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The Double is the kind of film you make if you are obsessed by Terry Gilliam and Fyodor Dostoyevsky and fortunately these are two good things to be obsessed by. Dostoyevsky invented the existential crack up novel 60 years before the French existentialists thought they had done it and Terry Gilliam invented steam-punk 30 years before everybody started doing it. The Double is a happy blend of both those ideas. A Dostoyevsky story set in a Terry Gilliam world with a little bit of Franz Kafka thrown in for fun. It's the story of a put upon office worker, Jesse Eisenberg, who has a crush on his workmate Hannah (Mia Wasikowska) but cant get up the courage to ask her out. One day he discovers that he has a doppelgänger in his office, someone who looks exactly like him but who is funnier, more confident, more charismatic, more aggressive and immediately more popular than he ever was. What unfolds next is witty and unsettling and if you've read your Kafka or seen a lot of Gilliam you'll know pretty much how things are going to work out. The Double was co-written and directed by Richard Ayoade who directed the equally brilliant and interesting Submarine a few years ago. Ayoade is the kind of eclectic and intelligent director who seems capable of turning his hand to any genre. When I first saw Submarine I assumed he was an introverted Welsh boy from the valleys (he's not). The Double feels like a very British film but nearly everyone in it speaks with an American accent and with its Eastern European tower blocks and steampunky Gilliamesque machines its sense of place is quite disconcerting. Avi Korine (Harmony Korine's brother) was the other co-writer and I imagine that quite a bit of the film's weirdness was down to him. Indeed the 'world building' of the Double is one of the most enjoyable aspects of the movie. Its a little bit Computer Chess, a little bit Brazil, a little bit Delicatessen and if you've seen any of those films you'll know exactly what I mean. If that sounds good and you're looking for a diverting, different, slow boiling thriller then the Double might be the very movie to add to your Netflix queue. Wallace Shawn and Noah Taylor have small parts in the film and if you're really observant you might just spot the legendary Chris Morris doing a cameo.
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Lesbian Historic Motif Project FAQ
When I posted one of my periodic links to the LHMP on an e-mail list I frequent, it sparked a conversation with one of the other members there that seemed useful as a more detailed explanation of what I am -- and am not -- trying to do with this project. I have permission from the original questioner to include her side of the conversation but have snipped an introductory exchange that isn’t relevant. (And please understand that this was a civil and friendly conversation, even though the questions may come across as challenges.)
Question: I have a real bug about historical accuracy and a very short toleration span for people who try to interpret the past based on our current societal standards. I've seen Black History Month devolve into people trying to give African Americans credit for everything and Women's History Month has people trying to prove that everything was done by women.
I've noticed that many of your resources come from the same people and that some of them base their research on other people in your list.
Answer: There's a very practical reason for that. A lot of my identifying and collecting of sources is based on following citations and bibliographies from one publication to the next. So there's going to be a certain amount of working my way through scholarly networks of people who read each other’s work and cite each other. My current working database contains about 100 different authors and I'd estimate that I have in-house about 50 more authors who haven't made it into the database yet (much less into published blog entries). And a lot of those publications haven't been mined for their citations yet. It's a fairly cross-disciplinary group. Other than running across names and titles by pure chance (and, of course, following citation trails), the major places I discover new information to follow up on are papers given at the annual medieval studies conference at Kalamazoo (where I divide my time between gender/sexuality studies, historic textile studies, and whatever my current writing project makes interesting -- most recently alchemy) and the wealth of new and recent publications to be browsed through in the book-sales room at that conference.
This is very much an "in my spare time for fun" project. My own academic background is in rather different fields (biology and linguistics) so I haven't taken a very systematic approach. And the order in which I'm working through the sources that I do have currently is the next best thing to random, so again there's a fair amount of ordering things by proximity (in the file folder, on the bookshelf, in the same anthology) rather than trying for anything balanced. I have a tendency to get paralyzed by the desire to present a perfect and properly-contextualized product, and the chaotic nature of this blogging project is one of the only ways I've found to break through that paralysis.
Question: Since these are topics that people didn't write or speak about in the periods you're covering, how are you verifying that what they are saying is true?
Answer: I'm not certain whether you're asking about whether what the original source materials say is true, or whether the authors of the books/articles I'm reading are correctly presenting that information. Both are among the central concerns of historiography, as I'm sure you're aware. Within the literature I'm looking at, there have been several drastic swings in the interpretation of information on historic sexuality. So part of the task of evaluating the articles is to identify and filter (or at least point out) the writer's theoretical framework. For example, the gender/sexuality sessions at Kalamazoo have been depressingly swamped by "queer theory" post-modernism for entirely too long, most of which is completely irrelevant for my purposes. Apart from that, it tends to be fairly easy to tell if an author is taking an essentialist or social-constructionist approach and to read their work accordingly. (I tend to fall in a "both and neither" position with regard to the essentialist / constructionist debate, but then I tend to be fairly comfortable with interpretational ambiguity, given that my linguistics background is in cognitive theory.)
One of the misperceptions that I'd like this project to help dispel is the idea that people in history didn't write or speak about their sexual experiences or sexual identity. They may not have done it very often. They may not always have been completely honest. They may have done it obliquely. The frameworks in which they understood their experiences and identity may be difficult to retrieve. And the consequences for them doing so may not be particularly inspiring. But there isn't a complete void of information. And when the scope is expanded to what people in history thought they knew about (other people's) same-sex relationships and practices, the amount of material is even greater.
Question: It seems that LGBT people are being sucked into the same situation as other groups, trying to justify ourselves by showing what we've done in history. A lot of it is a guessing game though, similar to guessing which movie stars were gay before they started coming out. I've seen many sources that say, if a woman reached a certain age and wasn't married, WELL THEN, she was a lesbian. Joan of Arc was 19 when she was killed and she had never married, so she MUST have been a lesbian. No, she was leading an army for a couple of years and then was executed. I'm curious. How are you keeping your work pure history and not conjecture?
Answer: The simplest answer is "I'm not" -- that is, there is no intent to confine this project only to verifiable, documentable cases of specific historic individuals who would fulfill some objective definition of "lesbian". I'm not actually interested in being able to assign labels to specific individuals. In part, that's because applying such a filter to the material would impose my own subjective definitions on the material I'm working with, but in part it's because that was never the intent of the project in the first place.
But to answer what I think may have been your underlying question here, the one thing I'm definitely NOT interested in including in the project is modern imaginative speculations on what history might have been like. That may be the intended end-product, but it's not the input. Many of the topics covered in my source material include imaginative material -- myth, legend, literature, poetry -- but it's the imaginative material produced by the people of the time, which can be used as a window on how historic people understood their world. And within the context of this project, it's not critical to be able to draw a clear line between absolute historic truth and what historic people believed to be true. Because, for example, when I look at the medieval romance of Yde and Olive, I'm not asking, "Is it a historic fact that a cross-dressing female knight married the daughter of the emperor who employed her?" (to which the answer is, of course, no) but rather "In what contexts could a medieval woman have been familiar with the story of Yde and Olive and how might it have provided a context and path for understanding her own romantic or sexual desire for a woman?"
At various times I've drafted up very long-winded explanations of what I'm trying to do with this project. (As anyone who knows me on mailing lists or facebook knows, when I get long-winded, I get very long-winded.) Going with the whole "break through the paralysis" thing, I decided it was better to give a very brief explanation (linked at the top of each blog post) and then plunge into the material. But maybe it makes more sense to get long-winded now, since there’s interest.
The Lesbian Historic Motif Project is not intended as historic research. It is not aimed at historians or those who want to study history (who presumably don't need me to point them to available research materials). It's aimed mostly at authors and other people doing creative work with lesbian themes who are interested in setting their work in history or in a historically-inspired setting (e.g., medieval-inspired fantasies, alternate 19th century steam-punk worlds, etc. etc.). My hope is to be able to give those people a short-cut to knowing about the wealth of information that exists that might inspire and inform them with regard to their chosen settings. Because of my own personal and professional interests, I've spent a fair amount of work tracking this stuff down, but I have connections to academic sources and networks that most people with only a casual interest don't have. One of the things I've learned in a variety of fields is that the biggest hurdle to learning things is simply knowing that the information exists. A lot of these publications are from obscure academic journals or academic press books. And the subject matter isn't always obvious just from the titles. So part of the intent of this project is to be an information conduit: to say, "Here is a publication you might find relevant and here's a summary of the information you might be interested in." I'm well aware that a lot of people aren't likely to take the step of going from my summary to tracking down the original publication (even when I strongly recommend it!) but it seems like a useful balance point.
Maybe it would be easier if I gave a concrete example. One of my I'll-get-back-to-this-sometime novels is set in 15th century Wales and involves a woman who is cross-dressing for certain practical and logistical purposes, but who attracts the romantic attention of another woman and comes to return it and look for a way they can form a lasting relationship. So I want to know a variety of things. What sorts of issues and practicalities were involved for a woman trying to pass as a man in the 15th century? How would this idea occur to her? Would she be familiar with other cases of women doing so? What would be the likely consequences of discovery? How would she feel about this? What sort of context would she have for understanding the possibility of a woman falling in love with another woman? What cultural models -- whether real-life or literary -- would she be familiar with? How would this affect the types of outcomes she could imagine for what she's feeling? How would it affect the actions she might take? What is the practical likelihood of her being able to carry it off? What are the possible reactions from the object of her affection when she realizes that the "man" she fell in love with is a woman? What are her models for how to feel about this and how to integrate her initial feelings with her new knowledge?
None of these questions necessarily require being able to find solidly documentable lesbians in 15th century Europe. They can be addressed by a wide variety of types of evidence that focus on specific motifs and behaviors, and that may be drawn from the art, literature, and folklore of the time as much as from the actual "real life" experiences of my fictional characters.
So what I'm interested in doing is casting this wider net: what is the variety of information that my fictional characters might be aware of that could shape the story I want to tell? Because, as a novelist -- even a historical novelist -- I'm writing for a modern readership who will find certain types of stories interesting and other types of stories not. And furthermore, as a writer, I'm always picking and choosing between the possible stories that can be told to suit my own interests and purposes.
Part of those interests I have as a writer is to write historic fiction that is -- as much as possible -- grounded in historic fact. I, too, "have a bug about historical accuracy." I don't know whether your reaction extends to discounting the entire field of historical fiction or not. Mine doesn't. I love the genre, both as a reader and a writer. But I don't care for stories that stick modern liberated 21st century women into historic settings, or that create lesbian utopias in the middle of a time and place where they would be implausible. Instead I'm interested in trying to carve out a small empty space within the known historic context in which one particular lesbian story could have existed -- a "possible past" if you will. And given the amount of work I've done to try to know what that small empty space might look like in various times and places, I'm willing to go to the extra effort of provide a short-cut for other writers.
Most of my historic research projects have been largely a matter of cataloging. I take no credit at all for the content of the articles (though I take responsibility for any misunderstandings or misinterpretations contained in my summaries). Historians are my heroes. Even the ones who aren't perfect.
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We’re all in real trouble
As a follow up to the post regarding Time Magazine’s article on climate change I thought I’d post this little nugget drawn from a lengthy discussion of the article over at the PeakOil.com forums:
… It’s CO2 and other greenhouse gases, as well clearing forests and other human activities. And glaciers are almost uniformly in retreat.
Why is this a concern to peak oilers? It has a huge effect on sustainability. There are cities that rely on glacier meltwater for their water systems, and the glaciers may be gone in ten years. It’s not only New Orleans that is likely to be abandoned due to global warming. And what about farming? If your peak oil plan is a homestead in the country and growing your own food, you should be very concerned. Unpredictable weather is a farmer’s bane. How will you know what to plant, or when, if the weather changes drastically from year to year?
The killer drought in the west is, in all likelihood, caused by global warming. If it isn’t, it is exactly what we would expect if the earth keeps warming, based on historical data. And it’s causing a cascade of problems that should be of concern to peak oilers. Farming and fishing have been decimated. The lower water levels means coal barges can’t bring their cargo east, where it’s most needed. Towns are losing their water supplies. Hydroelectric plants have reduced output. Nuclear power plants find their intakes are being left high and dry as lakes and rivers retreat. And oil companies have been forced to stop production because no one can spare them any water.
If you want to read the thread from the beginning, click.
With each day that passes I’m further convinced that this truly is a crisis and we are in it right now. We may not fully realize it now but in the future those looking back will see that by 2006 we were in it. I realized today that I also believe that this is something that will be hitting us pretty damned hard within the five to ten years. Many of the articles and studies seem to by picking up on now as the point of no return and 100 years from now as the point that we will be seeing the catastrophe squarely in the face. In Hollywood it is a neatly packaged event with a clearly marked starting and ending point that comes upon humanity in days or weeks. In reality “it” is now and the intensification over the next decade will bring the people of the planet to a point of absolute realization and panic. By that I mean that those most comfortable, particularly those in America, those that continue to pretend it’s not happening, will be freaking out. It will become the focus of life and will be seen as a primary danger. Between here and there we’ll also be dealing with peak oil and various resource wars which will complicate the situation.
I’m glad I chose not to have children.
Technorati Tags: Climate Change, Ecology, Global Warming, Hurricanes, Oil, Peak Oil
This entry was posted in Uncategorized on March 30, 2006 by Denny H.
Even the corporate media begins to see we are at the tipping point
This week’s cover story at Time is climate change and they seem worried: By Any Measure, Earth Is At … The Tipping Point:
Polar Ice Caps Are Melting Faster Than Ever… More And More Land Is Being Devastated By Drought… Rising Waters Are Drowning Low-Lying Communities… By Any Measure, Earth Is At … The Tipping Point
The climate is crashing, and global warming is to blame. Why the crisis hit so soon–and what we can do about it
No one can say exactly what it looks like when a planet takes ill, but it probably looks a lot like Earth. Never mind what you’ve heard about global warming as a slow-motion emergency that would take decades to play out. Suddenly and unexpectedly, the crisis is upon us.
It certainly looked that way last week as the atmospheric bomb that was Cyclone Larry–a Category 5 storm with wind bursts that reached 180 m.p.h.–exploded through northeastern Australia. It certainly looked that way last year as curtains of fire and dust turned the skies of Indonesia orange, thanks to drought-fueled blazes sweeping the island nation. It certainly looks that way as sections of ice the size of small states calve from the disintegrating Arctic and Antarctic. And it certainly looks that way as the sodden wreckage of New Orleans continues to molder, while the waters of the Atlantic gather themselves for a new hurricane season just two months away. Disasters have always been with us and surely always will be. But when they hit this hard and come this fast–when the emergency becomes commonplace–something has gone grievously wrong. That something is global warming.
As I often say in regards to the corporate media finally covering a story, better late than never. But why is it that they so often wait until the problem is so obvious? They say suddenly and unexpectedly? Um, no. No, I don’t think so. Many of us have been saying for many years that these days were coming but it was an inconvenient truth to be ignored until there was no other choice. We can expect the same with other serious problems such as peak oil. In the short term it’s easier to ignore the problem, pretend it does not exist and hope that it will not rear it’s ugly head in our lifetimes. Better to leave these messes we’re creating to our grand children or great-grand children. Well, surprise surprise, these problems are showing up in your lifetime.
These two problems, climate change and peak oil, are deeply interconnected, and we should remember that as we craft solutions. Had we taken the advice of environmentalists 20 or 30 years ago we would, at this moment, have a better energy and climate situation. Instead, citizens chose convenience and capitalists (as we would expect) chose to maximize short term profits. Sustainability was not a part of the equation and now we will suffer. The day will come when we realize that government, bought and paid for by capital, will never put forward the best solutions to our social and ecological problems.
If we want solutions we’re going to have to actively develop a radically different society. We’re not talking about new laws or a half-assed jump to a new technology such as ethanol. Everything about our current lives must change. Everything. To sum it up, we’ll need to decentralize, localize our energy and food production as well as the production and consumption of goods. Malls and boxmarts are over as are the shelves of shit they sell.
My guess is that Americans are far too stupid and stubborn to make these radical changes to their lifeway willingly. No, most will do nothing until they are literally forced by reality to adapt and it won’t be pretty.
Technorati Tags: Capitalism, Climate Change, Global Warming, Hurricanes, Peak Oil, Sea level rise, Sustainable Development
The Oceans are rising
Yes it is coming and it’s coming sooner than expected. The article suggests as little as a decade to take steps, I’m not so sure we have that long. In fact, I think it’s probably to late. I hesitate to suggest that because I would never argue that we should not try… we should make every effort, we should take radical steps. The Christian Science Monitor reports on the projected level of ocean rise due to climate change:
Arctic temperatures near a prehistoric level when seas were 16 to 20 feet higher, studies say.
Global warming appears to be pushing vast reservoirs of ice on Greenland and Antarctica toward a significant, long-term meltdown. The world may have as little as a decade to take the steps to avoid this scenario.
Those are the implications of new studies that looked to climate history for clues about how the planet’s major ice sheets might respond to human-triggered climate change.
Already, temperatures in the Arctic are close to those that thawed much of Greenland’s ice cap some 130,000 years ago, when the planet last enjoyed a balmy respite from continent-covering glaciers, say the studies’ authors.
By 2100, spring and summer temperatures in the Arctic could reach levels that trigger an unstoppable repeat performance, they say. Over several centuries, the melt could raise sea levels by as much as 20 feet, submerging major cities worldwide as well as chains of islands, such as the present-day Bahamas.
The US would lose the lower quarter of Florida, southern Louisiana up to Baton Rouge, and North Carolina’s Outer Banks. The ocean would even flood a significant patch of California’s Central Valley, lapping at the front porches of Sacramento.
