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Grand Pacific Resort Management Wins TripAdvisor ®...
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Grand Pacific Resort Management Wins TripAdvisor ® Awards of Excellence
8/28/2013 JW
Grand Pacific Resort Management (GPRM), one of the oldest and largest vacation ownership companies based in California, has been recognized for its service culture and excellence in resort management.
TripAdvisor® honored ten GPRM managed resorts with Certificates of Excellence.
To receive the awards, properties must consistently receive 4 and 5 stars (indicating a high level of satisfaction with the resort, with five being the highest) by customers who have experienced the resort and express their opinions and ratings on TripAdvisor’s website.
“We are extremely proud that our vibrant and consistent Service Culture has prevailed in showcasing our passion for excellence to our guests,” said Nigel Lobo, COO of GPRM.
“This recognition endorses the guest-centric experiences our associates take pride in delivering while creating memorable vacations for our timeshare owners and as well as those who visit our resorts as exchangers or as traditional transient guests,” Lobo said.
Comments praising GPRM resorts were enthusiastic on the popular travel website. A sample of them include:
Carlsbad Seapointe Resort: “The best place to be when the sun goes down over the Pacific Ocean.“
Carlsbad Inn: “a fantastic resort to vacation at."
MarBrisa: “Perfect Get Away! Wow!“
Red Wolf Lodge: “Rocks!"
Alii Kai: “I loved this condo and can’t wait to return.”
The resorts recognized with the Certificates of Excellence are: Alli Kai II Resort, Carlsbad Inn Beach Resort, Coronado Beach Resort, Carlsbad Seapointe Resort, Hilton Grand Vacation Club at MarBrisa, Grand Pacific Palisades Resort & Hotel, Hanalei Bay Resort, RiverPointe Napa Valley, Red Wolf Lakeside Lodge, and Red Wolf Lodge at Squaw Valley.
Now in its third year, the award celebrates hospitality excellence and is given only to establishments that consistently achieve outstanding traveler reviews on TripAdvisor.
Winners of the Certificate of Excellence are located all over the world and represent the upper echelon of businesses listed on the website. Only the top 10 percent receive the prestigious award.
Award-winning Grand Pacific Resort Management (Carlsbad, California) currently serves over 60,000 owner-families every year at resorts ranging in size from under 50 units to over 300 units in the United States and Canada.
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Interval International Adds Encontro Das Aguas Thermas Resort in Central Brazil
Interval International, a prominent worldwide provider of vacation services and an operating business of Interval Leisure Group, announced the affiliation of Encontro Das Águas Thermas Resort, in Caldas Novas, Goiás.
The city is home to one of the largest hot-spring aquifers in the world, making it a very popular destination in central Brazil.
“We’re excited to enter the shared ownership industry and collaborate with Interval, a company known for its quality network and consumer benefits,” said Ricardo Assuncao, partner in RMEX Construtora e Incorporadora Ltda., developer of the resort.
“Our objective is to make our resort one of the area’s finest and we look forward to hosting Interval members who will be able to enjoy the many treasures of Caldas Novas,” Assuncao said.
Encontro Das Águas is currently under construction and expected to be completed early next year. Plans call for the resort to include 384 one- and two-bedroom units in three buildings. Each will feature elegant modern décor, contemporary furnishings, fully equipped kitchen, and high-end electronics.
“It’s a great pleasure to be working with Ricardo and his partners who have been active in real estate in Goiás for many years,” said Marcos Agostini, Interval’s senior vice president of resort sales and business development for Latin America.
“We welcome them to shared ownership, which is playing an increasingly important role in resort development in Brazil,” Agostini said.
Among the wide range of amenities and services the resort will offer are a gourmet restaurant, 24-hour room service, spa and sauna, fitness center, indoor and outdoor swimming pools, and cinema.
Activities available nearby include boating, jet skiing, and hiking.
Notable attractions in Caldas Novas are a Japanese Garden built in the Buddhist tradition, the 47 square-mile Serra de Caldas Novas State Park, and the Church of Our Lady of Sorrows, which dates from 1850 and is one of the oldest buildings in Caldas.
Interval International operates membership programs for vacationers and provides value-added services to its developer clients worldwide. Based in Miami, Florida, the company has been a pioneer and innovator in serving the vacation ownership market since 1976.
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Engineers on Monday were trying to determine the extent of the damage after luxury resort condominiums crumbled into a massive sinkhole a few miles from Disney World.
Dozens of guests at the Summer Bay Resort in Clermont, FL, had only 10 to 15 minutes to escape the cracking building late Sunday. No injuries were reported, but many fleeing guests left behind all their belongings.
About 30% of the three-story structure collapsed hours later, around 3 a.m. Monday.
"My heart sunk. I was sick to my stomach," said resort president Paul Caldwell after getting a call about 11 p.m. Sunday that the 15-year-old building full of guests was splintering.
"No doubt there would've been injuries if they hadn't gotten the building evacuated," Caldwell said.
Security guard Richard Shanley ran through the building waking up guests.
"While you are running by, pieces of the building are falling down behind you," he said. "So you just do what you can and get out.”
That section of the villa housed 24 units. The building was sheared nearly in half.
Paul Caldwell said one building was destroyed and 105 people were evacuated. Two other adjacent buildings were evacuated. Displaced guests were relocated to other buildings.
Caldwell said geologists on Monday estimated the sinkhole was about 100 feet in diameter. "On a preliminary basis, they do not have a concern that it is growing or will grow," Caldwell said.
"Whether or not we will be able to build those units there in that sinkhole is another question. We will replace those 24 units - we have a couple of hundred acres left for development," he said.
Caldwell said he will ask his insurance company for guidance on the clean up.
Source: Orlando Sentinal
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Wyndham Vacation Ownership Awards Tennessee Family with New Wheels in Second Drawing of the Accelerate into the Fast Lane Sweepstakes
Wyndham Vacation Ownership (WVO), the world’s largest vacation ownership company and a member of the Wyndham Worldwide family of companies, awarded a brand new luxury car to the Todd family during the second drawing in the Company’s Accelerate into the Fast Lane Sweepstakes.
In an event at Wyndham Bonnet Creek Resort, company executives presented Chris and Melissa Todd, joined by two of their three children, of Humboldt, TN, with a 2013 Infiniti M.
“I did not believe in a million years that we would win a sweepstakes like this. It has been such a wonderful experience that just keeps getting better, and has truly been a blessing,” said Melissa Todd.
“You never hear of anyone who has won something like this, you see a name on a list and that’s about all. To come to Orlando and see the car has been overwhelming. This experience has really been unbelievable,” added Chris Todd.
Chris and Melissa have been CLUB WYNDHAM® owners since 2001 and travel frequently with their ownership.
In April 2013, during a stay at Wyndham Vacation Resorts Great Smokies Lodge, the Todds were entered into the sweepstakes for a chance to win the luxury car.
Their name was randomly drawn from more than 74,000 entries.
“The Todds are an example of a family that uses their vacation ownership to its full potential — spending time together and making memories at some of their favorite resorts across the country,” said Jeff Myers, Wyndham Vacation Ownership’s chief sales and marketing officer.
Wyndham Vacation Ownership is the world’s largest vacation ownership business, as measured by the number of vacation ownership resorts, individual vacation ownership units and owners of vacation ownership interests.
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Air Transat’s ready for winter 2019-20 with new Sun and Europe details
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MONTREAL — Air Transat has released detailed listings, including frequencies, of its winter sun 2019-2020 schedule, with a complete rundown of Winter Sun and Europe destinations available in the coming winter months from Ontario, Quebec, Atlantic Canada and the West.
The news follows up on Air Transat’s winter 2019-20 product launch in June, where it outlined in broad strokes its plans for the coming season.
The addition of Air Transat’s new A321neoLRs for winter 2019-2020 “will allow the carrier greater flexibility to offer a broader choice of destinations to travellers”, says the company.
Here’s a look at where Air Transat will be flying this winter, region by region…
From London, ON Air Transat will add a new direct flight to Puerto Plata. From Hamilton there will be a new direct flight to Santa Clara, as well as a second weekly direct fight to Punta Cana.
From Toronto, along with its daily flight to London, UK, Air Transat will offer two direct flights a week all year long to Glasgow and Manchester. The airline will extend to mid-January its flights to Barcelona and Rome, with two direct flights a week to each city. Travellers will be able to fly to Portugal from Toronto, with two weekly direct flights to Lisbon, and one direct flight to Porto. Air Transat will also offer a direct flight from Toronto to Faro during the winter, with one flight a week.
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Air Transat will have a total of 42 South and Europe destinations out of Montreal, and 13 out of Quebec City. Air Transat will put increased focus on Florida travel this winter, continuing its Orlando service (three direct flights per week) and adding frequency to Fort Lauderdale, with direct flights now available daily out of Montreal during the peak season. The carrier will also boost frequency on its Quebec City–Fort Lauderdale route, offering five direct flights a week.
Also out of Montreal, Air Transat will be enriching its D.R. program with one additional direct flight each week to Puerto Plata (for a total of five direct flights a week), as well as adding another flight to Montego Bay (four direct flights per week). Cuba will be more accessible for travellers flying out of Quebec City, with the addition of direct service to Holguin, for a total of two direct flights weekly.
On the Europe front, the carrier will now serve Spain’s Costa del Sol year-round, with direct service to Malaga from Montreal (two flights a week), and will also fly to Madrid starting in December (two direct flights weekly).
More news: First look at luxe new US$85-million adults-only resort coming to Punta Cana
Air Transat will offer direct service to 10 South destinations out of Halifax, and to four departing from Moncton, from Feb. 15 to April 30, 2020. Vacationers will enjoy easy access to the beaches of Cuba, the D.R., Mexico, Jamaica and Florida.
Travellers will have a choice of 20 South and Europe destinations from Vancouver. Beach vacations will be available from Calgary, Victoria, Edmonton and Winnipeg as well.
As of December, Air Transat will become the sole airline to fly direct from Vancouver to Fort Lauderdale (two direct flights a week), while also adding departures to Liberia and San Jose, Costa Rica, (two flights a week) as well as a direct flight to Punta Cana. Along with its new destinations from Vancouver, Air Transat will enhance its flight program from Calgary, adding another direct flight to Puerto Vallarta for a total of four direct flights a week.
From Vancouver, several of Canadians’ favourite European Sun destinations including Faro and Lisbon, and Barcelona and Malaga, will be accessible via Montreal and Toronto. Flying through Toronto or Montreal, passengers will also be able to holiday in London, Glasgow and Manchester as well as in Paris.
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News and Notes Talks About the First Week of the Obama Presidency
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President Obama granted his first sit-down interview to an Arab TV network, Michelle Obama's dress, and Illinois Senator Oprah Winfrey? are the issues; Tony Cox speaks with Brandon Whitney of Homeland Colors; Felicia Harvey of Black Politics on the Web; and Kevin Ross of 3 Brothers and A Sister. Hear an intense roundtable discussion! Listen Here>>
Did Black women really hate her dress that much?
A group called the Black Artists Association is publicly admonishing First Lady Michelle Obama for not wearing works by black designers during the inauguration festivities.
The group's cofounder, Amnau Eele, unleashed her vitriol to fashion industry magazine Women's Wear Daily.
Amid all the praise of First Lady Michelle Obama’s fashion choices for the inaugural festivities, the Black Artists Association is taking her to task for not wearing anything by an African American designer. Cofounder Amnau Eele said Wednesday she will make a formal appeal to the First Lady’s office on behalf of the BAA. “It’s fine and good if you want to be all ‘Kumbaya’ and ‘We Are the World’ by representing all different countries. But if you are going to have Isabel Toledo do the inauguration dress, and Jason Wu do the evening gown, why not have Kevan Hall, B Michael, Stephen Burrows or any of the other black designers do something too?” Eele said. The BAA leader was a runway model in her own right for Yves Saint Laurent, Giorgio Armani, Bill Blass and others.Asked if perhaps the First Lady isn’t looking at the world colorlessly, Eele said, “It’s one thing to look at the world without color but she had seven slots to wear designer clothes. Why wasn’t she wearing the clothes of a black designer? That was our moment.”
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How the ‘pop art nun’ inspired a leap of faith
One novice’s encounter with the art of Corita Kent.
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“Find a place you trust and then try trusting it for a while.”
With these words, the first of Corita Kent’s “Rules,” she burst into my life as an impish, holy, and joyful maker, beckoning me to keep faith, to embrace uncertainty, to look deeply, and to festively affirm beauty.
Corita’s life and art brought encouragement just when I needed it. After 10 years of life, ministry, and putting down roots in Central Virginia, I had just moved to a motherhouse of women religious, following an intuition I hoped was God’s call.
Such a leap of faith is tough to explain to family, friends, and colleagues, many of whom assumed I would accept the promotion I’d been offered, pursue a Ph.D., or get married. In fact, I had assumed some of those things, too. Instead, I’d given up my orderly five-year plans, following instead the compelling divine voice speaking through nighttime dreams, silent prayer in the Eucharistic chapel, or a line of poetry. I had an unshakable sense that I had to get this religious life thing—which had existed inside me since early childhood—figured out. Instead of keeping “becoming a nun” as a vague possibility tucked in some out-of-the-way corner of my consciousness, I needed to either walk through the convent door or close it.
Corita—the “pop art nun”—entered the scene for me when I day-tripped to Pittsburgh’s Warhol Museum to see the “Someday is Now” exhibit. When the museum’s stainless steel elevator doors slid open, I faced an enormous reproduction of Corita’s “Immaculate Heart College Art Department Rules.” I stepped out of the elevator, feeling immediate consolation with the opening words: “Find a place you trust and then try trusting it a while.”
Corita Kent, Immaculate Heart College Art Department Rules, c. 1968, lettering by David Mekelburg, reprinted with permission of the Corita Art Center, Immaculate Heart Community, Los Angeles.
My smile broadened as I continued reading. A few favorites:
Rule 4: “Consider everything an experiment.”
Rule 6: “Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”
Rule 8: “Don’t try to create and analyse at the same time. They’re different processes.”
Rule 9: “Be happy whenever you can manage it. Enjoy yourself. It’s lighter than you think.”
Though I’d only taken two steps into “Someday is Now,” I’d found—or had been given—a guide for my continued leap of faith. Corita not only accepted uncertainty in art-making and life but also seemed to revel in it. Corita’s rules countered the internal and external voices nagging me about the decision to quit my job, leave home, and discern religious life.
Corita’s first Rule calmed these voices with a paraphrase of the guidance scripture repeats over and over: trust. Don’t be afraid. Don’t be anxious. Be still and know that I am God. Trust in the Lord. Try trusting for a while.
I spent the rest of the afternoon wandering through the exhibit of her bright, text-studded prints, never making it to the Warhol’s permanent collection. Though Corita eventually left religious life—as many did after Vatican II—that fact did not discourage me in my own discernment. It seemed clear she flourished in the life for many years and that it was in vowed religious community that she became herself, artistically and spiritually. Corita once mused, “Perhaps the words of [Pope] Paul VI to artists could then be descriptive also of sisters: ‘. . . creators, vivacious people and stimulators of a thousand ideas and of a thousand inventions.’ ”
Corita Kent, be (1st of 4 pts), 1967, of love (2nd of 4 pts), 1967, (a little) more careful (3rd of 4 pts), 1967, than of everything (4th of 4 pts), 1967, reprinted with permission of the Corita Art Center, Immaculate Heart Community, Los Angeles.
Looking long and lovingly
The “Someday is Now” exhibit offered creative exercises from Learning by Heart (Allworth Press), coauthored by Corita Kent and her former student Jan Steward. The book’s first chapter is titled “LOOKING” and features exercises to train the artist’s eye. One such looking assignment, aptly called “nothing is the same,” reads: “Take something in nature—two dandelions—and look at them for five minutes. List how they are different from each other.”
Corita trained her students to look deeply, even especially, at simple things. “Poets and artists—makers—look long and lovingly at commonplace things, rearrange them and put their rearrangements where others can notice them too,” wrote Corita. One way to learn this, she taught, was to observe a child’s response to the world around her “with the openness and curiosity it deserves.”
These exercises made me, in my muddle of discernment and self-doubt, ask: How do I look at the world? For me, at least, the answer is often in a rush, distracted by devices, overstimulated by the soundbite-driven news cycle. A worldview that values looking closely at two dandelions for five minutes—“a long, loving look at the real,” to quote Jesuit Walter Burghardt—is countercultural and prophetic.
Blindness and sight are a regular metaphor for conversion in scripture. Like the religious leaders judged by Jesus as “blind guides,” I get myself into trouble when I think I see but in fact don’t. The deep looking that Corita taught encourages “beginner’s mind,” reverent attention, and deep curiosity. This kind of looking is as much a spiritual practice as a creative one and draws us to find beauty in the everyday and reclaim our birthright of childlike awe.
Joyful play and the struggle for justice
Corita’s playfulness is another source of inspiration. Another Learning by Heart exercise advises, “Make a toy. Make it something you want to play with—just to please you.”
As theologian Harvey Cox notes, “In her own person Corita stands for a kind of festive involvement with the world.” She loved circuses and parties. Corita encouraged not only childlike looking but also play as part of the creative process, advising a blocked artist to “go to a movie, take a walk, read a book for fun.”
Yet for all her joy and delight, Corita did not live in sanguine ignorance of human pain and structural injustice. She was deeply engaged with the social realities of her day: the Vietnam War, race riots, poverty, and the nuclear arms race. She responded through art to the signs of the times.
Corita embodied poet Wendell Berry’s advice to “be joyful, though you have considered all the facts.” People who can truly dwell in both the identity of the committed activist with eyes wide open to injustice and suffering and the joyful reveler in the goodness of world are rare and precious.
Corita’s holding of this tension reminds me not to lose sight of joy, play, and celebration while in the trenches of ministry and justice work. Any authentic Christian spirituality holds the paradox between joyful celebration of creation’s goodness and redemption’s promise with deep awareness of profound brokenness and suffering resulting from sin. Great saints and great artists model this paradox, which is the ground of hope.
Corita Kent, love is hard work, reprinted with permission of the Corita Art Center, Immaculate Heart Community, Los Angeles.
Finally, love
Undergirding it all, I read in Corita’s work and life a fundamental commitment to love. For Corita as for St. Paul, without love, nothing else matters. My first year in religious life, I created a Christmas altar in our house chapel. At its center was a print by Corita featuring Beatles’ lyrics: “Love is here to stay, and that is enough.”
Significantly, several of Corita’s later works touched on the theme of love. An iconic 1985 postage stamp she designed with her characteristic splash of colors reads simply “love.” Another piece carries the message, “Love is hard work.” For Corita, as for that other great 20th-century Catholic visionary Dorothy Day, the final word was love. Also like Dorothy, Corita’s sense of love was not romantic and sentimental but prophetic, gospel-inspired, and grittily incarnational. Hard work, indeed.
Since I first encountered Corita’s art, my leap of faith has continued. I have entered religious life, becoming “Sister.” As I discern, I draw strength from the eschatological hope that marks her life and work. Corita’s life of prayer, teaching, art-making, and activism was driven by a future vision. Her commitment to looking deeply, facing evil and suffering while remaining joyful, and staying rooted in radical love were shaped by the vision of the reign of God: already-but-not-yet, the promise of a new creation, the truth to which all authentic lives point.
I will let Corita have the last word:
“Not only must the sister be active in making new her own immediate community, she must be able to see it as an integral part in making of the whole new world community. With great creativeness she will grasp at least some of the complex relations that exist among all people and all times as they move forward to the great party with the best wine (saved till last) toward which Christ’s first sign pointed. As a maker, she will rejoice to share in the making of the new creation.”
This article also appears in the March 2019 issue of U.S. Catholic (Vol. 84, No. 3, pages 20–22).
Sister Rhonda Miska is a Sinsinawa Dominican novice who writes from River Forest, Illinois, where she ministers at Dominican University.
See more posts by Sister Rhonda Miska
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Looking Across Lake Seymour at Elan Hill
A caption at the bottom of the historic image reads, "Lake Seymour, Morgan Vt." The image shows a grassy open field bordered by a wooden fence in the foreground of the image. There is a house and barn just beyond the open field. There is a forest on the right side of the photograph. The lake dominates the middle ground of the image. Elan Hill is visible in the background of the image. The landscape on the hill is a combination of open fields and forests. Esther Munroe Swift writes on 2005-2-27: On either side of the southern tip of Seymour Lake are two 2,100 foot high peaks: Bear Hill and Elan Hill. The former is said to have it name because a bear had been spotted there before the town was settled.The latter had its name from Elan Wilcox a relative of the first settlers. Wilcox Hill on the northern border also has its name from the same family. Cargill Hill is named for Ithiel Cargill who was the first to settle on the east side of Seymour Lake.
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East Grinstead Ladies 2s vs. Woking Ladies 1s
East Grinstead Ladies 2s
A Game of Two Halves
By Hayley Blythe
Only 1 point behind Havant, this was an important game for Woking in their attempts to avoid relegation. East Grinstead were 3rd in the table so it wasn't going to be an easy game for Woking. However Coach, Cheryl Campling, pointed out that East Grinstead’s results in the 2nd half the season have not been great so it was still a game for Woking to take on and go in with a fighting attitude.
Campling, decided to start with a 4-4-2 formation, not Woking’s usual starting system, but having beaten Trojans with this formation, Campling and the team were fairly confident. Aiming to protect the middle and attack wide.
Woking had the first push back and made a great start, attacking down the lines. However, they soon started to struggle connecting to the two forwards. East Grinstead started to play their game, passing quickly and using some of their particularly strong central midfield players. One is in the England set up, so Woking knew to mark her out of the game. Some quick passing led to several attacking plays.
Woking’s defence stood firm for nearly half an hour, thwarting EG’s attacks. EG started to get heavily frustrated. Woking made several attempts to get the ball into the D. But on the 28th minute an EG defender passed the ball out wide where their left defender made a quick pass to their midfielder, Autumn Bowden. Autumn proceeded to skillfully, dribble passed 3 Woking's defenders, into the D where she struck the ball straight into the back of the net.
Woking’s head's went down and after several short corners, 5 minutes from half time they scored a second. From a short corner the ball was pulled left, shot at goal, where Rosie Hope deflected it in.
At half time, Coach Campling stressed that it was crucial to get this game back and to at least get a draw of out. She pointed out that Woking were allowing EG to play their game too much and Woking were not putting enough pressure on them. She opted to change the system to a 4 - 3 - 3.
Immediately the change of system started taking effect with Woking piling the pressure onto EG. Centre Midfielder, Paula Nicholas, played a ball out wide towards the baseline which Hayley Blythe was able to pick up on the right hand side, drive the base line where she was able to connect with Mia Smith, who made a one touch slap straight into the back of EG’s goal.
Now 2-1 Woking were even closer to being back in the game. EG became more and more frustrated. This was a boost for Woking who fought to get another. With 3 players on the forward line to press, Woking were able to full press their 16 hit outs. EG took longer on the ball, struggling to find options .
Howgate was able to break down play putting pressure on their wingers. Woking battled hard to get 3 short corners, almost scoring from one as it was cleared off the line.
Although Woking were playing well East Grinstead also made some swift counter attacking opportunities resulting in short corners. The defence stood firm, Hannah Field’s fast paced running out to the top of the D was a big distraction for the opposition and they failed to score any more goals.
Nicholas made a great pass from the centre to Blyth at the top of the D where she was able to pass through defenders and take a shot at goal, as the keeper came out, Blythe tried to push it wide of the keeper and it just went inches wide of the goal.
Time sadly ran out and Woking didn’t get their draw.
Woking’s battle to remain in the league continues and now with only 2 matches left. Woking really have to go into both games with a must win attitude if they want to stay in the league and avoid play offs.
WOTM - Hayley Blythe
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10. Hannah King
11. Gemma Nannery
12. Paula Nicholas
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Swahili, more correctly called Kiswahili, is the most important language of East Africa. It is the official language of both Tanzania and Kenya, and is also spoken in Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, and Zaire. (In Zaire a separate dialect is spoken, known as Kingwana.) Swahili is the mother tongue of perhaps only a million people, but at least 10 million more speak it fulently as a second language, and many millions more at least understand it to some degree.
Swahili is one of the Bantu languages, which form a branch of the Niger-Congo family. Its vocabulary is basically Bantu but with many words borrowed from Arabic. The name Swahili is derived from an Arabic word meaning "coastal," having developed among Arabic speaking settlers fo the African coast beginning about the 7th century. During the 19th century it was carried inland by Arab tradesmen, and was later adopted by the Germans as the language of administration in Tanganyika. In modern Tanzania it is the national language, and in 1970 it was proclaimed the offical language of Kenya.
The Swahili alphabet lacks the letters c, q, and x, but contains a number of its own. The letter dh is pronounced like the th of "this" (e.g., dhorubahurricane), gh like the German ch (ghaliexpensive), and ng' like the ng in "thing" but not as in "finger" (ng'ombecow). Whereas English grammatical inflections occur at the end of the word, in Swahili everything is done at the beginning. Kitabu is the Swahili word for "book" but the word for "books" is vitabu. This word falls into the so-called Ki Vi class, one of eight in the Swahili language. Others are the M Mi class (e.g. mkonohand, mikonohands; mjitown, mijitowns), and the M Wa class, used mainly for people (mtuman, watumen; mjingafool, wajingafools). Furthermore these prefixes are carried over to verbs of which the noun is the subject, as well as to numerals and modifying adjectives. Thus óne big book" in Swahili is kitabu kikiubwa kimoja ("book-big-one"), but "two big books" is vitabu vikubwa viwili.
Swahili is spoken/used in the following countries:
Burundi, Congo (Zaire), Congo, Democratic Republic of, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda.
Family: Niger-Congo
Subgroup: Benue-Congo
Branch: Bantu
Copyright © Kenneth Katzner, The Languages of the World, Published by Routledge.
Writing Sample
A trap they set, for me to get caught,
My reputation they blemish, to spoil my name.
Oh, Lord the Keeper, save me from the plight,
And those who promise me harm, remove their aim.
Many slanderous charges are published against me,
And these I hear, wherever I go.
But God who understands, my name will clear,
The name they hate, He will surely emancipate.
Rather than wither, my name will thrive,
Abroad it will succeed, if here they will not heed.
Shelter it will find, where it will not be remiss,
Where those who care, it will reward and recompense.
SHAABAN ROBERT, The Name
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PAR'SHAT B'RESHEET: Made in the Image of God.
The sages, often wondered about that passage. "What is the 'Image' of Hashem ..." they ask, "... seeing as He is incorporeal?". This led to the idea of the Adam Kadmon, the original 'blue print' that Hashem created for man. The sages referred to this blue print as the 'First Adam' which is alluded to in:
and in,
Paul was familiar with the Biblical idea of, 'As it is below, so it is above", that the reality below is a representation of the heavenly reality. It is in those terms that Moshe was required to build the tabernacle. As such, we see the basic same representation of the Temple model when we read what prophets such as Ezekiel, and John the Immerser saw when 'invited' to the Throne Room It goes therefore to say that when Hashem created man, He must have used the model of a 'Heavenly Blue-Print', a created Blue-print who is His perfect 'Image'. In those terms, Paul says of created man,
, and the woman is the glory of man.1Co_11:7 CJB
... and just as we have borne the image of the man of dust,... 1Co_15:49 CJB
Having resisted all tests and temptations, Yeshua
... himself suffered death when he was put to the test, he is able to help those who are being tested now.Heb_2:18 CJB
Then Paul challenges us who have inherited the infection of Adam's sin to now also take the nature of the Heavenly Adam ...
1Co_15:49 CJB
... albeit like Yeshua, probably through the process of learning needed lessons through the agency of suffering. About our present suffering, Paul teaches us not to chaff against it, but weather it is legitimate or not to accept it as the means by which Hashem transforms us into His Image. He, who himself has unjustly suffered at the hands of both the Romans and his Jewish brethren says,
we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called in accordance with his purpose; because those whom he knew in advance, he also determined in advance would be conformed to the pattern of his Son, so that he might be the firstborn among many brothers; and those whom he thus determined in advance, he also called; and those whom he called, he also caused to be considered righteous; and those whom he caused to be considered righteous he also glorified!(Rom 8:18-30 CJB)
Ya'akov the earthly brother of the Master concurs with,
Regard it all as joy, my brothers, when you face various kinds of temptations; for you know that the testing of your trust produces perseverance. But let perseverance do its complete work; so that you may be complete and whole, lacking in nothing. (Jas 1:2-4 CJB)
"Adonai made me as the beginning of his way, the first of his ancient works. I was appointed before the world, before the start, before the earth's beginnings. When I was brought forth, there were no ocean depths, no springs brimming with water. I was brought forth before the hills, before the mountains had settled in place; he had not yet made the earth, the fields, or even the earth's first grains of dust. When he established the heavens, I was there. When he drew the horizon's circle on the deep, when he set the skies above in place, when the fountains of the deep poured forth, when he prescribed boundaries for the sea, so that its water would not transgress his command, when he marked out the foundations of the earth, I was with him as someone he could trust. For me, every day was pure delight, as I played in his presence all the time, playing everywhere on his earth, and delighting to be with humankind.(Pro 8:22-31 CJB)
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. All things came to be through him, and without him nothing made had being. (Joh 1:1-3 CJB)
John even taught the the 'lamb' was slained before the foundation of the world,
Everyone living on earth will worship it except those whose names are written in the Book of Life belonging to the Lamb slaughtered before the world was founded.(Rev 13:8 CJB)
This Image of Hashem that we are meant to recapture is not a physical appearance not something only having to do with clothing, culture, and lifestyles. Humanity (or 'adam-ity') obviously comprises many different morphologies, races, and cultures, but within it all, of us are made in the Image of Hashem, and we, like Yeshua does, should learn to see the Image of Hashem in each and every individual. It is easy to imagine the 'Image of Hashem' in someone that looks and lives like us, but less natural in someone who belongs to another race, social group, religion, culture, and even sometime political party.
The way we apply this idea of seeing everyone made in the Image of Hashem is to do acts of chesed חסד kindness such as. The Chofetz Chayim says that, "The very survival of humanity is dependent on chesed/kindness. Every person, without exception [at some time or another] needs the help of his fellow man." How do we show chesed? By, without respect to social, religious, ethnic, or political groups we are willing to:
These are some of the things which help us practice respecting man as the Image of Hashem. Yeshua did say,
I tell you that whenever you did these things for one of the least important of these brothers of mine, you did them for me!' (Mat 25:40 CJB)
Yeshua said that to love Hashem and our neighbor, which is done by showing chesed, was the greatest commandment of the Torah, even those upon which the whole rest of the Torah balanced. When defining the concept of these commandments, He gave a story. It was the parable of the Good Samaritan, a man who at his own risks and expenses stopped to rescue another man, a man who actually hated him and considered him the scum of the earth because he was a Samaritan. Yeshua used that concept to teach us about Hashem's love. Why? Because we ourselves were at one time in enmity with Hashem through our sinful nature, but He ...
... demonstrates his own love for us in that the Messiah died on our behalf while we were still sinners [enemies]. (Rom 5:8 CJB)
Yeshua also taught about that perfect heavenly 'Image of Hashem' we are all longing to return to our perfect heavenly nature and one day we will. What does it look like?
You might say, "Patrick Lumbroso is always teaching about the same things...' Yes I do. The Chofetz Chayim taught that the survival of humanity depended on us being able to act towards people in the knowledge that they were created in Hashem's image; I personally believe that the survival of Hashem's congregation depends on it. If we don't learn this, we are not special at all; we are exactly like the rest of the world. It actually makes the difference between being 'common', or 'holy'. Common is being like the rest of the world; holy/kadosh/קדוש is to be separated by being different in our lifestyles.
What reward do you get if you love only those who love you? Why, even tax-collectors do that! And if you are friendly only to your friends, are you doing anything out of the ordinary? Even the Goyim do that!
BY SEEING EACH AND EVERYONE CREATED IN HIS IMAGE ...
PAR'SHOT SUKKOT V'ZOT HABRACHA" We are elevated when we find merit in others.
וזאת הברכה אשׁר ברך משׁה אישׁ האלהים את־בני ישׂראל לפני מותו׃
This is the blessing that Moshe, the man of God, spoke over the people of Isra'el before his death:
(Deu 33:1 CJB)
'Like apples of gold in settings of silver is a word appropriately spoken.'
(Pro 25:11 CJB)
This may at first seem like a statement concerning 'a-propos' words, but a deeper look in the original Hebrew of the text reveals a more distinct depth.
In the original language text, the word 'setting' refers to filigree works.
From afar, a filigree work of silver may look like a simple work of silver. But one coming closer will see it made of lacy threads of and through the small holes between the silvery threads, he will see inside what was hidden from his eyes when he stood afar: an apple of pure gold.
Through these little holes, one is able to see the real secret; beneath the plain silver lies the gold. This proverb then may tell us that right words are words that may at first look seem at first as plain as silver, but when properly hid, they reveal gold apples of wisdom.
Many people also may seem to us like plain filigree works of silver.
May we take the time to come closer to them and see
the golden creation they have been created to be.
Many people may seem to us like plain filigree works of silver.
When Moshe spoke these words (Deut 33), he could have taken the opportunity to really 'lay it' on the Children of Israel. He was finally done. After all the trouble they had caused him, he could really have told them what he thought.
He actually did.
But he saw the gold under the silver.
Sages have commented that when he was in front of the Children of Israel, Moshe was the faithful responsible leader who always told them words of exhortation and rebuke that motivated them to be better than themselves. On the other hand, when he spoke with Hashem, Moshe always had very good and positive words about Israel; he always gave a positive report and instead of venting his frustrations, pleaded, even laying his own life for them (Ex 33).
Moshe did believe Hashem, but he also believed in he Children of Israel. Yes he knew of the future apostasy, but he also knew about the future redemption.
Anyone can see the faults in others, but it takes a truly great person to discern the good in them. It takes work; it takes discernment to see the gold behind the plain silver. It is important here to remember that during the reign of King Solomon, Israel was so wealthy that silver was worth like tin today (2 Kings 9:20).
In this chapter (Deut 33, Moshe speaks positive blessings to Israel; he speaks of their future greatness. His greatness is not only in the fact that he does not hold a grudge for the past troubles, but also that he rejoices in the good fortune of others. Whereas he, he who was faithful in all Hashem's House; he who was coined as the 'meekest of all men' was forbidden to enter the Land of his dreams, he rejoiced at Israel's being given what he himself was denied.
In Midrash Rabah 11 we read that Moshe's upper half was Godly, while his lower half was human. I don't know if that is true, but Hashem did mention that the Messiah will be like Moshe (Deut 18:15) and we now know about Yeshua, who was on earth in a human bodily form while endowed with Hashem's Spirit.
In any case here is how Rabbi Yisrael Salanter explains the midrash rabah 11. He says that concerning himself, Moshe was very spiritual, but when it came to people, he was very human. In Kubos 17a, the Talmud explains it in the following manner. It says that a person must mingle with others so to understand the needs of others. That he himself, should have as few needs as possible, but all the while understanding the needs of others. Rabbi Salanter continues with saying that a man should have two sets of values: one for himself and one for others. That while he should shy away from honor, he should bestow honor on others. That while he should forgo pleasure, he should strive to provide pleasure to others. That while a person should be humble, he should never humiliate his fellow man.
I heard it said another way. I personally have, like everyone else two eyes. But unlike everyone else, one of them is weak while the other is strong. I should use my strong eyes on myself when I check my own heart, but use the weaker of the two one on others, thus being severe on myself, and lenient on others. Sad to say, we often use our severest judgement on others while being lenient and forgiving on ourselves. This was not Moshe's way. he was hard on himself and saw glory on Israel.
If this was Moshe's attitude towards the congregation, how much more should we play by the same playbook. Like Hashem, Moshe was able to find the good in the people of Israel. he plead for their reinstatement in Ex 33, and now, in Deut 33 he praises their redemption.
Moshe played by the same playbook as Hashem who in spite of our sinful state saw enough good in us. to give us Yeshua as a representative. Yeshua must have seen enough good in us to accept. (Would you like in the novel, 'A Tale of Two Cities' give your life for someone else because you thought they deserved it?)
Paul the apostle certainly did see the good in us. Of Israel he said,
...the people of Isra'el! They were made God's children, the Sh'khinah has been with them, the covenants are theirs, likewise the giving of the Torah, the Temple service and the promises; (Rom 9:4 CJB)
And looking to all of our bright future he says,
I don't think the sufferings we are going through now are even worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed to us in the future.
(Rom 8:18 CJB)
IF HASHEM CAN SEE ALL THAT GOOD AND WORTH IN ALL OF US, SO SHOULD WE SEE ALL THAT GOOD AND WORTH IN EACH OTHER.
PAR'SHAT HA'AZINU: Oh; To be a Teacher/Shepherd like the Master...!
יערף כמטר לקחי תזל כטל אמרתי כשׂעירם עלי־דשׁא וכרביבים עלי־עשׂב׃
May my teaching fall like rain. May my speech condense like dew, like light rain on blades of grass, or showers on growing plants. (Deu 32:2 CJB)
"Words of admonition are analogous to rain. When rain falls on trees and plants, growth is not noticeable immediately. It takes time for rain to have a visible effect. So too with admonition. Very often you will try to improve someone, but you will not see a change in that person. Keep trying. if you are sincere, eventually you will notice an improvement." (Rabbi Bunim of Parshicho).
I like the analogy: teaching = rain; speech = dew. What really is the difference?
The sages teach that Moshe's 'teaching' was not his teaching. It was the uttering of Hashem's Words from the Heavens above and therefore 'falling like rain'. The distillation of the dew, is what they relate to the admonitions of the Torah teachers and their teachings in every generation on how to apply the Words of the Torah in their lives. The teaching comes from Hashem above, the distillation from teachers below. This 'distillation is very important as the Master has compared us to 'sheep'. Sheep are dependant. They need an earthly shepherd who lead them to the green pastures and the still waters. As such, we also need earthly shepherds who take us to the green and lush teachings of the Torah and to its still fresh water. In the days of Ezekiel Hashem rebuked the 'shepherds/teachers of Israel for not doing their jobs. Here is what it says,
The word of Adonai came to me:
... Tell them, the shepherds, that Adonai Elohim says this:
'Woe to the shepherds of Isra'el who feed themselves! Shouldn't the shepherds feed the sheep? ... You don't strengthen the weak, heal the sick, bandage the broken, bring back the outcasts or seek the lost; on the contrary, you tyrannize them with crushing force. So they were scattered, without a shepherd, and became food for every wild animal -- ... "I am against the shepherds. I demand that they hand my sheep back to me. I will not allow them to feed the sheep, and they won't feed themselves either. I will rescue my sheep from their mouths; they will be food for them no longer." " 'For here is what Adonai Elohim says: "I am taking over! I will search for my sheep and look after them, myself. ... They will rest in good grazing grounds and feed in rich pastures on Isra'el's mountains. Yes, I will pasture my sheep; and I will let them rest" says Adonai Elohim. "I will seek the lost, bring back the outcasts, bandage the broken, and strengthen the sick. But the fat and the strong I will destroy -- ... Wasn't it enough for you to feed on the best pasture and drink from the clearest water? Did you have to trample the rest of the pasture and foul the remaining water with your feet? So now my sheep eat what you have trampled with your feet and drink water fouled by your feet.' Therefore here is what Adonai Elohim says to them: 'I will judge between the fat sheep and the thin sheep. Because you push them with your flanks and shoulders and butt all the weak ones with your horns, till you scatter them in every direction; therefore I will save my flock; ... " 'I will raise up one shepherd to be in charge of them, and he will let them feed -- my servant David. He will pasture them and be their shepherd. I, Adonai, will be their God; and my servant David will be prince among them. I, Adonai, have spoken. (Eze 34:1-24 CJB)
This segment speaks for itself. I didn't want to put the whole section in this newsletter, but you can read it yourself in the Tanach.
Sometimes what makes us harsh is our own impatience with people. This impatience is born from pride, arrogance, and a condescending attitude towards others. All in all, as teachers we need to remember that like Moshe, the flock we tend to is not our own, but Hashem's; that we report to him and that he listnes to the cries of the flock against the hard-heartened shepherds.
The following testimony has been heard from a young man; it is the testimony about a good faithful and patient shepherd:
"A Rabbi once spoke for three full hours to a young who was not Torah observant trying to convince him that he would attend the yeshiva. The fellow refused. Months later, the young man recalled the argument of the Rabbi and they began making sense to him. Finally, one year later, without having been in contact with that Rabbi, the fellow returned to the Rabbi and enrolled in his yeshiva."
The following story is from a personal experience.
The Levitical feasts are usually a very opportune times to introduce Messianic Judaism to people and at these special times, I am often invited to do so in local Churches. A few years ago I was invited to the prominent First-Baptist Church in our town to teach and lead a Seder for the congregants of that church. , I had been invited the year before to teach about it during the Passover season. A week after the event I was sharing the testimony with a friend who then right away reacted, "So that's it; they are probably done with Easter, Christmas, and all that stuff right?" I explained to my friend that these things take time. That like the sower of the parable, we simply sow the seed and that we have to wait. Some seed falls in sincere and honest hearts, while other falls in stony, 'brumbley', or even rebellious hearts. Only time tells.
My friend's statement made me think deeper though. How many time do we do that with not only Torah students, but with our spouses, our children, our friends, etc ... Forgetting that before we came to the 'light', Hashem may have been speaking to us about it for twenty years before we 'got it', we somehow expect that somehow because we said it, others are to 'get it' right away. This is analogous to wanting to sow a seed on the ground and expect the fruit to immediately appear.
Let's go to the parable.
"A farmer went out to sow his seed. As he sowed, some seed fell alongside the path; and the birds came and ate it up. Other seed fell on rocky patches where there was not much soil. It sprouted quickly because the soil was shallow; but when the sun had risen, the young plants were scorched; and since their roots were not deep, they dried up. Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the plants. But others fell into rich soil and produced grain, a hundred or sixty or thirty times as much as had been sown.
(Mat 13:3-8 CJB)
The rest of the chapter tells us the interpretation, but this idea of spreading the Word being like a sower was taken up by Paul,
I planted the seed, and Apollos watered it, but it was God who made it grow. So neither the planter nor the waterer is anything, only God who makes things grow --
In this passage, Paul works like a teamwork. He gave the teaching (Torah); Apollos expounded on the teaching (the dew), BUT, it is Hashem who gave the increase (the growing).
The growing or the result in essence are none of our business. Our business is the teaching and the expounding, and we have this promise that,
"As high as the sky is above the earth are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. For just as rain and snow fall from the sky and do not return there, but water the earth, causing it to bud and produce, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater; so is my word that goes out from my mouth -- it will not return to me unfulfilled; but it will accomplish what I intend, and cause to succeed what I sent it to do."
(Isa 55:9-11 CJB)
About our teaching and shepherding, blustery Paul also tells us (I suppose from personal experience),
... be patient with everyone.
1Th_5:14
A congregation leader must be above reproach, he must be
faithful to his wife,
temperate,
self-controlled,
orderly,
hospitable and
able to teach. ...
he must be kind and gentle.
(1Ti 3:2-3 CJB)
But stay away from stupid and ignorant controversies -- you know that they lead to fights, and a slave of the Lord shouldn't fight. On the contrary, he should be kind to everyone, a good teacher, and not resentful when mistreated.
(2Ti 2:23-24 CJB)
... stay away from stupid and ignorant controversies -- you know that they lead to fights, and a slave of the Lord shouldn't fight.
On the contrary, he should be kind to everyone, a good teacher, and not resentful when mistreated.
And Ya'akov, the earthly brother of the Master who also became the first leader of the nascent messianic congregation in Jerusalem exhorted with,
.. brothers, be patient until the Lord returns.
See how the farmer waits for the precious "fruit of the earth"
-- he is patient over it until it receives the fall and spring rains.
You too, be patient; keep up your courage; for the Lord's return is near.
TEACH, EXHORT, AND HASHEM WILL DO THE REST.
HIS WORD DOES NOT RETURN VOID.
IT ACCOMPLISHES THE PURPOSE FOR WHICH IT WAS SENT.
PARASHAT VAYELECH: The Ten Songs.
As at this season of the year we rehearse for the time of our Master's return to establish His Kingdom on earth as it is in Heaven under His rulership and that of His children; as through repentance and a renewed commitment to obey we prepare our heart towards the establishment of this Kingdom of Messiah on earth; so in this parasha Moshe prepares the way for the Children of Israel's entry into the Promised land.
This preparation takes the form of a song, a song that will stand not only as an intergenerational time capsule, but as a testimony throughout the ages that Israel is accountable for its action and is fully knowledgeable of the Torah, Its commandments, Its rewards, and Its retributions.
ועתה כתבו לכם את־השׁירה הזאת ולמדה את־בני־ישׂראל שׂימה בפיהם למען תהיה־לי השׁירה הזאת לעד בבני ישׂראל׃
"Therefore, write this song for yourselves, and teach it to the people of Isra'el. Have them learn it by heart, so that this song can be a witness for me against the people of Isra'el.
(Deu 31:19 CJB)
We learn History through the songs that people wrote. In the same manner, the songs of Israel tell us of its history. The sages recorded ten such major songs/poems in the Torah. Each contributes to tell of some major event in Israel's history, mainly, military victories through Hashem's Mighty Hand. I will try to list them here. These all could be seen as microcosms of Hashem's final deliverance of His people at the end of this age, which by Jewish eschatological studies should come in the backdrop of the Fall Festivals.
1. Ps 92. SONG OF THE SHABBAT which starts with, " It is good to give thanks to Adonai and sing praises to your name, `Elyon, to tell in the morning about your grace and at night about your faithfulness, to the music of a ten-stringed [harp] and a lute, with the melody sounding on a lyre..." Ps 92 is known to be the song for the Shabbat. The song Adam sang after creation was completed. That is why it is part of Friday nigh Kiddush liturgy. In Hebrews 3 and 4, the apostle Paul compares entering the Land to entering the Sabbath, a microcosm of entering the Messianic Age.
2. Ex 15: SONG OF THE SEA which starts with, Then Moshe and the people of Isra'el sang this song to Adonai: "I will sing to Adonai, for he is highly exalted: the horse and its rider he threw in the sea. Yah is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation. This is my God: I will glorify him; my father's God: I will exalt him ..." This song also speaks of Israel's salvation, becoming a new nation as they were on their way to enter the Promised Land, which should have happened in less then six months were it not for the incident of the ten spies.
3. Num 21:16-18: SONG OF THE WELL. "From there they went on to Be'er [well]; that is the well about which Adonai said to Moshe, "Assemble the people, and I will give them water." Then Isra'el sang this song: "Spring up, oh well! Sing to the well sunk by the princes, dug by the people's leaders with the scepter, with their staffs!" ... In Hebrew, "Well" in this case refers to a source for water. This Song was sung as a result of the miracle that Hashem created to save the Isrsaelites from being ambushed by the Amorites, who hid in caves as the Hebrews were preparing to cross the second mountain range of two mountain ranges that bordered the Arnon River [now known as: Wady Mojib (or Wady el-Mojib)] in what is now Jordan on their way to Canaan after 40 years of wandering in the Sinai Desert. Because those who carried the Ark of the Covenant preceded the Israelites, it caused the mountains to sink and the valley to rise, crushing the Amorites in their hideouts in the caves. The Hebrews would not have noticed this if the Well of water which accompanied them did not throw up pieces of the corpses. Thus this miracle created by Hashem with the Well resulted in the Hebrews bursting forth in the "Song of the Well" in commemoration of this miraculous event.
4. Deut 31:30 -32;1 THE SONG OF MOSHE. Then Moshe spoke in the hearing of the whole assembly of Isra'el the words of this song, from beginning to end: "Hear, oh heavens, as I speak! Listen, earth, to the words from my mouth! ..." This song reflects the vicissitudes of the present and future destiny of Israel, the ups and downs, the rises and the declines. It is not a testimony to the past, but rather a warning for the present and the future. It was sung to a people who were mostly already born into physical freedom, so there was no need for the Hebrews to suddenly rejoice in song as at the "Sea at the Sea", but rather, to listen and hear Moses in a restrained and dour manner.
5. Jos 12:10-14 THE SONG OF GIVON, (a song taken from the book of Jasher) Then, on the day Adonai handed over the Emori to the people of Isra'el, Y'hoshua spoke to Adona i; in the sight of Isra'el he said, "Sun, stand motionless over Giv`on! Moon, you too, over Ayalon Valley!" So the sun stood still and the moon stayed put, till Isra'el took vengeance on their enemies. This is written in the book of Yashar. The sun stood still in the sky and was in no rush to set for nearly a whole day. There has never been a day like that before or since, when Adonai listened to the voice of a man; it happened because Adonai was fighting on Isra'el's behalf. Joshua exhorted the "sun [to] stand still upon Gibeon in order to enable him to wage war and to defeat Adoni-Zedek, king of Jerusalem and his allies and enable the Israelites to enter Canaan and set up the divisions of land for each tribe as well as establishingThis Song was sung by the Prophetess Deborah (or "Devorah" in Hebrew) after the Hebrew armies defeated the armies of Canaan, led by their general, Sisera. Devorah also sings about Yael, the wife of Heber the Keni, who used a spike and a hammer to drive the spike through the head of Sisera while he slept. a sanctuary at Shiloh, which served as a holy city and stood for 200 years until the First Temple was built by King Solomon.
6. Judges 5:1-2, THE SONG OF DEBORAH. "On that day D'vorah and Barak the son of Avino`am sang this song: "When leaders in Isra'el dedicate themselves, and the people volunteer, you should all bless Adonai." This Song was sung by the Prophetess Deborah after the Israelite armies defeated the armies of Canaan, led by their general, Sisera. Devorah also sings about Yael, the wife of Heber the Keni, who used a spike and a hammer to drive the spike through the head of Sisera while he slept.
7. 1 Sam 2:1-10: THE SONG OF HANNAH. Then Hannah prayed; she said: "My heart exults in Adonai! My dignity has been restored by Adonai! I can gloat over my enemies, because of my joy at your saving me. "No one is as holy as Adonai, because there is none to compare with you, no rock like our God...." Hannah was the mother of the Prophet Samuel. The Song of Hannah calls attention to the "humiliation" and "misery" of a barren woman, namely Hannah herself (1 Samuel 1:11), who confides her pain to G-d. After her prayers are completed, she is then blessed with a child, Samuel. Essentially, the Song of Hannah is the story of a woman who was barren for a long time and then was blessed with a child.
8. 2 Sam 22/Ps 18. THE SONG OF DAVID. David said the words of this song to Adonai on the day Adonai delivered him from the power of all his enemies and from the power of Sha'ul. He said: "Adonai is my Rock, my fortress and deliverer, the God who is my Rock, in whom I find shelter, my shield, the power that saves me, my stronghold and my refuge. My savior, you have saved me from violence..." King David recounts the desperate state of his very survival and existence during parts of his long and varied career. He sings a Song of praise to Hashem and dedicates the Song to Hashem after He saved him from the hands of all his enemies and from the hands of Saul, the King of Israel prior to David.
9. SONG OF SONG or SONG OF SOLOMON The Ultimate Song, by Shlomo: "[She] Let him smother me with kisses from his mouth, for your love is better than wine..." The Song of Songs is traditionally seen to be an allegory for the relationship between Hashem and Israel by utilizing the example of the love between a man and a woman.
10. Is 26:2-3 SONG OF MASHIACH. This song has not been sang yet. It will be sung during the times of Mashiach or the Messiah, after Mashiach returns to establish His Kingdom on earth, as it is in Heaven. This song will be sang by the 144.000 redeemed Israelites, tjose redeemed as the firstfruit of humanity.
Then I looked, and there was the Lamb standing on Mount Tziyon; and with him were 144,000 [12.000 from each tribe Rev 7]who had his name and his Father's name written on their foreheads. I heard a sound from heaven like the sound of rushing waters and like the sound of pealing thunder; the sound I heard was also like that of harpists playing on their harps. They were singing a new song before the throne and before the four living beings and the elders, and no one could learn the song except the 144,000 who have been ransomed from the world. (Rev 14:1-3 CJB)
Then I saw another sign in heaven, a great and wonderful one -- seven angels with the seven plagues that are the final ones; because with them, God's fury is finished. I saw what looked like a sea of glass mixed with fire. Those defeating the beast, its image and the number of its name were standing by the sea of glass, holding harps which God had given them. They were singing the song of Moshe [Deut 32], the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb [Rev 14:3]:
"Great and wonderful are the things you have done, Adonai, God of heaven's armies! Just and true are your ways, king of the nations! Adonai, who will not fear and glorify your name? because you alone are holy. All nations will come and worship before you, for your righteous deeds have been revealed." (Rev 15:1-4 CJB)
MAY YOU ALL HAVE A MEANINGFUL FAST!
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75 Year Old Grandmother Held Down At Gunpoint As Police Shoot & Kill Her Dog – informationliberation
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by Davy V.
On August 15, 2012 Wayne County Sheriff’s deputies, along with Macedon, NY Police broke into 75 year old Phyllis Loquasto’s Plank Road home in the town of Walworth, NY, forced her at gunpoint to lay on her bathroom floor, screamed at her to close her eyes and stay down, then executed her dog “Duke.”
Minutes earlier, Loquasto, who has had three strokes and a knee replacement, was on her computer when she heard loud smashing sounds, then saw what she described as several men dressed in black with masks on.
As she was laying on her bathroom floor Loquasto could hear the men talking in loud voices.
“The dog hadn’t even barked, yet I heard one of them say, he’s aggressive, shoot him! I’ll never forget the sound of that gunshot and the blood flying everywhere. They did all this while forcing me to lay on the bathroom floor, screaming at me to stay down, and holding me at gunpoint. I couldn’t get up if I wanted to. I’m 75 years old, had three strokes and knee replacement, and can hardly walk. There was nothing I could do to help my pet.”
Unfortunately, Duke died a slow death.
“They shot him with a shotgun in such a manner that he ran around in pain and bled all over the house and suffered a slow, cruel death. There was no reason for this kind of treatment, they killed my dog for no reason. This was the sweetest and most gentle animal anyone could want, I would trust him with a baby.”
Trail of blood on Phyllis Loquasto’s stairs after her beloved dog “Duke” was shot by WayneNET Task Force officers.
As you can see in the photo, Duke did indeed suffer, bleeding out throughout the house, leaving a trail of blood in the hallways, stairs, walls and bedrooms, including on the bed where he used to sleep in.
Afterwards, Phyllis Loquasto was taken outside and placed inside a police car for over an hour in the heat.
It was then when officers showed her a search warrant, and it was then that Loquasto realized who these masked men who had just broke into her home, held her at gunpoint, screamed at her and executed her dog were — police officers.
The 75 year old Loquasto was so afraid, she urinated on herself.
As a filmmaker, writer and activist exposing police misconduct and corruption, hearing stories of police officers abusing and violating innocent citizens’ rights is nothing new.
In fact I receive an average of 20-25 calls weekly from people who either themselves, or a loved one, has been abused, harassed, or assaulted by law enforcement.
But I must admit, to hear of a 75 year old lady having been terrorized in her own home by a bunch of rogue, thugs in uniforms and masks, in a “home invasion-like” style, before executing her dog, left me speechless.
I Called Macedon, NY police and asked to speak to a public information officer. The woman who answered the phone asked me “What’s that?” I explained to her it’s usually a department official who is in charge of communicating with the press.
She replied “We don’t have that.”
I then proceeded to tell her about the incident with Duke, and before I could finish, she angrily cut me off and said “I’m sure if a grandmother would have been held down at gunpoint, I would have heard about that.”
She then abruptly transferred me to the Chief, with whom I left a message on his voicemail.
About an hour later, I received a call from Macedon, NY Police Chief John P. Colella.
After I thanked him for getting back to me, Chief Colella laughed and said “The media campaign continues.”
I asked Chief Colella what he meant by that comment, but he completely ignored my question.
I then asked the Chief exactly what law enforcement agencies were present at the Plank Road residence.
Chief Colella said that a search warrant was executed by the Wayne County Narcotics Enforcement Team (WayneNET) on the residence.
He also said that he is the Task Force Commander.
Chief Colella told me that his task force seized several marijuana plants from the location, which he said belonged to Phyllis Loquasto’s grandson.
He explained that the WayneNET team consists of the Wayne County, NY Sheriff’s office, Macedon, NY Police, Clyde, NY Police, Lyons, NY Police, Newark, NY, Palmyra, NY Police, Sodus Point, NY Police, Wolcott, NY Police and the Wayne County, NY District Attorney’s office.
Chief Colella confirmed that the only person inside the location was 75 year old Phyllis Loquasto.
Having sensed an obvious sense of sarcasm on the Chief’s part, with his earlier comment, about the “media campaign continues”, as well as what I would describe as the non-chalant, hesitant, and “careful” tone of his voice, not giving many details, I decided to get down to brass tax with the Chief.
I asked him about police officers holding down a 75 year old grandmother at gunpoint on her bathroom floor, and it was clear that Chief Colella wasn’t comfortable answering my question.
But perhaps more interesting, he never denied officers doing this to Loquasto.
Instead, Chief Colella made sure to choose his words very carefully, stating that all he would say is that she (the grandmother) was “held in place” by officers.
Again, when I asked Chief Colella if in fact officers with his WayneNET task force held a 75 year old grandmother at gunpoint on her bathroom floor, Chief Colella replied “I don’t care if she is 2 years old or 75 years old.”
I think Chief Colella must have realized that his statement would not look good, so he decided to do some ‘damage control’ by quickly adding “We needed to secure the location and since there was a dangerous animal, we were holding her down for her own safety.”
“Dangerous animal?”
“Holding her down for her own safety?”
Duke was her pet!
After a few more minutes of talking with Chief Colella, it became more and more clear that as is common with law enforcement officials, especially in cases of misconduct and abuse, the “cover-up” had already begun, and Chief Colella, along with his WayneNET task force, clearly have their story which they have every intention of sticking to.
Contact Macedon, NY Police Chief John P. Colella and let him know how you feel.
Macedon, NY Police Chief
and WayneNET Commander
John P. Colella
315-986-7103, -7262, -5932
E-mail: jpcolella@rochester.rr.com
WayneNET Sgt.
Roger LaClair
WayneNET
Chief Deputy
Bob Hetzke
Davy V. is a Cuban-American Filmmaker, Video Producer, Photographer and Freelance Writer, best known for using the power of video and film to expose Police Brutality, Corruption and Misconduct. Davy V.’s work has been featured in publications such as THE SOURCE Hip Hop Magazine, URBAN AMERICA Magazine, The Ave. Magazine, Insider Magazine, La Voz Newspaper, Minority Reporter Newspaper, CNY LATINO Newspaper, DOWN Magazine, as well as on television news stations, and programs such as CNN and Inside Edition. In addition to his freelance writing, Davy V. also writes a monthly Op/Ed Column for LA VOZ Magazine and Minority Reporter Newspaper.
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In honor of the first day of Women's History Month, we are celebrating a young female phenom writing new chapters in modern day history: skateboarder, surfer, dancer, model, artist, musician, singer and philanthropist, Sky Brown. We dug into the archives to bring you this flashback episode of the JUICE MAGAZINE DROP IN SHOW with SKY BROWN and JEFF HO that was recorded in February 2018 when Sky was nine years old.
Since that time, in less than one year, Sky Brown, one of the youngest pro skaters in the world, has been picked up for sponsorship by Nike and Hurley in addition to her already impressive list of sponsors including Almost Skateboards and Grizzly. In fact, Sky was recently featured skating the Venice Skatepark in a Nike commercial titled "Dream Crazier" narrated by Serena Williams showcasing a world class line up of women athletes.
Big things are happening for this generous, community-minded young skate ambassador and we wanted to share this rare conversation between super grom, Sky Brown, and one of the founding fathers of Zephyr and the Z-Boys legacy and Skateboarding Hall of Fame Icon, Jeff Ho.
Jeff Ho talked with Sky about her beginning days of skateboarding with her dad, surfing and skating with her brother Ocean, her favorite places to skate and surf, the skaters that influence her and the tricks she likes to do and how important it is for her to inspire and help others.
Sky and Jeff also discuss Sky’s collaboration skateboard with Almost and Skateistan, which has already raised $16,000 for Skateistan, and Sky’s charitable work with Pride Socks to benefit ISF and children living in extreme poverty. As of January 2019, Sky and Pride Socks have raised $4,825 for ISF from the proceeds of Sky’s ‘Sky’s the Limit” socks. Wow!
With skateboarding as a priority for this mini shredder, we are happy to announce that, this past weekend, Sky Brown took first place in the Women’s Division at the Simple Session 19 contest in Estonia.
In December of 2018, Sky made her dreams of being a dancer come true as Sky and her dance partner, JT Church, were crowned the champions of the first Dancing With The Stars Juniors show on ABC.
As Sky Brown continues to conquer her goals at supersonic speed, we'd like to congratulate her on all of her success and wish her the best for the future. As Sky often says, “Be brave, be strong and have fun!”
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BETRAYAL, ON SO MANY LEVELS
Once or twice a week I always check in on Running From Babylon
Another excellent post, putting pieces together of our broken world:
The world woke up this morning to footage coming out of Israel of Ariel Sharon being laid to rest.
Since December 31, when it was announced that the former prime minister, who had been in a vegetative coma for the past eight years, was suddenly worsening in his condition with multiple organs beginning to fail, countless news outlets have carried pieces about the contributions that this revered military general made to Israel. Without fail, all the articles I read put pretty much near the top of their report Sharon's role in the Gaza pullout.
It's as though the world stopped for a moment and hit the rewind button on the now vintage cassette recorder and we visited once more the events of August 2005. Sharon was hailed as a "brave" leader for his removal of Israeli citizens from their homes as part of the "greater good" of peace.
Frequent rocket fire over the past several years since the Gaza pullout has demonstrated just how little the "other side" really wants peace. Ironically, Ariel Sharon was laid to rest near the Gaza border, and rockets were fired from the area just ahead of his funeral. Nevertheless, the U.S. has continued to push Israel to give up more because, well, more is better.
Sharon's death has come on the heels of the latest visit by John Kerry to the region to put on the table a "framework" that, admittedly, neither side will particularly like. As Kerry was preparing to address the press about the framework he prefaced his remarks with an expression of encouragement for then-stricken Ariel Sharon. Kerry's plane had hardly left the runway when Sharon passed away.
His remarks are the second time that Kerry has had to address a "stroke" situation this year. This past July, Kerry's wife was rushed to a Nantucket hospital in critical condition because she suffered some type of stroke or seizure. Her sudden illness interrupted his peace efforts at that time, causing a delay of about two weeks. It was several weeks before we heard updated news that his wife was improving but undergoing physical therapy.
From the Daily Mail Online:
Ariel Sharon, the Butcher of Beirut turned peacemaker, dies at the age of 85
Cindy by the Sea offers her thoughts on the passing of Ariel Sharon.
Ariel Sharon and the scroll of Revelation 5
Algemeiner offers one of the better articles about the peace process.
Kerry Offers Netanyahu a Peace Deal ‘He Can’t Refuse’
There were FOUR other big news stories over the weekend, sometimes in the same segment with Ariel Sharon.
First: Once more Iran and Obama's birth certificate.
Mark the date on the calendar -- Apparently Iran will need to comply with the terms outlined by the P5+1 in their November Geneva meeting by January 20. If Iran complies, the U.S. is prepared to lift several billion dollars in sanctions.
I have noted on this blog in the past that whenever the U.S. comes up against Israel by engaging with Iran in the context of its nuclear program and lessening restrictions on it, President Obama's birth certificate is in the news in some way. For some reason, Daily Mail Online ran an article on January 8, of the last moments of the plane crash in Hawaii that killed the health official who released Obama's birth certificate.
We're going down: Passenger's harrowing footage of fatal plane crash
Second: Iran and the Palestinians and Israel's security with news of a major "security breach" for American consumers.
As news of President Obama's willingness to lift sanctions against Iran was announced, and on the heels of the latest peace process push that involves the Israelis giving up their vital strategic stronghold for security, the Jordan Valley, all "in the name of peace," of course, we learned that it wasn't just 40 million customers who shop at Target stores here in the U.S. who were hacked, it was 110 million, AND it wasn't just Target, it was also Neiman Marcus. Note the titles of numerous articles in the link to the search I did below. Many of them have in their headlines:SECURITY BREACH.
How interesting that in the SAME WEEKEND as Iran and the peace process and Ariel Sharon's death and talk of the Gaza pullout, major headlines here in the U.S. are literally screaming: SECURITY BREACH!
Target, Neiman Marcus, hacked, security breach
Proposed peace agreement endangers Israel's borders
Kerry demands Israel accept 80,000 Palestinian refugees
Will Israel Risk Giving Up Control Of The Jordan Valley?
As the U.S. seeks to improve the finances of Israel's sworn enemy by lifting sanctions, millions of American consumers ironically find their finances compromised as their information has been stolen to be sold to underground markets. Passwords had to be changed. Banks had to be notified so additional resources could be allocated to monitor accounts. One major lender limited access of funds to legitimate consumers in an effort to limit exposure to fraud. Lawsuits have been filed. It's become a mess.
And it's not over.
Third: As the U.S. seeks to improve Iran's economy, more bad news came out about our own.
We are learning that a record 91.8 million not in workforce. In March of 2013, the record high at that time was 89,304,000.
So . . . how many were unemployed during the Great Depression? 11,385,000.
This news may be why President Obama pressed for an "emergency" extension of unemployment benefits last week, and his announcement this week that he will now focus on Five Promise Zones here in America. These "zones" are five areas that he is promising to focus on for improving economic opportunities.
"Promise Zones" for the U.S.
Immediately, his "Promise Zones" were held up to questioning, ridicule and mocking.
Ted Cruz: All of America Needs to be a Real "Promise Zone"...
Broken Promise Zones
All this has ZeroHedge sounding like one of the Hardy Boys and The Case of the Missing Recovery.
Staying with ZeroHedge and speaking of "zones," ZeroHedge noted two "zones" over the weekend.
1. Al Qaeda Now Controls More Territory In The Arab World Than Ever Before
2. The United States of Shame - what is your state worst at?
As President Obama has pressured Israel to release long-held Palestinian prisoners,many of whom are terrorists who have plotted against and murdered Israelis, we learn that under President Obama's watch, Al Qaeda, many of whom are terrorists who have plotted against and murdered Americans, are now spread out across the Middle East more than ever.
Fourth: Betrayal.
As many believe that the "framework" that Obama and Kerry are pushing on to the Israelis will lead to the Israelis being betrayed, numerous people claim that Robert Gates' book about his time of service during the Obama administration is a "betrayal."
Ari Fleischer: Gates' Tell-All Book A 'Betrayal' for Obama, Hillary
How interesting that Gates, a former Secretary of Defense, is accused of betraying the Obama administration the same weekend that Ariel Sharon dies. Sharon was also a former Minister of Defense and also accused of betrayal, that of the Israelis in Gaza.
Gates is accused of not only betraying President Obama, but also Hillary Clinton. I listened this past weekend to Chuck Missler's excellent 2-CD set on Israel and the history of the Palestinians and how Israel has been repeatedly betrayed by her "allies." He states in his lecture that President Bill Clinton betrayed Israel on more than one occasion where the Palestinians are concerned, so it is interesting that Hillary, who clearly has aspirations of running for the presidency herself and purportedly will do so on the record of her husband, has now found herself receiving what her husband did to Israel.
The Betrayal of the Chosen, Chuck Missler
And final interesting news this weekend:
Golden Globes entrance flooded with SEWAGE as stars begin to arrive for annual awards ceremony
Comet ISON and East Coast Tsunami: Suspicious Observers notes a fireball was reported over eight northeastern states last night. Could it possibly be a remnant of ISON? Several months ago, SO stated that January 14, 15, and 16, are the dates in which we are to pass near (not through) ISON's debris field. This fireball, though 24 hours early, might or might not be related to ISON. In addition SO notes the importance of several moderate quakes down by Dominican Republic. While El Hierro in the Canary Islands has long been the mountain to watch for a possible East Coast tsunami, SO believes the North Puerto Rico trench by Dominican Republic "is the single greatest tsunami threat to the East Coast and potentially any U.S. coast line, except Alaska."
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A BIBLE PROMISE: Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. --Psalm 121:4
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Posted By: David Waywell 18th November 2016
The ancients believed that naming a demon would rob it of its power. The same might be true today after the custodians of the Oxford English Dictionary decided to make ‘post-truth’ their word of 2016. We can now say that we live in a post ‘post-truth’ world and that we are immune to the powers that sought to undermine our capacity for reason and deduction. This year we overdosed on fake news but at least we can look forward to 2017 when we get deep and dirty with facts. Our New Year diet will consist of dried statistics topped with some wholesome analysis that’s good for the gut.
Yet before we embrace our new healthy Fact-Plan diet, we should perhaps begin by recognising all of our sins of the past year. The onus of those of us who believe in some objective reality — let’s carry on calling it ‘the truth’ — is to find ways to make it more appealing than this very modern supernaturalism that has taken hold. Donald Trump has risen to power on something not dissimilar to a shamanistic talent for magic phrases that send his followers into a frenzy. Here in the UK, Brexit was a spell promising something that was poorly defined. That wave of the magic wand was meant to ‘make Britain great again’. We should also not forget Michael Gove’s words uttered in the referendum campaign: ‘I think people in this country have had enough of experts.’ It was a low point, coming, as it did, from a former minister of education, yet it was also prophetic of the great tide of ‘common sense’ and ‘plain speaking’ that was about to engulf the world.
The fight back has to begin with the mainstream news media who are struggled to survive in a landscape of ‘bias reporting’ in which reporters give their readers what they want to read rather than some ‘impartial’ view of reality. So much of our current predicament begins with this problem of ‘news’ and what the mainstream considers ‘impartial’. Back in September last year, long before Trump began to look like a viable candidate for the Republican nomination, I warned that the media’s coverage was too insular and cut off from the reality of everyday America:
The cartoon candidate has resulted in a cartoonish editorialising, in which his outlandish character is made to appear even more outlandish, cartoonish, and even, dare I say, wickedly watchable. Not only is this poor journalism but I think it’s also self defeating. Stripped of nuance, Trump is becoming iconic, a symbol of something that is as profoundly stupid as it is also deeply seductive. This combination of reducing him to a comic creation whilst at the same time failing to seriously draw him out about his policies is a dangerous one. To the liberal, well-educated and affluent elite who form opinion, Trump is a joke. I’m not quite so sure the broader electorate will see it with the same eyes.
So it proved. The media went absent without leave and Trump was rarely tested in what was a long campaign. It was Chris Wallace in the presidential debate hosted by Fox News in March who came closest to challenging Trump, presenting him with hard evidence in the form of slides and statistics. Not that it made much difference. Trump’s appeal is grounded in a much more structural failure of the press. People who felt like they’d been without a voice put their faith in a man with little more than a very loud voice.
What has been startling about the past year is how readily people have been willing to dismiss establishment opinion in favour of some great unknowns. The reasons are complex but, at some point, come down to the disconnect between the experiences of people and the experiences being fed back to them by sections of that establishment. Post-truth is really about people affirming their own subjectivity. It is, arguably, pro-reason and pro-empiricism. It’s just that both have been brought back into the first person. ‘I have seen’ has replaced ‘I saw it on the news’ as the primary mode by which people express their beliefs.
Doubts about the validity of the news and how well it reflects the state of the nation come at a time when the news has also become part of a wider culture of entertainment. Channels that were once committed to good reporting are increasingly aware of advertising revenue and, therefore, viewing figures. Hard news has give way to soft news which has given way to celebrity news. Add the influence of social media and we now have a quite startling situation in which an American TV star will be President of the United States, while here in the UK a former Shadow Chancellor is dancing Gangnam Style on BBC1.
As CNN President Jeff Zucker admitted this past week, ‘If we made any mistake last year, it’s that we probably did put on too many of [Trump’s] campaign rallies in those early months and let them run’. More to the point is that the media companies never had reason to draw the poison from the debate. Rarely did the media try to explain why Trump attracted such large crowds and why Hillary Clinton attracted relatively few. There were far too many ugly truths that were simply too ugly for the media to voice. Instead journalists got drawn in the circus of love and hate, warped emotions, and the cult of personality. This was also the culmination of, perhaps, two decades in which the news media have carefully moderated the stories they report. Evidence has been ignored as messages have been shaped to an idealisation of modern, tolerant, and liberal values. Too many journalists were simply incapable of realising that the misogyny they attributed to Trump was actually connecting with sections of the electorate. How little they knew about (or wished to acknowledge) the real America…
This is the realisation that we should take from the past year: that superstitions come in different forms. ‘Making America great again’ and ‘Taking our country back’ are just two the most potent from 2016, predicated as they are on some poorly defined notion of nation. Yet the mainstream media should look and recognise their own. Primarily among them is the superstition that has grown up around the immigration debate. Both Trump’s election and the Brexit vote were votes for reality as it is perceived over the reality as it has been reported. They were both, in part, responses to the problems of multiculturalism that have so rarely been addressed sensibly in the mainstream. Since the nineties, each representative of the Labour Party accusing a Tory of racism in a TV debate raised the value of UKIP’s currency. Every protest march demanding censorship and the vilification of, for example, Jeremy Clarkson, gave strength to the alt-right. Nigel Farage could step forward and claim to say what everybody was thinking because the media had spent too long silencing that kind of voice. The best way to rid ourselves of the fear of the dark is to shine a light on those fears and this is nowhere more true than in the news media. The self-imposed taboo the news media made of immigration led to their inadequate reporting of the segregation of communities in places like Bradford, Rochdale, and Oldham. It is understandable why the news has rarely tried to place the predatory sexual abuse going on in these communities in the proper cultural context. Yet fearful of escalating tensions, the media reticence has done little but help escalate tensions.
This does, admittedly, shift the responsibility back to the media ‘elite’ as it also mitigates the excesses of ‘bias journalism’ found in places such as the Breitbart News Network and The Daily Mail. Bias journalism isn’t simply journalism that tells people what they want to hear. It is more complex than simple pandering to an audience. It is journalism that self-consciously addresses some reality beyond that described by the mainstream. Instead of being shocked by the rise of Trump or, perhaps, the tone of the Brexit debate, we need to look at the tone of our liberal media and realise that it has been censoring itself for too long and that censorship has not gone unnoticed by audiences.
The disenfranchisement of Trump supporters, as well as many who voted for Brexit, began the moment the media stopped reflecting the reality as understood by many people. That is a fundamental failure of journalism, whose business should be the reporting the truth, no matter how inconvenient, ugly, or uncomfortable that truth happens to be. Every time the news story runs counter to a person’s experience of the world, that person grows less confident in the news and they begin to look elsewhere, for reports that more closely resemble their experiences. It is time that we recognized that every self-satisfied cry of ‘Islamaphobia’, ‘racism’, or ‘sexism’ deepens the very same prejudice that each of those words is meant to expose.
@DavidWaywell
Guest Writer, Light Relief
3 Comments on "News in a New Age of Shamanism"
Rob Walker | 18th November 2016 at 5:10 pm | Reply
David, your last paragraph sums it up pretty well I think. At some point the news media morphed from being content to present the facts as they were known at a given time to engaging in ‘expert’ backed speculation. The problem with this approach is that predicting the future is a tricky business, if it were easy the world would be crammed with billionaires and the bookies would go out of business. Look at the IMF, they couldn’t predict economic growth in a single country (UK) over a six month period, they weren’t even close even though they are swarming with experts. This breeds distrust of the news, after all they insinuated x would happen and instead we have y happening. Their misreading of our election, the referendum and the US election just adds weight to this. Another issue is with reporting of foreign affairs, the UK media almost slavishly roll out the FO line which unfortunately has a tendency to turn out to be utter bollocks which doesn’t go unnoticed. How does the saying go, fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me.
David Waywell | 25th November 2016 at 12:31 pm | Reply
Rob, I agree that the problem starts with the media but I’m really cautious about questioning ‘experts’. Perhaps it’s a problem of people claiming to be experts who aren’t — that is, who we describe as an ‘expert’. Anybody who puts the word ‘expert’ into the Twitter profile gets accepted as an expert yet are often promoting some ‘line’ or bias. We might need some technology to help us establish some truth quotient, perhaps linking news content to the sites that now offer some impartial fact checking. Simply saying, as some do, that the experts are wrong is in itself wrong. Experts got us to where we are and, relatively speaking, it’s not a bad place: better health, technology, understanding of the world. The alternative is that we slide back to something like super-naturalism with ‘wise people’ offering us their take on reality which isn’t based in something we can test.
I suppose that yes it comes down to the definition of an expert and whether in certain fields there can ever be such a thing. The people you describe in positive terms as experts were doers. Scientists, engineers, doctors etc. They developed theories based on prior knowledge and evidence and then tested those theories before putting them into general practice. They dealt in tangibles. What we normally have shoved in front of us nowadays are academics and talkers who deal in intangibles. An economist is an expert on economics in the same way that a racing tipster is an expert on horse racing, they are both wrong more often than they are right and hence not deserving of trust. Another issue is that of who is paying the piper. If Tony Blair espouses something is that Tony Blairs’ opinion or one of his paymasters opinions? If a former chief of staff decries the state of UK defences is that his opinion or that of BAE?. There’s the problem, who can you trust?. Impartial fact checking would be great, but then who is impartial?. Then there is the prevailing wind of opinion, the zeitgeist. In the 15th century prevailing opinion said the world was flat. For every expert who said it was round you could have produced 10 who said otherwise. After all who wants to look foolish and rock the boat. Apparently mobile phones don’t harm your health but then again they said the same thing about asbestos, mercury and lead paint.
While it may be wrong to dismiss every so called expert opinion it would be equally wrong to blindly accept what they say either. Even in the evidential based world of medicine it can sometimes be prudent to ask for a second opinion.
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It's currently on Fox TV, F, which is on sky, Now TV, Virgin and Talk Talkl; I only heard of it in passing, when someone earlier this year was slagging it off and a Star Trek enthusiast told them to go away, since the series was proving much better than anyone anticipated. I suspect having McFarlane at the helm hasn't helped, as he's known mainly for Family Guy, which a lot don't like, but watching it I was genuinely surprised at just how good it is.
Except.... I LOVE Family Guy.
Okay.... But you'll probably still enjoy The Orville.
Currently working our way through Vikings. It's been very good, especially the raid on Paris in season 3.
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I enjoyed Vikings, and the raid you mentioned, it never crossed my mind that they attacked cities like Paris, just the usual pillaging around Britain and Ireland.
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Meet Dusty Revenge – A Singapore-Made Video Game On Kickstarter
Posted by Contributor on 5/14/13 • Categorized as Feature Story
by Ade Putra
Singapore is no stranger to the magic of crowdfunding. We’ve seen local filmmakers, musicians and product designers leverage on the new medium but strangely enough, not game developers. That changes with Dusty Revenge, the latest from Singapore-based PD Design Studio. They’re only looking to fund their artbook but before we get into that, let’s see what the game’s all about.
Gun-toting rabbit
This is a tale of vengeance, if the title didn’t give it away. Dusty the rabbit is out to take down those responsible for his beloved Daisy’s murder, leaving behind a trail of dead baddies. He teams up with two others along the way — Rondel the heavy weapons bear and McCoy the sharpshooting dog — to seek out their common enemy, only to “unravel a scheme much bigger than their personal vendettas”.
They may be animals but don’t let that fool you: Dusty Revenge is oozing with gritty cowboy charm. Cinematics are digital paintings that unfold like a motion-comic, giving way to present a 2D action platformer that’ll take us across ghostly towns and deadly jungles. Not to forget the characters themselves, from the enigmatic villain Craven to the mysterious soothsayer Gladius.
The Art of Revenge
This full-colour artbook started out as a fun side-project. When fan interest popped up on Facebook, the team began updating it “with more images and proper descriptions.” The book currently boasts over 150 pages, which is both impressive and costly for an indie developer. Cue Kickstarter.
Their funding goal stands at $12,000, which helps to offset the costs of printing and shipping. The developers have experience with printers due to their history as a design studio, so the budget is very much an accurate one.
There’s an impressive spread of reward tiers here, where US$35 will net you a signed hardcover of the artbook and a digital copy of Dusty Revenge (excluding $5/$10 for local or international shipping). If that sounds a bit much, then the US$19 tier will replace the physical book with a PDF version. Head over to the Kickstarter page for all the details.
Support local indie development
Video games are as universal a concept as food. Singapore is only known for one of those two things but there’s no reason why we can’t foster a healthy development community. Look at Melbourne: they’re home to a thriving indie scene and is host to the first-ever PAX Australia gaming convention in July. All that wouldn’t happen without the support of gamers and developers, so let’s show a little love for our aspiring talent.
At the very least, check out Dusty Revenge’s Steam Greenlight page. The game is reportedly 90% complete with a 2013 release for PC, Mac, PSN and — from the looks of things — the OUYA as well.
[This article was first posted on RobotsGoneBad]
Ade Putra always has trouble juggling the many games vying for his attention. He has a love for stealth and RPGs but is willing to try almost anything. Intercept his mind-babbling on Twitter at @Putraman.
This is an article contributed to Young Upstarts and published or republished here with permission. All rights of this work belong to the authors named in the article above.
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Current: “Finding direction from a solo sport”
“Finding direction from a solo sport”
admin 15-Dec-2016
Sports and being physically active is something that is encouraged immensely on this island and to support this vision, a large number of campaigns and initiatives are already actively taking place. One of them is the Ironman 70.3 Middle East Championship, which recently concluded its second edition last Saturday. The race had featured more than 1,200 international, regional, local and expatriate runners who were involved in an exhilarating 1.9km swim from the Four Seasons and in and around Bahrain Bay, followed by 90km of cycling taking participants past iconic landmarks such as Al Fateh Grand Mosque, Gudaibiya Palace, Bahrain Museum, Bahrain World Trade Center, Bahrain Financial Harbour, Dilmun Burial Mounds, National Charter Monument and the Bahrain International Circuit (BIC), followed by a 21.1km run from BIC then on to Al Areen Wildlife Park and then head back to the finish line at BIC.
As exciting and challenging as it sounded, there were a large number of determined participants who showed up in the wee hours of the morning to make an impact and discover their potential. An inspiration to the spectators, Weekender was intrigued to speak to at least one of them, someone who doesn’t come from an athletic background nor career, but on their own sheer determination, made an impact. One of them was Amer Ebrahim. The 37 year old flight dispatcher in Bahrain Airforce believes sports shouldn’t be segregated between age or gender, in fact its only our passion that makes the difference and enables us to take a breath of relief as we cross the finish line. Speaking to Weekender, he shared: “I was never good at football, so I figured running was very independent and quite a peaceful solo sport; however in 2011 I was convinced by a friend to join a social running community called Bahrain Road Runners (BRR) and from thereon, my potential was realized. The members of this group became precious friends who nurtured my potential, enhanced and boosted my running level.”
Committing to the campaign
In 2013 he joined small triathlon races to perform the running leg only. It was just the start and before he knew it, Amer had purchased a bicycle for himself. Keeping the flow of things going, he decided to take-up freestyle swim and things just began to click from thereon.”In 2015 I decided to do my first half Ironman so I started my 6 months training prior to the race day!! Training for such an event requires dedication and commitment, but sharing it with friends that have the same passion will definitely make it easier and trigger a lot of fun, states Amer as he made preparations and took up committed and hard training required for the race. “We train 1 to 2 hrs a day and it goes longer in weekends, even 5 days a week.”While the swim leg was cancelled in last year’s edition of the Ironman race, hence Amer was only involved in the cycling and running chapter, while disappointed a little , he said: “Anything can happen in a race day that might not allow you to have or do your best performance. But knowing that you’ll only be stronger and more efficient next time, it keeps us all going.” And this year, there certainly was no space for disappointment as he got to experience the triathlon. “It was too windy and surely affected my goal timing, yet I’m very happy and pleased with the results.”
Brushing up on the exciting experience and what a learning curve it has been to his athletic manifestation, Amer encourages everyone to join in as it welcomes all ages at any fitness level. “Triathlon has been fast growing in Bahrain for the last few years and through it you’ll find yourself inviting much healthier life style into your life. Your eating, sleeping, and physical energy will be transformed for the better and it will play a strong impact on your overall well-being.”
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North Carolina Solar Mostly Back Online After Hurricane Florence
This is a post from one of our sister publications, Windermere Sun, below:
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Hurricane Florence was a Category 4 at its peak, at 130 miles per hour (or 210 kilometers per hour) wind two days before making its landfall on September 14, 2018. That was so close to the threshold (140-160 miles per hour) of the design of new solar farms. About a third of the 3,000 megawatts of solar capacity connected to Duke Energy Corp’s system went down initially, according to utility spokesman Randy Wheeless. As of this week, about nine projects in North Carolina remained offline. Four of these were due to damage to Duke Energy facilities and five were due to damage to the project themselves. Wheeless said facilities that suffered the most tended to be five megawatt projects connected to Due’s distribution system.
