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Iranian leader Ahmadinejad in Rudd's sights
Dennis Shanahan, Political editor | May 14, 2008
THE Rudd Government is preparing a case to take Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to the International Court of Justice for "inciting genocide" and denying the Jewish Holocaust.
Australia is the only nation pursuing Iran's despotic leader, who has threatened to "wipe Israel off the map", through international laws.
The Australian revealed last October that Kevin Rudd, then the Opposition leader, promised the Jewish community before last year's election he would take legal proceedings in the ICJ against Mr Ahmadinejad.
The Labor leader said it was "strongly arguable" that Mr Ahmadinejad's conduct - statements about wiping Israel off the map, questioning whether Zionists were human beings and a conference that he convened on the veracity of the Holocaust - amounted to incitement to genocide, which was criminalised under the 1948 genocide convention.
Attorney-General Robert McClelland, who pushed the campaign against Mr Ahmadinejad when he was Labor's foreign affairs spokesman, confirmed yesterday the Government was seeking legal advice on taking Mr Ahmadinejad to the ICJ. "The Government considers the comments made by Iranian President Ahmadinejad, calling for the destruction of Israel and questioning the existence of the Holocaust, to be repugnant and offensive," Mr McClelland told The Australian yesterday. "The Government is currently taking advice on this matter."
Mr McClelland had argued that taking legal action was better than other alternatives. "The alternative to not using these international legal mechanisms is considering wholesale invasion of countries, which itself involves, obviously, expense but more relevantly, ofcourse, the potential for significant loss of life," Mr McClelland said.
An Iranian government spokesman was unavailable for comment when contacted by The Australian yesterday. International pressure on Iran has grown exponentially recently with estimates that the Ahmadinejad Government could have nuclear capability within 18 months.
At the remembrance ceremony in Israel for the 60th anniversary of the Jewish state, Israeli leaders linked the horrors of the Nazi holocaust with the fears of a nuclear-armed anti-Israeli state.
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said: "Sixty-three years have passed since the Satanic factories of death of the Nazis and their collaborators ceased to operate, yet with the passing of time, the dimensions of the Holocaust still remain beyond comprehension, unfathomably shocking, unacceptably chilling. "Who would have believed that 63 years later, hatred of Jews and Israelis would rear its ugly head in so many different places around the globe, provocatively and venomously, inciting hatred?"
Trade Minister Shaul Mofaz claimed Iran could have the technology to make a bomb this year. Earlier intelligence-based assessments suggested Iranian scientists need at least 18months to produce a bomb.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23695580-601,00.html
Bush slams Iran in Knesset speech
Matthew Fisher and Sheldon Alberts, Canwest News Service, Thursday, May 15, 2008
JERUSALEM - U.S. President George W. Bush told the Israeli Knesset Thursday that those who would talk with Iran or Syria were guilty of "appeasement" of a kind that once emboldened Hitler.
The remark was widely interpreted as a thinly veiled attack on Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, who has said the U.S. should not exclude talking with Iran or Syria.
"Some seem to believe that we should negotiate with the terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along," Bush said. "We have heard this foolish delusion before. As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American senator declared: "Lord, if I could only have talked to Hitler, all this might have been avoided.
U.S. President George W. Bush attend the Israeli parliament Thursday.Ariel Schalit/Pool/Getty Images
"We have an obligation to call this what it is - the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history."
Much of the president's speech to the Israeli legislators was about Iran's nuclear ambitions, the menace of terrorism and how democracies would defeat it.
"To permit the world's leading sponsor of terror to possess the world's deadliest weapon would be an unforgivable betrayal of future generations," Bush said during a speech that was the focal point of a three-day trip to the Holy Land to share in Israel's celebrations of the 60th anniversary of its creation.
"For the sake of peace the world must not allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon."
Bush again pledged to help Israel remain secure. Israel was not a nation of seven million alone against its enemies, he said, but rather "when you confront terror and evil, you are 307-million strong because America stands with you."
Bush described Israel as "the freest democracy in the Middle East" and said that it was his "bold vision" that by the time the Jewish state was another 60 years older there would also be democracy in Syria and Iran.
The president also forcefully denounced anti-semitism.
"We believe that religious liberty is fundamental to civilized society so we condemn anti-Semitism in all forms whether by those who openly question Israel's right to exist, or by others who quietly excuse them," he said. "Some people suggest that if the United States would just break ties with Israel, all our problems in the Middle East would go away."
In his second visit in four months after not setting foot here during the first seven years of his presidency, politicians and commentators alike have hailed Bush as one of the country's most loyal friends ever. At the same time there has been much comment that the next U.S. president may not be nearly as supportive of Israel as Bush has been.
Before Bush addressed the Knesset, his host, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, also spoke of the scourge of extremism and described Iran as "the greatest threat to world peace."
The prime minister, who is fighting for his political life against mounting bribery allegations, singled out "the murderous, fundamentalist threat of terror, which is devoid of any moral inhibitions, (as) the most important challenge currently facing democratic societies around the globe.
"The outcome of this confrontation will have far-reaching repercussions on the future and the way life of the free world. You, Mr. President, will be remembered as the man who courageously and without hesitation took the reins of leadership and stood firmly and determinedly against this formidable challenge."
Referring to Iran, Olmert said that while Israel did not rule out military action, "presenting a united international, political and economic front (and) more severe and effective sanctions is a necessary even if not final step" to curb the threat.
The Israeli leader recalled that it was the U.S. which was the first country to recognize his country when David Ben Gurion declared its independence in 1948; that the U.S. had provided arms when the Soviet Union gave weapons to Israel's enemies; and that when Bush's father was president he had helped Ethiopian Jews emigrate to Israel.
"The deep-rooted friendship between the United States and Israel is not an accidental one, and it cannot be taken for granted," Olmert said. "It is a friendship predicated on shared values and on a moral, human and social destiny, the main principles of which are individual liberty, social justice and peace."
Bush spent the morning touring the ruins of a 2,000-year-old Roman fortress at Masada near the Dead Sea. He, Olmert and their entourages rode a cable car up a steep cliff to the place where nearly 1,000 Jews committed suicide rather than surrender to Roman legions trying to maintain control of Judea.
Back in the U.S., Obama, who has favoured direct diplomatic engagement with Iran, condemned Bush for what he perceived as a political smear against him delivered on foreign soil.
"It is sad that President Bush would use a speech to the Knesset on the 60th anniversary of Israel's independence to launch a false political attack," Obama said.
"George Bush knows that I have never supported engagement with terrorists, and the president's extraordinary politicization of foreign policy and the politics of fear do nothing to secure the American people - or our stalwart ally Israel."
He said the U.S. needs "to do what Kennedy, Nixon and Reagan did and use all elements of American power - including tough, principled, and direct diplomacy - to pressure countries like Iran and Syria."
The White House denied Bush was singling out Obama for criticism, saying the president's remarks were addressed at all politicians who favour talks with radical regimes.
"I would think that all of you who cover these issues . . . have for a long time have known that there are many who have suggested these types of negotiations with people that President Bush thinks we should not talk to," said White House spokeswoman Dana Perino to reporters. "I understand when you're running for office you sometimes think the world revolves around you - that is not always true and it is not true in this case."
Senator John McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, said he agreed with Bush's characterization about the dangers of appeasement.
While McCain did not directly accuse Obama of appeasement, the Republican senator slammed the Democratic front-runner for proposing talks with Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
"I think that Barack Obama needs to explain why he wants to sit down and talk with a man who is the head of a government that is a state sponsor of terrorism, that is responsible for the killing of brave young Americans, that wants to wipe Israel off the map, who denies the Holocaust," McCain said in Columbus, Ohio. "That's what I think Senator Obama ought to explain to the American people.''
While Bush and Olmert were sightseeing, Palestinians, who have often accused the U.S. of being too close to Israel to be an honest broker in Middle East peace talks, held marches and launched black balloons in the air over the West Bank to recall events of 60 years ago, which they recall as the Nakba or the Catastrophe.
Bush did not specifically mention the struggling Annapolis peace process, which he initiated last fall, but he did state that he believed the Palestinians would realize their dream of having a state.
© Canwest News Service 2008
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/world/story.html?id=86ac6741-e016-45f2-8e91-a6e7b1a3ddf4
US, Israel see need for 'tangible action' on Iran nukes
By BARAK RAVID & SAHAR ILAN, Haaretz, 16 May 2008 / Iyyar 11, 5768
JERUSALEM — The United States and Israel agree on the need for "tangible action" to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's spokesman said Friday, after a visit by US President George W. Bush.
"We are on the same page. We both see the threat ... And we both understand that tangible action is required to prevent the Iranians from moving forward on a nuclear weapon," Olmert spokesman Mark Regev said.
Regev described diplomatic efforts so far to exert pressure on Iran as "positive", but added: "It is clearly not sufficient and it's clear that additional steps will have to be taken".
Asked about the option of using military force, Regev said: "Leaders of many countries have talked about many options being on the table and, of course, Israel agrees with that."
Senior officials in Jerusalem said Thursday that Israel is fully satisfied with the results of Bush's visit, including policy on Iran's nuclear program.
Israel presents new 'evidence' on Iran
"In talks with the president of the United States during his visit it was made clear that Bush's statements on the subject of Iran's nuclear program are fully backed in practice," a senior official said.
The president's attitude on Iran was well known in Israel, and the expectation had been that he would use forceful language against Tehran, both during talks with Israeli officials and in his address to the Knesset, not only on the nuclear question but on Iran's role in the region.
During meetings with Olmert and Defense Minister Ehud Barak, more data was presented to back the desire for a reassessment of an American intelligence report which concluded that Iran had halted its nuclear weapons program.
One Israeli source said that it is hoped that the new information would influence the administration's stance on Iran's nuclear program.
The source said that Olmert would discuss the subject during his visit to Washington in two weeks.
President Bush ended his three-day visit to Israel on Friday and headed for Saudi Arabia.
President and first lady take Bible Land tour
The president and First Lady Laura Bush flew out of Tel Aviv's Ben-Gurion Airport after a morning at Bible Lands Museum in Jerusalem, where they viewed artifacts from the time of biblical writings and spoke with young Israelis about hopes for peace.
In his address to the Knesset on Thursday, Bush promised unflinching US support. "Citizens of Israel, Masada shall never fall again, and America will always stand with you," he said.
Bush added that calls for negotiations with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad are akin to the efforts to appease Hitler before World War II.
The president opened his speech by saying in Hebrew: "Happy Independence Day." His address focused on the alliance between the US and Israel.
"Israel's population may be just over 7 million. But when you confront terror and evil, you are 307 million strong, because America stands with you," Bush said.
"You have raised a modern society in the Promised Land, a light unto the nations that preserves the legacy of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. And you have built a mighty democracy that will endure forever and can always count on America to stand at its side."
Fulfilling 'ancient promise'
He noted that Israel's Declaration of Independence "was the redemption of an ancient promise given to Abraham, Moses, and David — a homeland for the chosen people in Eretz Yisrael."
The president also presented his vision of Israel in the next 60 years. "Israel will be celebrating its 120th anniversary as one of the world's great democracies, a secure and flourishing homeland for the Jewish people."
His address was interrupted no less than 14 times by loud applause.
"America stands with you in breaking up terrorist networks and denying the extremists sanctuary. And America stands with you in firmly opposing Iran's nuclear weapons ambitions.
"Permitting the world's leading sponsor of terror to possess the world's deadliest weapon would be an unforgivable betrayal of future generations. For the sake of peace, the world must not allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon," the president said.
Bush accused Ahmadinejad of seeking to return the Middle East to the Middle Ages by calling for the destruction of Israel.
"Some seem to believe we should negotiate with terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along," he said. "We have heard this foolish delusion before.
President manifests 'Zionist vision'"As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American senator declared: 'Lord, if only I could have talked to Hitler, all of this might have been avoided.' We have an obligation to call this what it is — the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history."
After the speech made by German Chancellor Angela Merkel to the Knesset in March, it was hard to expect a more pro-Zionist speech.
But as a former Knesset speaker, MK Reuven Rivlin, put it Thursday, "I wish our leaders would make speeches like this." Rivlin described Bush as "manifesting the Zionist vision."
Contrary to the applause Bush received for his address, the speech by Prime Minister Olmert was less popular and stirred considerable controversy.
Olmert promised that when there is a peace agreement it "will be approved by a large majority in the Knesset and it will be supported by the vast majority of the Israeli public."
Two MKs from the National Union, Zvi Hendel and Uri Ariel, left the plenum in protest, complaining that the event was "used to promote a political agenda that is opposed by most of the Israeli public."
Sanctions not the final stage
Hendel issued a statement calling on Olmert "to learn from the president of the United States what Zionism is." MK Aryeh Eldad (National Union) called out during Olmert's speech, "in your dreams." He later proposed that Bush should replace Olmert.
Throughout the exchanges among the rival Israeli politicians, President Bush appeared to be enjoying himself. When Knesset speaker Dalia Itzik finished her speech, he offered his hand in a "give me five" kind of love.
On Iran, Olmert said that "the seriousness of the threat demands that no means be discounted." However, he made it clear that "a uniform international political and economic front against Iran is currently in place, and tougher and more effective sanctions are a necessary stage, even if it is not the final stage, on the right way to block the Iranian threat."
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/984045.html
Hamas condemns the Holocaust
Bassem Naeem, May 12, 2008 2:30 PM
As the Palestinian people prepare to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Nakba ("catastrophe") - the dispossession and expulsion of most of our people from our land - those remaining in Palestine face escalating aggression, killings, imprisonment, ethnic cleansing and siege. But instead of support and solidarity from the western media, we face frequent attempts to defend the indefensible or turn fire on the Palestinians themselves.
One recent approach, which seems to be part of the wider attempt to isolate the elected Palestinian leadership, is to portray Hamas and the population of the Gaza strip as motivated by anti-Jewish sentiment, rather than a hostility to Zionist occupation and domination of our land. A recent front page article in the International Herald Tribune followed this line, as did an article for Cif about an item broadcast on the al-Aqsa satellite TV channnel about the Nazi Holocaust.
In fact, the al-Aqsa Channel is an independent media institution that often does not express the views of the Palestinian government headed by Ismail Haniyeh or of the Hamas movement. The channel regularly gives Palestinians of different convictions the chance to express views that are not shared by the Palestinian government or the Hamas movement. In the case of the opinion expressed on al-Aqsa TV by Amin Dabbur, it is his alone and he is solely responsible for it.
It is rather surprising to us that so little attention, if any, is given by the western media to what is regularly broadcast or written in the Israeli media by politicians and writers demanding the total uprooting or "transfer" of the Palestinian people from their land.
The Israeli media and pro-Israel western press are full of views that deny or seek to excuse well-established facts of history including the Nakba of 1948 and the massacres perpetrated then by the Haganah, the Irgun and LEHI with the objective of forcing a mass dispossession of the Palestinians.
But it should be made clear that neither Hamas nor the Palestinian government in Gaza denies the Nazi Holocaust. The Holocaust was not only a crime against humanity but one of the most abhorrent crimes in modern history. We condemn it as we condemn every abuse of humanity and all forms of discrimination on the basis of religion, race, gender or nationality.
And at the same time as we unreservedly condemn the crimes perpetrated by the Nazis against the Jews of Europe, we categorically reject the exploitation of the Holocaust by the Zionists to justify their crimes and harness international acceptance of the campaign of ethnic cleansing and subjection they have been waging against us - to the point where in February the Israeli deputy defence minister Matan Vilnai threatened the people of Gaza with a "holocaust".
Within 24 hours, 61 Palestinians - more than half of them civilians and a quarter children - were killed in a series of air raids. Meanwhile, a horrible crime against humanity continues to be perpetrated against the people of Gaza: the two-year-old siege imposed after Hamas won the legislative elections in January 2006, which is causing great suffering. Due to severe shortages of medicines and food, scores of Palestinians have lost their lives.
