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Katonah celtic bagpipers Whether celebrating new love at a wedding or commemorating a loved one at a funeral, Celtic Bagpipers can beautifully carry on your culture’s musical tradition. Read reviews and book any of the top-rated musicians near you in the Katonah, NY area. Celtic Bagpipers / New York / Katonah, NY Celtic Bagpipers Please note these Celtic Bagpipers will also travel to Bedford Hills, Goldens Bridge, Purdys, Mount Kisco, Cross River, Shenorock, Granite Springs, Somers, Amawalk, Waccabuc, Croton Falls, Lincolndale, Yorktown Heights, North Salem, Baldwin Place, Bedford, Pound Ridge, South Salem, Mahopac, Mahopac Falls, Jefferson Valley, Millwood, Chappaqua, Shrub Oak, Mohegan Lake, Maryknoll, Cortlandt Manor, Armonk, Crompond, Ossining Are you a celtic bagpiper looking to book more events? Get more celtic bagpiper events today. Top Celtic Bagpipers Near Katonah, NY Are you planning a wedding in Katonah, NY? We can help you find the best vendors and entertainers for your upcoming wedding. The Royal Piper Celtic Bagpipes from New York City, NY (41 miles from Katonah, NY) THE NUMBER 1 BOOKED PIPER ON GIGMASTERS BY FAR..AND FOR GOOD REASON...WINNER OF GIGMASTERS NATIONWIDE TOP BAGPIPER AWARD...RETIRED NYPD..REASONABLY PRICED..IMMACULATELY DRESSED..THE WISE CHOICE OF CLIENTS WHO WANT ONLY THE BEST FOR THEIR SPECIAL EVENT...THE ONLY AMERICAN PIPER TO HAVE PERFORMED PRIVATELY FOR HER MAJESTY QUEEN ELIZABETH II AT BALMORAL CASTLE, SCOTLAND....INCLUDE THE SAME PRESTIGE TO YOUR EVENT! When you want the best, the choice is simple. The Finest in Piping for WEDDINGS,... (more) Kevin 'amazing' Grace Celtic Bagpipes from Harriman, NY (24 miles from Katonah, NY) I have been bagpiping for over 35 years and have played with many organizations including the FDNY Bagpipe band. I have played many funerals, weddings and school functions. I have even played for the 100th birthday celebration of the Brooklyn Bridge! I have played the pipes in Carnegie Hall, St. Patrick's cathedral, and both Yankee and Shea Stadium just to name a few. My specialty is funeral services, but I have experience playing a vast array of events. I would love to make your event a... (more) 'The NYC Piper' Booked 1 Day Ago! #1 RATED TOP PIPER in the area, "The NYC PIPER", Jerry Dixon, should be your FIRST choice in selecting a Bagpiper for your event . "AMAZING", is the word used by many clients to describe him. You've seen his photo everywhere - "THE CLASSIC STANDARD OF A BAGPIPER". Proverbs 22:29 "Do you see a man skilled in his work. He will serve before Kings". Employed by VISIT BRITAIN and VISIT SCOTLAND for their events. Recently opening up the "2013' Irish American Hall of Fame Awards" in NYC,... (more) Durant Mccurley Celtic Bagpipes from East Haven, CT (42 miles from Katonah, NY) Solo bagpipe player. Piping for any occasion, Weddings,funerals,parties and wars(wars paid in advance). Participated in a movie starring Russel Crow, Laura Dern out in 07. Opened for Rod Steward when in connecticut,performed in the musical "Brigadoon".Yearly solo piper for the grand marshall of the New Haven,Ct. St Patrick's Day parade.Guest Piper for the 2017 Pirates Festival in the Grand Cayman Islands. In 27 years ,I have performed at many,many events HAVE PIPES-WILL... (more) Bagpipes and Celtic Music WINNER – BEST OF 2012-2017 - 25 years experience. Darius Kaufmann performs on a wide range of Celtic instruments, including bagpipes, smallpipes, Irish whistle, Irish frame drum (bodhran), spoons and voice. His numerous T.V. and movie credits include "Good Morning America" with Il Divo (see video below), "The Tonight Show", "Conan O'Brien" and Russell Crowe's "Tenderness". He has performed with Sinead O'Connor, and recorded with Tom Chapin on the Grammy-nominated CD "Around the World and... (more) Portland and District Pipers Celtic Bagpipes from Portland, CT (59 miles from Katonah, NY) Portland and District Pipers are Matthew Phelps and Coreyanne Armstrong, two pipers residing in Portland, CT, as well as a select group of high caliber pipers who perform all over New England. Matthew Phelps has been performing the highland bagpipe since the age of eight and also plays Scottish smallpipes. Phelps has performed at hundreds of events throughout New England as well as in Scotland, Ireland, Australia, Switzerland, Canada, Panama, and Italy. Last year's highlights included... (more) Hampton Pipes & Drums Celtic Bagpipes from Bellport, NY (52 miles from Katonah, NY) It's very important to us that our clients are totally satisfied with every performance. If you look at our reviews you will see that this is always the case. Winner of the Best of 2017,2016, 2013 and 2012 Award, Hampton Pipes will bring the fierce and enthralling sound of the Highland Pipes and Drums to your next event. Whatever the desired effect, be it dramatic staging, or sweet background music, we will work with you to achieve it. We have many decades of experience playing Pipe... (more) Ian Underwood - Piper For All Occasions Celtic Bagpipes from Glen Cove, NY (28 miles from Katonah, NY) I am a full time musician and a professional piper of 13 years. I have studied under Jeff Miller, open grade piper John Chalmers, and the great Angus MacColl. From 2002-2003 I served as Pipe Sergeant for a competing pipe band in Connecticut at age 16. While living in Boston, I played for Stuart Highlanders Grade 2. I have played for A-list parties in Manhattan, on recordings for David Steele, for a comedy sketch at the Upright Citizens Brigade, a fund raiser for an Upper West Side... (more) Irish Bagpiper Bagpipes from Kingston, NY (48 miles from Katonah, NY) Greetings and thank you for considering me for your event. I am the bagpiper for the Ulster County NY Sheriff's Office Honor Guard as well as the bagpiper and principal songwriter for the rock & roll band, Alternative Ulster. I have performed more funerals, weddings and rock shows than I can recall and am always immaculately dressed, on time, professional, courteous and reasonably priced. My repertoire consists of all the standards plus many jigs and reels to liven up your occasion. For... (more) Robert Patrick Lynch, The Irish Piper Bagpipes from Glen Head, NY (31 miles from Katonah, NY) Robert P. Lynch, The Irish Piper is a traditional Irish Piper with over 40 years experience. He has piped at thousands of weddings, funerals, and every type of event you can imagine, locally and internationally. He is dedicated to providing the highest quality professional piping performance. Robert specializes in authentic traditional IRISH music; most pipers do NOT - THERE IS A BIG DIFFERENCE! If you are Irish or looking for a piper for an Irish event, you should pick Robert instead of... (more) Matthew Christian, prizewinning pipes and fiddle Fiddler from Brooklyn, NY (43 miles from Katonah, NY) AS SEEN IN THE NEW YORK TIMES! Prizewinning fiddler and classical violinist -- and high-energy bagpiper -- Matthew Christian has quickly established himself as one of New York City's most dynamic young traditional instrumentalists. Since moving to New York in 2011, Matthew has been featured in Gothamist, WQXR Classical, and the New York Times, and is a proud winner of the 2019 Flanders Award. Matthew plays a 2012 violin by upstate maker Martin Macica. FIDDLE: Matthew's solo work... (more) Patrick Roniger- Professional Bagpiper Bagpipes from New York City, NY (39 miles from Katonah, NY) Patrick Roniger has had over 16 years of piping experience, 9 of which he has been professionally performing at events. He has studied under Grade I and II instructors and has played at all types of events. From a young age, he was a member of the Northport Pipe and Drum Band, and is currently a member of the Manhattan College Pipe and Drum Band for 8 years, after moving to New York City. In that short amount of time, he has risen through the ranks to become pipe major. He has played... (more) Christopher M. Bagpipes from Fair Lawn, NJ (32 miles from Katonah, NY) I am a professional Bagpiper of over 15 years, available for hire for weddings, funerals, parties, and special occasions in the tri-state area. I dress in full Irish garb (County Galway), with a varied and extensive repertoire including both Irish and Scottish tunes. Having performed over 300 events, my presence and appearance is dignified, tasteful, and professional. I will communicate with you to the extent of your satisfaction to ensure I meet all of your requests. Please explore my... (more) Bagpipes by Peter Piper Bagpipes from Westwood, NJ (25 miles from Katonah, NY) I am a retired police officer from Bergen County, New Jersey, who began playing the bagpipes in 2001. After retiring, I continue to play with a police pipe and drum band in N.J. I'm currently employed as a Paramedic with FDNY EMS, working in the South Bronx, and a member of the FDNY EMS Pipes and Drums since August 2012. I was elected Pipe Major of the band in 2017. (more) Pipe Major Terence McGovern Bagpipes from Trumbull, CT (24 miles from Katonah, NY) Pipe Major Terence McGovern, has been playing the Highland Bagpipes for over 25 years. He has traveled extensively throughout the United States, Canada & Europe, competing and performing. Pipe Major McGovern was the first American Civilian to be invited to live and work with the Royal Irish Regiment (British Army) and perform for members of the Royal Family, including HRH the Duke of Kent and HRH the Duke of York. Currently living in Connecticut, Terence is the Pipe Major of the Allied... (more) 1800BAGPIPER - F.D.N.Y. Bagpiper Bagpipes from Brooklyn, NY (48 miles from Katonah, NY) N.Y.C. based bagpiper that has been playing since 2004. I am an active Firefighter and a member of the famous and well known F.D.N.Y. Emerald Society Pipes and Drums. You can hire a bagpiper for ANY event you'd like. The possibilities are endless! To name a few examples, I've performed at weddings, funerals, retirement parties, promotions, birthday parties, and golf outings. The list goes on. I have a vast repertoire of tunes that I choose from that will be appropriate for the event you are... (more) Rick Beaulieu Bagpipes from East Hartford, CT (64 miles from Katonah, NY) Been playing in Connecticut for over 25 years, serving in increased posiitions of authority in numerous bands. Over the years, I have performed, in groups, with the Chieftains, the Red Hot Chilli Pipers and other local bands. With my current band, we have performed in Germany as well as Switzerland at various Military Tattoos. Whether you seek a piper for a celebratory event like a wedding or birthday, or a more somber calling such as a funeral or memorial service, I can add that special... (more) Clan MacLeod Bagpipes from Asbury Park, NJ (75 miles from Katonah, NY) Clan MacLeod is Roderick MacLeod, a thirty-year veteran of the Great Highland Pipes, and Kyle MacLeod, with ten years experience on the snare drum. In Rod's thirty years, he has played in numerous pipe bands, and in 1996 he co-founded the Pipes and Drums of the Atlantic Watch, based in Monmouth County, NJ. The Atlantic Watch has performed several times in Scotland, Bermuda, Canada, and all over the eastern United States. You can book Roderick as a solo piper or as a duet with Kyle on the... (more) Bill McEvoy - Bagpiper Bagpipes from Neptune, NJ (75 miles from Katonah, NY) Highland Bagpiper Bill McEvoy is a sought after piper who has been playing professionally since 1988. Bill is currently Pipe Major of the South Park & District Pipe Band, and former instructor of the Passaic County Police & Fire Pipe Band. Bill currently performs at 100+ functions a year, including weddings, funerals, military functions, schools, retirement homes, golf tournaments, parties, corporate functions, promotions, conventions, bars, and more. Bill has the experience to custom... (more) Frank Watson, Award Winning Bagpiper Bagpipes from Toms River, NJ (93 miles from Katonah, NY) An award winning Highland bagpiper for all occasions, Frank Watson has piped for 37 years. He has competed successfully as both a solo performer and with bands. Frank is a winner of the MacLeod Quaich and Sandy Davidson Memorial Trophy for Grade One solo piping, and first place, Grade One Piobaireached, Delco Games, as well as the 1984 "Award of Excellence" from the Chesapeake Bay Branch, EUSPBA. Frank is a piper for the St. Andrew's Society of Philadelphia (founded in 1747), and has piped... (more) Daniel Meyers Bagpipes from Somerville, MA (153 miles from Katonah, NY) I have been playing the uilleann pipes (Irish bagpipes) since 1999, and have performed in a variety of venues in Ireland, the UK, and the US. I am a professional, conservatory-trained musician with a Master of Music degree from the Longy School of Music; I have also studied with some of the finest pipers in Ireland including Eamonn O Broithe, Mick O'Brien, Neillidh Mulligan, and Kevin Rowsome. The uilleann pipes are quieter than the Highland (Scottish) pipes and have much greater range... (more) Bruce C. Wright Just Booked! Bagpipes from Durham, NC (460 miles from Katonah, NY) Bruce Wright has played bagpipes for many high-profile events in central North Carolina, including the opening ceremonies for the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway, graduation services at the University of North Carolina, several events at Pinehurst, the opening of the 5-star Umstead Hotel in Cary, the annual Children's Christmas Eve service at Duke University Chapel in Durham, the annual "12 Days of Christmas" Scottish dinner at the Carolina Inn in Chapel Hill, and many other events... (more) Bagpiper - Scott Beach - 24 Years Exp. Celtic Bagpipes from Denver, CO (1641 miles from Katonah, NY) Trained to play the bagpipes at the age of 9 years old in Angus County, Scotland by an international gold medal bagpiper, Scott Beach has over 30 years experience bagpiping, with over 10 years as a solo professional musician, and averaging 250 events annually. Scott grew up playing the bagpipes along the banks of the South Esk River, where his kilted grandfather would salmon guide for for the Earl of South Esk. Scott's father is a career US Navy man, and proud Irishman, and Scott performs... (more)

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Home The Agenda Banned in his own country and forced to leave SA under a... The Continent Banned in his own country and forced to leave SA under a xenophobic cloud Qiniso Mbili LEGESSE SEIFU, a 46-year-old Ethiopian asylum seeker, has been ordered to get out of the country before 28 May (tomorrow) by the South African department of home affairs. He told Qiniso Mbili his story. I am a qualified teacher and a certified journalist. I studied teaching and practiced as a teacher for a few years, but later followed my love for writing and became a journalist. I was doing what I loved and life in Ethiopia was great. My problems began after the 2005 Ethiopian election – the president, Meles Zenawi, refused to get out of office despite the opposition party win. This led to nationwide unrest against the ruling party and about 200 protesters were killed. I was reporting on the unrest and some of my articles contained criticism of the government. Press freedom is a myth in Ethiopia, therefore, I was arrested and detained for three days for criticising the government. A year later, there were religious wars in the Western part of the country. I was interrogated and later arrested again after reporting on the government’s failure to intervene in the religious clashes where hundreds of other people were killed. This time I was accused of being biased towards the opposition party, told to stop publishing and ordered to join the ruling party. I was told that should I not oblige, I would have to take full responsibility of what would happen to me after. I told them that I would continue working as an independent journalist and after a few days, I was released. I continued publishing stories that criticised the government for their attitude towards the religious clashes. After a while, the police came to my house, vandalised my property, and beat me up. I was again detained for three days without explanation. A local ward councillor came to me and presented to me a document which I had to sign. The document said that I would not be shown mercy if I did not stop publishing my stories. I signed the document and after three days in jail, I was taken at midnight via police van to be dumped in a small village called Mojo, 10km away from Addis Ababa, where I stayed. Luckily I found some people to take care of me for the night, and by morning I travelled back to the city. A few months later, in 2007, I was invited to a conference in Namibia where I participated as a journalist for a few days. After I had returned I was detained again and questioned about the conference. I admitted that I had attended the conference as a journalist and they banned me and placed me under house arrest. I couldn’t go anywhere and so I couldn’t publish. I started looking for a job as a teacher, but no one would offer me a job, I believe because the local government had an influence in the schools. This was a difficult time: I had no income, was being spied on and I could no longer be with my friends because they feared being on the wrong side of the government. Journalists were being arrested left, right and centre; some of them are still in jail today. I knew the time to leave the country had come. I had been banned in my own country and had no visa; I crossed the borders through five countries, from Kenya to South Africa. I arrived here in April 2008 and in June, the xenophobic attacks started. I was so shocked, I had been through seven African countries, including Ethiopia and it was my first time experiencing such violence. What a country I had chosen. Luckily I have never been attacked, because I stay indoors a lot. A month after I had entered South Africa, I went to Home Affairs to apply for asylum. They gave me a form to fill out and I was interviewed. I told them about the political problems I faced in my native country. During the interview, I mentioned my journalism career. The woman interviewing me asked why I had not mentioned on my form that I was a journalist. My application was rejected and she redirected me to the appeal board. I have applied for asylum four times and all my applications have been rejected. With the help of the UNHCR and Lawyers For Human Rights, I have been able to extend my temporary permit over the years. The last time my appeal was rejected they said there was an interview that I was supposed to go to at the appeal board, but I hadn’t known of this interview and they refused to extend my temporary permit any longer. My current permit expires on 28 May. Home affairs took all my documents away from me and told me that if I want any more extensions I should come to them with a letter from the UN. A person at the Home Affairs gave me an email address for the UN. I contacted them and they told me to wait for two weeks while they make a decision. All this time I have been emailing and calling them to find out how the process is going, but I have not managed to get any responses. I am growing worried. The UN told me that one of three things would happen to me. It’s either I will be deported to another country, or my application will be successful and I would be granted asylum. The third possibility is that I would be arrested and deported to Ethiopia as a prisoner. My family misses me and my mother is always pleading with me to stop fighting the government and come back, but it is not that easy. I continue to publish Ethiopian news for the Ethiopian community in South Africa and I still criticise the government. I receive threatening emails every now and then telling me to stop criticising the government and this is why the third possibility is not really an option for me. I will be killed in Ethiopia. – As told to Qiniso Mbili; all images by Qiniso Mbili. 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HLI emerging leader: Paul Bird steps up on jobs challenge HENDERSON - Management at River View Coal mine near Uniontown had a problem, and Paul Bird had the solution. HLI emerging leader: Paul Bird steps up on jobs challenge HENDERSON - Management at River View Coal mine near Uniontown had a problem, and Paul Bird had the solution. Check out this story on thegleaner.com: https://www.thegleaner.com/story/news/2018/08/30/hli-emerging-leader-paul-bird-steps-up-tackle-employment-challenge/1133587002/ Special to The Gleaner Published 1:37 p.m. CT Aug. 30, 2018 | Updated 1:44 p.m. CT Aug. 30, 2018 Paul Bird(Photo: Furnished) HENDERSON - Management at River View Coal mine near Uniontown had a problem, and Paul Bird had a solution. In a meeting last Tuesday of Kyndle’s Economic Development Council, hosted at River View, the mine’s leadership team said that due to a combination of growth and retirements, they are looking to hire an average of 22 new employees per month for the next 10 months. Terrific news, except the executives expressed concern about their ability to have access to local high school students to whom they could communicate the coming job opportunities. “One said it might be impossible to work with the schools about coal jobs, but I knew differently,” Bird said. “And that’s because I’d been part of a group with the Henderson Leadership Initiative that had done that very thing 10 years ago.” It was called Energy Week, held in 2009, and it was part of a larger education and awareness effort to help both students and adults in the Tri-County region learn more about the local energy industry, its importance in the economy and the availability, at the time, of good jobs in the energy sector. Bird, along with HLI classmates Sue Baker, John Henderson, C. Tom Dempewolf, Aaron Wood, Doug Bell, Buzzy Newman and Corey Roberts developed and organized Energy Week activities designed to expose high schoolers to the ins and outs of the local coal industry. School leaders played an important role in arranging tours, presentations and interactive exhibits in which hundreds of students participated. “It’s hard to believe that was a decade ago, but the discussion at River View brought it all back to my mind,” Bird said. “What a great experience that was, and both our HLI project group and that whole class were filled with great people. That year really changed my views on leadership.” Bird thought he already had leadership qualities before he’d ever heard of HLI. A 1989 graduate of Henderson County High School who followed in the footsteps of his well-known father, former NFL star Rodger Bird, by playing both football and golf for the Colonels, Paul went on to earn a computer science degree from Transylvania University. He worked for a hospital in Cincinnati for four years before returning to Henderson in 1997 to work for his father’s insurance firm. “It was great to come home, and I was confident enough to become involved in the community,” Bird said. “I volunteered for the YMCA board and the Habitat for Humanity board. I thought I was doing the right things.” In 2008 he attended the graduation ceremony of the second class of HLI, which helps participants hone personal leadership skills and grow their social network. Bird was impressed with the project presentations and the idea of gleaning knowledge and ideas from HLI’s founders. “I applied for the third class and couldn’t wait to get started,” he said. “The light really turned on for me after seeing that graduation.” But what he learned in the following year surprised him. He expected to enjoy getting to know his fellow class members, and he did. H expected to appreciate the sessions designed to improve his personal sense of effective leadership, and he did. What he did not expect was understanding what real and meaningful community involvement was all about. “Listening to the founders, what I really came to know was that merely serving on boards isn’t enough; taking up space doesn’t help anything,” Bird said. “I realized that what people who get things done in a community want and need are other people who want to get things done. The people who are really moving the needle now don’t want to stay in these volunteer positions forever. They need help and eventual successors. I learned I had to take things to a whole new level if I wanted to make the impact I thought I could.” So, after finishing his HLI year and becoming a “Fellow,” Bird worked to become chairman of the YMCA board. He also became chairman of the Habitat board. He accepted an invitation to serve on the board of the Henderson Water Utility and eventually became its vice chair. He has just rolled off the board of the Henderson Community Foundation, of which he was a founding member. And he joined the Kyndle Economic Development Council. “When I volunteer now, it’s with a purpose and a desire to make an impact,” Bird said. “I see these opportunities in a whole new way.” Bird also said HLI opens doors for serious volunteers. He said the program lends credibility to its participants and graduates in ways other programs might not. Bird is excited about the future. He and his wife, Beth, an accomplished local attorney and emerging leader in her own right, have three teenage children - Emily, 16; William, 14; and Andrew, 12. Paul hopes to be a good example of leadership for them and also welcomes the chance to encourage other young adults to strongly consider taking the chance to improve their leadership potential. “You never know when your passion, your talent, your willingness to help will make the difference in doing something good for yourself and the community,” Bird said. “Look at that River View meeting. Positive things are happening there, and if dusting off the Energy Week materials I still have tucked away somewhere from nearly 10 years ago will help them employ people now and get someone local a good job, then that makes it all worthwhile.” HLI is currently accepting applications for the 2019 class. Visit hendersonleadershipinitiative.org for more information. Read or Share this story: https://www.thegleaner.com/story/news/2018/08/30/hli-emerging-leader-paul-bird-steps-up-tackle-employment-challenge/1133587002/

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Opinion: Times Sohn: School shootings more numerous than reported May 11th, 2019 | by Pam Sohn Officials guide students off a bus and into a recreation center where they were reunited with their parents after a shooting at a suburban Denver middle school Tuesday, May 7, 2019, in Highlands Ranch, Colo. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski) We are 19 weeks into 2019, and CNN can count 15 school shootings — almost one a week — from Georgia to California, at elementary, middle and high schools and on college and university campuses. As the school year draws to a close in most parts of the country, children at those schools will walk out the doors emotionally scarred by shootings they've seen or heard. School shootings by year. Five students will never return, never graduate, never take another breath because they died at the hands of the shooters. Another 23 students suffered physical wounds, and scores of students and teachers will always carry the horror of seeing blood on the floors, walls or doors of their schools, buses or college classrooms. Most recently the violence occurred at a university in Charlotte, North Carolina, and a secondary school in Highlands Ranch, Colorado. But just think how many school shootings we might be trying to count had some of our would-be shooters were not found ahead of time and disarmed. That's happened even here in Hamilton County. Now we no longer have to rely on news organizations to count school shootings for us. Now we can find the really scary numbers — the complete numbers — compiled in a report and K-12 School Shooting Database as part of the Advanced Thinking in Homeland Security program at the Naval Postgraduate School's Center for Homeland Defense and Security. The database came to be as the result of this sentence, underscored in an August 2018 National Public Radio investigative report: "How many times per year does a gun go off in an American school? We should know, but we don't." Now we do. The online K-12 school shooting database (www.chds.us/ssdb) includes "each and every instance in which a gun is brandished, fired, or a bullet hits school property for any reason, regardless of the number of victims (including zero), time, day of the week, or reason (e.g., planned attack, accidental, domestic violence, gang-related)," according to the report's introduction. The database shows more than 1,360 K-12 school shootings from 1970 through Friday. Unlike CNN's count, the database does not include college shootings. Also unlike CNN's count, the database has found 30 K-12 school shootings and 7 deaths this year. That's twice as many shootings as CNN knew of. What about last year? Brace yourselves. In 2018, 56 people died in 97 school shootings. That was double the number of school shootings in each of the two previous years, and six times the number cataloged 40 years ago. If fixing this were easy, someone would have done it already. At least knowing the right numbers gives us a start. Sohn: Tennessee Capitol rooms are bugged, House Speaker Glen Casada's is bug-proofed Sohn: Tennesseans are mired in medical debt

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Retail expert weighs in on Boston Store comeback By: Rikki Mitchell, Photojournalist Jeremy Dunk A retail industry expert says he was surprised to learn that Boston Store's new company is planning to reopen brick and mortar stores. This comes after news Monday that at least two to three Boston Store locations will reopen before the holidays in the Milwaukee metro area. Drowning Witness Wants To Buy Flotation Devices Overall, the company will reopen stores in six states. "The concept will be a little different," said Fred Hulls, VP of Communication for Bon Ton Stores. "As well as offering services like personal styling and interior design, the new concept store will have longer hours from Thursday through Sunday, when people want to shop and fewer hours during the working week." Jerry O'Brien, the executive director of The Kohl’s Center for Retailing Excellence at UW Madison said it's rare for a bankrupt company to come back under new ownership, but under the same name. "I’ve never heard of a store doing the Thursday through Sunday thing before so that will be exciting to watch from my point of view," said O'Brien. While he's surprised that physical locations will reopen, he said some of their ideas are smart. For example, the new stores will be a lot smaller, about 50,000 to 60,000 square feet. "I think the smaller format makes very good sense," said O'Brien. "Inventory expenses are high. This should give them a chance to refresh more often." He said Boston Store's challenge will be making themselves stand out from other stores, and deciding what brands to bring in. "I think it's clever to try something new," said O'Brien. "Obviously if they opened up and did what they did before, they'd get a similar result. "I do think the [history] of the Boston store and their other brands...there's a chance that people are longing for them." Previous employees are encouraged to apply for positions by going to any of the Bon-Ton Stores websites including Bostonstore.com .

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Europe bans one of America’s most prominent white supremacists March 31, 2019 Casey Michel Politics Jared Taylor, one of the most prominent white supremacists in the U.S., claimed on his website on Friday that he’d been “banned from Europe” until 2021. The ban came as Taylor attempted to transfer in Switzerland for a flight to Finland. According to Taylor, Swiss police informed him that Polish authorities had barred Taylor from traveling through the Schengen Zone, a 26-country area of Europe allowing visa-free travel. “I will spend the night at the airport, and tomorrow I will be deported,” Taylor wrote. “I am free to walk around the terminal, I can make phone calls and use the internet, and I have a meal voucher that is supposed to last me for the next 12 hours. The officer kept my passport, though, and won’t give it back to me until I board the flight home.” Jared Taylor of American Renaissance says he has been banned from Europe until 2021, seemingly at the instigation of Poland, where he has given talks to nationalist groups (via @FFRAFAction) pic.twitter.com/x4fKuqRfh9 — Jason Wilson (@jason_a_w) March 30, 2019 Taylor had been planning on speaking at white supremacist conferences in Scandinavia, including one on Saturday in Stockholm that featured other well-known fascists like Mark Collett and Greg Johnson. MINI-THREAD Further evidence of transnational organising on extreme right. Today in Stockholm Sweden there is an international alt-right/Identitarian conference – Scandza Forum. This is now an annual event. It was held in Oslo in 2017 & Stockholm last year pic.twitter.com/jFNPOuTtVx — Anti-Fascism & Far Right (@FFRAFAction) March 30, 2019 It’s unclear why Polish authorities issued a blanket ban against Taylor. Taylor attributed the ban to a 2018 trip to the country, where he gave multiple television interviews. During that trip, Taylor said that Polish police said he was “spreading a totalitarian ideology.” Taylor is best-known for cloaking his white supremacy behind a facade of so-called “race realism,” which claims that intellectual differences between races are inherent. He gained prominence in 2016, when Richard Spencer — one of the most well-known faces of the so-called “alt-right” movement that backed then-candidate Donald Trump — cited Taylor as his mentor. As it is, Taylor is the latest white supremacist prohibited from traveling to certain other countries to spread his ideology. Spencer has likewise been banned from Europe, also at the request of Polish authorities. Milo Yiannopoulos, who has worked closely with white supremacists in the past, was also recently banned from Australia, and Lauren Southern, who claims she’s not a white supremacist, has been banned from traveling to the U.K.. The move to bar Taylor — and having European countries enforce their borders against unwanted individuals — sent other white supremacists into fits. One, Hunter Wallace, said the “moral rot of Europe can’t possibly get much deeper,” a take echoed by Scott Greer, who wrote for Richard Spencer’s white supremacist journal. Nicholas Fuentes, who attended the 2017 white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, described it as a “stab in the back.” The ban also comes alongside increased scrutiny about trans-national white supremacy, much of which emanates from the U.S. Taylor has long served as one of the most well-traveled mouthpieces, having toured North America, Europe, and Russia to push his brand of hatred. The ban also comes less than a month after a white supremacist shooter killed 50 Muslims in a New Zealand mosque, the most violent act of white supremacist terror in years. With thanks to our Friends over at : ThinkProgress Previous Post:Days of Our Lives Spoilers Next 2 Weeks: Claire Confesses to Eve – Jack Goes Missing Before Wedding – Eric & Jennifer Sneaky Plan Next Post:Pregnant Alex Jones recalls devastating time she hosted The One Show hours after learning she had suffered a heartbreaking miscarriage

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Three sisters reunite for the first time after 7 decades apart After getting genetic testing, Barbara Saunders discovered her birth family and siblings she had never met. Nov. 22, 2017, 6:18 PM UTC / Source: TODAY By Courtney Gisriel With Thanksgiving right around the corner, many people are wondering about the families they never knew. That was the case for Barbara Saunders. The 72-year-old was adopted as an infant and always wondered about her birth parents. The only child of her adoptive parents, Saunders always yearned for a big family. So when she used a genetics testing company to see if she had any matches, she was delighted to find a connection to the family she never knew she had. Three sisters meet for the first time after seven decades apart On the other side of the country in Florida, Ida Sturgill, 66, and Joyce Randall, 68, did genetic testing for health reasons. The sisters were interested in seeing their genetic background, but their real focus was making sure they didn't carry anything they could have passed down to their children and grandchildren. In a surprising twist, they both found that their genetic information showed shared DNA of around 28 percent with a woman they had never met. Genetic similarities of that high percentage indicated that this woman was in fact their half-sister. Ida Sturgill, Joyce Randall, and their brothers, Harold, James and Charles.Courtesy of Ida Sturgill Sturgill and Randall grew up in a family with 5 siblings. They had no idea that their father (affectionately called Pop) had another child, but when they discovered their relationship with Saunders, they embraced her and her entire family with open arms. "She looks more like Pop than we do," Sturgill exclaimed after seeing a photo of Saunders for the first time. The women began talking to each other on the phone. "[Saunders] was a little apprehensive when she answered the phone because she didn't know what to expect," Randall told TODAY. "[But] It was just like we had known each other forever." Julius Charlie Woodward, the patriarch of the Woodward family and Saunders' biological father. Courtesy of Ida Sturgill After sharing their story with California-based 23andMe, the genetic testing company they all used, the sisters got a surprise: 23andMe flew them to New York to be reunited for the first time in person and celebrate an early Thanksgiving meal together. "I need to hug her," Randall told TODAY just before meeting her sister. "I just need to feel her, that she's real." "We can't wait to let her know, you are loved," Sturgill echoed. They couldn't contain their excitement!TODAY When Saunders walked into the room to meet her sisters for the first time, the love was indeed palpable. In between fierce hugs, the women exchanged small gifts they had brought for each other. Sturgill and Randall even gave Saunders with a bracelet emblazoned with the word "sister." "She was like a ray of sunshine that was shot into our lives at a very low point," Randall said. "It's a small earth. And it's amazing how close you get to people that you don't even know that your futures will touch."

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About Facilities Certification Memberships Careers Environmental Policy Company values Modern Slavery Statement Torin-Sifan is part of the Volution Group. About Volution Group This is Volution Group’s statement on anti-slavery and human trafficking in accordance with the UK Modern Slavery Act 2015 and constitutes our statement for the financial year ending on 31 July 2019. Volution Group plc has a Premium Listing on Main Market of the London Stock Exchange and is the parent company of the Volution Group of companies. Volution Group owns and operates a range of businesses and is a leading supplier of ventilation products to the residential and commercial construction markets in the UK, the Nordics, Central Europe and Australasia. Volution Group operates through two divisions: the Ventilation Group, which primarily supplies ventilation products for residential and commercial construction applications in the UK, the Nordics, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Australia and New Zealand; and Torin-Sifan, which supplies motors, fans and blowers to OEMs of heating and ventilation products for both residential and commercial construction applications mainly in Europe. Further details of the organisation’s structure can be found at www.volutiongroupplc.com. Volution Group endeavours to ensure that slavery and human trafficking is not taking place within our employed workforce, or any of our supply chain. Although we believe that our exposure to the risks of modern slavery is relatively low, we are not complacent. We understand that, if we are to be successful in delivering our strategy for growth, then we must make sure that we interact with our employees, customers and others properly. That is why we have rolled out a Code of Conduct across Volution Group which sets out our commitment, within Volution Group and externally, to the value and importance that we place on honest, ethical and lawful conduct in all our business dealings. Consistent with the principles set out in our Code of Conduct we prohibit forced labour, child labour, and discrimination within our supply chain. We ensure, as is reasonably practicable that our suppliers, where necessary, have controls in place to uphold our commitment to doing what we can to combat slavery and human trafficking. We take appropriate steps to ensure that there is no modern slavery or human trafficking in our supply chains, including: Requiring new suppliers to declare as part of our supplier approval processes, that they are not involved in modern slavery or human trafficking, including confirmation of their understanding and commitment to the principles of the UK Modern Slavery Act and which are included within our Code of Conduct; and Requiring our current incumbent supply base to also declare their commitment and compliance to the principles set out in our Code of Conduct. To ensure our employees are not subject to undue influence and are treated with dignity and respect, Volution Group has robust human resource policies and procedures in place across all its operations. These are audited to ensure compliance with employment legislation and prevent unethical working practices. Volution Group is committed to ensuring that all staff receive fair remuneration for the job they perform and undertakes regular reviews of terms and conditions across the workplace. Volution Group adheres to the payment of the National Living Wage in the UK and all compulsory minimum wage premiums as set by governments. Volution Group also has robust recruitment processes, which include verifying the identity of each employee and their right to work in each country before commencing employment. All temporary workers are supplied through reputable recruitment agencies, which have been subject to thorough due diligence of their practices. Volution Group’s Whistleblowing facility is designed to make it easy for employees to make disclosures, without fear of retaliation. This statement has been approved by the Volution Group plc Board of Directors on behalf of Volution Group. A new statement will be published each year on the corporate website www.volutiongroupplc.com. Ronnie George Volution Group plc

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University of Tennessee at Chattanooga The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga is a public institution and a national example for universities in the city. It offers students hands-on learning conducive for learning. It is an affiliate university of the University of Tennessee System. The university was founded in 1886 as a result of the Methodist Episcopal Church's effort to put up a primary higher education institution in the South. Since then, the university continued its plight for educational excellence that roots back on the nation's private and public traditions. After its establishment, it merged with East Tennessee Wesleyan University, a church-affiliated institution. They were known as the Grant University until 1907 when they changed it to University of Chattanooga. Soon after, the university united with Zion College and turned into Chattanooga City College. Later on, they merged with the University of Tennessee system and changed its name to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. The university is famous for its Business courses, as well as Nursing, Engineering, Accounting, English, Music, and Education programs. There is a total of 140 undergraduate programs and more than 50 undergraduate minor courses offered in the university. It also offers graduate programs which include the master's degree in Industrial and Organizational Psychology. A few years back, the university started a student exchange program with Kangnung National University in South Korea. It was done to increase students opportunity in an international setting. The Patten Chapel serves as one of the most popular venues for weddings and memorial services in the town. There is a room designated where the bride can prepare and stay on the day of the wedding. Due to its popularity, reservations must be made ahead of time to ensure a slot. The Lupton Memorial Library was built in 1974 to commemorate Cartter and Margaret Lupton. It was made in exchange for the old John Storrs Fletcher Library. The old library was renovated and changed its name to Fletcher Hall. The library features over two million items including archives. The university received financial support for new building construction in 2008. The building was completed in 2015 with a whopping budget of $48 million. The athletic team of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga is Mocs. They are part of the NCAA Division I and is among the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics' top 100 athletic programs. The basketball team of the university fairs well in the Southern Conference ever since it participated in 1977. The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga is one of the leading higher education institutions in all of Tennessee. The university continues to aim for academic excellence through different opportunities and an environment that can nurture learning. The university focuses on collaborations that pursue educational, economic, and societal advancements that will benefit not only the student but also the entire community. The university gives much importance to research. This dedication is evident in their hands-on activities and other interactive activities. It pursues creative affairs to encourage intellectual development of educators that will, in turn, benefit the students.

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Can India Meet Its Ambitious Solar Targets? Feb 11, 48400 Editor's Note: A version of this post originally appeared on the World Resources Institute blog. By Katherine Ross In 2014, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a goal to increase solar power capacity to 100 gigawatts (GW) by 2022 — five times higher than the previous target. The 2022 target is extremely ambitious (the world’s total installed solar power capacity was 181 GW in 2014) and would make India a global leader in renewable energy. Moreover, Piyush Goyal, India’s Minister of State (IC) for Power, Coal and New & Renewable Energy, recently said that India aims to achieve its 100 GW solar target as early as the end of 2017. The question is: Is this target achievable? India’s total installed solar power capacity stands at 5.8 GW, so the country will need to significantly ramp up the pace of solar capacity additions, from an average 4 GW per year to more than 15 GW per year to meet the 2022 target. Critics have been skeptical, citing hurdles like poor transmission infrastructure and lack of access to finance. Yet recent signs show that the country is starting to make serious progress on how it will achieve its lofty solar goals. Concrete yearly targets Speaking at the Concentrated Solar Thermal Technology and Solar Cooker Excellence Awards, Goyal reiterated that Indian solar targets are achievable. He said that India exceeded its 2016 fiscal year (FY) solar targets by 116 percent, and that the country “has signaled to the world that we're ready to lead.” (India's fiscal year runs from April 1 through March 31.) Goyal’s remarks came on the heels of last month’s release of India’s ambitious year-on-year solar capacity targets, which chart a roadmap for achieving the country’s 2022 goal. This sequence of yearly targets — as opposed to an assumed growth trend between current capacity and targeted capacity — shows that India is making concerted plans to reach its goals. These annual targets promote transparency, allowing stakeholders to hold the government accountable should they fall short. They also drive ambition, and often prove to be successful instruments for mobilizing finance at a faster rate. According to the targets, India will add 12 GW of new solar power capacity this fiscal year, and add 15 GW and 16 GW of new solar capacity in FY2018 and FY2019, respectively. This will also bring the country closer to the government’s commitment of providing 24-hour electricity to all Indians by 2019. Early progress in 2016 India looks set to reach its annual solar capacity addition target for this fiscal year. The Ministry of New & Renewable Energy has already approved the installation of 15 GW of new solar projects, of which 12 GW is likely to be in operation before March 2017. The states of Telangana, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu will see the largest solar capacity additions this financial year (collectively contributing to more than a third of new capacity additions in FY2017). While the majority of these new projects will be “ground-based,” utility scale grid-connected solar parks (with government encouraging the use of waste land for the development of these parks), 1 GW of new solar power capacity will be added to rooftops dotted across the country. India also plans to install 44 MW of solar PV on canal tops and banks, a novel concept that was first piloted in Gujarat in 2012. Canal-top solar power projects have the dual advantage of little to no requirement of land to set up the solar panels, as well as limiting the evaporation of water from canals and reservoirs. Reforming the grid India is also taking steps to address issues of financially unviable state electricity retailers and an inadequate grid. For example, the Green Energy Corridor (GEC) — an initiative conceptualized and executed by the Powergrid Corporation of India Limited and other state transmission utilities — will commission new transmission infrastructure to allow more renewables to be put on the grid, while at the same time tackling problems with power intermittency. The project has been making steady progress across different states like Andhra Pradesh, Rajasthan and Tamil Nadu. In a similar vein, the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) has issued supportive regulations to increase transmission capacity, another move that will support more renewable energy on the grid. Finally, the recently announced UDAY scheme will provide a lifeline to state power distribution companies by improving their operational efficiencies (through measures such as smart metering) while at the same time reducing their debt interest rate. This will provide much-needed relief to these companies, who are ailing financially due to large-scale power theft, high costs of coal, inefficient operations and poor billing practices. Although India is on track to achieve its annual solar capacity addition target for this financial year, the government will need to do more in subsequent years to ensure that its targets are met. This is important not only for its solar commitment, but also for its national energy and climate change commitments–installing 175 GW of total renewable power capacity by 2022, and increasing the share of non-fossil-based power capacity from 30 percent today to about 40 percent by 2030 (with the help of international support). While the Indian government has taken positive steps to support the supply of solar on the grid, it should now also focus its attention on the demand for solar energy, by developing solutions that provide the private sector with access to affordable solar. These solutions must support distributed and off-grid generation systems, as well as the adoption of storage technologies—both of which are necessary to reach India’s ambitious solar goals. Image credit: Flickr/Knut-Erik Helle Graphics courtesy of WRI. Katherine Ross is a research analyst with the World Resources Institute's Climate Program.

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Global (LK) UNHCR in Sri Lanka Since December 2013, brutal conflict in South Sudan has claimed thousands of lives and driven nearly four million people from their homes. While many remain displaced inside the country, more than two million have fled to neighbouring countries in a desperate bid to reach safety. refugees and asylum seekers from South Sudan in the region South Sudan: Africa's Largest Refugee Crisis The situation in South Sudan and neighbouring countries has quickly escalated into a full-blown humanitarian emergency. Although we are doing all we can to provide relief and life-saving shelter with limited resources, displacement in the region is expected to rise until a political solution is found. “The journey was so hard. The sun was very hot and we had trouble finding food and water. Our uncle decided to turn back but we continued on because we wanted to go to school.” Kenyi, 17, is among more than 5,000 unaccompanied South Sudanese refugee children who have arrived in Uganda The majority of the refugees are women and children, many of whom flee across the border alone. Often, they arrive weak and malnourished. When the rainy season comes, their needs are compounded by flooding, food shortages and disease. Inside South Sudan, nearly two million people are displaced while outside the country there are now over two million South Sudanese refugees, mainly in Ethiopia, Sudan, and Uganda. Many fear imminent attack or struggle with food insecurity. “This conflict must end, and the world must rally to support the millions forced to flee their homes in South Sudan.” Arnauld Akodjenou, Regional Refugee Coordinator and Special Advisor on the South Sudan Situation UNHCR is appealing for US$2.7 billion to address the life-saving humanitarian needs of South Sudanese refugees in 2019 and 2020. In 2018, UNHCR and its partners received just 38 percent of the required US$1.4 billion requested to support South Sudanese refugees. Education, health and food supplies are all severely underfunded, exacting a heavy toll on women and children, who account for 83 percent of the refugees. “Since the signing of the Revitalised Agreement on the Resolution of Conflict in South Sudan (R-ARCSS) on 12 September 2018 under the auspices of the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD), a partial reduction in fighting has been seen.” Said Arnauld Akodjenou, Regional Refugee Coordinator and Special Advisor on the South Sudan Situation. “Amidst dwindling funding and a tumultuous political climate which gave rise to the R-ARCSS, I urge the donor community to increase funding to the South Sudan situation, particularly in underfunded areas such as protection, livelihoods, and education, for which levels among South Sudanese children and young adults are some of the lowest in the world.” Reports and links UNHCR's Operations in South Sudan Operational Data Portal Refugees fleeing South Sudan pass one million mark​ Find out how you can donate UNHCR seeks international solidarity for refugees and hosts in Sudan Long way home for displaced Sudanese as fears of insecurity persist UNHCR head appeals to South Sudan parties to ensure long-lasting peace Clean water brings life, and hope, to refugees and hosts in Uganda UNHCR outraged at senseless attacks on humanitarians in South Sudan HIV positive refugees support one another in Uganda

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UNHCR dismayed at yet another tragedy in the Aegean UNHCR is deeply saddened at yet another sea tragedy, in the early hours today, when at least twenty two persons were found dead (12 women, 6 men and 4 children) off the island of Samos, after their boat capsized. Thirty six people were rescued through Greek Coast Guard and Frontex joint operation. According to initial information, the group consisted of Somalis, Eritreans and Syrians. A UNHCR team is on Samos ready to assist the survivors. During the past two days in three sea operations, including Samos, over 250 people were rescued by the Greek authorities. Yesterday (4 May) UNHCR visited, in Piraeus, 147 persons of Syrian and Egyptian nationality, including a large number of unaccompanied children, who arrived after a search and rescue operation by the Greek Coast Guard off south Crete. Their boat had been left adrift for more than three days in the Mediterranean sea between Greece and Malta. UNHCR provided information, interpretation services and distributed humanitarian items to the survivors. Moreover, 69 persons primarily Syrians and Afghans were rescued yesterday off Samothrace and were transferred to the Evros region, where they were met by UNHCR’s team in the area pending their transfer to the First Reception Centre. In view of this increasing death toll and the dangers refugees continue to face in their efforts to reach safety or to join their family members abroad, UNHCR reiterates its appeal to governments to increase legal migration alternatives so that perilous irregular routes are avoided.

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Portrait Vision The vision explains the overarching societal developments towards which the University is oriented and clarifies the remit it must fulfil. Knowledge is one of the most important resources in our society, and it will only become more important in the future. Knowledge is the key to solving societal problems and overcoming global challenges. Universities make an indispensable contribution to the evolution and imparting of knowledge, and this task will become increasingly important. The vision of the University of Bern can be summed up in three words: Knowledge generates value. In everything that it does, the University feels its obligation to bring about benefits for science, society and the economy. The University of Bern wants to procure the competences required to acquire knowledge and to use that knowledge. With this aim in mind, the University of Bern conducts excellent research and teaching and offers high-quality advanced training and services. The University of Bern bases its disciplinary, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary focuses on academic interests and societal needs. The University aspires to be the most important regional institution which generates independent knowledge and which promotes sustained value creation for the economy of the Canton of Bern. The University makes a major contribution to increasing the appeal of Bern as a centre of economic innovation and attractive working conditions. In this way, the University of Bern is able to honour its obligations to the citizens of the Canton of Bern who, after all, are the people who enable the University to exist.

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Unilever releases first-of-its-kind human rights report Previous - Stronger sales with Dove Men+Care Next - Unilever UK encourages households to recycle Today we are releasing our first report outlining our work on human rights, in which we share some of our successes and challenges, together with the lessons we’ve learned along the way. Scaling up our efforts In 2014, we formalised our commitment to advancing human rights across our value chain under the Enhancing Livelihoods pillar of the Unilever Sustainable Living Plan. Since then, we have significantly scaled up our efforts. We became the first company to adopt the UN Guiding Principles Reporting Framework, the world’s first comprehensive guidance for businesses to report on how they are implementing the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. And we are the first company to produce a detailed, standalone report using the framework. The report – Enhancing Livelihoods, Advancing Human Rights – outlines our goal not only to respect human rights but to actively advance them across all areas of the business. It describes how we are embedding respect for human rights in everything we do and highlights key areas of progress, including Unilever’s work to empower women, our progress in the fight against sexual harassment, and addressing health and safety issues across the supply chain. It also describes key areas of focus for the future, which include human rights issues beyond first-tier suppliers, working conditions for migrant labour and continuing collaboration with other organisations in order to influence systemic change. Much to gain if we succeed The need to act cannot be in doubt because business can only flourish in societies in which human rights are respected and upheld. But the challenges are enormous. We have operations in more than 190 countries, each with their own cultural norms, varying levels of the rule of law and divergent views on what it means to respect human rights. This ecosystem comprises parts we control and parts we can only influence. We employ 172,000 people but many millions play a role in our value chain. Marcela Manubens, Global VP, Social Impact, and author of the report, says: “At Unilever, we embrace challenges of this nature because we know that, as much as we stand to lose if we get it wrong, we have even more to gain if we succeed. Our ambition is to embed the promotion of human rights into every function, every role, and every corner of our organisation.” Redoubling our efforts This year is shaping up to be a momentous one, with the work being done to advance the post-2015 development agenda and the prospect of a global climate agreement in Paris. Human rights are inextricably linked to both because the effects of climate change threaten all humans, with expected impacts hitting the poorest people and communities the hardest. As CEO Paul Polman says: “It feels fitting that this is the moment we’ve chosen to outline our path forward. We now need to take what we’ve learned and redouble our efforts to embed the promotion of human rights into the fabric of our business.” Your views are important and we welcome your comments. Please send them to humanrights.report@unilever.com Advancing human rights in our own operations Advancing human rights with suppliers Fairness in the workplace http://www.unilever.nl

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Bob Heil Bob Heil is a sound and radio engineer most well-known for creating the template for modern rock sound systems. He founded the company Heil Sound in 1966, which went on to create unique touring sound systems for bands such as The Grateful Dead and The Who. Heil has been an innovator in the field of amateur radio, manufacturing microphones and satellite dishes for broadcasters and live sound engineers. He has won multiple awards and honors, and in 2007 he became the first manufacturer to be invited to exhibit at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

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There was 2 days of Fun Football coaching at Weavers Field during the October 2019 Half term holiday. Two young volunteers from Vallance who are taking their FA Level 1 in Coaching Football helped out with the senior coaches. The 2 day sessions were attended by over 40... It’s a new season and a new team. Vallance FC has gone back to basics and promoted the entire U16 from last season as the New Vallance FC senior team and will be competing every Sunday morning in the Community Football League. Some players from the previous senior team... Saturday 28th September 2019 saw the start of the Hackney Marshes Saturday Youth Football League (HMSYFL). Vallance FC has 3 junior teams competing in this league. The newly formed Vallance U8 and Vallance U9 and U10 who are starting their 3rd season. All 3 teams trai... The Vallance FC season in the BFA Summer League Premier division ended on Sunday 7th September 2019. The team did not do well and ended up in 9th position. Manager Junel Uddin said "We had a squad full of youngsters from the U16 team playing and we always knew it will... It was a great summer of activities provided by Vallance. Starting from the first day of the school holidays on Monday 22nd July until Friday 30th August 2019. It was 6 weeks of full on action and fun for over 150 young people from Tower Hamlets. Activities ranged from... Our partnership with Tower Hamlets Homes continued this summer with a joint summer programme. For 6 weeks there was estate based activities at 3 locations in the Globe Town area which was Bancroft, Wellington and Meath Gardens. The programs was targeted at young people... As part of the Summer 2019 program girls that attend the youth club went Bowling on Tuesday 13th August. It was a great day for some lucky girls from the Vallance Youth Club. On Sunday 11th August 2019 they went to Women’s day at Brands Hatch. They spent the day there enjoying the cars racing and the entertainment provided. This event was in partnership with London Youth. Abul Bashar Monday15th July saw our first Pool competition at the SEN Monday Social Club. The competition was very popular and we had many people who wanted to take part. The eventual 8 participant who took part bought a mixture of abilities and skills. The tournament had a clear...

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China to Embrace Fracking In an Effort to Ramp up Energy Production Posted By: OilPrice Nov 30, 2011, 2:12 pm China is leaving no shale deposit unturned in its effort to develop indigenous energy resources. On 24 November China’s Ministry of Land and Resources geological exploration department head Peng Qiming said during a press conference that China’s combined oil and natural gas output, 280 million tons in 2010, is projected to rise to 360 million tons of oil equivalent by 2015, a 23 percent increase in four years and will rise to 450 million tons by 2030, a 62 percent increase over 2010 production, impressive rises in production by any yardstick. And Beijing authorities in their drive are embracing a controversial natural gas production technique that is coming under increasing government scrutiny in both the United States and Britain – hydraulic fracturing, or ‘fracking.” China has started drilling to meet an ambitious annual production target of 80 billion cubic meters by 2020 by which time the government is seeking to meet a target of generating 10 percent of its energy needs from natural gas and 15 percent from renewable sources and launched a national shale gas research center in August 2010. In April the U.S. Energy Information Administration estimated that China has nearly 50 percent more “technically recoverable” shale gas than the United States, placing its reserves at 1.275 quadrillion cubic feet, 12 times the country’s conventional natural gas deposits, as compared with U.S. shale gas reserves of 862 trillion cubic feet. Despite rising environmental concerns about fracking in both the U.S. and Europe, Chinese authorities up to now have shown no such hesitations. On 20 October in Shanghai China’s Ministry of Land and Resources Strategic Research Center deputy head Zhang Dawei said, “The government places high emphasis on developing shale gas and has been actively studying supporting policies,” adding that a national shale gas plan will shortly be announced and more than 10 shale natural gas blocks are to be offered to Chinese state and private companies a the second round of auctions. Earlier this year price and supply fluctuations in China’s oil and coal imports triggered disruptive electricity blackouts, increasing the Chinese government’s interest in the country’s vast reserves of shale natural gas, which will likely prove to be a more stable and predictable energy source as the central government can more easily control the pricing for domestically produced energy supplies. An added benefit of developing the country’s shale natural gas reserves is that over time, Chinese shale natural gas will be cheaper than importing liquefied natural gas over long-distance pipelines from Central Asia as rising volumes come online. There only remain those pesky environmentalists, not a current problem as China’s media is largely state-owned and shies away from contentious topics. Ever eager to get a share of the Chinese market, on 17 November 2009 during a state visit to Beijing, U.S. President Barack Obama met with Chinese President Hu Jintao and agreed to share American shale gas technology and to promote U.S. investment in Chinese shale-gas development. The “U.S.-China Clean Energy Announcements” posted by the White House Office of the Press Secretary posted the same day stated, “The two Presidents announced the launch of a new U.S.-China Shale Gas Resource Initiative. Under the Initiative, the U.S. and China will use experience gained in the United States to assess China’s shale gas potential, promote environmentally-sustainable development of shale gas resources, conduct joint technical studies to accelerate development of shale gas resources in China, and promote shale gas investment in China through the U.S.-China Oil and Gas Industry Forum, study tours, and workshops.” Well, if Zhang’s 20 October announcement is anything to go by, U.S. investment in China’s shale gas industry will not include allowing overseas companies in the upcoming sale of shale gas leases. Up to now China has auctioned off two shale natural gas blocks in southwest China to two Chinese companies, including state-owned giant China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation Ltd. (Sinopec), and plans to hold a second auction either later this year or early in 2012. As a consolation prize for foreign energy firms, they can invest in and supply technology to Chinese domestic shale natural gas operators and developer. Despite the prohibition, Chevron Corp., BP Plc and Norway’s Statoil ASA are among international energy companies that have already begun talks to form joint ventures in China to tap shale gas assets. What is Mandarin for “technology transfer?” Source: http://oilprice.com/Energy/Natural-Gas/China-to-Embrace-Fracking-In-an-Effort-to-Ramp-up-Energy-Production.html By. John C.K. Daly of http://oilprice.com Oilprice.com is the most popular energy news site in the world. Our analysis focuses on Oil and Gas, Alternative Energy and Geopolitics. Oilprice works with the largest names in financial news and provides news and analysis to sites such as: CNBC, Yahoo Finance, Nasdaq, Motley Fool, Huffington Post, Christian Science Monitor, Minyanville and hundreds of others. OilPrice.com publishes more news than any other energy related site online. Iran vs Saudi Arabia, US war: Two oil tankers attacked off UAE coast

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Within the framework of the Geneva Consultations, Deputy Special Envoy for Syria, Mr. Ramzy Ezzeldin Ramzy met with Mr. Mohammad Marwan Al-Atrash and Mr. Habib Haddad from the Syrian Democratic National Block. They shared views on a political solution to the Syrian conflict. They also discussed with Mr. Ramzy the role of the international community and the United Nations in supporting Syrian efforts to end the conflict. At the end of today’s meeting, Mr. Ramzy underscored the urgency of a Syrian-led political solution to the conflict. In this regard, he stressed the importance of efforts towards unity and consensus among opposition groups. FIVE WEEKS INTO THE GENEVA CONSULTATIONS Special Envoy de Mistura is continuing meetings with a broad spectrum of Syrian, regional and international interlocutors within the framework of the Geneva Consultations. Since 5 May 2015, Mr. de Mistura and Deputy Special Envoy Ramzy have met so far with representatives of the Syrian Government, the Syrian opposition Coalition and 39 Syrian political and civil society groups. They have also held 26 meetings with representatives of concerned Member States from the Security Council and the region, as well as regional organizations. This process is expected to continue into July 2015. Mr. de Mistura reiterates his sincere hope and belief that guns will fall silent one day. It is inevitable, as has been seen in other conflicts. The sooner they fall silent, the more lives will be saved. It is the responsibility of all Syrian, regional and international actors to try to bring that day forward and to make every effort to protect civilians under any circumstances and at all times. This is particularly relevant to the unacceptable use of barrel bombs. Mr. de Mistura stresses that there is a general consensus that there cannot be a military solution to the Syrian tragedy. The use of force will only create further suffering, destruction and grievances. An inclusive and Syrian-led and owned political solution is urgently needed. Only such a solution can address the aspirations of the Syrian people and end the conflict in a sustainable manner. The Geneva Consultations remain a rolling process of separate and informal meetings aimed at operationalizing the Geneva Communique of 30 June 2012. In the coming weeks, the Special Envoy intends to brief the Secretary-General on his findings from this process. Special Envoy de Mistura hopes to be in a position to present to the Secretary-General views on ways to help the Syrian parties reach a political solution, as per the Geneva Communique, to end the unacceptable bloodletting in their country, which has led to countless deaths and injuries, and destruction of cities, towns and villages. Within the framework of the ongoing Geneva Consultations, Deputy Special Envoy Ramzy Ezzeldine Ramzy met today in Geneva with representatives of the Union of Syriac Women and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), who briefed on the situation in Syria. They discussed ways to support people in Syria in their daily humanitarian needs. Mr. Ramzy also discussed with the representatives of the Union of Syriac Women perspectives on a political solution to the Syrian conflict which could meet the needs of diverse components, which make up integral parts of the Syrian society. At the end of today's meetings, Mr. Ramzy stressed that, "all should put their differences aside to ensure that aid reaches all those in need, but ultimately only a political solution would allow to address the deepening humanitarian crisis in a sustainable manner." While highlighting the urgent need for a political solution to the Syrian conflict, he added that, "it is critical that women organizations are included in any political process, fully participate in it and contribute to it". In a press statement issued on 30 May, the United Nations Special Envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, strongly condemned the death of at least 70 civilians in Syria's northern Aleppo province by barrel bombs dropped from government helicopters. "The news of aerial bombing by Syrian helicopters on a civilian market area of the Aleppo neighborhood of Al Shaar deserves the most strong international condemnation," he said. Mr. de Mistura stressed that the protection of civilians during armed conflicts is a cornerstone of international humanitarian law, and applies in all circumstances and without distinction.

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Steven Stamkos joins Tampa Bay Lightning teammates for morning skate The Sports Xchange Tampa Bay Lightning Alex Killorn celebrates with Valtteri Filppula and Steven Stamkos after he scores a goal in the third period in game 7 in the Eastern Conference Finals of the Stanley Cup Playoffs at Madison Square Garden in New York City on May 29, 2015. Photo by John Angelillo/UPI | License Photo Tampa Bay Lightning Ben Bishop celebrates with Steven Stamkos and Nikita Kucherov after the game recording a shut out against the New York Rangers in game 7 in the Eastern Conference Finals of the Stanley Cup Playoffs at Madison Square Garden in New York City on May 29, 2015. The Lightning defeated the Rangers 2-0, win the series in 7 games and advance to the Stanley Cup Finals. Photo by John Angelillo/UPI | License Photo Tampa Bay Lightning Steven Stamkos gets the puck past New York Rangers Henrik Lundqvist for a goal in the second period in game 5 in the Eastern Conference Finals of the Stanley Cup Playoffs at Madison Square Garden in New York City on May 24, 2015. Photo by John Angelillo/UPI | License Photo Center Steven Stamkos returned to practice with the Tampa Bay Lightning on Wednesday for the first time since undergoing surgery in mid-November. Stamkos, sidelined since tearing the lateral meniscus in his knee on Nov. 15, joined his teammates for 15 minutes at the morning skate. His initial timetable for recovery was estimated at four months. On Monday, Lightning general manager Steve Yzerman expressed optimism earlier in the week that Stamkos would return to action before the end of the season. Stamkos was off to a fast start this season with 20 points in 17 games at the time of the injury. The 27-year-old is in the first season of an eight-year deal agreed upon shortly before free agency on July 1. Tampa Bay's top pick in 2009, Stamkos has 321 goals in 329 regular-season games, including a career-high and NHL-leading 60 in 2011-12. Stamkos has also been sidelined with a few serious injuries in recent seasons. He missed 55 games in the 2013-14 season with a broken leg. Last season, he dealt with a blood-clotting issue that kept him out of the postseason until Game 7 of the Eastern Conference finals against the Pittsburgh Penguins. John Fox, Chicago Bears coy on Jay Cutler, Alshon Jeffery Florida Panthers acquire F Thomas Vanek from Detroit Red Wings Los Angeles Rams slap tag on CB Trumaine Johnson Steve Yzerman NHL // 5 days ago Golden Knights fire Gallant, replace coach with DeBoer Jan. 15 (UPI) -- The Vegas Golden Knights fired coach Gerald Gallant on Wednesday and replaced him with former San Jose Sharks coach Peter DeBoer. NHL // 1 week ago Women's 3-on-3 event to debut at NHL All-Star weekend Jan. 13 (UPI) -- The NHL will debut a 3-on-3 women's scrimmage at the 2020 All-Star Game in St. Louis. Predators' Pekka Rinne becomes first NHL goalie to score since 2013 Jan. 10 (UPI) -- Nashville Predators star Pekka Rinne became the first NHL goalkeeper to score a goal since 2013, when he found the net during a win against the Chicago Blackhawks. Predators hire ex-Devils coach John Hynes to replace fired Peter Laviolette Jan. 7 (UPI) -- One month after being fired by the New Jersey Devils, John Hynes was named the new head coach of the Nashville Predators. Nashville Predators fire head coach Peter Laviolette Jan. 6 (UPI) -- After a disappointing first half to this season, the Nashville Predators fired head coach Peter Laviolette and assistant coach Kevin McCarthy. NHL // 2 weeks ago Fired Dallas Stars coach Jim Montgomery entering rehab for alcohol abuse Jan. 3 (UPI) -- Former Dallas Stars head coach Jim Montgomery is entering a rehabilitation program for alcohol abuse. Islanders' Casey Cizikas crashes Capitals comeback Jan. 1 (UPI) -- New York Islanders center Casey Cizikas scored twice to help his squad snatch a late comeback victory against the Washington Capitals. NHL // 1 month ago Blackhawks to reinstate assistant coach Marc Crawford after investigation into abuse Dec. 16 (UPI) -- The Chicago Blackhawks announced Monday that assistant coach Marc Crawford will resume his coaching duties on Jan. 2 after the team concluded its investigation into abuse allegations against him. Arizona Coyotes acquire star winger Taylor Hall in trade with New Jersey Devils Dec. 16 (UPI) -- The New Jersey Devils traded star left wing Taylor Hall to the Arizona Coyotes for draft picks and prospects. Philadelphia Flyers' Oskar Lindblom, 23, diagnosed with rare bone cancer Dec. 13 (UPI) -- Philadelphia Flyers forward Oskar Lindblom is expected to miss the remainder of the season after being diagnosed with Ewing's sarcoma, a rare type of bone cancer. LSU wins College Football Playoff National Championship

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Let your voice be heard 2020 tax headaches No 🍺🍷 but more 💵 Cut these expenses now How retired couples can live happily ever after Nanci Hellmich Couples should make decisions with %22enthusiastic agreement%2C%22 new book says Decisions should be a win-win for both partners Many people%2C especially women%2C need some %22undivided attention%22 Psychologist Robert Bornstein has friends he says could be considered "role models for a healthy relationship in retirement." After they retired from their careers, they "both began doing volunteer work right away to fill their time. They found a balance between being together and being apart, and their marriage flourished as a result," he says. But that's not always the case. Many couples don't live happily ever after in retirement. They may lead separate lives or spend so much time together that they drive each other crazy. "Retirement is a major stressor on relationships, because people are so preoccupied with setting up the financial bedrock of retirement that they don't think about interpersonal challenges. They don't think about the lifestyle change," says Bornstein, 54, co-author of How to Age in Place written with his wife, psychologist Mary Languirand, 56. "Part of the problem is they may go from being together two or three hours a day to being together 24/7. And it happens all at once. Even if you love this person dearly, you are not used to being that close all the time. You have to plan for it," he says. There are two different situations that can be problematic, he says. One is where both members of the couple stop working at the same time and have to fill the void. "They have to create structure to fill their days, and many of us have never had to do that for the last 30 or 40 years." The other scenario is when one member of the couple is working, and the other has been at home, such as an at-home wife. The non-working partner may feel like the retired person is intruding in their space, Bornstein says. In Japan, this is called the "retired husband syndrome," and the wife may suffer tremendous stress and even depression, he says. Psychologist Willard Harley, Jr., 72, author of the best-selling His Needs, Her Needs and a new book, He Wins, She Wins, agrees that retirement can be a stressful time for couples who may have financial issues, health concerns and trouble adjusting to a loss of identity from leaving their jobs. For many couples, their jobs may have kept them apart for 60 or more hours a week. "If you have gotten used to independent lifestyles, all of the sudden you are faced with the fact that you have very little in common and no longer feel compatible." One prescription for a happy relationship in retirement is for people to work together "to create a lifestyle that they both enjoy, that meets both of their emotional needs and that takes the other person's feelings into account," says Harley, who has counseled thousands of couples, including many who are retired. He and his wife, Joyce, 70, host a daily radio show and work together on their website, marriagebuilders.com. "One of my basic premises is you should never do anything without 'enthusiastic agreement' between the two of you because everything you do affects each other. It's a simple concept," he says. Here's how the process works: When a couple is trying to make a decision or resolve a conflict, they both must begin with the goal of a mutually enthusiastic agreement. Until one is discovered, they keep negotiating, Harley says. It forces each partner to develop a deep understanding and respect of the other person in order to achieve that objective. This could apply to everything from financial decisions to recreational choices to how to spend your time, he says. By using this approach, they not only resolve the conflict, but they also form a deeper and more romantic relationship with each other. Another key to happiness for couples is being sensitive to the other person's needs, which often means giving your partner your undivided attention, Harley says, "For women, undivided attention is a crucial element in meeting their emotional needs, while it's not always important for men." Becoming compatible means finding things you enjoy doing together, he says. "I try to get people to do things together, to plan recreational activities, to work together on projects. What they do together should be more enjoyable than anything they do apart, because it helps maintain the feeling of romantic love that a couple has toward each other." Bornstein adds, "Couples need to strike a balance between togetherness and having some time apart." Some may want to cultivate separate interests so they aren't together for at least a portion of each day, he says. "It gives you breathing room. But every couple is different, and other couples do fine spending every minute of every day together." Couples should have some separate friends they spend time with, Bornstein says, and he suggests that they create some private space within the home, which might mean separate offices or a shop or hobby room. "Those kinds of things make a tremendous difference in terms of having enough separateness so that when you are together, it's rewarding, as opposed to overwhelming." He advises planning this out before retirement so that it gets off to a good start. Harley and his wife, Joyce, who have been married for 50 years, are not retired, but, like many retired couples, they spend a lot of time with each other. He says they are still very much in love, and enjoy doing things together — walking, taking day trips to parks, going for rides on river boats, traveling, seeing movies and watching TV. "We don't play competitive games, because we don't want the other person to lose." In your golden years, "you can become the most compatible you've ever been," he says. Here are four guidelines for how couples can negotiate "enthusiastic agreements" on decisions from the new book, He Wins, She Wins: • Set ground rules to make negotiation pleasant and safe. Do not make demands, show disrespect or become angry when you negotiate. If you reach an impasse where you do not seem to be getting anywhere, stop negotiating and come back later. • Identify the conflict from both perspectives. State the conflict. Use a notebook or smartphone to try to document everything you know about the issue, then describe each other's conflicting perspective. Respect is key to success in negotiation. • Brainstorm with abandon. Look for mutually acceptable solutions. You may be tempted to sacrifice, to give into your spouse's wishes, but that's not a win-win outcome. Your goal should be mutual happiness with neither of you gaining at the other's expense. • Choose the solution that meets the conditions of mutual and enthusiastic agreement. Many problems are relatively easy to solve if you know you must take each other's feelings into account.

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Data acquired April 15 - 15, 2003 “The Low Countries” refers to a region of Europe on the coast of the North Sea that is made from parts of modern-day northwestern France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands. Historically, this region has been much contested by the French, Austrians, and Spanish, and this region saw the birth of the East Indian Company in 1602 and the West Indian Company in 1621. A number of major rivers empty into this area, including the Rhine, the Meuse, and the Yser. A number of cities are visible as spidery brownish-gray spots on the landscape, including the Netherlands´ Amsterdam (top center, on the southwestern point of the Ijsselmeer Bay) and The Hague (middle left, north of the delta on the North Sea), as well as Belgium´s Brussels (about 150 km south of The Hague) and Charleroi (about 45 km south of Brussels). MODIS also detected a handful of fires in the image (marked in red), including one in Charleroi, one in France east of Reims, and two in Germany northwest of Dusseldorf. Also visible are a number of airplane contrails (streaky icy clouds) over the North Sea. This true-color Terra MODIS image was acquired on April 15, 2003. Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC Atmosphere > Aerosols > Cloud Condensation Nuclei Atmosphere > Clouds > Cloud Condensation Nuclei Human Dimensions > Natural Hazards > Fires

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My Health, My Choice: More than memory when assessing Alzheimer's symptoms By Bukola Gross, NP-C Choice Medical Group Alzheimer’s disease is a common form of dementia, but it’s not the same thing. Alzheimer’s is colloquially known as “Old timers” due to the association of the disease with behavioral traits that accompany old age. These traits include forgetfulness, loss of focus and a slow decline in cognitive function. While these traits may indicate the onset of Alzheimer’s, they could also be another form of dementia. As the population’s age increases, the rates of Alzheimer’s will also likely increase. Much is known about the symptoms and consequences of Alzheimer’s, and its effects on the brain. Knowing the specific symptoms to look for will help those who care for elderly adults recognize the difference between Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia, which can also assist medical professionals in the treatment plans developed for patients. The cause of Alzheimer’s is still unclear, though it has symptoms that can be recognized relatively easily. Officially, diagnosis requires a decline in memory and function, which may be termed “cognitive decline.” While forgetting some things is natural for everyone, short-term memory loss could be a warning sign that a more significant problem is present. If someone begins to have trouble recalling important events from a few years ago, that could be an indicator that memory loss is setting in. At first, such symptoms may be difficult to discern, but as the disease progresses, the symptoms will worsen. It may even become difficult for the patient to recall what happened as little as ten minutes ago. Other examples of Alzheimer’s-related memory loss include difficulty remembering conversations, repetition of stories told a day ago, getting lost on familiar trips and forgetting what was eaten for breakfast. Such symptoms, however, indicate late-stage Alzheimer’s and are irreversible. In the clinic, testing follows a process of giving patients words to remember and then asking them to repeat those words five to ten minutes later. In addition to memory loss, a decline in language can be an early indicator of Alzheimer’s. This symptom is primarily seen in patients under 65. Issues with language include difficulty with spontaneous speech, having trouble with the sound of words and forgetting what word to use. From time to time, nearly everyone experiences this; however, if someone confuses familiar objects — such as calling a hammock a bed — this could be more of a warning sign. Visual issues are another early indicator of Alzheimer’s in younger patients. Spatial awareness and difficulty with size difference or depth perception are all manifestations of Alzheimer’s. A notable warning sign would be having trouble with balance on stairs or, in later stages, difficulty with driving due to the inability to recognize how near other vehicles are. Trouble recognizing family members is also a late-stage indicator of the disease. Executive functions are another readily recognized symptom of Alzheimer’s. This is a very important feature because it indicates changes to the frontal lobe of the brain. This part of the brain assists in decision making, abstract thinking and behavior. In early stages, friends, family and co-workers may recognize changes in a person’s ability to multitask, plan a course of action or remain organized during a project. As the disease progresses, activities that were once performed quickly could take longer, while concentration becomes more difficult. Problem solving can also be a symptom, which is recognized by increased mistakes in money management or making uncommon mistakes in the workplace. Social behaviors can also be affected by the onset of Alzheimer’s symptoms. Most people are able to discern what is appropriate behavior in a variety of social settings, but as the function of the frontal lobe decreases, adherence to expected norms becomes less likely. Alzheimer’s patients may become withdrawn over time due to their inability to track conversations or fit in with a group. Other behavioral changes that are important to be aware of include higher levels of irritability, anxious feelings, apathy toward life, fear or suspicion of others, and even aggressive behaviors as symptoms worsen. Many of the symptoms described above are part of being human. What is important to recognize is a pattern of symptoms that could indicate a more serious condition beyond what would be considered a normal part of aging. While Alzheimer’s is an irreversible condition, effective treatment can slow the progress of the disease. Treatments include medication, brain exercises and increasing intake of Vitamin E. Alzheimer’s not only affects the patient, but also greatly impacts the families who take care of the patient. Resources such as www.Alzheimers.org provide literature for identifying symptoms, support for family members and clinical trials that are available. Bukky Gross, NP-C, is an exclusive Nurse Practitioner with Choice Medical Group and Choice Physicians Network. She focuses on providing exceptional individualized care. She is also a graduate of Loma Linda University, has a concentration in Family Medicine and has the skills to take care of your entire family. For additional information or to make an appointment with Dr. Bukky Gross, visit www.ChoiceMG.com or call 760-242-7777.

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MLB commissioner wants Cleveland Indians to ‘transition away’ from Chief Wahoo logo Could the Indians’ Chief Wahoo logo be on its way out? (Ken Blaze/USA Today Sports) Des Bieler Sports reporter covering national topics, including fantasy football, as well as supporting coverage of D.C.-area teams April 12, 2017 at 9:55 PM EDT Over the past few years, the Cleveland Indians have decreased their use of “Chief Wahoo,” the team’s longtime logo that depicts a caricature of a grinning Native American man. However, MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred would like to see the Indians go further and “transition away” from the polarizing image altogether. The issue, in which Chief Wahoo remains popular among many Indians fans but generates protests among Native American groups and others, gained renewed attention during last year’s World Series, which Cleveland lost in seven games to the Chicago Cubs. Saying, “I know that that particular logo is offensive to some people,” Manfred indicated at the time that he planned to meet with Indians owner Paul Dolan to discuss the topic. “Thus far, there have been productive discussions with the Cleveland Indians regarding the Commissioner’s desire to transition away from the Chief Wahoo logo,” MLB spokesman Pat Courtney said Wednesday in a statement (via the Associated Press). “We have specific steps in an identified process and are making progress.” Cleveland’s Chief Wahoo: Why the most offensive image in sports has yet to die At the start of the 2016 season, Dolan said that his team would use its “Block C” logo as its “primary mark.” However, Chief Wahoo, which has been in use since the 1940s, remained on some Indians caps and jerseys, and the team has continued to sell other merchandise with that image. A Chief Wahoo protester carries a sign, as @Indians fans enter the ballpark. pic.twitter.com/410ykAE8k3 — clevelanddotcom (@clevelanddotcom) April 11, 2017 During the Indians’ home opener Tuesday, about two dozen protesters (per cleveland.com) gathered at Progressive Field to encourage the Dolan family to get rid of Chief Wahoo. “We are people, not mascots, not logos, not imagery,” Carla Getz, a member of the Potawatomi Tribe, told the AP. Such protests have been occurring for more than 20 years in Cleveland. “Chief Wahoo does not represent anybody that I know or anybody in my tribe or in my family,” Getz said. “That is someone’s interpretation of what we are, and all that does is diminish us in the eyes of the public. Here we are in 2017, we’re not logos. And we’ve got people telling us, ‘but you are.’ ” Most fans arriving for the game ignored the protesters but some took issue with their complaint, occasionally in vulgar terms. “They need a hobby, like stringing beads,” one man wearing an Indians jersey said, in video from cleveland.com that can be seen below. (Warning: profanity.) “We certainly understand the sensitivities of the logo, those who find it insensitive and also those fans who have a long standing attachment to its place in the history of the team,” Bob DiBiasio, the team’s senior vice president for public affairs, said in a statement. “We fully expect to work with the Commissioner throughout the remainder of this season on finding a solution that is good for the game and our organization,” DiBiasio added. “Our primary focus right now is on the team and our pursuit of returning to the postseason.” “Chief Wahoo is the Cleveland Indians,” an Indians fan at Progressive Field on Tuesday told the New York Times. “I think there comes a time when you have to take a stand for what you believe in. I don’t think it’s hurting anybody.” Assuming they agree to phase out Chief Wahoo — Dolan called the image “part of our history and legacy” last year — the Indians would likely want to do so after this season, if only to avoid even bigger protests from fans who want to keep the logo. The team could also be concerned about taking a step that may decrease attendance during a season for which it has the highest of hopes. However, Philip Yenyo, executive director of the American Indian Movement of Ohio, told the AP that he’d be happy to see Chief Wahoo dropped, but ideally, the Indians would change their name, as well. He said the team may not be realizing the potential profit in doing so, saying, “If they change the name, people will be rushing to get what’s in their stores before it’s gone. And then you would have a new market with a new logo, and that’s going to bring in more money.” “There are Little League teams that are changing their names, high school teams that are changing their names,” Yenyo said. “A couple colleges have done it. To see that happening is great, but I think the momentum would be a lot better if major league teams would change their names, and they can do it.” The Indians are almost certainly not strongly considering a name change at the moment, but it appears that the club is moving toward fulfilling Manfred’s desire to see Chief Wahoo phased out. That may anger some fans, but as long as the team continues its recent success, sales of Block C merchandise in Cleveland should be brisk.

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Liz O’Donnell LIZ O’DONNELL is the chief content officer for Double Forte, a marketing firm expert at connecting companies to the people who matter to them via digital, marketing, and public relations strategies. As such O’Donnell maintains the editorial calendar and voice for the firm, as well as counsels clients on their content and social media strategies. She is the author of “Mogul, Mom & Maid: The Balancing Act of the Modern Woman,” a book that picks up where other business books leave off – understanding the impact women’s personal lives have on their careers and the ways business can support working women. Her website WorkingDaughter.com supports women who are balancing caring for an aging parent and their career. Her first blog, Hello Ladies, was named one of the top 100 websites for women by Forbes, a Best of the Net by Working Mother Magazine and a Voice of the Year by BlogHer. O’Donnell is also the co-founder of SheStarts, which supports the growing pipeline of women founders in Boston through networking, coaching and events. Active in her community, she is a member of her town’s warrant and finance committee and co-founded Women in Democracy, a non-partisan organization that encourages women to run for local office. @lizodtweets

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Exclusive: Interview with Malinder Tooray We've known Malinder Tooray for several years now and are proud to call her a friend. You've certainly seen this badass female dhol player collaborating with countless South-Asian creatives, but most recently in Mickey Singh's Urban Desi music video! We met up with Tooray at one of our favorite spots - Badmaash in Downtown LA. There's nothing like chowing down on some delicious chicken tikka poutine fries and catching up with an old friend! When did you start getting into music? I wasn't allowed to listen to hip hop growing up. My parents didn't like the foul language. I really wish that they let us listen to it because I would have appreciated the music and it would have helped me understand why there's so much racism. I didn't have knowledge about where racism stemmed from and why everyone was so segregated. Music was a way of expressing that. When I would listen to my friends talk about a Biggie song or a Tupac song I wish I knew all the lyrics too. There was a little bit of disconnect for me, but as I grew older I was able to listen to them and really reflect on their lyrics. Everyone should know their lyrics because their message was trying to make a difference in the world. I mainly listened to Bollywood and Bhangra growing up. It really helped shape who I am today. Was there a moment when you knew you wanted to play dhol professionally? Playing the dhol came naturally. It was like a gift. I learned to play by listening to beats. My brothers started picking it up too and we started playing gigs. Our parents would drive us to the clubs, go in with us, let us rock out and then drive us back home. The feeling of being on stage and seeing people smile and reacting back at something you're giving to them is something that can never be taken away. A gift that I have is making people dance. It's like being a doctor in a different way. Lets talk about sexuality I'm a queer brown girl. At the age of 6 is when I first became curious about my sexuality. As I got older my feelings for women progressed and got deeper and deeper. I didn't know what to do with these feelings. I was just a kid and didn't know how to bring it up and I knew my parents would have no idea how to handle that. As years went by it just got worse. In middle school is when I really started having crushes on girls, but I never talked about it and I never explored it. My feelings kept building up and I turned to playing sports as a way to express the feelings that were festering. When I got into high school it was starting to depress me and eating me up inside. I would have serious crushes on girls, but didn't know how to ask. I didn't want to freak anyone out. It's not a guy asking a girl out, it's a girl asking a girl out. You don't know how they're going to respond. It was in high school when I was 14 that I first picked up the dhol. It was like what sports was for me in middle school. It was another way to release feelings. Coming out was very hard - I came out at 18. I met a girl that was also queer. Before meeting her I had no exposure to other gay people at all. She was really sweet. She would write me love letters and leave them under my pillow and we would talk about what she wrote. I really appreciated those moments. At the time I was living at home and knew there would be consequences at some point. It was hard to explain to her how difficult it would be to be open with my parents. It got to a point where she was going to walk out on me if I didn't tell my parents. At that age I was so caught up in my emotions. I didn't know what to do. We were having dinner at my parents house and I grabbed her hand and told my family I had a confession to make and I was like "she's my girlfriend." And they were like, "yea, she's your friend." I was like, "no, she's my girlfriend - we're in a relationship - I'm gay." Things did not go well. I left home for a week because I was scared. I didn't know what I did wrong - I just wanted to be with this person. Your inner heart is telling you who you are. You love who you want to love. There's no right or wrong way to come out. You are who you are at the end of the day. It was a struggle for years, but over time my mom started understanding. Now she'll happily tell everyone that she has a gay daughter. It's amazing - I thank god everyday that I have the best mom ever. I appreciate every gay person that came before me. It's because of the struggles they overcame that we're at where we're at today. I'm proud of who I am. Pride to me is holding your head up high and having confidence in who you are. There is a light at the end of the tunnel, but you have to choose to see it. There should be no gender conversation. Everyone should be allowed to be in tune with their emotions. There shouldn't be judgement. If a guy cries he's called a pussy. That's not right. I want people to cry and express their emotions - it's therapeutic. Becoming a voice for the queer community There were two queer Desi girls that messaged me from the Bay area that were moving to LA. They said they had no friends and if they could meet up with me. I said absolutely because when I came out there was nobody I could turn to. That feeling of being alone can really damage a person and I wouldn't want anyone to go through that whether they're straight or gay. We're best friends now. There's been more and more people reaching out after I was in the Micky Singh music video. That was the first Desi video that showed a same sex couple in an intimate way. People have messaged me asking for advice on how to come out. I am being featured in a South Asian Bridal Magazine. I'll be the first brown queer girl they've had in their magazine. This will be another platform for me. Modeling is something I never really thought of in my teens or my twenties. I was so insecure before. After I cut my hair and started taking photos I gained confidence - I could see myself differently. Another thing I'm working on is creating a line of jumpsuits. I'm going to create a clothing line that has no gender formality. I'm learning a lot about fabrics and the fashion world in general right now. God puts you in this world and gives you this opportunity and it can be a challenging opportunity, but what are you going to do with it? How are you going to give back to the world? These are the questions I'm asking myself. Who am I and what is my purpose here besides being the first female dhol player? It's about happiness. I have to find what makes me most happy. It's okay to not have everything figured out. Everything from your past leads you to where you are today. Who are your biggest music influences? My cousin, Kuly Ral, who's no longer in this world created a group called RDB. He was a great inspiration to me because he created the two step Bhangra back in the day. He created something that was so different. The Handmaids Tale - that is a brilliant show. Sometimes it feels like we're heading in that direction. I'm glad I have a dual citizenship! I just started watching Pose on FX. It's the first vogue ball tv series about the gay community. I think it's really good. I've seen vogue balls and have been apart of them and this show is pretty on point with reality. Who are your favorite people to follow on social media? For fashion I like to follow Mani K. Jassal from Toronto. An author I like following is Rupi Kaur. An artist I like following is Babbu the Painter. A singer I love is Horsepowar. Malinder is such a powerful individual to live a life that is completely true to herself She's been an inspiration and support to so many! We find strength in her strength. Being yourself is the most beautiful thing you can be! Malinder’s socials: @m2ray5 Malinder Tooray RETURN TO VEYELX HOMEPAGE

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November 2014 Faculty Accomplishments Catherine Burroughs, Professor of English, has an article being published early January in *The Cambridge Companion to Women's Writing in the Romantic Period (1780-1830).* Ed. Devoney Looser. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. 32-43. Siouxsie Easter, Associate Professor of Theater, presented a paper in early November entitled "Interdisciplinary Performance Installation: Encouraging Artistic Collaboration in Academia" at the Women in the Arts Conference in St. Louis, MO. Jeanne Goddard, Professor of Dance, in November 2014, performed by invitation at Ithaca College with jazz pianist John White, in a program of improvisational work. She also taught two evenings of master classes in Baroque movement for the Ithaca College Light Opera Ensemble, and coached their performance repertoire. Dr. Carl Johengen, Director of the Wells College Concert Choir, was one of seven singers who performed new works for voice and piano by New York composer David Sisco at Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall on Friday, November 14. Dr. Johengen gave the premiere performance of "Songs from an Old Mill Town", composed by Sisco to poetry by west coast poet Jeff Walt. Sarah Markowitz, Assistant Professor of Psychology, served on a panel discussion, entitled Enhancing the Teaching of CBT: A multidisciplinary approach, at the Annual Convention for the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, November 21, 2014, in Philadelphia. Niamh O' Leary, Professor of Environmental Studies, attended the 41st Annual Fall Scientific Paper Session of the Rochester Academy of Science. Katie Sweeney '15, Major in Environmental Studies, presented a poster entitled "Bioassessment of the Water Quality of the Tioughnioga River in Relation to Surrounding Land Use" that described the findings of research done under O' Leary's supervision. Jaclyn Schnurr, Associate Professor of Biology, and her 2 summer research students, Niaome Hickman '16 and Katie Sweeney '15, presented a poster titled "Abundance and reproduction of herbaceous vegetation of Wells College, Aurora, NY" at the Rochester Academy of Sciences meeting. Gehan Dhameeth, Assistant Professor of Business, presented his paper at the 2014 (November) Jones International University Society of Scholars Virtual Conference for the School of Business. The paper was on "Influence of Cultural Factors for Global Brand Management." Professor Dhameeth also guided a team of Wells College students to help a King Ferry woman jump-start her organic garlic business. Professor Dhameeth was given an award from the Service Corps of Retired Executives (SCORE) for his work with Colgan Farms. Read the full article. Winnie Tsang, Lecturer in Art History, presented at the conference of International Society for Religion, Literature and Culture at University of Leuven in Belgium in September 2014. The title of her talk was "Embracing the Occult: Religious Hybridity in Paul Gauguin's Tahitian Paintings." Tukumbi Lumumba-Kasongo, Professor of Political Science, as the Coordinator of the Advanced Research Project on "Security, Violence and Post-Conflict Reconstruction in the Great Lakes Region of Africa," attended the Peace Conference on the Great Lakes, which was organized on September 26-28, 2014 by CODESRIA in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo. Professor Tukumbi Lumumba-Kasongo was invited by the Institute for Peace and Security Studies at University of Addis Ababa in Ethiopia to serve as a human resource person in its Executive Master Program in Managing Peace and Security in Africa on Module 2 on "Causes, Dynamics and Consequences of Violent Conflict: The Case of the Democratic Republic of Congo." He gave 5 lectures and intervened in every single topic or subtopic related to this module (November 17-25, 2014).

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Peachtown Native American Education Week and Festival Wells College is pleased to once again host the Peachtown Native American Festival and Education Week, taking place September 21 to 25 on the Wells campus. Events during the week offer a chance for the Wells community to learn about and discuss the history and continued relevance of the region, including the land on which the College was built. The festival on Friday brings participants together for traditional music and dancing, food and a peach tree planting. All events are free, and the public is welcome. The week’s schedule includes: Monday, September 21: 12:20 – 1:20 p.m., Stratton Lecture Hall (209): "Restoration and Reciprocity: Finding Common Ground between Scientific and Traditional Ecological Knowledge" Robin Wall Kimmerer, director, Center for Native Peoples and the Environment, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry The Center for Native Peoples and the Environment has as its mission to create programs that draw on the wisdom of both indigenous and scientific knowledge in support of our shared goals of environmental sustainability. This Sustainability Perspectives talk is presented in conjunction with the Peachtown Native American Festival. 4:00 – 5:30 p.m., Stratton Lecture Hall and Lobby: At 4:00, Lydia Bailey ’16, presents her Summer Internship Poster: "Game Pieces at Myers Farm: A 15th Century Cayuga Site" discussing the diversity of bone and ceramic artifact game pieces found at a local archaeological site dating to the mid 1400's, and why this is further evidence in support of an early foundation of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. At 4:30, Professor Emerita Linda Schwab and The Aurora Historical Society host the launch of Jack Rossen’s new book, “Corey Village and the Cayuga World: Implications from Archaeology and Beyond,” including a presentation and book signing. Tuesday, September 22: 12:30 – 1:30 p.m., Stratton Lecture Hall: "Countering the Idealized Indian Image in Sports Mascots: The Rising Public Image of Native Americans in Sports" with Dr. Michael Taylor of Ithaca College. With the recent successes of Native peoples in sports such as Lacrosse, and the Indoor and Outdoor games' World Championships held in North America, the visibility of Native games and competitors offers real and viable counters to racialized "Indian" sports team mascots and ethnic notions of Native people in sports. This discussion will include ideas on sovereignty through frames such as personal mobility, lacrosse being now a global sport, and Native competitors as world-class athletes. Wednesday, September 23: 12: 30 – 1:30 p.m., Stratton Lecture Hall: “The Paradox of Productivity: Lessons from an Indigenous Agriculture” by Jane Mt. Pleasant, associate professor in the School of Integrative Plant Science at Cornell University. Her multi-disciplinary perspective on indigenous agriculture includes history, archeology, paleobotany, and cultural/social anthropology. Much of her work has focused on Haudenosaunee agriculture in the 16th through 18th centuries-- more recently she has expanded her research to include pre-Columbian agriculture in eastern and central North America. Mt. Pleasant is of Tuscarora ancestry. 12:00 – 2:00 p.m., Stratton Lobby: "Cayuga Nation: Now & Then," a book by Jenna Rodriguez, Victor Hammer Fellow, Wells Book Arts Center. Jenna designed, offset printed, and published this book during her summer residency with the Journal of Artist Books (JAB) at Columbia College Chicago in the Center for Book and Paper Arts. Three weeks after she moved to the shores of Cayuga Lake, the local gas station was barricaded with trucks, police and members of the local Cayuga Tribe. This event inspired her to explore the long history of the Cayuga Nation and the events that lead to the recent conflict within the tribe itself. She published a two-sided artist book showcasing her own observations, experiences, and research on the Cayuga Nation. Thursday, September 24: 12:30 – 1:30 p.m., Stratton Lecture Hall: Meghan McCune ’03, Jamestown Community College, will present “Voices from the Western Door: Anti-Indianism, Land Dispossession, and Seneca Resilience” Meghan is an alumna of Wells College, graduating in 2003 with an Anthropology/Sociology major. During her time at Wells, she served on the board of Strengthening Haudenosaunee Relations through Education (SHARE). Meghan also holds a M.A. and Ph.D. in Anthropology from Michigan State University. Her research centers on Indigenous sovereignty, specifically Haudenosaunee land rights and economic development. She is currently Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Sociology and Director of Social Sciences at Jamestown Community College. 3:00 – 6:00pm Sommer Center (lawn and indoors) Social Dance with Cayuga Singers. The Peachtown Native American Festival and Education Week ends with a celebratory gathering. Everyone is welcome to participate in the annual peach tree planting, social dancing led by Cayuga singers, and food for all. Come on out, enjoy a beautiful early fall day, and learn more about Cayuga culture. These events are held in collaboration with the Aurora Historical Society, Wells’ Book Arts Center, the Cayuga Nation, Wells’ Center for Sustainability and the Environment, and the First Nations and Indigenous Studies Program. Wells is committed to providing access to all events; anyone who needs assistance should contact David Foote at 315-364-3460 or email dfoote@wells.edu.

