of the 402nd Army Field Support Battalion-Alaska. The changes are a result of a cross-functional Quality of Life Task Force led by the Army Material Command in direct response to an epidemiological consultation, also known as an EPICON, and recommendations from a USARAK Suicide Prevention Task Force after five suicide deaths between May 2018 and April 2019. Going into the project, the task force was comprised of subject matter experts from the Army Sustainment Command, including the 402nd Army Field Support Brigade, or AFSB, and the 402nd Army Field Support Battalion-Alaska, along with representatives from USARAK, Installation Management Command, the Army Corps of Engineers and the Department of Army Headquarters. “The task force brought together the different organizations responsible for the varying aspects of quality of life in Alaska and fostered streamlined communications and teamwork to address the shortfalls of the installations across Alaska,” said Restrepo. “One year later, the task force continues to meet on a regular basis.” The task force made recommendations in ten different areas of improvement, and the 402nd was tasked with working on four out of the ten recommendations. “Here at the 402nd, our focuses for the quality of life initiatives are readiness facilities, dining options and equipment, and transportation on base for Soldiers who may not have cars,” said Master Sgt. Michael Childs, the 402nd AFSBn-Alaska’s senior enlisted advisor. Readiness Facilities Alaska offers a unique problem set of being an austere location, with up to 22 hours of sunlight in summer and 20 hours of darkness in winter; subzero temperatures are common in the winter months. Maintaining force readiness with these winter conditions is extremely difficult without the right facilities. Over the course of the year, the 402nd, utilizing the Logistics Civil Augmentation Program, commonly referred to as LOGCAP, built ten different facilities to make training and maintenance easier for the Soldiers. “With the help of LOGCAP, we were able to build two combat readiness training facilities, or CRTFs, and eight winter maintenance facilities, also known as WMFs,” said Restrepo. “The CRTFs provide Fort Wainwright Soldiers with additional areas to conduct physical fitness training during the winter months, while the WMFs improve maintenance capabilities for the 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division.” In order to address the shortcoming of food services on base, the 402nd looked to “quick wins,” fixes they could make quickly and easily that would improve the Soldiers’ dining experience while longer-term improvements were in the works. “Almost immediately, the Basic Daily Food Allowance (BDFA) was raised with the assistance of the Joint Culinary Center of Excellence, (JJCoE) which enable the food program managers increase the variety of meals provided to the Alaska Arctic Warriors Soldiers,” said Childs. “The BFDA has now been raised a total of 25 percent, a huge win for the Soldiers and Families.” Over the course of 2020, the 402nd AFSBn-ALK conducted life cycle replacement of all equipment within both Fort Wainwright dining facilities and added new air fryers to the inventory to support the Army’s Go for Green initiatives for healthy eating. But it wasn’t just the equipment that got an upgrade. “We also bought all new tables and chairs for the DFACs and spruced up the interior by using a local artist to add more flair to the Soldiers eating environment,” said Childs The DFACs were fitted with a digital Wi-Fi package and the addition of over 30 televisions so Soldiers have an opportunity to relax and enjoy their dining experience. “It was certainly about more than simply updating equipment. In order to improve the quality of life for the Soldiers in Alaska, we knew we needed to improve their experience, and not only the food offerings. We want Soldiers to want to come to the DFAC,” said Restrepo. Childs added that it took a while for everyone to fully realize the DFAC had free Wi-Fi, but once they did, Soldiers were happy with the addition, saying they could come and hang out in the DFAC for a while and relax instead of grabbing their food and leaving. The 402nd spent the better part of 2020 leading the effort to add a food kiosk at Fort Wainwright. “We can better support roughly 400 Soldiers who don’t live near the base’s DFACs,” said Childs. “While it may seem like not an issue to be four miles away from the dining facility, with Alaska’s harsh winters with temperatures 25 degrees below zero, or more, these Soldiers were missing meals due to the distance to get to the DFAC. Adding in a food option closer to the Soldiers can have an impact.” The task force also identified a group of Soldiers who lived on the other side of the airfield and who did not have vehicles or any other means of transportation. Getting to the DFAC was not the only transportation issue faced by Soldiers. For most of them, Fort Wainwright is their first duty station and they do not have a car. Due to the arctic conditions six to seven months of the year, many Soldiers are not comfortable driving. “So the 402nd worked on a contract solution to fix this problem and came up with two support packages: an on-call shuttle service and a route service,” said Restrepo. “The on-call shuttle service has been the most productive. The shuttle service is wildly popular and we are maxing out at providing rides for 23 Soldiers per hour.” “We went from about 6,500 rides a month to being on track to hit roughly 10,000 rides this month,” added Childs. The 402nd team says they are proud of the work they have accomplished, all in support of readiness for the Arctic Warriors and look forward, to continued dialogue with their community on additional ways to improve the quality of life for the Soldiers and Families in Alaska. “After all, people are the Army’s most important asset and we want to ensure we take care of them,” said Restrepo. Soldier seeks new Guard career, opportunities Guardian DFAC upgrades payment devices	cc/2022-05/en_head_0052.json.gz/line59
__label__cc	0.736463	0.263537	ACL Research Retreat VI: An Update on ACL Injury Risk and Prevention March 22–24, 2012; Greensboro, NC Abstract: It has been well recognized that multiple factors, whether individually or in combination, contribute to noncontact anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury. The ongoing mission of the ACL Research Retreat is to bring clinicians and researchers together to present and discuss the most recent advances in ACL injury epidemiology, risk factor identification, and injury-risk screening and prevention strategies and to identify future research directives. The sixth retreat held March 22–24, 2012, in Greensboro, North Carolina, was attended by more than 70 clinicians and researchers, including representatives from Canada, Iceland, Japan, The Netherlands, Norway, and South Africa. The meeting featured keynote presentations and discussion forums by expert scientists in ACL injury risk and prevention and 34 podium and poster presentations by attendees. Keynotes delivered by Ajit Chaudhari, PhD (The Ohio State University), Malcolm Collins, PhD (Medical Research Council and University of Cape Town, South Africa), and Tron Krosshaug, PhD (Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center, Norway) described their ongoing work related to proximal trunk control and lower extremity biomechanics, genetic risk factors associated with ACL injury, and methodologic approaches to understanding ACL loading mechanisms, respectively. Discussion forums led by Jennifer Hootman, PhD, ATC, FNATA, FACSM (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) and Scott McLean, PhD (University of Michigan), focused on strategies for implementing injury-prevention programs in community settings and took a critical look at the strengths and limitations of motion-capture systems and how we might continue to refine our research approaches to increase the relevance and influence of our biomechanical research, respectively. Podium and poster presentations were organized into thematic sessions of anatomical, genetic, and hormone risk factors; the role of body position in ACL injury risk; pubertal and sex differences in lower extremity biomechanics; injury-risk screening and prevention; and