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Error code: DatasetGenerationError
Exception: ArrowInvalid
Message: JSON parse error: Missing a closing quotation mark in string. in row 3
Traceback: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 153, in _generate_tables
df = pd.read_json(f, dtype_backend="pyarrow")
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 815, in read_json
return json_reader.read()
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1025, in read
obj = self._get_object_parser(self.data)
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1051, in _get_object_parser
obj = FrameParser(json, **kwargs).parse()
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1187, in parse
self._parse()
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1403, in _parse
ujson_loads(json, precise_float=self.precise_float), dtype=None
ValueError: Trailing data
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1997, in _prepare_split_single
for _, table in generator:
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 156, in _generate_tables
raise e
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 130, in _generate_tables
pa_table = paj.read_json(
File "pyarrow/_json.pyx", line 308, in pyarrow._json.read_json
File "pyarrow/error.pxi", line 154, in pyarrow.lib.pyarrow_internal_check_status
File "pyarrow/error.pxi", line 91, in pyarrow.lib.check_status
pyarrow.lib.ArrowInvalid: JSON parse error: Missing a closing quotation mark in string. in row 3
The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/job_runners/config/parquet_and_info.py", line 1529, in compute_config_parquet_and_info_response
parquet_operations = convert_to_parquet(builder)
File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/job_runners/config/parquet_and_info.py", line 1154, in convert_to_parquet
builder.download_and_prepare(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1029, in download_and_prepare
self._download_and_prepare(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1124, in _download_and_prepare
self._prepare_split(split_generator, **prepare_split_kwargs)
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1884, in _prepare_split
for job_id, done, content in self._prepare_split_single(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 2040, in _prepare_split_single
raise DatasetGenerationError("An error occurred while generating the dataset") from e
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An Acoustic Study of the Wind.
Performance sound installation at PALS (Performance Art Links) festival II, a production by Fylkingen at Katarinahissen, Slussen, Stockholm, April 27th 2014 (first performance).
Photos © by Denis Romanovski (1,9,11,12,16-19), Johannes Bergmark (2,4,5,10,13-15) and Lovisa Johansson (3,6-8). More photos in original size can be seen here.
"as a revenge for a work that was stopped, I will try to make a guerilla installation which will be the longest, or highest, instrument I made so far -- ca 33 meters"
For me, I think it might also have been my most beautiful piece so far.
The purpose was to use this very long string to capture the sound of the wind through it. I made a contact mike that I attached to the loose end of the string with a glued-on magnet, and it worked splendidly. I could hardly believe the magnificent sound it made through this small battery-powered amplifier. I was also prepared to be stopped by the police at any time since I had no permit for doing this. An earlier proposal for a long-string installation at this location was turned down. I must say that there was never any real danger to anyone. The string is the most wide piano wire you can find (1,6 mm ø) and could easily carry the weight of more than 100 kg. Nevertheless, in the lower end, just to have a little weight, and for visual purposes, I attached a red balloon with a mouthful of water and the rest air, in it. It was decorated with a Pippi Longstocking image (which was not visible on distance).
Filmed with my very lousy mobile phone, other better videos will hopefully come later. Although I've used a smoothing tool to make it less painful to watch, there is still no sync between sound and image, which explains the sound gaps in the end of every clip. (The noises in the end of the video clip below come from people banging the fence, which wasn't really my purpose for this, but as soon as you give people a microphone of any kind they just go wild...)
An Acoustic Study of the Wind Johannes Bergmark PALS Fylkingen 2014 (original) from Johannes Bergmark on Vimeo.
PALS 2014 program - Festival FB event - PALS FB
Fylkingen - Fylkingen FB
A second version of this piece was commissioned by REM Festivalkongress – fieldrecording at Schwankhalle, Bremen. (Konzerte, Filme, Vorträge. I also performed “I have been in you, you have been in me” and “Stringed Stirrups”. Trailer. PGNM - projektgruppe Neue Musik.
Below are pictures from the setup of the piece, and short tryout and documentation videos.
Updated the 30th of January, 2018.
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Here's What's Happening on the Aloha Deck
Published by swansont on July 17, 2008 03:44 am under Lab Stories
Because of the timekeeping implications of what we do in the lab and especially so because of the gee-whiz nature of table-top-ish atomic physics, I’m sometimes called upon to give (or assist with) lab tours to various visitors. Sometimes it’s scientists whom we’ve invited, and those are usually the best because you get to discuss interesting (to us) topics, and the value of the information exchange can be fairly high, exceeded only by workshops and conferences. But often enough it’s someone whose importance is on the bureaucratic side of the coin (i.e funding), or worse, whose importance is not at all apparent, though the powers that be have assured us that it’s necessary. Those can be more of a chore, especially with someone without a technical background and who is only doing it because (like me) they were told it was important. Then it’s an issue of how quickly one wants their eyes to glaze over. We can really shovel the geek.
So anyway, I helped give a lab tour on Wednesday. And let me tell you, it was NOT one of those that falls into the “chore” category.
We had astronauts.
The return crew* of the the recent shuttle mission, STS-124 (Discovery) stopped by the base to meet with the VP, and somebody arranged for them to give us some time. (I don’t know if this involved someday being called upon to do the Don a service. I don’t care. It was worth it). They did two presentations — one for the Observatory staff, which is largely populated by technically-minded folk, and then another for family members There was a ~ 20 minute video which they narrated, summarizing the mission and highlighting the installation of Kibo, the Japanese lab module, and then they took questions. As you might imagine, the questions the scientists and engineers were slanted towards technical things, but the kids asked some really great questions as well. And the astronauts were just awesome, especially with how they connected with the younger crowd. I got the impression that the sense of wonder they displayed was very much real. So when a kid asked, “What’s the neatest thing about being in space?” and one answer is “Being weightless,” followed by some descriptions of how that condition changes what you can do, you can tell it’s a sincere answer. Even though I’m sure they get similar questions from all the other groups to whom they speak, and some things are rehearsed or repeated, they aren’t playing roles.
And I can identify with that. When I complained about tours at the beginning it’s much more the lack of interest that makes it a chore, not the level of the science discussion. If I actually have an audience for a tour (rather than some passive observer fulfilling an obligation) I get excited, and have to remember to slow down and enunciate. I think I convey the same kind of “this is neat stuff” emotion to tour recipients who also think it’s cool. The point where my PR experiences diverge from the astronauts’ is that I’ve never been asked to pose for photos or sign autographs.
After the presentations, there was a short opportunity for those photos and autographs. I abstained; it was pretty clear this was intended more for the kids, but also because I was on deck for the lab tour, and that meant getting a much closer interaction with them (and the family members they had along for the later festivities). And that was way cool. I spoke with mission commander Mark Kelly on the way over to the lab, and gave my presentation while answering a few questions, and making sure I pointed out our atoms pull 400 g’s when we launch them (and refraining from calling people who pull a measly 3 or 4 g’s on launch pussies). I handed things over to my lab-mates to finish up, and added a few comments and a timekeeping joke (and they were polite enough to laugh at it). As they were filing out Garrett Reisman (the one who spent 95 days on the space station) asked me another question, so I talked with him for a few minutes as we walked toward the next stop on the tour. He kept asking questions and — especially when I’ve gotten up a head of steam during a tour — I don’t shut up until the questions stop.
Here’s some of the gang in the lab, while a colleague explains some details about trapping and launching atoms. From the left that’s Mark Kelly, Mike Fossum, Akihiko Hoshide, Karen Nyberg and half of (I think) Ken Ham.
To say I had a pretty good day is an understatement. I’ve given tours to Admirals, one or two fairly high-level advisors connected with the White House and a couple of Nobel Prize winners. In many ways this was the best.
*Greg Chamitoff stayed behind on the ISS, taking Garrett Reisman’s place, so Reisman returned with the crew.
blike on July 17th, 2008
I’m so jealous! My original ambition in life was to be an astronaut.
Uncle Al on July 17th, 2008
Deep into the tour one of the staff should be wearing a grotesque Halloween mask,
http://www.funhousetheatrical.com/images/Halloween_mask.jpg
http://skeletonsandmore.com/cart/images/26092-Farkasz.jpg
the post-doc
Contingent adrenalin surge keeps the tour awake. Also recommended for greeting weekend Jehova’s Witnesses and Mormons. Loss of bladder control is a test of faith.
Nick on July 17th, 2008
This is very cool. Did you have some sort of advance notice of this or did you just show up at work one morning with a friendly reminder that you were giving a tour to a bunch of astronauts on your desk?
swansont on July 17th, 2008
We had some notice — they had to arrange logistics so families could attend the second presentation. We made it very clear that we would be an order of magnitude more than happy be to show off our cool toys. It also turns out that the astronauts were not fully aware of how much their navigational systems tied in to our collective work, so I think there was some good information flow going that way.
And, gee, wouldn’t it be terrible if we had to brief other crews as well. 😉
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Sonam Kapoor As The On Screen Neerja Bhanot: A Forgotten Hero
by Aamy Kuldip
Bollywood actress Sonam Kapoor recently unveiled her new look for the upcoming biopic on airline attendant Neerja Bhanot. For those who may not be aware of Neerja Bhanot’s heroic story, I would like to uncover the life of this young hero who sacrificed her life for the safety of others.
Sonam Kapoor as Neerja Bhanot for her upcoming film. [Image Source: Sonam Kapoor’s Instagram]
Neerja Bhanot was born in Chandigarh, Punjab. When her marriage turned sour due to dowry issues, she returned to her parent’s home in Mumbai and applied to become a flight attendant with Pan Am airlines.
On September 5, 1986, while on board Pan Am Flight 73, she was clueless about the turn events would take on that seemingly normal day. The flight was taken over by four heavily armed terrorists just as it landed in Karachi, Pakistan. Bhanot was the senior flight purser on the hijacked flight. She quickly alerted the American cockpit crew, who fled the aircraft leaving the fate of the 400 other passengers in the hands of the terrorists.
[Image Source: Sonam Kapoor’s Instagram]
The terrorists ordered Bhanot to collect the American passengers’ passports for identification. Realizing the strained international tensions with America during the time, she cleverly hid the passports under the seats and in trash chutes. She then opened the emergency exit while the terrorists opened fire. She decided not to leave the passengers and run for her own safety, instead, she helped other passengers escape and tragically died while shielding three small children from bullets.
Dying at the tender age of 22, Bhanot was hailed as the heroine of the hijack and an inspiration for people across the globe. Following her death, she was also awarded India’s highest peacetime honor, the Ashok Chakra Award, making her the youngest recipient of the bravery award in the nation’s history.
Looking back to Kapoor’s filmography, she doesn’t exactly have the strongest performances in movies. However, we hope she will be able to do this one justice. As far as the first glimpse is concerned, Kapoor does an amazing job looking the part!
With the biopic releasing soon, every brown girl should feel pride in identifying with Bhanot as a courageous friend rather than a forgotten figure.
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Aamy Kuldip enjoys Indian classical dancing, known as kathak and has been learning/teaching for the past ten years. She also participated in the Miss India USA pageant and won the title for Miss Photogenic this past year. Through Brown Girl Magazine, she would like to share her experiences, as well as give her input on issues that affect the average brown girl.
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lungs working model science project -diy – simple east – respiratory system
January 16, 2023 by sowmya
How the human lungs works?
The lungs are a pair of organs located in the thorax (chest) that are responsible for the exchange of gases between the body and the environment.
The main function of the lungs is to take in oxygen and release carbon dioxide, a waste product of metabolism. This process is known as respiration.
The lungs have a spongy texture and are divided into smaller units called alveoli, where the exchange of gases takes place.
The alveoli are surrounded by a network of blood vessels called capillaries, through which oxygen and carbon dioxide are exchanged.
When we breathe in, the diaphragm, a muscle located at the base of the lungs, contracts and moves downward.
This causes the chest cavity to expand and create a negative pressure inside the lungs. As a result, air is sucked into the lungs through the nose and mouth, and travels down the trachea (windpipe) and into the lungs.
Oxygen from the air diffuses across the walls of the alveoli and into the bloodstream, where it binds to hemoglobin in red blood cells and is transported to the body’s cells.
When we breathe out, the diaphragm relaxes and moves upward. This causes the chest cavity to decrease in size and the air inside the lungs to be pushed out.
The carbon dioxide from the body’s cells diffuses across the walls of the alveoli and into the bloodstream, where it is carried to the lungs and exhaled out of the body.
The lungs also have a protective mechanism to remove foreign particles such as dust and bacteria, by means of cilia, tiny hair-like structures in the airways that move in coordinated waves to help move mucus and trapped particles out of the lungs.
Overall, the lungs play a vital role in maintaining the body’s oxygen and carbon dioxide levels and are essential for life.
Step by step of making of the lungs working model
A lungs working model science project using a balloon and a spongy ball can demonstrate the basic functions of the lungs and the respiratory system.
Here are the steps to make a simple lungs working model using a balloon and a spongy ball:
You will need a balloon, a spongy ball, a straw or pipe, and a cardboard
As you press on the spongy ball ,the balloon will inflate and deflate, simulating the movement of the lungs during breathing. The spongy ball represents the diaphragm and the balloon represents the lungs.
You can add labels to the model to show the different parts and explain how it works.
Step by Step video instructions on making lungs working model
What are the lungs and where are they located in the body?
What is the main function of the lungs?
The main function of the lungs is to take in oxygen and release carbon dioxide, a waste product of metabolism, through a process called respiration.
How are the lungs structured?
What is the role of the diaphragm in the respiratory process?
The diaphragm is a muscle located at the base of the lungs that contracts and relaxes during breathing. When it contracts,
it causes the chest cavity to expand and create a negative pressure inside the lungs, allowing air to enter.
When it relaxes, it causes the chest cavity to decrease in size and air to be pushed out of the lungs.
How does the body remove foreign particles from the lungs?
The body has a protective mechanism to remove foreign particles such as dust and bacteria, by means of cilia, tiny hair-like structures in the airways that move in coordinated waves to help move mucus and trapped particles out of the lungs.
How does oxygen and carbon dioxide get in and out of the body through the lungs?
When we breathe in, oxygen from the air diffuses across the walls of the alveoli and into the bloodstream, where it binds to hemoglobin in red blood cells and is transported to the body’s cells.
When we breathe out, carbon dioxide from the body’s cells diffuses across the walls of the alveoli and into the bloodstream, where it is carried to the lungs and exhaled out of the body.