It cannot be right that Europeans in general and the British in particular maintain a virtual silence toward what the Zionists are doing to the Palestinians, let alone supporting or justifying their oppressive policies, under the pretext of showing sympathy for the victims of the Holocaust.
The Palestinian people aspire to freedom, independence and peaceful coexistence with all their neighbours. There are, today, more than six million Palestinian refugees. No less than 700,000 Palestinians have been detained at least once by the Israeli occupation authorities since 1967. Hundreds of thousands have so far been killed or wounded. Little concern seems to be caused by all of this or by the erection of an apartheid wall that swallows more than 20% of the West Bank land or the heavily armed colonies that devour Palestinian land in a blatant violation of international law.
The plight of our people is not the product of a religious conflict between us and the Jews in Palestine or anywhere else: the aims and positions of today's Hamas have been repeatedly spelled out by its leadership, for example in Hamas's 2006 programme for government. The conflict is of a purely political nature: it is between a people who have come under occupation and an oppressive occupying power.
Our right to resistance against occupation is recognised by all conventions and religious traditions. The Jews are for us the people of a sacred book who suffered persecution in European lands. Whenever they sought refuge, Muslim and Arab lands provided them with safe havens. It was in our midst that they enjoyed peace and prosperity; many of them held leading positions in Muslim countries.
After almost a century of Zionist colonial and racist oppression, some Palestinians find it hard to imagine that some of their oppressors are the sons and daughters of those who were themselves oppressed and massacred.
Palestinians had nothing to do with the Holocaust but find themselves punished for someone else's crime. But we are well aware and warmly welcome the outspoken support for Palestinian rights by Israeli and Jewish human rights activists in Palestine and around the world.
We hope that journalists in the west will begin to adopt a more objective approach when covering events in Palestine. The Palestinian people are being killed by Israel's machine of destruction on a daily basis. Nevertheless, we still see a clear bias in favour of Israel in the western media.
The Europeans bear a direct responsibility for what is befalling the Palestinians today. Britain was the mandate authority that handed over Palestine to Israeli occupation. Nazi Germany perpetrated the most heinous crimes against Jews, forcing the survivors to migrate to Palestine in pursuit of safety. We, therefore, expect the Europeans to atone for their historic crimes by restoring some balance to the inhuman and one-sided international response to the tragedy of our people.
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/bassem_naeem/2008/05/hamas_condemns_the_holocaust.html
Fredrick Töben comments: The following article confirms my personal experience before the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity, i.e. that individuals working there are politically motivated and have little sense of justice. For example, that truth is not a defence in any of the proceedings and that a ‘hurt feeling’ can find someone guilty is the arbitration standard applied by those who work there. Anyone can have a hurt feeling because it is part of our human make-up – if we let ourselves be hurt! When I first became involved with the HREOC in 1996 then conciliator Kirsty Gowan, who left soon after, informed me that the HREOC is an international political body. Paul Sheehan succinctly sums up HREOC’s nature: “… the deeply ideological nature of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, a fundamentally parasitic and punative institution.” That Australia’s HREOC is merely following the pattern set by Canada’s Human Rights Commission is illustrated in the articles that follow Paul Sheehan’s.
Lawyers, mugs and money
Paul Sheehan, The Sydney Morning Herald, 21 April 2008
At the grandiose conference held at the weekend, no one appeared to be grappling with the social cancer of our time: the rising tide of litigation, compulsion, intrusion, the creeping sense of entitlement over obligation, the proliferation of tribunals.
Australia is becoming a society under the rule of lawyers, not law.
What goes on in our courtrooms and tribunals bears only a passing resemblance to the moral code by which the vast bulk of society lives and which maintains social cohesion.
This stark divide was sistilled unintentionally, in the April issue of the Law Society Journal, in a review of The Making of Me, by Tegan Wagner, the story of her gang rape, her ordeal with the legal system and her efforts to reclaim her life. The book is reviewed by Andrew Haesler, SC, who happens to be one of the three senior barristers who cross-examined Wagner, then 17, over a period of three days.
After offering faint praise, Haesler writes: “Her desperate desire for affirmation and self-righteous tone irritates, in a way the parents of a teenager would know. Tegan is not a dispassionate observer. Her critique of the trial process suffers as a consequence…
“Tegan claims she was raped by three brothers. Only two were convicted. I acted for the brother who was acquitted. There were sound reasons for that acquittal. Tegan’s ‘fairer’ system would have seen my client jailed for a very long time. Her rapes were unjust and wrong, but so, too, would be the conviction and long-term imprisonment of an innocent boy.”
Excuse me while I go and vomit.
Innocent Boy had already been convicted of gang rape. Twice. He was serving time in jail after being sentenced by Justice Brian Sully on April 22, 2004, more than a year before Wagner was cross-examined in May 2005.
Innocent Boy avoided trial by jury because his elder brother, and co-accused, had deliberately aborted the trial.
Innocent Boy avoided conviction in this matter because Justice Peter Hidden, even though he made it clear to Wagner that he did not doubt the veracity of her testimony, said she could not convict in the absence of any corroborating evidence.
Innocent Boy bis now the subject of a fourth gang-rape complaint, completely independent of the three earlier gang-rape cases.
As for Haesler’s advocacy on behalf of Innocent Boy, I was in court at the time and this is a taste of what I saw:
Haesler: “I suggest that in your evidence … you invented much of what happened in the bedroom?”
Wagner: “I didn’t invent anything.”
Haesler: “I suggest that both in your evidence and in the tapes you have hidden some of the things that you know occurred in the bedroom?”
Wagner: “I didn’t hide anything. Everything that I remember I put down in my statement …”
Haesler: “I suggest to you then you have not told the truth about who you went into the bedroom with initially?”
Wagner: “No, I have told the truth…”
Haesler: “Then I suggest that you have invented or added at least one extra person?”
Wagner: “I have not invented or added anybody. It was three.”
Haesler: You agree that your memory was affected in some respect by what occurred that night?”
Wagner: “Yes.”
Thatw as the core of his case: confusion or invention by the witness. It took him 432 questions. All up, the three defence counsel asked the victim 1971 questions, during which they repeatedly questioned her veracity and reliability.
Given the complete absence of any significant reform in this area, it comes as only a mild surprise to learn that the Director of Public Prosecutions, Nicholas Cowdery, has entered new territory by lodging a complaint with the Legal Services Commission over the recent conduct of a defence barrister in a rape case, Tania Evers. Aftyer a marathon three days of cross-examination of a 15-year alleged victim by Evers, the trial judge, David Freeman, aborted the trial because he said the marathon defence cross-examination had caused the trial to “run off the rails”.
The alleged victim, whow as 13 at the time of the rape, must face another trial, if she can. This is the parallel morality of our court system at work. This is the closed logic of the justice system, where juries are actively prevented – by law and by practice – from accessing any and all material they might wish to access in making a moral judgment.
Reform? You must be joking. You only have to glance at the weekend’s ideas conference in Canberra, where, far from even acknowledging the rising tide of litigation, compulsion and intrudion, there were more calls from more lawyers for more laws, more codesw amd more avenues for litigation.
Perhaps the most disgraceful contribution was the waxen stupidity of the federal Human Rights Commisioner, Graham Innes, who advocated a bill of rights.
It appears never to have occurred to him that in so doing he would be confirming the deeply ideological nature of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, a fundamentally parasitic and punative institution.
The commission, like the NSW Anti-Discrimination Board and their clones in other states, exist as a punitive tool for the vexatious, the dogmatic, the axe-grinders and grudge-holders who can exploit the nebulous area of “humanm rights” to cause pain through process.
The result doesn’t matter to them. It’s the burden of accusation that counts. That’s why Islamic fundamentalists wage war against evangelical Christians through the human rights and discrimination machinery. They do so because they can.
Nothing was said at the weekend talkfest to allay fears about this creeping evolution of our legal system away from open democracy, towards the primacy of international law over Australian law and towards the shift of power away from elected parliaments to unelected tribunals.
[- bold emphasis added by AI]
RCMP launches investigation into CHRC tactics
By Ezra Levant, May 20, 2008 12:32 AM
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police have begun an investigation into alleged criminal conduct by members of the Canadian Human Rights Commission.
The conduct in question was revealed at an extraordinary hearing on March 25th, a hearing the CHRC desperately tried to keep closed to the press.
An officer of Bell Canada, appearing under a subpoena, testified that the CHRC had hacked into a private citizen's Internet account, to cover their electronic tracks as they surfed anti-Semitic websites under the alias "Jadewarr". You can read the transcript of the hearing here -- a transcript the CHRC did not release to the public.
The victim of the CHRC's illegal hacking, Nelly Hechme, told reporters that she was "completely shocked" by the CHRC's conduct. Canada's Privacy Commissioner, who has jurisdiction over the CHRC, is now investigating the matter.
But not even the CHRC's most passionate critics could have imagined that the Mounties would be investigating the CHRC.
According to this letter written two weeks ago by the Ottawa Police Service, a criminal complaint filed against the CHRC by Marc Lemire has now been referred to the RCMP's Integrated Technological Crime Unit. Here is the key excerpt from that letter:
After a full consideration of all aspects of the matter, it is our opinion that this matter falls within the jurisdiction of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. We have discussed this matter with the RCMP and the matter has been assigned to Cpl Stephane Turgeon.
I expect that the RCMP will be in touch with you...
So what happens now? Can the Conservative government really keep using its old talking points, including these two, to avoid dealing with the issue?
The Canadian Human Rights Commission and the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal are independent agencies that administer the Canadian Human Rights Act, according to procedures specified by the law, without interference from the government.
The Department of Justice continues to monitor the Commission and Tribunal to ensure that our human rights system remains effective.
Just how bad does it have to get before the government stops saying that the CHRC follows "procedures specified by the law"? We've got the Privacy Commissioner and the RCMP investigating now. What does it take to get the government's attention -- a NATO airstrike?
And how about the claim that the government is "monitoring" the CHRC to ensure that it "remains effective". Effective at what? Hacking Internet accounts? Shredding their records and deleting their hard drives? Staying out of jail? What exactly about the CHRC's conduct could be called "effective"?
Question: when the RCMP investigates CHRC staff, will the CHRC pay for their criminal lawyers? If so, is that an indication that those CHRC staff hacked the website in the course of their duties?
Until two weeks ago, the Conservative government had plausible deniability about the CHRC's corruption. But not any longer. The Justice Department's 50-page defence of the CHRC's prosecutions under section 13 moved the government from "neutral" into the "pro-CHRC" camp. That was bad policy. And now an RCMP investigation means the government has to do much more than just defend a bad law -- it means it has to defend a scandal. That's bad politics.
The Conservatives have had an excuse for not cleaning up the CHRC's stables: for six months, they've been preparing for an imminent election. Now that Stephane Dion has all but acknowledged that won't happen at least until the fall, it's time for the Conservatives to act, and to act swiftly.
I've got a three-word action plan when it comes to the CHRC: Fire. Them. All.
http://ezralevant.com/2008/05/rcmp-launches-investigation-in.html
CENSORSHIP ON TRIAL: CIVIL LIBERTIES ASSOCIATION APPLIES TO INTERVENE IN IMPORTANT FREE SPEECH CASES
The B.C. Civil Liberties Association is applying for leave to intervene in two important free speech cases before the federal and British Columbia human rights tribunals. At issue in both cases is whether the expression of controversial, even hateful expressions can be censored by the state via tribunals that traditionally protect the value of equality by sanctioning discrimination.
BCCLA President Rob Holmes: “Freedom of expression is a fundamental democratic value. Citizens of a democracy should be trusted to form their own judgments about the views expressed by others, including controversial and offensive comments. The BCCLA will seek to protect basic Charter rights so that opinions on all matters, including religion, can continue to be debated freely and without fear through all media of communication.”
Federally in Warman v. Marc Lemire and Freedomsite, the complaint focuses on anti-Semitic postings on a website run by Marc Lemire. In Elmasry and Habib v. Rogers Publishing Ltd., the complainants object to an article by Mark Steyn’s entitled “The Future Belongs to Islam” that was published in McLean’s magazine in 2006.
Both the Canadian Human Rights Act and British Columbia’s Human Rights Code have provisions that prohibit the publication of material that is likely to promote hatred or contempt against an individual or group because of the race, colour, ancestry, place of origin, religion, marital status, family status, physical or mental disability, sex, sexual orientation or age of that person or group.
The BCCLA is Canada’s leading defender of free expression. The Association takes the position that citizens have a responsibility to condemn hateful speech and that the remedy to obnoxious, hurtful speech is to promote counter expression rather than permit state censorship.
BCCLA Vice-President Jason Gratl and Micah Rankin of Hunter Litigation Chambers represent the Association.
Robert Holmes, President
Grace Pastine, Litigation Director
www.bccla.org
Little or no time for Palestinians in Parliament
Alan Ramsey, The Sydney Morning Herald, May 17, 2008
Whatever you think of the Rudd Government's first budget, know that the Labor Party's national secretary, Tim Gartrell, is a happy man. Gartrell is the bloke who has to find the money to fund Labor's election campaigns. As such, Gartrell turned budget night into a nice little earner, thank you. Labor took over the Great Hall of the Parliament, closed it to the general public for the night, and charged $2000 a ticket for a seat at a dinner table (for 10) hosted by a minister or parliamentary secretary, and $500 for a seat at a dinner table hosted by a Labor backbencher.
The Great Hall's sit-down capacity is 750. The Government's executive capacity is 42 ministers and parliamentary secretaries. At $18,000 for 42 "top" tables and $4500 for 33 "also-ran" tables - less costs of about $150 a head - the return to Labor Party election funds had to be not less than $800,000. Plus another hefty bag from a so-called "Labor Business Forum, budget briefing" breakfast, sponsored by Leighton Holdings, which Gartrell organised in the Parliament's second-floor Mural Hall (capacity 450) the morning after budget night. An additional $250,000, at least. We'll know officially later this year.
Good budget business indeed.
Recall another Rudd Government "event" two months ago, this time sponsored by the Prime Minister and co-sponsored by the Opposition Leader, Brendan Nelson. That was the 60th anniversary motion in which half the Australian Parliament - the House of Representatives - "celebrated" Israel's creation in May 1948 by a vote of the United Nations which ceded the Jewish people a homeland of half of Palestine. There was no debate of Kevin Rudd's motion. Simply two speeches, by Rudd and Nelson, and later a reception hosted by the Israeli ambassador. The date was March 13.
Five weeks later, on April 23, the Melbourne organisation Women for Palestine wrote separately to Rudd and to Nelson, asking if they would "consider favourably" similarly sponsoring a parliamentary motion recognising May 15, the actual date of the 60th anniversary of Israel's creation, as a day of "catastrophe, dispossession, displacement, exile and occupation" for the 700,000 Palestinians who'd lost their homes, their land and, in many cases, their lives in May 1948.
The letters were sent express post. Women for Palestine also emailed each of the Parliament's 226 politicians. The group got one reply - an acknowledgement from the office of Adelaide's Kate Ellis, Rudd's junior Minister for Youth and Sport. Nothing else. Nothing from Rudd or Nelson, either.
In the Parliament this week, two women MPs tried to prick their colleagues' consciences. The Greens senator Kerry Nettle and Labor's Julia Irwin, both from Sydney, tabled motions in the Senate and the House of Representatives on Wednesday. Irwin was allowed three minutes to speak on Wednesday, not in the House chamber itself but in the auxiliary main committee room. She said, in part:
"Eight years ago, I visited Israel and the occupied territories. The experience changed my views.
