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Kwara Governor Approves Immediate Rehabilitation of Three Major Water Works Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq at the weekend approved immediate rehabilitation of three major works across the state’s senatorial districts. “The three are the Lafiagi Waterworks (Kwara North); Igbaja Waterworks (Kwara South); and Asa Dam Waterworks (Kwara Central),” according to a statement on Saturday by Rafiu Ajakaye, the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor. The statement said the three water works are either in bad condition or not working at optimal capacity, and have been recommended for rehabilitation by the Ministry of Water Resources in line with the administration’s commitment to tackle water scarcity in the state. “Consequently, the Governor has approved the release of N48,548,720 for their rehabilitation,” the statement added. The Lafiagi Waterworks is currently running skeletal services owing to the damage to four of its five boreholes, the intake and transfer pumps, the statement said. It said the facilities in Igbaja had since broken down as a result of poor electricity supply and the lack of proper rehabilitation.. The statement said the Asa Dam, which services the entire Ilorin, works at half its design capacity, adding that the intervention would boost its working capacity. “The Governor remains committed to his desire to have water running in the state. This has started happening in certain areas, thanks to his interventions, but the idea is that every part of the state should have access to potable water,” it said. Kwara to rehabilitate three major water works

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Diesel Saving System Gives Fast ROI at Port of Felixstowe At Felixstowe, the UK’s largest container port, the search for greater energy efficiency has led to investment in Control Techniques’ RIS.GA. system for diesel saving on 12 rubber tire gantry cranes (RTGs). The dedicated container terminal at the Port of Felixstowe handles over 3 million TEUs (twenty foot equivalent units) per year and over 40% of the UK’s import and export trade passes through the port. The container storage area is served by a fleet of 74 RTGs and is currently undergoing further development, hence the need for the new cranes. Diesel generators onboard RTGs and mobile harbor cranes (MHCs) usually run at constant speed to provide the drive system and auxiliaries with a constant supply voltage regardless of whether the crane is in operation or stand-by. RIS.GA. from Control Techniques is a drive-based system that manages the diesel generator, allowing its speed to be reduced during stand-by, whilst maintaining essential power for auxiliary and safety equipment. With a recent assessment of diesel usage confirming savings of up to 25% per crane, this investment in the RIS.GA. system is expected to give a return on investment (ROI) of well under three years! Ever increasing diesel prices, and the new carbon tax, combine to make the savings very significant. The Port of Felixstowe provides customers with a continuous quay of over 2.3 km, is equipped with 27 ship-to-shore (STS) gantry cranes, and has a further 730 m of quay and five more STS gantry cranes coming on line this year. When completed, the reconfiguration of the southern part of the port will further enhance Felixstowe’s position as one of the leading container ports in the world. Control Techniques has almost 30 years’ experience in supplying complete automation systems for port and factory cranes. The company’s automation systems are proven in ports around the world and are supported by a global engineering network of specialist Drive Centers. RIS.GA. has been applied successfully on RTGs and MHCs throughout the world and is saving fuel on cranes manufactured by ZPMC, Kalmar, MGM-OMG, Doosan and Fantuzzi Reggiane. In many cases, savings can be as much as 50% with ROI as short as one to two years, depending on local oil costs. Proven reduced wear and stress extends the working life of the diesel engine, generator and electrical auxiliaries. The RIS.GA. system is very compact, and all twelve were supplied fully wired and assembled, and ready to connect in an IP65 protected stainless steel cubicle. Each is fitted above the electrical house of its crane. Control Techniques delivered each one when it was convenient to the Port of Felixstowe’s Engineering Department and carried out all of the electrical installation and programming. As it is a static electronic system, it requires little or no maintenance. Analysis of the RTG oil samples indicates that periods of idling have not been a problem and that savings have been very substantial, varying with duty up to around 30%, though generally averaging at about 25%. The RIS.GA. software, pre-loaded onto a 37kVA Unidrive SP AC drive, is set to allow the diesel generators to run on for a minute before initiating run down to tick-over speed. At tick-over, the diesel generators produce 300 v, which is boosted by the drive with RIS.GA. up to the 415 v required for operation of the auxiliary equipment. When required, the diesel generator will run up to operational speed in 5 s. Control Techniques was already quoting the Port of Felixstowe authorities for drive retrofits, and was able to present a convincing case for installing their RIS.GA. system, estimating an ROI of two to three years. The 12 RTGs fitted with the RIS.GA. system are rated at 40 tons under the spreader, have a hoist speed of 50 m/min, a trolley speed of 70 m/min, a gantry speed of 140 m/min and each is fitted with a 670 kVA diesel generator. Each RTG will complete around 100,000 moves per year.

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REUTERS | Jumana El Heloueh The DIFC Courts’ conduit jurisdiction: time for a post mortem? by Dr Gordon Blanke Founding Partner at Blanke Arbitration LLC This year so far has dealt a severe (some may say mortal) blow to the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) Courts’ status as a conduit jurisdiction. The case law of the Joint Judicial Tribunal (the JT) – a judicial body composed of both onshore Dubai and offshore DIFC Court judges and formed by the Ruler of Dubai to oversee conflicts of jurisdiction between the onshore Dubai and offshore DIFC Courts (see Decree No. (19) of 2016 establishing the Dubai-DIFC Judicial Tribunal) – has been unashamedly critical of the DIFC Courts’ creeping expansion of their own jurisdiction to encompass actions without a tangible link (whether geographic or otherwise) to the DIFC. The example par excellence of such actions have been the ratification and enforcement of both domestic (non-DIFC) and foreign arbitral awards for onward execution against assets of an award debtor in onshore Dubai (absent assets offshore). The case in favour of service as a conduit has been compelling, allowing international award creditors to circumvent the often erratic application by the onshore United Arab Emirates (UAE) courts of Article 216 of the UAE Civil Procedure Code, which accords comparatively wide discretion for the challenge of awards in the enforcement process. Regular readers of this blog will recall the recent ruling of the Dubai Court of First Instance that has essentially called for an end to the DIFC Courts’ role as a conduit, setting aside the Banyan Tree line of cases, which are routinely cited as the locus classicus of the DIFC Courts’ conduit jurisdiction (see Commercial Case No. 1619/2016, ruling of the Dubai Court of First Instance of 15 February 2017, reported in G. Blanke, Dubai courts v DIFC courts: just a jurisdictional stand-off or an outright declaration of war?). Taking a closer look at the JT’s decisions of earlier this year (see Cassation No. 1/2017 – Gulf Navigation Holding PJSC v Jinhai Heavy Industry Co Ltd and Cassation No. 3/2017 – Ramadan Mousa Mishmish v Sweet Homes Real Estate), jurisdiction in favour of the onshore Dubai courts has been founded on a common theme: The “general jurisdiction […] [of the] Dubai courts […] [in] accord[ance] [with] the general principles of laws embodied in the procedural laws”. Importantly, whereas Gulf Navigation dealt with the recognition and enforcement of a New York Convention award rendered in London under the London Maritime Arbitration Association (LMAA) Rules through the DIFC Courts, Mishmish concerned the recognition and enforcement of a domestic award rendered under the Dubai International Arbitration Centre (DIAC) Rules in Dubai, both for onward execution against the award debtor’s assets in onshore Dubai. In both instances, the DIFC Courts found themselves competent to hear the enforcement actions despite the absence of any geographic link to the DIFC (other than the application for ratification and enforcement itself). In Gulf Navigation, the JT also disavowed the importance of the application of the New York Convention to the question of the conflict of jurisdiction between the onshore and offshore courts. The dissenting minority, led by Michael Hwang SC, the Chief Justice of the DIFC Courts, correctly countered that there was no principle of general jurisdiction according precedence to the onshore Dubai courts in the event of a jurisdictional conflict between the onshore and offshore courts in matters of enforcement of arbitration awards, nor was it correct to disregard the importance of the New York Convention: to the contrary, a combined reading of Articles 5(A)(1) and 5(A)(1)(e) of the Judicial Authority Law (see Dubai Law No. (12) of 2004 as amended), which defines areas of exclusive jurisdiction of the DIFC Courts, including in particular the recognition and enforcement of arbitral awards in the terms of Article 42(1) of the DIFC Arbitration Law, militate in favour of the DIFC Courts’ exclusive jurisdiction in the present circumstances. Further, disregarding the New York Convention would place the DIFC Courts in their capacity as UAE courts in violation of their enforcement obligations under an international enforcement instrument to which the UAE are a party and which is consequently binding upon them as an emanation of the (UAE) state. Similar conclusions must be drawn with respect to analogical cases rehearsed before the JT in 2016, dealing with related issues of recognition and enforcement of domestic and foreign awards in onshore Dubai through the offshore conduit (see Cassation No. 1/2016 (JT) – Daman Real Capital Partners Company LLC v Oger Dubai LLC and Cassation No. 2/2016 (JT) – Dubai Water Front LLC v Chenshan Liu). This body of JT case law precedent appears to ring the death knell for the DIFC Courts’ acquired status as a conduit jurisdiction for the recognition and enforcement of domestic (non-DIFC) and foreign arbitral awards by the DIFC Courts for onward execution in onshore Dubai. That said, there is still some hope for the JT’s approach to change for the better. To start, the decisions of the JT are not binding upon future JT, there being no principle of stare decisis in the Dubai court system (of which the JT forms an integral part): future JTs are, therefore, at liberty to review, modify and even change the reasoning of past JTs in an attempt to rectify errors in reasoning committed by past JTs. No doubt, the JT’s reliance on the general jurisdiction of the Dubai courts taking precedence over the DIFC Courts challenges a natural reading of the distribution of competence between the onshore Dubai and offshore DIFC Courts pursuant to the existing laws and regulations. The Dubai courts are simply not hierarchically superior in jurisdiction to the DIFC Courts; both courts qualify, constitutionally speaking, as UAE courts with their respective jurisdictional limits defined in the prevailing legislation. Pursuant to that legislation, the DIFC Courts are clearly competent to hear applications for ratification and enforcement of both domestic and foreign arbitral awards, even absent any assets of the award debtor in the DIFC. The onward execution of DIFC Court orders for the ratification and enforcement of those awards in onshore Dubai, in turn, is sanctioned and facilitated by the regime of mutual recognition in place between the Dubai and DIFC Courts by virtue of Article 7 of the Judicial Authority Law, which establishes an area of free movement of judgments, orders and ratified awards between onshore Dubai and the offshore DIFC. In relation to foreign awards, the enforcement obligations under the New York Convention add further weight to this position, requiring the DIFC Courts to comply with the terms of the Convention in their capacity as a UAE court. Further, one common streak of the majority of JT decisions to date is that jurisdiction has invariably been accorded to the court seized first. A first-seized rule does not presently form part of the regime of mutual recognition or free movement under Article 7 of the Judicial Authority Law as amended, but could easily be incorporated into it. In addition, any criticism that the DIFC Courts are seized of an action for recognition and enforcement of a domestic award first, thereby depriving an award debtor of its entitlement to have the award scrutinised in a nullification action before the local, onshore Dubai Courts, could be met by requiring the expiry of a fixed period of, for example, 30 days, to allow an action of nullification to be brought at the seat. During this time no action for enforcement should be brought before any other court, whether onshore or offshore. In this way, any award debtor would have sufficient time to explore local nullification opportunities without running the risk of being outpaced by an award creditor that succeeds in filing an action for recognition and enforcement before the DIFC Courts first. Taking the above developments in the round, the time for a post mortem has not quite yet arrived, but it may do… sooner than you think! That said, there is a chance that, going forward, the general jurisdiction assumption which presently forms the basis of the JT’s support for the attribution of preferential jurisdiction onshore may be substituted with a first-seized rule. Such a rule could accord jurisdictional precedence to the court first seized, whether onshore or offshore. Such an approach would be compatible with the existing regime of mutual recognition in place between the Dubai and DIFC Courts under Article 7 of the Judicial Authority Law and mark a promising way forward in the cooperation between the onshore and offshore Dubai courts. DWF LLP Dr Gordon Blanke http://arbitrationblog.practicallaw.com/the-difc-courts-conduit-jurisdiction-time-for-a-post-mortem">

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Eric A. Weldy appointed IUPUI vice chancellor for student affairs INDIANAPOLIS -- Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis Chancellor Nasser H. Paydar has appointed Eric A. Weldy as IUPUI's vice chancellor for student affairs. Weldy, vice president for student affairs and enrollment management at Northern Illinois University, will assume his new position at IUPUI on Jan. 2, 2017. As vice chancellor for student affairs, Weldy will be the chief student affairs officer and a member of the chancellor's cabinet. He will collaborate with other leaders across campus to advance the mission of IUPUI to provide quality co-curricular programs and services that facilitate intellectual growth and personal development, creating pathways to success for all students. Weldy will lead the Division of Student Affairs, which consists of nine units: Campus Center and Student Experiences, Campus Recreation, Counseling and Psychological Services, Educational Partnerships and Student Success, Health and Wellness Promotion, Housing and Residence Life, Student Advocacy and Support, Student Health Services, and Student Conduct. "Dr. Weldy comes to IUPUI with an extensive background in student affairs and a proven record as a strong and effective collaborator," said Paydar. "His commitment to student success will further enhance IUPUI's strategic focus in that area and promises to enhance students' educational experiences both within and outside of the classroom." Weldy succeeds Tralicia Powell Lewis, who has been serving in an interim capacity since March 2016. Lewis, who has held many positions on campus since 1995, will return to her permanent post as assistant vice chancellor for student affairs. "As we welcome Dr. Weldy to our leadership team, I would also like to express my deep appreciation to Tralicia Lewis for her exemplary service as interim vice chancellor for student affairs," said Paydar. "Her deep knowledge of our campus combined with her leadership skills have proven invaluable during this time of transition." Weldy's experience in student affairs spans 25 years. In his role at Northern Illinois University, he reorganized enrollment management, including undergraduate admissions and financial aid and scholarship functions, to improve overall business operations and address the university's decade-long enrollment decline. He worked to increase student retention, boosted staff training and instituted that university's first two-day summer orientation program. His background also includes positions in residence hall management, minority recruiting and support, fundraising, and admissions. Other administrative roles held by Weldy include associate vice president for student affairs at Florida State University, associate vice chancellor for academic support and student life at University of Minnesota Duluth, and assistant dean of students at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. "I am honored to have been selected for this position," Weldy said. "So many exciting things are happening at IUPUI. I look forward to applying my own skills and experiences to assist the university community in reaching its strategic goals in the coming years." Weldy received his bachelor's degree from Eureka College in Eureka, Illinois; his master's degree from Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois; and his doctorate of education with a concentration in higher education administration from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Eric A. Weldy Liz Joss ljoss@iupui.edu Web version: http://news.medicine.iu.edu/releases/2016/12/weldy-appointed-vice-chancellor.shtml

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Eighteenth-century philosophy Adam Smith and the Virtues of Enlightenment Part of Modern European Philosophy Author: Charles L. Griswold, Jr, Boston University Although Adam Smith is often thought of today as an economist, he was in fact (as his great contemporaries Hume, Burke, Kant, and Hegel recognized) an original and insightful thinker whose work covers an immense territory including moral philosophy, political economy, rhetorical theory, aesthetics, and jurisprudence. Charles Griswold has written the first comprehensive philosophical study of Smith's moral and political thought. Griswold sets Smith's work in the context of the continuing debate about the nature and survival of the Enlightenment, and relates it to current discussions in moral and political philosophy. Smith's appropriation as well as criticism of ancient philosophy, and his carefully balanced defense of a liberal and humane moral and political outlook, are also explored. This is a major reassessment of a key figure in modernity that will be of particular interest to philosophers and political and legal theorists, as well as historians of ideas, rhetoric, and political economy. A comprehensive account of Adam Smith as a philosopher Explores the historical context of Smith's work Broad interest to philosophers, intellectual historians, political and legal theorists, historians of economics "In a rich and detailed examination of The Theory of Moral Sentiments Griswold presents Smith as a rhetorically sophisticated dialectical thinker, defending Enlightenment values while aware of their profound costs, seeking a philosophical system while distrustful of the system, and aiming to guard ordinary moral life against excessive reflection. This is a major study, resting on a thorough rethinking of all of Smith's work. Griswold shows Smith to be a more complex moral thinker than he has been taken to be, and one far more pertinent to current issues." Jerome B. Schneewind, The Johns Hopkins University "With one eye on the eighteenth century and the other on our current predicament, Charles Griswold's Adam Smith and the Virtues of Enlightenment is wonderfully interesting and informative, philosophically stimulating and acute, and beautifully written." Stephen Darwall, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor "...written for an audience of professional philosophers. But it is also exemplary in spelling out many of Smith's arguments and subjecting them to analytic scrutiny." Jerry Z. Muller, The Wall Street Journal "...rewarding for economists seeking a deeper understanding of Smith's ideas." Choice "...it is perhaps not surprising that Smith has sen something of a renaissance, with numerous studies published that help to restore him to his rightful place in the Western tradition. At the top of this list is Charles Griswold's excellent new book, Adam Smith and the Virtues of Enlightenment. Griswold Performs a valuable service by showing us that one of the Enlightenment's most important founding thinkers believed that liberal commercial societies were dependent on, productive of, and ultimately legitimated not by wealth or freedom but by virtue. Griswold walks us through Smith's highly complex account...." The Public Interest "...pathbreaking..." Charles Larmore, The New Republic "Adam Smith and the Virtues of Enlightenment is written by and largely for philosophers...Yet it should be studied by all who are interested in Adam Smith; it may fundamentally change the way they view Smith...Griswold's work merits a careful, deep reading by a large part of the contemporary literati." The Annals of the American Academy "...brilliant study...Griswold's book illuminates a wide range of themes in Smith's moral philosophy..." Journal of the History of Philosophy Texts and acknowledgements 1. Rhetoric, method, and system in The Theory of Moral Sentiments 2. Sympathy and selfishness, imagination and self 3. The passions, pleasure, and the impartial spectator 4. Philosophy and skepticism 5. The theory of virtue 6. Justice 7. The moral sentiments and The Wealth of Nations 8. Philosophy, imagination, and the fragility of beauty: on reconciliation with nature Charles L. Griswold, Jr, Boston University Adam Smith's Marketplace of Life The Cambridge Companion to Adam Smith The Cambridge Companion to the Scottish Enlightenment Kant's Moral and Legal Philosophy The Pragmatic Enlightenment Recovering the Liberalism of Hume, Smith, Montesquieu, and Voltaire Hegel Bulletin Hegel Bulletin is a leading English language journal for anyone interested in Hegel’s thought, its context, legacy… Ancient Forgiveness Classical, Judaic, and Christian Early modern philosophy Epistemology and metaphysics Legal philosophy Medieval philosophy Nineteenth-century philosophy Philosophy: general interest Philosophy of mind and language Philosophy texts Renaissance philosophy Twentieth-century philosophy

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Geschichte der altkirchlichen Literatur Volume 4. Das fünfte Jahrhundert mit Einschluss der syrischen Literatur des vierten Jahrhunderts $57.00 (R) Part of Cambridge Library Collection - Religion Author: Otto Bardenhewer $ 57.00 (R) Otto Bardenhewer (1851–1935) was Professor of New Testament Exegesis at Munich from 1886 to 1924. Following the success of his 1894 Patrologie (the 1908 English edition of which is also reissued), Bardenhewer went on to write this monumental five-volume history, in German, of early Christian literature from its beginnings to the seventh century. Published between 1902 and 1932, it was acclaimed for its thoroughness, clarity and sound judgment, and remains a standard work of reference. Volume 4 covers Greek and Latin texts from the fifth century, and Syriac works of the fourth and fifth centuries. Bardenhewer introduces each author and work, and outlines their critical reception and interpretation. The coverage includes Cyril of Alexandria, ascetic writings from Egypt, Pseudo-Dionysius, Ephraim the Syrian, and Augustine and his friends and adversaries. The westward spread of Christian scholarship is represented by figures such as John Cassian, Peter Chrysologus, Paulinus of Périgueux and St Patrick. Das fünfte Jahrhundert mit Einschluss der syrischen Literatur des vierten Jahrhunderts Register. Otto Bardenhewer The Cambridge Companion to Augustine's “Confessions” The Cambridge History of Early Christian Literature The Orations of St Athanasius Against the Arians According to the Benedictine Text Theology in the Russian Diaspora Church, Fathers, Eucharist in Nikolai Afanas'ev (1893–1966) Journal of Anglican Studies "I am delighted to commend the Journal of Anglican Studies as an important initiative in building conversation and… Scottish Journal of Theology Scottish Journal of Theology is an international journal of systematic, historical and biblical theology. Since its… Harvard Theological Review Harvard Theological Review has been a central forum for scholars of religion since its founding in 1908. It continues… Horizons publishes award-winning peer-reviewed articles, roundtables, and book reviews across a wide range of topics… Biblical studies - New Testament Biblical studies - Old Testament, Hebrew bible Buddhism and Eastern religions Religion: general interest Religious ethics

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Preventing Black Market Trade in Nuclear Technology Matthew Bunn, Harvard University, Massachusetts Martin B. Malin, Harvard University, Massachusetts William C. Potter, Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey Leonard S. Spector, Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey Matthew Bunn, William C. Potter, David Albright, Andrea Stricker, Thomas Fingar, Leonard Spector, Mark Fitzpatrick, Ian Anthony, Robert Shaw, Justine Walker, Olli Heinonen, Vladimir Orlov, Aleksandr Cheban, John S. Park, Ian J. Stewart, Martin B. Malin Date Published: May 2018 availability: This ISBN is for an eBook version which is distributed on our behalf by a third party. format: Adobe eBook Reader Find out more about Cambridge eBooks Adobe eBook Reader You will be taken to ebooks.com for this purchase Buy eBook Add to wishlist Every nuclear weapons program for decades has relied extensively on illicit imports of nuclear-related technologies. This book offers the most detailed public account of how states procure what they need to build nuclear weapons, what is currently being done to stop them, and how global efforts to prevent such trade could be strengthened. While illicit nuclear trade can never be stopped completely, effective steps to block illicit purchases of nuclear technology have sometimes succeeded in slowing nuclear weapons programs and increasing their costs, giving diplomacy more chance to work. Hence, this book argues, preventing illicit transfers wherever possible is a key element of an effective global non-proliferation strategy. Provides a brief review of recent proliferation cases, focusing in particular on strategies that states like North Korea and Iran pursued to procure key technologies for their nuclear programs through illicit means Provides overviews of the broad range of global efforts to restrict illicit trade in nuclear technology - from intelligence gathering, to sanctions and interdiction, to export controls, to finance and banking measures, to law enforcement, to internal compliance programs in the private sector, and more Identifies gaps within and between existing areas of focused effort and proposes measures for filling gaps in existing efforts and strengthening controls on illicit trade 'A compelling analysis of the failures of policy, intelligence, law enforcement and private sector governance in the past, and the continuing challenges facing the control of illicit nuclear technology transfers. This book is a sharply focused and intensely practical contribution to solving one of the world's most dangerous problems, and policymakers will ignore it at their peril.' Gareth Evans, Former Australian Foreign Minister, Co-chair of the International Commission on Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament and co-author of Nuclear Weapons: The State of Play 'Avoiding nuclear apocalypse is humanity's top priority. [Here is] a book by leading experts in the field on what needs to be done to combat the ominous danger of illicit trafficking in nuclear technology. A must read for anyone interested in how to shore up our precarious global security system.' Mohamed ElBaradei, Former Director General, International Atomic Energy Agency 'A secret nuclear technology smuggling network lurks in the shadows behind virtually every recent nuclear weapons acquisition program. The expert authors of this volume both shine a bright light on these illicit networks, exposing the states and companies involved, and present creative ideas on how to reduce the risks of future nuclear proliferation. This book should guide new international efforts to shut down these nuclear black markets.' Scott D. Sagan, Caroline S. G. Munro Professor of Political Science, Stanford University 'The world needs bold steps to surmount the nuclear dangers that we confront. This book is essential reading for its role in outlining the steps needed for a crucial part of that effort - controlling the spread of the technologies needed to build nuclear weapons to countries seeking nuclear arsenals. Top experts look at the dangers that lie ahead and recommend new tools to counter them. This book is must reading for policymakers striving for a safer world.' Sam Nunn, Former Senator, co-chairman of the Nuclear Threat Initiative 'The future of global nuclear nonproliferation efforts will depend heavily on the high-stakes competition between increasingly resourceful nuclear black marketers and governments determined to thwart them. This volume brings together highly knowledgeable experts to shed light on the shadowy world of illicit nuclear procurement and to propose a promising strategy for impeding it. It is the most comprehensive treatment of the subject publicly available and an indispensable resource to both government policymakers and outsiders interested in avoiding a world of many nuclear-armed states.' Robert Einhorn, The Brookings Institution 'This book is a sophisticated and urgent call for global action to prevent the next AQ Khan and avoid nuclear Armageddon. By distilling the lessons of the recent past, these world-class experts provide the blueprint for a safer, saner future. Essential reading for policy makers and the public.' Douglas Frantz, Deputy Secretary-General, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development contains: 5 b/w illus. 2 tables 1. Introduction: the problem of black-market nuclear technology networks Matthew Bunn and William C. Potter 2. The world of illicit nuclear trade: present and future David Albright and Andrea Stricker 3. The role of intelligence in countering illicit nuclear-related procurement Thomas Fingar 4. Strengthening the global law enforcement response Leonard Spector 5. Strengthening sanctions and interdiction Mark Fitzpatrick 6. Strengthening global nuclear export controls Ian Anthony 7. The private sector's role in stopping black market nuclear technology networks Robert Shaw 8. Strengthening global non-proliferation financial controls Justine Walker 9. Strengthening the role of international organizations in dealing with illicit nuclear technology networks Olli Heinonen 10. Countering nuclear black markets by strengthening nonproliferation culture Matthew Bunn 11. Stopping black-market nuclear technology networks: a view from Russia Vladimir Orlov and Aleksandr Cheban 12. Out-of-the box initiatives to combat illicit nuclear technology procurement networks John S. Park, Leonard Spector and Ian J. Stewart 13. Conclusion: stopping illicit trade in nuclear technology: progress, gaps, and next steps Martin B. Malin, Matthew Bunn, Leonard Spector and William C. Potter. Front Matter (98 KB) Matthew Bunn is a Professor of Practice at the Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University, Massachusetts. His research interests include nuclear theft and terrorism; nuclear proliferation and measures to control it; the future of nuclear energy and its fuel cycle; and innovation in energy technologies. Before coming to Harvard, Bunn served as an adviser to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, as a study director at the National Academy of Sciences, and as editor of Arms Control Today. He is the author or co-author of more than twenty books or major technical reports (most recently Insider Threats (2016)), and over a hundred articles in publications ranging from Science to The Washington Post. Martin B. Malin is the Executive Director of the Project on Managing the Atom at the Belfer Center, for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School. His research focuses on arms control and nonproliferation in the Middle East, US nonproliferation and counter-proliferation strategies, and the security consequences of the growth and spread of nuclear energy. His recent work includes a review of strategies for preventing illicit trade in nuclear-related technology, an examination of Israeli leaders' perception of the threat of a nuclear-armed Iran, and an analysis of the regional conditions conducive to the creation of a WMD-free zone in the Middle East. Prior to coming to the Kennedy School, Malin taught courses on international relations, American foreign policy, and Middle East politics at Columbia University, Barnard College, New York and Rutgers University, New Jersey. He also served as Director of the Program on Science and Global Security at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. William C. Potter is Sam Nunn and Richard Lugar Professor of Nonproliferation Studies and Founding Director of the Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey. He is the author or editor of over twenty books, including two volumes on Forecasting Nuclear Proliferation in the 21st Century (2010), The Global Politics of Combating Nuclear Terrorism (2010), and Nuclear Politics and the Non-Aligned Movement (2012). Dr Potter has served on numerous committees of the US National Academy of Sciences and for five years he was a member of the UN Secretary-General's Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters. He has been an advisor to the delegation of Kyrgyzstan at every NPT Review Conference and Preparatory Committee meeting since 1995. Leonard S. Spector is Executive Director of the Washington, DC office of the Middlebury Institute of International Studies' James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies. In his many years as a specialist on nuclear affairs, he has served as Assistant Deputy Administrator for Arms Control and Nonproliferation at the National Nuclear Security Administration, founding director of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Project at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Chief Counsel of the Senate Energy and Nonproliferation Subcommittee, and Special Counsel at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Mr Spector is the author or co-author of eight books and numerous articles on nonproliferation and comments frequently on this subject in the media. The Psychology of Nuclear Proliferation Identity, Emotions and Foreign Policy International Organization is a leading peer-reviewed journal that covers the entire field of international affairs.… Ethics & International Affairs The aim of Ethics & International Affairs, the journal of the Carnegie Council, is to help close the gap between… Italian Political Science Review / Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica NEW TO CAMBRIDGE IN 2015 - Established in 1971 by Giovanni Sartori, Italian Political Science Review is acknowledged… European Journal of International Security NEW IN 2016 - The European Journal of International Security (EJIS) publishes theoretical, methodological and empirical…

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Aftermath by Nir Rosen An extraordinary feat of reporting, Aftermath follows the contagious spread of radicalism and sectarian violence that the U.S. invasion of Iraq and the ensuing civil war have unleashed in the Muslim world. Nir Rosen has spent nearly a decade among warriors and militants who have been challenging American power in the Muslim world. In Aftermath, he tells their story, showing the other side of the U.S. war on terror, traveling from the battle-scarred streets of Baghdad to the alleys, villages, refugee camps, mosques, and killing grounds of Jordan, Syria, Egypt, Lebanon, and finally Afghanistan, where Rosen has a terrifying encounter with the Taliban as their “guest,” and witnesses the new Obama surge fizzling in southern Afghanistan. Rosen was one of the few Westerners to venture inside the mosques of Baghdad to witness the first stirrings of sectarian hatred in the months after the U.S. invasion. He shows how weapons, tactics, and sectarian ideas from the civil war in Iraq penetrated neighboring countries and threatened their stability, especially Lebanon and Jordan, where new jihadist groups mushroomed. Moreover, he shows that the spread of violence at the street level is often the consequence of specific policies hatched in Washington, D.C. Rosen offers a seminal and provocative account of the surge, told from the perspective of U.S. troops on the ground, the Iraqi security forces, Shiite militias and Sunni insurgents that were both allies and adversaries. He also tells the story of what happened to these militias once they outlived their usefulness to the Americans. Aftermath is both a unique personal history and an unsparing account of what America has wrought in Iraq and the region. The result is a hair- raising, 360-degree view of the modern battlefield its consequent humanitarian catastrophe, and the reality of counterinsurgency. Copyright © 2010 by Nation Books

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Nobody is a show based on the life of Alvie Morris. A few years ago I painted a mural in Atlanta. I used a portrait of a random image I found on the internet as a reference. Months later I received an email from a man biting the original photo. This was Alvie, the person I had painted. The wall had been published in a magazine and his sister recognized the photo. Alvie and I kept in touch and thought of the idea of making a film about him. This show takes place in Oakland, California. Alvie Morris was born on October 2, 1970 in Tulare, Calfornia. His father was a farmer, alcoholic, and non-religious. His mother was a devout Jehovah’s Witness housewife. He started playing music at a young age and moved to San Francisco when he was 24. He struggled with alcoholism and has been sober for 6 years. He plays music, does photography, works at a butcher shop, and takes care of his niece, Zoe, the center of his world. This show is composed of the film “Nobody”, a documentary, a bust and a series of paintings based on Alvie’s memories. Portraying the life of Alvie Morris as a precedent in paying homage to mundanity and quotidian life. A tribute to everyday people.

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Home/2014/May N. Texas Opportunity Fund Sues Hammerman & Gainer © 2014 The Texas Lawbook. By Jeff Bounds Staff Writer for The Texas Lawbook (April 24) – A Dallas private equity fund is taking officials of a Louisiana company to task over allegations that they secretly set up a “shell” company to funnel money out of the business when the fund owned a piece of that company, court records show. The North Texas Opportunity Fund LP alleges in a petition filed April 9 in state district court in Dallas that officials of Hammerman & Gainer International Inc. surreptitiously set up the shell business partly so they could enrich themselves. Hammerman & Gainer previously was based in Irving, and shifted its headquarters to New Orleans in late 2008, court documents say. Additionally, the petition alleges, Hammerman & Gainer officials wanted to reduce the value of their company in anticipation of buying back the private equity fund’s 3 million preferred shares, for which it paid a total of $3 million between 2004 and 2005. “The fund was alerted by government authorities that Hammerman & Gainer and its related entities and principals were being investigated and hid revenue and profits from the fund. We believe they did hide revenue and profits, and we intend to aggressively pursue all of our claims,” said Arthur Hollingsworth, a partner at the fund, which has in excess of $25 million in capital under management. The fund previously sued the defendants over this same set of issues in 2012. North Texas Opportunity and the defendants agreed to postpone that litigation because of an on-going criminal investigation by the Internal Revenue Service, court documents show. North Texas Opportunity officials said in their petition this week that they received a grand jury subpoena from the May 12th, 2014|Categories: Cases, News|

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Gábor Kristóf Gábor Kristóf, Melting Point, installation view, 2016–17. Courtesy the artist. Jun 25, 2017–Sep 15, 2017 Artist-In-Residence: June 25–September 15 2017 Art in General, New York Gábor Kristóf’s practice examines the overlap between traditional image-making techniques and the possibilities of industrial production. He is interested in a rethinking of the changing nature, role, context and notion of the image. He studied at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts in Budapest and Chelsea College of Art and Design in London. Kristóf is a member of the Studio of Young Artists Association and his work has been shown widely across Europe. Kristóf is in residence at Art in General from June–September 2017 through the support of FUTURA and the International Visegrad Fund. Art in General was founded in 1981 and supports the production of new work by local and international artists primarily through its New Commissions Program and its International Collaborations program. Art in General also produces an annual symposium What Now? on critical and timely issues in artistic and curatorial practice. Art in General’s Residency Program, presented as part of the International Collaborations Program, provides artists and curators from abroad with the opportunity to conduct research and create work in a new context and to meet and interact with art communities and audiences in New York City. This national and international Residency Program is uniquely focused in exposing artistic and creative processes, in initiating and promoting the dialogue between artists and the public, and in generating a better informed and recurring audience for contemporary art.

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We Must Teach Our Youth the Legacy of Mickey Leland Today in Texas History: Mickey Leland dies in plane crash Democratic Congressman George Thomas "Mickey" Leland (printed in The Houston Chronicle, August 7, 2009) On this date, August 7th, in 1989 -- Democratic Congressman George Thomas "Mickey" Leland, the son of a short order cook raised in a poor section of Houston who rose to become one of just five African Americans since Reconstruction to serve Texas in the United States capital -- died in a plane crash in Ethiopia. The crash occurred over the mountainous region of Gambela, killing all 15 passengers aboard, including three of Leland's congressional aides. Leland was elected to Congress in 1978 after a contentious race against fellow Democrat Anthony Hall to fill retiring three-term Houston Rep. Barbara Jordan's historic seat. The election required a runoff in a campaign in which Jordan declined to endorse either candidate. In January of 1979, Leland arrived in Washington, having won 57 percent of the vote in the runoff and without having faced official opposition in the general election, eager to prove himself. The young, 33-year-old Lone Star State lawmaker used his connections in D.C. to further his humanitarian goals. After Leland won a powerful and highly sought-after seat on the Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee (later called Energy and Commerce), he used his assignment to establish corporate and industry contacts that might help his national and international crusade against poverty and hunger. Leland quickly gained the respect of his colleagues, though he was relegated to two committee's historical assigned to black lawmakers: the Post Office and Civil Service Committee and the Committee on the District of Columbia. The young Houstonian quickly became an active member of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), which he later chaired (1985-1987). In various leadership positions, Leland successfully lobbied Congress to create the House Select Committee on Hunger. He served as chair of that committee when his fateful trip to Ethiopia was organized. Leland was visiting Ethiopia on a working vacation during the congressional recess, a time when most lawmakers return to their districts or enjoy family time in some exotic holiday hotspot. But not Leland, a man known for his frequent appearances at soup kitchens and for visiting with his black and Hispanic constituents in some of the more violent and less alluring sections of Houston. Congressman Leland even hired some of his Mexican American constituents to help him learn Spanish. He was a good student: Leland spoke Spanish on the House floor as he argued to retain bilingual clauses in the Voting Rights Act. On his August 1989 trip to Ethiopia, Leland had organized a humanitarian mission to carry supplies to refugee camps on the Ethiopia-Sudan border and to monitor human rights issues within the refugee camps. In the mid- to late-1980s, famine had devastated Ethiopia, following a series of major droughts that began in the mid-1970s. In 1984, several human rights organizations estimated that nearly 1 million people had died and 8 million people had been identified as victims of the food shortages. By 1986, the death toll was rising due in part to a locust plague that only intensified the crop shortages. The Ethiopian food crisis created a political and economic crisis for the Communist regime. For years the international community had ignored the plight of the Ethiopians and many within the Ethiopian government were either unwilling or unequipped to respond. Leland's trip to Ethiopia in 1989 was not the first time the Texas lawmaker had traveled to the East African country. He first became aware of and passionate about the political and social situation on the African continent during a three-month stay in Tanzania, after extending a trip he had taken while serving as a Texas state legislator. Congressman Leland functioned as a strong but lonely voice, calling attention to the issues plaguing the continent of Africa and drawing on his personal experience both on the beleaguered continent and at home in Texas. He was a persuasive voice on the interconnected issues of hunger, poverty and injustice. Leland was born in Lubbock, Texas, on November 27, 1944 in impoverished circumstances in a town recognized for its strong racial conflict and few opportunities for black advancement. Leland's mother escaped the midsize West Texas city for the metropolis of Houston, taking Leland and his brother with him. Houston provided Leland with more opportunities but he was not immune to the racism of the Jim Crow South. He attended segregated schools and lived in a segregated neighborhood within the city's limits. Leland political consciousness came of age in the civil rights era, in which he was both a student of the movement and an activist in his own right. As older black residents in his neighborhood and across the county, took active roles in the sits in, protests and letter writing campaigns, Leland observed the history making before him and consumed the literature that inspired a generation. Leland's self education made him an avowed leftist. He became committed to fighting injustice and inequality at all stages. By the late 1960s, following the murders of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X and the birth of the Black Panthers and Black Power Movement, Leland joined the evolving black civil rights movement as it transformed from a mainly Christian, Southern and middle-class origins -- taking it on a more revolutionary, Marxist journey. He also was about building bridges. Upon arriving in Congress, Leland developed a six-week program that sent poor African American kids from Houston to Israel to learn about Jewish culture and encourage the celebrated black-Jewish alliance and the struggles that united both groups. A disproportionate number of white civil rights activists were Jewish and leftists in American history. After police arrested the young activist in an anti police brutality protest, Leland decided to enter electoral politics, finding limits to his bottom-up activism. Elected to the Texas House of Representative in 1972, the youthful Leland was initially labeled a militant. He once appeared at work on the state House floor rocking an Afro and decked out in platform shoes with the customary tie-dye T-shirt of the era. Leland's choice of work attire definitely supported his opponents' views and fed inaccurate perceptions about what was, in reality, a serious politician. Furthermore, many white politicos and white Texans alike were unfamiliar with black street culture and the depth of the social and cultural changes happening in black neighborhoods. Leland was in many ways an unlikely politician for his era and for Texas. Still, among his constituents and many other groups, Leland died a hero. His untimely death caused great sadness among his constituents and without a doubt for his family. Leland's wife Alison gave birth to their twins five months after Leland's tragic plane crash. Today, many foundations wisely recognize the Texas firebrand, and institutions both in D.C. and in Texas have recognized the forever-young Leland with scholarships for education and anti-poverty programs and awards. But Congress canceled his lifetime project, the House Select Committee for Hunger, after the Republican revolution led by Newt Gingrich and fellow Texans Tom DeLay and Dick Armey brought Republicans to power in 1995. Posted by JUST-US at 7:31 PM Labels: mickey leland Deric Muhammad is a Houston-based community organizer who believes that man is given power, but for 1 reason...and that is to serve others. Mychal Bell of the Jena 6 Stay Focused. Stay Prepared. The Movement coming to your television soon! "Raising Boys" Behind the Scenes On the Grounds in Paris, Texas

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Android Game Review: Man of Steel The new Superman flick recently soared into theaters, and last week the Man of Steel game hit Google Play. After swiping myself silly for the better part of the weekend, I’m back with my take on the Man of Steel game. Swipe-based fighting games are all the rage these days, and the Man of Steel games controls will feel familiar if you’ve ever played Infinity Blade or Blood & Glory. You swipe to throw punches, and you’ll be able to do a few other simple moves like grapple, dodge, and block. The only other moves you’ll really need to know are super speed & heat vision which can be used once their respective gauges fill up. As far as fighting games go it’s nothing we haven’t seen before, simple but effective. The villains feel a little generic, and the fighting is pretty straightforward, but the effects of your punches can be fun to watch. You can knock opponents into (and through) buildings and cars or launch enemies into the air with a vicious uppercut. The damage doesn’t feel quite as quite as drastic as it should be at times, although Superman will become more powerful as you progress through the game and level up his abilities. Everyone knows Superman’s costume was changed a bit for the new flick, and the Man of Steel game reflects those changes with its suits. There are 6 unlockable suits, each has its own boosts and unfortunately, the classic suit is missing. Four of the suits are classified as “armor” while the other is a solid green guards uniform. I understand they want to promote the movie, but you should always throw a few classics in. Your character can be upgraded using XP, and Keys are used to buy suits or power-ups for survival mode. As for the extras, Man of Steel has a nicely done comic style storyline that’s tied to the movie, and you’ll get pieces of it as you fight bosses in the game. It’s a nice touch, even if the enemy placement feels a little odd at times. There are no high scores or achievements to strive for, but there are around 16 stages – some with multiple enemies. Survival mode adds a bit more depth to things and helps you earn a few extra Keys which will come in handy if you’re looking to pick up a suit. Man of Steel isn’t the worst movie tie-in game we’ve seen this year, and it certainly isn’t the best. It’s easy on the eyes just like the film, but it just feels average where the film is awesome. If it was cheaper, I’d say give it a shot, but device compatibility issues and price drag the game down. I didn’t have any trouble running it, but the controls weren’t responsive at times and they have to be in a swipe-based fighter. If you want to check it out for yourself, you can pick up Warner Brothers Man of Steel game for $4.99 on Google Play. Quick Review: CRUSH from Radian Games Quick Review: Treasure Tower Sprint from Sava Transmedia

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atomicsoda // crystal palace / one place for all the interviews, quotes, news, blogs injury and suspension news roy hodgson quotes - transfer rumours - all news sources - top news sources - blogs - interviews Roberto regrets it so much now it annoys him just to hear those two words, says Hodgson. CNN - 12:47 PM I've answered that question [whether Palace can retain their star players] so many times, Hodgson told a press conference. There's nobody at the club who is anxious to see any of those players leave the club, in fact it's the reverse. We've committed them to long-term contracts. Goal.com - 8:23 PM He (Zaha) probably gets a bit more freedom (away from home) as there is no doubt that it is harder for teams to sit in and to double up all the time, said Palace manager Roy Hodgson. Daily Mail - 11:32 PM I'm not ruling out the fact that something like that could come up, said Hodgson. No one at the club has really got any interest in selling Wilf, so we're rather hoping that we won't get those offers. But I'm realistic and it would be a club issue. Mirror - 10:30 PM More roy hodgson quotes >> Jump to: June 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

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You are at:Home»Posts Tagged "Medal of Honor" Browsing: Medal of Honor By John Bretschneider on May 23, 2014 Afghanistan, Iraq, Medal of Honor, World War II Since the first military burial on May 13, 1864, Arlington National Cemetery has become the final resting place for more than 400,000 soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines and their families. Those who on Sept. 11, 2001, died only a few hundred yards away at the Pentagon are buried here, as are the Challenger astronauts. Fifteen thousand soldiers from the Civil War — Union and Confederate — rest in Section 27 and Section 13, known as the Field of the Dead. Four thousand freed slaves, many identified only as “Citizen,” and two presidents also are buried at Arlington. Section 60 is the… Video: Late Medal of Honor recipient John McGinty discusses nightmare mission in Vietnam By James Sanborn on January 21, 2014 Awards, Battle Rattle, Marines, Veterans [HTML1] We’ve uncovered a 2011 interview with Medal of Honor recipient Capt. John J. McGinty, III who recently passed away at age 73 in Beaufort, S.C. In the video by the publishers of ‘Medal of Honor: Portraits of Valor Beyond the Call of Duty’ McGinty recounts the harrowing 1966 battle for which he earned the medal. On July 15 of that year, his company was in Quang Tri Province, Vietnam, when they were assaulted by wave after wave of a North Vietnamese Army battalion. He and his men narrowly survived the hours-long fight after calling in danger-close air support and… Medal of Honor recipient Staff Sgt. Ty Carter overcame painful past as Marine By Dan Lamothe on August 26, 2013 Afghanistan, Awards, Medal of Honor Army Staff Sgt. Ty Carter received the Medal of Honor this afternoon, a fitting tribute to a man who repeatedly braved enemy fire in Afghanistan while defending Combat Outpost Keating from a fierce Taliban attack in 2009. Before serving in the Army, however, Carter served as a Marine — and overcame a significant family tragedy. According to Carter’s hometown newspaper in Spokane, Wash., the newest Medal of Honor recipient’s brother was killed by a drunken friend playing with a shotgun at a party in 2000. Carter was a 20-year-old Marine serving in Okinawa, Japan, at the time: The brothers grew… Behind the cover: Smaller raises, fewer troops By Gina Harkins on August 6, 2013 Battle Rattle, Behind the Cover Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel for the first time detailed the hard choices his department will face if impacted by decade-long budget cuts — and it could include a historically low end strength for the Corps of just 150,000 Marines. This week’s issue of Marine Corps Times examines the true effects the the across-the-board spending cuts — set to continue unless Congress stops them — will have on the Defense Department. Smaller pay raises for troops, major cuts to personnel and reductions in housing allowances are all areas at risk, Hagel said. For Marines, the most jarring news out of Hagel’s… Behind the Cover: muscular Marines vs. the tape test By Gina Cavallaro on May 29, 2012 Battle Rattle, Behind the Cover, Fitness, Marines, Military appearance The tape test is the only DOD-approved method of measuring body fat for members of the military. But some say it is inexact (which the Marine Corps acknowledges) and that it is unfair to large Marines who have an excellent appearance but run the risk of ending up in the body composition program for exceeding height and weight standards for their age groups. This week’s cover discusses this issue through the case of Sgt. Joshua Legier, 28, who at 6-feet 3-inches tall and 246 pounds exceeds his weight limit for his height. He got even bigger when he was on… Marine Sgt Rafael Peralta and the Medal of Honor By Gina Cavallaro on May 18, 2012 Awards, Capitol Hill, Marines, Medal of Honor California Republican Rep. Duncan Hunter continues to feverishly pursue the Medal of Honor for fallen Marine Sgt. Rafael Peralta, who scooped a grenade under his body to save other Marines in Fallujah, Iraq on Nov. 15, 2004, according to Marines who saw him do it. He was awarded the Navy Cross – even though the Marine Corps recommended him for the Medal of Honor – after the Defense Department convened its own panel which concluded the evidence for the nation’s highest award for combat valor was not sufficient. Peralta’s family rejected the Navy Cross. Hunter has doggedly pursued the higher… Behind the Cover: ‘Kyle covered that grenade’ — Marines weigh in on grenade blast survivor’s heroism By Dan Lamothe on January 23, 2012 Afghanistan, Awards, Infantry, Marjah, Medal of Honor It’s rare indeed that Marine Corps Times will publish back-to-back cover stories on the same subject. Lance Cpl. William Kyle Carpenter’s story is exceptional, though. As I reported last week, the Marine Corps is investigating what happened in the moments before he and Lance Cpl. Nick Eufrazio were hit with grenade explosion in a guard post near Marjah, Afghanistan, on Nov. 21, 2010. Carpenter took the brunt of the blast, and the service is researching whether he deliberately attempted to protect Eufrazio. The story prompted a strong response from our readers — and for several of Carpenter’s fellow Marines present… Behind the Cover: Did Lance Cpl. Kyle Carpenter cover a grenade to shield his buddy? By Andrew deGrandpre on January 16, 2012 Afghanistan, Awards, Behind the Cover, Marjah UPDATE: An updated version of this story has now been posted online here. You may recognize this face. That’s Lance Cpl. Kyle Carpenter, who was severely wounded in Afghanistan in 2010 when insurgents chucked a hand grenade onto the roof where he and another Marine, Lance Cpl. Nick Eufrazio, were posting security. In the months since the attack, as Carpenter has undergone numerous surgeries to address his injuries, he has become an ambassador, of sorts, for the Marine Corps and its wounded warriors, inspiring family, friends and fellow Marines with his undying optimism in the face of a difficult recovery.… More on Dakota Meyer’s beer summit with Obama By Dan Lamothe on September 15, 2011 Awards, Ganjgal, Washington UPDATED: A White House spokesman tells Marine Corps Times that the beer shared by Obama and Meyer was home-brewed there. It’s called White House Honey Blonde Ale. That’s pretty sweet. By now, you’ve seen the photo above. It’s President Obama having a beer yesterday with Dakota Meyer, who will become today the first living Marine in 38 years to receive the Medal of Honor. The idea was reportedly Dakota’s. When the president’s staff called Meyer over the weekend in advance of today’s ceremony, the Marine asked if he could have a beer with Obama, White House press secretary Jay Carney… Dakota Meyer: The first Medal of Honor social networker? By Dan Lamothe on September 14, 2011 Awards, Ganjgal President Obama will award the Medal of Honor tomorrow afternoon to Dakota Meyer, the first living Marine in 38 years to receive the nation’s top valor award. For many, the ceremony is heavily anticipated. There are many people still recovering from the scars created in Ganjgal, Afghanistan, on Sept. 8, 2009, when the heroism of Meyer and others prevented an awful situation from becoming even worse. As it was, the battle led to the death of five U.S. service members and at least eight Afghan troops. Meyer already is in Washington, and appeared Tuesday night at the Marine Corps Scholarship…

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Tag Archive | "Cuomo" The Bronx loves Obama… still Posted on 02 November 2010. Tags: Bronx, Cuomo, Election 2010, obama, Paladino, Politics, Senate Video by David Patrick Alexander and Elettra Fiumi. Bronx voters bucked the national trend at the polling booths during Tuesday’s midterm elections, rallying behind President Barack Obama even as they expressed concerns about rising unemployment and the faltering economy. The majority of 300 voters interviewed by Bronx Ink reporters at 29 polling stations Nov. 2 said they voted for the Democrats on the ballot in large part because they wanted to show their support for the president. Many believed that the halfway point was too early to judge his presidency. “I think he’s doing good,” said Maritza Rivera, who voted in the Hunts Point section of the Bronx. “There’s too much pressure on him; somebody else would have just passed out already.” An engineer at St. Joseph’s School of Yorkville in Manhattan said he sympathized with the heavy burden born by the nation’s first black president. “He has resolved a little bit of the problems created by Bush,” said Jose Quinonez, as he voted in Belmont. “His hair is white now.” Nationally, the Republican Party took control of the House of Representatives and is expected win a number of state gubernatorial races previously held by Democrats. Control of the seats in the U.S. Senate, as of 10 p.m. Tuesday, was still in the balance. In New York State, 13 Congressional seats are being contested. State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo beat Republican Tea Party candidate Carl Paladino in a tighter than expected race for governor. But in the Bronx, where nearly 90 percent of the population is non-white, many continued to vote Democratic down the line and hoped the party would keep the momentum it gained in 2008, when 89 percent of borough voters cast ballots for Obama. “I’m concerned about Republicans gaining control over the House,” said Barbara Curran, who voted in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. “They’re going to make getting President Obama out of office their mission.” For some supporters, the rising national dissatisfaction with the Democratic Party and the Obama administration added extra incentive to get to a polling booth early in the morning. One Fordham voter said Obama needs confidence from his supporters to implement the changes he promised in the 2008 campaign. “There’s a lot of excess baggage he walked into,” said Perneter McClary. “A lot of times when he tries to get something done, nobody wants to help him. And he can’t do it alone.” But for others, the President still had a long way to go. “I still support him,” said Floyd Sykes of Highbridge, “but not as enthusiastically. Like a lot of people, I wish he’d show some emotion, get mad.” The staggering unemployment rate in Bronx County also prompted many Bronxites to head to the polls. With the latest unemployment figures putting the number of jobless in the borough at 12.5 percent – almost 5 percent higher than Manhattan, according to the State Department of Labor – the economy was an issue for many voters. “I’ve been unemployed for two years,” said Darlene Cruz who voted today in Soundview. “I voted Democrat down the line.” Other issues raised by voters included health care, education, mayoral term limits, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, immigration and gay rights. “I care about maternal health and getting money for schools,” said Carmen Mojica outside St. Brendan School in the Norwood section of The Bronx. “I really didn’t care about the propositions. I honestly couldn’t care less about arguing over term limits. We could be voting for more important things.” Beverly Scriven, a Jamaican immigrant who turned up to vote in Soundview just as the polls opened at 6 a.m., said health care was on her mind. “I care about the economy and Medicare. We’re seniors, so it affects us more than the youngsters. Regardless of the issues, we’ll come out and vote. It’s a privilege.” On the State level, gubernatorial candidate Andrew Cuomo was popular in the Bronx – even among the Bronx Ink survey’s few staunch Republicans. Williamsbridge resident and Republican Anna Presume said she voted for Cuomo because she liked his stance on crime. “I like Cuomo … I didn’t vote for him just because he’s good looking,” she laughed. Carl Paladino, the Republican candidate for governor, was vilified for his offensive statements about gay people during his campaign, words that may cost him votes. When asked if he had voted for Paladino, East Crotona Park resident Winston Collymore, who does not vote along party lines, replied, “Do you think I am crazy? Do I look crazy?” Bronx Voters Sound Off: Why I came out to vote? “Right now the city never takes care of us,” said Iqbal Chowdhury, 55, from Norwood. “Robberies are way up. We don’t have enough police support.” “I woke up at 5 a.m., and thought I should make history,” said Chevonne F. Johnson, 43, from East Tremont. “United we stand, divided we fall. That’s why I’m voting today.” “I’m 53 and I’ve never seen it this bad,” said Lisa from Prospect Avenue, who did not want to reveal her last name. “I got laid off from Department of Homeless Services and now I can’t find a job in this economy.” “I came to vote so I can help keep Republicans from ruining the country,” said William Byne, 56. “Trickle down doesn’t work.” “I always vote,” said Ousmane Bah, 49, from Grand Concourse. “People get killed for the right to vote, you have to come use it.” Do I think Obama is doing a good job? “I think that instead of a bag of gold, he got a bag of dirty laundry,” said Adam King, 36, a Board of Elections coordinator in Castle Hill but lives in Throgs Neck. “We can’t blame Obama for our problems since they came before him. And they’ll probably be here after him.” “It may take more than ten years to fix all this mess,” said Sidney Ellis, 73, from East Tremont. “I want him to take his time and do everything right,” said Natasha Williams, 25, from Tiebout Avenue. “I don’t want him to rush because of what other people said…He’s got eight years to clean up.” “He has no experience. He’s not fit to be president,” said Robert Healy, 49, from Fordham. “A painter doesn’t paint a house unless he’s got experience. I didn’t vote for him before, and I won’t vote for him in 2012.” “I think he’s doing a good job… There’s always going to be crises coming up,” said Luis Padilla, 45. “There’s more eyes on him because he’s the first black president.” What party did I vote for? “I never voted Republican in my life, and I’ve been voting a very long time,” said Kitty Lerin, 63, from Riverdale. “I think the tea party is like a wolf in sheep’s clothing for the Republicans,” said Luis Agostini, 38, from Fordham. “I’m for Cuomo, not Paladino,” said Ziph Hedrington, 43, from Melrose. “Paladino is somebody who I just didn’t trust. He seemed ‘gangsterish’ to me.” “For me, I don’t need to know the candidates,” said Jennifer Clery, 50, from Mott Haven. “I want a Democratic House, a Democratic Senate, a Democratic everything.” What do I think about gay rights? “It’s getting a little crazy out there,” said Anthony McDonald, 56, from Grand Concourse. “I do what I have to do. I’m from the old school. Whatever you do is your private business, but it shouldn’t be on TV.” “I think gay rights are being used to get more votes,” said Anthony Neal, 50. “I don’t think any politician cares whether a person is gay or not.” “You should allow people to be who they are,” said Chevone F. Johnson, 43, from East Tremont. “It’s not our job to judge each other. That’s God’s job to judge.” “Friends of mine are suffering those problems due to the restrictions and the violence,” said Yvonne Long. “It affects everyone, it affects all of us.” “I don’t care about gays,” said Bertram Ferrer, 69, from Fordham. “I retired from the military and I believe in ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’.” Additional reporting by David Alexander, Elisabeth Anderson, Alexander Besant, Elettra Fiumi, Amara Grautski, Nick Pandolfo, Catherine Pearson, Connie Preti, Irasema Romero, Zach Schonbrun, Yardena Schwartz, Yiting Sun and Caitlin Tremblay. Posted in Bronx Neighborhoods, Election 2010, Politics, Special ReportsComments (1)