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Brian Eno and David Byrne turn album into art
Dépasser le passé
David Byrne explains how he and Brian Eno got their groove on after two decades apart
Via Chicago Tribune
By Greg Kot
When David Byrne and Brian Eno renewed their partnership recently after more than two decades apart, nothing was taken for granted.
Eno (the famed producer of U2 and founding member of Roxy Music) had some unfinished music, and Byrne (the driving force in Talking Heads) suggested that he might try to write some lyrics. It was a simple collaboration between two old friends, but with a heck of a back story: In 1978-80, three Eno-produced Talking Heads albums capped by “Remain in Light” changed rock history. In 1981, an Eno-Byrne album, My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, presaged the collage-style sampling of hip-hop and various strands of electronic music. That’s a lot to live up to.
“After all these years, our relationship comes with a little baggage,” Byrne understates. “We can’t just do ‘Life in the Bush of Ghosts II.’ ”
After listening to the Eno tracks “for a long time — a little too long, actually,” Byrne hit on the idea of doing an “electronic folk gospel” album that would become Everything That Happens Will Happen Today, self-released by the artists a few weeks ago [in August] on the everythingthathappens.com Web site. It would be a different album than Byrne and Eno had ever made, with an emphasis on major-key melodies that suggest the transcendence of gospel music, even as Eno’s musical soundscapes convey something more sinister.
“I’ve had a lot of practice writing melodies over the years and that’s evolved into something much different than what I would have done with the same chords a number of years ago,” Byrne says. “I now know how to make a longer melodic arch that builds slowly and takes you somewhere. I find these songs much more emotional to sing than some of the older stuff [Eno and Byrne did 30 years ago].”
The sound of Byrne’s voice — fuller, more confiding and warmer than ever — is the key to the album. It soars out of Eno’s turbulent arrangements with a power that belies the adenoidal yelp of his Talking Heads days.
“I actually enjoy the physical act of singing, moving the air through your lungs,” he says. “I didn’t feel that kind of sensual pleasure in singing in the past. Also, I’ve listened to singers like [Brazilian great] Caetano Veloso over the years, and it raises the bar. It made me realize what you can shoot for as a singer.”
Eno and Byrne emailed music back and forth. When Eno heard the vocals and lyrics, “he was an incredible cheerleader,” Byrne says. “Later, we’d be fine-tuning it, and he’d say, ‘I don’t think this verse is so good’ or ‘Maybe we should cut this part.’ But at the moment when you need support and encouragement, he pours it out. When you are in that fragile time, when you’re not sure if it’s any good or not, he’ll push you to keep going. … It’s part of why Brian’s such a successful producer.”
The album pivots on a key line from the song “Life is Long”: “I’m lost but I’m not afraid.”
“That is the overall vibe of the record,” Byrne agrees. “[It says], ‘We’re going to get through this. Humanity will prevail.’ ”
Byrne says the tone runs counter to what his intellect tells him is a tragic time for America and the rest of the world.
“Where is that [optimism] coming from?” he says. “After the last decade I should be totally angry, ticked off. It surprised me. I guess that’s what music is for. It brings stuff out of you that you need to have brought out.”
Byrne and Eno released the music on-line without support from a record label, following in the footsteps of Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails.
In contrast to the gaudy sales figures posted by those artists, “things build a little more gradually” for the Byrne-Eno album, Byrne says. “We sold enough on our Web site in the first month to pay all our expenses [for making the album] … but for other musicians that wouldn’t be enough to live on.”
Byrne sees other advantages to self-releasing his music. He was able to book a tour for this fall soon after finishing the album, and make the music immediately available. “If I’d recorded it for a record label, they would have said, ‘No way.’ They need four months to advance your record before it comes out. We didn’t have to ask anyone. We just did it. Sometimes I have to pinch myself because you forget all the unwritten rules that record companies have.”
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Legal analysis: Why Sarah Palin (still) matters for student journalists
‘This is—and has always been—a case about media accountability’
By Carolyn Schurr Levin
You may be tired of reading about Sarah Palin and her potentially “groundbreaking” libel case against The New York Times. However, so much has happened since our 2019 analysis of her case that I thought it was time for an update. I will focus on how the recent 2022 court resolution of this 2017 libel lawsuit impacts what student journalists do, and how best for campus media advisers to advise them.
First, a bit of background. On June 14, 2017, The New York Times published an editorial entitled “America’s Lethal Politics,” which stated that there was a connection between a 2010 advertisement by Palin’s political action committee and the 2011 Arizona mass shooting of U.S. Rep. Gabby Giffords, D-Arizona, and others. The byline for the editorial was “By The Editorial Board.”
The New York Times changed the language of the editorial and published a correction two days later, on June 16, 2017, after readers noted there was no connection between the Palin advertisement and the Giffords shooting. The correction read, in full: “An editorial on Thursday about the shooting of Representative Steve Scalise incorrectly stated that a link existed between political rhetoric and the 2011 shooting of Rep. Gabby Giffords. In fact, no such link was established. The editorial also incorrectly described a map distributed by a political action committee before that shooting. It depicted electoral districts, not individual Democratic lawmakers, beneath stylized cross hairs.” But, The New York Times did not apologize to Palin.
Former Gov. Sarah Palin speaks with attendees at the 2021 AmericaFest at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix. Photo by Gage Skidmore.
Palin sued The New York Times for libel. Her lawyers, Elizabeth Locke and Ken Turkel, were quoted as saying, “This is—and has always been—a case about media accountability.” On the other hand, The New York Times’ lawyers framed the case as “incredibly important because it’s about freedom of the press.”
So, what’s happened now?
Palin faced a high bar to prove her case because of the actual malice standard required for public officials to win libel cases. Palin, of course, as a former governor of Alaska and former vice presidential candidate, is a public official. The actual malice standard holds that public officials have to show that news outlets knowingly published false information or had acted with “reckless disregard” for the truth. That standard was established in the 1964 decision in another case involving The New York Times, New York Times v. Sullivan.
The jury trial, which began on Feb. 3, 2022 in federal court in Manhattan before U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff, lasted two weeks. New York Times former opinion editor James Bennet testified that he had not intended to blame Ms. Palin for the 2011 shooting. Instead, he said, he was trying to make a point about the heated political environment.
Palin countered in her testimony that the New York Times was trying to “score political points” with the editorial, which she said left her feeling “powerless” and “mortified.” She also said the newspaper’s correction was insufficient — and did not include her name.
The jury agreed with The New York Times that there had not been actual malice, returning a unanimous verdict in favor of The New York Times on Feb. 15, 2022.
The New York Times celebrated the jury verdict. “It is a reaffirmation of a fundamental tenet of American law: public figures should not be permitted to use libel suits to punish or intimidate news organizations that make, acknowledge and swiftly correct unintentional errors,” a spokeswoman said in a statement.
But, in a strange twist, BEFORE the jury rendered its decision, Judge Rakoff issued a decision saying that no matter how the jury decided, he would dismiss the case because there had been no actual malice. Based on this unusual procedural situation, Palin made a motion to disqualify Judge Rakoff. Without waiting for a decision on her disqualification motion, on March 17 she also appealed the jury verdict, seeking a new trial with a new judge. The motion and the appeal are still pending. Many media lawyers believe that Palin’s case is heading for the U.S. Supreme Court (meaning that you will likely be reading a CMR Palin update #3 at some point).
In the meantime, the Palin jury verdict gives some guidance (and relief) for student journalists reporting on public figures on their campuses. Here is our takeaway:
Correct your mistakes: You will make mistakes. The New York Times makes mistakes. But here is what The New York Times did well. They promptly corrected their error two days after the Palin editorial ran. This point cannot be overstated. Don’t be scared to admit your mistakes. Don’t ignore them. Acknowledge and promptly correct them. For all sorts of reasons, this is good practice. And, in the unlikely event that you are sued, it will be evidence that you had no actual malice, as the jury unanimously found in Palin’s case.
Don’t lower your standards for public figures. The Palin jury got it right. Public figures, such as university presidents, and maybe even student leaders and prominent professors on college campuses, have a very high bar to win libel cases. They must prove that you knew what you published was false or that you published it with reckless disregard for the truth.
But, even with the leeway that the actual malice standard provides, student journalists should not focus on that margin of error. Rather, they should strive to get it right, whether writing about an unknown student on campus or the university provost.
Many, including current Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch, have opined that the actual malice standard on which the Palin jury based its verdict should be revisited, revised or even overruled. “The proliferation of falsehoods is, and always has been, a serious matter,” Justice Thomas has written. “Instead of continuing to insulate those who perpetrate lies from traditional remedies like libel suits, we should give them only the protection the First Amendment requires.” Justice Gorsuch has agreed. “What started in 1964 with a decision to tolerate the occasional falsehood to ensure robust reporting by a comparative handful of print and broadcast outlets,” he wrote, “has evolved into an ironclad subsidy for the publication of falsehoods by means and on a scale previously unimaginable.” And, Donald Trump also famously urged “opening up the libel laws.”
Thus there is reason to suspect that the long-established fault standard for public officials in libel cases may change. Attorney Thomas Kane, writing in the National Law Review, made the point that we shouldn’t “be surprised if someday Palin v. New York Times is taught right after New York Times v. Sullivan in Constitutional Law classes.” Professor Bill Kovarik agreed, writing in The Conversation, “I can see the Palin case providing a vehicle to return libel laws back to a time when it was much easier for public figures to sue the press.”
Former Gov. Sarah Palin speaks with attendees at the 2021 Young Women’s Leadership Summit hosted by Turning Point USA at the Gaylord Texan Resort & Convention Center in Grapevine, Texas. Photo by Gage Skidmore.
But, eminent media lawyers George Freeman and Lee Levine have argued for maintaining the buffer provided by the actual malice standard. “The last thing we need is a greater disincentive to report about corruption in and negligence by local officials and institutions because of the threat of financially devastating libel suits arising from honest errors,” they wrote in a March 8, 2022 editorial in The Washington Post. Libel cases aren’t going away. In fact, there is evidence that more are being brought than ever. The Media Law Resource Center reported on data from 12 major news media companies indicating the number of libel cases rose from 74 to 115 between 2016 to 2021, compared to the preceding six years.
We ended our 2019 legal analysis of Palin’s case with this observation: “The Palin v. New York Times lawsuit is far from over, two years later.” Now in 2022, we can update that ending with a new one. The Palin v. New York Times lawsuit is still far from over, five years later.
Where does this leave us? Despite all the high-level criticism of the actual malice libel standard for public officials and public figures, IT IS STILL THE LAW. The legal rules haven’t changed … yet. Perhaps more importantly, the ethical standards for thorough, fair and meticulous reporting certainly haven’t changed, and they won’t.
Carolyn Levin
Carolyn Schurr Levin, a media and First Amendment attorney, is a partner at Miller Korzenik Sommers Rayman LLP in New York. She was the vice president and general counsel of Newsday, vice president and general counsel of Ziff Davis Media, and media law adviser for the School of Journalism at Stony Brook University. She teaches Media Ethics & Law at City University of New York’s Baruch College, and has also taught media ethics and law at Stony Brook University, Long Island University, and Pace University. From 2010-2019, she was the faculty adviser for the Pioneer, the student newspaper at Long Island University, during which time the Pioneer won 28 awards.
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National Letter Writing Campaign
By Pauline Jewett | 1986-02-01 12:00:00
This month's letter writing suggestion comes from Pauline Jewett, the External Affairs critic for the New Democratic Party. What follows is a letter received by the NLWC after she returned from a trip to Washington, D.C.
I have just returned from Washington, D.C., where I had lengthy discussions with U.S. politicians, defence officials, and experts about NORAD. It is clear that Canada will be drawn into the active nuclear military policies and operations of the U.S. if Canada remains a participant in NORAD.
NORAD, and the associated Unified Space Command at Colorado Springs, will become increasingly involved in the militarization of space in coming years. This is likely to include anti-satellite activities. It is clear that NORAD is to become at least a "back-up" to Star Wars (SDI) and NORAD is certain to be involved in the event of the U.S. breaking the ABM Treaty and developing anti-ballistic missile defences.
The ABM Treaty is the cornerstone of what little arms control there is. It must be maintained and defended. Canada must work to preserve the ABM Treaty in order to prevent a horrific and uncontrollable "defensive" nuclear arms race. Canada must oppose Star Wars, not aid it. And Canada must reject any participation in anti-satellite and other space weapons.
There was no public information or parliamentary debate when Brian Mulroney and Ronald Reagan signed the North Warning System Agreement in Québec City last March. There has been no parliamentary debate and little public discussion of the Conservative government's plans to renew the NORAD Agreement for up to fifteen years. Like the Liberals before them, the Conservatives are making secret agreements and executive level defence deals with the United States. It is time for that to stop.
If you share our concerns in the New Democratic Party about the ABM Treaty, Star Wars, and NORAD, please write to Brian Mulroney and tell him not to renew the NORAD agreement. Tell him that Canadians want a full public review of our nuclear and defence relations with the United States instead.
Pauline Jewett
Letters to Brian Mulroney require no postage and should be addressed to House of Commons, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0A6.
If your group would like more information about the NLWC or would like to join the 250 groups that now belong, write to us. Also, please send suggestions of individuals whom you would like to see targetted for letters. NLWC,, P.O. Box 43, 70 King Street North, Waterloo, Ont. Remember -- thinking about it doesn't change anything. Please pat something in the mail to Brian Mulroney.
Peace Magazine Feb-Mar 1986, page 21. Some rights reserved.
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THE CHEMISTRY OF TEARS
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By Emma Brockes, The Guardian, Friday 16 March 2012
Peter Carey’s first thought was to write about engines. He had been reminiscing about his father’s car business, in a town called Sale inGippsland, Australia. When Carey was growing up, his father sold cars to local farmers, engines customised “to get them up the steep bloody hill”. That set him to thinking about oil, which triggered thoughts about Henry Ford. Carey’s mind has a pinball tendency to ricochet madly and so, eventually, he found himself thinking about a mechanical duck: the 18th-century automaton designed by Jacques de Vaucanson. “And that led me off on a whole other way of dealing with things that were in my head.” If a single image united all this, it was the long-range effect of industrialisation: “An overheated planet. Perhaps. As a place where I might have started.”