methodologic considerations in risk factor research. Substantial time was provided for group discussion throughout the conference. From these discussions, the 2010 consensus statement1 was updated to reflect recent advances in the field and to chart new directions for future research. Following is the updated consensus statement. The presentation abstracts organized by topic and presentation order appear online at http://nata.publisher.ingentaconnect.com/content/nata/jat. Journal of Athletic Training: Sep/Oct 2012, Vol. 47, No. 5, pp. 591-603. anterior cruciate ligament injury, ACL injury epidemiology, risk factors, injury-risk screening, injury-risk prevention	cc/2022-05/en_head_0052.json.gz/line64
__label__cc	0.606482	0.393518	Nuseed Australia Pty Ltd is pleased to offer the following comments in relation to the review of the Gene Technology Act (GTA): Nuseed recognizes the efforts that have been made, through the GTA, to enact a set of regulations to manage the testing and commercial introduction of genetically modified (GM) crops. Nuseed also fully supports the current science-based regulatory system for GM crops and acknowledges the strength of the current Australian regulatory and approval system. While the GTA is intended to establish a nationally consistent scheme for regulating GM crops, State and Territory governments have, to a certain extend, prevented this from becoming reality. A strong set of national regulations and guidelines has been undermined by the enactment of moratoria by various other legislative bodies. This has had an unsettling effect on both Australian R&D efforts and on commercialisation of GM crops in Australia. The creation of de facto GM-free regions within the country adds to the cost of operating a seed business in Australia, since certain seed products must be restricted to only those States or Territories that have allowed their use. Nuseed believes it is critical that in the near future the inconsistent regulatory landscape across Australia be addressed. There is now 15 years of experience in growing GM crops in come countries (e.g., the USA and Canada), and over 10 in several others. This experience attests to the success of these crops in providing enhanced economic returns to farmers, decreasing overall pesticide use, and mitigating some environmental effects of agriculture though reduced tillage practices and fuel consumption. Nuseed recognizes the need for novel GM crops to be safe to both the environment and the consumer; we would support changes in policy and procedure that would accelerate the approval of novel GM traits that offer clear, production, environmental and consumer benefits. The first cohort of GM plants brought to the market carried new traits such as herbicide tolerance and insect resistance, in most cases conferred by foreign (e.g., bacterial) genes. A new generation of GM plants is not being developed with slightly modified versions of endogenous genes, or similar genes from other plant species. Nuseed acknowledges the need for regulation of such products; we believe that the regulatory constraints need to reflect a potentially lower risk with these products especially is the novel genes or gene products are already present in the environment or in the human diet. In closing, Nuseed fully supports the OGTR and its efforts to ensure safety of new products to the environment and the consumer. Nuseed also supports any moves that will lead to a nationally consistent regulatory system. A fair and flexible regulatory system is critical to the success of Australian R&D effort, which are substantial, and to any Australian companies wishing to participate in this area commercially. We look forward to a positive outcome of the GTA review and will be pleased to provide further input as the process develops further. Bill Swann Country Manager Nuseed Australia	cc/2022-05/en_head_0052.json.gz/line67
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Home Value History for 5510-5800 W St Joseph Road Evansville, IN 47720 Community Information for Evansville, IN 47720 Safety in Evansville, IN 47720 Weather in Evansville, IN 47720 All Elementary Middle High Schools near Wadesville, IN 47638 South Terrace Elementary School 8427 Haines Rd Wadesville, IN 47638 Public, Title I K-6 290 EDU CLIMATE Castle North Middle School Marrs Elementary School Mount Vernon, IN 47620 Owensville Community School 6569 S State Road 65 Owensville, IN 47665 Farmersville Elementary School 4065 Highway 69 S PreK-5 236 Castle South Middle School 3711 Casey Rd 15325 Highway 41 N Elberfeld Elementary School 45 S 5th St Elberfeld, IN 47613 J. H. Castle Elementary School Gibson Southern High School 3499 W 800 S Fort Branch, IN 47648 Public, Advanced Placement School information from Home Junction, Inc I would like more information on the listing at 5510-5800 W St Joseph Road, Evansville, IN 47720.	cc/2022-05/en_head_0052.json.gz/line70
__label__wiki	0.622014	0.622014	You are here: Home Awards Historic Preserver Edward Van Put Edward Van Put Published: 11 August 2009 \| Written by Administrator \| Print \| Hits: 5817 Sullivan County Historical Society History Preserver Award 2009 Some of us are fortunate enough to discover at an early age those chief interests that will form our lives. Edward Van Put remembers the influence that a commonplace event had on his life when he was twelve years old. His uncle took him fly fishing and Ed found the experience so fascinating that he soon became “hooked” on trout streams. At an early age he had met his life work. With a little experience he learned that the finest trout fishing was to be found here in Sullivan County and whenever a weekend was available, he would leave his home in northern New Jersey to come up to the Catskills to be close to streams such as the Beaverkill and Willowemoc. At first his fishing days were limited, but finally in 1965 he moved up to Livingston Manor. In order to support himself he worked for several years in Sullivan’s Department Store in Liberty but, unfortunately, learned that a busy place like Sullivan’s did not leave much time for fishing. The result was that he decided to follow his inner feelings and seek a job more closely related to the world of trout fishing. Despite stiff competition he passed a state examination and accepted a position with New York’s Department of Environmental Conservation. In those years when he was busy with a job, a new family and working on his fishing skills, he still found time for reading. He recalls the sense of discovery he had when he came across authors like Alf Evers and Manville Wakefield who had a knack for making Catskill history vivid and interesting and he realized how much information was available in books to add to the practical knowledge he was acquiring on the job. He particularly enjoyed Wakefield’s “To the Mountains by Rail” which included a story about a dispute involving fishing rights along the Neversink River. His curiosity to learn more details about the incident led him to old copies of the Liberty Register and a friendship with Liberty historian Del Van Etten who helped him to find his way amidst local archives. The invention of the electronic copier enabled Ed to begin accumulating lots of material about the Catskills, but as the stacks of paper increased in size, he began to realize that to have a page copied from a newspaper fifty years old didn’t add to anyone’s knowledge. Without realizing how much work would be required, Ed gradually became a writer and over the years assisted by his wife, Judy O’Brien Van Put, he learned the disciplines of research and the ability to weave that research into book form. He realized that he was not interested in simply rewriting stories that other writers had already covered. He wanted to get as close to events as he could and this meant he had to spend a lot of time in local archives. He relates that over the years in order to understand the effect of trout fishing on the area he had to read portions of some forty newspapers, as many of these papers contained stories about trout fishing in the Catskills. The newspapers, many of which had become defunct, whetted his appetite for more knowledge and he turned to public and private archives. He estimates that over a quarter of a century he and Judy were able to take advantage of