These estimates may understate the potential rise. The teams say their studies provide the first hints that during the last interglacial period, ice sheets in both hemispheres worked together to raise sea levels, rather than the Northern Hemisphere’s ice alone. This raises concerns that Antarctic melting might be more severe this time, because additional melt mechanisms may be at work.
“It sounds bad,” acknowledges Jonathan Overpeck, a University of Arizona researcher who led one of the two studies. He notes that rising temperatures are approaching a threshold. But “we know about it far enough in advance to avoid crossing it.” The challenge, he and others say, is to take advantage of the remaining window by reducing emissions of greenhouse gases substantially.
The two studies were published in Friday’s issue of the journal Science.
Ice on Greenland and Antarctica is already thinning faster than it’s being replaced – and faster than scientists thought it would, notes Richard Alley, a paleoclimatologist at Penn State University and member of one of the research teams. Only five years ago, he notes, climate scientists expected the ice sheets to gain mass through 2100, then begin to melt. “We’re now 100 years ahead of schedule,” he says.
But the window for action is relatively short, Dr. Overpeck says. CO2 remains in the atmosphere for more than a century after it’s first emitted. And it takes time to implement policies and adopt technologies. Thus for all practical purposes, the tipping point may come sooner than atmospheric chemistry would suggest.
So, within five years we’ve jumped 100 years ahead of schedule? I predict that in five more years, 2011 we’ll be told, again, that we are 100 years ahead of schedule. We’ll be told that it is now… right now.
Thanks to Dave Lucas for pointing me to this article.
Technorati Tags: Antarctica, Arctic, Climate Change, Global Warming, Greenland, Sea level rise
There are no easy energy solutions
As the public begins to realize that we have a serious energy problem we begin to see the grasping at easy solutions that do not exist. Ethanol is a great example. It takes energy to make energy! Burning coal to convert corn to ethanol is not smart and not a clean solution. The Christian Science Monitor has a great story on the problem of ethanol:
Carbon cloud over a green fuel
An Iowa corn refinery, open since December, uses 300 tons of coal a day to make ethanol.
Late last year in Goldfield, Iowa, a refinery began pumping out a stream of ethanol, which supporters call the clean, renewable fuel of the future.
There’s just one twist: The plant is burning 300 tons of coal a day to turn corn into ethanol – the first US plant of its kind to use coal instead of cleaner natural gas.
While the story is focused on the climate change aspects of burning coal for the conversion of corn which only tells one part of the story. Ethanol is being put forward as a replacement for oil. Lets remember that before corn can be converted it must be grown and that also requires substantial energy input. Jumping into the rapid development of coal burning ethanol production plants is not the answer. It’s more of the same bullshit. A quick “fix” that will only make our problems worse. It’s the kind of solution we can expect from the best government capitalists can buy.
Technorati Tags: Climate Change, Coal, Ecology, Ethanol, Global Warming, Oil, Peak Oil, Energy
Kevin Phillips on American Theocracy, Politics of Radical Religion and Oil
Very interesting interview on Democracy Now! this past week and it’s worth downloading. Former GOP strategist Kevin Phillips discusses american theocracy, politics of radical religion, oil, and borrowed money. During the interview he has this to say about peak oil:
AMY GOODMAN: Kevin Phillips, you talk about radical religion, about debt, and about oil, about this being an oil war. You also talk about peak oil. That’s not talked about very much in the mainstream. Explain.
KEVIN PHILLIPS: The peak oil idea is that just as the United States oil production peaked in 1971, that we have a limited amount of oil globally, and that it’s something that can’t be re-created. It’s running out. And the expectation of some is that the oil production of the non-OPEC countries will peak at some point during the 2010s, and that then the production of OPEC itself will peak in the 2020s or 2030s. Now, some people think that Saudi production has already peaked.
Now, if you believe this, and it’s possible, then we face an enormous convergence, again under specific oil-related circumstances, of a global struggle for natural resources as the price of oil climbs, as we turn the armed services into a global oil protection service, which has been happening, and as we see the administration refuse to grapple with the need to really curb oil consumption in the United States, which is mostly through transportation and especially motor vehicles.
And I just have a sense, as many others on the conservative side do, this administration has no strategy to deal with these converging problems, be they foreign policy, military, oil, debt. They are like the three little monkeys on the old jade thing – the one sees no evil, one speaks no evil, and one hears no evil. Do they know anything? You know, that’s an open question.
I think I’ve probably already said this previously but just to be clear, I believe that peak oil has already occurred. Furthermore, we can expect that U.S. aggression will prove to be just another in a long line of oil-based wars.
Technorati Tags: Democracy Now!, Kevin Phillips, Oil, Peak Oil, Politics, Religious Right, US Army, War
V for Vendetta, A for Anarchism
For any of my readers that have seen V for Vendetta but who may not know much about anarchism: A for Anarchy. For those of you that don’t know, anarchism has a part to play both in the story in the movie as well as the story of it’s creation. I’m not going to write a review of the movie because I’m not very good at writing movie reviews. Suffice it to say that I enjoyed it and would recommend it. That said I can appreciate the review by William Gillis of Human Iterations who did not like it much. But yes, back to anarchism, the folks over at A for Anarchy have done a good job of putting up a nice intro to anarchism for viewers of the movie. From the site:
THERE IS ANOTHER WAY
“Tonight, you must choose what comes next. Lives of our own, or a return to chains. Choose carefully. “
This website is intended to introduce fans of the film/graphic novel V For Vendetta to the history and philosophy of Anarchy. V For Vendetta was originally a comic produced in the mid 1980s by Alan Moore and David Lloyd about a man who destroys the corrupt state he lives in, promoting Anarchy to the masses all the while. This core message of Anarchy has been severely twisted in the film verison. So much that Alan Moore has asked to be withdrawn from all media references and to have his name removed from the film’s posters.
Anarchy, with its long and varied past, has been repeatedly suppressed and misrepresented. The many successes and movements in the Anarchist community are almost never mentioned in schools or by corporate controlled media. Hollywood’s current filtering of V For Vendetta is far from surprising when taking into account the general message of fear that mainstream news instills in its audience. Thus, this website was created to help individuals familiarize themselves with the Anarchistic viewpoint and to realize the power everyone of us has to make a difference.
Yet, while A For Anarchy hopes to touch on many aspects surrounding Anarchy, it does not claim to be an end all source for anarchistic theory. Rather, this site is meant to act as a portal through which, hopefully, movie goers will realise that an action packed life is endlessly more fulfilling than flickering images on a screen. The site is broken down into areas of main importance, each providing only a brief overview of their respective topics. We encourage you to follow up on any areas that interest you by following the links, keep fighting, and never give up.
Technorati Tags: Anarchism, V for Vendetta
Top Ten Catastrophes of the Third Year of American Agression
As usual Juan Cole has a couple of posts worth reading. Top Ten Catastrophes of the Third Year of American…
And Allawi on Iraq in Civil War.
Americans are just now realizing that we will be in Iraq for a long, long time. There will be no pull out as long as we continue to believe we can drive and consume our way to happiness. Let’s hope American families remember that when the draft comes. An oil-based life has it’s price and we will pay it.
Technorati Tags: Iraq, Oil, Peak Oil, War
St. Louis Anti-War protest
Took my brother to his first anti-war protest today… actually, I think it was his first protest of any kind. Seemed like a good turnout and I thought it went pretty well. Living out in the countryside, I’ve not been involved with much in the last two years. Days like today remind me of my life in Memphis.
More protest photos via Flickr.
Technorati Tags: Activism, Iraq, Antiwar, Anti-war
Halliburton and Homeland Security’s Endgame
When do we realize we’ve crossed the point of no return, and what do we do then?
On January 24 Halliburton subsidiary KBR announced that it had been awarded a contract to build immigrant detention facilities is part of a longer-term Homeland Security plan titled ENDGAME, which sets as its goal the removal of “all removable aliens” and “potential terrorists.”
Endgame. Interesting. We’ve entered a whole new phase of American history.
Peter Dale Scott discusses the 10-Year U.S. Strategic Plan For Detention Camps:
The Halliburton subsidiary KBR (formerly Brown and Root) announced on Jan. 24 that it had been awarded a $385 million contingency contract by the Department of Homeland Security to build detention camps. Two weeks later, on Feb. 6, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff announced that the Fiscal Year 2007 federal budget would allocate over $400 million to add 6,700 additional detention beds (an increase of 32 percent over 2006). This $400 million allocation is more than a four-fold increase over the FY 2006 budget, which provided only $90 million for the same purpose.
Both the contract and the budget allocation are in partial fulfillment of an ambitious 10-year Homeland Security strategic plan, code-named ENDGAME, authorized in 2003. According to a 49-page Homeland Security document on the plan, ENDGAME expands “a mission first articulated in the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798.” Its goal is the capability to “remove all removable aliens,” including “illegal economic migrants, aliens who have committed criminal acts, asylum-seekers (required to be retained by law) or potential terrorists.”
Significantly, both the KBR contract and the ENDGAME plan are open-ended. The contract calls for a response to “an emergency influx of immigrants, or to support the rapid development of new programs” in the event of other emergencies, such as “a natural disaster.” “New programs” is of course a term with no precise limitation. So, in the current administration, is ENDGAME’s goal of removing “potential terrorists.”
Since 9/11 the Bush administration has implemented a number of inter-related programs, which had been planned for secretly in the 1980s under President Reagan. These so-called “Continuity of Government” or COG proposals included vastly expanded detention capabilities, warrantless eavesdropping and detention, and preparations for greater use of martial law.
Prominent among the secret planners of this program in the 1980s were then-Congressman Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, who at the time was in private business as CEO of the drug company G.D. Searle.
Alternet also discusses Bush’s “New Programs”
Some discussion on this over at the PeakOil Forums. Found this there:
Agree. Heck, I don’t think the current population could muster even a minimal 500 thousand general strikers. The concept of participating in self government has vanished. For most people politics is like the Olympics, a long boring TV show that comes on every 4 years. “Hey, when is American Idol on?” But my point was, that in theory, the population still has the power, most of them just have been brainwashed into submission, programmed to be slaves by a 24/7 diet of consumerist propaganda and entertainment. And those that have a clue are (appropriately) terrified by ENDGAME and videos of new high security prison turnstiles installed at a defunct railyard.
I was an activist of sorts in my youth in the USA in the 1970s. My assessment after the pathetic non-response to the blatantly stolen 2004 election was the same as Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, “Big dark, come soon.” Those of us who once played the game saw the game is over. The people of the US are not going to put up any resistance at all. So I emigrated. Anyone who might be designated a “Fifth Columnist” by the regime either needs to get out or find a quiet place to hide for a long time.
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New analysis says global warming boosts hurricanes
According to New Scientist a new analysis by the Georgia Institute of Technology suggests global warming boosts hurricanes:
Renewed claims that global warming is driving the increased number of high-intensity hurricanes across the world were published on Thursday.
The new study comes from researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, US. In September 2005 – days after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans – Peter Webster and Judy Curry claimed that the number of intense hurricanes across the world had almost doubled over the past 35 years, and that this was due to rising sea temperatures.
The study was attacked for ignoring other variables known to influence hurricane intensity. These include humidity, the strength of horizontal winds that can disrupt hurricane formation, and atmospheric circulation. William Gray of Colorado State University, US, who compiles annual hurricane forecasts for the North Atlantic, said the findings were “not physically plausible”.
But the Georgia duo recruited in-house statisticians to subject their original findings to detailed analysis, comparing the role of sea temperatures with the competing factors – humidity, wind strength and atmospheric circulation.
Statistician Carlos Hoyos and colleagues conclude that all four factors have been working to increase the strength of hurricanes. But, reinforcing the original study’s conclusion, they say that “the contribution from sea surface temperature dominates” in every ocean. Gray has yet to respond.
Journal reference: Science (DOI: 10.1126/science.1123560)
Technorati Tags: Climate Change, Global Warming, Hurricanes
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Biography – ADAMS, JOSEPH – Volume II (1701-1740) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography
ADAMS (Adems; after 1727 he used the spelling Adames), JOSEPH, Hudson’s Bay Company employee; b. c. 1700; d. 1737.
One of several children born to William, a labourer, and Katherine Adams, Joseph was baptized 4 May 1700 in Woodford parish, Essex. On 1 June 1705, he was fitted out by the parish and bound to serve the HBC until he was 24. Assuming that he was baptized shortly after birth, it would appear that Adams was sent to Albany at the tender age of five years. There he was educated by the chief factors and learned the Cree language; he was fitted out with new clothes each year according to the terms of his indenture. Adams soon proved to be a good apprentice and a trustworthy servant. There was considerable correspondence between London and Albany concerning his age and the expiry date of his indenture. In 1714 Anthony Beale, HBC governor, estimated that Adams was 18 years old; either Adams was big for his age or Beale hoped that by deliberately over-estimating Adams’ age the time of his indenture would be lessened. Finally in 1722, upon the recommendation of Thomas McCliesh*, who succeeded Henry Kelsey as governor for the HBC overseas, Adams was entertained at £16 per annum retroactive to 11 Sept. 1721 because for the 1721–22 season he had wintered as trader on the East Main. For reasons of health he spent the 1723–24 season in England.
Adams acted as deputy to Joseph Myatt from 1727–28 until Myatt’s death on 9 June 1730, whereupon Adams took over command. With William Bevan he did a survey of Moose River in July 1728 and located the site of the original Moose Factory The London committee had intended that Adams supervise the establishment of a factory at Moose in 1730–31, but Myatt’s death necessitated Adams’ staying at Albany. He sent Thomas Render and John Jewer to build the post, although he had reservations about their capabilities. In October 1731 his reservations proved accurate and he had to visit Moose because the men refused to work under Render.
Adams was supposed to be recalled in 1735 and again in 1736, and was to be replaced by Thomas McCliesh, but on both occasions McCliesh upon arrival in the bay was “sore afflicted with ailments” and had to return to England. The winter of 1735–36 was a particularly busy one for Adams; in January 1736 he heard that Moose factory had been destroyed by fire on 26 Dec. 1735, and later he wrote to the committee: “we have strained ourselves to the utmost to assist them.”
During his long tenure as governor, Adams carried out considerable rebuilding of Albany Factory to make it more defensible. He failed to decrease the consumption of brandy by company servants, a trend that had started in the 1720s and continued throughout the 1730s. The London committee felt that the loss of five Albany servants by drowning and the destruction of Moose resulted from excessive drinking. A sharp reduction in the Albany fur returns was caused by the establishment of Moose Factory, by the competition of Pierre Gaultier* de La Vérendrye’s posts, and also by the anonymous coureurs de bois who seemed to have established temporary posts on both the Moose and Albany rivers.
Adams died on 29 Sept. 1737, shortly after his return to England with his three-year-old half-breed daughter, Mary. His will, which was proved on 12 Jan. 1738, listed bequests to his sister Mary and to his executors, Captains George Spurrell* and Christopher Middleton*; the greater part of his estate was left in trust for the benefit of his infant daughter.
G. E. Thorman
HBC Arch. A.6/3 (letters outward, 1705, 1713); A.6/4 (letters outward, 1718–19, 1720, 1722, 1724, 1726); A.6/5 (letters outward, 1727, 1729–37); B.3/a/5–6, 9–11, 14–25 (Albany journals between 1713 and 1737). HBRS, XXV (Davies and Johnson).
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BEVAN, WILLIAM (Vol. 2)McCLIESH, THOMAS (Vol. 3)MYATT, JOSEPH (Vol. 2)BEALE, ANTHONY (Vol. 2)GAULTIER DE LA VÉRENDRYE DE BOUMOIS, PIERRE (Vol. 3)MIDDLETON, CHRISTOPHER (Vol. 3)RENDER, THOMAS (Vol. 2)SPURRELL, GEORGE (Vol. 3)BIRD, THOMAS (Vol. 2)WHITE, RICHARD (Vol. 3)
G. E. Thorman, “ADAMS, JOSEPH,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 2, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–, accessed February 2, 2023, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/adams_joseph_2E.html.
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Author of Article: G. E. Thorman
Title of Article: ADAMS, JOSEPH
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Unsigned Ufa Nazem Kadri Enters Uncharted Territory A Month After Free Agency Day
The return leg was performed four you could try here days later in Tomsk, and regardless of going down early within the match, Ufa managed to hold on to their aggregate lead; a 3–1 loss to Tom was moot. Ufa therefore claimed a historic promotion to the top-flight Russian Premier League after simply three seasons taking part in in the Russian league system. The first official match of the membership was towards FC Syzran-2003 within the second spherical of the Russian Cup, which after extra time Ufa misplaced on penalties. On 23 December 2010, FC Ufa was formed on the base of FC Bashinformsvyaz-Dynamo Ufa, which then plied their commerce in the Russian Professional Football League, the third tier of the Russian soccer league system. The head teaching place of the group was first assigned to Andrei Kanchelskis, who was tasked with leading the club to the Russian First Division.
According to Forbes, in 2013, Ufa was one of the best city in Russia for enterprise among cities, with a inhabitants of over one million. The Ufa Engine Industrial Association was founded in 1925. The affiliation launched the manufacturing of the first Soviet jet engines similar to RD-10, RD-45F, and VK-1A for the MiG and Yak fighters. Since the mid-fifties, the Ufa-based Engine Production Association has been manufacturing the Mikoyan MiG-19 RD-9B turbo-jet engines, in addition to R11F-300 engines for the MiG-21 fighter.