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Liberia's Last Ebola Patient Leaves Clinic Fri, Mar 06, 2015 @ 11:22 AM Liberia released its last Ebola patient, a 58-year old English teacher, from a treatment center in the capital Thursday, beginning its countdown to being Ebola-free. "I am one of the happiest human beings today on earth because it was not easy going through this situation and coming out alive," Beatrice Yardolo said after her release. She says she became infected while caring for a sick child. "I was bathing her. I used to carry her from the bathroom alone because nobody wanted to take any risk. That is how I got in contact," she said. Yardolo, a mother of five, said she had been admitted to the Chinese-run Ebola treatment center in Monrovia on Feb. 18. "I am so overwhelmed because my family has been through a very difficult period from January to now. And to know that it's all coming to an end is a very delightful news. I'm so happy," Yardolo's son, Joel Yardolo, told reporters. Tolbert Nyenswah, assistant health minister and head of the country's Ebola response, says there are no other confirmed cases of Ebola. "For the past 13 days the entire Republic of Liberia has gone without a confirmed Ebola virus disease," Nyenswah told reporters. "This doesn't mean that Ebola is all over in Liberia." After a 42-day countdown - two full incubation periods for the virus to cause an infection - the country can be declared Ebola-free. Officials are monitoring 102 people who have been in recent contact with an Ebola patient. Since the epidemic started a year ago, Liberia has recorded 9,265 cases of Ebola, with 4,057 deaths. But the World Health Organization says there are almost certainly more cases than that. WHO says close to 24,000 cases have been recorded, and close to 10,000 deaths, in the entire West African epidemic. -- The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this story Source: www.nbcnews.com Topics: virus, Ebola, health, healthcare, nurse, nurses, doctors, medicine, patient, treatment, Liberia Ebola Survivor Nina Pham Suing Hospital to Be 'Voice for Other Nurses' Mon, Mar 02, 2015 @ 02:10 PM EMILY SHAPIRO A nurse who contracted Ebola at the Dallas hospital where she worked plans to sue the hospital's parent company, Texas Health Resources, hoping to be a "voice for other nurses," her lawyer said today. In the suit, which Nina Pham plans to file Monday, the 26-year-old nurse alleges that Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital didn't train the staff to treat Ebola and didn't give them proper protective gear, which left parts of their skin exposed, her lawyer Charla Aldous said. "One of the most concerning things about the way [the hospital] handled this entire process is you've got a young lady who has this disease which she should not have. And if they properly trained her and given her the proper personal protective equipment to wear, she would not have gotten the disease," Aldous said. Aldous said Pham hopes the suit will "help make sure that hospitals and big corporations properly train their nurses and healthcare providers." "This is not something that Nina chose," Aldous said, but "She's hoping that through this lawsuit she can make it a change for the better for all nurses." Pham is still coping with Ebola's after-effects, including nightmares and body aches, her lawyer said. "She has not gone back to work yet and she is working on recovering," Aldous said. "I don't know if she'll ever be a nurse again." Texas Health Resources spokesperson Wendell Watson said in a statement: "Nina Pham bravely served Texas Health Dallas during a most difficult time. We continue to support and wish the best for her, and we remain optimistic that constructive dialogue can resolve this matter." Last fall, Pham cared for Liberian native Thomas Eric Duncan, who flew to the U.S. and was diagnosed with Ebola at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital. Pham took care of Duncan when he was especially contagious, and on Oct. 8, Duncan died from the virus. Pham tested positive for Ebola on Oct. 11, marking the first Ebola transmission on U.S. soil. On Oct. 16, Pham was transferred to the National Institutes of Health's hospital in Bethesda, Maryland. She was discharged on Oct. 24. At the news conference announcing Pham's discharge, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the NIH, said she tested negative for Ebola five times, and that it wasn't clear which treatment saved her because they were all experimental. "I want to first tell you what a great pleasure and in many respects, a privilege ... to have the opportunity to treat and care for and get to know such an extremely courageous and lovely person," Fauci said, adding that she represents the health care workers who "put themselves on the line." Pham's dog, Bentley, was also quarantined for several weeks, over fears that he, too, would develop Ebola. Source: http://abcnews.go.com Topics: virus, Ebola, nursing, health, healthcare, nurse, nurses, hospital, NIH, survivor Study That Paid Patients to Take H.I.V. Drugs Fails Wed, Feb 25, 2015 @ 11:51 AM DONALD G. McNEIL Jr. A major study testing whether Americans would take their H.I.V. drugs every day if they were paid to do so has essentially failed, the scientists running it announced Tuesday at an AIDS conference here. Paying patients in the Bronx and in Washington — where infection rates are high among poor blacks and Hispanics — up to $280 a year to take their pills daily improved overall adherence rates very little, the study’s authors said. The hope was that the drugs would not only improve the health of the people taking them, but help slow the spread of H.I.V. infections. H.I.V. patients who take their medicine regularly are about 95 percent less likely to infect others than patients who do not. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that only a quarter of all 1.1 million Americans with H.I.V. are taking their drugs regularly enough to not be infectious. Paying patients $25 to take H.I.V. tests, and then $100 to return for the results and meet a doctor, also failed, the study found. “We did not see a significant effect of financial incentives,” said Dr. Wafaa M. El-Sadr, an AIDS expert at Columbia University and the lead investigator. But, she said, there is “promise for using such incentives in a targeted manner.” Cash payments might still work for some patients and some poor-performing clinics, she said. Other H.I.V.-prevention research released here Tuesday offered good news for gay men but disappointing results for African women. Two studies — both of gay men, one in Britain and the other in France — confirmed earlier research showing that pills to prevent infection can be extremely effective if taken daily or before and after sex. Both were stopped early because they were working so well that it would have been unethical to let them continue with men in control groups who were not given the medicine. But a large trial involving African women of a vaginal gel containing an antiviral drug failed — apparently because 87 percent of the women in the trial were unable to use the gel regularly. The failure of the cash-incentives trial was a surprise and a disappointment to scientists and advocates. It had paid out $2.8 million to 9,000 patients in 39 clinics over three years, but the clinics where money was distributed did only 5 percent better than those that did not — a statistically insignificant difference. Some small clinics and those where patients had been doing poorly at the start of the study did improve as much as 13 percent, however. People in other countries have been successfully paid to stop smoking while pregnant and to get their children to school. In Africa, paying poor teenage girls to attend school lowered their H.I.V. rates; scientists concluded that it eased the pressure on them to succumb to “sugar daddies” — older men who gave them money for food, clothes and school fees in return for sex. One study presented here at the annual Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections estimated that every prevented H.I.V. infection saved $230,000 to $338,000. Much of that cost is borne by taxpayers. Mathematical modeling suggested that paying people up to $5,000 a year could be cost effective, Dr. El-Sadr said, but $280 was settled on after a long, difficult debate. Paying more than $280 at some clinics was not an option, she said; achieving statistical relevance would have meant signing up even more clinics. The study had already involved almost every H.I.V. patient in the Bronx and Washington. “I don’t think anyone has an answer to what amount would be sufficient without being excessive,” Dr. El-Sadr said. One advocate suggested that more money could work — in the right setting. “In South Africa, $280 is a lot of money,” said Mitchell Warren, the executive director of AVAC, an organization that lobbies for AIDS prevention. “For that much, you’d definitely get some behavior change.” The two studies among gay men looked at different ways to take pills. A 2010 American study, known as iPrEx, showed that taking Truvada — a combination of two antiretroviral drugs — worked if taken daily. The British study, known as PROUD, used that dosing schedule, and men who took the pill daily were protected 86 percent of the time. In the French trial, known as Ipergay, men were advised to take two pills in the two days before they anticipated having sex and two in the 24 hours afterward. Those who took them correctly also got 86 percent protection. “The problem,” Dr. Susan P. Buchbinder, director of H.I.V. prevention research for the San Francisco health department, said in a speech here commenting on the study, “is that studies have shown that men are very good at predicting when they will not have sex and not good at predicting when they will.” The African study, known as FACTS 001, was a follow-up to the smaller trial from 2010, which showed that South African women who used a vaginal gel containing tenofovir, an antiviral drug, before and after sex were 39 percent better protected than women who did not. But it also found that many women failed to use the gel because it was messy or inconvenient or because partners objected. In this trial, there was virtually no effect. One problem, said Dr. Helen Rees, the chief investigator, was that the women were very young — the median age was 23, and most lived with their parents or siblings. “They had no privacy for sex,” she said. “They had to go outside to use the product.” Mr. Warren, of AVAC, said: “The women wanted a product they could use. But this particular product didn’t fit into the realities of their daily lives.” The development means that advocates are hoping even more that other interventions for women now in trials will work. They include long-lasting injections of antiretroviral drugs and vaginal rings that can be inserted once a month and leach the drugs slowly into the vaginal wall. Another trial in Africa, the Partners Demonstration Project, conducted among couples in which one partner had H.I.V. and the other did not, found it was extremely effective to simultaneously offer treatment to the infected partner and preventive drugs to the uninfected one until the other’s drugs took full effect. In the group getting the treatment, there were zero infections that could be traced to partners who were in the study. Topics: drugs, virus, AIDS, study, health, research, health care, patients, medicine, treatment, infection, Money, HIV, cure Are we on the road to an HIV vaccine? Mon, Dec 01, 2014 @ 01:16 PM "It only takes one virus to get through for a person to be infected," explained Dr. John Mascola. This is true of any viral infection, but in this instance, Mascola is referring to HIV and his ongoing efforts to develop a vaccine against the virus. "It's been so difficult to make an HIV/AIDS vaccine." Those were the words of many working in HIV vaccine development until the results of a 2009 trial in Thailand surprised everyone. "The field is energized," said Mascola, director of the Vaccine Research Center at the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, describing the change in atmosphere in the vaccine community. The trial included over 16,000 volunteers and was the largest clinical trial ever conducted for a vaccine against HIV. It was also the first to show any protection at all against infection. Two previously developed vaccines, known as ALVAC-HIV and AIDSVAX, were used in combination, with the first priming an immune response against HIV and the second used as a booster once the immunity waned. The duo reduced the risk of contracting HIV by 31.2% -- a modest reduction, but it was a start. To date, only four vaccines have made it as far as testing for efficacy to identify their levels of protection against HIV. Only this one showed any protection. "That trial was pivotal," Mascola said. "Prior to that, it wasn't known whether a vaccine could be possible." In recent years, there have been parallel findings of an equally pivotal nature in the field of HIV prevention, including the discovery that people regularly taking their antiretroviral treatment reduce their chances of spreading HIV by 96% and that men who are circumcised reduce their risk of becoming infected heterosexually by approximately 60%. Both improved access to antiretrovirals and campaigns to increase male circumcision in high-risk populations have taken place since the discoveries, and although numbers of new infections are falling, they're not falling fast enough. In 2013, there were 35 million people estimated to be living with HIV globally. There were still 2.1 million new infections in 2013, and for every person who began treatment for HIV last year, 1.3 people were newly infected with the lifelong virus, according to UNAIDS. A vaccine remains essential to control the epidemic. A complex beast Scientists like Mascola have dedicated their careers to finding a vaccine, and their road has been tough due to the inherently complicated nature of the virus, its aptitude for mutating and changing constantly to evade immune attack, and its ability attack the very immune cells that should block it. There are nine subtypes of HIV circulating in different populations around the world, according to the World Health Organization, and once inside the body, the virus can change continuously. "Within an individual, you have millions of variants," explained Dr. Wayne Koff, chief scientific officer for the International AIDS Vaccine Alliance. HIV invades the body by attaching to, and killing, CD4 cells in the immune system. These cells are needed to send signals for other cells to generate antibodies against viruses such as HIV, and destroying those enables HIV to cause chronic lifelong infections in those affected. Measles, polio, tetanus, whooping cough -- to name a few -- all have vaccines readily available to protect from their potentially fatal infections. But their biology is seemingly simple in comparison with HIV. "For the older ones, you identify the virus, either inactivate it or weaken it, and inject it," Koff said. "You trick the body into thinking it is infected with the actual virus, and when you're exposed, you mount a robust immune response." This is the premise of all vaccines, but the changeability of HIV means the target is constantly changing. A new route is needed, and the true biology of the virus needs to be understood. "In the case of HIV, the old empirical approach isn't going to work," Koff said. Scientists have identified conserved regions of the virus that don't change as readily, making them prime targets for attack by antibodies. When the success of the Thai trial was studied deep down at the molecular level, the protection seemed to come down to attacking some of these conserved regions. Now it's time to step it up. In January, the mild success in Thailand will be applied in South Africa, where over 19% of the adult population is living with HIV. The country is second only to bordering Swaziland for having the highest rates of HIV in the world. "The Thai vaccine was made for strains (of HIV) circulating in Thailand," said Dr. Larry Corey, principal investigator for the HIV Vaccine Trials Network, which is leading the next trial in South Africa. The strain, or subtype, in this case was subtype B. "For South Africa, we've formed a strain with common features to (that) circulating in the population." This region of the world has subtype C. An additional component, known as an adjuvant, is being added to the mix to stimulate a stronger and hopefully longer-lasting level of immunity. "We know durability in the Thai trial waned," Corey said. If safety trials go well in 2015, larger trials for the protective effect will take place the following year. An ideal vaccine would provide lifelong protection, or at least for a decade, as with the yellow fever vaccine. A broad attack The excitement now reinvigorating researchers stems not only from a modestly successful trial but from recent successes in the lab and even from HIV patients themselves. Some people with HIV naturally produce antibodies that are effective in attacking the HIV virus in many of its forms. Given the great variability of HIV, any means of attacking these conserved parts of the virus will be treasured and the new found gold comes in the form of these antibodies -- known as "broadly neutralizing antibodies." Scientists including Koff set out to identify these antibodies and discover whether they bind to the outer coat of the virus. The outer envelope, or protein coat, of HIV is what the virus uses to attach to, and enter, cells inside the body. These same coat proteins are what vaccine developers would like our antibodies to attack, in order to prevent the virus from entering our cells. "Broadly neutralizing antibodies" could hold the key because, as their name suggests, they have a broad remit and can attack many subtypes of HIV. "We will have found the Achilles heel of HIV," Koff said. Out of 1,800 people infected with HIV, Koff and his team found that 10% formed any of these antibodies and just 1% had extremely broad and potent antibodies against HIV. "We called them the elite neutralizers," he said of the latter group. The problem, however, is that these antibodies form too late, when people are already infected. In fact, they usually only form a while after infection. The goal for vaccine teams is to get the body making these ahead of infection. "We want the antibodies in advance of exposure to HIV," explained Koff. The way to do this goes back to basics: tricking the body into thinking it is infected. "We can start to make vaccines that are very close mimics of the virus itself," Mascola said. Teams at his research center have gained detailed insight into the structure of HIV in recent years, particularly the outer coat, where all the action takes place. Synthesizing just the outer coat of a virus in the lab and injecting this into humans as a vaccine could "cause enough of an immune response against a range of types of HIV," Mascola said. The vaccine would not contain the virus itself, or any of its genetic material, meaning those receiving it have no risk of contracting HIV. But for now, this new area remains just that: new. "We need results in humans," Mascola said. Rounds of development, safety testing and then formal testing in high-risk populations are needed, but if it goes well, "in 10 years, there could be a first-generation vaccine." If improved protection is seen in South Africa, a first-generation vaccine could be with us sooner. When creating vaccines, the desired level of protection is usually 80% to 90%. But the high burden of HIV and potentially beneficial impact of lower levels of protection warrant licensing at a lower percentage. "Over 50% is worth licensing from a public health perspective," Koff said, meaning that despite less shielding from any contact with the HIV virus, even a partially effective vaccine would save many lives over time. The next generations will incorporate further advancements, such as inducing neutralizing antibodies, to try to increase protection up to the 80% or 90% desired. "That's the history of vaccine research; you develop it over time," Corey said. He has worked in the field for over 25 years and has felt the struggle. "I didn't think it would be this long or this hard ... but it's been interesting," he ponders. But there is light at the end of tunnel. Just. "There has been no virus controlled without a vaccine," he concluded when explaining why, despite antiretrovirals, circumcision and increased awareness, the need for a one-off intervention like a vaccine remains strong. "Most people that transmit it don't even know they have it," he said. "To get that epidemic, to say you've controlled it, requires vaccination." Topics: virus, AIDS, public, health, healthcare, research, nurses, doctors, vaccine, medicine, testing, infection, HIV, cure Virus hitting Midwest could be 'tip of iceberg,' CDC official says Mon, Sep 08, 2014 @ 11:50 AM By Michael Martinez A respiratory virus is sending hundreds of children to hospitals in Missouri and possibly throughout the Midwest and beyond, officials say. The unusually high number of hospitalizations reported now could be "just the tip of the iceberg in terms of severe cases," said Mark Pallansch, a virologist and director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Division of Viral Diseases. "We're in the middle of looking into this," he told CNN on Sunday. "We don't have all the answers yet." Ten states have contacted the CDC for assistance in investigating clusters of enterovirus: Colorado, North Carolina, Georgia, Ohio, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma and Kentucky. What is Enterovirus EV-D68? Enteroviruses, which bring on symptoms like a very intense cold, aren't unusual. They're actually common. When you have a bad summer cold, often what you have is an enterovirus, he said. The season often hits its peak in September. The unusual situation now is that there have been so many hospitalizations. The virus has sent more than 30 children a day to a Kansas City, Missouri, hospital, where about 15% of the youngsters were placed in intensive care, officials said. In a sign of a possible regional outbreak, Colorado, Illinois and Ohio are reporting cases with similar symptoms and are awaiting testing results, according to officials and CNN affiliates in those states. In Kansas City, about 475 children were recently treated at Children's Mercy Hospital, and at least 60 of them received intensive hospitalization, spokesman Jake Jacobson said. "It's worse in terms of scope of critically ill children who require intensive care. I would call it unprecedented. I've practiced for 30 years in pediatrics, and I've never seen anything quite like this," said Dr. Mary Anne Jackson, the hospital's division director for infectious diseases. "We've had to mobilize other providers, doctors, nurses. It's big," she said. The Kansas City hospital treats 90% of that area's ill children. Staff members noticed an initial spike on August 15, Jackson said. "It could have taken off right after school started. Our students start back around August 17, and I think it blew up at that point," Jackson said. "Our peak appears to be between the 21st and the 30th of August. We've seen some leveling of cases at this point." What parents should know about EV-D68 No vaccine for virus This particular type of enterovirus -- EV-D68 -- is uncommon but not new. It was identified in the 1960s, and there have been fewer than 100 reported cases since that time. But it's possible, Pallansch said, that the relatively low number of reports might be because EV-D68 is hard to identify. EV-D68 was seen last year in the United States and this year in various parts of the world. Over the years, clusters have been reported in Georgia, Pennsylvania, Arizona and various countries including the Philippines, Japan and the Netherlands. An analysis by the CDC showed at least 30 of the Kansas City children tested positive for EV-D68, according to the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services. Vaccines for EV-D68 aren't currently available, and there is no specific treatment for infections, the Missouri agency said. "Many infections will be mild and self-limited, requiring only symptomatic treatment," it said. "Some people with several respiratory illness caused by EV-D68 may need to be hospitalized and receive intensive supportive therapy." Some cases of the virus might contribute to death, but none of the Missouri cases resulted in death, and no data are available for overall morbidity and mortality from the virus in the United States, the agency said. Symptoms include coughing, difficulty breathing and rash. Sometimes they can be accompanied by fever or wheezing. Jackson said physicians in other Midwest states reported cases with similar symptoms. "The full scope is yet to be known, but it would appear it's in the Midwest. In our community, meticulous hand-washing is not happening. It's just the nature of kids," Jackson said. 'Worst I've seen' Denver also is seeing a spike in respiratory illnesses resembling the virus, and hospitals have sent specimens for testing to confirm whether it's the same virus, CNN affiliate KUSA said. More than 900 children have gone to Children's Hospital Colorado emergency and urgent care locations since August 18 for treatment of severe respiratory illnesses, including enterovirus and viral infections, hospital spokeswoman Melissa Vizcarra said. Of those, 86 have been sick enough to be admitted to the Aurora facility. And Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children had five children in intensive care and 20 more in the pediatric unit, KUSA said last week. "This is the worst I've seen in my time here at Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children," Dr. Raju Meyeppan told the outlet. "We're going to have a pretty busy winter at this institution and throughout the hospitals of Denver." Will Cornejo, 13, was among the children in intensive care at Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children after he came down with a cold last weekend and then woke up Tuesday night with an asthma attack that couldn't be controlled with his medicine albuterol. His mother, Jennifer, called 911 when her son's breathing became shallow, and her son was airlifted to the Denver hospital, she told KUSA. Her son was put on a breathing tube for 24 hours. "It was like nothing we've ever seen," Jennifer Cornejo told KUSA. "He was unresponsive. He was laying on the couch. He couldn't speak to me. He was turning white, and his lips turned blue. "We're having a hard time believing that it really happened," she added. "We're much better now because he is breathing on his own. We're on the mend." Restricting kids' visits with patients In East Columbus, Ohio, Nationwide Children's Hospital saw a 20% increase in patients with respiratory illnesses last weekend, and Dr. Dennis Cunningham said patient samples are being tested to determine whether EV-D68 is behind the spike, CNN affiliate WTTE reported. Elsewhere, Hannibal Regional Hospital in Hannibal, Missouri, reported "recent outbreaks of enterovirus infections in Missouri and Illinois," the facility said this week on its Facebook page. Blessing Hospital in Quincy, Illinois, saw more than 70 children with respiratory issues last weekend, and seven of them were admitted, CNN affiliate WGEM reported. The hospital's Dr. Robert Merrick believes that the same virus that hit Kansas City is causing the rash of illnesses seen at the Quincy and Hannibal hospitals, which both imposed restrictions this week on children visiting patients, the affiliate said. "Mostly we're concerned about them bringing it in to a vulnerable patient. We don't feel that the hospital is more dangerous to any other person at this time," Merrick told WGEM. Blessing Hospital is working with Illinois health officials to identify the virus, the hospital said in a statement. While there are more than 100 types of enteroviruses causing up to 15 million U.S. infections annually, EV-D68 infections occur less commonly, the Missouri health agency said. Like other enteroviruses, the respiratory illness appears to spread through close contact with infected people, the agency said. "Unlike the majority of enteroviruses that cause a clinical disease manifesting as a mild upper respiratory illness, febrile rash illness, or neurologic illness (such as aseptic meningitis and encephalitis), EV-D68 has been associated almost exclusively with respiratory disease," the agency said. Clusters of the virus have struck Asia, Europe and the United States from 2008 to 2010, and the infection caused relatively mild to severe illness, with some intensive care and mechanical ventilation, the health agency said. To reduce the risk of infection, individuals should wash hands often with soap and water for 20 seconds, especially after changing diapers; avoid touching eyes, nose and mouth with unwashed hands; avoid kissing, hugging and sharing cups or eating utensils with people who are sick; disinfect frequently touched surfaces such as toys and doorknobs; and stay home when feeling sick, the Missouri agency said. Source: http://www.cnn.com Topics: virus, respiratory, enterovirus, children, hospital Ebola outbreak: Are hazmat suits necessary or counterproductive? Tue, Sep 02, 2014 @ 02:35 PM By LAURA GEGGEL For health care workers and researchers, wearing pressurized, full-body suits around Ebola patients may be counterproductive to treating the disease, say three Spanish researchers in a new letter published in the journal The Lancet. But other health experts, wary of wearing less protective gear, disagree. Health agencies often require that health care workers caring for Ebola patients wear hazardous material (hazmat) suits that protect against airborne diseases. But the Ebola virus rarely spreads through the air, according to the researchers at the University of Valencia and Hospital La Paz-Carlos III, in Madrid. Ebola is transmitted through contact with infected patients' secretions (such as blood, vomit or feces), and such contact can be prevented by wearing gloves and masks, the researchers wrote. Wearing full-body protection gear is "expensive, uncomfortable, and unaffordable for countries that are the most affected," they said. It may also send the message that such protection against the virus is being preferentially given to health care workers and is out of reach to the general public, they wrote in their article. [Ebola Virus: 5 Things You Should Know]. Moreover, the image of health care workers in hazmat suits could lead to panic, causing people to flee the area and possibly spread the virus elsewhere, they added. Instead, protective gear such as gloves, waterproof smocks, goggles, masks and isolated rooms may be enough to manage infected patients, so long as they are not hemorrhaging or vomiting, the letter said. "In control of infectious diseases, more is not necessarily better and, very often, the simplest answer is the best," the researchers wrote. The current Ebola virus outbreak is the worst in history. It began in February 2014 in Guinea and has since infected people in Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone, killing more than 1,500 people. Just 47 percent of infected patients have survived. But other experts disagree with the researchers, saying a high level of protection against the virus is needed in places with struggling health care systems, including the countries in West Africa where the outbreak is raging. "The authors have a point, but I don't think a very strong one," said Dr. William Schaffner, a professor of preventive medicine and an infectious disease specialist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, who was not involved with the letter. "It must indeed be unsettling for people to see folks in hazmat suits come into their communities," Schaffner told Live Science. "It's very foreign, and often increases their anxiety about events." But it's better to err on the side of safety, he said. Because the Ebola virus does spread through contact with infected bodily fluids, if health care workers don't immediately clean up such excretions, it's possible these fluids could infect others not wearing appropriate protective gear. Patients may also start vomiting or bleeding at any time, increasing the risk of infection for health care workers who are not wearing protective suits, he said. "I would remind us that there are any number of health care workers, including Dr. [Kent] Brantly and Ms. [Nancy] Writebol, were using elaborate equipment in Africa and nonetheless became infected," Schaffner said. (Brantly and Writebol have both since recovered.) In hospitals with cutting-edge technologies, such as Emory University Hospital, health care workers may not have to wear full-body suits for all Ebola patients, if the patients are on the mend, he said. If they are not displaying symptoms such as vomiting or bleeding, health care workers may be able to scale down their uniforms and use goggles and gloves in lieu of wearing hazmat suits, Schaffner said. But "when you have a circumstance as hazardous as Ebola, it's important to be secure," Schaffner said. Source: http://www.cbsnews.com Topics: virus, Ebola, health care, patients, hazmat suits, safety gear, health aids, experts A Nurse's Story: On The Front Lines Of Ebola Outbreak Wed, Aug 13, 2014 @ 11:42 AM By NAOMI CHOY SMITH When Doctors Without Borders nurse Monia Sayah first arrived in Guinea in March, she couldn't have known she would witness the worst Ebola outbreak in history. Back then, there were 59 confirmed deaths from Ebola, a virus which can be fatal in up to 90 percent of cases. The death toll in West Africa has since soared to 932, the World Health Organization said Wednesday. In Guinea, where the first cases were reported in March, Ebola has killed 363 people. "The fear is palpable," Sayah said, speaking to CBS News in New York after returning from her latest assignment. "People are very afraid because they never know if Ebola's going to hit their family or their village." Because of the fear and stigma associated with the virus, Sayah said many infected people are choosing to hide their illness and often don't check in to treatment centers until it is too late. By that point, there is very little Sayah and her colleagues can do. They try to rehydrate the patients and administer antibiotics. But there is no proven treatment for Ebola, though an experimental drug is currently being tested. Concerns have also been growing for the safety of medical workers in the field. A leading doctor died in Sierra Leone last week. A Nigerian nurse who treated that country's first Ebola victim died from the virus, Nigerian health officials said Wednesday, and two American medical missionaries infected with Ebola in Liberia are still battling the virus at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta. But Sayah, who has spent a total of 11 weeks in Guinea, said she is not afraid. She and her colleagues take strict precautions to limit their risk of exposure. Before entering a high-risk zone, they suit up in head-to-toe protective clothing including gloves and goggles. "You do have to follow the rules," she said, "but accidents do happen." She has to limit the amount of time she spends in the infected area. It's hot under the protective clothing, and exhaustion and dehydration are serious concerns. "The risk is you could faint, you could fall. You do not want to fall in a high-risk area," she said. "Maybe your goggles will move up and your eye will be infected." Working so closely with patients at death's door has taken a personal toll. Sayah described the anguish of stepping outside a treatment facility to take a quick break from the intense heat, only to find that her patient had died in those ten minutes she was away. "It was really hard for me to know that they had died alone," she said, "not with someone holding their hands and reassuring them." Sayah recalled the "hectic" challenges of setting up some of the first international treatment facilities for Ebola patients. By the end of May, she said, the medical community thought they had almost contained the virus. But soon after she left Guinea, another cluster of infected patients was found in another village. The virus was spreading like wildfire. Several factors are contributing to the spread. The virus has an incubation period of up to 21 days, according to the WHO, and in West Africa the population is highly mobile, moving easily across porous cross-country borders. Traditional burial ceremonies in which relatives have direct contact with the body can also play a role in the transmission of Ebola. Sayah found that many local communities distrust the healthcare system and foreigners. "Some have said we brought the Ebola to them," she said. "It's very difficult to contain the outbreak when communities are not cooperating." There were instances of infectious patients leaving the facility, she said, and many weren't receptive to the idea of isolation -- a crucial step in containing the virus. During her breaks from the field, Sayah stays in touch with her colleagues on the front lines, hoping for the slightest bit of good news. Just this past week, she heard some. One of the patients who'd been under her care was discharged from hospital, apparently free of the virus. But the situation on the ground remains dire, and Sayah hopes to see a greater response from the international community. Despite the challenges, Sayah said she will return to West Africa to fight the outbreak. "When you're there and you see how much needs to be done," she said, "there is not a question of 'should I go back or not?'" Source: www.cbsnews.com Topics: virus, Ebola, outbreak, infected, nursing, deaths Second American Infected With Ebola Mon, Jul 28, 2014 @ 12:28 PM By Joe Sutton and Holly Yan A second American aid worker in Liberia has tested positive for Ebola, according to the Christian humanitarian group she works for. Nancy Writebol is employed by Serving in Mission, or SIM, in Liberia and was helping the joint SIM/Samaritan's Purse team that is treating Ebola patients in Monrovia, according to a Samaritan's Purse statement. Writebol, who serves as SIM's personnel coordinator, has been living in Monrovia with her husband, David, according to SIM's website. The Charlotte, North Carolina, residents have been in Liberia since August 2013, according to the blog Writebols2Liberia. They have two adult children. On Saturday, Samaritan's Purse announced that American doctor Kent Brantly had become infected. The 33-year-old former Indianapolis resident had been treating Ebola patients in Monrovia and started feeling ill, spokeswoman Melissa Strickland said. Once he started noticing the symptoms last week, Brantly isolated himself. Brantly, the medical director for Samaritan Purse's Ebola Consolidated Case Management Center in Monrovia, has been in the country since October, Strickland said. "When the Ebola outbreak hit, he took on responsibilities with our Ebola direct clinical treatment response, but he was serving in a missionary hospital in Liberia prior to his work with Ebola patients," she said. Deadliest Ebola outbreak Health officials say the Ebola outbreak, centered in West Africa, is the deadliest ever. As of July 20, some 1,093 people in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia are thought to have been infected by Ebola since its symptoms were first observed four months ago, according to the World Health Organization. Testing confirmed the Ebola virus in 786 of those cases; 442 of those people died. Of the 1,093 confirmed, probable and suspected cases, 660 people have died. There also are fears the virus could spread to Africa's most populous country, Nigeria. Last week, a Liberian man hospitalized with Ebola in Lagos died, Nigerian Health Minister Onyebuchi Chukwu said. Lagos, the largest city in Nigeria, has a population of more than 20 million. The man arrived at Lagos airport on July 20 and was isolated in a local hospital after showing symptoms associated with the virus. He told officials he had no direct contact with anyone with the virus nor had he attended the burial of anyone who died of Ebola. Another doctor infected Confirmation of the death in Lagos came after news that a doctor who has played a key role in fighting the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone is infected with the disease, according to that country's Ministry of Health. Dr. Sheik Humarr Khan is being treated by the French aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres -- also known as Doctors Without Borders -- in Kailahun, Sierra Leone, agency spokesman Tim Shenk said. Before falling ill, Khan had been overseeing Ebola treatment and isolation units at Kenema Government Hospital, about 185 miles east of the capital, Freetown. Ebola typically kills 90% of those infected, but the death rate in this outbreak has dropped to roughly 60% because of early treatment. Spread by bodily fluids Officials believe the Ebola outbreak has taken such a strong hold in West Africa because of the proximity of the jungle -- where the virus originated -- to Conakry, Guinea, which has a population of 2 million. Because symptoms don't immediately appear, the virus can easily spread as people travel around the region. Once infected with the virus, many people die in an average of 10 days as the blood fails to clot and hemorrhaging occurs. The disease isn't contagious until symptoms appear. Symptoms include fever, headache and fatigue. At that point, the Ebola virus is spread via bodily fluids. Health workers are at especially high risk, because they are in close contact with infected people and their bodily fluids. Adding to the danger, doctors may mistake the initial stages of an Ebola infection for another, milder illness. Topics: virus, World Health Organization, Ebola, outbreak, West Africa, deadly, infected, doctor Debilitating Case of Mosquito-borne Chikungunya Reported in U.S. By Val Willingham and Miriam Falco (CNN) -- Chikungunya -- a tropical disease with a funny name that packs a wallop like having your bones crushed -- has finally taken up residence in the United States. Ever since the first local transmission of chikungunya was reported in the Americas late last year, health officials have been bracing for the arrival of the debilitating, mosquito-borne virus in the United States. Just seven months after the first cases were found in the Caribbean, the Centers for Disease Control and Preventionreported the first locally acquired case of chikungunya in Florida. Even though chikungunya is not on the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System list, 31 states and two U.S. territories have reported cases of the disease since the beginning of the year. But only Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands reported locally acquired cases. All the other cases were travelers who were infected in countries where the virus was endemic and were diagnosed upon returning to the United States. That ended Thursday, when the CDC reported a man in Florida, who had not recently traveled outside the country, came down with the illness. As of right now, the Florida Department of Health confirmed there are at least two cases. One case is in Miami Dade County and the other is in Palm Beach County. Its arrival did not surprise the chair of the Florida Keys Mosquito Control Board. "It was just a matter of when. We are prepared in the Keys and have been prepared for some time to deal with chikungunya," Steve Smith said. "From what I am seeing, I'm sure there are more cases out there that we don't know about. It's really a matter of time." The CDC is working closely with the Florida Department of Health to investigate how the patient came down with the virus. The CDC will also monitor for additional locally acquired U.S. cases in the coming weeks and months. The virus, which can cause joint pain and arthritis-like symptoms, has been on the U.S. public health radar for some time. Usually about 25 to 28 infected travelers bring it to the United States each year. But this new case represents the first time that mosquitoes themselves are thought to have transferred the disease within the continental United States "The arrival of chikungunya virus, first in the tropical Americas and now in the United States, underscores the risks posed by this and other exotic pathogens," said Roger Nasci, chief of CDC's Arboviral Diseases Branch. "This emphasizes the importance of CDC's health security initiatives designed to maintain effective surveillance networks, diagnostic laboratories and mosquito control programs both in the United States and around the world." The virus is not deadly, but it can be extremely painful, with symptoms lasting for weeks. Those with weak immune systems, such as the elderly, are more likely to suffer from the virus' side effects than those who are healthier. About 60% to 90% of those infected will have symptoms, says Nasci. People infected with chikungunya will often have severe joint pain, particularly in their hands and feet, and can also quickly get very high fevers. The good news, said Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious diseases expert with Vanderbilt University in Nashville, is that the United States is more sophisticated when it comes to controlling mosquitoes than many other nations and should be able to keep the problem under control. "We live in a largely air-conditioned environment, and we have a lot of screening (window screens, porch screens)," Shaffner said. "So we can separate the humans from the mosquito population, but we cannot be completely be isolated." Mosquito-borne virus worries CDC Chikungunya was originally identified in East Africa in the 1950s. Then about 10 years ago, chikungunya spread to the Indian Ocean and India, and a few years later an outbreak in northern Italy sickened about 200 people. Now at least 74 countries plus the United States are reporting local transmission of the virus. The ecological makeup of the United States supports the spread of an illness such as this, especially in the tropical areas of Florida and other Southern states, according to the CDC. The other concern is the type of mosquito that carries the illness. Unlike most mosquitoes that breed and prosper outside from dusk to dawn, the chikungunya virus is most often spread to people byAedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus mosquitoes, which are most active during the day, which makes it difficult to use the same chemical mosquito control measures. These are the same mosquitoes that transmit the virus that causes dengue fever. The disease is transmitted from mosquito to human, human to mosquito and so forth. A female mosquito of this type lives three to four weeks and can bite someone every three to four days. Shaffner and other health experts recommend people remember the mosquito-control basics: -- Use bug spray if you are going out, especially in tropical or wooded areas near water. -- Get rid of standing water in empty plastic pools, flower pots, pet dishes and gutters to eliminate mosquito breeding grounds. -- Wear long sleeves and pants. Topics: US, virus, illness, mosquito, Chikungunya, spread, health, disease, CDC Girl 'Cured' of HIV at Birth Now Has Virus, Doctors Say By GILLIAN MOHNEY A girl believed to be “cured” of HIV at birth now has detectable levels of the virus, health officials said today. The unnamed girl, dubbed the “Mississippi baby” after being born to an HIV-positive mother in 2010 and quickly treated with an intense dose of antiretroviral medication, showed no signs of the virus for roughly four years, according to the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Disease. But a recent round of tests revealed detectable levels of HIV in her blood as well as antibodies to the virus and a decreased T-cell count -- all signs of the infection. “Certainly, this is a disappointing turn of events for this young child, the medical staff involved in the child’s care, and the HIV/AIDS research community,” NIAID director Dr. Anthony Fauci said in a statement. “Scientifically, this development reminds us that we still have much more to learn about the intricacies of HIV infection and where the virus hides in the body.” The case of the Mississippi baby made headlines across the globe after being published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Dr. Hannah Gay, the University of Mississippi Medical Center pediatrician who treated the infant at birth, was listed as one of Time magazine’s most influential people of 2013. Gay's decision to give the newborn antiretroviral medication in the days before it was confirmed that she was in fact HIV-positive was controversial, since there was only a 25 percent chance that the girl would contract the virus from her mother. The girl continued treatment for 18 months before her mother stopped taking her to her clinic appointments. Five months later, when she went back for a check-up, she surprised doctors with undetectable levels of the virus. At first, Gay and her colleagues said the baby had been “functionally cured” of the virus, but later revised their language to “remission” to better convey that there was a chance the virus could rebound, they said at the time. Although the girl's positive test results have been described as a disappointment, experts say her case still shows tremendous progress in treating the virus that causes AIDS. “The fact that this child was able to remain off antiretroviral treatment for two years and maintain quiescent virus for that length of time is unprecedented,” Dr. Deborah Persaud, professor of infectious diseases at the John Hopkins Children’s Center in Baltimore, said in a statement released by NIAID. “Typically, when treatment is stopped, HIV levels rebound within weeks, not years.” Persaud is one of the two pediatric HIV experts involved in the ongoing analysis of the case. “This virus is amazingly recalcitrant,” said Fauci. “It’s in reservoirs, except we don’t know every place in the body where the reservoir is going to be.” NIAID and the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development announced today that they would provide funding to analyze the unique case and will take the new findings into account during a new clinical trial. 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You are at:Home»Articles from Our Contributors»Movie Spotlight: Where the Wild Things Are by Sarah Reinhard Movie Spotlight: Where the Wild Things Are by Sarah Reinhard By Sarah Reinhard on March 26, 2010 Articles from Our Contributors Though Where the Wild Things Are, the Maurice Sendak children’s classic, remains one of my husband’s favorite books, we don’t have a copy in the house. We’ve borrowed it quite a few times from the library, though, and my girls do a passable impression of being wild things most nights. So I was delighted, to say the least, to host a family movie night in my home with a review copy of the Warner Brothers newly released DVD of “Where the Wild Things Are.” Here’s the synopsis of the movie before I tell you my thoughts: “Let the wild rumpus start!” Nine-year-old Max runs away from home and sails across the sea to become king of the land Where the Wild Things Are. King Max rules a wondrous realm of gigantic fuzzy monsters – but being king may not be as carefree as it looks! Filmmaker Spike Jonze directs a magical, visually astonishing film version of Maurice Sendak’s celebrated children’s classic, starring an amazing cast of screen veterans and featuring young Max Records in a fierce and sensitive performance as Max. Explore the joyous, complicated, and wildly imaginative wild rumpus of time and place we call childhood. http://wherethewildthingsare.com We couldn’t help but be impressed with the graphics and acting in this movie. The main monster looks exactly like the book’s. It’s like the illustration just walked off the page and started talking. The soundtrack also captivated me, and one of the main songs was in my head for at least two days afterward, which wasn’t an altogether bad thing. My five-year-old was enamored with the film, but she didn’t understand much of the monster drama (there is plenty) – we had a “yikes!” moment when we saw the PG rating after sitting down for our family movie night. (A rookie family movie night mistake, to be sure, and one we won’t make again.) If you have older children, this movie may be just fine. We have a two-year-old who was scared of the monsters and a five-year-old who seemed fine with it. (We put the two-year-old to bed and she’s been fine since.) We were disappointed with the “heaviness” of the story. There might well be a thread running through the book that inspires others to think of darkness and drama, but to us it has always been much lighter in tone: a lesson in orneriness (but never violence or mean-spiritedness) and a snapshot of unconditional love through the turmoil of life. Maybe it was bound to happen. Sendak’s story is 48 pages – 491 words in only 49 sentences; translating that 101 minutes involves adding to the original storyline. If you watch or have watched this movie, I’d love to hear your thoughts. I’m still a little unsure about it, and maybe it will take rewatching it to win us over completely. Copyright 2010 Sarah Reinhard When she’s not chasing kids, chugging coffee, or juggling work, Sarah Reinhard’s usually trying to stay up read just one…more…chapter. She writes and works in the midst of rural farm life with little ones underfoot. She is part of the team for the award-winning Catholic Mom’s Prayer Companion, as well as the author of a number of books. You can join her for a weekday take on Catholic life by subscribing to Triple Take, from Our Sunday Visitor. sfo mom on March 26, 2010 12:42 My 18-year-old son went to see this movie with his friends. He came home and reported that he didn't think his 8-year-old brother was “ready” for this movie. I trust his judgment on that one. He said he thought the movie was much “darker” in tone than the book, and really not for little kids. jennifer on March 27, 2010 16:20 My six year old and I tried to watch this together and turned it off about 20 minutes in due to an agreement that it was too “scary”. I was concerned with the family dynamics and the dark nature of the film so it did prompt some discussion but definitely not a young child's movie.

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Merriweather named GLVC POW Raven Merriweather is a Sacred Heart alum / photo provided by Bellarmine INDIANAPOLIS — Bellarmine University's Raven Merriweather garnered Great Lakes Valley Conference Player of the Week recognition for women's basketball, the league announced Monday. The Knights senior guard averaged 25.5 points, 4.5 rebounds, 3.0 assists and 3.0 steals over the team's two games. In addition, Merriweather shot 54.1 percent (20 for 37) from the floor and 87.5 percent (7 of 8) from the free throw line. In Bellarmine's 93-79 victory over GLVC rival Wisconsin-Parkside on Thursday, Merriweather registered a game-high 24 points on 11-for-17 shooting and added four rebounds, three steals and two assists. The Louisville native followed on Saturday with a game-best and season-high 27 points with five rebounds, four assists and three steals in a 71-58 win over Kentucky State. The product of Sacred Heart Academy scored her 51 points over the two games in 60 minutes of action. This is Merriweather's first career weekly award and the first for Bellarmine since Sarah Galvin was honored in February of 2016. Merriweather is leading the Knights in scoring (19.8) and rebounding (6.9) this season. Bellarmine women roll past McKendree - Feb 9th, 2018

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Christiane Amanpour Christiane Amanpour is a British-Iranian journalist and television host. Amanpour is the Chief International Correspondent for CNN and host of CNN International’s nightly interview program Amanpour. Amanpour is also a Global Affairs Anchor of ABC News. In 2013, she moved from New York City to live permanently in London, England, with her husband, former US Assistant Secretary of State James Rubin, and their teenage son. "Here in the United States, our profession is much maligned, people simply don’t trust or like journalists anymore and that’s sad." ― Christiane Amanpour Topic(s): Trust "Our industry has invested so much money in technology that perhaps it’s time to invest in talent, in people." Topic(s): Technology "In emerging democracies like Russia, in authoritarian states like Iran or even Yugoslavia, journalists play a vital role in civil society. In fact, they form the very basis of those new democracies and civil societies." Topic(s): Society "I leave CNN with the utmost respect, love and admiration for the company and everyone who works here. This has been my family and shared endeavor for the past 27 years, and I am forever grateful and proud of all that we have accomplished." Topic(s): Respect "If we have no respect for our viewers, then how can we have any respect for ourselves and what we do?" "I’m not an American but I have always had the outsiders’ respect for the American people and the American way." "And one thing that I always believed and that I knew for certain was that I could never have sustained a personal relationship while I worked this hard, or while I was that driven this intensely by the story." Topic(s): Relationship "We in the press, by our power, can actually undermine leadership." Topic(s): Leadership "I am no longer sure that when I go out there and do my job it’ll even see the light of air, if the experience of my network colleagues is anything to go by." "What matters to me is that I do what I think is right and I see, I’m a numbers guy, that’s my attitude. I know we have a debt tsunami coming, we are bankrupting this country and I’m in a position where I can actually advance ideas to prevent that from happening. That’s exactly what I should be doing." ― Paul Ryan "Courage and willingness to just go for it, whether it is a conversation or a spontaneous trip or trying new things that are scary – it is a really attractive quality." ― Alanis Morissette "As an actor you have to wait for someone to cast you, so you’re relying on the business." ― Mia Wasikowska "I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings." ― Thomas Bailey Aldrich "The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it." ― Carl Rogers

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Board index Classical Music Guide Online Films & Movies & Their Music Jerry Lewis's lost Holocaust film Here's the place to talk about DVDs (or VHS) films and movies you have seen on television and recommend or don't recommend. Discuss actors and scores, too. jserraglio Post by jserraglio » Fri Dec 28, 2018 4:23 pm NYT — Jerry Lewis’s unlikeliest project was also his unluckiest — so unlucky that it might never be finished. For a certain kind of movie buff, it is one of the last White Whales of lost cinema. In 1972, Lewis, best known at the time for mainstream comedies like “The Nutty Professor,” traveled to Paris and Stockholm to make a different kind of movie: a Holocaust drama called “The Day the Clown Cried,” in which Lewis, who was Jewish, plays a disreputable clown who winds up in a prison camp. There, the clown provides entertainment to Jewish children — and is maneuvered into shepherding them into a gas chamber. “It was something that was very close to his heart,” said Chris Lewis, 61, the fourth of the six sons of Jerry Lewis, who died last year at 91. Like Orson Welles’s long-unfinished film “The Other Side of the Wind,” which for decades sat in a bizarre legal, financial and political purgatory, Lewis’s would-be opus remained unfinished when he died, his original vision buried with him. But recent rumors, along with Lewis’s death and the release last month of Welles’s film, gave fans reason to hope that “Clown” might soon be rescued, too. For now, however, they will have to keep hoping. The troubles of what may be the world’s most famous unfinished film began right away. First scripted by Joan O’Brien and Charles Denton, the film was in production when, according to a 1993 biography by Shawn Levy, Lewis learned that O’Brien was never paid. The story rights hadn’t been secured. [Read The Times’s obituary on Jerry Lewis.] “My dad, thinking he had full artistic license, then rewrote the script the way he thought it should be, began shooting it, got about halfway through the production, then realized people hadn’t been paid,” Chris Lewis said. In a 2005 memoir, Jerry Lewis said his producer had “skipped town” without paying for the rights and other expenses. Checks bounced and Lewis struggled to close the gaps. According to the memoir, he personally lost $2 million. “I know my mom was unhappy that he sold our beachfront property on Vancouver Island,” Chris Lewis recalled. “Our house in Palm Springs, his boat — those things all went away to be able to put that money into the film.” But a completed film never emerged, and its legend grew. Lawsuits and debts had apparently doomed it to perpetual limbo. Lewis seems to have retained only partial negatives, telling his son Chris that the remainder might be somewhere in France and Sweden. Nonetheless, Jerry Lewis made a rough cut early on, and every so often, reports of a screening surface. In a 1992 article in Spy magazine, the comedian Harry Shearer said he saw a cut in 1979. “This movie is so drastically wrong,” Shearer said, “its pathos and its comedy are so wildly misplaced, that you could not, in your fantasy of what it might be like, improve on what it really is.” In 2016, a 30-minute sample was leaked online. The next year, Vanity Fair published an interview with a French film critic, Jean-Michel Frodon, who said he saw a cut in the early 2000s. (He admired it.) Chris Lewis said he saw it in the early 1970s but does not know what happened to it. “I can’t say I remember it being really great,” he said. Jerry Lewis gave mixed signals about his desires for “Clown” throughout his life. In a 1982 autobiography, he wrote that “the picture must be seen.” In 2013, he told an audience at Cannes that “no one will ever see it, because I am embarrassed at the poor work.” Still, rumors have kept fans optimistic. When the Library of Congress acquired Lewis’s personal archive in 2015, an article in the Los Angeles Times, citing the library’s moving-image curator, Rob Stone, indicated that the library had whole negatives but had agreed not to release them until 2024. The embargo part was true. The rest, less so. Stone clarified in an email that the library has only partial negatives: 13 cans (almost 90 minutes) of unedited camera rushes without sound. (It also has behind-the-scenes footage.) “It’s kind of like nowadays when you go to a museum and they have this whole dinosaur and you find out that, well, no, really all you’ve got is the kneecap,” Stone said in a phone interview. And copyright concerns persist: Stone said he had been contacted by someone describing himself as a rights holder, and he plans to consult with lawyers before deciding whether material can be viewed. Despite the legal murkiness, outside interest abides. About 10 years ago, Bob Murawski, who edited “The Other Side of the Wind” (he shares credit with Welles), began writing to Jerry Lewis about the project. Early inquiries with foreign studios dead-ended in a thicket of legal fears and uncertainty over who — if anyone — possessed the missing material. In 2010, Murawski’s lawyer finally heard back from Lewis, who, in apparent contradiction with earlier statements, insisted that he alone was preventing the release. If that were true, Lewis’s death might have opened some possibilities. But Chris Lewis said he had no idea what the copyright situation actually was, or whether the missing material still existed. Anyway, the Lewis family has no opinions now on whether the film should ever be completed, he said. Murawski, though, still has hope — and a good track record. “It wouldn’t be the same without Jerry being involved,” he said. “But, I mean, Orson Welles wasn’t around on ‘Other Side of the Wind,’ either, and it was definitely a worthy project.” Jerry Lewis, a Jester Both Silly and Stormy, Dies at 91 Aug. 20, 2017 Why France Understood Jerry Lewis as America Never Did Aug. 21, 2017 For Jerry Lewis, Few Statuettes but Lots of Influence Aug. 20, 2017 Get recommendations on the best TV shows and films to stream and watch. Sign up for the Watching newsletter. Return to “Films & Movies & Their Music”

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Around the Big Ten: Men’s Basketball Story posted January 17, 2019 in CommRadio, Sports by Mitch Broder Nicholas Prince, David Hadar, DJ Bauer and Jeremy Ganes discucss the current landscape of Big Ten basketball: With conference play in full swing, the Big Ten has now started to take shape. It’s clear who the contenders for the conference title are and those who will be bringing up the rear. The Big Ten as a whole is off to a great start with five teams ranked in the AP Top 25 and only two teams below .500. So, let’s go around the Big Ten and review what’s going on so far. The Michigan Wolverines still stand on top of the conference and look unstoppable. They’re undefeated in both overall and conference play, but Michigan has a tough game coming up this Friday. They go on the road to face the previously ranked Wisconsin Badgers, who are not an easy win. That should be a game to keep an eye out for. Michigan State sits right below its in-state rival as the Spartans are also undefeated in conference play and have proved how to dominate they too can be. Unfortunately, the battle of the Great Lake State won’t happen until February 24. A team that has really gone under the radar in the Big Ten are the Maryland Terrapins, who find themselves third in the Big Ten. They have played at a really high level and have had two really impressive wins back-to-back recently. They beat the No. 25 Indiana Hoosiers 78-75, and then followed that up with a 64-60 win over Wisconsin in Madison. They’re playing really good basketball and are a team that nobody should overlook. Purdue, Minnesota, Wisconsin, No. 23 Iowa, Nebraska and No. 25 Indiana all round out the middle of the Big Ten and have had their impressive wins and tough losses. Most notably, Nebraska just beat Indiana in Bloomington, which was a huge win for the Cornhuskers. These teams have been mostly beating each other up, so it will be interesting to see which emerges from this group as one of the better teams in the conference. A team that has been a little disappointing so far in the early season has been the Ohio State Buckeyes. Although their overall record (12-4) is pretty strong, their conference record has taken a big hit. The Buckeyes have lost three conference games in a row, including a three-point loss to typical conference bottom feeder Rutgers. Ohio State is teetering right now and after a promising start to the season, they seem to be trending downward. Lastly, the bottom of the Big Ten has taken form and there appear to be four teams that are just a bit worse then everyone. Those teams are Northwestern, Rutgers, Illinois and Penn State. Northwestern isn’t that bad as they have had a tough schedule to start conference play, already playing three ranked Big Ten teams. Illinois is the worst in the Big Ten as they are not only winless in conference play, but only have four wins all season. Those four wins are Evansville, Missouri Valley State, UNLV, and East Tennessee State. Yeah, not very impressive at all for the Fighting Illini. So, there is an overview of what the Big Ten conference looks like right now. There is still a lot of basketball left to be played and a lot of change to come. However, the conference has begun to take shape and at this point, it’s clear who the contenders are, and who the caboose of the conference is. Mitch Broder is freshman majoring in journalism. To contact him, email him mub584@psu.edu. basketball , big ten , college , michigan , ncaa , ohio state , penn state DJ Bauer David “DJ” M. Bauer Jr. is a sophomore from Valencia, Pennsylvania majoring in broadcast journalism at Penn State. He is a writer, producer, and play-by-play announcer for the CommRadio Sports Department. His writings include the Weekly NFL Game Picks series, Bauertology, and the NCAA Bubble Watch series. He is the co-host of the CommRadio talk show 4th & Long alongside Francesco de Falco, Jeremy Ganes, and formerly Jason Marcus. He also works as a producer and on-air personality for the PSNTV show Penn State Sports Night. If you’d like to contact him, email him at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address). Davvid Hadar David Hadar is a sophomore from Chapel Hill, N.C., majoring in broadcast journalism and minoring in entrepreneurship. He is a member of CommRadio’s sports team and has done several broadcasts with them, providing both play-by-play and color commentary. Additionally, David served as the voice of the Penn State Women’s Volleyball team for the 2018 season, covering the radio broadcasts for all home and away matches. He hopes to one day have a career as a play-by-play announcer or a TV anchor. To contact David, you can email him at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or follow him on Twitter @djhadar. Mitchell Broder Freshman / Journalism Mitchell Broder is a freshman member of CommRadio from Rochester, New York. He currently serves as an analysts on The Under Center Podcast, which in an NFL based podcast. He has produced multiple articles and has appeared on other podcast with CommRadio. Mitchell also does play-by-play for multiple sports and is a producer for Penn State Women’s Basketball. To contact him, email him at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address). Penn State Falls to Iowa in Late Comeback Whiteout Weekend Preview: Ohio State vs. Penn State 2019 MLB All-Star Snubs Story posted June 30, 2019 in CommRadio, Sports by Will Desautelle Early MLB All-Star Game Predictions Story posted June 8, 2019 in CommRadio, Sports by Will Desautelle Nittany Lions Split Maryland Doubleheader posted April 27, 2019 in CommRadio, Sports by Mitch Broder Penn State Takes Big Ten Outright on Senior Day in Win Over Rutgers posted April 27, 2019 in CommRadio, Sports by Francesco de Falco

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Published by Venture Galleries, “The Shroud” tells the story of a Nobel Prize winning scientist that takes blood from the Shroud of Turin (The linen cloth that wrapped Jesus in the tomb after his crucifixion) and inseminates the DNA into several women in his in-vitro clinic in L.A. His obsession with the Second Coming produces descendants from “The Shroud” that are now in their late twenties. The doctor is murdered and a private investigator is hired to run these individuals down. Murder, miracles, and resurrection is unleashed as these descendants are found creating a battleground between evil and good. Fowler’s writing background started in the screenplay industry twenty-five plus years ago having sold or optioned properties to production companies like MGM, Prelude Pictures, Studio 54, IO Productions and LionsGate. He has been commissioned to rewrite and polish many other individual’s screenplays along the way. Fowler maintained the book rights to all his screenplays and is now writing the book version to many of these properties. Fowler resides in South Florida with his wife, Maria and has three children, Seleck, Calaine, and Sutton. THE SHROUD “Crisscross” a book about a railroad serial killer hunted by railroad bull (cop) across five states was published in 2013 by Venture Galleries. It is available on Venture Galleries, Amazon, or Barnes & Noble.​ Randy McConnell has worked for the Union Pacific for twenty plus years as a railroad cop and is used to seeing death on the rails. Rarely is the death anything but an accident that happens when hobo’s try to jump from one car to the next going sixty MPH. He finds himself face to face with a sophisticated serial killer that understands forensics and leaves a trail of deception and death that fools even the FBI. As the bodies pile up, McConnell uses his instinct and follows a different path than other law agencies that brings his worst nightmares to life. This murder mystery has many twists that turns the case upside down and leads the reader in directions never anticipated. When everything seems set in concrete, the plot line blows up in everyone’s face. Your face included. Contact Dale: A third book, "Love of My Death” about a New Orleans hell raising will be released in the spring of 2015. Dr. Royce Benders in the mid-eighties seems to have it all. A Nobel Peace Prize winner on the cutting edge of the rapidly developing DNA field for criminology and human embryogenesis. But Benders’ dream has nothing to do with fame or fortune. He is a devout Christian obsessed with the Second Coming and impatient to see it in his lifetime. The Catholic Church invites Dr. Benders to work on The Shroud of Turin to help devise a plan to save the rapidly deteriorating linen cloth that wrapped Jesus in the tomb after his crucifixion. Taking blood from the holiest of Christian artifacts, he returns to L.A. and inseminates several women in his in-vitro clinic to hasten the Second Coming. Now these descendants of The Shroud are in their late twenties. What Dr. Benders successfully created is filled with both heaven and hell.

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3-D Scaffold Provides Clean, Biodegradable Structure For Stem Cell Growth Medical researchers were shocked to discover that virtually all human embryonic stem cell lines being used in 2005 were contaminated. Animal byproducts used to line Petri dishes had left traces on the human cells. If those cells had been implanted in a human body they likely would have been rejected by the patient's immune system. Even today, with new stem cell lines approved for use in medical research, there remains a risk that these cells will be contaminated in the same way. Most research labs still use animal-based "feeder layers" because it remains the cheapest and most reliable way to get stem cells to multiply. Materials scientists at the University of Washington have now created an alternative. They built a three-dimensional scaffold out of a natural material that mimics the binding sites for stem cells, allowing the cells to reproduce on a clean, biodegradable structure. Results published in the journal Biomaterials show that human embryonic stem cells grow and multiply readily on the structure. "The major challenge for stem cell therapy today is it's very difficult to make a lot of them with high purity," said lead author Miqin Zhang, a UW professor of materials science and engineering. "So far it seems like this material is very good for stem cell renewal." Medical researchers hope to someday use stem cells to grow new tissues and organs. Key to the research is the fact that new cells maintain the property that holds medical promise the ability to differentiate into any of the more than 220 cell types in the adult human body. Growing the cells in three dimensions better resembles conditions in the human body. It also allows mass production, which will be needed for any clinical applications. "Three-dimensional scaffolds are an active area of research," said Carol Ware, a UW professor of comparative medicine and expert on stem cells. "They are not commonly used yet, but will be important to transition embryonic stem cells to the clinic. To date, nobody has found a perfect matrix." Zhang's cylindrical scaffold is made of chitosan, found in the shells of crustaceans, and alginate, a gelatinous substance found in algae. Chitosan and alginate have a structure similar to the matrix that surrounds cells in the body, to which cells can attach. Different processing techniques can make the scaffold out of interconnected pores of almost any size, Zhang said. Researchers first seeded the scaffold with 500,000 embryonic stem cells, and after 21 days the scaffold was completely saturated. The cells infiltrated the structure, Zhang added, unlike other materials where cells often grow only on the surface. "This scaffold mimics the extracellular matrix at the atomic level, and so the cells are able to grow in this environment," Zhang said. To retrieve the cells, researchers immersed the scaffold in a mild solution. The structure is biodegradable and so dissolved to release the stem cells. One also could implant the stem cell-covered scaffold directly into the body. Analysis of gene activity and testing in the lab and in mice showed that the new stem cells retained the same properties as their predecessors. Other researcher groups are also looking for alternatives to feeder layers. The leading contenders are scaffolds coated with custom proteins designed to mimic the key properties of the animal cells in the feeder layer. Such products are expensive and difficult to produce in a consistent manner, Zhang said. The proteins also get used up in a few days and have to be replaced, making them costly and time-consuming for everyday use. "Our scaffold is made of natural materials that are already FDA-approved for food and biomedical applications. Also, these materials are unlimited, and the cost is cheap," she said. Zhang's group is now working to build a scaffold larger than the current dime-sized prototype, and is collaborating with the UW's Institute for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine and UW School of Medicine to try growing different types of stem cells, including those from umbilical cord blood and bone marrow, in the material. They will try to get the resulting cells to differentiate into bone, neuron, muscle and liver cells. Co-authors are Zhensheng Li and Matthew Leung, UW doctoral students in materials science and engineering; Dr. Richard Hopper, an associate professor at the UW School of Medicine; and Dr. Richard Ellenbogen, professor and chair of neurological surgery at the UW School of Medicine.

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http://carlosquiles.com/indo-european-language-blog/2009/02/konigsberg-aka-kaliningrad-under-international-law-russian-german-polish-lithuanian-or-simply-prussian/ Königsberg (AKA Kaliningrad) under international law: Russian, German, Polish, Lithuanian, or simply Prussian? February 24, 2009 by Indo-European Translate into: English • Afrikaans • العربية • Беларуская • Български • Català • Česky • Cymraeg • Dansk • Deutsch • Eesti • Ελληνικά • Español • فارسی • Français • Gaeilge • Galego • हिन्दी • Hrvatski • Bahasa Indonesia • Íslenska • Italiano • עברית • Latviešu • Lietuvių • 한국어 • Magyar • Македонски • മലയാളം • Malti • Nederlands • 日本語 • Norsk (Bokmål) • Polski • Português • Română • Русский • Slovenčina • Slovenščina • Shqip • Srpski • Suomi • Svenska • Kiswahili • ไทย • Tagalog • Türkçe • Українська • Tiếng Việt • ייִדיש. • 中文 / 漢語. Get this Wordpress Translation Plugin. The progress of the ’star wars’ (AKA missile shield) affair, which Russia seemed willing to aggravate by talking about plans to station missiles in Kaliningrad, without any concerns whatsoever for the welfare of Kaliningraders and Europeans, should make the European Union reexamine its current policy under the Kaliningrad Strategy, of collaborating with Russia by facilitating the transit of goods and persons and helping its socio-economic development. Instead of just hearing what Russians have to claim before the international community, the EU should ask the international community by which right keeps the Russian Federation hold on Königsberg territory, and should demand from Russia a date for devolution, no matter how hard Russian media propaganda tries to avoid the question: Although disputes over the status of Russia’s westernmost exclave of Kaliningrad have practically ceased, this should be regarded as a signal that all the parties concerned are aware of the serious repercussions that instability in that region could cause. Geopolitical Stability has been by far the most repeated pro-Russian argument since the 90’s, also in official European Union forums (see Freedom to Kaliningrad thread); it is easily summed up into a “let’s maintain the statu quo to avoid destabilizing the region”. The murmuring of those plans to use Kaliningrad as missile base made by Russian military officials to the press, to escalate tensions in the missile shield affair, has shown how the Russian Federation respects the will of Europeans for stability in the region. Not to talk about Russia’s lack of respect for the lives of thousands of European citizens in this winter’s gas disputes, or its lack of respect for Estonian democratic decisions, or its support for the authoritarian Belarusian regime of Lukashenko… Other great arguments made by pro-Russians include “Nazi Germany”, “World War II” and “Mother Russia”, and are easily read elsewhere in Russian media and blogs when the Kaliningrad question is mentioned. Nevertheless, most Kaliningraders – whether ethnic Russians or not – show often an open mind about the return options. And even official Russian media like Russia Today recognize still in 2009 (only in English texts for outsiders) the Lithuanian claims to the territory and its return; East German rights are still taboo in Russian ‘free’ media, while Polish claims are probably too weak to be worth mentioning: The region became an administrative unit of Russia [sic] in 1946 after the Potsdam conference and the partition of Germany. Although it solidified as an administrative entity, with the collapse of the Soviet Union, the issue of reassimilating the Kaliningrad region into its historic entity of Lithuania arose. According to a thorough study on the question (The Kaliningrad Challenge, 2003) Russia has been always concerned about the risk of separatism in Kaliningrad, which might be greater than expected if the European Report The EU and Kaliningrad (2002) is correct in assessing that Kaliningrad’s level of development is closer to Lithuania and Latvia than previously thought. In that sense, ethnic Russian Kaliningraders see Kaliningrad in the future as another Baltic Republic, either still somehow federated to Russia with great autonomy or fully independent. Moreover, There are opinion polls – now more frequently held within blogs and forums – which show that Kaliningraders occasionally imagine their future not so much as a fourth Baltic Republic, but as part of a return to Germany As it has been already argued on the situation of Königsberg/Kaliningrad region and the Northern Territories/Southern Kuril Islands under international law: In a similar way, the Soviets also refused to discuss the final peace settlement in Europe after the Second World War. It is important to emphasize that neither the United States nor Britain agreed at Potsdam or anywhere else to the transfer of East Prussia or part of the Königsberg Region to the Soviet Union. Thus, although the Kaliningrad Region is currently administered by Russia, it is not a legal part of Russia. Stalin was seeking a deal on East Prussia at the Tehran conference in 1943, drawing a line in red pencil on the map “to illustrate the fact that, if part of eastern Prussia, including the ports of Könisberg and Tilsit, were given to the Soviet Union, he would be prepared to accept the Curzon line [...] as the frontier between the Soviet Union and Poland.” This line goes roughly along the current border between the Kaliningrad Region and Poland, but Stalin’s red line on the map went virtually through the cities of Königsberg and Insterburg (see the Map). Charles E. Bolen, the interpreter for the American delegation, says in his memoirs that during their discussion, Stalin and Churchill virtually agreed on the future borders of Poland, but the official American record of the conversation says that “although nothing was stated, it was apparent that the British were going to take this suggestion back to London to the Poles.” On February 11, 1945, at the Crimea (Yalta) Conference, the Big Three agreed on the Curzon Line as the boundary between Poland and the USSR. However, the archival material clearly shows that there had not been any legally binding agreement made between the allies about the transfer of the Königsberg Region to the Soviet Union at any of the Second World War conferences. This is why Stalin attempted to secure his gains at the Potsdam conference in Berlin, which took place from July 17 to August 2, 1945. After the end of the Second World War, the Kaliningrad question began by Stalin’s personal will of revenge against Germany: Königsberg was neither appended outright to the Soviet Union nor was it to be considered part of the Soviet zone of occupation, which had been outlined earlier in the agreement. [The Soviet Union] acted decisively to completely eradicate the German presence in Königsberg and replace it with Soviet presence. This began even before the end of hostilities with the Reich: Königsberg was destroyed in the last weeks of the war when there was no real reason to assault it. When the soldiers of the Byelorussian front were dying in its streets in the first week of April, 1945, the rest of the Red Army was already besieging Berlin. Seven centuries of history went up in smoke in one week of shelling and bombing. By then, the decision to annihilate East Prussia and grant Königsberg to the Soviet Union had already been taken, so the reason for its destruction remains a mystery. Did Stalin take the decision in a fit of war revenge? Did he think that the setting of an ancient bourgeois city would hamper the development of the new Soviet city he wanted to build in its place? Or did he fear that, unless turned into a pile of ruins, Königsberg might not be conceded to him by the Allies after all? Pictures and models in the bunker-cum-museum where the capitulation of the city was signed are revealing. Most of the destruction was done after-wards, when the victors took to the task of building a new city on the ruins of the old… While the destruction of the city’s infrastructure was underway, an equally brutal purge of its population through gang rapes and indiscriminate crimes was carried out: The demography of that part of Lithuania Minor which is under direct Soviet administration, the “Oblast,” has changed in the most radical way in all its history. The original population of the area — German as well as Lithuanian — has disappeared completely. Many had fled before the Soviet armed forces invaded the area in 1945; those who remained — several hundred thousand — either perished from hunger or disease or were deported to Siberia; the others were expelled to Germany in 1949. They all — about 1,200,000 before World War II — were replaced by about 600,000 settlers from the northern and central parts of Russia. The administration and economy of the “Oblast” has been reorganized to conform with Soviet models and practices. It has been fortified to serve the strategic aims of the Soviet Union. Modern Claims in Europe After the fall of the Soviet Union, there were 4 main alternatives for the future of Kaliningrad, following Raymond A. Smith’s article The Status of The Kaliningrad Oblast Under International Law (1992), which argues in favour of the Lithuanian claim, but which also addresses some historical and political questions: From the historical [point of view] sovereignty over the territory of the Kaliningrad Oblast passed over the course of centuries from the the indigenous Old Prussian population, to the Teutonic Order, to the Kingdom of Poland, to the Kingdom of Prussia (later the German Empire) and finally, perhaps, to the USSR/RSFSR. It is not surprising, then, to find that each of these entities (with the exception, of course, of the Teutonic Order) has a conceivable claim to this territory. This section examines the legal basis, or lack thereof, of the actual or potential claim of each entity, as well as the potential claim of the indigenous population. The German Claim: Some Germans challenge the validity of both the Final Settlement and the original “dismemberment” of the German Reich. Their arguments are complex but can be reduced in essence to two claims: the Allies had no power to allow German territory to be annexed by other countries the West Germany and even the modern Federal Republic of Germany are not coextensive with the German Reich and are therefore not competent to speak for it in its entirety The first proposition is supported by numerous charges: that the guarantees of self-determination in the Atlantic Charter, the UN Charter, and the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties were ignored; that the Ancient Roman principle of ex injuria non oritur jus prohibits punishing Germany by unilateral confiscation of its territory; that the powers of the Allies as occupiers were strictly curtailed by the Hague Laws of War of 1907; that use of German lands as “compensation” to Poland for lands lost to the Soviet Union has no basis in international law; and many others. The Russian Claim: As the historical overview recounted, the working premise of the Potsdam Conference was that the Soviets would receive the Oblast at the final peace conference. The Allies specifically committed themselves to supporting the Soviet claim in the Final Settlement, but when that settlement was finally signed in 1990, specific title was not transferred. Why the Final Settlement did not include a specific statement of transfer is unclear. The seemingly most probable reason is that the transfer of Kaliningrad to the Soviet Union is considered a fait accompli and that the legal niceties of including a specific mention of transfer were outweighed by potential political embarassment such a mention might have caused the Kohl government. Such a position assumes that the tranfer has already taken place, an assertion which rests on shaky ground. Similarly, the Act of Military Surrender specifically indicates that the occupation itself did not effect the annexation of Germany. Thus, although Germany surrendered unconditionally, none of its territories were automatically annexed to any other state. Such annexation would have to be made explicit in a legally binding document. Only “administration” was established by the Potsdam Agreement, however, and “administration” is definitely not the same as “annexation” under international law. Rather than present arguments based on international law, Stalin advanced the law of revenge. ‘The Russians had suffered so much and lost so much blood, they were anxious to have some small satisfaction to [sic] tens of millions of their inhabitants who had suffered in the war,” Stalin said at Potsdam. In the absence of ethnic and historical claims to shore up their questionable legal claim, then, the only argument which the Soviet Union can depend upon is the principle of prescriptive claim. This principle transfers title to land when a country has held it for a long period of time without protest by the land’s original owners or by the international community at large. No specific time frame is suggested for the acquisition of prescriptive claim. Grotius suggested 100 years, a figure which the Permanent Court of International Justice endorsed in 1933. The International Court of Justice, on the other hand, said that fifty years had been long enough for a boundary between Venezuela and British Guiana to have legal effect. The Polish Claim: Poland has no ethnic claim to the Oblast. Although the southern half of East Prussia was occupied mainly by Polish Masurians, they had almost no presence in the northern part. Poland’s historic claim is only marginally stronger. For some two centuries, Prussia was a fief of the Polish King, but during that period the area remained firmly under German control. In any case, title was decisively transferred by the Treaty of Wehlau in 1657. During World War II many Poles operated under the belief that all of East Prussia would become theirs, but they were never legally promised the territory in its entirety. Lithuanian Claim: The claim of the Lithuanian state could rely upon both ethnic and historical grounds. The Lithuanians may argue that the first peoples to hold sovereignty over the region were ethnic Lithuanians and closely related Old Prussians, and the pre-1945 population outside the cities of the Oblast was largely of Lithuanian origin. If the status of the Oblast were to be altered in the future, then, the Lithuanian state could have a strong argument for assimilating this remainder of Lithuania Minor. The idea of unifying the Oblast with the rest of Lithuania has strong historical precedents. Lithuanian assemblies met in Chicago and New York in 1914, The Hague in 1916 and Berne in 1917 to demand an independent Lithuania including all of Lithuania Minor. An assembly in Vilnius in 1917 restated the problem to define the new Lithuania within its “ethnographic borders,” a concept endorsed by a later assembly in Voronezh the same year. Finally, on November 30, 1918, the National Council of Prussian Lithuania issued the Declaration of Tilsit: Taking into account that everything that exists has a right to continue existing and that we, Lithuanians who live here in Prussian Lithuania, are the majority of the population of this land, we demand, on the basis of Wilson’s right of national self-determination, that Lithuania Minor be joined to Lithuania Major The clearest catch here is that any annexation of the Oblast by Lithuania might hinge upon the democratic decision of an indigenous Lithuanian majority to authorize such an annexation. And, as we have seen, virtually none of the indigenous Lithuanian population remains in the Oblast, having fled or been killed or exiled after World War II. This raises the final claim to be discussed — that of the indigenous population. The Claim of the Native Population: The right to national self-determination is one of the main cornerstones of the contemporary international legal order. Eight of Wilson’s Fourteen Points refer to such concerns. The Atlantic Charter’s third and fourth principles call for self-determination in matters of both boundaries and choice of government. The Charter of the United Nations calls for colonial powers to foster self-determination in “non-self governing territories”. That right might be interpreted as concerning: The Oblast’s postwar ethnic Russian settlers – as opposed to central Soviet or Russian authorities. the traditional population which was decimated or expelled en masse after World War II, which is defended on the grounds that forcible deportations of native populations is clearly in violation of international law – native Königsbergers expelled after World War II, then, have a right under international law to choose to return to their native land. On that question, there is the precedent of United Nations action regarding the settlement of Gibraltar: As in the case of the Oblast, the key issue was whether the rightful native population of the Rock should be considered to be the contemporary residents or an earlier population who had been compelled to depart in 1704. The British argued that over the centuries since 1704 a permanent and authentic population had been developed on the Rock, which now had the right to determine their own fate. The Spanish countered that the post-1704 population were “pseudo-Gibraltarians” and that the rightful rulers of Gibraltar Rock were the descendants of Spaniards who had resettled, for the most part, in the nearby city of San Roque. Under pressure from the United Nations to end its colonial occupation of Gibraltar and in an attempt to settle the status of the Rock once and for all, the British government conducted a plebiscite in 1967. The choices were stark — full political affiliation with either Great Britain or with Spain — and the result was unequivocal: 12,138 to 44 in favor of Great Britain. Nonetheless, the U.N. General Assembly once again condemned British occupation of Gibraltar, this time in the strongest language yet. It, in essence, declared the plebiscite null, accused the British of resisting decolonization, and called once again for immediate negotiations between Great Britain and Spain for a transfer of sovereignty. Whatever the merits of the Gibraltar case, the precedent for the Oblast is clear. If the rights of native populations can stretch back to 1704, then surely the postwar expellees from the Oblast would have an unambiguous right to return to their homeland and choose its political fate — be that choice in-dependence or association with another state. The current population of the Oblast would presumably have no say in the territory’s political future. The key difference between Gibraltar and the Oblast is that in the former case, there actually is a population in San Roque able and willing to resettle the Rock. No analagous “population-in-exile” exists in the case of the Oblast. Rather, much of the population of Königsberg was killed or died in exile. Those who were deported to Germany (and their descendants) in all likelihood now enjoy a standard of living which is, at least quantitatively, many times better than any which would be possible in the backward conditions of the Oblast. Further, most — although far from all — Germans seem to have accepted the loss of the prewar lands; the idea of reclaiming part of East Prussia would not necessarily resonate with much of the population. It seems extremely unlikely, then, that more than a handful of such native German Königsbergers would wish to uproot and resettle in the Oblast. Even with German and Lithuanian strong claims about the Soviet colony of Königsberg opposing the legality of Stalin’s annexation, Russia did in the 90’s what it was used to in such cases when the Soviet Union was still a Great Power: they took the easy way, and annexed the territory to Russia, expecting the international community to accept it. Which is nice, because the EU as a Great Power will therefore be entitled to follow the same principle in the future… In my personal opinion, the European Union faces today 3 alternatives, given Russia’s will to retain Stalin’s European exclave no matter how illegal or illegitimate it is from an international point of view: Support modern Kaliningraders in their demands of greater autonomy within the Russian Federation – and maybe a future separation from it -, which is the fairest position under modern international law, which demands non-belligerant positions (against Russia in this case) and respect for human rights – Russian settlers and their families. This is certainly the option of most Kaliningraders of Russian ethnicity, as well as most EU-politicians. Support Germany’s or Lithuania’s claims (or both), seeking to integrate Kaliningrad within the European Union, maybe as a sort of a Baltic territory co-administered by both Germany and Lithuania, financing the return of (families of) expellees to Königsberg, and the return of (willing) families of Russian settlers to Russia. This is the option preferred by many Germans and (I guess) most Lithuanians. Support the creation of a modern Baltic Prussian State (Prusa), which could help unite the Pro-Baltic (and Pro-European) attitude of Russian Kaliningraders, the will of native peoples and their families to return to East Prussia, as well as claims of EU member states to integrate Königsberg in Europe, by embracing Old Prussian history of the territory and its peoples. Modern organizations supporting the revival of the Old Prussian language would probably support its revitalization in Königsberg include the future Research Institute of Prussology and the Prussian language organization in Poland. The third is my preferred option, not because I am some kind of language revival freak (what I possibly am, given that I also support Old Prussian language revival), but because what many (want to) regard simply as ethnic German and ethnic Lithuanian inhabitants of East Prussia in 1945 were in fact descendants of Old Prussians who had lost their language in favour of either German or Lithuanian languages, depending on the territories they dwelled when they ceased to speak Prussian. Given that historical, cultural and linguistic background of the Königsberg (or East Prussian) territory, the European Union should take action supporting the return of those expelled peoples and their families to their ancient territory, which they were forced to leave half a century ago. There is therefore no need to support the adscription of East Prussia to modern countries or peoples, be it Russia, Germany, Poland or Lithuania. And the only alternative to modern peoples, cultures and states is to support a linguistic and cultural revival of a Prussian people and language that should have never disappeared. Posted in Europe, European Union, History, Indo-European language, Linguistics, Politics | 5 With many of the expelled self-identified Germans of East Prussia being partially genetically descendants of the area's earlier inhabitants, their return and even the re-Germanization of some of its cities names, particularly the capital city Kalingrad back to Konigsberg, need not neccessarily be steered to the idea of simply returning Kalingrad Oblast as the northern part of the easternmost province of Germany, but alternatively as a revived nation, not simply one that is mon0-nationalist insofar to ethnicity, but rather multi-ethnic, with names reflecting history. Logically, any such deal for Prussia independence could and should include keeping a permanent enclave for Russia wihin Prussia of a new waterfront city connected to Russia proper via an extra-territorial railway/highway. Labels: Amber Path, East Prussia, Prussia What a coincidence! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_von_Papen "..........Along with DNVP leader Alfred Hugenberg, Papen formed an agreement with Hitler under which the Nazi leader would become Chancellor of a coalition government with the Nationalists, and with Papen serving as Vice Chancellor of the Reich and prime minister of Prussia. For example, Hermann Göring had been appointed deputy interior minister of Prussia,....." http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freistaat_Preu%C3%9Fen ".....Während der Weimarer Republik erwies sich der größte Gliedstaat als politisch stabiler als das Reich selbst....." (during the Republic of Weimar Free state of Prussia was the biggest state of Germany and more stabile than the Reich itself) Preußenschlag http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preu%C3%9Fenschlag "....The Preußenschlag, or "Prussian coup", was one of the major steps towards the destruction of the German Weimar Republic (1919-33) and the rise of Adolf Hitler to power. On July 20, 1932, Reichspräsident Paul von Hindenburg issued an emergency decree which dismissed the cabinet of the Free State of Prussia, the largest German state. The pretext for this measure was violent unrest which was occurring in some areas of Prussia and the alleged inability of the Prussian government to handle the matter. The main trigger was a shootout between SA demonstrators and communists in Altona, then belonging to the Prussian Province of Schleswig-Holstein, on 17 July 1932, thenceforth known as the "Bloody Sunday of Altona" (Altonaer Blutsonntag), which claimed 18 lives. The true reason, however, was that the Prussian government, headed by Ministerpräsident Otto Braun, with authority over the powerful Prussian police force, was one of the last major republican forces against Reichskanzler Franz von Papen...." So WW2 most punishes the part of Germania that got disolved in 1934, while trateing as innnocent that (Austria) which gave forth Adolf [s]Hitler! I just found this blog: http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://piusxi-deralleingelassene.blogspot.com/2009/10/die-unterschlagene-enzyklika-3_8406.html&prev=http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch%3Fq%3DLedochowski%26oe%3Dutf-8%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26um%3D1%26ie%3DUTF-8%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26sa%3DN%26start%3D30 Also, my new followers have jesuit related blogs... I am writing from an internet point. I can't use my PC at home. It is remote controlled. Try to open a menu, it closes immediately. Try to type something - for example the password - the characters disappear immediately! I was dealing with the new post for Amber Path: Lacota, Steinbach, Putin/Medvedev, Berlusconi, Lukashenko,... All linked together. They want to shut my mouth, with trucks and with Internet censorship.... Look at berlusconi performing the clown in the Europan (papal) parliament, you'll understand all... My laptop died on Nov 29; it started to blink, then the screen went dim, and then the whole thing went dead. Fortunately I had saved my work on a usb drive and I posted from an internet the next day. ALWAYS save on an external drive, and it is better to compose material strictly OFF LINE to minimize the amount of time one's work is not yet public, but viewable to the apostate. >The nightmare in the XIX cent. of Rome was effectively the Norddeutscher Bund http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8b/Norddeutscher_Bund.png A revealing indication of that is the attitudes of the English language mass press towards the 2nd Reich (negative) versus that towards the 3rd Reich prior to Sept 1, 1939 (positive). Another is that there apparantly was far more political activity within the U.S. to defend the 3rd Reich, then earlier for the 2nd- something which always seemed bizare to me until I came upon the idea of the continuing counter reformation. Koenisberg is in the middle of those lines of re-joining between Rome and Schismatics. For this reason I chose with accuracy the pics in forming the sequence of five (5 - another one of their numbers), especially the two last ones (soldier of former Protestant Prussian army based German Wehrmacht indicating the name of City of Roman Catholic Stalin 13 Km near, and below Romanist pope & Schismatic patriarch joining together (= melting?)): http://avles-theamberpath.blogspot.com/2010/02/20th-february-birthday-of-yugoslavia.html 20th February, birthday of Yugoslavia Improving the sentence to render the idea: "soldier of former PROTESTANT Prussian army based German Wehrmacht indicating the name of City of ROMAN CATHOLIC Stalin 13 Km near, inside the core of the SCHISMATIC country for excellence." The below pic of course is marked by an absence and hence the right sentence: "ROMANIST pope & SCHISMATIC patriarch joining together (= melting?)" There are no more doubts.

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You are here: Home › Policy Relevance Archive | Policy Relevance RSS feed for this section Anne, Policy Relevance Picture taken at Capitol Hill Books–a local institution with just the right amount of attitude. Nicholas Kristof’s call in yesterday’s NYTs for scholars to contribute in ways that matter to today’s “great debates” hit a nerve. The best response so far is Cory Robin’s post in which he refutes much of what Kristof says by highlighting great contributions by established scholars, as well as young scholars in the blog-o-sphere. Today Kristof responded to comments by upping the ante. Now it is not simply that academics are marginalized by an anti-intellectual American culture, while at the same time marginalizing themselves by failing to contribute to great debates in ways that appeal to wide audiences. It is also that academics do not serve at the pleasure of the President and no longer have the freedom to move back and forth between government and the Academy in the way the Kristof claims they did in the 1960’s. Aside from the fact that this picture of the 1960’s academic scene is positively dripping with childhood sentimentality, it is also a rather bizarre claim that such influence today does not exist given the revolving door between the current administration and university positions (David Axelrod now heads his own institute at the University of Chicago)–not to mention the reported growth in the number of administrators with little or no teaching or professorial experience. It is also true that there were plenty of scholars in the 1960’s that felt marginalized by Washington politicians. Hans Morgenthau, for instance, complains at great length in his text on the subject, Truth and Power. Nonetheless, there is some truth to Kristof’s notion of a “gap” between the kind of knowledge that the Academy values and what is required of individuals who wish to participate in larger political debates. Kristof is correct that the gap has something to do with the requirement to publish esoteric articles that conform to rigorous methodological standards, but not living in that world himself he knows little about the value of such work to those who produce it or what it means to negotiate that space. There is a significant amount of government and foundation money that is dedicated to bridging that gap, much of which exists thanks to the kinds of structural changes associated with the success of RAND and the growth of think tanks. There are also professors with a desire to increase their influence in this world who study what they can do to make themselves more relevant to the debates policymakers care about. This is the in-between world in which I have been living for the past couple years. I sought out this space in part because I wanted to ask and answer questions that contributed not only to academic debates, but also to contemporary political problems. I chose nuclear security studies because studying nuclear weapons and their exceptional relationship to political power allows me to place one foot in theory and one in practice. However, I also chose this space because I found the disciplinary politics around what counted as a legitimate methodology in Political Science too constraining–scholarly communities are called disciplines for a reason–stepping too far outside the boundaries will get you burned. My preferred methodologies are out of fashion in the United States because they are considered too “unscientific.” However, in the interdisciplinary world of nuclear security studies the presence of physicists as the ultimate arbitrators of what counts as scientific knowledge, combined with their frequent disdain for what passes as “scientific” in the realm of Political Science, opens up a space in which I have been able to operate. I have been on a personal quest to find my own political voice and figure out how to contribute to contemporary policy-relevant debates, but it hasn’t been easy. In January I started working for Senator Kirsten Gillibrand as an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow. I figured the best way to learn to speak to policymakers was to live among them for a while. As a member of Senator Gillibrand’s legislative team I handle nuclear and cyber-related legislative activity. I wanted to live the experience of the Congressional process so that I could develop my own political intuition. After years spent in pursuit of the “life of the mind” at the University of Chicago, I had lost all common sense. When I picked up something and read it, what I thought mattered or should be considered a realistic policy response was completely different from what the people around me in DC picked up on. I often found myself thinking things like, “what I am missing” or “how could they possibly think that’s a good idea.” The people around me were operating with assumptions that I didn’t share. Grad school is an often brutal process of learning to question everything you thought you knew and replacing intuition with epistemologically sound methods of data analysis. These methods often include the translation of ordinary events and experiences, which may appear to be unrelated in their specificity, into abstract conceptual frameworks. Languages like mathematics or the “jargon” of critical theory allow those who master these frameworks to draw connections and reveal patterns that day-to-day descriptions obscure. Learning to reflexively question everything you think you know may be a necessary step in the transformation from being a consumer into a producer of knowledge, but it can have the side-effect of leaving one politically tone-deaf. A friend of mine put it to me recently like this: A PhD candidate in Linguistics is the last person you want proof-reading your essay because they have been so trained to deconstruct every aspect of grammar that they’ve lost their native touch. This is how I felt when I first started thinking about what it meant to write policy-relevant–or what might more accurately be termed politically-relevant–research. I had nothing to say that was relevant. My research either led to conclusions that were considered irrelevant because the recommendations for action were not politically feasible, or I had no way of mapping a general conclusion onto a specific event without feeling that I was being intellectually irresponsible. Who was I to make such a leap of faith from what I could claim to falsify to a speculative statement about a contemporary problem? (And as Dan Drezner reported in a blog post in 2010, there are those that feel that this kind of contribution should be accorded to the privileged few with tenure). Within the first week of operating in a congressional office I was cured of this ailment. Not only are the left and right boundaries of action clear once you are operating on the inside of a political operation, but understanding the way that information flows through Washington has provided me with a new sense of freedom. Everything that academics live and die by is completely irrelevant in these contexts, except that your status as an expert is what gets your foot in the door. What matters is that you are able use the critical thinking abilities that you gained in grad school to navigate this environment with a weird kind of x-ray vision. You can see deeper into an issue than many of your colleagues, but at the same time that ability matters less than timely access to sensitive information. Somehow this makes me feel more entitled to write freely in ways that my inner grad student would tell me were prohibited. Learning to translate one’s academic expertise into politically relevant knowledge is a different kind of project than the one that academics train for and the Academy values. It requires an individual to want to seek out and develop this extra set of skills. The fact that the academic job market is so much tighter than it was in the 1950’s (back then there weren’t enough people to fill the posts; now there are hundreds of applicants for every tenure-track position) likely makes the disciplinary politics around methodological debates event more brutal than before, but there are also many more people with PhDs who are just as smart or smarter than the professors in the Ivory Tower contributing to public debate. The price of my current privilege is that my academic and intellectual agenda has to take a back seat to political necessity. Weighing in on the debate about Iran sanctions legislation or the upcoming Quadrennial Defense Review is not an option, so I won’t be posting much–at least until my fellowship is over. The American Political Science Association runs a fellowship program that funds political scientists to work on Capitol Hill for a year as a legislative assistant in the office of an individual member or committee. As part of my quest to understand what it means to do “policy-relevant research” I’ve accepted a fellowship position for this academic year. I figure that if you want to learn to talk to policy makers the best way to do that is to become one–listen to the way they talk, what questions they ask, what matters to them and why, and then practice doing those things yourself so that you develop an intuitive sense of how to negotiate that space where policy meets politics and ideas get translated into laws. As part of our orientation, APSA arranges for the fellows to meet with individuals from think tanks, lobbying firms, government agencies, and the press. One of the stops on this insider’s tour of Washington was the Heritage Foundation. The Heritage Foundation “develops and promotes conservative public policies based on the principles of free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom, traditional American values and a strong national defense.” A standard account of Heritage’s origin story appeared in a recent article by Julia Iofe from the New Republic: Edwin Feulner In 1971, [Edwin Feulner] and Paul Weyrich were two Republican Hill staffers who witnessed President Richard Nixon’s plan to fund a supersonic transport plane defeated in the Senate. Two days later, the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), then the only conservative think tank in town, delivered a positive assessment of the plane. When Weyrich asked why the report arrived after the fight was over, the people at AEI told him that they didn’t want to be seen as influencing the vote. This, the story goes, was why Feulner and Weyrich decided to found Heritage: to influence the vote. It was also why their model focused on short backgrounders, rather than long reports, so that congressmen could get a quick opinion on their way to the floor. Unlike AEI or Brookings across town, Heritage set up shop on the Hill, down the street from Congress. And unlike AEI and Brookings, Heritage was not so much about exploring ideas as it was about pushing a political line. According to Iofe, Feulner relished in telling this founding myth and, as I can attest, it is still a proud part of his legacy at the organization. We heard the story second hand from Edward Corrigan, a group vice president for policy promotion. Corrigan is a recent hire who arrived at Heritage with former Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) in 2013 when Demint took over from Feulner as President. The choice of DeMint to replace Feulner was controversial because unlike Feulner, Demint does not have a PhD. DeMint is not a policy wonk; he is a politician. His selection coincides with the growth of Heritage Action, an advocacy arm founded in 2010, and has tipped the careful balance of power between politics and policy at Heritage Foundation firmly in favor of politics. Iofe again: Jim DeMint DeMint also brought in his own management lineup from his Senate days: Ed Corrigan, Wesley Denton, and Bret Bernhardt. At Heritage, the three became DeMint’s enforcers. There is now a political check on all Heritage research papers to make sure they conform to the political and tactical line before they go out the door. Corrigan killed one such paper, defending the law authorizing National Security Agency practices as constitutional, only to have the Brookings Institution, a relatively liberal think tank, publish it. Corrigan also put the kibosh on several policy papers on the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, including one by Heritage scholar Edmund Haislmaier about what states should do on Medicare expansion. Because the official Heritage strategy was now to defund Obamacare, any paper acceding to a reality in which the law existed was verboten. The scandalous Heritage report on immigration, co-authored by a scholar who had once claimed that Hispanic immigrants have lower IQs than whites, was also the product of DeMint’s approach: Policy analysts were shut out of the discussion, and the paper, which was written to conform with DeMint’s anti-immigration stance, did not go through the standard vetting procedure. Corrigan and three Heritage Foundation scholars met with our group. They were all white men that, with the exception of Corrigan who is quite striking with his pre-maturely silver hair (you can see a picture here), looked so much alike that I would not be able to pick them out of a line up (having failed to note their names, I actually went to the Heritage Foundation website to try and identify them from their photos and couldn’t do it). Washington etiquette, and the terms of my fellowship, prevent me from reporting the details of our discussion, but I can certainly share my experience of the event. Personally, it was excruciating sitting through the presentations from Corrigan and his colleagues, especially since many of their positions on civil rights are in direct conflict with my own interests and experience. And, I was not the only one squirming in my chair. Many of the questions my colleagues asked were vaguely, if not openly, confrontational. Initially I wanted to get up and walk out, but then I began to channel my anger into seeing this as an opportunity to learn how these Heritage scholars think about negotiating the boundary between politics and policy. They work at an organization that, unlike “liberal think tanks” such as Brookings whose policy analysts could, and do, make conflicting policy recommendations, is explicitly committed to conservative public policy. I wondered how self-aware they were about the epistemological implications of this position. On the one hand, what they are doing appears to violate the basic foundation of mainstream social science research in America, namely that the minimum standard of good research is not whether or not it accords with a set of values-based criteria, but rather that it must meet criteria of falsifiability. You have to be able to answer the question, “How do I know if I’m wrong?” On the other hand, there is something vaguely Marxist in their insistence that all think tanks have a political agenda. If all knowledge is value-laden, perhaps they could argue that they make their agenda explicit while others hide behind a veneer of objectivity. I decided to try and find out if they are as intellectually promiscuous as they appear. In spite of the highly unlikely possibility of hearing a defensible “Marxist” argument come out of their mouths, I wanted to ask my question in a way that gave them them just enough rope to either save or hang themselves. Already having been told repeatedly, and only half-jokingly, not to use words like “hypothesis” and “epistemology” in Washington, I asked, “If you are committed to a conservative political agenda, yet you perform fact-based research, what do you do with the data that does not support your political position?” After I finished the room fell silent and one of my APSA colleagues simply said “Boom.” Without repeating anything that the Heritage fellows actually said, my impression was that none of them had spent much time thinking about it. Corrigan offered a canned response that did not address the question at hand, but one of the Heritage fellows did appear to grapple honestly with the possibility that reality might diverge from his idealized version of it. It was as if the idea had never really occurred to him before, in which case he is not intellectually promiscuous at all. It’s worse: He’s a true-believer, fully committed to the cause.

