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EIGER 2015
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Berna, CH-Gr
CLIMBING AND PARAGLIDING FLIGHT FROM THE EIGER SUMMIT 3,970 MTS SWITZERLAND
On August 20-21, Adrenaline Paragliders team composed by four mountaineers and Spanish pilots : Alejandro Ortuño Buzó, Marcelo Martínez Calero, Cristina Nuñez de Arenas y Albert Crusat ,
in a joint expedition, they manage to climb up to the top of Mount Eiger in Switzerland and fly down from its 3.970mts to the Swiss town of Grindelwald, being the first Spanish and the first woman in the world, to achieve this challenge.
The ascent was made by Arista Mittellegi, making summit on August 21 at 5:30 pm. It was a long climb up by a ridge of rock and snow, having to overcome glaciers, and calcareous sharp ridges of snow and ice.
The first day we made a glacier hiking and rock climbing, to the Mittellegi Refuge, located on the edge at 3,350 meters of altitude. The second day consisted of a long ascent to rock mixed terrain and snow, after twelve hours drove us to the top of that mountain.
paragliding takeoff took place from same Summit to the north side, with a very technical and risky takeoff.
The flight allowed us to fly across the north face and Mittellegi edge and forty five minutes after, we landing successfully in Grindelwald.
Small snow ramp
Official landing Grindelwald
Piloten:
Marcelo Martinez
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Articles on IAL Specialty Topics
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TradeMe announced that it would ban the sale of pugs, French bulldogs, and British bulldogs from its website. Veterinarian and New Zealand Veterinary Association (NZVA) companion animal spokesperson Rochelle Ferguson looks at the state of cat and dog breeding welfare in New Zealand and what can be done to improve it....more >>
Boiling lobsters and crabs ‘should be banned’ says Crustacean Compassion
More than 50 high-profile campaigners have signed a letter to Michael Gove, the environment secretary, calling on him to recognise the crustaceans as animals. Under current Animal Welfare laws in Britain, decapod crustaceans aren’t classed as animals and therefore aren’t covered by the Animal Welfare Act.
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"No regulatory bodies will check that these breeders are knowledgeable about animal health and breeding practices and nobody will ensure they have the necessary facilities to...more >>
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Colorado roadless rule key to wildfire mitigation, ski-area expansion, state says
Conservationists cheer appeals court ruling in favor of highly protective Clinton-era rule
By David O. Williams
August 10, 2009 — While conservation groups called last week’s federal appeals court decision reinstating the Clinton-era roadless rule a major victory, the state of Colorado contends its own revised rule is still a far more practical way of managing the state’s 4.2 million roadless acres.
Mike King, deputy director of Colorado’s Department of Natural Resources, said Wednesday that the 2001 Clinton rule, which provided sweeping protections against road building on nearly 60 million acres of largely undeveloped public lands nationwide, did not take into consideration wildfire mitigation or other critical economic drivers.
“In Colorado in 2001, we didn’t have a bark-beetle epidemic, and now we find ourselves eight years later with at least 2 million, and maybe more like 2.5 million, acres of dead trees,” King said. “Many of these acres are adjacent to communities, and the risk of catastrophic wildfire has increased exponentially as a result.”
The Bush administration quickly tossed out the Clinton rule in 2001 and four years later allowed states to petition for their own roadless rules. Only Idaho and Colorado went that route, with Idaho adopting its own set of rules late last year.
Colorado’s draft rules, released in 2008, were formed by a task force with extensive public input over a period of two years, but it has been slowed by critics charging that it allows far too many road-building exceptions for energy extraction, water and power infrastructure, logging and ski-area expansion. It was also stalled in the transition between the Bush and Obama administrations.
Gov. Bill Ritter’s administration last week issued a revised version of its 2008 draft, drawing jeers from environmentalists. But Wednesday, the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued a ruling upholding a 2006 U.S. District Court decision that reinstated Clinton’s Roadless Area Conservation Rule and threw out the Bush administration’s State Petitions Rule.
“Today is a victory for one of the most important land protection measures of the decade,” Jane Danowitz, director of the Pew Environment Group’s U.S. public lands program, said in a statement. “It is now up to President Obama to fulfill his pledge to permanently protect our unspoiled forests by resurrecting the [2001 Clinton] Roadless Rule.”
Colorado had been operating under the notion that the 2001 rule was permanently enjoined in the state and that the U.S. Forest Service could not use it to manage public lands in Colorado.
Rob Vandermark of the Pew Environment Group disagreed with that reading of earlier court decisions, instead arguing that injunctions by lower courts were only in effect pending appeals.
“Today’s decision by the higher court … affirmed [District] Judge Laporte’s ruling that the Bush administration unlawfully repealed the 2001 roadless rule and reinstated the 2001 rule nationwide,” Vandermark said. “Today’s ruling means that the U.S. Forest Service is now bound by the provisions of the 2001 rule on lands it manages in all states — except Idaho and within Alaska’s Tongass National Forest.”
According to a spokeswoman, Pew wants Obama to affirm that the 2001 rule applies in Colorado and suspend the state rulemaking process in favor of a permanent national rule. King said the state doesn't oppose a national rule but wants to ensure the Colorado rule is incorporated into it because of revisions for special circumstances.
In the 2008 draft Colorado rule, for instance, King said conservationists were concerned that language on logging road exceptions was too broad and could allow local officials to declare an entire county high risk under the Healthy Forest Restoration Act and set up a Community Wildfire Protection Plan in order to land a timber mill in the county.
So in its revised version, the state shored up that language to allow fairly unfettered thinning within a half mile of towns and then public review as part of a Community Wildfire Protection Plan process — as allowed under state Senate Bill 1, which went into effect Wednesday — for public lands between a half mile and 1.5 miles of town.
“I’ve had candid conversations with many environmentalists who say, ‘We know that when the Obama administration takes up this issue at the national level there will have to be some accommodation for fuel treatment because of [the fire] issue in Colorado and other western states,’” King said. “So we think the question of does there need to be some flexibility for fuel treatment is a no-brainer and it’s a foregone conclusion.”
King said two other exceptions for temporary road building include 29,000 acres on the North Fork of the Gunnison River for coal mining and ski-area expansion on roadless areas within existing resort permits — about 8,000 acres spread over 11 existing ski areas.
“Those are two examples of narrowly tailored exceptions that we can do on a state analysis that the national rule would never give you the ability to do,” King said, adding both industries are critical to the economy of the entire state.
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Gannett Now Imposing Litmus Test On Republicans: Disavow Trump Or We Will Destroy You
If you happened to check out the news pages of the Gannett-owned Cincinnati Enquirer in the lead-up to the Ohio presidential primary, you were treated to daily doses of anti-Trump rhetoric from the newspaper whose editorial opinions and news content are dictated by its masters in Langley, Virginia, who created the newspaper chain to buy up conservative, family-run newspapers in key red states to fundamentally alter the news message readers were receiving. We've seen this play out locally the entire past year in the Gannett-owned Indianapolis Star where any one of religious faith is mocked and ridiculed if they dare speak the words "religious freedom," which Gannett tells you is code for bigotry.
Days before the Ohio primary, the Cincinnati Enquirer viciously went after the Democratic sheriff of Hamilton County, Ohio because he attended a Trump rally. Sheriff Jim Neill had so much vitriolic anger directed at him he had to issue a public apology for going to the Trump rally. "It was selfish on my part because I didn’t take into consideration the other candidates on the Democratic ballot that are going to be running with me because this could not just impact my votes, but it could impact the votes on anyone on the Democratic ballot. I want to apologize for my actions," said Neil. "I’ve been a police officer since 1981. I was elected as sheriff in 2012. I’m still performing as a peace officer. I’m not comfortable in the skin of a politician. What you get with Jim Neil is what you get. I’m a public servant… public safety is my priority." "Neil repeatedly said Monday he attended the Trump rally to show appreciation for Trump's support of law enforcement."
The Star's political Matthew Tully doesn't let a day go by that he doesn't utter anti-Trump statements. The Star's editorial manager Tim Swarens, who is nothing but a vicious attack-dog bully when it comes to imposing The Star's agenda on political and business leaders, has now stepped into the act, even though Indiana's primary is still many weeks off. He's served notice that the newspaper will go after any Republican politician in this state who doesn't publicly disavow Trump.
Donald Trump is coming.
Brace yourself, South Bend. Get ready, Terre Haute. (You can stand down, Bloomington, the People’s Republic is likely to remain a Trump-free zone.)
And awaken your conscience, Republican leaders in Indiana. It’s time to take a stand against the egocentric billionaire’s reckless campaign for the White House.
Will Indiana’s leading Republican candidates disavow the civic corrosion that is Trump’s campaign? Or will they silently share a ballot with Trump on May 3 and thereby tacitly endorse his ugly, dangerous tactics? . . .
That means Mike Pence, Marlin Stutzman, Todd Young and other Republicans on the May ballot must decide: Do we, out of political expediency, welcome the man most likely to lead our party in November, or do we defend the values we’ve long claimed to hold?
Because there’s no middle ground on Trump . . .
Just who the hell do they think they are to have the right to dictate to people who they must support for president? Here's some news for Republican politicians. If you allow yourself to be bullied by these outsider eggheads who've taken control of our local newspaper, then you're not worthy of the support of the people of the political party whose principles you profess to support. You don't have to support Trump, but they're asking you to do more. They're telling you that you must take a public oath to disavow Trump and his campaign in its entirety or you will be smeared by these nasty, ugly people who run this local newspaper.
What people should really be asking themselves is why this newspaper for which Swarens works is so worked up about Trump when it is a co-conspirator in enabling corrupt political insiders to rob taxpayers blind to finance their personal business empires through its support of every s_ _ _ sandwhich they serve up to us. Why does this newspaper have so much contempt for working class people who can't get ahead in this economy? Why does this newspaper devote so much of its content to promoting alcohol consumption and rubbing the posh homes of the wealthy in our faces? Why does its social agenda for accepting every alternative lifestyle always trump stories of income inequality?
No individual or institution has been more responsible for civic corrosion in this city and state than when the Gannett newspaper chain came to town, drove off all of the newspaper's best reporters and editorial writers and dumbed the newspaper down to the point it's just a shadow of its former place as a watchdog and protector of civic virtue. You'll never read an editorial or news story calling out the newspaper's favorite liberal politicians who use social media daily to viciously and personally attack anyone who disagrees with their viewpoint and who urge supporters to engage in violence against their political enemies. And just what is it about Trump that scares your elitists masters in Langley so much to take this extraordinary step? We haven't seen your newspaper calling for the resignation of the school superintendent for one of the state's largest school districts right here in Indianapolis who let six days go by in defiance of state law before reporting the sexual abuse of students at his school. Your newspaper is the last place to which any self-respecting politician should be looking for approval. Tell them to Trump Off.
UPDATE: Since Gannett is such a big fan of Gov. John Kasich, I thought I would share this video of him telling a group of Ohio state workers what an idiot a police officer was for pulling him over and ticketing him for failing to yield when he passed a police officer stopped along the interstate highway with a motorist.
Posted by Gary R. Welsh at 12:16 PM
Gennett is the WALMART of newspaper publishing. Like that huge Bentonville, Arkansas. headquartered giant garage sale under roof where you may mostly find goods made in China, North Vietnam, and Laos, the Gannett firm comes in and often destroys local small business publications along with their institutional, civic connections and real information service to the people.
Nah, for the exchange of money WALMART delivers value. Duh Star does not.
All Enemies, Gannet
While still not a newspaper worth buying, the paper is nothing like the Pulliam run daily that poisoned the community for decades. Typical of publishing in the John Birch style, I first can remember Eugene's publication railing against JFK, who it was said, was responsible for interjecting his religion into the 1960 election and berating prominent Catholic politicians in NY, PA, KY, OH, and CA that supposedly handed Kennedy the nomination. The paper never changed its tone as the empire expanded to own 46 newspapers in 8 states. If I remember correctly the sale of the Pulliam newspapers, from the trust, was dependent upon the buyer maintaining a conservative viewpoint. I don't really know what the paper now expounds, after the Gannett sale, since delivery was stopped after the last racially charged Varvel cartoon.
However, the right-wing is well represented on television, especially by Faux News, and on radio through Bain Capital's private buyout of Clear Channel (now iHeartMedia) which owns 850 stations and have replaced progressive commentators with the likes of Beck, Limbaugh, Hannity, Levin and McCain. With $20 billion in debt from acquisitions and a money losing lineup broadcasting in clear thinking locales, the group may face a financial crunch as so too may the Star from trying to operate in the digital age. But why fret when one has extra blog sites that Gary offers on Advance Indiana. Thanks Gary!
I wouldn't wipe my backside with Gannett's paper. Swarens, Tully et al are fomenting revolution. The fields are tinder dry. All it's going to take is a spark. Reap the whirlwind, fools.
I came across an interesting quote: "Rome lived upon its principal till ruin stared it in the face. Industry is the only true source of wealth, and there was no industry in Rome. By day the Ostia road was crowded with carts and muleteers, carrying to the great city the silks and spices of the East, the marble of Asia Minor, the timber of the Atlas, the grain of Africa and Egypt; and the carts brought out nothing but loads of dung. That was their return cargo."
— The Martyrdom of Man by Winwood Reade (1871)
We see this all across America cities and towns that once were home to factories that manufactured the consumer goods we bought are no more. The Star except for a brief mention on the closing of Carrier and it eventual transfer to Mexico is silent. I do not recall any personal stories the workers at Carrier might relate. What will the workers do after Carrier closes?? How will their lives be impacted??
However we will get gobs of written crap about Peyton Manning.
The Star has spoken, but the power that exists behind it is telling them what to write is frightened. Probably if anything more people will now vote for Trump as the anti-establishment candidate.
Unigov said...
Gannett and WaPo both invoking the MORAL OUTRAGE today: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/to-defend-our-democracy-against-trump-the-gop-must-aim-for-a-brokered-convention/2016/03/16/074399d4-eb9c-11e5-bc08-3e03a5b41910_story.html
Anonymous at 2:46 - that's some funny stuff. You should develop a new website of pseudo-leftist mush, which seems to be your specialty.
I loved the Star salesperson at the Flower and Patio show. They asked why I did not want a subscription for the Star. I told them because it is not a newspaper anymore, and they told me I should get it for the coupons. They had nothing for my comment about it not being a newspaper anymore.
If that is all they have to give me, then yeah keep the umbrella, or hat, or anything else on that table.
2:46 hates America and Americans. He's the type of garbage we should have let McCarthy run out of the country.
Tully and the crew at the Star no longer have original thoughts. Tony Cook is told what to say and when to say it by the folks at the Gannet home office. Muncie, Richmond, Indianapolis, its all the same stuff,Gannet tells them what to write and how to write it. Its sad to see the once great newspaper become the tool of the Gannet folks. Shame on Matt Tully for allowing to be used like this. Tony Cook the political credibility of a door knob, he only write shot he is told to write....it's very sad really.
Gannet is no more relevant than any other liberal vacuum chamber. Democratic Underground or Something Awful come to mind
It's possible that Something Awful has more paid subscriptions as well
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Davis Wins Silver At Winter X, Herfindahl Wins Cross-Country
Aspen, Colorado (January 27, 2014) - They were in two different locations on two very different stages, but the results were the same: Christian Brothers Racing riders were on the podium. On the world stage that is the Winter X Games in Aspen, Colorado, Cory Davis flew the CBR colors claiming silver in the Long Jump competition. Logan Christian and Dave Joanis were also at the X Games fighting for a gold medal in X Games snocross. About 1200 miles away in the ditches, rivers and fields of rural Northwestern Minnesota where Arctic Cat snowmobiles were born, Zach Herfindahl claimed a Pro Stock win at the USXC Oslo 100 cross-country race.
Cory Davis - Entered in Freestyle and Long Jump, Cory Davis went big in Long Jump, taking home the silver medal. In long jump riders hit a modified freestyle ramp from a set distance attempting to outfly one another and score the longest distance from each run-in mark. In each round the rider with the shortest distance is eliminated. Davis was one of the final two riders, taking the silver behind a rider who holds the World Record for snowmobile distance jumping.
Logan Christian - After running the 4th fastest lap of the day in seeding, Christian transfered to the Winter X Games snocross final with a second place finish in his heat. The Troy Lee Designs/DRIFT Racing/Arctic Cat rider lined up for the main and came out mid-pack off the start, then found himself tangled mid air with another rider just a few seconds into the race. He avoided being run over by oncoming racers and quickly re-mounted the sled, but it was too badly damaged for him to complete the race pace.
Dave Joanis - After a transfer to the main through the LCQ, Royal Distributing/Arctic Cat rider Dave Joanis rode a solid race finishing in 10th place. It was Joanis' first time competing in the Winter X Games snocross event.
The Christian Brothers Racing cross-country team traveled to Oslo, Minnesota, to compete in the USXC Oslo 100. This race took the team from the one-dimensional lake races that made up the first three events into a multi-dimensional, terrain-oriented format that featured high-speed road ditches, twisting rivers and tight woods. Pro Stock points leader Zach Herfindahl was joined by 2013 USXC Pro Stock points champion Ryan Simons and long-time Christian Brothers Racing rider and multi-time cross-country Pro points champion D.J. Ekre.
Zach Herfindahl - After losing an engine in the 50-mile Pro Open race, the CBR crew discovered a punctured engine cooler on his snowmobile, likely from a rock that got thrown into the tunnel by the snowmobile's track. Herfindahl is the current Pro Stock points leader so teammate Ryan Simons, who isn't vying for points this season, donated his sled to Zach's cause and he used to to win the 100-mile Pro Stock race by over 2-minutes.
Ryan Simons - After sitting out the first three rounds, reigning Pro Stock point champion and Seven Clans I-500 winner Ryan Simons returned to competition at Oslo. Simons was able to claim a second place podium finish in the 50-mile Pro Open race, finishingjust 32-seconds behind the winner.
D.J. Ekre - A serious crash at last year's Detroit Lakes race resulted in a broken pelvis and a ruined season for D.J. Ekre. One of the fastest cross-country riders in the world, Ekre was on hand to race the Oslo event but a bad crash in Pro Open tweaked his shoulder and ended his day.
Also competing this past weekend was Junior Novice 10-13 rider Evan Christian. Christian was at the ISOC Regional race at ERX Motor Park in ElkRiver, Minnesota, where he went undefeated in Junior Novice 10-13 Limited and Junior Novice 10-13 Combined on the weekend, winning all his heats and four mains on his way to a perfect weekend.
Cory Davis - I'm so stoked on winning Silver in the Long Jump. In the end I was just inches away from beating the world record distance jump holder - I'm pretty happy about that.
Logan Christian - I took second in my first heat and felt great. The altitude here is part of the battle and they don't give you much time to rest between races but I was feeling really good headed into the final. I had a good start but then got tangled up with another rider on the uphill rhythm section and got pitched. I came off the sled and I feel pretty lucky to walk away because there were a lot of sleds behind me. I have to thank our mechanics, Betsy Haldorson, Ethan Hanson and Mike Carver - they worked really hard to get us up front.
Dave Joanis - This was my second time racing the Winter X Games snocross. After the practice I felt good but in the first heat I got mixed up with some other riders and ended up having to transfer through the LCQ. I didn?t get a good start and it's tough to make up ground on that track, but this is the super bowl of snocross and considering that, 10th place is a solid finish.
Zach Herfindahl - I had a rock puncture my heat exchanger so Ryan let me borrow his sled for Pro Stock which was really awesome of him. I rode smooth and fast and never made a mistake. I went faster as the race went on and just had a blast - so fun to get on some real terrain after all the ice racing we?ve been doing.
2. Cory Davis
10. Dave Joanis
15. Logan Christian
USXC Oslo 100
1. Zach Herfindahl
Pro Open
2. Ryan Simons
USXC Points
11. Brian Dick
14. Ryan Simons
18. D.J. Ekre
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Interstrain cooperation in meningococcal biofilms : Role of autotransporters NalP and AutA
Pérez-Ortega, Jesús; Rodríguez, Antonio; Ribes, Eduardo; Tommassen, J; Arenas Busto, Jesus
(2017) Frontiers in Microbiology, volume 8
Neisseria meningitidis (Nm) and Neisseria lactamica (Nl) are commensal bacteria that live in the human nasopharynx, where they form microcolonies. In contrast to Nl, Nm occasionally causes blood and/or meningitis infection with often fatal consequences. Here, we studied interactions between neisserial strains during biofilm formation. Fluorescent strains were engineered and ... read more analyzed for growth in single- and dual-strain biofilms with confocal laser-scanning microscopy. Different strains of diverse Neisseria species formed microcolonies of different sizes and morphologies. Pair-wise combinations of two invasive Nm strains and one Nm carrier isolate showed that these strains can coexist in spite of the fact that they produce toxins to combat congeners. This lack of competition was even observed when the biofilms were formed under nutrient limitation and can be explained by the observation that the separate microcolonies within mixed biofilms are mostly lineage specific. However, these microcolonies showed different levels of interaction. The coexistence of two strains was also observed in mixed biofilms of Nm and Nl strains. Inactivation of the autotransporter NalP, which prevents the release of the heparin-binding antigen NHBA and the a-peptide of IgA protease from the cell surface, and/or the production of autotransporter AutA increased interactions between microcolonies, as evidenced by close contacts between microcolonies on the substratum. Qualitative and quantitative analysis revealed an altered spatial distribution of each strain in mixed biofilms with consequences for the biomass, biofilm architecture and bacterial viability depending on the synthesis of NalP and AutA, the expression of which is prone to phase variation. Being in a consortium resulted in some cases in commensalism and cooperative behavior, which promoted attachment to the substratum or increased survival, possibly as result of the shared use of the biofilm matrix. We hypothesize that Nm strains can cooperate during host colonization, but, possibly, the different capacities of the microcolonies of each strain to resist the host's defenses limits the long-term coexistence of strains in the host. show less
Keywords: AutA, Bacterial interactions, Biofilms, IgA protease, NalP, Neisseria, NHBA, Microbiology, Microbiology (medical)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2017.00434
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Big Picture Science for April 30, 2018 - What Have You Got To Move
Big Picture Science - What Have You Got To Move
ENCORE: Whether they swim, slither, jump, or fly, animal locomotion is more than just an urge to roam: it’s necessary for survival. Evolution has come up with ingenious schemes to get from here to there. Hear how backbones evolved as a consequence of fish needing to wag their fins, and why no animals have wheels.
Motion is more than locomotion. Test the physics of movement in your kitchen and find out what popping corn has in common with the first steam engine.
And while physics insists that atoms are always moving, find how what happens to these basic building blocks when placed in the coldest spot in the universe. The Cold Atom Laboratory chills material to nearly absolute zero, creating some weird superfluid effects as atoms slow down.
Matt Wilkinson – Zoologist, science writer, University of Cambridge, author of Restless Creatures: The Story of Life in Ten Movements. Technology.
Helen Czerski –physicist, University College London, author of Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life.
Anita Sengupta – Aerospace Engineer and project manager of the Cold Atom Laboratory at NASA’S Jet Propulsion Lab.
This encore podcast was first released on 03/13/2017
Podcast will be made available this coming Monday at - http://bigpicturescience.org/
You can listen to this and other episodes at http://bigpicturescience.org/, and be sure to check out Blog Picture Science, the companion blog to the radio show.
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Big Picture Science for April 23, 2018 - High Moon
Big Picture Science - High Moon
“The moon or bust” is now officially bust. No private company was able to meet the Lunar X Prize challenge, and arrange for a launch by the 2018 deadline. The $30 million award goes unclaimed, but the race to the moon is still on. Find out who wants to go and why this is not your parents’ – or grandparents’ – space race.
With or without a cash incentive, private companies are still eyeing our cratered companion, hoping to set hardware down on its dusty surface. Meanwhile, while the U.S. waffles about a return to the moon, India and China are sending a second round of robots skyward. And a proposed orbiting laboratory – the Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway – may literally put scientists over, and around, the moon.
The moon continues to entice sci-fi writers, and Andy Weir’s new novel describes a vibrant lunar colony. Its premise of colonists launched from Kenya is not entirely fiction: the nation is one of many in Africa with space programs.
Andy Weir – Author of “The Martian” and, most recently, “Artemis”
Allen Herbert – Vice President of Business Development and Strategy for NanoRacks, LLC and author of an article about emerging space programs in Africa
Greg Schmidt – Deputy director of the Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute at NASA Ames Research Center
Jason Crusan – NASA Director of Advanced Exploration Systems for Human Space Flight
Download podcast at -http://bigpicturescience.org/episodes/high-moon
Big Picture Science for April 16, 2018 - Skeptic Check: Political Scientist
Big Picture Science - Skeptic Check: Political Scientist
Hundreds of thousands of scientists took to the streets during the March for Science. The divisive political climate has spurred some scientists to deeper political engagement – publicly challenging lawmakers and even running for office themselves. But the scientist-slash-activist model itself is contested, even by some of their colleagues.
Find out how science and politics have been historically intertwined, what motivates scientists to get involved, and the possible benefits and harm of doing so. Is objectivity damaged when scientists advocate?
Plus, how Michael Mann became a reluctant activist, whether his “street fighter” approach is effective in defending climate science, and the price he and his family paid for speaking out.
Also, how the organization 314 Action is helping a record number of scientists run for Congress. But will the group support only Democratic contenders?
Robert Young – Geologist, Western Carolina University
Douglas Haynes – Historian of medicine and science, University of California, Irvine
Michael Mann – Professor, atmospheric science, Director, Earth System Science Center, Penn State University
Shaugnessy Naughton – Founder and President, 314 Action
Alex Berezow – Senior fellow of biomedical science at the American Council on Science and Health
Download podcast at - http://bigpicturescience.org/episodes/skeptic-check-political-scientist
Big Picture Science for April 09, 2018 - Brain Dust
Big Picture Science - Brain Dust
ENCORE: Know your brain? Think again. Driven by a hidden agenda, powered by an indecipherable web of neurons, and influenced by other brains, your grey matter is a black box.
To "know thyself" may be a challenge, and free will nonexistent, but maybe more technology can shed light on the goings on in your noggin, and the rest of your body.
Find out how tiny implanted sensors called “brain dust” may reveal what really going on.
Plus, the day when your brain is uploaded into a computer as ones and zeros. Will you still be you?
David Eagleman – Neuroscientist, Stanford University, author of The Brain: The Story of You.
Michel Maharbiz – Electrical engineer, University of California, Berkeley.
This encore podcast was first released on 12/5/2018
Downlad podcast at - http://bigpicturescience.org/episodes/brain-dust
Big Picture Science for April 02, 2018 - Hawkingravity
Big Picture Science - Hawkingravity
Stephen Hawking felt gravity’s pull. His quest to understand this feeble force spanned his career, and he was the first to realize that black holes actually disappear – slowly losing the mass of everything they swallow in a dull, evaporative glow called Hawking radiation.
But one of gravity’s deepest puzzles defied even his brilliant mind. How can we connect theories of gravity on the large scale to what happens on the very small? The Theory of Everything remains one of the great challenges to physicists.
Also, the latest on deciphering the weirdness of black holes and why the gravitational wave detector LIGO has added colliding neutron stars to its roster of successes.
Plus, a fellow physicist describes Dr. Hawking’s extraordinary deductive abilities and what it was like to collaborate with him. And, a surprise awaits Molly when she meets a local string theorist to discuss his search for the Theory of Everything.
Leonard Mlodinow – physicist and author of “The Grand Design” with Stephen Hawking, and most recently, “Elastic: Flexible Thinking in a Time of Change.”
Janna Levin – Physicist and astronomer, Barnard College, Columbia University, and the author of, “Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space.”
Richard Camuccio – Graduate research assistant at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Center for Gravitational Wave Astronomy, a LIGO collaborator.
Wahltyn Rattray – Grad-student, the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Center for Gravitational Wave Astronomy.
Raphael Bousso – Physicist, Berkeley Center for Theoretical Physics, University of California-Berkeley.
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Tribute to the mountaineers of the ‘DYNATECH-MCKINLEY 2009 EXPEDITION’
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On last 9th October, Dynatech organised a tribute dinner at the Hotel Boston in Zaragoza for the mountaineers Adrián Uclés and Raúl Martínez who placed the Dynatech flag at the summit of the coldest mountain in the world and the highest in North America: the McKinley-Denali (6200m. Alaska).
Apart from the members of the expedition and Dynatech personnel, Fran Lorente, narrator of all the daily reports transmitted via satellite by the expedition, and Carlos Pauner, a professional mountaineer and friend, were also there.
When the dinner ended, there was a brief commemorative prize-giving ceremony and, immediately after, the showing of a video of the expedition.
Once the showing finished, all the audience could hear the details of this adventure told by their true protagonists. Numerous questions on the climb were also made which were properly answered by the members of the expedition and by Carlos Pauner as well, a famous “eight-thousander” and prestigious guest that gave a real master class on the mountain world, its difficulties and limits of the human being in this hostile environment.
The story was covered by the local press. Enclosed is the corresponding article.
Carlos Pauner (upper left), Adrian Uclés, Raúl Martínez and Fran Lorente (upper right)
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The descent finished
Author: Raul Mtz
“Hello everybody. Last 18th June dawned in bad weather in Camp IV. We hesitated to descend, because it was snowing much and there was a poor visibility. There was not a forecast improvement and we did not want to spend more time on the glacier under these conditions. We talked to the Australian team and decide to form a strong rope of five people and began the descent. In this way, we increased the security. Without delay, we packed everything, we loaded it on the sleds and on the backpacks and we started to descend. The first stage until the Camp III was very hard. Practically, we went opening footprint, snow storm was very uncomfortable and the land with half and steep slopes made our walk with the sleds difficult. After more than two hours, we arrived at Camp III. There, a depot with more load, our skis, food and the third sled were waiting four us. Due to the heavy snowfalls, it took a long time to shovel for unearthing everything and we had to make a great effort. The Austrian climbers made the same, and then with five sleds we began the way. From here the land is less abrupt, but the load is heavier, and besides, as we went descending on the glacier, the risk of falling into a crack was bigger, so we had to act with more caution. The accident happened to the Malaga expedition the previous day reminded us that we could not relax.
After long hours of walking we arrived at camp I. Weather had improved, at this altitude the snow had stopped, but the sun hid behind the mountains, and although here in Alaska, in these months don´t disappear altogether, temperatures drop sharply when the “night” falls. It was 21 hours, we were very cold, and we coooked a little to get our strength back and we melted snow to drink. Here also we had food and rubbish depots which we had to unearth. When we left in the morning, we had not still decided exactly until where we could arrive. We had been walking for more than eight hours and we were tired. Eleven kilometers still left, seven of which were ligth descent and the last four of ascent until base camp. One option was sleep here and leave the next day, but then we chose to continue. The glacier since we entered the park had lost a lot of quality. The high temperatures on the first days, together the snowfalls on the last days had turned it into a maze of cracks to circumvent. Low temperatures in the night compact the snow, so the navigation at this time is more secure. So we set off again at 23 hours and gritting our teeth we started our last stage on this mountain. It was specially hard, the quality of the snow was really bad, it took a long time to advance with the sleds, and the load and the walking hours began to feel in our legs and backs. The noise of avalanches joined us during this last phase, bursting with violence into the silence of the glacier night. With a few frights that never exceeded of putting a foot into a crack, we arrived at the the basis of what they call “Heartbreak Hill”. Really, the name is deserved, because after all, when you see the height of the base camp (300 height meters difference) and how long are going to be those four kilometers, not only breaks your heart, but also your soul. But expeditions are like this, an endurance and strength test, in which we must give everything to the end. It is said that a summit is not consummated until arriving at base camp, in this case, the proper base camp, more than ever, is a summit itself.
Finally, after more than twelve hours of effort we set our tent and on friday, at 2 h. a.m., we prepared to rest a few hours in the hope of flying the next day. It wasn´t a nice night, because the sweat cooled in the sacks that ended flooded, but it did not matter, we were so near the desired hot shower and clean clothes.
A canvas chair and a jacket left out by the Rangers, made us trust that they could expect good weather and that definitely the light aircrafts could fly. it’s hardly surprising on this mountain have to wait for several days at the base camp because of the inclement climatic.
Almost when it seemed that we were to sleep, a female voice woke us up, Lisa, the Ranger in charge of the base camp, she asked us from out of the tent, if we wanted to fly, our company had a light aircraft which would land in half an hour. The happiness made that the soft bodies bring that reserve out and in a moment everything was into the backpacks again and over the sleds, everything on the back and on the sleds because on this endless mountain we still had to climb a slope. Due to the snow quality, it was getting worse, the light aircrafts need travel a longer distance to take off. So, again, more than half an hour pulling a load, heavier than ever, because we had unearthed the depot of food left in the base camp in case of staying here for several days more.
Finally, we loaded everything on board, at 10 h. a.m., and without any problem, Paúl, an expert and veteran pilot, took off and we delighted with the wonderful aerial view of this impressive glacier. While we were flying over Denali, the images of those snows and mountains, were mixed with our lived moments, days of effort and life together that will remain in our memory forever.
The McKinley mountain, Denali for the natives, has become a greater challenge than expected. The fact of carrying everything up by oneself, and the height difference of more than 4000 meters to overcome, gives you an extraordinary hardness. Climatology, one of the deciding factors on this mountain, has been favourable, but also, has led us to bet on a fast attack, because weather forecasts were few encouraging for the following days, as it was confirmed. It led us to carry out a fast attack to the summit, without much acclimation, a risky strategy that had repercussions on one of the members, but time leads all.
We landed in Talkeetna and when we arrived at the hotel, we lived some moments of happiness. The first was meet the Malaga expedition by chance and confirm that the accident in the crack was just a scare and it had only involved one member with broken ribs. The desired shower was the second moment of joy and happiness, after twelve days of sweats and a few changes of clothes, believe me it is needed.
But the greater happiness of all of them was the moment of watching the computer and reading all the chronicle of our adventure in Dynatech website. Reading the messages of everybody, family and friends, moved us to tears, the chronicles written by Fran and your support messages. Although technology hasn´t reach at that altitude, surely your help arrived there and gave us strengths in difficult moments.
From here we want to thank to all people who have made this adventure possible: Dynatech, as main sponsor, San Mateo driving school, Monzon Municipal Sport Board and Cinca Medio Area.
We also want to send an special gratitude to Francisco Lorente, “Fran”, who has related in a expeptional way our experience. When we read them, it seems to us as if he were here with us. Thanks Fran, and thanks to everybody for your support messages. As Frand told in one of his chronicles: a successful expedition: all are back, healthy, and more friends.
In this case, we add a fourth moment of success and celebration, the real happiness of the expedition has been read all of your messages and chronicles and feel you.
From Talkeetna, Alaska, a very strong hug for everybody of the Raules and Adrián”.
Bad conditions to descend to Camp III
Author: Fran Lorente
Camp IV
Uncertainty until the end. The weather forecast is not good. Besides, these forescasts are no longer reliable. The abundant snowfalls in the last days are doing harder this adventure. The Raulés and Adrián have not finished the task on this mountain. They have to descend in very sensitive circumstances.
Snowfalls have erased the footprint, surely there will be snow covered the material left in the CIII, (sleds, skis, rubbish and some food). Raúl informed us that they are going to descend roped, they are going to join to two austrian to configure a strong rope, a strong group of five people who can work together and ensure the descent utmost. When they arrive at CIII, they have the arduous task of shoveling and bringing their goods out into the light. From this point, they will have to analyse again the descent until the CII or CI. The Austrian people do not go with skis, so it could delay our climbers. But if conditions are not favourable, they will have to analyse the situation and take a decision.
News are not encouraging, yestarday a group of climbers fell into a snow covered crack, fortunately there is only one person with several broken ribs and the others have suffered some injuries which have to be seen by a Doctor.
The cracks which had to be avoided along the ascent, were discovered and were evident, these cracks have now become death traps. The climbers know of their existence, but they do not know where exactly they are, maybe some of them can be guessed but others not. Apart from this, this route has to be done in the middle of a snowstorm, opening footpring, sinking in the snow to who knows where. This mountain is very hard, but the reward, the real summit, is in Talkeetna and until then they can not relax.
The Denali have put them to the test until the end and, day to day, they are overcoming it.
Their intentions are clear, they want to descend and descend and contiue descending if possible, without a defined destiny, (CIII, CII, CI), when they decide to stop to sleep, they will inform us of their situation, sorrows and plans.
They are cheerful, but cautiously.
They have arrived to IV Medical Camp IV (4.328 m)
Campo IV Medical Camp (4.328 m)
At 16:35 h (Alaska), Adrián Uclés and Raúl Martínez have arrived at CIV where they have met Raúl Ruiz. All three are in perfect conditions. Now the descent left, but before descending they have to organize loads and rest.
They have reached the summit (6194 m)
Raúl Martínez on the Denali summit (6194)
“The summit, we have reached the summit, we are emaciated but we have arrived at the highest point, above there is already nothing …. Thanks to everybody for your support, we have felt the encouragement of the people who love us…. Many thanks to Dynatech-elevation as our main sponsor, thanks also to the Montisonense Institutions, to the Cinca Medio Area and Monzon City Council…. Regards too to the Aragonese Mountaineering Federation…”
Words full of emotion and panting, articulated by Raúl Martínez, extremely weary because of the great effort done by Adrián Uclés and him, to reach the Denali summit, 6194 m.
Managing to arrive there has not been an easy task, trainings, seeking for sponsors who believe in the project, in a moment so bad as this, charges, purchases… To fly to Anchorage, travel by bus to Talkeetna, another flight to Kahiltna (2.225 m), carrying 50 kgs. by mountain sled until Ski Hill (2.408 m.), besides, to drag the sleds towards Kahiltna Pass (3.048 m), then, Motorcycle Hill (3.353 m), and above Basin Camp o Medical Camp (4.328 m), carryings to Ridge Camp (4.938 m). And finally… the crucial days.
The Raúles and Adrián, went decisively towards the CV, convinced that it was one of the best moments, the weather predicted for middle of this week and they had to be there, ready, to devote themselves entirely. But ….the team began to suffer, they were debilitated. When they arrived at the ridge, Raúl Ruiz, decided to give it up, he was very tired and he could not bear anymore, he was aware that still the descent left and his condition was not good to be able to continue. Raúl R., arrived at the point where he had to decide if going up or going down. He thought that going up could result in being a burden for the team. This thought was decisive and he went down to the CIV without delay. Mountain history is full of gestures like that. Men who, without selfishness nor laureles, decide to return. A wise decision which praises the person who takes the decision. His work has been really important for this adventure.
Adrián Uclés and Raúl Martínez, after giving him a sympathetic wink, left him behind, with the intent to inforce their effort and to arrive above. They slept in the CV and began their way towards the summit, their steps were slow and awkward, but firm. One after another, walking slowly, without talking, a silence interrupted by the crampons noise wrecking the ice. And after eight hours of sorrows, at 18:30 h, they arrived at the highest point in North America, the coveted Denali summit. They melt into his embrace, they were overwhelmed with emotion and their faces lit with a unequal smile, a great part of their thoughts was focused in the CV, which they completed in three hours. In this fateful place, they have got in touch with us to share their happiness and their achievement with us.
Now the climbing with the fixed ropes left and at the end of the ropes is waiting Raúl in the CIV. Another unique moment, moment in which they will enjoy the authentic summit, the return. A well known climber said, -a triply successful expedition, they all are back, healthy and more friends …..
We will inform you as soon they arrive at CIV.
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Waiting for news
Spanish time: 14:12
Alaska time: 3:12
At his moment, we have not got any news from our climbers. Now, they are problably sleeping in some height camp or walking towards the summit. We hope to receive news from them along the day.
We will inform you as soon as it happens.
Near the ending
We think they are close to the ending, perhaps a few hours, maybe one day, could distance us from having good new from of our climbers.
They have ascended route to CV, thay have overcomed again the fixed ropes. They will face the West Buttress, the ridge which gives its name to the path. This ridge is very dangerous although there are anchorages and fixed ropes along all the route that secure the progression. The biggest difficulty is the strong wind, so the ascent over the ridge is a delicate moment.
Day is not too favourable, but to attempt to reach the summit they must go gout now, without delay. It is likely to be steady on tuesday or Wednesday, according weather forecast.
Adrian has a double fight, the Denali challenge and his backache. He wants to fight to the limit. The Raules are tired but better than Adrián. The load distribution has been proportional to the current strength of each one. This helps them to arrive to the highest point.
They are fighting tooth and nail, their voices seems to be getting fainter and fainter, but they trasmit us calm. Communications are not good, talks are slow, the reflections are with long silences.
We expect moments of uncertainty, diffused moments. They know we are following from here all of their movements, we are encouraging them and it is a great support for them.
We hope commications get better, but now it is necessary to ration the satellite battery, communicate one instant and make the most of it, beasides, the orography os this mountain creates shadows that make the transmission difficult, therefore, we will continue informing you as soon as we have news.
Tenth day
Today is a day of relative rest, it is not possible to rest totally at the mountain´s altitude. That means one day of inactivity. We rested our crippled bodies on a comfortable feather sack which isolates us from the land. We three are into a small tent in which we have to ask for permission to move.
It is snowing outside and it is a little windy, a gusting wind which moves our fragile home. The silence dominates the situation, we have talked about everything, we have told us all things. The wet deck, has done its task for a moment. Time passes slowly here. We sleep, make water, go out to stretch our legs a few minutes, and like this, several times. We wait for the lunchtime, and then, dinnertime. We opened the zipper of our hideout and we stuck our heads out of there to look the route again. We are calm, we know that our task is done. Now we are almost finished, we have to pass the final exam, we will review mentally, in silence, the ascend route. Our thought is focused on the edge. We must be cauitous, walk slowly and firmly, we are hoping for a cold and a calm day, not windy. We want to advance with suffer, but go advancing. We desire to reach the summit in a moment of clarity, in a moment in which we can see the infinite and we three can give us a big hug, with a smile from ear to ear and that we can communicate with our families and friends by satellite phone in order to share our happiness. We hope we can thank to all people who has helped us and specially to Dynatech-elevation, its support.
Raúl Martínez
Ninth day
Today the opposing remark is the bad weather. They have arrived until 5100 m and an unexpected snowfall has blocked his way. Besides, Adrián is suffering from a backache now, probably caused by the effort of dragging the mountain sled on the previous days. Adrián did not give it importance – “one day to rest will be probably the best cure”.
Before descending they have left one depot, during descending, the snow and the bad visibility have been the constant, guided by the fixed ropes, they have carried out the descent until arriving at the heat of the CIV. This heat is curious…. The CIV to 4328 m. snow-covered, to foor days from civilization, it becomes our home. A place in which we feel protected. A place where after the effort, you can rest, relax, reflect and recover.
But in the middle of these pittances and poverties, there is always something positive, something that raises the morale. They have met an old friend, the Ecuadorean Iván Vallejo who was descending from the summit. Small Iván for his friends, he is a mathematics professor, he has become a climber. We met him once in Nanga Parbat, Pakistán, we has working for the TVE program “Al filo de lo imposible”. We suffered much on this mountiain, but we enjoyed a lot, we had a good relationship, he visited us last year and we stayed in Zaragoza for a few days. Iván greeted them without recognizing them but a familiar voice awoke them from the lethargy that the altitude gives to Raúl. When they recognised they embraced each other. Raúl e Iván carried on their route whit a smile, that for a moment, evaded them from the Denali mountainside.
The weather forecast is not good and they plan to rest. In the meantime, they will hope that the snow settles over the mountain and Adrian gets better soon.
The communications from here are not good, there are shades which do not allow a favourable coverage.
The climbers want to get acclimation through the carryings, they desire to arrive in CV Ridge Camp (4.938 m.). During the route to this camp, they will ascend slopes of 45-60 degrees, and they will begin the 250 m. of fixed ropes that precede the hill.
They are aware that the progression will not be the same as before. Raúl Martínez pointed out that the edge was dangerous because of the wind , and if just the slightest thing would happen, they would leave a depot and would go down, anyway they would try to arrive at the nearest place from the corridor and therefore they would face the fixed ropes lightly in the next attack.
They are tired, several days of accumulated effort and life in dire circumstances have passed. The inappetence at the heights is a factor against which they must fight. Another hard work is making water, they have to make it by melting snow, it is recommended to drink 4 liters per person. They have to sleep over a snow-covered surface, so in spite of having a good equipment, they can not sleep well. It is a gradual physical and psychic exhaustion, another obstacle to face and overcome.
The weather forecast is not clear, it is likely it gets better next tuesday night, but it must be checked with the Rangers forecast.
When Raúl inform me about his state of mind, the communications cut off at all. We hope the communications will be better tomorrow.
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AndyPad - Quality Tablet for an price under 150 EUR
Have you heart from the new AndyPad? A Britisch Startup will offer their first tablet with an price of just 129 GBP (about 150 EUR). The specification of the tablet are promising:
WiFi, HDMI, MicroSD
3D GPU
1,2 GHz A8 processor
1080p HD video
On their official Website you will find a 75 days countdown until the start of the tablet. Until September 2011 the website is not fully in operation. But it is communicated that several Android Apps will be installed by default including Twitter, Facebook, Tune In, Paradise Island, Tank Hero and more.
They also announced the reason why they will not use Honeycomb for their tablet. According a twitter message the conpany is waiting for Android Ice Cream Sandwich wich is expected to be released just a few weeks later. It can be assumed that AndyPAd will work on an update for Ice Cream Sandwich as soon as it is released.
The main difference between the whole bunch of tablets is the price. AndyPad tries to find their customers in an different price level, and may appeal users who are not willing to pay more than 150 USD for a tablet without having some asian/chinise products with low quality.
It is not much known about internal storage space of the device but the website announce a highlight for storing videos and music. I will keep you informed about further news regarding AndyPad.
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Tesla Model 3 - Dashboard Concept
Will 2017 be the year of Tesla Model 3? At last years Telsa Model 3 introduction event Elon Musk stated that first Model 3 will be shipped to customers by the end of 2017. Latest news show that currently production lines are set up and first Model 3 shall be produced by July 2017 and delivered mainly to employees as beta tester. For this reason it is very likely that we will see some Model 3 on Californias roads by mid of this year. Some expert expect the total production of cars for 2017 to 30000 up tp 50000 cars, where high production rates will be reached not before 2018. The design of the Model 3 is well known since the introduction event back in March 2016, and it is expected that the outside will not change much. But there are some roumors that there will be quite some changes on the interior of the car especially the dashbord. Recently I came across a new dashboard study. Have a look here. Tesla Model 3 Future Windshield HUD User Interface Introduction
ArcGIS 10.1 Beta Launch and Deprecation Plan
ArcGIS 10.1 Beta 1 is now available for download to all those that have registered and been accepted into the program. Downloads have been made available from the Customer Care Portal and information and how to access this can be found on the ArcGIS Beta Community Site . This site is the portal for all information related to the beta. One big drawback of ArcGIS 10.1 There is no change in Desktop at 10.1 in regards to 64-bit support. ArcMap is a 32-bit application, but ESRI do support it running on 64-bit Windows. Currently ESRI is workung on a research project for native 64-bit ArcGIS application but it is not going to make 10.1. ArcGIS 10.1 Deprecation Plan ARCGIS DESKTOP 10.1 ArcGIS 10.1 will no longer support the Solaris versions of ArcReader and ArcGIS Engine. ArcGIS 10.1 will be the last release supporting ArcReader for Linux. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 will be supported. However, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 and Red
Nexus 6: Android Flagship of 2014 in detail
Latest news about the new Google Nexus 6 talk about Motorolas Turbo-Charging Mode and QHD display with 5.9 inch. Rumors collected during the last few weeks now form a pretty clear image about the specification of the latest smartphone branded as Nexus. According to its name Nexus 6 the phone will have a 5,9 inch screen. This QHD screen (2.560 x 1.440 pixel) covers the majority of the front design.
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Canada Makes announces finalists for its 3D Challenge
Montreal March 21, 2018 – Canada Makes announced its five finalist for the 3D Challenge at the Design for Additive Manufacturing workshop at McGill.
The finalist are; Lisa Brock University of Waterloo of Waterloo, Haley Butler University of Prince Edward Island, Gitanjali Shanbhag also of the University of Waterloo, Ken Nsiempba McGill University and Nathaniel Claus Emily Carr University of Art and Design. Congratulation to theses five students for their innovative design and concepts. They will be receiving a prize of $1,000 and a a chance at a one-year paid internship.
The theme of the Challenge Design solutions for a sustainable future Canada Makes invited student designers to participate in the 3D Design Competition with a focus on creating innovative tools or products that reduce our environmental footprint using additive manufacturing in tandem with conventional manufacturing approaches.
Lisa Brock proposed the design of biodegradable packaging made from mushroom roots and agricultural waste using binder jetting additive manufacturing. The packaging design was created by optically 3D scanning the object. The data was imported into a computer aided design (CAD) software to create the custom packaging structure conforming to the unique geometry, and a lattice structure was added to reduce the amount of material required.
Haley Butler is working on developing a potato starch-based plastic lament that is suitable for 3D printing. Starch-based plastics have the potential to be used as an environmentally friendly material for additive manufacturing.
Approximately 10% of materials used in additive manufacturing can be recycled into new plastics, and the rest are disposed. The options for disposal are landfills and incineration, both of which increase the amount of greenhouse gases. Therefore, new biobased biodegradable materials must be developed to decrease the negative environmental impacts of these additive manufacturing plastics.
Gitanjali Shanbhag’s aim is to introduce light-weighting to helicopter tail designs by proposing a modied design, for the tail boom of Airbus H135 as an example, through Additive Manufacturing(AM).
The material of interest is aluminum 2024-T3 since it is a readily available lightweight material and is cost-effective. In the optimized design, material is only applied where the loads on the tail boom are concentrated, resulting in a hollow, truss-like structure that reduces the boom weight by 63%. The results are validated using the simulation software.
Ken Nsiempba submitted a redesign of the internal boat tail support bracket to be 3D printed. This bracket is mainly used during ground processing at the base of the Atlas V payload fairing (Atlas V is an active expendable launch system of the Atlas rocket family).
What makes the new bracket’s design special is its use of different manufacturing technics.
Nathaniel Claus offered a ONE BIKE concept that allows bikes to transcend limitations set by current production trends through a convertible parts system. The cycling industry moves forward at an alarming rate, more so than the automobile industry. There are 200 million bikes produced every year. That’s 5 bikes to every car produced annually and more than enough for every person born in that same year. As a result, high-end bikes are becoming increasingly expensive and lower end bikes are becoming less reliable in order to keep their prices down. This concept creates an alternative to users accumulating additional bikes saving money and reducing a rider’s impact on this planet.
Canada Makes would like to thank all those who participated and invite them to once again to try next year when we hold Canada Makes second 3D Challenge or try our current 3D Challenge open to all Canadian residents. The National 3D Printed Musical Instrument Challenge.
In the coming weeks, we will announce the overall winner of this years Canada Makes 3D Challenge.
We would like to thank our sponsors for their support.
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I’m told, though I’ve seen no primary evidence, that Scots in early Massachusetts suffered some of what we would call discrimination today. I’ve also been told that many of them hastened to move west across the Connecticut River, far enough to escape established Puritanism/Congregationalism and to preserve their Presbyterian traditions.
Both Munroes, moreover, came from backgrounds of nonconformity to the Congregational establishment of Massachusetts. William’s was in his Scottish blood, and his experiences with Cromwell’s victorious army can hardly have disposed him favorably toward the Puritans. Martha’s “father was in trouble with Puritan authorities for founding an illegal Baptist church in Charlestown.”*
Be that as it may, William and Martha rejected any western option and chose to cast their lot with the English Puritan settlers of New England. By the time he became a Cambridge landowner in 1660, William had apparently switched his denominational allegiance. One could of course enjoy full citizenship only by “owning the [Congregational] Covenant.”
Once committed, the Munroes were good, hard-working, peaceable citizens. In contrast, may we note, to their neighbors the Bacons. Between 1660 and 1671, the Middlesex County Court fielded seventeen complaints** involving Michael Bacon,*** including eight as plaintiff and seven as defendant, with such topics as breach of covenant, slander, debt, damage to wheat by hogs, and forgery. Several neighbors who show up elsewhere in this account appear as Bacon’s adversaries: John Johnson, Ralph Read, Edward Mitchelson, and Thomas Gleason. Over the same period, the Munroes were entangled in no such complaints at all. The Court record first mentions the Munroes, indeed, late in the autumn of 1671, when they had to lodge a formal complaint against (guess whom?) Michael Bacon, for stealing their swine.
The timing is most interesting: by that November, I speculate, Mary Ball was part of the Munroe household; a year or so earlier, she had been Bacon’s servant and underage, surreptitious paramour. Only seven months before, the Court had bound him to support their child. One doubts that Michael Bacon came to “Scotland” that snowy late-November evening with perfect equanimity of mind.
*Rapaport, Diane, “Scots for Sale: the Fate of the Scottish Prisoners in Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts.” New England Ancestors, 4, 1 (Winter 2003).
**Middlesex County (Massachusetts) Clerk of Courts, Card index to births, deaths, wills, and miscellaneous court records, 1600-1799. FHL US/CAN Film 1420474 Item 3.
***Some of these actions may have involved “our” Michael’s aging father, also Michael Bacon. Which in no way diminishes the contrast between the two families.
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Pauldog
The latest version of Adobe reader as of 11/22/09 is 9.2.
I've been using v7.1, since it seems less bloated than v6 or v8. I don't think I tried v9, or if I did, it must have been too bloated as well.
Adobe recently posted some updates, including security updates. V7 is now up to 7.1.4. The quickest way to get it from scratch is to start with the full 7.1 installer and then install the 7.1.3 update, followed by the 7.1.4 update.
Here are all the Reader updates for Windows:
Adobe - Adobe Reader : For Windows
haiduakhod
Adobe made some recent security updates to Reader. v8 is now 8.2, and v9 is 9.3. v7 is still 7.1.4.
Here's a handy page of updates:
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloa...atform=Windows
And this short list of recent versions with downloads:
http://get.adobe.com/reader/otherversions/
Last edited by Pauldog; 02-12-2010 at 01:33 AM.
As of June 15, the latest version of Adobe Reader is 9.3.2, dated 4/13/10. The update can be applied directly to 9.3:
Adobe - Adobe Reader : For Windows : Adobe Reader 9.3.2 update - multiple languages
Version 8 is now 8.2.2, dated 4/13/10. The update can be applied directly to 8.2:
Unfortunately, this web page where I got the information no longer says anything about version 7:
Adobe discontinued support for version 7 at the end of 2009:
Adobe Reader and Acrobat Version 7 End of Support - Adobe Reader Blog
If there weren't security problems, this wouldn't be a problem. I might end up moving to the latest version for that reason.
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Ditch Adobe and use Nitro PDF Reader which also Edit, and type new text.
and create PDF Files as well
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Nitro PDF Reader lets you create PDF files, comment and review, save PDF forms, extract text and images, type text directly onto the page, and more. Start working with PDF files the way you always wanted.
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The replacement will be an application that not only lets users edit the PDF files they download, but type new text at any point into those files, and create new PDF files as well.
Nitro PDF Reader is a stand-alone application that uses the Ribbon UI functionality made popular by Microsoft Office. If it has any drawbacks over Adobe Reader at all, it's the fact that it doesn't view PDF files inside the browser context. Instead, you download PDFs through whatever your browser happens to be, and they appear in the separate Nitro application context. But in that context, the application will offer some features that will compete with Acrobat, Adobe's commercial PDF producer application line, the most obvious being the ability to create and save PDF files from scratch.
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Latest version is now 10.0.1, next version is 9.4.2
Even with an older computer running Windows 2000, I found that version 9 doesn't seem nearly as bloated as certain older versions, and it's new enough to get security updates.
Last edited by Pauldog; 02-27-2011 at 03:26 PM. Reason: This crippled forum software doesn't let me edit the title, which should have "next" changed to "previous."
Ayleward
The latest version of Adobe reader as of 11/22/09 is 9.2. it is very helpful for everyone.Thanks for share this .
As of early January 2012 - Adobe Reader 10.1.2 and 9.5
For Windows 2000, the latest version of Adobe Reader is 9.5. For XP, the latest version is 10.1.2. If you're running Mac OS X 10.4.11, the latest version is 9.4. Version 10 is supposed to be more secure, and it runs pretty well on my Pentium 4 from 2003 running XP. I'm using version 9 on my Windows 2000. Older versions than 9 are no longer supported, and most or all of them probably have security problems.
The "classic" older versions are 4, 5, and 7. Versions 6 and 8 seemed pretty bloated to me.For Macs running OS 9, I suppose
Adobe is now making it more difficult to download the whole installer directly. They are pushing their download manager, which failed for me several times last night, wasting a lot of time. When it failed, it went to this page:
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/403/kb403595.html
This contains a link to a direct download page, which works.
When I tried to go to this download page directly - http://get.adobe.com/reader/direct/ - it changed the page to http://get.adobe.com/reader/ - which downloads only the unreliable download manager.
If you use the link from the first web page I mentioned, you'll get the direct download page.
mcooper
Adobe reader has been one of the better software that is able to keep what they did best and even improve on those aspects that they lack something from.