The metropolis is taken into account to have been founded in 1574, when a fortress was constructed on the positioning of town by order of Ivan the Terrible. Ufa was made capital of Ufa Governorate in 1865 when the governorate split from Orenburg Governorate. Ufa's population expanded in the course of the early 20th century. The Montreal Canadiens are certainly one of several teams to pursue the New York Islanders winger Anthony Beauvillier, who's entrance and heart on the NHL trade block. Sources confirmed the trade talks to the National Hockey Now family.
Chairman of the Board – the pinnacle of the city okrug. The Ufa International Airport has worldwide flights to Turkey, Tajikistan, Egypt, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, and Cyprus as take a look at the site here nicely as home flights to many Russian cities and towns, including Moscow. The Belaya River Waterway and the Samara-Zlatoust Railroad linked the town to the European part of the Russian Empire and stimulated the development of the town's gentle business. Before turning into the seat of a separate Ufa Governorate in 1781, the town, along with the remainder of the Bashkir lands, was underneath the jurisdiction of the Orenburg governors. The official of the Orenburg Governorate authorities Vasily Rebelensky wrote that Ufa was based by the Bashkirs. Ibn Khaldun called the town, among the many largest cities of the Golden Horde, Bashkort.
In the post-war years the inhabitants boomed together with the expansion of the area's oil and chemical industries. Its length from north to south is over 50 km, whereas west to east it is less than 5 km. Ufa is the capital of the republic and, throughout the framework of the administrative divisions, it additionally serves as the administrative heart of Ufimsky District, despite the very fact that it's not a component of it. As an administrative division, it is, along with twenty-four rural localities, integrated individually as the town of republic significance of Ufa, an administrative unit with standing equal to that of the districts. As a municipal division, the city of republic significance of Ufa is integrated as Ufa Urban Website Okrug. One of the oldest metropolis cemeteries is positioned behind the tv center, on the highest level of the Ufa Slope.
This three-story, mid-19th century mansion is noteworthy because the nice Russian opera singer, Fyodor Shalyapin, started his profession here. Financially constrained, the younger singer rented rooms in wood houses on the outskirts - first in Trunilovskaya and then in the Bishop's settlement . The young Shalyapin is immortalized with a 2007 monument. It is alleged that that is the one monument depicting the singer as a youth. Across the street is an fascinating constructing from the start of the twentieth century - the Aksakov National House .
Cash fares are 22 руб on trams and trolleybuses, 29 руб for buses . On the minibuses, the worth varies from руб, relying on the size of the route and time of day . The most frequent bus connection is with Orenburg, about 10 times per day, 7½ hours.
Early history of the encompassing space of Ufa dates again to Paleolithic times. Presumably, from the 5th to sixteenth century there was a medieval metropolis on the location of Ufa. On the investigate this site Pizzigano brothers' map and on the Catalan Atlas a city roughly on the Belaya River was designated Pascherti , and Gerardus Mercator's map additionally marked the settlement with the Pascherti name. French orientalist Henri Cordier associates the place of Pascherti with the present location of Ufa.
Contracts and agreements are processed as "unfunded agreements" or UFAs because there isn't a exterior funding support associated with them. From the monument there is an excellent view of the river. Salavat Yulayev, a participant in the Pugachev Rebellion, is taken into account to be the nationwide hero of Bashkiria. This monument to him was erected in 1967, uncommon in Russia, nonetheless has no sarcastic native moniker, which can solely be considered a sign of common respect for the hero.
Salavat is immortalized here, hand raised up upon a horse, set dramatically on a cliff overlooking the Belaya River. There is an observation deck close to the monument with wonderful views of the river . The alley leading to the monument is essentially the most touristy half Ufa, with Muslim books and souvenirs bought in improvised yurts.
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Our Oakland Opening Art Show: “Gotta Get Away” Collage by Mike Kabler
Feb 26, 2014 | Art Shows - Oakland
Collage by Mike Kabler
Join us as we celebrate the opening of the second GLAMA-RAMA location! Our first featured artist to kick off our OAKLAND location is collage artist, MIKE KABLER with his show, “GOTTA GET AWAY”. In his current series, Mike illustrates his interpretations of inspiration and distress. These two states act upon one another to create a dynamic cycle of tension and release. This emotional landscape is manufactured with his three favorite tools – paper, scissors, and glue stick only.
Mike Kabler is a self-taught artist who was born and raised in California. He began dabbling in collage art during high school in the 1980′s after being influenced by some of his favorite record albums at that time. These included Winston Smith’s collage art for The Dead Kennedy’s, Exene Cervenka’s clip art on early X records sleeves and albums, and Jaime Reid’s iconic ripped and slashed album art for The Sex Pistols “Never Mind The Bollocks”.
The simple cut and paste method used to deliver subverted messages was attractive to this angsty and creative teenager. Soon, Mike was participating in the burgeoning zine culture. He connected the dots between the punk art he loved and the Dada Movements, which remain great sources of interest and inspiration for him. His pieces have been shown in San Francisco, Portland, New York City, and Los Angeles.
Mike resides in Oakland with his husband of 14 years. He is currently operating a floral design business called Oaktown Blooms and plans to continue learning from both paper and plants.
See more of Mike’s collage work here….
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See Mike’s floral design work here….
www.oaktownblooms.com
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Reichstagsbrand: What it means
The Reichstag Building in late 1932
Heute vor vierundachtzig Jahren war der Reichstagsbrand.
Eighty-four years ago today, the German Reichstag burned.
Under the post-World War I constitution (“The Weimar Republic”), the German President had incredible power.
The President could call for new Parliamentary elections, could replace the Chancellor (which is what Germans call the head of Parliament, aka The Prime Minister), could declare states of emergency, and effectively write laws under those states of emergency without Parliament’s consent.
In 1932, the NSDAP (the Nazis) campaigned on the fears that Germany was under imminent threat from being infiltrated by Communists. If they were elected, they promised, they would urge the President to call for new elections, confront the Communist threat, and outlaw the KPD.
In early 1933, the NSDAP had the most seats in Parliament, so their candidate (a man named Adolf Hitler) became Chancellor, even though they only had 33% of the seats. They succeeded in convincing the President (a man named Paul von Hindenburg), to call new elections because of the dangerous Communist threat, and the new elections were scheduled for March 5, 1933.
On the night between February 27 and February 28, 1933, the building that housed Parliament, the Reichstag, caught fire and burned. A Dutch man named Marinus van der Lubbe, who was conveniently 1) a foreigner and 2) a Communist, was apprehended at the scene and charged with arson.
There is considerable historical debate about whether or not van der Lubbe actually set the fire. It’s completely possible that he did, because he wanted to trigger a Communist revolution in Germany. It’s also completely possible that the Nazis set the fire themselves and found a patsy.
The Reichstag Fire, late on February 27, 1933
The phrase Dem Deutschen Volke, “To the German people”, still extant today, is visible
Whoever set the fire, the Nazis took advantage. The next day, President Hindenburg named the event a constitutional emergency, and signed a law which essentially suspended all constitutional rights.
In the special elections on March 5, the Nazis were hoping for an absolute majority between 50% and 55%. They didn’t get it, and only came in at 44%. Another right-wing party, though, the DNVP, was sympathetic to the NSDAP and won 8% of the vote.
They controlled a combined 52% majority in Parliament. Because of the emergency situation declared by the President, they were able to arrest anyone who dissented, they were able to censor and control the press, they were able to stop public protests, and they were able to listen in to phone conversations and intercept mail to stay one step ahead of the opposition. The Nazis used their paramilitary organization, the SA (aka “Brownshirts”) to physically threaten and restrain what little opposition remained.
The NSDAP and its smaller sympathizers kept pushing. They eventually passed an Ermächtigungsgesetz (an “Enabling Act” which constitutionally required a ⅔ vote of Parliament), allowing the Chancellor to write and execute laws without Parliament’s or the President’s consent. On March 27, 1933 — one month after the Reichstag burned — the Chancellor became the de facto dictator of Germany.
So here we are, 84 years later.
One of the biggest criticisms of the Weimar Republic in which Hitler and the NSDAP seized control was that it didn’t clearly separate powers. The President could redo the legislature. The legislature can do away with the President’s powers. Either one of them could simply go over the constitutional protections of the courts by shouting “Emergency!”
On the other hand, separation of powers can only protect a people so far. Let’s assume that van der Lubbe really did start the fire. I’m sure the NSDAP did things that were more thsan questionable (that goes without saying). Most things that the Nazis did, though, to gain power were legal and constitutional.
Their tactics were simple. Keep pushing the idea that we’re under attack. Keep lying that the only way to stay safe was to trust the entire apparatus of state to one small group (the real Germans). Keep insisting that the “emergency” is temporary so we can just figure out what’s going on. Keep public protests to a minimum. Keep a free press from publishing dissenting facts.
There is, 84 years later, a ray of hope in all this.
The German Word Reichstag is literally “empire-meeting”. (This is sometimes translated “Diet of the Realm”, but that seems sort of silly.) If you know the German phrase Guten Tag, you know that the word Tag literally means “day”. Germans use the word -tag to mean the work a collection of people literally do in a day — an assembly.
Today, Germany has dropped the idea of Reich from its government. Today, the legislature calls itself the Bundestag, the Federal Parliament. The NSDAP government never used the Reichstag building again, but the current German government does.
After German reunification in 1990, the Reichstag building was completely renovated. When you enter, all the walls between the entrance facade and the speaker’s podium are glass. Instead of the original ornate, pointed dome, architect Norman Foster designed a glass dome overhead. The dome has an array of mirrors which let natural sunlight in to the debate chamber.
The Bundestag Dome and Mirrors at night
The first time I visited the building in 2000, I was amazed how the architectural analogy of the building is everywhere: transparency. One can see from the dome down to the speaker’s podium. You can walk around ramps in the capitol to see complete panoramas of Berlin. Even the railings and partitions in the visitor’s galley of the main chamber are glass.
The transition from Reich (“kingdom” or “empire”) to Bundesrepublik (“federal republic”) meant for Germans that the German public and the world can see past the ashes of nationalism into the heart of their democracy.
The Reichstag/Bundestag Building today
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Lockheed F22 Raptor The Definition of Stealth.
The super-fighter for the 21st century F22 Raptor is worlds first fifth generation fighter aircraft. The first to employ stealth, supersonic cruise, agility and advanced integrated avionics into one single aircraft, it currently dominates the skies over battlefield and bring unequaled capability into the hands of US Air Force fighter pilots.
The high cost of the aircraft, a lack of clear air-to-air missions due to delays in Russian and Chinese fighter programs, a ban on exports, and development of the more versatile and comparatively lower cost F-35 led to the end of F-22 production. A final procurement tally of 187 operational production aircraft was established in 2009 and the last F-22 was delivered to the USAF in 2012.
Sukhoi Su-57 - The Anti-Stealth Game Changer.
Sukhoi PAK-FA abbreviated in Russian language as Prospective Airborne Complex of Front line Aviation is a program to develop fifth generation fighter aircraft. The prototype aircraft designated as T 50 which had its first flight on 29 Jan 2010. It is expected to enter service with designation Sukhoi Su 50 in Russian Airforce. The aircraft is being co-developed in collaboration with Hindustan Aeronautics Limited HAL with 50% sharing of fundings. The HAL would develop an Indian specific variant named Fifth Generation Fighter Aircraft (FGFA) whose final contract is expected to be signed at the mid of 2017 after which aircraft will be developed within 7 years. The FGFA will be tailored for requirements of Indian Air Force according to Indian Military doctrine. While the aircraft is expected to be exported in large numbers in Asia Pacific. It was reported at Paris Air Show 2017 that the name FGFA is now completely replaced and the aircraft now be called Prospective Multirole Fighter PMF. The Sukhoi Aviation Corporation claims it to be better than any other fifth generation aircraft currently available for export. It will be the first aircraft in both Russian and Indian service to use stealth technology by which they could evade detection by enemy radar to some extent. It will replace Su 27 and MiG 29 in Russian Service and MiG 21 in Indian service.
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Declarative Culture and Imperium in Imperio
Filed under: GA — adam @ 6:43 am
Marx and Engels have been heavily criticized for not providing a detailed model of the communist society they hoped would succeed capitalism, but on this point, at least, they were right. Leaving the details out allows for steady focus on the contradictions you want to exploit; providing a detailed model provides you with something new to argue about, even if there’s absolutely no way of settling all the questions without having power in the first place. So, it provides you with a distraction. I think that we can push this point even further: once a political project has a canonical model, filled with procedures, organization structures, required policies, and so on, it also has a permanent basis for political conflict based on the claim that the actual leadership is not in conformity with the “real” project. This argument is really a corollary of the argument for personal, non-procedural rule central to absolutism.
There are good reasons why this kind of conflict is endemic with political movements in general, and particularly those aiming at substantive change. The creation of a “doctrine” and a “program” is itself a response to conflict—movements usually start by being for and against something very specific but the specific things they are for and against become vaguer and more complex the closer you get to achieving them; what was originally thought to be “the problem” turns out to be just a subset of a larger problem, and maybe the first “solution” just brings that larger problem into view, and even creates new problems itself. So, the only way to quell all the arguments about “what are we trying to accomplish here” is to get something down on paper that can garner enough agreement among the leadership so that the rest can be bullied into line. Still, everyone knows that if this or that detail of the doctrine or program has to be modified or jettisoned in the interest of gaining greater proximity to power, it will be—thereby confirming that managing internal power dynamics is the real purpose of the doctrine and program. That’s why the insider who knows where all the pieces are will generally win out over the one who has best mastered the doctrine and program.
We can formulate the problem, and thereby a way of avoiding it, in a more fundamental way. A doctrine aims at logical clarity: it proposes certain premises, and then claims that, if those premises are accepted, certain other claims must be accepted as true; and, if those claims are accepted as true, given certain values, certain conclusions must “therefore” be reached and subsequent actions taken. “Programs” are structured the same way, usually in long lists of declaratives and the imperatives that logically follow from them. We are completely within ‘declarative culture” here, and declarative culture is predicated on the banishment of imperatives and ostensives that don’t “follow” from declaratives. Once you have banished imperatives (in particular, because if the imperatives go, the ostensives go with them), you are wiping the slate clean and setting all prior obligations, commitments and loyalties aside. You take as your starting point the attempt to construct a discourse which everyone will be “compelled” to agree with, at least if they accept the basic premises of declarative culture. And the basic premises of declarative culture are that, first, in using words, you rely upon established (i.e., through the dictionary, or through some accepted theory) uses of words; and, second, that in constructing relations between words and sentences, you base such relations solely on grammatical relations, which is to say, the substantive-predicate relation (substance-quality, for logicians) and hierarchy, and words (also to be used in formally established, with increasing rigor as declarative culture deepens) like “because,” “therefore,” “if,” and so on.
To return to David Olson, the scholar of the history and consequences of literacy I have been referring to in recent posts, writing is itself a metalanguage identifying elements of and relations within (but invisible to) previously existing oral language. The development of logic is the further development of the metalanguage already implicit in literacy: it uses the relations between words abstracted in in the creation of written language as a way of assessing and regulating the use of language. In other words, once a discourse has been produced, we can use a model of logic to determine whether it is “logical,” “rational,” “true,” and so on. But, Olson emphasizes, these metalanguages tell us nothing about how the discourse is actually produced in the first place, which is to say they tell us nothing about how we actually think. This should be obvious if we consider an even more basic metalanguage than logic: grammar. We can easily see when a sentence has a grammatical error, and we can, if we are informed regarding grammatical terminology, identify the error very precisely, but no one composes a sentence in their mind according to grammatical rules (no one thinks, “now I have to connect a predicate to this subject, now I need an adverb to modify the predicate,” etc.). Interestingly, Olson himself has virtually nothing to say about what we are actually doing when we think and compose sentences in our mind—he seems to hope the metalanguage will seep in sufficiently to make us somewhat better at it.
But we can develop a pretty good idea of what we are doing when we compose sentences in our mind, and Michael Tomasello’s Constructing a Language is very helpful here. The answer, according to Tomasello, is simple, and fairly obvious in retrospect: in constructing our own utterances, we work with the utterances we have heard and used many times already; what he calls “chunks” of discourses, or what rhetoricians call “commonplaces,” and grammarians call “constructions.” Better and more experienced writers and thinkers have a wider range of “chunks” available to them and, just as important, acquire the skill of varying, and “riffing on” the chunks they are familiar with in accord with the present “rhetorical situation.” Even more, we can learn to identify the chunks others are using, and put them to new uses by situating them in relation to some of our “our” chunks. Along the way, you probably will get more grammatically proficient and “logical,” but, even more important, you will get more discerning, more comical, more satirical, more alert to the manipulation of clichés, more capable of subverting others’ clichés without falling into your own, more patient when it comes to looking over sentences so non-obvious absurdities can strike you, more detached from the metalanguages so as to be able to mix them up with the “primary” languages they want to expel from their own precincts, better at staying within a particular “topic” past the point where all the conventional things have been said about it so it becomes necessary to find something new to say, etc. These are the kinds of things we are doing when we are “thinking.”
Tomasello’s “user-based” model of language points to the ways in which we can avoid being mesmerized by metalanguage, or declarative culture. Privileging metalanguage, or declarative culture, and therefore the “doctrine” and “program,” is like setting up a permanent imperium in imperio in your own mind, or in the collective discursive space you inhabit. It will always be possible to show how some discourse violates the rules of logic or reference and is therefore “invalid.” If it’s not possible, those rules can always be refined further so that it becomes possible. Whoever is most proficient in mastering the metalanguage has a permanent power base, while being unable to actually rule, because that would leave him vulnerable to the very same criticisms, thereby undermining his power base. (Every organization has those who are always referring to “rules” and “procedures” in frustrating any attempt to arrive at a decision, doesn’t it?) But the installation of the imperium in imperio in the shared thinking of even the more decisive or “alpha” members of the group is the more devastating effect, because it blocks real thinking and inhibits initiative and a willingness to experiment. It may take a dozen violations of logic and regulations in order to arrive at a direction that will in fact be far less vulnerable to charges of “fallacies” than one arrived at under the strict supervision of logical regulators. This, I suppose, is what is meant by “anti-fragile.”