the historical resources of some seventeen archives including the Library of Congress, the New York City and New York State Public Libraries and the Smithsonian Institute, as well as university archives such as Yale and Cornell. Some archives could be visited, but from others he received material via inter-library loan. In 1996 after long years of research he published “Beaverkill: The History of A River and its People” and in 2007 published another book about the larger area known for trout fishing entitled “Trout Fishing in the Catskills” in which he discusses how trout fishing in these mountain streams can be traced back to the 1830’s and how it planted the seed of the county’s tourist industry. John Conway, the Sullivan County historian, writes, “It is my humble opinion that these two books rank only behind James Eldridge Quinlan’s “History of Sullivan County” and Manville Wakefield’s “To the Mountains by Rail” in importance among local history books. Tagsfishing,trout,years,archives,van,put,history,sullivan, , Category: Awards / History Preserver \| Historical Society People Nature History Preserver Marjorie Durland Smith Otto Hillig James Burbank William Galbraith Smith Delbert Van Etten	cc/2022-05/en_head_0052.json.gz/line86
__label__wiki	0.97912	0.97912	Screen Awards Register your interest for 2022 For entries and bookings please contact: Shane Murphy E: shane.murphy@mbi.london For sponsorship enquiries please contact: Scott Benfold E: scott.benfold@screendaily.com For event enquiries please Candice Duckett Head of Events E: candice.duckett@mbi.london More from Screen Powered by MBI Unit 4D Cally Yard, 445 Caledonian Road, London, N7 9BG. info@mb-insight.com © 2022 Screen Awards. Carla Quarto di Palo, Director of International Sales, Cornerstone Films Carla is Director of International Sales at Cornerstone Films, where she represents multiple territories across the company’s diverse slate. Her international sales career started at Hanway Films and Focus Features International. Following the closure of Focus’s sales arm, Carla joined Alison Thompson to work across all aspects of sales, international marketing and distribution on Dexter Fletcher’ Sunshine on Leith, Mike Leigh’s Mr. Turner and Asif Kapadia’s Academy Award-winning Amy. In 2015 Alison Thompson and Mark Gooder launched Cornerstone Films and Carla joined them as their first team member. Cornerstone’s recent slate includes Sundance hits: AFTER THE WEDDING starring Julianne Moore and Michelle Williams, BLINDED BY THE LIGHT, directed by Gurinder Chadha, ANIMALS and JUDY AND PUNCH distributed by Picturehouse but also upcoming titles like DREAM HORSE starring Toni Collette and Damian Lewis and DIRT MUSIC which will have its World Premiere in Special Presentations at TIFF 2019. Chris Paton, International Publicity Consultant Chris Paton has 35 years experience in the film industry – in publicity and acquisitions. He began his career at TriStar Pictures in New York, subsequently worked at DDA Public Relations in Los Angeles and London, created Falco Ink London and was founding partner of the communications agency, Premier PR. He later moved to acquisitions at Fortissimo Films. He has worked with the Venice, Dubai, Turin, Rotterdam, Hong Kong film festivals and most recently served as UK Delegate for the San Sebastian Film Festival. Louisa Dent, Managing Director, Curzon Artificial Eye Louisa Dent joined Curzon Artificial Eye in 2008 as Managing Director, overseeing the acquisition and release of titles including The Class, We Need to Talk About Kevin, Still Alice, Fish Tank, 45 Years, Amour, The Handmaiden, and Cold War. Prior to this she was Managing Director for UGC Films Uk. Louisa started her career at Screen International and then worked in Paris for 10 years in International sales. Farah Abushwesha Producer, Rocliffe Farah Abushwesha is a BAFTA and European Film Academy nominated producer and Amazon best-selling author. Her work includes THE SINGAPORE GRIP by Christopher Hampton (Atonement, Dangerous Liaisons) with Colm Meaney, Charles Dance and Jane Horrocks, BBC Amazon series THE ABC MURDERS starring John Malkovich and Rupert Grint with Mammoth Screen, Netflix Original IRREPLACEABLE YOU with Christopher Walken, Steve Coogan and Gugu Mbatha-Raw. THE LAST PHOTOGRAPH with Danny Huston and Sarita Choudry. She is the founder of the BAFTA Rocliffe New Writing Showcase and Competition. She was a Screen Star of Tomorrow in 2017. Bertrand Faivre, Producer, Le Bureau Films Bertrand Faivre started producing in the 90’s at LAZENNEC (LA HAINE, SCENT OF GREEN PAPAYA) where he produced early works from directors such as Lynne Ramsay, Sarah Gavron… In 2000, he set up in Paris and in London, with its producing partner Tristan Goligher, THE BUREAU which has revealed such European talents such as Asif Kapadia, Andrew Haigh, Peter Mackie Burns, Fabienne Godet, Harry Wootliff … In 2019, Bertrand won Cesar for Best Documentary with Jean Libon & Yves Hinant’s SO HELP ME GOD and Best Actress in Cannes for Emily Beecham in Jessica Haunser’s LITTLE JOE. He also worked with established directors such as Roger Michell, Alan Rickmann, Erick Zonca, Rachid Bouchareb & Costa Gavras and set up in 2009 THE BUREAU SALES an integrated sales company handling a 600+ titles international library. Hannah Farrell, Creative Director, Fable Hannah Farrell joined Fable as Creative Partner in 2018. She began her career in development in 2000 when she joined Working Title Films as a Development Assistant working on films such as Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz (directed by Edgar Wright, starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost). Several years later, Hannah joined Ruby Films as Head of Development where she built a slate of projects including Stephen Frears’ Tamara Drewe starring Gemma Arterton, written by Moira Buffini; Cary Fukunaga’s Jane Eyre starring Michael Fassbender and Mia Wasikowska, written by Moira Buffini; Saving Mr Banks starring Tom Hanks and Emma Thompson directed by John Lee Hancock, written by Kelly Marcel and Sue Smith, and Sarah Gavron’s Suffragette with Carey Mulligan, Meryl Streep and Helena Bonham Carter, and written by Abi Morgan. She also developed SJ Clarkson’s Toast, starring Freddie Highmore and Helena Bonham Carter, written by Lee Hall, and Case Histories for BBC One, starring Jason Isaacs. In 2015 Hannah joined Origin Pictures, where she headed up both the TV and Film division, overseeing development of projects including BBC1’s hit show The Woman in White (starring Jessie Buckley, Olivia Vinall and Dougray Scott, written by Wilkie Collins and Fiona Seres, and directed by Carl Tibbetts). Alex Ward, Chief Executive, Lime Communications Ltd Alex is Chief Executive of Lime Communications, in its 20th year, Lime, is a Promotions and brand partnerships agency largely working on behalf of film distributors to source and implement brand partnerships in the UK and/or Global. Lime have been responsible for partnerships through the years on a wide variety of films including The Lord of The Rings trilogy, Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy and Avatar as well as more recent titles including Spider-Man: Far From Home, Spies In Disguise, Dora & The Lost City of Gold, Men In Black : International, Charlie’s Angels, Brittany Runs A Marathon, Terminator : Dark Fate and more. Lime has two further divisions – one specialising in brand partnerships and sales promotion, the other an experiential division called Sublime who devise and implement events, exhibitions and roadshows for film and gaming clients. Previous to Lime Alex was International Marketing manager at EMI Records and promotions Manager at Virgin Radio. Mounia Wissinger, Director of Marketing, Protagonist Mounia started out her career working in international sales and marketing, before specialising in domestic and international publicity. After leading the international publicity department at Studiocanal, she joined Netflix in Amsterdam, where she managed EMEA and global projects. She then reconnected with marketing and communication through her own company, Challenge Accepted, before joining Protagonist in 2018. Damian Jones, Owner of DJ Films / Producer Damian Jones is one of Britain’s most prolific independent film producers. A career that spans over forty