That is why I make it a point to download the latest software every time they release something just because I am certain that will be another good one. Though that goes without saying that you should be able to keep up with the latest hardware because most optimizations work well with new hardware as compared to those lagging quite behind.
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Making Climate Denialism Illegal
Posted on January 10, 2020 by Russell Cook
Similar to the suggestion at the end of my prior blog post on Psychological Projection, the title of this post is another Texas-sized arrow pointing out where a form of criminal speech may actually be found — but there’s a bit of an ironic twist to this. First, however, let’s see where the wild suggestion to criminalize ‘climate denial’ comes from, and what justification the person has for proposing that.
In this paper I claim that there are moral reasons for making climate denialism illegal. ….
…. Future generations and people in poor countries are bystanders to the climate debate. If the debate postpones necessary actions, it is the bystanders who must pay the price. I argue that bystanders’ costs outweigh participants’ and audiences’ interests, and that this is an argument for a statutory ban on climate denialism.
That’s the first and last three sentences from the Abstract of a 2016 paper by Professor Trygve Lavik, “Climate change denial, freedom of speech and global justice,” published in Etikk i praksis (which translates from Norwegian as “Ethics in practice”), the Nordic Journal of Applied Ethics.
Read no farther into the paper than its introduction, where Lavik creates an easy-to-understand analogy, and it is abundantly obvious that he operates on the premise that the science behind the idea of catastrophic human-induced global warming is completely settled, and corporate people who oppose this have committed a crime:
Imagine the following thought experiment: .… scientific society .. establishes a panel that reviews all the research in the field. After reviewing all the science on the subject, the panel concludes that it is very likely that this .. will have the very dangerous adverse effect .. Furthermore, the academes of science in all the leading countries have approved the scientific reasoning and support the conclusion of the panel. However, .. industry launches a campaign to create doubt about the scientific conclusion that has been reached through research. They establish quasi-scientific institutes and hire acknowledged scientists to argue that the science is not settled at all. Moreover, they initiate a petition that completely denies that this medicine might have dangerous long-term effects. They pay a lot of scientists to sign the petition. The media want to be fair and balanced, so they present both sides of the issue.
I will argue that climate denialists commit a crime similar to that of the fictive .. industry denialists in my thought experiment.
Professor Lavik, predictably, has zero actual climate science expertise to stand behind this premise, but at a minimum, claims to have competence in one angle of the issue. But that can be called into question considering how his ‘thought experiment’ relies on three key false premises.
First, Lavik assumes science society panel reviews / leading countries’ ‘academes of science’ are infallible on the topic of global warming. That’s the most basic of logical fallacies. If these groups only review partial information, their conclusions can be wrong. Second, Lavik’s offering about a fictitious industry disinformation campaign essentially assumes an actual industry-led ‘climate denial’ disinformation campaign employing skeptical scientists has been proven to exist. No evidence irrefutably proves such scientists are paid to spew corporate-orchestrated material, in petitions or otherwise (more on that below). Third, Lavik makes a statement about media balance as if such an action has actually happened in the global warming issue. As I’ve documented regarding one news media situation, it most certainly has not. The reality of the situation is that Professor Lavik would have been at a loss to show where any skeptic scientist or skeptic speaker had been given unrestricted fair media balance during the decade prior to the publication of his 2016 paper.
Where how does Lavik support that last bit about the state of current media balance? With a citation dating from nearly two decades earlier.
Balance demands that all perspectives on a controversial issue be illuminated. Obviously, the climate deniers benefit from the ethics of journalism. Ross Gelbspan has given a good analysis of the situation: …… (Gelbspan 1998: 57-58)
Lavik goes on to cite the Boykoff brothers’ 2004 study, which cited only a narrow range of newsprint material to support their conclusion, while they both cited and thanked Gelbspan for his insight into the media balance topic. Lavik, meet brick wall, regarding the ethics of equating current media coverage to hugely dubious analysis of outdated times.
Similar relatively small wipeouts are found in the paper. One small example is how Lavik claims that, as of the 2016 publication of his paper, the Heartland Institute “receives massive financial support from Exxon Mobil” But Heartland’s last Exxon donation occurred a decade earlier, and the supposedly ‘massive’ amount was actually much smaller than what Greenpeace USA’s income was during that same final year. Another brick wall collision for Lavik regarding current vs. past tense situations, and what the definition of “massive” is.
The big wipeout within the paper is its unquestioned acceptance that there is any kind of “denial industry” conspiracy in existence. Lavik’s source is technically the entire second chapter of UK Guardian reporter George Monbiot’s 2006 book “Heat.” What’s the most damaging bit of proof that such a “denial industry conspiracy” exists within that chapter? Monbiot’s insinuation of corruption stemming merely from how ‘Exxon funds some organizations.’ When footnoting a specific page reference within Monbiot’s chapter on what the ‘denial industry’ has accomplished, what does Lavik’s footnote say about that?
4 See also Dunlap and McCright 2011: 156
Dunlap’s and McCright’s “Organized Climate Change Denial” chapter contribution to the 2011 “The Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Society” book dutifully regurgitates the assumption about settled science; their page 156 which Lavik references only implies action is needed to solve the settled science situation, but action is thwarted by U.S. denial campaigns. Who do Dunlap and McCright cite as evidence to say the fossil fuel industry was the creator of organized denial against the so-called settled science of man-caused global warming?
… the fossil fuels industry pioneered the charge against climate science and policy making (Begley 2007; Gelbspan 1997; Goodell 2007)
That’s Newsweek reporter Sharon Begley’s article with its “reposition global warming” leaked strategy memo ‘evidence’, Ross Gelbspan’s 1997 “The Heat is On” book with that same leaked strategy memo phrase along with targeting phrases, and Rolling Stone writer Jeff Goodell’s 2007 “Big Coal” book, featuring that same leaked memo set and his citation of Gelbspan for it.
The citation cascade gets worse: Six pages before Lavik’s single page reference to Dunlap’s and McCright’s book chapter page, they reference the same strategy memo phrase above. Who do they cite as their source? Eric Pooley’s 2010 “The Climate War” book … which dutifully regurgitates the same leaked memo set as evidence of a sinister industry misinformation campaign. Who does Pooley cite? Ross Gelbspan and George Monbiot.
Does Professor Lavik plow into more self-created walls about his belief in a “denial industry” conspiracy? Yes – right after his crash of citing Monbiot’s entire worthless chapter, he mentions the “Merchants of Doubt” book by Naomi Oreskes ….. which only compares skeptic climate scientists to other industries’ misinformation efforts, but never provides evidence proving skeptic climate scientists receive fossil fuel money in exchange for promulgating fossil fuel industry talking points. Should Lavik’s disappointed readers undertake their own search to see if Oreskes ever provided that ‘evidence’ elsewhere. Not a good idea — she cites Ross Gelbspan.
Should Lavik’s disappointed readers undertake their own search to see if George Monbiot provided concrete evidence elsewhere proving the fossil fuel industry colludes with skeptic climate scientists in disinformation efforts? Not a good idea — Monbiot cites Oreskes.
This is the way of it. Every. Single. Time. Regardless of whether a prominent person is internationally recognized like Vice President Al Gore or is a college professor, their accusation about skeptic climate scientists willfully engaging in a conspiracy with fossil fuel industry executives to mislead the public will always be separated by three degrees or less from Ross Gelbspan.
For any new readers here unaware of it, Gelbspan is the man who gave that long ago ‘leaked memo set’ its first major media traction in his 1997 book, after magically ‘obtaining’ them while failing to disclose where he got them. Those are the memos that were never the operating guidelines of any disinformation campaigns, and are thus worthless as evidence to prove a “denial industry” exists. As I illustrate here once again, those memos are the only thing the enviro-activist side has to prove their corruption accusation.
Remember how I said there is an irony to this situation at the beginning of this post? Professor Lavik’s suggestion to make willful climate denial speech a criminal act is ludicrous, since he can’t back up the basic premise that such a corporate conspiracy exists. But another type of speech already is a crime in many countries around the world: Libel / slander. Maliciously say a particular leaked memo set proves a corporate misinformation conspiracy campaign exists while knowing full well that the memo set is worthless, and you may have committed civil or criminal libel / slander.
When Professor Lavik says particular people on the skeptic side of the global warming issue should be prosecuted for a specific form of speech, what he’s inadvertently pointing to is how particular people on his side of the issue may be committing a speech crime, another psychological projection example to add onto the pile in my previous post.
The professor hasn’t committed libel/slander, he’s little more than just another spectacularly uninformed repeater of the accusation. If he’s done anything wrong, he’s spoken unethically, making assertions based solely on emotionally-driven beliefs without apparently checking the veracity of the entire ‘organized climate denial’ matter. Has Gelbspan, Oreskes, Gore, and a select few others violated the law? That’s worthy of serious investigation.
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The influence of stratospheric temperature changes on ozone trends: Analysis of OMI ozone products and improvements for the differential optical absorption spectroscopy (DOAS) technique that is applied to OMI satellite measurements.
Oude Nijhuis, A.C.P.
The objectives of this study are 1. to validate the OMDOAO3 fitted effective temperature; 2. to estimate the temperature sensitivity of OMI ozone products and 3. improve the DOAS concept such that an ozone trend can accurately be determined with DOAS obtained vertical ozone column amounts. It has been determined that an ozone ... read more retrieval that is able to capture ozone trends with an accuracy of 1%, needs to have a temperature sensitivity of approximately 0.01%/K or less. For the Brewer direct sun observations, the temperature sensitivity is estimated with the latest ozone absorption cross sections from Serdyuchenko as 0.014+/-0.003%/K. Hence that the Brewer direct sun observations are not sensitive to changes in effective ozone temperature, which is also observed with 1998-1999 Toronto measurements in a study of [1, Kerr, J. B., 2002] , and can therefore be used to validate OMI ozone products. The ozone profile from OMO3PR is cross-validated with other ozone profiles in a study of [2, M. Kroon et al., 2011] and therefore an ozone effective temperature can be accurately determined with an ozone profile from OMO3PR and a temperature profile from medium-range weather forecasting model (ECMWF). This effective temperature can be used as a reference effective ozone temperature, to validate the OMDOAO3 fitted effective temperature, and to estimate temperature sensitivities of OMI ozone products. For OMDOAO3 the effective temperature is fitted from the spectrum itself. It is found that the fitted effective temperature from OMDOAO3 has an offset of -5.82+/-0.04 C, which is consistent for different seasons and regions. This proves the concept that it is possible to retrieve an ozone effective temperature from the spectrum itself with the differential optical absorption spectroscopy (DOAS) technique, which in principle should give an ozone column amount independent of temperature. For OMTO3, the other OMI ozone column amount product, temperature profiles are used inconsistently with the ozone profiles. The TOMS v8 climatology for temperature profiles depends on month and latitude, and therefore errors in effective ozone temperature depending on latitude or season are not observed. However, other variations in effective ozone temperature are not captured by the climatology, which are: stratospheric climate change, volcanic eruptions and longitudinal temperature variations. From a cross-validation of OMI ozone products, the temperature sensitivity can be estimated for OMI ozone products, which varies between 0.06 and 0.13 %/K in absolute magnitude. This is higher than the threshold value of 0.01%/K for an ozone retrieval that is insensitive to temperature variations, and it can be concluded that errors in ozone trends can be expected on the order of 10% for OMI ozone products. The temperature sensitivity can also be determined with the help of ground-based measurements. When the temperature sensitivity for OMTO3 is determined, by comparing the difference in column amount to Brewer direct sun observations, against effective temperature difference, a temperature sensitivity of 0.255%/K is found, which is probably caused by longitudinal temperature variations that are not captured by the OMTO3 algorithm. For all OMI ozone products a temperature sensitivity is found, when the ozone column amounts are compared to the Brewer direct sun observations as function of temperature. This may be caused by the choice of ozone absorption cross sections and how its temperature dependency is implemented in the algorithm. For OMO3PR a temperature sensitivity of 0.0720 %/K is found, and for OMTO3 a temperature sensitivity of 0.112 %/K. For OMDOAO3 a temperature sensitivity of 0.0275 %/K is found, which shows that although an effective temperature may be fitted from spectrum, the ozone column amount itself can still be sensitive to temperature variations. 1 For the current OMDOAO3 model function and fit window, the fitted effective temperature, compared to the modeled slant effective temperature, has an offset of −5.8+/-1.7 C in the simulations. This is in good agreement with the offset that has been found with observations for the OMDOAO3 fitted effective temperature of -5.82 +/- 0.04 C. Hence that the found offset in effective ozone temperature can be explained by the DOAS fitting method itself. Considerations for improving the OMDOAO3 algorithm are done, where the main improvements are 1. the use of all temperature expansion coefficients of the second-degree polynomial of the ozone absorption cross sections instead of linearizing them - and 2. the use of a wavelength-dependent slant column amount. Simulations show that the first improvement can reduce the temperature sensitivity of the algorithm by a factor of ten, which makes the DOAS concept a reliable source for ozone trend determination. The second improvement, the use of a wavelength dependent slant column amount, enables the use of 17.5 nm wide fit window, about four times as wide as the current OMDOAO3 fit window, which can enhance noise reduction, resulting in an ozone product with a better overall resolution. show less
Keywords: OMI, ozone trends, effective ozone temperature, differential optical absorption spectroscopy (DOAS) technique, ozone measurement techniques, ozone validation
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Ruby Dandridge is best known for playing maids on radio, movies and television. All Ruby had to do was open her mouth and let that squeaky voice come forth, and audiences would break into hysterics.
Stepin Fetchit became a very wealthy man portraying "the laziest human being in the world"
Clinton "Dusty" Fletcher got his start in Hollywood in Rufus Jones for President (1933), but it was his role in Open the Door Richard (1945) that served as a showcase for his comedic talents.
Billy Kersands 1842-1915
Billy Kersands was the most famous negro blackface minstrel and vaudeville performer of the 19th century, who entertained audiences with comedy, dancing, singing, music and acrobatics. He was best known and remembered for the size of his mouth, which he could fill with billiard balls while reciting a monologue.
Best known for his signature routine "Here Come Da Judge." Although he performed exclusively for Black audiences until very late in his career, he refused to abandon blackface until the 1950s. It was as integral to his performance as any costume.
Hattie McDaniel is best known for her portrayal as "Mammy" in 1939's Gone with the Wind. She was the first African-American to win an Academy Award.
Butterfly McQueen is most famous for her role in Gone With the Wind (1939) as the slave " Prissy" with the high squeaky voice who didn't "know nothin' 'bout birthin' babies."
Moreland's defining role was that of Birmingham Brown, the loyal chauffeur to master detective Charlie Chan in fifteen films made by Monogram Studios in the 1940s.
He was called “the quintessential Tom” because of his cheerful and shameless subservience to whites in films. But in real life Robinson was the sort of man who, when refused service at an all-white luncheonette, would lay his pearl-handled revolver on the counter and demand to be served.
W.C. Fields called him "the funniest man I ever saw and the saddest man I ever knew." Unable to realize his highest ambitions, yet able to illuminate a degrading caricature with rare humanity, Bert Williams earned a place as one of the most significant figures in the history of American show business.
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This Week in Art: 11.21-11.27
by Lindsey Davis | Nov 21, 2016
James Turrell’s design for The Next Level extension at ARoS art museum, projected to be completed by 2020. © Schmidt Hammer Lassen and James Turrell / Beauty & the Bit. Courtesy of designboom.
There were awards galore this week for Art21 roster artists! Chicago Magazine named Kerry James Marshall Chicagoan of the Year, Charles Atlas was announced as one of this year’s United States Artists Fellows, and the artists for the 2017 Whitney Biennial include Tommy Hartung, An-My Lê, and Season 8’s Tala Madani. Also this week:
Marina Abramović shared a dinner date she once had with the late Leonard Cohen in Time.
Last week it was announced that Josiah McElheny will be installing three sculptures in Madison Square Park this summer.
Artists Eleanor Antin, Rodney McMillian, Catherine Opie, Mark Bradford, Diana Thater, Edgar Arceneaux, John Baldessari, and many more gathered at LACMA this weekend to re-create a famous 1968 photograph of what was then a fledgling artists’ community.
On Saturday in Gary, Indiana, Theaster Gates celebrated the opening of the “social kitchen” ArtHouse, an arts and culinary incubator and gallery. “Art has the ability to create a place where great things can happen, and great things are happening here,” Gates said.
And finally James Turrell and Schmidt Hammer Lassen collaborated to design an extension to the ARoS Art Museum in Denmark. Preliminary designs were just revealed and include an underground gallery and a semi-underground art installation called “the dome.”
Monday, November 21, 7pm—Tonight artist Theaster Gates is giving a lecture at The New School as part of The Architectural League’s Current Work series. Tickets are $15.
READING—Landscapes after Ruskin: Redefining the Sublime, a group show curated by photographer Joel Sternfeld and featuring work by Ai Weiwei, Bruce Nauman, Raymond Pettibon, and others, is closing this Sunday, November 27 at the Hall Art Foundation.
BELLEVUE—This is the last week to catch Kara Walker: Emancipating the Past at the Bellevue Arts Museum. The show ends its five month run this Sunday, November 27.
It’s impossible to include all the incredible exhibitions and art events happening this week in a single post. If there’s something you feel should have been included in today’s roundup, leave a comment below!
Lindsey Davis is Art21's former Digital Content Editor. In the past she's written for Artscope Magazine, Huffington Post, and Rooms Magazine among others. An advocate for art in the public space, she also runs the art-mapping nonprofit ArtAround.
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6-Pianos “In Surround Sound” event at Sawyer Yards this Saturday
May 3rd, 2019 · No Comments
Come help support Harris County’s low income schools by checking out the 6-Piano Project, which is an immersive classical music performance developed by Nathan Felix in which the audience sits in the middle of six pianos. This event, which debuts in Houston at the Art Alley at Sawyer Yards (2101 Winter St.), is this Saturday (May 4, 2019), from 6:30-9pm.
For each of the 6-Piano events, which he started in 2015, Felix takes six well-used pianos, and refurbishes them for the event, after which he donates them to local school music programs.
More information on the event may be found on Facebook, Houston Press, and at www.electrochestral.com.
A promo of this weekend’s event in Houston may be viewed below:
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Local label Splice Records hosts annual BowiElvis Fest tonight
January 5th, 2019 · No Comments
Local musicians pay homage to David Bowie and Elvis Presley tonight (Saturday, 1/5/19) at Splice Records’ annual BowiElvis Fest, held at The Continental Club in Houston.
From the label:
The festival is our best attempt at honoring the shared birthdays of rock legends David Bowie and Elvis Presley, two of the most loved and influential artists of the previous century. True characters and legends of rock n’ roll. The music goes all night on two different stages featuring multiple local and regional up-and-coming bands from the surrounding areas. We love showcasing local talent that want to honor the two icons by mixing their sets with cover songs from both artists along with their originals tunes. We have a “Oh You Pretty Things” costume/fashion contest, which encourages all to come out in their best costumes. We have themed games, themed food, Bowie Face painting and an appearance by heralded burlesque troupe, the Dem Damn Dames. It is a wild night that we plan to do twice in two amazing cities and it is all about the preservation of rock n’ roll!
More information on the event may be found at Splice Records’ website. Advance tickets may be purchased online here.
Tonight’s line-up includes Pecos Hank, Brian Scartocci, Bayou City Funk, Leigh Sinclair, Sam Turner & The Cactus Cats, Flower raves, Swimwear Department (performing the Labyrinth soundtrack), and Howard and the Nosebleeds.
Doors open at 7pm. Costumes are encouraged.
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Buxton’s album release show for Stay Out Late tonight at The Heights Theater
October 19th, 2018 · No Comments
Houston band Buxton released its new album, Stay Out Late, via New West Records today (10/19/18). To celebrate the release, the band will play tonight at The Heights Theater.
Stay Out Late, the band’s fifth release, finds the band in a mellow and reflective mood. The depth of songwriting–a mature band honing its craft–is evidenced with repeated listens, and the album shows Buxton solidly finding its own voice.
More information on Buxton may be found at www.buxtonband.com. You can purchase Stay Out Late at Houston area record stores and online.
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Former Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr at WOMH tonight
Music legend Johnny Marr plays in Houston tonight (Thursday, October 11th) at White Oak Music Hall. Marr, former guitarist of an all-time favorite band of mine–The Smiths–is touring in support of his recent solo album, Call The Comet.
You can find out more about Marr at his official website.
Tickets to the Houston show are available at Pegstar.net.
The Belle Game opens the show.
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Smashing Pumpkins bring Shiny And Oh So Bright tour to Houston tonight (tonight)
Chicago’s Smashing Pumpkins, whose first few albums are among the finest of their time, return to Houston tonight (Tuesday, 7.17.18) to play at Toyota Center.
The current line-up includes most of the original-era band (including drummer extraordinaire Jimmy Chamberlin), and is touring as part of a “greatest hits” of sorts — the Shiny And Oh So Bright tour.
Tickets are available for tonight’s show at www.pegstar.net.
The Suffers release new album, Everything Here, today + play release shows
Hometown heroes The Suffers celebrate the release of Everything Here — which is available today (Friday, 7.13.18) — with a pair of sold-out shows at Houston’s Heights Theater (last night and tonight).
The band is still touring pretty much constantly, gaining new fans and good press along the way.
You can stream the new album on NPR Music’s First Listen and purchase it online here (or here) and at local record stores — including Cactus Music. The band plays an in-store performance at Cactus tomorrow afternoon (Saturday, 7.14.18) at 1pm. You can get a wristband for the sure-to-be-slammed show by purchasing Everything Here at Cactus Music today.
Additionally, today is officially The Suffers Day in Houston, as Mayor Sylvester Turner recently presented the band with an official proclamation.
Shiny, not-so-happy Wild Moccasins return with Look Together, album release at White Oak Music Hall this Saturday
July 6th, 2018 · No Comments
Look Together
Album release show: White Oak Music Hall, Saturday, 7.7.18 | $10 tickets: www.pegstar.net
Relationship albums can be tricky. On the one hand, emotional pain often results in beautiful work; on the other, the ensuing drama can distract listeners from the intended experience. On Look Together (New West Records) – its first in four years and the first since the break-up of bandmates and former IRL couple Cody Swann and Zahira Gutierrez – Houston-based Wild Moccasins deftly avoids the latter pitfall with its most accomplished and accessible album to date.
Gutierrez takes center stage, and any of her past vocal weaknesses have disappeared. Throughout Look Together, she infuses elements of eighties songstresses Liz Fraser and Kate Bush with hints of Belinda Carlisle and Deborah Harry to create a seductive and inescapable aura. As on the band’s previous efforts, Swann’s contributions should not be overlooked or understated. Handling guitar and background vocals – in addition to writing lyrics or contributing to each song on the album – his riffs and solos punctuate the songs at the perfect times, and with a subtle perfection.
The band makes no secret that its new album is a document of the couple dealing with the end of their decade-long relationship, and “No Muse” is the album’s most searing take: “I’m no use to you, unless I’m undressed / I’m no muse to you / you cut me in two, unless I say yes…and you can sing about it all you want,” Gutierrez sings.
In less-skilled hands – or a younger Wild Moccasins, even – the album’s heavy emotions could easily outweigh the music. Look Together pulses with heavy doses of synth-pop, fuzzy guitars, and infectious hooks; it’s an extremely catchy album. However, the emotional current running through the album’s songs are the focus, and the maturity and strength that allowed Swann and Gutierrez to tour together for two years almost immediately after breaking up definitely shows through. Look Together is proof that their songwriting-as-therapy has served the duo well.
Wild Moccasins play downstairs at White Oak Music Hall on Saturday, 7.7.18, with Camera Cult and El Lago. Visit the release show Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/events/239077333335569. This is an all ages show.
Download free singles and stems via Noisetrade.
Visit Wild Moccasins online at www.wildmoccasins.net.
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The Great Texas BBQ Fest starts today at Post HTX, features A Fistful of Soul, Buxton, John Egan, The Suffers, and more
May 19th, 2018 · No Comments
The inaugural Great Texas BBQ Fest is this weekend (May 19 & 20, 2018) at Post HTX on the edge of downtown Houston. The event features a solid line-up, including Houston’s Buxton, John Egan, The Suffers, A Fistful of Soul, Will Van Horn Trio, Mike Stinson, Ancient Cat Society, The Mighty Org, along with Craig Kinsey, Morris Day & The Time (for real…), Dawes, Old 97’s, Lucero, Junior Brown, Wanda Jackson, and more.
You can also get a ton of Texas BBQ and other libations, as BBQ teams will be competing during the event and selling BBQ at the fest as well. Tickets are available at www.thegreattexasbbqfestival.com.
The full-line up and daily schedules are after the click.
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Buxton play tonight at Rockefeller’s with Vodi, El Lago
May 4th, 2018 · No Comments
Local favorites Buxton–who have a new album coming out this year–play tonight at Rockefeller’s in Houston. Vodi and El Lago are also on the bill.
Tickets are available via TicketFly.
More information on Buxton may be found at BandCamp.
Arthur Yoria releases new album, release show this Friday
March 29th, 2018 · No Comments
Local musician Arthur Yoria, a long-time favorite here at Houston Calling, is celebrating the release of his long-awaited new album–After You–with an album release show this Saturday (March 31, 2018) at the Mucky Duck.
The album, released by local label Splice Records, was recorded at Sugar Hill Studios.
You can get advance tickets via the Mucky Duck’s website. Showtime is 9:30pm.
More information on Arthur Yoria, and how to pre-order After You, may be found at www.arthuryoria.com.
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Schlagwort: Crisis
International Emergency Call For The People In Libya
London. United Kingdom / EMERGENCY CALL / SOS / PRAYER REQUEST international / February 22, 2011. The international Jewish-Christian John Baptist Mission of Togo, Branch for the United Kingdom and Branch for Germany is CALLING ALL BELIEVERS which do believe that there is a HOLY G-D TO PRAY FOR THE PEOPLE OF LIBYA.
PLEASE FOLLOW the instructions which may G-D will give you in truth and in spirit.
The international Jewish-Christian John Baptist Mission, Branch for the United Kingdom and Branch for the Germany, an international mission for social development URGES to consider all believers, no matter if they might be believers of the Jewish, Muslime, Buddhist, Hindu, or any kind of or faith, believe system or religion to PRAY before the MOST HIGH AND HOLY G-D to PRAY that the KILLERS will STOP their actions of murder, killing, violence and destruction without any delay.
We do believe it could be the duty for ALL PEOPLE in this world TO PRAY for PEACE, SAFETY and LOVE for ALL PEOPLE in this world, including the people in Libya, which protest peacefully against oppression.
THEREFORE HEREBY we ASK ALL THOSE PEOPLE WHICH WANT TO PARTICIPATE TO PRAY FOR AN END OF THE BLOODSHED, MASS -MURDER AND KILLING OF PEOPLE in LIBYA TO PRAY that the MOST HIGH AND G-D will take immediate actions to STOP the KILLERS which are killing people in Libya.
If we as human society might fail, we will have full assurance and proof, that the MOST HIGH and the HOLY G-D will not fail, as it is written: THOU SHALT NOT KILL !
IT MAY THE ONLY CHANCE TO PRAY FOR PROTECTION AND PEACE FOR THE PEOPLE IN LIBYA to save the life of the people in Libya.
PLEASE, if the HOLY G-D may lead and guide, listen to the instructions which the HOLY G-D might give you. If you believe or might receive the instructions from the MOST HIGH AND HOLY G-D we ask you hereby to PRAY for the safety, protection, rescue, aid, support for the people in Libya and in this world.
SALAM – SHALOM – MAY PEACE BE UPON you !
THANK YOU ! MERCI !
This emergency message has been issued by John Baptist Mission of Togo, Branch for the United Kingdom, Branch for Germany on February 22, 2011 via London, United Kingdom.
Andreas Klamm – Sabaot, Tunisian-French-German journalist, broadcast journalist, author of 9 books published,
news correspondent and director of the Branch for the United Kingdom, Branch for Germany,
International Jewish-Christian John Baptist Mission of Togo
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Crisis In Libya: Fighter Jets May Be Used Against Protesters
About 240 people killed – War Zone in Libya – Horrible massacre ongoing
By Andreas Klamm – Sabaot
Tripoli / Libya. February 21, 2011. The crisis in Libya which started about seven days ago is getting worse. According to eye witness reports Hundreds of people in Libya might have been killed in Libya in the cities of Benghazi and Tripoli. People from Libya are calling for international intervention such as the engagement of U.N. Peace Keeping Troops which could be deployed to Libya. The protesters demand the old regime to step down, freedom of expression, human dignity and human rights. As the internet services and phone services have been cut and shut down in Libya only few information is available on the current situation in Libya. Two high rank officers of the Air Force of Libya have confirmed the reports, that the Government of Libya is using Fighter Jets against the protesters in Tripoli and Benghazi. These reports are not confirmed independently as communication with eye witnesses in Libya is almost impossible.
Two high rank officer of the Air Force of Libya have fled to Malta and are seeking political asylum in Malta. The have refused according to not officially confirmed reports to use lethal force against their own fellow citizens as they protest in the streets of many different cities in Libya.
According to eye witness reports foreign forces are using gun fire with automatic machine guns to kill protesters in different areas in the country of Libya.
CRISIS IN BAHRAIN: DOCTOR CALLS WORLD COMMUNITY FOR HELP
CRISIS IN BAHRAIN: DOCTOR CALLS WORLD COMMUNITY FOR URGENT HELP!
Manama / Bahrain. February 18, 2011. A doctor from the city of Manama in the kingdom of Bahrain is CALLING FOR URGENT HELP and asking the United Nations, Europe and the WORLD to help:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJtapAw5HbQ&w=640&h=390]
Source: Al Jazeera English
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Some Writing a Writer Might Read: Joan Didion
One of my students from the intensive essay-writing course that I taught this summer asked for advice on how to write literary essays, so I gave the request some thought. I could at first come up with nothing to recommend, not even a writer to read, because I've not really learned from any single writer, but the name "Joan Didion" gradually emerged from among the weltering clutter of things in my mind. I'm not sure why her name came up, since I've never read much of her writing, except I knew she had written a lot of essays, so I Googled her name and found a website, The Electric Typewriter, with links to several of her essays. One title leaped off the page: "Why I Write." I sat back in my chair and started to read, idly at first, just to see if the essay were worth recommending to my student, but soon with growing interest, for she was talking about herself in terms that could largely, though not entirely, apply to me:
I am not a scholar. I am not in the least an intellectual, which is . . . only to say that I do not think in abstracts. During the years when I was an undergraduate at Berkeley I tried, with a kind of hopeless late-adolescent energy, to buy some temporary visa into the world of ideas, to forge for myself a mind that could deal with the abstract.
In short I tried to think. I failed. My attention veered inexorably back to the specific, to the tangible, to what was generally considered . . . the peripheral. I would try to contemplate the Hegelian dialectic and would find myself concentrating instead on a flowering pear tree outside my window and the particular way the petals fell on my floor . . . .
I had trouble graduating from Berkeley . . . because I had neglected to take a course in Milton . . . . [but] the English department finally agreed, if I would come . . . every Friday and talk about the cosmology of Paradise Lost, to certify me proficient in Milton . . . . I can no longer tell you whether Milton put the sun or the earth at the center of his universe in Paradise Lost, . . . a topic about which I wrote 10,000 words that summer, but I can still recall [from that time] the exact rancidity of . . . butter . . . and the way . . . tinted windows . . . cast . . . a grayed and obscurely sinister light. In short my attention was always on the periphery, on what I could see and taste and touch, on the butter . . . . During those years I was traveling on what I knew to be a very shaky passport, forged papers: I knew that I was no legitimate resident in any world of ideas. I knew I couldn't think. All I knew then was what I couldn't do. All I knew then was what I wasn't, and it took me some years to discover what I was.
Which was a writer.
By which I mean not a "good" writer or a "bad" writer but simply a writer, a person whose most absorbed and passionate hours are spent arranging words on pieces of paper. Had my credentials been in order I would never have become a writer. Had I been blessed with even limited access to my own mind there would have been no reason to write. I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. (New York Times Book Review, December 5, 1976)
Not me to a tee -- I am, after all, a scholar, and possibly an intellectual. Not the best of these two categories, but a club member nonetheless. Like Didion, however, I am drawn to the specific and the particular, and I write to find out what I'm seeing, thinking, meaning -- as though writing serves to complete the self-referential circuit of awareness that enables me to be myself.
That's just me, maybe, but I recommended the essay to my student . . .
Labels: Joan Didion, John Milton, Paradise Lost
Uncle Cran's Farm Report: Exchanging Roles?
Uncle Cran has sent along another of his regularly sporadic, reliably unannounced, philosophically postmodern Ozark farm reports:
Do you ever wonder just what a farmer does in his spare time?
I have to admit that this very question has preyed deeply on my mind, and I'm bustin' to find out:
Well, in addition to the daily feeding of the cats and dogs, taking hay and grain to the cows, chopping holes in the ice on the pond so the critters can get a drink, and cutting and hauling wood for the stove most weeks, there are times when you have to become a mother to a calf, whose real mother doesn't have enough milk for the calf to survive.
Uncle Cran does all this in his spare time? Where does he find time for the farm work? And -- as we also see from the photo above -- Uncle Cran even uses some of his leisure time in taking on a mothering role toward a creature of another species! But why doesn't that real mother have enough milk for her own offspring? What's she doing with most of her milk, anyway? And why does Uncle Cran use a comma after "calf"?
The mother is always suspicious of me, and checks me out every time to make sure I'm not hurting her baby. I give her a few range cubes to keep her occupied. After all, a guy doesn't want another broken hip from an angry critter.
Broken hip? By a one-head-of-cattle stampede? That'll never happen . . . so long as Uncle Cran is more restrictive with cattle than with his relative clauses. But why's this mother cow so suspicious towards Uncle Cran? She's the one to be an object of suspicion, not giving her own calf enough milk! But what does the calf think about all this?
I don't think the calf cares whether I'm male or female, as long as I give it a bottle of calf milk replacer twice a day. The bottle holds two quarts. When I go out to feed him, all I have to do is call, and it comes running. I add some corn syrup and molasses each time, so it will like the stuff, and every other day I beat up an egg in the milk mix, so it's doing ok. Now I get some grain in my hand, and stick on its tongue. It's starting to nibble a little bit. Once I get it to eating it, it should really begin to grow.
The indefinite pronoun "it" is way out of control in this passage, especially in that there last sentence: "Once I get it to eating it, it should really begin to grow." I think "it" has already grown quite enough, thank you.
Otherwise, we are coping with the cold weather fairly well. Keep warm.
Thanks, but Seoul is not quite so cold this winter as the Ozarks are. So much for Uncle Cran's farm report. Oh wait. Talk about regularly sporadic and reliably unannounced! Another report has just come in, along with this curious photograph:
What more does Uncle Cran have to say for himself?
Some of you may be wondering if I still have my wife, Linda Gay.
I have to admit that this very question has also preyed deeply on my mind, given Uncle Cran's new role as mother to a calf. A mother doesn't generally need a wife, but in today's postmodern times . . . well, let's hear Uncle Cran out in his words about his wife Linda Gay:
She is so busy with house cleaning, laundry, cooking, and all the other things here in the house, she doesn't get in the pictures very often. But she also has another job assignment: She is my designated wood splitter.
No leisure time left for that activity, Uncle Cran? But what qualifies Linda Gay for that particular job?
Here she is, all dressed in her sunday-go-to-meeting clothes, and just finished up splitting that pile of wood behind her. I know she is only 4 feet eleven inches tall, but don't let that fool you. SHE HAS JUST FINISHED SPLITTING A HUGE PILE OF WOOD, WITH THE POWER OF FIVE HORSES, AND EXERTING A FORCE OF TWENTY TONS AT THE POINT OF IMPACT. And she did it by using only the power of her little right hand. Now you know one of the reasons I married her. I needed a personal protector.
Ah, a very powerful woman, one who can even protect Uncle Cran . . . leading inquiring minds to wonder just why Uncle Cran needed protection in the first place. Maybe from those angry cattle that he worries so much about? Is there some history here that we don't know yet?
We have been using this much wood every two weeks, with the extreme cold, snow, ice and high winds. Hopefully the weather will improve the rest of the winter.
Hope springs eternal that spring is just around the corner . . .
Labels: Family, Farming, Ozark Mountains, Postmodernism
Bienvenido "Bones" Banez Jr. - Rising Fame?
Bienvenido "Bones" Banez Jr.
Kulay-Diwa Gallery of Philippine Contemporary Art
An email from my friend Terrance Lindall informs me that "New sites have picked up Bien." He refers to 'psychedelic' surrealist artist Bienvenido "Bones" Banez Jr. and his artwork. One site that has picked Bien up is the Kulay-Diwa Gallery of Philippine Contemporary Art, which has this to say about itself:
Kulay-Diwa Gallery of Philippine Contemporary Art is a privately owned venue for artistic expression. It is strategically located within a cluster of progressive communities South of Manila. It has an independent exhibition area able to accommodate large-scale works, and a spacious garden ideal for outdoor programs, performances and sculpture installations.
Goals of Kulay-Diwa:
To discover and promote the works of talented, young and deserving Filipino Artist[s]; To serve as a cultural outpost and make the arts more accessible to the fast-growing communities South of Manila; and To foster cultural interaction and exchanges with the local regions, Southeast Asia and other countries.
Kulay (Color)
Diwa (Spirit, Thought)
Phillip Somozo, writing for the website of the Kulay-Diwa Gallery of Philippine Contemporary Art, says: "At a time when Manila is rocked by controversies surrounding the questionable declaration of some personalities as National Artists, a Davao-born art talent quietly carved a niche among history's greatest surrealists," adding that "his name, profile, and sample work recently are published in a German edition of The International Encyclopedia of Fantastic, Surrealist, Symbolist, and Visionary Artists." Here's a sample of what this gallery offers as characteristic of Bien's work:
This artwork is a photo of Bien's famous statue of Satan, but modified by mixed media colors on the photograph. Of these colors, Gerhard Habarta, writing for the The International Encyclopedia of Fantastic, Surrealist, Symbolist, and Visionary Artists, has this to say:
What makes Banez a paradox among surrealists is his depiction of hellish conditions not as murky depths, but psychedelic sceneries where spectra of colors enthrall viewers. Figures -- human, geometric or biomorphic curiosities -- lose tactility and become translucent images and luminosities swirling, shimmering, or disintegrating in a world bereft of gravity . . . . Esthetically mesmerizing [as] the colors are in a Banez canvas, the portrayed perversion and misery of humankind are as morbid and offensive to good taste. Apparently, the artist captures the viewer with chromatic wonder; then, in succeeding moments, pounces on his cognitive faculties with horrors of the wages of sin.
Bien, I gather, is a very religious artist, and his "666 Art World" seemingly depicts the trials of the Christian "Tribulation" as set forth, rather murkily, in the Book of the Apocalypse, but Bien's vision shines through that murk with an aesthetically captivating chromatic miracle of a seeming paradox between artistic color and morbidly 'tasteless' imagery -- to put the matter in Habarta's terms!
Another art site, the Visionary Art Gallery, offers this colorful painting:
Our World 666 Extinction
The site also shows one of Bien's paintings on display in the Phantasten Museum, Vienna, Austria, but I'm not able to copy the image for my Gypsy Scholar site.
Yet another website, Our Own Voice, offers several images (also uncopyable, unfortunately) and says this:
Bañez's art revolves around the reign of evil in the world, which he likes to refer to as 666. To Bañez, the perpetrators of wars, poverty, injustice, environmental degradation, cultural decadence, and terrorism -- are already the incarnates of 666; no need to look further, or make paranormal theories and computat[i]ons. Evil is here, doom is close by. And Bañez expresses all these in a kaleidoscope of psychedelic human and sub-human figures.
As I noted, a very religious artist, in his motivation and also in his manner of expression, so take a look, a very long look, into this colorful abyss, and consider Bien's words, namely, that "Satan brings color to the world" . . .
Labels: Art, Bienvenido "Bones" Banez Jr., Satan, Surrealism, Terrance Lindall
Islam and Democracy: Negative Association?
Robert D. Woodberry
Through searching the internet for more on Robert D. Woodberry and his work, I came across his doctoral thesis, "The Shadow of Empire: Christian Missions, Colonial Policy, and Democracy in Postcolonial Societies," submitted in 2004 to the faculty of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for the degree of doctor of philosophy in the Department of Sociology. In that dissertation, I found evidence offered for something I'd been wondering about: the consequences of Islam for democracy:
Past research suggests a strong and consistent negative association between the percent Muslim in a society and the level of political democracy. Muslims societies also have more unstable democratic transitions. (155)
Woodberry cites several scholars on this negative association of Islam and democracy:
Clague, Christopher, Suzanne Gleason, and Stephen Knack. 2001. "Determinants of Lasting Democracy in Poor Countries: Culture, Development, and Institutions."Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 573: 16-41.
Gasiorowski, Mark J. and Timothy J. Power. 1998. "The Structural Determinants of Democratic Consolidation: Evidence from the Third World." Comparative Political Studies. 31(6): 740-771.
Huntington, Samuel P. 1991. The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late Twentieth Century. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press.
Huntington, Samuel P. 1993. "The Clash of Civilizations?" Foreign Affairs. 72(3): 22-49.
Karatnycky, Adrian. 1999. "The 1998 Freedom House Survey: The Decline of Illiberal Democracy." Journal of Democracy. 10: 112-25.
Karatnycky, Adrian. 2003. "Liberty's Advances in a Troubled World." Journal of Democracy. 14(1): 100-13.
Lipset. Seymour Martin. 1994. "The Social Requisites of Democracy Revisited: 1993 Presidential Address." American Sociological Review. 59(1): 1-22.
Midlarsky, Manus I. 1998. "Democracy and Islam: Implications for Civilizational Conflict and the Democratic Peace." International Studies Journal. 42: 485-511.
Woodberry, Robert D. and Timothy S. Shah. 2004. "Christianity and Democracy: The Pioneering Protestants." Journal of Democracy. 15(2): 47-61.
Woodberry does not analyze the reasons for this negative association between Islam and democracy -- though he rather generously allows that it might be due to the lack of Protestant missionizing in Muslim areas, which might otherwise have motivated Muslims to promote education, literacy, civil societies, and more in order to compete with Protestants, as sometimes happened when Protestants opened mission fields in some places, e.g., Catholic areas.
Perhaps some of the scholars Woodberry cites have made suggestions?
Labels: Democracy, Islam, Protestantism, Robert D. Woodberry
Robert D. Woodberry: "The Missionary Roots of Liberal Democracy"
In yesterday's blog entry, I noted Robert D. Woodberry's article, "The Missionary Roots of Liberal Democracy," American Political Science Review Vol. 106, No. 2 May 2012). He seems to have proven his thesis, that stable modern democracies are significantly dependent upon the presence of independent Protestants who missionized various places around the world. I won't deal with his statistical data since I have no competence in that area; I will instead quote extensively from his paper in passages where he offers substantive reasons for why Protestant missions led to democracy. Here's his summary of the argument, which describes the role of nonstate, conversionary Protestants (CPs):
I discuss the following arguments in more detail in the history section, but in brief, CPs such as Protestant missionaries wanted people to be able to read the Bible in their own language and wanted to facilitate lay religious involvement. Thus, as CPs tried to spread their faith, they catalyzed mass education, mass printing, and civil society -- hampering elite attempts to monopolize these resources. Protestants themselves did not always provide the most educational, printing, and civil society resources, but Protestant initiatives spurred others to invest heavily in these areas and to pressure governments to create schools that restricted Protestant content. These resource transfers to non-elites helped alter the class structure, fostered the rise of political parties and nonviolent political movements, and facilitated broader political participation.
In addition, Nonconformists (i.e., non-state-supported Protestant denominations) historically suffered from discrimination and persecution by governments and state churches. Thus they fought for religious liberty and against state interference in civil society. In addition, both Evangelicals in state churches and Nonconformists wanted a "converted clergy." Thus in the eighteenth through early twentieth centuries, CPs generally sided with Enlightenment elites against state churches and their conservative allies. When they lacked this religious support, Enlightenment elites had a small power base and typically set up either autocratic or unstable and illiberal democratic regimes.
Finally, nonstate missionaries moderated colonial abuses, particularly when abuses undermined conversions and in British colonies (where CPs had greater influence). To reach their religious goals, nonstate missionaries punished abusive colonial officials and counterbalanced white settlers, which fostered the rule of law, encouraged less violent repression of anticolonial political organization, and facilitated peaceful decolonization. Of course, Protestant economic and political elites were as selfish as anyone else. Protestant slaveowners fought slave literacy, and Protestant settlers exploited indigenous people; however, when missionaries were financially independent of the state, of slaveowners, and of white settlers, missionaries undermined these elite co-religionists in ways that fostered democracy. (246a)
Woodberry's thesis is not entirely straightforward. The particular circumstances, as much as religious beliefs, shaped nonstate, conversionary Protestantism's activities. But the CPs did play a significant role:
Those who doubt the religious roots of democracy typically overemphasize its Athenian, Enlightenment, and Deist roots. However, religious factors are also important. Modern democracy differs greatly from Athenian democracy, and Enlightenment theorists incorporated many legal and institutional innovations from earlier religious movements. In fact, arguments for political pluralism, electoral reform, and limitations of state power were originally framed in religious terms.
For example, Calvinists tried to reconstruct states along "godly" lines and limit sinful human institutions. Perhaps as a result, most Enlightenment democratic theorists came from Calvinist families or had a Calvinist education, even if they were either not theologically orthodox or personally religious (e.g., John Locke, Rousseau, Hugo Grotius, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Patrick Henry, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton), and they secularized ideas previously articulated by Calvinist theologians and jurists. For example, Hobbes' and Locke's social contracts are secular versions of Puritan and Nonconformist covenants, and Locke's ideas about the equality of all people are explicitly religious.
Although stated in secular form, the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights derive most directly from earlier colonial covenants, compacts, and bills of rights that were generally justified explicitly in biblical and theological terms; many were written before Hobbes and Locke expounded their ideas. Only 7 of the 27 rights enumerated in the U.S. Bill of Rights can be traced to major English common law documents. Even between 1760 and 1805, political writings quoted the Bible more often than either Enlightenment or classical thinkers (34% versus 22% and 9%, respectively).
Furthermore, the strength of Calvinism and Non-conformism better predicts where democracy emerged than does the strength of Greek and Enlightenment influence. (248a)
I wonder if these numbers cover the substantive story that needs to be fleshed out. Perhaps the Bible was cited more because it held more authority for most people, not because it contained democratic ideas. In other words, secular and Enlightenment views may have 'borrowed' the cloak of religious authority to make their position more persuasive. This assumes, of course, that the Bible is vague enough -- on the political system it supports -- for democratic ideas to be read into the text. Nevertheless, the impact of CPs was real:
One mechanism through which CPs dispersed power was massively expanding access to printed material and news. Scholars often claim that printing and capitalism birthed the public sphere and that the public sphere in turn enabled democracy. CPs greatly accelerated the development of mass printing, newspapers, and the public sphere for several reasons. First, CPs changed people's ideas about who books were for. According to CPs, everyone needed access to "God's word" -- not just elites. Therefore, everyone needed to read, including women and the poor. Moreover, books had to be inexpensive and in language that was accessible to ordinary people, not in foreign languages or classical versions of local languages. Second, CPs expected lay people to make their own religious choices. They believed people are saved not through sacraments or group membership but by "true faith in God"; thus, each individual had to decide which faith to follow. CPs used printed material to try to convert people, which forced other groups to use such materials to compete for ordinary people’s allegiance. This competition helped give rise to mass printing. (249a)
The principle of free individual choice clearly played a huge role, sometimes by example:
CPs advocated mass literacy so that everyone could read the Bible and interpret it competently. Their attempt to convert people through education threatened other elites and spurred these elites to also invest in mass education. (251a)
These are all plausible explanations, but Christianity in general -- if we include Catholics and Orthodox -- would not seem, in itself, to be obviously conducive to the development of stable democracies. In fact, state-supported Protestantism seems to have been as nonconducive to the development of stable democracies as were Catholicism and Orthodoxy. Two things, I think, remain to be done: 1) detailing the ideological links between stable democracies and the religious beliefs of independent Protestants to show how these religious views supported the secular ones, and 2) explaining in detail how the democratic character of these religious beliefs arose within the context of a Western Christendom that had never been especially democratic. These are important for a bigger question that interests me, namely, whether or not Christianity, in general, was in some way more conducive to the emergence of modernity.
In other words, is there something about Christianity -- in contradistinction to, say, Islam or Buddhism or Hinduism -- that makes its democratic reinterpretation more easily accomplished?
Labels: Catholicism, Christianity, Democracy, Eastern Orthodoxy, Global Christianity, Islam, Law, Protestantism
Protestant Missions and Democracy?
Missionary Men
Alice Seeley Harris / Panos Archives
Andrea Palpant Dilley, writing "The Surprising Discovery About Those Colonialist, Proselytizing Missionaries" (Christianity Today, January 8, 2014), has something of genuine significance to report on the unexpected findings of one contemporary scholar, a sociologist named Robert Woodberry:
One afternoon . . . [in graduate school, Woodberry] attended a required lecture . . . . by Kenneth A. Bollen, a UNC–Chapel Hill professor and one of the leading experts on measuring and tracking the spread of global democracy. Bollen remarked that he kept finding a significant statistical link between democracy and Protestantism. Someone needed to study the reason for the link, he said.
Woodberry knew that he'd found his vocation:
Soon he found himself descending into the UNC–Chapel Hill archives in search of old data on religion. "I found an atlas [from 1925] of every missionary station in the world, with tons of data," says Woodberry with glee. He found data on the "number of schools, teachers, printing presses, hospitals, and doctors, and it referred in turn to earlier atlases. I thought, Wow, this is so huge. This is amazing" . . . . Woodberry set out to track down the evidence for Bollen's conjecture that Protestant religion and democracy were somehow related. He studied yellowed maps, spending months charting the longitude and latitude of former missionary stations. He traveled to Thailand and India to consult with local scholars, dug through archives in London, Edinburgh, and Serampore, India, and talked with church historians all over Europe, North America, Asia, and Africa.
Not just a vocation, but a vacation, too -- albeit a working one -- and an important trip:
In essence, Woodberry was digging into one of the great enigmas of modern history: why some nations develop stable representative democracies -- in which citizens enjoy the rights to vote, speak, and assemble freely -- while neighboring countries suffer authoritarian rulers and internal conflict. Public health and economic growth can also differ dramatically from one country to another, even among countries that share similar geography, cultural background, and natural resources.
In 2001, he noticed something significant in pursuing these differences:
In search of answers, Woodberry traveled to West Africa in 2001. Setting out one morning on a dusty road in Lomé, the capital of Togo, Woodberry headed for the University of Togo's campus library. He found it sequestered in a 1960s-era building. The shelves held about half as many books as his personal collection. The most recent encyclopedia dated from 1977. Down the road, the campus bookstore sold primarily pens and paper, not books.
"Where do you buy your books?" Woodberry stopped to ask a student.
"Oh, we don't buy books," he replied. "The professors read the texts out loud to us, and we transcribe."
Across the border, at the University of Ghana's bookstore, Woodberry had seen floor-to-ceiling shelves lined with hundreds of books, including locally printed texts by local scholars. Why the stark contrast?
The reason was clear: During the colonial era, British missionaries in Ghana had established a whole system of schools and printing presses. But France, the colonial power in Togo, severely restricted missionaries. The French authorities took interest in educating only a small intellectual elite. More than 100 years later, education was still limited in Togo. In Ghana, it was flourishing.
His advisor, Christian Smith, cautioned him:
What began to emerge was a consistent and controversial pattern -- one that might damage Woodberry's career, warned Smith. "I thought it was a great, daring project, but I advised [him] that lots of people wouldn't like it if the story panned out," Smith says. "For [him] to suggest that the missionary movement had this strong, positive influence on liberal democratization -- you couldn't think of a more unbelievable and offensive story to tell a lot of secular academics."
His faith was strong, but he needed proof:
Woodberry was equipped to do something no one else had done: to look at the long-term effect of missionaries using the wide-angle lens of statistical analysis . . . . [He] created a statistical model that could test the connection between missionary work and the health of nations. He and a few research assistants spent two years coding data and refining their methods. They hoped to compute the lasting effect of missionaries, on average, worldwide . . . . One morning, in a windowless, dusty computer lab lit by florescent bulbs, Woodberry ran the first big test. After he finished prepping the statistical program on his computer, he clicked "Enter" and then leaned forward to read the results.
"I was shocked," says Woodberry . . . . "The impact of missions on global democracy was huge. I kept adding variables to the model -- factors that people had been studying and writing about for the past 40 years -- and they all got wiped out. It was amazing. I knew, then, I was on to something really important."
But he wanted to be sure:
Determined to be his own greatest skeptic, Woodberry started measuring alternative theories using a technique called two-stage least-squares instrumental variable analysis . . . . "[The theory] kept on holding up" . . . . Woodberry's results essentially suggested that 50 years' worth of research on the rise of democracy had overlooked the most important factor.
And what do other scholars think of Woodberry's work:
In spite of Smith's concerns, Woodberry's historical and statistical work has finally captured glowing attention. A summation of his 14 years of research -- published in 2012 in the American Political Science Review, the discipline's top journal -- has won four major awards, including the prestigious Luebbert Article Award for best article in comparative politics. Its startling title: "The Missionary Roots of Liberal Democracy."
Similar to Max Weber's thesis on Protestantism and capitalism, but much better grounded! My question is: "Why did Protestantism have this effect?"
Anyway, fascinating . . . to learn that Annie Lennox was wrong!
Labels: Democracy, Education, Health, Protestantism
Iraqi Celebration: 93rd Anniversary of Iraqi Armed Forces Day
My Iraqi student, Farah Al-Dujaili, from a year ago in my intensive writing course (and whose MA thesis on women's rights in Iraq I proofread last spring), invited Sun-Ae and me to Iraq's 93rd celebration of what she called "Army Day":
I see from the official banner that it's more precisely called "Iraqi Armed Forces Day." Here's a photo Sun-Ae took of me and Ms. Al-Dujaili -- the woman in the center -- accompanied by a young Iraqi Kurdish woman to her right:
The Kurdish woman -- whose name I didn't catch but whose father is a military attaché -- speaks five languages: Kurdish, Arabic, Dutch, German, and English and is learning Korean! My student speaks Arabic and English, also French, I think, maybe more.
Incidentally, Sun-Ae and I even met the well-known Susan Lee MacDonald, whom I remembered from my first stay in Korea, way back in 1995, when she appeared on television using her Korean and English skills -- she's half-Korean -- to teach English to Koreans, but I neglected to get a photo made of her with Sun-Ae and me, so you can believe me or not. In case you need some prompt to nudge your memory, here's an official photo of Ms. MacDonald from Arirang TV, for which she works as "the host of the new talk show INNERview," so she's come a long way since her early English-teaching days:
Anyway, while we didn't think to get a photograph of ourselves with the very personable and friendly Ms. MacDonald, we did receive her business card.
Sun-Ae photographed other scenes, however, and we did manage to get a picture of this ice sculpture, along with me in frame to prove that there's something even colder than ice:
Sun-Ae was taking the photo, so she's safely on the viewer's side. Notice that I'm trying to smile. Or maybe I'm trying not to smile. I'm never quite sure.
The celebration lasted from 6:30 to 8:30, not nearly sufficient time for the ice sculpture to melt, but just long enough to break the ice, and after only a few conversations and food eaten while standing, the event was over. Sun-Ae and I both enjoyed ourselves immensely -- we even shook hands with the Iraqi ambassador, Farah's uncle, and I praised Farah's intelligence to him because I'm striving to be more personable and because she is intelligent.
I must admit, by the way, that I've never seen so many soldiers of various countries in one room! But I've led a sheltered life, I guess.
Now back to the regular postings from the shelter of my apartment . . .
Labels: Iraq, Korea
Small World . . . In Fact, Tiny
Artschwager
Some readers may recall my friendship with Richard Artschwager's daughter, Eva. Yesterday, in one of the many art newsletters I receive (courtesy of Terrance Lindall), came an art critic's piece on some of Artschwager's late works, such as the above image, and I learned that he had died last year -- rest in peace, sir -- and I also checked to see the name of the art critic, discovering thereby a woman named Sóla Agustsson:
Ms. Agustsson is described as:
. . . a writer and graduate student in English Literature at Brooklyn College. She has contributed to Whitewall, Artlog, Flaunt and Zink Magazine. Excerpts from her upcoming novel have appeared in Konch Magazine and A Wild Feeling. She was short-listed for the San Francisco Foundation's Phelan Award for her work in fiction in 2013. She graduated from UC Berkeley in 2010.
Novelist? Berkeley? Interesting . . . so I looked for her writing online, and found this: Chapter 3 of Pretend I'm Jesus. This chapter of her novel appeared in Konch Magazine (August 2013), a literary magazine founded by Ishmael Reed:
Like I said . . . small world . . . with strange loops . . .