Hopefully, it’s needless to say that I’m not arguing for “spontaneity.” The first point to be made is that hierarchy and a clear chain of command is prior to the specifications of doctrine and program. But the hierarchy itself must of course presuppose whatever it is the hierarchy is for. We do need to start with a clear intellectual, conceptual distinction, and a minimal model. Social relations precede individuals; relations are always articulated, and therefore hierarchical; the center is ontologically prior to the margins; any relationship (institution, society, etc.) has an origin; origin is essence; and so on. In working with the “chunks” of language presented to us by an overwhelmingly liberal social order, we keep bringing these distinctions and the models they presuppose to bear in reworking those chunks, turning them against their origins. Inflexibility regarding the basic distinction and model allows for maximum flexibility in “de-chunking” the constraining metalanguages and generating new chunks to send out into the world (what we might call “memes”).
Instead of thinking in terms of striving to conform and force others to conform to logical models, we can learn to think, more productively, in terms of thought experiments. This is already closer to the way most of us think, which is by using examples to probe a particular situation or bring a problem into focus. A thought experiment is essentially an example transformed and given greater reach by being “processed” through our a priori distinctions. How would a particular discourse look if we hypothesized the origin of its governing concepts? How would one of the “we should…” quasi-imperatives compulsively issued by pundits and would-be power brokers look different if we imagined the concrete hierarchy and series of practices that would be required to implement it? How can we place an “individual choice” in a new frame by embedding it in the extensive network of relations that make it seem more like automatized mimicry than a “choice”? In a sense, “all” this really involves is repeating the chunk in sentences and discourses where it doesn’t really “belong,” which dissolves its naturalness in an acid bath of highly constructed and power-mediated discourses and chains of command.
A useful criterion (a kind of minimal metalanguage) for the creation of thought experiments would draw on the old appearance/essence distinction: imagine an entity or situation whose appearance is both almost indistinguishable from, while also diametrically opposed to, its essence; for example, a very close friend who simulates trustworthiness almost perfectly while systematically betraying you at every moment. What would be the single, barely discernable “tell” that would enable us to identify the essence behind the appearance? We could answer this question in various ways, for various kinds of friendships (or relationships relying upon trust in general), various forms of betrayal, and so on. That’s why it’s an experiment, to be talked about as long as it’s useful to do so, and not a logical conclusion to be deduced. This is similar to the proposal I’ve made in previous posts for treating declaratives as imperatives: in order for me to really “believe” (belief, for Olson, is a metalinguistic term affirming the “sincerity conditions” of an utterance—it doesn’t refer to some “inner state”) a purely abstract, logical argument, purporting to depend upon nothing more than the established meanings of its words, firmly established referents, and non-fallacious connections, what commands would I in effect have to follow, and would in fact already be following? Part of the purpose here is to bring out of the shadows the vast array of authorities that must be acknowledged and obeyed without question in order to “believe” anything whatsoever; the other part of the purpose is to be able to obey them in a way that winnows out all those within the chains of command who don’t, in fact, command anything, leaving it to those who do command to actually do so. With the declarative imperium in imperio, thinking is engineered so as to undermine hierarchies; with imperative de-chunking, thinking is designed so as to bring hierarchies into sharper focus.
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Art as an Antidote to Doubt: Diane Burko Interview & Images — Mary Kathryn Jablonski
Artist Diane Burko photographing at Viedma Glacier
An individual has not started living until he can rise above
the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns
to the broader concerns of all humanity.
Nothing intrigues me more than the act of misremembering. Simultaneous misremembering? For this, I assume there must be a reason. So when I viewed a recent exhibition of Diane Burko’s work, Climate Contemporary: Artists respond to Climate Change, at the Lake George Arts Project, and was overwhelmed by her photographs, hung in a place to be viewed first when entering the gallery, I almost left the exhibit thinking there were none of her paintings in the exhibition. Looking at the list of works one last time before leaving, however, I was surprised to find that I was wrong and carefully turned back to view the show a second time, finding one painting in the mix. When I asked Diane if she had ever shown her photographs alone (without her paintings), she mentioned (in error) this LGAP show, among others.
Diane’s photographs lift the veil. They remove the distance between the viewer and the subject, as they take your breath away and send a shiver, physically and emotionally. Indeed, for the first moment I saw them, I thought they were printed on the inside of glass instead of paper, so luminous were they. Because of the textures, scale, and richness of these images, one feels as though they are at the site, hanging out of the plane or helicopter, ship, etc, with her. I believe this is crucial to her mission in conveying the urgency of climate change. When trying to convey a subject such as global warming to a generation accustomed to communicating with abbreviations while texting & tweeting, or with snapshots via Instagram & Pinterest, you need to drive home the point in a way no report, summit, or documentary can. It was immediate. It was accessible. It was high-impact. The seductive beauty of the images is a motivating factor for the viewer, the sugar with the medicine. To me, it seems no surprise that Diane’s life and work as an exhibiting fine art photographer evolved simultaneously alongside her life and work as an environmental advocate.
Spert Island, January 17, Archival Pigment Print, 30 x 30 inches, 2013, ©Diane Burko
By the visual eloquence of her photographs (not to mention the fact that she has gone to such painstaking lengths to obtain thousands of these shots for her various projects and exhibitions: on site, as well as from agencies and individual scientists) she conveys great passion, which is also a definition of art.
To those who know me, it must seem natural that I’d have a preference for Diane’s photographs as a means of communication. While this essay is surely about Diane Burko, I feel it’s only fair to briefly offer full disclosure. I am a printmaker (mostly of monotypes) and a lyric poet. It is no surprise then, that I favor a medium that captures a moment in time. Moreover, part of what I do for a living involves work with mindfulness meditation, the practice of being in the present moment. However, in my history as a gallerist, I’ve never favored photographs, and as an art-lover, I never recall singling out an exhibition of photographs as must-see. Rather, I tend to respond strongly to drawing, abstract painting and of course, printmaking. Having said this, there are, indeed, many photographs and photographers that I have deeply respected and admired. I only learned after this interview that Diane considers her photographs a hybrid somewhere between printmaking and photography. It seems to me that she is a painterly photographer, which to me makes all the difference.
It is also notable that there are many art critics, and I’ll mention a few, who hold opinions in direct opposition to mine expressed above. Rebecca Smith, sculptor David Smith’s daughter, curated the Lake George Arts Project exhibit, interestingly including four of Diane’s large-scale photographs and only one painting. She then made this curious comment in the Albany Times Union newspaper:
Burko, who began as a landscape painter, has a single painting in the show, which depicts frozen topographies threaded with variously colored lines. As the work’s title reveals, the lines mark the freak recession of the Columbia Glacier, located on Alaska’s southern coast, between 1980 and 2005. “I like to point out that this is how painting can tell you more than photography,” said Smith. “It is truer than a photograph, because you can put time into a painting. A photograph only captures a moment.”
Diane’s landscape paintings have been widely acclaimed and written about since the early 1970s. But things changed for her in 1977 when artist James Turrell (LINK — http://jamesturrell.com/) flew her over the Grand Canyon and Lake Powell in a refurbished Helio Courier airplane. Burko says the aerial views enabled her to abstract the landscape in new ways and that flying itself was thrilling. She began taking her own photographs to reference as source material for her paintings (often of monumental geologic phenomena) and to record her experiences. By 2000, her photography practice became another art form all its own.
Notes from Politics of Snow. (Click for larger image.)
In her series Politics of Snow, shown in 2010 at the Locks Gallery in Philadelphia, Diane has drawn on the surface of a series of photographs, documenting, in plain visual language, environmental change. Not only does Diane document changes in the environment, she makes the viewer care. And when we care, we want to act.
A trip to Glacier National Park in 2011 became a turning point for Diane. The fact that at the turn of the century there were 150 glaciers there and fewer than 25 remain profoundly affected Diane. She’s quoted as saying she could no longer make beautiful paintings that did not have another purpose and … needed to exchange ideas with and collaborate with glacial geologists throughout the world. Diane became witness to a cause.
By 2013, opportunity allowed her to begin recording and reporting the unprecedented ice melt on our planet. In 2013 she sailed around Svalbard with 26 other artists, sponsored by an Arctic Circle Residency, and spent four days in Ny-Alesund with scientists from the Norwegian Polar Institute. In 2014, she returned North to Greenland’s Ilulissat and Eqi Sermia glaciers. In 2015 she made her second expedition to Antarctica and witnessed the Patagonian Ice Field of Argentina. Her current work reflects these Polar Antarctic and Arctic expeditions.
Most of us who have passed through the rigors of art school have had it drilled into us that painting from projected slides or source photographs can arguably “deaden” an image or at the very least take a scene “one-generation removed” for the viewer. In my opinion, skilled photography does not. There are gallerists and curators who prefer abstract art or paintings made en plein air for this reason, and given the luxury of time, such as her residencies at Giverny and Bellagio, Diane has made many plein air paintings as well. It is also important to mention that while many of Diane’s paintings begin from photographs, they soon depart in abstraction.
Reflets I and II (shown as diptych), Oil on Canvas, 84 x 60 inches each, 1990, ©Diane Burko
In an eloquent essay titled, Glaciers and climate change: narratives of ruined futures, (WIREs Clim Change 2015. doi: 10.1002/wcc.351), Geologist M. Jackson investigates various narratives in artistic, performative, cinematic, and other humanities-based representations of glacier-climate discourse. The author compares the metaphor of Diane’s melding of painting and photography to the merging of science and art that the work exemplifies. Furthermore, the article uses the same painting that Rebecca Smith described (Columbia Glacier Lines of Recession 1980-2005) and speaks of its usefulness in terms of a “fulfillment of prediction.” Jackson states, “By creating lines of current and estimated loss, Burko invites viewers to contemplate not the ice in current existence, but rather, where the ice not only once was, but also where the ice will not be.”
Jackson provides a solid argument worthy of consideration. And reconsidering Rebecca Smith’s curatorial viewpoint, perhaps she displayed Diane’s four photographs in a high-impact location, where they were viewed first in the gallery, and followed them with the one painting in the show to accomplish a “one-two punch” in the Lake George Arts Project exhibition. Playing devil’s advocate, would I have minded, however, if the painting were omitted from the exhibition? No. Would I love to have seen more of Diane’s photographs included in the exhibition? Definitely.
Columbia Glacier Lines of Recession 1980-2005, Oil on Canvas, 51 x 60 inches, 2011, ©Diane Burko
I also took a look at a recent article by Sue Spaid titled, Moving Viewers to Pay Attention, who set out to discuss how paintings, however mediated and/or distorted, complement ordinary perception in ways that photographs do not. While her thesis seemed to hold water, her discussion, for me, did not. I found myself readily able to substitute the word photograph for painting in many of her arguments. Here’s an example: By contrast, photographers who purposely direct spectators’ attentions risk undermining photography’s believability-advantage. Now re-read her remark instead with the word PAINTING substituted for photography. This was the case for me throughout her essay.
What bothered me most, however, and should have made me put down the Spaid article immediately, was when she accused anyone preferring photographs to be filled with “wishful thinking.” She went on to say: The plethora of die-hard photography fans and movie buffs undermines the notion of the human hand as necessarily commanding greater attention. “Photography fans” happily visit photography exhibitions and photo-fairs. A photographer surely uses a human hand. And a filmmaker? Hmmmm, last I checked Stieglitz & Spielberg were pretty human, and very commanding!
I believe by its very nature, painting is a lens through which the artist translates the viewed scene or object, this being part of its intrigue. In a documentary context, however, does “intrigue” seems less of a requirement? Is this is in part why the photographs play such an important role in Diane’s mission as an activist? Summarily, Diane has made sure by the quality of their “voice” that both her photographs and paintings be “heard.” I caught up with her recently to ask these and other important questions about her work.
MKJ: Your remarkable life thus far has evolved not unlike a Jenga Puzzle, no one piece being able to be removed at its exact time in your career. Your painter’s eye clearly informs your photographs, begging the question, how much so?
DB: I find that often people, when first confronting my 40 x 60” images, mistake them for paintings. I think my photography actually is located somewhere between photography and printmaking. The images are so not like Gursky, Ruff or Struth, and they are not a typical National Geographic highly detailed shot either. Rather there is a play between sharp and soft focus, distance and detail, atmosphere and color. The same issues I consider in my paintings.
MKJ: Are you a self-taught photographer?
DB: Yes. I think anyone out of art school learns to handle a camera. I first did with a Pentax to take slides of my work and, of course, then the world around me.
MKJ: Amongst other subjects, you’ve chosen two of the most difficult to photograph, ice and snow (because of the blinding whiteness and lack of contrast), in the most difficult of circumstances, frigid cold. Talk a bit about technique, how you’ve learned to obtain the gorgeous contrast, colors and textures in your images of glaciers, and the obstacles you’ve had to overcome technically.
DB: Getting there is the real challenge. As far as actual technique I am really a low-tech woman. I shoot with a Canon EOS 5 Mark II and Mark III, both with a 24-105 lens, as well as a Sony NEX VII – as simply as possible. No particular tricks. I try to stay at 100-ISO usually on Program and then adjust for aperture intermittently. Of course I am taking thousands of images. The process of editing is key to success. The challenge of the Polar Regions is of course keeping your batteries charged and your fingers warm.
MKJ: Do you manipulate your own photographic images on the computer in Photoshop or work with a designer to do this?
DB: I use Photoshop to crop. I prefer a square format or full frame. Basically I use Levels in Photoshop to adjust images. I try to keep the color as true to the experience as possible – no fancy manipulations.
MKJ: Remind us here about the paper, and printing process you employ.
DB: All prints prior to 2010 were printed on German Etching Hahnemuhle. Since 2010 I use Canson 100% Rag. The prints are made from an Epson 98 at a local facility, Silicon Graphics.
MKJ: I found an old quote of yours about your early photographic work describing the photos as “…trying to capture something I could never capture with painting… where the brush is not invited.” I believe that at the time you were referring to focal point or spatial concerns. However, does this statement still ring true for you?
DB: When a photograph says it all I don’t want to just copy it. I am not a super-realist. Rather it’s the bad photograph that captures an experience, a memory that then stimulates a painting idea. I am usually painting wet on wet, thus I welcome evidence of the brush mark. I value creating multiple distances for viewing a painting. When far from the canvas, one takes in the landscape, the total image. Yet as you get closer, the surface reveals many abstracted areas of paint, color, and surface texture.
MKJ: Have you ever shown your photographs alone, without your paintings, and/or would you consider this if you have not yet?
DB: Yes, I first did at the Locks Gallery in 2006, 2010 & 2011; the Philadelphia International Airport in 2007; and most recently in September 2014 at the LewAllen Galleries in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The show was titled, Diane Burko: Investigations of the Environment. A digital catalog of this show is available.
Also at this moment I have a number photographs on exhibit at the Noyes Museum in an exhibit titled, Frozen Earth: Images from the Arctic Circle. And I will be showing photographs exclusively at Kean University in an upcoming 2016 exhibition titled, Glacial Dimensions: Art and the Global Ice Melt Diane Burko and Paula Winokur.
And of course there were those four photographs that you saw at the Lake George Arts Project this summer in Climate Contemporary: Artists respond to Climate Change.
MKJ: Do you see your paintings as playing a secondary role and the photographs becoming stronger players as you become more and more active in speaking out to educate the world about climate change? Do you foresee a time when painting will become obsolete as a means of communication for you; or rather, is painting a passion that you will never abandon regardless of the role it does or doesn’t play in your life as an activist?
DB: Painting is such a compelling medium, so charged with emotional power in our virtual/digital worlds. Personally, I need to use both mediums. Sometimes one medium takes priority over the other. At other times I go back and forth. I have diptychs and quadtych paintings about climate change that I know are truly compelling. Right now I am experimenting in my painting studio with some abstractions based on Landsat images while also developing a major photo project. So both impulses are being satisfied alternatively.
Diane Burko’s Studio, Summer 2015
MKJ: Your photographs document the passage of time and so can be used as a demonstrative tool, crucial to your mission. They also have a time stamp, leaving a record for scientists of the future. Can you speak about this legacy?
DB: Actually my photographs only document the time I am witnessing the glacier. But I am providing that record for other glaciologists to reference in the future, which makes me feel like I am making a contribution. This practice of visual comparison is called “repeat photography” and has been utilized ever since the invention of photography. Geologists rely on these visual records of change in the environment. They return to the same sites year after year (at the same time) to gather evidence of change. When I first began my Politics of Snow project, my paintings were based on their chronological repeats, sourced from USGS, NASA and the National Snow and Ice Data Center.
MKJ: Looking ahead, tell us about your upcoming agenda, including future travel plans and how these include your artwork, particularly your photography. Do you see any inventions or changes on the horizon involving your creativity?
DB: For the foreseeable future, that is the rest of 2015, I have no Polar plans. After so many trips over the past few years I need uninterrupted time to process all the information gathered in a deeper way. In my painting studio I am experimenting with new formats integrating maps as well as new painting techniques and materials. With my photographs I intend to create more grids of multiple images from the same locations, implying the passage of time. I am also exploring other conceptual strategies to create other metaphors about issues of climate change like my Deep Time pairings. Video is another avenue of exploration. I have footage from all of my expeditions that still needs to be reviewed and edited.