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Shakeela roped in for a cameo role in her biopic featuring Richa Chadha Richa Chadha and Shakeela Khan met recently in Bangalore. Chadha will be playing Shakeela in a biopic based on the southern star. Photograph:( WION Web Team ) To prepare for her role, Chadha has done several rounds of meetings with Shakeela, to get a better comprehension of the character she is required to play. Now, the director, impressed by the bonding of the two actresses has roped in real Shakeela for a cameo role in the movie. Director Indrajit Lankesh has roped in Shakeela, the biggest South -Indian adult film star of the 90s to play a cameo role in a biopic based on her life. Richa Chadha, who plays Shakeela in the film, has already started shooting for the film which also co-stars Pankaj Tripathi. Speaking about the new addition in the cast, director Indrajit Lankesh said, “I always wanted to make a film on Shakeela, I was immensely impressed with her onscreen and offscreen personality. I wanted to portray her story, the hardships and rough phase when she was not getting films and was trying for character roles. I wanted to show the true story behind the superstar Shakeela. She has been an integral part of the making of this film and she has given us such detailed insights into her life. Even Richa got to spend time with her, understand her style of talking, her body language and such nuances. In fact, when she came on set, she gave us very interesting insights like about art direction and how her house was and is in real life, such small details which have helped us. It was nice shooting her for Shakeela biopic, though I have shot with her before for my another film in 2003. That sparked an interest in me to make a film on her and in 2015 after conceiving the idea of making a film on her I met her and realised my dream.I feel every woman and girl who wants t be an actress should see her story, to know what she went through to become an actress and how it was such a compelling rags to riches to rags story of her life”. She'll drive you crazy - but #WhoIsShakeela? Hold tight, you'll get to know soon. A post shared by Richa Chadha (@therichachadha) on Oct 29, 2018 at 1:55am PDT For those coming in late, Shakeela Khan was a big name in the southern film industry in the late '80s and early 1990s. Her popularity was such that including her in films would change the fortune of the film and its producer. When a film starring Shakeela released, other filmmakers would push back the release of their films fearing loss at the box office. Shakeela biopic, which is yet to be titled, is set to release in 2019. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child to now have autism-friendly performance

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Giant Surveillance Balloons Are Lurking at the Edge of Space Daniel Oberhaus Companies are sending massive, high-altitude balloons to the stratosphere to snap images of Earth with unprecedented resolution. Say cheese! The helium balloon that carries World View's stratollite grows to the size of a football field by the time it reaches the upper atmosphere.Photograph: Daniel Oberhaus It’s a brisk December morning at Spaceport Tucson, America’s premiere (only?) dedicated launch pad for stratospheric balloons, and a small army of technicians in reflective vests is milling around on the concrete and thawing out after a long, cold night. Nearby, a white metal tripod the size of a smart car is tethered to two dozen solar panels and hundreds of feet of clear plastic that stretches across the pad. This alien-looking contraption is referred to as a “stratollite,” a portmanteau of “stratospheric satellite,” operated by a company called World View Enterprises. It’s a finely honed surveillance device outfitted with a suite of sensors and a camera sensitive enough to detect people standing on the ground from the edge of space. The stratollite travels by virtue of two balloons, one filled with helium to provide lift, and the other with pressurized air, which functions as a steering system. By the time the contraption reaches peak altitude about 14 miles above sea level, the helium balloon will have grown large enough to comfortably encompass a football field. But in its deflated state, the expanse of plastic brings to mind the sloughed-off skin of the rattlesnakes that call the surrounding Arizona desert home. Most of the crew has been on site at Spaceport Tucson since 2 AM preparing for World View’s twelfth and final launch of the year. Things are looking good: The sun and a waning gibbous moon compete for attention in a nearly cloudless sky, and an aerostat tethered close to the pad registers almost no wind. You could hardly ask for better conditions to launch the thousand-pound stratollite on a month-and-a-half sojourn at the edge of space. Mission control gives the green light to start inflation, a process that takes just a few minutes but uses enough helium to fill more than one million party balloons. At World View headquarters, just across from the launch pad, mission control gives the all clear. A technician jogs across the pad, pulls the pin anchoring the stratollite, and sidesteps the craft as it gracefully begins its journey to the edge of space. The Canon camera on World View's stratollite is capable of seeing a person on the ground from 75,000 feet in the air. Photograph: Daniel Oberhaus Once the stratollite rises to its peak altitude, it rides the wind for weeks on end, tracing spaghetti-like patterns over the American southwest. A condenser in the stratollite sucks in the sparse air in the upper atmosphere and pumps it into the second, “superpressure” balloon attached beneath the helium balloon. The pressurized air is denser than the helium, so the superpressure balloon acts as a weight. To lower the stratollite’s altitude, you increase the pressure, and vice versa to climb higher. Because the stratollite is at the mercy of the wind, the ability to change altitude at will is critical for navigation. Winds move in different directions and at different speeds depending on the altitude, so stratollite’s minders can steer it by drifting up or down. On any given day, the altitude of the stratollite might change by as much as 25,000 feet depending on the wind patterns. Founded in 2012 by Taber MacCallum and Jane Poynter of Biosphere 2 fame, World View was originally conceived as a platform for human journeys to the upper stratosphere. Given that only a handful of people have piloted stratospheric balloons and lived to tell the tale, it was an ambitious goal—but the company had the technical chops to back it up. In 2014, MacCallum and Poynter worked together on a mission to send Google executive Alan Eustace on a record-breaking space-diving journey to 136,000 feet suspended beneath a stratospheric balloon. But it wasn’t at all clear there was enough demand for ferrying humans to the upper stratosphere, so in February, World View tapped Ryan Hartman, the former president and CEO of the drone company Insitu, to retool the company as a data services platform. The idea is to use long-lasting stratospheric balloons to collect high-resolution images of Earth and sell this data to the government and private companies. Given his background in drones, Hartman is intimately familiar with the concept of Earth surveillance as a service. He says World View aims to fill a niche that can’t be met by more conventional technologies like drones and satellites, which involve compromises in the quality of images, the area these images cover, and the frequency with which images are collected. Stratospheric balloons promise cheap access to incredibly high-resolution images that can be collected anywhere on Earth. Using off-the-shelf imaging hardware, World View can take photos with 15-centimeter resolution from 75,000 feet, and its custom-made cameras will soon be capable of 5 centimeters. The two-chambered superpressure balloon under the helium balloon remains deflated until the stratollite reaches its maximum altitude and is then rapidly pressurized with air.Photograph: Daniel Oberhaus According to Hartman, World View’s system is sensitive enough to tell whether a person on the ground is “holding a shovel or a gun.” Unsurprisingly, perhaps, World View has attracted the interest of the US Department of Defense, which Hartman says will be one of the company’s first customers when it starts selling its data next year. He says the company has also received a lot of attention from the energy sector, which is interested in using the image data to monitor its oil and gas wells, transmission lines, and other critical assets. Hartman is aware that not everyone will like the idea of a balloon-borne eye in the sky, but he is adamant that World View’s systems will be used responsibly. “This is not going to be a solution that is used for Big Brother-type applications,” he says. “The fastest way for us to become an over-regulated environment is to be irresponsible with the use of the technology.” For example, he says the company isn’t going to let clients just “park a balloon over a city, open up the shutter, and have fun,” even though he says “there’d be a lot of people interested” in this type of dragnet surveillance. Instead, Hartman says he’d prefer to hear from customers who are interested in atmospheric research or climate science, which he sees as one of the stratollite’s most promising applications. World View collects reams of atmospheric data each flight, which the company is using to build what Hartman claims will be the most accurate model of stratospheric winds in existence. In the future, Hartman envisions a global constellation of stratollites that communicate with each other to form a stratospheric mesh network providing real-time coverage of most of the Earth’s surface. The company is also working on other data-gathering devices like synthetic aperture radar, which can create 3D images of objects on the surface. The idea of a constellation of stratospheric balloons isn’t new—the US military floated the idea back in the ’90s—but technology has finally matured to the point that they’re actually possible. World View’s December launch marks the first time the company has had more than one balloon in the air at a time, if only for a few days. By the time you’re reading this, its other stratollite will have returned to the surface under a steerable parachute after nearly seven weeks in the stratosphere. By the time the helium balloon reaches the edge of space, it will be nearly wide enough to fill the frame of this photo.Photograph: Daniel Oberhaus World View isn’t the only company looking to mine data at the edge of space. In 2016, Rema Matevosyan, an applied mathematician, cofounded Near Space Labs, which also collects high-resolution imagery from the upper stratosphere. The company has recently started testing its six-legged observation platforms, known as Swifts, on high altitude flights over Austin and Philadelphia. The Swifts are smaller and lighter than World View’s stratollites and so far have only spent a few days at altitude, a limitation imposed by their batteries. Each Swift is outfitted with a steerable imaging device capable of 30 centimeter resolution, but Matevosyan says the company’s next-generation cameras will take images with 10-centimeter resolution. “We’re building a high-frequency, high-resolution data set that has never existed before,” Matevosyan says, alluding to the company’s new API that allows anyone to access its imagery data. “This is an entirely new approach to remote sensing.” Both World View and Near Space Labs are banking on the world’s insatiable appetite for data to keep their companies aloft. But given their new spin on high altitude surveillance, neither can be sure just how big the market is—or what their balloon platforms might be used for next. The mad scientist who wrote the book on how to hunt hackers Why Ring doorbells perfectly exemplify the IoT security crisis Bing Maps make the revived Flight Simulator eerily realistic Diss tech Buddhists all you want—but read this book first A remote Tanzanian village logs onto the internet ✨ Optimize your home life with our Gear team’s best picks, from robot vacuums to affordable mattresses to smart speakers. Daniel Oberhaus is a staff writer at WIRED, where he covers space exploration and the future of energy. He is the author of Extraterrestrial Languages (MIT Press, 2019) and was previously the news editor at Motherboard. Architect Explains How Homes Could be 3D Printed on Mars and Earth TopicsWeather Balloonballoonsurveillancedrones

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Dedham Middle School Principal granted leave of absence after drunken-driving arrest By Max Bowen, Wicked Local Dedham Middle School Principal Debra Gately has been granted a leave of absence for the remainder of the academic year, Wicked Local reports. In a sent to all Dedham Public School parents and staff Friday morning, Superintendent Michael Welch said he has been in contact with Gately nearly every day over the past two weeks, since she was arrested in Weston for operating under the influence of liquor.“On Thursday, April 14 I met with Mrs. Gately and she asked me for a leave of absence for the remainder of the 2015-16 school year in order to provide time and space to step back and address her needs,” Welch wrote in the letter. “I have approved her leave of absence request, and will stay in close touch with her over the next two months.”Welch said Dr. Margo Fraczek will continue to serve as interim principal at DMS for the remainder of the 2015-16 school year. In addition, former DMS Interim Assistant Principal Mrs. Kate Conway will return to DMS in thesame capacity beginning April 25.“Many of you will remember Mrs. Conway's previous interim assignment as assistant principal during Dr. Fraczek's maternity leave in 2012-13,” Welch wrote. “Her familiarity with the faculty, staff, and parents will be a significant support to the school for the remainder of the year. All activities and events scheduled for the rest of this school year will occur as planned.”On Monday, April 11, Gately appeared in Waltham District Court and admitted to the facts of the case, which was continued without a finding. She was sentenced to one year of supervised probation and Judge Gregory Flynn ordered her to complete a 24D alcohol education program, the Brains at Risk program. She was ordered to pay a number of fines and her license was suspended for 45 days.Welch said the administration has met with clinicians from Riverside Trauma Center to help students process the events of the last two weeks, and information has been posted to the DMS website.WCVB app DEDHAM — Dedham Middle School Principal Debra Gately has been granted a leave of absence for the remainder of the academic year, Wicked Local reports. In a sent to all Dedham Public School parents and staff Friday morning, Superintendent Michael Welch said he has been in contact with Gately nearly every day over the past two weeks, since she was arrested in Weston for operating under the influence of liquor. Dedham Middle School principal on administrative leave after alleged DWI “On Thursday, April 14 I met with Mrs. Gately and she asked me for a leave of absence for the remainder of the 2015-16 school year in order to provide time and space to step back and address her needs,” Welch wrote in the letter. “I have approved her leave of absence request, and will stay in close touch with her over the next two months.” Welch said Dr. Margo Fraczek will continue to serve as interim principal at DMS for the remainder of the 2015-16 school year. In addition, former DMS Interim Assistant Principal Mrs. Kate Conway will return to DMS in thesame capacity beginning April 25. “Many of you will remember Mrs. Conway's previous interim assignment as assistant principal during Dr. Fraczek's maternity leave in 2012-13,” Welch wrote. “Her familiarity with the faculty, staff, and parents will be a significant support to the school for the remainder of the year. All activities and events scheduled for the rest of this school year will occur as planned.” On Monday, April 11, Gately appeared in Waltham District Court and admitted to the facts of the case, which was continued without a finding. She was sentenced to one year of supervised probation and Judge Gregory Flynn ordered her to complete a 24D alcohol education program, the Brains at Risk program. She was ordered to pay a number of fines and her license was suspended for 45 days. Welch said the administration has met with clinicians from Riverside Trauma Center to help students process the events of the last two weeks, and information has been posted to the DMS website. WCVB app

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International Players For NBA Gaining Momentum Latino Players Grateful For Opportunities, They Say Updated: 11:16 AM CDT Mar 28, 2012 The number of Hispanic NBA fans continues to grow. According to the NBA website, 16 percent of all fans are Latino, and if you look closely, the makeup of the players is also changing.The NBA has seven U.S.-born Latino players and 20 players from Spain and Latin America on the current season's roster.International players on the Hornet's roster are making huge contributions on the court."They've been bright spots for us this year. And we expect a lot from them in the future," said Hornet's head coach Monty Williams.Italian native Marco Belinelli is known for his three-point shots. After Belinelli scores, the Hornet's game presentation department plays an Italian song and then rushes three Italian flags down the side of the court."It was my dream when I was a child," said Belinelli. "I'm proud about that. I have a lot of fans that follow me. I have a lot of people who come to the game who speak Italian. So, it's good for me to play and represent my country."And representing Venezuela is Greivis Vasquez. The 25-year-old guard is playing more minutes and scoring major points."This is a blessing," said Vasquez. "Playing in the NBA is something that I dreamt about since I was little. Now I am here. I'm getting to play the minutes and getting the chance. It's something I'm thankful for."Vasquez has become a critical component in the integration of the newest international Hornet player, Gustavo Ayon."Ayon and Vasquez have some synergy on the floor they play well together," said Williams. "We actually use Greivis to help us communicate with Gustavo."En Español Gustavo Ayon is the third Mexican-born player to join the NBA. He doesn't speak English; but you would never know by watching him play."It's hard for any American to make it," said Vasquez. "Imagine a guy outside this Sometimes it sounds unreal but it's all hard work."According to the NBA website, the NBA has played 27 preseason games and one regular season game in Latin America. The number of Hispanic NBA fans continues to grow. According to the NBA website, 16 percent of all fans are Latino, and if you look closely, the makeup of the players is also changing. The NBA has seven U.S.-born Latino players and 20 players from Spain and Latin America on the current season's roster. International players on the Hornet's roster are making huge contributions on the court. "They've been bright spots for us this year. And we expect a lot from them in the future," said Hornet's head coach Monty Williams. Italian native Marco Belinelli is known for his three-point shots. After Belinelli scores, the Hornet's game presentation department plays an Italian song and then rushes three Italian flags down the side of the court. "It was my dream when I was a child," said Belinelli. "I'm proud about that. I have a lot of fans that follow me. I have a lot of people who come to the game who speak Italian. So, it's good for me to play and represent my country." And representing Venezuela is Greivis Vasquez. The 25-year-old guard is playing more minutes and scoring major points. "This is a blessing," said Vasquez. "Playing in the NBA is something that I dreamt about since I was little. Now I am here. I'm getting to play the minutes and getting the chance. It's something I'm thankful for." Vasquez has become a critical component in the integration of the newest international Hornet player, Gustavo Ayon. "Ayon and Vasquez have some synergy on the floor they play well together," said Williams. "We actually use Greivis to help us communicate with Gustavo." Gustavo Ayon is the third Mexican-born player to join the NBA. He doesn't speak English; but you would never know by watching him play. "It's hard for any American to make it," said Vasquez. "Imagine a guy outside this [America.] Sometimes it sounds unreal but it's all hard work." According to the NBA website, the NBA has played 27 preseason games and one regular season game in Latin America.

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HomeInterviewsInfected Rain’s Lena: 5 Albums That Changed My Life Infected Rain’s Lena: 5 Albums That Changed My Life October 14, 2019 Interviews, Lists Moldova may not be a hot bed of heavy metal, but it is the homeland of rising stars Infected Rain. The heavy-music veterans are set to release their fourth album, Endorphin, on October 18th via Napalm Records, and it’s a take-no-prisoners assault full of abrasive riffage and harrowing vocals, the latter courtesy of red dreadlocked singer Lena. Ahead of the LP’s big release (you can pre-order it here), we caught up with her to find out what five albums that changed her life. Not surprisingly, she had some very hard-hitting picks. Nirvana – Nevermind This band slowly swallowed me into the underground and alternative world. I spent a lot on my teen years with this album. It helped me see and appreciate what I had. Slipknot – Iowa This was one of the first albums that I bought by myself, with my first salary. I think I was 16 when I purchased this album on cassette. Deftones – White Pony Absolutely genius album. I love it a lot and it is always been in my top favorites. With this band and this album, I learned that it is OK to be open with all kinds of emotions and not be ashamed of what and how you feel. Suicide Silence – The Black Crown This album is absolute perfection when it comes to more brutal and heavy music for me. I love Mitch [Lucker]’s vocals a lot. This album inspired me to incorporate more metal-sounding vocals in Infected Rain. Architects – Lost Forever // Lost Together Architects is one of my favorite bands, in general. This specific album takes me through so many emotions. I listen to it every time I need to be motivated or inspired. 5 Albums That Changed My Life Hear Machine Head’s Savage New Song “Do or Die” Watch Tool Play “Fear Inoculum” and “Pneuma” Live for First Time Ever Victorius’ Dirk Scharsich: 5 Albums That Changed My Life There are plenty of swords and sorcery–themed power-metal bands. There are plenty of military history–themed power-metal bands. But ninja-themed power-metal bands? There may be only one: Germany’s Victorius. As the ass-kicking, hard-shredding quintet prepare to […] Damn Your Eyes’ Artie Alexander: 5 Albums That Changed My Life New York-based groove-metal group Damn Your Eyes — featuring current and former members of Black Water Rising, We Are the Enemy and Bonesmith — recently dropped their debut full-length, Kill the Outside. Blending old-school heavy […] Absence of Despair’s Joe Reynolds: 5 Albums That Changed My Life On September 13th, Providence, Rhode Island–based metalcore group Absence of Despair are set to drop their ripping new LP, Desolate. Before its release, we caught up with vocalist Joe Reynolds to find out what albums changed […]

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Russian mafia's Net threat Organized crime rings in Russia and the rest of the former Soviet Union are increasingly hacking into US e-commerce and banking Web sites, posing an enormous economic threat. By Laura Lorek | July 17, 2001 -- 04:42 GMT (21:42 PDT) | Topic: Security Hackers have launched computer viruses and disruptive denial-of-service attacks, but the biggest danger comes from hackers with ties to organized crime breaking into computers, FBI officials said. Spearheading the organized hacking rings is the Russian mafia, security experts say. The Russian mafia has infiltrated many businesses in the former Soviet Union, and is becoming increasingly sophisticated in computer crimes. These groups are penetrating computers in the US and other Western countries to obtain illegal profits, said John Collingwood, FBI assistant director for public affairs, during a briefing at FBI headquarters in Washington, DC, recently. "For the foreseeable future, we are going to see an explosion in this area," Collingwood said. "It's literally a brand new area for us. And it is one where no one is sure of what the implications will be." The FBI said that 40 companies in 20 states have been identified as targets of what the agency euphemistically calls Eastern European organized crime groups. More than 1 million credit card numbers have been stolen by the groups. The Russian mafia is operating in 50 countries, including the US, with representatives in every major city, according to Jeffrey Robinson, an expert on the Russian Mafia and author of The Merger. He said it has created a "wealthy cabal destined to become the most powerful special interest group in the world." Russian hackers pose one of the biggest threats to the United States' vibrant e-commerce and computer industry, said Julie Fergerson, a fraud detective and co-founder of ClearCommerce, a security company for e-commerce firms in Austin, Texas. "We are seeing more and more sophisticated attacks coming from that part of the world," Fergerson said. Security experts said the Russian mafia hacking rings are often run by former KGB agents who recruit hackers in their 20s to do the dirty work. The young hackers typically answer Internet advertisements for computer programmers, planted by organized crime outfits in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Murmansk. The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs estimated that 5,600 criminal groups with more than 100,000 members are primarily involved in money laundering, the drug business and extortion. The hackers hired by the Russian mafia break into e-commerce computers and steal credit card and bank account numbers. Some of them even resort to extortion, pledging to release the data if companies do not pay them off, security experts said. The FBI said such hackers have penetrated US e-commerce computers by exploiting vulnerabilities in unpatched Microsoft Windows NT operating systems. Microsoft has known about the holes since 1998 and has posted patches to fix them on its Web site. But many companies have still not taken steps to fix the holes, according to the FBI. Authorities said the Russian mafia members gain access to a company's computer systems, download proprietary information--such as trade secrets, customer databases and credit card information--and then demand money to patch the system against other hackers. "We are seeing more and more clients being victims of cyberextortion because it's so easy to launch a cyberattack," said Ty R. Sagalow, chief operating officer of AIG eBusiness Risk Solutions, a company that writes insurance policies against hacking attacks for companies. American International Group hires an investigator to look into the break-in, but under many circumstances, it will actually pay off the extortionist. "If our clients are going to lose money by getting attacked, then we pay him off," Sagalow said. "But right after we pay him off, we post a US$50,000 reward for information leading to an arrest." Eastern Europe's computer crackers and hackers are the most skillful in the world, said Joe Rosetti, senior vice president of Ipsa International, a New York security company. Incidences of Russian hackers breaking into e-commerce sites abound, but it is unclear whether they are tied to the Russian mafia. The FBI would not provide details on the organized hacking rings in Eastern Europe because it has an ongoing investigation, a spokesman said. In May, Russian police arrested a gang of suspected hackers led by a 63-year-old man. The hackers used Internet cafZ*s in Moscow to steal about 300 credit card numbers from people in Western countries, the chief of Moscow's police computer crime unit said. Last year, a Russian cyberthief known as Maxus stole credit card numbers from Internet retailer CD Universe. He demanded a US$100,000 ransom, but when this was denied, he placed 25,000 of the numbers on a Web site, said Yaron Galant, director of product development at Sanctum, an Internet security software company. Maxus has never been caught. The Russian mafia is also selling trade secrets to foreign competitors of US business, said Paul Fichtman, president and CEO of Internet Clearinghouse, an international fraud investigation company. In addition, organized crime groups are planting employees inside companies they want to target, he said. "It's a nice tidy business," Fichtman said. "We're seeing it happen on a regular basis. There is nothing that cannot be hacked into. Some merchants make it a lot easier than others." Russian law makes it illegal to hack into computer systems. The government imposes prison sentences of up to 10 years, plus fines, and has established a special technical crime department. But few cases are prosecuted, Ipsa's Rosetti said. Hackers often work out of Internet cafZ*s in Russia, experts said. Street vendors sell Russian hacking software, and tools and magazines publish articles on how to break into Web sites. Russian Web sites also offer hacking tools. Law enforcement agencies have trouble tracking down and prosecuting cybercriminals in foreign countries, and many businesses are often reluctant to report break-ins. "There really is no deterrent for hackers to engage in this activity," Rosetti said. Senior writer Brian Ploskina contributed to this report More from Laura Lorek Ready for take off Generating returns for online customers

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DEBT: A Conversation with David Graeber David Graeber talks about his fascinating study of — and polemic on — debt, DEBT: The First 5000 Years. It’s about the role of debt in human society and what to do about it today. How real is the debt? And what’s the “debt crisis” really about? David Graeber says that debt has been with us since the beginning of money — in fact, the first form of money was debt, as it is today, and, without it, such things like markets, the military and the state, would not be possible. It’s also at the root of such vile institutions as prostitution and the subjugation of women and was central to the formation of the European slave trade, as well as “wage slavery”. As this show was being produced, the country and the world were waiting with bated breath to see if the debt ceiling would be raised. The President and the Congress wrangled over whether and under what terms to let the Federal Government keep borrowing the money it needs to pay its bills. Republicans demanded steep cuts in social security, Medicare and Medicaid, and further cuts in taxes for the wealthy, in return for allowing the debt ceiling to rise. The Greeks already saw their safety nets slashed to ribbons — all to honor the debts the Greek government owes to the European Central Bank. We’re told that debts are sacred; honoring them is the very basis of morality. But David Graeber says it wasn’t always so. In his book, DEBT: The First 5000 Years, he writes that many, if not most societies considered it the height of honor to erase debts. That’s what was done by the Biblical Jubilee Year — every 7 years, all consumer debts were forgiven. Graeber says debt is fundamental to human societies, but not necessarily in the way we understand it. Sometimes it was a way to bind communities together — but our way of debt tears communities apart. He explodes the myth of debt as a natural, immutable obligation, It’s a human construction — and we can change it. David Graeber teaches anthropology at Goldsmiths College in London. I spoke to him in New York City on July 25. He’s a member of the venerable anarchist organization, the IWW and he was active in the anti-globalism protest movement. READERS: Do you have examples of poems or songs about debt? Leave your suggestions and comments for other readers to see. Or write on the wall at our Facebook page. July 27, 2011 NonfictionFrancesca Rheannon ← Caring for Elders: Susan Jacoby, NEVER SAY DIE & Allan Teel: ALONE & INVISIBLE NO MORE Green Home: Eric Corey Freed and Barry Katz → 2 thoughts on “DEBT: A Conversation with David Graeber” Pingback: Anthropologist talks about Economics? What the Mess? « extremely important knowledge Pingback: Pressenza - Si avvicina la fine del capitalismo finanziario?

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UK leader: Royal rift over Harry-Meghan plans can be settled Photo Credit: AP Photo/Frank Augstein, File FILE - In this Jan. 7, 2020, file photo, Britain's Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex leave after visiting Canada House in London, after their recent stay in Canada. As Prince Harry and Meghan step back as senior royals, questions linger over the role race has played in her treatment in Britain. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, File) LONDON - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Tuesday he believes the royal family can resolve a serious rift over the plans of Prince Harry and his wife Meghan, who want to break free of their royal roles and move to Canada. The plans of Harry and Meghan, also known as the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, have received tentative approval from Queen Elizabeth II, who said she and other senior royals regret the decision but understand and respect it. Vital details remain to be worked out, with difficult issues to resolve, and Canada's leader has raised questions as well, but the British prime minister told the BBC that the monarchy will be able to find solutions. “My view on this is very straightforward: I am a massive fan, like most of our viewers, of the queen and the royal family as a fantastic asset for our country,” Johnson said. “I'm absolutely confident that they are going to sort this out.” He said the senior royals, who had a crisis summit Monday afternoon at the queen's palatial Sandringham House retreat in eastern England, will be able to find an amicable way forward “much more easily without a running commentary from politicians.” Harry and Meghan ignited the latest crisis by unilaterally issuing a statemen t Wednesday indicating a desire to step back from most royal duties and become financially independent. They have decided to spend at least part of their time in Canada, a Commonwealth country where the queen is head of state and Meghan worked for seven years while filming the TV series “Suits.” The move annoyed senior royals who had not been consulted, sparking the so-called Sandringham summit that brought together the 93-year-old queen, her eldest son and heir Prince Charles, and Prince William, who would follow his father Charles to the throne, along with Harry. Few details emerged, but the queen's statement afterwards indicates the family won't seek to block Harry and Meghan's bid for independence from royal roles they clearly find restrictive. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, speaking after the queen made clear the couple has chosen Canada as its alternate destination, said his country welcomes the news but has issues to discuss, including the possible cost to taxpayers of providing security for the well-known royal couple. “I think most Canadians are very supportive of having royals be here, but how that looks and what kind of costs are involved, there are still lots of discussions to have,” he told Canadian TV, adding that no formal talks between the British and Canadian governments have been held. Britain's royals are protected by a special unit of London's Metropolitan Police, also known as Scotland Yard, at a cost that is not made public because of concerns that details about its operation could compromise the royals' safety. In addition to cost concerns, it is likely that special arrangements would have to be made to allow London police to operate on a long-term deployment in Canada. Many financial questions remain. The queen says Harry and Meghan don't plan to use public funds when they step back from royal duties, so it is possible they may be asked to pay for security out of their own pockets. The royals seem to be adopting a “go slow” attitude toward the breakaway couple, with the queen talking about a period of transition. Harry and Meghan have declared that one of their goals is to become financially independent. It is not known if they will continue to receive financial support from Harry's father, Prince Charles, who uses income from the Duchy of Cornwall estate to support a variety of royal activities. The estate generated more than 20 million pounds ($26 million) last year. Harry and Meghan have announced plans to launch a major charitable institution in the coming year, but details haven't been made public. In the past they have focused on female empowerment, wildlife protection, ending the stigma surrounding mental health problems and other issues. They just took a six-week vacation in western Canada with their infant son Archie. Meghan has returned to Canada after a brief visit to London last week. Follow full AP coverage at https://www.apnews.com/PrinceHarry FILE - In this Tuesday, July 10, 2018 file photo, members of the royal family gather on the balcony of Buckingham Palace, with from left, Prince Charles, Camilla the Duchess of Cornwall, Prince Andrew, Queen Elizabeth II, Meghan the Duchess of Sussex, Prince Harry, Prince William and Kate the Duchess of Cambridge, as they watch a flypast of Royal Air Force aircraft pass over Buckingham Palace in London. In a statement issued on Monday, Jan. 13, 2020, Queen Elizabeth II says she has agreed to grant Prince Harry and Meghan their wish for a more independent life that will see them move part-time to Canada. Photo Credit: AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File FILE - In this Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2017 file photo, Britain's Prince William, the Duke of Cambridge, left, and Prince Harry arrive to visit the Support4Grenfell Community Hub in London. Britain's Queen Elizabeth II is set to hold face-to-face talks Monday, Jan. 13, 2020 with Prince Harry for the first time since he and his wife, Meghan, unveiled their controversial plan to walk away from royal roles — at a dramatic family summit meant to chart a future course for the couple. The meeting at the monarch's private Sandringham estate in eastern England will also include Harry's father Prince Charles and his brother Prince William. Queen's summit: Key questions on Prince Harry's future Photo Credit: Toby Melville/ Pool via AP, File Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson visits Stormont, Belfast, Northern Ireland, Monday Jan. 13, 2020, as the power sharing Northern Ireland assembly starts up. Photo Credit: Liam McBurney/PA via AP This is a handout photo issued on Monday, Jan. 13, 2020 by Buckingham Palace of a statement by Britain's Queen Elizabeth II on the future of Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex. Queen Elizabeth II says she has agreed to grant Prince Harry and Meghan their wish for a more independent life that will see them move part-time to Canada. Photo Credit: Buckingham Palace via AP FILE - In this March 5, 2019 file photo, Britain's Queen Elizabeth II is joined by Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales, and at rear, from left, Kate, Duchess of Cambridge, Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, Prince William, Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex during a reception at Buckingham Palace, London to mark the 50th anniversary of the investiture of the Prince of Wales. In a statement issued on Monday, Jan. 13, 2020, Queen Elizabeth II says she has agreed to grant Prince Harry and Meghan their wish for a more independent life that will see them move part-time to Canada. Photo Credit: Dominic Lipinski/Pool via AP, File FILE - In this file photo dated Sunday, Nov. 8, 2015, Britain's Prince William, right, Prince Harry, left, attend the Remembrance Sunday ceremony at the Cenotaph in London. Britain's Queen Elizabeth II is set to hold face-to-face talks Monday, Jan. 13, 2020 with Prince Harry for the first time since he and his wife, Meghan, unveiled their controversial plan to walk away from royal roles — at a dramatic family summit meant to chart a future course for the couple. The meeting at the monarch's private Sandringham estate in eastern England will also include Harry's father Prince Charles and his brother Prince William. Photo Credit: AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File

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Truck crashes into Savannah home SAVANNAH, Ga. (WJCL) - A U-Haul truck crashed into a home at the corner of 34th Street and Whitaker Street Thursday night.A WJCL News crew at the scene said the crash destroyed the front porch of that home. Another car was involved in the wreck.People from both vehicles were being treated at the scene.No one inside the home was hurt, according to authorities.A resident was sitting near the front door watching TV when he says he heard a loud crash. SAVANNAH, Ga. (WJCL) - A U-Haul truck crashed into a home at the corner of 34th Street and Whitaker Street Thursday night. A WJCL News crew at the scene said the crash destroyed the front porch of that home. Another car was involved in the wreck. People from both vehicles were being treated at the scene. No one inside the home was hurt, according to authorities. A resident was sitting near the front door watching TV when he says he heard a loud crash.

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"Rite of Passage" Death Valley - April 7, 2017 to April 9, 2017 Day 2 (April 8, 2017 – Lone Pine, California): “Resetting Expectations” It was about 6:25am when we awoke. In looking out the window of our motel room, the weather looked a bit more benign than it did yesterday. It was also quite bright outside though there were still clouds lingering around in the direction of the mountains. So clearly I knew that today wasn’t going to be the day to sneak in an early visit to the Alabama Hills or something like that before heading on over to Death Valley. Instead, after having brekkie and getting our stuff together, we’d be carpooling in Mom’s car and going to Death Valley together as one big happy family! That said, with all the people needing to get ready, I spent some time taking pictures back towards the Sierras even though there were clouds shrouding the fresh snow on their peaks. As I was exploring the property for a bit, I noticed there was a decent spot to view the skyline from an open field to at least get away from the buildings and somewhat away from the trees lining the 395. So I took some time to take pictures from this spot while the rest of the family was still doing their errands. I wasn’t too happy about the late start, but I figured that with more people you bring along in a trip, the slower things take. But the flip side was that more people get to share in the experiences in real time instead of stories they can’t relate to. So that’s one of the ultimate catch-22s in life. Isn’t it strange how life seems to work that way? Anyways, it wouldn’t be until about 8:40am when we would finally take off and head further east towards Death Valley. This involved having quite an adventure setting up the child seats (especially Joshua’s) in the very back of Mom’s car. The way it was set up before, there was no way anyone sitting in the very back could get in except through the trunk (because the child seats prevented the underlying seat from tilting forward). This also included a fairly lengthy breakfast as well as Julie getting stuff ready (mainly microwaved broths to be put in a thermos) before we could finally head out. And so we proceeded to head in the southeast direction along the Hwy 136. The winds already seemed pretty strong as we were passing through the eastern side of the Owens Valley. Dad was fretting about the paint on his car getting sandblasted by this bombardment of fine particles being chucked across the road at 30-40mph. Clearly, any hopes of playing in the sand dunes were dashed by this development. The drive was pretty straight shot for the first half or so of the drive towards Panamint Springs. I was amused at the coincidence that we were taking Mom and Dad’s new car to Death Valley much like Julie and I had borrowed their new car while they were visiting China back in 2006, which was also a trip to Death Valley. Little did they know that we had taken their car back then to the Racetrack Playa, which involved quite an extensive drive on unpaved roads with some pretty sharp rocks. But in this case, I was hoping to get to the Racetrack once again with this new car, and that was on the agenda for today. Shortly before the 190 Highway entered Death Valley, the GPS wanted me to depart from the highway and take Darwin Road. I wasn’t sure if I had put in the wrong GPS coordinates or something for Darwin Falls, but I knew that the road to get there didn’t involve departing from the highway this far from Panamint Springs. So I ignored the GPS and kept going. Anyways, I had to get adjusted to my parents car as their annoying automatic bells and whistles meant I always had to re-adjust the mirrors whenever I started the car (it didn’t remember the previous settings) and I didn’t figure out how to use lower gears as there was a “D/S” button where we at least figured out that the “S” put the car in a somewhat lower gear, but we still pretty much had to rely on the brakes when descended towards Panamint Springs as the road started to curve and descend from 4,000ft down to around 1,000ft. After passing by the pullout for the Father Crowley Viewpoint, we eventually descended down to the so-called Old Toll Road, which was an unpaved road alongside a dry wash. We were following a slower SUV with a Texas license plate so it took quite a bit of time to follow the unpaved road all the way to the Darwin Falls Trailhead. But eventually by 9:45am, we made it to the well-established trailhead where there were still a couple of spots left in the main spaces for parking. Clearly, this was a popular place given all the cars that were already here. Out at the trailhead, the weather was already a little bit on the warm side, which contrasted mightily to the cold temperatues experienced at Lone Pine. No doubt, this had more to do with the lower elevation. Anyways, we took off our jackets, donned hats as it was quite bright out, and proceeded to follow the left side of the canyon which provided some limited shade against the morning sun. Along the way, we saw some impressive blooms of wildflowers, which further added color to the scene. We also noticed water pipes running along the opposite side of the canyon, which made me wonder if the nearby Panamint Springs Resort was tapping off the water to supply its operations. I thought it was strange to see this inside a national park, but then again, I had bet that it was grandfathered in as Death Valley National Park was a relatively new establishment in the mid-1990s. The pipes would pretty much flank the “trail” as the walk along the canyon walls then into the wash, and eventually alongside and into the creek itself became increasingly trickier and more difficult the further along the hike we went. In fact, the start of the hike was quite dry, but when the canyon walls closed in, that was when we saw Darwin Creek making its appearance. And it was the water that made the footing a little slippery against some of the rocky terrain. There were also puddles, creek crossings, and muddy spots that we tried to avoid since Joshua’s shoes weren’t equipped for hiking (they were high top basketball shoes). In one instance, Dad slipped on one particular slippery-when-wet rocky surface and took a spill and fell on his bum and back, but since he was wearing a backpack, that was what took the brunt of his fall. Throughout the hike, I was hoping to see frogs in the creek, but there was none to be found this time around. Mom said she saw one, but nobody else saw any of them. I guess this hike had gotten so popular as opposed to 2006 when Julie and I first did this hike, that the frogs were harder to spot. We’d eventually arrive at the Darwin Falls at 10:50am. Almost immediately, Joshua and Tahia got into chucking rocks into the plunge pool. Meanwhile, the adults were marveling at how a waterfall like this could exist in such a dry place. As we were documenting our experiences with photographs and videos, there were a handful of people who made a steep climb up the left side of the canyon walls and proceeded to scramble even further past this waterfall. I had heard that there were more waterfalls up there, but we were content to just enjoy this spot before it was time to head out in time for an early lunch. Eventually by 11:20am, we had our fill of Darwin Falls just as more people were showing up. Funny how on the way back out, the hiking was more straightforward than it was on the way in when we took nearly an hour just to get to the falls. I guess there’s something to be said about knowing where you’re going that somehow speeds up the pace. Indeed, as we were making our way downhill out of the narrow canyon and then along the wash as Darwin Creek disappeared into the sand, we were back at the car park at about 35 minutes after we had made our way out. There were definitely more cars parked here as we noticed there were quite a few cars parked along the 4wd road near the sign saying as such. As we were loading up the car, I was looking at the Death Valley map at the trailhead and noticed that there was a shortcut to get to the Racetrack, which I was hoping to see on a day like today. But I wasn’t sure if that shortcut road was drivable despite us driving in an all-wheel drive high clearance vehicle. Since I knew Julie wanted to have a lunch and the Panamint Springs Resort was nearby, I figured that perhaps I could ask someone there that’s more in the know about the local conditions. By about 12:15pm, we arrived at the Panamint Springs Resort. There weren’t that many people parked here, which made us believe that we indeed were about to have an early lunch. That said, it was quite windy here and we were eating outside. Even though there was a boarded up window wall placed in the direction of the wind, there was still quite a bit of sand caked on the chairs and tables. We had to get a bigger table since there were six of us. And as we were looking over the menu, it was clear that we were going to be eating burgers, pizza, and perhaps some greens. I was thinking about Julie and her restricted diet, but it seemed like she was going to test her boundaries by having raw vegetables combined with digestive enzymes supplements. While all that was going on, I was talking with the friendly proprietor who was discouraging me from doing the Racetrack as it was about a 4.5-hour drive in each direction from this place. He didn’t even entertain going the Saline Valley Road towards the shortcut to the Racetrack, and he pretty much pointed me to the route that Julie and I did 11 years ago when we camped somewhere near Ubehebe Crater and did the Racetrack first thing in the morning from there. So that kind of reset my expectations of trying to fit that in on this day. He also said that Titus Canyon was “scary” but nice, when I brought that up. He seemed to suggest that I check out Wildrose or the Charcoal Kilns as they might be better activities for the kids. He also suggested Darwin Falls though we had already done that this morning. The Mesquite Sand Dunes was also a logical choice, but with the winds blowing hard on this day, it wouldn’t be a good place to go as we’d get sandblasted. Then again, he did say Mosaic Canyon was also another option. Finally, he mentioned that we could drive all the way out to Badwater then make our way back along the Artist Drive, and that would put us back in Lone Pine in the dark. All of his suggestions kind of made me realize what vast distances we were dealing with. And since we were staying all the way in Lone Pine as opposed to within the Death Valley area itself like Julie and I did back in 2006, we really had to limit our options. Anyways, as we were killing the large pizza (everyone but Julie had at least a slice), the angus burger (Dad and I split that one), and the salads, I decided that perhaps we should go check out Zabriskie Point and Dante’s View. I knew that Dante’s View was the top rated Trip Advisor activity in Death Valley so I had to see what the hype was all about. By about 1:35pm, we were finally back in the car. The lunch was filling, but it was also expensive as I had spent over $100 for this meal to feed the six of us. I guess when you’re the only show in town, the supply and demand makes for expensive supplies. And so we continued driving east as we drove across the sandblasting terrain of Panamint Valley before having to climb up and over the Towne Pass in the Telescope Range before finally sinking back down into Death Valley. There were lots of cars in front of us, which kept the pace somewhat sluggish. We’d pass by the general store and saloon at the Stovepipe Wells Village before stopping by to pick up a placard to put in and display my National Parks Pass (I guess Death Valley was all pay and display). We then drove past the Mesquite Sand Dunes which were definitely busy but there was also sand being blown all over the place. We’d continue driving past the junction with the road going north but it wasn’t lost upon me that Scotty’s Castle was closed. I had read back at the Panamint Springs Resort that there was flood damage in 2015 and apparently it was closed for the foreseeable future. We then continued driving south past the village at Furnace Creek. As we were passing through, we saw an attractive accommodation further up along the valley wall fronted by palm trees. It gave the place that appearance that it was an oasis. And indeed, this must have been the place that Julie saw online that wanted at least $300 per night or so (one of the main reasons why we opted to just stay in Lone Pine instead). So the drive continued on along the Hwy 190 towards the Badwater Junction, and then we continued going straight past the Furnace Creek Inn. Mom said something to the effect that she might have visited this place in the past, and she kept referring to this place that had a creek go through the resort or something. So that kind of piqued my interest about coming to this place after visiting Dante’s Peak. At about 2:45pm, we stopped by the popular Zabriskie Point. It had a huge parking lot but it also had quite a lot of cars and people walking on a paved path towards a lookout further up ahead. Once we parked the car, we had to be careful when opening the door as the winds were quite strong. We all eagerly made our walk up the paved walkway as we were surrounded by golden badlands to our left as well as wrinkly orangish cliffs and peaks to our right. Once we made it to the overlook, we got our shots, but we didn’t stay for long because the winds were a bit too strong for us to have that family shot. We also noticed that there were some people that made it all the way down to the dry creek below, but that was something we weren’t going to do as we still wanted to get all the way to Dante’s View. So the grandparents and kids went back to the car while Julie and I took our time heading back. We managed to sneak in a couple of people shots before we rejoined the rest of the family back at the car at 3:10pm. I was definitely glad that we made this spontaneous and unexpected stop as we could see why Zabriskie Point was so popular. And so we continued driving further to the east before heading south along the Dante’s View Road. The road was not too bad in terms of climbing until we got to the very end where the road was too narrow and twisty for cars pulling trailers to make it up. We’d eventually get to the parking lot at Dante’s View at 3:35pm, where the winds were once again quite strong. It was also quite a bit chillier up here than it was down within Death Valley down below. The views were quite nice though the skies were a bit on the hazy side thanks to the sand storm throwing up fine sand everywhere down below. Also, having looking somewhat against the late afternoon sun, it also kind of muted the colors of the valley floor as well as the Telescope Ranges, where Telescope Peak was still hanging onto its snow. Julie, Dad, and the kids didn’t stay away from the car for long given the winds and the wind chill. Meanwhile, I walked along the path following a series of ridges and peaks that I presumed was the Dante’s View itself (though I wasn’t sure which of the peaks there was THE view). As I went further along the path, I found that Mom didn’t follow me so I was pretty much on my own along with a few other people braving the strong winds and dropoffs. The views from these peaks were somewhat similar to the views at the parking lot, but the salt flats below were in a different position against the backdrop of mountains and sky. I wound up making it all the way to the point where the trail appeared to keep going but it was only descending from the last peak on out. So that was my turnaround point, which was probably at least a 1/4-mile from the parking lot. The winds were definitely strong out there as it was pretty exposed there. Eventually at 4pm, I made it back to the car where the rest of the family was waiting for me. Definitely, we weren’t going to make it to Badwater today, but maybe tomorrow, we might be down there checking out that place time permitting. And so we drove back down the way we came until we finally parked the car at the Furnace Creek Inn. It was Julie’s and my first time there so we were curious to see what Mom was talking about regarding a creek passing through the property or something like that. Anyways, we would pass through a tunnel leading to an elevator. Once we got out of the elevator, we found ourselves in a brightly lit lobby with views looking out towards the salt flats in the direction of Furnace Creek. We were disappointed that the dinner tonight was fully booked out as it didn’t start until 5:30pm. But they did say that we could squat and stake claims at bar tables where the full dinner menu was also available. And so by 5pm, that was pretty much what we did – we took over three of the small two-seater tables as we knew it wouldn’t be until much later that we’d return to Lone Pine where there was no guarantee that we’d even have a dinner over there as it would be way too late (it was still about 2 hours drive to get back there). As we were squatting on the three bar tables, I took some time to explore the property for a bit as I gladly took photos of the front of the property, then checking out the Marquez Garden and Pool. Upon asking the staff whether there was a spot where a creek went through the property, they said it didn’t exist, but there was a manmade creek feeding the palm trees and flowers at the garden. So I guess Mom must have recollected wrong or about some other place. But it definitely wasn’t Death Valley, apparently. Anyways, when I came back from my little exploration of the Furnace Creek Inn, I learned from Julie that the staff was willing to seat us at one of the tables inside as they’d squeeze us in considering that we were a family. We must’ve scored big time because there were other families that were being turned away. Julie and I were subtly theorizing why they would squeeze us in before the next reservations would arrive. And I concluded that we must’ve occupied too many of the bar tables where more adult customers would be more likely to buy drinks (at a profit). So by having us squat in those seats, it didn’t make economic sense for the Furnace Creek Inn, so it made more sense for them to accommodate us in the main room of the restaurant and free up those bar tables. Either way, it worked out for us. The dinner was expensive, but we were definitely living it up since it was either this stuff or pizza, nachos, and burgers down below at the Furnace Creek Village. We had ourselves citrus duck, salmon, aged ribeye steak, rabbit empanada, and scallops. The bread was also pretty good baguette-textured sourdough, and we also indulged in some dessert where I got triple-layered chocolate cake with vanilla bean ice cream that they didn’t charge me for. The kids also each got two scoops of ice cream and they only charged us for one order of two scoops. So all around, the $220 dinner was a bit painful to the wallet, but the family thoroughly enjoyed the experience. It was a good call on Julie’s part to eat here, and now that we were done with dinner at 7:05pm and left 15 minutes later, it was now time to make the long drive back to Lone Pine. The skies were now in twilight so the visibility was fine as we made it back towards Stovepipe Wells. But then darkness took over and the near full moon’s light helped to illuminate the night sky further when the sunlight was all gone. On the return drive, we could see sand blowing across the headlights when we passed through Stovepipe Wells as well as Panamint Valley. We also went past more sandstorms in the dark when we got closer to Lone Pine. I was a little nervous about wildlife darting out in front of the road during this time, but none came out. As we got closer to Lone Pine, we could see hints of whites across the mountaintops that I wasn’t sure if they were clouds or not. But when we got close enough to realize that they were snow, that made me really look forward to seeing the Sierras first thing tomorrow morning as the clouds were now pretty much gone. By about 9:10pm, we finally made it back to the Best Western Plus in Lone Pine. We dropped off Julie and Tahia while also unloaded Mom’s car with our stuff and put them either in our room or back into our car. We also re-installed Tahia’s child seat in our car. After we both filled up gas at the cheaper 76 gas station in Lone Pine (the Chevron at the beginning of town was like 30 cents per gallon more!), we were all finally back in our rooms at 9:35pm. After having had such a long day, we had no trouble sleeping this night. Pages: First | ← Previous | ... | 2 | 3 | 4 | Next → | Last Visitor Comments: No users have replied to the content on this page Share your thoughts about what you've read on this trip report You must be logged in to submit content. Refresh this page after you have logged in. 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Security Advisory - January 20, 2010 Zscaler protects against Operation Aurora (recent IE Vulnerability) We had provided initial communication regarding the recent Microsoft Internet Explorer zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2010-0249) on Friday and since this is a fluid situation, wanted to pass along an update on what has transpired since then. To refresh, this vulnerability is known to have been used in high profile attacks originating from China to successfully compromise a number of large corporations including Google, Adobe, and Yahoo!. The attacks are being referred to in the press as 'Operation Aurora'. Zscaler deployed initial protections for the vulnerability on Thursday January 14th, immediately after receiving confidential notification from Microsoft via the Microsoft MAPPs program. We have subsequently deployed additional protections as new exploit samples have emerged. No Zscaler Customers have been Exploited Zscaler Labs obtained and analyzed exploit code believed to have been used in the Operation Aurora attacks. Upon completion of our analysis, we were able to conduct a thorough review of Zscaler log data to look for evidence of attacks on Zscaler clients. Our review showed no evidence to suggest that any Zscaler clients were targeted in these initial attacks. Public Exploits Continue to Emerge Publicly available exploits have emerged for this vulnerability, including a Metasploit module. The wide availability of reliable exploit code is likely to result in a second wave of attacks, unrelated to those of the initial perpetrators. All public exploits to date target only Internet Explorer 6. Although the vulnerability also affects Internet Explorer 7/8, reliable exploitation is complicated by additional security measures in these browsers, most notably Data Execution Prevention (DEP). Despite this fact, private organizations are claiming to have developed successful exploits for Internet Explorer 7/8. Additional Precautions As noted, Zscaler has already deployed protections related to this vulnerability, which will detect and block web sites attempting to leverage known exploits. We will continue to monitor for additional attacks and deploy new protections as necessary. Beyond this, we recommend the following: Upgrade Browsers Internet Explorer 6, although still supported by Microsoft, lacks many of the additional security protections of Internet Explorer 7/8, such as DEP, malicious URL/phishing block lists, Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR), and Cross-site Scripting (XSS) protections. For those organizations still relying on Internet Explorer 6, we strongly recommend an across the board upgrade to Internet Explorer 8. Deploy Patches Microsoft has deployed patches for this vulnerability, details of which are available in Security Bulletin MS10-002 (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2010/ms10-002). As exploit code is currently in the wild, patches should be immediately deployed on all vulnerable versions of Internet Explorer.

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David McRaney August 14, 2019 Podcasts YANSS 160 – What therapy is, what it isn’t, and the difference between idiot compassion and wise compassion In Lori Gottlieb‘s new book, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone, she opens with a quote from James Baldwin that reads, “Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.” It’s a book about therapy, what is is, what it isn’t, and how people do and do not change their behaviors. It’s intimate and human, gut-wrenching and inspiring, and full of science and drama and an honesty and candor that you rarely find in books like this. It’s also a true story, about Gottlieb’s decision, as a therapist, to go see a therapist herself after a traumatic life event sends her reeling. It’s also an autobiography, telling the story of how she became a therapist and what she learned about herself in therapy, later in life after she had a thriving practice. It’s also about the arc of change that five people experience while in therapy. It’s a big book, 58 chapters long — so you get an deep, intimate look into the lives of those patients as they get what they need from therapy. One is John, a belligerent asshole who wants to be a better husband and father. Another is Julie, a woman trying to come to terms with a terminal illness. Charlotte is a 20-something with alcohol and relationship issues who is trying to define herself. Rita is a woman close to 70 with depression who is dealing with a lifetime of regret concerning her children. And Lori, the author, was blindsided by an awful revelation from the man she expected to marry, which leads to a breakup that scrambles her plans, her sense of self, and alters her feelings of security, while causing her to fixate on her mortality and loneliness and so much more. Maybe You Should Talk to Someone is doing really well in the publishing world. It’s been on the New York Times Bestsellers list for several months and will soon be a television show on ABC starring Eva Longoria. For me though, the most interesting part of the book is when Gottlieb explains the transtheoretical model of change — a much-researched scientific foundation used by therapists that explains how people go about realizing they want to change their behavior — and how to guide them though it. In the episode, I talk to her about that, how people go from resisting change to embracing the behaviors required to alter their own thoughts and feelings when stuck in destructive, unhealthy loops. You’ll also learn the difference between idiot compassion and wise compassion, and we cover the misconceptions people tend to have about therapy and therapists, because more than anything else, her book is about pulling back the curtain and showing what therapy really is. Bombas makes the most comfortable socks in the world, and Bombas donates a pair of socks for every pair purchased — and you can get 20 percent off your first purchase by heading to this link. Lori Gottlieb’s Website YANSS 159 – How political conflict became a battle over ‘who we think we are, rather than reasoned differences of opinion.’ YANSS 161 – How to use brain science to break bad habits by escaping the ‘event horizon of the black hole of anxiety’

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All posts tagged Arctic ‘Startling’ climate related changes in bering sea TVNZ: Pace of Bering Sea changes startles scientists In February, southwest winds brought warm air and turned thin sea ice into “snow cone ice” that melted or blew off. When a storm pounded Norton Sound, water on Feb. 12 surged up the Yukon River and into Kotlik, flooding low-lying homes. Lifelong resident Philomena Keyes, 37, awoke to knee-deep water outside her house. “This is the first I experienced in my life, a flood that happened in the winter, in February,” Keyes said in a phone interview. Winter storm surge flooding is the latest indication that something’s off-kilter around the Bering Strait, the gateway from the Pacific Ocean to the Arctic Ocean. Rapid, profound changes tied to high atmospheric temperatures, a direct result of climate change, may be reordering the region’s physical makeup. Ocean researchers are asking themselves if they’re witnessing the transformation of an ecosystem. The Bering Sea last winter saw record-low sea ice. Climate models predicted less ice, but not this soon, said Seth Danielson, a physical oceanographer at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. “The projections were saying we would’ve hit situations similar to what we saw last year, but not for another 40 or 50 years,” Danielson said. Encyclopaedia Britannica: Bering Sea and Strait IFL Science: Shocking Images Released By NOAA Show Just How Little Ice Is In The Bering Sea Right Now Ice coverage between the Bering Strait and the coast of the Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge in the most recent photo is, at best, scant. This, says NASA, could soon be the “new normal”. Climate specialist Rick Thoman, from the Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, said that this year’s maximum ice extent is the lowest on record. Lower, even, than 2018’s – which, at the time, was deemed “unprecedented”. As IFLScience reported at the time, ice cover at the end of April 2018 was at a measly 10 percent of normal seasonal levels. Inside Climate: Global Warming Is Pushing Arctic Toward ‘Unprecedented State,’ Research Shows Global warming is transforming the Arctic, and the changes have rippled so widely that the entire biophysical system is shifting toward an “unprecedented state,” an international team of researchers concludes in a new analysis of nearly 50 years of temperature readings and changes across the ecosystems. Arctic forests are turning into bogs as permafrost melts beneath their roots. The icy surface that reflects the sun’s radiation back into space is darkeningand sea ice cover is declining. Warmth and moisture trapped by greenhouse gases are pumping up the water cycle, swelling rivers that carry more sediment and nutrients to the sea, which can change ocean chemistry and affect the coastal marine food chain. And those are just a few of the changes. The researchers describe how warming in the Arctic, which is heating up 2.4 times faster than the Northern Hemisphere average, is triggering a cascade of changes in everything from when plants flower to where fish and other animal populations can be found. Together, the changes documented in the study suggest the effects on the region are more profound than previously understood. One of the risks with earlier climate predictions is that they could have easily under-predicted degree and rate of climate change effects as they could have over-predicted them. by Pete George on 14th April 2019 • Permalink Posted in Climate Change Tagged Arctic, Bering Sea, climate change Posted by Pete George on 14th April 2019 https://yournz.org/2019/04/14/startling-climate-related-changes-in-bering-sea/ The past five years have been the warmest on record The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA say that 2018 was 4th hottest year on record for the globe, just behind 2016 (warmest), 2015 (second warmest) and 2017 (third warmest). A super optimist might claim that there is a slight cooling trend since 2016, but this suggests that predictions of global warming had some credence. 20 of the last 22 years have been the warmest on record. In separate analyses of global temperatures, scientists from NASA, the United Kingdom Met Office and the World Meteorological Organizationoffsite link also reached the same heat ranking. And other news recently provide examples of other climate concerns. Stuff: ‘Dangerous’ Antarctic glacier has massive hole, scientists warn A large cavity has formed under what has been described as one of the world’s most dangerous glaciers, and could contribute to a significant bump in global sea levels, said Nasa scientists. A study led by the agency revealed a cavity about two-thirds the area of Manhattan and roughly 304 metres tall is growing under Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica. The cavity is large enough to have contained 14 billion tons of ice, most of which has melted within the last three years, say researchers. The study was published Wednesday in the peer-reviewed journal Science Advances. Thwaites has been described as one of the world’s most dangerous glaciers because its demise could lead to rapid changes in global sea levels. JPL said the glacier, about the size of Florida, holds enough ice to raise ocean levels another 60 centimetres if it completely melts. It also backstops other glaciers capable to raising sea levels another 2.4m. Until recently Antarctica was thought to be bucking warming trends, but new research appears to be uncovering more melt than had been realised. Reuters: Norway’s Arctic islands at risk of ‘devastating’ warming: report Icy Arctic islands north of Norway are warming faster than almost anywhere on Earth and more avalanches, rain and mud may cause “devastating” changes by 2100, a Norwegian report said on Monday. Many other parts of the Arctic, especially its islands, are also warming far quicker than the world average as the retreat of snow and sea ice exposes darker water and ground that soaks up ever more of the sun’s heat. LiveScience: The Greenland Ice Sheet Is Melting at Astonishing Rate Last week, a cauldron of concerning news articles made two things very clear: The ocean is warming and Antarctica’s ice is melting. Now, a new study shows how much global warming is pounding another area: Greenland. Greenland’s ice sheet is not only melting, but it’s melting faster than ever because the area has become more sensitive to natural climate fluctuations, particularly an atmospheric cycle, a group of scientists reported today (Jan. 21) in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The researchers found that the ice is vanishing four times faster than it was in 2003 — and a good chunk of that acceleration is happening in southwest Greenland. RNZ: 2018 was NZ’s warmest year on record – climate scientist Veteran climate scientist Jim Salinger has calculated the mean annual land surface temperature in 2018 was 13.5 degrees Celsius, which was 0.85C above the 1981-2010 average. This was “a smidgeon” hotter than the previous warmest year on record, 2016, which was 0.84C above normal. by Pete George on 7th February 2019 • Permalink Tagged 2018.fourth warmest, Antarctica, Arctic, Greenland, NASA, NOAA, Norway Posted by Pete George on 7th February 2019 https://yournz.org/2019/02/07/the-past-five-years-have-been-the-warmest-on-record/ Global sea ice at record low They keep putting out stories like this. New Scientist: Global sea ice is at lowest level ever recorded It’s a new low point. The area of the world’s oceans covered by floating sea ice is the smallest recorded since satellite monitoring began in the 1970s. That means it is also probably the lowest it has been for thousands of years. The latest observations from the US National Snow & Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colorado, show how the ice extent has fallen to a new low this year (bright red trace in the graph below). In the Arctic, the low in sea ice coverage is a result of both global warming and unusual weather events probably influenced by global warming. But in the Antarctic, the current low in seasonal sea ice could just be a result of natural variability. The extent of Arctic sea ice should be growing rapidly during the northern hemisphere winter. But not only has the Arctic been warming rapidly, this winter repeated incursions of warm air have pushed temperatures even further above average. Yep, there’s been cold weather in the US and European winters, and we have had an unusually cool summer here, but these are regional and short term variations. In contrast to here Australia has been hot. And at the bottom of the world there is news of another large ice shelf crack developing: British Antarctic Survey abandons polar base as worrying crack grows in ice Scientists at the British Antarctic Survey are abandoning their research station for the first time ever this winter after a new worrying crack developed in the ice sheet. The renowned Halley VI ice base, from which the hole in the ozone layer was first detected, was already scheduled to be relocated 14 miles across the Brunt Ice Shelf because of an encroaching fissure in the ice. But a new crack has been steadily growing to the north of the base, and computer modelling suggests that it could cause a large iceberg to calve away from the sheet, which could destabalise the area. It is the latest problem to beset the base. In 2012, satellite monitoring of the ice shelf revealed the first signs of movement in the chasm that had lain dormant for at least 35 years and, by 2013, it began opening at an alarming pace of one mile per year. If the base does not move, it could be in danger of tumbling into the chasm by 2020. To make matters more time critical, in October, a new crack emerged 10 miles to the north of the research station across the route sometimes used to resupply the base. The base is crucial to studies into global issues such as the impact of extreme space weather events, climate change, and atmospheric phenomena. That’s a bit ironic, whether the accelerating cracking is coincidental or not. by Pete George on 17th January 2017 • Permalink Tagged Antarctic, Arctic, sea ice Posted by Pete George on 17th January 2017 https://yournz.org/2017/01/17/global-sea-ice-at-record-low/ Arctic Report Card 2016 NOAA (the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) have released their 2016 Arctic Report Card, and it isn’t flash. Persistent warming trend and loss of sea ice are triggering extensive Arctic changes. Observations in 2016 showed a continuation of long-term Arctic warming trends which reveals the interdependency of physical and biological Arctic systems, contributing to a growing recognition that the Arctic is an integral part of the globe, and increasing the need for comprehensive communication of Arctic change to diverse user audiences. The average surface air temperature for the year ending September 2016 is by far the highest since 1900, and new monthly record highs were recorded for January, February, October and November 2016. After only modest changes from 2013-2015, minimum sea ice extent at the end of summer 2016 tied with 2007 for the second lowest in the satellite record, which started in 1979. Spring snow cover extent in the North American Arctic was the lowest in the satellite record, which started in 1967. In 37 years of Greenland ice sheet observations, only one year had earlier onset of spring melting than 2016. The Arctic Ocean is especially prone to ocean acidification, due to water temperatures that are colder than those further south. The short Arctic food chain leaves Arctic marine ecosystems vulnerable to ocean acidification events. Thawing permafrost releases carbon into the atmosphere, whereas greening tundra absorbs atmospheric carbon. Overall, tundra is presently releasing net carbon into the atmosphere. Small Arctic mammals, such as shrews, and their parasites, serve as indicators for present and historical environmental variability. Newly acquired parasites indicate northward shifts of sub-Arctic species and increases in Arctic biodiversity. by Pete George on 18th December 2016 • Permalink Tagged 2016, Arctic, climate change, NOAA, report card Posted by Pete George on 18th December 2016 https://yournz.org/2016/12/18/arctic-report-card-2016/ Whale Oil cites a social anthropologist as a climate change expert Cameron Slater continues his anti-climate change agenda at Whale Oil, yesterday posting TURNS OUT THE POLES AREN’T MELTING, NOT THAT OUR MEDIA OR GOVERNMENT WILL SAY ANYTHING. He quotes from an article featuring claims by Dr Benny Peiser from Global Warming Policy Forum (GWPF). Does Peiser sound like a well educated climate scientist? Sourcewatch claims: Benny Peiser (b. 1957) is a UK social anthropologist and AGW denier listed among the Heartland Institute “Global warming experts” despite having no evident expertise in climate science or policy. Peiser was educated in West Germany and studied political science, English, and sports science in Frankfurt. Although Peiser is described by Local Transport Today as a ‘climate policy analyst’, it is unclear what academic expertise Peiser brings to bear on his climate policy analyses. According to a search of 22,000 academic journals, Peiser has published 3 research papers in peer-reviewed journals: Sports Medicine, 2006; Journal of Sports Sciences (2004); and, Bioastronomy 2002: life among the stars (2004). None of these studies are related to human-induced climate change. Peiser also runs CCNet (network) to counter ‘doomsday scaremongering about the possible effects of climate change’. Slater would ridicule someone with Peiser’s lack of relevant scientific credentials if they were on the other side of the argument. Ironically he concludes: I can’t wait for the global fraud trials to begin…if you did in business what these so-called scientists have done you’d be sharing a cell with Bernie Madoff or David Ross. I doubt if he means Peiser as a “so-called scientist”. And what about whether the poles are melting? It’s not hard to find alternate more scientific views to Dr Benny Peiser and Cameron Slater. Smithsonian: Ice Melt at the Poles It’s confirmed: both Antarctica and Greenland are losing ice—around 350 billion tons each year—and, as a result, sea level has risen 11.1 millimeters worldwide since 1992. This photo shows a summertime channel created by the flow of melted ice, which ultimately carries the water away from the glacier to the sea. It’s not easy to measure melting ice. But by using data from 10 satellite missions, an international team of 47 scientists put together the most accurate estimate of ice melt to date. Ice melt doesn’t just affect sea level, however: the influx of fresh water could change the salinity of the North Atlantic enough to alter weather patterns in North America and affect ocean organisms. National Snow and Ice Data Center – Artic Sea Ice News and Analysis Arctic sea ice extent for November was the 9th lowest in the satellite record. Through 2014, the linear rate of decline for November extent over the satellite record is 4.7% per decade. Antarctic sea ice has continued to decline at a faster-than-average pace (approximately 122,000 square kilometers, or 47,100 square miles per day through the month of October, compared to the average rate of 112,000 square kilometers or 43,200 square miles per day), and is now about 650,000 square kilometers (251,000 square miles) below the level for the date recorded in 2013. Currently ice extent remains about 700,000 square kilometers (270,000 square miles) higher than the 1981 to 2010 average for this time of year. But what would they know? They aren’t social anthropologists or agenda promoting bloggers. But an alternate view has been allowed to counter Slater’s claims. See the thread started by Mythrandir. Another comment, by Gaynor, remains unchallenged: What would be so wrong with ice free poles? Don’t we need more land for our growing population? An ice free north pole (Arctic) would not provide more land, there is no land there. An ice free Greenland would raise sea levels by about 7 metres. An ice free Antarctic would raise sea levels by about 61 metres. That would flood a huge amount of land in more habitable parts of the world. Source: If the polar ice caps melted, how much would the oceans rise? If the rising temperature affects glaciers and icebergs, could the polar ice caps be in danger of melting and causing the oceans to rise? This could happen, but no one knows when it might happen. The main ice covered landmass is Antarctica at the South Pole, with about 90 percent of the world’s ice (and 70 percent of its fresh water). Antarctica is covered with ice an average of 2,133 meters (7,000 feet) thick. If all of the Antarctic ice melted, sea levels around the world would rise about 61 meters (200 feet). But the average temperature in Antarctica is -37°C, so the ice there is in no danger of melting. In fact in most parts of the continent it never gets above freezing. At the other end of the world, the North Pole, the ice is not nearly as thick as at the South Pole. The ice floats on the Arctic Ocean. If it melted sea levels would not be affecte­d. There is a significant amount of ice covering Greenland, which would add another 7 meters (20 feet) to the oceans if it melted. Because Greenland is closer to the equator than Antarctica, the temperatures there are higher, so the ice is more likely to melt Of course it’s very unlikely all the world’s ice will melt in the forseeable future. But a metre or two of sea level rise would cause far more problems than it would help. by Pete George on 7th January 2015 • Permalink Posted in Issues Tagged Antarctic, Arctic, Benny Peiser, climate change, ice, melt, sea level, Whale Oil Posted by Pete George on 7th January 2015 https://yournz.org/2015/01/07/whale-oil-cites-a-social-anthropologist-as-a-climate-change-expert/

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Young Iraqi Safa © Vatican News Iraq: Pope Francis’ Special Encouragement to Young People He Receives Young Safa in the Framework of the Synod of Bishops October 15, 2018 16:36Anne KurianSynod18 On October 13, 2018, Pope Francis gave special encouragement to the young people of Iraq, receiving, at Casa Santa Marta in the Vatican, 26-year-old Safa Al-Abbia, a member of the Chaldean Church and auditor at the Synod on Young People. On learning that he had to leave the Synod because his mother was gravely ill, Pope Francis wished to greet him before he left. In the course of the audience, in a “particularly affectionate” atmosphere, the Pope gave the young man a Rosary for his mother, reported “Vatican News.” The Holy Father listened to Safa’s story and addressed a message to Iraqi young people, to be published once he returned to his country. The Pontiff confided that he carries in his heart the Young people of Iraq, conscious of their sufferings. He encouraged them to have confidence in the future, not to be discouraged despite the difficulties of the past and the present, and to entrust themselves to the Lord. Finally, he assured them of his prayers and gave them his Blessing, stated the same source. Safa’s intervention on October 11 was the most applauded since the start of the Synod of Bishops on Young People. He invited the Pope to visit his country and talked about the daily life of 120,000 Christians of the Nineveh Plains, including abductions, assassinations under Daesh’s menace. He confessed his fear of seeing Iraq emptied of Christians, the main challenge for young people being peace, stability and the right to live in dignity. About Anne Kurian China: ‘We Feel the Church Is a Family,’ say the Two Chinese Bishops at the Synod 'The Intervention Which Has Received Most Applause of the Whole Synod,' from Iraq

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Your Online Source for Positive Youth Development Youth Development Adolescence Sexual Health Publications and Events About Us Home > Sexual Health and Development > Understanding Sexual Development Sexual Health and Development What is Sexual Health? Understanding Sexual Development About Boys Romantic Relationships Sexual Behaviors and Health Supporting Adolescent Sexual Health More on Sexual Health For more information on adolescent sexual health, visit: Sexual Health Programming Sexual Health and Communities Sexual Health Publications and Presentations ACT for Youth Highlight The complete version of Healthy Adolescent Sexual Development is available as an online presentation, written and narrated by Richard E. Kreipe, MD, Golisano Children's Hospital at the University of Rochester Medical Center. Narrated Presentation Healthy sexual development [1] involves biological, psychological, and socio-cultural processes. Like all aspects of adolescent development, sexual development occurs both within an individual and through interaction with the environment. For example, the biological triggers of puberty are genetic, and are also affected by the available food. Psychological and social processes occur through interactions with family, cultural institutions, and peers, and are also affected by brain development. Adolescent sexual development is likely to be healthy, and to lead to positive sexual health, when each of these processes is appropriately supported in a young person's environment. Putting all of these factors together, healthy adolescent sexual development occurs not along a single path, but through many trajectories. It involves much more than a teenager avoiding sexually transmitted infections or an unintended pregnancy between childhood and adulthood. Healthy adolescent sexual development trajectories prepare a person for a meaningful, productive, and happy life. For additional resources, visit Toolkit: Domains of Development. Puberty involves the physical changes of a girl becoming a woman, or a boy becoming a man. These changes lead to the ability to reproduce. The changes of puberty (narrated presentation: 17 minutes; PowerPoint presentation) occur on the inside and the outside of the body, but what is most noticeable both to the adolescent and the rest of the world are the external changes. In both girls and boys, puberty starts in the central parts of the brain that control other functions in the body such as temperature, blood pressure, and heart rate. The brain controls puberty by producing hormones, which are chemical messengers that travel in the bloodstream to various organs. The sex organs -- also called gonads -- are stimulated to make sex hormones. A girl's ovaries are stimulated to make the female hormone estrogen. Estrogen causes the normal changes of puberty in girls, such as breast development, increasing height, widening of the hips, and an increase in body fat. Menstrual cycles are caused by the balance in estrogen and another hormone from the ovary, progesterone. A boy's testicles are stimulated to make the male hormone testosterone. Testosterone causes the normal changes of puberty in boys, such as growth of the penis, increasing height, widening of the shoulders, deepening of the voice, and growth of facial hair. Normally, girls' ovaries also make a little testosterone, and boys' testicles also make a little estrogen, but in different amounts. Up to age 25, changes in brain development also have a significant impact on adolescents' ability to make decisions. Developing a stable sense of one's self and one's role in society, identity development, is a key feature of healthy adolescent development. From the standpoint of sexual development, a strong sense of self prepares an individual for intimacy in young adulthood. As is true of all aspects of identity development, experimentation and role play are common ways in which teens develop their sexual self-concept. Although identity has many facets that influence sexuality, only two will be discussed here: gender identity and sexual orientation. Gender identity relates to an individual's perception of self as being male or female. Gender identity is formed very early in human development and, in its most fundamental sense, is not related to the way in which a child is raised. An internal sense of gender is a deeply engrained and enduring trait that presents challenges when not aligned with the physical sexual attributes of the body. For a lengthier discussion, see: Growing Up Transgender: Research and Theory ( PDF | Screen Reader Format ) Growing Up Transgender: Safety and Resilience ( PDF | Screen Reader Format ) Sexual orientation refers to the sexual attraction of an individual to others. The term "sexual preference" is misleading because it implies an option; sexual orientation is not a simple preference for one sex over another. Attraction may be toward the opposite sex, the same sex, or both. Socio-Cultural Influences Socio-cultural influences on adolescent sexual development may include an adolescent's: Family, peers, and social networks based on common interests and beliefs Traditions related to race, ethnicity, culture, or religion Neighborhood and neighbors; the immediate environment School, which forms a micro-environment for up to 10 hours a day for at least 180 days a year Faith community, which may have codes of conduct about sexual behaviors Involvement in youth-serving agencies or community service Shaped by so many different factors, healthy sexual development may look very different from one individual to another. Sexual Behaviors There are a variety of common behaviors that, in and of themselves, have no negative health effects, and that many consider elements of healthy adolescent sexual development, preparing youth for positive sexual lives. Masturbation. Touching one's own genitals in masturbation is a normal part of sexual development. Overall, more adolescents masturbate than engage in sexual intercourse. Although it tends to be done alone in privacy, males sometimes masturbate in groups. Same-sex touching. Early in adolescent development, sexual exploratory behavior often occurs with members of the same sex. This behavior does not predict being gay or lesbian in the future. Genital touching. As adolescents get older, they are more likely to engage in genital touching. Sexual intercourse is a common behavior among adolescents, but whether it represents healthy sexual development or not depends on a number of factors. Nonconsensual sex of any kind can never be considered healthy. Use of contraception decreases the risk of pregnancy, and use of condoms or dental dams (in oral, vaginal, and anal sex) decreases the risk of disease, including HIV. Anal intercourse, whether heterosexual or homosexual, carries an especially high risk of disease transmission. Other factors affecting the health consequences of sexual activity may include an individual's ability to access health care services, cultural and familial contexts, motivations and self-awareness, risk behaviors, mental health, relationships, personal values, maturity, and capacity for coping with the possible consequences of sex. [1] The content on this page is condensed from the ACT for Youth online presentation Healthy Adolescent Sexual Development by Richard E. Kreipe, MD. Dr. Kreipe is professor of pediatrics and a practicing physician in the Division of Adolescent Medicine at Golisano Children's Hospital at the University of Rochester Medical Center, an ACT for Youth partner. Cornell University Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research | Cornell University Cooperative Extension NYC | University of Rochester Medical Center Copyright © 2020 ACT for Youth Center for Community Action. All rights reserved. Website and Database Development by RMF Designs

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Relevant figures Main annual data Air transport and tourism Annual Inform Historic Report Air traffic statisticsSubsidiaries of AenaOrganisationManagement BoardR&D&iEU FundsAena eOfficeDocumentation and publications Spain has the third largest volume of air traffic in Europe. Significant magnitudes of Aena airports Spain’s 46 airports and 2 heliports within the Aena network in 2019 recorded 275.2 million passengers, representing a 4.4% increase compared to the previous year. Of those passengers, 188.8 million flew internationally, a historical record, with a 3.5% increase on 2018. Passengers on domestic flights amounted to over 85.5 million, a 6.4% increase on the previous year. The volume of aircraft operations was greater than 2.3 million, a 2.6% increase on 2018 and cargo traffic amounted to over 1,068,394 tonnes, a 5.6% increase compared to the previous year. PASSENGERS, OPERATIONS AND CARGO TRAFFIC Shift (%) Passengers 263,754,357 275,237,801 4.4 Operations 2,300,307 2,360,957 2.6 Cargo 1,012,063,745 1,068,394,637 5.6 Fuente: Aena SME, SA Spain has the third largest volume of air traffic in Europe, after the UK and Germany1. It totals 11% of Europe's passenger traffic and 10% of its aircraft operations2. The Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas Airport ranks 5th in the EU in terms of passengers, while Josep Tarradellas Barcelona airport ranks 6th in passenger traffic. AIRPORT PASSENGERS IN THE EU IN 2018 Millions of passengers 1 London-Heathrow 80.1 2 Paris-Charles de Gaulle 72.2 3 Amsterdam-Schiphol 71.1 4 Frankfurt 69.5 5 Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas 57.9 6 Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat 50,2 7 Munich 46.2 8 London-Gatwick 46.1 9 Rome-Fiumicino 43.0 10 Paris-Orly 33.1 Source: Data provided by the companies A further five Spanish airports registered traffic of over 10 million passengers in 2018: Palma de Mallorca, with over 29 million; Málaga-Costa del Sol, with 19 million; Alicante-Elche, with almost 14 million; Gran Canaria, with over 13.5 million; and Tenerife Sur with over 11 million. 69.2% of commercial traffic in all airports in the Aena network is international, and the remaining 30.8% is national. The main source countries of air travel passengers to Spain are the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, France, the Nordic countries, the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, the United States, Ireland and Russia3. Share of the major air hubs Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas and Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat airports make up 41% of passengers, 32.4% of operations and 68.4% of cargo. Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas contributes 21.9% of total passengers, 17.8% of the aircraft and 51.3% of the cargo, while Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El-Prat has a market share of 19% of passengers, 14.6% of operations and 17.1% of cargo. 1 Source: Eurostat. 2 Source: 2018 ACI Europe. 3 Source: INE. Tourist Movement on Borders.

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Legal and Government Documents Entries drawn from collection & document descriptions Josiah Albertson family papers The collection includes bills, receipts, letters, and account books of Josiah Albertson's lime and lumber business in Plymouth, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, which he later held in partnership with his brothers, Jacob and Benjamin. Also included are papers relating to the Plymouth Railroad... Location: MC 1999.14 Subject: Business and Industry, Genealogy and Family History, Personal and Family Life, Religion and Spirituality Format: Financial Documents, Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Meeting Minutes Time Period: 1800-1819, 1820-1839, 1840-1859 Collection Inventory: mc1999.14.pdf John Armstrong business papers The collection contains papers related to John Armstrong's service as a surveyor in Cumberland County between 1755 and 1783. These papers include correspondence with the Surveyor-General of Pennsylvania and Delaware, John Lukens, complaints from his clients, and several survey maps drawn by... Location: MC 2001.4 Subject: Business and Industry, Land and Real Estate Format: Financial Documents, Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Maps and Diagrams Time Period: Before 1760, 1760-1779, 1780-1799 Dr. Joseph Cullen Ayer family papers The collection consists mainly of personal correspondence: fifty letters, most of which are from Carolyn Elizabeth Roberts Ayer to her husband Joseph Cullen Ayer (b. 1839) at various points in his life, beginning before their marriage (1861) when he was at Harvard; as a medical officer in the... Subject: Genealogy and Family History, Health and Medicine, Military Affairs and Conflict, Personal and Family Life Format: Essays and Dissertations, Financial Documents, Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Poetry and Lyrics Time Period: 1820-1839, 1840-1859, 1860-1879, 1880-1899, 1900-1919 Charles Gilbert Beetem family papers The collection consists of the papers of Charles Gilbert Beetem, a Carlisle, PA rug manufacturer, local historian and genealogist, amateur artist, and omnivorous collector. Diaries, manuscripts, letters, advertisements, greeting cards, and extensive runs of Philadelphia and Carlisle turn-of-the-... Subject: Business and Industry, Carlisle and Cumberland County, Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Genealogy and Family History, Land and Real Estate, Literary Pursuits, Personal and Family Life, Religion and Spirituality, Visual and Performing Arts Format: Books and Pamphlets, Diaries and Journals, Fiction and Drama, Financial Documents, Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Memorabilia and Ephemera, Newspapers and Magazines, Notes and Notebooks, Photographs, Scrapbooks Time Period: 1840-1859, 1860-1879, 1880-1899, 1900-1919, 1920-1939, 1940-1959, 1960-1979 Ricardo Maria Bell family papers The collection contains legal and financial materials related to the settlement of the estates of Ricardo Maria Bell of Santiago, Cuba and Ana Maria Bell de Becerra. Also included are an account ledger of former trustee Robert Ewing, wills, correspondence, and checks. Subject: Genealogy and Family History, Legal Affairs Format: Legal and Government Documents Time Period: 1820-1839, 1840-1859 Alexander Biddle Family Papers Alexander Biddle, the patriarch of the collection, was born on April 29, 1819 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of Thomas A. Biddle and Christine Williams Biddle. A member of a prominent and wealthy Philadelphia family, he graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1838 and became a... Subject: Economics and Finance, Legal Affairs, Personal and Family Life Format: Financial Documents, Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Memorabilia and Ephemera, Miscellaneous, Photographs Time Period: 1780-1799, 1800-1819, 1820-1839, 1840-1859, 1860-1879, 1880-1899, 1900-1919, 1920-1939 Board of Trustees papers, 1833-1879 The papers of the Board of Trustees of Dickinson College, 1833-1879, include correspondence, reports, financial statements, printed materials, and legal documents, and have been arranged into thirteen series. Location: RG 1/2 Subject: Dickinson College Academic Affairs, Dickinson College Administration, Dickinson College Student Life, Economics and Finance, Education, Religion and Spirituality Format: Certificates and Diplomas, Engravings and Illustrations, Financial Documents, Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Meeting Minutes, Reports Collection Inventory: RG 1-002.pdf Daniel Bowdle family papers The collection contains materials relating to family life on the Eastern Shore of Maryland and in Ohio. The central figure is Daniel Bowdle (1796-1876), who as a young man moved to Cincinnati and became the successful business man of his family, with real estate and other interests. He aided his... Subject: Land and Real Estate, Personal and Family Life Format: Books and Pamphlets, Financial Documents, Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Memorabilia and Ephemera, Newspapers and Magazines, Photographs, Poetry and Lyrics, Speeches and Sermons Time Period: 1760-1779, 1780-1799, 1800-1819, 1820-1839, 1840-1859, 1860-1879, 1880-1899, 1900-1919, 1920-1939 James Buchanan papers James Buchanan was a graduate of Dickinson College, Class of 1809, who went on to become the fifteenth president of the United States. The majority of this collection is comprised of correspondence between Buchanan and his business and political associates; over four hundred letters penned by... Subject: Dickinson College Student Life, Economics and Finance, Education, International Affairs, Legal Affairs, Personal and Family Life, Politics and Government Format: Books and Pamphlets, Engravings and Illustrations, Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Memorabilia and Ephemera, Newspapers and Magazines, Reports, Speeches and Sermons Time Period: 1800-1819, 1820-1839, 1840-1859, 1860-1879, 1880-1899, 1900-1919, 1920-1939, 1940-1959, 1960-1979, 1980-1999 Edward Shippen Burd family papers The collection includes business letters and legal papers of the Burd family, early deeds and patents, settlement of the Edward Shippen Burd estate 1848-1870, and correspondence concerning bequests for St. Stephen's Church, Philadelphia, the Burd memorial there, and the "Burd Orphan Asylum." Subject: Business and Industry, Economics and Finance, Land and Real Estate, Legal Affairs Carlisle Indian School papers This collection contains a number of items purchased as a group from Robert Rowe in 2014, and features the business papers of Milton I. Zeigler, postcards, ephemera, and publications from the Carlisle Indian School. Zeigler served as the industrial instructor for the shoe and harness department... Location: CIS-MC-002 Subject: Business and Industry, Carlisle and Cumberland County, Carlisle Indian School, Education, Literary Pursuits, Native Americans, Politics and Government, Sport and Recreation, Travel and Tourism Format: Books and Pamphlets, Financial Documents, Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Memorabilia and Ephemera Collection Inventory: CIS-MC-002.pdf Carlisle Indian School papers - CIS-MC-004 at Dickinson College This collection contains a number of items purchased as a group from Robert Rowe in 2017, and includes a number of photographs, artifacts, and documents related to the Carlisle Indian School. The four court martials in this collection are from the year 1904, and include charges against a total... Subject: Carlisle Indian School, Education, Native Americans Format: Artifacts and Objects, Books and Pamphlets, Legal and Government Documents, Memorabilia and Ephemera, Photographs Edwin K. Charles papers The Edwin K. Charles collection consists of the various papers, government documents, newsletters, transcripts, and publications collected by Charles in the years following the accident at Three Mile Island. Edwin K. Charles, a resident of Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, became heavily involved... Location: TMI-Charles Subject: Health and Medicine, Legal Affairs, Politics and Government, Science and Technology, Three Mile Island Format: Books and Pamphlets, Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Meeting Minutes, Newspapers and Magazines, Reports, Speeches and Sermons Collection Inventory: TMI-Charles.pdf Moncure D. Conway family papers Moncure Daniel Conway was born into a southern aristocratic family, but ultimately became one of the nation's leading abolitionists and humanitarians. Conway was a graduate of Dickinson College in 1849 and was trained for the ministry at Harvard Divinity School. The collection consists mainly of... Subject: Literary Pursuits, Personal and Family Life, Religion and Spirituality, Social Reform and Advocacy Format: Books and Pamphlets, Diaries and Journals, Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Memorabilia and Ephemera, Newspapers and Magazines, Photographs Time Period: Before 1760, 1760-1779, 1780-1799, 1800-1819, 1820-1839, 1840-1859, 1860-1879, 1880-1899, 1900-1919, 1920-1939, 1940-1959 George Dum business and estate papers George Dum (c.1863-1918) served as secretary and treasurer for the Perry County-based Oak Grove Lumber Company. This collection contains materials pertaining to his interest in this venture, as well as his family's legal dealings with the associated Oak Grove and Kennedy's Valley timber tracts... Format: Financial Documents, Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Maps and Diagrams, Notes and Notebooks Robert Emory personal papers Robert Emory (1814-1848) taught Latin and Greek at Dickinson between 1834 and 1840 and served as acting president in 1842-43 and 1845-47. This collection contains personal correspondence, as well legal and financial documents, primarily regarding the management of land. Subject: Economics and Finance, Land and Real Estate, Personal and Family Life Format: Financial Documents, Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence Francis Gurney papers Francis Gurney (1738-1815) was a veteran of the French and Indian Wars, the American Revolution, and the Whiskey Rebellion. A prominent Philadelphia merchant, Gurney held several political offices such as city Alderman and representative and senator to the state legislature. Gurney also served... Subject: Dickinson College Administration, Economics and Finance John Hays II family papers The Hays family papers include correspondence, deeds, and memorabilia of six generations of this prominent Carlisle, Pa. family whose scions include General Ephraim Blaine (1741-1804), Commissary-General in the American Revolution and charter trustee of Dickinson College, and James G. Blaine (... Subject: Carlisle Indian School, Genealogy and Family History, Legal Affairs, Literary Pursuits, Military Affairs and Conflict, Personal and Family Life, Religion and Spirituality Format: Artifacts and Objects, Essays and Dissertations, Financial Documents, Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Photographs, Poetry and Lyrics Time Period: Before 1760, 1760-1779, 1780-1799, 1800-1819, 1820-1839, 1840-1859, 1860-1879, 1880-1899, 1900-1919, 1920-1939, 1940-1959, 1960-1979 Beverly Hess papers The Bevery Hess collection consists of the various papers, newspaper clippings, books, audiotapes and photographs collected by Hess during her most active period of involvement with local anti-nuclear groups. Bevery Hess was a resident of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania prior to the accident at... Location: TMI-Hess Subject: Health and Medicine, Legal Affairs, Personal and Family Life, Politics and Government, Science and Technology, Three Mile Island Format: Audio-Visual Materials, Books and Pamphlets, Essays and Dissertations, Financial Documents, Interviews and Oral Histories, Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Meeting Minutes, Newspapers and Magazines, Notes and Notebooks, Photographs, Poetry and Lyrics, Reports, Speeches and Sermons Collection Inventory: TMI-Hess.pdf Charles Francis Himes family papers This collection primarily provides evidence of the personal and professional life of Charles Francis Himes, student, photographer, scientist, teacher, administrator, amateur historian and father. Also found in this collection is evidence of the lives of family members including, most notably, C... Subject: Business and Industry, Carlisle and Cumberland County, Dickinson College Academic Affairs, Dickinson College Administration, Dickinson College Student Life, Genealogy and Family History, Literary Pursuits, Personal and Family Life, Science and Technology, Travel and Tourism Format: Artifacts and Objects, Books and Pamphlets, Certificates and Diplomas, Diaries and Journals, Financial Documents, Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Meeting Minutes, Memorabilia and Ephemera, Newspapers and Magazines, Notes and Notebooks, Photographs, Speeches and Sermons William Irvine family papers This collection contains the papers of William Irvine, a physician during the American Revolution, and his family; the papers are housed in one document box and have been arranged into two sections: Correspondence, and Legal and Financial Papers. The Correspondence section contains... Subject: Military Affairs and Conflict, Personal and Family Life Horatio Collins King papers Horatio Collins King was the son of Postmaster General Horatio King and the nephew of Dickinson College President Charles Collins. A graduate of Dickinson College, class of 1858, King was admitted to the bar in 1861 and saw active service in the Civil War from 1862 until 1865. A songwriter, King... Subject: Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Legal Affairs, Literary Pursuits, Military Affairs and Conflict, Personal and Family Life, Politics and Government, Travel and Tourism, Visual and Performing Arts Format: Diaries and Journals, Essays and Dissertations, Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Memorabilia and Ephemera, Newspapers and Magazines, Poetry and Lyrics, Scrapbooks, Speeches and Sermons President William Wilcox Edel and Dr. Laurent R. LaVallee case These records contain materials related to the termination of Dr. Laurent R. LaVallee, assistant professor of economics. In 1956, the Dickinson Board of Trustees voted unanimously to dismiss LaVallee as a result of his failure to answer questions about his alleged participation in Communist... Location: RG 2/13 Subject: Dickinson College Academic Affairs, Dickinson College Administration, Dickinson College History, Education, Legal Affairs, Politics and Government Format: Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Newspapers and Magazines Collection Inventory: RG 2/13 President William Wilcox Edel and Dr. Laurent R. LaVallee case papers Jane Lee papers The Jane Lee collection consists of the various papers, court dockets, government documents, and newspaper clippings collected by Lee in the years following the accident at Three Mile Island. Jane Lee, a farmer from Etters, Pennsylvania, became active in various public-awareness groups such as... Location: TMI-Lee Subject: Personal and Family Life, Politics and Government, Three Mile Island Format: Diaries and Journals, Interviews and Oral Histories, Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Newspapers and Magazines, Reports Collection Inventory: TMI-Lee.pdf LGBT History Project: LGBT-001 Joseph W. Burns Collection Joseph W. Burns donated these materials in 2013 as the first contribution of historical documents to the LGBT Center of Central PA History Project. These materials reflect his involvement in gay rights activism in rural Pennsylvania, beginning with a 1969 letter from the New York Mattachine... Location: LGBT-001 Subject: LGBT History, Politics and Government, Social Reform and Advocacy Format: Artifacts and Objects, Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Meeting Minutes, Newspapers and Magazines Collection Inventory: LGBT-001 Joe Burns Activist Papers Collection Inventory

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University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives(Remove) Athletics(Remove) Cartes de visite(Remove) Portland (Or.)--Photographs (2) Springfield (Or.)--Photographs (2) United States--Oregon--Lane County (Or.)--Springfield (Or.) (2) United States--Oregon--Multnomah/Clackamas/Washington County--Portland (Or.) (2) Pendleton Round-Up--Photographs (1) Walter S. Bowman photographs Repository: University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives Summary: Walter S. Bowman (1865-1938) was a professional photographer who worked in Pendleton, Oregon, from the late 1880s to the mid 1930s. Bowman's photographs document daily life in Eastern Oregon, including special events such as the Pendleton Round-Up. The collection consists of almost 800 negatives and prints representative of the span of the photographer's work, but his noted images of tribal people were largely destroyed after his death. Eugene Print Collection Summary: The Eugene Print Collection assembles images of the city of Eugene and its vicinity. The majority of the images date from the 1880s-1920s.