Labels: Art, Fiction, Ishmael Reed, Literary Criticism
Ishmael Reed: "But Nobody Was There"
I was thinking about Ishmael Reed the other day while cleaning up after dinner, though I don't know why, precisely, I was thinking of him since I've read only a few of his novels and essays, though maybe because I sing to myself as I wash the dishes, for I was suddenly struck by the beauty and truth contained in the lines, "I heard a spider crawl across the silverware . . . but nobody was there," from one of Reed's poems set to music by Olu Dara, which I first heard on a CD given to me in Tuebingen by a German man who directed the German-American Institute while I was teaching there in the early nineties, and as I washed the silverware the other evening, I tried to sing that lovely line expressing loss of a loved one, for what more perfect image of loss can there be than that of a man so at loss for love that he sits in his silent home, so quiet that even the faint sound of a spider crawling across the silverware is audible enough to make him imagine that his lost loved one might be there, though it's only a spider finding a place for spinning her web among the now-unused utensils, useless now that nobody was there:
I heard a crying child in the other room
I entered the room, but nobody was there
I heard a spider crawl across the silverware
I opened the drawer, but nobody was there
I heard your steps creeping up the stairs
I opened the door, but nobody was there
But nobody was there, but nobody, but nobody
But nobody was there
I saw your spirit sitting in a chair
I turned my head, but nobody was there
I heard a knock and the doorknob turned
I answered the door, but nobody was there
I saw my love in her funeral bier
I turned on the lights, but nobody was there
I heard your laughter on the summer’s air
I called your name, but nobody was there
I saw you bare, riding your favorite black mare
I ran to the woods, but nobody was there
I saw you by the moon, you were combing your hair
I rushed outside, but nobody was there
I searched for the lines I'd remembered -- after finishing the dishes -- and finally found them in the above poem, "But Nobody Was There," on page 416 of Ishmael Reed's The Reed Reader (Basic Books, 2000), though I wonder if "stairs" should rather be "stair" (and what's with this "turned"?). While searching, I'd also learned of the man who wrote the music:
"Nobody was There," with music by [Olu] Dara, is the first really successful track of this second album. Dara scats over washes of organ and twitting guitar, then sings the poem with the feeling for and involvement with the words that the earlier tracks lack -- "I saw your spirit sitting in a chair / I turned my head, but nobody was there." His trumpet solo is again a diamond formed under great pressure. (W. C. Bamberger, "'Ishmael Reed: Neo-HooDoo,' in Words and Music," Perfect Sound Forever, April 2010)
I now know the words and who wrote the music, but I can't quite match the song to my voice like Dara did to his. As for Reed himself, who taught many years at Berkeley, my only actual contact with him there came when I was in a local coffee shop near campus, the famous Sufficient Grounds, standing at the counter and about to order a cappuccino, when the man himself stepped right in front of me -- perhaps thinking nobody was there -- and ordered before I could. The barista looked embarrassed, but served Reed first, and I said nothing, figuring the slight delay was a price worth paying for such a brush with fame.
I've long wondered if I should've at least asked for an autograph, but a mere brush with fame is a slender reed indeed on which to ask a man to sign his name . . .
Labels: Ishmael Reed, Literary Criticism, Poetry
Another Five-Star Amazon Review of The Bottomless Bottle of Beer
A fifth five-star review has appeared on my novella's Amazon site, this time by a scholar specializing in the rise of the modern novel, Dr. Hyewon Ryu, whose doctoral thesis was The Metropolitan Body in the Rise of the Early English Novel. I know her thesis fairly well since I proofread it -- and found it an excellent scholarly work! I don't recall if I mentioned my own novella to her, or if she noticed the Amazon web address in my email signature, but we crossed paths a week or two ago, and she told me that she had started reading it and found it a bit scary (as a number of other readers have also admitted). Anyway, here's what she posted at Amazon:
I have just read the last page of this book, The Bottomless Bottle of Beer. What a fascinating piece Mr. Hodges has created! It was a thrilling experience to read it through. If he plans to publish any other book, I hope someone will please keep me updated.
Short but sweet! Thanks for that, Dr. Ryu. Coming from a true literary critic, those are welcome words! I hope that any Gypsy Scholar readers who might be wavering over purchasing a copy of the BBB will be nudged into shelling out for the admittedly high price of $2.99 ($4.99 in Korea) by reading Dr. Ryu's praise.
I'll have to ask her what she thought of Terrance Lindall's illustrations . . .
Labels: Literary Criticism, Terrance Lindall, The Bottomless Bottle of Beer
Announcing Art Performance at the WAH Center: The Satanic Verses of Bones Banez
WAH Center Logo
My online artistic friend Terrance Lindall has announced a special performance at the WAH Center:
Terrance Lindall's Reading of The Satanic Verses of Bones Banez
and a Piano Recital, The Satanic Rhapsody,
by Bienvenido Bones Banez Himself
Saturday, January 25th, at 6 PM
Williamsburg Brooklyn, NY 11211
Here's the Satanic Verses Poster:
And here's a clearer image of that poster's artwork, My Warlock Dream, accompanying promotion on New York Public TV Channel 13:
Finally, there's a You Tube promotion here:
As you may notice from the You Tube promo, I'm identified as the editor, and I did indeed edit the poem titled The Satanic Verses of Bones Banez, though Terrance and Bones may have reworked a bit, but I might still be able to add some explanation, insofar as I understand the poem. The poetic conceit that Bones is working with is that we're already living in the tribulation of the eschaton, and the poem is his artistic vision, accompanied by vivid, electrifying artworks depicting, in some way, those troubled times.
I wish I could attend, but perhaps Terrance will supply You Tube with a video . . .
Labels: Art, Music, Poetry, Terrance Lindall
Ellery Washington on Baldwin in Paris . . .
James Baldwin in 1962
Photo by Carl Mydans
Time and Life Pictures
An interesting, if enigmatic, look at "James Baldwin's Paris," by Ellery Washington (New York Times, January 17, 2014):
One bright afternoon in Paris, on the terrace of the cafe Deux Magots, in St.-Germain-des-Prés, I found myself engaged in an increasingly animated conversation about the writer James Baldwin and the notorious feud that broke out between him and his fellow African-American expatriate Richard Wright . . . . "It started right here," . . . said [expatriate African-American novelist -- and Baldwin enthusiast -- Jake Lamar,] of the dispute between Baldwin and Wright, as our waiter swept away our plates to make space for his forthcoming espresso and my cafe allongé. Jake was reminding me that Baldwin and Wright's quarrel had begun upstairs from where we sat, facing the cobblestone Place St.-Germain-des-Prés and l'Église St.-Germain-des-Prés itself, the oldest church in Paris.
Had we been actually sitting inside the cafe that day, in the winter of 1948, he explained, we would have surely caught a glimpse of an earnest young Jimmy Baldwin, slightly disheveled from having arrived from New York only hours before, climbing the narrow steps up to the cafe's second floor, where he was greeted by Wright and the editors of Zero magazine, a rather small but important literary journal that would shortly publish Baldwin's essay "Everybody's Protest Novel."
Baldwin was only 24 when he arrived in Paris, with just $40 in his pocket. Virtually unpublished, he had left New York to escape American racism -- an escape that he believed literally saved his life and made it possible for him to write. His first essay in Zero argued forcefully against the idea of the protest novel, claiming, among other things, that it was inherently sentimental, and therefore dishonest. Wright, who had already established himself as an international literary force based on the critical success of several novels, was deeply offended by Baldwin's essay, reading it as a direct attack on the validity of his work. Shortly after the essay was published, the two men ran into each other at Brasserie Lipp, less than a block from Les Deux Magots, and Wright immediately lit into Jimmy, who by all accounts held his own.
I love reading these literary essays about literary figures -- and this essay has a nice hook in the "increasingly animated conversation" between Jake Lamar and Ellery Washington about James Baldwin's "notorious feud" with Richard Wright. Why do I love this sort of writing? Because I feel like I'm in on some literary gossip, I suppose, as if I'm privy to the literary scene and one of the insiders.
I'm a bit unclear on the chronology of the feud between Baldwin and Wright, however. Baldwin's essay, "Everybody's Protest Novel" -- which implied that Bigger Thomas, the main character of Baldwin's Wright's novel Native Son, was a flat character deficient in psychological complexity and thus not credible and which led to the end of the two writers' friendship -- was published in 1949. Washington seems to be speaking of 1948 in quoting Lamar's words as to when the feud started, but the climax of the disagreement seems to have occurred during an accidental meeting after publication. Can any erudite readers clarify the chronological details?
Update: Thanks due to the author, Mr. Ellery Washington, for contacting me and correcting my typo.
Speaking of Beauty . . .
Art-E-Fact
"a portion of the 100,000 cigarette butts collected in downtown San Rafael"
Marinscope Community Newspapers
Text and Photo by Gregory Andersen
Novato, California
As readers know, I've been speaking of beauty lately, and my old Berkeley friend Carla Koop is still a beauty. But since she's not artificial, she cannot be considered art. The art is to her left, but I don't know that I'd call it beautiful even though it qualifies as art, given that it's made by artists:
Three months after its installation, a public art piece called a "cigarette eater meter" has collected 50,000 cigarette butts and in turn raised money for a local nonprofit.
The 7-foot-tall meter was placed in the San Rafael city plaza on Fourth Street on May 30 as part of an effort by the San Rafael Clean Coalition to get litter off city streets. The coalition, a group of organizations and volunteers focused on keeping the city tidy, wants people to retrain themselves not to throw cigarette leftovers on the ground. (Megan Hansen, "Cigarette eater meter in San Rafael collects 50,000 cigarette butts," Marin Independent Journal, August 28, 2013)
Form follows function in this case, I reckon. The cause is a good one. As of August 28th, they had "just hit the halfway point," according to Carla, as quoted by Megan Hansen, but by October 7th, they'd reached their goal of 100,000 butts, as the above photo by Gregory Andersen indicates.
What next? A cigarette eater meter on every square in every town?
Fast Food, Slow People
Fasting Slowly
Photo by Chang W. Lee
A couple of days ago, one of my colleagues -- another Southerner, Brian -- gave me a head's up on this article by Sarah Maslin Nir and Jiha Ham, "Fighting a McDonald's in Queens for the Right to Sit. And Sit. And Sit" (The New York Times, January 14, 2014)
Mr. Lee said . . . he and his friends -- a revolving group who shuffle into the McDonald's [in Flushing, Queens, NYC] on the corner of Parsons and Northern Boulevards on walkers, or with canes, in wheelchairs or with infirm steps, as early as 5 a.m. and often linger until well after dark -- had, as they seem to do every day, long overstayed their welcome.
These are old Korean men, doing what they also do in Korea, or as old men back in my Ozark hometown do, and likely as old men everywhere in the world do, except that these Korean men must be the world champions at hanging out for hours and hours to chew the fat and while away their little time left on earth because these old Koreans are in fast-paced New York City sitting at a fast food joint that allows just twenty short minutes for customers to occupy a table. MacDonald's has tried calling the police:
"They ordered us out," Mr. Lee said from his seat in the same McDonald's booth a week after the incident, beneath a sign that said customers have 20 minutes to finish their food. (He had already been there two hours.) "So I left," he said.
"Then I walked around the block and came right back again."
For the past several months, a number of elderly Korean patrons and this McDonald's they frequent have been battling over the benches inside. The restaurant says the people who colonize the seats on a daily basis are quashing business, taking up tables for hours while splitting a small packet of French fries ($1.39); the group say they are customers and entitled to take their time. A lot of time.
"Do you think you can drink a large coffee within 20 minutes?" David Choi, 77, said. "No, it's impossible."
Wrong! It's entirely possible. And not only possible! It's inevitable! Unless you're using the natural laws of evaporation to drink that coffee through your nose! And these old guys do seem to have made a science of it! More importantly, I see in these old Korean men the same sort of disrespect for the police in NYC as I see they have here in Seoul.
Workers at the restaurant say they are exasperated.
"It's a McDonald's," said Martha Anderson, the general manager, "not a senior center." She said she called the police after the group refused to budge and other customers asked for refunds because there was nowhere to sit . . . . The police in the 109th Precinct, which serves the area, say that calls to resolve disputes at businesses are routine, though the disruptions are more often caused by unruly teenagers than by septuagenarians.
So . . . why are they there? Inquiring minds want to know:
Outside the McDonald's on Saturday, Sang Yong Park, 76, and his friend, Il Ho Park, 76, tried to explain what drew them there. They come every single day to gossip, chat about politics back home and in their adopted land, hauling themselves up from the banquettes with their canes to step outside for short cigarillo breaks. And they could not say why they keep coming back -- after a short walk around the block to blow off steam -- every time the officers remove them.
Of course, they don't know. It's a habit, not a reflective choice. And they're stubborn old Korean men who KNOW they're right no matter what the law says. They can't be ordered away by a forty-year-old police officer half their age! What does that young whippersnapper know?
Welcome to New York City! Welcome to Seoul, Korea!
Labels: Humor, Korean Culture
Religion is not an ideology?
Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.
Photograph by Matt Rourke
Matt Apuzzo, reporting for the New York Times, writes "U.S. to Expand Rules Limiting Use of Profiling by Federal Agents," (January 15, 2014):
The Justice Department will significantly expand its definition of racial profiling to prohibit federal agents from considering religion, national origin, gender and sexual orientation in their investigations . . . . The move addresses a decade of criticism from civil rights groups that say federal authorities have in particular singled out Muslims in counterterrorism investigations.
To the rational mind, this sounds so weird that I have to at least wonder if the report has been inadvertently edited in a way that conflates "profiling" with "racial profiling" -- except that I've too often seen the term "racist" itself deployed as an epithet against those who subject Islam to critical questioning (which perhaps has its intellectual origin in Edward Said's abusive use of the term "Orientalist"). I therefore find regrettably all too plausible this report that the Justice Department will expand its definition of race to include religion. (Not to mention gender and sexual orientation.) Wouldn't this mean, for example, that a Christian who converts to Islam is suddenly a different race? Perhaps the Justice Department labors under the arguably racist notion that all Muslims are Arabs?
Whatever else it might entail, a religion is an ideology, and whether one thinks Islamism is Islam pure and simple or Islam tainted and distorted, Islamism itself is a religion. Will the Justice Department refuse to consider Islamism as a factor in its investigations of terrorism?
Is the expression "religious terrorism" to be an oxymoron?
Labels: Christianity, Islam, Islamism, Race, Religion
Joining Google+
Google+ Image
I've joined Google+ . . . and (see photo) it makes me look so small! Why did I join? Google kept begging me to . . . and people kept wanting to connect to me through Google+ . . . so I finally joined. Now what? The site isn't exactly intuitive. I decided to add my novella cover:
Part of the cover, anyway -- the site forced me to crop it. Looks rather odd cut this way, but I tried to get most essentials. Regrettably, Terrance Lindall's name got cropped. Perhaps some visitors will show some interest, anyway, and they'll come across Terrance's name soon enough if they do delve deeper due to interest.
Meanwhile, the site asked me to fill in some details about myself on a page labeled "About."
Under "Work" came a heading "Occupation," so I explained the obvious, "I occupy whatever space I happen to find myself in." This was followed by a heading "Skills," to which I responded, "I notice things that don't matter -- such as 'Skills' has 'kills' in it." There was then a question asking what I do at Ewha Womans University as an Assistant Professor, to which I replied, "I teach composition and research -- though research normally comes first."
That ought to have sufficed, but the site wanted more: it wanted my "Story." I was all set to talk about my novella, The Bottomless Bottle of Beer, but I then realized that the site wanted 'biographical' details, for instance, a "Tagline," which required some deep reflection on my part, till I came up with this: "I'm always right . . . except this time." The site asked for more, namely, an "Introduction" so that people can be sure I'm the right "Horace Jeffery," and I complied with this very important request: "I'm the correct Horace Jeffery because my family name is 'Hodges,' and my middle name is spelled with '-ery'!" This led to an odd heading, "Bragging rights." I don't like to brag, but the site did ask, so I wrote the truth: "I'm smarter than I am." And that's true. Taken separately, my various abilities are each mediocre, but as the whole is greater than the sum of its parts, I 'add up to' something more than mediocre. How do I know? Because I don't understand myself!
I thought I was finished, but the site wanted "Basic Information." It asked first for my "Gender." As there were merely two choices -- and I'm pretty sure I'm not a woman -- I clicked "Male." Then came an odd query: "Looking for." I was ready to reply, "I'm usually looking for the right word," but the site clarified its request: "Who are you looking for?" I wanted to retort, "Whom are you looking for?" But there were only pre-set answers, and none of those fit. The site already knew my birthday: "May 14." There appeared to be no interest in the year I was born. Then came "Relationship" -- to which the safest answer seemed "Married." I would have chosen "Deeply Married," but there were no degrees of marriedness. The site then asked me the oddest question of them all: "Other names." Eh? If I had other names, why would I reveal them on a site that would enable the authorities to trace them and track me down? Upon reflection, I realized that Google wouldn't be that evil, so the site probably meant to ask what names other people might often call me. I therefore replied, "Unrepeatable!"
That was fun! Now, what else can I join . . .
Labels: Google, Humor
Abrogation of Sura 5:8?
Professor David Bukay, of the University of Haifa, writing in the Middle East Quarterly (Fall 2007, pp. 3-11), asks "Peace or Jihad? Abrogation in Islam"? He notes that Sura 5:8 -- which I wondered about yesterday -- is among the Qur'an's peaceful verses:
Proponents of Islamic tolerance point to a number of Qur'anic verses which admonish violence and advocate peace, tolerance, and compromise.
These peaceful verses include:
Qur. 2:256; 2:285; 3:64; 4:134; 5:5; 5:8; 5:48; 11:118; 29:46; 49:13; 60:8-9. All references are from Ahmed Ali, Al-Qur'an: A Contemporary Translation (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001). [Footnote 6]
But there is a complication, Bukay explains, a little hermeneutic principle called "abrogation" that is linked to stages in Muhammad's career:
The Qur'an is unique among sacred scriptures in accepting a doctrine of abrogation in which later pronouncements of the Prophet declare null and void his earlier pronouncements . . . . Rather than explain away inconsistencies in passages regulating the Muslim community, many jurists acknowledge the differences but accept that latter verses trump earlier verses. Most scholars divide the Qur'an into verses revealed by Muhammad in Mecca when his community of followers was weak and more inclined to compromise, and those revealed in Medina, where Muhammad's strength grew.
Bukay also notes a refinement of this point about these stages in Muhammad's life:
During the lifetime of Muhammad, the Islamic community passed through three stages. In the beginning from 610 until 622, God commanded restraint. As the Muslims relocated to Medina (623-26), God permitted Muslims only to fight in a defensive war. However, in the last six years of Muhammad's life (626-32), God permitted Muslims to fight an aggressive war first against polytheists, and later against monotheists like the Jews of Khaybar. Once Muhammad was given permission to kill in the name of God, he instigated battle.
Bukay then introduces Sura 9, a mother-of-all abrogators known as the Ultimatum Sura:
Chapter 9 of the Qur'an, in English called "Ultimatum," is the most important concerning the issues of abrogation and jihad against unbelievers. It is the only chapter that does not begin "in the name of God, most benevolent, ever-merciful." Commentators agree that Muhammad received this revelation in 631, the year before his death, when he had returned to Mecca and was at his strongest. Muhammad bin Ismail al-Bukhari (810-70), compiler of one of the most authoritative collections of the hadith, said that "Ultimatum" was the last chapter revealed to Muhammad[, which] . . . . coming at or near the very end of Muhammad's life . . . . trumps earlier revelations.
Because this chapter contains violent passages, it abrogates previous peaceful content. Muhsin Khan, the translator of Sahih al-Bukhari, says God revealed "Ultimatum" in order to discard restraint and to command Muslims to fight against all the pagans as well as against the People of the Book if they do not embrace Islam or until they pay religious taxes. So, at first aggressive fighting was forbidden; it later became permissible (2:190) and subsequently obligatory (9:5). This "verse of the sword" abrogated, canceled, and replaced 124 verses that called for tolerance, compassion, and peace.
Bukay calls attention to an important Islamic scholar's assessment:
Abu al-Kasim Hibat-Allah bin Salama (d. 1019) argued that the starting point of any investigation of the Qur'an is the science of abrogating and abrogated verses. He identified four categories of abrogation: 43 chapters unaffected by abrogation; six chapters that augmented the concept of abrogation but were themselves not abrogated; 40 chapters with abrogated wording but authority intact; and 25 chapters with both their wording and authority abrogated.
Among those suras abrogated in the fourth category are the following:
Qur. 2-3, 5, 8-9, 14, 18-9, 21-2, 24-6, 33-4, 40, 42, 51-2, 56, 58, 73, 103, 108. [Footnote 39]
That would seem to include the peaceful sura 5. If so, then jihadis will have a ready answer to this graphic novel against jihad in Syria: "Sura 5:8 has been abrogated and is therefore inapplicable. Continue the jihad!"
Labels: Islam, Islamism, Jihad, Syria
Graphic Novel Against Jihad in Syria
The Journey of a Mujahid with Jabhat Al-Nusra
According to Memri, Special Dispatch No. 5597 (January 10, 2014), an "Online Graphic Novel Challenges Jihadi Indoctrination In Wake Of Syria War," and Memri summarizes:
A graphic novel, "The Journey of a Mujahid with Jabhat Al-Nusra," posted on the Internet in seven installments in November and December 2013, recounts the story of Mustafa, a young Muslim living in a Western country, who goes to Syria to wage jihad. There he discovers that young men like him are callously mistreated and exploited, and sometimes even used as cannon fodder.
Memri provides some excerpts, from both the transcript and the video. The graphic novel is apparently intended for young Muslim men who've grown up in Western countries. Obviously, I've seen only excerpts, but there's an interesting verse from the Qur'an that the disillusioned young man Mustafa, the story's protagonist, reads near the end:
"Oh you who believe! Be upright for Allah, bearers of witness with justice, and let not hatred of a people incite you not to act equitably. Act equitably, that is nearer to piety, and fear Allah. Indeed, Allah is acquainted with what you do."
That's the Qur'an 5:8, and it sounds fine and peaceful enough, though I'm often disappointed by these peaceful-sounding verses when I dig a bit further and learn that the doctrine of abrogation applies to them. Does it apply here, too? I'd like to know.
I'm also curious to know who sponsored this graphic novel, but Memri apparently doesn't know.
Labels: Islamism, Jihad
The Peach as Forbidden Fruit?
Foreboding, Not Forbidden?
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Yesterday, I posted a link on the Milton List to the above image, labeling it "A Twist on the Eve Motif?" I wrote:
Eve clothed (sort of) and just biting [into] a peach from which music winds serpentine up into the nearby peach tree . . .
One scholar suggested:
If Eve were wearing a slip, it probably wouldn't so tatty!
I posted a rejoinder:
Anyone can slip up now and then . . .
Another scholar wondered if the fruit was really a peach:
I'm not so sure those are peaches, either--they look more like little pumpkins (which, granted, don't grow on trees)--but then, violins wouldn't have been lying in the grass, either--not even broken ones. And Eve wouldn't have looked so common before she bit into the Fruit.
All in all, pretty bizarre.
I rather agreed:
The fruit does look odd, but I checked and made sure that they are peaches.
Another scholar liked the idea of peaches:
Peaches always seem right to me. Apples have settled in as the traditional interpretation, but as many of you likely know there were other candidates among early exegetes, including grapes. There's something cheeky about a peach, though, with that little cleft and all that fuzziness. The taste is also something to die for.
That one, perhaps, prompted Salwa Khoddam to post on our work together:
Jeffrey and I have already written a paper on the apple/peach image as used by Milton, Marvell, and T. S. Eliot. It includes all the motifs and related fruits that you mention. We have submitted our paper for publication and we are hoping that it would by published soon. We'll let you know what happens.
Since the list has a "Jeffrey," I thought I'd better jump in and correct my name:
Lest there be any confusion, that "Jeffrey" would be me, i.e., "Jeffery."
One scholar who has explored the peach image in Milton's Paradise Lost is Robert Appelbaum, in Aguecheek's Beef, Belch's Hiccup, and Other Gastronomic Interjections: Literature, Culture, and Food Among the Early Moderns.
I believe Professor Appelbaum subscribes to this list -- at least, he used to.
As for Upright Brewing's own account of Fantasia, just click the image below:
Hmmm . . . doesn't say if the beer comes in bottomless bottles . . .
Labels: Beer, Forbidden Fruit, John Milton, Milton List, Paradise Lost, The Bottomless Bottle of Beer
Clarice Lispector . . . again
They say she had catlike green eyes . . .
but I found no color image.
I blogged on Clarice Lispector once before, and found her a mysterious presence that I can't get off my mind even though I know so little about her, but here's a little more:
Her first novel, Near to the Wild Heart, published in 1943, took its title from a line in James Joyce and discomfited Brazil's parochial literary establishment with its determinedly modernist cut and surreal, unsmiling humour. Overnight, Lispector became a succès d'estime and was idolised by the young. Intrigued by her movie-star allure, Brazilians claimed Lispector as one of their own, even if her 'Brazilianness' seemed to be overlaid by something strange. A part of Lispector was anchored in a cold northern soil somewhere in Russia, where the people had black bog earth on their boots and lived hard, stoical lives.
That's from Ian Thomson's review, "'She's the most important Jewish writer since Kafka!'" (The Spectator, January 11, 2014), of Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector, by Benjamin Moser.
Makes me wish I knew Portuguese . . .
Stranger than paradise?
Mickey and Minnie?
Carolyn Arends, writing an article titled "When God Wears a Costume" (Christianity Today, January 8, 2014), tells of being a teenager babysitting a 2-year-old girl squirming in a high chair and whom she tried to pacify by holding up the little girl's laminated placemat featuring a photo of Mickey and Minnie Mouse, and the following dialogue took place:
"Is this a picture of Donald and Daisy Duck?" I asked.
"No," she giggled.
"Is it Goofy and Pluto?"
"Nuh-uh!" she squealed.
"Well, who are they?" I asked, gearing up for the inevitable right-answer celebration. But her reply caught me off guard.
"Strangers in costumes."
Ms. Arends says that she's been reflecting on Laura's pragmatism as a toddler already capable of offering a no-nonsense view of the world, inadvertently providing an example "of what sociologist Philip Rieff and philosopher Allan Bloom both" termed a "low symbolic hedge," i.e., a maze formed with hedges, such that a low one would be too easily seen through and solved. One need not use imagination to find one's way, so imagination remains undeveloped. Thus, because "our culture lacks potent symbols" and has merely Mickey Mouse symbols, we suffer a paucity of imagination.
Well, maybe, but there's a sense in which that two-year-old toddler Laura was using her own burgeoning imagination to demystify a mundane reality behind a prominent, powerful cultural image.
The kid deserves some praise . . .
Labels: Imagination, Intelligence
It's colder than the tipple on a niche's wit!
Hawksbill Crag
Tim Ernst
As readers know, I like to visit Tim Ernst's website regularly for recent images of home, though when I heard about the extreme cold, I had to wonder if he'd ventured out . . . but he had, and had pictures to prove it, too! Like the one above, taken on January 7th, some time after dark, when the mercury had already dipped nearly to zero fahrenheit, which is a scientific way of saying "purty damn cold!"
That image may look like daytime, but just note the stars. Those, a half moon, and some snow make for the brightness of day (with long exposure time, of course), but the hour is late, and Mr. Ernst observes in his journal that the windchill must be the equivalent of 15 to 20 below zero. Even the Arkansas Ozarks can get mighty cold!
Makes me glad to be in Seoul, where the temperature is tropical, just a bit below zero celsius . . .
Labels: Arkansas, Ozark Mountains, Tim Ernst, Winter
Can Pornography be Art?
Autoportrait (1980)
Robert Mappelthorpe
In The Invisible Dragon, Dave Hickey tells why he decided to write on beauty, saying that the "actual occasion for . . . writing anything about beauty was the plague of intellectual dishonesty that affected every aspect of the controversy surrounding the public exhibition of Robert Mapplethorpe's beautiful, pornographic photographs" (5% into ebook). But can art be pornographic? Can pornography be art? Roger Scruton, in his book on Beauty, has this to say on the nature of pornography:
In distinguishing the erotic and the pornographic we are really distinguishing two kinds of interest: interest in the embodied person and interest in the body - and, in the sense that I intend, these interests are incompatible . . . . Normal desire is an inter-personal emotion. Its aim is a free and mutual surrender, which is also a uniting of two individuals, of you and me -- through our bodies, certainly, but not merely as our bodies. Normal desire is a person to person response, one that seeks the selfhood that it gives. Objects can be substituted for each other, subjects not. Subjects, as Kant persuasively argued, are free individuals; their non-substitutability belongs to what they essentially are. Pornography, like slavery, is a denial of the human subject, a way of negating the moral demand that free beings must treat each other as ends in themselves. (Roger Scruton, Beauty, page 159)
Scruton goes on to say that "Pornography addresses a fantasy interest, while erotic art addresses an interest of the imagination," to which he adds that "[t]he purpose of pornography is to arouse vicarious desire; the purpose of erotic art is to portray the sexual desire of the people pictured within it" (page 159) but doing so without arousing the viewer's sexual desire. A few pages later, he adds:
[P]ornography lies outside the realm of art, . . . [for] it is incapable of beauty in itself and desecrates the beauty of the people displayed in it. The pornographic image is like a magic wand that turns subjects into objects, people into things -- and thereby disenchants them, destroying the source of their beauty. (Roger Scruton, Beauty, page 162-163)
Hickey and Scruton would seem to disagree . . . unless Mapplethorpe's images are beautiful but not pornographic, despite Hickey's words -- and I, by the way, have seen Mapplethorpe's striking photographs, but I was not aroused to any vicarious desire, so perhaps they're not truly porn . . .
I Spy With My Little Eye: Trouble for Choe Ryong Hae?
Kim Jong Eun Makes Appearance, Choe Ryong Hae Eyes Camera
Roh Hae Cheol, of the Daily NK, points to a problem for somebody in "Playing to the Gallery: Choe Images Attract Attention" (January 6, 2014):
In recent days, the official daily publication of the Chosun Workers' Party, Rodong Sinmun has been publishing . . . images of Kim Jong Eun performing onsite inspections . . . [but] Choe Ryong Hae . . . stands out in the [two] images [above], not Kim . . . . Within . . . North Korean propaganda methodology, . . . such [images] as these . . . emphasize the leading role and wisdom of the supreme leader . . . . Kim should be in the center . . . , and other officials and personnel . . . should observe him or his actions . . . . [In] the two images cited, Choe is visible in the background staring straight into the camera . . . . Choe's actions, and the decision to publish the photos, . . . [are] abnormal and inappropriate . . . . [Such official images] are managed . . . by the Propaganda and Agitation Department of the Workers' Party, and should only be authorized . . . once the background, leader's expression and accompanying personnel have all been [checked, so] . . . . either the images were deliberately released to emphasize . . . Choe . . . , or the action was not deliberate and the officials who . . . permitted the images . . . could face censure.
Does somebody want to get Choe in trouble? He's been said to have been one of the principal advisers to Kim Jong Eun in the recent execution of Jang Song Thaek. Even if the publication of these photos is accidental -- and those would be two consecutive, highly unlikely careless 'accidents' -- they put Choe in a bad light, for Choe's enemies could argue that Choe should always keep his focus on the Great Leader during such official events and that the photos show him openly ignoring Kim Jong Eun. Keep in mind that earlier photos of Jang Song Thaek showed him openly ignoring Kim Jong Eun at official events. Such photos were analyzed for their political meaning, and many commentators suggested that those photographs indicated the powerful position of Jang, given that he could openly ignore Kim. But we see where that got him.
Does the sick state up north need another purgative? Stay tuned . . .
Labels: North Korea
Objectivity in Judgements of Beauty?
Bust of Roger Scruton
Alexander Stoddart
Since I am so busy teaching an intensive writing course, I'll just quote a short passage on beauty by Roger Scruton for my readers to contemplate:
In the last analysis there is as much objectivity in our judgements of beauty as there is in our judgements of virtue and vice. Beauty is therefore as firmly rooted in the scheme of things as goodness. It speaks to us, as virtue speaks to us, of human fulfillment: not of things that we want, but of things that we ought to want, because human nature requires them. (Roger Scruton, Beauty, page 145)
As firmly rooted as judgements of virtue? Those are firmly rooted? So speaks Scruton. Justification waits upon more reading . . .
Labels: Art, Roger Scruton
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HBCU Advocacy Spotlight: Dear Langston is a One-Man Band
Dear Langston is a one-man band. Named after Langston University‘s school song, the advocacy group was founded August 29, 2010. Its founder jokes, “They made us all sing it as freshmen and its always been stuck in my head. ‘Dear Langston, Dear Langston, Dear Langston, our sons and daughters pray’ or something like that.”
He founded Dear Langston because he was homesick and realized that Langston’s fall semester was about to start up again. “I pondered where could I get university-related social media updates about what was going on and I couldn’t find anything up to standard.”
So, he decided to start providing the updates via Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. He says he’s tinkered with starting a blog but that time restraints don’t allow him to do as much as he’d like to. Between the three social media networks he estimates that Dear Langston’s reach is a combined 2,000+. Most of Dear Langston’s followers are really into Facebook but by linking Facebook to Twitter, the crossover is awesome.
The scope of Dear Langston’s readership is its alumni/student base so it needs the support of others who believe in its work. Langston is a small HBCU located in rural Oklahoma. “Clearly, it’s not one of the bigger name HBCUs, so finding positive news about LU can be a challenge.” Dear Langston hopes to change that. “I think about what I do at Dear Langston as being an advocate for all the great things that are happening at “The School on the Hill.”
Because Dear Langston doesn’t have an official tie to the University it has its own check and balance system. “While I’m still mindful of what I say, I have the ability to participate in candid conversations with students and alumni without risk, and the dialogue can become prosperous for change.”
Hardin ‘Butch’ Benjamin
So who is this one-man band? “I don’t share my personal information on the site, and I only write under the name, ‘DL.’” On Facebook and Twitter he uses a photo of Hardin “Butch” Benjamin who has been a legendary figure at LU for several decades. “Everyone recognizes him. Heck, some folks think that Butch is actually the real DL. I think it’s better that way.”
“I’ve thought about bringing folks on, but no one’s really stepped to the plate like I’d like them too.” He admits that he probably has his hands a bit too tight on the steering wheel. He hopes that you’ll join Dear Langston’s efforts via email at dearlangston@gmail.com or follow Dear Langston on Twitter at twitter.com/dearlangston or fan Dear Langston on facebook at www.facebook.com/dearlangston.
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One prior study had also estimated that quarantine and other public health measures "prevented more than 2,000 additional cases" aboard the Diamond Princess, compared to doing nothing at all, Kuroda's group noted.
In the new study, the Japanese team sought to determine the origins of the cruise ship outbreak. To do so, they analyzed the DNA of samples of SARS-CoV-2 in nasal swab tests obtained from almost 900 passengers and crew during the outbreak.
The genetic analysis suggests "that there was a single introduction of SARS-CoV-2, which disseminated among passengers on the ship through possible mass gathering events in the recreational areas," according to the study.
The dominance in samples of coronavirus with a particular gene "cluster" also suggests possible "superspreading" onboard, long before the quarantine began, the study authors said.
The virus may have silently spread in events as innocuous as a shared dinner table or during "dancing, singing, shopping, and watching performances," Kuroda's group said.
While cruise ships may be a unique environment, the outbreak -- and quarantine -- aboard the Diamond Princess reveals "how SARS-CoV-2 can be spread in the community" more generally, the research team said.
Dr. Amesh Adalja is an infectious disease expert and senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, in Baltimore. Reading the new report, he said it "illustrates how a contagious respiratory virus can disseminate widely from just one person in the right context."
And for anyone still contemplating a cruise, the new findings show that "most of the cases may have been contracted at mass gathering events on the ship -- an important factor to consider as cruise lines begin to think about resuming operations," Adalja said.
The study was published July 28 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has more about COVID-19.
SOURCES: Amesh Adalja, MD, senior scholar, Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, Baltimore; Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, July 28, 2020
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Friday, February 27, 1998 Published at 08:28 GMT
World: Americas
Canada's quins reject compensation
The three surviving members of a famous set of quintuplets -- exploited by the Canadian authorities when they were children -- have turned down an offer of financial compensation.
The Dionne quins, whose birth in 1934 was regarded as a remarkable event, were taken from their parents by the Ontario regional government and turned into a circus-style freak show.
They were paraded before paying spectators for more than a decade during the Depression; a trust fund set aside for the sisters disappeared without trace.
The government offered each of the three remaining sisters, who are now destitute, a pension of $16,000 a year.
Their lawyer said this was totally inadequate, the sisters maintaining that the sum failed to address years of exploitation by the Ontario provincial government, which took them away from their parents.
"We've made it clear from the beginning that we want justice, not charity," said Cecile Dionne, now 63.
The government has said it will not increase the offer, but, according to a BBC correspondent, it may find itself up against public opinion.
The story of the quintuplets, documented in books, plays and films, is widely regarded as a shameful episode in recent Canadian history.
Rare exhibits
Born in a small farm house near Callander in northern Ontario on May 28, 1934, the Dionne quintuplets drew throngs of curious journalists.
When they were just four months old, the girls were removed from their parents' care by the Ontario government, which said it feared American promoters would exploit them.
Instead, the infants were put into a nearby hospital where they were paraded, sometimes up to four times a day, before paying spectators for a decade.
Their faces were plastered on soap and milk cartons and they became the grist for a series of movies and radio specials.
At one time, the Dionnes were credited for one-fifth of the entire tourism industry in Ontario.
Once known as the "million dollar babies," the three remaining Dionne sisters currently live together in a Montreal house, surviving on a total $700 (US$493) pension each month.
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Huglemaier and Fitchette Named to All-Tournament Team at Allen Classic
Sophomore Jamie Huglemaier and freshman Alyssa Fitchette were selected to the all-tournament team of the Kaminna Allen Classic held at GCC on Friday and Saturday. Huglemaier had 31 assists, 19 digs, nine service aces, and eight blocks for the weekend. Fitchette led the team with 21 blocks and added 34 kills. Setter Jen Martins added 102 assists, 12 blocks and 11 aces.
The Lady Cougars went 3-1 in pool play to take the #2 seed into the play-off round. In the quarterfinal matchup, GCC defeated Onondaga in two straight sets. Up next in the semifinals was 7th ranked Vincennes. Genesee won the first game but dropped the next two in a heartbreaking loss. Vincennes then defeated #2 Kellogg to claim the classic title.
During the week, the Lady Cougars continued their unbeaten string in conference play by defeating Erie CC (30-17, 30-28, 30-17) and Alfred State (30-17, 30-21, 30-12) in straight sets. Martins had 50 assists in the two matches. Fitchette had 13 and Danielle Berryman added 11 kills for Genesee. The Lady Cougars are now 21-5 overall and 6-0 in conference play.
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Assam: Special thrust must be given on malnutrition to improve health parameters
With a view to improving the health indicators in Hailakandi district of Assam, a slew of steps have been initiated by the health department.
A review meeting on Thursday presided over by Additional Deputy Commissioner Amalendu Roy discussed threadbare about the steps to improve upon the health parameters, particularly nutrition.
Roy underscored the need to give added thrust on nutritional aspect in which the district is lagging behind to steer the aspirational district on the path of progress on the health front. “Special thrust must be given on malnutrition in women and children and to initiate steps in right earnest to improve upon the key health parameter to take the aspirational district to the path of progress,” said Roy, adding, “Right now there is a confluence of positive factors that must be harnessed for impactful and positive transformation.”
The meeting discussed the need to identify the differently-abled persons in the district through a thorough survey so that artificial limbs, calipers and other accessories could be given to them.
It also discussed the status of preparedness of the upcoming National Deworming Day programme on August 10 and Measles Rubella vaccination campaign beginning August 17.
The meeting was attended, among others, by Joint Director, Health Services, Dr. Avijit Basu, Additional Chief Medical and Health Officer, Dr. Abed Rasul Mazumder, District Immunisation Officer, Dr. K. Thamdalsana, In-charge of Block Public Health Centres and Anganwadi Supervisor Workers.
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Dick Pope Sr.
Richard Downin' Pope Sr, fair play. (April 19, 1900 – January 28, 1988), better known as Dick Pope, was the feckin' founder of Cypress Gardens in Winter Haven, Florida.
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Dick Pope Jr.
Pope was an important innovator in the bleedin' sport of water skiin', includin' the development of barefoot skiin' in 1947. He is the son of Dick Pope Sr.,
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Dick or Richard Pope may refer to: Dick Pope Sr. (1900–1988), founder of Cypress Gardens in Winter Haven, Florida; Waterskiin' Hall of Fame inductee Dick
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Winter Haven was the feckin' openin' of Cypress Gardens in 1936 by Dick Pope, Sr. Sufferin' Jaysus listen to this. and his wife, Julie Pope. They first got the oul' idea for the feckin' park from a holy Good Housekeepin'
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Green Tomatoes, Wacky Races, Steel Magnolias, and Sweet Home Alabama, game ball! Dick Pope, Sr., promoter of Florida tourism, played an important role in popularizin'
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List of people from Winter Haven, Florida
of Jingle Bells. Sufferin' Jaysus. Uncle of J.P, so it is. Morgan. Dick Pope, Sr., founder of Cypress Gardens and famed water-skier Dick Pope, Jr., former world champion water-skier
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Cypress Gardens opened on January 2, 1936 as a botanical garden planted by Dick Pope Sr. and his wife Julie. Over the years it became one of the oul' biggest attractions
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promoter, Dick Pope, Sr., often referred to as the bleedin' "Father of American Water Skiin'" and founder of Cypress Gardens in Winter Haven, Florida. Pope cultivated
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Ralph Samuelson
his introduction to the bleedin' book "Water Skiin'" (1958, Prentice-Hall), by Dick Pope, Sr., creator of Cypress Gardens, Thomas described the bleedin' connection between
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quarterback Carl Pohlad, financier and former owner of Minnesota Twins Dick Pope, Sr., the "Father of American Water Skiin'" and promoter of Florida tourism;
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List of members of the bleedin' Water Ski Hall of Fame
Induction Entry Ralph Samuelson, deceased, Hall of Fame Induction Entry Dick Pope Sr., deceased, Hall of Fame Induction Entry Chuck Stearns, Huntington Beach
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Peterson (1975) Pete Pihos (2018) Lou Piniella (1977) Dick Pope, Jr. (1975) Dick Pope, Sr, the cute hoor. (1981) Edwin Pope (1996) Boog Powell (1980) Paul Quinn (1989)
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for Outstandin' Guest Actor in a feckin' Drama Series for his role as Eli Pope, Olivia Pope's father, in Scandal, and is known for playin' the feckin' role of Henry Deacon
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Death camps for the Palestinians
سه شنبه ، ۲۸ دی ۱۳۸۹؛ ۱۸ ژانویه ۲۰۱۱
خاخام های اسرائیلی خواستار برپایی «اردوگاه مرگ» علیه فلسطینی ها شدند
Israeli rabbis signed a religious ruling calling for the creation of death camps for the Palestinians
A magazine issued by religious Zionists in Israel called for the creation of ‘death camps’ for Palestinians.
In a report Saturday, Israeli news site Ynet brought to attention a weekly magazine, distributed in synagogues across Israel, which published a religious decree. The diktat, signed by major rabbis, called for the creation of such death camps, citing religious duty.
The magazine indicated that the creation of these camps would be the duty of all devote Jews.
The ‘fatwa’ strongly criticised rabbis in opposition, arguing that Palestinians are the 'giants' –perhaps a reference to the Biblical Goliath -- whom God ordered the Israelites to slaughter 2000 years ago -- children, women, elders and even cattle.
The rabbis claimed that the Torah compels the Jews to erase all trace of this age’s giants, referring to the Palestinians.
Even the rabbis that did not sign the fatwa support it in essence, they insisted.
Israeli thinker UdiAloni explained that the call for the elimination of the Palestinians -- in such a widespread and public way, notably in synagogues -- arises from a collective acceptance that this is a pragmatic approach.
Aloni was shocked no one objected to the rabbis who signed the fatwa, saying that “no one attempted to object, and no one thought of excommunicating these rabbis from the Israeli nation", according to the Ynet report.
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/2/8/3948/World/Region/Israeli-rabbis-call-for-%20%20creation-of-death-camps-fo.aspx
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Carmelo Anthony All-Star Vinyl
slovak34 November 12, 2007
He is known for
taking the big shot when his team needs a spark and scoring at near a 29 points
per game clip, but now Carmelo Anthony is being immortalized by Upper Deck with
an action figure. Upper Deck will
release an All-Star Vinyl action figure of the Denver Nuggets star forward on
Tuesday, November 13.
Four variants will be available: a white and blue trimmed Home Version (numbered to
500); a blue with yellow trimmed Road Version (numbered to 1,000); a
dark blue Alternate Road Version (numbered to 500); and a Black Edition (numbered to 250) featuring gold team graphics on an all black
figure.
The figures will run $74.99 (with the
exception of the Black Edition - $99.99). The figures will go live on Tuesday,
November 13 at 9:15am PDT for members of the ASV Platinum Club and
will be available to the public at 9:15am PDT on November 14th.
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Successful Weekend for 2020 Kadoka All-Class Reunion
Wed, 07/01/2020 - 9:43am admin
Jenny Leibel
The festivities of the 2020 Kadoka all-class reunion weekend provided many with the opportunity to reconnect with classmates in addition to spending quality time with friends, family and neighbors.
On Thursday, June 25, 2020, the festivities started with PRCA Slack in the morning at the Rodeo Arena. Then at 7:00 pm they had the PRCA Rodeo Performance at Rodeo Arena with Chuckwagon Races.
On Friday, June 26, 2020, they started at 6:30 am with Biscuits and Gravy at Discount Fuel, then at 8:00 am was Steer Roping at Rodeo Arena. At 4:00 was Cornhole Tournament the Champions was Connor Uhlir and Kassidy Ferguson the game proceeded outside of the Kadoka City Bar. The Nursing Home had the Annual Walking Tacos Fundraiser under the tent on Main Street from 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm. Finally, at 7:00 pm was the second night of the PRCA Rodeo Performance at the Rodeo Arena with the chuckwagon races. From 9:00 pm to 1:00 am Loose Change was playing for the locals to dance to under the tent on main street.
The Kadoka High School classes of 1960, 1970, 1980, 1990, 2000 and 2010 showed their Kougar pride and celebrated the theme of the reunion, A Salute to Military and Our First Responders. In addition to the class entries, many local businesses participated in the parade festivities and an array of classic cars complimented the reunion theme.
Celebration on Main Street continued on Saturday with the Parade at 11:30 am that had a ton of amazing floats in supporting our Military and First Responders. Penny’s Riverside Catering served immediately after the parade and throughout the day on Main Street, they served Pit Roast Buffalo Sandwiches and other menu items.
In previous years, inflatables provided entertainment for the youth of Kadoka. This year, children of all ages enjoyed the water inflatables located at the north end of Main Street. Three water slides, varying in height and size, provided age appropriate entertainment for children in addition to the Kadoka swimming pool offering free admission from noon until 6pm.
The Annual Ranch Rodeo was a success with the Discount Fuel Team winning first place. The team consisted of Colter Stout, Colby Porch, Bryer Jones and Tell Stoner. In the picture in this weeks Kadoka Press of the team Tell Stoner is not in the picture as he was taken to the hospital. Klay O’Daniel won the Hard Luck Winner after having a horse topple on top of him. The Lex Grooms Memorial Top Horse award was awarded to Abigail Sybrant. The Maurice Handcock Top Hand award was awarded to Tell Stoner.
Jim Brown of Kadoka, Greg Nelson of Deadwood and Clint Nixon of Rapid City brought one of the original stagecoach replicas from the Days of ’76 stagecoach to the Kadoka Reunion Parade and for the opening ceremony of the Ranch Rodeo. An exact replica of the original “Deadwood Stage,” it is owned and operated by the Days of ’76 Rodeo Committee. It was built by Abbetand Downing in 1847 and originally called a “mud wagon” because of its ability to travel the hard terrain between Deadwood and Cheyenne. It operated from 1876-1887. Black Hills Buggies, a team comprised of Ryon & Teresa Rypkema from Caputa, SD guided the stagecoach with their Percheron team of Guinevere, Athena, Duke and Rhea. They have helped haul horses through a number of events, including the Parade of Lights, Days of ’76 Parade, Black Hills Round Up Parade and several tribute rides during the Central States Fair.
On Sunday, June 28, 2020 Cowboy Church started at 9:00 am and following that was Kid’s Play Day at the Rodeo Arena.
The planning for the annual event requires many hours of preparation to ensure securing entertainment during the June event. Volunteers start planning the event before the calendar year passes and this year preparations began in December 2019. Hayli Mayfield, who chairs the all-class reunion committee, extended her gratitude to the numerous volunteers and local businesses involved in planning and participating in the weekend celebration. Each year, the committee reviews the previous year’s successes and plans accordingly for the next year’s event. So, before the 2020 calendar year comes to a close, the plans for the 2021 Kadoka all-class reunion will be in the planning stages.
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27 Things Overheard in the Woods at Summer Camp Music Festival
July 5, 2016 By Phil
If you’ve just come home from Electric Forest or you’ve been before, you already know about the super weird and hilarious commentary that goes down among the trees. If you’re new to talking trees or just want to reminisce with us, here’s 27 things we heard walking through the woods at Summer Camp in Illinois.
“I swear Umphrey’s just played for 8 hours.”
“Thought maybe I could have one trip without seeing an owl but, nope.”
“Last night I thought someone was in our tent but it turned out to be a gallon of animal crackers.”
“Moonmats are basically like having tiny children in a pillow fight underneath your feet.”
“You got a light?
…you’ve come to the right place man, I’m like chief of the Bics.”
“Wait they’re carding you for alcohol?”
“I’m not trying to hustle you but…”
“Why did we do this.”
“I am everything. All the time.”
“Soulshine just feels right.”
“The Gatorade… get me the Gatorade now.”
“Wait. How old are you?”
“The moon is crazy huge.
…dude the moon is over there.”
“This is my 43rd festival this year.”
“I swear there is a guy in that tree.”
“Hey come over here and tell us if there is a guy in this tree.”
“So no guy in the tree?”
“Secret Bassnectar set in the parking lot!”
(Then at least a dozen flat brimmed hat flew to the source of that comment)
“Wait there was more than one Umphrey’s set?”
“I smell it. It’s close.”
“You shall not pass! Alright I mean you can pass, I’m not even remotely in your way but you got a cig?”
“Guys there is a Decepticon DJing Cosmic Village right now. We have to go save people.”
“So you’re saying the music already started?”
“Can I get a ride to Wakarusa?”
“Turns out, the calls were coming from inside the house.”
“None of that will matter when space and time explode.”
(I swear you guys, actual quote.)
“No, our tent was definitely right here..”
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Jeremy’s Review: ‘Video Games: The Movie’ Is an Endearing Documentary on the History and Evolution of Video Games and Their Culture
Posted on July 21, 2014 by Jeremy Harmon — 1 Comment ↓
Perhaps I’m dating myself here, but I can easily recall when Pong, the original video game sensation, became a hit, and the Atari 2600 shortly thereafter. And on and on and on. I am a member of the first video game generation and plenty of my life (up to the end college at least) has been consumed by playing, a pastime I have since passed along to my two sons, ages 7 and 9 much to the chagrin of my wife who never played them and fails to see their point. But one can’t deny how pervasive that video games have become in our culture and that’s where a film like writer-director Jeremy Snead‘s fantastic documentary Video Games: The Movie helps show how and why this all came about.
Starting out with a history of video games and giving us a tour of the evolution of the systems and their consumption, Snead and the many industry giants and some famous fans of video games (including narrator Sean Astin) help paint the broader picture of video game culture and its effects on society. While there are several aspects of the culture tackled in this film, nerd (I use that term lightly, because who’s to judge who is a nerd and who isn’t?) inclusion and community creation seems to ring the heaviest with nearly all parties interviewed. That many people wouldn’t have anywhere near the number of friends, wouldn’t meet their significant other/life partners, etc., without video games is hammered home quite nicely in this film. All too often, gamers are perceived as socially awkward and incapable of creating and maintaining normal relationships. This film is quick to counter that, asking “what is normal?” and gives multiple examples of how, yes, these relationships that are forged in battle or head-to-head while gaming are the norm and are becoming more so as more people plug in and play. Are you a fan of gaming? you might love casino gaming too, check Casino666 now and claim your rewards now.
The film also tackles the many intricacies that it takes to create, develop and market video games. The multi-year dedication before many games even enter the testing phase to see if they can somehow make the grade with gamers, who are demanding more out of their gaming experience, is incredible and pretty much unfathomable to those outside the industry. As details are shown from various video games over time, from Pong to Halo for example, it is truly incredible how far they’ve come and how far yet they will go.
With interviews from everyone from Nolan Bushnell (creator of the Atari system) to Al Alcorn (creator of Pong) to Nerdist creator Chris Hardwick to actor Wil Wheaton, there is a real relevance to what the great bulk of these people have to say about the culture and the games themselves (well, maybe not Zach Braff…). Structurally, it is segmented and designed to relay specific points, but it is interwoven so well, that these segments feed off of one another building a complete story. If you are into video games at all, I can’t help but to think this would interest you. This film follows in the footsteps of great video game documentaries such as Indie Game: The Movie, The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters, and Second Skin. The scope of Video Games: The Movie is much wider and covers far more area than these other docs. And it’s a shame that Snead was unable to incorporate the news that the infamous Atari E.T. cartridges were recently unearthed in that New Mexico dump back in May.
I really enjoyed this film and of course, as my nature is, became quite nostalgic for my old videogaming days. Perhaps I can locate my old Atari 5200 and crank up some Jungle Hunt in the hear future. This is a fine addition to the growing number of docs about video games and I imagine that those who see it will fall in love with it. To Mr. Snead, from one Jeremy to another…thanks for making this.