feature films, he has collaborated with prestige directing talent and cast to create critical and commercial films including the Oscar winning The Iron Lady (Phyllida Lloyd), Lady In The Van (Nick Hytner), Belle (Amma Asante), Welcome to Sarajevo (Michael Winterbottom), Millions (Danny Boyle), Goodbye Christopher Robin (Simon Curtis), Sex, Drugs&Rock&Roll (Matt Whitecross), The History Boys (Nick Hytner), Dad’s Army (Oliver Parker), Kidulthood & Adulthood (Noel Clarke) and Absolutely Fabulous The Movie (Mandie Fletcher). Other film credits include M.J.Delaney’s Powder Room, Gregg Araki’s Splendor, Regan Hall’s Fast Girls, and Vondie Curtis-Hall’s Gridlock’d. Most recent productions and releases include Michael Winterbottom’s Greed, Argyris Papadimitropoulos’s Monday, Romola Garai’s Amulet and Rapman’s Blue Story. He is currently shooting Josie Rourke and Catherine Tate’s This Nan’s Life. Grainne Peat, Event Cinema Association Grainne is Managing Director of the Event Cinema Association (ECA), having been appointed in October 2018, since which time she has redeﬁned the vision of the ECA and consolidated a new strategy for driving forward and promoting this growing area of cinema programming and worldwide Box Ofﬁce. Before joining the ECA, Grainne was – for more than ﬁve years – Policy Executive at the UK Cinema Association, where she was instrumental in driving forward a diverse range of policy issues, most notably in the areas of disability and access, security, skills and employment and sustainability. She was also the main lead for the Association’s networking events, including the annual conference, which has become a key event in the industry calendar. Grainne spearheaded the development and delivery of the UKCA pioneering Technology Challenge Fund initiative, which is seeking to help stimulate innovation in technology to allow people with hearing loss to have a more inclusive cinema experience. Grainne was also one of the pioneering mentees on the UNIC Women’s Cinema Leadership Programme. Ivana MacKinnon Producer, Stray Bear Productions Ivana MacKinnon is a producer whose most recent film Beast, directed by Michael Pearce and starring Jessie Buckley and Johnny Flynn, was released Internationally in 2018. Beast was nominated for 10 BIFAs and 2 BAFTAS, winning the BAFTA for Best Debut. In 2013 Ivana Exec Produced War Book, a Jack Thorne-penned and Tom Harper-helmed political thriller starring Sophie Okenedo and Anthony Sher which was released theatrically and on TV as well as opening IFFR 2014. In 2011, after working in first in development and then production for first Celador Films and then Cloud Eight Pictures, and having worked across films as diverse as Slumdog Millionaire, The Descent, and The Scouting Book for Boys, Ivana set up Stray Bear Productions and produced Kibwe Tavares’ Jonah, a hugely ambitious live action/VFX short which premiered at Sundance 2013 and has won multiple international awards. Andy Whittaker Founder & Chair, Dogwoof Andy is the Founder and Chair of Dogwoof, establishing Dogwoof as the leading film distributor of documentary films. Dogwoof started as a UK all rights distributor. In 2011 became a global sales agent for documentary with titles including Blackfish and Cartel Land. Andy’s main area of expertise is digital strategy and finance, and is responsible for Dogwoof’s partnerships including Netflix. Recent films include Free Solo and Apollo 11. Andy was also listed as one of the The Evening Standard 1000 most influential Londoners from the worlds of politics, music, food, film and business. Ollie Madden Head of Creative, Film4 Ollie Madden is Head of Creative at Film4, the multi-award-winning film arm of UK public service broadcaster Channel 4. Since joining Film4 in 2017 he has overseen a slate including Yorgos Lanthimos’ THE FAVOURITE, Armando Iannucci’s THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF DAVID COPPERFIELD, Edgar Wright’s LAST NIGHT IN SOHO, Sarah Gavron’s ROCKS, Coky Giedroyc’s adaptation of Caitlin Moran’s HOW TO BUILD A GIRL and Michael Winterbottom’s GREED. Prior to joining Film4 he had built a reputation as one of the most respected production executives in the UK, with over 20 years’ experience of all aspects of production and development from both the UK independent sector and the studio system, and across both TV and film, encompassing spells at Warner Bros, Intermedia and Miramax before he joined Kudos as Head of Film in 2011. His credits include SPOOKS: THE GREATER GOOD, the SHERLOCK HOLMES franchise, MAGICIANS and HBO / BBC1 mini-series GUNPOWDER, as well as forthcoming Film4 titles DREAM HORSE, THE FATHER, EVERYBODY’S TALKING ABOUT JAMIE and LOUIS WAIN. Lia Devlin Head Of Theatrical, Altitude Lia Devlin is Head of Theatrical at Altitude Film Distribution and has been with the company since its inception in 2014 when she joined as Head of Marketing. Prior to that Lia was Marketing Director for leading independent distributer Momentum Pictures where she spent 7 years in the team that broke out a number of foreign and arthouse films and beating numerous British box office records. Lia began her career in 2000 working across both studio blockbusters and specialised films at Sony Pictures UK. Jason Maza CEO Unstoppable Film & TV Jason Maza’ career has seen him shift between in front and behind the camera. A British actor/producer that has many credits to his name, including the BAFTA-winning ‘Fish Tank’ and BAFTA-nominated ‘Shifty’. As well as Box Office smash BrOTHERHOOD. He began work as a producer in 2011, with the goal that British film and TV should be entertaining, of great quality and international in scale and distribution. Since then he has produced 14 movies. Titles include: International hit 10×10 starring Fast and the Furious and Dracula Untold’s Luke Evans. Brotherhood for Lionsgate which grossed just shy of £4million at the UK Box Office, as well as the upcoming Indie Alright Now” Starring “How I met your Mothers” Cobie Smulders. He teamed up with Noel Clarke, launching Unstoppable Film and Television in 2017 as co-CEO, after working with him on Universal Pictures brit-comedy “The Knot,”. It was evident that the pair both shared a passion for discovering new talent and most of all telling stories of new exciting voices. Most recently, Jason has produced Jessica Hynes directing debut “The Fight” which premiered at this years London Film Festival. Jason currently appears in Sky One’s and Unstoppable’s hit tv show BulletProof with season 2 airing in the coming months. He completed his first short film ‘The Little Princess’ last year, which was his directing debut and is now 14 film festivals and counting. Isabel Davis Executive Director, Screen Scotland Creative Scotland Areas of responsibility Isabel leads Screen Scotland and, with its team and partnership agencies, delivers the ambition and outcomes set out in the Collaborative Screen Proposal. To drive growth, Isabel negotiates major new Screen sector deals and partnerships, in Scotland, across the UK, and internationally. Isabel leads on Screen Scotland’s relationship with Scotland’s Screen industry and the international Screen industry. The role will also deputise for the Chief Executive on key stakeholder relationships relating to Screen, particularly with the Scottish and UK Governments. Background and experience Isabel was the BFI’s Head of International between 2011 and 2018. In a role combining editorial, production and policy expertise, Isabel delivered the BFI’s international strategy. Drawing together industry, public and government stakeholders to identify the UK screen industries’ key sectors and territories, she has led the design and delivery of a package of initiatives and funding to help achieve success on the international stage. As a Production executive / Executive Producer on several high profile UK co-productions, Isabel has credits on films including Pawel Pawlikowski’s Cold War which premiered at Cannes 2018 in Official Selection, winning Best Director; Haifaa Al Mansour’s Mary Shelley which premiered at Toronto International Film Festival 2017 and is also playing in this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF); Yorgos Lanthimos’s Oscar® nominated The Lobster which premiered in Official Competition at Cannes Film Festival 2015; and the forthcoming