MKJ: What makes you most discouraged in regards to climate change?
DB: The fact that so many politicians engage in willful ignorance. The fact that doubt has been injected into the public discourse just as it was years ago with the harmful scientific proof about cigarettes and the ozone layer. How profit and greed seem to dominate everything is truly disheartening.
MKJ: What makes you most encouraged in regards to climate change?
DB: The fact that we are talking about it here; that more and more artists like me in multiple creative fields are dealing with this issue in their work; that the amount of coverage on climate change, droughts, forest fires, and extinctions are increasing in the press. And then there are politics. There are actually candidates running for the 2016 Office of President who are speaking to this issue. The fact that President Obama, along with the Pope, are calling attention to the perils of climate change – gives me hope.
MKJ: How can we get involved in affecting positive change at the local level vis-à-vis climate change?
DB: Each of us, aside from being mindful of our fossil fuel consumption, local food consumption and recycling, must be vocal. The personal is political. If each of us actually petitioned our representatives with our concern – often – it would make a difference. This issue impacts us all, and our grandchildren and their grandchildren as well. The time to act is now.
—Diane Burko & Mary Kathryn Jablonski
A gallerist in Saratoga Springs for over 15 years, visual artist & poet Mary Kathryn Jablonski is now an administrative director in holistic healthcare. She is author of the chapbook To the Husband I Have Not Yet Met, and her poems have appeared in numerous literary journals including the Beloit Poetry Journal, Blueline, Home Planet News, Salmagundi, and Slipstream, among others. Her artwork has been widely exhibited throughout the Northeast and is held in private and public collections.
2015, Art, NC Magazine, Vol. VI, No. 12, December 2015
8 Responses to “Art as an Antidote to Doubt: Diane Burko Interview & Images — Mary Kathryn Jablonski”
marmcc says:
Interesting meditation on photography and painting, both the intro and the interview. I was just reading Sontag On Photography recently and arguing with her in my head. The looking is the thing, I guess.
Mary Kathryn Jablonski says:
Thanks for your comment. Sontag is brilliant. I’d love to know what you were reading and will try to find it. I look forward to seeing more comments. This is fertile field for discussion — and certainly a timely one!
On Photography.
Yes, yes. Just marvelous. Thank you for bringing this to our attention. “Photographs really are experience captured, and the camera is the ideal arm of consciousness in its acquisitive mood…Photographs furnish evidence.” I want to quote her every word. Here’s a link to an excerpt: http://www.susansontag.com/SusanSontag/books/onPhotographyExerpt.shtml
But she has some things to say that are more problematic, to me. Here are two of my blog posts about them:
https://marilynonaroll.wordpress.com/2015/08/04/see-what-im-saying/
https://marilynonaroll.wordpress.com/2015/08/17/look-at-me-dont-look-at-me/
I am inspired by your thought-provoking questions. Particularly those about the selfie, which I personally abhor (when we’re talking, yes, about a book full of them by a pop-culture star at point-blank range). Let’s not forget that Sontag had a relationship with Leibovitz, whose works IMHO, are the opposite in content of the selfie. Annie is able to pull deep, soul-filled portraits from her subjects. Then again, there’s Vivian Meyer, whose selfies I do not hate at all. Their mystery and depth intrigues me. No pun intended, but it’s not black & white, is it?
Judith Stein says:
Your interview is a wonderful “way in” to the creative process, and an excellent introduction to Diane Burko’s art.
Thank you for your interest and comment, Judith. Diane’s photographs are breathtaking to view in person – and I think we can all agree, her passion is evident and her mission is crucial.
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Kathak Yoga is an innovation created by Pandit Das – a unique and virtuosic practice with a contemporary edge yet reverting deeper into the traditional and fundamental foundation of Indian classical music and dance. In this practice, the dancer performs complex rhythmic compositions through footwork and movements while continuously reciting the underlying rhythmic structure (taal) and singing the corresponding melody (lehera). The dancer also simultaneously plays an instrument – tabla, harmonium or manjira (finger cymbals).
Inspired by the sadhus (spiritual hermits) of India in which they would push physical, mental and spiritual boundaries to attain moksha (ultimate liberation), the purpose of Kathak Yoga is to empower the dancer to become one’s own musician and to fully integrate the mind, body, and spirit. This practice exemplifies that one does not have to go outside of one’s own tradition to innovate. Kathak Yoga was featured in Dr. Sarah Morelli’s dissertation at Harvard University and has received international critical acclaim.
Rachna Nivas is a pioneer in playing harmonium while practicing the technique of Kathak Yoga. She is most known for her exhilarating performances in a complex 9.5 beat rhythmic cycle while singing, dancing, playing, and improvising. She has performed Kathak Yoga in over 20 prestigious venues and multi-disciplinary conferences across the U.S. and India – including Zellerbach Hall Cal Performances at UC Berkeley, International Kriya Yoga Congress in California, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater and the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, Yale University, National Center for Kathak Dance in Delhi, National Center for Performing Arts in Mumbai, Shaniwar Wada Festival in Pune, and many others.
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‘Jobless’ white men can’t be terrorists
June 20, 2017: ‘Jobless’ white men can’t be terrorists (Daily Times)
On Monday morning, a van ploughed down Muslim worshippers, as they were leaving a north London mosque after late night prayers. This was the latest in a string of attacks that has jolted the British capital in past four weeks. This sadly marks the fourth terror attack in the UK in four months, after attacks on Westminster Bridge, Manchester, and London Bridge.
At least one person died and more than ten people were injured in this latest attack. However, the right wing media was quick to display its bias. As the news of this attack emerged, newspapers such as the Daily Mail assured its readers that the driver of the van was a ‘clean shaven’ man and later blamed a radical cleric who used to preach at the mosque.
This victim blaming or ‘what goes around comes around’ narrative has only fuelled more tension. But more importantly, it reflects how Islamophobia is now a reality that even the conservative British Prime Minister had to acknowledge in her speech.
The fact that the Finsbury Park Mosque imam actually protected the driver from the wrath of the crowd only became clear later.
Finsbury Park Mosque has had a chequered history in the past. Granted, radical Egyptian cleric Abu Hamza used to preach there – but in 2014 the same mosque was awarded for its efforts in combating extremism.
The fact that media outlets only chose to focus on one aspect of the mosque’s history after an event in which Muslims were targeted has polarised the political discourse. Even the framing of the attack initially was problematic. There was a reluctant acceptance that this was an act of terror and this only happened when the authorities finally termed it as such. Media outlets quietly followed suit. Though in their initial reporting, media such as The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal called it an ‘incident’. This is in sharp contrast to attacks launched by Muslim extremists where news outlets jump to conclusions and start reminding us of the perils of ‘Islamic extremism’. The assailant, 47-year-old Darren Osborne, was not on the radar of security agencies before the attack.
Novelist JK Rowling, however, took the lead in calling out the double standard that the Western media rolls out at will. She tweeted: “The Mail has misspelled ‘terrorist’ as ‘white van driver’. Now let’s discuss how he was radicalised.” But there were many others, too, who criticised the way white extremists merit different treatment. A headline by The Times described the attacker as ‘jobless’ and a lone wolf’- the new standards to describe white supremacists in both the UK and the United States. Black activists worldwide pointed this out on social media and perhaps the best description was a tweet: ‘Muslim shooter = entire religion guilty/ Black shooter =entire race guilty/ White shooter = mentally troubled lone wolf’.
At the same time, the radicalisation of young Muslims in Western societies is an issue that the Muslim communities and states apparatuses have to deal with. Violent methods are reprehensible. Having said that the blatant hypocrisy of mainstream western media needs to be checked.
Islamophobia in Britain and elsewhere, some argue, is linked to Islamist violence. It is time to break this vicious cycle. The silver lining is that the social media with all its pitfalls is turning into an arena where falsehoods are being contested and alternative views are finding space.
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Temporary nature-based carbon removals can help achieve Paris Agreement
Nature-based solutions to capture carbon—such as reforestation and forest or peatland conservation—could help reach Paris Agreement climate goals, but only if paired with other aggressive carbon reduction strategies.
Distinguished SFU Professor of Climate Science Kirsten Zickfeld is director of the SFU Climate Research Lab, and investigates the long-term effects of human activities on climate. Zickfeld and her team collaborated with researchers from Concordia University and Microsoft on the study, Temporary nature-based carbon removal can lower peak warming in a well-below 2 °C scenario, recently published in Nature Communications Earth and Environment.
The study took into account that some nature-based carbon solutions may be temporary. Disturbances such as wildfires and human land-use priorities threaten the ability of nature to sequester and store carbon permanently. However, when used alongside ambitious emission reductions that are consistent with reaching net zero CO2 emissions by 2050, temporary nature-based carbon removal would decrease peak warming by as much as a tenth of a degree—an important and tangible climate benefit. Furthermore, the researchers argue that better nature conservation and stewardship can help build resilience to climate change while also offering many other benefits including increased biodiversity, improved water and air quality, and supporting the livelihoods and cultural values of communities.
We spoke with Professor Zickfeld about her research.
The study assumes that carbon sequestration through nature-based climate solutions could be temporary. Forests might succumb to fire, for example. Can you explain how even temporary solutions could benefit the climate?
The climate effect of nature-based carbon sequestration depends on the total amount of carbon that is permanently removed from the atmosphere. If carbon is first sequestered by planting trees and later returned to the atmosphere when these forests are destroyed by fire, the net carbon sequestration and therefore the effect on temperature is zero. However, in a scenario where fossil-fuel emissions reach net zero and global temperature peaks by mid century, temporary carbon sequestration can reduce the level of peak warming if the carbon is re-released after fossil-fuel emissions stop. If, on the other hand, carbon emissions from fossil fuels continue, temporary nature-based carbon sequestration would serve only to delay the temperature increase.
Which tools did you use to obtain your results?
We used a global Earth system model that represents the atmosphere, the land surface and the ocean, and the cycling of carbon, water and energy between them. The system is fully coupled—a change in one component, such as a change in land use affects all other components including the atmosphere and the ocean. Such a model is capable of simulating not only the effects of nature-based solutions on the cycling of carbon between the land and the atmosphere, but also other climate effects resulting from changes in albedo and evapotranspiration. This is an advantage over so-called “stand-alone” land models that are not interactively coupled to climate.
Your study took into account changes in albedo, the amount of sunlight reflected at the Earth’s surface. How do nature-based climate solutions affect the amount of sunlight that is reflected rather than absorbed?
Let’s take reforestation as an example. Trees are generally darker than grasses or crops, that is, they absorb more incoming sunlight. If forests replace grasslands or croplands, more solar radiation is absorbed, which has a warming effect. This warming counteracts the cooling effect that is achieved through carbon sequestration by the regrowing forest. Therefore it is important to consider albedo changes and other so-called biophysical climate effects when assessing the climate benefits of nature-based climate solutions.
Can you tell us more about the benefits of nature-based solutions, beyond carbon sequestration?
Many nature-based solutions that are considered for carbon sequestration have a range of other benefits. For example, conservation and restoration of ecosystems can improve biodiversity, and enhance other ecosystem services such as improved water and air quality. Agricultural practices that aim to retain more carbon in soils can also lead to higher productivity and food production. There are therefore many good reasons to invest in nature-based solutions, even if the carbon sequestration and climate benefits are modest.
Do you think nature-based climate solutions can help Canada achieve its emission reduction targets under the Paris Agreement?
Nature-based climate solutions are not a silver bullet. They can play a supporting role in achieving Canada’s emission reduction targets by offsetting greenhouse gas emissions that are very challenging to eliminate, but will need to be complemented by decarbonization in all sectors.
For more: Planting trees can help the climate, but only if we also stop burning fossil fuels, the Conversation.
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My Day at the Bargaining Table
Written by Anthony Pann in the Pennsylvania Memories category and the Winter 2001 issue Topics in this article: Andrew Carnegie, Anthony R. Pann, anthracite, children, James J. Hill, John Mitchell, Old Forge, William Jennings Bryan
Pennsylvania Memories is a special series marking the turn of the millennium featuring readers' memories of events, experiences, incidents, individuals, innovations or inventions that profoundly affected them or gave them a deep appreciation of personal history.
Our family consisted of seven children, my mother, who had emigrated from Italy in 1908, and my father, who was born in Carbondale, Lackawanna County. We lived in a small anthracite (or hard coal) mining town, Old Forge, also in Lackawanna County. Dad began working as a breaker boy in the coal industry when he was fifteen years old. After years of such hard labor, Dad began to try to rectify the lack of safety and other abusive tactics imposed on the work force by the mine owners.
Dad’s efforts to improve the working conditions resulted in a position with the fledgling organization known as the United Mine Workers of America [see “Living for Reform” by Kenneth C. Wolensky in the winter 2001 issue]. He was highly regarded by both the union members and the mine owners. Sincere, proper, and meaningful negotiations were his trademarks.
Around our home we performed many chores for which we received a weekly allowance of thirty-five cents. The three of us children on allowance decided it was time for a raise – the price of our favorite candies had risen. Knowing our father was a very fair man and a firm believer in fair negotiations, we thought a threat of a strike would bring him to the negotiating table. Since I was named after him, I became the spokesman and in that way have an edge. I approached him and requested a meeting, adding that we wanted to avoid a strike. He appreciated our following the proper grievance procedure and said we would meet at 2:00 P.M. He asked that I bring the rank and file members to the meeting.
At the meeting I presented our case. I really played up the part about the increase in the cost of candy. I added that it was unfair that Grandma (his mother) suffer a loss since she had to “sell” us a three-cent candy for two cents because we didn’t have enough money. I presented our opening request for a fifteen-cent raise, to a weekly allowance of fifty cents.
My Dad countered with a list of chores that were not being done on a regular basis. He also noted that we had received a raise less than two years earlier and that we were asking for an outrageous percentage of increase.
I countered with the fact that many chores he referred to were never assigned, but rather done as special assignments. The percentage of increase does seem high, I conceded, but only because the base allowance of thirty-five cents is very low. Also, two years without a raise is too long a time. I reminded him that the increases in the cost of living and the prices that Grandma had to pay the candy wholesaler were far beyond our control.
My Dad looked at me and said, “Junior, now I know why you are named after me. You did a great job of negotiating.” Before we left the bargaining table, he added, “Request for a fifty-cent allowance is granted.”
Anthony R. Pann of Old Forge, Lackawanna County, is a graduate of the University of Scranton. He worked for the U.S. Army Signal Corps in Philadelphia before moving west to work for the Hughes Aircraft Company. He was associated with the financial operations division of the Hughes Aircraft Company for twenty-seven years before retiring early in 1982. Upon retiring, he returned to Old Forge. In 1999, he authored a commemorative history to mark the centennial anniversary of the founding of Old Forge. He has also worked as a park ranger and interpreter for Steamtown National Historic Site in Scranton. Among his hobbies, which includes writing, he especially enjoys computers.
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Winning: Not The Same Thing as Not Losing
There hasn't been an offensive conservative victory in nearly a century.
For the last couple weeks, Republican jubilation has been building in force. Scott Brown took over Ted Kennedy's Senate seat! Obamacare went down to crushing and ignominious defeat! Obama didn't seem to notice either of these disasters and, in his State of the Union address, attempted to carry on as before - to the jeers and catcalls of the audience, the disgusted correction of the Supreme Court, and the appalled horror of even some erstwhile supporters in the media.
All things are possible! Republicans are now ascendant! The Republic is saved!
Hogwash. Put down the champagne. Pop the balloons, and turn off the victory fight songs.
Conservatism has won no victories worthy of the name in the last year. In fact, conservatism has won no permanent offensive victories in near ninety years, not since Calvin Coolidge's "Return to Normalcy" after the near-fascistic wartime administration of Woodrow Wilson.
What? Have we not heard of the "Contract with America"? What about George W. Bush, and St. Reagan? Ah yes: they had victories, victories which we needed at the time, but none of which made a permanent difference.
Victories Offensive and Defensive
In combat as in politics, there are two kinds of victories: offensive, and defensive.
A defensive victory is when the enemy attacks you, and you drive him back. There have been many great victories of this type throughout the ages: Russia over Napoleon at Moscow, Russia again over Hitler at Stalingrad, England over Hitler in the Battle of Britain. In politics, conservatism has indeed enjoyed victories of this type: We have (we hope) stopped Obamacare, stopped cap-and-trade, stopped the forced unionization of EFCA.
Helpful though defensive victories are, you can't win a war on defense alone. Eventually you must take the battle to the enemy, and win offensive victories in which you take over his land.
Moscow and the Russian winter destroyed Napoleon's armies, but his rule didn't end until the Russians and the rest of Europe pursued the Emperor back home to France and thence to exile in St Helena. Stalingrad stopped Hitler from conquering Russia, but he wasn't defeated until the Red Army crushed his last stand in the streets of Berlin. Winning the Battle of Britain saved England from invasion, but the threat was still clear and present; it stayed that way until D-Day when the Allies started to take territory back from the Nazis.
In contrast, what territory has conservatism ever reconquered from occupying liberals? Has there ever - ever - been a government entitlement program or intrusive bureaucracy that Republicans have succeeded in destroying?
Many years ago, shutting down the Department of Energy, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Department of Education was part of the Republican party platform. We had eight years of Reagan, the Republican Revolution, the Contract with America, and even a brief Republican hegemony under George W Bush. All these are now history; yet the two DoEs and the NEA remain, there are more government departments now than thirty years ago, and government's share of the domestic economy today exceeds what it was during World War 2.