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HP considers the security of our customers’ devices and personal information a top priority. Reinstall Start menu (StartMenuExperienceHost & ShellExperienceHost). Instead of setting my priority program to High, I set all the other programs on my taskbar to Low so now my other programs run below windows processes so not affecting windows processes but using all the processor that is left after windows and my priority program gets to do what they must - I find this a more stable approach i. Start out by clicking the Windows 10 Search button and then type the word firewall. The program starts up and runs with high priority. exe will have less influence on what you are doing on the computer. Therefore, if you have deleted your path after. Right-click on the process you want then select Set Priority then switch it to what you want. Supported operating systems for servers: Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials / Standard (64-bit). Type the following command into Notepad: Start "program name" /high "c:\program files\ program location\program. This approach provides the most compatibility with Windows software and. NOTE: This icon looks like a stamp. Confirm the BIOS boot sequence lists the USB drive first, or make that change as needed. Summary Delete a Program from the Taskbar in the Start Menu. high ; normal ; low ; abovenormal (Windows 2000 only) belownormal (Windows 2000 only) Now to do that, all you have to do is to use the start command and here is the syntax: start /{priority} {application}, Example: start /high winword start /low notepad "C:\YourDirectory" start /realtime YourApplication. WinUI APIs run on earlier versions of Windows 10, so you don’t have to include version checks or conditional XAML to supports users who aren’t on the latest OS. Maximization of power usage • If you for some reason don’t want to use BHP, go to Power Option in Windows Control Panel and set it to High Performance. 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We’re very busy and may take a little longer to answer calls and emails. Start menu and Taskbar Stuck in Windows 10. Tip 5: Set the priority of Java to High For this, you will need to have Minecraft Running, this is somewhat effective, but is very easy to do so I recommend it. From the dock, click the Mail icon. You may copy the Software onto a single computer for. Windows setup "High" priority process consumes more system resource like CPU, Memory, etc. Activate Windows 10 without using any software. /REALTIME: Start application in the REALTIME priority class. Cubase 10 is automatically adapting the amount of real-time threads to the system. Go back to server settings and Download and install Outline Manager from the website. Hopefully Home windows will be capable of appropriate any errors and convey the search function again to full. 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I can set this process priority to high from windows task manager by going to a process right click it and set priority as high. How to easily set a default printer in Windows 10?. exe is to check for new Windows updates. Thus follow the steps as follows to turn off all those unnecessary programs to speed up Windows 10 booting process: Step 1. With Acronis True Image, creating a full image backup is a two-click process. Load More Close widget. Method 2:: Right click the shortcut, select Properties and add the following to the beginning of the Target box: This should work for most programs, but If there are any problems, you will need to change the priority manually. To partner with districts, schools, families, students, business and industry, and communities to provide leadership and support to ensure success for each and every student. High priority allows the scan to be executed at the maximum speed which the computer allows, but may affect other tasks. 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If it is checked, then Windows will remember your priority settings after system re-boots. How to Rotate or Flip Display Screen on Windows 10 One Exception in Changing Main Display If you choose to extend your displays, or make one of them your standalone monitor, a main display will have to get selected. Permanent Process Priority - posted in Windows 10 Support: Been to all corners of the internet and cant find a program/procedure to permanently set a games process priority to high. Priority-setting can be conducted at the disease level (i. Sorting TickTick supports six different sorting order. We have also covered how to take a screenshot in Windows 10 without the Print screen button. This “How to” guide will teach you how to turn on Automatic Updates in Windows 10. dll and wldap32. 1, and 10 can sometimes be a problem. Certified ProAdvisors get free, priority listing on our Find-a-ProAdvisor directory. SINGLE USER LICENSE. Filter editor Create custom filters to filter traffic by direction, protocol, IPs, application, etc. Also, the affinity solution is not really that much practical for service controlled programs. We show you how to take a screenshot in Windows 10. All technical data and computer software is commercial in nature and developed solely at private expense. The program may also run automatically from a registry entry. Log in to Windows 10 with a local Administrator Account. On the desktop, right-click in the lower left corner of the screen to display the Advanced User task Note: remember that when you install a program, the path is updated with the newly installed program path. In global health, priority-setting is a term used for the process and strategy of deciding which health interventions to carry out. Score these on impact (from, say, 0 for no impact to 10 for maximum impact), and on effort involved (from, say, 0 for no real effort to 10 for a major effort). Open up the aperture (use a low f-stop number) to get a shallow depth of field; the maximum. Right-click on it, and go to Set Priority and set it to “High. UNKNOWN UNKNOWN Legacy 10. tabs is used to specify and set hardware tab stops on terminals that support it. Key: title Text for the CMD window title bar (required. Still, if you want to tweak it to work differently, this is how you would do it. Launch SCCM Console; Go to Administration > Site Configuration > Sites. Set Up TestNav on Windows. How Can I Change the Voice Vlan Priority on the AR? What Are Differences Between AR1200, AR2200. It is used to set the default. It allows me to limit incoming and outgoing bandwidth for any program/process that is started, by default showing active programs. Slideshow and caption slide animation are all available for both version. So, to make it easy complete guide for how can I move programs file folder to another drive Windows 10, 8, 7. The mapping from Windows priority to internal Windows numeric priority is shown in Figure 5-13. Start 16-bit Windows program in separate memory space. Without being able to change the launcher exe I don't think there any way to permanently launch one of the processes it launches to a different priority level. You can set up Samsung’s Email app to just notify you when you get email from people you designate as Priority Senders. Multiple Windows 9 reports have suggested that Microsoft is considering releasing the upcoming platform as a free download to certain existing Windows users. There are 3 static variables defined in Thread class for priority. Windows 10 allows you to easily reset your entire system, and delete all your personal files, apps, and custom settings from This article has been viewed 22,831 times. How to get technical support. Download the latest public version here or join the Insider Program to get access to insider builds. Thus if you want to set a network to have the second best priority, you will. You can use this Command Prompt to type commands that will be executed with Administrative privileges. Substitute Full path of application file in the command above with the actual full path of the application file (ex: "C:\Windows\System32\mspaint. Stuart is getting his daughter a Windows 10 laptop for Christmas, and would like some advice on setting it up. But on the other side yes, it really can help to your performance. This means that clinicians in any care setting will have access to appropriate information about a patient. exe") you want to start. Learn how to lock down your Windows 10 computer to maintain your privacy. You want to follow this guide while choosing the preferred GPU on Windows 10 for your apps. It’s time to kick your productivity into high gear with the right operating system, like Windows 10, and programs, like Microsoft Office. Send large files, preview visual assets, collect precise feedback and keep creative projects moving in one easy and secure cloud-based software. Here the overview of priorities, from the lowest to the highest process priority!. exe when I ran the game. Windows 10 Tips and Software Reviews. 6 Fortnite is well-optimized for both high-end and low-end computers, so these specifications should let you play Fortnite with any computer. Type the following. $10 Million in Rebates Available for School Buses to Help Reduce Diesel Emissions, Protect Children’s Health (apply thru Oct. I can manually change the priority of a running process. IDLE_PRIORITY_CLASS, win32process. Try these five ways to free up RAM storage for Windows 10 computers. So this is how you're going to force any games to be set on high priority 1. Change the USB mode to “file transfer (MTP. Rapid growth in the number of connected devices, streaming entertainment, and other high-bandwidth activities is placing staggering performance demands on today's Wi-Fi. Confirm the BIOS boot sequence lists the USB drive first, or make that change as needed. There are 3 static variables defined in Thread class for priority. The shell argument (which defaults to False) specifies whether to use the shell as the program to execute. Go to Control Panel > Programs (in Windows 10 Control Panel is in the popup list when right-clicking on the Start button) and select Turn Windows Features On or Off. I don't know though. Priority Management Software for Teams. If you want to set a higher priority than the default, you do need superuser. The screen recording tool is specially designed for gamers who want to record their gameplay videos. 1 File Explorer for more accurate results. Note: You’d better not set the priority to High or Realtime for OBS, as you should leave CPU sources for other tasks, especially the game you are streaming. From the available list, click to select the drive on which Windows 10 is installed. This is a nuke. program: In computing, a program is a specific set of ordered operations for a computer to perform. Instead of setting my priority program to High, I set all the other programs on my taskbar to Low so now my other programs run below windows processes so not affecting windows processes but using all the processor that is left after windows and my priority program gets to do what they must - I find this a more stable approach i. Set Fortnite to high priority. How to create a scene in OBS Studio. Select “Programs” Select “Windows Update” The first time the Windows Update page is loaded, it will prompt to update the Windows Update software Update the Windows Update software; Restart the PC when instructed to do so; Load the “Windows Update” page again; Click “Custom” updates to select from optional and high-priority. How to fix it: Follow the steps below in the given order: 1. If no errors occurred in the above process, you should now be all set to setup Windows from USB drive! Step 2: Configuring the BIOS. This tutorial will explain how to open an Elevated Command Prompt in Windows 10. Go to the Processes tab. command The command, batch file or executable program to run. exe for world of warcraft, will that make my games run. I hope it work for you guys ! Same here Man, earlier when I didn't have it on high priority, it was smoother than after I put it on high priority. 12), or El Capitan (10. /SHARED: Start 16-bit Windows program in shared memory space. 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Create a small batch file using notepad with the following text I recommend the installer creators to make an option for running XBMC as high priority during install. To use these, select a folder as you did in step three, then click the 'Main' tab and choose an icon. Next, from your Detail panel, right-click on SteamService. I'm ok with sending anonymised data/statistics Click here to see the exact information Backing up your Recovery Key enables you to set a new password without data loss. I am not sure how well it will work and if it is just not a problem with the software, however to change priority of programs: Open task manager. Let's look at how to do that. Still, if you want to tweak it to work differently, this is how you would do it. Your safety remains a top priority for the Feeding America network. Enjoy over 1 Million Top Android Games with the best app player for PC. 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Of course, you can also reset it back to normal or other Windows 10 CPU priority such as Above normal, Below normal and Low. Note : For ATI/AMD graphics cards the process varies. 11) What tag is used to add columns to tables ? a) b) c) Ans: b. How to fix it: Follow the steps below in the given order: 1. You may reboot your computer once the Hyper-V feature was added. HP refers cases to law enforcement authorities when appropriate and will cooperate in any related. ) Since you already become root with the sudo-command, su won't ask you for a password. The supported OS versions are Windows Vista, 7, 8, and 10.
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Bohigas-Giannoni-Schmit conjecture
Denis Ullmo (2016), Scholarpedia, 11(9):31721. doi:10.4249/scholarpedia.31721 revision #169195 [link to/cite this article]
Curator: Denis Ullmo
Dima Shepelyansky
Fritz Haake
Denis Ullmo, Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Modèles Statistiques, Université Paris Sud, Orsay, France
In their seminal 1984 paper Bohigas, Giannoni and Schmit (1984-a) (see also Bohigas, Giannoni and Schmit 1984-b), stated a conjecture describing the statistical properties of chaotic spectra that was formulated as follow:
Spectra of time reversal-invariant systems whose classical analogues are K systems show the same fluctuation properties as predicted by GOE (alternative stronger conjectures that cannot be excluded would apply to less chaotic systems, provided that they are ergodic).
Thirty years later this conjecture, although still not proven, is supported by a vast host of numerical studies, as well as what, in the judiciary world, would be referred to as “a convergent set of convincing evidences”. Its very general validity, in spite of some rather well understood limitations, is now largely accepted; and together with its various natural extensions (including time reversal non invariant systems, systems with spins, wave function properties, etc..) it forms the basis of a statistical approach to “simple” quantum system, somewhat in the same spirit as the maximum entropy principle would for statistical physics at large. Stating a universal property of chaotic systems – beyond the fact that its classical analog is chaotic, nothing is said about the system – the BGS-conjecture has found applications in many fields of physics including atomic physics, nuclear physics, mesoscopic physics, etc.., and has thus taken a significant place in the toolkit of theoretical quantum physicists.
The goal of this Scholarpedia entry is to provide some introduction to the meaning and implications of the BGS-conjecture. The first section is mainly devoted to a more detailed discussion of the content of the conjecture, as well as of the context within which it has emerged. In the second section, the various attempt to prove, or justify, the BGS-conjecture are briefly surveyed. An overview of the various applications of the conjecture will be found in section 3. Finally the two last sections will provide some complement informations on the chaos hierarchy and will introduce some of the spectral statistics often found in the literature.
1 Content of the BGS-conjecture
1.2 Random Matrices
1.3 Complexity vs Chaos
2 Justifications of the BGS-conjecture
2.1 Non-linear \(\sigma\)-model
2.2 Semiclassical trace formula
2.3 Further discussion: the ergodicity argument
3 Applications of the BGS conjecture
4 Complement: The chaos hierarchy
4.1 Ergodicity
4.2 Mixing
4.3 K Systems (Kolmogorov)
4.4 B-Systems (Bernoulli)
4.5 A-Systems (Anosov)
4.6 Stable and unstable manifold
5 Complement : Spectral statistics
5.1 Unfolding the spectra
5.2 \(n\)-point correlation functions and Dyson cluster functions
5.3 Nearest neighbor spacing
5.4 Number variance
5.5 Dyson-Mehta function
6.1 Seminal papers
6.2 Reviews and general references
6.3 References of section 1
Content of the BGS-conjecture
[Bohigas and Giannoni (1984), Bohigas in 'Les Houches LII' (1991)]
The kind of systems the BGS-conjecture aims to describe are simple quantum mechanical systems for which one can define a classical limit. The word “simple” here has to be understood as opposed to “complex”, itself associated with the existence of many degrees of freedom and with the interaction between phenomena taking place at different scales.
Typically one has therefore in mind low dimensional systems described by smooth Hamiltonians or billiards, and we shall use the latter for illustration. A two-dimensional quantum billiard is associated with a Hamiltonian reduced to its kinetic term
\[H_{\rm K} = -\frac{\hbar^2}{2 m} \Delta \; ,\]
(with \( \Delta \equiv \partial_x^2 + \partial^2_y\) the Laplace operator) within some region \(\mathcal{D}\) of the plan \({\bf r}= (x,y)\), and some boundary conditions on the boundary \(\partial \mathcal{D}\) of the billiard. In the classical limit, this system is described by free propagation within the billiard \(\mathcal{D}\), and specular reflection on its boundary. Two examples of billiards are displayed in Figure 1.
Figure 1: (a) Circular billiard (integrable). (b) Sinai billiards (chaotic). [This Figure is taken from (Bohigas, Giannoni and Schmit 1984-b) (With kind permission of The European Physical Journal (EPJ)).]
Although such a two dimensional billiard is definitely a “simple system”, the classical motion within the billiard can be rather complicated, and can even be chaotic. One can compare in this respect the circular billiard of Figure 1a, which is actually an integrable system, with the Sinai billiard of Figure 1b, for which the motion displays the strongest form of chaos.
Intuitively speaking, such a concept of chaos is associated with the notion of sensitivity to initial conditions and exponential divergence of neighbor trajectories. More formally, one should however rather refer to the hierarchy of chaos, which, starting from ergodicity – which by itself is not yet fully associated with chaos – leads to mixing, K and B systems, and finally axiom A, or Anosov, systems. Section 4 gives a brief introduction to these various notions. The conjecture itself, although it contains the mention of K-system, does not insist that the system should be sufficiently high in this hierarchy to apply (as is illustrated by the “alternative stronger conjectures” mentioning only ergodicity). We shall see in the next section that the relevant notion is more the absence of time scales in the exploration of phase space (or the fact that these time scale a short enough with respect to Heisenberg time).
Random Matrices
[Mehta (2004), Porter (1965)]
What the BGS-conjecture does is that it reveals the very strong link that exists between chaos, which is a concept of classical mechanics, and random matrix theory, which is a model for the statistical description of spectra and wave functions of quantum systems.
Random matrices were introduced in the fifties by Eugene Wigner in the context of nuclear physics. His goal at that time, following earlier work from Bohr about the emergence of statistical laws in nuclear physics (Bohr (1936)), was to interpret the statistical properties of slow-neutron resonances, which could be understood as highly excited states of nuclei. Because nuclei typically contain a large number of protons and neutrons interacting through complicated forces, Wigner postulated that, from a statistical point of view, the Hamiltonian describing the nuclei for an energy range significantly above the ground state should not differ significantly from a ensemble of random matrices provided this ensemble respect the following constraints :
The quantum evolution should be unitary, implying that the corresponding Hamiltonian has to be hermitian (and if real, symmetric).
All symmetries should be taken into account, and especially the symmetry under time reversal.
Beyond these symmetries, no information is contained in the ensemble, and in particular no direction of the Hilbert space plays a specific role.
Once these constraints were fulfilled Wigner postulated that the details of the matrices distribution law would not matter much, and that one could as well consider the simple case for which matrix elements are independent random quantities. It turns out that this constraints completely specify the random matrix ensembles that one needs to construct, and leads to the three Gaussian Ensemble of Wigner – GOE (Orthogonal), GUE (Unitary) and GSE (Symplectic) – that we describe now.
A matrix ensemble is specified by both the set \(\mathcal{H}\) of matrices that are considered, and by the probability density defined on this set. The set of matrices depends on symmetry with respect to time reversal:
If the system under consideration is not invariant under time reversal symmetry \(\mathcal{H} = \{ N \times N \mbox { hermitian matrices} \} \; \) (This corresponds to the Gaussian Unitary Ensemble (GUE)).
If the system is invariant under time reversal symmetry, and either has an integer total quantum momentum or either rotational or inversion symmetry \(\mathcal{H} = \{ N \times N \mbox { real symmetric matrices} \} \; \) (This corresponds to the Gaussian Orthogonal Ensemble (GUE)).
If the system is invariant under time reversal symmetry, and has an half-integer total quantum momentum without rotational or inversion symmetry \(\mathcal{H} = \{ 2N \times 2N \mbox { quaternion real matrices} \} \; \) (This corresponds to the Gaussian Symplectic Ensemble (GSE)).
Noting \(\beta\) the number of real parameters necessary to define one matrix element (\(\beta =1\) for GOE (real matrix elements), \(\beta =2\) for GUE (complex matrix elements), and \(\beta =4\) for GSE (quaternion real matrix elements)), the probability density takes a rather similar form since for any \(H \in \mathcal{H}\),
\[\tag{1} P_{N\beta} (H) dH = \mathcal{N}_{N\beta} \exp\left[- \frac{{\rm Tr}(H^2)}{2 v^2} \right] dH \; ,\]
with \(\mathcal{N}_{N\beta}\) a normalization constant that depends both on \(N\) and \(\beta\) and \(v\) a parameter that fixes the energy scale. It has to be born in mind however that in spite of the similarity of the expressions of \(P_{N\beta} (H)\) for different \(\beta\) they are actually rather different objects since they apply to different kind of matrices. In particular the measure \(dH\) means \(\prod_{i \leq j} d H_{ij}\) in the orthogonal case but \(\prod_{i} dH_{ii} \prod_{i<j}dH^R_{ij}dH^I_{ij}\) (with \(H^R_{ij}\) and \(H^I_{ij}\) the real and imaginary parts of \(H_{ij}\)), in the unitary case, and again something different in the symplectic one. The names of the matrix ensembles originate from the fact that the density probability \(P_{N\beta} (H)\) is invariant under any orthogonal (\(\beta =1\)), unitary (\(\beta =2\)) or symplectic (\(\beta =4\)) transformation, which expresses the fact that no direction of the Hilbert space plays a particular role.
To each of these random matrix ensembles (which are usually considered in the \(N \to \infty\) limit) correspond definite predictions for various spectral statistics such as \(k\)-point correlation function, the nearest neighbor spacing, or the \(\Sigma^2\) statistics. The most popular of these statistics are briefly reviewed in section 5 together with some of the expressions that can be derived for them within the Gaussian Ensemble modeling. Somewhat improperly, since other kind of matrix ensembles could be, and actually are, designed, Gaussian Ensembles will be refer to below as “the Random Matrix Ensembles”.
Here we just insist on the two important features that characterize random matrix ensembles, namely level repulsion and spectral rigidity. Level repulsion is a short distance effect, which takes place on a scale shorter than the mean level spacing, and which states that the probability of finding levels very close one from each others is small. The tendency of levels to repel each other at short distances increases with \(\beta\), and is therefore larger for GUE than for GOE, and again larger for GSE than for GUE. Spectral rigidity on the other hand is a large energy scale property (ie energy scale much larger that the mean level spacing). It states that in an energy range which contains on average a number \(M\) of level the fluctuation of the number of level in this range remains small even when \(M\) becomes large (in practice grows logarithmically with \(M\), and for instance not as \(\sqrt{M}\) as could be expected for a random process).
Complexity vs Chaos
As mentioned above, what Wigner had in mind when he introduced his random matrix ensembles was that the relevant notion to motivate their use was complexity. The successes of the random matrix modeling in nuclear physics however made it clear that even beyond this field, spectral statistics were an appropriate tool to characterize different kinds of quantum systems.
In his paper on “Regular and irregular spectra” , Percival (1973) built on on this perspective, and introduced the notion that spectral statistics could be one way to distinguish the quantum mechanics of classically chaotic system from the one of classically regular (integrable) ones. Actually, the notion that semiclassical quantization of non-integrable systems should proceed differently from that of integrable systems was first pointed by Einstein (1917) who was aware of the result of Poincaré that generic nonlinear systems with few degrees of freedom are non-integrable. Percival suggested that, at a very general level and since classical dynamics was a limit of quantum dynamics, the integrable or chaotic nature of the classical dynamics should have consequences on the corresponding spectra. More precisely, he argued that when integrable systems should show no level repulsion (their eigenstates live on invariant tori which do not overlap in phase space, and thus in some sense ignore each other), chaotic states should be in contact with one other (since the chaotic motion mixes everything) and thus should show some degree of level repulsion, in analogy with RMT. A mathematical result from Shnirelman (1974), also known as the Shnirelman theorem, stating that the eigenstates of a chaotic billiard are ergodic in the limit of large quantum numbers, further straightened this analogy.
The first study of spectral statistics of systems which are chaotic in the classical limit is due to Zaslavskii and Filonenko (1973). Their theoretical analysis was however incorrect as they predicted that the level spacing statistics \(P(s)\) should be proportional to the spacing \(s\) raised at a power inversely proportional to the Kolmogorov-Sinai entropy. The first numerical studies (McDonald and Kaufman (1979), Casati, Valz-Gris and Guarneri (1980)), which were motivated and influenced by these theoretical predictions were not accurate enough and could not gather enough statistics to be really conclusive.
A few years later, Berry and Tabor (1977) further showed (for more than one degree of freedom systems and with the exception of pathological cases such as the harmonic oscillator) that not only there is no level repulsion in integrable systems but in the semiclassical limit they display the same statistical properties as a pure random process, ie as if one was just drawing the levels independently from each other. Berry and Tabor derivation of this results has now recently become a full fledged theorem (Marklof, 2001).
The coup de génie of Bohigas Giannoni and Schmit was to realize that the difference between the spectral statistics of integrable and chaotic systems was not just that the former could be modeled by a set of independent numbers when the latter shows “some” correlation (and in particular some degree of level repulsion), but that the spectral statistics of chaotic systems could be fully, and in every details, described by the random matrix ensembles of Wigner. As illustrated in Figure 2 they based their conclusions on a detailed numerical study of a few chaotic billiards (the Sinai and Bunimovitch billiard, which are both Anosov system), numerical studies that were confirmed by a vast number of other works.
By doing so, they showed that contrarily to what Wigner had in mind, chaos rather than complexity was the relevant concept to associate with random matrices. This significantly enlarged the universality class to which this kind of modeling could be applied, and, as we shall illustrate in section 3, to the number of field in physics within which one could apply a random matrix description.
Figure 2: Nearest neighbor density for a (desymmetrized) Sinai billiard (see Figure 1), showing that this distribution agrees perfectly well with the Wigner surmise Eq.(13) valid for the GOE ensemble (solid line). [This figure is taken from (Bohigas, Giannoni and Schmit, 1984-a).]
Justifications of the BGS-conjecture
Up to this day, most of the confidence one has in the validity of the random matrix description stems from the fact that – in addition to the Sinai and Bunimovitch billiards studied by Bohigas Giannoni and Schmit – it has been verified numerically on a vast variety of simple systems, including the Hydrogen Atom in magnetic field (Wintgen and Friedrich,1986; Delande and Gay, 1986), the hyperbola billiard (Sieber and Steiner, 1990), and various other kind of systems.
A few attempt have been made however to “prove” the BGS conjecture. Although none of these proofs can pretend to be fully convincing – even within the physicist acception of the notion of proof – they shade some light on the mechanisms underlying the BGS-conjecture. We try to summarize (very briefly) here their content.
Non-linear \(\sigma\)-model
Non-linear \(\sigma\)-models were initially introduced in solid state physics in the context of disordered system, with the aim to go beyond the weak disorder / diffusive approximation and to describe localization effects. In this respect it has proved to be a very useful and effective tool.
In 1996, Andreev and coworkers made an attempt to apply this approach to chaotic, rather than diffusive, systems, having in mind very specifically to derive in this way the BGS conjecture (Andreev et al, 1993-a; Andreev et al, 1993-b). This first attempt to prove the BGS conjecture through the non-linear \(\sigma\)-model turned out to meet some roadblock, some of which could be overcome in latter treatment of ballistic non-linear \(\sigma\)-models (Altland et al, 2015). We present here a brief account of both the original and the more recent approaches, and discuss the remaining gap to be closed before a claim to an actual derivation of the conjecture can be made.
Non-linear \(\sigma\)-models are rather technical objects, and it is unrealistic to enter in any significant way into their formalism. The presentation here is thus limited to a kind of literary description of (Andreev et al, 1993-a; Andreev et al, 1993-b; Altland et al, 2015), without actually writing down any equation.
In the work of Andreev et al, the starting point is, as for diffusive system, to write down an exact form of the two-point correlation generating function in terms of a functional integral involving both bosonic and fermionic variables. Performing an energy average (instead of the disorder average done for disordered systems) produces a quartic (interaction-like) term in the resulting action, which can be decoupled through a Hubbard-Stratonovitch transformation.
This description is up to this point exact. One then performs first a steepest descent approximation in the large \(N\) limit (with \(N\) the number of states contained within the Thouless energy), and a semiclassical approximation where the commutators are replaced by Poisson brackets. In this way, the two-point correlation function can be expressed in terms of the Perron-Frobenius operator of the classical motion, and if there is a gap between the lowest eigenvalue of this operator (which corresponds to the ergodic distribution) and the next lowest one, one obtains a "zero-dimensional \(\sigma\)-model" which, for time reversal non invariant systems, leads to the spectral statistics of the Gaussian Unitary Ensemble.
Beyond its technical character, this derivation suffers from a couple of drawbacks. The first one, which could have been only technical, is that the spectra of the Perron-Frobenius operator (and thus the gap between the two lowest states) depends significantly on the space of function to which it is applied, and in the midst of the various approximation performed during the derivation it is not clear that the regularization done makes it possible to determine unambiguously this space.
More troubling is that although this approach leads to the correct result for GUE, it seems to fail capturing the interference effects associated with time reversal invariance in the GOE case (see the discussion by Leyvraz and Seligman (1997)), leading (under the same set of approximations as for GUE) to an incorrect prediction for the two-point correlation function.
An alternative approach to ballistic non-linear \(\sigma\)-model was proposed by M. Zirnbauer (Zirnbauer, 1996). The main difference here is that the starting point of the calculation is not the generating function for the correlator of some Hamiltonian eigenvalues, but the one for the eigenvalues of unitary operators. This makes the approach best suited to the study of quantum maps, but it can be applied also to continuous time evolution provided one uses it for the time evolution operator \( U(\tau) \) for well chosen value of the propagation time \( \tau \). The generating function is once again expressed [exactly] as a functional integral involving both bosonic and fermionic variables. In this form however, if the quantum evolution is replaced by the projection on the ergodic mode of the corresponding [classical] Perron-Frobenius operator, the zero-dimensional \(\sigma\)-model corresponding to the Circular Unitary Ensemble, a variant of the GUE designed for unitary operator and leading to the exact same statistics, is recovered (Altland et al, 2015).
This approach avoid some of the delicate steps of the original one, and in particular no steepest descent approximation is involved in the derivation. Furthermore the ambiguity over the space of function to which the Perron-Frobenius operator should be applied appear less of an issue, especially for quantum maps acting on finite Hilbert space for which a kind of natural regularization takes place. There is finally no energy averaging procedure implied, but a proper smoothing has to be assumed to define properly the relevant statistical quantities.
Eventually however, even this "improved" version of the ballistic non-linear \(\sigma\)-model suffers from the same fundamental limitation as the original one, namely that the information actually used about the classical motion is limited to the very short time dynamics (namely times shorter than the Eherenfest time, for which classical and quantum motion are indistinguishable). System specific informations about interference effects, which emerge only after a significantly larger propagation time, is definitely out of the scope of this approach.
Some information about interferences, such as the one associated with time-reversal invariance, can actually be "forced into the system" if one uses another representations of the correlations generating functions in which the fact that the quantum map (or the finite time evolution operator) is orthogonal is in some sens "hardwired". However, nothing forbid us to use the unitary parametrization for a time reversal invariant system, and in that case there is no red flag internal to the theory telling that interference effects associated with time reversal symmetric orbits should modify the outcome. As this feature is associated with relatively profound reasons (namely, again, the fact that only very short term classical information is used by this approach), the ballistic non-linear \(\sigma\)-model can presumably not yet pretend to provide a proof of the BGS conjecture.
Semiclassical trace formula
[Gutzwiller (1990)]
Another approach that has been used to address the BGS conjecture is through the use of the Gutzwiller semiclassical trace formula. Since the BGS conjecture is making a link between a classical property of a system (the fact that its classical dynamics is chaotic) and some of its quantal ones (the spectral statistics), it is indeed quite natural to imagine that this link is founded on a semiclassical approximation. For chaotic systems, a natural candidate is the Gutzwiller trace formula which relates the density of state \(d(\epsilon) = \sum_n \delta(\epsilon- \epsilon_n)\) (with \(\epsilon_0, \epsilon_1, \cdots\) the quantum eigenlevels) of the quantum system to a sum over all periodic orbit \(j\) of its classical analog. More specifically \(d(\epsilon)\) can be split into a smooth part \(\bar d(\epsilon)\) and an oscillating one \(d^{\rm osc}(\epsilon)\) and the Gutzwiller trace formula reads
\[\tag{2} d^{\rm osc}(\epsilon) \equiv \frac{1}{\pi\hbar} \sum_j \frac{T^0_j}{\sqrt{\textrm{det} (M_j-1)}} \cos\left(\frac{1}{\hbar} S_j - \nu_j \frac{\pi}{2} \right) \; ,\]
where \(S_j\), \(T^0_j\), \(M_j\) and \(\nu_j\) are classical quantities associated with the periodic orbit \(j\) at energy \(E\). More precisely \(S_j = \oint_{\textrm{orbit} \; j} {\bf p}d {\bf r}\) is the action integral along the orbit \(j\), \(T_j \) is the period of the orbit, \(M_j\) is the monodromy matrix describing the stability of the linear motion near the orbit (the more unstable the orbit, the larger \(\textrm{det} (M_j-1)\)), and the Maslov index \(\nu_j\) is an integer related to local winding around the orbit. Note that for orbits \(j\) which correspond to multiple traveling of a primitive orbit \(j_0\), what comes into play in Eq (2) is the primitive period \(T^0_j \stackrel{\rm def}{=} T_{j_0} \) (this is of no importance for the following discussion).
The first work making use of the Gutzwiller trace formula to compute a spectral statistics was performed by Berry in his 1985 paper (Berry, 1985). His main focus in this paper was the Dyson Metha function \(\Delta(L)\) Eq. (14), but he provides also a discussion of the form factor \(K(\tau)\) Eq. (10) which is somewhat simpler and that we summarize with some details now.
Inserting the semiclassical expression Eq. (2) in the definition Eq. (9)-Eq. (10) of the form factor and using that the energy derivative of the action is the period (\( dS_j /dE = T_j \)) we get
\[ \tag{3} K(\tau) \simeq \frac{\Delta^2}{\hbar^2} \left\langle \sum_i {\sum_j}^+ A_i A_j \cos \{(S_i - S_j)/\hbar\} \delta\left(\tau - \frac{1}{2}(\tau_i + \tau_j) \right) \right\rangle \; .\]
Here the \(+\) on the summation denotes restriction to positive traversals (positive period), \(\Delta\) is the mean level spacing,\(\tau_{i,j} \stackrel{\rm def}{=}(T_{i,j} \Delta)/(2\pi\hbar)\), and \(A_{i,j} \stackrel{\rm def}{=}\left[ T^0_j / \pi \sqrt{\det[M_{i,j} -1]} \right]\). In Eq. (3), the average \(\langle \cdot \rangle\) is an energy average analog to the one used to define the mean density of state \( \langle d(\epsilon) \rangle \) in Eq. (7). This energy average is taken over a range \( (\delta \epsilon) \) assumed small on the classical scale, but large with respect to all quantum energy scales (and in particular the Thouless energy Eq. (6)).
In the semiclassical regime \(\hbar \to 0\), the factor \(\cos \{(S_i - S_j)/\hbar\}\) is usually a very rapidly oscillating function of the energy since \( d[S_i -S_j]/dE \equiv (T_i-T_j) \). Therefore, only pair of orbits \((i,j)\) such that
\[ \tag{4} (T_i - T_j) \lesssim \hbar / (\delta \epsilon) \; , \]
survive the energy average of Eq. (3).
One can then distinguish three ranges of \(\tau\). For large \(\tau\) (i.e. \(\tau > 1\), corresponding to orbits of period \(T > 2\pi \hbar / \Delta\)), extremely long orbits are involved and their exponential proliferation makes it relatively easy to fulfill Eq. (4) for a large number of orbit pairs. A bootstrapping argument has been used by Berry to show that \(\displaystyle \lim_{\tau \gg 1} K(\tau) = 1\).
For small \(\tau\) on the other hand, only reasonably short periodic orbits are involved, and if \( \tau \) is small enough there are such a small number of them that the only way to fulfill Eq. (4) is to choose \(i=j\). In this "diagonal approximation", the form factor reduces to \(K(\tau) \simeq (2 \pi \Delta / \hbar) \Phi_D(T) \), with \(T \stackrel{\rm def}{=}(2\pi\hbar/\Delta) \tau \), and where \(\Phi_D(T)\) implies a simple (rather than double) sum
\[\tag{5} \Phi_D(T) \simeq \left\langle \sum_i |A_i|^2 \delta\left(T - T_i) \right) \right\rangle \; ,\]
in which no oscillating term exists any more.
For very small \(\tau\), that is \(\tau \simeq \tau_{\rm min} \stackrel{\rm def}{=}T_{\rm min} \Delta/2\pi\hbar\), with \(T_{\rm min}\) the shortest period of the system, only a very small number of orbit can enter into the game and \(K(\tau)\) will depend on their specific properties (period en stability). For \(\tau < \tau_{\rm min}\) one actually has \(K(\tau) \equiv 0\). This is the non universal regime which of course cannot correspond to the random matrices prediction.
For \(\tau\) sufficiently above \(\tau_{\rm min}\) that the periodic orbits of period \(T = 2\pi\hbar\tau/\Delta \) cover uniformly the phase space, it has been shown by Hannay and Ozorio de Almeida (1984) that
\[\Phi_D(T) = \sum_i |A_i|^2 \delta\left(T- T_i\right) \to \frac{T}{4\pi^2} \; .\]
Thus, if \(\tau\) is sufficiently above \(\tau_{\rm min}\), but yet sufficiently small that the diagonal approximation Eq. (5) is accurate, one has \[K_{\rm TNRI}(\tau) \simeq \tau \qquad \tau_{\rm min} \ll \tau \ll 1 \; .\] which is exactly what GUE predicts for the form factor in this range (cf. Eq. (12)).
The same analysis can be performed for time reversal symmetric systems. The only difference is that in that case each periodic orbit \(i\) is associated with a time reversal partner \(i^*\) which action \(S_{i^*}\) is the same as \(S_i\). The diagonal approximation then reads \[(\hbar/2 \pi \Delta) K(\tau) \simeq 2 \Phi_D(T) \;,\] since one should pair \(i\) both with itself ans with its time symmetric \(i^*\) [Doing this, there is a double counting of self-retracing orbits since they are their own time reversal symmetric partner. However the number of self-retracing orbits is small enough to make this effect marginal]. This leads to \[K_{\rm TRI} (\tau) \simeq 2 \tau \qquad \tau_{\rm min} \ll \tau \ll 1 \; .\] which again is exactly what GOE predicts for the form factor in this range.
Thus, in the range \(\tau_{\rm min} \ll \tau \ll 1 \), which is such that both periodic orbits covers the phase space uniformly and the diagonal approximation is valid, periodic orbit theory and random matrix modeling give the same answer. The universal character of RMT is born out by the uniform covering of phase space by periodic orbits (which indeed leaves little space for system specific informations). Going back to energy representation (i.e. for instance to the two-point correlation function \(R_2(s)\)), this range of validity corresponds to \(\Delta \ll \epsilon \ll E_{\rm Th}\) where \(\epsilon = s \Delta\) and
\[ \tag{6} E_{\rm Th} \equiv \hbar / T_{\rm min}\]
is the Thouless energy.
If one wants to address smaller energy range, longer trajectories come into play, and the diagonal approximation cannot be used any more. For chaotic systems, however, the pairs of orbits that actually contribute to the spectral statistics have a a remarkable structure that allows to classify them. Going on with the example of the form factor, Sieber and Richter (2001) (see also (Sieber, 2002)) have shown that the pair of orbits contributing to \(K(\tau)\) need to include the kind of "close encounter" sketched in Figure 3 in which a trajectory passes in the very close vicinity of its time reversal symmetric (see also (Richter and Sieber 2002) in the context of quantum tansport).
Figure 3: Sketch (in confguration space) of a pair of trajectories with very similar times of travel and actions, but following time reversed path for part of their evolution. The closeness of the action is associated with the highlighted near-encounter. Pairs of periodic orbits constructed in this way give corrections to the diagonal approximation Eq. (5) which reconstruct the GOE results
Figure 4: Blow up of the near encounter shown in Figure 3. The dotted vertical line represent the Poincaré section used for Figure 5
Figure 5: Sketch of the Poincaré section shown in Figure 4, with \(M_1\) the first intersection of the (blue) trajectory with the section, \(T[M_2]\) the time reverse of the second intersection, and the corresponding stable (in green) and unstable (in red) manifold. The intersection \(P_1\) and \(P_1\) correspond to trajectories which have the same past as \(M_1\) and same future as \(T[M_2]\), or the converse, from which one can construct orbits with time of travel and actions almost identical to the one showing the close encounter.
The role of such "close encounter" can be understood by looking at the blow up shown in Figure 4, and at the corresponding Poincaré section shown in Figure 5. In this latter figure, one sees that what characterizes the near encounter is that in the Poincaré section, the point \(M_1\) corresponding to the first intersection of the (blue) trajectory with the section is extremely close from the time reversed \(T[M_2]\) of the the second intersection of this trajectory with the section. If one nows consider \(P_1\) constructed as the intersection of the unstable manifold emerging from \(M_1\) (which thus has the same past as \(M_1\)) and of the stable manifold emerging from \(T[M_2]\) (which thus has the same future as \(T[M_2]\)), we see that we have constructed in this way a trajectory which, starting from the intial point $A$ follows the trajectory until the encounter region, and then follows the loop along the time reverse direction of propagation (i.e. along the green path). After coming back to the encounter region this trajectory actually goes back to the initial point $A$ so that the process should be iterated a second time, following exactly the same principle, to construct the green trajectory (characterized by the fact that it follows the blue one everywhere except within the loop which is run in the opposite direction).
For time reversal symmetric systems, in can be shown that the difference of action between such pairs of orbits is related to the area \(P_1 M_1 \wedge P_1 T[M_2]\) (with an additional similar contribution at each path switching). If \(M_1\) and \(T[M_2]\) are close enough, trajectories constructed in this way have almost exactly the same actions and period. Pairs of periodic orbits constructed in this way therefore contribute to the form factor for time reversal symmetric systems (but not for time reversal non-symmetric ones). Taking into account the pairs of orbits with one such close encounter, together with an assumption of uniform covering of phase space by the orbits, (Sieber and Richter, 2001) were able to recover the first non-linear correction to \(K(\tau)\) predicted by GOE, as well as to justify semiclassically the absence of such a non-linear correction for GUE (cf Eq. (11)). Including an arbitrary number of close encounters makes it furthermore possible to reconstruct the small \(\tau\) expansion of \(K(\tau)\) of GOE to arbitrary order (Braun et al., 2004). Further works, involving field theoretical resummation techniques and bootstrap consideration made it furthermore possible to recover in this way semiclassically all the spectral statistics predicted by random matrices (Müller et al., 2004; Müller et al., 2005; Müller et al., 2009). Analogous results concerning transport across chaotic cavities have also been obtained (Heusler et al., 2006; Müller et al., 2007).
This semiclassical analysis based on the Gutzwiller trace formula and the Richter-Sieber close encounter expansion shows that there is indeed a strong link between classical chaos and random matrix theory, and for instance makes it possible to compute corrections to RMT predictions associated with a finite Ehrenfest time (Brouwer and Rahav 2006-a). It cannot however be considered as a proper proof of the BGS conjecture for two reasons. The first one is that although a set of terms has been identified which when taken into account reproduces the random matrix theory statistics, there is no proof yet that all other contribution can safely be neglected (this is most presumably true since one indeed recover the expected RMT results, but the induction here rather goes the opposite way). A more serious limitation however is that being semiclassical in essence, the "range of validity" of this approach cannot be extended beyond the one of the semiclassical approximation. It turns out that there are many indications that in general, the Gutzwiller trace formula (or its improved versions) does not converge for orbit lengths that can resolve the mean level spacing. Thus level statistics such as the nearest neighbor distribution, or the short range behavior of the two-point correlation function, are in principle out of the scope of this approach; or in the most optimistic version a complete proof should include as a lemma a proof that the Gutzwiller trace formula converges for such long orbits.
It remains that this semiclassical "close-encounter theory" initiated by Sieber and Richter provides, for physicists, a sound semiclassical link between classical chaos and random matrix theory. In particular it demonstrates that one should not expect systematic "semiclassical corrections” to RMT based on the intrinsic structure of chaotic classical dynamics. Conversely, as the necessary ingredient underlying this link is identified (the uniform covering of phase space with trajectories containing the relevant loops), conditions under which deviation to RMT can be expected can be spelled out (Brouwer and Rahav 2006-a; Brouwer et al. 2006-b). More generally this approach offers an insightful point of view on the BGS conjecture.
Further discussion: the ergodicity argument
As we have seen, the approaches based on the non-linear \(\sigma\)-model and on the Gutzwiller trace formula provide (especially the second one) significant insights into why the BGS conjecture apply, but cannot be taken as a definitive proof of this conjecture. It may therefore be useful to provide another, even less rigorous, argument in favor of the BGS conjecture.
The basic property at work for this hand-waving argument is the ergodicity of the random matrix ensembles (Pandey 1979), namely the fact that if one selects at random one matrix in, say, the GOE ensemble, then, in the large \(N\) limit, one knows that, with probability one, spectral averages taken on this particular matrix are equivalent to ensemble averages over the full GOE ensemble.
It is presumably not easy to implement this ergodicity argument into an honest "proof“ of the BGS conjecture as, when one considers a particular chaotic system (eg. a specific billiard, or the Hydrogen atom in a magnetic field) the latter is usually not taken at random, and in any case not with the probability Eq. (1). This however somewhat changes the perspective as it shows that in some sense RMT behavior is the "normal” behavior, and what should be explained are rather the exceptions to RMT. Or in other words it makes it possible to rephrase the question of whether a RMT modeling should apply as whether the particular system under consideration belongs to a zero-measure subset of the ensemble that might have non-generic spectral statistics.
In that sense, chaotic systems can be seen as systems on which one has no a priori information, and therefore no reason to consider them as non-generic. Integrable systems on the other hand are such that their classical limit is extremely constrained because of the existence of global conserved quantity, and it is not surprising that in the semiclassical regime, these classical constraints are going to make the quantum system itself non-generic, and thus non-RMT. In the same spirit, arithmetic billiards (Bogomolny et al., 1992), display the strongest form of classical chaos but their quantum mechanics is characterized by an infinite set of conserved quantity (the Hecke operators which are commuting with the Hamiltonian). They can be expected to be non-generic, and are indeed shown to display non-RMT statistics.
In this perspective, the case of mixed system is presumably quite illuminating. Mixed systems are characterized by the coexistence of chaos and regularity, that is of regions of phase space where local conserved quantities exist and others where none can be defined. As suggested by Percival (1973), this difference of nature of the dynamics in different part of the phase space should be associated with a separation of the quantum states in two classes, one associated with the regular motion (the integrable states) and one with the chaotic motion (the chaotic states). This separation in two classes can actually be performed (Bohigas, Tomsovic and Ullmo,1990-a). However, even if the chaotic states are associated with a part of the phase space which is chaotic, they do not necessarily display the Gaussian Ensemble statistics of RMT (Bohigas, Tomsovic and Ullmo, 1990-b).
The reason for this is that even if the motion in the chaotic part of the phase space is ergodic (essentially by definition), the way this exploration takes place is usually not structureless. The fact that some local constant of motion are only slightly broken generically implies the existence of partial barriers, which do not completely block the transport (and thus do not prevent ergodicity, which is a long time property) but may slow it down considerably.
Thus in mixed systems, what is typically seen is that the chaotic part of the phase space is not explored uniformly, but rather trajectories are trapped for some time is some region of phase space, then jump to another one, and so on, covering in the end (but only after a very long time) uniformly the chaotic part of the phase space. These partial barriers are associated with the existence of time scales, which clearly may constrain the spectral statistics. For these systems, Gaussian Ensemble statistics are recovered only if each of these time scales are significantly shorter than the Heisenberg time \(t_H \stackrel{\rm def}{=}\hbar /\Delta\) (\(\Delta\) is the mean level spacing) (Bohigas, Tomsovic and Ullmo, 1990-b; Bohigas, Tomsovic and Ullmo, 1993). The non-generic (and thus non-RMT) character of an ergodic system can thus be more precisely associated with the existence of time scale longer than \(t_H\).
More generally, a RMT description thus appears as a "null hypothesis“ (absence of relevant information concerning the quantum system), and what should be understood is what are the "relevant” informations, and how quickly they bring the system away from RMT.
Applications of the BGS conjecture
This section makes a brief tour of some of the physical systems for which the BGS conjecture has been used with profit. The goal here is not to go into any details into neither the description of these systems nor the results obtained from the RMT description, as most of them could justify a Scholarpedia article on their own right. Rather, the context is briefly given together with some references which may serve as an entry point for the interested reader.
Atomic spectra : the transition to chaos and its relation to random matrices have been studied in details for the spectra of the hydrogen atom subjected to a magnetic field (Wintgen and Friedrich (1986), Delande and Gay (1986), Friedrich and Wintgen (1989)) or the helium atom (Wintgen, Richter and Tanner (1992))
Microwave billiards have also been studied extensively in relationship with the BGS conjecture (Stöckmann and (1990), Alt et al. (1995), Kuhl, Stöckmann and R Weaver (2005)).
The BGS conjecture was shown to be valid for periodically driven quantum systems, like the quantum Chirikov standard map taken on a torus, under condition that the length of quantum localization is larger then the torus size (Chirikov, Izrailev and Shepelyansky (1988)). Similar phenomena appear in the rough billiards where quantum localization can take place on an energy surface breaking the BGS conjecture, but in the limit of larger quantum numbers the quantum ergodicity of eigestates is restored, in agreement with the Shnirelman theorem, and the BGS conjecture becomes valid (Frahm and Shepelyansky (1997)).
Mesoscopic physics : ballistic quantum dots can often be modeled as chaotic quantum billiards, implying that their eigenlevel and eigenstates can be assumed to follow a random matrix description. This random matrix approach has been used to study the transport properties of open ballistic dots (Baranger and Mello (1994), Jalabert and Pichard (1995)), the fluctuations of Coulomb blockade peak heights (Jalabert, Stone and Alhassid (1992) Folk et al. (1996)) or peak spacings (Sivan et al. (1996), Ullmo and Baranger (2001), Usaj and Baranger (2001), Aleiner, Brouwer and Glazman (2002), Jiang et al. (2005), Tomsovic, Ullmo and Bäcker (2008)), as well as superconducting dots (Jacquod, Schomerus and Beenakker (2013)) and the mesoscopic Kondo problem (Kaul, Ullmo and Baranger (2003), Kaul et al.(2005), Kaul et al.(2006)).
The BGS conjecture has been used in the context of linear acoustics in solids (Weaverand Wright (2010)) as well as in oceans accoustics (Hegewisch and Tomsovic (2012)).
Some work on decoherence (Bandyopadhyay and Lakshminarayan (2002)), or on fidelity and Lochschmit echo (Jalabert and Pastawski (2001) Jacquod, Silvestrov and Beenakker (2001), Cerruti and Tomsovic (2003)) make use of the BGS conjecture.
The BGS conjecture has some nice mathematical consequences concerning the Riemann zeta function and generalized L-functions (Berry (1986), Keating (1993), Keating and Snaith (2003)) .
Other applications includes: nuclear physics (Bohigas and Leboeuf (2002)); quantum information (Nadal, Majumdar and Vergassola (2010)); and extreme statistics (Lakshminarayan et al. (2008)).
As the variety of these examples demonstrate what makes the strength of the BGS conjecture is that it states a universal property of chaotic system, and therefore can apply to a wide range of physical phenomena. It belongs now to the toolbox of modern theoretical physics.
Complement: The chaos hierarchy
[Ozorio de Almeida (1988), Rufus Bowen (2008)]
In this complement section we consider a motion in the phase space \(\mathcal{P} = \{ {\bf x}= ({\bf q},{\bf p}) \}\) governed by the conservative Hamiltonian \(H({\bf q},{\bf p},\not{t})\).
We note
\(g^t : \mathcal{P} \to \mathcal{P}\) the Hamiltonian flow, which maps any point \(x_0 = ({\bf q}_0,{\bf p}_0)\) in phase space to \(x(t) = g^t x_0\), the position at time \(t\) of a trajectory initiated at time \(t=0\) at \(x_0\).
\(\sigma_E\) the normalized projection of the Liouville measure on the energy surface \(E\)\[d \sigma_E = \frac{ \delta(E-H) d{\bf p}d{\bf q}}{ \int_\mathcal{P} \delta(E-H) d{\bf p}d{\bf q}}\]
Ergodicity
Definition 1: The classical motion is said to be ergodic on the energy surface \(S_E\) if the only ensembles invariant under the Hamiltonian flow \(g^t\) are either of measure 1 or of measure 0. \[{\rm i.e. \;} \forall \Omega \subset S_E, (g^t \Omega = \Omega {\rm \; for \; all\; } t) \Rightarrow (\sigma_E(\Omega) = 0 {\rm \; or \; } 1)\]
NB: ergodicity alone is barely considered as chaos (see eg Figure 6 illustrating the one dimensional case).
Figure 6: For a one degree of freedom (and thus integrable) conservative system, the motion is obviously ergodic on \(S_E\).
Definition 2: The motion is ergodic if for any (integrable under \(\sigma_E\)) function \(f\) and for almost all \({\bf x}_o\) in \(S_E\)
\[\lim_{T \to \infty} \frac{1}{T} \int_0^T f(g^t x_0) = \int_{s_E} f({\bf x}) d\sigma_E \; .\]
Definition 1 and Definition 2 are equivalent.
Definition The motion on \(S_E\) is said to be “mixing” if for any two (non-zero measure) parts \(A\) and \(B\) of \(S_E\) \[\lim_{t \to \infty} \sigma_E(B \cap g^t A) = \sigma_E(B) \cdot \sigma_E(A)\]
Figure 7: NB: $\sigma_E(g^t(A)) = \sigma_E(A)$ (conservation of the Liouville measure).
Remark: Mixing implies ergodicity.
K Systems (Kolmogorov)
Intuitively, chaotic systems are associated with the notion of exponential separation of trajectories (which is actually the point of view taken for “Axiome A” systems). Kolmogorov proposed instead to characterize chaos through the notion of information.
Let us consider here a dynamical system \((M,\mu,T)\), where \(M\) is the space on which the motion takes place, \(\mu\) is a measure on this space, and \(T\) is a bijective map on \(M\). The Hamiltonian motion considered in this section enters into this general framework provided one discretizes the time ( \(t = t_0, 2t_0, 3t_0, \cdots\)), in which case we can take \(M \equiv S_E\), \(\mu \equiv \sigma_E\) and \(T\equiv g^{t_0}\).
Let us consider a partition \(\mathcal{A} = \{A_i\}\) of the space \(M\) (\(M = \cup A_i, \; (A_i \cap A_j = \emptyset \; \forall i \neq j) \)). The question which we ask ourselves is : “assuming we know the list of all the cells \(A_{i(t)}\) visited in the past, i.e. \(\{ i(t); \, t = -\infty,\cdots,-3t_0,-2t_o,-t_0,0 \}\), do we gain any new information by learning where will be the trajectory at time \(t=t_0\) ?”
More formally :
Definition : Let \(\mathcal{A}\) a partition of \(M\). The entropy \(\mathcal{H}\) of (\(\mathcal{A}\)) is \[\mathcal{H}(\mathcal{A}) = - \sum_i \sigma_E(A_i) \ln [\sigma_E(A_i)]\] (i.e. \(\mathcal{H}(\mathcal{A})\) is the average information obtained from the knowledge of the cell \(A_i\) to which belongs a point taken at random in \(M\)).
Definition : The entropy of \(T\) relative to the partition \(\mathcal{A}\) is \[h(T,\mathcal{A}) \equiv \lim_{n\to\infty} \frac{1}{n} \mathcal{H}( \vee_{k=0}^{n-1} T^{-k} \mathcal{A}) )\,\] (\( \mathcal{A} \vee \mathcal{B} \equiv \{A_i \cap B_j\}\)).
One can show that \(h(T,\mathcal{A} ) = \mathcal{H}(\mathcal{A}/\vee_{k=-\infty}^{-1} T^{k} \mathcal{A})\), where \[\mathcal{H}(\mathcal{A}/\mathcal{B}) = - \sum_{i,j} \mu (A_i \cap B_j) \ln\left[\frac{\mu (A_i \cap B_j)}{\mu(B_j)}\right]\] (The entropy of “\(\mathcal{A}\) knowing \(\mathcal{B}\)” is the quantity of information acquired on average by learning in which cell of the partition \(\mathcal{A}\) is a point taken at random in \(M\) but assuming known the cell of the partition \(\mathcal{B}\) to which it belongs.)
Stating that \(h(T,\mathcal{A}) = 0\) means that once the entire past of a trajectory is known, the addition of an extra time step does not bring any new information.
Definition : A dynamical system \((M,\mu,T)\) is a K-system if for any non-trivial partition \(\mathcal{A}\) of \(M\), \(h(T,\mathcal{A}) > 0\). (for continuous time systems, this property of course does not depend on the choice of the time step \(t_0\))
Remark: K-systems are necessarily mixing, and thus ergodic.
Definition : The \(\sup_{\{\mathcal{A}\}} h(T,\mathcal{A})\) is the Kolmogorov-Sinai entropy of the system (for continuous time system, we then assume \(t_0 = 1\)).
B-Systems (Bernoulli)
Definition : A partition \(\mathcal{P}\) of \(M\) is said to be a generating partition if \(\vee_{k=-\infty}^{+\infty} T^k \mathcal{P} \) is the partition into point of \(M\).
A generating partition is therefore such that the complete list of cells visited in the past and in the future completely specifies a trajectory.
Definition : A dynamical system \((M,\mu,T)\) is Bernoulli if one can find a generating (for \(T\)) partition \(\mathcal{P}\) such that for all \(j\), \(\vee_{k=1}^{j-1} T^k \mathcal{P}\) and \(T^j \mathcal{P}\) are independent.
Saying that two partitions \(\mathcal{A}= \{A_i\}\) and \(\mathcal{B}= \{B_i\}\) are independent implies that \(\forall (i,j)\), \(\mu(A_i \cap B_J) = \mu(A_i) \mu(B_J)\). The independence of \(\vee_{k=1}^{j-1} T^k \mathcal{P}\) and \(T^j \mathcal{P}\) thus implies that the knowledge of all the cells visited during \(j\) successive iterations provides no indication concerning which cell will be visited at the next iteration.
Remark: All B-systems are K-systems.
A-Systems (Anosov)
In this subsection, the map \(T\) is assumed to be a diffeomorphism and \(M\) a \(C^\infty\) compact Riemannian manifold.
Figure 8: Anosov system
Definition : A (closed) subset \(\Lambda \subset M\) is hyperbolic if for any point \(x \in \Lambda\) the tangent space \(T_x M\) can be written as a direct sum \(T_xM = E_x^u \oplus E_x^s\) such that
i) The mapping \(T\) conserve that structure \[\begin{aligned} DT (E_x^s) & = & E_{T(x)}^s \\ DT (E_x^u) & = & E_{T(x)}^u \\ \end{aligned}\]
ii) There is a constant \(c > 0\) and a constant \(\lambda \in ]0,1[\) such that
\[\begin{aligned} DT^n (v) & \leq & c \lambda^n \parallel v \parallel \quad \mbox{ for } v \in E_x^s \quad (n \geq 0) \\ DT^{-n} (v) & \leq & c \lambda^n \parallel v \parallel \quad \mbox{ for } v \in E_x^u \quad (n \geq 0) \; . \end{aligned}\]
iii) \(E_x^s\) and \(E_x^u\) vary continuously with \(x\).
“Axiom A system” (Anosov) are essentially hyperbolic systems (in the sens defined above) for which there is no complication coming from trajectories wandering to infinity.
Definition : \(x \in M\) is non-wandering if for any neighborhood \(U\) of \(x\) \[U \cap \left[ \mathop{\cup} \limits_{n>0} T^n U \right] \neq \emptyset\]
Definition : Let \(\Omega(T) = \{x / x \; {\rm non-wandering} \}\), \(T\) is said to be axiom A if \(\Omega(T)\) is hyperbolic and if \[\Omega(T) = \overline{\{x / x \; {\rm periodic} \}} \; .\]
Axiom A systems are Bernoulli.
Stable and unstable manifold
\[\begin{aligned} W^s(x) & = & \{ y \in M \, / \, d(T^nx,T^n y) \to 0 \mbox{when } n \to \infty \} \\ W^s_\epsilon(x) & = & \{ y \in M \, / \, d(T^nx,T^n y) \leq \epsilon \; \forall n \geq 0 \} \end{aligned}\]
\[\begin{aligned} W^u(x) & = & \{ y \in M \, / \, d(T^{-n}x,T^{-n} y) \to 0 \mbox{ when } n \to \infty \} \\ W^s_\epsilon(x) & = & \{ y \in M \, / \, d(T^{-n}x,T^{-n} y) \leq \epsilon \; \forall n \geq 0 \} \end{aligned}\]
If \(T\) is Axiom A, then
Exponential convergence : \[\begin{aligned} d(T^nx,T^n y) \leq \lambda^n d(x,y) && \mbox{ for } y \in W^s_\epsilon(x) \; n \geq 0\\ d(T^{-n}x,T^{-n} y) \leq \lambda^n d(x,y) && \mbox{ for } y \in W^u_\epsilon(x) \; n \geq 0\end{aligned}\]
(in particular (\(W^u_\epsilon(x) \subset W^u(x)\)) and (\(W^s_\epsilon(x) \subset W^s(x)\)).
For all \(\epsilon > 0\), on can find \(\delta >0\) such that \(W^s_\epsilon(x) \cap W^u_\epsilon(y) \) is a single point if \(d(x,y) \leq \delta\) (and, of course \(x,y \in \Omega(T)\)).
Figure 9: Stable and unstable manifold
Complement : Spectral statistics
In this complement section, we introduce a few spectral statistics often encountered in the context of random matrix theory, together with some of the corresponding expressions for the Wigner Gaussian ensembles.
Unfolding the spectra
Consider a quantum spectrum \(\epsilon_0, \epsilon_1,\epsilon_2, \cdots\) which either corresponds to the energy levels of a given quantum systems or is a random sequence generated by diagonalizing a realization within some ensemble of matrix. Let \(d(\epsilon) = \sum_n \delta(\epsilon- \epsilon_n)\) the density of state.