films from Claire Denis and Victor Kossakovsky. She also backed the development of films from Scottish talent including David Mackenzie and Rona Munro. Isabel negotiated the film co-production treaty between the UK and China, which was ratified in 2016, and contributed to the negotiation of the UK’s TV co-production treaty with China, ratified in 2017. She also negotiated the audiovisual co-production treaty between the UK and Brazil, ratified in 2017. Isabel spearheaded a programme of film business development with China, leading a number of high level delegations to broker political, business and creative relationships between the UK and China. Head of Communications, BBC Films Emma has worked in British film for 15 years. She is currently Head of Communications at BBC Films, leading press and marketing activity and responsible for overall brand strategy as the BBC renews and reimagines its film slate. Before BBC Films she was Deputy Head of Press and PR at the BFI, leading industry and consumer campaigns across all areas of BFI activity. She started her career as PR and Marketing Executive at Nottingham-based Regional Screen Agency, EM Media, backer of films including Anton Corbijn’s Control and Andrew Haigh’s Weekend. Emma sits on BIFA’s Event Committee and is a member of BAFTA. Edward Fletcher Managing Director, Thunderbird Releasing Edward brings 20 years UK distribution experience to the panel having started out in exhibition before co-founding independent distributor Soda Pictures which he continued to manage as Thunderbird Releasing following Soda’s acquisition by Canadian media group Thunderbird Entertainment. Ahead of announcing his stepping down this Autumn recent releases had included SHOPLIFTERS, HIGH LIFE and VITA & VIRGINIA. Debbie Rowland Director / Head of Marketing, Distribution, Sales & Exhibition, We Are The Tonic Ltd / National Film & Television School Deborah has over 25 years’ experience in marketing and all aspects of film distribution: theatrical, home entertainment, VOD, international sales, TV, and exhibition. She has held senior positions at Curzon Artificial Eye, Twentieth Century Fox, Disney, Icon Film Distribution, Contender Entertainment (EOne), Koch Media, and The Pearson Group. Deborah runs We Are The Tonic, an entrepreneurial consultancy for sales agents, distributors and filmmakers. She is also a Head of Department at the National Film and Television School, delivering their Marketing, Distribution, Sales and Exhibition MA for film, television and games, and an Honorary Fellow of the University of Exeter. Clare Crean Independent Film Consultant Clare has over 25 years of experience in international film sales and distribution, having started her career as a sales executive at formative sales company J&M Entertainment. In 1999 Clare joined The Works becoming the company’s Head of International Sales in 2010 until her departure at the end of 2017. Throughout her career Clare has worked on award-winning features and documentaries from the UK, the US, and around the world, launching films at A-list festivals and spear-heading the international sales and marketing strategies of over 250 titles including: • Bend it Like Beckham, Gurinder Chadha (2001) Golden Globe nominee • Sweet Sixteen, Ken Loach (2001) Winner ‘Best Screenplay’ Cannes Film Festival • Whale Rider, Niki Caro (2002) Academy Award nominee • Road To Guantanamo, Michael Winterbottom (2006) Winner ‘Golden Bear’ Berlin Film Festival • This Is England, Shane Meadows (2006) BAFTA award winner for Best British Film • Man on Wire, James Marsh (2008) Academy Award winner for Best Documentary • I Am Love, Luca Guadagnino (2009) Golden Globe, Academy Award, BAFTA nominee • The Cove, Louis Psihoyos (2010) Academy Award winner for Best Documentary • Kelly + Victor, Kieran Evans (2013) BAFTA award winner for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer • Elstree 1976, Jon Spira (2015) Official selection BFI London Film Festival • California Typewriter, Doug Nichol (2016) Official selection Telluride Film Festival In January 2018 Clare started her own films sales consultancy, using her commercially-focused expertise to offer sales, distribution and marketing advice to filmmakers at all stages of their careers. In addition to individual producers and production companies, her clients to date include, Creative England, Flanders Image, Inside Pictures, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Colombian Ministry of Culture and she is currently the lead tutor on the National Film & Television School’s Sales & Distribution MA. Clare is a regular contributor to industry panels and training programmes and has participated in events run by organisations including the BFI, Europa Distributors (the Independent Network of European Film Distributors), Film London and IFTA. She is a former member of the board of Film Export UK (the trade association for UK based films sales companies) and was a member of the Independent Camera Jury at the 49th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. Christelle Randall Way to Blue / Group Director of Film Publicity Christelle Randall has worked in film publicity for over 15 years with a wealth of experience across all sectors. She began her career at Freuds working on major campaigns such as BRIDGET JONES’S DIARY, ABOUT A BOY, 24 HOUR PARTY PEOPLE and went on to head up the publicity team for five years at former UK independent distributor Metrodome. There, she oversaw campaigns such as I AM LOVE, THE ASSASSINATION OF RICHARD NIXON, DAYS OF GLORY, LEBANON and SHOOTING DOGS. Following a stint as an independent consultant, where she was the Unit Publicist on Madonna’s feature directorial debut W.E and in house at Entertainment One, she moved to Premier in 2011. At Premier, she ran the publicity team for the BFI London Film Festival for three years and worked on a wide range of campaigns including HEREDITARY, AMERICAN ANIMALS, BREATHE, THE SHAPE OF WATER, THE FLORIDA PROJECT, THE PARTY, ADULT LIFE SKILLS, LION, THE REVENANT, THE IMPOSTER, MADE OF STONE, TREE OF LIFE, THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL and more. She has also handled several award winning ﬁlm titles at international film festivals including Cannes, Venice, Toronto and is a frequent guest speaker at the National Film and Television School. In 2017 she made a short film in conjunction with her local charity group called Hammersmith & Fulham Refugees Welcome featuring interviews with talking heads Miranda Hart, Lord Alf Dubs and Harriet Walter. Christelle is also collaborating with Bafta nominated film maker Leanne Welham (Pili) on a documentary about Sierra Leonese marathon runners called KEEP ON RUNNING. She is currently Group Publicity Director of Film Publicity at Way to Blue and current titles include CHILDREN OF THE SNOW LAND, FOR SAMA and MYSTIFY – Michael Hutchence. Alice De Rosa Director of Distribution, Trafalgar Releasing Joining Trafalgar Releasing in 2011, Alice has played an integral role in the company’s growth into its established market leader position in Event Cinema distribution. In her role as Director of Distribution, Alice heads up the day-to-day management of all distribution projects, acting as a key point of contact for external stakeholders whilst ensuring the team deliver releases to the high standard that has shaped the company’s reputation to date. This category cannot be entered. The nominees for the category will be revealed in September. This top ten will be selected by Screen International’s team of critics based on films that received a UK theatrical release during the Screen Awards eligibility period. A vote will be launched on Screendaily.com in September where screen readers can vote for the winning film. Shona Gold, Director of Sales and Marketing, VUE Shona started her career in brand management on the Nestle Graduate scheme and moved to General Mills three years later heading up the marketing for Haagen-Dazs. In 2006 Shona joined Lonely Planet as Marketing Director EMEA. She progressed to General Manager EMEA before joining the Global executive team and taking up the role of Chief Marketing Officer & Global Trade Sales Director in 2014. Shona has been at Vue since 2015 and is now leading all things brand and sales. Kate Gardiner is Head of Fox Searchlight