Carey’s reluctance to summarise his new novel comes down, perhaps, to just how eccentric and unsummarisable it is. The Chemistry Of Tears is split between the story of Catherine Gehrig, a museum curator in present-day London, and the 19th-century man whose mechanical swan, modelled on the Vaucanson, sits on her desk, waiting to be reassembled. Carey allows that it’s “pretty nutty” but, “I suppose the thing that led me there was that I was looking for an engine that would be about the Industrial Revolution and all its wonders and inventions, and also the consequences, which we’re living with now. I guess I could have had a steam engine or something, but this really appealed to me and I sort of set off with it.”
The action could not be farther from his home in New York or his background in Australia. Carey has always been comfortable moving continents, in fiction as in life. For 20 years he has lived in SoHo, in downtown Manhattan – one of the last residents, he says, to buy his loft from an artist, not a hedge fund manager. It would seem the last place on Earth to achieve the peace of mind necessary for Carey’s work, but he is, by his own admission, peculiar in his practices. He doesn’t chastise himself for breaking off to go online while writing.
“No. For someone with my attention span, it’s fine. I’d be very critical of anyone else doing it, but I have a highly energised, addictive personality. I go from one state to another state, and I’m very deep into it. My wiring is strange.”
The only disruptive influence has, somewhat fittingly, been engine noise from the street outside. It is why we meet in a corner cafe rather than his flat. “Oh, I get irritated. I’m having a great feud with the fucking ice-cream truck across the street; the engine would run at a particular pitch and went on and on and on. And I thought, well, I could shout at this guy daily or I could beat him legally, but there’ll be millions more coming back.” Today, he’s having double-glazing installed and his loft is overrun with builders.
We are in his favourite booth at a local cafe, where Carey orders wine and oysters. If he had to identify the main strength in his character, he would go for enthusiasm, he says, reaching right back to childhood and in evidence today. At 68, he has the high, slightly ramshackle energy of a 22-year-old, his thoughts materialising so fast, his speech can’t always keep up with them. He refuses to be bored, and if the price is anxiety, or danger, or even failure, he says, he will settle for that. The first great upset of his life was failing his university exams. His parents weren’t wealthy, but had scrimped to send him to a good boarding school. Looking back, he says with some amusement, he must have been an odd little fellow, but he didn’t feel it at the time.
“I mean, I must have completely not fitted in, because I came from a predominantly lower middle/working-class town, where I thought we were rich, to Geelong Grammar, which was very posh. And I think it was really only when I left there that I understood where I’d been. And I had a good time. I was intensely nerdy. I’ll tell you how nerdy I was; I was captain of… it wasn’t the bottom team in football, but it was something like that, and I was really fearless. So I’d go on with my glasses taped on to my head, and I remember once we had a match somewhere and some kid said, how do you catch it? But I was protected by having a lot of energy, a lot of enthusiasm.”
Also, a kind of belligerent optimism. When he got to university, he thought he would be an organic chemist. Then he thought he’d be a zoologist. He had no aptitude for either, started faking his science experiments and then failed his exams anyway. Given their investment in him, his parents were remarkably sanguine, he says, although he felt awful. “I was horrified. My mother, in one of the great conforming clichés of our family, said, ‘Worse accidents happen at sea.’ They didn’t make me conscious of it.”
Carey, however, was determined not to put them in that situation again. He applied and was accepted for a degree in architecture, but decided, at the last minute, that he couldn’t go through with it. “I couldn’t ask them to pay for it. For what? How did I know it would work out?”
Instead, he moved to Sydney and joined a small advertising firm, where his real education began. It was the era of Mad Men, but the series makes him laugh in derision; Sydney in those days was a long way from Madison Avenue and he and his colleagues were not exactly Don Draper types. The alcohol consumption was insane, he says; they had that in common. But, “[The Americans] were so straight. We were not straight. When someone comes into the office and is walking around and the floor is absolutely sticky, and says, ‘What’s wrong with the floor?’ ‘Dunno,’ and it was because we’d been smoking dope and spraying the air with adhesive spray to kill the smell! It was a different world. I liked that.”
Even when he was on the board of Grey’s Advertising in Sydney, there was still no real pressure to conform. Carey was living in a hippy community at the time, and came in for a meeting with some American executives dressed in flip-flops, pyjama trousers and a secondhand Hawaiian shirt. “And I was a board member!” he says. “And my friend said to me once, ‘You don’t know how you look. You have no idea.'”
Carey wasn’t exactly playing at hippydom – the lifestyle suited him, he says, and he assumed, as he does in most situations, that it would go on for ever. On the other hand, “It was a very privileged position. You know, you’re pretending to be radical, with a credit card.” The main thing was, the advertising work was relatively undemanding and paid well enough to free him up to write most days a week. He is grateful for those years, but is still half embarrassed at having been a hack copywriter. He primly refuses to repeat any of the slogans he wrote, won’t allow for the possibility that copywriting influenced his style as a fiction writer, and is still smarting from the reaction he got in some quarters when he first won the Booker, in 1988, for Oscar And Lucinda: Ad-Man Wins Booker Prize. “You know? Fuck you, too.”
And yet, “Advertising really was like a huge arts council grant.”
He was mainly working on short stories then; gamely sending them out and absorbing the rejections. There had been books in his house when he was growing up – “Reader’s Digest condensed books, The Robe, Georgette Heyer” – and his mother had encouraged and was proud of his reading. The brevity of his style, which doesn’t waver no matter how long a novel he is writing, comes down to boredom as much as aesthetics. Oscar And Lucinda is a 500-page novel made up of 111 tiny chapters, which he thought of as tiles tessellating into a perfect whole. “I was very anxious when I was writing Oscar And Lucinda. I would take other books off the shelf to check my chapter length was OK. John Irving did it, so it was OK. Four pages.”
He often feels as if he has no choice in the matter; a book will come out the way it has to come out, even in the face of its author’s reservations. Carey won a second Booker in 2001 for True History Of The Kelly Gang (the only other writer to have won the prize twice is JM Coetzee), which Carey thought would be a suicide mission, given the licence it took with an Australian legend and the unconventional language he wrote it in. “A huge risk. But I had no choice about it.”
What’s the antidote to that kind of anxiety?
“Alcohol’s quite good. For very bad anxiety, you can have a pill.” He laughs. “Alcohol’s a bad idea. Pills are stupid. I don’t know. The weird thing about the anxiety is that’s what’s exciting about doing it: the risk. What I find really attractive is something that’s going to be a little dangerous. Something that might get me into trouble; you know, you turn up in London and you’ve just rewritten Dickens. And, of course, then you think, what have I done?”
This was after writing Jack Maggs, a retelling of Great Expectations from the point of view of the convict and another huge presumption, as Carey saw it – particularly coming from an Australian. It took him many years to shrug off his sense of colonial insecurity. He came to London first in his 20s, one of the earliest to arrive by plane, not ship, and loved the city immediately, not least, he says, because unlike in Sydney, when he walked around Notting Hill, no one threatened to beat him up for having long hair. But he was also riven with a sense of self-hatred; that he wrote, and spoke, from a standpoint of zero cultural authority.
Two things, separated by many years, stick in his mind as significant in shaking that off. The first was towards the end of his initial stay in London. He had been in the city for a year and was intent on staying for ever. “And then suddenly I realised – I remember, I had a motorbike and I was buying some petrol – I could stay all my life in this country and not understand the person at the gas station. I thought, ah. And very soon after that I went back to Australia.”
The second incident was a moment of realisation that the Brits were as full of shit as all the people over whom they claimed superiority. Carey was socialising in a group of British men, discussing a book about sexism in Australia. “And they’re all sitting there nodding their fucking heads about these awful sexist Australian men. And there was something horrible about it. And I thought, ah. No. No. So I stopped doing it [agreeing with them]. Because I’m not sure English men are really any better… their style might be different, but it’s the same thing.”
His first short story collection, The Fat Man In History, came out in 1974, his first novel, Bliss, in 1981. Then came Illywhacker, the picaresque tale of an inveterate liar with the famous first line – “My name is Herbert Badgery. I am a hundred and thirty-nine years old and something of a celebrity” – and the novel that, thanks to its popularity among students, gave Carey a kind of hipsterish cachet. The author seemed fun and bitchy and the antithesis of the typically agonised literary novelist, the levity of his prose never at odds with the seriousness of his ideas. The one thing Carey did not much care for was writing about himself: a few travelogues and a slight memoir, about a trip he took with one of his sons, called Wrong About Japan.
Peter Carey on his so-called rivals in the literary world: ‘There are people that you don’t like because you’re jealous of them until you meet them… Then you meet them and discover they’ve been jealous of you, and you become friends.’ Photograph: Flora Hanitijo for the Guardian
And a piece for the New Yorker, which he now regrets writing, about his experience as a young man in Australia helping his girlfriend have an illegal abortion. It is, as one would expect, a moving and unhistrionic piece about the difficulties they faced, practically and morally, and sadly not as quaint as it might be, with abortion still one of the main issues in the Republican primaries. “I hadn’t thought of that, but it’s true,” he says. Naively, he thought he could publish the piece in the US and have it somehow escape the notice of the press in Australia. That didn’t work. “The Sydney Morning Herald rang and said if you don’t let us run it, we’ll quote you to within an inch of your life. So I gave in. But it was a stupid thing to do.” His ex-girlfriend, still in Australia and bothered by the publicity, was, he says, “terrifically nice about it. But it was the sort of thing that I really shouldn’t have done. I don’t think you have the right to shout about other people’s private life. In the New Yorker, it ran under the headline A Small Memorial. The Sydney Morning Herald ran with My Never Ending Wish, or something melodramatic like that. And it felt very tabloidy.”
It is a measure of Carey’s success that his private life should be of interest in the first place. When he left Sydney 20 years ago, he was, he says, already at that level where, as well as people being “nice to me and smiling at me, they even wrote the kind of shitty things they write about people who are doing OK”. He left with his then wife, Alison Summers, a theatre director, to take up a teaching post in New York. “But here it is, 20 years later. Children. And an English wife.”
That is his second wife, the publisher Frances Coady. Six years ago, after their divorce, Summers caused a tabloid stir by accusing him of basing a horrid character in his novel Theft: A Love Story on her and giving lots of interviews to that effect.
“It’s all crap, completely untrue. All that fuss – people who read the book knew… So there are people who write about books they haven’t read – it happens all the time.”
Did it curtail him in his writing at all?
“No. Why would I be curtailed by it? I can’t live like that. It’s not possible.”
Carey is very good at writing women. They leap out of his books, strong, peculiar, as driven by wayward and inexplicable passions as their male counterparts. Gehrig, in his new novel – “off her face with rage and cognac” – is eminently believable in a believably grotty London landscape. But it is Lucinda who is still his greatest achievement. “She could marry this man, she knew, and still be captain of her soul.” Encountering the strength of Carey’s female leads, you wonder, of course, about his mother. He grins. “Oh, she was totally formidable. She used to sit there in the garage and men would come in and she’d argue with them about car parts; things a lady used not to do. And they’d say, I want to see the manager! And she’d say, I am the manager. My dear mother was a nightmare in all sorts of respects, but I had a very strong sympathy for her position.”
He grew up a long way from the feverish circles of literary London, but Carey is – how could he not be – very aware of generational pecking order. It is not polite to speak of these things; he smiles sardonically, and yet he sees no point in trying to deny the rivalry he has with those who are also his great friends. “There are people that you don’t like because you’re jealous of them until you meet them. And you haven’t read their book because it’s had so much attention. Then you meet them and discover they’ve been jealous of you, and you become friends. And you like their work… I think we are [all] competitive. But I shouldn’t say we. Because I’ll be disapproved of.”
How does the competitiveness manifest? “Well, I was in Adelaide with two good friends, Ian McEwan and Paul Auster, and I said, when one of my friends gets a bad review, it’s a little hard not to be pleased. And they’re going, ‘Oh, no, Peter, no.’ They wouldn’t have it. So. I think I’m both things. There’s a part of me that celebrates someone who’s really good, when someone’s done something beautiful. It’s lovely. And it’s lovely to feel yourself being bigger than your little self.”
Carey is extremely affable, but I wonder if he doesn’t have a diva-ish side – didn’t winning the Booker twice turn him into a bit of a jerk? “Why would you be a jerk? There are people, when things do go to their head, who get silly and embarrassing or even nasty. It’s just about character. Maybe the nerdy boy appreciates… although, often, it’s the nerdy boy who becomes most unbearable: power at last! My view is never that sort of view. Being famous as a writer is like being famous in a village. It’s not really any very heady fame. In these brutal times.”
He continues to enjoy New York. He teaches a creative writing class atHunter College. He and his wife like to stay in and watch DVDs, talk, walk around the city. Homesickness is something that he feels but also believes to be based on a misunderstanding: “The person going back thinks, incorrectly, that no one else has changed, that they’re doing the same old shit they were always doing. But that’s not true. It can’t be true.”
He accepts that living far from his original home will always entail a small amount of sadness. “Nostalgia is something we think of as fuzzy. But it’s pain. Pain concerning the past. It’s true about my country; about the past of my country; it’s true about loss, death; time. All of those things. I’m not quite homesick now, but it’s a sort of a… the past is home.”
The other day he dragged out a laptop on to which he had loaded some old Australian folk songs and made his wife listen to them. Carey clears his throat and begins loudly, joyfully and without the slightest inhibition to sing in a broadened Australian accent: “We’re the Maryborough miner boys and I’m one of the good old time/and then just to serve him right, me boys, I set his house on fire.” He grins and takes a sip of wine. “It makes me very happy.”
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"Shifting Baselines" basically means "lowered standards." From the beginning of our project, those of us behind this campaign have talked about how "lowered standards" is such a common theme among stand-up comics. So, in the interest of reaching a broader audience, we decided to test the comic waters of Hollywood and see if we were right, by conducting a little experiment.
On March 31, 2003 we held a contest in which 42 up-and-coming comic performers brought in their best material on the subject of lowered standards/shifting baselines. Some made films, some sang songs, some read poems, and some chickened out....
The event was organized by Randy Olson and Jeremy Rowley of the L.A. comedy group The Groundlings.
It was hard to pick the best, so we didn't. We handed that job over to our celebrity judges:
(Click photo to view bio)
Julia Louis-
Mehlman
(Producer)
They did a great job, and here's who they chose. You can see a sample of each performer on the WINNERS REEL, or watch their entire performances below by clicking the links.