In the random case, the mean density of states \(\langle d(\epsilon) \rangle\) is naturally defined by averaging \(d(\epsilon)\) over the ensemble. For a non-random energy sequence corresponding to a specified quantum system, the mean density of state can still be defined, but this time through an energy average
\[\tag{7} \langle d(\epsilon) \rangle \stackrel{\rm def}{=}\frac{1}{\delta \epsilon} \int^{\epsilon + \delta \epsilon/2}_{\epsilon- \delta \epsilon/2} d(\epsilon') d\epsilon' \; .\]
This definition assumes of course that one can find a range of \((\delta \epsilon)\) large enough to average the fluctuations of \(d(\epsilon)\), but small enough to be negligible on the scale at which \(\langle d(\epsilon) \rangle\) itself varies, in such a way that the latter is independent of \((\delta \epsilon)\). Such a range of \( (\delta \epsilon) \) generically exists in the semiclassical limit. In the following the average \(\langle \cdot \rangle\) will mean either the ensemble average or the energy average Eq. (7) depending on whether one considers an ensemble of matrices or one specific physical system.
The mean density of states \(\langle d(\epsilon) \rangle\) is usually governed by the phase space volume of the classical energy surface \(\epsilon\), and is therefore not related to the nature, chaotic or integrable, of the classical dynamics. To isolate the spectral fluctuations from the mean behavior of the density, it is customary to unfold the spectra, that is to map the sequence \(\epsilon_0, \epsilon_1,\epsilon_2, \cdots\) into a new sequence \(x_0, x_1,x_2, \cdots\) with the same fluctuation properties but with a mean density equal to one.
Introducing the counting function \(N(\epsilon) \stackrel{\rm def}{=}\int^\epsilon d(\epsilon') d\epsilon'\), and \(\langle N(\epsilon) \rangle\) is average value, it can be checked easily that the transformation
\[\tag{8} x_j = \langle N(\epsilon_j) \rangle\]
performs the required unfolding. In the rest of this section we shall consider only the unfolded sequence \(x_0, x_1,x_2, \cdots\). We note \[d(y) \stackrel{\rm def}{=}\sum_n \delta(y - x_n)\] the unfolded density of states.
\(n\)-point correlation functions and Dyson cluster functions
The simplest spectral statistics are the \(n\)-point correlation functions
\[R_n(y_1,y_2,\cdots,y_n) \stackrel{\rm def}{=}\langle d(y_1) d(y_n) \cdots d(y_n) \rangle \; .\]
\(R_1(y)\) is just the mean density of unfolded level \(\langle d(y) \rangle\), which, by construction, is equal to one.
If the energy levels are uncorrelated, the \(n\)-point correlation function reduces to \(R_n(y_1,y_2,\cdots,y_n) = R_1(y_1)R_1(y_2) \cdots R_1(y_n)\) ( \(= 1\) here). To focus on the correlations, Dyson has introduced the cluster functions
\[ \begin{aligned} Y_n(y_1,y_2,\cdots,y_n) & \stackrel{\rm def}{=} \sum_G (-1)^{n-m} (n-1)! \prod_{j=1}^m R_{G_j}(y_t; t \in G_j) \; , \\ G & = {\rm all~partitions~of~the~set~of~indices~} \{1,2,\cdots,n\} {\rm ~in~} m {\rm ~subparts} \nonumber \\ & (\{1,2,\cdots,n\} = \cup_{j=1}^m G_j) \nonumber \; . \end{aligned} \]
\[\begin{aligned} Y_2(y_1,y_2) & = R_1(y_1)R_1(y_2) - R_2(y_1,y_2) \\ Y_3(y_1,y_2,y_3) & = R_3(y_1,y_2,y_3) - R_1(y_1)R_2(y_2,y_3) - R_1(y_2)R_2(y_3,y_1) - R_1(y_3)R_2(y_1,y_2) \\ & \qquad + 2 R_1(y_1)R_1(y_2)R_1(y_3) \; .\end{aligned}\]
For systems invariant by (energy) translation, one notes
\[\begin{aligned} R_2(s) & \stackrel{\rm def}{=} R_2(y-s/2,y+s/2) = \langle d(y-s/2) d(y+s/2) \rangle \; , \\ Y_2(s) & = 1 - R_2(s) \end{aligned} \tag{9} \]
and one can introduce the form factor \(K_W(\tau)\) which is just the Fourier transform of \(Y_2(s)\)
\[\tag{10} K_W(\tau) \stackrel{\rm def}{=}\int_{-\infty}^{+\infty} Y_2(s) e^{2 i \pi \tau s} ds \; .\]
For the Gaussian Orthogonal and Unitary Ensembles, the two-point cluster function can be expressed as
\[\begin{aligned} \mbox{(GOE) :} \qquad Y_2(y) & = \frac{\sin^2y }{y^2} - \left( {\rm Si}(\pi y) - \pi \epsilon(y) \right) \left( \frac{\cos \pi y }{\pi y} - \frac{\sin\pi y }{(\pi y)^2} \right) \, \\ \mbox{(GUE) :} \qquad Y_2(y) & = \left( \frac{\sin\pi y }{\pi y} \right)^2 \;. \end{aligned}\]
(\({\rm Si}(y) = \int_0^y \frac{\sin x}{x} dx\), \(\epsilon(y) = 1/2\) for \(y>0\) and \(-1/2\) for \(y<0\), and \(\gamma \simeq 0.5772\cdots\) is the Euler constant.) For uncorrelated levels, one has essentially by definition \(Y_2(y) \equiv 0\) .
Taking the Fourier transform leads in the GUE case to
\[\begin{aligned} \tag{11} K_W(\tau) & = 1-\tau \qquad & (0<\tau<1) \\ & = 0 \qquad & (\tau>1) \; . \end{aligned}\]
The expression of \(K_W(\tau)\) for GOE is more involved, but starts as \(K_W(\tau) = 1 -2\tau +O(\tau^2)\) at small \(\tau\). The factor two between the slopes at the origin is actually quite profound, and is related to the existence of time reversal symmetric periodic orbits for the time reversal invariant systems for which GOE apply.
Note finally that in his 1985 paper, that we discuss in section two, Berry (Berry, 1985) introduces a form factor \(K(\tau)\) with a slightly different definition since: i) it starts from \(R_2(s)\) rather than \(Y_2(s)\) (leading to a change of sign); ii) it includes the \(\delta(s)\) associated with the correlation of a level with itself (which basically adds one to the Fourier transform). Therefore Berry's form factor is deduced from the usual one through the simple transformation \(K(\tau) = 1 - K_W(\tau)\), leading in particular in the GUE case to
\[\begin{aligned} \tag{12} K(\tau) & = \tau \qquad & (0<\tau<1) \\ & = 1 \qquad & (\tau>1) \; . \end{aligned}\]
and to \(K(\tau) = 2\tau +O(\tau^2)\) at small \(\tau\) in the GOE case.
Nearest neighbor spacing
Let \(x_0 \leq x_1 \leq x_2 \leq \cdots \leq x_n \leq \cdots\) the rescaled energy levels ranked by increasing order, and \(s_j \stackrel{\rm def}{=}x_{j+1} - x_j\) the spacing between the \(j^{th}\) and \((j+1)^{th}\) levels. The nearest neighbor spacing distribution is defined as \[P_{\rm nn}(s) = \langle \frac{1}{N} \sum_{j=1}^N \delta(s - s_j) \rangle \; .\] Note that having a spacing \(s\) implies that for some energy \(y\), a pair of levels is located in \(y\) and \(y+s\), but also that no other level lies in the range \([y,y+s]\). As a consequence \(P(s)\) actually mixes informations about \(n\)-point correlation functions of all orders.
For uncorrelated levels, the nearest neighbor distribution is given by \[\mbox{Poisson :} \qquad P_{\rm nn}(s) = \exp(-s) \; .\] For the Gaussian ensembles, a very precise approximation of the \(N \to \infty\) result is provided by the result of the “Wigner surmise”, which consists in computing \(P_{\rm nn}(s) = e^{-s}\) for a two by two matrix (\(N=2\)). This gives
\[ \begin{aligned} {\rm ~for~GOE~(\beta =1)~:} \qquad P_{\rm nn}(s) & = \frac{\pi}{2} s \exp\left(-\frac{\pi}{4} s^2 \right) \tag{13} \\ {\rm ~for~GUE~(\beta =2)~:} \qquad P_{\rm nn}(s) & = \frac{32}{\pi^2} s^2 \exp\left(-\frac{4}{\pi} s^2 \right) \\ {\rm ~for~GSE~(\beta =4)~:} \qquad P_{\rm nn}(s) & = \frac{2^{18}}{3^6 \pi^4} s^4 \exp\left(-\frac{64}{9\pi} s^2 \right) \end{aligned} \]
\(P_{\rm nn}(s)\) focuses on short range correlations (\(s \lesssim 1\), which correspond to spacing smaller than the mean level spacing for the original energies), which reveals the level repulsion characteristic of the Wigner ensembles.
Number variance
let \[n(L) = \int_{\tilde y}^{\tilde y+L} d(y) dy\] the number of rescaled energy levels contained in an interval of length \(L\). Because the mean density of rescaled energy is fixed to one by construction, \(\langle n(L) \rangle = L\). However its variance \[\Sigma(L) \stackrel{\rm def}{=}\langle n(L)^2 \rangle - L^2 = L - 2 \int_0^L (L-s) Y_2(s) ds\] contains informations about correlations at long distance (\(s \gg 1\), which correspond to spacing larger than the mean level spacing for the original energies).
For the Gaussian Orthogonal and Unitary Ensembles, the number variance can be expressed as
\[\begin{aligned} \Sigma^2_{\rm GUE}(L) & = \frac{1}{\pi^2} \left[ \log(2\pi L) + \gamma + 1 - \cos(2\pi L) - {\rm Ci}(2\pi L) \right] + L \left[1 - \frac{2}{\pi} {\rm Si}(2 \pi L) \right] \; , \\ \Sigma^2_{\rm GOE}(L) & = 2 \Sigma^2_{\rm GUE}(L) + \frac{{\rm Si}^2(\pi L)}{\pi^2} - \frac{{\rm Si}(\pi L)}{\pi} \; .\end{aligned}\]
(\({\rm Si}(y) = \int_0^y \frac{\sin x}{x} dx\), \({\rm Ci}(y) = \gamma + \log y + \int_0^y \frac{\cos x - 1}{x} dx\).) In the large \(L\) limit, this leads to \(\Sigma^2_{GOE/GUE}(L) = (2/\pi \beta) \log(2\pi L) + {\rm const.} + O(L^{-1})\) (\(\beta = 1\) for GOE, and \(\beta = 2\) for GUE). This logarithmic dependence for large \(L\) should be contrasted with the linear dependence \(\Sigma^2_{\rm Poisson}(L) = L\) valid for uncorrelated levels. For instance, an interval of length \(L = 100\), will contain anywhere from 90 to 110 levels in the Poisson case, but exactly 100 levels plus or minus one level in the Gaussian case.
Dyson-Mehta function
Consider again the interval \([\tilde y, \tilde y + L]\), and the “step function” \[N(y) \stackrel{\rm def}{=}\sum_{x_i \in [\tilde y, \tilde y + L]} \Theta(y - x_i) \; .\] Define then \[\Delta(L) \stackrel{\rm def}{=}\min_{a,b} \int_{\tilde y}^{\tilde y + L} \left[ N(y) - (ay+b) \right]^2 dy \; .\] The Dyson-Mehta function is then defined as the mean value
\[\tag{14} \bar \Delta(L) = \langle \Delta(L) \rangle \; .\]
In an experimental context in which some of the levels might be missed, the statistics \(\bar \Delta(L)\) show less sensitivity to these experimental uncertainties than other spectral statistics, and have been introduced for this purpose by Mehta and Dyson to analyze nuclear spectra.
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Senators, Wings meet in Atlantic Division battle
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The Ottawa Senators prepare to visit the Detroit Red Wings on Tuesday not knowing if they'll face goaltender Jimmy Howard or Jonathan Bernier.
That's because Howard has struggled this season to recapture the form that earned him a trip to the NHL All-Star Game last season. He has a 2-8-1 record and a subpar save percentage of .884.
"I have to be better, try and make every save you're supposed to make and then mix in one or two you're not supposed to make just to give these guys confidence, give them a chance to win every single night," Howard told NHL.com.
Bernier started four consecutive games during the past two weeks, going 3-0-1, after the two goalies essentially had platooned on a game-by-game basis. Howard returned to the lineup for Saturday's 4-3 shootout loss to San Jose.
"It's hard for me to pinpoint one thing. I would just say I think it's a short-term thing, it's not like it's been 100 games," coach Jeff Blashill said of Howard's season. "Probably 10 games or whatever, it just didn't go as well -- really for either guy, for a stretch there as they would have liked and as we would have liked."
The Wings have collected at least one point in the last five games (3-0-2), as all three of their contests during last week's West Coast swing required overtime.
"Going out to the West Coast and getting four out of six points, it could have been six out of six points, we just have to continue the strong play and hopefully the points keep coming for us," Howard said.
The Wings have gotten a boost from forward Robby Fabbri, who has six points in the last five games since being acquired from St. Louis and has given the team's second line a jolt.
"You can see it's definitely been good since he's been here," linemate Andreas Athanasiou told NHL.com. "Just playing with him, it's been getting better every game, every shift. He's obviously a highly skilled forward, he knows how to make plays, so I think he suits perfectly with Fil (Valtteri Filppula) and me."
Detroit will look to avenge a 5-2 loss at Ottawa on Oct. 23. Ottawa forward Anthony Duclair scored two goals and Anders Nilsson made 34 saves in the Senators' victory.
Ottawa lost at Buffalo 4-2 on Saturday after recording back-to-back wins over New Jersey (4-2) and Philadelphia (2-1).
Duclair scored his seventh goal of the season against the Sabres but the Senators couldn't overcome Jack Eichel's four-goal night.
"We did just enough to be competitive, but we didn't quite do enough to take control of that game," Senators defenseman Mark Borowiecki said. "Unfortunately for us in this season, the way it's going, that doesn't end up being enough."
Craig Anderson got the start in goal and made 28 saves but Eichel's career night prevented Ottawa from reaching the .500 mark. The Senators and Wings enter their matchup tied for seventh in the Atlantic Division with 17 points.
"That's what special players do sometimes," coach D.J. Smith said. "I thought Andy was really good; those are big-time goals that he scored."
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Workers Picket SF’s Ferry Building
by Bay City News | May 1, 2012 8:36 am | in News | 0
About 50 striking transit workers with the Golden Gate Bridge Labor Coalition gathered outside the San Francisco Ferry Building this morning to picket on the Embarcadero sidewalk.
The coalition had called for ferry service to be shut down today because of ongoing contract negotiations with the Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District.
Workers are also picketing at the Larkspur and Sausalito ferry terminals.
The district canceled ferry service today in anticipation of the strike.
As of about 7:15 a.m., seven musicians had arrived at the San Francisco Ferry Building to support the picketers, who are carrying signs that say “IBU-ILWU on strike against Golden Gate Bridge.”
They have been chanting “IBU contract!” and “IBU on strike!”
About half an hour later, protesters in eight kayaks could be seen in the water near the ferry building. One had a sign reading, “99 percent.”
The workers stopped picketing shortly before 8 a.m.
Story and photo: Patricia Decker, Bay City News
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Posted on July 20, 2018 by David Swanson
Tell Israel to Allow Thinking in Its Schools
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War
Israel has passed a law allowing its Minister of Education to ban from its schools any person or group who criticizes Israel — apparently something that no teachers or students in Israel are supposed to do either (though some do). The hasbara, or pro-war propaganda, spin on this is that it is protecting Israel’s brave Troops from (rhetorical) “attacks.” But one of the chief targets of the law is understood to be Israeli troops who speak about what it is they do. And the law explicitly identifies for banning from schools those who advocate “legal or political” actions, which tend to be taken against those who make laws and political decisions, not against Troops.
Are recruits told that their military training will reduce them to such pitiful beings that they will magically suffer if children in a school somewhere speak critically of Israeli government policies?
If Israel were doing nothing wrong, if it had the ability to show with reasonable argument that it was doing nothing wrong, it would not need to go to such efforts to shield its young people from undesirable viewpoints. If it were trying to educate them to be thinkers and pursuers of justice, it would welcome all viewpoints. Instead it is banning advocates for peace and nonviolent rational debate and conflict resolution — violating basic principles of liberalism and also violating the law.
As Pat Elder has pointed out to me, Israel is party to the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict, which makes the minimum age for military recruitment 18, while allowing 17-year-olds to voluntarily enlist, as Israel does, if . . .
(a) Such recruitment is genuinely voluntary;
(b) Such recruitment is done with the informed consent of the person’s parents or legal guardians;
(c) Such persons are fully informed of the duties involved in such military service;
(d) Such persons provide reliable proof of age prior to acceptance into national military service.
But how can this be voluntary and fully informed in a state where anyone who mentions the actual “duties involved in such military service” is banned from entering any school?
When Israel ratified the above Protocol, it added this language:
“The Government of the State of Israel maintains the following safeguards in respect of voluntary recruitment into the armed forces so as to ensure that such recruitment is not forced or coerced: . . . Clear and precise explanation of the nature of the duties involved in military service is provided to both the person and the person’s parents or legal guardian.”
Clear and precise? What about true or accurate or complete?
What does Israel have to hide?
Well, nuclear weapons. Maintaining the threat of ending the world will be the task of some recruits.
Apartheid. Israel just passed another law to encourage the creation of Jewish-only towns, or what the United States calls sundown towns (Get your [black/Palestinian] ass out of [town name] before sundown). That will require help from military recruits.
Arming Nazis. Israel can’t get enough weapons to Nazis in Ukraine without the work of some of its well-educated recruits.
Genocide. Israel is gradually killing the entire population of the territories it seizes and occupies. An open discussion by honest seekers of truth and understanding might end up including some slight questioning of the morality of this.
That won’t happen in Israeli schools, unless the world condemns fascism EVERYWHERE it arises. Here’s an email address for the Ministry of Education: edusite@education.gov.il
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News: HDB launches over 11,000 flats for November BTO, SBF exercises
Experts observe that the flats in Sembawang, Tampines and Tengah are expected to attract “fairly healthy applications”, though they would not be as hotly contested as those in Bishan and Toa Payoh (Bidadari).
The Housing and Development Board (HDB) on Tuesday (17 November) launched 11,015 flats for sale under the Build-to-Order (BTO) and Sale of Balance Flats (SBF) exercises for November.
For the BTO exercise, a total of 5,795 new flats were offered across seven projects. Three projects are located in the non-mature towns of Tengah and Sembawang, while four projects are in the mature towns of Toa Payoh (Bidadari), Tampines and Bishan.
Under the SBF exercise, HDB offered 5,220 flats, comprising 1,977 two-room Flexi units, 701 three-room units, 1,740 four-room units, 668 five-room units, 120 3Gen units and 14 executive flat units across various towns and estates.
HDB revealed that the BTO flats in Tengah “will have shorter waiting times, and at least 95% of the four-room and bigger flats will be set aside for first-timer families”.
Moreover, the two-room Flexi flats at Bishan Ridges will only be offered to seniors (aged 55 and above) on short leases of between 15 and 45 years, due to the presence of eldercare services and facilities within the vicinity.
It noted that seniors will also “benefit from easy access to facilities and public transport at Bishan Town Centre and Bishan MRT/Bus Interchange”.
Prices of flats, excluding grants, in non-mature estates start from $92,000 for a two-room Flexi unit in Sembawang to $394,000 for a five-room unit in Tengah.
Over at the mature towns, flat prices, excluding grants, start from $121,000 for a two-room Flexi flat in Bishan to $627,000 for a five-room unit in Toa Payoh (Bidadari).
Recommended article: BTO Prices Have Gone Up, But Have They Necessarily Become More Expensive?
HDB explained that the new flat prices are generously subsidised, taking into account factors like location, flat attributes as well as prevailing market conditions.
“HDB’s prices are considerably lower than the transacted prices of comparable resale flats in the vicinity,” it said.
Eligible first-timer families will also enjoy up to $80,000 under the Enhanced CPF Housing Grant (EHG).
“With EHG, flat buyers could pay prices starting from $12,000 for a 2-room Flexi flat, $88,000 for a 3-room flat, $200,000 for a 4-room flat, and $291,000 for a 5-room flat.”
First-timer families will also continue to enjoy priority in flat allocation, while applicants who wish to live near their parents or married children within the same BTO project can jointly apply under the Multi-Generation Priority Scheme.
Ismail Gafoor, CEO of PropNex, expects Bishan Ridges as well as Bartley Beacon and ParkView @ Bidadari in Toa Payoh (Bidadari) to be heavily oversubscribed due to their city fringe locations and proximity to popular schools and MRT stations.
“We expect many of the applicants who missed out on the earlier Bishan Towers BTO launch in the August 2020 exercise will likely have another go for this site,” he said.
“This latest offering seems more attractive than Bishan Towers as it is nearer to the bus interchange and Bishan MRT station (470-480m), which is an interchange station for the Circle and North-South Lines. It is also a stone’s throw from Junction 8 mall and the Bishan town centre.”
Lee Sze Teck, Director of Research at Huttons Asia, expects the project “to see a very high application rate of up to 10”.
For Bartley Beacon and ParkView @ Bidadari, which are situated near the Bartley and Woodleigh MRT stations, Gafoor expects the projects to attract healthy interest “going by the response to the February 2020 BTO at Toa Payoh (Kim Keat Ripples/ Toa Payoh Ridge), where the three- and four-room flats were more than nine times oversubscribed”.
See also: How to Ace Your HDB BTO Application And Increase Your Ballot Chances
In fact, Lee does not expect the nearby Mount Vernon columbarium to “affect demand much” since the columbarium’s design will be “sensitive to the residents and will blend into the surroundings”.
The flats in Sembawang, Tampines and Tengah are also expected to attract “fairly healthy applications”, though they would not be as hotly contested as those in Bishan and Toa Payoh (Bidadari), said Gafoor.
The Tengah BTO (Garden Court @ Tengah and Garden Terrace @ Tengah), for instance, may “woo more applicants following recent announcement that the Tengah town will incorporate many features (under the Designing for Life Roadmap) that promote wellness, encourage social interaction, and offer smart solutions to improve residents’ daily living and quality of life”, he added.
HDB shared that homeowners at Tengah’s Garden Court and Garden Terrace projects can opt to have their air conditioning provided from a centralised cooling system, a first of its kind in Singapore.
Overall, Lee believes that this month’s BTO exercise will have an application rate of between five and eight.
Joey Ong 王祖鸸
SENIOR ASSOCIATE MARKETING DIRECTOR
PROPNEX REALTY PTE LTD
joeyongproperty@gmail.com
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Bend of the River
Bend of the River—James Stewart, Arthur Kennedy, Rock Hudson, Julia Adams, Jay C. Flippen, Stepin Fetchit, Harry Morgan, Royal Dano (1952; Dir: Anthony Mann)
The second and perhaps the weakest of the five Anthony Mann-James Stewart westerns from the early 1950s. However, even a weak Mann-Stewart western is still highly watchable. Glyn McLyntock (James Stewart) is a former Missouri border raider and gunman leading a wagon train to the Mount Hood area of Oregon (in 1847?) and trying to live down his past.
On the way, he rescues horse thief Emerson Cole (Arthur Kennedy) from hanging, only to discover that Cole is a former Kansas border raider and gunman. Together they fight off a small band of Shoshone renegades and the train arrives in Portland, where the settlers buy supplies to be delivered to them and head up the river toward Mount Hood.
Laura chooses badly.
When the supplies don’t arrive on schedule in September, McLyntock and head settler Jeremy Baile (Jay C. Flippen) head for Portland to find out why. They discover Portland is now a mining boom town, and the miners have driven prices for food and supplies through the roof. With the help of Cole and his young gambler friend Trey Wilson (Rock Hudson), McLyntock takes the supplies, closely pursued by saloon owner and slippery merchant Tom Hendricks (Howard Petrie).
They eventually fight off Hendricks’ men, killing Hendricks. But Cole has come to realize miners will pay a lot more for the supplies, and he hijacks the entire wagon train, leaving McLyntock behind on foot. McLyntock follows, picking off various of the drivers and taking their weapons. Eventually he succeeds in taking back the wagons, only to have to fight off an attack by miners led by Cole.
Jeremy’s daughter Laura (Julia Adams) is the romantic interest, initially attracted to Cole but eventually repulsed by his obvious sleaziness. The plot doesn’t hang together terribly well, and Jeremy Baile is kind of a tiresome character. There’s rather a lot of killing, mostly not of Indians. Set in an earlier period than other Mann westerns (presumably no later than the 1850s, with Oregon immigration and former Missouri-Kansas border raiders), but there are no concessions to that time in the look and weapons. It looks just the same as all other Mann westerns, including The Far Country which is set in 1898.
Former bushwacker, now trail scout.
Stewart and Kennedy are fine; Hudson seems a little out of place; and the lovely Julia Adams is given little to do. This is supposedly the last film in which Stewart appeared with his real hair. He’s wearing his usual westerns hat and presumably riding his horse Pie, though. Stepin Fetchit plays kind of a jarring character to modern eyes—an old-fashioned black stereotype with near-unintelligible dialogue sometimes. Based on the novel “Bend of the Snake” by Bill Gulick and filmed on location near Mount Hood. In color. The DVD is unfortunately only in full frame, like The Far Country, not in widescreen.
Note: Reader Simón Cherpitel notes that Bend of the River was made when many movies and studios were still making the transition to widescreen formats. This one was originally filmed in “academy ratio,” and therefore the DVD shows all there is to see (unlike, say, the later Mann-Stewart The Far Country, which was shot with a more widescreen aspect ratio).
This entry was posted in Westerns Worth Watching and tagged Anthony Mann, James Stewart, Native Americans (Indians), Wagon Trains on November 25, 2013 by Nicholas Chennault.
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cherpitel
dear Nicholas— the movie WAS shot in ‘academy’ ratio—it was made pre-scope days. This was 1952. “the Robe” was 1953, but it was closer to 1954 when a lot of 1.37:1 movies were cropped to 1.85:1 or thereabouts. i’ve spent several hours reading over your site, perhaps thinking about updating the westerns page at cinemacom.com — very much appreciate the time & love you’ve spent writing your essays, plus your choices of stills & posters. i’ll sign in here with my facebook@cherpitel.com ID, but please write me, let me know you got this & we can correspond, & i can send you my main direct email addy. best wishes—-simón cherpitel
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Determination and Resilience amid COVID-19 Uncertainty
The COVID-19 pandemic has made generating income and access to food far more difficult for many, particularly women in developing countries. To better understand how the pandemic and lockdowns to control its spread are affecting the livelihoods of female small-business owners and farmers in South Asia, IFPRI researchers, who otherwise would have worked on climate change adaptation strategies directly supporting women farmers, conducted surveys in collaboration with the Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA), an organization that aims to empower women workers to reach full-employment and self-reliance by providing the tools, support, and community for them to reach their economic potential. The researchers conducted a phone survey with 627 SEWA members and did in-depth case studies of five SEWA members across the Indian state of Gujarat. While each woman reported different experiences and perspectives on navigating COVID-19, a common theme emerged: making a living became tougher, yet these women were able to identify coping mechanisms to protect their livelihoods and their families. Click below to learn more about these five brave women’s stories – as they explain how COVID-19 is impacting their diverse sources of income and what SEWA is doing to help.
It seems that we are caught up from all sides by this disease. Wherever we go, the pain and suffering follow us.
Case Studies from India
Key theme 1?
Budhiben Motibhai Parmar
Age: 48 Occupation: Hand-pump repairer
Age: 50 Occupation: Rural homestay manager/entrepreneur
Age: 32 Occupation: Farmer
Ayeshaben Habibbhai
Age: 34 Occupation: Snack shop owner
Shantaben Parmar
Age: 51 Occupation: Street vendor
Ensuring Access to Water
Gauriben Ramabhai
Rekhaben Manubhai Rathod
Minimal Demand for Her Crops
No Bookings at Her Homestay
Losing Her Vending Space
Closing Down Her Snack Shop
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Key Theme 1
Suffered income loss
No income loss
Income loss due to COVID-19 lockdown
Income loss due to COVID19
How Self-Employed Women in India Coped with Lockdowns and Disruptions to Business
– Shantaben Parmar, 51
The vast majority of women interviewed indicated that they have lost income as a result of the COVID-19 lockdown.
Survey conducted between May-June, 2020
Budhiben Motibhai Parmar hails from Takhatpura village in the Aravalli district of Gujarat and is the matriarch of a family of four, including her son, daughter-in-law and grandson. Together they live in a small one-room house. Budhiben’s husband passed away eight years ago, after which Budhiben raised her children and made her family’s income on her own, working long hours. With no agricultural land handed down to her, Budhiben worked as an agriculture laborer before joining SEWA. “I became a member of SEWA 20 years ago to improve my income and earning capacity,” said Budhiben. SEWA leaders taught her the skills needed to repair hand-pumps used for drawing potable water. After acquiring these skills, Budhiben formed a five-member hand-pump team, which helped her obtain additional work opportunities and income. “We even got contracts from the district government for repairing hand-pumps in our district,” beamed Budhiben. These new skills and government contracts became particularly critical when the COVID-19 lockdown started to put a strain on her family’s income. More than a quarter of women participating in the phone surveys worried about not having enough water during the pandemic. “When this lockdown was announced, we made an appeal to the local authorities that water is an essential service, and hence hand-pump repairing activities should be allowed,” said Budhiben. The local authorities agreed, and Budhiben was able to continue her work. Thus, every day, Budhiben and her team go out at 9 a.m. to repair and service hand-pumps in her area. In one month, they repaired over 150 hand-pumps across 50 villages. “Due to this hand-pumps repairing work, I am busy for the whole day and I hardly get any time to think about the pandemic or its impact,” said Budhiben. Budhiben credited work to be the sole deliverance from the stress and uncertainty brought by the lockdown. She also exemplified the spirit of resilience by turning this crisis into an opportunity for more work. “I see everyone tensed and worried ... but in our home, it is the work that has helped us to carry on in this crisis. Through my work, I am not only able to earn a livelihood for myself, but also facilitate access to clean water to several women in our district ... thus reducing some of their challenges.” “I am really thankful to SEWA for standing by me and supporting me in these difficult times.”
Phone surveys found that more than a quarter of women interviewed worried about not having enough water during the pandemic
Worried about not having enough water
Water insecurity experienced
Washed hands less than required
N=627. Recall period- 4 weeks before the survey
Skipped activities due to inadequate water
Drank less than required
Gauriben Ramabhai is a 50-year-old enterprising woman from Bankutra village in the Patan district of Gujarat. Bankutra is a small village of 700 households, bordering the Little Rann of Kutch. According to Gauriben, women in her community were very poor until SEWA started working with them to expand their economic potential. “SEWA identified and promoted our embroidery skills, helped us make it marketable – thereby creating an alternative livelihood source for us which led to national and international recognition,” reminisced Gauriben. She and her family rely on income from rainfed agriculture, which is highly erratic due to fluctuating prices in markets and climate shocks such as droughts. “Sustaining a big family like ours was becoming a huge challenge because of these erratic earnings. It was SEWA who came to our rescue,” said Gauriben. For the past three years, SEWA also trained her family to run “Rural Homestays" in her home, using an online platform. The homestay program supplemented Gauriben’s income from agriculture and embroidery work, helping her host national and even international guests, who would come to her village to experience the rural lifestyle, traditions, and foods. With these income sources, Gauriben and her family were getting by before the COVID-19 pandemic struck India. Since the beginning of the pandemic and onset of travel restrictions, however, she has not had any bookings for her rural homestay. The nationwide lockdown also had an adverse impact on her family’s ability to sell her farm produce and embroidery, because of restrictions on markets introduced to slow the spread of the virus. Gauriben is not alone in her struggles – in fact, more than half of the survey respondents had to use their savings and borrow additional funds to meet basic necessities. “Despite having three different sources of income, we do not have any income [now] and must beg to the local grocer to give us groceries on credit,” said Gauriben.
Less than one third of the street vendors in the sample were able to sell food due to the pandemic
Percentage of respondents who went outside, by activity
Sell food
To collect water
To meet friends
Rekhaben Manubhai Rathod is a farmer from rural Gujarat. The 32-year-old hails from the Boriyavi village in Anand district, where her entire family earns a living from agriculture and animal husbandry on their half-acre farm. As an enterprising woman, Rekhaben decided three years ago to expand her farm’s output by purchasing a solar-powered pump for irrigation. She had to take out a loan to make the purchase, but the pump allows her family to harvest profitable crops like garlic and turmeric. According to Rekhaben, the police enforced the initial phase of lockdowns very strictly in her local village. Men were prohibited from venturing out of their homes – let alone going to fields or the market – and only women were allowed to go outside for a short duration of one to two hours. The larger survey indicated many women struggled with similar mobility restrictions – with nearly 95% of interviewed women indicating their mobility decreased under lockdowns. With everything under lockdown, it was virtually impossible for Rekhaben to accomplish her tasks in the allotted two hours outside the home. Her daily roster of activities included travelling to the fields to harvest her crops, buying cereals and vegetables for household use, fetching fodder for the cattle, and then traveling to either Ahmedabad (90 km away) or Baroda (40 km away) to sell her harvest. “How am I supposed to accomplish all these tasks and return back home in two hours only, especially when all modes of transportation are closed?” worried Rekhaben. Even when she did manage to get her produce to the markets of Ahmedabad or Baroda, Rekhaben said that the traders favored the large farmers and offered only throw-away prices for small farmers like herself. “All is lost now, as we stare into an uncertain future with mounting losses. The main question before me is how will I pay the EMIs (equated monthly installments) for the solar pump?” asked Rekhaben. Acknowledging the government’s temporary debt relief measures, Rekhaben said, “SEWA sisters informed me that the government has declared a three-month loan moratorium so I can defer my EMIs for three months but I will still accrue interest.” Asserting the importance of providing small-scale farmers like her with a favorable environment to sell their produce, Rekhaben emphasized: “We do not want charity, we just need support so that we can stand up on our feet again. We need innovative financing solutions to face this economic crisis.”
The survey found many women struggled with mobility restrictions – with nearly 95% of interviewed women reporting having less mobility under lockdown
Mobility now compared to normal times
N=627.
The same as before
Less than before
More than before
Recall period- 4 weeks before the survey
Shantaben Parmar is a 51-year-old street vendor who sells onions and potatoes in the Jamalpur locality of Ahmedabad, Gujarat, to support her 11-member family. She has been a member of SEWA for the past 35 years and has organized street vendors’ collectives, but the present lockdown in Ahmedabad has severely affected her income and livelihood. “Every aspect of managing my vending business has become more and more difficult for me,” said Shantaben. Before the lockdown, Shantaben went to the Vasna Agriculture Produce Market Committee (APMC) market every morning to purchase her stock of potatoes and onions to sell for the day. Normally, there would be a group of women vendors who would accompany Shantaben on her morning journey to the APMC market. They would hire a rickshaw together and split the cost. However, when the lockdown started, group pooling a rickshaw was no longer possible. Shantaben had to travel alone to the APMC market and paid for an expensive solo ride. She had problems with accessing markets and customers as well. According to Shantaben, the police did not allow them to sit at their allocated space for vending. She even alleged that the police broke the platforms made especially for the vendors under the Jamalpur over-bridge. The police only allowed vendors to vend on their lorries, and they did not allow static lorries – the vendors had to keep moving. “Now, how am I supposed to push a lorry and move so much at this age?” questioned Shantaben. As an alternative, the police and APMC allowed the vendors to sit near the riverfront but did not allocate specified vending places. Seating is available only on a first-come, first-serve basis, meaning one member of Shantaben’s family had to wake up every day, as early as 3 a.m., to secure a place for her to vend. Even then, her sales were very low. This crisis ate up much of the Shantaben’s savings, leaving her with the difficult choice of either spending her meager savings on household expenses, or buying the stock of vegetables for her struggling vending business. “We are not even able to break even these days,” said Shantaben. Survey results indicate street vendors were some of those worst hit financially due to the pandemic, with 98% of vendors interviewed reporting facing food insecurity under lockdown. “Corona a toh amne kora kari didha” (this Covid crisis has completely dried-up all our resources) is all she can say.
The survey found street vendors were some of the worst hit financially due to the pandemic, with 98% of vendors interviewed facing food insecurity under lockdown
Casual laborer
Home-based worker
Wage/salary job
Faced food insecurity due to lockdown
Ayeshaben has three children and her husband works as a driver, although his income is very irregular. In addition to working as SEWA’s savings and credit coordinator, Ayeshaben also ran a small snack shop in the village. “My business was thriving, and I was able to manage the expenses of our household through my income,” remarked Ayeshaben. However, the COVID-19 lockdown had a devastating impact on Ayeshaben’s family finances. “All was going well, but suddenly this coronavirus came and ruined everything.” Due to COVID-19, Ayeshaben had to shut down her snack shop. Ayeshaben used to earn about Rs 200 ($2.70) daily from her shop – which she used to buy household groceries. As a result of the lockdown, her husband also could not work. His income had previously helped them pay the rent and children’s school fees. Survey results show two-thirds of SEWA women reporting that their husbands worked less than normal during the pandemic. “So now we don’t have anything to buy the ration or pay the rent. Due to lockdown, work has come to a halt … but household expenses don’t come to a halt. So, how do we manage that?” remarked Ayeshaben. The lockdown also had an adverse impact on the psyche of Ayeshaben and her family members. All of them worried about how they will pay their expenses, and it broke Ayeshaben’s heart when her children asked for food that she could not provide. Many women interviewed expressed similar concerns with food affordability: 53% percent of phone survey participants noted that they were unable to afford healthy food and 40% responded that they ate less food than required because of a lack of money. To add to her woes, Ayeshaben’s eldest daughter had an accident just before the lockdown, and her wounds had to be bandaged properly. The doctor had advised her to change the bandage after 15 days so that the wound would heal quickly. “But ever since the lockdown, we don’t have enough to eat, so how can we afford to travel to the hospital and get a new bandage?” asked Ayeshaben. Ayeshaben praised the courage and resilience of her daughter, who refused to go to the doctor because it would lead to additional expenditure. Instead, she applied homemade antiseptic remedies to her wound to save money. But these feelings of pride in her children’s resilience were quickly replaced by well-founded fears for their safety and well-being in this pandemic and lockdown. “I am continuously praying to god to keep everyone safe from this coronavirus and bring things back to normal soon,” said Ayeshaben.
More than 40% of women interviewed reported not being able to afford buying fruits and vegetables for their families
Ability to obtain fruits/ vegetables for family
Could not obtain them
Could obtain vegetables/fruits
This work received financial support from the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) commissioned and administered through the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) Fund for International Agricultural Research (FIA), grant number: 81235251, with additional support from the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets, and the CGIAR GENDER Platform
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Shantaben Parmar is a 51-year-old street vendor who sells onions and potatoes in the Jamalpur locality of Ahmedabad, Gujarat, to support her 11-member family. She has been a member of SEWA for the past 35 years and has organized street vendors’ collectives, but the present lockdown in Ahmedabad has severely affected her income and livelihood. “Every aspect of managing my vending business has become more and more difficult for me,” said Shantaben. Before the lockdown, Shantaben went to the Vasna Agriculture Produce Market Committee (APMC) market every morning to purchase her stock of potatoes and onions to sell for the day. Normally, there would be a group of women vendors who would accompany Shantaben on her morning journey to the APMC market. They would hire a rickshaw together and split the cost. However, when the lockdown started, group pooling a rickshaw was no longer possible. Shantaben had to travel alone to the APMC market and paid for an expensive solo ride. She had problems with accessing markets and customers as well. According to Shantaben, the police did not allow them to sit at their allocated space for vending. She even alleged that the police broke the platforms made especially for the vendors under the Jamalpur over-bridge. The police only allowed vendors to vend on their lorries, and they did not allow static lorries – the vendors had to keep moving. “Now, how am I supposed to push a lorry and move so much at this age?” questioned Shantaben. As an alternative, the police and APMC allowed the vendors to sit near the riverfront but did not allocate specified vending
places. Seating is available only on a first-come, first-serve basis, meaning one member of Shantaben’s family had to wake up every day, as early as 3 a.m., to secure a place for her to vend. Even then, her sales were very low. This crisis ate up much of the Shantaben’s savings, leaving her with the difficult choice of either spending her meager savings on household expenses, or buying the stock of vegetables for her struggling vending business. “We are not even able to break even these days,” said Shantaben. Survey results indicate street vendors were some of those worst hit financially due to the pandemic, with 98% of vendors interviewed reporting facing food insecurity under lockdown. “Corona a toh amne kora kari didha” (this Covid crisis has completely dried-up all our resources) is all she can say.
Gauriben Ramabhai is a 50-year-old enterprising woman from Bankutra village in the Patan district of Gujarat. Bankutra is a small village of 700 households, bordering the Little Rann of Kutch. According to Gauriben, women in her community were very poor until SEWA started working with them to expand their economic potential. “SEWA identified and promoted our embroidery skills, helped us make it marketable – thereby creating an alternative livelihood source for us which led to national and international recognition,” reminisced Gauriben. She and her family rely on income from rainfed agriculture, which is highly erratic due to fluctuating prices in markets and climate shocks such as droughts. “Sustaining a big family like ours was becoming a huge challenge because of these erratic earnings. It was SEWA who came to our rescue,” said Gauriben. For the past three years, SEWA also trained her family to run “Rural Homestays" in her home, using an online platform. The homestay program supplemented Gauriben’s income from agriculture and embroidery work, helping her host national and even international guests, who would come to her village to experience the rural lifestyle, traditions, and foods. With these income sources, Gauriben and her family were getting by before the COVID-19 pandemic struck
India. Since the beginning of the pandemic and onset of travel restrictions, however, she has not had any bookings for her rural homestay. The nationwide lockdown also had an adverse impact on her family’s ability to sell her farm produce and embroidery, because of restrictions on markets introduced to slow the spread of the virus. Gauriben is not alone in her struggles – in fact, more than half of the survey respondents had to use their savings and borrow additional funds to meet basic necessities. “Despite having three different sources of income, we do not have any income [now] and must beg to the local grocer to give us groceries on credit,” said Gauriben.
Ayeshaben has three children and her husband works as a driver, although his income is very irregular. In addition to working as SEWA’s savings and credit coordinator, Ayeshaben also ran a small snack shop in the village. “My business was thriving, and I was able to manage the expenses of our household through my income,” remarked Ayeshaben. However, the COVID-19 lockdown had a devastating impact on Ayeshaben’s family finances. “All was going well, but suddenly this coronavirus came and ruined everything.” Due to COVID-19, Ayeshaben had to shut down her snack shop. Ayeshaben used to earn about Rs 200 ($2.70) daily from her shop – which she used to buy household groceries. As a result of the lockdown, her husband also could not work. His income had previously helped them pay the rent and children’s school fees. Survey results show two-thirds of SEWA women reporting that their husbands worked less than normal during the pandemic. “So now we don’t have anything to buy the ration or pay the rent. Due to lockdown, work has come to a halt … but household expenses don’t come to a halt. So, how do we manage that?” remarked Ayeshaben. The lockdown also had an adverse impact on the psyche of Ayeshaben and her family members. All of them
worried about how they will pay their expenses, and it broke Ayeshaben’s heart when her children asked for food that she could not provide. Many women interviewed expressed similar concerns with food affordability: 53% percent of phone survey participants noted that they were unable to afford healthy food and 40% responded that they ate less food than required because of a lack of money. To add to her woes, Ayeshaben’s eldest daughter had an accident just before the lockdown, and her wounds had to be bandaged properly. The doctor had advised her to change the bandage after 15 days so that the wound would heal quickly. “But ever since the lockdown, we don’t have enough to eat, so how can we afford to travel to the hospital and get a new bandage?” asked Ayeshaben. Ayeshaben praised the courage and resilience of her daughter, who refused to go to the doctor because it would lead to additional expenditure. Instead, she applied homemade antiseptic remedies to her wound to save money. But these feelings of pride in her children’s resilience were quickly replaced by well-founded fears for their safety and well-being in this pandemic and lockdown. “I am continuously praying to god to keep everyone safe from this coronavirus and bring things back to normal soon,” said Ayeshaben.
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President encourages Thai businesses to expand investment
President Tran Dai Quang said that Vietnam always welcomes Thai businesses to expand investment in the country at a reception for outgoing Ambassador of Thailand Manopchai Vongphakdi in Hanoi on April 4.
President Tran Dai Quang (R) and outgoing Ambassador of Thailand Manopchai Vongphakdi - Photo: VNA
The President congratulated the Thai diplomat on his successful tenure in Vietnam, during which the bilateral strategic partnership was continuously consolidated.
He expressed his delights over the fruitful traditional friendship between the two nations over the past year, while speaking highly of Thailand’s contributions to in the success of the sixth Greater Mekong Subregion Summit (GMS-6) recently held in Hanoi.
He said the mutual trust and understanding have been enhanced through many important cooperative mechanisms like Vietnam-Thailand joint cabinet meeting, Joint Committee on Bilateral Cooperation, and Political Consultation.
Both sides need to make meticulous preparation for the organisation of cooperative mechanisms in 2018, particularly the 4th joint cabinet meetings in Vietnam, he said.
The leader highlighted the two countries’ flourishing economic-trade and investment collaboration, noting that Thailand is currently the largest trade partner of Vietnam in the ASEAN bloc with two-way trade reaching over US$15 billion in 2017.
He took the occasion to thank the Thai King, Royal Family and Government for creating conditions for Vietnamese people in the host country and developing cultural and historic relic sites which have close connections with Vietnam.
He believed that with the support from Thai authorities, the Vietnamese community will well perform their task of promoting the friendship between the two countries’ people.
The Thai diplomat, for his part, expressed his gratitude towards the Vietnamese State, Government and relevant agencies for helping him fulfill his assigned task.
He had the confidence that the strategic partnership action plan will boost the bilateral cooperation in a more effective and practical manner. He thanked the Vietnamese Government for creating favorable conditions for Thai businesses to land investment in Vietnam.
Also, he appraised the role and position of the Vietnamese-Thai nationals in the national development of Thailand as well as the growth of bilateral ties. He pledged that in any capacity, he will do his utmost to foster the Vietnam-Thailand strategic partnership.
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Lojban Reference Grammar
Lojban As We Mangle It In Lojbanistan: About This Book
1. What is Lojban?
Lojban (pronounced “LOZH-bahn”) is a constructed language. Previous versions of the language were called “Loglan” by Dr. James Cooke Brown, who founded the Loglan Project and started the development of the language in 1955. The goals for the language were first described in the open literature in the article “Loglan”, published in Scientific American , June, 1960. Made well-known by that article and by occasional references in science fiction (most notably in Robert Heinlein's novel The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress and computer publications, Loglan and Lojban have been built over four decades by dozens of workers and hundreds of supporters, led since 1987 by The Logical Language Group (who are the publishers of this book).
There are thousands of artificial languages (of which Esperanto is the best-known), but Loglan/Lojban has been engineered to make it unique in several ways. The following are the main features of Lojban:
Lojban is designed to be used by people in communication with each other, and possibly in the future with computers.
Lojban is designed to be neutral between cultures.
Lojban grammar is based on the principles of predicate logic.
Lojban has an unambiguous yet flexible grammar.
Lojban has phonetic spelling, and unambiguously resolves its sounds into words.
Lojban is simple compared to natural languages; it is easy to learn.
Lojban's 1300 root words can be easily combined to form a vocabulary of millions of words.
Lojban is regular; the rules of the language are without exceptions.
Lojban attempts to remove restrictions on creative and clear thought and communication.
Lojban has a variety of uses, ranging from the creative to the scientific, from the theoretical to the practical.
Lojban has been demonstrated in translation and in original works of prose and poetry.
2. What is this book?
This book is what is called a “reference grammar”. It attempts to expound the whole Lojban language, or at least as much of it as is understood at present. Lojban is a rich language with many features, and an attempt has been made to discover the functions of those features. The word “discover” is used advisedly; Lojban was not “invented” by any one person or committee. Often, grammatical features were introduced into the language long before their usage was fully understood. Sometimes they were introduced for one reason, only to prove more useful for other reasons not recognized at the time.
By intention, this book is complete in description but not in explanation. For every rule in the formal Lojban grammar (given in Chapter 21), there is a bit of explanation and an example somewhere in the book, and often a great deal more than a bit. In essence, Chapter 2 gives a brief overview of the language, Chapter 21 gives the formal structure of the language, and the chapters in between put semantic bones on that formal flesh. I hope that eventually more grammatical material founded on (or even correcting) the explanations in this book will become available.
Nevertheless, the publication of this book is, in one sense, the completion of a long period of language evolution. With the exception of a possible revision of the language that will not even be considered until five years from publication date, and any revisions of this book needed to correct outright errors, the language described in this book will not be changing by deliberate act of its creators any more. Instead, language change will take place in the form of new vocabulary — Lojban does not yet have nearly the vocabulary it needs to be a fully usable language of the modern world, as Chapter 12 explains — and through the irregular natural processes of drift and (who knows?) native-speaker evolution. (Teach your children Lojban!) You can learn the language described here with assurance that (unlike previous versions of Lojban and Loglan, as well as most other artificial languages) it will not be subject to further fiddling by language-meisters.
It is probably worth mentioning that this book was written somewhat piecemeal. Each chapter began life as an explication of a specific Lojban topic; only later did these begin to clump together into a larger structure of words and ideas. Therefore, there are perhaps not as many cross-references as there should be. However, I have attempted to make the index as comprehensive as possible.
Each chapter has a descriptive title, often involving some play on words; this is an attempt to make the chapters more memorable. The title of Chapter 1 (which you are now reading), for example, is an allusion to the book English As We Speak It In Ireland , by P. W. Joyce, which is sort of informal reference work about Hiberno-English. “Lojbanistan” is both an imaginary country where Lojban is the native language, and a term for the actual community of Lojban-speakers, scattered over the world. Why “mangle”? As yet, nobody in the real Lojbanistan speaks the language at all well, by the standards of the imaginary Lojbanistan; that is one of the circumstances this book is meant to help remedy.
3. What are the typographical conventions of this book?
Each chapter is broken into numbered sections; each section contains a mixture of expository text, numbered examples, and possibly tables.
The reader will notice a certain similarity in the examples used throughout the book. One chapter after another rings the changes on the self-same sentences:
✥1.1 mi klama le zarci
I go-to that-which-I-describe-as-a store.
I go to the store.
will become wearisomely familiar before Chapter 21 is reached. This method is deliberate; I have tried to use simple and (eventually) familiar examples wherever possible, to avoid obscuring new grammatical points with new vocabulary. Of course, this is not the method of a textbook, but this book is not a textbook (although people have learned Lojban from it and its predecessors). Rather, it is intended both for self-learning (of course, at present would-be Lojban teachers must be self-learners) and to serve as a reference in the usual sense, for looking up obscure points about the language.
It is useful to talk further about ✥1.1 for what it illustrates about examples in this book. Examples usually occupy three lines. The first of these is in Lojban, the second in a word-by-word literal translation of the Lojban into English, and the third in colloquial English. The second and third lines are sometimes called the “literal translation” and the “colloquial translation” respectively. Sometimes, when clarity is not sacrificed thereby, one or both are omitted. If there is more than one Lojban sentence, it generally means that they have the same meaning.
Words are sometimes surrounded by square brackets. In Lojban texts, these enclose optional grammatical particles that may (in the context of the particular example) be either omitted or included. In literal translations, they enclose words that are used as conventional translations of specific Lojban words, but don't have exactly the meanings or uses that the English word would suggest. In Chapter 3, square brackets surround phonetic representations in the International Phonetic Alphabet.
Many of the tables, especially those placed at the head of various sections, are in three columns. The first column contains Lojban words discussed in that section; the second column contains the grammatical category (represented by an UPPER CASE Lojban word) to which the word belongs, and the third column contains a brief English gloss, not necessarily or typically a full explanation. Other tables are explained in context.
A few Lojban words are used in this book as technical terms. All of these are explained in Chapter 2, except for a few used only in single chapters, which are explained in the introductory sections of those chapters.
It is necessary to add, alas, that the examples used in this book do not refer to any existing person, place, or institution, and that any such resemblance is entirely coincidental and unintentional, and not intended to give offense.
When definitions and place structures of gismu, and especially of lujvo, are given in this book, they may differ from those given in the English-Lojban dictionary (which, as of this writing, is not yet published). If so, the information given in the dictionary supersedes whatever is given here.
5. Acknowledgements and Credits
Although the bulk of this book was written for the Logical Language Group (LLG) by John Cowan, who is represented by the occasional authorial “I”, certain chapters were first written by others and then heavily edited by me to fit into this book.
In particular: Chapter 2 is a fusion of originally separate documents, one by Athelstan, and one by Nora Tansky LeChevalier and Bob LeChevalier; Chapters 3 and 4 were originally written by Bob LeChevalier with contributions by Chuck Barton; Chapter 12 was originally written (in much longer form) by Nick Nicholas; the dialogue near the end of Chapter 13 was contributed by Nora Tansky LeChevalier; Chapter 15 and parts of Chapter 16 were originally by Bob LeChevalier; and the YACC grammar in Chapter 21 is the work of several hands, but is primarily by Bob LeChevalier and Jeff Taylor. The BNF grammar, which is also in Chapter 21, was originally written by me, then rewritten by Clark Nelson, and finally touched up by me again.
The research into natural languages from which parts of Chapter 5 draw their material was performed by Ivan Derzhanski. LLG acknowledges his kind permission to use the fruits of his research.
The pictures in this book were drawn by Nora Tansky LeChevalier, except for the picture appearing in Chapter 4, which is by Sylvia Rutiser.
I would like to thank the following people for their detailed reviews, suggestions, comments, and early detection of my embarrassing errors in Lojban, logic, English, and cross-references: Nick Nicholas, Mark Shoulson, Veijo Vilva, Colin Fine, And Rosta, Jorge Llambias, Iain Alexander, Paulo S. L. M. Barreto, Robert J. Chassell, Ivan Derzhanski, Jim Carter, Irene Gates, Bob LeChevalier, John Parks-Clifford (also known as “pc”), and Nora Tansky LeChevalier.
Nick Nicholas (NSN) would like to thank the following Lojbanists: Mark Shoulson, Veijo Vilva, Colin Fine, And Rosta, and Iain Alexander for their suggestions and comments; John Cowan, for his extensive comments, his exemplary trailblazing of Lojban grammar, and for solving the “manskapi” dilemma for NSN; Jorge Llambias, for his even more extensive comments, and for forcing NSN to think more than he was inclined to; Bob LeChevalier, for his skeptical overview of the issue, his encouragement, and for scouring all Lojban text his computer has been burdened with for lujvo; Nora Tansky LeChevalier, for writing the program converting old rafsi text to new rafsi text, and sparing NSN from embarrassing errors; and Jim Carter, for his dogged persistence in analyzing lujvo algorithmically, which inspired this research, and for first identifying the three lujvo classes.
Of course, the entire Loglan Project owes a considerable debt to James Cooke Brown as the language inventor, and also to several earlier contributors to the development of the language. Especially noteworthy are Doug Landauer, Jeff Prothero, Scott Layson, Jeff Taylor, and Bob McIvor. Final responsibility for the remaining errors and infelicities is solely mine.
6. Informal Bibliography
The founding document for the Loglan Project, of which this book is one of the products, is Loglan 1: A Logical Language by James Cooke Brown (4th ed. 1989, The Loglan Institute, Gainesville, Florida, U.S.A.) The language described therein is not Lojban, but is very close to it and may be considered an ancestral version. It is regrettably necessary to state that nothing in this book has been approved by Dr. Brown, and that the very existence of Lojban is disapproved of by him.
The logic of Lojban, such as it is, owes a good deal to the American philosopher W. v.O. Quine, especially Word and Object (1960, M.I.T. Press). Much of Quine's philosophical writings, especially on observation sentences, reads like a literal translation from Lojban.
The theory of negation expounded in Chapter 15 is derived from a reading of Larry Horn's work The Natural History of Negation .
Of course, neither Brown nor Quine nor Horn is in any way responsible for the uses or misuses I have made of their works.
Depending on just when you are reading this book, there may be three other books about Lojban available: a textbook, a Lojban/English dictionary, and a book containing general information about Lojban. You can probably get these books, if they have been published, from the same place where you got this book. In addition, other books not yet foreseen may also exist.
7. Captions to Pictures
The following examples list the Lojban caption, with a translation, for the picture at the head of each chapter. If a chapter's picture has no caption, “(none)” is specified instead.
✥7.1 coi lojban. coi rodo
Greetings, O Lojban! Greetings, all-of you
✥7.2 (none)
✥7.3 .i .ai .i .ai .o
[untranslatable]
✥7.4 jbobliku
Lojbanic-blocks
✥7.6 lei re nanmu cu bevri le re nanmu
The-mass-of two men carry the two men
Two men (jointly) carry two men (both of them).
✥7.7 ma drani danfu
.i di'e
.i di'u
.i dei
.i ri
.i do'i
[What sumti] is-the-correct type-of-answer?
The-next-sentence.
The-previous-sentence.
This-sentence.
An-unspecified-utterance.
✥7.8 ko viska re prenu poi bruna la santas.
[You!] see two persons who-are brothers-of Santa.