Duke had been trying to get developers to move toward larger solar projects to connect largely to its transmission system, the high-voltage wires that link Duke plants to the distribution system that delivered power to homes and businesses. With hundreds of solar projects connected to Duke’s grid in North Carolina, the number of damaged projects remained small. Senior vice president at Strata Solar, Brian O’Hara, said that the Chapel-Hill based solar developer with more than 140 projects in the state saw damage at only two facilities. O’Hara said, “Duke has done a commendable job responding quickly and getting our facilities back online shortly after we notified them that they were inspected and ready to reconnect….our teams have coordinated closely with Duke’s recovery team, and it has been professional, responsive and pretty seamless.” The chief operating officer for Durham-based Ecoplexus Inc., John Morrison, said his company also saw very little damage, with only two of the 16 sites operating in North Carolina suffering some broken modules, amounting to less than 0.34% of the the developer’s modules, “not enough to even exceed the insurance deductible.” Spokesman for the California-based Cypress Creek Renewables, Jeff McKay, also reporting no notable damage in its solar fleet. As for Duke itself, its only project that suffered damage was the 60-megawatt Monroe Solar project in Union County, with few panels being damaged by wind. Duke’s Fayetteville, Warswa and Camp Lejeuene solar projects were all undamaged and returned to service as soon as grid operations allowed. Most outages during and after the worst of the hurricane Florence were due to problems with Duke’s grid rather than problems at the projects themselves.
To see what solar had done for North Carolina, check out these videos below:
Video “The birth of a solar farm in Halifax, NC” below:
Video “What’s the future for solar energy in NC” below:
Video “Study shows North Carolina as number 2 for solar electric capacity installed through 2017“: below:
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A MUST READ ARTICLE
Whitetails and Tall Tails
Like the sharp report of a rifle somewhere off in the woods you’re walking though, these stories will snap you to attention. Lindsley's stories ring with the clarity of an October morning in the piney woods of the deep south. Their language cuts to the bone of what needs to be said: "Just go back to sleep, will ya," grumbles one half of the Midnight in the Marriage dialogue. Once you dive into Lindsley's stories, you'll likely not sleep until long after midnight, when you'll put the book down with a sigh of regret that you've finished it.
Dana Wildsmith, Educator, poet, author, Back to Abnormal and Jumping
A woman of the fields, of the earth, and of the red Georgia clay, Susan shares her enthusiasm for hunting and fishing, and guides us into the woods. As she leads us into the world of wild turkeys, foxes, elk, and deer she reminds us of our God-given dominion over the beasts of the field, and the respect we must have for them. Her southern dialect filters through the good red earth and oozes poignancy onto the written page.
Janet Sheppard Kelleher, author of Big C, little ta-ta: Kicking Breast Cancer's Butt in 7 Humorous Stories, Amazon best seller.
A captivating collection of short stories is authored by an obviously experienced lover of the great outdoors! Good, enjoyable reading.
Okefenokee Joe, AKA Dick Flood, wildlife host, folk hero, songwriter, educator and Emmy Award winner.
Emperor of the United American States
This collection of short stories, which never stints in a harsh reality, is spicy, smart, and entertaining.
Steve Berry, international and New York Times best selling author of the Cotton Malone series and four standalone novels. Into 40 languages and 51 countries.
An award-winning author, Susan keeps on hitting literary home runs. Her writing is like springtime and a chilling storm combined, with lightning striking in paragraphs and thunder in the distance ...tight pacing and seat-of-your-pants cliffhangers even within paragraphs.
Peggy Mercer, Best selling Author and Georgia Author of the Year, 2011.
I was completely captivated with Susan's new collection of short stories. In the tradition of Flannery O'Connor, Lindsley's dark and sometimes unsettling stories had me hooked. With each twist and turn, I was entertained from the first page to the last.
Dana Ridenour, retired FBI agent, novelist and author of Behind the Mask and Beyond the Cabin.
Susan's book is a brilliant collection of award wining, thought-provoking, mind-awakening short stories. Black humor ranging from believable to unimaginable grips the reader both emotionally and psychologically. A change of pace comes with "not politically correct" humor and tales that tug on the heart strings. The impression lingers of a present day "1984" blended with slices of Stephen King. The reader will be tempted to read the entire book at one sitting although superb enjoyment comes from savoring each story.
John C. House, author of numerous books, including So Shall You Reap and Uncommon Bond as well as Trail of Deceit.
Possum Cops Poachers and the Counterfeit Game Warden
She influenced governors, legislators, game managers, game wardens, reporters, wildlife organizations and other hunters. READ her hunting adventures, how she went from anti-hunter to avid hunter, how she battled poachers, how she stood up for Game Management against the powerfully organized, how she changed the deer bag limits, and the history of deer hunting in Georgia, from stump sitting along scrape lines to sitting in high towers over food plots. “Young folks don’t know what thrills they are missing,” she says of the new hunting techniques. 438 pp, indexed, over 100 photos.
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A window onto cooperation, dialogue, leadership and policymaking at the UN Human Rights Council
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No field presence
NHRI accreditation status:
National Mechanisms for Implementation, Reporting, and Follow-up (NMIRF): Unknown
Engagement with the HRC
Principal sponsorship of HRC resolutions
Cultural rights and the protection of cultural heritage; World Programme for Human Rights Education; Assistance to Somalia in the field of human rights; Contribution of parliaments to the work of the Human Rights Council and its universal periodic review; Development of public information activities in the field of human rights, including the World Public Information Campaign on Human Rights; Human rights education and training; Human rights situation in the Syrian Arab Republic; National policies and human rights; Strengthening efforts to prevent and eliminate child, early and forced marriage; Youth and human rights; Child, early and forced marriage in humanitarian settings; The deteriorating situation of human rights in the Syrian Arab Republic, and the recent situation in Aleppo (special session).
Since it first became a member of the Council in 2007, Italy has either voted in favour of or has joined consensus on every resolution tabled under item 4 (situations that require the Council’s attention), and country-specific resolutions under item 2. For item 7 resolutions (human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories), Italy tends to vote in favour, or to abstain (e.g. resolutions on human rights in the occupied Syrian Golan). Between 2008 and 2010, Italy voted against four item 7 resolutions. On item 10 resolutions (capacity-building), Italy has joined consensus on all resolutions except for the two that have been voted on during its time as member: one dealing with cooperation with Ukraine (with Italy voting in favour), and one dealing with cooperation with the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Italy abstained). For thematic resolutions dealing with civil and political rights, Italy has mainly either voted in favour or joined consensus. Resolutions that it usually (or always) votes against include: OIC resolutions on defamation of religions; Cuba’s resolutions on right to peace; some African Group resolutions on racism and the Durban Review Conference; and an African Group resolution on complementary standards to ICERD. Italy has abstained on a number of resolutions including the Russian Federation’s 2014 resolution on the integrity of the judicial system and Pakistan’s 2014 resolution on drones. For thematic resolutions dealing with economic, social and cultural rights, Italy has joined consensus on a majority of texts. Where there have been votes on such texts, Italy has voted in favour of (NAM) resolutions on the right to development, and against texts on: the effects of foreign debt (Cuba); and international solidarity (Cuba). Italy has abstained on a number of resolutions, including on the non-repatriation of funds of illicit origin, and on access to medicine.
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HRC participation
During HRC general discussions, panel debates and interactive dialogues with the Special Procedures, during the past three years, either as an HRC member or not, the State has joined:
Regional or subregional
group statements
Average of statements for all countries: 20
Cross-regional
Other joint
Average of statements for all countries: 2
HRC member empty chair?
Overall, as a HRC member, has participated in more than 10% of panel discussions, general debates and interactive dialogues.
Cooperation with international human rights system
Standing invitation
Communications responded to / received
Visits requests status
Invitation sent by the State not (yet) accepted by the SP
Accepted / date set
Visit request by the SP and not (yet) accepted by the State
Postponed / cancelled
Longest visit request not (yet) accepted by the State >
SR on water and sanitation, 2015; SR on toxic waste, 2015
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ICESCR
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None overdue
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NPM established
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(2009, 2014)
Mid-term report
2nd cycle
Level of delegation
Participation in other reviews
1st cycle: 127 / 192
2nd cycle: 158 / 192
Cooperation with the UN, its representatives and mechanisms in the field of human rights
Cited in the Secretary General’s reports on 'alleged reprisals for cooperation with the United Nations, its representatives and mechanisms in the field of human rights' (2010-2018)?
Fulfilment of past voluntary pledges & commitments
Specific voluntary pledges: 25
Italy presented its voluntary pledges for election for the term 2019-2021 in 26 February 2018. In the document, Italy pledges to, inter alia:
Continue to promote an open and inclusive approach to human rights, focusing on ownership by local actors and on cooperation with civil society organisations; Mainstream human rights promotion and protection into conflict prevention, resolution and settlement; Work to further improve the effectiveness
of the UPR; Support and cooperate with the Special Procedures; Prevent, combat and secure accountability for international crimes; Support prompt responses to human rights emergencies; Further promote human rights education and awareness; Enhance the role of civil society in the formulation and implementation of human rights policies and programmes; and support NGO participation in the Council.
Further work on the following key thematic areas: fight against all forms of discrimination, including by combatting hate speech, the participation of women at all levels; women’s rights, rights of the child, capital punishment, freedom of religion, persons with disabilities, cultural rights and human rights defenders.
An analysis of steps taken by Italy in fulfilment of its international pledges shows that Italy participates in around half of interactive dialogues at the Council; it has a good record of facilitating Special Procedures visits to Italy (71%) but is yet to respond to 58% of communications. It engages closely with the UPR, participating in the reviews of 127 states during the first cycle and 158 during the second cycle and has ratified all human rights core conventions. Italy has supported all resolutions on the thematic areas it pledged to work on.
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Zip Tie Bandit
Bandits, With Zip Ties
About Zip Tie Bandit
…AND GENTRIFYING
Date: June 28, 2017 0
It was 2004 when all the white people began moving in to take advantage of the downtown access, the fitness center, building offices, ground level shops/restaurants, and views. Easy access to Ford Field, The Fox Theatre, Comerica Park, the Casinos, the Opera House, and the new roundabout beach (?) in the middle of the city made this building prime positioning for the regentrification of the city.
All those white flight sons and daughters who had spent years visiting these sites without setting foot on Detroit ground suddenly wanted to live in the middle of the action, they wanted some of that Detroit-cred, they wanted to have access to everything that had lied abandoned for decades. And they had the money to pay for it!
Unfortunately for Garry and his neighbors, some of whom had been living in the abandoned building since the 1980s, were forced out of a $1500/month apartment they had been in for decades rent free.
The windows that had once been busted out, through which flocks of birds would weave, were not UV treated professional commercial windows hiding behind blinds. The façade that had once worn the history of the city like a badge of honor was now bright gleaming white, always being tended to. The common areas were pristine, there were rules to keep it that way.
And Garry – he got a job as a doorman at the Kales Building greeting, every day, the white young family now living inside of his beautiful 2000-sq ft apartment.
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Girls State H.S. Basketball Tournament
Rich Peterson
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2014 Minnesota Girls' State Tournament Glance
At Target Center
Eastview 63, St. Paul Central 58
Eden Prairie 67, Anoka 57
Lakeville North 69, Centennial 52
Bloomington Kennedy 71, St. Michael-Albertville 57
At Williams Arena, Univ. of Minn.
Eastview vs. Eden Prairie, 6 p.m.
Lakeville North vs. Bloomington Kennedy, 8 p.m.
At Concordia Univ.
Third Place9
Semifinal losers, 4 p.m.
Semifinal winners, 8 p.m.
Park Center 68, Simley 53
Minneapolis Washburn 62, Monticello 53
At Mariucci Arena, Univ. of Minn.
Kasson-Mantorville (25-5) vs. Fergus Falls (28-1), 10 a.m.
Chisago Lakes (22-6) vs. Marshall (27-2), noon
At Williams Arena, Univ. of Minn
Park Center vs. Minneapolis Washburn, noon
Quarterfinal winners, 2 p.m.
Third Place
Pequot Lakes (23-6) vs. New Richland-H-E-G (28-0), 2 p.m.
Minnehaha Academy (20-6) vs. Howard Lake-Waverly-Winsted (27-2), 4 p.m.
Redwood Valley (19-9) vs. Kenyon-Wanamingo (29-1), 6 p.m.
Esko (25-5) vs. New London-Spicer (24-5), 8 p.m.
Semifinal losers, noon
Browerville (23-5) vs. Minneota (30-1), 11 a.m.
Ada-Borup (28-1) vs. Goodhue (25-5), 1 p.m.
Mankato Loyola (27-2) vs. Maranatha Christian (23-5), 3 p.m.
Win-E-Mac (28-2) vs. Mountain Iron-Buhl (28-2), 5 p.m.
Quarterfinal winners, noon
Semifinal losers, 10 a.m.
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The Bachelorette 2019 Cast: Meet Hannah's Bachelors
By Mike Krolak | May 7th, 2019
It's a tractor … It's a plane … It's the self-appointed king of the jungle! Hannah Brown's search for fierce love is matched with fierce competition as one hopeful bachelor sets a high bar by jumping the fence, while another pops out from the limo in true beast fashion. At the end of the day, whether it's a golf pro looking to be Hannah's hole-in-one, a Box King seeking a woman who checks all his boxes, or a man with a custom-made pizza delivery, everyone wants a piece of Hannah's heart on the highly anticipated 15th season of The Bachelorette, premiering MONDAY, MAY 13 (8:00-10:01 p.m. EDT), on The ABC Television Network, streaming and on demand.
Get your first look at Hannah's guys!
In The Bachelorette 2019 season premiere, Hannah returns to find her soul mate from an impressive group of 30 bachelors in the Bachelorette cast who are willing to jump the fence and bring out their inner beast, all in the name of love. Little do they know that "Hannah's Angels"—Demi Burnett and Katie Morton from the 23rd season of The Bachelor—are keeping an eye out on the men from a surveillance van parked by the Bachelor Mansion, for the first time in Bachelor history. What intel will they gather, and what drama will ensue?
Hannah B meets her first five bachelors in The Bachelor 2019 finale
At the end of the night, 22 lucky bachelors remain to toast the Bachelorette, with hearts overflowing and romantic adventures yet to come. Will Hannah find the man of her dreams?
The 30 men who will vie for Hannah's heart are the following:
Brian, 30, a math teacher from Louisville, KY
Cam, 30, software sales from Austin, TX
Chasen, 27, a pilot from Ann Arbor, MI
Connor J., 28, a sales manager from Newport Beach, CA
Connor S., 24, an investment analyst from Dallas, TX
Daron, 25, an IT consultant from Buckhead, GA
Devin, 27, a talent manager from Sherman Oaks, CA
Dustin, 30, a real estate broker from Chicago, IL
Dylan, 24, a tech entrepreneur from San Diego, CA
Garrett, 27, a golf pro from Birmingham, AL
Grant, 30, unemployed from San Clemente, CA
Hunter, 24, a pro surfer from Westchester, CA
Jed, 25, a singer/songwriter from Nashville, TN
Joe, 30, The Box King from Chicago, IL
Joey, 33, a finance manager from Bethesda, MD
John Paul Jones, 24, a John Paul Jones from Lanham, MD
Jonathan, 27, a server from Los Angeles, CA
Kevin, 27, a behavioral health specialist from Manteno, IL
Luke P., 24, an import/export manager from Gainesville, GA
Luke S., 29, a political consultant from Washington, DC
Matt Donald, 26, a medical device salesman from Los Gatos, CA
Matteo, 25, a management consultant from Atlanta, GA
Matthew, 23, a car bid spotter from Newport Beach, CA
Mike, 31, a portfolio manager from San Antonio, TX
Peter, 27, a pilot from Westlake Village, CA
Ryan, 25, a roller boy from Philadelphia, PA
Scott, 28, a software sales executive from Chicago, IL
Thomas, 27, an international pro basketball player from Detroit, MI
Tyler C., 26, a general contractor from Jupiter, FL
Tyler G., 28, a psychology graduate student from Boca Raton, FL
Hannah's journey to find love begins MONDAY 8|7c on ABC!
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Trump promotes his new luxury hotel along with campaign
WASHINGTON -- With his White House dreams increasingly in question, Donald Trump is spending precious campaign time promoting his private business in the final weeks of the long race. Hillary Clinton, meanwhile, is using his appearances to undermine his business credentials out on the campaign trail, accusing him of having "stiffed American workers."
Less than two weeks before Election Day - and with polls showing him trailing in many battleground states - Trump took a break from campaigning Wednesday morning to formally open his new hotel in Washington. His remarks at the hotel, which has struggled to fill rooms amid the controversy surrounding his presidential bid, followed a visit Tuesday to another of his properties, the Doral golf course outside Miami.
RELATED: Trump's star on Hollywood Walk of Fame vandalized
"Under budget and ahead of schedule. So important. We don't hear those words so often, but you will," said Trump, linking the hotel redevelopment to his promised performance as president. "Today is a metaphor for what we can accomplish for this country."
Though the GOP nominee focused his remarks on his political message, the event was heavy with marketing, too. Standing under glittering chandeliers, top company executives, including his daughter, touted the hotel. After delivering brief political remarks, Trump and his family headed to the hotel's grand lobby where they cut a wide red ribbon with golden scissors before flying to North Carolina for what his campaign billed as an urban policy speech.
As Trump cut ribbons, Clinton was slamming Trump's business practices at a Florida campaign rally, saying he built his empire with Chinese-manufactured steel, overseas products and labor from immigrants in the country illegally. Later in the day, she was being joined by restaurateur Jose Andres, who pulled out of the Washington hotel to protest Trump's anti-immigrant rhetoric. Trump and Andres are currently locked in litigation over the deal.
"While the hotel may be new it's the same old story," she told several thousand supporters in Lake Worth, Florida. "He has stiffed American workers, he has stiffed American businesses."
RELATED: Trump says first presidential act would be to repeal Affordable Care Act
Trump's unusual travel schedule, coming amid signs that the controversy surrounding his campaign has hurt his corporate brand, raises questions about whether the GOP nominee has begun to turn some of his focus to postelection plans.
Rooms at the overhauled $212 million hotel that bears his name at Washington's Old Post Office Pavilion have been heavily discounted and smartphone data suggest fewer people are visiting his properties compared to rival venues nearby. A new Facebook live show produced by his campaign has heightened speculation that Trump may try and offset any losses with advertising revenue from a new a media network - a plan he denies.
Trump supporters defended the stops, arguing they show how he would govern as president.
"I think there was a symbolic message here that if you want business as usual and bureaucracy as usual, vote Hillary," said former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, a Trump backer.
Clinton, too, has turned some of her focus to what happens after Nov. 8, though her efforts assume she wins. Deep in transition planning, people familiar with her effort say she plans to impose strict ethics rules on how lobbyists may participate on her team. In recent days, she's begun expanding the scope of her campaign to help down-ballot Democrats - her party sees an opportunity to win control of the Senate and reduce its deficit in the House - and retool her campaign message to emphasize unifying the country after a divisive race.
RELATED: Trump slams Clinton for taking time off for Adele concert
"What Trump has done is to make it possible for people who had racist, sexist, and all kinds of prejudices and bigotry to put them right out there," Clinton said on the "Breakfast Club," a syndicated radio show based in New York City. "I'm not going to be able to wave a magic wand and change everybody's thoughts."
Wednesday was the candidate's 69th birthday, a milestone she celebrated a day early on Univision's entertainment news show "El Gordo y La Flaca," where she was feted with a bottle of tequila and a large cake featuring her face. In her appearance on "The Breakfast Club," a syndicated radio show popular with African-American voters, singer Stevie Wonder serenaded the woman he called "Madam President Clinton."
Trump, meanwhile, dispatched his running mate, Mike Pence, to play political defense in Utah - a state that hasn't backed a Democrat for president in 52 years.
Besides Utah, Pence also was stopping in the swing states of Nevada and Colorado before he heads on Thursday to solidly Republican Nebraska, a state that awards some of its electoral votes by congressional district. His rally in Omaha may be aimed at shoring up support in the one district that Clinton could potentially win.
For full coverage on the presidential election, click here.
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Mueller report: House panel holds AG William Barr in contempt
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Mueller Report Release: Subpoena issued
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BREAKING NEWSChemical spill reported in East Rutherford; Shelter-in-Place issued
Police prepared to provide maximum protection at US Open finals from ground and air
By Tim Fleischer
FLUSHING, Queens (WABC) -- As the US Open enters its final weekend at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, Eyewitness News is getting an inside look at what it takes to secure an event of that magnitude on the ground and from the air.
For the NYPD, spending two weeks on high alert at the tennis tournament comes down to the two most important days: the finals. With more than 750,000 people attending the matches, officers are armed and ready to provide maximum protection.
Among many of the high-tech security measures in place for the weekend, officers with the counterterrorism unit are equipped with radiation backpacks for enhanced detection.
"It's an international event so we have some very real concerns," Deputy Chief of Counterterrorism Joseph Gallucci said. "Any elements of a dirty bomb, certain types of explosive devices and precursors to bomb making and that sort of thing -- we cover it pretty well."
And high above the US Open venue, the Aviation Unit's helicopter is equipped with new radiation detection equipment for wide sweeps of the area.
"The unit acts as a force multiplier being able to cover a large area with just one helicopter," Lt. Richard Knoeller said. "We have a sensor mission package with mapping, electro-optical infrared cameras, we can scan several rooftops in minutes."
Aside from visible heavy weapons teams, vapor wake dogs work through large crowds of people to pick up on any possible bomb making components.
Vehicles are scanned at several checkpoints near the stadium with a low camera so authorities can check for explosives or anything suspicious.
"It scans the undercarriage and then a visual inspection of the inside of the car will also be done," Deputy Inspector James Sheerin said.
If any problems occur, an elite emergency services unit provides a rapid response to any situation utilizing a fully armored and fully equipped vehicle.
"If we need to get over wrought-iron fencing at the US Open, we can pull this right up to it and fast rope over the front of the fencing to get in," Lt. Tom Kehrli with the Emergency Services Unit said. "This offers us Level 4 ballistic protection."
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New Movies This Week — ‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier’
Chris Chaberski
Only one major new release hits theaters this week, but that's hardly going to keep people from filling up theaters. It's the return of the enormously popular 'Avengers' franchise, with the latest entry starring everyone's favorite star-spangled superhero with a shield.
'Captain America: The Winter Soldier'
After the events of 'The Avengers' nearly obliterated New York City, Captain America returns to Washington, only to uncover a massive conspiracy that leads him to face off with his most dangerous enemy yet. (Read more about 'Captain America: The Winter Soldier' here.)
Directed by Anthony Russo, Joe Russo
Starring Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Redford
Buy tickets here.
Source: New Movies This Week — ‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier’
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The main characters are two mostly irresponsible rascals, one dumb but likable living tree and two fanatics of which one certainly need not apply to the Mensa club. Ofthe five I liked Rocket and Gamora the best.
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In 2004, a group of Coloradans sued the Colorado Department of Health Service (CDHS). Wait times for crucial food assistance programs were exceeding the legal limit, which led to the state’s most vulnerable not getting the vital services they need.
The lawsuit brought urgency to the task of reforming operations within the CDHS. When it was eventually settled in 2008, the resolution came with a caveat — the CDHS had to process applications in a timely manner 95% of the time for 12 consecutive months.
Meeting the target seemed improbable: in October 2007 only 70% of regular applicants and 46% of expedited applications to the scheme met the required timeframe.
But the department turned things around. With “C-Stat”, an extensive data and evidence-based framework aimed at making CDHS work more efficiently, it was hitting the required timeframe near-100% of the time by 2017. Here’s how the organisation did it, what it says about how public servants use data, and the leadership lessons to take from the success.
C-Stat
Inspired by the New York Police Department’s organisational management tool CompStat, C-Stat is a framework that requires all Colorado counties and departments within the CDHS to conduct performance meetings based on data analysis.
The CDHS oversees 25 health and human service programs, including facilities for at-risk youth, community living centres for veterans and the elderly, mental health institutions for mentally ill adults, and centres for developmentally disabled adults.
C-Stat fosters an environment of continuous development. It does this by, first, using a combination of data comparisons and follow-ups to learn how departments are improving, and second, by acknowledging departments that are succeeding.
The first steps of C-Stat require department managers to identify places where their department is underperforming, based on standards set by an oversight body or federal funder. Department managers then set a monthly goal that will be measured over the course of 12 months with progress reported to the Governor’s office monthly.
Although setting goals can be difficult for social services because it often involves measuring behaviours — for instance, it’s difficult to collect data on why people aren’t paying child support — the CDHS departments would set a measurable outcome for things where data may not be present, according to an IBM Center for Government study on C-Stat.
Initially, they would gather data that was already being collected from the state and federal governments to track progress. Over the years, the CDHS developed more measures and developed new technologies for data collection, such as developing a sophisticated data portal.
Although data collection and data analytics are important, unless department leaders are re-prioritising or implementing new strategies based on their “performance scorecard” —a monthly report that shows how close departments are to reaching their goals — the whole process of C-Stat isn’t being adequately carried out, Kamensky said.
C-Stat requires comparisons to inform and educate departments to drive improvements. Executive leadership meets regularly to discuss expectations for each department and discuss performance scorecards. Performance scorecards are used to recognise departments that are meeting targets and provide help for those that are falling behind.
For example, ten counties worked together during C-Stat meetings in 2012 to identify ways to make the benefits process run smoother. They recognised that the benefits processing system was outdated and worked together to secure funding to hire a contractor to modernise the system, which fed into the larger state system easier.
Wait times between 2012 – 2017 for benefits applications were then on target 98.76% for regular applications and 98.23% for expedited applications. The new expectation is that applicants will receive a response to their application in 48 hours.
Re-focusing investments in quality and timely data allowed department leaders to form new strategies for effective change based on quantifiable results.
Data engagement and leadership
Inspired leadership is required to manage the complicated dynamics between the 64 departments, 5,000 employees, hundreds of contractors, and oversee the annual budget of $2.2 billion.
“C-Stat isn’t just an initiative, it was his [CDHS head Reggie Bicha’s] leadership style, and that’s why it works in some places and not so much in others, because the leader has to be comfortable to use data and have regular means to devote his or her time to actually participate in these meetings,” said John Kamensky, senior fellow at the IBM Center for The Business of Government.
For C-Stat, executives commit 240 hours per year on performance meetings to discuss the data findings. Kamensky added that active engagement in meetings from top level executives is important for lower level managers to find it authentic and take the practice seriously.
According to Kamensky, Bicha also fostered an environment of trust. Departments and counties, for example, weren’t penalised when the data revealed they were not reaching targets and were instead given lee-way to fix problems. Bicha similarly guaranteed that there was active communication between the CDHS and external contractors to ensure that solutions were found, not blame.
Individuals and departments were also recognised for exceeding and successfully meeting targets, which helped generate good will towards the implementation of C-Stat.
In 2015, lawmakers signed a no confidence letter to replace Bicha due to his reforms within the child welfare departments, but governor John Hickenlooper refused the demands giving Bicha full reign to “innovate and improve” human services.
The results paid off, and Bicha was not only praised for his work, but instituted a larger framework of data sharing and collaboration between departments, counties, and state systems that delivered real results. – Amelia Axelsen
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Should the Dun Laoghaire Waterfront Have Its Own Classic Wooden Boat-Building Academy?
WM Nixon
The magic atmosphere of classic boat-building - the Dublin Bay 24 Zephyra under re-construction at the Apprenticeshop in Maine, USA.
Dublin Bay has an unrivalled continuous history of One-Design sailing and racing writes W M Nixon.
It runs in a golden thread all the way back to 1887, when Ben Middleton launched his little class of Water Wag dinghies to establish an ideal and a tradition which has grown and developed to be comfortably at the core of sailing not just from Dun Laoghaire itself, but on all of the coasts of the Greater Dublin area.
Over the years, different One-Design classes have lasted for varying periods of time. But there has always been the thought that once a size has proven popular, then its successor class will reflect this. Yet even with new classes arriving, boats of the older types have sometimes survived, and this has created an unexpected consequence which is now having an international spinoff.
In many maritime parts of the world, boat-building schools and academies have been springing up for all sorts of reasons, including historical meaning, sociological needs, skills training, creative challenge, hobby teaching, and the simple pleasure of working with wood – you name it, it can be found as part of the thinking behind establishing a boat-building school.
The sheer style of the Dublin Bay classics has global appeal – this is the Martin brothers having a bit of sport with Adastra in a wayward gust at the entrance to Dun Laoghaire Harbour in the 1950s. Photo courtesy Martin family
These schools have found a treasure trove in Dublin Bay’s unrivalled collection of One-Design boat plans, a selection whose creators have included such distinguished names as William Fife and Alfred Mylne, not to mention Irish designers such as Maimie Doyle and John B Kearney. Their legacy is historic wooden boats of varying size and type, each of which can be used as perfect subject matter for their pupils.
Early stages of building a Water Wag at the Apprenticeshop
Thus at the moment the famous Apprenticeshop in Maine under the direction of Kevin Carney is re-building the Dublin Bay 24 Zephyra for David Espey of Dun Laoghaire – a project so total that the main part of the original boat is virtually only the ballast keel - while nearby, a completely new Water Wag (to the 1900 Maimie Doyle design) is also under construction.
Meanwhile in Brittany at Douarnenez, the remarkable Paul Robert and his team at the impressive complex which is Les Ateliers de l’Enfer have two Irish-related projects under way – a re-building of the 1900 Howth 17 Anita from the ballast keel up, and the making of sails traditional-style for the 1896 Herbert Boyd-designed 26ft Marguerite now owned by Guy Kilroy, which is currently undergoing restoration back in Ireland by Larry Archer in his very rural shed in the depths of Fingal.
Planking under way on the re-build of the Boyd-designed Howth 17 Anita at Douarnenez in Brittany. Photo: Ian Malcolm
Another Boyd design, the 26ft Marguerite of 1896, is being restored for Guy Kilroy by Larry Archer in rural Fingal. Photo: W M Nixon
South down the Breton coast, Mike Newmeyer’s famous Skol ar Mor is busy on some French craft this winter, but in times past they’ve worked creative wonders on designs as diverse as the Dublin Bay 24 Periwinkle, the Howth 17 Orla, and Water Wags and Shannon One Designs, such that they hope to get back with one of the Irish designs next winter.
Further south again down the Biscay coast, and at San Sebastian in Spain’s Basque country, one of the most beautifully-built Water Wags ever seen – David Williams’ Dipper - emerged last year from the Abeola boat-building school under the direction of Brian McClelland. There’s another one currently under constriction for Mary Chambers, while the word is that other more distant places have been enquiring of the class about acquiring plans, and what they need to do in order for their finished product to be recognized as a true Water Wag.
And here we find another of the advantages of drawing on Dublin’s treasure trove of One-Design plans in order to launch a boat-building training exercise. For as the job progresses, today’s economical air travel means that the builder can get the class measurer to come and give the project his approval and encouragement.
Today’s Water Wags – seen here in close contention in Dun Laoghaire Harbour – have become pace-setters in the classic boat movement in Ireland. Photo: W M Nixon
Thus the trainee boat-builders – sometimes adults as much as young people – not only learn how to work with timber and put a seaworthy boat together in classic wooden boat style, but they also learn to build with precision if they use a living Dublin Bay design.
Of course, not all contemporary re-creations of Irish wooden boats are taking place outside Ireland, and in Ireland not all such projects use Dublin designs. At Oldcourt near Baltimore, Liam Hegarty and his team – having finished their work on the restoration of the 56ft Conor O’Brien ketch Ilen of Limerick back in the Spring – are now into the re-building of O’Brien’s world-girdling 42ft Saoirse.
And just up the road at Ballydehob, Tiernan Roe is restoring the famous Lady Min, originally designed and built by Maurice O’Keeffe of Schull in 1902. Nearby, Rui Ferreira’s workshop may be best-known locally as the spiritual home of the clinker-built Ette Class from Castlehaven, but he is also completing a Water Wag for Martin Byrne of Dublin Bay to a standard which will rival the San Sebastian boat.
A work of art – the new Rui Ferreira-built Water Wag for Martin Byrne nears completion in Ballydehob
Moving northwards along the western seaboard, at Kilrush on the Shannon Estuary, Steve Morris has finished one hull of the Hal Sisk and Fionan de Barra project to re-build three of the legendary Dublin Bay 21s of 1902, and another is on the way, while across at Foynes, the thriving Mermaid class has seen new boats being built by the voluntary effort for which Foynes Yacht Club is deservedly famous.
The Dublin Bay 21 Naneen was re-built with the hull inverted, and is seen here at Kilrush shortly after being turned. Photo: Hal Sisk
Further north, it’s very seldom that there isn’t at least one major re-building project underway on a Galway Hooker in Connemara or in Galway city itself, while along the Shannon, boat-building legend Jimmy Furey has – with Cathy MacAleavey’s encouragement – continued to build Shannon One Designs and Water Wags, while the same historic clinker-built classes have also benefited from the boat-building skills of Dougal MacMahon of Belmont in County Offaly, and the future should see a further combination of these three remarkable talents.
Although the Shannon One Designs may be indigenous to the great river and its lakes, the Water Wags are Dublin Bay through and through, and we find a sort of circle around their home port which has seen Jack Jones of Anglesey building Wags, while at the Elephant Boatyard on the Hamble in the heartlands of the Solent, there’s another Dublin Bay 21 coming back to life.
Thus there’s an underlying sense of ever increasing circles rotating around the re-building of classic Dublin Bay classes, initially taking in western Ireland and Fingal and Wales, then broadening to include France and Spain, and now expanding still further to include North America.
Dougal McMahon at Belmont in County Offaly with restorative joinery work on the 1915 Water Wag Barbara. Photo: Ian Malcolm
Yet at the very heart of these circles in Dublin Bay, we find a desert for classic wooden boat-building. Certainly, there was a fine new coastal skiff completed recently at St Michael’s Rowing Club in Dun Laoghaire. But nearby, the ever-busy maintenance, repair and modification facility of the Irish National Sailing School is very much a place where plastics and chemistry are dominant.
In a weird sort of way, it is generally accepted that there is no classic yacht building tradition in Dun Laoghaire – the view seems to be that it is always outsourced. Yet surely there’d be welcome extra life put into the Dun Laoghaire waterfront if – as an integral part of it – there was an active and accessible Boat-Building Academy?
It could incorporate the ideals which boat-building training gurus such as America’s Lance Lee (best known in Ireland for his links to the Bantry Boat movement) have been articulating so determinedly and successfully for decades, such that the local community and wider sociological benefits of establishments like this no longer need to be argued – rather, it’s a matter of specific location and size.
One of the last larger classics to be built on Dublin Bay, the 41ft Knud Reimers-designed Marian Maid (John Sisk) was launched in 1954, and was restored in 2002
And as for the argument that Dun Laoghaire and its immediate area have no tradition of classic building, that’s not so. Admittedly it was all of 65 years ago that the last yacht of significant size, the 41ft yawl Marian Maid, emerged from the Dalkey Yacht Building Company for John Sisk Senr of the noted contracting firm. He owned the boatyard as a sideline, and their main trade was in building Folkboats. But in 1953 he approached the famous Swedish designer Knud Reimers for his take on the new International 8 Metre Cruiser/Racer, and the result was a design which Reimers liked so much that while John Sisk had Marian Maid built on the shores of Dublin Bay, Reimers had a sister-ship built for himself in Sweden.
Marian Maid had a restoration in northwest England in 2002, and made a ceremonial return to Dun Laoghaire to remind everyone that, once upon a time, such classics were built locally. But of course if we go back to the hyper-active days of One-Design growth and development in Dublin between 1895 and 1910, we find that there were several yards such as Doyle, Clancy and Hollwey producing work of the highest quality to create classes like the Dublin Bay 25s, the Dublin Bay 21s, the Howth SC/DBSC 17s, and of course the Water Wags.
Maimie Doyle’s plans for the 1901-built 9-tonner Granuaile
The Water Wags of the 1900 design were a James Doyle speciality, but equally in his Dun Laoghaire workshop he could turn out keelboats such as the Dublin Bay 25s, and in 1901 his daughter Maimie finalized the design for a 9-ton cruiser which, although named Granuaile, was based far indeed from the home waters of the Pirate Queen Granuaile on Ireland’s western seaboard, as her home port was Burnham-on-Crouch in the Thames Estuary.
The new boat was such a success that in 1905 the two owners ordered a significantly larger sister-ship, a 52ft fast cruiser also called Granuaile. She may have originally followed her predecessor to the Thames Estuary, but this larger Granuaile has had a colourful life since, and after a period in America, in 1968 she fetched up in Australia, and Limerick ex-Pat Lee Condell alerted us to the fact that she is currently Tasmania-based.
The 52ft Granuaile of 1905, designed and built by Doyle of Kingstown. Constructed of teak planking on teak frames, she is currently based in Tasmania.
So the largest yacht built by the legendary James Doyle of Dun Laoghaire is still very much with us after 115 years, partly attributable to the fact that she was built of teak planking on teak frames, which even in the high-spending days of 1905, wasn’t exactly an everyday specification.
So if some determined group sought to set up a boat-building academy on the Dun Laoghaire waterfront, it would be the revival of a time-honoured tradition rather than the introduction of something totally novel. And certainly several people over the years have promoted the idea, but the obstacles have always proven too great, and inevitably you’ll ultimately come up against the realities of the frenetic Dublin property market.
For if a useful and attractive waterside location could be identified for such a project, as sure as God made little apples someone will see that it would be much more profitable as a residential development. And so we who find classic boats irresistible are left with the fact that, while great Dublin Bay boat designs are being built at locations in ever-increasing circles which now cross oceans, right at the centre of the circle in Dun Laoghaire, there’s a boat-building void as far as the Harbour’s classics are concerned.
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Illicit financial flows rob Africa of $50bn annually
ILLICIT financial flow from the extractive sector particularly in the diamond mining industry is one of the biggest impediments to the development of the economy, experts in the sector have said.
Very little revenue from diamonds has gone to the national economy as most of the companies, save for one, have not contributed to the fiscus. Communities in the mining areas also have not developed since the discovery of the diamonds in Mutare West constituency.
Politicians, government officials, captains of industry, civil society organisations and other stakeholders have often raised concern over the manner in which the diamonds are being extracted and the little revenue getting into the national economy.
The bulk of diamonds from Chiadzwa have found their way into other countries through informal ways and the revenue has always been circulating outside the national economy.
Several other players ranging from the mining firms, authorities in government, local and foreign dealers have been fingered in the diamond looting resulting in illicit financial flows.
According to Africa University lecturer in the department of Institute of Peace Leadership and Governance, Solomon Mungure, illicit financial flows started at the height of the country’s economic hardships and to date the vice was out of control.
“Extracting started off as an informal enterprise and it was happening in a failed economy. The easiest revenue was resorting to nature for example selling firewood or illegal panning of minerals,” said Mungure during a Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association (Zela)-organised capacity building workshop in Mutare last week.
“Because we didn’t have the buying currency then people resorted to panning and selling the minerals to neighbouring countries or to foreigners who had the hard currency.”
He said during that time, government did not put any effort to ensure that the minerals were sold locally.
“There was actually an incentive for people to sell minerals outside the country considering the economic crisis at that moment,” Mungure said.
“The diamond and gold sectors have serious undercovers, opaque networks which can only be located in powerful capital pockets. At that time Zimbabwe was vulnerable. This means there were no taxes or royalties being paid. This indicated that the revenue base remained very weak and we had no investors coming to Zimbabwe.”
Mungure said lack of development was due to looting by mining corporates because all those miners are not accountable to the government and the people.
He said if the money from the diamond proceeds were put in the national economy to support other industries then the situation might be different from what is currently prevailing in the country.
Lyman Mlambo, who is the chairman of the Institute of Mining Research at University of Zimbabwe, said illicit financial flows emanating from the extractive sector should be a cause for concern to every citizen.
He outlined numerous ways in which the country suffered due to such practices.
“The money realised through illicit transactions escapes the formal system and the government can’t tax it and there is thus loss of potential tax revenue for government,” Mlambo said.
“Illicit flows affect the total amount of formal export revenue coming into the country hence the ability of the government to import important capital equipment for the development of the country will be affected. Illicit revenue tends to end up importing consumer goods mainly and not capital goods required for the development of the country as a whole.”
He said illicit flows distorted accuracy of reported statistics on revenue, production, trade, among others.
“Statistics are important for research, for government and industry decision-making, and should have a reasonable level of accuracy,” the mining expert said.
“It affects budgeting and development planning as the moneys made are unknown and are unavailable for example it perpetuates inequity and we have creation of money barons.”
Mlambo added that illicit flows in the form of transfer pricing, re-invoicing, thin capitalisation by big multinational companies perpetuate imperialism in a hidden way.
Transfer pricing is whereby a mine in Zimbabwe sells at very low prices its product to a sister company outside Zimbabwe for further processing after which the processed product is sold at high prices in the international market, thus the mine in Zimbabwe can make losses so that its sister company outside makes super profits which Zimbabwe cannot tax.
Re-invoicing is whereby a mining company in Zimbabwe forms a commodity brokering company in another country to which it sells the minerals for a song.
The brokering company just resells, without further processing the minerals, for high prices.
Thin capitalisation is whereby a mining company in Zimbabwe is funded by its parent company outside by very high-interest loans.
That way the local company makes little profit or heavy losses due to interest payment to the parent company outside.
According to Mlambo all these are methods of shifting profit from the country where resources are being exploited to developed countries or other countries thereby swindling the country hosting the mineral resources.
Tafadzwa Chikumbu from African Forum and Network on Debt and Development (AFRODAD) said the resultant net effect of illicit financial flows from the extractive sector will only hit the hardest on the poor communities.
“Mineral resource extraction is a sector where we extract a finite resource. Where the mining government should have the maximum benefits. The reasons why the minerals are not benefiting much is leakages. It comes with corruption, illegal resource exploitation and illicit financial flows,” he said.
“The mining companies are using loopholes within the tax systems and lack of capacity of the Zimra to avoid paying taxes.”
Chikumbu added: “The net effect is that revenue to the government is so low and they cannot offer quality services to the people in terms of infrastructure development, provision of clean water, good medical services among others.
“It will also result in the government introducing more taxes and the poor will continue to be burdened through taxes.”
Kimberley Process Civic Society (KPCS) Zimbabwe co-ordinator Shamiso Mtisi said the general impact of illicit financial flow was significant because if one looked at the statistics of production they do not meet the revenue realised.
There was a huge disparity on production figures released by the KPCS and ZimStat, a situation that will paint a picture of secrecy on operations of the sector.
“There is an indication that most of the minerals and subsequently the revenue are not coming into the fiscus, they are sold through the black market. The inconsistency on the figures shows that the country is being deprived of revenue by the officials in the companies and government officials who control mining,” Mtisi said.
He said in terms of the illicit financial flows, some companies evaded paying taxes.
“But where is the money going because we have nothing to show for it?” Mtisi asked.
“The Chinese are ripping Zimbabwe off because we don’t have beneficiation infrastructure. While it might not be illegal, it’s immoral. It means the government is not doing enough to promote the industry. The link with communities is that if there were no illicit financial flows then the communities will be in a position to develop, buy medicines, build roads, schools and finance other social amenities as well as paying of salaries.”
Up to now community members from Marange and those relocated to Arda Transau are complaining of unfulfilled promises made to them by the diamond mining companies. On the other hand the companies are complaining that business is low and they cannot afford to honor their pledges.
According to the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, illicit financial flows out of
Africa have become a matter of major concern because of the scale and negative impact of such flows on Africa’s development and governance agenda. By some estimates, illicit flows from Africa could be as much as $50 billion per annum. Article written by BY OBEY MANAYITI, Newsday
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INSIDER: PFW Whispers around the NFL
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Whispers from around the NFL
• RB Willis McGahee wouldn't reveal his weight, but he looked noticeably slimmer and more toned at the Bills' June minicamp than he was at the end of last season. Word is McGahee believes that carrying less weight will bring back some of the explosiveness he lacked last season.
• Sources close to the Raiders indicate that WR Jerry Porter isn't the happiest camper with the way new head coach Art Shell has pushed for more discipline. Sources cite the sometimes tenuous relationship Porter had with Jon Gruden, who, like Shell, was more heavy-handed than Bill Callahan or Norv Turner. The Raiders have dangled Porter as trade bait in the past, so it wouldn't come as a complete surprise for Oakland to shop him if things don't go well early on. :lol:
• Sources say Broncos QB Jake Plummer has been sharp throughout summer workouts and appears to be as confident as ever despite Jay Cutler looking over his shoulder. Though the real bullets have yet to start flying, we're hearing that Cutler looks like the real deal to this point.
• Our sources in New Orleans tell us that newly acquired WR Bethel Johnson and underachieving third-year WR Devery Henderson will compete in training camp for the No. 3 WR role behind Joe Horn and Donte' Stallworth. We hear that the loser of the competition likely will be traded or released because the Saints are only going to keep one deep threat on the roster.
• Jaguars RB Fred Taylor has somewhat smoothed over his disagreement with team management by keeping his word to participate in mandatory workouts. He chose to skip the offseason conditioning program to work out on his own in South Florida against the advice of head coach Jack Del Rio. Taylor has been injured in training camp two of the past three years, and the Jaguars wanted to keep a close watch on the training habits of their offensive cornerstone. In 2005, Taylor failed to rush for 800 yards for the first time in any season in which he had 10 starts, and he had just one carry of more than 20 yards.
• Vikings C Matt Birk is right on schedule in his recovery from hip surgery that cost him the 2005 season. Birk did participate in the offseason program without recurrence of pain or discomfort in his hip or abdomen. The team expects him to further solidify a new-look offensive line charged with paving the way for the Vikings' new ball-control West Coast offense.
• Sources in Jacksonville say the 2006 season is extremely critical for QB Byron Leftwich, who'll be in line for a new contract in the next two years. Leftwich has missed seven of the last 24 regular-season games because of injuries and could take the blame if the passing game falters without Jimmy Smith. Leftwich consistently missed the mark at a recent minicamp but said he wasn't worried about his accuracy or timing with his new starting receivers, Matt Jones and Reggie Williams.
• Despite signing free agent Nick Greisen and drafting Clint Ingram to replace OLB Akin Ayodele, we're told the Jaguars will open training camp with Pat Thomas as the first-string strongside linebacker.
• Several players with ties to Lions offensive coordinator Mike Martz are moving their way up the depth chart. ORT Rex Tucker supplanted last year's starter (Kelly Butler) in minicamp, and RB Arlen Harris, a solid receiver with good speed, has ascended to No. 2 behind starter Kevin Jones. A third ex-Ram, WR Mike Furrey, remains very much in the mix for a reserve WR spot.
• The Colts closed their "summer school" practices to the media for the first time in years, leading to rumor and debate about what kind of experiments the team might have tried with the doors closed. One that might be revisited is moving CB Marlin Jackson to free safety. If FS Mike Doss falters, or a third cornerback emerges behind Nick Harper and Jason David, Jackson could get the call inside.
• Don't expect the Colts to be as reliant on the running game early this season as they were last year. Without Edgerrin James, offensive coordinator Tom Moore will anchor the team with a spread formation, using multiple receivers to protect Peyton Manning and create wide running lanes for RBs Joseph Addai and Dominic Rhodes.
• The door isn't wide open for Vikings RB Ciatrick Fason to steal work from Mewelde Moore as the backup to Chester Taylor, but Moore hasn't slammed it shut to date. Still bothered by a wrist injury, Moore must answer the same question he faced from the Mike Tice regime: Can he stay healthy? He appeared to be coming around at the most recent minicamp. If Moore doesn't stay healthy, Fason is one of several backs head coach Brad Childress said he's confident will pick up the slack.
• We're told the Bears don't expect much of a QB controversy between Rex Grossman and Brian Griese. Grossman has the full backing of the coaching staff, but his injury history necessitated the Griese signing.
• With Jets C Trey Teague on crutches with a reported ankle injury, rookie C Nick Mangold has been inserted into the starting lineup. Word is, Teague may be out for a significant amount of time.
• Word from South Florida is that the Dolphins are satisfied, for the time being, with their current crop of nose tackles and will only look to add a player like veteran free agent Dan Wilkinson later in training camp if rookie Fred Evans, second-year player Manny Wright and aging veteran Keith Traylor aren't getting the job done.
• Word out of Atlanta is the Falcons no longer plan to trade backup RB T.J. Duckett before training camp begins. But we hear if rookie Jerious Norwood has an outstanding camp, he could take carries away from Duckett and even starter Warrick Dunn, and in the process, put Duckett back on the trading block.
• Our Falcons sources tell us starting DE Patrick Kerney, FB Justin Griffith and backup WLB Demorrio Williams should be receiving contract extensions in the next few months. All three players are in the final year of their current deals.
• We're told there is still no progress on a potential contract extension for Buccaneers CB Ronde Barber. Barber, who is entering the final year of his contract, has said he would like to have a new deal in place by the start of training camp, but we hear GM Bruce Allen won't even return his agent's phone calls.
• Panthers offensive coordinator Dan Henning told PFW why Carolina was so aggressive in signing former Titans C Justin Hartwig to replace veteran Jeff Mitchell: "Justin Hartwig is a younger, stronger guy than we've had there. … We felt like we needed to get better. Back 10-11 years ago, the philosophy emerged that when you need a player at a specific position, you get one in free agency and don't wait for the crapshoot of the draft and then wait for the maturity of a player you don't know about until you are into the season. We take that approach."
• The Saints have reshuffled the deck at safety, and we hear last season's Week 1 starters -- FS Dwight Smith and SS Jay Bellamy -- will both enter training camp working with the second unit. FS Josh Bullocks, who started 13 games as a rookie last year in place of an injured Bellamy, and free-agent acquisition Omar Stoutmire are penciled in as the starters. We also hear Smith, who was on the trading block earlier in the offseason, is no longer being shopped around because the new coaching staff has been impressed with how he handled his demotion.
• With 2005 third-round draft pick Richie Incognito looking impressive in the Rams' last full-squad minicamp and '05 fourth-round pick Claude Terrell still looking chunkier than the Rams would like, we hear Incognito could have a decent shot at replacing Terrell as the team's starting left guard. After missing his rookie season with a kneecap injury, Incognito's mobility and strength drew high marks at the last minicamp, but the fact the Nebraska product hasn't played an actual game since the fall of '03 is a bit worrisome.
• The hamstring that Rams CB Jerametrius Butler tweaked a couple of weeks before the team's last minicamp could be considered a significant setback, especially taking into account how much 2006 first-round pick Tye Hill appeared to improve from the previous minicamp. Conversely, we hear CB Travis Fisher, who, like Butler, was plagued by injuries last season, looked very good in the last minicamp.
• Although new Rams VP of player personnel Tony Softli will oversee both the Rams' pro and college scouting departments, which will be headed by holdovers Charley Armey and Lawrence McCutcheon, respectively, we're told the former head of college scouting for the Panthers still must answer to both head coach Scott Linehan and president of football operations Jay Zygmunt. In addition, the new setup is definitely a demotion for Armey, who just turned 67 and wasn't interested in setting up shop elsewhere at this stage in his career.
Cont...
• The Cardinals still have some interest in free-agent CB Ty Law, but after spending a fortune on RB Edgerrin James earlier this offseason, it would have to be at a price that's likely to be significantly less than what Law continues to be after.
• Keep a close eye on Cardinals second-year S Aaron Francisco, who we hear has put on decent weight and is being groomed to replace current FS Robert Griffith as early as next season. Our sources tell us the Cardinals believe they can probably get by with the aging Griffith in a starting role for one more season.
• We hear the Niners have been impressed enough with free-agent addition Walt Harris to consider him the starting left corner over Mike Rumph heading into training camp. The Niners also consider FS Mike Adams to be much improved from last year and no longer think of him as a backup playing a starter's role.
• Word is, the Niners were upset that backup QB Cody Pickett decided not to play in NFL Europe this season. There's talk of moving the athletic Pickett to the team's motion-fullback position, which could enable him to salvage a roster spot.
• Our Seahawks sources tell us the team was impressed with the way 2005 first-round pick Chris Spencer, who up to now has been backing up veteran Robbie Tobeck at center, performed when pressed into duty at right guard in the last minicamp. On the downside, the team is somewhat worried about the condition of top OLG candidate Floyd "Pork Chop" Womack, who was bothered during the minicamp by sore triceps.
• The Raiders would love to add a running back for depth behind LaMont Jordan and may look to the early round of training-camp cuts for just such a candidate. Justin Fargas, No. 2 on the depth chart, is considered little more than a special-teams guy, and part-time FB Zack Crockett, while reliable in the past, is not someone you want to hand your offense over to.
• Word out of Oakland is that the development of rookie LBs Thomas Howard and Darnell Bing could ultimately determine how many three- or four-LB looks the Raiders use this season. The Raiders are believed to be at least mildly interested in the services of Junior Seau because they'd like to add a veteran presence defensively.
• The player who most took advantage of Chiefs DE Eric Hicks being limited in minicamps while recovering from shoulder surgery was first-round pick Tamba Hali, who displayed a quick first step and the ability to sense throwing lanes and knock down passes at the line of scrimmage.
• At first glance, the inexperienced Ronnie Cruz stepping in at fullback for the departed Tony Richardson would seem to be an issue in Kansas City, but it should be noted that Richardson's role had diminished with age and the Chiefs have utilized more two-TE, single-back sets recently.
• Massive TE Brandon Manumaleuna may have been acquired by the Chargers more for blocking purposes, but it's his soft hands that have caught the eye of new QB Philip Rivers and the coaching staff.
• Ravens QB Steve McNair showed consistent improvement throughout his first minicamp in Baltimore. The way we hear it, McNair and WR Derrick Mason picked up right where they left off from their time together in Tennessee, and their exceptional chemistry was apparent.
• A source familiar with the Steelers' decision-making process says character is weighed heavily in the draft process, which makes WR Santonio Holmes' recent off-field problems that much more surprising. The way we hear it, there is concern that Holmes might have trouble maintaining focus, given his offseason and that he'll soon be signing his rookie contract.
• Some Texans observers don't share the team's optimism about RB Domanick Davis being ready for the start of training camp as he recovers from the effects of knee surgery.
• Of the Browns' rookies, there's a feeling RB Jerome Harrison is most ready to contribute, likely on third downs.
• Expect the Browns to split out TE Kellen Winslow at wide receiver at times, particularly if Braylon Edwards misses the start of the season.
• Don't count out Erik Meyer, an undrafted free agent, in the competition to be Cincinnati's No. 3 quarterback. Word is that Meyer has caught the eye of QBs coach Ken Zampese.
• Though Titans WR Bobby Wade struggled famously as a punt returner in Chicago with the swirling winds in Soldier Field, he might start the season with that duty. Though the WR position is crowded in Tennessee, expect Wade to make the roster -- the coaches appear to like him a great deal.
• It appears the Titans are slipping out of the Ty Law running, but that doesn't mean they aren't looking for a cornerback. If a veteran comes available before or during training camp, don't be surprised if they make a big push.
• New Redskins offensive coordinator Al Saunders gushed about backup RB Ladell Betts in the team's final minicamp, and Saunders pledges to find more ways to get both Betts and Clinton Portis on the field at the same time. Expect Betts to be used more as a receiver and keep his job as kick returner.
• Though he was beaten out for the Rams' VP of player personnel job by Tony Softli, Cowboys chief college scout Tom Ciskowski is considered a rising star and legitimate GM candidate in the near future.
• Eagles RB Correll Buckhalter, who is coming off his third season-ending knee injury in five years, likely won't be ready for the start of camp and faces long odds to make the roster despite being a personal favorite of the coaching staff.
• There's a chance that both Rob Johnson and Jared Lorenzen could beat out Tim Hasselbeck for the Giants' backup QB job. Johnson must prove he has shed the rust from a two-year layoff, but Lorenzen has impressed the staff with his throwing this offseason.
• With the Cowboys phasing the fullback out of the offense, Lousaka Polite -- who got most of the work there last season -- is fighting for his roster life. He has been working at running back and tight end, but both positions are crowded.
hmmmm Manumalena has talent its just he never used it to the best of his abilities
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Some Texans observers don't share the team's optimism about RB Domanick Davis being ready for the start of training camp as he recovers from the effects of knee surgery.
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2018 STAR WARS A NEW HOPE by New Zealand MintMik Woodgate2018-04-16T09:29:13+01:00
2018 STAR WARS A NEW HOPE by New Zealand Mint
Popularised by Coin Invest Trust in 2016 with their range of city-based Skyline Dollars, the banknote coin format attracted a few extra members in 2017, most notably with the New Zealand Mint bringing their Disney juggernaut to play. Now it’s time for Star Wars to enter the fray with a series that could do much to expand collecting to a wider audience.
There are fewer licences more likely to attract attention than Star Wars, so it’s a boost to the fledging format when the NZ Mint debuts a new six-note series to tempt collectors. For those unfamiliar with this type of coin, they’re made of silver and are generally 150 x 70 mm in size – the same general size as the banknote they look like. Just a fraction of a millimeter in thickness, despite the huge size compared to a standard coin they weigh a scant five grams.
Obviously with a canvas so large to work with (a standard 1oz coin is around 1200² mm in area, these are 10,500² mm), the artwork can be more adventurous and that’s certainly the case here. Depicting one of six characters in both colour and fine line-art (just like a banknote) on the reverse, the obverse is done in line-art only, detailing everything you’d expect to find on a standard coin.
Each coin is sealed to prevent handling damage and comes in a slipcase. This first coin also comes with an album into which all six A New Hope coins will fit. That’s a great idea and plenty of encouragement for collectors to get a set together. At $39.00 USD per coin, they’re eminently affordable compared to a usual one-ounce coin, and thus more attractive to the casual movie memorabilia collector. That’s a large market and these could well bring in new numismatic collectors.
2018 STAR WARS A NEW HOPE COIN NOTES
MINTS DESCRIPTION
This first striking 5g pure silver coin note in the Star Wars: A New Hope Collection features collaged images of Luke Skywalker™ from the movie along with the movie’s logo and the Rebel Alliance starbird.
A Star Wars Collector’s Album is included with purchase. Inside a protective cover, this hardcover album includes a page for each of the six coin notes in the collection which will include Luke Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Han Solo & Chewbacca, Princess Leia Organa, Darth Vader, and R2-D2 & C-3PO. The album is Star Wars themed, with each page designed to complement the corresponding note – including a brief summary of the character’s contribution to the film.
The combination of engraving and colour printing creates an interesting dimension to the note. The unique number in the mintage is also printed on to the note.
The obverse features the Ian Rank-Broadley effigy of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and is legal tender in Niue.
This single silver coin note is delivered inside a protective sleeve which includes details of the note’s authenticity.
Obviously, these are far larger than a coin and capsules aren’t really an option for the ultra-thin coin note format, so the New Zealand Mint decision to provide an album for the series is a fine one. Stiff covered and provided with a slipcase to hold it, the album is fully themed throughout and contains a two-page spread for each issue – one side carrying a description of the coin, the other holding the coin safely and securely.
One important point to note however, the album is completely free with the first coin, but will not be available seperately and will not be provided with any other coin. If you’re going to buy the set, you’ll definitely want to make sure you get the first Luke Skywalker issue.
NAME 2018 STAR WARS A NEW HOPE
DENOMINATION $1 New Zealand
COMPOSITION 0.999 silver
WEIGHT 5.0 grams
DIAMETER 150 x 70 mm
FINISH Brilliant uncirculated
MODIFICATIONS Colour
MINTAGE 50,000 each
BOX / COA Album / On coin
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Following Maria’s Journey by Anne Schroeder
Fellow member of Women Writing the West and Past-President (2015), Anne Schroeder writes memoir and historical fiction set in the West. She has won awards for her short stories published in print and on-line markets. She and her husband, along with their new Lab puppy, live in Southern Oregon where they explore old ruins and out-of-the-way places. Her new release, Maria Ines, is a novel about an Indian girl who grows up under Padre Junipero’s cross and endures life under the Spanish, Mexican and Yanqui conquest of California. You can learn more about Anne at http://www.anneschroederauthor.com and read her blog at http://anneschroederauthor.blogspot.com
Anne has very kindly agreed to give away one copy of Maria Inés to one reader who leaves a comment. And the winner is Barb Froman. My thanks to everyone who left a comment.
If you’re like me, reading and writing about the historical West anchors us in a world that feels increasingly adrift. (The past fits neatly with my “earth person” persona, as I embrace home and hearth.) The “everywoman” character leads us into the story and we explore a world that feels familiar. It’s easy to love a character when we identify with her wants, her needs and her pain.
Maria Inés is the protagonist in my historical fiction novel of the same name. She’s on a hero’s journey to find her son who was taken from her as a child, and to find missing parts of herself. She is patient and accepting, and relies on her faith in God. Like all great historical characters, she is a “fly on the wall” for the events and times that follow the Spanish, Mexican and Yanqui conquests of California, an era that is rich in story and color. A Mission Indian, a neophyte, she has been baptized by the padres who travel with Father Junípero Serra. She and her People provide hides, food and gold for the gente de razón literally “people of reason,” the high-borns in California and Spain.
I began writing this novel after I heard someone say that they would never visit a California Mission because the Catholics killed off all the Indians through genocide; that the Missions were an evil place. My research and my college studies showed me that the truth was a lot more complicated. Maria Ines seemed to agree because she led me (and is still leading me) through nuances that include her intense love for the Catholic Church in spite of how it overturned her world. Interestingly, by the time the Yanquis arrived, the gente de razón and the Church were split in their loyalties, some siding with Mexico, others with Spain, and a civil war was in the works.
The Salinans fared well under the Mission system, if one doesn’t consider the downside of cultural eradication. But the quiet world of the Missions ended in 1834, when the Mexican government, who had won its freedom from Spain, instituted a policy of secularization that set the Salinans free—of their occupations, food and religious strictures. With their native plants destroyed by tens of thousands of Mission cattle and horses, and little memory of the old ways, the people were depleted in spirit and health. Thus begins the Time of the Troubles of which I write. By then their numbers had been decimated by white men’s diseases, the big one being syphilis, introduced by the soldiers.
Maria Inés is a composite from stories shared by women of the Salinan tribe in California’s Central Coast. I read their stories, walked their beaches and rivers, camped in their great-grandmothers’ rancherías, visited their mortars and pounded acorns in the same worn stone pockets. I made adobe bricks to repair the walls of Mission San Miguel after the 2002 earthquake. I listened to their traditional music, sifted through chert piles for the bone fragments and broken sea shells they left behind. I stood beneath a huge valley oak and heard Maria Inés calling to me.
These facts and details provided a boundary for my characters to move within. My project began with a timeline drawn on butcher paper, stretched across a wall of my writing room. On this paper I included relevant scraps of info that I found in period biographies and non-fiction books. At present I have about 60 books, but I’m always adding to my collection. Many of the books are about the Plains Indians. It’s harder to find information about the California tribes, I suspect, because male writers and readers are intrigued by the guns and battles between the tribes and the US Army. Not much of that in California. The takeover by America was pretty much an insurgency of 49ers who poured into the state and overran the native Californios. Many of those who prospered married their daughters off to enterprising Yanquis.
Many of the Salinan married Mexican or Spanish soldiers and most of their descendents still live within the original tribal boundaries. The language root of the Salinan is the same as that of the Aztecan, and unique to only these two groups. One theory is that when the huge tribe migrated across the Bering Strait from Asia, the weak and the unwarlike were left behind in California.
I met with several Salinan women elders, heard some of their stories and read the books that were available about their history. Maria Inés’ story continues to guide me. I’m working with one of the Salinan women who is a direct descendant of Tiburcio Vasquez, an infamous bandido and gente de razon who terrorized early Yanqui arrivals. The result will be The Caballero’s Son, a story of Maria Inés’ lost son.
Cholama Moon, (Oak Tree Books) follows Maria Ines’s journey. Five Star Publishing has made Maria Inés available in hardcover for libraries and bookstores, and Kindle. If you feel so inclined, ask your library to order a copy so that readers can discover a strong California Indian woman. Both of these are available on Amazon and Kindle.
Maria Inés is available at
Five Star: http://goo.gl/thHPoY
AND Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Maria-Inés-Anne-Schroeder-ebook/dp/B01M7O422I/
Alta California
The fury of the storm seemed to be a warning. The few who still called themselves the People of the Oaks whispered that the flooding was the gods’ anger because they had left their villages and their traditional ways to dwell among the padres at Mission San Miguel Arcángel. But others argued not. For them the rain was a blessing from the true God.
“Let the rains come,” a young woman prayed as she lay waiting for her next birthing pain. “Let us be safe this night.” She was a neophyte, a baptized Indian with a name given to her by the padres and she felt afraid in this new place. But no travelers would arrive seeking hospitality in this weather. Tonight El Camino Real was flooded, the thin wagon track that followed the rivers and valleys from the border of New Spain, north to the Missions of Alta California. “Let the rains come,” she repeated. “Let our fields and our hearts be renewed.”
Her heart was one with the forces raging outside her walls, ancient winds whipping through the olive grove, ripping off branches and pitching them into the north wall of the dormitory. The sound of singers and cantors in the nearby church were muted as whorls of rain lashed the clay-tiled roofs, windows, and rough-hewn doors.
Alfonsa lay inside the adobe room assigned to her husband, Domingo. Restlessly, she stirred in her birthing bed, feeling its sturdy willow frame flex beneath her. A fragrant layer of pine needles sent out a sweet fragrance, sap freed by a layer of heated rocks in the trench beneath her. She breathed deeply and her mind saw the forest where, a few days earlier, she had walked from sunrise to sunset to gather pine boughs. Domingo had built the bed in the way of her ancestors to please her, a deep rectangular trench dug into in the hard-packed adobe floor holding five rocks still hot from the fire. His mother bound the frame with woven tule grass to protect the skin from the heat. Alfonsa now rested safely above the half-buried stones and waited.
“It is good, ’mingo,” she whispered, and her heart swelled with gratitude. She longed to tell him this, but he was not present. His mother had chased him from the room because the old taboos did not allow him to take part in the birth. The two were both at evening service, along with every other neophyte, and she was alone.
A basket of pine nuts lay nearby, a gift he had brought so she would have strength for her ordeal. She glanced at the basket, but her body was filled with anticipation, not hunger—a thing her husband would not understand because his belly was never full, even after he had taken his meal. Alone but unafraid, she bit down on an olive twig to blunt her moan from the world outside. “The rain is God’s gift,” she whispered through cracked lips. “Our prayers are heard.”
Another pain engulfed her. She shut her eyes, bit into the twig, and tried to hold onto yesterday’s memory when Padre Juan Martin had stood in the courtyard, his hands raised to the sky as a warm breeze wafted his robe like the wings of a dove. Strong and fervent, his voice swelled to the cloudless sky as he led his people in prayer for rain. Rain so that there would be more wheat in the fields and vegetables in the gardens. Food for the escolte, the Spanish soldiers protecting the Mission. Food for the padres and their guests. Grain to trade to the other Missions and to send to the governor for taxes. And if there was any left, food for the neophytes, for her and her baby soon to be born.
The summer heat had been intense, the rain sparse, but the Spanish Governor de Solá had levied extra taxes in the form of wine and cattle hides. Many workers died in the latest round of hunger and typhoid, leaving fewer to gather the crops. She did not complain like some of the others who groused under their breath about the six hours of labor required of them—even though the padres worked as hard as any of them—but drought made things harder. Her belly, big with baby, made drawing water difficult; carrying the burden basket pulled down her shoulders and strained her back with the pressure of the strap. This is why she knew God had sent the rain for her, and just in time.
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16 responses to “Following Maria’s Journey by Anne Schroeder”
charlotteoshay | January 3, 2017 at 8:58 am | Reply
Powerful stuff. Interesting, informative and with a female protagonist!
I love reading history and like you said this particular history is underreported.
Eunce Boeve | January 3, 2017 at 11:38 am | Reply
I’ve read but little about this time and place in history, but I am a fan of historical fiction and this small bit has intrigued me.
Arletta Dawdy | January 3, 2017 at 1:33 pm | Reply
I was a reader for Anne’s Cholama Moon and the early pages of Maria…happy to see it come to fruition and I look forward to a good read!
Anne Schroeder | January 3, 2017 at 1:51 pm | Reply
Thank you, ladies for your comments. I. too am surprised at how little attention is paid to the California Indians. It’s a wonderfully wide-open field. Thank you for your interest.
Barb | January 3, 2017 at 8:27 pm | Reply
I’m so glad you shared that a single statement about the Catholic church and genocide was the inspiration to dig deeper and find the complex truth. It reminds us to always be listening and questioning.
Thanks for sharing a bit of your story. I’m looking forward to an insightful, revealing journey. Thanks for doing all the work.
Alice Trego | January 4, 2017 at 3:31 am | Reply
An amazing post, Anne and Andi! I read each word as I learned the background for Maria Ines, how much of the research was hands-on, and that there are a few Salinan who feel their story needs to be told. Maria Ines is on my TBR list!
Ilona Fridl | January 4, 2017 at 10:04 am | Reply
Growing up in California, I studied history of the state, but it didn’t say much about the native Californians. This looks like a wonderful story.
hebbyroman | January 4, 2017 at 12:15 pm | Reply
Very intriguing. It’s good to know there are better source materials for this time in California than what I found 20 years ago when trying to research Californian history. I had to believe there was more to the Mission and hidalgo period than a Zorro figure who’d been played up in film and TV. The simple lives of native Americans of California haven’t been well documented. I would love to learn more about this period. Kudos to the author for her excellent research.
Barb, inspiration is where we find it. And a writ,it”d job is to stay present tpoddibilitirs. Thank you for visiting.
Alice, I apologize for answering so randomly.. My power has been off for three days and I”m reduced to a Tablet and a wrong password. Thank you for visiting.
Thank you Ilona. I think the California history needs to be told. Do you have a story in you? Thanks for taking time to visit. If you request a
That your library oeder a copy then others can share the journey.
Hebbyroman, I found many of my best soiuce books at Mission and museum bookstores. I have requested that the State library stock copies while it is available. I included a bibliography in the back if you’re interested
Patti Sherry-Crews | January 8, 2017 at 7:30 pm | Reply
Hello Anne, great excerpt! I believe that the American history we are taught in school is very Anglo-centered, focusing on what happened in the east starting with the Pilgrims. As an adult I’ve been fascinated to learn there was much interaction going on in North America we don’t hear about, especially in California and Florida. Good luck with your writing endeavors!
Anne Schroeder | January 9, 2017 at 12:04 pm | Reply
I agree, Patti. In high school, thought the “Big Four” built California. Later I realized they profited from the labor of Chinese, Irish, Native Indians and farmers while they lived a favored lifestyle and had their photos taken. When you think about it, the missions were being built while the colonies were fighting for their independence. Wow.
K. Lyn Wurth | January 9, 2017 at 2:20 pm | Reply
Very intriguing, well-written and gracefully spiced with your research. I look forward to reading this!
Anne Schroeder | January 10, 2017 at 3:16 pm | Reply
Thank you, Kelly.
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Closet Episcopalian?
Ross Douthat makes an amazing claim as he assesses the Pope's visit to America and the general themes emerging from his papacy:
"The second tendency, though, is one that Francis has tacitly encouraged, by empowering clerics and theologians who seem to believe that Rome’s future lies in imitating the moribund Episcopal Church’s approach to sex, marriage and divorce."
TEC and its supporters won't like Douthat's "moribund".
Francis and his supporters won't like the comparison with TEC ... There are more conservative Anglican churches with which comparison could be made :)
Welsh involved in sort of draw?
Not the Rugby World Cup, where Wales play England soon and each is desperate to win and a draw will help neither side in their quest to advance to the quarter finals. But the recent General Synod of the Anglican church in Wales came to a sort of draw. Technically the Synod voted in three houses to approve the bringing of legislation in favour of same sex marriage. But the voting was close enough for the bishops to take stock of the situation and deem it not appropriate to bring forward legislation.
Wales would appear not to equal Canada (see below). Each church is a reminder of varying responses to the possibility of change re marriage in Anglican churches.
Humpty-Dumpty Updated or, how I can fix the Communion!!
Humpty-Dumpty sat on the wall
Humpty-Dumpty had a great fall
Couldn't put Humpty-Dumpty together again.
But in the case of the Anglican Communion this is not going to be true.
Humpty Communion Dumpty can be put back together again.
According to Giles Fraser.
There's no need to blame the usual suspects (say) John Spong or Peter Akinola or Gene Robinson or Peter Jensen or Rowan Williams or even Henry VIII for the Communion's 'great fall' in the last decade or so (H/T MCJ for that line).
No, Giles Fraser pins the blame on a man who may not even be an Anglican. And he is not talking about the Pope, the Patriarch or Richard Dawkins.
Tim Berners-Lee, that's the man.
Oh, and maybe all the Anglican bloggers who have taken advantage of hyperlinks!!
But Giles thinks that might be turned around, that Humpty-Dumpty might be put back together again (albeit with changes, more Dumpty-Humpty than Humpty-Dumpty).
Hyperlinks are the Anglican future :)
I shall play my part ...
This might be important
Canadian Anglicans have published this report on marriage and changing their canon.
As I understand it, if their General Synod approves their recommended change to their marriage canon, the Canadian Anglican church would both approve same sex marriage AND approve opt outs ranging from diocesan synods prohibiting solemnizations of same sex marriage in their dioceses, to bishops so prohibiting, to congregations so prohibiting, to clergy being free to decline. Cake. Eat. Is it a way forward?
If the Communion splits, will we understand why?
There is a very good comment on the Fulcrum site where I mention my previous post. The comment is by Bowman Walton. I have emboldened some words which particularly strike me as illustrating the division in the Communion these last dozen years or so, why we will divide (formally, finally) absent a miracle, and why we might not understand how this will have come about:
"Some labels may change, Peter, and the path may be unpleasant at points, but all are going to get what they want in the end. Churches that love Anglican churchways and share global koinonia among themselves will keep both and maybe deepen them. Churches like TEC that love the churchways but viscerally fear that global koinonia will keep the former and will be released from the rights and responsibilities of the latter. The two sides may not like each other, but because they agree that they disagree on how strong a church or Communion should be, the long term outcome of this is not in serious doubt.
This result might be easier for some to take if we had a common narrative explaining how it happened that, at the same time that the Lambeth Conferences were becoming the cherished Anglican Communion in some places, those in other places were instead championing an idea that Anglicanism is the fundamentally the right to be left alone. Absent that narrative, neither side recognizes the legitimacy of the other. Some of us fail to see that the tacit norms we assume for global koinonia seem strange and menacing in churches with designedly weak governance structures such as TEC. The Anglican Communion Covenant proposed closer ties throughout the world than TEC had between Mark Lawrence’s South Carolina and Michael Curry’s North Carolina. Conversely, liberals gazing at all things through the lens of sex (eg in the Episcopal Cafe and Thinking Anglicans) cannot welcome any continuation of the koinonia story (eg Anglican Communion Covenant) as the missional outcome of a century-long process. Whether that reflects a taste for autonomy that rejects mutual subjection in Christ, or a disavowed yet visceral rejection of southern Anglicans, it comes to the same aversion to global koinonia. A common narrative could not narrow this chasm or make it less deep, but it could hold up a mirror to the two sides that they need to study."
In other words, what some have valued about the Anglican Communion has been that it has never deepened as a communion, it has been a meeting place for otherwise independent churches, but that is all, and (I imagine) the meetings have been pleasant affairs in sometimes exotic places and sometimes - Lambeth and all that - in historically significant places.
But what others have valued about the AC has been that it has been a promise of a deeper, tighter communion - the promise of all Christian communion, that we will be drawn deeper into the communion of the Trinity itself - which has not and now will not be fulfilled in the current form of the AC.
This misunderstanding of what the 'communion' part of the Anglican Communion means, according to Bowman Walton, that we have gotten to where we currently are without a common narrative to explain to all participants why this is so.
He also sees this lack of common narrative about what the Communion is/should become as determining the certain end of the Communion. (In my words) it is broken and it will break up. The break up will be into those churches which wish to be in a deep koinonia, where the koinonia is undergirded by common doctrine, and into those churches which wish to be in a light koinonia, where the koinonia is undergirded by anything and everything apart from doctrine (heritage, historical ties, bonds of affection).
Exactly which churches will be in which koinonia waits to be seen. Some are almost certain to be in one and not the other, but there might be some surprises among the Global South provinces, and Australia might find a way to be in both. NZ might too!
Whether the two (or more?) koinonia agree to relate together in a federation also remains to be seen.
There lies the rub. A significant contribution to the breakdown and thus to the break up Bowman Walton sees as inevitable is the inability of various churches/networks of churches within the Communion to compromise. Compromise is a dirty word in some quarters of Christianity but in the Anglican world it has generally been a way of moving forward, a way of agreeing to disagree while agreeing on what little may be agreed and thus on a new future. That future is always less than the promise each side would like fulfilled, but it is a com-promise, a different promise of a less than ideal future, but a future together rather than a stand off, let alone a schism.
Could the PM in January lead to as light a compromise as the communions within the current Communion transitioning to a Federation of communions? Will the meeting result in the formalising of the break up which the current breakdown foretokens?
Above I mentioned 'absent a miracle.' The miracle in January 2016 would be that the unwillingness to compromise becomes a willingness to compromise. A super miracle would be the renewal of the Communion as a communion (i.e. all Primates take the eucharist together, all commit to cajoling all their bishops to come to the next Lambeth). A minor miracle would be the retention of some federal relationship between current members of the Communion while acknowledging the existence of different communions within that f/Federation.
POSTSCRIPT: Has the divorce already happened? And are these the reasons why reconciliation is not on the cards soon?
Federashun or Communniun?
Talk of the 'Anglican Communion' becoming a 'Federation' reminds me of a former leader of the former NZ 'Federation of Labour', Jim Knox, who was often cited by comics as pronouncing 'Federation' in the vernacular given in the title. I thought I would match it with 'Communion' in the vernacular too. All the better to illustrate how Inglush ought to be pronounced. Unless we are at Lambeth Palace. In which case could I have an interpreter please?
Talk of the Communion becoming a Federation is unsettling and one of the unsettled is Andrew Goddard who writes 'From Communion to ... Federation?' at Fulcrum. He kindly mentions my own recent post on the matter, though he disagrees with my prediction. But it is the words of Ruth Gledhill he takes particular aim at when she writes,
'The move towards a more federal model, an Anglican Federation along the lines of Europe's Lutheran Federation, is a much better model for the Church in today's world.'
Rightly Goddard deduces that no one in the Communion really wants a Federation instead of a Communion:
'The way forward after January is unlikely to be simply a reversion to an earlier attempted solution, whether the Dar Primates’ model or the Anglican Communion Covenant in its present form. It is, however, even less likely to be an agreement from the Primates that they need to embrace a “federation” model of global Anglicanism. This effectively abandons any claim to respect provincial interdependence (not to mention any doctrinal or ethical basis for unity which is clearly so important for many of the provinces whether in terms of the Jerusalem Declaration or the broader wording in Section One of the Covenant). Instead it gives unfettered freedom to provincial autonomy on the basis that we must all simply “agree to disagree”'
I wouldn't put my case that we are heading towards a 'Federation' in the words Gledhill uses because I do not think it would be 'a much better model for the Church in today's world.'
I remain convinced, with Andrew Goddard, in the importance of being an interdependent Communion. I agree with him as he analyses the implication of moving to a federation model with its consequential loss of the Anglican genius for the Communion we have enjoyed:
'It is very hard to see how a paradigm shift to a “looser” or “federation” model in any way shows “respect” for decades of theological and ecclesiological thought about what it means to be “a fellowship, within the one Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church” identified in part by being “bound together not by a central legislative and executive authority, but by mutual loyalty sustained through the common counsel of the bishops in conference” (a definition going back to Resolution 49 of the 1930 Lambeth Conference)'
The difficulty I have with what Goddard writes is that it does not look like it is possible. The AC of former days is not the present reality - the reality in which we are currently a federation of communions (with various overlaps, and with everyone claiming to still belong to the AC. But not all willing to share in the eucharist together).
So I would rephrase what Ruth Gledhill writes:
The move towards a more federal model, an Anglican Federation - no doubt along peculiarly Anglican lines - is the best model we can hope for the global Anglican churches in today's world to remain in some kind of connection with each other.
A commenter (below) has asked the following questions of the post above:
1) What do you define as "a communion"? A body of people* meeting in fellowship and sharing the eucharist together. 'Fellowship' implies holding things in common - koinonia - as well as a commitment to an interdependent life together. *In this context the 'people' may be episcopal/clerical/lay representatives of Anglican churches meeting as Lambeth, Primates, ACC. Added (in light of further comment): I am distinguishing at this point 'communion' and 'Communion'. The latter as in the 'Anglican Communion' or (if we so term) the Communion of Orthodox churches or those churches forming the Communion of the Western rite and Eastern rite Catholic churches speaks of a global organisation of churches (whether lightly or tightly organised). But in each such case these Communions are fellowships of churches willing to take communion together.
2) What do you define as "a federation"? A collection of communions with a commitment to meet together from time to time but no commitment to sharing the eucharist together when the full collection meets.
3) What do you mean by an "interdependent communion" (i.e. interdependent Communion), and how does it differ from a "communion"? 'Interdependent' underlines an aspect of 'communion' (see above). Strictly speaking it is redundant but I was emphasising a point made by Andrew Goddard.
4) In which years has the Anglican Communion ever satisfied your definition of a communion and/or an interdependent communion? 1867. OK, seriously, I acknowledge that the communion of the AC has been impaired since the ordination of women in the 1970s affected Communion meetings so that - so I understand - not all present would share the eucharist, and in individual churches some would not receive the eucharist from a presiding woman priest/bishop. Nevertheless across large swathes of the AC people got on with meeting together and, in 1998, if not all then nearly all bishops turned up to Lambeth and, as far as I know, prior to 2003, all Primates shared the eucharist at the Primates' Meetings. Thus the AC mostly but not completely satisfied my definition until c. 2003. Since then 'impairment' has shifted to 'broken' or 'divided' and thus I see the AC as not currently being an honest title for the global Anglican collection of churches.
Sacred and Spiritual Links - Monday 21 September 2015
Supplied by a UK colleague
Plenty to choose from this week: #1 Vaughan Roberts on what happens when we root ourselves in Christ; #2 Dean Terry Wong talks frankly about the challenges of living the Christian life; #3 Archbishop Mouneer Anis gave two talks at All Souls, Langham Place on the mass migration going on; #4 and #5 David Walker and Ajith Fernando explore prayer and the lessons from Nehemiah in depth; #12 Faure's Requiem in an outstanding recording from the late Sir David Willcocks in 1967 released now by King's College, Cambridge; #13 and 16 much to pray and think about.
Prayers for you for the coming week.
SERMONS AND TALKS
1. Remain in me [John 15:1-8] - Vaughan Roberts - St Ebbes Oxford Audio
http://tinyurl.com/pa3bowx
2. The Christian Life: Purity [Ephesians 5:1-21] - Canon Terry Wong, the new Dean of St Andrew's Cathedral, Singapore - Audio [note: frank]
http://tinyurl.com/qbl2du2
3. For Mission Sunday, Archbishop Mouneer Anis spoke at All Souls, Langham Place - Audio
Migration: World on the Move (1) [Matthew 2:1-15]
http://tinyurl.com/nct3sax
Migration: World on the Move (2) [Deuteronomy 10:12-22]
http://tinyurl.com/pebggda
4. Join the Adventure [Nehemiah 1] - David Walker - HTB Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0LQ6jt6Rbw
5. Four more talks on Nehemiah - Ajith Fernando - FOCL Video
Passion for Our People: Nehemiah: 1:1-11
http://tinyurl.com/pph6q7v
Preparing for the Challenge: Nehemiah: 1:11b-2:18
http://tinyurl.com/nonnadl
Responding to Opposition: Nehemiah 2:19-4:23
http://tinyurl.com/odtqrqo
Grappling with Inequality: Nehemiah 5:1-19
http://tinyurl.com/qakmv6m
6. Preaching Ideas and Commentary - Rev Peter Carrell
http://preachingdownunder.blogspot.co.nz/
7. The Sunday Readings - Rev Stephen Trott
https://laworgospel.wordpress.com/
8. The bells of All Saints, Loughborough - BBC Radio 4
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06bd5f1
9. Choral Evensong from the Old Royal Naval College Chapel, Greenwich - BBC Radio 3
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b069ydvt
10. Sunday service live from St Helena's Beaufort, South Carolina available at 10:15 am Eastern Time 3:15 pm London Time
https://www.sthelenas1712.org/
and afterwards available here in due course
http://www.sthelenas1712.org/sunday-morning-service-audio/
11. Sunday Hour - BBC Radio 2
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b069yh1h
12. Kings College, Cambridge have released a webcast of an outstanding 1967 recording of Fauré's Requiem, recorded by Sir David Willcocks, who passed away on 17 September, available here:
http://www.kings.cam.ac.uk/choir/listen/webcasts.html
13. Archived Choral services over the Summer from the chapels of King's College Cambridge
http://www.kings.cam.ac.uk/choir/webcasts.html
and St John's College, Cambridge
http://www.sjcchoir.co.uk/webcasts
and Trinity College, Cambridge
http://trinitycollegechoir.com//webcasts/listen-again/
and New College, Oxford
http://www.newcollegechoir.com/webcasts.html
Please pray for all touched by the Rugby World Cup and for the persecuted church particularly in Syria and Iraq, Egypt and Laos; and there is a prayer request from the Diocese of South Carolina in appeal court this coming week.