WINNERS REEL
Aron Kader
"The Old Joke Book"
Larke Miller
"Dating Old Men"
Ifeanyi Njoku "Shifting 'Hood' Lines"
Guy Stevenson
"The Lion Bouncer"
David Storrs
"I Hate IKEA"
And a couple more ...
Two more performances were so good we had to include them as Runners Up.
Greg Benson
"The Dating Film"
Stephanie Courtney
"The 99 Cent Store"
We don’t want to get too analytical, but there are two winning performances that provide material deserving further thought in relation to our themes of "shifting baselines" and ocean conservation.
Aron Kader's now-flaccid joke book from his grandfather illustrates something, though it's not entirely clear what -- maybe shifting baselines, maybe reverse-shifting baselines, maybe shifting thresholds for making people laugh -- who knows, but it's clear that mustard isn't as funny as it used to be.
Ifeanyi Njoku's short film illustrating a lack of awareness about ocean conservation in South Central Los Angeles is an important piece of commentary for environmentalists who dream of having a more unified constituency. When we held our Roundtable Discussion in January one participant said, "I stand here tonight in a very white room …" There exists a seldom-mentioned fact about environmentalism in the U.S. -- it is mostly peopled by middle-aged white folks. And at the same time, it's not as if the lack of awareness of ocean conservation is specific to the people in this film. As one of our judges, Tom Arnold, said, "I think you could go to Iowa and find the same sort of comments."
JUDGES BIOS:
Tom Arnold is a writer, producer, and actor who has appeared in such movies as "True Lies," "McHale's Navy," "Cradle 2 the Grave," and is currently co-host of, "The Best Damn Sports Show Period," on Fox Sports Network.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus is best known for her Emmy and Golden Globe winning performance as "Elaine," on the legendary sitcom, "Seinfeld." She was also a cast member of "Saturday Night Live," and is currently the star of the NBC sitcom, "Watching Ellie." Julia is an active environmentalist on the Executive Committee of NRDC, helping out Heal the Ocean, and a member of the Board of Directors of both Heal the Bay and the Environmental Media Association.
Bill Maher was the creator of the 90's cultural landmark show "Politically Incorrect," which aired for nine years on Comedy Central and ABC, and was nominated for an Emmy. He is now the host of "Real Time with Bill Maher," on HBO.
Peter Mehlman was a co-creator of and writer for a little TV show called, "Seinfeld." He is perhaps most famous for writing the "Yada Yada" episode, and is also the author of such classic Seinfeldisms as "spongeworthy" and "shrinkage."
Jeremy Rowley performs regularly as a member of the GROUNDLINGS and has appeared on BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER, CHARMED, ACCORDING TO JIM, STRIPMALL on Comedy Central, and RUNNING WITH SCISSORS on Oxygen. Film credits include Jerry Bruckheimer’s COYOTE UGLY and the soon to be released SELF MEDICATED.
Mindy Sterling appeared in the Austin Powers trilogy as "Frau Farbissina". Her improv experience with The Groundlings has led her to star in the new WB show, "On The Spot". Her film credits include "The Grinch Who Stole Christmas" and "Drop Dead Gorgeous".
WINNERS BIOS:
Greg Benson has guest starred on many TV series and films, appeared in over 100 commercials, and created his own sketch comedy TV series "Skip TV." He currently writes and performs live every Sunday at 8 PM at the ACME Comedy Theatre in Hollywood.
Stephanie Courtney is an LA actor, stand up comic, and member of the Groundlings Sunday Company. She starred in, "Melvin Goes to Dinner", directed by Bob Odenkirk / written by Mike Blieden, which premiered at the Slamdance Film Festival this year.
Aron Kader has appeared on "The Shield" and as a stand-up comic on "Comedy Central's Premium Blend." He can currently be seen at "The Comedy Store" on the weekends, and "The Groundlings" on Sunday nights doing sketch comedy.
Larke Miller performs all over L.A., from the LA Improv to youth hostiles and AA meetings. Her dream is to have her own HBO special.
Ifeanyi Njoku is a director and producer for MTV, as well as music videos for such artists as Nelly, Eve, and Snoop. He directed the recent Showtime comedy special, "Straight Clownin'" featuring Will Smith, Tyra Banks, Jamie Foxx, Shaq, and Dr. Dre, and starring the host of this film, Alex Thomas.
Guy Stevenson, before trying his hand at comedy, was a U.S. Marine, a bouncer at a strip club, banned from the Philippines, and his application was rejected by the most corrupt police force in the country, the L.A.P.D. He is currently with the Groundlings Sunday Company and recent television appearances have included, 'The In-Laws', 'Grounded for Life', and 'The Parkers'.
David Storrs is currently performing with the Groundlings Sunday Company and has just completed Co-star work on NBC's pilot "Come to Papa".
For questions or comments contact: info@shiftingbaselines.org
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Zeppelin engineer takes time out from penning autobiography to answer questions for Rockford Rocked readers
By Todd Houston On Dec 27, 2018
By Todd Houston
Ron Nevison is an American record producer and audio engineer. He started his career in the early 1970s as an engineer on albums such as Quadrophenia by The Who and Bad Company’s debut album. He eventually became a producer, working with artists including Led Zeppelin, Ozzy Osbourne, UFO, Jefferson Starship, Thin Lizzy, Kiss, and many others.
Ron was kind enough to answer questions from some readers of the Rockford Rocked Interview’s column. He is also currently in the process of writing his autobiography.
KISS: (Crazy Nights – Mercury Records 1989)
I want to know about the Kiss stuff. It must have been hard for KISS to compete with bands like Bon Jovi during the Crazy Nights era. What was it like working with KISS? – Mike Parr, Rockford
Ron Nevison: Well, as far as KISS trying to compete with Bon Jovi at the time I guess it’s kind of true. Bon Jovi at the time had come out with “livin’ on a prayer,” etc. Paul Stanley of KISS was in New York writing with Desmond Child and all the people Bon Jovi was working with.
In the beginning of the Crazy Nights sessions Paul had shown me eight or ten great quality songs that he thought we could use. Gene just kind of sent me some songs that he had laying around. Maybe twenty five or so. If I remember correctly he basically only contributed a couple of the songs that made it to the record.
We did most everything at Rumbo near Los Angeles. To tell you the truth, I’m a little disappointed that the Crazy Nights album didn’t have a big hit single.
Ten years prior to the Crazy Nights sessions I had an interview with Paul Stanley just before KISS did their solo albums. I met Paul at Casablanca Records but for whatever reason I didn’t end up working with them. I don’t know if they didn’t want me to do it in the end or I didn’t want to do it. Or perhaps I was just too busy.
London Quireboys: (A bit of what you fancy – Capital records 1990)
The Quireboys popped up here in the states just after the Guns N’ Roses, sleaze rock explosion was in full swing. Did these guys know what they wanted in the studio or did they pretty much just say “make us sound like The Faces and Humble Pie”? – Jeff Miksik, Portland, OR
RN: I was approached by Sharon Osbourne, who was managing them at the time. I didn’t actually produce that album. (A bit of what you fancy – Capital records 1989) I was kind of like the executive producer then I suppose. I think it was Jim Cregan who actually produced it.
He was a guitar player who played in Rod Stewart’s band for awhile and was also a really nice guy as I recall. I remember they did the recording at Cherokee Studios and I would go in and sort of supervise a bit and help out with songs. But no, I wasn’t totally involved in that one. However, Ozzy and Sharon did fly me to Tokyo to record them at the Tokyo Dome. I remember “Spike” the singer being a Rod Steward kind of guy and yeah, it sounded like The Faces all over again.
UFO (Strangers in the Night Live album 1979):
How much of the great sound on UFO’s LIVE strangers in the night was done in the studio? I heard there were lots of overdubs by guitarist Michael Schenker and or Paul Chapman? – Michael Adamany, Rockford
RN: Okay, let me talk a bit about Strangers in the Night. The album was recorded at the Record Plant mobile Studio. If I remember correctly, I believe it was recorded in four or five different locations. Youngstown, Columbus, Cleveland, Chicago with Chicago being the biggest hit. I had Mike Clink (Whitesnake, Guns N’ Roses, Mötley Crüe, Megadeth, etc.) as my assistant back then. You know, it wasn’t really supposed to be a double album but when you have 12 minute songs like “Rock Bottom” it makes it difficult. And let’s not forget that vinyl records could only be 20 minutes a side. If you get one song that’s 12 or 13 minutes how are you going to juggle all of that?
So, I had to try to figure out on songs like “Love to Love” and others how I was going to get it done. I ended up talking to Chrysalis Records and we finally decided to do the double album. Now, in the end there were two songs that I still needed that I really didn’t think were up to par so we went back into the Record Plant Studio C and re-record those two songs. I don’t know if anybody could tell the difference Todd as I used all the same mics, the same placement, everything. I set up to record just like it was on stage and at the gigs.
I must say there were very little overdubs. I’ve heard people say “Oh yeah, there were lots of overdubs on the “Stangers” Live album but No. One of the reasons there wasn’t is because I picked the songs that didn’t need it. There was however some “fixing” here and there but there were not a lot of overdubs. Now, having said that it was 40 something years ago (Laughter).
Damn Yankees (Warner Bros 1990)
You did the Damn Yankees debut album. I recall Tommy Shaw saying that Ted Nugent was impressed with his slide guitar playing. Did Ted demand to play all the lead guitar parts? And what was Ted like in the studio? – Maddie Paige, Loves Park
RN: Ok, so John Kalodnar was the guy at Geffen and this is like 1989 or something like that. I had had dealings with him with the band Survivor and some other things. Kalodnar is the one that got Ted Nugent, Jack Blades and Tommy Shaw together and that’s what he did well. The whole A&R guy thing you know? The best thing they can do is create marriages and the worst thing they can do is meddle in the music (laughter).
So he puts together these guys and they went and wrote demo songs and it was great. What happened was the president of Geffen Records at the time passed on those demo songs. Passed on “High enough” and all of those great songs. So I get a call one day from Michael Austin over at Warner brothers. He says he’s got these guys, Nugent, Blades, Shaw, etc. and also this music. I said yeah I would love to hear it! I went down to WB and ended up doing the album with them.
Led Zeppelin (Physical Graffiti 1975 Swan Song)
Tell us about the The unflattering album credit for the song “The Rover” where it reads “Guitar lost courtesy of Nevison. Salvaged by the grace of Harwood.” – John Richardson, Rockton
RN: Well that’s easy. I didn’t work on that song so…. Here’s what might have happened. I was called up to record Led Zeppelin at this place called Headley Grange which was in Headley Hampshire. We were to use the Ronnie Lane Mobile studio. The Rolling Stones had the only other mobile so there were two cool ones, the Ronnie Lane and theirs (Stones). I’m sure the BBC had theirs but whatever. (Incidentally I had already had a date to do The Who’s “Tommy” film which was a one year project.) So, I get down to Headley and John Paul Jones doesn’t show up. I’m not sure why and I didn’t ask. We ended up hanging out for a couple weeks rehearsing, having fun doing Elvis songs and things like that but I ultimately had to tell them as some point I had to leave.
I’m probably the only one who ever quit Led Zeppelin (laughter) I ended saying hey look, after this certain date I can’t come back. Now, I didn’t realize until the album actually came out that it was a double album and they had used a lot of tracks from Headley Grange but from the Houses of the Holy sessions. One of those track was “The Rover” and it wasn’t recorded during my sessions there. And no takes were ever brought to me during my session that I was aware of. We never even put up any tapes so there is no way I could even have ever erased anything. However I can picture someone at the sessions saying hey where’s the guitar on that and some engineer saying “hey, I didn’t do that” and them thinking well maybe I did. Also to put on the back of the album Physical Graffiti in the credits. Either they were really pissed at me for leaving or I don’t know.
RRI: Are you still friendly with Plant or Page?
RN: Yeah, sure. It’s been awhile since I’ve seen them. Here’s a story for you. I remember walking into this club in London called “Tramp” a few years after and seeing Peter Grant (Led Zeppelin manager) and (Atlantic records president) Ahmet Ertegün sitting there and giving me kind of a dirty look as I walked by (laughs) But seriously I’ve talked to Robert Plant quite a few times and there’s no hard feelings there. R.
Your Horoscope – December 26, 2018
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John Agustus Eley Family
Husband: John Agustus Eley
Born: 26 Mar 1824 at: NC
Married: at: NC
Died: 20 May 1898 at:
Father: Lemual Eley
Mother: Nancy Cherry
Wife: Martha Ann Brown
Born: Jan 1827 at: NC
Died: Aft 1880 at:
Father: John Brown
Mother: Martha Unknown
Name: Lemuel Jackson Eley
Born: 28 Mar 1846 at: AR
Died: 30 Oct 1899 at: AR
Buried: at: Merrell Cemetery, Belton, AR
Spouses: Sarah Ann Stephens Caroline M. Busby
Name: Missouri A. Eley
Born: 1848 at:
Spouses: William H. Daniel
Name: William Henry Eley
Born: 14 Jun 1851 at: Eleyville, Hempstead Co., AR
Died: 26 Mar 1921 at: McCaskill, Hempstead Co., AR
Spouses: Margaret Ann Lewis Sarah Elizabeth (Sallie) Hyatt
Name: John L. Eley
Born: 12 Oct 1853 at:
Died: 05 Nov 1886 at:
Buried: at: Merrell Cemetery, Hempstead Co., AR
Spouses: Joanna Alabama(?) Hampton
Name: Mary Alice Eley
Died: 1875 at:
Spouses: W. L. Bosbey
Name: James Dudley Eley
Born: 14 Apr 1859 at: AR
Died: 08 Feb 1937 at: Nevada Co., AR
Spouses: Sarah Elizabeth (Sallie) Hampton
Name: Jacob Eley
Name: Martha A. Eley
Born: Mar 1864 at:
Spouses: William L. Busby
About John Agustus Eley:
John and Martha moved to Ark. from Hertford Co., NC around 1844.
Found in 1850 Census, Ark., Hempstead Co.,Redland, img. 86.
A John A. Eley is listed on a reconstructed roster of a Confederate unit from Arkansas, Washington Artillery (Etter's Battery), 1862. It also states in the Goodspeed article (shown below) that John served in the artillery during the war.