Today we remember what Palestinians call al-Nakba, the catastrophe. Sixty years ago, Palestinians fled their homes to escape massacres. Can those of us in Western nations, who have expressed congratulations to Israel on its 60th birthday, not spare a moment to remember the suffering of the Palestinian people 60 years ago, and the daily consequences of their dispossession, displacement, exile and occupation? Today those 700,000 Palestinian refugees have grown to 7 million. Four million live under illegal occupation. Three million live as non-citizens in Lebanon, Egypt, Jordan and other countries. Palestine was never a land without a people. "Today it is a people without a land."
Kerry Nettle's motion on Thursday urged, in part: "That the Senate (a) acknowledges and sympathises with the Palestinians whose homes were destroyed or seized and family members killed 60 years ago at the inception of the state of Israel, which the Palestinians call al-Nakba, the catastrophe; (2) remembers with shame the failure of the international community to prevent the bloody events that followed the unilateral declaration of independent statehood by Israeli leaders; (3) acknowledges the unique relationship between Australia and Palestine, commends the Palestinian Authority's commitment to democracy, reiterates Australia's commitment to Palestine's right to exist and our ongoing support to the peaceful establishment of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian issue, and on this, the 60th anniversary, pledges friendship and enduring support to the people of Palestine".
There was no debate. Nettle did not get to speak in support of what she wanted her colleagues to do. What the Senate then did was throw out Nettle's motion by 48 votes to five, with 23 senators declining to vote. The entire exercise - the reading of the motion and subsequent vote - took nine minutes. Julia Irwin had got three minutes.
Israel protests UN chief Ban Ki-Moon's use of term 'nakba'
By Rotem Sela, TheMarker Correspondent, and Haaretz Service, 16 May 2008
The Israeli mission to the United Nations is seeking clarifications after an official communique released by Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon's bureau made specific reference to the word "nakba," according to a report broadcast on Israel Radio early Friday morning.
The report said the UN chief telephoned Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to express his solidarity with the Palestinians on the day they mark the "nakba," the Arabic word meaning "catastrophe" that is used in reference to the founding of the state of Israel.
Danny Carmon, Israel's deputy ambassador to the UN, told Israel Radio that the term "'nakba' is a tool of Arab propaganda used to undermine the legitimacy of the establishment of the State of Israel, and it must not be part of the lexicon of the UN."
Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni on Thursday said that the Palestinians will be able to celebrate their independence day on the same day that the word "nakba" or catastrophe is erased from their lexicon. Livni was referring to the Palestinians' "Nakba Day" which is commemorated on May 15, the day Israel was founded in 1948.
Speaking at the closing panel of the "Facing Tomorrow" presidential conference in Jerusalem, Livni said that Israel needs a constitution, and stressed that since Israel views itself as a Jewish democratic state, it must take into account that it will have to relinquish territories. However, she said, land will only be handed over after the Palestinians change their stance.
"Deciding on fixed borders is important, but not enough; before we draw up a border we must decide what will be on the other side of it," she said.
Defense Minister Ehud Barak also addressed the crowd in Jerusalem, saying that "there is no future for a nation that doesn't know its past."
After giving an overview of the history of the state of Israel, Barak said that of all the events that Israel has experienced, the one thing that he remembers most is the day that he met Ronny, the female fighter pilot from Kibbutz Lohamei HaGetaot, who symbolized for him the long way the Jewish people had come since the Holocaust. "Ronny flies in circles 30,000 feet over Kibbutz Lohamei HaGetaot, which was established in memory of those who fought in the Holocaust," he said.
Though he called for peace in his address, Barak chose to disparage those who urge immediate peace negotiations with the Palestinians, saying "the saying 'the wolf shall dwell with the lamb' came out of Jerusalem, but in practice, the lamb is replaced every few days."
Opposition leader and Likud Chairman Benjamin Netanyahu began his address before the conference with a focus on finance. He said that Israel could turn into an "Israeli tiger" ? referencing the Celtic tiger, a nickname given to Ireland following its rapid financial development since the mid 1990s.
"Israel can enjoy 6-8 percent growth each year over the next decade," the former finance minister said. He emphasized the importance of the reforms that he had instituted during his tenure as finance minister, which, according to him, directly resulted in the financial growth Israel has enjoyed in recent years.
All three speakers chose to emphasize the importance of education in their speeches. Barak said that Israel's only resource was the gray matter between the ears of Israel's younger generation. He added that the only way to achieve security and prosperity was to invest in education.
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Biotech firms, Hub hospitals strengthen ties
By Robert Weisman
Globe Staff / December 24, 2009
Two Boston teaching hospitals are stepping up research into cardiovascular disease in separate programs that illustrate the deepening collaboration between academic medical centers and the biopharmaceutical industry.
Tufts Medical Center has received a $1.7 million federal stimulus award from the National Institutes of Health, one of Tufts’ largest grants of the year, to explore cell-penetrating peptide treatments for heart disease, using a technology licensed to Ascent Therapeutics of Cambridge. The project will employ a half-dozen researchers at Tufts’ labs in Chinatown and at outside partners and contractors.
Brigham and Women’s Hospital, meanwhile, will open the Center for Interdisciplinary Cardiovascular Sciences in a partnership with Japanese drug maker Kowa Company Ltd. to conduct basic research into the genesis of diseases such as atherosclerosis and diabetes. The Kowa-funded center, which will be the largest of the Boston hospital’s global pharmaceutical collaborations, will employ about 12 researchers in the Longwood Medical Area.
“This is a perfect example of an industry and academic medical relationship working together toward a goal of speeding the development of new treatments,’’ said Masanori Aikawa, assistant professor of medicine at Brigham and Women’s and Harvard Medical School, who will direct the center. Research projects are set to begin next month at the center, located on the 17th floor of the Center for Life Sciences, 3 Blackfan St.
The programs are part of an effort by state life sciences researchers and the Patrick administration to strengthen alliances between hospitals and biopharmaceutical companies, said Susan R. Windham-Bannister, chief executive of the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center in Waltham, which has spent $3.7 million this year on cooperative research grants funding six other collaborations.
“Massachusetts is the global leader in taking promising technologies and translating them into advance stages of development,’’ Windham-Bannister said, noting that the state is the top per-capita recipient of NIH research grants. “The academic medical centers are playing a critical role in developing young technologies. It is no longer cost-effective for companies to do all the research internally.’’
Athan Kuliopulos, principal investigator for the new NIH grant at Tufts, is an assistant professor of medicine and biochemistry and director of the school’s Hemostasis and Thrombosis Laboratory. In 2007, he and Tufts colleague Lidija Covic cofounded Ascent, which licensed from Tufts technology on which Kuliopulos and Covic had been working for the past decade. The technology involves a class of molecules known as Pepducins, which can treat acute cardiovascular stress and inhibit blood-clotting arterial thrombosis.
The NIH grant will help Tufts and Ascent validate the technology and advance research into injectable drugs that inhibit cells from sticking together and blocking blood flow.
“This has a huge significance for us,’’ Kuliopulos said. “This is, hopefully, going to help jump-start our research into the clinic. Arterial thrombosis is the leading cause of death in Americans, and these antiplatelet agents are key to preventing this.’’
Robert Weisman can be reached at weisman@globe.com.
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Prof Emeritus George Hardie
Prof George Hardie produced the artwork for Led Zeppelin’s debut album (1969). As a partner at NTA Studios, he designed many iconic record covers with the design group Hipgnosis, working on Pink Floyd’s "Dark Side of the Moon" (1973) and "Wish You Were Here" (1975), the beginning of a highly successful career.
Sitting next to a counsellor one night I was asked: 'What do you do?' I replied that I was a freelance designer, perhaps more of an illustrator, and that I taught and lectured in art schools. She told me that these were really just titles, and asked, 'What do you really do?' A month later I re-titled a lecture about working methods 'Noticing things and getting things noticed' – which is what I really try to do."
(George Hardie - Conference paper (précis). 'Drawing-the Process', Kingston University 2003, published)
Professor George Hardie was born in 1944 and trained at St Martin’s and the Royal College of Art (RCA). A renowned graphic designer, illustrator and educator, he has received many international commissions from a wide variety of clients (from 14 countries to date). George Hardie became a Professor of Graphic Design in 1990. He currently teaches on postgraduate courses. He was elected to the Alliance Graphique Internationale in 1994 and is now its International Secretary. In 2005 was elected a Royal Designer for Industry.
Whilst at the RCA, Hardie produced the artwork for Led Zeppelin’s debut album (1969). After graduation, as a partner at NTA Studios, he designed many iconic record covers with the design group Hipgnosis. He worked on the Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon (1973) and Wish You Were Here (1975), 10cc’s How Dare You (1976), Black Sabbath’s Technical Ecstasy (1976) and Led Zeppelin’s Presence (1976). His work has been exhibited extensively: with one-person retrospectives at Brighton, Barcelona and most recently in Ljublijana (2008) and exhibitions of his books at the Pentagram Gallery and in Nagoya. He has gained widespread notice through work for the Royal Mail. He won a D&AD silver award for his Millennium stamp, and designed the Channel Tunnel stamps for the Royal Mail and La Poste (1994) and the illustrations for the Magic stamps (2007).
George uses an inventive combination of mixed-media and collage techniques, experimenting with perspective and geometry, and is particularly respected for his ability to solve visual problems through careful observation and crafting of graphic solutions. His adaptability and success with both commissioned and non-commissioned work has also been remarked upon. His Manual (2005) is a limited edition work about hands, which acts as a handbook of batch production and ‘hand-made’ techniques.
George enjoys teaching at the University of Brighton where he has learnt only to set problems to which he doesn’t know the answer. His experience of teaching abroad has made him relish working in an educational system that is based on the premise that the teacher is always wrong.
Hardie’s research expertise involves graphic communication. His aspiration ‘to notice things and get things noticed’, which covers both making work and teaching, involves the telling of stories (Visual Narrative), disciplined gathering and categorisation of ideas and objects (Collecting as a design tool), understanding and inventing restrictions, involving audiences. (Rules and Games, Extended metaphors). In relation to rules and games, Hardie quotes Robert Frost; ”I’d as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.”
He has been lucky in, and endlessly informed by, working for eighteen years on a course that is based on telling stories by any means: a course cleverly written by old friends and colleagues and excellently taught by new friends and colleagues. The University of Brighton has provided him with an academic home, and base for operations, for some 22 years.
A Retrospective
George Hardie offered the following list to the University of Brighton in 2009. He calls it - Owning up to having a bit of a history. The 70s revisited in the early Twenty-First Century.
Invited to participate in National Life Stories. The British Library Sound Archive
Typical of many such publications, large and small, over the years is The Observer Book of Rock and Pop (October) which places Dark Side of the Moon sixth in Ten of the Best Album Covers (credited Hipgnosis and Hardie)
I started enjoying making the point that the first Led Zeppelin cover (1969), the image was famous not for my creativity but because I dot-stippled an iconic photograph to avoid copyright and because my client later became world famous. It was not even the best phallic image I made in my second year at the RCA
Once admitted I passed this truth on to professional audiences in six Australian cities and an audience of over two thousand students and practitioners at AGIdeas in Melbourne. As the Australian Graphic Design Association 2006 International speaker I was described as an acclaimed illustrator, designer and teacher.
Only a few months later Parsons the New School of Design, New York suggested promoting me as a 'Veteran British Illustrator'. We settled for 'Legendary British Conceptual Illustrator'. At the Parsons symposium I spoke shortly after a keynote speech, Sarah Boxer on George Herriman, and decided to admit for the first time that my Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon stickers owed a huge debt to Krazy Kat
Ganzfeld 4 includes an article about designing the cover for Led Zeppelin, Presence. I was interviewed and the piece is larded with my comments and recollections. Ganzfeld 4. 'Art History. Under Hipgnosis', Oliver Broudy. 14 pages illustrated
Finn Nygaard exhibited my 'Pink Floyd at Knebworth' poster in Fynn Nygaard and Friends. Danske Kunstindustrimuseum, Copehagen. (Catalogue)
At 60 I realised I could no longer ignore the part of my youth wasted designing record sleeves
I included my sticker for Pink Floyd, Wish You Were Here (hand related) in press releases for the exhibitions of Manual, and my stay as a visiting professor at Nagoya University of Arts. They politely said this image might remind people who I was
I used it thereafter as an example of my ‘going amateur’ projects; comparing the audience of some fifteen million (sticker) with the ninety nine possible Manual owners
In Designed by Peter Saville (2003) Saville included Bush Hollyhead and George Hardie amongst his graphic heroes in 1975
I was invited to represent the 70s on a panel for D&AD. ‘Sex, Drugs and Rock’n’Roll’ to an audience of eight hundred professionals at the Logan Hall, London. This light hearted anecdotal event made me realise that I ‘had a bit of a history’ and that I had perhaps underestimated its importance. (In spite of four 70s D&AD silver awards shared with Hipgnosis).
Instituto Universitario de Architettura, Venice insisted that I include music graphics in my lecture
For another ‘bit of a history’ read about NTA Studios (our studio in the 70s and 80s) in Eye 58 (2005), Varoom 04 (2007) - Ian Wright interview. Article on AOI covers
Open Manifesto 3 (2007) – George Hardie interview
Featured works and projects
A limited edition book and works about hands that acts as a handbook of batch-production and design techniques.
Centenary of the Magic Circle Commemorative Stamps
Five stamps for the Royal Mail illustrations and consultancy from George Hardie.
Illustration Today
The poster announced and invited attendance at 'Illustration Today: A Symposium on the State of the Art' at the New School for Design in New York
Metaphorical Measurements for a British Olympics
An illustrative reimagining of measurements involved in 30 of the Olympic and Paralympic sports
Owning up to having a bit of a history
Beginning with Hipgnosis and iconic album covers George Hardie became a Professor at the University of Brighton, and Royal Designer for Industry.
Prof Andrzej Jackowski
Internationally celebrated for his paintings, Professor Jackowski explores images of dispossession, loss and identity.
Jane Finnis
Working in digital media, Jane Finis played a key role in helping to establish Brighton as a creative media city.
Alice Stevenson
Alice Stevenson graduated in Graphic Design in 2005 and now works as a freelance illustrator, surface pattern designer and artist.
Alan Baker studied Graphic Design and Illustration from 1973-76. He also taught on the Narrative illustration MA course in its early days.
Mikey Cuddihy
Artist and writer Mikey Cuddihy uses autobiographical references to create biro drawings, collage and paper cut-out.
Alan Sorrell (1904-1974)
After the First World War, Alan Sorrell worked in a variety of artistic disciplines from large scale murals to book illustrations.
Graphic Design BA(Hons) graduate Matt Dent won a Royal Mint competition to design new British coinage.
Tom Grimsey (1960-2014)
Sculptor Tom Grimsey worked to integrate large-scale art projects into the fabric of urban regeneration.
Clare Leighton (1899-1989)
As a leading illustrator, wood engraver, painter and designer for posters, ceramics and glass, Clare Leighton enjoyed a distinguished career
Robin Plummer
Artist Robin Plummer was Dean of Faculty in Brighton from 1975 to 1989, responsible for the new polytechnic structure and the Grand Parade site.
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Active Galaxy Overview
An active galaxy is a galaxy that has a very small core of extremely high powered emissions emanating from the center of the galaxy. The core is very bright and may be highly variable compared to the rest of the galaxy. Some active galaxies have jets emanating from two sides of the center. It is believed that almost all galaxies have super-massive black holes at their centers. "Active" galaxies have an Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN) and are often referred to as "AGN" galaxies. But, not all galaxies have an "active" super-massive black hole.
For example, the black hole in our Milky Way Galaxy is not active. To be active, the galaxy must have a source of gas, dust, and/or other debris that the super-massive black hole can readily consume. As a galaxy ages, its black hole eventually runs out of local consumable materials and the black hole becomes "dormant" (but not dead).