14. Topical Prayers - Church of England
http://tinyurl.com/6wnk2pk
Prayer resources for the Rugby World Cup
http://tinyurl.com/nb3e55c
Egypt: Christian soldier killed after death threats
http://tinyurl.com/o3fot82
Laos: Pastor stabbed to death after refusing to stop preaching - Release International
http://tinyurl.com/ou8gfgs
Two Christians arrested for ‘spreading the faith’ - Release International
http://tinyurl.com/owxs7zs
South Carolina: Prayer requests
http://tinyurl.com/oozrd9m
http://tinyurl.com/p4b6qoh
15. Sunday Programme with Edward Stourton - BBC Radio 4
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06bd5j0
16. Rugby World Cup: For Fiji, God is the ultimate motivation Christian Today
http://tinyurl.com/p5fu96f
Pope of the masses: is Francis really the people’s champion? - Rowan Williams - New Statesman
http://tinyurl.com/ot3u2wp
Through African Eyes: Resisting America's cultural imperialism - John A. Azumah - First Things
http://tinyurl.com/nk936ue
Giving Your Pastor Feedback After a Sermon... - Geoffrey Kirkland
http://tinyurl.com/of82zw6
17. Magnificent Murals: Sir James Thornhill & St Paul's Cathedral
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=an9ee3EfCVs
18. Arthur Somervell: O Saviour of the World - Somerville Choir
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obc1c6HS6u0
19. Come to the Waters - New Wine Worship
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9f5hz1PcYw
Apparently Anglicans have not only lost the plot, we've lost God too
Sharp, pointy, provocative article in the Guardian by Deborah Orr. Not sure that I understand all of what she says. Contradictory in places? But here are some pointy bits:
A. "The Anglican church has always been a political organisation first and a spiritual one second. (Its worldwide communion, of course, is a consequence of nothing more spiritual than colonialism.) It’s no different to any other organised religion, whose earthly purpose is always the downward control of human attitudes and behaviour. Handily, if there’s a possibility that people can’t see any logic in the rules their leaders propound, religious organisations can simply shrug their shoulders and say that it’s what God wants."
B. "[++Welby's] admitting that it’s become impossible for Anglicans to agree on what God wants, but that it’s also important for Anglicans to carry on squabbling about it. The trouble is that this is as liberal as religion can get. It’s precisely because the Anglican church has lost its ability to be authoritarian (since this would have thrown it out of step with the liberal democracy it wants to remain an established part of in Britain) that Anglican conservatives are so furious."
C. "Religious conservatives are in the game precisely because they want certainty. They don’t want to sit around discussing the meaning of life, pondering what a good life might look like and considering what humans can do to foster their own progress. They want such matters to be off the table, because nothing should be allowed to disturb their delusion that they’ve got it all right and everyone who disagrees with them has got it all wrong.
Ironically, the great attraction of such a position is that once you assume it, you can justify the most awful behaviour because you believe your rectitude is beyond question, whatever vile things you’re actually doing. People are fond of saying that religion causes wars. It’s self-righteousness that causes wars, and religion is a marvellous tool for the self-righteous."
D. "And western Anglicans don’t want to look forensically at why religion isn’t working any more, any more than mainstream politicians want to look at why politics isn’t working any more."
E. "The trouble, of course, is that once you’ve won the liberal argument and everyone has agreed that people should be allowed to be who they are as long as they aren’t hurting others, then God is neither here nor there, let alone everywhere. And that’s the basic problem the Anglican communion faces.
If Lambeth Palace ever works out how to unite its worldwide communion in liberal harmony, then there will be no more need for God, or politics."
I think we have got the point, Deborah, thanks. Something along the lines of the more liberal the Anglican church(es)/Communion become the less use it has for God yet, conversely, where conservative Anglicanism dominates churches it is likely to result in a self-righteousness which leads to war. Hmm. Caught between the devil and the deep blue sea.
Now there is a point here. There is a form of liberal Christianity - not unknown to Anglicans - which is so doctrinally weak and pathetic that it begs the question why anyone would bother with it. There is also a form of conservative Christianity - not unknown to Anglicans - which is so doctrinally strong and lacking in human empathy that it scares others with its innate and imperturbable confidence, a confidence which if not self-righteousness, looks awfully close to it.
But, in the end, Deborah Orr's analysis leads to a 'straw man' argument. Well, two really. Actual Anglican liberal and conservative approaches are a bit different to her two straw men. Many Anglicans sympathetic to blessing same sex partnerships are conservative on doctrine. Many Anglicans unsympathetic to the possibility of such blessings are liberal on practice (e.g. loosely following the authorised services of the church). I have met some pretty conservative Anglicans in my time. I wouldn't describe them as self-righteous, let alone aggressively militaristic. I have met some pretty liberal Anglicans in my time, most of whom articulate belief in God which is distinct from atheism and agnosticism.
The ABC's challenge, I suggest, in regard to Anglican churches occupying separate bedrooms rather than pretending to be married in one Communion, is that if we remain in the same house we might converse with each other. Where Deborah Orr gets the idea that there is going to be shouting, I do not know.
Posted by Peter Carrell at 10:31 PM 5 comments: Links to this post
GAFCON Primates Going to Miss the Bus?
Unfortunately the GAFCON Primates' response to ++Welbys' Communion to Federation initiative - see below - does not, on the face of it, look promising:
"It is on this basis that the GAFCON Primates will prayerfully consider their response to the Archbishop of Canterbury’s letter. They recognize that the crisis in the Communion is not primarily a problem of relationships and cultural context, but of false teaching which continues without repentance or discipline.
Consistent with this position, they have previously advised the Archbishop of Canterbury that they would not attend any meeting at which The Episcopal Church of the United States or the Anglican Church of Canada were represented, nor would they attend any meeting from which the Anglican Church in North America was excluded.
It is therefore of some encouragement that the Archbishop of Canterbury has opened the door of this meeting to the Primate of the Anglican Church in North America, Archbishop Foley Beach. He has already been recognized as a fellow primate of the Anglican Communion by Primates representing GAFCON and the Anglican Global South at his installation in Atlanta last October and he is a full member of the GAFCON Primates Council."
On the other hand, they will 'consider'. And you can bet that the ABC has previously been in contact so he probably already knows whether they are coming or not.
PS Andrew Brown gives a racing commentary on the matter along with a gallop through the history of the AC.
Just In Time: ABC Changes Communion to Federation
The Anglican Covenant is completely dead now. It also looks very much like the Anglican Communion is too.
The Covenant is dead because that is a proposal to keep the Communion alive but what is in the news today is the end of the Anglican Communion and the beginning of the Anglican Federation (for want, at this stage, of a better name).
++Justin is to be given full marks for facing the facts of the lack of life in the Communion. The name means that Anglicans share communion together, especially the Instruments of Communion, including the Primates and the Bishops. But that communion has been impaired for sometime, with bishops not turning up for the 2008 Lambeth Conference and Primates refusing to commune with each other. So it has been about time that some responsible Anglican leader moved to pronounce the last rites as well as chart out a possible new style relationship.
I very much hope that the ABC will have the courage to come up with a new name for whatever emerges so that we Anglicans can be honest about federating when we won't be communioning.
The story today is that ++Justin is inviting the Primates to meet together in January 2016. It will be for 'prayer' (no mention of the eucharist). It will include reference to 1998 Lambeth and the statement is couched in conservative language.
Clearly ++Justin has been on the phone or personally visited each Primate and asked, 'What will it take to get you in the same room as everyone else?'
Equally clearly, some Primates have said to the ABC, 'Invite ++Foley Beach and we will come.' So the invitation to ++Foley Beach, Archbishop of the alternative Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) to be in attendance is the surest sign that ++Justin has worked overtime to get the best possible attendance. You can bet he consulted with ++Curry, incoming TEC PB, about this and the PB must have said, 'OK. If that is what it takes!'
Read the comments to the link above - Thinking Anglicans - and you will find some commenters commenting as though this is just a bit of thinking by ++Justin which he hopes will work and the commenters know better than him. Read my lips, this is a tightly scripted scenario with careful negotiations leading to a meeting that will work. Not a meeting that will not work.
Before you comment here I invite you to consider whether your comment understands that on this occasion the ABC is entitled to do what it takes to get as many Primates in the one room as possible, even if it doesn't fit with your theory of how pure Anglicanism should work!
What is emerging in considered comments by pundits is that on the table is a move away from pretence to being a Communion defined* by Instruments of Communion (who, keep remembering, are not currently united) towards a something which sounds very much like a Federation which will be minimally defined. The minimum definition might simply be 'So you will relate to the ABC even if you won't relate to the Anglican Church of X - fine, you're in.'
Welcome ACNA. You're in the Federation. By the way, so is TEC and ACofC!
PS: On the possibility that this is indeed a Justinian stroke of genius, read here.
*Acknowledging a comment below, 'defined' raises questions as to who is defining in this way? Our church (ACANZP) does not formally define the Anglican Communion according to the Instruments of Communion. So here I am thinking of 'defined' in the sense of asking the question so when does the Anglican Communion meet as a fellowship? The answer has become - until recently - when its bishops meet, when its primates meet, when the ACC meets. Those meetings have become broken (with the possible exception of the ACC) and the fellowship (i.e. communion) impaired. Functionally, because of the lack of full eucharistic meeting of the bishops and primates, the Communion has ceased to be a communion.
What do Pope Francis, John Key, Tony Abbott, Jeremy Corbyn and Donald Trump have in common?
On the face of it, this particular gang of leaders does not have much in common - depending which way you cut the dice it is a list of four conservatives and one socialist, or two socialists and three conservatives or four non-Americans and one American. Etc.
But dig deeper and the list of people in the subject line above have this in common: they have each come face to face with popular sentiment, with the will of the people. In poor old Tony Abbott's case that will - reflected in opinion poll after opinion poll - has led to his downfall. He just could not cut it in the connection with the people department.
Jeremy Corbyn and Donald Trump have recently been connecting very well in the popular sentiment front. Despite wildly differing political and economic philosophies, political commentators say both are liked because they actually tell the truth, and for a certain block of people that truth is what they want to hear. (Neither is likely to win an election anytime soon, but that, for now, is another story).
John Key understands the will of the people and the importance of popular sentiment. That has led to three elections in a row and to continuing high poll ratings as preferred Prime Minister of NZ (which he actually is, whatever those polls say!) It is also leading him these days to say one thing one day and the reverse the next when he realises that he might be losing his touch with the people.
Which brings us to Pope Francis. Whatever is going on in the Vatican on the 'family' (i.e. divorce, remarriage, annulment, the sacraments, blessing of same sex relationships) I suggest he is trying to do as much as he can (which in fact is relatively little) to fit the church to the people rather than expect the people to fit into the church.
Which in turn brings me to our church, ACANZP, and its moves re Motion 30. Taonga publishes an extraordinary response from our General Secretary to the decision of the Christchurch synod to ask the GS to move more slowly on Motion 30. Either the General Secretary, Michael Hughes or the Christchurch Synod is in touch with popular sentiment in our church. Which will it be?
While on the matter, my colleague and friend, Les Brighton has written a stirring article on Motion 30.
[BUMPED] If it weren't so serious, I could laugh till I cried [UPDATED]
Latest: If it weren't so serious, I could laugh till I cried to find that Australia has just changed its Prime Minister, from Tony Abbott to Malcolm Turnbull.
Was Tony ill? No. Had he completely failed? No. Is the slightly ailing Australian economy the victim of mismanagement? No (its the victim of receding fortunes in China). Has Malcolm Turnbull a successful track record as leader of the Liberal Party? No. Has any previous attempt to change PMs mid term through internal party coup saved the party at the next election? Not that I am aware of, and certainly not recently.
A recent sequence of leadership of the Australian Labour Party was: Rudd - Gillard - Rudd. (They are now led, for the time being, by Bill Shorten)
The current sequence of Liberal Party leadership is: Turnbull - Abbott - Turnbull. Oh, dear!
Original: So UK Labour have elected Jeremy Corbyn to be their leader. If this were a joke it would be an excellent one and I could laugh till I cried. But it is not. [Update: see further below re some interesting links].
Today I heard about a government sponsored sermon urging women to cover up their aurat (let's just say, that is knees to neck, at least, if not ankles to head) - so far so ordinary for many Muslim women - and gave as an illustration of why this should be so,
"Let us think for a while, what would happen to an uncovered spread of food? Surely the spread would be covered with flies, and would no longer be seen as desirable by those who had coveted it before."
Likening women showing some of their natural bodies to uncovered food attracting flies. We could laugh at the absurdity of such a denigrative male put down. But this is serious, sincere sermonising. Anger and despair more likely that laughing at the absurdity of it.
A commenter here puts us in touch with Rorate Coeli's reaction to the Pope's recent motu proprio which makes obtaining an annulment easier for Catholics. Let's just say that the reaction amounts to less than an endorsement of the motu proprio let alone of the Pope (for supporting evidence of this deduction, read other articles on the site).
Now I am all for theological argument and such, cf. the existence of this blog. But some arguments are better than others because they accord with the spirit of Jesus' own theologising. Generally, theological arguments for mercy rather than law are in such accordance. So reading lines like this, written, I surmise, with a straight face and a steady pen, I could laugh until I cried. Except ...
'The principle of the double-sentence in conformity [i.e. double confirmation] was consecrated by the 1917 Code of Canon Law and received into the codification promulgated by John Paul II on January 25, 1983. ... In the canonical process, what has to be defended first of all is the supreme interest of the Divine institution which marriage is. ... In Pope Francis’ Motu Proprio this view has been overturned. The interest of the spouses has primacy over that of marriage. It is the document itself that affirms this, by summarizing the fundamental criteria of the reform in these points: the abolition of the double-sentence in conformity, substituted by only one sentence in favor of the enforceability of the annulment ... The combination between Canon 1683 and article 14 on the procedural rules in this respect has a shocking implication. Upon the decisions there will inevitably weigh considerations of a sociological nature: the divorced and remarried will have, for reasons of ‘mercy’, preferential treatment. “The Church of Mercy – notes Giuliano Ferrara – “has started its race” (“Il Foglio” September 9, 2015). It is not racing along an administrative road, but a “juridical one” where there is very little left that remains juridical.'
Was marriage made for men and women or men and women for marriage? (I know, you have heard Someone say something similar, so it's not very original of me to pose that question). Rorate Caeli would appear to be on the side of 'law' versus 'mercy'. Indeed it keeps invoking church law against the notion that the 'church of mercy' might exist and make decisions according to mercy.
Oh, dear Lord ... and thank you that Francis is your representative in Rome!
The greatest challenge for all churches in the 21st century is to steadfastly proclaim the gospel of mercy and to constantly pray to merciful Jesus for guidance as to what that means. Only in this way will we maintain our distinctive message in the face of competing messages about who God is and what God wants of us.
We might even be merciful to those who make bad jokes!
Update: in support of a comment below about Corbynistas in the CofE, a correspondent has supplied the following:
Broadbent and Frazer:
https://mobile.twitter.com/petespurs/status/638706596537868288?p=v
http://archbishopcranmer.com/clerics-for-corbyn-bishop-of-willesden-comes-out-for-alice-in-wonderland-politics/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3191393/Jeremy-Corbyn-defended-controversial-vicar-banned-social-media-promoting-clearly-anti-Semitic-material.html
See also links in Sizer's Wikipedia entry
There was quite a heavy Israeli campaign against Corbyn's election, quite apart from his Iran/Hezbollah associations - Google for links.
Spiritual and Sacred Links - Monday 14 September 2015
Supplied by a UK colleague:
#1 Bishop Rennis Ponniah on how to grow in the Christian life and #3 three talks on aspects of marriage; #2. Simon Manchester on the searching questions Jesus asks us and how they lead to growth. #9 there is an early report that the kidnapped Nigerian Anglican bishop of Gwagwalada has been released, but it is a sole report at the moment. Please pray for him, and for others.
1. Filled with the fullness of God - Bishop Rennis Ponniah - St Andrews Singapore Audio [Ephesians 3:14-21]
http://tinyurl.com/pk2t99j
2. Questions in the storm - Simon Manchester - Moore Audio [[Mark 4:35-41] - outstanding
http://tinyurl.com/ookt2yd
3. Ruth: Lessons for Marriage, Love & Sex - 3 talks from Bishop Rennis Ponniah - St Andrews Singapore Audio [Ruth 1-4]
http://tinyurl.com/nta9o6c
6. The bells of Durham Cathedral - BBC Radio 4
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b069gtk1
7. Sunday Hour - BBC Radio 2
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b069gbbx
8. Archived Choral services over the Summer from the chapels of King's College Cambridge
We give thanks this week for HM the Queen. Please pray for the peace and safety of Nigeria. On Friday there was one report of the release of Bishop Moses Bukpe-Tabwaye of Gwagwalada shortly after his car had been found - pray it is confirmed; there was also good news from Ethiopia and Sudan in court cases against Christians, but continued challenges in Syria, Iraq, India and Turkey; and please also pray for the Diocese of South Carolina.
9. Topical Prayers - Church of England
Prayer for the Queen - CofE
http://tinyurl.com/oav2xgu
Nigeria: Police Say Kidnapped Bishop Moses Tabwaye Has Been Released - Channels TV Lagos
http://tinyurl.com/ootgz3v
Ethiopia: Ethiopian Christians cleared of holding ‘illegal meetings’ - WWM
http://tinyurl.com/nznrywl
Sudan: Church wins legal battle over property - CSW
http://tinyurl.com/ngtmv5j
India: Sixth Indian state seeks to adopt 'Anti-Conversion Law' - WWM
http://tinyurl.com/pwvvmnd
Turkey: Greek Orthodox patriarch urges Turkey to learn from past ethnic tensions - Sunday's Zaman
http://tinyurl.com/pl44utx
South Carolina: Prayers from Lent and Beyond
Food for thought [and the aftermath of the Assisted Dying Bill]
11. Evangelism: The Simplicity of Changing the World - Peter Bolt
http://tinyurl.com/qdkevub
Assisted Dying Bill defeated by substantial majority - David Pocklington
http://tinyurl.com/nfrpddt
Assisted Suicide – some reflections from recent history - Stephen Trott
http://tinyurl.com/nekwcrh
Dignity in Dying and the callous indignity of their spin - Cranmer
http://tinyurl.com/ns6chvs
Religion and law round-up – 13th September - Frank Cranmer
http://tinyurl.com/qxy5ktw
A city standing on a hill - Ellie Hughes
http://tinyurl.com/qek89oc
12. Sam's story - Alpha
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp7ZI_nubwA
13. Engage 2015 with the Rugby World Cup
http://engage2015.co.uk/
14. Jerusalem - BBC Proms
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p032ck4f
More from the last night of the Proms
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b069wyn4
Is the world spinning faster than usual on its tilted axis?
Difficult to keep up these days with events.
In NZ we have had a No to increasing our refugee quote followed by a Yes to a limited period but sizeable in numbers increase. The churches are promising to assist.
Of course in Europe there are tens of thousands streaming in, quota or no quota, somehow they are going to be housed in Germany ... France ... Britain ... Austria (the dots representing the momentary pause as countries chime in with promises to take amazing numbers of refugees. And even, I see on the news, Iceland. Dare we ask how many of the young men pouring across Europe from Syria wish to end up in Iceland? (That is nothing against Iceland per se, but it is an island and Down Under we live in islands and sometimes they are a little isolated ...!)
But my eyes were taken a day or so ago by another story in which the world seems to spin faster than we are used to, H/T to KiwiAnglo. According to one of the articles linked to by Ron Smith, Pope Francis has been up to his new but increasingly familiar trick of doing the unexpected. He has met with Bishop Jacques Gaillot, once out of favour as a more or less exiled, wandering bishop now possibly drawn in from the cold to the warm fires of Francis' compassionate heart for humanity.
In this article, Gaillot gets to talk with Francis at length and the matters they traverse are more, shall we say, on the Samaritan side of things than on the priest and the Levite side.
"Now, in yet another remarkable turn of events under the current pontificate, Pope Francis on Tuesday (Sept. 1) met privately with Gaillot at his Vatican residence.“I don’t want to ask anything of you, I told the pope, but a whole people of the poor are happy that you are receiving me, and feel acknowledged too,” Gaillot told the news service Agence France-Presse.“I spoke to him about … the sick, the divorced, gay people. These people are counting on you,” Gaillot told AFP.Gaillot, who at 79 is just a year older than the pope, said he told Francis how he had recently blessed a divorced couple as well as a homosexual couple.”I am in civil cloth(ing) and I just bless them. This is not a marriage, it is a blessing,” Gaillot said he told the pope, according to another French media report (translated by New Ways, a ministry of LGBT Catholics). “We have the right to give the blessing of God, after all we also bless houses!”“The pope listened,” Gaillot said, “he seemed open to all that. At that particular moment, he specifically said that to bless people also involves to speak well of God to those people.”Gaillot said Francis told him to “continue, what you do (for the downtrodden) is good.”Francis certainly seemed to understand the import of this meeting."
Of course the Vatican can say that it was (a) a private meeting, and (b) what is being reported is Gaillot's version of the conversation. Indeed if we read Gaillot carefully in this extract, he mostly reports what he said to the Pope and not what the Pope said. When he quotes the Pope on blessing of same sex couples the Pope says that to bless people also involves to speak well of God to them. But that is not quite the same thing as the Pope saying what Gaillot is doing is all OK by the Catechism and Canon Law. It is a theological truism that when we bless then we also speak well about God to those whom we bless.
Nevertheless this is a remarkable conversation because it happened. No Pope needs to speak to out of favour clerics. They can remain in their home country. Rome is expensive to travel to, etc. And it doesn't sound as though the Pope protested when Gaillot told him about whom he was blessing.
As we Down Under, in the Anglican stable, tune in to these conversations, there is food for thought, n'est ce pas?
Can we distinguish blessing of any couple seeking to live faithfully, to each other and to God, from marriage between a man and a woman? Will we be a church which offers discretion to clerics to bless as Gaillot has done?
As I reflect on our debate on Motion 30 at our synod a couple of days ago, posted on here, I discern (more intuitively than anything because there were not many speeches made) that we might be a church which in large part would settle for the ability for clergy to have that discretion.
But would those who are opposed to blessings (let alone same sex marriage) see their way to being part of a church which grants permission to exercise such discretion while retaining (as Motion 30 already says) the traditional doctrine of marriage?
That is the question of our day (I suggest, as I ruminate, but don't ask me next week as I may be intuiting differently).
I am not talking about compromise so much as making space for differently held views. A space which already exists on other matters on which we disagree. My sense after the synod is that many want that space to be available on this matter even if there are not many who take up any opportunity to exercise discretion.
The thing about Francis is that he seems to be pushing out the 'space' in the Roman sphere. Making more room for more people, including the divorced (noting the major conference on the family coming up very soon) and, it seems, subtly enlarging space for those identifying as gay.
As the world spins faster, it can also seem that its axis is tilting more than usual!
Update: read about Francis' motu proprio on speedier annulments in a Damian Thompson column here. Why do the psychologically immature get a free pass here?
Spiritual and Sacred Links for Monday 7 September 2015
#1 Hugh Palmer on the challenge of Amos for our day; #2 and 3 Matthew Rusch and Kendall Harmon on what we let go in and out; and there are plenty of online services, resources and calls for prayer and encouragement.
1. I will restore the ruins [Amos 9] - Hugh Palmer - All Souls Langham Place Audio
http://tinyurl.com/nm92fy9
2. The Heart of the Matter (Mark 7:1-23) - Matthew Rusch - St Helena's Beaufort Audio
http://tinyurl.com/nu4j87m
3. What Is a Christian perspective on sin and Freedom? (Mark 7) - Kendall Harmon - Christ St Paul's Audio
http://tinyurl.com/ofdjp6b
6. The bells of St Lawrence, Alton in Hampshire - BBC Radio 4
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b068s44c
7. Choral Evensong from St Patrick's Cathedral, Armagh [CoI] with the 2015 Charles Wood Summer School - BBC Radio 3
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0680ymx
8 . Sunday Worship from Albany Road Baptist Church, Cardiff - BBC Radio 4
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b068s44p
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b066trnj
Please pray for the peace and safety of Nigeria and for the safe release of Bishop Moses Bukpe-Tabwaye of Gwagwalada near Abuja who was kidnapped and held for ransom on Thursday; for the persecuted church particularly in Syria, Iraq and Turkey; and for the Diocese of South Carolina.
Syria and Iraq region: The Christians of al- Qaryatain City have to make a choice whether to pay “Jizya” or enter to Islam - Syrian Observatory for Human Rights
http://tinyurl.com/qep4aq8
Sudan: Four years of bombings in Sudan’s Nuba Mountains - WWM
http://tinyurl.com/nfltofz
Nigeria: Ransom demand received for kidnapped bishop - Anglican Ink
http://tinyurl.com/omqdl8v
Primate urges Christians to be vigilant as kidnappers demand N40m ransom on Rev. Tabuwaye
http://tinyurl.com/qbzj6yx
Protest in Jos calling for end to Fulani killings - CSW
http://tinyurl.com/ovlvw33
Threat to Christians extends to the South - Release International
http://tinyurl.com/ptc857r
Turkey: Death threats target Turkey's Protestants - WWM
http://tinyurl.com/pvpcjwy
http://tinyurl.com/kssn33y
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b068s44k
13. Churches are best social melting pots in modern Britain - John Bingham
http://tinyurl.com/pcdyyku
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob spotted at Calais - David Keen
http://tinyurl.com/qduret6
Pre-Raphaelite Art in Churches - Church Days
http://tinyurl.com/ovo5u9m
Churches as Charities: Some basics - Frank Cranmer
http://tinyurl.com/pjsj6lr
Discovering the Bible in a digital world - Mark Green - CEN
http://tinyurl.com/ou6zfe6
14. The Word One to One - Introduced by Rico Tice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwmGmSDcKzA
Website where material may be bought or downloaded for free
http://www.theword121.com/
15. Ave Maria (Pietro Mascagni) - Elīna Garanča - Deutsche Grammophon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=014SVJ9ziJQ
16. Great is your faithfulness - Martin Smith
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JB25GuUzbaM
17. Once in a Blue Moon - Luke Taylor Vimeo
Motion 30 and the Diocese of Christchurch
Assiduous readers here will recall various posts about Motion 30 - our 2014 General Synod motion concerning the possibility of blessing of same sex partnerships while holding our whole church together by also upholding traditional marriage. Recently I have mentioned some workshops held around the Diocese on Motion 30 and I think I have mentioned the latest news from the Way Forward group set up by Motion 30, that no report and recommendations would be forthcoming this year.
With the next General Synod being May next year, 2016, that has been of concern in our church. At our present Diocese of Christchurch synod we had a motion on the books requesting General Synod commission a four year period of study prior to making any further decisions.
That motion was carefully debated yesterday and became, via amendment, the following resolution:
"Motion 30: A Time of Education, Discussion and Discernment
That this Diocese requests General Synod to receive (and table) the report from the Motion 30 Way Forward Group and not adopt any recommendations without first referring the report to the Synods, Hui Amorangi & Talanoa of this Church for discussion, and commends to General Synod that it resources a significant period of education, discussion, and discernment throughout this Church."
(For readers unfamiliar with a couple of terms, 'Hui Amorangi' are Maori episcopal unit synods and 'Talanoa' refers to a way of advancing conversation in the Diocese of Polynesia via small discussion groups).
I am personally in agreement with this resolution. I make no further comment here, at least for now. There are things to be done before leaving for today at Synod #chchsynod15 or #chchsynod2015.
Great news from Christchurch [Updated Links]
Our Synod began tonight with our service which ended with a couple of cathedral announcements pronounced ex cathedra (i.e. by Bishop Victoria herself).
One we have a new Dean, Lawrence Kimberley. Very pleasing. Read about it here in Taonga.
Two we have a breakthrough re the future of the cathedral building in the Square. Read about it here in Taonga.
Or read about it in secular-media-mode here!
Are some sins forgivable this year and not next year? [UPDATED]
UPDATE: See bottom of post
ORIGINAL: Even my largely sympathetic approach to matters Roman flinched when I saw this headline via Twitter last night:
"Pope to allow all priests to forgive abortion during Holy Year"
A Protestant reading of the headline suggests that far from being the benign "I just sign off on what the church as a whole agrees to" figure at the top of one particular model of ecclesial hierarchy, the Pope, even this Pope, has extraordinary powers.
Worse, the powers in this case decide not so much which sins are forgivable and which are not, but whether sins will be forgiven this calendar year but not next year. A sin is a sin, is it not? And if it is not the unforgivable sin then it is always forgivable, is it not? God's eternal grace applies in 1515 as much as in 2015 ...
Of course, another part of the Protestant scriptural mind says not to judge lest you be judged, so as someone who likes people to read my posts and not just my headlines, I read the Reuters article.
There I found things were not quite as I had thought. Not great, but there is a redemptive quality (if I may use such a notion in this context) in this particular Pope acting in this particular way.
Here is the opening part of the report:
"Pope Francis will give all priests discretion during the Roman Catholic Church's upcoming Holy Year to formally forgive women who have had abortions, in the Argentine pontiff's latest move towards a more open and inclusive church.
In Church teaching, abortion is such a grave sin that those who procure or perform it incur an automatic excommunication, which can only be lifted by designated church officials.However, from Dec. 8 [2015] to Nov. 26 [2016], during an extraordinary Holy Year or "Jubilee" on the theme of mercy, all priests will be able to do so if the women repent "with a contrite heart", the pope said in a letter published by the Vatican on Tuesday.Francis described the "existential and moral ordeal" faced by women who have terminated pregnancies and said he had "met so many women who bear in their heart the scar of this agonizing and painful decision".
The pope's letter did not mention those who perform abortions."
So the Pope's power/authority is not being used to forgive sins according to the calendar but to widen the means by which assurance of forgiveness may be received, in the context of a sin which incurs 'automatic excommunication.' That power/authority is also being exercised relative to an church-decided rule rather than to a God-revealed rule about excommunication. A Protestant can be empathetic to these things -we have a few rules of our own. Remember the time when use of any Bible except the KJV incurred automatic excommunication ... Then there were the churches that would expel you if you spoke in tongues ... :)
The article goes on to report a helpful explanation:
"Although he has shown no intention of retracting the Church's opposition to abortion, he has alarmed conservatives by taking a less forceful tone than his predecessors.
"This is by no means an attempt to minimize the gravity of this sin, but to widen the possibility of showing mercy," Vatican chief spokesman Father Federico Lombardi told reporters."
Ah, so here we are in common territory as we Christians around the globe explore all matters of human sexuality in the 21st century: how to be faithful to 'the gravity of sin' while widening the possibility of 'showing mercy.'
Before we Protestants throw doctrinal stones across the Tiber (and, spoiler alert, if you read the whole article, there is talk of ... Indulgences!? ... Luther, stop rolling in your grave) we do well to pause. Log and speck. How are we doing at maintaining the gravity of sin while ever widening the possibilities of showing mercy?
And, I appreciate, whatever I think about the idea that only certain officials can offer forgiveness and remit automatic excommunication, that Rome takes seriously such a grave sin as taking human life. If only we Protestants treated sin as seriously!
Postscript: someone else is quoted in the article, responding from the liberal/progressive wing of American Catholicism and introduces a new phrase to theological discourse:
"This is a pope who is not stuck in the pelvic zone, and perhaps his message on how he thinks about abortion is more for his brother bishops than Catholics in the pew"
May all our theological ruminations on matters of human sexuality never get "stuck in the pelvic zone" :)
UPDATE: Somehow I am on some kind of circulation list for the NZ Catholic Church and I have just received this about our local Kiwi situation:
"Clarification for New Zealand Church
You will be aware of the news reports overnight of Pope Francis’ announcement that all priests will be allowed to absolve the sin of abortion during the forthcoming Year of Mercy.
To clarify the situation in here, the New Zealand Catholic Bishops many years ago delegated this responsibility (they are entitled to do so) to New Zealand Priests.
Bishops in other countries may have also taken the same step as well. However Pope Francis has announced that this is to be universal for the upcoming Year of Mercy. Here in New Zealand the current situation will continue after that.
Simone Olsen
Communications Adviser
NZ Catholic Bishops
solsen@nzcbc.org.nz
www.catholic.org.nz"
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Is it just me, or is the Clinton campaign’s take on how to appeal to African-American voters really demeaning?
Beverly Mann | February 3, 2016 3:14 pm
It’s worth noting that Clinton has an interesting built-in advantage here. Clinton is campaigning as the candidate of continuity, at least in the sense that she is promising to build incrementally on the Obama agenda, while Sanders is implicitly arguing that the change of the Obama era has been woefully insubstantial when compared with the scale of our challenges. Clinton’s positioning as the steward of the Obama agenda may alone give her an edge with nonwhite voters.
— Hillary Clinton is placing a huge bet on nonwhite voters, Greg Sargent, this morning
To me, one of the most striking things about Clinton’s campaign is the ships-that-pass-in-the-night feel between the very nature of her campaign and the public mood, generally but certainly among a very large swath of Democrats and Dem leaners. Mostly, her campaign is about her. A week or two ago, I clicked a link to a video of an event in New Hampshire a day earlier in which Sen. Jeanne Shaheen’s introduction of Clinton, as the latter stood nearby waiting to take the stage, consisted (at least in the clip I saw) of reminding the crowd of how awesome Clinton was throughout that 11-hour Senate-committee Benghazi hearing. As if that absolutely, definitely, for sure indicates that she will cow Republican senators and House members into enacting progressive legislation she wants.
It really fascinates me that so many prominent Democrats and progressives think that’s the end-all-and-be-all as an indicator of a successful Hillary Clinton administration. These folks really should get out more. To, say, well, almost anywhere outside of Washington, DC or New York City.
No surprise that Clinton talks incessantly about herself. On Tuesday it was that SHE WON THE IOWA CAUCUSES. Earlier it was that she’s now a grandmother. And in between these persuasive arguments was an equally persuasive one: That she knows how it feels to be the one to have to decide whether a presidential inauguration public ceremony should go on in the face of a credible threat of a terrorist attack.
That link is to a post of mine from two weeks ago in which I also said this:
What worries me more than anything else about a Clinton general election campaign is her propensity to say obviously silly things. Elsewhere in that speech, in Clinton, IA on Friday, she again repeated her (and her daughter’s) complaint—without any hint of recognition of irony—that Sanders’ single-payer healthcare insurance plan would kill Obamacare. As if it weren’t the very purpose of a single-payer healthcare insurance system to eliminate private healthcare insurance for the benefits that the single-payer plan provides. As if the purpose of Obamacare was to create some living monument to Obama, rather than to provide healthcare insurance to people who had no access to it, and provide decent insurance to people who had policies that provided almost no coverage.
Which I think makes the point that that quote above from Greg Sargent highlights: Clinton believes that African-Americans think the purpose of Obamacare was to create some living monument to Obama, rather than to provide healthcare insurance to people who had no access to it, and provide decent insurance to people who had policies that provided almost no coverage. And that they think that everything else Obama did must be preserved in granite because, well … Obama.
They like him and support him. And aren’t as discriminating in their analyses as, y’know, whites. Or at least as whites who don’t feel that very same way about Ronald Reagan (a rapidly diminishing crowd now, although the Republican Establishment hasn’t noticed).
I just don’t know about that. Me? I suspect that most African-Americans know well that Obamacare was a necessary comprise, and know that there are still many millions of people who have no healthcare insurance. And that large premiums to private insurers, and large co-payments and deductables requiring very significant personal expenditures, don’t make for a situation in which huge numbers of Americans aren’t pervasively in fear of needing expensive medical care, or of being unable to pay the premiums, or both.
And that citizens of no other wealthy Western-style democracy live this way.
Clinton’s marketing pitch is that she is a progressive who gets things done. “I come to you with a lifetime of service and advocacy and of getting results,” was, as noted by Dana Milbank in a commentary post that otherwise itself misses the ship, “her less-than-soaring pitch” at a community college in Nashua yesterday. But what results exactly has she gotten? She’s never specific, except about foreign-policy achievements as secretary of state. And either are her many boosters among the mainstream-commentary crowd, although they recite this mantra regularly.
Milbank worries about what he says is Clinton’s tendency to get bogged down in the details of her policy proposals when she speaks at events, boring her audience. (Maybe it’s the policy proposals themselves that are the problem.) But from where I sit, which is not at a Clinton campaign event, the problem is the opposite of too much detail. It’s the incessant two-or-three-sentence soundbite stupidities she repeats, again and again.
Like that she wants to raise incomes, not taxes. (A winner!) Or that we don’t want to subside college tuition for Donald Trump’s grandchildren. (Sanders doesn’t either; he plans to tax Donald Trump enough to pay Trump’s grandchildren’s public college tuition, should they deign to attend a public college, and have a bit left over to subsidize others’ grandchildren’s college tuition, to boot!)
The New York Times reported yesterday that some supporters close to Clinton (read: her husband, I’m betting) want her to demote the campaign’s manager, Robby Mook, whose strength is in organizing and implementing get-out-the-vote drives. But unless he also is the one who feeds her those soundbites and tacks—and I’m betting he’s not—replacing Mook would be as effective as killing the messenger. Mook got out the vote. It’s Clinton who didn’t.
And it’s not promising that Clinton and some people close to her apparently don’t see this.
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It is just you, Beverly. You have made it abundantly clear that youi hate Hillary’s guts and that whatever she does or says you will do your best to twist it into something simply awful. What you have here is jus tmore of the same.
ilsm
I vote in NH. I am attending a Bernie rally tomorrow PM at UNH.
I am a graying 1960’s era short haired ROTC hippie. I have come a long way. The Iraq vote and HRC’s assured condemnation of Iran turned me off. On that I am one issue!
The rest of her progressive stump line is BS; she is into warring in the middle east forever.
beene
Clinton’s have been in the past and present the problem with the Democratic Party which has decimated the middle class and the poor.
For more facts of the Clinton reign of terror on 90% of the USA population.
See………http://wallstreetonparade.com/2016/01/the-times-endorses-hillary-clinton-with-a-banner-ad-from-citigroup/
“Hillary Clinton is the woman who stood by her man as multiple women came forward to accuse him of adultery or sexual assaults. Hillary Clinton is the woman who served as First Lady as Bill Clinton eviscerated the lives of poor children and single mothers by enacting welfare reform, a program so draconian that Senator Edward Kennedy called it “legislative child abuse” and voted against it.”
“According to the Center for Responsive Politics, among the top five largest lifetime donors to Hillary’s campaigns, Citigroup tops the list, with three other Wall Street banks also making the cut: Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase and Morgan Stanley. (The monies come from employees and/or family members or PACs of the firms, not the corporation itself.)”
Hillary Clinton said the Clinton’s were broke when they left the white house.
Then bought a home where annual house tax was close to 30 thousand a year. How many of us would like to be so poor?
EMichael
I think it is just you, Bev. Bit of a mystery to me, but Clinton is exceptionally strong with black(and latino) voters. While her husband’s policies can certainly be looked upon as negative towards these minority voters, you have to remember the fact that Clinton was the first President that did not ignore them.
“Take the recent Monmouth University poll of the Democratic race. Between December and January, Clinton lost her lead with white Democrats. Indeed, it vanished, dropping 23 points. Now, she’s tied with Sanders, 43 percent to 43 percent. But she’s grown her lead with black and Latino Democrats, winning 71 percent to 21 percent for the Vermont senator, up from 61 percent in January.
This lead with black and Latino Democrats isn’t just responsible for Clinton’s margin in national polling—where she outpaces Sanders by an average of 13 points—it’s responsible for her massive lead in the South Carolina primary, where black voters predominate and where Clinton crushes Sanders with an average margin of 40 points (although there’s been little polling in the state since the new year).
Which gets to a broader, more important point. Minority voters—and black Americans in particular—are the firewall for Clinton’s candidacy and the Democratic establishment writ large. As long as Clinton holds her lead with black Democrats, she’s tough (if not impossible) to beat in delegate-rich states like New York, New Jersey, Illinois, Ohio, and Texas. Even with momentum from wins in Iowa and New Hampshire, it’s hard to see how Sanders overcomes Clinton’s massive advantage with this part of the party’s electorate . That’s not to say he won’t excel as an insurgent candidate, but that—barring a seismic shift among black Democrats, as well as Latinos—his coalition won’t overcome her coalition.
This, in itself, raises a question. Why are black Americans loyal to Hillary Clinton? What has she, or her husband, done to earn support from black voters? After all, this is the era of Clinton critique, especially on questions of racial and economic justice. The Crime Bill of 1994 supercharged mass incarceration; the great economic boom of the 1990s didn’t reach millions of poor and working-class black men; and welfare reform couldn’t protect poor women in the recession that followed. And the lax regulation of the Clinton years helped fill a financial bubble that tanked the global economy and destroyed black wealth.
At the same time, it is important to view the relationship between black voters and the Clintons in the context of the times when it was forged. During the Republican presidencies of the 1980s, black voters felt alienated and ignored by mainstream politics. Even Democrats seemed to keep their distance, a sense that helped fuel Jesse Jackson’s bids for the Democratic nomination in 1984 and 1988.
From the beginning of his campaign, Bill Clinton did the opposite. Neither he nor his wife took blacks for granted, assiduously campaigning for the black vote in every possible venue. He emphasized his childhood in the segregated South and pledged to appoint blacks to high-ranking positions. In an approach that Barack Obama would mimic 16 years later, Clinton focused his efforts on black civic and community organizations, from church networks to civil rights groups. It paid off. Black voters carried Clinton through the Southern primaries and gave him the margins he needed to win the nomination.”
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2016/01/hillary_clinton_s_ties_to_black_democrats_will_save_her_campaign_from_bernie.html
They are also the growing part of the population.
terrry
I like Bernie, I liked Eugene McCarthy and George McGovern too and stuffed envelopes for Gene and voted for George and learned that since LBJ this is a center right country unless African Americans, Latinos and women vote in large numbers and then it is a center-center country. A Democratic Socialist is not likely to win the presidency in this country at this time and even if he did he would face a GOP majority in the House and at best have a slight Democratic edge in the Senate which would certainly not be filibuster proof and likely would contain several Democrats who are plainly DINOs. In other words while he will not face the racism that Obama has (although anti Semitism may be an issue) he would likely accomplish even less than Obama has to date. I for one am not willing to take the chance that Bernie can beat Rubio or whoever the GOP come up with when none of the things I like about him will ever be achieved by him. Do you really want to run the risk that the GOP will be selecting Supreme Court justices for the next 4 or 8 years Beverly? You must really hate Hillary a lot. I think it is perfectly reasonable to support Bernie’s positions and even support him in the primaries, but do it based on the superiority of those positions over Hillary’s. Do not do it by tearing Hillary down although I admit she is typically somewhat tone deaf. She is almost certainly going to be the Democrats’ nominee and I think she has a much better chance than Bernie of winning the general election particularly if Obama and her husband campaign for her and she can approach Obama’s numbers with minority and young voters while improving on his numbers with white older voters.
The entire media commentary is demeaning toward blacks. They assume that blacks won’t take a careful look at Sanders , and will just reflexively vote for Clinton. I think they’ll be surprised , or rather , shocked , by the voting results. The establishment anti-Bernie propaganda we’ve seen to date is just a trickle compared to the flood we’ll get once the panic starts to set in. The moneyed class will pull out all the stops , and spend any sum , to keep another FDR out of the White House.
Are blacks voting in primaries likely to think that the Washington Post and NYT are on their side ? How about Citi , Goldman , JP Morgan , BOA , etc. ? Are they on the side of the black underclass ? This is not a choice between a Democrat and a Republican , it’s between a Money Party Democrat and a man with a deep and long-lasting belief in the concept of social justice , a man that MLK , were he alive today , would heartily endorse , I’m quite certain.
The pollsters are part of the establishment. Wait until you see the actual votes. This ain’t over , not by a long shot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=645mtthz8Io&app=desktop
Every time I see a reference to “FDR” I shudder, unless it also mentions the makeup of Congress during his terms.
A movement needs a leader. It also needs power behind it.
That ain’t happening until 2020 at least, and that depends on state elections, the biggest problem the progressive movement has.
As Sanders said in his debate last night. We are looking for an expanded electric. Remember few politicians lead; if Sanders does keep inspiring more an more people to come out and vote; this will give him the power to make real changes.
C’mon, Beene.
Neither Bernie nor Clinton will have any ability whatsoever to make any real changes, at least until 2021.
Let’s keep our eye on the ball.
EMichael, we will agree to disagree. I do believe if Sanders expands the number of people voting; like in Iowa, politicians will see the writing on the wall.
I think you should spend some time looking at Congress and the forthcoming seats up for re election.
And I have no idea what you are talking about in terms of the Iowa turnout.
Caucus turnout: Robust, record-setting and surprising
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/elections/presidential/caucus/2016/02/02/caucus-turnout-robust-record-setting-and-surprising/79626128/
caucus in a state where 91% of the people are white.
U tubes mean nothing
“Monmouth University Polling Institute 1/19/16
Clinton has lost ground with nearly every major Democratic voting bloc since December. Her biggest drops have come among self-described liberals, going from a 57% –31% advantage over Sanders
one month ago to a 42% –51% deficit in the current poll. She has also dropped significantly among women (from a 64%–19% lead last month to a smaller 54% –35% edge now) and voters under the age
of 50 (from a 52%–35% lead to a 39%–52% shortfall).
However, Clinton has held onto high levels of support from two crucial groups. Voters over the age of 50, who make up the lion’s share of the actual primary electorate, continue to support her over Sanders by a substantial 64% –24% margin, similar to her 67% –16% lead among this group in December. Furthermore, black and Latino voters, who will comprise a large share of the vote in South Carolina and Nevada as well as in many Super Tuesday states, solidly support her by a 71% –21%
margin, which is actually an increase over her 61% –18% lead last month.”
http://www.monmouth.edu/assets/0/32212254770/32212254991/32212254992/32212254994/32212254995/30064771087/4d7b2106-b632-4b79-a6ed-7afc73902d4c.pdf
Long tough road and not a lot of time for Sanders to cut into his huge deficit with these voters, without whom he cannot possibly win.
Iowa and NH are totally unimportant to this process other than the debates.
As already said, we agree to disagree.
We can continue after SC.
EMichael, remember it was a democratic congress that saved Bushs’ tax cut for the rich.
Beene, please.
That was a pretty long article when “I do not support Hillary and in fact do not even like her” might have worked as well. My perspective is if you do not want her to be the Democratic nominee, start talking about those e-mails. That might derail her, but grinding on over ACA versus single-payer won’t. Why folks are shy to talk about the e-mails is interesting to me in that it is clearly a legitimate issue to discuss a recent Sec. of State’s handling of nationally sensitive information if she wants to be President. She’s all grown up and can defend herself, certainly. If you really do not like her saying “She’s reckless with critical national secrets” is going to work better than “She won’t oblige us by supporting stuff that isn’t going to happen”. Anyway, I’d guess it would work better.
I share my candidate’s attitude about the emails, Eric: I don’t give a damn about them.
“She’s reckless with critical national secrets” might work better if there were an iota of evidence that she was reckless with critical national secrets, but there is none yet, and I’m guessing that there never will be.
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Roads - Off in the distance
Subject: Roads
I am amused by this BBC article on Britain's most intimidating road junctions.. Particularly this comment: Between them, Birmingham, London and Glasgow took eight of the top 10 spots.
Strangely enough, I had no difficulty in guessing what the other two junctions in the list were. Yes, the Swindon and Hemel magic roundabouts, at #4 and #9.
(As someone who negotiated the Hanger Lane gyratory (#5) twice a day for several years, I think I can cope with just about anything, though I'll concede that the Glasgow ones are a real pain.)
User: irishkate
my first time in Swindon I ended up driving through the magic roundabout in the dark while there was a rain storm. I could barely see and it took quite a while after I arrived at my destination before I felt calm and stress free again!
A story told is of a Armoured Car squadron arriving there not long after it had been built. It is said that the commander, more used to small roads of the Wiltshire plains than these new-fangled circle things, paused for a bit while he considered what to do. Then, having made his decision, he boldly led the squadron forward.
In a straight line.
Right across the middle.
Moral: he who has armour and weaponry, wins.
User: autopope
I did that at Hemel Hempstead.
Came off the motorway at the wrong junction and misread the sign in darkness and torrential rain that obscured the road markings; I went across three mini-roundabouts on the wrong side of the road before the oncoming headlights tipped me off about what I was doing wrong ...
I can quite imagine that happening.
Happily for me, the first time I met it was on a nice sunny day when visiting bellinghwoman at her workplace. Since she was then working on Park Lane, which is the hill leading down to it, my initial requirement was just to do a 180 round that single element which was at the bottom of the hill. I worked up to more complicated variations on later encounters.
I'm not entirely sure why Kingston Bridge doesn't count as one of the M8 junctions in Glasgow, myself. I certainly messed up trying to get to our hotel last time we were up there, and ended up crossing it.
For me, it's Piccadilly and Five Ways I've not driven through, though I might have been through the latter.
User: artela
I thought that list was going to have things like "Snake Pass in the Snow", or "The Black Mountain Road in fog and ice", but no, it seemed to be a list of junctions half of which I regard as easy-peasy (what's wrong with the M5/M6 junction for instance? It's perfectly straightforward!)
what's wrong with the M5/M6 junction for instance?
Nose-to-tail traffic with drivers changing across three to six lanes at average speeds of 70mph, that's what's wrong with it. That, and the layout is so non-standard for British motorways (cloverleafs are vanishingly rare on this side of the Atlantic -- we use roundabouts or gyratories instead) that everybody travelling through it gets confused. Oh, and there's the third motorway feeding in half a mile upstream to add to the amusement. If you're American, layer "Boston-style drivers" on top of that.
I've used it a few times - never had a problem (apart from the "everything crawling at 15 mph one junction either side of the interchange, but I guess that's bound to happen in "rush hour"...)
User: surliminal
Yup Snake Pass in the dark - much scarier than the M8!
Admittedly, the first time I went over Snake Pass, my future first mother-in-law was driving, going to Glossop to spend Xmas with that family for the very first time.
It was dark.
It was snowing sufficiently hard that shortly after we entered, they closed it to any more traffic.
And we were in a VW beetle.
(For extra fun, MiL-to-be actually had a prosthetic for one hand, but since she'd been coping with life with only one real hand since a child, that wasn't something we tended to note most of the time. She managed to raise both a set of triplets, and a son who managed to be president of the Oxford Union before reaching his current position with BBC Newsnight, so a pretty capable woman.)
If it hadn't been dark, I might have actually seen how scary that trip was, but at the time, we were so relieved at getting away from Derby, anything looked good.
First time I drove from Embra to Sheff the satnav took me over Snake Pass. in te dark. At the end of a long day. With TWO HOWLING CATS PISSING IN THE BACK.
Not keen to repeat that..
How weird! Yeh I don't like the Kingston Bridge much but really it'snothing compared to half the Southamptn one ay system! or the roundabout I have to go through every day in Sheffield nr the uni!
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Shakespeare & Company Presents “Love’s Labor’s Lost” Outdoors at The Mount
Berkshire On Stage / July 9, 2018
(Lenox, MA) – Shakespeare & Company presents William Shakespeare’s comedy Love’s Labor’s Lost, directed by Kelly Galvin and performed outside in The Dell at The Mount, Edith Wharton’s Home. This family-friendly, open-air production featuring Shakespeare & Company Education Artists runs from July 10th – August 18th.
“One of Shakespeare’s very first plays, Love’s Labor’s Lost offers us a glimpse of an audacious young playwright delighting in his virtuosity,” says director Kelly Galvin. “Within his sparkling poetry we sense the young playwright coming into the fullness of his power. In doing so, he conjures a fantastical world of young luminaries who are coming into power in their own right. In The Dell, where the borders between our actors and audiences are most fluid, we find a perfect setting for Shakespeare’s rhapsody of language, laughter, and summer love.”
Love’s Labor’s Lost begins with the King of Navarre dedicating himself and his country to a life of scholarship. The King and his courtiers have made an oath renouncing worldly pleasures and have commanded all the townsfolk of Navarre to do the same. But when the Princess of France and her ladies arrive on a diplomatic visit, the King and his friends find the enticements of summer love more powerful than they had imagined. A spoof of those who try to shun love and life, Love’s Labor’s Lost is full of witty wordplay, outrageous mishaps, and riotous comedy.
“I fell in love with Shakespeare as a kid seeing the plays performed, so the opportunity to direct in this space for our widest ranging audience is really special for me,” continued Galvin. “As we create this play, we’re thinking about how the story will resonate for audiences of all ages, and it makes our storytelling more complex, imaginative, and nuanced knowing that we’ll have some audience members who are seeing Shakespeare for the first time, and some who already have a deep relationship with the playwright.”
Kelly Galvin returns to Shakespeare & Company for her ninth season having just received her MFA in directing from Boston University. The cast features David Bertoldi, Caroline Calkins, Emily Eldridge-Ingram, Lori Evans, Rory Hammond, Luke Haskell, Fiona Herter (Education Intern), Caitlin Kraft, Madeleine Rose Maggio, Rylan Morsbach, Devante Owens (Riotous Youth Intern), Bella Pelz (Riotous Youth Intern), Thomas Reynolds (Riotous Youth Intern), and Dara Silverman. The creative team includes Devon Drohan (Set Design), Elizabeth Magas (Costume Design), Deborah Morris (Composer), and Cindy Wade (Stage Manager).
Tickets for Love’s Labor’s Lost are available online at shakespeare.org, or by calling Shakespeare & Company’s box office at (413) 637-3353. The show is family-friendly, general admission, and tickets are $25 for adults and $10 for youth. Performances will run approximately 90 minutes with no intermission, and will be followed by short talk-back with the actors. The Mount is located at 2 Plunkett Street in Lenox, Massachusetts. The grounds open 90 minutes before each performance. Audience members are encouraged to bring chairs or blankets and a picnic; chairs are also available to rent for a fee of $2 per chair.
PRODUCTION: Love’s Labor’s Lost
PLAYWRIGHT: William Shakespeare
DIRECTOR: Kelly Galvin
SET DESIGNER: Devon Drohan
COSTUME DESIGNER: Elizabeth Magas
COMPOSER: Deborah Morris
VOCAL COACH: Gwendolyn Schwinke
STAGE MANAGER: Cindy Wade
BEROWNE: David Bertoldi
ROSALINE: Caroline Calkins
MARIA / DULL: Emily Eldridge-Ingram
HOLOFERNES: Lori Evans
PRINCESS OF FRANCE: Rory Hammond
COSTARD: Luke Haskell
FORESTER: Fiona Herter
BOYET: Caitlin Kraft
LONGAVILLE / JAQUENETTA: Madeleine Rose Maggio
KING OF NAVARRE: Rylan Morsbach
DUMAINE: Devante Owens
MOTH: Bella Pelz
DON ARMADO: Thomas Reynolds
KATHARINE / SIR NATHANIEL: Dara Silverman
Tuesday, July 10 – 6:00 PM (preview)
Thursday, July 12 – 6:00 PM (opening)
Saturday, July 14 – 11:00 AM
Tuesday, July 17 – 6:00 PM
Thursday, July 19 – 6:00 PM
Thursday, August 2 – 6:00 PM
Saturday, August 4 – 11:00 AM
Tuesday, August 7 – 6:00 PM
Saturday, August 11 – 11:00 AM
Saturday, August 18 – 11:00 AM (closing)
About Kelly Galvin
(Director, Love’s Labor’s Lost) ninth season. S&Co Director: The Clean House (reading), Fall Festival of Shakespeare 2008-2013, Bankside Preludes. S&Co Actor: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, King Lear, The Venetian Twins, The Winter’s Tale, The Learned Ladies, Les Liaisons Dangereuses. WAM Theatre: Artistic Associate (2012-2014), The Last Wifedirector, Blue Stockings (reading) director, Fresh Takes inaugural curator and producer. Other Directing: Southwest Shakespeare (Photograph 51), Boston Playwrights’ Theatre (Memorial, New Play Festival), The Theatre at Woodshill (As You Like It, Much Ado About Nothing), Boston University School of Theatre (The Cherry Orchard, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Dancing at Lughnasa, The Duchess of Malfi, The Tall Girls). Assistant Directing & Observerships: Asolo Rep, Bedlam NYC, Orlando Shakespeare Theatre, Boston Center for American Performance, Huntington Theatre Company. Directing Fellowship: Asolo Repertory Theatre. Artistic Development Internship: Arena Stage. Training: MFA, Boston University. BA, Wellesley College. kellydirecting.com.
About William Shakespeare
(Playwright, Love’s Labor’s Lost) He was an English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world’s pre-eminent dramatist. His works, including some collaborations, consist of about 37 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.
About Shakespeare & Company
Located in the beautiful Berkshires of Western Massachusetts, Shakespeare & Company is one of the leading Shakespeare festivals of the world. Founded in 1978, the organization attracts over 30,000 patrons annually. The Company is also home to an internationally renowned Center for Actor Training and award-winning Education Program. More information is available at www.shakespeare.org.
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ESPN retracts an earlier on-air report of Sean Miller’s firing
ESPN incorrectly reported during the first half of the Oregon State-Arizona State game that Arizona head coach Sean Miller had been fired. They explained that their report was inaccurate in the second half of the game, claiming they got an "inadvertent report" from press row at Oregon State.
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Sean Miller is not coaching tonight’s Arizona basketball game against Oregon, after reports that FBI wiretaps intercepted phone calls in which Miller discussed paying Deandre Ayton $100,000 to ensure the star recruit signed with the Wildcats. ESPN’s Jay Bilas said on Saturday morning that he “can’t imagine [Miller] ever coaching in college again.”
Well, during the first half of Saturday night’s Arizona State-Oregon State game on ESPNU, play-by-play man Steve Quis said that Miller was “relieved of his duties from the University of Arizona.”
“We have breaking news from Arizona. Sean Miller has been relieved of his duties from the University of Arizona.”
So, all of the viewers — and of a PAC-12 game, surely with many Arizona fans watching — were under the impression that Miller had been fired.
But in the second half, Quis said that their report of Miller’s firing was incorrect. Quis claims that it was an “inadvertent report from the press row [at] Oregon State.”
“We had an inadvertent report that we apologize for, saying that Sean Miller had been fired. That was an inadvertent report from the press row here at Oregon State earlier tonight. So, we regret that information passed along. But today, here are the facts. It’s the one time in my life I’m thankful I’m not an air traffic controller to put things in perspective.”
Now, as Bilas suggested, it’s still hard to see Miller coaching at Arizona or anywhere else anytime soon. But, at the moment, he’s still the Arizona head coach. And if Arizona does fire Miller with cause, it’s going to be a very expensive firing.
JUST IN: Sean Miller’s contract, as written, somehow pays him more for getting fired with cause than without cause. So if Miller is fired with cause, Arizona will owe him approximately $5 million more ($10.3 million versus $5.15 million) than if they fired for no reason.
— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) February 24, 2018
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Still Life: Open Studios by Checkpoint Theatre
Dana Lam is perhaps most famous for being a former President of the Association of Women for Action and Research (AWARE), alongside having published a photobook during the heady GE 2006 days. But did you also know that she’s a trained artist?
Once taught by Milenko and Delia Prvacki, Dana has been given the chance of a lifetime: produced by Checkpoint Theatre, Dana will tell the story of her life through a brand new, full length play in early 2019. Titled Still Life, the work previously received a dramatised reading in November 2017, and takes a look at Dana’s life as a daughter, mother, grandmother and wife from the 1950s through to the present through the lens of art and art-making.
In an extension and evolution of their pre-existing works-in-development programme, Dana has also been given the chance to live out the full artist life, with Checkpoint Theatre having rented out an empty room in Goodman Arts Centre for Dana to transform into her very own studio. Here, Dana has been given free reign to explore her artistic side, creating everything from still life portraits of friends to woven dolls. As part of the programme, Dana also presented an excerpt of the production (directed by Checkpoint co-artistic director Claire Wong) over the weekend in that same studio space, edging it ever closer to the final product next year.
By setting it in an artist’s studio, surrounded by works she herself has created, Dana affords a newfound strength to the work as she finds power in this familiar space, owning it as she walks around it and recounting anecdotes of her life. But instead of simply diving straight into each anecdote, Dana creates an entry point through her art, effectively linking each lovingly crafted piece to an episode in her life, giving a strong visual precedence to better evoke the themes she attempts to bring out in her play. At one point, Dana describes the act of painting a subject and their usual reactions while looking intently at an audience member, painting in real time as she speaks.
In its current state, one feels as if one has been brought on an deeply personal curatorial journey not just around the studio, but into Dana’s very mind and artistry, her life on display in a different kind of gallery. While it will not be staged in this same space come 2019, Still Life then has the potential to transgress the border between installation and performance art, able to become something truly unique and moving in its own right, assuming it retains the same sense of intimacy that gives the script extra punch. We’re certainly looking forward to seeing how this work continues to develop and the kind of product it will finally result in, as Checkpoint Theatre gears up for an exciting 2019 season ahead.
Still Life is set to premiere in early 2019, with details to be announced soon. For more information, follow Checkpoint Theatre on their Facebook here
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From Donji Vakuf to Banja Luka to Zagreb
Posted on 11/30/2013 by igorguillo
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When we woke up, we were quite cold because even in the summer the temperatures drops near to zero in Central Bosnia due to the elevation and the steep terrain. We also had to wait for a while till the tent dried from the dew.
Bosnian dawn
Tent drying from the dew
Then, still in the early morning, we started to hitchhike just on the main road, but we had to wait at least two our to get a ride.
Hit the road Jack
Meanwhile I was filling up the time improving my invented song “Land mine, wild camping” (coming soon), finally an aged man took us in his old truck. He was the typical old person with the body wasted because of an entire life working, but with those bright honest happy eyes, I really liked him. It was Sunday so, as we were going to learn, Bosnian people drink during the whole day. The old little man offered us a beer in the truck, then he stopped in a small bar and invited us to another beer and just before let us in the road he passed throw his house to show his wife that he was carrying foreign hitchhikers, it was touching. We started again to hitchhike (I can’t identify the exact village in Google maps, it was probably Babin Potok) in front of a big house with children playing and the family members staring at us.
Somewhere in central Bosnia
Somewhere in central Bosnia II
We needed again some time to be caught but a little later we were carried by two young heavy metal Bosnians that were also drinking in the car. We were talking about music and then they insisted on hearing me playing Spanish music with the guitar so I had to play “Nube the pegatina” the song I used to keep for that kind of situations. They dropped us in the entrance of Jajce, a very beautify city famous because of its waterfalls where the Pliva River meets the river Vrbas. We were in a busy crossing so we decided to walk a little bit, following the road that borders the town to the north. Happily some meter away we found a very nice view to the waterfalls, but unfortunately all the gaps were in that left side of the road and any of them in our direction.
The waterfalls are just behindthe cabin… I swear!
…OK, just a little bit further…
We kept walking and started to feel hungry, but any shop was open. After a quite long walk we found the first suitable place to hitchhike in kilometers but a local suspicious woman was already taking over the place. We tried for a while to share the space with her but she “suggested” us to go away so we obeyed, scared about her threat. A little bit later we were so tired that we started to hitchhike in the first small gap we found on the road.
Overview of Jajce
Overview of Jajce II
The uncrowded roads and the fact that it was Sunday was making our day harder, we also started to feel thirsty, very hungry and worried about the chances to be on time in Zagreb. After one or maybe two hours a young strange guy stopped and agreed to drive us to Banja Luka. As you probably already guessed the guy had the car full of beers (It is definitely a Bosnian tradition), so we recovered our hope in this long day full of ups and downs (this was still nothing, keep reading).
When we arrived to Banja Luka our driver stopped to fill his fuel tank in the first gas station and we decided to stay because we saw a big supermarket and we really needed to eat something. Before saying good bye we insisted on inviting him for a coffee in appreciation to the beers. The guy was in a hurry so he swallowed his coffee at a gulp and left two minutes later.
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We ran to the supermarket like malnourished dogs, but again the luck got us in the back. We bought a big peace of cheese, a bag of sausages, bread and some garlic. I don’t know how to explain it, but we both really wanted to throw up. The sausage was disgusting, but the cheese…. the cheese was the worst thing I have eaten in my life, the producers should be in jail, not even joking.
Therewith, we went again to the supermarket to buy some juice or something to cover the taste, but it was already closed so we decided to eat pieces of garlic instead. After that we still wanted to throw up, but at least for a different reason. We where tired and with a slight diurnal hangover but we didn’t have any other option than keep hitchhiking to the north, because our fly was going to take off the next day at midnight. Banja Luka is the second biggest city of Bosnia, is quit big and interesting but we didn’t have any more time for tourism. We followed the road searching for a place to hitchhike but we were exactly in the southern entrance of the city and we wanted to go to the north.
The only picture of Banja Luka we made
After one hour or more we had one of the most unpleasant experiences in our trip. Just after passing a gas station we were walking on the big avenue and we heard a big riot. Right after that we saw a group of young people shouting and walking in our direction, and when we approached a little bit closer, we realized that they were raising their arms just as the unfriendly German dwarf with a funny mustache used to. I imediately took Aleksandra’s hand and I told her to turn around and go to the gas station as fast as possible. In addition of our hippie traveler look we had painted an anarchist “A” on Pulguita’s travelbag, so we had a lot of chances to be in trouble. Luckily, we reached the gas station’s cafeteria, we sat in the most hidden table and ordered a coffee. From there we could see some of the retarders going in and buying cigarettes but none of them seemed to realize about our presence. We stayed there for a while a little bit scared and very desperate, because the sun was going down, and we really wanted to leave Banja Luka to, at least, wild camp somewhere in the countryside. When we ensured that the road was clear, we went out. The roundabout with the Zagreb highway exit was only some minutes away but we had a very few sunlight left so we did it as fast as we could. During the walk we realized that our Nazi friends were probably coming from the nearby football stadium, were intellectual people normally have their meetings. Once there, we tried to hitchhike the best as we could (if there is some technique) but no one stopped.
Filler Pulguita’s picture II
The day was turned to be the hardest in our trip but, on the other hand, that is the point of hitchhiking, to never know what is going to happen and be able to overcome all the adversities. Anyway, even if we had had good references about Banja Luka, we really wanted to be out of there quickly so we decided, not without arguing, to take a bus somewhere to the north and we started looking for the bus station. It wasn’t too far, but atsome point we took the wrong way so it took us around one hour to get there. At least something good happened: we discovered that there was a night bus going to Zagreb leaving at 22 and the station minimarket was still open. We ate something and we waited for the bus, it was already completely dark.
Filler Pulguita’s picture III
When we got to the bus we had again some troubles, it looked that the day was endless, we had bought the ticket and spent all the money we had left in the shop, but the driver wanted to charge us an extra amount to put our backpack in the trunk of the van (yes, it was a van). I started to argue with him but thanks to a friendly guy who got in to the conversation, the driver allowed us to put the backpacks in the van with us. By the way, we were hiding Pulguita at the same time so we didn’t feel relieved until the bus left the station. The next challenge was to cross the European border going into Croatia. The bus was stuck there for at least half an our, everybody showed their documents. From all the passengers, we only had one loss, an innocent young girl who was probably an international terrorist carrying guns into Europe to kill our children. The important part – we smuggled Pulguita in.
Filler Pulguita’s picture IV
Anyway, we arrived to Zagreb on time, around 2 am and some of the shops at the bus station were still open. It was a big station with a huge space with seats on the first floor, and even if the gate´s entrance was open the whole night and there was no security guards, it looked quite save… or not, we were too tired for quibbling. We had a quick sandwich (actually it was a disgusting old greasy Burek, fitting quite well to our days menu) and we found a perfect hidden space in a corner, so we settled with the bags at the bottom and we finally had a deserved sleep, it was a round 3 am.
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Aerosol can forces evacuation at Victoria airport
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Passengers departing Victoria International Airport Saturday morning were forced to go through security twice after a prohibited item passed through the airport’s security checkpoint.
The airport tweeted that a “security breach” had forced the evacuation of the departures area and caused “minor delays to a few flights.”
We are currently dealing with a security breach. Our departure lounge has had to be evacuated and all passengers will be re-screened. This will cause minor delays to a few flights. Please check w/ your airline or our website for latest flight information. #yyj #yyjops
— Victoria Int Airport (@Fly_YYJ) July 13, 2019
Airport spokesman Rod Hunchak told CTV News the security breach was caused by an aerosol can that was identified during the security screening process, but couldn’t be located before the passenger it belonged to had retrieved their bag.
“It was a matter of timing,” Hunchak said. “They couldn’t positively identify the passenger immediately.”
After evacuating the departures area, airport staff reviewed security camera footage and were able to determine who the aerosol can belonged to.
Hunchak said the owner of the prohibited item had already boarded a WestJet flight that was waiting to depart. Officials boarded that flight and retrieved the aerosol can, which turned out to be sunscreen, Hunchak said.
A total of four departing flights were grounded during the incident.
The departures area was deemed secure shortly after 10:30 a.m., at which point evacuated passengers were re-screened. Hunchack said this process was expedited by extra staff from the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority.
Early Saturday afternoon, the airport tweeted to thank passengers for their patience during the incident.
Thank you for your patience and cooperation as we responded to a security breach earlier today. Safe travels. #yyj #yyjops
Hunchak said the situation was a good reminder to travellers to double-check the list of prohibited items before heading to the airport.
“It’s good to check right before you go through security so you don’t get your items taken,” he said.
‘There’s a stigma’: First responders gather in B.C. to talk trauma
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Published Thursday, January 31, 2019 1:28PM PST
VANCOUVER – Eighteen years as a firefighter had exposed Greg Gauthier to endless trauma but a call involving a tour bus hitting a family triggered his descent into mental illness as intrusive thoughts and sleepless nights became his daily existence.
Gauthier, 48, could no longer function at work but the stigma of asking for help in a job where chaos is the norm initially prevented him from reaching out.
“I knew something was wrong right after that call,” he said of the August 2017 incident when an American man died and three others were injured as a bus rolled into a crowd of tourists, pinning at least two people beneath the vehicle.
Gauthier said it wasn’t the most horrific situation he’d encountered, but it was the one that broke him emotionally.
Over and over again, he would relive the scene of people taking cellphone video of the crash scene as police dealt with a hoard of visitors near a busy cruise-ship terminal and convention centre. Gauthier’s family life began to unravel and he felt helpless.
“When you don’t have control of your mind and when you can’t block those thoughts then you feel like you’re losing control and it’s an incredibly distressing feeling,” he said. “I’m still dealing with it a year and a half later but I’m certainly managing it.”
Gauthier finally realized that as a supervisor he had to set an example for the rest of his crew at a Vancouver fire hall so colleagues who had also been at the scene and others like it could feel free to talk about their struggles in a job that required them to soldier on day after day.
“There’s a stigma and we’re trying to break that down,” he said as he prepared to share his experience and gradual return to work at a conference of first responders meeting in Richmond, B.C., on Thursday and Friday.
About 350 people including firefighters, police officers, paramedics, dispatchers as well as their unions and associations are taking part in the event that will feature Gauthier and others in jobs where trauma is part of the job but talking about its impact is not.
Gauthier said he wondered if he’d have to prove himself all over again if he took time off, if he’d put the “brotherhood and sisterhood” of his job at risk.
“Part of my healing, part of my therapy, is talking about it,” he said, adding he got counselling. When he returned to work after five months he didn’t initially go out on calls, worked shorter days and slowly exposed himself to the rigours of the job, including driving past the accident scene that led to his breakdown.
WorkSafeBC, the provincial workers’ health and safety agency, brought together a committee of 14 first responder agencies that organized the conference.
Trudi Rondou, senior manager of industry and labour services for WorksafeBC, said the goal is to work toward dismantling the stigma of mental illness suffered by those who focus on protecting public safety but often need help themselves to cope with extraordinary stress.
The key to getting that help is a commitment from employers to put prevention, peer-support and return-to-work programs in place, she said.
“We did some research among first responders and that was one thing we clearly heard, that this has to be a culture change and we need to make sure our leaders are invested in this, not only with their words but with the budget and action behind it.”
Otherwise, the costs range from low productivity, a high number of sick days and the potential for long-term disability from post-traumatic stress disorder, Rondou said.
Last year, the British Columbia government amended legislation allowing first responders including emergency medical assistants, firefighters, police officers, sheriffs and correctional officers to make WorkSafeBC claims for compensation and health-care support if they’d been diagnosed with a mental health disorder, without having to prove it was related to their work.
Greg Anderson, dean of applied research at the Justice Institute of B.C., said most provinces have similar legislation, but coverage for first-responder jobs varies.
In Nova Scotia, for example, emergency-room nurses are included in so-called presumptive legislation while some provinces have coverage for post-traumatic stress injury and others only accept claims for post-traumatic stress disorder, Anderson said.
Federal first responders, including employees of the RCMP, the Correctional Service of Canada and those in enforcement roles for Fisheries and Oceans Canada, are not covered by presumptive legislation.
Suspect followed woman, took photos in casino bathroom: RCMP
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Mounties are asking the public to help identify a suspect who is alleged to have followed a woman then took photos of her while she used a bathroom stall.
In a statement issued nearly two months after the incident was reported, Richmond Mounties said a woman had been followed from a Canada Line station to the River Rock Casino.
It was reported that the man followed her into the casino washroom in the early morning hours of Dec. 1, then used a cellphone to take photos while she was inside a stall.
The suspect fled when confronted, and was last seen heading toward Bridgeport Station, police said.
After following up on available leads, Mounties released a photo of a suspect Thursday.
“We are hoping that the security image of the suspect may prompt information from the public and possibly bring to light other unreported cases,” Cpl. Dennis Hwang said in a statement.
The suspect has been described as approximately 25 years old and possibly Indigenous. He is about 5’8″ with a slim build, and was wearing a black jacket and dark coloured pants at the time.
Anyone with any information is asked to contact the RCMP at 604-278-1212, quoting the file number 2018-34811.
Roughly 2/3rds of Canadians are concerned about mobility, hearing and vision issues: new study
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A new study from the Rick Hansen Foundation and the Angus Reid Institute suggests more than two-thirds of Canadians fear someone in their lives will face mobility, hearing or vision disabilities in the next 10 years.
Roughly the same two-thirds concerned about a family member or a friend are also worried they too may face similar challenges.
Overall, almost one quarter of Canadians say they have a disability or face mobility, hearing, and vision challenges.
According to the study, 28 per cent of adults aged 35-54 expect to deal with a disability in the next five to 10 years – that number rises to 32 per cent for adults over age 55.
Canadians are also concerned about accessibility to buildings, the study indicates.
Seventy per cent of respondents said they believe any new building that can be made accessible for all should, and one in five Canadians would support a business more knowing it was certified as accessible.
The study also looked at the economic backgrounds of the respondents, and found nearly half of all people who say they’re directly affected by a disability come from households with combined incomes of less than $50,000 annually.
But for those directly affected and earning $100,000 or over, the number plummets to only 14 per cent.
The poll data comes from an online survey that ran from Nov. 14 to Nov. 20 2018, from 1,800 randomized members of an Angus Reid study group.
Warrant issued for suspect in theft of ‘priceless’ guitars from 54-40
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An arrest warrant has been issued for a man suspected in the theft of seven “priceless” guitars from local rock band 54-40, police say.
Documents filed in court by New Westminster police say Yannick Lepage, 39, was the tenant of the Surrey storage locker where five of the seven guitars were found last fall.
Lepage can also be seen on surveillance footage carting what looks like guitar cases, the documents say.
“We’ve been to a number of addresses looking for him,” Staff-Sgt. Stuart Jette told CTV News. “As recently as last week we had someone attend a residence in the Fraser Valley but (we) have been unsuccessful so far trying to find him. We’re still looking.”
It’s not the first time Lepage has been publicly called out by police – in December, he appeared on the Surrey RCMP’s “naughty list.”
The guitars were stolen from the back of a truck outside the Queen’s Park Care Centre On Oct. 5, before 54-40 was slated to do back-to-back shows.
Guitarist Dave Genn called one the “fire breathing dragon”, and another “irreplaceable” at the time. The band offered a $5,000 reward for any information to find them.
The next day, according to the documents, the New Westminster Police Department got a tip pointing them to a self-storage facility on 104 Avenue in Surrey.
“I viewed the CCTV and observed multiple people rolling in 5 large guitar cases…some of them matched the description,” wrote NWPD Const. Eric Blower in the document.
Police gained access to the locker, where they found five of the seven guitars.
The band was relieved – and said they’d keep playing with them despite the risk.
“These instruments were made to be played, as opposed to locked away in a safe somewhere,” said Genn at the time.
The two guitars that are still out there are a Gibson Dove Acoustic and a Gibson SJ200 Acoustic.
Even as New Westminster police were hunting for Lepage, Surrey RCMP were looking for him for two alleged breaches of probation and an accusation of driving while prohibited. That led to his inclusion on its 10-person “naughty list.”
Lepage has a number of convictions involving possession of stolen property, mischief and theft in 19 criminal files going back to 1998, according to records.
On his Facebook page, Lepage appears to acknowledge some of his time served: in one post, he writes, “16 days left of house arrest look out LOL.”
CTV News reached out to Lepage but didn’t hear back from him.
RCMP at UBC warning public of voyeurism incident
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RCMP at the University of British Columbia are asking potential victims to contact them after a voyeurism incident last week.
Police say the incident happened on Jan. 3, in a public restroom in the 6300-block of Agronomy Road.
The victim told police someone reached and placed a cell phone over top of the bathroom stall while they were using the washroom. The cell phone has a unique black case with a cubed and striped pattern, police say.
The RCMP confirmed in a statement that the victim first called Campus Security, who then alerted University RCMP, which caused what they say is a “slight delay” in their response time.
A man believed to be the suspect was arrested for obstruction, but later released, police added. The investigation is still ongoing at this time.
University RCMP says anyone with a similar experience should call 604-224-1322, and reminds the public that if a crime is being committed you should call 911 immediately.
Bathroom voyeurism reported at UBC; RCMP investigating
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Trampoline park apologizes for denying entry to B.C. boy’s service dog
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A Langley, B.C. trampoline park is apologizing to a local family after refusing entry to a boy’s service dog.
Danica Dutt said she took her brother, Kai Chand, to Extreme Air Park Wednesday. The 11-year-old has autism, and has a registered, professionally trained service dog named Rosie who came along.
Rosie, who Kai describes as his best friend, has tags, permits and paperwork in her vest, and Danica told CTV News she and Kai had photos of their service ID cards on them.
But before Kai could even get to the trampolines, a staff member told them the dog would have to leave as she was not needed, Danica said.
She said she was told the facility only allowed dogs with a “purpose,” such as seeing-eye dogs, are allowed in the facility.
“I explained to her, ‘Oh no, the dog’s going to sit with me in the waiting area,’ and she says, ‘No, your dog’s not allowed,'” Danica said in an interview Thursday.
She told CTV staff didn’t look at their paperwork or IDs, and when she tried to get a refund, staff refused. Instead, she said, they offered a credit so Kai and Danica could return without Rosie.
“But what good is a credit when Kai’s service dog is denied access because she’s not ‘needed?'” Danica wrote in a Facebook post which has been shared nearly 3,000 times.
Her brother, who did not understand what was happening, then began to cry, Danica said.
She told CTV he was so excited he even begged her to buy him a T-shirt with the park’s logo on it. The one-hour visit was supposed to be his reward for “being really good that day,” she said.
In the end, his mother came and brought the dog home so Kai’s day wasn’t ruined, but Danica said she felt the situation was not handled professionally.
“The fact that they said Kai’s dog wasn’t needed broke my heart because they don’t get to decide who needs a service dog and who doesn’t,” she said.
She explained that the dog’s role is to help keep him calm.
“When he gets overstiumlated he self-hurts and he screams and cries, and having this dog there can just give him a moment to step back and have some relief,” she said.
“I just want Kai to be treated as an equal. That’s all I want. And I want people to know that his service dog is there to help him.”
Kai’s mother, Tara Allen, ended up recording part of her interaction with an employee.
“It was just kind of mindblowing that they turn them away and wouldn’t refund their money,” she said.
She told CTV she’d called and asked to speak to the manager, but staff wouldn’t provide contact information.
“I think they just need to educate themselves on kids with special needs or service dogs,” Tara said.
William Thornton, CEO of BC and Alberta Guide Dogs, said the organization will be following up with the company about their policy. Rosie was trained by BC and Alberta Guide Dogs, one of the only accredited schools in the province.
“Wherever the public has access or is paying to go in is a public domain by definition and these dogs are allowed to enter that building,” he explained.
“I think the public are still playing a little bit of catch-up, that there are other types of dogs and the need is not as obvious to a person that has a hidden disability.”
B.C.’s Guide Dog and Service Dog Act makes it an offense to deny a certified dog and handler team access or accomodation, and those convicted could be fined up to $3,000. More information about the act is available on the province’s website.
In an email, Extreme Air Park told CTV services dogs are welcome, and staff do their best to accommodate all customers’ needs. In the statement, staff said that the issue arose during a conversation about the dog going into the trampoline area.
They said they’d reached out to Danica but had not heard back.
Kai’s sister confirmed that she did receive an apology over social media, as well as an offer for free access for a year. She showed CTV a screen grab of a message from Instagram sent by an account called “extremeairparkscanada” which read in part, “The person that our staff talked to on the phone regarding your service dog was misinformed.”
The sender, who appeared to be one of the owners of the park, said he was sorry and that he knew the year jump pass wouldn’t make up for their experience, but that he wanted to provide a positive experience in the future for all, including Rosie.
“I know how important animals are and how much of a difference they can make in people’s lives,” the message read.
Despite the offer, the family doesn’t think they’ll return.
With a report from CTV Vancouver’s Maria Weisgarber
Hundreds of years to fix impassable Vancouver curbs: documents
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It could take anywhere from dozens to hundreds of years to fix all of the Vancouver curbs that remain impassable to people who use wheelchairs, according to city documents obtained by CTV News.
Despite a promised $1 million in 2019 to replace upwards of 150 corners with sudden drops to slopes, thousands remain, each of them an insurmountable barrier to many people with disabilities.
“It’s frustrating,” said Kerry Gibson, the CEO of EcoCentury Technologies who has used a wheelchair since she was injured in a crash when she was in her 20s.
“In most cases you have to backtrack. You lose time. It might as well be a wall,” she said.
And that’s when she’s prepared. At night a surprise curb can send her flying, she said.
“I’d flip backwards and hit my head and be stunned, hoping that someone would help me out while I’m shaking the stars from my eyes,” she said.
A city document from 2013 estimated that there are some 27,000 corners in the city. Nineteen thousand have been done over the past 60 years, but there are about 8,000 corners left over.
With $200,000 a year budgeted for curb ramps, and a budget of $8000 per ramp, the city could fix 25 curbs each year. At that rate, it would take 320 years to finish them all, the document said.
“I’m quite speechless when you told me that stat,” said Jane Dyson, the retired director of Disability Alliance B.C. “That is not good enough. Not even close.”
The city should consider every policy on this with a final date in mind that city streets will be accessible, she said.
In August, TransLink funded 140 curb ramps close to transit routes. The city also upgrades curbs near reconstruction projects, and the city asks developers to upgrade curbs near major construction, which has resulted in as many as 100 more curb ramps each year.
The city also responds to complaints – though in February there was a backlog of 600 requests to fix those curbs, city documents say, with a wait time of several years.
Since 2015, the city has put $325,000 to make around 50 ramps per year, and with the other methods, city documents say it now upgrades around 100-200 a year.
The city’s most recent budget and capital plan allocates $1 million in 2019 for curb ramps.
“It should be a priority to speed it up,” said Christine Boyle, a Vancouver City Councillor with OneCity. She said it’s important for people with disabilities, but also for other groups like parents with strollers, for whom a high curb can be a problem.
“It’s certainly a commitment of OneCity’s to support moving that strategy forward,” she said.