The only significant conservative inroads into liberal occupied territory that spring to mind are the ending of the welfare entitlement and the creation of school vouchers for Washington, DC inner-city students. Pretty small beer compared to Obamacare, eh?
What's more, it was Democrat Bill Clinton who signed the "end of welfare as we know it" - and now Mr. Obama has ended the end, and we're back where we were with LBJ's Great Society and the welfare queen. Obama also ended the DC vouchers. The conservative victories, such as they were, were tiny and short lived.
Where is a real, true, long-lasting conservative victory? We cannot even eliminate the National Endowment for the Arts, much less seriously enact tort reform. We talk of the importance of federalism and subsidiarity, but our Republican presidents simply extend federal control of schools; they're no more willing to return power and responsibility to local governments than Mr. Obama or Nancy Pelosi.
The Tea Parties have awakened many ordinary Americans to our ever-expanding, ever-encroaching federal government. There are a lot of people who believe that this is the last stand for traditional American values of limited government; if Mr. Obama's agenda were enacted, there'd be no going back.
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Indeed there wouldn't be. The trouble is, there never is any going back. Once a new bureaucracy is created, it's there forever.
The only question is how fast it grows - with the speed of the deer under Democrats, and with the speed of the snail under Republicans, but always in the same direction of larger government.
Meanwhile, ordinary Americans get used to the concept of government involvement in every aspect of their lives.
One hundred years ago, Americans would have reached for their shotgun at the very idea that government had any ability to tell them what they could or could not build on their own private property. Today, it's assumed and accepted that permits must be obtained to repaint your house. Permits, for paint! Thomas Jefferson would have run for his torches, tar, and feathers.
It is not possible to solve the problems confronting America today by snipping bureaucracies at the margins. It's far too late for that and our debts far too vast.
We need a Ron Paul or Sarah Palin-style budget - one which fits in one three-ring binder. Envision the Democratic shock: "But... where's the NEA? The DoE, either of them? The... EPA? Where's the rest of it? We're used to having the budget delivered via forklift - I could actually read this thing, it's so small!"
That would be a conservative victory. Until then, there's nothing wrong with raising a faint cheer from the trenches when we repulse an enemy attack, but there's no call for victory parades until after we've proved our willingness and ability to go over the top, fix bayonets, and send the enemy on the run deep into his own territory, while we advance and conquer the field.
Otherwise, come the next defeat, conservatives will once again be pushed back.
And we are running out of territory into which we can retreat.
Petrarch is a contributing editor for Scragged. Read other Scragged.com articles by Petrarch or other articles on Partisanship.
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alanscott said:
yaaaaaa-THE BATTLE OF EVER MORE-hope there is some conservatives still around for the next hundred years and after that-march on !!!!!!
Matthew said:
I'm afraid that the bayonets we will require to repulse and vanquish the enemy will not be figurative, but literal. God help my children through what I fear is coming. Our dear Tree of Liberty is due for some fresh manure.
I am in full agreement with you on this Petrarch. I would say however, as you point out, we have very little left to conserve. The name hardly seems fitting.
lfon said:
An excellent article. This should be the starting introduction for the New Conservative Manifesto For The 21st Century.
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Establish a succesfull Entertainment careers with the help of New media market in USA...!
By jasmine
Media is among the most thriving industries in the United States of America, as far as employment is concerned. The continuous growth of the industry over the years has created employment opportunities for billions of young and enthusiastic people. In the past, the role of media in USA was limited to within newspapers and journals, but with the course of time, it has spread its wings in different mediums. At one point of time, news, articles and photographs published in dailies and weekly newspapers were prime source of entertainment for the people, but today there are several other options.
After newspaper, the next modern form of media and entertainment was radio. With its wide variety of programmes and news bulletins, it soon turned into the best source of entertainment for people. But it was television that completely changed the definition of media and entertainment business . Since its introduction, television successfully captured the spot that earlier belonged to the print media. Today TV is undoubtedly is the most dominant force in the media industry, not only in USA but in all corners of the world. The TV channels offering news coverage and entertainment-based programmes have completely changed the definition of media coverage. In USA too, the news channels that keep on updating people about things that are going across the world enjoy highest TRP as their attractive presentation and in-depth coverage prompt viewers to stick to the TV screen.
Though FM radio stations have succeeded in earning some popularity as sources of entertainment, they still have got miles to go to match the popularity level of the TV channels, as far as news coverage are concerned. The dominance of news channels in TV has put a huge question mark on the survival of print media . The state-of the-art infrastructure, most advanced equipments, sound technology and of course group of young, enthusiastic and skilled workers have turned the TV into an indomitable force. People are now getting news about things happening in distant corners of the world much faster than newspapers which is leading to a drastic fall in the readership level of the journals.
That's why young people, who have the desire to establish professional career in the media industry are giving preferences to TV channels over radio and print media. USA, being the headquarter of some of the most popular TV channels of the world, has got a booming media market , which is likely to grow even more in the future. The TV channels in US are among the top employers in the media industry and as they are growing continuously, more job-seekers are likely to get the opportunity to earn their livelihood from here.
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Family medicine and the fight for the soul of health care
Timothy Hoff, PhD
Timothy Hoff is a professor of management and author of Searching for the Family Doctor: Primary Care on the Brink. Copyright 2022. Published with permission of Johns Hopkins University Press.
There is a fight going on for the soul of not only American health care but health care everywhere. Primary care and family medicine are at the center of this struggle, the essence of which is the unresolved tension between two different goals. One goal is a fair, empathic, and highly relational care delivery system, built around primary care and trusting relationships between doctors and patients. Another goal is a more efficient, convenient, and highly transactional care delivery system, impersonal and built on algorithms, health care corporations, and technology. The former needs family doctors to succeed. The latter probably does not, relying instead on business thinking, scale, cheap labor, and technology.
Make no mistake, this is an escalating war with combatants joining both sides. The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated it by providing further rationales for minimizing the imperfect equation of using humans in health care delivery and embracing the transition to technological solutions instead. One combatant fighting on the side of relational primary care and the role of doctors, particularly general doctors, is the specialty of family medicine. For over fifty years, it has been selling us the idea that a comprehensive physician who can manage care and who sees all patients as unique, whole individuals has immense value.
One important thing the specialty of family medicine has been effective at doing over five decades is using the image of the comprehensive family doctor to draw in medical students and young physicians. Compared to other medical specialties, it has always had a large number self-select into it who convince themselves that family practice is the right way to be a physician, and a great career choice for helping society.
These true believers have given family practice hope. They have been the frontline foot soldiers seeking to spread the comprehensive doctor mantra. Many have owned practices. Many have stayed in the same community seeing the same patients for years. They face challenges now. Their army has been battered and whittled down in numbers as the surrounding health care system grows hostile to their interests. The job of a family medicine true believer is getting harder. Yet, as these true believers go, so goes the specialty’s vision of itself as something truly unique in medicine.
Orrin is a family medicine true believer. He has been one throughout this decades-long career. He’s worn out from the hard work of trying to remain co-owner of a small, independent practice not yet swallowed up by one of the larger hospital-based corporations looming in his geographic area; worn out from trying to meet all the demands of insurance companies, the government, and his patients; worn out from trying to make ends meet in a reimbursement world where seeing more patients quicker determines how much one can get paid as a family doctor.
He comes across as a bit scared of the future, and quietly upset about how the existing health care system has gone out of its way to take out small guys like him. He is a true believer because he has stayed put in one community for over three decades. He has had the same patients for years, is friends with many of those patients, and has done a lot of varied and complex work.
Owen is Orrin’s son, and he has followed in his father’s footsteps. He is a new partner in his father’s practice. Being a partner means he has had to invest money and take a salary cut as he builds his own panel of patients. He is in his early thirties, only a few years removed from his residency. Owen was immersed in the small-town physician experience growing up and watching his dad. He is a younger true believer, and that carries with it unique burdens compared to his father.
He is taking personal, financial, and professional risks most other family doctors his age choose not to take, risks most family doctors of any age seem not to be taking anymore. He owes a couple hundred thousand dollars for his medical training. In other words, a mortgage for a house he does not have. He is only a few years removed from residency. He earns $120,000 a year, well below the mean salary for a family doctor, because right now he only “eats what he kills” as a newly minted practice partner. He has experienced a highly concentrated dose of the things his father has increasingly dealt with in his work—the struggle and uphill battle to be a comprehensive family physician in a small independently owned practice.
There are other family doctors I spoke with that, while not business owners, are still trying to be true believers and comprehensive physicians while working for someone else. It is also not easy for them. Most family doctors now work as employees. More are joining the employee ranks each day—narrowing their scope of work, reducing their autonomy, adopting a nine-to-five mentality, and avoiding long-term relationships with patients. It moves them further away from the generalist physician definition.
Overall, the health system in the United States is still not tilting its axes in favor of either primary care or family doctor. What is worse, family doctors as a collective are more balkanized and less cohesive than ever. There is a sense among those in the field that something is not right about the specialty. Some feel there is a bait-and-switch aspect to becoming a family doctor. It ends up being something much different than what they were initially told. Others feel it is an impossible job to do well. The ask is too big for them. Still others believe sincerely in the ideal definition of the role, that of the generalist or comprehensive doctor, but find themselves working too hard or sacrificing too much to get it done. They find other niche-oriented ways to convince themselves they are doing “true” family medicine work. Family doctors everywhere are searching out more sustainable career paths for themselves, leading to so much career variety that the very label family doctor starts losing its preferred connotation.
Timothy Hoff is a professor of management and author of Searching for the Family Doctor: Primary Care on the Brink.
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Why It’s Necessary to Remember George Reddy
George Reddy, murdered by right wing forces in the 1970s when he was only 25, remains an inspiration for thinking youth even today
I watched the Telugu film George Reddy with a lot of curiosity.
It was released on November 22, 2019 and is based on the life of the famous Osmania University student leader George Reddy who was murdered by right-wing forces on April 14, 1972. He was a gold medalist in nuclear physics and was doing his PhD at the time of his murder.
A believer in pro-poor socialist ideas, he fought for the rights of the poor and women students, both on campus and outside. Within a short time he became a legendary figure. So much more the reason why pro-feudal right-wing forces got him murdered on the campus itself.
The film, produced by Sudhakar and directed by Jeevan Reddy captures the spirit of the times and his many ideas . The makers have skilfully recreated the Osmania campus of the 1970s.
Somewhat predictably, the Telangana wing of the Bharatiya Janata Party deployed its firebrand leader Raja Singh to oppose the release of the film. They tried various means, including approaching the court, but the release went ahead. It is now running well in both Telugu speaking states.
I was one of those people who were influenced by his serious academic scholarship. I joined my M.A. Political Science course in 1974, just two years after his brutal murder. The Arts College at Osmania University, where I studied, became the main attraction and stood as a symbol of the scholar’s activism, even though he was a student of physics. His college is slightly away from the Arts College building.
However, this Arts College was the centre of political discourses and activism, even though it was a testament to the magnificent Nizam’s feudal architecture.
The ideology of George Reddy endured among students and was unsurpassed by any other figure in the two immediate decades since his death. No teacher or scholar influenced the campus’s intellectual environment as he did.
How could a 25-year-old youth do that even without writing much?
His appeal lies in three things: 1) acquiring knowledge as a weapon, 2) using it for liberation of the oppressed within that short time, and 3) getting martyred by the oppressors’ men.
When very young persons stand for justice and display knowledge of uncommon values and stand for human equality, civil society looks at them with awe and disbelief. The feudal ruling forces around them see them as a danger. This is what happened in the case of Jesus Christ and so many more thinkers. Christ’s contemporary rulers and spiritual authorities got him crucified, though he did not use any violence in his fight for justice for the poor and oppressed.
Several decades later, another student in Hyderabad arose. Rohith Vemula did not use violent methods to fight for justice. He killed himself as Socrates did at a very old age. Bhagat Singh was killed and George Reddy was also killed.
The film has successfully transformed the story of George into a mainstream narrative that has captured the public imagination. It has contemporarised George’s budding socialist-revolutionary ideology into a pro-poor, pro-lower caste and farmer’s suicide campaign, with a heroic smattering of emotional fights with political, anti-social and casteist ideologies.
The anti-serious educational agenda of the state is an issue that plagues many campuses even today.
Mediocre and forces with a lot of muscle power within and outside the student populace thrive–George was a negation of all such forces, both in the realm of scholarship and in physical fights. The film captures that personality of George very well all through.
George Reddy in the 1970s and Rohith Vemula in the 2010s inspired thousands of students on the university campuses across India for similar reasons. George Reddy was murdered when he was just 25. Rohith Vemula hanged himself in protest against similar human oppressors on in 2016, when he was just 26. Both of them have something common in their socio-spiritual and cultural roots — the belief that oppression is unethical, anti-social and that they need to fight for justice.
Both George’s mother Leela and Rohith’s mother Radhika fed them on a deeply spiritual ethic.
Though the film used the ongoing farmers’ suicides to showcase George, in the 1970s, his family’s ethics of sympathising with the oppressed and poor was in tune with the socialist waves that were sweeping the world. The impressive Super Power status of Soviet Union in the Cold War period, the ongoing cultural revolution in China, the Cuban revolution under the leadership of young Castro and Che had a huge impact on him.
The pro-Vietnam and anti-American campus movements all over the world posited themselves as a significant mediator between democratic civil rights and socialist campaigns. Sharp intellectuals were getting drawn into serious classroom and library studies and street activities. George’s unusual energy came from that source. This energy of George inspired many of us. But not a single one after him combined both the spirits. Many of his followers went into the Naxalite movement and some took to serious studies achieving only partial success. No one of us made a great mark after him in any field, though a few of us attempted, in separate spheres.
Because few rare humans do such powerful things at such a young age, they are seen as miraculous beings. There is a spiritual saying that ‘God puts a different seed in exceptional humans’. Science, arts and morality operate through them.
Indian biographic heritage has hardly textualised the life of such exceptional martyrs. Indian cinema also is loathe to grow out of the maya of song and dance. A regional, small budget film took this experimental step.
What is very impressive about the film is that it has concentrated on George’s distinctive childhood. He took everything positive and humanistic from his mother and went beyond her imagination to follow his own instinct. The nurturing of that instinct socially, culturally and spiritually is very important.
From family to school to university, providing encouragement for that creativity, goodwill and intellectual rigour is very important. The Indian civil societal ethos has a tendency to kill such exceptional human combination, either by killing the entire persona or by killing the main spirit in such persons. Once that spirit is killed, one would not make history.
There is an ongoing attempt to see that such sharp minds do not come up on campuses.
Any conservative living environment, be it a family, school, university and so on, will not allow creative experiments. Those young people who want to experiment with new things need to rebel against anything conservative.
Rebellious minds need to be negotiated with, not suppressed. The nation will lose their game changing mental abilities if they are suppressed. Any young George budding in any corner of of the nation should be nurtured. To start with, this film should be dubbed into all languages for all kinds of audiences to see.
Social activist and author Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd is a political theorist who taught at Osmania University till 2012.
https://thewire.in/film/george-reddy-osmania-university
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Memories of JFK assassination haunt former Secret Service agent and North Dakota native
MOORHEAD - Nov. 22, 1963, is on Clint Hill’s mind every day. The former Secret Service agent assigned to protect Jackie Kennedy the day President John F. Kennedy was assassinated is still haunted with guilt nearly 50 years later.
By: Amy Dalrymple, INFORUM
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Former Secret Service agent Clint Hill talks about the day JFK was assassinated
MOORHEAD - Nov. 22, 1963, is on Clint Hill’s mind every day.
The former Secret Service agent assigned to protect Jackie Kennedy the day President John F. Kennedy was assassinated is still haunted with guilt nearly 50 years later.
The Washburn, N.D., native and Concordia College graduate was on the running board of the car behind the presidential limousine in Dallas. He heard the first shot and jumped onto the presidential vehicle in an attempt to shield the Kennedys from gunshots. Hill made it just as the first lady was reaching for the top of Kennedy’s scalp.
He received recognition for “extraordinary courage and heroic effort in the face of maximum danger.”
But Hill, who battled depression and alcoholism for years as a result of that day, still wonders if he could have done more.
“I still have a sense of responsibility and a guilt feeling I should have been able to do more, because I was the only one who had that chance,” Hill said in an interview last week with The Forum.
Hill, who served five presidents during his time with the Secret Service, will return to Concordia this week to accept an Alumni Achievement Award.
“I tried to tell them that I didn’t think I was worthy of the honor, but they insisted,” said the 79-year-old, who now lives in the Washington, D.C., area.
Hill also will give a public talk on Wednesday night, along with Lisa McCubbin, co-author of “The Kennedy Detail,” which gives the Secret Service agents’ account of the assassination.
North Dakota native
Hill was born in 1932 in Larimore, N.D., and was adopted as a baby by Chris and Jennie Hill of Washburn.
Hill graduated from high school in Washburn and attended Concordia, where he majored in history and physical education and excelled at football and baseball.
After Hill graduated from Concordia in 1954, he served in the U.S. Army as an intelligence agent.
Hill’s Secret Service career began in 1958.
When Kennedy was elected, Hill anticipated he would be assigned to protect the president because he had been assigned to President Dwight Eisenhower.
He was shocked to learn that he’d instead be protecting the first lady.
“I was very upset about it,” Hill said. “I didn’t really want that assignment.”
But it turned out to be the best job in the Secret Service at the time, Hill said.
Jackie Kennedy and Hill built up a trust and became friends, though she always called him Mr. Hill, and he always called her Mrs. Kennedy.
“We shared secrets, and we got to know each other very well,” Hill said.
That historic day in Dallas was unusual because the first lady was campaigning with Kennedy, something she often shied away from doing.