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If You Can't Stand the Heat Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen's new music video for “Crave” is the first piece of their upcoming record, IF YOU CAN’T STAND THE HEAT, out January 25, 2019 on Compass Records. The video was filmed on location at Nashville’s friendliest vintage guitar store, Carter Vintage Guitars, showcasing the band’s love for their instruments. Kicking off the new album, the track was co-written by Frank Solivan and bluegrass fiddler Becky Buller. Pre-Order If You Can’t Stand the Heat: https://CompassRecords.lnk.to/theheat Rikki Don't Lose That Number "No Life in This Town" Live from Bluegrass Underground "Cold Spell" 09.2014 / Live at the 2014 International Bluegrass Music Awards Show 04.2016 / Live at the Bluegrass Underground "Betrayal" 05.2016 / Live from the Red Wing Roots Festival “No Life in this Town” 08.2014 / Live at Telluride family friends heroes Frank Solivan 'FAMILY, FRIENDS & HEROES' EPK "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" Live at FreshGrass (2016) "Pretty Woman" If You Can't Stand the Heat (2019) Family, Friends & Heroes (2016) Following Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen’s GRAMMY nomination, IBMA Award, and top prize in the Mid-Atlantic Song Contest, bandleader Frank Solivan continues the pace in 2016 with a solo release, Family, Friends & Heroes. Available March 4, the 14-song collection pays homage to Solivan's family members and features the pristine playing of his musical heroes. Special guests include Del McCoury, Sam Bush, John Cowan, Jerry Douglas, Rob Ickes, and more. Recorded in an intimate, living-room style, Family, Friends & Heroes is a glimpse into Solivan's heart. Highlights are plenteous and include a take of “Pretty Woman”, with Del McCoury on high harmony, “Wayfaring Stranger”, featuring the vocals of Lorene Solivan (Frank’s late mother); “The Fishing Song”, written by Ty Smith (Frank’s cousin); “Are You Missing Me”, featuring Frank’s cousin, Megan McCormick (Jenny Lewis); and “Leaving On A Jet Plane”, featuring John Cowan’s mighty tenor. “It’s a toast to the things that matter in life and testimony to how good music can feel when talent is fused with soul and sincerity.” —Craig Havighurst, Music City Roots 2015 GRAMMY Best Bluegrass Album Nominee! Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen are the next big thing on the bluegrass circuit. Fronted by mandolinist, singer and songwriter Frank Solivan, the band has been nominated several years in a row for the International Bluegrass Music Association’s Emerging Artist of the Year award and their current tour schedule includes some of the most important tastemaker festivals in the roots music world. Their new album COLD SPELL will solidify their position as torchbearers for the new generation of progressive bands taking bluegrass from its traditional roots to a younger and broader audience. The album’s ten tracks show just how far the traditional bluegrass instrumentation of banjo, mandolin, guitar and acoustic bass can go in the right hands. From the evocative opening track “Say It Isn’t So,” through the bluesy “No Life in this Town” to the future jam grass anthem “She Said She Will” (featuring Solivan’s bluesy tenor vocals and a jaw dropping banjo performance from Mike Munford, International Bluegrass Music Association’s reigning Banjo Player of the Year), Frank Solivan and his bandmates (Munford, guitarist Chris Luquette and bassman Danny Booth) take their brand of bluegrass through the paces proving track after track that bluegrass can rock and groove. With special guests Leon Alexander, Sam Bush, John Cowan, Rob Ickes and Megan McCormick. “Ranked among the “buzz” bluegrass bands…a razor sharp, confident quartet.” —Bluegrass Unlimited ON THE EDGE (2013) ON THE EDGE, the new album from Frank Solivan and Dirty Kitchen, showcases one of the most exciting new bands in bluegrass. With esteemed guests Tim O’Brien singing harmony on "On the Edge of Letting Go," Dobro whiz Rob Ickes and vocalist Megan McCormick joining Solivan’s skilled team of pickers, these original songs and unique arrangements virtually jump off of the CD as the band applies the muscle of traditional bluegrass and finesse of new grass to songs across the bluegrass and Americana spectrums. Frank Solivan’s tenor vocals soar over virtuosic picking provided by banjoist Mike Munford, guitarist Chris Luquette and bassist Danny Booth. With the release ofON THE EDGE Frank Solivan and Dirty Kitchen are poised to become one of the most in demand and celebrated new bands in the genre. “This is the best new bluegrass band.” —Rob Ickes “Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen have certainly ranked among the “buzz” bluegrass bands…a razor sharp, confident quartet influenced by a broad range of the last four decades of bluegrass music development.” —Bluegrass Unlimited Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen (2010) Selfish Tears (2006) Copyright 2016 Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen Website Design by PR by MR

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Nielsen and Westwood One Renew Relationship separate addresses by comma New York — Oct. 2, 2015 — Nielsen and Westwood One announced today that Westwood One has signed a multi-year extension to use Nielsen BDSradio measurement exclusively across its Cumulus stations and Westwood One 24/7 syndicated programming. Nielsen BDSradio is the world's leading measurement tool for streaming, airplay and sales data for the record and radio industries and powers the official Billboard charts. The tool produces strategic programming research, including comprehensive music reports, competitive head-to-head analyses and custom reports that enable broadcasters, rights owners and streaming services to optimize programming, measure consumption and maximize audiences. Charles Steinhauer, Westwood One’s COO, said “The power of our platform, our recent investments in sales and marketing, and the strong continuity of our partnerships has allowed us to represent the best in class services in the industry. We are proud to extend our relationship with Nielsen and look forward to the future together.” “We are delighted to extend our successful relationship with Westwood One,” added Erin Crawford, GM of Music, Nielsen. “As a leading provider of audio entertainment content, Westwood One is an ideal collaborator for us as we continue to develop new innovative tools for a dynamic music industry. It is a testament to our commitment to quality services and insights and we couldn’t be prouder.” Nielsen BDSradio processes more than 7 billion streams each week, and over 550,000 music detections every day from more than 1,900 radio stations, networks and video channels in the U.S., Canada and Mexico. Nielsen’s measurement of music consumption, including radio monitoring, sales and streaming activity, as well as consumer research, is the currency for the entertainment industry. Nielsen is the exclusive provider of airplay, sales, and on-demand streaming activity to Billboard’s charts and is the global standard for music measurement. Nielsen N.V. (NYSE: NLSN) is a global performance management company that provides a comprehensive understanding of what consumers Watch and Buy. Nielsen’s Watch segment provides media and advertising clients with Total Audience measurement services across all devices where content—video, audio and text—is consumed. The Buy segment offers consumer packaged goods manufacturers and retailers the industry’s only global view of retail performance measurement. By integrating information from its Watch and Buy segments and other data sources, Nielsen provides its clients with both world-class measurement as well as analytics that help improve performance. Nielsen, an S&P 500 company, has operations in over 100 countries that cover more than 90% of the world’s population. For more information, visit www.nielsen.com. About Westwood One Westwood One offers audio products to engage listeners whenever, wherever they are. We are a trusted connection between audio companies, advertisers, and audience, reaching hundreds of millions of monthly listeners. Our portfolio features exclusive brands people love, such as the NFL, Westwood One Backstage, NASH, Rdio, and more. As the national-facing arm of Cumulus, we represent more than just a radio network; we are a multi-platform provider of sports, music, news, spoken word, and digital content. Visit westwoodone.com. Anna Loynes: (818) 761-7159; Soundscan@nielsen.com Jana Polsky: (212) 641-2101; jpolsky@westwoodone.com Get the Nielsen Newswire Newsletter By clicking on Subscribe, I agree to the Privacy Policy and Terms of Use. You’re almost done! Please check your email to confirm your subscription. In the meantime, explore our insights and reports on the latest consumer trends. Something went wrong. If this is your first time subscribing, return to our signup form and try again, or contact us. Once you’ve subscribed successfully, you will receive a confirmation email.

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Day 76: Watch Captain Phillips Today’s first was to watch Captain Phillips, the second of the nine Best Picture nominated films. Last week, Gravity took me into space. Tonight, the story took place in the open seas off the coast of Somalia. As in space, when disaster strikes, being at sea far from shore and other ships, leaves you vulnerable and then self-reliant as you wait for help. Captain Phillips was nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Supporting Actor for first time actor, Barkhad Abdi. It did not win in any categories. The movie stars Tom Hanks and Barkhad Abdi and is directed by Paul Greengrass. It’s rated PG-13 and has a run time of 2 hours and 14 minutes. Based on an actual event that took place in 2009, Captain Phillips is the story of the hijacking of the unarmed ship, Maersk Alabama. During the incident, merchant mariner Captain Richard Phillips was taken hostage by Somali pirates, led by Abduwali Muse. The movie is well crafted, superbly acted and very intense. I knew the final outcome of the situation, as far as the captain was concerned, but I didn’t know HOW it was all resolved, nor what happened to the pirates. I was completely caught up in the story until the credits rolled. Tom Hanks gives a gritty, masterful performance. I’ve been a fan of his since his start on television. He has the kind of soulful eyes that speak far more than his words. I’m surprised he didn’t receive a nomination for Best Actor. Newcomer Barkhad Abdi was amazing as the pirate leader, Muse. He has an intensity and presence that kept my eyes on him in every scene he appeared in. His nomination was well deserved, and I hope to see him in future films. I was struck by the similarities between the two men, Phillips and Muse, both living lives not entirely within their own control. Both men left their homes to accomplish a routine job and became ensnared in a life changing event. When Muse, explaining to Captain Phillips why he’s a pirate, says, “I have bosses…”, Phillips answers with grim understanding, “We all have bosses.” As the movie progressed, Hanks’ character become more basic and simple, intent on survival, while Abdi’s became more complex, more desperate, as he realized he was in a situation way over his head. The compassion Phillips had for his captors was touching. He assured the four men that they could take the $30,000 he had given them and go home, without harm, if they would just release him. Even when the US Navy showed up, the Somali men would not back down, could not release their hostage and return home without more money, without leverage. According to Muse, “I came too far, I can’t give up”. Those words sealed their fate. Throughout the incident, Captain Phillips heard Muse say many times, “Everything’s gonna be alright.” Muse spoke to reassure himself as much as Phillips, perhaps. As the Navy positioned themselves to resolve the situation, their negotiators eerily echoed Muse’s words, “Everything’s gonna be okay.” Like Phillips, until the very end, I wasn’t sure that either side spoke the truth. This is a powerful movie. I highly recommend it.

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Eliot School Improvement Plan District School Calendar PTC Webpage Calvo & Burgholtzer Gr 5 Web page 2001 Eldecott Medal Little Red School House School House Roles Archived Student Projects K-5 Curriculum Summaries Needham Public Schools Curriculum Database Eliot Staff Directory Eliot Elementary School » Our School » History of the School John Eliot school was named after an English-born Congregational minister at the First Church of Roxbury. John Eliot was a missionary to the Indian tribes in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. John Eliot translated the Old and New Testaments of the Bible into the Algonquin tongue, which was considered a remarkable achievement since the Algonquins had little or no written language. The John Eliot School was opened in 1956. The first principal was Mr. John Hicks, with a staff of 13 classroom teachers. Mr. Hicks was principal form 1956-1977 In 1975, Mr. William J. O'Neil became principal until 1988. Mrs. Miriam Kronish was principal from 1988 to 2002. The performance center is named after her. In 2003 a new John Eliot School building was constructed on the same site. Mrs. Suzanne Wilcox became principal in 2002 and retired in 2013. During her years as principal the school grew to 19 classroom teachers. In 2013 Mr. Roderick MacNeal, Jr. relocated from Detroit Michigan to become principal. During his tenure the student population rose to nearly 400 students. 2017, Mrs. Karen Bourn was appointed as Interim principal of the Eliot School.

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Liverpool To Combat Climate Change With Blockchain Tech cryptocurrency July 30, 2018 This English town wants to become the first climate-positive city by using blockchain technology. According to a recent announcement, the Liverpool City Council has partnered with the nonprofit Poseidon Foundation to integrate blockchain technology into the city’s daily operations, with the goal of becoming a climate-positive city by the end of 2020. Through Poseidon’s platform, consumers and retailers in Liverpool, England, could potentially offset their climate-negative transactions, which would be linked to climate-positive credits to help fund forest conservation efforts spearheaded by Ecosphere+, a global climate solutions company. The city will trial its climate-positive strategy over the next 12 months. Per the agreement, Poseidon will work with the city’s local schools, universities, and businesses to spread awareness about climate impact. Additionally, Liverpool’s mayor, Joe Anderson, will host a strategic business summit in September with organizations across the city to explore Poseidon’s role in helping to make individual companies climate positive. Discussing the partnership, Anderson said: “Poseidon’s technology is the first of its kind to truly deliver a solution to governments, businesses and individuals around the world to help reverse the causes of climate change and I am thrilled this agreement will bring this cutting-edge technology to our city. Liverpool City Council has a significant carbon footprint because of all the services we provide – be it street lighting, the running of countless properties like St George’s Hall or the Arena and our fleet of vehicles. We are already making significant strides to reduce our impact … but that is not enough and partnering with Poseidon … means we can explore radical new ways to do more.” In the use case proposed on the Poseidon website, consumers and retailers join the platform. The retailer’s point-of-sale system stores the carbon impact of items in its inventory, and when the consumer makes a purchase, they pay a price to offset the carbon impact. This system requires the participation of the service provider or retailer and the consumer. However, neither the city council nor Poseidon has provided details regarding specific projects in the pipeline for Liverpool. It remains unclear which facets of the city’s operations would be part of the blockchain system to offset its carbon footprint using the climate-positive Ecosphere+ credits, whether the system would be open to private businesses, or to what extent participation would be voluntary. However, Liverpool hopes its efforts will help reduce the city’s carbon emissions by 40 percent by 2030. According to the announcement, such a reduction would equal the preservation of 136 million trees, or 338,000 football fields’ worth of forest. The cryptospace has seen other energy-related advancements in the past few months, especially within the United States. In June, Santa Clara municipal electric company Silicon Valley Partner announced a project with Australian blockchain-based renewable energy startup Power Ledger to track electric vehicle charging and simplify the process of earning California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard credits. On July 16, the US Department of Energy announced that Colorado blockchain company Grid7 LLC would receive a nearly $1 million grant to use the technology to develop a more decentralized energy system. Daniel Putney is a full-time writer for ETHNews. He received his bachelor’s degree in English writing from the University of Nevada, Reno, where he also studied journalism and queer theory. In his free time, he writes poetry, plays the piano, and fangirls over fictional characters. He lives with his partner, three dogs, and two cats in the middle of nowhere, Nevada. Like what you read? Follow us on Twitter @ETHNews_ to receive the latest Liverpool, blockchain or other Ethereum application news. ETHNews Exclusive | SEC’s Hester Peirce On The Winklevoss Bitcoin ETF Proposal Smart Dubai, DIFC Partner To Improve Court System With Blockchain

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Palestine Pulse Will new Sudanese regime stop arms flow to Gaza? Ahmad Abu Amer April 18, 2019 The toppled regime of Sudanese leader Omar al-Bashir had turned a blind eye to the smuggling of weapons through Sudan to Gaza, and Hamas is hoping that any successor government will adopt a similar attitude. Sudan TV/ReutersTV via REUTERS Lt. Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan Abdelrahman (R), head of the transitional ruling military council in Sudan, swears in Gen. Abdelfattah Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo as deputy of the council, Khartoum, April 13, 2019. GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Hamas has remained silent about the Sudanese government transition after Defense Minister Ahmed Awad ibn Auf stood down on April 12, the day after leading a coup that toppled President Omar al-Bashir, with whom the movement had had strong ties. Sudan's significance to Hamas lies in it being one of the most important routes for the transfer of arms to Gaza. Bashir's regime boasted of its political support for Hamas and allowed it to open an office there. Hamas members also studied in Sudan. Israel has over the years repeatedly reproached Sudan for opening its territory and ports to arms smuggled overland from Libya and by sea and air from Iran en route to Hamas via the Sinai. A retired Sudanese military commander who spoke to Al-Monitor on the condition of anonymity said, “The former Sudanese regime did not provide any weapons to Hamas, but it turned a blind eye to the smuggling of its weapons through its territory to the Gaza Strip.” The change in regime in Egypt dealt a significant blow to operations when President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi ordered the destruction of the tunnels between Egypt and Gaza through which the Palestinian factions received weapons and ordinary Palestinians were able to obtained an array of goods. With the crackdown, some smugglers turned to the sea to move goods. On April 7, Israel arrested two Palestinian fishermen for allegedly smuggling large amounts of explosives from Egypt to Hamas via the Mediterranean. Mahmoud Mardawi, a former military official of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas' military wing, spoke to Al-Monitor about how political changes in the Arab world over the past decade had led to a decline in financial and military support for the Palestinian factions, especially Hamas. Given this lack of support and Israeli control over goods entering Gaza, the movement had to resort to manufacturing its own weapons using smuggled equipment. Mardawi would not go into the specifics of smuggling, stating, “Methods of smuggling are secret, and no one in the movement is to speak of them in the media.” The retired commander explained that the majority of members of the Sudanese military council, who hold positions in the army and the security services, had been aware of the details involving arms smuggling to Hamas. He ruled out the possibility of the new ruling transitional council, led by Lt. Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan Abdelrahman, taking any action contrary to the former regime’s support of the Palestinians, in particular the Palestinian resistance movements. He claimed that support for the Palestinian cause was a top priority of Sudanese officials and citizens. Israel has sought to stem arms smuggling through Sudan to Hamas in various ways, including assassination, as in the case of Mahmoud Mabhouh, a Hamas official in charge of procuring weapons, while in Dubai in January 2010. In March 2009, it had conducted an air raid in eastern Sudan, targeting a 17-truck convoy carrying weapons destined for Gaza. Another raid, in October 2012, struck an arms factory in Khartoum, and in March 2014, the Israeli navy seized a ship loaded with weapons in the Red Sea between Sudan and Eritrea that it said was en route from Iran to Gaza. Israeli air raids have also been ordered to thwart arms smuggling in the Sinai, most recently in late February. In January, then-Israeli Chief of Staff Gadi Eizenkot reported that since he took office in 2015, the Israeli military had carried out air raids in the Sinai and elsewhere that destroyed 15,000 to 20,000 rockets headed to Hamas in Gaza. In recent years, Israel has sought to establish secret diplomatic relations with Khartoum to steer it away from Iran and stop the flow of arms to Hamas. In addition, on May 2, 2018, the French website Intelligence Online published “Israel: Intelligence Service Cultivates Its Contacts in Libya,” an article revealing that the month before Israel had established communications with Gen. Khalifa Hifter, commander of the so-called Libyan National Army, to exchange information to stop the transfer of arms to Hamas from Libya via Sudan. This past February a Libyan court convicted four Palestinians, who were picked up in October 2016 on charges of transferring weapons to Hamas via Sudan and Sinai. Yusuf al-Sharqawi, a retired Palestinian general, told Al-Monitor that he does not believe the change in regime in Sudan will affect the flow of arms to the Palestinian factions in Gaza, noting that many arms shipments clandestinely enter Gaza without the knowledge of Sudanese authorities. Sharqawi noted that given Sudan's geographic location, Hamas needs to maintain good relations with whoever controls the country. The movement feels it vital to ensure that its smuggling routes remain intact. For the meantime, Hamas is keeping an eye on the political situation in Sudan with the hope that the new leadership follows in the previous regime's footsteps in turning a blind eye. Found in: Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Armed Militias and Extremist Groups Ahmad Abu Amer is a Palestinian writer and journalist who has worked for a number of local and international media outlets. He is co-author of a book on the Gaza blockade for the Turkish Anadolu Agency. He holds a master’s degree from the Islamic University of Gaza. Israel accuses Hamas of building explosives lab in West Bank Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood: a change toward democracy? Why Hamas changes strategy, privileges arrangement with Israel Why is Hamas test-firing missiles? Militants step up Sinai strikes on security personnel, civilians

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Subscribe The CODART eZine is issued by CODART CODART-TEFAF special Save as pdf with images Save as pdf without images Print with images The whole issue Website archive of the project Werk in Uitvoering The Mauritshu... Curator's CollectionDecorative Art in the Museum De Lakenhal Curator's Collection Decorative Art in the Museum De Lakenhal Among CODART members the Museum De Lakenhal in Leiden is probably best known for its Old Masters, which include works by Lucas van Leyden, the young Rembrandt and the Leiden ‘fine painters’. Successful shows on such themes as Rembrandt’s landscapes and, more recently, the exhibition on Lucas van Leyden organized by CODART member Christiaan Vogelaar, have been critically acclaimed. But the museum’s collection is much, much broader. Even though the decorative arts are not the primary field of interest of most members of CODART, it is the focus of this short contribution. The museum owes its name to the original function of its premises on the Oude Singel in Leiden. The building was designed in 1640 by Arent van ’s-Gravensande as a Lakenhal (Clothmakers’ Hall), where the meetings of the governors and syndics of the cloth industry were held, cloth was inspected and sold, legal redress could be sought, and the guild’s administration was kept. The building, an example of Dutch classicist architecture, provides suitable accommodation for the museum that presents the history of the city that was so closely tied to the textile industry. In 1868, after the building had ceased to serve its original purpose, its attic was designated to store the collection of historical artefacts that had gradually been taking shape at the town hall. As is the case with many city museums, the municipal collection formed the basis of the Museum De Lakenhal. Among its treasures were Lucas van Leyden’s painting of the Last Judgment, as well as fine pieces of the Leiden civic plate, including a ewer and basin produced in 1641 by the Leiden silversmith Frans Maerschalck. The basin is decorated with a gold medal featuring the coat of arms of the city of Leiden and with an engraved escutcheon, likewise displaying the city arms, supported by a lion with a raised scimitar. The ensemble also contains four large salt-cellars, crafted by the Leiden master Barend Gast, which are circular and lobed in shape and surmounted by round finials. This type of object can also be found in seventeenth-century paintings. Eight candlesticks that correspond in size and design to the lobed form of the salt-cellars were commissioned in 1662 by the burgomasters of Leiden from an artisan in The Hague. This demonstrates the strong ties between the craftsmen of Leiden and those of neighboring artistic centers, such as Amsterdam and The Hague. Another highly important piece that was transferred from the town hall to the Lakenhal was the so-called Lanckaert tapestry. This tapestry was commissioned from the Delft weaver Joost Jansz Lanckaert in 1587, fifteen years after Leiden had been freed from the Spanish, when rebel Sea Beggars claimed the city for William of Orange. The tapestry depicts the route taken by the Sea Beggars on their march to liberate the city, and can thus be seen as the Leiden authorities’ declaration of allegiance to the Prince of Orange. The border was designed by the Leiden painter and magistrate Isaac Claesz van Swanenburg. The building designed by Van ’s-Gravensande is more than mere accommodation for the museum’s collection; it is also part of that collection. This is demonstrated by the many parts of the collection that form a fixed part of the building. Located on the first floor of the old Lakenhal is the so-called Governors’ Chamber, where the governors and syndics of the cloth industry assembled. Even though the chamber has undergone inevitable changes over the years, various elements of its interior recall its original purpose and sumptuous furnishings. The consoles of the ceiling, which consists of secondary and sleeper beams, were carved by the Leiden wood-carver Albert Goosman. Above the mantelpiece hangs a portrait of five governors of the textile guild by the hand of Carel de Moor (1692). Its original frame contains the carved and gilded family arms of the governors portrayed, as well as the coat of arms of the city of Leiden, executed by the wood-carver Hendrik van Dijk. In the so-called Syndics’ Chamber on the other side of the large hall, the syndics (cloth inspectors) once assembled. One is reminded of the room’s function by the group portrait, specially made for the Syndic’s Chamber by Jan de Baen (1675), with its carved, semicircular frame, made to fit the form of the barrel vault of the ceiling and the decorated wall-paneling below. Both frame and decorations were executed by Albert’s younger brother Gerrit Goosman. In the 1930s this room was furnished with gilded leather wall-covering of 1649, which had been removed from the commissioner’s house known as the “Delftse Schouw,” likewise designed by Van ’s-Gravensande and situated on the tow path running alongside the River Vliet between Leiden and Delft. Even though it was not originally made for its present home, this wall-covering looks splendid in combination with the seventeenth-century chairs with “barley-sugar” twisted legs and the high desk with auricular carving by Gerrit Goosman. One of the syndics in Jan de Baen’s group portrait is Willem van Heemskerck, a cloth merchant who occupied a special place in the guild and the decorative arts of Leiden. Although his own textile business went bankrupt, Van Heemskerck held various prestigious offices in the guild, including that of syndic. In addition, he was an amateur poet and glass calligrapher. Van Heemskerck’s calligraphy with its characteristic swirling letters is well represented in the Lakenhal’s collection by fifteen pieces, including this roemer. Another category of objects that entered the museum’s collection shortly after it was founded came from hospitals and almshouses that closed their doors in the nineteenth century. These items include an engraved glass that must have been used for toasts by the regents of the “Sint Catharina en Caecilia” hospital. The glass was engraved by Willem Robart for the regent Jan Alesoon. The two figures on the goblet, an old man and a madwoman, personify the two institutions that had been responsible for the care of the sick and elderly in Leiden since the Middle Ages. Robart based these figures on drawings (now kept in the Regionaal Archief Leiden) made by Frans van Mieris the Younger, numismatist, historian, painter and grandson of the famous Leiden “fine painter.” The glass was probably bequeathed to the hospital when Alesoon stepped down in 1747. A generous bequest and subsequent donation by Carel and Cornelis Pape made it possible to add a new wing to the museum in 1921. While the Hartevelt Gallery, which opened in 1890, was the domain of painting, the Pape Galleries focused on the decorative arts. In accordance with the then prevailing ideas in the field of museology, two rooms were furnished as period rooms to provide suitable décor for the decorative arts. The so-called Yellow Pape Gallery in the style of Louis XVI came from the house at Leidse Breestraat 24. The contents of this house were auctioned off in 1918, and the wall-paneling was installed in the museum soon after. The rooms in the house did not correspond exactly to the space in the museum, however, so the paneling had to be adapted to its new surroundings. The second period room was supplied with wall-paneling with elaborate carving in the style of Louis XIV, as well as an overdoor, an overmantel and a ceiling painting by Anthony Elliger (1739). The room did not come from a house in Leiden, however, but from premises in Arnhem, but this was no reason for the then director, J.C. Overvoorde, to reject this beautiful example of the Louis XIV style. The Pape Wing was built to accommodate the collection of Carel Pape, but its opening prompted the acquisition of further examples of applied art. The objects collected in this period – which included many smaller pieces of furniture, as well as various bequests and donations – were mainly of illustrative value in portraying “daily life” in various periods. They were seldom of exceptional quality, and did not always have an obvious connection with Leiden. In recent years the applied arts have played a relatively modest role at Museum De Lakenhal. The collection has been enriched with several specific purchases and loans from Leiden artists, including a toilet mirror and two sauce boats made by Hendrik Fortman, a member of the famous family of silversmiths, as well as with purchases that fall outside the direct sphere of CODART, such as the substantial collection of earthenware from the Amphora factory in Oegstgeest, which produced pottery in the style of Rozenburg. Recent trends have caused the collection of decorative arts to retreat somewhat from public view for the benefit of a more modern museum display. Important pieces, such as the goblet presented by Elizabeth of Bohemia in 1641 to the city of Leiden as a token of her gratitude for providing her children with accommodation, have been relegated temporarily to the depot. The goblet, which is nearly eighty centimeters high, was executed by the Nuremberg-born Hague silversmith Hans Coenraet Breghtel in an elaborate auricular style. The cartouches all around contain minutely stippled allegorical representations, and a statue of the Winter Queen herself appears on the lid. The goblet will soon be on public display again. In 2010 the project Werk in Uitvoering (Work in Progress) prompted the museum to focus on its own collection: more than 13,000 objects were brought out of the depot and into view. A conveyor belt – which carried the objects past staff members, who described, examined and photographed them all – was visible to the public. This gave visitors a unique glimpse behind the scenes at the museum, and they were asked to give their opinion of the museum and its collection. This brought a number of long-lost treasures to light, and provided a wealth of information and valuable insights into the appreciation, history and formation of the collection. In accordance with the project, the museum will focus on the presentation of its own collection in the first half of 2012. All of this will strengthen the Museum De Lakenhal in its preparations for the planned renovation and extension. The new exhibition space will provide the permanent collection, including the decorative arts, with much more room. A member of CODART since 2009, Femke Diercks was Junior Curator of Decorative Arts at Museum De Lakenhal in Leiden until 1 February 2012 and is currently Junior Curator of Glass and Ceramics at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. CODART-TEFAF special Curator's Collection Decorative A... The Mauritsh... Jordaens and... 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World Topics World Religions - Christian Groups, Sects and Denominations FATIMA, LOURDES, GUADALUPE AND APPARITIONS AND MIRACLES ASSOCIATED WITH THE VIRGIN MARY VISIONS AND APPARITIONS An apparition is “a ghost or ghostlike image of a person” or “a remarkable or unexpected appearance of someone or something”. Apparitions of the Virgin Mary that have been recognized by the Catholic church include: 1) In Paris in 1830 a novice nun named Catherine Laboure saw an image of the Virgin in a chapel and the image transformed into a “Miraculous Medal” used to worship Mary; 2) In Pontamain France in 1871 the Virgin appeared to four children who were urged to pray for Prussian troops to turn back. 3) In Knock Ireland in 1870 Mary, Joseph, John the Apostle and a lamb was seen by more than 15 people as they stood in the rain. 4) In 1933 in Beauraing, Belgium Mary appeared 33 times to five children, aged 9 to 15, in a garden. 5) In Banneaux, Belgium in 1933 a 12-year-old girl saw Mary eight times in a family garden. Other apparition of the Virgin Mary that have been not been recognized by the Catholic church include: 1) in Amsterdam in 1945-59, Mary appeared many times to Ida Peerdeman promising world peace and asking for the titles "Co-Redemptrix, Mediatrix and Advocate”: 2) in Kibeho, Rwanda in 1981-89, visionaries saw images of genocide followed by an image of Mary calling for prayer; 3) in Medjurgorhe, Bosnia, a small town of 250 families in a Croatian enclave of Bosnia, where beginning in 1981, six children there have were said the had visions of Mary. Describing an apparition on the slopes of Mt. Etna, a Sicilian woman told journalist John McLaughlin, " Yes, the Madonna appears once a month, on the third...She always comes at the same time...three o'clock in the afternoon...Me, I've never seen her myself, but who knows. There are some people who are meant to see her, and other's who aren't. They say there have been miracles here, that people have been cured.” Websites and Resources: Christianity Britannica on Christianity britannica.com//Christianity ; History of Christianity history-world.org/jesus_christ ; BBC on Christianity bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/christianity ;Wikipedia article on Christianity Wikipedia ; Religious Tolerance religioustolerance.org/christ.htm ; Christian Answers christiananswers.net ; Christian Classics Ethereal Library www.ccel.org ; Bible: Bible Gateway and the New International Version (NIV) of The Bible biblegateway.com ; King James Version of the Bible gutenberg.org/ebooks ; Christian Denominations: Christianity.com christianity.com/church/denominations ; Christianity Comparison Charts religionfacts.com ; Difference between Christian Denominations Quoracom ; Holy See w2.vatican.va ; Catholic Online catholic.org ; Catholic Encyclopedia newadvent.org ; World Council of Churches, main world body for mainline Protestant churches oikoumene.org ; Wikipedia article on Protestantism Wikipedia ; Online Orthodox Catechism published by the Russian Orthodox Church orthodoxeurope.org ; Nihov's Worldwide Coptic Directory directory.nihov.org Miracles in Catholicism A miracle is defined by the Catholic Church as an "inexplicable recovery" that is "sudden, complete and lasting." Peter Stanford wrote for the BBC: “At various Marian shrines around the world, for instance, the Catholic Church believes that a small number of miracle cures of illness have been effected. [Source: Peter Stanford, BBC, June 29, 2011 |::|] Miracles have always played a big part in winning converts to Christianity. They have come in the form of bleeding paintings of the Virgin Mary, talking images, miracle-working icons and saint's bones and frescoes that have been scraped off the wall and mixed with water and oils poured through the coffins of dead saints and drunk as a medicine. British historian Robin Cormack wrote in the New York Times, "What could better demonstrate Christ's life on earth than a picture that shared all his powers of healing? Who needed to listen to theological quibbling over the nature of Christ if an icon could speak a thousand words?" In the early church miracles were performed by saints while they were alive. Later on, beginning in medieval times, most miracles were attributed to saints and others after they died. Famous Apparitions of Mary Apparition of Mary on a coconiut tree in Silay, Negros, The Philippines Tia Ghose of Live Science wrote: “Our Lady of Guadalupe: In 1531 in the fields near Mexico City, a peasant named Juan Diego claimed to see an apparition of the Virgin Mary, who asked that a church be built in her honor. The Virgin also asked the man to gather flowers on a hillside, which he did and placed in his cloak. Afterwards, the cloak appeared to hold the imprint of the Virgin Mary. Though there have been a few scientific analyses of the so-called Our Lady of Guadalupe miracle over the years, no one has come to a definitive conclusion as to whether or how the image was painted, and if so, how it has been preserved so well. [Source: Tia Ghose, Live Science, July 9, 2013 /+/] “Fatima: In 1917 in the fields near Fatima, Portugal, shepherd children said the Virgin Mary appeared to them in a vision, telling them a miracle would occur on Oct. 13 that year. Thousands came to witness the event. Around Noon on a rainy day, the sun appeared to turn into a spinning disk that spiraled toward the Earth. Newspaper reporters onsite also reported the event. The church added the miracle of the sun to its list of official miracles in 1930. Some skeptics, however, point out that the effect could have been a sundog, a patch of light that appears near the sun, or note that not everyone there that day saw the miracle. /+/ “In 1981 in the small town of Medjugorje in what is now Bosnia-Herzegovina, six children reported seeing apparitions of the Virgin Mary. For years they claimed to receive daily messages and so far have allegedly received thousands of prophecies. "One is a prediction that there are 10 secrets that will reveal the end of the world," said Michael O'Neill, who runs the website MiracleHunter.com. Though the Vatican has never officially weighed in, the site has attracted millions of pilgrims over the years. In 2010, the Vatican agreed to investigate this event and said its findings would be ready in 2013. /+/ “In 1968, people in the Zeitoun district of Cairo, Egypt, reported seeing an apparition of an illuminated woman walking on the roof of a Coptic church. Many considered this to be an apparition of the Virgin Mary. The event was reportedly seen by many onlookers and even captured in photographs. So far, no one has found evidence that those photos were manipulated. The head of the Coptic Church in Alexandria declared this a legitimate miracle. /+/ Fatima Apparition of Mary “In 1973, a statue in a little church in Akita, Japan, allegedly began to bleed soon after Sister Agnes Sasagawa at the church had an apparition of the Virgin Mary. The statue continued to cry, sweat and bleed for several years and was even captured on national television. The Sister Agnes, who was deaf prior to the apparition, also regained her hearing about a decade later.” /+/ Fátima, Portugal is one of the world's most famous Catholic pilgrimage spots, along with Lourdes in France and Guadalupe in Mexico. Honoring the Virgin Mary, it attracts millions of pilgrims each year, many of whom march on their knees for almost a kilometer across an asphalt mall that once covered a pasture where three young shepherds had a vision of the Virgin Mary in 1917. [Source: Jane Vessels, National Geographic, December 1980] Some of the pilgrims wear knee pads; others carry children on their shoulders to increase the burden; and others still burst and into tears and wail with emotion as they pray. At the small chapel at the end of the mall, pilgrims can be seen wrapping their swollen ankles and bruised knees with bandages. To honor the Virgin and the children, pilgrims burn life-size wax effigies of children and the Virgin Mary and light candles to commemorate the vision. On ordinary days people go to the chapel and melt wax legs, arms and other body parts in an effort to get miracle cures for the corresponding body parts. Miracle of Fatima The reported miracle of Fatima began in a quiet pasture on May 13, 1917, when three young shepherds — 10-year-old Lucia dos Santos and her cousins 9-year-old Francisco de Jesus Marto and 7-year-old Jacinta de Jesus Marto, from Aljustrel, a small hamlet near Fátima — looked up from a sand-castle-like stone house they were building and saw "the most beautiful lady they had ever seen...more brilliant than the sun" appear above a small oak tree. The lady told the children: "Recite the Rosary — a devotion to the Virgin — to bring peace to a world at war, and make sacrifices for sinners who have no one to pray for them." She promised the children to return on the 13th day of the next five months and then disappeared. [Source: Jane Vessels, National Geographic, December 1980] Lucia Santos, Francisco Marto and Jacinta Each month on 13th the lady appeared at the oak tree. Each time Lucia could see her, walk with her and talk to her, Jacinta could see her and Francisco could only hear her. During one of her visits, she showed the children a vision of Hell and warned against the perils of Communism. News of the vision attracted increasingly large crowds to Fatima for each scheduled vision. A "large number of people" showed up on July 13. Maybe 30,000 were there on August 13. On October 13, a crowd of 70,000 surrounded the shepherds, who saw the Virgin. She reappeared briefly and told the children to raise a chapel in her honor. Describing the final vision, Lucia wrote: "The Lady said, 'I am the lady of the Rosary.’ And opening her hands, the Lady made them reflect on the sun, and while ascending her person reflected off the sun itself." No one but the children saw her put most people there reported that a bright light appeared and "the sun seemed to dance and whirl closer to earth." Three times the sun spun and danced and three times it stopped and then hurled towards the crowds, scaring them, before returning to its original place in the sky. After the Miracle of Fatima Later a chapel was built over the oak which was stripped for relics after the sightings. The peasant grassroots movement that developed after the sightings was at first viewed with skepticism by the government and the Catholic church. The Vatican generally tries to discourage miracle worship but later it recognized Fatima as well as Lourdes. Around 1,500 "miraculous cures" have occurred at Fatima, most of them before a medical investigation bureau was established at Fatima in the mid-1920s. In the her second visit the children reported asked the Virgin if they could go to heaven. She reportedly told Jacinta and Francisco they would come "soon" but Lucia would come later so she could "establish in the world devotion to my Immaculate Heart.” Jacinta and Francisco died of respiratory diseases during a worldwide influenza around two years after the miracle. Newspaper article about Fatima Lucia dos Santos entered a Catholic school in Porto five years after the sighting and entered became a nun, entering the Carmelite Order in 1928. She lived most of her life in seclusion as a nun and wrote an account that detailed the Virgin's request for prayers for the conversion of Russia. She died in 2005 after spending most of her life in seclusion at the Carmelite convent of Santa Teresa in Coimbraa, Portugal, where she had lived since 1948. Each day the virgin appeared is honored with a pilgrimage. Of the six pilgrimage dates, May 13 is by the far the largest. It draws as many as 300,000 pilgrims, many of whom participate in a candlelight procession that precedes the Midnight Mass on the 13th. Pope John Paul II attributed his recovery after the attempt on his life in 1981 to Our Lady of Fatima. The bullet that was lodged in the pope's stomach was placed in a golden set on the head of Virgin’s statue in Fatima by the Pope himself. The assassination itself was later revealed to be the “Third Secret of Fatima,” a carefully guarded secret that was kept hush for decades. The Virgin Mary reportedly showed the children an “angel with a flaming sword” and “a bishop clothed in white,” who the children said they believed was the “the holy father,” who “half trembling with halting step, afflicted with pain and sorrow” reached the foot of a cross and is “killed by a group of soldiers who fired bullets and arrows at him.” Lourdes (near Tarbes and reached by Toulouse or Biarritz) in southern France is the home of Grotto of Massabielle, where a famous Vatican-sanctioned miracle occurred in 1858. It is the most popular Roman Catholic pilgrimage destination in the world after St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. Visited by around 5 million people a year and located in the foothills of the Pyrenees where the Gave de Pau River joins an old canal, the cave contains altars with statues of the Virgin Mary and walls lined with tiny crutches and blackened by the soot of millions of candles. Along a 60-meter path water from the grotto's miraculous spring is dispensed from small spigots. Around the spring is sprawling park with chapels, hospices, infirmaries, libraries and auditoriums. The Basilica of St. Pius X is one of the world's largest churches. Completed in 1957 at a cost $5.6 million, it is a three-level neo-Byzantine church that is 200 meters long and has a capacity of 13,000 people. An additional underground basilica has room for 7,000 more. The main draw, other than the spring-feed baths, are small cubicles where the sick, crippled and terminally ill immerse themselves in hopes of a miraculous cure. There are also two hospitals that care for but don't treat the sick. Miracle of Lourdes The original miracle at Lourdes occurred on February 11, 1858 when a 14-year-old illiterate peasant girl named Bernadette Soubirous, who was out collecting firewood with her sister and a friend, said she heard what sounded like a gust of wind and then saw a girl with a blue sash around her waist, a yellow rose on each foot and rosary beads on her arm, in the grotto while the other girls were on the other side of the canal. Soubirous later said, "I lost all power of thought when, turning my head towards the grotto, I saw at one of the openings a rosebush, one only, moving as if it were very windy. Almost at the same time there came out of the interior of the grotto a golden cloud, and soon after a lady, young and beautiful, exceedingly beautiful, the like of whom I had never seen, came and placed herself at the entrance of the opening above the bush." Soubirous said the "lady" was 16 or 17 and dressed in a white robe with a blue ribbon tied around the waist and bare feet adorned with two yellow roses. She said that she could feel the presence of the a lady, who momentarily froze the girl's body. When Soubirous told her sister and her friend what happened. They laughed at her and called her an "imbecile and a bigot." Soubirous disobeyed her mother and even the chief of police in her town and returned to the grotto and had a total of 18 visions over the next five months. On the ninth visit the lady told the girl to "drink from the fountain and bath in it." The girl said that the virgin caused a spring to start flowing from the cave and later wished for pilgrimages to be made to a chapel built at the site now called the Grotto of Massabielle. On her 12th visit, accompanied by 20,000 people, the lady revealed herself by telling Soubirous, "I am the Immaculate Conception...I do not promise to make you happy in this world but in the other." That year seven miraculous cures of the sick occurred at Lourdes. Soubirous spent the last 12 years of her life as a nun. She died in 1878 and was canonized as a saint in 1933 by Pope Pius XI.. Tourism and Miraculous Cures at Lourdes Pope Benedict XVI placing a novelty crown on Our Lady of Lourdes In the spring and summer throngs of tourist and Catholic faithful come to the the Grotto of Massabielle at Lourdes to wash themselves in the water which many believe has miraculous curing powers. Candlelight processions are sometimes held in front of the Chateau of Lourdes which also houses the Pyrenean Museum. About 20 percent of the visitors to Lourdes are people seeking a miraculous cure. Many people are very sick, enfeebled or dying. Many are in big blue armchairs on three wheels pulled by nuns and nurses. Most of these people wash in the sacred waters and worship in the basilica. As of 1999, thousands of people said they had been cured at Lourdes but of these only 66 had been authenticated by the strict standards of the Catholic church, which include medical proof that the person was indeed sick before the miraculous cure and the symptoms disappeared within several hours and lasted for several years. Among those cured were Mademoiselle Dulot, who was cured of stomach and liver cancer in 1925 and went from being unable to eat or take liquids to having a ravenous hunger; the 22-year-old Margerie Paulette, cured of tubercular meningitis in 1929; four-year-old Francis Pascal, cured of blindness and paralysis in 1938; and Guy Leydet, cured of idiocy and paralysis in 1946. When Rose Martin was cured of uterine cancer in 1947 she said she felt her organs moving around inside of her at the moment of her cure. In 1998, a man suffering from multiple sclerosis who was cured on 1987 was recorded as the 66th miracle at Lourdes. Virgin of Guadalupe The Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe north of Mexico City houses a small shrine which commemorates the appearance of a bronze-skinned Virgin Mary — the Virgin of Guadalupe — to a poor Indian in 1531. The Virgin of Guadalupe is Mexico's patron saint. She was sighted many times before the Catholic Church finally recognized her. One Mexican man told the Washington Post, "It means as much to Mexicans as life itself. Guadalupe is the start of everything. Our people, our country, our liberty. All of the Christmas fiestas begin with this." The Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe (in the northeast suburb of Gustavo A. Madero) is the most venerated shrine in Mexico, and perhaps all of Latin America. In December 1531 the Virgin appeared three times in the form of an Indian princess before a poor Indian named Juan Diego and imprinted her image on his cloak. This vision was responsible for the conversion of large numbers of Indians in Mexico to Christianity. To commemorate the event a large domed church was built in 1709 on top of a small hill where the event reportedly took place. The cloak has been set in silver and enclosed in the 27-ton silver railing in the middle of church's spectacular altar. And a chapel was built above a well that began spouting water after the virgin appeared. Scattered around the altar are thousands of metal arms, tiny crutches, images of the cloak and small plates offering thanks for miraculous cures, some of which date back to 1860, and other devotional offerings that have been left by believers, thanking the Virgin for her assistance. The monument-lined avenue leading to the basilica is called the Calzada de los Misterios. Each year tens of thousands of pilgrims come to visit the shrine, many of them walking from their hometowns hundreds of kilometers to get there, and then kneeling and walking on their knees the last few hundred meters from a gateway of the church across a spacious courtyard to the entrance. Large processions are held on December 12th and midnight on December 11th. The part of church was built on a slab of bedrock stands erect and proud; the eastern towers and adjoining chapel, situated on softer ground, sag to one side. There are seven other churches in the area and many of them list at funny angles. One was even made horizontal when one side of it was lifted over ten feet and then supported. Some residents of Mexico City say that the Mexican tourists in Italy never visit Pisa because "our own city is full of leaning towers." A new basilica has been built next to the old church, which was converted into a museum. Miracle of the Virgin of Guadalupe Virgin appears Juan Diego On the morning of December 9, 1531, a 57-year-old Aztec Indian woodcutter named Juan Diego was walking past the barren hill of Tepeyac, which once housed a temple honoring Tonantzin, mother of the Aztec gods. Suddenly he heard the songs of a melodious bird and a woman’s voice calling him. He couldn't see the source of the voice because of the morning mists. He began climbing the hill and saw a 16-year-old girl with beams of light emanating from her head. The girl told Juan that she was the Virgin Mary and she wanted a shrine raised in her honor on the hill and for Juan to run as fast as he could to what is now Mexico City and inform the bishop. Juan did as he was told but the bishop didn’t believe him. Juan returned to the hill and told Mary what had happened and she told him to try again. The bishop still doubted Juan but this time he told Juan to ask the Virgin for some kind of sign. Juan related this to Mary who said she would give him a sign the following day. That night Juan's uncle became seriously ill and Juan was unable to meet with Mary as he arranged. When it seemed that the uncle was on the verge of death Juan decided to try and find a priest to give his uncle his last rites. On the way to find a priest he encountered the Virgin Mary. She told him to gather flowers that had miraculously grown on the barren hill where the Aztec temple once stood and place them in his rough woolen cloak. She told him to take the cloak to the bishop but not open it until he was in the bishop's presence. When Juan Diego met the bishop he opened his cloak. The flowers had disappeared and on it developed an image of the Virgin Mary like an image on a Polaroid picture. On the cloak, Mary was standing on a moon, one of the symbols of the Aztec god Quetzalcoatl, and her eyes reflected what she saw. At the same time Juan's uncle also saw the Virgin Mary and was immediately cured. The Virgin told him to tell the bishop that she wanted to called Sainted Virgin of Coatlaxopeuh. Coatlaxopeuh is another name for Earth Mother Tonantzin. The bishop was convinced that a miracle had taken place, and the Virgin Mary had appeared, but when he heard the uncle's story he thought he said the "Sainted Virgin Mary of Guadalupe" and that is what he she has been called ever since." After the Miracle of the Virgin of Guadalupe Virgin Mary on Juan Diego's cloak The bishop authorized the construction of a small shrine to honor the apparition. Juan Diego lived in a hermitage next to the shrine for the last 17 years of his life, until his death in 1548. The shrine and Juan Diego's vision were responsible for the conversion of large numbers of Indians to Christianity, and a domed church was built in front of a small hill where the event reportedly took place. Juan Diego was beautified by Pope John II in 1990 on his second trip to Mexico. In 1709, a domed church was built to house the shrine. Every year on the Virgin's feast day, thousands of pilgrims arrive by bus, by car, by bicycle and on foot to see the shrines. Many of them kneel and walk the last few hundred meters on bloodied knees while singing and chanting. They end their pilgrimage by crowding into the basilica which holds 12,000 people. In 1996, eight people died and 15 were injured during the pilgrimage to shrine. One 60-year-old Mexican who had come from the United States died of a heart attack just three blocks short of the basilica; a 12-year-old boy on a bicycle was hit by a bus near the shrine; and six other pilgrims died when their bus collided with another bus. A total of 6 million people visited the shrine in 1996 during a four week period beginning December 12. Mexico’s Virgin of the Metro On June 1, 1997, the 15-year-old daughter of a subway janitor working at the Hidalgo subway station in Mexico City discovered a tile bearing an image of what she believed was the Virgin Mary. Soon word got out that a miracle had taken place and hordes of Mexicans descended on the already busy subway station to pay their respects and say prayers and make offerings to the 12-inch image, a stain in the tile created by leaking water that looked like postcard pictures of the Virgin of Guadalupe. When the image was first notice newspapers ran headlines that screamed, "Metro Miracle" and "Curiosity and Fervor in the Metro." The Catholic Church did not recognize the image as a true miracle but it did say it was pleased about the interest in religion that it generated. [Source: Molly Moore, Washington Post, June 9, 1997] Virgin in the Mexico City Metro The image became so popular that 25 guards were called into to keep order. Pilgrims were allowed to spend a minute in front of the image and then had to move. About 30 pilgrims a minute visited these site on weekdays, 50 a minute on the weekends. Visitors touched the image, kissed it, and left flowers, coins and candles. After seeing the image one tearful 76-year-old believer fell to her knees and cried, "This is nothing less than a miracle. It's a sign by the Virgin of Guadalupe to show us her love in rough times." An elementary schoolteacher insisted, "It's not just water, it's real. I touched her. I felt her. She didn't wipe away." To relieve the congestion $3,800 was raised by government and private donations to move the tile outside to a street corner near the subway station. Mariachi bands played during the inauguration ceremony and people shouted, "Long live the Virgin! Long live Christ the king!" The tile was treated with silicon and placed in a glass case to prevent the image from disappearing when it dried out, a fate that befell a virgin image discovered on a tile in southern Mexico City 20 years earlier. Apparitions at Marpingen, Germany Stanford historian James Sheehan wrote in the New York Times: "On July, 13, 1876, a company of heavily armed infantry was dispatched to Marpingen, a village nestled in hilly country on Germany's western border. It was not sent to combat foreign invader or social revolutionaries, but to disperse a group of pilgrims who had gathered to pray at the site where the Virgin Mary was believed to have recently appeared... [Source: "Apparitions of the Virgin Mary in the Nineteenth Century Germany" by David Blackbourn, Alfred Knopf] "The first apparition occurred on July 3, when three 8-year-old girls, returning to the village from picking berries, saw—or thought they saw, or said they saw—a figure in white, whom they identified as the Virgin Mary." At first family members and villagers were skeptical, but later were several more appearance and woman in the vision identified herself as "the Immaculately Conceived." “Before long the word got out and pilgrims from all over Germany were converging on Marpingen. realizing the commercial potential of the event, an innkeeper telegraphed his supplier for 150 gallons of beer, "Marian miracle in Marpingen. Enormous pilgrimage. Send several hecto [liters]...immediately." “In an attempt to find out what was really going the German government sealed off Marpingen and sent in police agents disguised as an Irish journalist because the Protestant German government was currently locked in cultural war with the Catholic Church over their influence on the German people. The three children who had the visions were taken to an orphanage and interrogated and several villagers, including a parish priest, were arrested for fraud. A government report dismissed the apparitions as the result of female hysteria, peasant superstitions and possibly a French conspiracy. Many pilgrims still visit Marpingen and there was another set of apparitions in the 1950s. Crying Statues of the Virgin Mary Our Lady of the Grotto shedding plood tears for the first time in May 1999 Reports of statues of the Virgin Mary shedding tears, perfumed oils and blood have been reported in Ireland, Japan, Belgium, Zaire, Korea, Vietnam, Italy, the United States, Mexico and other places. Her statues have inexplicably wobbled and the Virgin Mary has been photographed in the sky and miraculously appear on windows and sidewalks. In September 1995, there were reports of the Hindu god Ganesh drinking milk in Calcutta and Jersey City within hours of each other. Not long after there reports of Virgin Mary statues drinking milk in Cheshire, England and Kuala Lumpur. On February 2, 1995 a plaster statue of the Virgin Mary from Medjurgorhe, Bosnia reportedly began shedding tears of blood in the small Italian town of Pantano, near the port of Civitavecchia in southern Italy. The first person to see it was Jessica, the five-year-old daughter of a state employed electrician named Fabio Gregory. The girl told her father, "Daddy the Madonna is crying!" When Fabio touched the tears he said he felt "a great blast of fire from head to toe." [Source: Marina Werner, the New Yorker, April 8, 1996] Later that day he told the priest and within 48 hours a mass of people had descended on Pantano. Over the next month and a half at least 50 witnesses claimed they saw the 16-inch high statue shed red tears. After that more people showed up and the mayor ordered portable toilets and had benches built in anticipation of his town becoming a major tourist attraction. Authorities ordered an investigation and had samples of blood from the statue tested for hormones, vaccines and other things to determine the sex and age of blood's owner. Preliminary tests indicated that the blood shed by the virgin belonged to a male who had been vaccinated. Some skeptics believe the statue contained blood-filled syringe that was activated with a battery triggered by a remote control device. By the time authorities came to examine the statue, it had been replaced with a similar statue (there are thousand if not millions of 19-inch-high Madonna statues from Medjurgorhe, Bosnia scattered around the world). Bosnia’s Virgin of Medjugorje In 1981, six children in Medjugorje, Croatia reported had daily visits from the Virgin Mary. The apparitions were never authenticated by the Catholic Church. Even so, as of 2000, more than 20 million pilgrims had visited Medjugorje. When Ivan Dragucevic, one of the grown-up children, spoke at churches in the United States, he drew huge crowds. Virgin of Medjugorje Tia Ghose of Live Science wrote: In 1981 in the small town of Medjugorje in what is now Bosnia-Herzegovina, six children reported seeing apparitions of the Virgin Mary. For years they claimed to receive daily messages and so far have allegedly received thousands of prophecies. "One is a prediction that there are 10 secrets that will reveal the end of the world," said Michael O'Neill, who runs the website MiracleHunter.com. Though the Vatican has never officially weighed in, the site has attracted millions of pilgrims over the years. In 2010, the Vatican agreed to investigate this event and said its findings would be ready in 2013. [Source: Tia Ghose, Live Science, July 9, 2013 /+/] Medjurgorhe is a small town of 250 families in a Croatian enclave of Bosnia. The apparitions of the Virgin Mary there that have been not been recognized by the Catholic church. Even so Medjugorje became a major tourist sight. Criticizing the commercialism there, an Australian pilgrim said, "I didn't come here to buy a T shirt. I came here for the Holy Mother." Medjurgorhe is now one of the most visited Catholic shrines in the world. An estimated 25 million pilgrims have visited the site. For a while a “White Lady” reportedly appeared to the former children everyday at certain times and told them to pray for the sons of the world to avert catastrophe. Croatians are Catholic and Serbs and Bosnians live nearby. One guide in Medjurgorhe told Newsweek, "The Serbs! They breed like rabbits. You see where Mary appeared? On our side of the mountain, the Croatian side. The Serbs don't see her." Image Sources: Wikimedia, Commons except Mexico Metro pic, CNN Text Sources: Internet Ancient History Sourcebook: Christian Origins sourcebooks.fordham.edu “World Religions” edited by Geoffrey Parrinder (Facts on File Publications, New York); “ Encyclopedia of the World’s Religions” edited by R.C. Zaehner (Barnes & Noble Books, 1959); King James Version of the Bible, gutenberg.org; New International Version (NIV) of The Bible, biblegateway.com; “ Metropolitan Museum of Art metmuseum.org, Frontline, PBS, “Encyclopedia of the World Cultures” edited by David Levinson (G.K. Hall & Company, New York, 1994); National Geographic, BBC, New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Smithsonian magazine, Times of London, The New Yorker, Time, Newsweek, Reuters, AP, AFP, Lonely Planet Guides, Compton’s Encyclopedia and various books and other publications. Last updated September 2018

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History on 30th November Elizabeth’s Golden Speech 1st international Football Match - Scotland V England Edmund Ironside’s Unlovely End The 30th of November 1016 AD Our history has plenty of rather horrible high-profile deaths: William Wallace hanged, drawn and quartered like Dafydd ap Gruffydd before him; Edmund King of the Saxons vilely treated by the Vikings in 869; the Archbishop of Canterbury pelted with ox-bones by the same people in 1012 . But perhaps only the ignominious end of Edward II in Berkeley Castle in 1327 matches one version of Edmund Ironside’s demise. Edmund Ironside , son of Aethelred the Unready , had fought steadfastly against the seemingly inexorable advance of the Danes. He lost the Battle of Ashingdon in October 1016, but the victor Canute decided that such it would be sensible to come to an agreement with Edmund. The two leaders are supposed to have met either on an island in the Severn , or on fishing boats, somewhere near Deerhurst. Canute took Mercia and Northumbria, Edmund Wessex, the pair also agreeing that whoever survived the other should become King of all England. Suspiciously soon after the accord Edmund died. It is not clear if Canute conspired in his death, but he obviously gained by it. The treacherous Edric, whose abandonment of the field at Ashingdon facilitated Canute’s victory, is credited if that be the right word with arranging Edmund’s death. When Edmund went to the privy (it is unclear where – probably London or Oxford) it is said either that Edric’s son was hidden in the pit beneath the royal seat, and stabbed upwards twice into Ironside’s bowels; or that two of Edmund’s servants had been corrupted by Edric and they did the dirty (very dirty) deed with an iron hook. A third suggestion is that a crossbow or some similar device was used, its bolt deep in his body evading discovery (in which case how is the story known?). Alternatively he may have simply died a natural death (even discounting the fact that in such times being murdered was perfectly natural for a King). A year later, during the Christmas feasting at Canute’s court, Edric himself was killed on Canute’s orders; the Danish monarch conveniently angered to learn from Edric about the latter’s part in Edmund’s death. 6663 views since 12th December 2011 A common mistake people make when trying to design something is underestimating the ingenuity of fools - Douglas Adams

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OSCAR MICHEAUX Black Film Movie Director RARE SIGNED FIRST EDITION BOOK Novel Here is an unique opportunity to personally. Own a piece of cinema history! This is a RARE, vintage, original novel. Personally signed by a famous film director. From my extensive personal collection. This is NOT a reproduction copy or reprint. It is a great looking Novel with original dust jacket. Please be aware that my digital image may differ. Slightly from the actual quality due to. Published by Book Supply Company, New York, 1947. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good in archival cover. Used Signed Hardcover First Edition with Dustwrapper! Love story set just before and during the Civil War by the pioneer African-American filmmaker. Renowned black author/movie director's fourth and final book. Near fine in very good dust jacket, in fresh mylar cover. A tight square unmarked copy; VERY scarce and collectible, especially SIGNED. Approximate Size in Inches: 5 3/4" x 8 3/4". Approximate Year of Origin: 1947 First Edition. Physical Condition: VERY GOOD Used Shape. Rare Original 401+ page American Book. Personally & boldly signed in ink by the author... Colorful dust jacket has some wear/aging. Oscar Micheaux was the quintessential self-made man. Novelist, film-maker and relentless self-promoter, Micheaux was born on a farm near Murphysboro, Illinois. He worked briefly as a Pullman porter and then in 1904 homesteaded nearly 500 acres of land near the Rosebud Sioux Indian Reservation in South Dakota. Micheaux published novels in Nebraska and New York and made movies in Chicago, Illinois and Los Angeles, California. Micheaux left autobiographical records in his first three novels, The Conquest (1913), The Forged Note (1915) and The Homesteader (1917), in which his protagonists play out a young black mans life in rural, white South Dakota. Micheaux began his career with door-to-door sales of his early writings to neighboring farmers. Encouraged by the modest success from his first novel, Micheaux gave up farming to write six other novels about this period and region. Griffiths powerful and vitriolically anti-black movie The Birth of a Nation ironically impressed upon Michaeux the ability of a filmmaker to tell a complex, multi-character story every bit as compelling as a novel. Oscar Micheaux soon got the opportunity to test his theory in 1918 when he was contacted by the black-owned Lincoln Film Company in Nebraska to adapt his third novel, The Homesteader, to film. Michaeux rejected the offer and instead moved to Chicago where he made his own movie version of his novel. The Homesteader was the first full-length feature film written, produced and directed by an African American. Oscar Micheauxs desire to control the production and distribution of his films would be the hallmark of his career. He would persuade the best black actors of his time to work in forty-four mostly low-budget films he produced between 1919 and 1948 that appealed to the rapidly growing black urban audiences of the post-World War I period. Most of Micheauxs films were detective stories, quickly written, filmed, edited and released. His African American audiences rarely complained since they were starved to see people on the Silver Screen who looked like they did. Micheaux on occasion tackled more complex subjects in his films. Within Our Gates, his fifth film, specifically attacked the racism portrayed in The Birth of a Nation. He also took on controversial subjects in the black community including interracial romance, skin color hypocrisy and corrupt clergymen. As importantly, his films in the 1920s and 1930s contrasted sharply with the Hollywood image of blacks as lazy, ignorant and sexually aggressive. Many white critics decried Micheauxs amateur movie-making skills, yet his audiences devoured his product, making him the most successful black writer, producer and director in the United States until his death in Charlotte, North Carolina in 1951. Eventually Hollywood recognized both Micheauxs genius and his crucial role in opening opportunities for African Americans in front of and behind the motion picture camera. In 1987 Oscar Micheaux was memorialized with a Hollywood Walk of Fame Star. Two years later he was given posthumous awards by the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame (1989) and the Directors Guild of America (1989). Each year Gregory, South Dakota, Micheauxs adopted home town, stages the Oscar Micheaux Film Festival. Near Mint: Very slightly used with almost no defects. Very Fine: Insignificant wear or defects, such as pinholes on the borders. Fine: Minor wear or defects, such as pinholes within the borders. Very Good: Generally used, with normal age wear, with moderate defects. 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Board index Book & Media Reviews Ishi the Last of the Yahi Public forum to discuss interesting and helpful books. SamBee Post by SamBee » 28 May 2018, 09:42 https://youtu.be/0ZB9oKQaCN4 ISHI, THE LAST YAHI In California, massacres of Indians in the 1860s and 1870s had nearly exterminated the Native peoples in the state. Therefore the sudden appearance in northern California in 1911 of Ishi, "the last wild Indian in North America," stunned the nation. For more than 40 years, Ishi had lived in hiding with a tiny band of survivors. When he walked into the white man's world, he was the last Yahi Indian alive. For young anthropologist Alfred Kroeber, Ishi's appearance was a windfall. Kroeber had been searching for years to find "wild, uncontaminated Indians" who could document their traditional way of life. Through Kroeber's invitation, Ishi left a jail cell and lived out the remaining four years of his life as an informant and teacher at the Museum of Anthropology in San Francisco. Ishi dedicated those years to relating Yahi stories and demonstrating the traditional way of life he knew so well. His quiet dignity and remarkable lack of bitterness toward the people who had destroyed his tribe greatly impressed everyone who met him. DASH1730 "An Area Authority...[was] asked...who...would go to the Telestial kingdom. His answer: "murderers, adulterers and a lot of surprised Mormons!"' 1ST PRES 1978 "[LDS] believe...there is truth in many religions and philosophies...good and great religious leaders... have raised the spiritual, moral, and ethical awareness of their people. When we speak of The [LDS] as the only true church...it is...authorized to administer the ordinances...by Jesus Christ... we do not mean... it is the only teacher of truth." Return to “Book & Media Reviews”