Melissa de Genova, a city councillor with the NPA, said she didn’t like hearing stories about people who were going blocks out of their way before finding an accessible crossing.
“I was happy to see money in the budget for that. We definitely need to do what we can to make the city accessible,” she said.
But even at 100-200 curbs per year, it could take 40-80 years to upgrade all the curbs that are left in the city.
“In 80 years I’ll be dead,” said Gibson with a laugh. “You have to laugh. It’s a coping mechanism.”
“Any increase is obviously welcome. But – another 20 years to navigate your own neighbourhood. We need to move beyond that attitude,” she said.
Video shows cougar hanging out on Maple Ridge deck
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A man from Maple Ridge, B.C. has shared video of a hair-raising encounter he had with a cougar over the weekend.
Kevyn Helmer said he locked his own cat in the bathroom after finding the apex predator hanging out on his deck on 287th Street Sunday afternoon.
“There’s a big, scary kitty cat out front,” Helmer says in a Facebook video. “My cat’s in the washroom, he’s meowing away.”
The video shows the cougar lounging right beside the door, barely paying attention as Helmer watches through the glass for several minutes.
“The road is right up there, so if anybody comes walking by – oh, man,” Helmer says. “I hope no kids or nobody walking their dog goes by the front gate there.”
The nervous resident called authorities to the home and they apparently managed to chase the cougar away without incident.
“He’s a big, nice kitty I’m sure they’ll take care of it,” Helmer says in a follow-up video.
The B.C. Conservation Officer Service has not responded to a request for comment on what happened.
According to WildSafeBC, anyone who encounters a cougar outdoors is advised to keep calm, appear as big as possible and back away slowly while keeping the cougar in view.
“If a cougar shows aggression, or begins following you, respond aggressively in all cases as cougars see you as a meal: keep eye contact, yell and make loud noises. Pick up nearby sticks, rocks, or whatever you have at hand to quickly to use as a weapon if necessary,” the organization says on its website.
In the event of an attack, WildSafeBC recommends focusing on the cougar’s face and eyes.
Anyone who sees a cougar that could pose an immediate threat to public safety is asked to call conservation officers at 1-877-952-7277.
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Theatre by Somerset Maugham (1937)
Her dressing-room was like the cabin of a ship. The world seemed a long way off, and she relished her seclusion. She felt an enchanting freedom. She dozed a little, she read a little, or lying on the comfortable sofa she let her thoughts wander. She reflected on the part she was playing and the favourite parts she had played in the past. (Chapter 13)
My view of the world, art and literature rests on history and biology. There were some 3 billion humans alive when I was born in the 1960s, four billion in 1974, five billion in 1987, six billion in 1999 and we reached seven billion in March 2012. By the time I die 20 years hence there will be around 9 billion. The shortage of resources (starting with land and water) the environmental degradation (deforestation, desertification, ocean acidification) and global warming (if it is indeed true) mean that my children will grow up in a world of weeds, dead seas and vast multicultural slums.
Reading Somerset Maugham is to be transported far, far away from this pressing reality, to a world populated by only a few thousand people, the people who count – upper-class, white, English people who’ve been to the right schools and are members of the cabinet, the civil service, the colonial service, along with, maybe, a handful of writers and artists thrown in.
It is a small, cosy world of gentleman’s clubs in Pall Mall, replicated in miniature throughout Britain’s colonies in the East where pukka chaps administer provinces the size of Wales equipped only with a walking stick and a stiff upper lip. Beyond it lie the entire working class of Great Britain – useful as occasional Cockney walk-on parts – and beyond them the vast teeming populations of India, Malaya or any other colonial country where the author sets his scene, ‘natives’ who provide anonymous and exotic backdrops, with the exception of a handful of loyal and dutiful servants.
Even within this very circumscribed circle of jolly decent chaps and chapesses, Maugham rarely loiters for long. His métier is the penetrating snapshot. He establishes a setting – the club, the dinner party – with deceptive simplicity, then one or other of the guests produces an anecdote of astonishing brutality or immorality, before everything winds up with reassuring brandy and cigars.
Even his two most famous novels, The Moon and Sixpence and Cakes and Ale, are really built up from much shorter, potentially discrete stories. The most powerful thing in Moon, Strickland’s affair with his best friend’s wife, could quite easily stand alone as a 30-page story. Similarly, the narrator’s central love affair with Rosie in Cakes and Ale could exist without any of the apparatus of her being married to a famous old writer, let alone the further paraphernalia of Alroy Kear writing his biography of the writer which ostensibly gives the novel its structure.
Theatre shares many of these characteristics:
It is a description of the English theatre in Edwardian and then post-Great War days, the theatre being (in my own experience of it and everything I’ve read and seen about it) itself a small and ‘precious’ world which the actors and everyone involved in likes to think of as an exclusive coterie.
Despite quite a few walk-on parts, it is really only concerned with three characters – the middle-aged actress Julia Lambert, her charming and devoted husband Michael, and her careless young lover, Tom.
It is very artfully constructed from individual scenes. It has a very consciously built flavour. Instead of the flowing narrative which the novel is capable of, it is divided into discrete and precise scenes. Maybe it started life as a play. On the surface it is a social comedy with some raw passions occasionally thrown in; but not very far beneath the surface you can see the joins and the framework of its artful assembly, and that, too, is part of the pleasure.
And it is a funny book. Very funny. You can almost hear Maugham chuckling as he produces scene after amusing scene, spins out his comic dialogues and devises his ironic climaxes.
The blurb describes the plot thus:
Julia Lambert is in her prime, the greatest actress in England. Off stage, however, she is bored with her handsome husband, coquettish and undisciplined. She is at first flattered and amused by the attentions of a shy and eager young fan, but before long Julia is amazed to find herself falling wildly, dangerously, in love.
Which gives you the names of the characters and the bare bones of the plot, but doesn’t even hint at the sophisticated pleasures on offer.
The book opens with the middle-aged and very successful married couple – superstar actress Julia Lambert and handsome actor-manager Michael Gosselyn – chatting in the comfort of the their swanky West End house. A non-descript young accountant is in the living room where he has been tasked with going over the books of the couple’s successful London-based theatre company.
Part one – A long flashback
Julia wanders up to Michael’s bedroom and idly opens the old boxes of mementos which are stored there. As in a movie, the screen ripples and we are transported back to the earliest days of their careers, meeting as budding actors still in their teens in the provincial theatre of ‘Middlepool’. Here we learn that Michael is stunningly beautiful, Greek god-like beautiful, but has no passion; he looks great in costume drama but can’t produce much variety of feeling; whereas Julia has tremendous command of herself and the ability to project a wide range of feeling without, in fact, feeling very much herself.
They fall in love, mostly meaning that Julia is besotted with Michael and he acquiesces in her adoration. We follow in detail their fates in various productions, and the dawning realisation that Julia is the real acting star. Michael’s good-humouredly accepts the fact and begins to develop the idea that the couple should go into business together and buy their own theatre.
Michael is picked for a part which involves going to the States for a year. Here his lack of real talent becomes clear, with terrible reviews, but he makes a packet of money. Julia, still in England, develops a growing band of fans including a patient old man, Charles Tamerley, and an ageing lesbian, Dolly de Vries. All these developments occur under the sharp-tongued but benign gaze of the manager of the ‘Middlepool’ theatre company, the lovable Jimmie Langton.
It also happens on the verge of the Great War. Michael’s father is a pukka military man and so when the First World War breaks out, strings are pulled to get Michael made an officer, and he is soon attached to the general staff. He has a cracking war, brisk and efficient for a succession of generals at Staff HQ, while never being in any danger himself. He regularly returns to London to pep up Julia, who continues to perform in the many plays staged during the war to keep up spirits. It was boom years for the theatre, apparently.
They have a baby, Roger, and wait awhile to have sex again. One day, in Michael’s embraces, Julia realises that she is no longer in love with him. He no longer smells young. She is repulsed. Marital relations are not resumed, but this turns out to suit Michael. He is an incredibly posh and proper, polite and decent gentleman, and never liked all that messy business anyway.
So now they are actively looking for backers to help them buy a theatre and set up their own company. There is some comedy about the way that decent, dim Michael doesn’t realise that the rich widow, Dolly de Vries, has a lesbian crush on Julia. Once Julia has carefully explained it, they both realise they can exploit the situation to get the additional funding out of her. Dolly is taken into partnership and they buy, refurbish, and rename a theatre, the Siddons Theatre, after the famous 18th century actress.
Many years pass in which Michael handles the financing and management of the theatre perfectly, and Julia becomes the most famous and accomplished actress in England.
This long flashback, in many of its details quite a lot too good, too simple and too fortunate to be true, is nonetheless very entertaining. The character of the old manager Jimmie Langton is particularly enjoyable, as are the many occasions on which Michael demonstrates that he is a jolly decent, ambitious but scrupulously fair and honest chap. Mention should go to Evie, Julia’s long-suffering and all-seeing dresser, a typical walk-on Cockney part.
Part two – Back to the present: the Tom Fennell plotline
Julia stops reminiscing and returns to the present. End of scene.
In what is effectively Act Two of the book she is rung up the next day by the accountant who was working on the books in scene one. He invites her for tea at his flat in Tavistock Square. On a whim she goes. It is dingy and squalid. To her amazement he ravishes her. Before she knows it she is on the sofa being made love to. Half an hour later, dressed again, bright-eyed and flushed, she stumbles out into the square and catches a taxi back to her swanky West End home.
There then commences the long and, eventually, tiresome story of Julia’s helpless besotted love for young Tom Fennell, the articled clerk with a firm of accountants who we met doing their accounts on the opening page. Tom is slight and nowhere near as handsome as Michael, but young and bright-eyed. Before long Julia suspects his motivation is not love for her but ambition to meet the swanky people she knows, to move in High Society, to ‘get on’. And also because he likes sex.
Julia was shrewd, and she knew very well that Tom was not in love with her. To have an affair with her flattered his vanity. He was a highly-sexed young man and enjoyed sexual exercise. From hints, from stories that she had dragged out of him, she discovered that since he was seventeen he had had a great many women. He loved the act rather than the person. He looked upon it as the greatest lark in the world. (Chapter 14)
Julia buys him lavish presents and begins to accompany him to night clubs where they dance. Michael knows they are friends and, in his innocence, is happy to see a young man get a boost from his lovely wife. In fact Tom has saved Michael quite a bit of money by being sharp with his accounts, which is what matters to a businessman like Michael, and so he’s happy to acquiesce in Julia’s suggestion that they rent out to Tom a spare apartment in a block they’ve recently bought and refurbished.
The next scene is set at the house in Taplow which Michael and Julia rent for the summer. Julia invites Tom to stay for a fortnight, hoping to catch some private time with him lazing on the river or in their bedroom.
But the couple had also invited their rather distant son, Roger, now aged 17 and in his last year at Eton (natch). To Julia’s chagrin, and then anger, young Tom sheds his adult pretensions, reverts to behaving like a teenage boy, and quickly becomes firm friends with Roger. Every day they are off punting or playing tennis or gadding round the countryside in the nippy little roadster which Julia bought Roger for his birthday.
At several points the pair of young lads come home very late and Julia hears them tramping around the landing and bathrooms of the house. Given the track record of surprises in Maugham’s short stories, I was fully expecting Julia to overhear them having sex – which would have produced the most almighty scene between Julia and Tom.
In fact I’ve been reading Selina Hastings’ brilliant biography of Maugham and have been astonished at the sexual promiscuity of Maugham and others in his homosexual circle. In particular, the biography describes in great detail the dependent relationship between Maugham and his gay partner-cum-secretary, Gerald Haxton, a wild roaring boy, a compulsive gambler and charming alcoholic, who not only had sex with Maugham whenever required but pimped for him, bringing back handsome sailors from Marseilles when they were on the Riviera or willing boys on their journeys to exotic places. In return Maugham lavished affection and luxury presents on him, his heart in thrall to the handsome young man whose bad behaviour, tantrums and resentment at being a ‘kept man’ he had to routinely endure.
Which is why, when Julia’s relationship with Tom begins to turn sour, it is hard not to catch echoes of the Maugham-Haxton relationship, and to wonder whether Julia’s feelings can plausibly be attributed to a a woman who has kept herself chaste and faithful through a twenty year-long marriage – or are really the very plausible mixed feelings of an older homosexual for his dashing but hurtful and unfaithful young lover.
Anyway, Tom behaves badly in all kinds of ways and every few pages we have passages of Julia alone, in tears, struggling to control her hurt feelings and wondering why she still loves him.
Tom more or less ignores her during the Taplow weekend. At its conclusion she, with deliberate scorn, gets the butler to give him an envelope containing the money he’ll need to tip the house’s servants. Back in London a letter is delivered by hand containing the money, and also a package containing all the gifts she has lavished on him (cuff links, gold cigarette case etc). He is rejecting her. It is over. But she rings Tom up and, during a tearful phone call, he says how much he hates being ‘a kept boy’. Julia hates him right up to the minute he speaks and then her heart melts. This kind of break-up and tearful reconciliation happens numerous times.
Roger has come to London and spends more time with Tom. One night he comes home and matter-of-factly tells Julia that Tom has just helped him lose his virginity, arranging a night out with two chorus girls, then back to Tom’s where he said ‘Take your pick’.
Julia doesn’t know which to be more upset by, her beloved baby becoming a man, and in such a sordid manner, or the realisation that Tom had slept with both these chorus girls, and in all likelihood many others too.
To add insult to injury, Tom then arranges an introduction for Roger’s seducer, Joan Denver, to visit Julia at the theatre and ask if she can be an understudy in a play. She is stumpy, snub-nosed and ungainly. Not bloody likely, thinks Julia.
Tom tries to persuade her to take on another young aspiring actress he knows (which Julia realises by now is code for ‘has slept with’), a certain Avice Crichton. Julia goes see her perform and is appalled by her bad acting and brassy manner. Angry at Tom (as usual) she agrees to give her Avice a small part, with the sole intention of having her publicly fail and so humiliate her ‘lover’.
Stung to new heights of tearful, heart-wrung fury, Julia puts all her feelings about the wretched affair into her latest performance. This leads to a funny scene. Julia is under the impression she is giving the performance of a lifetime. However, Michael comes backstage to break the news that she was awful. In fact has been awful for the past four days (ever since she was upset by the Crichton incident).
This gives Julia a flash of insight. She realises that she is a great artist and realises that letting her feelings pour out, unimpeded and undisciplined, via the impassioned character in the play is ruinous. She is at her best when she is controlled and calculating in her effects. Great acting isn’t about self-expression, but about the disciplined deployment of effects.
On the back of all this, Michael suggests to Julia that she is run-down and she acquiesces in his suggestion that she go and stay with her ageing mother and aunt (French, as it happens) in St Malo in Brittany.
This episode makes a very pleasant eight or so page interlude in the main plot, with Maugham giving us travel writer type descriptions of the grey stone villages of Brittany. We are by now on about page 185 of the 230-page-long book – but I for one was impatient for the narrative to hurry on to its climax – be it delightfully comic or devastatingly bleak (as his short stories so often are).
In the calm of Brittany she reflects on her life and in particular how unfair she has been to people, especially her long-suffering and wealthy devotee, Charles Tamerley. She returns to London determined to give him what he wants i.e. sex with her. Her elaborate preparations for this grand self-sacrifice, and then her performance of A Lady Waiting To Be Plucked when he arrives to take her to dinner, are hilarious.
Except that Charles doesn’t want to do any Plucking. He freezes as she is in the middle of her seductive best – Julia realises she has made a dreadful mistake – and is hard pressed to escape with her dignity just about intact. It is a very comic scene.
Part three – Avice Crichton
Julia returns home from the Brittany holiday, just as Michael begins rehearsals for the new play which will open the season this coming September. Avice, as she had promised Tom, has a minor part in it, but with an important ten-minute scene. During rehearsals it quickly becomes clear that Avice is wooden and lumpy. Michael wants to sack her, but Julia insists Avice remains a) because if she were fired, then Avice would tell Tom it was Julia’s fault, jealousy etc; b) Julia wants Avice to fail as publicly and embarrassingly as possible, in order to punish Tom.
Cannily, she suggests to Michael that Avice is in awe of him, as director, and that he take her to dinner and try to coax her into a better performance.
My mind was agog with possibilities: will Michael fall in love with Avice, reducing Julia to genuine despair? Will Avice’s acting be transformed by Michael’s guidance so that she acts Julia off the stage and the older woman realises her time is up? What will happen?
Before we can find out, there’s a puzzling chapter where Julia has dinner with her son, Roger, now 18 and back from his summer in Austria before he goes on to Cambridge.
Julia is disconcerted when Roger launches a sustained attack of her character, saying there is nothing whatsoever real about her, she is a tissue of quotations and mannerisms, he dreams of opening the door of a room she’s just gone into and finding it empty.
Roger was brought up in a fantasy land of endless performance, so now he wants Reality, though God knows where he’ll find it… Julia isn’t upset by this so much as puzzled, as she always has been, by a son who lacks her husband’s good looks or her own vitality. Oh well…
Maugham spends so much time and effort on this chapter I wondered whether, right at the end, something melodramatic and soap opera-ish would happen, like Roger killing himself or running off to Africa. But nothing whatever happens with him. He goes off to university to find himself as promised…
And in the event, the first night of the new season is a triumph. Julia acts everyone off the stage. Maugham gives a highly entertaining and instructive explanation of the full panoply of tricks Julia uses to crush and destroy Avice, stealing every scene from her with canny stage ‘business’, by adopting better positioning on stage, by using every trick in the book to upstage her.
The play receives nine curtain calls, after which Michael sweeps into Julia’s dressing room to congratulate her and to scold her for upstaging Avice who, he admits, they’ll have to get rid of.
Tom pops up briefly to admit that, well, yes, actually Avice is rubbish, sorry about that but thank you so much for letting her be in the play and all the help and support you gave her. Julia purrs and smiles but she realises she now couldn’t care less about Tom or Avice. She has completely got over her little ‘adventure’. Then a throng of well-wishers burst in with champagne.
When things have finally quietened down Julia decides she’ll skip the Grand Party being hosted for her by the eternally faithful Dolly the lesbian. Instead, she gets Evie, her long-suffering cockney dresser, to help her slip out the side door, avoid the fans, dressed down in a dull brown coat, grab a taxi and head off to a quiet little side-table at the Berkeley Hotel. Here she a) treats herself to a celebration dinner of steak with fried onions and potatoes, and a tankard of beer – something she has denied herself for the past ten years in the name of keeping slim, and b) stares out over the crowds of young and old, rich and poor, beautiful and ugly, drinking, smoking, eating and dancing in the restaurant’s main area, as she ponders on ‘the theatre’.
Real life is the fake, she thinks, real life with its messiness and ugliness. How silly of her son to seek it out. Acting takes the sordid mess of ‘life’ and transforms it into art and symbol, into rounded narratives with depth and meaning. She is free of her passion for that wretched little man. She has an elegant and successful husband who adores her. She has just had one of the great professional triumphs of her life. She has crushed a pathetic little rival like a beetle under her shoe. She has never been so happy. She has never felt so free!
The book is very entertaining on numerous levels, but I found it marvellous and relaxing as a window into a world of genteel manners and decorum which is now utterly lost. We are not only introduced into the circles of the rich and the very rich, via Julia and Michael’s parties, but amusingly watch Julia learn to mimic and play them to perfection.
In fact Julia is not only a ‘character’ in the story, she is a wonderful comic device, in at least two obvious ways:
1. Throughout the book we are given her real thoughts in brackets, placed next to her actual words and deeds, so that we can enjoy the ironic juxtaposition of her harsh inner criticisms of people even as she acts gracefully and politely to them. This reaches a peak of perfection in her later encounters with Dolly de Vries who, alarmed by reports that Julia is gadding round town with a young lover, first of all tells Michael – who promptly tells Julia, in his innocent way believing there is no harm in it. Or in her polite reception of the ambitious little chorus girls Tom pushes her way who, in her heart of hearts, she loathes:
‘You won’t forget me, Miss Lambert?’ said Joan.
‘No, dear, I promise you I won’t. It’s been so nice to see you. You have a very sweet personality. You’ll find your way out, won’t you? Good-bye.’
‘A fat chance she’s got of ever setting foot in this theatre,’ said Julia to herself when she was gone. ‘Dirty little bitch to seduce my son.’ (Chapter 20)
2. And secondly, Julia is almost always acting, performing whatever is appropriate to the scene and setting and people she finds herself with, even her own husband. It is richly comic the way the narrator describes her putting on performances throughout so-called ‘normal’ life, even her performance of a grand lady of the theatre not putting on a performance.
This sense of continual artificiality is not far removed from the world of camp. What I mean is that the story, taken at face value, is a ‘beautiful’ and ‘moving’ tale of a middle-aged lady’s passionate love affair for an ‘impetuous young man’. But Maugham deliberately undermines the seriousness of his own narrative with ironic reminders that almost the entire thing is rich in histrionic performance by the main characters. Even when she’s at her most distraught, a part of Julia’s mind is noting her own mannerisms and tucking them away for possible use in a performance some day.
Here she is inwardly seething at Tom for ignoring her in favour of her son, Roger.
Tom and Roger came back to eat an enormous tea and then played tennis till the light failed. After dinner they played dominoes. Julia gave a beautiful performance of a still-young mother fondly watching her son and his boy friend. (Chapter 14)
When she first meets Michael’s stuffy old parents:
She felt instinctively that she must conceal the actress, and without effort, without deliberation, merely because she felt it would please, she played the part of the simple, modest, ingenuous girl who had lived a quiet country life. (Chapter 4)
When she attends a party filled with silly chorus girls, Julia knows just the right note to strike:
The Dexters’ party was theatrical. Grace Hardwill, Archie’s wife, played in musical comedy, and there was a bevy of pretty girls who danced in the piece in which she was then appearing. Julia acted
with great naturalness the part of a leading lady who put on no frills. She was charming to the young ladies, with their waved platinum hair, who earned three pounds a week in the chorus. A good many
of the guests had brought Kodaks and she submitted with affability to being photographed. She applauded enthusiastically when Grace Hardwill sang her famous song to the accompaniment of the composer. She laughed as heartily as anyone when the comic woman did an imitation of her in one of her best-known parts… (Chapter 14)
This is the dominant impression of the book – Maugham guying his own character and milking for comic entertainment the grande dame of the theatre is almost never, actually, ‘herself’.
Another comic running thread running throughout the book is the way Julia strings along her aged, wealthy devotee, Charles Tamerley, by staging a variety of ‘scenes’ for him, including the Distraught But Faithful Woman or The Woman Shaken By Emotion for her Lover. All this leads up to the climactic comedic scene where Julia offers him her Virginal Body, and is comically disconcerted to discover that he is not only not interested, but appalled.
This arch self-consciousness is the book’s most distinguishing feature and every scene which features it is deliciously entertaining.
Historical notes
When Charles doesn’t respond to Julia making herself abundantly available to him, she wonders whether he is a) impotent or b) homosexual.
Julia reflectively lit a cigarette. She asked herself if Charles had used his devotion to her as a cover to distract attention from his real inclinations. But she shook her head. If he had been homosexual she would surely have had some hint of it; after all, in society since the war they talked of practically nothing else.
Was homosexuality really that much of a common topic of discussion in the Twenties and Thirties? Is Maugham being satirical? Or was it very much the topic of discussion in his own, very much homosexual circles?
‘Getting off’ This is the expression we used as teenagers in the 1970s to describe have a fumble with a member of the opposite sex. I was surprised to see it being used by posh people in the 1930s.
Julia: ‘What I want to say is, if I really set my mind on getting off with a man, d’you think I could?’
Evie: ‘Knowing what men are, I wouldn’t be surprised. Who d’you want to get off with now?
Sex appeal Also a surprisingly common phrase by the mid-1930s.
‘Sex appeal,’ Julia murmured to herself… ‘It’s not as if I had no sex appeal… It’s ridiculous to suppose that I could have got to my position if I hadn’t got sex appeal. What do people come to see an actress for? Because they want to go to bed with her. Do you mean to tell me that I could fill a theatre for three months with a rotten play if I hadn’t got sex appeal? What is sex appeal anyway?’
Unsurprisingly, this novel about the stage was itself adapted for the stage, and has been made into no fewer than three movie adaptations, the latest as recent as 2004.
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Somerset Maugham’s books
This is nowhere near a complete bibliography. Maugham also wrote countless articles and reviews, quite a few travel books, two books of reminiscence, as well as some 25 successful stage plays and editing numerous anthologies. This is a list of the novels, short story collections, and the five plays in the Pan Selected Plays volume.
1897 Liza of Lambeth
1898 The Making of a Saint (historical novel)
1899 Orientations (short story collection)
1901 The Hero
1902 Mrs Craddock
1904 The Merry-go-round
1906 The Bishop’s Apron
1908 The Explorer
1908 The Magician (horror novel)
1915 Of Human Bondage
1919 The Moon and Sixpence
1921 The Trembling of a Leaf: Little Stories of the South Sea Islands (short story collection)
1921 The Circle (play)
1922 On a Chinese Screen (travel book)
1923 Our Betters (play)
1925 The Painted Veil (novel)
1926 The Casuarina Tree: Six Stories
1927 The Constant Wife (play)
1928 Ashenden: Or the British Agent (short story collection)
1929 The Sacred Flame (play)
1930 Cakes and Ale: or, the Skeleton in the Cupboard
1930 The Gentleman in the Parlour: A Record of a Journey From Rangoon to Haiphong
1931 Six Stories Written in the First Person Singular (short story collection)
1932 The Narrow Corner
1933 Ah King (short story collection)
1933 Sheppey (play)
1935 Don Fernando (travel book)
1936 Cosmopolitans (29 x two-page-long short stories)
1937 Theatre (romantic novel)
1938 The Summing Up (autobiography)
1939 Christmas Holiday (novel)
1940 The Mixture as Before (short story collection)
1941 Up at the Villa (crime novella)
1942 The Hour Before the Dawn (novel)
1944 The Razor’s Edge (novel)
1946 Then and Now (historical novel)
1947 Creatures of Circumstance (short story collection)
1948 Catalina (historical novel)
1948 Quartet (portmanteau film using four short stories –The Facts of Life, The Alien Corn, The Kite and The Colonel’s Lady)
1949 A Writer’s Notebook
1950 Trio (film follow-up to Quartet, featuring The Verger, Mr. Know-All and Sanatorium)
1951 The Complete Short Stories in three volumes
1952 Encore (film follow-up to Quartet and Trio featuring The Ant and the Grasshopper, Winter Cruise and Gigolo and Gigolette)
1963 Collected short stories volume one (30 stories: Rain, The Fall of Edward Barnard, Honolulu, The Luncheon, The Ant and the Grasshopper, Home, The Pool, Mackintosh, Appearance and Reality, The Three Fat Women of Antibes, The Facts of Life, Gigolo and Gigolette, The Happy Couple, The Voice of the Turtle, The Lion’s Skin, The Unconquered, The Escape, The Judgement Seat, Mr. Know-All, The Happy Man, The Romantic Young Lady, The Point of Honour, The Poet, The Mother, A Man from Glasgow, Before the Party, Louise, The Promise, A String of Beads, The Yellow Streak)
1963 Collected short stories volume two (24 stories: The Vessel of Wrath, The Force of Circumstance, Flotsam and Jetsam, The Alien Corn, The Creative Impulse, The Man with the Scar, Virtue, The Closed Shop, The Bum, The Dream, The Treasure, The Colonel’s Lady, Lord Mountdrago, The Social Sense, The Verger, In A Strange Land, The Taipan, The Consul, A Friend in Need, The Round Dozen, The Human Element, Jane, Footprints in the Jungle, The Door of Opportunity)
1963 Collected short stories volume three (17 stories: A Domiciliary Visit, Miss King, The Hairless Mexican, The Dark Woman, The Greek, A Trip to Paris, Giulia Lazzari, The Traitor, Gustav, His Excellency, Behind the Scenes, Mr Harrington’s Washing, A Chance Acquaintance, Love and Russian Literature, Sanatorium)
1963 Collected short stories volume four (30 stories: The Book-Bag, French Joe, German Harry, The Four Dutchmen, The Back Of Beyond, P. & O., Episode, The Kite, A Woman Of Fifty, Mayhew, The Lotus Eater, Salvatore, The Wash-Tub, A Man With A Conscience, An Official Position, Winter Cruise, Mabel, Masterson, Princess September, A Marriage Of Convenience, Mirage, The Letter, The Outstation, The Portrait Of A Gentleman, Raw Material, Straight Flush, The End Of The Flight, A Casual Affair, Red, Neil Macadam)
2009 The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham by Selina Hastings
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The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell (1937)
Columbus sailed the Atlantic, the first steam engines tottered into motion, the British squares stood firm under the French guns at Waterloo, the one-eyed scoundrels of the nineteenth century praised God and filled their pockets; and this is where it all led – to labyrinthine slums and dark back kitchens with sickly, ageing people creeping round and round them like blackbeetles. (Chapter 1)
This was Orwell’s second book of social reportage.
Like 1933’s Down and Out in Paris and London it is in two parts, but in a different way. The first hundred pages comprise a detailed but selective account of his journey to the North of England to see the results of the Depression and mass unemployment for himself. The second half switches tone completely to become a long account of his own intellectual development towards a belief in Socialism.
By 1936 social reporting had become a respectable intellectual activity. J.B. Priestly had published a successful book about England north of the Trent two years earlier. The Mass-Observation social research organisation was to be founded the following year. The new wave of young writers and poets, led by W.H. Auden, had been writing about the landscape of modern industrial England and on the social impact of the depression since around 1930. Quite radical left-wing attitudes were widely held among the intelligentsia, the trade unions and ordinary workers. Indeed, Orwell was commissioned to write this book by radical publisher Victor Gollancz, and it was published by his Left Book Club.
Like Down and out, Wigan pier is obviously based on Orwell’s real experiences, but artfully arranged and edited to create a certain impression.
For example, it is artful that the book opens with a semi-comic account of the cramped and dirty lodging house-cum-tripe shop kept by permanently filthy Mr Brooker and the sofa-bound and obese invalid Mrs Brooker. The tales of their moaning and mean-mindedness, alongside pen portraits of the other inhabitants of the house, repeat Down and Out‘s technique of combining close observation with comedy to create an atmosphere of seediness and petty-minded poverty.
But the passage also has the structural function of easing you into the subject matter and into ‘the north’, by numerous casual asides and observations. Using the techniques of the imaginative writer.
The next chapter switches tone to begin a serious examination of both the working conditions, pay and economic importance of coal mining to Britain. It includes Orwell’s famously gruelling description of a coal miner’s working day. If the book had opened like this it would have seemed too much like a worthy left-wing pamphlet. The Brooker chapter’s function is to soften the blow and allow you to settle in with humour and human foibles before he deals you the hard-hitting description.
Chapter 2 is a gripping and detailed account of his trips down coal mines to give a visceral description of the appalling back-breaking work involved. Chapter 3 continues the coal mining theme with more detail about the work, which then morphs into a breakdown of miners’ earnings and outgoings, showing how wretchedly they are paid.
Chapter 4 is a grim description of the really appalling condition of northern slum housing. The small rooms, windows that don’t open, no heating, no hot water, no toilets, back to back housing where you have to walk 200 yards to the nearest toilet, in all weathers, and then queue. The families of five, six, seven or more people sleeping in two beds.
A dreadful room in Wigan where all the furniture seemed to be made of packing cases and barrel
staves and was coming to pieces at that; and an old woman with a blackened neck and her hair coining down denouncing her landlord in a Lancashire-Irish accent; and her mother, aged well over ninety, sitting in the background on the barrel that served her as a commode and regarding us blankly with a yellow, cretinous face. I could fill up pages with memories of similar interiors. (Chapter 4)
Chapter 5 is a detailed analysis of unemployment figures (if you include the dependents of the unemployed, then truly huge numbers, probably over ten million, were in dire poverty). It goes on to analyse the complicated structure of the dole payments made in the 1930s.
Let’s face it, almost all of this material is of historical interest. Coal has almost ceased to be mined in this country. Now almost every aspect of our lives is dominated by oil, which is extracted in much better-paid conditions and in far-away countries. There is unemployment, there is a long-term underclass in this country, but it is very difficult to get information about them. Much council housing may be grim but nowhere near as squalid as the Victorian slums gone rotten which Orwell describes.
There is a note of relevance in an interesting section at the end of chapter 5 which describes Orwell’s puzzlement at how this period of mass unemployment and demoralisation has oddly coincided with the rise of cheap luxuries: off-the-peg clothes and cheap movies were an innovation in his generation. Sweets and crap food are cheap, whereas meat and vegetables remained expensive. He saw for himself that some families barely had enough to feed themselves, but that every single household had a radio.
Similarly, maybe, to our own times when even the poorest of the poor have a mobile phone and a TV. Orwell considers the common media studies argument that these devices were ways for the ruling classes to keep the workers sated and distracted with cheap gewgaws, but I agree with his preferred analysis, that it is just the market working logically.
People want luxuries, the unemployed want to live in a fantasy of Hollywood stars and celebrities, no matter how poor they are, people will prefer cheap fattening foods and dinky devices to a nourishing diet and the fine arts.
People are people, even the poorest want to look like Kim Kardashian and Justin Bieber. You have to begin from that basis, from a realistic assessment of human nature. not from some fantasy of a revolution-wishing proletariat which is just gagging to be fed classical concerts and agit-prop theatre.
Trade since the war has had to adjust itself to meet the demands of underpaid, underfed people, with the result that a luxury is nowadays almost always cheaper than a necessity. One pair of plain solid shoes costs as much as two ultra-smart pairs. For the price of one square meal you can get two pounds of cheap sweets. You can’t get much meat for threepence, but you can get a lot of fish-and-chips. Milk costs threepence a pint and even ‘mild’ beer costs fourpence, but aspirins are seven a penny and you can wring forty cups of tea out of a quarter-pound packet.
And above all there is gambling, the cheapest of all luxuries. Even people on the verge of starvation can buy a few days’ hope (‘Something to live for’, as they call it) by having a penny on a sweepstake. Organized gambling has now risen almost to the status of a major industry. Consider, for instance, a phenomenon like the Football Pools, with a turnover of about six million pounds a year, almost all of it from the pockets of working-class people. I happened to be in Yorkshire when Hitler re-occupied the Rhineland. Hitler, Locarno, Fascism, and the threat of war aroused hardly a flicker of interest locally, but the decision of the Football Association to stop publishing their fixtures in advance (this was an attempt to quell the Football Pools) flung all Yorkshire into a storm of fury.
And then there is the queer spectacle of modern electrical science showering miracles upon people with empty bellies. You may shiver all night for lack of bedclothes, but in the morning you can go to the public library and read the news that has been telegraphed for your benefit from San Francisco and Singapore. Twenty million people are underfed but literally everyone in England has access to a radio. What we have lost in food we have gained in electricity. Whole sections of the working class who have been plundered of all they really need are being compensated, in part, by cheap luxuries which mitigate the surface of life. (Chapter 5)
Chapter 6 continues the theme, focusing on food but lamenting that a) the northern working classes prefer cheap luxuries – tinned peas, fish and chips, sweetened milk – to more straightforward nutritious food; but then conceding that when you are unemployed and demoralised little luxuries are vital to keeping your spirits up.
Orwell goes on to speculate that the preference for cheap luxuries might be a contributory factor to why the physiques of the poor are so stunted. Nobody over thirty has any of their own teeth. Even children’s teeth are blue and carious. Orwell repeatedly admires many of the miners’ wonderful physiques, but they are nearly all short men (for the obvious reason that the mine shafts are generally only 4 or 3 feet high).
The men are stunted and ill; you never see a good-looking working woman. Where are the six-foot heroes he read about as a boy? Grimly, he concludes, ‘buried in the Flanders mud’.
If the English physique has declined, this is no doubt partly due to the fact that the Great War carefully selected the million best men in England and slaughtered them, largely before they had had time to breed. (Chapter 6)
D.H. Lawrence, also, lamented the stunted ugliness of body, face and manner of the Nottinghamshire working class he grew up among.
An hour walking bent double to the coalface, seven and a half hours hard labour, an hour walking back to the lift to the surface, and then a couple of miles walk back to a slum house with no bath or hot water, every day, for thirty years or more
In part two of the book Orwell describes in some detail his intellectual development towards a belief in socialism.
This is, frankly, plain weird and pretty disappointing. Although it contains many striking sentences and sheds light on social changes from his Edwardian childhood through the 1930s, nonetheless it is an intensely personal, even cranky, set of opinions. It is not the clear and logical manifesot you would like it to have been.
For a start, Orwell focuses to an embarrassing extent on how the main difference between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie is smell, sweat and dirt. He tells quite a few stories, which we really don’t need to hear, about how, as a snobbish little boy, the thought of swigging from bottles others had drunk from made him feel sick, how the sight of soldiers marching past made him nauseous – because of their proletarian sweat.
Again and again Orwell is distracted from any kind of theoretical ideas by the immediacy of his physical feelings of repulsion. For example, there is a fascinating section about his experiences in Burma as an officer in the Imperial Police. This makes the astonishing claim that many if not all Anglo-Indian officers thought the Empire was a bad thing, realising there was absolutely no justification for us to be ruling over foreigners in their country.
But anecdotes about the handful of officers who ever dared break the taboo about discussing the subject are sidetracked with an equally long disquisition (a page) comparing the average Burmese body (smooth, brown, hairless) and English body (ugly, clumsy, podgy, hairy in embarrassing places). Orwell is obsessed by bodies.
Here’s a typical passage which is a) characteristically well written b) conveys powerful thoughts with energy but c) is so completely personal and autobiographical as to be way out of place in a general essay about politics.
When I came home on leave in 1927 I was already half determined to throw up my job, and one sniff of English air decided me. I was not going back to be a part of that evil despotism. But I wanted much more than merely to escape from my job. For five years I had been part of an oppressive system, and it had left me with a bad conscience. Innumerable remembered faces – faces of prisoners in the dock, of men waiting in the condemned cells, of subordinates I had bullied and aged peasants I had snubbed, of servants and coolies I had hit with my fist in moments of rage (nearly everyone does these things in the East, at any rate occasionally: Orientals can be very provoking) – haunted me intolerably.
I was conscious of an immense weight of guilt that I had got to expiate. I suppose that sounds exaggerated; but if you do for five years a job that you thoroughly disapprove of, you will probably feel the same. I had reduced everything to the simple theory that the oppressed are always right and the oppressors are always wrong: a mistaken theory, but the natural result of being one of the oppressors yourself.
I felt that I had got to escape not merely from imperialism but from every form of man’s dominion over man. I wanted to submerge myself, to get right down among the oppressed, to be one of them and on their side against their tyrants. And, chiefly because I had had to think everything out in solitude, I had carried my hatred of oppression to extraordinary lengths. At that time failure seemed to me to be the only virtue. Every suspicion of self-advancement, even to ‘succeed’ in life to the extent of making a few hundreds a year, seemed to me spiritually ugly, a species of bullying. (Chapter 9)
Most of what Orwell writes is readable because he writes it in the clear, crisp prose of a man educated at Eton, who then went on to serve in the Imperial Police, a man trained to getting to the point, to writing crisp reports for his school masters and then military superiors.
And his prose is backed up with his almost pathological need to tell the complete honest truth, no matter how embarrassing to himself, which is a large part of what makes it psychologically compelling. He so regularly flays himself, his own opinions and sensations, that he can’t help winning you over.
Each page is littered with fascinating insights into the society of his time and its attitudes, not least where it reveals what we today would consider – despite his claims to be a progressive thinker – attitudes of astonishing racism and everyday sexism.
But there are also long passages dealing with attitudes, caricatures, personas and social ‘types’ which have completely vanished, satirising stereotypes which you have to look up on Google to understand. Maybe these were acute and funny in his day but they now read like long woolly padding.
It is only when you meet someone of a different culture from yourself that you begin to realize what
your own beliefs really are. If you are a bourgeois ‘intellectual’ you too readily imagine that you have somehow become unbourgeois because you find it easy to laugh at patriotism and the G. of E. and the Old School Tie and Colonel Blimp and all the rest of it.
But from the point of view of the proletarian ‘intellectual’, who at least by origin is genuinely outside the bourgeois culture, your resemblances to Colonel Blimp may be more important than your differences. Very likely he looks upon you and Colonel Blimp as practically equivalent persons; and in a way he is right, though neither you nor Colonel Blimp would admit it. So that the meeting of proletarian and bourgeois, when they do succeed in meeting, is not always the embrace of long-lost brothers; too often it is the clash of alien cultures which can only meet in war. (Chapter 10)
Orwell is almost always incredibly anecdotal, his insights based on highly personal opinions, experiences, conversations and so on. The more I read the more I realised that Orwell’s factual books lack three things which characterise modern political discourse.
1. They are utterly untheoretical: the terms bourgeois and proletariat and intellectual are chucked about without any definitions or precision, let alone any of the vast weight of radical theory which began to be generated, I suppose, in the 1960s and 70s. In fact, Orwell goes out of his way to disparage anyone who studies or uses Marxist terminology:
As for the technical jargon of the Communists, it is as far removed from the common speech as
the language of a mathematical textbook. I remember hearing a professional Communist speaker address a working-class audience. His speech was the usual bookish stuff, full of long sentences and parentheses and ‘Notwithstanding’ and ‘Be that as it may’, besides the usual jargon of ‘ideology’ and ‘class-consciousness’ and ‘proletarian solidarity’ and all the rest of it. After him a Lancashire working man got up and spoke to the crowd in their own broad lingo. There was not much doubt which of the two was nearer to his audience… (Chapter 11)
2. No sense of the complexity of social groupings. Modern marketing and advertising from the 1960s onwards have led to sophisticated ways of categorising western societies not only into social classes but into groups and types with their own specific interests (the grey pound, the gay community), not to mention the influx of immigrants who now have to be taken account of.
Twenty years of internet marketing have gone hand in hand with the growth of identity politics to create a sense of a society teeming with special interest groups. Reading Orwell’s division of society into a ruling upper class, a bourgeois class, and a proletariat is like reading a fairy tale. When he does talk about other social groupings they read like Bateman cartoons, the most simple of stereotypes. For example, there is a long sequence where he says the average person is put off ‘socialism’ because it seems to attract so many cranks:
In addition to this there is the horrible – the really disquieting – prevalence of cranks wherever Socialists are gathered together. One sometimes gets the impression that the mere words ‘Socialism’ and ‘Communism’ draw towards them with magnetic force every fruit-juice drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer, sex-maniac, Quaker, ‘Nature Cure’ quack, pacifist, and feminist in England. One day this summer I was riding through Letchworth when the bus stopped and two dreadful-looking old men got on to it. They were both about sixty, both very short, pink, and chubby, and both hatless. One of them was obscenely bald, the other had long grey hair bobbed in the Lloyd George style. They were dressed in pistachio-coloured shirts and khaki shorts into which their huge bottoms were crammed so tightly that you could study every dimple. Their appearance created a mild stir of horror on top of the bus. The man next to me, a commercial traveller I should say, glanced at me, at them, and back again at me, and murmured ‘Socialists’, as who should say, ‘Red Indians’. He was probably right – the I.L.P. were holding their summer school at Letchworth. But the point is that to him, as an ordinary
man, a crank meant a Socialist and a Socialist meant a crank. (Chapter 11)
It’s quite funny but hopelessly anecdotal (and note the thread of intense physical repulsion which runs like a vein through all Orwell’s writings). It’s interesting as social history but useless as any kind of argument. Passages like this are really a kind of ‘higher gossip’, it’s a story told in the pub – ‘You know I was on the bus the other day…’. It’s almost as far from political argument as you can get.
3. Numbers: Modern political discourse is absolutely saturated by numbers, be it percentages of the population or particular groups who say they want this or that, in countless opinion polls, or amounts of money required to support the NHS, Britain’s schools or hospitals or prisons or drug rehabilitation centres.
Modern political discourse is saturated with statistics and it feels quaint and old fashioned to read a supposedly political essay which revolves around the author’s memories of childhood, of school, of his early jobs, and then in adult life how his sense of smell or hygiene is offended by workers and foreigners.
4. Using literature as evidence Lacking theoretical precision, lacking a sociological or economic understanding of the complexity of modern society, lacking a grasp of agricultural or industrial production, Orwell’s most repeated tactic is ad hominem attacks on the failings of other writers.
Chapter 10 sets out to answer the question ‘What is socialism?’ but very disappointingly falls away into a string of shallow hits at contemporary writers or social stereotypes (he really hates naturists, sandal-wearers, vegetarians, fruit juice drinkers and feminists).
He slags off the high profile Roman Catholic converts of the day (G.K. Chesterton, Ronald Knox – notably omitting the more famous – to us – Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene). He calls Auden ‘a gutless Kipling’; he thinks George Bernard Shaw’s plays show that Shaw is averse to revolutionary socialism from below and only wants to impose his own sense of order and discipline from above.
Fellow Fabian Beatrice Webb’s autobiography gives ‘unconsciously, a most revealing picture of the high-minded Socialist slum-visitor’. Henri Barbusse (author to the First World War classic, Le Feu) is criticised for his mindless claims that he wants to bayonet the bourgeoisie. A certain Prince Mirsky who stayed in exile in England for a while before returning to the USSR and writing an excoriating criticism of the British intelligentsia, is quoted at length. William Morris is a ‘windbag’.
Orwell claims it is a common phenomenon that intellectuals and writers heartily support the downtrodden, the urban poor and so on… until there’s the remotest chance that the downtrodden might actually stand up for themselves and start to change things, at which point they turn into the most reactionary of conservatives. And his proof for this assertion? The novels of John Galsworthy.
Chapter 11 sets out to address what he sees as a common objection to socialism, which is ordinary people’s dislike of the mechanisation of life and society. This is represented in an astonishingly vague abstract way via – once again – purely literary authors. The utopia of Samuel Butler (in Erewhon, 1872) is contrasted with a lengthy critique of the idea of ever-increasing mechanisation proposed in the sci-fi novels of H.G. Wells, and both contrasted with the dystopian vision of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World (1932).
This is fine as literary chat but is useless as political analysis.
It is really striking that nowhere does Orwell present or discuss the policies of actual political parties, neither the British Liberals, Conservatives nor Labour Party, let alone any parties from the continent.
Instead the entire debate is frame either in terms of Orwell’s own very personal experiences or by way of paraphrasing authors old or contemporary.
He continually tells his readers that the only possible choice for the sensible modern person is Socialism, we must put aside our differences and adopt Socialism, now is the time to promote Socialism etc etc. But as to what Socialism actually is, he only gets around to addressing on a handful of occasions, and his definitions are tragically banal:
Socialism means justice and common decency. (Chapter 11)
The essential aims of Socialism are justice and liberty. (Chapter 12)
We have got to fight for justice and liberty, and Socialism does mean justice and liberty when the
nonsense is stripped off it. (Chapter 13)
I suggest that the real Socialist is one who wishes – not merely conceives it as desirable, but actively wishes – to see tyranny overthrown. (Chapter 14)
Socialism means the overthrow of tyranny. (Chapter 14)
The Socialist movement has not time to be a league of dialectical materialists; it has got to be a league of the oppressed against the oppressors. (Chapter 14)
All that is needed is to hammer two facts home into the public consciousness. One, that the interests of all exploited people are the same; the other, that Socialism is compatible with common decency. (Chapter 14)
Pitifully inadequate. How many sceptics do you think were won over by these trite formulations?
Interesting as social history and literary gossip, the long second part of The Road To Wigan Pier is a desperately disappointing failure to present even the most basic tenets of socialism or give any idea how it could be implemented or brought about.
Illustration by H. Lanos to When the Sleeper Awakes by H.G. Wells which Orwell uses at length in his discussion of the mechanisation of modern society
Postscript – Orwell and cranks
Orwell’s hatred of ‘cranks’ is itself cranky. He is obsessed with a whole raft of alternative life style nudists, vegetarians, feminists and sandal wearers. These kinds of people come in for farm more criticism than the bankers, financiers, big businessmen, conservative politicians who you might have thought ought to be the targets of his ire.
And then there is the outer-suburban creeping Jesus, a hangover from the William Morris period, but still surprisingly common, who goes about saying ‘Why must we level down? Why not level up?’ and proposes to level the working class ‘up’ (up to his own standard) by means of hygiene, fruit-juice, birth-control, poetry, etc. (Chapter 10)
The middle-class I.L.P.’er and the bearded fruit-juice drinker are all for a classless society so long as they see the proletariat through the wrong end of the telescope; force them into any real contact with a proletarian – let them get into a fight with a drunken fish-porter on Saturday night, for instance – and they are capable of swinging back to the most ordinary middle-class snobbishness. (Chapter 10)
The typical Socialist is not, as tremulous old ladies imagine, a ferocious-looking working man with greasy overalls and a raucous voice. He is either a youthful snob-Bolshevik who in five years’ time will quite probably have made a wealthy marriage and been converted to Roman Catholicism; or, still more typically, a prim little man with a white-collar job, usually a secret teetotaller and often with vegetarian leanings, with a history of Nonconformity behind him, and, above all, with a social position which he has no intention of forfeiting. (Chapter 11)
The only thing for which we can combine is the underlying ideal of Socialism; justice and liberty. But it is hardly strong enough to call this ideal ‘underlying’. It is almost completely forgotten. It has been buried beneath layer after layer of doctrinaire priggishness, party squabbles, and half-baked ‘progressivism’ until it is like a diamond hidden under a mountain of dung. The job of the Socialist is to get it out again. Justice and liberty! Those are the words that have got to ring like a bugle across the world. For a long time past, certainly for the last ten years, the devil has had all the best tunes. We have reached a stage when the very word ‘Socialism’ calls up, on the one hand, a picture of aeroplanes, tractors, and huge glittering factories of glass and concrete; on the other, a picture of vegetarians with wilting beards, of Bolshevik commissars (half gangster, half gramophone), of earnest ladies in sandals, shock-headed Marxists chewing polysyllables, escaped Quakers, birth-control fanatics, and Labour Party backstairs-crawlers. Socialism, at least in this island, does not smell any longer of revolution and the overthrow of tyrants; it smells of crankishness, machine-worship, and the stupid cult of Russia. Unless you can remove that smell, and very rapidly, Fascism may win. (Chapter 12)
It would help enormously, for instance, if the smell of crankishness which still clings to the Socialist movement could be dispelled. If only the sandals and the pistachio-coloured shirts could be put in a pile and burnt, and every vegetarian, teetotaller, and creeping Jesus sent home to Welwyn Garden City to do his yoga exercises quietly! (Chapter 14)
It is fatal to let the ordinary inquirer get away with the idea that being a Socialist means wearing sandals and burbling about dialectical materialism. (Chapter 14)
Orwell’s quite vitriolic dislike of faddists and cranks and of all the left-wing writers he disagrees with, of Catholic converts and communists, of proletarian writers and high-minded reformers, of writers and the entire London literary scene as a whole, is itself a (quaintly English) symptom of the hopeless lack of unity and infighting which has so often bedevilled the parties of the Left, and which in his day paralysed their opposition to Mussolini and Hitler and, on a much more serious level, was a key element in the defeat of the republic in the Spanish Civil War.
His rhetoric often operates on precisely the kind of visceral physical insults which he was later to condemn in Stalinism. For example, he is very prone to calling people he despises fat:
Mrs Brooker used to lament by the hour, lying on her sofa, a soft mound of fat and self-pity… (Chapter 1)
Ideally, the worst type of slum landlord is a fat wicked man, preferably a bishop, who is drawing an immense income from extortionate rents. (Chapter 4)
‘I think running water is much more attractive in moor and mountain country than in the fat and sluggish South.’ (from a letter written to him by a friend which he quotes in Chapter 7)
The white man is generally ill-shaped, and when he grows fat he bulges in improbable places. (Chapter 9)
Please notice that this essentially fat-bellied version of ‘progress’ is not an integral part of Socialist doctrine; but it has come to be thought of as one… (Chapter 12)
Barring wars and unforeseen disasters, the future is envisaged as an ever more rapid march of mechanical progress; machines to save work, machines to save thought, machines to save pain,
hygiene, efficiency, organization, more hygiene, more efficiency, more organization, more machines–until finally you land up in the by now familiar Wellsian Utopia, aptly caricatured by Huxley in Brave New World, the paradise of little fat men. (Chapter 12)
Brave New World belongs to a later time and to a generation which has seen through the
swindle of ‘progress’. It contains its own contradictions (the most important of them is pointed out in Mr John Strachey’s The Coming Struggle for Power), but it is at least a memorable assault on the more fat-bellied type of perfectionism. (Chapter 12)
Clearly I do not, in a sense, ‘want’ to return to a simpler, harder, probably agricultural way of life. In the same sense I don’t ‘want’ to cut down my drinking, to pay my debts, to take enough exercise, to be faithful to my wife, etc., etc. But in another and more permanent sense I do want these things, and perhaps in the same sense I want a civilization in which ‘progress’ is not definable as making the world safe for little fat men. (Chapter 12)
This [opposition to socialism] is traceable to two main causes. One is the personal inferiority of
many individual Socialists; the other is the fact that Socialism is too often coupled with a fat-bellied, godless conception of ‘progress’ which revolts anyone with a feeling for tradition or the rudiments of an aesthetic sense. (Chapter 13)
Instead of criticising pretty much every group he could identify and every author he’d ever read, Orwell should have been trying to unite as many disparate groups as possible by hammering out an anti-fascist, anti-Right wing platform which could be agreed on by the widest possible range of parties and groups.
This is precisely what he tries to do in the final chapter of the book, by saying that the ‘comrades’ need to tone down the anti-bourgeois rhetoric because it is precisely the petty bourgeois office workers and commercial travellers and clerks that they need to win over to the cause.
Alienate them by telling them they are capitalist running dogs and you push them into the Fascist camp. But these exhortations to unity come at the end of nearly a hundred pages of unrelenting criticism and vituperation. Too little, too late.
And above all, there is a huge, a vast chasm in the book which is where he should have been explaining just exactly what he means in practical terms by Socialism and how it would be brought about and just why it is in the direct personal interest of a floor walker or commercial traveller, the clerks and drapers and civil servants and millions of other petty bourgeois to espouse it and fight for it.
Part one – conditions of miners in the North – priceless reportage and still shocking to this day.
Part two – his own personal views about Socialism – a desperately confusing rag-bag of personal anecdote, obsessions and ringing rhetorical calls for Justice, totally devoid of any practical policies.
All Orwell’s major works are available online on a range of websites. Although it’s not completely comprehensive, I prefer the layout of the texts provided by the University of Adelaide Orwell website.
The Road to Wigan Pier on Amazon
The Road to Wigan Pier online
George Orwell Wikipedia article
George Orwell’s books
1933 – Down and Out in Paris and London
1934 – Burmese Days
1935 – A Clergyman’s Daughter
1936 – Keep the Aspidistra Flying
1937 – The Road to Wigan Pier
1938 – Homage to Catalonia
1939 – Coming Up for Air
1941 – The Lion and the Unicorn
1945 – Animal Farm
1949 – Nineteen Eighty-Four
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China’s War with Japan 1937 – 1945 by Rana Mitter (2013)
The aim of the book
Mitter is an eminent historian of twentieth century China and of the period leading up to World War II in particular. In his introduction he points out that the Sino-Japanese War – which lasted from 1937 and then became subsumed in the wider World War – is often neglected in Western historiography which, perhaps understandably, focuses on the war in Europe/Russia and on the American War in the Pacific: both perspectives tend to overlook the fact that the Chinese were fighting the Japanese for four long years before the Americans joined the struggle. By providing one continuous narrative of the entire Sino-Japanese War, as seen from the Chinese point of view, Mitter aims to redress this imbalance and tell this generally ‘untold story’.
The second main point, which emerges increasingly as the wider World War progresses, is that China – as the four-year adversary of the Japanese, and as the country responsible right to the end of the war for tying down some 500,000 Japanese troops as well as supplying men to fight alongside the British in Burma – deserved much greater representation in the meetings of the Big Three – Russia, America, Britain – which decided the fate of the post-war world. China was only invited to one, minor, Allied conference – held in Cairo – and was not invited to Yalta, Tehran, Potsdam. To this day, Mitter claims, the lack of recognition of China’s part in the wider anti-fascist struggle, and then her deliberate omission from the meetings of the Big Three – which they think should have been a Big Four – rankle in the memory of educated Chinese.
It contributes to the smouldering Chinese sense that for a long, long time, for some 150 years, first the British and then the Americans assumed control and sway over the Pacific and all its peoples, and that Chinese interests and contributions were consistently ignored or trampled on.
Now, at last, in the 21st century, China is confident enough and powerful enough to begin to flex her muscles and assert her rights in the region. Which is why, Mitter argues, educated people in the West need to be aware of the often harrowing events of this brutal eight-year war, and of the emotional significance it still has for many Chinese, and how it still informs modern China’s attitudes and worldview.
The Sino-Japanese War
1. 1937 to Pearl Harbour (1941)
Having annexed neighbouring Korea (1910) and the huge northern province of China known as Manchuria (1931), the aggressively militarist Japanese Empire took the opportunity of a trivial border incident (at the so-called Marco Polo Bridge) to launch a full-scale armed invasion of China in July 1937.
When Japan attacked there were broadly three forces in China: the Nationalist Party of Chiang Kai-Shek (also known as the Kuomintang) which claimed to be the official government of the whole country; the smaller Chinese Communist Party – whose leaders included the up-and-coming demagogue Mao Zedong – and a number of regional warlords.
China was divided like this:
a) Because the latter part of the 19th century was marked in China by decades of civil war and administrative weakness. The biggest of these disruptions was the Taiping Rebellion, a vast civil war which dominated the 1860s and in which anything up to 100 million Chinese might have killed each other, and which people in the West have little awareness of. The rebellion had only been put down at the cost of giving autonomy to regional military leaders and it was this which established the pattern of ‘warlord’ control of some regions. A growing body of politicians, modernisers and revolutionaries all realised that the old imperial structures just couldn’t rule this huge country, and the turmoil eventually led to the overthrow of the Qing imperial dynasty in 1912 and the establishment of a republican government.
b) However, the nationalist revolutionaries proved incapable of preventing the country falling apart into a patchwork of regions controlled by local military leaders or ‘warlords’. Hence the complex geography and politics of the ‘Warlord Era’, 1916 – 1928.
The Warlord Era Wikipedia article
Japan’s advance was swift not only because of China’s political, administrative and economic divisions but for the more basic reason that, under successive 19th century rulers, China had failed to modernise and keep up with the industrialised world. Convinced of their cultural superiority, of their lofty position as ‘the Heavenly Kingdom’, China’s rulers looked down on the big-nosed Europeans with their crude manners and obvious greed. Which turned out to be a mistake because the foreign devils (one of many discriminatory terms the Chinese use for non-Chinese) came armed with the benefits of the Industrial Revolution – steamships, guns, cannon, trains.
In the 1840s Chinese rulers found themselves forced at gun point to agree to treaties with Western imperialist powers – Britain, France, America – who secured for themselves coastal entrepôts (Hong Kong, Shanghai), exemption for Western citizens from Chinese law, but who (wisely) never made any attempt to colonise the vast peasant interior.
China’s economic and social backwardness contrasted with Imperial Japan, whose government realised in the 1860s that they had to keep up with the farangs by importing the best of Western know-how. The Japanese gave Westerners limited rights at certain specific trading ports but, more importantly, embarked on a wholesale reform and modernising of their technology and industry. By the turn of the twentieth century Japan combined an ongoing level of rural Asian poverty with surprising levels of urbanisation and industrialisation. This was brought forcefully home to everyone when Japan defeated Russia – itself arguably a vast, backward nation but still, in theory, European – in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-5. Bolstered by this victory, Japan’s well-organised, well-equipped and well-managed army and navy went on to seize control of all Korea in 1910.
The disparity in cultural attitudes (Japan’s Big Yes to Western know-how compared to China’s lofty rejection), in their respective levels of industrialisation, and in central economic, political and military control, help explain why – when they decided to extend their occupation in 1937, Japan, with a population of just 72 million, managed to subdue China, with a population of about 520 million.
Map of the Japanese occupation of China
The war was marked early on by the Japanese massacre of the civilian inhabitants of the capital Nanking
Nanking Massacre Wikipedia article
and continued to be marked by extreme Japanese brutality and bloodshed, including the indiscriminate bombing of cities crowded with refugees – for example, the bombing campaign against the Nationalists’ temporary capital of Chongqing – which resulted in horrifying casualties.
Bombing of Chongqing Wikipedia article
The Nationalists themselves contributed to the mayhem with a ‘scorched earth’ policy, including burning some of their own cities to the ground before the Japanese could take them and – most notoriously – in 1938 breaking the dikes which held in the massive Yellow River. This created a truly epic flood over a huge area of central China which certainly delayed the Japanese advance but led to a mind-boggling 800,000 deaths from drowning, not to mention further deaths from disease and starvation.
The Communist forces, such as they were, had retreated deep into remote northern China in the long flight which their propaganda machine turned into the legendary ‘Long March’. About 70,000 communist cadres set out on it and maybe as few as 7,000 completed it, the rest dying or giving up along the way. Thus the bulk of the resistance to the Japanese invaders, of the actual fighting, fell to Chiang, his German-trained Nationalist forces, and whatever warlord allies he could press to help him (and who all too often let him down).
The whole story is a panorama of extraordinary chaos, suffering and death on a continental scale.
2. After Pearl Harbour
The story becomes a lot more comprehensible – and therefore interesting and memorable – once the Japanese have their bright idea to attack Pearl Harbour and declare war on the most powerful nation on earth. And Hitler decides – quite unnecessarily – to rally to their support and also declare war on America.
There had been an earlier turning point when the war in Europe broke out in September 1939 and Chiang’s Nationalists suddenly hoped for arms and support from the European democracies (who just happened to be the very same imperialist devils which Chinese nationalist propaganda had been reviling for decades). But, in the event, the supposedly all-powerful British Empire turned out to be weak – in fact, it was shown to be an essentially peacetime operation, able to carry out local police actions and just about manage a huge array of established colonial assets, but in no way ready for a war of aggression – unlike Germany or Japan. Britain herself struggled for survival in 1940 and ’41 and so the last thing on her mind was sending troops to the other side of the planet to fight in someone else’s war.
Pearl Harbour marked the beginning of the war for America, but was only a way station for the Chinese who had, by this stage, been resisting the Japanese for four long years. It would take three more bitter years to defeat them, with mixed results for Chiang’s Nationalists: on the one hand they now found themselves de facto allies of Britain and America in the war against Japan; on the down side, they now found themselves caught up in the very complicated diplomatic and military manoeuvering which took place even between the nominal allies Britain and America, with the added challenge of Stalin’s Russia, as well as coping with Mao’s communists and the Chinese collaborationist regime.
For one of the many untold stories which Mitter brings back into the light is the role of Wang Jingwei, at one time a colleague of Chiang’s, who was persuaded that the patriotic thing to do in order to prevent more loss of Chinese lives and destruction of Chinese land, was to co-operate with the Japanese. After agonising soul-searching – recorded in detail by one of his aides-de-camp, Zhou Fohai, in a diary from which Mitter liberally quotes – Wang agreed to fly back to the occupied former capital of Nanjing and allow himself to be set up as the Japanese-backed puppet leader of Occupied China – an equivalent of the Vichy Regime in France or Quisling in Norway.
The three years of the War in the Pacific are detailed in Max Hasting’s grim history Nemesis. Mitter usefully complements such Anglocentric accounts with his narrative of the ongoing battles – and the complex diplomatic manouevres – taking place in war-torn China.
One of the most interesting themes which emerge in the final part of Mitter’s book is that the various Chinese administrations – as they struggled to keep control of their areas and populations, to properly organise the collection of taxes, the feeding of soldiers, the distribution of the growing amounts of Allied aid – became progressively more centralised and relied increasingly on Terror as a political tool. Each of the three regimes set up secret police forces who used arbitrary arrest, torture and executions to intimidate dissident voices, each one headed by specific individuals – the equivalents of the Nazis’ Heinrich Himmler – who became notorious for their brutality and sadism. For Chiang’s nationalists it was Dai Li, for Wang’s collaborationists it was Li Shiqun, for Mao it was Kang Sheng.
And all three parties despised Westerners as culturally inferior, hated and bitterly resented the shame and humiliation they’d been subject to during the era of Unequal Treaties, and were – accordingly – contemptuous of the hypocrisy of Western ‘liberal, ‘democratic’ societies. None of them really understood the Western notion of democracy from below – the models of all three (as indeed of the conquering Japanese) was of top-down rule by a strong Leader – Generalissimo Chiang or Chairman Mao.
Given the huge political differences between all three factions and given the direct links between the Chinese Communists and Stalin’s Russia – Stalin told the CCP, basically, what to do – on the one hand, and the widespread corruption, brutality and inefficiency of Chiang’s Nationalists (to the many Americans who had experience of Chiang Kai-Shek’s regime, he acquired the nickname ‘Cash My Check’) on the other – it’s no surprise that relations between the Western Allies and the various Chinese factions were fraught with misunderstandings, miscalculations, misgivings and mistakes, which Mitter records in great detail.
By the end of World War II, the sustained struggle against the Japanese had exhausted Chiang Kai-Shek’s Nationalist forces. By contrast the war had seen the growth in strength and confidence of the Communists who had been able to send out political cohorts to infiltrate broad areas of unoccupied China to spread their message of a revolution for the peasants, for the poorest of the poor.
It was also during the latter part of the war that Mao began to establish his grip on the Chinese Communist party through a programme of biting criticism and calls for ideological purity – the so-called ‘Rectification Process’ – which was the start of 30 years of intimidating, arresting and executing his opponents. As Mitter points out, the techniques which underlay the catastrophic Cultural Revolution of the late 1960s were first laid down in the early 1940s.
When the War in the Pacific came to an abrupt end in August 1945, the war for control of China still had four more bloody years to go, a ragged civil war in a shattered country which ultimately led to the complete seizure of power by the Communists and the establishment of the People’s Republic of China in October 1949. The remnants of Chiang’s Nationalists fled to Taiwan, where they rule to this day. As Mitter sums up – Chiang’s Nationalists won the war but lost China.
China’s War with Japan 1937 – 1945 on Amazon
Second Sino-Japanese War Wikipedia article
Chiang Kai-Shek Wikipedia article
Reviews of books about other Asian wars
The Tragedy of Liberation by Frank Dikötter (2013)
Embers of War by Frederik Logevall (2012)
Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45 by Max Hastings (2007)
The Vietnam War by Mitchell Hall (2000)
The Korean War by Max Hastings (1987)
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Something of Myself by Rudyard Kipling (1937)
At any rate it went into the Weekly, together with soldier tales, Indian tales, and tales of the opposite sex. There was one of this last which, because of a doubt, I handed up to the Mother, who abolished it and wrote me; Never you do that again. But I did and managed to pull off, not unhandily, a tale called ‘A Wayside Comedy,’ where I worked hard for a certain ‘economy of implication,’ and in one phrase of less than a dozen words believed I had succeeded.
I made my own experiments in the weights, colours, perfumes, and attributes of words in relation to other words, either as read aloud so that they may hold the ear, or, scattered over the page, draw the eye. There is no line of my verse or prose which has not been mouthed till the tongue has made all smooth, and memory, after many recitals, has mechanically skipped the grosser superfluities.
Kipling began work on this short autobiography in August 1935 as he approached his seventieth birthday. Although he didn’t know it, he had barely six months left to live. In her diary his wife, Caroline (‘Carrie’), wrote that the aim was to ‘review his life from the point of view of his work’. Kipling died in January 1936 but his widow thought the text complete enough to be made public and, after an unknown amount of editing by herself and one of Kipling’s oldest friends, it was published in February 1937.
The Kipling Society have made available online an introductory essay to the book by Thomas Pinney which is very balanced and informative. One of its main points is the way the autobiography completely omits huge areas of his life – not drawing a veil over his early love affairs (as you might expect) but mention of such important events as his young daughter’s tragic death in 1899 (from pneumonia aged just 6) and his 18-year-old son’s death in the Great War.
Pinney points out that Something of Myself contains a number of factual errors, as well as several striking places Kipling gives way to anger and bitterness about corruption, for example (unjustly, apparently) accusing his newspaper proprietors of taking bribes. He also highlights the several places where Kipling really lambasts American culture and society.
Something of Myself is, Pinney concludes, the work of ‘a man writing at the end of a life that had been devoted to so many causes by then defeated or discredited’.
Yes. But there are also many, many revealing passages which shed invaluable light on Kipling’s life, on his formative boyhood experiences and on his own practice as a writer. Foremost among these is the horrifying account of the brutality he was subjected to when his parents left him in England, aged just 6, at the house of a couple who had a track record of looking after Indian ex-pats’ children while they went to English prep school, but who turned out to be sadistic bullies. This was probably the defining experience of Kipling’s life and it is told in grisly enough detail.
For me the two lasting impressions of the book are
a) Wonder – Kipling’s own childish wonder at so many beautiful and fascinating aspects of the world he moved through, and my wonder at the carefree confidence with which he travelled all round the world, living in India, America, South Africa, seeing sights and sounds and smells, building cabins and observing local animals and people – what a life he had!
b) Compressed On the down side, it has, like so many of his later stories, been worked over and over, sub-edited, pared away and compressed so that quite often it is a little difficult to grasp what he’s talking about: in some places, even after careful rereading, it’s in fact impossible to understand what he’s saying. In works of fiction this has a mysterious, deepening affect; but in a work of fact it repels and distances the reader. You long for the clarity of Charles Carrington’s wonderfully lucid and informative biography.
Something of Myself is divided into eight chapters:
A Very Young Person 1865 – 1878 (toddler years in Bombay and then the horror of being abandoned in England to the ‘care’ of a sadistic landlady)
The School Before Its Time 1878 – 1882 (bumptious account of life at the United Services College, a boarding school for sons of Indian Army officers, and the basis of Kipling’s schoolboy stories about Stalky and Co)
Seven Years’ Hard (return to India where, at age 17, he began gruelling work on a small local newspaper, The Civil & Military Gazette, exposed to the harsh world of British soldiers and the professionals who kept the Empire working)
The Interregnum (arrival back in London in 1889, after his seven years apprenticeship, with a portfolio of stories and poems about India which instantly make his name, the London music halls inspiring the Barrack-Room Ballads)
The Committee of Ways and Means (1892 marriage to Caroline ‘Carrie’ Balestier and move to Vermont in America, where he wrote The Jungle Books, Captains Courageous and much patriotic poetry)
South Africa (Kipling was very involved in The Boer War 1899-1902, moving to South Africa to work on a newspaper for the troops, distributing goods and treats to soldiers, seeing action, hobnobbing with leading British Imperialist, including Cecil Rhodes)
The Very–Own House (the final move to ‘Bateman’s in Sussex, family home for the rest of his life, with loving details of the local scenery and population)
Working–Tools (a fascinating insight into his methods and techniques of composition)
As with so many of his later short stories, the telling is so compressed and allusive that you read and reread certain passages but still have the sense that you’ve missed something. So much is implied, and so little explicitly stated. Many of the most repeatable stories are familiar from other books, most notably Charles Carrington’s definitive biography, or have been recycled in introductions or footnotes to various editions. Many themes emerge:
Muslims Being raised in Lahore, in what is now Pakistan, Kipling is much more familiar with Muslims than Hindus. Throughout his work are many Muslim characters who are examples of rectitude and duty. Of all the gods, Allah is mentioned a surprising number of times through the book; the second sentence reads:
‘Therefore, ascribing all good fortune to Allah the Dispenser of Events, I begin’.
It pleased Allah to afflict H—- in after years…
Our native Foreman, on the News side, Mian Rukn Din, a Muhammedan gentleman of kind heart and infinite patience, whom I never saw unequal to a situation, was my loyal friend throughout.
There were ghostly dinners too with Subalterns in charge of the Infantry Detachment at Fort Lahore, where, all among marble-inlaid, empty apartments of dead Queens, or under the domes of old tombs, meals began with the regulation thirty grains of quinine in the sherry, and ended – as Allah pleased!
There is, or was, a tablet in my old Lahore office asserting that here I ‘worked.’ And Allah knows that is true also!
Those were great and spacious and friendly days in Washington which — politics apart — Allah had not altogether deprived of a sense of humour.
The word ‘Allah’ is clearly used not as by a devout Muslim, but as an indication of ‘God’, of the power that rules the cosmos, in a way which (typically of Kipling) can be ironic, playful, deprecating, but hints at a fundamental seriousness. In fact, throughout the book Kipling takes a fatalistic though optimistic view of his own life, emphasising that many things happened through Fate, with little or no input from himself. He talks again and again about Fate dealing him certain cards, the cards being presented to him, so as to make various decisions (of subject matter and books and ideas) obvious and unavoidable.
Sensual descriptions Not something you associate with Kipling, but richly wrought descriptions are to be found throughout his work, especially in the frame sections of the stories in Puck of Pook’s Hill and Rewards and Fairies, and there are sweet touches of it here;
I have always felt the menacing darkness of tropical eventides, as I have loved the voices of night-winds through palm or banana leaves, and the song of the tree-frogs…
There were far-going Arab dhows on the pearly waters, and gaily dressed Parsees wading out to worship the sunset…
Servants Rich Europeans had armies of servants at this time; even a not-very-successful writer like Henry James appears to have had a butler, a housekeeper and a cook. But in the Empire white men were waited on hand and foot in a way which Europeans found astonishing, and which is inconceivable to us today. As a toddler Kipling had an ayah and a bearer, and was raised in an atmosphere where his clothes were held out for him to get into, his baths were run for him, and even doors were opened in front of him and closed behind him by permanently present servants. Kipling was brought up with servants to do everything. As he wrote of his life in India:
Till I was in my twenty-fourth year, I no more dreamed of dressing myself than I did of shutting an inner door or – I was going to say turning a key in a lock. But we had no locks. I gave myself indeed the trouble of stepping into the garments that were held out to me after my bath, and out of them as I was assisted to do. And – luxury of which I dream still – I was shaved before I was awake!
World of wonder Difficult to convey if you haven’t read it, but his autobiography, like his work, gives a fantastic, exciting, boyish sense of the size and scale and wonder of the world. There’s the sights and sounds and smells of India itself; then of the P&O liner back to England; a train journey across the Egyptian desert. Even in grim Portsmouth, the old sea captain in whose care the 6-year-old Kipling was placed, had fought at the naval battle of Navarino (1827) and been disabled by becoming tangled in a harpoon line while whale fishing. He takes the boy to see amazingly romantic old wooden sailing ships at Portsmouth Hard, including one which had sailed up into the Arctic Circle!
Later, in the 1890s, after an apparent nervous breakdown in London, Kipling goes to recuperate on an extraordinary Cook’s tour across the world, sailing in a steamer to Madeira, on to South Africa, then across the Indian Ocean to Australia, New Zealand and Tasmania, back to southern India and by train up to Lahore to see his parents and childhood home one last time, before returning to London.
Here he marries Carrie Balestier (1892) and then – embarks on another awesome honeymoon voyage, sailing west to America, taking trains across Canada to Vancouver, then right across the Pacific to Japan. Wow. And then back to the States and right across the continent to New England where the young couple settle into a primitive one-story cottage, equipped only with an elementary stove and one hot pipe, living in what today would be incredibly primitive surroundings (and in fact sounding strikingly like Robert Louis Stevenson and his bride’s honeymoon in North California, as described in The Silverado Squatters.)
Brilliant details Kipling makes the world seem exciting and strange and full of vivid, standout details. Somehow, not being imprisoned by the clutter of gadgets which hem in our modern lives, Kipling’s boyish imagination seems to have been freer to observe and wonder. Take his description of what he saw as a child roaming the Victoria and Albert Museum with his sister:
We roved at will, and divided the treasures child-fashion. There were instruments of music inlaid with lapis, beryl and ivories; glorious gold-fretted spinets and clavichords; the bowels of the great Glastonbury clock; mechanical models steel – and silver-butted pistols, daggers and arquebusses – the labels alone were an education; a collection of precious stones and rings – we quarrelled over those – and a big bluish book which was the manuscript of one of Dickens’ novels. That man seemed to me to have written very carelessly; leaving out lots which he had to squeeze in between the lines afterwards. These experiences were a soaking in colour and design with, above all, the proper Museum smell; and it stayed with me.
And even the most humdrum accounts are enlivened by the bright detail or the telling phrase.
We parted, my Captain and I, after a farewell picnic, among white, blowing sand where natives were blasting and where, of a sudden, a wrathful baboon came down the rock-face and halted waistdeep in a bed of arum-lilies.
On one trip our steamer came almost atop of a whale, who submerged just in time to clear us, and looked up into my face with an unforgettable little eye the size of a bullock’s.
By pure luck, I had sight of the first sickening uprush and vomit of iridescent coal-dusted water into the hold of a ship, a crippled iron hulk, sinking at her moorings.
Tourists may carry away impressions, but it is the seasonal detail of small things and doings (such as putting up fly-screens and stove-pipes, buying yeast-cakes and being lectured by your neighbours) that bite in the lines of mental pictures.
My verses (The Absent-minded Beggar) had some elements of direct appeal but, as was pointed out, lacked ‘poetry.’ Sir Arthur Sullivan wedded the words to a tune guaranteed to pull teeth out of barrel-organs.
Anti-American All over the world he rambled and admired, except for America. The fifth chapter is striking for its sustained attack on the vulgarity, hypocrisy, violence, bad manners and criminality of American society.
I never got over the wonder of a people who, having extirpated the aboriginals of their continent more completely than any modern race had ever done, honestly believed that they were a godly little New England community, setting examples to brutal mankind.
And always the marvel – to which the Canadians seemed insensible – was that on one side of an imaginary line should be Safety, Law, Honour, and Obedience, and on the other frank, brutal decivilisation; and that, despite this, Canada should be impressed by any aspect whatever of the United States.
His time in Vermont ended badly, harassed by the growing resentment of the locals who just didn’t like a Limey making money and living among them, with anti-British feeling prompted by a political crisis between the two countries over a border dispute in far away Belize (!), and was exacerbated when Carrie and Kipling fell out badly with her alcoholic sponging brother, who lived nearby. The family argument came to a head when the drunk brother threatened to kill Kipling, who unwisely took him to court – an American court. Kipling’s testimony, name and reputation were dragged through the mud by the American gutter press. It was at this point the Kiplings realised they had to leave, and retreated to Britain. But Kipling obviously never forgave America for hounding him out of the house he had helped to build and where he spent the happiest and formative years of his marriage, and where he reached new heights of creativity with the Jungle Books.
The Burne-Jones household It was of vital importance to him as a boy that he was able, once a year at Christmas, to escape from the house of torment and bullying in Portsmouth to the household of his mother’s sister, Georgiana in Fulham. Georgiana was married to the pre-Raphaelite painter, Edward Burne-Jones, and ran a wonderfully bohemian household where the leading artists and writers of the day – Tennyson, Browning, William Morris – would call round and have dinner – where writing and art and story-telling were all encouraged and understood. The Burne-Jones connection provided a psychological and imaginative lifeline to the beaten and abused little boy and he continued his adoration of his uncle and aunt, moving to be near them when they moved to Sussex, until their deaths.
It is a vital component of Kipling’s make-up: on the one hand the violence of the Portsmouth household, and then of a fierce boarding school, and then the harsh realities of work in India – on the other, the very loving, supportive and creative environment of his artist father, and the astonishingly arty Burne-Joneses.
Violence It is hard to comprehend the Dickensian level of violence Kipling was subjected to as a boy. He and his sister were sent to England to board with a Mrs Holloway and her sea captain husband in Portsmouth. From here he was tutored by a series of governesses and then sent to prep school. Mrs H turned out to be a tyrant and beat and thrashed the young Kipling repeatedly for every sin and slightest misdemeanour, a woman of narrow Evangelical beliefs who called on God and the Bible as she whipped the little boy. Then in the evenings, their 12 or 13-year-old son, with whom Kipling shared a room, would also beat the daylights out of him.
I have known a certain amount of bullying, but this was calculated torture – religious as well as scientific.
He refers to her as ‘The Woman’ and the place as ‘The House of Desolation’ and gives examples not only of the countless beatings, but the deliberate humiliations. One day, being caught out concealing a bad school report, he was made to wear a big placard on his back spelling ‘LIAR’ and walk through the streets of Portsmouth. When ‘The Son’ is big enough to get a job, Kipling learns to listen intently to the sounds of his footsteps re-entering the House of Desolation at the end of the day, being able to deduce just from the sound of the tread, whether The Son had had ‘a bad day’ and was therefore liable to beat Kipling. It was systematic child abuse on an awesome scale.
Then there was the boarding school he was sent to at age 13, the United Services College.
My first year and a half was not pleasant. The most persistent bullying comes less from the bigger boys, who merely kick and pass on, than from young devils of fourteen acting in concert against one butt.
Not only was there lots of bullying, and fighting even among friends, but also systematic corporal punishment which readers nowadays find hard to imagine.
The penalty for wilful shirking [of sports] was three cuts with a ground-ash from the Prefect of Games. One of the most difficult things to explain to some people is that a boy of seventeen or eighteen can thus beat a boy barely a year his junior, and on the heels of the punishment go for a walk with him; neither party bearing malice or pride.
But it made him what he was.
Nor was my life an unsuitable preparation for my future, in that it demanded constant wariness, the habit of observation, and attendance on moods and tempers; the noting of discrepancies between speech and action; a certain reserve of demeanour; and automatic suspicion of sudden favours.
It also, according to his critics (especially the mid-century sage Edmund Wilson in his psycho-analytical essay about Kipling) left an enduring stain across Kipling’s work, in a compulsive need to have his characters behave just that bit too violently, too aggressively, too sadistically, too vengefully, even in his ‘comedies’, which often leave an unpleasantly bitter taste of revenge and humiliation.
Craft and art In his last years at school he was grateful to the head for giving him free run of the library and taking him on for extra lessons, especially in précis, the quick summarising of other people’s texts: this was to be invaluable when he returned to journalism aged only 17, and the chapter describing his seven years’ hard labour on the Punjab newspaper emphasises the incredible hard work and long hours and dedication required. Here he gained his lifelong commitment to work, to honest labour, seen as the defining moral virtue. He was, from an early age, attracted by words and rhythms and patterns and sounds… but combined this with a tremendous ability to hold a subject or idea in his head and work it over for days or weeks on end, in his head and on paper.
Most men properly broke to a trade pick up some sort of workshop facility which gives them an advantage over their untrained fellows. My office-work had taught me to think out a notion in detail, pack it away in my head, and work on it by snatches in any surroundings.
There are extended passages about the importance of weighing and judging and deploying words.
My young head was in a ferment of new things seen and realised at every turn and – that I might in any way keep abreast of the flood – it was necessary that every word should tell, carry, weigh, taste and, if need were, smell.
Professionals Chapter three describes the long hours, day after day, working as one of the only two staff on the Civil and Military Gazette, the daily newspaper of the Punjab. The only place of entertainment was the Punjab Club and it was here that the young journalist found himself precociously thrown into the company of professional men, acquiring an admiration for men who do things which never left him.
In that Club and elsewhere I met none except picked men at their definite work — Civilians, Army, Education, Canals, Forestry, Engineering, Irrigation, Railways, Doctors, and Lawyers — samples of each branch and each talking his own shop. It follows then that that ‘show of technical knowledge’ for which I was blamed later came to me from the horse’s mouth, even to boredom.
It is here that Kipling acquired the journalist’s enthusiasm for facts facts facts, for a full grasps of the technical and geographical and administrative background for his stories, which never left him and which critics have been harsh on.
I was almost nightly responsible for my output to visible and often brutally voluble critics at the Club. They were not concerned with my dreams. They wanted accuracy and interest, but first of all accuracy.
The range of experiences he was exposed to was extraordinary and colourful.
Later I described openings of big bridges and such-like, which meant a night or two with the engineers; floods on railways – more nights in the wet with wretched heads of repair gangs; village festivals and consequent outbreaks of cholera or small-pox; communal riots under the shadow of the Mosque of Wazir Khan, where the patient waiting troops lay in timber-yards or side-alleys till the order came to go in and hit the crowds on the feet with the gun-butt (killing in Civil Administration was then reckoned confession of failure), and the growling, flaring, creed-drunk city would be brought to hand without effusion of blood, or the appearance of any agitated Viceroy; visits of Viceroys to neighbouring Princes on the edge of the great Indian Desert, where a man might have to wash his raw hands and face in soda-water; reviews of Armies expecting to move against Russia next week; receptions of an Afghan Potentate, with whom the Indian Government wished to stand well (this included a walk into the Khyber, where I was shot at, but without malice, by a rapparee who disapproved of his ruler’s foreign policy); murder and divorce trials, and (a really filthy job) an inquiry into the percentage of lepers among the butchers who supplied beef and mutton to the European community of Lahore.