Pictures UK, overseeing the theatrical marketing and distribution of the Fox Searchlight slate. During ten years at Searchlight, she has delivered highly successful and award-winning campaigns for a diverse range of titles from BLACK SWAN to THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL; STARRED UP to ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS: THE MOVIE. Recent successes include Academy Award winners THE SHAPE OF WATER and THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING MISSOURI. Prior to her current role, Kate held positions at Twentieth Century Fox and BBC Films. Eva Yates, Commissioning Executive, BBC Films Eva Yates is BBC Films’s Commissioning Executive, with a particular focus on new and emerging talent, and low-budget filmmaking. Alongside her feature and shorts slates, she oversees and executive produces on iFeatures with Creative England, and Microwave with FilmLondon, both in partnership with the BFI. Most recently for BBC Films, she has executive produced Remi Weekes’s debut His House starring Wunmi Mosaku and Sope Dirisu, Sacha Polak’s Dirty God and short films including Ruth Paxton’s Be Still My Beating Heart starring Maxine Peake. Prior to joining the BBC, she worked for 8 years as an executive at Film4, where she EP’d Rungano Nyoni’s I Am Not A Witch, which won the BAFTA for Outstanding British Debut; Tinge Krishnan’s Been So Long starring Michaela Coel and Arinze Kene and nearly 20 shorts including Kibwe Tavares’s Jonah starring Daniel Kaluuya and Aneil Karia’s bafta-nominated Work. Other credits include American Honey, Carol, 45 Years, Suffragette and Duke of Burgundy. During this period, she worked closely with Wellcome Trust on the Wellcome Screenwriting Fellowship, and advised for BIFA and on numerous new talent schemes. She began her career in arts at BBC Scotland, and in production and development roles including Revolution Films and UKFC. Phil Cairns, Press & Publicity Manager, Film4 Phil Cairns has worked as a film publicist for more than 20 years. Currently press & publicity manager at Film4, his career has included stints at Premier, Buena Vista International (UK), Tartan Films, Electric Pictures and the BFI London Film Festival, working on films including Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Brooklyn, No Country For Old Men, Kill Bill and The Sixth Sense Geraldine Moloney, Policy Consultant, Film Distributors’ Association Geraldine Moloney has worked in the UK film industry for 40 years, publicising an extensive range of feature films from production through to release. During that time, she has worked for most of the major US studios, as well as for major international independent distributors. She has experience working in-house as part of the distribution marketing team, within a PR agency and also as a freelance consultant. Her diverse work has included the UK launch of many much-loved classic films through the 70’s; 80’s, 90’s and into the 21st Century; movies such as Star Wars Episode 1, Christopher Nolan’s cult classic Memento and from Bond through to Bollywood. Working as a consultant, Geraldine has been employed as a specialist publicist on high-profile releases, strategising awareness campaigns from production through to release both within the UK and internationally. More recently, she has moved into roles focusing on Public Affairs issues affecting the film industry. Firstly, working with the Motion Picture Association in Europe as a communications consultant on issues around content protection; and more recently advising the Film Distributors’ Association on digital issues impacting the sector and general policy issues. Geraldine’s role at FDA has also enabled her to contribute to a wide range of training programmes for distributors. The most recent of which has been a cross-sector paid internship programme for young people looking to develop a career in the business-sectors of the industry. Samantha Joly, Marketing/Publicity Manager, See-Saw Films Samantha Joly is the Marketing and Publicity Manager for See-Saw Films. Joly oversees all aspects of the marketing and publicity for See-Saw’s film and TV productions in the UK, Australia and as part of See-Saw’s continued expansion into the US. She works closely with the company’s distribution partners around the world and takes on the role of Unit Publicist on selected film and TV projects. Current titles include the upcoming thriller Widows from Academy Award®-winning director Steve McQueen and co-writer and bestselling author Gillian Flynn. Set to be released worldwide by Twentieth Century Fox in November 2018, Widows’ all-star cast includes Oscar® winner Viola Davis, Elizabeth Debicki, Michelle Rodriguez, Cynthia Erivo alongside Liam Neeson, Colin Farrell, Robert Duvall and Daniel Kaluuya. Joly, who most recently served as Production and Marketing Executive, is a seven-year veteran of See-Saw Films, having begun her tenure with the company as Producer’s Assistant. Joly started her career in documentary television in 2009, moving into film publicity and production, before joining See-Saw in 2011. Joly reports directly to co-managing directors Iain Canning and Emile Sherman and Chief Operating Officer for TV Hakan Kousetta. Dominic Rowell, Commercial Director, Vue UK & Ireland Dominic started his career in brand management working for Nestle and Pepsi Co before moving into retail where he led marketing, advertising and CRM for Sainsbury’s, McDonald’s and Carphone Warehouse. In 2008 Dominic moved to Australia to be the Global Marketing Director for Lonely Planet, a subsidiary of BBC Worldwide. In 2010 he was appointed Managing Director of Lonely Planet Digital. In 2013 Dominic joined Metro as Executive Director where he was accountable for newspaper circulation and all digital products. Dominic has been Commercial Director for Vue UK & Ireland since January 2015, where he is leading all things brand, F&B, pricing and digital. Ben Roberts, Director, BFI Film Fund Ben Roberts is the Director of the BFI Film Fund, the UK’s largest public investor in film. He is responsible for overseeing the BFI’s wide-ranging support for talent development, feature film development and production, and audience development across exhibition, distribution and international sales. He has over 15 years’ film industry experience across international sales, studio acquisitions, UK distribution and film finance gained from his time as CEO of Protagonist Pictures since 2007, and before that at Universal Pictures International and the independent UK distributor Metrodome. Chris Bird, Worldwide Head of Film Licensing, Amazon As a media distribution executive specialising in content acquisition and marketing, Chris Bird has over the last 15 years worked across a number of key UK distribution sectors. From start-up organisations such as Momentum Pictures and LOVEFiLM, to international studios such as NBCU and Sony, he has worked through the development on the online distribution age, and delivered retail growth to TVOD/EST, and customer subscription growth to subscriptions platforms such as LOVEFiLM and Amazon through curation, management and commissioning of content. As a content commissioner Chris has been responsible for bringing as series of successful, exclusive 1st run TV shows to Amazon Prime. Series such as Outlander, Vikings, Extant and Black Sails as well as securing the AMC output of drama show for Amazon. Chris also led the commissioning of the BBC1 hit Ripper Street Season 3 to Amazon Prime in 2014, and brought The Grand Tour to Prime Video in 2016. Chris now leads global film acquisition for Amazon Prime, responsible for movie content on Prime Video Worldwide, and has teams in London, Munich, Paris, Milan, Madrid, Los Angeles, Seattle, and Miami, working to invest in film development for the Prime Video business worldwide. Key Appointments: Amazon – WW Head of Film Licensing Director Content Strategy; Prime Instant Video EU LOVEFiLM – Head of Marketing Services/Director Content Strategy Universal Pictures – International Marketing Manager EU Sony Pictures – Marketing Manager (Home Entertainment) Momentum Pictures – Product Management Yung Kha, Publicist, Dogwoof After cutting her teeth in a commercial agency working on accounts for Universal Pictures, Momentum Pictures and ITV amongst others, Yung