If a fresh supply of material is devoured, a dormant super-massive black hole can begin to emit high powered jets again. This happens from time to time when two galaxies collide, or a star or nebula (cloud of gas) gets pulled into the gravity domain of a super-massive black hole. There is an accretion disk around the black hole which accelerates the materials to close to light speed and some
of the material is ejected out of the disk in the form of jets.
Pictured to the left above is Messier 87 (M87 for short or NGC 4486) a very active "radio" galaxy in the Virgo Cluster. The small white round circle in the center is the super-massive black hole. This image is a composite from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory (x-rays in blue) and the National Science Foundation's Very Large Array (VLA) radio observations in red. In this image, cold gas matter from the cluster is falling towards the core of M87, where it's met by the near light speed jet, producing shock waves in the galaxy's nearby interstellar medium.
Also to the left, is a normal light view of M87 from the Hubble Space Telescope. The super long jet is 5, 000 light years in length! The yellow ball is the AGN center, whereas the long blue jet is synchrotron radiation. Synchrotron radiation originates from collisions of electrons and positrons circulating at extremely high speeds around the lines of a strong, twisting and growing magnetic field.
All AGN galaxies exhibit the same basic processes. Namely, a super-massive "active" black hole at the center and an accretion disk around the black hole. They all have a bright central core fed by local gas and/or a nearby star. They differ mainly in intensity of input. The more intense the galactic center, the higher the radiation energy it emits. The radiation emitted varies from radio and infrared waves to x-rays and gamma-rays.
Before we dive into the various sub-categories of AGNs, let us take a look at the basic structure of active galaxies.
Basics Of An Active Galaxy
While it is still not fully understood "exactly" how jets are formed, most astro-physicists believe the jet's power comes from the accretion disc. Accretion discs around some other stellar objects are able to produce jets, but the jets around black holes are by far the most active and approach the speed of light. This is because the speed of the jet is about the same speed as the escape velocity from the accretion disk. This makes the speed of a jet from a black hole disk near the speed of light, while jets from newly born stars are much slower. When matter is ejected at speeds approaching the speed of light, these jets are called "relativistic" jets.
The most popular jet formation hypothesis is that the twisting of magnetic fields in the accretion disk collimates the outflow of plasma along the rotating axis of the black hole so that jets emerge from each face of the disk. See the artist's conception at the left.
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Kerry Youth Dance Theatre
Kerry Youth Dance Theatre was established by Catherine Young in 2008 after engaging with youths in Kenmare on a number of on-going dance workshops and research explorations during her time as Dancer in Residence. In collaboration with composer Ryan Langley, Catherine choreographed the contemporary dance work “Body Count” with the group, which premiered at Siamsa Tire Tralee in May 2008. The ensemble grew from strength touring nationally and has received Arts Council funding to research and develop new work since 2009. In 2010 KYDT was nominated for the Kerry Arts & Culture award for its work and contributions to Arts, Culture and Community in Kerry.
KYTD, Kerry’s first contemporary dance company for young people (aged 14-23), is a creative and artistic voice for young people, using movement and dance as their primary form of expression. The mission of KYDT is to develop and create new dance works for performance that showcase themes and ideas important to youths, showing their world-view of things. The company embraces all cultures and backgrounds and is committed to making high quality dance works that have the power to transform both those who engage in creative process as well as those that witness the performances. The creative process highly encourages the youths to engage fully in the creation and formation of the dances. Catherine is committed to training the company members in contemporary dance, yoga/meditation as well as in general performance technique. Dancers that continue their training with KYDT are then selected to apprentice with Catherine’s professional dance company.
KYDT works
Inside My Head (2014)
Forsaken (2013)
Rise (2012)
We Are (2011)
Lost (2009)
Body Count (2008)
Céilí Afro Dabke (2018)
It takes a Village (2017)
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Pathogenic fungi
Experimental visualization of narrower problems
Pathogenic fungi are fungi that cause disease in humans or other organisms. Approximately 300 fungi are known to be pathogenic to humans. Markedly more fungi are known to be pathogenic to plant life than those of the animal kingdom. The study of fungi pathogenic to humans is called "medical mycology". Although fungi are eukaryotic, many pathogenic fungi are microorganisms. The study of fungi and other organisms pathogenic to plants is called plant pathology.
Broader Problems:
Fungi as pests
Hazards to human health in the natural environment
Narrower Problems:
Threatened species of Oomycota
Irresponsible introduction of exotic fungal species
Threatened species of Saprolegniales
Allergy inducing moulds
Fungi as vectors of plant disease
Threatened species of Aspergillus
Threatened species of Lagenidiales
Threatened species of Peronosporales
Related Problems:
Parasites on plants
Aggravates:
Fungal plant diseases
Alimentary toxic aleukia
Microbial contamination of food
Studying pathogenic fungi
Destroying pathogenic fungi
Medicine → Pathology
Plant Life → Thallophyta, bryophyta, pteridophyta
Societal Problems → Destruction
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D: Detailed problems
Date of last update
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The Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential is a unique, experimental research work of the Union of International Associations. It is currently published as a searchable online platform with profiles of world problems, action strategies, and human values that are interlinked in novel and innovative ways. These connections are based on a range of relationships such as broader and narrower scope, aggravation, relatedness and more. By concentrating on these links and relationships, the Encyclopedia is uniquely positioned to bring focus to the complex and expansive sphere of global issues and their interconnected nature.
The initial content for the Encyclopedia was seeded from UIA’s Yearbook of International Organizations. UIA’s decades of collected data on the enormous variety of association life provided a broad initial perspective on the myriad problems of humanity. Recognizing that international associations are generally confronting world problems and developing action strategies based on particular values, the initial content was based on the descriptions, aims, titles and profiles of international associations.
The Union of International Associations (UIA) is a research institute and documentation centre, based in Brussels. It was established in 1907, by Henri la Fontaine (Nobel Peace Prize laureate of 1913), and Paul Otlet, a founding father of what is now called information science.
Non-profit, apolitical, independent, and non-governmental in nature, the UIA has been a pioneer in the research, monitoring and provision of information on international organizations, international associations and their global challenges since 1907.
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Robert W. “Bob” Packwood papers
Posted on November 1, 2018 at 9:42 am.
Written by bkelm
The Robert W. “Bob” Packwood papers comprise the records of the Dorchester Conference started by then-Oregon state representative Robert Packwood, legislative material generated and received by Packwood’s office during his five terms as a United States Senator from Oregon, material related to his campaigns, press and public relations material, personal/political files, and autobiographical writings.
Bob Packwood was born in Portland, Oregon in 1932. He attended Grant High School in Portland and graduated from Willamette University in 1954 with a degree in political science. As an undergraduate, he served as an officer in the Young Republicans Club and worked on Mark O. Hatfield’s successful bid for the Oregon legislature.
After graduation, Packwood was awarded a prestigious Root-Tilden Scholarship to attend New York University Law School. As a law student, he won a first-round national moot court competition and was elected student body president. In 1957, Packwood worked as a law clerk for Oregon Supreme Court Chief Justice Harold Warner in Salem, and subsequently found work in 1958 with Portland law firm Koerner, Young, McColloch and Dezendorf. He became a Republican precinct committeeman in 1959 and was named Republican Party Chairman of Multnomah County the following year.
At the age of thirty-one, Packwood successfully ran for the Oregon legislature, becoming the state’s youngest legislator when he began his term as a state representative from Portland in January 1963. The following year, Representative Packwood gained political notoriety by working with business groups and party leaders to successfully recruit, train, and coordinate GOP candidates for the state legislature in the 1964 general election. His strategy allowed the Oregon House to become the only legislative chamber in the country to switch to GOP control that year, despite a landslide election for Democrats across the nation.
As chair of the House Local Government and Elections Committee, Packwood worked to create single-member districts in Oregon, a measure adopted after he left the state legislature in 1967. In 1965, Packwood founded the Dorchester Conference, a state-wide meeting of Republican politicians and activists on the coast in Lincoln City, Oregon, with the goal of mobilizing and energizing moderate Republicans within the Oregon Republican Party.
In 1968, Packwood won the Republican nomination in Oregon to run against four-time incumbent U.S. Senator Wayne Morse. In a close race, Packwood defeated Morse, becoming the youngest member of the U.S. Senate at age thirty-six.
Packwood’s early legislative efforts include introducing the Senate’s first national (pro)-abortion legislation, advocating to abolish the seniority system within the U.S. Senate and the championing of successful environmental conservation efforts in Oregon. His environmental achievements culminated in the passage of legislation to preserve Cascade Head (1973), Hells Canyon (1975), French Pete (1978) and the Columbia Gorge (1985) in Oregon. Packwood served as chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, the campaign arm of the Senate (1977-1979; 1981-1983), where he skillfully worked to increase the fundraising capacity of the GOP, aiding the election victories of several GOP Senators during the late 1970’s and early 1980’s.
During the Presidency of Ronald Reagan, Packwood chaired both the Commerce Committee (1981-1985) and Finance Committee (1985-1987). As a member and chair of the Commerce Committee, he successfully passed legislation to deregulate several industries, including airline, trucking, railroad, and telecommunications. As chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Packwood was instrumental in proposing and guiding a bipartisan effort to pass the 1986 Tax Reform Act.
For more information about the Packwood papers and access to this collection, please see the finding aid.
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Life of a Collegiate Student Athlete
By Shantalle Demirjian September 10, 2021
Having to be disciplined in the classroom, studying, going to professors office hours along with putting relentless hours in the weight room, practices, touching base with your coaches while still having somewhat of a social life and finding time to eat in between all the madness is all that comes when being a student athlete.
At Southern Nazarene University (SNU), the athletic programs are composed of 16 teams which mean a lot of student athletes to say the least. At SNU “a goal of the Athletics Department is preparing student-athletes for life by developing a commitment to aesthetic, intellectual, and ethical values.”
So what are the thoughts and feelings of student athletes at SNU?
Logan Matthews, senior libero for SNU’s women’s volleyball team is from Norman, Oklahoma. She has been with the storm all four years of her athletic and academic career and will be graduating May 2022 with a B.S.N. in nursing. “I was excited to up my game because collegiate volleyball is on a different level than highschool volleyball. I was also excited for the adventure and new experiences I was going to make.” “ I had high expectations for myself and decided to go hard in everything I did because I had no idea what I was walking into.” Matthews says. With nursing being a very time consuming major, Matthews said the most important things she did to find her balance between school and volleyball was staying organized and setting time aside every week to figure out how to manage her time wisely.
Adokiye Iyaye is a junior from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma on the SNU Men’s Basketball team. This is now his second year playing with the storm and transferred from University of Texas San Antonio where he played two years for the Roadrunners. To Iyaye, being a student athlete means to be hard working. He says that although juggling school and athletics isn’t easy, that is the commitment you made when choosing to be a student athlete. “Handling pressure is tough but the best way to deal with pressure or completely get rid of it, is to continually work on your craft.” Iyaye says. “Most of the time you feel pressure when you aren’t prepared for something but if you are always working and trying to stay ready, pressure becomes less of a problem to deal with.” he adds
Although being a student athlete takes a lot of time, energy, and commitment, at the end of the day, being a part of something that is bigger than yourself is all worth it.
Photos by: Kevin Stark
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By Shantalle Demirjian
Shantalle Demirjian is a junior, majoring in communications with a minor in graphic design. She is a transfer from Cameron University and now is on the Southern Nazarene women's volleyball team. Originally born in Santa Clarita, California, Shantalle is naturally drawn to the coast and loves going to the beach when she has the chance to take a mini trip. She now lives in Las Vegas, Nevada and loves to go hiking at nearby national parks! Shantalle is of Lebanese Armenian descent and even speaks Lebanese. Whenever she is able to catch a break and have some free time she loves to chill, hangout with friends and play with her dog.
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Goodbye from the class of 2020
April 22, 2020 April 22, 2020 Alexa Maqueo-Toledo 1 Comment
Whether it be high school or college, senior year is always an exciting time in a student’s life. It’s the end of an important chapter in their lives. Unfortunately, Maryville College’s class of 2020 had an abrupt end to their senior year due to a pandemic that quickly swept across the world.
As classes moved online, these seniors were unable to experience the final days as Scots like the classes before them had. However, many shared their stories of their time at Maryville College and gave parting advice for all Scots.
Miracle Walls, a biology major with a chemistry minor, was an ALANA Cultural Diversity Award Scholar and a Scot Science Scholar. She spent her four years at Maryville College doing various activities outside of the classroom. She was an active member in multiple organizations and held leadership positions in many of them.
Carson Clark, Maria Vanegas, Amanda Matthews, Miracle Walls, Amy Turpin, Christy Smith, Sawyer Cradit, and Chase Chastain during 2019 Convocation.
Photo courtesy of Maria Vanegas.
Walls was a senior intern in the Maryville College Bonner Scholars program, and through it she volunteered at the Martin Luther King Jr. Community Center, Blount Memorial Hospital, and coached for an American Youth Soccer Organization team. She was an active member of Maryville College’s Latino Student Alliance and was co-president her final year. Walls learned many lessons during her time as a Scot.
This is her best piece of advice: “Plans change, and it’s okay. Make sure to take time for yourself and do different things besides school, do what you want to do,” Walls said. She believes college is the time to figure out who one is as an individual, away from any influences of their roots, and that is something great. Walls cherishes the time she had at Maryville College, and she is glad that she had many opportunities to make an impact.
Natalie Tankersley, a religion major with a history minor, is thankful to faculty and staff at Maryville College for the relationships she has formed throughout her four years. When looking at graduate schools, she looked for similar structures that would also provide her with meaningful relationships like Maryville College had.
Natalie Tankersley standing in front of the Supreme Court fighting for the rights of recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
Photo courtesy of Natalie Tankersley.
Tankersley was co-founder and vice president of the Define American chapter on campus, and this was because of the passion she found for immigrant rights through her relationships. An active ally to this community, Tankersley hopes to become an immigration lawyer in the future to fight for social justice.
Similar to Tankersley, Shoshana Overstreet, an English literature major, is very thankful for her relationship she has formed with her advisor, Lynn Coning.
Shoshana Overstreet working with the Career Center on professional development for her future career.
Photo courtesy of the Career Center.
“I’ll go into her office and just talk to her about random things,” Overstreet said. Overstreet advises Scots to treasure their time on campus as much as they can, because they don’t know what could happen. She would also like to thank all the faculty who have gone above and beyond for their students during this difficult time.
“In college, what you put into it, can be what you take away,” said Maria Isabel Vanegas, a political science major with an international studies minor. She stated that Maryville College helped her learn how to be involved with her community and how to be a leader with a positive impact. Vanegas was part of the Covenant Keepers Committee, co-president of Latino Student Alliance, and a resident assistant for three years. She thanks everyone on campus for giving her the opportunities to grow not just as a student but also as an individual.
Brinley Knowles, a history and writing communications double major, was very involved during her time at Maryville College. She was editor-in-chief of “Impressions,” the literary magazine of campus, for two years.
Sawyer Cradit, Brinley Knowles, Chase Chastain, and Maria Vengas at the Bicentennial Homecoming Celebrations.
Photo courtesy of Sabrina Schulte.
She helped organize the publication of the magazine, and the “Impressions” 2020 magazine is now on their website to view in PDF form. Knowles is also the lead academic mentor at Cooper Success and is one of the few essential student workers at Maryville College during the online classes. She still has her office hours throughout the week to help students who are struggling in various areas.
When the announcement came out that the rest of her final semester would be at home, Knowles was very heartbroken. She found it very difficult to move out and say goodbye to her time at Maryville College.