Etter's Battery - Sixth Arkansas Light Artillery. Etter recruited the men in the spring of 1862 and they enlisted at Washington, AR on June 14th. They saw action in Helena and Little Rock, AR, Pleasant Hill, Grand Ecore and Alexandria, LA.
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John A. Eley is listed as performing several marriages as a Justice of the Peace in the period 1855 thru 1859, in "Hempstead County Marriage Records, 1817-1875".
From Goodspeed's Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Southern Arkansas; Hempstead County, 1890, Page 408:
John A. Eley, a planter, merchant and ginner residing in Redland Township, was originally from North Carolina, where his birth occurred on March 26, 1824. He emigrated from his native State to Arkansas in 1844, settled in Hempstead County and here he has since made his home. He was married to Miss Martha A. Brown, a native of North Carolina (born in 1827), in 1842, and to them have been born nine children, five of whom are now living: Lemuel J., William H., James D., Missouri A. (wife of William Daniels, a farmer living in this county), and Mary A. (wife of W. L. Bosbey, a farmer residing in this county). Mr. Eley served in the Confederate army during the late war, enlisting in the artillery in 1863, and serving until the close of the war. He then returned home and engaged in tilling the soil, which he has continued ever since, but in connection has also carried on milling and merchandising. He is the owner of 600 acres of good land, and has 100 acres under cultivation. He is a member of the Masonic order, and he and wife are members of the Baptist Church. Politically he is a Democrat, and his first presidential vote was cast for James K. Polk. He is in favor of all public improvements, and is a liberal donator to the same. He was justice of the peace of this township for about eighteen years, was postmaster at Hickory Creek post office from 1854 until 1860, and was clerk of the Baptist Church for a number of years. He was one of three children born to Lemuel and Nancy (Cherry) Eley, the father a native of North Carolina, born in the year 1792, and the mother also a native of that State, born in 1811. They were married in North Carolina, and there passed the closing scenes of their life, the father dying in 1822 (Note: can't be accurate) and the mother in 1887. The latter was a consistent member of the Baptist Church. The parents of Mrs. Eley were John and Martha Brown, natives of North Carolina.
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Federal Land Records - Hempstead Co., AR
Eley, John A. 40 Acres 1848/11/01
Eley, John A. 160 Acres 1859/07/01
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Descendants of John Agustus Eley
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Conwy Castle (North Wales) from across
the Conwy Suspension Bridge. Built by the famous
engineer Thomas Telford, the bridge was completed
in 1826 when it replaced the ferry over the river.
Conwy Castle
Conwy Castle was one of several that English king Edward I (1272 -1397) to bring Wales under the control of the English Crown. Conwy Castle was begun in 1283, the same year as Caernarfon and Harlech Castles.
The building has a dual-wall structure like a concentric castle, but it actually has more of a linear structure, being rectangular and built on a rock outcrop.
It was built to be compact but immensely strong. Four towers were positioned on each of the two high, thick walls, and a further wall extended to enclose the town.
The building work cost Edward I's state £15,000 - but was immensely valuable in securing the area for the Norman monarchy. Indeed, it was as soon as 1295 that it was called upon to defend King Edward I against the rebellion of Madog ap Llywelyn.
In 1399 it was at Conwy that Henry Bolingbroke (who became Henry IV) arranged to meet King Richard II had arrested him, precipitating the rebellion of Owain Glyndwr.
Four years later, Glyndwr's forces took the castle in 1403 (although through trickery rather than military strength) before ransoming it back to the crown.
After the early part of the 15th century, Conwy Castle saw little more military action, save for the Civil War. Archbishop of York John Williams, a Royalist, repaired the castle but it was swiftly taken by the Parliamentary forces in 1646. After the war, the third Earl of Conwy stripped the castle and decamped to Ireland, and the castle was allowed to fall into disrepair.
Despite the lack of use Conwy Castle is very well preserved, regularly repaired, and retains its majestic appearance
Lentil burgers, a thousand press ups before breakfast and
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It’s all “water under the bridge” but everything you do
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Tag: Lie
Review: Lie
We were thrilled to receive a really positive review of our new album, Lie, by the Dutch music website, Your Music Blog.
Listening to the album I was hooked from the first bars of I Hear Drums. Call it infectious, call it catchy, call it what you like, it is a damn clever way to start. From a bit of distance it is quite remarkable how 4 guys can deliver music so diverse and still sound spot on in every second of it. Whether it is a more elaborate track like Superman In The Silence, the almost Johnny Cash sounding Fight or the almost New Wave sounding song like Hello. And if you now think this is a patchy work, forget it. Don’t know how they do it, but nothing seems out of place here.
Posted on 5 January 2017 17 January 2017
Catching Up With The Monsters
It’s been 2 years since your first album, Ground. What have you been up to?
We started recording the follow up to Ground, “Lie” in May 2015 but we had a lot of distractions. We put a lot of time into rehearsing our live show, made three music videos and also recorded two non-album tracks for different projects.
Two of the music videos were for tracks from Ground. For ‘The Engagement’ we recut footage from an old ‘swords-and-sandals’ gladiator movie now in the public domain which was a lot of fun. For ‘Sea Stories’ we were more ambitious and filmed original footage – in typically freezing and wet English weather – which was less fun. But we’re very proud of the outcome. It’s also the first video to feature the band. We filmed it in some woods on the outskirts of London and around the Kent coast.
We were invited to play at a small arts festival in Kent too, hosted in a medieval church, so we took the opportunity to record a live performance of the track ‘Drawing’ with that stunning backdrop. ‘Drawing’ is a song based on a poem by the late South African writer Ingrid Jonker who committed suicide in the mid 60s. We were invited to submit a track based on her work along with 30 or so other artists for an album called Die Kind Is Nog Jonger (“The Child Is Even Younger”). We couldn’t pass up this opportunity, so took some time out to write and record this song, which we love.
What was the response to that?
The compilation album was very warmly received and featured many artists we were very proud to be played alongside. We were thrilled when the music critic for a major Cape Town daily newspaper, Die Burger, named ‘Drawing’ as a “standout track”.
And the other non-album track?
We recorded a song ‘After Charlie’ as a response to the attacks in Paris on Charlie Hebdo and the kosher supermarket, which targeted Jewish people. We donated the proceeds to a UK charity which fights anti-semitism.
How did the live shows go?
We don’t play live as much as we’d like to. It’s a combination of the shrinking live music scene and the fact that we focus more on recording. But as a band you have to put yourself out there, so we’ve played a few special shows. Just after Ground came out we were involved in a show to raise money for Medicins Sans Frontiers. Brett and David were in the house band dubbed “The Half Decents” and Chris was doing the sound engineering, so it made sense to twist Dean’s arm into coming along to play the first set as The Sighs of Monsters. It was a great show with The Half Decents and raised several thousand Pounds for MSF.
It’s the sort of show we like doing too, so we pitched in to play two shows for Oxjam, which raises money for Oxfam’s relief programme.
We also did a live on-air acoustic set for Croydon Radio which was a lot of fun. Dean and Brett played acoustic guitars, Chris brought his congas and tambourine and David swapped his keyboards for an accordion and concertina. The result was very ‘different’ versions of some album tracks. I think we put it up on our Facebook page.
Another highlight for us was supporting a very eccentric German folk/roots artist who calls himself the “Dad Horse Experience” at The Bird’s nest in Deptford. We’re now fans of DHE. Check out his mad music on Soundcloud!
How did you approach making Lie?
Well, we decided to take our time about it. We approached it with the same structural ethos we used with Ground, that is that it would be a ‘classic’ album format – around 45 minutes long, and split into two (virtual) halves, and that it would have, not so much a theme, but an emotional arc. We recorded more songs than we needed but then agonised over which ones fitted together to form a satisfying listening experience. The selection changed at least once, and we tweaked the running order several times.
During the recording process, we scrapped a few versions of songs and started again. Most songs start with a rough demo by the writer, but they don’t become TSOM songs until we’ve put our collective heads together. Dean is meticulous about vocals and will never let anything slide. We’ll do take after take until he’s happy, and on occasion we’ll go back to it months later because he’s lived with it and feels he can do better or that he’d like to try a different approach.
Is there such a thing as “over-production”?
Of course there is, but we’re very careful. Our mission is not to get everything ‘perfect’, but to make everything ‘deliberate’. We don’t let mistakes through if we can help it, but we do let accidents happen. If an accident happens and an unplanned part or mistake sounds great or adds to the artistic effect we want, we leave it. In fact, we may even deliberately repeat it when we arrange the song for playing live. A good part of the recording process is having the creative space to be fearless.
What do you mean by that?
Well, we’re all introverts and I guess because of that we have no real egos or desire for competition. Artistically this is a real advantage, because we don’t mind trying things without fear of failure. In recording we don’t have the same assigned roles we have when we perform, for example, and this can sometimes have unpredictable results, some of which are magical. On ‘Superman In The Silence’, for instance, we wanted to create a feeling in the vocals of a drunk holding forth about his sorrows to a barman. Dean decided the best way to achieve this was to sing it drunk, so the normally very sober Mr Sobers had a few shots of neat scotch and sang his heart out. A heroic sacrifice of sobriety for art, but the result was both subtle and astounding.
The same applies to our lyrics. Many of our songs are deeply personal and deal with some raw issues quite honestly, but we feel safe enough with each other to really give everything to bringing these songs to life. With TSOM, it’s the real deal or nothing. No compromises.
We’re now doing our best to promote the album. Obviously times have changed and where you once might have been putting out flyers and posters, you’re now organising digital distribution and working social media. It’s harder than you think, so give us a hand and share our posts and tell your friends about the album.
We also are about to start rehearsals to work out live arrangements of these songs. When we’re in the studio, we’re very focused on making the best record possible, but that often leaves us with several challenges when creating a version we can play in front of an audience. We are very much looking forward to playing these songs for people.
Lie – Our new album
Our new album, Lie, was released today.
It is available on CD and Digital Download on Bandcamp, for Digital Download on iTunes, Amazon and Google Play, and on Streaming on Spotify.
Lie by The Sighs of Monsters
Posted on 20 December 2016 5 January 2017
Look What Arrived!
Get the new album Lie on CD at Bandcamp. Also available, previous album, Ground.
PS… do you recognise the cheesy ukulele music? Here’s a clue.
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Reply To: Limbo
Home › Forums › All Things Catholic › Limbo › Reply To: Limbo
October 7, 2006 at 11:06 pm #7065
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY (CNS) – To hope that babies who die without being baptized will go to heaven makes more sense than the idea that they go to limbo, says a group of papally appointed theologians.
While no one can be certain of the fate of unbaptized babies who die, Christians can and should trust that God will welcome those babies into heaven, said members of the International Theological Commission.
The commission, a Vatican advisory board, met Oct. 2-6 to continue work on a statement explaining why the concept of limbo entered the common teaching of the church, why it was never officially defined as Catholic doctrine, and why hope for their salvation makes more sense, said Father Paul McPartlan, a member of the commission and a professor at The Catholic University of America in Washington.
“We cannot say we know with certainty what will happen” to unbaptized babies, Father McPartlan said, “but we have good grounds to hope that God in his mercy and love looks after these children and brings them to salvation.”
Speaking the last day of the commission’s meeting, Father McPartlan said the 30 commission members were in agreement on the main thesis of the document, but they had not put the finishing touches on it. If they vote on the final version by mail, the document could be released in 2007.
He said that while affirming people’s hope, the document takes pains to explain the Christian belief that baptism is necessary to guarantee salvation and urges parents to baptize their infants.
The document “in no way means to lessen the urgency with which the church invites parents to have their children baptized,” Father McPartlan said Oct. 6. “What we are trying to do is to say, ‘What does the church say when confronted with the situation of an infant who has died without being baptized?’ That and that alone is what prompted our document.
“The answer is not a simplistic, ‘Oh, don’t worry; everything is fine,'” but rather that God’s endless mercy, his love poured out in Jesus Christ and his desire to save all people gives a solid basis for hoping those children will be saved despite not having been baptized.
The commission began formal studies of the question in 2004 when Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI, was president of the advisory body and prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
Pope Benedict celebrated Mass Oct. 6 with the commission members; in his homily, he spoke about the role of theologians as listening to the word of God in order to help other’s hear the good news. But he did not mention the so-called limbo document at all.
Father McPartlan said the commission began considering the question because priests and bishops around the world had asked then-Cardinal Ratzinger for “an updated Catholic statement in response to the distressing human situation” of parents mourning the loss of a baby before baptism.
The commission also hoped to be able to respond to questions raised by those mourning the lives of babies lost through abortion. Because the Catholic Church teaches that human life begins at conception, the question applies to those babies as well, Father McPartlan said.
He also said the theologians felt called to articulate a Catholic expression of hope in a world where hope is often lacking and lives are often laid to waste by war and violence.
Realizing some people could misinterpret the statement as saying that baptism is unnecessary for infants because they are incapable of sinning, the document reaffirms church teaching about the reality of original sin.
The church believes that with the exception of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Jesus, every human being is born marked with the stain of original sin, which distances them from God.
As the Catechism of the Catholic Church explained: “Born with a fallen human nature and tainted by original sin, children also have need of the new birth in baptism to be freed from the power of darkness and brought into the realm of the freedom of the children of God, to which all men are called.”
But the catechism, published in 1992, did not mention limbo.
In fact, regarding the fate of children who die without the grace of baptism, it said, the church entrusts them to the mercy of God.
Presenting the commission’s work to Pope Benedict last year, Cardinal William J. Levada, prefect of the doctrinal congregation and president of the commission, said the statement was important because “the number of babies not baptized has increased considerably,” and the church knows that salvation “is only reachable in Christ through the Holy Spirit.”
He also told the pope last year that he hoped the statement would be published soon.
Father McPartlan said there were “no hiccups” in the drafting process, but the commission’s work takes time.
In the 1985 book-length interview, The Ratzinger Report, and in the 2000 book, God and the World, the future Pope Benedict said focusing on hope made more sense theologically then upholding the idea of limbo, where unbaptized babies would enjoy “natural happiness” for eternity, but would not be in heaven in the presence of God.
Limbo, he pointed out, was never a defined article of Catholic faith, but rather was a hypothesis formed on the basis of the church’s belief in the need for baptism.