moved in house to the ICA as film and digital arts press officer. Since starting with Dogwoof in May 2010; Yung has has worked on releases including Dreams of a Life, The Spirit of ‘45, Blackfish, Dior and I, BAFTA winning The Act of Killing. Yung was born in Ban Mê Thuột, Vietnam. Simran Hans, Film critic, The Observer Simran Hans is a culture writer and film critic for The Observer. Her writing has also appeared in Dazed & Confused, The Guardian, The New Statesman and Sight & Sound. From 2015 to January 2018, she co-programmed the Bechdel Test Fest. Jonathan Sadler, Consultant, Magus Marketing I have worked in filmed entertainment distribution for over eighteen years in senior positions at Universal Pictures, Momentum Pictures, Revolver Entertainment and Arrow Films, playing a key role in marketing, acquiring and distributing film and TV content across all platforms, internationally. During this time, I have created marketing campaigns for iconic films such as Amelie, American Beauty, Shakespeare in Love, The Mummy, The Hunt, Love is All You Need, Cinema Paradiso – 25th-anniversary release, Donnie Darko – 15th-anniversary release and, most recently, Heathers – 30th-anniversary release. I have also worked agency-side in commercial and creative roles as well as in the music industry, at Warner Music International, and was previously the video buyer for two UK retail chains. I am now running my own consultancy and virtual agency, Magus Marketing, helping independent producers and filmmakers bring their content to multi-platform audiences. Rosie Alison, Heyday Films Rosie Alison was a documentary producer/director for ten years, working on many television films about writers, dancers, actors and playwrights. Her documentary credits include The South Bank Show, Omnibus, Bookmark, and Grand Designs. In 2001 Alison joined David Heyman’s production company Heyday Films, where she has been Co-Producer of THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PYJAMAS (written and directed by Mark Herman), and IS ANYBODY THERE? (written by Peter Harness, directed by John Crowley), Executive Producer of PADDINGTON 1 and 2 (written and directed by Paul King), and THE LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS (written and directed by Derek Cianfrance), and Producer of TESTAMENT OF YOUTH (written by Juliette Towhidi, directed by James Kent) and the forthcoming THE SECRET GARDEN (written by Jack Thorne, directed by Marc Munden.) She has also been a producer on various BBC TV dramas, including David Hare’s intelligence thriller PAGE EIGHT, and Christoper Hampton’s ghost story THE THIRTEENTH TALE (directed by James Kent), and the forthcoming Andrea Levy adaptation THE LONG SONG (written by Sarah Williams, directed by Mahalia Belo). Alison is also the author of a novel, The Very Thought of You, which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize in 2010. Uzma Hasan, Producer, Little House Productions Uzma Hasan is co founder and producer at venture capitalist backed Little House Productions. Her latest feature Nirpal Bhogal’s Firstborn premiered at Edinburgh International Film Festival 2016 ahead of a worldwide sale to Netflix. Her first feature The Infidel (2010) was released internationally to commercial and critical acclaim, was remade by Viacom India as Dharam Sankat Mein (2015) and as a musical that ran at Theatre Royal Stratford. She is currently producing the adaptation of Gautam Malkani’s cult novel Londonstani for the BFI. Uzma is developing projects with a diverse range of talent including Ritesh Batra (Rail D’Or winner for The Lunchbox), Guardian film critic Peter Bradshaw, novelist Nikesh Shukla as well as with Amazon Studios, the BFI and Creative England. She is a non executive director on the board of Channel 4, and Ingenious Media backed Babber Films and Chisel Films. She consults for the International Film Festival Rotterdam and sits on the selection committee for the British Independent Film Awards. Uzma has worked internationally with companies including Focus Features, Doha Film Institute and Tribeca Enterprises on the development, production and exploitation of feature films. In 2010, she was nominated for HRH Prince’s Trust Mosaic Arts & Culture Award; in 2012 she was nominated for the Asian Woman of Achievement Award and became a Woman of the Future Ambassador; and in 2013 she won the British Muslim Award for Services to Creativity. She attended Harvard University’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences as a Kennedy Scholar to read Film and Literature. Claudia Yusef, Head of Development, Number 9 Films Claudia Yusef is Head of Development at Number 9 Films (Colette, Their Finest, Made in Dagenham, Carol), where she works with producers Stephen Woolley and Elizabeth Karlsen. Prior to this she was Talent Development Executive for the Scottish Film Talent Network, which forms the Scottish element of the BFI Network, designed to identify and support new and emerging talent. Before this she worked as a development executive at 42 Management and Production. Number 9 is currently in development with So Much Love, a fantastic and original take on a vibrantly creative period in the life and career of British soul icon Dusty Springfield, written by award winning and Oscar nominated screenwriter Phyllis Nagy (Carol), which is being co-developed with Studio Canal. Also in development is Mothering Sunday, which is being adapted by Alice Birch from the novel by Graham Swift, and co-developed with Film 4. Nish Panchal, Literary Agent, Curtis Brown Since 2014, Nish has been a Literary Agent at Curtis Brown. He specialises in writers, directors, producers and authors working across film, television and theatre. Prior to joining Curtis Brown, Nish worked for the development team at BBC Films, working with world-class filmmakers across a slate of award-winning films. Caragh Cook, Managing Director, Organic Caragh Cook has been instrumental in building ORGANIC, which opened its doors twelve years ago, into a fully integrated communications agency for the entertainment industry, with a focus on film and television PR. Cook has worked for seventeen years in the film and television sector, specialising in publicity. She joined ORGANIC from the London office of Rogers & Cowan in 2011 where she worked across UK, International and personal publicity and prior to that at DDA PR where she started her career in 2001, working on UK and international campaigns for films that included The Lord of the Rings Trilogy; Million Dollar Baby; Wedding Crashers and Gangs of New York. After joining ORGANIC in 2011, Cook helped grow the team and the agency’s PR business, and the following year, in 2012, the agency’s achievements were recognised at the Screen Awards when ORGANIC was awarded PR Team of the Year. The company launched an international division in 2013 and ORGANIC now has a stable of clients that includes sales agents, producers, and international distribution companies and has a presence at every major international film festival. In the past five years, ORGANIC has also significantly developed its television and SVOD business with a raft of retained clients. ORGANIC now has a thriving workforce of over thirty, working with almost every film studio and independent film distributor in the UK. The team takes a fully integrated approach in delivering their PR and social marketing services. The company went on to win PR Team of the Year (Agency) two further times in 2015 and 2017. Organic is part of TargetMCG, the UK’s leading media and communications group specialising in the arts, culture and entertainment sectors. TargetMCG is part of Havas, the world’s fifth largest advertising network, based in the Havas Village in King’s Cross. Calum Gray, Head of Sales, Embankment Films Calum is Head of Sales at Embankment Films Ltd. He was previously Head of Sales at Celsius Entertainment, Director of Sales at Independent Film Sales and Head of Sales at Mercury Media. He has sold such titles as Oldboy, McQueen, The Wife, What We Did On Our Holiday, Starred Up, Gimme Danger, Metro Manila, Exit Through The Giftshop, We Need To Talk About Kevin and Safety Not Guaranteed. Calum was voted one of Screen International’s 50 future leaders in Sales and Acquisitions in 2012 and has lectured on film distribution for the