During the motorcade, Hill was positioned behind Jackie Kennedy on the follow-up car and was scanning people taking photos from a grassy area off to the left.
Then he heard an explosive noise over his right shoulder, and his eyes scanned past the presidential vehicle.
“I saw the president grab at his throat and kind of move to his left. I knew something had happened,” Hill said.
“I jumped from the follow-up car and ran toward the presidential vehicle,” he said. “My attempt was to get on the back of the presidential car and place my body above the president and Mrs. Kennedy so that I would shield them from anything that was a possibility of happening.
“There was a second shot, apparently, but I didn’t hear it because I was running.
“Then the third shot happened just as I was approaching the presidential vehicle. I slipped, had to regain my steps, got up on the car. The president had been hit in the upper right rear of his head with that third shot.
“There were blood and brain matter and bone fragments throughout the entire area, including myself. He slumped to his left. Mrs. Kennedy came up from her seat onto the trunk of the car trying to grab some of the material that came off his head. … I grabbed her and put her back into her seat. When I did that, the president’s body fell into her lap.
“The right side of his face was up, and I could see his eyes were fixed. There was a hole in the upper right rear of his head. It appeared to me that he was dead.”
Hill gave a thumbs-down to the follow-up car, and agents yelled to the lead driver to go to Parkland Hospital. Hill continued lying on the back of the car to shield the Kennedys as the car sped 80 mph to the hospital.
‘Downward spiral’
After the assassination, Hill continued to be assigned to the first lady and the children until the election.
He was then assigned to President Lyndon Johnson and served him during the tumultuous time that included the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy.
Hill also protected Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford.
In 1970, a promotion had Hill working an administrative desk job, and for the first time since the assassination, he had time to think. That day in Dallas was never far from his mind.
“I gradually deteriorated emotionally, and that affected my physical well-being,” Hill said.
In 1975, doctors said he wasn’t fit for the Secret Service, and he retired at age 43.
Hill returned to North Dakota and worked on his sister’s farm for about six weeks, “trying to get everything out.”
That year, he also spoke about the assassination for the first time in a famous interview with Mike Wallace of “60 Minutes.” Prior to that, Hill hadn’t talked about that day with anyone, not even his family.
Hill’s emotional state only worsened in his retirement.
“By 1976, I was once again in a downward spiral, and that lasted until 1982,” Hill said. “I had a great big bottle of scotch and a carton of cigarettes, and I laid on a couch in my very dark basement.”
Then in 1982, a doctor told Hill he either had to change or die.
“I decided I wanted to live,” Hill said.
Without any help, Hill quit drinking and did some security work for Chrysler, Mesa Petroleum and Billy Graham during the 1980s.
Decades after the assassination, Hill was still not talking about that day. He declined to be interviewed in 2003 for the 40th anniversary of the event.
“I didn’t want to talk about any of this type of thing and never did,” Hill said. “We as agents never talked about the assassination among ourselves. I never discussed it with any member of my family.”
Then fellow Secret Service agent Gerald Blaine and journalist Lisa McCubbin began working on the book “The Kennedy Detail.”
Hill said McCubbin convinced him that it would benefit history if he revealed details of that day from his perspective.
Contributing to the book proved to be beneficial for Hill, and he’s now talking more openly about that day for the first time, nearly 50 years later.
Hill and McCubbin also are collaborating on a book, “Mrs. Kennedy and Me,” that will be published in the spring of 2012.
In 1990, Hill did something he wishes he would have done earlier: He returned to Dallas and walked Dealey Plaza and looked out the window of the sixth floor.
“I came to the conclusion that on that particular day, because of everything involved, the weather, the angle of the building, the way the street was configured and the way the motorcade was running at the time that I did everything I could, and I really couldn’t have done any more than that,” Hill said.
Readers can reach Forum reporter Amy Dalrymple at (701) 241-5590
What: Speech by former Secret Service agent Clint Hill and Lisa McCubbin, co-author of “The Kennedy Detail”
When: 7 p.m. Wednesday
Where: Concordia Knutson Campus Center Centrum
Info: The event is free and open to the public. A Q&A session and book signing will follow.
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Directory talk:The Wikipedia Point of View
Ottava_Rima Contributions
Literary philosophy
Johnson's literature, especially his Lives of the Poets series, is marked by various opinions on what would make a poetic work excellent. He believed that the best poetry relied on contemporary language, and he disliked the use of decorative or purposefully archaic language. In particular, he was suspicious of John Milton's language, whose blank verse would mislead later poets, and could not stand the poetic language of Thomas Gray.[1] On Gray, Johnson wrote, "Gray thought his language more poetical as it was more remote from common use".[2] Johnson would sometimes write parodies of poetry that he felt was poorly done; one such example is his translation of Euripides's play, Medea in a parody of one poet's style along side of his version of how the play should be translated. His greatest complaint was the overuse of obscure allusion found in works like Milton's Lycidas, and he preferred poetry that could be easily read.[3] In addition to his views on language, Johnson believed that a good poem would incorporate new and unique imagery.[4]
In his shorter works, Johnson preferred shorter lines and to fill his work with a feeling of empathy, which possibly influenced A. E. Housman's poetry.[5] In London, his first imitation of Juvenal, Johnson uses the form to express his political opinion. It is a poem of his youth and deals with the topic in a playful and almost joyous manner. As Donald Greene claims, "its charm comes from youthful exuberance and violence with which the witty invective comes tumbling out" in lines like:[6]
Here malice, rapine, accident conspire,
And now a rabble rages, now a fire;
Their ambush here relentless ruffians lay,
And here the fell attorney prowls for prey;
Here falling houses thunder on your head,
And here a female atheist talks you dead.
However, his second imitation, The Vanity of Human Wishes, is completely different; the language remains simple, but the poem is more complicated and difficult to read because Johnson is trying to describe Christian ethics.[7] These Christian values are not unique to the poem, but are part of Johnson's works as a whole. In particular, Johnson emphasizes God's infinite love and that happiness can be attained through virtuous action.[8]
In terms of biography, Johnson did not agree with Plutarch's model of using biographies to teach morals and compliment the subjects. Instead, Johnson believed in portraying the subjects accurately, including any negative aspects of an individual's life. Although revolutionary and more accurate as a biographer, Johnson had to struggle with his beliefs against a society that was unwilling to hear of details that may be viewed as tarnishing a reputation.[9] In Rambler 60, Johnson put forth why he thought society could not be comfortable with hearing the negative truth of individuals that they admire:[10]
All joy or sorrow for the happiness or calamities of others is produced by an act of imagination that realizes the event, however fictitious, or approximates it, however remote, by placing us, for a time, in the condition of him whose fortune we contemplate, so that we feel, while the deception lasts, whatever motions would be excited by the same good or evil happening to ourselves... Our passions are therefore more strongly moved, in proportion as we can more readily adopt the pains or pleasure proposed to our minds, by recognizing them as once our own.
Also, Johnson did not feel that biography should be limited to the most important people, but felt that the lives of lesser individuals could be deemed the most significant.[11] In his Lives of the Poets, he chose great and lesser poets, and throughout all of his biographies, he always insisted on included what others may consider as trivial details in order to fully describe the lives of his subjects.[12] When it came to autobiography, and diaries including his own, Johnson considered that genre of work as one having the most significance; he explains this in Idler 84, when he described how a writer of an autobiography would be the least likely to distort their own life.[13]
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Johnson's thoughts on biography and on poetry found their union in his understanding of what would make a good critic. His works were dominated with his intent to used them for literary criticism, including his Dictionary to which he wrote: "I lately published a Dictionary like those compiled by the academies of Italy and France, for the use of such as aspire to exactness of criticism, or elegance of style".[14] Although the smaller dictionary was written for the masses and become the common household dictionary, Johnson's original dictionary was an academic tool that examined how words were used, especially those uses that were found in literary works. To achieve this purpose, Johnson included quotations from Bacon, Hooker, Milton, Shakespeare, Spenser, and many others from the literary fields that Johnson thought were most important: natural science, philosophy, poetry, and theology. These quotes and usages were all compared and carefully studied, so that others could understand what words meant in literature.[15]
Johnson felt that words, in and of themselves, were meaningless, but that meaning comes from context. The only way to understand the word is to examine its usage, and a critic must understand lexicography before they can understand what people are saying.[16] Later critics would attempt to create theories to analyze the aesthetics of literature, but Johnson was not a theorist and he used his ideas only for the practical purpose in order to better read the works.[17] When it came to Shakspeare's plays, Johnson emphasized the role of a reader in understanding language when he wrote:
If Shakespeare has difficulties above other writers, it is to be imputed to the nature of his work, which required the use of common colloquial language, and consequently admitted many phrases allusive, elliptical, and proverbial, such as we speak and hear every hour without observing them... Among his other excellences it out to be remarked, because it has hitherto been unnoticed, that his heroes are men, that the love and hatred, the hopes and fears, of his chief personages are such as common to other human beings... Shakespeare's excellence is not the fiction of a tale, but the representation of life: and his reputation is therefore safe, till human nature shall be changed.[18]
His works on Shakespeare were not devoted just to Shakespeare, but to critical theory as a whole, and, in his Preface to Shakespeare, Johnson rejects the previous belief of the classical unities and establishes a more natural theory on what makes drama work: drama should be faithful to life.Johnson did discuss Shakespeare's faults, especially his lacking of morality, his vulgarity, and carelessness in crafting plots, but Johnson equally defends Shakespeare. [19]
Besides direct literary criticism, Johnson emphasized the need to establish a text that accurately reflects what an author wrote. In his Preface, Johnson analyzed the various versions of Shakespeare's plays and argued how an editor should work on them. Shakespeare's plays, in particular, had multiple editions that each contained errors from the printing process. This problem was compounded by careless editors deem difficult words as incorrect and changing them in later editions. Johnson believed that an editor should not alter the text in such a way, and, when creating his own edition of Shakespeare's plays, he relied on the thousands of quotations and notes that he used in crafting his Dictionary in order to restore, to the best of his knowledge, the original text.[20] Revision as of 15:40, 2 September 2008 (edit) (undo)Ottava Rima (Talk | contribs) (added more for his literary philosophy) [2]
^ Greene 1989, pp. 27
^ Life of Gray
^ Greene 1989, pp. 28–30
^ Greene 1989, p. 39
^ Greene 1989, pp. 31, 34
^ Greene 1989, p. 134
^ Greene 1989, pp. 134–135
You want revolting?
Some ideas, though I'm not sure they meet your criteria:
Labia piercing
Child modeling (erotic)
Incest pornography
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I'm easily revolted. -- MyWikiBiz 20:20, 13 October 2008 (PDT)
No those are truly revolting - thanks. Ockham 08:41, 14 October 2008 (PDT)
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Analysis of Brien Hoyer as an Option for Your Team
If you’re considering adding Brian Hoyer to your fantasy football team, you may wonder just how good of an option he is. After all, there are countless players to choose from, and you want to ensure you’re making the right choice.
In this article, we’ll take a closer look at Brian Hoyer’s past performance, key stats, and potential for success in the future to help you determine whether he’s a good fit for your team.
Basic Information Breakdown
First, let’s start by looking at Hoyer’s background. A journeyman quarterback, the man has played for several squads, including the New England Patriots, Cleveland Browns, Houston Texans, Chicago Bears, and San Francisco 49ers. Despite being with many teams, the sportsman has found success on the field, throwing over 14,000 yards and 66 touchdowns in his career.
When it comes to critical stats, Hoyer has consistently performed well. In his most recent season with the New England Patriots in 2020, the athlete threw for 1,557 yards and eight touchdowns, with a passer rating of 98.0. In addition, he completed over 71% of his passes, showing high accuracy and efficiency.
But how does Hoyer compare to other quarterbacks in the league? One way to gauge a player’s performance is by looking at their quarterback rating, which measures their efficiency by considering factors such as touchdowns, interceptions, and yardage.
In 2020, the sportsman’s quarterback rating of 98.0 ranked him in the top 15 in the league, putting him among some of the best quarterbacks in the game.
Game Analysts’ Prediction
So, is Brian Hoyer a good fantasy football option? Based on his past performance and key stats, it’s clear that the man is a solid quarterback with the potential to put up good numbers. However, it’s important to remember that fantasy football success is not solely dependent on a player’s performance.
Factors such as the strength of a player’s team, injuries, and even the weather can all impact a player’s fantasy football output.
The footballer is definitely worth considering if you’re looking for a reliable quarterback to add to your fantasy football team. With his proven track record of success and vital key stats, he could be a valuable asset to your squad and help lead you to victory.
Hoyer’s leadership and experience make him a valuable asset to any team. Throughout his career, he has proven to be a reliable leader, taking charge when needed and consistently making intelligent, informed decisions. This leadership and experience can be precious in high-pressure situations, such as playoffs or a close game.
Another factor to consider when deciding whether to add Hoyer to your fantasy football team is his durability. As a quarterback, Hoyer is often a target for hits and tackles, and he needs to be able to stay on the field. In his career, Hoyer has shown an excellent ability to avoid injury, playing in all 16 games in four of his nine seasons.
it’s worth considering Hoyer’s future football potential. While past performance is undoubtedly important, it’s also essential to look toward the future and consider a player’s potential for success. In this regard, the man looks to have a bright future ahead.
Despite being 34 years old, the athlete is still in the prime of his career and has shown no signs of slowing down. He is currently a free agent, meaning he has the opportunity to join a new team and potentially take on an even more significant role in the offense.
Brian Hoyer is a solid fantasy football option. With his strong performance, leadership, and experience, he has the potential to put up good numbers and lead his squad to victory. While it’s important to consider all factors when deciding on a player for your fantasy football team, this man is definitely worth considering as a potential addition.
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BREXIT UPDATE 14: Chaos and Uncertainty: Guest Post by Deborah Maccoby
BREXIT UPDATE 14: CHAOS AND UNCERTAINTY
In Brexit Update 13 — which discussed the motion and amendments tabled in the March 14 parliamentary debate on extension of the leaving date — I referred to the Bryant Amendment. Tabled by the Labour MP Chris Bryant, it referred to the parliamentary rule book, which is known after its 19th century author, Sir Erskine May, as “Erskine May”. The rule cited by Bryant goes back to 1604, early in the reign of James I. As Bryant told the House of Commons during a brief speech in the March 14 debate:
“When James I became King in 1603….he summoned parliament, and that parliament became so fed up with MPs constantly bringing back issues on which it had already decided that the House expressly decided on 4 April 1604: ‘That a question being once made, and carried in the affirmative or negative, cannot be questioned again but must stand as a judgment of the House.’” [1]
Bryant ended up withdrawing his amendment, however, because it became clear that it was the responsibility of the Speaker to pass judgment on the issue. The parliamentary rule book is not fixed and dogmatic; it consists of a compilation of conventions, principles and precedents that require interpretation by the Speaker.
On Monday March 18, Bercow ruled that the Maybot cannot bring her deal back to Parliament for a third time unless it is “substantially changed”. This is the relevant passage from “Erskine May”, as quoted by Bercow: “A motion or amendment which is the same, in substance, as a question which has been decided during a session may not be brought forward again during the same session….Whether the second motion is substantially the same as the first is finally a matter for the judgment of the Chair”.
It has been suggested that the government could get round this by ending the current session of Parliament and immediately beginning a new session. This process, however, would take some time to organise; it would involve the consent of the Queen, who would have to open Parliament in an elaborate State ceremony, travelling to the House of Commons in a gold coach, wearing the State Crown and making a speech. On two occasions, when snap elections were called, the Queen has taken part in a “dressed down”, low-key State Opening of Parliament; but there is no precedent for a State Opening called in order to get round a parliamentary ruling. The Queen could withhold her consent, on the grounds that she was being exploited for political purposes. An alternative proposal is that MPs vote to ignore the Speaker’s ruling on what is merely a convention, not a fixed rule; but there is no guarantee that they would vote in favour.[2]
Bercow’s ruling has been criticised in procedural terms on the grounds that the 1604 rule does not apply to an issue as important as the Withdrawal Agreement; and also on the grounds that – as described in Brexit Update 13 – the motion that was overwhelmingly passed by the House of Commons assumed that the deal would be put to the vote for a third time. Here again are sections 2 and 3 of the motion:
“(2) agrees that, if the House has passed a resolution approving the negotiated Withdrawal Agreement and the Framework for the Future Relationship for the purpose of Section 13 (1) (b) of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 by 20 March 2019, then the Government will seek to agree with the European Union a one-off extension of the period specified in Article 50 (3) for a period ending on 30 June 2019 for the purpose of passing the necessary EU exit legislation and
(3) notes that, if the House has not passed a resolution approving the negotiated Withdrawal Agreement and the Framework for the Future Relationship for the purposes of Section 13 (1) (b) of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 by 20 March 2019, then it is highly likely that the European Council at its meeting the following day would require a clear purpose for any extension, not least to determine its length, and that any extension beyond 30 June 2019 would require the United Kingdom to hold European Parliament elections in May 2019.”