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Characteristics of Rainforests Characteristics of rain forests, The temperature in a tropical rain forest varies little. It rarely rises above 95 °F (35 °C) or drops below 64 °F (18 °C). In many regions, the average temperature in the hottest month is only 2 to 5 Fahrenheit degrees (1 to 3 Celsius degrees) higher than the average temperature in the coldest month. Most rain forests receive more than 80 inches (203 centimeters) of rain annually. Some areas may receive more than 250 inches (635 centimeters) of rain each year. Thundershowers can occur more than 200 days a year. Rain forest soils vary greatly from place to place. In many areas, the soil is acidic and infertile because years of heavy rains have washed out most of the nutrients (nourishing substances). Most rain forest nutrients are part of living plants. Small amounts of nutrients occur in a thin layer of topsoil that contains decaying vegetation. Rain forest trees have developed several ways of capturing nutrients. For example, they obtain nourishment from rainwater that collects in their leaves or along their trunks and branches. They also withdraw nutrients from their old leaves before they shed them. The roots of most rain forest trees grow close to the surface and quickly absorb soil nutrients before they wash away. Special fungi called mycorrhizae grow in or on many of the roots and help them absorb minerals from the soil. Rain forests grow in four major layers: (1) the canopy, or top layer; (2) the sub-canopy, a layer of trees just below the canopy; (3) the understory, a shady lower area; and (4) the floor. The tallest trees, known as emergents, grow more than 165 feet (50 meters) tall. The crowns (tops) of these trees dominate the canopy. Emergents receive the greatest amount of sunlight, but they must endure high temperatures and strong winds. The crowns of other trees in the canopy usually form a nearly continuous covering of leaves 65 to 165 feet (20 to 50 meters) above the ground. Some tall trees have large growths called buttresses that extend from the base of the trunk and help support the tree. More than 70 percent of rain forest animal and plant species reside in the canopy and sub-canopy. Many tree branches have a dense covering of epiphytes, plants that grow on other plants and obtain nourishment from the air and rain. Vines called lianas often climb on or around the trunks and branches of trees. The shady understory shelters small palms, young trees, and herbaceous (nonwoody) plants that can grow in dim light. Many popular house plants, such as philodendrons, dieffenbachia, and ferns, are developed from species that live in this area. Some scientists believe only 1 percent of the sunlight available to emergent trees reaches the understory. A thin layer of fallen leaves, seeds, fruits, and branches covers the forest floor. This layer quickly decomposes and is constantly replaced. The layers of a rain forest continually change. Large old trees die and fall to the ground, leaving a gap in the canopy. Direct sunlight penetrates through to the understory and stimulates the growth of seedlings, saplings, and small trees below. The small trees slowly stretch upward into the canopy. As they branch and expand their crowns, they fill the gaps in the canopy. A mature rain forest consists of a mixture of closed canopies, gaps, and patches of growing trees where the canopy is being rebuilt. The regeneration of many rain forest trees depends on gaps developing regularly in the canopy. Plants and animals. About 45 percent of the world's plant species occur in tropical rain forests. Scientists have counted over 250 species of trees in small areas of Asian and South American rain forests. A similar plot of land in a northern temperate forest would have only about 10 to 15 tree species. In addition to trees, rain forests support a great variety of bamboos, herbs, and shrubs. Climbing vines, ferns, mosses, and orchids grow directly on the trunks and branches of large trees. Because of continual moisture and warmth, tropical rain forests stay green all year. Most rain forest trees continually lose old leaves and grow new ones. Only a few species lose all of their leaves for a brief period. Fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals abound in the rain forest and its rivers. However, insects rank as the most plentiful rain forest animals. An individual tree in a South American rain forest may support more than 40 species of ants. Scientists have counted about 1,200 species of beetles living in only 19 tree crowns from Panama. Plants and animals in the rain forest depend on one another for survival. Many animal groups, especially insects and birds, pollinate the flowers of rain forest trees. Such animals receive food from the flowers' nectar. In return, they pollinate the next flowers they visit. Some trees rely on only one species of insect for pollination. Many rain forest trees also depend on animals to disperse their seeds. In the Amazon rain forest, fish disperse the seeds of some trees. Label: ANIMALS LIVE, Characteristics of rain forests, DEFINITION OF RAINFOREST, rainforest, types of rainforests, WHAT IS A RAINFOREST What is a Rainforest ? | DEFINITION OF RAINFOREST Frequently Asked Questions About the Rainforest, What is a Rainforest? or Definition of Rainforest. Rainforest is a woodland of tall trees growing in a region of year-round warmth and abundant rainfall. Almost all rain forests lie at or near the equator. They form an evergreen belt of lush vegetation that encircles the planet. German botanist Andreas F. W. Schimper first coined the term rain forest-in German, Regenwald-in 1898. Tropical rain forests occupy only 6 to 7 percent of the earth's surface. However, they support more than half of the world's plant and animal species (kinds). More kinds of frogs and other amphibians, birds, insects, mammals, and reptiles live in rain forests than in any other area. Scientists believe millions more rain forest species remain undiscovered. The rain forest provides people with many benefits. Its plants produce timber, foods, medicines, and such industrial products as dyes, fibers, gums, oils, and resins. Rain forests help regulate the earth's climate and maintain clean air. The forests' lush, green beauty and rich wildlife offer a special source of enjoyment. In addition, rain forests provide homes to millions of people. Such groups as the Yanomami of South America, the Dayaks of Southeast Asia, and the Pygmies of central Africa have lived in rain forests for centuries. They make their living by hunting, fishing, collecting forest products, and farming. Traditional forest peoples have acquired much knowledge about the rain forest's plants and animals. In spite of these benefits, people cut down thousands of square miles or square kilometers of rain forest each year. This destruction eliminates thousands of species of animals. A number of governments and conservation organizations are working to preserve the rain forests. Label: DEFINITION OF RAINFOREST, IMPORTANCE OF FOREST, rainforest, types of rainforests, WHAT IS A RAINFOREST Destruction of Habitat When people build cities or cut down forests to obtain wood or to clear land for farming, they destroy the habitats that animals need to survive. The habitats of animals in tropical forests are particularly threatened today. People are rapidly cutting down these forests to obtain such valuable hardwoods as mahogany and teak. They are also clearing the land to plant crops. However, soils in such areas are not especially fertile, and farms there produce crops for only a few years. To continue farming in such areas, people have to keep cutting down more of the forests to create new farmland. By the early 1990's, about two-fifths of the world's tropical forests had already been destroyed. Many scientists and other people are especially concerned about the destruction of tropical forests. They point out that these forests have more biodiversity-that is, a greater variety of plant and animal species-than any other place. One square mile (2.6 square kilometers) of forest in South America may have more species of birds and insects than many countries do. In fact, biologists discovered a single tree in a tropical forest in Peru that supported 43 species of ants. That is as many species of ants as live in the entire United Kingdom. Even though many types of plant and animal life can be found in one place in the tropics, the total range of many tropical species is extremely small. As a result, when a large area of forest is cleared, all the members of some species are killed. Pollution. Various types of pollution can also destroy animals and their habitats. Agricultural chemicals and industrial wastes sometimes drain into ponds and streams and kill the plants and animals there. Air pollution produced by factories that burn such fossil fuels as coal and oil has seriously damaged forests and wildlife. Acid rain-rainfall with a high concentration of sulfuric and nitric acids due to air pollution-kills fish and other animals. An increase in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere presents a long-term threat to animals and habitats. Many factories-as well as automobiles and power plants-release carbon dioxide into the air. Forest trees and plants help absorb this gas, but as more of them are cut down, carbon dioxide levels rise. Many scientists believe that higher amounts of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere speed up global warming caused by the phenomenon known as the greenhouse effect. A major global warmup could produce significant changes in Earth's climate. Such changes could destroy many kinds of plants and animals. Label: Animal live throughout the world, Destruction of Habitat, FOREST DEGRADATION Definition of Territoriality Territoriality is a form of animal behavior in which an individual animal or a group defends an area against other members of the same species or against members of other species. The defended area is called a territory. An individual usually wins encounters with intruders while on its own territory, but it usually loses encounters when intruding onto another territory. A territory contains resources that the animal needs to survive and reproduce. These resources may include shelter, food, and water; places where mates can be found; and places where animals can escape from their enemies. Definition of Territoriality is common in vertebrates (animals with a backbone), including fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals. It is less common among insects and other invertebrates (animals without a backbone). The size of a territory varies, depending on the effort required to defend the area and the resources available. Animals may establish small territories in the immediate vicinity of nesting sites or in areas of abundant food. They may claim large territories when resources are widely scattered. The period a territory is held may vary from less than a day to many years or a lifetime. Animals may defend a territory by being openly aggressive, such as by chasing and fighting intruders. They also may defend the territory through signals of potential aggression. For example, a wolf marks out its territory by urinating on bushes, rocks, and other objects. The scent of urine warns intruders of the wolf's presence and the risk of an encounter. The more aggressive forms of defense generally are used when the intruder is especially persistent. Label: Animal live throughout the world, definition, GROUPING ANIMALS, KINDS OF ANIMALS, Territoriality KINDS OF PLANTS Each of the more than 260,000 species of plants differs from every other species in one or more ways. However, plants also have many features in common. Based on these similarities, scientists are able to classify distinct plants into groups. The study of plants is called botany, and scientists who study plants are known as botanists. This section describes the chief kinds of plants found in the plant kingdom. It is divided into five basic groups: (1) seed plants, (2) ferns, (3) lycopsids, (4) horsetails, and (5) bryophytes. A table showing a more detailed system of plant classification that is used by many botanists appears at the end of the article. Seed plants consist of a wide variety of plants that bear seeds to reproduce. Most botanists divide the seed plants into two main groups of plants-angiosperms and gymnosperms. Angiosperms are flowering plants. They make up the vast majority of the more than 260,000 kinds of plants. They produce seeds that are enclosed in a protective seed case. The word angiosperm comes from two Greek words meaning enclosed and seed. All plants that produce flowers and fruits are angiosperms. They include most of our common plants, such as brightly colored garden plants, many kinds of wildflowers, and most trees, shrubs, and herbs. Most of the plants that produce the fruits, grains, and vegetables that people eat also are angiosperms. The sizes of angiosperms vary greatly. The smallest flowering plant, the duckweed, is only about 1/50 inch (0.5 millimeter) long. It floats on the surface of ponds. The largest angiosperms are eucalyptus trees. They grow more than 300 feet (91 meters) tall. Some botanists divide the angiosperms into two smaller groups. Plants in one group, called monocotyledons or monocots, grow from seeds that contain one seed leaf called a cotyledon. Plants in the other group, called dicotyledons or dicots, have two cotyledons in their seeds. Gymnosperms include a wide variety of trees and shrubs that produce naked or uncovered seeds. Most gymnosperms bear their seeds in cones. The word gymnosperm comes from two Greek words meaning naked and seed. Gymnosperms do not produce flowers. This group is made up of such plants as conifers, cycads, ginkgoes, and gnetophytes. . Conifers are the best known of the gymnosperms. They include such trees as cedars, cypresses, firs, pines, redwoods, and spruces. Most conifers have needlelike or scalelike leaves. Their seeds grow on the upper side of the scales that make up their cones. The cones of some conifers, such as junipers, look like berries. Most conifers are evergreens-that is, they shed old leaves and grow new leaves continuously and so stay green throughout the year. Wood from conifers is widely used in construction and papermaking. Conifers also provide animals with food and shelter. Cycads and ginkgoes have lived on Earth for millions of years. Large numbers of these plants once grew over wide regions of land. Most cycads look much like palm trees. They have a branchless trunk topped by a crown of long leaves. But unlike palm trees, they bear their seeds in large cones. Only one kind of ginkgo survives today. It is an ornamental tree with flat, fan-shaped leaves. It bears seeds at the ends of short stalks along its branches. Gnetophytes are the gymnosperms most closely related to angiosperms. They have many features that resemble those of flowering plants. For example, Gnetum has broad, oval-shaped leaves and special water-transport tubes, much like those of angiosperms. The cones of all gnetophytes are flowerlike in many details. Ferns grow chiefly in moist, wooded regions. They vary widely in size and form. Some aquatic ferns have leaves only about 1 inch (2.5 centimeters) long. But in the tropics, tree ferns may grow more than 65 feet (20 meters) high. Fern leaves, called fronds, usually are made up of many tiny leaflets and may be quite large. On most types of ferns, the fronds are the only parts that grow above the ground. They grow from underground stems that may run horizontally under the surface of the ground. When the fronds first appear, they are tightly coiled. The fronds unwind as they grow. During prehistoric times, great numbers of large ferns covered Earth. These ferns, along with giant club mosses and horsetails, accounted for much of the plant life that later formed coal. See FERN. Lycopsids include club mosses, quillworts, and selaginellas. These plants have leaves with a single, central vein. Lycopsids were among the first plants to grow on land. Club mosses have tiny needlelike or scalelike leaves that usually grow in a spiral pattern. They are not true mosses. Club mosses are found from tropical to temperate regions. They often form a "carpet" on the forest floor. Quillworts are found chiefly in moist soils around lakes and streams. They have short stems and long, grasslike leaves. The leaves usually grow to about 14 inches (36 centimeters) long. Ancient plants related to quillworts were large trees that grew up to 120 feet (37 meters) tall. These plants lived about 290 million years ago. There are about 700 kinds of selaginellas. These plants are usually found in tropical and subtropical regions. They often grow in damp places on the forest floor. Selaginellas have small thin leaves. Their stems may either grow upright or along the ground. These plants first appeared on earth over 300 million years ago. Horsetails are a group of small plants that have hollow, jointed stems. Horsetails grow about 2 to 3 feet (60 to 90 centimeters) tall. The plants have green stems and tiny, black leaves. The stems capture the sunlight used by the plant to make food in photosynthesis. In some horsetails, the branches grow in whorls (circles) around the main stem of the plant, and the plant resembles a horse's tail. Tiny amounts of minerals are concentrated in the stems of horsetails, including gold and silica. Silica makes the stems very coarse, like sandpaper. Some kinds of horsetails are called scouring rush because people once used these plants to scour their pots and pans. Bryophytes are a group made up of liverworts, mosses, and hornworts. These plants live in almost all parts of the world, from the Arctic to tropical forests. They grow in such moist, shady places as forests and ravines. Bryophytes are the only types of plants that lack vascular tissue-that is, tissue that carries water and food throughout the plant. Most liverworts, mosses, and hornworts measure less than 8 inches (20 centimeters) tall. None of these plants have true roots. Instead, they have hairy rootlike growths called rhizoids that anchor the plants to the soil and absorb water and minerals. Peat moss, a substance made up of thick growths of Sphagnum and other mosses, is often used in gardening. Gardeners mix peat moss into the soil to keep the soil loose and to help it hold moisture. Label: KINDS OF PLANTS, PART OF PLANT, PLANT GROWTH, The importance of plants BENEFITS AND FUNCTIONS OF PLANT ROOTS Roots of plants are an important part affecting the growth and life of the plant. Root including vegetative organs of plants, in addition to the stem and leaves . There are three functions that are important to the plant roots are: First; roots as an anchor that helps plants stand firmly on the ground. The roots of the plant stuck to the ground and strengthen the plants from strong winds so it did not collapse. On plant root systems to grow vertically into the ground but there is also a growing horizontally spread onto the surface of the ground. Root function is as a means of absorption or uptake of nutrients from the soil. Plants absorb water needs, including using a spread roots in the soil. The roots of primary, secondary and tertiary plants scattered through small roots called root hairs. At the root ends of the hood there is a root that helps the absorption. The third function is as a food reserve perverts. In the plant roots are parenchymal cells and tissues as a place to store the results of photosynthesis in the form of carbohydrates. Plants that have food reserves in the roots like cassava, potatoes, carrots, potatoes and many other similar crops. First roots develop from seed is the main root. It produces many branches called secondary roots. Secondary roots produce their own branches. There are two main types of root systems, taproot or fibrous. In a taproot system, the primary root grows straight down and called the taproot. Taproot still larger than the secondary roots throughout the plant life. In some plants, including beets and carrots, taproot being fat (bloated). Grass is an example of a plant with a fibrous root system in such a system, the primary roots do not stay more than the others. Many thin secondary roots growing in all directions. A fibrous root system can be very broad. For example, the roots of wheat plants may have a combined length of approximately 380 miles (612 kilometers). Some plants have modified roots that perform specific functions. Roots that grow from the roots or branches primer called adventitious roots. They include supporting the roots of corn and some other crops. Prop roots grow into the soil from the bottom of the stem and helps hold plants upwind. Some species of orchids and other plants that live in the branches of a tree issuing aerial roots, which are attached to the branches. Aerial roots absorb water and minerals from the surface of the tree and from the air. Parasite is one of the few plants with roots that penetrate the tree body. The roots, called sinkers, absorb food, water, and minerals directly from the tree . Label: PART OF PLANT, PLANT GROWTH, ROOTS OF PLANTS, The importance of plants DEFINITION OF DOMINANCE Definition of Dominance is a form of behavior among individual animals that shows their ability to win aggressive encounters with other animals. These animals may be members of the same species or of different species. Dominance determines which individuals have first choice of resources that are needed to survive and reproduce and that are in limited supply. These resources include food, water, a resting place, or mates. Animals that lose the aggressive encounters or give in to dominant individuals without a fight are called subordinates. Subordinates that are denied use of scarce resources may be among the first to die or to leave an area. In a group, a particular individual may be dominant to some members and subordinate to others. This results in a dominance hierarchy--that is, a ranking of individuals by their dominance in relation to each other. In many cases, an individual is subordinate to all those ranked above it and dominant to those below it. This type of ranking is called linear dominance hierarchy. However, dominance hierarchies may be more complicated. For example, in circular dominance hierarchy, individual A may be dominant to individual B and B dominant to individual C, but C is dominant to A. Individuals can improve their position in the group's dominance hierarchy as they gain experience or maturity, or as their reproductive condition changes. Encounters that establish dominance only occasionally include actual fighting. In most cases, these encounters involve only signals that indicate an individual's willingness or ability to win a potential fight. An individual's large size or threatening natural weapons, such as the horns of mountain sheep or the powerful jaws of a wolf, might cause subordinates to give up without a fight. Dominance differs from territoriality, a form of animal behavior in which an individual or group claims a certain area as its own. A dominant individual usually can win wherever it is. Label: ANIMALS LIVE, BALANCE OF NATURE, DOMINANCE, ecology, ECOSYSTEMS, PART OF PLANT, PLANT GROWTH, The importance of plants BALANCE OF NATURE Plants, animals, and other organisms that live together in the same area-such as a forest or a pond-form a community. Within a community, the members of one species make up a population. The size of each population stays fairly stable unless some change alters conditions in the community. Biologists refer to the relative stability of each population within a community as the balance of nature. Maintaining the balance All living things are closely related to their environment. Any change in one part of nature-for example, a natural increase or decrease in a population of any species of animal or plant-causes reactions in several other parts. In most cases, these reactions work to restore the balance of nature. Ecosystems. An ecosystem consists of the biological and physical environments of an area. The biological environment is made up of all living things in the community. The physical environment includes air, soil, water, and weather. All these biological and physical factors interact within an ecosystem. They compose a network of complex relationships that control population growth. Each organism is related to a variety of the biological and physical factors of its ecosystem. For example, rabbits need air and water from the physical environment to breathe and drink. They also need biological features, such as plants, for food and cover (shelter). On the other hand, rabbits are eaten by foxes and other predators (flesh-eating animals). In addition, several kinds of parasites live in and on rabbits. The relationship among rabbits, plants, and foxes can be shown by an example of an ecosystem that includes these three organisms. Assume that during a certain year, the temperature and rainfall within this ecosystem are ideal for plant growth. As a result, rabbits have a more plentiful supply of food than usual. The female rabbits are well-fed and healthy, and most of them produce large litters. The young rabbits have enough food, and nearly all of them survive. In time, the area becomes overpopulated with rabbits, and they continually compete with one another for food and cover. The losers become weak and unprotected, and they may fall victim to disease and parasites. They also become easy targets for foxes, and so the rabbit population decreases. More rabbits means more food for foxes. The foxes respond in much the same way as the rabbits did to an increased food supply-their population grows. But more foxes means that even more rabbits are hunted, and so the number of rabbits shrinks even further. The rabbit population will continue to decrease until it again comes into balance with the ecosystem's ability to support it-an ability known as the ecosystem's carrying capacity. Similar controls govern plant populations. On a small scale, such actions and reactions go on every day. Competition plays a major role in controlling population growth. An ecosystem has limited amounts of the food and cover necessary for each population. Therefore, individual members of the same population must compete for those necessities. But competition is much less intense between different populations. For example, deer and rabbits are herbivores (plant-eating animals), but they usually eat different kinds of plants. Competition for food. If a population becomes too large for the available supply of food, many of the weaker members will starve. Others may migrate into another ecosystem, but they may not survive. Still others, weakened by hunger, may die from disease and parasites, or they may be killed by predators. Competition for cover. Competition for cover. Cover is a requirement for most populations. Only a certain number of rabbits can live in a given brier patch, and only so many foxes can occupy the available den sites. If the rabbit population becomes too large for the brier patch, competition will force some individuals to live in poorer cover. There, they will be more likely to be attacked by predators or by disease and parasites. Predators can help maintain the quality of their prey population if the two species have lived for a long time in the same ecosystem. Under such conditions, the prey species learns to deal with the predators. Therefore, predators normally kill only the weakest and least desirable members of the prey population. The prey population thus stays in a healthy state. Disease and parasites can reduce or even wipe out a population. But most pathogens (diseases and parasites) have been present throughout history. Most host (infected) species have become adapted to living with their pathogens. Disease and parasites serve as important population controls primarily in the presence of other factors, such as competition for food or cover. Behavior helps govern the size of some animal populations. Three behavioral factors may be important: (1) territoriality, (2) dominance hierarchy, and (3) stress. Territoriality occurs among animals that require a certain minimum amount of space, regardless of the available food and cover. Among such species, one animal or a group of animals establishes a territory. No other members of the species are allowed in this area, and breeding is usually restricted to the animals with territories. Such behavior ensures that the strongest members of the population-the animals with territories-survive and produce offspring. Dominance hierarchies, often called "pecking orders," occur among many types of social animals. Within populations of such animals, the stronger individuals dominate the weaker ones. These dominant animals get the best food, cover, and breeding places. Weaker individuals are forced into areas with poorer food and cover, and some do not survive. The offspring of dominant parents also have the best chance to survive. The traits of the strongest individuals thus are passed on to the next generation of the species. Stress occurs among crowded populations of animals. Stressed animals become aggressive and irritable, and they often fight with one another. Some individuals do not breed, and those that do breed produce small litters. Many females do not take care of their young. Diseases and parasites spread rapidly among crowded animals, further reducing their number. Upsetting the balance Natural factors and human factors may alter the relationships within an ecosystem. Earthquakes, floods, and fires started by lightning are natural factors that may upset nature's balance. Human factors that may do so include logging and livestock grazing. As a result of these and other factors, entire populations may be wiped out or may grow suddenly at an astounding rate. A historical example illustrates a change in balance. During the early 1900's, a stable population of about 4,000 mule deer lived on the Kaibab Plateau in northwestern Arizona. Beginning in 1907, human hunters began killing the deer's natural predators-coyotes, mountain lions, and wolves. As a result, the population of deer on the plateau increased to about 100,000 by 1924. But there was not enough food for so many deer, and thousands of deer starved. Balance did not return to the ecosystem of the Kaibab Plateau until 1939. In another case, a chain of events known as the ripple effect began when fishing crews apparently overharvested fish populations in the northern Pacific Ocean. As a result, seals and sea lions, which eat fish, declined. In 1998, biologists reported that killer whales, which normally prey on seals and sea lions, had begun to prey on sea otters. The killer whales sharply reduced some sea otter populations. Next, sea urchins, a major food of the otters, increased. The sea urchins consumed huge amounts of a type of algae known as kelp. They reduced the ocean's kelp beds, which provide habitat for many other species. Beginning with fewer fish, an entire marine ecosystem-seals and sea lions, killer whales, sea otters, sea urchins, and kelp beds-was upset. No one knows when balance will return. Label: BALANCE OF NATURE, BROADLEAF FORESTS, coniferous forest, NATURE, THE FOREST LANDSCAPE FUNCTION OF CHLOROPLASTS The primary function of chloroplasts is photosynthesis, the light-driven fixation of carbon dioxide into organic compounds. The products of the photochemical reactions that occur within thylakoid membranes provide the material with which the plant cells grow and on which all forms of life on the surface of Earth depend. Photosynthesis begins when light is absorbed by the green pigment chlorophyll, which occurs only in photosynthetic thylakoid membranes. The absorbed light energy is transferred to a reaction center called Photosystem II (PSII), where electrons are removed from water to release molecular oxygen. The electrons are carried through an electron transport chain in thylakoid membranes to Photosystem I (PSI) to eventually produce reduced compounds (for example, NADPH) that drive carbon fixation reactions. The flow of electrons through this linked set of carriers also transfers protons (H+) from the stroma to the thylakoid lumen, which generates a concentration gradient. These protons can only flow back to the stroma through protein channels within the thylakoid membrane. At the stromal end of the membrane channels is adenosine triphosphate (ATP) synthase, which uses the flow of H+ to drive the synthesis of H+ ATP. ATP is used as the primary energy source for biosynthetic reactions within the cell. The ATP and NADPH created are then used to produce sugars from carbon dioxide. The most abundant enzyme in the biosphere, ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (rubisco, for short), catalyzes the reaction of carbon dioxide with ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate, a 5-carbon compound, to make glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate and 3-phosphoglycerate. These two 3-carbon compounds enter the reductive pentose-phosphate cycle (also called the Calvin-Benson cycle) and eventually are converted to a 6-carbon sugar, glucose 6-phosphate, the ultimate product. Glucose 6-phosphate is the precursor of many of the storage products in the plant cell, such as starch, sucrose, and lipids, and is also the starting point for biosynthesis of most of the cellular material. All fatty acids and most amino acids used by the cell are also synthesized in the chloroplast. Rubisco is a large enzyme—containing eight large (molecular weight 52,000) and eight small (molecular weight 14,000) subunits—that is also very sluggish, catalyzing a reaction only three times per second even when saturated with carbon dioxide. The usual concentration of carbon dioxide in the watery cell interior is sufficient for only one-half this rate. Perhaps these are the reasons why plants developed mechanisms to achieve a high concentration of the enzyme in the stroma to catalyze this reaction that is essential to maintenance of life. Approximately two million molecules of rubisco are present in each chloroplast. Label: Chlorophyll, CHLOROPLAST, FUNCTION OF CHLOROPLASTS, How a Leaf Makes Food, IMPORTANCE OF LEAVES, PART OF PLANT WHAT IS THE CHLOROPLAST The chloroplast is a membrane-bound organelle within a cell that conducts photosynthesis. From the molecular perspective, the chloroplast is very large and contains millions of protein molecules along with vast sheets of membranes. If we imagine an average-sized enzyme molecule to be the size of an automobile, a chloroplast in a plant leaf cell would be about 6 kilometers on its long axis and about 2 kilometers on its short axis. The approximately cube-shaped plant cell, 15 to 20 kilometers per side, would contain fifty to one hundred of these compartments. The chloroplast is enclosed by two membranes, designated the outer and inner membranes of the chloroplast envelope. About one-half the volume within the chloroplast is occupied by stacks of fifty to one hundred flattened sacs called thylakoids, from the Greek word meaning "like an empty pouch." The thylakoid membrane surrounds the lumen or interior space and is the major membrane of the chloroplast. Groups of thylakoids adhere into stacks called grana. The remaining soluble phase of the chloroplast, outside thylakoids, is the stroma. Label: Chlorophyll, CHLOROPLAST, IMPORTANCE OF LEAVES, Leaves of Plants, PART OF PLANT CHLOROPLAST FUNCTIONS A chloroplast processing enzyme functions as the general stromal processing peptidase A highly specific stromal processing activity is thought to cleave a large diversity of precursors targeted to the chloroplast, removing an N-terminal transit peptide. The identity of this key component of the import machinery has not been unequivocally established. We have previously characterized a chloroplast processing enzyme (CPE) that cleaves the precursor of the light-harvesting chlorophyll ayb binding protein of photosystem II (LHCPII). Here we report the overexpression of active CPE in Escherichia coli. Examination of the recombinant enzyme in vitro revealed that it cleaves not only preLHCPII, but also the precursors for an array of proteins essential for different reactions and destined for different compartments of the organelle. CPE also processes its own precursor in trans. Neither the recombinant CPE nor the native CPE of chloroplasts process a preLHCPII mutant with an altered cleavage site demonstrating that both forms of the enzyme are sensitive to the same structural modification of the substrate. The transit peptide of the precursor of ferredoxin is released by a single cleavage event and found intact after processing by recombinant CPE and a chloroplast extract as well. These results provide the first direct demonstration that CPE is the general stromal processing peptidase that acts as an endopeptidase. Significantly, recombinant CPE cleaves in the absence of other chloroplast proteins, and this activity depends on metal cations, such as zinc. STEFAN RICHTER AND GAYLE K. LAMPPA Label: Chlorophyll, IMPORTANCE OF LEAVES, Leaves of Plants, PART OF PLANT DEFINITION OF SEED Definition of Seed is the specialized part of a plant that produces a new plant. It contains an embryo (partly developed plant) that consists of an immature root and stem. A seed also has a supply of stored food and a protective covering. Seeds are produced by approximately 250,000 kinds of plants. Flowering plants make up the largest group of seed-producing plants. These plants, which botanists call angiosperms, include the vast majority of trees, shrubs, and soft-stemmed plants. Seeds are also produced by about 800 kinds of trees and shrubs called gymnosperms. Most gymnosperms develop cones. The seeds of different kinds of plants vary greatly in size. The double coconut tree produces the largest seed, which weighs up to 50 pounds (23 kilograms). On the other hand, orchid seeds are so tiny that 800,000 of them weigh no more than an ounce (28 grams). The size of a seed has no relationship to the size of the plant that develops from it. For example, the giant redwood tree grows from a seed only 1/16 inch (1.6 millimeters) long. The number of seeds produced by an individual plant varies according to the size of the seeds. A coconut tree has only a few large seeds, but an orchid or pigweed plant produces millions of tiny ones. Label: definition, Kinds of seeds, PART OF PLANT, parts of a seed, PLANT GROWTH, seed, The importance of plants DEFINITION OF ADAPTATION Definition of Adaptation is a characteristic of an organism that makes it better able to survive and reproduce in its environment. No two organisms of the same species are exactly alike. Every trait, such as size, color, and personality, shows some variation. Additionally, in nature, organisms produce more offspring than can survive. The offspring most likely to survive and reproduce are those with adaptations best suited to the environment. Offspring with variations less suited to the environment do not compete as successfully for food, water, and other necessities. This process of competition, by which those best adapted are most likely to survive and reproduce is called natural selection. Some forms of life are adapted to living in many different environments. For example, people live in all kinds of climates, ranging from the tropics to the Arctic. Thus, human beings are generalized-that is, the human body has adaptations that enable people to live in widely different environments. But such organisms as mosquitoes and bamboo plants are more specialized. Because of their physical makeup, they can live only in a rather warm, wet climate. Living things often die when they cannot adapt to a changing environment. Many kinds of plants and animals that once lived on the earth have become extinct. For example, millions of years ago, dinosaurs roamed the earth. But the environment in which they lived changed. The dinosaurs failed to adapt, and they died out. The word adaptation also refers to the ability of living things to adjust to varying conditions in their environment. If people move to the mountains, their bodies adapt to the lower oxygen supply at high altitudes by making more oxygen-carrying red blood cells. A dog adapts to warm weather by shedding its hair. Adaptations that occur over a relatively short time, particularly because of changes in climate, are often called acclimatizations. Label: adaptation, ANIMALS LIVE, DEFINITION OF ADAPTATION, KINDS OF ANIMALS, The importance of plants ROOTS OF PLANTS The definition and understanding of the roots of plants are part of plants that are below ground level and is a very important for plants because it functions not only as a buffer and a founding upright stems but also for absorption of water and nutrients. In the cultivation of forest treatments silviculture should be based on the properties of the roots, because the studies related to the rooting is not an easy thing to do. The properties of the roots of the trees varies from type to type, from individual to individual in the same type, and even on different roots in the same individual. Root growth extends laterally commonly associated with growing conditions, while the direction of root growth is influenced by the genetic traits. The point of view of silviculture , the dynamics of the roots is very important due to the absorption of water and nutrients depends on the ability of roots to grow. In the process of germination, root principal emerged and elongated rapidly, as supply of energy and nutrients in the seeds. Furthermore, the growth rate decreased root and depending on soil conditions. Root development is closely related to soil fertility, the more fertile the soil, the better development of roots. Label: Leaves of Plants, PART OF PLANT, PLANT GROWTH, ROOTS OF PLANTS, The importance of plants DEFINITION OF ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION Definition of environmental pollution is the inclusion of the organism, energy substances, and or other components into the environment or change the order of the environment by human activities or natural processes so that environmental quality decreases to a certain level cause the environment to be less or cease to function as intended. Pollution may arise as a result of human activities or due to natural (eg volcanic eruption, toxic gases). Environmental science usually discuss pollution caused by human activities, which can be prevented and controlled. Due to human activities, environmental pollution inevitable. Environmental pollution can not be avoided. What you can do is to reduce pollution, pollution control, and increasing public awareness and concern for the environment so as not to contaminate lingkngan. Substances or materials that could cause pollution called pollutants. The terms of a substance called a pollutant if its existence could cause harm to a living creature. For example, the carbon dioxide content of 0.033% in air beneficial for the plant, but if it is higher than 0.033% can give damaging effects. A substance can be called a pollutant if: Excess of the normal. Being on time is not right. Being in the wrong place. The characteristic of pollutants are: Damaging for a while, but when it reacts with another substance does not damage the environment. Damaging in a long time. For example, Pb does not damage when low concentrations. However, in the long term, Pb can accumulate in the body to damaging levels. Pollution on the environment, it can be divided into air pollution , water pollution, and soil pollution. Label: DEFINITION OF ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION, ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT, environment, pollutant. smoke DEFINITON OF LEGUME Definition of Legume is any of the plants that belong to the pea family. They make up the second largest family of flowering plants. The composite family is the largest. Botanists recognize between 14,000 and 17,000 species (kinds) of legumes. The group gets its name from the legumes (seed pods) that the plants bear. Many legumes are of great economic importance throughout the world. Such legumes as peas, beans, and peanuts are valuable foods. Alfalfa, clover, and vetch are important forage and pasture plants. Other legumes yield medicines, dyes, oils, and timber. Legumes grow in most parts of the world. They vary widely and may be trees, shrubs, or herbs. Many are climbing plants. The flowers of one large subfamily of legumes look like butterflies. Botanists call this group Papilionoideae, from the Latin word for butterfly. The common sweet pea belongs to this group. The flowers of other legumes may be small and regular. The flowers of still others may be irregular, with spreading petals. Legumes take nitrogen into their roots from the air. Certain bacteria, called rhizobia, live in nodules (knotlike growths) that form along the roots of the plants. These bacteria take nitrogen from the air and change it into forms that can be used by plants. This characteristic makes leguminous plants valuable in agriculture. Farmers often use them as green manure and as cover crops to improve poor soil. Label: fixation, legume, nitrogen cycle, PLANT GROWTH, PLANT HORMONES, The importance of plants NITROGEN CYCLE | The circulation of nitrogen among the atmosphere Nitrogen cycle is the circulation of nitrogen among the atmosphere, the soil and water, and the plants and animals of the earth. All living things require nitrogen, but most organisms cannot use the nitrogen gas that makes up about 78 percent of the atmosphere. They need nitrogen that has combined with certain other elements to form organic compounds. But the supply of this fixed nitrogen is limited, so complex methods of recycling nitrogen have developed in nature. One part of the nitrogen cycle involves circulation of nitrogen between the soil and living things. After plants and animals die, they undergo decomposition by certain bacteria and fungi. These microorganisms produce ammonia from nitrogen compounds in dead organic matter and in body wastes excreted by animals. Plants absorb some of the ammonia and use it to make proteins and other substances essential to life. The rest of the ammonia is changed into nitrates by nitrifying bacteria. First, nitrifying bacteria called nitrite bacteria convert ammonia into nitrites. Then nitrate bacteria change nitrites into nitrates. Plants absorb most of the nitrates and use them in the same way as ammonia. Animals get nitrogen by eating plants or by feeding on animals that eat plants. In another part of the cycle, a process called nitrogen fixation constantly puts additional nitrogen into biological circulation. In this process, nitrogen-fixing bacteria in the soil or water, or living within plants such as legumes, convert nitrogen from the atmosphere into nitrogen-containing organic substances. While nitrogen fixation converts nitrogen from the atmosphere into organic compounds, a series of processes called denitrification returns an approximately equal amount of nitrogen to the atmosphere. Denitrifying bacteria convert nitrates and nitrites in soil into nitrogen gas or into gaseous compounds such as nitrous oxide or nitric oxide. However, fixed nitrogen may circulate many times between organisms and the soil before denitrification returns it to the atmosphere. Some human activities influence the nitrogen cycle. Industry fixes vast quantities of nitrogen to produce fertilizer, much of which is washed off farmland and into waterways, polluting the water. The combustion of certain fuels produces nitrogen compounds that pollute the air. These compounds may also play a part in the warming of the earth's climate Label: fixation, legume, nitrogen cycle, nutrient, The importance of plants THE BENEFITS OF AN ECOSYSTEM-BASED APPROACH These landscape and stand level examples, illustrating the functions of some important forest composition and structures, indicate why practices such as clearcutting and elimination of old growth forests are not consistent with maintaining fully functioning forests. If the degradation caused by clearcutting and removal of old growth forests were more evident, people might be more willing to adopt ecologically responsible approaches to timber management. However, because forests operate on such long timeframes, and because, for millennia, forests have been building biological legacies through many generations of trees that have lived and died, human activities that remove composition and structures do not immediately appear to be as damaging as they actually are. However, as timber managers continue to degrade composition and structures of forests, from landscape to stand levels, damage to forest functioning becomes cumulative. Eventually this approach leads to degraded ecosystems, which provide few ecological functions, compared to the fully functioning forests they replaced. Because forest degradation occurs relatively slowly, successive generations of human beings inherit degraded forests which they assume to be natural, “healthy” ecosystems. In other words, we don’t live long enough to see the results of our mistakes. An ecosystem-based approach attempts to avoid loss of forest functioning by maintaining forest composition and structures from the smallest soil bacteria to the landscape patterns of a large forest watershed. We may not understand the functions of particular forest composition and structures; nevertheless, an ecologically responsible approach protects all composition and structures. When parts of the forest are altered during activities such as ecologically responsible timber management or tourism, provisions for the replacement of forest composition and structures are built into ecologically responsible plans and activities. As well as providing for the protection and maintenance of forest functioning, an ecosystem-based approach fosters the development of diverse, sustainable human economies. Because an ecosystem-based approach creates the least modification to forest ecosystem composition and structures, it provides for the largest diversity of compatible forest uses. In other words, by maintaining trees on the sites where we practice timber management and by ensuring that ecologically viable old growth stands are found in each landscape, we provide an environment where the broadest spectrum of uses, from adventure tourism to timber extraction, can coexist. Such a range of activities is not possible where conventional timber management systems, such as clearcuts and tree plantations, are employed. From a timber standpoint, because ecologically responsible timber management produces steady supplies of mature wood, the long-term economic benefits exceed those of conventional timber management practices. Mature wood—long-fibred and strong—is superior for many uses, from structural materials and pulp to furniture and fine cabinets. In comparison, short-fibred, juvenile wood is not as strong and will warp and twist easily. Mature wood is produced when the cambium layer (the single layer of cells between the wood and the bark) divides around dead branches or no branches. Obviously, increasing amounts of mature wood are produced as a tree gets larger and older. Label: ecology, ECOSYSTEM BASED APPROACH, ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT, forest MANAGEMENT NITROGEN CYCLE | The circulation of nitrogen among...

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Tag: Marie-Valerie Jeantelot ‘In Ribbons’ Set to Screen at Belfast and Cannes In Ribbons, the short film directed by Marie-Valerie Jeantelot and written by Caroline Farrell, is now complete and beginning its festival journey. Selected to screen at Cannes this coming May, the film will have its world premiere in competition at The Belfast Film Festival on Saturday, April 25th. Set in 1960’s Ireland, In Ribbons unfolds through a non-dialogue narrative. The story tells the tale of young Laurie, abandoned to a place of fear, holding firm to her identity, spirit and resilience through the power of her dreams and memory. The film stars Patrick O’Donnell, (North Circular Road, The Looking Glass and the upcoming Daria). Geraldine McAlinden (How to be Happy, Portrait of a Zombie and the upcoming ‘The Secret Scripture’.) and Melissa Nolan, (Sodium Party, and Mouth On Fire Theatre Productions.) Laurie is played by young actress Rebecca Waldron. Produced by Farrell and Jeantelot with associate producer, Caitriona Costello, the film was also part-funded via crowdfunding and a Film Bursary Award from Kildare County Council Arts Office. ‘In Ribbons’ Shoots in May. Copyright [Marie-Valerie Jeantelot] Short film In Ribbons, directed by Marie-Valerie Jeantelot, and written by award-winning screenwriter Caroline Farrell is scheduled to begin shooting in May. A fundraising drive is currently under way, details of which can be found at http://www.inribbons.com/ along with a trailer for the film. All funds raised will be used to pay cast and crew, and to cover expenses of equipment hire, costumes, locations, catering, transport, editing and festival entries. A stellar cast has been assembled, including IFTA longlisted actor Geraldine McAlinden (Portrait of a Zombie, The Incredible Shrinking Office) multi-award winning actor, Patrick O’Donnell (Tin Man, Derelict) and Melissa Nolan (Stalker, Remember Me) The film is set in 1968, and centres on the journey of a little girl, Laurie. A dark fairytale, In Ribbons is an expressive fable, told in a dialogue-free narrative, capturing the zeitgeist of an era that also reflects a glimpse into the darker side of our social history. A Facebook page has also been set up, https://www.facebook.com/#!/inribbonsmovie which regularly publishes updates on the progress of the production.

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MOBILE SITE REVIEWS SCOREBOARD RATINGS COMPOSERS AWARDS ARCHIVES ABOUT CONTACT SUPPORT SUPPORT FILMTRACKS! CLICK HERE FIRST: iTunes (U.S.) eBay (U.S.) Half.com NEWEST MAJOR REVIEWS: 1. Shazam! 4. HTTYD: The Hidden World 5. The Lego Movie 2 6. Aquaman CURRENT BEST-SELLING SCORES: 1. LOTR: Fellowship/Ring (2018) 2. Beauty and the Beast (Legacy) 3. Predator 4. Solo: A Star Wars Story 5. LOTR: The Two Towers (2018) 6. Space Battleship Yamato 7. Shawshank Redemption (2CD) 8. The Mummy Returns (2CD) CURRENT MOST POPULAR REVIEWS: 2. Star Wars: The Last Jedi 4. Edward Scissorhands 5. How to Train Your Dragon 6. Jurassic World: Kingdom 7. First Man 9. Justice League 10. Ready Player One MOBILE SITE SUPPORT SITE STATUS RSS ABOUT THE SITE CONTACT US ARCHIVES Composed and Produced by: Orchestrated and Conducted by: Benjamin Wallfisch Performed by: Jean-Yves Thibaudet The English Chamber Orchestra LABEL & RELEASE DATE Decca/Universal (November 15th, 2005) ALBUM AVAILABILITY Regular U.S. release. Nominated for an Academy Award. • Atonement PRINTER FRIENDLY VIEW (inverts site colors) Availability | Awards | Viewer Ratings | Comments | Audio & Track Listings | Notes Buy it... if you enjoy the works of Beethoven and could appreciate their heavy influence on a score for a Jane Austen novel adaptation. Avoid it... if you've heard countless interpretations and variations on Beethoven and don't need to hear another one in the same old Austen formula. FILMTRACKS TRAFFIC RANK: #193 WRITTEN 11/12/05 Marianelli Pride & Prejudice: (Dario Marianelli) As both time and technology continue to barrel forward, it seems to take more and more talent to do justice to the writings of Jane Austen in their screen adaptations. With her stories already made for the big screen in most cases, it's even more difficult to both capture the spirit of Austen's novels and do so in a fashion that doesn't step on the feet of previous adaptations while performing that delicate dance. In the case of Pride & Prejudice, it's hard not to forget the BBC adaptation from as recently as the 1990's, not to mention the renaissance of Austen's work that hit the big screens with much critical success at about the same time. The newest adaptation by Joe Wright, casting an unexpected group of youth in the lead roles and peppering bit roles with established actors, has been met with considerable critical and popular praise, infusing the story with fresh blood while maintaining all the necessary authenticity required of the story. In the age of institutional marriage in 18th Century England, Pride & Prejudice is a standard Austen tale of a family in the process of marrying off all its daughters to the best suitors and revolving around one particular daughter who at first refuses (just like her suitor) to fall in love but, of course, inevitably does so. A great deal of modern readers and moviegoers find Austen tales to be intolerable, partly because they are so consistent and partly because they exist in a far more rigid and less tolerant age of society. One of the consistencies that plagues the adaptations of Austen novels on screen is the stereotypical music that is often heard throughout their lengths, with the lush, sensitive works of Patrick Doyle, Rachel Portman, George Fenton, or (non-Brit) Richard Robbins often borrowing heavily from each other in their British sensibilities. One of the most surprising assignments of 2005 has been Italian Dario Marianelli's attachment to this newest version of Pride & Prejudice. Marianelli was similarly received when assigned to Terry Gilliam's The Brothers Grimm earlier in the year, a film for which Marianelli brought a refreshingly European sense of dense orchestral creativity to an American stage. Having moved from Italy to London full time, Marianelli has scored films for less than a decade, but has been involved with two projects that have won BAFTA awards. His approach to Pride & Prejudice (starting his writing based on the concepts in the novel before production was far along) will easily be the make or break aspect of the score for most listeners. In a tactic that is often difficult to pull off successfully for most historical films, Marianelli chooses to score the film with the exact music that the author would have heard when first writing the stories. In the world of Jane Austen, this means a heavy dose of piano and string-centered chamber orchestra. Enlisting the help of renown pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Marianelli brings significant shades of Beethoven to the table, ultimately creating a score that is intensely classical in its most active moments, and personal and traditional in its presentation of dances and marches for specific scenes. The highlights of the score are the full-scale Beethoven interpretations during which Thibaudet's piano is leading the orchestra at blazing speeds, including "Arrival at Netherfield," "Liz on Top of the World," and "Your Hands are Cold" (the highlight cue). This theme perfectly represents the fierce, unforgiving side of the primary young woman's character, and in "Your Hands are Cold," the last resistance of the character is served with a fantastic, determined performance on piano. Several large swells of the string section often accompany the piano, including impressive and full statements of theme in "Darcy's Letter" and the end credits. The source music for the dance sequences offers the strings in a jarring, less whimsical recording, as does the militaristic march in "The Militia Marches In," and these moments do break up the otherwise easy listening experience. Overall, Marianelli takes absolutely no chances with Pride & Prejudice, and in playing it as conservatively as possible, he offers music that is both pleasant and occasionally strong, but also travels a wide and beaten path that may not impress even collectors of classical music. *** @Amazon.com: CD or Download Bias Check: For Dario Marianelli reviews at Filmtracks, the average editorial rating is 3.7 (in 10 reviews) and the average viewer rating is 3.34 (in 5,001 votes). The maximum rating is 5 stars. VIEWER RATINGS 1,457 TOTAL VOTES Average: 3.51 Stars ***** 396 **** 400 *** 348 ** 189 * 124 (View results for all titles) Read All Start New Thread Search Comments FVSR Reviews Pride & Prejudice Brendan Cochran - May 27, 2014, at 11:06 p.m. 1 comment (420 views) Could you email me 'Georgiana'? Louise Murby - May 6, 2009, at 11:44 a.m. 1 comment (1451 views) I can write for you any sheet music crescalona - December 26, 2007, at 1:44 p.m. 1 comment (1976 views) A Postcard to Henry Purcell Sheet Music?! Expand >> Paige - May 9, 2007, at 7:39 p.m. 3 comments (14132 views) Newest: May 15, 2010, at 9:41 a.m. by "Your Hands are Cold" Shoeby - December 19, 2006, at 12:47 p.m. 1 comment (1857 views) Pride & Prejudice Soundtrack Expand >> Josephine Casteelj - November 17, 2006, at 1:59 p.m. 2 comments (4407 views) Newest: December 28, 2006, at 4:37 p.m. by TRACK LISTINGS AND AUDIO Audio Samples ▼ 7. Arrival at Netherfield (0:34) MP3 (284K) WMA (224K) Real Audio (199K) 11. Another Dance (0:29) MP3 (239K) WMA (193K) Real Audio (168K) 13. Darcy's Letter (0:28) MP3 (239K) WMA (188K) Real Audio (168K) 15. Your Hands Are Cold (0:31) MP3 (254K) WMA (204K) Real Audio (179K) • 1. Dawn (2:40) • 2. Stars and Butterflies (2:01) • 3. The Living Sculptures of Pemberley (3:03) • 4. Meryton Townhall (1:14) • 5. The Militia Marches In (0:57) • 6. Georgiana (1:37) • 7. Arrival at Netherfield (1:42) • 8. A Postcard to Henry Purcell (2:41) • 9. Liz on Top of the World (1:24) • 10. Leaving Netherfield (1:43) • 11. Another Dance (1:15) • 12. The Secret Life of Daydreams (1:56) • 13. Darcy's Letter (3:59) • 14. Can't Slow Down (1:11) • 15. Your Hands Are Cold (5:25) • 16. Mrs. Darcy (3:47) • 17. Credits (4:47) NOTES AND QUOTES The insert includes notes from both the director and composer about the score and film. Copyright © 2005-2019, Filmtracks Publications. All rights reserved. The reviews and other textual content contained on the filmtracks.com site may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without the prior written authority of Christian Clemmensen at Filmtracks Publications. All artwork and sound clips from Pride & Prejudice are Copyright © 2005, Decca/Universal and cannot be redistributed without the label's expressed written consent. 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Old School FBF - Racing Against The Clock It's been a pretty hectic week around here....lots going on at work and at home. I spent a couple of nights wrapping up reviews for the upcoming issue of Blues Bytes (hopefully, out next week). Usually, I work on the blog on Wednesday nights, but I had to work that night until midnight, so I'm scrambling around trying to get it done at the last minute. Since time is winding down this week, FBF will do a quick "old school" post, like in the olden days when I did if via email to co-workers. Most of the time, I did these in about ten - fifteen minutes before work and sent them out to give my friends as a little pick-me-up on the last day of the work week. I would usually send a couple of songs with a brief description about the song and artist. This week, FBF will look at a couple of my favorite blues men who really deserve to be much better known than they are. Chances are that you already know them and love them, but there's always somebody who will be hearing them for the first time, so here we go....... Let's get started with the amazing Bobby Radcliff, one of New York City’s powerhouse guitarists. Radcliff fell under the spell of the blues at a young age and even ran away from home at 16 to Chicago to meet Magic Sam. Radcliff’s style is reminiscent of Sam’s and Buddy Guy and the rest of those Chicago West Side guitarists and he’s got a killer voice to boot. He made some great recordings in the late 80’s and early 90’s, but has been away from the studio since then for various reasons. Radcliff still keeps a high profile on the club circuit along the east coast, and released a CD on his own label after a decade-long absence from the studio a few years ago. This year, he guested on several tracks of blues fiddler Ilana Katz Katz's Movin' On album (you'll be hearing more about her in a few weeks). This track is from his debut CD way back in 1989, which was called Dresses Too Short and it’s a powerful rendition of Dyke & the Blazers’ “Ugh!” If there was any justice in the world, blues fans would be singing his praises from every mountaintop. Another FBF favorite, Roy Gaines, has achieved some measure of popularity over the years since he’s recorded mostly in California after moving from the Houston, TX area as a fledgling guitarist taken in by the sounds of T-Bone Walker and determined to follow his path. Gaines played with Bobby Bland, recording some electrifying sides with the blues legend, and he did do some great recordings of his own in the 50’s, but sort of fell off the radar for the most part until resurfacing in the late 80’s on his brother, former Little Richard saxophone man and band leader Grady Gaines’ album Full Gain. Gaines also played guitar on several movie soundtracks, including The Color Purple (he also had a small role), and has appeared in many commercials for Coca Cola, Heineken, KFC, AT&T, Coors Light, and Krystal, over the years playing, of course, a blues man. He was seen pretty frequently in one of those arthritis medicine commercials that played during the Olympics back in the early 2000's, playing, of course, a blues man, but a very active one in this case as he jumps all over the stage. Though he’s now 82, Gaines still cuts a powerful figure on stage and is one of the best guitarist out there as he mixes blues, jazz, and sometimes even country. One of my favorite albums of his was 1999's I Got The T-Bone Walker Blues, where he paid tribute to his musical mentor. This song, one of my favorites, comes from that CD, a neat remake of Hank Williams’ “Honky Tonk Blues,” and features Gaines with steel guitarist Al Velasco and gives the old country tune the T-Bone treatment. It's pretty hard to listen to this one without at least tapping a toe. Interestingly enough, Gaines was managed at one time in his early career by Williams’ ex-wife and remained friends with her over the years. That's all for now. See you next week for your Friday Blues Fix. Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, ... New Blues For You - Fall, 2016 Edition (Part 1) Blues Standards - Sitting on Top of the World Summer Listening

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Home>All Posts>Features>Elisabeth Moss Plays Researcher in... Elisabeth Moss Plays Researcher in ‘Truth’ FeaturesFilm Features Angela Dawson|October 14, 2015 (l-r) Elisabeth Moss as Lucy Scott, Cate Blanchett as Mary Mapes, Topher Grace as Mike Smith and Dennis Quaid as Lt. Colonel Roger Charles in TRUTH. ©RadPac Truth LLC / Sony Pictures Classics. CR: Lisa Tomasetti By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Elisabeth Moss continues to show her versatility in the political drama “Truth,” in which she plays a professor/researcher who helps a “60 Minutes II” producer uncover some damaging information on then-Presidential candidate George W. Bush. However, due to various circumstances, including a tight deadline, the story airs before the “facts” can be completely vetted, causing a backlash against the producer, newsman Dan Rather and their research team. Virtually unrecognizable as a platinum blond, Moss arrives for an interview looking stunning in a white and orange skirt and blouse ensemble. Asked about the new hair color, she indicates that it’s not for a role but “just for me.” Best known for her role as glass ceiling-shattering copywriter Peggy Olson on the award-winning AMC TV series “Mad Men,” the actress has been busy building up a strong resume of roles in mostly independent films since the longrunning series concluded earlier this year. She starred with Mark Duplass in “The One I Love,” in “Listen Up Philip” opposite Jason Schwartzman, and the New Zealand-set miniseries “Top of the Lake.” The peripatetic actress has completed production on six films including “High-Rise,” directed by Ben Wheatley and starring Tom Hiddleston, “Meadowland,” directed by Reed Morano and starring Olivia Wilde, “Queen of Earth,” written and directed by Alex Ross Perry, “The Seagull,” directed by Michael Mayer and “The Free World,” a drama from director Jason Lew. In “Truth,” she co-stars opposite Oscar winner Cate Blanchett, who plays Mary Mapes, an energetic and dogged investigative news producer, who comes across some damaging documents that appear to support a theory that Bush went AWOL, while supposedly serving in the Texas Army National Guard during the Vietnam War. An award-winning producer who had previously worked with Rather on other stories for the respected TV newsmagazine show, Mapes and her team, which included Lucy Scott (Moss’ character), a Dallas professor and seasoned researcher, and Mike Smith (played by Topher Grace), a Texas-based freelance journalist who had worked with Mapes previously, pursued the story during the Presidential campaign in which Bush was running against Democratic candidate John Kerry. Mapes had received the documents from a former Texas Army National Guard officer who claimed he had documents that showed Bush was a no-show at the Guard during the war, but they turned out to be copies, not originals. Though that should have sounded an alarm bell with the veteran producer, she, Rather (played by Robert Redford) and her team forged ahead with the story, which aired on “60 Minutes II.” Almost immediately, the news team’s reporting came under fire, which eventually led to the departure of Rather as the longtime anchor of the CBS Evening News. James Vanderbilt wrote and directed the political drama based on Mapes’ “Truth and Duty: The Press, The President, and the Privilege of Power.” Moss is no stranger to stories about political intrigue. She began her career playing the daughter of the President in the hit TV series “West Wing.” The divorced actress spoke about “Truth” and what she looks for in a role. Q: How familiar were you with this story and these events before you got the script? Moss: I suppose not very much at all. Obviously, I’m human and I watch “60 Minutes,” and know who Dan Rather is, and was sort of familiar of the periphery of the stories they were doing, but certainly not to the extent that I became while filming this project and after reading the book. Q: Your character is based on a real professor. Did you get to speak with Lucy Scott and talk to her about what it was like at that time? Moss: I sort of got everything I needed from the script and the book. I had heard she approved of my casting and she was good with being portrayed in it to an extent, but I think it was more of about who she was in the story and what her role was in the investigation, which was a very crucial role. From what I got she seemed like a very intelligent and reasonable person who’s capable of looking at both sides and Mary wouldn’t have picked her to be a part of the team if she didn’t have that value. For me, that was what was important, which was portraying someone who was bringing something to the table that was necessary to finding the truth in this story. That was the most important thing to me; now I just hope that she likes it and likes my hair! Q: When you’re looking at a great story or narrative, what do you look for in the director you’re collaborating with as well? What kind of qualities do you look for? Moss: It’s happened quite a bit, working with the director who has written the script, which happens a lot actually, I like that part of it because not only is there a knowledge of the story, but also a passion for the story. I think it’s so difficult to write, I don’t know how anyone does it, and it seems awful. So to me, the fact that they sat down and actually managed to write a script is incredible. They must have loved it and really wanted to tell this story, so when you get that kind of passion and drive in the director, I find it really helpful. It helps to not have to go ask the writer what he meant when he said that, to not have to go, “Do you mind if we change this line?” or, “Can we do this instead of that?” They’re right there and they know the material better than you ever could, so for me that was something that was really valuable and I really do like when that happens. Cate (Blanchett) said it last night, that there’s no right or wrong way to direct, and actors are so different. Even if there is a “right” way to direct, actors are going to want different things. So there isn’t any one way to do it because everyone’s different and requires something different. Q: Is it always a good feeling when people come up to you and compliment you on your body of work? Moss: No, it never gets old. I want the audience to be entertained and to enjoy it and to have an experience and I do it because I love it, but I’m also not doing it in a closet somewhere where nobody can see it. So if people are moved or affected by a character or a story, it’s everything to me. That’s why I try to take time to stop and talk to fans and take pictures because this is reason why I got my job, this is why I can pay my rent, so for me, yea that’s everything. I’m always incredibly complimented. I thrive on flattery. Q: What led you to the projects you’ve taken on? Moss: It’s so much about the script for me, every time. I love that we live in a time now where it doesn’t matter if it’s film or TV or theater. For me it doesn’t matter if it’s a big film or a small film, or a half hour or an hour, or West End or Broadway. For me it’s just about the script itself. I don’t necessarily look for a certain kind of movie, it’s just about if it’s a great story that excites me and I want to be a part of. If it’s part of a smaller ensemble or where I’m the lead, for me it’s just about the script. I just ended up doing so many projects because there were so many good scripts. It’s not like I said, “I’m going to work and do so many movies.” There’s just a lot of really great material out there, but there is so much material that can be made and that’s exciting. Tags:Cate Blanchett, Elisabeth Moss, Mary Mapes, Robert Redford, Truth Previous PostPhotos: Jack Black Gets Creepy in ‘Goosebumps’ Next PostPhotos: Elisabeth Moss Plays Researcher in ‘Truth’ Editor/Co-owner Angela Dawson is the editor and co-owner of frontrowfeatures.com. An award-winning journalist, she has covered Hollywood since 2000. Her interviews with actors, directors, writers, authors and musicians have run in numerous outlets. She is the author of the novel "Generations: A Greek Family Odyssey" available on Amazon.com. 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Home » Sports » Baseball Falls to Hood College Baseball Falls to Hood College Posted By John Zak on Mar 9, 2018 | 0 comments Senior co-captain Chuck Probst went 1-2 with a run and two walks in the season opener against Hood College (Photo courtesy of David Sinclair) By John Zak, Staff Writer The Gettysburg College baseball team started off their 2018 season with a loss to Hood College in Frederick, Maryland. The 12-3 loss on the road, however, included notable individual performances by a number of players on the team. Senior co-captain Chuck Probst went 1-2 in the course of the game, managing to record a run and walk twice. Probst will be central to the team’s success this year, as Probst is an all-conference, all-region, and pre-season all-American selection. Probst is coming off a strong junior campaign where he batted .394, hit seven homers and sixty-five hits. Also contributing offensively for the Bullets, sophomore Ryan LaCoe went 3-4 with a triple and record a run. First-year Sean Murphy in his college debut went 2-4 while recording a run. Sophomore Tyler Mitchell was also responsible for two RBIs via a sacrifice fly and a ground out. The Bullets will also look to senior co-captain Logan Sneed for offensive leadership and big plays throughout the season. Last season he batted .315 and went 45-143 with five doubles, 20 RBIs and nine walks. Senior Brad DeMartino started as the pitcher for the Bullets, allowing six runs and eight hits while striking out five batters over four innings. Junior Brendan Wright made his collegiate pitching debut as he pitched two scoreless innings, recording two strikeouts pitching relief for the Bullets. DeMartino will be important for the Bullets as the ace starting pitcher. Last season, he recorded an ERA of 2.55, the fifth-lowest in the Centennial Conference, while also posting a record of 5-2. DeMartino has been an important factor in the Bullets starting rotation since his first year. However, he is the only remaining starting pitcher with significant experience, as the pitching rotation last year graduated four starters, most notably last year’s Centennial Conference Pitcher of the Year Chase Stopyra. Even with the loss of starting pitchers, Coach Campo is confident that his team will still have a strong pitching rotation. “We’ve got some guys who can step up and help us right away. Obviously, experience is a plus, but we have some good talent,” said Campo. This season opener on the road is meant to be a preview to what is considered by the Bullets team to be a promising season, as the team hopes to make the Centennial Conference playoffs for the fifth time in six years. The team is also riding a streak of six straight years winning 20 or more games. The 2018 Gettysburg College baseball team is one that has both young talent and experienced players which team coach John Campo hopes will translate into success. In an interview for Gettysburg College Athletics, Campo commented on his expectations for the team going into 2018. “I’m optimistic. We have a group of guys that have worked hard, and we’ve had a good fall and pre-season,” said Campo. “I think were in a position to make a strong run at things. The key for us will be to stay healthy and be productive offensively after graduating the middle of our lineup from last year.” The leaders of Campo’s team this season and their success is important for the success of the team. The presence of these players on the team gives Coach Campo reason to be confident about the prospects for success this season, as the team displays both young players and experienced veterans. The Bullets will play next week in Fort Pierce, Florida during spring break. Author: John Zak John Zak '21 is a staff writer for The Gettysburgian who writes primarily for the sports section. He has covered a wide variety of sports including men's and women's soccer, men's and women's cross country, men's and women's basketball, baseball, and football. He is from Daytona Beach, Florida and is an avid fan of both the New York Yankees and New York Giants, while supporting the Notre Dame Fighting Irish in college football and basketball. He is double majoring in History and Political Science with hopes of attending law school after graduation. Follow him on Instagram @john_zak_iv_ .

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Class of 2019 President Reaffirms Support of Wagner as Commencement Speaker Home » News » Class of 2019 President Reaffirms Support of Wagner as Commencement Speaker Posted By Phoebe Doscher on Apr 30, 2019 | 0 comments By Phoebe Doscher, Assistant News Editor On Monday, April 29, President of the Class of 2019 Olivia Lanctot sent out an email update to the senior class reaffirming her support to appoint Josh Wagner as the senior Commencement speaker. The update comes following the petition to remove Wagner as Commencement speaker when copies of his article “13 Places Safer than FIJI Basement on Friday Night: Number 11 will Shock You!” from the 2018 April Fools edition of The Gettysburgian were posted on bulletin boards in Glatfelter Hall. Professor Cassie Hays of the sociology department had pinned the article, which was found with highlighted sections such as “6. OJ Simpson’s bedroom,” and “10. The extras’ dressing room on the Cosby Show.” The petition was started by students who felt that satirical article made light of sexual assault. In response, Wagner published an opinion article in The Gettysburgian titled, “Sexual Assault is a Serious Issue.” Lanctot sent out the update Monday evening following evaluation of student responses to the petition with the administration as well as meetings with Wagner, the selection committee — comprised of the 2019 Class Officers, student leaders, and administrators — and concerned students. Lanctot recognized that the petition to replace Wagner has made for a challenging process as the president of the class and said she received and considered information from those involved in order to come to the decision to back Wagner as the Commencement speaker. Although the petition expressed thoughtful concerns, Lanctot noted several “design flaws” including the form’s anonymity and lack of authentication, which allowed the submission of fake responses as well as some from people that are not members of the Class of 2019. She said that the petition also left out pertinent information, including a previous article published in The Gettysburgian by the presidents of the Interfraternity Council and Panhellenic Council addressing action against sexual assault. Moreover, Phi Gamma Delta, which was referenced in Wagner’s article, was invited to publicly respond to the piece but declined to do so. Lanctot acknowledged concerns raised in the petition about the committee’s lack of knowledge of complaints about Wagner before its deliberations, but she emphasized that the students’ concerns were taken into consideration before reaffirming support of Wagner. Wagner himself spoke to peers on the use of satire to address “delicate issues.” “I think that this has been a learning opportunity for everyone, and I don’t foresee this being written down as a divisive issue in our campus’s history. While we might have some differing opinions on the rhetorical strategies to be used, we all agree that sexual assault is a serious issue facing our community that needs to be addressed” he said. Additionally, Wagner voiced his appreciation for the work of the Officers of the Class of 2019, “The class officers did a great job at listening to all voices and have been extraordinarily transparent during the entire process” he said. The update ended with a summary of Wagner’s accomplishments and prior articles for The Gettysburgian that reinforce Lanctot’s support. She noted Wagner’s articles in favor of commitment to freedom of expression and upholding college values, and his work in Gettysburg’s Center for Public Service and College life. In order to continue the conversation, Lanctot invited students to attend an nGender Discussion in the Women’s and LGBTQA Resource Center on Tuesday, April 30 from 11:45 to 1 p.m. to “explore the current campus conversation regarding the use of satire to expose injustice, how narratives and power are being used to highlight and address concerns, and the decision making process for the 2019 student commencement speaker.” Editor’s Note: This piece was edited on Tuesday, May 30 at 4:30 p.m. to add a quote from Josh Wagner (-P. Doscher) Author: Phoebe Doscher Phoebe Doscher ’22 is the News Editor for The Gettysburgian. She previously served as a staff writer, features section copy editor, and Assistant News Editor. Originally from Sandy Hook, CT, she is an English with a Writing Concentration and Theatre Arts double major. Aside from writing and editing, she studies voice at the Sunderman Conservatory of Music and can often be seen working on and offstage in the theatre department.

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Kanstroom, Daniel Boston College Law School daniel.kanstroom@bc.edu Daniel Kanstroom is Professor of Law and Thomas F. Carney Distinguished Scholar at Boston College Law School, where he teaches Immigration and Refugee Law, International Human Rights Law, Constitutional Law, and Administrative Law. He is co-Director of the Center for Human Rights and International Justice and Director of the Post-Deportation Human Rights Project, which seeks to conceptualize and develop a new field of law while representing US deportees abroad. He founded the Boston College Immigration and Asylum clinic in which students represent indigent migrants and asylum-seekers. Together with his students and co-counsel, he has provided counsel for hundreds of clients, won dozens of immigration and asylum cases [and lost a few], and authored amicus briefs for the U.S. Supreme Court and many other courts. Professor Kanstroom has published widely in the fields of U.S. immigration law, human rights, criminal law, and European citizenship and asylum law. His recent work includes: Aftermath: Deportation Law and the New American Diaspora (Oxford University Press 2012) and Deportation Nation: Outsiders in American History (Harvard University Press 2007). His edited books include: The New Deportations Delirium: Interdisciplinary Responses (with psychologist M. Brinton Lykes, NYU Press 2015) and Constructing Illegality (with sociologist Cecilia Menjivar, Cambridge University Press 2013). He is currently writing a new book, entitled Deportation World (Harvard University Press), which explores the rise of deportation as a global phenomenon. His articles, book reviews and op-eds have appeared in the Harvard Law Review, the Yale Journal of International Law, the UCLA Law Review, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the French Gazette du Palais, and many other venues. He has taught at many universities including The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, American University, the University of Paris, Northeastern School of Law, King’s College, London, the University of Hawai’i, and Vermont Law School. He was a member of the national Immigration Commission of the American Bar Association and on the advisory boards of the PAIR Project and the Rapport Center.

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This news story bears some similarity to last night’s article about the Coptic girls who were abducted, sold, and converted to Islam. In this case, however, all the participants seem to be Enrichers. Not only that — given that they’re from Bangladesh — all of them, victims and perps, are probably related to each other. According to The Daily Mail: UK: Girl, 15, ‘Forced to Marry Illegal Immigrant Who Then Raped Her and Assaulted Her Little Sister’ Police are hunting a suspected illegal immigrant accused of raping a 15-year-old schoolgirl who had been forced to marry him. The Bangladeshi, in his 40s, is also wanted over claims that he sexually assaulted the girl’s 12-year-old sister. He disappeared after the elder girl, now aged 17, contacted the Metropolitan Police on June 26 because she feared she was now being forced into a second marriage. Specialist child abuse detectives based at Stratford were told that the girl, from an Asian family living in Bethnal Green in London’s East End, had been the subject of a forced marriage in April 2007 when she was 15. Officers have arrested a 53-year-old woman, believed to be another family member, on suspicion of aiding and abetting rape and actual bodily harm. The arrest for assault is linked to an attack on a six-year-old boy. A Metropolitan Police spokesman said: ‘The sham marriage took place at an address in the E2 area. She alleged she was subsequently raped by the man. ‘Further inquiries revealed a second girl, then aged 12, had also been sexually assaulted by the man. ‘A 53-year-old woman was arrested on July 7 on suspicion of aiding and abetting rape and actual bodily harm. ‘She has subsequently been bailed to return on September 1 to an East London police station pending further enquiries. ‘The male suspect remains outstanding and extensive police inquiries continue to trace him.’ For a complete listing of previous enrichment news, see The Cultural Enrichment Archives. Hat tip: JD. Inadequate as the response may be from present day British police, imagine what will happen to victims like this girl when Muslim crimes are handled by the special Muslim police force planned? (see link in Seyio's article above http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/115757/Muslims-could-get-own-police) By Katherine Fenech "MUSLIM crime victims could gain the right to have their cases overseen by police from their own religion, it emerged last night". It would be more accurate to express it as "Muslim CRIMINALS could gain the right to have their cases overseen by police from their own religion...but of course they would not be considered criminals by their co-religionist police following sharia law. The criminal would be the 12 year old rapee, not the 47 year old rapist. Brown men with the morality of a rapacious 8th century sex obsessed warlord must be deferred to by us or we'll be called Islamophobic or (shudder) racist! That's much much worse than grown men raping little girls and calling it marriage. (Even this brief sarcastic sojourn in the swamp of what passes for a leftist mind has killed off millions of my brain cells).

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William I the Conqueror Plantagenet, King of England Name William I the Conqueror Plantagenet [1] Born 1028 Falaise, Normandy, France [1] Acceded 25 Dec 1066 Westminster Abbey, London, England _FSFTID 9CWS-BZZ _FSLINK https://familysearch.org/tree/#view=ancestor&person=9CWS-BZZ Died 9 Sep 1087 Hermentrube, Near Rouen, France [1] Buried St. Stephen Abbey, Caen, Normandy Acceded: 25 DEC 1066, Westminster Abbey, London, England Reigned 1066-1087. Duke of Normandy 1035-1087. Invaded England defeated and killed his rival Harold at the Battle of Hastings and became King. The Nor man conquest of England was completed by 1072 aided by the establishment of feaudalism under which his followers were granted land in return for pledges of service and loyalty. As King William was noted for his efficient if harsh rule. His administration relied upon Norman and other foreign personnell especially Lanfranc Archbishop of Canterbury. In 1085 started Domesday Book. William I , (The Conqueror) King of England was born on 14 October 1024 in «u»Falaise, Normandy, France «/u». He married «u»Matilda of Flanders«/u», daughter of «u»Count Baldwin V of Flanders«/u», in 1051 in «u»Cathedral of Notre Dame d'Eu, Normandy «/u». He married «u»Ingelrica Maud of England «/u» after 2 November 1083; they married after the death of Matilda of Flanders who died in 1083. He died on 9 September 1087 in «u»Priory of St. Gervais, Rouen, France «/u», at age 62. He was buried in 1087 in «u»St. Stephen's Abbey, Caen, Normandy, France «/u». William I of the House of Normandy, was the first Norman king. He was known as "«i»The Conqueror of England«/i»," as well as William "«i»The Bastard«/i»," son of Robert II "«i»The Devil«/i»," Duke of Normandy (or Robert II "«i»Curthose«/i»" of Normandy). His mother was Arlette (or Herleva de Falaise), daughter of Fulbert, a tanner of Falaise. Though an illegitimate son, William suceeded his father as Duke of Normandy in 1035 at the age of eleven. He lived in obscurity for 12 years until the Battle of Val-des-Dunes (1047) when the lords of the western part of the duchy rebelled and Henri I of France came to his aid defeating the rebels. The lack of heirs to the English throne, and Edward the Confessor's predilection for Normans, made it possible for William to put forward his candidature though he was only Edward's cousin by marriage. In 1051 William received a promise from Edward the Confessor of the English succession and in 1051, in defiance of the Pope, he married Matilda, the daughter of Baldwin V, Count of Flanders and Adelaide of France. They had to wait until 1059 before receiving a papal dispensation for their marriage. William the Conqueror and Matilda had relatively great difficulty in obtaining a papal dispensation for their marriage. It was not immediately obvious what the impediment was that would require a dispensation. The problem of what the relationship between Matilda and William might be which required a dispensation generated a vigorous debate earlier this century; the theory appears to be that Matilda and William were cousins of sorts. In the next ten years William repulsed two French invasions, and in 1063 conquered Maine. Although he was never keen on actual capital punishment, he could get touchy about jokes too near the bone, so when he captured the town of Alencon that had displayed flayed skins on its walls in allusion to the tanner's trade (his maternal grandfather, Fulbert, had been a tanner), he chopped the right hand and left foot off each citizen to teach them a lesson about laughing last. About 1064, the powerful English noble, Harold, Earl of Wessex, (aka Harold Godwin) was shipwrecked on the Norman coast and taken prisoner by William. He secured his release by swearing to support William's claim to the English throne. When King Edward died, however, the "«i»witenagemot«/i»" (royal council) elected Harold king. Determined to make good his claim, William secured the sanction of Pope Alexander II for a Norman invasion of England. The duke and his army landed at Pevensey on September 28, 1066. On October 14, the Normans defeated the English forces at the celebrated Battle of Hastings, in which Harold was slain along with the rest of the Godwin family members. William then proceeded to London, crushing the resistance he encountered on the way. On Christmas Day he was crowned King of England in Westminster Abbey. After his conquest, William requested a large number of Jews move to England; they spoke Norman and did well under his reign. (Sharon Kay Penman, "«i»Falls the Shadow«/i».") Gaining the crown didn't give William complete control of England, though, and there was remaining resistance which was severely crushed, and castles were built to control the country (including a fortress on the site of Windsor Castle, and the White Tower at the Tower of London). The west and north of England were subdued in 1068; but the next year the north revolted and William devastated the county between York and Durham. The Conqueror's rule was stern and orderly but the English did not accept foreign rule without a struggle. William met the opposition, which was particularly violent in the north and west, with strong measures being taken; he was responsible for the devastation of great areas of the country, particularly in Yorkshire, where Danish forces had arrived to aid the Saxon rebels. In 1070 there was a rebellion in the Fen Country and, under the leadership of Hereward the Wake, the rebels held out for some time in the Isle of Ely. English exiles were sheltered by the Scottish King, Malcolm, who plundered the northern shires; but William invaded Scotland in 1072 compelling King Malcolm III MacDuncan to do him homage at Abernethy. In 1073 he reconquered Maine. He also made a successful expedition into South Wales. During the succeeding years the Conqueror crushed insurrections among his Norman followers, including that incited in 1075 by Ralph de Guader, 1st Earlof Norfolk, and Roger Fitzwilliam, Earl of Hereford, and in 1079 a series of uprisings in Normandy led by his eldest son Robert, who later became Robert III, duke of Normandy. In 1086,William commissioned the Domesday Book to record land holdings for the assessment of taxes and other dues. He reorganized the English feudal and administative systems. He dissolved the great earldoms which had enjoyed virtual independence under his Anglo-Saxon predecessors and distributed the lands confiscated from the English to his trusted Norman followers. The old national assembly become a council of the king's tenants-in-chief. By the Oath of Salisburgy of 1086, all landlords swore allegiance to William, thus establishing the precedent that a vassal's loyablty to the king overrode his fealty to his immediate lord. The feudal lords were compelled to acknowledge the jurisdiction of the local courts which William retained along with many other Anglo-Saxon institutions. The ecclesiastical and secular courts were separated, and the power of the papacy in English affairs was greatly curtailed. In 1087 during a campaign against King Philip I of France, William burned the town of Mantes (now Mantes-la-Jolie). As William rode through the burning town, his horse stumbled and fell fatally injuring William who was thrown against the iron pommel of his saddle. He was carried to the priory of St. Gervase near Rouen where he confessed his sins. He died of a burst bowel on September 9th at age 62. All his sons, except Henry, deserted his deathbed to fight for the succession; his officers and servants fled with what spoils they could take. A rustic vassal bore his remains to the Abbaye aux Hommes at Caen. The coffin made for him proved too small for his corpse; when the attendants tried to force the enormous bulk into the narrow space, the body burst, and filled the church with a royal stench. He was buried at Caen in Saint Stephen's, one of the abbeys he and Matilda had founded at the time of their marriage as penance for their defiance of the Pope. William was succeeded by his third-born son, William II, to whom he left England. He left Normandy to his son Robert. [Click on the following document icons for a bit more interesting information related to William and the makeup of the English people.]. Children of William I , (The Conqueror) King of England and «u»Matilda of Flanders«/u»: «u»Robert III Duke of Normandy,«/u» b. 1051, d. bt 10 Feb 1133 - 1134 «u»Richard de Normandy, Duke of Bernay «/u» b. 1054, d. 1081 «u»Adelidis (Alice) de Normandy, «/u» b. 1055, d. 1066 «u»Cecilia of The Holy Trinity «/u» b. 1056, d. 30 Jul 1126 «u»William Rufus II , King of England«/u» b. 1060, d. 2 Aug 1100 «u»Adela de Normandy «/u» b. 1062, d. bt 8 Mar 1137 - 1138 «u»Matilda (Gundred) de Normandy «/u» b. 1063 «u»Agatha (Matilda) de Normandy «/u» b. 1064, d. 1080 «u»Constance de Normandy «/u» b. 1066, d. 13 Aug 1090 «u»Anna de Normandy «/u» b. 1066 «u»Henry I Beauclerc, King of England «/u»«b»+«/b» b. c Sep 1068, d. 1 Dec 1135 «b»Citations«/b» "«i»Burke's Guide to the Royal Family«/i»," London, 1973. "«i»Johnson-Harris Family Genealogy«/i»," from CD, compiled by Sr. Tanya Johnson, OCD, Latrobe, PA, «u»e-mail address «/u», Nearly all the notes for William the Conqueror were kindly shared with me as compiled and written by Sr. Tanya Johnson. "«i»Burke's Guide to the Royal Family«/i»," London, 1973, Ref: 193, 310. http://kerrysdavis.home.comcast.net/p33.htm#i324 Person ID I2629 Glenn Cook Family Father Robert II the Devil of Normandy, 6th Duke of Normandy, b. Abt 999/1008, Normandy, France , d. 22 Jun 1035, Nice, Bithynia, Turkey Mother Herleva (Arlette) de Falaise, Officer of the Household, b. Abt 1003, Falaise, Calvados, France , d. Abt 1050, Abbey of St Grestain, France (Age ~ 47 years) Married 1023 France Family 1 Matilda of Flanders, b. Abt 1031, Flanders, France , d. 2 Nov 1083, Caen, Normandy (Age ~ 52 years) Married 1053 Cathedral of Notre Dame D'eu, Normandy 1. Robert II Curthose of Normandy, Duke of Normandy, b. 1054, Normandy, France , d. 10 Feb 1134, Cardiff Castle as a prisoner (Age 80 years) 2. Richard of Normandy, Duke of Bernay, b. Abt 1055, d. Yes, date unknown 3. Cecilia of Holy Trinity, Abbess of Caen, b. 1056, d. Yes, date unknown 4. Adeliza of Normandy, Nun, b. 1055, d. Yes, date unknown 5. William II Rufus of Normandy Plantagenet, King of England, b. Between 1056 and 1060, d. 2 Aug 1100, New Forest, Hampshire (Age ~ 44 years) 6. Constance of Normandy, b. Abt 1066, Normandy, France , d. 13 Aug 1090 (Age ~ 24 years) 7. Adela of Normandy, Countess of Blois, b. Abt 1067, Normandy, France , d. 8 Mar 1137, Marcigny-sur-Loire, France (Age ~ 70 years) 8. Agatha of Normandy, b. Abt 1064, d. 1080 (Age ~ 16 years) 9. Matilda of Normandy, b. 1063, d. Yes, date unknown 10. Henry I Beauclerc of Normandy, King of England, b. Abt Sep 1068, Selby, Yorkshire, England , d. 1 Dec 1135, St Denis-Le-Fermont, Near Gisors (Age ~ 67 years) 11. Gundred of Normandy Plantagenet, d. Yes, date unknown Family 2 Maud (Ingelrica) Peverell, d. Yes, date unknown 1. William "The Older" Peverell, d. Yes, date unknown William I The Conqueror Platagenet King of England WILLIAM I "the Conqueror" of Normandy, King of England William I the Conqueror [S380] Royal Genealogical Data http://www3.dcs.hull.ac.uk/public/genealogy/royal/.

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In hand images of G.I. Joe: Renegades 4-Pack from Amazon Posted on May 2, 2012 by Justin Oh wow! Oh WOW! Look at these figures. I’ve made no secret of the fact that I’m a bit bitter that Hasbro scrapped G.I. Joe: Renegades without hardly even giving it a chance, and a part of my complaint lies within the fact that they ditched the animated aesthetic due to fandom outcry. Now a big part of me doesn’t blame them one bit. I don’t have any false ideas that animated style figures would fly off the shelves…I have my doubts. Hasbro could have potentially shrugged off their long standing fans, and not drawn in any new ones, and the entire line could have gone straight down the crapper. I’m not sure G.I. Joe as a brand is quite strong enough for Hasbro to totally overhaul the realistic styling and still come out swinging. So, I don’t blame them, even though the animated figures were items I really wanted to see. So Amazon.com comes through in a big way, offering a Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow figure that apparently use this discarded tooling to great success. Keep in mind I don’t yet have these figures in hand, and I will fully admit those hip joints immediately make me scared. I hate those hips on the Marvel figures, so I really, desperately hope the Joe design team has found a way to make those joints work better than the Marvel folks have been able to. Aside from that, the angular sculpting of the figures, the articulation…everything else looks very cool, and I’m really digging the animated look. Part of me hopes we get a more normal Snake Eyes in this format, too. I don’t have any aspirations that they’ll do an entire Renegades run in this style, but I’ll take what I can get. Check out the original post by G.I. Joe: Renegades fan edhellman over at HissTank.com, and I’ve mirrored the images below. This entry was posted in G.I. Joe, G.I. Joe Toys, G.I. Joe: Renegades and tagged duke, gijoe renegades, red ninja, snake eyes, storm shadow by Justin. Bookmark the permalink. 16 thoughts on “In hand images of G.I. Joe: Renegades 4-Pack from Amazon” DrSyn on May 2, 2012 at 8:47 am said: I love that Duke. The stylized Ninjas would be fun to own, but I wouldn’t want them to be the standard. alvarobm on May 2, 2012 at 9:27 am said: I promise here I´ll never try to understand Hasbro again. Why they cut PoA on the movie toys (supposed to be the “main line”), and release a total new sculpted with EXTRA PoA on an “obscure” and probably hard to find pack??? WHY??? poddie on May 2, 2012 at 9:39 am said: Simple. Because these were initially tooled up for individual release before they decided to redo them in a more standard style. So they were sitting there unused until Amazon bought the exclusive. The hips scare the crap out of me too. I hope they don’t become standard for Joes in the future… unless, like Justin says, they are GREATLY improved over the MU ones which I hate. Monte on May 2, 2012 at 9:42 am said: Please, for the love of all that is holy, let this be the beginning and end of ball-joint hips on G.I. Joe figures. Onslaught Six on May 2, 2012 at 10:14 am said: It’s obvious that the hips are still on the old ball joints, they just have swivel joints underneath them for added articulation. Anyone who actually collects MU toys can see that those hips are nothing like these ones. Monte on May 2, 2012 at 10:15 am said: Even if they’re more functional than the atrocious MU hips, they’re still bastard ugly. 788 Vs. Your Name Here on May 2, 2012 at 10:20 am said: thanks amazon…….way to handle this exclusive. thats sarcasm. Dusty Ayers on May 2, 2012 at 10:36 am said: Completely agree. What the heck? Those figs all look great and I can’t wait to get my hands on them. I’m not sure about the large kneepads on Duke. I might file down the pegs and glue on a pair from the original. Anonymous on May 2, 2012 at 10:57 am said: These sculpts are amazing! That is the Snake-Eyes I wanted for this line and, from a strictly sculpting point-of-view, this SS overshadows the 30th version. I cannot wait to get these figures next week. Scotty97 on May 2, 2012 at 11:03 am said: A very Sigma Six look to the SS and SE, which isn’t particularly a bad thing. I hope Amazon gets more of these in stock as they told me they would. alvarobm on May 2, 2012 at 1:02 pm said: Tooled, but not assembled, which is the excuse for cost increment on Retaliation figs. About those hips joint, please clarify. I´m not an expert on Marvel 3.75″ figures, but I have an Iron Man and don´t see many problems with this joints… Erik on May 2, 2012 at 1:32 pm said: That’s exactly what I was thinking looking at these. poddie on May 2, 2012 at 2:12 pm said: I thought so at first, but now I don’t think so… look at the side pic of SS. You can pretty clearly see they are significantly different. Whether they are better quality I don’t know. 788 Vs. Your Name Here on May 2, 2012 at 2:31 pm said: THANKS AMAZON! what a way to restock this exclusive! thats gratitude. RID Scourge of Cobra Island on May 3, 2012 at 7:41 pm said: Didn’t even notice the hips. Now I’m not all that crushed that the Red Ninja didn’t get the single-carded treatment (it’s the only one I wanted until now). I don’t know who came up with that joint or why they still use it.

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Marlyne Barrett Birthday: 13. September 1978 Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York Marlyne Nayokah Barrett, née Afflack (born September 13, 1978 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American actress best known her role as Nerese Campbell on The Wire. She also played an attorney in the FX drama Damages and Thomasina, the efficient palace secretary and aide-de-camp, on the NBC series Kings. She is of Haitian descent and also lived in Montreal where she was a VJ for Musique Plus. "Law & Order", Attorney Bocanegra (3 episodes, 2005–2008). "Kings", Thomasina (11 episodes, 2009) "Off the Black", Nancy (2006) "Conviction" (1 episode, 2006) Rescue Me, Coma Boy's Mom (2 episodes, 2005) "Law & Order", Diane Harris (1 episode, 2005) "Hitch", Stephanie (2005) "The Jury", Faith Ward (1 episode, 2004) Love, Sex and Eating the Bones, Jasmine LeJeune (2003) "Good Fences", Tina (2003) "Heist", Young Woman with Blane (2001) - aka Le vol (Canada: French title) "Hidden Agenda", Airport Stewardess (2001) - aka Double agenda (Canada: French title) "The Growing Pains Movie, Jody (2001) "Angelique", Angelique (1999) "Platinum, Herself at the Cocktail (1997) You are commenting as guest. Optional login below.