After the decision was made to hold Commencement in December, Knowles was happy that she would still get to walk that stage, but very disappointed in the fact that it would take place in the Ronald and Lynda Nutt Theatre instead of the usual Anderson Lawn.
“I don’t want to invite my family to travel to a different state during the holiday season just to watch me on a TV,” Knowles said in reference to the limited number of tickets given to each graduate. She hopes that closer to Dec.19, administration will consider moving the ceremony back to its original spot on Anderson Lawn so more families can attend.
Rachel Strickland, a biology major with a psychology minor, was part of the MC Equestrian Team during her time at Maryville College and served as captain for the 2019-2020 season. She claims her communication skills and multi-tasking capabilities are what she will take away from being a student. While she was disappointed at the way the academic year ended, she understands the college has to take proper steps to protect its students.
Rachel Strickland competing during the MC Equestrian team 2019-2020 season.
Photo courtesy of Izzy Davis.
As a first-generation college student, she is ecstatic that she will get the opportunity to walk across the stage. Join her and all of the other 2020 graduates on Dec. 19 to celebrate their accomplishments. According to a memorandum from Dr. Tom Bogart, the event will also be live-streamed for those unable to physically attend.
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John & Regina Krawczuk
Rachel,
We enjoyed your photo and comments about your school year end.
We are sorry it not be the grand celebration but you will have more school to reach your goal.
You will be a wonderful physical therapist and be able to afford to do the things you most enjoy with your life. We are very proud of you. Continue on your path as a wonderful young lady. Let us know what schools you may be considering to move ahead.
Love, John & Reggie
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The United States will remain a strong, reliable, and active partner in the region and is investing diplomatic, public diplomacy, military, and assistance resources in a way that is commensurate with the U.S. comprehensive engagement. Sources reveal secret negotiations between Pakistan’s government and the TTP, which ultimately fell apart. ASEAN also seeks to maintain close and beneficial cooperation with existing regional and international organizations that share common aims and objectives. The recent coup in Myanmar is a chance to let the Association of Southeast Asian Nations’ way of quiet diplomacy do its work. Media/press inquiries: usaseanpress@state.gov. The way forward for ASEAN to thrive despite the growing uncertainty in the region and the world is to stay united and resilient. The partnership of the United States and ASEAN focuses on five areas including economic integration, maritime cooperation, emerging leaders, opportunity for women, and transnational challenges. Asia-Europe Meeting. The latest in Philippine sports news plus up-to-date info on top international teams and athletes in basketball, football, boxing, MMA and other sports. The main aims behind the establishment of ASEAN were to promote economic growth, regional peace and stability, active collaboration, and mutual assistance on matters of common interest to all the members. Watch all the latest videos of news, business, lifestyle and entertainment from Malaysia and the ASEAN region on TheStarTV.com (current) ... Best way to stop Covid-19 wave: Stay at home, says Health DG . Moreover, ASEAN countries tend to have divergent interests and priorities. Thus, in moving forward, ASEAN must put in extra efforts to sustain and enhance its existing successes and achievements. ASEAN is not free from internal and external security challenges either.
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MEDITECH Congratulates Methodist Hospital’s Randy McCleese on CHIME, HIMSS CIO of the Year Award
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Randy McCleese has been named the 2017 John E. Gall Jr. Chief Information Officer (CIO) of the Year by the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) and Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS).
BOSTON January 29, 2018 | MEDITECH is pleased to congratulate Randy McCleese on being named the 2017 John E. Gall Jr. Chief Information Officer (CIO) of the Year by the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) and Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS).
Over the past decade, McCleese has been an active and engaged MEDITECH user, participating in many company forums and co-presenting at industry events with MEDITECH executives. McCleese currently serves as CIO at Methodist Hospital (Henderson, Ky.). Prior to that, he served for 21 years as Vice President of Information Services and CIO at St. Claire Regional Medical Center (Morehead, Ky.) where he was responsible for the strategic planning and daily operations of IT, telecommunications, informatics, and biomedical technology for the largest rural hospital in northeastern Kentucky.
“I’ve had the pleasure of working with Randy for many years, serving on planning committees and working groups, co-presenting at events, and collaborating to adapt our Enterprise Health Record (EHR) to meet new challenges,” Associate Vice President at MEDITECH, Melissa Swanfeldt said. “I’m inspired by his passion for how IT can improve care for communities that truly need it. All of us at MEDITECH congratulate Randy on this well-deserved recognition.”
The John E. Gall Jr. CIO of the Year Award recognizes a CIO for demonstrating significant leadership in healthcare and a lifetime of success and achievement as a CIO in the healthcare IT industry. The award is named for John E. Gall Jr., who pioneered implementation of the first fully integrated medical system in the world in El Camino Hospital in California in the 1960s.
With more than 30 years of information systems management experience and 20 years in healthcare informatics specifically, McCleese has dedicated his professional life not only to the healthcare IT industry but to leveraging IT to improve care delivery for the rural communities his organization serves.
“Receiving the CHIME-HIMSS John E. Gall, Jr. CIO of the Year Award is the highpoint of my career,” McCleese said. “It is truly an honor and I appreciate the opportunity to have worked with so many talented people in the HIT industry especially the MEDITECH staff that have been so helpful throughout the years.”
While at St. Claire, McCleese was instrumental in the implementation and optimization of MEDITECH’s EHR for both physician offices and acute care settings. During that time he has become a leading voice for interoperability and data exchange, particularly in the rural healthcare space, spearheading his organization’s participation in regional health information exchanges and speaking widely on the topic. McCleese, a Certified Healthcare Chief Information Officer (CHCIO), has also been a member of HIMSS and CHIME for more than 20 years and is a Fellow in both organizations.
McCleese will be honored on March 5 at the 2018 CHIME-HIMSS CIO Forum in Las Vegas and will officially receive the award at the HIMSS18 conference, March 5-9 in Las Vegas.
While at HIMSS, visit MEDITECH at booth #1360 and see what other achievements MEDITECH customers are being recognized for.
SOURCE: MEDITECH
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Summary of sonnys blues. Sonny's Blues Summary by James Baldwin 2019-01-10
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Sonny's Blues Summary
However, if such a request is not received using any of the aforementioned methods within the Refund Period, essayseducation. Perhaps they both knew this, which was why, when, as rarely, they addressed each other, they addressed each other as Sister. The blues, like the tuneless whistle and the melancholy spirituals sung by the revivalists, reinforce the idea of human suffering carried by the scapegoat metaphor. Just before they start to play again, Sonny sips from it and meets eyes with the narrator. The Negro Novel in America Press, 1958. The last movement then begins its own theme, the new relationship between the brothers.
Essay On The Short Story Sonny's Blues
Each of the conflict between the two never gets resolved, just brushed off to the side, building up tensions between the two and end up boiling over. Sonny returns to Harlem where the two men grew up and moves in with the narrator and his family once he gets out of jail. Sonnys Blues is a story written in the first-person singular narrative style. The majority of these analyses focus on the obvious themes of the book such as jazz music, the unnamed narrator, or the rift that divides Sonny and his brother. In the narrative present, the narrator is teaching a high school algebra class, and he reflects that many of the young men in the classroom are likely using drugs, too, because drugs bring relief from the rage they feel at knowing how few possibilities they have in their lives. The streets and communities of Harlem are described as being a harsh environment which claims the lives of many who have struggled against the constant enticement of emotional escape through drugs, and financial escape through crime.
Sonny's Blues, by James Baldwin (SHORT STORY SATURDAY)
The two brothers have not spoken in years until the narrator receives a letter from Sonny after his daughter dies. The street people are a paradigm of life, a kind of representative cross-section of humanity. Sonny's Blues isn't a story of two brothers living in a rough city; one of whom is a talented musician. The brothers grew up in the poverty stricken city of Harlem where the brothers had to avoid drugs and violence constantly. Gracie dies of polio at the age of two.
Sonnys Blues Character Analysis Essay Example
And he'd always been a good boy, he hadn't ever turned hard or evil or disrespectful, the way kids can, so quick, so quick, especially in Harlem. I must deal with both. Introduction to The Black American Writer, Vol. The American Heritage Dictionary defines blues as 1 a state of depression or melancholy, and 2 a style of jazz evolved from southern American Negro secular songs. The more we begin to feel while reading the story, the better we realize the actions of a protagonist and not only. At some point along their heroic journey a person may regain their strengths and develop new ones. He feels a great block of ice in his belly, melting all day long as he thinks about his younger brother, Sonny.
Sonny’s Blues Summary
A person begins with strengths, many of which they lose along the way. He blames the music and other musicians for leading Sonny to heroin, and he tells Sonny how angry he is that Sonny seems determined to end his life by being an addict. The narrator and his wife, Isabel, live in Harlem by choice. Art and Expression Baldwin believed in the power of art to save people from suffering, or at least to minimize their suffering. The persistent nature of the streets lures adolescents to use drugs as a means of escaping the darkness of their lives.
Sonny’s Blues Summary from LitCharts
The first thing we will do to read an article usually read the title. For a better understanding, of all the nuances of their relationships, it is possible to find document for reading the plot. For each generation, however, the tragedy is new, for the older people are reluctant to inform the young ones of the condition of the Black race. Little Grace died in the fall. The setting allows us to analyze someone at a deeper level.
I seemed to hear with what burning he had made it his, with what burning we had yet to make it ours, how we could cease lamenting. However, their reasons for escaping are completely different and so are the ways in which they manage to do so. His written canvas portrays a dark and continual scene pertaining to each topic. Hearing of their histories and the pains they've under gone, we see how they deal with their pain, which often truly tells character. I am the grandson of a slave, and I am a writer.
Literary Analysis: Sonny’s Blues
Sonny wants to live a life of passion, and the narrator is sternly disapproving because he cannot relate. He confesses that when their mother died he wanted to leave Harlem to get away from the drugs, but once he ran away and came back everything was still the same. In his teens, he worked as a Pentecostal preacher, under the influence of his father. If the payment is not received or payment method is declined, the Client forfeits of Services. Short Story Saturdays are a new segment on the channel where, every Saturday for the rest of the year, I'll be talking about a famous short story and how it makes me feel things. His love for music grew even more being here and there being a piano there too.
As Sonny plays the piano in the jazz club, his brother begins to understand the deep suffering and the blues that have always preoccupied Sonny. At the end Sonny reaches out to his brother and asks him to go to a jazz bar with him. He had kept this promise in mind when he returned for her funeral. Be sure, there demands will be passed directly to the assigned writer who will follow them carefully. Then in 1957, he heard of the race riot in Arkansas that occurred after nine black students began attending an all-white school. Only in music can he reach our hearts and minds.
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Midtown KC Post City council
Anti crime effort underway in Prospect corridor
Jun 10th, 2015 – by midtownkcposter0
Kansas City police and community leaders are using funding from a federal grant to fight crime in the Prospect corridor.
Police reported progress on the effort today to the council public safety committee.
Since the start of the year, police, prosecutors and community leaders have gone to some homes to speak to those at risk of committing violence or suffering from it.
“We let them know we want to keep them alive and out of prison,” said Det. Brad Bailey.
They also offer them social services and other help to escape lives of crime, he said, like the focused deterrence model used by the No Violence Alliance.
Police also discourage any acts or retaliation and encourage conflict resolution and mediation to resolve disputes, Bailey said.
They have more examples to use since their start in January, he said. “Some people have ignored this message and have become victims of violent crimes, including homicide.”
The corridor area from 25th to 39th streets and Paseo to Indiana has .5 percent of the city population, Dailey said, but over the last decade has had from 4 to 11 percent of the city’s homicides.
Ed Linnebur, of the Greater Kansas City Local Initiatives Support Corporation, said he has also been working with seven neighborhoods and with faith groups and businesses in the corridor area.
Dealing with vacant properties is among their top priorities, he said. They meet monthly and are now focused on cleaning up vacant lots and boarding up dangerous buildings at 27th and Prospect, he said.
“I want everyone to know we’re working on this,” he said. “We’re working together.”
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Skepticism Over Egypt’s Plan to Develop Sinai: Al-Monitor
September 5, 2019 by mosesman
The idea of expanding Gaza into the Sinai desert is bogus. The Zionist plan is to expel Palestinians (REAL Jews) into the North Sinai desert via war. Thus, fulfilling Revelation 12:6,13-14.
Emphasis mine:
by https://www.middleeastobserver.org/
Amid threats posed by the Islamic State in Sinai, Egypt’s minister of planning announced $316 million worth of investments in the Sinai Peninsula for fiscal year 2020, plans seen by observers as skeptical.
The Al-Monitor American website has published a report, titled “Skepticism looms over Egypt’s plan to develop Sinai”, questioning the Egyptian government’s development plans in Sinai in light of the ongoing attacks of the IS-local affiliate, “Sinai Province”, as follows:
Egypt’s government is allocating investments in the Sinai Peninsula worth 5.23 billion Egyptian pounds ($316 million) for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2020. The Ministry of Planning, Monitoring and Administrative Reform announced the news in a statement Aug. 22.
This would increase by about 75% the government investments registered in fiscal 2019 in Sinai and falls within the scope of the Egyptian government endeavors to develop the area reeling under decades of neglect.
According to political analysts and economists, the Egyptian government is showing its commitments in the implementation of the Sinai development plan it embarked on in 2018. However, this plan faces major challenges amid threats from the Islamic State (IS) branch in Sinai, which the army is seeking to uproot from its stronghold in the northern part of the peninsula.
“The government’s total investments in northern Sinai alone are about 2.85 billion pounds [$172 million], in addition to about 2.38 billion pounds [$144 million] in southern Sinai,” the ministry said in its statement.
The ministry explained that “the investments allocated to northern Sinai will focus on education, water, agriculture, irrigation, transport and storage projects as well as real estate and construction activities. This is in addition to projects in south Sinai in the agriculture, irrigation, transport, education and other services sectors.”
A Sinai source close to the security and government departments in Sinai said that for the first time the government has been expanding development projects in the peninsula. “But Sinai citizens have yet to feel the tangible results of these projects because of the security conditions there, especially in northern Sinai,” the source told Al-Monitor on condition of anonymity.
At a May 14 government meeting, Maj. Gen. Assem Abdullah, representative of the Armed Forces Engineering Authority (affiliated with the army and executing the Sinai development plan), noted that the Sinai Development Authority has completed the establishment of 171 out of 312 comprehensive development projects in the peninsula since June 30, 2014, at a cost of 199 billion pounds ($12 million). These projects include digging tunnels under the Suez Canal, developing El-Arish International Airport and establishing an industrial zone in Bir al-Abed and in the new city of Rafah.
Meanwhile, Hassan Nafaa, a professor of political science at Cairo University, linked the development of northern Sinai to the US peace plan in the Middle East, known as the “deal of the century.” He told Al-Monitor that the leaks to the media about the US plan indicate that Sinai would be part of the political settlement plan for the Palestinian cause.
The United States has denied these leaks. Trump’s Middle East peace envoy Jason Greenblatt refuted in an April 19 tweet any allegation that Sinai was part of the US peace plan.
Nafaa added, “Nobody knows what’s going on in Sinai, which is almost a no-go zone in the north where military operations are taking place. The current Egyptian administration is not transparent and we cannot know exactly what’s going on in Sinai.”
He expected to get a clear picture of the Sinai development plan by the end of this year, in light of the projected US peace process after the Israeli elections. “There will be no real development without knowing Sinai’s exact position in this [US] political process,” he concluded.
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How to find alternatives to Microsoft Office
There's no doubt about it: the Microsoft Office suite includes the best word processor and spreadsheet editor in the world. However, these top of the line features come at a steep price; you will either have to pay several hundreds of dollars for the full package, or a more modest annual subscription fee. Still, if money is an issue, you can download one of the popular Microsoft Office alternatives without paying a dime. Here they are!