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Jeremiah Chapter 49b Star Chart: Clockwise from when "the (red radius line) word of the Lord ... came to Jeremiah (Orion) the prophet against Elam in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah" (49:34) in 597 B.C. and he (red radius line) spoke it till 576 B.C. when "I will break the (red radius line) bow of Elam" bisecting it (49:35) "and will scatter them" (49:36) and "will send the (lunar) sword after them, till I have consumed them" (49:37) "And I will set my (solar gold Auriga) throne in Elam, and will destroy from thence the (Auriga) king and the (Gemini) princes, saith the Lord" (49:38) is 21° years.
Nebuchadnezzar's army containing soldiers from the four quarters of heaven, fulfilled this prophecy during the thirteen years' siege of Tyre (586-573). As Nebuchadnezzar acted under the commission of God, and had authority from him to conquer this and the neighbouring nations, and is called God’s servant, the establishing of his power was in effect the setting up of the throne or dominion of Yahweh. They shall be scattered through the one hundred and twenty-seven provinces of which the Babylonish empire is composed. The words find a historical fulfilment in the fact that Shushan, “in the province of Elam,” became one of the royal residences of the Chaldæan kings (Daniel 8:2).
The Word of the Lord Against the Elamites
49:34 The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah the prophet against Elam in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah (597 B.C.) king of Judah, saying,
35 Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Behold, I will break the bow of Elam, the chief of their might.
36 And upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of heaven, and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation whither the (Gemini) outcasts of Elam shall not come.
Nebuchadnezzar's army containing soldiers from the four quarters. Fulfilled by the ministry of Nebuchadnezzar during the thirteen years' siege of Tyre (586-573).
37 For I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their (Gemini) enemies, and before them that seek their life: and I will bring evil upon them, even my fierce anger, saith the Lord; and I will send the (lunar) sword after them, till I have consumed them:
38 And I will set my throne (Auriga) in Elam, and will destroy from thence the (Auriga) king and the (Gemini) princes, saith the Lord.
As Nebuchadnezzar acted under the commission of God, and had authority from him to conquer this and the neighbouring nations, and is called God’s servant, the establishing of his power was in effect the setting up of the throne or dominion of Jehovah. Some, however, think this is spoken of the Persian monarchy, established there by Cyrus, who is expressly called, in Scripture, God’s anointed one, whom he had particularly chosen.This, with Susiana, Nebuchadnezzar subdued, and took from Astyages, king of Media. Will I bring the four winds - Nebuchadnezzar and his armies, gathered out of different provinces, and attacking this people at all points in the same time.
There shall be no nation, etc. - They shall be scattered through the one hundred and twenty-seven provinces of which the Babylonish empire is composed. The words find an historical fulfilment in the fact that Shushan, “in the province of Elam,” became one of the royal residences of the Chaldæan kings (Daniel 8:2),
39 But it shall come to pass in the latter days, that I will bring again the captivity of Elam, saith the Lord.
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Home / Products / Furness Railway its Rise and Development 1846 – 1923. By W. Mc.Gowan Gradon, BA. Self- published, 1946 [ebook]
Furness Railway its Rise and Development 1846 – 1923. By W. Mc.Gowan Gradon, BA. Self- published, 1946 [ebook]
Book, brown cloth boards,9.75”x 7.5”, pp.109, 59 B&W half tone photos of trains, locomotives , steamers, signals, stations , etc, Plus maps, plans and gradient profiles.
This is an interesting account of the history of one of Britain’s “Second Eleven” railways, which managed to survive through to Grouping despite having wealthy acquisitive neighbours who might have gobbled it up. Like the Cambrian Railways, that provided the Furness with its best General Manager, Alfred Aslett, there were times when it tottered on the verge of penury. Like the Hull and Barnsley, it missed few opportunities of exploiting wealthier neighbours by obtaining running powers, arranging through carriages and participating in some small but lucrative Joint Lines which are covered in this book.
Furness Railway its Rise and Development 1846 – 1923. By W. Mc.Gowan Gradon, BA. Self- published, 1946 [ebook] quantity
Categories: EARLY RAILWAYS, LMS Group, Shipping and Waterways
In some respects, it was a railway of oddities. It was still running cabless 0-4-0 Bury type locomotives from the 1840s in the early years of the 20th.century, then in its closing year, Rutherford, the line’s Chief Engineer, who assumed the duties Locomotive Superintendent in addition on the retirement of W.F. Pettigrew had four enormous 4-6-4 tank engines built, which dwarfed everything else on rails in N.W. England. Quite what the directors had in mind with this fit of indulgence just prior to Grouping, the author cannot tell us. Unlike the semi- official historians, Tomlinson (North Eastern Railway) or Grinling (Great Northern Railway) he had no access to official records like minute books. The only official documents he quotes from are half yearly and annual reports. He is very sound on locomotives and the development of train services. He is less good on personalities, like the Ramsdens who for many years ran the railway almost on a part time basis as a family business, amongst their other commercial interests.
All he can tell us about Frank Pettigrew who was appointed Loco Carriage and Wagon Supt. in 1896, was that he had been on the Great Eastern and London & South Western. Born in Glasgow in 1858, Pettigrew was 38, and as Manager of the LSWR Loco Carriage and Wagon Works was probably over qualified for the Furness job – a railway which did not even design its own locomotives, but bought them “off the peg” from private builders. He published a book in 1896 “A Manual of Locomotive Engineering” and the previous year he had joined his boss William Adams, Loco Supt. of the LSWR in presenting a paper to the Institution of Civil Engineers entitled “Trials of an Express Locomotive” noteworthy for two reasons. First, it contained the phrase describing the locomotive as “…one of 20 built to the designs of the authors” – this at a period when loco. Chiefs hardly ever gave credit to any of their staff. Secondly both authors were awarded a Telford Premium and a George Stephenson medal for the work. Adams thought highly of Pettigrew and grew increasingly reliant upon him as his memory began to fade, leading to his retirement in 1895. Although a little young, Pettigrew had reasonable expectations of succeeding Adams. He may even had hints that this would be the case. However it was not to be. The Genial, easy-going Adams was replaced by the volcanic Dugald Drummond, who made it quite clear that he wanted a former colleague from Scotland, Robert Urie, as Works Manager. Drummond was quite capable of making life so unpleasant for a subordinate that the individual would resign. This does not appear to be the case here, in that the Furness vacancy arose in 1896, and Pettigrew no doubt glad to leave, was the successful applicant.
With the best will in the world, he must have regarded Barrow as a bit of a come down from Nine Elms. This background information gives some indication of Pettigrew’s mindset on taking up his new appointment. It will be noted that he took early retirement at 60, and died at Redhill, Surrey in 1941, aged 82.
For all its minor faults (it badly needs an index) this book is packed with interesting information, and some fascinating old photos.
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Jonny Lee Miller is a film and theater actor who was born on 15th November 1972 at Kingston upon Thammes, Surrey, England, UK. His father Alan Miller, mother Ana Lee and grandfather Bernard Lee were also famous actors of their time.He possess both UK and USA citizenship. Famous comedy drama Tarinspotting(1996) was the very first milestone in his career and he became famous as "Sick Boy". His very first popular movie was Hackers(1995) alongside the famous diva Angelina Jolly who became his wife later on.He also started his production company later with Ewan Mcgregor and Jude Law.
Jonny Lee Miller Religion
Miller was raised in southwest of London. The only religion he got from his parents was acting. He was blessed with this skill and let everyone bow before him with his impactful roles in Afterglow(1997) and Mansfield Park(1999). At the early age of 16 he started his acting career. He is quite shy about direct answers about his religion rather he believes in acting as his religion. But as per his upbringings he can be assumed as a Christian.
Jonny Lee Miller Political Views
Miller was a UK citizen by birth and became USA citizen in 2014. He loves both countries and want to live in both of the time to time. He also follows rules and regulations of constitutions of both countries but never cleared his stand for any political party of either country. Whatever party rules the country he gonna follow every one of them. Miller has put enormous efforts in finding cure for Sanfilippo syndrome and is set to address Congressional caucus in Washington.
Jonny lee Miller was able to impress beautiful sexy diva Angelina Jolly and married to her in 1996. The couples made many headlines in newspapers that time. The couple was happy but unfortunately they separated in 1999. But they promised each other to be good friends for the rest of the life. Miller made his acting career his primary importance and during his peak time he dated with top model Michele Hicks and they got married in 2008 after a relation of 2 years. The couple is blessed with one son Buster Miller.
Jonny Lee Miller Hobbies
He is die hard fan of Chelsea football club. In his leisure time he plays football. He is quite an athlete. Miller is quite fan of running and he completed London Marathon in 2008 in 3Hrs and 1min. Miller has also interest in Ice hockey. He is a great follower and fan of NY Rangers.
He was a member of England's National Youth Music Theater.
Miller left 17 schools to pursue his acting career.
Miller's both wives Angelina Jolly and Michele Hicks have same birth date i.e 4th June.
Miller was only Non-Scottish team member of drama Trainspotting.
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UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-SAN DIEGO NEWS
Missing World War II B-24 Bomber Discovered By Project Recover Off Papua New Guinea
UC San Diego News
A B-24 D-1 bomber associated with 11 American servicemen missing in action from World War II was recently found and documented in Hansa Bay off Papua New Guinea by Project Recover—a collaborative team of marine scientists, archaeologists and volunteers who have combined efforts to locate aircraft associated with MIAs from WWII.
You can whisper in American Sign Language, or you can shout. You can make poetry. And if you learn ASL later in life, you might be signing with an accent forever. In most ways, it is a language just like any other, with a complex grammar, slang, dialects, the whole shebang. But in some respects, ASL is much more than just a typical language. It’s visual and kinesthetic and is an essential component of Deaf culture in the United States, too—giving signers a special bond that non-signers may not fully understand.
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UC San Diego Nets No. 20 Spot on New List of Globe’s Best Universities
A new world ranking names the University of California San Diego among the globe’s top 20 best universities; the campus netted the 16th spot on among U.S. universities. The annual rankings from the Center for World University Rankings (CWUR), released today, measure universities’ quality of research, faculty, influence, enterprise and successful alumni.
What’s in Your Gut?
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That’s the goal of the All of Us Research Program, which officially opened for public enrollment this week. Led by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), All of Us is an unprecedented effort to gather genetic, biological, environmental, health and lifestyle data from 1 million or more volunteer participants living in the United States. A major component of the federal Precision Medicine Initiative, the program’s ultimate goal is to accelerate research and improve health.
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The congressman from Georgia’s high ethical standards and moral principles have won him the admiration of many of his colleagues on both sides of the aisle in the United States Congress. As a devoted advocate of nonviolent activism, he’s inspired millions of Americans. And as UC San Diego’s 2018 All Campus Commencement speaker, he will address thousands of graduating students and campus community members at 9 a.m. on June 16 at RIMAC in what will undoubtedly be a historical milestone for the campus.
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In April, the graduating actors performed on both coasts for this year’s Graduate Actor Student Showcase, where casting agents, artistic directors, and television and film executives attended as an introduction to the students and their work. With two shows in each city, nerves ran high.
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An innovative, eel-like robot developed by engineers and marine biologists at the University of California can swim silently in salt water without an electric motor. Instead, the robot uses artificial muscles filled with water to propel itself. The foot-long robot, which is connected to an electronics board that remains on the surface, is also virtually transparent. The team, which includes researchers from UC San Diego and UC Berkeley, details their work in the April 25 issue of Science Robotics.
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Loro Part 2: Paolo Sorrentino Finishes Off Silvio Berlusconi
Loro 2 (Them 2) — the second part of Paolo Sorrentino’s twin films inspired by the Silvio Berlusconi phenomenon — focuses on the separation between the Italian politician and his wife, his ambition to be loved by the people and refine his skills as dream-maker.
The story begins with a conversation between billionaires, both played by Toni Servillo, Silvio Berlusconi and Ennio Doris — the chairman of Banca Mediolanum, who gained notoriety for reimbursing his clients for their losses in the Lehman Brothers collapse, costing Mediolanum approximately $220 million. This mirror effect, where Berlusconi listens to the advice from his alter-ego, plunges the viewer into a more reflective analysis on the life of the tycoon-turned-politician.
The majority of characters seen in Loro 1 are reprised in this narrative, that tends to have less of Sorrentino’s oneiric touch and more of his thoughts about Berlusconi, voiced out by the people who surround him. Veronica, his wife, is the one who embodies Sorrentino’s most severe criticism towards Berlusconi’s unkept political promises.
But the most amusing and iconic scene, where audiences can grasp Berlusconi’s inclination as salesman, is when he picks up the phone and randomly calls a woman to whom he tries to sell an imaginary apartment. He is testing himself for pure divertissement, to see if he can still work the old real estate magic. The depressed housewife is initially suspicious and this triggers in Silvio further enthusiasm: he enjoys the challenge and wants to win her trust. He understands the woman’s psychology, as he tells her “I know the script of life, the sorrows and desires of the people.”
Berlusconi knows that, “a salesman is a persuader” and shows true talent in enchanting Italians in voting for him again. Men aspire to be like him, and women are ready to offer themselves freely to his power and charisma. He sells dreams and, those who surround him enjoy the lightheartedness of life, as he croons Neapolitan songs in his holiday mansions, as opposed to his sulky intellectual wife Veronica who has a serious approach on everything.
“He” wanders around the house wearing a white bathrobe: Sorrentino depicts him almost as Caesar on the eve of the conspiracy. Berlusconi’s mythomania and megalomania become blatant as the story progresses. Not even the wiretap scandals with prostitutes seem to undermine his magnetism.
Sorrentino’s celebration of kitsch peaks to its splendor with a female ensemble dancing to the music “Meno male che Silvio c’è” (Thank goodness for Silvio), a real song that Silvio Berlusconi’s party decide to make for him before the 2008 election.
The political episodes in Loro 2 are mere tools to focus on Silvio Berlusconi as a man and chronicle his delusion of grandeur. The final scenes take place in L’Aquila, on the night when the earthquake destroyed the city. The harrowing 2009 seism in the region of Abruzzo killed over 300 people, caused damage to between 3,000 and 11,000 buildings, and left around 40,000 people homeless.
At this point Berlusconi is newly President and he marches through the debris with the firemen, promising humungous homes full of amenities. He even encounters an old lady who is weeping because she lost her dentures in the quake, and assures he will provide her with new ones. As make believe and reality blend, Sorrentino pays homage to Fellini’s La Dolce Vita (that opened the film with a helicopter carrying a statue of Jesus Christ towards St. Peter’s Square in Rome). In Loro 2 the crucified Jesus is pulled out of the ruins of a church, under the mournful gaze of the Berlusconi admirers (“Them”) who have been left homeless and hopeless.