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Email: james_43202 at yahoo.com I JUST GOT MY ASS KICKED UP AROUND MY EARS Be sure to wander on over to The Belligerent Bunny's Bad Movie Shrine. Anna just posted a review of the movie Wings that makes mine look like a booger. She's even got pictures and everything! GREAT SILENT WAR FILMS The Birth of a Nation (1915) Plot- Members of the same family find themselves fighting on opposite sides of the U.S. Civil War. Director D. W. Griffith is said to have given birth to the epic movie. This is his squalling love child in all it's wrinkled glory. This incredibly racist film is also chock-full of firsts in the field of motion pictures. First color sequence (at the end of the film). Longest film up to that time at close to three hours. First use of natural scenery as a backdrop. First use of night photography (using magnesium flares). First use of closeups to reveal expression. First use of panning shots, cutting between scenes to generate tensions, and the creation of an original score. But this is about a war movie, and "Birth of a Nation" was also the first time that large battle scenes were filmed using hundreds of extras. Well worth the price of renting alone. You can tell that the director and the cinematographer were really interested in screwing around with the equipment. Most of the film is shot and edited to look like Civil War photographs. Most of the techniques that we take for granted today were invented for this film. If you're interested in the history of film or the nuts-and-bolts of making a movie then you should take a look. Still, you should be warned that it's also a blatant propaganda work for the KKK. The protrayal of blacks in the film is little short of astonishing to modern audiences. Even at the time of it's release it was widely condemned, and it was even banned in many Northern states as being an attempt to promote racial hatred. The criticism was so widespread that D.W. released a movie called Intolerance in 1916 in an attempt to prove that he really wasn't a racist. Didn't work. Anyway, the film is worth a viewing even with all of it's warts. Just don't write me Email claiming that I condone the racist message. posted by James at 5:17 PM EVERYTHING I KNOW ABOUT U.S. SPECIAL FORCES I LEARNED BY WATCHING "THE LORD OF THE RINGS" AND "THE TWO TOWERS" 1) Pre-mission parties always go well if there's plenty of fireworks and beer. 2) It's best to start an op with as low a profile as possible. Completely unobserved is best. 3) If the enemy despot is named "Sauron" and the enemy general is named "Saruman" then they're probably related. 4) Get off the road! 5) Any troops stupid enough to steal stuff from out of the back of the General's personal vehicle (and get caught red-handed) are stupid enough to actually volunteer for a suicide mission. 6) Anyplace on the map labelled "Mt. Doom" is bound to have unpleasant terrrain. 7) When on a deep-cover op, don't schedule a meet-and-greet in a bar. The stupid volunteers are sure to blow your cover just as soon as they get a few beers. 8) When your cover is blown don't spend the night in the hotel room you had rented right before Pvt. Dork spilled the beans. 9) You might be dying for a fresh meal, but stick to MRE's when you're manning an observation post on top of a freakin' hill. 10) Don't bunk down at the O.P. and leave Pvt. Dork in charge. 11) The daughter of an allied country's head-of-state might be a babe, but keep your mind on business. 12) When sneaking through an enemy installation, keep your eye on Pvt. Dork and make sure that he doesn't try to pick up any freakin' souvenirs. 13) When going in to combat always wear your vest. 14) If the overwhelming enemy force suddenly retreats in disarray while something producing a red glow and plenty of noise approaches, I don't need to stand around and wait for the General to tell me that it's time to bug out. 15) If the enemy general gives pep talks to the troops by promising them that they "shall taste man-flesh!", then assassination should not be ruled out. 16) Sometimes you have to finish the mission with a smaller team. Try to make sure that Pvt. Dork is one of the guys who's left behind. 17) When traversing broken ground at the run while carrying a full load try to breathe. Remember, breathing is the key. 18) A utility knife called "Sting" might be good enough to intimidate 3 foot tall mutants, but I want something that will really strike fear in the heart of the enemy. Like Ka-bar. 19) If you pick up a stray don't take it off the leash no matter how much it whines. 20) A few suicide bombers will always get through no matter how good the sniper on the wall happens to be. 21) Never send all of your combat troops off to assault the objective. Always keep a company or two around HQ in case a surprise attack is launched from nearby wooded areas. 22) Tall, skinny and blond soldiers might get the girls and look good on the recruiting posters. But if you're gonna jump in the middle of enemy troop concentrations and desperate close-quarters combat is at hand then you want someone who's short, mean and strong as a bull at your back. DIFFERENT INTERPRETATIONS Blog goddess Natalie Solent states that "Boxing Day" is when boxes of presents are supposed to be passed out. I thought you were supposed to do something entirely different on Boxing Day. Looks like I better get busy writing some apology cards. YOU WON'T MISS ANYTHING IF YOU WATCH THEM WITH THE SOUND OFF A certain bunny who will remain nameless has suggested that readers really want reveiws of cheesy movies. Unfortunately, said bunny has already cornered the market on that kind of cheese. In a desperate effort to appear to be creative while ripping off those with more imagination than myself, I decided to post a few reviews of war movies. But they're gonna be silent movies and they're gonna be good silent war movies (at least I think that they're good. You might have a different opinion). Wings (1927) Plot- Childhood buddies join up in WWI in the hope of becoming fighter aces while their galpal joins the ambulance corps to follow them. Like most early films the hammy acting is hard to get past. The movie is pure melodrama, the tear jerking scenes go on for far too long, and the plot contrivances would have caused a scriptwriter for the original Star Trek to get fired. But there are four things that make this movie well worth the time. Winner of the very first ever Academy Award for Best Picture. See how it all got started only to eventually lead to Gladiator (which was an entertaining movie, but Best Picture?) First ever movie appearance of Gary Cooper, who has a cameo as the room mate of the two stars when they enter flight school. Contrast Mr. Cooper's laid back acting style with the hysterics of the two leads. That's why Gary Cooper is still a household name while no one except film historians remember Buddy Rogers or Richard Arlen even though both of them had long and distinguished careers. Another first is that galpal Clara Bow has a topless scene (don't blink or you'll miss it). Once considered a sex symbol of the accessible girl-next-door type, Ms. Bow was so popular that they called her "The 'IT' Girl". She also rarely took herself or her fame seriously, which is illustrated with this photo (damn, you don't have to be Freud to figure that one out). But we're talkin' about a war movie here, and you can't have a war movie without battle scenes. The dogfight scenes are second to none, even in this day and age of special effects. Director William Wellmen was a WWI fighter jock himself, and he bolted cameras to real surplus fighter planes and had actual combat veterans fly them. It has a realistic look that can't be reporduced by using actors like this guy. Don't take my word for it. Go rent it and see it for yourself. Stephen den Beste has another really long and thoughtful post up for all to see. It's about negotiations and diplomacy and making a deal. He makes the point (amongst others) that every so often war is necessary between nations even though no one wants it and everyone considers it to be an evil thing. One sentence in the post had a special resonance for me. "In particular, it depends on whether you acknowledge that a moral person may sometimes deliberately act in a manner which is evil because doing so supports a greater good." You should all go on over there and read what he has to say since I'm not doing Mr. den Beste's post enough justice. But that one sentence started me to thinkin'. The first guy I ever fingerprinted was pulled over for a traffic violation, didn't have an ID and was acting suspiciously. He started to go with the program but turned violent after I managed to get the first print. The arresting officer was there (procedure), so he maced the guy and slipped the cuffs on. Ohio law states that with no positive ID a suspect sits in a jail cell until he gives up his fingerprints, but this guy had pissed me off by trying to fight me so I ran the single print. Seems he had beaten a young child to death and our latent print examiner had pulled his prints off of the corpse. Gotcha! There wasn't anything I did that any other fingerprint tech would have done. This just happened to be the first guy I printed after my training and I'm hardly some sort of hero, and I certainly can't be accused of having any particular insight as to the nature of the perp (the arresting officer who first became suspicious and brought the guy in to ID deserves the credit). The main reason that this situation made such an impression is that it's one of the few times I can be absolutely certain that my efforts had a result. This is rare in law enforcement. But some might argue that I performed an evil act. See, I knew for a fact that this guy would be killed while in prison by the other inmates but I sent him along anyway. Few people who hurt children last very long inside and this guy wasn't big enough or tough enough to survive. Considering how hard he was fighting he knew it, too. There's debate about the death penalty but it's part of the due process. What my first "client" could look forward to was his own murder, plain and simple. It's debatable but an arguement could be made that I'm an accessory. The only way I could have helped him avoid his fate would've been if I had committed a crime myself and concealed his identity, and he almost certainly would have been picked up again in a week or a month. But there are those who would say that smaller crimes are justifiable to protect a man's life. The way I look at it is that the perp made his own bed and that's that. We don't have the money to build enough super max prisons so every inmate can be kept in isolation, and it's impossible to fully control the behavior of people who're in prison for violent crimes. If the only way to end the threat to little girls is to send people like that to places where they're almost certain to be killed then too bad. If there's a clear danger to innocent lives due to past history then anything, anything to protect those lives is justifiable. The only room for debate is in deciding the amount of force that's necessary to achieve this necessary goal. We're all individuals who apply our narrow experiences to bigger issues, and I have a similar attitude when it comes to international affairs. Wage a war in Iraq even though they're not a direct threat to us right now and innocent civilians will suffer? Sure, you bet! Iraq under Saddam has the potential to become a major catastrophe and he's proven that he will ignore diplomacy. Regime change in Saudi Arabia through fair means or foul? The situation doesn't warrant military action yet, but the decade's still young. Use nukes if the North Koreans launch an invasion? Considering what happened the last time, it might be the best way to stop the conflict with the lowest number of civilian casualties. So am I a savage? A cowboy? A throwback to an age where might made right and law was what the strong let you keep? Some people might say so but I don't think so. After all, I'm only advocating this sort of action if other methods fail to produce results. I'm just enough of a realist (or savage) to think that force is sometimes necessary. LAW ENFORCEMENT STUFF There's two items that I saw at The Guardroom that I'd like to comment on. Dog Piss in a Can I've always told my students that pepper spray is next to worthless. I've seen it used 6 times and it's never done a thing that I could see. Chemical mace, now, that's a different kettle of fish entirely. I've seen CS spray used about 50 times and it always stopped the fight right then and no foolin'. My advice has always been to get something with the good stuff in it, even if it's tough to find something that doesn't have pepper juice in it. The reason I mention this is due to this post. It relates the story of a female rookie security officer who was attacked by a 70 year old man. He managed to get her on the ground and was pulling her gun from it's holster even though he had been pepper sprayed! If that stuff won't stop a 70 year old attorney then I'll leave it to your imagination as to what will happen if you try and stop a 20 year old crack addict with it. What We Have Here is a Failure to Incarcerate Boston is in trouble because of a budget crunch, so they've tried to reduce firearm violence by arresting those responsible. It probably won't be a shock to anyone that shootings fell sharply as soon as the small percentage of the criminal population responsible for the majority of armed assaults were behind bars. What probably will shock everyone is that most of these punks have been arrested many many times before for assault and firearm offenses. One guy had been arrested 122 times and the courts still let him back out on the streets! I'm glad I don't live in Boston. YES SIR! I MEAN MA'AM! I MEAN SIR! In a move that's almost certainly an attempt to gain points with western societies, Bangladesh has commissioned 20 women officers in it's army. This is extraordinary in that Bangladesh is predominately Islamic. One might say that 20 officers isn't much, but one also has to consider that there's only 100,000 troops in the entire armed forces. 30,000 women applied for the jobs, so I hope the powers-that-be took the oppurtunity to pick and choose and get the best of the bunch. As for the newly minted LT's I wish them all the best of luck. They're gonna have a lot of crap to put up with. Pioneers always do. IN PRAISE OF OLDER RIFLES Let's face it, most of the reasonably priced surplus rifles look like crap. The wooden stock is old, scratched up, with a finish that looks like it was applied by dragging the gun through the mud. The blueing has worn off in spots, and there might even be brown rust somewhere. Why not buy new? There's a few reasons. Some guys who are good with their hands and have a wellspring of patience that is far greater than mine own will buy one of these old peices and lovingly restore it. Little by little, over the course of years they'll buy the stuff they need to make a worn ol' rifle a real showcase of the gunsmith's art. It's sort of like the appeal of putting a jigsaw puzzle together. You have a jumbled mess when you start and a work of art when the last part is in place. Me, I don't restore old rifles. I'll clean them up, touch up the blueing and make sure that everything is in good working order. Then I'll go and shoot them at the range. The appeal is that I'm doing something exactly as someone else did it over 100 years ago. Someone long dead held the same rifle. What did they use it for? Big game hunting? Did they carry it into combat? Last year I was in a gun store and I spotted a .30-40 Krag rifle. This particular rifle had a stock in very good condition so it cost me $200.00 to take it home. It was made in 1895 and still shoots just fine and dandy. Why did I buy it? Because there's four little impressions in the stock right where the fingers of your left hand want to rest. Someone gripped the stock so hard when they shot the gun that they left a mark in the wood. Why did they grip the rifle that tightly? Were they scared? Considering that the Krag was the U.S. service rifle during the Spanish-American War I'd have to say that the kid who carried the rifle probably was scared to death a few times. I hope my rifle saw him through it in one peice, but that's something that I'll never know. WHAT A GOOGLE SEARCH WILL BRING YA' So I'm googling around, looking for a pic of a Makarov pistol when I come across the page of some Russian kid named Makarov. He's an amatuer photographer (amongst other things) and I think he's got a pretty good eye. He put his work on his website so the whole world can either admire or condemn his stuff. He's even got some scans of his family photo album that he'll let you have upon request. Go on over and surprise him with some attention from America. WHO WILL WATCH THE WATCHERS So some Paris baggage handler was caught with some guns and explosives in the trunk of his car. It's pretty obvious that he was part of a smuggling ring, with his job to intercept otherwise innocent luggage and remove the guns'n'stuff before Customs got a chance to search. He had a pretty good stash. One semi-auto handgun, one full auto assault rifle (the news article said that it was a "machine gun" but I doubt they know what they're talking about), and some blocks of plastic explosive with a detonator. Heck, I wouldn't mind having the "machine gun"! It's illegal to own one of those in the U.S. without proper permits, paperwork and background checks. It's illegal to own one in France as well, but maybe I should just go to Paris and get one. Looks like it would be easier. I doubt this bozo was caught the first time out, and someone could do a lot of damage with that hardware. Makes me wonder how many shipments over how many months or years this guy fished out of the baggage compartment and sent off to his buddies. I also wonder how many more guys just like him are wandering around collecting ordnance and spreading it around. Doesn't look good for France. DANGER FROM YOUR DESKTOP Run for your life! Computer expert Jack Burton has ferreted out research from Sweden and Australia that proves that your computer is about to kill you! Run for your life! And keep watching the skies! GOOD WRITING ABOUT BAD TIMES James Lileks is revamping his site. He's posted some pages that relate what he went through when his mother died. She died of cancer. She died slow. The post is very poignant. What do I mean by "poignant"? It's just like those long daggers the duellists would wear: A poignard would go straight in your heart. Mr. Lileks talks about what he felt and how he dealt with his loss with grace and talent. It got me to thinking, though. What would I do if I contracted a terminal disease? End it. The sound of thunder and then nothing. I look at this as both an act of courage and cowardice. Courage because it spares the family the expense of a long illness. Cowardice because it's a selfish act to spare myself the lingering and growing pain. The only problem is that I'm a bachelor with no family. I'll let my readers decide where that leaves me. posted by James at 12:35 AM WAR DAMES Really good article in Washington Monthly about how America has ever increasing numbers of women in combat. Think about it for a minute. No matter if you agree or disagree with the idea of a woman under fire, consider the effect it would have on the Islamofascists to be defeated by a military with women in it. KINDER, GENTLER CULTURE THAN OURS This one's pretty good. Seems a cutey-pie young Japanese mom living in Canada became disgusted with all of the work that her 2 children, a 15 month old boy and a three month old girl, demanded of her. So she just left to go on a ten day swinging road trip. The newspapers say that the kids starved to death, but I think that they probably died after three days from dehydration. When she got home she wrapped up the bodies and slung one of them in the trash. The other body was left to rot. A keen-nosed building super smelled the stench and called RCMP. So the Canadian courts give this sweet young thang 8.5 years. 102 months and she's out on the streets to resume her life. The bloom will be off this rose after all that time in prison, but I'm sure that she could find someone to knock her up. She'll have to move fast, though, since she's in Canada illegally after her student visa expired. They'll probably deport her back to Japan where her family will refuse to speak to her. The Canadians repeatedly state that they're oh so much more civilized than the barbaric United States. They don't have the death penalty, for example. And they don't have long prison sentences so a considerable number of people are locked up indefinately. I dunno. Seems to me that the Canadians should have changed their policy and imposed a stiffer sentence just this once. BIG AS CHURCHBELLS We've all met someone who's self-assured. Someone who cheerfully tries to use circumstances to their own benefit no matter how outrageous. Blog goddess Natalie Solent has a post that relates a perfect example of this. In Yiddish it's called chutzpah. I'm a mono-lingual American so I call it "havin' big balls". VERBIAGE, VERBIAGE, ALL IS VERBIAGE I was just over at Innocents Abroad reading a post by Collin May. It's the first of a four-part series about morality and how it influences Europe, Canada and the U.S. Mr. May is a very smart cookie, and he always has something insightful to say. The only problem is that he takes so long to get around to saying it. In this latest post, for example, he points out that the ICC is distasteful to the U.S. because the laws it wants to enforce are outside of democratic processes. He goes on to say that this is a form of tyranny. Hey, look at that! I just presented two of the post's main points in two sentences where Mr. May had to use two (very looonngg) paragraphs. To be fair he dragged famed philosopher Emmanuel Kant in to the mix. Aristotle makes an appearance in the next paragraph. I just can't figure what those guys are doin' there, since they and their philosophies really don't come to mind when one wonders if the ICC is subject to the will of the people. Anyway, this stuff is worth reading if you're interested in the subject. Just don't expect a point to emerge for awhile yet. Name: James LAST ONE OUT TURN OFF THE LIGHTS Dean Esmay is on... POINTS TO PONDER There are a couple of things I... 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editorial distilled jubilees home brewed fests by countries linkograffiti musicians ads OUT TODAY: Greg Ward & Rogue Parade's "Stomping Off From Greenwood" (Greenleaf) Greenleaf Music is proud to announce the release of Stomping Off From Greenwood, the fourth album from alto saxophonist and composer Greg Ward. Considered one of the most versatile saxophonists of his generation, the bandleader, composer and arranger is proud to launch his new group Rogue Parade with the release of this new album. A quintet of heavyweight creative Chicago musicians, Rogue Parade features guitarists Matt Gold and Dave Miller, bassist Matt Ulery and drummer Quin Kirchner. Stomping Off From Greenwood follows his critically acclaimed Greenleaf debut Touch My Beloved's Thought (2016), which focused on the music of Charles Mingus. Having earned wide acclaim as a sideman with artists like Prefuse 73, Lupe Fiasco, Tortoise, William Parker, Andrew D'Angelo, and Mike Reed, Greg Ward is now excited to introduce his wide-spanning audience to his new, innovative group, Rogue Parade. Following a 2016 performance at The Whistler, as part of Relax Attack Jazz Series, Rogue Parade was approached by the Chicago club to present a month-long residency. The ensemble honed their sound by following this residency with an extensive Midwest tour, before heading into the studio to capture their collective energy on record. This nine-track collection explores Rogue Parade's unique two guitar instrumentation and ultimately blends the sonic worlds of acoustic and electronic. In the lead up to the release of Stomping Off From Greenwood, Ward is excited to release three singles from the album: "Metropolis", "The Contender" and "Excerpt 1". Due to be released on November 30th, "Metropolis" will simultaneously mark the album's pre-release. Inspired by the time Ward spent in Chicago and New York, "Metropolis" serves as an ode to the many life-changing experiences the saxophonist has encountered in both of these vibrant cities. During his time in Chicago, Ward worked with the International Contemporary Ensemble, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's Chamber Music Series, and was commissioned by the Jazz Institute of Chicago for a new composition, which was performed at the Chicago Jazz Festival in 2009. Upon moving to New York, the Illinois-native also received a commission/residency from the popular NYC Jazz Gallery. These two metropolitan cities have continued to inform Ward's creativity. The NIU-graduate enthuses, "on this recording, I hope you can feel the energy that I experience on a daily basis living in a place where so many different lives and perspectives are intertwined." This track features a duet by guitarists Dave Miller and Matt Gold and leads to a trio with Ward on alto saxophone. The second single, due to be released on December 14th is titled "The Contender". Although Ward has always made time in his routine for exercise, it was only recently that he delved into boxing. Featuring a solo from both Ward and Matt Gold, "The Contender" translates some of the saxophonist's boxing combinations into music. The third single from the album, "Excerpt 1" is due to be released onDecember 28th and represents an important ritual included in the composer's daily routine. Ward understands the importance of developing his current compositional talents and so, makes a conscious effort to compose something, however short or long, almost every day. "Usually, I'm just working on thematic development of some sort with hopes of coming out with even a small fragment that's worth turning into a new piece. Sometimes, a short thought presents itself. "Excerpt 1" is one of these", Ward explains. With the support of receiving an Individual Artist Grant from the Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events in Chicago, Greg Ward is excited to present Rogue Parade on Stomping Off From Greenwood, the ensemble's debut studio recording. The group will celebrate this music at The Green Mill, Chicago on January 11th & 12th. write your comments about the article :: © 2019 Jazz News :: home page

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Home Food & Drink Fort Wayne area fish fries Fort Wayne area fish fries FORT WAYNE — The Friday fish fry is a regular happening in the Midwest among people of all religious backgrounds, and Fort Wayne is no exception. Here’s how to find one near you. Dan’s Fish Fry Service Dan’s Fish Fry Service out of Huntington is so popular that some devoted fans follow Dan’s to events across the region. The business that Dan Fulton started 40 years ago with one full-time employee and two school buses has grown into a service that caters more than 300 events each year. To find an event near you, visit //dansfishfryservice.com/events. Coming up: Knights of Columbus will host its annual all-you-can-eat fish fry dinner 5-8 p.m. March 15 in the school gym at St. Joseph Church, 2213 Brooklyn Ave., Fort Wayne. Cost is $10 for adults, $6 for children and children age 4 and younger eat free. Sit down dinners, carry out and drive-thru carry-out available. First Christian Church, 4800 S. Calhoun St., Fort Wayne, will host an all-you-can-eat fish fry 4-7 p.m. March 29. Cost is $10 for adults, $6 for children age 3-11 and free for children age 2 and younger. Dinner includes sides and desserts. For pre-event tickets, call 260-744-3239 or email fccsec@frontier.com or stop by the church office. Fish fries in the City of Churches Friday fish fries are popular church fundraisers during the Lenten season, when many people abstain from eating other animal protein during certain days. To find a Catholic parish hosting an event near you, visit //todayscatholic.org/event/. Coming up: St. Patrick Parish, 12305 Arcola Road, Fort Wayne, will host an all-you-can-eat fish fry 4-7 p.m. March 8. Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches will be available for children. Tickets are adults $10, seniors 60 plus $9, children 5-10 $5 those 4 and under free. Drive thru and carry-outs available. Fort Wayne Sport Club The Fort Wayne Sport Club, located at 3102 Ardmore Ave., Fort Wayne, was founded in 1927 by a group of soccer players who came to the community from Germany. The club promotes soccer football and German culture. In addition to serving as a regional hub for recreational and competitive soccer, the club hosts a number of social events and fundraisers throughout the year, including a monthly fish fry. For more information about the Fort Wayne Sport Club, visit //www.fortwaynesportclub.com. or call 260-432-6011. Coming up: The Fort Wayne Sport Club will host a fish fry 4:30-7 p.m. March 22. The meal will include fish, baked or scalloped potato, coleslaw, applesauce, dinner roll and dessert. A cash bar will also be available. The cost for $9 for adults and $4 for children age 6-10. Southwest Conservation Club Southwest Conservation Club was founded in 1938 to promote sportsmanship and the principles of broad conservation, according to the club’s website. Located on 37 acres at 5703 Bluffton Road, Fort Wayne, the club hosts an all-you-can-eat fish fry on the first and third Friday of each month. For more information, follow Southwest Conservation Club on Facebook. Coming up: Southwest Conservation Club will host an all-you-can-eat fish and pork tenderloin dinner 5-7 p.m. March 15. The meal includes fried Alaskan Pollock, pork tenderloin, french fries, green beans, corn, rolls and desserts. Adults are $9, children 6-12 are $5 and children 5 and under are free. Fort Wayne Maennerchor/Damenchor Fort Wayne Männerchor/Damenchor is a men’s and women’s choir dedicated to the preservation and promotion of their German heritage as expressed in choral music. The group was established by German immigrants in Fort Wayne in 1869. Its clubhouse is Park Edelweiss Reception Hall, a beautifully renovated two-story barn located at 3355 Elmhurst Drive, Fort Wayne. The group hosts an all-you-can-eat fish fry on the second Friday of each month (except June, July and December). For more information about Fort Wayne Männerchor/Damenchor, visit //www.fortwaynemaennerchor.us/. Coming up: Fort Wayne Männerchor/Damenchor invites families to “Essen, Trinken, und Gemütlichkeit!” at an all-you-can-eat fish fry 4:30-7 p.m. March 8 at Park Edelweiss. $9 for adults, $5 for children. Meal includes scalloped potatoes, coleslaw, dessert and coffee. Full service bar with German beer and wine and soft drinks available. Enjoy dinner accompanied by live, German music. Send news of your organization’s fish fry to bhernandez@kpcmedia.com. Be sure to list the details, including the price, for our readers’ convenience. Previous articleResidents’ wants and needs discussed at riverfront meeting Next articleWeekend to-do list: March 8-10 Niche mushroom farm best kept secret in town Smokehaus thanks New Haven for support

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Parke County, Indiana Biographies Births Cemeteries Census Churches Deaths Families History Home Land Links Lookups Maps Marriages Miscellaneous Military Neighbors Newspapers Obituaries Photos Queries Schools S O S Tombstones Townships Vitals What's New Wills & Probates Copyright � 2016 James D. VanDerMark - All Rights Reserved - Remember to quote your source. The Boyd - Lewis Family by Louis (Lewis) Boyd - Boyd - Lewis Reunion Aug 31, 1921 By request of our efficient president, Dora Myers, I have tried to prepare a short biographical sketch or history of the Lewis family; and in doing so have met with obstacles or hindrances. The greatest obstacle, being a lack of any record or written history of the family. It seems that none of the relations anywhere along the line (and that includes myself) have been interested enough in our ancestors to keep tab on, or make a record of, the succeeding generations. Consequently, the contents of this sketch are based largely on conjecture, hearsay, and bad memory and may contain many mistakes. Grandfather Jason Lewis's parents were natives of Wales. The family name was originally Lewellen in the Welsh language, but was changed to Lewis in our language when they came to this country in an early day (date unknown) and settled in the state of Maryland. Grandfather Lewis married Nancy Ashford about 1812 or 13 and moved to Columbiana County, Ohio, where most, if not all of a family of 8 children were born and partly raised. Three boys, viz George, Aaron, and Jason and 5 girls, viz Elizabeth, Rebecca, Patience, Nancy and Eliza. In the year 1840 Grandfather Lewis with wife and family moved to Parke County, Indiana and located on a farm about 3 1/2 miles Northeast of Rockville and nearly 1/2 Mi. East and South of Sand Creek Church. Grandfather Lewis died December 25, 1850. Grandmother Lewis died October 1875. George Lewis married Polly Hamilton and they with their six boys, viz: David H; Howard; George B; Abner; Walter D and Frank and one girl, Lilly moved and settled near Lawrence, Kansas about the year 1865. David H. Lewis died Sept 3, 1917 at Lawrence, Kansas. Howard Lewis died in 1919 at Dyerville, NC. George B. Lewis d. 1915 near San Francisco, California. Abner Lewis never married. He has been living at Santiago, California. Walter D. Lewis lives at Lawrence, Kansas. He is an optician. Frank Lewis lived at Tulare, California. Lilly Lewis lived at Portland, Oregon when last heard from (pencil note added: Walter D. died November 21, 1928 Washington DC). Elizabeth Lewis married Abraham Crow. They had 10 children. Three, Jason, William and Maria died in infancy and the rest of the children, Mary, Tom, Nancy, John, Robert, Lucy and Matilda went to Wisconsin in October 1864 with their parents. Three of the Crow children are still living. Thomas lives at Monroe, Wisconsin; Robert lives at Hamilton, Iowa and Lucy lives at Janesville, Wisconsin. Abraham Crow d. Oct 15, 1892. Matilda Crow d. May 24, 1896. John Crow d. May 14, 1897. Aaron Lewis was b. August 20,1 819 in Columbiana County, Ohio. He died January 20, 1879. His wife, Hester Williams Lewis, was born December 31, 1833. She died May 28, 1908. They had 8 children, two died in infancy. Five boys and one girl are still living, namely: George, William, Bruce, Aaron and Fran and Nancy Lewis Nutgrass. They all live in Parke Co, Indiana except George who lives in Clinton, Indiana. Bruce died in 1924 at Mecca, Indiana. Rebecca Lewis Boyd was born in Ohio on May 30, 1822. She died October 1893. Her husband, Harrison Boyd, preceded her in death Sept 24, 1893. Their family consisted of five boys and two girls namely: James M, William, Albert, Elbridge; Anna L and Mary E. Boyd and Lewis. William died in Montezuma, Jan 27, 1896. James died at Rockville, Indiana Nov 1927. Mary Boyd Hann lived in Beatrice, Nebraska and the rest lived in Parke co, Indiana. Eliza Lewis Boyd was b. August 8, 1832 and died February 8, 1913. Her husband, John R. Boyd, died July 28, 1888. To them came 11 children, two died in infancy and Patience grew to woman hood and died in April (penciled ?). There were also 4 boys and 4 girls. William lived at Cayuga, Indiana and died near Rockville, Indiana June 1925. Ed lived at Tangier, Indiana. Riley lived at New Goshen, Indiana. The four boys, Dora, Allie, Verna, Maud and brother Jim Boyd lived in Rockville or nearby. Jason Lewis was b. May 12, 1836. He with his family moved to Kansas in 1876 and settled near Perry, he died there in 1880. His wife, Louisa Lang Lewis died in 1901. they had 8 children: 5 girls and 3 boys: Bell, Flora, Nerva, Ollie and Bertha, Wallace, Festus and Warren. Festus and Warren died young. Bell died in 1880. Flora Lewis Beck lived in McPherson, KS. Ollie Lewis Whitlock lived in Kansas City, Mo. Bertha Lewis Lang and Wallace lived in Louisburg, KS and Nerva Lewis Elder at Osawattomie, KS. Nancy Lewis Hann with her husband, Joseph Hann went west in 1873 and settled in Kansas. Joe Hann died in the 90's and Nancy, his wife, died February 17, 1920. Four boys and one girl are living: john, Little Joe, Abb, Owings and Mary Hann Lewis. Owings lives at Lawrence and the rest live at Tecumseh, Kansas. (Added note: Mary Hann Lewis died at Berryton, KS October 30, 1924). Patience Lewis Tyrrell and husband, William moved to Kansas in 1877. There were 3 boys and one girl. Perry Tyrrell is supposed to live in Oregon. Henry died about 1915. William lives in Topeka, Kansas and Mary Tyrrell Fisher lives in Perry, Kansas. This brings the record down tot he first cousins of the Boyds and Lewis's of which I will say, the most of them are married and have large families.. Politically, the Lewis's were of the old died in the wool Jeffersonian Democrats. Religiously, the trend of thought, devotion and worship among the Lewis family was in and through the tenants of the Christian Church.

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RUPERT SHELDRAKE: Science Set Free, Part 1 Part 1 of a talk by Rupert Sheldrake at the conference ELECTRIC UNIVERSE 2013: The Tipping Point, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. SEE PART 2:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRKvvx... Many scientists like to think that science already understands the ways of the natural world. The fundamental questions are answered, leaving only the details to be filled in. The impressive achievements of science seemed to support this confident attitude. But recent research has revealed unexpected problems at the heart of physics, cosmology, biology, medicine and psychology. Dr. Sheldrake is a biologist and author of more than 80 scientific papers and 10 books, including Science Set Free (September 2012). Posted by Don for INN-JUSTICE at Monday, January 27, 2014 Evict Men from Home without Sufficient Evidence "Spread the word; if you are a male victim of domestic violence, then report it! Women will report a man in a heartbeat - even if it's a lie, while men suffer in silence. The government will have to wake up to the facts of violence against men if they're shown statistics; unreported crimes do nothing to help mens cause and perpetuates further violence against them." Big Ben - 6 hours ago (edited) donwesley1933@live.com. THE INDIGO REVOLUTION BY DOREEN VIRTUE Description of Indigo Children by Wikipedia. "Doreen, who holds B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees in counseling psychology, was the founder and former director of WomanKind Psychiatric Hospital at Cumberland Hall Hospital in Nashville, Tennessee. She was also an administrator at Woodside Women's Hospital in the San Francisco Bay Area. Both all-women psychiatric hospitals specialized in treating women's psychological issues. Doreen also directed three outpatient psychiatric centers, including an adolescent drug and alcohol abuse center. As a child, Doreen was a natural clairvoyant, seeing and conversing with what many people call "invisible friends." But this natural gift and ability was little understood by the young Doreen and her family, and was the cause of teasing by her friends. Consequently, Doreen learned to deny her abilities, effectively shutting them down before she was mature enough to fully appreciate them. But on July 15, 1995, Doreen's personal life and her career, marked by exemplary but conventional success, would be irrevocably altered by an incident that is nothing short of miraculous." Awakening the universal heart & spiritual activism Dr Beddington-Behrens' speciality is working with people who not only want to heal their emotional wounds, but also wish to evolve as human beings and develop their deeper spiritual potential. The War on Consciousness Awakening the universal heart & spiritual activism...

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Financial capital > Support to the business system > The Nova+ financing programme continued to support Italian companies investing in innovation and research. As known, Nova+ supplements the traditional creditworthiness analysis with a technical and business assessment of the investment plans, conducted by a team of engineers specialised in the various product sectors and with in-depth knowledge of technology trends. In this regard, Mediocredito Italiano continues to make use of partnerships with a number of reputable Italian universities which offer their technical and scientific support to assess the technological risk of the more complex and ambitious projects. Overall, over 1,000 projects were financed in the period 2011-2015 for a total of almost 1.4 billion euro. Nova+ loans Projects financed Granting (€/000) 2014 90 108,337 2015 55 90,506 START-UP INITIATIVE The aim of the Intesa Sanpaolo initiative, which since 2009 has become a recognised player of the ecosystem, is the acceleration of international start-ups on exponential technologies to put them in contact with investors and corporate customers. In 2015 12 events linked to "Start-Up Initiative" were developed, along with their related training and selection paths. The over 100 finalist start-ups, selected among 170 trained start-ups, introduced themselves to over 1.000 guests, including investors (Seed/Venture Capital and Angel Investors funds), corporate customers (including Barilla, Lavazza, Nestlé, Telecom Italia) and operators of the innovation ecosystem. Four of the above events took place at the Intesa Sanpaolo Pavilion at Expo 2015, as part of a cycle dedicated to technological innovation in the agri-food sector (FoodTech). The event dedicated to the Digital and Mobile sector was hosted by SMAU, thus continuing - also in 2015 - the cooperation with the Italian key event for digital innovation. VÚB Banka has developed a line of credit, "Profi Loans", with cash collateral suited to the start-up loan, which allows them to secure the financing of the business operational and investment needs of the customer. This type of loan does not require a minimum period of operation. So far, loans totalling over 109 million euro were granted. Another initiative of the Bank is the one developed in collaboration with "Impact Hub", the international co-working network for the incubation of innovative business ideas and start-up projects. Impact Hub is a laboratory for innovation, a business incubator and a community that inspires and empowers people to realize ideas featuring sustainable impact. The incubation program is dedicated to business projects in the fields of education, innovation and green technology products. It also supports social innovation. Training courses, workshops and mentorship are provided free of charge to a selected group of young entrepreneurs. These can also submit their ideas to investors as well as establish contacts with experts and successful entrepreneurs. Participating start-ups have acquired know-how in the field of soft and hard skills, finance, planning, business plans and communication strategies. NEW SOCIAL ENTERPRISES With a view to promoting new enterprises with strong social and/or environmental significance, support was again given in 2015 to the Italian version of the Global Social Venture Competition, the international competition designed and promoted by the Berkeley University-Haas School of Business and organised by Altis, the Postgraduate School of Business and Society of Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore of Milan. A particular focus was placed on the quantitative assessment of social impact generated by the candidate enterprise initiatives, based on three fundamental criteria: clarity of the statement of social and/or environmental value of the social venture and identification of the three key social/environmental impact indicators; consistency and accuracy of the Social Returns on Investment (SROI) and related value assessment; innovative nature of the social venture’s approach in reference to the context it will affect. Intesa Sanpaolo has provided training on business plan preparation and on assessment of the social and environmental impact of the business idea in question; coaching on drafting the Business Plan; networking to facilitate access to a network of investors, companies and players from the innovation ecosystem. 2015 saw the admission of 16 start-ups to the training phase, of which 7 presented to investors. The two winning start-ups were invited to participate in the global final in Berkeley, California: Solwa, which develops environmental solutions including greenhouses for desalination with application in countries affected by drought and Horus Technology, which has developed a wearable device for the visually impaired that converts visual stimuli into sound signals, thus improving their autonomy. ACTIVITIES FOR THE PROMOTION AND MANAGEMENT OF THE GROUP’S INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS Intesa Sanpaolo monitors the most important international initiatives and fora where decisions are made on some of the most current topics having an important impact for the socio-economic stakeholders on the international scene. Among the many initiatives are: ROME 2015 – MED MEDITERRANEAN DIALOGUES – BEYOND TURMOIL, A POSITIVE AGENDA Intesa Sanpaolo participated and sponsored the work of the MED 2015 - Mediterranean Dialogues, an event organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and ISPI, under the high patronage of the Presidency of the Italian Republic. Key focus of the discussion between the international institutions was the debate on the Mediterranean area, to be re-established as a reference point and meeting place for cultural exchanges and trade. In the debate on the necessity to ensure sustainable development in the region, the emphasis was placed on the attention to young people, and on the need to foster growth not only in the economic field, but also in the ability to provide education, training and social cohesion. The need to rethink migration policy beyond the humanitarian crisis and the project to nurture growth that necessarily include security and development were the most commonly shared points, taken as program objectives. AMCHAM REPORT "SUSTAINABLE TECHNOLOGIES, AN OPPORTUNITY TO BOOST GROWTH AND EMPLOYMENT" Intesa Sanpaolo contributed to the drafting of the report presented in Milan in October, in the presence of the Consul General of the United States Philip T. Reeker. The publication highlighted the initiatives that the Group – through the launch of the Start-up Initiative, the targeted actions of the "Atlante Mezzogiorno" venture capital fund and the investment in Novamont S.p.A. – has put in place to support the development of innovative, responsible and sustainable technologies over time.

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Hudlin's Huddle » Hudlin's Huddle (Moderators: Reginald Hudlin, Curtis Metcalf) » sleeping in a dorm room honoring the KKK? Author Topic: sleeping in a dorm room honoring the KKK? (Read 1509 times) DRobinson Hudlin's Huddle AUSTIN, Texas (June 1) -- In 1954, the University of Texas named a dorm after William Stewart Simkins, who taught law there for three decades. Simkins has been dead for more than 80 years but now his past -- as a leader of the Ku Klux Klan -- has come back to haunt the school. The disclosure of Simkins' past in a recently published article has the UT administration considering whether to remove his name from the dorm -- Simkins Residence Hall. William Stewart Simkins fought for the Confederacy in the Civil War and taught law at the University of Texas. "Simkins was a mask-wearing coward, a night-riding Klansman who admitted committing violence against freed slaves," legal historian Tom Russell told AOL News. Russell, a former UT law professor, wrote the scholarly article, which was published on March 22 in the online journal, Social Science Network. Russell currently teaches at the University of Denver. His article describes Simkins as a Klansman who boasted to UT students about his activities and how he assaulted African-Americans. In a May 10 editorial in the campus newspaper, Russell called for UT President William Powers to remove Simkins' name from the dorm. The Texas NAACP, which has been at odds with UT over racial matters in the past, and some students also want to see the name removed. "Having his name on that dormitory is highly offensive," said Gary Bledsoe, the NAACP president and an attorney who is a graduate of UT's law school. "One of my former roommates used to live in that dorm, but at that time we didn't know anything about the person who it was named after." Pre-med student Uwana Akpan said she heard about the Simkins controversy through a Facebook posting. "We have a small number of minorities on campus and even a smaller number of African-Americans," Akpan said.. "It would be slap in the face to have a dorm named after a member of an organization that has terrorized our people." The disclosure about Simkins comes during a time the university has been engaged in efforts to improve minority relations and overcome its past history of racial exclusion. "We want to have a climate that is welcoming, inclusive and representative of all of the people at the university," Leslie Blair, spokesperson of UT's Division of Diversity and Community Engagement, told AOL News. African-Americans make up nearly 4 percent of the faculty and 4.5 percent of the student population, according to figures provided by Blair. One-third of the new hires are from minority groups, she said. Blair said that Powers has placed the division in charge of forming a panel to review the dormitory matter and make a recommendation to him by the end of the month. A meeting of the multicultural panel is planned for June 10. She said that the Board of Regents will have the final say over whether the dorm will be renamed. Russell told AOL News that his article was written to examine the methods used to exclude African-Americans from UT. In it he discussed UT's policy of segregation before and after the U.S. Supreme Court's 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling that outlawed segregation in schools. The article mentions the historic lawsuit filed in 1946 by postal worker Herman Sweatt, who was denied admission to the law school. Sweatt won the lawsuit in 1950. He enrolled, but he left the following year after enduring cross burnings, threats and racial taunts by faculty and students. Simkins was a Confederate colonel during the Civil War and taught at the School of Law from 1899 until he died in 1929, according to records Russell reviewed. At the end of the war, Simkins and his brother Eldred, who later became a member of the UT System Board of Regents, organized the Klan in Florida during Reconstruction. In 1914, Simkins gave a Thanksgiving Day speech extolling Klan "virtues," to the students. He claimed that he never "drew blood" as a Klansman but boasted about whipping a black man with a "barrel stave" and how he tried to ambush and beat another who was a minister. A faculty committee, according to Russell's article, omitted references about Simkins' Klan activities to the Board of Regents when they recommended that the dormitory be named in his honor. Russell said that he did not take a position about Simkins in his article, but expressed his personal views in the editorial that he was invited to write for the campus newspaper. In his editorial, he described Simkins as a "Klan terrorist," and accused the faculty committee of "whitewashing his past," by deliberately omitting his Klan history to the Regents board in 1954. News about Simkins' past comes too late for Jacoby Eaton, a senior who is studying social work and African-American studies. Eaton said he lived at the dorm throughout his freshman year in 2007 without a clue about who Simkins really was. "This gives me an eerie feeling," Eaton said. "I feel like I should have been told." Re: sleeping in a dorm room honoring the KKK? When I first read this article, I thought the best thing to do is tear Simkins’ name off the dorm and let his name disappear from history. But as I thought more about it, I think it makes sense to rename the dorm for a person or family that Simkins terrorized (or worse) in his role as a KKK leader. Renaming the dorm could be used to teach history to future generations of students at the University of Texas. Reginald Hudlin Quote from: DRobinson on June 02, 2010, 07:21:07 am

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Zleikha, 50, is a teacher who lives on Shuhada Street in the Old City inside the H2 area of Hebron. She moved into her house 8 years ago. Her front door, which leads out onto Shuhada Street, is welded shut. Like all Palestinians in the city she is not allowed to walk up or down Shuhada ‘apartheid’ Street. Shuhada Street has been closed to Palestinians since the attacks on Muslim worshippers at the Ibrahimi mosque in 1994. It used to be one of the central economic and cultural streets in the city. It still houses many Palestinian families who must use long, convoluted routes to get to and from their homes. They cannot use their front doors because they lead onto Shuhada Street. Zleikha told Youth Against Settlements about her own and her elderly mother’s experiences with harassment and attacks during a short spell between 2007-2009 when the road was reopened to Palestinian residents of the street. In 2006 Youth Against Settlements took the issue of Shuhada Street with its apartheid functioning to Israeli court. They won the case and the judge ordered that residents of the road should be able to freely use their front door to enter the street. A year later residents were issued with permits and were promised security protection by the Israeli military, because they knew their presence would be met with hostile reactions from the settlers who use the road on a daily basis. However, the promises of security and the assurances of safety for Palestinians were not kept. The first time that Zleikha used the street was in the presence of an international group. She faced hostility from settlers; they tried to block Palestinians from walking on the street and they tried to start fights. Soldiers frequently detained Zleikha between 10 minutes to 1 hour to ‘check’ her permit. In 2008, once again in the company of internationals, Zleikha was blocked by a settler. She tried to continue giving the tourists a tour of the apartheid system in place in the city, but she was stopped and blocked by the notorious and extremist settler Anat Cohen who called the police. Soldiers and police officers attended the scene quickly and made Zleikha stand at a distance from the international group. She was made to show her permit to be on the street and was told that it did not apply on this stretch of Shuhada Street. Soldiers forced her into a military jeep and drove her back to her house. They said they would not arrest her on this occasion due to her ‘good conduct.’ Not only was Zleikha frequently harassed and denied the right of passage by settlers and soldiers, but the military also failed to keep their promise to protect the Palestinian residents on the street. On one occasion, Zleikha’s elderly mother was kicked and verbally abused by a group of settlers. The military responded by sending her out of the area. In June 2012 Zleikha’s front door was welded shut. She was not informed. It was a response to an action by Palestinian and international women who were working with locals to reopen Shuhada Street. Protesters had entered the street through Zleikha’s front door. Then doors were broken down in the neighbourhood, including the entrance to Zleikha’s kindergarten. Settlers claimed that Zleikha’s visiting brother was the house owner, and he was then arrested and detained over night despite his health problems. The army then took action to ensure that the door could never be opened again and welded it shut. Zleikha was able to use Shuhada Street for a total of one year between 2007-2009. She was given a 3 month permit that had to be renewed at the end of this time. There was up to 4 months between each renewal, and in 2009 the police refused to renew the permit again, citing security reasons.

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Clondalkin Round Tower, Church & Castle Co Dublin Above & Below Images: The large cross Above & Below Images: The two faces of the smaller cross Above & Below 3 Images: Remains of the old Church Above Image: The ancient font with Church remains in backround Above Image: Close up of the font Above Image: The tower as viewed from St Johns Above Image: Entrance door to the round tower Above Image: Tully's Castle on Monastery Rd Above Image: The North East facing aspect Above Image: The South West facing aspect Above Image: The replica tower on Monastery Rd A monastery at Clondalkin was founded in the 7th century by St Mochua and it grew into a very sizable site over the subsequent years. The tall round tower, one of the finest examples in the country, is believed to date to the late 8th century or early 9th century and is a testament to time still retaining its conical cap intact. The site was ransacked many times notably by the Vikings in which the tower no doubt played an important part in defence for the clergy. Today unfortunately nothing remains of any of the other monastic buildings. The tower stands over 90 feet tall and has four windows at its top which mirror the points of the compass. A couple of years ago the tower was opened to the public one Saturday but otherwise it remains squarely locked up. Its iconic stance dominates the village and is close to a narrow but very busy road. It is best viewed from the grounds of the Anglican Church of St John across the road where a wall impedes the view of the noisy traffic. Indeed St John's was built in 1787 and stands on the site of the former medieval church (circa 13th century) which was demolished to allow the construction of the new church. However a tall 12 foot sliver remains and is possibly part of the chancel of the old church. It is now a national monument and a very striking feature in the Churchyard. I went to photograph the tower one Friday morning and was aware that St John's church grounds contained the remains of the medieval church but I did not expect to find the gates open which they were and so the visit became all the more interesting. Within the grounds of St john’s it remains quiet and peaceful and I remained undisturbed during my visit. At the rear of the church are some remnants of the old monastic times. There are two stone crosses. The smallest depicts both a ringed and a Latin cross on its faces while the larger granite cross which may have originally been a boundary or grave marker stands proudly a few yards apart from the smaller cross. Along the boundary to the right of the new Church is a large granite baptismal font which may date back to the original monastic times. Again it is very impressive and I find the manner in which all of these items have been preserved and placed a credit to those involved in doing so. Nearby on Monastery Road are the remains of what is thought to be a 16th century Castle. Locally called Tully’s castle as this was the name of a previous owner it has been mentioned in records as being Clondalkin Castle. The remains consist of a tall narrow tower and part of an adjoining building on its North West side. There are two door like apertures on its Southern West side. The ruins now form part of the garden wall of a modern house. The tower may have been part of a number of castles built to protect the pale but seems too narrow to have been a residential tower so it would lead one to suspect it might be an ancillary tower to a much larger non-extant castle. To find the ruins take the R113 (Fonthill Rd) heading Northwards from Newland's Cross on the N7. Drive for approx. 500m until you reach a crossroads with Boot Rd. Turn right here and drive for approx. 800m, you can’t miss the tower ahead of you. For parking your best bet is to continue on past the tower and park in the Mill shopping centre a little way further on the left. Parking is free and only a 3 minute walk back to the tower. Be sure to check if the gate to St Johns opposite is open so you can view the other antiquities. The best time for access would probably be a Sunday morning when service is held at 11.15am. To find Tully’s Castle leave the car park at the mill centre and go straight through the traffic lights to the road directly opposite. Follow this curved road until you reach a set of lights at the Village café. At this junction turn left and drive approx. 200m and you will spot the Castle on your right. You can park at the shops opposite. As an interesting aside about 400m east of Tully’s Castle on the same road is a replica of the round tower at the entrance to a large car park. Worth a look for the heck of it. Sinead Burke 31 March 2015 at 16:49 What about the ruins in greenfort avenue, clondalkin beside oldtower any idea of the history behind that? Castlehunter 1 April 2015 at 13:55 Hi Sinead Very interesting. I will look into that. Thanks for pointing it out. Paul Peacock 10 November 2015 at 01:48 This ruin is a house or castle rather than a church. Unfortunately I've been able to find only limited information on it. If you look at our historical mapping site at http://gis.sdublincoco.ie/historical_mapping/ you'll see that it was in ruins as far back as 1821 and it is marked on the maps as a castle. It seems to have been known as Irishtown Castle , there are two 1772 prints of it in the National Library, and it was in ruins even then. http://catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000146530 The historian Patrick Healy has written a short piece about it as follows: During the insurrection of 1641, the castle was garrisoned for the crown with a sergeant and ten men but the former, with half of the men, left and joined the Confederate Army. After the insurrection, the castle and lands of Irishtown were granted to Sir Maurice Eustace, the speaker of the House of Commons. During the Commonwealth the castle was occupied, first by the Archibalds and later by Thos. Vincent. It was then rated as containing eleven chimneys. The castle would appear to have been a large building but most of the main block is now gone. Only an attached turret is still standing to a height of three stories. It was accessed by a door from the main building. This tower is now open to the sky and there are joist holes at two levels for wooden floors. At some subsequent period it has been used as a pigeon house and the inside walls are disfigured with about 150 holes cut in the walls for the nests of the pigeons. This was noted by Austin Cooper when he visited the castle in 1781. A drawing of the castle by Gabriel Beranger made in 1772 shows it in somewhat better condition. According to Lewis’ Topographical Dictionary of 1837, coins and bullets have been dug up around the castle. The ruin is on South Dublin County Council’s list of protected structures where it is described as a ‘tower house’. I hope this is of some help to you. I think I'm on to something regarding this Castle Sinead. I will be making a visit next week and keep you posted Castlehunter 21 April 2015 at 16:07 Hi Sinead. Found the Castle you mentioned keep an eye out on next post for more info Adrian Langton 18 January 2017 at 14:32 https://m.facebook.com/events/1644205329207368/?acontext={"ref":"98","action_history":"null"} Urlingford Castle & Church Co Kilkenny St Marys Church Oldtown Co Dublin Quin Abbey Co Clare

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Home » Was the bombing of Deir Ezzor a 21st Century Mukden Incident? Was the bombing of Deir Ezzor a 21st Century Mukden Incident? Andrew Korybko The US and Imperial Japan might be a lot more alike than many people imagine. Imperial Japan committed some of the worst atrocities of the entire 20th century, despite its crimes largely remaining unknown among the general non-Asian populace. Tokyo also adhered to a fascist ideology during this time as well, which it relied on to 'justify' its genocide of the Chinese people and others. The US, just like Imperial Japan, has also carried out abominable horrors that it's attempted to 'justify' with the fascist ideology of "American Exceptionalism", but there are even more similarities to these two Empires than initially meets the eye. Japan invaded northeastern China ("Manchuria") in 1931 after the fabricated Mukden Incident, which was a false-flag attack carried out by the Imperial Army in order to set into motion the establishment of the "Manchukuo" puppet state. What's especially notable about this ploy, however, is that it's generally regarded that the military did this outside the purview of the formal government, and that this false-flag activity was essentially designed to pressure the government into eventually accepting the invasion and occupation of northeastern China as a fait accompli. The Mukden Incident is thus seen in hindsight as confirmation that the military had de-facto seized control of the Japanese Empire's foreign policy, which was formally validated years later when the Emperor himself was reduced to a symbolic figurehead during the height of World War II. This historical episode is important to recall because it appears as though something very similar is currently taking place in the US. The US Secretary of War Ashton Carter and the Pentagon attempted to sabotage the 'ceasefire' agreement that Figurehead Obama and Secretary of Lies Kerry promulgated, taking the unprecedented step of commissioning an hour-long bombing attack against the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) in Deir ez Zor last month and nonchalantly chalking it up as a "mistake" when they inevitably got caught. The exact same thing that the Imperial Japanese military had done in 1931 to the Emperor by operating outside the chain of command in carrying out a false flag attack to justify a forthcoming War on China is precisely what the Pentagon had done to the President in 2016 by attacking the SAA and thenceforth actively trying to ignite a conventional War on Syria. For all of Obama and Kerry's lies, aggression, and subterfuge that they carried out on behalf of the US "deep state" (the permanent military-intelligence-diplomacy bureaucracy) over the years, it sincerely appeared as though they were serious about enforcing the cessation of hostilities agreement that they invested so much of their political capital and legacy in attaining, but Carter and his own "deep state" allies desperately tried to sabotage it and override the President's wishes. The US' present situation is thus very dangerous and highly unstable, since just like in the aftermath of the 1931 Mukden Incident, nobody knows who is truly the one that's calling the shots in the imperial capital. It appears as though some elements of the "deep state" attempted to carry out a small-scale coup through the insubordination that they demonstrated in bombing the SAA and trying to spark a conventional War on Syria, one which could dangerously turn into a hot conflict with Russia. Right now the President looks to have regained control, though that might only just be because he effectively surrendered to the Secretary of War and is now doing his and his supporters' bidding. After all, the Figurehead and his Department of Lies have almost completely reversed their rhetoric from earlier last month and are no longer talking just about the 'ceasefire', but about also possibly carrying out "intentional" bombing attacks against the SAA. Again, the experience of 1931 Imperial Japan during the Mukden Incident comes to mind, since it frighteningly appears to be the case that the military has seized control of US foreign policy in the 21st century just like it did with Japan in the 20th century. The practical effect that this has on the international situation is that Ashton Carter, and not Barack Obama, is the go-to man for interfacing with the US when it comes to the War on Syria, and that Russian decision maker and their analogous "deep state" members need to understand and act upon this if they are to avoid a repeat of Cuban Missile Crisis brinksmanship over the War on Syria. Looking forward, the American presidential election will be pivotal in determining the future viability of the Pentagon's "deep state" coup in seizing control of American foreign policy. Frankly speaking, Carter jumped the gun by a few months in doing what Hillary herself likely planned to do if she got into office, and the Secretary of War's actions are pretty much just a preview of what's to come under a possible Clinton Presidency. Donald Trump, however, has the backing of pragmatic "deep state" elements within the Pentagon such as former Defense Intelligence Agency chief Michael Flynn, which could replace Carter and his clan once President Trump decrees it. There would probably still be some resistant holdouts that could make a bit of trouble during the prospective shuffle-up, but by and large, a Trump Presidency is predicted to reverse the damage that de-facto President Carter did in the last months of the Obama Administration, but only if the usurper doesn't succeed in first setting off a conventional war with Syria and Russia while he still has the chance. 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Home › Biography Jewel Shepard has made that difficult, odd segue from working in front of the camera to in front of the word processor. Since her days in the cradle, her dream was to be a grade “A” movie star. She got about as far as a few dozen grade “B” (or lower) movies viewed on late night TV by either die-hard fans or insomniacs. Finally, after fifteen years of being thrown into pig excrement — no kidding; she really did a movie where she was thrown in genuine pig excrement — Party Camp — she decided it was time for a change. It was time to get away from working conditions such as the time she was shipped off to the Philippines for what the casting director assured her would be “a vacation in paradise.” (It was a Roger Corman epic, Caged Heat 2, and she was thrown in prison, flogged, beaten up by a band of orange-clad warrior women and practically devoured by bugs the size of Buicks) It was time to get away from films where they’d tell her, “There will be brief nudity.” (In Christina, “brief” turned out to mean about 88 out of 90 minutes, including one nude scene shot on location in front of the Eiffel Tower in near-zero degree weather.) It was time to get away from doing your own stunts, eating Spam on a meal break, producers who insist that a separate hotel room is not in the budget and you must share theirs, ice-cold sets, colder dialogue and film companies that are so under funded, they can’t afford a Casting Couch and expect you to put out on a folding chair. Of course, there were some good movies. Like the time where she got chased around a graveyard by a bunch of Zombies screaming, “More Brains” (the highlight being; she got to keep her clothes on during the entire episode) in the Horror/Comedy The Return of the Living Dead written and directed by the king of monster gore — and creator of Alien – Dan O’Bannon. Of course, her happiness was short-lived – twenty-minutes later she was nuked. Never to survive the endless sequels that followed. Occasionally, she had a dramatic moment on film. Scenes from the Goldmine offered her that rare moment where she wasn’t getting whipped, or thrown in pig-dung, or tossed in a hot tub… she got pregnant instead. But hey, it was a chance for her to work with a former Sopranos star, Joey Pantiliano — Rock Star and member of the Mega-group The Eagles — Timothy B. Schmidt, and the actor best known for his eerie depiction of Charles Manson, in Helter- Skelter – Steve Railsback. While all of these people are great – it was her friendship with fellow co-star, Catherine Mary Stewart (Night of the Comet) that made her pregnancy truly special. It was after-all her on screen dad, Alex Rocco, who got her pregnant which somehow lead to the part of a blind hooker in Roots of Evil. I want to know who came up with that one! Ahh… it was back to popping-off her top — Again. This time it was in the absolutely forgettable The Underachievers, where for a brief moment she had an encounter with an Alien that somehow inspired her to rip her top off with desire – at least when she ripped her top off in Zapped! It was for Scott Baio. Or in My Tutor, it was for Matt Latanzi. At least, ripping off my top for any of the aboved mentioned was better than ripping of my top in an elevator in Raw Force – just for the heck of it. I am not even going to bother to mention all the made for the Z channel “pop-the- topper’s” I’ve been in… Time to start on a second-choice career goal… So Jewel decided to become a writer, knowing full well that she was fighting an uphill battle to get folks to take the star of Hollywood Hot Tubs (and its even-better sequel, Hollywood Hot Tubs II) seriously. She started by polling her fellow B-Movie Queens, interviewing stars of the past and present to create the definitive book on the subject, Invasion of the B-Girls. This is the book that answers the musical question, why would anyone appear in a film called Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-a-Rama? Why anyone would watch such a film remains unanswered. Her first book was a smash. It sold like crazy, still sells (do a search on eBay) and even got purchased by Dick Clark as the basis for a not-yet-filmed-but-she’s-still-hoping “A” movie. Better still, it prompted a demand for her second book — an autobiography entitled, If I’m So Famous, How Come Nobody’s Ever Heard of Me? — and brought her offers to write for magazines, including Premiere, Cosmopolitan, Details and many others. (It also yielded this surreal scene: Jewel autographing copies at the American Booksellers Association, seated between Ross Perot and Senator Paul Simon, both of whom wanted their picture with her.) She also received a fan letter — which she opened very carefully — from Ted Kaczynski, better known as the Unabomber. It was Premiere that especially grabbed up her writing, saving her from getting whipped in any more bad movies. She was tapped for a feature article in their “Women in Film” issue, in which she profiled the 6’1″ goddess and reigning “Queen of B-Movies,” Julie Strain and her hubby, who became filthy rich by creating the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Five pages later, Premiere appointed her a Contributing Writer and began lobbing assignments her way, covering the Hollywood scene from her unique perspective. Today, she divides her time between more articles for magazines, special features for the Associated Press and a couple of secret projects. Asked about her work, she replies, “So this is what I do now. I sit in front of my computer and write. I write about people I’ve met, places I’ve seen. Did I mention the experience with African Wild Dogs? Or the last Botswana Bushman? Or the deer people of Mongolia? “It’s sometimes exhausting, sometimes difficult, sometimes dangerous, traveling to the World’s hotspots…” Recently, she was back in front of the camera – not in some crummy movie with over-heated producers, and lots of bad acting – no bad acting here — she got a chance to act opposite William Macy in The Cooler starring Alec Baldwin and better yet! She got to keep her top on! Jewel is also a regular on The Garfield Show performing various voice roles as the occasional tourist, cat, or covered dish as opposed to the regular moments of her life playing an uncovered dish. She can also be seen in the wildly popular flick The Artist where she played a flapper babe to Jean Dujardin’s Academy Award winning performance as George Valentin. When asked about her part in the Academy Award winning flick Jewel just smiles and says, “I had as many lines as anyone did in the movie”. True. And, how many folks can say that about any part? Buy a video. A photo. A book. And get to know me better. That is not such a bad thing, is it? Jewel Shepard

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“In his playfulness, Mr. Smith is a descendant of his fellow Australian, Peter Allen. He could be described as a younger generation’s “Boy From Oz.”" Stephen Holden, The New York Times "Completely stellar...slyly subversive." Will Friedwald, The Wall Street Journal, New York City There's no one else around these days offering the kind of cabaret that he does so compellingly. Well, maybe Ute Lemper, but that's it. Smith needs to be seen, and now.” David Finkle, The Village Voice, New York City "Smith is a visionary without borders who might just be the David Bowie of Cabaret." John Hoglund, BroadwayWorld.Com “Boyishly handsome, Smith’s got the perfect voice and androgynous vibe to make him a memorable Emcee. When he appears bare chested in a tuxedo jacket, his muscular legs protruding from shorts, Smith suggests a cross between Marlene Dietrich and David Bowie.” Loren King, The Boston Globe “(Smith) embodies all that is unique about this art form -- it would be a challenge to look away from him. There isn’t an extraneous gesture, expression, word or note. He has chiseled away everything that is unimportant to get down to a precise core. This is cabaret at its best and most interesting!” Arthur Frank, Cabaret Scenes Magazine, New York City "Not to mince words, Kim David Smith is mesmerizing." Barbara Leavy, Cabaret Scenes Magazine, New York City

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by Andre R. Zbiegniewski In the lower part of the space between the fire-wall and the first frame was a reserve 284 liter fuel tank. Like all the others, it had self-sealing properties. The cockpit started just behind the rear surface of the reserve fuel tank. Also in this location, under the cockpit floor, the central spar was mounted to the fuselage. The mobile part of the canopy, moved by turning a crank, could also be thrown off in an emergency. The technically complicated windscreen of the F6F-3 was replaced in the F6F-5 by a much simpler but equally tough one. The main instrument panel was equipped with an Mk.8 reflex sight. The joystick had a “gun handle” typical for American fighters. It contained a firing lock and a bomb release trigger. The pilot’s seat, similar in construction to its counterpart in the F4U Corsair, held the pilot’s seat parachute. In its lower part it also contained some free space for the so-called “jungle-pack” – a set of various emergency equipment such as a raft/dinghy. An armor plate behind the pilot’s seat separated him from the rear part of the fuselage, which held an 8,4 liter splinter-safe oxygen tank, a “boost” tank (containing hydro-methanol liquid) and an emergency breaking-hook installation. The most important detail filling the space behind the cockpit however was an AN/ARC-1/5 transceiver, an AN/ARR-2 homing device, and an IFF (Identification Friend or Foe) panel. On top of the fuselage behind the cockpit, besides an antennae mast, there was an identification light (a rear light was located under the rudder). All of the electrical devices (and there were many) in the F6F were powered by a single-cable, 28-Volt installation. Under the rear part of the fuselage were located compartments containing the retractable tail wheel and the amortized breaking hook. The trapezoidal, semi-monocoque wing, with a surface of almost 32 m2, consisted of the middle-wing containing two main fuel tanks (331 liters each) and main under-carriage compartments, and of folding outer wings. The bearing elements of the whole construction were three spars – two main ones and one supporting one – flush riveted to the working skin, ribbing and longerons. The wingtips were formed from aluminum. In the unfolded position (7,5% dihedral) all of the main spar elements were immobilized with diagonal bolts. Instead of placing it perpendicularly to the wing’s surface, the vertical spar surface had its lower part leaned forward, which ensured a better distribution of maximal stress between the main undercarriage and the spar – stress which was dangerous especially during landings. The most important task of the pilot just after the plane stopped to a halt after landing was to open the lock which enabled the deck personnel to manually fold the wings. This lowered the plane’s width to less than five meters, which was even less than the length of the elevator unit (564 cm). Located underneath the center section of the wing were (rarely used) mountings for the catapult. The ailerons had a surface of 1,46 m2, an aluminum frame and were fabric covered. They were attached to the wings’ trailing edges on three hinges and were moved between positions +17° and –13,4°. The left aileron was fitted with a small, in-flight adjustable flap. The right flap had to be adjusted on the ground, however. “Crocodile” type flaps built into the trailing edge were divided into four parts. Every pair of flaps, which had a surface of 3,7 m2, could be pushed out (classically or in emergency) by hydraulic servo-motors to up to –50°. An additional servo-mechanism served as a safety motor which folded the flaps automatically if the flying speed exceeded 315 km/h. Mounted close to the end of the right wing’s leading edge was a Pitot tube. Wings upper surfaces were provided with armament maintenance access hatches. Under the ammunition containers there were shell extractor outlets (three per wing). Wing armament compartments held three “half-inch” (0.5 cal = 12.7 mm) Colt-Browning M-2 machine guns with 400 rounds of ammunition each. The inner machine gun barrels were located 234 cm away from the plane’s axis. The outer ones – 271 cm. In a few F6F-3N’s and all F6F-5N’s the inner machine guns were replaced with 20-millimeter M-2 guns supplied with 200 bullets each. The four inner machine guns were left unchanged in the Hellcat’s night version. According to factory instructions, the armament harmonization point was located 274 meters in front of the plane, although in practice it was often “shortened” in field conditions on pilot’s request. The accuracy of fire of the F6F’s ­daytime versions was registered by means of a camera gun mounted into the central part of the left wing’s leading edge. The control surfaces: monocoque, ribbed, aluminum-framed. With fabric covered movable elements. Its total surface – excluding the upwards angled horizontal stabilizers – was 7.23 m2, and the elevator was 2.39 m2. The fin’s surface was 4.84 m2. The rudder, equipped with a trimmer on its trailing edge, could turn 33° left and right. The elevators also had trimmers and had a mobility of 26° upwards and 15° downwards. The tips of the control surfaces were aluminum prefabricates. The F6F’s engine was an air-cooled 18-cylinder Pratt & Whitney R-2800-10W Double Wasp with 2000 KM take-off power and with its axis leaning 3° down away from the plane’s axis. It was supported by a double-speed, double-stage automatic compressor and a multiplying gear. The whole system powered a three-bladed constant-speed (adjustable between 26-65°) Hamilton Std airscrew with a diameter of 3988 mm. The propeller clearance didn’t exceed 186 mm. The completely retractable undercarriage consisted of two (3,35 mm apart) main undercarriage shanks integrated with the central wing spar which were retracted chordwise and turned by 90° in the process. The tail wheel turned by 180° during retracting. All three undercarriage legs were locked in the open position (the so-called “zero” position) by means of bolts. When retracted, the undercarriage was covered by a system of flaps and covers, which left only the bottom parts of the wheels uncovered (the breaks and dampers were hydraulic). The tires of the main undercarriage were normal pressurized ones while the tail wheel, in accordance with the US Navy tradition, was a solid rubber one. Bendix company, the producer of the Hellcat’s fuel system – adapted for 100/130 aviation fuel – ensured that to extend the F6F’s range it was possible to attach an auxiliary fuel tank under the middle section of the wing. The tank had 568 liter capacity and came in two versions: aluminum (earlier) and steel (later). Additional under-wing tanks could carry 379 liters of petrol. A light signaling system located on the instrument panel informed the pilot if the total fuel level dropped below 189 liters or if it was necessary to turn on the manual fuel pump when the main pump (mounted on the engine), or the whole installation, broke down. F6F’s hydraulic systems, filled with a red “Hydrol” liquid, were also used – besides the mechanisms, breaks and undercarriage shock absorbers – in the following sub-assemblies: all sorts of flaps, cooler valves, intercoolers, armament mechanisms and wing lock-in systems. Located near the central, universal mount under the fuselage, to its left and right, were bomb pylons which could hold, in the F6F-3 version, two 227-kilogram (500-pound) bombs. 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Science Aquatic Astronomy Botany Environmental Evolution Geology Gemology Medicine Physics Results 9 - 16 of 34 results A Plain and Easy Account of British Fungi - M.C. Cooke 1898 - W. H. Allen and Co., London - Sixth Edition, Revised An informative Victorian-era reference to British fungi, wonderfully illustrated with 20 full page colour plates of thirty-four species and numerous woodcuts throughout the text. Mordecai Cubitt Cooke (1825-1914) was an English botanist and mycologist. From 1872 to 1894, he edited Grevillea, a monthly periodical devoted to the study of mushrooms. The word ‘esculent’ means ‘edible’. Price HK$ 700 The Wild Life of Scotland - James Hunter Crawford 1896 - John Macqueen, London - First Edition A beautiful copy, illustrated throughout by John Williamson. Including chapters on bird life, the moors, marine mammals and fish, the stag, lochs and the Shetlands. 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A near fine example of the sixth edition, considered the last significant edition, and to which Darwin made his final and extensive revisions, this was also the first edition in which he used the word evolution which had commonly been associated with embryological development [though all editions concluded with the word evolved ], Darwin also added a new chapter VII, Miscellaneous Objections, to address George Jackson Mivart's detailed arguments against natural selection in On the Genesis of Species published in 1871. In Origin of Species Darwin ‘not only drew an entirely new picture of the workings of organic nature; he revolutionized our methods of thinking and our outlook on the natural order of things. The recognition that constant change is the order of the universe had been finally established and a vast step forward in the uniformity of nature had been taken.’ – Printing and the Mind of Man. Highland Sport - A Grimble 1894 - Chapman and Hall Ltd., London - First Edition A large and beautifully bound work Illustrated with eleven full page plates by Archibald Thorburn. Personal recollections and views on fishing and shooting in the highlands of Scotland. Grimble was the first to call for a close time to the Salmon fishing season in Scotland after witnessing the alarming drop in catch, and rise in netting technology and quantity. He was successful. The Lady and the Panda: An Adventure - Ruth Harkness 1938 - Carrick & Evans, New York - First Edition A bright copy – in the rare original dust jacket – of this uncommon book, American socialite Ruth Harkness’ account of her panda-hunting expedition to China in 1936. Successfully – and unexpectedly – capturing an infant panda, which she named Su-Lin, Harkness brazenly side-stepped Chinese bureaucracy, and garbed in fur with a cigarette dangling from her lipsticked mouth and a baby bottle propped in hand, she waged a savvy public battle to extricate Su-Lin from his native land, eventually finding a home for him at the Brookfield Zoo in Chicago, where he attracted record crowds: 53,000 visitors the first day, a number yet to be matched. Wonderfully illustrated throughout with 16 pages of black and white photographs taken during Harkness’ journey and of panda, Su-Lin. The Riddle Of The Tsangpo Gorges - Captain F. Kingdon-Ward 1926 - Edward Arnold & Co., London - First Edition A near fine example of this important work, describing the period spanning 1924-25, during which Kingdon-Ward made what was probably his most famous and successful expedition, in the company of Lord Cawdor, to Bhutan and south-east Tibet, during which, in addition to ‘The Riddle’, related to the existence, or not, of the ‘Falls of Brahmaputra’, he collected ninety-seven varieties of rhododendron, and the first viable blue poppy seed. The Brooke-Hitching copy, housed in custom slipcase. Illustrated with a folding coloured map, and 21 photographs on 16 plates. Price HK$ 16,000 The Art of Invigorating and Prolonging Life, by Food, Clothes, Air, Exercise, Wine, Sleep, &c. - William Kitchiner 1822 - Hurst, London - Third Edition, Enlarged A scarce and fascinating little work in contemporary binding. Following a ‘Cure for Tooth-Ach’ is the section entitled ‘The Pleasure of Making a Will’, presumably many ‘Tooth-Achs’ were terminal in 1822. Words of wisdom include:- ‘The Siesta is not only advisable, but indispensable.’ ‘No man should habitually take Wine as Food until he is past 30 years of age’. ‘Take as much exercise as you can in the open air’. ‘Nothing is so restorative to the nerves, as sound and uninterrupted Sleep; which is the chief source of both Bodily and Mental Strength’. ‘The clearness of the Complexion is considered the best criterion of a Man’s being in good condition’. Voyage dans les Mers de l'Inde - Guillaume Joseph Le Gentil de la Galaisière 1779 - Imprimerie Royale, Paris - First Editions ‘Two monumental volumes... crammed with details on astronomy, navigation, and natural history... His descriptions of life in Manila, Pondicherry, and Madagascar are invaluable’ (Dunmore). A stunning set In contemporary bindings and illustrated with twenty seven folding copper engravings showing two world maps, maps charts and plans of Eastern and Western Philippines, Bay of Manila, Philippine Harbours, Manilla, Madagascar and it’s coastline, Isle de France (Mauritius), Isle de Bourbon (Réunion), Quartier S. Denis on Réunion, Eastern and Western Straits of Malacca, and Pondicherry. Together with engraved plates of animals and plant life, the ruins of Pondicherry, pagodas, Indian deities, and charts of comets and constellations. ‘In addition to the scientific details for which the voyage was undertaken, the first volume treats of the manners, customs, and religion or the people of the Malabar Coast and of the astronomy of the Brahmins. The second volume contains elaborate accounts of the Philippine Islands, Madagascar, Mauritius, and Bourbon and their inhabitants, including views and charts of the Philippines. Le Gentil gives details of the Islands, their climate, volcanoes, fertility, fruits, birds, animals, peoples, language, history, and description of Manila, the government, ecclesiastical and civil, commerce, &c.’ (Edwards).