NFTS, Film Wales, The European Documentary Network and Creative England. Matt Aspray, CEO, Motion Picture Solution CEO of Motion Picture Solutions, Matt Aspray has been integral to the growth of the London-headquartered distribution and exhibition-focused film services company since he joined as employee number 1 back in 2006. With a background in product design and development, Matt’s drive has elevated MPS from a specialist provider of engineering and technical support for major premieres to a day-and-date facility that now handles content mastering, localisation, digital rights management and distribution for worldwide releases. Matt’s recent commercial successes include the launch of MPSLabo, an LA-based joint venture with LatAm’s LaboDigital, and the establishment of a pan-European content distribution partnership with Gofilex. In his spare time, Matt wears loud trousers. Gareth Ellis-Unwin, Head of Film, Creative Skillset Gareth Ellis-Unwin is the Head of Film for Creative Skillset, the industry-led skills body for the screen-based industries. He is leading on delivering the BFI’s action plan, Future Film Skills, and also manages the Skills investment Fund known as the film levy. Gareth was previously co-Founder and CEO of multi-award-winning Bedlam Productions, which was formed in 2000. He was producer of the critically acclaimed The King’s Speech, the highest grossing British independent film to date, which won four Academy Awards including Best Film and seven BAFTAs, including Best Film and Outstanding British Film. His other credits as producer include Zaytoun, BAFTA-nominated British war film Kajaki: The True Story and Exam, which was also nominated for a BAFTA and won Spirit and Dinard awards. Most recently he completed Steel Country, starring Andrew Scott and Denise Gough, which is starting its festival campaign summer 2018. Gareth Ellis-Unwin will remain involved with Bedlam’s current projects as a non-executive director of the company. Caroline Cooper Charles, Producer and Film Executive Caroline’s 20 year career within the film industry has evolved from running her first production company with acclaimed music video director Dawn Shadforth to her most recent combined roles as Strategic Development Executive for Screen Yorkshire and Talent Development Executive for Scottish Film Talent Network. Along this journey she has spent time as Head of Film at Creative England, Head of Creative Development at Warp X, managed the UK Film Council’s nationwide short film programme through her company Lifesize Pictures and spent a year as Director of the Sheffield International Documentary Festival. Alongside her various positions Caroline has continued her own producing career through her company Universal Spirits and is currently Executive Producing a number of features. Caroline has particular expertise in identifying and cultivating new and evolving voices and is passionate about championing talent based outside of London. James Norrie, Director of Global Sales and Acquisitions, AMP International Over a 20-year career, James has overseen the sales of a diverse range of films, including blockbusters The Passion Of The Christ, What Women Want and Apocalypto and other critical and commercial successes such as Before The Devil Knows You’re Dead, An Ideal Husband, The Edge of Love and Miss You Already on which he was an executive producer. James was directly responsible for finding an acquiring TIFF Midnight Madness movie Baskin written and directed by the ferocious new talent Can Evrenol; Welcome to the Jungle with Jean-Claude Van Damme and Adam Brody (UK/US: Universal) and Viking epic Northmen: A Viking Saga (UK: eOne / US: Starz). In 2016 he set up AMP International with Inderpal Singh and Bob Portal of Alliance Media Partners launching sales on cult sci-fi hit The Endless, Sam Rockwell starrer Blue Iguana and Anna And The Apocalypse (Orion releasing Christmas 2018) on which he is an executive producer. Lawrence Francis, Director, Premier Lawrence is a company director at leading integrated creative agency PREMIER, with responsibility for strategy and business development across the agency’s extensive portfolio of film and entertainment clients. Lawrence’s experience within the film industry began in production, and his career has since seen him bridge various marketing disciplines including advertising, PR, events and social media at various agencies. He has delivered UK and international campaigns for clients including Universal Pictures, SKY, The BFI, Channel 4, Sony, and Disney. Outside of the entertainment industry Lawrence has also led PREMIER’s work with a range of consumer brand clients, including the creation a number of award-winning global campaigns for sexual wellbeing brand Durex, international PR and social media for The Eurovision Song Contest and major fundraising activations for charities including Evelina London Children’s Hospital. Lawrence may also be familiar to some as the “man-on-the-mic” at the UK Film Centre at the Cannes Film Festival, where he has hosted the We Are UK Film event and seminar programme for the last seven years Lawrence Atkinson, Chief Executive Officer, The DDA Group Lawrence Atkinson is Chief Executive Officer of The DDA Group, leaders in global film, television and entertainment communications. Atkinson joined DDA Public Relations in February 2006 as Executive Vice President and subsequently acquired a majority equity stake in the company and assumed responsibility for the agency’s future. He manages the agency alongside Chief Operating Officer John Stannard, President and partner Dana Archer and President, Film & Television, Neil Bhatt. Founded in London in 1970, with offices in London and Los Angeles, as well as affiliates and associates in most other parts of the world, DDA is the leading global film and entertainment communications agency, offering a bespoke service and a truly worldwide reach for the Creative Industries. DDA provides creative and insightful strategies and, turnkey campaign solutions for film, television and brands. DDA’s broad portfolio of services includes public relations, strategic consultancy, event production and management, digital & social, insight & analytics, brand partnerships and integration, personal representation, creative design, and awards campaigns. Previous Employment history Prior to DDA, Atkinson was Director of Film (UK) for UK Entertainment PR Agency Premier Communications. At Premier, he was responsible for developing and handling business for the agency across all areas of the Film industry, including UK Distribution Campaigns for both major studios and the independent sector, Premieres, Unit and Production Publicity, International Film Festivals and Home Entertainment. Before Premier PR, Atkinson served as Publicity Manager for the UK Publicity Division of leading international film distributor Buena Vista International (UK) Ltd, operating in both London and at the Walt Disney Studios in Los Angeles. During his six years at Disney, Atkinson was responsible for UK distribution campaigns across a variety of titles from Walt Disney Pictures, Pixar, Miramax, Touchstone Pictures and local productions and acquisitions. Atkinson started his career in film at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in 1995 where he worked in the press office during Artistic Director Mark Cousins’ tenure. Atkinson is a member of BAFTA, AMPAS, the PRCA, and is on the Board of Trustees of MediCinema, a charity dedicated to improving the wellbeing of patients, their families and carers across the UK through the magic of the shared cinema experience. Ste Thompson, CEO and founder, POWSTER Ste is the CEO and founder of POWSTER, a provider of creative services to over 100 film distributors in over 40 countries and music videos and interactive content to the major music labels. Ste has led the POWSTER creative vision since its foundation in 2009, winning many prestigious awards. Ste’s primary skill is product development and innovation. Prior to POWSTER, he developed creative content for the music and brand industry and studied multimedia, computer game design and digital media. Ste is now located in Los Angeles with Powster studios in LA and London.	cc/2022-05/en_head_0052.json.gz/line87

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