A review of Loro Part one is available here.
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Buddhism in Cambodia
About Venerable Maha Ghosananda
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Venerable Preah Maha Ghosananda
Venerable Preah Maha Ghosananda, who's been called the "Gandhi of Cambodia", is our honorary founding patron. His teachings, spiritual presence, and life example continue to inspire us, as they did when KEAP was founded in western Massachusetts, a home base for Maha, in 1988.
Through the peace and reconciliation walks that he led, crisscrossing the Cambodia annually since 1992,
perhaps no single individual contributed more to ending the civil war that plagued the country from the end of the Khmer Rouge period until the late 1990s. Maha Ghosananda was also a strong voice for interfaith dialogue and tolerance. He traveled to many parts of the world to lend his voice - often with only a few cogent words! - to the cause of peace in Cambodia and the wider world.
Maha Ghosananda was born in 1929 into a poor farming family in a small village in Takeo Province, Cambodia. At the age of eight, he began serving as temple boy in his village wat. When he was fourteen, Ghosananda received his parents permission to become a monk.
Maha Ghosananda graduated from the Buddhist University in Phnom Penh and took up advanced studied at the Buddhist University branch in Battambang. He then left the country in 1953 to complete his doctoral degree at Nalanda University in Bihar, India, where he passed his Pali exams and received the title "Maha" before reaching the age of thirty. His name, Maha Ghosananda, means "Great Joyful Proclaimer."
To compliment his university training, Maha Ghosananda visited Buddhist centers throughout Asia. On these and future travels, Maha Ghosananda would astonishingly gain degrees of fluency in over thirteen languages, including Japanese, Bengali, French, German and Burmese.
During his travels in India, Maha Ghosananda met the Japanese monk Nichidatsu Fujii, a disciple of Mahatma Gandhi and founder of the Nipponzan Myohoji, a Buddhist order devoted to world peace. Fujii, like Ghosananda, was born into a peasant family. As an adult Fujii felt a calling to travel in India where he eventually met Gandhi, and then traveled back to Japan were he preached pacifism during WWII, an act for which he easily could have been imprisoned.
Shocked by the horrors of the atomic weapons destruction of NichidatsuFujiiHiroshima and Nagasaki, Fujii eventually came to see that only collective efforts to foster peace could be of help to humankind, "Religion becomes isolated from the happenings of the world because it tends to be occupied in seeking solutions to one's own spiritual matters. If we fall to prevent a nuclear holocaust one's desire for security is nothing but a dream. All must be awakened."
Fujii, like Gandhi before him and Ghosananda after him, lead many walks for peace, which became the cornerstone of the way of practice he founded. In the intertwined lives of Gandhi, Fujii and Ghosananda we can see how the lineage of awakened-mind is non-sectarian and is both inherited and passed on through the work of individuals. We also note the precise workings of "auspicious coincidence," the uncanny connections that may unfold when we take courageous steps to follow our calling. Our fate can be so greatly influenced by those we meet and admire.
Maha Ghosananda met and studied with Fujii several times during his stay in India. The tenants of the walks he would later become famous for were transmitted to him through Fujii, which included the mindfulness inherent in walking, as well as walking being a form of emulating the Buddha's path to enlightenment. And not least of all, that "the true monk does not stay in one place," and that in moving about one should have a face-to-face encounter with ordinary people every day.
Maha Ghosananda eventually left India and, in 1969, arrived at the forest hermitage of Thai meditation master Venerable Dhammaraj in southern Thailand. For the next nine years, Ghosananda followed the proscribed routines of the hermitage and his own calling to live in deep seclusion. He practiced mediation every day, including a particular type of meditation developed by Dhammaraj, which was simply to raise and lower ones hand and be attentive to its movement. Ghosananda once described it this way: "All day long we moved the hand up and down, up and down, with mindfulness, following each breath carefully. Every day we did only this - nothing more."
It was during sessions like this that Maha Ghosananda received increasingly troubling and eventually horrific news from his homeland. He learned of the spread of the Vietnam war into Cambodia and American's fourteen-month secret bombing campaign in which as many as 500,000 Cambodians lost their lives. Ghosananda was in anguish for his country, but Dhammaraj counseled him to concentrate on his spiritual practice, to foster peace within his own heart, to wait for the right time to return to his people. A few years later, once the Khmer Rouge had taken over his country, Ghosananda received the crushing news that his parents, all his bothers and sisters, and many of his fellow monks had been murdered. As reported in one account, "He wept every day and could not stop weeping."
Eventually Ghosananda achieved a stunning victory simply though raising and lowering his arm, simply through applying the Buddha's teachings on loving kindness to his own situation, to his own grief. The victory he achieved was his eventual ability to realize the sameness of all human beings, to seeing that evil comes out of ignorance and the only way to achieve lasting peace is to find it within one's heart. From his suffering Ghosananda developed a real connection to compassion, and he later coined a teaching that encapsulated the process he himself went through:
The suffering of Cambodia has been deep.
From this suffering comes Great Compassion.
Great Compassion makes a Peaceful Heart.
A Peaceful Heart make s Peaceful Person.
A Peaceful Person make s Peaceful Family.
A Peaceful Family make s Peaceful Community.
A Peaceful Community make s Peaceful Nation.
And a Peaceful Nation make s Peaceful World.
May all beings live in Happiness and Peace.
Maha Ghosananda returned to Cambodia just after the Vietnamese invaded and drove the Khmer Rouge out of Phnom Penh and much of the country. Refugee camps sprung up on the Thai border and in 1978, Ghosananda made his way, alone, to one of them. An account of his arrival was later given by two human rights advocates who had been working in the camps.
It was 1978. The survivors of the Killing Fields were reeling from the horrors of war, forced labor, genocide, and religious repression in Cambodia. Behind them were the ashes of their beloved cities and villages, rice fields and temples. Ahead were refugee camps and the hope for survival. They arrived at Sakeo, teeming with refugees. Under the scorching sun, streams of men and women, elders and children, starved and emaciated, faces baked and cracked from heat and exposure, staggering and weeping from thirst and hunger.
Fifty miles away, on a steep, winding pass, an ancient bus creaked its way down the mountain. Maha Ghosananda was perched cross-legged on a rigid seat with his head bowed, his eyes closed, and his saffron robe dangling gracefully to the floor. The slightly built, middle-aged monk appeared serene, unaffected by the exhaust fumes, the screeching tires, and the frequent lurching movements around him. Overflowing with compassion, Maha Ghosananda was making his way toward Sakeo camp. He traveled alone, reaching Sakeo's gates three days after the first wave of refugees. 1
When Ghosananda reached the camp crowds immediately gathered around him. He passed out pamphlets and gave blessings. The refugees were by all accounts overwhelmed to witness this glowing figure - they had not seen a robed monk in nearly five years.
During the following year, Ghosananda administered to the people, ordained monks and built temples in the refugee camps. He began to teach then what he continued to teach for the remainder of his life: " It is the law of the universe that retaliation, hatred, and revenge only continue the cycle and never stop it. Reconciliation does not mean that we surrender rights and conditions, but rather that we use love in our negotiations. Our wisdom and compassion must walk together."
When asked about how he felt about the Khmer Rouge, Ghosananda replied, "We have great compassion for them, because they do not know the truth. They destroy Buddhism, they destroy themselves." 2
That next year Ghosananda led the first dhammayietra, as they were called, a walk for peace and reconciliation. In order proclaim and further the possibility of the refugees returning to their home, Ghosananda led over one-hundred refugees in a walk from the Thai camps to Phnom Penh. The walk seemingly took place against all odds: "Before the walk had begun many people said that this event could not happen, that there were too many land mines." As well, there was official resistance from all quarters, including the United Nations and the Thai government.
But the walk began and as they continued many more joined in. When the group reached Phnom Penh they were over a thousand strong, once in the city another 2000 joined in. Everywhere along the way word spread of the march and people come to the roadside, greatly moved and often in tears, to witness the march and receive the traditional blessing of sprinkled water.
Between 1993 and 1997, Maha Ghosananda led five more dhammayietra, each devoted to a theme: the second was to encourage people to overcome their fear of political violence and intimidation and exercise their right to vote; the third again under the rubric of peace and reconciliation; the forth to draw attention to the more than ten-million land mines planted in Cambodia (and to encourage the world-body to outlaw landmines); the fifth to draw attention to illegal logging and environmental degradation; and the sixth - the last one Ghosananda was able to attend due to declining health - was again dedicated to reconciliation and forgiveness.
Each walk was dangerous as well as spellbinding and cathartic for those witnessing it along the roadside. As one witness described it, "People would sit along the road with a bucket of water and incense sticks... and people would just weep as we blessed them, especially the old. It really showed me you can destroy all the temples, you can take every sign and symbol of a religion away from people, but you can't take it out of the human heart." 3
During the third dhammayietra the march got caught in the crossfire between Khmer Rouge and government soldiers and several people were not only wounded, but three monks and a nun were caught in the crossfire. Some the marchers were temporarily taken hostage and were surprised to find that many of their captors were little more than children-soldiers, boys fifteen years of age who were regretful for what they'd done and who hadn't seen their mothers in years.
Dhammayietra V was dedicated to drawing attention to illegal logging and along the way Maha Ghosananda taught on the significance of trees, reminding people that Buddhist monks have lived under the trees and wandered in the forests for 2,500 years, that the forest is the environment which fostered great teachers. Obviously, Maha Ghosananda knew the spiritual truths of the forest firsthand.
During the 1990s, Maha Ghosananda had taken up residence in the United States, tending to the large Cambodian refugee community there. He also traveled the world constantly, participating in peace conferences, United Nations forums and meeting countless people and spiritual figures, including the Dhalai Lama and Pope John Paul II.
Samdech Preah Maha Ghosananda passed away on March 12, 2007 in Lowell, Massachusetts. He was a product of the very system of enlightenment he helped to restore in Cambodia. James Wiseman, a Benedictine monk, described Maha Ghosananda as he remembered him from an encounter late in Ghosananda's life: " Looking the the Venerable Ghosananda, one has the impression that not only his smile, but his whole body is radient. It seems that his skin has been washed so clean that it shines. One can only wonder what this man has seen, what he has experienced of the terrible killing fields in his home country. One thing however is obvious: whatever his experience has been, it has brought forth extraordinary growth in the spiritual life." 4
Maha Ghosananda: The Buddha of the Battlefield, by Santidhammo Bhikkhu. Pg. 37
Ibid., pg. 47
Ibid., pg. 53.
See the twenty-minute film on Maha Ghosananda, The Serene Life
Grandfather Basket Weaving, 1995, Svay Ken
On the morning of April 17, 1975, Cambodians welcomed the victorious Khmer Rouge troops with flowers, bowls or rice, and cheers. But the next day, as the soldiers brutally forced us out of our homes and onto a long march into the countryside, our hearts filled with terror, and I watched my homeland plunge into darkness.
In the painful years to come we witnessed the dismantling of our society and the desecration of most all that we cherished. Rigid collectivization, forced labor, and harsh rules controlled every part of our lives; we lost our freedoms, our possessions, our family lives, and our centuries-old Buddhist tradition. The Killing Fields - acres of mass graves and exposed bodies outside nearly every village - were gruesome reminders that our lives depended upon the ability to please our captors. During those dark years, I witnessed some of the most ignoble horrors and unfathomable brutalities ever known to humankind.
Wondrously, out of this devastation came of leader of great calm and compassion, the Venerable Maha Ghosananda. Where revolution had produced division, this serene monk saw the chance for reconciliation; where there had been violence, Ghosananda saw the potential for kindness. He called this the law of opposites.
Maha Ghosananda is the dreamkeeper of Cambodia. He has dedicated his life to the celebration and nurturance of the best in our culture and in all of human culture. Although his entire family was lost in the holocaust, he shows no bitterness. He is a symbol of Cambodian Buddhism, personifying the gentleness, forbearance, compassion, and peacefulness of the Buddha - qualities that Cambodians have always honored.
- Dith Pran, forward to the book Step By Step.
See Maha Ghosananda interviewed by Ram Dass (a terrific exchange).
From Maha Ghosananda's Teachings
No religion is higher than truth. Our goal as humans is to realize our universal brotherhood and sisterhood. I pray that this realization will be spread throughout our troubled world. I pray that we can learn to support each other in our quest for peace.
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Markus Boehm:
East German Master Potter
Adapts to Changes after the Fall of the Berlin Wall
Markus Böhm lives on a piece of property at the end of a narrow lane in Alt Gaarz, a small village north of Berlin, Germany. To get to Lake Mueritz Pottery, one has to drive past fields and meadows, past a single church and five houses. Often the only sounds heard are created by the cranes and the wild geese that live on this piece of paradise between two lakes. Boehm purchased the property in 1989 and began setting it up as a pottery studio where he could have his own apprentices once he passed the rigorous state examinations to become a master potter. Indeed, Boehm and his future wife, Ute, were both certified as master potters in October 1989. By then, the people living in the GDR knew a ‘huge change was in the air’. A month after Boehm became certified the Berlin Wall fell. It would be some time until this young potter would fully realized how this single event would change his life from all that he had know previously.
When Boehm graduated from high school, all he wanted to do was to study ceramics at the University of Halle, an institution proud of its Bauhaus history. Having discovered that a large number of very talented young people also wanted to study at Halle, Boehm decided to take a different path. He set about looking for a mentor. He believed that this would lead to him being a skilled worker, a path that meant he could become a craft master running a private workshop with his own apprentices. Boehm found a master, Mario Enke who agreed to help him. Enke was a legendary potter known for his thinly thrown almost sculptural vessels with their rich copper and crystalline glazes. Enke was known as someone who experimented and he would try various glaze recipes and was often know to fire the crystalline ware in a wood kiln. He was also, at the time, one of three East German members of the International Academy of Ceramics in Geneva, Switzerland. To become certified as a master potter, Boehm studied with Enke for two years. During that time, he had to pass numerous throwing examinations demonstrating that he could throw various shapes in sizes of thirty, forty, and fifty centimeters with appropriate thickness and shape. This was accompanied by theoretical lessons in clay preparation and glaze calculation.T The students then were required to have a final formal exhibition. It was a very special day, that October, full of relief and hope when Boehm was certified a ‘Master Potter'.