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Hugo News: Edmund R. Schubert Edition Tuesday, April 28, 2015 0 Having had a full week without proper news regarding the Hugo Awards, we have news. Edmund R. Shubert, editor of Intergalactic Medicine Show and Hugo Nominee for Editor (Short Form), has withdrawn his nomination. His initial announcement was posted on the blog of Alethea Kontis as Mr. Schubert does not have a personal blog of his own. Mr. Schubert writes that he was told by the Hugo administrators that the ballot was frozen (which we were aware of after Black Gate's withdrawal last year), Unfortunately this may reduce my actions to a symbolic gesture, but I can’t let that prevent me from following my conscience. So it seems that the best I can do at this stage is ask everyone with a Hugo ballot to pretend I’m not there. Ignore my name, because if they call my name at the award ceremony, I won’t accept the chrome rocketship. My name may be on that ballot, but it’s not there the way I’d have preferred. As I intend to do with Black Gate's nomination, I will leave Mr. Schubert off of my ballot completely as per his wishes. Though the ballot is considered frozen by the Hugo administrators (as is their right), I will follow the lead of those wishing to withdraw and vote as if that nominee was no longer on the ballot. It may not be how I would want to vote, but I can only respect the wishes of those who asked off of the ballot. Mr. Schubert has more to say in an editorial at Intergalactic Medicine Show where he posts a Not-A-Hugo-Sampler sampler issue, writing, However, I do think it's appropriate to take this opportunity to declare that more reading is always a good thing, and that people should open their minds to new work without pre-judging it. Thus this collection was born. So, if you're unfamiliar with the work published over at IGMS, here's an opportunity to read some of what Mr. Schubert has published. I have also updated my list of the Hugo nominees to reflect the withdrawal of Mr. Schubert. Posted by Joe on Tuesday, April 28, 2015 | Links to this post | Leave a comment...0 comments Labels: 2015, Hugo Awards Thoughts on the Hugo Awards: Part Four Monday, April 27, 2015 8 This doesn't properly fit into my series of posts about the 2015 Hugo Awards nominees, but it is still part of my continuing thoughts surrounding the awards this year. Specifically, I've been thinking about some stuff Eric Flint wrote about on his blog regarding what we give out Hugo Awards for. Flint suggest that if the awards are to reflect what is actually being written in science fiction and fantasy, there should be up to four awards given for longer works of fiction. Short novel (40,000 to either 80,000 or 90,000 words) Complete multi-volume novels (often called trilogies, quartets, quintets—but which have a definite ending) I could live with combining multi-volume novels and series into one award category, but it would be a mistake. Inevitably, it would tend to elevate huge, sprawling—and sometimes wildly popular—series over the more compact works preferred by authors who like to work in trilogies or quartets. They really are two quite different literary forms—I know; I’ve worked in both—and should be treated separately. There is at least as much difference between them in terms of the skills involved as the difference between a novelette and a novella. As a whole, I like the idea, though I'm going to refine it a bit more to suit my taste. Also, I disagree with Flint a bit since he also writes that he doesn't want to touch the short fiction categories and my preference would be to combine "short story" with "novelette" because other than intellectually understanding that a novelette is a story written with 7500 to 17,500 words, I'm not really sure what the heck of a novelette is. A novella, sure, you know when you're reading a novella. But the novelette? That one needs to go. More to the point, though, I do like the expansion of the categories for longer fiction. Since the Hugo Awards currently begins the Novel category at 40,000 words, Flint recommends adding a Short Novel category for that length because it would open the door for more YA and independent authors. I'm less concerned about that, though I agree with Flint that most traditionally published novels are working much above 80,000 words. I wouldn't add a Short Novel category. If you think about the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, a 150 page novel is as likely to win the award as a 700 page novel. The Hugos are not the Pulitzers (for many reasons), but I don't differentiate too much with novel length, and sometimes a shorter novel can be much more appealing than a monster of a tome. So, I'd keep novel where it is while recognizing that the minimum length for a novel isn't reflective of how novels are being written today. What I'd like to play with is Flint's suggestions for "Complete Multi-Volume Novels" and "Series". What I see Flint saying is that the skill required to write a complete series and stick the landing is different enough from writing an ongoing series that they shouldn't be compared in the same way (Sanderson's Mistborn trilogy compared to Jim Butcher's ongoing Dresden Files). I don't completely agree. That's not completely true. I agree with what Flint is saying about the skill and technique, I disagree with how he is viewing the categories. I would divide the categories like this: So Joe, you ask, what the heck are these categories and how are they different than what Eric Flint suggested? Great question, I reply, let me tell you! Novel: This category only slightly changes from how it works today. It is for a single volume work of no less than 40,000 words. The change is that I would strike section 3.2.6 from the WSFS Constitution "a work appearing in a number of parts shall be eligible for the year of the final part". 2013's publication of A Memory of Light is how The Wheel of Time was nominated at the 2014 Hugos for Best Novel. I'd strike this. Novel is for a single volume, period. That's it. A Memory of Light is eligible for Novel, The Wheel of Time is not. Ongoing Series: This is where I start to mess with Flint's suggestion. Ongoing Series is for ANY series that has not yet been completed. To be eligible for Ongoing Series, a series must have at least two volumes published. However, it does not matter for the terms of this category if the author is planning to write a trilogy with a definite ending (Mistborn) or is writing a potentially open ended series (Dresden Files, Discworld). To be further eligible for a nomination, a new volume must be published during the eligibility year. Love A Song of Ice and Fire but George Martin hasn't published The Winds of Winter yet? The series is not eligible for Ongoing Series at the 2016 Hugos unless he gets that book out during calendar year 2015. Further, because we need to close one potential loophole here, an Ongoing Series is eligible for nomination ONCE. What I intend this to mean is that if Mr. Martin publishes The Winds of Winter in 2015, it is eligible for Ongoing Series. If A Song of Ice and Fire makes the final ballot for Ongoing Series, it is no longer eligible to be nominated in a subsequent year. However, if A Song of Ice and Fire fails to make the final ballot, it will still be eligible for Ongoing Series provided a new volume is published. A series is considering "Ongoing" until the author or the publisher states that a volume is the "final" or "concluding" volume in that series. Completed Series: A series is eligible as Completed Series when the announced final volume in the series is published. A series will not both be eligible for Ongoing and Completed Series in the same year. Publication of A Memory of Light rendered The Wheel of Time ineligible for Ongoing Series, but eligible for Completed Series. Something like The Dresden Files would not be eligible for completed series until Jim Butcher announces "this is the final Harry Dresden novel". If Butcher published a Harry Dresden novel but then two years later said, "oh year, Skin Game was really the last book in the series, sorry guys" The Dresden Files will not be eligible for Completed Series because the series is only eligible in the year the final volume is published. I don't see this as too big of an issue because most writers want folks to know that they are delivering the promised conclusion to a series. Now, I know all of this would put a certain amount of onus on the Hugo administrators to verify whether a series is ongoing or completed, but I think they already have a responsibility to verify a work is eligible based on word count and year published. It wouldn't be too hard to look this stuff up. There are grey areas still in place for situations like Glen Cook published the final Black Company novel in 2000 (thus ending the series eligibility) but hinting that there could still be two more books. There is also the gray area of macro series and micro series. All of the Black Company novels are The Black Company, but there are also The Books of the North, The Books of the South, and The Books of the Glittering Stone. How would those situations be handled? I think these are overall smaller issues, but worth noting. In the instance of A Memory of Light, the novel itself would be eligible for Best Novel and could make the ballot for that AND The Wheel of Time could be nominated that same year for Best Completed Series. I think that would be recognizing two distinct things as the book is not the series and given that very few series works will be nominated past the first volume, it is a small concern. You could tweak this another way and have Ongoing Series and Completed Series awarded every five years because there are far fewer series being completed each year than there are novels published, so the pool of eligible work is very small and can be inconsistent in quality. I'd be open to that, but it could easily lead to worthwhile works published four years prior being completely forgotten about in favor of the Completed Series of just the last year or two. Posted by Joe on Monday, April 27, 2015 | Links to this post | Leave a comment...8 comments 1632, by Eric Flint Wednesday, April 22, 2015 0 Eric Flint Baen: 2000 If nothing else that is good will come from the mess of the 2015 Hugo Awards, one thing did. I am now reading Eric Flint. After reading Flint's commentary on the Hugo Awards (and awards in general), I decided it was time to step into a series I've seen on bookshelves for years. I started with Flint's recommended reading order, since there are a growing number of books in the 1632verse and they start branching fairly quickly. That brought me here, to 1632. 1632 is an odd bit of alternate history where through alien means that don't actually matter, a small West Virginia mining town from the year 2000 is sent back and sideways in time to the year 1631 and moved geographically to a region in central Germany in the midst of the Thirty Years War. Again, the how this happened really does not matter at all. It isn't a plot point in 1632, and from a cursory understanding of the overall series, it isn't a plot point at all. It is answered, it just doesn't matter. What happens, though, is a community of hard working, blue collar twentieth century Americans are dropped with all of their technology and modern day weaponry into a seventeenth century war zone with no way home. They intend to survive, adapt, and perhaps kickstart the American Revolution much sooner than the world was prepared for. The comparison I keep making in my head is that of John Grisham, Michael Crichton, and Dan Brown. Perhaps more Grisham and Brown than Crichton, but his name continues to surface in my thoughts. The comparison I am making is of authors writing fairly straight forward, clean, and fast paced novels that hook a reader early and pull them along the story. Flint is a bit heavy handed in presenting the values and perspectives of the various characters in 1632. There is very little subtlety here. The focus is on storytelling and engaging the reader with an up front and entertaining story. That's what Eric Flint has done with 1632. It won't be confused with more literary science fiction, but then, it doesn't need to. 1632 accomplishes exactly what it has set out to do, which is tell a damned fun and entertaining story. Readers can imagine what might happen if a community of modern Americans are dropped almost four centuries into the past, especially if it is a community of Americans who are used to adapting to difficult situations. To crib off a review from Jay Garmon, "the tone is relentlessly positive, celebrating honest, hardworking folk of two eras who come together to make a better world. In lesser hands, this would come off as jingoistic claptrap, but Flint succeeds at making the whole adventure palatable by populating his tale with thoughtful, likeable, fallible characters with well drawn motivations." 1632 is a very American novel, but it is American in the best ideals of the nation. The men and women of Grantville and the local United Mine Workers of America rally together to both make their way in this new / old world, but also through the strength and vision of Mike Stearns, the local UMWA president, to build a better new / old world for where they are at. It is American in that the ideals of social and class equality are given a real chance to succeed in a setting which scarcely understands the concept. Whether it will end up as the more perfect union is another matter, and probably will be answered as the series progresses. The novel is a touch bloodthirsty as it moves along, but given where and when Grantville was dropped, perhaps this is to be expected. I'm not saying that this is a bug, however, since the overall rampant optimism of the novel's tone and the perspective of the Americans is a driving force. One can certainly draw a parallel between bloodthirstiness and Americans in general, and heaven knows that I certainly enjoy movies and books where stuff "blows up real good", but it is still worth noting here. One thing in which I am quite curious for how the series as a whole will progress is whether the implications of that violence and bloodthirstiness will hit home on the characters. I don't mean in terms of the over arcing story or the political situation because it is clear by the conclusion that yes, Grantville's presence and actions will have a rippling effect. What I'm talking about is rather the personal consequences. There is a cheerleader turned world's deadliest sniper in 1632, and while the town in general references a bit of its "hillbilly" and back country nature, there is a world of difference between hunting animals and killing men. This is briefly addressed and, if I may, shot down by said cheerleader, but how does the number of men she personally kills over the course of 1632 impact her? How does the killing impact the others? It is necessary here because in 1632 the killing is quite literally a case of kill or be killed, but how does this affect the various population of Grantville. It must, given that they grew up in a very different culture with a very different way of life and expectations than the one they are now stuck living in. The people of Grantville are pragmatic, sure, but all of this is still a major change. Hopefully this is something Flint addresses in future novels or stories. As for 1632, it is one heck of an entertaining read and is a novel I have not wanted to put down since I started. It is great fun and one of my more pleasant surprises in recent weeks. I have every intention of continuing with the series, though I'll be referencing that reader's guide to make sure I'm working through in a more orderly manner. 1632 is available as a free ebook in the Baen Free Library. Posted by Joe on Wednesday, April 22, 2015 | Links to this post | Leave a comment...0 comments Labels: Eric Flint Hugo News: Black Gate Edition Because we cannot have nice things and also cannot go more than a day or two without Hugo-centric news, Black Gate withdraws from Hugo Consideration. Black Gate was nominated for Best Fanzine, potentially on the strength of the Rapid Puppies slate (it was not listed on the Sad Puppies slate). The official website of the Hugo Awards acknowledged Black Gate's intention to withdraw, but noted that the announcement came after the deadline for further withdrawals. At this time, Black Gate will remain on the ballot. What I am most curious about here is that because the ballots are already at the printer, Sasquan is unable to remove Black Gate from the ballot (apparently some people still use paper ballots - because science fiction is a genre of the future...) - but will Black Gate's request be honored? Will votes for Black Gate just not be counted? This might be the easiest solution. We shall see if there is an official announcement. Hats off to John Lorentz (Hugo Administrator for Sasquan) and the other members of the committee for having to do far more work, much of it in uncharted waters, than they had ever anticipated for this year's Hugo Awards. Anyone attending Sasquan would do well to buy these folks a drink or three. Hugo News: Final Hugo Ballot? Friday, April 17, 2015 0 Feel free to refer back to my article listing the Hugo nominees, but we officially have the final Hugo ballot for 2015. My last article mentioned the withdrawals of Annie Bellet and Marko Kloos, but at the time of posting the Hugo Awards committee of Sasquan had not yet made a public statement about what would happen next. The withdrawal of a nomination after a previous acceptance and after the final ballot was published had never occurred before. Per Mike Glyer at File 770, Sasquan made two significant statements. First, Cixin Liu's The Three Body Problem would replace Lines of Departure on the ballot for Best Novel and "A Single Samurai" would replace "Goodnight Stars" on the ballot for Best Short Story. Second, no further revisions to the ballot would be made as it is now going to the printer. So, now we're set, right? In any other year I would completely agree that we're set, but this is an obviously weird and contentious Hugo season, so we'll see. I accept that the ballot is fixed and no more revisions will occur. But what happens if anyone else decides to decline their nomination? Ballot is fixed, and no replacements will be added. But I suspect that would result in an empty slot and any votes cast for the declined work would be nullified. Everyone else moves up a slot. Will it happen? I sure hope not. But this is a weird year. Posted by Joe on Friday, April 17, 2015 | Links to this post | Leave a comment...0 comments Hugo News: Ineligibilities and Withdrawals There is Hugo news. Lately it feels like there is nothing but Hugo news, or at least Hugo discussion. It is THE topic of conversation in the SFF community. But, there are two very significant pieces of news which have come out over the last two days. The first was announced yesterday, reported at File 770 that two of the nominees were found to be ineligible by the Worldcon committee and were removed from the final Hugo ballot. First in Novellette, "Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus", by John C Wright was discovered to have been published on Wright's website in 2013 and prior to its print publication in The Book of Feasts & Seasons in 2014. Second in Professional Artist, Jon Eno was found to not have produced any qualifying artwork in 2014. Wright's story was replaced on the ballot by "The Day The World Turned Upside Down", by Thomas Olde Heuvelt. Jon Eno was replaced on the ballot by Kirk DouPonce. It is worth noting that Hugo administrator John Lorentz also looked into two novellas (a Wright and the Tom Kratman) and found that their eligibility stands and they will remain on the ballot. Overall, big news and important. One thing that I'm curious about is what sort of precedent is there for this? It is not uncommon for a work to be found ineligible (see the 2013 incident of Mary Robinette Kowal's "Lady Astronaut of Mars" audiobook declared ineligible), but it occurs behind the scenes prior to the announcement of the final ballot. This is different, this is two nominees being pulled after the ballot. This leads into the next piece of news which I find even sadder: Annie Bellet has withdrawn her story "Goodnight Stars" from the Hugo ballot. Bellet writes, There will be other years and maybe other rockets. I don’t want to stand in a battlefield anymore. I don’t want to have to think over every tweet and retweet, every blog post, every word I say. I don’t want to cringe when I open my email. I don’t want to have to ask friends to google me and read things so that I can at least be aware of the stuff people might be saying in my name or against my name. This is not why I write. This is not the kind of community I want to be a part of, nor the kind of award I want to win. I am not your ball. My fiction is my message, not someone else’s, and I refuse to participate in a war I didn’t start. It has become clear to me that the only way to stay out of this is to pick up my ball and go home. So this year, I will not put on a princess gown sewn with d20s. I will not win a rocket. But I will be able to sleep and know that when I get up, there won’t be fires waiting for me. I wish Bellet did not make this decision, but I understand why she did. I'm still going to read her story, regardless of this. It was published in The End is Now, the second volume of a tryptich beginning with The End is Nigh, which was excellent. I think that her withdrawing makes leaves the Hugo ballot a poorer place, but this is not to criticize her decision - which will be widely talked about and discussed. This leads into yet another piece of news which I found in the middle of writing this article. Marko Kloos, author of the Hugo nominated Lines of Departure, has also withdrawn his acceptance of the Hugo nomination for Best Novel. Lines of Departure is the second in a series which began with Terms of Enlistment. I am even more committed to reading Kloos work now than I was before. The Hugo Awards are a big hot mess right now. Do I need to check every author and find out what is going on and if anything more is coming? What happens next? At the time of this writing, the withdrawals of Kloos and Bellet have not resulted in additional works taking their slots on the ballot. This might be unprecedented. If I Ran a Sad Puppies Campaign If I ran a Sad Puppies campaign*...well, I probably wouldn't. I dislike awards campaigns in the first place. I probably would not be asked to be an organizing part of it because I generally don't align with many of their views. I do not have a platform of nearly the size of Correia, Torgersen, or Paulk, so my running a campaign would be be like trying to get the vote out by going to a high school on the weekend - nobody is there to listen. Most of the work that I nominate is the very stuff Sad Puppies is campaigning against. But if I did. If I did, it would look something like this: 1. I would wish to do it outside of the Sad Puppies banner because there is a great deal of negative connotation to it. Of course, it would lose a lot of its effectiveness if it was outside the banner as well as completely miss the point of running Sad Puppies in a different way. There is also a lot of positive connotation for Sad Puppies from the people who support SP, and changing the masthead might alienate a number of individuals the campaign is attempting to bring into the conversation. Nobody is happy. So, it would still be under the Sad Puppies banner**. 2. There would be a Mission Statement posted prominently either at the beginning or the end of any SP article I write, because I want it to be clear what MY campaign is all about. The Mission Statement would include some of the following ideas, though it would be written in a much cleaner and concise manner Sad Puppies 5 (hypothetically) is about building a wide ranging recommendation list of works that both individually and collectively we feel are shining examples of the best of science fiction and fantasy. Many of these works have often been ignored when by the voters of the Hugo Awards and we feel these works should be considered. Sad Puppies 5 is about bringing in the voices of fans who have not previously participated in the Hugo Awards and it is our hope that they will become a supporting or attending member of Worldcon and will nominate and vote for those works they feel are the best of the year. We do not wish to dictate to anyone what to nominate and reject any attempts to do so. This is not a slate. This is not a campaign. SP5 is a conversation. 3. There would be a large recommendation list that would come from a recommendations post or two or three to get a sense of what people are interested in, and the most recommended works would be included on the SP5 recommendation list. This is similar to what happened with SP3, except the recommendation list will be significantly larger and may even have a subsequent request for the community to then narrow down the huge list by specifically calling out their 3 favorite works from that list. I haven't quite thought this one all the way through. The larger point here is that where SP3 narrowed down a number (but not all) of the categories to the five slots on the Hugo ballot, SP5 would instead narrow down the recommendation list to at least ten works per category. This is much more of a recommendation list than anything that can be construed as a slate. At least ten***. Maybe more. The recommendations of each category would also include some of my personal recommendations, regardless of their popularity within the rest of the longer list, however those personal recommendations will be noted as such. Some of this idea is coming from a comment on Larry Correia's blog, but I did like it. We would look at YA, Epic Fantasy, Comedic Fantasy or Science Fiction, Urban Fantasy / Paranormal Romance / Whatever you want to call it, and anything else that is not often part of the conversation and we will seek out the best of those. 4. It would be clear that SP5 is trying to broaden the scope of what is talked about and that at no point do I want any follower of SP5 to vote in lock step with anything on the recommendation list. This is a list of stuff the we, and I, think is good. Period. What SP5 wants is for more people to participate and for them to look at what they have read throughout the year and nominate based on what they read that they thought was friggin wonderful, regardless of whether or not it was ever a part of the SP5 recommendations list. 5. SP5 would be if not a year round discussion of science fiction and fantasy, at least a longer six month conversation. It would not simply be a campaign at the end of the year. Discussions of great books that were recently read would occur and the recommendations list would build throughout the year until it was time to curate the the various lists down to the 10-15 per category that the goal is. The curation would be a combination of my personal taste as well as that of the overall community of SP5 which is participating. 6. The discourse will be civil. If there is one thing that is annoying the hell out of me is that no matter what one's preferences are in terms of fiction, everyone will be treated fairly and with civility. SP5 would be a welcoming place for all. And I friggin mean that. There would be no name calling or denigrating the tastes or characters of others. This is about recognizing great books, period. There will likely be overlap with the sort of work that has been on the Hugo ballot in the recent past and there will be overlap with the sort of work that SP3 is currently championing. ALL are welcome. SP5 rejects those who tear down others. This is not the place for that. 7. There would be no rhetoric beyond shining lights on good stuff. If you don't like something, simply saying "hey, not a big fan of that one" would probably suffice. 8. SP5 only wins if people participate and nominate based on what they like. Will there be stuff on the ballot that I don't like? There always has been. Will there be stuff on the ballot that you don't like? Assuredly. Might there be stuff on the ballot that we do like? I really hope so. 9. SP5 is not about being a bludgeon or getting back at anyone or making their heads explode. It's about good books and stories and art and whatever else is eligible for a Hugo Award. It would look something like that. But I'm not running a Sad Puppies campaign and I am not seeking to do so. It's just a different way of looking at how it could work. I have no idea how Kate Paulk plans to run SP4. *This is not actually an attempt to run a future Sad Puppies campaign. This is more of my way to think through stuff that's been running through my head. If there is something about the SP campaigns that has bothered me, what would a SP campaign look like that doesn't bother me? I think this is it. **To a much larger point, actually running this hypothetical exercise would require buy in from the folks who have previously run the SP campaigns because I have not been part of their communities, they don't know me, and I don't have an audience. It would require some work on their part to bring the conversation over here. It's not something that someone on my side of the fence in a small pond could just do. Shouting into an empty high school, you know? Nobody is listening. ***I would love to see a wider and larger recommendation list in SP4. Curate broadly. Labels: Hugo Awards, Sad Puppies Speculative Fiction 2014 Contributors: Or, hey, I'm a in a book! Book Smugglers Publishing has announced the contributors for the latest entry in the Hugo Award nominated series: Speculative Fiction 2014! From the announcement Edited by Renee Williams and Shaun Duke, Speculative Fiction 2014 collects over fifty pieces of online commentary on SFF from all corners of fandom. Celebrating diversity and change, the articles included here cover conversations and reviews about TV, movies, pop culture and books in what can only be described as a smorgasbord of awesome. Finally, we are proud to announce that this year’s edition features a foreword from prolific Fantasy, Science Fiction and YA author, the awesome Kate Elliott! With over 20 books published and a strong online presence, Kate Elliott is the perfect voice to introduce this year’s edition. I won't list all the contributors to Speculative Fiction 2014 here since there are over 50 of them (52 if I can at all count correctly), but what I would like to point out is, "hey, I'm in a book!" I've been reading the commentaries of a number of the contributors here and am honored and chuffed to be in the same book as them. My contribution to this collection is my article "On Merit, Awards, and What We Read", which I wrote following last year's Hugo Award announcement. Because of course if anything I wrote was going to end up in a book somewhere, it was going to be about the Hugo Awards. I'd have posted about this sooner, but I didn't want this to leak out to my father before I was able to tell him in person at Easter. Let's just say that he was fairly excited for me. You can find out more about the series here. Thoughts on the 2015 Hugo Award Nominees, Part Three If interested, here are the links to Parts One and Two. I have thoughts. Part Three is a roundup of a number of links that I have been following discussing various aspects of the final ballot. In many cases, the discussion in the comment threads are as interesting as the original article. This is not representative of everything that is out there, just what I had found, what was linked to me, and what I have been following. I'm sure there are another thirty pieces that are equally worth reading. I'd like to tell you that these are organized, but they are really not. I could not decide in what way I wanted to organize this. Tor.com's Announcement File 770 breaking down the relative success of slates Chaos Horizon breaks down the Hugo math Brad Torgersen: Stealing the Enterprise Jim C Hines 10 Hugo Thoughts Abigail Nussbaum's Thoughts Vox Day on Bloc Voting John Scalzi has thoughts. Justin Landon: The Hugo Awards: An Entity at War with Itself Matthew David Surridge on why he declined his Fan Writer nomination Larry Correia on why he declined his Best Novel nomination Annie Bellet on her Hugo nomination. Bookworm Blues: The Hugo Awards, a Lamentation Nerds of a Feather "Sigh" Renay's Hugo Glitter Hellscape: Practice Reckless Optimism Brian K Lowe: Cry Havoc and Let Slip the Puppies of War Elizabeth Bear on the community The Hugo Awards: The Voting System (because people should know how it actually works) The Weasel King: An Important Note on Hugo Voting (from last year, but pertinent) Kevin Standlee: On Voting No Award (Seriously, know how this works) Shaun Duke: No Award and Blank Spacing File 770: A Collection of Links of other people's thoughts Lee Harris on the Hugo Awards Niall Harrison at Strange Horizons on the Puppy Hugos Amanda at the Mad Geinus Club: A Few Facts About Hugo Jason Sanford: Yes People Do Read the Non Puppy Novels Larry Correia: A Letter to the SMOFs, Moderates, and Fence Sitters John C Wright: Entertainment Weekly Retracts the Libel, but Too Late Paul Weimer: Sad Puppies and the 2015 Hugo Award Nominations io9: The Hugos were Always Political Adam Roberts on the Hugo Awards Thoughts on the 2015 Hugo Award Nominees, Part Two What follows below is the second part of my "Thoughts on the 2015 Hugo Awards" series, which in previously year is usually just a single post and is typically this post. This year I have more thoughts than usual. Find Part One here. These are my thoughts on the specific nominees and what I think about each category, such as I have thoughts on each category. As a bit of house cleaning, I will note that 8 of my nominees made it onto the final ballot. Best Novel (1827 ballots) Ancillary Sword by Ann Leckie The Dark Between the Stars by Kevin J. Anderson The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison Lines of Departure by Marko Kloos Skin Game: A Novel of the Dresden Files by Jim Butcher I nominated both Ancillary Sword and The Goblin Emperor and am very happy to see them included on this year's ballot. I am sad to report that I have never read any of the Butcher's Dresden Files novels, and though Skin Game is the 15th in the series, I am looking forward to reading it. Hopefully it's a series you can mostly pick up and run at any point. I've been eyeballing Lines of Departure as something to read for a while now, though my library doesn't have a copy. I had heard nothing about Kevin Anderson's book prior to the nomination. I've read his Star Wars novels and enjoyed them, and the first three Dune prequels (the House books) were pretty good, but the one book in his own setting I've read was The Edge of the World and I was very disappointed by it and was not inclined to seek out anything else Anderson wrote. The Dark Between the Stars is in a different setting and is the first in a new trilogy, so we'll see how this one takes. Best Novella (1083 ballots) Big Boys Don’t Cry by Tom Kratman (Castalia House) “Flow” by Arlan Andrews, Sr. (Analog, Nov 2014) One Bright Star to Guide Them by John C. Wright (Castalia House) “Pale Realms of Shade” by John C. Wright (The Book of Feasts & Seasons, Castalia House) “The Plural of Helen of Troy” by John C. Wright (City Beyond Time: Tales of the Fall of Metachronopolis, Castalia House) Three novellas from from John C Wright, huh? I'm not familiar with Wright's work, though I've been aware of his name for years. I just haven't picked up one of his novels (or been aware of his shorter fiction). I have no idea who Kratman or Andrews is. So, no real opinion on this category. Best Novelette (1031 ballots) “Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust, Earth to Alluvium” by Gray Rinehart (Orson Scott Card’s InterGalactic Medicine Show, May 2014) “Championship B’tok” by Edward M Lerner (Analog, Sept 2014) “The Journeyman: In the Stone House” by Michael F. Flynn (Analog, June 2014) “The Triple Sun: A Golden Age Tale” by Rajnar Vajra (Analog, Jul/Aug 2014) “Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus” by John C. Wright (The Book of Feasts & Seasons, Castalia House) I am not familiar with any of the nominees in the Novelette category, though I think there's a chance I've previously read stories from Lerner or Flynn. I'm not sure, though. Best Short Story (1174 ballots) “Goodnight Stars” by Annie Bellet (The End is Now (Apocalypse Triptych Book 2), Broad Reach Publishing) “On A Spiritual Plain” by Lou Antonelli (Sci Phi Journal #2, Nov 2014) “The Parliament of Beasts and Birds” by John C. Wright (The Book of Feasts & Seasons, Castalia House) “Totaled” by Kary English (Galaxy’s Edge magazine, July 2014) “Turncoat” by Steve Rzasa (Riding the Red Horse, Castalia House) Like Novelette, I am not familiar with the nominees in the Short Story category, but I do have The End is Now on my reading list (and on my Nook waiting to be read). I don't remember Bellet's "Goodnight Moon" from The End is Nigh, but I'm looking forward to reading all of the stories in The End is Now. I like a good apocalyptic story. Best Related Work (1150 ballots)“The Hot Equations: Thermodynamics and Military SF” by Ken Burnside (Riding the Red Horse, Castalia House) Letters from Gardner by Lou Antonelli (The Merry Blacksmith Press) Transhuman and Subhuman: Essays on Science Fiction and Awful Truth by John C. Wright (Castalia House) “Why Science is Never Settled” by Tedd Roberts (Baen.com) Wisdom from my Internet by Michael Z. Williamson (Patriarchy Press) No thoughts. Best Graphic Story (785 ballots) Ms. Marvel Vol 1: No Normal written by G. Willow Wilson, illustrated by Adrian Alphona and Jake Wyatt Rat Queens Volume 1: Sass and Sorcery written by Kurtis J. Weibe, art by Roc Upchurch) Zombie Nation Book #2: Reduce Reuse Reanimate by Carter Reid Saga, Volume 3 written by Brian K. Vaughan, illustrated by Fiona Staples Sex Criminals, Vol. 1: One Weird Trick written by Matt Fraction, art by Chip Zdarsky Saga Volume 3 was one of my nominees and I've been gradually working my way through Marvel Comics (I'm currently in the middle of the Dark Reign era), but I think I'll get to Ms Marvel much, much sooner. It's been recommended to me multiple times. Rat Queens and Sex Criminals were on my radar, I was just waiting for more collections to be published so I don't catch up to the series with one book. I know nothing about Zombie Nation. Best Dramatic Presentation (Long Form) (1285 ballots) Captain America, Guardians of the Galaxy, and Interstellar were on my nomination ballot. I just recorded Edge of Tomorrow on my DVR, and unlike most people, I wasn't a big fan of The Lego Movie despite my now near constant references to Mr. Business at my child. Best Dramatic Presentation (Short Form) (938 ballots) Doctor Who: “Listen” The Flash: “Pilot” Game of Thrones: “The Mountain and the Viper” Grimm: “Once We Were Gods” Orphan Black: “By Means Which Have Never Yet Been Tried” I am rather happy that this category is no longer "Best Doctor Who". I'm only familiar with the Game of Thrones episode, which was quite excellent. I'm so behind on Orphan Black that I want to watch it and I'm not sure if it is fair to watch the one episode so far out of sequence. We'll see. Best Editor (Short Form) (870 ballots) Jennifer Brozek Mike Resnick Edmund R. Schubert Bryan Thomas Schmidt The editor list here does not include what each editor has worked on for Short Form editing, so I'll have to look them up. I am not familiar with the current editing work from the nominees. Best Editor (Long Form) (712 ballots) Sheila Gilbert Jim Minz Anne Sowards Toni Weisskopf Publishing houses represented here are Roc, DAW, Baen, and Castalia House. What I've wished for years is to have easy access to which specific books published that year the editors worked on. I still don't have it. Best Professional Artist (753 ballots) Jon Eno Nick Greenwood Alan Pollack Carter Reid Julie Dillon was on my nominating ballot. I am unfamiliar with the work of the rest. Best Semiprozine (660 ballots) Abyss & Apex, Wendy Delmater editor and publisher Andromeda Spaceways In-Flight Magazine, Andromeda Spaceways Publishing Association Incorporated, 2014 editors David Kernot and Sue Bursztynski Lightspeed Magazine, edited by John Joseph Adams, Stefan Rudnicki, Rich Horton, Wendy N. Wagner, and Christie Yant Beneath Ceaseless Skies, edited by Scott H. Andrews Strange Horizons, Niall Harrison Editor-in-Chief Generally, I have enjoyed Lightspeed and Strange Horizons. I always meant to read Beneath Ceaseless Skies, but have not. I am aware of Andromeda and Abyss & Apex, but have not read either. Best Fanzine (576 ballots) Black Gate edited by John O’Neill Elitist Book Reviews edited by Steve Diamond Journey Planet edited by James Bacon, Chris Garcia, Alissa McKersie, Colin Harris and Helen Montgomery The Revenge of Hump Day edited by Tim Bolgeo Tangent SF Online edited by Dave Truesdale Years ago I read Tangent for its short fiction reviews, this is the only nominee I am familiar with, but I have heard of three of the other four. I have no idea what The Revenge of Hump Day is. Best Fancast (668 ballots) Adventures in SF Publishing Brent Bower (Executive Producer), Kristi Charish, Timothy C. Ward & Moses Siregar III (Co-Hosts, Interviewers and Producers) Dungeon Crawlers Radio Daniel Swenson (Producer/Host), Travis Alexander & Scott Tomlin (Hosts), Dale Newton (Host/Tech), Damien Swenson (Audio/Video Tech) Galactic Suburbia Podcast Alisa Krasnostein, Alexandra Pierce, Tansy Rayner Roberts (Presenters) and Andrew Finch (Producer) The Sci Phi Show Jason Rennie Tea and Jeopardy Emma Newman & Peter Newman I seldom listen to podcasts. Best Fan Writer (777 ballots) Dave Freer Amanda S. Green Jeffro Johnson Laura J. Mixon Cedar Sanderson Best Fan Artist (296 ballots) Ninni Aalto Brad Foster Spring Schoenhuth Steve Stiles Stiles and Foster are long time nominees. Schoenhuth was nominated last year. Leggett was on my ballot this year, I thought she did fantastic work. Campbell Award for Best New Writer (851 ballots) Wesley Chu * Jason Cordova Kary English * Rolf Nelson Eric. S. Raymond I know, I know, this isn't a Hugo. I don't care, it's a damn Hugo. Wes Chu was on my ballot for his excellent Tao novels (I've read the first two). I am unfamiliar with the remaining nominees. Thoughts on the 2015 Hugo Award Nominees, Part One You may have noticed that the finalist's for this year's Hugo Award look significantly different than they have in the recent past. There's a reason for that. The reason is Sad Puppies 3, the latest iteration of a campaign to promote "entirely deserving works, writers, and editors — all of whom would not otherwise find themselves on the Hugo ballot without some extra oomph received from beyond the rarefied, insular halls of 21st century Worldcon “fandom.”" (This is the intro to SP3, for what it is worth). Actually, there are a couple of reasons for why the final ballot has a different look, and according to Mike Glyer at File 770, the second reason, and perhaps the most prominent reason is actually not Sad Puppies, but the offshoot and only semi related Rabid Puppies, in which the architect of that slate states that "they are my recommendations for the 2015 nominations, and I encourage those who value my opinion on matters related to science fiction and fantasy to nominate them precisely as they are." The result of which, if you follow Glyer's article, is that it appears that those readers of Vox Day, the man behind the Rabid Puppies slate, did value his "opinion on matters related to science fiction and fantasy" and nominated accordingly. Possibly. Glyer writes that the Hugo ballot "consists of 48 items recommended by both lists; 3 items only on Sad Puppies; and 10 only on Rabid Puppies," which to me (and I think to Glyer) that Rabid Puppies may have been the significant factor. I fully respect the idea of wanting to see the sort of stuff you like to read represented on the Hugo ballot, especially if there have been a number of years you firmly disagree with meeting the standard of what you consider "Good" or even "Best". Hell, I've been hoping to see one of Elizabeth Bear's novels on the Hugo short list for years and despite my nominations, it hasn't been enough. Not everyone shares my love of her fiction as much as I think they should. That's okay, but maybe one day. Of course, I didn't help matters by leaving her off my ballot this year, but that happens sometimes. What I don't like is the organization. Small "o", not large. Maybe I am naive in thinking that a different way to accomplish similar goals is simply to encourage more people, your friends and readers, to participate. To suggest that the Hugo Awards are not perhaps reflective of the sort of science fiction and fantasy that you enjoy, but let's be part of the process. Let each of us think about the books and stories we read last year, and nominate those we thought are best. Then, perhaps post what you personally think is excellent and intend to nominate. It is the slate building that I object to. I also object to the campaign on Tor.com last year to get The Wheel of Time on the ballot, and as much as I love that series, I don't believe that as a unified whole it represented the best of science fiction and fantasy for that year. But I'm a very small fish. So, when I start posting evolving versions of my Hugo ballot, what I am saying is that "hey, here are a bunch of things that I think are pretty awesome and worth reading - and these are what I'm considering for my ballot". I think that how I view my commentary here is how it is received. Some people use it as a recommendation list, but my readership is small and those who do read and are engaged with the Hugo Awards were already working on their ballots. If I have swayed anyone to participate, I'll be beyond shocked. At best it is a light recommendation, at worst I'm shouting into the wind. Where Sad Puppies is different is that Brad Torgersen and Larry Correia before him have significantly larger bases from which to work, and they are talking to a group of readers who love what they love, but have mostly not participated in the Hugo process. Correia and Torgersen have been looking to engage these individuals and bring in more active participation and nominating, to shine a light on excellent work that is overlooked by the awards. I know for a fact that there are many opposed to the Sad Puppies slate who would vehemently disagree with how I have phrased this, and decry the politicizing of what Sad Puppies is trying to do given that "they" disagree with the current Worldcon "fandom" as nominating lesser works for political reasons and not because "fandom" actually enjoys them. Correia believes that there are "insider cliques" involved in the Hugo process, though I'm not sure if he is stating that there is organized voting blocs that aren't talked about publicly, or if because the actual number of people who nominate for the Hugos is so small and is, more or less, part of an insular community that it is easy for them to predict who will be on the slate. For myself, that is 100% not true. Everything on my ballot is something I thought was awesome and worth nominating. I nominate based on whether or not I enjoyed a book (or story, or whatever) and combined with that, whether I thought that work was of sufficiently high quality, whatever that means to me on that day. Which is to say that there are plenty of books that I love, praise, and can't wait to read the next volume in the series, but still don't feel that they are quite "Hugo Worthy". If there are aspects of the previous Worldcon fandom community who are engaged in organized voting blocs, I believe it is wrong and should be condemned. I have never seen it, but I am a very small fish and I generally don't go to conventions (I think I've been to three or four, one of which I only attended for a single day because I did not have a good time and felt isolated). At this point I have read far too many articles written on both sides of the debate, and while I'm not willing to say "I hate everyone equally", I can say that I'm fairly well annoyed by most people. I am not on the side of the Sad Puppies because generally, the sort of book and the sort of story I enjoy reading is already what is frequently represented by the Hugos (though there are certain authors I am very, very confused by how frequently they are nominated for stuff - but I've always chalked it up to different and divergent tastes and nothing more). But, I do agree with one of their stated aims: which is that more people should be involved in the Hugo awards. Heck, the people who nominated and vote are only a small fraction of the people who actually attend Worldcon. Get them involved, too, somehow. Everything might look different if that happened. So, what am I going to do? I'm going to read everything on the ballot and hope that the Hugo voter packet is inclusive of everything on it (minus the dramatic presentations), and then I'm going to vote accordingly. I look forward to the Hugo Awards every year and enjoy thinking about them, talking about them, occasionally writing way too many words about them. Before I knew anything about the awards, I believed that they were the premier award in science fiction and fantasy. The best of the best. The Oscar of the genre. Later I learned that the Hugos were nothing more than an award given out by a particular community, and only nominated and voted on by a very small subset of that same community. The Hugos are reflective of a particular group of people, just as the Nebulas are, and the World Fantasy Awards are (the three I awards I care most about) - but the Hugos is the one I can participate in, which makes it special even knowing what I do about it. So, I respect the process of the award and will treat all the nominees fairly and at face value - and I think it is disappointing that I felt the need to write that sentence. This concludes Part One. Part Two will continue with my thoughts on the actual ballot, rather than what has surrounded the ballot. 2015 Hugo Award Nominees Saturday, April 04, 2015 0 (Via Tor.com and the rest of the internet) Below are the nominees for the 2015 Hugo Awards. Congratulations to all the nominees. Update 4/14/2015: Sasquan removed and replaced two ineligible nominees. Update 4/17/2015: Two nominees on the final ballot declined their nominations. Sasquan replaced each with the next highest eligible vote receiving work. According to Sasquan, there will be no further revisions to the ballot as it is now going to the printer. Update 4/20/2015: Black Gate has declines its nomination, but because the ballot was already frozen, it will remain on the ballot. Update 4/28/2015: Edmund R. Schubert declined his nomination, but because the ballot was already frozen, he will remain on the ballot. Ancillary Sword by Ann Leckie (Orbit US; Orbit UK) The Dark Between the Stars by Kevin J. Anderson (Tor Books) The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison (Sarah Monette) (Tor Books) Lines of Departure by Marko Kloos (47North) Skin Game: A Novel of the Dresden Files by Jim Butcher (Roc Books) The Three Body Problem, by Cixin Liu, Ken Liu translator (Tor Books) Marko Kloos declined his nomination after the ballot was announced. The Three Body Problem was added. "The Day the World Turned Upside Down", by Thomas Olde Heuvelt (Lightspeed Magazine, April 2014) The John C Wright novelette was found to be ineligible after the ballot was announced, and was replaced by the Heuvelt story. SHORT STORY (1174 ballots) "A Single Samurai", by Steven Diamond (The Baen Big Book of Monsters, Baen Books) Annie Bellet declined her nomination after the ballot was announced and was replaced with the Steven Diamond story. BEST RELATED WORK (1150 ballots) “The Hot Equations: Thermodynamics and Military SF” by Ken Burnside (Riding the Red Horse, Castalia House) “Why Science is Never Settled” by Tedd Roberts (Baen.com) (Part I & II) Ms. Marvel Vol 1: No Normal written by G. Willow Wilson, illustrated by Adrian Alphona and Jake Wyatt, (Marvel Comics) Rat Queens Volume 1: Sass and Sorcery written by Kurtis J. Weibe, art by Roc Upchurch (Image Comics) Zombie Nation Book #2: Reduce Reuse Reanimate by Carter Reid (The Zombie Nation) Saga, Volume 3 written by Brian K. Vaughan, illustrated by Fiona Staples (Image Comics) Sex Criminals, Vol. 1: One Weird Trick written by Matt Fraction, art by Chip Zdarsky (Image Comics) DRAMATIC PRESENTATION (LONG FORM) (1285 ballots) Captain America: The Winter Soldier screenplay by Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely, concept and story by Ed Brubaker, directed by Anthony Russo and Joe Russo ((Marvel Entertainment, Perception, Sony Pictures Imageworks) Edge of Tomorrow screenplay by Christopher McQuarrie, Jez Butterworth, and John-Henry Butterworth, directed by Doug Liman (Village Roadshow; RatPac-Dune Entertainment; 3 Arts Entertainment; Viz Productions) Guardians of the Galaxy written by James Gunn and Nicole Perlman, directed by James Gunn (Marvel Studios, Moving Picture Company) Interstellar screenplay by Jonathan Nolan and Christopher Nolan, directed by Christopher Nolan (Paramount Pictures, as Warner Bros. Pictures, Legendary Pictures, Lynda Obst Productions, Syncopy) The Lego Movie written by Phil Lord & Christopher Miller, story by Dan Hageman, Kevin Hageman, Phil Lord & Christopher Miller, directed by Phil Lord & Christopher Miller (Warner Bros. Pictures, Village Roadshow Pictures, RatPac-Dune Entertainment, LEGO System A/S, Vertigo Entertainment, Lin Pictures, Warner Bros. Animation (as Warner Animation Group)) DRAMATIC PRESENTATION (SHORT FORM) (938 ballots) Doctor Who: “Listen” written by Steven Moffat directed by Douglas Mackinnon (BBC Television) The Flash: “Pilot” teleplay by Andrew Kreisberg & Geoff Johns, story by Greg Berlanti, Andrew Kreisberg & Geoff Johns, directed by David Nutter (The CW; Berlanti Productions, DC Entertainment, Warner Bros. Television) Game of Thrones: “The Mountain and the Viper” written by David Benioff & D. B. Weiss, directed by Alex Graves ((HBO Entertainment in association with Bighead, Littlehead; Television 360; Startling Television and Generator Productions) Grimm: “Once We Were Gods” written by Alan DiFiore, directed by Steven DePaul (NBC; GK Productions, Hazy Mills Productions, Universal TV) Orphan Black: “By Means Which Have Never Yet Been Tried”written by Graham Manson, directed by John Fawcett (Temple Street Productions, Space/BBC America) Edmund R. Schubert has declined his nomination, but will remain on the ballot. Kirk DouPonce John Eno was found to be ineligible and was replaced on the ballot with Kirk DouPonce. Black Gate has declined its nomination, but will remain on the ballot. As a side note, I expect to have my standard "preliminary thoughts" post on the nominees up on Monday. Posted by Joe on Saturday, April 04, 2015 | Links to this post | Leave a comment...0 comments It's that time again to look back at what I read the previous month, and since my child is still not crawling or spending most of his time awake, I continue to do a fairly solid job in getting books read. Progress! The one link is to my one review, though in this case the review is more of a re-read commentary than it is a review. So, we're sort of making progress there but not really. 1. White Trash Zombie Apocalypse, by Diana Rowland 2. Maelstrom, by Peter Watts 3. Silence Once Begun, by Jesse Ball 4. Honor's Knight, by Rachel Bach 5. NW, by Zadie Smith (unfinished) 6. Get In Trouble, by Kelly Link 7. We Were Liars, by E. Lockhart 8. Razor's Edge, by Martha Wells 9. Kenobi, by John Jackson Miller 10. Stronghold, by Melanie Rawn Best Book of the Month: Rachel Bach is killing it with her Paradox trilogy. Honor's Knight is book 2, and it has me itching for the conclusion (Heaven's Queen). I don't know quite where's she going with the series, but I love the setting, the battles, and the obstinate morality of Devi Morris. It's good stuff, nice ass kicking space opera and very much worth seeking out to read. Highly recommended. Disappointment of the Month: I last read Zadie Smith ten years ago when On Beauty was published, and I very briefly noted then that it was the novel I had hoped Smith would write, given that I had admired her work but not fully appreciated it until then. So, even though it took three years after publication for me to attempt NW, I had very high hopes that were sadly not met. Something about the style of the novel just did not work for me, it was borderline stream of consciousness and was so jumpy and not quite pulled together in a narrative format that I could engage with or follow. Not to be too simplistic, but I suspect that if NW was written in a more conventional prose format, I would have found it much more to my taste. It just wasn't for me, and this makes me a little sad. Discovery of the Month: None, unless discovering / rediscovering that Kelly Link's short fiction generally isn't for me counts. If I wasn't so disappointed by NW, I'd have slid Get In Trouble into that slot. Worth Noting: So, years ago I read Yoda: Dark Rendezvous thinking that we were finally going to get a good novel focusing on Yoda. Maybe we would get some background or just some general ass kickery of the muppet flipping around with his lightsaber spitting backwards sounding wisdom. Instead, most of the novel focused on the Padawan Scout, which wouldn't have been a problem if the book was titled Scout: Dark Rendezvous. Where I'm going with this is that Kenobi is almost entirely the book I wanted Yoda to be - significantly focused on Obi Wan as he was settling onto Tatooine with the intent to watch over Luke. There is a side focus on Anileen Calwell and on a particular Tusken Raider, but unlike with the Yoda novel here it seems to build and enrich the story of Obi Wan in hiding. Here we get the struggle of Obi Wan to truly be in hiding with the greater purpose of protecting Luke while not abandoning the other principles of the Jedi Order when he could help in other ways. Kenobi is one of the stronger Star Wars novels I've read in a while. Maybe not top shelf Star Wars, but worth checking out if that sort of thing interests you. Gender Breakdown: This month seven out of the ten books I read were written by women. This brings me to 21 out of 34 so far for the year, or 61.76%. Given that every other year in my life would have been drastically skewed in favor or significantly more men, I'm more than okay with my plan and goal to read more books written by women in 2015 than by men. So far I'm holding very well to this goal. Previous Months: A Look Back at 2014: Or, Reading and Gender This is a long overdue article, and one which I meant to write in early to mid January. Of course, my son was born three weeks early and he has sapped all sorts of mental energy. You'll note that I continue to use him as an excuse for things. I'm not sure exactly how long I can pull that off, but I'll keep trying. In July I wrote an article about gender, and what I read. I read, on average, perhaps 120 books each year. Even with the kid, I'm on track to at least do that again this year (though, my video game playing has significantly decreased). As mentioned in the previous article, over the last six years the percentage of books I have read in a given year which were written by women ranged from 26% and 45%. I noted at the time that the 45% was my progress so far in 2014 and that most years I was somewhere in the 30% bracket. So, for all the years I have paid attention to the issue of gender, and what I read, I have done a rather crappy job at changing my personal status quo. Let's actually look at what I did in 2014. The first number represents the count of books written by women, the second is the total books read during that month. January: 4/14 February: 8/13 March: 7/14 April: 3/6 May: 6/16 June: 3/9 July: 5/10 August: 3/10 September: 4/8 October: 4/9 November: 8/14 December: 7/12 2014: 62/135 (45.92%) In the end, I stuck right around the same 45% I was at in July, though had I not tanked August I could have been a lot closer to a 50/50 balance. So, given my history of really only reading female authored books three out of every ten times, it's a huge improvement. It's not perfect, but there is no perfect number. There is no perfect number. The reason I'm tracking this is that a number of years ago I ran across several conversations people about what they were reading, and what does it say if you are only reading books written by men? Hopefully, it means that most of those books you are reading are damn awesome and entertaining and you get full value out of them. As you should. I noted in July that I only know about what I know about. Until I had read Elizabeth Bear, I never knew just how much I would love her writing and how she consistently writes novels that blow me away. Until I just read Katherine Addison after years of being aware of Sarah Monette (her real name) but never reading Monette's books, I would never have known just how good The Goblin Emperor was. Insert any writer you want there. Until I read Carrie Vaughn, I turned away from the thought of the modern urban fantasy / paranormal romance with werewolves and vampires. The list can go on (and on) with any number of writers in any genre, male or female, because so often you just don't know until you give a book a go. That's an important point that still stands. I'm not trying to hit a quota, but I've had a goodly number of women on my "to read" list for a decade without ever picking their books up. Same with those by men (sorry, Peter Hamilton and Alastair Reynolds, I just keep not picking your books up even though I want to). This is about broadening and about discovering awesome writers I really should have been reading all along. C. J. Cherryh? Yeah, she's friggin fantastic but I never read her until 2009 after more than a decade of her being on my radar. I'm still looking for new shiny things to read, and while I said that I'm not trying to hit a quota, I am consciously trying to read more women. Not because I think doing so is somehow "good for me" or that I'm going to score points with people whose opinions I value, but because there are a wealth of awesome stories out there and if I'm only reading men, I'm missing out on a lot. I'm going to read more of everything. Scott Lynch, Peter Brett, Brian McClellan: I'm reading all of you this year. Kate Elliott, Katherine Kerr, Robin Hobb: I'm also reading all of you this year. As a side note for where I'm at in 2015 so far, for the first time ever I have read more women than men. I remark on it because of all those years the percentage swung dramatically the other way. This year, it swings in a different direction. Because reading is a conscious choice and there are plenty of books and authors who I know are going to be my favorites and that I'm going to love with a passion. I just have to read them. As a further side point: I remember being in high school and my father telling me that he made the town librarian fairly mad because she would recommend him books and he told her that he didn't like books written by women. I was shocked and a little upset at the time. Our librarian, who happened to be a woman, was an awesome lady and the best librarian a fledgling geek could have - and she recommended fantastic books written by both men and women. But I never understood cutting off half the population just like that. I also didn't understand how he could tell the difference, except by a name on the cover. Still don't. I didn't get into the fight with him because it wasn't worth it, but it was something that I've remember with a "nope, not going to be like that" firmly planted in my head. I'm going to read it all. Posted by Joe on Thursday, April 02, 2015 | Links to this post | Leave a comment...6 comments Stronghold, by Melanie Rawn Melanie Rawn DAW: 1991 Welcome back to my Melanie Rawn re-read! When we last left off, in March of last year, we had concluded Rawn's Dragon Prince trilogy (Dragon Prince, The Star Scroll, Sunrunner's Fire) and I suggested that I would resume the re-read in a timely manner. This was obviously untrue and I clearly cannot be trusted when I say when a certain article is going live, but here we are again at the start of a new trilogy. In my write up of Sunrunner's Fire I suggested that if you consider story arcs across the series, the six books really comprise a single trilogy that looks like this: 1. Dragon Prince (1 book) 2. Star Scroll / Sunrunner's Fire (2 books) 3. Dragon Star (3 books) I still think that works. Where Dragon Prince was a standalone that set up future stories, The Star Scross and Sunrunner's Fire had distinct story arcs that were as much in service of setting up a larger story as they were concluding the proper story arc of dealing with the fallout from Roelstra. Dragon Star is three books comprising one war. As before, this is less of a proper review and more of a re-read. There is an excellent chance of book and previous trilogy spoilers, though I will attempt to limit (but not necessarily eliminate) those that touch on the remainder of the Dragon Star trilogy. You have been warned. The quick answer is that I am a huge fan of these novels from Melanie Rawn and very highly recommend them. Go read, I'll still be here. One way that I keep describing both Stronghold and the Dragon Star trilogy is: Melanie Rawn kills everyone and burns the whole thing to the ground. I mean this in the best possible way, but everything that Rawn spent so much time and emotional energy building in the Dragon Prince trilogy with Rohan and his dreams of peace is completely shattered with the invasion of the Vellant'im. We know nothing about these people, except that they are bearded, targeting faradh'im (the Sunrunners) and are destroying and burning their way across the continent, seemingly towards the desert. Rawn was likely planning this from the start, given that she published Dragon Prince in 1988, published the next two in 1989 and 1990, and immediately published Stronghold in 1991. But, more than publishing one trilogy and and then working on the next one, Rawn seeded The Star Scroll and Sunrunner's Fire with hints of the Dragon Star novels. It was the war with the sorcerer's, but also the continuing hints of Andry's vision of his world in flames and his family destroyed. Andry knew this war was coming, though he didn't know when or how. Stronghold shows how. Or, at least, the beginning of how. The build to war is slow. There are several more hints at the invasion to come, the first coastal cities are hit but they are hit during cloud cover so it takes longer for word to spread to Stronghold and Dragon's Rest than it otherwise might. Scattered reports are getting through, and what to believe? Except that the invaders are burning and gutting cities / castles and then moving farther inland. Stronghold is where Rawn starts killing minor (and major) characters. This invasion is for real, and nobody is safe. This is made clear as the invasion begins to hit the Desert. But, besides the invasion, there are two other primary conflicts. The first is the inevitable conflict of Pol vs Andry. At this point Andry is well established as Lord of Goddess Keep with fully established power. Pol is the next High Prince and is starting to step into that role, but he's still a step behind Rohan because Pol doesn't fully inherit so long as Rohan is around. But, a central conflict of the series is the battling influences and ideas of Pol vs Andry. It doesn't get any better here. The other conflict is, sadly, Pol vs Rohan. Despite being lord of Princemarch and the next High Prince, Pol still lives in the shadow of his father. As one does, especially when one's father is such a prominent and vital man in that particular world. Pol chafes, and he has the inexperience of youth that his ideas of how to behave and what the appropriate response should be is in conflict with what Rohan knows based on his years of experience and what he has spent his life trying to build (unified rule of law, general peace). But as the invasion deepens, Pol begins to no longer trust his father's decisions. He wants desperately to believe in Rohan like he did as a child, but each step chafes. Which is the point that I start bringing in my own personal situation into the book and I think about my relationship with my father and the relationship I hope to have with my (now) three month old son, and the struggles of fatherhood and growing in different directions but still being family. I think of Andry's relationship with Chay (his father) and with Rohan and Pol (uncle and cousin), and of my extended families and my hopes. This has nothing to do with the book itself, but it part of my introspection around it. It's the stuff that I think about when I think about the book. Getting older changes how you think about stuff, and that's even when you don't have a near nameless murderous invasion destroying your land and you see your father just not doing anything to stop it and that's all you want is for him to act. So, Stronghold. It's a brutal novel, filled with death and disappointment. Of course I like it Unlike the Dragon Prince trilogy, which I've read many times, I've only read Dragon Star once. And of that once, I'm not sure I've ever read the second volume Dragon Token. I know I've read Stronghold once before and I know I've read Skybowl, but I vaguely remember never being able to find a copy of the middle book when I was younger. Now I have it. So, we'll see if my Melanie Rawn reread proceeds with a book I don't remember at all. This time, I make no promises as to how quickly the next article will go up. Just know that it will. Speculative Fiction 2014 Contributors: Or, hey, I'... Thoughts on the 2015 Hugo Award Nominees, Part Thr... Thoughts on the 2015 Hugo Award Nominees, Part Two... Thoughts on the 2015 Hugo Award Nominees, Part One...

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Contact: Christa Williford Washington, DC, September 22, 2015—The Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) has awarded the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) $172,996 to assess the impact of five related National Digital Stewardship Residency (NDSR) initiatives. Between 2012 and 2015, the IMLS Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program funded a series of five projects designed to build capacity in the information services and cultural heritage professions for the collection, management, preservation, and distribution of digital assets to the American public. By the summer of 2016, 35 recent graduates of master’s programs in library and information science (LIS) and related fields will have completed working residencies at leading U.S. institutions in the field of digital stewardship. During the coming year, a research team led by former CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow Meridith Beck Sayre will gather data through interviews, site visits, and a survey in order to evaluate the significance of the residency experience for the residents and their host institutions, identify the differences among the five projects and the perceived effects of those differences on the residents, and articulate the factors common to successful and productive residencies. In late 2016, the team will produce a report with recommendations for future initiatives that build on the work of the residents and their mentors. The report will be published by CLIR at the conclusion of the project. “The NDSR initiatives hold great potential as models for fostering the growth and development of a workforce with skills now in high demand in cultural heritage institutions,” said CLIR President Charles Henry. “Funders, educators, employers, and aspiring professionals stand to benefit from the findings of this study. CLIR is honored to have been selected by IMLS to engage with the growing NDSR community in order to highlight their achievements and disseminate the lessons they have learned over the past four years.” The NDSR program was conceived by IMLS in partnership with the Library of Congress. The Council on Library and Information Resources (http://www.clir.org) is an independent, nonprofit organization that forges strategies to enhance research, teaching, and learning environments in collaboration with libraries, cultural institutions, and communities of higher learning. CLIR is home to the Digital Library Federation (www.diglib.org), a robust and diverse community of practitioners who advance research, learning, and the public good through digital library technologies. DLF serves as a resource and catalyst for collaboration among its institutional members and all who are invested in digital library issues. To unsubscribe from the DLF-ANNOUNCE list, click the following link: http://lists.clir.org/scripts/wa-CLIR.exe?SUBED1=DLF-ANNOUNCE&A=1

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The Giraffe will screen at the third edition of Aswan International Women Film Festival (February 20-26) on Sunday, February 24 at 07:00 pm. The film is taking part in the Egyptian Films Competition within the festival. Through the streets of the city that are void of all but its ghosts, Ahmed is lost and depleted of faith. Tonight, he must save a girl he doesn't know who is in a lot of trouble. He finds himself involved with an eccentric group of young people lead by an enigmatic girl who is trying to uncover the mystery behind the Giraffe hidden at the zoo. Written and directed by Ahmed Magdy, The Giraffe stars Amr Hosny, Shaza Moharam, Haydi Koussa, Salma Hassan, Rasha Magdy, Mohammed El Badawy, and Osama Gawish. The film is co-produced by Garage Art Production, Utaco Digital Film, and Fig Leaf Studio. It was awarded the AFAC Production Grant and the SANAD Development Grant from the Abu Dhabi Film Festival. The film is distributed in the Arab world by MAD Solutions.

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Memorable Manitobans: James M. “Jim” Shaver (1876-1948) James. M. Shaver Cleric, social worker. Born at Cornwall, Ontario in 1876, he attended Morrisburg Collegiate Institute and graduated from Queen’s University at Kingston. He taught for two years at Bouck’s Hill, Ontario before entering the Methodist Church ministry in July 1889, serving as a probationer at Fox Bay, Anticosti Island, and was ordained in 1901 at Pemboke, Ontario by General Superintendent of the Methodist Church of Canada, Dr. A. Carman. He completed his probationary service at Agnes (Gow Lake Megantre), Quebec in 1902. While a pastor at Portsmouth, he studies Arts and was known on the Cataraque circuit. In 1910, he graduated from theological studies at Victoria College in Toronto and founded the “University Settlement” before returning to a pastoral charge at Eaton’s Corners for one year. In 1912, he moved to Fort William [Thunder Bay], where he founded Wayside House and was Superintendent of the Wesley Institute (1912-1921). He moved to Winnipeg in 1921 and succeeded J. S. Woodsworth as Superintendent of the All Peoples’ Mission (1921-1941). The family lived in the manse next door to the Mission. He received a Doctorate of Divinity from United College in 1936 and was a life-long social worker with the United Church. In 1910, he married Elizabeth Catherine Asselstine (c1884-1949) and had two sons, both of whom became clerics: William H. Shaver and Michael John Victor “Jack” Shaver. His last residence was in the Kirkfield Park neighbourhood. He was President of the United Empire Loyalists (Winnipeg Branch) and Honourary President at the time of his death. He died at the Winnipeg General Hospital on 13 June 1948 and was buried in Assiniboine Memorial Park Cemetery. He is commemorated by the Dr. Jim Shaver Memorial Park. Historic Sites of Manitoba: Dr. Jim Shaver Memorial Park (44 Barber Street, Winnipeg) “Prominent mission worker arrives,” Manitoba Free Press, 13 August 1921, page 35. “New Canadian problem successfully attacked by North End Missions,” Manitoba Free Press, 18 February 1922, page 27. “Rev W.H. Shaver goes to Ottawa,” Winnipeg Tribune, 8 June 1945, page 3. “Dr. J. M. Shaver, life-long social worker dies at 72,” Winnipeg Free Press, 14 June 1948, page 4. “Rev. J. Shaver, mission worker, dies in hospital,” Winnipeg Tribune, 14 June 1948, page 26. Death notice, Winnipeg Free Press, 14 June 1948, page 21. “Dr. J. M. Shaver memorial held,” Winnipeg Free Press, 21 June 1948, page 2. “Widow of cleric, Mrs. Shaver dies,” Winnipeg Free Press, 24 June 1949, page 8. “Mrs. James Shaver,” Winnipeg Free Press, 25 June 1949, page 38.

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Lone PinePrint Page Lone Pine Plaque : 30-August-2014 Photographs supplied by Sandra Brown The Pine tree commemorates those who have served in the various conflicts in which Australia has been involved. The Lone Pine was the name given to a solitary tree on the Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey, which marked the site of the Battle of Lone Pine in 1915 during World War One and it was the sole survivor of a group of trees that had been cut down by Turkish soldiers who had used the timber and branches to cover their trenches. The tree was obliterated during the battle; however, pine cones that had remained attached to the cut branches over the trenches were retrieved by two Australian soldiers and brought home to Australia. Private Thomas Keith McDowell, a soldier of the 23rd Battalion brought a pine cone from the battle site back to Australia, and many years later seeds from the cone were planted by his wife's aunt Emma Gray of Grassmere, near Warrnambool, Victoria and five seedlings emerged, with four surviving. These seedlings were planted in four different locations in Victoria: Wattle Park (May 8, 1933), the Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne (June 11, 1933), the Soldiers Memorial Hall at The Sisters near Terang (June 18, 1933) and Warrnambool Botanic Gardens (January 23, 1934). The Shrine of Remembrance's Pine was felled in August 2012 and the timber used as part of a remembrance project, after a disease known as Diplodia pinea or blue stains fungus as it commonly called killed it. Another soldier, Lance Corporal Benjamin Smith from the 3rd Battalion, also retrieved a cone and sent it back to his mother (Mrs McMullen) in Australia, who had lost another son at the battle. Seeds from the cone were planted by Mrs McMullen in 1928, from which two seedlings were raised. One was presented to her home town of Inverell (New South Wales) and the other was forwarded to Canberra where it was planted by Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester at the Australian War Memorial in October 1934. O`Connell Street (near George Street), Murray Gardens, Parramatta Park, Parramatta, 2150 http://www.warmemorialsregister.nsw… Front Inscription This tree (Pinus halopensis) Aleppo Pine a direct descendant of "The Lone Pine" of Gallipoli fame was planted 1 March 1988 To commemorate the sacrifices of those Australians who served at Gallipoli and all who have since served our nation in the cause of freedom and world peace City of Parramatta Sub-Branch Returned and Services League of Australia Source: SKP,NRWM, MA

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Hu Yun 27 March – 17 May 2017 The work of Hu Yun (b. 1986, China) ranges from drawing and watercolours to performance, video, and installation. Delving into personal and historical narratives, Hu revisits historical moments in order to provide alternative readings and reinterpretations. His works have been exhibited at the 11th Gwangju Biennale, The Eight Climate (What Does Art Do?), South Korea, 2016; Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China, 2015; the 7th Shenzhen Sculpture Biennale, China, 2012, and National History Museum, London, United Kingdom, 2010. He is also the co-founder of PDF, an independent art e-journal. Hu Yun’s practice is grounded in research, surveys, travels, oral histories, and archives. Since 2012, Hu has made several trips to China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Southeast Asia to retrace the footsteps of missionaries such as Matteo Ricci and St. Francis Xavier, exploring both the factual and the imaginary. In line with this research, Hu will be investigating Chinese cemeteries and graveyards in Singapore as spaces of historical encounters. Of particular interest are the symbolisms of epitaphs on early 20th century tombstones as a reflection of the political landscape in China. Hu will also retrace the immigration of Chinese artists from China to Singapore in the early 20th century through Mr Koh Nguang How’s Singapore Art Archive Project. Attend + Calendar Residencies Studio Sessions: Talk by Hu Yun (China), Artist-in-Residence 12 May 2017, Fri 07:30 PM - 09:00 PM Which motivations lie behind an artist’s practice? How does an artist determine his field of inquiry? Grounded on surveys, travels, oral histories, and archives, Artist-in-Residence Hu Yun excavates historical narratives to produce works that subtly merge the factual and the imaginary. During the residency, Hu researched the waves of emigration that took place in the early 20th century retracing the routes that led artists from China to Singapore prompting the development of the Nanyang style. Drawing connections between the research undertook in Singapore and a project commissioned by Villa Vassilieff, Paris, France, Hu Yun will reflect upon his deep-seated interest in the dawn of modernity and in patterns of mobility and contamination. He will also speak about his collaboration with Singapore artist and researcher Koh Nguang How who will be an active participant to the talk contributing his own comments. The talk will take place in the artist’s studio.

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What You Don't Know - Cellphones Dr. Nick Begich - Cell Phones - What They Didn't Tell You (BBLC - 2005) Dr. Nick Begich reveals the findings of studies the cell phone companies don't want you to know about. This is about external influencing the brain electronically. Begich says that the US government has a history of using human subjects for experiments without consent. But he says that many people who claim they are such subjects of this electronic experimentation, are suffering from other difficulties, e.g., psychiatric problems. Begich is revealing the technology and at the same time providing cover for abuses of human subjects. Begich reports an experiment on students diagnosed with ADD and ADHD who were subjected to electronic conditioning using a "helmet." He says they were able to return to regular education classes and that it cost the school district less money than if they needed the special ed classes. He approves of using electronics for brain control and treatment. He also tells of treatment in Finland which was challenged by the traditional physicians in court. Begich suggests that it is now possible to "download" information to the human brain. That this will be an issue for public education in this country.

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Resume Reading — Why Females Decide What’s Beautiful Why Females Decide What’s Beautiful Uncovering the nature of sexual selection. Kevin Berger By Kevin Berger November 23, 2017 Michael J. Ryan, a professor of zoology, didn’t call his forthcoming book, Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Frog Sex*…By Kevin Berger Michael J. Ryan, a professor of zoology, didn’t call his forthcoming book, Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Frog Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask), but he sure could have. For 40 years, Ryan has studied the tiny tungara frog, mostly on the tropical Barro Colorado Island in Panama. The narrative of the tungara frog’s sex life, Ryan writes in A Taste for the Beautiful, the actual title of his forthcoming book, was uncovered, “during 186 consecutive nights of watching everything these frogs did from sundown to sunup—more than 1,000 of them, all individually marked so I could tell them apart, record the males’ voices, measure how often they mated, and figure out just what attracted females to a particular male.” Ryan did indeed figure out what turned on the female frogs, a sexy call of whines and chucks. For Ryan, the frog’s seductive call opened a panoramic window on mating habits across the animal kingdom. Darwin had it right that evolution was served by sexual selection, Ryan says, once scientists, like himself, exposed the biological components, down to the genes, behind animals’ preferences for fanciful traits in potential mates, most famously, of course, the lush blue fan that is the peacock’s tail. The brain is our most important sex organ, but it has lots of other things on its mind. Today Ryan teaches at the University of Texas at Austin and is a senior research associate at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama. Decades of studying sexual selection have led him to develop a theory called sensory exploitation. “The key idea is simple: Features of the female’s brain that find certain notes of the males’ mating call attractive existed long before those attractive notes evolved,” he writes. A central aspect of his theory is animals harbor hidden sexual preferences that influence the evolution of sexual traits. In “The Mate Selection Trapdoor” in this week’s Nautilus, Ryan spells out the adaptive benefits of hidden preferences. I recently caught up with Ryan for this month’s Ingenious interview to delve into his provocative thesis that males can show off their fancy colors and songs all they want, but it’s females who make the call. hop to it: Tungara frogs mate in Panama. Zoologist and author Michael J. Ryan studied the tiny frogs for decades. “What I learned from the tungara frog launched me into a lifelong interest in sexual beauty,” he writes in A Taste for the Beautiful: The Evolution of Attraction.James Christensen / Minden Pictures / Getty Images You write that “females are the biological puppeteers, making the males sing exactly what their brains desire.” What do you mean? The view has long been that males, in their sexual communication, are saying something important about themselves, and it’s up to the females to figure out what that is, to figure out which males are truly attractive and which are not. I argue the other side of the coin. Females aren’t trying to figure out what males are saying. When they mate with a male, by definition, that male is attractive. So females are the deciders. Over evolutionary time, it seems males are trying out a lot of different courtship traits. A bright orange here, a bright blue there, rub your wings together and make a sound, or jump up and do a dance. They are trying to do these things to tickle females’ preferences. But it’s really the females calling the shots. It’s the female’s brain that sets the bar for what kind of traits are attractive and unattractive. Why did evolution make females the choosers? What would be the advantage of that? Yeah, that’s a great question. First of all, there are always exceptions. There are some species, like ours, where males choose females. There’s a number of species where there’s mutual mate choice. But the common one is males courting and females choosing, and that’s because of the fact that females have fewer, larger gametes, and males have many small gametes. Females have a limitation on the number of eggs they can produce in a lifetime. So they want to choose mates very carefully, because they don’t want to waste this very valuable resource. When female túngara frogs come to the pond at night and don’t get a male, they decide not to mate. So all of her eggs just flow out of her body into the water. Now she has to wait another six weeks to choose. For males, on the other hand, there’s not any realistic limitation on the number of sperm they can produce. When males ejaculate, it doesn’t take them a lot of time to fill up another set of ejaculates, so the males could potentially mate with many more individuals than the females could mate with. Therefore it’s males competing for a much more limited resource than females. You need to survive to reproduce. Roadkill doesn’t mate. Animals have developed “a taste for the beautiful,” you tell us. “Beautiful” is such a subjective term. What do you mean by it? It’s a quote from Darwin. [In The Descent of Man, Darwin writes, “With the great majority of animals, however, the taste for the beautiful is confined, as far as we can judge, to the attractions of the opposite sex.”] Beauty is what the females decide beauty is, right? Beauty is what the brain reacts to in a positively sexual way. Darwin suggested females have an aesthetic preference. He couldn’t figure out why. But he said that they must have an aesthetic preference that favors the evolution of these beautiful traits. It’s really interesting, too, that the things that female animals find beautiful, not all the time, but in many cases, coincide with what we find beautiful. When we look at canaries with their birdsongs, and guppies with their bright colors, and subject them to artificial selection for the pet trade, we get individuals very much like the ones that female animals go crazy over. Wasn’t Darwin frustrated because he couldn’t reconcile the attractiveness of the male peacock tail to the fact it was cumbersome and made peacocks susceptible to predators? Right. Have you ever seen a peacock run or fly? It’s pathetic. Dragging his tail behind him, he can’t outrun a child let alone a fox. This is what made Darwin say that every time he looked at a peacock feather it made him sick. These males would be healthier without long tails. Beauty as a main force of evolution has been controversial. Evolution works by genes for individual traits—which enable fitness—being passed down through generations. A trait for beauty would seem secondary. There’s two components of Darwinian fitness that are important. One is survivorship, and one is reproduction. The way you get genes across to the next generation is by making offspring. You need to survive to reproduce. Roadkill doesn’t mate. So you have natural selection and sexual selection favoring different sets of traits. Sometimes these selection forces are in opposition. But as long as there is a genetic component to traits that make some animals reproduce more, you’re going to get changes in these traits across generations. As with traits for survival, when sexual beauty has a genetic basis, it is passed down from generation to generation as males evolve more seductive ornaments. Have you identified a genetic basis to beauty or aesthetic preference? Yes, absolutely, there is a genetic, neural basis for this taste for the beautiful. In the túngara frog, I can take a pin and show you right in the frog’s brain where this arises. SPIDER SWAGGER: The male peacock spider raises its psychedelic abdomen when it courts a female. He waves it back and forth in an invitation to mate.Courtesy of Andrew DeSio You say animals, including us, have a preference for similar aesthetic qualities. You also say beauty is in the brain of the beholder. How do you square those two statements? Well, there are idiosyncrasies, for sure, with females. With bowerbirds, females are attracted by all of the ornaments the male displays around the bower. What scientists have shown is that younger females seem to be more swayed by the decorations of the bower than they are by the males themselves. And older females are more impressed by the display of the male than the decorations of the bower. Scientists have shown, in swordtail fishes, that the preference for the male’s sword seems to change with the age of the female, or the size of the female. What are we to take away from these preferences? That these things can change with experience. What scientists think happens with bowerbirds, for instance, is when the male is displaying to the female, it’s an aggressive display, and the younger females seem to be scared off by it. Whereas the older females that have seen this display, mating season after mating season, learn that it’s not an aggressive display. In A Taste for the Beautiful, you refer to a country song by Mickey Gilley, “Don’t the Girls All Get Prettier at Closing Time,” to amplify that point. What is closing time in the perspective of evolutionary biology? The point is that preferences can be fickle, they’re not fixed, there’s variation. Not only among individuals, but within individuals, and one of the things that makes these preferences fickle, that causes them to change, is this closing-time phenomenon. In many cases, animals will have a taste for the beautiful, but if there’s nothing there matching that taste for the beautiful very well, they’re willing to change their criteria to lower their threshold, or like in this Mickey Gilley song, to go home with a one instead of a 10. Also in Evolution James Doty’s Helper’s High By Bonnie Tsui James Doty is not a subject under study at the altruism research center that he founded at Stanford in 2008, but he could be. In 2000, after building a fortune as a neurosurgeon and biotech entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, he...READ MORE So does the evolutionary biologist conclude that fickleness is natural? Yes, for sure, it varies with the hormonal state. What has studying the túngara frog and its mating habits for 40 years taught you about humans? It’s taught me it’s hard to know why women prefer certain traits in males. The brain is our most important sex organ, but it has lots of other things on its mind. So it leads you to wonder how the life experiences of women, with things that have nothing to do with sexual beauty, influence what they find as attractive? This isn’t surprising. I’m an academic, so the kinds of folks that I run into in my job have respect for creativity, intelligence, and being articulate. Things that would make a male attractive in this social scenario probably might not add to a male’s attractiveness in other kinds of scenarios. Is it dangerous, then, to leap from animals to humans in talking about sexual selection? I think it’s difficult to make that leap if you’re looking for biology to give you a description of exactly what we would deem attractive. But I do think evolutionary studies of animals translate well to some general patterns. Females are influenced by the resources that males have available, whereas males seem to be much more attentive to a female’s physical characteristics, including their age. This is one of the explanations for why, on average, with tons of exceptions, men tend to be a little bit older than the women that they marry. Males have had time to demonstrate their ability to garner resources. You write that humans, with our candles and music, poems and flowers, share elaborate courtship rituals with animals, like bowerbirds. Ever thought about how our rituals have changed in the social media age, when we can fake sexual traits? I have thought about it, and it’s really interesting. When people describe themselves online, they are not telling the truth in a lot of cases. So they’re describing themselves in a way that they think others will find attractive. It’s like a peacock being able to will what its tail looks like, or a canary being able to will what its song sounds like, and then asking how close did they get to what the females really want. I haven’t done any studies like that, but it would be really interesting to get to those online data, and ask those kinds of questions. Does it undermine the theory of sexual selection that humans have such a wide variety of aesthetic and personal preferences? I don’t think it undermines sexual selection. We too have two different sexes, with different gamete numbers. That puts us in a situation where biology facilitates all kinds of cultural selection, cultural differences. So the way I think of it is: Biology forms the basis of how humans behave, the basics in terms of mate choice. But culture plays a much stronger role in shaping how we choose, how we act, and how we adorn ourselves. What would you be if you weren’t a scientist? I went to college to become a high school biology teacher. I had a little taste of that and I loved it. I’m sure that’s what I would’ve done had I not become a scientist. Anthropology Love, Death, and Other Forgotten Traditions Evolution The Mate Selection Trapdoor Psychology Men Are Better At Maps Until Women Take This Course Evolution Why Females Decide What’s Beautiful Cormac McCarthy Returns to the Kekulé Problem By Cormac McCarthy When Evolution Is Infectious By Moises Velasquez-Manoff Survival of the Friendliest By Kelly Clancy When Pseudosex Is Better Than the Real Thing

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A Steiner Education Today there are about 800 Steiner (or Waldorf) schools in 23 countries around the world with 60 established schools in Australia and many others in various stages of development. These form an educational movement rather than a system. Schools are co-educational and non-denominational. Schools are adapted to their time, place and community, and each is independently managed. Rather than having a principal, many Steiner schools are run by a group of teachers known as the College of Teachers (‘The College’). The College is responsible for the school’s educational and philosophical direction. It is also actively involved in the administrative and social spheres of the school. In 2015, at Mumbulla School an Education Manager was employed to assist the College of Teachers in all aspects of its work. Steiner schools present a broad curriculum providing a balance of academic, artistic and practical subjects. The teachers work to generate a genuine inner enthusiasm for learning. Rudolf Steiner the Man Dr Rudolf Steiner was a philosopher and educator; one of the original thinkers of the twentieth century. His work covered a wide range of subjects including science, medicine, education, agriculture (biodynamics), the arts and social reform. The basis of his research was the scientific investigation of the spiritual world, which he called anthroposophy. In April 1919, Steiner was asked two remarkable questions: Is there a way to educate children that will help them develop into human beings who can bring peace to the world? And, if there is, will you start such a school? Steiner’s answer to both was in the affirmative. The first Waldorf school opened in Stuttgart in September 1919 with 175 children and 8 teachers, mainly the children of the workers at the Waldorf-Astoria cigarette factory. He suggested that schooling should reflect the culture and stages of childhood. He demonstrated how his school curriculum and teaching methods could develop clarity of thought, sensitivity of feeling and strength of will in children.