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A Swing Along Athletic Row Coats Trophy Winners in the American League Although somewhat tainted by the refusal of J & P Coats to play one of the two scheduled games over the weekend as decreed by the Emergency Committee of the American Soccer League, the trophy offered for the winner of the campaign just closed will remain in the possession of the Pawtucket, R. I., clan. Coats refused to play the scheduled game with Bethlehem on Saturday, willing to forfeit the points and expose the club to the penalty of a $250 fine. However, Coats journeyed to Paterson yesterday and by defeating the National champions by the score of 2 goals to none, the victory brings the league campaigning to a close and carries with it the bunting emblematic of championship. When Coats entered the fracas with Paterson the club was leading in the league r ace by a one point advantage in the league standing. Bad for League Sovver The action of the Coats team in refusing to honor the schedule with a game here is just exactly what it is believed the league when organized had in mind when adopting stringent regulations relative to clubs refusing to report for games or showing up on the field short of players. Bethlehem in the past has had numerous experiences such as occurred on Saturday and it certainly did not help to increase the patronage or stimulate interest. Before Bethlehem campaigned in the infant soccer league which was operated it is said with huge success during the two seasons of its existence, it was nothing unusual to have fans gather on the Steel Field only to be informed that the opposing club would not appear or to have a club appear minus players for quite a few positions. Therefore when the old league "blew" up and the American League was organized to replace it, it was given to understand that the disappointment occasioned by the canceling of games was a thing of the past and fans were beginning to believe that this was true. Bethlehem probably did not draw on a part with other clubs and frequently it is believed efforts were made to transfer the games elsewhere but the promoters were firm in their stand and refused to comply with these suggestions in spite of the luring recompense they offered. The game with Coats for Saturday would have been played under the most ideal conditions and the real drawing power of the local club tested.

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Tag Archives: shanghai Getting stuck in for Shanghai May 20, 2014 ahrcww1 Leave a comment Professor Robert Bickers of the University of Bristol explores the contradictions, patriotic fervour and battlefield experiences of the largest contingent of Shanghai British to fight the Kaiser’s forces in Europe, and the story of the city they left behind. After 1914, between tiffin and a day at the race track, the British in Shanghai enjoyed a life far removed from the horrors of the Great War. Shanghai’s status as a treaty port – with its foreign concessions home to expatriates from every corner of the globe – made it the most cosmopolitan city in Asia. The city’s inhabitants on either side of the conflict continued to mix socially after the outbreak of war, the bond amongst foreign nationals being almost as strong as that between countrymen. But as news of the slaughter, and in particular the sinking of the Lusitania, spread to the Far East their ambivalence turned to antipathy. Getting Stuck in for Shanghai: Putting the Kibosh on the Kaiser from the Bund by Robert Bickers is one of a set of China Specials published by Penguin Books China exploring different aspects of that country’s experiences during the First World War. It is available in ebook and is part of the new wave of the iconic Penguin Specials range which aims to be short, informative and entertaining in a digital format. Professor Bickers said: “The book’s about the British in Shanghai and their war, but tracing the people I wrote about led me far and wide, and even back to Bristol itself. It reinforced a point my research on the history of relations between Britain and China is increasingly exploring: how our histories are intertwined, and how you can find traces and legacies of this historic British experience of China in cities like Bristol.” Professor Robert Bickers is a historian at the University of Bristol. He specialises in modern China and the history of colonialism. He is a Co-Director of the British Inter-University China Centre and the ‘Historical Photographs of China project’ project, a virtual online archive of Chinese life which gives users the opportunity to explore and interact with more than 9,000 digitised photos of China taken between 1850 and 1950. A collection of photographs from Shanghai after the War recently featured in an AHRC Image Gallery. asiabristolchinacolonialismshanghai

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Rest in Peace, Viktor Korchnoi It once seemed like the indomitable Viktor Korchnoi would play chess forever. After thrice battling Anatoly Karpov for the World Chess Championship (once in the 1974 Candidates Finals that turned into a de facto title bout after the reigning World Champion Bobby Fischer forfeited his title in 1975 and then in official championship matches in 1978 and 1981), Korchnoi continued to play high level chess for several more decades. Korchnoi reached the Candidates round in 1985, 1988 and 1991 before winning the World Senior Championship in 2006. Korchnoi retained a child-like enthusiasm for chess throughout his life. He played with great energy and tenacity. He is on the short list of candidates for the title of "Greatest Player to Never Win the World Chess Championship," a subject that I explored in a 2009 article titled Uncrowned Champion: Viktor Korchnoi. Korchnoi battled against six generations of chess players, as early in his career he faced opponents born in the late 19th century while more recently he battled against players born post-2000. He survived both World War II and the efforts of the Soviet establishment to crush his individuality and break his spirit by holding his wife and son hostage after he defected. I have yet to see any public comment by Karpov about Korchnoi's passing. Karpov and Korchnoi were bitter rivals but one would hope that Karpov would have enough class, dignity and respect to say something positive about Korchnoi's significant role in chess history. Posted by David Friedman at 1:28 AM 1 comment: Links to this post Labels: Viktor Korchnoi Muhammad Ali's Wit and Wisdom It is difficult to say something about Muhammad Ali that has not already been said. His death is a loss felt by the entire world, yet the memory of his words and deeds will live forever. I am too young to remember Ali's prime but I am old enough to remember when he was still heavyweight champion of the world. One of my earliest Ali memories is reading a chapter about him in a sports book for kids when I was seven or eight years old. What stuck with me is that Ali talked about training for his rematch with Leon Spinks by saying that when his trainers told him to run, he ran, and when they told him to spar, he sparred, because he wanted to do everything possible to make sure that he regained the title; if he lost, it would not be because he failed to put in the work. That message has stayed with me my entire life. Ali the boxer was remarkable in three distinct phases of his career: (1) The young champion who was so swift and nimble that opposing fighters could literally barely touch him, (2) The slightly past his prime Ali who came back after being banned from boxing for draft evasion (an unjust decision overturned by a Supreme Court verdict) who proved that he could win not just with superior physical tools but also with guile and guts and (3) The clearly past his prime Ali who became the first heavyweight champion to regain the title for the third time. A fourth phase that we never saw will forever be a source of speculation: What would Ali have accomplished in the late 1960s if he had not been banned from the sport? As for the fifth and final phase, the less said about the Holmes and Berbick bouts, the better. Those two fights that should have never happened certainly contributed to, if not caused, many of the ailments that plagued Ali for the final decades of his life. I am not a boxing expert but from what I know of the sport I do believe that Ali was the greatest boxer of all-time or at the very least the greatest heavyweight. His best assets were his mind and his toughness. He analyzed his opponents and himself and he figured out what he had to do to win. Young Ali relied on speed and physical gifts but if those things were all that he had then he never would have beaten Joe Frazier twice or toppled George Foreman when Foreman was considered invincible. Ali's toughness ultimately proved to be his undoing, because the ability to take punishment may be an asset in the ring but there is a heavy price to be paid later in life. Frazier, who resented Ali's taunts, often cruelly bragged that anyone who wants to know who really won their fights need only look at how rapidly Ali deteriorated physically. Boxing is a cruel sport but one that rewards cunning, guile and bravery, three qualities that Ali possessed in abundance. Ali will be remembered as much for his words as his actions. Here are some of my favorite Ali quotes: 1) "I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'" 2) "Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing." 3) "Live everyday as if it were your last because someday you're going to be right." 4) "I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me." 5) "The fight is won or lost far away from the witnesses, behind the lines, in the gym and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights." One more for the road: "Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. Your hands can't hit what your eyes can't see. Rumble young man, rumble." Rest in Peace, Muhammad Ali. Posted by David Friedman at 12:30 AM No comments: Links to this post Labels: Muhammad Ali

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Beautiful Blissful Bihar Posted by AsiaOne on July 29, 2016 Text- Sometimes all it takes is the written word to lift your soul from the humdrum of everyday life. These are the wordsmiths that can take you by the hand and induce the most austere sense of wanderlust, taking you to the edge of the world – and back, evoking the same spell of travelling with the land of sophisticated and creative civilization- BIHAR. In recent times, many of us have witnessed Bihar being metamorphosing into an escape where guests lay into lazy rhythm of the nature. If anyone would have heard about Bihar some decades back for the first time, what they would have learnt must be about the state giving some of the most diligent IAS officers to the country. CONNECTING WITH THE HEART OF BIHAR Tranquility is easily found in the French Quarter, but nowhere is it as compelling as in the meditative silence around the serene vicinity of Patna Sahib. Patna city has the unique distinction of being honored by the holy presence of the Buddha, Guru Nanak and Guru Tegh Bahadur. Besides, it is also the birthplace of Sri Guru Gobind Singh. Gurudwara Patna Sahib is one of the most important Takht. As a place that enjoyed the presence of three Sikh Gurus, Gurudwara Patna Sahib is worth visiting. This shrine is one of the most important centers for the Sikhs in eastern India. The various relics preserved here also make it very important. The place will be bejeweled in all its glory on January 10th when hundreds of people will gather there to celebrate the 350th birth anniversary of Sri Guru Gobind Singh Ji. Located in the town of Rajgir Nalanda is a postgraduate, research intensive, international university supported by the participating countries of the East Asia Summit. The University came into being on November 25, 2010 by a special Act of the Indian Parliament and has been designated as an “institution of national importance”. Nalanda is inspired by the academic excellence and global vision of its historic predecessor and aspires to meet and set global standards of academic excellence and research and enable capacity building in all areas of higher learning. The University is being supported by all the Member States of the East Asia Summit and Intergovernmental Memorandums of Understanding to that effect have been signed by 17 countries. Bihar is currently focusing on nurturing four diverse genres, namely: The legendary spiritual enlightenment site of the Buddha under the holy Bodhi tree has become the magnetic point for human congregation ever since. The magnificent Mahabodhi temple that had been declared as a World Heritage Site by the UNESCO is a great source of peace. This place is considered holy among the Hindus, the Buddhists and the Jains. It is surrounded by small rocky hills (Mangla- Gauri, Shringa-Sthan, Ram-Shila and Brahmayoni) by three sides and the river flowing on the fourth (eastern) side. The Cradle of luminous Jain Spiritual souls lies in Bihar. Bihar is the sacred destination as the birthplace of the 12th Tirthankar “Vasupujya” and 24th Tirthankar Mahavira. Their non-violent ascetic path became very popular and become one of the prominent religions of India. Jehanabad is mentioned in the ‘Ain-i- Akbari’, written by Mughal emperor Akbar’s court historian and poet Abul Fazl. Jahanara Aurangzeb’s sister supervised the Mandi herself and spent a lot of time at this place. Later, the area became known as Jehanabad. BLURRED LINES OF ART Few could have predicted the rise of Bihar as an art destination. The city always had political diversities, demographical parameters, finance community- but as a destination for art and culture? Yet, today, art lovers around the world speak of Bihar in the same way they speak of Berlin and Sao Paulo. Art fairs emphasizing local talent may evoke images of tents filled with bad seascape paintings. But Bihar’s stone pottery and madhubani paintings eviscerates any piece of art from the nook and corners of the world. Art and Bihar go hand in hand, the rich and prosperous history of Bihar has also promoted the music, dance, paintings and crafts throughout generations. The various folk cultures form a unique style of performance and genre which originates or have been imbibed within the regional pattern. The spiritual music of the Bhajaniayas and Kirtaniyas are quite popular during religious events of the Hindus. The classical music was also nurtured in the region with the regular exchange of artists and performers from neighboring areas of Lucknow, Benaras and Delhi. FESTIVITIES BEGIN HERE The beauty of the place unfolds with the larger than life picture painted with the onset of its festivals. The traditional festivals not only mark revelers but also keep alive the deeper meanings of bonding with nature which are indeed thought provoking. With a view to develop a healthy socio-economic scenario; the Bihar Government promotes the festival spree as one of the most critical tools. It creates financial opportunities as well as rendering harmony in this multi communal society. The major religious festivals of Bihar most of the time revolve around Nature as the deity to be worshipped. In the Chatt Puja the ‘Setting Sun’ is worshipped by all the devotees. Although Sun had been worshipped as a god by most of the civilizations the worship of the Setting Sun by the Biharis gives it a special unique feature. Celebrated twice a year in Chaitra and Kartik months of the Hindu calendar, the rituals to be performed near any water bodies make the rivers, lakes and the ponds of Bihar a colourful panorama. The Deo Sun temple is most revered amongst numerous Sun temples around rivers and tanks believed to be sacred and visited by scores of devotees. Through the passage of time, people from other religious beliefs also have started to participate in the festival giving it a true secular flavor. A SILENT MELODY If one wants to find real inner calm, the peaceful Buddhist region of Bihar in eastern India will definitely rebalance him/her better than any spa retreat. Lee Marshall checks into some homestays. Any elaboration of the state Bihar is incomplete without the mentioning one of its best attractions called Bodh Gaya. It is a city in Gaya district in the Indian state of Bihar. It is famous for being the place of Buddha’s attainment of Enlightenment. Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha-to-be, had been dwelling on the banks of the Nairanjana River with five ascetic followers for six years practicing austerities. Realising that austerities could not lead to realisation he abandoned them. His five ascetic companions disgusted at his seeming failure, deserted him and left for Sarnath. He then moved towards the village of Senani where he was offered rice milk by a Brahmin girl, Sujata. Accepting from a grass-cutter a gift of kusa grass for a mat, the Bodhisattva took a seat under a pipal tree facing east. Here he resolved not to rise again until enlightenment was attained. For Buddhists, Bodh Gaya is the most important of the main four pilgrimage sites related to the life of Gautama Buddha, the other three being Kushinagar, Lumbini, and Sarnath. In 2002, Mahabodhi Temple, located in Bodh Gaya, became a UNESCO World Heritage Site. THE POSH SPICE Sometimes on late afternoons, when the sunshine is mellow and warm, one ambles through the narrow, snoozing lanes where trees meet overhead where commercial establishments hum beside crumbling Bihar houses, held fast by sturdy old pillars and verandas built for weary passers-by in a more trusting age. And then it happens. That familiar twinge of the surreal as one acknowledges that it is possible to leave behind one world and step into a starkly different one by the mere act of crossing a canal. While the broad, sun-dappled boulevards greet the people sitting on the roof top of a serene restaurant and relishing the most authentic Khajuria ever, on the other side lined with mustard, apricot and tangerine walls with bursts of bougainvillea cascading over them; there is often a bicyclist pedaling by. Catching glimpse of the clear blue sky and having steaming hot Litti Chokha is one feeling that is hard to be replaced by anything in the world. Beyond the stretches of the holy Ganga water, cordoned off by craggy rocks, which the river sometimes whispers to and sometimes whips, its waves crashing all over them.

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Civil contempt refers to a willful, continuing failure or refusal of a person to comply with a court’s order, ruling, or command, including a subpoena. In order for there to be a civil contempt the ruling, order, or command must still be capable of being complied with before Alabama contempt charges will be justified. Criminal contempt occurs in two situations: 1) where the misconduct of the person obstructs the administration of justice and is committed in the court’s presence are so close to the court that it interrupts, disturbs or hinders the court proceeding, and 2) where there is willful disobedience or resistance by a person to a court’s lawful order and where the court’s principal purpose for the content is to punish as opposed to coursing compliance with the order. Punishment for Contempt The potential punishment for contempt charges in Alabama include jail and fines up to $100.00 per incident of contempt. If the contempt charge is a criminal contempt charge, Alabama law restricts the punishment to fines of up to $100.00 and up to five (5) days in jail. However, these limits apply to each individual instance of contempt, and where there are numerous acts of contempt, the fines and jail days may stack. A civil contempt can result in indefinite incarceration. You can be kept in jail until you comply with the court’s order. Because of these potential punishments, contempt charges, whether civil or criminal are a serious matter. If you are Found in contempt of court you should certainly consider appealing the court’s decision finding you in contempt. Appealing a Contempt Charge In Alabama the Alabama rules of court provide that a finding of contempt may be appealed to the appellate courts of Alabama. However, due to the nature of contempt charges and punishment for contempt, fast action is necessary in order for the appeal to be meaningful. It is important to retain an Alabama appellate lawyer to file the necessary appeal papers with the trial court and to push the appeal forward as quickly as possible to secure relief. When appealing a contempt charge, the standard of review for a criminal contempt in a civil proceeding is proof beyond a reasonable doubt. This is a high level of proof which is difficult to reach. Because of this, it is certainly possible for a trial court to rule that a person has committed criminal contempt where there is not a sufficient level of evidence supporting the finding beyond a reasonable doubt. In such a case, quick action on appeal can bring the matter before an appellate court will apply the correct standard of review and scrutinize the trial court’s ruling to determine whether it was correct. 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For information on upcoming events, visit www.carlow.edu/alumni. Geraldine Pociboreck Petrack ’64 was chosen to represent retirees for the Presidential Selection Committee for Wright State University. The committee helped to select the first female president in the university's history. Anita Sammartino Dacal ’69 retired on December 1, 2017 as the Executive Director of Philanthropy for the Carlow University Office of University Advancement after 36 years of loyal and dedicated service to her alma mater. Susan E. Kral ’70 led a service project to Zambia, Africa, in July 2017 through the Ignatian Volunteer Corps and in partnership with Kasisi Children's Home, which is located just outside the capital of Lusaka. Kasisi was founded in 1926 and is operated by nuns from the order of The Little Servants of Mary Immaculate. John M. O'Donnell, DrPH, MSN, RN, CRNA ’83 was named a 2017 Nurse Educator of the Year by Pittsburgh Magazine. Dr. O'Donnell is professor and chair of the Department of Nurse Anesthesia and director of the Nurse Anesthesia Program at the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. O'Donnell has received numerous honors and awards, including the Pitt Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award (2011), Cameos of Caring Nurse Educator Award (2010), and the AANA National Program Director of the Year (2006). He was the lead author of the 2009 AHA Structured and Supported Debriefing Course and developed the GAS Debriefing Tool; this debriefing method was adopted in the AHA Core Curriculum for ACLS and PALS. Susan Wallace Carnes, CRNP ’85 was named the Clinical Director of the Health and Wellness Center at Penn State Behrend. Linda Whitehead Carter, MSN, AOCN ’86 retired from UPMC Home Health on March 1, 2015. Following retirement she taught Life Science at the East End Cooperative Ministry and volunteered at the Sheep, Inc. free health clinic in Monroeville, Pa., for patients without health insurance. She also continues to be a learner through the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. Barbara Luccino, RN ’87 celebrated 30 years of working in the Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit at UPMC Mercy. Lisa Paugh Mathey ’88 was promoted to the associate director of NewFound Families in Virginia, the statewide adoption, foster, and kinship association. Mia (Hendricks) Bailey ’03 was recently selected to be a part of the Presidential Management Council Interagency Rotation Program. Prior to this honor, Mia was a part of the Excellence in Government Fellows Program. To top it off, she recently celebrated one decade as a federal government employee. Lachelle N. Binion, MBA ’03, ’11, ’13, Alonna J. Carter ’08 and Briana L. White ’06 were named in the distinctive Fab 40 list for 2018 by the New Pittsburgh Courier. Keri Rebuck Cimarolli ’03 accepted a position as energy services division manager at The Markosky Engineering Group, Inc. in Canonsburg, Pa., in January 2018. She has a wealth of experience in the environmental consulting industry working for both public and private clients, including many oil and gas companies. Her responsibilities at Markosky include providing oversight and technical guidance to the Energy Services Department staff, monitoring financial performance, and cultivating new client relationships and business opportunities. David Onufer, Jr. ’04 was nominated for the 2018 Junior Achievement Young Professionals Luncheon and Inspiring Success Awards. Renee Ingel, PhD, MSN ’05 became director of Carlow University's Doctor of Nursing Practice and Master of Science in Nursing Education and Leadership programs in January 2016. Brianna L. White ’06 was honored by the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation as one of Pittsburgh's 50 Finest at the foundation's annual gala on August 12, 2017. Misti McKeehen, MS ’07 became executive director of the Center for Social Concern at Johns Hopkins University. Megan Walsh ’08 was named director of consulting at Sisterson & Co., LLP in January 2018, making her the youngest person to hold the title of director in the company's history. Walsh has spent nearly 10 years rising through the ranks of consulting services at the accounting firm. Erica Fields Pullen ’09 published a children's book in February 2018 titled, Believing in Myself!, based on a dark-skinned, African American girl who refuses to give up on her dream despite rejections from multiple auditions. Pullen plans a second book geared toward boys to be penned at a later date. Debra Brewer ’17 attended the Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing conference in Ireland to present her work "Standardized Reporting of Functional Loss in Disability Examinations." Debra is a nurse practitioner in the VA Medical Center. Jessica Fiori Huber, MSN, RN ’10 was honored by the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation as one of Pittsburgh's 50 Finest at the foundation's annual gala on August 12, 2017. Jacqueline Dixon ’11 established the Jackie Dixon Scholarship. This scholarship is awarded through the NEED Foundation to a student pursuing higher education at either Carlow University or Alabama A&M University. Dixon has been selected by Get Involved, Inc. as a Woman of the Year. Get Involved!, Inc. provides leadership and development programs and initiatives that engage, energize, educate, and empower students, young professionals, and lifelong learners to make a positive difference in their communities and to become civically engaged. The award was presented on March 27, 2018 at the 9th Annual Pittsburgh Service Summit. Terri Shields ’12 established JADA House International, Inc. in October 2014. This faith-based, community outreach, nonprofit ministry provides a space for people of all ages—adults, teenagers (13-17), and juniors (6-12)—to discuss their social and spiritual challenges. There are no judgments or judging inside of fellowship together. They eat, share, heal, and learn, as Terri fervently works to improve the wellbeing of her community. Ginny Jacob ’13 was among the "The 20s of 2018 Pittsburgh" featured in the April issue of Whirl Magazine. Jacob is the executive assistant at Visit Lawrence County, where she helps promote the area for tourism and residential growth. She is also the treasurer of Young Professionals of Lawrence County and sits on the local committees of Donut DAZE, Mardi Gras Masquerade, and New Visions for Lawrence County. Heather Kaczorowski ’13 was among the "The 20s of 2018 Pittsburgh" featured in the April issue of Whirl Magazine. Kaczorowski is a realtor for the Berkshire Hathaway Home Services West/Airport Regional Office where she is a multi-million dollar producing agent. Rebekah Stern, MEd, JD ’13 earned her Doctorate of Jurisprudence from the University of Colorado's Law School on May 11, 2018, exactly five years after graduating with a bachelor's degree from Carlow. Jessica Hobson ’14 was nominated for the 2018 Junior Achievement Young Professionals Luncheon and Inspiring Success Awards. Julie L. Decker, DNP, RN ’15 presented at the Sigma Theta Tau's 28th International Nursing Research Congress, which was hosted in Dublin, Ireland, July 26-31, 2017. Dr. Decker coauthored and presented the research study titled "Understanding the Lived Experiences of Veterans Entering Pre-licensure Nursing Programs in the United States," with Dr. Teresa Shellenbarger, a nursing professor from the Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Tina M. Boni, PsyD ’16 accepted a position in July 2017 with Meridian Behavioral Health Services (MBHS) in Brentwood, Tenn., as the assistant vice president of quality assurance. Boni completed her residency in Health Psychology at Conemaugh Memorial Hospital in Johnstown, Pa., and completed her pediatric fellowship at the Children's Institute of Pittsburgh. She has relocated from Pittsburgh to the Nashville area to begin her career with MBHS. Francis Feld, DNP, CRNA ’16 was recently deployed by the Department of Health and Human Services to Texas for Hurricane Harvey and to Puerto Rico for Hurricane Maria as part of the National Disaster Medical System. Assigned to NY 4 Disaster Medical Assistance Team, he worked with other team members in providing emergency and primary care to citizens requiring medical treatment. Francis was also named Advanced Practice: Excellence in Nursing Honoree 2017 by Pittsburgh Magazine. Francis works at UPMC Passavant Hospital as a nurse anesthetist. Stephanie Annarumo Bailey, MSN, FNP ’17 and Shannon Myers, MSN, FNP ’17 began new roles as Family Nurse Practitioners for Ellwood Medical Center. The recently renovated facility will offer the rural community a pediatrician, gastroenterologist, and gynecologist all under one roof. Morgan Boyer ’17 published a chapbook "The Serotonin Cradle" by Finishing Line Press. Return to the top of this page. Rudi Lynd McLane ’10 and her spouse, Michael, welcomed their first child, Haley Lynn McLane, into the world on March 6, 2018. Rachel Blonski McKee ’13, ’16 and her spouse, Ryan, welcomed a little girl, Kaylee Rae, in December 2017. Kristen Marie Kirsch ’09 married John James Baker on October 21, 2017. Melissa Jackson ’10 married Jake McMillen on March 25, 2017. Alyssa Pfeifer ’15 married Glenn Moyer on October 13, 2016. Alice McKeever Riley ’33, March 17, 2018. Eileen Entress McVey ’37, October 27, 2017. Anne Roberts Duff ’38, October 4, 2017. Rosemary Houlihan Linsley ’38, December 4, 2017. Sister Jane Scully, RSM ’39, February 17, 2018. Lois Brown Gaffney ’41, November 2, 2017. Sister Mary Schmidt, RSM ’42, February 17, 2018. Rosemary Mazon ’44, January 18, 2015. Marjorie Weimerskirch Montgomery ’46, September 22, 2017. Mary Rowan Capenos, PhD ’48, March 28, 2018. Helen "Ruth" Crowley Engle ’48, April 5, 2018. Margaret Carlin ’49, January 19, 2018. Mary DiLucente Cassinelli ’49, March 15, 2018. Doris Marie Benzenhoefer Tobin, MD ’50, January 3, 2018. Patricia Keegan ’50, October 23, 2017. Dolores "Dolly" Strauss Kelly ’50, November 25, 2017. Mary Jean Roth Goehring ’51, October 26, 2016. Margaret Ann Gordon Herald ’51, July 9, 2015. Jane Nash Purtill ’51, July 28, 2017. Sister M. Gretchen Weigl, RSM ’53, November 21, 2017. Sister Mary Antoinette Popovic, OSF ’53, January 26, 2018. Sister M. Rosalia Caulfield, CDP ’54, December 23, 2017. Catherine Mahoney Flanary ’54, October 2, 2017. Margaret Cauley Kluk ’54, August 9, 2017. Norma Wandrisco Very ’55, November 7, 2017. Clara Conte Weiler ’55, August 7, 2017. Gertrude Geneske Farrell ’56, March 29, 2018. Sister Carolyn Capobianco, ASCJ ’58, February 13, 2017. Marcia Meyer Frack ’60, September 2, 2017. Sister Barbara Mary Marshall, RSM ’60, November 9, 2017. Veronca Dobies Scardon ’60, July 19, 2017. Irene Totin Estocin ’61, December 28, 2017. Carol Boyle McGinnis ’61, January 28, 2018. Patricia Slogan Wilson ’62, August 7, 2017. Rosemarie Cusano Swiderski ’63, September 5, 2017. Helen Sivak Lenney ’64, August 8, 2017. Sister Francis Xavier O'Neill, RSM ’64, July 30, 2017. Eileen McPeak Cook ’65, December 13, 2011. Sister Jane Fadgen, RSM, ’65, January 9, 2018. Sister Rita Keshock, OSBM ’64, November 19, 2017. Diane Piscitelli Warren ’65, July 29, 2017. Catherine Grenci McDonough ’66, July 13, 2017. Marjorie Ellen Cohen Posner ’67, April 24, 2018. Linda Williams Avolio ’68, January 23, 2013. Patricia Ann Black ’68, December 14, 2017. Sister Anne Carville, OSF ’68, February 3, 2018. Gloria J. Miket ’68, May 7, 2017. Sister Eileen Chlebowski, SHS ’72 (formerly Sister Madalyn Francine Chlebowski), March 9, 2015. Denise Koslin Chapes ’75, May 20, 2017. Mary Beth Homer ’75, August 14, 2017. Glenda Griffith ’76, March 13, 2018. Joseph P. Miele ’77, March 7, 2018. Concetta E. "Connie" Rotondo ’78, October 11, 2017. Patricia Minko Gregor ’81, July 21, 2017. Norma Jean McClain ’81, December 25, 2014. Virginia Varley Donihi ’82, December 24, 2015. Christine Allen Murray ’82, December 12, 2017. Sharon McCLung Kirk ’85, February 1, 2018. Cleora Thomas Pugh ’87, October 17, 2017. Marsha Palmer Roenigk ’88, March 24, 2016. Mildred Taylor Greene ’92, November 10, 2011. Janet Salley Rakoczy ’92, February 12, 2018. Karen L. Davis ’96, ’98, September 8, 2012. Debra Karr Jablonsky ’96, September 11, 2017. Karen Michalski ’96, December 14, 2017. Beverly Ann Gilbert ’97, October 22, 2017. Mary Kinney ’98, May 7, 2017. Stanley R. Mozina, Jr., ’98, October 2, 2015. Cynthia L. Grable Davis ’00, October 26, 2017. Mary Beth Lorenzetty ’02, July 25, 2016. Marilyn Pfohl Donnelly, January 7, 2018. Marilyn was a founding member of Madwomen in the Attic and an honoree of The Marilyn P. Donnelly Distinguished Writer in Residence Program Endowment, which was established by her late husband, Thomas J. Donnelly. Sympathy To Sister Mary Schmidt, RSM ’42 for the loss of her sister, Catherine Schmidt Williams, October 13, 2017. Kathleen McClain Lee ’55 for the loss of her daughter, Maria Lee, March 15, 2018. Joan Alfieri Gannon ’57 for the loss of her husband, Dr. Norbert O. Gannon, August 10, 2017. Jean Similo Baldwin ’61 for the loss of her husband, Wilmer K. "Bill" Baldwin, December 23, 2017. Mary Jean Conroy Coughlin ’62 for the loss of her husband, James, February 14, 2018. Georgia Homer ’70 for the loss of her sister, Mary Beth Homer '75, August 14, 2017. Virginia "Ginger" Martin Monaghan ’74 for the loss of her husband, E. J. Monaghan, April 5, 2018. Mary Kathleen Scully ’75 for the loss of her aunt, Sister Jane Scully, RSM ’39, February 17, 2018. Susan E. Lee ’79 for the loss of her father, George A. Ley, Jr., August 11, 2017. Barbara Knaus Mistick, PhD ’90 for the loss of her father, William A. "Bill" Knaus, February 25, 2018. Susan Banaszak Catena ’97 for the loss of her brother, Alan W. Banaszak, February 22, 2017.

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Chapel of The Annunciation of Our Lady Eckington, Methodist Memorial Church (Demolished) Eckington, Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses Eckington, St Peter & St Paul's Church Eckington, Trinity Methodist Church (United Methodist Free) Eckington, Wesleyan Methodist Association Chapel (Demolished) Eckington, Eckington Cemetery Eckington, Salvation Army Hall (Demolished) Eckington, St Luke's Mission Church Eckington, Pentecostal Mission Eckington, Eckington Methodist Church (formerly Mount Zion) Mosborough, Eckington, Mosborough Methodist Church Mosborough, Eckington, Mosborough Methodist Church Hall Chapel of The Annunciation of Our Lady, Eckington Chapel of The Annunciation of Our Lady [no longer consecrated] 75 Southgate, Eckington, Derbyshire. This Place of Worship was founded before 1967, but we understand it was closed after 1995, and the premises are now in secular use. It appears this Church is now in private occupation. Though it retains the outward appearance of a church, there are curtains to the windows, a street number on the gate, and a double garage which give it away. Nevertheless it has, as they say, been sympathetically restored, and looks good. An Archaeological Assessment Report for Eckington, available on the Archaeology Data Service, indicates the building was previously a Girls' School, established in 1876 by Lady Sitwell. On Old Maps it is labelled "Southgate School". Interestingly Old Maps also show that there was, originally, a street named "Northgate", directly opposite the junction where Southgate meets Market Street. The Chapel can be seen for the first time on Old Maps of 1967. Evidently, its closure took place some time after the publication of my Derbyshire Street Atlas of 1995, as its location was still marked with a '+'. Its former dedication is as listed in Places recorded by the Registrar General under the provisions of the Places of Worship Registration Act 1855 (2010); but to the best of my knowledge, having searched The London Gazette for notices of such, it has never been registered for marriages. Now or formerly Roman Catholic. Chapel of The Annunciation of Our Lady, Eckington shown on a Google Map. Places of Worship in Eckington shown on a Google Map. I have found many websites of use whilst compiling the information for this database. Here are some which deserve mention as being of special interest for Eckington, and perhaps to Local History and Places of Worship as a whole. The officially accredited archive of heritage data - Archaeology Data Service - find information on Monuments and Events, Data, Journals, and more... (verified 2018-09-25) Places recorded by the Registrar General under the provisions of the Places of Worship Registration Act 1855 (2010) is available as a "Freedom of Information" document on the website What Do They Know. (verified 2018-10-14) Information last updated on 24 Dec 2014 at 14:42. Please also remember that the former Chapel of The Annunciation of Our Lady is understood to be in secular use, so care should be taken to preserve the privacy of its occupants. This Report was created 20 Jan 2020 - 18:07:03 GMT from information held in the Derbyshire section of the Places of Worship Database. This was last updated on 6 Feb 2019 at 15:49.

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Not for profit organization H.M. Queen Noor Carla Del Ponte.jpg Louis Schweitzer Bekele Geleta Adel Iman H.M. Queen Noor of Jordan First Founding Patron, Institute Cinema Vérité “Cinéma Vérité has a very important role to play. Media in general can today bring people together and promote a more constructive understanding of a range of issues; It can in fact contribute greatly to peace and security in the world.” Her Majesty Queen Noor of Jordan is an international humanitarian activist and an outspoken voice on issues of world peace and justice. She is dedicated to promoting international dialogues and understanding of Arab and Muslim culture and politics Arab-Western relations and conflict prevention such as refugees missing persons poverty and disarmament. Queen Noor’s work In Jordan since 1978 has focused on education, health, sustainable development, women’s empowerment, human rights and arts as a medium for social development and cross cultural understanding. She is also actively involved with international and UN organizations that address global challenges in these fields. Her Majesty chairs the Noor Hussein Foundation, as well as the King Hussein Foundation International (KHFI) founded 1999 to build on King Hussein’s humanitarian vision and legacy in Jordan and abroad. In 2007, KHFI, launched the Media and Humanity Program during New York City’s Tribeca Film Festival. Her majesty is also co-founder of the Alliance of Civilizations Media Fund, an unprecedented, initiative by private media, the UN and global philantropists to promote media content that enhances mutual understanding and respect among societies and cultures. Queen Noor has been an active patron of the CINEMA VERITE Institute since its inception. Following her suggestion, the Focus of CINEMA VERITE 2008 is on Intercultural Understanding and Dialogue between Peoples. Nobel Laureate for Peace. Honorary President, Tribunes Cinema Vérité 2007 “Cinéma Vérité has chosen to highlight the very important work of filmmakers who take up serious issues that demand broad attention. I am happy to be a part of this initiative” “Global change can only happen though global media. Films today use all kind of supports. Cinema can reach everyone at anytime. It is important that a cinema advocating social and humanitarian concerns can be witnessed in all of these supports. Cinéma Vérité is an essential platform” Former Prosecutor, International Crime Tribunal. Guest of Honor, Tribunes Cinema Vérité 2007 « I would like to convey to Cinema Vérité all my respect for the outstanding work you have accomplished.» Secretary of State for Sport. Honorary Patron, Institute Cinema Vérité “Emotion is what moves and animates, possibly leading to commitment. A chorus thank you to all artists presented during Cinéma Vérité and whose films are moving and encouraging us to act.” Mistress of Ceremony, Tribunes Cinema Vérité 2007 « Cinema Vérité is a force majeure » President High Authority Against Discriminations. President, Tribunes Cinema Vérité 2007 “Cinema can act as an eye opener on contemporary issues.” Yamina Benguigui, Réalisatrice Director, Deputy Mayor of Paris, for Human Rights. Founding Patron, Tribunes Cinema Vérité Paris “Images, accessible to a wider audience, is an astonishing tool to influence people opinion” Yamina Benguigui is a French-Algerian director and well known producer who, for more than fifteen years has been involved in exploring the human part of immigration in France. Her feature documentary “Mémoires d’immigrés, l‘héritage maghrébin“ (1998) won the Golden Gate Award at the San Francisco Festival, the Michel Mitrani Award at the FIPA, and the 7 d’Or of the best documentary. Her first feature film “Inch ‘Allah dimanche“ (2001) won the International Critic Award at the Toronto Film Festival, the Grand Prix at the International Film Festival of Marrakesh and the 3 main awards of the Festival au Féminin in Arcachon. She is the recipient of the Peace Award in Florence, and is a member of the “Haut Conseil à l’intégration” since 2006. In march 2008, she was elected deputy mayor to the Mayor of Paris Bertrand Delanoe, in charge of Human rights and against discrimination. Yamina Benguigui is Chevalier de l’Ordre de la Légion D’Honneur and Officier of Arts et Lettres. Her documentary “Le plafond de verre” was unanimously applauded by critics. The film « Aicha » for France 2 received The Prix Spécial du Jury at the last Television Festival in La Rochelle. She just completed a documentary for Canal + “93 Mémoire d un territoire“ which tells the history, and the daily life of a little known territory through moving testimonials. Her films and documentaries are studied in universities, and she is invited to do conferences around the world on her work. Yamina Benguigui was a supporter of Cinema Verité 2007, she is now serving as Patron of Cinema verite 2008. Guest of honor Cinema Vérité 2008 World famed actress, Susan Sarandon began her career in the seventies playing in successful movies such as “The Great Waldo Pepper “ (1975) and « The Rocky Horror Picture Show » (1975). She received praise in 1991 for her role in the feature film “Thelma & Louise” directed by Ridley Scott. She won the Oscar for Best Actress for her appearance in “Dead Man Walking”. But her brilliant acting career has not kept her from supporting the causes which are close to her heart like women’s empowerment, the fight against starvation and HIV. Appointed UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador in 1999, she participated the following year in a fieldwork mission in United Republic of Tanzania. The actress also went to India and Brazil in order to promote development programs for young children. Secretary General International Federation Red Cross & Red Crescent Patron Tribunes Cinema Vérité 2009 Tribute Cinema Vérité 2008 Since her early screen performances in the 1960s with hits such as Barbarella and Cat Ballou, Jane Fonda has been an incredible success. She has won two Academy Awards for Best Actress for her roles in Klute (1971) and Coming Home (1978). She has also been a dedicated political and social activist throughout her entire career. She actively spoke out against the Vietnam War in the 1970s. In the face of much opposition and danger, she visited Vietnam in 1972 in an attempt to raise awareness about the reality of the war. Her humanitarian concerns have continued to this day. As a liberal feminist, she has done a great deal for the plight of women both in America and throughout the rest of the world. Politically, she was in active opposition of the Iraq war and publicly challenged the Bush administration for their military intervention. She has worked to help those in need following the Hurricane Katrina crisis in New Orleans. She has also had a proactive role in working towards a resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Adel Imam Adel Imam, Egyptian born, is one of the most important actors in the Middle East – he has appeared in over 100 movies as well as having an active career in theater. Film is a medium through which he can explore his political convictions in a comic way and transport his message to a broad audience. His films The Terrorist (1991) and more recently, The Yacoubian Building (2006) have propelled him to fame as a socially and politically active screen actor. In January 2000, the United Nations appointed him Goodwill Ambassador for UNHCR. Since his appointment, Adel Imam has worked tirelessly for the cause of refugees and in opposition to religious extremism and political corruption. High Representant United Nations, Alliance of Civilisations Patron Institute Cinema Vérité Jorge Sampaio, Former President of Portugal, United Nations High Representative for Alliance of Civilizations. During his terms as President, Jorge Sampaio largely contributed to the advancement of numerous humanitarian causes including the battle against AIDS, the recognition of Human Rights and the independence of East Timor. Mayor of Lisbon for several terms, member of the Human Rights Commission of the Council of Europe, Jorge Sampaio is a renowned jurist. In the sixties and seventies he played a key role in supporting Portugal’s transition to democracy. Throughout the years he intervened in political and cultural affairs namely through his writings in newspapers and magazines. Guest of honor, Press conference Cinema Vérité 2009

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Gayety Theatre 103 N. Washington Avenue, 1 person favorited this theater View larger map → Architects: William H. McElfatrick Styles: Neo-Classical Previous Names: Floyd B. Olson Theatre Electric Theatre Bijou Theatre Lyra Theatre Dewey Theatre The Gayety Theatre was opened by Herman Faehr in 1909, originally as a legitimate house, and could seat just over 1,200. It was designed in Neo-Classical style, and its proscenium arch rose seventy feet above its stage. The facade, which featured a pediment held up by a quartet of Corinthian pillars, was of gleaming white terra-cotta. By the mid-teens, the theater had switched to vaudeville and burlesque acts. During the 1920’s, among the famous names to play the Gayety Theatre included Al Jolson, Fanny Brice, and Sophie Tucker. The city of Minneapolis closed down the theater in 1928, after it decided the burlesque acts at the Gayety Theatre were becoming too racy. It was only after its management promised to stage musical comedy acts onstage rather than burlesque that the theater was allowed to reopen the next year. In 1941, after nearly four decades of live entertainment, the Gayety Theatre finally turned to movies, as a double-feature house. In late-1941, the theater’s name was changed to the Floyd B. Olson Theatre, named after a popular Minnesota governor of the 1920’s and 1930’s, who died in 1936. However, when Olson’s widow learned her husband’s name was now on the marquee of the former burlesque theater, she sued the theater, which immediately switched the name back to the Gayety Theatre, and Mrs. Olson dropped her suit. In the mid-1940’s, the theater closed again, this time permanently. In 1945, plans were drawn up to convert the Gayety Theatre into a nightclub, but fell through. Then, in 1970, after sitting vacant for decades, it was announced that legitimate theater would be returning to a restored Gayety Theatre, but once again, nothing came to fruition. The theater was razed by 1980. Contributed by Bryan Krefft Get Movie Tickets & Showtimes Recent comments (view all 5 comments) panhead on April 2, 2005 at 8:46 pm I am interested in any information on someone who may be interested in Gayety Theatre Show Programs……please direct any serious inquiries to .net zooklaw on August 24, 2006 at 10:33 am On its former location, the entrance parlor floor of Runyon’s restaurant is still marked “Gayety Annex” PaulEPetosky on October 11, 2008 at 10:07 pm I have an old ticket stub from the Parquet (Gayety) in Minneapolis, MN. It says Left L 2, Good Only Sunday Mat Apl. 12 (no year given) SS. What I am wondering, what year is this ticket and what performance was going on at that time? Contact me at violiner on August 9, 2009 at 4:08 pm My grandfather played as a musician in this theater in the late 1920’s. Joe Vogel on May 8, 2014 at 1:33 pm The March 7, 1909, issue of The Improvement Bulletin said that W. H. McElfatrick had designed the new Gaiety Theatre that was to be erected in Minneapolis. Want to be emailed when a new comment is posted about this theater? Just login to your account and subscribe to this theater

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Composer in Residence, Lisa Bielawa Contact: BMOP bmop@bmop.org Boston, MA (May 26, 2006) BMOP is proud to announce that New York-based composer Lisa Bielawa will be in residence for three yeas beginning in October 2006. BMOP was one of six orchestras nation-wide selected for an extended Music Alive residency, a program of Meet the Composer and the American Symphony Orchestra League. Composer-Vocalist Lisa Bielawa often takes inspiration for her work from literary sources and from close artistic collaborations. A 1990 graduate of Yale University with a B.A. summa cum laude in Literature, her music explores the ritual and phenomenological nature of music-making and listening, employing instrumental forces in ways that are both dramatic and intimate in their use of time and space. She is currently at work on a piece for migrating ensembles and soprano Susan Narucki for performance in public spaces, a multi-year project of Creative Capital. A enthusiastic advocate for the field through her talks and writings, Bielawa serves on the Board of the American Music Center. She also teaches composition through the New York Youth Symphony Making Score program, and she is one of the Founders and Co-Artistic Directors of the MATA Festival, which was New York Times reviewer Allan Kozinn's #1 Classical Pick of the Year. Lisa's The Lay of the Love and Death written for violinist Colin Jacobsen and baritone Jesse Blumberg and based on an epic poem by Rilke, premiered at Alice Tully Hall in March 2006. Hurry, for soprano and chamber ensemble, was commissioned by Carnegie Hall and premiered in October 2004 as part of Dawn Upshaw's Perspectives series. This spring Lisa appeared as vocalist in this work on the Seattle Symphony "Made in America" series. The inaugural season of Zankel Hall included the premiere of her The Right Weather by American Composers Orchestra. Her symphonic work Roam, written at the Copland House, has been played by the Minnesota Orchestra (2002), ACO (2002) and the New England Conservatory Philharmonia (2003). Roam will be one of two works by Lisa on BMOP's 10th season opening event in November 2006, the other being unfinish'd, sent with Lisa as a soprano soloist. Also during her residency Lisa will write two new works for BMOP, including a double violin concerto for Colin Jacobsen and Carla Kihlsteadt. All of BMOP's performances will be recorded for a commercial CD to be released in 2009. As Composer in Residence, Lisa will host BMOP's pre-concert talks, curate the Club Concert series in the Moonshine Room at Club Café, and mentor young composers in local high schools and colleges. Drawing from her role with the MATA festival, Lisa will organize a young composers contest and concert for BMOP's 2007-'08 season.

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The Celator VCoins.com Coin Auctions The Capitulation of Granada. January 6, 1492. Marisa Ollero 9 January, 2020 No Comments 98 views With the fall of Baza and the capture of al-Zagal in 1490, it seemed as if the war was over; Ferdinand and Isabella believed this was the case. However, Boabdil was unhappy with the rewards for his alliance with Ferdinand and Isabella, possibly because lands that had been promised to him were being administered by Castile. He broke off his vassalage and rebelled against the Catholic Monarchs, despite holding only the city of Granada and the Alpujarras Mountains. It was clear that such a position was untenable in the long term, so Boabdil sent out desperate requests for external aid. The Sultan of Egypt mildly rebuked Ferdinand for the Granada War, but the Mamluks that ruled Egypt were in a near constant war with the Ottoman Turks. As Castile and Aragon were fellow enemies of the Turks, the... Sacco di Roma. May 6, 1527. Marisa Ollero 7 May, 2019 No Comments 385 views The growing power of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V alarmed Pope Clement VII, who perceived Charles as attempting to dominate the Catholic Church and Italy. In effort to free both from Imperial domination, Clement VII formed an alliance with Charles V’s arch-enemy, King Francis I of France, which came to be known as the League of Cognac (including France, Milan, Venice, Florence and the Papacy). The imperial troops were 14,000 Germans, 6,000 Spanish, and an uncertain number of Italian infantry. The troops defending Rome were not at all numerous, consisting of 5,000 militiamen led by Renzo da Ceri and 189 Papal Swiss Guard. The city’s fortifications included the massive walls, and it possessed a good artillery force, which the Imperial army lacked. Charles III, Duke of Bourbon nee... The Order of the Golden Fleece. January 10, 1430. Marisa Ollero 10 January, 2019 No Comments 309 views The Order of the Golden Fleece (Spanish: Orden del Toisón de Oro, German: Orden vom Goldenen Vlies) is a Roman Catholic order of chivalry founded in Bruges by the Burgundian duke Philip the Good in 1430, to celebrate his marriage to the Portuguese princess Isabella. Today, two branches of the Order exist, namely the Spanish and the Austrian Fleece; the current grand masters are Felipe VI, King of Spain, and Karl von Habsburg, grandson of Emperor Charles I of Austria, respectively. Having had only 1,200 recipients ever since its establishment, the Spanish Order of the Golden Fleece has been referred to as the most prestigious and exclusive order of chivalry in the world, both historically and contemporaneously. Unlike any other distinction, the Golden Fleece is only granted for life, meanin... Julia. January 17, 38 BC. Sacrifice to the gods. January 3, 250 AD. Vespasian, pecunia non-olet. December 21, 69 AD. Drake´s circumnavigation starts. December 13, 1577. The Capture of Sidon. December 4, 1110. Thanksgiving Day. November 26, 1789. Judas Maccabee and the Temple. November 21, 164 BC. The Source of the Nile. November 14, 1770. The Walls of Constantinople collapse. November 6, 447. King Cyrus and the Temple of Jerusalem. October 29, 538 BC. The Vision of Constantine. October 27, 312. Neville´S Cross. October 17, 1346. The Battle of Lepanto. October 7, 1571. The Battle of Arnemuiden. September 23, 1338. The Battle of Teutoburg Forest. September 11, 9 AD. The Battle of Actium. September 2, 31 BC. Geoffrey Plantagenet. August 24, 1113. First evidence of HMS Erebus found. August 15, 1855. Il Duomo. August 7, 1420. Our purpose is to provide a platform for the collecting community to gather and discuss all numismatic topics. We also will continually add articles from a wide range of experts and sources, along with the full digitalization of the Celator magazine by Wayne Sayles. Each issue of This Week In History is also here, so if you have missed any, they are stored chronologically when they were published. We hope you enjoy the Community! 17 January, 2020 60 views 9 January, 2020 98 views 3 January, 2020 183 views support@vcoins.com Copyright © 2016 VCoins.com. All rights reserved. eight + =

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K-Bar Ranch, Texas 102.6/sq mi (39.6/km2) K-Bar Ranch is a census-designated place (CDP) in Jim Wells County, Texas, United States. The population was 350 at the 2000 census. K-Bar Ranch is located at (27.996465, -97.922898).[3] As of the census[1] of 2000, there were 350 people, 99 households, and 89 families residing in the CDP. The population density was 102.6 people per square mile (39.6/km²). There were 116 housing units at an average density of 34.0/sq mi (13.1/km²). The racial makeup of the CDP was 86.29% White, 0.29% Native American, 12.86% from other races, and 0.57% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 83.43% of the population. There were 99 households out of which 55.6% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 70.7% were married couples living together, 13.1% had a female householder with no husband present, and 9.1% were non-families. 6.1% of all households were made up of individuals and 4.0% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 3.54 and the average family size was 3.69. In the CDP the population was spread out with 38.6% under the age of 18, 7.7% from 18 to 24, 26.6% from 25 to 44, 17.4% from 45 to 64, and 9.7% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 28 years. For every 100 females there were 92.3 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 92.0 males. The median income for a household in the CDP was $29,205, and the median income for a family was $28,409. Males had a median income of $23,173 versus $23,750 for females. The per capita income for the CDP was $7,450. About 26.2% of families and 34.3% of the population were below the poverty line, including 43.9% of those under age 18 and none of those age 65 or over. K-Bar Ranch is served by the Alice Independent School District. Alice Acres, Texas Coyote Acres, Texas Alfred-South La Paloma, Texas

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Monster Magnet Tour Dates & Concert Tickets This performer has been marked mature level 10 due to the following, "nazis", "dopes", "sex". Monster Magnet Tour Dates and Concert Tickets Hard rock/psychedelic rock/space rock/stoner metal Retro-rock visionaries Monster Magnet spent much of the 1990s struggling against the prejudices imposed upon image and sound by alternative rock fashion nazis. In fact, it wasn't until that movement's late-'90s decline that the band's dogged persistence finally paid off, when thei... read more Monster Magnet Tickets Jan 27 MONSTER MAGNET - Powertrip – A Celebration! Plus much more John Dee Oslo, NOR Jan 31 Monster Magnet (i.s.m. Orange Factory) Het Depot Leuven, BEL Feb 1 Monster Magnet Metropol Berlin Berlin, DEU Feb 4 Monster Magnet Muffathalle Munich, DEU Feb 12 MONSTER MAGNET Trix Antwerp, BEL Feb 13 MONSTER MAGNET - performing POWERTRIP Kulturzentrum Schlachthof e.V. Wiesbaden, DEU Feb 23 MONSTER MAGNET SALA RAZZMATAZZ Barcelona, ESP More About Monster Magnet Recommendations Similar to Monster Magnet Monster Magnet VIDEOS MORE INFO ABOUT Monster Magnet Retro-rock visionaries Monster Magnet spent much of the 1990s struggling against the prejudices imposed upon image and sound by alternative rock fashion nazis. In fact, it wasn't until that movement's late-'90s decline that the band's dogged persistence finally paid off, when their fourth album, Powertrip, catapulted to gold sales status on the strength of its massive hard rock hit, "Space Lord." In the meantime, Monster Magnet had managed to become one of the most successful and influential bands associated with the so-called underground "stoner rock" scene. And yet, their influences span much further than that scene's foundations in '70s hard rock and metal, delving into space rock, psychedelia, and beyond. New Jersey native Dave Wyndorf was already a rock & roll veteran by the time he formed Monster Magnet in 1989, having cut his teeth with little-known punk band Shrapnel (also featuring future punk producer Daniel Rey on guitars) in the late '70s before retiring from music altogether. But, after teaching himself guitar, Wyndorf began assembling Monster Magnet with a handful of fellow New Jersey natives, vocalist Tim Cronin, guitarist John McBain, bassist Joe Callandra, and drummer Jon Kleiman. Fusing their metal, punk, space rock, and psychedelic influences, the band developed a sludgy, feedback-heavy hard rock sound that helped them stand out from the era's burgeoning retro-rock movement -- also counting the Black Crowes, White Zombie, and many others. After releasing a self-titled six-song EP through Germany's Glitterhouse Records, Wyndorf assumed all vocal responsibilities, while Cronin retreated to a behind the scenes "conceptual consultant" position -- much like that of John Sinclair for the MC5. In the meantime, Monster Magnet had signed with independent label Caroline Records in 1992, and recorded their first full-length album: the very impressive, uniquely dark psychedelic masterpiece Spine of God. The productive sessions also yielded a number of extensive space rock jams that would later be issued as the Tab album in 1993. A video for first single "Medicine" and a support tour with the fast-rising Soundgarden also helped attract powerhouse A&M Records, but even as they prepared to sign with the label, Wyndorf had a serious falling-out with guitarist McBain, who was soon replaced by Ed Mundell. Despite the last-minute change, 1993's Superjudge proved to be a stellar major-label debut -- although it did see the band sacrificing some of their rampant feedback in exchange for more clearly defined, muscular metal riffs. Unfortunately, the group's retro-rock image had become highly unfashionable at the time, arriving at the height of the post-Nirvana alternative boom, and the album sold poorly. Under mounting pressure to deliver a more commercial follow-up, Monster Magnet delivered a decidedly sleeker -- though no less space rock-drenched -- effort in 1995's Dopes to Infinity. This yielded a Top Ten rock single in "Negasonic Teenage Warhead" and was supported by extensive touring with C.O.C., among others, but the album sold only slightly better than its predecessor. Finding himself mentally and physically exhausted in the aftermath, Wyndorf exiled himself to Las Vegas to begin composing the tracks that would shape 1998's breakthrough release, Powertrip. By far the group's most straightforward hard rock album, Powertrip channeled all of Sin City's vice, greed, and sex into its hedonistic but surprisingly accessible tracks, and first single "Space Lord" went on to dominate rock radio that summer, driving the album over the gold sales plateau. With new rhythm guitarist Phil Caivano in tow, Monster Magnet then embarked on a marathon two-year world tour, both as a headliner and as support to the likes of Aerosmith, Metallica, and Megadeth. By the year 2000, the band had contributed the track "Silver Future" to the Heavy Metal 2000 soundtrack and completed work on their fifth album, God Says No, released in Europe in October. But their new American record label, Interscope (which had swallowed A&M in a hostile takeover the year before) inexplicably fussed and messed with the album before finally releasing it domestically in April 2001. Precious momentum and sales were therefore lost to an influx of import copies of God Says No -- according to most seasoned fans, already a "difficult," overtly commercial album to begin with -- and Monster Magnet soon found themselves rudely dropped. Following this unforeseen setback, Wyndorf watched as various bandmembers pursued side projects. Ed Mundell recorded a number of well-received albums with his power trio the Atomic Bitchwax, while Tim Cronin and Jon Kleiman collaborated on the Ribeye Brothers and Gallery of Mites. But, Monster Magnet duly reunited for a short North American tour in early 2002 and, a year later, a new deal with the German SPV label was announced. Recorded in late 2003, the group's sixth full-length album, 2004's Monolithic Baby!, would be recorded with a new rhythm section, these being bassist Jim Baglino and drummer Bob Pantella. In 2005, Phil Caivano left the band amicably, and the rest of the group started recording in L.A. with producer Matt Hyde. Reissues of Tab and Spine of God were released in the meantime, along with a 20th Century Masters -- Millennium Collection disc of their greatest hits. In November 2007, after a European tour, 4-Way Diablo was released. ~ Ed Rivadavia, All Music Guide Categories: Music | Rock

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Internationalising Education Excellent opportunity with leading Technical University in Ukraine 26th June 2019 /0 Comments/in Partnership Opportunities /by Linda Cormack Following on from the recent CCG visit to Ukraine we have a university keen to establish a partnership with a UK university which will cover the development of dual degree programmes, staff and student mobility and summer schools. The university has a rich heritage, founded in 1930, the university is famous for the creation of the first high-speed aeroplane with retractable landing gear, and for the design of one of the first turbojet engines. The university continues to be rated highly. The university has 11,000 students, including 1,500 international students from 45 countries. It is a campus-based institution, which includes a range of student facilities. The university belongs to EASN, PEGASUS and a signatory of Magna Charta Universitatum. The university also has dual degree programmes with universities in Italy, Germany and China. The university teaches a range of courses in English in a range of areas including Aviation and Aerospace Engineering, Computer Science, Cyber Security, Economics, Psychology, Aviation Transport, Power Engineering (renewable) and Avionics, and wishes to develop dual programmes with UK universities that will allow the university to increase its international students. They are looking at a couple of models, both the franchised/validated model for delivering in Ukraine, and mobility, and understand the financial arrangements around both models. They are also interested in discussing summer schools, student and staff mobility and joint research. http://consultcormack.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Ukraine.png 435 600 Linda Cormack /wp-content/uploads/2016/07/CCG-logo-500px.png Linda Cormack2019-06-26 11:46:082019-06-26 11:46:23Excellent opportunity with leading Technical University in Ukraine enquiries@consultcormack.com © Copyright - Cormack Consultancy Group Significant Franchise opportunity in Pakistan. Significant Strategic Opportunity for a partnership with leading private technical...

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Lady Gaga's "little monsters" are the hardest-working fans in show business By Douglas Wolk Monday, May 23, 2011 Sayre Berman / Corbis A trio of Gaga fans pose prior to a concert in Miami Portraits of Lady Gaga's Little Monsters Lady Gaga's Little Monsters in Mexico City The World Goes Lady Gaga Lady Gaga and Others Greet the Queen When "Judas" came to them, they were ready. Lady Gaga's latest music video premiered on May 5, and within hours, her fans — her "little monsters," as they call themselves — were responding in droves. Nicolina Asaro, a 20-year-old accounting student from Staten Island, N.Y., retro-engineered Gaga's "Judas" makeup, including her filigreed Egyptian eyeliner design, and posted a tutorial on YouTube. A 15-year-old from Finland who goes by the name Minzana uploaded an intricate pencil drawing of Gaga holding her "Judas" lipstick gun, which quickly made the rounds of many Gaga fan sites. Ten-year-old Timmy DeMott shot a video of himself singing "Judas" using his family's kitchen as a stage and a banana as a microphone. Lady Gaga linked to DeMott's video on Twitter ("What a banana cutie!"). And when Gaga tweets, people pay attention. She has nearly 9.9 million followers — more than anyone else, including Justin Bieber and President Obama. Her Twitter bio is two words long: "mother monster." (See pictures of Lady Gaga's little monsters.) There is much that is superlative and unprecedented about Gaga, from her seemingly overnight success (she's the first artist to hit No. 1 on Billboard's Pop Songs chart with her first five singles) to her spectacular sense of presentation (who else would arrive at the Grammys in a giant translucent egg, then hatch out of it for her performance?). But what might be the most over-the-top thing about Gaga — more than the meat dress or the horns protruding from her skin in the "Born This Way" video or the triple-platinum sales of her debut album, The Fame — is her obsessive, abundantly creative fan base. And true to her innovative spirit, Gaga has forged a reciprocal relationship with her acolytes unlike that of any other pop-music icon. "They are the kings. They are the queens," declares Gaga, who has little monsters tattooed on her left arm. "I am something of a devoted jester." (Imagine how bizarre this would sound coming from the imperious likes of Madonna or Kanye West.) That unconditional devotion is expressed in the be-yourself anthem "Born This Way," the first single off her new album of the same name (out May 23). (See photos: "The World Goes Lady Gaga.") Of course, no matter how many declarations of love and reverence Gaga makes from the stage or her keyboard ("Been crying reading all your beautiful messages for my new song," she tweeted on May 9 after she released the power-disco track "The Edge of Glory"), devotion is not the same as intimacy. The mother monster doesn't even pretend to let her fan-children get close to Stefani Germanotta, the 25-year-old beneath the wigs and latex. What Gaga is selling is a perfectly mannered facade. As she put it last year, "I would rather die than have my fans not see me in a pair of high heels." She's also selling adoration, appreciation and a tribal sense of protection. Gaga is particularly committed to gay-rights causes: she's donating part of the proceeds from a remix of "Born This Way" to the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network. Most of all, she inspires little monsters to make stuff — to consume her product, yes, but also to create their own. Gaga's network of disciples is a subculture unto itself, with its own language ("Put your paws up!" is a little-monsters rallying cry derived from a dance move in the "Bad Romance" video) and its own celebrities. Michelle Phan's YouTube guide to replicating Gaga's "Poker Face" look — silver eye shadow, lightning bolt — has been viewed over 27 million times. Anna Chong, a recent graduate of the London College of Fashion, constructed a line of Gaga-inspired doll outfits for the toy company Harumika (Chong's fabric of choice for the meat dress: Parma ham). When young cartoonist Elena Barbarich created a poster for the "Telephone" video, starring Gaga and Beyoncé, Gaga called it brilliant on Twitter — spurring another fan to have the image tattooed on his torso (on his right side, which in monsterville is a bit of a faux pas: Lady Gaga promised her father she would leave the right side of her body tattoo-free, and many of her ink-stained fans follow suit). Watch a video about Lady Gaga's little monsters in Mexico City. See who inspires Lady Gaga in a video for the 2010 TIME 100.

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The Prom Queen of Soul Whitney Houston is sleek, sexy, successful -- and, surprise, she can sing By Richard Corliss Monday, July 13, 1987 Whitney Houston holds her award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance at the 30th Annual Grammy Awards March 2, 1987 Whitney Houston: A Life in Photos If the teenager felt rebellious, her mood may have reflected the tension between her parents. John moved out when Whitney was 15, though he and Cissy were never legally separated. "They'd laugh a lot," Whitney says. "And when times were hard, they fought, which taught me a lot about love and sacrifice. For a while they stayed together for our sake. Finally they realized that the only way for them to stay friends was to split. It was strange not to have my father there, but he lives just ten minutes away. Besides, even if you're not together physically, the love never dies." Dionne, who considers Whitney the "little girl I never had," says of the clan, "You don't get in unless we let you in." Whitney was always reluctant to let outsiders in. "I've always been a private person," she says. "In grammar school some of the girls had problems with me. My face was too light. My hair was too long. It was the black-consciousness period, and I felt really bad. I finally faced the fact that it isn't a crime not having friends. Being alone means you have fewer problems. When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I'd be alone a lot. Basically we all are. Loneliness comes with life." At 17, Whitney completed her extended family when she met the "sister I never had." Robyn Crawford -- tall, slim, severely handsome -- was 19 then; they have been nearly inseparable ever since. Four years ago Robyn dropped out of Monmouth College, where she had played basketball on scholarship, and later became Whitney's personal assistant. They share a North Jersey flat with a view of Manhattan. Because of their easy intimacy, the tattle mill has ground out the story that they are lovers. Both women shrug off the rumor. Says Robyn: "I tell my family, 'You can hear anything on the streets, but if you don't hear it from me, it's not true.' " Whitney also alludes to family: "My mother taught me that when you stand in the truth and someone tells a lie about you, don't fight it. I'm not with any man. I'm not in love. People see Robyn with me, and they draw their own conclusions. Anyway, whose business is it if you're gay or like dogs? What others do shouldn't matter. Let people talk. It doesn't bother me because I know I'm not gay. I don't care." What she cares about, has always cared about, is music. Gary Garland remembers the child Whitney, "dressed up in mother's gowns, down in the basement, singing her lungs out like she was in Madison Square Garden." At eleven, Whitney made her solo debut singing Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah at the local Baptist church. "I was scared to death," she recalls. "I was aware of people staring at me. No one moved. They seemed almost in a trance. I just stared at the clock in the center of the church. When I finished, everyone clapped and started crying. From then on, I knew God had blessed me." Then began the musical education of Whitney Houston, courtesy of Cissy. "I taught her that you don't start loud," Cissy says, "because then you have no place to go. I taught her that songs tell a story, and you don't blare out a story. Control is the basis for singing: up, down, soft, sweet. And diction was very important." You can hear the fruit of Cissy's lessons even in a dance tune like How Will I Know. In the refrain "If he loves me,/ If he loves me not," Whitney really punches that final t. No wonder: Mama was singing backup. PHOTOS: Whitney Houston's Life and Career

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Captive Population Field Program Monitoring and Research The Puerto Rican crested toad was once found in nine localities within Puerto Rico (Isabela, Quebradillas, Arecibo, Barceloneta, Vega Baja, Bayamón, Coamo, Ponce and Guánica) and one locality in Virgin Gorda (USFWS, 1992). Until recently, the toads were thought extirpated from all areas except for temporary ponds in Guánica. In 2008, a second breeding population of crested toads was discovered in Punta Ventana, Guayanilla, which is approximately 3.83 kilometers northeast of the Guánica population. It is believed that this new population is most likely a metapopulation of the Guánica toads due to its close proximity. In 2010 crested toads were observed in Cienagas, also near Guánica, but the population status is unknown at this time. Tamarindo Breeding Site Although historic habitat varies from rainforest, grassland, to dry scrub, all known areas are comprised of temporary bodies of water and limestone rock formations known as “karst.” Crested toads have never been found at elevations higher than 200 meters. The last remaining population’s habitat in the southwest coast of Puerto Rico, is rugged, dry scrub forest. There are no permanent bodies of fresh water in the area and on average, Guánica receives a meager 35 inches of rain annually (Farnsworth, 1991). The dry season is generally December to April and the wet season is from August to November (Farnsworth, 1991). Puerto Rican crested toads are nocturnal, escaping the sun’s intense heat during the day, by entering holes and fissures within the karst. The toads are seldom observed throughout the year except during breeding events. PRCT in limestone crevice Current and historical locations of Puerto Rican crested toad populations: Explore Puerto Rico on the map below: © Puerto Rican Crested Toad Recovery Program

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Mitt Romney Booed at NAACP Convention By Tommy Meade Jr. from HBCUBuzz.com On Wednesday, July 11, 2012 Republican Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney addressed the 103rd NAACP Annual Convention in Houston, Texas where he spoke on civic engagement. Romney, who hopes to “represent all Americans, of every race, creed, and sex orientation… from the poorest to the richest and everyone in between,” if he wins office was booed by an audience highly in favor of current President Barack Obama (D). Like most Republican Presidential candidates at the NAACP Convention, Romney looked as if he was the odd one out during his speech—a lone soldier trying to persuade an audience whose views are much different from his. Shortly into his argument for election, Romney thanked the audience for their hospitality and said he enjoyed the gospel music that was displayed. “I do love that music,” Romney said. “I have to tell you, I do love listening to that organ music, and the piano.” The Republican Presidential candidate focused on issues such as education, equal opportunity, unemployment rates in the black community, and creating new jobs throughout his speech. Romney said the fight for equality for all Americans is far from over and if the black community seeks change, he is the right candidate for the job. “Many barriers remain. Old inequalities persist. And some ways, the challenges are even more complicated than before,” Romney said. “If equal opportunity in America were an accomplished fact, black families can send their sons and daughters to public schools that truly are for the hope of a better life.” Romney talked about the overall unemployment rate in the black community (how it has grown from 13.6 percent to 14.4 percent) and appeared to have full consideration from the crowd until he criticized Obamacare for spending “over a trillion dollars more than what we take in every year.” “I’m going to eliminate every non-essential, expensive program I can find, that includes Obamacare,” he said before the audience started to boo him. But like a true leader, Romney composed himself, waited for the audience to settle down, and explained his position. Romney then spoke about the changes that would occur if he was chosen as the next President of the United States of America and at the end of the speech, he received a standing ovation. “Should I be elected president, I will lead as I did when I was governor [of Massachusetts],” said Romney. “If you want a president who would make things better in the African American community, you are looking at him.” Conversely, the 96 percentage of black American voters who supported Obama back in 2008 would probably think differently. Posted by HBCUX at 8:08 AM Georgia Lottery sponsors film festival competition... Obama’s education initiative will help save HBCUs Baptist leader: Decision not to wed black couple m... Hip Hop Prez off to Exciting Start at Dillard Univ... Grambling State’s Eddie Robinson now has most wins... Chick-fil-A goes public with opposition to gay mar... Trayvon Martin's parents: Killing our son not 'God... Zimmerman’s cop connection in Trayvon Martin case Norfolk State Men’s Basketball Nominated in”Best U... How Much Money HBCU Athletic Conferences Make The importance of Colorado and Iowa to Obama & Rom...

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One of the tenants officially opens its office at IMMOBILE K3 by GK IMMOBILE | Jul 24, 2019 | Development and construction consultancy | Sii Polska officially checked in the IMMOBILE K3 office building! Last week, the official opening of the Bydgoszcz headquarters of one of the leading IT companies in our country took place. Coming from France, the company is a leading provider of IT services and industrial engineering in Poland. Currently, 40 people are employed in Bydgoszcz, but soon the team will expand. Sii Polska occupies an office with an area of over 500 m² in the IMMOBILE K3 office building. It has been in operation for several weeks, but the company has now decided to officially open it. Among the 40 employees employed so far, the majority are JAVA, .NET and C / C ++ developers, as well as specialists in the field of testing. The management of the Bydgoszcz office sees great development potential here, treating it as one of the most important branches on the SII map in Poland. We want to build a design team for one of our largest clients, a great player in the IT world – said the manager of the Bydgoszcz branch, Anna Boruszkowska-Becmer, adding that recruitment is still ongoing to enlarge the currently available team. The head of Sii Polska Gregoire Nitot did not hide that the company had been thinking about establishing an office in Bydgoszcz for a long time. – We are looking for talented engineers and IT specialists. Bydgoszcz has a very good university, several important IT companies. It is also well situated between the most important cities – this was the reason for the final decision to open a branch in our city. The newest SII office has not only the best location in Bydgoszcz and the high standard of the A class office building. We canalso find here an exceptional interior design, kept in a retro style with original accessories and decorations as well as functional common spaces. In addition, the office staff at their disposal have an choose of skateboards and longboards, which can be used going between their duties for lunch. The opening ceremony was attended by the deputy mayor of Bydgoszcz Michał Sztybel, president of the Bydgoszcz Regional Development Agency Edyta Wiwatowska, representatives of Sii Poland and the IMMOBILE Capital Group – President of the Management Board Rafał Jerzy and Maciej Wawrzyniak, responsible for the commercialization of IMMOBILE K3. – There are fewer more pleasant activities in this role than those related to the economic development of the city. Such decisions depend on many factors. Office spaces mean that we are not only talking about aspirations, but we are approaching the top cities in Poland. – underlined the deputy mayor of Bydgoszcz Michał Sztybel, thanking the president Rafał Jerzy for the decision to build a modern class A office building in the heart of the city. IMMOBILE K3 is a 5-storey, modern office building with a 2-level underground car park. It’s almost 8,600 sq m of office and commercial space in the very center of the city, just 100 m from the Old Market Square. In the immediate area there are the most important public administration institutions, banks, hotels and universities. The official change of the seat of the companies of Grupa Kapitałowa IMMOBILE Start of reconstruction of the PROJPRZEM MAKRUM office building for a new Focus hotel