The area of Germany where Boehm was setting up his studio, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern has the most wood-fired kilns in the whole of Germany. When the young potters began to set up their studios in the region in the 1970s, wood made perfect sense as a fuel. The area is covered with majestic forests and electric kilns were difficult to obtain. Most built small kilns like the Phoenix Fast Fire. The clay in the region was only good for bricks and for glazes. Stoneware clays had to be obtained from other parts of the GDR, often through trade. It was here that the young people started experimenting with salt glaze something that interested Boehm. During the period from 1945-89 when Mecklenburg-Vorpommern was under the Soviet Socialist system, the potters working in East Germany were highly respected, just like traditional Japanese potters. Their work was highly valued. Boehm says, “Now the era of Socialism only exists as a memory in the minds of the inhabitants who lived to experience it. Just try to imagine a world where human relationships meant everything, but money had little value. This is because under Socialism there was a lack of nearly everything except the basics of daily life. People called it a deficiency-society”. The potters took “the earth and made it into something valuable”, beautiful wheel thrown pottery to be used in the home and for bartering. So instead of always using money to purchase the pottery, the buyers would often trade something difficult for the potter to get. Raw materials for creating ceramics were hard to find. Boehm began to collect everything he could during this time. For him, it was a survival technique. Society existed in this way for more than four decades. Friendships and individual connections were the most important, even more so than money.
For Boehm, the fall of the Berlin Wall brought dramatic changes to his life. He says, “Imagine 17 million people going through a time warp and waking up in a different world where all of the rules were different”. At the time, East Germany was nearly de-industrialised. The official unemployment rate hit 25%. People spent their time waiting in lines at the job centres. Everyone was anxious. And all of a sudden, no one was interested in pottery anymore. Boehm lost all of his customers over night. He says, "My life felt like a dead-end street, but it was too late to turn around. How was I going to adapt?”
The first thing that he set about doing was changing his product range. There would always be a market for domestic ware. And he was lucky, the lake area where he lived became a popular tourist destination. Little by little his sales increased. He built a showroom and added some guest rooms.
Looking back, Böhm says, “I find it funny now that I employed strategies learned in Socialist times when building relationships and community was so important”. He joined craft and pottery associations while, at the same time, he taught himself graphics and web design to assist with the volunteer work he was undertaking for these organizations. He also set about organizing exhibitions at the common gallery in Rostock while hosting symposia at his workshop. One of the last was when two Koreans and a Chinese potter took part: Si-Sook Kang, Kap-Sun Hwang and Wu Zhou. Si-Sook and Kap-Sun had studied in Germany at Kiel, while Zhou was already a professor at China National Academy of Arts in Hangzhou. For Boehm, he found that he was learning from everyone. He said, “The contact with East Asian ceramics on a working level was very important and exciting. After this collaboration, I had so many ideas, enough for years, and Kap-Sun’s enthusiasm inspired me.”
In 2007 Böhm began making plans for the first European Woodfire Conference. As he was making preparations, the Australian ceramist, Owen Rye suggested to Boehm that he come to the Australian Woodfire Conference at STURT, a college and craft centre at Mittagong, not far from Sydney. There he could see how they organized their events and maybe get some helpful ideas. Böhm was excited at the possibility of sharing with the Australian wood firers and gladly accepted the invitation. The residency at STURT turned out to be one of those rare opportunities for learning because Boehm was forced to use different materials and fire a different kiln other than his own. He also got to work with Paul Davis and Yasuo Terada. Boehm said, “It was the best introduction into Japanese ceramics one could imagine. Terada is a potter with a long enduring family tradition and Davis, the STURT potter at this time, had been working in Japan for seven years”. In fact, Davis was to be very influential on the direction that Boehm took in his work. Boehm was also able to visit Sandy Lockwood’s kiln yard and see her impressive Bourry-box kilns. Another potter whose kiln building knowledge impressed him was Steve Harrison. Boehm says that "his slogan ‘laid back woodfiring’ sounded promising". The following year Harrison was invited to be the leader of a kiln building workshop at Boehm's studio. That workshop reminded Boehm of "the power of community" for in just seven days, friendships were made, a kiln was built, loaded, fired, cooled and unpacked. The bonds continue to this day while the kiln was one of the first Bourry-box built in Germany. Wood firing workshops continued at Boehm's studio, and they included some legendary figures in the international wood fire community such as Paul Davis, Masakazu Kusakabe, Marc Lancet, Judith Duff and Chester Nealie. Each had an impact on Boehm as his work adjusted to a new clientele and his knowledge of the wood firing community grew. One other workshop that had a huge impact on Boehm’s practice was the 2010 EU financed soda workshop in Tuscany organised by Pietro Maddalena. This workshop led to Boehm beginning to experiment with soda firings, something that has made an aesthetic difference in his work. Perhaps not for Boehm, but for the international wood fire community, his organization of the first 2010 European Wood Firing Conference at Brollin was a major event bringing together individuals from around the world, creating the type of personal connections that Boehm values. This event was the spring board for the 2014 European Wood Fire Conference organized by Priscilla Mouritzen at the International Research Center in Skaelskor, Denmark where Boehm was a panelist. Each event celebrates new friendships, inspires ideas for collaborations, and possibilities for new creative directions. He dreams of being able to work in Japan one day.
Boehm faced every challenge, and today his life and work are more vibrant by the extended network of friendships that he has made and his joyful play with materials. He sells his pottery at markets throughout Europe, through his showroom and special commissions for restaurants, as well as on special holiday kiln opening days. The graphic design work that Boehm taught himself enabled him to create his website where his ceramics are sold online to customers around the world. He now catches himself laughing when he hears his customers say that the showroom of Lake Mueritz Pottery is at the end of the world. Boehm's answer to them is always, "No, it isn't. It is the beginning".
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Dr. Mary Ann Steggles is Professor of Art History and Studio Ceramics at the School of Art, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada. She is a researcher, writer, juror and curator of contemporary ceramic art. Her current research focuses on the impact that Vietnam era resisters had on Canadian ceramics history and international woodfiring
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Sad to hear of the plans to close
Saint John’s College, Nottingham
Saint John’s College, Nottingham … due to close next summer (Photograph: Patrick Comerford)
It was sad to read in the Church Times at the weekend that Saint John’s College, Nottingham, is to close after 156 years.
While I was on the staff of the Church of Ireland Theological Institute, I worked closely with Saint John’s and the college staff. The principal, Canon Christina Baxter, was an external examiner at CITI and a regular visitor, and I also worked closely with other staff members, including the Revd Dr Tim Hull, tutor in theology.
With other members of academic staff at CITI, I lectured on the three-year course for NSM ordinands leading to Certificate in Christian Studies awarded by Saint John’s in association with the Open University and the University of Chester. I also supervised post-graduate research leading to the MA in theology and art from Saint John’s College and the University of Nottingham.
I regularly visited theological colleges in England, to compare notes and network with academics who were teaching in the same fields as I was teaching in, including Church History, Liturgy and Patristics, and I was welcomed to Saint John’s in 2013.
A statement last week said the college council agreed last month [11 November 2019] ‘that the operation of the current configuration of St John’s is no longer financially viable in the long term,’ and that the process of closure would begin.
It now looks as though most of the 28 people working at Saint John’s, including tutors, are to transfer to new posts in institutions that continue the college’s distance-learning and youth-ministry work. But, inevitably, there will be job losses and redundancies by next summer.
Students have been reassured that their courses will continue until they have completed them.
The Principal of the Eastern Region Ministry Course, the Revd Dr Alex Jensen, a former lecturer at the Church of Ireland Theological College, suggested there is ‘great fear’ in the Theological Education Institutions (TEI) sector that other closures could follow. ‘Hardly any college or course is financially sustainable,’ he told the Church Times last week, wondering when ‘the next college or course falls by the wayside.’
The broader context for theological education was illustrated by figures seen by the Church Times, suggesting a target in the Church of England of a 50 per cent increase in ordained vocations is unlikely to be met by 2020.
The Church Times said there have been ‘signs of trouble’ at Saint John’s ‘for some time.’ The college had 60 students last year, compared with 108 in 2016-2017, and 223 in June 2016.
Saint John’s decided in 2014 to stop recruiting students, including ordinands, to study on campus. Plans were announced for ‘remodelling the college to meet the future training needs of the Church.’ It was renamed Saint John’s School of Mission in 2015, although it later returned to calling itself Saint John’s College.
Plans were made to place students with a church and to study for two days a fortnight at the campus. All recruitment was suspended for the academic year 2016-2017, and the last ordinands finished training in June 2017.
Healthier finances were secured in 2017 when land was sold for a new housing development. The college reported a surplus of £1.3 million in 2018, compared with a deficit of £612,853 the previous year. The Revd Dr David Hilborn, who welcomed me to Saint John’s six years ago, resigned as principal at the end of last year, and is now Principal of Moorlands College, Christchurch, an evangelical college in Dorset.
As far back as 1997, the college was facing financial pressures and falling student recruitment. But a ‘mixed-mode’ delivery of ordination training was introduced, and two years later the Midlands Institute for Children Youth and Mission (MCYM) was opened on site, in partnership with Youth for Christ, offering two undergraduate degrees. This became the college’s main source of income.
However, the MCYM announced in October it was moving to Leicester to merge with the Institute for Children Youth and Mission. That move includes moving a collection of 10,000 books, while discussions are taking place way with the Diocese of Southwell and Nottingham, and Saint Mellitus College, East Midlands, to ensure the Saint John’s library has ‘a new home in Nottingham.’
The last remaining building owned by Saint John’s will be sold, and the three parts of the legacy – MCYM, distance-learning, and the library – will be given funds to help to secure their future in new homes.
The Queen’s Foundation, Birmingham, is to take over the Extension Studies department, offering distance-learning courses and degrees validated by the University of Durham. The majority of staff, including tutors, are expected to transfer to Leicester or Birmingham.
In the gardens at Saint John’s College, Nottingham (Photograph: Patrick Comerford)
Saint John’s was originally founded as the London School of Divinity, an evangelical college, in 1863. Former principals include Donald Coggan, later Archbishop of Canterbury, and the evangelist and theologian Michael Green. Another Archbishop of Canterbury, George Carey, trained at Saint John’s, as did Bishop Christopher Cocksworth of Coventry, Bishop Vivienne Faull of Bristol, Archbishop Janani Luwum of Uganda, and the recently retired Bishop Harold Miller of Down and Dromore.
The college was founded by the Revd Alfred Peache and his sister, Kezia, after they inherited their father’s fortune. The college was established to provide an evangelical theological education to ordinands who could not go to university. Canon Thomas Boultbee was the first principal and Lord Shaftesbury became the first president of the college council.
The first premises near Kilburn High Road Station were known as Saint John’s Hall, and Saint John’s became an informal name for the college, perhaps because Boultbee was a graduate of Saint John’s College, Cambridge.
The college moved to Highbury in 1866 and remained there for almost 80 years, with close links to Arsenal FC and their grounds at Highbury. During World War II, the faculty, staff and students were evacuated to Wadhurst School in Sussex in 1942 when the Highbury buildings were damaged by air-raids.
The future Archbishop of Canterbury, Donald Coggan, became principal in 1944, and for the 10 years he was principal, the college was based at Harrow School and then at Ford Manor in Lingfield, Surrey.
Under Dr Coggan’s successor, Canon Hugh Jordan, discussions began on moving away from London. Canon Jordan believed the future of the college was outside London but near a university. A site was available in Nottingham, where the university’s theological department was growing in reputation. His successor as principal, Canon Michael Green, oversaw the move from London to Bramcote in Nottingham in 1970.
With the move from London, the London College of Divinity changed its name to Saint John’s. As Saint John’s, the college pioneered distance learning programmes in theology in the late 1970s, and made new theological thinking and research accessible to a wide audience through its A5-sized Grove Booklet series.
Later principals included Colin Buchanan, who became Bishop of Aston, Professor John Goldingay, Canon Christina Baxter, the first lay principal, Dr David Hilborn and Dr Sally Nash.
Former staff members include Dr George Bebabwi, an Egyptian scholar who was one of my lecturers at the summer school on ‘The Ascent to Holiness,’ organised by the Institute for Orthodox Studies at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, in 2008. I still recall how he barely managed to stick to his script as he delivered his paper on ‘Discernment’ with great style, compassion and humour.
Dr Bebabwi warned against what he described as ‘learning wisdom.’ He quoted from the Egyptian Desert Father, Abba Poemen, who said: ‘A man who teaches without doing what he teaches is like a spring which cleanses and gives drinks to everyone, but is not able to purify itself.’
In the chapel at Saint John’s College, Nottingham (Photograph: Patrick Comerford)
Labels: Birmingham, Cambridge, Cambridge 2008 Summer School, Chester, CITC, CITI, IOCS, Nottingham, Patristics, theological education
Docklands Chaplains said...
Thanks for all this history, Patrick. V interesting, and sad to see St John's go.
(I too taught some of their courses after completing 5 years lecturing in CITC and heading for a parish incumbency in the earky 1990s) I note that David Hewlett will be getting some of the St John's work at The Queen's Foundation, where he is still the Principal, though now sensibly living in Malvern.
Sad to hear of the plans to close Saint John’s Col...
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Bar Refaeli was the cover model of the 2009 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. Refaeli began her modeling career before the age of 8 months for a baby commercial. By age 15, she was featured in campaigns for the fashion brands Castro and Pilpel, also starring in a commercial for Milky. Refaeli won the title "Model of The Year" in an Israeli beauty contest in 2000.
Refaeli has appeared in ELLE (France), Maxim, and GQ (Italy). She debuted in the 2007 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, becoming the first Israeli model to appear in the magazine, posing with rock band Aerosmith. In 2009, Refaeli was the covermodel for the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue.A photo from the shoot, featuring a bikini-clad Refaeli, was painted on the side of a Boeing 737 in a promotional deal with Southwest Airlines,leading to criticism of Southwest from passengers for using an image they regarded as inappropriately sexual and "offensive to families". In October of the same year, Refaeli was again embroiled in controversy, when Haredi groups criticised a Tel Aviv billboard campaign in which she appeared semi-nude, alleging that it could "poison" the public.The billboards were subsequently removed.
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