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You are here: Home / Country Music / Front Page / Interviews / Country Singer/Songwriter Kelly Seidel Speaks with Music Overload Country Singer/Songwriter Kelly Seidel Speaks with Music Overload Kelly Seidel is an aspiring country singer and songwriter from Charlotte, North Carolina. About eight months ago she moved to Nashville, Tennessee to further her country music career. Last Friday afternoon Kelly spoke with us over the phone regarding her adjustment… Kelly Seidel is an aspiring country singer and songwriter from Charlotte, North Carolina. About eight months ago she moved to Nashville, Tennessee to further her country music career. Last Friday afternoon Kelly spoke with us over the phone regarding her adjustment to the Nashville life, her musical upbringing and talked to us about what it felt like being nominated for “Female Vocalist of the Year” by her hometown. Music Overload: How was the adjustment moving to Nashville, where now you’re around everyone else that’s looking to accomplish the same goal you’re striving for (make it in the country music industry)? Is it tough adjusting and competing with everyone else in the area? Kelly Seidel: “I view it more as an opportunity for collaboration. I feel like it can be motivating when you live somewhere and everyone has the same goal. When you think about everyone is here for the same reason, everybody needs everybody. It’s a co-writing town, everyone needs different musicians and writers. So you are working for the same goal, but you can’t get there without everybody else.” So being able to move here and being around people that have the same goal has been such a great opportunity to meet new people and get different creative experiences. So that’s how I see it. MO: Taking a step back, what drew you to music growing up? What was it that first got you into music and pushed you towards that career? KS: “I started playing guitar when I was 14, so it was my freshman year of high school. It was funny because nobody in my high school––especially no girls––touched a guitar. I was literally the only girl guitar player in the school, and songwriting was unheard of. I just had a passion for country music. I loved listening to the radio, and I loved going to concerts with my mom. It just allowed me to be different and allowed me to be someone who no one else was at the time.” MO: How about your family…are any of your family members into music, or play any instruments? KS: “No, I’m the only one. My mom has a really good voice, and my sister has a good voice. But no one else has ever pursued a music career.” MO: You stated you were really passionate about country music growing up. What are some of your musical influences? KS: “I’d definitely say the early Dixie Chicks and Shania Twain. And then when Taylor Swift came out she just opened up a lot of doors for women in country music and for people who wanted to write and girls who wanted to play guitar. It was kind of like a revelation of ‘oh, she can do this, I can do this too.’ So I think she was also a huge influence on me.” MO: Speaking of songwriting, I know you have some original songs out. What’s typically your process for writing songs? KS: “For me, the lyrics usually come first. So usually it’ll start with me journaling, and then I’ll start writing a song from it. But typically for me it is the lyrics that will come before the melody or the music.” MO: We saw that you were very recently nominated for the Carolina Music Awards’ “Female Vocalist of the Year” award. When you heard the news, what did the nomination mean to you? KS: “It was really awesome. It’s cool because moving to Nashville, like you said, everyone does the same thing. But to be nominated and recognized by your hometown after you moved away from there and to still have people listen to your music and support you back home is a really cool feeling.” You can vote for Kelly for Carolina Music Awards’ Female Vocalist of the Year here, and check out her music or upcoming shows at her official website here. Also be sure to follow along with her music career via her social media accounts (Youtube, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram). Photo: Kelly’s Official Facebook Page Tag Country Music Interview Kelly Seidel Kelsea Ballerini Receives Nomination for CMT's Breakthrough Video of the Year Taylor Swift Cleans House at BBMAs on Sunday Night Country Singer-Songwriter Kelly Seidel Releases Debut EP | Music Overload

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Inspector Montalbano | Il commissario Montalbano – Season 1 - 19th September 2017 24th December 2017 OVERVIEW | CAST & CREW | SEASON 1 | SEASON 2 | SEASON 3 | SEASON 4 1. The Snack Thief Detective Montalbano investigates the murder of a local businessman called Lapecora. Lapecora’s widow suspects that he was killed by his lover Karima, a young Tunisian woman who mysteriously disappeared on the day of the murder. After succeeding in tracking down Karima’s five-year-old son Francois, Montalbano realises that the case might be linked to that of a Tunisian man, also killed in mysterious circumstances on the same day that Lapecora died. Meanwhile, Montalbano’s partner Livia, who has been entrusted with looking after Francois, becomes very attached to the young orphaned boy. 2. The Voice of the Violin When the naked dead body of a young woman is found in a villa outside Vigata, Montalbano discovers that she had recently bought the villa and was in the process of restoring it using her wealthy husband’s money. When the case is taken from Montalbano and given to rival inspector Panzacchi from nearby Montelusa, Panzacchi draws some easy conclusions and the investigation risks going badly off course. Will a proud Montalbano stick his neck out to regain control of the case or will he allow his incompetent colleagues to pin the murder on the wrong suspect? 3. The Shape of Water Mr Luparello, a renowned local engineer and leading political figure, is found dead in a car at a notorious prostitution spot on the outskirts of Vigata. The coroner rules that he died of a heart attack following an amorous encounter. Fending off pressure from prominent ecclesiastical figures who wish to keep the case under wraps and navigating the intricacies of local party politics, Montalbano goes about making sense of the available evidence, including the incongruous discovery of an expensive necklace found at the site of the murder. 4. The Mystery of the Terracotta Dog A criminal turned state witness informs Montalbano of an arms stash in a cave just outside Vigata. Also uncovered in the cave is a secret chamber where the bodies of two lovers, killed sometime in the 1940s, were buried in a bizarre ritual. An intrigued Montalbano must challenge the Mafia and deal with the arms cache before he can investigate this second find. 5. Excursion to Tindari A young Don Juan is found murdered in front of his apartment building and an elderly couple are reported missing after an excursion to the ancient site of Tindari. Inspector Montalbano tries to solve these two seemingly unrelated cases amid the daily complications of life at Vigata police station. But when he discovers that the couple and the murdered young man lived in the same building, his investigation stumbles onto Sicily’s brutal ‘New Mafia’ and leads him down a path more twisted and far-reaching than any he has ever been down before. 6. The Artist’s Touch Goldsmith Alberto Larussa appears to have committed suicide by turning his wheelchair into an electric chair. But Inspector Montalbano discovers that the dead man’s will, which leaves everything to his brother Giacomo, was forged. Giacomo is arrested, but he maintains that he did not kill Alberto. Meanwhile, Deputy Inspector Mimi’ Augello is working on the case of a mysteriously-murdered electrician. 7. The Sense of Touch The seemingly accidental death of a blind man leads Montalbano to an island off the coast of Sicily. Here the Inspector discovers that both the murder victim and a local fisherman had each deposited huge sums of money in their respective bank accounts. Following the mysterious demise of a second man, who was also blind, the investigation begins to focus on the operations of a charitable foundation which increasingly looks not so charitable after all. 8. Montalbano’s Croquettes As the small town of Vigata prepares for its New Year celebrations, local police inspector Salvo Montalbano is reluctantly making arrangements to travel to Paris with his girlfriend. What he would much rather do, however, is accept a dinner invitation by his cleaner Adelina, who has promised to cook rice croquettes. A wealthy husband and wife are found dead in what appears to be a car accident, but which quickly turns into a murder investigation. As the circumstances surrounding the death of the couple grow more and more mysterious, clues point to the involvement of Adelina’s son Pasquale. 9. The Scent of the Night Investor Emanuele Gargano has disappeared with the savings entrusted to him by the people of Montelusa. Montalbano’s investigation brings him into contact with some of Gargano’s staff – his obsessively loyal secretary Mariastella Cosentino and the provocative Michela Manganaro. Meanwhile, Augello is getting cold feet about the prospect of his wedding. 10. The Goldfinch and the Cat A series of mysterious muggings takes place in Vigata, ending in tragedy when one of the victims is killed. Meanwhile, a man virtually destroys the emergency room at the hospital after finding out that his young daughter is pregnant. A local doctor is also missing and presumed dead. Montalbano investigates all three cases, gradually uncovering the links between them. Gomorrah – Season 1 Beck – Season 2

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PR – Freedom Autosport Announces 2014 Season Lineup January 21, 2014 Josh Tons TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Freedom Autosport is returning to the IMSA Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge Series for the 2014 season, and the team will be fielding three Mazda MX-5s in the ST class. Brothers Mat and Mark Pombo will co-drive the No. 25 Freedom Autosport Mazda MX-5. Both brothers have been racing the series full-time since 2011, and both of them honed their skills racing Spec Miatas. Mark Pombo is the first veteran to drive for Freedom Autosport, a team which honors the men and women of the U.S. military and raises money for the Injured Marine Semper Fi Fund. Mark was in the Army Reserve in 2003 when he was deployed to Iraq. He started with a maintenance battalion and later worked with the 82nd Airborne. Mark was part of the first wave of troops deployed in the Iraq war, and he was there for a total of 13 months. For Mark, driving with Freedom Autosport is the perfect fit. “It’s awesome that they’re trying to give back and show their appreciation,” he says. “And now veterans who come as our guests have someone they can relate to. There’s an unspoken bond between men and women who have been overseas.” “It’s a blast to drive and can take everything you throw at it,” Mat says of the Mazda MX-5. “It’s always been a driver’s car. The MX-5 is a platform we’re familiar with, and we’ve been with Mazda for most of our racing career. To continue to race with them and keep that tradition going is something that we value.” Randy Pobst is joining Freedom Autosport for the entire season, co-driving the No. 26 Mazda MX-5 with returning driver Andrew Carbonell. Pobst was the first person to win an SCCA National Championship in an MX-5, and he has driven a Mazda6 in World Challenge, taking the second spot in the championship from 2005-2007. In 2010, Pobst made two appearances with Freedom Autosport. “I have watched Andrew grow up in racing, and I’m very pleased to be with such a strong co-driver,” says Pobst, adding that he raced against Carbonell’s father Alfredo in the 1980s. “In endurance racing you need a one-two punch, and I really believe that Andrew is going to be able to improve our chances for wins and a championship. He’s level headed, wise beyond his years and he’s fast.” Since his series debut with Freedom Autosport, Carbonell has earned three wins and eight podium finishes. “It’s so great to be back with Freedom Autosport and to have the opportunity to race with Randy,” says Carbonell. “I’m looking forward to driving with one of the most well-respected and liked sports car drivers out there. I think we can accomplish a lot for Mazda this season.” PR – Spirit of Daytona Racing Set to Open 2014 TUDOR Championship with Rolex 24 At Daytona Episode 215 – OpenPaddock.net Podcast Press Release: Greenhouse outlasts the competition, takes the 2WD win at Sandblast March 12, 2018 Mike Shaw Comments Off on Press Release: Greenhouse outlasts the competition, takes the 2WD win at Sandblast Photo by: Rusty Probst Cheraw, South Carolina, USA Driver Chris Greenhouse and codriver Danny Norkus fought... Press Release – Rally New Zealand Invests in Local Talent with Co-Driver Academy April 26, 2017 Mike Shaw Comments Off on Press Release – Rally New Zealand Invests in Local Talent with Co-Driver Academy Rally New Zealand Co-Driver Academy set to develop Kiwi talent To continue the strong growth of... Press Releases Rally IndyCar Connection to Red Bull GRC Strengthens with Addition of RLL March 8, 2017 Mike Shaw Comments Off on IndyCar Connection to Red Bull GRC Strengthens with Addition of RLL RAHAL LETTERMAN LANIGAN RACING TO ENTER RED BULL GLOBAL RALLYCROSS SERIES; WILL ENTER A FORD... Featured Press Releases Red Bull GRC

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Medical Marijuana Mess 43rd District Court Judge Robert Turner says it is one of the worst pieces of legislation he has ever seen. He made that assessment of the Michigan Medical Marijuana Act (MMA) back in June 2009 when dismissing pot growing charges brought by the Oakland County Prosecutor against Robert Lee Redden and Torey Alison Clark. Last week, the Michigan Court of Appeals affirmed Oakland Circuit Court Judge Martha Anderson's reinstatement of the criminal charges against Redden and Clark. Now, the accused Madison Heights couple will either have to plead or go to trial. At the time of the raid on the couple's residence, the Oakland County Sheriff seized 1.5 ounces of pot, some nominal cash, and about 21 small plants. Three weeks prior to the raid, each defendant had submitted to a medical certification exam with Dr. Eric Eisenbud (not making it up) of Colorado (and of the recently founded Hemp and Cannabis Foundation Medical Clinic) and applied for a medical marijuana card pursuant to the MMA. Their cards, however, had not been issued at the time of the raid. At the couple's preliminary examination before Judge Turner, the prosecutor argued that: a) the defendants were required to abstain from "medicating" with marijuana while their applications to the State of Michigan's Department of Community Health were pending; and b) the defendants did not have a bona fide physician-patient relationship with Dr. Eisenbud. Judge Turner indicated that the MMA was confusing relative to what constituted a reasonable amount of marijuana. The defendants in this case were found with an ounce and a half; the MMA allows 2.5 ounces. Judge Turner made the following ruling: For that reason, I believe that section 8 entitles the defendants to a dismissal, even though they did not possess the valid medical card, because section 8 says if they can show the fact that a doctor believed that they were likely to receive a therapeutic benefit, and this doctor testified to that. And Dr. Eisenbud is a physician licensed by the State of Michigan. And that’s the only requirement that the statute has. You don’t have to be any type of physician, you just have to be a licensed physician by the State of Michgan. So, based on that, I find section 8 does apply. And I believe I’m obligated to dismiss this matter based on section 8 of the statute. Under the applicable court rules, the prosecutor appealed the district court dismissal to the Oakland Circuit Court. In reversing her district court counter-part, Judge Anderson held that Judge Turner improperly acted as a finder of fact in dismissing the case. Judge Anderson also questioned whether the couple could avail themselves of the MMA's affirmative defenses at all, due to their purported failures to comply with the provisions of the act; i.e. keeping the pot segregated and locked-up, and waiting until they received their cards from the Department of Community Health prior to growing their pot. At the time of the Madison Heights bust, however, the couple could not have received marijuana cards because the DCH had not started issuing the cards. To date, almost 30,000 certifications have been issued. In their opinion last week affirming Judge Anderson, the Court of Appeals held that the MMA's affirmative defenses were available to defendants even though they did not have their cards at the time their pot was confiscated. The Court of Appeals held against defendants, however, on the basis that, at the time of their preliminary examination in district court, their affirmative defense under the MMA was incomplete and thus created fact questions. The Court found the following fact issues to be unresolved at the conclusion of the exam: the bona fides of the physician-patient relationship; whether the amount of marijuana found in the residence was "reasonable" under the Act; and whether the marijuana was being used by defendants for palliative purposes, as required by the Act. The most interesting thing about the Court of Appeals' Redden decision is the scathing concurring opinion of Judge Peter D. O'Connell. Judge O'Connell wrote separately because he would have more narrowly tailored the affirmative defenses available in the MMA, and because he wished to "elaborate" on some of the general discussion of the Act set forth in the briefs and at oral argument. Elaborate he did. Judge O'Connell's 30-page opinion first notes that the possession, distribution and manufacture of marijuana remains a federal crime and further notes that Congress has expressly found the plant to have "no acceptable medical uses." In what will undoubtedly become a classic line from his opinion, Judge O'Connell writes, "I will attempt to cut through the haze surrounding this legislation." The judge is skeptical that folks are really using pot to "medicate" and suspects that they are using the plant for recreational purposes. He also takes note of the poor quality of the legislation to the extent that it conflicts with other provisions set forth in the Health Code. Judge O'Connell next takes a tour de force through the legislative history of the MMA. Here, we learn that the act was based on model legislation proposed by lobbyists known as the Marijuana Policy Project of Washington D.C. The group advances both the medicinal and recreational uses of marijuana. "Confusion", and lots of it, is how Judge O'Connell views the MMA. In one of the many footnotes to his opinion, the Judge warns against all marijuana use until the score is settled, once and for all, by the Michigan Supreme Court: Until our Supreme Court provides a final comprehensive interpretation of this act, it would be prudent for the citizens of this state to avoid all use of marijuana if they do not wish to risk violating state law. I again issue a stern warning to all: please do not attempt to interpret this act on your own. Reading this act is similar to participating in the Triwizard Tournament described in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire: the maze that is this statute is so complex that the final result will only be known once the Supreme Court has had an opportunity to review and remove the haze from this act. Euan Abercrombie, 1st year student at the Hogwarts school would probably remark; "Wow". For their part, the criminal defense bar, commenting via listserv, have basically gone wild over the concurring opinion, with its multiple web site references and pictures of marijuana advertisements. The consensus among the defense bar, however, is that the majority opinion is correct and that Judge Anderson, at the end of the day, got it right; Redden was not the cleanest case to dismiss under the Act. Finally, it seems that the Oakland County Sheriff and Prosecutor correctly anticipated last week's Court of Appeals' decision. A few weeks prior to the issuance of the Redden decision, they conducted a series of dispensary raids, ruffling tons of feathers along the way. For some preliminary guidance, we have prepared a legal guide for the MMA for those seeking to use marijuana for legitimate palliative purposes under the Act. Take note, however, that at least one appellate jurist would have folks managing chronic "pain" with prescription meds until the medical marijuana mess is sorted out by our Supreme Court. April 2011 Update: As we've warned our readers, and as Judge O'Connell warned in his opinion, marijuana possession remains a federal crime. This week, the feds raided a warehouse-style dispensary in Commerce Township. The law enforcement action is covered in this article in the Oakland Press. Labels: Abercrombie, Judge Martha Anderson, Judge Peter O'Connell, Judge Robert Turner, Lee Redden, marijuana, Mich Medical Marijuana Act, Oakland County Prosecutor, Robert criminal defense, Torey Clark posted by The Law Blogger at 8:01 AM 7 Comments Specialized Foreclosure Courts Spring-Up in Florida If you lost your home to foreclosure, would you know who steps into your shoes as the next owner? Uncertainty answering that question is plaguing an innovative specialized court-system in Florida designed to speed-up the foreclosure process. The recently tallied second quarter found Florida leading the nation in the proportion of delinquent or foreclosed mortgages: 20.13%. This high mortgage failure rate is nurtured by the poor economy which has driven home values so far down, nearly half of all Floridian home-owners now owe more on their mortgages than their homes are worth. To combat this problem, the Florida legislature recently allocated ten million dollars to implement a high-speed "foreclosure only" court system. Florida's Ninth Judicial Circuit Chief Judge, Belvin Perry, Jr, reported last month in the Florida Bar News that the foreclosure court disposed of 1,319 cases in July alone. While impressive, this case-completion rate will not make a dent in the nearly half million homes awaiting the requisite repossession adjudication under Florida law. And speed does not always equate with justice. Some attorneys that represent borrowers in the Jacksonville area complain that the retired judges enlisted to process the foreclosure "rocket docket" do not spend adequate time reviewing often-complex files, and the homeowners' motions contained therein. Another common complaint is that as these judges slash through the backlog, they tend to favor lenders over borrowers. In some cases, judges have awarded foreclosure rights to plaintiffs who have not proved ownership of the subject property; a threshold issue. In other cases, the retired visiting judge on a particular date is simply not adequately advised in the premises of the multitude of cases on the docket that day. Another problem facing the court is the large number of cases that feature sketchy documentation presented by a lender to prove ownership. Added to this are the multiple transfers characterizing many mortgage transactions, each draped with a bewildering assortment of documentation These problem are so bad, the Florida Attorney General recently announced an investigation of the three largest law firms in the state that represent foreclosing lenders. Alleging that the firms are acting as foreclosure mills, the Florida AG has accused instances of document fabrication and post-dating. One of the targeted firms, Law Offices of David J. Stern, filed more than 70,000 foreclosures last year. Another practice that distorts the identity of home-ownership in foreclosure court is the use of bank affidavits when a particular document can no longer be located or produced for the court. Borrowers' attorneys assert this common practice is improper when the bank official has a stake in the outcome of the case. For many of the residents of these homes, foreclosure is just one stop on the way to bankrutpcy. These folks would probably not see the humor in the name of Attorney Stern's new $20 million dollar yacht: Miss Understood. March 2011 Update: Attorney David Stern announces that his law firm was suspending foreclosure operations, effectively immediately. The firm has apparently been losing some of its flagship clients since the Florida AG's investigation grinds on; also, going public has not worked-out very well for anyone except Stern. Labels: David J. Stern, Florida, Florida Attorney General, foreclosure, Judge Belvin Perry Jr., mortgage posted by The Law Blogger at 6:17 PM 2 Comments Huge Claims Resolved in Davidson Estate When you die a billionaire, your estate is often going to be heavily litigated before a certificate of completion is filed with the probate court. Particularly when your widow (and business partner) is not the mother of your children. Another ingredient for guaranteed protracted probate litigation: last minute changes to your will. Local billionaire Bill Davidson's estate had all of these characteristics. After his death in March 2009, Davidson's estate was estimated at well-over a billion dollars. Davidson parlayed his fortune from Guardian Industries, a glass company, into a sports empire that once included world-champions Detroit Pistons and Detroit Shock, as well as the Tampa Bay Lightning hockey team, and the Detroit Fury arena football team. The estate and the $20 million claims filed against it, first denied but then eventually settled, are all on file with the Oakland County Probate Court. The terms of the settlement, however, are not. Apparently, the problem arose when Davidson made changes to his 19-page will during the last week of his life. Those testamentary amendments broke-up Davidson's estate into three separate trusts and named his wife, a son and a daughter, all Bloomfield Hills residents, as the sole beneficiaries. The probate litigants pitted Davidson's spouse and owner of the Detroit Pistons, Karen Davidson, against his son and daughter. The dispute involved claims against the estate filed by Milestones Upgrading & Industries Co., an Israeli company, and Big Ben Investments; companies with which Mr. Davidson had a long business-relationship. The claims filed by Milestones and Big Ben alleged that Mr. Davidson made up to $20 million in investment pledges to the companies. Karen Davidson, listed as a manager for Big Ben, wanted her husband's estate to honor the pledges, saying they were consistent with Mr. Davidson's testamentary wishes. In collateral "breach of contract" litigation assigned to Oakland Circuit Judge Nanci Grant, the corporate plaintiffs also privately settled the circuit court disputes via stipulated orders of dismissal in July. While these large probate and circuit court disputes were being negotiated and resolved, you may recall rumors that Karen Davidson was shopping the Detroit Pistons for an interested purchaser. Fortunately, the Davidson Estate has enough money to resolve the expensive claims made against it and to apparently keep the Pistons right where they are; in the suburbs of the "D". Labels: Bill Davidson, Detroit Pistons, estate planning, Karen Davidson, Oakland County Circuit Court Judge Nanci Grant, Oakland County Probate Court, probate court litigation posted by The Law Blogger at 11:02 AM 1 Comments Geofence Warrants and Privacy Rights State Fines & Forfeitures May be Excessive Arctic Man Goes to SCOTUS The Bezos' High-Value Divorce Revenge of the Stoners Justice Kavanaughaustion Surfers vs the Billionaire FBI Needs Warrant to Download Cell Phone Data Oakland County Embryo Case Heading for Evidentiary...

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Beautiful Skin and Benefits of Argan Oil Thu, 07/31/2014 - 00:57 -- admin I've heard for quite some time aboutl the beneifts of Argan oil for skin anti-aging, moisturizing and beauty. Read this article to learn of the substantial benefits of this Moroccan Oil. Argan Oil Has Earned Its Cult Status Argan oil has outlasted flash-in-the-pan It Ingredient status, but will it join the ranks of time-tested beauty powerhouses? April Long packs off to Morocco to investigate. Sylvie Lancrenon By April Long “To touch the past with one’s hands is realized only in dreams,” Edith Wharton wrote in a 1920 memoir, “and in Morocco the dream-feeling envelops one at every step.” Nearly 100 years later, she’d likely make the same observation. As I snake through the labyrinthine medieval medina of Fez, dodging donkeys, stray cats, and men in hooded djellaba robes pushing carts overflowing with snails, olives, and sprigs of bright green mint, I feel as though I’ve stepped back in time. Through one doorway I glimpse a man hammering elaborate arabesques into a bronze plate with a tiny chisel; through another, the spectacular interior of a raid, or onetime palace, its walls encrusted with multicolored tiles in a geometric pattern. Later, as a full moon rises over the minarets, I enter a traditional hammam, where I participate in a beauty ritual dating back centuries: The attendant, a sixtysomething woman wearing nothing but a bun and underwear, vigorously scrapes my skin with rhassoul, a gloppy brown lava clay, and douses me in buckets of steaming hot water. Afterward, as I slather myself with argan oil, referred to by locals as “liquid gold,” I think what a funny thing it is that something that has been known to Moroccans since the thirteenth century should prove to be one of the biggest international beauty breakthroughs of the twenty-first. Argan oil, extracted from the kernels of a fruit indigenous to this part of North Africa, has truly gone blockbuster: In 2011, 111 argan-oil-laced beauty products arrived on U.S. shelves; in 2007, that number totaled a mere two. It pops up in everything from shampoos to lipsticks to body wash; even Nair features the stuff. “It’s really amazing to me what’s going on with it,” says Josie Maran, who launched her argan-based line in 2007 after a woman she met on a modeling job who “looked 40 but turned out to be 70” revealed the oil to be her beauty secret. “I think it created a whole new category,” she says, noting that it was a trailblazer in helping American women warm to the notion of putting oil on their skin and hair. “Nobody knew they needed it, but once they had it, they couldn’t live without it.” As Katharine L’Heureux, the founder of eco-luxe skin-care brand Kahina Giving Beauty, points out, there’s another factor key to argan oil’s ubiquity: Reams of science back up the oil’s effectiveness. Long used as a folk remedy by Berber women to treat wrinkles, scars, and acne, argan extract now has been clinically proven to reduce hyperpigmentation and is said to regulate sebum (argan, improbably, makes oily skin less oily). The pure oil “is extremely rich in vitamin E—containing two to three times the amount in olive oil—and polyphenols, which are powerful antioxidants that neutralize free radicals. Plus it’s anti-inflammatory, highly moisturizing, and easily absorbable,” L’Heureux says. “It’s a single, clean ingredient that can really deliver on anti-aging promises.” Additionally, “the omega-3 fatty acids promote healthy cell walls,” making skin appear plumper, says Joshua Zeichner, MD, director of cosmetic and clinical research at New York’s Mount Sinai Medical Center. “Argan is the biggest multitasker of all the oils, because it can treat a variety of skin conditions and be used on almost all skin types,” he says. “It’s also beneficial to your hair and scalp.” A relatively small geographical area—9,900 square miles in southwestern Morocco—produces nearly all of the world’s argan oil, and because the trees are under threat (even the local goats scramble up the branches to gobble the fruit), UNESCO declared the region a biosphere reserve in 1998. The hard manual labor of the harvest—which involves gathering the fruit, stripping away the pulp, and cracking the nuts by hand—is done mostly by Berber women. Since the mid-’90s, a number of cooperatives have been established in the area to ensure that these women, long a marginalized group, receive fair wages, while companies such as Kahina also donate funds for schools and clean water. For L’Heureux—who led me through a crowded souk to illustrate the olfactive layering of vetiver, rose, and neroli with sandalwood, cumin, and cloves that inspired her to create the new Kahina Giving Beauty Fez Body Balm—the potential social impact of broadening the market for argan oil was a big part of her desire to launch a beauty company. “It intrigued me that I could provide something that people at home wanted while also serving a purpose here in Morocco by giving an economic opportunity to women who have nothing,” she says. Back at the hammam, I tap into something else that gives argan oil its power. I adamantly do not enjoy public bathing, but, surrounded by so many women and little girls, laughing, talking, and washing one another’s hair, I feel a sort of sisterhood, and not just because we’re all topless. We may not have a single word of shared language, but we all want soft skin and shiny hair; we all hope to walk out looking radiant. Beyond being a nifty, versatile substance and providing a nice buzzword for companies to slap on their packaging, argan oil carries with it a very real, and important, sense of place. That an ingredient that sounds like something out of a storybook—a golden oil hand-produced by shawled Berber women in an endangered forest where goats climb trees—has crossed oceans, cultures, and ethnicities to become a mainstay on bathroom shelves everywhere is pretty amazing. Ultimately, it’s all about connection. And doesn’t that make it truly modern, after all? This article appeared in the August 2014 issue of ELLE magazine.

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Bernd Becher (August 20, 1931 – June 22, 2007), and Hilla Becher (September 2, 1934 – October 10, 2015), were German conceptual artists and photographers working as a collaborative duo. They are best known for their extensive series of photographic images, or typologies, of industrial buildings and structures, often organised in grids. As the founders of what has come to be known as the ‘Becher school’ or the ‘Düsseldorf School’ they influenced generations of documentary photographers and artists. They have been awarded the Erasmus Prize and the Hasselblad Award. Meeting as students at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in 1957, Bernd and Hilla Becher first collaborated on photographing and documenting the disappearing German industrial architecture in 1959. The Ruhr Valley, where Becher’s family had worked in the steel and mining industries, was their initial focus. They were fascinated by the similar shapes in which certain buildings were designed. After collating thousands of pictures of individual structures, they noticed that the various edifices – of cooling towers, gas tanks and coal bunkers, for instance – shared many distinctive formal qualities. In addition, they were intrigued by the fact that so many of these industrial buildings seemed to have been built with a great deal of attention toward design. Together, the Bechers went out with a large 8 x 10-inch view camera and photographed these buildings from a number of different angles, but always with a straightforward “objective” point of view. They shot only on overcast days, so as to avoid shadows, and early in the morning during the seasons of spring and fall. Objects included barns, water towers, coal tipples, cooling towers, grain elevators, coal bunkers, coke ovens, oil refineries, blast furnaces, gas tanks, storage silos, and warehouses. At each site the Bechers also created overall landscape views of the entire plant, which set the structures in their context and show how they relate to each other. They excluded any details that would detract from the central theme and instead set up comparisons of viewpoint and lighting through which the eye is led to the basic structural pattern of the images being compared. This principle, which is allied to the philosophy underlying the New Topographics movement, is most obvious in the two published series, Anonyme Skulpturen: Eine Typologie technischer Bauten and Typologien, Industrieller Bau, 1963–1975, in which the images are contrasted in groups of three. Another early project, which they pursued for nearly two decades, was published as Framework Houses (Schirmer/Mosel) in 1977, a visual catalog of types of structures, an approach that characterized much of their work. In drawing attention to the cultural dimension of industrial architecture, their work also highlighted the need for preservation of these buildings. On the couple’s initiative the Zollern II/IV Colliery at Dortmund-Bovinghausen in the Ruhr, for the most part an art-deco structure, was designated a protected landmark. The Bechers also photographed outside Germany, including from 1965 buildings in Great Britain, France, Belgium and later in the United States. In 1966, they undertook a six-month journey through England and south Wales, taking hundreds of photographs of the coal industry around Liverpool, Manchester, Sheffield, Nottingham and the Rhondda Valley. In 1974, they traveled to North America for the first time, touring sites in New Jersey, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and southern Ontario, depicting a range of industrial structures, from coal breakers to wooden winding towers. The Bechers exhibited and published their single-image gelatin silver prints, grouped by subject, in a grid of six, nine, or fifteen. By the mid-1960s the Bechers had settled on a preferred presentational mode: the images of structures with similar functions are then displayed side by side to invite viewers to compare their forms and designs based on function, regional idiosyncrasies, or the age of the structures. The Bechers used the term “typology” to describe these ordered sets of photographs. The works’ titles are pithy and captions note only time and location. In 1989–91, for an exhibition at the Dia Art Foundation in New York, the Bechers introduced a second format into their oeuvre: single images that are larger in size — twenty-four by twenty inches — and presented individually, rather than as gridded tableaux. In 1976, Bernd Becher started teaching photography at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (policy matters prevented Hilla’s simultaneous appointment), where he remained on the faculty until 1996. Before him, photography had been excluded from what was largely a school for painters. He influenced students that later made a name for themselves in the photography world. Former students of Bernd’s included Andreas Gursky, Thomas Ruff, Thomas Struth, Candida Höfer, Axel Hütte and Elger Esser. Bernd died in Rostock. After Bernd Becher’s death, his widow Hilla continued to reassemble their works, mostly using existing photographs. The Becher school has influenced a number of mainly German photographers including Laurenz Berges, Andreas Gursky, Candida Höfer, Axel Hütte, Simone Nieweg, Thomas Ruff, Thomas Struth and Petra Wunderlich. The Canadian Edward Burtynsky also works in a similar mode. Aside from its vital documentary and analytical qualities, the Becher’s long-term project has also had a considerable impact on Minimalism and Conceptual Art since the 1970s. Selected photographs by Bernd and Hilla Becher © Bernd and Hilla Becher 19311934architectureBernd and Hilla BecherBernd BecherDocumentaryGermanyHilla Bechermasters of photography Previous ArticleGregory Crewdson Next ArticleKaunas Photo © PhotoIndex - The Best Photographers & Photography Resources Database

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Home > Specialties > IVD Test Reagent/Kits, Microbiology, Fungi/Yeast, Culture Media IVD Test Reagent/Kits, Microbiology, Fungi/Yeast, Culture Media Definition : Microbiology reagents in the form of liquids, solids, or semisolids used as media capable of supporting the growth of multicellular and monocellular fungi (yeast). These culture media are used for the isolation and identification of fungi and or yeasts and also in assays to determine their susceptibility to antimicrobial agents. Entry Terms : "Culture Media, Mycology" , "Culture Media, Other" , "Culture Media" , "Culture Media, Yeast" , "Culture Media, Fungi" , "Reagents, Microbiology, Fungi/Yeast, Culture Media" Acuderm Inc Since February 1983, Acuderm has built its reputation as an innovator and supplier of high quality specialty medical products, disposable instruments and dermatology supplies. The company is continually developing new products and bringing them to market. BD is a medical technology company that serves healthcare institutions, life science researchers, clinical laboratories, industry and the general public. Bio-Rad Laboratories Inc Bio-Rad Laboratories continues to play a leading role in the advancement of scientific discovery by offering a broad range of innovative tools and services to the life science research and clinical diagnostics markets. Founded in 1952, Bio-Rad has a global team of more than 7,000 employees and serves more than 100,000 research and industry customers worldwide through the company's global network of operations. Biomed Diagnostics Inc Culture Media & Supplies Inc Culture Media & Supplies, Inc. is a certified* woman-owned small business. We are a manufacturer of standard and custom prepared culture media for QA / Microbiology. Globe Scientific Inc For nearly 30 years, Globe Scientific Inc. has been a leading producer of high-quality laboratory plasticware, glassware and bench-top equipment. Our products are sold worldwide and are used in many industries including the Clinical, Research, Hospital, Veterinary, Kit Manufacturing, Education and Specialty markets Located in Jacksonville, Florida, HealthLink products are considered some of the finest produced in the Medical Industry. HealthLink was founded in 1993 with a very simple premise - Give The Customer What They Want. With this vision HealthLink's flagship item, AloeGuard, was born. Through a survey of 40 different sites in the Southeast, HealthLink asked one question - What would you like to see in a soap? From this simple premise, we now carry over 2,200 items. Key Scientific Products Inc MP Biomedicals LLC MP Biomedicals is dedicated to giving scientists and researchers innovative, quality tools and superior service to aid them in their quest for ground-breaking discovery and turning the hope for life-changing solutions into a reality. The company manufactures and sells more than 55,000 products and is one of the only companies in the industry to offer a comprehensive line of life science, fine chemical and diagnostic products. Northeast Laboratory Services Northeast Laboratory Services is a full-service, accredited laboratory providing a wide range of environmental analytical chemistry and microbiology testing services, and manufactured microbiological prepared media products. Smith River Biologicals Smith River Biologicals, founded in 1982, provides professional quality prepared culture media, tubed, bottled and plated, and biologicals for the professional microbiologist. Our aim is to guarantee you a product of the very highest quality.

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1 Arbroath 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 Dundee United 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 Inverness 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 Ayr United 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 Greenock Morton 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 Partick Thistle 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 Dunfermline Athletic 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 Alloa Athletic 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 Queen of South 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 Dundee 0 0 0 0 0 0 Upgrade Team Upgrade Play-offs Relegation Play-offs Degrade Team Scottish Championship Fixtures Alloa Athletic - Partick Thistle Arbroath - Queen of South Ayr United - Greenock Morton Dundee United - Inverness Dunfermline Athletic - Dundee The champions are directly promoted to the Scottish Premiership, swapping places with the bottom club of the Premiership. The clubs finishing 2nd, 3rd and 4th then enter the two-legged Premiership play-off. The 3rd-placed club plays the 4th-placed club, with the winner then playing the 2nd-placed club. The winner of that tie then plays against the 11th-placed Premiership club. If the Championship play-off winner prevails, the club is promoted, with the Premiership club being relegated, otherwise the Premiership club can retain its position in Premiership with the promotion failure of the Championship club.

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Black Mirror (C4 TV series) A series of three TV dramas on UK Channel 4 "that taps into collective unease about our modern world". Each takes a look at some aspects of modern society by imagining what the future might hold if current trends continue. The National Anthem The nation's favourite princess has been captured and is being held to ransom. The kidnapper's demand? That the Prime Minister should have sex with a pig - live on TV - that day; otherwise she dies. This is the premise for an hilarious but very dark comedy as the PM struggles to find a way out of the situation, with spin doctors, special forces, TV reporters and his wife all getting involved, and many twists and turns before the final sting in the tail. Painfully real - the PM's agonised dilemma is all too convincing. 15 Million Merits Some time in the future, the lot of most citizens is to spend their days on exercise bikes, generating power for some unknown purpose. The harder they pedal, the more Merits they earn to spend on food, consumer goods and popular entertainment. The only way out is to earn the 15 million Merits needed to get a ticket onto a talent show, where their performances are judged by a panel plus the reaction of a virtual audience. One man hears a new neighbour singing, an innocent girl only just old enough to have started pedalling, and is so moved that he sponsors her for the talent show. But the outcome is entirely unexpected, and drives him into making a dramatic intervention - with an equally unexpected consequence. No humour in this one apart from the satirical portrayal of the judging panel, but it's a bitter, thought-provoking take on some trends in modern society. The Entire History of You The time is the near future, when almost everyone is implanted with a Grain in their heads: a small memory chip which permanently records everything a person sees or hears. It can be played back in their heads or sent to a TV screen, as often as they want. This is remarkably convenient but the drama reveals the social and psychological dangers of a memory which is not only perfect, but can be replayed to anyone else. The plot follows the gradual disintegration of one man who obsessively replays his memories to look for clues about the relationship between his wife and an old flame of hers they'd recently met, zooming in on details, using lipreading programmes to decipher distant conversations, and so on. Not for those who prefer their entertainment to be light-hearted. These programmes make compelling viewing and, unlike other TV dramas, have stuck firmly in my mind. The first is more of a political satire but the others are adult SF, and all of them were written to make people think rather than be passively entertained. They make the usual TV SFF hokum look ridiculously juvenile. If you missed them, try to see them. They are not always easy to watch but are exemplars of what modern adult SF programmes should really be like. Sounds fascinating. I hope it eventually will show up on DVD. AJ said... Yes, it really does sound interesting. Maybe one of the channels in the US will pick it up...or Netflix! I'm hoping Netflix picks it up. I don't watch TV. Gave it up long time ago. If there's a decent TV show, it usually shows up on Netflix, sooner or later, and without commercial breaks or cliffhangers that force one to wait a week for resolution. Richard_Keef said... The Black Mirror DVD should be out on the 27th Feb 2012. Not sure if there'll be any bonus material of the pig though :) Thanks for that Richard. No doubt the pig now has her own agent... Film: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2,... The Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov Bring the Jubilee by Ward Moore

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Nov 30 Wesley Snipes vs. The IRS: The Battle Continues. Tax Lawyer Rob Wood Explains Remember Wesley Snipes? The movie star is back in the news in connection with his continuing tax battle with the IRS. You may remember that he was convicted in 2008 of misdemeanor failure to file tax returns, dodging the bullet on felony charges, and he ended up with a three-year prison term. Snipes’s latest tax problem relates to his offer in compromise to settle his old tax bills. The tax court has ruled against him. What now? Tax lawyer Rob Wood tells the story and provides some suggestions for anyone who is having struggles with the IRS. He wrote about the Snipes case in a recent Forbes article, "Wesley Snipes Loses $23.5 Million Tax Case, Offers IRS Tiny 4% Compromise." Wood says Snipes is still fighting with the IRS after serving a three-year prison term. Snipes still hasn’t paid the past due taxes. His latest loss was in a civil suit involving the IRS and an offer to compromise the amount due. Lawyers for Snipe submitted financial information to the effect that Snipes doesn’t have the means to pay the full amount due. The IRS said “no” to the offer to pay 4% of the amount due. In responding to such a request, the IRS looks at a taxpayer’s assets on hand and prospects to assess the likelihood that a tax debt can ever be paid in full. In this case, the IRS decided that Snipes could pay more than his offer, and the U.S. Tax Court agreed. Wood points out several things worth noting. First, of course, is that the IRS has a lot of discretion in dealing with offers in compromise. If a taxpayer, like Snipes, is in a profession where large salaries are commonplace, the IRS is not likely to conclude that the taxpayer will never have the means to pay off a tax debt. Wood also notes that a lot of the issues in the Snipes case have to do with procedural matters and claims that the IRS was unreasonable. The Tax Court ruled against Snipes on all these claims. Wood suggests that fighting over the technicalities of procedural matters may not have been a helpful approach in this case. As to takeaways for the average taxpayer, Wood offers these suggestions: First off, be careful who you rely upon as a tax adviser. “If something sounds too good to be true, it is.” Snipes needed to get some better tax advice when he started down the path of trying to avoid paying taxes on his earnings. If you do get into a situation where you are dealing with the IRS, it’s very important to proceed carefully. Don’t lie to them. Don’t make commitments you don’t follow through on. If they ask for financial information, provide it when it is due. If you are working with advisers, make sure you are getting good advice. Robert W. Wood is the Managing Partner of Wood LLP, San Francisco. Often listed among the best tax lawyers in America, Wood has broad experience in corporate, partnership and individual tax matters. Concerning the tax treatment of litigation settlements and judgments, he is perhaps the preeminent tax lawyer in the United States. He is also an authority on merger and acquisition tax matters, tax opinions, offshore account and entity disclosures, and many types of tax controversies. The Legal Broadcast Network is a featured network of Sequence Media Group. Tax Law Channel Dec 3 Only 1 in 3 Workers on Track to Retire Comfortably, Study Finds Nov 29 Canine Cuisine Ep.3: Homemade Dog Birthday Cake!

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Muslim Brotherhood's Conquest of Europe Middle East Quarterly .... Winter 2005 The article below is worth reading. It is available at the following website: http://www.meforum.org/article/687 The Muslim Brotherhood's Conquest of Europe by Lorenzo Vidino Since its founding in 1928, the Muslim Brotherhood (Hizb al-Ikhwan al-Muslimun) has profoundly influenced the political life of the Middle East. Its motto is telling: "Allah is our objective. The Prophet is our leader. The Qur'an is our law. Jihad is our way. Dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope."[1] While the Brotherhood's radical ideas have shaped the beliefs of generations of Islamists, over the past two decades, it has lost some of its power and appeal in the Middle East, crushed by harsh repression from local regimes and snubbed by the younger generations of Islamists who often prefer more radical organizations. But the Middle East is only one part of the Muslim world. Europe has become an incubator for Islamist thought and political development. Since the early 1960s, Muslim Brotherhood members and sympathizers have moved to Europe and slowly but steadily established a wide and well-organized network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organizations. Unlike the larger Islamic community, the Muslim Brotherhood's ultimate goal may not be simply "to help Muslims be the best citizens they can be," but rather to extend Islamic law throughout Europe and the United States.[2] Four decades of teaching and cultivation have paid off. The student refugees who migrated from the Middle East forty years ago and their descendants now lead organizations that represent the local Muslim communities in their engagement with Europe's political elite. Funded by generous contributors from the Persian Gulf, they preside over a centralized network that spans nearly every European country. These organizations represent themselves as mainstream, even as they continue to embrace the Brotherhood's radical views and maintain links to terrorists. With moderate rhetoric and well-spoken German, Dutch, and French, they have gained acceptance among European governments and media alike. Politicians across the political spectrum rush to engage them whenever an issue involving Muslims arises or, more parochially, when they seek the vote of the burgeoning Muslim community. But, speaking Arabic or Turkish before their fellows Muslims, they drop their facade and embrace radicalism. While their representatives speak about interfaith dialogue and integration on television, their mosques preach hate and warn worshippers about the evils of Western society. While they publicly condemn the murder of commuters in Madrid and school children in Russia, they continue to raise money for Hamas and other terrorist organizations. Europeans, eager to create a dialogue with their increasingly disaffected Muslim minority, overlook this duplicity. The case is particularly visible in Germany, which retains a place of key importance in Europe, not only because of its location at the heart of Europe, but also because it played host to the first major wave of Muslim Brotherhood immigrants and is host to the best-organized Brotherhood presence. The German government's reaction is also instructive if only to show the dangers of accepting Muslim Brotherhood rhetoric at face value, without looking at the broader scope of its activities. The Muslim Brotherhood The situation in Germany is particularly telling. More than anywhere else in Europe, the Muslim Brotherhood in Germany has gained significant power and political acceptance. Islamist organizations in other European countries now consciously follow the model pioneered by their German peers. During the 1950s and 1960s, thousands of Muslim students left the Middle East to study at German universities, drawn not only by the German institutions' technical reputations but also by a desire to escape repressive regimes. Egyptian ruler Gamal Abdel Nasser's regime was especially vigorous in its attempts to root out the Islamist opposition. Beginning in 1954, several members of the Muslim Brotherhood fled Egypt to escape arrest or assassination. West Germany provided a welcome refuge. Bonn's motivations were not simply altruistic. As terrorism expert Khalid Durán explained in his studies on jihadism in Europe,[3] the West German government had decided to cut diplomatic relations with countries that recognized East Germany. When Egypt and Syria established diplomatic relations with the communist government, Bonn decided to welcome Syrian and Egyptian political refugees. Often, these dissidents were Islamists. Many members of the Muslim Brotherhood were already familiar with Germany. Several had cooperated with the Nazis before and during World War II.[4] Some had even, reportedly, fought in the infamous Bosnian Handschar division of the Schutzstaffel (SS).[5] One of the Muslim Brotherhood's first pioneers in Germany was Sa‘id Ramadan, the personal secretary of Muslim Brotherhood founder Hassan al-Banna.[6] Ramadan, an Egyptian who had led the Muslim Brotherhood's irregulars in Palestine in 1948,[7] moved to Geneva in 1958 and attended law school in Cologne.[8] In Germany, he founded what has become one of Germany's three main Muslim organizations, the Islamische Gemeinschaft Deutschland (Islamic Society of Germany, IGD), over which he presided from 1958 to 1968.[9] Ramadan also cofounded the Muslim World League,[10] a well-funded organization that the Saudi establishment uses to spread its radical interpretation of Islam throughout the world. The U.S. government closely monitors the activities of the Muslim World League, which it accuses of financing terrorism. In March 2002, a U.S. Treasury Department-led task force raided the group's Northern Virginia offices looking for documents tying the group to Al-Qaeda, Hamas, and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. In January 2004, the Senate Finance Committee asked the Internal Revenue Service for its records on the Muslim World League "as part of an investigation into possible links between nongovernmental organizations and terrorist financing networks."[11] This privileged relationship with the oil-rich kingdom granted Ramadan an influx of money, which he used to fund the powerful Islamic Center of Geneva and to bankroll several financial and religious activities. Hani Ramadan, Sa‘id's son, currently runs the Islamic Center. Among its other board members is Sa‘id's other son, Tariq Ramadan, who recently made headlines in the United States when the Department of Homeland Security revoked his visa to teach at Notre Dame University.[12] Sa‘id Ramadan's case is not isolated.[13] Following Ramadan's ten-year presidency of the IGD, Pakistani national Fazal Yazdani briefly led the IGD before Ghaleb Himmat, a Syrian with Italian citizenship, took the helm. During his long stewardship (1973-2002), Himmat shuttled between Italy, Austria, Germany, Switzerland and the United States.[14] Intelligence agencies around the world have long scrutinized Himmat's terrorist connections. He is one of the founders of the Bank al-Taqwa, a powerful conglomerate dubbed by Italian intelligence, "Bank of the Muslim Brotherhood," which has financed terrorist groups since the mid-1990s if not earlier.[15] Himmat helped Youssef Nada, one of the Muslim Brotherhood's financial masterminds, run Al-Taqwa and a web of companies headquartered in locations such as Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and the Bahamas, which maintain few regulations on monetary origin or destination. Both Himmat and Nada reportedly funneled large sums to groups such as Hamas and the Algerian Islamic Salvation Front[16] and set up a secret credit line for a top associate of Osama bin Laden.[17] In November 2001, the U.S. Treasury Department designated both Himmat and Nada as terrorism financiers.[18] According to Italian intelligence, the Al-Taqwa network also financed several Islamic centers throughout Europe[19] and many Islamist publications, including Risalatul Ikhwan,[20] the official magazine of the Muslim Brotherhood. After the U.S. Treasury Department designation, Himmat resigned from the IGD's presidency. His successor was Ibrahim el-Zayat, a 36-year-old of Egyptian descent and the charismatic leader of numerous student organizations. The fact that IGD leaders Ramadan and Himmat are among the most prominent Muslim Brotherhood members of the last half-century suggests the links between the IGD and the Ikhwan. Moreover, reports issued by internal intelligence agencies from various German states openly call the IGD an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood.[21] In particular, according to one intelligence report, the Egyptian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood has dominated the IGD since its early days.[22] The Muslim Brotherhood—led by Ramadan and Himmat[23]—sponsored the construction of the imposing Islamic Center of Munich in 1960,[24] aided by large donations from Middle Eastern rulers such as King Fahd of Saudi Arabia who, according to a 1967 Sueddeutsche Zeitung article, donated 80,000 marks.[25] The Ministry of Interior of Nordrhein-Westfalen states that the Islamic Center of Munich has been one of the European headquarters for the Brotherhood since its foundation.[26] The center publishes a magazine, Al-Islam, whose efforts (according to an Italian intelligence dossier),[27] are financed by the Bank al-Taqwa. According to the interior minister of Baden-Württemberg, Al-Islam shows explicitly how the German Brothers reject the concept of a secular state.[28] Its February 2002 issue, for example, states, In the long run, Muslims cannot be satisfied with the acceptance of German family, estate, and trial law. … Muslims should aim at an agreement between the Muslims and the German state with the goal of a separate jurisdiction for Muslims. The IGD, of which the Islamic Center of Munich is one of the most important members, represents the main offshoot of the Egyptian Brotherhood in Germany. But the IGD is also the quintessential example of how the Muslim Brotherhood has gained power in Europe. The IGD has grown significantly over the years, and it now incorporates dozens of Islamic organizations throughout the country. Islamic centers from more than thirty German cities have joined its umbrella.[29] Today, the IGD's real strength lies in its cooperation with and sponsorship of many Islamic youth and student organizations across Germany. This focus on youth organizations came after Zayat's succession. He understood the importance of focusing on the next generation of German Muslims and launched recruitment drives to get young Muslims involved in Islamic organizations. But a Meckenheim police report on the sharply dressed Zayat also reveals alarming connections. German authorities openly say he is a member of the Muslim Brotherhood. They also link him to the World Assembly of Muslim Youth (WAMY), a Saudi nongovernmental organization that seeks to spread Wahhabism, the radical and intolerant Saudi interpretation of Islam, throughout the world with its literature and schools.[30] WAMY, which falls under the umbrella of the Muslim World League, has the stated goal of "arming the Muslim youth with full confidence in the supremacy of the Islamic system over other systems." It is the largest Muslim youth organization in the world and can boast unparalleled resources.[31] In 1991 WAMY published a book called Tawjihat Islamiya (Islamic Views) that stated, "Teach our children to love taking revenge on the Jews and the oppressors, and teach them that our youngsters will liberate Palestine and Al-Quds [Jerusalem] when they go back to Islam and make jihad for the sake of Allah."[32] The sentiments in Tawjihat Islamiya are the rule rather than the exception. Many other WAMY publications are filled with strong anti-Semitic and anti-Christian rhetoric. Meckenheim police also link Zayat to Institut Européen des Sciences Humaines, a French school that prepares European imams. Several radical clerics lecture at the school and several European intelligence agencies accuse the school of spreading religious hatred.[33] German authorities also highlight the fact that he is involved in several money laundering investigations.[34] Zayat has never been indicted for terrorist activity, but he has dubious financial dealings and maintains associations with many organizations that spread religious hatred. The IGD may have changed leadership after the U.S. Treasury's designation of Himmat, but it did not change direction. While the Egyptian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood has chosen Munich as its base of operations in Germany, its Syrian branch is headquartered in Aachen, a German town near the Dutch border. The former Carolingian capital, with its famous university, is now home to a large Muslim population including the prominent Syrian Al-Attar family. The first Attar to move to Aachen was Issam, who fled persecution in his native country in the 1950s when he was leader of the Syrian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood. Other members of the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood soon followed. With time, Islamists from other countries adopted Attar's Bilal mosque in Aachen as their base of operations.[35] From hosting exiled Algerian terrorists[36] to operating a charity designated by the U.S. Department of Treasury as a financial front for Hamas,[37] Aachen is well known to intelligence agencies throughout the world. The Syrian Muslim Brotherhood base in Aachen kept close relations with their Egyptian counterparts. For example, confirming the tendency of important Muslim Brotherhood families to close alliance through intermarriage, Issam al-Attar's son married the daughter of Al-Taqwa banker Youssef Nada.[38] Links between the two Muslim Brotherhood branches are more extensive than a single marriage, however. The Aachen Islamic Center reportedly received funding from Al-Taqwa.[39] Staff members have rotated between the Islamic Centers in Aachen and Munich. For example, Ahmed von Denffer, editor of the Islamic Center of Munich's Al-Islam magazine, came to Munich from Aachen.[40] Nevertheless, some distance remains. The Syrian Muslim Brotherhood has never joined the IGD, instead preferring to keep some form of independence. Of all of Zayat's financial activities, the one that has attracted the German authorities' greatest suspicion has been his association with officials of Milli Görüş (National Vision, in Turkish). Milli Görüş, which has 30,000 members and perhaps another 100,000 sympathizers,[41] claims to defend the rights of Germany's immigrant Turkish population, giving them a voice in the democratic political arena while "preserving their Islamic identity."[42] But Milli Görüş has another agenda. While publicly declaring its interest in democratic debate and a willingness to see Turkish immigrants integrated into European societies, some Milli Görüş leaders have expressed contempt for democracy and Western values. The Bundesverfassungsschutz, Germany's domestic intelligence agency, has repeatedly warned about Milli Görüş' activities, describing the group in its annual reports as a "foreign extremist organization."[43] The agency also reported that "although Milli Görüş, in public statements, pretends to adhere to the basic principles of Western democracies, abolition of the laicist government system in Turkey and the establishment of an Islamic state and social system are, as before, among its goals."[44] Milli Görüş' history alone indicates why the group should be considered radical. Former Turkish prime minister Nehmettin Erbakan, whose Refah Party was banned by the Turkish Constitutional Court in January of 1998 for "activities against the country's secular regime,"[45] is still Milli Görüş' undisputed leader, even if his nephew Mehmet Sabri Erbakan is its president. The 2002 European Milli Görüş meeting held in the Dutch city of Arnhem, where Nehmettin Erbakan was the keynote speaker, provides a glimpse into Milli Görüş' ideology. After a tirade against the evils of integration in the West and U.S. policies, Erbakan declared that "after the fall of the wall, the West has found an enemy in Islam."[46] A Bundesverfassungsschutz report reveals Milli Görüş' real aims: While in recent times, the Milli Görüş has increasingly emphasized the readiness of its members to be integrated into German society and asserts its adherence to the basic law, such statements stem from tactical calculation rather than from any inner change of the organization.[47] Milli Görüş pushes an agenda similar to that of the IGD, even if its target is more limited. Nevertheless, both Milli Görüş and the IGD collaborate on many initiatives. There is also a family connection. Zayat married Sabiha Erbakan, the sister of Mehmet Sabri Erbakan.[48] The siblings' mother is also involved in politics and runs an important Islamic women's organization in Germany. The Zayat family is active as well. Ibrahim el-Zayat's father is the imam of the Marburg mosque; other members of his family are involved in Islamic organizations. As Udo Ulfkotte, a political science professor specializing in counterespionage at the University of Lueneburg and an expert on Islamic terrorism, notes, the Erbakans and the Zayats lead networks of organizations that aim at the radicalization, respectively, of the Turkish and Arab communities in Germany.[49] IGD and Milli Görüş are active in their efforts to increase political influence and become the official representatives of the entire German Muslim community. With well-endowed budgets, their mosques provide social services, organize conferences, and distribute literature nationwide. As the Office for the Protection of the Constitution (Landesverfassungsschutz) in Hessen[50] notes: The threat of Islamism for Germany is posed … primarily by Milli Görüş and other affiliated groups. They try to spread Islamist views within the boundaries of the law. Then they try to implement … for all Muslims in Germany a strict interpretation of the Qur'an and of the Shari‘a. … Their public support of tolerance and religious freedom should be treated with caution.[51] It presents a problem that politicians and security services in Germany view the IGD and Milli Görüş so differently. But, as Ulfkotte wrote about Zayat in his book, Der Krieg in unseren Staedten (The War in Our Cities),[52] "politicians of all colors and parties try to reach out to him."[53] For example, the prestigious Berlin Catholic Academy invited Zayat to represent the Muslim point of view in an inter-religious meeting organized by the academy in October 2002.[54] German politicians and Christian institutions regularly partner themselves with Milli Görüş in various initiatives. Milli Gazete, the official journal of Milli Görüş, once stated that "Milli Görüş is a shield protecting our fellow citizens from assimilation into barbaric Europe."[55] Nevertheless, German politicians meet regularly with Milli Görüş officials to discuss immigration and integration issues. The fact that an official like Ahmed al-Khalifah, IGD secretary general, represents Islam before members of parliament who are discussing religious tolerance,[56] shows the success of Brotherhood-linked organizations' efforts to gain acceptance as the representatives of German Muslims. The Office for the Protection of the Constitution well described these efforts, saying that Milli Görüş (and the IGD) "strives to dominate regional or nationwide federations and umbrella organizations for Muslims which are increasingly gaining importance as interlocutors for state and ecclesiastical authorities and thus to expand its influence within society."[57] Zentralrat, the Islamist Umbrella In 1989, under the auspices of Abdullah at-Turki, powerful dean of Bin Saud University in Riyadh, the Saudis created the Islamische Konzil Deutschland (Islamic Council of Germany). Turki assumed the presidency with other top positions held by Ibrahim el-Zayat, Hasan Özdögan, a high-ranking Milli Görüş official, and Ahmad Khalifa, an officer from the Islamic Center of Munich.[58] While an official German parliament report describes the Islamische Konzil as just "another Sunni organization," such an assumption indicates a dangerous misunderstanding of the Saudi relationship to German Islamists.[59] The trend toward consolidation took a step forward in 1994 when German Islamists realized that a united coalition translated into greater political relevance and influence. Nineteen organizations, including the IGD, the Islamic Center of Munich, and the Islamic Center of Aachen, created an umbrella organization, the Zentralrat der Muslime. According to a senior German intelligence official, at least nine out of these nineteen organizations belong to the Muslim Brotherhood.[60] The German press has recently investigated the Zentralrat president, Nadeem Elyas, a German-educated Saudi physician and an official of the Islamic Center of Aachen. Die Welt linked Elyas to Christian Ganczarski, an Al-Qaeda operative currently jailed as one of the masterminds of the 2002 attack on a synagogue in Tunisia.[61] Ganczarski, a German of Polish descent who converted to Islam, told authorities that Al-Qaeda recruited him at the Islamic University of Medina where Elyas sent him to study.[62] Elyas said he could not remember meeting him but did not deny the possibility that Ganczarski, who never completed high school, might have been one of the many individuals he had sent over the years to radical schools in Saudi Arabia.[63] Saudi donors paid all of Ganczarski's expenses.[64] Ganczarski was not alone. Elyas admitted to having sent hundreds of German Muslims to study at one of the most radical universities in Saudi Arabia.[65] The Zentralrat, which portrays itself as the umbrella organization for German Muslim organizations, has become, together with the IGD and Milli Görüş, the de facto representative of three million German Muslims. Even though the IGD is a member of the Zentralrat, the two organizations often operate independently. Their apparent independence is planned. With many organizations operating under different names, the Muslim Brotherhood fools German politicians who believe they are consulting a spectrum of opinion.[66] The media seek the Zentralrat's officials when they want the Muslim view on everything from the debate about the admissibility of the hijab (headscarf) in public schools, to the war in Iraq, and so forth. Politicians seek the Zentralrat's endorsement when they want to reach out to the Muslim community. Many German politicians are uninformed about Islam and do not understand that the view and the interpretation of Islam that the Zentralrat expresses, as does the IGD and Milli Görüş, is that of the Muslim Brotherhood and not that of traditional Islam. Accordingly, the Zentralrat expresses total opposition to any ban of the hijab, supports Wahhabi-influenced Islamic education in schools, and endorses a radical position on the Middle East situation.[67] While many Muslims endorse these views, the problem is that the Zentralrat neither represents nor tolerates those with divergent views. Moderate German Muslim groups lack the funding and organization of Muslim Brotherhood-linked groups. In terms of numbers, influence on the Muslim community, and political relevance, the Zentralrat and its two most important constituent parts, the IGD and Milli Görüş, dominate the scene. With ample Saudi financing, the Muslim Brotherhood has managed to become the voice of the Muslims in Germany. Recently, the German public was shocked to hear what is preached inside Saudi-funded mosques and schools. In the fall of 2003, a hidden camera-equipped journalist from Germany's ARD television infiltrated the Saudi-built King Fahd Academy in Bonn and taped what it taught to young Muslim children. One teacher called for jihad against the infidels.[68] While the images elicited a rebuke from German politicians, the rather sterile debate about Saudi influence on German Muslims has not effected tangible change. Saudi officials and Saudi-run nongovernmental organizations continue to groom Muslim Brotherhood organizations. First Germany, Then Europe While the Muslim Brotherhood and their Saudi financiers have worked to cement Islamist influence over Germany's Muslim community, they have not limited their infiltration to Germany. Thanks to generous foreign funding, meticulous organization, and the naïveté of European elites, Muslim Brotherhood-linked organizations have gained prominent positions throughout Europe. In France, the extremist Union des Organisations Islamiques de France (Union of Islamic Organizations of France) has become the predominant organization in the government's Islamic Council.[69] In Italy, the extremist Unione delle Comunita' ed Organizzazioni Islamiche in Italia (Union of the Islamic Communities and Organizations in Italy) is the government's prime partner in dialogue regarding Italian Islamic issues.[70] In parallel to European Union integration efforts, the Muslim Brotherhood is also seeking to integrate its various European proxies. Over the past fifteen years, the Muslim Brotherhood has created a series of pan-European organizations such as the Federation of Islamic Organizations in Europe, in which representatives from national organizations can meet and plan initiatives.[71] Perhaps the Muslim Brotherhood's greatest pan-European impact has, as with the Islamische Gemeinschaft Deutschland, been with its youth organization. In June 1996, Muslim youth organizations from Sweden, France, and England joined forces with the Federation of Islamic Organizations in Europe and the World Assembly of Muslim Youth to create a European Islamic youth organization.[72] Three months later, thirty-five delegates from eleven countries met in Leicester and formally launched the Forum of European Muslim Youth and Student Organizations (FEMYSO), which maintains its headquarters in Brussels.[73] According to its official publications, FEMYSO is "a network of 42 national and international organizations bringing together youth from over 26 different countries." FEMYSO proudly stated in 2003 that over the preceding four years it had become The de facto voice of the Muslim youth in Europe. It is regularly consulted on issues pertaining to Muslims in Europe. It has also developed useful links with: the European Parliament, the Council of Europe, the United Nations, the European Youth Forum, and numerous relevant NGOs at the European level.[74] Ibrahim el-Zayat, who held the presidency until his commitments in Germany forced him to step down, even used the FEMYSO perch to address the European Parliament.[75] Because the Muslim Brotherhood provides the bulk of FEMYSO's constituent organizations, it provides the "de facto voice of the Muslim youth in Europe." While FEMYSO claims that it "is committed to fighting prejudices at all the levels, so that the future of Europe is a multicultural, inclusive and respectful one,"[76] such statements ring hollow given the position of sponsors like the World Assembly of Muslim Youth which believes that "the Jews are enemies of the faithful, God, and the Angels; the Jews are humanity's enemies. … Every tragedy that inflicts the Muslims is caused by the Jews."[77] The Muslim Brotherhood's ample funds and organization have contributed to their success in Europe. But their acceptance into mainstream society and their unchallenged rise to power would not have been possible had European elites been more vigilant, valued substance over rhetoric, and understood the motivations of those financing and building these Islamist organizations. Why have Europeans been so naïve? Bassam Tibi, a German professor of Syrian descent and an expert on Islam in Europe, thinks that Europeans—and Germans in particular—fear the accusation of racism.[78] Radicals in sheep's clothing have learned that they can silence almost everybody with the accusation of xenophobia. Any criticism of Muslim Brotherhood-linked organizations is followed by outcries of racism and anti-Muslim persecution. Journalists who are not frightened by these appellatives are swamped with baseless and unsuccessful but expensive lawsuits. In some cases, politicians simply fail to check the backgrounds of those who claim to be legitimate representatives for the Muslim community. As in the United States, self-described representatives for the Muslim community are far more radical than the populations they represent. In other cases, politicians realize that these organizations are not the ideal counterparts in a constructive dialogue but do not take the time to seek other less visible but more moderate organizations, several of which exist only at the grassroots level, impeded by financial constraints. What most European politicians fail to understand is that by meeting with radical organizations, they empower them and grant the Muslim Brotherhood legitimacy. There is an implied endorsement to any meeting, especially when the same politicians ignore moderate voices that do not have access to generous Saudi funding. This creates a self-perpetuating cycle of radicalization because the greater the political legitimacy of the Muslim Brotherhood, the more opportunity it and its proxy groups will have to influence and radicalize various European Muslim communities. The ultimate irony is that Muslim Brotherhood founder Hassan al-Banna dreamed of spreading Islamism throughout Egypt and the Muslim world. He would have never dreamed that his vision might also become a reality in Europe. Lorenzo Vidino is deputy director at the Investigative Project, a Washington D.C.-based counterterrorism research institute. [1] "Homepage," Muslim Brotherhood Movement website, accessed Dec. 22, 2004. [2] The Chicago Tribune, Sept. 19, 2004; also see Daniel Pipes, The Islamic States of America?, FrontPageMagazine.com, Sept. 23, 2004. [3] Khalid Duran, "Jihadism in Europe," The Journal of Counterterrorism and Security International, Fall 2000, pp. 12-5. [4] Richard Labeviere, Dollars for Terror: The U.S. and Islam (New York: Algora Publishing 2000), p. 141. [5] Georges Lepre, "Himmler's Bosnian Division: The Waffen SS Handschar Division 1943-45," Schiffer Aviation History, Jan. 2000, pp. 31-4. [6] M. H. Faruqi, "Les Frères Musulmans. Politique de ‘rabbaniyya,' les prières avant le pouvoir Dr. Saïd Ramadan, 1926-1995," Historique du Centre Islamique, Islamic Center of Geneva. [7] Ibid. [8] Ibid. [9] "Prasidenten der IGD," Islamische Gemeinschaft in Deutschland website, accessed Dec. 22, 2004. [10] Faruqi, "Les Frères Musulmans," Historique du Centre Islamique. [11] "Senators Request Tax Information on Muslim Charities for Probe," U.S. State Department news release, Jan. 14, 2004. [12] Fouad Ajami, "Tariq Ramadan," The Wall Street Journal, Sept. 7, 2004. [13] Labeviere, Dollars for Terror, p. 122. [14] Official dossier on Ahmed Nasreddin (hereafter Nasreddin dossier), Servizio per le Informazioni e la Sicurezza Democratica (Italian secret service, SISDE), Apr. 6, 1996, p. 10. [15] Ibid., p. 24. [16] Ibid., p. 31. [17] Newsweek, May 12, 2004. [18] "Recent OFAC Actions," U.S. Department of the Treasury, Office of Foreign Assets Control, Nov. 7, 2001. [19] Nasreddin dossier, p. 31. [20] Ibid. [21] "Islamische Gemeinschaft in Deutschland" Innenministerium, Nordrhein-Westfalen land website, accessed Dec. 22, 2004; "Islamismus," Landesamt fur Verfassungsschutz, Hessen website, accessed Dec. 22, 2004. [22] "Islamische Gemeinschaft in Deutschland," Innenministerium, Nordrhein-Westfalen land. [23] Official Guide to the Munich Mosque (Munich: The Islamic Center of Munich), purchased by the author at the Milli Görüş' bookstore, Cologne, Feb. 2004. [24] "Islamische Gemeinschaft in Deutschland," Innenministerium, Nordrhein-Westfalen land. [25] Sueddeutsche Zeitung (Munich), July 29-30, 1967. [26] "Islamische Gemeinschaft in Deutschland," Innenministerium, Nordrhein-Westfalen land. [27] Nasreddin dossier, p. 31. [28] Report on radical Islam, Baden Württenberg state Verfassungsschutzbericht, 2003, p. 48. [29] "Koordination mit Zentren in folgenden Städten," Islamische Gemeinschaft in Deutschland website, accessed Dec. 22, 2004. [30] Report on Ibrahim el-Zayat, Cologne police, Aug. 27, 2003, p. 3. [31] David Kane, FBI senior special agent, affidavit in "Supplemental Declaration in Support of Pre-Trial Detention," United States of America v. Soliman S. Biheiri, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. The affidavit also details WAMY's links to the Palestinian terrorist organization Hamas. [32] Kane, "Supplemental Declaration in Support of Pre-Trial Detention." [33] The Wall Street Journal, Apr. 15, 2003. [34] Report on el-Zayat, Aug. 27, 2003, p. 4. [35] Duran, "Jihadism in Europe," pp. 12-5. [36] Klaus Gruenewald, "Defending Germany's Constitution," Middle East Quarterly, Mar. 1995, p. 10. [37] See Al-Aqsa Foundation, "Recent OFAC Reports," U.S. Department of the Treasury, Office of Foreign Assets Control, June 6, 2003. [38] Nasreddin dossier, p. 9. [39] Ibid., p. 30. [40] Duran, "Jihadism in Europe," pp. 12-5. [41] "Islamische Gemeinschaft Milli Gorus," Innenministerium, Nordrhein-Westfalen land website, accessed Dec. 22, 2004. [42] Annual report of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution (Bundesverfassungsschutz), 2000, Cologne, p. 174. [43] Annual report of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution (Bundesverfassungsschutz), 1999, Cologne, p. 165. [44] Ibid. [45] Agence France-Presse, Jan. 16, 1998. [46] Mehmet Ülger, "Manifestatie Milli Görüş in Arnhem," De Humanist, July 2003. [47] Annual report, Bundesverfassungsschutz, 2000, p. 198. [48] Udo Ulfkotte, Der Krieg in unseren Staedten (Frankfurt: Eichborn Publishing, 2003), pp. 32-3. [49] Author interview with Udo Ulfkotte, Frankfurt, Feb. 2004. [50] Within the German federal system, each state has its own Office of the Protection for the Constitution (Landesverfassungsschutz), which is independent from the national Bundessverfassungsschutz. [51] "Islamismus," Landesamt fur Verfassungsschutz, Hessen. [52] Frankfurt: Eichborn Publishing, 2003. [53] Ulfkotte, Der Krieg in unseren Staedten, p. 38. [54] "Christentum und Islam," German Association of Muslim Social Scientists (GMSG), Oct. 26, 2002. [55] Anti-Semitism Worldwide 1998/9 (Tel Aviv: Stephen Roth Institute, Tel Aviv University, 2000). [56] Ulfkotte, Der Krieg in unseren Staedten, p. 38. [57] Annual report, Bundesverfassungsschutz, 2000, p. 174. [58] Ulfkotte, Der Krieg in unseren Staedten, p. 164. [59] Ibid., p. 162. [60] Hartwig Mueller, head of the Verfassungsschutz of Nordrhein Westfahlen, interview on German television SWR, Mar. 21, 2003. [61] Die Welt (Berlin), May 6, 2003. [62] Michael Waller, testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology, and Homeland Security, Oct. 14, 2003. [63] The Wall Street Journal, Feb. 21, 2003. [64] Die Welt, May 6, 2003. [65] Ibid. [66] Author interview with Ulfkotte, Frankfurt, Feb. 2004. [67] Ibid. [68] Time, Nov. 2, 2003. [69] Ibid., Apr. 27, 2003. [70] Renzo Guolo, Xenofobi e Xenofili. Gli Italiani e l'Islam (Bari: Laterza Publishing, 2003), p. 14. [71] "The Global Community," MABOnline, Muslim Association of Britain, Dec. 20, 2004. [72] Forum of European Muslim Youth and Student Organizations brochure, emailed to author by a representative of FEMYSO, Jan. 2004. [73] Ibid. [74] Ibid. [75] "L'Islam en Europe ou L'Islam d'Europe," conference program, European Parliament, Brussels, Dec. 11, 2002. [76] FEMYSO brochure. [77] "Animosity toward the Jews, " A Handy Encyclopedia of Contemporary Religions and Sects (WAMY), FBI translation from Arabic; Steven Emerson, statement to the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States, July 9, 2003; Kane, "Supplemental Declaration in Support of Pre-Trial Detention." [78] Bassam Tibi, Islamische Zuwanderung, Die gescheiterte Integration (Munich: DVA, 2002), p. 135. .....................000000000 [_private/ftarc.htm]

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Jerry Brown Challenges Chris Christie to Fitness Contest Filed under: General,Morons — Patterico @ 1:34 pm I hereby challenge the fattest guy I can think of to a fitness contest! “I’ve slowed down a little bit, but I have to tell you — I ran three miles in 29 minutes two nights ago,” Brown said last week. “I hereby challenge Gov. Christie to a three-mile race, a push-up contest and a chin-up contest. Whatever he wants to bet, I have no doubt of the outcome.” Brown says he is responding to Christie calling him an “old retread” — and willfully misinterprets this as an attack on Brown’s fitness, so he can take a cheap shot at Christie’s weight. Once you see that Brown’s excuse for this is trumped-up, Brown’s gambit seems pretty amusing. He’s taking the most out-of-shape guy he can find in politics and challenges him to a fitness contest. That would be like Christie, a great speaker, issuing a debate challenge to the stupidest guy in politics. (Which is Joe Biden.) Proud, proud I am to be a Californian with Governor Moonbeam in office. San Francisco Based State Legislator Fights “Deport the Criminals First” Policy Filed under: Deport the Criminals First,General,Immigration,Morons — Patterico @ 3:02 pm Ah, San Francisco: A bill being drafted by a state legislator would limit local law enforcement from holding arrestees on behalf of immigration authorities seeking to deport them. Assemblyman Tom Ammiano (D-San Francisco) said he is finalizing amendments to a bill that would be the first statewide measure to counter the Secure Communities enforcement program, which requires law enforcement agencies to forward to immigration authorities the fingerprints of all arrestees booked into local jails. If those authorities identify a candidate for deportation, they can issue a detainer, which asks the agency to hold them beyond the time when they would normally be released so immigration agents can take custody. The program has come under fire because many of those ensnared have never been convicted of crimes or are low-level offenders. When states like California or Arizona have tried to pass legislation that helps the federal government enforce federal immigration law, the immigrants’ rights advocates always tell us those law are illegal — because federal law is supreme in the area of immigration. So, local laws can’t touch on immigration (so the argument goes) because that steps on federal toes. (I have never understood this argument, because helping the feds enforce the law can’t be seen as stepping on their toes . . . can it??) Where is the “federal preemption” crowd here? This law explicitly seeks to interfere with federal programs designed to catch people in custody who have violated our immigration laws. Wouldn’t that . . . step on federal toes? What needs to be remembered is that people who are subject to deportation have already violated the law. What’s more, if they have been arrested, they are on average more likely to be among the least desirable among those who have violated our immigration laws. A “Deport the Criminals First” policy uses our limited resources in the manner that best protects public safety, by concentrating on people who have (by and large) committed crimes other than violating immigration laws. Because criminals are more dangerous than non-criminals, this policy saves lives. And even if it turns out that they didn’t commit other crimes, they still violated immigration laws anyway, and we have them in custody. Ammiano’s plan is an open borders plan: EVERYONE is welcome, including the diseased, the immoral, and the criminal. Our country is a country of immigrants, but we have the right to control which immigrants are allowed to enter, to keep the country healthy and safe. Orderly immigration laws seek to import immigrants who are not criminals or afflicted with communicable diseases. A policy of simply throwing open the borders removes these checks, which has the effect of welcoming people with TB and serious criminal histories. I don’t see why our country needs to be burdened with a crop of undesirables (criminals) when we have insufficient resources to take care of the people we already have. The U.S. is fishing for illegals. We can’t catch every fish in the sea, but we can catch some. Ammiano wants to take the fish that are already in the net and throw them back out to sea. That only makes sense if you think fishing is morally wrong. Me, I don’t think it is. And I don’t think deporting criminal illegals is wrong either. But then, I don’t live in San Francisco. Good Thing We Dumped That Body Right Away . . . Filed under: Morons,Terrorism — Patterico @ 10:56 pm . . . before conducting an autopsy or giving journalists a chance to take independent photos or footage. Because otherwise, Al Qaeda might have gotten upset at us. Obama Intelligence Guy: Muslim Brotherhood Is Largely Secular Filed under: Morons — Patterico @ 6:48 am So what were you worried about? The term “Muslim Brotherhood”…is an umbrella term for a variety of movements, in the case of Egypt, a very heterogeneous group, largely secular, which has eschewed violence and has decried Al Qaeda as a perversion of Islam. Yuh-huh. Hot Air quotes Politico: The Brotherhood uses the slogan, “Islam is the answer,” and generally advocates for government in accordance with Islamic principles. The movement has as a broad goal unifying what it perceives as Muslim lands, from Spain to Indonesia, as a “caliphate.” The group also has ties to Hamas. Watch and weep: Clapper is the same dude who in December did not know about the London terror plot when asked by Diane Sawyer. His spokesmouth has issued this “clarification”: “To clarify Director Clapper’s point – in Egypt the Muslim Brotherhood makes efforts to work through a political system that has been, under Mubarak’s rule, one that is largely secular in its orientation – he is well aware that the Muslim Brotherhood is not a secular organization.” To “clarify,” then, it’s a “largely secular” group that is “not a secular organization.” Just so we’re clear. What’s next? “Al What-a?” UPDATE: Here’s what’s next — or, at least, what was happening at the same time. Namely, the CIA director making predictions based on what he saw on teevee: The director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Leon E. Panetta, testified before the House of Representatives on Thursday morning that there was a “strong likelihood” that Mr. Mubarak would step down by the end of the day. American officials said Mr. Panetta was basing his statement not on secret intelligence but on media broadcasts, which began circulating before he sat down before the House Intelligence Committee. We are in the very best of hands. Filed under: Dog Trainer,Morons — Patterico @ 9:53 pm From Tim Rutten: The Huffington Post is a brilliantly packaged product with a particular flair for addressing the cultural and entertainment tastes of its overwhelmingly liberal audience. To grasp its business model, though, you need to picture a galley rowed by slaves and commanded by pirates. Back in the days of Jim Crow and sharecroppers, it was common to hear poor exploited blacks say to one another: “At least we’re not having to write for the Huffington Post!” AOL Buys HuffPo for $315 Million Filed under: Blogging Matters,General,Morons — Patterico @ 7:31 am Since they get 500 million page views per month, that’s about $0.63 per monthly page view. That caused me to run a few numbers here. Over the past year we received 5,041,591 page views, for a monthly average of 420,133. Multiply that by $0.63 and you get a web site worth $264,683. AOL finance dudes, listen up! Bargain of a lifetime: I’ll unload this puppy for a cool $200,000. Call me, babe. UPDATE: A commenter caught me cooking the numbers by turning the fraction upside down. Busted. I am changing the post to reflect the correct numbers. Dude, you just cost me over $400,000! UPDATE: I should not have trusted the commenter. The actual number is not 57 cents, as he claimed, but 63. I updated the numbers yet again. L.A. Times: How Dare Escondido Target Illegal Aliens Who Have Done Nothing But Be Illegal Aliens . . . And, Er, Drunk Drivers and Child Molesters? Filed under: Deport the Criminals First,Dog Trainer,General,Immigration,Morons — Patterico @ 3:56 pm The city of Escondido in California is concentrating on deporting illegal aliens with a criminal record. If you cover this story, you can choose to illustrate the effects by giving anecdotes concerning: a) a person who was victimized by an illegal alien criminal; b) an anecdote of a low-level offender who will be deported — poor guy! Which do you figure the L.A. Times chooses? If you guessed b), you win! Meaning you are not a complete moron. It was just an inconvenient traffic stop on the way through town for Javier Barrera Saldivar. Police had spotted the broken tail light on his car, and he figured he’d get a fix-it ticket and be on his way. But federal immigration officers soon rolled up, wielding handcuffs and Barrera’s mug shot on a cellphone. The Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers have been stationed at the Police Department of this San Diego County city since May, responding to everything from traffic stops to gang sweeps in an aggressive effort to clear the community of illegal immigrants with deportation orders or criminal records. Barrera, 24, the records showed, was a previously deported illegal immigrant with convictions for drunk driving and possessing a false driver’s license. Instead of receiving a traffic citation and being released — which is what typically would have occurred — he was arrested and placed in deportation proceedings. We get the typical claptrap about racial profiling and about how Latinos are “on edge.” We don’t get ANY context about why the government might actually want to Deport the Criminals First. The story reinforces the theme: some of these people have done nothing more than be illegal immigrants. Uh, and drunk drivers. Uh, and child molesters. WHY DON’T WE GO AFTER THE “REAL” CRIMINALS??!!!1!!1 But critics contend that most detainees are people with drunk driving convictions from long ago who are hardly criminals. When Salvador Santoyo Juarez, 61, was pulled over last month for a having tinted windows in his car, an immigration check revealed that he had convictions for child molestation, drug transportation and drunk driving — all more than 20 years old. To his family, the grandfather of eight was hardly a threat to the community, spending most of his days resting his injured hip in front of the television. His wife, Carmen, 54, said his deportation would tear the family apart. “There are so many bad people, and they focus on the one who does nothing,” she said. “How sad.” Yeah, some of them are “only” illegal alien drunk drivers. Never mind that the government has the authority and duty to deport any illegal alien it comes in contact with — regardless of whether they have committed other crimes. Place that issue to one side for the moment. And ask yourself: does this article have any stories about people killed by illegal alien drunk drivers? It’s not like those stories don’t exist. For example, the paper could tell us about any of these people who were killed by illegal alien drunk drivers: Kenosha County Sheriff’s Deputy Frank Fabiano Four year-old Angel Avendano Jasmine Lawrence Police chief Ernie Mendoza Amy Kortlang Maria, Vanessa, and Nathaniel Ortiz Sister Denise Mosier Sara Cole was “lucky.” She lived, and “only” had her legs crushed. I am, of course, just scratching the surface. It’s like the article I wrote about this morning, which attacks Sarah Palin for “partisanship” when she talks about runaway spending. If the paper is going to savage people for trying to do something about a problem, without even reminding us why we consider the problem to be a real problem, the editors aren’t doing their job. This paper is failing, fast. As far as I am concerned, it can’t be fast enough. Unbelievable: Twain Scholar Plans to Publish Edition of Huckleberry Finn Omitting the N-Word Filed under: General,Morons,Race — Patterico @ 7:42 pm Publisher’s Weekly reports on an astonishing Orwellian cave-in to political correctness: a proposal to remove the words “nigger” and “Injun” from “Huckleberry Finn”: Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a classic by most any measure—T.S. Eliot called it a masterpiece, and Ernest Hemingway pronounced it the source of “all modern American literature.” Yet, for decades, it has been disappearing from grade school curricula across the country, relegated to optional reading lists, or banned outright, appearing again and again on lists of the nation’s most challenged books, and all for its repeated use of a single, singularly offensive word: “nigger.” Twain himself defined a “classic” as “a book which people praise and don’t read.” Rather than see Twain’s most important work succumb to that fate, Twain scholar Alan Gribben and NewSouth Books plan to release a version of Huckleberry Finn, in a single volume with The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, that does away with the “n” word (as well as the “in” word, “Injun”) by replacing it with the word “slave.” This sort of silliness is nothing new; I noted in 2003 that the NAACP (whose acronym includes a reference to the racist word “colored”!) objected to “To Kill a Mockingbird” on the basis that it contains the dreaded n-word. And we watched with amusement as New York City sought to “ban” the word in 2007. But the saddest part of this story is that the guy behind the whitewashing considers himself to be a Twain scholar: “This is not an effort to render Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn colorblind,” said Gribben, speaking from his office at Auburn University at Montgomery, where he’s spent most of the past 20 years heading the English department. “Race matters in these books. It’s a matter of how you express that in the 21st century.” The idea of a more politically correct Finn came to the 69-year-old English professor over years of teaching and outreach, during which he habitually replaced the word with “slave” when reading aloud. Gribben grew up without ever hearing the “n” word (“My mother said it’s only useful to identify [those who use it as] the wrong kind of people”) and became increasingly aware of its jarring effect as he moved South and started a family. “My daughter went to a magnet school and one of her best friends was an African-American girl. She loathed the book, could barely read it.” “What he suggested,” said La Rosa, “was that there was a market for a book in which the n-word was switched out for something less hurtful, less controversial. We recognized that some people would say that this was censorship of a kind, but our feeling is that there are plenty of other books out there—all of them, in fact—that faithfully replicate the text, and that this was simply an option for those who were increasingly uncomfortable, as he put it, insisting students read a text which was so incredibly hurtful.” One should not have to explain to a Twain scholar that the hurtful nature of the word “nigger” is the whole fucking point. But you can’t argue with a guy who thinks he is saving the book by destroying it: “Dr. Gribben recognizes that he’s putting his reputation at stake as a Twain scholar,” said La Rosa. “But he’s so compassionate, and so believes in the value of teaching Twain, that he’s committed to this major departure. I almost don’t want to acknowledge this, but it feels like he’s saving the books. His willingness to take this chance—I was very touched.” Hm. It feels to me like, instead of saving the book, he is working to actively destroy it — not just the book and its central message, but the notion of authorial integrity, the idea of confronting injustice head on, and about a dozen other critical concepts. It’s enough to make you want to scream in frustration. Slapping the “morons” tag on this post doesn’t feel sufficient; stuff like this makes me want to create a new category called “Utter and Complete Fucking Morons.” I know that language may seem a little rough . . . but again: that’s the whole fucking point. UPDATE: I have just received word of Gribben’s next project: a new version of Orwell’s “1984” that will replace the disturbing term “doublethink” with the more soothing term “harmonious cogitation.” UPDATE x2: See also: Michelle Malkin. Ahhnold Reduces Sentence of Fabian Nunez’s Son Filed under: Crime,General,Morons — Patterico @ 6:49 pm Without even consulting the D.A.: San Diego County District Atty. Bonnie Dumanis said Monday she was shocked to learn that then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger had reduced the prison sentence of the son of former Assembly Speaker Fabian Nuñez. The decision “greatly diminishes justice for victim Luis Santos and re-victimizes his family and friends,” Dumanis said in a prepared statement. “The district attorney’s office was not consulted, and the decision comes as the appeals process was continuing.” I am currently preparing an opposition to a clemency request. It is standard procedure to consult the District Attorney’s Office before considering such a request. I have heard a top trial lawyer in our office talk about presenting the case against Tookie Williams’s commutation to Ahhnold, and guess what? he told the Governator a few things he hadn’t known. But apparently close analysis of the case was not an important part of this particular process: Like Dumanis, Fred Santos [the victim’s father] said he had no warning that the decision was imminent or even under discussion at the governor’s office. “We’re just little people,” he said. “I guess we don’t count.” Charles Sevilla, the San Diego attorney who prepared the commutation request for Esteban Nuñez, said he is “surprised and gratified” that it was accepted by the governor. Sevilla said his role was limited to filling out the paperwork — “sort of a fill in the blanks.” He said he was never quizzed by the governor or his staff, never asked to be part of an oral presentation and never asked for additional documentation. Gee. If it wasn’t a close look at the facts of the case that persuaded Ahhnold, what could it possibly have been? An L.A. Times editorial has a hint: Nuñez, who is now a business partner with Schwarzenegger’s chief political advisor, worked closely with the governor during his term as speaker. Ah, I see now. Ahhnold’s decision mocks the justice system. His handling of the clemency process in this case reeks of disinterest for the facts, and concern for a crony. Even the L.A. Times editorial writer — who is a sucker for the pathetic claims of innocence of a Death Row inmate who is guilty as sin (more in an upcoming post) — is skeptical of Ahhnold’s decision: The younger Nuñez is no prince. He and his friends went looking for a fight after being kicked out of a campus frat party, and according to prosecutors, Nuñez stabbed two other victims, who survived. He also allegedly destroyed evidence by burning clothing worn on the night of the fight and throwing knives into the Sacramento River. When you can’t even convince the editors of the L.A. Times to be lenient with a violent criminal, you’ve really gone off the rails. Ahhnold. Thanks to Bradley J. Fikes. We Have a Budget Deal! Filed under: Morons,Scum — Patterico @ 8:56 pm And it’s almost certainly a huge pile of [string of expletives deleted]! A spokesman for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said Thursday that state lawmakers and the governor have reached a “framework of an agreement” on solving California’s longest-ever state budget impasse. “The governor and the leaders have reached a framework of an agreement. We will continue to work through the details over the weekend and hope to come to a final agreement Monday when they reconvene,” said Schwarzenegger spokesman Aaron McLear. He declined to provide any details. Oh, I think I can provide the details. Without knowing any of them. Kick the can down the road, by borrowing more money, and deferring the hard decisions until next year. Anyone frustrated enough to punch their computer screen right about now?