Goals and ambitions There is a fascinating account of how his thinking developed in his first year of spectacular success in London. At first it was sufficient for the young man to make a big stir and, in the words of a music hall acquaintance, ‘knock ’em over’. But quite quickly he realised this wasn’t enough and, slowly, it dawned on him that he had a sort of duty to show the ignorant hypocritical English something of the world beyond their shores and something of the men and women to all corners of the earth who laboured long and hard to preserve Little Englanders in their peace and wealth – all those hard-working dedicated professionals back in India.
Their [his parents’] arrival simplified things, and ‘set’ in my head a notion that had been rising at the back of it. It seemed easy enough to ‘knock ’em’— but to what end beyond the heat of the exercise?… In the talks that followed, I exposed my notion of trying to tell to the English something of the world outside England – not directly but by implication… Bit by bit, my original notion grew into a vast, vague conspectus – Army and Navy Stores List if you like – of the whole sweep and meaning of things and effort and origins throughout the Empire.
It is fascinating to learn that the idea of justifying the British Empire, systematically, was an actual conscious thought-out strategy. What an ambition!
The strain of India And yet, among all his other contradictions, there is the constant awareness of the psychological cost of serving abroad. It wasn’t all servants and stiff upper lips. Men went mad from the heat and strain, and there is throughout Kipling’s fiction a sense of men right on the edge of complete nervous collapse.
One must set these things against the taste of fever in one’s mouth, and the buzz of quinine in one’s ears; the temper frayed by heat to breakingpoint but for sanity’s sake held back from the break; the descending darkness of intolerable dusks; and the less supportable dawns of fierce, stale heat through half of the year… Though I was spared the worst horrors, thanks to the pressure of work, a capacity for being able to read, and the pleasure of writing what my head was filled with, I felt each succeeding hot weather more and more, and cowered in my soul as it returned.
It happened one hotweather evening, in ‘86 or thereabouts, when I felt that I had come to the edge of all endurance. As I entered my empty house in the dusk there was no more in me except the horror of a great darkness, that I must have been fighting for some days. I came through that darkness alive, but how I do not know.
In the joyous reign of Kay Robinson, my second Chief, our paper changed its shape and type. This took up for a week or so all hours of the twenty-four and cost me a break-down due to lack of sleep.
The tendency to nervous prostration followed him to England and dogged the rest of his life.
But in all this jam of work done or devising, demands, distractions, excitements, and promiscuous confusions, my health cracked again. I had broken down twice in India from straight overwork, plus fever and dysentery, but this time the staleness and depression came after a bout of real influenza, when all my Indian microbes joined hands and sang for a month in the darkness of Villiers Street.
A lot that is clipped and understated and repressed and tight about Kipling must stem from this constant need to keep a harsh rein on the ever-present threat of hysteria and nervous collapse.
The uncanny Related to this note of psychological strain, is Kipling’s persistent eye for the weird and uncanny. He has an unnerving eye for the tellingly macabre detail.
Nor did I know that near our little house on the Bombay Esplanade were the Towers of Silence, where their Dead are exposed to the waiting vultures on the rim of the towers, who scuffle and spread wings when they see the bearers of the Dead below. I did not understand my Mother’s distress when she found ‘a child’s hand’ in our garden, and said I was not to ask questions about it. I wanted to see that child’s hand.
The dead of all times were about us — in the vast forgotten Muslim cemeteries round the Station, where one’s horse’s hoof of a morning might break through to the corpse below; skulls and bones tumbled out of our mud garden walls, and were turned up among the flowers by the Rains; and at every point were tombs of the dead. Our chief picnic rendezvous and some of our public offices had been memorials to desired dead women; and Fort Lahore, where Runjit Singh’s wives lay, was a mausoleum of ghosts.
[In London] Once I faced the reflection of my own face in the jet-black mirror of the window-panes for five days. When the fog thinned, I looked out and saw a man standing opposite the pub where the barmaid lived. Of a sudden his breast turned dull red like a robin’s, and he crumpled, having cut his throat. In a few minutes — seconds it seemed — a hand-ambulance arrived and took up the body. A pot-boy with a bucket of steaming water sluiced the blood off into the gutter, and what little crowd had collected went its way.
Night walking As a result of his childhood beatings in the House of Desolation in Portsmouth, Kipling thinks he must have had a nervous breakdown, and this turns out to be the first of many. When finally rescued from the House of Desolation and brought by his Mother to a boarding house in West London, he takes to what will become a lifelong habit of insomnia and wandering the streets wide awake through the night till dawn.
I did not know then that such nightwakings would be laid upon me through my life; or that my fortunate hour would be on the turn of sunrise, with a sou’-west breeze afoot.
Often the night got into my head as it had done in the boarding-house in the Brompton Road, and I would wander till dawn in all manner of odd places-liquor-shops, gambling-and opium-dens, which are not a bit mysterious, wayside entertainments such as puppet-shows, native dances; or in and about the narrow gullies under the Mosque of Wazir Khan for the sheer sake of looking. Sometimes, the Police would challenge, but I knew most of their officers, and many folk in some quarters knew me for the son of my Father, which in the East more than anywhere else is useful.
The writing
Style and phrases I dislike Kipling’s lifelong fondness for cod-Biblical or medieval expressions, or just old-fashioned phraseology – ‘whereupon’, ‘verily’, ‘ere’, ‘whereby’, ‘otherwhiles’, ‘forthwith’ – which I think mars lots of his prose:
We possessed a paradise which I verily believe saved me…
Often and often afterwards…
My eyes went wrong, and I could not well see to read. For which reason I read the more and in bad lights…
After my strength came suddenly to me about my fourteenth year, there was no more bullying; and either my natural sloth or past experience did not tempt me to bully in my turn. I had by then found me two friends…
My House-master was deeply conscientious and cumbered about with many cares for his charges. What he accomplished thereby I know not…
I found myself at Bombay where I was born, moving among sights and smells that made me deliver in the vernacular sentences whose meaning I knew not…
Rider Haggard would visit us from time to time and give of his ample land-wisdom… When Rider Haggard heard these things, he rested not till he had made the Colonel’s acquaintance.
Which things are a portent.
Sparkling phrases On the other hand, cheek by jowl with the irritating archaisms, go sudden bursts of verbal life and insight.
… the Uncle got inside the rugs and gave us answers which thrilled us with delightful shivers, in a voice deeper than all the boots in the world….
Hence our speed to our own top-landing, where we could hang over the stairs and listen to the loveliest sound in the world — deep-voiced men laughing together over dinner.
The country was large-boned, mountainous, wooded, and divided into farms of from fifty to two hundred barren acres. Roads, sketched in dirt, connected white, clap-boarded farm-houses, where the older members of the families made shift to hold down the eating mortgages.
Clipped, crabbed and obscure The eighth and final chapter, devoted to the craft of writing, is vital. Lots is conveyed in this chapter, but particularly the power of leaving out. The presence of the omissions, the presence of the absences, is something he learned as early as the writing of the Plain Tales and which characterises all his work, including this very compressed autobiography.
A tale from which pieces have been raked out is like a fire that has been poked. One does not know that the operation has been performed, but every one feels the effect.
He gives a section of clear explicit advice about how to winnow and prune and pare your drafts back to the bone, let them lie, and then do it again, paring away away a\way till you are left with the essentials.
Take of well-ground Indian Ink as much as suffices and a camel-hair brush proportionate to the inter-spaces of your lines. In an auspicious hour, read your final draft and consider faithfully every paragraph, sentence and word, blacking out where requisite. Let it lie by to drain as long as possible. At the end of that time, re-read and you should find that it will bear a second shortening. Finally, read it aloud alone and at leisure. Maybe a shade more brushwork will then indicate or impose itself. If not, praise Allah and let it go, and ‘when thou hast done, repent not.’ The shorter the tale, the longer the brushwork and, normally, the shorter the lie-by, and vice versa. The longer the tale, the less brush but the longer lie-by. I have had tales by me for three or five years which shortened themselves almost yearly.
Which sounds wise and good in theory, but in practice it gives rise to things like the following anecdote.
Occasionally one could test a plagiarist. I had to invent a tree, with name to match, for a man who at that time was rather riding in my pocket. In about eighteen months – the time it takes for a ‘test’ diamond, thrown over the wires into a field of ‘blue’ rock, to turn up on the Kimberley sorting-tables – my tree appeared in his ‘nature-studies’ name as spelt by me and virtues attributed. Since in our trade we be all felons, more or less, I repented when I had caught him, but not too much.
How much of that did you understand? How much are you meant to understand? And any reader of Kipling’s, even devoted fans like Charles Carrington, freely admit that there are some stories which are clipped back so far as to be almost incomprehensible.
Underpinning so much of Kipling’s prose is an irrepressibly exuberant, boyish enthusiasm, even when he’s at his most crabbed and mannered in style, and unpleasant in attitude. It’s the strange combination of all these qualities, the good and the bad, which make the later stories, particularly the ones in Credits and Debits, so powerful and unsettling.
Elusive, crabby, deliberately neglecting huge subjects, dwelling on trivia, you can accuse Something of Myself of various sins – but it was his life and he had a perfect right to write about it as he pleased. And on the plus side, it is full of absolutely vital, irreplaceable biographical information – Charles Carrington confesses that his (definitive) biography would have been incomparably poorer without the hundred telling details which Something of Myself includes.
It’s a relatively short book and required reading for anyone who wants to understand or get a fuller flavour of this strange, unpleasant, jovial, weirdly imaginative and hugely important writer.
Something of Myself on the University of Adelaide website
Kipling Society introduction to Something of Myself
Other Kipling reviews
The Best Short Stories (1997)
Rudyard Kipling: Selected Poetry edited by Craig Raine (1992)
War Stories and Poems (1990)
Rudyard Kipling: Selected Verse edited by James Cochrane (1977)
Rudyard Kipling: His Life and Art by Charles Carrington (1955)
Charles Carrington on Kipling’s verse (1955)
A Choice of Kipling’s Verse by T.S. Eliot (1941)
Something of Myself (1937)
Limits and Renewals (1932)
The Muse Among the Motors (1904-1929)
Debits and Credits (1926)
A Diversity of Creatures (1917)
Rewards and Fairies (1910)
Actions and Reactions (1909)
Puck of Pook’s Hill (1906)
Traffics and Discoveries (1904)
Just So stories (1902)
Kim (1901)
The Man Who Would Be King and other stories (1888)
Plain Tales From The Hills (1888)
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Uncommon Danger by Eric Ambler (1937)
Ambler had a prolific and varied career, the novel-writing part of which breaks into two distinct periods. Part one: he wrote half a dozen thrillers before the war which established his name (1936-40) – then stopped to enlist in the Army. He gravitated into the an Army film unit which led to work writing screenplays for British and American studios after the War and through the 1950s. (He was nominated for an Oscar for the screenplay for The Cruel Sea, 1953.) In the early 1950s he resumed (part two) his interrupted novel-writing career (alongside ongoing movie and TV work), averaging four novels per decade in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s.
Uncommon Danger
Uncommon Danger is his second novel from the first phase of his career ie the later years of the fraught 1930s. His first novel, The Dark Frontier, was about an atom bomb, a rather melodramatic subject which suited the parody style of his début. This one is about the more concrete issue of who controls the oil wells in Romania. (Control of just these wells was a strand in the conflict on the Eastern Front between Russia and Germany when war broke out.)
Though some of the trappings seem dated, though the Board of Pan-Eurasian Petroleum and the baddy Mr Balterghen come across like the stagey baddies in a 1930s or early 1940s Hollywood movie, in other places a much more ‘contemporary’ attitude and style bursts through. Ambler’s style is almost always brisk, lean and effective.
With a woollen scarf wound twice round his neck, his shoulders hunched and his hands thrust deep in his overcoat pockets, Kenton waited at Nurenberg for the Frankfurt-Linz train. (Hodder & Stoughton Large Print edition, p.13)
The set-up
The plot has several strands:
1. At its widest there is the geopolitical situation. Bessarabia is a contested area between Russia and Romania since the Great War. It contains important oil fields (p.78). A Russian double-agent (Borovansky) has stolen Russian plans for a possible attack on Bessarabia. If these are made public it will whip up anti-Russian feeling in Romania and help the Fascist Iron Guard to power, and help them make an alliance with Nazi Germany (p.184). The spy is taking them south into Austria.
2. Russian spies Zaleshoff and his sister Tamara are tipped off and commission a Spaniard, Ortega, to pursue Borovansky on the train, follow him to his hotel in Austria, and get the plans back.
3. Mr Balterghen of the British-based Pan-Eurasian Petroleum Company wants the question of the Romanian Concessions ie which external oil companies can exploit Romania’s oil, to be re-opened so that PEPC can bribe itself way to new concessions. He commissions one ‘Colonel Robinson’ to do this. Zaleshoff realises that ‘Robinson’ is none other than the assassin and propagandist-for-hire Stefan Saridza, accompanied by his bully boy Captain Mailler.
So two separate sets of men are on the track of Borovansky and his photos, as the story begins…
The protagonist of the novel is Kenton, a down-at-heel freelance journalist who loses money gambling and takes the train to Vienna to borrow money from a man he knows, Rosen, a Jew he helped escape Germany after the Nazis came to power. He is befriended by a shifty foreigner, Sachs, who asks him to carry a package through the customs on the Austrian border and who seems to be being followed on the train. When they arrive at Linz Sachs ups the stakes by asking him to carry the envelope all the way to a certain hotel, to come & meet him there tonight. Completely skint, Kenton agrees for a price of 600 Marks.
When he arrives at the very run-down hotel to hand over the envelope he finds Sachs murdered. He goes through his pockets and takes his wallet, just as someone comes up the stairs. Kenton escapes out the back, bumping into one of the gang searching for him, but gets away.
Sachs is, of course, Borovansky and Kenton has found himself in possession of military plans which could alter the course of Europe’s history. Worse, a warrant, a reward and newspaper stories are circulated naming him as the murderer. Thus he finds himself on the run from the police while being chased, shot at, kidnapped and beaten up etc by hard men from both sides…
The world is run by Big Business
is Ambler’s credo. We civilians are the pawns in their game and even politicians just dance to the tune of bankers, financiers, big businessmen. It is a surprisingly left-wing view, unusual in a thriller writer, most of whom are conservative types.
It was difficult, Kenton had found, to spend any length of time in the arena of foreign politics without perceiving that political ideologies had very little to do with the ebb and flow of international relations. It was the power of Business, not the deliberations of statesmen, that shaped the destinies of nations. The Foreign Ministers of the great powers might make the actual declarations of their Governments’ policies; but it was the Big Business men, the bankers and their dependents, the arms manufacturers, the oil companies, the big industrialists, who determined what those policies should be. Big Business asked the questions that it wanted to ask when and how it suited it. Big Business also provided the answers. Rome might declare herself sympathetic to a Hapsburg restoration; France might oppose it. A few months later the situation might be completely reversed. For those few members of the public who had long memories and were not sick to death of the whole incomprehensible farce there would always be many ingenious explanations of the volte face – many explanations, but not the correct one. For that one might have to inquire into banking transactions in London, Paris and New York with the eye of a chartered accountant, the brain of an economist, the tongue of a prosecuting attorney and the patience of Job. One would have, perhaps, to note an increase in the Hungarian bank rate, an ‘ear-marking’ of gold in Amsterdam, and a restriction of credit facilities in the Middle-West of America. One would have to grope through the fog of technical mumbo-jumbo with which international business surrounds its operations and examine them in all their ghastly simplicity. Then one would perhaps die of old age. The Big Business man was only one player in the game of international politics, but he was the player who made all the rules. (p.126-7)
Of a piece with this is the surprising way that Kenton is rescued and helped all along the line by the sympathetic brother and sister team of Andreas and Tamara Zaleshoff, who are Russian or KGB agents! It is less than ten years before the Cold War starts and Russians, and especially their spy agency, become seen as sons of Satan. But this is the Thirties and Ambler takes quite a left-wing anti-capitalist line, reminiscent of Bertolt Brecht in the way he equates capitalism with the violence of Chicago gangsters.
‘They say that persons like Al Capone and John Dillinger are products of America’s corrupt administration and clumsy law-making. Saridza and his kind must be the products of the world business system. The principal difference between Al Capone and Stefan Saridza is that while Capone worked for himself, Saridza works for other people. When Capone ordered his hoodlums to machine-gun a couple of men on a side-walk from an armour-plated coupé, it was to maintain or increase his own income. When Saridza ordered that Captain to beat you with a Totshläger until you gave him some photographs, it was to increase the income of what he called his principals in London – gentleman who would, in all probability, hesitate before they swatted a fly. You see, your business man desires the end, but dislike the means. He is a kind-hearted man. He likes an easy conscience. He likes to think that the people he exploits are please and happy to be exploited. He likes to sit in his offce and deal honestly with other business men. That is why Saridza is necessary. For at some point or other in the amazingly complicated business structure of the world, there is always dirty work to be done. It may be simple bribery, it may be the manipulation of public opinion by means of incidents, rumours or scandals, it may even be an affair of assassination – but whatever it is, Saridza and his kind are there to do it, with large fees in their pockets and the most evasive instructions imaginable…’ (p.180)
Admittedly, this is a speech given by the Russian agent Zaleshoff so could be dismissed as dramatically appropriate – except that the entire plot bears it out, as the principals of a big oil company go to any length, even provoking a war in Europe, to get their hands on richer oil fields and so increase their profits.
Luckily all this of purely historic interest and wars about oil couldn’t possibly happen in our enlightened times.
In his autobiography Ambler says his working title was Background to Danger but his publisher disliked the word ‘background’, so that in all English-speaking countries except the US, it was published as Uncommon Danger. (p.127)
The novel was made into a film using the US title, Background to Danger, released in 1943. It was directed by Raoul Walsh and starred George Raft as the protagonist (renamed Joe Barton), Sydney Greenstreet as the antagonist, Colonel Robinson, and Peter Lorre as Zaleshoff. Ambler wasn’t happy with many of the movie adaptations of his novels. In his autobiography he records that watching this one made him feel ‘very queasy’ (Here Lies, p.224).
Uncommon Danger on Amazon
Background To Danger (movie) on Amazon
Eric Ambler Wikipedia article
New Statesman article about Ambler’s politics
Dangerous Games: Thomas Jones Guardian review of Ambler’s career
Uncommonly Dangerous: Eric Ambler adaptations on TV
Cover of Uncommon Danger
Eric Ambler’s novels
The Dark Frontier (1936) British scientist gets caught up in a revolution in an East European country while trying to find and destroy the secret of the first atomic bomb. Over-the-top parody.
Uncommon Danger (1937) British journalist Kenton gets mixed up with the smuggling of Russian plans to invade Romania and seize its oil, in which the Russian or KGB agent Zaleshoff is the good guy against a freelance agent, Saridza, working for an unscrupulous western oil company. Cartoony.
Epitaph for a Spy (1938) Hungarian refugee and language teacher Josef Vadassy, on holiday in the south of France, is wrongfully accused of being a spy and is given three days by the police to help them find the real agent among a small group of eccentric hotel guests. Country house murder.
Cause for Alarm (1938) Engineer Nick Marlow is hired to run the Milan office of a British engineering company which is supplying the Italian government with munitions equipment, only to be plunged into a world of espionage, counter-espionage, and then forced to go on the run from the sinister Italian Gestapo, aided by Zaleshoff, the KGB agent from Danger. Persuasive.
The Mask of Dimitrios (1939) Detective writer Charles Latimer sets out on a quest to find the true story behind the dead gangster, Dimitrios Makropoulos, whose dossier he is shown by the head of Istanbul police, discovering more than he bargained for in the process.
Journey into Fear (1940) The war has begun and our enemies have hired an assassin to kill Mr Graham, the English engineer who is helping to upgrade the Turkish fleet. The head of Turkish security gets Graham a berth on a steamer heading to Italy but the enemy agent has followed him. Possibly the best of the six.
Judgment on Deltchev (1952) Playwright Foster is sent by a newspaper to report on the show trial of a fallen politician, Deltchev, in an unnamed East European country, and gets caught up in a sinister and far-reaching conspiracy.
The Schirmer Inheritance (1953) Young American lawyer George Carey is tasked with finding relatives who may be eligible to receive the large inheritance of an old lady who died without heirs. Because she comes of immigrant stock the task takes him on a tour of European archives – in Paris, Cologne, Geneva, Athens, Salonika – where he discovers the legacy of the Nazis lingering on into the murky world of post-War Greek politics.
The Night-Comers (1956) Engineer Steve Fraser is preparing to leave the newly independent Dutch colony of Sunda after a three-year project when he and his Eurasian girlfriend get caught up in a military coup. Trapped by the rebels in their apartment because it is in the same building as the strategically-important radio station, they witness at first hand the machinations of the plotters and slowly realise that all is not what it seems.
Passage of Arms (1959) An American couple on a Far East cruise, naively agree to front what appears to be a small and simple, one-off gun-smuggling operation, but end up getting into serious trouble. A thorough and persuasive and surprisingly light-hearted fiction, the least spy-ish and maybe the best Ambler novel so far.
The Light of Day (1962) Small-time con man Arthur Simpson gets caught up in a plan by professional thieves to steal jewels from the famous Seraglio Museum in Istanbul, all the time acting as an inside man for the Turkish authorities. An enjoyable comedy-thriller.
A Kind of Anger (1964) Journalist Piet Maas is tasked with tracking down a beautiful woman who is the only witness to the murder of an exiled Iraqi colonel in a remote villa in Switzerland, and finds himself lured into a dangerous game of selling information about a political conspiracy to the highest bidder.
Dirty Story (1967) Forced to flee Greece in a hurry when a porn movie project goes bad, shabby con man Arthur Simpson (who we first met in The Light of Day) takes ship through Suez to the East Coast of Africa, where he finds himself enrolled as a mercenary in a small war about mineral rights.
The Intercom Conspiracy (1969) Two East European intelligence chiefs conceive a money-making scam. They buy a tiny Swiss magazine and start publishing genuine intelligence reports, which publicise American, Soviet, British and NATO secrets. All those countries’ security forces fall over themselves to discover the source of the leaks and, after ineffectually threatening the hapless editor of the magazine, buy it from the colonels for a cool $500,000 in order to promptly shyut it down. Another amusing comedy-thriller.
The Levanter (1972) Middle Eastern industrialist Michael Howell is forced much against his will to collaborate with a Palestinian terror group planning a major atrocity, while he and his mistress frantically try to find a way out of his plight.
Doctor Frigo (1974) Latino doctor Ernesto Castillo is ‘persuaded’ by French security agents to become physician to political exiles from his Latin American homeland who are planning a coup, and struggles hard to maintain his professional standards and pride in light of some nasty revelations. A very enjoyable comedy thriller.
Send No More Roses (1977) Paul Firman narrates this strangely frustrating account of his meeting at the Villa Lipp with an academic obsessed with exposing him as the head of a multinational tax avoidance and blackmailing operation until – apparently – his boss intervenes to try and ‘liquidate’ them all, in a half-hearted attempt which completely fails, and leaves Firman in the last pages, on a Caribbean island putting the finishing touches to this narrative, designed to rebut the professor’s damning (and largely fictional) account of his criminal activities. What?
The Care of Time (1981) – Ex-CIA agent-turned-writer, Robert Halliday, finds himself chosen by a shadowy Middle Eastern fixer to help out with a very elaborate scam involving a mad Arab sheikh, an underground bunker, germ warfare experiments and a fake TV interview. Typically complex, typically odd.
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Thread: the wound of the beast
Feb 24th 2018, 05:19 PM #31
randyk
Pacific NW, USA
Re: the wound of the beast
Originally Posted by divaD
I haven't thought about it because I'm apparently not grasping what you are getting at. I have no idea what you mean here. Take prophecies in the OT about Christ, for example. Clearly Christ wouldn't even be here physically until well beyond their day and time. Using an example like this, can you show me how that would have been significant for those who wouldn't even be alive to witness the first coming, let alone the 2nd coming?
Yes, this is a very big subject with me, the idea that prophecies are given to the present generation *for* the present generation.
You might argue, however, that future prophecies, by their very nature, are *not* for the then-current generation, but rather for future generations! This idea is expressed in 1 Peter:
1 Peter 1.10 Concerning this salvation, the prophets, who spoke of the grace that was to come to you, searched intently and with the greatest care, 11 trying to find out the time and circumstances to which the Spirit of Christ in them was pointing when he predicted the sufferings of the Messiah and the glories that would follow. 12 It was revealed to them that they were not serving themselves but you, when they spoke of the things that have now been told you by those who have preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven. Even angels long to look into these things.
But many of the Messianic prophecies did have value for the then current generation in which these prophecies were given, even if the whole picture was not yet clear.
For example, there is this:
1 Cor 10.11 These things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us, on whom the culmination of the ages has come.
Here we have Israel going through the Wilderness as an example for *us!* But wasn't it for the then-current generation, as well?
It's clear to me that what happened in the above passage was not *just for us* in the latter times, but also had application in the time in which they took place.
And this is how I see much of OT Prophecy, as an actual historical application, as well as a future fulfillment. As such, there were Messianic Prophecies that had value in the time they were given, even if the details of Jesus' birth, life, and death were not yet disclosed.
Sometimes, when you read prophecies in the OT Scriptures of Jesus' Coming, it's difficult to tell if it's about the 1st Coming or the 2nd Coming? Sometimes they are mixed together. And that's because these prophecies are not an attempt to give the historical description itself, but only the spiritual lesson, with very few historical details.
As to the deadly wound in Revelation 13, how could that possibly be applicable to anyone 2000 years ago if this deadly wound is still yet to be healed?
If the beast that was, and is not, and yet is, is meaning the Roman empire, that would have to mean when John received and wrote the visions, at that present time the Roman empire was in the past but not in the present, and will be revived in the future. Marty's view is that Revelation was written prior to 70 AD. For the sake of argument, let's say we agree with that conclusion. That conclusion can't fit the text then, because in John's day, who or whatever is meant by the beast, it's not existing in the present, but instead is in the bottomless pit, apparently.
Yes, this is one of the most difficult prophecies in Scriptures! And I don't claim to have it down. I'm just saying that there is this general principle in Biblical Prophecy in which future prophecy has to have a current relevance. Otherwise, it is just sensationalistic-style speculation.
Much of what we do here on Endtimes is this kind of future speculation, without much of an emphasis on current spiritual values. The Scriptures did not do this when giving Prophecy. Instead, it provided current relevance, as well as future relevance. The current relevance largely consisted of present spiritual applications.
To illustrate this in depth would require a much longer post, and I don't wish to bore anybody. Let me just apply this briefly in the current example. We both agree there will be a future Antichrist. But in talking about a future Antichrist the Apostle John said that this prophecy has current spiritual value because *there are already many antichrists active in our world!* In other words, prophecy of a future Antichrist is designed to help us now, with current antichrists. This is not just speculation about a future Antichrist which has absolutely no value in the current generation!
When John spoke of a great persecution that comes at the hands of Antichrist he was aware that Christians were already suffering under imperial Rome. There was relevance to the current Church in the sense that they were being encouraged to endure, just as a future generation of Christians would have to endure the Antichrist. I trust you understand?
Originally Posted by randyk
Sorry, but this is where you are plainly wrong.
The general principle of Bible prophecy is that WITHIN the prophecy there is cohesion.
Sensationalistic-style speculation is usually created by linking passages which may or may not have any connection at all.
The hardest prophecy I have ever encountered is one that is explained in Matthew 1:22 & 23 which is quoting from Isaiah 7:14.
All this took place to fulfil what the Lord had spoken by the prophet:
“Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall call his name Immanuel” (which means, God with us).
From Isaiah 7:10 - 17
10 Again the Lord spoke to Ahaz, 11 “Ask a sign of the Lord your[f] God; let it be deep as Sheol or high as heaven.” 12 But Ahaz said, “I will not ask, and I will not put the Lord to the test.” 13 And he[g] said, “Hear then, O house of David! Is it too little for you to weary men, that you weary my God also? 14 Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.[h] 15 He shall eat curds and honey when he knows how to refuse the evil and choose the good. 16 For before the boy knows how to refuse the evil and choose the good, the land whose two kings you dread will be deserted. 17 The Lord will bring upon you and upon your people and upon your father's house such days as have not come since the day that Ephraim departed from Judah—the king of Assyria.”
Contextually there is nothing in this passage which speaks of a coming Messiah, except within the name Immanuel. For Isaiah and Ahaz it was about the coming destruction of Israel.
I personally can't find a Biblical principal which would cause me to see this passage as being a prophecy of the Messiah.
However Matthew has that it is about this thing.
Perhaps it is not as a prophecy, though Matthew's wording does suggest this.
Most other prophecies actually DO have a meaning which is ONLY found in the future and for the present hearers was beyond understanding as to what is meant.
For example Daniel 7 was basically meaningless. It speaks of the next kingdoms UNTIL the Messiah's kingdom is established and given to the saints.
Possibly they would get the first kingdom as the Persians under Cyrus, however after that...
It is because Biblical prophecy is NOT about the present generation alone, or even mainly about the present generation, that it is worth understanding, but requires maturity.
When Jesus spoke about the temple being destroyed, many of the disciples were dead. Those who had heard Him preach in the temple were dead. It was for a future generation.
It made sense, but only in a limited way.
Those however who were to live through it, saw and understood.
This was true of the prophecies of the time when the Messiah Jesus was to come. Many did not get it, and even living through it were not sure.
Feb 25th 2018, 03:29 AM #33
ewq1938
Originally Posted by ross3421
In John's day God received a mortal head wound.......... Jesus.
No, Jesus never received a deadly wound to the head which he healed from.
James 4:10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.
The point of the prophecy, in the Olivet Discourse, was not that *every last soul* would still be alive when Jerusalem was destroyed. Rather, it was that *some* would still be alive, because this was a judgment upon *that generation.* It was the society that had gone apostate and which had destroyed their Christ that would receive God's sign of great displeasure. They would see the destruction of all that their religion represented--final judgment. Judaism, for all intents and purposes, was dead as an acceptable religion before God.
Judaism would, of course, continue. But it would never again obtain God's good pleasure. Regardless, the purpose for which it had been born was fulfilled. Messiah came and became a greater sacrifice, beyond the Law of Moses, doing what the Law itself could not do and what it indicated had to be done through another law.
I don't have a huge issue with the prophecy of the virgin. Some say the original word was "virgin," and some say it is just "young girl," as some versions have. All we know is that this birth from a young girl is somehow connected to both the judgment and deliverance of Israel, and that's what makes this a "sign."
In other words, it is not so much that this birth is from a virgin as it will become identified with Israel's judgment and deliverance. Not only so, but this birth would not be believed in, just as Ahaz himself refused to accept a sign of Israel's judgment and deliverance.
I believe that much of prophecy in Scriptures is typological, or symbolic. Much that took place, by divine guidance, formed an historical portrait of Jesus and what he would accomplish. The word of God guided the saints of old to live in such a way that they depicted the coming Messiah, who was, in fact, the Word of God.
So, the way all of the saints lived, whether Joseph or David, exhibited the traits and future history of Jesus in some way. This is prophecy. And even details, like giving birth to a son through a young woman, indicates, through the prophet, that Jesus would be born of a young woman, in the peculiar circumstances surrounding Israel's judgment and the irreligiosity of Jewish leadership.
But again, if you read throughout the Prophets, future prophecies were often couched in then-current realities. Any time you see the Messiah appear in prophecy, there is a reflection back to the time in which the prophet lived. Even prophecies of the far distant future were given in the technology of the time, and in the covenant of the time, which was the Law. It never meant that the future realities would have to stick to either that covenant or that technology.
If you look at the Olivet Discourse Jesus' burden is on the then-current generation, which would see great judgment from God against the Jewish People. The disciples' mission was to warn the Jewish People, to hopefullly get them to repent. The purpose of this prophecy, therefore, was not to speculate about when Christ would come again, as we do today. Rather, it was to get men to repent of sins that were bringing about this imminent destruction. Prophecy was not a game. It was an urgent need!
Let's also not forget the only ONE of the heads was wounded. The beast himself was not killed.
Exactly. But the wording also implies the beast itself is wounded, not just one of the seven. What is the beast? The Bible variously describes the beast as:
The fourth kingdom Rome
The final ten horns stage of the fourth kingdom
The Antichrist/little horn at the end
Because the last two are associated with the 8th kingdom , NOT the seven heads, we are left with only two heads left that can associate with Rome:
5 were and one is, and one to come. Who are these two heads?
Daniel 2 describes Rome in three stages:
Legs of iron (Roman Empire)
Two feet iron/clay - divided Rome
Ten toes (ten horns)
So it is pretty obvious that it is the 6th empire, the Roman Empire that is wounded, when it is split into two. The 7th empire is wounded/split Rome
That is why Israel fits. Sure Rome is the beast, but Rome has three stages as per Daniel 2:
Two feet- divided Rome (we are in this stage)
Unified ten toes Rome with the new Roman leader - Antichrist coming to power in a new location.... Jerusalem
Thus Israel and the ten horns is the final stage of Rome. Where Roman power manifests in a huge display in Jerusalem supported by the two cities of Rome, Istanbul (Islam) and Rome (false Christianity)
ross3421
The Beast is Satan and his kingdom. No earthly kingdoms previously on the world.
3 And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads.
13 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.
Originally Posted by ewq1938
Jesus did die. Could not the resurrection be the "healing"
Nope, it wasn't even that any of the people alive at that time would be alive when it happened.
The KEY point, which you are dodging is that the listeners, who heard what Jesus said were NOT alive.
Therefore it means your claim that Biblical prophecy is for those who are alive at the time is WRONG.
This is true for many prophecies.
I don't have a huge issue with the prophecy of the virgin. Some say the original word was "virgin," and some say it is just "young girl," as some versions have. All we know is that this birth from a young girl is connected to the element of God judging Israel, that makes this a "sign." And that means it is Messianic. So when Jesus was born from a virgin, that indicated it was the fulfillment of this prophetic design in Isaiah, indicating Israel would be judged. And just as Ahaz refused the sign, so Israel rejected the sign of Jesus' virgin birth.
So because it is a sign and because it involves judgement so it is Messianic? Weird tortuous connection.
Ahaz refused to ask for a sign, so God said you would be given one, which included in it the fact it would occur while Ahaz was alive.
Revelation Man
Clanton Alabama
The point of the prophecy,
The point of prophecy at all times is edification. Firstly it was to build Israel's faith. Now it serves to build up the Church's faith.
1 Cor. 14:2 For he that speaketh in an unknown tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God: for no man understandeth him; howbeit in the spirit he speaketh mysteries. 3 But he that prophesieth speaketh unto men to edification, and exhortation, and comfort. 4 He that speaketh in an unknown tongue edifieth himself; but he that prophesieth edifieth the church.
Each in turn furthers and glorifies the name of God and edifies Him in the end.
Moses prophesied each plague that came upon Egypt. God could have just caused all Egyptians to die if He had wanted to, but by Moses prophesying each event it was supposed to edify Moses and show him to be a Man of God, and hopefully they would thus respect Moses position and Honor God by obeying Him. But of course men's eyes are always on worldly things and they instead worshiped the Golden Calf.
I'm not dodging anything. As I said, people *were* still alive in 70 AD! The 70 AD judgment took place in the *very generation* that rejected Jesus! How on earth you can think I'm dodging something when this is the truth is beyond me?
The very families alive when Jesus pronounced judgment were *still alive* when 70 AD took place! I don't care if they were 80 years old, or 40 years old--these were the very families that were alive when Jesus pronounced judgment against them. This was judgment directly against those who had rejected him as Messiah!
40 years after Jesus died people were still alive! Please recall who was alive 40 years after the generation perished in the wilderness of Sinai! Caleb and Joshua were still alive! They entered into the Promised Land. This is the reverse of that. Those still surviving after 40 years either died or fled!
Keep in mind this prophecy of Jesus is not that *all will be alive* who is alive at the time he made this prophecy! Rather, it is that not all will be dead before this prophecy is fulfilled! In other words, this is likely at the end of the period of this particular generation, rather than at the beginning.
"This generation will not *pass away* before this takes place." In other words, some of this generation will already be passed away. But some will remain and cannot all die before this happens. It will kind of stamp the end of that generation with "failure." It will become the end legacy of that particular generation, just before it is finished. Jewish religion, and the temple itself, will be finished.
No, I kind of made my argument poorly. Let me try again. I'm saying that the young woman giving birth is not clearly indicated to be a virgin birth--just that it will somehow be a sign. The fact it was a virgin birth was made manifest only when the actual event took place, ie when Jesus was actually born of a virgin.
So what Isaiah predicted was not so much a *virgin birth* as a noteworthy birth that would somehow be connected both with Israel's judgment and Israel's deliverance. The Southern Kingdom of Judah was delivered, and the Northern Kingdom of Israel was judged.
In the same way, the Messiah would come and deliver sinful Israel through this Messiah in some way. How this would be is not made clear by Isaiah. We only know after the fact, when Matthew declares it, that the Messiah would deliver Israel by "saving them from their sins!"
I rewrote what I said in the previous post to make it more clear. I said:
"I don't have a huge issue with the prophecy of the virgin. Some say the original word was "virgin," and some say it is just "young girl," as some versions have. All we know is that this birth from a young girl is somehow connected to both the judgment and deliverance of Israel, and that's what makes this a "sign."
In other words, it is not so much that this birth is from a virgin as it will become identified with Israel's judgment and deliverance. Not only so, but this birth would not be believed in, just as Ahaz himself refused to accept a sign of Israel's judgment and deliverance."
It may be not so much that it was predicted Jesus would be born of a virgin, but that Jesus would be associated with the judgment and deliverance of Israel, accompanied by Jewish disbelief. The miraculous virgin birth may not be the factor that is being predicted, but that it will somehow be a sign that is not wanted and yet brings about the deliverance of Israel from their sins.
Jesus did die.
From a head wound ?
C'mon.......think.
The wound was to one of it's heads does not mean it is a "head" on your shoulders wound. Each head represents an entity. in which one of the seven had a mortal wound.
Now to go deeper which I always do but few understand if any........so which head is it?
First you need to understand the 7 heads are NOT some previous earthly king or kingdom. They are part of the beast himself. The four beast which are also part of the beast kingdom contains 7 heads. The first head of the 7 (Lion) receives this mortal wound but comes back as the 8th head.
Lion = head 1
bear = head 2
Leopard = head 3,4,5,6,
Beast = head 7
little horn - head 8
4 The first was like a lion, and had eagle's wings: I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made stand upon the feet as a man, and a man's heart was given to it.
The lion (1 of the 7 heads) eagles wings plucked represents the wound and then we see it returns note from the earth to be a man (little horn)
Rev 13
2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.
Notice the Lion is now mentioned last and it has a mouth ie a man . The mouth of the man is the second beast from "earth" ie a man.
So this little horn now the 8th head "yet is" will be on the earth for 3.5 years. After he conquers the enemy saints (note to the world they are unbelievers) and the 1260 days he commits AOD and then God's wrath pursues until day 1335.
Each head represents an entity.
If were going to start thinking then Rev 17 says the heads are mountains not entities as you claim. That makes you wrong already not to mention you think the first beast wounded in one head is somehow Jesus. That's easily an unscriptural exegesis.
Where do I say the first head above is Jesus? Note like Jesus, Satan will appear as a Lion then return as a Lamb (Rev 13).
Yes there 7 mountains but also next verse 7 kings. So each mountain one king. How could a mountain receive a mortal wound?
Deeper again. Think. What do the 7 mountains represent?
Well what other 7 have we seen in revelation? How about 7 churches????
Thus we see Babylon built upon 7 churches (mountains). The congregation of these churches represent all those who did not overcome and have the mark of the beast. Assigned to each church is a king in power. We see 5 of the seven have fallen (loss power) and at the time John is seeing the sixth but shortly we see the 8th which is of the seven and will hold power.
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Ep. 22 – “My Injury is Forever and a Lifetime” | Kimberly Turbin
by Cristen Pascucci | Aug 30, 2018 | Birth Allowed Radio | 0 comments
Kimberly Turbin made headlines and history when she sued her doctor for assault when he gave her a medically unnecessary and botched episiotomy during the birth of her child. The case was resolved in 2017, but Kimberly is still dealing with the effects of the assault. In this episode, Kimberly recounts not only her experience, but the aftermath of the trauma she experienced in 2013.
“I posted the video just to see if I was crazy or not.”
The video of the birth, posted to YouTube, ended up connecting Kimberly to a community of people who have supported her, and who she has supported, with the continuing process of her trauma. Her medical diagnoses, which included vulvar spasms, dyspareunia, vulvodynia and Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, still cause considerable pain. Unfortunately, the drugs that help the condition are both expensive and make it hard to parent or work.
“My injury is forever and a lifetime.”
In the medical community and beyond, there’s a tendency to disbelieve women’s pain. When Kimberly tries to warn medical professionals that she has been through both sexual assault and birth assault, they tend to feel attacked instead of sympathetic.
It has changed the way she interacts with the medical community – even eye doctors – and it has also affected the way she parents.
But Kimberly doesn’t want anyone else to feel pressure to respond to birth trauma the way she did. The process was and is challenging; the fact that the lawsuit was resolved does not mean the trauma is resolved.
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On Our Minds
PHILIP GROSS
Mission Engineer at Archai and Co-Founder of Axonalliance, a business model innovation company
Community of Gifted Minds: Variety Is the Force27 min read
Dec 20, 2018 | Collective Intelligence
“Obi Takes BA-253 to Meet Everyone” by Robert McGoldrick is licensed under CC BY-ND 2.0, Obi-Wan Kenobi, BA-253, and other creatures presented in image are characters from the Star Wars franchise owned by Lucasfilm Ltd., Lego minifigures are manufactured by The LEGO Group / Original background replaced by polka dot pattern
This is about you and everybody else. This is about the individuals that can—collectively—unleash a force so powerful that it will uplift us to conquering even the most intricate problems.
You are the one that can come up with unique ideas. You are the one that is capable of making the unforeseeable association. You are the one that can avail of unparalleled imagination. And you are the one that has the power to make a difference in sustaining the beauty of our Earth for future generations and to making the planet a secure and healthy habitat for all living creatures. We need all of you. We need variety.
You do not believe us? You think that you must be outstandingly smart to contribute to such a bold mission? Let us assure you that this is not the case. Of course, you can be one of those rare fellows that just happens to master that game of thinking much better than anybody else. And we definitely need the elite of intelligentsia too to make for an Enjoyable Planet Earth the way we intend to. But we, who have come up with the ideas that eventually were melded into Archai, are not particularly smart. You could even say that the very fact that we were foolish enough to initiate such an organization points to our average cognitive abilities. In fact, we are just regularly talented people that like being playful with their thoughts and that are aware of the responsibility each one of us (meaning all of humanity) bears—that is the responsibility of actively making planet Earth an enjoyable place to live. You are not supposed to spend your life on the sideline. So what you need is playfulness and a sense for your personal responsibility.
“The Force is not a power you have. It’s not about lifting rocks. It’s the energy between all things, a tension, a balance that binds the universe together.” (Luke Skywalker in Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi)
Two Forces Melded into One—Think of Electromagnetism
The one ultimate building block for any knowledge-centered venture relying on the effort of a collective is the vast number of people participating. We call this collective of individuals, working groups, and other organizational entities the Community of Gifted Minds.
Consequently, the Community of Gifted Minds is the flesh and blood of Archai. They are the ones that make our mission happen, while other organizational bodies like the Managerial Corps and the Board of Governors are assigned to support duties. These more conventional bodies must arrange for the most fertile grounds for our research and deployment efforts to grow strongly, while the Community of Gifted Minds is the force that powers all advancement. Essentially, all the research to be done—both fundamental and applied—and all the trouble to be embraced to transition from scientific insight to full‑scale deployment relies on the Community.
(Just in case you wondered why the Managerial Corps and the Board of Governors are not hyperlinked: We are still developing the content that will describe these bodies’ role and duties. Also, their respective members are being recruited presently.)
The force comes with two facets that act upon each other in a reciprocative manner. But it is still one force. Just think of how the electric field and the magnetic field interact with one another to create the electromagnetic force. That is, the Community of Gifted Minds is comprised of the Band of Mavericks, a most diverse and enormous crowd of individuals, and the Faculty, a small group of fully employed contributors coming from a variety of professional disciplines and educational backgrounds.
If you combinate the creative vibrations exerted by each of these two groups of individuals following the metaphoric example of the electric and the magnetic field, you can, we believe, propagate an enormous amount of fertile energy—the underlying field forces being the variety of cognitive abilities inherent to these individuals.
“Electromagnetic Wave Propagation” via Math Stackexchange
The Band of Mavericks
Making for the Intellectual Vibrancy
The Band of Mavericks is the large mass of collective intelligence workers acting from a broad spectrum of talents and passions and contributing to the intellectual and practical versatility required for Archai to be a success. If you came here with the intention to explore how you can play a part in the build-up of Archai while not being fully employed, most likely the Band of Mavericks is the workspace you have been looking for.
Formats building on collecting and converging knowledge to generate new things (such as Linux or Foldit) have long realized that only a very forceful attack will serve the purpose when the challenge is huge and at times scattered. They have proven outstandingly versed in perpetuating that force by engaging a congenial yet diversified network of contributors that aim for more than mere participation in a narrow field of study or simply the next product to be developed. The Band of Mavericks makes for the intellectual vibrancy and critical density of Archai’s open science network.
Acting as individuals or small working groups, we call upon the “gazillion” of gifted minds out there to get involved and allow for the bold leap in climate change research and deployment needed now.
Bellow, you find an outline on the archetypal individuals that may populate the Band of Mavericks. Of course, you do not need to match one of these models perfectly to be part of the game. The following descriptions, therefore, are intended merely to give you a feeling of what we are looking for in the Band’s members.
Bright Wizards: Integrate the “Outlaws”
As a Bright Wizard, you have developed (or received as a gift from nature) an unparalleled mastery in a unique field of informal knowledge, mental ability, or artistry without necessarily being affiliated to a top-notch research institution (although you may, of course, be so).
Other than working from intellectual or artisanal seclusion, the origin of a bright wizard cannot and should not be specified any further (e.g., with regard to an academic or corporate affiliation), because any precept must not undermine the strong commitment to integrating this “outlaw” type of contributor before all others.
Let Archai help you turn your mastery into something of enormous impact.
As a Bright Wizard equipped with a unique gift, you may be:
an undefeated emperor in the strategy game Civilization;
a maker of divine violins probing into the secrets of making varnish;
a Medicus with inborn diagnostic prowess on a journey eastwards;
a little girl who talks to Africa’s wild animals; or
a painter of recursive patterns that evoke visual illusions.
As a Bright Wizard adhering to our Beliefs, you must be able to:
stay true to the fundamentals of your talent (Essentiality);
connect to the larger patterns that give rise to reality (Holism);
imagine a world beyond your intellectual seclusion (Openness);
step out of your world from time to time and enjoy the craziness of the jungle out there (Playfulness); and
see and accept your limits (Responsibility).
As a Bright Wizard who comes to be engaged with the Band of Mavericks, you should be willing to:
integrate your knowledge and expertise into a larger context (e.g., you should instinctively see where your unique ability might complement the research endeavor);
communicate understandably and let others know how you might advance an entire initiative, a single study, or just a specific line of thought; and
refine your knowledge and expertise when needed to serve a particular purpose.
As a Bright Wizard contributing to Archai, you will gain along the way:
access to a community of like-minded wizards;
respect for your unique talents; and
opportunities to further develop and enrich your knowledge and expertise.
Science Nerds: Cherish the Geeks
As a Science Nerd, you have attained an exceptionally deep level of formal understanding in a discipline of the fundamental sciences or artistry.
The Science Nerds we are looking for originate typically from one or more of the universities that belong to a select group of academic avant-garde institutions. They have been educated formally, and their characters have been formed such as to guide their intellect unwaveringly.
Sheldon Cooper is a fictional character in the CBS television series The Big Bang Theory. Being a stereotypical “geek,” he is usually characterized as being extremely intelligent (he claims that his IQ cannot be accurately measured by normal tests), detail-oriented, eccentric, and occasionally disturbing.
“Sheldon Lee Cooper, Ph.D., Sc.D.” by Mordi Levi via Behance is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0 / Cropped from original
Let Archai support you in locking into the research process at the exact place where your special expertise is required.
As a Science Nerd building on in-depth knowledge, you may be:
a pretentious graduate student at a notable university’s math department;
a highly reclusive physicist climbing trees in your free time;
an eminent yet “unchallenged” researcher at a large pharmaceutical company;
a highly cared-for computer science talent working at a progressive tech company; or
a solid university researcher athirst to reveal the full spectrum of your abilities to the world;.
As a Science Nerd adhering to our Beliefs, you must be able to:
gain new insights by boldly building on your own ideas (Essentiality);
cross the boundaries of your specialized field (Holism);
allow for the unconventional to interrupt your research plan (Openness);
do the “un-professorial” experiment (Playfulness); and
come forth with your fruitless or even absurd results (Responsibility).
As a Science Nerd who comes to be engaged with the Band of Mavericks, you should be willing to:
devote some of your time to selected research projects that may be detached from the projects you do for your home institutions;
immerse yourself in research domains that do not precisely match your core area of interest; and
connect with fellow researchers and artists and work productively with people from distant fields of expertise and with informally educated co-workers.
As a Science Nerd contributing to Archai, you will gain along the way:
satisfaction in seeing your knowledge and expertise having an impact;
visibility within a broader scientific community; and
insights (and co-authors) that may help spur your publication success.
Engineers and Technologists: Let the Craftsmen Make an Impact
As an Engineer or Technologist, you know what it takes to scale scientific insights to real-world applications. You are an academic, a discoverer, an inventor, and an entrepreneur all at once. As such, you have an infallible sense for what will work and what will not.
The Engineers and Technologists we are looking for are currently engaged with the most progressive and powerful industrial companies or high-tech firms, but may be impelled by the wish to create more impact than their employers’ corporate formalism allows for.
Let Archai back you in designing the entire research and development process with a large-scale deployment of impactful systems in mind.
As an Engineer or Technologist building on your true talents, you may be:
the guy everyone calls for when things start going south with that new drive train;
the kid who likes retrofitting a skateboard with rocket engines for hitting that vert-ramp really hard (maybe you even do the skating yourself);
the chief engineer planning for a hydropower plant to be built into a sensitive ecosystem;
a principal technician installing cryostats in the tunnel of a particle accelerator; or
a cosmologist in charge of designing systems that probe the universe for evidence of extraterrestrial life.
As an Engineer or Technologist adhering to our Beliefs, you must be able to:
come up with entirely new solutions that feed on fundamental truths (Essentiality);
make sure that the applications you design integrate into the broader context at the systems level (Holism);
accept deviations from the art of engineering to adapt to economic, political, or other social forces (Openness);
see the funny side of a collapsing construction (Playfulness); and
intervene decisively if you see deployability at risk (Responsibility).
As an Engineer or Technologist who comes to be engaged with the Band of Mavericks, you should be willing to:
continually motivate, pull, engage, convince, or enchant your scientist and artist counterparts into delivering deployable outcomes rather than intellectual secretions;
connect with the engineering folks who oversee development, system design, construction, installation, and commissioning of the most eminent technology corporations worldwide; and
learn how to use instrumentation and tools that you currently may not work with or that you may be uncomfortable working with at the beginning.
As an Engineer or Technologist contributing to Archai, you will gain along the way:
pleasure from collaborating with a diverse team of the world’s finest experts;
respect from your grandchildren for your personal contribution to keeping Earth an enjoyable place; and
access to formerly unknown engineering skills and expertise.
Protagonists of the Applied Sciences: Deploy Practitioners to Build Bridges
As a Protagonist of the Applied Sciences, you know how to connect the dots and work at the intersection of a variety of scholarly disciplines. Even though you are declared a specialist (and that declaration may connote very narrow expertise), it is the unique amalgamation of a whole range of raw knowledge fields combined with a sense of practicality that makes your specialization, rather than the narrow focus. You are the one to enforce those symbiotic relationships that will ultimately be needed to build the bridges that connect fundamental knowledge with engineered products.
The Protagonists we are looking for typically stem from the applied sciences or from one of those disciplines close to where climate change research or research aimed at providing some mitigation countermeasure to the problem is conducted today.
Let Archai build upon your ideas for how a broad variety of knowledge fields has to be linked together. Make use of our crowd-fueled reasoning power to improve whatever your best attempt at a solution has been so far.
As a Protagonist of the Applied Sciences connecting the dots, you may be:
a lead academic providing coherence within a working group of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC);
a professor and enthusiastic teacher of applied sciences at a university;
the chief scientist of a company that churns out early-stage tech-products;
an academically minded tinkerer opening up her private lab for everyone; or
a high-school teacher conquering his intellectual frontiers on Coursera.
As a Protagonist of the Applied Sciences adhering to our Beliefs, you must be able to:
reach out to those folks who conduct science at its foundations (Essentiality);
expedite the seamless integration of science and art both technically and socially (Holism);
deviate substantially from your preconceived solutions if an alternate path looks more promising (Openness);
enjoy the intricacies you will face when trying to bring together a theoretical physicist and a street artist (Playfulness); and
subtly countervail the forces of fundamental research with state-of-the-art applied knowledge (Responsibility).
As a Protagonist of the Applied Sciences who comes to be engaged with the Band of Mavericks, you should be willing to:
throw your integrative knowledge into as many subject matter discussions as possible;
lock into the knowledge extension process at any given position on the spectrum between “purely theoretical” and “up-scaled functional system;” and
withstand the signals of raised eyebrows that you will earn from your “established” colleagues in the applied science fields because of your new-found love of the basic sciences.
As a Protagonist of the Applied Sciences contributing to Archai, you will gain along the way:
pleasure from seeing your research advancing through reasoned impetus from totally unexpected sides (say from cosmology, if you are a botanist);
ease of mind because you now know that your applied research has been put to the test of fundamental knowledge and adjusted accordingly; and
satisfaction from catching a straw that may bring you closest to that eagerly anticipated real-world yield of your long-run effort in the applied sciences.
Join the Band, Mavericks!
We are always on the lookout for those that come up with unique ideas, those that are capable of making the unforeseeable association, and those that can avail of unparalleled imagination. We are constantly building the Band of Mavericks.
If you want to be part of the venture and join the band, reach out to our Crowd Facilitator Michael at:
MICHAEL.STUBER@ARCHAI.XYZ
Serving as the Scientific Foundation
The members of the Faculty make up the special forces of Archai’s open science network. Without a doubt, there is a lot to be gained from the collective intelligence of a large crowd (like the Band of Mavericks). At Archai, we even consider ourselves to be fervent contenders of the idea of distributed science conducted in an adaptive network of contributors. However, what a crowd fails to do very well at times is conducting the hands-on facets of research and deployment. By this, we mean things such as operating a large-scale gas chromatograph or executing program code on a quantum computer. The individuals who make up a crowd rarely just happen to have such instruments sitting in their basement and access to the high-tech arsenal of universities or corporations is heavily restricted.
Apart from equipment shortage, the degree of singularity of certain tasks may contradict the collective approach too. In fact, some research questions are so unique in nature, and some experiments are so delicate to execute that adequately addressing them calls for a single investigator or a dedicated research group to proceed trenchantly rather than applying the crowd’s immense working power.
In contrast to the Band of Mavericks, members of the Faculty are formally appointed in accordance with their individual needs and per the rules and regulations of their home institutions. Every faculty member is fully employed by the Association for an Enjoyable Planet Earth (which is the parent organization of Archai)—on a permanent basis in the case of the members of the Principal Faculty and on a per-term basis with a duration of between one and three years in the case of the members of the Visiting Faculty.
Supplementing the Faculty ranks in a fashion that you would not typically see in a traditional academic institution, Archai embeds the lab technicians and the scientific support personnel into the Faculty class. The reason behind is our experience-based acknowledgment of these folks’ invaluable practical contributions to any successful scientific endeavor. We call them Professional Faculty and engage them on a permanent basis too.
Collectively, the Faculty serves as our scientific foundation.
We aspire to recruit a highly distinguished group of people who act as Archai’s Faculty and who take responsibility for leading the way with a subtle hand and keeping our mission on track through close collaboration with the Band of Mavericks and with our Board of Governors.
Bellow, you find an outline on the archetypal individuals that may populate the Faculty ranks. Of course, you do not need to match one of these models perfectly to be nominated for such a position. The following descriptions, therefore, are intended merely to give you a feeling of what we are looking for in our Faculty members.
Principal Faculty: Engage the Unicorns
As a member of the Principal Faculty, you are one of those intellectual pioneers and visionaries on who an organization outside the realm of top-tier academia and disparate from corporate empires usually cannot get its hands. As it happens, there will always be this rare breed of thinkers—scientists and artists—who are after something more substantial than professorial merit or large paychecks (or who have already fulfilled one or both of these aspirations). Such women and men are typically equipped with deep minds.
Here are three things that may describe what we mean by a deep mind. For one, having a deep mind implies that an individual’s capacity for thinking and reasoning is genuinely exceptional. Those possessing a deep mind may have realized that they are not merely a bit more qualified than others are in learning and building on what they have learned. Instead, they consistently extend knowledge at a mind-blowing pace and with much more creativity and precision than the rest of us do. For another, a deep mind implies a mental capacity embracing a scope of knowledge and experience that is plain awesome. Typically, there is only a handful of people surrounding those with deep minds who are capable of profoundly amending an argument of theirs or assisting in challenging the bedrock of a professional field. Lastly, a deep mind implies a unique competence and a strong desire to explore new frontiers, to experience the unknown, to look for patterns and relations, and to rank these desires above all secular cravings to act accordingly.
All right, let us stop philosophizing. The message we want to get across is that we are looking for those deep-minded women and men who wish to help shape a genuinely unique science and development organization rather than serving one of those top-tier academic institutions or corporations that undoubtedly would want to hire them too.
At Archai we offer you an intellectual sandbox of vast dimensions. You may use all the things you can find here at your convenience, and you will be empowered to make use of what you already have to a degree previously unthought of. All we ask is that you to start building now that sandcastle we call Enjoyable Planet Earth.
As a soon-to-be member of the Principal Faculty, you may currently be:
a well-connected researcher bridging the academia/industry-gap from either side;
a thought-leader working at the very edge of a specific field of study;
a tech-industry C-level executive missing out on the really cool programming tasks that you did before managerial duties overwhelmed you;
a distinguished artist with a strong sense for human sensory perception and information processing; or
a full Professor, knowing it is about time for that “research only—impact first” lifetime employment away from distractions (we do mean things such as grant proposals, not your teaching obligations, of course).
As a member of the Principal Faculty adhering to our Beliefs, you must be able to:
give direction to the research and development endeavor by outlining a cohesive activity-map (Essentiality);
align your directional convictions and beliefs with those of your Faculty peers and with the Board of Governors’ general guidelines (Holism);
deliberately adapt any path taken and any conjecture put forth as the scientific process evolves (Openness);
cross those imaginary boundaries that define a field or domain and tolerate making a fool of yourself by doing so (Playfulness); and
lead highly diverse working groups and engage cluttered “virtual” teams with no executive power whatsoever (Responsibility).
As a member of the Principal Faculty, you should be willing to:
dedicate your professional career and your full intellectual power to the research that will lead us towards systems that are deployable on a large scale;
forego all of those amenities that come with an appointment at a notable academic institution or an illustrious corporation; and
invite others (many others!) to intervene in a disruptive manner with what you consider to be “the way things must be done.”
As a member of the Principal Faculty contributing to Archai you will gain along the way:
entirely new spaces for your scientific and artistic expression;
an unshakable sense of what you will contribute to keeping our planet Earth an enjoyable place; and
the respect of your relevant milieu and the unspoken gratitude of the generations to come.
Professional Faculty: Learn from the “Jacks of All Trades”
As a member of the Professional Faculty, you thrive on pushing every single piece of experimental equipment to its limits. You are the one who is after that millionth of a percentage-point improvement in a sensitive measurement. You are the one who will not rest until these two lab-machines are operating in perfect harmony. And you are the one who designs and puts together a rig to protect that high-performance computing unit from adverse infliction caused by electromagnetic waves.
As a consequence, you typically have an ideal working model in mind, and nothing short of perfect functioning will satisfy your inner MacGyver. (Well, in referring to MacGyver we implicitly assume you were born in the 70s. Of course, we do not mean to exclude those younger/older folks. We just think that MacGyver is a cool guy with uncommon ideas for solving real-life problems).
MacGyver is the title character and the protagonist in the original (1985) ABC television series MacGyver. He is said to have a genius-level intellect and a particular ability for adaptation and improvisation.
“MacGyver” by ABC is used under the auspice of the FAIR USE Act for the sole purpose of giving Archai’s Professional Faculty a stereotypical face in this blog-article / Re‑designed towards “pop art”‑style
On top of your bravery in mechanical engineering and your “artisanal intelligence,” you have immersed yourself in the scientific basis of your profession through appropriate academic studies. At an early point in your life, you came to realize that knowing about and studying the fundamental principles that govern the physical phenomena you love (let us say the principles that govern the trajectory of a light beam traveling through a lens) puts you ahead of the pack. For example, you learned that such knowledge would help you to improve significantly on the design of an apparatus you intend to build over your merely having a well-formed intuition about how to assemble the pieces (of, say, a telescope).
Nevertheless, experience taught you that rising to the challenge of your master-craftsman tasks requires knowing the fundamental principles as well as having that tinkerer’s intuition. One is not enough—it is essential that you have both.
At Archai we offer you an opportunity to be part of the team that will build that high-tech workshop you have always dreamed of. What we ask from you is to apply your combined scientific and mechanical talent and craftsmanship in order to make our aspirations—well—work.
As a soon-to-be member of the Professional Faculty, you may currently be:
a highly admired lab technician at a top-tier academic institution;
a head-engineer overseeing the design, construction, commissioning, and maintenance of an experimental system on an immense scale;
a sought after “craftswoman monopolist” distributing a one-of-a-kind component from her private workshop to tech labs around the world;
an industrial designer working at the intersection of aesthetics, science, and engineering; or
a computer scientist, driven by the ambition to build systems that can operate epic machines with radically heterogeneous architectures.
As a member of the Professional Faculty adhering to our Beliefs, you must be able to:
contribute to a coherent systems-design of technologies that will substantiate critical research efforts (Essentiality);
discern the entirety of the technical components required to create such systems and anticipate how they interact (Holism);
establish alliances with academic institutions and industries that are willing to integrate their technical components, instruments, and expertise into our systems (Openness);
make your lab a lively place and an active market for the best ideas (Playfulness); and
know your technical limits and reach out to another specialist if circumstances so require (Responsibility).
As a member of the Professional Faculty, you should be willing to:
completely immerse in your duties and outdo yourself in improving the experimental backbone of our mission;
openly approach relevant scientific literature and translate your findings into hands-on work; and
make leaving your lab and actively connecting with your professional peers outside the organization a habit.
As a member of the Professional Faculty contributing to Archai you will gain along the way:
prolific working relationships with some of the most exceptional minds around the world;
intimate access to a network of associated labs that may help you in your quest for perfection; and
a massive uplift in confidence and spirit flowing from your content with what you do for a living.
Visiting Faculty: Challenge the Minds of Our Own Successors
As a member of the Visiting Faculty, you have made more than one mark in your field as a scientist or as an artist (or any kind of amalgamated embodiment of these). But you are craving something new. From our perspective, your marks do not necessarily have to comply with the indentations left behind by the most notable representatives in your subject area. Quite the opposite is true—you are of special interest to us if you succeeded to graft new concepts and ideas into the plain old landscape of your field and beyond. But for all the controversy you unleashed, you are far from derailing, and your contributions have turned out to be of exceptional value to your collaborators and immediate peers.
Typically, you started your career in a specialized field of traditional academia, but you never lost track of your complementary interests in other scientific areas, and you never let go of passions that are seemingly unrelated to your core scientific endeavor—maybe fixing radios “by thinking,” bongo drumming, safecracking, or anything of that sort. Of course, as a member of our Visiting Faculty, you might also be “wired the other way around” in the sense that your primary field of activity lies in a non-science area while you eagerly integrate scientific principles into that work.
At Archai we provide you with the chance to elaborate on the connections among those allegedly separate grounds of personal interest that you strongly feel to be interconnected somehow. For the good of our mission, you may connect these dots for the limited time span of your tenure at Archai. What we want from you is for you to super-charge a select array of our efforts with that passionate energy.
As a soon-to-be member of the Visiting Faculty, you may currently be:
an aspiring junior faculty member trying to sort out your path through the academic galaxy;
a recent graduate at age 30 who used to jump from one field to another before finally making it;
the “even worse” younger sibling of the abovementioned archetype making jumps between a top-tier university and art school;
a well-settled but saturated researcher/artist looking for a cognitive acceleration that does not depend on psychoactive substances; or
a full Professor who thinks it is about time for a “research only/impact first” period away from distractions (we mean things such as grant proposals, not your teaching obligations, of course).
As a member of the Visiting Faculty adhering to our Beliefs, you must be able to:
provide a clear view of how your multifaceted interests and passions may assemble to contribute to our mission (Essentiality);
connect these dots in a prudent yet playful manner (Holism);
produce new relations to subject areas that you have omitted so far on your intellectual ramble (Openness);
inject some laughter into the gridlocked discourse of these deadpan Principal Faculty guys (Playfulness); and
pick up the pace fast and generate actionable results while you are here (Responsibility).
As a member of the Visiting Faculty, you should be willing to:
fully dedicate your passion and your intellectual power to those research streams that will lead us toward systems that are deployable on a large scale;
resist the temptation to primarily ride along those streams that may offer a shortcut to publication; and
communicate frequently and openly with the members of the Band of Mavericks, with your Faculty colleagues, with the members of the Board of Governors, and with the public at large.
As a member of the Visiting Faculty contributing to Archai you will gain along the way:
family-like ties to people you have never imagined knowing, let alone collaborating with;
a reputation for being a profound specialist in your field, endowed with the ability to forge real outcomes; and
that sensation of pride that comes from knowing that one has contributed to an extraordinary thing.
Take up Arms, Faculty!
We are currently in the process of selecting and hiring those members that are going to represent the founding faculty. We might approach you too!
If we do not, but you still know that you are one of those rare individuals that are (about to) making the seminal contributions to their respective fields while also trying to live up to a higher purpose, then take up arms and write to our Faculty Curator Edy:
EDY.PORTMANN@ARCHAI.XYZ
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Moreover, these platforms will help in creating a shared consciousness for the challenges that we are confronted with.
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Sadler's Wells Theatre ArchiveSadler's Wells Theatre records deposited by Sadler's Wells Theatre and other individualsVisiting company production recordsDresden Opera
Dresden Opera
Bookmark:https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/data/gb1032-s/swt/s/swt/2/6/105
Islington Local History Centre Special Collections
GB 1032 S/SWT/2/6/105
Correspondence relating to enquiries by Sadler’s Wells about the availability of the Dresden Opera and the Halle Opera. (Appears to be the file of Douglas Craig, Director)
Sadler's Wells Theatre ArchiveS/SWT
Sadler's Wells Theatre records purchased and collected by Finsbury LibrariesS/SWT/1
Sadler's Wells Theatre records deposited by Sadler's Wells Theatre and other individualsS/SWT/2
General management recordsS/SWT/2/1
Financial recordsS/SWT/2/2
Property and legal recordsS/SWT/2/3
Ballet recordsS/SWT/2/4
Opera recordsS/SWT/2/5
Visiting company production recordsS/SWT/2/6
Incoming companies 1971-75S/SWT/2/6/1
Miscellaneous company information 1974-75S/SWT/2/6/2
Alfred Jarry Mime Company 1971S/SWT/2/6/3
All England DanceS/SWT/2/6/4
All England Dance CompetitionS/SWT/2/6/5
Alvin Ailey 1970S/SWT/2/6/6
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre – press cuttingsS/SWT/2/6/7
Alvin Ailey – Correspondence 1973-76S/SWT/2/6/9
American BicentenaryS/SWT/2/6/10
American Dance Season 1980S/SWT/2/6/11
American Jazz Dance Co 1972S/SWT/2/6/12
Amwell Society 1980S/SWT/2/6/13
Antonio Gades 1970S/SWT/2/6/14
Appeal Opera Gala July 72S/SWT/2/6/15
Applause Young Variety Club of G.B.S/SWT/2/6/16
Asian Music Circle 1970S/SWT/2/6/17
Australian Dance Theatre 1980S/SWT/2/6/18
V5 Australian DanceS/SWT/2/6/19
Autistic Children’s Concert 1975S/SWT/2/6/20
Ballet de MontrealS/SWT/2/6/21
Etorki Ballet Basque 1969S/SWT/2/6/22
Ballets et Choeurs Basques EtorkiS/SWT/2/6/23
Ballet Gallego 1974S/SWT/2/6/24
Ballet Gulbenkian 1973S/SWT/2/6/25
T08 Ballet GulbenkianS/SWT/2/6/26
Ballet International de Caracas 29 May-June 3S/SWT/2/6/27
Ballet Prague 1969S/SWT/2/6/28
Ballet Rambert contra a/cs 1958-63S/SWT/2/6/29
Ballet Rambert 1964 [and 1965]S/SWT/2/6/30
Ballet Rambert 1966 cancelled in early MayS/SWT/2/6/31
Ballet Rambert 1968-76S/SWT/2/6/32
Ballet Rambert Sept 1973S/SWT/2/6/33
Ballet Rambert 1974S/SWT/2/6/34
Ballet Rambert 1979 JulyS/SWT/2/6/38
Ballet Rambert March 1980S/SWT/2/6/39
Ballet RambertS/SWT/2/6/40
Rambert 1983 seasonS/SWT/2/6/41
RambertS/SWT/2/6/42
Ballet Theatre Contemprian 1978 (Anger)S/SWT/2/6/44
Ballet Van Vlaanderen 1980S/SWT/2/6/45
Ballet West 73/4S/SWT/2/6/46
Ballets Felix Blaska – Boris TrailineS/SWT/2/6/47
Barnado’s GalaS/SWT/2/6/48
BBC Sunday ConcertsS/SWT/2/6/49
B.B.C.S/SWT/2/6/50
Bill T. JonesS/SWT/2/6/51
Burmese National Co Dancers & MusicsS/SWT/2/6/52
Financial records relating to production by Buxton Festival Opera on 28 September to 14 October 1983. Appears to be the file of Brian Wright (Chief Accountant) and Joseph Karaviotis (Finance Director).S/SWT/2/6/53
Caracalla Dance 1978S/SWT/2/6/54
Caracalla Dance CompanyS/SWT/2/6/55
Caracalla Dance Co 1978/80S/SWT/2/6/56
Caracalla 1980S/SWT/2/6/57
Caracalla 83S/SWT/2/6/59
Charities Theatre Group 1976S/SWT/2/6/60
Charlie & Choc FactoryS/SWT/2/6/61
Chhau Dancers of Bengal 1972/73S/SWT/2/6/62
Children of a Lesser GodS/SWT/2/6/63
Chile Committee for Human Rights Sunday, 13th MarchS/SWT/2/6/64
Chile GalaS/SWT/2/6/65
Chitrasena 1971/72S/SWT/2/6/66
Cologne OperaS/SWT/2/6/67
Cosmo Dance FinalS/SWT/2/6/68
Croydon Dance TheatreS/SWT/2/6/69
Cullberg BalletS/SWT/2/6/70
Cyprus Turkish Association 1970S/SWT/2/6/71
D’Oyly Carte Opera Company, 1969-1970S/SWT/2/6/72
D’Oyly Carte Opera Company press cuttings, 1969-1970S/SWT/2/6/74
D’Oyly Carte Opera Company, 1973S/SWT/2/6/81
Production returns for The D’Oyly Carte Opera Company 1976-1977 seasonS/SWT/2/6/88
D’Oyly Carte Summer Season July 1977S/SWT/2/6/90
D’Oyly Carte returns 1977/78S/SWT/2/6/91
D’Oyly Carte 1977-78S/SWT/2/6/92
D’Oyly Carte 1978S/SWT/2/6/93
D’Oyly Carte Opera 1978/79S/SWT/2/6/94
D’Oyly Carte Dec-Feb 1979/80S/SWT/2/6/95
D’Oyly Carte Summer 1980S/SWT/2/6/96
D’Oyly Carte Christmas 1980S/SWT/2/6/97
Dance of London School Children, Oct 1981S/SWT/2/6/98
Dance Senegal, 1976S/SWT/2/6/99
D.T.B.F.S/SWT/2/6/100
Dance Theatre of Harlem, 1971-1972S/SWT/2/6/101
Les Danses Sacrees de Bali 1977S/SWT/2/6/102
V16 DashS/SWT/2/6/103
D. Gordon 85S/SWT/2/6/104
Dresden OperaS/SWT/2/6/105
Drottningholm OperaS/SWT/2/6/106
Dutch National Ballet 1969S/SWT/2/6/107
Dutch National Ballet Dec 1969 CuttingsS/SWT/2/6/109
El Sali 1974S/SWT/2/6/111
Eliot Feld Ballet 1980S/SWT/2/6/112
'ELS Comediants 1985'S/SWT/2/6/114
English Bach Festival 1983/4S/SWT/2/6/115
English Music Theatre 1976S/SWT/2/6/116
English Music Theatre 1977/78S/SWT/2/6/117
English Opera Group 1969S/SWT/2/6/119
Erick Dawkins Dance CompanyS/SWT/2/6/121
Festival of British Theatre 1973S/SWT/2/6/122
Fiesta Gitana Da Silva FlamencoS/SWT/2/6/123
Finnish National Opera (Ooppera: Suomen Kansallisooppera ) and Dance Theatre Raatikko (Transsiteatteri Raatikko)S/SWT/2/6/124
The Finsbury StoryS/SWT/2/6/125
Gong Sawan 1978S/SWT/2/6/126
Götesborgs Teater – Och Konsertaktiebolag (Gothenburg Ballet) 1975S/SWT/2/6/127
Les Grandes Ballets Canadiens 1969S/SWT/2/6/128
Greek Art Theatre 1977S/SWT/2/6/129
Friends of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama 1982S/SWT/2/6/130
Guildhall Opera 1981S/SWT/2/6/131
Haileybury School Concert 1980/3S/SWT/2/6/132
Hamburgische Staatsoper (Hamburg State Opera Company) 1962/66S/SWT/2/6/133
Handel Opera Society 1963-6S/SWT/2/6/134
Handel Opera Society 1969-70S/SWT/2/6/135
Handel Opera Society 1970S/SWT/2/6/136
Harkness Ballet 1970S/SWT/2/6/150
Hornsey Operatic and Dramatic Society 1980S/SWT/2/6/151
Houston Ballet 1983S/SWT/2/6/152
Indian Dance Recital 1980S/SWT/2/6/153
International Festival of Youth Orchestras 1974S/SWT/2/6/154
Iraqi National Dance Company 1979S/SWT/2/6/155
Irish Ballet Company 1980S/SWT/2/6/156
Islington Festival 1970/1972/1976S/SWT/2/6/157
Jacqueline Du Pre GalaS/SWT/2/6/158
Jamaican Independence Concert 1974S/SWT/2/6/159
Jamaican National Dance Theatre 1972S/SWT/2/6/160
Joseph Russillo Ballet Theatre 1973S/SWT/2/6/161
Joyce Trisler Danscompany 1983S/SWT/2/6/162
Kabuki 1972S/SWT/2/6/163
Kalakshetra [Indian Dance Theatre] 1971S/SWT/2/6/166
Operetta at the Wells (by Karites)S/SWT/2/6/167
Kathakali 1970/78S/SWT/2/6/168
Kent Opera 1979/83S/SWT/2/6/169
Keynote Opera Society [performance of 'Wat Tyler'] 1974S/SWT/2/6/170
Koanga by Delius [a Sadler's Wells production]S/SWT/2/6/171
Korean National Classical Music Company 1980S/SWT/2/6/172
Korean National Dance Company 1977S/SWT/2/6/173
Ladislav Fialka Mime Company [of Czechoslavakia] 1971S/SWT/2/6/174
Lado Croatian Folk Ensemble 1971S/SWT/2/6/175
Lar Lubovitch 1984S/SWT/2/6/176
Laura Dean Dancers and Musicians 1983S/SWT/2/6/177
Legat School 1982S/SWT/2/6/178
Leipzig Opera Company (Städtische Oper Leipzig) 1980S/SWT/2/6/179
EMPTY FILES/SWT/2/6/180
Libyan Music Festival 1976S/SWT/2/6/181
Lindsay Kemp 1983S/SWT/2/6/182
Linha Singers [of Czechoslovakia] 1971S/SWT/2/6/184
Little Angels (National Folk Ballet of Korea) 1971-72S/SWT/2/6/185
London Ballet Circle 1980S/SWT/2/6/186
London City Ballet 1985S/SWT/2/6/187
London Contemporary Dance Theatre 1971-72S/SWT/2/6/188
London Contemporary Dance Theatre 'Stages' 1973S/SWT/2/6/189
London Contemporary Dance Theatre 1974S/SWT/2/6/190
London Contemporary Dance Theatre November 29 1976S/SWT/2/6/196
London Contemporary Dance Theatre Nov/Dec 1980S/SWT/2/6/201
London Contemporary Dance Theatre May/June 1983S/SWT/2/6/203
London Contemporary Dance Theatre May 1984S/SWT/2/6/205
London Contemporary Dance Theatre June 1985S/SWT/2/6/207
London Contemporary Dance Theatre Dec 1985S/SWT/2/6/208
London Festival Ballet Nov 1985S/SWT/2/6/209
London Opera Centre 1968/69S/SWT/2/6/210
London Opera Centre 1970S/SWT/2/6/211
London Opera Centre 1974-76S/SWT/2/6/215
London Opera Group 'Turn of the Screw' 1969S/SWT/2/6/217
London Central Polytechnic 'Two Widows'S/SWT/2/6/218
London Theatre Company 'The Rivals' 1972S/SWT/2/6/219
London Theatre Company 1971/72S/SWT/2/6/220
London Schools Symphony Orchestra 1972S/SWT/2/6/221
Louis Falco Dance Company 1973S/SWT/2/6/222
Mahali Dancers of Iran 1972S/SWT/2/6/224
Mansudai National Dance Company of Korea 1973S/SWT/2/6/225
Marcel Marceau 1975S/SWT/2/6/226
Marcel Marceau [including performances for schools for the deaf] 1980S/SWT/2/6/227
Merce Cunningham 1964-72S/SWT/2/6/230
Merce Cunningham 1972S/SWT/2/6/231
Mevlevi Dervishes (from Turkey) 1974S/SWT/2/6/233
Mieko Fuji Contemporary Dance Company 1980S/SWT/2/6/234
Moscow Arts Theatre 1958S/SWT/2/6/235
Murray Louis Dance Company [1974-77]S/SWT/2/6/236
Music Week at the Wells 1980S/SWT/2/6/237
Nanjo Okumara Nohtroupe of Japan 1983S/SWT/2/6/238
National Ballet of Senegal 1976S/SWT/2/6/240
National Dance Theatre of Jamaica 1972S/SWT/2/6/241
National Society for Mentally Handicapped Children Rally 1976S/SWT/2/6/242
Nederlands Dans Theater 1967/69S/SWT/2/6/243
Nederlands Dans Theater 1969S/SWT/2/6/244
Nederlands Dans Theater 1972-73S/SWT/2/6/246
New London Ballet 1974/75S/SWT/2/6/248
New Opera Company 1962-68/1970/1972S/SWT/2/6/250
New Opera Company 1973/74/75S/SWT/2/6/251
New Opera Company 1984S/SWT/2/6/252
Nora Roche Tribute 1983S/SWT/2/6/253
Northern Ballet Theatre 1984S/SWT/2/6/254
Ondeko-Za 'Demon Drums' 1977S/SWT/2/6/255
Opanak [Yugoslav Folk Dance Ensemble] 1970S/SWT/2/6/256
Opera Comique 1978S/SWT/2/6/258
Opera Rara 1981S/SWT/2/6/259
Opera North ‘Orpheus in the Underworld’ [1960s-80s]S/SWT/2/6/260
Handel Opera Society 'Ottone' 1973S/SWT/2/6/261
Outlaw Concerts Ltd / The Cocteau Twins Dec.1984S/SWT/2/6/262
Owl & The Pussycat 1975S/SWT/2/6/263
Oxford Playhouse Company ‘A Diet of Women’ 1971S/SWT/2/6/264
Paco Pena Flamenco Puro Company 1971S/SWT/2/6/265
Phoenix Opera 'La Vie Parisienne' 1974S/SWT/2/6/270
Phoenix Opera 'Gala Performance' 1975S/SWT/2/6/271
Phoenix Theatre Productions ‘Trelawny’ 1972S/SWT/2/6/272
Pilobolus Dance Theatre 1978S/SWT/2/6/273
Pina Bausch’s 'Tanztheater Wuppertal' September 1982S/SWT/2/6/275
Polish Ex-Servicemen 40th Anniversary Reunion Concert 1984S/SWT/2/6/276
Polish Mime Theatre Ballet 1970S/SWT/2/6/277
Polish National Ballet 1958S/SWT/2/6/279
Polish Pro Arte Theatre 1972S/SWT/2/6/280
Rawstron-Still 1980S/SWT/2/6/281
Riverside Studios benefit ‘Dancing for Riverside’ organized by the National Organisation for Dance and Mime in aid of the Studios 1983S/SWT/2/6/282
Bill Roberton - Christmas Pantomime 1971S/SWT/2/6/283
Royal Academy of Dancing 1976S/SWT/2/6/284
Royal Academy of Music 1972/1975S/SWT/2/6/285
Royal Ballet 1971S/SWT/2/6/286
Royal Ballet April/May 1973S/SWT/2/6/288
Royal Ballet 1975/76S/SWT/2/6/290
Royal Ballet and English Opera Group 1971/1972S/SWT/2/6/292
Royal Ballet and English Opera Group 1973S/SWT/2/6/293
Royal Ballet of Flanders 20-31 May 1980S/SWT/2/6/295
Royal Ballet School 1981S/SWT/2/6/296
Royal Dutch Ballet 1969S/SWT/2/6/300
Royal Northern College of Music 1973/75S/SWT/2/6/301
Royal Opera House 'Christmas Carol’ 1981S/SWT/2/6/302
Royal Opera House ‘Peter Grimes’ 1975S/SWT/2/6/303
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra 1972S/SWT/2/6/304
Royal Society of Arts 1976S/SWT/2/6/305
Royal Winnipeg Ballet [Canada] 1982S/SWT/2/6/306
Sadler's Wells Royal Ballet April/May 1977S/SWT/2/6/307
Sadler's Wells Royal Ballet Sept. 1979S/SWT/2/6/309
Sadler's Wells Royal Ballet Feb. 1980S/SWT/2/6/310
Sadler's Wells Royal Ballet Dec. 1980S/SWT/2/6/312
Sadler's Wells Royal Ballet Gala performance 1 April 1981S/SWT/2/6/313
Sadler's Wells Royal Ballet March/April 1981S/SWT/2/6/314
Sadler's Wells Royal Ballet Spring 1982S/SWT/2/6/316
Sadler's Wells Royal Ballet May 1982S/SWT/2/6/317
Sadler's Wells Royal Ballet August/Sept. 1982S/SWT/2/6/318
Sadler's Wells Royal Ballet Dec. 1982 - Jan. 1983S/SWT/2/6/319
Sadler's Wells Royal Ballet April 1984S/SWT/2/6/322
Sadler's Wells Royal Ballet Sept. 1985 - Oct. 1985S/SWT/2/6/325
Salzburg Marionette Company 1974S/SWT/2/6/327
Salzburg Marionette Company Nov. 1976S/SWT/2/6/328
Sankai Juku [Butoh Dance Group] April 1983S/SWT/2/6/329
Scottish Ballet 1970S/SWT/2/6/330
Scottish Ballet 1971/1973S/SWT/2/6/331
Scottish Opera Nov. 1979S/SWT/2/6/334
Scottish Opera April 1980S/SWT/2/6/335
Scottish Theatre Ballet Nov. 1969S/SWT/2/6/336
Sense of Ireland 1980S/SWT/2/6/337
Sierra Leone National Dance Troupe July 1966S/SWT/2/6/338
Spandau Ballet May 1983S/SWT/2/6/339
Summer Arts Festival August 1982S/SWT/2/6/340
Tanz Forum Der Oper Der Stadt Köln (of Cologne, Germany) April 1981S/SWT/2/6/341
Thai Royal Ballet August 1984S/SWT/2/6/342
Tito Gobbi Master Class Feb. 1972S/SWT/2/6/343
Tokyo Ballet June 1975S/SWT/2/6/344
Toronto Dance Theatre June - July 1974S/SWT/2/6/345
Twyla Tharp Dance Dec. 1983S/SWT/2/6/346
Viva 84: A Dance & Music Benefit for Chile March 1984S/SWT/2/6/347
Westminster Gala in aid of the Westminster Society for Mentally Handicapped Children and Adults on 10 October 1982S/SWT/2/6/348
Whirligig Theatre October 1982S/SWT/2/6/349
Whirligig Theatre Nov. 1983S/SWT/2/6/350
Wind in the Willows Jan - Feb 1985S/SWT/2/6/353
Young London Ballet June 1983S/SWT/2/6/354
Akshara National Classical Dance Theatre of India ‘The Ramayana’ May 1984S/SWT/2/6/355
Alwin Nikolais [Dance] Company June 1969S/SWT/2/6/356
Alwin Nikolais [Dance] Company July 1971S/SWT/2/6/358
Alwin Nikolais [Dance] Company 1975-1978S/SWT/2/6/360
Hungarian State Puppet Theatre April to May 1984S/SWT/2/6/361
A Night of Stars Gala in aid of the NSPCC 29 October 1978S/SWT/2/6/363
Publicity records and publicationsS/SWT/2/7
Illustrations and photographsS/SWT/2/8
External papers & publications relating to Sadler's WellsS/SWT/2/9
Miscellaneous papersS/SWT/2/10
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ACE in the coal hole —
Trump administration finalizes replacement for Obama’s Clean Power Plan
Rule regulates emissions at the power-plant level versus at the state level.