✥7.9 (none)
✥7.10 za'o klama
[superfective] come/go
Something goes (or comes) for too long.
✥7.11 le si'o kunti
The concept-of emptiness
✥7.12 (none)
✥7.13 .oi ro'i ro'a ro'e
[Pain!] [emotional] [social] [mental]
✥7.15 mi na'e lumci le karce
I other-than wash the car
I didn't wash the car.
✥7.16 drata mupli pe'u .djan.
another example [please] John
Another example, John, please!
✥7.17 zai xanlerfu by. ly. .obu .jy by. .abu ny.
[Shift] hand-letters l o j b a n
"Lojban" in the manual alphabet
✥7.18 no no
8. Boring Legalities
This book is Copyright © 1997 by The Logical Language Group, Inc.
Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this book, either in electronic or in printed form, provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved on all copies.
Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this book, provided that the modifications are clearly marked as such, and provided that the entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a permission notice identical to this one.
Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this manual into another language, under the above conditions for modified versions, except that this permission notice may be stated in a translation that has been approved by the Logical Language Group, rather than in English.
The contents of Chapter 21 are in the public domain.
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Merritt Kelly is an American freelance writer and author. She lives with her husband, son and cat in Washington. Her books include a foodie/chick-lit romance, Culinary Seduction and a collection of flash fiction, Flash Flower Fiction. She is a hopeful romantic obsessed with wine and chocolate and an accidental foodie. #CulinarySeduction
Food is the new sex and cheftestants Andrea Claire and Danny Miller are battling it out to see who becomes the new high priest or priestess.
Chef Andrea Claire is a woman who knows what she wants, and what she wants is to build her own culinary empire.
Bad boy chef Danny Miller's bold flavors and state-of-the-art techniques in molecular gastronomy set him apart from the pack.
Will his talent be enough to garner him the win? Or will Andre's seductive on-camera personality and obvious passion for cooking win out? Their on-air chemistry is undeniable. The test kitchens at CULINARY SEDUCTION have never been so hot.
APRIL: What were you like in school?
MERRITT: I was a nerd. I loved books and drama class when I was ten I tried to write my first play without knowing a thing about structure or character development. I just knew I should write something. Then I was convinced I should be an actress. The love of words was there, but I discovered I was better at writing them than I was at performing them.
APRIL: Were you good at English?
MERRITT: I minored in English in college. I considered making it my major but I didn't want to teach. Looking back on it it would have been smart to do just that. At least then it would have been a steady gig, if I could have landed a teaching job. My grammar has suffered I used to be so much better at it than I am now. (laughs)
APRIL: What are your ambitions for your writing career?
MERRITT: I'd love to have more books out there. Right now I just have two. I'd like to finish my musical comedy about cancer I'm writing and have it produced. Those are two pretty big dreams.
APRIL: So, what have you written?
MERRITT: Culinary Seduction is a Foodie/Chick-Lit Romance, and Flash Flower Fiction is a collection of flash fiction stories (very short 501 words or less) based on a series of flower photos my husband took. Each is written in a different genre, there’s noir, sci-fi, romance espionage. I've also written several articles for Haveheart Magazine and Home & Harvest Magazine.
APRIL: Give us an insight into your main character. What does he/she do that is so special?
MERRITT: Andrea Claire, my heroine from Culinary Seduction is a young woman who wants to build a culinary empire. But right now, she's running her own catering business is eastern Washington out of the Elks Lodge kitchen. Then she gets the call to participate in a cooking competition for hosting duties of a new show called Culinary Seduction. Her warmth and the ability to make people feel the love she puts into her food are what sets her apart. She's the girl next with ambition, talent and drive.
APRIL: What’s it about (Culinary Seduction)?
MERRITT: It's about two chefs who fall in love while battling it out in a competition for the hosting duties of a new television show called Culinary Seduction. The hero, bad boy chef Danny, went to culinary school. He specializes in molecular gastronomy. He is in debt up to his eyeballs to his ailing grandmother and the bank. Winning the competition would mean he could pay off the bank and his grandmother, then the restaurant would be his free and clear Andrea, the heroine, is a seductive home cook with great instincts. She cooks with love and has plans to build a culinary empire. Right now, she caters out of the Elks Lodge in a sleepy little eastern Washington town. There's lots of sexy banter between them. I like to think of them as the Tracy and Hepburn of the foodie set. Who will win? You'll have to read it find out. The test kitchens at the Cuisine Channel have never been so hot!
APRIL: Which actor/actress would you like to see playing the lead character from your most recent book?
MERRITT: I'd love to see someone like Ann Hathaway or Rachel Weisz play Andrea. Although I made the character younger than they are I'd think they both could bring something really amazing to the role.
APRIL: How much research do you do?
MERRITT: I did a lot research on molecular gastronomy. My hero Danny, is a chef who cooks like a scientist. The molecular gastronomy movement is really exciting but it's very technical and precise. I don't cook that way. I had to read a lot and watch a lot of demonstrations of the process on the food channels and YouTube.
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Website: www.merrittkelly.com
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Twitter: @merrittkelly1
Amazon Author Page: http://www.amazon.com/Merritt-Kelly/e/B00TVCLEDA/ref=dp_byline_cont_pop_ebooks_1
Book Links: (* American, UK, etc.) tinyurl.com/pc4j9oh Amazon UK link:http://www.amazon.co.uk/Culinary-Seduction-Merritt-Kelly-ebook/dp/B00TUIAW92/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1439662872&sr=1-1&keywords=Culinary+Seduction
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Welcome to Reflexology! My name is Barbara A. Brower. I began my journey with Reflexology in 1978, my first training in 1980, at the International Institute of Reflexology. It was a wonderful launching into this age-old science. A medical doctor, Dr. William FitzGerald in the early 1900’s, rediscovered reflexology in our country. Doctors in hospitals first practiced it. As we moved from homeopathic medicines to allopathic medicines, Reflexology was being phased out, as the general consensus was that drugs were faster and better for the body. That was in the early 1900’s…I am so pleased to be able to share with you that after almost a century Reflexology is back in the hospitals as a complementary therapy to be integrated with the medical module once again.
You may be wondering how this came about and it is a wonderful story. In an attempt to shorten a much longer story… one of my clients had a broken leg (tibia) that was not healing. Doctors said she would need surgery, to include a plate and screws in her tibia to mend the bone. It had been 3 months since I’d seen her and I thought her schedule was not allowing her to come in. By no coincidence we met right after she had requested one more month for the mending to occur; her doctor told her after three months this doesn’t happen. She hobbled into my office on crutches to drop of some flyers just as I was entering the waiting room looking for a client who had forgotten her appointment only to find her standing with a cast from the base of her toes to just below the knee. I asked her why she hadn’t been in and she said she didn’t think she could have reflexology with her leg in a cast. I told her that we could work the referral areas to the foot which would be the hand, wrist, and forearm. The forearm being the referral to the tibia bone or shinbone in common language. I also told her reflexology could assist the process of mending her leg quickly and that I would guarantee it. She looked at me with high eyebrows, and said, “How are you going to guarantee it?” I said, “I’ll give you all your money back if it doesn’t work.” Needless to say she signed on that day and took the open appointment available at that time. I told her it would take one per week for four weeks and she would have homework on her forearm twice a day. She agreed to 4 sessions (1 per week for 4 weeks and daily homework on her forearm.
After the 4 weeks she returned to her physician who was surprised to say that the bone was knitted back together and asked what she had done. In her elation and surprise she asked if he had ever heard of reflexology, and he replied with a ‘no’ and left the room. When the nurse arrived she said that after 10 days in the walking boot she would be good to go! When my client asked if the doctor was going to return so she could tell him her story the nurse replied, “no, he’s moved on to other patients.”
When she returned for another session of reflexology with me she was very disheartened by the doctors response and lack of curiosity. After all, he told her it would not heal after three months and it did! I told her doctors just hadn’t heard about it. It was around 2001, at the time of this incident. She then said to me, “you’ve always told me this helps your chemotherapy clients…want to write a grant with me to prove it?” You can imagine my response…”sure!” So she asked me to write the protocols and frequency within their strict parameters and she’d take care of the rest.
The Pilot study was done first where guided imagery, reminiscent therapy and reflexology were all offered and women could choose their preference. The reflexology was most requested so the grant was written for Reflexology singularly.
Could reflexology make a difference in the quality of life for women with breast cancer undergoing chemotherapy? It did make a difference. Read, “The Results” in the drop down menu. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) granted Michigan State University (MSU) $3.1 million in the first 5-year study (2005) and $2.65 million in the second 5-year study (2011) which is on-going. A third grant is now underway. Results of the second grant will be available spring 2018.
As a result of these grants Reflexology is gaining the respect of the medical community and hospitals like William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, Michigan and St. John Providence Park Hospital, Novi, Michigan have requested our certificate training course to train on-site at their locations. We so enjoyed the amazing staff of nurses; massage therapists and laypersons that attended. I am so honored to have been a part of this amazing full circle experience. It started in the hospital with William FitzGerald, MD in the early 1900’s and it returns to hospitals in 2011. If you are new to Reflexology please know that Reflexology is not ‘new’. Its earliest recorded history is 2330 B.C. in Egypt where hieroglyphics show the feet and hands being worked on. Reflexology as taught by Dr. William FitzGerald, was first called Zone Therapy, later to be called, Reflexology. It is a deep compression thumb crawl meant to break up or disperse the congestion that lies deep under the tissue. It is never meant to go beyond ‘the good hurt’. This is Western Reflexology. If you have had an experience in reflexology that has felt more like a foot massage or has been incredibly painful it was not western reflexology.
Please ask the person where they received their training. If it was not through a Reflexology School, you
are probably not receiving western reflexology. Reflexology is growing in popularity so there are
many people professing to offer reflexology. They may have had a 2-hour introduction or a 2-day
introduction and received a certificate. Branch Reflexology Institute graduates have had 150-
200+ hours in training and there IS a difference.
My own training includes many other adjuncts to Reflexology as I had many questions that my early training did not address. Why only this one toe, or why just this side of the my body, or is this going to continue to get worse? I had to find answers for my clients as well as myself. My extended training includes:
Health and the Human Mind, Dr. John Ray, 1981-1983
Herbology, Ralf Ostertag, 1982-1983
Body Electronics, Dr. John Ray and Robert Stevens, 1983
Electromagnetic Fields, Dr. George Yao, 1984
Iridology; The Study of the Iris of the Eye, 1985
Reiki I and II, Randall Hayward, 1986
Mastery of Words, What We’re Really Saying, 1984
The University of Science and Philosophy, Universal Law, Natural Science And Living Philosophy. Walter and Lao Russell, Home Study Course. 1986-1988
Michigan State University Cadaver Lab experience. 1986 and 2010, 2015, 2016.
Able to touch and hold body parts to establish correlation with zones; expanded reflexes during disease processes. View foot challenges from the inside. Talk with physician in lab and ask questions. Most recently (2010) the Assistant Dean in the college of Osteopathy personally confirmed 4 Reflexology indicators confirming locations and chart validity in the feet.
All extended classes were a way for me to bring better understanding of how, “The Body Talks” to us when congestion is present. I am so passionate about Reflexology! I have seen amazing results in my career. In 2017, I am 36 years full time in my practice of this awesome healing art.
If you would like to hear and see testimonials from 15 of my clients taped in a studio on a variety of topics you will want to order the latest DVD on Foot Reflexology, Detoxify and De-Stress! It’s AMAZING.
“The Body Talks Chart”, Wall Chart 1995
Foot Reflexology Chart, Wall Chart 2009
Hand Reflexology Chart, Wall Chart 2009
Hand Reflexology DVD, 6 Common Areas of Congestion, 2014 (Co-produced with Rebecca Sundeen)
Foot Reflexology DVD, Detoxify and De-Stress, 2015 (Clinically proven beneficial for breast cancer patients during chemotherapy and after) AMAZING TESTIMONIALS
Branch Reflexology Institute, a licensed school in the State of Michigan. Where you can become Certified and Registered in Clinical Reflexology with Branch (BRI)
1745 Hamilton Rd., Suite 310
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Twelve drummers drumming…
…for Helen Eddy, the very busy Polk County health commissioner…and Karen Schunk and all the other women (and men) who make and give away masks to help protect us from the virus…including Linda Cravens, who sends masks to Iowa friends from far-off Salt Lake…and the men and women in the crowded hospitals trying to juggle the care-giving for those felled by Covid-19…Sen. Charles Grassley, who caught it somewhere, somehow…and Mayor Frank Cownie, who sensibly ordered us to wear masks when state officials refused to….
Eleven pipers piping…
…for new zoo boss Ann Shimerdia…and Sara Rhine and Brad Rhines — she thrilled us on the Drake basketball court, he’s at Prairie Meadows…for Carter Baumler, the Dowling pitcher who signed a $1.5 million deal with the Baltimore Orioles…and Musco’s Casey Scheidel, who knows everything about turf…and Chris Schlosser, who kept the Principal Park field beautiful all year — though there was no professional baseball there.
Ten lords a-leaping…
… for Mary Andringa, Romonda Belcher, Teresa Bomhoff, Mary Jane Cobb, Kellie Markey, Sheri McMichael, Kesho Scott, Maura Nelson, Teresa Adams-Tomka and Nataliya Boychenko — tapped by the Business Record as this year’s Women of Influence…to pollster and businesswoman Ann Selzer, a woman of influence who is always right…to Melissa O’Neil at Central Iowa Shelter and Services…and architect Ann Sobiech Munson….
Nine ladies dancing…
…to celebrate the re-election of Polk County supervisors Bob Brownell and Steve Van Oort…and for new county manager John Norris and his family…for Jim Autry (and buy his fascinating new book “The White Man Who Stayed”)…for Ocheyedan city councilman David Johnson, who always has a cause…and new Simpson College president Marsha Kelliher (and welcome to Iowa)…for whoever makes the pies at the Flying Mango…and the pastries at La Mie…and the lasagna at Billy Vee’s and at Baratta’s…and the sandwiches at B&B…and the grilled cheese concoctions at the Cheese Bar…to Marty Scarpino and everyone at the Embers on Ingersoll, the best restaurant in Des Moines…and to Jessica Dunker at the Iowa Restaurant Association….
Eight maids a-milking…
…for Tom Keating at the Iowa High School Athletic Association and Jean Berger at the Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union, who have had challenging years (and, gosh, isn’t it time you merged your groups?)…and for Joe Drzycimski, the high-school baseball player who delayed the tournament by accidentally locking himself in the dugout bathroom…for Bill Knapp, who can’t stop making deals…and Mike Richards, who has led the Board of Regents through a very tough year…for artist Jenna Brownlee (and all outdoors people miss her grandfather, Tom Kollings)…and Bob Hopson (who grew up — 80 years ago — down the street from the Kollingses)…and 96-year-old Jim Tyler of Atlantic….
Seven swans a-swimming…
…for Lloyd and Julie Von Hagen…and Harry Moulton…for Mike and Susie McDermott in Cedar Rapids…and hair-dresser Kelly Morris…for Steve Sypal and Steve Seipel, who have never met…for Tommy Birch and Pat Brown and Sue and Audrey and photographer Dylan Heuer and Dave and Marsha Wiggins and Kathy and Gene Meyer and all those other Principal Park regulars we missed last season…and Joan Strentz…and for newlyweds Sean Callison and Emily Upchurch….
Six geese a-laying…
…to the principals of Milo and Olive, an Iowa corporation… and Jax and Rizz and Charlee, adjusting to their new homes…and Gilda the Corgi…to Rachel Munro and her sister Theresa, who love dogs, and to Christi Anderson, who pampers them (and people)…and to the vets and staff at the Ingersoll Animal Hospital, who love our animals as much as we do…and the folks at the Animal Rescue League of Iowa….
…and a big Welcome! to Blessed Stone from Burma and America Herrera of Mexico and Rose Soso of Thailand and the other 553 men and women from 35 countries who were sworn in as new citizens at the ball park this year — 69 on the field on September 17 and 487 as drive-throughs in the parking lot in late June — making it 883 citizens sworn in at Principal Park in the past 12 years. And to Federal Judge Bob Pratt, who swears them in from home plate with an inspirational short talk, and Susan Voss, who welcomes them with her perfect rendition of the National Anthem…and Scott Sailor, who organizes the whole thing at the ballpark….
Four colly birds…
…for Sonya Heitshusen — we miss her on Channel 13 — and April Samp, who did a good job at Channel 5…for Lucas Grundmeier at The Register…and Suzanna de Baca at Connie Wimer’s Business Publications…and for Connie Wimer, too…and columnists Dave Elbert and Lee Rood…for Celeste Tilton, at Cityview, and her boss Shane Goodman (and Jolene, too)…for talk-radio magician Andrew Downs, who keeps things running at KXNO…for broadcaster Larry Morgan and former radio talker Marty Tirrell… for Dave Price of WHO, who knows politics…for Laurie Belin, without doubt the best reporter in Iowa…and for the wry Randy Evans, who fights the good fight for open meetings and open records….
Three French hens…
…for Archie Brooks, who should have a street named after him, and John and Michael Mauro and Ned Chiodo and former mayor John (Pat) Dorrian, guys with rollicking stories of local politics of a generation or two (or maybe three) ago…historians John Zeller and Steve Nelson-Vaux, who can fact-check the tales those guys tell and who can find out anything else about the past in this great city…and, of course, the wonderful 100-year-old Neal Smith, who lived the history that historians have to look up….
Two turtle doves…
…for all those babies saved by Count the Kicks since it was founded in 2008…and the five Iowa women who started it after their daughters were stillborn…and Emily Price, who runs it…and the folks at the Iowa Center for Children’s Justice, which works with kids whose parents are divorcing…and for all those kids between 6 and 16 that it helps…for auditor Kent Shirley and accountant Ron Hintz…for employee of the year Beth Giudicessi….and her nephews Hugo and Alastair…and Zachary and Mackenzie and Christopher and Maggie, the best grandchildren ever….
…in memory of lawyer Steve Roberts, one of the last of the moderate Republican leaders from a generation ago — the generation of Bob Ray and Mary Louise Smith and Art Neu and Andy Varley and Phil Hill… and Jim Cooney, patriarch and editor and lovely human being…Official scorer Mary Herman, a fixture at the high school tournaments…for Ken Fuson, a great writer and sweet man…Cynthia Rehm, a good friend…the gregarious Bob Kirke…and Barbara Graham and Max Holmes and the oh-so-nice Joann Jensen…Lori Kalainov…Nancy Turner…and Dean Borg, whose voice was familiar to everyone in Iowa…newspapermen Nick Kotz and Jim Lawless and Harold Yeglin…Ian Binnie…Jan Kruse…Mary Kay McNarney… and coach Jim Mahoney…Anita Mandelbaum…Harriet Macomber…charismatic Coach Johnny Majors…Barry Griswell…Mayor and businessman Tom Urban…Owen Newlin…wildlife artist Maynard Reece, who lived to be 100…Judge Joel Novak…Frank Fogarty, a gentleman…Sheldon Rabinowitz…Councilman and pharmacist Tom Vlassis and banker John Burgeson…photographer Ken Scarpino…broadcaster Rich Fellingham…Bill Lozier…historian (and so much more) Tom Morain…and, always, the first Christopher. ♦
— Michael Gartner
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Posted on November 6, 2009 February 17, 2016 by Ken Steinhoff
One-Shot Frony
Everyone’s been shot by Frony
There’s probably nobody who lived in Southeast Missouri between 1927 and 1986 who hadn’t had his or her picture taken by One-Shot Frony.
G.D. Fronabarger started working at The Southeast Missourian in 1927 and stayed 59 years.
When I knew him, he was called One-Shot because he seldom took more than one picture per assignment. He’d line up a group shot with 50 people in it, growl through the cigar clenched between his teeth, “Don’t blink. I’m taking one shot,” push the shutter release and walk off.
He and I had a somewhat tense relationship in our early days. I was a reporter who got paid $5 for each shot that ran… when one ran. Because most of the staffers liked my candid style, as opposed to Frony’s more formal posed pictures, they’d connive to slip assigments to me on days when they knew Frony wasn’t available. He was gruff with everybody, but it always felt like he was a little more gruff with me.
Frony defended a controversial picture
That all changed after I went out on an early-morning spot news run Dec. 5, 1966.
A 19-year-old and another man were cleaning the inside of a closed barge with gasoline when they were overcome by the fumes. I took a front-page picture of the young man laying face-down on the cold barge deck while rescue workers lifted his partner out of the hold.
It was the first body I had ever seen outside of a funeral home – certainly the only one of someone my age – and it was one of the few I can recall The Missourian running. Seeing that, and writing the obituary of a kid I went to kindergarten with, showed me just how fragile life is. I never forgot it.
Predictably, the paper came in for a lot of criticism
I was surprised one day when I was in a coffee shop and overheard Frony defending “the kid” who took the picture to someone who was bending his ear. After that, Frony treated me a lot differently. Maybe he felt like I had paid my dues and had what it took to be a real newspaper photographer.
Fred Lynch is preserving Frony’s early work
I dropped in to see Fred Lynch, a Missourian photographer since 1975. I had seen his work over the years, but had never met him. While we were sharing war stories, he said that he was involved in a project to digitize all of Frony’s 4×5 negatives.
Frony was an early adopter of 35mm technology. He showed me a long telephoto lens one afternoon, and I asked what he planned to use it for.
“I’m going to stand here and shoot corruption in Illinois,” he groused, without a hint of a smile.
Fred pulled out a series of prints that showed a completely different side of Frony, the photographer. There were images that would qualify as art in any museum. He managed to capture a portrait of his era in a way I hope my pictures do.
I’m not sure how The Missourian will ultimately use the photos, but I’ll be first in line to buy the book if they publish one.
Frony’s Twister Tornado Warning Alarm
I happened to be in town when many of Frony’s possessions were auctioned off. (A copy of the picture of him on the river front was one of the things that sold. I was touched that he had hung onto it for all those years.)
One thing that caught my eye was a Twister Tornado Warning Alarm. It was a quirky device that had a metal can in the middle. If the air pressure dropped suddenly, a buzzer would sound and a light would light. It had no practical use, but it was neat.
Auctioneer sweetened the deal
I bid two or three bucks and figured I had a clear shot. The auctioneer, though, wanted to boost the bid, so he threw in two pairs of Frony’s old shoes. One was an orangish color not seen in nature. NOW folks were getting interested. I think I finally had to go to five or seven bucks for my trophy, plus the bleeping shoes.
I felt foolish enough buying the Twister Torado Warning Alarm (which, by the way, is on permanent loan to the Mark Steinhoff Memorial Museum in St. Louis), the shoes made me feel REALLY foolish.
Frony Shoes are still in service
It turned out that Kid Matt, who was in high school at the time, thought they were the most comfortable things he’d ever found. And, showing that he had inherited his fashion sense from me, he insisted on wearing them in public.
I asked him the other night what ever happened to his Frony Shoes.
He was more than happy to pull them out of his closet to pose for this picture.
I guess you could say that the Steinhoffs have walked a mile in Frony’s shoes.
CategoriesPeople, Photos around Cape TagsFred Lynch Blog, GD Fronabarger, Ken Steinhoff, Matt Steinhoff, One-Shot Frony, Photojournalism, The Southeast Missourian, Twister Tornado Alarm
15 Replies to “One-Shot Frony”
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Matt, if you ever need to find another line of work, I’m pretty sure that you can check shoe/leg model off your list.
Fred Lynch weighed in with a couple of clarifications and additions:
1. All of Frony’s 4×5 negatives have been scanned by an intern (wow, I wish I could find one of those).
2. Fred’s vehicle for introducing Frony’s photos to a new audience is his blog, F8 and Be There in The Southeast Missourian. It’s worth signing up for the RSS feed so you don’t miss any.
[Editor’s note: the name of Fred’s blog is taken from the classic answer a photographer gave when asked he managed to take a spectacular spot news photo: “F/8 and be there.”]
“With help from our librarian, Sharon Sanders, I am presenting a historical look at Cape Girardeau through Frony’s lens. I have begun with buildings from the 40s and 50s which no longer exist. Any news stories or historical information is included in the blogs,” Fred wrote.
I’m glad to see The Missourian is actively preserving the community’s history by digitizing the work of someone who documented the big and little stores of Southeast Missouri for more than half a century.
The Spokesrider says:
Thanks for letting me know about this blog, Ken. I’m enjoying the photos. This is a good story, too. But did Mr. Frony have a first name?
Spokesrider,
Frony’s first name was Garland, but he normally used his initials, G.D. Fronabarger.
Everybody in town knew him by his nickname, though.
Glad to see you made it over here. I’ve enjoyed reading your accounts for years at
http://www.spokesrider.com/
Andy Scully chimed in with this comment:
I recognized the police officer at the scene of the barge asphyxiation fatalities. He was Eugene Huttegger. In addition to being a full-time Cape policemen, Gene also commercially fished the Mississippi River.
Leroy Elfrank says:
Trying to find pictures of the 1960 senior class year book.
Help if you can
Classmates.com has CHS yearbooks from 1926, 1969, 1972, 1976, and 1981.
It also has a 1959 College High yearbook.
Amazon.com lists Central yearbooks for 1926, 1972, 1976, and 1981.
I have Girardots from 1962-66 and my dad’s book from 1934.
Keith Robinson says:
Mr. Fronabarger and my uncle Jim Haman (Kassel’s Studio/Haman’s Kastle) were good friends because they were both intimately involved in photography, but there involvement never put them in competition with each other.
Yes, like many others, my brother, mother and I were subjects of his camera lens. The photo was taken for a feature that shared one of my mother’s recipes in a Marquette Cement Company publication.
Bob Reese says:
This is not about your current topic. I am going thru old photos and have one of my grandmother. On the edge of the card board “frame” there is what I think is kind of a seal that says 1914 and handwritten next to the “seal” it says I think Murillo or maybe murrillo.
I tried to find a photgrapher named Murillo in the Cape area but so far didn’t try St. Louis. Do you know of or where to look up this Murillo. My grandmother graduated from what was the Normal School in Cape in 1909. She is the daughter of the Robert Taylor that was in the picture I sent you before of all the people standing in front of the school house.
Bob Reese
That’s not a name that’s familiar, but The Missourian’s 75 Years Ago Today column in the Apr. 23, 1989, paper had a brief from the Apr. 24, 1914 edition: “Ruth Gregory, representing Murillo studio in St. Louis, is here to open branch of photography studio in Houck Building.
The Google News Archive doesn’t have copies of the 1914 papers, but you could contact Sharon Sanders at The Missourian to see if they are available locally.
karen melton says:
i need dawn adam broussards photo
Jim Brown says:
My first place of employment was Nowell’s Camera Shop. Frony dropped in frequently and I always enjoyed his stories. I remember his first 35mm was a Pentax.
Cape was pretty much a Pentax town. I don’t know if that was Bill Nowell’s influence or Frony’s. I didn’t even realize that Nowell’s carried Nikon, but Tim Ludwig or someone pointed out that it did.
Frony got to the point where he tolerated me, but we never bonded to the point of sitting and exchanging war stories.
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Barack Obama promises action if Russia conclusively found involved in DNC email hack
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The outgoing President of the United States, Barack Obama, has hit back with a strongly worded statement regarding email hacks that influenced the election in Donald Trump's favour.
In an interview to National Public Radio, POTUS said they were awaiting the final CIA and FBI reports on whether or not the repetitive email hacks from the Democratic National Committee was planned to influence the elections in favour of the Republicans.
He said: "I think there is no doubt that when any foreign government tries to impact the integrity of our elections... We need to take action... And we will - at a time and place of our own choosing. Some of it may be explicit and publicised; some of it may not be.
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There's no doubt that it (the hacking and the leaks) contributed to an atmosphere in which the only focus for weeks at a time, months at a time were Hillary's emails, the Clinton Foundation, political gossip surrounding the DNC."
Obama also raised questions about the Republican party's unwavering support for the President-elect despite Trump's vocal support of Russia and its president, Vladimir Putin.
Obama was amazed that the Republicans rallied behind a candidate who supported a former head of the KGB, "who is responsible for crushing democracy in Russia, muzzling the press, throwing political dissidents in jail, countering American efforts to expand freedom at every turn, and is currently making decisions that's leading to a slaughter in Syria".
The Republicans, said Obama, have gone from taking pride in itself "during the Reagan era and for decades that followed as being the bulwark against Russian influence, now suddenly is embracing him".
The President-elect has of course summarily and eloquently dismissed the Democrats' and CIA's claims of Russian involvement in organising the hacks on his favourite platform, Twitter: "If Russia, or some other entity, was hacking, why did the White House wait so long to act? Why did they only complain after Hillary lost?"
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8 Open Source BPM Software Options
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Open source BPM will "challenge the supremacy of proprietary BPM vendors," says a Forrester Research analyst. Here are eight open source BPM options.
Bonitasoft's flagship open source BPM software is called Bonita BPM. It is a unified and extensible platform to enable continuous business improvement by unleashing the potential of DevOps teams to deliver applications that adapt to business changes in real-time. It is based on a lightweight and modular architecture that the company promises offers developers the option of working with the full platform or only with the desired modules. It is backed by an open source community of more than 120,000 members to answer questions and provide guidance to newcomers.
Red Hat JBoss BPM Suite
Red Hat JBoss BPM Suite combines business process management, business rules management, business resource planning and complex event processing technologies into an integrated open source BPM platform. It includes support for business process modeling, execution and monitoring. Users can capture business policies and procedures, automate business operations and measure the results of business activities. It can be deployed across heterogeneous environments including physical, virtual, mobile and cloud.
Alfresco Activiti
Alfresco Activiti is the enterprise version of the Activi open source BPM software platform. At its core is a high performance process engine that allows organizations to manage a wide range of business processes. It integrates with enterprise content management (ECM) systems, including Alfresco One. Alfresco Activiti and Alfresco One have been built to integrate process and content services and can also be configured to work with both Box and Google Drive.
"In today's digital age, every piece of content is typically tied to a business process, and every process typically has an associated piece of content," said Paul Roth, vice president, BPM at Alfresco. "Because of this, integrated content management and business process solutions can deliver greater value."
Activiti can be run in any Java application. It can also run on a server, as part of a cluster or in the cloud. It integrates well with the open source Spring framework and provides a relatively straightforward way to implement the Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) standard.
Camunda is an open source BPM software platform for workflow and business process automation that scales well and executes BPMN. It is written in Java, so fits well with development in Java EE and Spring while providing script language support. It can be used for system integration workflows, as well as for human workflow and case management. Additionally, it can be added to Java applications as a library or used as a container service in Tomcat or JBoss.
jSonic
jSonic offers an open source BPM software suite that is said to help align business processes with changing market conditions, as well as the needs of customers, partners and regulatory demands. Included are process design, workflow management, modeling, execution, automation, monitoring and interface design.
jBPM
jBPM is an attempt to close the gap that tends to exist between business analysts and developers. Its open source BPM software workflow engine is written in Java and enables the execution of processes using the latest BPMN 2.0 specification. Like many of these open source tools, it can run in any Java environment, can be embedded inside an application or deployed as a service.
Orchestra open source BPM software focuses on long-running, service-oriented processes. It is said to offer orchestration functionalities right out of the box that address business process complexity. The goal is to improve process control, productivity and agility.
ProcessMaker
ProcessMaker makes it easy to create digital forms and map out business processes and workflows via open source BPM software accessed via any browser. It can also connect those workflows with other applications such as ERP, business intelligence, CRM and document management.
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Open source business process management (BPM) software appears to account for a large percentage of recent innovation in the broader BPM market.
"Open source solutions are leading the evolution of the BPM technologies: from pure BPM solutions that automate processes, increase productivity and ensure regulatory compliance to business application platforms that include tools and capabilities to empower DevOps teams to effectively create and maintain business applications," said Miguel Valdes Faura, CEO and founder of Bonitasoft, provider of an open source BPM platform.
The trends in open source BPM software mirror the broader BPM market, said Phil Simpson, manager, BPM Product Marketing for Red Hat, mentioning a move away from on-premise deployments in favor of BPM-as-a-service, and adoption of more dynamic ad-hoc case management style flows in lieu of rigid process models.
While proprietary BPM products often exist as standalone solutions that require business logic development lifecycles to be maintained independently from other software – which creates governance issues for the IT organizations charged with managing them -- open source BPM software is more likely to utilize open standards and tools such as Git and Maven that are widely deployed in IT organizations, Simpson said. Open source BPM software is more likely to be compatible with continuous integration and delivery pipelines that allow IT to treat business logic in the same way as other software assets.
The analyst community is taking notice of open source BPM software, too.
"Business process leaders will ramp up their adoption of open source BPM as a credible and more cost effective alternative to proprietary BPM software vendors," said Clay Richardson, an analyst at Forrester Research. "Open source insurgents will challenge the supremacy of proprietary BPM vendors."
This article was originally published on October 27, 2016
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Anita Sieff
Anita Sieff lives and works in Venice, Italy, she has a BA in Foreign Languages and Literature from Ca’ Foscari University of Venice with a thesis on contemporary aesthetics and an MA in communications.
Born in Italy, Sieff has been involved in the visual arts since 1980. Her photographs, films, videos and installations have been shown in Europe as well as in the U.S.A.. From 1989 to 1990 she works with Michelangelo Antonioni in Rome, this experience inspires her to move to New York City to study film. In 1996 Sieff focuses on communication as a means for social inquiry and representation and creates Public, an on-going process based on dialogue, where audience becomes subject, love principle of integration, and art form of representation. From 1996 till 2001 she is Project Director of Guggenheim public a convivial gathering of authors and artists held every Wednesday evening at the Guggenheim Museum in Venice. What follows in 1998 is EthTV, a creative process of a larger ethical project which aims to establish, through the web site www.ethicstv.com, an international community sharing the purpose of art as participatory system. In 1999 she co-operates in founding the organization “Planetwork”, in San Francisco California, a project of social and environmental entrepreneurs. From 1998 to 2005 she annually teaches video art for the New York University Masters of Art program in Venice. In 2001 Sieff launches Public as an independent project at the Museum Fortuny in Venice. Also in 2001 Sieff founds and creates the fashion brand “Moda é Modo”: Fashion is Way. Currently Sieff works with film, video, photography, and music.
Film/Video/Photography
2011 Psyche, video-installation, Ca’ Pesaro - Galleria Internazionale d’Arte Moderna, Venice, Italy.
2010 Ordine di Senso, exhibition, Querini Stampalia Foundation, Venice, Italy.
2008 Live Cinema/Anita Sieff: Films Philadelphia Museum of Art.
2003 Public Love, video installation Fortuny Museum in Venice.
1999 Social Sculpture n°1, video installation event at the Kitchen N.Y.C.
1999 Immaginando Tutto, photographs and video installation, Contemporary Art Museum Maribor, Slovenia.
1998 Pressure, 16mm short, Arcipelago 6, International Film Festival, Rome, Italy.
1997 Tarantella, photographs, PS1 22 New York City.
1997 Missed 2, 16 mm short Arcipelago 5, International Film Festival, Rome, Italy.
1997 Anita Sieff, Grand Salon Gallery Photographs and Film, New York City.
1996 Missed 1, 16 mm short film, Short Film Festival Bra (CN), Italy.
1995 Thoughts beyond Film, photographs, Films and Words, Nuova Icona Gallery Venezia.
1995 People never change, 16mm shot film, 48º International Film Festival, Locarno, Switzerland.
1995 Jazz on the Water, 16 mm short film, Villa Celimontana, Rome, Italy.
1995 People never change, 16 mm short film, Arcipelago 3, International Film Festival, Rome, Italy.
1995 Anita Sieff, Films and Photographs, Museo Revoltella, Trieste, Italy.
1994 The step, 16 mm short film, The Independent Feature Project, New York, NY City, U.S.A.
1994 I Luoghi della Vita, photographs, Contemporary Art Luigi Pecci, Prato.
1994 The step, 16 mm short film, Film festival, Venice, Italy.
1994 Missed, 16 mm. short film, Arcipelago 2, International Film Festival, Rome, Italy.
1992 Overtakings, 16 mm short film, Tommaseo Gallery, Trieste, Italy.
1992 Interview, video, Festival Internazionale del Cinema Giovani, Turin, Italy.
1992 A volte si fissa un punto, Maison des Escrivains, Paris, France.
1992 Interview, Video Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, Ca. U.S.A.
2005 The Tarot Bar, The Project Room, New York City.
2000 Symposium On Love, social sculpture n.2, Teatro Fondamenta Nuove, Venice, Italy.
1995 Understanding Desire, multi media performance, Theater for the New City, New York City.
Performance/Events
2007 Public, 52ª Biennale di Venezia within the Beuys event.
2004/2005 The Art Table, 5 social sculptures: the public connection between Museum Fortuny and Hotel Metropole in Venice.
2002 Public Yes, a mixed media event at the Fortuny Museum in Venice.
2002 The Aesthetic of Connectiveness, performance, Cà Dolfin, Venezia.
2002/2004 Public, weekly meetings at the Fortuny Museum in Venice, Italy.
2001 Moda è Modo, installation event in Bolzano.
2000 Symposium on Love, event at the Guggenheim Museum, Accademia and Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice.
2000 Social Sculpture n.2, Tonic New York City.
1996/2002 Public, weekly meetings at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, Italy.
1995 Jazz Noir, mixed media performance, Cinema Atlantic, Udine, Italy.
www.anitasieff.it
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Gradient Descent Dive 07: Anatomy of Bad Session
8 July 2020 horror mothership scifi rpgs session_report playtesting gradient_descent
We had session 07 of our Gradient Descent Playtest a couple weeks ago and it didn’t go so great. Let’s get into it.
Joining us tonight:
Ian playing: Lula Shrike, Level 0 Scientist Explosives tech.
Slantio playing: Uriel Sigma, Level 0 Android Engineer
Nick Reed playing: Ambrose Rex, Level 0 Marine Gunner
(Absent) Alan Gerding playing: Jimmy Cobb, Level 0 Teamster
(Absent) SinisterGrin playing: Everett-7, Level 2 Android
Slantio playing: Roka, Level 0 Scientist (who believes she’s an Android) LOST, PRESUMED DEAD
Slantio playing: Gunner Markus Lilith, Level 2 Marine DECEASED
Ian playing: Lee Von Richter, Level 2 Teamster DECEASED
NPC: Roskam, a Diver DECEASED
NPC: Tamm, a mercenary grunt DECEASED
NPC: Federov, a Diver DECEASED
Overworld Map for editing purposes
Last session we ended back on The Bell safe and sound, and since Alan and Sinister weren’t able to make it this session, we started out with a whole new crew.
Part of the idea of this playtest was to try out some new content specifically designed for The Bell by Dan D as a stretch goal for the Kickstarter. I rolled up a new location, LASER Harry’s, and a new NPC, Ghost-Eater,1, and got us started. I asked each of the players what they thought they were doing at Harry’s, which wasn’t a great start I’ll be honest, but my players are nice and they went with it. Lula wanted to peruse the patches, and ended up buying one that said BENDS DON’T BREAK. Uriel really liked one that said Genuine 100% “HUMAN” and got a chuckle out of it. Ambrose tatted another hashmark onto his arm. 73, one for every day he’d spent on The Bell.
We don’t have a lot of time in these sessions so we got right down to it and Ghost-Eater said if they wanted work, Drogo was looking for a crew down in the Privacy Room. Big job.
I enjoyed playing Drogo who stuttered and twitched and offered the crew 1mcr to come back from The Deep with proof that Monarch had created an army Infiltrator Androids who had taken over as doppelgängers of people in positions of great power. 10kcr advance, but another crew was working on the job, they’d need to be fast.
Here’s where things went south, and largely what today’s post is about.
My players hired a guide. In the module as written you can hire rookie Divers or veteran Divers. With their advance, the players decided to hire a veteran Diver. They had 10kcr in credits and bought some cool weapons, grabbed their guide and decided to head out!
Instead of doing a play by play, I’m just going to skip to the good part: why this sucked.
1. To much info to track
I, as the Warden, had to know an extreme amount of information in order to play the guide effectively. My players had a lot of questions: which was is the shortest route, which way is the safest. I made some calls based on the information I knew, which turned out to be way wrong when we got there.
Basically, I looked at the map, picked the shortest route and told my players that was the best way to go. When we actually got there, however, the key chokepoint room that made the whole place “quicker” was actually keyed to be an ENORMOUS chamber requiring multiple hours of crawling through AND a save-or-die style trap for moving quickly. This is very well telegraphed within the key itself, however, that’s hard to tell from a glance at the overworld map (even considering that the overworld map designates some rooms as “big”). This was bad and dumb and the guide was like “huh, whoops,” when we got there.
2. Loss of mystery and discovery
My players wanted to find a cool way into The Deep, and I wanted to playtest some locations we hadn’t been to before. So they asked the Diver to take them a different way. We went in through a secret hangar on the Sixth Floor. Very advanced, should be a cool moment. It kinda is bleh if the players don’t discover it. This was definitely my fault as there are a lot of different entrances to go through, and I don’t think there’s anything wrong with a guide/sage type character selling that info. But again, this turned this session into a rollercoaster (as opposed to a railroad). My players were just sort of along for the ride.
3. Loss of agency
My players regularly looked to the guide for advice about their situation. For instance, after entering the secret hangar they had their first experience with MONARCH. This should be a big moment. Generally the players have to DO something that pisses Monarch off to get its attention. This time they just did what the guide said “let’s go in through here.” And now the big bad is showing up. It was a little bit of a cool moment, but what did my players do? They took their reaction from the guide who ran as soon as Monarch started talking. So my players ran too, why wouldn’t you?
In retrospect my players though that if there hadn’t been a guide there, they might have tried talking to Monarch, or doing something else. But instead, they just followed along. Bad. Bad Sean. Bad Wardening.
The Feedback
Loss of agency, loss of discovery, and too much info is a perfect trifecta for session death. My players had fun because they’re fun people, but when we dissected the session afterwards everyone agreed that it was pretty boring overall. That it didn’t feel like they were really playing the game. Just hitting the “play” button a lot like some sort of quicktime event or cutscene.
Changes to the Module
For me, this was actually super helpful and a great reminder of why you do playtesting at all. We instantly knew where the problems were, though I’m sad that it took us seven sessions to get here. The changes we’ve made are:
The Bell is no longer a bustling black market filled with Divers. It’s now more like Firelink Shrine from Dark Souls. It’s a solemn, solitary, lighthouse type place with only a few NPCs. All gear is at a HUGE markup (10x) and extremely rare.
Divers are now incredibly rare. Many of the encounters in my game were with Divers going through the Deep. This made the Deep feel very knowable. Like a mall. You just bump into old friends. We want it to feel like a dungeon. Abandoned. I want all the focus to be on the players and their discovery of an unknown place. Not as the last in a long line of workers mining the Deep for treasure. Encounter tables have been changed from a 30% chance of running into 1d10 Divers, to something more like a 10% chance to running into a single Diver. Running into a “person” in the Deep should be rare.
Guides and hiring Divers is out. There are no longer like dozens of Divers at the Bell hanging out looking for work. You may encounter a Diver there, but they’re doing their own thing. Occasionally there’s some mercenaries looking for work, but they’re all explicitly neophytes desperate for work. If you wanted to “hire” a Diver to fast-travel you somewhere, we thought a better rule would be you give them an Artifact and they’ll dump you off at the entrance of a floor (except for floor 5, where Monarch lives). You’ll make a single roll for encounters along the way and that’s it. Still don’t love it, but it’s an easy switch.
Focus on the abandonment of the Deep. This is more in my descriptions. The Deep is abandoned. Monarch runs it like a ghost in a haunted house. Movement is scary. All the life is beneath the surface, digital. Keep that in mind as a Warden.
Make the blockade like a roach motel: easy to get in, hard to leave. We needed to playtest the blockade (which we hadn’t) so that we could again, frame to the players how difficult it would be to leave. It would give context to their actions and a warning that where they were going was dangerous. My players already knew this, but still, we wanted to see how it felt actually going through it.
We resolved to reboot the campaign and playtest a new intro and a new Bell and see how that affected the atmosphere and feel of the Deep. We actually played that session last night and I’m pretty happy to say that all the changes were a huge success. I’ll get that written up asap.
Until then, if you hadn’t heard, we just got approval by DriveThruRPG for Mothership to be added as an official system. So now it’s super easy to find everything Mothership related, both the official and third party stuff. Check it out if you haven’t, I’m super proud of all the third party content that’s showed up!
I don’t know why I think this, but Mothership writers seem to be into Pac Man.↩
Learning to Crawl
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The Party Rituals And Cooperation They Need Are Important Steps Towards Human Humility
March 15, 2020 by calya
But he is seduced by a gorgeous temple priestess who subsequently offers him food and clothing, stating, eat bread, it’s the staff of life drink the wine, it’s the habit of the property. So Enkidu is changed from a nude wild beast to a civilized man alive with different men and women. Both wine and bread are all products of society that is settled.
They signify the ability to command nature and make culture, turning the nuts into the tamed, the raw to the cooked and their conversion can’t be easily done independently. The very act of changing the wild to the budding is a societal one, requiring lots of individuals to work collectively. Within the last couple of decades, archaeological concept has changed toward the concept that culture arose in various areas around the world as a result of the growth of cooperation.
Archaeologists have found that the use of food and beverage in ritually prescribed places and times known publicly as feasting is among the cornerstones of increased sociality and collaboration throughout history. The information from my colleagues and my job provides another in depth case study for theorists to mimic the development of complexity in a few of those rare areas where a culture independently grown.
Signs Of Cooperation
How can complicated society originate from the hunter gatherer rings and little settled cities that dominated the planet well to the early about 9,000 decades back. And after such societal organizations grow, what types of mechanics sustain these societies satisfactorily to grow to the of this primeval world. Six decades ago, following 30 decades of study at the Titicaca Basin at the high Andes, my colleague Henry and that I began a long term archaeological study program from the valley of from the south coast of Peru.
Due to work by preceding archaeologists and our very own fresh information, we’ve been able to piece together a thorough prehistory of this valley starting several millennia past. One important time interval is called Paracas, it lasted from approximately 800 to 200. This is when the very first complex societies grown in the area, the source of culture in this section of the primeval world.
We recorded a gigantic Paracas existence in the valley, which range from large creature structures to small villages scattered across the landscape. We discovered five collections of lines which concentrated on the five important Paracas websites at the border of the. We also discovered many tiny structures constructed between the lines.
Past work by our staff and many others during Peru unequivocally suggests the Colombian individuals of the Andes utilized the solstices to indicate significant events. We reasoned that these websites were the endpoints of all ritually major social events which were timed from the solstices and maybe other astronomical phenomena.
We decided to intensively study some endpoint website, known as Cerro del Gentil, to estimate its importance in Paracas culture. The bottom amount measures 50 by 120 meters in its maximum. Each degree includes a sunken terrace measuring roughly 12 meters on a side. Excavations by along with his group in one of those patios afforded a rich trove of artifacts, such as textiles, food replicas, pottery, decorated gourds, rock items, reeds, mixed objects and individual offerings.
There was signs of food preparation too, though we didn’t locate a resident inhabitants. We discovered large quantities of pottery serving boats and signs of termination rituals between liquid libations poured to the terrace at the end of a elaborate feasts. No one appeared to reside at this well built spot year round, however there was lots of proof that from time to time lots of individuals were present to eat, drink and also make human sacrifices together, likely at specific exceptional days of the astronomical calendar.
We utilized the Cerro del Gentil information to check these hypotheses about the way the oldest combined individual classes came together. Why did people begin small, feasting in their regional group then expanding to integrate more distant classes. Or how did the oldest successful groups create contacts with remote autonomous classes around a sizable area.
The proportion of in almost any natural object, including individuals, tells us out of what geographic zone that thing is from. We found that items in the terrace were from a really extensive assortment of zones all over the south central Andes. Some things came from up to the Titicaca Basin 600 km away, others in the south shore 200 or so km distant.
Building Party Rituals
This case study shows that the oldest successful complex societies from the south coast of Peru circa 400 included a broad catchment of individuals and objects. In Paracas society, the best strategy of culture construction included producing widespread alliances early and then enlarging on this version. We all know this because individuals in Cerro del Gentil integrated objects and even people in their own offerings from remote locations.
By comparison, in a later slaughtered website where the catchment was rather modest, every one the items and human remains were out of the immediate environs, according to strontium analysis. The Paracas pattern found at Cerro del Gentil contrasts using a strategy where individuals focused in their community group and subsequently grew incrementally with time.
My coworkers and I intend to use these kinds of relative cases to attempt and comprehend which approaches work better by which ecological and societal contexts. The signs in Cerro del Gentil affirms the concept I wrote about in my latest book the evolution of Individual which collaboration from non state societies is accomplished by ritualizing the market.
People today construct standards, rituals and taboos to arrange their political and economic life. Far from being exotic and quaint traditions of primitive people, intricate rules of behavior, encoded in wealthy ritual practices, are innovative way of coordinating a society in which coercion is absent.
They consequently promote sustained group behavior toward shared objectives and resolve what is famously called the collective action problem in human social life just how can you get all to work toward something which’s in everybody’s long term self interest. Feasting is an integral part of this type of sociality and collaboration. Wine and bread remains applicable 5,000 decades after.
Western Cultural Conditions
March 15, 2020 by caera
In the event that you regularly watch TV, you have likely noticed a cartoon bear throwing you bathroom paper, a gecko with a British accent selling you automobile insurance and a rabbit in sunglasses boosting batteries. Sure, it is sensible to use cartoon characters to sell products to children a phenomenon that has been well documented.
However, why are advertisers employing the very same methods on adults. For me personally, it is only some symptom of a wider trend of infantilization in Western civilization. It started before the dawn of social and smartphones websites. The dictionary defines infantilizing as healing somebody as a kid or in a manner that denies their adulthood age or experience.
What is deemed age appropriate or older is obviously very relative. However, most cultures and societies will exude behaviors suitable for a few phases of life, but others. Some psychologists will probably be quick to remember that not everybody sets their childish ways them behind. It’s possible to get fixated at a specific period of growth and don’t reach an age appropriate amount of maturity.
When facing unmanageable anxiety or injury, it is possible to even regress to a previous phase of growth. And psychologist Abraham has implied that spontaneous childlike behaviors in adults are not inherently problematic. However, some cultural practices now routinely infantilize massive swaths of the populace.
We see it in our daily speech, once we refer to increased women as women at the way we treat older citizens, once we put them into adult care center where they are made to surrender their privacy and liberty and at the manner school employees and parents treat teens, refusing to admit their own intellect and need for liberty, restricting their liberty and restricting their ability to go into the work force.
Can complete societies cling to infantilization. Frankfurt School scholars like Herbert Marcuse, Erich Fromm and other significant theorists imply that such as people a society may suffer from arrested development. In their opinion, adults failure to attain psychological, cognitive or social maturity isn’t because of individual shortcomings.
Development Made By The Community
Instead, it’s socially engineered. He particularly mentioned adults childish adulation of baseball, their enthusiastic approach to toy like automobiles and the period of time that they spent in hobbies. As modern scholars notice, however, this ethos is becoming less magical and much more pervasive. In most offices, managers are now able to electronically monitor their workers, a lot of whom operate in open spaces with small privacy.
Since sociologist Gary Marx discovered it creates a scenario where employees believe supervisors anticipate them to act irresponsibly, to make the most and to twist up till they eliminate all temptation, stop them from doing this or deceive or force them to do differently. Much was written about higher education’s tendency to infantilize its pupils, whether it’s by tracking their social networking accounts, directing their every measure, or encouraging protected spaces on campus.
Meanwhile, https://www.gesitpoker.online/ tourist destinations such as Las Vegas market surplus, indulgence and freedom from obligation in casino surroundings which conjure memories of youth dreams the, medieval castles as well as the circus. Then we have seen the growth of a treatment culture, that as sociologist Frank warns, treats adults as vulnerable, weak and delicate, while suggesting that their problems rooted in youth qualify them to get a permanent suspension of sense.
Others have noticed similar tendencies in popular culture at the shorter paragraphs in modern books, in the absence of elegance in political rhetoric and in sensationalist cable news coverage. While scholars like James and Gary Cross remind us that infantilizing tendencies began well ahead of our present moment, I think our everyday interactions with social and smartphones websites are so gratifying just since they exude and gratify infantile dispositions.
They encourage an orientation towards the current, rewarding impulsivity and observing constant and instantaneous gratification. They flatter our demands for visibility and supply us with 24 personalized care, while eroding our capacity to empathize with other people. Whether we use these for pleasure or work, our apparatus also nurture a submissive mindset. To be able to benefit from all they provide, we must concede to their own requirements, agreeing to terms we don’t know and handing over shops of private data.
Really, the regular and competitive manners our apparatus violate our privacy via surveillance deprive us of the basic adult right. While we may discover that it’s insignificant or funny. The infantilist ethos gets particularly seductive in times of societal disasters and dread and its favoring of easy, simple and quick betrays natural affinities for specific political options over others.
And usually not smart ones. Democratic policy making demands debate, needs compromise and requires critical thinking. It involves considering different perspectives, expecting the future and writing thoughtful legislation. What is a quick, easy and easy solution for this political procedure. It is not tough to envision an infantile society attracted to authoritarian rule.
Regrettably, our societal institutions and technological apparatus appear to hamper hallmarks of adulthood patience, compassion, solidarity, humility and dedication to a job greater than many others. All of the qualities which have been considered crucial for the healthy adulthood and also for the correct operation of democracy.
The Lives Of Homeless People Who Don’t Sit Still
March 15, 2020 by francine
When I met Daniel facing shore ditch high street station in London, I did not understand how exhausting begging was. He was always shifting, frequently through rain and cold. He addressed arbitrary passers by all day, largely facing ignorance out of their side or even physical and verbal aggression. He advised me and Daniel was hustling to live in search of sources, like food and money, but also honor.
Begging is a way to the end and difficult labor in every sense of this term, both physical and psychological. It is not only a passive action of passing the time to make it through the day but an energetic type of involvement that’s frequently represented on and thought through. As a long term jobless homeless individual, it had been clearly one of the only ways for Daniel to live.
This type of action and others like discovering and making refuge are all kinds of labor and work which are well worth taking seriously, both so as to encourage people like Daniel within an immediate, private level and finally to accommodate government policies so. Rough sleeping in the united kingdom alone has increased by nearly 170 percent since 2010. Absolutely, one in 200 individuals is displaced in the united kingdom.
Like wise in France, according to official government figures, the amount of displaced people climbed by 50 percent between 2001 and 2011. According to six decades of focus on homelessness in London and Paris, most recently two decades of full time fieldwork from the French funds, my studies have attempted to create a bottom up comprehension of how homeless men and women live and earn a living.
Look For Protection In Life
My research has shown me that many homeless men and women aren’t passively suffering but they frequently actively attempt to make their lives better. I met him in Paris in summer 2015, also discovered he had a nicely thought through daily work pattern to make money through begging. In the evenings, he had been attempting to grab the commuters coming in the. At lunchtime, he stood facing a particular, active boulangerie from the, a somewhat humid residential area of the city.
In the day, he had been Gare de l’Est awaiting the trains bringing German vacationers that he can readily relate to in a speech he speaks. Pascal had developed these distinct areas where he can approach unique classes lunch goers he’d observe a few times every week, arbitrary but compassionate tourists, individuals who probably speak his speech with various tactics.
For each group, pascal had a particular means of addressing theme particular spiel touching on various things he had money for your train, or wished to purchase food, or for himself a night at a refuge. Pascal has been the standard instead of the exclusion of these homeless people I participated with on the roads across the town’s train stations. A number actively choose stains, collect substance and symbolically build shelters for themselves inside the towns that they live in.
Carl a young German I met in 2015 at Paris, was among these. They call me the train guy although I do not actually sleep anymore. He took me to find the train he had been speaking about, near the subway stop at the south of Paris. It had been an outdated inter city train waiting to be transferred to where it might finally be recycled.
The simple fact that the trains were more easy to achieve, less than half an hour from the Gare du Nord and so are accessible for steady periods of time, made them the most great mid term shelters for individuals like Carl. Some others followed Carl into the train at the months following his discovery. Another set of individuals I talked to slept at a gigantic parking lot below the banking district.
Others favored the safety of a public location surveyed by law enforcement like the region directly across train stations. Each of these were actively attempting to earn a house on the road while being displaced. Daniel, Pascal and Carl are just three of many individuals I’ve observed within my years of working together with individuals on the road. Most are struggling to survive inside both institutional and physical structures that in many instances attempt to encourage theme but in most others maintain them on the road.
Recognizing the efforts these people today go into to make their lives better can help associations like homeless charities and government agencies to encourage them by building in their own attempts instead of imposing new and occasionally alien initiatives onto them.
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NEW KOREAN NETFLIX ORIGINAL EXTRACURRICULAR TO PREMIERE ON APRIL 29
Extracurricular portrays a group of high school students who risk everything on the wrong choices that cannot be undone
SOME MISTAKES CANNOT BE ERASED
Netflix, the world’s leading streaming entertainment service, confirms that Extracurricular will premiere on April 29th.
Extracurricular is a Netflix original series that follows a group of high school students who choose a life of crime and face the dangerous consequences that result from their choices. The show is an offbeat and intense drama by veteran director Kim Jin-min (Lawless Lawyer, The Time Between Dog and Wolf, and Marriage Contract) and new aspiring writer Jin Han-sae.