1. Apache Open Office. This office package is open source and includes all the applications that are needed for regular work. Download it and you will get a word processor, a spreadsheet editor, a presentation maker, a graphics editor, a database creation tool, and more. I'd say that a special mention should go to Math, the Open Office component that allows people to create complex equations easily, by utilizing a user-friendly graphical interface.
Apache Open Office is quite similar with Microsoft Office, being easy to use and 100% free. It is downloaded and utilized by lots of governments, universities, schools and companies, as well as by regular individuals. The result of your work is saved in an open file format, thus making sure that it can be painlessly read by the most popular office software distributions in the entire world.
The application is driven by an enthusiastic community, which includes lots of developers who improve Apache Open Office regularly, adding new features to it.
2. FreeOffice is being built by SoftMaker, a popular software developer. Most people consider FreeOffice to be the best Microsoft Office alternative. It includes a word processor (TextMaker), a spreadsheet creator (PlanMaker) and a presentation builder (Presentations), and it runs great on Windows, macOS and Linux. Btw, they've got an Android version as well, even though I'll have to admit that you can find better options in Google's Play Store.
To download the software, you will have to give SoftMaker your email address, because that's how they'll send you a personalized key. You'll also get subscribed to their newsletter, but you can unsubscribe anytime if you don't want to receive their office productivity tips. I'd say it's a small price to pay in exchange for a free product that can rival Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
3. Libre Office is a powerful office productivity suite that has a clean interface and a huge set of useful tools. It can open, edit and save files in all formats that are supported by Microsoft Office (.doc, .docx, .xls, .xlsx, etc). LibreOffice can also work with the Open Document Format (ODF) and can export data in many other formats, including PDF.
Writer allows people to create documents that range from simple memos to big books which include complex diagrams. The built-in wizards help you create standard documents, such as letters and faxes, without any effort.
Calc helps beginners to spreadsheets extract the needed information quickly, by making use of advanced data mining algorithms. Predefined Calc templates are available in the LibreOffice template repository.
Impress will take your presentation skills to the next level; it includes lots of drawing and diagramming tools that will make your presentations look sophisticated. Use the "Fontworks" feature to create great looking 2D or 3D images from your texts, and then add them to the presentation using a single mouse click.
As you can see, there are several powerful alternatives to Microsoft Office. My recommendation is to download and install them all, and then keep the one that works best for you.
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Selcuk is a touristic town in the southern part of Izmir. It is 90 km away from Izmir and 9km away from the coast. It has extraordinary historical sites and, also, natural beauties. It is surrounded by forests in the south and by orchards in the east, by the sea in the west and fields in the north. The lake called Birds' paradise is in the south east.The town's people's consciousness of living together with archeological sites, ruins and natural beauties is at its peak in the town.Most of the hotels in and around the town are well adopted to their surrounding and very well equipped with modern comfort to satisfy all the needs of the visitors. The touristic facilities on the coast cover only a small part of the whole coast and the big part of it is still untouched and stays with its original beauty.
The town is an important center of the world in terms of archeology, religion, history and culture while in the antiquity, it was famous with Ephesus which was one of the largest cities of Asia at its time and Temple of Artemis which was one of the seven wonders of ancient times. Ephesus became one of the most important centers during the early Christian era with St. John, St. Paul, St. Lucas and Ecumenical Council which was held in Ephesus in 431 AD. This is why it was announced as a place for pilgrimage for Christians by The Pope. Known existence of synagogues in the region, which haven't been excavated, yet, proves this place's importance for the supporters of Jewish Religion, also.Early Turkish, Islamic-Ottoman period constructions and a lot of Selcukian art works created during 12 th Century AD are very important cultural remains which worth seeing.
Sirince village,9 km in the east of Selcuk, as being an old village, still keeps its urban character of last century. It is a nostalgic village with its houses, wine, fruits, traditional food and authentic texture and life.Sirince, with its natural beauties and historical values is anice village. It is 8 km away from Selcuk and in the east of Selcuk. It is considered that the village was built and settled during trhe reign of Aydınogulları. lts former name was “Ephesus on the Hill”. The churches, monasteries and typical Turkish houses showing the Turkish village life are worth visiting. The village is surrounded by vine yards, orchards, and olive trees. The village became more and more famous by its web like streets, generally two storied houses, hardworking and hospitable residents, excellent wine and natural beauties.
Temple of Artemis in Selcuk
In Ionia the "Lady of Ephesus", a goddess whom Hellenes identified with Artemis, was a principal deity. The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the World, was probably the best known center of her worship apart from Delos. In Acts of the Apostles, the Ephesian metalsmiths who feel threatened by Paul's preaching of the new faith, jealously riot in her defense, shouting "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!"
Ephesus has a very wide and dense archeological site. The excavations are still going on since 130 years. Total excavations made until now constitute only 3-4 % of the whole city. But, when this completed work is compared to the excavations done in similar ancient sites, in terms of labor spent in the excavations and the size of the cities, then you can understand that it is undisputable. Ephesus Museum where the findings from the excavations are kept is the most important and the richest local museum of art in Europe. The Artemis Statues exhibited in the museum are the most famous ones among the other similar cult statues. Almost every week a scientist gives a lecture and each every fifteen days a contemporary art exhibition takes place at the saloons of the museum. The ancient parts of the museum, which are used as galleries, now enable the contemporary artists to exhibit their arts and crafts.
The Grand Theatre, Odeon and Celsus Library welcome the concerts of classical music and demonstration of the famous artists. In last 15 years most of the famous orchestras performed their enchanting music's at the theatre. Many famous artists had a chance to perfor their arts at this authentic atmosphere. Because of such performances in the ruins of Ephesus, Selcuk becomes a town of culture between the months from April to November every year. The city has not been deteriorated by the men's and nature's effects over the ages. With its historical, cultural, artistic and natural attributes it has an immense tourism potential for a memorable vacation. A must for any tourist itinenary.
Selcuk is only 9 km away from the coast and 16 m high from the sea level.It is, also 50 km away from Aydın, 20 km away from Kusadası and 75 km away from Izmir which is the main central city of the region. Ali the mountains and hillsides surrounding the town, except the coast are covered with forests. The forests are rich in pine trees, plane trees, bay trees, 'myrtle trees and olive trees. In the mountains nearby there are many different kinds of animals like rabbits, wild pigs, wild ducks etc. Therefore, it is an ideal area for hunting. World wide famous fruits grown in the region are grapes, peaches and tangerines. Melons and watermelons are also famous in the country. The water resource of the plain is the Little Meander River. The plane area where the town was located was a protected inlet during the prehistoric era. Later, it was silted up by aluvions brought by the Little Meander. In 2 nd Century AD, the city of Ephesus was by the sea. The sea receded almost 5 km since then up to now. Fine sand covers the coast almost in 500 mt. widths in some parts. The sea is suitable for different kinds of sea sports. The Mediterranean Climate prevails in the region; summers are hot and dry and winters are moderate and rainy. In general, the region does not have snow and the temperature rarely drops below 0 C. Owing to moderate climate, the coast of Pamucak enables the aquatics and natural sports to be done during ten months of the year. Hiking is possible in the forests around the town. The forest road between Camlık and Sirince is a very nice route for horse rides. Parachute practicing courses are delivered at the Ephesus Airport
Isa Bey, the son of a notable person, called the architect Ali from Damascus to build this mosque in 1375. Most of the architectural pieces and columns used in the construction were brought either from the ruins of Ephesus or Temple of Artemis. This mosque, is symmetrical in plan, is known to be the most ancient sample for both Turkish type with early courtyards and Anatolian mosques, which have transepts and columns. In addition to monumental height of the main gate in the west the mosque is magnifigue one with its rich detailed decoration and faience mosaics of the south dome. With regard to second Congregation Place it has for the first time in Turkish architecture and it is the most important work of the transition period in Turkish style between Selcukian and Ottoman architecture, it has occupied a significant place in the history of art.
It is known that Virgin Mary came to Ephesus with St. John approximately 6 years after the death of Jesus Christ Depending on a dream of a German nun called A. Katherine EMMERICH, Lazarist priests discovered in 1891 that it was the house where Virgin Mary spent her last days. The house, which has some cupulas on and cross plans, was restored in 1951. The house was visited by Pope Paul VI in 1967 and by Pope Jean Paul II in 1979. Today it is a place of pilgrimage and visited by Christians all over the world since it was declared to be a sacred place by The Vatican.
One of the seven wonders of antiquely, the famous Temple of Artemis, is in Selcuk. The Temple was destroyed and then rebuilt many times throughout the history. Indeed, it was rebuilt seven times according to Plinius, the writer of antiquity. It was the continuation of mother goddess, “Cybele Cult', which existed in the past it was the first and most magnificent construction made of marble in the world. Some columns, with relief's on, were given by Lydian King Croissos, as a gift to the temple which had 60 x 1,25 mt. in dimensions. The Artemis of Ephesus was the only mother goddess, carrying both eastern and western features together.
The name of the city goes further back to 6000 BC. it was Apasas then. The city of Ephesus was built by Lysimachos who was one of the generals of Alexander The Great in 300 BC. The city lived its most brilliant ages during the Hellenistic and Roman times. It was the capitol of Asia Minor as being the largest harbor settlement with a population of 200.000 people. Ephesus, which is in the boundaries of Selcuk today, was the center of Christianity during Byzantine period.
After the death of St Paul, St John became the leader of all churches connected to the one in Ephesus and he wrote his “Gospel” here at Ephesus.St John who spent his last days of his life on this hill was also buried here after he died. First a monument on his grave and later in 4 th Century AD, around this monument, a c church with a wooden roof was built. Hundred years later (527-566) the Basilica with domes on, of which walls remain today was built by Emperor Justinian. This cross-shaped building consists of a courtyard, narthex, and a main hall with five naves. The grave of St. John is in the middle under the domed section.
The hill was protected by the fortified castle during the Byzantine, Selcukian and early Christian era. The walls, which still stand today, were built during the early Christian era. Later, a considerable restoration was made during the Selcukian period. The main entrance gate in the castle's wall
Was built in 6 th C AD by the stoned moved out from the Roman buildings' ruins. There are some cisterns and a small chapel in the castle.
Ephesus museum is one of the most important and richest museums of local art in Europe. Exhibiting only the works created in this region makes this museum very important one in Europe. It is a very rich local museum. Most of the works displayed in the museum are from Ephesus, St. John's Church, from surrounding ancient ruins and from the Moseleum at Belevi. lndeed they are all important as archeological findings from Ephesus and Anatolia. Most of the works from the Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine eras are among the ones from Archaic, Mycenaean and Turkish eras.
Camlık, open air, steam power locomotive museum is on 160 acres land and only 7 km away, in the south of Selcuk. The Great Turkish Leader Ataturk had visited Camlik village by his private train and he had established his headquarter on top of this hill. He managed and controlled all the military operations during the national war of independence from this hill. Many steam powered, 50 to 80 years old trains which have served for many years for the State Railways of Turkish Republic, are exhibited here.
Water Birds' Protection and Reproduction Area of Gevekirse Lake in Selcuk is in the north of Ephesus and covers an area of 1000 hectares between Ephesus and Pamucak coast At this area 30 to kinds of birds and some mamals live. As a sample, loons, pelicans, many kinds of wild ducks, woodcocks, henna partridges, wild boars, foxes, jackals are some kinds of these birds and mamals living in the area.
Another important ruins remained from Byzantine era in Selcuk are the aqueducts. You can see the ruins of the Byzantine aqueduct in the town extending from the eastern hills to the Ayasuluk Hill passing by the current train station and on both sides of the railway. These restored aqueducts' peak parts serve for storks which are a symbol of the town to set their nests on The other aqueduct which was built at the time of Emperor Augustus is known as the aqueduct of Gaius Sextilliw Pollio and it is on the 6 th km of Selcuk-Aydın Highway.
As it is believed by all the people, storks bring prosperity and health for that season to those who see them in the air first time. The storks make their nests on the peaks of the ruins of the aqueducts. They live with the town in harmony and they are a complementary of the town scenery. They are the messengers of the beginning and end of summer. They come generally by April and leave by the end of September and in the meantime they have they babies here.
We particularly encourage you not to miss the opportunity to walk among the storks, watching the charm of new borns and listening to the calls made by clapping their beaks while they play with each other.
Three km away from the town there is an airport where the planes wit a capacity of 90 passengers can land. Seventeen km away from the town, there is a high capacity harbor, which makes transportation by sea possible. Selcuk is a town where transportation is possible by sea, air, road or railways. Adnan Menderes international Airport is about 70 km away from the town. The transportation to Selcuk from Izmir and also from other parts of the country is possible by ES state highway or by a motorway and also, by a railway.
An electrical railway line project between Aliaga-Izmir-Menderes is planned and 60 % of it is already completed. After this will be extended to Selcuk, the transportation will be much easier.
Pamucak beach is only 9 km from Selcuk and 6 km from Ephesus. It is about 12km long and has gold sand. There are several other beaches and bays very close to Selcuk. it is very suitable for sea sports and camping.
There are four “five star” and one “four star” hotel on Pamucak beach. Total capacity is 3.600 beds now. With the new “five star” hotels to be built, total capacity will then increase up to 15.000 beds..
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The phrase "Martial Arts" is used for various fighting methods that evolved from ancient Asian combat skills. The present-day forms have a wide range of applications. These forms are practiced for physical fitness, recreation, self-defense, law-enforcement tactics, competitive sports, and positive self-development. The teaching methods, selection of technique, style, procedures of play or practice, and underlying concepts vary according to the form and instructor. Even in a single specialized branch of Martial Arts, differences in style, techniques, attitudes, and objectives exist. Despite expressed adherence to ancient tradition in the Martial Arts, adaptation to new situations and different cultures is common.
There is a little agreement about the origins and history of the Martial Arts. Records-dating from at least 2,000 BC-of similar fighting methods existing throughout the world have been discovered, but the Asian styles are generally acknowledged to have come to China from India and Tibet, where they were used by monks for exercise and self-defense. From China the Martial Arts spread to the rest of Asia, reaching Japan last because of its geographical isolation. Although Japan was among the last of the Asian countries to acquire knowledge of the Martial Arts, they flourished there. In the Tokugawa era Martial Arts training was reserved for warriors serving feudal lords and was forbidden to peasants, who practiced in secret. Because of the secrecy and illegality, legend and myth flourished along with the cultic practices. During the nationalistic period before World War II, Martial Arts were incorporated into Japan's military training programs. Practice of Martial Arts was banned after the war until the mid-1950s, when they were legalized and reinstated in physical education classes.
Hundreds of names exist for different styles and specialties of the Martial Arts. All weaponless Martial Arts methods consist of one or more of the following: hand strikes (using the fist, knuckles, fingertips, or the side or palm of the hand); arm strikes, blocks, and parries (using the wrist, forearm, and elbow); foot strikes (using toes, instep, ball, side, or heel of the foot); knee kicks; throws and takedowns; grappling and immobilization (holds, locks, chokes, and escapes). Weapons are used in some Martial Arts, alone or in conjunction with weaponless techniques. Weapons include stones, ropes, handles, chains, sticks, staffs, swords, spears, lances, bows and arrows, and thrown cutting objects.
Colored Belts
The designation of skill or rank by colored belts was first used in judo in the late 19th century. No standard belt-ranking system exists among the Martial Arts specialties or among the different schools and styles of the same specialty. A white belt commonly indicates novice status; a brown belt is widely used for advanced rank; a black belt indicates expert proficiency. Many systems use yellow, gold, orange, green, blue, purple, brown and red belts in varying patterns of progression for intermediate levels between white and black belt ranks. A colored belt awarded in one school or system may be compared with and may have no significance in a different system. In some systems belts are awarded solely through competition: winners are promoted. In other systems promotion is achieved by demonstration of technical skill in a series of fluid, dance like movements called kata. Other systems require contests and formal demonstrations for ranking. Belt-ranking promotions and demotions can be made at the discretion of the instructor, the sensei.