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Manage New Post Logout Login Tag feminism OtherPeoplesPixels Interviews Krista LaBella Venus Altarpiece, 2014. Inkjet print. Triptych (outer panels 24 x 36," center panel 26 x 38”) KRISTA LABELLA is a "multi-media artist who embraces the voluptuous, fat, female body." The photographic works from I Am Venus (2014-2018) make references to early 20th century pinup girls, as well as art historical works like Ingres’ La Grande Odalisque (1814), Manet’s Olympia (1863) and Venus of Willendorf (estimated 30,000 BCE). She combines a feminist defiance with the objectification of the female body in order to destabilize Western, white beauty standards. Krista received her BFA from Hartford Art School and her MFA from Pratt Institute. In 2018, Krista had her first solo show Fleshy Fruitat Random Access Gallery at Syracuse University. In August 2019, she was an Artist-in-Residence at 77Artin Rutland, Vermont, and her work was included in a digital gallery in the exhibition Be Seen: Portrait Photography Since Stonewall at The Wadsworth in Hartford, Connecticut. She has been featured on the Headlining Humans YouTube Channel for #whyicreate series. Krista lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. OtherPeoplesPixels: Do you have a specific audience in mind? Do you think more about thin people, fat women or heterosexual men with porn-influenced expectations of women’s bodies? Krista LaBella: When I began creating the photographs in I am Venus I didn’t have a specific audience in mind other than myself. I wanted to make something that was deeply personal to me but that I felt could speak to a broader female experience. It was less about targeting a specific audience and more about just disrupting the expected images of contemporary nude women that you normally see in advertisements, magazines, tv, porn and other media. At first, I started making photographs with props that were funny, trashy, bawdy, but these images never really came together. So I began dialing it back, creating simple compositions in my home, utilizing very few props and very little furniture. The only thing that really stuck were my stilettos. The use of the stilettos exuded femininity, power, sexuality and even violence. By keeping the sets simple and focusing on the colors and shapes of my body and the light, it made the work more about my body as a sculpture and about my gaze. Judgement Venus (Green Couch Selfie), 2014. Inkjet print. 22 x 30” OPP: Talk about the Venus as inspiration for these images. KL: When I was making these photos, I saw them as a performance of the Venus. They embody the female nude over the course of human history. I see my body at a contemporary manifestation of the Venus of Willendorf which, arguably (or maybe not) is the first piece of art ever created by humans. And looking at pastel nudes by Degas, the Grand Odalisque by Ingres, Rubens’ nudes, modern Pin-Up models, and all the countless nude female figures in the history of art, influenced my work significantly. I felt like I often channeled these other paintings into my work. For example, after I did a shoot in my bedroom I realized that I made a photo that felt very much like Manet’s Olympia—so I embraced the photo as the contemporary Olympia. It was only after I did my first shoot for I am Venus that I realized that the intended audience for the work is the straight male and the purpose of the work is to deflect the male gaze. I always describe the phenomenon of my gaze in these works as: “I both invite and reject the viewer’s gaze: I gaze back knowingly, self-assured. I am both the see-er and the seen.” Venus Window Selfies. 2014. Inkjet prints. Diptych, 20 x 30” each panel. OPP: I’m curious about your use of the term “selfie” as opposed to “self-portrait.” I see these as very different—but obviously connected—genres of photography. The “selfie” denotes an amateur endeavor that wouldn’t exist without smartphones, while the “self-portrait” has a much longer artistic lineage. Does this distinction matter to you? KL: The distinction between the traditional “self-portrait” and the “selfie” is not important to me. I realize that the “I am Venus” self-portraits are not true to the idea of a selfie. However, I do take all of the images alone, of myself, with a shutter-release remote with the intent to share with an audience so it felt appropriate for the work as the contemporary self-portrait. I was already aligning my body within the art historical lineage of the nude and I needed to break away from that a bit- I needed to remind people that this is relevant to today, that this is a quick snapshot in a broader context and a small flash in a series of hundreds of digital images. Using the term “selfie” doesn’t diminish the work or make it amateur because the content is still there. But it does recognize that this was created in a time where self-portraiture has taken a leap into the hands of the masses. Centerfold, 2012. mixed/ collage. 10.5 x 8 in (opens to 10.5 x 16 and 10.5 x 24) OPP: What role does humor play in your work? KL: I get this question a lot! I always speak about my work in a very serious way because it touches on a lot of current issues about body image, self acceptance, the expectations of the fat female body, and how we fit in society. But there is definitely humor in my work. Sometimes there’s an aloofness in my stare, sometimes I crush creamy doughnuts with my tits, sometimes I drape pearls all over my chest and title the photograph Pearl Necklace. There is need for some comic relief. These images are a representation of me, not only as the subject but also a reflection of my personality. I am serious and passionate about my work and the issues I make art about, but I like to laugh and I won’t apologize for my body. I like pushing people’s buttons and seeing how far I can take a tasteless sex joke in my work. It’s the layers of content, the seriousness and the jokes, and the art historical references that make the work interesting and not just another nude falling into the art timeline. Pearl Necklace and Peach, 2018. Instant photography. 9 photos 3.5 x 4.25” each, mounted to 16 x 20." OPP: How did I am Venus (2017) transition into Pearl Necklaces & Other Objects (2018)? KL: Pearl Necklace and Other Objects started as a joke. I was at an artist residency in the summer of 2018 and started making more Venus images, but they weren’t interesting anymore. I had carried pounds and pounds of glitter—leftover from a project that never came to be—with me to this residency, so I dumped it all over my chest and took about 20 images of my glittery chest with my Lomo’Instant Wide camera. I started taking hundreds of photos every day during the residency after lunch when the light was the best in my studio. The Lomo’Instant is great because it’s like a Polaroid camera, and the images just shoot out instantly. It was exciting, fast-paced, performative and almost sculptural. I would find things to crush with my bulbous breasts—they are huge! I would use fruits with sexual meanings, like the peach, and cream-filled doughnuts. I would crush vaginal flowers, anything that had a sexual connotation was crushed or overtaken by my tits and photographed. I also would use items that represented femininity like pearl necklaces, vintage tea cups, lipstick, etc. It felt like the messier and weirder it was, the better the images came out. I had other artists in my studio constantly and whenever they asked me about these images, I would just tell them I was recreating traditional still-life paintings as sex scenes on my tits. Cream Doughnut, 2018. Instant photography. 12 photos 3.5 x 4.25” each, mounted to 16 x 20." OPP: Can you talk about the relationship of food and sex in this series? What does this work say about sexual objectification? KL: Regarding the food specifically, I wanted to add food to my work for a long time. As a fat person, other people are obsessed with your eating habits and assume you must just eat trash constantly. Bringing food into the performance and the images made sense. It just took awhile to get there and make something interesting with it. I titled my first solo show Fleshy Fruit after I began this body of work. I see these images as a spiritual experience of excess, and of our insatiable appetite for food and sex. They reference food fetishism, porn, and cam culture. The viewer visually consumes, admires, and even worships the fleshy fruit that is Venus—me. Untitled Venus (Red Couch Selfie), 2014. Digital photograph. Censored for Instagram 2018. OPP: When I first saw your work on Instagram, I thought the cartoon “stickers” of cherries and peaches were part of the work, and I read it as a clever rebuke of censorship. Only later did I realize the fruits were an attempt to avoid being censored on Instagram. Can you talk about your experiences with censorship and sharing nude imagery on Instagram? KL: Yes! The cherries and stickers on my work are my way of making the work “appropriate” for Instagram. This is an interesting question though because over time they do become part of the work. I choose the censor stickers to be funny and/ or reference the body part they are covering up. Once the images exists in the world as a censored image in this way, it begins to take on a new life as a new work (and comments on society’s idea of modesty and outdated views of the body and feminine values). I am not thrilled that I have to censor the work, but in order to use the platforms, I do it. I find that even in my text and hashtags to go along with my images, I am “too explicit” by Instagram standards. I am often shadow-banned (taken out of public search results) as punishment for using hashtags that are not approved (#pussy is not well-liked by Instagram). Sliced Peach with Pearl Necklace (on a Silver Platter on a Rose Gold Sequined Wall), 2019. OPP: What's going on in your studio right now? Are you pursuing any new directions at the moment? KL: Right now I am really excited about what is happening in my studio! Pearl Necklace and Other Objects is evolving. I am introducing more materials and experimenting with the way these instant photographs are displayed. I have been collecting glittery and sequined fabrics in flesh tones and rose gold that I am beginning to cover the walls of my studio with. I have yards and yards of faux fur in shades of white, pink and black that I am excited to use in an installation in some way. I also have been collecting silver platters and placing sexy images of my tits on these platters instead of framing them. I am interested in pushing the tackiness and trashiness of the work to the max to see where it takes me. To see more of Krista's work, please visit kristalabella.com. Krista LaBella OtherPeoplesPixels Interviews Roxana Halls ROXANA HALLS' mostly female subjects negotiate the at-best-awkward, at-worst-strangling internalized cultural constructions/constrictions of femininity. In her representational oil paintings, they balance precariously on the edges of chairs and nervously/ecstatically laugh while consuming salad. Some sit statically with unconsumed popcorn, berries or sushi in their open mouths, while others pose demurely behind luscious heads of hair which threaten to envelop them. Roxana has been the recipient of the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Award (2001), the Villiers David Prize (2004) and the Founder's Purchase Prize (The Discerning Eye) (2010). Her numerous solo exhibitions include Appetite (2014) and Unknown Women (2015) at Hayhill Gallery in London. She is currently working towards her next solo show in 2016, and will be exhibiting in upcoming group shows and at art fairs. Roxana lives in London. OtherPeoplesPixels: Beauty Queen (2014) and Laughing While Eating Salad (2013), which is directly connected to an internet meme, both take representations of femininity and make them slightly grotesque. I see these paintings as challenging cultural constructions of the Feminine, as perpetuated by mass media. Thoughts? Roxana Halls: Well, firstly, you are right in your analysis and in connecting these images. They do indeed have a direct relationship although clearly the nature of it may not initially seem explicit. In essence you could see these pieces as representing the polar reaches of a preoccupation with the depiction of women's internalized rules of conduct and a conflicted, ever-fluctuating response to external expectations. They could be read as different stages in a life's cyclical return to phases of stasis and engagement, that while some of my figures suggest an escalating desire for abandonment, others are palpably constrained. In my ongoing body of work Appetite, I'm posing questions about the ways in which women are appraised, influenced and policed within contemporary culture and how this 'self- surveillance' circumscribes the repertoire of legitimate actions available to women. The paintings themselves offer a riposte to any such self consciousness. The subjects instead indulge in 'catastrophic' behaviour; they are inappropriate and immune to self-censure. In many of these paintings the consumption of food seems to be the focus, but eating is so much more than a biological process. It is fraught with tension and expectation. In Beauty Queen, I wanted to extend the metaphor into the realm of female ambition, also seen to be indecorous in its pursuit of attention and fulfillment. The piece Oranges was directly inspired by Carolee Schneemann's 1968 performance at the ICA London, when the artist threw oranges at the audience while simultaneously delivering a lecture about Cezanne. She kept dressing and undressing, naked under her overalls. Laughing While Eating Salad was directly inspired by the trend I tuned into in advertising & the media of women laughing alone while eating salad. I found these images captivating: this stereotypically feminine and inoffensive foodstuff being enjoyed with such over-articulated ecstasy! It's interesting that you see these images as slightly grotesque, I personally don't think of them in that way exactly, more unbounded and at risk of hysteria, but I'm aware of how uncommon it is that such expressions are depicted and this fascinates me and continues to inspire me. Nest II OPP: Nest I and Nest II are related. They also call into question external expectations about the Feminine by covering the faces of what look to be supermodels—their postures evoke fashion photography—with their own hair. RH: In the Nest paintings I wanted take a more mysterious, disconcerting approach. They hint at detachment and disengagement while simultaneously seeking to entice with the evident seductiveness of their bodies, clothing and hair. These women in contrast to those in the Appetite seem lost in a troubling borderline state. Possibly they are undergoing an evolution, or perhaps are smothered by self censorship? It won't surprise you to hear I'm very interested in the writing of Julia Kristeva and her discussion of abjection. Equally the exploration I undertook in making such imagery calls to mind sources such as Baudelaire’s poem La Chevelure (c1857), and the Nick Cave song Black Hair. In both cases, there is something about the investment and singular focus upon one part of the female body which transmutes into something strange and peculiar. The more you get intensely involved with one part of the body, the more it starts to move into the abject and it becomes a substance which is both of itself and yet separate from itself. OPP: I've noticed a lot of precariousness in your work. A Little Light Reading (2012) and A Startler for the Careful Housekeeper (2011) are a few examples. These works and others from Shadow Play and Suspended Women read as allegorical to me. What's being balanced, on the verge of falling, in these series? RH: These earlier pictures have very similar concerns to the other later pictures we've discussed. This apparent precariousness is a primary underlying theme in most of my work. I see it in the image of a teetering pile of crockery in danger of toppling, a laugh which seems to be just to one side of the boundary of hysteria or even the discomfiting ambivalence of a female performer. In Shadow Play, I wanted to reference the then-prevalent taste for vintage objets and the way this seemed to hint at a desire to posses the symbols of a certain kind of idealized polite culture and, as I saw it, the secure and 'lady-like' life they seemed to represent. I wanted to subvert such domesticated aspirations, and in some of the paintings I felt the barely glimpsed female protagonists were themselves seeking to sabotage the props of their lives. Girl Table OPP: Your studio is in the saloon bar of a defunct 1930s London theatre, now a Bingo Hall. Aside from the influence of this physical space, what captivates you about Cabaret? RH: Yes, I am extravagantly fortunate in having such a wonderful space to work in, and it clearly has exerted a powerful influence over my work. But in the best traditions of serendipity it has always felt oddly inevitable that I would make theatrical paintings. As a child I only wanted to be an actor, and until my very first, life-changing attempt at oil painting I had very little interest in any other direction. In 2004 I was the recipient of the Villiers David Prize, an award intended to provide funds to enable an artist to travel and undertake research in order to embark on a creative project. My early fascination with theatre was clearly a component in my choice of subject, and at that time I was beginning to notice an emergent cabaret and burlesque scene in London, which exploded by the time I'd finished and exhibited the paintings. Also I've long been fascinated by the whole Weimar milieu, as much as a more home-grown Music Hall & Variety tradition. Mainly I saw within the theme an opportunity to explore the possibilities of artistry and autonomy and reflect on notions of gender, sexuality, identity and spectatorship. And of course it also unleashed a desire to engage in a project of ambitious and spectacular proportions! I've never entirely felt that the series was finished, and am still harbouring a smouldering wish to revisit the theme. The Girlie Hurdy Gurdy OPP: Could you talk about the relationship between the paintings in Tingle-Tangle, made between 2005 and 2009, and CURTAIN FALL - The Tingle Tangle Photographs, created in collaboration with photographer Matthew Tugwell in 2009? None of the photographs are direct re-stagings of the paintings, but they seem to have the same models. What led to the creation of the photographs? RH: The creation of the Tingle-Tangle paintings was a complex and involved process which required a lot of commitment from my models. Many of them were actors and performers and genuinely brought something of their professional understanding to the characters I asked them to inhabit. I constructed sets in order to depict each separate performance. I made, sourced and found costumes and props. My practice of essentially building my own cabaret show out of cardboard and charity shop discoveries linked with the improvisational spirit of third rate variety! While I'm wary of ever explicitly revealing how a picture has been made because of the way this can affect the reading of a piece, I wanted to somehow offer a glimpse into the process of transforming these mundane elements into the spectacle you see in the paintings. I wanted to show the 'performers' themselves and give a glimpse of the glorious theatre in which I have my studio which partially inspired them. Once I was offered a show at the National Theatre, the possibilities of the exhibition space itself gave me the scope to explore this in collaboration with Matthew Tugwell. Babette the Baloonette Roxana Halls/Matthew Tugwell OPP: In 2013, you completed a bespoke commissioned project, The Alice Staircase, an eight-interlinking-canvas interpretation of Lewis Carroll's famous work and, according to your website, you are currently creating a new major commissioned artwork, a seven-interlinking-canvas interpretation of The Wizard Of Oz. How do you balance commissions with your own projects? Have you ever turned a commission down? Do the commissions ever end up influencing your own work? RH: Balancing commissioned work with my own projects is unsurprisingly a little tricky at times, as an interesting job may of course be offered just as you're fully engaged with your own momentum. But I've always seen the right commissioned work as not only financially rewarding but also a real opportunity for development. I say the right commissioned work because, yes, I have turned down work along the way when I felt the project wasn't best suited to my abilities or I've been too busy with preexisting commitments. The Alice and Wizard projects have given me really quite extraordinary opportunities to develop narrative structure and complexity, and to produce work based upon preexisting source material has been immensely challenging, freeing and rewarding. The development of these projects has undoubtedly had a powerful affect on my work which is affecting the direction I'm taking in my practice subsequently, even though my underlying themes remain a constant. As I've described with the making of the Tingle-Tangle paintings, I've employed a somewhat extensive and complicated process of creation. When I came to conceive of the Alice Staircase, I knew right away that I couldn't build Wonderland in my studio! So while I again made my own costumes and asked friends to 'perform' the characters—I used this familiar approach partly to circumvent the inevitable difficulty in attempting to sidestep the dominance of John Tenniel's wonderful illustrations—I also decided to use photography, a source material I had rarely used up until this point. I've been using the same method in my ongoing Wizard of Oz series. I've long held the view that the image I make and that which I hope to explore and convey within this image should be the guiding principle of my work and that the image should be brought into existence by whatever means necessary. Partly through the making of Alice and Wizard I feel I'm beginning to sense what further possibilities might be unfolding. To see more of Roxana's work, please visit roxanahalls.com. Featured Artist Interviews are conducted by Chicago-based, interdisciplinary artist Stacia Yeapanis. When she’s not writing for OPP, Stacia explores the relationship between repetition, desire and impermanence in cross-stitch embroideries, remix video, collage and impermanent installations. She is an instructor in the Department of Fiber and Material Studies at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where received her MFA in 2006, and was a 2012-2013 Mentor-in-Residence at BOLT in Chicago. Her solo exhibitions include I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For (2013) at Klemm Gallery, Siena Heights University (Adrian, Michigan), Everything You Need is Already Here (2014) at Heaven Gallery (Chicago) and When Things Fall Apart, a durational, collage installation in the Annex Gallery at Lillstreet Art Center (Chicago). Form Unbound, a two-person show, also featuring the work of Aimée Beaubien,just opened at Dominican University's O’Connor Art Gallery (River Forest, IL) and runs through December 19, 2015. Roxana Halls OtherPeoplesPixels Interviews Natalie Loveless Victoria Singh: SON/ART- Kurtis the 7 Chakra Boy: 07/07/04- 07/07/11 22-minute video loop (documentation of seven-year performance) Soundtrack by Derek Champion NATALIE LOVELESS is an artist, academic, writer and curator with a specialization in feminist and performance art history. For this interview, we’ll be focusing on her curatorial project New Maternalisms (2012), as her website for the exhibition first brought her to OPP’s attention. In 2004, she simultaneously earned an MA from Tufts University and an MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She went on to earn her PhD at the University of California, Santa Cruz in 2010. Natalie has a chapter in the forthcoming Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Feminist Art Practice and Theory, co-edited by Hilary Robinson and Maria Elena Buszek. She will be a participating artist at the upcoming SLSA in Houston, Texas in November 2015 and will be presenting research at the Sea Change Colloquium in October 2015. Natalie is an Assistant Professor in History of Art, Design & Visual Culture at the University of Alberta in Canada. OtherPeoplesPixels: Tell us a bit about your history as a curator, an academic and an artist. Natalie Loveless: I wrote an autoethnographic essay about this once! The short version is: I came up in art school at a time when crit sessions were still dominated by the language of post-structuralism popularized by Art Forum and October in the 80s/90s. It was all "performativity" this and "deconstruction" that. I found myself curious about what Austin and Derrida were trying to build with these concepts. I wanted less to use these ideas in my artist statements than to figure out, social-sculpture-style, what these thinkers were doing with these ideas—the politics and passions behind them. So I talked to folks at the School of the Museum School of Fine Arts and our sister school, Tufts, and convinced all involved to let me do an MA in Contemporary Art History at the same time as my MFA. No one had done that there yet; they didn’t have a structure for supporting work that crossed practice-theory lines. But they supported it anyway. My experience of SMFA was that it was a very visionary place when it came to interdisciplinarity. Their approval was the gateway drug I needed to say to myself, as I was researching and developing my MFA show: “Uh, maybe I should stay in school and do a PhD next. . .” At the time, in North America, the world of “practice-led” and “fine-arts” PhDs was really, really nascent. No one had ever mentioned it to me as a possibility. I was completely in the dark about the few programs that did exist in the U.S. and even about what had already been happening for quite a while in Europe. No one was talking about art practice at the doctoral level at the Museum School, or in Art Forum, or October, or at CAA. Times certainly have changed! Instead, I ended up attending a really visionary PhD program—colloquially referred to as “HistCon”—at UC Santa Cruz that let me pursue my work as an artist and curator alongside my academic work, in ways that ended up tangling the three together. I want to give a really big shout out to the two people who were my primary supervisors at each institution. Their vision, passion, politics and pedagogy provided a model and road-map for me. Was it Korzybski who said “the map is not the territory?" They made the territory the map for me. They walked the walk. They not only taught me the stuff they knew in the areas that they were interested in, they modeled an affirmative, incisive, generous, unflinching approach to creating artistic-intellectual-political spaces without which I don’t even want to think about what my life would look like today! So here is the shout out: Marilyn, Donna, I am forever, and gratefully, in your debt. I literally could not have done it without you. Thank you for everything. Ok. Almost everything. There is someone else whose affirmative, incisive, generous, unflinching approach to life made it possible for me to gravitate towards the mentors that I did, because she modeled it for me from the get-go: my momma, Evelyne Lord. Thank you, mom. Your generosity and vision and bravery will never cease to inspire me and (my sister) Stephie. Lenka Clayton: Maternity Leave Skype-based Durational Performance OPP: How was New Maternalisms (2012) first conceived? NL: In 2010, I gave birth to a little human who was born eight weeks prematurely and totally topsy-turvied my life. I had been planning on giving birth in my mother’s house in Canada and submitting my PhD before D-day. So there I was working on the PhD, in the last two months of revisions, and suddenly found myself in the hospital with a baby in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Over the next few months, I just kinda held on, taking it one day (hour, minute, second) at a time, trying to survive and build a livable system to support this new, intensive, immersive, daily practice/labour. I began working on what became a three-year, daily-practice art piece called Maternal Ecologies. In effect, I took all the artistic and intellectual literacies that I had at hand and applied them to my lived situation out of desperation. In art school, Mary Kelly was a huge (HUGE) influence on me, specifically in the way that she brought daily practice, feminist politics and psychoanalytic theory together. So, inspired by my memories of her work, I started looking around for models and support structures. I came across Andrea Liss’ 2008 book Feminist Art and the Maternal. I came across the UK-based research network MaMSIE and their journal Studies in the Maternal. Myrel Chernick and Jennie Klein’s edited volume The M Word came out in 2011, and I was introduced to both of the incredible exhibitions they had curated. Then Shannon Cochrane (Artistic & Administrative Director of FADO Performance Art) asked if I would be interested in curating something for their upcoming season. The rest, as they say, is herstory. Alejandra Herrera: Challenge 3 hour durational performance OPP: What was the curatorial premise of the show? NL: I started by asking myself what was most interesting in the field of contemporary art and the maternal, and I decided to build an exhibition that focused on performance-based practices. Performance-based work (of all stripes) makes a lot of sense to me when looking critically at the early years of maternal labour. The ideological politics of visibility that inform and surround the maternal body are important, as is the historical censuring of the professional female body on the basis of its maternal status. Performance-based practices interest me for the many ways that they can comment on and intervene into these politics and histories to foreground the temporality and complex materiality of labouring bodies, making the texture of that labour central to the work itself. OPP: New Maternalisms was first mounted in 2012. In 2014, you co-curated New Maternalisms-Chile with Soledad Novoa Donoso for the National Museum in Santiago, Chile. What was different in this second exhibition? NL: Alejandra Herrera, one of the artists in the original show, suggested developing an iteration of the exhibition in Chile. She knew Soledad, a curator who has been committed to the discourse of feminist art in Chile for decades. I curated the non-Chilean (largely North American) artists, and Soledad curated the Chilean artists. The exhibition was an experiment in bringing two different national perspectives together for conversation and reflection. What neither of us expected when we began organizing the exhibition, held concurrently at the National Museum of Fine Arts and the Santiago Museum of Contemporary Art, was that the president of Chile would, in the months leading up to our opening, announce that they would be re-evaluating Chile’s strict national laws forbidding abortion. We were interviewed non-stop by radio, television and newspapers and were sometimes quoted inaccurately in ways that tried to polarize the exhibition as “pro-natalist” in the context of these abortion debates. The positive side is that we had over 600 people at the opening. Jill Miller: The Milk Truck Ongoing Social Practice Performance OPP: What changed in your understanding of the discourse of motherhood between the two exhibits? NL: For one thing, I had two more years of research and thinking under my belt. Over the last five years, there has been a notable surge of exhibitions, books, journals, networks and conferences at the intersection of feminist art and the maternal. (Of course, the moment you start looking for something you tend to see it everywhere.) I just returned from two conferences on the topic, one in London and one in Rotterdam, and an edited volume is about to be published taking my first exhibition as the inspiration for its title! I have two hypotheses as to why this is happening right now. Firstly, I see the maternal as a really interesting test case for feminists of my generation who were born in the seventies. At that time, Mary Kelly made Post-Partum Document, Miriam Shapiro and Judy Chicago founded on Womanhouse and Mierle Laderman Ukeles’ Manifesto for Maintenance Art was circulating. I, for one, was raised with the idea that my status as a middle-class, cis-gendered woman in North America translated into a future in which a choice between maternal and professional status did not have to be made. I could be a mother and an artist and an academic; this was the territory my mother’s generation fought for. The maternal didn’t occur to me as a political problem until it hit me in the face (uterus?). In gathering artist-mothers of my generation together around me, I discovered that this “rude awakening” was not unique to my experience. I consider the maternal to be a potent location from which feminists of my generation can ask questions about the status of feminist art and political practice today. Lovisa Johansson: Jumping Lullaby Performance action OPP: And the second hypothesis? NL: There is another pressing social and political issue that I see as linked to the maternal: the current ecological crisis. To ask questions of the maternal as a structure of care, labour, pedagogy and sustainability—that is, to examine the maternal as an ecological matrix—is to ask questions relevant to global climate change. As dominant norms, the individualistic, nuclear-familial ideologies that structure much of contemporary North American family life are part of what is killing the planet. Phallogocentric, global capitalist social ideologies and kinship structures have given us anthropogenic climate change. To address the maternal in this day and age is to address the structures that have led to and support global ecological collapse. I have found myself in conversations over the past few years with colleagues who work politically in the university and who parent small children. We have to ask ourselves what our duties are in training our students and our children. It is they who will have to face the worst of it. What approaches to learning, living and critically creating in the world are relevant? How do these affect the art I make, the syllabi I construct, the articles I write and the conversations I have with my five-year-old son? This line of thinking has expanded my thinking on the maternal, and it structures the exhibition I am currently working on, New Maternalisms Redux (May 2016). Hélène Matte: L'Essence de la Vie Performance action, 45 minutes OPP: What about fathers? Do you have any interest in male artists making work about fatherhood? Have you encountered any? NL: In short: Great question. Yes. Few. One of the glaring things I’ve had to contend with in this work is the overwhelming gender, sexuality, race and class biases that seep into it. When my child was born, I was a finishing PhD student, without a job or guarantee of one and in crazy debt (which I will likely carry for the rest of my life). But I was also incredibly privileged. I went to art school, earned a PhD and passed as white, hetero-normative, middle-class and cis-gendered (though I don’t identify with all of these). I have a biological and daily partner in parenthood (Sha LaBare) who is willing to parent with me. I have a mother whose house I stayed in while I recovered from my son’s premature birth and finished my PhD. I had folks that I could draw on as allies for emotional and intellectual support… all of these constitute incredible privilege. No matter how tough things have been at times, they have not been so tough that I couldn’t turn to art and theory and political action as part of my arsenal of survival techniques. Mother and father are identities and roles that, like male and female, have difficult, enduring histories that have been used in service of a sexist worlding practice. These histories are thick and sticky, and there is a real need for more critical art practices dealing with fathering—fathering done by men, women or other-identified folk. I know few cis-men or trans-men (or trans-women for that matter) making performance-based art work from their experiences of early maternal labour, or folks of any identification dealing with early paternal labour through performance-based practices. I am currently writing on work that queers the maternal. For example, Sadie Lune's performance-based work not only deals with queer insemination but also queers insemination, and Lissette Olivares' work explores trans-species mothering or what she calls the post-humanist maternal. I know folks attempting to sidestep the gendered frameworks of mother and father entirely by working on the discourse of parenting—Enemies of Good Art in the UK and Cultural ReProducers in the U.S. I ally myself strongly with these projects, but still find myself interested in the metaphorics of gendered performance and its genres. When it comes to the debates raised by this work I say: the more the merrier. It takes a village. To raise a child. To have a debate. To change the world. In the shout out above I named three "mommas"—one domestic, one artistic, one academic. But there have also been lots of sisters and aunties, brothers and uncles, critters and widgets, lovers and partners of all persuasions, and, of course, fathers. I love creative kinship maps. And I love the idea of aligning these functional roles, these kinship identities, with the language of “persuasion.” My parenting and life partner, Sha, performs both "mother" and “father” with care, compassion and attention that inspires me daily. He and I are co-writing a piece that takes a critique of hetero-and-mononormative, capitalist patriarchy as a basis for thinking about ecological and maternal ethics together. If he hadn’t chosen to stay home and mother our son while I started my tenure-track job at the University of Alberta, I never could have accepted the position and wouldn’t have the support to be doing what I am doing. Mark Cooley and Beth Hall: Safe Video projection 60 minute loop OPP: Tell us about The VACCINES Project. NL: While my academic and artistic work on the maternal is topically grounded, my methodology is indebted to what we call Research-Creation here in Canada. (I recently published something on this.) The VACCINES Project (our working title) is a collaborative research-creation project initially proposed by Dr. Steven Hoffman, the director of Global Strategy Lab at University of Ottawa as part of a larger initiative funded by the Research Council of Norway. Steven asked my colleague Sean Caulfield and myself to join him in developing an international collaborative project bringing research-based artists together with health-policy academics and activists around the issue of vaccines and the public. We are starting off with a workshop in Ottawa this summer to begin work towards a research-based exhibition on vaccination in Geneva in 2017. Some of our objectives for the first workshop are to (a) identify and examine challenging issues surrounding global vaccination from scientific, artistic and social perspectives; (b) foster mutual understanding and interdisciplinary dialogue from across the arts, academia and activism; and (c) problematize and deconstruct existing perceptions of the role that art, research and advocacy can and should play in informing and challenging global governance related to vaccines. These objectives will be guided by a set of questions such as: (a) what key issues around vaccination might benefit by being interrogated by artistic practice?; (b) how important is formative and impact evaluation in assessing the importance of research-based artistic and creative practice?; and (c) how important are different understandings of the “public” in public policy and the “public” in the context of socially engaged/research-based contemporary forms such as “art as social practice” and “new genre public art”? One link between this and my maternal work, other than methodology, is that Jill Miller has joined the team and will be doing work on maternal anti-vaxers. The vaccination and autism scandal is a perfect example of a sophisticated misinformation campaign orchestrated to breed maternal and ecological anxiety. . . but that is a conversation for another day! To learn more about New Maternalisms, please visit newmaternalisms.ca. To learn more about Natalie's other projects and research, please visit loveless.ca. Featured Artist Interviews are conducted by Chicago-based, interdisciplinary artist Stacia Yeapanis. When she’s not writing for OPP, Stacia explores the relationship between repetition, desire and impermanence in cross-stitch embroideries, remix video, collage and impermanent installations. She is an instructor in the Department of Fiber and Material Studies at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where received her MFA in 2006, and was a 2012-2013 Mentor-in-Residence at BOLT in Chicago. Her solo exhibitions include I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For (2013) at Klemm Gallery, Siena Heights University (Adrian, Michigan), Everything You Need is Already Here (2014) at Heaven Gallery (Chicago) and When Things Fall Apart, a durational, collage installation in the Annex Gallery at Lillstreet Art Center (Chicago). Stacia recently completed an installation for Chicago Artists' Coalition's 2015 Starving Artist Benefit and is currently working towards a two-person show, also featuring the work of Aimée Beaubien, for O’Connor Art Gallery at Dominican University (River Forest, IL). The show will open on November 5, 2015. Featured Curator OtherPeoplesPixels Interviews Sara Holwerda Barmaiden (Frame 4) 16" x 11.5" SARA HOLWERDA is a performance and video artist who uses movement and dance to explore the limitations of the represenations of the female body in western culture. Her references are varied and include painting, burlesque, vaudeville, movies, contemporary pop music videos, and YouTube tutorials to name a few. Sara recently received her MFA from Cranbrook and now lives and works in Chicago, IL. OtherPeoplesPixels: Your performances and videos involve movement and dance. Do you have a formal background in these fields? Sara Holwerda: Yes. I figure skated competitively for over ten years, and, as part of my training, I did ballet and yoga. In college I took modern dance at the YMCA and fell into some barefoot dance performances with middle aged hippies in the woods. (I went to college in Ann Arbor!) What stuck with me the most profoundly from my experiences as a figure skater are the athleticism, costumes, badly-cut music, and kitschy sensibility. I also spent a few formative years performing on a synchronized skating team with about twenty other girls. We were all dressed the same and had the same hair and makeup. We performed in circles and pinwheels and did kicklines... It was the closest I have ever gotten to being a Rockette, and it was bizarre in a lot of ways. The experience of being active in a completely self-conscious way for all my teen years has followed me into my late twenties. Even though I'm only moderately active, I notice that much of my self-concept is still tied up in how my body looks and how it performs. There is something about being female that requires you to perform at some level all the time, and as an artist responding to this cultural condition, I feel the need to do performance work. One and Three Women OPP: In many performances such as One and Three Women (2012) or The Fall (2012), you perform with others. Are you always the choreographer of these performances or are they collaborators in creating the work? SH: In both of those performances, I am the director, choreographer, and costume designer/seamstress. These two performances are an interesting comparison. In One and Three Women, I am performing with the group intentionally because this piece is about both the shared experiences between women and the ways one person can be split and see herself in parts. It's also personal in a lot of ways, and it felt natural to be in it. In rehearsals, my other performers helped me visualize the movements, and there was some collaboration in those moments. It was a choreograph-as-you-go type process, in which I would trap us or tangle us up and have to figure out where to go from there. For The Fall, I had a much larger cast—five dancers, a singer, a Tree of Knowledge, and three paparazzi—so I had to be more prepared with my choreography. I drew diagrams and sent PDFs to everyone to make rehearsals go faster. The scale of the project made it difficult for me to both direct and perform effectively. I performed as a Marilyn Monroe imitator, because I felt I needed to return to that role—when I was seventeen, I performed Marilyn Monroe's "Diamonds" solo in an ice show. That solo became an unintentional drag performance failure! My wig came off during a layback spin, and my middle-aged male partners were so nervous that they could barely velcro the "Cartier" on my wrists or lift me up. My inability to fit into this hyper-feminine role, which has been so iconic for so long, was part of my inspiration for the piece. Before I did this performance, I created the Marilyn fuchsia dress from that number as a burlesque costume, and I worked tearing off the costume bit by bit in The Fall. In retrospect, after going through the whole process of staging that work, I realized that I didn't need to perform this role. I learned an important lesson: with a large cast, I can direct more freely if I remove myself as a performer. I'm planning a re-staging of this performance, and I will not perform in it. Marilyn mimicry duet/ burlesque OPP: Can you talk more specifically about The Fall and explain the performance to our readers? SH: The Fall is the kind of work I imagine myself doing more of, and it's probably the most emblematic of how my mind works creatively. There is a lot going on in this performance. I wanted to create a performance collage, with cultural, historical, and personal symbols and themes butting up against each other. The Fall is a theatrical spectacle that takes place in a restaurant/lounge, that puts the viewer in the position of guest/consumer. They are consuming the spectacle, all the costumes and dancing bodies, along with cocktails. The photographers are performing as much as the chorus girls, and the "star" is a lip-syncing Marilyn Monroe mimic. In this setting, the iconic Marilyn Monroe becomes Eve in the garden. She's a temptress and culturally understood as a sexual being and—maybe as a result—a tragic figure. The performance had three main parts. First, viewers were greeted by servers wearing feathers. They were staring, stomping, hissing, and passing out pomegranate drinks. After everyone was served, the chorus line of servers performed the second part: the champagne parade, in which they held bottles above their heads as they did an aggressive song and dance number. While this was happening, a Tree of Knowledge was juggling pomegranates. The two Marilyn Monroe figures were frozen, coming to life every once in a while to do a little shimmy and sing a bit. The paparazzi were mirroring the chorus line, snapping pictures of the chorus and the audience. The third section was the musical mimicry. One of the two Marilyns sang a mash-up of the "Diamonds" number with Nicki Manaj's "Super Bass" while the other Marilyn lip-synced. All the while, the chorus line was chiming in, and the paparazzi were snapping pictures. The mimicry/ lip sync became a burlesque with the second Marilyn taking off the iconic costume piece by piece, throwing it to the chorus, and finally slinking off the stage to join the hissing chorus line. The next time I do this, I plan on having more Marilyns, maybe interacting with video projections, and I would like to make the environment more specific, getting the details just right. It was a huge production for me at the time, and I tested the limits of what I could do with the resources I had. I learned a lot, and now that I've already made all the costumes, written a script, and have had the experience of performing it, I can think about improving the rest of the work. I want it to be a surreal experience that takes place in a working bar that has been transformed into a pop culture Eden. Chair Dance II OPP: Chair Dance II references stripping, in general, and Flashdance, specifically—at least to someone who grew up in the 80s. You start by simply performing standard sexualized gestures that we all recognize from movies about strippers, and perhaps real strippers. But that mimicry quickly becomes a struggle. SH: That film was definitely in my mind, as well as the "Mein Herr" number from Cabaret. Also, when I was researching burlesque performances for The Fall, I noticed the chair reoccurring as a prop. It's definitely a sexualized prop, and you expect the female performer to behave a certain way with it. The dance is metaphorical, with the chair as a stand-in for the male viewer's body. In the dancer's interactions with the chair, there's a metaphor for an idealized sexual relationship or encounter. The woman is performing for the pleasure of the man, moving in ways that are objectifying her and making her physically vulnerable. Certainly, it's fun and possible to do these dances for one's own pleasure, but I'm not sure everyone doing or watching a chair dance is cognizant of the implications of it. I also researched chair dances via YouTube tutorials and found the whole thing a bit absurd. In one video a woman is counting off seductive gestures in eight counts, like "and rub his thigh, six seven eight." It seemed so crazy, this choreographed sexuality. I wondered what was being left out. In working with the chair, I realized how limited the motion is for the performer, and thus, how limited the metaphorical relationship is. I was also researching other more violent dance forms, like the turn-of-the century Parisian apache (AH-PAHSH), where a woman is dragged, thrown, and strangled in a dramatized street fight between her and two or more men—usually, she's playing a prostitute, and the men are her pimp and her client. I wanted to explore the kind of danger a woman can experience if she presents herself in such a practiced, sexualized manner, and how far from ideal the relationships she gets into could be. OPP: What was it like to make this video? Did your personal experience mirror the metaphor? SH: Making this video required a great deal of training and rest. For about three weeks, I practiced prop falls and stage fighting moves with a mat every other day. On the days in between, I would go to the gym and focus on my core and flexibility. The shooting of the video took two days. The first day, I didn't get the framing right, yet I performed my whole routine several times full out anyway, foolishly exhausting myself. I got caught up in the performance, and forgot that it had to read on video and that I may need to save some energy to shoot it again. On the second day of shooting, I got the framing right, choosing a tighter shot that showed the camera in the mirrors. I performed several times. Finally on the last few takes, I had the right amount of abandon in the falls and had a good sense of improvisation—even though, by then, I had my routine down. Somewhere toward the end, my right shoulder began to hurt, probably from falling on it for two days. It got really tight and I lost some feeling in my hand. I had to sleep sitting up for two weeks, taking nightly Epsom salt baths to relax enough to sleep. Chair Dance II was also an emotionally challenging piece to make. I'm a survivor of domestic violence; nine years ago I was attacked by an ex-boyfriend. The situations I was putting myself into with the chair definitely paralleled my attack. I never intended it to be a re-enactment or strictly autobiographical—until I saw the footage, I didn't realize how powerful the connections were. Even though I am no longer at the mercy of that experience—I've had time, therapy, and a wonderful husband to help me heal—I need to acknowledge my history when it appears in my work, and I need to be kind to myself in my process. In this piece, I did everything I could to make sure I was always in control, even when it looks like I'm not, and that allowed me to wholeheartedly explore the chair as a prop and a violent metaphor without being overcome by my own personal history. OPP: Your stop motion animations Put a Ring on It (2010) and Candyman (2011) explore the representation of women's bodies in contemporary music videos and are set to the pop songs by Beyonce and Christina Aguilera which give them their titles. Why did you choose stop motion instead of live performance for these pieces? SH: This is a great question. In these works, I was very interested in the way that stop-action animation in particular depicts an illusion of motion and how each frame is mediated by an outside force. In other words, the paper legs I use in Put a Ring On It cannot move themselves, and must be arranged very carefully in every frame. I see this level of mediation in all our pop culture images, from stylists, makeup artists, editors, Photoshop, and social norms—every image we see is carefully composed, every movement is carefully choreographed. It's an unnatural, artificial presentation, and I felt animation as a process expressed these conceptual concerns. In Candyman, animation allows me to create the illusion that I am a blond, a redhead and a brunette in a trio, dancing with a sailor's outfit on, none of which are true outside Photoshop and sequential imagery. I liked how false the image is, and how weird and jerky the animated movements are. I could also dismember the body in Put a Ring On It, which would be harder to do in performance! I also like the flatness of cut paper and the composite digital image. It reminds me of paper dolls and makes the animations feel a bit playful and childlike, which emphasizes the fact that young girls model behavior from these videos. There are hundreds of videos posted to YouTube with girls mimicking Beyonce. Making my own frame by frame imitation of that video felt like the most absurdly devoted way to re-create it, using the most simple and helpless materials. OPP: Post-feminism is a term I hear as often as post-racial, and I'm shocked that anyone thinks we are post-anything. Why is it still important to be making work about the representation of women's bodies, roles, and movements in art and pop culture? SH: I'm so glad you asked this! I was lucky to work with the wonderfully feminist-friendly Mark Newport in graduate school. He is a great supporter of my work, and since he responds to cultural gender norms directly in his own work (re-imagining hyper-masculine superheros and football players), he is engaged with the issues I'm dealing with and gave me a lot of thoughtful feedback. Unfortunately, I've also experienced quite the opposite male perspective as well. Recently, a few male artists and academics have reacted to my mimetic performances as simply seductive acts, adding to all the other images of women being seductive. They refused to engage with the feminist discussion that is the content of my work, could not acknowledge that I was challenging the male gaze by photographing and video taping myself, and didn't seem to understand the decades of female self-portraiture, body art and performance art that I am in dialog with. They acted as if there was no need for this. One even said to me, "There have already been like, four or five waves of Feminism." This floored me! He displayed his devastating lack of knowledge and dismissed my work in one fell swoop. This kind of ignorance of Feminism at the highest levels of artistic production and discourse proved to me that it is important to continue making this work, and that it is important for all women to continue to cast a critical eye toward the culture they consume and the messages they are receiving. Certainly, Feminism has evolved. After all, I can call myself a feminist and still wear bras and shave my legs. But I agree with you that terms like post-feminism are premature, and worse could be part of a movement toward what author Susan Douglas calls "enlightened sexism." We're in a strong backlash, and there are daily reminders of this that reassure me that I need to keep making work. It's 2012, and being a woman is still fraught with demands on our bodies and roles. I walk down the street, and a stranger demands I smile. I see an ad with a close up of a woman's wet lips putting something in her mouth. I hear of another state threatening to take reproductive rights away from women. I see another Judd Apatow comedy using pussy, having a vagina, or being gay as the worst-possible, "hilarious" insult one man can hurl at another man. I hear about the struggles of women to give birth on their own terms: without lying down, without an unnecessary C-section, without being rushed to labor by an impatient doctor. It's dangerous to be a woman in this culture, and if we're not careful, we will all believe our greatest value is how we look, how we move, and how well we can please others. Through my work, I aim to expose these dangers, to reveal the absurdities of what culture expects of us, and to imagine new possibilities for expression. As long as Kelly Ripa is on TV in her skinny jeans, breezing through 1950s housewife duties without a man in sight and telling me how I can be "even more amazing" with a new kitchen appliance, I have more work to do. To view more of Sara's work, please visit http://saramholwerda.com. Featured Artist Blog (FAB) Sara Holwerda 1 response // Posted Browse the Archive » Featured Artist 259 painting 107 sculpture 101 Featured Artist Blog (FAB) 76 collage 21 See all 794 tags »

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Time Warp: 1978 By dkeener | Published November 25, 2012 Welcome to 1978. In these Time Warp blog entries, I explore some of the best short fiction of yesteryear using key anthologies of the time (kind of like short fiction time capsules) to highlight what were perceived back then to be some of the best stories of the year. Our time capsules for this exploration will be Terry Carr’s The Best Science Fiction of the Year #8, and Stellar #4, edited by Judy-Lynn del Rey. But first, what was 1978 like? Well, Jimmy Carter was the president of the United States. Woody Allen’s Annie Hall won the Best Picture Award at the Oscars. Ted Bundy, one of the most famous serial killers of all time, was captured in Pensacola, Florida. Charon, a satellite of Pluto, was discovered. Actor Ashton Kutcher was born. There were no personal computers yet, except for build-them-yourself kits for electronic enthusiasts. And you bought music on cassettes or 8-track tapes. Here’s some of the finest science fiction available in 1978, compliments of The Best Science Fiction of the Year #8, Terry Carr’s annual anthology. The Barbie Murders — by John Varley: Lieutenant Anna-Louise Bach, a detective for the Lunar police force, has been handed a murder to solve. The murder was witnessed by dozens of people, and even recorded on video. It should be an easy case to solve … except for the fact that the victim, the murderer and the witnesses all look exactly the same. They’re all “barbies,” members of a religious community that eradicates physical differences between its members. It’s a fascinating story, at turns bizarre, perverse, relentlessly logical and eminently satisfying. An excellent story and, even better, it’s a member of that rare breed, the SF crime story. A Hiss of Dragon — by Gregory Benford and Marc Laidlaw: Drake is a flyer for a thistleberry harvesting outfit on the low-gravity, metal-poor planet of Lex. Harvesting involves surreptitiously stealing the valuable berries from the lairs of dragons, which are large predatory, gene-engineered, blimp-like creatures possessed of a generally bad attitude. Mix in a rivalry with another harvesting outfit, and you’ve got a unique and interesting adventure/crime drama set on an alien world. I liked it a lot. I’d love to see this expanded into a more comprehensive novel. Black Glass — by Fritz Lieber: A man walking the streets of New York City is drawn into a future era in which mysterious, cowled figures fight to tear down humanity’s last bastions of freedom, the few remaining skyscrapers of the city. In some respects, I thought this story was overlong, slow to get moving and tedious in some areas. But yet, it has some of the strangest and strongest imagery in the entire volume. To Bring in the Steel — by Donald Kingsbury: Meddrick Kell is the ultimate problem solver, but he’s cold and unforgiving when it comes to handling people. His technical skills make him invaluable to an asteroid mining conglomerate that is moving an asteroid to Earth, one that will possess vast amounts of refined steel by the time it eventually arrives. When his ex-wife dies on Earth, he decides to bring his young daughter out to live on the asteroid. Feeling that he’ll make an inadequate father, his fellow miners refuse to allow this, unless he finds a woman to help take care of the child. So he imports a high-priced call girl that he once saw at a party on Earth to help him. We’re in romantic drama/comedy territory here, but with a hard SF background. The only jarring note is that it mentions “typewriters” at the beginning, which is amusing because this story was published just before the advent of the personal computer. It’s a very satisfying story. I would have liked to have seen this story expanded into a novel. Likewise, I also think the story could form the kernel of an excellent movie. The Very Slow Time Machine — by Ian Watson: An impenetrable device with an old decrepit man inside appears within a university laboratory. Scientists feverishly study the device for years, while inside the old man gradually grows younger. The world comes to believe that revelations will ensue when the backwards-traveling time machine finally reaches its origin. I have only one thing to say: I didn’t get it. Devil You Don’t Know — by Dean Ing: Valerie Clarke was born looking like she was mentally handicapped, even though she’s not. She leverages her appearance to work undercover, entering mental institutions as a patient so that she can expose bad conditions, malpractice and other breaches of trust. She finds a lot more than she was expecting when she’s checked into the Gulfview Home. It’s a solid, engaging story with, of course, an SF twist. Count the Clock That Tells the Time — by Harlan Ellison: This is a fascinating and surreal story. A man who has wasted his life and who has managed to leave no impact on anybody, is drawn into some strange limbo, a gray plain sparsely populated only by other people like himself. This limbo is where the universe stores “unused time” until it’s needed. The man endeavors to escape, but tragically finds more than he expected. This is Ellison at the top of his form. View from a Height — by Joan D. Vinge: Emmylou Harris was born with a compromised immune system. Because of her condition, she volunteered to be a space explorer on a one-way mission to another star, so she could do something she felt useful with her life. Decades into her journey, she must deal with a personal crisis. This is a very effective story that deals brilliantly with Emmylou’s personal issues, yet remains undeniably an SF story. The Morphology of the Kirkham Wreck — by Hilbert Schenck: Schenck gives us two stories in one. The first is about the Coskata Life Saving Crew, led by Walter Chase, and their 1892 attempt to rescue the sailors of the H.P. Kirkham, a ship that has run aground on a shoal during a bad storm. The second layers on an SF theme, namely that the probabilities of timeline events are being altered to make the rescue more likely. My problem is that I liked the first story, even though it wasn’t an SF story; the second layer seemed like an intrusion and interfered in my enjoyment of the story I wanted to read. My verdict: a mish-mash that doesn’t quite hold together for me. Vermeer’s Window — by Gordon Eklund: A young and exceedingly rich artist undergoes a technical process to transform his mind, as closely as possible, into the mind of the famous painter, Jan Vermeer. He eventually begins to produce the same works that Vermeer did in his long-ago lifetime. Some angst about the origin of the artistic instinct ensues. Taking into account chaos theory, I failed to believe that any person could be so utterly and perfectly transformed into a long-dead painter, or that the modern artist’s life would so perfectly parallel the original painter. For me, the story didn’t really achieve the necessary suspension of belief that it needed. The Man Who Had No Idea — by Thomas M. Disch: Barry Riordan is trying to get his license to engage in free speech. When he only qualifies for a provisional license, he goes on a quest to achieve the three endorsements necessary to promote his provisional license to a full license. I was prepared to dislike this story because I’m not particularly a fan of satires. But Disch’s cleverly conceived story pulled me in. The scene where the hero, who supposedly has no ideas of his own, engages in a “high-stakes” wager with a poet is absolutely priceless. Death Therapy — by James Patrick Kelly: How do you “cure” a serial killer? One solution is to develop a state-mandated form of mental torture that is more severe in a negative sense than the positive high that a killer achieves from his violent acts, thus allowing the torture to function effectively as a deterrent. What could possibly go wrong? It’s a powerful and disturbing story. Interestingly, it was also Kelly’s first published story. This was a very strong anthology from Terry Carr. Stand-outs for me were “The Barbie Murders” by John Varley; “A Hiss of Dragon” by Gregory Benford and Marc Laidlaw; “To Bring in the Steel” by Donald Kingsbury; and “Count the Clock That Tells the Time” by Harlan Ellison. Strong stories included “View From a Height” by Joan D. Vinge; “The Devil You Don’t Know” by Dean Ing; “The Man Who Had No Idea” by Thomas M. Disch; and the brutally effective “Death Therapy” by James Patrick Kelly. Our next anthology, Stellar #4, edited by Judy-Lynn del Rey, is special to me. I read it when it first came out, and I remember really liking it. This volume contains only six stories, so they’re all what would typically be considered novelettes (except for Stephen R. Donaldson’s story, which is long enough to qualify as a novella). I think this was my first real exposure to novelettes and novellas, instead of novels. Because of this volume, I ended up collecting the entire Stellar series, all eight volumes. Although I’ve had this volume for years, for some reason I’ve never re-read it until now. So, with some trepidation, let’s crack open this anthology and see how the stories hold up. We Who Stole the Dream — by James Tiptree, Jr.: A group of Joilani, a humanoid alien species, have been enslaved on a human colony world. They plan and execute an audacious scheme to escape their oppressors by stealing a starship and finding their own kind. But they don’t find what they expected to find. A solid story by James Tiptree, Jr. (a pseudonym for Alice Sheldon, a fact that was discovered in 1977). Animal Lover — by Stephen R. Donaldson: Special Agent Sam Browne, a cyborg investigative officer, goes undercover as a hunter to discover why a Hunting Preserve seems to be more effective at producing dead hunters than dead animals. It’s an enjoyable action story, but nothing overly special. Snake Eyes — by Alan Dean Foster: This adventure story ties into Foster’s long-running Flinx and Pip series. Flinx, of course, is an orphan raised on the planet Moth, who was adopted by an Alaspin minidrag, Pip, at an early age. Pip is a flying, venomous, empathically sensitive, and moderately intelligent flying snake (the kind of pet every young kid wants to have). They end up helping a prospector defend his mine against some would-be claim jumpers. It’s a pleasant and moderately entertaining story. The Last Decision — by Ben Bova: The Emperor of the Hundred Worlds must make a decision about the fate of Earth. Studies have shown that in about 500 years the Sun will undergo a bout of turbulence that will devastate the Earth, turning it into a charred, lifeless rock. A woman from one of the frontier worlds has a plan that could save the world, but at an almost incalculable cost. Ben Bova has crafted an excellent tale about the pressures of leadership. The Deimos Plague — by Charles Sheffield: A former lawyer, now on the run from bad elements, poses as a shaven-headed member of a made-up religious sect to evade those who are after him. He wrangles a working berth on a high-priority, Mars-bound cargo ship, but gets far more than he bargained for. Slight, but amusing. Assassin — by James P. Hogan: Mars and the outer system colonies are at odds with Earth, but the technological edge goes to the Martian Federation. An assassin is dispatched to kill a prominent Martian scientist who has defected to Earth. Needless to say, the operation doesn’t go as planned. The story is an interesting exploration of the potential ramifications of some future technologies. Not ground-breaking, but fun and thought-provoking. So Stellar #4 has held up reasonably well. I probably liked it better as a young teen than I do now, but my tastes have gotten more sophisticated since then. The Bova and Tiptree stories are the best of the batch. The other stories are engaging but not exceptional. This time around, I think the edge goes to Terry Carr’s anthology for quality. Posted in Science Fiction | Leave a comment Full Green Screen for Battlestar Galactica My friend Don Anderson, graphic artist at large, pointed out this article about the special effects for Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome. This is a TV pilot for a new series on Syfy, set between the timeframes of Caprica and Battlestar Galactica during the first Cylon war. One of the most interesting things about this new pilot is that it was shot almost entirely on green screen. This allowed all of the backgrounds to be added later. This was supposedly cheaper than alternative ways of filming a heavy-duty SF epic, and may become a trend in the future. Posted in Film, Science Fiction | Leave a comment War, Redux – Part 2 As a challenge, I’ve resolved to write a short story that conforms to the rules established for the 1997 anthology, War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches, edited by Kevin Anderson. See Part 1 for a description of my self-imposed rules. This anthology purported to provide additional perspectives on the Martian invasion, as witnessed around the world by celebrities of the day. While H. G. Wells’ original story is in the public domain, the anthology is not, so I decided that the viewpoint characters and specific locations described in the anthology should be off-limits for my story. Accordingly, the following characters and locations are off-limits, except potentially for very general references: Edgar Rice Burroughs Virginia; Mars Winston Churchill South Africa Joseph Conrad Africa – Kongo Free State Emily Dickinson England Albert Einstein Switzerland H. Rider Haggard South Africa Henry James England – London, Woking Rudyard Kipling India Jack London Alaska H. P. Lovecraft Rhode Island – Providence Percival Lowell Arizona; Egypt – the Sahara Desert Pablo Picasso France – Paris Joseph Pulitzer Missouri – St. Louis Theodore Roosevelt Cuba Leo Tolstoy Russia Mark Twain Louisiana – New Orleans Jules Verne France – Paris H. G. Wells England The Dowager Empress of China China – Peking and environs The Texas Rangers Texas The next question is: Who should I write about? One celebrity that struck my mind was Nellie Bly, the “pen name” for Elizabeth Jane Cochrane. She was one of the first notable female journalists. She led an interesting life, but is probably best known for two major stories: Her 1887 world-record trip around the world emulating the journey of Phileas Fogg in Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days. Her 1888 undercover assignment as an inmate of a women’s insane asylum. She was born in 1864 and died in 1922 at the age of 57. She’d be 36 at the time of the invasion, which would be just perfect. In 1900, she was living in Catskill, New York, having married Robert Seaman, a wealthy industrialist who was 40 years her senior in 1895. Of course, she retired from journalism when she got married, but the Martian War would be a dandy way to pry her out of retirement. She’d also make a nice counterpoint to all of the male witnesses in the anthology. There were only two other women who served as witnesses (and one of them doesn’t really count): Emily Dickinson, who featured in Connie Willis’ tongue-in-cheek story, “The Soul Selects Her Own Society: Invasion and Repulsion: A Chronological Reinterpretation of Two of Emily Dickinson’s Poems: A Wellsian Perspective” (note also that Emily Dickinson actually died prior to 1900, and you’ll understand what a nifty trick Connie Willis pulled off). The other was the Dowager Empress of China in Walter Jon William’s story, “Foreign Devils.” Another female viewpoint would have worked nicely in the anthology. At this point, I know the constraints for my story and I’ve identified a worthy viewpoint character. My choice of witness also defines my location for me — Catskill, New York (or, at least, somewhere within a reasonable distance from there). Progress is being made. Posted in Science Fiction | 1 Comment Relaxing After the 2012 District 29 Fall Conference Whew! Today, I can relax at last. I had agreed to be the Conference Chair for the Toastmasters District 29 Fall Conference, which was held on Friday evening, November 9th, and all day on Saturday, November 10th. For the past nine weeks, I’ve been working with Juliette Brown and Mo Hamilton, our District 29 Governor, to make this conference a reality. It was especially important for two reasons: District 29 is only two years old, having split off, like an amoeba, from District 27 when it got too large and cumbersome. So we have something to prove. District 29 was just graced with a visit by Mohammed Murad, the First Vice President of Toastmasters International, and he attended our conference as part of his tour. He’s expected to head Toastmasters International within the next few years. Nobody wants to put on anything less than their best in front of Toastmasters’ top officials. I’m happy to say that the conference was very successful. For those who aren’t familiar with a Toastmasters conferences, this one featured the following attractions: Table Topics Contest — A demonstration of extemporaneous speaking. Toastmasters Got Talent Contest — Singing, dramatic speaking, music, poetry, etc. Leadership Luncheon — A great meal, plus some inspirational talks. Humorous Speech Contest — Well-organized speeches that emphasize humor. Educational Sessions — Opportunities to learn from experts. Hall of Fame — A celebration of Toastmasters members’ achievements. It was a wonderful experience, but also a ton of work. I met a lot of great folks. I pushed my boundaries and learned a tremendous amount about running a complicated event. I helped organize the numerous volunteers that were required to pull this event off. In short, I enjoyed organizing and running the event. But now…I’m glad it’s over. In about a week, though, it will be time to start thinking about organizing the 2013 District 29 Spring Conference. This time around, though, Christine Hobbs will be the Conference Chair. Another two weeks after that, I’m pushing for a Retrospective, where the event planners all get together and critique the conference to determine what worked well, what could be improved, and to brainstorm new ideas for making the next conference even better. Posted in Toastmasters | 3 Comments Party Dresses and Hamster Cages You can’t have a blog without getting a lot of spam comments. Usually it’s some generic message expressing love for your most wonderful and truly awesome site, often using bad English, followed by one or more totally unrelated product links. This is, of course, why I’ve set up comments so they’re moderated. But the nature of the spam comments I’ve been getting lately, up to 40 per day, is very strange. Apparently, this site has attracted spammers advertising either party dresses or hamster cages. Go figure. Need I say that you won’t find either here? Posted in Internet | Leave a comment War of the Worlds, Redux By dkeener | Published November 5, 2012 I recently read an excellent SF anthology called War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches, edited by Kevin Anderson. Sadly, I’d owned it for years, but it had languished, unread, in my voluminous stack of Books to Be Read Soon When I Have Time since I purchased it in 1998. In the anthology, a group of writers imagined H. G. Wells’ invasion as it might have been experienced in other parts of the world. Another interesting aspect was that each writer used the viewpoint of a character, generally a recognizable celebrity, who was alive during the summer of 1900, at the time of the purported war. Thus, we had stories about Jules Verne, Theodore Roosevelt, Jack London, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Pablo Picasso and others, all encountering the aliens in diverse areas of the world. The impetus for the whole anthology, I suspect, was Howard Waldrop’s excellent story, Night of the Cooters, first published in 1987, which described what happened when the invaders ran afoul of the Texas Rangers. This was the only reprint in the anthology; the remaining stories were all originals. First, I thought it was great anthology. Second, I thought it was rather like a contest between the authors. You see, each author effectively had the same ground rules: Write a story consistent with the background and events established by H.G. Wells. Choose a recognizable viewpoint character who was alive during the timeframe of the novel. Everybody started from the same point, with the same background and with the same constraints. A few authors simply re-hashed the original story from a different viewpoint, but most tried to do interesting things with the premise. Theodore Roosevelt went hunting a new kind of game. The Emperor of China leveraged the war to eliminate his rivals and make potentially far-reaching political changes. Pablo Picasso found a new inspiration. Mark Twain found a whole new kind of river ride to write about. The end result was a truly interesting and diverse set of stories that augmented the original story quite nicely. My thought was: Hmmmmm. What a great writing exercise. I wish I could have written a story for the anthology. I thought about that for a while. It’s obviously way too late to contribute to an anthology that was originally published in 1997. Besides, my time machine is on the blink right now. But War of the Worlds is in the public domain. Nobody can stop me from writing a story that follows the original premise of the anthology. However, War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches, is not in the public domain. So I added a few more constraints for my own story. I cannot use any viewpoint character from the anthology, except in the most general terms, e.g. — it’s not unreasonable for me to mention H.G. Wells or Jules Verne since they were the leading speculative writers of their day. I cannot reference any of the events that happened in the anthology, e.g. — how some of the Martians may have taken refuge in the Arctic north where the climate was more suitable for them, etc. The Texas Rangers were the only outright winners against the Martians in the original anthology, taking out several entire landings. That will be the “high-water” mark — others can be successful in their endeavors, but not more so than the Texas Rangers. The events and developments of the War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches should not be contradicted by my story. This is my challenge to myself. Let’s see where I end up in another month or so. Cloud Atlas: A Must-See Film I really liked Cloud Atlas, the new film from directors Andy and Lana Wachowski (hereafter referred to as the Wachowski Siblings) and Tom Tykwer. It turns out that the producers also created seven different banners to help advertise the movie. Since they’re freely distributable, I’ve decided to show all seven of them here, along with a helpful summary of the six intertwined stories that make up the movie. Story 1: In 1849, Adam Ewing travels across the Pacific Ocean to secure a contract for his father-in-law. He becomes deathly ill during the journey, but is saved by Atua, an escaped slave, leading him to consider the merits of the Abolitionist movement and bringing him into conflict with his father-in-law. Note: For some reason, there’s no banner for this story. Story 2: Robert Frobisher (seen in the foreground) is a brilliant composer in the 1930’s who has been disowned by his family and is now penniless. He leaves his lover, Rufus Sixsmith (visible in the background), in Cambridge and goes to Belgium to become the amaneunsis (assistant/understudy) to a famous composer, Vyvyan Ayrs. Complications ensue, but Frobisher still manages to eventually produce a brilliant symphony called “The Cloud Atlas Sextette.” During his time with Ayrs, he ends up reading and drawing inspiration from an old journal belonging to Adam Ewing, the protagonist of the first story. Story 3: Luisa Ray is an investigative reporter in the 1970’s. An old man, Rufus Sixsmith, reveals information about a cover-up at a nuclear power plant, but is soon murdered as part of the cover-up. She comes into possession of some of his letters, becoming aware of Robert Frobisher and his great but obscure work, “The Cloud Atlas Sextette.” Much nastiness ensues as she pursues her investigation. Story 4: Timothy Cavendish is a aging publisher who ends up on the run because of a monetary dispute with a gangster who happens to be one of his published authors. He goes to his estranged brother for help, but gets tricked into hiding out in a hotel, which actually turns out to be a nursing home from which he cannot initially escape. Naturally, he works with some other feisty inmates to concoct a plan for escape. As a side note, one book that crossed his desk before he went on the run was a fictionalized account of Luisa Rey’s investigation from the 1970’s. Story 5: Sonmi~451 is a fabricant (clone) in a dystopian society in Korea in the future, working at a restaurant called Papa Songs. Fabricants are used as slave labor in this society. She experiences an awakening when she is recruited by rebels, and ultimately becomes a symbol of their rebellion. One of the first things she ever saw that was different from her regimented daily life was a video recording of the “Ghastly Affair of Timothy Cavendish” — the story of Cavendish’s exploits in the previous story became a film that provides some comfort to Sonmi~451. Story 6: Next we go to a more distant future, after the Fall, a war that devastated the world. Zachry, a primitive living in Hawaii, belongs to a society that worships a female deity named Sonmi. His world is turned upside-down when Meronym, a representative of a more-advanced culture, recruits him to help with an important mission. Cloud Atlas consists of these six stories, interleaved together in a dazzling mosaic. It requires some work to follow the six stories, particularly at the beginning, but the effort will pay off in the long run. The premise of the film is that everything is connected, and that acts of kindness or evil echo into the future. The characters are entangled souls, reincarnated again and again to interact with each other in all of the stories. In the film, this is represented by the actors playing multiple roles in all of the stories, often assisted by make-up and special effects. It’s a brilliant film that doesn’t quite achieve everything that the producers wanted, but succeeds well enough to give us a mesmerizing, powerful tapestry of interconnected stories. Go see it. Despite its flaws, the film deserves an audience. Posted in Film, Science Fiction | 1 Comment The Duel at Blood Creek This short film is just absolutely hysterical. The cinematography is excellent, the swordplay is exceedingly well done and the plot, such as it is, is howlingly funny. Many thanks to Mary Robinette Kowal who brought this to my attention. Check it out. Posted in Film | 4 Comments A Lifetime This appeared in my Facebook Newsfeed. I have no idea of the original source. I really like it’s stark simplicity — a lifetime love affair captured in only six simple, black-and-white frames. Posted in Creativity | Leave a comment Disney Adds the Force to Its Portfolio Yesterday, Disney bought Lucasfilm for 4 billion dollars. What they really bought was the Star Wars franchise, with its built-in global audience, and the right to continue the series in the future. Disney then immediately announced that they were going to do a new trilogy, set after the original three films, with the first one targeted for a 2015 release date. I think this is a good thing. Although I like George Lucas, I think the franchise suffered badly when his co-writer, veteran SF writer and Hollywood screenwriter Leigh Brackett, died after completing her draft of the screenplay for The Empire Strikes Back. I believe that Brackett brought a fun, pulp-era, good guys vs. bad guys, sensibility to the franchise. 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Tag Archives: ITV Anthropology, Society & Culture York and Mountbatten Weddings October 11, 2018 Dorothy Leave a comment A big year for royal weddings. Tomorrow, October 12th, Princess Eugenie will marry. In May, her cousin Prince Harry married Meghan Markle. Both large, lavish and televised. But, in between the weddings of the Queen’s grandchildren, a distant Mountbatten cousin got married. That wedding was private but it caused a big ‘wow’. Princess Eugenie of York is marrying Jack Brooksbank. “Who?” seems to be a common question in online comments – about both of them. She is the younger daughter of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson. Jack worked in a bar in London. Yes, he’s a commoner. But it’s an upscale bar, and his pedigree has baronets and the like in it. He and Eugenie are third cousins and he has kin connections with other royals. As the Daily Mail put it, his family may have started as Yorkshire farmers, but “they grew rich… and married well.” Eugenie and Jack will marry in St. George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle, same place as Harry and Meghan. A two-day reception will be at Eugenie’s family home, the Royal Lodge in Windsor. Their guest list, at over 850 for the ceremony, is even larger than Harry and Meghan’s. But there is not as much public hoopla for Eugenie’s wedding as there was for Harry’s. That is despite Eugenie’s being the first wedding of a British Princess since her Aunt Anne’s. Maybe that’s because she’s the daughter of the Queen’s second son whereas Harry is the second son of the first-born. Maybe too because Jack, in himself and his family background, does not cause celebration of Royal Family diversity and inclusivity as Harry and Meghan’s marriage did. Also as the wedding of their distant cousin did. Lord Ivar Mountbatten ‘I’ll see your divorced American bi-racial bride, and raise you a white English groom.’ So might Lord Ivar Mountbatten have said. His engagement caused a flap when it was announced in June. The second marriage of a British aristocrat – what was the big deal? First gay marriage in the Royal extended family, that’s what. Lord Ivar married James Coyle in front of a couple hundred family and friends. None of the Royals were there, but they sent their best wishes. Who’s Lord Ivar Mountbatten? You might ask. I did. His late father was David, 3rd Marquess of Milford Haven. David was the Queen’s third cousin and Prince Philip’s first cousin. He was Philip’s best man at his wedding and a close friend. Read any biography of Prince Philip, you’ll find David Mountbatten stories. He was quite the lad. Mountbatten Family Click/tap to enlarge Mountbatten family tree David and Philip’s uncle was Louis Mountbatten, Earl Mountbatten of Burma. The last Viceroy of India, he was assassinated by the IRA in 1979. Louis’ wife was Edwina Ashley. Read any book about interesting – ‘scandalous’ – women of the early 20th century and you’ll find Edwina Mountbatten. Nada, 2nd Marchioness of Milford Haven, ca. 1916 In those same stories is Edwina’s friend and sister-in-law, David’s mother Nadejda de Torby. An English marchioness by marriage, Nada was a Russian countess by birth. She was also Russian literary ‘royalty’, being a great granddaughter of Alexander Pushkin. So an interesting family. Lord Ivar Mountbatten’s own life was pretty standard for the aristocracy. A geologist and gentleman farmer with a wife and daughters. Then, in 2011, an amicable divorce. Four years later, he came out. He and James Coyle made public their relationship. Mr. Coyle, an airline cabin services director, has no royal antecedents as best my googling can detect. Lord Mountbatten and Mr. Coyle married Sept 22, 2018 at Lord Mountbatten’s Devon estate. Those are the names and titles each will continue to use. So the protocol people didn’t have to scramble to figure out title usage for same-sex spouses, but this marriage gives them a heads-up on it. Princess Eugenie’s wedding will be televised on TLC in the US (starting live at 4:25 ET). It’s on ITV in the UK. But apparently not in Canada at all. Pity! You can read more here about the Mountbatten family. For my thoughts on Harry and Meghan’s wedding, see Princess Harry. ITVRoyalsUKwedding Genealogy, Popular Culture, Society & Culture Earls of Grantham December 24, 2015 Dorothy 2 Comments Below is the lineage of the Earls of Grantham. The family name is Crawley, and their home is Downton Abbey in Yorkshire. It is a fictional family in a television series I have never watched. I found family trees online, read summaries of the show and characters, and mapped out connections. Could I use only the internet to figure out a family history, I wondered. I think I did, and it made me want to get to know them better. I will meet the Crawleys on DVD. Those watching on television will end their acquaintance with them in 2016. The sixth, and final, season on PBS begins January 3rd. The series is set between April 1912 and December 1925. The Crawley family was given the Earldom of Grantham around 1772 for deeds unspecified. A subsidiary title is Viscount Downton. The earl’s heir may use this as a courtesy title. The title and estate are entailed, meaning inheritance can be passed only through the legitimate male line. Grantham Family Tree Click or tap to enlarge family tree of Earldom of Grantham The house and lands of Downton Abbey came into possession of the Crawley family through the unnamed daughter-in-law of the 3rd Earl, great-grandmother of the ‘present’ earl, Robert Crawley. Presumably, she inherited her family home or received it through the will of a previous husband. Jessica Fellowes, author of companion books to the series, refers to Robert Crawley as the 7th Earl of Grantham. Other sources call him the 6th. Observant viewers noted a publicity shot of the gravestone of Sybil, Robert’s daughter. Carved on it is “daughter of the 5th Earl of Grantham”. The series does not fully explain the line of inheritance. Robert had no son and no brother so after he inherited the title, his heir presumptive became his first cousin James, the son of his father’s unnamed brother. James had a son Patrick, who would inherit in turn. However, both men died on the Titanic in 1912. The male next closest in the family line was Matthew Crawley, Robert’s 3rd cousin once removed. The presumably deceased Reginald was Matthew’s father. Click for book on Amazon While daughters could not inherit, strategic marriage could keep it in the immediate family. Robert and his mother Violet had sought marriage between Robert’s daughter Mary and Patrick, son of then heir presumptive 1st cousin James Crawley. After their deaths, Mary wed the new heir Matthew and they had a son, George. Matthew soon after died, making George heir presumptive. Through the marriage of his daughter to the heir, Robert’s grandson will be earl after him. Mary, daughter of one earl and mother of the next, will never be countess. She would have held that title only through her husband had he lived to become the next earl. Downton Abbeyfamily historygenealogyITVPBStelevision

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When she was five years old, Catherine Okolita’s mother took her to the park in her hometown of Fort Qu’Appelle, Saskatchewan. “The park was too dirty to play in, so my mom said, ‘We’re not coming back until somebody cleans it up,’” recalls 10-year-old Catherine. “That night, we were talking and I said, ‘I’m somebody.’ She laughed and said, ‘Of course you are,’ and I said, ‘No, Mom, I’m somebody. I can clean the park.” The next day, Catherine and her mom called a few friends and went to clean up the park—and just like that, Catherine’s Cause began. Over the past five years, Catherine has raised and donated more than $50,000, plus in-kind donations, to the community. With playground projects, animal rescues, family literacy programs, fire departments, police, libraries, Christmas hampers and hospital funding drives, to name a few, Catherine’s Cause has been positively impacting Fort Qu’Appelle and the surrounding area. In mid-March, Catherine made a particularly sizeable donation to the Hospitals of Regina Foundation for operation of its Neo-Natal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), raising money through an online auction. Image gallery: Catherine's Cause Ten-year-old Catherine Okolita has been positively impacting central Saskatchewan for years through philanthropy and fundraising drives. “I raised $23,156 this year,” she says proudly. “It’s my second annual online auction. Last year I raised $15,100.” Similar to cleaning up her first park, Catherine got involved with the Hospitals of Regina Foundation rather serendipitously. “I was driving home one day with my mom and I heard about it on the radio. I asked what a NICU was and found out it’s where premature babies go and I decided I wanted to help out.” Enbridge works to be a good neighbor in the communities near our operations and projects. We’re proud to have donated $2,000 to Catherine’s Cause fundraising for the Hospitals of Regina Foundation, as well as an item for the online auction. “The auction is a lot of work,” admits Catherine, “but it can help save a baby’s life, so it’s worth it!” At heart, Catherine’s motivation is simple: “I believe everyone is capable of kindness and when we choose to do something kind, no matter how small, great things can happen.” (TOP PHOTO: Disc jockeys CC and Lorie of Regina radio station Z99 pose with Catherine Okolita after Catherine's Cause raised more than $23,000 for the Hospitals of Regina Foundation's Neo-Natal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) in March 2019.) Comfort and warmth for the homeless in the face of a chilly Regina winter Nursing students pitch in with socks, mitts, blankets and more at annual Community4Commection event A cuddly friend to make a hospital stay less frightening In Saskatchewan, Teddy Bears Anonymous helps reduce the fear factor for sick kids Saskatchewan’s boomtown: White City maintains small-town feel, despite dramatic growth Projects like Enbridge’s Line 3 replacement generate wealth for Canada, notes Mayor Bruce Evans

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Encyclopedia > Ur Ur (or Urim) was an ancient city in Mesopotamia, originally located near the mouth of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers on the Persian Gulf and close to Eridu. The remains are now well inland in present-day Iraq, south of the Euphrates at 30� 95' N., 46� 5' E, and named Tell el-Mukayyar [1], near the city of Nasiriyah. The site is marked by the ruins of the ziggurat, which is still largely intact, and by the settlement mound. The ziggurat is a temple of Nanna and has two stages constructed from brick: in the lower stage the bricks are joined together with bitumen, in the upper stage they are joined with mortar. The earliest habitation at Ur was in the Ubaid period[?], the earliest stage of settlement in southern Mesopotamia. However it later appears to have been abandoned for a time. Later, around 2600 BC, in the Sumerian Early Dynastic period[?] III, the city was again thriving. Ur by this time was considered sacred to Nanna, the moon god in Sumerian mythology. The location of Ur was favourable for trade by sea and also by land routes into Arabia. Many elaborate tombs including that of Queen Puabi[?] [2] were constructed. Eventually the kings of Ur became the "official" rulers of Sumer, in what is known as the first dynasty of Ur, which was established by the king Mesannepada[?] (or Mesanepada, Mes-Anni-Padda etc). The first dynasty was ended by an attack by Sargon of Akkad around 2340 BC. Not much is known about the following period, except that there is thought to have been a 2nd dynasty in power. The third dynasty was established when the king Ur-Nammu (or Urnammu) came to power, ruling between 2112 BC - 2094 BC. During his rule, temples, including the ziggurat, were built and agriculture was improved through irrigation. His code of laws (a fragment was identified in Istanbul in 1952) is one of the oldest such documents known, preceding the code of Hammurabi. One of the surviving works of Sumerian literature describes the death of Ur-Nammu and his journey to the underworld. The third dynasty fell around 1950 BC to the Elamites[?]. Later Babylonia captured the city. Nanna was known to the Babylonians as Sin. The Babylonian city of Harran or Haran[?] was also a sacred city of Sin. In the Bible the city is named "Ur of the Chaldees", the Chaldeans, who settled there around 900 BC. It is also described as the birthplace of Abraham, the largest city of Shinar or northern Chaldea, and the principal commercial centre of the country as well as the centre of political power. In the 6th century BC there was new building in Ur under the rule of Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon. The last Babylonian king, Nabonidus of Babylonia[?] improved the ziggurat. However the city started to decline from around 550 BC and was no longer inhabited after about 500 BC, perhaps caused by drought from changing river patterns and/or the silting of the Gulf. It may have remained in use as a cemetery for some time afterwards. 1 Archaeology The site was visited by Pietro della Valle[?] in the mid-seventeenth century, who recorded the presence of ancient bricks stamped with strange symbols, cemented together with bitumen, as well as inscribed pieces of black marble that appeared to be seals. The first excavation was made by British consul J.E. Taylor, who partly uncovered the ziggurat. Clay cylinders found in the four corners of the top stage of the ziggurat bore an inscription of Nabonidus, the last king of Babylon (639 BC), closing with a prayer for his son Belshar-uzur Bel-sarra-Uzur), the Belshazzar of the book of Daniel. Evidence was found of restoration by the ziggurat by Ishme-Dagan of Isin and Gimil-Sin of Ur, and of Kuri-galzu, a Cossaean (Kassite) king of Babylon, of the 14th century BC. Nebuchadrezzar also claims to have rebuilt the temple. Taylor further excavated an interesting Babylonian building, not far from the temple, and part of an ancient Babylonian necropolis. All about the city he found abundant remains of burials of later periods. Apparently, in the later times, owing to its sanctity, Ur became a favourite place of sepulture, so that after it had ceased to be inhabited it still continued to be used as a necropolis. After Taylor's time the site was visited by numerous travellers, almost all of whom have found ancient Babylonian remains, inscribed stones and the like, lying upon the surface. The site was considered rich in remains, and relatively easy to explore. Excavations from 1922 to 1934 were funded by the British Museum and the University of Pennsylvania and led by the archaeologist Sir Charles Leonard Woolley. A total of about 1850 burials were uncovered, including 16 that were described as "royal tombs" containing many valuable artifacts. Most of the royal tombs were dated to about 2600 BC. The finds included the unlooted tomb of Queen Puabi[?] [2] -- her name is known from a cylinder seal found in the tomb. Many other people had been buried with her, in a form of human sacrifice. Near the ziggurat were uncovered the temple E-nun-mah and buildings E-dub-lal-mah (built for a king), E-gi-par (residence of the high priestess) and E-hur-sag (a temple building). Outside the temple area many houses used in everyday life were found. Excavations were also made below the royal tombs layer: a 3.5m thick layer of alluvial clay covered the remains of earlier habitation, including pottery from the Ubaid period[?], the first stage of settlement in southern Mesopotamia. Woolley later wrote many articles and books about the discoveries. Archaelogical names of periods of habitation include: Ubaid period Sumerian Early Dynastic period III Ur III, ca. 2100 BC-2000 BC Tell el-Mukayyar -- in Arabic Tell means "mound" and Mukayyar means "built of bitumen". Mukayyar is variously transcribed as Mugheir, Mughair, Moghair, Muqayyar etc. Queen Puabi is also written Pu-Abi and formerly transcribed as Shub-ab. Easton's Bible Dictionary, 1897 Old encyclopedia, 1911 E. Taylor, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (1855), vol. xv. Woolley and the Great Flood (http://mcclungmuseum.utk.edu/specex/ur/ur-flood.htm) Treasures from the Royal Tombs of Ur (http://www.oi.uchicago.edu/OI/UR/Ur_home) The History of the Ancient Near East (http://ancientneareast.tripod.com/Ur_Muqayyar) ... 190s 200s 210s 220s 230s - 240s - 250s 260s 270s 280s 290s Years: 237 238 239 240 241 - 242 - 243 244 245 246 247 Events Patriarch Titus[?] succeeds ... This page was created in 39 ms

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The Green Hornet Movie Trailer shows promising remake of classic The Black Beauty As a kid in the 1960s, The Green Hornet was one of this bloggers favorite television shows. The reason wasn't the character of Britt Reid / The Green Hornet, or Kato, played by Bruce Lee. It was because of the car: The Black Beauty. A cool, lethal vehicle that plays a starring role in the 2011 big screen remake The Green Hornet. If the recently released trailer is a decent representation of what to expect from the film, it's going to be a hit, and The Black Beauty will be its star. The Green Hornet stars Seth Rogen, Cameron Diaz, Jay Chao, Tom Wilkinson, and Academy Award-winner Christoph Waltz in what can be described as an "origin" picture which will explain how The Green Hornet came to be. Here's the video trailer: While the movie is obviously set in modern America, what remains as the connection to its 1960s TV past is the Chrysler Imperial that is converted to become The Black Beauty. It's a car that Chrysler should make for purchase today (without the machine guns, of course); it would turn around that car maker's fortunes overnight. As was the case when a kid, I'll see The Green Hornet for the car first, then for Cameron Diaz. The Green Hornet Movie Trailer shows promising rem...

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The Lost Patrol The Lost Patrol Bio "There's so many singer-songwriter people out there," says Dennis Lyxzén. "They're all super good at singing, and everything they do sounds really clean and super-tight and professional --- and really boring. I wanted to do a singer-songwriter record that was more Black Flag than Simon & Garfunkel." For those already familiar with Lyxzén's high-energy work with groundbreaking Swedish punks Refused and The (International) Noise Conspiracy, the acoustic-based Songs About Running Away --- The Lost Patrol's followup to 1998's Songs In The Key of Resistance --- will probably come as a major shock. But when creative impulses collide with deep emotions, sometimes a person simply doesn't have a choice in the matter. "I wasn't looking to do a Lost Patrol album," says Lyxzén. "I wasn't like, 'I want to do something different!' It's more like, something happened that made me want to do this record." Seeking solace in the aftermath of a bad breakup, Lyxzén found himself writing songs that were more personal than anything he'd ever sung before. "I was put in a situation where the only thing I could do was play acoustic guitar and try to express, try to make some sense of the mess I was in," he says. "I demoed a bunch of the songs, and a friend of mine said, 'You should actually record this and try to put it out there.'" At first, Lyxzén wasn't sure that he actually wanted to make his new material available for public consumption. "When I first started writing these songs, I wrote them all specifically for one person, and one person alone," he says. "But then I figured, there's other people out there that have been through similar experiences, and hopefully they can find strength, or relate to the fact that everyone goes through this." Songs About Running Away took shape over several months in a small studio in Lyxzén's hometown of Umea, Sweden. Though tracks like "Out Of Date," "Left And Leaving Blues" and "The Last Goodbye" are lyrically quite bleak, the recording sessions were more like a jamboree than a wake, with over twenty of Lyxzen's friends --- including members of Randy, The Facer, Bittersweet and The (International) Noise Conspiracy --- turning up to lend a hand. "For a couple of months, I was surrounded by friends, doing something really creative, taking all this energy and putting it into something that was creative," he says. "And that felt really good, actually." The results sound really good, as well, despite the fact that the musicians on Songs About Running Away generally entered the studio without any idea of what they'd be playing. "For two months, I was in the studio like every night, and I just told people, 'I'm in the studio tonight --- come on by.' Depending on how many people came by, that's how the songs turned out. Everything's recorded live, except for the backup vocals and the horns, and no one was allowed to hear the songs before we recorded them. I'd show them the song, but I wouldn't tell anyone what to play. It was more like, 'You play the piano, right? Well, go ahead and play the piano!'" If the rawness of the performances are in keeping with Lyxzén's punk rock background, the record's unpredictable, organic vibe harkens back to classic late 60s and early 70s records by Neil Young, Van Morrison and Bob Dylan. "We never did more than three takes of any song," Lyxzén remembers. "I like that loose, live feeling, like Bob Dylan's New Morning record, where you can actually hear people fucking up all the time. There's places on this record where people are not really playing what I'm playing, but it still sounds cool. I play acoustic guitar on every song, and I sing at the same time; I figured that if there are six, seven or eight people playing along with me, it doesn't matter if I fuck up." Though it steers clear of the political topics typically addressed by Lyxzen's work with The (International) Noise Conspiracy, Songs About Running Away is hardly an exercise in solipsism. Songs like "Alright" (a charming duet with Swedish pop star Lisa Miskovsky) and the closing "Desperate Attempts" pack a cathartic message of their own, proposing that one can always rescue a bit of sunlight from the darkness. "I don't see any sense in letting the sadness overtaking you, and becoming the sad guy with the acoustic guitar," Lyxzén laughs. "It's kind of like, I'm suffering still and we've all been through this, but let's not forget that we're still alive; let's try to make the best out of the situation. At times on the record, you can hear it being really vibrant and alive, and you can actually hear that we're having a good time. But then there's times where you can hear that I'm really bummed. I think that's a cool contrast, the sadness and the celebration of life." And the angry young punk rockers who simply won't accept the idea of love songs sung by an avowed Socialist? Lyxzén has a message for them, as well. "At one point or another in my career, I've definitely said, 'I'm never gonna write a love song, blah blah blah,'" he laughs. "And then I just woke up one day and realized that I need to write a love song, just because that's what's important for me right now. I can talk about politics all day long --- and when the new Noise Conspiracy record comes out, a lot of what I've gone through will be put in the context of political thought --- but I wanted to show that these are things that really affect me, as well. "I know this whole thing is kind of 'out there' for a lot of people, especially if you only see me as someone who's affiliated with punk rock," he shrugs. "There's a lot of flute on it, there's kind of a 70s feel to it, and it's all just songs about The Girl. But all these angry punk kids, one of these days they'll also fall in love. Maybe they'll have their hearts broken --- and then maybe they'll understand why I needed the flute!" Dennis Lyxzén is the sexiest man in Sweden! The Lost Patrol Band readies their new full-length CD! The Lost Patrol Band Songs About Running Away "There's so many singer-songwriter people out there," says Dennis Lyxzén. "They're all super good at singing, and everything they do sounds really clean ...