Extracurricular has a fresh young cast of talented actors. Kim Dong-hee, who has been incredibly charming in the web series A-Teen, as well as such dramas as SKY Castle and Itaewon Class, takes on a strikingly different role of Jisoo, a model student who wanders into a life of crime. Jung Da-bin, who is well-known as a child actor in Korea, plays the ‘mean girl’ Minhee, while Park Ju-hyun, discovered by the creators of Extracurricular, plays Jisoo’s accomplice Gyuri. Nam Yoon-su, who is known for his roles in various web dramas, shows off his talent as Kitae, Minhee’s boyfriend and a school bully.
These exciting actors are brought together to create a powerful and gripping story of youth at risk. The character posters show a striking image of the four students in black and white being ripped by savage claw marks. The tagline ‘Some Mistakes Cannot Be Erased’ elicits curiosity about the life-changing decisions they make and what consequences they face.
The Netflix original series Extracurricular premieres worldwide on April 29th.
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Brahms Ligeti Horn Trios
Johannes BRAHMS (1833-1897)
Horn Trio in E flat major Op.40 [21:07]
Kalevi AHO (b.1949)
Solo X [7:39]
György LIGETI (1923-2006)
Horn Trio [22:47]
Marie-Luise Neunecker horn
Antje Weithaas violin
Silke Avenhaus piano
recorded July 2010 at Studio Gartnerstrasse, Berlin and July 2011 at Osteraker Church Sweden DDD/DSD stereo/surround
BIS-SACD-1859 [59:16]
Ligeti's Horn Trio was written as a somewhat reluctant homage to Brahms in 1982. He may have been quite indifferent to Brahms' historicist approach, but this didn't stop Ligeti from writing the ideal companion piece to a chamber work, which until then had stuck out like a sore thumb in any programme. Since then, a wealth of excellent works have appeared in the genre from composers like Hans Abrahamsen, Poul Ruders and Hugh Wood, but it is the Ligeti that remains the standard coupling. That's quite an achievement considering Ligeti doesn't compromise anything about his modernist aesthetic to fit into the 19th century chamber music format.
Horn player Marie-Luise Neunecker is an authority on Ligeti's music for the instrument. Ligeti's 'Hamburg' Concerto was written for her, and it was she who played the Horn Trio in the Ligeti Edition recordings that the composer supervised in the 1990s. As with everything by Ligeti, the sheer technical demands of this music limit the number of musicians willing to perform and record it. But neither Neunecker, nor her colleagues violinist Antje Weithaas and pianist Silke Avenhaus, find anything here problematic.
Neunecker has a fascinating horn sound. She distinguished effectively between open and stopped timbres, but even her open sound is quite narrow and constrained. No doubt she has another sound entirely when she plays in an orchestra, but this more intimate chamber tone is very attractive indeed. It focusses her tone and allows her to integrate into the unusual ensemble, giving the full range of dynamics without overpowering in the louder passages.
The Brahms is given a wistful and nostalgic air, not too much of course, but enough to bring out the feeling of reminiscence that pervades so much of the music. Again, Neunecker's slightly constrained and distant tone is ideal here, as is Weithaas' focussed but playful violin work. The performers ensure that neither the Brahms nor the Ligeti are oblivious of each other. The former is played to highlight the sense of overbearing history that Ligeti heard in it, while the latter emphasises the connections to Brahms, despite Ligeti's own protestations to the contrary.
Kalevi Aho provides the filler, in the form of a new work for unaccompanied horn, Solo X. It's a work of dynamic extremes and extreme virtuosity. Placing it between the two trios was a smart move, as it shakes the listener out of the comfortable 19th century aesthetic and prepares the ear for what is to come. Aho doesn't have the subtlety or sophistication of either of his colleagues here. But it integrates into the programme largely thanks to Neunecker's distinctive tone. It is easy to spend the seven minutes of the Aho piece speculating as to which of the other works it comes closest to. I'd say it has the lyrical flow of the Brahms but the tempo and dynamic extremes of the Ligeti.
Great performances and excellent SACD sound make this disc highly recommendable. It is encouraging to see that, as it turns 30, the Ligeti Horn Trio has been granted full repertory status, to the extent that a recording of the Brahms without it would now seem remiss. It's not adventurous programming any more, so any new recording has to fight on the merits of its performance. Fortunately then, this one stands favourable comparison with the best of them.
This review first appeared at MusicWeb International:
http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2012/June12/Brahms_Ligeti_trio_BISSACD1859.htm
Labels: Aho, Antje Weithaas, BIS, Brahms, Ligeti, Marie-Luise Neunecker, SACD, Silke Avenhaus
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******Following recent UKA and UK Government advice ALL races and social events are currently postponed until further notice as a result of the global Covid-19 outbreak.*****
We very much hope to resume all those things at the earliest opportunity, but in light of the ever changing developments we can offer no clear resumption date. We ask all members to follow the latest NHS advice and Government advice
Clayton-le-Moors Harriers, and our members, organise several open races throughout the year, many of which have a longstanding and proud history. Our races are guaranteed to test even the very best of runners.
STAN BRADSHAW PENDLE ROUND Saturday 7th March 2020
Devised to reduce erosion as the successor to the Half Tour of Pendle, the Pendle Round climbs to the Pendle trig via Buttock Farm, follows the ‘spine’ of Pendle, before dropping to Churn Clough Reservoir. The route then visits Stainscomb, for many years the site of Stan’s hut, from where it climbs over the hill back to Ogden Res and Buttock, prior to a last dash across the fields back to Barley. Organised by Clayton-le-Moors Harriers.
PENDLE FELL RACES Saturday 4th April 2020
Pendle Junior Races 2019. Photo David Belshaw
Pendle FR is a classic short race that takes runners up to the Pendle summit plateau before dropping to very foot of the ‘Big End’. A quad-burning ascent direct to the trig point is followed by a technical descent to Buttock and a last charge down into Barley. Junior races are held before the main race. Organised by Clayton-le-Moors Harriers.
GREAT HAMELDON HILL RACES Sunday 3rd May 2020
Starting at the base of The Coppice on the outskirts of Accrington, the Hameldon Race crosses tracks, fields and open moor before a horrendous bog and steep climb deposits the runners at the Great Hameldon trig. A fast descent (avoiding the bog!) picks up the outward route and ensures that this race is ‘eyeballs out’ all the way. Junior races are held before the main race. Organised by Clayton-le-Moors Harriers.
PENDLE CLOUGHS FELL RACE Saturday 9th May 2020
Starting from the picturesque village of Downham runners can choose their own route to the nine checkpoints. In doing so they will visit seven of Pendle’s Cloughs. The route takes runners on areas of Pendle seldom visited and covers some pathless terrain which provides some interesting route choices, giving rise to debate in the pub after the race. The final two miles gives runners a chance to really ‘let go’ …………as it’s all downhill to the finish! Organised by Clayton-le-Moors Harriers.
MEARLEY CLOUGH FELL RACE Tuesday 12th May 2020
A deceptively tough three miler that takes the runner from the fields behind Worston up to the Scout Cairn. You then cross the tussocks around the head of Mearley Clough before the lung-bursting return to the finish field. Organised by Clayon-le-Moors Harriers.
TOWNELEY PARK 10k ROAD RACE Sunday 12th July 2020
Junior races are held before the 10k race. Organised by Clayton-le-Moors Harriers
GREENWAY 5k ROAD RACE Wednesday 22nd July 2020
Junior races are held before the 5k race. Organised by Clayton-le-Moors Harriers
PENDLETON FELL RACE Saturday 29th August 2020
Another short race with a long history, the Pendleton Race begins with a flat-out charge up the village’s main street, before climbing over fields and very rough pasture to Apronful Hill. A steep drop and steeper climb take the runners to Alan and Judith’s Cairn on Mearley Moor, from where there is a exhilerating descent into Ashendean Beck and a long run-in back across moor and field to the village. Organised by Clayton-le-Moors Harriers.
THIEVELEY PIKE FELL RACES Saturday 26th September 2020
From a boggy field beside the Ram Inn, Cliviger, the race follows the Mary Towneley Loop to Scout Farm where a sharp left takes you up a mercifully short, ridiculously steep climb to the moor. After crossing a couple of fields it’s back onto rough moorland for the climb to the Pike. Two lovely grassy descents, punctuated by a steep ‘sting in the tail’ bring you back to the bridleway for the last push to the finish. Junior races are held before the main race. Organised by Clayton-le-Moors Harriers.
TOUR OF PENDLE FELL RACE Saturday 21st November 2020
‘The Tour’ is the classic late season ‘A’ long race that follows a figure-of-8 course around the remoter reaches of Pendle Hill. After a first visit to the trig, there’s a long fast descent of the length of Pendle to the ‘Nick’ and then Churn Clough. A steep climb up Spence Moor is followed by the notorious ‘Geronimo’ descent into Ogden Valley. After regaining the plateau and retracing your footsteps towards the ‘Nick’, you are faced with three major climbs, each one steeper and longer than the last, before a second pass of the Trig and a long run off back to Barley. Further details of “The Tour” can be found here. Organised by Kieran Carr, member of Clayton-le-Moors Harriers.
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FXXK WRITING: CAUTIONARY TALE 3 – CONFIRMATION BIAS AND SELF-DELUSION
By Redfern Jon Barrett
To Be Horst
By Mitch Berman
By Joe Parker
Ivy Melissa Goodrich
The neighbor’s house is covered in ivy, and the children who live there are covered in ivy too.
Well, the child who lives there. There was a miscarriage. There is only one child. The mother told her daughter, You are a big sister, even though the aunt called her brother “a fistful of unviable cells.”
The child does not have a container big enough for the idea of “unviable cells.” She does, however, understand fistful. She clenches. She fills her fists. Can feel all the blood rushing there, and when she opens them, the first leaves appear, a small stem rooted to the palm.
The neighbor’s house is covered in ivy, was always covered in ivy. Even the door: totally ensconced. Even the windows. One had to part through the ivy like curtains to lean out, wave hello. There she was–the little girl–pushing out her window waving and waving. We (in the neighborhood) were waiting for her to fall out. To have two tragedies in the ivy-covered house instead of one. Even though the aunt said one didn’t count, wasn’t viable.
The aunt lived in a picket-white house on the edge of the block, rows of red and yellow tulips lined up equidistant in the window-boxes. The aunt had lived there forever, it felt like. Had white furniture, white carpets, white pillows, white clothes. So that one, peeking in her window, would see what appeared to be an empty house, a woman’s head floating somehow in the air, a severe neck, and if you squinted, you could make out a vase full of clear water and thin-stemmed white roses. A woman with sharp features who, turning a corner you couldn’t tell was there, was suddenly disappearing.
What’s ivy? our kids used to ask, and we used to point to that house that was more a living thing than a house. That, we’d say, and point. And her, we’d say, and point. The little girl covered in ivy pushing through the window, pushing her hand through the ivy that ensconced her.
The girl went to school and was sweet. Wrote in cursive. Was terribly disorganized and very athletic. She liked to run and the ivy ran with her. It made her faster. It was like having extra legs. She was quick as a dog, that girl. The children at school always called her Ivy but we (in the neighborhood) called her “her.”
“That girl.”
She always said she had a brother, even though what she had was a tombstone in the backyard beneath a willow. We heard her singing songs to it: moon songs and sun songs and songs about chewing gum and happy birthday on his (not-birth)day every August. There she was making a wreath of flowers and sticks. There she was playing a ukulele so hard the strings snapped. That yard was swarming with ivy, swathed with leaves.
The aunt in the white house was petitioning that the neighborhood begin an HOA, have standards, make ourselves shine.
Some of us were into it. Some of us had dog prints through our backyards, shoved broken stoves and cracked microwaves into the corners of our porches. We (in the neighborhood) were nosey, sure, but hands-off-y too.
But the aunt. The aunt! So pointy, she seemed. We saw her catch the little girl by the arm one afternoon and start snipping the ivy out of her eyes. Snipping the ivy off of her arms. Snipping the ivy and snipping the ivy until the girl underneath was exposed and screaming.
We saw her fall out the window once, you know. Heard the bone break. It was so quiet: just a little grunt of her body hitting the yard, the crack, the bone sticking out of her arm like an idea had just occurred. We (in the neighborhood) were watching. We saw her shove the bone back in through the skin flap, watched the ivy exhaling and exhaling, wrapping firmly around it.
After the aunt incident, the ivy grew back, of course, and we’d expected it to, but we hadn’t expected the spread. Our houses were covered in ivy, our roads ivy, our mailboxes and chimneys choked, our car tires slashed, our doors bunched closed, our sunlight sucked up: it was ivy, it was ivy, it was ivy.
Some of us were into it. Let the ivy curl around our ears and cinch into our belt loops and spiral up and around us until we were photosynthesized into something new.
Some of us set fires. Used pesticides, chainsaws.
The aunt, though. The aunt! Last seen wielding a white rake, white shears. Disappeared into the ivy and was never seen again.
Well. The ivy was of course the girl.
“Disappeared into” is of course the euphemism.
The way we (in the neighborhood) picture it is something like this. A girl covered in ivy knocks on that white-white door. She is bigger than she used to be. The ivy around her makes a hissing sound. The aunt bolts the lock, but the ivy is already pressing like liquid through the cracks, the ivy already is creating a fishnet of vines on the floors, the ivy already angry, angry a long time, and the white shears can’t help this time, and the white rake gets sugar-snapped, and the girl beneath, the part-ivy-girl goes inside, and the windows darken, and the vines wrap around that neck, and ivy fills the mouth, and we imagine the carbon dioxide those leaves of hers drink up. We can hear a drinking sound, a choking sound. We imagine the aunt doesn’t make it, isn’t viable.
We (in the neighborhood) don’t really talk about that sunken-in, cracked apart white house at the end of the road anymore.
The neighborhood kids are curious, sure—go creep in there on midnights, on Halloweens, on nights when they’re in love. We know this. But we also know some of them come back. And some of them don’t.
© 2021 Melissa Goodrich
Melissa Goodrich
Melissa Goodrich is the author of the story collection Daughters of Monsters, the poetry chapbook IF YOU WHAT, and the collaborative collection The Classroom forthcoming from Goldwake Press. She earned her MFA in Fiction from the University of Arizona, and her stories have appeared in American Short Fiction, The Kenyon Review Online, Passages North, PANK, and others. Her honors include the 2018 Passage’s North Waasnode Fiction Prize, the 2016 Tucson Festival of Books Fiction Award, the 2013 Margaret Sterling Memorial Award, and the 2012 Academy of American Poets Prize. Find her at melissa-goodrich.com and tweeting @good_rib.
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ARTICLE: Reports of a dying catchment 'greatly exaggerated
Glen Kile
Executive director of the Forest and Wood Products Research & Development Corporation
The Age, December 12, 2006
THE impact of logging in Melbourne's water catchments is topical, given the drought, but has been greatly exaggerated.
While it is true logging results in fast-growing regrowth that uses more water than mature forests, the fact that less than 0.2 per cent is harvested annually means the effect is small.
Overall, timber production for saw logs is only permitted within a 13 per cent portion of the total catchment area and this is planned for logging on an 80-year cycle.
The claim that stopping logging will save water is largely theoretical given it relies on the unlikely long-term absence of severe fire that has traditionally determined the extent to which regrowth reduces stream flows.
If dense forest regeneration is a concern, it can be thinned. This is the most efficient, cost-effective means of increasing run-off and is being practised in at least one Perth water catchment in response to reduced rainfall and low storage levels. A potentially warming and drying climate may make it an imperative here in the future.
Catchment thinning could substantially improve run-off into Melbourne's storages, and the capability to do it in the future relies on the continuation of a sustainable timber industry.
There are also claims that Victorian native-forest logging emits 10 million tonnes of carbon dioxide a year that contributes to global warming. However, as timber harvesting is sustainable and mostly occurs in regrowth stands, carbon uptake across the whole forest exceeds the carbon removed in harvesting.
Furthermore, much of the harvested carbon has a long storage in wood products both in-service and subsequently in landfills. The situation in Victoria is consistent with the conclusions of the National Greenhouse Gas Inventory that Australia's managed forests are a net carbon sink.
The harvesting of "old-growth" forest has long been used as an emotional hook for enlisting community support to shut down timber industries.
While old-growth forests are important repositories of biodiversity, they are nearing the end of their life and their management, either in parks and reserves or wood-production forests, raises important questions about forest renewal.
Ecologically sustainable forest management at the broad landscape level ideally requires a mixture of age classes to maximise biodiversity and ensure continuity.
Contrary to popular perception, "old-growth" forest is not endangered. About 94 per cent — or more than 4 million hectares — of Australia's old-growth forests are reserved. In East Gippsland, the current focus of the debate, there are 224,000 ha of old-growth forest, of which 191,000 ha (or 85 per cent) is in reserves. The balance is an important source of timber scheduled for harvesting over the next 30 years.
A further 124,000 ha of reserved East Gippsland forest will become old growth over the next 50 years. From this it is evident that the "old growth" debate is essentially about ideology rather than environmental outcomes.
Environmental activists in their single-minded pursuit of a "no-logging" agenda have ignored or downplayed the implications of closing the local hardwood-timber industry. One critical impact is in developing countries, as higher Australian demand for hardwood imports contributes to production of tropical-rainforest timbers, some illegally logged.
A report to the Australian Government by Poyry Consulting recently noted that Australia imports about $5 billion of forest and wooden furniture products a year, and that while we could be self-sufficient, our hardwood timber industry now has neither the resource access nor the processing capacity to meet this goal.
Since 2001, imports of tropical sawn hardwood have risen by more than half (our suppliers are mainly Indonesia, Malaysia and Papua New Guinea) as end-product prices for Australian native-hardwood products such as Brush Box flooring have more than doubled over the same period.
Across all product types, the equivalent round-log volume of tropical imports from suspect origins now equals the combined Tasmanian and Victorian harvest of native-forest sawlogs. The upward trend of tropical-timber imports will no doubt continue if the area of Australian native forest available for harvesting is further eroded.
Australia's native-forest timber industry has suffered for years from dishonest and deceptive anti-logging campaigns attributing it with supposed impacts way out of proportion to its actual nature.
The philosophical and policy arrogance of a small minority seeking to dictate to the rest of the community the conditions of access to their forests is somewhat breathtaking — combined with an insatiable demand for taxpayer funds to shut a sustainable industry.
Perhaps environmental groups should quantify the economic, social and environmental benefits of their policies so there could be a more informed discussion.
Labels: catchments, forests, industry, logging, PR, water
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ARTICLE: Crunch time today for Thomson Dam
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Horror Tourers
Chainsaw Ratings
Haunt Types
Haunt Reviews
Golden Chainsaw
10120 W. 133rd Avenue, Cedar Lake, IL
TOURERS: Bryan, LAURA
COSTS: $5
CHAINSAWS:5/5
At Horror Tourers, we love finding new haunts to visit as it always provides a new level of excitement and anticipation. Sometimes, of course, the haunts don't turn out so well, but sometimes they do, and that is a lot of fun, so naturally when we heard about a brand new haunt in Indiana, we had to check it out.
Located in Cedar Lake, Haunted Halls was a total unknown for us. We only had the recommendation of a friend of Horror Tourer Laura's niece, whose family was running the haunt and who said it was a must see. Thus, we paid our money and waited in line to see if that really was true. We are happy to say that it was indeed a most enjoyable haunt, and that it had some clever surprises that made our visit worthwhile.
Upon entering, we were greeted by a live actor who told us the rules and led us into the haunt. Immediately we saw a creepy girl crawling upside down towards us, so we suspected that the haunt might be a good one.
Following this, we toured a number of clever rooms, including a large spider room where two girls sat on the floor and recited a creepy nursery rhyme. Of course, at the end they told us we were going to die, and that's when the giant spiders came out - it was a clever setup and a nice spin on a standard spider room.
Another nice twist was a little girl's bedroom setup where, instead of the standard monster jumping out to get the girl, she was instead pulled underneath the bed by unseen hands. Very well. done.
Other standouts included the circular mirrored room, which we were led into by a clown. He suddenly said "lights out!" and the room was dark. When the lights came back on we were surrounded by clowns on all sides, all taunting us about finding the way out. It turns out the only way out was the way we came in, forcing us past all of the clowns again as we exited.
There was lots of creativity on display here, including the final scene where an old lady chased us with her cane, and the giant rabbit with the chainsaw who followed us back into the building after we finished the haunt. The numerous actors were all good, keeping in character the entire time and having some varied performances instead of the standard screaming for us to "Get out!"
Overall, Haunted Halls was a very nice surprise for the season. It was much more than we expected, and we thoroughly enjoyed walking from room to room wondering what creative sight was next. It was also quite reasonably priced and about 10 minutes long, so it was a good value, too. Here's hoping that Haunted Halls will continue in future years and become a staple of the Horror Tourers itinerary!
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Copyright 2001-2015 Horror Tourers
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How to say "Some knowledge of foreign languages, of Spanish in particular, is essential" in Spanish?
1. Es esencial algún conocimiento de lenguas extranjeras, de español en particular.
Some knowledge of foreign languages, of Spanish in particular, is essential
Guide to Spanish foreign languages phrases
Q: How to say Kanji are difficult to read. in Spanish?
A: Leer los kanjis es difícil. (human translation)
Q: How to say It is not difficult to speak English. in Spanish?
A: No es difícil hablar inglés. (human translation)
What is the best way to learn a foreign language?
Mastering a foreign language involves a lot of patience.
To speak a foreign language well takes time.
Somebody stole my money.
Some juice, please.
Someone is at the door.
Some snakes are poisonous.
Someone entered the room.
Some plants are quickly affected by cold.
Some knowledge of foreign languages, of Spanish in particular, is essential.
Learning a foreign language is fun.
The exchange rates for foreign currency change daily.
Some blacks seek more radical solutions.
Some do think so.
It is important for you to learn a foreign language.
Sometimes I can't help showing emotions.
The best way to learn a foreign language is to go to the country where it is spoken.
Spanish words for iPhone, iPad
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Compassion for All?
Is it possible to feel compassion for people whose ethics and behavior clash with the core values of veganism?
I am keenly aware of your views on compassion for all living things -- even humans who think it is acceptable to eat meat, or humans who think they were put on this earth to dominate animals and eat their flesh, or humans who use animals for entertainment, or humans who think that war is necessary or that hunting is valuable. I find myself unable to reach such levels of empathy. I am not even charitable enough to excuse them simply because they do not know how animals suffer for trivial human purposes. How do you find it in your heart to be open to such people? Why do you allow them such latitude?
The fundamental, underlying tenet of vegan philosophy is “reverence for life." This principle does not confine “reverence" to those with whom we agree or identify, nor does it restrict it to those for whom we feel empathy. It also does not limit reverence to specific life forms. Although this straightforward precept is all-encompassing, do not be fooled by its simplicity. The phrase “reverence for life" is succinct and melodious, but putting it into practice is more complex than may first appear.
When people regard their viewpoints as the sole proper and moral ones, they become critical of and combative toward those who do not see eye to eye with them. Self-righteousness snowballs. It makes us hardhearted and obstinate, and it sabotages any attempt to sway others to our position. It is naive to assume our views will be respected when we are unwilling to hear and respect opposing perspectives.
Acknowledging opinions that are at odds with our own does not indicate approval of them. It merely signifies that we are willing to grant our opposition the same degree of respect we would like to receive. Among the most demanding hurdles for contemporary humans is learning tolerance, understanding, and humility. Knowing how and when to apologize and admit our shortcomings and mistakes is paramount if we are ever to advance as a species.
It is convenient to blame the sorry state of the world on everyone who disagrees with us while denying our own contributions. When we convey an attitude of moral superiority, we add to the pool of cynicism and contempt that marginalizes rather than unites.
As activists, we must consider what it is we want to accomplish and how to best attain these goals. Hostility and hatred breed hostility and hatred. Therefore, it is senseless to perpetuate this type of negativity if our true aim is peace and compassion. Turning opponents into objects of antipathy will not persuade them we are right or draw them to our side.
Compassion is not the exclusive domain of vegans. There are omnivores who are among the most kind and caring people on earth, and there are vegans who are selfish and self-absorbed. If we profess to be compassionate but share our compassion selectively, we in effect are identical to those we condemn. We cannot have it both ways. Mahatma Gandhi said, “Be the change you wish to see in the world." If we are not charitable toward all life, we have no justification to petition the sympathy and support of others. If we do not exemplify the ideals we claim to embrace, our appeals will be hollow and insincere.
The point of veganism is to epitomize compassion, not to prove ourselves correct. When we are judgmental, we may feel a momentary rush of righteousness, but at what cost? Getting to know, empathize with, and even befriend those whose opinions clash with our own helps foster the peaceful and caring world we envision. Through tolerance we build bridges rather than burn them. By developing an appreciation of the opposition, we learn what is important to them and can recognize the values and hopes we share. Establishing common ground and encouraging mutual respect leads to greater understanding and a willingness to hear what each has to say. We have far more in common with our adversaries than differences. Our humanity alone is an inseparable bond of reciprocal emotions and experiences.
Putting our compassion to the test can be painful and frightening, which is perhaps why so few people have the courage to do it. At the same time, it is heartening and liberating to cease seeing people with divergent views as “the enemy." When we recognize the seamless aspects of life, we can stop hating and start loving. Only when our hearts open fully will the ideals of veganism take hold.
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The wounded soldier
Palestinian Authority/Gaza, July 25, 2018
IDF officer wounded from Gaza sniper fire
YNet News
An IDF officer was moderately wounded on Wednesday evening after being shot by a sniper from the Gaza Strip during the most serious outbreak of violence between Israel and the coastal enclave since the two sides reached a ceasefire on Saturday.
The officer from the Givati Brigade was originally said to be in serious condition, but he was later said to be in light condition. Shortly after, doctors said that he was in moderate but stable condition, it was cleared for publication on Wednesday evening after a gag order was initially placed over the incident.
The shooting took place in the Kissufim area just 400 meters away from where IDF soldier Staff Sgt. Aviv Levi was killed by a Palestinian sniper on Friday afternoon on the Gaza border.
After being shot, the officer was evacuated to Soroka University Medical Center in Be'er Sheva and taken to the operating theater suffering from a gunshot wound in the chest and stomach area.
The 21-year-old soldier from Dimona in south Israel recently finished his mandatory service and began his service as a career soldier.
According to an initial investigation, Palestinian terrorists opened fire on IDF troops from the Givati Brigade's Tzabar Infantry Battalion who were conducting routine operations near the border fence when they were called to to disperse a "bait" riot staged by children to lure soldier within the sniper's range.
The initial investigation found the officer was wearing full protective gear, including ceramic armor and helmet.
IDF investigators are checking whether the sniper who hit the IDF officer Wednesday was the same one who shot Staff Sgt. Aviv Levi five days prior.
The sniper is believed to be a member of one of the smaller factions in Gaza that do not answer to Hamas. However, since Hamas controls the border area, the IDF sees it as responsible for everything that happens there.
Three Palestinians belonging to the Hamas military wing were killed while another Palestinian was critically wounded in a retaliatory IDF attack on seven Hamas outposts along the border.
Also on Wednesday evening, Israeli jets struck a rocket launcher and shelled the area from which two rockets were launched by ISIS and landed in the Kinneret earlier as part of the internal fighting raging in Syria.
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Why Buhari Is Visiting Benue Weeks After Herdsmen Killings - Presidency Reacts To Criticisms
While speaking during a Channels TV programme, the senior special adviser to the president on media and publicity, Garba Shehu, disclosed that President Muhammadu Buhari's visit to Benue state is not politically inclined.
While many Nigerians feel that Buhari’s visit to Benue where 73 persons were reportedly killed by herdsmen in January, is coming late, Shehu said the president chose to act on the killings rather than merely visiting the place, adding that the president was engaging in more of acting than talking to stop the killings.
He said: “Before the president’s visits, a statement was issued that he will be going there. He thought now is the best time to go there and see things on the ground and make important decisions.
“I would have thought that if he had intended to inject politics into it, he would have been on the plane the morning after the incident (in Benue).
“But he chose to act, rather than to talk and as you have seen yourself over this period of time, there was intervention by law enforcement, there was intervention by NEMA and aid agencies.”
Shehu also berated those accusing the president of “playing politics” with the killings. “They are just celebrating and exalting over all of these matters instead of coming together so that we can solve the problems,” he said.
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REMEMBER WHEN - Incubus
Incubus (Brantley Gutierrez)
Sept. 9, 1994 @ Coconut Teaszer (West Hollywood)
It was a Friday night during my freshman year in college. School had begun only a few weeks earlier, and most of the friends I had made so far lived in my dorm. Sharon and Carolina, two girls from down the hall, invited me to go see a band of Sharon's high school classmates at this club on the Sunset Strip. At first I was a little nervous about getting in since I wasn't 18 yet, but we came up a plan for me to show my USC ID card to the bouncer since it didn't have my birthdate on it, hoping that maybe he would think, 'well, she's old enough to be in college so I guess it's OK.'
Any anxiety over getting in was outweighed by my sheer excitement at finally going to a show on the famed Sunset Strip. I remember the drive to the corner of Sunset and Crescent Heights like it was yesterday, being absolutely giddy as the pink neon Coconut Teaszer sign came into view. Thankfully, the bouncer didn't even look at our IDs, as we showed him this flyer Sharon had and paid our $7. It was so surreal, stepping into my first rock club – a moment I had dreamt about for years. Sharon had a lot of friends from high school milling around, so I don't really remember where she was during the show. All I can recall is how dark it was in the club, that it smelled of sweat and beer and, when Incubus started playing, it was so loud that my ears felt like they were going to explode.
At this point, the band had only released demos, and were still cultivating their sound and style (It would be a year before Fungus Amongus would be available.). If all you've ever heard is their post-Make Yourself music, then you would be shocked at what I experienced that night. As soon as they began to play, the floor in front of their performance area exploded with bodies and dreadlocks flew through the air from violently thrashing heads. There was no denying the power of Jose Pasillas on drums and Alex Katunich (aka Dirk Lance) on bass. Guitarist Mike Einziger hunched over his guitar, churning out heavy, lightning-quick riffs. Brandon Boyd flailed himself around the room, moshing with the crowd, yet his voice rang out strong and clear.
Who knew that years later, they would go on to become multi-platinum artists? Over the years, I've seen Incubus perform 40-50 times at venues from the Roxy to Verizon Amphitheater. Even though I haven't gone to one of their shows in quite a while, they will always hold a special place in my heart because they played such a monumental night in my musical memories. The venue sat where Shelter, Privilege and XIV by Michael Mina have all come and gone, but that spot on Sunset Boulevard will always live on as Coconut Teaszer's home in my mind.
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Dallas: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
March 24, 2015 By Tessa McKenzie
Hey, Soap/LTAS Fans! We would like to introduce our “Dallas Trilogy” posts. First this post, based on guest blogger tvblogger1127’s assertion that “TNT set “Dallas” up to fail almost right out of the gate.” (Next up will be “For The Love of Dallas” fan blog sharing what “Dallas” has meant to her). Finally, we want to demonstrate that not only the United States and Canada, but the 170 countries it was originally broadcast in, are clamoring to get back their beloved “Dallas.” In her post, tvblogger1127 said, “I think the way TNT aired the series was a mistake. They set it up to fail almost right out of the gate.” We agree, and we have some thoughts about what happened between their reboot of Dallas and its cancellation two seasons later that gradually set it up to fail.
Remember this is theorizing, not something we can give you facts on yet. We think TNT was approached to do a Dallas reboot. They must have thought, “It was a giant phenomenon, and the fans are still around, so why not!”
So season one aired, and the ratings were sky-high. TNT didn’t foresee that “Dallas” would be huge in terms of fan reception let alone the international fans desire for its still existing after all these years. But a small cable station like TNT didn’t have the financial means to broadcast it in 100 countries or promote it in the same ways that the big 3 networks might have.However Executive producer and writer Cynthia Cidre did an admirable job getting old and young viewers to watch a reboot of 20-year-old show.
Then Larry Hagman, the iconic JR, passed away, and many fans at first tuned out. But he ratings for JR’s funeral went sky-high again, then with the story line “JR Master Piece” the story line the viewers stay tuned.
TNT decided that because the fan base certainly still existed and they didn’t have the resources or connections to make a reboot work, they would sell the rights to Warner Brothers.
tvblogger1127, “Dallas” fan and LTAS guest blogger were devastated by the news that no one wanted to pick up the show.
TNT and other smaller networks want to resurrect “Dallas,” but they also understand they did not have the finances to do a media blitz as CBS might do or to see to the international airing of “Dallas” in hundreds of countries worldwide.
As, tvblogger1127said in her earlier LTAS guest bog, “Many fans were left with that sinking feeling of, ‘What happens next?’ There was no closure, no warning”
TNT provided no closure when it cancelled the recent “Dallas” reboot, because they didn’t want it cancelled. And so they sold the rights to Warner Brothers, a corporation that has the means to bring “Dallas” back the way it was in its 1980’s heyday and to resurrect it in the hundreds of countries worldwide who love it.
My dear “Dallas,” fans, we at LTAS have so much admiration for you and look up to you for your undying loyalty to ”Dallas,” and your unwavering dedication to see it resurrected a third time in all the glory and with all soap fabulousness it once deserves. You have proven you can do it, and you will, we are sure of it. Now we ask Warner Brothers to return “Dallas” to its original home. And we ask CBS to show it to its huge international audience. And getting Warner Brothers and CBS to do these things will require the kind of perseverance and passion you have always shown to “Dallas.”
We, at LTAS, thank TNT for their Dallas reboot, for not writing down “Dallas” the way P&G did “Guiding Light” making it end in ignominy and disrepute. Nor did TNT play games or refuse to return “Dallas” Warner Brothers, as ABC did with their soaps AMC and OLTL and refused to return the rights to those soaps to their creator and long-time head writer, Agnes Nixon.
One blunder on TNT’s part was to make was to fail to respect fans with a press conference or press release. The Presidents’ office does this, and surely TNT doesn’t think it doesn’t owe its fans the same way the United State President owes his people. Just as the White House answers to its people, so does a networks must answers is viewers.
So now “Dallas” fans, let’s tell Warner Brother we want “Dallas” returned to it’s original home and time slot on CBS. Let them know through e-mails, calls, snail mail, comments on their website, Tweets, Facebook posts, any way you can—make them smell the money they want!—that you would support another “Dallas” reboot, one that shows evidence of the huge domestic and international fan bases.
And ABC fans keep up the ABC/Disney boycott until ABC returns “All My Children” and “One Life to Live” back to their original time slots.
And CBS fans keep boycotting Proctor & Gamble products to show we are not giving up until they return our cancelled CBS daytime soaps.
And soap/LTAS fans: don’t forget to sign up for our newsletter (top right-hand corner of any page), comment, discuss, let us and each other know your thoughts!
As always, remember to Stay Soapy!
Akbi Khan, Editor-in-Chief
Tagged With: #SaveDallas, ABC ABC/Disney ABC/Disney ABC/Disney advertisers advertising Agnes Nixon Agnes Nixon Agnes Nixon All My Children AMC American Broadcasting Company Another World CBS Dallas Darlene Conley David Hayward, CBS, Dallas, dallas 2.0, TNT, warner brothers
“Dynasty” is Coming Back! And We Must Save “Dallas”!
October 14, 2014 By Tessa McKenzie
“Dynasty’s” first iteration aired on ABC from January 12, 1981 until May 11, 1989. After 8 years, ABC/Disney cancelled it. But an inside source told us that “Dynasty 2015” is about to make a comeback on A&E , a cable channel owned by–you guessed it–ABC/Disney.
We at LTAS have to wonder why ABC/Disney doesn’t just air the new “Dynasty 2015” in primetime on ABC?
In a recent, related development, TNT has decided to pull the plug on their reboot of “Dallas,” which fans were loving. The incomparable Shawn Brady whom we have interviewed here on LTAS,
(http://www.letstalkaboutsoaps.com/an-interview-with-shawn-brady-soap-hero/#.VDx3LEt4VG4 ),
one of the leaders of the influential and important group, Soap Fans United, is now working on convincing another network to pick up “Dallas”.
Please sign these petitions, have your friends and family sign it and pass it on to Save Dallas. The first one is intended to convince TNT to rectify their mistake and keep on airing “Dallas”. The second one is to demonstrate to ABC, CBS, NBC, to pick it up. Here is a link to the first:
https://www.causes.com/actions/1772642-sign-the-petition-to-tnt-channel
and here is a link to the second:
http://chn.ge/1yfM080?recruiter=165010389
Now, back to “Dynasty,” We at LTAS have criticized ABC/Disney a lot, it’s true–always with good reason, we feel. Nevertheless, we are generous of spirit and believe in reinforcing good behavior, so: THANK YOU, ABC/DISNEY/A&E FOR MAKING SOAP FANS HAPPY AND DOING SOMETHING SO VERY RIGHT!
Hey, ABC/Disney–wanna know something else you can do that fans would love and that would also be so very right? LTAS will tell you: until you return “All My Children” (AMC) and “One Life to Live” (OLTL) to the 1:00 p.m. and 2:00 p.m. time slots, respectively, on ABC, you can show the last “x” amount of televised months of both AMC and OLTL in those 1:00 p.m. and 2:00 p.m. time slots on ABC! We know it will take a while to work out all the legal and financial kinks, get all the actors’ contracts in order, etc., so we are willing to be patient. Because, as we all know now, the rights to AMC and OLTL have reverted back to ABC from Prospect Park, and there is no reason you can’t restart both soaps.
http://www.letstalkaboutsoaps.com/a-legal-counsel-explains-the-abcpp-lawsuit-in-detail/#.VDs0ZEt4VG4
We at LTAS think the rest of AMC’s and OLTL’s fans would join us in waiting patiently until we get to find out who JR ended up shooting and who Alison Perkins’ was reading the final draft of “One Life to Live” to!
Remember two things, soap fans, you have a voice, and an important one, at that. Use it! And two, as always, stay soapy!
Your Editor,
Akbi Khan
Tagged With: #SaveDallas, A&E, ABC/Disney, All My Children, Dallas, Dynasty, One Life to Live, TNT
ATTENTION! GUEST BLOGGERS WANTED! Soap fans! We @ LTAS need guest bloggers to write one or more posts on all manner of things soap-related. You would get some great blogging/ writing experience. Help us restore the soaps to their original glory, and resurrect the soaps you want back. We look forward to hearing from you! . Contact Us
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Bob, Marco and others who just exited a building are standing around an undisclosed location Bob is on the phone “thanks warden” he said then hung up “Brings back memories doesn’t it Marco” “Yeah great times” just then a van pulled up and men pulled a secured Brady over to them “What’s going on here Bob,” […]
The annual Christmas Party’s can’t believe you talked me into this Doc,” “It’s for Charity, “Its mental,” “Thanks for playing along , Marlena, John, Nicole., Ben, Chloe, Kayla. Kate, Blanca it’s for a good cause” What’s going on here?” went Eli “why are all these people tied up?” “It’s okay Eli we agreed to this” […]
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Llandaff Cathedral Choir, 2017-18
Llandaff Cathedral School has been the place of education for the boy choristers of the Cathedral Choir since the foundation of the present school in 1880. Today, although the school has developed, the relationship with the Cathedral remains as strong as ever, and Llandaff Cathedral School is the only surviving Anglican Cathedral School in Wales.
The Cathedral Choir sings five choral services each week in school term time: Evensong at 5.30pm on Tuesdays (Boys only), Thursday (Full Choir) and Fridays (ATB only). Sunday services are the Choral Eucharist at 11.00am and Evensong at 3.30pm. As a result the choir performs a great deal of music, some written centuries ago and other more contemporary works.
The Cathedral Choir also has a busy schedule of concerts, broadcasts and recordings both at the cathedral and further afield. Tours and trips around the diocese are planned for the coming years. More information can be found on the Cathedral Choir Facebook page or on Twitter by following @LlandaffChoir.
Vacancies usually exist for boys to gain entrance to the choir at the start of each academic year, although occasional spaces may still be available. Admission to the choir is through a Voice Trial (Audition) with the Director of Music.
The benefits of a Choristership in the Cathedral Choir should not be underestimated for the boys that take them up, and choristers learn valuable skills that will set them up for life in whatever field they choose. These include:
A free musical education with professional music staff
The opportunity to work with peers and adults to a high level, making new and lasting friends across the year groups
Development of important life skills: time keeping, confidence and self-discipline
The chance to be part of a musical tradition in Llandaff that stretches back centuries and includes some of the most wonderful choral music ever written
Opportunities to take part in concerts, recordings and domestic and foreign tours
The Cathedral Choir preparing for a BBC Radio 4 Broadcast in December 2018
Boys who show a love of music and singing are encouraged to apply and see what this opportunity might afford them. All that’s needed are children with a ‘spark’ and we will do the rest! Boys usually join the choir in year 3 or 4 as Probationer Choristers and continue through the ranks of seniority until their voice changes or until the end of year 9, whichever comes first. Parents of Choristers are offered a generous reduction in their son’s school fees for the duration of the time in the choir.
For informal advice, our full current information about the Choir and Llandaff Cathedral School, or for an application form, please contact the Director of Music or the Cathedral School Registrar. Further information about Choristerships can also be found on the Cathedral School website http://www.cathedral-school.co.uk/becoming-a-chorister.html
Mr Stephen Moore
Director of Music
The Cathedral Green
Llandaff
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Mrs Deborah Whitehouse
Llandaff Cathedral School
Cardiff Road
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Llandaff Cathedral Choir Association
The LCCA exists to support the Director of Music and the activities of the Cathedral Choir through regular fundraising activities. The Association is, in the main, a body comprised of parents of the Choristers of the choir who organise events throughout the academic year and provide for the those activities of the choir which fall outside the ‘weekly round’ of services and rehearsals. Recently the LCCA has helped to support various chorister bonding events and the CD of the choir recorded in 2018. The LCCA seeks to further support the choir in the future with Vocal workshops, Tours, Recordings and trips to churches in the diocese and other Cathedrals to sing services.
The LCCA is always looking to hear from people who might be interested in keeping in touch with fundraising events and the various other activities of the Cathedral Choir. They are also actively building a database of former choristers of the Cathedral choir with a view to starting an ex-Choristers’ Association in the near future.
We urge those who would like to be kept in touch to contact the LCCA through their email address [email protected]
The Cathedral Choristers on a bowling trip in early 2019
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Somali Pirates First Attack of 2014
Dryad Maritime Intelligence have today confirmed the first piracy attack of 2014 which saw an audacious attack launched by Somali pirates south of Salalah in the late hours of 17th January.
Somali Pirates Launch Audacious First Attack of 2014
Dryad Maritime Intelligence have today confirmed the first piracy attack of 2014 which saw an audacious and determined attack launched by Somali pirates south of Salalah in the late hours of 17th January. The news comes hot on the heels of the latest International Maritime Bureau (IMB) annual report on piracy and maritime crime, which welcomes a decrease in Somali piracy in 2013.
In the incident on Friday, a Mothership-enabled PAG attacked a transiting vessel with small arms fire. The on board security team took appropriate action and repelled the attack with a graduated response, culminating in an exchange of fire. The pirates ignored deterrence, and continued their approach, firing at the ship. A robust response from the embarked team was eventually enough to encourage the pirate skiff to return to the safety of its dhow mother vessel, allowing the merchant vessel to continue safely on its transit, reporting the incident to relevant authorities.
Ian Millen, Director of Intelligence, Dryad Maritime Intelligence;
“This incident shows that, despite the very clear decline in the scope and scale of Somali piracy, as evidenced by the IMB’s latest report and Dryad Maritime Intelligence’s own figures, the threat remains very real. There has been a clear reversal of fortune for Somali pirates in the last two years; the combined effects of proactive naval operations, compliance with anti-piracy BMP 4 measures and the embarkation of armed security guards have made life more difficult for maritime criminals, but the problem is only broadly contained and is unlikely to be totally eradicated until a solution is found on the ground in Somalia”.
With a powerful claim that no vessel has ever been hijacked with an armed security team on board, those that were initially sceptical on the prospect of having trained men and weapons embarked have more recently accepted that this particular ‘layer’ of defence has been a success story. Without armed guards, 2013 might not have been quite as bad a year as it was for Somali pirate gangs. With five merchant vessels and one fishing vessel attacked between the end of the SW Monsoon and year end, we could have seen a very different picture as we began 2014.
In each of the Somali pirate attacks above, four in the Somali Basin/Indian Ocean and two in the Gulf of Aden, embarked security teams were involved in deterring or repelling the attackers. Had these vessels not had armed teams on board, up to three of them could be under Somali pirate control to this day, providing new ships and crews for ransom and energising the Somali criminal cash flow, to say nothing of the morale boost for the pirates themselves following some very public and successful judicial outcomes in courts from the USA to Japan.
Of the attacks that did take place in late 2013, the most worrying were those in the Somali Basin and Indian Ocean. Here response times from coalition forces are necessarily extended, due to the significant distances that needed to be covered to render assistance. One PAG managed to conduct attacks on two separate ships on 6 and 9 Nov before NATO naval forces arrived to disrupt the group the day after the second attack. Fortunately, both ships attacked had the benefit of armed guards and were able to defend against the pirates who had desperately travelled many hundreds of miles into the Indian Ocean in nothing more than a skiff and a whaler for logistic support. Without this defence, the pirates may have taken control of at least one of these vessels.
“There is no doubt that the good guys in the HRA have had a good year and that success has eluded the bad guys. With reports of more naval disruptions than pirate attacks in 2013 and the recent publication of the IMB’s annual figures, it is clear that the tide has turned for those who seek financial gain from the misery of others. But the most recent night time attack on 17th Jan – the first of 2014 – in the shipping lanes beyond the immediate protection of naval forces, is the clearest reminder of Somali pirate intent and capability. They may have taken a beating in 2013, but this attack has shown that Somali pirates still have the knowledge, the determination and the logistic capability to mount attacks against vulnerable ships” commented Ian.
For more analysis on this incident please visit Ian Millen’s blog article at http://www.dryadmaritime.com/2014/01/20/somali-piracy-down-but-not-out-in-2014/.
Source: Dryad Maritime.
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African Union unveils AFRIMA calendar in South Africa
by Money on May 04, 2017 in news
The African Union Commission (AUC) has formally unveiled the 2017 All Africa Music Awards (AFRIMA) calendar.
The event was held on Tuesday at The Maslow Hotel, Sandton, South Africa.
It was attended by AU officials, members of the International Committee of AFRIMA, past AFRIMA winners and nominees from Southern African, media executives and other stakeholders in the creative/entertainment industry.
President/Executive Producer, AFRIMA Mr. Mike Dada said the first activity on the continental awards event calendar is submission of entries, which opens globally on Monday, May 8. He added that submission closes on Monday, July 17.
Dada advised artistes, managers, producers, record label owners, video directors, publicists and entertainment/music journalist to submit their works or those of their artistes within the stipulated timeline to stand a chance at the awards.
‘’Irrespective of how popular an artiste or their works are in Africa, failure to submit for the awards means their chances of being nominated for AFRIMA 2017 is practically non-existent,” Dada said.
Delivering the AU opening address at the event, Head of Culture Division, African Union Commission, Ms. Angela Martins, thanked the government of South Africa and the people for receiving the AUC and AFRIMA for the calendar unveiling.
She added: “We would like to hail the All Africa Music Awards initiative for the laudable impact it has for its three editions (2014, 2015 and 2016). AFRIMA has been able to mobilise millions of people and renowned artistes from the five regions of Africa’’.
Some of the attendees at the unveiling were African music stars such as: Wax Dey; Sjava; Buffalo; Mi Casa; Busiswa; The Soil; Heavy K; Ugly Priddy; Cindy Munyavi and Fungisia among others.
Other music industry stakeholders present included: MD, Africori Digital Music Solutions, Mr. Yoel Kenyan; MD and Content Connect International, Mr. Munya Chanesta.
By Money at May 04, 2017
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Eminem Net Worth 2015 - Networth.com
Eminem Net Worth in 2021: $190 million
Full name: Marshall Bruce Mathers III
Birth Place: St. Joseph, Missouri, U.S.
Residence: Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
Citizenship: American
Education: Lincoln High School
Salary: $31000000 / year
Source of Wealth: Music, Endorsements, Acting
Ethnicity: English, German, Swiss-German, Scottish
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Eminem, or by his real name Marshall Bruce Mathers III, was born on October 17, 1972 in St. Joseph, Missouri, U.S. and he is now currently living in Detroit, Michigan.
He is an American singer, rapper, record producer, songwriter and actor and one of the best-selling artist of our times.
Eminem became interested in the world of hip-hop after listening the “Licensed to Ill” album from the Beastie Boys.
At the age of 17 Eminem dropped out of high school and and joined Bassmint Productions, later known as Soul Intent.
While he was working on a minimum wage as a dishwasher and a cook, he began recording music with Mashin’ Duck Records and FBT Productions.
Eminem’s first debut album came in 1996 through Web Entertainment, a record company. In the spring of 1997 Eminem released his debut EP, the Slim Shady EP, also through Web Entertainment.
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This successful American rapper won fifteen Grammy Awards and he was ranked 9 on MTV’s Greatest MCs of All Time list.
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George W. Bush – The Republican Jimmy Carter?
April 17, 2006 by Bruce Carroll
So says Dick Morris.
GEORGE W. Bush is a one- term president now serving deep into his second term. Like his father, he shot his bolt during his first four years. Unlike his dad, he was able to persuade America to keep him around for another term. But he seems destined to spend the remainder of his tenure, à la Nixon, “twisting slowly in the wind.”
Bush has truly become the Republican equivalent of President Jimmy Carter, out of control, dropping in popularity, unable to resume command. He barely skated through 2004 using the issue of terrorism. But his very success in preventing further attacks has eroded the strength of the issue and has undermined its political importance. Tax cuts, the cause celebre of his 2000 campaign, have long since been passed and yielded their economic growth. But they’re long gone as a key issue.
Yet Bush, like his father, fails to invent issues to give his presidency a new lease on life. Is he too tired or lazy to do so? Does he not believe in government doing very much in the first place? Or is he so preoccupied with Iraq – as Carter was with the hostage crisis – that he can’t divert his attention to new issues?
Filed Under: National Politics, Post 9-11 America
April 17, 2006 at 10:09 am - April 17, 2006
Bush is governing against the will of the people on the immigration issue (pushing amnesty and open borders), failing to articulate any other domestic agenda, and failing to counter effectively criticisms (often insane) of his foreign policy. This is reflected in his negative poll numbers.
The best ally Bush has are the Democrats — who are so consumed with their hatred for the man that they have lost all semblence of reason, and are furthermore so bound to their far left radical base that they can not articulate reasonable policy alternatives.
HollywoodNeoCon says
I’d say something here myself, but my esteemed colleague, V the K, has nailed it so precisely, that any further comment on my part would be pointless.
Good work, V!
Eric in Awe
Bush hasn’t had much with regard to domestic policy, and he has been blocked by his own party on a lot of the things he wanted to do (fix/or at least debate how to fix social security).
I think his foreign policy, however, unlike Jimmy Carter’s will eventually prove out with a little time behind him. Right now the left is eating him alive with the help of the media, but I think history will prove Bush right-but history isn’t going to help him now.
But I will be honest I think the congress has done a piss poor job of moving forward the conservative agenda, and Bush doesn’t/hasn’t seemed capable of creating a policy they are willing to jump on board with-but I think much of Bush’s domestic policy woes are as much a GOP congress woe as the administrations. Congress has been to willing to spend like money grows on trees, and Bush has lost the veto pen.
Patrick (Gryph) says
Latest issue of The Atlantic has an article on “Desert One”, the failed attempt to rescue the American hostages in Iran through military means. It occurred to me that if that mission had succeeded, that there might be an entirely different image of Jimmy Carter’s Presidency today.
Reagan ran against Carter as “pro-military” yet it was Carter who was willing to use the military option while Reagan did take the path of bribery and appeasement on the Iran hostage crisis.
If Bush had competent civilian Pentagon leadership in the Iraq war, and the aftermath of the toppling of Saddam had been more successful than it has been, it would be an entirely different political climate today.
Instead, Mr. “Mission Accomplished” is still stuck on stupid, and could not until very recently even seem to recognize that there was a problem. And even so, is still blindly supporting a DOD leader who has repeatedly proven his incompetence. The President can say he admits that “mistakes were made”, but the American public are unlikely to believe that he truly understands that if he does not demand a change in his Pentagon leadership.
His current support of Rumsfield too often sounds like his blind support of Brown at FEMA. People still remember his “Well Michael, your doing a heck of fine job!” quips during Katrina and how clueless he turned out to be.
Not even the Democrats are going to be able to save Bush from his own arrogance and his stead-fast desire to live in the White House Bubble. I name him President Whobbit.
Patrick said…
“Not even the Democrats are going to be able to save Bush…”
I agree with you there, Gryph; the Democrats can’t even save themselves, let alone anyone else.
Moonbattery’s a real bitch, ain’t it?
GayPatriotWest says
I think that history will show Rumsfeld to be one of the nation’s finest Secretaries of Defense, albeit one who made a number of serious blunders.
I also think that this president has been seriously misunderestimated – to use a term he coined — but has made several serious blunders, as much of style of substance. he needs much better P.R. and did not communicate with Congress in a manner similar to Carter.
I think the appropriate comparison, however, is another Democrat — Harry S Truman who made a number of blunders, but on the whole was a good steward of the nation and who left office (in 1953) quite unpopular.
The Truman comparison on several levels is an apt one, GPW. Truman, like Bush, did several things that were unpopular in the short-term, but turned out well in the long. In an era of soundbites, we sometimes forget that policy activities are like ships; they take a while to turn.
patriotpal says
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again . . . I support Bush, but if a pollster were to call me today and ask if I approve of his job right now I’d likely say no. The economy is doing well, but on almost every other front Bush can’t get himself out of the way of the negative PR. He needs a new message (and new people to deliver the message) or I’m afraid the GOP will lose big this fall and Hillary will be president on January 20, 2009.
benj says
April 17, 2006 at 12:05 pm - April 17, 2006
I admit the WH does a lousy job in promoting the good things happening in Iraq; the US economy; Medicare Part D and money seniors are saving, etc. Talk about a shakeup with Bolten, how about an all out offensive to get the repubs back into supporting their president rather than only trying to get re-elected.
As for Dick Morris, anyone as tired of him as I am? I consider him B-O-R-I-N-G!
Be careful with “He needs a new message or to get his message out better” thinking… it’s what Democrats tell themselves, after their losses.
I agree with V in #1 – it’s about the content, not the package… Of the 3 most urgent issues facing the country – War on Terror, porous borders, and growth-of-government – Bush is largely on the wrong side in 2 of them.
Having said that: if his speechwriters and White House spokesman fought back more against the insane and evil-hearted criticisms from, say, Andrew Sullivan-on-leftwards… OK, that would be a good thing.
As for Dick Morris: He was right about Bush’s re-election in 2004, and he knows the Clintons better than you or I… I take him as one semi-interesting voice among many.
I totally agree that the WH has done a crappy job on the PR front.
I have never liked McClellan as press secretary, and think that the WH would rather avoid the media altogether, because they don’t understand how to use the media. Clinton may have had his problems, but he did understand the media and how to use it (or at least somebody in his administration). Even when he was getting bad press, he used the media to his advantage.
Bush and his admin just seem clueless as to how to use the media and to work the PR front. Their choice is often to say nothing at all, although I also think they subscribe a bit tot he “let them have all the rope they want, and then hang them with it” which has worked on some fronts, but isn’t the best method day in and day out. Reagan also knew how to use the media (he also knew when to shaft the media and then use them later). It is a shame Bush doesn’t have the same media Savvy Reagan did.
I thought this was funny: “The week the deranged president of Iran again calls for the annihilation of Israel and once again denies the Holocaust ever happpened James Carroll draws the only logical conclusion: Bush is a lunatic and this administration is run by ‘deeply frustrated, angry, and psychologically wounded people.'”
Good point, V the K.
Carroll seems to belong back in the Democratic and Clinton age, where the secret to disarming nuclear conflict was sticking our fingers in our ears and covering our eyes.
If you watch Ian and Raj long enough, they will categorically deny that Iran and North Korea ever had nuclear programs or were working on nuclear materials prior to 2001. Why? Because Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, and the IAEA told them so.
Of course they, like Carroll, are now reacting to the fact that Bush was right in the only way they can — by blaming him.
April 17, 2006 at 1:04 pm - April 17, 2006
If you watch Ian and Raj long enough…
No thanks, I’ve already seen Dumb and Dumber.
#12 – Again I would argue that what made Reagan great was the content of what he set out to do, not the “media savvy” packaging.
When the content is great, the packaging has a way of suddenly looking incredibly skillful.
No one would remember Reagan as media-savvy, if Reagan had been trying to sell the wrong philosophy / programs, because he would have failed.