Karate and Tae Kwon Do
These are probably the most widely known of the Martial Arts. The principal techniques are hand and foot strikes. Karate is commonly used as a generic term for many styles of hand-and-foot fight methods developed in Asia, particularly the Japanese forms. Tae Kwon Do is the Korean form, emphasizing kicking to a greater degree. Hundreds of styles and sub-styles exist, and all use similar hitting and kicking techniques. Some styles (the "hard" schools) emphasize power and strength training. Other styles (the "soft" schools) train for speed and precision. In some, hand strikes are preferred, while others stress foot strike. In some styles tournaments are the favored training methods; in others kata are preferred.
In many karate tournaments individuals compete by age, rank, and even weight categories. Competitors may fight (kumite), do form (kata), or perform with traditional weapons (Kobudo). Safety equipment, consisting of special boots and gloves, is required in many events. In general, legal target areas include the head and the torso, and points are scored with controlled strikes using the hands and feet. There are hundreds of local, regional, and even national karate competitions held in United States, and competition rules vary. Some organizations host tournaments open only to their members and tend to be very traditional, requiring certain attire and having very specific standards for performance and judging. Other events are open to any club regardless of style or affiliation. (see USA Martial Arts Karate/TaeKwonDo)
Aikido is possibly one of the most sophisticated Martial Arts. It is highly stylized form of jujitsu employing wrist, elbow, and shoulder twists in a formal manner. Proponents of Aikido believe that is it a way of developing coordination of the mind and body, with the purpose of creating a more fully integrated individual. Developed by Morihei Ueshiba in 1942, Aikido is based on Japanese warrior training called Bujutsu, and is a very effective means of self-defense. The techniques provide effective defense against attack by one or even several opponents. A skilled practitioner is able to subdue an attacker without inflicting serious injury. Aikido employs circular movements, as well as a joint locking to neutralize an attacker. (see USA Martial Arts Aikido)
Judo is relatively recent (1882) activity synthesized-from several jujitsu methods-by Jigoro Kano, a late-19th century Japanese educator and sport enthusiast. Originally, it had two forms: one for self-defense and a separate, distinct form for physical conditioning. Today the word judo is applied almost exclusively to a sport variant. Throws and grappling are the principal techniques. Safety falls are practiced in a dojo (a practice hall) on a matted surface so that skilled practitioners can receive a fast, high throw and fall with little risk of injury. In old-style judo, players were matched by belt-rank, resulting in contests between players of varying weight and size. In modern judo events there are qualifying matches, and contestants compete in weight classes. The first Olympic Games judo competition took place in 1964, and judo became a regular event in 1972.
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James Waddell1
M, #41931
Child of James Waddell
Anne Waddell+1
[S6] G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume I, page 297. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.
Honora O'Brien1
F, #41932
Last Edited=22 Oct 2012
Honora O'Brien is the daughter of Murrough O'Brien, 1st Earl of Thomond and Eleanor fitz John.1 She married Sir Roger O'Shaughnessy in a by papal dispensation marriage.2
She was Abbess of Killone.2 Her married name became O'Shaughnessy.1 She was a professed nun.1
Child of Honora O'Brien and Sir Roger O'Shaughnessy
Joan O'Shaughnessy+1 b. b 1550, d. 1593
[S2] Peter W. Hammond, editor, The Complete Peerage or a History of the House of Lords and All its Members From the Earliest Times, Volume XIV: Addenda & Corrigenda (Stroud, Gloucestershire, U.K.: Sutton Publishing, 1998), page 45. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage, Volume XIV.
Margareita de la Cerda
F, #41933, d. 1330
Last Edited=18 Sep 2002
Margareita de la Cerda married Felipe de Castilla, son of Sancho IV, Rey de Castilla y León and Maria de Molina, before November 1315. She died in 1330.
Murrough O'Brien, 1st Earl of Thomond1
M, #41934, d. from June 1551 to 28 October 1551
Murrough O'Brien, 1st Earl of Thomond was the son of Turlogh Donn O'Brien, Prince of Thomond and Raghnailt Macnamara.2 He married Eleanor fitz John, daughter of Reverend John fitz Thomas, 12th Knight of Glin.3 He died from June 1551 to 28 October 1551.3
He gained the title of King Murrough of Thomond. He fought against English attempts to assert rule over Ireland, until he submitted in March 141/2 and went to England to surrender to Kign Henry VIII in person, on which occasion the King ennobled him.3 He was appointed Privy Counsellor (P.C.) [Ireland] in 1543.3 He was created 1st Earl of Thomond [Ireland] on 1 July 1543, for life with a special remainder to his nephew, Donogh.3 He was created 1st Baron of Inchiquin [Ireland] on 1 July 1543.3
Children of Murrough O'Brien, 1st Earl of Thomond and Eleanor fitz John
Donogh McMurrough O'Brien+2 d. 6 Sep 1582
Dermod O'Brien, 2nd Baron of Inchiquin+3 d. 31 Jan 1552
Teige McMurrough O'Brien+ d. 12 Dec 1577
Torlogh O'Brien d. 1542
Honora O'Brien+1
Slany O'Brien+4 d. 1569
Aine O'Brien2
Ranelt O'Brien2
unknown daughter O'Brien2
Margaret O'Brien+5 b. c 1535
[S37] BP2003 See link for full details for this source. Hereinafter cited as. [S37]
[S37] BP2003. [S37]
[S6] G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume VII, page 208. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.
[S6] Cokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, volume III, page 229.
Brigid Bermingham1
Consanguinity Index=0.05%
Brigid Bermingham was the daughter of Edward Bermingham, 13th Lord Athenry and Lady Mary Bourke.1 She died in 1676, in infancy.1
Mary Bermingham1
Mary Bermingham was the daughter of Edward Bermingham, 13th Lord Athenry and Lady Mary Bourke.1 She died in 1677, in infancy.1
Alphonse, Comte d'Eu1
M, #41937, d. 25 August 1270
Last Edited=4 May 2004
Alphonse, Comte d'Eu was the son of Jean I de Brienne, Emperor of Constantinople and Berengaria de Castilla.1 He married Marie de Lusignan, daughter of Raoul d'Issoudun, Comte d'Eu, before 1250.1 He died on 25 August 1270 at Tunis, TunisiaG.1
He gained the title of Comte d'Eu. He held the office of Great Chamberlain of France in 1258.1
Children of Alphonse, Comte d'Eu and Marie de Lusignan
Raoul d'Eu1 d. b 1270
Blanche d'Eu1
Jean I de Brienne, Comte d'Eu+1 b. 1250, d. 12 Jun 1294
[S8] BP1999 volume 1, page 227. See link for full details for this source. Hereinafter cited as. [S8]
Marie de Lusignan1
Marie de Lusignan was the daughter of Raoul d'Issoudun, Comte d'Eu.1 She married Alphonse, Comte d'Eu, son of Jean I de Brienne, Emperor of Constantinople and Berengaria de Castilla, before 1250.1 She died in 1252.1
She gained the title of Comtesse d'Eu.
Children of Marie de Lusignan and Alphonse, Comte d'Eu
Roberto de Portugal
M, #41939, b. circa 1239
Roberto de Portugal was born circa 1239. He was the son of Afonso III de Bourgogne, Rei de Portugal and Matilda de Dammartin. He died, young.
Colonel John Jacob Astor1
M, #41940, b. 1822, d. 22 February 1890
Last Edited=11 Aug 2004
Colonel John Jacob Astor was born in 1822.2 He was the son of William Backhouse Astor and Margaret Rebecca Armstrong.3 He married Charlotte Augusta Gibbes, daughter of Thomas Stanyarne Gibbes, in 1847.2 He died on 22 February 1890.1,2
He was educated at Columbia University, Manhattan, New York City, New York, U.S.A.G.2 He was educated at Göttingen University, Göttingen, GermanyG.2 He was educated at Harvard Law School, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.G.2 He gained the rank of Colonel in the U.S. Army.2 He fought in the American Civil War.2 He gained the rank of Brevet Colonel.2 He lived at New York, U.S.A.G.1
Child of Colonel John Jacob Astor and Charlotte Augusta Gibbes
William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount Astor+1 b. 31 Mar 1848, d. 18 Oct 1919
[S6] G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume XIII, page 215. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.
[S37] BP2003 volume 1, page 171. See link for full details for this source. Hereinafter cited as. [S37]
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Full Name: Natalie Zane Babbitt
Dayton, Ohio, U.S.
Died: October 31, 2016
Hamden, Connecticut, U.S.
Occupation: Writer, illustrator
Natalie Zane Babbitt was an American writer and illustrator of children's books. Her acclaimed 1975 novel Tuck Everlasting has been adapted into two feature films and a Broadway musical. She received the Newbery Honor and Christopher Award, and was the U.S. nominee for the biennial international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1982.
Tuck Everlasting
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The Voice mentors aren’t looking to find a star
The mentors on The Voice may be superstars, but the consensus is it’s not on them that the singing competition show has failed to find big stars such as themselves.
Adam Levine, Christina Aguilera, CeeLo Green and the show’s host and producer Carson Daly addressed journalists at the Television Critics Association summer press tour. Blake Shelton did not attend because he’s on tour.
During the panel Levine said finding a star “would be really nice” but it’s not the goal.
“A lot of things have to happen in order for that to take place,” he said.
“I think the goal of the show is to do what we can do for these amazing singers while they’re on the show…I think that we all know that the lightning in a bottle you have to capture in order to be successful in this business is extraordinarily difficult. I’m not sure that that is the overall mission statement of the show.”
American Idol producers and judges weren’t shy about wanting to crank out insta-stars like Kelly Clarkson and Carrie Underwood. Its 11th season winner Phillip Phillips has had huge radio success with songs like Home and Gone, Gone, Gone.
Even some finalists who haven’t made a real mark in the music world like Kellie Pickler and Katharine McPhee still have name recognition and have found success in other areas. (Pickler, who is a country singer, won the most recent season of Dancing with the Stars. McPhee had a starring role on NBC’s Smash.)
It should be noted American Idol has had its flops as well. Ninth season winner Lee DeWyze’s album Live it Up was a major disappointment. He sold just 151,000 copies.
By contrast, Javier Colon, who won season one of The Voice, sold 46,000 copies of his first post-Voice album called Come Through for You as of last month.
Aguilera says it’s unrealistic to expect someone to turn into an overnight sensation and cites her own career as an example.
“It’s not like everything needs to be like boom, boom, boom, then record deal, then No. 1 success. It doesn’t happen like that. It didn’t happen that way for me either. Like, for instance…my experience with The Mickey Mouse Club, the alumni from that show, you know, you have huge names Britney (Spears), Justin (Timberlake), Ryan Gosling, you know, all these names come from that show. But, you know, right after the show, did we rocket to success right after it No. It takes time.”
Of season four winner, Danielle Bradbery, The Voice host and producer Carson Daly argued that she has time on her side.
“She has eight years to figure it out, her voice, an album, whatever it might be. And in eight years she’ll be the same age as Taylor Swift is right now. She’s got time,” he said.
Bradbery’s new single The Heart of Dixie debuted at No. 58 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 16 on the country charts.
When asked about the show’s ratings decline when its star judges are featured less, the panel seemed a bit irked.
“Isn’t the show like huge, though” asked Levine.
“The show is huge, yes,” answered Daly.
“So what’s he talking about” asked Levine, referring to the journalist’s question.
To their credit, “The Voice” is a successful TV show. It’s nominated in the Outstanding Reality Program Emmy Award category for a second year in a row.
The Voice returns for its fifth season in the US in September.
– AP
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I’ve hardly done an exhaustive study, but I suspect that virtually every major popular singer or band has made a Christmas album, or at the very least recorded a Christmas song. I’m reasonably sure, though, that next to Bing Crosby’s rendition of Irving Berlin’s “White Christmas,” perhaps the most famous Christmas song is Nat King Cole’s “The Christmas Song” (“Chestnuts roasting over an open fire…”). But like Crosby’s version of “White Christmas,” the most widely known version of Cole’s “The Christmas Song” isn’t the original recording. Interestingly, both songs date from the World War II era, the first (surviving) recording of “White Christmas” dating from 1942 (issued on record in conjunction with the release of the film Holiday Inn) and “The Christmas Song” from 1944, written by Mel Tormé and Bob Wells and perhaps inspired by the massive popular success of “White Christmas.”
The Nat King Cole Trio recorded “The Christmas Song” twice over the space of two months in 1946, the second version recorded with a small string section. It was this second version, released in November 1946, that became the huge hit. However, the version that receives the most airplay today, and the one I heard on the radio yesterday, is the version Cole re-recorded in stereo in 1961. As a consequence of hearing the song yesterday, I was motivated to peruse James Haskins’ and Kathleen Benson’s Nat King Cole: A Personal and Professional Biography. They indicate that although Cole won over a white audience in 1946 with “The Christmas Song,” he continued to suffer at the hands of white bigots. For instance, when he moved into a largely white neighborhood in Los Angeles in 1948, various acts of vandalism were committed against his house. At another time Cole’s daughter recalled, “Someone came in the night and on the front lawn they burned the word ‘Nigger.’ This was an isolated incident, but it was so powerful—burned in the lawn. I think I went out that morning to wait for the school bus, and here was this word. And it seemed to take the longest time for the grass to grow in. The shadow of that word was always there” (p. 81). In 1949, Cole was unjustly harassed by the IRS, and in April 1956—eighteen months after the release of the “beloved” Christmas movie, White Christmas (1954), starring Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye (pictured above, with Cole)—members of the White Citizens’ Council, an organization advocating regional resistance to the Supreme Court and Federal prerogatives regarding race, attacked Cole on stage in his home town of Birmingham, Alabama. (A month before, Martin Luther King was on trial in Montgomery, Alabama for leading a conspiracy to violate the state’s boycott laws, for which he was found guilty.) I conclude that ten years after Cole’s hit recording of “The Christmas Song,” and in the context of the Civil Rights era, the song could no longer encourage white audiences to believe that the suppressed anger felt by a black man could be channeled into ”harmless” music.
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Labels: Irving Berlin, Nat "King" Cole, The Christmas Song, White Christmas
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St. Gertrude of Nivelles
Today's Saint :. St. Gertrude of Nivelles
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Local Calendar, Roman
Born 626, Landen, Belgium
Died March 17 Nivelles, Belgium
Gertrude is a Pre Congregation Saint
Gertrude was born into a saintly family;both of her parents are acclaimed as blesseds, and her sister is Saint Begga. Her pious family no doubt helped to influence her early love of God, and she felt the call of a religious vocation from an early age. Her family's wealth and station would have afforded her a noble marriage, but Gertrude's heart was set on God alone.
When her father Pepin died in 639, her holy mother Itta determined to use some of her lands and funds to buid a double monastery at Nivelle. Both she and her daughter entered, Her mother served as abbess until she judged her daughter sufficiently mature to assume this office, which she did at about age twenty in 646. She served in this role quite well with her mother's advice and assistance for about ten years. During her years as abbess she was known widely for both her holiness and her hospitality to travelers and pilgrims. She made a gift of land to enable the construction of the monastery of Fosses and aided other monks in evangelization efforts.
Most of all, Gertrude longed for God, and was known for her time spent in prayer, her visionary experiences (Once, while she was as prayer before the tabernacle, a globe of fire appeared upon her head which was witnessed by all the sisters of the abbey.), her knowledge of sacred scripture and for the extreme austerities which she practiced. These mortifications weakened her health to the extent that she decided to step down as abbess in 656, at the age of 30. She spent the last three years of her life in study and prayer.