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Bridging Media: Computers and Human Communication This paper projects impacts of prospective computer media on human communication based on a theoretical perspective that argues such prediction is possible given knowledge of a medium's characteristics. New media can be visualized by projecting them in a characteristic based "media space" of existing media. Existing computer media occupy a middle ground in this media space between broadcast, publication, correspondence, and telephone media. Projected new computer media, including hypermedia, multi-modal media, voice-into-text interactive media, and virtual reality media, appear to continue this general trend, expanding this middle ground more in the direction of film and art media and face to face communication as well as into an as yet unoccupied high bandwidth, high dynamism media space. The effect of computer media should then be to a range of new media applications and an expanding range of media choices that create a continuum of mass and interpersonal media. For those who use computers as a routine element of their work, the impact of computer media on communication with others is increasingly obvious. For these individuals, the computer now mediates a large percentage of their daily interaction, in part because computer media facilitate contacts with people they might not otherwise communicate with or even know of. Foulger (3) finds, for instance, that, at least among users of IBM's IBMPC computer conferencing facility, computer mediated communication is becoming a dominant mode of interaction, with total use of electronic mail significantly surpassed only by face to face interaction. These results hardly represent a complete profile of media use. Survey participants are only asked about two computer media and ten media overall. Still, the media surveyed are certainly those one might expect to be the most important in an information intensive business environment like IBM. Among these media, face to face interaction stands out as the most important, used significantly more than any other. Publications, television, and electronic mail stand together, all used at about the same rate, but used significantly more than any of the remaining media. Group meetings, computer conferencing, and the radio stand out as a second such cluster. The remaining media, including the telephone, correspondence, and lectures, respectively, each record significantly less use. Electronic mail in IBM is barely more than 15 years old. Computer Conferencing in IBM is just coming up on its tenth anniversary. Both make a strong showing relative to fairly well entrenched media, however. Medium Usage Level by Percentage N Mean St. Dev. 35 hours or more 17 to 35 hours 6 to 16 hours 1 to 5 hours Less than 1 hour Lecture 0.0 0.0 1.7 22.0 76.3 177 1.25 0.47 Correspondence 0.0 0.0 2.8 31.1 66.1 177 1.37 0.54 Telephone 0.6 2.8 13.6 55.9 27.1 177 1.94 0.75 Group Meeting 0.0 0.6 24.9 59.9 14.7 177 2.11 0.64 Conferencing 0.0 2.3 24.9 57.6 15.3 177 2.14 0.69 Radio Hours 1.7 5.1 24.9 50.3 18.1 177 2.22 0.86 Electronic Mail 1.1 12.4 27.1 50.8 8.5 177 2.47 0.86 Television 1.7 7.3 43.5 33.3 14.1 177 2.49 0.89 Publication 0.6 6.2 53.1 37.9 2.3 177 2.65 0.66 Interaction 13.0 32.8 42.9 10.7 0.6 177 3.47 0.87 Use of ten media as reported by IBMPC participants: 1988 IBMPC user survey reports of the use of ten media. Media shown here ordered from least used (lectures) to most used (face to face interaction). These results would not surprise Hiltz and Turoff (4), who have projected computer conferencing as a revolutionary medium of communication with the potential to make McLuhan's (6) "global village" an interpersonal reality (p. xxix). Indeed, they surpass Turoff's (7) expectation that computer conferencing will eventually "become as commonly used by the general public as the telephone is today." At least within IBM, both computer conferencing and electronic mail use significantly surpass telephone use. Hence it may well be, as Keisler (5) has suggested, that computer conferencing "has much in common with past technical innovations, like the telephone and the typewriter, that have had great social impact". Indeed, other results detailed in Foulger's (3) study of one particularly successful computer conferencing facility in IBM indicate that the impact of these media inside IBM has been very substantial; arguably even revolutionary. Evidence for this impact can be found in the rapid growth of the facility in terms of conferences, participants, and contributions. It can be found in the evolution of its software to solve problems and meet the needs of its users. It includes a large, rapidly growing, and enthusiastic community of participants, a range of distinctive applications and a diverse set of associated genres of interaction. It includes a variety of formal and informal rules, a range of mechanisms for enforcing those rules, and means for negotiating such rules and their boundary conditions on an ongoing basis. These results do not appear, moreover, to be unique to computer mediated communications in IBM. Similar developments have been observed in other companies and on "publicly" accessible facilities like Prodigy, CompuServe, BIX, Usenet, Internet, and Minitel. Keyboards are just the beginning Still, today's keyboard-oriented computer conferencing and electronic mail are just two of a variety of existing and prospective computer media that may enhance and possibly change the ways in which people communicate with each other. As yet underdeveloped computer media, including hypermedia, multi-modal documents incorporating combinations of text, graphics, image, voice, video, and other presentation formats, voice-into-text concurrent interaction, and virtual reality, hold the promise of more radical changes yet to come. It may be that all of these possibilities will be successful. It is more likely, however, that one or a few will be hugely successful in developing a large audience and a range of applications, some will be moderately successful in niche applications, and most will fail. This appears to be the case in one popular projection of our media future. Indeed, most of these alternatives appear to be largely irrelevant in "Star Trek: The Next Generation". Painting remains the pinnacle of art. Shakespeare remains the pinnacle of theatre. Face to face communication retains its dominance, aided by technology that allows people to "beam" from one place to another at the speed of some subatomic transport vehicle and technology that allows city sized starships to travel across the galaxy at warp speeds. When, for whatever reason, we cannot warp or beam across the space that divides us, we view each other on wall sized videoconference screens. The effect of computer communication in this 23rd century vision of human communication is seen in two venues. First, the computer acts as a repository for human knowledge; a huge multi-modal "memex" (Bush, 1947) that can find source material to answer almost any already-answered question almost instantaneously. Second, the computer creates the ultimate virtual reality in "holodeck" recreations of other realities. This vision of human communication in the distant future is probably as reasonable as any that can be imagined right now. Shakespeare has weathered 500 years and seems likely to find continuing relevance in a distant future that will continue to value live performance. Although technologies for beaming people across space and eclipsing light speed are unlikely given our current understanding of the way the universe works, face to face communication will probably persist in its dominance of all other media. Something like a computer probably will replace libraries as the repository of accumulated human knowledge. Something like a holodeck probably will bring users into remote and alien frames, although perhaps not with the full sensory reality associated with Star Trek's holodeck. Still, Star Trek's answer seems less than satisfying knowing the wide range of media that already exist and the early success of computer conferencing and electronic mail. The question, then, remains, what kind of impact will computer media like those suggested here have on human communication in the foreseeable future. Making tracks through media space Foulger (3) suggests a theoretical perspective and typology of media that may be useful in throwing insight on these questions. The perspective suggests a general process by which people create and evolve media to meet their needs; a process that is particularly obvious in computer conferencing but which is clearly evident in the evolution of many media. The success of a medium, according to this theoretical perspective, is a function of its relative costs and benefits to its prospective users, with key benefits measurable in the distinctive applications to which a given medium is applied. The perspective suggests that media with similar characteristics compete for the same applications, with one medium's success usually obtained at the expense of others. Media, in this perspective, occupy positions in a "media space" that is directly analogous to the "animal space" proposed by Dawkins (2). There are an infinite variety of possible media (proto-media), but only a few succeed. Each is distinguished, in its success, by its ability to ply one or more "trades" or applications better than its competitors. Computer media, like all other proto-media, must succeed in the face of a variety of existing media, each of which is entrenched in its use for specific applications. Success, in the face of such competition, must come through either displacing other media from applications or creating new trades that do not, as yet, have competition. Evidence for the validity of this perspective can be found in Foulger's (3) typology of 52 media, a representation of which is shown in the figure below. This representation shows six clusters of media, each of which represents a generalized set of trades. These clusters are depicted in a three dimensional space in which audience size occupies the vertical, with mass media found nearer the top and interpersonal media found closer to the bottom; bandwidth occupies the dimension extending to the right from this vertical, with higher bandwidth media found near the left wall and lower bandwidth media found in the right foreground; and dynamism (a combination of interactiveness and message persistence) extending to the left from the vertical, with more dynamic media found near the right rear wall and less dynamic media found in the left foreground. The six clusters of media occupy distinct vectors through this multi-dimensional space. Face to face media are found deep in the media space, extending up from the bottom rear and intersecting, about midway across the bandwidth wall, with an almost perpendicular vector associated with telephone media. Correspondence media occupy the bottom left foreground. Television and radio media occupy the upper right foreground. Publishing media occupy the middle upper foreground. Film and art media describe a vector across the dynamism wall, attracting larger audiences as dynamism increases. Foulger's (3) typology of media What is interesting, in this depiction, is the relationship of these media to each other and, in particular, the relationship of computer media to these media. Specifically: Where two media occupy the same space, as letters and tape letters do, one (letters) is highly successful and the other (tape letters) is a comparatively unsuccessful late-comer to the same trades. The most successful new media of the last hundred years, which should certainly include telephones, radio, movies, and television, all start out occupying relatively unique niches in the depicted media space. Indeed, what is arguably the most successful of these media, television, retains a highly distinctive niche, well away from all other media, and faces no real competition from other proto-media. Current computer media occupy the center ground between four of these clusters of media. Computer media associated with correspondence trend over toward publishing and telephone media. Computer media associated with publishing trend over toward broadcast, correspondence, and telephone media. Computer media associated with telephony stretch toward correspondence. Computer conferencing sits alone, almost dead center in this and other representations of media space, indicating that it too has a relatively distinctive position. Several locations in the media space remain entirely uninhabited. In particular one notes the absence of high bandwidth, high dynamism media that reach large audiences. One also notes, given the propensity of computer media to find the middle ground between clusters of existing media, that gaps in the direction of face to face and film and art media remain unfilled. These gaps may represent an incomplete survey of existing media. They may also indicate opportunities waiting for a new medium. The first of these observations serve to support the perspective that media with similar characteristics do indeed compete for the same applications. The second supports the notion that the surest route to success for a medium is finding a way to avoid competition. Computer media and the middle ground With the observation that computer media occupy the middle ground, however, we begin to reach a better understanding of the role the computer plays in the media it participates in. Conventional assessments of the characteristics of computer media dwell on such characteristics as asynchrony, written form, transcripts, immediacy, shared memory, and the integration of the communication process with other activities (Turoff and Hiltz, 8). Perhaps the most important characteristic the computer brings to its media, however, is flexibility. Computer media can create a middle ground between other clusters of media because the mediators associated with computer media can be manipulated to highly specific ends. Consider, for instance, computer conferencing. Open computer conferencing in the style Foulger (3) observed in IBM occupies the middle ground of the formal typology. One can, however, by simply restricting access to a select group of people, create a variant of computer conferencing that is very correspondence-like in its characteristics. By contrast, one can also create a very publishing-like variant by simply adding a person (an editor) that screen contributions before they are posted and schedule their distribution. One notes that these three variants of computer media form a nearly perfect vector across the media space. The changes entailed in this distribution are small. Indeed, all three variants can be implemented by enforcing different rules using the same software. Many other variations of computer conferencing, electronic publishing, and electronic mail should also be possible with only small changes in the rules that govern existing computer conferencing software, the interfaces that are available for authoring and viewing computer mediated information, and the filters used in computer media to select, order, control, and systematically modify that information. The flexibility offered in these variations should be such that no computer media need never exactly match the characteristics or trades of an existing medium. It can be expected, then, that computer media will continue to find success in flanking actions that work to merge the characteristics of existing media in new ways. Multi-modal documents One such possibility is found in multi-modal documents (sometimes called multi-media or compound documents) that combine two or more presentation formats, possibly including text, graphics, image, sound, voice, and video in integrated documents. Such combinations are, of course, hardly new. Newspapers have integrated text, image, and graphics for over 100 years. Magazines, books, movies, television, and multi-media presentations have all combined such formats to differing degrees. Computer media remain relatively young, however, and while the computer has proven to be a valuable tool for producing newspapers, books, and other hard copy documents that combine text, voice, and image, it has yet to achieve any general solution to the problem of sharing multi-modal electronic documents. The biggest problem for such documents is standards. There are only two generally used formats for computer text representation, the international standard ASCII format and IBM's widely used EBCDIC. These two representations of the English language character set readily translate to each other, moreover, making it possible to automatically translate documents from one format to the other with minimal losses or, more commonly, perfect fidelity. This relatively high level of standardization has made is possible for text based computer media like computer conferencing and electronic mail to become highly successful, at least within IBM. The same cannot be said of graphics, image, sound, voice, or video storage formats, where a growing variety of often incompatible "standards" contend for dominance, or even for the ways in which these formats are joined to create multi-modal documents. Assuming such standards are agreed upon, and there are at least six major format groups in which agreement needs to be reached, there remain other problems to be solved. Text generation remains a fairly simple task on a computer, and recording voice and facsimile images is probably similarly simple. Generation of graphics, video, and sound, by contrast, remains a more complex enterprise. Each of these elements of multi-modal documents require both substantial storage and transmission capacities (which are just beginning to be realized) and major user interface solutions if they are to become widely used. Computer graphics tools continue to improve, but are hampered by limited interface devices. Signing your name with a mouse or trackball is an almost impossible exercise that demonstrates this need quite graphicly. Video entails even greater complications, and unless one is willing to stay very still, taking a picture of oneself talking requires a second person operating the camera. Here again, interfaces can be improved with intelligent camera control computer software that can recognize the image it should track and then do so. If these problems aren't solved, multi-modal documents that incorporate graphics and, in particular, video will remain largely a mass production medium, more similar in its characteristics to books, newspapers, and Filmstrips than to interpersonal correspondence or telephone media. Applied to the formal typology, the effect of multi-modal documents should be to increase the bandwidth associated with publication and correspondence media. This appears to be the case for the two multi-modal document media presented in the figure. Voice over data (text with voice annotation) is presented above, to the right, and somewhat behind correspondence media, indicating a movement toward both publishing and telephone media. These general directions indicate larger audiences, increased dynamism, and increased bandwidth relative to other correspondence media. This appears to be what is happening in what is perhaps the most successful multi-modal media venture thus far, Videotex systems like PRODIGY (sm). Although neither correspondence nor daily news delivered by prodigy are multi-modal, many of its features and virtually all of its advertizing are. PRODIGY already has a readership that exceeds that of all but the largest newspapers and features highly dynamic multi-modal features and advertising. Voice over mixed text and graphics appears to the right and somewhat behind publishing media stretching over in the direction of television. Mixed video, text, and graphics should move even further in that direction, clustering more closely with television and radio media than it does with publishing media. Indeed, combined with hypermedia structures, such a medium might make the closest approach to television of any medium yet devised, but with non-linear cross reference capabilities that should create a wealth of distinctive new applications. Hypermedia These hypermedia structures describe a potentially non-linear mode of document organization that differs strongly from the usual format of books, newspapers, movies, television, and radio formats. Traditional documents, whether letters, books, newspapers, or movies, have a linear, sequential organization. One idea is typically presented at a time, with one following another in some structured manner. If two or more facets of the same idea must be presented, they are sequenced, with one shown before the others. Ideas may be presented together at the beginning of end of a sequence, but will be serialized in a specific author-determined order in the body of the document. Hypermedia breaks this serialization by allowing a text to be organized in a non-sequential manner. A frame that introduces two ideas together will most likely point to two or more other frames that explain the ideas with additional detail. These frames may themselves point to additional frames of related or detail information. Except for the paths by which frames are joined, the order in which these frames are read, if at all, is left to the reader. It is helpful, in visualizing hypermedia documents, to think of them as a sort of cave system in which passages diverge and intersect in several dimensions. Getting from the entrance to the cave to a river a quarter mile underground may require use of a series of passages and chambers, with each passage accessible by only a limited number of paths. If you are exploring, the cave system will allow you to stray from the path into interesting side passages. If you have a goal to achieve and know where you are going, you can travel quickly through the minimum number of passages. It is clearly possible, in such a system, to build highly linear documents in which the side passages are mere footnotes. It is possible to build parallel serializations that occasionally intersect. But it is also possible to build highly convoluted knots of documents in which complex ideas express themselves in complex relationships. The flexibility associated with computers doesn't constrain hypermedia access to cave exploring. Indexes, tables of contents, and search engines can all be added to the viewer's interface possibilities, allowing them, in some sense, to "beam" straight into a given passage. These structures change the way we view documents in important ways. They changes the whole vocabulary of, and quite possibly the authoring style associated with, reading and writing. Letters and books no longer have meaningful page numbers. They simply have parallel frames that cross-reference each other in much the same way different books and articles reference each other. Each frame is, in some sense, a complete mini-document, and the resulting macro-document can be traversed flexibly according to the reader's wishes. The effect of these changes should be to make documents appear more dynamic and to increase their overall content. The effect should be correspondence and publishing related media that stretch across the dynamism dimension of the formal typology in the direction of telephone and broadcast media, and across the bandwidth dimension in the direction of film and art. This stretch should assure hypermedia-based computer media some measure of distinctiveness and may prove very challenging, in particular, to newspapers. This trend will only be accentuated if, as will almost certainly be the case, computer hypermedia incorporate graphic, image, and video multi-media document technology. One notes, however, that it remains to be seen if hypermedia composition can be easy enough for hypermedia to be used in any but publication contexts. The difficulties currently associated with compound document composition currently appear to give hypermedia correspondence applications a low probability of widespread adoption. Voice-into-text concurrent interaction Continuing progress in the area of computer voice recognition opens up possibilities for additional computer media including one that might be called "voice-into-text concurrent interaction" in which people talk to each other verbally but read a real time transcript of the text rather than listening. The major advantage of voice over text, given highly accurate transcription of voice into a textual transcript, is the relative speeds with which people can talk and write, read and listen. Other advantages can be found in reduced requirements for synchrony and turn taking and increasing opportunities for review relative to purely verbal (face to face and telephone) media. The speed advantages are fairly obvious. Most people can talk at 140 to 150 words per minute with little effort but have difficulty creating new typewritten text at a rate better than 20 words per minute. By the same token, most people can read at a rate of at least 300 words per minute (and sometimes much more quickly), but are generally unable to listen at speeds much greater than 150 words per minute. In other words, where speed is the measure of a medium, voice is the preferred mode of text creation and reading is the preferred mode of text review. This speed advantage is accentuated by reduced synchrony requirements, which allow two speakers to literally talk at each other continuously. When interacting via voice-into-text, there will frequently be no need for speaker A to wait until speaker B has finished before replying. Interaction, under these circumstances, becomes parallel and simultaneous in the manner that is usually associated with non-verbal interaction in face to face settings. The ability to review text easily may also enhance interaction speed, as the need to ask someone to repeat themselves (all too common in face to face and telephone exchange) will be reduced. These advantages are clearly not obtained without cost. Much of the non-verbal dimension of face to face and, to a lesser extent, telephone verbal exchange will be lost in such exchanges, and computer substitutions for such non-verbal elements as pauses (...) and emphasis (boldface text) will be poor substitutes for this element of verbal interaction. Translation accuracy is also a potential issue, and voice-into-text may need to be augmented by an on-demand voice over text option that allows readers to occasionally review an associated voice transcript of the translated text. Still, the advantages are potentially substantial, especially in contexts where the emphasis is on the sharing of information rather than affect. An individual might participate in several voice-into-text interactions simultaneously, work in a voice-into-text small group interaction environment, converse voice-into-text with one individual while interacting directly with another, etc. At extremes of translation, interactants might converse at some reasonable level without being able to speak a common language. Viewed relative to the formal typology, one would expect media based on voice-into-text to fall somewhere in the gap separating telephone and correspondence media, but with an increased level of dynamism and information bandwidth that pulls it into unexplored media space in the general direction of face to face media. voice-into-text concurrent interaction can be expected, then, to provide the basis for one or more primarily interpersonal media that break new ground in media space. The result should be a truly unique mode of interaction that may well provide the basis for a whole new cluster of what might be called translation media. Perhaps the most ambitious goals for computer mediation of human interaction are found in recent efforts to create "virtual realities" via computer. Virtual reality is, in some sense, a covering term for a wide range of experiments in computer interfaces, including video goggles, motion sensing data gloves, and other technologies that attempt to bring an observer into a dynamic and high bandwidth frame. Star Trek's "holodeck" is the ultimate virtual reality fantasy in which one can create and recreate alternate realities at will, interacting with real and imaginary others in a world of sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell. We're a long way from this kind of complete virtual reality, but the first steps on this path are being taken. These first steps are more oriented to presentation than interaction. One direction of such development attempts to bring the viewer more closely into the frame of a video game. A virtual reality golf game would substitute a real golf club for the keyboard or joystick of today's video games. The behavior of the ball would be based on the swing of the club, contact with the ball would create tactile feedback, and a large screen TV or video goggle would create the impression of actually being on a golf course. This kind of recreation is already found in arcade simulations of automobiles and motorcycles, and can be expected to be extended, over time, to encompass a range of games and game activities. It remains too early to say very much about the future of virtual reality, which will probably emerge as a half or dozen or more distinct mass media, including an individual and small group gaming medium, one or more presentation media, and one or more publishing media. If adequate interfaces and transmission bandwidth are established, moreover, there may be a variety of interpersonal virtual reality media, including a remote small group discussion medium and a virtual reality face to face telephone that might allow two people (mom and daughter; grandparents and grandchildren, boyfriend and girlfriend, etc.) to interact under the illusion that they were in the same room, perhaps even with some level of tactile interaction extend the possibilities for remote telephone-like interaction into the face to face realm. What is clear is that virtual reality will break new ground in media space. by occupying the high bandwidth, high dynamism space above face to face media. Traditionally, new ground in media space represents new opportunities, as-yet-unimagined applications, and breakthrough media that revolutionize the world in unimaginable ways. Virtual reality, more so than any of the other media described here, appears to have this potential for producing revolutionary media that change our world in fundamental ways. This paper attempts to project the kinds of impact computer media will have on human communication in very general terms, based on a theoretical perspective that argues such prediction is possible and typology of media that creates a media space in which it is possible to project other media. Space limitations necessarily preclude anything more than a cursory analysis, restricted to general directions rather than specific applications and effects. It is hoped, however, that these directions have been presented in a way that will allow the reader to imagine the kinds of things these new media may make possible. It is argued here that the early success of electronic mail and computer conferencing in the face of a wide range of existing media is just a beginning. When projected in a multi-dimensional media space today's relatively low-bandwidth text-based computer media cluster with a variety of existing media, including telephone, correspondence, and publishing media. Interestingly, however, they form what can be thought of as a "seventh" cluster of media, a middle ground between existing clusters of media that unifies these clusters and creates new opportunities for mass interpersonal communication and more interactive correspondence. This middle ground gives computer media a distinctiveness, relative to other media, that probably helps to account for the increasingly apparent success of electronic mail, computer conferencing, and electronic publishing. New computer media, including multi-modal media, hypermedia, voice-into-text concurrent interaction, and virtual reality, appear to have characteristics that may make them even more distinctive. Multi-modal computer media should increase the bandwidth and, to a somewhat lesser extent, the dynamism associated with correspondence and publishing media, thus extending the possibilities associated with these media in the direction of both film and art media and television. Hypermedia should have a similar effect in increasing the dynamism and, to a lesser extent, the bandwidth, of these same media, thus pulling these clusters in the direction of television and telephone media. Voice-into-text concurrent interaction should increase the dynamism and, to a lesser extent, the bandwidth and audience sizes associated with telephone and correspondence media, thus stretching these clusters in the direction of face to face interactive media. Finally, the high bandwidth and dynamism associated with virtual reality promise to stretch the limits of face to face interaction and create a new cluster of interactive mass media in the empty space above face to face interaction. 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Updates to Resume Shortly I am finally ready to resume updating the blog once again. My circumstances have improved since my last post, and I will be updating both this blog and the blogroll within the next couple of days. I would like to thank those of you who have been supportive during this difficult time for me. Your kind words are certainly appreciated and encouraging. I am still in need of a full time contributor here if any of you are interested. Please see the previous post for more details. Thank you once again for your support. Labels: Blog News My Absence, Psycho Cat's Departure, and Other News First of all I would like to apologize for my brief absence. I couldn't afford to pay my cable bill on time, so I was without internet access for about a week. I have also been fighting some personal demons, which has left me extremely physically and mentally drained. To give you an idea of how bad off I've been, I haven't even felt like listening to music this past week. On top of that I have started a new job, which will take up a significant amount of my time. I don't plan to take a break from the blog; however, I probably won't be able to update it often as I have in the recent past. I desperately need some peace of mind at this point, and would like to focus more of my time doing other activities that I love, in order to pull myself out of this hole that I've been in. Unfortunately Lee (Psycho Cat) has been experiencing some difficult times as well, which forced him to give up his position as a regular contributor here. Other than myself, Lee has been the only other person to be a regular contributor since I started the blog. Lee if you happen to read this, I would like to thank you for your contributions here. Your posts were a refreshing alternative to the material that I post here, and you helped to keep the blog rolling while I was going through some very challenging times in my personal life. I hope that your situation improves soon my friend. There will always be a spot for you here at DM should you decide to return. I would like to continue to update the blog as often as I can, and hopefully I will be able to deliver daily updates again one day in the near future. Psyche Zenobia and AllyWonderland are both guest contributors, and are only able to post on a very limited basis. If you would be interested in contributing here either as a guest, or a full time contributor, please contact me. Even if you're interested in posting for a week long stint, or a few times a month, I would be willing to work with you. I could certainly use the help right now. You can either leave a comment here, or e-mail me (my e-mail address can be found on my blogger profile). In the meantime, I'll do my best to update the blog as often as I can. Thank you to those of you who have continued to support this blog for better or worse. You are the reason I do this. - Zer0_II 13th Floor Elevators - Live at the Avalon Ballroom 1966 The 13th Floor Elevators should need no introduction here at Digital Meltd0wn. I have covered their studio albums, as well as several solo albums by singer Roky Erickson, here in the past. This recording has been issued under various titles over the years, with the album cover and track listings for each version differing from one another. While this may be frustrating for collectors, what truly matters is that this recording offers a rare peak at the Elevators performing live while they were at their peak. This recording was actually made one month before their debut album, "The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators", was recorded. It was recorded at the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco on September 30, 1966. Not only do they perform several songs from "The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators" album, but they also cover a few hits from the Beatles, Chuck Berry, and Buddy Holly. For those wondering, I'll explain my recent lack of activity and the disappearance of Psycho Cat from the list of blog authors tomorrow. Year of Recording: 1966 Genre: Psychedelic Rock 2. Before You Accuse Me 3. You Don't Know 4. I'm Gonna Love You Too 5. You Really Got Me 6. Splash One (Now I'm Home) 7. Fire Engine 8. Roll Over Beethoven 9. The Word 10. Monkey Island 11. Roller Coaster Download: 13th Floor Elevators - Live at the Avalon Ballroom 1966 Download Size: 56MB Labels: Bootleg, Live, Psychedelic The Cramps - Live at CBGB's January 13, 1978 This is a vinyl rip of a limited edition (autographed) live LP given away at CBGB's 20th Anniversary Show on December 10th, 1993 by The Cramps. Entitled "Frank Furter and the Hot Dogs", it features an 11 song set by the Cramps performed at CBGB's in New York on January 13th, 1978. As with any live Cramps performance, this is full of high-spirited rockabilly/psychobilly music, accompanied by the vocals, pants, howls, and growls of Lux Interior. The recording isn't of the highest quality, but it certainly qualifies as listenable, and would be an essential album for Cramps fan's collection. As a bonus, I have also added a clip of the Cramps performing "Teenage Werewolf" nearly three years later, which is taken from the Urgh! A Music War" video. Genre: Rockabilly, Psychobilly, Punk Download: The Cramps - Live at CBGB's January 13th 1978 The Cramps - Teenage Werewolf Urgh! A Music War (1980) Watch In High Quality Labels: Psychobilly, Punk, Rockabilly Church Of Misery- Master of Brutality/ Early Works Compilation Southern Lord Records is undoubtedly a household name to any fan of doom, drone, or sludge metal. Bands like Sunn O))), Earth, Boris, and Wolves in the Throne Room have all called the label home at some point in their existence. It was through my fascination with many bands on this label that I came across this intriguing Japanese doom metal band called Church of Misery. Church of Misery takes a fusion of psychedelic rock with traditional Saint Vitus/Black Sabbath doom. The trademark of the band, however, is that most of their tracks use infamous serial killer as their central theme. Critics have often neglected their talent and insisted on focusing in on the serial killer theme; often labeling the tactics as a gimmick. At least there is one thing that their lyrical themes and their music have in common; they are both "killer." After releasing a series of splits and EPs, Church of Misery released their first full length album, Master Of Brutality. The album kicks off with the Sabbath-esque, "Killfornia," a track about hitchhiker slayer, Edmund Kemper, and continues to steamroll you with a wall of sound for the duration of the album. The album highlights include a magnificent cover of Blue Öyster Cult's "Cities on Flame With Rock & Roll" and the 11-minute self-titled track album culmination, "Master of Brutality." Label: Southern Lord Recordings Genre: Doom, Stoner 1. Killfornia (Ed Kemper) 2. Ripping Into Pieces (Peter Sutcliffe) 3. Megalomania (Herbert Mullin) 4. Green River 5. Cities On Flame 6. Master Of Brutality (John Wayne Gacy) Next up is a compilation featuring some of Church of Misery's early output. This was released on Leafhound Records in 2004. The compilation contains tracks from the aforementioned splits and EPs which were compiled into a 2-disc set called the Early Works Compilation. This should widen your bloodshot eyes and keep you occupied until the next munchies run. Label: Leafhound Records 1. Spahn Ranch (Charles Manson) 2. Road to Ruin (Charles Whitman) 3. Reverend (Jim Jones) 4. War is Our Destiny 5. Room 213 (Jeffrey Dahmer) 6. Taste the Pain (Graham Young) 7. Plainfield 8. In-A-Gadda-Da-Vidda 9. Murder Company (Henry Lee Lucas) 10. Son of a Gun (David Berkowitz) 11. Where Evil Dwells (Richard Ramirez) 12. Sick of Living (Zodiac) 13. Come Touch the Sky 14. Accident 15. Chains of Death 16. Retal (Howard Unruh) Download: Church Of Misery - Master of Brutality Download: Church Of Misery - Early Works Compilation Disc 1 Posted by AllyWonderland 2 comments Links to this post Labels: Doom Metal, Metal, Stoner New Commenting System Enabled I have enabled a new commenting system utilizing both CommentLuv and JS-Kit. CommentLuv is great, as you will see once it is in full swing. Once a user leaves a comment, it will show a link under the user's comment to the latest post made by that person. There are also several options that aren't available in blogger's default commenting system, such as the ability to backtrack comments, reply to other user's comments, e-mail notification upon response (optional), emoticons, a private messaging system, personal profiles, and more. The only downside to this is that you will have to sign up for either an Open ID or JS-Kit account in order to fully access these features. Of course the option to post anonymous, or manually enter your name still exists. I plan to make a few minor modifications to the script so that it blends in better with the rest of the blog. Please let me know what you think of the new commenting system. I hope that you all enjoy it. If you all are unhappy with it, please let me know, as I can always revert back to the default blogger commenting system. San Francisco's Shiver - Shiver The music on this album represents the entire recorded output of this obscure early '70s acid-rock band. Shiver recorded this stuff live to two-track tape in the summer of 1972, and while they never released an album back in the day, it's clear that the world is ready for their heavy guitar jams now. Basically, Shiver were a bunch of hard-rocking hippie freaks, brought together by a Texas-bred drummer who moved to San Francisco to take up where his obvious heroes Blue Cheer left off. They soon had a rather rough, tough reputation, playing Haight street fairs and Hells Angels biker parties. At one point they even had a singer with an iron hook for a hand, which he could use as a slide for his guitar, or for more violent purposes. Shiver played "heavy psychedelic rock" at its most primal -- no overdubs, raw as hell. Rising from the same scene of Texas freaks like The 13th Floor Elevators, Johnny Gee & The G Men, and Warlocks, Shiver moved to SF and this CD documents their complete output of early 70's heavy psychedelic rock. In a city known for peace, love and flower power, Shiver was an over the top, in your face, balls to the wall 'gang' of musicians that felt at home with Hell´s Angels and Hippies alike. Shiver played a lot of Street Fairs on Haight, Market and Castro streets, and got to jam with guys from Big Brother (Gurley & Albin) and other local heroes. These recordings were done on a twotrack machine at 2909 Mariposa in the Summer Of ´72 and feature no overdubs or studio 'wizardry'. What you hear on these tracks is Shiver in it´s raw, powerful glory. Label: Rockadelic Genre: Psychedelic, Hard Rock 1. Tough As Nails 2. Fixer 3. Bone Shaker 4. Interstellar Vision 5. Alpha Man 6. Rocky Road 7. Keep On Rocking 8. Up My Sleeve 9. Winter Time Download: San Francisco's Shiver - Shiver (108MB) Labels: classic rock, Psychedelic Ofo The Black Company - Allah Wakbarr/Beautiful Daddy 7" Single By Request, this post was reuploaded 01/17/2015. NØ I had every intention to move on from the African music, and then I happened across this amazing 7", which I couldn't resist sharing. It was originally released in 1972 on the Decca records label. Both tracks are great, but the A-side track "Allah Wakbarr" is absolutely stunning, and the obvious star here. The track begins with some pure funk riffage, backed by a low groovy African beat, with chants thrown in for good measure. Just as you are feeling the whole African vibe, the track erupts into raw psychedelic funk. It slowly builds with the beat becoming heavier and heavier, all the while accompanied by a nasty squealing guitar solo. The B-side "Beautiful Daddy" is great, but doesn't match the sheer ferocity of "Allah Wakbarr". The first half of the track is straight forward afrobeat, but that raw electric guitar emerges in the latter half, climaxing in a dirty psyched out solo. The A-side track has been featured on several compilations, including "Nigeria 70: The Definitive Story of 1970's Funky Lagos". The liner notes for this compilation includes a bio of the group, for which information is very scarce: Discovered by Decca's A&R man in Nigeria, David Bennett, they were one of countless student band's playing in Lagos during the 70's. This "crunching rock jam" recorded in 1972 was their earliest hit and became their best known track. Due to it's release in the UK they were invited to play in Berlin before travelling on to the UK. They were based there before undergoing a name change to Ofo The Rock Company and returning to Lagos in 1975. Guitar: Toks Shotade Drums/Percussion/Vocals; Larry (Lari?) Ifedioranma Keyboards: Dele Olaseinde (ex "Clusters" & "Ofege") Congas: Kingsley Obiche I read on another website that the band released a live LP recorded from their European tour. I would love to get my hands on a copy of this if any of you could help out. I would also love to hear more music with a similar sound, so if any of you have recommendations, please leave a comment. This comes highly recommended. At 10MB, the file size is very small, so do yourself a favor and download this now. Label: London / Decca Genre: Afrobeat, Psychedelic Rock 1. Allah Wakbarr 2. Beautiful Daddy Download: Ofo The Black Company - Allah Wakbarr/Beautiful Daddy 7" Single Download Size: 16.6MB Posted by Zer0_II 10 comments Links to this post Labels: Afrobeat, Garage, Psychedelic William S. Burroughs - Thanksgiving Prayer I intended to post this earlier in the day, but I didn't have any spare time before the Thanksgiving proceedings started. This is a 1988 recording of William S. Burroughs reading "Thanksgiving Prayer". I can't say that I completely agree with Burrough's cynical view of "Turkey Day"; nevertheless, I happen to like Burroughs, and this was the only Thanksgiving related media I could think of that I would be willing to post. Despite being dealt a bad hand this year, I have a lot to be thankful for. I would also like to thank those of you who visit this blog, especially those who take the time to leave comments and communicate with me. Thanks for the wild turkey and the passenger pigeons, destined to be shit out through wholesome American guts. Thanks for a continent to despoil and poison. Thanks for Indians to provide a modicum of challenge and danger. Thanks for vast herds of bison to kill and skin leaving the carcasses to rot. Thanks for bounties on wolves and coyotes. Thanks for the American dream, to vulgarize and to falsify until the bare lies shine through. Thanks for the KKK. For nigger-killin' lawmen, feelin' their notches. For decent church-goin' women, with their mean, pinched, bitter, evil faces. Thanks for "Kill a Queer for Christ" stickers. Thanks for laboratory AIDS. Thanks for Prohibition and the war against drugs. Thanks for a country where nobody's allowed to mind their own business. Thanks for a nation of finks. Yes, thanks for all the memories - all right, let's see your arms! You always were a headache and you always were a bore. Thanks for the last and greatest betrayal of the last and greatest of human dreams. - William S. Burroughs John J. Kimmel - 20 Phonographic Cylinder Recordings 1906-1921 It's time to hop in our time machine and head back to the early 1900's, shortly after phonographic cylinder recordings became popular. Long before CDs, cassette tapes, and vinyl records existed, recordings were made on disc shaped phonographic cylinders. The phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison on 18 July 1877 for recording telephone messages. By the 1880s audio recordings using wax cylinders were mass marketed. These had sound recordings in the grooves on the outside of hollow cylinders of slightly soft wax. Early cylinder records would commonly wear out after they were played a few dozen times. The buyer could then either bring the worn cylinders back to the dealer to be traded in as partial credit for purchase of new recordings, or have their surface shaved smooth so new recordings could be made on them. In 1890 Charles Tainter patented the use of hard carnauba wax as a replacement for the common mixture of paraffin and beeswax used on phonograph cylinders. Fortunately many of these phonographic cylinder recordings still exist, and have been also been digitally archived. I'm a proud member of the Cylinder Recordings group on last.fm. One of the group's connected artists is John J. Kimmel. Kimmel (1866–1942) was an Irish accordion virtuoso. He played a one row melodeon accordion. Despite only having 10 keys to work with, Kimmel was able to create complex medleys, waltzes and polka. Kimmel adopted a very driving accordion style on some of these pieces, which sounds almost demented at times, with the small skips in the recordings adding to the effect even more. This collection is also available to download as individual mp3 files on this website. American Cake Walk (1906) Kimmble (sic) March: Kimmel March (1907) American Polka (1908) Medley of Bucks and Reels (1908) Medley of Irish Reels (1909) Medley of Irish Jigs (1909) Medley of Irish Songs (1909) Barn Dance (1910) German Waltz Medley (1910) International and "Fans" Marches (1910) Kimmel Medley (1910) Medley of German Polkas (1910) Medley of Hornpipes (1910) Allerdeen (1912) The Elite March (1912) Buck Dance Medley (1914) Connaught Man (1918) Kimmel March (1918) Haste to the Wedding (1921) Download: John J. Kimmel - 20 Phonographic Cylinder Recordings 1906-1921 Labels: Phonographic Cylinder Recordings Black Moth Super Rainbow - Bonus Drippers Black Moth Super Rainbow is my favorite contemporary electronic act. They separate themselves from the rest of the pack by playing an experimental blend of lo-fi electronica and psychedelic rock. In July of 2008, just before releasing their highly anticipated Drippers EP, they released Bonus Drippers (The Older Unreleased and Hard-To-Find Songs) to the world for free. These tracks were initially meant to be included on a CD/vinyl release but loss of the source material led the band to release them in mp3 format. Links to these files can also be found on the band's website here Bonus Drippers presents tracks from each phase of BMSR's brief recording history, ranging from "Melting on the Meadow" a 2003 outtake from Start a People, to "The Dark Forest Joggers", a track which was exclusively released (until now) with the vinyl edition of Dandelion Gum. Most of the tracks are very brief, with "Unfinished Sketch" and "Unfinished Sketch 2" clocking in at under 30 seconds, and the remaining tracks clocking in around the two minute mark. While it is slightly less polished and enjoyable as their previous releases, Bonus Drippers is a fun and worthwhile listening experience. You can't beat that price either. Label Self-Released Genre: Electronic, Psychedelic Bitare: 320kbps 1. The Dark Forest Joggers (Dandelion Gum Vinyl Exclusive) 2. Unfinished Sketch 1 (Unreleased 2007) 3. Let's Burst (Unreleased 2005) 4. Flower Beast (Unreleased 2005) 5. Melting On The Meadow (Start A People Outtake, 2003) 7. Day On A Bike (Unreleased 2006) 9. Side 9 (Unreleased Studio Version, 2004) Download: Black Moth Super Rainbow - Bonus Drippers Labels: Electronic, Experimental, Psychedelic Delia Derbyshire, Dudley Simpson, Brian Hodgson, & David Vorhaus - ESL 104/The Tomorrow People Produced by the UK's Thames Television between 1973 and 1979, The Tomorrow People was a sci-fi drama show for kids that ran for eight series. A large portion of The Tomorrow People soundtrack was taken from the Standard Music Library's "ESL104" LP. In fact, all but four tracks from "ESL104" were used to score The Tomorrow People. Standard Music Library was established in 1969 as suppliers of specialist production music for film, television, radio and commercials. The styles range from orchestral, jazz, dance and a variety of world music, to avant-garde composers such as Brian Eno. ESL 104 was one of their first releases, and the original record was used to provide incidental music to several 1970s Doctor Who stories, episodes of ATV's Timeslip and Thames' The Tomorrow People. Delia and Brian recorded the majority of the tracks on ESL 104 under their "Nikki St George" and "Li De La Russe" composing hats, with David Vorhaus, an avant garde American composer who formed Camden Town's Kaleidophon studio with Derbyshire and Hodgson, composing the remaining tracks. They were highly experimental composers, with no access to synthesisers, using a very innovative approach to composition and scoring with physical manipulation of tape loops, cut up recordings and oscillators as well as traditional instrumentation. The work of Delia Derbyshire and Brian Hodgson could be said to be a precursor to today's ubiquitous use of samplers. In 1963, these applications were so technically advanced for their time that Delia was able to construct the legendary Doctor Who theme through filtered oscillation, cutting, speeding up, and assemblage note- by-note, in a two week period. Again, no synthesisers were used. The heightened, unearthly sound of Doctor Who was born. Delia was able to take the forms of musique concrète, originally developed by by Pierre Schaeffer, with the use of microphones and magnetic tape recorders, and organically bring the truly experimental and the popular together and present it to a mainstream audience. Director Douglas Camfield eschewed the normal route of asking Dudley Simpson to compose the incidental music and instead selected a number of stock library tracks. The majority of the tracks originate from ESL 104 and two other tracks, the legendary 'Delian Mode' and 'Blue Veils And Golden Sands' originated from the BBC Radiophonic Music album that had been released in 1968. 'Blue Veils' was originally composed for a World About Us documentary about the Tuareg tribes of the Sahara. This Delia composition was composed and constructed using filtered electronic oscillators to give the "shimmering heat haze" atmosphere to accompany the footage. It also uses manipulations of Delia's voice and the ringing of a now infamous green lamp shade. It seems quite fitting that Camfield should use such an atmospheric piece to underscore the fiery destruction of the world in Inferno and her 'Blue Veils and Golden Sands' emphasises Stahlman's complete obsession and madness. Her 'Lure Of the Space Goddess', a kind of swirling electronic woodwind effect, also surfaces from ESL 104 to provide further mood and an uneasy underscore to the environs of Project inferno. If you are a fan of early electronic/experimental music then I can't recommend this enough. This contains some of Derbyshire's finest work. To view more Delia Derbyshire/BBC Radiophonic music from the archives click here. 1. The Tomorrow People 2. Lure of the Space Goddess 3. Battle Theme 4. Homeric Theme 5. Greek Concrete 6. Attack of the Alien Minds 7. Gothic Submarines 8. Whirring Menace 9. Souls In Space 10. Time Capsule 11. Restless Relays 12. Planetarium 13. Wet Asteroid 14. Way Out 15. Fresh Aire 16. Delia's Theme 17. Tentative Delia 18. Delia's Idea 19. Delia's Psychedelian Waltz 20. Delia's Resolve 21. Delia's Dream 22. Delia's Reverie 23. Delia's Fulfilment 24. Build Up To 25. Snide Rhythms 26. The Tomorrow People Theme Download: ESL 104/The Tomorrow People Labels: Early Electronic, Experimental, Sound Collage Robert Petway - Catfish Blues: Mississippi Blues Vol. 3 (1936-1942) Catfish Blues: Mississippi Blues Vol. 3 contains two different sets of recordings. The first is of great importance, as it collects the entire recorded output of early blues artist Robert Petway. Very little is known about Petway. His birthplace is speculated to have been at or near J.F. Sligh Farm near Yazoo City, Mississippi, birthplace of his close friend and fellow bluesman Tommy McClennan. His birthdate is guessed at 1908, and the date and even the occurrence of his death is unknown. There is only one known picture of Petway, a publicity photo from 1941. In 1941-42 Robert Petway recorded 16 tracks in two different sessions for Bluebird Records in Chicago. Of these 16 tracks, 14 were released. Despite his obscurity, Petway is cited as a major influence by several legendary blues and rock musicians, including Jimi Hendrix and Muddy Waters. There is no record, official or unofficial, of Petway's death. As such, he may still be alive, though he would be roughly 100 years old. The last record of his public life is a quote from Honeyboy Edwards: "nobody I know heard what become of him." The second set of recordings are from a 1936 session in New Orleans, Louisiana, released as "Sonny Boy Nelson With Mississippi Matilda and Willie Harris. In 1936, Eugene Powell, along with his wife "Mississippi Matilda", and harmonica player Willie Harris traveled to New Orleans to record for the Bluebird label. Setting up at the St. Charles Hotel, Powell cut six sides during these sessions under the moniker Sonny Boy Nelson, a name he took in recognition of his stepfather Sid Nelson. Among these numbers were classics such as "Street Walkin' Woman" and "Pony Blues". He also accompanied Matilda on four tracks and harmonica player Robert Hill on 10 more. 1. Catfish Blues 2. Ride `em on Down 3. Rockin' Chair Blues 4. My Little Girl 5. Let Me Be Your Boss 6. Left My Baby Crying 7. Sleepy Woman Blues 8. Don't Go Down Baby 9. Bertha Lee Blues 10. Boogie Woogie Woman 11. Hollow Log Blues 12. In the Evening 13. My Baby Left Me 14. Cotton Pickin' Blues Mississippi Matilda 15. A & V Blues 16. Hard Working Woman 17. Happy Home Blues Sonny Boy Nelson 18. Long Tall Woman 19. Low Down 20. Lovin` Blues 21. Street Walkin' 22. If You Don't Believe I'm Leaving Baby 23. Pony Blues Download: Catfish Blues: Mississippi Blues Vol. 3 Labels: blues Ananda Shankar - Ananda Shankar and his Music Ananda Shankar was the nephew of the great sitar player Ravi Shankar. While Ravi played more traditional Indian music, Ananda was known as one of the first musicians to fuse traditional Indian music with western pop and rock early in his career, giving birth to the modern age of Indian music. Towards the end of his career he would even apply this fusion of traditional Indian and Western styles to hip-hop and breakbeat. In the late 1960s Shankar travelled to Los Angeles, where he played with many contemporary musicians including Jimi Hendrix. There he was signed to Reprise Records and released his first self-titled album in 1970, featuring original Indian classical material alongside sitar-based cover versions of popular hits such as The Rolling Stones' Jumpin' Jack Flash and The Doors' Light My Fire. This album has become an enduring cult classic.[citation needed] Returning to India in the early 1970s Shankar continued to experiment musically and in 1975 released his most critically acclaimed album, Ananda Shankar And His Music, combines Eastern sitar, Western rock guitar, tabla and mridangam, drums and Moog synthesizers. The result is seemless fusion of jazz and psychedelic rock with funky Indian rhythms. This album is legendary in some circles due to it's inclusion of the tracks 'Streets of Calcutta' and 'Dancing Drums', which were featured on a Blue Note break-beat compilation, and are both considered dance-floor favorites. This album also contains it's share of mellow grooves, which compliment the hard driven Indian style funk well, making for one of Shankar's most well rounded musical efforts. Label: EMI India Genre: Psychedelic, World Fusion 1. Streets of Calcutta 2. Cyrus 3. The Lonely Rider 4. The River 5. Vidai (Parting) 6. Back Home 7. Dawn 8. Renunciation 9. Dancing Drums Download: Ananda Shankar - Ananda Shankar and his Music Labels: Fusion, Psychedelic, World Music Raymond Scott - Manhattan Research, Inc. Manhattan Research Inc. is a two-CD compilation of electronic music created by the musician, composer and inventor, Raymond Scott and his company, "Manhattan Research Inc." Posthumously released in 2000 by Basta Music of Holland, the album contains selected samples of Scott's work from the 1950s and 1960s for film soundtracks, commercials, and for his own technical and musical experiments. The synthesizers, sequencers, and drum-machines used were designed and constructed by Raymond Scott. Scott would often describe Manhattan Research Inc. as "More than a think factory - a dream center where the excitement of tomorrow is made available today." The material, while never intended for commercial release, provides insight into Scott's work. Included among the tracks on the album are commercials for companies such as Ford Motor and IBM, a humorous "Audio Logo" collage entitled "Don't Beat Your Wife Every Night!", and various collaborations with Jim Henson (of Muppets fame). The album features a number of Scott's inventions including the Clavivox keyboard, Circle Machine, Bass Line Generator, Rhythm Modulator, Karloff, Bandito the Bongo Artist, and the auto-composing Electronium. Much of the audio selections, as well as the images for the accompanying 144-page book, were culled from the University of Missouri Kansas City's extensive collection of Raymond Scott material. Album producers Gert-Jan Blom and Jeff Winner worked with several of the university's staff in choosing material for the project. During the process, the two producers were impressed by the quality and fidelity of the recordings, despite being some thirty to forty years old. Due to Scott's meticulous attention to detail, "They were so well recorded that almost no audio correction was necessary during the mastering" of the album." In the CD notes, Blom & Winner write, "Scott sought to master all aspects of sound capture and manipulation. His special interest in the technical aspects of recording, combined with the state-of-the-art facilities at his disposal, provided him with enormous hands-on experience as an engineer. Year of Recording: 1953-1969 Label: Basta Genre: Early Electronic, Experimental 1. Manhattan Research, Inc. Copyright 2. Baltimore Gas & Electric Co. 3. Bendix "The Tomorrow People" 4. Lightworks 5. The Bass-Line Generator 6. Don't Beat Your Wife Every Night 7. B. C. 1675 8. Vim 9. Auto-Lite: Sta-Ful 10. Sprite "Melonball Bounce" 12. Wheels That Go 13. Limbo: The Organized Mind 14. Portofino 15. County Fair 16. Lady Gaylord 17. Good Air 18. IBM MT/St : "The Paperwork Explosion" 19. Domino 20. Super Cheer 21. Cheer: Revision 3 22. Twilight In Turkey 23. Vicks: Medicated Cough Drops 24. Vicks: Formula 44 25. Auto-Lite: Spark Plugs 26. Nescafe 27. Awake 28. Backwards Overload 29. Bufferin: "Memories" (Original) 30. Bandito The Bongo Artist 31. Night And Day 32. Baltimore Gas & Electric Co. "395" 33. K2r 34. IBM Probe 35. Gmgm 1a 36. The Rhythm Modulator 1. Ohio Plus 2. In The Hall Of The Mountain Queen 3. General Motors: Futurama 4. Portofino 2 5. The Wild Piece 6. Take Me To Your Violin Teacher 7. Ripples (Original Soundtrack) 8. Cyclic Bit 9. Ripples (Montage) 10. The Wing Thing 11. County Fair (Instrumental) 12. Cindy Electronium 13. Don't Beat Your Wife Every Night! (Instr.) 14. Hostess: Twinkies 15. Hostess: Twinkies (Instr.) 16. Ohio Bell: Thermo Fax 17. The Pygmy Taxi Corporation 18. Baltimore Gas & Electric Co. (Announce Copy, Take 1) 19. Baltimore Gas & Electric Co. 20. Lightworks (Slow) 21. IBM Mt/St: "The Paperwork Explosion" (Instr.) 22. Auto-Lite: "Ford Family" 23. Auto-Lite: "Ford Family" (Instr.) 24. Auto-Lite: "Wheels" 25. Bufferin: "Memories" (Demo) 26. Space Mystery (Montage) 27. The Toy Trumpet 28. Backward Beeps 29. Auto-Lite: Sta-Ful 30. Lightworks (Instr. ) 31. When Will It End? 32. Bendix 2: The Tomorrow People 33. Electronic Audio Logos, Inc. Download: Raymond Scott - Manhattan Research, Inc. (Disc 1) Labels: Early Electronic, Electronic, Experimental Otis Redding - Live In Europe (1967) Like so many other talented artists, both Otis Redding's life and career were short lived. Redding was born on September 9, 1941, and died at the young age of 26 in a tragic plane crash on December 10, 1967. One can only wonder to what heights his career would have soared if his life hadn't been cut so short. He achieved a small amount of success and recognition early in his career, releasing material under the Stax/Volt labels. Unfortunately his life ended shortly after he managed to gain national attention with his performance at the Monterey Pop Festival in '67. Redding was responsible for injecting an unparalleled level of raw energy into the soul genre, which would eventually make his name virtually synonymous with soul music. If James Brown was the "Godfather of Soul", then Otis Redding was the King. Most people are familiar with the studio versions of Redding's hits, but listening to him perform them live will make the listener feel as if they are discovering them all over again. Redding was known for turning it up a notch or two during his live performances, at times delivering his vocals in a frenzied trance-like state. This recording is no exception. You can clearly hear the enthusiasm of the crowd throughout the set, and it's a treat to hear the audience participation on tracks such as "Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa (Sad Song)" Unlike many live recordings, Redding's powerful voice, backed by Booker T. & the MG's, ensure that the audience doesn't drown out the music. There are moments when the vocals seem distant, but they are brief and easily overlooked. The album was recorded in March 1967, during the Stax/Volt ensemble tour of Europe. It was his first live album that was released, and also the last album released before his death. Label: Volt/Atco Genre: Soul Bitrate: 256vbr 2. Can't Turn You Loose 6. Satisfaction 7. Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa (Sad Song) 8. These Arms of Mine 9. Day Tripper 10. Try A Little Tenderness Download: Otis Redding - Live In Europe In case you missed it, here's a video that I posted back in March of Redding performing "Satisfaction". This perfectly captures the raw energy associated with Redding's live performances, and will give you an idea of what to expect if you haven't had the pleasure of listening to "Live in Europe" or any of Redding's other live albums. Otis Redding - Satisfation Labels: Live, Soul Andy B. Clarkson - Paintings It's been a while since I've featured any type of art on DM. My enthusiasm for the Halloween Countdown caused me to put my art related posts on the backburner. This week's featured artist is Andy B. Clarkson, a surrealist painter from Columbus, Ohio. His paintings been featured in many galleries, and he also makes a living doing book illustrations. His mediums of choice are acrylic paint and graphite pencil, often combing the two with great results, as can be seen below in the pieces "Squid" and "Wine". I try to balance a few things when involved in a painting; a sense of intrigue without giving away too much in the imagery, attention to detail both in technique, but also in the subject matter, and visual metaphors that may stand for something specific. But honestly, I don’t have as much time as I’d like to actually paint, so if the above mentioned gets me in a whirlwind by trying to think too much, I rely on painting what “feels right”. Since ultimately, I believe that what feels right, must feel right for a reason, and if all goes well, that reason should be an intuitive balance of all that. - Andy B. Clarkson Letting Go (Sandman) I've Been Wondering Website: http://myspace.com/andybclarkson VA - Anthology of American Folk Music There isn't much that I can say about this legendary collection that hasn't already been said. If you have an interest in early American folk or blues, then this compilation is absolutely essential. I have seen this collection posted on other blogs, so I thought that I would make mine stand out from the crowd by including a couple of relevant additions. The first is a pdf file of the liner notes included with the Smithsonian Folkways reissue. These include both the revised liner notes, as well as Harry Smith's original liner notes. I should point out that revised modern liner notes precede Harry Smith's original liner notes. The second is a scanned copy of a book entitled Anthology of American Folk Music, which was published by Oak Publishers in 1973. This book is rare and long out of print. I have included more info concerning both of these additions below. The following information concerning the anthology is taken from Wikipedia. Compilation and Release: The Anthology of American Folk Music is a 1952 six-album compilation of eighty-four American folk recordings from 1927 to 1932. Experimental filmmaker and notable eccentric Harry Smith compiled the collection from his personal collection of 78 rpm records. The collection is famous due to its role as a touchstone for the US folk music revival in the 1950s and 1960s. Harry Smith, the project's complier, was a West Coast filmmaker, bohemian, and eccentric, who, around 1940, had begun to develop a hobby of collecting old blues, jazz, country, hillbilly, and gospel 78s. At a time when many people considered these records to be ephemeral, he took them seriously and accumulated a collection of several thousand recordings, and began to develop an interest in seeing them preserved and curated. In 1947, he met with Moses Asch, with an interest in selling or licensing the collection to Asch's label, Folkways Records. Smith, in his own words, chose for this compiliation records from the period between "1927, when electronic recording made possible accurate music reproduction, and 1932, when the Depression halted folk music sales." Interestingly, upon the time of its initial release in 1952, neither Folkways nor Smith possessed the licensing rights to these recordings, many of which had initially been issued by record companies that were still in existence (including Columbia and Paramount), which technically qualifies the project as a high-profile bootleg. (Folkways would later obtain some licensing rights, although the Anthology would not be completely licensed until the 1997 Smithsonian reissue.) The compilation was divided (by Smith) into three two-album volumes: Ballads, Social Music, and Songs. As the title indicates, the "Ballads" volume consists of ballads, including many American versions of Child ballads originating from the English folk tradition. Each song tells a story about a specific event or time, and Smith may have made some effort to organize to suggest a historical narrative, a theory suggested by the fact that many of the first songs in this volume are old English folk ballads, while the closing songs of the volume deal with the hardships of being a farmer in the 1920s. The first album in the "social music" volume largely consists of music likely performed at social gatherings or dances. Many of the songs are instrumentals. The second album in the "social music" volume consists of religious and spiritual songs. The final volume consists of regular songs, dealing with everyday life: critic Greil Marcus describes its thematic interests as being "marriage, labor, dissipation, prison, and death." Smith's booklet in the original release makes reference to three additional planned volumes in the series, which would anthologize music up until 1950. In 1972, Asch, interviewed by Sing Out! magazine, claimed that tapes for two additional volumes of the project had survived, although the documentation necessary to make a meaningful release of the volumes had been lost. Revenant Records, in 2000, worked in conjunction with the Harry Smith Archive to recreate and release the fourth volume, associated by Smith with the element of Earth. This volume, apparently organized around a theme of "work" includes (for the first time in the Anthology) a selection of union songs, and anthologizes material released as late as 1940. Smith also edited and directed the design of the Anthology. He created the liner notes himself, and these notes are almost as famous as the music, using a unusual fragmented, collage method that presaged some postmodern artwork. Smith also penned short synopses of the songs in the collection, which read like newspaper headlines-- for the song King Kong Kitchie Kitchie Ki-Me-O by Chubby Parker, a song about a mouse marrying a frog, Smith notes: "Zoologic Miscegeny Achieved Mouse Frog Nuptuals, Relatives Approve." Each of the three two-record sets carried the same cover art (a Theodore de Bry etching of an instrument Smith referred to as the "Celestial Monochord," taken from a mystical treatise by scientist/alchemist Robert Fludd). This etching was printed over against a different color background (green, red, and blue) for each volume of the set. Smith had incorporated both the music and the art into his own unusual cosmology, and each of these colors was considered by Smith to correspond to an alchemical element (Water, Fire, and Air, respectively). In the 1960s, Irwin Silber replaced Smith's covers with a Ben Shahn photograph of a poor Depression-era farmer, a choice Harry Smith was said to have objected to, although others have considered this a wise commercial choice. In 1997, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, having acquired Folkways Records in 1986, reissued the collection on six CDs, including replicas of Smith's original artwork and liner booklet. The Anthology has had enormous historical influence. Smith's methodology of sequencing tracks, along with his inventive liner notes, called attention to the set, imbuing it with a talismanic aura. This reintroduction of near-forgotten popular styles of rural American music from the selected years to new listeners had impact on American ethnomusicology, and was both directly and indirectly responsible for the aforementioned folk music revival. The music on the compilation provided direct inspiration to much of the emergent folk music revival movement. The Anthology made widely available music which previously had been largely the preserve of marginal social economic groups. Many people who first heard this music through the Anthology came from very different cultural and economic backgrounds from its original creators and listeners. Many previously obscure songs became standards at hootenannies and folk clubs due to their inclusion on the Anthology. Some of the musicians represented on the Anthology saw their musical careers revived, and made additional recordings and live appearances. This document is generally thought to have been enormously influential on the folk & blues revival of the '50s and '60s, and brought the works of Blind Lemon Jefferson, Mississippi John Hurt, Dick Justice and many others to the attention of musicians such as Bob Dylan and Joan Baez. The "Harry Smith Anthology," as some call it, was the bible of folk music during the late 1950s and early 1960s Greenwich Village folk scene. As stated in the liner notes to the 1997 reissue, the late musician Dave van Ronk had earlier commented that "we all knew every word of every song on it, including the ones we hated." 1. Dick Justice - Henry Lee 2. Nelstone's Hawaiians - Fatal Flower Garden 3. Clarence Ashley - The House Carpenter 4. Coley Jones - Drunkard's Special 5. Bill & Belle Reed - Old Lady and the Devil 6. Buell Kazee - The Butcher's Boy (The Railroad Boy) 7. Buell Kazee - The Wagoner's Lad (Loving Nancy) 8. Chubby Parker - King Kong Kitchie Kitchie Ki-Me-O 9. Uncle Eck Dunford - Old Shoes and Leggins 10. Leonard Rutherford & Richard Burnett - Willie Moore 11. Buster Carter & Preston Young - A Lazy Farmer Boy 12. The Carolina Tar Heels - Peg and Awl 13. G.B. Grayson - Omie Wise 14. Kelly Harrell - My Name is John Johanna 1. Edward L. Crain - Bandit Cole Younger 2. Kelly Harrell - Charles Giteaux 3. The Carter Family - John Hardy Was A Desperate Little Man 4. Curry & The Williamson Brothers - Gonna Die With My Ham 5. Frank Hutchinson - Stackalee 6. Charlie Poole & North Carolina Ramblers - White House B 7. Mississippi John Hurt - Frankie 8. Versey & William Smith - When That Great Ship Went Down 9. The Carter Family - Engine 143 10. Furry Lewis - Kassie Jones 11. The Bently Boys - Down on Penny's Farm 12. Masked Marvels - Mississippi Boweavil Blues 13. The Carolina Tar Heels - Got The Farm Land Blues 1. Uncle Bunt Stephens - Sail Away Ladies 2. Jilson Setters - The Wild Wagone 3. Prince Albert Hunt's Texas Ramblers - Wake Up Jacob 4. Blind Uncle Gaspard Delma Lachney - La Danseuse 5. Andrew & Jim Baxter - Georgia Stomb 6. Eck Robertson - Brilliancy Medley 7. Hoyt Ming and His Pep Steppers - Indian War Whoop 8. Henry Thomas - Old Country Stomp 9. Jim Jackson - Old Dog Blue 10. Columbus Fruge - Sat' Crapaud 11. Joseph Falcon - Arcadian One-Step 12. The Breaux Freres - Home Sweet Home 13. Cincinnati Jug Band - Newport Blues 14. Frank Cloutier Victoria Cafe Orchestra - Moonshiner's Dance (Pt. 1) 1. Reverend J.M. Gates - You Must Be Born Again 2. Reverend J.M. Gates - Oh Death, Where Is Thy Sting 3. Alabama Sacred Harp Singers - Rocky Road 4. Alabama Sacred Harp Singers - Present Joys 5. Middle George Singing Convention - This Song of Love 6. Rev. Sister Mary M. Nelson - Judgement 7. Memphis Sanctified Singers - He Got Better Things For You 8. Elders McIntorsh and Edwards' Sanctified Singers - Since I Laid My Burden Down 9. Moses Mason - John The Baptist 10. Bascom Lamar Lunsford - Dry Bones 11. Blind Willie Johnson - John The Revelator (Song) 12. The Carter Family - Little Moses 13. Ernest Phipps and His Holiness Singers - Shine On Me 14. Rev. F.W. McGee - Fifty Miles of Elbow Room 15. Rev. D.C. Rice and his Sanctified Congregation - I'm in the Battle Field for My Lord 1. Clarence Ashley - The Coo Coo Bird 2. Buell Kazee - East Virginia 3. Cannon's Jug Stompers - Minglewood Blues 4. Didier Hebert - I Woke Up One Morning In May 5. Richard Rabbit Brown - James Alley Blues 6. Dock Boggs - Sugar Baby 7. Bascom Lamar Lunsford - I Wish I Was a Mole in the Ground 8. Ernest Stoneman & Hattie Stonemen - The Mountaineer's Courtship 9. The Stoneman Family - The Spanish Merchant's Daughter 10. Memphis Jug Band - Bob Lee Junior Blues 11. The Carter Family - Single Girl, Married Girl 12. Cleoma Breaux & Joseph Falcoln - Le Vieux Soulard et Sa Femme 13. Blind Lemon Jefferson - Rabbit Foot Blues 14. Sleepy John Estes - Expressman Blues 1. Ramblin' Thomas - Poor Boy Blues 2. Cannon's Jug Stompers - Feather Bed 3. Dock Boggs - Country Blues 4. Julius Daniels - 99 Years Blues 5. Blind Lemon Jefferson - Prison Cell Blues 6. Blind Lemon Jefferson - See That My Grave Is Kept Clean 7. Cleoma Breaux/Joseph Falcoln/Orphy Breaux - C'est Si Triste Sans Lui 8. Uncle Dave Macon - Buddy Won't You Roll Down the Line 9. Mississippi John Hurt - Spike Driver Blues 10. The Memphis Jug Band - K.C. Moan 11. J.P. Nestor - Train on the Island 12. Ken Maynard - The Lone Star Trail 13. Henry Thomas - Fishing Blues Download: Anthology of American Folk Music (Disc 1) (56MB) Liner Notes: These liner notes were included in the boxed set reissued by Smithsonian Folkways. Included is an award-winning 100-page "Booklet of Essays, Appreciations, and Annotations Pertaining to the Anthology of American Folk Music." The booklet follows Harry Smith's original vision and features his "scientific/aesthetic handbook" of songs, an essay by noted critic and author Greil Marcus, additional essays, song notes, photos, graphics, a reproduction of the originally liner notes, and recollections by well known artists about the impact of this anthology on their own lives. Compiled and edited by Smithsonian Archivist Jeff Place, the booklet received the 1997 Grammy Award for "Best Album Notes." Download: Anthology of American Folk Music Liner Notes Anthology of American Folk Music - E-Book Anthology of American Folk Music is a rare and currently out of print book published by Oak Publications in 1973. It was edited by Josh Dunson and Ethel Raim. It collects the musical tablature of the majority of the songs included in Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music, as in addition to a number of photographs of the artists themselves. It also contains an interview with Frank Walker, in which he describes how the tracks for the anthology were chosen, as well as an interview with Moses Asch, who describes the birth and growth of early American folk music. This book was scanned by Malcolm Lawrence. The downloadable file was nested within many folders, so I have taken the time to re-organize the contents and re-upload the file. An online version of the entire book which can be found on his website. Download: Anthology of American Folk Music Labels: blues, Compilation, Country, Folk Coachwhips - Hands on the Controls The Coachwhips were a three-piece noise/punk rock outfit from San Francisco, California formed in 2001. John Dwyer (also of Pink and Brown, Landed, Burmese, The Ohsees, Yikes, The Hospitals) was the guitarist/vocalist. John Harlow played drums and Mary Ann McNamara played keyboard/tambourine and provided backing vocals. In their second incarnation, Val (tronic) played keyboard/tambourine, and Matt Hartman (former guitarist for Cat Power, current drummer for Sic Alps) played drums. Coachwhips are known for their stripped-down, unpolished garage rock and completely inaudible lyrics, a sound that is similar to The Oblivians and The Gories. Coachwhips played their last show in New York City in late 2005. Label: Black Apple 1. Hands on the Controls 2. Everybody Wants Some 3. The Ride 4. OK, Next Day 5. Look Into My Eyes When I Come 6. Wheelchair 7. When I Go 8. G.A.R.Y. 9. N.Y.C.L.O.V.E. 10. Mary Ann 11. This Bitch Is Gonna End Up Dead 12. Yeah, Yeah, Yeah! 13. We Can't Go Back To My Place 14. Sex Like A Seesaw 15. By The Way 16. These Things Belong To Someone 17. Wite Lies 18. OK, Next Day (Live) 19. That Bitch Is Gonna End Up Dead (Live) Download: Coachwhips - Hands on the Controls Labels: Noise Rock Fields Of The Nephilim - Earth Inferno Earth Inferno is an incredibly moving and profound live album by Fields Of The Nephilim. The first half of this show is a live rendition of the first half of the final studio album, "Elizium". The second half of the show covers some of their earlier work. Recorded live at the Brixton Academy 6-10-90, Wolverhampton Civic Center 4-8 90 and Hamburg BG Sportshalle 6-11-90. If you enjoy their studio work, you have got to hear this amazing disc. Label: Beggars Banquet Genre: goth rock, live performance 1. Intro (dead but dreaming) For Her Light At The Gates Of Silent Memory (Paradise Regained) 2. Moonchild 3. Submission 4. Preacher Man 5. Love Under Will 6. Sumerland 7. Last Exit For The Lost 8. Psychonaut 9. Dawnrazor Download: Fields Of The Nephilim - Earth Inferno Download size: 69 MB zip file Posted by Anonymous 2 comments Links to this post Labels: gothic rock, Live VA - Flattery - A Tribute to Radio Birdman Vol. 3 This is the last volume from the "Flattery - A Tribute to Radio Birdman" compilation series. Conceived in 1974, Radio Birdman were one of the first punk groups to form in Australia. Despite releasing only only one full length album and one EP before their breakup in 1978, they eventually gained a cult following, and their name has since become synonymous with Aussie rock. They have influenced a countless number of successful bands, All six members would go on to join other successful bands, including The Hitmen, The New Christs, The Visitors, and New Race. The group briefly reunited in 1996 for a small number of tours, and even released a new album, 'Zeno Beach', in 2006. The reunited Birdman called it quits once again in May of 2008, as lead-singer Rob Younger returned to work with the latest incarnation of The New Christs. Label: Nomad Genre: Garage, Punk, Garage Punk 1. The Tip Toppers - Hanging On 2. The M-16s - Monday Morning Gunk 3. The Sacred Sailors - Non-Stop Girls 4. Holy Curse - Crying Sun 5. The Sewergrooves - Smith & Wesson Blues 6. The Flaming Sideburns - El Hombre del Casco Dorado (Man with Golden Helmet) 7. The Lucky Punch - Love Kills 8. Mean Idols - I-94 9. The Specimens - Death By The Gun 10. The Doits - Snake 11. Mustang - Anglo Girl Desire 12. The Trassels (Finland) - Burned My Eye 13. The Devilrock Four - Murder City Nights 14. American Ruse - Do the Pop 15. The Mutants - Alien Skies 16. The Deadbeats - Aloha Steve and Danno 17. The Lords of Gravity - More Fun 18. Bad Machine - What Gives? 19. Demons featuring Nicke Andersson - Living Eyes Medley Download: Flattery - A Tribute to Radio Birdman Vol. 3 Labels: Aussie Rock, Compilation, Garage, Punk Fields Of The Nephilim - The Nephilim More dust and death from the influential gothic rock band Fields Of The Nephilim. This is definitely my favorite album by the Fields. McCoy vocals come off as a cross between Ian Curtis, Alan Jourgenson and Andrew Eldridge. The music has a certain power behind it, the lyrics are deep, thought-provoking, even sad. On this album, the band had definitely solified their sound into something solid, unique and wonderful. Here is the video for Moonchild. It reminds me of some of Kenneth Anger's works. Label: Beggar's Banquet Genre: gothic rock 1. "Endemoniada" 2. "The Watchman" 3. "Phobia" 4. "Moonchild" 5. "Chord Of Souls" 6. "Shiva" 7. "Celebrate" 8. "Love Under Will" 9. "Last Exit For The Lost" Download: Fields Of The Nephilim - The Nephilim Here we have the second of three volumes from the "Flattery - A Tribute to Radio Birdman" compilation series. Conceived in 1974, Radio Birdman were one of the first punk groups to form in Australia. Despite releasing only only one full length album and one EP before their breakup in 1978, they eventually gained a cult following, and their name has since become synonymous with Aussie rock. They have influenced a countless number of successful bands, All six members would go on to join other successful bands, including The Hitmen, The New Christs, The Visitors, and New Race. The group briefly reunited in 1996 for a small number of tours, and even released a new album, 'Zeno Beach', in 2006. The reunited Birdman called it quits once again in May of 2008, as lead-singer Rob Younger returned to work with the latest incarnation of The New Christs. 1. Gluecifer - Monday Morning Gunk 2. Resin Scraper - What Gives? 3. The BellRays - If I Wanted To 4. Silver Tongued Devil - TPBR Combo 5. The Streetwalkin' Cheetahs - Iskender Time 6. The Nomads - Hanging On 7. The Yes-Men - Anglo Girl Desire 8. Sator - Alone In The Endzone 9. Kike Turmix & No Wonder - Aloha Steve and Danno 10. The Failures - Do The Pop 11. The Spoilers - Descent Into The Maelstrom 12. The Finkers - I-94 13. The Nitwitz - Dark Surprise 14. Gorka Secta & The Safety Pins - Snake 15. Demons - Radios Appear Medley Labels: Compilation, Garage, Punk This is the first of three volumes from the "Flattery - A Tribute to Radio Birdman" compilation series. Conceived in 1974, Radio Birdman were one of the first punk groups to form in Australia. Despite releasing only only one full length album and one EP before their breakup in 1978, they eventually gained a cult following, and their name has since become synonymous with Aussie rock. They have influenced a countless number of successful bands, All six members would go on to join other successful bands, including The Hitmen, The New Christs, The Visitors, and New Race. The group briefly reunited in 1996 for a small number of tours, and even released a new album, 'Zeno Beach', in 2006. The reunited Birdman called it quits once again in May of 2008, as lead-singer Rob Younger returned to work with the latest incarnation of The New Christs. All Music Guide Review: "The problem with tribute albums is that they usually only hint at the original artists' skill and majesty (if you could call it that) without coming close to the quality of the originals. One is usually left with a mixed bag of decent and not-so-decent tunes, some of which cannot stand alone without the memory of the original. Some songs are hampered since the originals are perfect as is, suggesting the futility of tribute albums. Really, how is one going to improve on tracks by an artist deemed great enough to warrant a tribute album? Flattery tries a different track, acting as both a compilation as well as a tribute album. Hearing different versions of one's favorite Radio Birdman tunes is the hook that gets one curious enough to take a listen, and is perhaps rewarded in finding out about a new band worth investigating. Often, one winds up deeming the quality of the songs by whether one agrees with the new version of it. The tracks on Flattery are hit-and-miss, with the high spots being the submitted tracks by the Hellacopters, the Dead City Rebels, and Hellenic Zeal. Hellenic Zeal is the only band to include a vaguely farfisa sounding organ to accompany their crunchy version of "455 SD"; only two other bands offer weak piano sounds. The low points include the Quadrajets hyperspeed "Man With the Golden Helmet" and the vocals of Larry May of the Candy Snatchers on "Murder City Nights." The Boyettes track stands out as being the only female band, while the rest of the tracks fall into the category as reviving pleasant memories, but not really adding to them. If you have the original Birdman albums, then this is worth a spin. Otherwise, proceed with all speed to find a vinyl copy of either Radios Appear or the Burn My Eye EP." ~ Jeremy Salmon, All Music Guide 1. Hellride - Non Stop Girls 2. The Candy Snatchers - Murder City Nights 3. The Hellacopters - Time To Fall 4. A-Bombs - Crying Sun 5. Sheek the Shayk - Love Kills 6. Bon Fuhrer - New Race 7. The Dead City Rebels 8. Red Shift - Hit Them Again 9. Hellenic Zeal - 455 Sd 10. The Crums - Hand of Law 11. The Boyetts - Didn't Tell The Man 12. The Quadrajets - Man With Golden Helmet 13. Adam West - Burned My Eye 14. The Powder Monkeys - Smith & Wesson Blues 15. The Onyas - Snake Fields Of The Nephilim - Elizium Fields of the Nephilim, headed by vocalist Carl McCoy created some amazing music in the late 80's / early 90s. Their earlier stuff started out with more of a goth rock sound, but the band gradually eveolved into something quite different. Moody, atmospheric, at times quiet and subdued, enigmatic, dark, spiritual. There are so many adjectives to describe their sound. Dressed in dusters with tattered hats and boots, dusty and pale, these guys emulated old spaghetti western characters onstage. This studio release is very spiritual in nature. There are soaring epic moments, love songs, samples of Aleister Crowley and fantastic musicianship. This CD is one reason I bought my first CD player! Let me know in the comments if you enjoy it, as I have more Nephilim to share... Download: Fields of the Nephilim - Elizium Bauhaus - Rest In Peace (Live) More Bauhaus goodness for you! This one is the two disc set entitled Rest In Peace and was billed as the bands final performance, recorded at the Hammesmith Palais. Lucky for us, they reformed years later and those of us who had always dreamt of seeing this legendary group perform got a few more chances. From the liner notes: "The evening of Tuesday 5th July 1983 was to be the end of one of England's most exciting live bands. As soon as they started the encore, playing songs that weren't on the set list, I knew the suspicions of the road crew were proved to be true. This was to be the bands last gig...""This recording is ust as it was taped from from the desk with no editing or remixing, which you can tell as the sound quality does improve over the first few numbers. The only technical thing done was a de-hissing process which improves the reproduction a little. Satori is the studio recorded version taken from the actual cassette recording used to introduce the show." The most exciting part of this whole recording for me is most definitely the inclusion of "In Heaven" written by Peter Ivers and included in David Lynch's film Eraserhead. Label: NEMO Records Genre: goth 1. (Introduction) Satori 2. Burning From The Inside 3. In Fear Of Fear 4. Terror Couple Kill Colonel 5. The Spy In The Cab 6. Kingdom's Coming 7. She's In Parties 8. Antonin Artaud 9. King Volcano 10. Passion Of Lovers 11. Slice Of Life 12. In Heaven 13. Dancing 14. Hallow Hills 15. Stigmata Martyr 16. Kick In The Eye 17. Dark Entries 18. Double Dare 19. In The Flat Field 20. Boys 21. God In An Aclove 22. Hair Of The Dog 23. Bela Lugosi's Dead 1. Double Dare 2. In the Flat Field 3. Boys - Bauhaus, Ash, Daniel 4. God in an Alcove - Bauhaus, Ash, Daniel 5. Hair of the Dog Download: Bauhaus - Rest In Peace 2nd edition 1992 Download size: 85 MB total two zip files Digital Meltd0wn Now Listed at OnTopList.com I have added Digital Meltd0wn to the excellent ontoplist.com site. It is an invaluable resource for finding websites devoted to a specific topic. This one being about music, I have added it to http://music.onbloglist.com which is the music subsection of their site. If you would like to help me out, please click on the button below which will take you to their site. You don't have to worry about voting or anything of that nature, but it will take you directly to a large list of quality music blogs. I have also placed the button in the "Blog Aggregators|Lists" section of my sidebar for future reference. I hope that DM can make it into the top 50 before long. Thank you for your support. Do the Pop! The Australian Garage-Rock Sound 1976-1987 Re-Up - Originally Posted 10/24/06 Do The Pop!, a spectacular double CD collection of Australian garage-rock from the ‘70s and ‘80s - easily one of Oz's most exciting musical periods. Two decades before The White Stripes and The Hives made ‘garage-rock’ the new buzz-word, numerous Australian bands were cranking out a raw, high-energy music which had all the elements that people are hot for today. Inspired by two legendary punk-era bands, The Saints and Radio Birdman, Australia exploded in the late ‘70s with literally scores of bands who melded the wild sounds of classic ‘60s garage-rock and the Detroit rock action of the Stooges and the MC5 into a raw and powerful sound that was unlike anything else in the world. Starting with three tracks apiece from The Saints and Radio Birdman, Do The Pop! includes essential tracks – often two or three per band - from every key band that followed their path including The Hoodoo Gurus, Died Pretty, The Lipstick Killers, The Sunnyboys, The Scientists, The Lime Spiders, The Screaming Tribesmen, The Hard-Ons, The Celibate Rifles, The New Christs, The Eastern Dark, The Exploding White Mice, The Stems and more. Included also are tracks from The Victims, Hoodoo Guru Dave Faulkner’s band from ’77, and The Fun Things, Guru Brad Shepherd’s first band from 1980. 1. The Saints - (I'm) Stranded 2. Radio Birdman - New Race 3. The Psycho Surgeons - Wild Weekend 4. The Saints - One Way Street 5. The Victims - Television Addict 6. Radio Birdman - Aloha Steve and Danno 7. Johnny Kannis - King of the Surf 8. Radio Birdman - Crying Sun 9. The Hitmen - Didn't Tell The Man 10. The Lipstick Killers - Hindu Gods of Love 11. The Visitors - Living World 12. The Passengers - Face With No Name 13. The Saints - Simple Love 14. The Scientists - Last Night 15. The Fun Things - Savage 16. Sunnyboys - Alone With You 17. The New Christs - Face A New God 18. New Race - Alone in the Endzone 19. The Hitmen - I Don't Mind 20. The Celibate Rifles - 24 Hours (SOS) 21. Sunnyboys - Happy Man 22. The Lipstick Killers - Driving The Special Dead 23. The Hoodoo Gurus - Lellani 24. The Hitmen - Dwana Devil 25. Minutemen - Voodoo Slaves 26. The Scientists - Swampland 27. The Lime Spiders - 25th Hour 28. The Screaming Tribesmen - Igloo 29. The Hoodoo Gurus - Be My Cure 30. The Lime Spiders - Slave Girl 31. The New Christs - Like A Curse 32. Died Pretty - Mirror Blues Pt. 1 33. The Screaming Tribesmen - Ice 34. Decline of the Reptiles - Don't Look Down 35. The Eastern Dark - Johnny and Dee Dee 36. The Exploding White Mice - Burning Red 37. The Hard-Ons - Bye Bye Girl 38. The Psychotic Turnbuckles - Groove to the Eye 39. The Lime Spiders - Out of Control 40. The Scientists - Atom Bomb Baby 41. The Stems - Can't Resist 42. Died Pretty - Stoneage Cinderella 43. The Some Loves - Don't Talk About Us 44. The Hard-Ons - Girl In The Sweater 45. The Eastern Dark - Walking 46. The Celibate Rifles - Back In The Red 47. The Ohilistines - Early Morning Memory 48. The Headstones - When You're Down 49. The Stems - At First Sight 50. The New Christs - I Swear Download: Do the Pop! CD1 (106MB) Note: A few of you pointed out the fact that Disc 1 was missing tracks. I reuploaded it, along with Vol. 2, but for some odd reason blogger didn't save the changes I made to the post. I have reuploaded Disc 1 once again, and all of the tracks are intact. I apologize for the inconvenience. Anne Dudley & Jaz Coleman - Songs From The Victorious City Songs From The Victorious City (a unique collaboration) is an album in the world music genre written by Anne Dudley (English Orchestra composer /member of Art Of Noise) and Jaz Coleman (composer / producer / singer for Killing Joke). On this release, eastern melodies are played by a large cast of actual Egyptian players in Cairo using modern and traditional instruments. The end result was then taken to a studio in London, where Dudley and Coleman added their own touches to create this very rich, full collection of songs. Label: China Records 2. Endless Festival 3. Minarets and Memories 4. Force And Fire 5. Habebe 6. Ziggarats Of Cinnamon 7. Hannah 8. The Conqueror 9. A Survivor's Tale 10. In A Timeless Place Bonus time... I am also including the Ziggarats Of Cinnamon CD single. 1. The Cinnamon Love Mix 2. Cinnamon Love (7" edit) 3. Techno Pharoah Mix 4. Ziggarats of Cinnamon (LP version) Download: Songs From The Victorious City Labels: Fusion, World Music Mudhoney - Mudhoney Re-Up - Originally Posted 4/10/08 I apologize for the lack of updates recently, but I've been feeling a little down the last few days, and just didn't feel like doing much online. I plan on uploading a few more compilations of rare 60's garage and psychedelic rock, similar to the "A Lethal Dose of Hard Psych" and "The 60's Collection of Scarcest Garage Records" compilations that I posted previously. I can't remember off the top of my head who requested this album.. but without further ado, here's Mudhoney's debut album. With their first self-titled album, Mudhoney was trying to figure out how to make a full album work with their unique sound. It doesn't quite live up to the singles that they previously released, and if it's not a perfect listen as a whole, there are still some great songs to hear. Jack Endino's production lives up to his reputation for rough, thick recording, but he's left just enough for the songs to breathe, whether it's the audible handclaps on "This Gift" or the quirky guitar riff leading into Dan Peters' rollicking drum rolls on "You Got It." "When Tomorrow Hits" is easily the sleeper hit of the record; later memorably covered by Sonic Boom in the dying days of Spacemen 3, its slow, dreamily threatening build shows off the band's ability for subtlety amidst the volume. "Flat out Fucked" about sums up the whole ethos of the album -- careening pace, compressed feedback roar, and Mark Arm's desperate but never self-important singing resulting in neo-garage rock anti-anthems. About as good is the brilliantly titled instrumental "Magnolia Caboose Babyshit," which gives Steve Turner and Arm a chance to show off some crazy acid rock/proto-funk guitar that avoids sucking, always a pleasure. A couple of draggy numbers and others that take a good idea but almost run too much with it ("Come to Mind," well, comes to mind) keep things from fully working, but with their next album release Mudhoney would have the perfect combination down. (Year of Release: 1989) 1. This Gift 2. Flat Out Fucked 3. Get Into Yours 4. You Got It 5. Magnolia Caboose Babyshit 6. Come To Mind 7. Here Comes Sickness 8. Running Loaded 9. The Farther I Go 10. By Her Own Hand 11. When Tomorrow Hits 12. Dead Love Download: Mudhoney - Mudhoney Download: 51.3MB Labels: Grunge Mudhoney - Superfuzz Bigmuff Plus Early Singles Re-Up - Originally Posted 4/6/08 Named after the band's favorite distortion pedal, Superfuzz Bigmuff was actually Mudhoney's first EP; the Superfuzz Bigmuff Plus Early Singles package collects that recording, as well as the A- and B-sides of their first two 45s and two covers (of the Dicks and Sonic Youth), all released in 1988-1989. Taken as a whole, this output makes a case for Mudhoney as the first true grunge band; due to the time constraints of the forms in which this material was originally released, it also makes for their best, most consistent album, as the band largely refrains from the sort of aimless, grinding Stooges updates that slow the momentum of most of its records. Instead, Superfuzz Bigmuff has all the best attributes of Mudhoney's Stooges fixation, whether slow or fast, this music is grimy, raucous, and violently enthusiastic, with a stronger melodic sensibility than Iggy's band possessed. Mudhoney's dominant traits are simple chord progressions and a filthy-sounding, ultradistorted guitar racket, punctuated by Mark Arm's snarling, demonic howls. It isn't the most original approach to rock & roll, but when it all comes into focus, as on their (and Sub Pop's) debut single, the ultimate grunge anthem "Touch Me I'm Sick" Mudhoney's power is absolutely throttling. "Touch Me I'm Sick" would be essential listening for anyone even remotely interested in the genesis of the Seattle scene, but the album is full of menacing, vital rock & roll, plus sharp songwriting that elevates several other songs to classic status. Mudhoney's musical range may be quite limited, but as Superfuzz Bigmuff proves, they can be amazing at what they can do. This is the birth of grunge, and a reminder of exactly why the music was christened with a word meaning "dirt." (Year of Release: 1990) 1. Touch Me I'm Sick 2. Sweet Young Thing (Ain't Sweet No More) 3. Hate The Police 4. Burn It Clean 5. You Got It (Keep It Outta My Face) 6. Halloween 7. No One Has 8. If I Think 9. In 'N' Out Of Grace 10. Need 11. Chain That Door 12. Mudride Download: Mudhoney - Superfuzz Bigmuff Plus Early Singles Danzig - Danzig Glenn Danzig was the main singer/songwriter for the classic punk/metal legends, The Misfits. However, like all good things, his days in The Misfits finally came to an end. Fortunately though, Danzig wasn't about to be through with doing what he did best. Teaming up with Eerie Von, John Christ, and Chuck Biscuits, Glenn put together a new band that a appropriately decided to call Danzig. The band's debut came out in 1988. Read on for my review of it. This was the first album released by Danzig (the band Danzig, that is), and it really shows. The album's general sound, as well as the production of the album, is very raw in many places. It's obvious that the group had not quite found their sound yet. However, this is not to say that the album is a bad one - in fact, it's pretty damn cool. Glenn Danzig and every member of his band executes his role with excellence, creating an excellent classic metal album. The band even scored a big hit on this album - the classic Mother, which still gets play on a good deal of rock stations in America. The song is a classic, and there's no denying it! The other, lesser-known compositions are no less excellent, though. Although the album does seem a bit redundant in places, it's solid through and through. To date (as of August 3, 2004), there is only one version of this album available in America, and it seems to be becoming increasingly difficult to find. This implies to be that the album is now out of print. Hopefully, the catalogue will be reissued and remastered sometime in the near future - Danzig's music needs to be discovered by a wider audience! In the end, this is a very good classic metal album. Although not necessarily the best Danzig album, it is still excellent and worth checking out if you're a fan of the genre. When it comes to punk/metal singer/songwriters, Danzig is in a league all his own, and you can see why on this recording. (Year of Release: 1988) 1. Twist Of Cain 2. Not Of This World 3. She Rides 4. Soul On Fire 5. Am I Demon 6. Mother 7. Possession 8. End Of Time 9. The Hunter 10. Evil Thing Download: Danzig - Danzig Labels: Metal My Absence, Psycho Cat's Departure, and Other News... 13th Floor Elevators - Live at the Avalon Ballroom... Church Of Misery- Master of Brutality/ Early Works... Ofo The Black Company - Allah Wakbarr/Beautiful Da... John J. Kimmel - 20 Phonographic Cylinder Recordin... Delia Derbyshire, Dudley Simpson, Brian Hodgson, &... 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TURKMENISTAN: Fears grow for imprisoned Baptist It is feared that detained Baptist Geldy Khudaikuliev may not be released as promised by Turkmen secret police officers, Forum 18 News Service has learnt, and concerns are growing that he may have criminal charges laid against him and be being tortured. The family has been told that he is being held at the main headquarters of the National Security Ministry in the capital Ashgabad, and access to him is not being permitted. Khudaikuliev leads a small Baptist community in the town of Geok-Tepe, 50 kilometres (30 miles) west of Ashgabad. Like all non-Sunni Muslim and all non-Russian Orthodox communities it does not have state registration and the government treats all its activity as illegal. He had travelled to Ashgabad to collect money that had been transferred to him, and was then detained by the National Security Ministry, which has declined to discuss his case with Forum 18. The family of detained Baptist Geldy Khudaikuliev fear that he may not be released in ten days as promised by National Security Ministry officers, although officially no charges have been laid against him, Forum 18 News Service has learnt. Khudaikuliev was detained on 15 December in the capital Ashgabad and for several days his family did not know what had happened to him, Protestant sources who did not want to be identified told Forum 18. The family was later told that he was being held at the main headquarters of the National Security Ministry in Ashgabad, though no-one is being allowed access to him. "We fear he may not be released as scheduled but they will try to hang criminal charges on him," sources told Forum 18. "We are also worried because torture is routine in the National Security headquarters." It is believed that Geldy Khudaikuliev may have been under torture for the past two or three days. Khudaikuliev leads a small Baptist community in the town of Geok-Tepe, 50 kilometres (30 miles) west of Ashgabad. Like all non-Sunni Muslim and all non-Russian Orthodox communities it does not have state registration and the government treats all its activity as illegal. He had travelled to Ashgabad to collect money that had been transferred to him from the office of Western Union. It remains unclear whether he withdrew the money or not, although Western Union apparently told those who had sent the money that it had been withdrawn on 13 December. It remains unclear whether Khudaikuliev withdrew the money or not. Khudaikuliev is not known to have suffered direct pressure from the authorities before. He is not known to have been interrogated or fined for his work for his church.. When contacted by Forum 18, no National Secuity Ministry official was willing to discuss the case. The Turkmen authorities allow only Sunni Muslim and Russian Orthodox communities to have state registration, and have last month outlawed all unregistered religious activity with a new religion law. This defies the international human rights agreements Turkmenisan has signed (see F18News 11 November 2003 http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=180 ). Even before the new law came into force, Forum 18 knew of religious believers being fined, detained, beaten, threatened, sacked from their jobs, having their homes confiscated, banished to remote parts of the country or deported for unregistered religious activity. For more background see Forum 18's latest religious freedom survey at http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=151 ). A printer-friendly map of Turkmenistan is available at http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/atlas/index.html?Parent=asia&Rootmap=turkme

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More info on Court case Court case: Facts Related top topics Roe v. Wade facts Obscenity facts the 1959 court case K. M. Nanavati vs. State of Maharashtra was the last jury trial ever held in India? in the court case Trop v. Dulles, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that it was unconstitutional for the government to cancel the citizenship of a U.S. citizen as a punishment? Hartsville Oil Mill v. United States was a court case in which the Supreme Court held the Court of Claims jurisdiction was not increased by Congressional reference resolutions? Facts on topics related to Court case U.S. President Ronald Reagan timed his first proclamation of National Sanctity of Human Life Day to coincide with the anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision in the Roe v. Wade abortion case? Henry Wade never lost a case until Roe v. Wade? Norman Mailer claimed his 1968 experimental film Wild 90 "has the most repetitive, pervasive obscenity of any film ever made"? MANual Enterprises v. Day 370 U.S. 478 (1962) was the first case in which the U.S. Supreme Court engaged in plenary review of a Post Office Department order holding obscene materials "nonmailable"? after the Japanese Supreme Court found Shibusawa Tatsuhiko guilty of obscenity for translating the works of the Marquis de Sade into Japanese, he was outraged by the triviality of his fine? cartoonist Edward Barker and writer Mick Farren published Nasty Tales, the first comic book to face charges for obscenity in Great Britain? the Romanian Surrealist writer Geo Bogza, who adopted Socialist realism later in his life, was tried three times on charges of obscenity during the 1930s? the Fountain of the Great Lakes, with semi-nude figures, was not dedicated until after Chicago changed its obscenity laws for public art in 1913? the upcoming British film Hippie Hippie Shake by Beeban Kidron, which follows the 1971 obscenity trial of the Australian editor Richard Neville of satirical magazine Oz, was in development hell for nearly ten years?

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8. LILLY-SEXTY Baker Tree RICHARD LILLY and ANN SEXTY (8) RICHARD LILLY, who married in Sandwich in 1753, is almost certainly the son of Stephen Lilly and Ann Brown . He was baptised on 19 August 1722 at the village of Wickhambreaux, 12 miles west of Sandwich. This fits with his age when he died. He named his first two children Ann and Stephen. [1] His father was a yeoman farmer. He was the elder of his parents’ two sons. When he was nine, he suffered the humiliation of hearing an unmarried mother confess in church that the father of her baby boy was Richard’s own father. In 1736, at the age of 14, Richard Lilly of Wickhambreaux, son of Stephen Lilly, yeoman, was apprenticed to Robert Fearey of Ash, carpenter. The premium was 10 guineas. Ash is roughly halfway between Wickhambreaux and Sandwich. The information that Richard’s father is a yeoman is surprising. Richard’s paternal grandfather was a carpenter and his great-grandfather a weaver. This apprenticeship shows that Richard himself is not destined to be a farmer. There is a possible explanation. Richard’s mother was a young widow when she married his father. There may have been a child from that marriage who inherited a farm. Stephen could have been running it until his stepson came of age at 21. Thus Richard would have grown up on a farm, but with no expectation of inheriting it. As an apprentice, Richard would have gone to live with the Feareys in Ash. They had five children, all younger than Richard. He moved to Sandwich before his marriage at the age of 31. ANN SEXTY was the elder of the two known children of Stephen Sexty and Elizabeth Jordan. She was baptised in Sandwich in 1724, in the closing years of the reign of George I. Baptism. St Clement, Sandwich. 1724 Oct 18 Ann of Stephen and Elizabeth Saxty Her father died before she was two. It is likely that she went to live with her grandparents, with her widowed mother and baby brother, born posthumously. But Thomas and Elizabeth Jordan also died within two years. Ann seems to have grown up in Sandwich. Sandwich was one of the original Cinque Ports, second in precedence to Hastings. This confederation was instituted in the 11th century to provide ships and men for the king’s service. By Tudor times, it was already battling to keep the Haven at the mouth of the Stour open to shipping. The1791 Universal British Directory said: The harbour has for many years been so choked up with sand and by a ship of great burden, of Paul IV sunk in the channel that here is not depth of water enough for vessels of a considerable size. The wool stable was removed hither from Queenborough in the reign of Richard II and some Walloons and Dutchmen, who fled hither, in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, from persecution, set up the manufacture of cloth; but the chief trade of the town is in shipping and malting. The London markets are supplied from hence with the largest and sweetest carrots, and the feedsmen with most of their feeds, the soil being very good for all sorts of garden stuff. Eventually the port became silted up to such an extent that the old town of Sandwich, with its twisting streets and timber-framed houses, is now two miles from the sea. Although Ann was baptised at St Clement’s, she and Richard were married at St Peter’s, Sandwich. St Peter’s was one of three churches in Sandwich. The curfew bell was rung from its tower at 8 pm. Marriage. St Peter’s, Sandwich. 1753 10 Nov Richard Lilly and Ann Sexty Three children were baptised at St Peter’s. 1754 15 Sept Ann daughter of Richard and Ann Lilly 1757 11 April Stephen son of Richard and Ann Lilly Stephen died aged 4. He was buried on 9 Jan 1761. 1761 20 May Richard son of Richard and Ann Lilly Old Tollbridge, Sandwich [2] In 1759, the young Thomas Paine moved to Sandwich from Suffolk. He was then aged 22. He lived in a small house in New Street, where he practised his trade as a master stay-maker, making ropes for the rigging of ships. He married a local girl, Mary Lambert, who was an ‘Orphan of Sandwich’. This means that she had no money and no relatives to provide for her, and had to depend on the local government for assistance. She died a few months later. Mary’s father had been an excise man. Paine moved away from Sandwich to take up this profession. In 1768 he was sacked from his post in Lewes when he wrote a pamphlet calling for higher wages. From then on, he became known as a radical thinker. His most famous book is The Rights of Man. Paine went on to produce a series of books and pamphlets, the most famous being, and, in one of his pamphlets. He travelled widely in England, France, and America and played a prominent role in both the French and American revolutions. He was the first to use the name ‘The United States of America’. Eventually he was outlawed by the British government for his views on religion and the monarchy. In the French Revolution, he spent some time in jail for opposing the guillotining of King Louis XVI. He took American citizenship and die on his farm in New Rochelle, New York State in 1809. He is still remembered in Sandwich and a blue plaque marks the house in New Street where he lived.[3] Sometime between 1761 and 1772 the Lilly family moved to Ash, two miles inland from Sandwich. This was where Richard had served his apprenticeship as a carpenter. He may have gone to work for his former master. By 1772 they had moved on to Deal, on the coast, five miles south of Sandwich. They were able to claim legal settlement there, which Richard may have done by having a yearly contract to work in Deal. Settlements in Deal [4] 6 Jan 1772 Lilly, Richard and his wife + Ann their daughter age about 17, Richard their son about 11 years. From Ash, Kent Three years later, their daughter Ann, five months pregnant, married Samuel Baker, a pipe-maker. Despite the move to Deal, both Ann and Richard were buried at St Clement’s, Sandwich, in the same year. 1789 Mar 10 Ann wife of Richard Lilly from Deal. Age 65. 1789 Aug 7 Richard Lilly from Deal. Age 66. [1] BMDs fom Findmypast. [2] http://www.accommodationsandwich.co.uk/images/old-sandwich3.jpg [3] www.open-sandwich.co.uk/history_scrapbook/thomas_paine.htm [4] Helen Nobbs NEXT GENERATION: 7. BAKER-LILLY PREVIOUS GENERATIONS: 9. LILLY-BROWN 9. SAXTY-JORDAN