Megan Geuss - Jun 19, 2019 10:10 pm UTC
Enlarge / A truck loaded with coal is viewed at the Eagle Butte Coal Mine, which is operated by Alpha Coal, on Monday May 08, 2017, in Gillette, Wyoming.
Matt McClain/The Washington Post via Getty Images
344 with 137 posters participating
On Wednesday, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler signed the "Affordable Clean Energy" rule, known as ACE, to replace the Obama-era Clean Power Plan, or CPP.
Trump’s new “Clean Power Plan” might be a boon to coal-fired power plants
The ACE rule was proposed last summer, and after going through the procedural steps required to enact the rule, Administrator Wheeler finally signed it today, along with an official repeal of the CPP. Details regarding the final rules have been submitted to the Federal Register, one of the last steps to making federal rules official in the US.
Obama's CPP attempted to set federal power plant emissions limits by state. Under the CPP, states would have had an incentive to push the most-polluting power plants (in most cases, coal plants) offline sooner. But coal interests and several states and utilities challenged this rule in court. Eventually, the Supreme Court stayed the rule, so it was never actually implemented.
Now, the ACE rule requires states to set federal emissions limits by individual power plant. The rule also makes it easier for power plants to make efficiency upgrades without triggering additional repairs. This means that older coal plants may be able to boost their efficiency with new technology and stay on the grid for a longer time.
When the EPA proposed the ACE rule last year, it was also required to submit an analysis of how the change from the CPP to the ACE would affect US citizens. While the ACE rule would result in an absolute reduction of a variety of emissions (from carbon dioxide to nitrogen oxides to particulate matter) compared to nothing, the EPA's own analysis admitted that an estimated 1,400 additional deaths would occur every year under the ACE rule compared to implementing the CPP.
In a press release today, the EPA said that states would have three years to propose pathways to complying with the ACE rule.
Still, it's not fully apparent that the ACE rule will be the bailout the coal industry is looking for. Although coal interests called the CPP onerous regulation when it was first introduced, what has really been killing coal has been its competitors' low electricity prices. In many places around the country, building new natural gas or renewable energy installations is cheaper than the marginal price of keeping older coal plants running.
In fact, earlier this year the Energy Information Administration (EIA) released its Annual Energy Outlook. That document projected that coal will decline faster over the next 30 years than it was projected to have declined under the CPP. And the replacement ACE rule—while intended to help coal plants become more efficient competitors against natural gas plants—might not have the pull Trump's appointees hope. In October, Reuters published a survey of 44 US utilities that had announced a coal power-plant shutdown, and none of the surveyed utilities said that the ACE rule would change its decision to retire the coal plants in question.
Megan Geuss Megan is a staff editor at Ars Technica. She writes breaking news and has a background in fact-checking and research.
Email megan.geuss@arstechnica.com // Twitter @MeganGeuss
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Artmap
NAK Neuer Aachener Kunstverein
The Silver Show
09 Oct - 20 Nov 2011
Exhibition view
25 JAHRE NAK
October 9 – November 20, 2011
Unter der Schirmherrschaft von Oberbürgermeister Marcel Philipp
Aids-3D, Joachim Bandau, Nina Canell, Jacques Charlier, Mel Chin, Walter Dahn, Raphael Danke, Tobias Danke, Felix Droese, Simon Dybbroe Møller, Michaela Eichwald, Matias Faldbakken, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Morgan Fisher, Diango Hernández, Christian Jankowski, Kris Martin, Rodney McMillian, Jonathan Meese, Klaus Merkel, Anselm Reyle, Johanna Roderburg, Daniel Roth, Albrecht Schäfer, Ulrich Strothjohann, Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven, Johannes Wohnseifer and others
In July 1964 the legendary Fluxus Festival was held in the Audimax at the RWTH, signaling the beginning of a noteworthy tradition in Aachen of an interest in and support for contemporary art. The now famous event took place at the instigation of student representative Valdis Abolins, and achieved its renown not least because Joseph Beuys had his nose bloodied in a fight with a student from the university. Germany’s first exhibition space for contemporary art followed in 1968, Gegenverkehr – Zentrum für aktuelle Kunst e.V., and served as a venue for presenting trailblazing avant-garde exhibitions.
Against the backdrop of these developments, the Neuer Aachener Kunstverein was founded in 1986 by a group of art-enthusiast Aachen residents. In the beginning, the numerous and rapidly changing exhibitions focused mainly on local and regional artists. Over the years, more and more international artists were integrated into NAK’s exhibition program. Finally, with a full-time director, the NAK was professionalized and developed into an internationally-renown institution for exhibiting contemporary art. Its primary focus then, as now, are solo presentations of contemporary artistic positions, including, for instance, Morgan Fisher, Michael Stevenson, Nairy Baghramian, Lucy McKenzie, and Fiona Banner.
With its founding in 1986, the NAK occupies a special position within the history of the German Kunstvereine [Art Associations], since most of Germany’s Kunstvereins are products of a nineteenth century forward thinking citizenry. In Germany, the internationally unique model of the Kunstverein has consistently succeeded in fulfilling new societal functions.
The NAK has now organized an anniversary exhibition dedicated to its comparatively more recent history: to the artists who have exhibited here over the past twenty-five years—young or under-represented talents who, following their presentations, often quickly achieved greater relevancy, becoming important points of reference within the international field of contemporary art.
Presented in a group exhibition on the ground floor is a selection of works from various generations of artists, such as Walter Dahn and Felix Droese, who exhibited at the NAK in the early 1990s. Also featured are Jonathan Meese, Kris Martin, Matias Faldbakken, and Anselm Reyle, whose extraordinary visual and formal language promptly led to their international success following their solo exhibitions at NAK. This also applies to artists like Simon Dybbroe Møller, Johannes Wohnseifer, Nina Canell, and Albrecht Schäfer, whose post-conceptual approaches have set important benchmarks for art in the early 2000s. International names like Christian Jankowski, Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven, Michaela Eichwald, and Hans-Peter Feldmann, important reference points in the global field of art, are also represented with works in THE SILVER SHOW. And alongside Aachen-based artists like Joachim Bandau, Johanna Roderburg, and Tobias Danke, further significant programming highlights from NAK history are also featured, including Raphael Danke, Diango Hernandez, Ulrich Strothjohann, and Klaus Merkel.
On view on NAK’s upper level is documentation from the past twenty-five years. Here numerous documents, publications, and archive materials provide a glimpse into the Verein’s exciting history. In addition, NAK Jahresgaben (annual editions) are presented both for perusal as well as purchasing.
www.neueraachenerkunstverein.de
Tags: Aids-3D, Nairy Baghramian, Joachim Bandau, Fiona Banner, Joseph Beuys, Nina Canell, Jacques Charlier, Mel Chin, Walter Dahn, Raphael Danke, Felix Droese, Michaela Eichwald, Matias Faldbakken, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Morgan Fisher, Diango Hernández, Christian Jankowski, Daniel Keller, Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven, Kris Martin, Lucy McKenzie, Rodney McMillian, Jonathan Meese, Klaus Merkel, Simon Dybbroe Møller, Anselm Reyle, Daniel Roth, Albrecht Schäfer, Michael Stevenson, Ulrich Strothjohann, Johannes Wohnseifer
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Ruhr Ding: Territories
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The Oven
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Philip Heinrich
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The Oven is a 2008 comedy horror brickfilm by Philip Heinrich.[1][2] It follows the story of a man making muffins in his oven one dreary night, told through a parody of the poem "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe.[3] It was created for AP Wagner's North America's Oldest Appliance Contest.[4] It was later entered into the LEGO and Nicktoons Built By Me Movie Contest and won the first place prize in the 18 and Older category. As a result, it became available to view on Comcast On Demand.
Philip Heinrich - Writer, Director, Producer, Narrator, Music
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Framed pictures on the walls of the house contain images from Heinrich's films Crown of Syracuse, The Pepperonis, and Star Wars: Bane of the Sith.
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You are here: Home | News | October 2018 | Caraway children’s camps expand family involvement
Caraway children’s camps expand family involvement
October 2 2018 by K. Allan Blume, BR Editor
For more than 50 years, Caraway Conference Center and Camp operated a boy’s program in the summer and offered a year-round retreat and conference destination for Baptist churches. Six years ago, Caraway staff began discussing the decreasing summer attendance at the 1,100-acre facility near Asheboro, N.C.
Caraway Conference Center photo
Children celebrate during a game at Caraway’s summer coed camps. The N.C. Baptist conference center and camp near Asheboro once limited summer camps to boys, but has seen growing success after expanding its programs to include all children.
Royal Ambassadors (RAs), the boys mission program of the Southern Baptist Convention, once provided a steady stream of summer campers. But a decline in RA programs resulted in a significant drop in the number of camp attendees. That prompted Caraway’s leadership to convert the summer program to a children’s camp for boys and girls.
“The demand for boy’s week was just not there like it was in our heyday in the ‘80s,” said Jimmy Huffman, Caraway’s director.
“There was a time when we ran 1,600 boys during the summer, but it dropped to a low of 400,” he said. “We’ve had a tremendous run with our boy’s camp in partnership with N.C. Baptist Men. It’s been very successful. Almost 70,000 boys have attended in those 56 years.”
Two members of the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina’s board of directors asked why there was not a convention sponsored coed Baptist camp for children in the state, according to Huffman.
“They were taking their children to a non-Baptist camp. That triggered us to do something new,” he said.
The coed camp for first grade through sixth grade children has seen “phenomenal success” according to Huffman, comparing the new children’s program to Fort Caswell’s camp for youth.
Mark Moore, children’s program director at Caraway, said Caraway still operates a one-week “boys only” camp, in addition to five weeks of children’s camps and a two-night camp around July 4th.
Caraway also offers specialty “parent-child” retreats, Moore said, pointing out how they are unique.
“There are none that exist that do what we do in the recreational programming where the mother-daughter, mother-son and father-daughter can do those things together in a camp setting, yet stay in a private, hotel style bedroom,” he said.
Parent-child retreats and coed camps drew approximately 1,000 children this summer, Moore said, estimating the overall boy-girl ratio to be about 50-50, with girls slightly outnumbering boys during the coed weeks.
“We started ‘Grand Camp’ in 2014, and it has doubled every year,” said Jeff Kohns, Caraway’s associate director.
Grand Camp allows grandparents and their grandchildren or great-grandchildren, ages 6-12, to enjoy activities and Bible study time together. Some come with one grandchild, but one brought six grandchildren to the camp, Kohns said.
Twelve family units of 37 people attended the first year. This year more than 50 family groups of 154 participants came.
“When we started the camp, I thought this might be a ‘one and done’ thing,” said Kohns, “but it’s really become a legacy that grandparents want to leave to their grandchildren.”
In 2019 Caraway plans to offer two sessions of Grand Camp – one will run Sunday through Tuesday, with a second camp from Thursday through Saturday.
“We’ve found that some grandparents are raising their grandchildren,” Huffman said, “so this gives them something different to do together, something they don’t have to plan – just show up and enjoy it.”
Moore sees the camps as Caraway’s way of fulfilling the convention’s vision of impacting lostness through disciple-making.
“All of our programs are very intentional to share the gospel of Jesus Christ verbally and practically, but also equip children and the chaperones with how to share their faith,” he said.
“All of our summer programs have an emphasis on missions and sharing their faith.”
Dan Kiefer, student pastor at Concord Baptist Church in Granite Falls, N.C., has taken boys and girls to Camp Caraway for the last four summers.
“Our kids love going to Camp Caraway,” he told the Biblical Recorder.
There are many recreational activities for children and adults, including water-based slides and canoes, as well as ropes courses. Caraway Conference Center offers “Grand Camp,” too. Grandparents are encouraged to bring children or great-grandchildren.
“The children are outdoors swimming in the lake or the pool, going on hikes, playing Gaga ball, learning about archery and air rifles, playing bazooka ball, fishing, carving wood, going down the zip lines, climbing the rock wall and even throwing tomahawks. There is just so much to do at Camp Caraway,” Kiefer said.
The spiritual focus of the camp is important to Kiefer.
“In devotions the kids learn to read and apply God’s Word on their own,” he said.
Adult leaders show children how to have a deep and meaningful daily devotion.
The camp pastor leads worship and a career missionary tells the children how God is working in different parts of the world.
“Camp Caraway is a well-balanced camp that teaches kids how to be followers of Jesus while also providing an awesome camp experience. It reminds me of what camp was like when I was a kid – except the cabins are air conditioned,” Kiefer said.
Arvil Pennington, associate pastor of preschool and children’s ministries at Lawndale Baptist Church in Greensboro, said their boys and girls “love their experience” at Caraway.
“It allows them to get away from their electronic devices and enjoy and interact with nature. Children need to be learning interactive life skills by socializing with their peers, problem solving and learning to be resourceful,” Pennington said.
“I especially appreciate the attention to detail that is given by Mark Moore and his staff.
College students on the staff show genuine interest in the boys and girls. The meals are child friendly, but well planned and nutritious. The facilities that North Carolina Baptists have provided are excellent.
“Our families are already asking for the 2019 dates for Camp Caraway. They want to protect that week on their family calendars,” said Pennington.
Kohns said a year-long Bible study called, “Keys for Kids,” goes home with each camper. He recently received an email from a grandfather who said he and his grandson individually work through the devotional book, then discuss it together by phone.
Sandra Montague, minister to children at First Baptist Church in Matthews, said the church decided to take their rising fifth and sixth-graders to Caraway the first year that coed camps launched.
“The awesome outdoor experiences coupled with the excellent staff, great worship and solid Bible study made Camp Caraway the real camp experience we were looking for!” she said.
A participant with the Matthews camp group, Connor Woodman, said the counselors were “extremely nice to all the campers and were fair when it came to the games.
“Camp Caraway is extremely fun because every day is packed full of different things to do. The skill and recreation classes are stellar. In everything you do, they still find a way to make it point to God.
“Whenever I go there, I always feel much closer to God because of the people I’m surrounded by. This past summer when I was on the lake, I canoed over to a cross by the road and asked Jesus into my heart,” he said.
Visit caraway.org for camp schedules and more information.
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The Children’s Adaptations I Hate the Most
by Laura-Blaise McDowell
Often, beloved books are made into wonderful movies extending the joy from page to screen, engaging new generations of readers. Sadly, equally as often, CGI-sodden, terrible, heinous crimes against literature are committed in the form of bad movie adaptations. More often than not, these crimes are committed against children’s books. Their delightful illustrations and beautifully imagined scenes prove too tempting for movie studios to resist.
1. The Cat in the Hat
Speak for yourself, Jim. / Via WiffleGif
Sex jokes, poor acting… Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun Times said the film was ‘all effects and stunts and CGI and prosthetics, with no room for lightness and joy.’ This is damning commentary for any film, but especially bad for a film adapted from one of the most joyous books there is. After this disastrous affair, Dr. Seuss’s widow vowed that there would never again be a live-action Seuss movie.
2. The Golden Compass
Me, bursting out of the cinema after seeing The Golden Compass. / Via Nerdist
Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials
trilogy is arguably one of the most intricate, marvelous, and thought-provoking series in the history of fiction. It deals with vast concepts using incredible characters, and is set against the backdrop of a meticulously constructed world. The film, however, is more along the lines of ‘haha look at this talking polar bear!’ A hideously miscast monstrosity, The Golden Compass dumbed down and abbreviated this text almost beyond recognition, no doubt deterring a great number of potential readers from the books. I will never forgive anyone who was involved in its making and will be angry about it forever.
3. Garfield
I hate you. / Via Laughing Gif
Bill Murray, who voices the titular character in this unnecessary adaptation, appears in the movie Zombieland as himself. In Zombieland, before he is shot, he is asked if he has any regrets, to which he replies ‘Garfield, maybe.’ ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
4. The Hobbit
Trilogy (a single book completely unnecessarily made into three movies)
Even Bilbo knows it sucks. / Via Imgur
Okay, so it’s not necessarily a kid’s book. It’s also not necessarily awful. At least not the first film. Martin Freeman is a reasonably pleasant Bilbo, the dwarves are pretty funny, and the landscapes and sets are as beautiful as the The Lord of the Rings
. However, as the movies go on…and on…and on…and the deviations from the plot of the book become more and more absurd in order to stretch the 300 page novel into three feature length films, things get bad.
5. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Ragging on your terrible movie, Johnny, wbu? / Via Tumblr
So Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, the original adaptation of Roald Dahl’s beloved classic starring Gene Wilder, ticked all the boxes: it’s a magical, well acted, sometimes creepy, often funny, good and wholesome movie. Tim Burton’s remake is, as you might expect, a Tim Burton movie. Ever so weird and kooky. The film is so stylized that any sense of real magic and fear or joy is simply negated by the harsh, angry color palette and Johnny Depp being…Johnny Depp.
6. A Series of Unfortunate Events
(The 2004 movie and the 2017 Netflix series. I’ve got beef with both.)
Basically. / Via Giphy
I would argue that the first book in this thirteen volume series, The Bad Beginning, would make an excellent film. If so desired, the entire series could make a really excellent TV show. The tone and atmosphere of the books are so deliberate, so precise, so well thought out and consistent that an adaptation seemed impossible to mess up. And yet twice now the delightfully miserable chronicles of the Baudelaire orphans have been woefully misinterpreted and misrepresented.
The first such incident occurred in 2004 when the initial three books (The Bad Beginning, The Reptile Room, and The Wide Window) were rolled into one very bad movie. Starring Jim Carey (A COMEDIAN) as the supposedly terrifying and evil Count Olaf, the film instantly became what every movie with Jim Carey inevitably becomes. It was a ‘Jim Carey’ movie much the same as Willy Wonka, which became a ‘Johnny Depp’ movie. It lacked any of the spooky discomfort, weirdness, and dry humor of the books. At no point does the audience really feel that the children have exited the realm of mild peril and graduated to ‘totally doomed’ as they do in the books. The constant genuine fear you feel for the orphans in the books keeps you on the edge of your seat, reading ever on and on to the thirteenth book. The movie, however? I barely made it to the end.
Please, God, let it be anyone else…except Neil Patrick Harris. / Via Giphy
The second such incident occurred just this year when Neil Patrick Harris’s Netflix series aired. I was looking forward to this, never having gotten over the betrayal of 2004. I thought they couldn’t possibly make the same mistakes a second time.
Reader, I was wrong.
At least in the film the children are somewhat dour and intelligent. The children in the TV series are rosy-cheeked and deliver their wordy lines as if they have no idea what they are actually saying. It is also weirdly stylized, using poor quality special effects which take away from any mood of doom or gloom or even humor. The strange situations into which the orphans are flung manage to lack any real point of interest. The music is strangely upbeat and reminiscent of something out of The Grinch. Neil Patrick Harris’s Count Olaf is neither scary enough, funny enough, nor anything else enough to engage. His crowd of misfits (which are genuinely very unsettling in the books) are an unthreatening, bumbling crowd of dimwits. On top of all of this, the show’s narrator, who in the books is the deeply sad, strange, amusing, and sometimes slightly sinister character of Lemony Snicket, comes across as a somewhat swaggering Alec Baldwin-type who lacks any real intrigue whatsoever. I am so angry. How did they get it so wrong? The show’s one redeeming feature is Joan Cusack as Justice Strauss. She’s just an angel. Everything else sucks.
No. / Via Giphy
BONUS: Peter Rabbit
Oh, shut up you loathsome creature. / Via IMDB
Okay, so I know this movie isn’t even out yet, but the trailer is enough. It’s more than enough. For my thoughts on this, please see my article “Everything I Hate About the ‘Peter Rabbit’ Trailer”. It contains everything I hate about the Peter Rabbit trailer.
Featured Image Via MTV and Alchetron
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Airbus Buries A380 Flagship, Drawing Curtain on Jumbo-Jet Era
Bloomberg, Features
Airbus SE decided to stop making the A380 double-decker after a dozen years in service, burying a prestige project that won the hearts of passengers and politicians but never the broad support of airlines that instead preferred smaller, more fuel-efficient aircraft.
Production of the jumbo jet will end by 2021, after the A380’s biggest customer, Emirates, and a handful of remaining buyers receive their last orders. The Gulf carrier will pare down its current A380 order to 14 from 53, Airbus said in a statement on Thursday. Emirates said separately it would purchase 70 smaller A330neo and A350 widebodies listed at $21.4 billion before customary discounts.
“Today’s announcement is painful for us and the A380 communities worldwide” Airbus Chief Executive Office Tom Enders said in a statement. airbus said as many as 3,500 jobs are affected by the decision.
While the A380 has struggled for years to match its popular appeal with a robust order book, the radical move to cancel the plane outright marks a watershed moment for civil aviation. The A380 was always more than an aircraft, albeit a very large one. Rather, it was the manifestation of Europe’s collaborative drive and the continent’s industrial ambitions. For Airbus, the airliner sought to create a commanding counterweight to Boeing Co., promising unparalleled space and luxury for increasingly congested airports and the skies above.
Early Problems
But from early on, the plane had a hard time, both technically and commercially. Getting the A380 airborne for its maiden flight was severely delayed by wiring glitches that resulted from faulty communications between design teams. When the plane finally embarked on its first commercial flight in late 2007, the financial crisis that would cripple global travel was already on the horizon. Some customers had second thoughts about whether the giant aircraft was the right choice for meager times, and cancellations started piling up.
Airbus had watched enviously as Boeing monopolized the market for very large aircraft with its 747 jumbo, which celebrates its 50th anniversary this month and sold more than 1,500 units. While Airbus was a major force in the single-aisle space with its A320 family, the prestigious long-distance and ultra-large aircraft segment remained the domain of its U.S. rival. With passenger numbers rising every year and major new hubs opening in markets like Dubai, the A380 seemed the obvious choice to address the need for a large people carrier, while picking market share off Boeing.
Big Customer
Dubai did in fact turn into the A380s major sponsor, with Emirates ordering a total of more than 160 units, far in excess of any other airline. But ironically it was also Emirates that contributed to the A380’s decline and fall. With Airbus increasingly reliant on a single customer for its flagship product, Emirates could make or break the program by ordering or canceling more A380s. When the airline decided to rethink latest order for 20 units, Airbus saw no choice but to draw down production, given the lack of other buyers.
“As a result of this decision we have no substantial A380 backlog and hence no basis to sustain production, despite all our sales efforts with other airlines in recent years,” Enders said.
From its inception, the A380 was a grand European project. The wings, like those of all Airbus aircraft, came from the U.K., components were ferried across the continent from production sites in Germany and France. The giant fuselage tubes were taken by barge and flat-bed truck to the main facility in Toulouse, and the planes were then painted and kitted out in Hamburg. Teams from across the region joined colleagues at other sites during crunch times, the quirky-looking Beluga freight planes would crisscross countries with parts, and the A380 was a popular backdrop at air shows for politicians celebrating Europe’s achievements.
But over the past two decades, a new breed of aircraft gained popularity, making life harder for the A380 and the Boeing 747, which has also struggled with the latest passenger version of its iconic hump-backed plane. While the A380 represented an Airbus bet on congestion driving demand for ever-larger aircraft in mega-hub airports, Boeing in the early 2000s decided the future would lie smaller long-range planes that could economically overfly the hubs and directly connect smaller markets.
Its 777 model and the smaller 787 Dreamliner, as well as Airbus’s A350 models, twin-engine planes that pioneered the use of lightweight carbon fiber and efficient engines, helped airlines drastically cut fuel expenses and allowed them to use the planes with quicker turnaround times on smaller point-to-point routes. The giant jumbo aircraft, by contrast, suddenly became too expensive, too heavy and too cumbersome to operate.
Resale Values
Markets where Airbus had hoped to sell its prestige plane hardly caught on or didn’t materialize at all. There isn’t a single U.S. carrier that uses the A380, Chinese airlines have only bought the model in low numbers, and Japan — traditionally a big buyer of the Boeing 747 — has only recently taken delivery of its first A380. Qantas Airways Ltd. formally canceled an outstanding order just last week, and carriers including Air France have pared back their commitments.
Part of the A380s problem is that there is no established second-hand market, typically the domain where prospective buyers can pick up jets at a discount. Singapore Airlines Ltd., the first commercial operator of the A380, learned this just recently, when it returned some aircraft back to its leasing partner, only to see them scrapped in France for their parts.
Airbus itself acknowledged that timing may not have been on its side with the A380. While busy airports like London Heathrow have become major magnets for the model, congestion has not been felt acutely enough around the world to shock more airlines into buying the biggest plane. And many operators don’t even use the model at full capacity. The A380 is capable of carrying more than 800 passengers, but most airlines choose to transport no more than about 500 people, instead decking out the cabin with fancy features from in-flight bars to showers and multi-room suites that come with flourishes like butlers and sofas.
Read more: A QuickTake on the A380
Such fripperies were a hit with passengers, who often went out of their way to book a flight on the A380, which promised a more spacious, quieter, more luxurious flight experience than older long-distance models. At a time when flying had lost its jet-age mystique and budget carriers sought to cram as many people onto a plane as possible, the A380 offered a throwback to an era of stylish travel, with plush cabin layouts and free-flowing champagne.
But in the end, it wasn’t passenger support, but the lack thereof from airlines that hastened the A380’s demise. Like Concord, the supersonic jetliner that inspired a generation of plane-spotting fans, the A380 was brought back down to earth by the hard truths of commercial board-room economics that gained the upper hand over popular aviation enthusiasm.
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Simmons’ triple-double helps 76ers hold off Mavs
Furkan Korkmaz buried a key 3-pointer with 1:34 remaining Saturday night to stall a Dallas Mavericks rally, helping the host Philadelphia 76ers hold on for a 106-100 victory.
Jan 5, 2019; Philadelphia, PA, USA; Philadelphia 76ers guard Furkan Korkmaz (30) shoots a three point shot over Dallas Mavericks forward Dorian Finney-Smith (10) during the fourth quarter at Wells Fargo Center. Mandatory Credit: Eric Hartline-USA TODAY Sports
Ben Simmons recorded a triple-double with 20 points, a game-high 14 rebounds and a game-high 11 assists while Joel Embiid provided a double-double with a game-high 25 points and 12 rebounds, leading the 76ers to a third consecutive win despite the absence of Jimmy Butler, who missed the game with an illness.
Wesley Matthews connected on four 3-pointers to account for a majority of his team-high 18 points for the Mavericks.
Philadelphia led by as many as 12 points in the first quarter and then by as many as 18 in the third before the Mavericks spent most of the final quarter chipping away.
The 76ers led 98-86 with just 2:30 to play before Matthews made a 3-pointer and Dennis Smith Jr. a two-point basket, getting Dallas within seven.
But Korkmaz, making just his fourth career start, countered with his key hoop, extending the Philadelphia lead to 101-91.
Unfazed, the Mavericks got 3-pointers from Matthews and Luka Doncic to close within four before Simmons made a free throw and Embiid and Korkmaz connected on a pair apiece to keep the visitors at arm’s length.
JJ Redick had 20 points and Jonah Bolden 11 to go with nine rebounds for Philadelphia, which opened a two-game homestand that ends Tuesday against Washington.
Korkmaz finished with seven points.
Jalen Brunson nearly countered Simmons’ triple-double with one of his own for the Mavericks, finishing with 13 points and team-highs in rebounds (11) and assists (eight).
Ryan Broekhoff had 15 points, Doncic 14 and Dwight Powell 13 for Dallas, which lost its second straight to complete a 1-3 trip.
The Mavericks outscored the 76ers 27-18 on 3-pointers, but were outshot 46.4 percent to 43.2 overall.
Doncic shot just 4-for-16 in the loss.
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CADS Spaces for hire
Revered underground venue and events company The Night Kitchen was listed as one of the UK’s 10 Best Clubs in The Guardian, 2015. The Night Kitchen is a partnership between CADS & Party for the People.
CADS has also played host to myriad one-off events spanning theatre, photo-shoots and art exhibitions covering 50 days of the year and attracting over 2,000 visitors.
CADS Spaces
All our spaces are available all year round
(subject to bookings)
Alongside our studios, we have multiple versatile, unique spaces available for hire. Our rooms offer something different from the corporate, everyday places that you visit on a daily basis. Bring something special to your project or event, something different that sparks interest and intrigue, using these seemingly abandoned places that hide a wealth of art and heritage.
Please contact us for more information and to arrange a viewing
CADS Office 0114 3489 421
If you can’t find what you’re looking for, we have contacts within the industry that have spaces available. Give us a ring or an email and we can point you in the right direction or find you some alternatives.
The Abbeydale Picture House
The ABBEYDALE PICTURE HOUSE is relatively new to our portfolio. It has been an exciting challenge, bringing this building back to life and in successfully holding multiple events this year and gaining a marriage licence for the building, we are well on our way! We have lots of spaces available to hire including The Auditorium, Fly Tower, Reception / Meeting Rooms, a Cafe Space and Foyer and a large car park suitable for outdoor events. Read more about the Abbeydale Picture House and our recent events & exhibitions here
Photo 2 by Mal Whichelow
Theatre Performances
HIRE THE BUILDING
THE GREAT HALL is a cavernous space located in the Snow Lane side of CADS Works. With it’s high ceilings and vast space, it is suitable for a range of activities. It has proven a popular location for theatre productions and music videos a like.
Drop us a line.
CADS Office - 0114 3489 421
Warehouse Gallery
WAREHOUSE GALLERY is our main gallery spaces. With easy access from the road and a loading bay within the joining courtyard area, it’s our most popular space for exhibitions and small public events.
Get in touch with us via telephone or email.
Basement Sound Room
BASEMENT SOUND ROOM is one of the rooms used by The Night Kitchen for its club space. It’s low ceilings and dark walls create an intimate setting for projections, film and photo shoots.
Contact the CADS office for more information.
TNK Room
TNK ROOM is the main room used by The Night Kitchen club space. This room is perfect for music video shoots and exhibitions wanting a darker room.
UNION STREET, alongside it’s co-working spaces, has extra space for meetings, workshops and talks. It played host to ‘Festival of Debate’ earlier this year, which involved talks, film screenings and other gatherings.
Hot desking and co-working spaces are available at our co-working space in the City centre at Union Street.
Is there anything you'd like to know more about? Simply pick up the telephone or send us an email. We'd love to hear from you.
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Medivation Signals It’s Exploring Sale, Sources Say
Those familiar with the situation say the drug maker has opened its books to both Pfizer and Amgen, after slapping down Sanofi's takeover offer.
Reuters: Exclusive: Medivation Succumbs To Pressure To Explore Sale - Sources
Medivation Inc will actively seek to sell itself after the US cancer drug maker rejected a $9.3 billion takeover offer from France's Sanofi SA, according to people familiar with the situation. The San Francisco-based company has agreed to open its books to both Pfizer Inc and Amgen Inc, those people said. The move comes less than two weeks after Sanofi made its approach public by publishing a letter to Medivation's chief executive David Hung that contained details of the offer. However, there is still no certainty that Sanofi's rivals will press ahead with bids for Medivation, the people cautioned. (Barbaglia, 5/9)
In other pharmaceutical news —
The San Diego Union-Tribune: Study: Expanding Generic Drug Use Could Save Billions
Health insurers and patients could safely save many billions of dollars annually by swapping out a more expensive drug for a less expensive generic in the same class of drugs, according to a study published Monday. (Fikes, 5/9)
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Baby ripped from murdered woman’s womb in Chicago. Family says she was lured to her death by a woman she met through Facebook.
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The body of a formerly pregnant Illinois woman was discovered Wednesday inside a trash can behind a Chicago-area home, according to officials.
The young woman’s baby was reportedly cut from her body after she was killed, according to police, the Chicago Sun-Times reported. Marlen Ochoa-Lopez, 19, died from strangulation, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office.
“We believe that she was murdered and we believe that the baby was forcibly removed following that murder,” Chicago Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said, adding that the baby is hospitalized in “grave” condition.
Ochoa-Lopez of Pilsen was nine months pregnant when she went missing April 23.
The young woman’s family believe she was lured to the home of a Southwest Side woman, whom she reportedly met through a pregnancy support group on Facebook, for a stroller exchange and baby clothes.
“She was giving clothes away, supposedly under the pretense that her daughters had been given clothes and they had all these extra boy clothes,” Cecelia Garcia, a spokeswoman for Ochoa-Lopez’s family, told the Chicago Tribune.
What are the details?
Ochoa-Lopez was last seen leaving Latino Youth High School on April 23 when she left to meet up with the woman from the Facebook group called “Help a Sister Out,” WBBM-TV reported.
Later that day, at 6:11 p.m., a 46-year woman called 911 claiming that she had just given birth at her home. The address of the home was the same address Ochoa-Lopez reportedly drove to earlier that afternoon for the meet up.
Paramedics responded to the call where they found a newborn baby not breathing. They performed CPR and transported the infant to Advocate Christ Medical Center.
Last week, the missing woman’s Honda Civic was found about a block from the 46-year-old woman’s home.
DNA testing has shown that the baby boy born April 23 belonged to Ochoa-Lopez and her husband Yiovanni Lopez. The family named the baby Yadiel Yiovanni Lopez.
“I have a lot of pain, a lot of anguish, a lot of sadness,” Lopez told reporters in Spanish, the Sun-Times reported. “It’s painful to lose your wife, the woman you love the most. It’s painful.”
The couple also have a 3-year-old son.
Did neighbors see anything?
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We Are All Scientists: On Mary Baker Eddy and Christian Science
Eddy’s lifetime of illness, and her encounters with medical therapies, poised her as an instrument of revelation.
Excerpted and adapted from And Your Daughters Shall Prophesy: Stories from the Byways of American Women and Religion by Adrian Shirk. Reprinted by permission of Counterpoint Press.
There’s a marble bust of a stately Victorian woman sitting on my grandparents’ hearth in Seattle, and for part of my life I thought she was Mary Baker Eddy. The bust’s craftsman detailed each ruffle in her collar, the fine downturned corners of her mouth, a neck tendon—handiwork so thorough and lifelike that, as a child, my mother’s cousin was regularly inspired to jam his finger up her nostril, whispering, “Pickin’ Gramma’s nose, pickin’ Gramma’s nose . . .” The reasons for my confusion were complicated and have to do with the way my family tells and does not tell stories about itself—but these were Eddy’s problems, too.
Reverend Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of Christian Science, is recorded as having been sick for most of her life: anxious, erratic, doubled-over, her frail body wracked by mysterious intermittent pains. Eddy’s temper tantrums and day terrors alienated her siblings and forced her parents into a lifelong tiptoe. She required constant rocking as a child, and when she was an adult her family commissioned an oversized cradle in which she spent many of her days.
Harold Bloom describes Eddy as “a kind of anthology of nineteenth-century nervous ailments,” though I suppose many Victorian women could have been characterized that way. Female nervousness was being written prolifically into diagnostic manuals at the time, one strain of which was even called “Americanitis.” Is it surprising? The cognitive dissonance of the 1870s was sharp: the blitz of postwar wealth, a booming middle class, half a million young men dead, and three million freed slaves expected to begin anew and forget—along with the emergent progressive majority—that anything had happened at all. We were tripping on the heels of the Industrial Revolution, which had sped everything up, and we were struck dumb by the realization that all Western powers were in cahoots and had been for a long time, and that millions were perishing in their colonial crossfire. Women were indoors getting splinters, dying in childbirth next to the window through which they’d watched the world pass them by. Time was no longer linear, but fragmented. So when Eddy established the Church of Christ, Scientist in 1879, she offered an irresistible alternative: Life, as you suspected, is happening elsewhere. Disease and death are metaphysical glitches. Maybe the members of this new religion could feel it in their marrow, maybe Eddy more than others. After all, as scientist and novelist C. P. Snow asserted in his 1959 Rede lecture “The Two Cultures,” it is scientists who “have the future in their bones.”
It was Eddy’s lifetime of illness, and her subsequent encounters with newfangled medical therapies, that poised her as an instrument of revelation. The Christian Science hermeneutical stance is that the whole Bible is a literal guide toward psychic and physical restoration, and that Eddy, as evidenced by the prophesied “little book” mentioned in Revelations, was uniquely appointed to reveal it through her explication of the Bible, Science and Health with Keys to the Scripture .
In it, she writes that “health is not a condition of matter, but of mind,” a conviction undergirding all of Christian Science—the controversial principle blamed for the deaths of those who refused hospitalization for their ailing parents or their kids. But Eddy’s call issues from the belief that Creation is inherently good, and that every physical or psychic aberration is an illusion that can be willed out of consciousness, vaporized by prayer. She saw all manner of disease as requiring only a “re-alignment between Mind and God.” Any perceivable darkness or disorder is the consequence of wandering, as in a dream from which you cannot wake. And rather than believing in the divinity of Jesus, she held that “Christ” is a spirit which flowed through him, and through all men and all women, granting everyone the potential to “demonstrate the Christ”: to be a healer.
The marble bust on my grandparents’ hearth was made, of course, not in the likeness of Eddy but of Mary Stevenson Semple, my fifth-great-grandmother, whose husband founded the shoreline city of Elsah, Illinois, which—for no particular reason having to do with his governance—became the site of Principia College, the world’s only Christian Science university. Maybe this was the source of my confusion. The Semples were Methodists when they arrived in Illinois and Episcopalians later on. And then their only daughter, Lucy, converted to Christian Science following the death of her business tycoon husband.
Her family worried she’d joined a cult, but Lucy didn’t give a shit. She was rich, a businesswoman in her own right, summering her last decades on a rolling estate overlooking the Missouri River. Meanwhile, her younger brother Eugene had left Illinois, gone farther west, starting but failing to complete all of his entrepreneurial endeavors on the Pacific Coast, as large and optimistic as they were: cedar mill baron, filler of tide lands, canal builder, state printer, police commissioner, appointed governor of the Washington Territory, and three-time Democratic loser for elected offices. When his wife ran off with a businessman and the new baby, Eugene filed as a widower and sent his three young daughters to be raised by Lucy in Illinois. She brought up her nieces, Maude, Zoe, and Ethel, in the Church of Christ, Scientist. Then Ethel begat Lulu, and Lulu begat my grandfather George, who begat my mother. I know all of this now.
But which of my ancestors believed what, and for how long, and how those beliefs faded—in one lifetime, in one generation?—is still unclear to me. Did Eugene’s daughters cleave to Science to salve the wounds of their father’s abandonment? Was Lucy’s conversion to this rather egalitarian religion a radical response to Victorian restrictiveness? And how has the irreligious thrust of my immediate family been informed by the inheritance of a religion whose optimism allows for a near-complete disavowal of pain, of disorder, of chaos? Because there is no spiritual continuity in my ancestry to speak of, and because no one really knew why Lucy converted to Christian Science, I imagine unbroken lines of connection wherever they’ve never explicitly been debunked, and so when I was younger, having Christian Science relatives might as well have made me Eddy’s descendent.
And what if Eddy was my relation—my grandma, even? Too weak to hold me, a relative might have set me beside her in a chair designated for children, Eddy’s cold, thin hands folded in her lap. She wouldn’t even pat my head or crinkle a smile, and she’d be rocking, still rocking, as she had been doing her whole life. I’d listen to her chirp about the various miracles and revelations that had led to the founding of her church: the monastic fasts of her childhood, her experiences in mesmerism, a slip on the ice in Lynn, Massachusetts, that, by one account, left her paralyzed, cured only by reading one of Jesus’ healings—after which she sprung from bed in full form. But origin stories are unstable. Even the New Testament accounts for this. There are, after all, four gospels. Some biographers claim that after the fall in Lynn, Eddy was treated with morphine, and that the injury was not a dire one. In her autobiographical writings, Eddy claims that the revelation happened when she was a child, bedridden by stomach ulcers, and later that it was some other sickly girl, then woman, then man, who’d revealed to her the true spiritual reality.
But that’s all make-believe. It was my wealthy ancestor Aunt Lucy who had the marble bust made of her mother, and it was passed down from household to household until it was set in my grandparents’ living room—a place which, before my lifetime, held all-night parties, endless packs of Pall Malls, jugs of Carlo Rossi on the coffee table, bespoke packing cubes for the VW van, great American novels and psychology tomes, my grandfather’s endless stories, and my grandmother’s tipsy, intellectual wit, which kept everyone from going to bed when they otherwise ought to have—and which is now a tomb of cobwebbed furniture and old bicycle parts. The bust, however, sits in the same place it always has and is, at best, a prompt for jokes and tall tales about the religious zealots from whom we descend.
I am visiting my grandparents in Seattle during winter break from graduate school. My grandfather and I are sitting at the kitchen table, plates scraped clean from dinner. I’ve recently grown interested in Mary Baker Eddy, and Lucy and her brother Eugene—I’m not sure which first—and plan to casually excavate the “Semple Papers,” a trove of correspondence kept deep in a library at the University of Washington. I’ve come, too, in hopes of asking my grandfather what he knows about the Science that trickled down to his mother’s generation before disappearing entirely. But when I ask, he only shrugs and changes the subject to something more pressing.
“GMC is offering me thirteen grand for my Suburban,” he says from behind a tall plastic cup of scotch. “They’ve been sending letters.” Out the window, I can see the giant twenty-year-old rig parked halfway on the pavement. “But I’m not giving it up. Why do you think they want those transmissions so badly? I’m keeping hold of it just in case I want to run off into the mountains . . .”
When he says this, I’m not sure if he’s talking about an apocalyptic flight or just a summer excursion, of which he still imagines there are many to come. He laughs at his own frugal genius, his lifelong pride in beating “the system,” and shifts his eighty-five-year-old body in the chair, uncrossing his bloated ankles, the shattered hips intact only by an intricate act of balancing bones.
“Yeah,” I say. “That’s crazy. But—did your grandmother ever talk to you about Christian Science? She was Eugene’s daughter, wasn’t she?”
“Mmh,” he says. “Now— Robert Semple, Eugene’s eldest brother, he was interesting. He helped start the California Bear Flag Revolt in 1846 . . .”
I listen to the full twenty-five-minute account of the Bear Flag Revolt and the capturing of Alta California before rephrasing my question about Christian Science. I keep hoping that he’ll tell me some story about this grandmother, her undiagnosed schizophrenia, and her devotion to Science, or maybe a story she told him about the years when she and her sisters lived with their Aunt Lucy in the mansion on the Missouri River. But his mind wanders to more exciting adventures: the feats of the “Great Mizners,” Eugene Semple going north to the Yukon Gold Rush, his own cross-country bike rides.
When my grandfather was twelve years old he bicycled around the entire perimeter of Seattle, and then later Washington State, and by fifteen he and his friends were hitchhiking out to the new Olympic National Forest and hiking over the pass for days, weeks, after which they’d hitchhike home.
“One time we were coming back from a hike and got a ride, five of us, really squished into the back like sardines.” He chuckles, miming the closeness of the quarters. “And the car lost a tire and rolled over four times. But we were all packed in so tightly that no one was hurt. So I yelled, ‘Everyone okay?’ and then we kind of scooted out of the wreck and thumbed for another ride.” While we’ve been talking, he’s dug up an old photo album out of the back room, and he opens to the first page: There’s a photo of him just after the accident. He’s cavalier, shoulders thrown back, grinning through a shock of black beard, a virtually invincible young man clutching a cardboard sign that says seattle .
The funny thing is that, despite his adventurousness, my grandfather’s body has always been fragile. He was born with a degenerative joint condition. After a childhood of failed reconstructive bone surgeries, his body started really falling apart in his twenties, and he’s lived in denial of this ever since. He speaks now of his exploits very casually, as though everyone in 1948 was cycling from coast to coast for no particular reason. When, at twenty-one, he mounted his three-speed Peugeot with a bedroll and his camel-colored loafers, he wasn’t worried that his hip bones might grind against each other from Seattle to South Salem, New York. He was fearless, and he was looking for something, but unlike his forebears it had nothing to do with God. Instead it was strength, immortality, a way to will his frailness out of existence—something like that.
What did he care about Eddy’s Science? His mother had left Science as a young woman for the more formal pastures of the Episcopal Church. Her husband left their family, so she raised her two boys alone and—the way people talk about it—presided over a life so gentle and without expectation, she never urged either of them to heed any doctrine. She put on her little blue shift and matching jacket and went to church; alone or not, it didn’t matter. So, by my grandfather’s generation and thence on, no one in our family was healing by prayer, nor insisting that their children retain any kind of spiritual education. Religion, it seemed, was a perplexing recessive gene whose raison d’être was not worth remembering. In fact, my grandfather found that one could live a productive and ethical life without it, abiding instead by some inner voice. It was inevitable, really—in his blood. You ended up in the west only if someone in your family was looking for escape, or had gone on some impossible adventure, hauling all of their worldly belongings over the continental divide, or were otherwise looking forward, beyond, away from whence they came: erasing their trail or letting it disappear into the wilderness.
If, any time between 1955 and now, someone asked my grandfather what he wanted for Christmas, his answer was always the same: “Improved human relations.” This was his Apostle’s Creed. And my grandfather’s secular humanism was handed down, tacitly, to my mother: I was raised to value tolerance and pluralism and to believe in the native and potential goodness in everyone. It was a privilege, really, to grow up in Portland, Oregon, and never think twice about the sanctity of gay marriage, women’s reproductive rights, or social safety nets, or to doubt the systemic oppression of American minorities. I was taught to recycle, to distrust the free market, and to eat local produce. If I was sick, I went to counselors, naturopaths, and acupuncturists. If I was healthy, I told other people about how they should go see a counselor, a naturopath, an acupuncturist. I was expected to be healthy. I wanted to be healthy. Health and kindness were the marks of moral superiority.
If my distant Aunt Lucy and Mary Baker Eddy ever met, it would have been on Lucy’s property in Elsah, Illinois, a conference of two wealthy nineteenth-century widows in frothy white tea gowns, praying that the other realizes her nerves are fine, that nervous disease isn’t real, and that there’s nothing really to be nervous about anyway.
Christian Science doesn’t espouse such healings to be miraculous but “scientific,” methodical, an ultimately “proven” rediscovery of Christ’s methods as apparent in the Gospels. Jesus laying his hands on the blind man didn’t restore his sight; it showed, through the correction of spiritual thought, what he could see all along. So Jesus is not the son of God (any more than either of us are God’s sons or daughters), but the model Christian Science practitioner, those individuals who, even today, provide healing services in American business park offices and the like.
But despite her interest in restoring Christ’s first-century healings, Eddy’s accomplishments were much more nineteenth century: trustbusting, free enterprise, dissolving an anthropomorphic God, installing women in positions of leadership. By the turn of the century, some 70 percent of Christian Scientists were female, and the world had risen up to meet them.
The frontier had now been scaled and just as quickly secured, the occasion of its endlessness lasting only as long as the momentary hope that it truly might be. More Americans were running away, looking for gold, land, fur, time, freedom. They believed in God, though belief was more tenuous than ever. Frontier women were hanging out in parlor halls or rearing children in small tar-roof cabins in the woods, all by themselves, while their husbands sought nebulous fortunes. It wasn’t great, but maybe it was better than the civilized yoke of Victorian life—a modern period nearly unparalleled in its restrictiveness, in the stripping away of places for women in public and private life. More women lived farther and farther away from their birthplaces, so, if they survived, they could be anyone. They could run off with businessmen. They could convert to a different religion. Or they could make one. During a time when women were excluded from seminaries, pulpits, medical and scientific professions, Mary Baker Eddy’s religion created a way that they could occupy nearly all of these roles at the same time.
Adrian Shirk is the author of And Your Daughters Shall Prophesy, a hybrid-memoir exploring the lives of American women prophets and mystics, named an NPR ‘Best Book’ of 2017. She's currently working on a manuscript about utopian communities. Shirk was raised in Portland, Oregon, and has since lived in New York and Wyoming. She's a frequent contributor to Catapult, and her essays have appeared in The Atlantic, among others. Currently, she teaches in Pratt Institute’s BFA Creative Writing Program, and lives on the border of the Bronx and Yonkers with her husband Sweeney and Quentin the cat.
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7 Wellness Trends People Are Obsessing About In 2019 – FashionBeans
January 21, 2019 by Mary Sparks
Estimates as to the size of the global wellness market vary, but the consensus is that it’s around $4 trillion – which is a bit more than the GDP of Germany. It’s no surprise, then, that everyone from one-man start-ups to thriving multinationals wants a piece of the action. There’s a lot of money in feeling good.
For the average bloated, stressed-out consumer, the returns are just as tempting. Promises made by the wellness industry include work-life balance in blissed-out equilibrium, boundless energy and a six-pack to go with it. Who doesn’t want that kind of self-love?
Yes, there’s hokum out there, but there are also habits and ‘movements’ that can make a genuinely positive impact on your life. These are the wellness trends we’re jumping on this year.
The Rise Of Pseudo Meat
Much has been written about American company Beyond Meat, whose meat-free burger patty “bleeds” onto the plate in a thrilling impression of an undercooked Whopper. The burger’s launch was a headline grabbing moment for the fast-rising, vegan-friendly, plant-based faux-meats movement, which is built upon tasty products made entirely from things that grew as opposed to things that were born.
The market is set to expand – so much so that genuine purveyors of meat are getting worried. The BBC reported recently that French lawmakers have been busy passing legislation to prevent fake-meat brands from using certain ‘meaty’ terms in their advertising and descriptions.
The reason for the mild panic is that faux meats can be really good. And in 2019, we’ll see more carnivore imposters enter the mainstream with such delicacies as plant-based prawns, vegan tuna and even ersatz salmon appearing on the shelves. One of the names to watch is American start-up Good Catch Foods, whose stated goal is “to preserve the ocean’s natural resources while introducing awesomely delicious ‘seafood’ choices that benefit you and the world.”
Cannabis Everything
Well, not quite, but America’s increasingly relaxed attitude to cannabis (as well as Canada’s outright legalisation) is causing considerable ripples in the wellness market, where products based around Cannabidiol (CBD) now abound. CBD is one of the 100+ compounds to be found in the cannabis plant, and while it won’t space you out like THC – marijuana’s most-famous compound – it is being touted as having multiple medical benefits.
Studies have shown that CBD-infused oils can help with pain relief, reduce anxiety, work as an an antidepressant and a whole lot more. Imminent new legislation in the US is expected to legalise it across the country and, if that happens, it looks certain to rapidly accelerate CBD’s growth (experts predict that it will be a multi-billion dollar industry within three years). As the industry matures, expect niches to emerge, with everyone from organic makers to confectioners who pop it into their chocolate vying for a slice of the market.
Freeze!
The world is slowly (reluctantly?) cottoning on to what Scandinavian people have known for centuries: namely that immersing yourself in freezing water is a great way to reduce stress. In September The Guardian suggested that a few laps in an ice-cold pool comes with certain anti-inflammatory benefits and British company CryoAction claim it’s a growing trend especially amongst elite athletes in the United Kingdom.
According to CryoAction, many of the UK’s top football teams are onside for the cold revolution: they list Everton, Leicester City and Arsenal as among the many clients they’ve worked with. And by ‘worked with’, we mean giving players three-to-five minutes in a ‘cryotherapy chamber’, where the temperature can be rapidly dropped to as low as -135 degrees C. The idea has been put forward that the more used you become to sudden, horrible sensations (the freezing cold bit), the less the rigours of everyday life will bother you. It’s said to improve recovery times, too. We’ll let you decide.
Keto Goes Green
Fans of the much-debated keto diet who are starting to feel bad about gnawing their way through the world’s livestock in pursuit of their low-carb, high-fat existence may be tempted by a more environmentally-friendly version this year.
Wellness channel Healthista termed the trend “eco-Keto eating” for keto fans who preferred to do it the meat-free way. The goal, as fans of ketogenic diets will tell you, is to put your body in a state of ketosis, which sees it burn fat in a very efficient way. By swapping the steaks for things like avocados and nuts you can keep the fats pouring in without killing anything.
Businesses are catching on – the UK’s first vegan keto meal delivery programme Nosh Detox will do all the hard work for you if you have a spare £444 lying around. Available in 20 Pullman hotels globally, including Pullman London St Pancras, the hotel chain have just launched an Active Breakfast menu, curated by wellness ambassador, Sarah Hoey, which includes eco-Keto meal offerings such as amaranth and organic tricolour quinoa porridge with salted caramel and rice milk.
And if you want a less taxing way to get involved, check out functional medicine practitioner Dr Will Cole’s new book The Ketotarian, a mostly plant-based keto diet plan that claims to ‘boost your energy, crush your cravings and calm inflammation’.
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You don’t need a degree in audiology to know that sound can greatly affect how you feel – who hasn’t been left churned up inside after listening to a warbling ballad about a failed romance or a three-legged dog?
The basic idea of an emerging trend named ‘sound therapy’ is that different sounds have different frequencies, and in the right hands these can be used to help heal you of the ailments that riddle your body. The British Academy of Sound Therapy says, for example, that a Himalayan bowl strategically-placed on a tense muscle and played in a certain way can sort you right out.
If you’re not convinced, then there’s one overarching concept that could win you over. Everyone knows that stress can cause and exacerbate a multitude of health problems; a calming session of sound and music, therefore, can only be a winner.
Sleep Less… But Better
Global insomnia epidemic… blue light exposure… poor sleep hygiene – you’ve yawned your way through this “news” a thousand times before, but what if this was the year, as many wellness-watchers feel it will be, that you truly aced your sleep, and started to enjoy the multitude of health benefits that go with it?
The first step – and it’s one that people are starting to accept – is to acknowledge that eight hours of shut-eye is nigh on impossible these days. What’s more important is that the six or seven hours you do get should be premium-grade, uninterrupted sleep of the purest kind, and there will be ever-more apps, gadgets and techniques to help you.
Start with a commitment to improving your sleep routine (there are a million tips online), and if you still struggle, try signing up for an on-trend sleep-performance/sleep-enhancement vacation: The Shanti Resort and Spa in Mauritius, for example, has a sleep package that uses an ancient relaxation technique named yoga nidra to “unwind the nervous system” and induce restorative sleep while Lake Como’s Lefay Resort & Spa will be offering a sleep programme that includes energy work and acupuncture, thereby promoting sleep. Equally in are ‘silent retreats’ where you shut the hell up, calm the mind and – hopefully – get a restful night, too.
‘Biohacking’ emerged as a thing in 2014, and the basic idea was that people used science, biology and personal knowledge of what makes them tick to make their lives better. Coming at things from a similar – tailored – angle and gathering momentum for the year ahead is nutrigenomics, a fast-growing field in which experts look at your DNA to give you a precise idea about what you should and shouldn’t be eating.
It begins with a blood test and cheek swabs and starts to make sense when a nutritionist sits down with you to explain what your body needs. A company named Habit make the process rather simple with a mail-order kit – currently one-third off at $199 – which will result in a bespoke nutrition plan, they say, that is based on your unique needs and lifestyle.
Source: https://www.fashionbeans.com/article/wellness-trends/
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· Over-the-Counter Derivatives - Public comment was sought on whether the Commission's current regulatory structure applicable to over-the-counter derivatives should be modified. In particular, the release requested comments on whether the Commission's current regulatory provisions exempting certain types of over-the-counter derivatives from some provisions of the CEA were adequate in light of the explosive growth in the over-the-counter derivatives market.
· Placement of Foreign Board of Trade Computer Terminals in the U.S. - The concept release sought public comment regarding the proper standards to be applied in considering applications from foreign boards of trade desiring to place terminals in the United States, such as whether a foreign board of trade should be exempted from the requirement for designation as a U.S. contract market and, if so, what requirements and conditions should be imposed.
· Noncompetitive Transactions Executed on or Subject to the Rules of an Exchange - A concept release on the regulation of noncompetitive transactions executed on or subject to the rules of a contract market raised questions about the oversight of transactions involving (1) the exchange of futures contracts for cash commodities; (2) other noncompetitive transactions, such as the exchange of futures contracts for swap agreements and block trades; and (3) the use of execution facilities for noncompetitive transactions.
· Maintenance of Customer Funds Overseas or in Foreign Currencies - T&M staff recommended and the Commission published a concept release concerning possible revisions to the Division's Interpretation No. 12, relating to maintenance of customer funds and the location of depositories. The release sought public comment on how to address the risks associated with holding segregated customer funds offshore or in foreign currencies, including U.S. bankruptcy treatment of these funds.
· Performance Data and Disclosure for Commodity Trading Advisors and Commodity Pools - T&M staff recommended and the Commission published a concept release concerning commodity trading advisor (CTA) and commodity pool rate-of-return and disclosure issues. The release sought public comment on improving risk profile data for both CTA programs and commodity pools, providing a theoretically sound basis of computation and presentation for rate of return and related risk profile data, providing CTA client account information to futures commission merchants (FCMs) for risk management purposes, and improving the presentation of historical performance and risk profile data.
Rulemakings
During FY 1998, T&M recommended and the Commission published several rule proposals and final rules. These rulemakings covered a wide range of topics, from SRO regulation to financial reporting requirements, including the following:
SRO Programs
· Allocation of Bunched Orders - The Commission approved a final rule amendment to Regulation 1.35(a-1) permitting certain bunched customer orders to be placed on U.S. futures exchanges without individual customer account identifiers either at the time of order placement or report of execution. Bunched orders may be placed by registered CTAs,investment advisers, and other regulated account managers (subject to certain conditions) on behalf of customers who have been identified as sophisticated "eligible participants" in Part 36 of the Commission's regulations. The rule requires these orders to be allocated to customer accounts no later than the end of the day the order is executed.
· Expanded Use of Micrographic and Electronic Storage Media - This release requested public comment on proposed amendments to Regulation 1.31 which would allow registrants to use micrographic and electronic storage media in lieu of paper for recordkeeping in many circumstances. The amendments are designed to maximize the cost reduction and timesaving of electronic storage while retaining safeguards to ensure reliability in the recordkeeping process.
· Futures-Style Margining of Commodity Options - The Commission repealed Regulation 33.4(a)(2), thereby permitting the futures-style margining of commodity options. This action does not impose an obligation on exchanges to adopt futures-style margining, but rather permits each market to determine whether to implement that approach.
· Standards Regarding Potential Conflicts of Interest at SROs - Regulation 1.69, reproposed by the Commission during FY 1998, would establish enhanced standards regarding potential conflicts of interest at SROs. This regulation would require SROs to adopt rules prohibiting members of their governing boards, disciplinary committees, and oversight panels from deliberating and voting on matters in which they have either a relationship to a named party or a financial interest in the outcome of the proceeding.
· Change in Trading Hours - Amendments to Regulation 1.41(k), which were adopted by the Commission during FY 1998, allow a contract market that has previously received Commission approval for trading between 6:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. in at least one of its designated contracts to change its trading hours. Such a change will be deemed approved by the Commission one business day after receipt of written notice of the change.
Procedural Changes
· Exemptive, No-Action and Interpretative Letters - The Commission published a proposed rule to provide guidance to the industry and to the public regarding procedures to request exemptive, no-action and interpretative letters from Commission staff. The proposed rule would create a level playing field for regulated entities and members of the public who seek such letters and would enable the Commission staff to respond quickly to incoming requests.
Financial Reporting and Disclosure
· Electronic Reporting - T&M staff recommended and the Commission approved a rule amendment permitting the use of a personal identification number in lieu of a manual signature to attest to the completeness and veracity of a report. To save development costs and to make electronic filing systems compatible with and transparent to the filing firms, the Commission adapted for its own use the filing software that was co-developed by the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) and the Chicago Board of Trade (CBT). Through September 30, 1998, the Commission received 821 financial reports electronically from 87 FCMs who are members of CME and CBT. T&M staff also began working with the National Futures Association which is developing a system to permit electronic filing of its members' financial reports.
· Elimination of the "Short Option Value Charge"- The Commission eliminated the "short option value charge" that the Commission had required FCMs to take when computing their net capital. Previously, in calculating its adjusted net capital, an FCM was required to deduct a capital charge, based upon four percent of the market value of commodity options sold by option customers on or subject to the rules of a contract market or a foreign board of trade. The Commission rescinded this charge because it found that the charge was not closely correlated to the actual risk of the customer's short option positions and because there are other protections in place to address this risk.
· Notification of Undersegregration of Customer Funds or Undercapitalization - Final rule amendments to Regulation 1.12 require FCMs to notify the Commission immediately when they "know or should know" that they are not in compliance with the requirements for segregation of customer funds or for capital. These amendments shorten the time from when an FCM learns of undersegregation or under-capitalization problems and the FCM is required to report to the Commission.
· Elimination of Risk Disclosure and Bankruptcy Disclosure Statements - The Commission eliminated the requirement that FCMs and introducing brokers (IBs) provide certain categories of financially sophisticated customers with risk disclosure and bankruptcy disclosure statements and obtain from these customers written acknowledgements of receipt of the risk disclosure statement before opening a commodity futures or option account on their behalf.
Exemptive Relief and Guidance
In FY 1998, T&M staff responded to a high volume of requests for guidance concerning the applicability of regulations to specific transactions, products, persons and market circumstances. Division staff issued over 230 responses to written requests from members of the public and the regulated industry to provide guidance concerning compliance. These responses consisted of exemptive letters, no-action positions and interpretative guidance.
Review and Approval of Exchange Rules
The Division promotes and enhances self-regulation by reviewing proposed exchange rules and amendments for consistency with the CEA and Commission regulations. In many cases, these rule submissions present complex new trading procedures, market structures, and financial arrangements which raise novel issues. In some cases, the submissions also require Commission rule amendments or interpretations to facilitate implementation of the SRO rule changes. During FY 1998, the Division reviewed, and the Commission approved, 212 new exchange rules or rule amendments. The Division also reviewed and permitted 479 exchange rules to go into effect without prior Commission approval. Significant exchange rules approved by the Commission or permitted to go into effect by the Division in FY 1998 include the following:
· Cantor Financial Futures Exchange - The Commission approved designation of the Cantor Financial Futures Exchange (CFFE), a computer-based exchange, as a new contract market for futures contracts on U.S. Treasury one-, five-, and ten-year notes and thirty-year bonds. CFFE was formed pursuant to an agreement between the New York Cotton Exchange (NYCE) and Cantor Fitzgerald, LP, an inter-dealer broker in the U.S. Treasury securities market. CFFE contracts are traded over the same trading system that CFFE uses to trade government securities and are cleared by the Commodity Clearing Corporation. NYCE provides all regulatory functions.
· NYMEX Specialist Market Maker Program - The Commission approved a New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) proposal establishing a Specialist Market Maker (SMM) Program. The Program is intended to enhance liquidity in new or low-volume futures contracts. The SMM will be a NYMEX member or member firm appointed by NYMEX to act as a market maker in a designated contract market. The SMM will be required to maintain a continuous physical presence on the floor of the exchange throughout the regular trading session, manage a limit order book, and provide a two-sided market in the relevant contracts. The SMM will receive certain exchange funding and will be entitled to trading priorities.
· NYCE and CSCE Merger - The Commission approved rules submitted by NYCE and the Coffee, Sugar and Cocoa Exchange (CSCE) that facilitated a merger of the two exchanges. Initially, the exchanges will merge staff but will continue as separate legal entities under the control of a common holding company, the Board of Trade of the City of New York (NYBT). The two will later merge into NYBT, with NYBT being the surviving legal entity. At that time, former NYCE and CSCE full members will have joint trading rights in all NYCE and CSCE futures and option contracts.
· "Project A" Side-by-Side Trading - The Division allowed into effect without prior Commission approval a CBT rule proposing side-by-side electronic and open outcry trading of certain financial contracts during regular trading hours. Project A, CBT's electronic trading system, was used previously only for overnight trading of high-volume contracts. The Division determined that CBT adequately demonstrated Project A's ability to handle reasonably anticipated daytime trading volume for high-volume contracts.
· Globex2 Electronic Trading System - The Division allowed into effect without prior Commission approval amendments proposed by the CME implementing a new operation system for its Globex electronic trading system, referred to as Globex2. The new system provides various improved features, including the capacity to process various types of orders including market orders, stop limit orders, market-if-touched orders, and one-cancels-other orders.
· NYCE and Citrus Associates Merger - The Division allowed into effect without prior Commission approval a proposed merger of the Citrus Associates of NYCE (Citrus) and NYCE. Prior to the merger, NYCE and Citrus were separate affiliated legal entities.
· CME Trader's Instant Treasury Access Network - The Division allowed into effect without prior Commission approval CME's proposed Trader's Instant Treasury Access Network (TITAN). TITAN offers members the ability to trade cash U.S. Treasury instruments and to arrange financing for cash Treasuries via inter-dealer broker terminals placed in the Eurodollar quadrant of CME's trading floor.
· BOTCC and CCOS Account Cross-Margining - The Division reviewed and the Commission approved cross-margining of certain non-proprietary accounts carried by clearing members of the Board of Trade Clearing Corporation (BOTCC) and its subsidiary, the Clearing Corporation for Options and Securities (CCOS), on behalf of participating market professionals. CCOS will provide clearance and settlement services for certain cash government securities transactions executed through the Chicago Board Brokerage, Inc., a subsidiary of CBT.
· CME Pit Space Dispute Resolution Guidelines - The Division allowed into effect without prior Commission approval proposed CME guidelines for the resolution of pit space disputes on the trading floor. The Division's "1997 Broker Association Rule Enforcement Review" recommended that the exchanges establish procedures addressing the allocation of pit space. CME responded with a proposal setting forth detailed procedures to be followed and factors to be considered in resolving pit space disputes. The proposal makes clear that pit space is not the property of any member and therefore cannot be sold.
· Review of Exchange Emergency Actions
New York Mercantile Exchange - The Division reviewed an emergency action taken by NYMEX and prepared a report to Congress as required by law. The emergency action, taken during extreme movement in both the electricity futures and cash markets, temporarily expanded price fluctuation limits to allow trading in the second month of the Cinergy and Entergy Electricity futures contracts. The Division report concluded that it was appropriate for NYMEX to permit temporary rules to remain in effect for the duration of the emergency.
New York Cotton Exchange - The Division reviewed an emergency action taken by NYCE and prepared the required report to Congress. The emergency action, taken in response to foreign exchange and capital control actions of the government of Malaysia and the Malaysian central bank, suspended trading of all contract months in Malaysian ringgit futures after the September 1998 contract and allowed trading in the September 1998 contract for liquidation purposes only. The Division concluded that it was appropriate for NYCE to permit the temporary rules to remain in effect for the duration of the emergency.
Financial Oversight
The Commission conducts a financial oversight and audit program that buttresses periodic audit, daily financial surveillance, and other self-policing programs administered by the exchanges and NFA. The effort includes oversight of financial compliance programs of SROs and direct quality control audits to assess the efficiency of their programs. The oversight and audit of SRO programs are necessary to ensure that SRO member firms are properly capitalized and that customer funds are held in segregation by appropriate custodians and are protected from misappropriation. This oversight also involves conducting audits of clearing organizations and firms holding customer funds and reviewing reports filed by registrants and SROs.
In late FY 1998, the Division increased its oversight and audit of FCMs and CPOs in response to the economic turbulence created by the near-collapse of a major hedge fund. T&M issued "special calls" for information and sent auditors to review the books and records of firms that were experiencing financial difficulties. In addition, the Division conducted its routine activities, including:
· Auditing and examining 51 FCMs, CPOs, CTAs, and other registrants to test industry self-regulatory programs and to address special issues, including review of compliance in support of the investigations and proceedings of the Division of Enforcement.
· Reviewing 4,121 financial reports filed by registrants in FY 1998.
· Processing 158 risk assessment filings.
· Issuing 275 warning and non-compliance letters based upon audits and review of financial reports.
· Investigating 185 special required notices that report such events as reductions of capital of registered firms.
As part of its Year 2000 efforts, the Division issued two Year 2000 advisories which list the minimum elements of a Year 2000 plan, including update and testing of systems and contin-gency planning in the event of malfunction. The advisories also articulate reporting and disclosure requirements regarding the Year 2000 programs of Commission registrants and require that audits of Commission registrants include a Year 2000 readiness inquiry. In this connection, the Division worked with the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants to develop a set of agreed-upon procedures for use by outside auditors of Commission registrants.
SRO Rule Enforcement Oversight
The CEA requires each exchange, through a program of continuing rule enforcement, to ensure that its members adhere to exchange rules. The Division oversees, reviews and reports to the Commission on the self-regulatory compliance programs of the exchanges. When appropriate, the reviews include recommendations for improvements and schedules for implementing those recommendations. During FY 1998, in connection with reviews of trade practice, market surveillance, audit and financial surveillance, and related SRO compliance programs, staff conducted reviews of the rule enforcement programs of the following exchanges:
· New York Cotton Exchange - The Division completed a review of the trade practice surveillance and disciplinary programs at NYCE. It found that NYCE's trade practice and disciplinary programs are generally adequate, but recommended that NYCE increase the size of its compliance staff, identify possible recordkeeping violations during the course of conducting investigations, and consider any profit made by a member from his or her violative conduct in determining the appropriate sanction. A separate review of NYCE's market surveillance program was completed earlier in the fiscal year. The Division concluded that, since the prior review, NYCE had made improvements to its large trader reporting system and speculative position limit enforcement program. However, the Division suggested further improvements.
· Commodity Exchange, Inc. (COMEX) - The Division completed a review of the market surveillance program at the COMEX division of NYMEX. The review concluded that COMEX's market surveillance is adequate, but made three recommendations for improvement: (1) COMEX should convene its Control Committee more frequently during potentially problematic contract expirations; (2) COMEX's investigations of possible price manipulation should encompass a sufficient scope of market activity; and (3) COMEX's exchange of futures for physicals inquiries needs improvement.
· Kansas City Board of Trade - The Division completed a review of the market surveillance, trade practice surveillance, and disciplinary programs at the KCBT. It found that KCBT generally maintains adequate compliance programs and made two recommendations for improvement: (1) KCBT should ensure that all investigation reports contain a clear articulation of the rationale for closing investigations; and (2) KCBT should impose monetary and/or other sanctions on members who repeatedly violate the same or similar Exchange rules.
· New York Mercantile Exchange and Chicago Mercantile Exchange - The Division conducted full scope reviews of the audit, financial and sales practice compliance programs of NYMEX and CME. The Division found that both exchanges' programs were well designed, their staff generally execute their reviews thoroughly, and their programs comply with applicable regulatory requirements. T&M made no major recommendations for enhancements to the programs.
· Audit Trail and Dual Trading - The Division continued its review of SRO compliance with audit trail and dual trading requirements. Based on this work, the Commission granted an unconditional exemption from the statutory dual trading prohibition to CME for its S&P 500 futures contract market. It also issued proposed orders that would grant conditional exemptions to CME for seven affected contract markets and to CBT for 13 affected contract markets. An audit trail accuracy test was conducted at NYMEX as part of a review of its petition for a dual trading exemption. NYMEX was subsequently given an opportunity to supplement its petition prior to Commission consideration.
Oversight of the National Futures Association (NFA)
The Commission promotes self-regulation through delegation of authority to the NFA and oversight of NFA activities. In addition, T&M coordinates regulatory efforts with NFA. For example, T&M staff participate in and chair the Registration Working Group, which brings together the NFA and Commission staff members to discuss registration issues of mutual concern. During FY 1998, the Registration Working Group reviewed the integrity of the registration database, the standardization and monitoring of conditions applied to persons with past disciplinary histories, the screening and tracking of rogue brokers, and the improvement and refinement of the fitness review process.
T&M staff periodically evaluate how the NFA and CFTC can best use their resources to oversee the industry. The Division also reviews all proposed NFA rules and rule amendments. The following highlights work accomplished with regard to NFA during FY 1998:
· The Commission issued an Order, developed by T&M, authorizing the NFA to perform certain functions regarding CPOs and CTAs, including the function of reviewing CPO and CTA disclosure documents. In addition, the Commission authorized NFA to process the following: (1) notices of eligibility for exclusion of certain otherwise regulated persons from the definition of CPO; (2) notices of claim for exemption from certain Part 4 requirements with respect to commodity pools and CTAs whose participants or clients are qualified eligible participants or qualified eligible clients; (3) claims of exemption from certain Part 4 requirements for CPOs with respect to pools that principally trade securities; (4) statements of exemption from registration as a CPO; (5) notices of exemption from registration as a CTA for certain persons registered asinvestment advisers; and (6) notices of claim for exemption from provisions of Part 4 for certain registered CPOs operating offshore pools.
· The Division allowed into effect without Commission approval NFA's proposed amendments permitting it to grant registration to agricultural trade option merchants (a new category of registrants) and their associated persons.
· The Division reviewed and the Commission approved a revision to NFA's procedures for the handling of settlement offers in disciplinary matters. The revision was prompted by circumstances in an NFA disciplinary case involving a respondent who attempted to withdraw a settlement offer that had been tendered to NFA.
· The Commission authorized NFA to approve applications for floor broker or floor trader registration and to maintain the registration of any floor broker or floor trader who may be subject to statutory disqualification from registration without forwarding such cases to the Commission for review.
· The Division conducted a rule enforcement review of NFA's audit, financial, and sales practice compliance program. T&M found that the program was well designed and complied with applicable regulatory requirements. The Division made no major recommendations for enhancements to the program.
Cooperative Efforts with Other Regulators and Industry Participants
· Year 2000 Compliance - The Commission participates in various working groups regarding Year 2000 issues, including the President's Council on Year 2000 Conversion. The Commission also has been actively working with the Futures Industry Association in connection with its execution of an industry-wide Year 2000 testing program. In addition to issuing Year 2000 advisories which list the minimum elements of an adequate Year 2000 plan, the Division has been reviewing the programs of each SRO to bring its systems into compliance and to address the readiness of its members. Finally, the Commission has made its own mission critical systems compliant and will ensure that all of its systems are compliant in FY 1999.
· Financial Oversight Coordination - T&M staff maintained strong working relationships with other financial oversight organizations and groups such as the President's Working Group on Financial Markets. In response to actions by other financial oversight organ-izations, staff worked on issues concerning risk assessment, capital requirements, internal controls, disclosure, accounting, market practices relating to trading in derivative instruments, bankruptcy law revisions, and contingency planning for market emergencies.
· Financial Products Advisory Committee - The Financial Products Advisory Committee was formed to provide a forum for the discussion of regulatory initiatives, including regulatory reform issues and methods for addressing new regulatory challenges. T&M staff participated in various meetings to address issues such as futures-style margining of options, bunched order allocation, notional funds, non-competitive transactions, foreign terminals in the U.S., and Year 2000 issues.
· Civil Monetary Penalty (CMP) Collection Program - T&M, in cooperation with the Division of Enforcement, operates a CMP collection program to reinforce Commission sanctions by assuring vigorous pursuit of penalties assessed. During FY 1998, the Commission collected approximately $125,804,000 in penalties.
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About The St. Johns herald. (St. Johns, Apache County, Ariz.) 1917-1938
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The St. Johns Herald, Snips, and St. Johns Herald and Apache News
The St. Johns Herald was established as a weekly Republican newspaper in 1885, under the editorship of Henry Reed. It went through numerous editors over its lifespan. Even with their small staffs, the back-room operations of Arizona territorial newspapers did not always run smoothly. Whiskey in the print shop tended to be the culprit, and the Herald was no exception. In fact, the paper had to reduce the size of some of its issues because its printers had "gotten thirsty."
Cattle and sheep dominated the content in Arizona newspapers published in areas greatly influenced by the livestock industry. Patronage from organizations like the Southwestern Stock Association could even determine the choice of a paper’s masthead. The town of St. Johns was situated in cattle country and, as such, the Herald soon became known as a "cattle paper."
In 1903, the Herald consolidated with another St. Johns’ newspaper Snips to become Snips and the St. Johns Herald, with Eli S. Perkins of the Herald staying on as editor. Reamer Ling, who had edited the Herald from January to September 1900, took over as editor once more in 1905. That same year, Snips and the St. Johns Herald merged with the Apache News, becoming the St. Johns Herald and Apache News. Ling and O.E. Overson alternated editing and owning this paper until 1910 when George E. Waite took over as editor. On March 29, 1917, Waite changed the masthead back to the St. Johns Herald. Waite and his family edited and published the newspaper until 1938.
On February 12, 1938, the St. Johns Herald and Apache News merged with the St. Johns Observer to become the St. Johns Herald-Observer. Isaac Barth edited the merged periodical until 1946. In March, Myrlan G. Brown purchased the Herald-Observer from Barth's estate and combined it with the Apache County Independent-News to become the Apache County Independent-News and Herald-Observer. The McNary Pine Knot Post was added to the merger in November of 1947, creating the sole newspaper published in Apache County at that time.
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Child Month service calls for community support
Cayman News | 09/05/2019 | 1 Comment
(L-R) DCFS Director Paulinda Mendoza-Williams, Child Month awardee Julius Smith, Deputy Governor Franz Manderson, Child Month awardee Tiann Scott and residential care supervisor Thelma Richards
(CNS Local Life): This year’s Child Month awardees, Tiann Scott and Julius Smith, were announced during the Department of Children and Family Services’ (DCFS) Child Month Church Service at First Baptist Church, Sunday, 5 May. Tiann, 11, was honoured as an outstanding scholar, artist and all-star communicator. Julius, 16, was recognised for his educational, athletic and social accomplishments.
Lighthouse School student Tiann’s character and willingness to succeed were said to exemplify this year’s Child Month theme: “Be Strong! Be Brave! Be You!” Julius, a former Lighthouse student, is studying at the Cayman Islands Further Education Centre and is a two-time Special Olympian and multi-medal winner at the Games. His confidence and positive attitude earned him a “Proud of Them” award last year and has been pivotal in him embracing the Toastmaster’s Eloquent Speakers Leadership programme and other roles, a press release said.
Acting Minister for Community Affairs Austin Harris spoke on behalf of Premier Alden McLaughlin at the service. “Our children are our future and it is the way we treat them now that will determine not only who they will be but also what our country will look like in the future,” he said.
He added that parenting meant being fully present in their children’s lives. “I recently read a report that reveals there are only 940 Saturdays between a child’s birth and them leaving for college…Think of all the time your child spends in day care, at school… and other activities that don’t include you. The hours, days and years add up. So I implore you to make a concerted effort to find quality time to spend with your child or children.”
DCFS Director Paulinda Mendoza-Williams said that the observance’s theme encourages the community to create the right environment to sustain children and youth. “As responsible adults, it is our job to plant the seeds of success for our children and be consistent in caring and cultivating the soil that will produce strong and confident people,” she said.
“Our children’s voices must be heard, allow them to chart their own course with guidance and support that will propel them to live constructive and purposeful lives.”
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So much support from community! Not! What a shame.
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Matt Pietrek: Richard Seale has stated it’s foolish to sell very high ester rum to consumers. That they’re not intended for drinking. Yet you have high ester rums you sell, like the Long Pond TECA and TECC. What’s your take on the enthusiasts’ desire to have these high ester rums?
Luca Gargano: First of all, it depends what Richard means for high ester.
Matt Pietrek: To the people who bottled the Hampden Estate DOK rum, he said, “Those are not for drinking. Those are for blending.”
Luca Gargano: DOK also is used for confectionery and for other things. Anyway, it is a rum. It is a completely different expression. If somebody bottles it, it’s okay. I think that DOK is a very, very high ester rum, and it’s more of an essence.
But in rum there are so many different raw materials like molasses, syrup, sugarcane. Different fermentation, different stills, and different techniques to develop faster. So DOK exists. If somebody bottles it, I think it is nice. And I don’t say that is the best rum in the world.
Matt Pietrek: In my own personal experience, people want to try these rums. They want to experience them, but they’re not necessarily a rum you will drink every night.
Luca Gargano: Yes, exactly. But a main part of my job is as a talent scout or as a merchant. I own a distillery [Bielle] with Rhum Rhum. I have to take something to the people, not just to the rum lovers. Everything that is different–if it is well made and nice to taste–then it is my pleasure to give. But I would never drink DOK every day.
Matt Pietrek: Some critics of the Gargano Categorization say that rums in the same category can be very different in profile. For example, a very light pot-stilled American rum and a heavy Hampden Estate pot-stilled rum; they could both be pure single rums, but they’re very different in taste. What’s your response to that?
Luca Gargano: Macallan and Ardbeg–are they similar or different? They are enormously different. If you taste a 100 ppm Ardbeg, or Lagavulin, or Port Ellen, then you’ll see that Macallan and Glenmorangie are completely different single malts. What does this mean? We hope that all products will be different. Every year is different. I don’t understand what the problem is with that.
The real problem is that rum is the only category of spirit where industrial products and artisanal products are mixed.
You can have a pure single rum, very high proof, long fermentation, high ester, and different type of stills, and not just double retort pot stills. But the only way to create a difference between the artisanal products that can reach certain levels of sipping, competing against a single malt or cognac, is to start with the distillation. You could have the best raw material and the best fermentation, but if you distill in a multi column, you lose everything.
The key point is the distillation.
I was thinking–you can drive yourself through this forest where you pass from one hundred percent ethanol to a fantastic double distillation pot-still rum. The real categorization mainly divides the artisanal rum from the industrial rum.
Industrial rum is 98 percent of the market. At midnight, I drink a Cuba Libre with Brugal and I’m very happy. But in rum, there is [also] a category of producer making such fantastic spirits that they can compete at the same level [as the best of other spirits]. If you make a blind tasting between single malt, pure single rum, cognac, many times it is the rum that wins.
But how will people recognize if Hampden Estate rum is different from a multi-column rum [without categories]?
Matt Pietrek: Another criticism of the Gargano categories is that they rely on technical things. It’s hard for the consumers to grasp them.
Luca Gargano: I think that everybody today knows that Macallan and Ballantine are both whiskies, but different. Nobody knows exactly how. The consumer asks, “What is Macallan?” The answer: “It’s a single malt.” But they don’t know what single malt means.
Ten years ago, I asked one of the biggest experts in the world, “What is the real difference when you call a product ‘single malt’?” He didn’t think about the pot still. He said it comes from one distillery and is made with barley. But the real difference is they are one hundred percent pot-stilled.
The consumer in the future will not know what a pure single rum is technically, but they will understand that a pure single rum is a different category than other rums.
Matt Pietrek: For rum educators and writers like me, what would you like to see us do better?
Luca Gargano: I don’t want to spoil you, but I think you, along with Cyrille Weglarz and few others, are among the most productive. First, you are traveling, looking with your eyes. You also do historical research. And especially, you go a little bit more deeply. When you want to know something, you go deeply inside. I would like all rum writers to have an approach of knowledge.
I was the first. I have a long history, and I started at eighteen years old. The [wider] interest in rum is now ten years old, so it’s necessary sometimes to go deeper. Little by little, people like you will understand completely. It’s very important that you speak with professionals [producers] to find the reason why something happens or why something tastes like it does.
Luca Gargano
Matt Pietrek: When you select rums to bottle, you seem to focus on the heavier English style or the French agricole style, and not so much the Spanish style. Does the Spanish style not interest you as much?
Luca Gargano: I invented the colonial classification in 1993: Spanish style, French style, and English style. I added at that time Demerara style. In the last ten years, I’ve come to understand that they mean nothing. Spanish style doesn’t exist. French style doesn’t exist. Mainly the French could be agricole from the column, but there are also grand arôme molasses rums. For me, it’s not the right classification.
With English style, yes, you have a lot of double retort pot still, but you also have a lot of multi-column. You have so many different things. In what is called Spanish style, there are unfortunately very few artisanal producers today. Very few.
There are some, like for instance Diplomatico, that are very nice because they have a kettle still, a pot still, a Vendome pot still, a Barbet single column. Potentially, they could do well. The problem is that in the ex-Spanish colonies, there are not a lot of artisanal producers still producing.