Today (Wednesday March 20), the Maybot told the House of Commons, during Prime Minister’s Question Time, that she has written to Donald Tusk, the President of the European Council, to request a short delay of three months, ending on June 30. She added that, if this short extension is granted, the government “intends to bring forward proposals for a third Meaningful Vote” – ie a third vote on her deal. If the deal passes, she went on, the extension of time will be used to pass the necessary legislation; if the deal is again rejected, “the House will have to decide how to proceed”. Jeremy Corbyn pointed out that the deal has been rejected twice already and that the Speaker has ruled that she cannot bring the same deal back during this session of Parliament without substantial changes; what significant changes, he asked, will there be? May did not answer the question; she simply accused him of supporting a second referendum, the implication being that he is betraying Brexit.[3]
The Maybot is also continuing talks with the DUP, whom she regards as key to securing a majority for the deal if/when it comes to Parliament again; she believes that, if the DUP could be won over, others will follow. She is said to be working on domestic guarantees that a distinction will not be made between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK; and is also rumoured to have offered the DUP extra funding for Northern Ireland. [4] But it seems that the DUP, fanatical Protestant fundamentalists though they are, at least have the virtue of sincere belief in their principles and cannot be bought off when it comes to the backstop. They are said also to be reluctant to support the deal unless it looks as though it has a chance of passing; while other groups, such as the right wing Tory Brexiteers, are holding back from supporting the deal unless the DUP are prepared to back it.[5] So the chances of the deal passing, if indeed it ever comes back to Parliament for a third time, are extremely slim.
The Independent on-line newspaper has news today of a “leaked internal EU diplomatic note” that rules out the June 30 extension that the Maybot is requesting:
“Any extension offered to the United Kingdom should either last until 23 May 2019 or should be significantly longer and require European elections. This is the only way of protecting the functions of the EU institutions and their ability to take decisions…any other option (as for example an extension until 30 June 2019) would entail serious legal and political risks for the European Union and would import some of the current uncertainties in the United Kingdom into the EU27.”[6]
A two-month extension until May 23 could be too short for the Maybot’s plans; though she could end up accepting it as the only alternative to a long delay – to which she made it clear today in the House of Commons she is utterly opposed. She said: “As Prime Minister, I am not prepared to delay Brexit any further than 30 June” — words that are being taken as a hint that, if the EU decides on a long extension, she will resign. If the two-month leaving date is agreed, she will simply run down the clock again till May 23, potentially bringing back her deal over and over again in the doomed hope that, the closer the leaving date looms, MPs will vote for the deal as the only option apart from either No Deal or No Brexit. It seems much more likely that the European Council will avoid this scenario by opting for a long extension, which could see a change of government or possibly a second referendum.
An Emergency Debate on the Brexit extension is taking place in the House of Commons this afternoon (Wednesday March 20). And the European Council of Ministers is meeting tomorrow (Thursday March 21) for its special session on Brexit. The next Brexit Update will report on the Emergency Debate, the decisions taken by the European Council and other developments in this fast–moving drama.
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/politics/blog/live/2019/mar/18/brexit-latest-news-theresa-may-vote-deal-boris-johnson-tells-may-to-try-again-to-get-eu-to-change-backstop-politics-live
[2] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-47618566
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmNVXEXIRp8
[4] https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/mar/15/ministers-dup-democratic-unionist-party-talks-brexit-deal-support
[5] https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/exclusive-dup-will-not-back-mays-brexit-deal_uk_5c91049ee4b04ed2c1af0dee
[6] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-news-latest-eu-article-50-extension-theresa-may-request-commission-a8831556.html
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How RepliCel Is Harnessing the Awesome Power of Cell Therapy
November 11, 2014 /in Hair loss /by admin
Regenerative medicine and cell therapies hold possibilities for achieving near miracles in a multitude of indications, from life-saving treatments to aesthetic applications.
RepliCel Life Sciences Inc. (RP:TSX.V; REPCF:OTCQB) is tackling a mix of medical and cosmetic issues that include hair regeneration, repair of painful and debilitating tendon injuries and rejuvenation of damaged skin.
In this interview with The Life Sciences Report, R. Lee Buckler, the company’s new vice president of business and corporate development, discusses his firm’s innovative technology platform and the upcoming milestones that could affect its shares.
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The Life Sciences Report : Lee, you’ve made a recent career change and are now an executive at RepliCel. Tell us about that.
R. Lee Buckler : As of Oct. 7, I have been appointed vice president of business and corporate development for RepliCel Life Sciences Inc., which is engaged in development of cell-based regenerative medicine therapeutics in Canada, Europe and Japan through our licensing partner, Shiseido Company Ltd. (4911:TSE). I found RepliCel to be a very interesting company poised to go on an exciting run, and that enticed me to join the team.
TLSR : Prior to your work with RepliCel, what experience had you had in the cell therapy industry?
RLB : In 2000, I left the practice of law to join Allen Eaves in the Stem Cell Technologies group of companies, where I ran a company called Malachite Management Inc. In 2006, I was recruited by Progenitor Cell Therapy to run its business development, marketing, communication and sales before the NeoStem acquisition.
In 2008, I founded my own consulting firm, called the Cell Therapy Group (CTG), which focused exclusively on the cell therapy industry. In the early days, we did some communications work for clients, but for the bulk of my tenure with CTG, we were involved in a wide range of planning and business development work. Some of it was transactional, but other aspects included market and competitive intelligence, building strategies, identifying partners, targeting partners, engaging in partnership discussions on behalf of clients and the like. I also worked with fund managers and investors through education, namely technology and platform explanations.
Over the past year, I worked as a consultant and on the board of directors positioning TheraVitae Inc. (private) for a merger with a company listed on the Toronto Venture Exchange. The merger is expected to complete in early November, and the company will be renamed Hemostemix Inc. I helped TheraVitae raise several million dollars as part of that process. Being on the road giving presentations to prospective investors is a new skill set for me, but I’ve found I really enjoy this side of the business.
TLSR : You are an attorney by training, but I see from your curriculum vitae that you did a couple of stints as a medical laboratory technician while you were still in law school. Is that what led you to the life sciences field?
RLB: Yes. I always joke with people that I didn’t get to the cell therapy/regenerative medicine industry through education–I got here more by osmosis. I was not a silver spoon kid; I had to work my way through school. So while I was studying to be an attorney, I ended up working in the lab of a leading cardiovascular investigator, who was involved in some clinical trials at the time. I was mainly doing grunt work, but it exposed me to an environment where people were extremely dedicated to their sciences and to doing something novel. I was exposed to the excitement that builds when people truly believe what they’re doing could revolutionize the way people are treated.
I’ve always felt a little bit like an outsider in an industry of people who belong here. While that may feel uncomfortable from time to time, it also affords me a unique perspective that others don’t have. While others in the industry tend to focus on vertical specialties, I’ve come to specialize in a macro view of this industry. My focus has been very horizontal, which gives me a perspective of the industry that not many people are able to see.
TLSR : What kind of work has RepliCel been doing in the cell therapy field?
RLB : When CEO and President David Hall took over the company in 2011, it was built around hair regeneration. That is still an important part of our portfolio; however, he had a vision for broadening the technology and building a platform, which the company has now executed.
We are preparing to launch a very significant Phase 2 trial using our RCH-01 (dermal sheath cup [DSC] cells) for hair regeneration. This is a cellular injection–a cell transplant rather than a hair transplant–and is an important evolution because hair transplant is limited by three very significant factors.
First, when transplanting hair follicles from one location on your scalp to another, there are only so many follicles available to harvest. With a cell transplant, there is no limit to the number of cells we can grow to use in regenerating poorly functioning hair follicles. Second, hair transplantation only achieves a satisfactory result when performed by a gifted surgeon, of which there are few.
A simple cell injection takes the art out of the procedure–particularly when combined with our proprietary injection device designed to optimally deliver the cells into the scalp. Finally, hair transplantation is not an option women find attractive for a number of reasons, and a significant population of women suffer from hair loss.
TLSR: How is RepliCel working to ensure this therapy will be effective in both the short and long term? What prevents the dermal sheath cells from ceasing to grow hair once they are in the locale where the original follicles quit producing hair?
RLB: The cells we are using to address pattern baldness (androgenetic alopecia) are taken from a cell population found at the base of the hair follicle.
These DSC cells are used to produce our RCH-01 product. Research has demonstrated that these cells are responsible for the reorganization of the hair follicle, which is a mini-organ that organizes upon an unknown signal. Our research leads us to believe this cell population is responsible for hair regeneration.
We source our particular cells from hair follicles isolated from the back of the scalp, between the ears, because most balding people retain this area of hair. This hair is insensitive to the androgen hormone (DHT), which causes hair loss, making these hair follicles prime candidates for our hair regeneration product.
As to the question of whether this will be a durable response–how long the hair will last–this is one of several questions both we and Shiseido are targeting in our respective upcoming pattern baldness trials. We’re designing this next phase to look at dosing. We’re also looking at frequency of treatment: One cohort of the study gets a single treatment, another gets a second treatment at day 91.
But we’ll also be following these patients for a considerable length of time, to see whether the intended effects are maintained or whether they diminish over time.
Even though there are only a proposed 160 participants, utilizing different dosing and different injection points throughout the scalp, there will be 396 treatment sites, or data points, that we will be able to gather from those 160 patients, in addition to the data to be gleaned and shared from the trial Shiseido is funding in Japan.
These questions are great–effectiveness and duration of effect–and we have an obligation to answer them, which is why the trials are designed the way they are.
TLSR: What else is RepliCel working on at the moment?
RLB: We have another population of cells derived from the hair follicle (the non-bulbar dermal sheath cells [NBDS cells]) that we believe is a platform capable of generating multiple products for various indications. These cells can be readily expanded, and it turns out they are highly expressive of type 1 collagen. Our first trial with these cells will be using our RCT-01 product for the treatment of chronic Achilles tendinosis.
Up to 90% of healthy tendon is comprised of well-constructed type 1 collagen, and a number of indications manifest in patients due to the loss of type 1 collagen production in the endogenous cells, one of which is Achilles tendinosis.
Tendons often are not well vascularized, and after a series of injuries and as a patient ages, the endogenous fibroblasts are exhausted of their ability to continue to produce the type 1 collagen necessary to support healthy tendons. RepliCel’s predicate science is built around the injection of autologous (harvested and administered back to the same patient) fibroblasts capable of producing the kind of collagen needed to restore the patient to healthier function and better pain scores.
TLSR : Do you have evidence of actual tendon regeneration?
RLB : In three tendinosis-related clinical trials performed using a similar cell type, which has now been licensed into the company, MRI imaging shows that tendon treated with this cell type was much more akin to healthy, young, functioning tendon than what the patients had prior to injection of cells.
This is an exciting platform, and the company is about to launch a Phase 1/2 trial in chronic Achilles tendinosis. We believe the cells could also have application in other indications, including jumper’s knee, golfer’s elbow, tennis elbow and torn rotator cuffs, as well as in a number of dermatological applications. Late this year, we will launch a Phase 1 study in healthy volunteers to look at the ability to regenerate the underlying tissue of skin in patients who have aging or sun-damaged skin.
TLSR : Achilles tendinosis and androgenic alopecia are very different indications. Androgenic alopecia is a hormone-dependent condition, while Achilles tendinosis is trauma-related.
RLB : That’s a great point. Even though both of these studies–tendon repair and hair regeneration–use cells derived from the hair follicle, we’re working with two very different cell populations. As a result, they have the ability to elicit very different, targeted responses.
TLSR : RepliCel’s shares have suffered considerably over the past six months. What caused the dip and what is the company doing to fix the issue?
RLB : The fact of the matter is the company was delayed in progressing to its Phase 2 trial for RCH-01 in hair regeneration because of an issue with the supply of a critical growth media. The new media wasn’t producing the same results, so we had to go back to the drawing board and discover what the problem was. The comparability data is now coming in to support our belief that we’ve solved that problem. We have four trials expected to launch in the next few months (three of ours and one of Shiseido’s). Two of these are expected to give clinical readouts late next year. Until we are a company executing clinical trials, we are a company talking about executing clinical trials, and certain investors grow understandably impatient.
I’m very pleased that in October we submitted an application to Health Canada for the proposed Phase 1/2 clinical trial for chronic Achilles tendinosis. This triggers a 30-day window during which Health Canada can provide a No Objection Letter allowing us to proceed with the trial.
This event is the initial trigger for a cascade of catalysts anticipated over the following months related to this trial, as well as our proposed Phase 1 clinical trial in Germany for aging and sun-damaged skin, our proposed Phase 2 trial for pattern baldness (androgenetic alopecia) in Germany, and Shiseido’s upcoming trial for pattern baldness in Japan.
We’ve been on the road for several weeks, crisscrossing the U.S., Canada and Japan, talking to investors, analysts and potential partners. We are pleased with the level of interest being generated, and believe that once we demonstrate we are executing on schedule, we will generate increased support.
TLSR : Is it possible that all these milestones will be met by the end of 2014?
RLB : We are working very hard to make that happen. I believe we’re on target to have our three clinical trial application filings submitted by year-end. We expect Shiseido to file its clinical trial application early in Q1/15.
We are, of course, dependent on regulatory clearance to initiate any trial, but we have had very active dialogues with the regulators overseeing all our proposed trials, and are submitting precisely what has been discussed. As mentioned, we have now filed the first of our three applications. The second trial application proposes to use a product (RCS-01) developed from the same platform technology, so the clinical-regulatory team can leverage much of the work already done to get the second application filed.
One thing to note is that the dermatology and tendinosis trials are relatively quick studies to enroll. We’ve been in constant dialogue with the principal investigators of the RCT-01 trial in chronic Achilles tendinosis, and they assure us there’s a pipeline of patients waiting to enroll in the study. The RCT-01 tendon trial is going to be a 28-participant study, and the RCS-01 in skin rejuvenation is a proposed 28-participant study design as well, but using healthy volunteers. The RCH-01 hair regeneration study is going to extend over a longer period of time, because it targets 160 participants. But the RCT-01 and RCS-01 studies will be relatively quick to enroll and to follow up on, and we expect data in 2015 for both of those.
Both of these studies are randomized, placebo-controlled and specifically designed to provide measurable and material biologic and mechanistic data that we will use to drive partner discussions. Remember that the company’s business model is to codevelop assets with partners who understand the markets and have proven commercialization capabilities.
We are excited about being in the position we are now in, poised to imminently execute on three clinical trials, finalize the development and validation of our propriety injection device (which has licensable applications for acellular injectables), capitalize on our partnership with Shiseido and the innovative regulatory pathway for regenerative medicines in Japan, which provides a window to early-market access for our pattern baldness treatment, and to execute on one or more additional licenses with codevelopment partners in the near term.
TLSR: Thank you very much for your insight, Lee.
RLB: Thank you.
R. Lee Buckler is vice president of business and corporate development with RepliCel Life Sciences Inc. Prior to working with RepliCel, he was the managing director of Cell Therapy Group, a firm he formed in 2008, where he did business development consulting for companies and organizations in or interested in the cell therapy sector. Buckler served six years as executive director of the International Society for Cellular Therapy, and just over two years as director of business development for Progenitor Cell Therapy.
He is on the editorial advisory boards of the journal Regenerative Medicine and the BioProcess International magazine, as well as the co-chair of the Alliance for Regenerative Medicine’s Communications and Education Committee. Buckler cofounded Cell Therapy News, founded Cell Therapy Blog, cofounded Regenerative Medicine Jobs, founded and continues to manage the LinkedIn Cell Therapy Industry Group, and is an active industry commentator in publications and in social media. He serves on numerous industry conference advisory boards, is an advisory board member for BioCision and RoosterBio, and is on the board of directors for Hemostemix. He has a bachelor’s degree in education and a law degree.
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Genesis 42:9 Cross References
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And Joseph remembered the dreams that he had dreamed of them. And he said to them, “You are spies; you have come to see the nakedness of the land.”
Genesis 37:5-9
Now Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers they hated him even more. He said to them, “Hear this dream that I have dreamed: Behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and behold, my sheaf arose and stood upright. And behold, your sheaves gathered around it and bowed down to my sheaf.” His brothers said to him, “Are you indeed to reign over us? Or are you indeed to rule over us?” So they hated him even more for his dreams and for his words. Then he dreamed another dream and told it to his brothers and said, “Behold, I have dreamed another dream. Behold, the sun, the moon, and eleven stars were bowing down to me.”
Then the Lord sent a plague on the people, because they made the calf, the one that Aaron made.
By faith Rahab the prostitute did not perish with those who were disobedient, because she had given a friendly welcome to the spies.
So they watched him and sent spies, who pretended to be sincere, that they might catch him in something he said, so as to deliver him up to the authority and jurisdiction of the governor.
David sent out spies and learned that Saul had indeed come.
And the spies saw a man coming out of the city, and they said to him, “Please show us the way into the city, and we will deal kindly with you.”
Joshua 6:23
So the young men who had been spies went in and brought out Rahab and her father and mother and brothers and all who belonged to her. And they brought all her relatives and put them outside the camp of Israel.
And Joshua the son of Nun sent two men secretly from Shittim as spies, saying, “Go, view the land, especially Jericho.” And they went and came into the house of a prostitute whose name was Rahab and lodged there.
These were the names of the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land. And Moses called Hoshea the son of Nun Joshua. Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan and said to them, “Go up into the Negeb and go up into the hill country, and see what the land is, and whether the people who dwell in it are strong or weak, whether they are few or many, and whether the land that they dwell in is good or bad, and whether the cities that they dwell in are camps or strongholds, and whether the land is rich or poor, and whether there are trees in it or not. Be of good courage and bring some of the fruit of the land.” Now the time was the season of the first ripe grapes.
“Send men to spy out the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the people of Israel. From each tribe of their fathers you shall send a man, every one a chief among them.”
Bring your youngest brother to me. Then I shall know that you are not spies but honest men, and I will deliver your brother to you, and you shall trade in the land.’”
“The man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly to us and took us to be spies of the land. But we said to him, ‘We are honest men; we have never been spies.
Send one of you, and let him bring your brother, while you remain confined, that your words may be tested, whether there is truth in you. Or else, by the life of Pharaoh, surely you are spies.”
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