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Mass of Jan. 9: Votive Mass #17 for Religious Vocations Start: Jan 9 2019 12:10 pm The proper may be found on a leaflet in the vestibule. Mass of Jan. 10: Votive Mass #15 for Priestly Vocations Start: Jan 10 2019 12:10 pm The proper can be found on a leaflet in the vestibule. Mass of Jan. 11: St. Hyginus, Pope & Martyr Start: Jan 11 2019 7:00 am Proper on pages 1127, 981. Preface of the Epiphany on page 879. Mass of Jan. 12: Votive Mass of the Baptism of Our Lord Jesus Christ Proper on pages 252, 238. Preface of the Epiphany on page 879. Masses of Jan. 13: Feast of the Holy Family Low Mass at 8:00am; High Mass at 10:30am. Please join us in the hall for refreshments after either Mass. Proper on page 244. Preface of the Epiphany on page 879. Masses of Jan. 14: St. Hilary of Poitiers, Bishop, Confessor & Doctor of the Church There will be two Masses today, at 7:00 am & 12:10 pm. Also the Commemoration of St. Felix of Nola, Priest & Martyr. Proper on pages 1128, 1032. Common Preface on page 886. Masses of Jan. 15: St. Paul the First Hermit, Confessor There will be two Masses today, at 6:00 am & 12:10 pm. No Mass at the usual 7:00 am time. Also the Commemoration of St. Maurus, Abbot. Mass of Jan. 16: St. Marcellus I, Pope & Martyr Proper on pages 1132, 981. Common Preface on page 886. Mass of Jan. 17: St. Anthony, Abbot The Father of community life led the life of a hermit from the age of eighteen, but later he instituted the monastic life in common. He died at the age of 105 years in A.D. 356. Mass of Jan. 18: Feria of the First Sunday after the Epiphany Commemoration of St. Prisca, Virgin & Martyr. Proper on page 250, 1134. Common Preface on page 886. Mass of Jan. 19: Ss. Marius, Martha, Audifax, and Abachum, Martyrs Also the Commemoration of St. Canute, Martyr. Proper on pages 1139, 1010, 1013, 999. Common Preface on page 886. Masses of Jan. 20: Second Sunday after the Epiphany Mass of Jan. 21: St. Agnes, Virgin & Martyr This noble Roman Virgin suffered martyrdom at the age of thirteen rather than lose the treasure of her virginity; she was beheaded A.D. 304. Her name is in the Canon of the Mass. Proper on pages 1144, 1048, 886. Common Preface on page 886. Mass of Jan. 22: National Day of Penance; Ss. Vincent & Anastasius, Martyrs National Day of Penance for the Roe v. Wade decision. St. Vincent, deacon of Saragossa in Spain, suffered martyrdom in the persecution of Diocletian A.D. 304. St. Anastasius, a monk of Persia, was put to death with seventy other Christians under Chosroes A.D. 628. Mass of Jan. 23: St. Raymond of Pennafort, Confessor Also the Commemoration of St. Emerentiana, Virgin & Martyr. St. Raymond, eminent minister of the sacrament of Penance, was a priest of the Order of St. Dominic, celebrated for his virtues, his miracles, and his writings on Canon Law. He died A.D. 1275. Mass of Jan. 24: St. Timothy, Bishop & Martyr St. Timothy, who is the best-known disciple of St. Paul, was bishop of Ephesus in Asia Minor. He was stoned to death by pagans A.D. 97. Proper on pages 1148, 986, 886. Common Preface on page 886. Mass of Jan. 25: The Conversion of St. Paul Also the Commemoration of St. Peter. Proper on pages 1149, 1134, 1045. Preface of the Apostles on page 886. Mass of Jan. 26: St. Polycarp, Bishop & Martyr St. Polycarp, a disciple of St. John the Apostle, was Bishop of Smyrna for seventy years, and was martyred under Marcus Aurelius A.D. 169. Masses of Jan. 27: Third Sunday after the Epiphany Mass of Jan. 28: St. Peter Nolasco, Confessor St. Peter, instructed by the Blessed Virgin, founded the Order of Our Lady of Mercy for the Redemption of Captives. When all funds for the work were exhausted, the religious were bound by their rule to take the places of the prisoners with the infidels. St. Peter Nolasco died A.D. 1256. Also the Commemoration of St. Agnes, Virgin & Martyr. Commemoration of the apparition of St. Agnes to her parents who came to pray at her tomb eight days after her martyrdom. Mass of Jan. 29: St. Francis de Sales, Bishop, Confessor & Doctor St. Francis, Count of Sales, Bishop of Geneva, patron of Catholic writers, preached the word of God to the Calvinists and brought back sixty thousand to the Catholic faith. He founded with St. Jane Fremiot de Chantal the Order of the Visitation. He died A.D. 1622. Mass of Jan. 30: St. Martina, Virgin & Martyr This noble Roman Virgin was beheaded after the most atrocious torments, A.D. 228. Mass of Jan. 31: St. John Bosco, Confessor Don Bosco founded the Salesian Fathers and the Order of our Lady, Help of Christians, for the education of poor boys and girls. He died A.D. 1888. Masses of Feb. 1: St. Ignatius of Antioch, Bishop & Martyr; First Friday Start: Feb 1 2019 7:00 am Proper for the 7:00 am Mass on page 1161. Common Preface on page 886. Proper for the 6:00 pm First Friday Mass on page 763. Preface for the Sacred Heart on page 882. Saturday February 02, 2019 Mass of Feb. 2: The Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary Mass at 8:00 am. (Candlemas Procession on Sunday, February 3 at 10:30am.) Proper on p. 1164, 879. Preface of the Nativity on page 879. Sunday February 03, 2019 Masses of Feb. 3: Fourth Sunday after Epiphany; External Purification of the BVM; Candlemas Day The 8:00am Low Mass will celebrate the Fourth Sunday after Epiphany. Proper on page 263. Preface of the Holy Trinity on page 884. The 10:30am High Mass will celebrate the Purification and Candlemas Day. The Blessing of the Candles and Procession will take place before Mass. Proper on page 1164. Preface of the Blessed Virgin on page 879. Please join us in the hall for refreshments after either Mass. The Feast of Candlemas, which derives its origin from the local observance of Jerusalem, marks the end of the Feasts included in the Christmas cycle of the Liturgy. It is perhaps the most ancient festival of Our Lady. It commemorates not only the obedience of the Blessed Virgin to the Mosaic Law in going to Jerusalem forty days after the birth of her Child and making the accustomed offerings, but also the Presentation of Our Lord in the Temple, and the meeting of the Infant Jesus with the old man Simeon—the Occursus Domini, as the Feast was anciently termed. This is the principal theme of the liturgy on this day: Jesus is taken to the Temple "to present Him to the Lord." So the Lord comes to His Temple, and is met by the aged Simeon with joy and recognition. The procession on this day is one of the most picturesque features of the Western Liturgy. The blessing and distribution of candles, to be carried lighted in procession, precedes the Mass today—a symbolic presentation of the truth proclaimed in the Canticle of Simeon: Our Lord is the "Light for the revelation of the Gentiles." The anthems sung during this procession, eastern in origin, will express the joy and gladness of this happy festival, and the honor and praise we give to our blessed Lady and her Divine Son by its devout observance. Mass of Feb. 4: St. Andrew Corsini, Bishop & Confessor Start: Feb 4 2019 12:10 pm Mass of Feb. 5: St. Agatha, Virgin & Martyr Born in Sicily of noble parents, St. Agatha suffered dreadful torture at the hands of her persecutors, but she was healed on the following night by a vision of St. Peter. Other sufferings were inflicted upon her, and from these she died A.D. 254. Proper on p. 1175, 1048, 886. Common Preface on page 886. Mass of Feb. 6: St. Titus, Bishop & Confessor St. Titus, Bishop of Crete, was one of the most faithful disciples of St. Paul. The Apostle wrote to Titus a letter included in Holy Scripture. He died A.D. 101. Also the Commemoration of St. Dorothy, Virgin & Martyr. St. Dorothy of Caesarea in Cappadocia was beheaded at the end of the third century. She died A.D. 275. Thursday February 07, 2019 Mass of Feb. 7: St. Romuald, Abbot St. Romuald founded the Order of Camaldoli, one of the branches of the Benedictine Order, in which the eremitical life is united with the cenobitical. He died at the age of 120, A.D. 1027. Proper on p. 1448, 1179, 1043, 886. Mass of Feb. 8: St. John of Matha, Confessor Mass for July 13: Saturday of Our Lady(1 day) Masses of July 14: Fifth Sunday after Pentecost(2 days) Mass of July 22: St. Mary Magdalen, Penitent(10 days)

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August 20, 2018 | by Lauren Spring | in Interview | In a Room with Womb Womb are a trio of siblings that make deeply emotional, textural music that might just allow you to transcend to a new emotional plane. You really have to experience Haz’ synth alchemy, Georgette’s flair-filled drumming, and Charlotte’s pained melodic howls live and in person to be able to fully absorb their brilliance, but they also have a wonderful debut album that they released earlier this year, entitled Like Splitting the Head From the Body. The three of them sat down with me to have a natter about The Weeknd, how cool their mum is, and a whole bunch of other things too saucy for print. You can check out some of our conversation below. Salient: Can you describe your music without using any music words? Charlotte: This is always the hardest question! Ok, I’m relying on you two for cool words. Haz: Post-Trump. C: Wait, did someone call us that? H: No, I’m just being a dick. Post-New Zealand gothic! Georgette: Emo! C: I think you forgot that we’re really bad at answering questions! S: So, with the new album being more textured, were you aiming towards a fuller and more experimental sound, especially looking at playing with vocal samples on “Feeling Like Helium” and that sort of stuff? H: I don’t think we had an intention necessarily in mind, it’s just kind of the product of us recording together live, where all our instruments are being recorded at the same time. I guess that’s just from playing live shows together, cause we all enjoy that and the energy that’s involved in that. So we had that as the foundation, but Charlotte really enjoys the home recording stuff, and being able to reiterate different things and go over and do lots of editing, so the live recording is kind of a fusion of those two things. C: Yeah, the home recording becomes an obsession, like “oh, let’s do another vocal take” even though it probably doesn’t need it that much. It’s just really fun to do. G: Maybe we’re intuitively texturally motivated. S: Rad! So, obviously, you’re a family, you’ve been playing together for a while — was there an epiphany kind of moment where you were like “wow, we’re super magical together”, or was it just a gradual and kind of organic process? C: Well, we all went travelling separately at the same time in 2015. I think Womb was still just me at that point, and it came to the point where like, that can only go so far. Then I feel like when we all got back, it just kind of happened. We played a show, and then we were a band! It did feel like the natural thing to happen, because I always feel quite musically shy around other people. Like I had jammed with other people and it was really cool, but it wasn’t like the sound was very different. Whereas with Hazzie and Georgette, it’s like they do just exactly what I want and I don’t even know I want it. H: I guess it would come from like, cause Georgette used to play music for us when we were way younger, and now we all show music to each other. Although Char just listens to The Weeknd now. C: Yeah, I listen to The Weeknd. You can definitely quote that. I would go out with him in a heartbeat. G: We do have our own separate music tastes as well, but there’s also a lot of crossover, and I feel like what we do brings each of our unique tastes in. S: Following on from that, I remember being out on the balcony at a show you were playing at San Fran a while ago. I’d had a few little puffs of a joint, and then ended up super inexplicably blazed and started freaking out, anxiously trying to get off this packed balcony that I thought was going to fall off the side of the building! Then I finally got inside and you guys were playing and it was like “Ahhhhhhh”, I did feel like I was enveloped in a womb of lovely tenderness and calm. I feel like that’s a reflection of your beautiful relationship and level of sub-linguistic communication with each other, it almost feels like we’re being temporarily let in on your connection with each other through the music, and it’s super tender and emotional and evocative in a way that most music isn’t. Do you feel that? Do you feel like the kinship thing gives it a whole other dimension? C: That’s so nice! H: I feel like that’s just what’s there, that’s what’s available, and it just works. C: Yeah, there just wouldn’t be another way. H: Yeah, like I find it really hard to make music with other people, especially in a live setting. I would just never be in a band with anyone else, it would be so hard. C: It’d be so awkward, I don’t know how you would do it! H: Maybe it’d be more professional, if you had more of a structure. C: *Laughs* But yeah, we definitely have it where we’re communicating without saying anything when we’re making the songs, so that’s really cool. I think someone once said me and Hazzie do this thing where we rock together, in sync, so I feel like it’s this very subconscious thing because we’re so used to each other. S: You’re all quite different on stage as opposed to in your general daily lives, Charlotte especially. Do you feel that you have to separate your music personas from your private selves? C: I don’t feel like I have to separate it out from myself, more that it’s just a different part of myself. A lot of the music is quite sad, so it’s not something that I want to be in social situations. I think I get quite scared on stage, so it’s probably partly that as well. G: I think maybe I feel a bit more reverent. Like, it’s a pretty great honour to be on stage. I also probably have to pay the most attention, because I’m the most novice still at my instrument, so I have to not let my guard down otherwise I’ll fuck up. C: You do look like you approach it with a reverence, it’s quite cute. G: I’m still really stoked to even continue to be asked to come back to play in the band, and it’s always a great honour that people want to come and watch. H: Yeah, totally. S: What other parts of your life influence the way you play music? G: I feel like I approach it in a very similar way to the way I approach visual art. C: Yeah, even in the new song, the way Georgette plays drums kind of forms a figure 8, so it’s pretty visual. G: I like listening to other songs and maybe thinking about how to steal the drumbeat. Oh, and Charlotte’s emotional states. C: *Laughs* do they inspire you? G: No, they inspire you to write lyrics! C: Oh yeah, totally. It’s quite fun that anything that happens around us could inspire a song, you know? […] And our mum! She inspires us. S: Speaking of your mum, what kind of role does she play in your collective musical lives? G: I just can’t get over how cool it is that we were all inside her stomach! Or her womb I mean. C: She’s just so cool! I have this weird thing where I really need her approval for stuff. Knowing that she’s got our backs, it’s a really nice to be able to make music and know that she likes it. I would understand if she didn’t like it and we’d still make music — G: Well, we might not. Would we still make it if she didn’t like it? C: Maybe not! She can be harsh. I was just thinking about this time when I was drawing and she didn’t like it, and Georgette says I haven’t drawn since then! G: And I was trying to make illustrations for a children’s book and she didn’t like it, and then I just couldn’t do it anymore. C: We’re whipped! Whipped on our mum. S: That’s beautiful, but also a little bit sad. C: Yeah actually, don’t put that in, we’ll sound like freaks! S: You’re not freaks, you just love your mum! Ok, now I’m gonna wrap it up with a hard question: if you could choose any band or artist to cover any song of yours, which band and which song would you choose? C: I’m gonna say The Weeknd, covering our song “When The Night Breaks Up”. I feel like that song would just suit him. G: I want Charlotte to cover “Pure Morning” by Placebo. Or Micachu to do a Womb cover, of ‘Here We Bend (To Smell the Dirt)’. C: Ooh yeah, that’s a good one. Alexa Casino didn’t do a cover, but she did a remix of “Satellite” and it’s so cool, I wish we’d written the song like that. H: Yeah, it’s got bells and stuff in it. So cool. Womb are currently working on new stuff, and don’t have any live shows on the horizon. In the meantime, you can find their debut album at w–o–m–b.bandcamp.com ← Philosoraptor Talking With My Dad About Sex →

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Study encounters The Gundecha Brothers are the most active performers of the ancient Indian musical vocal genre known as Dhrupad on the world musical scene today. They have made numerous international tours visiting more than 25 countries around the globe and have recorded more than three dozen CDs from various national and international music labels. In 2012, Umakant and Ramakant, received from the government of India the Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian honor of India, for their contribution to Indian classical music. Together with Akhilesh, the youngest brother and a performer on the barrel drum known as pakhāvaj, they operate the Dhrupad Sansthan in Bhopal, India, a unique musical academy patterned on the ancient guru-shishya (teacher-disciple) tradition of education, with students from more than 20 countries, as well as from various parts of India, participating. Born in Ujjain in central India, the brothers were initiated into music by their parents. All three received conventional university educations while also studying music. Umakant and Ramakant learned from the renowned Dhrupad vocalist Ustad Zia Fariduddin Dagar, and also with the late Ustad Zia Mohiuddin Dagar (the distinguished performer of rudra vīṇa) at the Dhrupad Kendra in Bhopal. Akhilesh, the youngest brother, studied the pakhawaj with the prominent percussionists Pandit Shrikant Mishra and Raja Chhatrapati Singh Judeo, and in addition to his brothers, has accompanied almost all of the major Dhrupad vocalists and instrumentalists of India. All of the brothers appear regularly on local and national radio and television. The Gundecha Brothers are recognized as being among the foremost exponents of Dhrupad. They travel around the world performing and teaching this form of Indian music.

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Vietnam to vie Qatar for experience, says VFF President Wednesday, July 06, 2011 18:38 Nguyen Trong Hy, President of Vietnam Football Federation, said at a press briefing Vietnam took part in the 2014 World Cup with the first aim of broadening experiences and the matches with a mighty Qatar late this month is also not beyond this goal. President Nguyen Trong Hy in this Monday press conference On consideration, Hy and Vietnam Football Federation or VFF saw that two overwhelmingly 6-0 and 7-1 victories against Macau in the 2014 World Cup qualifiers could not reflect accurately the ability of German coach Falko Goetz and current Vietnam National Football Team. According to Hy, VFF only encouraged national team with some hundred million of VND for their big win over a weak opponent like Macau. It, however, is willing to remunerate national team a sizable sum of money for their dazzling performance in the second round with such a formidable obstacle as Qatar, host of the 2022 World Cup. Hy also asserted that Vietnam knew its position in the world ranking. Vietnam National Football Team, therefore, only participates in the 2014 World Cup with the purpose of accumulating experiences, especially for the 2012 AFF Cup, not with the hope of being a participant in the final round in Brazil. As regards head coach Falko Goetz, the VFF’s chairman also give some positive comments on the German coach’s effort. In his view, Goetz helped improve the competence of footballers in national team. He is also very friendly with the footballers and only strict at work. If one footballer, however, cannot get over a training session for any reason or does not show his attempt during the training, he will not be allowed to play until he completely deals with his shortcomings. With their first triumph in the qualifiers, Vietnam is on its way to play Qatar in the second round. The first leg will be held at Al-Sadd Stadium of Doha on July 23 and the second leg will follow behind at My Dinh National Stadium five days later. In the FIFA World Ranking last updated on June 29, Qatar is now ranked 94th while Vietnam is spotted at 140th, 46 places lower than Qatar. By Gia Minh – Translated by Huu Duy

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Home » Label Changes » BLACK LINE Leaves Fuji Production BLACK LINE Leaves Fuji Production Sunday, June 22, 2014 at 5:04pm in Label Changes, News BLACK LINE announced earlier this week that as of June 12th, BLACK Line and the band’s management company, Fuji Production, parted ways. For fans who may be unaware, Fuji Production has had their thumb on the pulse of the visual kei industry, supporting bands such as DOLLY, LIPHLICH and BLACK LINE. While working with these talented bands, they have also worked closely with marder suitcase and Grime Records and will no doubt continue their work within the industry. Fuji Production and BLACK LINE have worked together since November of 2012. It is not uncommon for management companies and bands to come to mutually-beneficial farewells, and it seems that the end of their contract was taken well by both parties. BLACK LINE made the announcement on June 18th, which has been translated for your reading pleasure by Shattered-Tranquility’s Bambi. BLACK LINE News FUJI PRODUCTION, Inc. and BLACK LINE thank you for your continued support. We would like to inform you that as of June 12, 2014, BLACK LINE have now fulfilled their contract with FUJI PRODUCTION, and both have reached the mutual decision to part ways. This step has been taken with the utmost good will, following mutual consultation as to future objectives. We wish each other the best in future endeavours and hope you will do so as well. FUJI PRODUCTION, Inc. [BLACK LINE INFORMATION] info@blackline-official.com * Letters and gifts to the band may be sent c/o FUJI PRODUCTION until June 30, 2014. What does this mean for BLACK LINE? At this time, it is unclear on the after-affects, but it does not look like fans will need to worry. With the release of their newest EP, “This is War” released earlier in the month, along with a full schedule until the end of August, fans will certainly have a lot to look forward to. However, S-T will keep on the lookout for new information regarding BLACK LINE’s next move, so make sure to follow us on twitter, facebook, and tumblr to receive your daily dose of visual news! Source: OHP, FUJI PRODUCTION Tags: BLACK LINE BLACK LINE Leaves Fuji Production Reviewed by Sai on Jun 22 . BLACK LINE announced earlier this week that as of June 12th, BLACK Line and the band's management company, Fuji Production, parted ways. For fans who may be una BLACK LINE announced earlier this week that as of June 12th, BLACK Line and the band's management company, Fuji Production, parted ways. For fans who may be una Rating: vistlip Theme Songs All AroundWeekly Discussion Question Round Tw... Introducing: Merry Badend

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703-352-SSWR(7797) About SSWR 2020 SSWR Awards Awards History JSSWR Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research (JSSWR) Membership Directory (members-only) Social Work Research Network (SWRNet) Organizations/Socities Job Posts SSWR Board of Directors SSWR Bylaws SSWR Strategic Plan Contact SSWR Doctoral Student Center Click here for access NEW, earlier, deadline for SSWR abstracts is April 15th Please mark your calendars! The new deadline for abstract submissions is April 15 of each year. The 2020 Call for Papers for the 24th Annual Conference "Reducing Racial and Economic Inequality" will be available March 1, 2019, with the submission deadline of April 15, 2019. BYLAWS OF THE SOCIETY FOR SOCIAL WORK AND RESEARCH, INC., The Society for Social Work and Research is a non-profit (Federal ID Number 13-3768131), professional society incorporated in the State of New York in 1993. The Society is devoted to the involvement of social workers, other social work faculty, and social work students in research and to promotion of human welfare through research and research applications. ARTICLE I – NAME AND PURPOSE 1. The name of the organization shall be the Society for Social Work and Research, Inc., also referred to herein as SSWR and the Society. 2. The Society for Social Work and Research promotes development and dissemination of high quality research to improve the social welfare of all people. encourages the design, implementation and dissemination of high quality research that addresses critical social practice and social policy issues; fosters a support network among researchers conducting research on social work practice and social policy in the United States and around the world; provides learning opportunities to improve the conduct of social work-relevant research and its application; endorses practices and policies grounded in the best available evidence; promotes increased research funding and training programs for social workers; provides formal recognition of significant contributions to social work-relevant research; and seeks active partnerships with other social work and research-related organizations to accomplish all of the above ARTICLE II. MEMBERSHIP AND DUES 1. Membership in the Society shall be from January 1 to December 31. For other purposes, including the terms of elected officers, terms “annual” or “year” shall refer to the time between the close of the annual Conference and close of the next following annual Conference. Should an annual Conference be cancelled or postponed, the Board of Directors shall set a time when the next Society year begins. 2. Membership classes shall be: Full, Student, Associate and Emeritus. (a) Full members are persons who have a bachelors, masters, or doctoral degree in social work or social welfare; and faculty teaching in social work programs. (b) Student members are students in a bachelors, masters, or doctoral degree programs in social work or social welfare. (c) Associate members are persons who are not otherwise eligible for Full or Student membership. (d) Emeritus members are persons who have been continuous members of the Society for at least five years and are retired from their primary place of employment, and who make a written request to the Society for Emeritus status. 3. All members are entitled to attend meetings of the Society, to receive its publication(s), and to receive other communications authorized by the Society. Full, Student, Associate and Emeritus members have voting rights, and, except for those holding Associate membership, are eligible for elective office in the Society. 4. Membership dues shall be established by the Board of Directors for the various classes of membership. Any changes in the dues schedule shall take effect at the beginning of the next membership year. Failure to pay dues by the end of the membership year will result in suspension of membership privileges. ARTICLE III. OFFICERS, DUTIES, AND TERMS OF OFFICE 1. The officers of the Society shall consist of a president, a president-elect, a past-president, a vice-president, a vice-president-elect, a past vice-president, a secretary, and a treasurer. Each shall perform the usual duties of the respective office and specific duties provided elsewhere in these Bylaws or as assigned by the Board of Directors. 2. The president shall serve one year as president-elect, two years as president, and one additional year as past-president, and may not hold any other office within the Society while President. The president is responsible for all aspects of leadership of the Society, including but not limited to the following: supervising the conduct of the annual conference; representing and speaking for the Society; signing contracts and other documents on behalf of the Society, except as such duties are assigned to the treasurer; and performing other duties authorized by the Board of Directors. The president shall appoint chairs of all standing committees, subject to the advice and consent of the Board, from among members of the Society. The president is an ex-officio member of all standing committees except for the Nominations and Elections Committee. 3. The President-elect shall serve in this capacity for one year. He/she will assist the President in his/her duties and will serve on selected committees of the Society as specified in these bylaws. The President-elect shall fulfill the duties of the President in case of the President’s absence, incapacity, or resignation. 4. The vice-president shall serve a three-year term, the first year as vice president-elect, the second year as vice president, and the third year as past vice-president, and may not hold any other office during that time. The vice president shall serve as the chair of the Conference Committee, while the vice-president-elect will assist in this function. During periods when there is no president-elect, the vice-president shall serve as president in the event of the president’s resignation, lengthy absence, or incapacity, until a new president takes office. 5. The secretary and treasurer will each serve a three-year term, and may not hold any other office within the Society during that time. The secretary shall: (a) record, maintain and distribute minutes of the annual membership meeting and regular meetings of the Board of Directors; (b) maintain important papers and records for the Society’s archives; (c) maintain and deposit minutes, committee reports, and other reports to the Society’s archives; and (d) maintain records of all ballots of elections, and other matters voted upon by the membership, The treasurer shall (a) receive, have custody of, and disburse the funds of the Society subject to authorization of the Board of Directors, (b) oversee maintenance of records of all receipts and disbursements, preparation of financial statements, annual dues notices, and records of dues payments, and carry on the routine business and fiscal affairs of the Society; (c) arrange for an independent audit of the accounts annually, (d) with approval from the Board of Directors, sign contracts and other authorized documents on behalf of the Society; and (e) prepare an annual budget based on plans developed by the Board of Directors and the committee chairs. ARTICLE IV. BOARD OF DIRECTORS, DUTIES, AND TERMS OF OFFICE 1. The Board of Directors shall consist of (a) the officers of the Society and (b) nine members-at-large. One member-at-large serves as student member and is elected for two years. One member-a-large serves as an early career member and is elected for three years. The early career member shall have completed their PhD no longer than four years prior to the start of their term. Eight are elected for staggered three-year terms. All members shall have voting privileges. The Board of Directors is the governing body of the Society and interprets the Bylaws. It is responsible for policy formulation for the Society and has responsibility for the general and fiscal affairs of the Society. It fills all vacancies among officers and board members not provided for in other ways, with such appointees to hold office until the installation of new officers at the next annual membership meeting of the Society. It establishes plans and call for both regular and, if necessary, special meetings of the Society. It may create and dissolve ad hoc committees as are deemed necessary to carry out the functions and achieve the objectives of the Society. 2. An elected member of the Board of Directors has no specific duties other than those assigned to the Board by the Bylaws, or special assignments made by the president or the Board of Directors. 3. In the event of a death, resignation, or inability of a Board member to perform his or her duties, the Board shall appoint a successor to complete the remaining term. 4. Board members must be dues paying members of the Society and shall have been members of the Society for at least one year prior to their nomination for office. 5. Members of the Board of Directors may serve only two terms in the same capacity, but may run for the Board in a different capacity after their term in their previous position is completed. No member of the Board may serve more than two consecutive terms in any position. ARTICLE V. COMMITTEES OF THE SOCIETY 1. The Executive Committee shall be comprised of the President, President-elect/Past President, Vice President, Vice President-elect, Secretary and Treasurer. The Executive Committee shall make recommendations to the Board and may exercise such powers of the Board of Directors as may be necessary between meetings of the Board, reporting such actions at the next regularly scheduled meeting of the Board of Directors, except that the Executive Committee does not have authority to exercise powers of the Board of Directors as to the following matters: (1) the submission to the members of any matter required to be submitted to the members by state law, (2) the filling of vacancies on the Board of Directors or any committee, (3) the fixing of any compensation of the directors for serving on the Board of Directors or any committee, (4) the amendment or repeal of any bylaw or the adoption of new bylaws, (5) the amendment or repeal of any resolution of the Board of Directors that, by its own terms, cannot be amended or repealed, (6) the election or removal of officers or directors, (7) the approval of a merger or a plan of dissolution, (8) the sale of all or substantially all of the assets of the Society, or (9) the approval of amendments to the certificate of incorporation. Meetings of the Executive Committee shall be called by the President or by two-thirds of the Board membership. 2. The Committees of the Society shall consist of such standing committees as may be provided by these Bylaws and such special committees as may be established by the Board of Directors. 3. The Nomination and Election Committee shall consist of at least five people and a chair. The chair shall be selected by the president and approved by the Board of Directors, from among the members-at-large of the Board. The members of the Committee shall be selected by the chair and approved by the Board and should include members appointed from the Society’s general membership. The Nomination and Election Committee shall secure nominations from the members of the Society who are in good standing and shall ascertain whether the nominees are qualified and willing to serve if elected. From those nominees who meet these criteria, the Nomination and Election Committee will designate a double slate of candidates who will run for open positions on the Board. On all ballots, the membership will be given the opportunity to write in a candidate for each office who the Nominations and Elections Committee has not designated as part of the official slate of candidates. The Board of Directors shall be elected by majority vote on ballots sent to Members and returned to the Nominations and Elections Committee. The Nomination and Election Committee shall be responsible for making a preferential count of the election ballots and reporting the results to the Board of Directors and the membership at its annual membership meeting. 4. The Conference Committee shall consist of at least six members, including the vice-president as chair. Other members of the Committee will include the vice president-elect, the past program chair/immediate past vice-president, the president-elect, one member-at-large who will serve as the volunteer coordinator for the annual conference, one member-at-large who will serve as the chair of the Awards Committee, and other individuals as deemed appropriate by the Board. The Conference Committee shall be responsible for overseeing all aspects of program planning for the Society’s annual conference, including but not limited to abstract review, selection and scheduling of presentations; presentation of awards; volunteer coordination, recruitment and assignment of session moderators; and production/editing of the conference program. 5. The Awards Committee shall consist of at least four members, including the chair, who is a member-at-large of the Board of Directors, appointed by the president. The Committee membership will include the president and two members of the Society, appointed by the chair. The Committee shall be responsible for soliciting nominations and selecting awardees for all awards presented by the Society, with the exception of the Distinguished Career Achievement Award, which is the responsibility of the President. Subcommittees for each of the Society’s awards may be established by the chair of the Awards Committee. 6. The Finance Committee will consist of at least four members of the Society. It will be chaired by the treasurer of the Society, and will include the president, past president, the president-elect, and at least one other member of the Society. The Committee shall be responsible for fiscal planning and management of the Society and will make recommendations to the Board regarding such matters as budgeting, dues structure, conference fees, as well as investment and protection of the Society’s assets. 7. The Committee on Publications will consist of at least five members of the Society. It will be chaired by a member of the Board of Directors and will include no more than one other member of the Board. 8. The Fund Development Committee will consist of at least five members of the Society including the chair, who is a member-at-large of the Board of Directors, appointed by the president. The Committee membership will include the treasurer and at least three members of the Society, appointed by the chair. The Committee shall be responsible for developing and implementing fund development plans to advance the work of the Society. 9. The Membership Committee will consist of at least five members of the Society. It will be chaired by a member of the Board of Directors and will include no more than one other member of the Board. The Committee shall be responsible for recruiting new members to the Society and to retain existing members. 10. The Social Policy Committee shall consist of at least six members. It will be chaired by a member of the Board of Directors. The members of the Social Policy Committee shall be selected by the chair and shall include members appointed from the Society’s general membership. 11. The Research Capacity Development Committee shall be co-chaired by two members of the Board, including the early career member-at-large and consist of at least three Board members, including the doctoral student representative to the Board, and at least four members from the Society’s general membership. 12. The Communications Committee shall consist of at least five members of the Society. It will be chaired by a member of the Board of Directors and will include no more than one other member of the Board. The Committee shall oversee a consistent and active communications strategy, strengthening the Society’s brand and developing web, social media and print materials clearly presenting the Society’s purpose, programs and activities. 13. The Doctoral Student Committee shall consist of at least six members of the Society. It will be chaired by the Student Member at Large of the Board of Directors and will include no other members of the Board. The Committee shall be responsible for the purpose, programs, and activities for doctoral students thereby strengthening doctoral student participation in the Society. ARTICLE VI. MEETINGS OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS 1. The Board of Directors shall meet on a regular and/or periodic schedule to be determined by the president and the Board of Directors each year. Members of the Board of Directors may hold or participate in a meeting of Directors by means of conference telephone or similar communications equipment, and provided that all persons participating in the meeting can hear each other at the same time, this shall constitute presence in person at the meeting. 2. The Board of Directors shall meet at least once during the annual meeting, at a time and place to be announced in advance to the members of the Society, and shall be available to receive verbal or written communications from the members at that time and place. At the annual Board of Directors meeting coincidental to the annual membership meeting, the treasurer and the committee chairs shall present written reports of their activities during the past year and be available for questions and discussions. Special meetings of the Board of Directors may be called by the President or a majority of its members. 3. Nine members of the Board of Directors shall constitute a quorum. The meeting shall be conducted according to Robert’s Rules of Order, Revised. Any action required or permitted to be taken by the Board may be voted upon without a meeting if all members of the Board receive mail or electronic mail and the votes are returned in the same manner. Mail or electronic mail votes shall be filed with the minutes of the Board. ARTICLE VII. MEETINGS OF THE MEMBERSHIP 1. A general meeting of the Society shall be held every year for the transaction of business, presentations of scientific information and for other purposes germane to the objectives of the Society. 2. A general membership meeting shall be held during the annual meeting for the discussion of the business of the Society, including the presentation of reports and communication to inform the members on matters of interest to the Society, and to permit responses from the Society’s officers to questions and suggestions from the membership. A summary of actions taken by officers, committee chairs, and the Board of Directors shall be presented to the membership and an opportunity will be provided for questions from the membership. The membership meeting shall be scheduled at a time that is not in conflict with other sessions. The president will chair the meeting. A treasurer’s report will be presented. The presence of not less than 5% of the members of the Society shall constitute a quorum and shall be necessary to conduct official business. Any decision taken at such a meeting shall be subject to ratification by membership in a referendum. 3. The Board of Directors may authorize additional meetings and may cancel or postpone the annual meeting. ARTICLE VIII. ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE OF THE SOCIETY The Board of Directors may establish an administrative office for the Society and allocate to it responsibility for day to day operations of the Society, and provide funds for the office to complete the tasks involved in the operations of the Society. The Board of Directors may appoint an executive director or an administrative director or other professional staff, define the director’s duties, approve compensation or contract fees and terminate the executive or administrative director’s employment. The executive director or administrative director will be specifically accountable to the president of the Society and the Finance Committee. ARTICLE IX. AMENDMENTS 1. These Bylaws may be amended by a two-thirds vote of members who reply to a ballot sent to the total membership using the most current electronic mail address of the members. Bylaws amendments may be initiated by the Board of Directors, or by a petition of 5% of the total membership. 2. At least every six years after the adoption of these Bylaws, the Board of Directors shall appoint a committee to review these Bylaws and to recommend changes in them. ARTICLE X. DISSOLUTION In the event of the dissolution of the Society, any net assets shall be distributed to one or more organizations which have established appropriate exemption status under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, contributions to which organization(s) are deductible, and reflect similar goals and objectives of the Society. ARTICLE XI. INDEMNIFICATION 1. The Society shall indemnify any person who was or is a party, or is threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative (other than an action by or in the right of the Society) by reason of the fact that such person is or was a director or officer of the Society, or a chair or member of any committee or task force of the Society, against expenses (including attorneys’ fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement, actually and reasonably incurred by such person in connection with such action, suit or proceeding, if such person acted in good faith and in a manner such person reasonably believed to be in, or not opposed to, the best interest of the Society, and, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe that such person’s conduct was unlawful. The termination of any action, suit or proceeding by judgment, order, settlement, conviction, or upon a plea of nolo contendere or its equivalent, shall not, of itself, create a presumption that the person did not act in good faith and in a manner which such person reasonably believed to be in, or not opposed to, the best interest of the Society, and, with respect to the criminal action or proceeding, had reasonable cause to believe that such person’s conduct was unlawful. 2. The Society shall indemnify any person who was or is a party, or is threatened to be made a party, to any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding by or in the right of the Society to procure a judgment in its favor by reason of the fact that such person is or was a director or officer of the Society, or a chair or member of any committee or task force of the Society, against expenses (including attorneys’ fees) actually and reasonably incurred by such person in connection with the defense or settlement of such action or suit, if such person acted in good faith and in a manner such person reasonably believed to be in, or not opposed to, the best interest of the Society. No indemnification shall be made in respect of any claim, issue or matter as to which such person shall have been adjudged to be liable for negligence or misconduct in the performance of such person’s duty to the Society, unless, and only to the extent that, a court in which action or suit was brought shall determine upon application that, despite the adjudication of liability, but in view of all the circumstances of the case, such person is fairly and reasonably entitled to indemnity for such expenses. 3. The Society shall have power to purchase and maintain insurance covering the Society and any person who is or was a director, officer, employee, agent, or chair or member of a committee, task force, or similar group of the Society, against liability asserted against such persons and incurred in any such capacity, or arising out of such person’s status as such, whether or not the Society would have the power to indemnify such person against such liability under the provisions of this Article XI. Any amounts payable as indemnification under this Article XI shall be limited by the amount of money collectible under the Society’s insurance coverage. Approved by SSWR Membership December 2018. © 2019 SSWR — Society for Social Work and Research. All Rights Reserved 11240 Waples Mill Road, Suite 200 • Fairfax, VA 22030 • 703-352-SSWR • info@sswr.org

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What is Nova & SuperNova? Rise Horizon :: Others :: Sciences by Cursakandine on Thu Nov 26, 2009 7:05 pm NOVA AND SUPERNOVA(Lat. novus,"new"), in astronomy, names of two kinds of explosive events that take place in some stars. A nova is a star that suddenly increases greatly in brightness and then slowly fades, but may continue to exist for some time. A supernova exhibits the same pattern of behavior, but the causative explosion destroys or profoundly alters the star. Supernovas are much rarer than novas, which are observed fairly frequently in photographs of the sky. Novas Before the era of modern astronomy, a star that appeared suddenly where none had been seen before was called a nova, or "new star". This is a misnomer, as the stars involved had existed long before they became visible to the naked eye. Astronomers estimate that perhaps about a dozen novas occur in the Milky Way, or the earth's galaxy, each year, but two or three are too distant to be seen or are obscured by interstellar matter. Indeed, novas are often more easily observed in other, nearby galaxies rather than in the earth's. Novas are named according to the year of their occurrence and the constellation in which they appear. Typically, a nova flares up to several thousand times its original brightness in a matter of days or hours. It next enters a transition stage, during which it may fade and grow bright again and then fade gradually to or near its original level of brightness. Novas may be considered variable stars in a late stage of evolution. They apparently behave as they do because their outer layers have built up an excess of helium through nuclear reactions and expand too rapidly to be contained. The star explosively emits a small fraction of its mass as a shell of gas--the cause of the increase in brightnes--and then settles down. Such a star is typically a white dwarf and is commonly thought to be the smaller member of a binary (two-star) system, subject to a continuous infall of matter from the larger star. This is perhaps always the case with dwarf novas, which erupt repeatedly at regular intervals of a few to hundreds of days. Novas in general show a relationship between their maximum brightness and the time they take to fade a certain number of magnitudes. By means of measurements of nearer novas of known distance and magnitude, astronomers can use novas in other galaxies as indicators of the distance to those galaxies. Supernovas A supernova explosion is far more spectacular and destructive than a nova and much rarer. Such events may occur no more than once every few years in the Galaxy; and despite their increase in brilliance by a factor of billions, only a few are ever observable to the naked eye. Until 1987, only three had been positively identified in recorded history, the best known of which is the one that occurred in ad 1054 and is now known as the Crab nebula. Supernovas, like novas, are more often seen in other galaxies. Thus, the most recent supernova, which appeared in the southern hemisphere on Feb. 24, 1987, was found located in a companion galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud. This supernova, which exhibits some unusual traits, is now the object of intense astronomical scrutiny. The mechanisms that produce supernovas are less certain than those of novas, particularly in the case of stars approximately as massive as the earth's sun, an average star. Stars that are much more massive, however, sometimes explode in the late stages of their rapid evolution as a result of gravitational collapse, when the pressure created by nuclear processes within the star is no longer able to withstand the weight of the star's outlying layers. Little may remain after the explosion except the expanding shell of gases. The Crab nebula has left behind a pulsar, or rapidly rotating neutron star. Supernovas are significant contributors to the interstellar material that forms new stars. Cursakandine Location : Jurong west

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doctors performed the procedure the following day Indice del forum -> Tessuti Dogcat250 Inviato: Gio Lug 11, 2019 4:39 am Oggetto: doctors performed the procedure the following day CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- The Charlotte Bobcats say head coach Steve Clifford will coach Monday night against the Atlanta Hawks after having two stents placed in his heart Friday. The Bobcats first-year head coach checked himself into a Charlotte hospital with chest pains Thursday night. He was hospitalized overnight and doctors performed the procedure the following day. Associate head coach Patrick Ewing filled in as head coach against the New York Knicks on Friday night, a game the Bobcats lost 101-91 to fall to 3-3. The 52-year-old Clifford joined the Bobcats during this off-season, replacing Mike Dunlap, who was fired after one season. Clifford will have a busy week as the Bobcats have four games in six days beginning Monday. . With one penalty, Fourcade finished in 24 minutes, 58.2 seconds, just nine-tenths of a second ahead of Timofey Lapshin, who shot clean in the cold. . It looked like being another miserable day for Moyes when Ashley Westwood put Villa in front from a 13th-minute free kick. But Rooney headed United level seven minutes later, and the striker netted his 16th of the season for the struggling champions from the penalty spot before halftime. .com) - The Vancouver Canucks will try to win two straight games for the first time since mid-January on Monday night as they play host to the struggling New York Islanders. . The Extreme Heat Policy was enacted at Melbourne Park just before 2 p.m. Thursday, suspending all matches on outer courts until the early evening and requiring the closure of the retractable roofs at Rod Laver and Hisense arenas before play could continue on the show courts. . The 23-year-old Poland international is back as first choice at Arsenal after losing his regular spot in the team on occasions over the last three seasons. After a somewhat calm first round against the Tampa Bay Lightning, the Montreal Canadiens are gearing up for what is expected to be an intense second round matchup against the Original Six rival Boston Bruins. The Habs have won three of the four meetings against the Bruins this season but that doesnt mean much for the Habs. "They have so much playoff experience," said Canadiens forward Daniel Briere. "The Bruins have been to the Stanley Cup Finals twice in the past three years; winning once and losing to the Chicago Blackhawks last season. They are a team that knows what it takes to win. " Emotions are expected to play a key role in this series and the team that does a better job keeping them in check could possibly be the one that comes out on top. "Coming into this series, Im sure that is something we are going to talk a lot about," Briiere added.dddddddddddd "We need to be good at controlling our emotions and I expect the Bruins to do the same." The Canadiens have been able to get under the Bruins skin this season and forced them to play their style of game, but what has worked in the regular season doesnt automatically mean it will have the same result in the postseason. "The playoffs are a completely different game; we know we have a great challenge ahead of us. Were going to have to fight for everything," Josh Gorges told the media on Sunday. Now that the Canadiens know who theyll be facing in the second round, Michel Therrien has made a slight change to his line up at practice, opting to put the now healthy Travis Moen on the fourth line and replacing rookie Michael Bournival; a move to bring in more veteran presence against a very experienced Bruins team. Inviato: Gio Lug 11, 2019 4:39 am Oggetto: Adv Indice del forum -> Tessuti Tutti i fusi orari sono GMT + 1 ora

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Ten Cool Breeders Songs That Aren’t “Cannonball” I like the Breeders, ok. But most of the time when I mention them the reaction I usually get is “Oh, they did that “Cannonball” song, right?” Yeah, but they did a whole lot of other really cool songs, so I’ve compiled this handy list of ten cool Breeders songs that aren’t Cannonball. It’s a good place to get started if you wish to explore the Breeders further than “Cannonball”. Doe – Pod This song is about giving a guy a blow job, then burning a field. Steve Albini produced “Doe”, along with the rest of the songs on “Pod”, so it’s got this really stripped back sound. The drumming almost sounds like a metronome, like it’s keeping the beat and nothing more. The guitars and bass almost meld into one, a driving surge of sound, until bit before the chorus where things separate out and the guitars get all chimey. The best vocal bit is when Tanya Donnelly sings “ah, ah-ah” and it sounds so sexy, like porn stars wish they could sound like that, then over the top Kim Deal sings, “he said doe, doe, doe, doe”. Happiness is a Warm Gun – Pod This is a cover of a Beatles’ song. Unlike the Beatles’ version it doesn’t have that dirrrty guitar before the “I need a fix” part, but when the “Mother Superior jumped the gun” bit jolts in, it’s like a sonic kick in the pants. It also improves the Beatles’ version by getting rid of the annoying “I got my finger on your trigger” part. The Beatles might have been trying to parallel guns and sex, but the Breeders manage to make guns sexy. Bang, bang, shoot, shoot. Don’t Call Home – Safari EP It’s almost a minute before the vocals start. First there are drums, fuzzy guitar, acoustic guitar, creamy lead guitar, subtle-yet-funky bass and strategic moments of silence. So when the vocals come along, they’d better be pretty good, and they are, fitting in perfectly amidst the instruments. Then along come the sounds of a distant firetruck, a man mumbling about things, and some really excellent squeally guitar, and then things get quite and Kim sings, “don’t even write.” I Just Wanna Get Along – Last Splash Rumour has it that his song was Kim’s kiss-off to Frank Black after the Pixies broke up (“We were rich once before your head exploded”), but she cleverly got her sister Kelley to sing it instead. Driven by bass and drums, with guitars and feedback crunching in for emphasis, IJWGA is short, but very cool. The best bit is when Kelley spits out, “if you’re so special, why aren’t you dead?” Lord of the Thighs – Cannonball EP This is a cover of an Aerosmith song, sung in the deadpan English voice of Josephine Wiggs, the Breeders’ ultracool lesbian bass player. Where Steven Tyler screamed, she politely asks, “Well, Lord, my God, what do we got here?” This song doesn’t include the guitar solo, apparently because Kelley Deal wasn’t good enough at playing the guitar to be on par with Joe Perry’s licks. It’s funny, but it’s not a pisstake. I Can’t Help It If I’m Still In Love With You – Divine Hammer EP Oh hey, it’s another cover version, but it’s another b-side, so that’s allowed to be a cover ok. I’ve included this one because it’s just Kim and Kelley singing with an acoustic guitar. Legend has it that the very first incarnation of The Breeders was the Deal sisters singing country songs at truckstops. Their vocal harmonies on this Hank Williams Jr song are heavenly. Saints – Single version The album version is good, but this version, rerecorded and produced by J. Mascis for the single is so much better. It starts off with a burst of feedback, which gets louder, like someone’s turned up the volume, then the guitar blurts in and, “I like all the different people, I like sticky everywhere!” With the chorus of “summer is ready when you are,” this is a song for both hot summer days and cold winter nights. It’s also an excellent rock song. Head To Toe – Head To Toe 9″ This song was written by Josephine Wiggs, and a much slower, gentler version appears on The Josephine Wiggs Experience “Bon Bon Lifestyle” album. But Kim Deal wanted it faster, faster, faster, so it was magically transformed into a rollicking punk song with a great shout-along chorus, “Your face! Looks good! To me!” It’s kind of the opposite in theme to “Don’t call home” – it’s about coming home to someone you want to be with. Bragging Party – (The Amps) Pacer “Pacer” is really the Breeders’ unofficial third album; it’s just that due to a few disruptions Kim decided to give the band a different name, ok? I like this song because it’s long and has a simple yet unrelenting beat, and an ever-present guitar chugging along in the background. It’s probably the wordiest of Kim Deal’s songs and the way she sings it is amazing. It’s like she’s duetting with herself. There’s one voice sounding all haggard and nicotine-stained, the other voice is all sweet and pretty. Like both evil and good twin rolled into one. Off You – Title TK This is a really quiet, pretty, almost sad song. The production is rough, but deliberately so. There’s background sounds, a bit of distortion – nothing’s been cleaned up in a computer, and it sounds like it has heart and soul. The most fun bit in the song is near the beginning. Kim sings, “I’m on it,” then a loud, 1960s science fiction kind of noise bursts in, never to be heard from again. Posted on February 11, 2003 February 4, 2019 Author RobynCategories Alright, Music One thought on “Ten Cool Breeders Songs That Aren’t “Cannonball”” Joanne Brass says: Love this. 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WSU named "Great College to Work For" July 27, 2015 September 8, 2015 by wsusignpost Weber State employee Sam Howe of the Bookstore helps a customer (Photo: Jake Alvey/The Signpost). The Chronicle of Higher Education, a trade publication about universities in the United States, recently awarded the “Great College to Work For” title to Weber State University. The award is based on the results of a survey conducted by the Chronicle in which employees of 281 universities and colleges were interviewed. Only 86 institutions received the award. “The Chronicle’s Great Colleges to Work For program shows how the colleges and universities on the list are getting it right: They’re leaders in creating environments where smart people enjoy their work,” said Liz McMillen, editor of The Chronicle. The Chronicle has conducted similar annual surveys since 2007, and the results are considered a major decision-making influence by many seeking employment in higher education. According to McMillen, the rigorous selection process positions universities in a prime situation for recruitment. WSU participated for the first time. According to a press release, WSU’s most convincing performance was in job satisfaction and support, in the balance between work and life and in facilities, workspace and security. “During the first couple of years of my presidency, I’ve come to know that Weber State is a great university to work for, and this survey makes my observations official,” said Charles Wight, WSU president. “We will use the survey results to celebrate our strengths and look at opportunities for improvement.” According to Forrest Crawford, WSU attracts employees from various backgrounds (Source: Weber.edu). Anneli Byrd, who has worked as a secretary at the Student Success Center at WSU for four years, was not surprised by the survey results. “People here are genuinely friendly, and everyone helps each other out, even across departments,” she said. Her co-worker Krystal Banner agreed, saying that everyone working at WSU was “part of a big team.” “I could call the accounting department or the human resources department at anytime, and they would send me instructions or even meet with me in person to walk me through things I couldn’t do on my own when I first started working here,” Byrd said. Byrd also said that the training new WSU employees receive is exceptional. Raechel Ivie, who works as an aid at the Science Lab’s computer lab, sees even more advantages to working for WSU. “Unlike with off-campus employment, the school is very willing to work around your class schedule,” she said, but she added that the support between employees was what impressed her most. Recently, Ivie’s computer lab experienced some issues with its printing station, leaving many students frustrated. Ivie contacted the IT manager, and he came in the same day to fix the problem. The following day, Ivie received a personal email from the science department chair, commending her for her work and her reaction to the problem. “I don’t think a lot of other schools would even take time to do that,” Ivie said. Not only staff but also faculty members expressed their happiness with WSU as an employer. “This university has a track record for valuing employee commitment and loyalty, drawing from a diverse pool of raw talent from a variety of geographic areas,” said Forrest Crawford, a professor in the Education department. Crawford added that building this reputation has improved WSU’s relationship with the community, helping both the school and its surrounding community to prosper permanently. Posted in Campus Service, News Cannabis: Dispelling the myth News in Brief 7/28 The mighty begins to fall Above the Scroll Demolition for the Science Lab building began July 15. By mid-afternoon, the west side of the building already had an exposed cavity marking the start of an estimated two-week demolition […] July 16, 2019 July 17, 2019 by Weston Lee News Quiz 7/15 1. Which member of President Trump’s cabinet resigned July 12 under scrutiny of a case tried in 2008? a. Mike Pompeo, Secretary of State b. Alex Acosta, Secretary of Labor […] July 15, 2019 July 15, 2019 by Jennifer Greenlee Ogden community takes part in national “Lights for Liberty” Protest Culture/Diversity According to USA Today, over 700 cities participated in the Lights for Liberty protest on July 12; Ogden was one of those cities. The community gathered to express their thoughts […] July 15, 2019 July 15, 2019 by Sharon Valverde Vargas

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The world's premiere site on Sikh affairs - art, culture, history, current events Section 01 - Art Section 02 - Film/Stage Section 03 - Poetry Section 04 - Books Section 05 - Columnists Section 06 - Music Section 07 - Faith Section 08 - Fiction Section 09 - History Section 10 - Sports Section 11 - Fashion Section 12 - People Section 13 - Cuisine Section 14 - Architecture Section 15 - Humour Section 16 - Travel Sikhing Answers Our Best Friends Noel Q. King: Scholar, Teacher, Friend Dr. TARLOCHAN SINGH NAHAL He Himself bestows life and death. He is with us, within and beyond. Nanak seeks Sanctuary of The One The Ruler of all hearts. [Guru Granth Sahib] Noel Quinton King, Educator. Born December 8, 1922 in Taxila; Died February 1, 2009 at Corralitos, California. Dr. Noel Q. King, a towering academician, scholar, historian, and a saintly person who illuminated academic and literary circles alike for almost half a century, quietly passed away on February 1, 2009 at his home in Corralitos, California. Noel was the fifth son of Mary and William King. Relations between his family and Sikhs span almost two centuries. His great-grandfather worked for the Khalsa Army in Punjab during the rule of Maharaja Ranjit Singh in the first part of the 19th century as a horse doctor. His father, William King, was an engineer with the Indian Postal and Telegraphs department who laid telegraph lines throughout northern India and up into Tibet. Dr. King's family stayed in India until the 1940s. The young Noel King moved with family from place to place, experiencing true multi-cultural living. Like his elder brothers, he was sent at an early age to the Bishop Cotton School in Simla (then in Punjab) at the foothills of the Himalayas. He grew up virtually bilingual in English and Hindustani (a mixture of Urdu and Hindi), the lingua franca of the British Raj. He frequently spoke with me in Hindustani. He was commissioned into the British Army as a Second Lieutenant and was already in uniform when he married Evelyn in December 1943. After qualifying as a parachutist and being entitled to wear the coveted red beret of the Parachute Regiment, he spent the rest of the time in the war with the 56th Airborne Division Development Unit, analyzing enemy air-drop methods, devising defences against it and researching methods of supplying ground troops from the air. As the war in Europe drew to a conclusion, he was posted to the Indian Army in Manipur (Assam, India) and then at Chaklala Aerodrome which eventually became Rawalpindi's International Airport in Pakistani Punjab. As an army officer in India, he was also in charge of security of certain passenger trains for some time that moved from Punjab and other parts of Northern India. He told me that, at one time, he provided security to the Sikh leader Master Tara Singh while he was travelling on a train. Noel King served in India, Burma and Europe. He was part of the British Indian Army unit that gave the first ground defeat to the Japanese Army in Burma in WWII. He was also present at the ceremony of surrender in Rangoon (Burma). Noel finished his first degree in History and then a degree in Theology. He graduated with First Class Honors, specializing in Early Church History. He received an M.A. degree in History from Oxford University. In 1954, he got his Ph.D. in late Roman Early-Byzantine History and Patristic Theology from the University of Nottingham. Dr. King taught in several universities all over the world including Punjabi University in Patiala, Guru Nanak Dev University in Amritsar, University of Ghana, University of Nottingham, Oxford University, Makerere University (Uganda), University of Papua/New Guinea, University of California at Santa Cruz, and Senior University International. He was one of the most sought after speakers in Sikh academic conferences across the diaspora. In 1957, he moved with his family to Ghana for seven years, where he set up a program of Religious Studies at the University in Accra. In 1964, he accepted the post of Professor and Head of Religious Studies at Makerere University in Uganda. Dr. King was one of the very few scholars belonging to the old school of learning with a deep knowledge of Christianity, Islam, Jainism and Sikhism, among others. He wrote eleven books and contributed chapters to many other books. He also wrote dozens of scholarly articles in various Sikh and other academic journals and encyclopaedias. He was a Patron of The Sikh Review, the oldest Sikh Journal in English, published from Calcutta. Dr. King joined the University of California at Santa Cruz (UCSC) in 1967, where he started a Department of the History of Religion and taught history and comparative religion until his retirement in 1991. On his retirement, the Noel Q. King Lecture was established in 1992 to honor the popular teacher and respected scholar. This annual lecture is presented by the Committee for the Advancement of Religious Studies at UCSC. Dr. King was instrumental in providing foundation courses and a comparative framework for those interested in majoring in religious studies, as well as those students who just wanted to learn about religion in an academic setting. He inspired many young scholars throughout his academic career. Even after his retirement, he continued to write and encourage young scholars to do the same. He guided many students in their research on Sikh history and supervised theses and dissertations on topics related to Sikh history. He was one of a few Western scholars who stood with the Sikhs through thick and thin and fearlessly wrote against those who tried to distort Sikh history in the name of academic research. He was honored for his services to the Panth at the Vishav Sikh Samelan (World Sikh Convention) in Amritsar in 1995, organized by the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (known as the mini parliament of the Sikhs) at the Golden Temple complex. There, he also received recognition from the Jathedar of the Akal Takht, the head caretaker of the highest seat of Sikh temporal authority. He personally guided two Sikh students (the author of this piece and Dr. Raghbir Singh Bains) who received doctorate degrees in Sikhism in North America. Both these students of his have also been honoured by the Akal Takht - which ultimately reflect on Dr. King himself. I met with Dr. King for the first time in 1992 in San Francisco at an academic conference. I was impressed by his scholarship and deep understanding of history and theology and realized that he was not an ordinary scholar. He was a soft-spoken person. Scholarly terms and Latin phrases describing deep theological concepts and unique historical events came out of his mouth effortlessly and both his demeanour and presence created a unique aura that was both uplifting and captivating. I have never seen any scholar who, in an instant, using his vast knowledge of world history and comparative religious studies, could bring out historical gems related to Sikh history which are even unknown to most Sikh scholars. Yet, he was always humble and respectful of others. He never forced his ideas on anyone. We celebrate the life of this great teacher, scholar and friend of the Khalsa who held the Sikhs and the Khalsa in very high esteem. He regularly donated money to the Sikh Gurdwara at San Jose and other Sikh institutions. He also helped Sikhs in many other ways. He genuinely supported academic and historical search till the very end. About four years ago, a young Sikh professor from Amritsar wanted to go to France and Canada to study French in order to better understand Franco-Sikh relations. She did not have the financial resources to pay for the trip. Somehow, the news made it to Dr. King. He generously donated money for that cause, even though, unfortunately, her trip did not materialize due to university bureaucracy. During my research work on Miri and Piri and the Sikh struggle, I visited him on an average of about once a month for three years. Later, I met with him three or four times a year. I was always treated like a family member in his home. In October 2008, I received an e-mail from his assistant Michael Harrington indicating that Dr. King's health was rapidly failing and he urged his friends to see him because his doctor did not give him much time. The message was honest to the core, but it hit me like a thunderbolt. I went to see him the next day. He was quite weak. I spent couple of hours with him, took some notes and updated him on my book project. I visited him again a month later and he looked a bit better. My last visit to him was only three weeks before he passed away. By this time he was quite frail, but he was still as graceful as ever in his manners and conversation. He asked me about my family, my book project, job and other Panthic matters. I told him that my book was in print and the draft would be out in a matter of some weeks. He was elated and as supportive as ever. During my last visit to Dr. King, I also had the opportunity to meet with his eldest son, Francis King, who was visiting him from England. This made my trip even more worthwhile. Francis King is a former Diplomat in the British government who served in various countries, including India. Being a former diplomat, he has a deep understanding of many political and other issues around the world. Like his father, he, too, has had a close relationship with Sikhs in several countries. Francis told me that he was a British diplomat in New Delhi when Indira Gandhi was killed in October 1984. Tens of thousands of innocent Sikhs were massacred in the aftermath in Delhi alone and the women violated, in a government sponsored carnage which continued for several days. A Sikh family lived next door to his residence. They came to Francis and told him that their life and honour was in danger and they needed his help. They wanted him and his wife to give shelter to their women-folk for a few days until things cooled down. He gladly agreed to their request and thus helped in saving Sikh lives and honour for the afflicted family. I was most touched by this story and thanked him on behalf of the community. I hope this relationship continues for many more generations. Dr. King had a very high regard for Guru Granth Sahib and the Sikh Gurus and often quoted Gurbani. Before leaving for a world safari some six years ago, he asked me to bring along a Nitnem Gutka (Daily Sikh Prayer book) so he could read it. He used to travel every year and visited several countries until about three years ago when his health did not allow him to travel anymore. His first preference was always to stay with a Sikh family, whether it was in the US, India, Africa, Canada or some other country, because he trusted them greatly and always felt comfortable in their company. He also had friends all over the globe among all religious communities. He spoke several languages including Punjabi, Hindi, Urdu and Latin. His first wife, Evelyn, died in April 1972 at age 49 due to a brain tumor. Some time later, he married Laurie, who is a well-known novelist. Noel is survived by four children from his first marriage, Francis and Jerome (sons) and Clare and Naomi (daughters), who between them have produced Noel's 11 grandchildren. They, in turn, have given him four great-grandchildren. From his second marriage to Laurie King, he has two children - Nathan and Zoe. Conversation about this article 1: Harbans Lal (Arlington, Texas, U.S.A.), February 07, 2009, 1:14 PM. I wish to ditto Dr. Nahal's account of our dear friend and colleague, Dr. Noel King, and join the Sikh world in celebrating his life. I had many an occasion to meet Dr. King and sometimes work with him on Sikhism seminars and conferences. Throughout his life, Dr. King remained engaged in the study of Sikh religion and history. His love for Sikhi was not limited to his interest in Sikh studies as a scholar, but more so as his earnest wish to practice the Guru's wisdom. He made numerous visits to India and Pakistan to follow up his research and study of Sikhism, and to pay homage to the Sikh holy shrines. Those of us who knew him closely considered him a sehajdhari Sikh who took pride in identifying himself as a member of the Khalsa tradition. He always met me with the Sikh greeting and often confided that he had not cut his hair any more to honor the sentiments of his Khalsa friends. A few years ago, a number of us were invited to participate in the Vishwa Sikh Samelan organized in Amritsar by the Shromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee and organize a Sehajdhari Sikh Session. For some unavoidable circumstances, I could not make it there. I requested Dr. King to represent us, which he did. He participated in the Sehajdhari Sikh session along with Bhai Lakshman Chela Ram. They were both honored by the Panth for their services. On his return, Dr. King told me that while accepting the honor, he mentioned that he was accepting that recognition on behalf of all of us who could not be present there. I thanked him for being so considerate. Like a true Sikh activist, Dr. King was thoroughly concerned with the future of the community. As quoted recently by The Tribune (Chandigarh, Punjab), he once wrote that unless the Sikhs themselves determined on a way ahead, produced suitable leadership and carried out total reconstruction and reform, they were doomed to the classical fate mentioned by Macauliffe of getting an insider's view of how the great Boa constrictor of the Indian jungle dealt with its prey. To honor, Dr. King we must take his advice to heart. 2: H. Singh (Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.), February 07, 2009, 2:27 PM. An excellent scholar, who made palmary contributions to Sikh Studies. Sikhs will miss him dearly. God bless his soul. 3: Doris Jakobsh (Waterloo, Ontario, Canada), February 08, 2009, 11:58 AM. I too wanted to write a few words on the passing of Dr. King. I did not know him well, but have always been impressed with the depth and breadth of his knowledge of all things 'Sikh'. He was also a kind, caring individual. I would receive e-mails, out of the blue, from Dr. King, always supportive, always eager to encourage anyone involved in the study of Sikhs and Sikhism. His 'voice' within Sikh Studies will be missed. Comment on "Noel Q. King: Scholar, Teacher, Friend" *City / Country To help us distinguish between comments submitted by individuals and those automatically entered by software robots, please complete the following. Please note: your email address will not be shown on the site, this is for contact and follow-up purposes only. All information will be handled in accordance with our Privacy Policy. 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Arambula speaks: Spanking was first time, contradicts TV interviews Alex Tavlian May 14, 2019, 11:30 pm May 15, 2019 Comments Off on Arambula speaks: Spanking was first time, contradicts TV interviews After eight days of testimony and countless witnesses, Asm. Joaquin Arambula (D-Fresno) issued his first words since a round of televised interviews on Dec. 12 to detail the incident that placed him in a courtroom on the seventh floor of the Fresno County Superior Court. Eventually, Arambula would contradict those statements. “For the first time in my life, I grabbed my daughter and I spanked her, twice on her bottom,” Arambula told the jury Tuesday morning. Five months ago, amid a round-robin of interviews, Arambula told KSEE 24’s Evan Onstot that spanking his children was a last resort he and his wife, Elizabeth, had used previously. “It’s not something we routinely do, but I did spank her on her bottom,” Arambula told Onstot. He added, later: “It is a tool of last resort, it is not something we do – it is rarely something that we get to do. And yet it is a part of discipline that we have.” Arambula reiterated repeatedly to the jury that he did not strike his daughter on her face on the evening of Dec. 9, but merely spanked her twice. However, on Dec. 10 she reported to teachers and staff at Dailey Elementary School that she had an injury on her face after her father hit her. The seven-year-old’s injuries and subsequent law enforcement investigation led the Fresno County District Attorney to file a single misdemeanor count of child cruelty against Arambula. Arambula testified that, when his daughter was acting out on Dec. 9, he wound up grabbing her arms and engaging in a near-bear hug to restrain her, then ultimately spanked her twice. The emergency room doctor detailed the events following the alleged abuse. When asked by his attorney, Michael Aed, what occurred on the day of Dec. 10, Arambula detailed his morning agenda which, coincidentally, included a meeting with a staffer at the Fresno County District Attorney’s office. While his wife, Elizabeth Arambula, previously testified that she had consulted with Joaquin about the alleged spanking prior to arriving at Dailey Elementary School in the afternoon, the legislator did not testify in similar fashion when asked by Aed. Later, Arambula was asked by Aed about his interaction with law enforcement when he arrived at Dailey Elementary School and what they told him in relation to his daughter’s injury “Law enforcement had a different version,” Arambula started amid an overruled objection. “It was not consistent with what I know me to be.” He testified that, within minutes, he was under arrest and taken to be booked. “For the first time in my life, I was placed behind bars. I was criminalized. I had my mugshot taken,” Arambula rattled off. The Fresno Democrat was placed in a holding cell at Fresno Police Department headquarters. As to the status of his daughters on Dec. 10, Arambula remarked: “They were taken by the government.” Throughout his testimony, Arambula was working through his emotions, often adjusting his voice to fight back tears, or swinging into a mild temper. Toward the end of his examination by Aed, Arambula had been admonished by Judge Alvin Harrell III after a number of non-responsive, editorializing answers to take a deep breath. Assistant District Attorney Steve Wright worked to enlist some of that temper early in his cross examination of the defendant. In his early questions, Wright posed the question: Is it possible for a spanking to cause a bruise to the side of the head? Arambula, after a bit of hesitance, admitted that it was not. Wright dug into Arambula’s gesturing and nodding while the victim, his seven-year-old daughter, testified. At the time, the defendant was admonished by Harrell for nodding his head while his daughter testified. Wright wanted to know if it was a cue to his daughter, part of alleged witness coaching. Arambula denied it on the stand and struck back at Wright. “I was trying to be present and support my daughter while she was on the stand after you subpoenaed her here,” he said from the stand. Wright also probed why Arambula failed to complete his medical residency program. Arambula testified that the program requirements became unnecessary and he took a leave of absence and never returned. As Wright wrapped up his cross examination, he checked one last time to see if Arambula would admit to hitting his daughter. “Absolutely not. I can’t say that more strongly,” Arambula replied. As has ebbed and flowed during the course of the two-week trial, a large cadre of Arambula supporters attended to hear the second-term legislator testify in open court on Tuesday. Among them was Fresno City Councilman Miguel Arias, simultaneously listening to testimony and editing paperwork related to a reform plan on motels in Fresno. Both sides will deliver closing arguments on Wednesday and leave the jury – composed of six men and six women – to deliberate.

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