Matt Pietrek: So, it may sound obvious, but when you select what you’re going to focus on, you’re really focusing on the artisanal rum?
Luca Gargano: I try to find the quality. The quality of any spirit must first be found in the raw material. Secondly from fermentation. But then a big difference is that if it’s a batch distillation, you cut the heads and tails. Then, if it’s well aged, you can have a very good product.
But if I have a very good raw material and distill it in a multi column, I have ethanol. In my opinion, it is impossible to do a good spirit from ethanol.
Matt Pietrek: Consider Pernod Ricard’s Havana Club, as well as Bacardi. They do a blend of a very high proof multi-column, blended with lower proof aguardiente. You would not consider that good?
Luca Gargano: But they use mainly multi column continuous distillation. I hope they can come back [to the old ways].
I imported Caribbean Club from Cuba. The ex-Spanish colonies, they added other products. This was a tradition, so they were a bit sweeter.
Today, if you want to compete with a single malt, a top cognac, or a top Bas-Armagnac, that approach is not the right way. But they could be good rums for other purposes, understand?
If we speak for the best rums that one day can compete against single malt, I don’t think [Spanish style] approach is the right way. But that does not mean there’s no space for non-pure single rum.
Matt Pietrek: What’s the most important thing big prestige rum brands need to do to help rum get the respect it deserves?
Luca Gargano: First of all, I think rum is a very flexible spirit. You can cover many, many areas. Last year at U.K. RumFest I said that the seagull should not be jealous of the eagles. What I mean is that there will be space for everything. The mainstream consumption will be [just] rum.
Then there is a category of certain rums that are among the best spirits in the world. Surely the artisanal distillation is the most important thing. You can’t think to produce ethanol, and then have a great aged spirit. So first for me it is artisanal. Artisanal is also colonne creole- agricole. There are so many different alembics.
Then I must work to be honest and truthful. So no sugar. It has to be [just] rum. Fermented and distilled sugarcane, molasses, syrup.
People should understand that four years is a very good age for a rum. It’s because of tropical aging. You don’t need twelve years. It will be a very good business. I hope that next year Bacardi or Brugal will buy a nice pot still, or another type of a batch distillation, and make a good profit. In four years, you have a fantastic product to sip.
Matt Pietrek: You said earlier that Independent bottlers should not use the distillery name on their bottles. That it muddies the waters about what is a true Caribbean rum, which includes topical aging. But people want to know where it was distilled.
Luca Gargano: No, excuse me–It’s not possible. If I buy fresh Macallan and I age it in New York, Do you think that you can say, “Distilled at Macallan” and call it Scotch single malt? You’re going to jail. So why do you say you want this [disclosure] for rum but not for whiskey?
What is important to understand is that the AOC, which comes from the culture of wine in France and Italy, is not born to protect. It’s born to recognize a quality, a specific quality of a product. You understand?
The parmigiano reggiano regulation was not born to protect the parmigiano reggiano. The regulation was born to say: “What is parmigiano reggiano?” You must produce it in this area, in this village. You need to have to have this characteristic. This is the parmigiano reggiano.
Secondly, if somebody tried to do parmigiano reggiano elsewhere, I can protect my product. All the GIs, all the Appellation d’Origines were not born to protect. They were born to recognize a specificity.
We don’t speak about the quality, but if you age in Barbados, or you age in Argentina, or you age in Italy, the product will be completely different.
Matt Pietrek: It’s not the same product.
Luca Gargano: You understand! So, it’s not Barbados rum [if it’s aged outside of Barbados]. It’s so clear! I don’t understand. We have this understanding for other spirits, so why not for rum?
For me, it is because we are still at the end of the colonialist era. This is the truth.
Matt Pietrek: How did you become associated with Velier?
Luca Gargano: Velier was born in 1947. It was a very, very small company.
Separately, I started to work while very young, at eighteen years old, in a company named Spirit SpA. It was the biggest Italian importer, with Ballantine, Cointreau, Martell, Pernod, Jim Beam, Smirnoff, and others. The old owner, Mr. Salengo told me, “Luca, in Holland after the second world war, people started to age rum. One day rum will be an important brand.”
In that company there was Saint James Rum. He told me, “You will be the brand manager of Saint James.” I was eighteen. I said, “Okay!” I did my research, and then I organized the first sales contest in Martinique. People said, “In Martinique? Boy, you are crazy!”
The jumbo, the 747, started going to Martinique in 1974. At that time, going to Martinique was like going to Antarctica today. I doubled the sales for Saint James, and I was eighteen years old.
I arrived for the first time in the Caribbean, in Martinique, before TV and the internet. The music. The girls. The palm trees. The wind. The small frog — “Cree, cree, cree.” I fell in love. I was eighteen. You know when you’re eighteen? I had no friends in the Caribbean that were from Italy. Since that moment, I was inspired.
And then when I was twenty-six, that year I was marketing director of this company. When I arrived, I had long hair. People looked confused and said, “Where is Gargano?”
After I refused a job offer as a marketing director for Fininvest TV company, I wondered what I would do as an adult. I had foreseen that the company where I worked would be bought by a multinational.
I therefore decided to buy a small company like Velier. This is how I left Spirit SpA. I was the young marketing manager, marketing director. So, I started my adventure with Velier. It was 1983.
Author Matt PietrekPosted on January 8, 2019 January 8, 2019 Categories rum, UncategorizedTags AOC, Foursquare, Hampden estate, la maison & velier, Luca Gargano, velier
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Mark B. says:
Great work, Matt. This, and the Bevvy columns. Interesting reading. Thanks!
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Cognition, Educational May 20, 2019 May 20, 2019
Taking Tiny Breaks Is Key To Learning New Skills
Brain activity associated with learning of left-handed key-presses during rest periods, via Bönstrup et al 2019
By Matthew Warren
A wealth of research has shown that taking breaks is an important part of learning. Resting straight after acquiring new information seems to improve memory of that information, for example, and sleep is particularly important for consolidating what we have just learned.
Now it seems that even miniscule breaks, just seconds long, are also vital for learning new skills. A study published recently in Current Biology has found that most of the improvement while learning a motor task comes not while actually practicing, but instead during the breaks between practice sessions.
To look at the benefits of short breaks during learning, Marlene Bönstrup and colleagues recruited 27 participants to learn a short sequence of key presses. Across 36 trials, each 10 seconds long, the participants repeatedly tapped out the sequence 4-1-3-2-4 as quickly as possible, using four fingers of their left hand. A 10-second rest period separated each trial.
The participants improved drastically across the first 11 trials, increasing their speed from just over 1 key per second to more than 3.5 keys per second. After that their performance plateaued.
But when the researchers looked at how performance improved during these 11 trials, they found that, on average, participants were no faster at the end of each trial than they were at the beginning of that same trial. Instead, improvements were made solely between trials: participants were faster at typing the sequence immediately after a 10-second break than they were just before the break.
The findings suggest that early improvements when learning a new skill are made “offline”, during periods when the task isn’t actually being performed. This is consistent with past studies highlighting the importance of rest periods in learning, say the authors, albeit on a much shorter timescale. “These results support the idea that the brain opportunistically consolidates previous memories whenever it is not actively learning”, they write.
The team also identified a neural basis for these “offline” improvements. While the participants completed the task, the researchers measured their brain activity using magnetoencephalography (MEG). They found that improvement in performance between trials was related to the amplitude of beta waves (brain waves between 16 and 22Hz): smaller amplitude beta waves in the frontoparietal part of the brain during breaks were associated with greater improvements in performance. Beta wave activity is known to be reduced while people prepare and execute movements, so the authors suggest that this pattern of activity could indicate some kind of reactivation and consolidation of memory related to the task.
The study only looked at performance when people learned a very simple motor task, and it remains to be seen whether short breaks are equally as important when acquiring more complicated skills. But even knowing how to best improve basic motor function could be useful in situations like rehabilitative medicine. “Our ultimate hope is that the results of our experiments will help patients recover from the paralyzing effects caused by strokes and other neurological injuries by informing the strategies they use to ‘relearn’ lost skills,” said senior author Leonardo Cohen in an accompanying press release.
—A Rapid Form of Offline Consolidation in Skill Learning
Matthew Warren (@MattbWarren) is Staff Writer at BPS Research Digest
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Paleoecological significance of Late Quaternary molluscan faunas of the Bahia San Blas area, Argentina
Charó, M.P.; Gordillo, Sandra; Fucks, Enrique;
Late Quaternary marine deposits in the area of Bahía San Blas (Buenos Aires, Argentina) form beach ridges and tidal plains bearing remains of organisms, mainly mollusc shells. These mollusc assemblages were characterized, and their changes assessed both over time, and related to local environmental factors. Twenty-six sites were analyzed, eleven Pleistocene, seven Holocene and eight modern sites. Fifty taxa (27 bivalves and 23 gastropods) were recorded for the area, with marine species predominant over estuarine. Within gastropods, epifaunal species and carnivores are predominant, with a lower proportion of herbivores and filter feeders, while bivalves are mostly infaunal and suspension feeders. Pleistocene associations are characterized by the high quantity of molluscs in rocky environments, and those of the Holocene by the presence of the warm water Crassostrea rhizophorae, which is currently displaced to lower latitudes. Within the modern associations four taxa, Mesodesma mactroides, Solen tehuelchus, Barnea lamellosaand Crassostrea gigas(an introduced species), are not recorded as fossils, but Mesodesma mactroidesis found in Holocene shell middens from the area. According to multivariate analysis, the sites were divided into two groups: high energy deposits (storm ridges) and low-energy deposits (tidal plains), regardless of their age. Based on these results, mollusc variations in the area are thought to be related in part to changes in temperature that took place since the Pleistocene (e.g. C. rhizophorae); but mostly associated with the presence of sub-environments of different energy levels. This would favor the presence of different taxa in accordance to their ecological requirements....
Multi-proxy evidence of Late Quaternary environmental changes in the coastal area of Puerto Lobos (northern Patagonia, Argentina)
Boretto, G.M.; Gordillo, Sandra; Cioccale, M.; Colombo, F.; Fucks, Enrique;
A multidisciplinary approach involving geomorphology, taxa composition of mollusks and taphonomy performed on bivalve shells, linked to mineralogical and microstructural analyses, provide evidence of Late Quaternary environmental changes in the coastal area of Puerto Lobos, in northern Patagonia. Digital elevation models (DEMs) showed a beach ridge system developed parallel to the coast, indicating sea level variations during MIS1, MIS5e, and earlier in the Pleistocene. These ridges can be correlated with other marine ridges along the Patagonian coast, showing a similar geomorphological pattern and similar temporal evolution. In relation to faunal composition, when comparing the Pleistocene with the Holocene, the most relevant differences are the presence of Tegula atraand Mactra patagonicain the Pleistocene sediments and a diversification of taxa in the Holocene. During the late Holocene, the coastal area of Puerto Lobos also recorded a faunal shift in which species belonging to the Magellan Province displaced the fauna of the Argentinean Province to the north, probably in coincidence with the Little Ice Age (LIA). Taphonomic analysis on Glycymeris longiorand Venus antiquashells, two common taxa in these beach ridges, indicate greater energy in the depositional environment correlated with the youngest Holocene beach ridge. These shells exhibited taphonomic differences between them in relation to fracturing, explained on the basis of higher elasticity in the G.longiorshell than in V.antiquashell, because of its crossed lamellar microstructure....
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How to take your business from under $100M in revenue to over $100M in revenue
December 10th, 2018 | by Michael Farr
Just 0.04% of businesses ever reach the $100 million-dollar milestone – and our guest, Matt Wheeler, CEO of QualifiedMEETINGS, has done it! We’re talking with Matt about how scaling growth differs depending on company size, and what it takes to make it happen.
About our guest, Matt Wheeler
Matt has worked specifically in IT sales for over 11 years and has immersed himself in Inside Sales, Sales Development, and Marketing every aspect of the business. From personally making over 250,000 outbound calls, managing over 3 million outbound calls and 10 million sales development activities via his SDR teams, Matt has developed a proven methodology known as qualifiedMEETINGS’ “23-52 Touch Process” that has accelerated organizations to achieve a combined $250M in new logo acquisition and pipelines in excess of $1B. He has developed effective strategies that have helped companies such as ForeScout Technologies, AccelOps & Netcordia (acquired by Infoblox), where he built a sales development programs from the ground up, generate generating millions in closed-won deals and rolling pipeline.
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Greene Street dead ends into what used to be known as Key West Bight which is now officially known as the Ancient-Historic-Seaport-and-Tourist-Attraction-at-what-used-to-be-the-Key-West-Bight or some such nonsense. They studied the matter deeply and it seems calling something historic makes it more palatable. However having made the bight seem more attractive the city commission is now working to make it look more ugly. Weird.
There is this open space that has sat here like his forever and a little umbrella at the entrance covers a man who sits and takes money to park. Not good enough said the people in charge who were going to pave the parking lot. However shoot first aim last was the decision making process and the city commission voted to pave the parking lot until they discovered, later, that paving would produce a mere fifteen spaces, as reported in the Key West Citizen.
So, back to the drawing board they went and came up with a plan to spend several millions of dollars to build a parking garage on the site and create 300 spaces. It won't be ugly they said, it will be a work of art. And don't forget these new homes which are going to cost their new owners almost two million dollars, right next to the new parking garage it turns out...bet they like that. Sparks may well fly when the city commission meets to consider this plan.
There is also talk of creating a garage at the Simonton Street fire station, shown here in a an old picture I took right after it was built and Cheyenne wanted to inspect it:
There was talk about building a multi story parking lot here but that plan faded away without anything being said. Now the talk is back. All in all this location seems like it would be much less controversial even though it is much further from the bars of Duval Street and in a world where walking is frowned upon I'm not sure visitors will be ready to walk six blocks to get a drink...
Meanwhile back at Greene Street the plans also call for taking down businesses currently living on the edges of the lot. Apparently storage for Conch Republic Seafood would be impacted as would refrigeration for commercial fishing operations and the long lived Reef Relief non profit. Squawks of protest naturally.
Its not terribly scenic but they do valuable work here, all of them.
In the end this whole thing boils down to philosophy. No one wants a parking garage because they are ugly and take up space and are to a certain extent an admission of failure especially in a town like Key West where walking and cycling and even scooter riding are viable alternatives. But the outcry or parking is an annual event, a winter sport when the town floods with people and their cars and everyone wants to park within half a block of their homes.
Parking lots, and the Conch Republic lot seen below is better than many, add very little to the urban landscape. call them a necessary evil sometimes masked by trees and flower beds. On the other hand if these garages aren't built... what happens to parking?
Key West does not have any kind of plan for the future. Parking is one issue that could use some 21st century vision involving say bike lanes, one way streets, public transit or something. It's the same mindset that nothing needs to change that is revealed by the total absence of solar energy in one of the sunniest spots in the nation. The new panels at city hall are saving the city substantial amounts of money each month but that news only brought more grumbling about putting them in the parking lot and not on the roof...
I frankly don't see any way around accommodating more cars. I'd like to see more transit and I applaud the new free bus loop running up and down Southard and Fleming around Lower Duval which could be a great start. On the other hand I'd like to see Duval Street be a pedestrian zone with Whitehead and Simonton one way streets in opposite directions with bike lanes and urban beautification on all three streets. I saw Church Street in Burlington last summer and I have been annoying everyone with my envy of Vermont's forward looking politicians ever since...
Compare Green Street above with Church Street below:
Rusty liked it too:
Never going to happen in Key West I predict.
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Carolyn Mitchell as Georgia in my book Confessions of a Hollyood Agent, finds her photographer
Posted on June 1, 2014 by William Louis Gardner
One of Hollywood’s hottest actresses | The real Carolyn Mitchell in Confessions of a Hollywood Agent
In a previous press release, it was announced that Mickey Rooney was Marty Fallon. On this press release, I am now revealing that Carolyn Mitchell, one of Mickey Rooneys wives, is Georgia from my book. Here is a preview of one of her scenes in my book.
One of Hollywood’s hottest actresses | The real Georgia (Alias) from Confessions of a Hollywood Agent
She smelled the scent of incense burning in the room. She felt nervous. She had never been with a photographer of distinction or fame.
A small Italian man of about forty-five greeted her. He wore a long brown silk oriental robe. He smiled at her with a mouth too full of big fake-looking white teeth. He took her hands and then stood back and looked her over.
“My darling, how beautiful you are,” he said in a raspy cigarette voice as he breathed laboriously. She tried to relax with him, but it was difficult. He took a cigarette from his pack of Camels and lit it. His fingers were stained yellow from smoking. She hated the smell of smoke but tried not to let him know.
“Have you ever had your portrait taken before?” he asked.
“An artist painted me, but the only portrait was for my high school year book,” she answered.
“You’re almost a virgin then, aren’t you?” he said and smiled. “Come over and sit down on the divan so I can see you through the lens.”
He grabbed Georgia’s hand and walked her in front of a view camera. “Sit down, my pet.” Georgia felt self-conscious but tried to disguise it by smiling at him.
“You’re an angel in the lens, my darling. Now let’s see what you brought with you for wardrobe. Georgia got up from the divan and took her tote bag and pulled out a blue sheath dress with spaghetti straps and showed it to him.
“I like that. We’ll use it. What else do you have in there?” he asked.
Georgia showed him a red sweater and a pair of white short shorts, and a blonde mink stole she had borrowed from her aunt.
“Here, put this on,” he said handing her a leopard two-piece bathing suit. Georgia looked at it.
“The dressing room is over there,” he said pointing to a door. As she walked from the studio for the dressing room, she noticed wetness under her arms and on the dress she wore. This man bothered her. She put on the bathing suit and came out into the studio.
“It looks marvelous on you. You could star in a jungle epic. Come!
Get in front of the camera.” Georgia sat on the divan.
“Now do some poses for me,” he said.
Georgia started to pose. She stretched out the divan. She flirted with the camera. She smiled at it. She mocked it. Nick kept clicking away.
“Wonderful, lovely, I like that. Lift your head up. Some more. I like that. Hold it!” he said. Georgia started to enjoy herself. She felt good.
She was having fun and felt the camera loved her. Nick breathed harder now.
A clatter of air came from his lungs as he worked.
“You’re a natural, my pet. Playboy asked me to submit some photos to them for an issue. You could make three thousand dollars if they used them. With me as the photographer, it’s money in the bank.
Would you be interested?”
“Isn’t Playboy a nude magazine? My father is a minister. I couldn’t do that to him. He wouldn’t understand.”
“I only do class photos. Let me tell you how I’ll shoot you. I’ll build a long box like a coffin and line it with mirrors.” He animated the story with his hands. “Holes will be made at the top for the lights and a hole in the center for my camera. You will be nude in the box. I will shoot you as if you were a jewel in a mirrored sitting. It will give the illusion of three dimensions,” he gasped. “It’ll be sensational, and so will you.
It could do wonders for your career. How about it?”
“The three thousand dollars sounds interesting,” said Georgia.
“Well then. Let’s do it.”
“I don’t know if I should. I’ll embarrass my family.”
“Clint told me you’ve been doing beauty contests for years.”
“Yes, they’re with a bathing suit. I’ve never taken my clothes off for anyone.”
“Times are changing. It’s getting to be accepted. Believe me. If the right photo was taken of the right girl, that girl would be a star overnight. Look at the past, at some of the great nudes in history.
Goya painted the Duchess of Alba nude. It made her immortal. The nude calendar picture of Marilyn Monroe. Look what that did for her.
You’re in the same category. Believe me. I know. It’s my business,” said Nick.
“And I could approve of the photos?” asked Georgia.
“You’d have complete approval.”
“Okay, I’ll let you, but under another name. Will you agree to that?”
“Of course. Now let me see your body. Take off the bathing suit.”
“Why not? You’re here. I can measure you for the box.”
Georgia was skeptical. She got up from the divan and removed her bra. She stepped out of the bottom part of the bathing suit and was naked. She felt strange and wanted to get back in her clothes. Nick observed her nakedness. “I like it, but there’s too much hair around your crotch,” he said as he stared down.
Georgia blushed, but said nothing. She started to feel dirty and uneasy. She reached for a cloth drape that covered the divan. “Can I get back into my clothes? It’s cold in here,” she said.
“I want to take a picture of your pussy so I can show you what I mean when it’s developed. Stay there for a minute.” Nick picked up his Nikon and clicked away. Georgia started to get up from the divan. “Wait a minute.
I want to measure you.” He ran to a desk a pulled out a tape measure.
“Hold this,” he said. He pulled the tape down across her body getting a feel as his hand moved to her toes. Georgia gave him a look. “I’ll make the box six feet,” he said rolling up the tape. “You can get into the blue dress you brought. I’ll take your portrait now,” he said.
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For China, with love: NZ dairy giant to start two new cream cheese plants
Monisha Awasthi | August 4, 2017
New Zealand’s multinational dairy cooperative giant, Fonterra, is setting up two new cream cheese plants at a cost of $150 million in Canterbury NZ. And the decision is a result of a surge in the demand for cream cheese in Asia Pacific, most importantly China.
A recent report published in Stuff.co.nz, quotes Fonterra’s director of global food service, Grant Watson, saying that “arguably, some of the most innovative dairy product development anywhere in the world is happening right now in China”.
In the last couple of years, one of the biggest source of consumption of cream cheese in China has been Tea (but, of course!!) The cream cheese tea macchiato fad has spread through the streets of china, unrelenting, like a contagious disease.
China’s food service industry ranks third in the world—behind the US and Japan—and is reportedly worth $150 billion. To the dairy industry’s benefit, eating habits in China are changing and they’re consuming milk-based products at a younger age.
In a statement, Fonterra said the $150 million two-stage project will see the first plant completed in 2018, with a second to follow in either 2019 or 2020.
The two new plants will incorporate Fonterra-first technology that will allow the firmness and consistency of the cream cheese they produce to be dialed up or down to meet customer preference.
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Posts Tagged ‘heart transplant’
James Fang discusses LVADs for End-Stage Heart Failure with WebMD
More than 5 million Americans have heart failure, a progressive and often lethal condition that weakens the heart and saps its pumping power. The mainstays of treatment — including drug therapy, lifestyle modification, and surgery to implant pacemakers or defibrillators — can be quite effective at managing symptoms of mild to moderate heart failure.
But what about the estimated 150,000 Americans who suffer from chronic, severe heart failure?
Doctors traditionally have had little to offer these patients in the way of lifesaving treatment, short of a heart transplant. But with only about 2,100 donor hearts available each year, the demand for hearts inevitably outweighs the supply. And some patients are simply too old to qualify for a transplant. For them, what’s the alternative?
There’s now an option that could change the outlook for many with severe heart failure: implantable mechanical pumps called left ventricular-assist devices (LVADs or sometimes simply VADs.)
These devices were once just used as a “bridge” — a temporary stopgap to keep heart failure patients alive until they could get a heart transplant. But now, they have become so effective that doctors use them as a treatment in themselves. LVADs are now an alternative to heart transplants, permanently augmenting the action of a heart’s main pumping chamber.
In addition, the continuous-flow LVAD was associated with fewer infections and a significantly lower rate of failure.
“The continuous-flow LVAD has changed the landscape of advanced heart failure,” says James C. Fang, MD, chief medical officer of the Harrington-McLaughlin Heart and Vascular Institute at University Hospitals Case Medical Center in Cleveland and the author of an editorial on LVADs that accompanied the study in the New England Journal of Medicine.
“In addition to being more durable, the new device is a lot smaller – about the size of a D battery. It’s also quiet. You can barely hear it. With the old devices, you could hear them coming down the street.”
Find the full article on CWRUmedicine.org
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Let The Sun Shine In: WaPo and the Magistrates' Revolt
By Jennifer Granick on April 25, 2014 at 9:52 am
Over at Just Security, I have a new piece on the Washington Post's interesting story about the increasingly aggressive role some federal magistrate judges are playing in policing criminal investigations involving digital media.
Fourth Circuit Upholds Contempt Against Lavabit, Doesn’t Decide Gov’t Access to Encryption Keys
By Jennifer Granick on April 16, 2014 at 11:01 am
Today the Fourth Circuit refrained from deciding the first legal challenge to government seizure of the master encryption keys that secure our communications with web sites and email servers. Nevertheless, the Court upheld contempt of court sanctions, because of the Lavabit owner’s foot dragging during proceedings. Lavabit had failed to raise the substantive issues below, it decided, thus precluding appellate review.
My Comments On NSA Spying to PCLOB
By Jennifer Granick on April 10, 2014 at 3:51 pm
Today I filed comments with the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) in connection with its hearing on section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act. That law is the legal basis for the PRISM surveillance program and involves warrantless collection of communications contents via targeting non-U.S. individuals or entities reasonably believed to be located abroad. I've written previously about questions the PCLOB should investigate with regards to section 702.
Big Privacy Win in the EU
By Jennifer Granick on April 8, 2014 at 9:17 am
Today, the European Court of Justice struck down the European Union’s 2006 Data Retention Directive. That policy required member states to force communications companies to store citizens' telecommunications data for six to 24 months.
Huawei Hacking is a Security Scandal
By Jennifer Granick on March 25, 2014 at 12:16 pm
Last week, the New York Times reported that the U.S. is spying on router company Huawei to get information about the Chinese government and to learn how to surveil our allies and other countries that might purchase Huawei routers. On Just Security, I refute the argument of some that it is not “in the public interest to reveal how democracies spy on dictatorships”.
On Trevor Paglen’s Sight Machine
At the FOG Design + Art fair on Saturday, January 14, 2017 I was on a panel discussing Trevor Paglen’s new performance piece in collaboration with the Kronos Quartet.
Motion to Unseal Docket Sheets and Publicly Docket Court Records
Declaration of Riana Pfefferkorn in Support of Motion to Unseal Docket Sheets and Publicly Docket Court Records
Correcting the Record on Section 702: A Prerequisite for Meaningful Surveillance Reform, Part III
In our previous posts, we’ve argued that the NSA is collecting massive amounts of data about US citizens under conditions that have nothing to do with terrorism or national security, thanks to the authorities granted to the US government by section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
Petition to Unseal Technical-Assistance Orders and Materials
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DART Renames Cotton Belt Commuter Service 'Silver Line'
The Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) Board of Directors approved a resolution on Tuesday, June 18, to name future service running on the Cotton Belt Commuter Rail as the Silver Line.
The Silver Line project's primary purpose is to provide passenger rail connections and service improving mobility, accessibility and system linkages to major employment, population and activity centers in the northern part of the DART Service Area, and in time, along the 60-mile corridor connecting Plano to Ft. Worth.
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The 26-mile Silver Line, extending between DFW Airport and Shiloh Road in Plano, will traverse seven cities: Grapevine, Coppell, Dallas, Carrollton, Addison, Richardson and Plano. At DFW Airport, the project will connect to the TEXRail Regional Rail Line to Fort Worth and provide access to the DFW Airport Skylink. The Silver Line will interface with three DART light rail lines: The Red/Orange Lines in Richardson/Plano, the Green Line in Carrollton and the Orange Line at DFW Airport.
Customers will see the Silver Line in operation after completion in 2022 with 30-minute peak and 60-minute off-peak service.
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EUROPAEU Open Data Portal Data Publisher Joint Research Centre Maximum habitat suitability map ...
Maximum habitat suitability map of Salix caprea (2006, FISE, RDS-MHSv0-3-2)
Joint Research Centre »
This dataset series shows the Maximum Habitat Suitability (MHS, also known as survivability) map of Salix caprea (raster format: geotiff). The survivability map is provided for Europe (EU28 plus part of other countries within the spatial extent), computed using the FISE harmonised European dataset of taxa presence/absence (based on the integration and harmonisation of the datasets by European National Forestry Inventories; BioSoil; Forest Focus/Monitoring; EUFGIS; GeneticDiversity). The survivability is estimated as the maximum extension of habitat suitability by means of statistical multivariate similarity analysis (Relative Distance Similarity, RDS) of the bio-climatic conditions where the taxon is observed in Europe (RDS Maximum Habitat Suitability, RDS-MHS). Available years: 2006. The maps are available in the Forest Information System for Europe (FISE). FISE is run by the European Commission, Joint Research Centre. See the field Lineage for further information.
When using these data, please cite the relevant data sources. A suggested citation is included in the following:
Various authors, 2016. Salix caprea in Europe: an outline on distribution, habitat, importance and threats. In: Online European Atlas of Forest Tree Species. FISE Comm. Publications Office of the European Union. pp. e01322d+. (Under review: please, check the current status at: https://w3id.org/mtv/FISE-Comm/v01/e01322d)
de Rigo, D., Caudullo, G., Houston Durrant, T., San-Miguel-Ayanz, J., 2016. The European Atlas of Forest Tree Species: modelling, data and information on forest tree species. In: San-Miguel-Ayanz, J., de Rigo, D., Caudullo, G., Houston Durrant, T., Mauri, A. (Eds.), European Atlas of Forest Tree Species. Publ. Off. EU, Luxembourg, pp. e01aa69+. https://w3id.org/mtv/FISE-Comm/v01/e01aa69
eurovoc domains
Environment, Agriculture, fisheries, forestry and food, Science and technology
Download [Download] Data Download Service Provisional data
Visualise [VIEW] [WMS] INSPIRE View Service
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http://data.europa.eu/88u/dataset/6500351d-669a-4b8e-8203-f1aab75472a8
6500351d-669a-4b8e-8203-f1aab75472a8
http://data.europa.eu/89h/6500351d-669a-4b8e-8203-f1aab75472a8
Netherlands, Greenland, Gibraltar, Greece, Pakistan, Poland, Portugal, Palestine, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Hungary, Faroes, United Kingdom, Georgia, Guernsey, Spain, Estonia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Lebanon, France, Kyrgyzstan, Kuwait, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Italy, Jersey, Afghanistan, Kosovo, Albania, Åland Islands, Armenia, Andorra, Azerbaijan, Austria, Bulgaria, Belgium, Algeria, Ireland, Israel, India, Ukraine, Turkey, Tunisia, Iceland, Tajikistan, Syria, Sweden, Slovenia, Czechia, Vatican City, Uzbekistan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, China, Switzerland, Norway, Finland, Cyprus, Germany, Egypt, Moldova, Croatia, Malta, Latvia, Iran, Monaco, Morocco, Isle of Man, North Macedonia, Turkmenistan, Iraq, Libya, Denmark, Montenegro, Luxembourg
European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC)
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Home > Study at AUT > Study areas > Health Sciences > Public Health > Public Health staff > Lecturers > Radilaite Cammock
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Radilaite Cammock
Public Health staff
%asset_metadata_RSP.HonorificTitle% Radilaite Cammock
Lecturer, Programme Leader - Postgraduate Public Health
Phone: (09) 921 9999 ext 7707
Email: radilaite.cammock@aut.ac.nz
AUT University (Room MB209)
640 Great South Road
Manukau, Auckland 2025
School of Public Health & Psychosocial Studies (Mail Code MB2)
AUT University, South Campus
PhD (Public Health)
Masters of Public Health
Diploma of Public Health
Dr Cammock has been involved in health research in New Zealand and Fiji over the last seven years. She is focused on achieving better health outcomes for Pacific people. Her research interests lie in Pacific health and more specifically, reproductive health. Her work incorporates pacific values and belief systems and has published research highlighting their importance in achieving better health outcomes among Pacific people.
Dr Cammock has a masters and doctorate degree in Public Health from the University of Otago and is currently a lecturer in the school of public health and Psychosocial studies. Dr Cammock is of Fijian heritage and is involved with ongoing research projects in Fiji. She is from the village of Vutia in the Rewa province.
Teaching Areas:
Migrant Health
Pacific Health journal manager and editorial board member
https://ojs.aut.ac.nz/pacific-health/index.php/pacifichealth
Project manager of Health eating and enterprise study in Fiji
Builds on partnerships with the University of the South Pacific and secretariat of the Pacific community. MFAT and NZIPR funded project $150k
Coordinator - interdisciplinary conference on NCDs
Fulbright specialist program - partnership with Drexel University
Research outputs:
Cammock, R., Priest, P., Lovell, S., & Herbison, P. (2018). Awareness and use of family planning methods among iTaukei women in Fiji and New Zealand. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 42(4), 365-371. doi:10.1111/1753-6405.12761
Cammock, R. D., Derrett, S., & Sopoaga, F. (2014). An assessment of an outcome of injury questionnaire using a Pacific model of health and wellbeing. New Zealand Medical Journal, 127(1388).
Cammock, R. D., Derrett, S., Davie, G., Langley, J., & Sopoaga, F. (2012). Injury to Pacific people in New Zealand: Pre-injury characteristics and early health outcomes - results from a cohort study. Australasian Epidemiologist, 19(2).
Antonczak, L., Lienart, N., Smith, P., Conn, C., & Cammock, R. (2018). BELE – A participatory approach to Pacific youth contributing to health goals and Sustainable Economic Development (No. Of Pieces: 1) [Artefact]. Online: NZIPR. Retrieved from https://bele.community/
Conference contributions
Cammock, R., Conn, C., Antonczak, L., & Sa'uLilo, L. (2018). Using Talanoa epistemology and participatory action research with young entrepreneurs in healthy eating enterprises in Suva, Fiji. In OCEANS & ISLANDS - A conference for Pacific research. Auckland: New Zealand Institute for Pacific Research. Retrieved from http://nzipr2018.nz/
Cammock, R. (2018). Young Entreprenuers and Healthy Eating Enterprises in Suva, Fiji. In Pasifika Medical Association: Participate, Innovate & Reinvigorate. Auckland: Pasifika Medical Association. Retrieved from http://pacifichealth.org.nz/pasifika-medical-association-2018-conference/
Cammock, R. (2017). Family Planning perspectives within the changing socio cultural context of iTaukei women in Fiji and New Zealand. In Public Health Association of New Zealand Conference. Christchurch.
Cammock, R. (2017). Family planning behavior among iTaukei women in Fiji and New Zealand. In Pacific Health Realities: The Way Forward Conference. Noumea.
Cammock, R. (2016). iTaukei women’s Family Planning Behaviour. In Pacific Islands Health Research Symposium. Suva.
Oral presentations
Conn, C., Cammock, R., Blake, G., Sa'uLilo, L., Antonczak, L., & Smith, P. (2018). Pacific youth enterprise for vegetable and fruit eating: a Fiji study. Auckland University of Technology.
Other outputs
Antonczak, L., Lienart, N., Smith, P., Conn, C., Cammock, R., Blake, G., & Sa'uLilo, L. (2018). Young Fijian entrepreneurs empowering health eating through Mobile Social Media. NZIPR. Retrieved from https://bele.community/
Health Research Council of New Zealand
Pacific PhD Career Development Award, 2011, 2014
Le Va Pacific Health Workforce Development Programme
Pacific Health Workforce Award for Masters study, 2009-2010
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Since there are over 600 million prescriptions written yearly without scientific evidence, it is no wonder why there are so many ADR’s and deaths annually.
Journal of the American Medical Association, 1998, Vol. 279 No.15; 1216-1217 “We estimated that in 1994 in the United States 106000 (95% CI, 76000-137000) hospital patients died from an ADR. Thus, we deduced that ADRs may rank from the fourth to sixth leading cause of death. Even if the lower confidence limit of 76000 fatalities was used to be conservative, we estimated that ADRs could still constitute the sixth leading cause of death in the United States, after heart disease (743460), cancer (529904), stroke (150108), pulmonary disease (101077), and accidents (90523); this would rank ADRs ahead of pneumonia (75719) and diabetes (53894). Moreover, when we used the mean value of 106000 fatalities, we estimated that ADR’s could rank fourth, after heart disease, cancer, and stroke as a leading cause of death.”
Journal of the American Medical Association, 2000; 284(4):483-485
Dr. Barbara Starfield’s Landmark study, “Is US health really the best in the world?” In it, Dr. Starfield concludes that 225,000 people are killed by the medical system in the US every year—106,000 by FDA-approved medicines, which equals over a MILLION deaths per decade. “225000 deaths per year constitutes the third leading cause of death in the United States, after deaths from heart disease and cancer.”
In an ironic twist of fate, Dr. Starfield died nearly 11 years later following an adverse drug reaction. Her husband penned the following after completing an FDA adverse drug reaction report;
Archives of Internal Medicine, 2012; Vol. 72, No.15; 1174-1177
Chronicle of an Unforetold Death, By: Neil A. Holtzman, M.D., M.P.H.
‘The pathologist attributed the massive hemorrhage to cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA), listing “anticoagulation therapy” on the death certificate under “other significant conditions.”’
Journal of the American Medical Association, April 25, 2001 Vol 285, No.16; 2114-2120.
Medication Errors and Adverse Drug Events in Pediatric Inpatients
By: Kaushal et al. This was a study of 1120 patients admitted to 2 academic institutions during a 6 week period. There were 616 medication errors (5.7%) from 10,778 medication orders. That was 55 medication errors per 100 admissions. In total, 320 patients accounted for these medication errors and 64 patients had 3 or more errors. The rate was 10 potential ADR’s (Adverse Drug Reactions) per 100 admissions.
Boston Globe, July 14, 2002 page C1
“Companies have no legal obligation to make public such findings [of adverse effects caused by their drugs].”
Do you think you’re safe in a Hospital?
The following U.S. Congressional Report says that upwards of 300,000 people are killed each year by Doctor negligence.
Health care reform : hearings before the Subcommittee on Health of the Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, first session November 10, 1993.
Testimony of Pamela Gilbert Director Public Citizen’s Congress Watch
“There is a virtual epidemic of medical malpractice in this country. Public Citizen estimates that between 150,000 to 300,000 Americans are injured or killed each year by doctor negligence. Extrapolating from a study conducted by Harvard Medical School, approximately 80,000 deaths occur annually due to doctor negligence – more than twice the number of motor vehicle occupants killed each year.”
Journal of Patient Safety, September 2013 – Volume 9 – Issue 3 – p 122–128
A New, Evidence-based Estimate of Patient Harms Associated with Hospital Care
By: John T.James, Ph,D. This study estimated that medical errors contribute to the deaths of between 210,000 and 440,000 patients annually. At the lower end, that’s the equivalent of nearly 10 jumbo jets crashing every week — or the entire population of Birmingham, Alabama dying every year.
To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System, 1999, Washington, DC: National Academy of Sciences Press. By: Kohn L, Corrigan J, Donaldson M, eds.
“More people die in a given year as a result of medical errors than from motor vehicle accidents (43,458), breast cancer (42,297), or AIDS (16,516).”
Medicines should- be the last resort not the first
Prescriptions are not the answer
FDA approval doesnt mean its safe
Off Label Prescribing
People just take too many pills
Half of all drugs are recalled
Media Medical Propaganda
Medical Journals are basically just advertisements now
Medical Journals are stooges for Big Pharma
How Doctors Responded to Being Named a Leading Killer
Medical errors kill hundreds of thousands yearly
Fake Avastin cancer drug sold by doctors
Pharmaceutical companies influence education with gifts and funding
Marketing to doctors
Inside the deadly Pakistan counterfeit drug trade
Pharmaceutical Sales Rep Tactics
Fake Prescription Drugs are wide spread problem
Dr Peter Gotzsche exposes big pharma as organized crime
Death by Doctor with chemo surgery and radiation
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Ivanka Receives the 2019 Internet Freedom Award
You’d think that Ivanka won the presidency or something.
She’s making the rounds to take pictures with smiling people and collecting her prizes.
Apparently, Ivanka is a huge cyber activist… who could have guessed!?
Mashable:
Ivanka Trump is now synonymous with internet freedom — at least according to a tech industry lobbying group boasting members like Uber, Google, Amazon, and Facebook.
The advisor to and daughter of the president was crowned Wednesday with the 2019 Internet Freedom Award. Yes, you read that correctly. Handing out the award in Washington, D.C., was the Internet Association, a trade group which proudly proclaimed Trump is totally deserving of the honor for all of her specific internet-freedom related accomplishments.
“Thanks to Ms. Trump’s leadership, we have seen bipartisan support for increased opportunities and we are excited to present her with an Internet Freedom Award at this year’s gala,” IA President and CEO Michael Beckerman observed in a press release. “The Internet Freedom Award recognizes Ms. Trump’s extraordinary contributions to public policy and the internet economy.”
This is potentially a very revealing award.
I am honored to receive the Internet Association’s 2019 Internet Freedom Award. pic.twitter.com/Hoqr74Hdfy
— Ivanka Trump (@IvankaTrump) May 23, 2019
While the honor is probably more closely related to the Trump administration’s extralegal actions against Silicon Valley’s overseas competition (Huawei, most specifically), it might also have something to do with Ivanka convincing her father to give the tech industry everything that they wanted, and allowing them to crush their ideological opponents (Trump’s supporters) and censor them online.
The association takes policy stands on election advertising, content moderation, and other hot-button issues. With Donald Trump recently accusing social media companies of “bias,” this award for a member of his immediate family could not have been better timed.
Maybe the shiny award statue will distract him long enough that he moves on to other topics?
Unironically this.
It seems that everyone who is anyone now understands that Trump is being manipulated and run by the Ivanka/Jared tag-team of kikery, and this Silicon Valley lobby is no exception.
They gave Ivanka the Internet Freedom Award either because she’s helped them lobby her father to do nothing and to allow these companies the freedom to ban and censor anyone they don’t like, or because they think that Ivanka will throw a tantrum if Donald decides to get tough on Big Tech and they, in turn, threaten to take the plastic princesses’ shiny new bauble away – effectively stopping him cold in his tracks before he even makes a move.
Smart stuff.
They know their mark well.
Big Tech Internet Freedom Award Ivanka tech censorship 2019-05-24
MILO Calls for Race War in America…!!
Trump Solicits Complaints About Social Media Censorship in Email List Building Scam
Jew-Run Breitbart Claims “Conservatives” Should Stop Whining and Build Their Own Facebook, Twitter and PayPal
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Research and Writings
Carbon Market Cooperation in Northeast Asia: Assessing Challenges and Overcoming Barriers
Ewing, John
China, Japan, and the Republic of Korea are emerging as major players in the global carbon trading landscape. As Northeast Asia’s biggest industrial economies, these three countries are connected through deep commercial and trade ties, and shared environmental challenges. There are thus growing calls for these markets to leverage complementarities and manage differences to build a foundation for more extensive carbon market cooperation. Against this backdrop, a new Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI) report, Carbon Market Cooperation in Northeast Asia: Assessing Challenges and Overcoming Barriers— which is part of ASPI’s Toward a Northeast Asia Carbon Market initiative — draws on the expertise of a wide range of scholars and practitioners to help equip policymakers and other stakeholders with information and guidance on the potential of and pathway toward carbon market linkage in Northeast Asia. This volume, released in June 2018, includes 11 chapters that examine the challenges of and approaches to carbon market cooperation and linkage in Northeast Asia. The report begins with four chapters focused on the status of carbon markets in the region, with examinations of how legal and institutional frameworks can facilitate the varying national and local measures employed to strengthen links and yield dividends. Chapters five through seven describe the barriers to linkage, and the uneven impacts — whether positive or negative — of linkage across the region, and also identify opportunities to pursue other forms of non-traditional linkage pathways. The remainder of the volume is organized around the particularities of emissions trading system policies and goals in China and Japan, with the final chapter making the case for the importance of business sector involvement in linkage efforts.
Material is made available in this collection at the direction of authors according to their understanding of their rights in that material. You may download and use these materials in any manner not prohibited by copyright or other applicable law.
Rights for Collection: Research and Writings
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Foreign Policy, Human Rights, Lost History, Media, Obama Administration, The Bush-43 Administration, Trump Administration
Trump’s Foreign Policy at a Crossroads
February 9, 2017 • 100 Comments
Exclusive: Recent U.S. foreign policy – driven by neocons and liberal hawks – has spread chaos and death around the globe. But can “crazy” Donald Trump bring sanity to how the U.S. approaches the world, asks Robert Parry.
If you wanted to bring sanity to a U.S. foreign policy that has spun crazily out of control, there would be some immediate steps that you – or, say, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson – could take, starting with a renewed commitment to tell the truth to the American people.
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.
Instead of the endless “perception management” or “strategic communication” or “psychological operations” or whatever the new code words are, you could open up the files regarding key turning-point moments and share the facts with the citizens – the “We the People” – who are supposed to be America’s true sovereigns.
For instance, you could release what the U.S. government actually knows about the Aug. 21, 2013 sarin gas attack in Syria; what the files show about the origins of the Feb. 22, 2014 coup in Ukraine; what U.S. intelligence analysts have compiled about the July 17, 2014 shoot-down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over eastern Ukraine. And those are just three examples of cases where U.S. government propagandists have sold a dubious bill of goods to the American and world publics in the “information warfare” campaign against the Syrian and Russian governments.
If you wanted to base U.S. foreign policy on the firm foundation of reality, you also could let the American people in on who is actually the principal sponsor of the terrorism that they’re concerned about: Al Qaeda, Islamic State, the Taliban – all Sunni-led outfits, none of which are backed by Shiite-ruled Iran. Yet, all we hear from Official Washington’s political and media insiders is that Iran is the chief sponsor of terrorism.
Of course, that is what Saudi Arabia, the Gulf states and Israel want you to believe because it serves their regional and sectarian interests, but it isn’t true. Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states are the ones arming and financing Al Qaeda and Islamic State with Israel occasionally bombing Al Qaeda’s military enemies inside Syria and providing medical support for Al Qaeda’s Syrian affiliate operating near the Golan Heights.
The reason for this unsavory network of alliances is that Israel, like Saudi Arabia and the Sunni-led Gulf states, sees Iran and the so-called “Shiite crescent” – from Tehran through Damascus to Beirut – as their principal problem. And because of the oil sheiks’ financial wealth and Israel’s political clout, they control how pretty much everyone in Official Washington’s establishment views the Middle East.
But the interests of Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states are not in line with the interests of the American people – nor the average European – who are not concerned about militant Shiites as much as militant Sunnis. After all, the worst terror attacks on Europe and the U.S. have come from Sunni extremists belonging to or inspired by Al Qaeda and Islamic State.
This gap between the reality of Sunni-extremist terrorism and the fantasy of Official Washington’s “group think” fingering Shiite-ruled Iran explains the cognitive dissonance over President Trump’s travel ban on people from seven mostly Muslim countries. Beyond the offensive anti-Muslim prejudice, there is the fact that he ignored the countries that produced the terrorists who have attacked the U.S., including the 9/11 hijackers.
This bizarre feature of Trump’s executive order shows how deep Official Washington’s dysfunction goes. Trump has picked a major constitutional battle over a travel ban that targets the wrong countries.
But there’s a reason for this dysfunction: No one in Official Washington can speak the truth about terrorism without suffering severe political damage or getting blacklisted by the mainstream media. Since the truth puts Israel and especially Saudi Arabia in an uncomfortable position, the truth cannot be spoken.
Hope for Trump
There was some hope that President Trump – for all his irascibility and unpredictability – might break from the absurd “Iran is the principal source of terrorism” mantra. But so far he has not.
Nor has Trump moved to throw open the files on the Syrian and Ukraine conflicts so Americans can assess how the Obama administration sought to manipulate them into supporting these “regime change” adventures.
Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland during a press conference at the U.S. Embassy in Kiev, Ukraine, on Feb. 7, 2014. (U.S. State Department photo)
But Trump has resisted intense pressure to again entrust U.S. foreign policy to the neoconservatives, a number of whom lost their jobs when President Obama left office, perhaps most significantly Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs Victoria Nuland, who helped orchestrate the violent overthrow of Ukraine’s elected president and is an architect of the New Cold War with Russia.
Other neocons who angled for jobs in the new administration, including John Bolton and James Woolsey, have failed to land them. Currently, there is pressure to ensconce Elliott Abrams, a top neocon dating back to the Reagan administration, in the key post of Deputy Secretary of State but that idea, too, has met resistance.
The neocon threat to Trump’s stated intent of restoring some geopolitical realism to U.S. foreign policy is that the neocons operate almost as an ideological cabal linked often in a subterranean fashion – or as I. Lewis Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney’s neocon chief of staff, once wrote in a cryptic letter to neocon journalist Judith Miller that aspen trees “turn in clusters, because their roots connect them.”
In other words, if one neocon is given a key job, other neocons can be expected to follow. Then, any Trump deviation from neocon orthodoxy would be undermined in the classic Washington tradition of strategic leaking to powerful media and congressional allies.
So far, the Trump inner circle has shown the administrative savvy to avoid bringing in ideologues who would dedicate their efforts to thwarting any significant change in U.S. geopolitical directions.
What is less clear is whether Trump, Tillerson and his fledgling State Department team have the intellectual heft to understand why U.S. foreign policy has drifted into the chaos and conflicts that now surround it – and whether they have the skill to navigate a route toward a safe harbor.
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https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/how-the-trump-regime-was-manufactured-by-a-war-inside-the-deep-state-f9e757071c70#.tbnsgb7s2
How the Trump Regime was Manufactured by a War Inside the Deep State
exiled off mainstreet
This is an excellent view of the situation and excellent advice for Trump if he wants to break free of the neocon strait-jacket. I agree with the subsequent comment that he needs to avoid the Iran trap, which he may have got into in his efforts to gain increased freedom of action against the odious yankee deep state structure, but which was, at the least, a tactical error.
Michael Doliner
“In other words, if one neocon is given a key job, other neocons can be expected to follow.”
This is very similar to the way bed bugs operate.
It is amazing how American’s don’t ask for proof of what they are told by the media and government. They don’t ask for additional information. Even people I know, who are capable of critical thinking, shut down when I ask them to explain how they know something and what evidence they have for whatever it is they have said to me. Who did 911? The terrorists. Who were the terrorists? Um… Arabs? So not Iran? I thought Iran was an Arab country… No, it’s not. So what Arab country? Saudi Arabia? Okay… so did we then bomb and invade Saudi Arabia and regime change them? Um… no… But I thought you just said Saudi Arabia was behind the attack…
And then they just shut down completely.
But it doesn;’t matter what the topic is. Iranian nuclear weapons, the coup in Ukraine, whether Russia ever invaded Crimea or Ukraine… They seem fine if the source of all their information is the media or the government. And they don’t get it when you explain that the media gets its information from the government, therefore the two are essentially the exact same source.
JOHN CHUCKMAN
This is a very good piece.
Michael K Rohde
Refreshing candor about “our” foreign policy, which in fact has not been ours for some years now. After several trillions of dollars of treasure and thousands of our youth’s lives, it would be nice to actually name names, in and out of of government, who have been the architect of this failed policy which has so changed our country and the entire world. Who is driving this conduct? Neo-con is a little less than definitive. Who organized these people and their philosophy that has changed the U.S. without the permission of the people who have to live with it, the vast majority of our citizens and voters. As the kids say, WTF?
“If you wanted to bring sanity to a U.S. foreign policy that has spun crazily out of control,”
After eight years of constant Obama apologetics from Perry — the fiction where we had this great peace-lover who was simply soiled by the dark world and his advisors around him — we now go full circle. Obama gets a pass for his disaster capitalism in the Ukraine, Libya and Syria because he is a good guy. Yet for Trump, he must immediately bring to light all the war-crimes committed by the US and their allies to win Perry’s approval.
This is ironic, since for eight years Perry has argued about how the sainted Obama can’t do these things because the government and the world are corrupting figures. Yet now Perry feels Trump should just casually release all the secrets of the deep state and, on a whim, just make all foreign policy good and happy and logical.
This piece is really just a psychological game to setup the prosecution and critique of Trump for all his future crimes, just as Perry set up the fiction that Obama was beyond blame for his war crimes because he was just a really great guy. In Perry’s mind, Trump is going to be guilty for everything America does in the next eight years — just as his mind performed eight years of mental gymnastics to paint a naked imperialist and tool of Wall Street as the bees knees.
bozhidar balkas
Yes, be 100% sure that the supremacist part of America [dare say, 90% of it] would continue to posit to us fake news.
After that is done, supremacists can forever interpret their fake news or keep explaining their explanations by an endless number of other explanations.
And, since, no interpretation, explanation can be evaluated as true-false or right-wrong, they can ever be caught in a lie.
Good article! I don’t really understand Bibi Netanyahu and his supporters. Why would he allign himself with Saudia Arabia etc.? Fact is: There is still a Jewish community in Iran, hard pressed during the Khomeini years but still existing and these days left in peace with the synagoge in tact. How many Jewish communities do you have in S.A., Bahrein, Qatar, the Emirates? As far as I know: NON! The ultimate aim of the Saudis etc. will always be to evict the Jews from the Palestine and if they temporarily work together with Israel it is probably much more in the spirit of the Hitler-Stalin pact. Perhaps S.A. and Bibi want to clear the battle field of shiites before they have a go at each other, who knows. Or does Bibi really believe he can form an alliance with S.A. and the ISIS and Al-Qaida off-shots? That would almost be on the scale of ignoring Hitler’s threads towards the Jews in Mein Kampf.
Zionists have always allied with those that hate and expel Jews (as Arabs and Persians are both Semitic peoples, and Arabic an Farsi are Semitic languages, the term “anti-Semitic makes no sense here.)
It is largely because Iran has a large Jewish population, and treats them well (they even get over-represented in the Iranian Perliament.) Iranian Jews, for the most part, follow the Torah, which tells the Jews who follow it that G-d exiled them from Zion for their sins, and they are not to try to return to Zion until both they and the land are ready, which yhey will know, because then G-d will send the Mosiach to lead them back to Zion. Iranian Jews refuse to in any way support Israel, as to do so would be blasphemy.
Trump has nixed Abrams, we dodged that bullet. I’m sure there are more coming. Some GOP are disappointed someone with “much experience” was passed up because of Trump’s “thin skin”. Trump did say he disagreed with Abrams’ war stances. How do they keep dredging up the people from the putrid past? Is experience no matter how vile the only consideration? Lord, where is Hercules to clean the Augean stables?
Headline: “Report: Disgraced Former Baylor President Ken Starr Is The Frontrunner For A Post In Trump Administration”
It’s difficult to imagine that Trump can believes Ken Starr would be welcomed by his “base”. Even if you completely ignore his Clinton connection, the man’s determination to ignore the rape epidemic at Baylor can hardly be viewed by anybody except perverts as admirable in any way.
The article starts out, “Recent”…..Say what???? Recent????????
We have had murderous foreign policies for decades that have overturned legitimate governments, slaughtered the common peoples of so many countries……Recent?
Are you out of your minds???????
Starting out with a false premise only leads to false conclusions.
You can do better than this.
Biden has been instrumental in putting out deep state lies about Syria and Ukraine. Guess that’s what he has to do, huh? I believe I read his son Hunter is on the board of a gas company in Ukraine. I don’t think the neocolonialists have any solutions to the massive problems they’ve caused in the Middle East. They should withdraw like the Soviets did in Afghanistan when they realized they were in over their heads.
So Tillerson may be part of a Trojan horse group to get the neocons in by the back door?! We need printed bumper stickers and tee shirts, “Rid the World of Neocons”.
Basically Trump wants to be an all powerful, all knowing God who will be acknowledged as the savior of the World. The possibility that he might fail to deliver this is intolerable to his huge ego. Such men are dangerous, and will do anything to maintain their obsessive delusions of grandeur, even if they have to risk destroying the world to fulfill their insane project. They feel that they are always infallibly right in whatever they assert and do, and will try to destroy anyone who stands in their way. The Trump Ego must be defended whatever the cost. The most powerful nation on Earth has an insane maniac at the helm. He is committed to making America great no matter what he has to risk to do so. Second place is just intolerable to this deluded man.
Currently, there is pressure to ensconce Elliott Abrams, a top neocon dating back to the Reagan administration, in the key post of Deputy Secretary of State but that idea, too, has met resistance.
Unless Google News is wrong, the “resistance” came from Donald Trump. Hopefully this is true, for willingly taking on an employee who holds you in contempt is a recipe for disaster.
Now Trump needs to keep a watch on Tillerson, for in wanting Abrams the man has exposed a neocon side to himself.
delia ruhe
Thanks for that insight, Robert Parry.
Palladium, you should read “All the Shah’s Men” by Stephen Kinzer, to understand Iran better. The CIA in 1953 pulled off a coup to unseat democratically elected Mohammed Mossadegh, because he nationalized the oil company controlled by the UK, and the US-UK installed the dictator Shah Reza Pahlavi who terrorized the people until they overthrew him in 1979. The mullahs were crucial to aiding the revolution and came to power. The Iranians have not forgotten what the CIA did and the clerics have a huge hold on their government. The chant “Death to the US” is because of that period of their history, they do not forgive the US for that coup.
Also, at the end of WWI when the Ottoman Empire was defeated, the western colonial powers carved up the Middle East lands with no knowledge or concern of the various peoples’ cultures or beliefs. All they cared about was the riches of the lands, they cared nothing for the people.
Top it off with the final coup of Bush-Cheney invasion of Iraq in 2003, and is it any wonder that the Middle East is a mess, so we have blowback for decades to come or maybe centuries, if we’re around that long, even? Those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it, as the saying goes.
evelync
Thanks a Jessica K!
You remind me that presidential wannabe VP Joe Biden had the bright idea to solve the sectarian violence in Iraq by dividing no it into 3 parts Sunni, Shia, Kurd.
Wes Clark asked the poignant question – exactly what street do you use to determine the dividing lines.
It troubles me that Biden is beloved by some but makes such bad decisions.
The Palladium
Iran are one of the principle state sponsors of terrorism. They hold chants saying Death to Israel Death to the US and they openly funnel hundreds of millions of dollars a year into Hezbollah, Hamas terrorsists. They cause regional turmoil in the Middle East and they should not be given a free pass, because the Saudi’s commit terrorism as well.
Hezbollah is a civil defence group that fights Daesh in Syria, and defends against Israel’s aggression in Lebanon. Hamas is the elected government of Gaza – teachers, doctors, garbage collectors, etc.
To call either “terrorists” is to be less than truthful. Please take your Hasbara elsewhere.
Thanks again to Mr. Parry for great insights and also to all commenters for thoughtful remarks. Great remark about Trump as broken clock! The deep dark fascist corporatist state brought us this mess with a broken duopoly government, anyway, thanks “supreme” court for Citizens United! If Hillary had been installed, right now the GOP would be working on her impeachment, which activity would continue for months!
Seems Trump’s antiwar stance is based on business concerns and makes sense, but US MIC war stance so entrenched it’s nigh onto impossible to overcome.
Interesting September Consortium News article I read last night about Netanyahu and Putin advancing business interests between the two countries, and one comment was that US has lost world prestige because of ME wars. Since US is Israel’s biggest political support, rather ironic for the neocons (most of whom are Russian Jews!).
Gone are the journalistic days of Mike Wallace and Walter Cronkite! On Russia, Americans who don’t want to do their own research will remain uninformed, and I just say to them to dig for some info instead of swallowing pablum fed through corporate media. If they can’t, just shows how Americans are glued to the boob tube (my family included) and won’t think for themselves! Social media makes it worse, too.
We’re at a biological and also political tipping point, and as bad as Trump’s actions are, it may be better in the long run for things to fall apart. With Hillary it would be status quo onward neocon war state. Trump is a wild card. My personal feeling is that he may be threatened with impeachment either for Emoluments Clause or some extreme action and then will resign. It seems he didn’t expect to win but ran to enhance his “brand”. He doesn’t really want to give up his businesses, so that might be a way out.
If Pence took over, the protest opposition that started will continue, and the awful GOP might lose Senate in 2018. Still, the Dems are so locked into their Beltway bubble that they still don’t get why they lost. Maybe they will, at least some of them.
These are difficult but interesting times. All this bizarre human behavior against the backdrop of a ravaged planet by Homo rapiens (not very sapiens, I would say!) This country, sadly, has a very ugly history, what with the genocide of the Native Americans and enslavement of the Black races. To my mind, some heavy karma is being reaped here in the US.
Really excellent summary Jessica K. Thanks.
Joe J Tedesky
Good one Jessica K. Very good.
Yes! Thanks so much, Jessica K!
If the Dems play their cards right – embrace New Dealers like Bernie, Keith Ellison, financial reformers like Elizabeth Warren, intellectuals like Cornel West, climate reformers like Bill McKibbon, they could win in a landslide in 2018. But they’d have to come to their senses and ditch the Clinton wing of the party which did not offer any solutions for working people suffering under the policies of the last few decades – thanks, Bill and Hillary Clinton.
Emolee Haber
If you’re serious about Impeaching Trump then get involved!
You can start here by learning about “The Articles of Impeachment” and “The Emoluments Clause”. ImpeachTrumpFund[dot]Com
I am trying to imagine what the Deep State and Mass Media’s response would be to the Trump administration exposing the lies of the Sarin gas attack, MH17, and the Ukrainian Coup. Would they accuse the Administration of more “fake news”? If undeniable proof was provided, it would blow up the entire Orwellian establishment. I can’t imagine the Deep State would allow it to happen. They would either be bought off, blackmailed, or assassinated.
I wonder if the Trump administration even knows the truth about these events. Interesting times ahead, that’s for certain.
For those who haven’t been paying attention, Trump represents a faction of the political elite that understands that the empire suffers from classic over reach and will soon end. Their idea is to end the empire peacefully and rebuild America that will then carry on as a prosperous and powerful normal nation. America first and screw the empire. These are the guys who can do math.
The other faction, centred around Hillary want to keep the party going and don’t see any problem with the imperial project. They are happy to sacrifice the Republic for the sake of the empire and simply don’t care what the people think. For them, empire is destiny. These are the guys who can’t do math, or don’t care to.
What you are witnessing is the clash of these two factions.
It should be noted that the army backs Trump so he will prevail.
Sounds good but as recent comments over the weeks have shown some of us have doubts on this optimism: “rebuild America that will then carry on as a prosperous and powerful normal nation.” This is also similar to Thierry Meyssan’s view at Voltaire net. The doubts enter based on the looking at what Trump and his people are actually doing, versus their rhetoric.
Hermann Hagena, Bonn
@Randal Martin – excellent suggestion! Knowing from first hand experience how US sanctions because of lies from secret services are ruining hard working, decent and honest people from Ukraine who since USSR days, depend on cooperation with Russia: if you force your secret services to open their files on the shoot down of MH17, POTUS will earn the gratitude of men and women in Kiev and the respect of people of good will
in many other parts of the world, As the German writer Theodor Storm (a judge by profession) said in the nineteenth century: Believing will perhaps earn you a place in paradise – but doubt (and seeking the truth) in the hands of courageous men will smash the portals of hell.
Hermann Hagena February 10, 2017
Bob Van Noy, Sacramento
”if you force your secret services to open their files on the shoot down of MH17, POTUS will earn the gratitude of men and women in Kiev and the respect of people of good will”
Thank you Hermann Hagena for this response, that is what most of us here sincerely want.
Ford Greene
I feel slight reassurance to read about Trump’s resistance to neoconservative infiltration and control. But isn’t he already out of the pan and into the fire? Brannon’s cultic obsession with the apocalyptic “fourth turning” ideology may make for a much less predicable aiming of military might.
Don’t believe a word of what you read in the corporate media.
Its the anti Trump faction that will get us all killed.
Remember, whatever they accuse others of doing, that’s what they are doing.
Great link Bill. This one paragraph from the linked article you provided here, is a good example of what has bothered me the most about Donald Trump the candidate, and now Trump the president.
From the linked article…
“Both before and after his election victory, Trump has made dramatically contradictory statements on the US nuclear arsenal. He denounced the agreement, which he referred to as ‘Start Up’ in a presidential debate in October, wrongly claiming that it meant Russia could “create warheads and we can’t”.”
End of quote from linked article.
This is comparable to his slamming down his tiny little fist on the lectern during the campaign, and declaring how Obama had just signed a bad deal with Iran that they would not continue building nukes, and now we are going to give Iran ‘our money’….billions of dollars of our money, and Iran will have a bomb so fast it will make your heads spin….and with this lying rhetoric his supporters ate this up as fact.
No one as I recall went out of their way to correct Trump on his misinformation. Instead to anyone who had listened to Trump would not have known that the money Iran was receiving, was Iran’s own money, which had been seized from Iran due to our placing sanctions on them. No one bothered to update these low informed voters that Iran gave up their quest for a nuclear bomb, as far back as 2003. Talk about getting away with lying.
It was excruciating to no end everytime Trump the candidate would bring up the thousands of dancing Muslims, who celebrated on 911. Rather than the media make the correction from Muslims to Israelis instead the MSM claimed they could find no video to support Trump’s claims.
Trump when he talks like this is the classic stereotype to play the cockeyed ranting Unlce who upsets all the children during Thanksgiving dinner, and yet here he now sits in the Oval Office, possibly being the most powerful leader of this peace starved planet. Facts be damned, we will now just wing it.
Don’t get me wrong like Robert Parry points out how Trump does sometime show signs of hope. Trump’s willingness to strike up a relationship of détente with Russian President Vladimir Putin, is encouraging. Trump’s dislike of trade agreements such as TPP and NAFTA, is a wonderful revelation to discover in a modern day American President. Now the only thing left will be to see if his good out weights his bad, and with that is the unending source of many an article and comment to be written.
OMG ! If I had written this article it would have been deleted by consortium staff……Mr.Parry I will send you a Christmas card after all…Finally !!. On a humorous note there is an article on Zero Hedge about the master Bill Kristol…..His idea of lazy doesn’t include him (check out the buttons on his shirt…..Lol )….Trump’s new way is the old way…..fossil fuels…..The new secretary of state …the great oil barron is now the great deal maker….making and planning hugh deals that include Russia….Hello ! Unfortunately for the neocon’s their mode of operation will be less and less in world affairs unless they adopt Trump’s way…..we as a planet are in the 3rd quarter of fossil fuel reserves when matched with consumption…..Stay tuned……
Bill Bodden
A stopped clock may be right twice a day, but in between:
“Trump angrily denounced the New Start Treaty in a 28 January phone call to the Russian leader, according to sources briefed on the call. Reuters, which first reported Trump’s remarks, said the new US president also had to pause the hour long call to ask what the New Start Treaty was. ” – https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/09/trump-putin-call-nuclear-deal-new-start-treaty
Note also the link for a ‘no-nothing approach’ to foreign affairs.
Bill I replied to your comment here after reading your linked article, but I hit the wrong reply button…see my response which by my accidentally posting it independent of your comment here is instead found below.
The Guardian is good for keeping abreast of the NeoLiberalCon propaganda narrative, but as a source of news it’s appalling.
The Guardian is a mixed bag requiring selective reading. I like the reporting of Spencer Ackerman, who worked with Glenn Greenwald and Edward Snowden, and Ed Pilkington. The Guardian also has special reports, such as the count on guns in America and cop killings, but many of the opinion pieces are better ignored.
Excellent brief summary of the situation. Your honesty and objectivity is a breath of fresh air. Thanks.
But,”Will There Be War With Iran?”
Surely, thinking people must be asking themselves this question, Does the world really need an ‘unnecessary war on’ Iran? And are there some countries in the Middle East that would like a war on Iran?…
I believe a war with Iran could be the end for our supposedly “civilized” world. Just look at the state of the countries in the Middle East that have already been subjected to the planned wars of the war criminals in our midst. War with Iran will be the final nail in the coffin of this planet, we all live on. And will it all be based on a big lie by those who are maniacs of militarism and who appear to take their orders from countries with a vested interest in all out bloody war with Iran?…
[read more at link below]
http://graysinfo.blogspot.ca/2017/02/will-there-be-war-with-iran.html
No….Not if a deal is made with their crude oil reserves……
“US corporate-financier funded think tank, the Brookings Institution, in a 2009 policy paper titled, ‘Which Path to Persia? Options for a New American Strategy Toward Iran” would lay out in detail various means of provoking war and regime change against Iran.
“In it, Brookings explicitly revealed how a ‘superb offer’ would be given to Iran, only to be intentionally revoked in a manner portraying Iran as ungrateful:
“‘any military operation against Iran will likely be very unpopular around the world and require the proper international context—both to ensure the logistical support the operation would require and to minimize the blowback from it. The best way to minimize international opprobrium and maximize support (however, grudging or covert) is to strike only when there is a widespread conviction that the Iranians were given but then rejected a superb offer—one so good that only a regime determined to acquire nuclear weapons and acquire them for the wrong reasons would turn it down. Under those circumstances, the United States (or Israel) could portray its operations as taken in sorrow, not anger, and at least some in the international community would conclude that the Iranians ‘brought it on themselves’ by refusing a very good deal.’
“The so-called ‘Iran deal,’ introduced during the administration of US President Barack Obama, represents precisely this ‘superb offer,’ with Flynn’s accusations serving as the ‘turn down’ ahead of the ‘sorrowful’ war and attempted regime change the US had always planned to target Tehran with.
“In fact, Flynn would seemingly draw almost verbatim from the ploy described by Brookings in 2009, by stating:
“‘Instead of being thankful to the United States for these agreements, Iran is now feeling emboldened … As of today, we are officially putting Iran on notice.’
“Flynn’s statement is particularly surreal – considering Yemeni fighters are only targeting Saudi warships because Saudi Arabia is currently waging full-scale war on Yemen. Accused on all sides of war crimes, and with the US itself even restricting weapon sales to Riyadh – if only symbolically – in response to Saudi Arabia’s aggression – Flynn still claims that the attack on Saudi Arabia’s warship constitutes justification for putting Iran ‘on notice.’
“Claiming that Iran is ‘sponsoring terrorism’ throughout the region, when it is currently a major member of the coalition fighting the DIA’s ‘Salafist principality’ in both Iraq and Syria is also surreal.
“Another prerequisite mentioned in the 2009 Brookings document was the need to move Syria out of the way. It appears that the US’ attempts at regime change in Syria have reached their final conclusion, failing overall, but weakening Syria significantly in the process. War on Iran – a nation taxed greatly in fighting US, European, and Persian Gulf-backed terrorist organization in Syria – may be perceived now as more preferable than before the 2011 conflict began.
“Meanwhile, the political climate in the West has been so expertly manipulated that the public is either so distracted with identity politics that they are unaware and unconcerned with the prospect of war with Iran, or so hysterical over ‘Islam’ that any nation perceived as being Muslim is seen as justifiably a target of US military aggression – regardless of how divergent any of these alternate realities are from actual reality.
“Flynn’s statement encapsulates a documented conspiracy drafted under President Bush, implemented under President Obama, and finally coming into full fruition under President Trump, once again illustrating the continuity of agenda that transcends party politics, presidencies, and political rhetoric – driven by immense corporate-financier special interests, not the will of the American public.”
US Betrays Iran Deal as Predicted – Edges Closer to War
http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2017/02/us-betrays-iran-deal-as-predicted-edges.html
Which Path to Persia? Options for a New American Strategy toward Iran (2009)
Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution
https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/06_iran_strategy.pdf
Brookings openly discussed that regime change for the purpose of establishing regional hegemony is the only goal of the United States and its regional partners. Attempts to frame the conflict with Iran as an issue of “national security” and “global stability” serving as mere canards.
Throughout the document, US policymakers admitted that negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program are merely one of several pretexts being used to foster political subversion from within and justify war from beyond Iran’s borders.
In a chapter titled, “Allowing or Encouraging an Israeli Military Strike,” Brookings detailed how the US will wage war on Iran, through Israel, in order to maintain plausible deniability. Various diplomatic postures were discussed in consideration of the best formula to mitigate complicity amid a “unilateral” Israeli strike on Iran.
US-Israeli foreign policy is unified with Israel’s defenses a product of vast and continuous US support. Anything Israel does, therefore, no matter the political or diplomatic facade constructed, it does with America’s full backing – hence the inclusion of “encouraging” in the title of the chapter.
Despite an alleged “fallout” between the US and Israel, Israel continues to receive immense military and political aid from the United States, and Israeli foreign policy is still one with Washington. The purpose of the feigned “fallout” was to produce room between the US and Israel, so that upcoming “unilateral” actions taken by Israel can be disavowed by the US.
Thanks Abe, this is an important understanding.
I’ve been totally befuddled by U.S. Policy towards Iran.
WHY????
Everyone knows we messed up the future of Iran after the democratic election of the progressive Mosadegh in the 1950’s with the MI6/CIA coup on behalf of Shell Oil.
Followed by the brutal regime of torture under our guy, The Shah.
Iranians finally revolted but instead of someone like Mosadegh they got the Mullahs in charge.
WE HAVE NEVER APOLOGIZED NOR HAS BRITAIN FOR THIS OUTRAGE.
If we cared about an open democratic government in the Middle East we would not have thrown Mosadegh in prison. We would have welcomed him.
Why is Iran considered an enemy?
Why is Saudi Arabia considered a friend?
ARE WE NUTS?
evelync, TPTB decided long ago perhaps way back to the British Empire how this country should be managed especially because of its oil and strategic location. The American people and the Iranians could find considerable good will if management would allow it… Thanks.
Oh, the answer to your last question is Yes.
What is TPTB?
Thanks, Bob Van Noy.
And Wes Clark’s words from 2004 – “Iran is a multicultural country of 80 million people” – mean nothing to TPTB.
Litchfield,
TPTB = the powers that be
“This is your real government; they transcend elected administrations, they permeate every political party, and they are responsible for nearly every aspect of the average American and European’s way of life. When the “left” is carrying the torch for two ‘Neo-Con’ wars, starting yet another based on the same lies, peddled by the same media outlets that told of Iraqi WMD’s, the world has no choice, beyond profound cognitive dissonance, but to realize something is wrong.
“What’s wrong is a system completely controlled by a corporate-financier oligarchy with financial, media, and industrial empires that span the globe. If we do not change the fact that we are helplessly dependent on these corporations that regulate every aspect of our nation politically, and every aspect of our lives personally, nothing else will ever change […]
“Within the library of the Brookings Institute you will find the blueprints for nearly every conflict the West has been involved with in recent memory. What’s more is that while the public seems to think these crises spring up like wildfires, those following the Brookings’ corporate funded studies and publications see these crises coming years in advance. These are premeditated, meticulously planned conflicts that are triggered to usher in premeditated, meticulously planned solutions to advance Brookings’ corporate supporters, who are numerous.
“The ongoing operations against Iran, including US-backed color revolutions, US-trained and backed terrorists inside Iran, and crippling sanctions were all spelled out in excruciating detail in the Brookings Institute report, ‘Which Path to Persia?’ The more recent UN Security Council resolution 1973 regarding Libya uncannily resembles Kenneth Pollack’s March 9, 2011 Brookings report titled ‘The Real Military Options in Libya.'”
Naming Names: Your Real Government
http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2011/03/naming-names-your-real-government.html
Gregory Herr
Here’s a video that references Cartalucci and “Which Path to Persia?”:
https://youtu.be/eLS5h1ZDKvE
W. R. Knight
Definition of fascism: a philosophy or system of government that advocates or exercises a dictatorship of the extreme right through the merging of state and business leadership together with an ideology of belligerent nationalism. – American Heritage Dictionary, Houghton Mifflin, 1976
Now, tell me that Trump is not extreme right. Then look at Trump’s cabinet and tell me that’s not a merger of state and business leadership. Then finally tell me that Trump et al are not belligerent nationalists.
What you speak of didn’t come in with Trump. It came in, stealthily, with the death of FDR. It gained the upper hand when it killed Kennedy. It became firmly entrenched under clueless Reagan. It has had the steering wheel firmly in hand since poppa Bush ( back-seat president behind Reagan) became president in his own right. It cheerfully dismantled everything FDR built, under “Cecil Rhodes scholar” Clinton. Trump, being a businessman, naturally thinks “I’m gonna run this country like a business”, as an autocratic CEO in charge of things. It is a bad choice for statesman, but perhaps he feels the wicked, bloody fascists in the Shadow State have gone too far, and being an NYC businessman, he probably knows how one must deal with Mafiosi-type killers to get things done. Maybe he’ll be our sonofabitch, to knock the heads of the other sons-of-bitches destroying our country?
The following piece, if I’m reading it properly, indicates Trump is essentially in the same “establishmentarian” mode you speak of that preceded him, but suggests he as Version B fascist shadow state is worse than Version A, versus his being “our sonofabitch”? My previous on Richard III seemed to be a breakthrough for me in putting together the disparate elements of Trump between savior and wrecking ball inconsistency, and in the mode of the psychopath as entirely opportunistic or manipulative, which Richard III I believe is a wonderful example of in Shakespeare’s work. And I think this disease of psychopathy essentially characterizes the downhome essential nature of American politics over the period you speak of, with Trump the latest iteration. By now, I’m thinking his postures toward “protecting the American people” are no more plausible than Richard III’s plots and self-serving. This thinking is an attempt to reconcile his inconsistencies. How can these inconsistencies evolve from an integrated program versus being the patchwork of opportunism for essentially personal goals?
http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/02/10/decoding-trump/
It can be said that some Kings are better for the peasants than are other Kings, even though they are still sons-of-bitches, and ultimately don’t give a flying eff about the peasants, although some Kings understand that all good things worth having are produced by the peasants, and you shouldn’t “beat your plow horse” so to say. I sometimes think FDR, a genuine member of the elite ruling class, genuinely wanted a new deal for the peasants because if you eff with them too severely, they truly wreck the joint and ruin The Game. One of FDR’s complaints about the Wall Streeters was something along the lines of “don’t these bastards understand I’m trying to SAVE their Game?!?” I doubt this dark world can build a true, just and pure society. My wife has to often remind me “remember dear; this is one of the minor Hell Worlds. The Light is to be found elsewhere,” meaning via prayer and meditation, exploring the Inner World of “the Third Eye” to use Mystics’ terms.
Brad, if I’m following properly I think our discussion illustrates the complexity we (the Left generally) are up against with the conflict between Trump’s saying some favorable things versus other actions indicating his bullying recklessness in command, and we’re having trouble assessing. This conflict is shown elsewhere in this thread and in consortium news over the past few weeks. I have personally been in disputes with neighbors by even suggesting maybe Trump’s not all bad, as with his stance on Putin and negation of the TPP. I then reconciled the conflict with Trump as psychopathic, emphasis on tactician and “winning” above else, which I assume to be driven by the man’s huge ego.
So your comment I think focuses the question to does Trump “want a new deal for us peasants” or is he sufficiently unhinged to appropriate whatever course he needs, however ruinous, to fulfilling his plan, whatever that is. I also like the idea to look what the man DOES versus what he SAYS approach, and it is that in particular, lately, that leads me on toward the “unhinged” view, including the idiocy of his travel ban with, as proclaimed, “only” 100 people or so inconvenienced, then his clinging to it righteously.
This is acceptance of, promotion of, collateral damage, in the form of those innocent people from the 7 nations pushed into difficulties by the precipitate implementation of the ban. Opposition in the courts then brings out the flavor of this man with his belligerent tweets and hostility, and his resistance to further thinking or considering. This is the man I should be waiting for, and patient with, giving him time to come through as a force for good that he has supposedly put himself up to be? The truth is, no. I’m done with him. What he says in his glowing language of restoring America is undone for me by his behavior. I suspect he’s revealing mental problems. I thank you for entertaining my ideas and responding.
andreen
The repeated comparisons between Trump and the Shakespearean Richard III should perhaps not be carried too far. It should be recalled that Shakespeare wrote in the reign of Elisabeth II, the daughter of the man who led the mainly French troops who killed the king. By all non-propagandistic accounts, Richard was a remarkable sovereign.
I, for one, would not disagree that Mr. Tribblehead fits the qualifications of the defunition of Fascism.
However, Obomber and Lady MacBeth do as well. (After all, what is Fealty to Goldman Sachs, and Citigroup, if not an indicator of Far Right status, and what is “American Exceptionalism” if not belligerent nationalism?)
What is encouraging about the Big Cheeto is that he has ripped the smiley face mask off of our deeply ingrained Fascist state, which allows even the low information types who supported the Red Queen to resist Fascism, when they would have supported it had the Superpredator won (much as they supported it when the Eloquent Mass Murderer was in power.)
Jules M.
Intellectual savvy? Trump? You’ve got to be kidding. His only ‘savvy’ is how to launch the most vicious attack on any critic to preserve his ” Mirror mirror on the wall show me who’s the greatest of all, ” self aggrandizing personality.
Hopefully we all learned something from the wizard of OZ…….The agenda is always just behind and hidden from the regular folks because of the “Big Media Show”……..
Richard Browning
Am I sending money monthly to an organization that continues to believe that 19 so-called terrorist flew two airplanes into the twin towers that also brought down a 47-story high rise at 5:20 in the afternoon on September 11, 2001? Surely you don’t believe that the Laws of Nature, including gravity, decided to take a holiday on that single day in all of history. Please tell me I am wrong.
^This.
But otherwise, many good articles…some much better than others. It is my fervent hope (as an architect) that Physics 101 is not a completely lost, esoteric science. So far, not so much reason for that hope to be realized.
Hayden Head
When I taught college composition, I dutifully brought up the effectiveness of an author’s ethos in making his or her case. I don’t think I really “got it,” however, until I began reading Robert Parry’s articles on Consortium. And I’ll tell you why. Parry’s journalist integrity is impeccable. He doesn’t have an ideological bent that requires him to put white hats and black hats on the heroes and villains du jour. Consequently, I am open to his thesis in American’s Stolen Narrative in spite of the fact that I am reflexively opposed to his argument. I have always believed that conservative jurists were preserving the original intent of the Constitution. But because I trust Parry so thoroughly–precisely because of his authorial ethos–I will listen to his argument, weigh the evidence, and who knows, I might even be persuaded.
So I want to tip my hat to Robert Parry; thank you for maintaining journalistic integrity when it’s in such short supply. But more important, I believe that his brand of measured discourse is exactly what our divided country needs to bring us together in a healthy national discussion. Ethos . . . Aristotle had it right after all.
Agreed. Except on “conservative jurists” who are conservative only in the Repub sense of conserving personal wealth and power. Like the stopped clock metaphor, they preserve “the original intent of the Constitution” very well when that is profitable to their rich and powerful sponsors, and ignore it with profound contempt at all other times. I know their conduct from long experience. They are the lowest of the low, memorizing a few patriotic phrases to use when convenient, but having no principles in fact.
Randal Marlin
“For instance, you could release what the U.S. government actually knows about the Aug. 21, 2013 sarin gas attack in Syria; what the files show about the origins of the Feb. 22, 2014 coup in Ukraine; what U.S. intelligence analysts have compiled about the July 17, 2014 shoot-down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over eastern Ukraine.”
Good point. Which makes me wonder why Trump doesn’t do this. If the truth supports Russia and Syria and strengthens Trump’s case about the misleading media, why doesn’t he? In addition to supporting his professed views, it would also be supporting the truth, which is sorely in need of it.
I would suggest that, if indeed the truth will out on these matters under Trump, some time will be needed to resolve the battles among established interests in the dark state, and then organize the data into some releasable form. Let us hope, and if it does not happen within 6-12 months, we will know more about the admin and the dark state.
You ask why Trump doesn’t release the documents which is an entirely rational request. The problem is that Trump is not a rational person and the sooner people realize that the better they will understand him. And irrational people, like the broken clock, can be right on occasions (though probably not twice daily).
Thanks, Mr Parry, for pointing out the absurdity of our attacks on and distrust of Shia countries and our allying with and arming Sunni countries, one of which birthed 16 of the 19 highjackers
our role fomenting the sectarian divisions is criminal.
I recommend “The Kite Flyer” a wonderful novel about the Shia-Sunni divide in Afghanistan.
Sunni have the upper hand; Shia second class Citizens.
We make things worse as Andrew Bacevich says, not better with our decades of regime change.
I don’t understand how Trump can sound sensible, even thoughtful, on refusing to buckle to Neocon delusions about regime change for Russia and at the same time say ridiculous things about building a wall…..
It’s mind boggling.
February 1: Trump’s national security adviser, Michael Flynn, says the US is “officially putting Iran on notice,” condemning the test as a “provocative” breach of a UN Security Council resolution.
Iran’s defense minister, Brig. Gen. Hossein Dehqan, officially confirms the missile test, even though other officials have previously commented on it.
February 2: Trump says, “Nothing’s off the table,” when asked if he might respond to the missile test with military action.
Ali Akbar Velayati, adviser to Iran’s supreme leader, says the country will continue its missile activity and accuses Trump of “baseless ranting.” He says even Americans are not satisfied with “Trump’s extremism,” calling the leader “inexperienced.”
February 4: The Iranian air force conducts military drills, including missile systems, radar and electronic warfare command and control exercises. US Defense Secretary James Mattis calls Iran the “single biggest state sponsor of terrorism in the world.”
How about the conversation on START? Was that today or yesterday? In all the excitement I’ve lost track. Is that the action of someone who’s looking to change the way we deal with other countries?
Now..what were you talking about? Laughable. I am no fan of US policy in the middle east but your constant hallucination that Trump will do anything remotely positive is puzzling given evidence you can see RIGHT NOW. Go on as you will about Obama, but we’ve got bigger problems. And yes, USA war mongering is one of them..destined to continue with a basket case POS leading the charge.