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Creativecommons.org CC talks with Marc Weidenbaum Subscribe to Creativecommons.org This guest blog post was written by Niki Korth. If you’re in the Bay Area, come see Marc read from his new book at City Lights Thursday night and come hear Niki speak at next week’s CC Salon. Marc Weidenbaum / Jorge Colombo In 1996, Marc Weidenbaum founded the website Disquiet.com, which focuses on the intersection of sound, art, and technology. He has written for Nature, the website of The Atlantic, Boing Boing, Down Beat, and numerous other publications. He initiated and moderates the Disquiet Junto group, where musicians respond on SoundCloud to weekly Oulipo-style restrictive compositional projects. He developed the sound design with Taylor Deupree for the 2013 documentary The Children Next Door. Since 2012, he has taught a course he developed on the role of sound in the media landscape at the Academy of Art in San Francisco. He cites Creative Commons as a major inspiration to his work and methodology, and recently paid homage to cherished CC advocate Bassel Khartabil through a Disquiet Junto prompt themed around one of his projects that remains unfinished due to his ongoing imprisonment in Syria. His new book, Selected Ambient Works Volume II, in Bloomsbury’s 33 ⅓ series, takes as its subject the 1994 Aphex Twin album by that name, and much of it is concerned with the album’s “cultural afterlife,” how our understanding of the music has been informed by its adoption by filmmakers, musicians, choreographers, and others. In the following interview, Marc discusses his projects, influences, and his perspective on the role of CC in the music community. Where does the name Junto come from? And how is it pronounced? Around the year 1727, when he was barely into his 20s, Benjamin Franklin had the desire to create a small society. He was an enthusiastic society-creator throughout his life. It can be informative to think of the United States of America as just one of the many clubs that Franklin created or helped create, along with militias, schools, fire departments, and so forth. “Junto” was the name he gave to one of his earliest such groups. I believe he imagined it to be a masculine version of “junta.” As for how it’s pronounced, this is at best a guess, but I think it’s pronounced like the Spanish “junta” — which in English we tend to think of primarily as a “military junta” — except with an “o” at the end, as in the English-language word “flow.” Add in whatever constituted a Boston accent at the time. Franklin’s dad was born in England and his mom, I believe, was born in the colonies. Franklin described his Junto as a club of “mutual improvement,” and it involved regular meetings of men — exclusively men, such were the times — from various walks of life who would meet to discuss politics, philosophy, and business. It was a knowledge-sharing union — part book club, part meatspace chat room, and probably to some extent part fraternity. I first came across the Junto when I was consumed by a biography of Franklin written by Walter Isaacson, having earlier read and enjoyed his biography of Albert Einstein. I was reading the Franklin book in the months that lead up to the creation of the Disquiet Junto, toward the end of 2011, and in many ways I don’t think that I would have ever started this group if I hadn’t been reading that book at that time. I was always a fan of Benjamin Franklin. I grew up on Long Island in New York, so Philadelphia and Boston and the whole revolutionary period were very close at hand, very prominent in regional memory. My hometown, Huntington, has numerous of these little plaques on the exterior walls of old buildings saying that so and so slept here or so and so died here back in the day. I turned 10 in the summer of 1976. I was an opportune age to have the Bicentennial play a huge role in my imagination. When you say that the Disquiet Junto project wouldn’t have come into being if you hadn’t read that book, are you saying that the act of naming sort of brought the project into fruition? Yeah, I think that registers. It’s more than naming, though — it’s the whole broad idea of getting people together as a creative process unto itself, and the benefits of mutual activity, of sharing knowledge and experience. All of which said, when I started the Disquiet Junto, all I was doing was experimenting: putting out a call for participation. I had no idea if anyone would join in the project, let alone whether there would be a second project the next week or the next month. I just employed the word “Junto” when I proposed the first project. I was using SoundCloud as the infrastructure, and on SoundCloud the simplest way to do this is to create what it calls a “group.” To make a group, you need to give the group a name. So, in the name slot I put “Disquiet Junto.” Anyhow, having a vague historical precedent in mind meant adopting a history, looking to precedents, like the Junto of Benjamin Franklin, and more recently to the artistic movements known as Fluxus and Oulipo. In making creative work, I think it is important to think about who your “parents” are — that’s parents in the metaphoric sense — and you sort of adopt them, creating your “inheritance” of traits, rather than the other way around — you recognize them after the fact. This isn’t about laying claim to legacy; it’s about acknowledging influence, precedent, culture. And I think that’s one of the key aspects of the idea of the Creative Commons as a community, when you think about it in the long term. It’s the idea that open licenses develop an “ecosystem” that enables you to create a collaboration and a lineage not only forward, where others are free to later do the same toward you, but backward, retroactively. I’m hesitant to say the word “ecosystem” because when it’s used these days it can easily be replaced with “shopping mall” — the Apple ecosystem, the Android ecosystem — but it’s the best word for what I’m trying to get at. If Junto and Oulipo and Fluxus are the adopted histories, what is the more immediate history that led up to Disquiet Junto? Something important for me happened in 2006. I’d been running my Disquiet.com website for a decade at that point. And that year, Brian Eno and David Byrne were celebrating the 25th anniversary of their album My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, one of my favorite records, and they did a very simple thing that was informed by Creative Commons. They posted online the stems, the core constituent parts, of two songs off this record, and they said to the world: you can remix these, for free. And at the time, I was not unfamiliar with this concept, but I was relatively unfamiliar with the idea of someone that prominent doing this so comfortably. I was a very big fan of remixes. Remixes form a huge part of the way that I understand music. I remember when I was attending college, in the mid-1980s, buying an extended version of a song that I liked, by an Australian band called INXS, and I remember being astonished by how listening to the remix could kind of make you completely rethink the way that you relate to the original, and that moment was really important, realizing that altering something does not detract from the original, but can enrich your understanding of it. Part of the reason that particular remix registered with me was because it sounded the way the music sounded in my memory — the parts I liked, the parts my memory would often play on repeat when I wasn’t actually listening to the original version of the song. So, anyhow, back in 2006 I checked out the Eno-Byrne website for their Bush of Ghosts remix project and listened to the music that was created using their stems, and although I was inspired by the idea of this thing, I just couldn’t stand listening to it. The resulting works were just really uninteresting to me, mostly bland house and routine techno tweaks of the source material. I was disappointed — it was crazy that some of the best music that I’d ever heard was being turned into something so lackluster. So my first thought was — my immediate thought was — why isn’t so-and-so doing this, what would it sound like if person X did a remix based on this material. I wished that people whose music I admired would contribute to this Eno-Byrne thing. And so I sent out emails to some of these musicians to see if they would participate, and I don’t think anyone said no, if memory serves. This led to the compilation Our Lives in the Bush of Disquiet featuring Roddy Schrock, Stephane Leonard, John Kannenberg, Mark Rushton, and (DJ) Morsanek, among others — a dozen acts in total. I initially posted the compilation at archive.org and, later, at the Free Music Archive. Between downloads and streams, it’s nearing on 80,000. That project led to a series of such projects, each of which followed a similar approach. I would come up with an idea, send out the description, and collect pieces by the invited musicians. Despite the Downturn took issue with a peculiar article about filesharing by Megan McCardle. Anander Mol, Anander Veig was a holiday remix album commissioned by Tabletmag.com. Lowlands: A Sigh Collective was a response to criticism of artist Susan Philips winning the Turner prize in 2010. And then LX(RMX): Lisbon Remixed involved the sounds of the city reconstructed by eight musicians — including Steve Roden and Stephen Vitiello — as inspired by a photo exhibit by Jorge Colombo, best known as the artist who does “the iPhone covers” for the New Yorker, though he is much much more than that. And all these projects of mine were posted for free download, with a Creative Commons license. My next project after those was significantly more open-ended. I got 25 musicians to make pieces of ambient music based on each other’s Instagram photos: essentially they were asked to imagine that the assigned image was the cover of their next single, and to then go and record that single. It’s titled Instagr/am/bient. That came out at the very end of 2011, five years after the Bush of Disquiet project, and between Free Music Archive, SoundCloud, and the Internet Archive, Instagr/am/bient is nearing 120,000 streams and downloads. This project was as essential an experience for me as was the Eno-Byrne Bush of Ghosts remix opportunity. Several things made Instagr/am/bient different, key among them that it was more of an open call than my earlier, invite-only projects, and because the compositional prompt was also less deterministic. My experience of it was also different — I came to be interested in how a group of 25 musicians doing something had a lot more energy, a lot more online communication, than a group of 8 to 12 musicians had in the past. Instagr/am/bient was a self-contained Creative Commons community — they each made music based on each other’s photos. I wondered, then, what would happen if I opened the floodgates wider still — and that thinking in turn led me to try out what became the Disquiet Junto approach. Could you say more about this collaborative aspect of Instagr/am/bient and how it led to your conceptualization of the Disquiet Junto? The important aspect of the Instagr/am/bient project was the fact that the musicians were supporting each other, and the relationship wasn’t just between the musicians and the audience, but amongst the musicians themselves. Each participant was creating the “prompt” — the Instagram photo — that served as the inspiration for another’s composition, as well as taking one of the prompts for their own composition. So the process created an “ecosystem” — there’s that word again — where the musicians themselves created the energy source — forgive the somewhat hippie tone to that phrase — for the project. In turn, by sharing the “final” product with a Creative Commons license, those who are listening in on the conversation are allowed to actually join the conversation, and potentially expand it into a new conversation. So listening becomes a context for production. As one example, an Instagr/am/bient track by the OO-ray, aka Ted Laderas, who is based in Portland, Oregon, titled “Silhouettes,” based on a photo by Naoyuki Sasanami, who is based in Tokyo, Japan, has been used subsequently in dozens, I think, of videos by various people. This experience of Instagr/am/bient was big part of making me think: Wow, what if that unexpected result was the goal? What if I decreased the importance of the listener-as-consumer, what if the listener is secondary, and the interaction of the musician-participants is primary, but we as listeners can still enjoy the end result, and listen in to the “conversation,” to observe the interaction between the musicians. To be clear, this isn’t to put aside the role of the listener-consumer — just to delay it a step, and to first extend the musician interaction. How does this idea of diminishing the role of “the listener” inform live performance? Disquiet explains the evening / Robert Nunnally / CC BY We’ve done four Disquiet Junto concerts so far. They’ve happened in New York, Chicago, Denver, and San Francisco. The thing I explain before each of them is: We’re all here in the audience to watch and listen to a concert. But what we’re really here to do is to watch the musicians interact with each other. At each concert, everyone performed original work based on the same compositional prompt. This sort of changes the concept of “listening” — it’s like, don’t just watch the people playing and absorb it, but watch them interact, watch how they pass the proverbial baton to each other, watch how they in the audience themselves react to the performances. So it’s sort of like having the online version of the Disquiet Junto collaboration happen in person. So, is it a live composition among the group of participants? Are they making new compositions, or playing preconceived works from the original prompts? So far, these live Disquiet Junto concerts have all involved around five to seven solo performances per concert, though some of the participants bring in collaborators. Each concert has a prompt from the Junto as their subject. If memory serves then so far they’ve all used the same prompt, which is the first prompt from the Disquiet Junto project series: record the sound of ice in a glass, and make something of it. We’ll be doing something similar alongside the launch events that are happening for a book I have just had published by Bloomsbury. This book is about Aphex Twin’s 1994 album Selected Ambient Works Volume II. My book is part of the 33 ⅓ series. Its U.S. released date is mid-February 2014, and in England it’s April. For each of the bookstore readings I’m doing about the book, I’m trying to arrange for there to be musicians present who will be playing something that was inspired by the Aphex Twin album, and that’s filtered through a prompt from a previous Junto project. In this case it’s wind-chime based piece, informed by a track on the Aphex Twin album that is often referred to as “White Blur I.” I should mention that the Creative Commons was a significant influence on my Selected Ambient Works Volume II book. Much of the book is concerned with what I term the album’s “cultural afterlife”: that which happened to the music after it was released. I explore how the album’s tracks, which are all but one lacking titles, were given names by listeners. I interview a composer who transcribed the tracks for traditional chamber music ensemble, and two directors who used the music in their films, and a choreographer and sound designer from two different contemporary dance ensembles who used the music in performances. I talk about unofficial, unlicensed remixes, as well as official, sanctioned licensing of the music. My sense that our understanding of the album has been informed by these subsequent uses takes a cue from the old Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt koan from their Oblique Strategies set: Repetition is a form of change. The music itself hasn’t changed in 20 years, but its repeated use and reuse has changed our understanding of the music. It sounds like a lot of your projects involve you acting as a facilitator, or framework builder, of collaborations. Is it difficult for you to imagine doing this without access to a large network of musicians, as you have? In other words, do you have any advice for people who may be interested in trying to do something similar, but don’t have access to as wide of a network? Well just to begin with, it’s totally cool that you used the word “network,” but that’s a word that I tend not to use. There’s something a little possessive inherent in the term that doesn’t feel collaborative to me. It’s kind of OK as a noun, but as a verb it really is not a word I’m going to use. Because it’s only one person’s network? It can imply that one person’s network is exclusive from another’s. It can put the person whose network it is in contrast with the network itself. It’s a person’s network, rather than a network in which the person is a participant. This is why the word “community,” for all its overuse, is preferable. The word “community” isn’t sufficient, but it’s better than “network.” The word “network” tends to emphasize size, rather than being about connections, and better yet the interconnections. When I hear “network” I see “Rolodex.” What about “internet”? As a word or concept, not the internet itself? Since what we understand as the Internet is a network of networks, that would seem to emphasize the connections and overcome the possessive character of the term. I’m not sure I’m ready to use it that way, but I do like this idea of using the word “internet” to describe something that is not “the internet.” This discussion reminds me of a recent interview with Kim Stanley Robinson, the science fiction writer, where he says something similar about the word “sustainable.” He takes issue with it for various reasons, key among them that it allows people to continue their capitalist and consumerist ways without reflecting on the role those ways play in the issue in the first place. He tries out a different word, “permaculture.” Rather than “it’s sustainable so I’ll buy it,” this other word emphasizes that it is permanent, so it’s more like “it exists, and I’m going to continue to use it.” So, I feel like “network” is like “sustainable,” and I’m trying to find a “permaculture” alternative to it. Perhaps “community.” Perhaps “internet” could work. Doesn’t feel quite right at the moment, but it’s an interesting nudge in the right direction. Come to think of it, pretty much the only time I think I actively employ the term “network” is in terms of “network” — or “networked,” more often — communication and creativity, which aligns with your “internet” idea. Anyhow, with that “network” stuff out of the way, let’s get to your question. So, for people who don’t have a wide address book of potential collaborators but want to try building something like Disquiet Junto, I would say: Just work with the people you know. Look, I didn’t think that I had this “network,” either. Sure, I had gotten to know musicians, mostly tangentially, over the years, and I knew that a sizable percentage of the audience of my Disquiet.com website self-identified as musicians, in contrast with “listeners who don’t make music.” But when I posted the first Disquiet Junto project, I felt like I’d bought a keg of beer for a party that no one might even show up for. If you’re creative and you have a group of like-minded people who inspire you, then that’s your group. It doesn’t take much. It’s not about an end result. It’s about an ongoing, refreshing, rewarding sense of engagement. Just work with the people you like working with, and it’ll build from there. This isn’t about scale. It isn’t about: Well, we have this many hundred participants, but how do we get to a thousand? You don’t make a garden in your backyard and start worrying about increasing your tomato haul or the density of flowers. You just tend to it, and watch it grow, shaping it as it goes, as time passes, as the seasons change, as you learn from experience. Man, first “energy source” and now “online community as a garden.” I sure can come across like a digital hippie. Please let people know that’s not how I come off in person. So how did you first become interested in Creative Commons? How did you first hear about it? I have no idea. I mean, I have no specific memory. I imagine that it was an article in Wired — because back then, that was the main channel through which things like that were communicated. Or maybe, since I was into the Internet Archive so early, it could have been through there that I saw a license, and then I followed that through. Since 2012, I’ve taught a class at the Academy of Art on the role of sound in the media landscape. I talk in the class about an early open source text, The Cathedral and the Bazaar by Eric S. Raymond. And I talk about the ideas discussed there – about the decentralized, at times frenzied and random organization of a bazaar and how it contrasts with the perfection-oriented, often exclusive and severely hierarchical mindset of the cathedral as an organization. And even though this book was released in 1999, which is already 15 years ago, and Creative Commons was founded just 2 years later, many students are not aware that these alternatives to closed-source, super-hierarchal production methods exist. That said, they’ve come up in the culture, so it isn’t alien to them. It can be exciting for them to think about these alternatives – that by sharing and enabling more eyeballs, or eardrums, to encounter your work, you can get better feedback that helps you to develop it, and very often giving people the license to remix your work can help you to see and hear it in ways you never imagined before. More important that that, the model of the Creative Commons maps in ways to human interaction that the more traditional marketplace model does not. Have you had any non-computer or non-music based experiences that have also contributed to your sharing-driven creative outlook? One specific experience comes to mind: I took a two-week trip by myself to Scotland when I was in my mid-20s, and I was amazed by the “Right of Way” laws in the United Kingdom that permit free travel on certain routes between public places, even when those routes involve passage through an area of private property. This was completely mind-blowing to me at the time, since I came from the United States where “private property” is synonymous with “restricted” and “off limits” and often involves someone who’s more likely to shoot than to call a lawyer. When I was in Scotland I walked along these Right of Ways, completely fascinated by the opportunity, the concept, and the experience. And there is a connection between this idea, and these memories, and what I’ve done since that point in my life. There’s something in that walking through the shared geography of Scotland that relates to how I think about culture. In the early 1990s, my head was deep in what some people tried to call “avant-pop,” especially writers like Jonathan Lethem and David Shields, who were doing inquisitive meta-works that involved pre-existing texts and drew from influences in an acquisitive manner, and to me this relates to the idea of property being left open for creative use. It’s like a creative stroll. I also think about how artistic awards shape culture. I’m not a big fan of things like the Oscars. Think about contemporary Hollywood films. Their composition and construction is often motivated by the pursuit of the Oscar, and the Oscars in turn dictate that movies have to operate following certain types of roles, with main stars, supporting roles, and so on. Imagine if the system was changed, and there were an Oscar for the best ensemble drama. The very next year there would be movies that de-emphasize a main role in favor of a collection of roles. This isn’t just about the Oscars. There are reward structures throughout culture that define the way that people and works participate, how they’re conceived. The law plays a role. The law codifies the way that music is handled and that defines how cultural objects are shaped. I’m not saying get rid of the law. I’m saying look at the unintended ramifications of the law. What was your motivation behind doing the Disquiet Bassel project? Just about every Disquiet Junto project originates not as a project but as me thinking about things and trying to shape my thoughts into the form of a compositional prompt. I don’t set out to make a project involving the tone of rooms. I become fascinated, for example, by the idea of room tone and then I try to figure out how to explore that fascination by asking people to make music related to the idea. I try to turn my interest into a compositional prompt as a means of exploring it further. So, what happened with the Bassel situation is that I was taken by several factors, in particular the passion of people whom I admire, such as Barry Threw. I knew about the Free Bassel activity, and had talked with him about it, but a video I saw of him speaking really hit me. I read a lot of Kafka at way too young and impressionable an age, so the idea of prison is a powerful one for me, especially wrongful imprisonment. Although I’ve never met Bassel Khartabil, I read about his activity in the open-source community and about his work promoting Creative Commons and the role of open source in a part of the world that has a very different take on freedom of expression, and I was really moved by it all. And I was aware that, with the second anniversary of his arrest coming up, the timing was useful to get people’s attention. Could you say more about the idea of risk-taking, and the process of facilitating collaborations and open submissions that can be very unpredictable? It was several months into the Disquiet Junto when I realized that part of what made it function was that people who participated felt comfortable failing. Initially the idea of the four-day window for participation in each project was to give people a solid deadline. But an unintended result was people felt comfortable posting work because listeners would understand that the work wasn’t necessarily finished. It gave them an “out.” A community of people making music under the same restrictions can be, in its own way, freeing. I think we had like 40-60 participants the first week that I did Junto. At the time I didn’t even know if there would be a second one. At the time it felt like hubris that there was a four-digit number for the project — “0001″ — which is certainly a naming structure that I borrowed from the Long Now Foundation. You know, how they have a zero before the year to make you think in terms of 10,000 years, not 1,000 years? For example, right now it is 02014, not 2014. Who knows if we’ll actually get to one thousand? Who cares? I like this idea of a numbering system that forces you to think about the future, whether or not you get there. What areas of the future are you forcing yourself to think about? Disquiet Junto concert at apexart / Ethan Hein / CC BY I’ve been really interested in the idea of what a record label is, and in many ways I think that the best record labels are like communities. Think of the acts that were on Motown, the acts that were on Blue Note — they were more like subsets of a broader, loosely structured community that the audience was able to get a taste of through the release of the music. Musicians and songwriters would move between albums, between groups. A backup singer or instrumentalist would later be a headlining musician, and the audience was along for the ride. Whereas record labels now are more like marketing firms that find the act and then obtain the rights, so it’s more like licensing products. Sure, there are collaborations. Elektra, ECM, Ghostly, and Warp are great examples of record labels where artists still intermingle in interesting ways. I am really interested in: What should a record label be like today? How has the Internet changed things. If you were to reverse-engineer a record label, then I feel like the Junto is closer to what a record label might try to be than an actual record label is today. I think it’s always important to ask, when you import something to the digital world, when you port a pre-digital system to a digital system: How does it change, and what pre-Internet assumptions have come along as baggage? And in saying that, it’s important to clarify that when I talk about Creative Commons licenses, I’m essentially always thinking of it in terms of a particular license, which is the one that gives the ability to remix, the one that allows for “derivative” works. And I’m troubled by the fact that a lot of Creative Commons use does not actually employ that. For example, I’ve written a lot about the netlabel community. There are about 600 netlabels at this point that actively release music by musicians with the permission for that music to be downloadable for free. And that’s an incredible world of music. But an oddly small percentage of those netlabels employs the license that allows for creative reuse, which I find disappointing. So I’m always pushing for people to think beyond the non-commercial download, and to think about the creative re-use. I’m also wrestling with the word “derivative.” It seems to have a negative cast to it. There may be a better word, a word that makes the benefits more self-evident. What interests you about creative re-use? Why do you think it is important, for yourself as well as others, and how did your view of it impact the prompt you created for the #FreeBassel Disquiet Junto? I don’t take much stock in fixed cultural objects as ends unto themselves. For example, I don’t really have favorite movies or books — I love Citizen Kane, Dawn of the Dead, and Playtime, but I especially love them in the context of their creators’ other work. I have favorite authors, favorite directors, favorite actors, and I enjoy work in that context. When I read a Don DeLillo novel, or a Mira Grant novel, or a Richard Stark novel, or a Michael Brodsky novel, or a Joanna Scott novel, or one among many types of things — novels, comics, essays, tweets, Instagram captions — by Warren Ellis, I enjoy it in the context of their broader work. Same for musicians and architects, even journalists and politicians. And that’s just speaking of the individuals’ own “careers,” for lack of a more nuanced term. An original piece of work is also part of a broader community, part of various ongoing continuities — it’s about the type of work that it is, how it fits into the broader scope of that work. You don’t just write a sonnet from scratch. It is always informed by and reflects back on previous sonnets. You always draw material and references, often subconsciously. So, I started thinking about the work that Bassel hasn’t finished due to his ongoing imprisonment, such as his Palmyra project, which involves mapping an ancient architectural site using computer graphics. And I thought: this is something that we can help to keep alive, while he’s not around. And not only can we keep his projects going, but we can do so in new and unexpected ways. We aren’t taking his CGI architectural endeavor and completing it. We are, in the course of the Junto project, creating sound and music to accompany his work. This is something he might not have even considered. There’s something, also, metaphoric about how adding sound to his CGI work brings that work to live. This idea of keeping something alive, of keeping his ideas alive, is part of the reason the idea struck me as worth pursuing. What did you think of the resulting works? In reading through the comments people wrote about the story behind each of their compositions, I was really interested in how many people researched the history of Syrian music and integrated some of these sounds/ideas into their works. This adds a lot of depth and also brings it away from being political, approaching it more from an angle of cultural history. I’m always anxious when I do anything related to social or political issues in the context of a work like the Disquiet Junto. I generally steer away from it. It’s amazing how a turn of phrase can turn something from a collaborative project into a heated side conversation, so I am always trying to create a situation that is warm and inviting. In this case, that meant something that came from a place of mutual concern and caring about this person, about Bassel, about creative work that has been cut off. For the Junto members, I think the idea of the unfinished artistic project was what they related to in particular. I didn’t want people to be put off by it in the sense of thinking their compositions needed to address the political situation, necessarily. It was important to me that the Bassel project wasn’t “special,” that it was just another project in an ongoing string of projects. It could only work if we treated it as business-as-usual. Part of business-as-usual is asking people to, when posting their tracks, describe their creative process. That’s where a lot of the communication between the participants occurs — that and them commenting on each other’s tracks. And this isn’t to say all my projects are pacifist, but the ones with a strong unified opinion, like Despite the Downturn and Lowlands: A Sigh Collective, are focused on art as their primary subject. You make reference to Oulipo as an influence behind Disquiet Junto. Could you say more about this? What relation do you see between Oulipo and creative reuse, especially in the digital age? The most concise way to get into that is to compare it with another popular form of creative reuse: fan fiction. Fan fiction often works within the universe created by and defined by the source material, whereas Oulipo tends to walk up to the edges of that universe and say, “Oh, there’s a wall here, so let’s break through it or paint on it” or something like that. The difference isn’t a binary one. Lots of fan fiction actively flips the source material, changing gender, setting, plotlines. Oulipo is a little less of a collective, communal effort, and often works with material that isn’t as hallowed as the subjects of fan fiction, but the parallel is clear. I think Oulipo — along with Fluxus — exists as a keen pre-digital premonition of the collective consciousness that seems at work within, that seems alive within, communal creative activity.

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No Entry Fee: The Kentucky Women Writers Playwriting Prize ($500 prize and production | worldwide) Post date: 03 June 2012 Deadline: 1 November 2012 The Kentucky Women Writers Conference will award a national playwriting prize to bring more scripts by women to the stage, especially those featuring majority-female casts. The winner will receive a production by Balagula Theatre in Lexington, Kentucky (www.balagula.com), plus a cash prize of $500. The winning play will be workshopped prior to its world premier for a paying audience in winter 2014. ONE play per playwright will be considered. ELIGIBLE PLAYWRIGHTS The competition is open to all women playwrights. There are no restrictions on age, residence or experience. Playwrights previously unpublished are strongly encouraged to submit their work. Co-authored scripts are eligible if at least 50 percent of co-authors are female. ELIGIBLE PLAYS One-act or full-length scripts in English, with a running time between 45 and 90 minutes, that have not been published or commercially produced as of the entry deadline (November 1, 2012) and will not be published or produced before the release of the KWWC production (winter 2012). However, scripts that have been staged in a workshop production or script-in-hand staged readings are eligible. DEADLINE AND TIMELINE Entries must be electronically submitted by November 1, 2012. Winner will be posted on our Web site by March 15, 2013. Winning script will be workshopped in October - December 2013 Production will occur in winter 2014 $500 cash prize to be paid on opening night of production SUBJECT MATTER, CASTING, AND PRODUCTION LIMITATIONS KWWC is seeking new plays that can be produced as world premieres. We place no limitations on subject matter. However, KWWC espouses a feminism that creates economic equality, a violence-free society, and racial and ethnic justice, and we encourage art that envices a consciousness about the cultural inheritance of women's identity. Scripts may be based on factual events, purely fictional, or adaptations. KWWC encourages women writers not trained as playwrights to adapt their own fiction, nonfiction, or poetry for the stage. KWWC is not seeking one-man or one-woman scripts, musicals, or children's plays. Limitations: Reading time must be in the range of 45-90 minutes. Casts must be in the range of 2-6 actors, preferably with a majority female cast Set, lighting, sound, costume, and prop requirements must be kept to a minimum. The producing theater has a modular stage (nine 8-foot by 4-foot platforms) with a stage height of 9 feet. Performance space is limited to 12-feet deep. The stage has no curtain and no off-stage wings. Adequate lighting and sound capabilities are available. Questions about performance space should be directed to the Balagula Theatre Company: theatre@balagula.com JUDGING PROCESS AND CRITERIA All entries will be screened by KWWC staff for completeness and adherence to contest guidelines. Judging will consist of two rounds. In round 1, a diverse panel of theater professionals and educators will choose 5 finalists. In round 2, Kia Corthron will choose 1 winner. Judging will be guided by the following criteria, in descending order of importance: Literary merit and theatrical potential Number of compelling roles for female actors (cast is limited to 6) For queries: kentuckywomenwriters@gmail.com For submissions: via the playwriting prize entry form Website: http://www.uky.edu/WWK/ Labels: international literature, women writers, writing competitions, writing contests

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Home :E.G. White :Files :Library Standard View (Default) Standard View (Thumbnail) 51. Ellen G. White at the Loma Linda Sanitarium dedication, Loma Linda, California, April 15, 1906 52. Ellen G. White at the Madison Sanitarium, Madison, Tennessee, April 25, 1909 54. Ellen G. White with Australian workers at the 1909 General Conference Session, Takoma Park, Maryland, May/June 1909 55. Ellen G. White with Sara McEnterfer, "Elmshaven," St. Helena, California, circa 1910 56. Ellen G. White with "Elmshaven" helpers, St. Helena, California, circa 1913 57. Ellen G. White addressing children at Sanitarium Church-school picnic, St. Helena, California, June 15, 1913 58. Ellen G. White with family and "Elmshaven" helpers, St. Helena, California, August 24, 1913 59. Ellen G. White with family, "Elmshaven," St. Helena, California, August 24, 1913 60. Ellen G. White with family, helpers, and guests, "Elmshaven," St. Helena, California, August 24, 1913 61. Ellen G. White at "Elmshaven," St. Helena, California, 1915 63. Ellen G. White in casket, Battle Creek, Michigan, July 23-24, 1915 64. Ellen G. White's Funeral, Battle Creek Tabernacle, Battle Creek, Michigan, July 24, 1915 66. Grave of Ellen G. White, Oak Hill Cemetery, Battle Creek, Michigan, July 24, 1915 67. Biographical information form for Ellen G. White Ellen G. White at the Loma Linda Sanitarium dedication, Loma Linda, California, April 15, 1906 Ellen G. White at the Madison Sanitarium, Madison, Tennessee, April 25, 1909 Ellen G. White with Australian workers at the 1909 General Conference Session, Takoma Park, Maryland, May/June 1909 Ellen G. White with Sara McEnterfer, "Elmshaven," St. Helena, California, circa 1910 Ellen G. White with "Elmshaven" helpers, St. Helena, California, circa 1913 Ellen G. White addressing children at Sanitarium Church-school picnic, St. Helena, California, June 15, 1913 Ellen G. White with family and "Elmshaven" helpers, St. Helena, California, August 24, 1913 Ellen G. White with family, "Elmshaven," St. Helena, California, August 24, 1913 Ellen G. White with family, helpers, and guests, "Elmshaven," St. Helena, California, August 24, 1913 Ellen G. White at "Elmshaven," St. Helena, California, 1915 Ellen G. White in casket, Battle Creek, Michigan, July 23-24, 1915 Ellen G. White's Funeral, Battle Creek Tabernacle, Battle Creek, Michigan, July 24, 1915 Grave of Ellen G. White, Oak Hill Cemetery, Battle Creek, Michigan, July 24, 1915 Biographical information form for Ellen G. White Format:2020/01/20, 2020/01, 2020 Status: Off E.G. White Rows selector Rows number Choose number of results shown on search page.

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Cornelia P. BRUGH RESIDENCE: Botetourt Co.VA Father: Lewis BRUGH Mother: Ann Garland PENDLETON . Cornelia P. Brugh. Married Mr. Clarke, of Ga. ________________________| | |_____________________________ _Lewis BRUGH ___________| | (1800 - ....) | | | _____________________________ | | | | |________________________| | |_____________________________ |--Cornelia P. BRUGH | _Reuben PENDLETON ___________+ | | (1755 - 1825) m 1785 | _Micajah PENDLETON M.D._| | | (1795 - 1861) m 1822 | | | |_Frances Maria Anna GARLAND _+ | | (1763 - 1843) m 1785 |_Ann Garland PENDLETON _| (1825 - ....) | | _____________________________ |_Louisa A. DAVIS _______| Anne Herbert DENT 30 Oct 1756 - 15 Jul 1813 RESIDENCE: of Charles Co. MD and abt 1810 "Propinquity" Washington, near Natchez, Adams Co. MS BIRTH: 30 Oct 1756, Charles Co. Maryland DEATH: 15 Jul 1813, Washington, Adams Co. Mississippi RESOURCES: See: LDS [S2921] Father: John Herbert DENT of Pomonkey Hundred Mother: Sarah L. 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VA Family 1 : John THROCKMORTON Father: William Richardson Edward ROE RESIDENCE: York or Northumberland Co. VA BIRTH: ABT 1620, York or Northumberland Co.Virginia Father: John ROE "the Immigrant" Family 1 : Mary CUNNINGHAM +Elizabeth ROE _John ROE "the Immigrant"_| | (1600 - 1653) | | | __ | | | | |__| | |__ |--Edward ROE | __ | __| | | |__ | | |__________________________| Elizabeth "Betsey" SULLIVAN ABT 1800 - ABT 1840 RESIDENCE: Knox Co. IN DEATH: ABT 1840, Knox Co. IN Family 1 : Jacob TEVEBAUGH MARRIAGE: 23 Aug 1821, Pike Co. Indiana Sarah "Sally" TEVEBAUGH Robert TALIAFERRO 1689 - 1 Feb 1728 RESIDENCE: of Gloucester and Spotsylvania and Essex Cos. VA DEATH: 1 Feb 1728, Spotsylvania Co. VA RESOURCES: See: [S396] [S613] [S1182] [S1956] [S2115] [S2913] Father: John "The Ranger" TALIAFERRO Mother: Sarah SMITH +Martha TALIAFERRO Family 2 : Elizabeth Mary MATHEWS Mary TALIAFERRO Elizabeth TALIAFERRO Virginia Geneaoligist Vol 25 #3 July/Sept 1981. Robert Taliaferro 1689-1728 was s/o John Taliaferro and Sarah Smith , she was d/o Lawrence & Mary (Debnam/Dedman) Smith. issue; a. Elizabeth Taliaferro m Feb 1746 Samuel Hildrup, b. Mary Taliaferro m Maximillion Berryman, c. Martha TALIAFERRO, ROBERT, d. Feb. 1, 1727-8, p. Feb. 4, 1728. Wit. G. Braxton, Junr., William Taliaferro. Ex. my wife and my brother John Taliaferro. Leg. brother John Taliaferro, all my lands in Spotsylvania Co., either patented or to be patented; wife (no name given) land in Essex Co.; daughters Mary and Elizabeth Taliaferro, "that they will not convey unto Mr. George Braxton the land in King & Queen Co. which I have sold him, that then I give and bequeath in Essex Co. to him and his heirs forever." (Verbatim.) Daughter, Martha Taliaferro; brother Richard Taliaferro. Testator mentions negroes and chattels in Spotsylvania Co., be brought down into Essex Co. on my plantation there. 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Teddy Roosevelt's Secret Deal with Japan: An Interview with James Bradley Historians/History by Aaron Leonard Mr. Leonard is a freelance journalist and regular contributor to HNN. For more information please visit his website at www.aaronleonard.net James Bradley author of “Flags of Our Fathers” and “Flyboys” has just published The Imperial Cruise: A Secret History of Empire and War. HNN contributor Aaron Leonard recently sat down with him in New York to discuss the book. Unlike Flags of Our Fathers -- with its iconic American flag raising on Mt. Suribachi -- this book shows the planting of the U.S. flag on foreign soil in quite another way. How did you come to write this? My dad was one of the guys who raised the flag on Iwo Jima. When I was nine years old we were studying history. My Dad came home one night, and I said, “Dad your on page 94 of my history book. My teacher said you’re a hero and she wants you to come and talk to my class.” My father looked at the photo and gently closed the book. He’s talking to a nine year old, so he said, “James I can’t come and talk to your class I forgot everything,” that was often his excuse. Then he looked at my eyes as if wanted to imbed an idea in my little 9-year-old brain for the rest of my life, and said, “I want you to always remember that the heroes of Iwo Jima are the guys that did not come back.” After writing two books about World War II in the Pacific, I now know there are a lot of guys that did not come back. Not only Americans, but millions of Asians. So I began to think about the source of this war. What was going on? What historical forces took my Dad from Wisconsin out to the tiny little island of Iwo Jima, six hundred miles south of Tokyo. How did that happen? The explanation we are given is Pearl Harbor. Because of [the Japanese attack on] Pearl Harbor we fought Japan. But when you look at Pearl Harbor, its very interesting, Pearl Harbor was not an invasion of the United States. The Japanese didn’t hit Pearl Harbor to continue to California. They hit Pearl Harbor to go the other way. They wanted to expand in Asia, that was the Japanese game. They hit Pearl Harbor so we would not stop their expansion in Asia. That was the disagreement. That was the problem. My Dad did not fight in Iwo Jima to protect his mother in Wisconsin from the Japanese. He fought in Iwo Jima to protect Burmese mothers and Vietnamese mothers, where the Japanese were expanding. So I thought if Japanese expansion was the problem, what’s the source? What’s the root of this? When did Japan first expand and what was the American view on this? What did the officials of the time think about this? I found that in the summer of 1905 President Theodore Roosevelt dispatched the largest delegation to Asia in U.S. history. I had a sense that this was a large delegation and wondered what they did out there? In the summer of 2005 -- one hundred years later -- I followed in the wake of this imperial cruise. I was shocked by what I found. That’s how the book came about. It’s interesting what you’re saying about Pearl Harbor being the Japanese asserting their domination, but to what degree was this the US really asserting its domination. For example in this book you write about how the US came to control the Philippines --- and what comes through is a very brutal imperialist domination. To what degree was this the U.S. taking charge of that region? In this book I don’t so much write about Pearl Harbor, I only bring it up to say, what was the source of this explosion? Every divorce has a first kiss, I was looking for that first kiss...and I found that in the summer of 1905, President Theodore Roosevelt -- the Nobel Peace Prize Committee didn’t know, the Senate didn’t know -- agreed to a treaty where America and Japan would walk hand in hand onto the Asian continent to take it over. And Japan needed Korea as a springboard for that plan. Roosevelt in a secret treaty agrees to give Korea to Japan. He lights the match on this situation that Franklin Delano Roosevelt would later deal with in World War 2. Somebody said to me, ‘Mr. Bradley, you’re saying Theodore Roosevelt caused Pearl Harbor?’ Well, you know, history’s not that simple, but the problem in WW2 in the Pacific was Japan expanding, where did that begin? It began in July 1905 and the most famous man in the world, the man who was supposedly the honest broker between Japan and Russia said its fine with me. Why? Roosevelt thought that America could have its big stick in north Asia. The Columbia professor, who I cite in the book, says the great question of the 20th Century is going be whether Asia is Anglo-Saxon or Slav. Because the Chinese, they are a declining race. So Roosevelt looked at Asia with a theoretical lens, with theories that told him China was going to crumble like an old barn. More vigorous countries were going to move into that territory. The three countries that Roosevelt saw this being were Britain, the U.S., and Japan. His theories told him that Japan was an ascending race, China was a descending race. America was going to put its bet on Japan and he calculated incorrectly that Japan would listen to America and only expand so far. Roosevelt’s minister to Beijing wrote [to the effect that] definitely Japan jumping into Korea, that will be the far extension of the Japanese empire, we can be sure. A very different picture of Theodore Roosevelt emerges in your book from what has been the popular currency. For example Edmund Morris’ in his Roosevelt biography Theodore Rex describes Roosevelt’s racial views saying, “Blacks were better suited for service than suffrage; on the whole, they were ‘altogether inferior to the whites.’ Yet Roosevelt believed (as most Americans did not) that this inferiority was temporary....” In contrast to that rather generous characterization you write, “In 1894, Teddy had penned an article entitled ‘National Life and Character’ in which he wrote that Blacks were ‘a perfectly stupid race’ and it would take ‘many thousands years” before the Black became even “as intellectual as the [ancient] Athenian.’ Why this difference? What were Roosevelt’s racial views? I don’t know how to answer that. It is not an interpretation. I went on a cruise, and shadowed the 1905 cruise, at that point Taft and Roosevelt are explaining to the United States through Presidential proclamations, messages, press conferences, what we’re doing in the Philippines, just like President Obama is going to explain what we’re doing in Afghanistan. They explained it in terms of racial theory. So I didn’t seek out the two term papers that President Roosevelt happened to write on race and highlight them in this book. I point out that the explanation given to the American public was based in racial theories that they were taught at Harvard and Columbia... Could you talk more about what those theories actually were... The theory was that civilization followed the sun and [it developed] in the Caucasus mountains, that’s why whites are caucasians. A white person is called a caucasian because scientists theorized in the 19th century that’s where they came from. They called themselves scientists, but they were scientists with no science, scientific methods had not been developed to be able explore the body and look at the genetic structure and such. So they came up with theories that this Aryan race arose in the Caucasus, in fact Iran is a derivative of the word Aryan. The Aryan arose and their tribes went north, south, east and west. The ones who went south went to India, the ones who went east went to China. The theory is that China was a great civilization and India was a great civilization because of this Aryan injection of culture. But then the Aryan lost the whiteness of its seed by mating with Chinese and Indian females so the Aryan greatness was lost in those countries. Then there was the tribe that followed the sun, that went west to what we know today as the German forests. They maintained the purity of their seed by killing everybody who didn’t look like them. This Aryan tribe in northern Germany became the Teuton. People sometime think I’m joking, but this is the political science theory of [places like] Columbia and Yale of the time. [According to these theories] the Teuton tinkered with what later would be constitutional democracy. They didn’t follow kings, they elected people among themselves and political theorists in the 19th century said, ‘ah the Teuton is the seed of American democracy.’ The Teuton that went south went to Italy and Spain, those societies became great. But then the Teuton mated with those Mediterranean women lost the whiteness of their seed. The Teutonic tribe that went west -- civilization followed the sun and the sun only moves west -- went to Britain. There were already other people there. They ethnic cleansed them all, they got rid of them all, they killed them all. The Teuton became the Anglo-Saxon, the Anglo-Saxon went west across the Atlantic. In 1905 you had London and New York, two financial capitals. If you look at the globe almost all of it was controlled by the white race through colonization. The theory was that civilization had followed the sun and that the highest evolutionary product of this was the American... [On its terms] It makes sense, it makes logical sense. How deeply did Theodore Roosevelt adhere to these theories? How much had he internalized them? From our point of view it's as if these are distant theories, and maybe you could hold them. In our parlance we would say a person is choosing to be a racist or not. The word racist didn’t come into use until the 1930s. Theodore Roosevelt was not a racist, he subscribed to the racial theory that the editor of the New York Times did, that his entire cabinet did, that almost every educated person in the United States did. These were not some weird ideas off to the side. This was how the world worked. This is why Theodore Roosevelt explained the Philippines and Asia to America in terms of these racial theories. He was a politician trying to talk in the vernacular of the people. The section in the book describing the U.S. war in the Philippines is among the starkest material. You open the chapter with a quote from a soldier who served there in 1902 saying, “The people of the United States want us to kill all the men, fuck all the women, and raise up a new race in these Islands.” Is that an accurate characterization of that war? There’s no accurate portrayal...my father’s picture on Iwo Jima is not an accurate portrayal of the Battle of Iwo Jima. One soldier’s quote is not the accurate portrayal. Is that what that soldier believed the election of McKinley meant? Yes. You talk about the use of the water cure in the Philippines -- a euphemism for water boarding (which itself is a euphemism for torture). I was surprised to see how integral it was as a tactic of the US military. The obvious question is, did it conjure up contemporary images when you discovered this? It was history repeating. When I went out on this cruise [in 2005] water boarding was a very big news item in Iraq, in terms of CIA interrogation of prisoners. I got to the Philippines and I realized that that was America’s first attempt at nation building. A hundred years before I got there Theodore Roosevelt said, “Mission Accomplished.” There are still American troops fighting in the Philippines today. Let’s talk more about Theodore Roosevelt’s far East policy in the early 20th century laying the basis for World War 2. What’s the connection? There was forty years separating them from each other. How did what Teddy Roosevelt did in 1905 lay the basis for this horrific war in the 1940s? People ask, ‘How could something that occurred in 1905 have repercussions forty years later? Well, Ken Burns just did a documentary on TV about the National Park system. Apparently if you walk into a national park you’re supposed to feel that Teddy Roosevelt had a lot to do with it a hundred years ago. I have a friend who’s writing a book on Theodore Roosevelt’s helping to create American football. If you watch the Super Bowl this year, you’re watching something that Theodore Roosevelt influenced. What Theodore Roosevelt did not only reverberated forty years later but is still reverberating. This is an important President at a fulcrum moment in history, 1905. Roosevelt says to the Japanese, I trust that you’re different than rest of Asia. My racial theories tell me this. You are more like Americans. We’ve got a problem in north Asia. China’s collapsing and we do not want the Russians to fill that void. Congress will not give me the troops I would like to use America’s big stick there in that beautiful rich part of north Asia. So what am I going to do? So Roosevelt said to himself, I’m going to partner with the Japanese army and the British navy. The three of us are going to push back the Russians and take over China. He did not advocate liberty and freedom for China. You see the significance of that? He called the Portsmouth Peace Treaty negotiations, that sat down to negotiate their differences. They were dividing up a map of China and he didn’t invite China. There’s no repercussions of something like that? Hosting a peace conference dividing up China, China asking, ‘can we come’ and Roosevelt saying, No! You’ve got nothing to say about the future of your country. Yeah, it has repercussions, I think still today. I think that it is indisputable that the problem in WW2 that my Dad was sent to help extinguish was Japan going into Asia. They said in their declaration of war that the problem is Britain and America want to control Asia and we’re Asians, and we’re going to control it. Japan’s going to control it themselves. Well it came to loggerheads, but in the beginning it was a progressive experiment. Theodore Roosevelt believed that an ascending race, the Japanese, would take on the White Man’s burden for the first time. No Asian country had industrialized. No Asian country had militarized. No Asian country wore Brooks Brothers suits. Most Asians were still wearing pony tails and robes. Roosevelt, a modern guy, a young guy, a theoretical guy, not knowing anything about Asia, saw in his wisdom... thought it was a wise move to ally U.S. interests to Japan in expanding to pick up the pieces of the Chinese empire. He never imagined that the thing he green-lit would later bite Franklin Roosevelt in the butt. How much of this did you know before you started writing? Zero. Was it shocking to you? What kind of impact did it have? It was kind of like an eery silence when you come across documented facts that have huge significance, that affected my life, my family’s life, and had been hidden for a century. I was amazed, often stunned. There were surprises galore on this imperial cruise. I’m out in China and I stumble on the source of the wealth of FDR. I had no idea that grandpa Delano was the opium king of China. The wealth that supported Franklin Delano Roosevelt, came from drug dealing. I had no idea. To continually -- as you see in the book -- come across page after after page of things where you say, “I didn’t know that!”.... I got a degree in history, how come we’re not taught some of these facts that are laid on the cutting room floor? I was surprised, I wasn’t just surprised, I was confused to the point that I didn’t know what [Teddy] Roosevelt was talking about when he talked about thousands of years, he would say this to the American public and Taft said this too in speeches, you can’t expect the Philippines to be doing well we have still have a problem we’ve got an insurgency we’ve got to keep troops there we’ve got spend money, because the Philippines does not have the thousands of years of experience that we do with self-government. Well thousands of years, I read that three times and thought the United States is about 100 years old at this point, where are the thousand of years he’s talking about? Does he mean like back to Greece? Roosevelt thinks Americans came from Greece? Then I realized that it was this racial theory when I went back to Harvard and Columbia and saw political science theory of the day. What do you hope this book will accomplish? I hope first of all people enjoy reading it. As a writer my job isn’t just to uncover facts it’s to make it assessable to the public. I hope this long-distance time is assessable. In other words, that it is an enjoyable read. This is a multi-faceted book, with a lot of different elements to take away. A key thing for me is... it is interesting that the founding fathers designed a system and I think we need to follow that system closely. Congress is supposed to have oversight over treaties. Roosevelt just went around Congress in an unconstitutional move. He made a secret treaty. That had bad repercussions. It shows that maybe if we had the entire Senate looking at the treaty and debating, that is not such a bad thing. Secrecy in government is often a very big problem. The Founding Fathers wanted to shine the light of deliberation on agreements with foreign countries. Theodore Roosevelt wanted to do it in the dark. Has there been any controversy in advance of the book? This is taking on some sacred cows? I think we’ll see [what the reaction will be]. I wrote a non-fiction book, its heavily heavily footnoted. The facts are there. The NY Times said, “The author of Flags of Our Fathers takes a startling look at what besotted Theodore Roosevelt biographers preferred to ignore. That Roosevelt’s dismissive racial attitudes lead him to make disastrous long-range foreign policy miscalculations in the Pacific and Asia.” That’s pretty strong. There are forty pages of notes, I want them corrected immediately [if any errors are found]. If anyone can read that book and not come to the conclusion that Theodore Roosevelt made a secret deal with the Japanese over a period of two years -- and was acting as an agent -- its in his own handwriting. So I’m not speculating or trying to connect dots that aren’t there. It’s him bragging about he’s keeping all this secret. Its’ him saying that the Chinese and the Japanese are different races. ITs Theodore Roosevelt saying that the Japanese are playing our game. I didn’t say it. His words are there, he said, “the Japs are playing our game.” He thought he succeeded. What are you working on now? I’m thinking about looking at FDR and China, WW2. Hans Vought - 12/7/2009 The problem with the thesis is that it's a a fundamental misunderstanding of TR's motives. There was no secret Anglo-American-Japanese plot to divide Asia. The key to both the 1905 Taft-Katsura Agreement (recognizing Japan's annexation of Korea) and the 1907 Root-Takahira Agreement (acknowledging Japan's control of Manchuria) was the quid pro quo - Japan's promise not to attack the Philippines. TR had figured out that the U.S. could not defend the Philippines from the Japanese, and the Japanese had made it clear since 1898 they want the archipelago. TR was buying off the Japanese. Ultimately, the gambit didn't succeed - the Japanese eventually conquered the Philippines, and the U.S. fought World War II in large part to undo that conquest. Melvin Small - 12/7/2009 Problem with TR and Japan thesis is that his policy was rejected by Taft, Wilson and the presidents who came after them.

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12 1 - 50 of 53 Dimberg, Jan Jönköping University, School of Health Science, HHJ, Dep. of Natural Science and Biomedicine. Jönköping University, School of Health Science, HHJ. Biomedical Platform. Studies on expression and regulation of phospholipase A2 and cyclooxygenase 2 in gastrointestinal tissues with special reference to colorectal cancer1999Doctoral thesis, monograph (Other scientific) Jönköping University, School of Health Science, HHJ, Dep. of Natural Science and Biomedicine. Jönköping University, School of Health Science, HHJ. Ageing - living conditions and health. Jönköping University, School of Health Science, HHJ. Biomedical Platform. Dienus, Olaf Löfgren, Sture Hugander, Anders Wågsäter, Dick Expression and gene polymorphisms of the chemokine CXCL5 in colorectal cancer patients2007In: International Journal of Oncology, ISSN 1019-6439, Vol. 31, no 1, p. 97-102Article in journal (Other academic) Polymorphisms of Fractalkine receptor CX3CR1 and plasma levels of its ligand CX3CL1 in colorectal cancer patients2007In: International Journal of Colorectal Disease, ISSN 0179-1958, E-ISSN 1432-1262, Vol. 22, no 10, p. 1195-200Article in journal (Other academic) Gustafson-Svärd, C Weström, B Tagesson, C Söderkvist, P Group I phospholipase A2 mRNA expression in rat glandular stomach and pancreas: Ontogenic development and effects of cortisone acetate.1992In: Biochimica et Biophysica Acta, ISSN 0006-3002, E-ISSN 1878-2434, Vol. 1130, no 1, p. 47-51Article in journal (Other academic) Hugander, A Sirsjo, A Decreased levels of precursor transforming growth factor beta1 in human colorectal cancer.2001In: International Journal of Molecular Medicine, ISSN 1107-3756, E-ISSN 1791-244X, Vol. 7, no 6, p. 597-601Article in journal (Other academic) Sirsjö, A Enhanced expression of cyclooxygenase-2 and nuclear beta-catenin are related to mutations in the APC gene in human colorectal cancer.2001In: Anticancer Research, ISSN 0250-7005, E-ISSN 1791-7530, Vol. 21, no 2A, p. 911-915Article in journal (Other academic) Häll-Karlsson, Britt-Marie Sirsjö, Allan RFX-B, a MHC class II transcription factor, suppressed in human colorectal adenocarcinomas.2002In: International Journal of Molecular Medicine, ISSN 1107-3756, E-ISSN 1791-244X, Vol. 9, no 3, p. 213-216Article in journal (Other academic) Polymorphism and circulating levels of the chemokine CXCL12 in colorectal cancer patients2007In: International Journal of Molecular Medicine, ISSN 1107-3756, E-ISSN 1791-244X, Vol. 19, no 1, p. 11-15Article in journal (Refereed) Expression of CD137 and CD137 ligand in colorectal cancer patients2006In: Oncology Reports, ISSN 1021-335X, E-ISSN 1791-2431, Vol. 15, no 5, p. 1197-1200Article in journal (Refereed) Protein expression of the chemokine, CCL28, in human colorectal cancer.2006In: International Journal of Oncology, ISSN 1019-6439, Vol. 28, no 2, p. 315-319Article in journal (Other academic) Lilja, I Ontogeny of group II phospholipase A2 gene expression in rat stomach and ileum.1995In: Biology of the Neonate, ISSN 0006-3126, E-ISSN 1421-9727, Vol. 67, no 2, p. 113-121Article in journal (Other academic) Jönköping University, School of Health and Welfare, HHJ, Dep. of Natural Science and Biomedicine. Jönköping University, School of Health and Welfare, HHJ. Biomedical Platform. Rubér, Marie Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden. Skarstedt, Marita Department of Laboratory Medicine, Division of Clinical Microbiology, Region Jönköping County, Jönköping, Sweden. Andersson, Manne Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden, and County Hospital Ryhov, Region Jönköping County, Department of Surgery, Jönköping, Sweden. Andersson, Roland E. Genetic polymorphism patterns suggest a genetic driven inflammatory response as pathogenesis in appendicitis2019In: International Journal of Colorectal Disease, ISSN 0179-1958, E-ISSN 1432-1262Article in journal (Refereed) PURPOSE: The pathogenesis of appendicitis is not well understood. Environmental factors are regarded most important, but epidemiologic findings suggest a role of inflammatory and genetic mechanisms. This study determines the association of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of inflammatory genes with appendicitis. METHODS: As part of a larger prospective study on the diagnostic value of inflammatory variables in appendicitis, the genotype frequency of 28 polymorphisms in 26 inflammatory response genes from the appendicitis and control patients was analyzed in blood samples from 343 patients, 100 with appendicitis, and 243 with non-specific abdominal pain, using TaqMan SNP genotyping assays. RESULTS: Associations with appendicitis were found for SNPs IL-13 rs1800925 with odds ratio (OR) 6.02 (95% CI 1.52-23.78) for T/T versus C/C + T/T, for IL-17 rs2275913 with OR 2.38 (CI 1.24-4.57) for A/A vs G/G + GA, for CCL22 rs223888 with OR 0.12 (0.02-0.90), and for A/A vs G/G + GA. Signs of effect modification of age for the association with appendicitis were found for IL-13 rs1800925 and CTLA4 rs3087243. Stratified analysis showed difference in association with severity of disease for IL-17 rs2275913 and CD44 rs187115. CONCLUSIONS: The association of gene variants on risk of appendicitis and its severity suggest an etiologic role of genetically regulated inflammatory response. This may have implications for understanding the prognosis of untreated appendicitis as a possible self-limiting disorder and for understanding the inverse association of appendicitis with ulcerative colitis. Samuelsson, A Differential expression of cyclooxygenase 2 in human colorectal cancer.1999In: Gut, ISSN 0017-5749, E-ISSN 1468-3288, Vol. 45, no 5, p. 730-732Article in journal (Other academic) Gene expression of cyclooxygenase-2, group II and cytosolic phospholipase A2 in human colorectal cancer.1998In: Anticancer Research, ISSN 0250-7005, E-ISSN 1791-7530, Vol. 18, no 5A, p. 3283-3287Article in journal (Other academic) Shamoun, Levar Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Region Jönköping County Hospital Ryhov, Jönköping, Sweden. Landerholm, Kalle Department of Surgery, Jönköping, and Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden. Kolodziej, Blanka Department of Pathology, Region Jönköping County Hospital Ryhov, Jönköping, Sweden. Department of Medical Cell Biology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden. Genetic variants of the IL2 gene related to risk and survival in patients with colorectal cancer2019In: Anticancer Research, ISSN 0250-7005, E-ISSN 1791-7530, Vol. 39, no 9, p. 4933-4940Article in journal (Refereed) BACKGROUND: Interleukin 2 (IL2) is a significant factor activating T-cell-mediated immune response by stimulation of natural killer cells, T-cells and in development of regulatory T (Treg) cells. Recent studies have that IL2 participates in cancer development by modifying the local immune response. Based on the suggested role of the single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) rs2069762, rs6822844 and rs11938795 of IL2 in the pathogenesis of certain diseases, the relationship of these SNPs with clinicopathological variables and their possible implication for prognosis and disease outcome were evaluated in a cohort of Swedish patients with colorectal cancer (CRC). MATERIALS AND METHODS: TaqMan SNP genotype assays based on polymerase chain reaction were used for analysis of the IL2 SNPs in 467 patients with CRC and 467 healthy controls. Expression analysis of IL2 in plasma and CRC tissue was also performed. RESULTS: The allelic variants T in rs11938795 and G in rs6822844 were significantly associated with a higher risk of CRC. Kaplan-Meier analysis showed that cancer-specific survival was worse for individuals with C allele for rs2069762 with stage II CRC and with T allele for rs6822844 with stage III CRC. CONCLUSION: SNPs rs2069762, rs6822844 and rs11938795 of the IL2 gene may be helpful as prognostic biomarkers in the follow-up and management of the patients. Department of Clinical Microbiology, Ryhov County Hospital, Jönköping, Sweden. Zar, Niklas Department of Surgery, Ryhov County Hospital, Jönköping, Sweden. Matussek, Andreas Department of Laboratory Services, Ryhov County Hospital, Jönköping, Sweden. Protein expression and gene polymorphism of CXCL10 in patients with colorectal cancer2014In: Biomedical Reports, ISSN 2049-9442, Vol. 2, no 3, p. 340-343Article in journal (Refereed) Chemokines (chemotactic cytokines) promote leukocyte attraction to sites of inflammation and cancer. Certain chemokines promote and regulate neoplastic progression, including metastasis and angiogenesis. One such chemokine, CXCL10, was found to be expressed in colorectal cancer (CRC) tissue. To gain insight into the prognostic significance of CXCL10, we investigated whether the levels of this chemokine were altered in the colorectal tissue or plasma of CRC patients. Using Luminex technology for protein analyses, we observed a significantly higher CXCL10 protein level in cancer tissue compared to that in paired normal tissue. Moreover, significantly higher plasma levels of CXCL10 were detected in patients compared to those in control subjects and the plasma levels of CXCL10 in disseminated disease were found to be significantly higher compared to those in localized disease. The single‑nucleotide polymorphism rs8878, which has been described in exon 4 in the 3'‑untranslated region of the CXCL10 gene, was investigated using a TaqMan system. There were significant differences in genotype distribution and allelic frequencies between CRC patients and control subjects. In conclusion, altered CXCL10 protein concentrations in CRC tissues or plasma and the rs8878 genotype variant of CXCL10 may contribute to the prediction of clinical outcome. Division of Medical Diagnostics, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Region Jönköping County, Jönköping, Sweden. Slind Olsen, Renate Department of Surgery, Region Jönköping County, Jönköping, Sweden. Gene polymorphism in DNA repair genes XRCC1 and XRCC6 and association with colorectal cancer in Swedish patients2016In: Acta Pathologica, Microbiologica et Immunologica Scandinavica (APMIS), ISSN 0903-4641, E-ISSN 1600-0463, Vol. 124, no 9, p. 736-740Article in journal (Refereed) The DNA repair genes XRCC1 and XRCC6 have been proposed to participate in the pathological process of cancer by modulating the DNA repair capacity. This study evaluated the susceptibility of the single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) XRCC1 (rs25487, G > A) and XRCC6 (rs2267437, C > G) to colorectal cancer (CRC) and their association with clinical parameters in Swedish patients with CRC. Using the TaqMan system, these SNPs were screened in 452 patients and 464 controls. No significant difference in genotype distribution was found between the patients and controls, or any significant association with cancer-specific or disease-free survival in patients. However, we showed that the carriers of allele A in XRCC1 (rs25487, G > A) were connected with a higher risk of disseminated CRC (Odds Ratio = 1.64; 95% Confidence Interval = 1.12–2.41, p = 0.012). Department of Laboratory Services, Ryhov County Hospital, Jönköping. Clinical Microbiology, Ryhov County Hospital, Jönköping. Ryhov County Hospital, Jönköping. Polymorphism of the p38 beta gene in patients with colorectal cancer2014In: Oncology Letters, ISSN 1792-1074, E-ISSN 1792-1082, Vol. 8, p. 1093-1095Article in journal (Refereed) The p38 mitogen‑activated protein kinase (MAPK) signaling pathways have been proposed to participate in the pathological process of cancer by affecting inflammation, proliferation, metastasis and cell survival. A single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP; rs2235356, ‑1628A→G) in the promoter region of the p38β gene has been proposed as a genetic modifier for colorectal cancer (CRC) in a Chinese population. The present study evaluated the susceptibility of patients possessing this SNP to CRC, in addition to determining its association with clinical parameters in Swedish patients with CRC. Using the LightSNiP genotyping assay, this SNP was screened in 389 patients with CRC and 517 control subjects. No significant difference in the genotype distribution or in the allelic frequencies was identified between the two groups nor was any association identified with the clinical parameters. These findings indicate that the ‑1628A→G polymorphism of the p38β gene is not significantly associated with a susceptibility to CRC in a Swedish population. Ström, Karin Klinisk Mikrobiologi, Länssjukhuset Ryhov, Jönköping. Kirurgkliniken, Länssjukhuset Ryhov, Jönköping. Laboratoriemedicin, Länssjukhuset Ryhov, Jönköping. Expression of the serine protease inhibitor serpinA3 in human colorectal adenocarcinomas2011In: Oncology Letters, ISSN 1792-1074, Vol. 2, no 3, p. 413-418Article in journal (Refereed) Proteases facilitate a number of steps in cancer progression. The serine protease inhibitors (serpins) are a protein superfamily with inhibitory activity against proteases. One of these proteases, serpinA3, appears to have a multifaceted role and is associated with inflammatory reactions, Alzheimer's disease, malignant melanoma and gastric cancer. To gain insight into the potential effect of serpinA3 on colorectal cancer (CRC) we determined whether serpinA3 is altered in colorectal tissue or plasma in CRC patients. Collectively, by using ELISA we noted a significantly lower serpinA3 level in cancer tissue compared to paired normal tissue. Moreover, the tumour serpinA3 level tended to be higher in disseminated disease as compared to localised disease. No significant difference in the plasma levels of serpinA3 was noted in the patients when compared to the controls. However, plasma serpinA3 and C-reactive protein (marker of inflammation) in the CRC patients and controls were significantly positively correlated. To confirm and detect localization of serpinA3 expression, immunohistochemistry was performed. Immunohistochemistry showed heterogeneous immunoreactivity in epithelial cells in the cancer and normal tissue and extracellular staining within bands of stroma as well as in some stromal cells. A Taq Man system was used to investigate a single nucleotide polymorphism (rs4934) in the serpinA3 signal sequence gene with supposed effect on serpinA3 secretion and expression. No significant difference was observed between CRC and control subjects regarding genotype and allelic distributions, nor were associations noted between clinical characteristics and serpinA3 levels. In conclusion, an altered serpinA3 concentration in CRC tissue may be a potential biomarker in CRC progression. SerpinA3 concentrations in plasma appear to be correlated with systemic inflammation, but do not appear to be specific to CRC patients. Further studies are warranted to improve our understanding of the role of serpinA3 in CRC. Dep. of Clinical Microbiology, Ryhov County Hospital Jönköping Sweden. Dep. of Clinical Microbiology, Ryhov County Hospital, Jönköping, Sweden. Dep. of Surgery, Ryhov County Hospital, Jönköping, Sweden. Lindh, Mikael Dep. of Laboratory Medicin, Ryhov County Hospital, Jönköping, Sweden. DNA promoter methylation status and protein expression of interleukin-8 in human colorectal adenocarcinomas2012In: International Journal of Colorectal Disease, ISSN 0179-1958, E-ISSN 1432-1262, Vol. 27, no 6, p. 709-714Article in journal (Refereed) Background Interleukin-8 (IL-8) also referred to as CXCL8, a member of the CXC chemokine family that attracts neutrophils and other leukocytes, has been associated with cancer. Angiogenesis is a prime regulator of tumour expansion and data support that IL-8 is a potent angiogenic factor. Epigenomic instability has been postulated to play a role for the development of multiple neoplasias including colorectal cancer (CRC). DNA methylation of cytosine residues in CpG dinucleotides leads to transcriptional silencing of associated genes. Method In this study, we comparatively analysed the protein expression of IL-8 in plasma, tumour and paired normal tissue and methylation status of the IL-8 gene to evaluate its impact on CRC. Results Collectively, by using Luminex technology, we noted a significantly higher IL-8 level in cancer tissue compared to paired normal tissue and that CRC patients exhibit significantly higher plasma levels than healthy controls. Analysed by methylation-specific polymerase chain reaction, we detected IL-8 hypomethylation in 64% of the cancerous tissue cases but no hypomethylation was found in paired normal tissue. We noted that the CRC patients with IL-8 hypomethylation revealed a significant higher level of IL-8 protein in cancerous tissue, which tended to be associated with distant metastasis. We also observed that patients with distant metastasis showed a significantly higher plasma level of IL-8 in relation to patients without distant metastasis. Conclusion Our results suggest that the predominance of high plasma levels of IL-8 in patients with distant metastasis in combination with the hypomethylation of the IL-8 promoter region might be a useful marker of the disease advancement. Thai, Trinh Hong Key Laboratory of Enzyme and Protein Technology, College of Science, Vietnam National University, Hanoi, Vietnam. Department of Laboratory Medicine, Ryhov County Hospital, Jönköping, Sweden. Detection of Cytomegalovirus DNA in Colorectal Tissue from Swedish and Vietnamese Patients with Colorectal Cancer2013In: Anticancer Research, ISSN 0250-7005, E-ISSN 1791-7530, Vol. 33, no 11, p. 4947-4950Article in journal (Refereed) Background: Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) has been implicated as a factor, which might be associated with colorectal cancer (CRC) progression. Data from studies with HCMV-infected tumour cell lines have highlighted an oncomodulatory potential of HCMV. In the present study, we aimed to evaluate the prevalence of HCMV DNA in CRC tissue compared to matched normal tissue, and its association with clinical factors. Patients and Methods: We used quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction assay to detect HCMV DNA in 202 cancerous and paired normal tissue from Swedish (n=119) and Vietnamese (n=83) CRC patients. Results: Overall, the HCMV DNA rate was significantly higher in cancerous in relation to paired normal tissue. Furthermore, a significantly higher frequency (39.8%) of HCMV DNA was observed in cancer tissues from the Vietnamese patients compared to the Swedish patients (15.1%). The prevalence of HCMV DNA in CRC tissue of 50% of those with disseminated disease tended to be higher compared to those with localized disease, with a prevalence of 33.3% in Vietnamese patients. Conclusion: Our observations indicate that the prevalence of HCMV DNA differs significantly between cancer and matched normal tissues. Thus, these data support a possible role of CMV in CRC. Moreover, we noted differences between Swedish and Vietnamese patients, indicating a role of ethnicity. Vietnam National University. Novel and Differential Accumulation of Mitochondrial DNA Deletions in Swedish and Vietnamese Patients with Colorectal Cancer2014In: Anticancer Research, ISSN 0250-7005, E-ISSN 1791-7530, Vol. 34, no 1, p. 147-152Article in journal (Refereed) Background: Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) has been proposed to be involved in carcinogenesis and aging. The mtDNA 4977 bp deletion is one of the most frequently observed mtDNA mutations in human tissues and may play a role in colorectal cancer (CRC). In the present study, we aimed to evaluate the frequency of mtDNA 4977 bp deletion in CRC tissues and its association with clinical factors. Patients and Methods: We determined the presence of the 4977 bp common deletion in cancer and normal paired tissue samples from 105 Swedish and 88 Vietnamese patients with CRC using polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assays. Results: The mtDNA 4977 bp deletion was shown to be significantly more frequent in normal tissues in comparison with paired cancer tissues in both Swedish and Vietnamese patients. The 4977 bp common deletion was significantly more frequent in cancer tissues of the Vietnamese patients compared to the Swedish patients, and in Vietnamese cancer tissues, the 4977 bp deletion was significantly over represented in those with localized disease compared to those with disseminated disease. Moreover, we detected nine novel mtDNA deletions and found a significantly higher rate of these in CRC tissues in Swedish in comparison to Vietnamese patients. Conclusion: The mtDNA 4977 bp deletion seems to have an impact on the clinical outcome of CRC in Vietnamese patients, that the Swedish patients accumulate more of the detected novel deletions in CRC tissue compared to Vietnamese patients probably indicates divergent mechanisms in colorectal carcinogenesis. Trinh Hong, Thai Vietnam National University, Hanoi. Clinical Microbiology, Ryhov County Hospital Sweden. Clinical Microbiology Ryhov County Hospital Sweden. Dep. of Surgery, Ryhov County Hospital Sweden. Laboratory Services, Ryhov County Hospital Jönköping. Analysis of APC and IGFBP7 promoter gene methylation in Swedish and Vietnamese colorectal cancer patients2013In: Oncology Letters, ISSN 1792-1074, E-ISSN 1792-1082, Vol. 5, no 1, p. 25-30Article in journal (Refereed) The tumour suppressor gene adenomatous polyposis coli (APC) is a key component that drives colorectal carcinogenesis. The reported DNA methylation in the promoter of APC varies greatly among studies of colorectal cancer (CRC) in different populations. Insulin-like growth factor binding protein 7 (IGFBP7), also known as IGFBP‑related protein 1 (IGFBP-rP1), is expressed in various tissue types, including the lung, brain, prostate and gastrointestinal tract, and has been suggested to play a tumour suppressor role against colorectal carcinogenesis. Studies have indicated that IGFBP7 is inactivated by DNA methylation in human colon, lung and breast cancer. In the present study, we used the methylation‑specific polymerase chain reaction to study the methylation status of the APC and IGFBP7 gene promoters in cancerous and paired normal tissue to evaluate its impact on clinical factors and association with ethnicity, represented by Swedish and Vietnamese CRC patients. We also investigated the distribution of CpG islands and the CpG dinucleotide density of each CpG island in the regions which were the subject of our investigation. Overall, normal tissue from Swedish patients exhibited a significantly higher frequency of IGFBP7 gene methylation in comparison with that of Vietnamese patients. Moreover, a significantly higher number of cancer tissues from Vietnamese individuals showed higher levels of methylation versus the paired normal tissue compared with that of Swedish patients. When we studied the methylation in cancer compared with the matched normal tissue in individuals, we found that a significantly higher number of Vietnamese patients had a higher degree of IGFBP7 gene methylation in cancer versus matched normal tissue in comparison with Swedish patients. Taken together, our results suggest that the methylation of the APC and IGFBP7 gene promoter region in cancerous tissue, in combination with the predominance of methylation in normal tissue, may serve as a prognostic factor in CRC patients. 24. Elander, N Zhou, J Ungerbäck, J Association between adenomatosis polyposis coli functional status and microsomal prostaglandin E synthethase-1 expression in colorectal cancer2009In: Molecular Carcinogenesis, ISSN 0899-1987, E-ISSN 1098-2744Article in journal (Refereed) 25. Fransén, Karin Osterström, Anna Olsson, Anneli Söderkvist, Peter Nitric oxide synthase 2 mRNA expression in relation to p53 and adenomatous polyposis coli mutations in primary colorectal adenocarcinomas.2002In: Surgery, ISSN 0039-6060, E-ISSN 1532-7361, Vol. 131, no 4, p. 384-392Article in journal (Other academic) Klintenäs, Maria Monstein, Hans-Jürg Mutation analysis of the BRAF, ARAF and RAF-1 genes in human colorectal adenocarcinomas.2004In: Carcinogenesis, ISSN 0143-3334, E-ISSN 1460-2180, Vol. 25, no 4, p. 527-533Article in journal (Other academic) Gabrielson, Marike Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm. Vorkapic, Emina Folkesson, Maggie Welander, Martin Department of Laboratory Services, County Hospital Ryhov. Länne, Toste Skogberg, Josefin Division of Vascular Biology, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm. Altered PPARγ coactivator-1 alpha expression in abdominal aortic aneurysm: Possible effects on mitochondrial biogenesis2016In: Journal of Vascular Research, ISSN 1018-1172, E-ISSN 1423-0135, Vol. 53, no 1-2, p. 17-26Article in journal (Refereed) Introduction: Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is a complex and deadly vascular disorder. The pathogenesis of AAA includes destruction and phenotypic alterations of the vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) and aortic tissues. PPARγ coactivator-1 alpha (PGC1α) regulates VSMC migration and matrix formation and is a major inducer of mitochondrial biogenesis and function, including oxidative metabolism. Methods: Protein and gene expression of PGC1α and markers for mitochondria biogenesis and cell type-specificity were analysed in AAA aortas from humans and mice and compared against control aortas. Results: Gene expression of PPARGC1A was decreased in human AAA and angiotensin (Ang) II-induced AAA in mice when compared to control vessels. However, high expression of PGC1α was detected in regions of neovascularisation in the adventitia layer. In contrast, the intima/media layer of AAA vessel exhibited defective mitochondrial biogenesis as indicated by low expression of PPARGC1A, VDAC, ATP synthase and citrate synthase. Conclusion: Our results suggest that mitochondrial biogenesis is impaired in AAA in synthetic SMCs in the media, with the exception of newly formed supporting vessels in the adventitia where the mitochondrial markers seem to be intact. To our knowledge, this is the first study investigating PGC1α and mitochondria biogenesis in AAA. 28. Lilja, I Sjödahl, R Effects of endotoxin and dexamethasone on group I and II phospholipase A2 in rat ileum and stomach.1994In: Gut, ISSN 0017-5749, E-ISSN 1468-3288, Vol. 35, no 1, p. 40-45Article in journal (Other academic) 29. Monstein, H-J Fransén, K K-ras and B-raf gene mutations are not associated with gastrin- and CCK2-receptor mRNA expression in human colorectal tumour tissues.2004In: European Journal of Clinical Investigation, ISSN 0014-2972, E-ISSN 1365-2362, Vol. 34, no 2, p. 100-6Article in journal (Refereed) 30. Mumtaz, Melad Polymorphism in MHC class II transactivator gene is not associated with susceptibility to colorectal cancer in Swedish patients.2008In: Anticancer Research, ISSN 0250-7005, E-ISSN 1791-7530, Vol. 28, no 3B, p. 1789-1791Article in journal (Refereed) Decreased expression of the chemokine CCL21 in human colorectal cancer adenocarcinomas2009In: Oncology Reports, ISSN 1021-335X, E-ISSN 1791-2431, Vol. 21, no 1, p. 153-158Article in journal (Refereed) 32. Mälarstig, Anders Tumour-derived adhesion factor in colorectal cancer2009In: Molecular Medicine Reports, ISSN 1791-2997, Vol. 2, no 6, p. 971-976Article in journal (Refereed) Tumour-derived adhesion factor (TAF) has been shown to be associated with breast, prostate and colorectal cancer (CRC), acting as tumour suppressor or tumour promoter by mechanisms not as yet understood. Here, we comparatively analyzed the expression profile of TAF in plasma, tumour and paired normal tissue from patients with CRC. In addition, we investigated the relationship between TAF and systemic inflammation, mirrored by the elevation of interleukin-6 (IL-6) and TAF levels in plasma. Levels of TAF and IL-6 were determined by ELISA. Immunohistochemistry was performed to investigate the site of TAF expression. We also used a TaqMan system to investigate a TAF single nucleotide polymorphism (rs2041437) with a potential effect on CRC. TAF protein levels were significantly (P<0.001) higher in colorectal tumours than in normal tissue, and were increased in patients with Dukes' stages B and C compared to A. Immunohistochemistry revealed heterogeneous TAF expression mainly in the epithelial cells of the cancer and normal tissue. The plasma TAF level was reduced in CRC patients compared with the controls (P=0.002), independent of the inflammatory marker IL-6. Regarding genotype and allelic distributions, significant differences between CRC patients and control subjects or associations between clinical characteristics and TAF levels in tissue and plasma were not observed. In conclusion, altered TAF protein expression in cancer tissue may be a potential biomarker in colorectal carcinogenesis. Further research exploring the regulation of TAF is required to evaluate whether TAF is linked to clinical outcome. Olsen, Renate S. Nijm, Johnny Division of Medical Diagnostics, Department of Clinical Physiology, Region Jönköping County, Jönköping, Sweden. Division of Drug Research, Department of Medicine and Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden. Circulating inflammatory factors associated with worse long-term prognosis in colorectal cancer2017In: World Journal of Gastroenterology, ISSN 1007-9327, E-ISSN 2219-2840, Vol. 23, no 34, p. 6212-6219Article in journal (Refereed) AIM: To investigate association of circulating inflammatory factors at the time of colorectal cancer (CRC) surgery with survival. METHODS: Plasma levels from 174 CRC patients (69 females and 105 men), with median age 70 years (range 29-90), localized in the colon (n = 105) or rectum (n = 69), with stage I (n = 24), stage II (n = 54), stage III (n = 67) and stage IV (n = 29) were measured using commercially available Bio-Plex Pro™ Human Chemokine Panel 40-Plex, including 40 different chemokines, cytokines and interleukins. The prognostic association of each inflammatory factor was analysed as CRC-specific and total mortality. RESULTS: Out of 174 patients, 66 died during the follow-up, 40 because of CRC specific mortality. High tertile levels of 8 factors were significantly associated with increased CRC-specific mortality, of which CCL1, CCL20, CCL24, CX3CL1, IL-4 and TNF-α remained significant in a multivariate Cox regression analysis. High tertile levels of 14 factors were associated with increased total mortality, of which CCL1, CCL15, CCL20, CX3CL1, CXCL13, IFN-γ, IL-2, IL-4 and IL-10 remained significant after adjustment for clinical covariates. For most of the inflammatory factors the association between higher tertile levels and an increased mortality in general appeared two years after surgery. High tertile levels of TNF-α and CCL24 were exclusively associated with CRC-specific mortality. The distribution of these factors were not associated with TNM stage with exception for CCL20. CONCLUSION: High plasma levels of inflammatory factors are associated with increased risk of mortality among CRC patients and could be potential biomarkers for revealing prognosis. Olsen, Renate Slind Department of Laboratory Medicine, Division of Medical Diagnostics, Region Jönköping County, Jönköping, Sweden. Geffers, Robert Genome Analytics, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany. Possible role and therapeutic target of PDGF-D signalling in colorectal cancer2019In: Cancer Investigation, ISSN 0735-7907, E-ISSN 1532-4192, Vol. 37, no 2, p. 99-112Article in journal (Refereed) Platelet-derived growth factor D (PDGF-D) has been shown to mediate cellular processes of importance in cancer progression. This study aimed to investigate the expression and putative involvement of PDGF-D signaling in colorectal carcinogenesis. PDGF-D was expressed in vascular endothelial cells in tumor and normal tissues. PDGF-D stimulation of cells altered genes of importance in carcinogenic processes. In addition, PDGF-D increased the proliferation rate while imatinib inhibited these effects. PDGF-D and its PDGF receptor beta (PDGFR-β) are expressed in colorectal cancer and blockage of PDGF-D/PDGFR-β signaling using tyrosine kinase inhibitors, such as imatinib, might be important in inhibiting tumor-promoting actions. 35. Osterström, Anna Fransén, Karin Expression of cytosolic and group X secretory phospholipase A(2) genes in human colorectal adenocarcinomas.2002In: Cancer Letters, ISSN 0304-3835, E-ISSN 1872-7980, Vol. 182, no 2, p. 175-182Article in journal (Refereed) Division of Medical Diagnostics, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Jönköping County, Jönköping, Sweden. Department of Pathology, Jönköping County, Jönköping, Sweden. Department of Surgery, Jönköping County, Jönköping, Sweden. Protein expression and genetic variation of IL32 and association with colorectal cancer in Swedish patients2018In: Anticancer Research, ISSN 0250-7005, E-ISSN 1791-7530, Vol. 38, no 1, p. 321-328Article in journal (Refereed) Background: Interleukin 32 (IL32) is an intracellular pluripotent cytokine produced by epithelial cells, monocytes, T-lymphocytes and natural killer cells and seems to be involved in the pathogenesis of cancer and inflammatory diseases. Our purpose was to assess the role of protein expression and genetic polymorphisms of IL32 in colorectal cancer (CRC) susceptibility. Materials and Methods: To gain insight into clinical significance of IL32 in Swedish patients with CRC, using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, we determined whether IL32 protein level is altered in CRC tissue (n=75) compared with paired normal tissue and in plasma from patients with CRC (n=94) compared with controls (n=81). The expression of IL32 protein was confirmed by immunohistochemistry (n=73). We used Luminex technology to investigate protein levels of the cytokines IL6, tumor necrosis factor-a (TNFa) and vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) to relate these to IL32 levels in CRC tissue. Three single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) (rs28372698, rs12934561, rs4786370) of the IL32 gene have been proposed as modifiers for different diseases. The present study evaluated the susceptibility of patients possessing these SNPs to CRC. Using TaqMan SNP genotyping assays, these SNPs were screened in Swedish patients with CRC (n=465) and healthy controls (n=331). Results: We found no significant differences in the genotypic frequencies between the patients and healthy controls and no relation to survival for any of the SNPs. However, the SNP rs12934561 was statisticalLY significant associated with older patients. IL32 protein was up-regulated in CRC tissue and related to IL6, TNFa, and VEGF, and seems to be modulated by SNP rs28372698. The IL32 protein level in CRC tissue also reflects both disseminated disease and location. Conclusion. Our results suggest that altered IL32 protein concentrations in CRC tissue and genotypic variants of IL32 are related to disseminated CRC. Department of Laboratory Medicine, Region Jönköping County, Jönköping, Sweden. Depatment of Surgery, Region Jönköping County, Jönköping, Sweden. Division of Drug Research, Department of Medicine and Health Sciences Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden. Association study on IL-4, IL-4Rα and IL-13 genetic polymorphisms in Swedish patients with colorectal cancer2018In: Clinica Chimica Acta, ISSN 0009-8981, E-ISSN 1873-3492, Vol. 487, p. 101-106Article in journal (Refereed) BACKGROUND: Interleukin 4 (IL-4) and interleukin 13 (IL-13) are anti-inflammatory and immunomodulatory cytokines which share a common cellular receptor IL4Rα and are involved in the same signaling pathways. Our purpose was to assess whether genetic variants within IL-4, IL-13 and IL-4Rα are associated with the risk or clinical outcome of colorectal cancer (CRC). METHODS: Three single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) were screened in 466 patients with CRC and 445 healthy controls. The selected SNPs were IL-4 SNP rs2243250, IL-4Rα SNP rs1801275 and IL-13 SNP rs1800925. RESULTS: We found that the genotype variant T/T in IL-13 gene was associated with a higher risk of CRC. Kaplan-Meier analysis showed that the cancer specific survival differed between C/C and CT + TT for IL-4 SNP. Moreover, the carriers of the T allele were associated with the highest risk of CRC death with a hazard ratio (HR) of 1.57, 95% CI 1.06-2.36, p = .024. The observed effect of the T allele was restricted to stage III patients. CONCLUSION: Our results indicate IL-13 SNP rs1800925 as a risk factor for CRC and that IL-4 SNP rs2243250 could be a useful prognostic marker in the follow-up and clinical management of patients with CRC especially in stage III disease. Song, Nguyen Van Department of Medical Laboratory, Da Nang University of Medical Technology and Pharmacy, Da Nang, Vietnam. Minh, Nguyen Khac Karolinska University Laboratory, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden. Henningsson, Anna J. Clinical Microbiology, Division of Medical Diagnostics, Region Jönköping County, Jönköping, Sweden. Prevalence of cervical infection and genotype distribution of human Papilloma virus among females in Da Nang, Vietnam2017In: Anticancer Research, ISSN 0250-7005, E-ISSN 1791-7530, Vol. 37, no 3, p. 1243-1247Article in journal (Refereed) Aim: The goal of the present study was to determine the prevalence and distribution of high-risk human papilloma virus (HPV) genotypes in women from two districts in and around Da Nang city, Vietnam. Materials and Methods: All participants were randomly selected, 200 from the Hai Chau district and 200 from the Son Tra district. The detection and genotyping of HPV were performed by real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technique. Results: Out of a total of 400 women, we found that 38 (9.5%) were infected with a high-risk HPV genotype, the most prevalent genotypes being 16, 18, 58 and 59. By assessment of the HPV findings in relation to sociodemographic characteristics, we found significant differences between the two study districts and between the age groups, as well as differences associated with occupation and the use of contraceptives. Conclusion: The proportion of high–risk genotypes other than 16 and 18 was relatively high, and since the HPV genotype distribution is known to vary greatly across populations, the information from this study can be used for planning of screening and vaccination programs in Da Nang. Song Van, Nguyen Da Nang Univ Med Technol & Pharm, Dept Lab Med, Da Nang, Vietnam. Ryhov Cty Hosp, Dept Clin Microbiol, Jonkoping, Sweden. Ryhov Cty Hosp, Dept Surg, Jonkoping, Sweden. Andersson, Roland E Ryhov Cty Hosp, Dept Lab Med, Jonkoping, Sweden. Gene Polymorphism of Matrix Metalloproteinase-12 and-13 and Association with Colorectal Cancer in Swedish Patients2013In: Anticancer Research, ISSN 0250-7005, E-ISSN 1791-7530, Vol. 33, p. 3247-3250Article in journal (Refereed) Background: It has been widely reported that matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) have fundamental roles in pathological processes in cancer through degradation of basal membranes and extracellular matrix. For MMP12 and MMP13, a functional single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) has been detected -82A -> G (rs2276109) and -77A -> G (rs2252070), respectively. These SNPs are suggested to have an influence on different diseases. The present study evaluated the association between these SNPs in patients with colorectal cancer (CRC) patients and healthy controls. Patients and Methods: Using the TaqMan system, these SNPs were screened in 385 patients with CRC and 619 controls. Results: No significant difference in genotype distribution or in allelic frequencies was found between the two groups. However, we showed that the AA MMP-12 genotype is connected with a higher risk of disseminated CRC (Odds Ratio=1.77; 95% Confidence Interval=1.11-2.81, p=0.018). Conclusion: The results of this study suggest that the -82A -> G (rs2276109) polymorphism of the MMP12 gene reflects clinical outcome of patients with CRC. 40. Ungerbäck, Jonas Elander, Nils Analysis of VEGF polymorphisms, tumor expression of VEGF mRNA and colorectal cancer susceptibility in a Swedish population2009In: Molecular Medicine Reports, ISSN 1791-2997, Vol. 2, no 3, p. 435-439Article in journal (Refereed) Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) plays a significant role in tumor angiogenesis and is found to be overexpressed and involved in the development and progression of colorectal cancer (CRC). The VEGF gene contains several polymorphic sites known to influence VEGF expression. We examined the possible association between five polymorphisms, located in the promoter/5'-untranslated region [-2578 (C/A), -2549 (del/ins 18 bp) -1154 (G/A), -634 (G/C)] or 3'-untranslated region [+936 (C/T)] of the VEGF gene, and CRC Susceptibility and clinicopathological characteristics in 302 Swedish CRC patients and 336 healthy randomly selected controls. Both genotypes and combined haplotypes were analyzed. No significant differences were observed when VEGF genotype/haplotype frequencies in the CRC cases and controls were compared, nor were any associations found between the genotypes/haplotypes and clinicopathological characteristics. However, when the -2578 C and +936 T alleles were combined, a small but significant association with CRC susceptibility was detected (OR=1.6, 95% CI 1.3-1.9, p=0.01). In addition, VEGF mRNA expression was determined in a Subset of patients, revealing a 2-fold VEGF upregulation in CRC tissue compared to normal colonic mucosa, but no association between the genotypes or haplotypes and VEGF mRNA levels. Linkage analysis was performed, revealing that the polymorphisms in the promoter and 5'-untranslated region were in tight linkage disequilibrium (LD) (vertical bar D'vertical bar=0.91-1.00), while the +936 C/T polymorphism was only weakly associated with the others (vertical bar D'vertical bar=0.05-0.19). In conclusion, VEGF is generally upregulated in colorectal tumors. However, the single nucleotide polymorphisms examined do not appear to influence the mRNA expression of VEGF in colorectal tumors, and most likely play a limited role in CRC development and progression. 41. Viet, Hung Trinh Interleukin-1 receptor antagonist gene polymorphism in human colorectal cancer.2005In: Oncology Reports, ISSN 1021-335X, E-ISSN 1791-2431, Vol. 14, no 4, p. 915-918Article in journal (Other academic) 42. Wägsäter, Dick Expression of interleukin-17 in human colorectal cancer2006In: Anticancer Research, ISSN 0250-7005, E-ISSN 1791-7530, Vol. 26, no 6B, p. 4213-4216Article in journal (Refereed) 43. Wågsater, Dick Mumtaz, Melad Lofgren, Sture Jönköping University, School of Health and Welfare, HHJ, Dep. of Natural Science and Biomedicine. Jönköping University, School of Health and Welfare, HHJ. Ageing - living conditions and health. Jönköping University, School of Health and Welfare, HHJ. Biomedical Platform. Resistin in Human Colorectal Cancer: Increased Expression Independently of Resistin Promoter -420C>G genotype.2008In: Cancer Investigation, ISSN 0735-7907, E-ISSN 1532-4192, Vol. 26, no 10, p. 1008-1014Article in journal (Refereed) A single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) -420C> G of the resistin gene was screened in 248 colorectal cancer (CRC) patients and 256 controls. No significant difference in genotype distribution was found. However, we found an upregulation in 92% of the samples in the levels of resistin protein in cancer tissue (n = 83). Immunohistochemical analysis revealed heterogenous staining of resistin predominantly in the cancer tissue. Further, resistin induced secretion of MMP-2 and MMP-9 from monocytes. The results of this study suggest that resistin may play a partial role in CRC but that the -420C> G resistin polymorphism is not a potential genetic susceptibility factor. 44. Wågsäter, D Down-regulation of ID2 by all-trans retinoic acid in monocytic leukemia cells (THP-1)2003In: Journal of Experimental and Clinical Cancer Research, ISSN 1756-9966, E-ISSN 1756-9966, Vol. 22, no 3, p. 471-475 Article in journal (Other academic) 45. Wågsäter, Dick Quantification of the chemokines CCL17 and CCL22 in human colorectal adenocarcinomas2008In: Molecular Medicine Reports, ISSN 1791-2997, Vol. 1, no 2, p. 211-217Article in journal (Refereed) Chemokines are believed to play a crucial role in local immunoresponse by regulating leukocyte movement in various tissues, including the intestinal mucosa. It has been suggested that they are key players in cancer biology, and several studies have identified leukocyte infiltration as a hallmark of most cancers. The chemokines CCL17 and CCL22 attract CCR4-bearing cells, which are especially polarised to Th2-type cells and regulatory T cells (Treg). Recent studies have revealed the participation of the CCL17 and CCL22 proteins in diseases such as atopic dermatitis and lymphoma. The purpose of this study was to assess the role of CCL17 and CCL22 protein expression in colorectal cancer (CRC) and to ascertain whether an association exists between promoter -431C>T CCL17 and -961G>A CCL22 gene polymorphisms in CRC versus non-CRC subjects. Using the ELISA assay, we noted a significantly higher expression of CCL22 in tumour tissue with a 2.3-fold up-regulation (tumour vs. paired normal tissue, n=78) but no significant difference in CCL17 protein expression. Immunohistochemistry revealed protein expression of CCL22 and CCL17 in the epithelial compartment of cancer tissue, in epithelial cells at the resection border that reflects normal tissue, and in some stromal cells such as lymphocytes, macrophages, and fibroblasts. Using a TaqMan system we screened for -431C>T CCL17 and -961G>A CCL22 gene variants in 245 CRC patients and 256 controls, but could not find any significant difference in genotype distribution or in allelic frequencies between the two groups. The genotype and allelic distributions of CRC patients were not related to tissue levels of CCL17 and CCL22 protein, and none of the variables were associated with plasma levels or clinical characteristics. To ascertain whether the tissue expression of CCL17 and CCL22 exerts an influence oil the pathogenesis of CRC, a forthcoming study oil the 5-year survival rate of CRC patients will be conducted. Expression of chemokine receptor CXCR6 in human colorectal adenocarcinomas.2004In: Anticancer Research, ISSN 0250-7005, E-ISSN 1791-7530, Vol. 24, no 6, p. 3711-3714Article in journal (Refereed) Jönköping University, School of Health Science, HHJ, Dep. of Natural Science and Biomedicine. Jönköping University, School of Health Science, HHJ. Ageing - living conditions and health. Ghaderi, Mehran Analysis of MICA gene transcripts in human rectal cancers2003In: Anticancer Research, ISSN 0250-7005, E-ISSN 1791-7530, Vol. 23, no 3B, p. 2525-2529Article in journal (Other academic) Induction of ATP-binding cassette A1 by all-trans retinoic acid: possible role of liver X receptor-alpha.2003In: International Journal of Molecular Medicine, ISSN 1107-3756, E-ISSN 1791-244X, Vol. 11, no 4, p. 419-423Article in journal (Other academic) Expression of CXCL16 in human rectal cancer.2004In: International Journal of Molecular Medicine, ISSN 1107-3756, E-ISSN 1791-244X, Vol. 14, no 1, p. 65-69Article in journal (Other academic) Jatta, Ken Ocaya, Pauline Sirsjo, Allan Expression of IL-1beta, IL-1 receptor type I and IL-1 receptor antagonist in human aortic smooth muscle cells: effects of all-trans-retinoic acid.2006In: Journal of Vascular Research, ISSN 1018-1172, E-ISSN 1423-0135, Vol. 43, no 4, p. 377-382Article in journal (Other academic)

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Vision in White - Nora Roberts Vision in White by Nora Roberts Form: Paperback Book Series: The Bride Quartet After years of throwing make-believe weddings in the backyard, flowers, photography, desserts, and details are what these women do best: a guaranteed perfect, beautiful day full of memories to last the rest of your life. With bridal magazine covers to her credit, Mackensie "Mac" Elliot is most at home behind the camera - ready to capture the happy moments she never experienced while growing up. Her father replaced his first family with a second, and now her mother, moving on to yet another man, begs Mac for attention and money. Mac's foundation is jostled again moments before an important wedding planning meeting when she bumps into the bride-to-be's brother...an encounter that has them both seeing stars. Carter Maguire is definitely not her type: he's stable, and he's safe. He's even an English teacher at their high school alma mater. There's something about him that makes Mac think a casual fling is just what she needs to take her mind of dealing with bridezillas and screening her mother's phone calls. But a casual fling can turn into something more when you least expect it. And with the help of her three best friends - and business partners - Mac must learn how to make her own happy memories. Source: flap of book One word summary: beautiful For once I can’t claim that the characters were the best part of a book that I liked. Not to indicate that the characters weren’t good, because that is very far from the truth, but I actually fell in love with the descriptions in this book. Nora Roberts made you feel like you were Mac, behind the lens of a camera. She made you want to pick up your camera and try it yourself. I enjoyed the hustle and bustle of the “Vows” business run by four best friends. No matter who was narrating, you felt as if you were walking in their shoes. I loved Carter as well, but who wouldn’t love the homebody, bookish, tweed-wearing teacher who has a passion that is a little bit out of his control. I never would have thought “nerd” could be sexy, but on Carter, it definitely is. Mac’s mother, Linda, is incorrigible, and you root for Mac to plan her feet and tell her what’s coming to her. I wanted to scoff and shout at her too, whenever Linda just couldn’t open her eyes enough to see beyond her own nose. Even better than Carter though, were Mac’s best friends and business partners; Parker, Emma, and Laurel. To have such a strong and long lasting relationship, and a built in support group, a bond that any other woman would be jealous of. I know I was. Most of all, I wanted more. I wanted to see Mac and Carter’s wedding. I wanted to see her become just one of the family at Carter’s parent’s house. I wanted to see the growth and love there. The thing is, it’s okay that it wasn’t there too, because you can see how it’s going to happen. You know Mac is getting the HEA she never thought was possible. I am looking forward to Bed of Roses, which is coming in October, and I will say…I’m most excited about Parker’s book. For some reason I just think her HEA is going to be especially good. Visions of Sugar Plums - Janet Evanovich Because She Can - Bridie Clark Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You - Peter Ca... Glory in Death - J. D. Robb Evermore - Alyson Noel Kissing Coffins - Ellen Schreiber The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl... Hard Eight - Janet Evanovich Honest Illusions - Nora Roberts Can You Keep a Secret - Sophie Kinsella Naked In Death by J.D. Robb Seven Up - Janet Evanovich Vampire Kisses - Ellen Schreiber Second Chance - Jane Green Wife for Hire - Janet Evanovich Hot Six - Janet Evanovich