Clinton was largely on the right side of the growth-of-government issue (at least, once HillaryCare collapsed, and Newt Gingrich and Dick Morris forced him to do welfare reform). Plus free trade. The economy benefitted. So Clinton, too, had SOME minimal content to sell. Without it, his media savvy would not have saved his ass in 1996 or 1998.
ndtovent says
“Yet Bush, like his father, fails to invent issues to give his presidency a new lease on life. Is he too tired or lazy to do so?”…
Dubya is just too friggin stupid to even be president, let alone an effective one. He’s an embarrassment to our nation. I can’t even stand to hear/watch him speak. That’s a pretty pathetic leader for the most powerful nation on the planet to have. Thank God presidents can only serve two terms (one half of one was too many for h-dubya)
ndtovent
Synova says
I just can’t bring myself to view “bad at PR” as a relevant criticism.
I’m of the opinion that Bush’s bad PR shows everyone *else* in a bad light since it shows them as more interested in the surface of things, in the nice-nice and mutual back patting than in the substance of the issues our country faces. And I’m supposed to get on board and blame Bush because he doesn’t have an effective enough public relations/congressional relations policy?
I’d rather have a president that out and out snubed people, for *real*, rather than all the hyped or even imaginary slights that pretty much are nothing but an attempt to shift blame. It’s like… it’s like if someone asked help for a third party but didn’t say “please” and the person who then didn’t help responds with “It’s not my fault, so-and-so was rude.”
PLUS I find it rather disturbing to suggest that Bush is supposed to “invent” new issues to breathe life into his adminisration. What? Lets find new things for government to do, new causes to justify our existance? Please. No.
At the risk of appearing to be contrarian, I don’t think Dick Morris is anymore relevant to a discussion about what’s right/wrong with Bush’s Admin (or Congress or the GOP or the Right or conservatives or anything else) than is David Gergen, George Stephanopoulos, Mike Deaver, Pat Caddell, Howie Baker, Mac McLarty, James Carville, John Sasso, Bob Strauss, Alistair Campbell, Bob Shrum or some other political svengali.
Morris is first and foremost a salesman and a self-promoter; he’ll say whatever he thinks will interest others in order to appear relevant. He’s trying to be the “common man’s voice”; he’s trying hard to stay in the punditry game. He’s argued that HE personally convinced Prez Clinton to do an “issue-a-day” while announcing new programs a day at a time during Clinton’s darker hours… the truth is, that’s hubris. In the end, Clinton left office disgraced and having to steal furniture and artwork from the WH for his wife’s home in NY.
Morris doesn’t have “the answer” to George Bush’s woes anymore than he had one for Prez Clinton or that he has one for Hillary-2-b-Prez. Nor do the other outsiders looking to score points while trying to kick the can down the road a bit… relevancy is earned in politics. It doesn’t come via self promotion.
To look at Bush’s approval ratings, the Congress, SCOTUS, higher ed, corporate America, the car companies, lawyers, cable TV, MSM or inner city mayors will net seemingly poor approval ratings from the general public. The only poll that matters is the one on election day and it involves voters who show up.
In Michigan, we have a Democrat Governor in deep, deep poo with a cookie cutter GOP candidate creaming her ass. We have a “dangerously incompetent” Democrat US Senator worried she won’t be able to hold her seat even by spending $6-8m MORE than her wanna-b GOP competitor. The state House and Senate will likely PICK UP GOP seats; our Congressional delegation won’t change from a majority GOP control. Wow. And that’s in a state that went Kerry in 2004.
Nawh, Morris isn’t relevant except to his agent, accountant, and the media looking for sound bites.
#18 – I found the “invent issues” phrasing strange also. There are plenty of existing issues that the Administration should be getting traction on, and aren’t.
– Secure borders; Mexican border fence.
– Making the tax cuts permanent.
– Cutting (not growing) government programs.
– Expanding private health and retirement savings accounts; if possible, privatizing Social Security.
I think they’re lacking moral confidence – confidence in the moral RIGHTNESS of those things and being able to just tell the Left to F*-off. As we’ve seen in this blog, the point of so many moonbat attacks, “the crazier the better”, is precisely to drain that confidence.
The Administration may also lack a willingness both to collaborate with Congress and discipline it. They should show Congress much more firmness in some ways – like Presidential vetoes, and telling Democrats to grow up and cut the baloney attacks – and greater collaboration on specific reforms, at the same time.
Ben-David says
April 18, 2006 at 5:46 am - April 18, 2006
Bush’s great strength – and what has allowed him to cut through the media BS avalanche and connect with the American people – is that he is NOT the type of politician to manufacture issues or cultivate publicity.
He called the major issue of our time correctly, now he is seeing it through. He also called a major domestic issue correctly – education – and set in place reforms that have to play out over the long term.
This ability to play the long game, while ignoring the demands of attention-deficit media America (which includes bloggers!) is his great strength.
He is leaving a lot of other issues to the Congress – which this overseas American finds increasingly difficult to believe is actually under Republican control. I’m grateful that I no longer vote for Congress as I am overseas – I would not know what to do this time.
Would it be worth the effort to try and counter the negative propaganda of the media? This is a thankless, sisyphian endeavor – and people are already voting with their feet against the media indoctrination.
syn says
Dick Morris lost me when he insanely suggested Bush embrace global warming/climate change hysteria.
Sick of America Under Bush says
There is NO WAY you can even dare compare Bush and Carter….Carter is a REAL Compassionate man, a caring man….BUSH is NOTHING, NOTHING but a LIAR, Corruptor, Selfish bastard….if you were to compare the 2 using Environmental words: Carter would be FRESH AIR, Bush would be TOXIC POLLUTION!
rightiswrong says
the analogy of bush-vs-carter can be applied, as they were both completely ineffective at leading the country. time has been an asset for carter and his efforts post-WH have totally changed his image. whether bush can reinvent his image remains to be seen. unless he can somehow change it, his legacy will be as the WORST-ever administration.
how you people can continue supporting this charlatan is amazing. he’s completely abandoned the conservative philosophy; spending more money than any president since LBJ. each and every decision this man has made is being debated and his effectiveness (if there ever was effectiveness) is gone, gone, gone.
history, imo, will be so very harsh on gwb…as it should be.
History will be what it is.
What I think is interesting in this “Bush is the worst president EVER” is that people who say it seem to be most focused on some imagined unquestioning support of Dubya by the other side. But what’s in this comment thread but several people saying that he’s gotten two out of three issues wrong? Does it *really* have to be all or nothing?
I, personally, have a absolute negative reaction to the suggestion that Bush ought to “reinvent” his image. Reinvention is what Madonna does every little bit. That’s all fine for an entertainer but it’s a disturbing suggestion for a politician… unless someone thinks the two are the same. Bush isn’t going to win reelection in ’08. Why should he “reinvent” his image or care that “every decision is being debated?” Like he can use his awesome dark powers to control what other people choose to do. But clearly a whole lot of people who appear to be adults can’t pull themseves above petty partisanism or put the country ahead of their wounded egos or demonstrate leadership appart from the polls… including the Republicans in Congress, not just the Democrats.
There egos shouldn’t have to be stroked before they are held accountable for doing their jobs.
By any *Historical* measure, OEF and OIF are going swimmingly well. Our *economy* is doing fabulously… not something that is going to be mentioned unless by someone arguing for open borders as they point out that illegals are *not* taking jobs from *anyone*. Any other mention of the very low unemployment numbers and job creation, etc., is met with a distainful “tell that to the people who can’t find work.”
No Historical or any other sort of “context” is required, it seems.
Nothing is stopping anyone from questioning whatever they like, therefore the fact of the questioning is beyond irrelevant. Particularly as what we see is clearly reflexively finding a way to oppose *everything* that the President does, which is why we have the curious spectacle of our water ports needing to be “secure” and our borders needing to be wide open. Because NONE OF IT is about security… it’s all about opposing Bush.
And when people *fail* to take this “worst president EVER” thing and get on board with this reflexive opposition and instead say, hey, maybe we should try to get some stuff done? Maybe we should stop squabbling over how the war is being fought and make Congress fix social security or do something united to cut the pork spending and lower taxes… it can’t happen and it’s not the Presidents fault that this is true. Ignore the man if you don’t think he’s concentrating on what is important and get the important stuff done!
But no. Instead we get stuff like #23.
Life today during a time of defensive war is nothing compared to what it was like during the slum decade of the seventies. The malaise wrought by Carter’s defeatist leadership suffocated America’s heart, mind and soul with putrid collectivist ‘feel-good’ crap.
Long live the Reagan Revolution!
Thank God Bush is not a defeatist.
Queer Patriot says
Since this blog (if not some of its commenters) seems to be suddenly doing an about-face and coming around to my way of thinking on Bush — evidence being this post and the one above it — then I’m assuming I’m no longer banned and will now happily rejoin the conversation.
rightwingprof says
Outflows are when the money is used outside of the American economy such as in foreign investment or purchases of foreign goods. This is why the trade imbalance is important to our economy.
I just spat a mouthful of water all over my computer.
Oops, wrong quote! This:
Since this blog (if not some of its commenters) seems to be suddenly doing an about-face and coming around to my way of thinking on Bush
made me spit water all over my screen …
If I thought for one single nanosecond that I was “coming around” to QP’s “way of thinking,” I’d do my family a favor and move to France.
Sheesh, just how much more arrogant can this guy possibly get????
Eric in Hollywood
Kurt says
Yeah “Sick of America Under Bush,” Carter’s compassionate alright. He never met a murderous dictator whom he didn’t express his fondness for after the two of them talked about “Peace.” That Castro sure is a real charmer. Just ask Armando Valladares.
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“Segregation Now, Segregation Forever” – Modern Progressives
February 1, 2016 by V the K
The University of Connecticut is planning on building a dorm to segregate its African-American students, and giving it an appropriately ghettoized name.
Called the ScHOLA2RS House, the living community for African American males is set to open in 2016. According to UConn’s website, the ScHOLA2RS House is “a scholastic initiative to groom, nurture, and train the next generation of leaders to address grand challenges in society through the promotion of academic success in undergraduate programs at the University of Connecticut and in competitive graduate programs.”
Dr. Erik Hines, an assistant professor of educational psychology and the future faculty advisor to those in the dorm, said UConn will implement the living space as a “forward-thinking” solution to the fact that black male students graduate at a lower rate.
Which I believe is the PC version of “Colored folk is best off if they keep with their own kind.”
If the issue is really that African-American students are failing, how is putting them all into one segregated building the answer? And what about White and Hispanic students who are failing? Shouldn’t they get help developing better study habits as well?
If “White Privilege” is a problem is the ultimate Progressive solution by segregating the races into their own colleges.
Here’s an interesting hypothesis: What if the whole campus SJW Movement is just leftists tricking their dumbest and most radical students into blaming ‘The Patriarchy’ and ‘White Privilege’ for the fact that the Leftist-Academic-Complex has tricked them into going heavily into debt financing worthless educations?
Filed Under: Academia, Political Correctness, Racism (Real / Reverse / or Faux)
February 1, 2016 at 12:57 am - February 1, 2016
Guarantee you, should the black males continue to fail, it will be the fault of the university, not the students.
Which, of course, will lead to grade inflation, and all of the horrible results of that.
CrayCrayPatriot says
February 1, 2016 at 2:24 am - February 1, 2016
Why did GOP vote to increase IRS budget?
https://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/2016/01/31/rewarding-a-corrupt-irs-with-a-bigger-budget-another-own-goal-by-the-gop/
Kilroy says
I’m not too shocked that re-segregation is on the agenda of some many liberals. After all, it was a progressive initiative the first time around too. “These races don’t get along, so let’s just have the government play parent and separate them!”
*so many
Sorry for the doublepost, but typos make me unhappy enough to require it.
This was done at one of the dorms at U Mass back in the 90s. It’s probably even worse now.
Can you imagine the blow back if Trump had suggested this?
So the first student objects because the sistahs on campus aren’t getting their own dorm, the second doesn’t understand why people are objecting, and the third (a puppetry major!) thinks that people who point out that separating students by race is segregation… are racists.
It’s braintrusts like that who make me ponder the ethics of a coup that would institute a right-wing, meritocratic oligarchy.
On a separate note… This turn of events makes me wonder how many blacks would have supported segregation back during Civil Rights if the authorities had phrased it as a pro-black policy.
Today’s black students need to study black history in this month of Black History. They have lost, or never had, the spirit of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, judged by content of character an not the color of skin. Why go back in time to segregation? It was easier to blame “whitey” for all his maladies.
Roy says
February 1, 2016 at 12:04 pm - February 1, 2016
And only male blacks, which make for much jealousy.
“I was not pleased, my immediate thought was ‘What?’” Haddiyyah Ali, a fourth-semester Africana studies and political science major told the Daily Campus. “I know there had to be a lot of research that went into it…but just for me coming from a student perspective, my initial thought was what about black women and girls – what about us?”
KCRob says
February 1, 2016 at 7:15 pm - February 1, 2016
I’ll tell you what’s racist: computer programming languages. All the major programming languages – C/C++/C#, Python, Perl, Fortran, Cobol, Java, etc rely on white-English words and syntax.
When will the academy provide programming languages more suited to “to groom, nurture, and train the next generation of leaders to address grand challenges, blah, blah, blah.
Lobogris says
At least the white kids will know where to get their drugs.
@ Lobogris: And if there’s ever an HIV outbreak on campus, they’ll have an obvious starting point…
Killiteten - Native Intelligence says
The University of California at San Diego attempted a “grand experiment” for “third world” students called Third College. Admissions were relaxed and my class of 56 incoming students in September 1972 were excited about the opportunity. Unfortunately, after the first quarter, 52 out of the 56 incoming freshmen were on academic probation. After the second quarter, many students did not return. Third College eventually was renamed as Warren College where incoming students actually qualified to attend a University of California campus. I believe Thomas Sowell has written clearly about how “special programs” designed to bring forth “equality” actually harm the individuals they are designed to assist.
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I’m envisioning these college-aged kids going home for the holidays and raving about how much they love their separate-but-equal accommodations, and how they fought so hard to have them established. Grandma and grandpa practically drop dead at the table.
Last month the editor of Baltimore’s newspaper wrote an editorial about why she is more afraid of law abiding whites owning guns, than black criminals. I believe the title was the PC translation of “Ain’t no darkies in my gated community”
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Hotel dishwasher awarded $21 million after boss made her work on Sundays | NBC News
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A jury has awarded a Miami hotel dishwasher $21.5 million, finding that her employer violated her religious rights by repeatedly scheduling her to work on Sundays — and ultimately firing her.
But a cap on punitive damages prevents her from receiving anywhere close to that amount.
Marie Jean Pierre, who worked as a dishwasher at the Conrad Miami, sued Virginia-based Park Hotels & Resorts, formerly known as Hilton Worldwide, in 2017 for violations of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The landmark law bans employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin.
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The award was filed on Tuesday with the U.S. District Court in Miami. The jury also found she was due $35,000 in back wages and $500,000 for emotional pain and mental anguish.
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Mean Lady’s Love Now Brings Plenty Of Sunny Beat-Backed Psych-Pop
By Dan Gorman
Mean Lady‘s debut album Love Now (Fat Possum Records) bursts with playful pop songs driven by head-nodding beats and wall-of-sound production value. Early on the record, one of the first comparisons my ears made – and stay with me here – was that of Lily Allen. I’ll be the first to stand up and admit that I have a very big soft spot for Lily’s music – especially her second album. While Lily Allen’s music might not be the first thing that springs to mind when you think of lightly psychedelic pop music, Mean Lady’s vocalist Katie Dill similarly knows her way around a pop hook or two – and like Lilly, is willing to subtly jump from one genre-influence to the next freely between tracks. Providing the backing here is Sam Nobles – resident multi-instrumentalist and producer whose hip-hop tinged beats canoodle with staccato piano riffs, arpeggio keyboard flourishes and dub-influenced production treats.
Take “Far Away”, the second song on Love Now. It begins with a classical sounding piano riff and distant bell shakes, before an organic-yet-programmed drum beat introduces itself to the track, sliding in right under the bass-line. Love Now is full of these retro-meets-modern touches that – while certainly are not groundbreaking – are executed in a way that can gel perfectly when coupled with Katie Dill’s soulful vocal performances. On “Mother Earth” Dill alternates between singing “I’m going through changes / some re-arrangements / but not everything / the world surrounds me / my love astounds me / it’s all everything.” and chanting along with 60s-pop la-la-la‘s. Noble’s reverberating guitar and rhythmic stop-start moments make what could have been a lyrically simplistic, transitional track into something altogether special.
The plucked acoustic guitar that opens “Bop Bop” might have you expecting a cliche mid-album ballad, but after a minute and a half Noble’s familiar back-beat kicks in – Dill coolly sings “Now I’m starting to realize I’m on my own / Now I’m trying to forget how I felt at home / in your arms” and the song opens up. When the song doubles-back to the chorus, this time Dill’s voice has a tinge of over-modulation and the same few lines seem to take on all new meanings. These small but still unexpected moments have had me returning to some of these tracks again and again in the past week.
Not everything on Love Now works this well though – Mean Lady dip a little too far into reggae (an issue that crops up once or twice throughout the LP, personally) on the album’s center piece “Why’d’ya Hafta Be Sucha?”. Here, the repetition of the lyrics and slightly stagnant structure of the track might pass you by without eliciting much more than a shrug. Where these elements work better, are on tracks like “Pony Ony O” – the album’s longest track at over nine minutes. One might think the extended length would only result in Mean Lady meandering, but the fleshed out track takes time to build and introduce its melodic phrases before fully engulfing them in Noble’s instrumentals. It’s an absolutely wonderful crossroads of psychedelic experimentation and pop hooks that fully balances both elements without ever tipping too far on either side – reminding me especially of Beach House at their best moments.
As I said, Mean Lady’s Love Now isn’t fully breaking any new ground, but the elements for a wholly satisfying summer album are all here; an incredible voice, lyrics of love lost and found (both of the future, and the past), and eclectic, sun-baked instruments and rhythms. Love Now is like a great summer cocktail – if you sip on it too much, it might give you a headache. But when the moment strikes you, there might not be a better way to spend an afternoon.
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Retro Game Review: Virtua Fighter Animation (1997), Sega Master System.
Posted by Retrokaiser On Friday, February 5, 2016 1 comments
Virtua Fighter Animation for the Sega Master System is a game that you would not expect from this console, especially since it came out in 1997, a time where this console was long obsolete, even in the Master System loving PAL region. With the word "Animation" part of the title, you'd expect this game to not be a game at all, you'll be expecting this to be an animated feature based on the Virtua Fighter series. This game is not a cartoon at all but what the title is referring to is the animated series that ran during the mid-1990's, hence why that word is part of the title. With that all said, this game has a story to it that goes like this: Akira is wandering around South China and runs across an eating contest and enters it in hopes of winning and stuffing his face full of food. While Akira is stuffing his face, we cut to another character, Pai. Pai is running from a gang of thugs who are after her to return her to her father, Lau. Pai manages to lose the thugs but soon runs into Akira in the most personal way, Akira falls onto her and gives her a nice big sloppy kiss on the lips. Long story short, they team up and gain allies along the way to put a stop to Lau... But then things soon get more complicated. (Click on "Read More" to read the full review).
The story in this game is based on the story from the anime and it doesn't translate well into this video game. The story in this game is very slow and awkwardly paced and it gets boring due to the cut-scenes dragging on for way too long. The dialogue in this game is also on the awkward side and can be a bit of a turn off, so you'll end up just skipping the cut-scenes and cut straight to the action.
Gameplay is also incredibly unexpected, it plays pretty close to the original arcade Virtua Fighter (1993) but only a bit more simplified. Both fighters are fighting on a flat 2D plain instead of a 3D plain, some of the moves have been removed but the core aspect of the game is still there and will feel very natural to long time players of the series. The Master System controller also works well as this is a game that only uses one punch and kick button and that's exactly what the two action buttons are used for in this game. Downside to this game using two buttons is that there is no block button, you can block but I couldn't figure out how to do so and it got a little frustrating.
What they have managed to fit into the combat system in this game is incredible as it has a working combo system that uses the same combo combinations as the main games. What's even more incredible is that the jumping moves and grapple attacks are also found in this game and are all just as functional as the original arcade game. Lastly, I was incredibly impressed that air jugging was left in tact and all this was especially impressive as a lot of fighting games lose something in translation when getting, 8-bit and 16-bit ports/adaptations of games, just look at how bad the Genesis/Megadrive/Phil Collins port of Virtua Fighter 2 (1996) was, for example. While I did enjoy the combat, it wasn't perfect as some parts could've been a little tighter due to some moves being a little laggy but the lag is not enough to ruin the game.
Something interesting about the gameplay in Story Mode is that you only start off with one character and gain another character into your party with each victory with the exception of Kage and Dural. Kage has to be defeated twice and Dural can't be added to your party at all due to her being the final boss of the game. If that sounds tiring, there's a traditional verses mode that has you picking a character and opponent. Verses Mode is fun but does have problems such as a confusing character select screen that skips certain characters until you've taken a lap around the character select screen. The other problem is that this game has no multiplayer and that's incredibly frustrating as this is a game that really needed it, it would've sharply increased replay value to the game.
This game has around the same amount of stages found in any other Virtua Fighter game but the game can run for much longer than the typical Virtua Fighter game if you are watching all the cut-scenes. Without the cut-scenes, this game won't take long to beat at all as this isn't all that tough of a game to beat and only becomes slightly challenging when on the last two stages. If you also lose a fight in this game, you'll lose that fighter from the party and will have to pick another one, so you won't get game over until you've lost everyone. With that said, the real challenge is trying to learn all the fighter at once and that's not even a challenge at all.
Graphics in this game really push what the Sega Master System could do as there are some really gorgeous cut-scenes and some really smooth animations in those said cut-scenes, they defiantly make up for the boring story. Sadly, the fighting stages don't look quite as good as the cut-scenes, heck, some of the level designs look terrible but alas there are some really good looking stages in this game. I did like the character designs in this game as they captured the look and feel of the characters well to where you won't have a hard time recognizing them.
The animation of the battle sprites is good most of the time but there were some animations that did look a bit choppy. The character portraits in the character select screen are also cool, they emulate the same style as the other Virtua Fighter character select screens but I didn't like all of them, Wolf's portrait is very weird looking and looks like that he has smoked way too much Virtua Drugs, you can't help but to laugh your pants off at his picture. Music in this game is mostly very weak with nothing that will stick out what so ever but it does have some satisfying victory music.
Overall, this is a really surprising port/adaptation of Virtua Fighter that does a much better job than the 16-bit edition of Virtua Fighter 2. While not the best game in the series, it still isn't a bad game and is worth playing at least once, although you might want to go for the much more affordable Game Gear version as opposed to this expensive and obscure Master System port... Or you can take another certain route for if you are that cheap and desperate. Hidden gem.
Game: Virtua Fighter Animation
System: Sega Master System
Developer: Aspect Co.
Publisher: Sega, Tec-Toy
Recommended: Yes
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The Minister of Works, Power and Housing, Raji Fashola, says the collapsed bridge on Mokwa-Jebba road will be back in use within 72 hours. Fashola who spoke to newsmen in Zaria, Kaduna State, shortly after he paid homage to the Emir of Zazzau, Dr Shehu Idris, in his palace on Sunday.
The Minister had, before visiting the emir, inaugurated a new 60MVA/132/KV transformer to improve electricity supply in the city and its environs. He explained that the ministry had deployed personnel from relevant agencies to provide measures that would ease traffic on the collapsed bridge at Mowo Junction, along Makwa-Jebba road for motorists within the next 72 hours.
The Federal Road Safety Corps had on Sunday morning alerted motorists of the collapse of the bridge after Mowo Junction on the Mokwa-Jebba road, due to heavy rainfall.
The Agency had said the bridge, which is 18 kilometres from Mokwa town in Niger State, caved-in, following a downpour which affected vehicular movement on both sides of the road. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Mokwa-Jebba road is a major transit route for travelers between Abuja and Ilorin.
Fashola attributed the bridge’s collapse to “the hazards that come with weather changes.
“All over the world we see them, mudslide, hurricane, volcano, windstorm, damaging public infrastructure. So, Nigeria is not exempted.
“We know this will cause some discomfort to commuters, for which we apologise for. It is an emergency and we are treating it as such. We are responding.
“A year ago, I think also on the 10th of June, Tatabu bridge also collapsed as a result of rising water level and heavy rainfall and we responded.
“We have fixed and reconstructed a new bridge, which is bigger and better. We will do the same thing in Mokwa,” the Minister said
The minister said the ministry had gained some experience in dealing with such situations.
“From our contractors to our staff, we know what to do and by the time I got aware of it early this morning, all our staff have started responding.
“It is very encouraging to me that we have built a team and a system that works.
“We have given instruction to our Director in charge of North Central zone to move to the place and work with the Controllers in Niger and Kwara states
“We have also given instruction to the Federal Road Safety Corps, the Corps Marshal is on top of that, helping to manage the traffic on the Federal High way and divert traffic, especially heavy-duty trucks carrying fuel, food items to North and South through that road.
“There would be discomfort without a doubt, but we will manage it and make it better day by day and in a couple of days, it should be better, the minister said.
He said the ministry had also contacted the leadership of NUPENG and Tanker Drivers to explain to their members what has happened and what the ministry was doing.
“Within the next 72 hours, I am sure, we will bring some stability and control to the place.
“The Zonal Director had our mandate to brief headquarters every 12 hours on what is going on, so that we can measure progress. So, there is nothing to panic about.
“This is an incident that has happened as a result of forces of nature. Rainfall destroys our infrastructure, but it is also a blessing to our farmers and fishermen,” he said.
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As a gifted young football athlete from Bristol, Connecticut, Aaron Hernandez had capitalized rapidly on his promise, playing for a top tier college program before being drafted into the National Football League at the age of 20. But in 2013, fresh off of a newly inked five-year, $40 million contract with the New England Patriots, Hernandez would become a household name for the most infamous murder case involving an American athlete since OJ Simpson. Hernandez’s trials for the brutal killing of Odin Lloyd and two Boston-area men yielded a Pandora’s box of secrets: a tumultuous and often abusive upbringing, a growing fascination with gang life, and other discoveries that painted a maelstrom of motivations behind his violent behavior.
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Neoliberalism workshop: Implications for future visions of work and organisation
Richard White, Senior Lecturer in Economic Geography, Sheffield Hallam University, gives a talk for the Neoliberalism, Employment and the Law workshop at Wolfson College, Oxford, hosted the Foundation for Law, Justice and Society in November 2015.
Dr White examined how we can value and harness alternative work practices in a neoliberal society. He challenged the negativity associated with neoliberalism as a label and argued that decentralisation of capitalism could be harnessed to help us think differently about social justice and empowerment in our everyday spaces and lives.
He said understanding the pervasive nature of non-commodified work practices promoted greater awareness around ‘alternative’, non-capitalist spaces within the advanced economies of the western world.
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Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du Motier Lafayette, it’s the Princeton University Band!
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Everybody knows about O.J. Simpson being arrested recently in connection with an armed robbery case. But what very few people know is that this arrest is just the tip of an iceberg of nefarious deeds. Here are a few of the things he’s been up to while out of the public eye:
Brutally murdering (pause 2 seconds) the speed limit!
Tearing the tags off of his pillows
Attempting to return an unmatched glove without a receipt
Illegally downloading Naked Gun 33 1/3
Plagiarizing his book “If I did it” from an episode of Law and Order
Providing life coaching to Scott Peterson
Counting 2 tomatoes as a single item in the express lane at Shop-Rite
Running an illegal hamster-fighting ring
Selling multiple fake copies of his Heisman Trophy on E-Bay
Forming a more convincing Heisman trophy than the ones O.J. has been selling, the band wishes him the best of luck in his upcoming trial and plays “Jailhouse Rock.”
[Band forms Heisman trophy and plays “Jailhouse Rock”]
The Band would like to join with Lafayette University in celebrating the 250th anniversary of the Marquis de Lafayette’s birth. Everyone knows about his involvement in the French and American revolutions, but we thought we’d take a moment to point out some of his less-well-known accomplishments.
He attempted to feed the Continental Army exclusively on foie gras, escargot and frog legs.
He brutally knocked off his wife, Nichole Brown Simpson
He is the only person in history to retreat from a French army twice
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He crossed the Delaware in a boat made entirely of Brie
He had triple citizenship in France, the United States and Gondor
Saluting our favorite expatriate, the band forms the French flag and plays “Carry On My Wayward Son.”
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Run away Band, it’s the zombie Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du Motier Lafayette, and he’s angry!
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Like in the Packer era, West Indies cricket at its very best has been undervalued and its players underpaid. Like Packer, Stanford is a visionary putting money where his mouth is.
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‘Eurovision’ Winners Past and Future, As Told by Your Streams
This post comes from Spotify’s blog.
There’s nothing quite like Eurovision. What other TV music competition has featured Russian grandmothers who sing while baking, Finnish monsters jamming out a “Hard Rock Hallelujah,” or a hip-thrusting saxophone player from Moldova? The European song contest can hardly be compared even to itself in any given year—except in terms of streaming. In the run-up to this weekend’s final performances, fans around the world are already playing their favorite competitors’ song. Could these streams point to the country that will be the 2019 champion?
Eurovision is the world’s longest-running annual television contest, and at 186 million viewers in 2018, it often charts as the world’s biggest live-music event. Over the course of the competition, Eurovision brings musicians from upwards of 50 countries (mostly from Europe) together for a colorful, energy-filled celebration of diversity and unity.
With 41 countries competing this year, and a song time limit to three minutes, it’s crucial that your performance stands out. This could explain why one song often combines several elements. Mix a power ballad intro, rhythms particular to the country of origin, and a crowd-pleasing pop chorus with acrobatic dance and you’ve got yourself a Eurovision Cocktail.
In the weeks leading up to the highly televised final, each country presents its respective artist and song. So ahead of the final performances, we took a look at which country’s nominees are being streamed the most:
Italy – Mahmood, “Soldi”
Sweden – John Lundvik, “Too Late for Love”
Netherlands – Duncan Laurence, “Arcade”
France – Bilal Hassani, “Roi”
Spain – Miki Núñez “La Venda”
Norway – Keiino, “Spirit in the Sky”
Switzerland – Luca Hänni, “She Got Me”
Cyprus – Tamta, “Replay”
Estonia – Victor Crone, “Storm”
Denmark – Leonora, “Love Is Forever”
When broken down by each participating country, it’s not surprising that most listeners favor their nation’s own nominated song and artist. Yet listeners in Romania, Lithuania, Austria, Poland, Malta, Ireland, Great Britain, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Luxembourg, and Germany have all been streaming Italy’s “Soldi.” At least in terms of streaming, Italian singer-songwriter Mahmood is the clear favorite.
Of course, what’s Eurovision without a little nostalgia? Below are the 10 top-streamed Eurovision winners of all time.
1974 – ABBA (Sweden) – “Waterloo”
2018 – Netta (Israel) – “Toy”
2015 – Måns Zelmerlöw (Sweden) – “Heroes”
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2009 – Alexander Rybak (Norway) – “Fairytale”
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2017 – Salvador Sobral (Portugal) – “Amar pelos Dois”
1995 – Petter Skavland, Rolf Løvland, Secret Garden (Norway) – “Nocturne”
1987 – Johnny Logan (Ireland) – “Hold Me Now”
Prepare for a week of Eurovision like never before—stream the official Eurovision 2019 playlist below.
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By Tom and Harry J
It is sad that we are leaving because we made friends in different years and we have some good memories from our school. Our school is nice because you know everyone there and you get more opportunities from it. It feels very homely but when we go up to high school it is so much bigger than primary. All the teachers are very nice and look after us well. At dinner, lots of different years play football which is quite nice. It is sad to leave behind what we do every week or even every day. We have been here for quite a lot of our lives so it will be really strange leaving. We really love our school and don’t want to go to high school, but when we get there it will be fun.
Sian & Ed
To Ysgol Y Llan
We are writing to you all to say thank you for making our time here at Ysgol Y Llan a fun and happy experience. Here are some things that we like most about the school:
We like that it is one big happy family and we also like performing in the school plays and we also like making friends with each other.
In reception when we first started at the school, we all met each other for the first time. We felt scared at first but then we got use to the older children being around us. After a few weeks or so we became more used to the school and we made more friends and we were one happy class and school like a family, without any problems.
In years 1&2 we had made all our friendship groups and we had gained a bit more confidence in class and out of class as well. We started to learn the alphabet and some of our times tables and we also started to learn how to write a story. At that time Miss Randall was our class teacher and she was also very caring and she still is to all the classes she has taught. After year one Miss Randall left to have a baby so then we had Mrs Warburton from reception in year 2. But sadly she has now left but she also was very caring.
In years three and four we had Miss Roberts and we started doing welsh a lot more. And we also started doing fractions which we didn’t understand at first but then we knew what to do. We also started to do more of our times tables. In year four we had Miss Bastow and Mrs Morrell who were great. In year four it got more challenging because the work became harder and we had more responsibilities.
In years five and six, the work became harder and we all became role models for the whole school. We also had more responsibilities. We learned more things and we had a lot of fun.
What we have done:
We have gone to Nant B H and it was year 4 to 6 that went and we had lots of fun. We also went on lots of school trips which were really fun as well.
The thing I love the most about Whitford School is how everyone is kind and helpful to others and it’s like one big happy family. I also like all the teachers as well because they have taught me everything that we know today and every one of them are very friendly and always there to help if you are sad or need help.
Thank you for a great time at school
By Sian and Ed
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Protective Order and Executive Access to Confidential Information
Novopharm Limited v. Nycomed Canada Inc. / pantoprazole (NOC) 2011 FC 109 Mandamin J
When I started this blog I told myself that I would not comment on procedure cases, but I couldn’t help but notice that this case goes to the point I made in last week’s post that difficulties in discovery may arise in the context of lost profits damages, as well as in an accounting of profits.
In the action underlying this order, Novopharm is seeking damages against Nycomed under section 8 of the NOC Regulations. Novopharm brought a motion for a protective order restricting access to certain confidential financial material that Novopharm would have to produce in order to establish its damages. In particular, Novopharm was concerned that its financial information would be indirectly disclosed to Ranbaxy, with whom Nycomed had an authorized generic agreement for the drug in question. Novopharm requested that access be restricted to Nycomed’s designee who were not involved in the Ranbaxy agreement. Prothonotary Milczynski’s order granted access to several of Nycomed’s senior executives, including Nycomed’s CEO. Novopharm appealed.
While the decision was understandably brief, the points of principle relied on by Mandamin J suggest a strong presumption against restrictive access excluding the party’s executives, on the basis that it is the corporate executives who must make the key litigation decisions on the company’s behalf, and a client must be fully informed in order to properly instruct counsel: [36]-[37]. However, the more fully reasoned decisions appear to be more nuanced than Mandamin J’s brief discussion suggests. For example, while Warner-Lambert Co. v Glaxo Laboratories Limited, [1975] RPC 354 (CA) does state that “it is the corporate decision-makers who are authorized to make decisions on the company’s behalf,” the decision as a whole reflects a concern for the legitimate interests of both parties. According to Buckley LJ:
“the court is, in my opinion, confronted with a balance or conflict of expedients. . . .How can justice be done and at the same time effect be given to the rights of each party to the greatest possible extent? . . .In such a case a controlled measure of disclosure seems best calculated to serve the interests of justice. . . . His advisers are his agents in the matter, and strong grounds must be required for excluding the principal from knowledge which his agents properly acquire on his behalf. But this principle must be subject to some modification if trade secrets are to be protected from disclosure to possible competitors.”
In Warner-Lambert the Court of Appeal did grant access to the plaintiff’s CEO, but only after having explicitly considered whether the CEO could be properly advised without access to that information. The Court indicated that in a case, for example, where the evidence was of a technical nature such that the executive would take advice rather than form his own opinion, it would not be necessary to disclose to him the underlying facts. This principle was applied (without citing Warner-Lambert) in Automated Tabulation Inc. v. Canadian Market Images Ltd., 1995 CanLII 7073, 24 OR(3d) 292(ON SC) in which the plaintiff’s principal officers were precluded from access in part because “there were many available experts who were familiar with the relevant computer language who could be retained to assist the plaintiff” [4]. Conversely, where the technical nature of the information means that counsel cannot be properly instructed without input from the client, access is necessary: Murphy Oil Co. Ltd. v Predator Corp. Ltd., 2002 ABQB 992 [16]. Note that in Kimberly-Clark of Canada Ltd. v. Proctor & Gamble Co. et al (1989), 25 C.P.R.(3d) 12 (FCA), the Court of Appeal approved a very restrictive order that granted access to litigation counsel and “one designated representative of the receiving party . . . who is working directly on this litigation and to whom it is necessary that the material be disclosed for purposes of this litigation and who shall not be employed in research, development, or production of diaper products at the time of disclosures and for two (2) years after disclosure of such confidential information.” The Court varied this order by giving access to a patent agent who had been a member of the litigation team from the outset. However, the exclusion of executive officers was not challenged and the facts justifying the order as a whole were not given. A very helpful discussion of a range of authorities is found in the decision of the High Court of Ireland in Koger Inc v James O’Donnell [2009] IEHC 385. Kelly J concluded that a restriction that denying access to persons in the plaintiffs’ organisation “can be ordered but it is unusual. If such a restriction is to apply, there must be exceptional circumstances which would justify it.” On the facts, Kelly J held that “[t]he case is a finely balanced one,” and he consequently ordered limited disclosure of the material in question.
On the whole, it appears that a restrictive order of the type sought by Novopharm is exceptional, but the judicial analysis is not generally as one-sided as Mandamin J's general statements of principle might suggest.
With that said, on the facts Mandamin J’s decision is consistent with a more balanced approach. The factor he cited as most important [40] was that Nycomed is a small company in which all executives were involved with both strategic planning and the Ranbaxy agreement. The financial information on which damages are calculated are analogous to technical information at issue in an infringement action, and this implies that some executive from Nycomed would have to have access to the information if counsel were to be properly instructed. Novopharm acknowledged as much in that its proposed order would only have excluded designees involved in the Ranbaxy agreement. But on the facts, it was essentially impossible for Nycomed to satisfy that requirement while still providing proper instruction. A second significant point relied on by Mandamin J at [33]-[35] was that the documents Novopharm designated for restricted access were defined in very general terms, such as “commercial strategic planning materials for Novopharm’s or Nycomed’s pantoprazole products.” This is both broad and imprecise, and Mandamin J no doubt envisaged an endless series of motions seeking clarification.
Similarly, Murphy Oil Co. Ltd. v Predator Corp. Ltd., 2002 ABQB 992, relied on by Mandamin J, stated at [7] that "[t]he burden of justifying the need for an order precluding inspection of records by the parties themselves lies in the party seeking the order. Such an order is rarely given and the applicant’s burden is heavy." Despite this strong wording, it too is readily justified on a more balanced approach, as the plaintiff did not seek the order protecting its information until it had almost completed discovery of the equivalent information held by the defendant [14], and, as noted above, the information was technical and required input of the client to instruct counsel.
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South Africa Turns on Its Immigrants
Published by Tadias Magazine April 21st, 2015 in Podcast. Closed
A man washes his face outside a shelter for displaced foreigners in east of Johannesburg, South Africa, April 21, 2015. (AP photo)
By DANIEL MAGAZINER and SEAN JACOBS
For the third time in seven years, violence against immigrants has broken out across South Africa. Pogroms that began in late March in Durban, in KwaZulu-Natal Province, have now spread to Johannesburg.
Since the end of apartheid in 1994, approximately five million immigrants have settled in South Africa; most are Africans from further north pursuing economic opportunity or refugees seeking the political stability of the continent’s most highly developed nation.
Black South Africans, most of whom remain poor and marginalized in the post-apartheid era, have watched warily for years as networks of Malawians, Somalis, Ethiopians, Zimbabweans, Nigerians and Mozambicans have begun to build small businesses and take advantage of South Africa’s opportunities.
The most recent paroxysm of violence appears to have been prompted by derogatory remarks by the Zulu king, Goodwill Zwelithini, who demanded that foreigners leave the country, insinuating that they are “lice” and “ants.” The king has since issued a half-apology, saying his statements were taken out of context. Many of his subjects, though, took his words literally.
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South Africa Mob Sets Two Ethiopian Brothers on Fire Inside Shipping Container
Thousands flee after South Africa mobs attack immigrants (CNN)
South Africa grapples with outbreak of anti-immigrant violence (The Los Angeles Times)
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Chubb v. Continental
Court of Appeal granted leave to appeal in the priority dispute optional benefits case of Chubb v. Continental, 2019 ONSC 3773 (CanLII).
Continental v. Chubb, 2019 ONSC 3773
The "optional benefits" case, currently under appeal to the Court of Appeal. At arbitration, Chubb was successful on issues regarding regular use, deflection and the effect of the optional benefits endorsement, all of which resulted in a finding that Continental was the priority insurer. Continental appealed on the issue of regular use, only. On appeal, Justice Stinson ruled that the liability to pay optional benefits should be bifurcated, even though that was not an issue before the arbitrator or on appeal.
O.E. and Aviva (LAT 17-004493)
Successful third party motion for production of an ODSP file despite the lack of any LAT Rule permitting production orders against a third party. The LAT Application was then withdrawn based upon the contents of the produced ODSP file.
Sleep and Aviva (FSCO Appeal P17-00034)
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Personal and Zurich American
Important loss transfer decision confirming a non-Ontario Insurer that is a signatory to the PAU is not obligated to pay loss transfer as a result of an accident outside Ontario.
Aydemir and Aviva (FSCO A-14-003170) Costs Award
The Applicant was ordered to pay the Insurer $101,205.11 in costs following a complicated 13 day Arbitration Hearing where all claims were dismissed.
Chubb and Continental
Fascinating priority dispute involving deflection, optional benefits coverage, regular use and an O. Reg. 283/95 special award. Arbitrator Bialkowski found the claimant was a listed driver as well as a deemed named insured and that CNA deflected the claim by not advising of the optional benefits coverage under the policy. The decision provides a roadmap for tackling challenging priority disputes featuring OPCF-47 issues, passive deflection of an OCF-1, and adding the insured as a party to the dispute.
T.H. and Aviva (LAT 17-001125)
Important LAT decision following the ONCA Stranges decision to find that "technical entitlement" does not exist under the SABS. Rather, the insured must prove that they meet the substantive test for entitlement during a period of the insurer's "technical" non-compliance with a procedural pay pending provision. Reconsideration filed by the Applicant.
Dittman v. Aviva, 2017 ONCA 617
The Court of Appeal concluded it was reasonable for the summary judgement motion judge to find that the use of a parked motor vehicle in a drivethru directly caused impairments from a scalding hot cup of coffee.
Economical and ICBC
An important priority arbitration decision confirming adult children in full time post secondary eduation are usually dependent upon their parents absent unusual circumstances where they earn enough income or have the financial means to cover at least 50% of their cost of living. This decision follows the existing caselaw setting out that loans and lines of credit for school are not considered income in the hands of the student, but rather debts, and are therefore neutral in the dependency analysis (to the extent that the loan or line of credit is used for school expenses).
ACE INA and Economical
Important priority dispute decision dealing with the impact of a reinsurance agreement, whether a cab driver was a listed driver on the fleet policy, and an offer by the broker of optional benefits coverage to drivers. Arbitrator Bialkowski confirmed that a list of drivers maintained by the named insured or the broker for risk management purposes does not make those drivers 'listed drivers' within the policy.
State Farm and Economical
Is a repetitive use injury an "accident" under the SABS? Is there an "incident" for regular use to apply or for a s. 268 priority tie-breaker? These issues are presently under appeal to the Superior Court from this priority arbitration decision.
Ungaro and Aviva (FSCO A14-007429)
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Laches Does Not Apply to Loss Transfer Claims
In Intact Insurance Company of Canada v. Lombard General Insurance Company of Canada, 2015 ONCA 764, the Court of Appeal recently confirmed that the equitable doctrine of laches does not apply to loss transfer claims. This means that there is no legislated limitation period for loss transfer indemnification claims made after January 1, 2004 (yes, 2004). As result of this decision, the legislature may take steps to amend O. Reg. 668 to include a limitation period for the service of a Notice of Loss Transfer and perhaps a two year limitation period to serve a Loss Transfer Request for Indemnification from the date that the underlying accident benefits claim exceeds the $2,000 deductible. In the meantime, insurers will initiate and respond to further "stale dated" claims for loss transfer.
State Farm v. Old Republic, 2015 ONCA 699
Precedent setting Court of Appeal decision confirming proper interpretation of Rule 9 of the Fault Determination Rules.
ONCA Confirms Absurdity of Superior Court's Rule 9 Interpretation
With a unanimous 3-0 decision, the Court of Appeal confirms that heavy commercial vehicle insurers only pay loss transfer to insurers of vehicles with which they actually collide under Rules 9 and 11 of the Fault Determination Rules.
EUO: Still a hammer in the tool box
The now infamous December 5, 2014 Williams and State Farm Preliminary Issue Motion Decision found that s. 36(4) prohibits a s. 33 examination under oath for specified benefits if it is not requested within 10 days of the insurer's receipt of the OCF-1 and the OCF-3. The Appeal Decision(FSCO Appeal P15-00001)confirms that an EUO is permitted at any time to address past, present or future benefits.
Unifund and TD
Arbitrator Novick confirmed that a 60 year old visitor to Canada was principally dependent for finances upon her daughter, the spouse of TD's named insured.
T.N. and Personal (FSCO A06-000399)
A landmark decision dealing with a delayed retroactive claim for Attendant Care Benefits and a precedent setting award of interest and a Special Award.
TD v. Markel, 2014 ONSC 6461 (CanLII)
A unique precedent and successful Loss Transfer Appeal confirming that an insurer who fails to properly transfer priority for an accident benefits claim cannot claim loss transfer.
Zurich Insurance Company v. Chubb Insurance Company of Canada, 2014 ONCA 400 (CanLII)
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Lo-Papa and Certas Direct (FSCO A12-005538)
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Keshub Chunder Sen’s English Visit > Interview with the Queen, Saturday, August 13, 1870
Title Interview with the Queen, Saturday, August 13, 1870
Author / Editor Strahan & Co., Publishers
Pages 479 - 482
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Interview with Queen Victoria
Interview with the Queen
Harijan, Poona—Saturday, August 13, 1938
The Calcutta Gazette, Extraordinary, Saturday, August 13, 1949
Mr. Jinnah’s Interview to the Representative of the “Daily Worker” London on 5th October 1944
Mr. Jinnah’s Interview to the Representative of the “News Chronicle”, London, on 4th October 1944
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Edoheart “Sugar In A Plum” Video + Digital Album
NYC’s African princess Edoheart just sent us this nu video for experimental drum/synth track Sugar In A Plum from her digital EP Get As E Be. Check it out below and download her poetic voice tracks…p.s. She grew up in Detroit…just like our Editrix Paisley!
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Edoheart (Eseohe Arhebamen) is an experimental African artist. She was born in Nigeria, raised in Detroit city and is currently living in New York. Edoheart grew up in a family that sang religious songs together. During her teenage years, she gave poetry-slam performances in Detroit that evolved into free-improvisation vocalization soundtracks which incorporated African songs and Edoheart’s poems. After studying butoh dance and touring with the Estonian performance art group, Non Grata, Edoheart’s work was transformed into her Butoh-vocal theatre performances. Edoheart’s sound is sometimes African-folk in the spirit of Miriam Makeba but Edoheart also has a noisy, unpredictable side, as in her song “Harmony” which features a wild, free-improvisation vocalization over drum-machine reverb. Edoheart’s performances combine music, dance, visual projections and performance art and have been called “powerful ritual”. Edoheart has been compared to Sun Ra in her performance style. She pairs her folk and avant-garde music with colorful installations and movement rooted in Japanese ankoku-butoh, Nigerian Edo dance theatre and whatever she happens to be interested in at the moment. The idea is to explore all communication! Edoheart performs internationally, has produced several dance-on-film works, and has published two books of poems, winning several awards for her artworks. Her free music single from Clinical Archives was downloaded over 10,000 times in only 3 weeks. As a multimedia artist and a princess of the Edo people, Edoheart’s desire is to create entertaining and edifying experiences that integrate the senses and increase our understanding of the world and ultimately, to radically expand the definition of African arts.
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ARQ 103 / Ecology
In Greece, as a term combining the words oikos and logos, the word ecology meant the knowledge of the home. Its root, then, was similar to that of economy – oikos and nemein – which referred to the management of the home. As you cannot manage what is unknown, ecology was at the foundations of economy.
Nowadays, this relationship has been reversed. Not only economic criteria prevail over ecological ones, but also both spheres are seen as antagonistic: ecologic concerns seem at odds with economic growth.
In reviewing the relationship between ecology and economics, it would seem that, as a field of knowledge, architecture has not much to say about it. However, does that really mean we have nothing to add? Are there ideas or proposals that, from architecture, can shed light on the issue? ARQ believes so.
Interestingly, ‘green architecture’ has had a very good reception from economic power, although it is still unclear if that green refers to the color of chlorophyll or that of money. That is why the issue 103 of ARQ is open to essays, research, designs, and proposals that, overcoming the ‘green’ cliché, enable new and more sophisticated readings on ecology from architecture.
Research and Essays
.doc file of an extension between 2000 and 4000 words. Texts must be original (or at least they must not have been published in Spanish), and should have an academic standard.
Work and Projects
Letter size .pdf file of max 10 pages which must include: memory, floor plans, pictures, and technical data.
.doc file of an extension between 800 and 1,000 words. Texts must be original and the object of critique has to be built, opened or launched after 2015.
Open call closes on July 12th, 2019
Selection announcement on September 2019
Submit your material at revista@edicionesarq.cl
Email subject: Material ARQ 103
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ARQ 105 / Resistance
ARQ 102 / Speculation
ARQ 101: Freedom
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OASE 105 / Practices of Drawing
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Response to Waterbeach Cambridge Consultation 2020
We have prepared the following response to the GCP's consultation on Waterbeach to Cambridge which closes at midday on 14 Dec:
We strongly support any plans for improving active travel routes between Waterbeach and Cambridge. Waterbeach village and Waterbeach New Town are ideally situated for cycling to and from Cambridge. Centre to centre the distance is 6.4 miles. Many destinations such as Cambridge Science Park are closer. With the rapid adoption of e-bikes this distance is well within the capabilities of anyone that can ride a bike. E-bikes and other forms of electrically powered personal mobility will transform personal transport over the next decade, particular commuter journeys, but they will require infrastructure which provides safe, direct routes with good connectivity to many destinations.
The advantage of cycling over all other modes of transport is flexibility and reliability. Private vehicle travel is very unreliable and polluting, bus destinations are less flexible and train/CAM destinations are quite inflexible often requiring a mode switch at either or both ends of the journey. Cycling (including e-bikes) is also far less environmentally damaging in use than other forms of transport. For short journeys it can be quicker due to the flexibility and not only is it good for health and well-being but also sociable.
Cycling infrastructure is far less environmentally damaging and costly than either road building or construction of major public transport infrastructure. It also has a far less negative impact on existing residents. For example, a high-quality cycle route could be easily delivered through the contentious area of Cambridge Rd and Glebe road in Waterbeach. Routing cycle ways through quiet residential streets works well but buses or other large vehicles are not compatible with quiet residential streets.
Unfortunately, Waterbeach is very poorly served with cycling infrastructure. The A10 path is unpleasant, narrow and dangerous. Haling Way along the river is narrow, often muddy and indirect. There is no other cycling infrastructure.
We strongly support the Waterbeach Greenway. The first phase was approved in February 2020 with an estimate for completion of 4 years. We would strongly encourage the GCP to make every effort to pull forward the completion date so that it is ready before first occupation of the New Town. We also think that the GCP should consider extending the phase 1 route from the northern end of the phase 1 Greenway to phase 1 of the New Town prior to first occupation. It is important that the infrastructure is in place before first occupation because new residents’ travel habits will be formed as they decide to live in Waterbeach and will be difficult to change later.
We strongly support the commitments made to providing funding for the cycle bridge across the A10 at Denny End Road, the construction of cycle path along Mere Way to join the busway, and improvements to the cycle path along the A10.
Although we would support an active travel route alongside a transport route between Waterbeach and Cambridge we do think that the Greenway, Mere Way and(improved A10 paths would provide several options for active travel between Waterbeach and Cambridge. However, these must have sufficient capacity to support a high level of cycling. In preference to a fourth active travel route between Waterbeach and Cambridge, we would much rather see improvements to other destinations such as:
· routes north to Denny Abbey, Chittering and Stretham and eventually Ely
· a route west to Cottenham (providing a safe route to the New Town from villages to the west)
· a route east from Waterbeach to the villages to the east of the river Cam which would require landowner cooperation or compulsory purchase. This would provide an important route for villagers of Bottisham, Lode, Burwell and the Swaffhams to the New Town and access to Waterbeach train station
We have concerns that the proposed western route may delay the work on the construction of a Mere Way cycle path. The developer (Urban & Civic) is unlikely to want to proceed with this if there is a possibility that it will be the chosen route for the Waterbeach-Cambridge transport route at some later date.
We have concerns that the eastern route may delay the development of the Greenway.
Although not directly relevant to this consultation we are also concerned that the uncertainty about changes to the A10 may dissuade Urban & Civic from undertaking their commitments to upgrading the cycle path along the A10.
Our principal concern is that the plans for transport between Waterbeach and Cambridge could undermine and delay existing commitments to create high quality active travel infrastructure between Waterbeach and Cambridge.
In summary our recommendations relating to this consultation are:
· Pull forward the completion date of the Waterbeach Greenway to match first occupation of phase 1 of the New Town
· Extend the Greenway through Waterbeach village to phase 1 of the New Town
· Avoid doing anything that will delay or prejudice the delivery of the three committed projects:
o Waterbeach Greenway
o Mere Way (Urban & Civic) including the cycle bridge over the A10
o A10 cycle path improvements (Urban & Civic)
· Incorporate into the planning process the dramatic changes to personal mobility that are already underway in the form of electrified modes; existing modelling methods will underestimate distances that people are willing to travel and will fail to demonstrate the true value of proposals.
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Straight Facts Volume #43
In this edition of Straight Facts, we learn about Jewish refugees from MENA (Middle East and North African countries), hear from one of the most respected military voices why the assassination of Iran’s chief nuclear scientist may have saved countless lives, experience what 2020 has been like for Jewish students and more
Dear Chaverot
I hope that you are all well. Happy New Year! It is my hope that in the coming year, we will all be blessed in abundance!
We have said goodbye to 2020, a year filled with challenges and loss but also incredible changes. Who would have though just mere months ago that Israel would have signed normalization agreements with the UAE, Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco and that the little known Kingdom of Bhutan, that does not have ties with many countries would establish them with the Jewish State? The big question on everyone’s mind is who will be next?!
In this edition of Straight Facts, we learn about Jewish refugees from MENA (Middle East and North African countries), hear from one of the most respected military voices why the assassination of Iran’s chief nuclear scientist may have saved countless lives, experience what 2020 has been like for Jewish students and more.
Wishing you all everything of the best for a safe, healthy and prosperous 2021! We look forward to joyful reunions with you!
I hope this is of service to you.
Rolene Marks
World WIZO Executive: Public Diplomacy & Hasbarah – Office of the Chairperson
rolenemarks@yahoo.com
The Killing of a Nuclear Scientists May Save Countless Lives
Colonel Richard Kemp, one of the most respected military voices opines on why the recent assassination of Iran’s top nuclear scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, might not just be good for the region but for the global community:
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/16811/iran-fakhrizadeh-killing
The Story Seldom Told
Theirs is the story seldom told. This is the story of Jews expelled from MENA countries in the 1940's and 50's. Over 850 000 Jews from the Middle East and North Africa were persecuted, killed and expelled and it is important we bear witness - and share their stories:
https://layoftheland.online/2020/12/02/the-story-seldom-told/
Arab Normalisation and Palestinian Radicalisation
The September 2020 signing of the Abraham Accords between the UAE, Bahrain, and Israel, followed by Sudan’s declaration of normalisation, reflects tectonic shifts in Middle East geopolitics – but there seems to be a disconnect between changing Arab attitudes and those of the Palestinians.
https://jcpa.org/article/arab-normalization-and-palestinian-radicalization/
The Hate That Can’t Be Contained
The Corona Virus pandemic has resulted in schools and universities being closed. For Jewish students often subject to gross intimidation on campuses, it was welcome relief. Or was it? Blake Flayton, a student at George Washington University describes the harrowing abuse students have faced during the global pandemic.
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/hate-cant-be-contained
Israel is NOT an Apartheid State!
Israel’s detractors often accuse the Jewish state of Apartheid practices which is profoundly offensive to the victims of that racist regime. Read how those accusations are dismantled one by one here:
https://www.algemeiner.com/2019/08/13/israel-is-not-an-apartheid-state-heres-the-proof/
Watch: What has happened to News?
In this very candid discussion, HonestReporting delves into why news is formatted the way and specifically how ideological polarization in Israel and the US has seemingly influenced the manner in which news is produced and delivered.
https://honestreporting.com/honestunplugged-what-happened-to-news-video/
Get your news updates in real time! Have you joined the WIZO News & Hasbarah Whats App group? Send a message with your name to + 972 52 582 9090 and receive your updates, articles of interest and important tools you need to become super ambassador for Israel.
Would you like to submit an article for inclusion in Straight Facts? All languages are welcome!
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