As none of us control that policy, and no one here seems naive about it, there is no harm in Mr. Parry’s encouraging words to the unknown but existent rational elements in the administration. He is not one to encourage over-optimism, and such words may do some good in the gap between the extremes.
BTW: read at NYT…the bugaboo here at consortium…about Trump s forming “outside in” policy towards Israel/Palestine. What I would like is a closer view of what this could mean. The CIA contributors here should have an insight because it is nothing new. But the times are.
If trump could pull that off I would surely give him kudos. So, maybe a glimmer of light..not to be pollyannish.
This is the problem with Trump. Some see him as a genius of insight and getting the country back. This same genius threatens people who disagree with him and has the empathy of a rolling stone. Seems to me he’s a tactician (nothing actually principled), everything opportunist to his self-worship. He’s probably been worshipped (“love us (me), love us (me)” recent appeal) all his life. Richard III maybe? Except R III had a (wicked) sense of humor.
Kings deserve no raising of stature (maybe raising of head from shoulders). Richard III should be read as “Dick number three”. Sorry, that’s the regicidal Puritan RoundHead Parliamentarian in me, talking. I’ll now shut up. :-)
Stiv – Perhaps you and I are watching another episode of “something.” The “Dear Leader” worship is quite disturbing.
Who needs Victoria Nuland when you have Michael Flynn and Steve Brannon to mess up U.S. foreign policy. They are paranoid Islamophobes who have no aversion to violent conflict.
Linda Furr
to Rob… Michael Flynn and Steve Brannon are not what you’d call charming guys, but what countries have they overthrown to your knowledge? How many people have been killed by their foreign policies? How many refugees have they created by destroying homes and homelands? You’re going wait a long time before you can find a match for Victoria Nuland.
Michael Flynn and Steve Brannon are not what you’d call charming guys, but what countries have they overthrown to your knowledge? How many people have been killed by their foreign policies? How many refugees have they created by destroying homes and homelands?
But what are Flynn and Bannon likely to do in the future? I wouldn’t rule out their the possibility of being as bad as – or worse than – Victoria Nuland.
That is not a very robust response.
Let’s stick to facts.
Pence and Bannon will do what Trump tells them to do.
So far, that crystal ball is cloudy.
Apparently when Bannon rearranged the National Security Council, kicking out the Joint Chiefs of Staff to make room for himself, he did not even tell Drumpf what he had done when he put it in front of the Big Cheeto to sign it.
Mr Tribble Head doesn’t like to read, as has been made clear. To think that he can control those who actually have an agenda seems rather wishful…
Well, Palladium, do you know the history of the CIA overthrow of Mohammed Mossadegh, democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran, taken down by a coup in 1953 for the UK oil company which is now BP, orchestrated by US CIA, all because he nationalized the oil company which was treating Iranians as slaves? Recommend you read Stephen Kinzer’s excellent book, “All the Shah’s Men”. The US-UK sympathetic Shah was installed and terrorized Iranians with SAVAK, his secret police. The Iranians finally overthrew the Shah in 1979 with their Iranian Revolution aided greatly by the clerics, and that is how the mullahs came to power. The Iranians have not forgotten what the US and UK did to them.
In addition, the Sykes-Picot treaty of WWI carved up the Middle East according to what colonialist powers wanted to do with those lands, knowing nothing of the peoples’ cultures or religions in those regions. Is it any wonder we have the mess we see today? And idiot malevolent Bush and Cheney invaded Iraq on false “Intelligence” in 2003, and the world has never been the same! They should be prosecuted for war crimes, but it ain’t gonna happen! They have literally ruined the world for generations to come!
The western neocolonialist powers had best look at the “mote in their own eye”, to use scriptural language, rather than try to smite the eye of someone else. Those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it.
Excellent book recommendation.
Bannon, at least get that right.
Ergo, target Trump with all the virulence we can muster on the policies in which he’s harming the masses but do recognize that a broken clock is correct twice per day.
That should be a cardinal rule for anyone talking politics.
Being 100 percent wrong is almost as difficult (and maybe more so) than being 100 percent right.
In our circle of friends, and family I have become the Putin apologize. Why just today while my wife was being suckered in as she watched JohnMcCain on tv with the honorable (not) Senator spouting out the unsubstantiated accusations of how Putin is a killer, and with that my wife who loves me dearly said, ‘how can you defend that Putin after all the people he has murdered’? I just told her of how all these accusations are just that, accusations. Probably not the best answer, but at times I just get tired of bumping up against CNN, or any of the rest of these propaganda mills. Defending the truth is an ever thankless exhausting job, and today I’m pretty exhausted at that, and I haven’t recently had a compliment worth me giving back a ‘your welcome’.
I feel at times, that by trying to defend the truth, that we are all fighting a losing battle. Think about it, and consider what we all are up against. We are as outnumbered as was Sitting Bull, and you see what they did to him.
This is why consortiumnews is like an oasis in a very dry desert of reliable news. Tonight the cable networks will be on point, to continue their corrupted version of the truth. By tomorrow morning there will Breaking News to inform us all of yet another unpresidential like outrageous tweet which went on Twitter at 3 pm, and it will all start all over again. This of course will allow those on both sides of the political spectrum to once again piss in each other’s partisan soup. Oh just to be so exceptional and indispensable is such a joy.
Lastly, does anyone in our established media have any concern at all, of the apparent dangerous mission which is what the USS Cole is performing while we all bicker over nonsense, or are we all more worried about Nordstrom’s decision to not sell Ivanka Trump’s line of products?
http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2017/02/trump-policy-continues-purposefully.html
“In our circle of friends, and family I have become the Putin apologist.”
Sounds familiar, I can definitely relate. This is a serious problem in most liberal quarters, as they seem to shut down their critical faculties whenever Russia and Putin are addressed in the mass media. Hey, it’s in the Times and WaPo! and the folks on NPR and PBS speak about it in such serious tones, it’s just gotta be true!
What smart liberals can’t seem to wrap their minds around is that neocon-Ziocon warmongers have taken over virtually all foreign policy discussion and debate in ‘respectable’ media outlets. Therefore it’s too much of a wild conspiratorial leap for them to make to question every single sentence coming out of PBS, NPR, the Times and WaPo.
Drew by our not adopting the herd thinking we leave ourselves open to almost anything. Like seriously my patriotism has been questioned in recent times for my stand on how we should deal with Russia. Not that it should matter, but in our family, which is rather large I’m one of three (& the other two agree with me) that who have ever served in our country’s armed forces. Not that my military background should count for anything, but does this mean I must vilify Vladimir Putin if I want to be included in the sharing of a twelve slice pizza? Well it’s not as bad as I make it sound either, but our propaganda mills are surely working overtime to dupe the vast majority of innocents who don’t drill down on our world’s current events, as you and I apparently do.
Good to have a friend, take care ….Joe
Exactly, they do not have the courage to stand apart and seek truth, unless they are among others who can do that. Most are bullied into conformity at work and among friends, even if they have the intelligence and desire for truth, which is rare.
Among family and friends of other views, I simply state what seems quite true or false, suggest some independent sources, and encourage a moderate stance, accepting good intentions among some opponents. Many will respect skepticism, especially when you admit some possible arguments for an opposing view. When conformists predominate they are afraid of their own kind and afraid to reason.
“What smart liberals can’t seem to wrap their minds around is that neocon-Ziocon warmongers have taken over virtually all foreign policy discussion and debate in ‘respectable’ media outlets.”
Possibly helpful is the fairly brief and readable history, thoroughly documented, of how the Zionists took control in “War Profiteers and the Roots of the War on Terror”, at:
http://warprofiteerstory.blogspot.com
JOE and DREW, from Russia and me as Russian, I am telling THANK YOU for your educational work with your famiily. I haven’t commented here for a while, but read as always. Thanks to all of your guys, and to authors.
Wayne Spencer
Oh, how it is so great reading your comment. I have lost progressive friends doing nothing more than standing up for peace and honesty as I have done all of my life. It is better to stand alone with reason and truth than to bend to the warmongering propaganda of the mainstream media and all of the foolishness that has led to so much destruction. I guess we knew that a Trump presidency would not be an easy way forward, but it still looks better than the alternative.
Wouldn’t it be rewarding if for every war monument dedicated to a war hero, like a Civil War General as it doesn’t matter blue or gray because it’s made of metal or stone, had a mirror image for everyone of the war statues that was a famous person such as Aristotle, Edgar Allen Poe, Tecumseh, and historical women Harriet Tubman, or Eleanor Roosevelt, for the lack of better names, but something other than our country’s love of honoring war, that we start honoring more positive commemorations to mankinds achievements…what’s so great about war?. Why, do we Americans still continue to celebrate war? It isn’t as though we all go to battle to fight all these wars, I mean why encourage something where others other than you will die?
I’m with you Wayne, I’m still in that moment where Hillary’s loss is like us all dodging a bullet. I have thought for a long time, how if Hillary would have went into the Oval Office, that she would show all these ‘guys’ how to do it by ordering up one of the largest assault invasions ever in wartime history, and quit this messing around with Syria, and then very efficiently on her way to Russia (on day one) she would order our coalition partners to drop a few bombs on Tehran on NATO’s way to Russia…okay, a little bit over the top you say, hmmmm! We’re talking about Madam President Clinton here, we saw, she came, he went, hahaha, or something like that, but at the very least she would be carving out ‘no fly zones’ in Syria just because she can and then oh boy!
If you have advocated for peace all your life Wayne Spencer I would like to thank you for your service to peace. I’m a great believer in ‘blessed are the peacemakers’ and only hope that these fine peace loving people get the best out of life, and if the peacemakers get what they want out of life then all mankind makes out all the more….huge win, win, for everybody. Wayne wishing you well is like wishing myself well….I will put to practice what I preach when I say to you…..take care Joe
Peter Loeb
ILLUSIONS IN AN OASIS?
“…This is why consortiumnews is like an oasis ….” From Joe J. Tedesky, above
When there is so very much to develop (and Robert Parry above hits many
of the relevant points), I continue to be slightly amazed at the absurdity
of President Trump letting “the American people” into one damning
file after another. In this, it might be added, he differs in style from
virtually all past Presidents. In substance, I continually see elements
of Hitler taking over the Third Reich. There are significant differences.
But the Zionist groups were very close to the axis. The suffering of Jews
(and others) created emigrants to Palestine
(today Israel) and to Palestine only. The international outrage against
the axis powers provided immunity for Zionists to do whatever they wished
with the ultimate in cynicism . (See Thomas Suarez, THE TERROR
STATE, (2017)”, among other sources).
Any correction, any “truth” will not pervade this Administration just
as the previous one was never regularly “truthful” about its foreign
policies, its selection of sights and people to murder, what is really
going on in Syria etc. etc.
These will be bitter, bitter years not only in foreign policy but in
many other areas as well, many areas affecting the
daily lives and survival of those who supported Donald Trump
Among other things, I will be looking forward to consortium
analyses of Steve Bannon, of the various cabinet ministers,
of Jeff Sessions and so forth. So far we are picking up bits and
pieces where we can.
Good luck in this unhappy land!
—-Peter Loeb, Boston, MA, USA
Peter, what I meant about consortiumnews being an ‘oasis’ was because, one consortiumnews prints news content unlike the MSM, two the comment conversations are often unlike the conversations you may have over a beer at a backyard barbecue. I guess all and all I find consortiumnews to be a refreshing break from my always trying to make my point over all of the MSM inspired noise….lots of noise.
As I’m sure you’re aware of, that if you were to jump into a small debate at the backyard barbecue and suddenly start talking about the Palestinian suffering that most of the barbecue participants wouldn’t have a clue to what you are talking about. Not so here at consortiumnews comment board where everyone knows what you are talking about….the comments may not always be to what you were hoping the comments to be, but none the less the comment authors normally know as much or more about what topic it is you are bringing up at that moment, and in that regard there is an ‘oasis’ to be found here at consortiumnews …in other words consortiumnews commenters probably would know where Palestine would be on a map if there were still a Palestine to be found on a map of that part of the world….consortiumnews commenters actually read books!
I will add to how your concern of the Palestinian plight is an admirable concern to have in my opinion. Thanks for the remembrance of that awful Israeli born atrocity, and far as the Hitler alert goes….I’m not going to dispute Trump’s resemblance to any 20th century dictator, but I see in Trump a 16th century monarch…Henry the eighth maybe???
Have a good day Peter….Joe
Ps I’m not above watching the hacks on tv, but I have the option of coming to consortiumnews everyday to learn and spend time with you,,and all of the other consortiumnews readers, and in that I park my camel for a refreshing drink of water to be found at this oasis here.
Lin Cleveland
In our circle of friends, and family I have become the Putin apologize. Why just today while my wife was being suckered in as she watched JohnMcCain on tv with the honorable (not) Senator spouting out the unsubstantiated accusations of how Putin is a killer, and with that my wife who loves me dearly said, ‘how can you defend that Putin after all the people he has murdered’? I just told her of how all these accusations are just that, accusations. Probably not the best answer, but at times I just get tired of bumping up against CNN, or any of the rest of these propaganda mills.
Excellent post, Joe J! Just yesterday a friend told me that this “Trump Era” has caused a rift in her family, too. I replied, “Well, Meathead, we’re all living in the latest episode of All in the Family! I try to avoid all the idiocy but found this quote in a Robert Koehler blog on Common Wonders.
Republican Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska summed up the outrage thus: “There is no moral equivalency between the United States of America, the greatest freedom-loving nation in the history of the world, and the murderous thugs that are in Putin’s defense of his cronyism.”
Hopefully, Trump will open the eyes of so many U.S. citizens to the condescending arrogance of the American Empire. The empire has been growing ever bolder since colonization and genocide began on this continent. Our faith in capitalism has left us vulnerable to an ever widening inequality. Now, points out Danny Haiphong the emperor has no clothes, but ” A naked empire remains a dangerous empire.”
Yes I too hope Trump opens up our condescending eyes, as I also hope he doesn’t necessitate our wondering eyes to become distracted, and thus we all look the other way.
Thanks for the reply Joe
Trump’s like that broken down clock on the wall that no one relies on but does happen to be correct twice per day.
When Trump castigates the violently nutty McCain for bringing the West close to an absolutely batsh’t insane war with Russia and points out the obvious that Washington policy around the globe over the last 70+ years has been conducted by killers, either directly or indirectly, these are some of the very few pronouncements where Trump is spot-on and deserves support from left progressive-populists and anti-war civil libertarians. Another policy decision that was a very welcome move was his immediate vetoing of the TPP.
The real estate mogul deserves support from any populist-progressive for these two humane and fair-minded executive decisions: his attempts to 1.) tamp down the tinderbox that Washington Russia relations are currently at, and 2.) his trashing of the TPP.
Clearly there are a handful of other policy proposals rumbling around the corridors of Trump Plaza that must be seriously denounced, such as his attempts to eviscerate the regulatory infrastructure protecting workers, consumers and the environment and his tax policies that will ultimately shift more of the burden onto the shoulders of us working people by slashing the rate the parasitic financial elite and corporate oligarchs pay. His likely looming attacks on public schools are also totally off base and need to be earnestly challenged.
In other, simpler words, don’t throw out the baby with the bathwater.
r rodger
The FDA (aka The Pharmaceutical Industry), Dept. of Agriculture (aka Monsanto et al.), EPA/ BLM (aka Agenda 21) are monopolies (mostly controlled by industry) that should be busted-up or entirely eliminated. They no longer serve human needs, if they ever did. Trump is right that human-caused global warming is a scam. Most land-based pollution is satisfactorily coming under control … perhaps fracking, nuclear energy and ocean-based pollution deserves more attention, but can be easily dealt with.
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2021 Ford F150 Redesign. Until now, almost all mules studying the Ford F150 in 2021 were like the real truck. Even so, many of them put a lot of weight in front of him directly. This can be advised about two things. Ford can have much more design like the Super Diute series. For a long time carried out by its competitors plus they make sense. However, Ford can continue on another track. Did not spread too early on a new expedition to be noticed that puts in concealment the most apparent revelation that could be driven by his design with the explorer.
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Before there was Courthouse Creek Cider, there were Liza and Eric—single parents raising their children on the Central Coast of California. Liza taught grades K-6 in a proverbial one-room, “little red schoolhouse.” Eric ran a small eatery/private chef business. He also practiced law. They met. They fell in love. They got married and moved their new, blended family to Virginia. Why? Because Virginia is for lovers—or so they say!
Well, additionally, sometime in 2012, Eric and Liza wrote down their dreams on a big piece of construction paper. When they stepped back and took a look at the paper, they saw the ideal home: a living, breathing, healthy environment for their kids to explore and in which to grow up; a place where they could plant an orchard and produce an honest product—made from their land—that tapped into their experiences of living on the Central Coast. And this ideal place had a creek running through it.
Eric’s cidermaking experience actually began with an appreciation for the wines being produced in the Paso Robles/Templeton area of California. For years he visited the area, hung out with winemakers, and created winemaker dinners as a private chef. Bitten by the wine bug, he always thought his road would lead to a vineyard and winemaking. But in 2013, he tasted a dry Virginia cider. He and Liza went all in with cider from that moment on! Eric’s nature is to question the status quo, so, that’s what he did when he and Liza sat down to ruminate on the type of cider they wished to make. Guided by their love of natural, fermented foods, simple truths, and sincerity, they arrived at the only answer they could: Follow a rustic method to produce heartfully made, fine Virginia cider. Courthouse Creek Cider is the only cidery in Virginia to produce all of its ciders using barrels and little to no preservatives. We embrace the funk, and we invite you to do the same!
From her early childhood days in Idaho to being raised in California to now, Liza maintains a strong affinity for growing and nurturing anything living! It is her vision that guides the orchard along with our commitment to steward our land. She takes a holistic, organic approach to our orchard and will continue to seek the least invasive and healthy way to grow our fruit. As Liza says, “We live, work, and play on the property, so it is very important to us that we treat the orchard as we do our own lives—feed it well, avoid toxins, and give it lots of love!” In the future, we hope to make scion wood (cuttings from our trees) available for grafting, host seminars on gardening/orchard practices, and offer other such events, including special events for our Cider Club members.
Currently, we have four acres of trees planted with a variety of American, English, and French cider apple trees. We see ourselves as more than growers, but stewards of the land and valuable members of our community. Indeed, our local area’s rural roots, smart growth, and beauty are important to our family. We aim to build meaningful connections—not only between what goes in the ground here and, ultimately, into the glass—but community connections as well. For us, the term terroir means more than just the nature of the land; it necessarily includes the entire sense of a place. Visit us, not only to taste our cider, but to tour and enjoy our orchard and small farm.
Understanding the types of cider now available can be confusing. The name, itself, is misunderstood in the United States. I grew up in New England, where “cider”meant non-alcoholic, unfiltered apple juice that you got from an orchard during the fall. “Hard cider” was a drink for adults…
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Here’s a project for you: place a black sheet of paper on a cookie sheet. Set the paper outdoors the next time it snows. Allow a few snowflakes to fall on the paper. Bring the cookie sheet indoors and look at the snowflakes through a magnifying lens. What do you see? That flat snowflake actually contains many tiny crystals.
Fun Science Facts for Kids All about Crystals – Image of a Crystal
How do crystals form? Crystals occur in minerals and other chemical compounds, including sugar, salt and ice. In minerals, crystals are created when molten rock or dissolved minerals cool and become solid very slowly. The atoms in minerals cling to each other by electrical forces. As they stick together, they form three-dimensional patterns.
What Shapes Do Crystals Form?
Cubic crystals, which resembles a box and has 6, 8 or even 12 sides.
Hexagonal or trigonal crystals, which have six or three sides.
Monoclinic crystals, which looks a bit like a multi-faced box.
Orthorhombic crystals, which may look like two pyramids stuck together.
Tetragonal crystals, which resemble a cube, but have one elongated side.
Triclinic crystals, which may not be symmetrical.
All about Crystals Fun Science Facts for Kids – image of the Different Shapes of Crystals
Fun Facts About Crystals for Kids
Crystallography is the scientific study of crystals and their formation.
Gemstones, like rubies, emeralds and sapphires, are crystals. The elements they are made up of determine their color.
A unit cell is what they call the basic building block of a crystal. It is the smallest arrangement of atoms that shows the crystal structure.
The ions and atoms, or actually their charges, must equal zero. A crystal will not form if the positive and negative charges of its components are different.
Some of the largest natural crystals in the world are found in the Cave of Crystals in Naica, Chihuahua, Mexico.
The most common crystals you may be familiar with are table salt, snowflakes and pencil lead (graphite).
Crystals Vocabulary
Crystal: a geometric structure usually created through heating and cooling minerals and other compounds
Molten: a solid that has melted due to high heat
Atom: a basic unit of any element
All About Crystals Video for Kids
Here’s a great video for kids on Crystals:
Crystal Q&A
Question: How do geodes form?
Answer: When water in the Earth becomes hot enough to dissolve minerals in the rocks, the minerals are carried in the water where it seeps into cracks and holes in the rocks. When it cools, cavities filled with sparkling crystals form. These are geodes.
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Topics: Featured Creatures collection | Habeck, Dale H | Cuda, James P | Weeks E. N. I. | Family Crambidae | Beneficial Insects
Waterlily Leafcutter, Elophila obliteralis (Walker) (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Crambidae: Acentropinae)1
Dale H. Habeck, James P. Cuda and Emma N.I. Weeks2
Hygrophila polysperma (Roxb.) T. Anderson (Polemoniales: Acanthaceae) is a rooted submersed or emersed aquatic plant in shallow water areas and saturated shorelines throughout Florida. This invasive aquatic plant also is known as hygrophila, hygro, East Indian hygro, green hygro, Miramar weed, oriental ludwigia, and Indian swampweed (hereafter referred to as hygrophila).
Hygrophila is a federally listed noxious weed (USDA 1983), a Florida state listed Category II prohibited plant (FLDEP 1993), and a Florida Exotic Pest Plant Council Category I invasive species (FLEPPC 2017). The submersed growth habit displaces native vegetation in many canals and drainage ditches in south Florida. The plant forms dense stands that occupy the entire water column, clogging irrigation and flood-control systems (Schmitz and Nall 1984, Sutton 1995) and interfering with navigation (Woolfe 1995). Hygrophila also creates problems as an emergent plant in some shoreline areas, including rice fields (Krombholz 1996).
In October 2007, we received a report from researchers at the UF/IFAS Center for Aquatic and Invasive Plants of an insect attacking hygrophila. Samples of the insect were collected and it was identified as the waterlily leafcutter, Elophila obliteralis (Walker). Of the more than twenty Acentropinae species occurring in Florida, Elophila obliteralis (Walker) is the most common. Although its common name implies that it is a pest of waterlilies, it actually has a wide host range. Most of the damage caused by the larvae usually is superficial and rarely endangers the plant, but the damage observed on the hygrophila plants was severe (Figures 1 and 2).
In addition to the invasive aquatic weed hygrophila, the waterlily leafcutter also feeds on another invasive plant, hydrilla, Hydrilla verticillata L.f. Royle. Numbers of Elophila obliteralis collected from hydrilla from field sites in Florida and Louisiana were similar to the numbers of the hydrilla leafcutter, Parapoynx diminutalis Snellen that were collected (Balciunas and Minno 1985).
Hygrophila showing feeding damage caused by larvae of the waterlily leafcutter, Elophila obliteralis (Walker).
J. P. Cuda, University of Florida
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Larva of the waterlily leafcutter, Elophila obliteralis (Walker), attacking hygrophila.
Synonomy
According to Dyar (1906) and Zimmerman (1958) the following synonyms have been used for Elophila obliteralis:
Synclita obliteralis Walker, 1859
Synclita proprialis Fernald, 1859
Isopteryx obliteralis Walker, 1859
Parapoynx obscuralis Walker, 1859
Parapoynx obscuralis Mӧschler, 1972
Hydrocampa proprialis Fernald, 1888
Hydrocampa obliteralis Fernald, 1891
Nymphula obliteralis Hampson, 1897
This common moth occurs throughout Florida, westward to Texas, northward to western Nova Scotia, and southern Manitoba (Munroe 1972). It also has been introduced into Hawaii (Williams 1944), England (Shaffer 1968), and British Columbia (Munroe 1972). In a study in South Carolina, Elophila obliteralis was found in both lentic (still freshwater) and lotic (fast moving freshwater) water bodies (Stoops et al. 1998). Out of 65 surveyed sites in South Carolina, Elophila obliteralis was present in 6.2%, in those sites with a water temperature between 23.0 and 27.0°C, a width of 3.24 to 45.7 m, a depth of 0.3-1.0 m, and a pH of 6.6 to 7.5 (Stoops et al. 1998).
The eggs are whitish in color, and appear domelike (oval and flattened). The flattened side is glued to the leaf and the domed side has wrinkles down the length of the egg (Dyar 1906). The eggs are 0.6 mm in length and 0.4 mm wide (Dyar 1906). They are deposited singly or in overlapping, ribbon-like masses near the edges of submersed leaf surfaces.
Most members of the crambid subfamily Acentropinae have aquatic larvae with tracheal gills. However, the larva of this moth lacks gills and is sometimes referred to as "the sandwich man" due to its habit of living between two pieces of leaf (leaf case) that it cuts from its host plant (Figure 3 and 4).
Waterlily leafcutter, Elophila obliteralis (Walker), leaf case.
Lyle J. Buss, University of Florida
Larva of the waterlily leafcutter, Elophila obliteralis (Walker), with opened leaf case.
The epidermis (skin) of the larvae is covered with minute papillae (bumps). The body is creamy-white, but increasingly brownish from abdominal segment four forward to the prothorax. The prothoracic coxae (proximal leg segments) are touching while the mesothoracic coxae are nearly touching. The head is yellowish-brown with a faint brown genal (cheek) stripe. The prothoracic spiracle (respiratory opening) is vestigial (non-functioning), and the spiracles on abdominal segments three and four are distinctly larger than others. The crochets (gripping hooks) are arranged in two biordinal (sometimes partially triordinal) transverse bands, with the anterior band distinctly larger than the posterior band.
Pupae
The pupae are pale yellow and the wings and head appear darker (Figure 5) (Dyar 1906). The head has two distinct black spine-like hairs. The spiracles on abdominal segments 2–4 are large, round, elevated and red brown in color (Dyar 1906). The anterior spiracles are much smaller. The pupae are found inside silk cocoons inside the leaf cases formed by the larvae.
Pupa of the waterlily leafcutter, Elophila obliteralis (Walker).
Stephen P. L. Luk
Adults are sexually dimorphic and readily distinguishable (Figures 6 and 7). Females have a 15 to 19 mm wingspan, and the female's wings are paler in color appearing grayish-brown with orange-brown markings. The wingspan of the male is only about 11 to 13 mm, and the male's wings are grayish-brown interspersed with brownish and white markings.
Adult female waterlily leafcutter, Elophila obliteralis (Walker).
J. Lotz, Division of Plant Industry
Adult male waterlily leafcutter, Elophila obliteralis (Walker). Wingspan of this specimen is 11 mm.
L. J. Buss, University of Florida
Life Cycle and Biology
No information is available about the development times of this species. The female moth lays her eggs on the exposed edges of submersed aquatic plants (Gill et al. 2008). Upon hatching, the larvae enclose themselves inside cut leaf pieces. The leaves are webbed together with silk. Cases made by young larvae are water-filled and oxygen uptake occurs cutaneously (presumably via the epidermal papillae), whereas cases of older larvae are air-filled. The cases of young larvae remain attached to the leaf from which they were made. Older larvae detach the case from the leaf and are free-floating. Larvae abandon smaller cases as they mature and construct larger cases from new leaves. The case may consist of two entire leaves, parts of leaves, or of parts of many plants tied together with silk. The larvae extend out of the case to feed on plant material, but usually the body remains in the case. Prior to pupation, larvae attach their cases to petioles or leaf blades of their host plants above or below the water surface and spin a silk cocoon inside their leaf cases.
Elophila obliteralis has a wide host range and is known to feed on nearly 60 plant species (Table 1).
Host range of the waterlily leafcutter. Plants arranged by families and genera that are known to be hosts for Elophila obliteralis (Walker).
No. of species
Hygrophila
Lythraceae
Rotala
Nomophila
Marsileaceae
Marsilea
Synema
Nymphaeaceae
Brasenia
Enchinodorus
Nuphar
Hydrocotyle
Onagraceae
Aponogetonaceae
Aponogeton
Hydrochloa
Orontium
Pistia
Pontederiaceae
Pontederia
Potamogetonaceae
Potamogeton
Eleocharis
Salicaceae
Gentianaceae
Nymphoides
Salviniaceae
Haloragaceae
Myriophyllum
Salvinia
Scrophulariaceae
Ambulia
Hydrilla
Lindernia
Limnobium
Micranthemum
Lemnaceae
Lemna
Typhaceae
Sparganium
Spirodela
Elophila obliteralis has a wide host range and is known to feed on waterlilies and other ornamental pond plants as well as the invasive aquatic weeds, salvinia (Tipping et al. 2012), water lettuce (Dray et al. 1993), hygrophila, and hydrilla. The larvae are the stage that feeds on the plant and causes damage to the plant tissue. In addition to feeding, the larvae cut the leaves to prepare a leaf case for shelter. As the larvae develop, they cut new, progressively larger leaf cases. This action in itself can provide quite significant damage to the infested plant (Nachtrieb et al. 2007). In a field study, to compare the effect of herbivory on different aquatic plants, Elophila obliteralis was one of the three species that caused the most damage (Nachtrieb et al. 2007). When feeding the larvae remove chunks from the leaves, usually feeding on the basal or middle portions (Balciunas and Minno 1985). This feeding often causes the leaves to break away from the stem. If the population density is high and plant material becomes more scarce, the larvae will begin to feed on the stems, which can cause the entire plant to fragment (Balciunas and Minno 1985).
Due to its broad host range, this insect frequently is a pest in aquatic plant nurseries, especially on waterlilies, Nymphaea spp. In the nursery setting, this insect can cause economic losses as the larval feeding makes the plants unattractive to customers. Extensive feeding may even lead to reduced plant health and death (Gill et al. 2008).
Importance as a Biological Control Agent
In addition to having a pest status in aquatic nurseries, due to its wide host range, Elophila obliteralis also plays a minor role in biological control, as it feeds on invasive species, such as hydrilla, salvinia, and hygrophila. As a native species this type of biological control is known as natural regulation. However, due to the extensive host range of this species it would not be advisable to attempt to increase wild numbers through mass releases or conservation, as they would likely feed non-specifically on other desirable plants as well as the weeds.
A study that attempted to identify the biotic and abiotic factors that limited growth of common salvinia, Salvinia minima (Baker), an exotic floating aquatic plant, found that herbivory by Elophila obliteralis and a weevil, Cyrtobagous salviniae Calder and Sands, were two of the most influential factors on growth (Tipping et al. 2012).
Monitoring and Management
To monitor for the waterlily leafcutter, observe leaves for the characteristic holes created by this insect (Gill et al. 2008). The adults can be trapped by UV black lights, and the larvae can be extracted from the plant material by handpicking or using a Berlese funnel.
Elophila obliteralis is a pest of greenhouses and may require control in aquatic plant nurseries. As with other aquatic moth pests, Bacillus thuringiensis subspecies kurkstaki would likely provide control with little or no adverse effects to other aquatic organisms. In support of this hypothesis, the closely related organism Bacillus thuringiensis subspecies israelensis was found to cause significant mortality to the waterlily leafcutter (Haag and Buckingham 1991).
Three other species of Elophila occur in the United States with one, Elophila tinealis Munroe, in Florida. The adult of Elophila tinealis is much smaller than that of the waterlily leafcutter and has longer, narrower, and darker wings. The larvae of Elophila tinealis are not well known, but seem to feed on and most often make their cases out of duckweed, Lemna sp.
The larvae of Elophila gyralis (Hulst) and Elophila icciusalis (Walker) are similar to those of the waterlily leafcutter, but the anterior and posterior transverse bands of crochets (i.e. the gripping hooks on the prolegs) are the same size. Elophila gyralis and Elophila icciusalis adults are more brightly colored than Elophila and are yellowish-orange and white or brownish in color. Although Elophila gyralis and Elophila icciusalis larvae may make portable cases, they usually cut only one leaf piece and attach it to a whole leaf and live between the two layers.
Selected References
[FLDEP] Florida Department of Environmental Protection. (1993). Aquatic plant permit rules: Aquatic plant importation, transportation, non-nursery cultivation, possession and collection. http://www.dep.state.fl.us/legal/rules/aquatic/62c-52.pdf (25 July 2017).
Balciunas JK, Minno MC. 1985. Insects damaging hydrilla in the U.S.A. Journal of Aquatic Plant Management 23: 77–83.
Dray FA, Center TD, Habeck DH. 1993. Phytophagous insects associated with Pistia statiotes in Florida. Environmental Entomology 22: 1146–1155.
Dyar HG. 1906. The North American Nymphulinae and Scopariinae. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 14: 77–108.
Gill S, Reeser, R, Raupp, M. 2008. Controlling two aquatic plant pests Nymphuliella daeckealis (Haimbach) and the waterlily leafcutter, Synclita obliteralis (Walker). The University of Maryland Cooperative Extension factsheet 818. 7 pages.
[FLEPPC] Florida Exotic Pest Plant Council. (2017). List of Florida's Invasive Species. Florida Exotic Pest Plant Council (25 June 2017).
Haag KH and Buckingham GR. 1991. Effects of herbicides and microbial insecticides on the insects of aquatic plants. Journal of Aquatic Plant Management 29: 55–57.
Krombholz P. 1996. Hygrophila polysperma: an indicator plant. The Aquatic Gardener: Journal of the Aquatic Gardeners Association 9: 135–137.
Munroe E. 1972. Fasicle 13.1A: Pyraloidea: Pyralidae (part). The Moths of America North of Mexico (MONA) Series (Dominick RB et al. [eds]). EW Classey Ltd and R.B.D. Publications Inc., London, UK. 134 pages.
Nachtrieb JG, Grodowitz MJ, Smart RM. 2007. Impact of invertebrate herbivory on native aquatic macrophytes. Aquatic Plant Control Research Program Technical Notes Collection. Vicksburg, MS: U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center. ERDC/TN APCRP-BC-9. http://el.erdc.dren.mil/elpubs/pdf/apcbc-09.pdf (25 June 2017).
Schmitz DC, Nall LE. 1984. Status of Hygrophila polysperma in Florida. Aquatics 6: 11–14.
Schmitz DC, Nelson BV, Nall JE, Schardt JD.1991. Exotic aquatic plants in Florida: a historical perspective and review of the present aquatic plant regulation program. pp. 303–326. In Center TC, Doren RF, Hofstetter RL, Myers RL, Whiteaker LD (eds.), Proceedings of a symposium on exotic pest plants. Technical Report NPS/NREVER/NRTR-91/06. U. S. Department of Interior, National Park Service, Denver, CO.
Shaffer M. 1968. Illustrated notes on Synclita obliteralis (Walker) and Euzophora bigella (Zeller), two species new to the British List (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae). Entomologist's Gazette 19: 155–158.
Stoops CA, Adler PH, McCreadie JW. 1998. Ecology of aquatic Lepidoptera (Crambidae: Nymphulinae) in South Carolina, USA. Hydrobiologia 379: 33–40.
Sutton DL. 1995. Hygrophila is replacing hydrilla in south Florida. Aquatics 17: 4, 6, 8, 10.
Tipping PW, Martin MR, Bauer L, Pierce RM, Center TD. 2012. Ecology of common salvinia, Salvinia minima Baker, in Southern Florida. Aquatic Botany 102: 23–27.
Williams FX. 1944. Biological studies in Hawaiian water-loving insects. Part IV. Lepidoptera or moths and butterflies. Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society 12: 180–185.
Woolfe T. 1995. Water weed is latest menace. Tallahassee Democrat, 4C, 3 August.
[USDA] U.S. Department of Agriculture. 1983. Noxious weeds. Federal Register. 48: 20037-20047.
Zimmerman EC. 1958. Volume 8 Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea. In Insects of Hawaii: a Manual of the Insects of the Hawaiian Islands, Including an Enumeration of the Species and Notes on their Origin, Distribution, Hosts, Parasites, etc. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu. 456 pages.
This document is EENY 424, one of a series of the Department of Entomology and Nematology, UF/IFAS Extension. Original publication date February 2009. Revised June 2014 and June 2017. Visit the EDIS website at http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu.
Dale H. Habeck, professor; James P. Cuda, associate professor; and Emma N.I. Weeks, assistant research scientist; Department of Entomology and Nematology, UF/IFAS Extension, Gainesville, FL 32611.
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Representing EduDeo Ministries on the ground at the ACSI Africa Roundtable, EduDeo Executive Director Hank de Jong will be liveblogging and providing daily reports from Johannesburg, South Africa throughout the six-day conference, Sunday, August 12 to Friday, August 17.
The largest gathering of Christian educators in Africa, the roundtable is drawing delegates from across the continent, including representatives from ACSI’s five member regions (West Africa Francophone, West Africa Anglophone, Central Africa, East Africa and Southern
Africa). A total of 150 delegates from thirty-five countries are scheduled to attend the conference. A number of international partners have been invited to participate, including EduDeo Ministries.
“I am excited to witness the growing embrace of Christ-centred education in Africa,” Hank notes as he prepares for the roundtable.
"I am eager to see how EduDeo Ministries can increase our support for fledgling school associations across Africa. It is our desire to continue to invest in the incredible human and social capital of the world's second-largest and second-most-populous continent. Please pray for the Spirit’s leading during the conference."
Held at the Johannesburg-based Willow Park Conference Centre, Hank’s ‘Global Notebook’ updates will include daily posts, photo, video and social media reports from the Africa Roundtable, providing EduDeo’s Canadian support community with a firsthand account of how Christ-centred and Biblically-integrated education is leading to Gospel transformation across the continent.
As Executive Director of EduDeo Ministries, Hank will also be visiting with the Education Department of the Church of Central Africa Presbyterian (CCAP) in Zambia. The CCAP is an EduDeo core partner, having hosted a number of HANDS teams and Walking Together teacher trainers at member schools throughout the Southern African nation.
Roundtable organizers are calling for prayer, including the safe travel of all the delegates, especially as South Africa experiences extreme cold weather. Snow has blanketed Johannesburg and other regions of South Africa. Look for ‘Global Notebook’ video updates with Hank wearing a toque!
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London Mayor plans £3m FE funding cut to pay for over 50 new bureaucrats
Billy Camden
Mon 14th May 2018, 18.23
The mayor of London plans to top-slice £3 million from the adult education budget to pay for over 50 new bureaucrats from next year, instead of using it for frontline learning.
The money will cover the annual wage costs of a new administration to handle the AEB for the capital when devolution kicks in, including a £140,000-a-year assistant director.
The 53-strong team will form a skills and employment unit to dish out the budget from 2019/20, which will amount to around £311 million per year for London.
However, many of the tasks this unit will carry out will simply duplicate the work that the Education and Skills Funding Agency already does.
The GLA told FE Week that the ESFA has refused to give a “service offer”, which includes procurement, audit, contract management, direct access to data and changes to the Individual learner record systems.
These costs will be top-sliced from the devolved annual budget
London’s Mayor, Sadiq Khan (pictured above), is asking the ESFA to reconsider, according to the GLA.
The Department for Education has been asked for comment.
Using AEB funding to pay for extra officials instead of learning will concern many in the sector.
However, a spokesperson for Mr Khan pointed out that “staff costs associated with this are less than one per cent of the budget being devolved to the mayor”.
The GLA is one of eight mayoral combined authorities with deals to take control of AEB spending in their regions from 2019/20.
In a document entitled ‘Proposed changes to the GLA establishment’ and released in March, the GLA explains how it will top-slice the AEB.
“The total annual gross cost of the creations is £3.245 million, for which £3.028 million is attributable to AEB and the balance of £0.217 million relating specifically to the core skills team,” it says.
“Going forward from 2019-20, once the programme has been devolved, these costs will be top-sliced from the devolved annual budget of circa £400 million per year.”
Among the staff will be one assistant director, whose annual pay packet will be £139,000. Four senior managers will be paid around £87,000 a year , while one other will be a senior project manager on £73,000.
The unit will also employ 16 principal policy officers, who will take home around £66,000 each, as well as 12 other principal project officers earning £61,000.
Ten officials will be senior policy and project officers with annual pay packets of £54,000, and eight people will hold support officer roles, paid £40,000.
READ MORE: Mayors raise concerns over weak adult education budget devolution powers
The last person on the team will be an assistant administrator, who will earn £37,000 a year.
The GLA told FE Week this team will be focussed on implementing the mayor’s skills strategy, which includes a “digital talent programme” to find and develop the next generation of home-grown tech talent, and developing the mayor’s construction academy so Londoners can access jobs in the construction industry.
“The Mayor is determined that all Londoners have the opportunity to fulfil their potential and are able to enjoy the capital’s economic prosperity,” a spokesperson said.
Devolution for the AEB has been on the cards for many years but plans have not gone smoothly.
The mayors from the eight regions with deals in place recently voiced concerns with the government over the impracticality of the process.
The seven other areas of the country to have devolution deals in place are the West Midlands, Liverpool City region, Greater Manchester, the West of England, Tees Valley, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough and the Sheffield City region.
Terry Bentley
And so the disaster begins to unfold. Anybody with an ounce of sense could see this coming. Devolution = 350 AEB managers popping up around the country when 20 were doing the job perfectly adequately at the ESFA. And that 350 is just in the devolved regions! Learners shafted by self-indulgent local bureaucrats yet again.
Just goes to show that skills devolution will herald a new level of unnecessary bureaucracy, complication and confusion especially for providers delivering across the country (and probably no consistency in the procurement approaches taken by the different combined authorities).
Lets be honest, learners got shafted by ESFA when the last funding methodology was conceived;
a. higher funding rates to L2/3 to sweeten the pill for providers when Loans came in, to shift debt burden to the learner & causing drops in lower level participation.
b. the drive towards unnecessary accreditation, increasing awarding body profits
c. taking planned hours out of aim record…
d. big expansion in non value added subcontracting
e. area reviews / mergers – widespread eye watering pay awards for leadership. Half an eye on redundancy payouts?
The deep cutting of SFA means they rely on very rigid prescribed rules, stifling innovation and creating a bland offer.
Devolution may well turn out to waste money, but the current way of working doesn’t appear to be delivering.
We will never know the true value of subcontracted activity for the current and previous years as the Agency only reports aggregated contract values in excess of £100k At provider level this may well mean small amounts of activity that fall under the reporting threshold but the question is what’s the overall value for all providers combined for all subcontracted delivery?
I don’t have an issue with high quality subcontracted provision and I especially understand that some providers don’t want to tender for contracts in their own right (the admin costs involved are a massive deterrent – just think about it – the cost of employing an MIS member of staff to do compliance and funding returns outweighs the margin in the business and then even less money going to front line delivery).
And don’t get me started on level 1 programmes for unemployed people – need the most help we can provide but funded at pitiful rates especially on short courses which JCP often require.
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By Yip Harburg
The great American songwriter who wrote the lyrics to "Over The Rainbow," "Paper Moon," "April in Paris," and "Finian's Rainbow" delights us with his poetic genius in this new collection of humorous, iconoclastic, and exhilaratingly human verses.
Published by FFRF, Inc. (January 2006), in collaboration with the Yip Harburg Foundation, here for the first time is a major selection all in one book of freethinker Yip Harburg's light verse, including some previously unpublished poems. The new 240-page hardback is lavishly illustrated with dozens of heretical cartoons by celebrated artist Seymour Chwast. It includes bonus chapters, including a biography and "Yip in his own words," about the songwriter, who was admired for his great talent and blacklisted for his nonconformist views.
Published by the Freedom From Religion Foundation. Hardcover, 240 pages.
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Adrift on a Star Music CD
The Freedom From Religion Foundation released its third musical CD in January, “Adrift on a Star,” featuring Dan Barker and friends. The title song is Barker’s arrangement of a Yip Harburg poem.
The album’s showpiece is “Poor Little Me,” a collaboration between Barker, who wrote the lyrics, and Broadway icon Charles (“Annie,” “Bye, Bye, Birdie”) Strouse, an atheist who received FFRF’s Emperor Has No Clothes Award in 2011.
“I had the pleasure of sitting next to Charles Strouse at the 2011 FFRF convention dinner. We chatted about music, the many Broadway and other composers who are nonreligious, and he suggested if I sent him some lyrics, he would put them to music. So I did and he did. It’s truly a collaboration, because Charles threw away about half my lyrics — and it’s a much better song for it!” says Dan.
What’s left are subtly humorous lyrics and rich music blended into a winning song.
List of Tracks:
1) Poor Little Me
2) Get Off Your Knees
3) Somewhere Over The Paper Moon
4) Adrift On A Star
5) Reason
6) In A Dark Time
7) One Sweet Morning
8) It Ain't Necessarily So
9) Experiment
10) Unfaithful
11) I Don't Believe In Fairies
12) Be Still My Child
13) Merry F&*#ing Christmas
14) It's Only Natural
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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Science and Technology in the Silla Cultural Heritage by Pohang University of Science and Technology
Science and Technology in the Silla Heritage The course explores the scientific and technological aspects of the cultural heritage of Silla, an ancient dynasty in Korea, and its relationship with other ancient civilizations in the world. The lecture series will cover major cultural heritage of Silla: Bulguksa, Seokguram, Cheomseongdae, Poseokjeong, the Sacred Bell of Great King Seongdeok, and metallurgy. Modern development in science and technology occurred mostly in the West. But during ancient times,various developments were madein science and technology in many countries outside of the West. In that sense, this series of lectures aims to obtain better understanding of the development in science and technology in the Silla dynasty through scientific and technological analysis of Silla cultural properties....
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In Korean, which forced me to read subtitles. However, some of the info was really fascinating.
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Netflix Stock Falls 10% After Q2 Subscriber Miss Sinks In On Wall Street
Lionsgate Shares Spike As Major Investor Spins Amazon Buyout Theory
By Dade Hayes
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Lionsgate shares surged 8% today, after rising more than 3% yesterday, as a major investor speculated that the company would make for a desirable acquisition for Amazon.
The independent company’s stock finished the trading day at $24.42, which is well below its highest level for the year of $36.48 in January. But today’s pop, the fourth straight day of gains, is being linked to vice chairman Michael Burns’ purchase of 50,000 shares as well as the comments by John Kornitzer, the fourth-largest holder of Lionsgate Class A shares.
Kornitzer shared his theory with Bloomberg that because Amazon is working with Lionsgate-owned Starz on the rollout of the Starz OTT app in several territories, the experience could put the e-commerce giant in a buying mood. His thesis, and we quote: “Who knows?”
Netflix Stock Falls 10% After Q2 Subscriber Miss Sinks In On Wall Street - Update
For nearly as long as the microchip has existed, Wall Street and Main Street alike have imagined the day when tech giants would buy up traditional assets, especially media. But there seems to be scant real-world evidence to support the theory becoming a defining reality, given that legacy media is saddled with declining assets ill-suited to the digital and social world of today. There is also the cautionary tale of the least successful merger of modern times: AOL Time Warner.
In the case of Amazon, as it has increased its investment in film and TV content as well as smart TV products and other electronics, its connections with Hollywood have steadily increased. Its founder and CEO, Jeff Bezos also acquired the Washington Post, showing he has an appetite for certain older-media assets. And the company did buy Whole Foods as a way into the grocery business, prompting speculation that owning a major movie or TV outfit could be a similar vehicle.
Last winter, as Lionsgate’s stock was hitting new highs and the company was coming off a big holiday box office season with Wonder and John Wick: Chapter Two, Deadline reported merger talks had occurred between the company and suitors including Amazon, Verizon and a combined Viacom-CBS (the last two of which were then in serious merger discussions, which then soured). With M&A activity reaching historic levels of intensity, the thought was, who wouldn’t want to scoop up Lionsgate in a world desperate for a proven pipeline of film and TV content?
The company’s story in the months since has been more muted, with Starz the main financial driver. The film unit has gone through a management reshuffling and has capped out at the box office with May’s Overboard remake, which pulled in $50 million.
Burns, who early in the year had practically put out a “for sale” sign during an appearance on CNBC, modulated his position this month during a presentation at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia conference in New York. There are larger companies who might find Lionsgate attractive as an acquisition, he acknowledged, but there are also smaller ones to buy, as the company has adroitly done with Starz, Summit, Debmar-Mercury, Artisan and other acquisitions. “We’re predator — until we’re prey,” Burns said. “We do believe that we need to be bigger. We really are a predator for the moment, or maybe we will turn to prey or maybe we will continue to gobble up companies. No one has a crystal ball.”
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Undefeated Delmar outlasts Milford in 44-36 thriller
Nov 2nd, 2018 · by Ben Heck · Comments:
Sophomore running back Dante Trader tries to break free from a Milford defender in Friday night’s win. Delaware State News/Ben Heck
MILFORD — Unbeaten Delmar High knew it was in for a challenge when the Wildcats set foot inside Briggs Stadium to face a motivated Milford football team Friday night.
Coming off a seven-point state title loss to the Wildcats last December, Milford was seeking revenge in the Week 9 Henlopen South showdown.
“We knew this was going to be a big challenge, especially with last year’s state championship game being really close,” said Delmar starting quarterback A.J. Angello. “So, we knew we had to come out here and put on a pretty good game.”
Senior running back Te’Shawn Dennard was ready to step up for the challenge as he ran for three rushing touchdowns and returned a kickoff for a 99-yard touchdown in the Wildcats’ thrilling 44-36 victory over the Bucs.
“We definitely had to be patient,” Dennard said. “Things opened up late for us. The blocking was great, especially through the holes, the only thing we really had to do was beat the linebacker through the hole and then it was nothing but daylight.”
The win, sets up the Wildcats (9-0) with a Henlopen South showdown against Woodbridge (7-2) for the Southern Division title next Friday night.
Milford’s defense kept Delmar’s high-powered offense in check early on, forcing a turnover on downs by coming up with a goal-line stand on Delmar’s first possession.
Milford’s Bevensky Augustin recovered a Delmar fumble on the second drive of the game and the defense forced a second turnover on downs to keep the Wildcats off the board in the opening quarter.
Angello started the scoring with a one-yard QB keeper on to put the Wildcats ahead 7-0 at the 9:11 mark of the second quarter.
Quarterback A.J. Angello rolls out and looks for an open receiver before tucking it and running against Milford’s defense.
Senior running back Rahshawn Price scampered for a 31-yard touchdown at the 2:12 mark of the half to tie the game up 7-7 and sparking a scoring outburst for both teams.
Dennard answered, on the first play of Delmar’s ensuing possession, with a 66-yard touchdown run to re-gain the seven-point lead with 1:53 remaining.
Price’s second touchdown run in less than a minute, this time from 62 yards out, knotted the game up 14-14 heading into the halftime break.
“It was definitely a very intense, very physical game and it was back-and-forth,” said Angello. “At one point, we scored a touchdown on the first play of our drive, we kicked it, and the first play of their drive they scored a touchdown too. It was intense.”
Both offenses came out flat in the second half, with heavy rain falling at this point, combining for four consecutive punts on the half’s first four drives.
Junior Te’Kwon Dennard finally gave Delmar the momentum by tackling Price in the end zone for a two-point safety with 3:06 to spare in the third quarter.
“After the safety we got – by my little brother [Te’Kwon] – it ignited the whole team and after that we were just like ‘we have to pick it up, this game is too close,’” said Te’Shawn.
Receiving the ball on a free kick following the safety, Delmar’s next drive started at Milford’s 42-yard line and it took just 1:04 for Dennard to cash in with a 12-yard touchdown run. The successful extra point put the Wildcats ahead 23-14.
Freshman quarterback Shawn Saxon had an answer on the ensuing Milford drive, tossing a 56-yard touchdown pass to junior tight end Gaij Copes. The Jonathan Gaglione extra point made it a two-point ball game once again.
Sophomore running back Dante Trader dashed down the field for a 50-yard touchdown run of his own with just 36 second remaining in the quarter to once again put Delmar ahead nine points, 30-2.
Dennard’s 52-yard rushing touchdown with 10:19 left in the game gave the Wildcats the 37-21 lead and seemingly put the game out of reach for Milford’s offense.
With the help of three 15-yard Delmar penalties, Milford quickly drove down the field on its ensuing possession and Saxon capped the drive with a one-yard QB keeper. The successful two-point try from Saxon to Gillis suddenly made it an eight-point game, 37-29, with 7:06 to play.
That’s when Dennard made his presence known on special teams.
On the ensuing kickoff, Dennard picked the ball up at his own one-yard line and 99 yards later found himself in the end zone for his fourth touchdown of the night.
“We were prepared for onside return, but things didn’t go as planned and they decided to kick it over our head,” he explained. “I was thinking that the ball was going to go in the end zone, but it stopped just short and from there I saw there was nothing but an open lane – I just had to beat two defenders and I was going to the house.”
Milford’s offense, as it had all night, had an answer of its own on the ensuing possession. The Bucs drove down the field and senior RB/WR Tayone’ Matthews capped it with a four-yard touchdown to pull the score to within 44-36 with 3:12 remaining.
It was too little too late for the Bucs, as Delmar used its backfield depth to pick up a couple of first downs and run the remaining seconds off the clock to preserve the hard-fought win.
“They really hung in there, grinded and put their heads down and worked hard,” Angello said of the backfield. “It was awesome, they never gave up.”
Reach staff writer Ben Heck at bheck@newszap.com
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14:15 – 15:15 Plenary Session 1
Speaker: Dr. Sarah LUK Sau Ha
Abstract This session will give an overview of the models used in previous studies which are for supporting students with SEN in their career and life planning. An introduction to CLAP Hybrid Strategic Intervention Framework for SEN will be given with the preliminary findings of local data on Career Decision Making Difficulties (CDDQ) and Career Adaptability (CAAS) of students with SEN in comparison with students without SEN. The CLAP Hybrid Strategic Intervention Framework is an attempt to incorporate both Individual or Group Career Counselling and Business Engagement or Mentorship. It is an integrated intervention strategy for students with SEN to develop their career identity which includes engagement, self-understanding and development, pathway exploration and career planning and management. During the session, an example will be illustrated on how a secondary student with dyslexia is supported by the Hybrid Strategic Intervention Framework.
Speaker: Professor Alvin LEUNG Seung Ming
Abstract Advances in technology have altered the nature of education and work as well as channels of human interaction. Traditionally, career interventions for young people have relied heavily on person-level interactions such as advisement, counselling, guidance, mentoring, curriculum, and diverse forms of psychosocial education. Career interventions are often delivered in schools and community agencies where contacts between young people and the professional agents (e.g., teachers, counsellors, social workers) take place. The new frontiers in career interventions involve exploring how technology could be used to personalise career and personal exploration, to help young people evaluate and synthesise information that could become excessive and overwhelming, to expand the circle of career intervention providers to include business partners, community mentors, and parents as change and support agents, and to help young people construct and re-construct pathways of life and careers that are evolving, emerging, or yet to exist. The presentation will articulate the new frontiers, and discuss how technology could be positively use to help young people in the changing landscape of career development intervention.
Speaker: Professor Victor WONG Cheong Wing
Abstract Interest is considered not only as a powerful motivational process that stimulates attention and energizes learning, but also as a leverage that maps out the trajectories of life-career development in the interrelated domains of paid and unpaid work. Practitioners may engage youth by means of supporting the development of their pre-existing interest or cultivating their new interest through the provision of horizon-broadening and challenging activities. To make the power of interest more transformative, practitioners need to address not only the functionality of attitudes, skills and knowledge, but also the intentionality of values, identity and aspirations, as well as the sociality of youth situated in relational and societal contexts. Good practices supported by the mobilization of resources, opportunities and networks are drawn from the five district service teams for illustrating how interest is used and transformed for enhancing youth’s quest for meaningful engagement in their life-career journey.
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This MacArthur Fellow won the Pulitzer Prize along with a team of New York Times journalists for their coverage of the war in Afghanistan in 2009.
Jodi Cobb
One of the first female staff photographers at National Geographic, Cobb found that being a woman in what was largely still a man's field had its advantages.
David Doubilet
Underwater Photographer
One of the most celebrated underwater photographers in history, Doubilet photographs a wide range of subjects, from coral edens to the polar regions.
Bertie Gregory
One day after graduating with Honors and a degree in Zoology from the University of Bristol, Gregory was on a plane to Mumbai to assist wildlife photographer Steve Winter in his quest to document urban leopards. He hasn't stopped since!
Annie Griffiths
Celebrated for emphasizing the things that unite rather than divide us, Griffiths has traveled to more than 100 countries, telling the stories of us.
Guttenfelder worked for 20 years as a photojournalist for the Associated Press based in Nairobi, Abidjan, New Delhi, Jerusalem, and Tokyo, covering geopolitical news in more than 75 countries around the world.
Making a name for himself as a freshwater aquatic wildlife photographer, James has morphed into natural history filmmaking and he's telling the story of how mankind interacts with nature in a rapidly changing landscape.
Beverly & Dereck Joubert
Photographers & Filmmakers
Wild Africa would be in far greater peril if not for the tireless efforts of the Jouberts, who have devoted more than 25 years to documenting its majestic wildlife in a race to save countless species—especially lions—from extinction and to help man and beast coexist in greater harmony.
Mattias Klum
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In an artistic way that is entirely his own, Klum has described and portrayed animals, plants, and natural and cultural settings in the form of articles, books, films, and exhibitions.
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Tim Laman has earned a reputation for capturing images of nearly impossible subjects —from orangutans that glide through rain forest canopies to some of the most rare and extraordinary birds in the world.
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Using humor and sharp wit, Musi takes us on a tour of humanity, into Earth's oldest temple, across Route 66, through Texas Hill Country and deep inside volcanoes.
A globally-acclaimed photographer and marine biologist, Paul has been documenting both the beauty and the plight of our planet’s polar regions and our world’s oceans for over twenty years.
Thomas Peschak
Peschak traded in his marine biologist hat in 2004 to raise awareness about conservation in the best way he knew how--with his camera.
Bob Poole
National Geographic Filmmaker
Emmy Award-winning Cinematographer Bob Poole documents wild Africa, from elephants to cheetahs for Nat Geo, PBS, and others. A childhood in Kenya where his dad was Director of the Peace Corps gave him a unique perspective.
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The Four Musketeers
By Glenn Kenny
May 06, 1994 at 04:00 AM EDT
Action Adventure,
It’s packed with swordplay, fast getaways, and heaving bosoms. By having young D’Artagnan form a bond of honor and camaraderie with suddenly unemployed king’s men Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, its author, Alexandre Dumas pere, anticipated the buddy-movie formula that frequently spells box office gold. The Three Musketeers couldn’t miss as a book, and for almost 80 years filmmakers have gambled that it couldn’t miss as a movie. Sometimes they’ve won.
Early word that a Disney version would star young hotshots Charlie Sheen, Kiefer Sutherland, Chris O’Donnell, and Oliver Platt had purists groaning. But the studio didn’t turn the Musketeers into Mouseketeers; rather, The Three Musketeers (1993, Walt Disney, PG) is a sound adaptation of the famous tale, hewing closely to the story and its buddy aspect. Sutherland is a suitably brooding Athos, Sheen a reliably dry Aramis, and Platt a predictably boisterous Porthos. As D’Artagnan, O’Donnell gives the most subtle performance, beginning as a boy and ending as a man. Rebecca De Mornay, as the treacherous Milady, has little more than a cameo, since the theme here is that guys will be guys.
Prior screen incarnations of The Three Musketeers took other tacks. The first silent version, by screen pioneer Thomas Ince (1916, Video Yesteryear), tried to play up the action but remained stiff. A 1921 silent (Grapevine), starring Douglas Fairbanks Sr. as a devil-may-care D’Artagnan, was basically a vehicle for the matinee idol’s legendary stunt work. The first talkie version (1935, RKO) cast the too-righteous Walter Abel as D’Artagnan. These latter two attempts fail because whenever the book’s camaraderie was sacrificed to showcase a star, the whole story got thrown out of whack.
Another element that can skew the story is apparent in the lavish 1948 Technicolor version (MGM/UA). Made by MGM, a studio that prided itself on providing something for everybody, it unsuccessfully delivered romance equal to the action. Lana Turner is a knockout as Milady, but while Gene Kelly brings his usual athletic grace to the role of D’Artagnan, he’s too urbane-and you half expect him to break into song.
While all these Musketeers were slashing away, a host of comic and Western pretenders hit the screen. Being one of the Three Mesquiteers, a cowboy team that starred in a series of featurettes, was a stepping stone to stardom for John Wayne. Their Frontier Horizon (1939, Republic) was a particularly entertaining, if slight, entry. An amusing musical pastiche, 1939’s The Three Musketeers (FoxVideo) had Don Ameche as a crooning D’Artagnan saddled with the Ritz Brothers, who play chefs he’s mistaken for his comrades. In this case, the buddies are too close.
The movie Musketeers most faithful to Dumas’ spirit didn’t arrive until director Richard Lester (A Hard Day’s Night) delivered The Three Musketeers (1974, I.V.E., PG) and The Four Musketeers (1975, I.V.E., PG). Overflowing with Lester’s trademark irreverence and slapstick, these films still retain a vivid and bawdy period flavor. The well-matched lead players — Michael York, Oliver Reed, Richard Chamberlain, and Faye Dunaway — seem to have stepped straight from Dumas’ pages. So the buddy movie is restored to balance, and all is well with the 17th century. That is, until Lester reassembled much of his original cast for Return of the Musketeers (1989, MCA/ Universal, PG), a rather messy effort that misses the spark of the first two.
In the meantime, Dumas continues to inspire: Ring of the Musketeers (1993, Columbia TriStar, PG-13), starring David Hasselhoff and Cheech Marin, is set in the present and centers on the Musketeers’ descendants, one of whom is a woman. Ring isn’t spoiled by this violation of the male-bonding principle so much as by the fact that it’s just plain lousy.
The Three Musketeers, 1993: B 1916: C+ 1921: B- 1935: C- 1948: B+ Frontier Horizon: C 1939: B- 1974: A- The Four Musketeers: A- Return of the Musketeers: C+ Ring of the Musketeers: D
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A bloody good time at sea?
It might just be the weirdest way to spend your summer vacation: setting sail for Canada on a ship packed with fans of — and actors from — one of the grisliest horror movie franchises ever. That's right, there is now a ''Saw'' cruise. But don't worry: You don't have to kill anyone to get on board.
July 06, 2012 at 04:00 AM EDT
Mystery,
Do you like cruises? Do you like Canada? Do you like watching people get torn to smithereens in mechanical torture devices? Then have we got a vacation for you!
On Aug. 11, the first-ever Saw-themed cruise will leave New York City for a five-night round-trip journey to various scenic points in Canada, where the last six films in the torture-porn series were filmed. In addition to visiting a casino, a spa, and a steak house, horror-loving vacationers who board the good ship Carnival Glory can attend screenings of Saw movies and participate in a Saw tattoo contest. They will also be able to have their photograph taken with such Saw stars as Costas Mandylor, who played the villainous Detective Hoffman in five of the seven movies, and Anne Greene, who got gutted like a fish at the start of 2010’s franchise finale, Saw 3D.
The Saw at Sea Cruise was organized by Raybin Management, which runs the gory series’ official online store and has overseen a number of landlocked Saw events, including a cast reunion at last year’s Texas Frightmare horror convention. ”All these fans kept saying, ‘Why don’t we do a cruise?”’ says the company’s president, John Raybin. ”I said, ‘You’ve got to be kidding me.’ Then I did my research and realized everybody’s doing it. You have the Lynyrd Skynyrd cruise. You have the Kiss cruise. Celebrity events on cruises have become so popular.”
Some Saw aficionados have griped that key franchise stars Cary Elwes, Shawnee Smith, and Tobin Bell (a.k.a. torturer-in-chief Jigsaw) won’t be on board. Raybin admits that he is at the mercy of actors’ schedules, but insists the inaugural cruise has a ”great” lineup of participants — including Dan Yeager, who never appeared in any of the Saw films but does star as Leatherface in the forthcoming Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3D.
Ticket prices are based on double occupancy and range from $779 for a cabin to $1,695, which bags you a suite and the opportunity to play in a miniature-golf tournament with the actors. Wait, a miniature-golf tournament? That doesn’t sound very torture-porn-y. ”A lot of the ideas came from the actors,” says Raybin. ”They said, ‘Hey, why don’t we play miniature golf? Why don’t we play volleyball?”’
Playing volleyball after a lengthy lunch at the steak house? Now, that does sound like torture. (For more information on the Saw cruise, go to sawatsea.com.)
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What is the origin of the phrase “liner notes”?
Liner notes is a phrase describing a written description on the cover of an LP record. What is the origin of this phrase?
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EDWARD HALEEDWARD HALE
Liner notes, strictly speaking, belong on the paper liner into which the LP is placed before both are placed into the album sleeve. The phrase can be extended to refer to any notes that came with the album.
Michael Owen SartinMichael Owen Sartin
Inside the LP cover there would usually be a thinner paper cover protecting the LP. This is the liner.
I suspect at one time appreciative or informational notes on the LP would have been written or printed on that liner? –
edit: wikipedia confirms my suspicion:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liner_notes
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See this discussion of liner notes which illustrate the printing on the liner itself. – bib Jan 23 '14 at 16:42
Liner notes were printed on the thin paper sleeve (the "liner") a vinyl record is placed inside, sometimes before placing inside a cardboard outer sleeve.
The first quotation of liner notes in the OED is from 1955 and as an abbreviated liner in a 1953 definition, but I found an earlier example in a Billboard magazine album review from 10 April 1948 (page 37):
A batch of reissued boogie disks including some of the classics in this idiom with some of the all-time B.W. greats featured. Neatly packaged with concise liner notes by Dave Dexter. Should find a place in retailer catalogs since the eight beat stuff is hardly dated. But sale will probably be restricted to aficionados and jazz lovers.
HugoHugo
I've sent this antedating to the OED. – Hugo Jan 24 '14 at 10:15
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Enterprise Ethereum Alliance Unveils New Technical Steering Committee and Seven New Working Groups
Multi-Vertical, Member-Driven Groups Advance Ethereum-Based Technologies
New York, N.Y., – USA –July 13, 2017 – Today the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA) announced the establishment of a Technical Steering Committee that will focus on the EntEth1.0 reference architecture. In addition to the Technical Steering Committee, seven member-driven Working Groups, each driven by blockchain or industry thought leaders were put in place. The Working Groups will work toward delivering specific advancements to the development and use of Ethereum-based technologies in multiple vertical markets.
“The EEA has made the largest commitment to member-driven working groups in the industry focusing on innovative blockchain technologies and applications to solve real-world problems,” said Jeremy Millar, founding board member, EEA. “Many of the blockchain industry’s best and brightest have agreed to contribute their leadership and energy as a chair for an EEA work group. We thank them and all the working group members for their support and efforts.”
The Technical Steering Committee will provide guidance to the Working Groups producing technical specifications and code, reviewing and approving deliverables from various Working Groups for submission to the Board of Directors, and liaising with other committees to assist with directing the EEA work to the right places.
Nearly everything which goes through the Technical Steering Committee should manifest as specifications which apply to Ethereum client codebases (i.e. Quorum, pyethapp, STRATO, Nuco, Burrow, etc.) rather than to higher layers, such as applications built on these clients.
The EEA Technical Steering Committee, Working Groups, and Chairs
Technical Steering Committee, Chair: Alex Batlin, BNY Mellon
Token Working Group, Chair: Alex Batlin, BNY Mellon
Banking Working Group, Chair: Amber Baldet, J.P. Morgan
Healthcare Working Group, Chair: Fabian Wahl, Merck KGaA
Insurance Working Group, Chairs: Stephan Karpischek and Christoph Mussenbrock, Etherisc Inc.
Advertising Industry Working Group, Chair: Mike Goldin, MetaX / ConsenSys
Legal Industry Working Group, Chair: Aaron Wright, Associate Clinical Professor of Law at Cardozo Law School and Director of Cardozo’s Blockchain Project
Supply Chain Working Group, Chair: Tyler Mulvihill, Authentick / ConsenSys
About the EEA
The Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA) connects Fortune 500 enterprises, startups, academics, and technology vendors with Ethereum subject matter experts. Building upon the only smart contract supporting blockchain currently running in real-world production – Ethereum –the EEA defines enterprise-grade software capable of handling the most complex, highly-demanding applications at the speed of business. For additional information about joining the EEA, please reach out to [email protected]
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IT AIN’T OVER TIL IT’S OVER: A WEEKEND-LONG INTUITIVE MEMOIR
written by Leslie Patron July 24, 2018
5 May 2018 – Cinco de Mayo
7:11 a.m.: I photograph the Death card with my iPhone, my card of the day. For nearly seven months, at the urging of a beloved femme friend, I have drawn one card each morning, as near to sunrise as I can muster. Tarot, I inquire while shuffling, what does the day have in store for me? What energy does the day have in store for me? I speak the words aloud in singsong in my empty apartment on the card table my parents brought me back from a garage sale. Its legs, like mine, are collapsable.
When I told my Catholic parents about my burgeoning tarot practice, the conversation turned cautionary. They spoke of the 1970s, the San Jose humans they knew who joined cults. I asked my dad to retell the familiar maudlin tale of a coworker’s daughter who cult leaders once brainwashed. They told her they had her dead baby’s heart in a box: still beating. The dead baby’s heart has spellbound me for ages: a symbol of what’s yearning in the world.
(A newborn’s heart, I’ve researched, is roughly the size of a walnut.)
I imagine a cult leader’s palms cradling the soft organ—delicate as a hatchling—and rolling it ever so gingerly off surgical gloves and into the box’s cool interior. The box in my mind is as darkened as a chest cavity. I don’t recall where Dad was working at the time: the cannery, the gas station, the vending machine repair job at the place he calls The Funny Machine Company. Maybe it was later in his suit-and-tie days.
The subtext of the cult conversation is this: from my parent’s vantage, non-Catholic mysticism is a portal to a sickening mind.
Is astrology a mortal sin or a venial sin, a friend texted their partner two weeks ago.
Mortal, their partner responded.
~7:40 a.m.: Waiting for my soy milk cortado in a bourgie strip mall coffee shop, I google the Death card, also known as the most feared and misunderstood card of the deck. It is a card about transformation. I note how in adulthood I am surrounded by posh people.
What card do you suppose I’ll pull on the day that I die? I have asked the aforementioned femme friend.
Maybe the Wheel of Fortune, she told me. Or maybe The World.
7:42 a.m.:
VOW 1: I will embrace the transformative energy of the Death card.
VOW 2: I will allow myself to see (and follow!) the signs I perceive in the world.
7:55 a.m.: Walking into Sprouts Farmer’s Market to buy groceries, I hear the song It Ain’t Over Til It’s Over. I misidentify the tune as a Motown oldie from decades before I was born. Turns out I was 9 when it aired. For reasons I can’t yet articulate, I perceive that the song is a sign. It Ain’t Over Til It’s Over is Lenny Kravitz’s most successful song to date, I read on Wikipedia, peaking at #2 behind Bryan Adam’s Everything I Do (I Do It For You).
VOW 3: The only song I will listen to deliberately today is It Ain’t Over Til It’s Over.
8:00 a.m.: Returning to my car with my wares, I pause to document a mammoth photo collage beneath the store’s beige and brown stucco facade. The stucco reminds me of the bland cookie-cutter track housing that shot up throughout the region in my childhood days, when It Ain’t Over Til It’s Over was first a hit. The photos depict real old-timey scenes of pale-skinned humans in the long-gone local orchards. Two women in floor-length skirts mingle under tree boughs, one of them gripping ripe produce. I struggle to identify the large fruit she’s fisting in greyscale. Apricots dry out on palettes in the sun. Stern-faced men sit on wood crates in rows, as if posed for a middle school photograph. They wear straw hats, string-ties, and worn work pants.
Does any good come of romanticizing this era? I type, posting a photo on my Instagram story. I am referring to the implicit racism of the photo montage: the swath of washed-out dead men in the frame. I, myself, am guilty of romanticizing it. I fantasize about getting a tattoo of the box-cutter-like knives my parents and Portuguese grandparents used to slice ‘cots in the orchards. The knife would be fringed in blossom garlands.
In front of the mammoth photo collage: a display of honeydew melons, a close relative of my deceased grandfather’s favorite, the casaba melon. Born in 1907, my Mexican grandfather lived in a two room shack as a child when he worked in the orchards. The photo montage is bereft of faces like his. And yet he too toiled here. Today you can visit a replica of the shacks at History Park, an indoor/outdoor museum modeled after San Jose in the early 1900s. In a photo that lives on my smartphone, my father peers through the replica’s uncurtained windows: imagining inhabitants in a building that never housed any.
8:50 a.m.: Driving through Santa Clara, having downloaded It Ain’t Over Til It’s Over to blast on my stereo, I pause to document a sign in a picture window above a manicured lawn. PSYCHIC READING it says with a telephone number.
To the left of the digits: a fan of black and red playing cards.
To the right: a raised palm coursing with lifelines.
All good things are seated at the right hand of The Father, I think, following a crow with my eyes.
What is it like to be an out-and-proud psychic in the suburbs?
What is it like to be a solitary crow?
9:00 a.m.: I return home, prepare a smoothie, and document my morning so far. I’m committed to following my whims, I text a friend who inquires what I’m up to.
10:45 a.m.: I stop at 881 S 1st Street, where according to census records, my grandfather lived with his mother and 9 of his siblings as a boy in 1920. Today it is an unmarked brick storefront, painted buttery yellow, with pale pink and blue quinceañera dresses in the window display. I am drawn to a headless pint-size mannequin in a handmade christening gown, studded with delicate seed pearls. Unseen dressmaker’s hands have pinned a bonnet to the skirt’s hem.
En route to the unmarked brick storefront, while listening to It Ain’t Over Til It’s Over on an endless loop, I tell myself I must enter my grandfather’s past dwelling and purchase a trinket for prosperity. But the OPEN sign is unlit when I arrive. A note in the window penned in Sharpie reads: Dear UPS—Please leave packages next door with BOOST MOBILE. On either side of the shuttered dwelling, shopkeepers broom their walkways. A woman pauses from her rhythmic sweeping to pour bleach water from a sandwich-sized Tupperware container. She douses the hooves of a huge plaster horse: whitening it’s unmoving fetlocks.
11:21 a.m.: Every time Lenny’s song ends, I wonder what the next song will be. How long before my brain absorbs that the loop will not cease? I am parked in front of MEDEX, the drug store I snuck off to as a tween after middle school to buy Funyuns. MEDEX is a detour en route to the site of my own christening, which today is a razed concrete slab where St. Patrick’s Church once stood. I learn on the interwebs that MEDEX and I have the same birth year. For a day in 1981, we each achieved peak states of newness.
Roaming the aisles at MEDEX in search of an ATM machine, I’m comforted by its eerie unchanged state. Knock-off Trapper Keepers still grace the shelves. I try on daisy-patterned bucket hats, and marvel at the dust on shampoo bottles.
When a Muzak version of the theme from Gone With The Wind erupts over the loudspeakers, my mood shifts.
Nostalgia can be a curse.
And yet, “progress” is also a curse.
Don’t come here unless you like dirty expired products, a Yelper writes. Once you buy a product you can’t return it … unlike Walmart where you are allowed to return used products …
11:40 p.m. – I cross the street to my middle school’s campus, peering in through the cyclone fencing at the lot where our church used to be. The site of my christening. It is a beautiful thing to watch a sin-free creature get purer, I once wrote in an unpublished manuscript that lives in a cloud. A disheveled man with his belongings stacked up a shopping cart passes me on the sidewalk, followed by a techie with circusy facial hair. A foul smell arrests me and I spot an entire unopened package of deli ham beside a softening pile of human excrement on the sidewalk. The deli ham sweats pink in clear plastic. Inside the cyclone fencing, there’s a jumbo bag of crushed cat food: 9 LIVES. I think of how St. Patrick’s Church has lived 9 lives. In the aftermath of the 1906 earthquake, the original parish burned down in a fire. In a photograph I find in an internet archive, rubble makes a sky-high hillock beside an ivy-covered tower. At least 100 firefighters battled to put out the blaze. It has since been rebuilt at least twice. In red paint on the canvas-covered fencing, a tagger has sprayed the phrase #1 LOSER.
When workers next resurrect the resilient parish it will have a new name: Our Lady of La Vang.
In Vietnam in 1798, the emperor issued an anti-Catholic edict and thousands of Catholics became martyrs. To escape persecution, Catholics sought refuge in the rainforest, where they suffered from illness, hunger, and exposure to harsh elements. Each night, they gathered at a banyan tree’s base to mouth the rosary. In the tree’s branches a woman appeared, wearing traditional Vietnamese clothing and flanked by two angels. She held the Christ-child in her arms. She urged the Catholics to boil leaves from the trees as a cure for their ailments. Legend states the term La Vang derives from a Vietnamese word that means crying out. I read online how, according to one devotee in 2013, the statue at her shrine weeps hot human tears.
11:55 a.m. – I zigzag across the patio to the spot where my friends once congregated during recess. The tree we then huddled around with our Handi-Snacks has been massacred: hacked to a dry round stump. I try to recall what phrases our small thumbnails once etched in its soft sapling bark. I remember a rounded W-shape we called “Larry’s butt.”
I am steps away from the enclosed blacktop where I played at 5:04 p.m. on October 17, 1989—my eighth birthday—when the 6.9 magnitude Loma Prieta earthquake startled the region.
7:31 a.m. – Having drawn my card of the day (2 of Pentacles) and downed an identical smoothie, I set out driving east. I take surface streets, coursing down our city’s main drag towards Alum Rock. The Alameda yields to Santa Clara Street and Santa Clara Street yields to Alum Rock Avenue. Over a stretch of ten miles, the vibe goes from bourgeois to ramshackle to bourgeois again.
7:55 a.m. – On Santa Clara Street, the main drag’s downtown stretch, I pull over to photograph Hank Coca’s Furniture, a soon-to-be-shuttered business that cropped up in 1957. It sits on the ground floor of the three-story Italianate Oddfellows Building that workers built in 1883. Hank Coca’s has been there—with its ornate window displays of gaudy canopied bedroom sets and glossy life-size panther figurines—my whole lifetime. Hand-painted letters in the window read FINAL DAYS. EVERYTHING MUST GO.
What do you suppose they’ll put where Hank Coca’s used to be? I text to a friend.
A double-decker Chipotle and a Soul Cycle, he texts back.
Lenny croons on repeat from the stereo:
so many tears I’ve cried / so much pain inside / but honey it ain’t over ‘til it’s over
8:25 a.m. – I make a stop at Capital Square Mall and am sad to find new businesses where the old ones once stood. Pretty and Plump is a Five Guys. Montgomery Ward’s is a Target. Pierra Imports—where teen me bought scrunchies and lip gloss—is now a gutted storefront. I pause to photograph my ghostly reflection in the shop’s window. I think of my favorite new insult, which I recently heard applied to the disaster that is “Man Jose’s” online dating scene: It’s haunted!
On the dust-covered window, a stranger has traced the following lines in Spanish with their fingertip:
a una noche llena de estrella / a night full of stars
fumando mota / smoking weed
tratando de olvidar / trying to forget
Swarms of seagulls circle above the Hometown Buffet, the air reeking of pancakes and piled strips of bacon. I recollect how my parents and their friends would show up to Hometown Buffet at lunchtime with a gaggle of children and a deck of playing cards. We’d crowd at our booth until well after dinner time, knocking back tumblers of soda, while the smallest kids conspired under the tabletop.
I’ll admit that as a teenager I began to see my family’s rituals as trashy, a word I am not proud to use. But in adulthood I have a reverence for the foods we then stomached: beanie weenies, Jell-O salad, TV dinners, dry Tang sampled straight from the canister, watered down Kool-Aid, fish sticks with yellow mustard, cold tortillas slathered in margarine, halved canned pears with a dollop of mayo in the cavity, a slice of sandwich bread at every meal. To this day, my ultimate depression supper is boxed mac n cheese, eaten straight from the saucepan with a serving spoon.
For my father’s generation, despair at San Jose’s transformation is all about strip malls erasing lush orchards. For mine, it’s about beloved family-owned strip mall businesses being erased by pointless Chipotles.
2:00 p.m. – My friend Amy and I return to Alum Rock to attend an open house on my childhood avenue. The 3 bedroom 1 bath house clocks in at 1,087 square feet, roughly half the size of tennis court, or the dimensions of the typical residential intersection. The realtor, a Latino man about 15 years our senior, intercepts us at the door with a basket of disposable shoe covers. If you wouldn’t mind, he greets us, these floors are newly refinished. It’s real wood too: just like the original floors when the home was built in the early 1950s. We accept his offerings, slipping the elastic-rimmed booties over our sneakers before meandering through the dwelling.
So, he continues, how close are you to being able to make an offer?
I’d say we’re a few months out, Amy improvises, flashing me a faux-adoring look. I wonder what the realtor is thinking as he sizes us up. Are we monogamous life partners? Funky platonic friends who share finances? Sisters with different Dads? Amy, who is married in real life, sports a simple silver band. My own hand is bare as a newborn’s.
And what’s the price range you’re looking at?
Between 6 and 8, she says coolly, and I realize she’s implying we’re wealthier than we’d ever be if truly partnered.
I see, the realtor responds. Well, this house is priced at $750,000, but it’s bound to go for between 8 and 9. Like Amy, he is speaking in hundreds of thousands. And what would you say your number one criteria would be in house hunting?
LOCATION, Amy emphasizes.
And where do you live now?
We live in an apartment near the Rose Garden, I respond, referencing my own overpriced hovel. I leave out that, despite the affluent neighborhood, I have recently uncovered a cockroach problem. My carpet is stained like a crime scene. In fact, the property is literally a crime scene. A few years before I moved in, 2 drug-related murders occurred in my apartment complex some scant months apart. This is not to say that the building is dingy by any stretch. In the years since I’ve lived there, the landlords have flipped many units, replacing the soiled wall-to-wall carpets with laminate.
Wow, says the realtor, now that’s a nice area! And are you familiar with THIS neighborhood? I sense skepticism in the realtor’s voice, and I imagine it stems from our optics. Amy, with her blond hair and slight southern accent, wears loose yellow linen slacks. Her earrings dangle geometric eyeballs. I wear baby bangs and a threadbare ringer tee.
Actually, I respond, I grew up on this street, on the other side of Lucian Avenue, right near McKee.
So you know then that the main thing to recommend it is the price point, he ventures, chuckling. As the shock registers on my face, he covers up. Oh, I was born and raised in this neighborhood too. About a mile away on Golf Drive. It doesn’t escape my notice that Golf Drive residents attend Piedmont Hills High School whereas Ridge Vista Avenue residents go to James Lick. James Lick High School has a GreatSchools Rating of 5, whereas Piedmont Hills has a GreatSchools Rating of 10, the highest possible score.
At James Lick, 76% of students graduate within 4 years, and 37% of graduates are considered college ready.
At Piedmont Hills, 95% of students graduate within 4 years, and 61% of graduates are considered college ready.
I wish I had told him I was from Vermont and went to boarding school, says Amy as we slip into the tool shed in the side yard. In real life she’s from Arkansas and rural Mississippi.
My dad had a shed kind of like this, I tell her, only ours was rusty aluminum. I used to make out with girls and smoke weed in it.
IT AIN’T OVER TIL IT’S OVER: A WEEKEND-LONG INTUITIVE MEMOIR was last modified: July 22nd, 2018 by Leslie Patron
Crying for a Shadow
Leslie Patron
Leslie Patron lives and writes in San Jose, California, where she founded the place-based journal Cheers from the Wasteland. Her most recent work appears or is forthcoming in Dream Pop Journal, Queen Mob's Tea House, littletell, Daily Gramma, and The Operating System. She is the social media editor of 1913 Press and an active member of the San Jose zine community.
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Sarah Gerard on self-abandonment, waking up, and rebuilding after divorce
Code switchers, Multilinguals, Vampires
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Molecular changes in the absence of severe pathology in the pulvinar in dementia with Lewy bodies
Lookup NU author(s): Dr Daniel Erskine, Professor Alan Thomas, Dr Ahmad Khundakar, Dr Peter Hanson, Dr John-Paul Taylor, Professor Ian McKeith, Professor Johannes Attems, Dr Mark Cookson, Dr Christopher Morris
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This is the authors' accepted manuscript of an article that has been published in its final definitive form by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2018.
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Author(s): Erskine D, Ding J, Thomas AJ, Kaganovich A, Khundakar AA, Hanson PS, Taylor JP, McKeith IG, Attems J, Cookson MR, Morris CM
Journal: Movement Disorders
Acceptance date: 22/01/2018
URL: https://doi.org/10.1002/mds.27333
DOI: 10.1002/mds.27333
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