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Fines For Illegal Septic System In Texas This house was only built 11 years ago. A pipe running into a tin box in the ground is not a legal septic system, Contact your local office for building code enforcement and have a building inspector come out and inspect the tank. There are times when the use of an onsite sewage system (OSS) or its components is discontinued either due to connection to sanitary sewer, or replacement due to failure. DISCHARGING RAW SEWAGE It is the property owner/occupant's responsibility to provide and maintain, in good condition, connections that discharge sewage from the building to the public sewer systems or an approved septic system. I was a Enviromental Compliance Officer back in the day and I can tell you the EPA will burn you if they catch wind. Downtown Parking Program. Official website for Lewis County Washington Government, Chehalis WA. Illegal dumpers are subject to a minimum $500 civil fine and possible criminal prosecution. In addition to these new laws, the governor signed an executive order creating the Texas Environmental Enforcement Task Force. Causes, Effects and Solutions of Illegal Dumping. The Illinois Department of Public Health is providing resources to start the #VaxToSchool social media campaign to promote and provide resources for minimum vaccination requirements for find the #vaxtoschool Campaign here. 89-157, amending the Water Quality Control Plan to add a one-half acre minimum lot size requirement for new developments using on-site. Call 03 5979 1887 Now for a free no obligation chat and quote. For example, I live in Texas where a pumping service comes to an average of about two hundred and fifty dollars. Veterans and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA): A Guide for Employers Introduction. In areas without municipal sewage systems, each home must treat its sewage on its own land using an “on-site sewage disposal system,” more commonly called a septic system. Read More Videos. TEXAS HOA LAW – 2013 LEGISLATIVE UPDATE. In Texas, the EPA delegated full authority to issue permits for the Texas Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (TPDES) program to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ). The early aerobic systems consisted of little more than an aerator placed in a traditional septic tank. Is is legal under Texas law to install your own septic tank. Finally, one can read about minimum state standards in the Texas Administrative Code, here. Veterans and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA): A Guide for Employers Introduction. Septic System Basics. Your septic system must be inspected quarterly. How do I report illegal dumping? How do I find out the top code violations or report a code violation?. A septic tank inspection is needed before replacing the existing one since there are a lot of factors that need to be determined for a successful septic tank installation in Houston including the type of septic system utilized, the condition of the existing septic tank, as well as the capacity of the septic tank in gallons. If you have a garbage disposal, use it sparingly so that you don’t clog the drain fields. The permit application considers the type of soil, placement of the system relative to creeks, rivers, lakes and property lines, as well as the type of septic system to be repaired or replaced and the installation or repair plan. under the law. How to Construct a Small Septic System. Unwanted calls – including illegal and spoofed robocalls - are the FCC's top consumer complaint and our top consumer protection priority. Most of the site became Government Canyon State Natural Area, which was purchased by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department in 1993 in cooperation with the Edwards Aquifer Authority, the San Antonio Water System, the Trust for Public Land, and the federal government Land and Water Conservation Fund. Ray Caldwell, owner of All-Out Sewer & Drain Service in Longview, was arrested early Tuesday morning by U. It is illegal to install a 55 gallon drum as a septic system. The Landlord/Tenant section of their website provides information on a variety of landlord-tenant law issues such as application deposits, housing discrimination, fair housing, forming tenant associations, house rules, a self-help repair packet, and information on landlord's liens. We need to clean up Florida and not be a 3rd world slum. building codes typically require every legally habitable dwelling to have at least one flush toilet connected to an approved sewer or septic system. Buy Camco Dual Flush Pro Holding Tank Rinser with Gate Valve- Thoroughly Cleans Entire Septic System and Breaks Down Tough Clogs in Pipes (39062) at Walmart. Since this is the case, you may want to review the full detailed text of Chapter 92 - Residential Tenancies - Texas Property Code as it applies to landlord and tenant arrangements. systems where there is an on-site sewage facility (OSSF). Antifreeze should only be disposed of by taking it to an autoparts shop or to a facility that specializes in disposal of hazardous waste. Get access to Massachusetts laws. County government site. It is illegal to trespass on private property in order to gain access to a water body or watercourse without first obtaining the verbal or written permission from a landowner. Will specify system requirements and location. Five states — Idaho, Kansas, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Texas — have spent a combined $3,228,000 defending strict anti-abortion laws over the past several years. This is FindLaw's hosted version of Texas Penal Code. All names of complainants are kept confidential and anonymous. Automotive wastes dumped on the ground, in a drain connected to either the storm or sanitary sewer system, in a septic system, or in the trash has serious consequences. Ensure that such systems are watertight and to take steps to avoid leakage or overflow that may cause groundwater contamination. Alternative systems do not include septic tank-drainfield systems or any other systems which are determined by the department to pose a similar threat to the public health, safety and welfare, and the quality of surface and subsurface waters of this state. ReCode, a grassroots organization based in Portland, Oregon, works to legalize sustainable sanitation systems. Reporting Violations. In Massachusetts, attempting to sell your home by listing more bedrooms than the septic system is rated for is illegal. Storm Water Management Program. I have heard of, but never encountered, municipalities where this is illegal – check local ordinances before you do this. Montgomery County provides one of the most extensive solid waste disposal and recycling programs in the nation. For purposes of this section "nonconventional sewage disposal system" meansany Type II or Type III system, as defined in 12 VAC 5-610-250 of the SewageHandling and Disposal Regulations, holding tanks as referenced in 12 VAC5-610-598 through 12 VAC 5-610-599. Provides loans through the Massachusetts Water Pollution Abatement Trust to homeowners to fix failing septic systems. If you do a double tank system especially with dual compartments, you can leave a riser on the first tank for pumping every five years or so but the liquid coming out of the last tank into the drainfield is free of anything that will harm or clog the drainfield. Davis Conroe, Texas 77301 Business Hours Monday- Thursday 7:30am-5pm Friday 8am-4:30pm Phone: 936. To care for a septic system, spread out your laundry over 2 or more days to give your septic tank time to recover in between washes. Before purchasing a septic tank from a supplier, make sure that installing one will not result in hefty fines and even possible criminal charges in some regions. was told it is a working system, maintaining constant water level. One of the best ways involves installing a septic system. The problem is so bad that more counties are creating local environmental teams to combat it. This means if you have an aerobic or septic system and an irrigation system, you must have an RPZ properly installed and tested by a person licensed by the State of Texas. When properly maintained, they remain out of sight and odorless. As used in ORS 454. Before deciding about the septic system on your property and checking its functionality, you must hire services of a soil engineer to conduct a perk test. You MUST have a maintenance contract with an aerobic septic system company. If you are buying or selling property with a septic system installed, an inspection of the system may be part of the process. These include complaints from consumers whose numbers are being spoofed or whose calls are being mistakenly blocked or labeled as a possible scam call by a robocall blocking app or service. The gentleman who owns the sewage collection company described in the "Sewage Dumping" scenario empties private septic tanks that are not connected to city sewer lines. Please note that other Georgia laws, as well as federal laws and regulations, may apply to the activities of residential mortgage lending. For over 80 years, Zep has developed the most effective products trusted by professionals and consumers to get the job done right the first time. Your wastewater disposal system is the septic system buried elsewhere under your yard. The problem is so bad that more counties are creating local environmental teams to combat it. Living off the grid Illegal in many areas of the United States. EPA fines Donald company for illegally dumping septic waste 7 Jun 2016 Environment Protection Authority Victoria (EPA) has fined a Donald company more than $7,500 for illegally dumping about 400 litres of septic waste on public land at the Lake Wooroonook Reserve near the Borung Highway. Please note that the next update of this compilation will not take place until after the conclusion of the 54th Legislature, 2nd Regular Session, which convenes in January 2020. Yet Realtors and home sellers still wind up trying to sell homes this way in the state, most likely because they are unaware of the laws regarding septic system ratings and home sales. Welcome to the Connecticut Department of Consumer Protection's website -- designed to help you find information you need to become licensed, renew a permit, or solve a problem. “Hennessey told me he had borrowed the backhoe on Saturday (in March 2013) from Calyx Energy, and forgotten to call and tell them,” the deputy wrote in his affidavit. Stuart Meade is your Septic System Design and Consulting Expert. 1 (graywater systems must meet all design and construction standards for septic tank systems) Nevada : System Utilizing Graywater for Underground Irrigation, 444. ImmTrac safely consolidates and stores immunization information from multiple sources electronically in one centralized system. The legislature recently passed several new laws designed to address California's housing crisis. The agency's statutory authority is found in the following laws: Construction Contractors Board - ORS Chapter 701; Additional related laws that may not be administered by the agency: Construction Liens - ORS 87. Conservation Authorities, Municipal Well Head Protection Legislation and Escarpment Protection Legislation make repairing a septic system that conforms to the OBC perfectly, either difficult or impossible to achieve. These new gun laws have brought some confusion among gun-owning residents and even law enforcement about what the new laws allow or don’t allow. For England and Wales, the principal water pollution offences are contained in the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2010: regulations 38(1) and 12(1). Governing provides nonpartisan news, insight and analysis about state and local government. Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools. Care must be taken with all bag systems to prevent small animals from tearing holes in the bags, so having a sturdy transport container is a good idea. Given this, and the much less drastic consequences of overloading a greywater system as compared to a septic system, it is hard to justify the economic and ecological costs of an "official" percolation test, requiring a backhoe, auguring equipment, truck, pipe, & gravel, when a homeowner can get all the information needed in an hour, with a. Site evaluations, permits and authorized installation procedures are only a few of the hoops you'll have to jump through to get a septic tank installed in the Lone Star State. Frequently Asked Questions about Septic Systems Things like cigarette butts, disposable diapers, sanitary napkins, plastics, any other trash, or high levels of cleaning agents or chemicals create problems for your septic tank. This article was written by Texas RioGrande Legal Aid. Before purchasing a septic tank from a supplier, make sure that installing one will not result in hefty fines and even possible criminal charges in some regions. Click on the link below to start your service request or call us directly at 1-800-773-2489. If the septic system/cesspool is within ten feet of the new structure, it will need to be decommissioned. Your wastewater disposal system is the septic system buried elsewhere under your yard. Permit Department Phil D. It is just fine for your plants (actually can control aphids and other garden pests). They have excellent community reviews, high BBB ratings & are backed by our $1000 quality guarantee. My mistake. Sadly, you will be stuck paying the $2,000 to $7,000, including the plumber hookup fee, to legally connect to a city sewer line. Living off the grid Illegal in many areas of the United States. The number of connections is based on residences identified in the field during the design phase. I would not do it. The system introduced free one-off registration of “most” septic tanks, although some operators would be required to obtain an environmental permit. The legislature recently passed several new laws designed to address California's housing crisis. The Arizona Revised Statutes have been updated to include the revised sections from the 54th Legislature, 1st Regular Session. Now a government that is going to tell me I can't poop in a bucket has gotten a little too big for its britches, in my opinion, and I'm always one to buck the system. The Department's Code Enforcement team patrols City neighborhoods daily to deter illegal dumping and investigate citizen complaints. Also information regarding business licenses and historic preservation. As of July 1, 2013, this board will be referenced as the Wastewater Advisory Council under § 41-67-41. The Natural Conservation Commission has adopted "Construction Standards for Sewage Facilities". Unlike the 2011 legislative session, in which the Texas Legislature enacted the most significant reforms to Texas HOA laws in almost 20 years, the legislation passed by the Legislature in the 2013 session is relatively minor in scope. In New York State, there are several different laws governing this relationship, and they can be different depending upon the county or town you live in. NEW LAW ON DISPOSAL OF MEDICATION IN HEALTH CARE FACILITIES BECOMES EFFECTIVE ON JUNE 17th On June 17, 2013 a new law which was signed in November of 2012, takes effect. DRAFT BOARD DOCUMENT BD 2019-XX CERTIFICATION PROPOSAL VINTON, TEXAS 1 OCTOBER 11, 2019 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY WASTEWATER COLLECTION SYSTEM FOR VINTON, TEXAS 1. Alderman The People's Lawyer (Revised January 1, 2008) Historically, landlord-tenant law has favored the landlord. Fines can range from $2000 and 180 days in jail. Maintain electrical and plumbing systems: Repair or replace faulty or exposed wiring, fixtures and components immediately. Nationally accredited by the Public Health Accreditation Board, Public Health serves over 10 million residents and millions of travelers each year. If he or she doesn't, the laws of nature will get you because your septic system will fail miserably and you will have to dig it up and start over. the graywater system is designed so that 100% of the graywater can be diverted to an organized wastewater collection system during periods of non-use of the graywater system and the discharge from the graywater system must enter the organized wastewater system through two backwater valves or backwater preventers;. The Real Tragedy of Tuam The Irish Government’s current indecisiveness about the revelation of 796 children and babies flushed into a septic tank at a former Mother and Baby Home in Tuam, Co Galway is telling. (a) Capacity. I can't aford to have this done by a contractor as required by law. To avoid these undesirable situations, you would have to install a lift pump to pump your poo water from the septic tank to a higher elevation to enter a proper leach field. Ask a question about real estate , home buying in Tarrytown, and get answers from local experts. Greywater systems have been used informally for a long time. The system may not be legal, but if the neighbors don't complain, this approach often works for them. Counties in Texas can enforce applicable regulations. Zoning laws and building codes, by and large, require a minimum square footage for. septic tanks) located within Williamson County, with the exception of those areas that are located within the City of Austin. Rules and Laws For questions about these building codes, call the appropriate Bureau chief or Administrator: General Construction Bureau Chief CBO and Acting Director. Watch new videos about the Department of Health’s Strategic Plan and learn how the state is transforming public health in Hawaii. Online shopping from a great selection at Handmade Products Store. The public role in the Storm Water Management Program can further reduce the levels of pollution found in our water resources by taking the following actions. In rural areas many people have a 55 gallon barrel and a peice of french drain pipe, at best. The Legislature, in the Health and Safety Code, designates the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) as the official agent to investigate and decide whether to approve a permit request. For more information about this permit refund, click here. Learn what your requirements and rights are. They come in yellow, black, light green, and grey. If you are installing a composting toilet in an existing residence where you are not altering the on-lot system, you do not need a permit. If you system was installed before 1974 you will have to replace it. If he or she doesn't, the laws of nature will get you because your septic system will fail miserably and you will have to dig it up and start over. Communities spend billions of dollars every year unplugging or replacing grease-blocked pipes, repairing pump stations, and cleaning up costly and illegal wastewater spills. The articles below summarize septic-system regulations in the different states, identify the government agencies that are responsible for regulation, and link to consumer resources. If part of the principal dwelling, it must be at least 300 square feet but may not exceed 30 % of the gross floor area. There are lots of things you can do that will benefit your septic system and benefit the environment in the bargain. What is the best slogan for''When we are immune''? 276 want this answered. 837: Oklahoma : Individual and Small Public On-Site Sewage Disposal Systems (definition of “sewage” includes graywater waste but no specific rules) Texas. So, it's tough, even if you only have property in Texas. A septic tank inspection is needed before replacing the existing one since there are a lot of factors that need to be determined for a successful septic tank installation in Houston including the type of septic system utilized, the condition of the existing septic tank, as well as the capacity of the septic tank in gallons. Danny Schroeder or Tracy Monroe currently inspect all residential septic system sites in the county prior to construction and after installation. Your local authority can initiate a criminal action against you if a leak or overflow occurs from your system. Drain/ Leach Field - $2,000 - $10,000 The drain or leach field is the section of the septic system that transports the waste water back to the soil. In Massachusetts and probably other states as well, you cannot say you have more bedrooms than what your septic system is designed for. Rules and Laws For questions about these building codes, call the appropriate Bureau chief or Administrator: General Construction Bureau Chief CBO and Acting Director. Off Grid Living Variations Within States. These septic tanks are intended for burial underground or in a man-made mound as part of a septic system. 755 (Fees for certain reports on sewage disposal), unless the context requires otherwise: (1) “Absorption facility” means a system of open-jointed or perforated piping, alternate distribution units or other seepage systems for receiving the flow from septic tanks or other treatment units and designed to distribute. The plan being implemented in 1998 when a certain someone had a big (LAWLESS AND CORRUPT). A charge can be made to obtain a permit. Since this is the case, you may want to review the full detailed text of Chapter 92 - Residential Tenancies - Texas Property Code as it applies to landlord and tenant arrangements. Missouri Regulations Governing Onsite Wastewater Treatment Systems. Building and Safety Division. Or you need to replace a failing septic system. We need to clean up Florida and not be a 3rd world slum. Those who already have a permitted system such as septic or a municipal sewer hookup may decide to install a non-proprietary composting toilet and graywater system of their own design. Tri-County Health Department permits the installation, repair, and use of these systems in our jurisdiction. Hiring a home inspector to check out a house before you buy it takes time, but what does a home inspector look for? This can save you big money in the end. Liquids or hazard-ous materials (e. I live in Massachusetts and own a legal two family home. The department is charged with the issuing of OSSF permits, as well as the enforcement of county and state laws and regulations relating to Environmental Health. A mother with two small children said her landlord is turning her backyard into a dumping ground. The Gulf of Mexico dead zone is an area of hypoxic (link to USGS definition) (less than 2 ppm dissolved oxygen) waters at the mouth of the Mississippi River. 44 meters) on the Interstate highway system. System inspections must occur within 2 years before or 6 months. They have excellent community reviews, high BBB ratings & are backed by our $1000 quality guarantee. States That Allow Composting Toilets. And I would think the inspector who suggested the OP drain greywater away from the septic would know if it were illegal or not. Sometimes a neighbor makes changes to their property—perhaps a new structure or landscaping—that alter the flow of storm water draining off your neighbor's property. We've made some changes to EPA. Since this is the case, you may want to review the full detailed text of Chapter 92 - Residential Tenancies - Texas Property Code as it applies to landlord and tenant arrangements. Texas Law Help provides plain English explanations of Texas law. What is a septic tank system? Under the Environment Protection Act 1970, a septic tank system means a system for the bacterial, biological, chemical or physical treatment of sewage, and includes all tanks, beds, sewers, drains, pipes, fittings, appliances and land used in connection with the system. It quickly dominates the herbaceous flora, reduces plant diversity, and is unsightly to observers. septic systems and structural issues. A typical system consists of a waste pipe from the house, a large concrete, fiberglass, or plastic septic tank, and a leach field. DRAFT BOARD DOCUMENT BD 2019-XX CERTIFICATION PROPOSAL VINTON, TEXAS 1 OCTOBER 11, 2019 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY WASTEWATER COLLECTION SYSTEM FOR VINTON, TEXAS 1. Under the County's current on-site system regulations, new construction (a new structure or a significant expansion of an existing structure) may use only deep-trench or shallow-trench and sand-mound septic systems. No action required. The Department's Code Enforcement team patrols City neighborhoods daily to deter illegal dumping and investigate citizen complaints. If a neighbor's septic system effluent is leaking into your yard, and if your septic inspection did not involve a tracer die, it's possible that the neighbors failure could be seen as yours. Direct entry means that the discharge is directly connected to the. Illegal dumping is the disposal of waste on public or private land or into water without a licence, permit or approval from the relevant authority such as the EPA or local council. For more information visit the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services. For one thing, with a septic system, the clean-out is going out the back of the house to the septic tank and drainfield, not out the front to the street. 001 General. Learn what your requirements and rights are. Landlord and Tenant Rights in General. Protocol for Onsite Sewage System Abandonment Introduction. Those who already have a permitted system such as septic or a municipal sewer hookup may decide to install a non-proprietary composting toilet and graywater system of their own design. Automotive wastes dumped on the ground, in a drain connected to either the storm or sanitary sewer system, in a septic system, or in the trash has serious consequences. The foundation or framework for effective enforcement are State and local illegal dumping laws and local ordinances that regulate waste management and prohibit illegal dumping. Most people will never have to disable the alarm system in their home. The following questions are commonly asked by rural landowners. County government site. Site managers should ensure compliance with TxDOT's storm water management program for construction sites. Jones, Director 501 North Thompson Suite 100 Conroe, Texas 77301 Phone 936 539 7836 or 281 364 4200 ext 7836 East Montgomery County 281 689 3133 Ask for ext 7836 Fax 936 538 8155 or 936 788 8388 Hours 8am to 4 30pm, receipting closes at 4pm Monday FridayOn Site Waste septic Permits are necessary to assure that state and county regulations are met to promote public. Zoning laws and building codes, by and large, require a minimum square footage for. In its basic form, a septic system consists of a septic tank, where solids settle and decompose, and a drainfield where liquid discharged from the tank is treated by bacteria in the soil. A septic system, also called an onsite wastewater treatment system (OWTS), is made up of a house sewer drain, septic tank, distribution box and soil absorption (leach) field. These septic tanks are intended for burial underground or in a man-made mound as part of a septic system. If a neighbor's septic system effluent is leaking into your yard, and if your septic inspection did not involve a tracer die, it's possible that the neighbors failure could be seen as yours. Despite the growing enthusiasm for tiny houses, it still isn’t easy to legally build them for full-time use. If the inspector finds that the tank was not built to code and is illegal then since your purchase agreement says it has a regular septic system you can. My neighbor says my septic system is on his property. Texas is in the center of the United States map from east to west. And I would think the inspector who suggested the OP drain greywater away from the septic would know if it were illegal or not. Medical Gas & Vacuum System - Program Guide. The Legislature, in the Health and Safety Code, designates the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) as the official agent to investigate and decide whether to approve a permit request. So, it's tough, even if you only have property in Texas. The articles below summarize septic-system regulations in the different states, identify the government agencies that are responsible for regulation, and link to consumer resources. Walker suggests looking for homes that are smaller than traditional houses but not quite as minute as those found in tiny home communities. 89-157, amending the Water Quality Control Plan to add a one-half acre minimum lot size requirement for new developments using on-site. It treated greywater like septic water, requiring a small septic-type system to dispose of it deep underground (with a tank and gravel-filled leach lines). Child Care Licensing serves Nevada’s communities by ensuring the health, safety, and well-being of children in licensed child care facilities. It is illegal to trespass on private property in order to gain access to a water body or watercourse without first obtaining the verbal or written permission from a landowner. Cost estimates for pumping are $200 and $150-350 for inspection. Wetlands regulations vary state by state, and there may be town or county regulations as well. Waste from septic systems, grease traps, and grit traps is hauled from its originating point. Circular DEQ 4 Page 2 of 96 FOREWORD These standards, based on proven technology, set forth requirements for the design and preparation of plans and specifications for subsurface wastewater treatment systems. Alderman The People's Lawyer (Revised January 1, 2008) Historically, landlord-tenant law has favored the landlord. This booklet explains many of the laws tenants need to know and provides resources for where you can find more information about landlord and tenant issues. Regulatory Resources. You MUST have a maintenance contract with an aerobic septic system company. It is an exemption based on circumstances existing prior to the adoption of some policy and was used to enfranchise illiterate whites in US south after the Civil War. State agencies, boards and commissions, are given rulemaking authority from the state Legislature. When we moved out here to rural Texas they informed me I had to have a septic tank. System inspections must occur within 2 years before or 6 months. Liquids or hazard-ous materials (e. If you do not properly maintain them, you could end up with a broken system, backed up sewage in your home or yard and fines assessed by the county for illegal sewage disposal. 89-157, amending the Water Quality Control Plan to add a one-half acre minimum lot size requirement for new developments using on-site. was advised to let it be. Dig Safe tickets are private records, therefore we may only send copies to the company that originally obtained them. Living off the grid Illegal in many areas of the United States. Septic tank problems are always a dirty business, but no matter how much we take care of it and how careful we are of what goes in there, it seems that there is just no avoiding these issues. For gravity disposal systems, septic tanks must be installed with at least a 12 inch drop in elevation from the bottom of the outlet pipe to the bottom of the disposal area. Both Sides of the Illegal Immigration Argument – Where are YOU? by Darwin on July 11, 2010 There are two sides to every story and the story of illegal immigration in the US is stacking up to be a major issue in US politics and water cooler talk as rhetoric on both sides of the debate increases. D for free with a 30 day free trial. If you are buying or selling property with a septic system installed, an inspection of the system may be part of the process. It is illegal to install a 55 gallon drum as a septic system. The Gulf of Mexico dead zone is an area of hypoxic (link to USGS definition) (less than 2 ppm dissolved oxygen) waters at the mouth of the Mississippi River. Plastic Septic Tanks come in many different dimensions for you to choose from. Antifreeze should only be disposed of by taking it to an autoparts shop or to a facility that specializes in disposal of hazardous waste. Finally, one can read about minimum state standards in the Texas Administrative Code, here. While this information can help ensure property code compliance for your rental property, we are not lawyers. 093; Energy Efficiency and Sustainable Technology (EEAST) - ORS 470. The articles below summarize septic-system regulations in the different states, identify the government agencies that are responsible for regulation, and link to consumer resources. If you system was installed before 1974 you will have to replace it. The range of laws and regulations being adopted across the states is vast, despite the creation of a "model code," and it is beyond the scope of this presentation to attempt to survey them state-by-state. One in three newly constructed homes in Texas have a septic system. In order to succeed in a lawsuit against a neighbor, you will need proof showing that your neighbor did. The City encourages anyone who encounters an illegal dump that has already taken place to report it. If our newbie mistake resulted in a failed septic system, that could be thousands of dollars to fix or replace. Illegal dumpers are subject to a minimum $500 civil fine and possible criminal prosecution. The 2013 Sewage Pollution Right to Know (SPRTK) requires untreated and partially treated sewage discharges to be reported by publicly owned treatment works (POTWs) and publicly owned sewer systems (POSSs) within two hours of discovery to DEC and within four hours of discovery to the public and adjoining municipalities. Limit showers to 7 - 8 minutes, use low flow faucets and toilets, etc. Is it illegal to put human excrement in the garbage? If not, why do we use sewage and septic systems? Is it illegal for nursing homes or daycare facilities to put the excrement (poopoo) in the garbage?. Malfunctioning or improperly constructed and maintained private sewage disposal systems can pose serious health hazards. Grease trap chemicals, bacterias and enzymes are illegal to use in drains, grease traps and grease interceptors in the majority of all cities, provinces, states, and municipalities. The Landlord/Tenant section of their website provides information on a variety of landlord-tenant law issues such as application deposits, housing discrimination, fair housing, forming tenant associations, house rules, a self-help repair packet, and information on landlord's liens. Ordinances, permits, and licenses are only effective if they are enforced and offenders are prosecuted. At minimum, a general home inspection should be. That's a no-no. All names of complainants are kept confidential and anonymous. Citizen Interest Application. AlertRC/AlertPC 211 Text Messages. Zoning laws and building codes, by and large, require a minimum square footage for. Estimated $8. Generally, septic systems, also known as on-site sewage facilities, are regulated under a portion of the Texas Health and Safety Code, which you can find here and the Water Code, here. Zanoni was unanimously appointed to his position on April 23, 2019 by the Mayor and City Council. But a septic system is the living example of "it's a dirty job, but somebody's got to do it. Upon arriving on site it was verified the system was an illegal cesspool system, made of disallowed materials and components, and it was discharging waste openly in a pit less than 30′ from the home. Septic System Basics. Speak with an Attorney to Learn More About Your Rights as a Homeowner. Water Pollution Offences. The number of connections is based on residences identified in the field during the design phase. with offices in Austin, Bryan, Corpus Christi, Fort Worth, Midland, San Antonio and Waco Spot a business or offer that sounds like an illegal scheme or fraud. The new laws are intended to make it easier to create accessory dwelling units. Please note that many counties have local ordinances that may exceed state requirements for onsite septic systems. Installing an illegal septic tank. That will likely be expensive. If you are considering the purchase of a swimming pool, you should review the Uniform Code. Permits for septic tank systems and other onsite sewage treatment and disposal systems are issued by the Environmental Health Section of the Florida Department of Health's county offices (html). Danny Schroeder or Tracy Monroe currently inspect all residential septic system sites in the county prior to construction and after installation. The revised ordinance imposes new requirements for advertising, sets occupancy limits, places new requirements on those requesting STR licenses, and creates a process for denying. If our newbie mistake resulted in a failed septic system, that could be thousands of dollars to fix or replace. Septic Systems and Bedroom Counts. Employment opportunities. Motorist's safety is a top priority in Texas; as a result, vehicles registered in Texas are required to pass an annual inspection to ensure compliance with safety standards. Mission Statement. Off Grid Living Variations Within States. Island County, a political subdivision of the State of Washington and home to 80,000 citizens, maintains a public website to deliver content and services to taxpayers and business partners. A septic system is designed for a specific wastewater flow rate based on the number of bedrooms (120 gallons per bedroom per day) in the house served by the system. NSF International. When we moved out here to rural Texas they informed me I had to have a septic tank. Records pertaining to an installed septic system may be obtained by contacting DEQ’s Central Records by email or at (405) 702-1188. Never a state to condone frivolous dalliances, Texas once had a rule installed that made it possible for people to be legally married if they were introduced publicly as husband and wife three or more times. When the use of an OSS or any component is discontinued, proper abandonment or removal procedures must be followed. On May 27, 2013, the Texas Legislature concluded the 2013 legislative session. This hard to tend purgatory land belongs to the city by law, but you are required to keep it maintained. Shortly after. They are an alternative to traditional sewer systems, requiring little water and solving environmental problems,. Has A Neighbor Changed the Flow of Storm Water Onto Your Property? Know Your Rights! Posted October 28, 2012 by John Chapman. This house was only built 11 years ago. They recently had what I thought was survey but later learned was only a mortgage location survey. However, I was NOT planning on using septic, I plan on hooking up to the town system. Minor Mechanical Label Application. How to Sell A Property that Has a Septic System - septic system advice for home sellers. The system may not be legal, but if the neighbors don't complain, this approach often works for them. Even, in the case of one residential park on Lake Martin, because of failing septic systems. Missouri Regulations Governing Onsite Wastewater Treatment Systems. I don't know if this is something I would discuss on a open thread on the internet for anyone to read. We are an enforcement agency responsible for the inspection of various types of businesses from restaurants, food trucks, apartment buildings, hotels to theatres, swimming pools, water wells, and landfills. Learn what your requirements and rights are. My “septic” consists of 2 50-gal steel drums buried in the yard about 100 feet from house. A typical system consists of a waste pipe from the house, a large concrete, fiberglass, or plastic septic tank, and a leach field. It is illegal to install a 55 gallon drum as a septic system. 016) of this chapter shall apply to all areas of the state except where specific. If the inspector finds that the tank was not built to code and is illegal then since your purchase agreement says it has a regular septic system you can. There are services that can help. All complaints are reviewed to determine whether they are within the jurisdiction of the Contractors State License Board. Submit Complaint Online County Web Accessibility information including Alternative Format Requests for Disabled Users are provided on this page. Approximately 25% of existing U. Some require a septic inspection before a title transfer, but even if your state doesn’t, your lender might. Septic systems are installed on properties that cannot be served by a wastewater utility. Our mission is to serve the constituents of Harris County by ensuring developments in unincorporated areas will not pose a threat to the safety and welfare of the public as prescribed by Commissioners Court. This review and adoption process allows for the latest constructions methods to be identified, and offers new options for compliance. “Original contract” means an agreement to which an owner is a party either directly or by implication of law. In some cases, failed anaerobic septic systems are replaced with alternative treatment systems (such as an aerobic system), which can cost as much as $15,000.

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Category Archives: Hudson River Crossings New York State Bridge Authority Rip Van Winkle Region Points of Interest Source: Map of Five Hudson River Crossings; Rip Van Winkle Bridge, Kingston-Rhinecliff Bridge, Mid-Hudson Bridge, Newburgh-Beacon Bridge, Bear Mountain Bridge; New York State Bridge Authority (Pamphlet, Date Unknown- estimated to be pre-1980) The Rip Van Winkle Bridge crosses the Hudson River at Catskill and is part of N.Y. State Route 23 which is a direct connection between the Taconic State Parkway and the New York State Thruway. The bridge is 5,041 feet long and was opened to traffic July 2,1935. RIP VAN WINKLE REGION 26. The Rip Van Winkle Trail: State Route 23-A is also known as the scenic and historic route in the Catskill Mountains area. 27. Palenville: Here is the legendary home of Washington Irving‘s famous character Rip Van Winkle. 28. Haines Falls: Situated at the head of spectacular Kaaterskill Cove. 29. Hudson: The city was named for Henry Hudson. It is the third oldest city in the state-once the home port of the whaling industry operated by New Englanders following the Revolutionary War. 30. Coxsackie: Close by is the Bronch House built in 1663 which contains an interesting collection of fine Revolutionary period silverware… 31. Kinderhook: Birthplace of President Martin Van Buren. Of interest is the House of History, an elegantly furnished residence of the early Federal era. 32. Old Chatham: Nearby is the Shaker Museum, a compound of six separate buildings which hold exhibits of the Shaker sect. This entry was posted in Catskill Mountains, Coxsackie, Haines Falls, Hudson (city), Hudson River Crossings, Kinderhook, Maps, New York State Bridge Authority, Old Chatham, Palenville, Rip Van Winkle Bridge and tagged Catskill Mountains, Coxsackie, Haines Falls, Hudson (city), Kinderhook, Maps, New York State Bridge Authority, Old Chatham, Palenville, Rip Van Winkle Bridge on July 13, 2012 by hudsonvalleygal. New York State Bridge Authority Kingston Rhinecliff Region Points of Interest The Kingston-Rhinecliff Bridge crosses the Hudson River about three miles north of the city of Kingston. N.Y. State Route 199 crosses the Kingston- Rhinecliff Bridge and makes a connection by way of this route with the Taconic State Parkway and the New York State Thruway. Kingston-Rhinecliff Bridge is 7,793 feet long and was opened to traffic February 2,1957. KINGSTON-RHINECLIFF REGION 21. Kingston: “Gateway to the Catskills.” Of special interest is the Senate House (1676) where the state Senate met in its first session in 1777. Also of interest are the Old Dutch Church, and statues of Hudson, Clinton and Stuyvesant. 22. Hurley: Quaint 18th century colonial village. The Van Deusen House served as the temporary capitol of New York in 1777 which is worthwhile. 23. The Onteora Trail: Scenic State Route 28 along the north shore of Ashokan Reservoir (main source of New York City water) leads to the Catskill Mountains. 24. Pine Hill: Near here is the New York State Conservation Department Belleayre Mtn. Chair Lift, up the side of 3420 ft. Mt. Belleayre-from this vantage point sweeping views of the Catskills may be obtained. 25. Rhinebeck: Commercial Violet-anemone-delphinium growing center. The Beekman Arms believed to be the oldest hotel in the U.S. was established here in 1700. This entry was posted in Catskill Mountains, Hudson River Crossings, Hurley, Kingston, Kingston-Rhinecliff Bridge, Maps, New York State Bridge Authority, Pine Hill, Rhinecliff on July 10, 2012 by hudsonvalleygal. New York State Bridge Authority Mid Hudson Region Points of Interest The Mid-Hudson Bridge crosses the Hudson River at Poughkeepsie and is part of U.S. Route 44 and N.Y. State Route 55. Mid-Hudson Bridge is connected on the east to the Taconic State Parkway by both Routes 44 and 55 and with the New York State Thruway on the west by Routes 9W and 299. MID HUDSON REGION 15. Wappinger’s Falls: Town is named for the spectacular cascade nearby. 16. New Paltz: A group of Huguenot field houses are clustered here overlooking the Wallkill River. Here too are the Jean Hasbrouck House built in 1712 and the College at New Paltz, part of the State University. 17. Poughkeepsie: State capital from 1777 to 1797. The Federal Constitution was ratified here in 1788. Other interesting places are the Clinton House built in 1767, ~home of the first governor and famous Vassar College. 18. Hyde Park: The Franklin D. Roosevelt Nat’l Historic Site, birthplace, home and grave of the 32nd President, and the Vanderbilt Nat’l Historic Site, a pretentious 50-room marble mansion are most interesting. 19. Margaret Lewis Norrie State Park: Complete out-door recreation facilities. 20. Mills State Park: The Ogden Mills Mansion, 65-room building of French Renaissance style, with complete furnishings is an outstanding landmark. This entry was posted in Hudson River Crossings, Hyde Park, Maps, Margaret Lewis Norrie State Park, Mid-Hudson Bridge, Mills State Park, New Paltz, New York State Bridge Authority, Poughkeepsie, Wappinger's Falls on July 3, 2012 by hudsonvalleygal. New York State Bridge Authority Newburgh-Beacon Region Points of Interest NEW YORK STATE BRIDGE AUTHORITY Newburgh Beacon Region Points of Interest The Newburgh-Beacon Bridge crosses the Hudson River between the cities of Newburgh and Beacon. The Newburgh-Beacon Bridge is part of Interstate Route 84 which is part of a network of Interstate highways extending throughout the country. Newburgh-Beacon Bridge is connected to the Taconic State Parkway and the New York State Thruway . The Bridge is 7,855 feet long and was opened to traffic in November 1963. NEWBURGH-BEACON REGION 9. Monticello: The Monticello Raceway offers night harness racing-June through September. Close by is Cimarron City reproduction of the “Old West.” 10. Vail’s Gate: Temple Hill marks the site of the “Temple of Virtue” used for worship by the Continental Army in 1783. 11. New Windsor: Here is the Knox Headquarters State Historic Site, residence of General Henry Knox during the years 1782-1783. 12. Newburgh: The surrounding area is rich in Revolutionary War background. The Hasbrouck House of 1750 was General Washington’s headquarters from April 1782 to August 1783. It was from here that he wrote his stern rebuke of one of his officers who had suggested that he become “King.” 13. Beacon: The City received its name from the signal fires which warned Revolutionary armies of the presence of British troops. Here too are the Madam Brett Homestead and the inclined railway on Mt. Beacon. 14. Clarence Fahnestock Memorial State Park: Complete facilities available for outdoor recreation including winter sports. This entry was posted in Hudson River Crossings, Newburgh-Beacon Bridge and tagged Beacon, Fahnestock Park, Hudson River Crossings, Maps, Monticello, New Windsor, New York State Bridge Authority, Newburgh, Newburgh-Beacon Bridge, Vail’s Gate on June 26, 2012 by hudsonvalleygal. New York State Bridge Authority Bear Mountain Region Points of Interest BEAR MOUNTAIN REGION The Bear Mountain Bridge crosses the Hudson River south of West Point. It is part of U.S. Route 6 and 202. The Bear Mountain Bridge is a direct connection to Bear Mountain Park which is a major recreational area in southern New York State. Bear Mountain Bridge is 2,257 feet long and was opened to traffic November 26, 1924. 1. Stony Point Battle Reservation: Here General “Mad” Anthony Wayne stormed and captured A British post. Historical Museum of interest. 2. Bear Mountain and Harriman State Parks: Perkin’s Memorial Drive to the top of Bear Mountain, offers sweeping panoramas of the Hudson River and the Highlands. Complete recreational facilities for all outdoor sports are available. 3. Forts Clinton and Montgomery: These two forts were part of a historic plan to defend the Hudson River against the British fleet during the days of the Revolutionary War. 4. West Point: The U.S. Military Academy was founded here in 1802 to train officers for the Army. On a hill dominating the 16,000 acre reservation is Cadet Chapel. Restored Ft. Putnam, Battle Monument, Trophy Point and the Plains are of interest. 5. Monroe: Old Museum Village of Smith’s Cove is a historical enterprise-it has almost endless variety in the thousands of items shown in more than 20 buildings. 6. Goshen: The Hall of Fame of the Trotter is a museum dedicated to harness racing, over 100 trotting prints by Currier and Ives. 7. Tarrytown: In the area are Sunnyside, home of Washington Irving; Philipsburg Manor, home of F. Philipse, built in 1683; and Dutch Reformed (Sleepy Hollow) Church, recently converted into a Nat’l Historic Site. 8. Graymoor Village: Of interest is the Motherhouse of the Franciscan Friars of the Atonement. This entry was posted in Bear Mountain, Bear Mountain Bridge, Fort Clinton, Fort Montgomery, Goshen, Graymoor Village, Harriman State Park, Hudson River Crossings, Maps, Monroe, New York State Bridge Authority, Tarrytown, USMA West Point on June 19, 2012 by hudsonvalleygal. New York State Bridge Authority Points of Interest The Hudson Valley has had a long and influential history -its history-its beauty has been well known to travellers for generations. Along the shores of the Hudson River are many places whose memories go back to Henry Hudson or “Rip Van Winkle.” Here too are fabulous playgrounds, rich in entertainment. Listed below are some of the places recommended for the traveller to visit. This entry was posted in Bear Mountain Bridge, Hudson River Crossings, Kingston-Rhinecliff Bridge, Maps, Mid-Hudson Bridge, New York State Bridge Authority, Newburgh-Beacon Bridge, Rip Van Winkle Bridge on June 12, 2012 by hudsonvalleygal. The five bridges operated by the New York State Bridge Authority are located in the Hudson River Valley, one of the most beautiful and historic regions in the United States. Henry Hudson discovered the Hudson River on his sail aboard the Half Moon in 1609. The Hudson River Valley was the scene of many critical battles in the Revolutionary War. The scenic and historic attractions of the Hudson River Valley are within easy reach of the motorists. The Taconic State Parkway on the east side of the River and the Palisades Interstate Parkway and the New York State Thruway on the west side of the River are connected by the five bridges operated by the Bridge Authority. Interstate Route 84, which is part of the Federal Interstate Highway system, crosses the Newburgh-Beacon Bridge. The New York State Bridge Authority was created by an act of the State Legislature in 1932 to construct and operate bridges across the Hudson River. Members of the Authority are appointed by the Governor for five-year terms. Dr. John L. Edwards, Chairman Ben J. Slutsky, Vice-Chairman Harold D. Spencer Clinton corners Samuel V. Schoonmaker, Jr. Milton Zwickel Bridge Plaza, Poughkeepsie, New York Telephone: Area code 914-Globe 2-1370 This entry was posted in Bear Mountain Bridge, Hudson River Crossings, Kingston-Rhinecliff Bridge, Mid-Hudson Bridge, New York State Bridge Authority, Newburgh-Beacon Bridge, Rip Van Winkle Bridge on June 5, 2012 by hudsonvalleygal.

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Did you know that never before have so many people worked in research and knowledge development? More than 90% of all the researchers throughout the ages are alive today. At the same time, 130 million children are growing up unable to read, write and count. 2.6 HUMAN RIGHTS IN OUR TIME Even though the world is moving forwards, it is not the case that everyone automatically benefits from this development. Despite the fact that the population of the world, as a whole, has never been as rich and knowledgeable as it is today, the greatest human rights related challenge is still that people are going hungry. A total of 1.2 billon people have too little food and 800 million of these are chronically undernourished. At the same time, in just one country – the USA – in just one year, 400,000 people underwent liposuction. This illustrates the great differences and challenges that exist in our time and which we have a responsibility to do something about. Working to implement human rights the world over can change this situation. The international human rights system has undergone immense development since the Universal Declaration was adopted in 1948. Because the declaration is not legally binding, the UN's Commission on Human Rights continued its work. This involved getting the member states to commit themselves to following these rules – i.e. turning human rights into national laws with which the states had to comply. This took 18 long years. It was not until 1966 that work on “the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights” and “the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights” was completed. The process had been delayed by the Cold War. The documents did not become legally enforceable (valid) until 35 states had ratified them (subjected them to a special procedure and signed them) and this did not happen until 1976. So far, just under 150 of the world’s almost 200 states have ratified these two conventions. The Universal Declaration of 1948 and the conventions from 1966 form the actual foundation of the international human rights system. These three documents are collectively called “The International Bill of Human Rights”. Other inter-governmental organisations than just the UN also work to promote human rights: the Council of Europe, the Organization of American States (OAS), and the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), among others. Thousands of voluntary organisations and individuals also work for human rights. Perhaps you would also like to work to increase respect for human rights? Many of the people going hungry live in countries that, as a whole, produce enough food. However the farmers who cultivate the earth sell their products to foreign countries in, for example, the West, where they can earn more for their goods than in their own countries. 53% of Indian children are undernourished. At the same time, the state of India spends billions of NOK on developing a nuclear arsenal. Thus, paradoxically, India is spending its money building up its military capacity to defend the greatest concentration of poor people on earth. Around 92% of all HIV positive people live in developing countries. More than 40 million people are infected. HIV/AIDS no longer presents a threat in industrial countries because information about the illness has reached the people. Besides this there are a lot of medicines that mean that many people can live for a long time and well, even though they are HIV positive. These medicines are too expensive for poor people in poor developing countries to buy.

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JFK Assassination Secrets Scheduled for 2017 Release by JOSH SANBURN | Time The tortured path that began with a left turn onto Dealey Plaza on Nov. 22, 1963, will find its unlikely end point this October in College Park, Md. At a National Archives annex, the last remaining documents related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy are being processed, scanned and readied for release. For those who believe that the clues to who killed JFK are hidden somewhere deep inside the government’s files, this may be the last chance to find the missing pieces. Under the terms of the 1992 JFK Records Act–a result of Oliver Stone’s 1991 movie JFK, which revived fascination with the idea of a cover-up–the government was given 25 years to make public all related files. The time is up on Oct. 26, 2017. About 3,000 never-before-seen documents, along with 34,000 previously redacted files, are scheduled for release. The files–many of which trace back to the House Select Committee on Assassinations from the 1970s–promise to be less about second shooters and grassy knolls and more about what the government, particularly the CIA, might have known about assassin Lee Harvey Oswald before Kennedy’s death. (The CIA declined to comment for this story, and the FBI did not respond to a request.) Already, the law has helped fill out one of the most significant periods of the 20th century, revealing information on military plots to invade Cuba; Kennedy’s plans to execute a withdrawal of U.S. forces from Vietnam; and the formation of the Warren Commission, which investigated the assassination. According to the National Archives, the final batch includes information on the CIA’s station in Mexico City, where Oswald showed up weeks before JFK’s death; 400 pages on E. Howard Hunt, the Watergate burglary conspirator who said on his deathbed that he had prior knowledge of the assassination; and testimony from the CIA’s James Angleton, who oversaw intelligence on Oswald. The documents could also provide information on a CIA officer named George Joannides, who directed financial dealings with an anti-Castro group whose members had a public fight with Oswald on the streets of New Orleans in the summer of 1963. “The records that are out there are going to fill out this picture,” says Jefferson Morley, an author who’s spent decades researching the assassination. But Martha Murphy, who oversees the effort at the National Archives, warns that many of the documents may be of little value. She believes that any potentially revelatory information, like Oswald’s CIA file, has already been released–albeit with redactions (that text will be restored for the new release). Most of the trove was deemed “not believed relevant” by the independent Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB) in the 1990s. Still, John Tunheim, who chaired the ARRB, says “something that was completely irrelevant in 1998 may look more tantalizing today.” For curious observers, even irrelevant documents are better than nothing–and nothing is still a possibility. The law says that if an agency doesn’t want certain files made public, it can appeal to the President, who could decide to hold them back after all. That has prompted almost two dozen authors, academics and former ARRB members to write to the White House counsel urging that all documents be released. “We’re at the final chapter of JFK disclosure,” Morley says. “Sometimes I think we’re going to win. Sometimes I think it’s a fool’s errand. But we’re going to find out.” [END] As I pointed out in "National Archives to Keep JFK Secrets until 2017" (2012) and "Fifty-two years of coming to terms with Oswald" (2015), the October 2017 release of JFK documents is the Holy Grail among conspiracy devotees. Despite the fact that sources at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) who have seen the documents say there is no smoking gun (Martha Murphy says as much above), and that the Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB) who also reviewed the documents in the 1990s and reiterated then that there is no smoking gun, conspiracy advocates cling to the belief that proof of Oswald’s innocence lies within. What do you think will happen when the conspirati discover that the documents were largely withheld because they contained information that was considered “security classified” or to protect personal privacy, tax and grand jury information, or “because information in the document reveals the identity of an unclassified confidential source,” as NARA officials who have seen the documents have told us? More importantly, what do you think will happen when some documents are petitioned to be withheld indefinitely because they reveal living sources or ongoing intelligence methods? Let me guess: Conspiracy fans will cry foul and continue to claim what they’ve always claimed in spite of evidence to the contrary—that the cover-up continues. Let's face it, if the millions of pages of documents that are already available (many of them now online), and have been available for the better part of 50 years, haven't convinced conspiracy advocates that their charges of conspiracy in the JFK case are false - nothing will. Year after year, we’re treated to a litany of unsubstantiated and in many cases irrational “reasons” why we’re supposed to ignore the fact that fifty-three years ago a disgruntled sociopath left his rifle behind on the sixth floor of his workplace along with three spent cartridges, fled the scene, armed himself with his own 38-caliber revolver, then used it to murder a police officer who stopped to question him, and finally pulled the same pistol minutes later in a darkened theater and attempted to shoot arresting officers as they closed in. I guess I’ll never understand why it’s so hard for some people to accept reality. Expect October, 2017 to be no different. Posted by Dale K. 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Nadia Ryzhakova iPainting Home / Essays / jake sutton Talented Russian 'iPad artist' wins new Cirencester Arts Society award A RUSSIAN-BORN artist, who creates much of her work on an iPad, has been announced as the first winner of a new annual award from Cirencester Arts Society. Nadja Ryzhakova won the inaugural John Benjamin Palmer Memorial Trophy for the best painting by a member of the society. The award was named after a former member who died in June 2014 and presented by renowned artist Jake Sutton at his Fairford-based gallery. Jake, a graduate of St Martin’s School of Art, has been exhibiting in London since 1979, and critiqued each the competition’s 40 entrants’ work personally. He said: “Nadja was given the award for the two paintings she submitted. “The qualities I admired were firstly the attack and confident handling of paint in her landscape and secondly the originality and successful use of paint and collage in the self-portrait. “These works combined to reveal a considerable talent and I wish her well with future work.” Cirencester-based Nadja moved to the area last year and works from her home studio in experimental mixed media, combining painting with stitching as well as traditional acrylic and oil painting. She graduated in 2009 in Moscow with a degree in monumental-decorative art production, moving to London in 2010 where she discovered the iPad as a creative medium. iPad art has since become her new form of artistic engagement, which she defines as ‘iPainting’. Since then she has been recognised by the national press and TV, as well as various art organisations, and runs a series of Workshops on iPainting in the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. She said: “Jake Sutton is a man of genius. “Fabulous drawings and paintings. I am so happy I had this chance to meet him in person. It was very inspirational for me.” For more information about Nadja’s work visit: www.ipainting.pro Tags #art for sale #award #ipad artist #jake sutton #nadja ryzhakova #russian artist

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Denying food to the poor is violence December 4, 2019 a world of progress, letters, media, progressive living, progressive media center One comment Have you ever had to go to bed hungry? I have. I know what it feels like to only have enough food for the kids to eat supper, so you say you had a big lunch and assure them they can eat their fill as your stomach growls. And when it causes you to lose a few pounds, people tell you that you look great, and they ask, “What did you do to drop that 10 pounds?” you smile and shrug because you don’t want to say that you go without supper a couple nights every week so your kids can have enough to eat. There was –and is — a stigma to being poor. One person, a close friend, once asked me why I didn’t just make more money, as though that were an option I had overlooked. I was working full-time, but my kids’ dad wasn’t paying nearly what he should have been, given that his income was four to five times greater than mine. I was in the biggest group of people in poverty in this country — single white women. I was working and trying to pay rent, utilities, a car payment, child care and all the other things a family needs to pay for just to scrape by. That was 40 years ago, and people are still being asked to make it on the same income I had in 1979. And they’re being called lazy and immoral by people with more money than they can ever spend in one lifetime. Now this administration is attacking food stamp eligibility, narrowing the number of people who can get the help they need to feed themselves and their children, all with absolutely no consideration of how we might get some of these people out of poverty. Will we raise the minimum wage to a living wage? Nope. People just need to work more. Well, it takes double to triple minimum wage to be able to afford a one-bedroom apartment in every single county in the nation. That means a single mother who has two children must work two to three full-time jobs to be able to afford a one-bedroom apartment. So, she works 16-hour days and then we criticize her for not being there for her children. If mom drops health insurance because that $50 monthly premium is also about one-third of her monthly grocery budget and then she gets sick, we criticize her for wanting a “handout.” The problem here is that when you make public policy that impoverishes people, you shouldn’t then be allowed to criticize them for being poor. When the only jobs people can find are part-time or in the “gig” economy (meaning freelance, with no health benefits, no paid vacation or sick days and absolutely no job security) and the pay is less than $10 an hour, and then you work three of those part time jobs for a total of 80 to 90 hours a week, you shouldn’t need food stamps to put nutritious food on the table, but you still do. This is not a moral failing on the part of the poor person, as much as you might like to think it is; it is a failing on the part of policymakers and of everyone who supports these immoral policies, including you, if you’re one of the people clapping gleefully at each cut of public assistance. I have to keep saying this to “Christians:” Jesus never said, “I got mine, get your own.” What Jesus did say was “For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat. I was cold and you didn’t offer me your cloak. I was a stranger and you didn’t welcome me. … Whatsoever you did unto the least of these, my brothers and sisters, you did also unto me.” Poor people are mentioned more than 2,000 times in the Bible, and not once are we told they are lazy or immoral. We are called to help them, as are the adherents of every major world religion. Every faith has a version of the Golden Rule, which calls us to treat others the way we, ourselves, wish to be treated. When we ignore the immorality of policies that impoverish, sicken and kill other people, we become the oppressors of those people. And when they sicken and die, their blood is on our hands. Morality — compassion, empathy, the ability to love — is supposed to be written into our DNA, but we seem to have found a way to ignore that small voice that tells us we need to help. Cutting food stamps means denying other people the food they need to live. If you think that’s OK, you’re wrong. It is violence. It is immoral. If you’re not standing up to say this is wrong, you’re the oppressor. You’re the sinner. And you have the blood of innocents on your hands. Why do I feel so angry all the time? Why doesn’t everyone? June 26, 2019 Uncategorized One comment With my vacation half over (I spent a week on Cape Cod camping with my sisters and leave tomorrow to spend a few days with friends before my granddaughter and her husband and daughter come to visit next week), I feel rested and restless at the same time. I had an argument with my sister over whether we should shoot for an immediate move to Medicare for all, or whether it should be done gradually. “I’m done with gradualism, ” I told her. During the 12 minutes we’d been talking about this, another person died the way Mike did. I’ve heard every argument, and in the time it will take you to recite them to me, another person will have died the way Mike did. When you add them all up, it’s about a half million human beings, just in the 11 years since Mike died. And now you want me to wait some more. Are we waiting until my other son dies? Maybe one of his kids or grandkids? How long are we supposed to wait? I didn’t get all this out before she yelled at me to let her finish her argument. In that time, another person died. and since that time, another 100-plus people have died. I turned my head and started reading something on my phone because I didn’t want an ugly scene, but I knew I couldn’t convince her I’m right. She pays through the nose, but she has access to care. She had surgery in the last year for a condition that would have killed her had she been uninsured. I can’t even begin to say how grateful I am for that. I tried to tell her all this, but I just started crying instead because even after 11 years, the pain of my son’s death is as fresh and raw as ever, and in the time I took to try and explain that, another American died from lack of access to health care and his or her family is plunged into the same endless grief I experience every day. Meanwhile, children languish in filthy cages with no sanitary supplies and no beds, separated from their parents in a strange land where they don;t know what people are even saying to them. Meanwhile, the Earth continues to burn, hurtling us toward extinction in a few short generations. Meanwhile, we contemplate war on Iran. Meanwhile, the water in Flint and dozens of other American cities is still poisoned. Meanwhile, the election districts are still gerrymandered and the elections are controlled by two utterly corrupt parties. Meanwhile, the wealthiest of us continue to steal and hoard our wealth while half of our families live near or below the poverty level because those with the most money won’t pay a living wage for a week’s work and then they get to call poor people lazy because they don’t have enough money to meet their basic needs. Meanwhile, we all go about our business, taking care of ourselves but not noticing how much trouble we’re in as a nation, as a species. Meanwhile, a third of our nation continues to defend the hatred and ignorance spewing from the Oval Office, and we have yet to rise up in sufficient numbers to prod our so-called leaders into action to remove this criminal from office. All the while, complacent people scream at me to “VOTE BLUE, NO MATTER WHO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” No. No to all of it. I will not shut up. I will not wait. I will not be patient. And I will not vote for another Wall Street-sponsored candidate. I’m done with all of it. This is more than a national emergency, it’s a planetary one. It’s about our continued existence as a species, and you’re asking me to wait patiently? Every day we wait, dozens more people die. Every day we wait, children in Flint and other cities face irreversible brain damage from lead in their water. Every day we wait, people languish in jail, losing their jobs and homes and children because they don’t have $500 bail money. So they wait in jail for months to be tried for a crime they may not even have committed. Every day we wait, we edge closer to extinction. Wake up. Stop waiting for somebody else to save us. We have to save ourselves, and we can’t do that by being patient. ‘What are you gonna do?’ May 7, 2019 a world of progress, letters, media, progressive living, progressive media center No comments Sherri White-Williamson, a specialist in energy regulation and law, who is retired from the EPA, now works to make all out energy safer and renewable, issued a challenge to everyone on the Poor People’s Campaign Truth and Poverty Bus Tour to go home and DO something. In the three years my son battled cancer, he often played the Cancer Card. What that meant was if he wanted something, or if he didn’t want to do something, he would whine, “But I have cancer!” Then he would laugh, whether he got his way or not. In the days before his death, he told me I was about to get a card that would be hard to top — the Dead Kid Card. “I don’t want it,” I said. “I want nothing to do with it.” He shook his head. “Doesn’t matter what you want. It’s there. It’s being dealt as we speak. What I want to know is what are you gonna do with it.” I told him I didn’t know and he shook his head again. “Nope, I want to know. What are you gonna do?” I thought for a moment and told him I will work for access to health care for everyone. Real access, not a high-deductible insurance policy that just puts money in the pockets of the 1 percent, but real, meaningful access. He sank back into his pillow and smiled. “Good. I approve. You have my blessing,” he said. “Go get ’em.” Eleven years later, I’m still working on it. Last week, I went with some of my fellow activists in the NC Poor People’s Campaign on the National Emergency Truth and Poverty Bus Tour across the state to visit people affected by poverty. We saw people doing, including the first homeless/formerly homeless Street Medic Team, based here in Asheville. We met homeless activists in Charlotte, several of whom got on the bus and traveled with us. We met environmental activists in Robeson, Scotland and Duplin counties. One of them was Sherri White-Williamson, who retired from the Environmental Protection Agency and now works across Eastern NC as an activist fighting the deforestation causing catastrophic flooding, the proliferation of industrialized hog and poultry farming and the Atlantic Coast Pipeline and other fossil fuel enterprises. Sherri spoke to us in Robeson County and again in Duplin, and she told us to go home and do something.” “You’re all excited now, enthusiastic about working to improve things,” she told us. “But coming here and learning what’s happening is not enough. You have to go home and do something. “What are you gonna do?” In the 11 years since my son breathed his last, somewhere near a half million Americans have died from lack of access to care. I worked for the Affordable Care Act, even though I was uncomfortable leaving insurance companies in the mix because I feared they would work to sabotage the law — which is exactly what has happened. So, I continue to work to educate people about why we need to do what every other so-called developed country has done — find a way to get access to health care to everyone. But I can’t work in a vacuum. Health care is not the only issue we need to address because if we get health care to everyone and we don’t fix the environmental devastation or raise the minimum wage, stop the endless wars or fix voter suppression, we’re still screwed. We need activists for this fight. We need people to work with us. We as a nation need you to pick your issue or issues and join the fight. We don’t need online petitions because they never, ever, ever result in any change. Never. Sitting at your computer and typing in your name, e-mail address and phone number does nothing more than give some political hack your contact information so they can inundate you with requests for money. Donating to a cause is great — the Poor People’s Campaign could sure use some financial help, as could any number of other causes — but these are perilous times and we need people to be in the streets. We need people who can register voters and educate people on the issues — God knows the corporate media don’t peddle much beyond propaganda. We need people to run for office — school board, city council, county commission, state legislature — and work for real change. We can’t do this if people just stay home and go along to get along. We need you in this fight because this is a fight for our very existence as a species. Think about it. We don’t have a whole lot of time left. A lesson in what Jesus would not do March 2, 2019 a world of progress, letters, media, progressive living, progressive media center No comments El Greco, “The Miracle of Christ Healing the Blind.” Walking around the Legislature Building the other day, talking to Democrats and Republicans about the necessity of expanding access to health care, it happened again: Every Republican asked me whether my son was working when he got sick. I gave them my usual answer: Yes, he was working and he was a full-time student with a 3.75 GPA. Now let me ask you a question. When did unemployment become punishable by death? Every one of them replied, “Well, you know, some people just want a handout.” “No,” I replied, “nobody wants a handout. I’ve worked with people in poverty. I’ve been in poverty. Nobody wants a handout. “And another thing. Health care is not a handout. Never. Health care is a basic human right. “And do you know what we call people who deny basic human rights to others? “We call them fascists.” I’m pretty sure every one of these Republicans calls themselves a Christian, so I’d like to offer a little pop quiz to them. Question 1: Jesus is walking along and a blind man approaches him, begging for help. Does Jesus: A) Tell the man he needs to get a job with health insurance. B) Ask to see the man’s health insurance card and then say, “Oh, this isn’t covered under your plan. We can squeeze you in this afternoon, but you’ll have to bring $2300 cash. We don’t take checks.” C) Tell the blind man to go to the Emergency Room so someone can take a look at him there. D) Heal the blind man, no questions asked. Question 2: Jesus is walking along the road and he feels as though power has drained from him. He turns to see an old woman, stooped low, who has had vaginal bleeding for years. She has touched the hem of his robe, hoping to be healed. Does Jesus: A) Recoil in horror at the unclean woman and demand she be removed from his presence. B) Tell her she can get free feminine hygiene supplies at the County Health Department. C) Tell her she’s guilty of Eve’s Original Sin and what’s happened to her is exactly what she deserves. D) Smile and say, “Your faith has healed you,” as she stands straight, no longer bleeding and thanks him profusely. Question 3: Jesus is walking along and a man comes to him in a panic. The man’s son is possessed by a demon and the father is afraid it will kill the child. Does Jesus: A) Tell the father there’s no such thing as demons and he should take the child to see a good neurologist. B) Tell the father this looks like a mental illness and that’s not covered under his employer’s plan, but the next time the child has a “fit,” the parents should call the police, who will come and handcuff the boy, throw him in the back of a squad car and take him to the ER, where he’ll be handcuffed to a gurney until a psychiatric bed becomes available. Could be a couple of days. C) Tell the father the demon is punishment for his own sins, so he’d better figure out what he did and pray really hard for forgiveness, and if he prays hard enough, the child will be healed. If the child remains possessed, it’s because the parents aren’t praying hard enough. (The irony here is that the disciples asked why they couldn’t heal the sick and Jesus told them their faith wasn’t strong enough — just in case you thought I didn’t know my Bible stuff.) D) Heal the child, no co-pays or deductibles charged, no questions asked. I’m not going to tell you the answers. You can figure them out for yourself. I think if you’re the Christian you say you are, if you read the words of the man you claim to follow and take them seriously, you’ll get the answers right. I think if you truly believe we can and should allow people to die because those of us with the privilege of access to health care think they’re somehow undeserving of what we have, then you’ll fail this quiz. What’s worse, though, is that you fail as a moral human being, no matter what faith you claim. Poverty is lethal — and it’s not necessary February 16, 2019 a world of progress, letters, media, progressive living, progressive media center No comments These things all take time, something that poor people have very little to spare. I saw a meme the other day about how to nurture a child. It included things like reading together, praising, practicing relaxation exercises together, taking walks together — the operative word here, of course, is together. It all boiled down to quality time, and it set something off in me. I commented that people in poverty, people who have to work two and three jobs just to keep body and soul together, might not be able to do all these things, and some woman said, “These things don’t take money, LOL.” I was furious. LOL? Really? I asked her whether she had ever skipped a meal to make sure there was enough, for the kids, LOL. I mean, that one’s a regular LOL riot, isn’t it? People with the privilege of a living wage have no idea what it’s like to live in poverty, of how the system keeps poor people down. Let’s say your three $8-an-hour part-time jobs pay the rent and for food, but just barely. You’re already working 60-plus hours a week, so you can’t just get another job. Your crappy apartment is $1,200 a month and the landlord won’t take care of the leaky faucet or the hole in the kitchen floor. The heat quits regularly. But this is the best you can find for what you can pay. Poor people can’t afford a flat tire. Poor people can’t afford to be sick. So, let’s say the flat tire means the utility bill is late. When the power gets shut off, you don’t just have to pay the amount due, you have to pay a service charge, which might make your rent late this month. When you get home to your kids, it’s already supper time. Have they done their homework? Well, you can ask that after supper, unless, of course, it’s already bed time. Should you read to your child or do the laundry? Last time your kid showed up to school in a dirty shirt, the school threatened to call in Child Protection Services for neglect. So you do the laundry. If you can’t afford a car — and millions of low-wage workers can’t — you need bus service, which just isn’t available in rural areas, and in bigger towns and cities, a bus ride across town can be an hour and a half. And what about when you have to work evenings or weekends? There are no child care centers open for evening, overnight or weekend shifts. Poverty is completely unnecessary. It is a political construct designed to create a permanent underclass to serve the very wealthy. When my boys were little, the only way I could get help with day care was to quit my job and go on Aid to Families with Dependent Children. I decided to work. I worked hard, but I just couldn’t get ahead. Every time I got caught up, something happened to set me back — and when you’re barely getting by, a flat tire can set you back six months. Forget about a new starter or alternator. I once spent a month parking my car on hills so I could do a rolling start because I couldn’t afford a new starter. When my older son was 7 he became a latchkey kid because I had money for groceries or day care, but not for both. He would call me when he got home from school, and when I hung up, I would go into the bathroom and cry because I couldn’t take care of him the way I wanted to. The school was constantly after me because my younger son was severely ADHD and they wanted him on drugs, even though his grades were stellar and he consistently tested in the 98th and 99th percentile in verbal abilities, reading and math. Finally, they reported me to Child Protection Services for neglect. I couldn’t afford an attorney to fight it, so we tried the Ritalin. He hated it. Said he didn’t feel like himself when he took it. But the teacher was happy because he wasn’t up out of his seat during class. After 3 months, he begged me to take him off the drugs. I told him he would have to find a way to sit still because the risk of him being taken away from me was very real. I couldn’t afford private school, which would have recognized his abilities, so we had to do this right in a public school setting where the most important thing wasn’t his brilliance, but the teacher’s need to have a quiet classroom. Michael stayed in his seat every day for three months. When his teacher called to say he’d been disruptive that day, I confessed we’d thrown away the last three months’ supply of the drug and we would not put him back on it under any circumstances. I threatened to go public if they attempted to take him from me, and they let it go. By this time, I had remarried and although I still couldn’t afford an attorney, I was not in poverty any longer. But then Michael started experimenting with drugs, and by the time he was 15, he was dabbling in all kinds of stuff. Later, after he’d been clean and sober for several years, he told me the gateway drug had been Ritalin. It had altered his mind when he was on it, and made him wonder what other drugs might do. He insisted he wouldn’t have tried other drugs if he’d not been on Ritalin. I believed him. At age 19, he took some time off school and was removed from our insurance plan. We didn’t realize that time off school would mean he’d never be able to buy insurance again, and in Savannah, Ga., no doctor would do a damn thing for him until it was too late to save his life. That time off school turned out to be a death sentence for him. Poverty is lethal. It is deeply, deeply immoral. People who are affected by it suffer and die needlessly, while people of privilege call them lazy. Poverty is a choice made by legislators and policymakers to allow some people to suffer. And it must end. The sacred walks among us in many unexpected forms Onstage at the annual Moral March on Raleigh, from the left, NC NAACP President Rev. Dr. T. Anthony Spearman; NC NAACP Health Care Committee Chair Rev. Dr. Rodney Sadler; Debbie Bracer, whose son died from lack of access to health care, and me. Yesterday, I stood onstage at the 13th Annual Moral March on Raleigh, in solidarity with a woman whose son died from lack of access to health care. Debbie is a couple years younger than I am. She still has two sons, but she weeps every time she utters the name of the one she doesn’t have anymore. Still. Two years out. He was denied the drug he needed to survive because he wasn’t rich enough to afford it, and he died. She spoke about the pain of not being able to touch him, or hear his voice, as tears dripped onto her jacket. She used a cane to stand, and I stood on her other side, my arm around her shoulders. Others stood with us to emphasize that we stand together for access to health care for everyone. Before she spoke, she looked out at the crowd. Previously, she had told me she didn’t know if she could get through her speech, so I told her I’d be there to finish it for her if she couldn’t get through it. But as she looked out at the crowd, she stood a little straighter. She handed the photo of her son to me and whispered, “I can do this.” And then she did. He looked just like his mama. They had the same smile, the same eyes. Debbie feels as though the world doesn’t just hate her for being black, but also because she is a lesbian. She left a bad marriage after her third son was born and realized she had married for all the wrong reasons. I wondered how anyone could hate a loving mother, a woman who fought so hard for her child’s life, when she told me, “I have two strikes against me in the eyes of powerful people.” As I left the stage with Debbie, I recalled a middle school Sunday school class from a dozen or so years ago. The lesson was “The Unexpected Jesus,” and the kids and I discussed what Jesus would look like if he came back today. We discussed the parameters first: It would have to be someone reviled by many Christians. It would have to be someone powerless in today’s power structure. We talked about the Unexpected Jesus, the Jesus who ate with prostitutes and tax collectors, who spurned and challenged the powerful. We talked about the carpenter’s son, who recruited a few fishermen and changed the world. So, we agreed that this Unexpected Jesus could come in many forms, not just that of a Jewish carpenter’s son from a small village in Galilee. Suddenly someone said, “I think he’d come back as a big black lesbian.” The room was quiet for a moment, and then we all blurted out something to the effect of, “Perfect!” Now every time I see a black lesbian suffering because of her skin color and/or sexual orientation, I see Jesus. I saw Jesus in Debbie yesterday, in the kindness and love of a woman who has lost something so precious it can’t be verbalized. All she can do us weep at the mention of her precious child’s name. I saw a woman whose human value is called into question because of her skin color and sexual orientation instead of a woman crushed by the grief of losing her child to injustice. But I don’t see Jesus only in the life of my new friend. Jesus is so much more than that. I see Jesus in the Latino child in a cage. I see Jesus in the veteran who can’t get treatment for PTSD. I see Jesus in the girl who has been kidnapped into sexual slavery. I see Jesus in the faithful Muslim. I see Jesus in the bereaved mother whose son died from lack of access to health care. I see him in the low-wage worker whose rent and electric bill are coming due the same day and whose children are hungry and ill-clothed, and in the trans man who’s being harassed in the rest room, and in the homeless person who’s being chased from the sheltered doorway during a rainstorm. I do not see him in the people calling for a wall at the Southern border, or in the people refusing to vote to increase the minimum wage to a living wage. I don’t see him in the people who make excuses for racism or misogyny. I don’t see him in the people who deny others the health care to which they themselves have full access, or in the people who accuse poor people of being lazy. If you see Jesus in the powerful and not in the powerless, perhaps you need to re-read the red print in the Gospels. Perhaps you also need to go back and read the laws in the Old Testament — not the ones that talk about sex, but the ones that talk about treatment of the poor and downtrodden. I’m tired of white privilege. I’m tired of the vitriol against people who are different, whoever or whatever they are. I’m tired of the war on the poor. Remember, Jesus was a poor man, likely a dark-skinned man. He spoke out against wealth and the privilege it brings. If you don’t see the sacred in Debbie, you need to re-examine your faith. ‘It’s not what we serve …’ August 31, 2018 a world of progress, letters, media, progressive living, progressive media center No comments Rev. Dr. Shannon Spencer speaks to volunteer servers at 12 Baskets Cafe. A year ago, I was arrested in Washington for disrupting the Senate as its members prepared to debate repeal of the Affordable Care Act. I was sentenced to 48 hours of community service. I went straight to 12 Baskets Cafe, where I’ve volunteered a couple of days a week since — long after my sentence was completed. Almost every Tuesday and Thursday, you’ll fine me standing near the door, scraping plates into a large compost bin. My position allows me to greet everyone who comes in and to make sure people have had enough to eat before they leave. I see all kinds of people, not just poor and/or homeless, but working people, retirees who want to stretch their budgets with some good, nutritious food. The cafe is in Kairos West Community Center off Haywood Road at State Street in West Asheville, and it was classed as a community center when the permits were issued for the cafe to open. The Rev. Dr. Shannon Spencer, who opened the cafe through the nonprofit Asheville Poverty Initiative, puts it simply: “It’s not what we serve, it’s who we serve.” Apparently, that changes everything. When you help people who have nothing, you become a “shelter,” and the city tries to shut you down. The excuse is that there’s a school nearby and people have found some used needles in the area. So, the cries of, “Save the children!” begin, as though no people who suffer from addiction should be allowed to travel in circles that come within a few hundred yards of a school or church. The trouble began when a group of itinerant people came through, enjoyed lunch and then set up camp in the side yard of the cafe. The television news came in and interviewed tourists across the street at Sunny Point Cafe, and the tourists didn’t like looking at poor people while they were on vacation. So, the local newspaper jumped on board to do a story and no one spoke to anyone from the cafe, even though there’s someone there who can speak every single weekday from about 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. The story just said no one was available for comment. When I worked as a reporter, the story would be held until someone could speak for the cafe. We didn’t print one-sided stories without several attempts to speak to someone. I have encountered public officials who refused to return calls, and in those cases, the stories that ran detailed attempts to reach someone — “So-and-So did not return seven calls to his office, three to his home and six to his mobile phone over the course of three days.” This one would have read, “We tried to call 12 Baskets at 6 p.m. one night.” So, viewers and readers are left with the impression that homeless people are doing drugs in the yard, that neighbors are at wits’ end with the chaos and cafe staff are allowing it, when the reality is that our neighbors support us. Some bring us food from their gardens, others come in and enjoy a meal. The problem here is that we live in a society that drives people into poverty with low wages and few worker protections and then vilifies them. Many of the people who eat at the cafe are working; some have disabilities that keep them from working. A number of them are in recovery from addiction, and some are still using. Every one of them is human. Every one of them deserves the dignity of a good meal and human contact. If we’re a community center when working people eat with us, but an illegally operating shelter when our patrons are poor, the problem isn’t with us, it’s with the community. If you want to know more about the cafe, come have lunch with us. The food comes from some of the best restaurants in town, from EarthFare, Mission Hospital and others. We seem to specialize in curry dishes from Indian restaurants’ buffets, but we have fresh fruits and vegetables, breads, muffins, pasta dishes … it’s different every day, and it’s all delicious. What’s more, the company is wonderful. Just because people don’t have homes doesn’t mean they don’t deserve respect and human contact. The name 12 Baskets, by the way, comes from the story of Jesus feeding the multitudes from 12 baskets of fish and bread. Yeah, if you have to ask what Jesus would do, the answer is in our name. He took 12 baskets of food and fed 6,000 because they were hungry. He didn’t ask whether they could pay, he just fed them. Fight poverty, not the poor August 1, 2018 a world of progress, letters, media, progressive living, progressive media center No comments If I hear another person tell me poor people need to get a job, I may become violent — or at least verbally abusive. Did you know most poor people who can work, do? Did you know that the vast majority of jobs being created in this economy are low-wage and part-time? There was no real recovery after the meltdown of 2008. What there was, was a reset that took away most of the last of the living-wage jobs and left us with jobs that don’t pay the bills and don’t offer benefits like vacation, sick days, health insurance, disability insurance, a pension or 401K plan … So, when a few people began camping outside 12 Baskets Cafe here in Asheville, the local (Sinclair Broadcasting) television station interviewed people and broadcast a story that seemed designed to stir people up. Across the street from 12 Baskets Cafe (which the news station called 12 baskets) is Sunny Point Cafe, a real magnet for tourists because it serves local food prepared really well. So, the WLOS TV “news” crew interviewed tourists, who knew nothing about 12 Baskets Cafe. The tourists, of course, don’t want to look at poor people in their vacation spot. “Oh,” they say, “these people are bathing and sleeping right there by the road, where we can see them!” The TV “news” reports that “12 baskets … gives food to homeless people.” Wrong. 12 Baskets Cafe rescues food from restaurants, grocery stores and caterers and serves it, restaurant style and free of charge, to everyone who comes. And not everyone who comes is homeless. The people who live and work in the neighborhood support the cafe, no matter what the “news” tells you. People stop by often with food from their gardens. One woman brings fresh flowers every week. 12 Baskets Cafe is a place where everyone is treated with the basic dignity that should be offered to every human being. Just walk into the space and see people looking after each other’s children, people enjoying conversation with others they’re meeting for the first time. The volunteers who serve and clean up are encouraged to sit down and enjoy a meal and good company. This is a positive space, a loving place, and the food is good. People were paying $10 a plate for it the day before. In a time when some 40 percent of food is thrown away, no one, no one, should go hungry. Part of the problem here is that the powers that be would love us to think there isn’t enough to go around, so perhaps we won’t realize they’re pillaging our resources while more than 140 million Americans live paycheck-to-paycheck, just one check away from financial disaster. Well, there is enough to go around. There is an abundance. What we all need to understand is that poverty is a political construct. When you send all the money to the top 1 percent, nothing trickles down. Economic science shows that money given to the wealthy is stashed away, hoarded, because they don’t have to spend it. On the other hand, every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.73 in the economy (https://www.cbpp.org/research/food-assistance/snap-boosts-retailers-and-local-economies). When you give low-wage people money, they spend it on necessities. When you give rich people money, they stash it in an offshore account. When you deny people a living wage in exchange for a week’s work, they become homeless, sick and hungry. It really is that simple. Homeless people aren’t lazy or morally inferior. They’re people like you and me who have been forced into poverty by bad public policy. Perhaps it’s time to change the policy-makers so we can have enough food, a living wage, decent public education, health care and affordable, safe housing for everyone. Whom do you serve? June 27, 2018 a world of progress, letters, media, progressive living, progressive media center 2 comments Was it OK for the owner of the Red Hen in Virginia to refuse service to Sarah Huckabee Sanders? While a part of me cheered, I have to say, no, it was more like stooping to her level. I was away for a week, camping at Acadia National Park in Maine with no phone service or Internet. It was a much needed break from social justice work and I come back ready to fight again. Probably the biggest story while I was away was that the owner of the Red Hen, a restaurant in Virginia, asked Sarah Huckabee Sanders to leave. So, while the right-wing “Christians” celebrated that the Supreme Court decided in favor of a gay-hating cake baker, they cried foul over the left refusing service to someone who supports all the hate-filled policies of this administration. As usual, the hypocrisy is breathtaking. It’s just fine for a “Christian” to refuse to serve two men who are committing to share their lives, but we who believe Jesus wants us to heal the sick, feed the hungry and welcome the stranger have to serve a hate-peddling public official. Yes, she probably should have been served with love, which is what we are told to do. We are held to a higher standard. But we are human. I cheered a little inside when I saw the story. Sanders doesn’t even begin to see the irony in the situation. That is born of selfishness. It’s only about her and what she wants: “I want to eat here. I want what’s mine and as much of what’s yours as I can grab, especially if I see you as ‘less than’ in some way. “I am superior because I am in this country already. “I am superior because I am white. “I am superior because I am rich. “My god is superior to yours and you have to see my god the way I do because I have more power than you. “I can mistreat anyone for any reason because my god says I can. “My god says my privilege comes from moral superiority and that the poor are lazy and that gays are going to burn in hell and immigrants deserve to lose their children. “And I am not going to share my privilege with anyone.” My God tells me to share what I have, to feed the hungry, heal the sick, clothe the naked, embrace the stranger. This is a woman who defends taking children from their parents, who defends banning Muslims from this country, who defends suppressing the vote along racial lines, who defends taking access to health care away from millions of Americans, tens of thousands of whom will die. This is a woman who defends a racist, misogynistic, toxic sociopath — Every. Damn. Day. We could feed every hungry child, pay every person who works full time a living wage, make sure every human being has access to health care, fully fund every school, allow every adult access to the vote, all while spending less on war and promoting peace. But we choose immorality as a public policy, and when people who disagree with these immoral policies stand up and do what little they can do, we call them exclusionary, all while cheering for a ban on Muslims, for ripping children from their parents, for suppression of the vote and a Supreme Court decision allowing a homophobe to use religion as a cloak to peddle hate, we are not Christian as a nation. We are not moral. Those of us who are frustrated beyond words at the immoral direction of this nation and its devastating policies, we feel helpless. We feel as though we can’t shout loudly enough to drown out the hate Americans are cheering for right now. As Rev. Dr. William Barber says, “We Christians are called on to love everybody.” It’s also incredibly difficult. How can I love and serve a woman who stands against everything I believe? How can I be kind to someone who thinks the way my son died is OK? I am not perfect. I am striving to live out my ideals — those ideals preached by Jesus, whom I follow. I am exhausted, but I am not going to give up. If Sarah Huckabee Sanders is hungry, I am called to feed her, like it or not. I am called to love her, and perhaps my example will touch her. Jesus didn’t say I can’t talk to her about the error of her ways and try to reach her with that love. In fact, he tells me that’s the only way. I have to agree with Rev. Barber: “Standing down is not an option … I would rather die having tried and see nothing change than to live, not try, and see nothing change.” That’s why I’m back. That’s why I fight. That’s why I’ll never stop fighting. You can’t erase their lives June 8, 2018 a world of progress, letters, media, progressive living, progressive media center No comments Me, singing as I was arrested for the fifth time for trying to talk to lawmakers about fixing our broken health care system. I got arrested again. For the fifth time, I was arrested for trying to speak to lawmakers about the mess that is our health care system. They don’t care. They don’t care that tens of thousands of people die prematurely every year, and that millions can’t afford the care they need, even with insurance. They practice the religion of I-got-mine-get-your-own, as they and their families all have the best care this country has to offer. I was a speaker at the Poor People’s Campaign rally in Washington on Monday, and we had a coffin in front of the stage to illustrate the fact that innocent people are dying every day from lack of access to health care and from industrial pollution. And as these things happen, those in power continue to roll back environmental regulations and chip away at the Affordable Care Act, which has given millions of Americans access to the care they need. As I was about to step up to the microphone, the police told organizers that they had to remove the coffin. Several times, I have been denied entry to legislators’ offices and public events because I won’t surrender the photo I carry of my late son. That’s why I have the T-shirt with his photo on it. So far, no one has tried to confiscate that. But the forced removal of the casket became the same thing as the attempted confiscation of my son’s photo. Something in me snapped. It’s as though they want to erase the lives they have sacrificed on the altar of greed. I stepped up to the mic. “You can force us to remove this symbol, but that doesn’t change the fact that my son lived!” I said. “He DID exist. He was here. He was loved. And he was murdered by a broken system.” The crowd began to chant, “SHAME! SHAME! SHAME!” But the casket was removed anyway. The problem is, these people who have the power to save tens of thousands of lives a year refuse to make any move to do so. In fact, the “Justice” Department has announced it no longer will defend the Affordable Care Act in court when states challenge it. These powerful people call themselves “pro-life,” and “Christian,” as they try to take away women’s rights to control their own bodies, and I’m not just talking about abortion. I’m talking about attacks on contraception and on women’s health clinics, which are the only access to health care many poor women have. As it says on the T-shirt with my son’s photo on it, “When you take away access to care, real people die.” And closing women’s clinics is taking away access to care. When you care more about whether a woman is having “moral” sex than her very life, you are not pro-life. When you care more about whether a business has to serve a gay couple than you do about real people’s lives, you are not pro-life. When you think people should have to work three full-time jobs at minimum wage just to make a living wage, you are not pro-life. When you attack education, you are not pro-life. When you attack Meals on Wheels, food stamps and free and reduced-price school lunches, you are not pro-life. When you put people who have committed nonviolent crimes into for-profit prisons, you are not pro-life. When you think we’re OK spending more than half of all our nation’s discretionary dollars on the war economy, you are not pro-life. When you tear children from their parents’ arms and place them in cages in an old Walmart, you are not pro-life. When you hate someone because of the color of their skin or the name of the god they worship, you are not pro-life. When you rob people of the right to vote to determine the destiny of their own nation, you are not pro-life. When you’re OK with children’s lives being snuffed out so that you can continue to have unfettered access to high-powered, military-grade guns, you are not pro-life. When you think it’s perfectly OK to poison the water and the land of poor people, you are not pro-life. These murderers seem just a little uncomfortable being reminded of the lives they have been responsible for ending. Bad public policy is lethal, and they don’t want to be reminded of that. They only want to think of themselves and how much more money and power they can amass. But people are beginning to rise up. Thousands have been arrested during nonviolent protests in the last month, and more are coming. We are coming for the corrupt people in power. We are coming to end the greed that fuels our government now. We are coming to save the lives being lost to that greed. We are the ones who are pro-life. We are the ones who are moral. We are the ones you should fear because we will win, maybe not in November, but eventually. Your days are numbered. We. Will. Win. You can take away my son’s coffin, you can try to confiscate his photo, you can call me names, you can arrest me. But you will not erase my beloved son’s life. I will not allow that.