St. Gertrude seems to have known of her impending death, as she inquired of a holy monk which exact hour it would be. She was told that she would die peacefully and enter into heavenly glory at the exact time that Mass was being offered that day. And so it was. She was almost immediately venerated as a saint.
Because of her great renown for hospitality, travelers used to drink a "St. Gertrude's Cup" before setting out on a journey, and she is often depicted with a pilgrim's staff. St. Gertrude is also associated with the newly deceased; the low country legend has it that souls spend their first night in the afterlife in her care. In art she is often depicted with mice running up her staff, which may symbolize souls; the exact association has been lost. Because of this depiction, she is regarded as a patron saint of cats as well.
Patronessof Travelers, Cats, Gardeners, the Recently Deceased
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Leave it to good old fashioned journalism to throw off The Revenant's big night: Spotlight just won the Academy Award for Best Picture. It was a clear upset victory, with The Revenant having earned several awards throughout the evening, most notably the first Academy Award for star Leonardo DiCaprio. Spotlight not only beat out Alejandro Iñárritu's revenge film, but audience favorites like Mad Max: Fury Road and The Martian, as well as critical darlings Room and Brooklyn.
While the Best Picture race seemed to be clearly leaning in The Revenant's favor just a few weeks ago, the picture became muddied when The Big Short took home the top honor at the Producers Guild Awards, and Spotlight then won the Screen Actors Guild honor for best ensemble cast. Both awards have been Oscar Best Picture predictors in the past, making it clear that Revenant didn't have everything sewn up as neatly as it may have seemed. Continuing in the tradition of films like All The President's Men, Spotlight utilized a stellar cast — with Oscar-nominated performances from Mark Ruffalo and Rachel McAdams — and solid direction from Tom McCarthy to tell the true story of The Boston Globe investigative unit that broke the story of widespread sexual abuse by Catholic priests in the area. It's the kind of film that often serves as catnip for Academy voters, letting them show that they care about pressing social issues, while also celebrating quality filmmaking.
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Rock News Artist Of The Year No. 7: AC/DC
As part of the 2014 hennemusic Rock News Awards, the site is counting down the Top 10 Rock News Artists of the year.
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hennemusic Rock News Artist of The Year No. 7 – AC/DC
The first AC/DC news of 2014 was the result of Bruce Springsteen performing the band’s 1979 classic, “Highway To Hell”, in Perth on February 8 as part of his Australian tour – he’d be joined by Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder for the tune in Brisbane on February 26.
That same month, singer Brian Johnson revealed major news regarding plans for the band’s first new album since 2008’s “Black Ice” and a 40th anniversary tour.
Johnson’s comments also revealed an ominous undertone that would resurface in a major way a few months later:
“One of our boys was pretty ill, so we didn’t like to say anything. We’re very private about things like this and he’s a very proud man. But I think we’ll be going in the studio in May in Vancouver – which means we should be getting ready.”
Drummer Phil Rudd was cleared in a helicopter licensing dispute by a New Zealand court in early March; it was not the only time Rudd would appear before a judge in 2014.
Johnson joined Billy Joel on stage in New York on March 21 for a version of the group’s 1980 classic, “You Shook Me All Night Long.”
Rumors about a possible AC/DC retirement announcement surfaced in April with a report out of Australia that guitarist and founding member Malcolm Young had recently suffered a stroke that left a blood clot on his brain.
Choirboys frontman and friend of the band, Mark Gable, confirmed Malcolm’s health status and, as rumors continued to swirl, AC/DC issued a formal announcement on April 16: “After forty years of life dedicated to AC/DC, guitarist and founding member Malcolm Young is taking a break from the band due to ill health.”
In May, Johnson launched a 6-episode UK TV series, “Cars That Rock”, focusing on his passion for cars and auto racing in general; the same month, the singer would drive in Mille Miglia 2014, a vintage car race in Italy.
As AC/DC prepared to record new music in Vancouver with producer Brendan O’Brien, news surfaced that Malcolm and Angus Young’s nephew, Stevie, had stepped in to handle rhythm guitar for his absent Uncle.
In July, Johnson confirmed the album was done, and on July 9, the singer received an Honorary Doctor of Music degree from Northumbria University in Newcastle upon Tyne.
Rudd announced plans to release his debut solo album in August; the following month, AC/DC announced “Rock Or Bust” would be issued in December.
The project’s lead single, “Play Ball”, was previewed in late September as part of a Major League Baseball Postseason campaign; the song officially premiered on October 7.
In late September, Malcolm’s family confirmed reports that the guitarist had been diagnosed with dementia while asking that their privacy be respected as the band’s founder was in full-time care for the health issue.
Headlines that AC/DC used a fill-in drummer for a London video shoot in early October raised red flags that things weren’t right in the band’s camp, as did the release of a new group photo with Rudd noticeably absent from the picture.
Then – on November 6 – the situation became clearer when Rudd was arrested and charged with attempting to procure a murder by New Zealand police after he allegedly tried to have two men killed.
The murder plot charge was dropped the next day for lack of evidence, with Rudd entering not guilty pleas on three remaining charges on December 2.
The drummer made more headlines a day later when he was handcuffed by New Zealand police after an altercation at a coffee shop; it was later determined that Rudd’s accidental run-in with a witness in his outstanding case was deemed a breach of his bail conditions and they were tightened further by the court.
Full details regarding Rudd’s November 6 arrest were made public by police in December after applications from the media to view the court records were filed.
In early December, “Rock Or Bust” debuted at No. 1 in Australia and No. 3 in the US.
The band announced their first live dates for 2015 included a European tour, while Rudd’s status with group remains in question.
At year’s end, rumors surfaced that AC/DC will perform at the 2015 Grammy Awards in Los Angles in February, as Johnson reteamed with Billy Joel on New Year’s Eve in Orlando.
On January 6, it was announced that AC/DC will headline California’s Coachella festival in April.
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Exhibition Explores Art’s Flexible Aura
Goldin+Senneby’s “After Microsoft” is an image of the same landscape in Sonoma Valley, Calif., which was the basis for the “Bliss” landscape used as the default Microsoft Windows desktop image. / Courtesy of Brain Factory
By Cathy Rose A. Garcia
In the age of the Internet, art lovers don't even have to leave the confines of their home to admire the Mona Lisa or see the latest Damien Hirst. Artwork is just a click away on the Internet. High-quality images are easily available, saved and can even be printed out.
So how does this affect the artwork, the artists and the experience of viewing art? This is one of the issues central to the ongoing "Flexible Aura" exhibition at Brain Factory, Tongui-dong, Seoul.
Curators Byeon Hyun-joo and Christine Takengny wanted to explore "the notion of the aura and the experience of art in the age of digital reproduction where limitless global communication and image distribution is possible via the World Wide Web."
The exhibition took its cue from Walter Benjamin's 1936 essay "The Work of Art in the Age of its Mechanical Reproducibility" wherein the author claimed the "exclusive experience of an artwork's unique aura has been replaced by a collective experience of mass reproducible art."
"Our theory is the aura nowadays can be flexible and can be changed," Takengny told The Korea Times. The works are accessible from different places ― inside the museums or online ― and can be transformed depending on the setting.
Candida Hofer's photographic series "Twelve" depicts all 12 casts of Rodin's "The Burghers of Calais," showing how its aura changes depending on where it is located.
The Internet was also used as a tool to curate the exhibition. Byeon and Takengny used the medium to communicate with each other, find information on the artists and look at digital images of artwork.
"We exchanged information on the Internet, checked links to the artists' homepages. We did it for nine months, corresponding through e-mail or Skype," Byeon said, although she added there is still nothing like seeing the artwork in person.
For example, the Mona Lisa is one of the most famous and widely reproduced works of art, but people still line up at the Louvre for a glimpse of the Da Vinci portrait.
"Art has become more accessible and democratic, and can be seen outside the gallery. It reflects how through digitalization, how banal an artwork can become. But at the same time the aura of the original one seems to become so important now that people go to the museum to see it and take a photograph of the original artwork," Takengny said.
You don't even need to go to the Louvre when you can have the Mona Lisa on toast, thanks to Danish artist Kristoffer Akselbo's "The Mona Lisa Toaster." The toaster imprints the image of the famous Da Vinci portrait on a piece of bread, which can then be eaten.
Artists Tasha Aulls and Niina Hartikainen worked on "November Telepathy," a series of digitally printed drawings. They tried to use telepathy to send images of their drawings to each other, when Aulls was in Canada and Hartikainen was in the U.K. and Finland.
"I was interested in the idea of dissolving the sense of self and removing the barrier between self and others. Niina was interested in the consciousness. We thought telepathy would dissolve the boundary between self and others," Aulls told The Korea Times.
London-based artist Tina Hage's "Dream Start" is a triptych of sports scenes, showing people cheering and celebrating after scoring goals. Hage re-enacted the scenes, placing her image in each of the figures in the crowd.
Microsoft Windows users may vaguely recognize the dull brown fields in the landscape featured in Goldin+Senneby's "After Microsoft." It is the same landscape which was the basis for "Bliss," the default desktop image on Windows showing bright blue skies and green slopes.
Goldin+Senneby tracked down Charles O'Rear, the photographer who took the photo of the landscape in Sonoma Valley, Calif., in the late 1990s. They revisited the area, and took the photo of the largely changed landscape.
Popular video streaming Web site YouTube has also become a curatorial tool, as shown in Supercream/Catherine Borra's "The Setting of X." A link to the work, a playlist of YouTube videos with the theme of migration, can be found on the exhibition Web site flexibleauras.blogspot.com.
The exhibition also featured London-based artist Jee Oh's performance piece broadcast live through Skype at the opening party. Additionally, artist Bona Park hired an actress to "play" herself at the party, "playfully exploring how the contextual integration of the aura can be transformed when an artwork is immaterial."
"Flexible Aura" runs through Nov. 1 at Brain Factory (Gyeongbokgung Station line 3, exit 4). Visit www.brainfactory.org or call (02)725-9520.
cathy@koreatimes.co.kr
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Child Custody in Israel: Religious or Secular Courts?
Child custody matters in Israel can be handled by religious or secular courts depending on the religious affiliations of the parents. The article below describes a situation where the nature of those affiliations is disputed and both secular and religious courts become involved.
High Court freezes ruling by Shari’a appeals court in child custody dispute
By Yonah Jeremy Bob 01/08/2014
The High Court of Justice on Tuesday issued an interim freeze against an order of the Shari’a Court of Appeals in Israel that would have led to transferring custody of two children from the mother to the father in a custody battle.
The conflict pits the civil court system against the Shari’a courts (which can serve Muslims living in Israel), with the Jaffa Shari’a Court having said it can overrule a prior decision of the Haifa District Court granting temporary custody to the mother.
According to a Justice Ministry statement, the facts of the case are as follows: The couple married in 1999 and have two children, ages nine and 13.
The couple split after the husband started physically abusing the wife, with the wife running away from their home in the North with their two children to live in the central region.
In 2008, the mother filed a request with the Kiryot Family Court to obtain custody of the children as well as alimony and maintenance payments from the father.
There was significant litigation on the issues before the Kiryot court and a number of social-worker evaluations of the parents, with the court granting the mother temporary custody and obligating the father to undergo further tests regarding his competence as a parent.
Following the father’s failure to cooperate with the officials empowered to evaluate him and with the court in general and his failure to pay maintenance per the court’s order, the court froze the case (with the children in the indefinite temporary custody of the mother) until the father came into compliance with the court’s directives.
Simultaneously, the father initiated parallel custody proceedings before the Jaffa Shari’a Court, in which he contended for the first time that the mother was a Muslim.
While there is no dispute that the father is Muslim, the mother has always claimed to be unconnected to any religion and the father insisted on moving the kids into Muslim schools whereas they have been learning in secular state schools for years.
In parallel, the Jaffa Shari’a Court granted the father custody while the Haifa District Court upheld the Kiryot Family Court ruling in favor of the mother and said that the shari’a courts had no jurisdiction.
However, following the father’s ignoring that ruling and obtaining a ruling from the Shari’a Court of Appeals that the Shari’a courts had jurisdiction, the Haifa District Court told the mother that she could only obtain further relief from the High Court.
The Justice Ministry’s Legal Assistance Division on Monday filed a petition with the High Court that quickly blocked any continuation and enforcement of the Shari’a courts’ proceedings until it decides whether custody should be decided in the civilian or the Shari’a courts.
The petition’s ultimate goal is to void all Shari’a court decisions on the issue and to uphold the civilian courts’ decisions in favor of the mother.
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Portrait offers a gift of gratitude
Everyone in my family has Grandma Sara's paintings in their home.
Nobody questions whether they're good (they are), or whether we want them (we do). We just all have them.
Now, at least.
When Grandma Sara opened her impassable warehouse of a studio to her grandchildren, the bulk of us were in our 20s. My sister and cousin Shira, however, were still in grade school. We all got to choose our favorites and talk to Grandma Sara about what inspired them. Sis and Shira got nothing.
But on Sis' trip to Israel in January, one of our uncles changed that. The youngest Saars were each going to get paintings, whether or not the paintings were good (they were) or the girls wanted them (they did).
Grandma Sara lost her family to the Nazis in Holland. In Israel, her ex-husband, my grandfather, died of polio. Two more husbands went after that. You wouldn't know by talking to her that she'd seen dark days. She took great joy in life, mastering seven languages, swimming daily, enjoying the nature of the kibbutz. And, of course, painting.
It was in her art that Grandma Sara expressed her ambivalence toward mankind, her fears and heartache. Even when my father died, it wasn't until I saw the last painting she made of him that I really felt her suffering.
It was 1998, and something in a letter she wrote drew Hubby and me to Israel. I had written her a number of questions, and she replied that she didn't have the strength to write all the answers. She'd tell me in person the next time I visited, "if I am still here."
Though her art often deals with death - wisps of people vanishing into heavy sadness, this was the first time she'd ever expressly written to me about her own mortality. I didn't take it lightly.
We went and met a frail woman I hardly recognized. She looked old. She smelled old. It had been only three years since my father's funeral, but she had aged five times that. She took us to her room in what I realize now was a hospice. Like every Saar home, this room was decorated with a Grandma Sara painting. Just one.
It was a painting of my father, looking youthful and bemused, amid a womblike backdrop of color. The base of the painting was thickly textured, almost thorny, as if she were acknowledging Dad's struggles, while around and above him, glimmering waves seemed to beckon him to something better.
Grandma Sara explained that she took the inspiration from my eulogy. I didn't know what to say.
After her death the following year, I had hoped my dad's twin sister would send me the painting. She didn't.
Sis didn't want any more paintings. She hadn't yet landed her new job, didn't have a place of her own and wasn't sure what she was going to do with all the canvases she had been given. But my cousin Yuval insisted on wading into his parents' attic and pulling out more for her.
"He said, 'Wait, there's one last painting,'" Sis recounted to me later. "I didn't even want to see it, but then he pulled it out and it was this picture of Dad."
Before she could, I described it.
"Yeah," she said. "That's it. How did you know?"
It took me a while to get over it, the idea that the painting I wanted all these years was going to be handed over to my sister instead of to me. "Don't be jealous," I told myself. "He was her dad, too."
You know how this ends, don't you? How things come back to you when they're yours?
Before heading for Northern California to start her new job last month, Sis showed up at my place. It was raining. Hard. She came to pick up my old dining-room table. She surprised me with the painting.
"It belongs with you," she said.
I felt like I did the first time I saw it: stunned. Reunited. I didn't know what to say back then. But now I do. It's so simple; I should have said it to my grandmother before I ever thought it could be mine.
I should have said it to my father more, before his image was committed to canvas. I should say it more often to more people.
After all these years of not knowing what to say, I said it. To my grandmother. To my dad. To Sis.
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