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Especially in the Young, Cholesterol Is No Friend to the Heart TUESDAY, Dec. 3, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Rising levels of cholesterol among young adults is strongly tied to long-term odds for the number one killer, heart disease, a new study finds. The new global study involved data on more than 400,000 people from 38 different trials. Their health was tracked for an average of more than 13 years, but some were followed for up to 43 years. The researchers looked especially at the effect of blood levels of all forms of cholesterol except "good" HDL cholesterol. Reporting Dec. 3 in The Lancet, the investigators found that, regardless of age, higher levels of this "non-HDL" cholesterol were tied to raised odds for heart disease, as well as fatalities due to heart disease. The effect was especially pronounced in people who were young when their cholesterol levels began to rise -- probably because their cardiovascular systems were then taxed by cholesterol for many years to come. For example, among men younger than 45, the risk of having a fatal or nonfatal heart disease or stroke by the age of 75 was just 12% for those with low non-HDL cholesterol. But the risk rose to 43% for those with high levels, the study found. Among women younger than 45, those percentages were 6% and 24%, respectively. However, healthy lifestyle changes -- such as better diets and exercise -- could greatly lower cholesterol levels and a person's lifetime risk of heart trouble, the study authors said. For example, among adults younger than 45 with at least two heart disease risk factors, cutting non-HDL cholesterol levels in half cut their odds of later-life heart illness from about 16% to 4% among women, and from about 29% to 6% among men, the study found. "This reduction in risk is larger the sooner cholesterol levels are reduced," study co-author Stefan Blankenberg, of the German Center for Cardiovascular Research, in Germany, added in a journal news release. Early and intensive action to reduce non-HDL cholesterol levels could reverse initial narrowing of the arteries, but it's not clear whether slightly increased or normal cholesterol levels affect heart disease risk, or at which levels treatment should be recommended, particularly in younger adults, the study authors said. Two U.S. heart experts unconnected to the study agreed that high levels of non-HDL cholesterol are problematic at any age. For younger patients, "this study demonstrated that long-term exposure to high levels of non-HDL cholesterol with at least two other risk factors would cause an increased long-term risk of cardiovascular disease -- even more than if this elevation occurred after age 45," noted Dr. Guy Mintz. He directs cardiovascular health at Northwell Health's Sandra Atlas Bass Heart Hospital, in Manhasset, N.Y. Using this data to help warn young patients of the dangers "can be very effective in motivating patients to change," Mintz believes. So what should people in their 30s and 40s do if they find themselves with high levels of non-HDL cholesterol? "Rather than the early use of medications, I feel that patients with this type of risk profile would benefit from focused lifestyle modification -- including weight loss, regular exercise and improvement of their metabolic state, including pre-diabetes -- before committing to very long-term statin drug therapy," Mintz advised. Dr. Eugenia Gianos directs women's heart health at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City. Reading over the new study she said it "confirms the relationship between exposure to elevated cholesterol over time and risk of developing cardiovascular disease." The data is also a "key reminder that we need to start cardiovascular prevention efforts early in life to avoid the downstream effects," Gianos said. "Whether you get there with lifestyle or medication, it is imperative to substantially reduce lipid levels to reduce risk." The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has more on heart disease prevention. SOURCES: Eugenia Gianos, M.D., director, women's heart health, Lenox Hill Hospital, New York City; Guy L. Mintz, M.D., director of cardiovascular health and lipidology, Northwell Health's Sandra Atlas Bass Heart Hospital, Manhasset, N.Y.; The Lancet, news release, Dec. 3, 2019 Amlodipine; Atorvastatin oral tablets Blood Thinners: Using Warfarin

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End of Slave Trade in the US Posted On 6th June 2017 21st May 2018 By Shannon Winterbone In the early seventeenth century, several European countries began to implement the longest, and most sustained, forced migration in history: the slave trade. In colonial America, Spanish and Portuguese explorers had arrived expecting to discover gold, only to instead find tobacco which became a booming market. Poor Europeans who signed up as indentured servants were established as the main source of labour, but they could not satisfy the demand for tobacco with their temporary contracts. In need for a workforce, the colonists set their sights on the coasts of Africa. While it is argued that some slaves may have arrived before the discovery of Jamestown, the first recorded arrival of slaves to the Americas came in 161; thereafter the slave trade rapidly expanded. As African men, women and children were being taken from their homes, they forcibly became part of a growing workforce which would strengthen colonial America’s economy. While the self-sustaining slave population grew, the market for slaves developed exponentially with the success of the tobacco harvest and the introduction of slave fortresses. It has been argued that racism did not exist in the early stages of slavery and that the introduction of discriminatory laws to subjugate slaves developed ideas of white superiority. Lines between the colonists and the enslaved were drawn by the creation of acts which purposely held the slaves to their conditions permanently, making escape extremely difficult. It was decreed that the children of enslaved women would automatically become slaves and that baptised slaves could no longer use their Christianisation to secure freedom. These laws allowed the colonists to successfully continue the slave trade throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and push the enslaved to the bottom of society using mental and physical abuse. As slavery developed into an economic institution, small resistances were carried out by the enslaved, which ranged from breaking tools to organising large rebellions. Most attempts were quashed, however, and resulted in the prosecution or execution of those involved. By the early nineteenth century, slavery had been abandoned in the American north while enduring in the South due to the thriving market for cotton. Since the cotton gin’s invention, cotton production multiplied fifty times over and prompted the mass migration of slaves from the north to the south to propagate the trade. This further entrenched the white ideals of slavery south of the Mason-Dixon line; to be a slave in nineteenth-century American South was to know that you were a commodity. Along with the diminishing of the slave population in the northern states came the cause for abolition, which was mainly circulated by free blacks and white sympathisers alike. Although slaves had been escaping since slavery began, systems such as the Underground Railroad were implemented across the American South to methodically free slaves and get them to the north and into Canada as quickly as possible. While the cause took on speed and became a national outcry, seven slave-holding states suddenly announced their decision to secede from America in February 1861; the American Civil War thus broke out two months later. The conflict was the deadliest in American history, with a horrifically high death-toll on both sides. The main reason for the outbreak of this war was the Unionists’ desire to end slavery in all American states. Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, which granted freedom to all slaves, though not to those still trapped in the American South during the war. Once the Confederacy had collapsed in 1865, all slaves were immediately declared free and a period of reconstruction began to rebuild southern states and to enact hugely significant changes to the American Constitution. The thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth Constitutional Amendments abolished all forms of slavery, gave African-Americans the right to vote and granted them American citizenship; this was the first time in which black people were recognised as equal to white people by American law. Prior to the Civil Rights Movement in the late twentieth century, all black Americans were given access to education through the formation of black schools and colleges across the nation. Black intellectualism began to spread through the circulation of newspapers and literature which solidified the collective African-American identity by propagating the need to keep fighting for equality. The momentous abolition of slavery thus gave all black Americans a platform for their voices to be heard, which would grow stronger in the years leading up to the Civil Rights Movement and beyond. Category: Behind The Headlines Previous post: French Elections – Macron beats Le Pen Comfortably: Results and Implications of the French Election 2017 Next post: Remembering the victims of the Manchester attack The South American slave trade Everyday racism Brexit: What Does It Mean For Us? Jazz: A History Ancient African Civilisations The War in East Africa What’s going on Around Manchester? The Middle Passage

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New role in action-thriller ‘Hummingbird’ With Comments Off on New role in action-thriller ‘Hummingbird’ In a pre-Berlin Film Festival signing, Milla Jovovich has come on board to star in action-thriller “Hummingbird,” based on John McClain’s Black List script. Jovovich is the third actress cast in the lead role. Zoe Saldana was cast a year ago and replaced in the fall by Olivia Munn in the role of a black-ops assassin who begins to question her skills and training when she’s placed on a questionable assignment. Jovovich will be replacing Munn. Producers said Tuesday that “Hummingbird” will be in the vein of “Lucy” and the Jason Bourne film franchise. Production will start in the summer. China’s Fundamental Films will produce the movie alongside Broken Road Productions. Jovovich recently wrapped production on “Hellboy” and will next be seen opposite Woody Harrelson and Tommy Lee Jones in Rob Reiner’s political drama “Shock and Awe.” Filled in: Hummingbird

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/ Epilepsy What Is Epilepsy? What's a Seizure? Who Has Epilepsy? How Can Doctors Help? Are Kids With Epilepsy Different? en españolEpilepsia Epilepsy comes from a Greek word meaning "to hold or seize," and people who have epilepsy have seizures. You might also hear a seizure called a convulsion, fit, or spell. Your brain cells are constantly sending out electrical signals that travel along nerves to the rest of the body. These signals tell the muscles to move so you can do your normal activities. During a seizure, a person's muscles tighten and relax rapidly or stop moving completely. Seizures come on suddenly, and people who have them cannot control their muscles while they are having a seizure. Depending on where in the brain a seizure is happening, a person’s behavior may change in different ways. If too many brain cells are sending signals at the same time, it causes an overload, and a person may pass out and shake all over. People who have epilepsy may have seizures only once in a while or as frequently as every day. A seizure is a change in a person’s behavior that comes from abnormal electrical activity in the brain. Most seizures occur without warning, although some people have a funny feeling, an upset stomach, or a weird smell or taste right before a seizure. This is called an aura. Others find that certain things may bring on a seizure, like not getting enough sleep or playing video games. During a seizure, the person may fall down, shake, stiffen, throw up, drool, urinate (pee), or lose bowel control. Other seizures seem less dramatic. Someone might just stare into space or have jerking movements in one part of the body. When the seizure is over, the person may feel sleepy and won't remember what happened. About 3 million Americans have epilepsy, including boys and girls and people of all races and ages. Seizures can start at any age, but often they begin before age 10 or after age 55. Doctors often can't explain why a person has epilepsy. They do know that epilepsy is not contagious — you can't catch it from somebody. Epilepsy is not passed down through families (inherited) in the same way that blue eyes or brown hair are. But if somebody's mom or dad or brother or sister has epilepsy, then he or she has a slightly higher risk for epilepsy than somebody whose family has no history of seizures. If a person has a seizure, doctors may do some tests, such as a CAT scan, an MRI, or an electroencephalogram (EEG). A CAT scan or MRI helps a doctor look at the brain and an EEG records brain waves. Don't worry — these tests don't hurt at all. Blood tests may also be done. All of these tests can help doctors try to find out what caused the seizure and if a kid might have more seizures. But sometimes seizures are a one-time thing — many kids who have one seizure never have another one. Most people who are diagnosed with epilepsy can control their seizures by taking medicines. As they get older, many kids with epilepsy get better and can stop taking medicine. For some kids, it may be difficult to get the seizures under control. A special diet or surgery may be needed. People who have epilepsy may need to be careful in places where they could get hurt if they have a seizure, like a high place or in the bathtub. And they may not be able to do certain sports, such as boxing or scuba diving. But other than that, most people with epilepsy can live normal lives and do what everyone else does. They can go to school, attend college, and get jobs. They can get married and have children. However, even if epilepsy doesn't limit a person's ability, it can make a kid feel different. So, if you know somebody who has it, you can help a lot just by being a good friend. Reviewed by: Rupal Christine Gupta, MD Date reviewed: June 2016 Memory Matters Migraines: What a Pain! Your Brain & Nervous System Going to the Hospital

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Tag: George Custer General Custer Promoted Black Hills Agriculture “CATTLE WOULD WINTER IN THESE VALLEYS WITHOUT OTHER FOOD OR SHELTER.” BY JACK MCCULLOH, RAPID CITY, SOUTH DAKOTA The map of South Dakota has over 49 place names because of one trip the US Frontier Army took through the territory. Tilford, Ludlow, Custer Peak, and Trail City in Corson County are on the map to memorialize the Army’s trip through The Great Sioux – Cheyenne reservation led by George Armstrong Custer. When the territory eventually became a state in l889 one of the first names chosen for a County seat west of the Missouri River was Custer County located in the southwest corner of the new State. The Mormon Church had accomplished a major population shift into a new territory in the West from Missouri and Illinois. For years thousands had struggled overland for California Gold; and the Montana Gold Rush moving west along the Platte River on established roads. Those with goals of reaching the West had no interest in the Black Hills guarded by hostile Indians on their trip through “the Great American Desert.” 1 CUSTERS ORDERS TO THE TROOPS TO THE BLACK HILLS ……… care will be taken not to molest or in any manner disturb any Indians who may be encountered on the march, unless the latter should first act in a hostile manner . . . This command is about to march through a country infested by Indians, more or less hostile, and even should the latter, as it is hoped, not engage in general warfare and the usual acts of hostilities, there is no doubt but that they will endeavor to make captures of stock and to massacre small parties found imprudently beyond the lines . . .” his military dispatch of July 15, 1874 from Prospect Valley, Dakota (” . . . Our march thus far has been made without molestation upon the part of the Indians . . . As I sent pacific messages to all the tribes infesting this region before the expedition moved, and expressed a desire to maintain friendly relations with them . . . [o]ur Indian guides think differently, however, and believe the Indians mean war. Should this be true they will be the party to fire the first shot . . .”); and his second military dispatch, from Harney’s Peak, August 2, 1874 (” . . . gold has been found at several places, and it is the belief of those who are giving their attention to this subject that it will be found in paying quantities. I have upon my table forty or fifty small particles of pure gold, in size averaging the size of a small pin-head, and most of it obtained to-day from one panful of earth . . . Until further examination is made regarding the richness of the deposits of gold no opinion should be formed . . .”). 2 The Black Hills of Dakota Territory are different than the nearby Black Hills around Laramie, Wyoming. The Northern Black Hills are a lot like an inverted bath tub on a flat prairie – 40 miles wide and 80 miles long with a geological rim running around the base of the Hills. These Black Hills are about the size of the present day state of Israel. The Army explored around the Black Hills of Dakota several times before Custer’s trip. Before the Civil War the army had sent expeditions around the Black Hills including Harney in 1855, Warren/Hayden in 1857, and Raynolds in 1859. These military expeditions did some mapping but none had entered the Black Hills before Custer. In 1868 the US War Department sat down with the Great Plains War Chiefs and in the Treaty setting up the Great Sioux – Cheyenne Reservation the Indians agreed to stop fighting people for a price. 3 Proclamation of Gen. McCook against Occupation of the Black Hills of Dakota I, Edwin S. McCook, Acting Governor of the Territory of Dakota, by direction of the President of the United States, do … warn all unlawful combinations of men …, that any attempts to violate our treaty with these Indians, … by an effort to invade … said reservation, will not only be illegal … but will be disapproved , and Government will use … military power … to remove all .. who go there in violation of law.4 The first time the Army actually entered the Black Hills was in 1874. Everyone at that time knew you could find gold. The only question was how much and could you get it? The War Chiefs agreed they would hunt in certain areas for a limited time, receive annual issues of sugar, coffee and cattle, and would stop harassing the railroads and settlers. The US Government agreed to remove the manned forts they had established protecting the Bozeman Trail. It’s the only treaty with Indians the government ever entered into that removed military posts from territory to be settled by the spreading population. CHEAPER TO FEED THAN FIGHT In the Secretary of War’s report of 1874 he wrote; “The feeding process by 1874 has been now continued for six years with the Sioux, has so far taken the fight out of them….They have been sitting down at the agencies along the Missouri River, to risk the loss of coffee, sugar, and beef in exchange for the hardships and perils of a campaign against soldiers. As a result the Custer expedition penetrated to the very heart of their wild country, and returned without any opposition; and the military camps at Red Cloud and Spotted Tail Agencies are in safety, though surrounded by a force of fighting men from ten to twenty times larger than their own number. To have tamed this great nation down to this degree of submission by the issue of rations is in itself a demonstration of what has been so often argued – that it is cheaper to feed than to fight wild Indians. 5 The purpose of a thousand men and their supply wagons entering the Hills and finding a route was to record what was there. President Grant was near the end of his second term as President, and he spoke bluntly to the Indian Chiefs when they visited him in Washington D.C. that he expected them to live in peace on reservations. He would not allow free roaming Indians to check in just to receive food, clothing, and money. Grant’s policy was — if you choose to roam/live free off your reservation; your tribe will not receive annuities – or land grants – or cash payments. Sioux Chiefs such as Spotted Tail and Red Cloud resisted being counted in the census claiming it was against their religion. Grant put a stop to their tribes receiving anything until they were counted. Grant would not negotiate directly with the Chiefs; instead, they must negotiate with the Secretary of the Interior and the Church run (Quakers) head of the Indian Bureau. Grant wanted Indians treated as citizens of the United States and insisted they deal with the Government through the responsible agencies. He amended the law to make Indians citizens instead of banning them as citizens. He expected them to learn English, and make their own way in a short time by working land. Indians were issued plows, seeds, and farm equipment. The chiefs on the Northern Plains knew that Congress had designated reservations as sovereign areas and the army could not enter reservations except by permission of the tribal councils. Some insisted as heads of “Sovereign nations” they would deal only with the President – not with Indian Agents assigned by the Government – because as heads of nations they had equal rank of the President and they did not like Indian Agents telling them anything. The chiefs wanted to select their own agents to act for the Government in providing for them. Grant lost his patience with argument and ordered the Secretary of the Interior (Columbus Delano) at the time which was essentially a privately run church related welfare operation financed largely by Government manpower and money, to feed and cloth only those Indians living full time on reservations .He also ordered the army headed by General Sherman to remove tribes from non reservation land after a two year deadline to their reservation. Trail herds of cattle from Texas had for several years been grazing during wintertime in Montana territory, replacing the depleted Buffalo herd on the Plains , and cattlemen wanted Indians put on reservations , not free and able to steal horses , raid local ranchers and run off their cattle herds. In the Great Plains the Sioux and Cheyenne claimed hunting areas by treaty. They argued Grant could not take away rights approved by Congress in 1869, but never signed by two thirds of the bands affected called for by the treaty. The treaty let the railroads through the Great Sioux Reservation along the Platte River. Congress let the time limited parts of the 1868 Treaty run out (food and clothing) and expected Indians to be in “Indian Territory” (present Oklahoma) – or on reservation they set up in limited states on a case by case basis. CUSTER BOOSTS AGRICULTURE FROM HARNEY PEAK “Twenty six days were spent traveling inside the Black Hills, and about 300 miles of valley were traveled by the command. Placer Gold was found …; The search for gold was not exhaustive, … but at one point a shaft was sunk to a depth of eight feet, and gold was found amounting to five cents per pan at the top, … to twenty cents at … eight feet. ……Custer’s Gulch, where twenty of the explorers took gold claims, declaring their intention to work the claims as soon as a possession of the country can be obtained, seven miles south of Haney’s Peak.”6 When he climbed Harney Peak Custer wrote a promotional pitch. He said “Cattle could winter in these valleys without other food or shelter than that to be obtained from running at large.” His published report caught the attention of Gen. William B. Hazen, commander of Fort Union, at the junction of the Missouri and Yellowstone rivers, who was convinced the Great Plains was the Great American Desert. ‘”The lands are not worth a penny an acre,” said Hazen, and in the winter “men and beasts perish from cold.” Custer thought General Hazen was fond of notoriety and “consequently scribbles a great deal for the papers.” Custer wrote a nine column article in the Minneapolis Tribune (published April 17, 1875, shortly after the Black Hills Expedition) refuting Hazen ……Custer had extravagant praise for the Black Hills country.7 “Agriculture in no portion of the United States, not excepting the famous Blue Grass region of Kentucky, have I ever seen grazing superior to that found growing wild in this hitherto unknown region. I know of no portion of our country where nature has done so much to prepare homes for husbandmen, and leave so little for the latter to do as here. In the open and timbered spaces a partly prepared farm of almost any dimension, of an acre and upward, can be found here. Not only is the land cleared and timbered for both fuel and building, conveniently located with streams of pure water flowing through its length and breadth, but nature oft times seems to have gone further, and placed beautiful shrubbery and evergreens in the most desirable locations ….The soil is that of a rich garden, and composed of a dark mould of exceedingly fine grain….Nowhere in the States have I tasted cultivated raspberries of equal flavor to those found growing wild here…Wild strawberries, wild currants, gooseberries, and wild cherries are also found in great profusion and of exceedingly pure quality. Cattle would winter in these valleys without other food or shelter than that can be obtained from running at large.”8 Joe Reynolds read these reports in the Chicago Inter Ocean newspaper while working successfully his gold claim in the mountains of Colorado. He was working a claim in high country near Leadville and decided to pack up his mule and head for the Black Hills. He settled in Custer, and returned to Colorado to bring back a wife. He developed a homestead in what today is known as Reynolds prairie. Today Ivan’s son is still operating a ranch on Reynold’s Prairie CUSTER TAKES REPORTERS TO THE BLACK HILLS What the first journalists in the Black Hills reported stimulated thousands moving to the Hills from all directions, filling up of the country to overflowing in 1875. Thousands of jobless, underemployed and immigrant men read in the papers the word “gold” and decided to head for the Black Hills. New York City’s population at the time was near 2 million; Chicago was near 400,000, Kansas City was 350, 00, and Minneapolis was just short of 100,000. Newspapers sent reporters with the Army to report on what was out their in unknown territory. The public was always interested in the activities of the hyperactive Civil War cavalry officer – George Armstrong Custer. Reporters invited along paid their own way, including horses, to be on the outing. 9 Promoting Agriculture and Grazing “Portions of the Black Hills are well fitted for agriculture, especially those from two to three thousand feet above the level of the sea, and all are adapted to grazing. The general elevation of the hills varies from four to seven thousand feet above the level of the sea, their base alone having an altitude of from fifteen to twenty-five hundred. From this it will be seen that they are not very high, taking their altitude from base to summit. “When the present expedition returns, mining companies will be organized to test the value of the minerals found, and they will go fully prepared to overcome all opposition from the combined force of Sioux, Arapahoes, and Cheyennes, who will soon throng the region in quest of game for their Winter food; and if they contain any treasures of importance these Argonauts will soon make the fact known.”10 The Acting Secretary of Interior Smith in his annual report of 1874 wrote; “A military expedition to the Black Hills caused great excitement among all of the Sioux people. They regarded it as an infraction of their treaty, and were filled with the fear it might lead to their exclusion from a country they highly prized. “The exaggerated accounts of rich mines and agricultural lands given in dispatches of Custer and news reporters with the expedition increased the eagerness of people to take possession of the country. The correction of these exaggerated claims, by statements that no indications of mineral wealth were found, and that the lands were undesirable for white settlements, along with the strict prohibition of the War Department of any intrusion into the Territory did not stop parties from fitting out and leaving from Yankton, Bismarck, Denver, and Helena Montana.”11 The dispatch of Custer announcing gold in the Black Hills set off a stampede of fortune-hunters into Lakota territory. Although the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty requires the government to protect Lakota lands from intruders, federal authorities were asked and felt they had to protect the miners traveling along the road Custer blazed for them, which they call “Freedom’s Trail” and the Lakota call “Thieves Road. The Army with less than 25,000 men on active duty in the entire Army failed to keep Gold seekers out of the Hills with several companies. So did the 25,000 Sioux who were not fighting among themselves and other bands scattered all over the Great Sioux Reservation. Both the Army and the Indian Tribes failed to keep the public out of the Hills when the public got Gold Fever. THE LAKOTA WAR – 1876 A Senate commission meeting with Red Cloud and other Lakota chiefs in 1875 to negotiate legal access for the miners rushing to the Black Hills offered to buy the region for $6 million. But the Lakota refuse to alter the terms of the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty and declare they will protect their lands from intruders if the government will not. So Congress repealed the 1868 treaty in 1877, stopped all benefits the Indians argued they were to receive, and Congress took back 40 million acres of land. (1) The Northern Pacific Railroad was built during the years of 1872-1873 to Bismarck across the River from the site of Ft Lincoln Custer was assigned to build. During those years, the country west of the 100 Meridian (which runs through the middle of South Dakota) had an above average rainfall. This resulted in a perception the land was suitable for farming. Custer reported the abundant grass on his 1873 expedition to Montana. His reports along with the railroad’s advertisements designed to sell land and entice settlers west, painted the country as conducive to settlement. Hazen refutes these claims by reports from those who experienced the normal seasons that received little rainfall. (2) Samuel J. Barrows went with the Yellowstone Expedition of 1873 and with the Black Hills Expedition in 1874 as a reporter for New York newspapers. Barrows was elected to Congress in 1897. He promoted legislation to remove Indians from reservations, believing assimilation would lead to equality. (3) Wikipedia encyclopedia – Internet (4) The New York Times, published April 9, 1872 (5)Newspaper Chronicle of the Indian Wars, Volume 4, compiled by Marc H Abrams, Published 2010, Page 16 (6) The New York Times, published September 1, 1874 (7) My life on the Plains by Custer, representing the major part of Custer’s life, was first published some two years before the General’s Death. It is a vivid picture of the American West, the rigors of life for the settlers, and the horrors of Indian warfare. The first edition of the book included a chapter by General W R Hazen which Hazen later privately published separately as a pamphlet entitled These Barren Lands. (8)His articles on the Plains Indians were first published in the Galaxy Magazine 1872-74, and then incorporated into his book, My Life on the Plains, or, Personal Experiences with Indians, published in 1874. (9) Robert Strahorn spent his life writing and promoting. Instrumental in settling west of the Missouri river and developing its resources. He was one of the best at selling something that existed only in dreams. He touted farmland Often land so tough it would take 3 generations to succeed. (10) The New York Times, published April 28, 1874 (11) The New York Times, February 1, 1874 Author DianePosted on September 5, 2010 Categories General, Seventh CavalryTags agriculture, Black Hills, Fort Laramie Treaty, George Custer, Harney Peak, Lakota War, South DakotaLeave a comment on General Custer Promoted Black Hills Agriculture Nathaniel Philbrick’s book, LAST STAND By Jack Pennington I have just finished reading Nathaniel Philbrick’s book, LAST STAND. I thought it was very interesting and well written from a literary standpoint, but from an analytical perspective it portrays the same accepted view of the battle. I do recommend it as required reading for the overall coverage and personnel highlights. In my books and articles I have brought out the “cover-ups” that resulted from the Reno Court of Inquiry, and were necessary in protecting Major Reno, Captain Benteen, other officers and the Army. The main cover-ups could be listed under the headings of timing, sightings, and orders. What is difficult for me to understand is how contemporary writers such as Philbrick can ride over the battlefield, read the books and articles he claims to have done, and still not question or make any essential connections. The following are examples related to one period of time: (1) As Reno reached Ford A he sent a message to Custer which supposedly said the Indians were strong to his front. Reno starts down the valley, and Philbrick mentioned several times how Reno is unaware of the Indians because he can’t see their camp. According to the message Reno sent Custer, the Indians had to be aware of Reno’s troops, and we know if they were that there would be warriors harassing his troops all the way down the valley in order to protect and give time for their village to flee or prepare. This doesn’t raise a question to Philbrick or too many other writers whether the Indians coming down the valley could actually have been what Reno’s message was about. If writers put together Custer’s orders as reported by Reno’s orderly Davern and Custer’s orderly Martin, might they not assume that Reno’s message was more apt to have asked if he should wait for Benteen? Later, of course, he couldn’t say this, and so used a similar message to the one Girard said he sent in his attempt to trap Reno. (2) Reno moves down the valley and he wasn’t able to see the village or any number of Indians coming to meet him. He realizes that the Indian camp is around the bend and he can see warriors and a great amount of dust being raised. Reno sets up a skirmish line. There are those that believe he should have attacked, but most believe he was wise not to. His reason was sound since he didn’t see any of his promised support coming. According to Reno he was looking for this support from behind and that it would be Custer. Shouldn’t the orders Custer gave as reported by Reno’s and Custer’s orderlies raise the question that Reno might have been looking for Benteen coming from behind, while hoping for some sign of Custer as he flanked the village? (3) If Reno was waiting for Benteen and a sign that Custer had launched his flanking attack, why didn’t Reno say that was the reason he didn’t continue his attack and instead set up a skirmish line? Reno was right in waiting for the support or the rest of the attack to materialize, but he couldn’t say that for he knew it would mean that he knew there was a plan of attack. Reno and Benteen had to say they had no orders except for Reno to move against the village and he would be supported. Reno could have moved into the timber but he could not have justified fleeing the timber. This would definitely have been a court-martial offense. Any statement would also mean that Benteen would have been sent orders, undoubtedly carried by Sgt. Major Sharrow, and that Benteen should hurry to the Little Big Horn and enter the attack in support of Reno. (4) Timing, as I have tried to bring out in my writings, was a major cover-up at the Reno Court. There had to be a timing cover-up because of the following: Major Reno’s report after the battle that he “charged” to the bluff and met Captain Benteen at 2:30 p.m. The accepted version as brought out by Philbrick is 4 p.m. I wish Philbrick and other writers would answer the question asked Reno by General Rosser. Rosser: “You do not state, but I have the impression from some of the accounts sent in from the field, that you began your skirmish with the Indians about half past twelve to one o’clock, and that you recrossed the river and occupied the bluff about two o’clock. Now, to the reporter of the New York Herald you state that you made a reconnaissance in the direction of the Custer’s trail about five o’clock. The Indians appear to have withdrawn from your front as soon as you recrossed the river. Why then could you not have gone in pursuit of Custer earlier?” I have never been able to figure out how most writers know there were cover-ups at the Reno Court, but they will not accept Reno’s and Custer’s orderlies as to the orders Custer gave or Reno received, and by inference were sent to Benteen. No, they are enlisted men and Reno said his orders were only to attack the Indian village and he would be supported by Custer whom he thought would be following him. Benteen said he didn’t receive any orders except to go to some unknown valley, and I guess sit there after he got there. Davern had said Reno’s order was that Benteen would be on his left. Benteen should have reached the Little Big Horn valley south and west of Ford A and when moving to aid Reno would have been on his left. Martin said Custer in his order to Reno said he was going down to the other end and drive the Indians. The whole regiment would then be aiding Reno and in Custer’s circling movement Benteen would be in the center. Shots were heard from the Custer field soon after Reno’s troops had reached the ridge. Could the 4 o’clock time have come about because Reno and Benteen could not justify a wait of two and one half hours while Custer’s men were getting slaughtered? Benteen had orders to come to Custer’s aid. The five o’clock time was too well known and accepted to change it to 4 o’clock, so the 2:30 time was changed to 4 o’clock. Going to check on Lt. Hodgson’s body would not have sufficed, nor would attempting to string out the time the packs arrived since there were too many reports that ammunition packs were not that far behind Benteen. However, changing the meeting to 4 o’clock, along with the need to take care of the wounded, waiting for the packs, and then moving at five o’clock, could be accepted. Changing the 2:30 time to 4 o’clock meant that earlier officer’s times had to be changed and enlisted men’s and Indians’ ignored. Orders, timing, and sightings were cover-ups at the Reno Court of Inquiry that were necessary to prevent Reno and Benteen from court-martials, and protect the Army’s good name. I won’t get into the “accepted” picture of how the “attack minded” Custer, at a time when the Indian village was in a state of panic and the need to coordinate his attack with Reno’s was essential, is sitting around Medicine Tail Coulee, feinting at the Indians, waiting for Benteen, having conferences, and planning strategy. I guess when I read accounts of the battle I’m still too concerned, and it is hard for me not to express my opinion. Although I have been critical of other writers, I know without their interviews and writings I could not have formed my views of the battle. Author DianePosted on June 4, 2010 August 5, 2014 Categories Book Review, General, Little Bighorn Battle, Seventh CavalryTags Frederick Benteen, George Custer, Jack Pennington, Last Stand, Marcus Reno, Nathaniel Philbrick Custer’s Last Band By Shebby Lee On June 22, 1876, Lt. Colonel George Armstrong Custer confidently led his 7th Cavalry, several officers’ wives and assorted hangers-on out of Fort Abraham Lincoln near present-day Bismarck, North Dakota. With him was the regimental band, a sixteen-piece brass band mounted on matching white horses and led by Chief Musician Felix Vinatieri. They played “Boots and Saddles”, and then Custer’s favorite, the cheerful tune of “Garry Owen”, which would forever after be associated with the ill-fated 7th Cavalry and its demise. Custer’s only concern was that the wily Sioux would escape before he could engage them in battle, but his spirits were high, and the entourage took on the air of a summer pleasure outing. Hunting and scouting parties detached themselves occasionally to canter across the prairie. When the party reached the confluence of the Powder and Yellowstone, General Terry’s orders were explicit: the band was to turn back. Custer, taking one bugler and the handsome white horses with him, rode into an ambush. The band arrived back at the fort – on foot – in time for the frontier Fourth of July celebration. Thus, the Patriots won the Super Bowl in 2002 and 2004. The SUPER BOWL?? The place kicker for the New England Patriots football team at that time was a young man named Adam Vinatieri, the great-great-grandson of Felix. Adam’s talented toe not only drilled the game-winning field goal as time expired in the Big Game, but he kicked five game-winning field goals during the 2001 season to get them there, including three in overtime. According to Patriots’ statistics, Vinatieri is the most reliable field goal kicker in franchise history, connecting on 80% of his kicks. He scored 24 points during the 2001 post-season and is now the top Patriots scorer in post-season annals with 54 points. Not bad for a kid who couldn’t get drafted after graduation from South Dakota State University, even though he is the Jackrabbits’ all-time leading scorer! Now sports fans…. What if Custer had defied his superior and taken the band to the Little Bighorn that blazing hot summer day in 1876? Author DianePosted on February 28, 2010 February 28, 2010 Categories Seventh CavalryTags "Boots and Saddles", "Garry Owen", Bismarck, Felix Vinatieri, Fort Abraham Lincoln, George Custer, Shebby Lee Members of the Seventh Cavalry Who Were Born in Ohio Jacob Adams, born June 25, 1852, Stark County, Ohio Charles Clinton Barnett, born May 7, 1857, Camden, Ohio James C. Bennett, born 1848, Shelby, Ohio L. Edwin Bobo, born 1845, Franklin County, Ohio George Brainard, born 1846, Brooklyn, Ohio Hiram Erastus Brown, born December 1846, Mount Vernon, Ohio Thomas J. Bucknell, born 1849, Cincinnati, Ohio Charles Burkhardt, born 1846, Summerville, Ohio James Calhoun, born August 24, 1845, Cincinnati, Ohio Thomas Cox, born 1844, Cincinnati, Ohio John C. Creighton, a/k/a Charles Chesterwood, born March 4, 1850, Massillion, Ohio* Boston Custer, born October 31, 1848, New Rumley, Ohio George Armstrong Custer, born December 5, 1839, New Rumley, Ohio Thomas Ward Custer, born March 15, 1845, New Rumley, Ohio David Edward Dawsey, born 1851, Belleville, Ohio Alexander Downing, born 1845, New Madison, Ohio William Dye, born 1850, Marietta, Ohio Thomas J. Finnegan, born September 1, 1850, Hillsboro, Ohio Isaac Fowler, born September 15, 1844, Darke County, Ohio George H. Geiger, born 1843, Cincinnati, Ohio Edward Settle Godfrey, born October 9, 1843, Kalida, Ohio Thomas Eaton Graham, born November 20, 1831, Alton, Ohio George W. Hammon, born 1852, Fulton County, Ohio John E. Hammon, born December 4, 1857, Lynchburg, Ohio Weston Harrington, born February 9, 1855, Alton, Ohio Leonard A. Harris, born October 1851, Cincinnati, Ohio George B. Herendeen, born November 28, 1846, Parkman Township, Geauga, Ohio Adam Hetesimer, born 1847, Cincinnati, Ohio Jacob Hetler, born August 2, 1852, Mansfield, Ohio Stanton Hook, born 1845, Coshocton, Ohio Rufus D. Hutchinson, born 1850, Butlersville, Ohio Fremont Kipp, born October 17, 1856, Noble Hill, Noble County, Ohio Andrew Knecht, a/k/a Knight, Knect, Knicht, born April 12, 1853, Cincinnati, Ohio Frank Lauper, born 1852, Montgomery, Ohio George Lell, born 1847, Hamilton County, Ohio Jasper Marshall, born April 26, 1852, Spring Valley, Ohio John McKee, born 1853, Meigs County, Ohio John Morrison, born 1843, Zanesville, Ohio Frank Neely, born 1850, Collinsville, Ohio Jacob Noshang, born 1847, Hamilton County, Ohio Miles F. O’Harra, born September 1851, Alton, Ohio Henry W. Raichel, born Hamilton County, Ohio Thomas H. Rush, born 1841, Greenville, Ohio Christian Schlafer, born 1846, Cincinnati, Ohio Crawford Selby, born June 5, 1845, Ashland County, Ohio Michael Vincent Sheridan, born May 24, 1840, Ohio William C. Slaper, born November 23, 1854, Cincinnati, Ohio Levi Madison Thornberry, born February 3, 1853, Marietta, Ohio Michael Thorp, born February 1843, Somerset, Ohio Thomas S. Tweed, born 1853, North Liberty, Ohio Cornelius Van Sant, born May 1850, Cincinnati, Ohio Thomas Benton (or Bell) Weir, born September 28, 1838, Nashville, Ohio John Weiss, born March 16, 1849, Cincinnati, Ohio John S. Wells, born 1832, Rose, Ohio Albert Whytefield, born 1846, Sandusky, Ohio Pasavan Williamson, born 1847, Petersburg, Ohio George A. Wilson, born 1839, Madison County, Ohio Henry N. B. Witt, born December 10, 1852, Cincinnati, Ohio * Creighton’s birthplace is also listed as Memphis, Tennessee. Author DianePosted on February 3, 2010 February 3, 2010 Categories Seventh CavalryTags George Custer, Ohio The Custer Conspiracy A Novel by Lorin Lee Cary Bloomington: AuthorHouse, 2009 http://www.lorinleecary.com/ Available as an e-book ($7.95), paperback ($13.95) or hardcover ($22.95) I do not normally enjoy historic fiction, but I did enjoy this book. Rather than try to portray Custer in some “pretend” scenario, full of over-contrived descriptions of him, this book takes a quick glimpse of Custer through the journal of an unidentified member of his inner circle and runs with a modern story of whodunit and charm. The story begins in Hardin with an Indian who has the journal. He sends it to his college student niece, Sally Wolf, in hopes she can discover its apparent value. The protagonist, Walter Reeves, is the niece’s history professor who has inner conflicts concerning his marriage and his career. Walter gets the necessary remedy for the boredom in his life as he finds himself entwined in a journey involving burglary, kidnapping, and murder. Along the way are a militia group, determined to protect Custer’s reputation, and radical Indians, all trying to get their hands on the journal. The author, Lorin Lee Cary, is a retired history professor who has taken his knowledge and humor on a fun ride. Die-hard Custer fans will find some minor faults, but the book is a good read. It may be a good peripheral introduction to the Custer story for their less-enthused family and friends this Christmas. Author DianePosted on December 2, 2009 Categories Book ReviewTags fiction, George Custer Custer in the Movies By Michael L. Nunnally Hollywood has attempted the Custer/Little Bighorn saga a number of times usually with disastrous results. Facts have never really mattered to tinsel town and early movies were full of fictitious characters and absurd situations. Several attempts in recent years have been quite good but one major problem lies in the fact that Hollywood has always felt compelled in making George Armstrong Custer either a hero or villain. A true historical bio has never been accomplished. His image in more recent years has been based on the political climate in America rather than any actual historical facts. The battle scenes in the first Custer movie, Custer’s Last Stand filmed in 1909, were later used in several other silent movies on the subject. Custer’s Last Stand featured in a number of early TV shows including the Twilight Zone, Have Gun Will Travel, Branded and many others. In 1967 Custer appeared in his own TV show Custer starring Wayne Maunder. Much of the information contained here comes from two excellent articles by Custer film historian Paul Gagliasso. I don’t claim this list is a definitive list but rather a good starting point into the subject at hand. Corrections or additions are welcome. d (director) w (writer) c (cast) The Badlands of Dakota Universal Pictures 1941 B&W When Wild Bill Hickok (Dix) steals saloon keeper Bob Holliday’s (Crawford) girl trouble begins. Featuring an array of Western legends including Hickock, Calamity Jane and George Custer (Addison Richards). Entertaning Western. d Alfred E. Green w Gerald Geraghty c Robert Stack, Ann Rutherford, Richard Dix, Francis Farmer, Broderick Crawford, Andy Devine, Addison Richards Bob Hampton of Placer Bob Neilan Productions 1921 B&W Based on the novel and character created by Randall Parrish. The adventures of Bob Hampton (Kirkwood) with General Custer (Dwight Crittendon) on the Little Big Horn. A very young Howard Hawks served as asst. director. Filmed in Montana and Arizona. d Marshall Neilan w Marion Fairfax c James Kirkwood, Wesley Barry, Marjorie Drew, Dwight Crittendon, Pat O’Malley, Noah Berry Bugles in the Afternoon Cagney Productions 1952 Technicolor A scouting part led by Schaffer (Milland) into Sioux country supplies General Custer (Sheb Wooley) with much needed information on the hostile Indians. d Ray Rowland w Harry Brown, Daniel Mainwaring c Ray Milland, Helena Carter, Hugh Marlowe, Barton McLane, George Reeves, Sheb Wooley Campaigning With Custer Bison Motion Pictures 1913 B&W (Lost film) c William Clifford, Sherman Bainbridge, Val Paul, Clarence Burton Chief Crazy Horse U-I 1955 Technicolor Crazy Horse (Mature) leads his tribe against Custer at the Little Bighorn. Low budget treatment with cheesy last stand. Standard Hollywood stuff. Captain William J. Fetterman makes an appearance. James Millican plays Gen. George Crook and had also played Custer in 1951’s Warpath. d George Sherman w Franklin Coen, Gerald Drayson Adams c Victor Mature, Suzan Ball, John Lund, Ray Danton, David Janssen, James Millican Crazy Horse Turner Pictures 1996 color Made for TV movie about the famous Sioux warrior. A very good attempt. Written by Robert Schenkkan who played Captain Thomas Weir in 1991’s Son of the Morning Star. d John Irvin w Robert Schenkkan c Michael Greyeyes, Ned Beatty, John Finn, Peter Horton, Wes Studi, August Schellenberg, Daniel O’Haco Custer’s Last Fight Bison 101 1912 B&W The only surviving copy ends in the middle of the battle. Some of the battle sequences are known to have been used in other movies. Filmed in the hills near Malibu using the famed 101 Ranch and ranch hands as extras. Francis Ford (Custer) served as both star and director of the movie. Grace Cunard played Mrs. Custer. Re-released in 1925 as Custer’s Last Raid. Ford was the older brother of famed director John Ford and in later years appeared in a number of the younger Ford’s pictures in walk on parts. Francis Ford later appeared in another Custer picture, 1941’s They Died With Their Boots On, directed by Raoul Walsh. Ford appeared in an astonishing 479 motion pictures and is best remembered as the sick old man who gets out of bed to watch the town’s big fight in The Quiet Man directed by brother John. d Francis Ford w Richard V. Spencer c Francis Ford, Grace Cunard, William Eagle Shirt, V. Barney Sherry Custer’s Last Raid This 1925 movie was the same movie as Custer’s Last Fight released in 1912 (above). Custer’s Last Scout Bison Motion Pictures (as 101 Bison) 1915 B&W (Lost film) Alfred Lorenzo Chapman toured the country making personal appearances at carnivals and fairs signing autographs and telling his extraordinary story of witnessing Custer’s Last Stand. Hollywood recognized a good tale when they saw one and cast Chapman as the ‘scout’ in the movie based on his incredible story. Listed as Scott Chapman in credits. One of Hollywood’s early attempts at the Custer saga. Clifford had starred in Campaigning With Custer two years before and stock footage from that movie could have been used in Custer’s Last Scout. No copies are known to exist. Check your attic. Directed by Henry MacRae who directed some of the first Tarzan pictures. d Henry MacRae w (?) c William Clifford, Marie Walcamp, Scott Chapman Custer’s Last Stand Selig Polyscope Company 1909 B&W (Lost Film) Believed to have been shot in Selig’s Chicago studio it is considered the first movie on the Custer/Little Big Horn story. Some later Custer movies may have contained stock footage of the battle scenes taken from the movie. Film no longer exists. d Francis Boggs c Hobart Bosworth, Bett Harte, Fran Walsh “The cast includes three Sioux who were present at the actual event in 1876 that the film is based on. The producer had hoped to gain historical information from them, but said later that “the most we could get out of them was that the fight was over so quickly that they could remember little about it.” The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) “American Film Institute Catalog of Film Beginnings 1893-1910 erroneously credits Tom Mix in the cast of this film; it’s a Selig West Coast production made before Mix came to California and before he entered films.” IMDb Custer’s Last Stand Stage and Screen 1936 B&W Another of Hollywood’s earlier attempts on the famous last stand. A gold prospecting Indian attempts to warn Custer (Frank McGlynn, Jr.) of danger. Starring William Farnum who was the brother of Dusty Farnum, who played Gen. Custer in 1926’s The Flaming Frontier. Elizabeth Custer (Ruth Mix) makes an appearance. d Elmer Clifton c William Farnum, Rex Lease, Reed Howes, Jack Mulhall, Frank McGlynn, Jr., Ruth Mix Custer of the West Cinema/Security 1967 Super Technirama A fat Custer fights Hollywood Indians. Shaw, sporting a bad wig, is totally miscast as George Armstrong Custer. Shaw’s then wife Mary Ure plays Elizabeth Custer. Dreadful stuff. Writer Bernard Gordon and the production department did very little research into the actual event. The worst of the Custer films and a terrible Western to boot. Filmed in Spain. Did I mention it was dreadful? d Robert Siodmak w Bernard Gordon c Robert Shaw, Robert Ryan, Jeffery Hunter, Mary Ure, Ty Hardin, Lawrence Tierney “Fairly ambitious bio of famed general suffers from script that doesn’t quite know how to characterize him.” Leonard Maltin The Flaming Frontier Universal 1926 B&W One of the earliest attempts on Custer’s Last Stand and the Pony Express. Supposedly filmed with a staggering $400,000 budget in 1926, the 50th Anniversary of the Custer fight. Shot in California with Umatilla and Cayuse Indians as extras. Several veterans of the Battle of the Little Bighorn attended the New York premiere among which was 85 year old Brig. Gen. Edward Godfrey. Elizabeth Custer declined an invitation. d Edward Sedgwick w Charles Kenyon, EdwardJ. Montagne c Hoot Gibson, Ann Cornwall, Dustin Farnum (Custer) The Glory Guys Levy-Gardner-Laven 1965 color An Indian hating army general with political aspirations leads his men against overwhelming hordes of Indians. Sound familiar? Filmed in Durango, Mexico, this was a thinly veiled version of the Little Bighorn story. The fort was later used for Chisum. Written by a young Sam Peckinpah. d Arnold Levin c Tom Tyron, James Caan, Slim Pickens, Senta Berger, Harve Presnell The Great Sioux Massacre Columbia/FF 1965 Eastmancolor Major Reno (Cotton) and Captain Benteen (McGavin) are court-martialed after Custer’s Last Stand. Standard Hollywood treatment of history. Actor Phil Carey (Custer) played Capt. Keogh in 1958’s Tonka. Average at best. d Sidney Salkow w Fred C. Dobbs c Joseph Cotton, Darren McGavin, Phil Carey, Nancy Kovack, Julie Sommars, Michael Pate Little Big Man Stockbridge/Hiller/Cinema Center 1970 Technicolor Based on Thomas Berger’s novel in which the sole white survivor of Custer’s Last Stand tells his life story. Filmed near the actual battlefield on the Crow Reservation in Hardin, Montana. Custer and his soldiers in the movie appear as the bad guys. Unlike the character in Berger’s novel Penn’s Custer is a racist fool with no redeeming qualities and as ridiculous as any character in Blazing Saddles. The battle scenes are well done although Custer’s attack on the village is closer to Reno’s valley fight which isn’t shown. Chief Dan George was nominated for best supporting actor. “General, you go down there…if you got the nerve!” d Arthur Penn w Calder Willingham novel Thomas Berger c Dustin Hoffman, Martin Balsam, Faye Dunaway, Chief Dan George, Richard Mulligan, Jeff Corey The Plainsman Paramount Pictures 1936 B&W Wild Bill Hickok (Cooper) attempts to stop an Indian uprising started by gun-runners. Buffalo Bill and George Custer (Miljan) throw in their support to Hickock but this DeMille movie lacks a good script. d Cecil B. DeMille w Courtney Ryley, Frank J. Wilstack c Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, James Ellison, Charles Bickford, Helen Burgess, John Miljan “About as authenticate as Blazing Saddles but who cares–it’s still good fun.” Leonard Maltin Red Tomahawk A.C. Lyles/Paramount 1967 Technicolor Deadwood, South Dakota goes on the alert after Custer’s defeat on the Little Bighorn. d R.G. Springsteen w Steve Fisher c Howard Keel. Joan Caulfield, Broderick Crawford, Scott Brady, Wendell Corey, Richard Arlen, Tom Drake The 7th Cavalry Producers-Actors Corporation 1956 Technicolor An army captain who missed the Little Big Horn battle tries to redeem himself by volunteering for burial detail. Capt. Benteen (Michael Pate) and Maj. Reno (Frank Wilcox) make an appearance. Filmed in Mexico. d Joseph H. Lewis w Peter Packer, Glendon Swarthout c Randolph Scott, Barbara Hale, Jay C. Flippin, Frank Faylen, Denver Pyle, Harry Carey, Jr. The Scarlet West Frank J. Carroll Productions 1925 B&W (Lost Film) Cardelanche (Robert Frazier), an Eastern educated Indian, returns to his people and is rejected. He saves a cavalry detachment and is promoted to captain and falls in love with the post commander’s daughter (Clara Bow). When his people massacre Custer Cardelanche realizes he can no longer live among the whites and returns to his people leaving his love behind. Elizabeth Custer (Ruth Stonehouse) is the only real person portrayed in the film. No copies of The Scarlet West are known to exist. Ruth Stonehouse was one of the few women involved in the actual business end of the film industry at the time–she co-owned Essanay Films studio along with actor ‘Gilbert M. ‘Broncho Billy’ Anderson’ and businessman George K. Spoor and made over 100 films for the company. d John G. Adolf w Anthony Paul Kelly c Robert Frazier, Clara Bow, Robert Edeson, Walter McGrail, Ruth Stonehouse She Wore a Yellow Ribbon RKO/Argosy 1949 Technicolor Retiring cavalry officer must deal with Indian uprising. Beautifully written and acted Ford film with all of the Ford ingredients including real Indians. Not really a Custer movie but at one point in the movie Wayne’s character Capt. Brittles talks about the deaths of Custer, Tom Custer, Myles Keogh at his wife’s grave. d John Ford w Frank Nugent, Laurence Stallings c John Wayne, Joanne Dru, John Agar, Ben Johnson, Harry Carey Jr., Victor McLaglen, Mildred Natwick, George O’Brien, Arthur Shields Sitting Bull UA/W.R. Frank/Telvoz of Mexico 1954 Eastmancolor A cavalry officer befriends the legendary Sioux leader (J. Carroll Naish) after the massacre of Custer (Douglas Kennedy ) on the Little Bighorn. Average grade B Hollywood western. Sidney Salkow went on to direct another Custer movie 1965’s Great Sioux Massacre. d Sidney Salkow w Jack de Witt, Sidney Salkow c Dale Robertson, Mary Murphy, J. Carrol Naish, Iron Eyes Cody, Douglas Kennedy John Litel Son of the Morning Star Republic Pictures 1991 color Made for television account based on Evan Connell’s bestseller book on the Battle of the Little Bighorn. As near to fact as Hollywood has ever come to the actual event and the only Custer picture to show the principal characters. Both the Custer and Reno fights are well done. Script written by Harrison Ford’s then wife Melissa Mathison. An excellent attempt at the real event. “Tonight we go home by a road we do not know.” d Mike Robe w Melissa Mathison c Gary Cole, Rosanna Arquette, Stanley Anderson, Rodney Grant, David Strathairn, Michael Medeiros, Edward Blatchford, Tom O’Brien, Terry O’Quinn, Nick Ramus, Tim Ransom, Dean Stockwell, Robert Schenkkan They Died with Their Boots On Warner 1941 B&W Dashing Errol Flynn as dashing George Armstrong Custer and his death at the Little Bighorn. Custer sacrifices his command to stop Crazy Horse (Quinn) and a corrupt Indian agent (Kennedy). Of little historical value and rather silly but loads of fun and incredibly charming. Flynn considered this his favorite movie role. Filmed in the rolling hills of Warner Studio’s back lot of Lasky Mesa in Agoura, CA. All American Indian athlete Jim Thorpe appears as an extra. The flame that lit the candle for thousands. d Raoul Walsh w Wally Kline, Aeneas Mackenzie c Errol Flynn, Oliva de Havilland, Arthur Kennedy, Anthony Quinn, Sidney Greenstreet, Charles Grapewin, Gene Lockhart, Hattie McDaniel, Francis Ford. “Studio head Jack Warner was a notorious spendthrift who didn’t like the expense of sending a film company out to a distant location. Still, no film had more influence on the public’s perception of Custer than this 1941 epic, until the cynical ‘Little Big Man’ came along in 1970.” Paul Gagliasso, Old West Journal, Winter 2000 Tonka Walt Disney 1958 Technicolor Disney’s story of Comanche, the noble steed of Capt. Keogh (Phil Carey) and sole survivor of Custer’s Last Stand and his many adventures. One of the first movies to portray Custer in a negative light which was quite surprising coming from Uncle Walt. Movie tagline: The Untold Story Behind the West’s Strangest Legend. d Lewis R. Foster w same c Sal Mineo, Phil Carey, Jerome Courtland, Rafael Campos, H. M. Wynant Warpath Paramount Pictures 1951 Technicolor John Vickers joins the Seventh Cavalry seeking revenge for his fiancée’s murder. Filmed on the Crow Reservation, Hardin, Montana. James Millican (Custer) later played Gen George Crook in 1955’s Chief Crazy Horse. d Byron Haskin w Frank Gruber c Dean Jagger, Edmond O’Brien, Forrest Tucker, Harry Carey, Jr., James Millican (Custer). *************************************************************************************************** Custer in the Movies list compiled by Dan Gagliasso, LBHA Research Review, Volume V, No. 2, Summer 1971 Errol Flynn’s Custer & The Test Of Time by Louis Kraft, Research Review, The Journal of the Little Big Horn Associates-Vol. 13, No. 2. Summer, 1999 Following The Custer Movie Trail. By Dan Gagliasso. Old West Journal, Winter 2000 The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) Leonard Maltin’s 2007 Movie Guide. Penguin Books. Silver Screen: greatest silent film about Custer by Dan Gagliasso. Greasy Grass, Vol. 16, May 2000 Custer: the Man, the Myth, the Movies by John Langellier. Stackpole, 2000. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102962/usercomments Son of the Morning Star comments Author DianePosted on August 17, 2009 August 17, 2009 Categories MediaTags Crazy Horse, George Custer, Hollywood, John Langellier, Louis Kraft, Michael Nunnally, movies, Paul Gagliasso, Seventh Cavalry, Sitting Bull1 Comment on Custer in the Movies Remembering Custer’s Last Command in South Dakota Bates, Also Known As Murphy, Has Three Graves in Sturgis By Jack McCulloh Pictures by Scott Nelson The geography now South Dakota, in 1874, was an empty, blank space on the maps. The highway into this unknown territory was the Missouri River. The post Civil War U.S. Army had troops in camps along the river. Fort Union was one of the major Army forts and was walled with “drive up” windows and a room for trading furs with the Indians. Security dictated Indians not be in direct contact with troops and families inside the fort. The fort in 1874 was commanded by General William Hazen, George Armstrong Custer’s nemesis clear back to West Point when Captain Hazen ordered Custer court-martialed. The fort was where the Yellowstone and Missouri rivers join and run south together. Southwest of present South Dakota, the Army bought a trading post that became Fort Laramie. Its mission was to supply, rest, repair, and protect the thousands of wagons and people traveling on the Oregon and Mormon Trail. Population in the United States was exploding and everyone with influence in the Territory wanted the Army involved in protection from Indians. President U.S. Grant’s administration in 1868, by agreement with Red Cloud, abandoned army camps protecting the Bozeman trail to gold fields in Helena, Montana. The treaty agreed buffalo could be harvested by the Indians for seven future generations. (1) A series of treaties with Indian bands was needed to allow railroads, telegraph lines, roads, and trails to gold rushes to California and Montana, and to the coal mining needed to supply the Transcontinental Railroad and homesteaders moving West up to the 100th meridian. People were moving into blank spots on the map seeking the dream of owning land. What was later labeled “The Great American Desert“, after a generation of starvation, was just on the west side of the Missouri River. General Phil Sheridan was the driving force behind organizing a massive expedition into this territory in western South Dakota, explore and prepare a map and report on the country around Bear Butte. Sheridan was anxious to have a military post to control the Indians who were not agreeing to go onto a reservation. (2) Crazy Horse was one of those leaders who would not quit the freedom he had always lived. Sheridan sold President Grant on letting him use the 7th Calvary, stationed at Fort Abraham Lincoln at present day Mandan, North Dakota, for the exploration. Across the river at Bismarck was the end of the rail and telegraph lines. Sheridan had the option to use the railroad and Fort Laramie troops but he did not want to stir up the Indians in the area from Fort Laramie to the Black Hills. There were reporters from Chicago and New York on the trip and many other population centers. The 1874 exploration in the wilderness is memorialized in modern maps of South Dakota. There are over forty-nine map locations: Ludlow, SD (Chief Engineer on the trip); Tilford, SD (Commander of Fort Rice and head of infantry on the trip), Custer peak, and even “Turk head” rock (after one of the hunting hounds the General brought along) because of the exploration. Scott Nelson, Pierre, SD (3), is making a serious effort to find and photograph the grave sites of members of the 7th Calvary buried in South Dakota. Many were on the 1874 exploration and others enlisted after the trip and were in the Battle of the Little Bighorn in June 1876. Some served in building Fort Meade in 1877. The army base was located by Sheridan when public pressure arose from the massive numbers of people seeking fortune in the Black Hills due to the reports of gold from the 1874 expedition. Locating the graves of the 7th Calvary veterans in South Dakota is a challenge. Joseph Bates is an example. Soldiers of the time may or may not have used their given name and often used different names when they enlisted or re-enlisted. On the east end of Sherman Street is Bear Butte Cemetery, so named because it has a magnificent view of near by Bear Butte, which has a gravestone purchased by the G.A.R. marked Joseph Bates.(4) Also in the Bear Butte Cemetery is a smaller military marker (5) which reads Jno. Murphy inside the G.A.R. and on top of the gravestone is an attached silver plaque of about 3 inches by 4 inches engraved: Joseph Bates Jos C. Murphy Ernest C. Gottschalk, 97, was the one who attached the metal plaque to the headstone. The inscription “ECG -97” stands for Ernest C. Gottschalk and 97 is the year he placed the plaque on the tombstone (1997). Before it was engraved by Gottschalk, the silver plaques were the standard marker used to identify grave sites before a headstone was placed in the cemetery. From 1986 Gottschalk, who lived at Vale, S.D., made a project of finding grave sites in many counties in the northwestern part of the state that were no longer marked. He kept records of the graves he found and re-marked them. He filed his findings with county offices in Lawrence, Meade, Butte, Harding, and Ziebach counties, which have booklets of information listing his findings by cemetery (6). Ernie Gottschalk was given a Certificate of Recognition from the South Dakota State Historical Society Board of Trustees in December 1993 “for documenting burial sites.” These certificates are given out from time to time for meritorious acts in the history field. Gottschalk depended heavily on pioneer papers of the area, most of which are only available on microfilm in local libraries. Gottschalk died in 1997. On the west end of Sherman Street in Sturgis is the Catholic St. Aloysius cemetery. It’s about three miles straight west from Bear Butte cemetery. Joseph Bates has the only military marker in one section of the Catholic cemetery. He was a survivor of the Battle of the Little Bighorn valley and the hilltop fights. Bates obituary said: “Joe Bates is dead. And the verdict of the coroner’s jury is ….he took Paris green with suicidal intent. No blame is attached to anybody, as Bates repeatedly said he was all right, and wouldn’t have a doctor. The coroner’s jury decided he died by his own hand. Deceased served in M Troop, 7th cavalry, and was first sergeant for some time. He has been around Fort Meade ever since the post was established, and was a laborer or teamster in the quartermaster’s department for years. He had only one ear, having lost the other at Fort Lincoln…He was driving an ambulance when the team ran away and he fell under the vehicle, one wheel cutting the left ear off clean, but doing him no other harm. Bates was buried yesterday afternoon, and Calvin Duke post members, G.A.R. followed his remains to the grave.” (7) Bates was born in Rhode Island and re-enlisted in 1870 at age 31 in Carlisle, Penna. He deserted in 1872, was apprehended in 1873, and joined Company M by Special Order issued by the Headquarters Department of Dakota in 1874. He is not listed as Bates on the 1874 trip into the Black Hills area but John Murphy is listed as a private in 17th U.S. Infantry (commanded by Major Lewis G Sanger) and 7th US Calvary(Commanded by 1st Lt. Donald McIntosh) (8) Bates was 55 years old when he died. His military record shows when he was 40 years old the post surgeon certified Bates “as incapable of performing the duties of a soldier because the nearly 27 years that I have known this man he has been on Sick Report or in the hospital. Half the time for inebriation bordering on delirium…..He is useless as a soldier and unfit for that profession” Bates service records listed him as Joseph C. Murphy in L, 1st Massachusetts Calvary in 1863 rising to the rank of 1st Sergeant. After the Civil war he re-enlisted as Joseph Bates and was assigned to the 7th Calvary. He may have suffered from shell shock/combat fatigue. In those days alcohol or addiction to morphine was the only way soldiers could deal with this problem. Many soldiers were sent to insane asylums or committed suicide. Bates’ long military service and memories of action at Little Bighorn with Company M may have been too much for him. (9 & 10) He was discharged in 1877 after the post surgeon at Fort Rice, Dakota Territory, issued his report. Civil War records say that John Murphy was a Captain in Company L of the 1st Massachusetts Calvary; his death is listed as September 11, 1893, and his headstone was supplied by the Vermont Marble Company for the Bear Butte Cemetery in Sturgis, S.D. (10) This research is presented with the hope someone has information that will answer questions that still remain. NOTES- 1. People who have not read the Treaty of 1868 still claim it says “so long as grass grows and water flows.” No agreement with Indians – or Treaty – during Presidents Grants eight year administration has any such language or guarantee. 2. President Grants’ policies for Indians of the time; a. Sanctuaries (Reservations) b. annuities and c. re-location. d. Peace e. time lines. 3. Website is http://pie.midco.net/treasuredude. An active contributor to Little Big Horn Associates and the website http://www.littlebighorn.info 4. Section 2, lot 43, Bear Butte Cemetery. The GAR was active in providing financial assistance to veterans with no family and no money. 5. Section 2, lot 45, Bear Butte Cemetery 6. Angela M. Ross, Meade County Register of Deeds, Sturgis, S.D. – E. Mail – mcrod@meadecounty.org – keeps on file in her office the material Gottschalk filed with Meade County by cemetery of graves he found and marked with these plaques. Ross reports Gottschalk filed with many counties information specific to the county where he filed the report. He also did some marking of graves in Wyoming. The legality of marking 300 graves and changing markings on headstones with aliases used by veterans, based on obituaries published, for over 10 years is an open question. 7. Sturgis Weekly Record, September, 1893 8. In the book Private Theodore Ewert’s Diary of the Black Hills Expedition of 1874 – edited by John M Carroll and Dr. Lawrence H Frost – No Joseph Bates is listed in the roster of the Command and civilians. John Murphy is listed as a Private in Company G, 7th US Cavalry, and command of 1st Lt Donald McIntosh. John Murphy is listed as a private in Company G. 17th US Infantry under command of Major Lewis G Sanger. No Joseph G Murphy, John Murphy, or Joseph Bates is listed in the roster of civilian teamsters 9 & 10 Book – Men with Custer – Biographies of the 7th Calvary – 25 June, 1876 by Kenneth Hammer -E Mail communication with John A. Doerner, Chief Historian, Little Big Horn Battlefield, November 14, 2007. – John_Doerner@nps.gov 11. The NPS Soldiers and Sailors web site lists Joseph c. Murphy. It lists two John Murphy’s in the 1st Mass. Calvary. Bio- Jack McCulloh, Larry Owen, and Joe Sanders all of Rapid City started tracking as a hobby and a way of hiking in the Hills every week including skiing Terry Peak. the Custer Trail in the Black Hills with a GPS in 1994. After the publication of this research McCulloh started guiding groups to sites visited by the 1874 Exploration and conducting community education classes on the 1874 expedition. Scott Nelson describes himself as a Custer buff. Author DianePosted on August 9, 2009 August 9, 2009 Categories Seventh CavalryTags Bear Butte Cemetery, Ernest Gottschalk, George Custer, Jack McCulloh, John Murphy, Joseph Bates, Scott Nelson, South Dakota, St. Aloysius Cemetery, Sturgis

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Tag: Hardy Patrick Carey was born on April 14, 1828, in Tipperary, Ireland. He was a Sergeant in Company M who participated in the valley and hilltop fights during the Battle of the Little Bighorn. John Dolan (left), who was also known as Thomas Brown, was born in Dublin, Ireland, on April 14, 1843. He was a Private in Company M who was not present at the battle due to detached service. John W. Sweeney died in Kentucky on April 14, 1884. He was a Private in Company F who participated in the hilltop fight. Daniel Kanipe (right) was born on April 15, 1853, in Marion, North Carolina. He was a Sergeant in Company C who was with Custer’s Column and in the hilltop fight. Walter Scott Sterland was born on April 16, 1851, in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England. He was a Private in Company M who was not present at the battle because he was on detached service at Yellowstone Depot. Roman Rutten died on April 16, 1925, in Leavenworth, Kansas, and was buried in the Fort Leavenworth National Cemetery. He was a Private in Company M who participated in the valley and hilltop fights. He was wounded on Reno Hill. Charles Stillman Ilsley died on April 17, 1899, in Salt Lake City, Utah, and was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in Everett, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. He was a Captain in Company E who was not present at the battle due to detached service. August Bockerman died on April 17, 1904, in St. Joseph, Missouri. He was a Private in Company A who was not present at the battle because he was on detached service. William G. Hardy (left) died in San Francisco, California, on April 17, 1919, and was buried in the National Cemetery there, the Presidio. He was a trumpeter in Company A who participated in the valley and hilltop fights. Frank W. Sniffin died at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, on April 17, 1931, and was buried in the Chattanooga National Cemetery in Tennessee. He was a Private in Company M who participated in the valley and hilltop fights. Jacob Horner married Kathryn Stewart at Fort Totten on April 18, 1880. He was a Private in Company K who was not present at the battle because he was on detached service. Edward Hall was born on April 19, 1851, in Winfield, New York. He was a Private in Company G who was not present at the battle because he was on detached service. Joseph Kretchmer died on April 19, 1928 in Washington, D.C., and was buried in the Soldiers’ Home National Cemetery there. He was a Private in Company D who was wounded during the hilltop fight. John Foley was born in Dublin, Ireland, on April 20, 1839. He was a Private in Company K who participated in the hilltop fight. John E. Quinn, who was also known as John Gorham, was born on April 20, 1852, in Hartford, Connecticut. He was a Private in Company D who was not present at the battle because he was on detached service at the Powder River Depot. Author DianePosted on April 14, 2019 March 24, 2019 Categories Seventh CavalryTags Bockerman, Carey, Dolan, Foley, Hall, Hardy, Horner, Ilsley, Kanipe, Kretchmer, Quinn, Rutten, Sniffin, Sterland, SweeneyLeave a comment on This Week in Little Bighorn History John McKenna, who was also known as John Kenney, drowned in the Ohio River before December 16, 1888, when his body was found near Constance, Kentucky. He was a Private with Company E who was with the pack train and in the hilltop fight during the Battle of the Little Bighor. Myles Moylan (right) was born on December 17, 1838, in Amesbury, Massachusetts. He was the Captain of Company A who was in command of the company during the valley and hilltop fights. He later was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions at Bear Paw Mountain. He died on December 11, 1909, in San Diego, California, and was buried in Greenwood Memorial Park. George Loyd was a Private in Company G who participated in the valley and hilltop fights. He committed suicide at Fort Riley, Kansas, on December 17, 1892, and was buried in the Post Cemetery. He had been awarded the Medal of Honor for valor at Wounded Knee. James O’Neill died on December 17, 1931, in Sawtelle, California, and was buried in the Los Angeles National Cemetery. He was a Private in Company B who was not present at the battle due to illness. HiramWallace Sager died in Spokane, Washington, on December 21, 1907, and was buried at Greenwood Memorial Terrace there. He was a Private in Company B who was with the pack train and in the hilltop fight. Luther Rector Hare (right) died on December 22, 1929, in Washington, D.C, and was buried in Arlington National Cemetery. He was an 1874 graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point who served as the Second Lieutenant of Company K. He participated in the valley and hilltop fights. Author DianePosted on December 16, 2018 December 16, 2018 Categories Seventh CavalryTags Blair, Hardy, Hare, Loyd, Madden, McKenna, Moylan, O'Neill, Penwell, Pigford, Sager, SchwererLeave a comment on This Week in Little Bighorn History James W. Butler was born on April 1, 1844, in Limerick, Ireland. He stated he was born in Riverton, New Jersey, when he enlisted, but both his pension application and his death certificate listed Limerick, Ireland. He was a Private in Company F who was not present at the battle due to detached service. Philip McHugh died in Allentown, Pennsylvania, on April 1, 1910, and was buried in Immaculate Conception Catholic Cemetery there. His gravestone has March 31 as his date of death, but Recommended References (see below) all state April 1. He was a Private in Company L who was with the pack train and participated in the hilltop fight. Edward Settle Godfrey (left) died in Cookstown, New Jersey, on April 1, 1932, and was buried in Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia. He was a graduate of the United States Military academy at West Point who was the First Lieutenant for Company K. He commanded that company during scouting and the hilltop fight. Charles Clinton Barnett died in Anacortes, Skagit County, Washington, on April 3, 1935, and was buried there in Grand View Cemetery. He was a Private in Company G who was not present at the battle due to detached service. John Curtis Hall died in Warsaw, Indiana, on April 6, 1908. He was a Private in Company D who participated in the hilltop fight. Herbert H. Arnold died on April 6, 1929, in Meriden, Connecticut, and was buried there in Walnut Grove Cemetery. He was a Private in Company C who was not present at the battle due to detached service at Fort Abraham Lincoln, Dakota Territory. Charles Ackerman died at Fort Snelling Minnesota, on April 6, 1930. He was buried in the Forest Cemetery, which is now Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Maplewood, Ramsey County, Minnesota. He was a Private in Company K who was not present at the battle due to detached service at the Powder River Depot. William H. Gilbert married Mary E. Hevener on April 7, 1870, and they had a son named Rudy. William was a Corporal in Company L who died with Custer’s Column and was buried on Last Stand Hill. Alexander Brown (left) died on April 7, 1884, at Fort Meade, Dakota Territory, and was buried in the National Cemetery there. He was a Sergeant in Company G who was with the pack train and participated in the hilltop fight. William G. Hardy died in San Francisco, California, on April 7, 1919, and was buried in the National Cemetery there, the Presidio. He was a trumpeter in Company A who participated in the valley and hilltop fights. Author DianePosted on April 1, 2018 April 2, 2018 Categories Seventh CavalryTags Ackerman, Arnold, Barnett, Brown, Butler, Gilbert, Godfrey, Hall, Hardy, McHughLeave a comment on This Week in Little Bighorn History Myles Moylan was born on December 17, 1838, in Amesbury, Massachusetts. He was the Captain of Company A who was in command of the company during the valley and hilltop fights. He later was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions at Bear Paw Mountain. George Loyd was a Private in Company G who participated in the valley and hilltop fights. He died in Fort Riley, Kansas, on December 17, 1892, and was buried in the Post Cemetery. John Schwerer died at the National Soldiers Home in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on December 17, 1913, and was buried at the Wood National Cemetery there. He was a Private in Company K who participated in the hilltop fight. Johann Michael Vetter was born in Hessen, Germany, on December 23, 1853. He was a Private in Company L who was killed during the battle. Joseph Carroll died on December 23, 1904, in Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois, and was buried in the National Cemetery there. He was a Private in the Band, so he was not present at the battle. Author DianePosted on December 17, 2017 Categories Seventh CavalryTags Blair, Carroll, Hardy, Hare, Loyd, Madden, Moylan, O'Neill, Penwell, Sager, Schwerer, VetterLeave a comment on This Week in Little Bighorn History The Training School for Bakers and Cooks was established at Fort Riley in 1905 to teach soldiers about food preparation, including methods for preparing food in the field. Bakers were taught how to make ovens in the field in order to bake bread. Bromwell may be in this U.S. Army photograph. Latrobe Bromwell was born about 1847 in Frederick County, Maryland, the son of Louisa E. Meriweather and Hosea J. Bromwell. He served in the 11th Maryland Infantry during the Civil War. While with the Seventh Cavalry, he was a Private in Company E who was not present at the Battle of the Little Bighorn because he became ill on Rosebud Creek and was sent back to the Powder River Depot. Those in his company who went to battle were killed. He was the instructor in cooking at the Training School for Cooks and Bakers at Fort Riley, Kansas, until he retired in 1909. Bromwell died on April 2, 1923, in Washington, D.C., and was buried in the Soldiers’ Home National Cemetery. Other Seventh Cavalry milestones this week include: William Frank died on April 6, 1880, in Baltimore, Maryland. He was a Private in Company B who was with the pack train and participated in the hilltop fight. William H. Gilbert married Mary E. Hevener on April 7, 1870. He was a Corporal in Company L who died with Custer’s Column and was buried on Last Stand Hill. Alexander Brown died on April 7, 1884, at Fort Meade, Dakota Territory, and was buried in the National Cemetery there. He was a Sergeant in Company G who was with the pack train and participated in the hilltop fight. William Alexander was born on April 8, 1838, in Armagh, Ireland. He was a packer with the Quartermaster who was with the pack train and participated in the hilltop fight. John R. Gray was born in Troy, New York, on April 8, 1855 and died on April 30, 1915, in Worcester, Massachusetts. He was a Private in Company B who was not present at the battle due to detached service. Stephen L. Ryan died on April 8, 1885, in Bismarck, Dakota Territory, and was buried in St. Mary’s Cemetery there. He was a Private in Company B who was with the pack train and participated in the hilltop fight. Author DianePosted on April 2, 2017 Categories Seventh CavalryTags Ackerman, Alexander, Arnold, Barnett, Bromwell, Brown, Frank, Gilbert, Gray, Hall, Hardy, Hevener, RyanLeave a comment on This Week in Little Bighorn History William G. Hardy was born on December 20, 1849, on Staten Island, New York. He was a bugler for Company A and fought in both the valley and hilltop fights. He died on April 7, 1919, in San Francisco, California, and is buried in the San Francisco National Cemetery, The Presidio. See below for books and miniatures of buglers. Hiram Wallace Sager died in Spokane, Washington, on December 21, 1907. He was with the pack train and in the hilltop fight. Luther Rector Hare died on December 22, 1929, in Washington, D.C, and was buried in Arlington National Cemetery. Johann Michael Vetter was born in Hessen, Germany, on December 23, 1853. He was killed during the battle. Joseph Carroll died on December 23, 1904, in Danville, Illinois, and was buried in the National Cemetery there. Martin Personeus died in Carlinsville, Illinois, on December 24, 1889. He was on detached service during the battle. Giovanni Martini died on December 24, 1922, in Brooklyn, New York. He brought the famous “be quick” note to Benteen. John James Carey died in Malone, Grays Harbor County, Washington, on December 24, 1929. Thomas W. Coleman was born on December 25, 1849, in Troy, New York. He was with the pack train and in the hilltop fight. Edwin B. Wight was born in Casco, Maine, on December 25, 1851. He was on detached service during the battle. Thomas Wilford Harrison died on December 25, 1917, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and was buried in Yeadon, Pennsylvania. Author DianePosted on December 19, 2016 December 18, 2016 Categories Seventh CavalryTags Carey, Carroll, Coleman, Hardy, Hare, Harrison, Martini, Personeus, Sager, Vetter, WightLeave a comment on This Week in Little Bighorn History

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PDF2 Add To My Favorites | Version: 09/18/12 - Chaptered 09/07/12 - Enrolled 08/07/12 - Amended Assembly 07/02/12 - Introduced AJR-43 Sexual orientation and gender identity.(2011-2012) Current Version: 09/18/12 - Chaptered Compared to Version: 09/18/12 - Chaptered 09/07/12 - Enrolled 08/07/12 - Amended Assembly 07/02/12 - Introduced AJR43:v96#DOCUMENT Assembly Joint Resolution No. 43 Relative to sexual orientation and gender identity. AJR 43, Lara. Sexual orientation and gender identity. This measure would make findings concerning discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer individuals, and would call upon Congress and the President of the United States to pass legislation that expressly includes sexual orientation and gender identity in all federal antidiscrimination laws. Fiscal Committee: NO WHEREAS, The United States was founded as a democratic nation, and our country’s Declaration of Independence states that, “All men are created equal”; and WHEREAS, A central tenet of the law of the United States is the principle of equal protection and nondiscrimination under the law; and WHEREAS, This promise of equality can be fulfilled through actions by courageous individuals, organizations, and coalitions who choose to stand up for their rights and the rights of others; and WHEREAS, Through successful movements and hard fought struggles, current federal statutes protect against discrimination based on race, color, sex, national origin, disability, age, and religion, among other characteristics, under the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, the Family and Medical Leave Act, and the Fair Housing Act, among other federal laws; and WHEREAS, Sexual orientation and gender identity are not expressly listed in these federal antidiscrimination laws and, as a result, the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community faces difficulty in obtaining some of the most basic protections and benefits under the law; and WHEREAS, The Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects against discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, and religion, making it unlawful to terminate, refuse to hire, or otherwise discriminate with respect to the terms and conditions of employment, but does not expressly list sexual orientation or gender identity as protected characteristics; and WHEREAS, The Equal Credit Opportunity Act protects against discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, marital status, and age when deciding whether to grant a loan or to impose different terms and conditions of a loan, including higher interest rates or higher fees, but does not expressly list sexual orientation or gender identity among the protected characteristics; and WHEREAS, The Family and Medical Leave Act entitles eligible employees to take job-protected leave to care for an ailing spouse but does not expressly include domestic partners or members of civil unions; and WHEREAS, The Fair Housing Act prohibits discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of dwellings, and in other housing-related transactions, based on race, color, national origin, religion, sex, familial status, and disability, but does not expressly list sexual orientation or gender identity among the protected characteristics; and WHEREAS, While there have been recent gains in federal protections and temporary gains from executive orders, nothing can match the safeguards, symbolism, and promise of equality for all people like the inclusion of sexual orientation and gender identity alongside race, color, sex, national origin, religion, age, and disability in our country’s landmark federal antidiscrimination acts; and WHEREAS, As with any historical movement, it will take a broad coalition of individuals, allies, and organizations who believe in equality to advance this urgent call for justice; and WHEREAS, Together, this coalition can strive to eliminate discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity with the full force of official United States government policy and the full enforcement power of the federal government; now, therefore, be it Resolved by the Assembly and the Senate of the State of California, jointly, That the Legislature calls upon Congress and the President of the United States to pass legislation to expressly include sexual orientation and gender identity in all laws of the United States created to end discrimination in this country; and be it further Resolved, That the Chief Clerk of the Assembly transmit copies of this resolution to the President of the United States, to each Senator and Representative in the Congress of the United States, and to the presiding officer of each house of each state legislature of the several states.

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THE MASIA DINING-ROOMS We are in Alella,a wine-producing village located in the North of Barcelona. It is one of the smallest guarantees of origin and quality in Spain, and it is located in a mountainous region two kilometers away from the sea shore, approximately. Such privileged location gives the area a micro-climate that turns the spot into the perfect place to cultivate wine. While approaching this region, we can start seeing its vineyards and its “masias” (typical country cottages of Catalonia), like Mas Coll, in which we are right now. Before the XII century, very little is known of Mas Coll. The existence of a property was indeed known though. However, there is not written evidence of such a thing. Back in the XII century, the place was known as Mas Tronat, and it gathered lands, vineyards, knights, animals and peasants. It was actually one of the first properties in the area to produce wine, by following Alella´s wine-producing tradition. In the XV century, the house was named by today´s name, when it was acquired by the Coll family, who changed the property into a feudal House at that time. When we arrive in Mas Coll, we find two cypresses welcoming us (the Cypress was the tree that welcomed the people to the houses in the Mediterranean). We enter the House through its main gate, across sits ancient winter garden with its a hundred-year-old pine tree, and surrounded by white mulberry trees with a mountain view, where there used to be vineyards planted. We can see its watering hole, whose water ends in a subterranean tank that was used to water the irrigated lands. Looking up, we can stare at the main façade of the House. If we pay attention, we will remark that the House has gone through many changes (the first floor is built with Stone, the second floor with adobe and the third one with brick). From the typical one-sole floor country House with Windows, where the animals slept inside its ground floor and the people lived upstairs taking advantage of the animal´s heat, to the corrent State of the House, a feudal House, in which for fashionable reasons Windows were substituted by balconies, where we can see the owners´ faces sculpted in Stone as well as the protective and guardian angels. In 1776, the Coll family built some side constructions, like the chapel, the farmyard and the porch where meetings and parties were held, adapting this way to the life´s functionality an showing off during bonanza times. If we go into the house, we can observe that the lower part is totally made of Stone and of its three original parts, the kitchen (to the left hand side), one room that is believed that it was used to Store the farm tools (to the right hand side) and the wine cellar (to the end). The hall of the main entrance keeps its boudoir, one side board, one thresher, one peeling Machine for corn cobs and a bench where the brides used to put their trousseau. The kitchen keeps its fireplace and the pantry, with its marble sink. We can also see much “modern” iron and china cookers. We distinguish different kitchen tools, water and oil jugs, balances... as well as the old door that opened the oven. The room to the right hand side of the entrance, apart from the farm tools, it keeps a fountain whose painting dates back from the XVIII century, and that it is Connected to an old silo where the grain was stored. Moreover, in the restrooms, the remains of the wooden comuna re preserved. In the wine cellar, we could also imagine the wine making process. The grapes entered through the window and fell in the press. First of all, the grapes were stepped on, and the liquid (grape juice) ended up in three tanks. Secondly, it was pressed and to finish with, it was stored in barrels where the liquid was turned into a wine. Aside the House ( now closed to the public) we used to find the old chapel with the sacristy (this was a sign of wealth since not everybody used to have a chapel in this property). Going upstairs (its hand painted tiles date back from the XVIII century) to the second floor, our impressions hall change, because this floor was used for the family´s rooms. We can see several original carpets made with hand painted hydraulic mosaic´, some original paintings preserved after the House restoration. To finish with, the third floor, now closed to the public, was the floor where the “masovers” (the people that took care of the House keeping) used to live in. SEE PHOTOS>> 41st harvest festival The 41st Harvest Festival ahead of a week and will be held on 4, 5 and 6 September 2015 and the [...] STAMPS OF TRUST

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Terror, Islam, and Democracy MediArt Musings IranpoliticsTerror by Ladan and Roya Boroumand, Washington, D.C., Journal of Democracy 13.2 (2002) 5-20 "Why?" That is the question that people in the West have been asking ever since the terrible events of September 11. What are the attitudes, beliefs, and motives of the terrorists and the movement from which they sprang? What makes young men from Muslim countries willing, even eager, to turn themselves into suicide bombers? How did these men come to harbor such violent hatred of the West, and especially of the United States? What are the roots-moral, intellectual, political, and spiritual-of the murderous fanaticism we witnessed that day? As Western experts and commentators have wrestled with these questions, their intellectual disarray and bafflement in the face of radical Islamist (notice we do not say "Islamic") terrorism have become painfully clear. This is worrisome, for however necessary an armed response might seem in the near term, it is undeniable that a successful long-term strategy for battling Islamism and its terrorists will require a clearer understanding of who these foes are, what they think, and how they understand their own motives. For terrorism is first and foremost an ideological and moral challenge to liberal democracy. The sooner the defenders of democracy realize this and grasp its implications, the sooner democracy can prepare itself to win the long-simmering war of ideas and values that exploded into full fury last September 11. The puzzlement of liberal democracies in the face of Islamist terrorism seems odd. After all, since 1793, when the word "terror" first came into use in its modern political sense with the so-called Terror of the French Revolution, nearly every country in the West has had some experience with a terrorist movement or regime. Why then does such a phenomenon, which no less than liberal democracy itself is a product of the modern age, appear in this instance so opaque to Western analysts? Islamist terror first burst onto the world scene with the 1979 Iranian Revolution and the seizure of the U.S. embassy in Tehran in November of that year. Since then, Islamism has spread, and the ideological and political tools that have helped to curb terrorism throughout much of the West have proven mostly ineffective at stopping it. Its presence is global, and its influence is felt not only in the lands of the vast Islamic crescent that extends from Morocco and Nigeria in the west to Malaysia and Mindanao in the east but also in many corners of Europe, India, the former Soviet world, the Americas, and even parts of western China. Before the Iranian Revolution, terrorism was typically seen as a straightforward outgrowth of modern ideologies. Islamist terrorists, however, claim to fight on theological grounds: A few verses from the Koran and a few references to the sunna ("deeds of the Prophet") put an Islamic seal on each operation. The whole ideological fabric appears to be woven from appeals to tradition, ethnicity, and historical grievances both old and new, along with a powerful set of religious-sounding references to "infidels," "idolaters," "crusaders," "martyrs," "holy wars," "sacred soil," "enemies of Islam," "the party of God," and "the great Satan." But this religious vocabulary hides violent Islamism's true nature as a modern totalitarian challenge to both traditional Islam and modern democracy. If terrorism is truly as close to the core of Islamic belief as both the Islamists and many of their enemies claim, why does international Islamist terrorism date only to 1979? This question finds a powerful echo in the statements of the many eminent Islamic scholars and theologians who have consistently condemned the actions of the Islamist networks. This is not to say that Islamic jurisprudence and philosophy propound a democratic vision of society or easily accommodate the principles of democracy and human rights. But it does expose the fraudulence of the terrorists' references to Islamic precepts. There is in the history of Islam no precedent for the utterly unrestrained violence of al-Qaeda or the Hezbollah. Even the Shi'ite Ismaili sect known as the Assassins, though it used men who were ready to die to murder its enemies, never descended to anything like the random mass slaughter in which the Hezbollah, Osama bin Laden, and his minions glory.[1] To kill oneself while wantonly murdering women, children, and people of all religions and descriptions-let us not forget that Muslims too worked at the World Trade Center-has nothing to do with Islam, and one does not have to be a learned theologian to see this. The truth is that contemporary Islamist terror is an eminently modern practice thoroughly at odds with Islamic traditions and ethics.[2] A striking illustration of the tension between Islam and terrorism was offered by an exchange that took place between two Muslims in the French courtroom where Fouad Ali Saleh was being tried for his role in a wave of bombings that shook Paris in 1985-86. One of his victims, a man badly burned in one of these attacks, said to Saleh: "I am a practicing Muslim. . . . Did God tell you to bomb babies and pregnant women?" Saleh responded, "You are an Algerian. Remember what [the French] did to your fathers."[3] Challenged regarding the religious grounds of his actions, the terrorist replied not with Koranic verses but with secular nationalist grievances. The record of Saleh's trial makes fascinating reading. He was a Sunni Muslim, originally from Tunisia, who spent the early 1980s "studying" at Qom, the Shi'ite theological center in Iran. He received weapons training in Libya and Algeria, and got his explosives from the pro-Iranian militants of Hezbollah. In his defense, he invoked not only the Koran and the Ayatollah Khomeini but also Joan of Arc-who is, among other things, a heroine of the French far right-as an example of someone who "defended her country against the aggressor." After this he read out long passages from Revolt Against the Modern World by Julius Evola (1898-1974), an Italian author often cited by European extreme rightists. This strange ideological brew suggests the importance of exploring the intellectual roots of Islamist terrorism.[4] The Genealogy of Islamism The idea of a "pan-Islamic" 5 movement appeared in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries concomitantly with the rapid transformation of traditional Muslim polities into nation-states. The man who did more than any other to lend an Islamic cast to totalitarian ideology was an Egyptian schoolteacher named Hassan al-Banna (1906-49). Banna was not a theologian by training. Deeply influenced by Egyptian nationalism, he founded the Muslim Brotherhood in 1928 with the express goal of counteracting Western influences.[6] By the late 1930s, Nazi Germany had established contacts with revolutionary junior officers in the Egyptian army, including many who were close to the Muslim Brothers. Before long the Brothers, who had begun by pursuing charitable, associational, and cultural activities, also had a youth wing, a creed of unconditional loyalty to the leader, and a paramilitary organization whose slogan "action, obedience, silence" echoed the "believe, obey, fight" motto of the Italian Fascists. Banna's ideas were at odds with those of the traditional ulema (theologians), and he warned his followers as early as 1943 to expect "the severest opposition" from the traditional religious establishment.[7] From the Fascists-and behind them, from the European tradition of putatively "transformative" or "purifying" revolutionary violence that began with the Jacobins-Banna also borrowed the idea of heroic death as a political art form. Although few in the West may remember it today, it is difficult to overstate the degree to which the aestheticization of death, the glorification of armed force, the worship of martyrdom, and faith in "the propaganda of the deed" shaped the antiliberal ethos of both the far right and elements of the far left earlier in the twentieth century. Following Banna, today's Islamist militants embrace a terrorist cult of martyrdom that has more to do with Georges Sorel's Réflexions sur la violence than with anything in either Sunni or Shi'ite Islam.[8] After the Allied victory in World War II, Banna's assassination in early 1949, and the Egyptian Revolution of 1952-54, the Muslim Brothers found themselves facing the hostility of a secularizing military government and sharp ideological competition from Egyptian communists. Sayyid Qutb (1906-66), the Brothers' chief spokesman and also their liaison with the communists, framed an ideological response that would lay the groundwork for the Islamism of today. Qutb was a follower not only of Banna but of the Pakistani writer and activist Sayyid Abu'l-A'la Mawdudi (1903-79), who in 1941 founded the Jamaat-e-Islami-e-Pakistan (Pakistan Islamic Assembly), which remains an important political force in Pakistan, though it cannot claim notable electoral support.[9] Mawdudi's rejection of nationalism, which he had earlier embraced, led to his interest in the political role of Islam. He denounced all nationalism, labeling it as kufr (unbelief). Using Marxist terminology, he advocated a struggle by an Islamic "revolutionary vanguard" against both the West and traditional Islam, attaching the adjectives "Islamic" to such distinctively Western terms as "revolution," "state," and "ideology." Though strongly opposed by the Muslim religious authorities, his ideas influenced a whole generation of "modern" Islamists. Like both of his preceptors, Qutb lacked traditional theological training. A graduate of the state teacher's college, in 1948 he went to study education in the United States. Once an Egyptian nationalist, he joined the Muslim Brothers soon after returning home in 1950. Qutb's brand of Islamism was informed by his knowledge of both the Marxist and fascist critiques of modern capitalism and representative democracy.[10] He called for a monolithic state ruled by a single party of Islamic rebirth. Like Mawdudi and various Western totalitarians, he identified his own society (in his case, contemporary Muslim polities) as among the enemies that a virtuous, ideologically self-conscious, vanguard minority would have to fight by any means necessary, including violent revolution, so that a new and perfectly just society might arise. His ideal society was a classless one where the "selfish individual" of liberal democracies would be banished and the "exploitation of man by man" would be abolished. God alone would govern it through the implementation of Islamic law (shari'a). This was Leninism in Islamist dress. When the authoritarian regime of President Gamel Abdel Nasser suppressed the Muslim Brothers in 1954 (it would eventually get around to [End Page 8] hanging Qutb in 1966), many went into exile in Algeria, Saudi Arabia,[11] Iraq, Syria, and Morocco. From there, they spread their revolutionary Islamist ideas-including the organizational and ideological tools borrowed from European totalitarianism-by means of a network that reached into numerous religious schools and universities. Most young Islamist cadres today are the direct intellectual and spiritual heirs of the Qutbist wing of the Muslim Brotherhood. The Iranian Connection Banna and the Brotherhood advocated the creation of a solidarity network that would reach across the various schools of Islam.[12] Perhaps in part because of this ecumenism, we can detect the Brothers' influence as early as 1945 in Iran, the homeland of most of the world's Shi'ites. Returning home from Iraq that year, a young Iranian cleric named Navab Safavi started a terrorist group that assassinated a number of secular Iranian intellectuals and politicians. In 1953, Safavi visited Egypt at the Brothers' invitation and presumably met with Qutb. Although Safavi's group was crushed and he was executed after a failed attempt on the life of the prime minister in 1955, several of its former members would become prominent among those who lined up with the Ayatollah Khomeini (1900-89) to mastermind the Islamic Revolution of 1979. Khomeini himself first took a political stand in 1962, joining other ayatollahs to oppose the shah's plans for land reform and female suffrage. At this point, Khomeini was not a revolutionary but a traditionalist alarmed by modernization and anxious to defend the privileges of his clerical caste. When his followers staged an urban uprising in June 1963, he was arrested and subsequently exiled, first to Turkey, then to Iraq. The turning point came in 1970, when Khomeini, still in Iraq, became one of the very few Shi'ite religious authorities to switch from traditionalism to totalitarianism. Much like Mawdudi,[13] he called for a revolution to create an Islamic state, and inspired by Qutb, he condemned all non-theocratic regimes as idolatrous. His followers in Iran were active in Islamist cultural associations that spread, among others, the ideas of Qutb and Mawdudi. Qutb's ideology was used by Khomeini's students to recapture for the Islamist movement a whole generation influenced by the world's predominant revolutionary culture-Marxism-Leninism. Khomeini became a major figure in the history of Islamist terrorism because he was the first truly eminent religious figure to lend it his authority. For despite all its influence on the young, Islamism before the Iranian Revolution was a marginal heterodoxy. Qutb and Mawdudi were theological dabblers whom Sunni scholars had refuted and dismissed. Even the Muslim Brothers had officially rejected Qutb's ideas. As an established clerical scholar, Khomeini gave modern Islamist totalitarianism a religious respectability that it had sorely lacked. Once in power, the onetime opponent of land reform and women's suffrage became a "progressivist," launching a massive program of nationalization and expropriation and recruiting women for campaigns of revolutionary propaganda and mobilization. The Leninist characteristics of his rule-his policy of terror, his revolutionary tribunals and militias, his administrative purges, his cultural revolution, and his accommodating attitude toward the USSR-alienated the majority of his fellow clerics but also gained him the active support of the Moscow-aligned Iranian Communist Party, which from 1979 to 1983 put itself at the service of the new theocracy. Khomeini's revolution was not an exclusively Shi'ite phenomenon. Not accidentally, one of the first foreign visitors who showed up to congratulate him was the Sunni Islamist Mawdudi; before long, Qutb's face was on an Iranian postage stamp. Khomeini's successor, Ali Khamenei, translated Qutb into Persian.[14] Khomeini's own interest in creating an "Islamist International"-it would later be known by the hijacked Koranic term Hezbollah ("party of God")-was apparent as early as August 1979. The Islamist "Comintern" As these ties suggest, Islamism is a self-consciously pan-Muslim phenomenon. It is a waste of time and effort to try to distinguish Islamist terror groups from one another according to their alleged differences along a series of traditional religious, ethnic, or political divides (Shi'ite versus Sunni, Persian versus Arab, and so on). The reason is simple: in the eyes of the Islamist groups themselves, their common effort to strike at the West while seizing control of the Muslim world is immeasurably more important than whatever might be seen as "dividing" them from one another. The Lebanese-based, Iranian-supported Hezbollah is a case in point. Its Iranian founder was a hardcore Khomeini aide who drew his inspiration from a young Egyptian Islamist-an engineer by training, not a theologian-who was the first to politicize what had been a purely religious term. A closer look at the organization reveals the strong influence of Marxism-Leninism on the ideology of its founders and leadership. The group's current leader, Mohammad Hosein Fadlallah, influenced by Marx's and Nietzsche's theories on violence,[15] has openly advocated terrorist methods and tactical alliances with leftist organizations.[16] Hezbollah is a successful creation of the Islamist "Comintern." "We must," says Sheikh Fadlallah, "swear allegiance to the leader of the [Iranian] revolution and to the revolutionaries as to God himself," because "this revolution is the will of God."[17] One indication of the extent of this allegiance is the fact that all the negotiations over the fate of the hostages held in Lebanon ended up being carried out by Tehran. Similarly, the head of Iran's Revolutionary Guards boasted about having sponsored the attack against French and American peacekeeping forces in Lebanon.[18] Hezbollah's chief military [End Page 10] planner, Imad Mughaniyyah, is an Arab who operates from Iran. Western intelligence agencies suspect that Hezbollah has been working with bin Laden on international operations since the early 1990s.[19] Hezbollah's terrorist network in Lebanon contains both Shi'ite and Sunni groups, and there is also a Saudi Arabian wing that was involved in the Khobar Towers bombing, which killed 19 U.S. troops in 1996. Also inspired by the Iranian Revolution was the independent Sunni terrorist network that later became the basis of al-Qaeda. The Tehran regime began forming propaganda organs to sway opinion among Sunni religious authorities as early as 1982.[20] Among the supranational institutions created was the World Congress of Friday Sermons Imams, which at one time had a presence in no fewer than 40 countries. The overarching goal of these efforts has been to mobilize the "Islam of the people" against the "reactionary Islam of the establishment."[21] For a variety of reasons this network has remained loosely organized, but all of its branches spring from and are fed by the same ideological taproot. The influence of Iran's Islamist revolution was also cited by the members of Egyptian Islamic Jihad who gunned down President Anwar Sadat in October 1981. Their theoretician was an engineer, Abdessalam Faraj, who was also fond of quoting Qutb to justify terror.[22] The conspirators-including the junior army officers who did the actual shooting-were inspired by the Iranian model, and expected the death of Sadat to trigger a mass uprising that would replay in Cairo the same sort of events which had taken place two years earlier in Tehran[23] (where the Iranian authorities would subsequently name a street after Sadat's killer). Among those imprisoned in connection with the plot was a Cairo physician named Ayman al-Zawahiri. He became Egyptian Islamic Jihad's leader after serving his three-year prison term, met bin Laden in 1985, and then joined him in Sudan in the early 1990s. Zawahiri, who would become al-Qaeda's top operational planner, is reported to have said publicly that Osama is "the new Che Guevara."[24] The Islamization of the Palestinian question is also partly due to Khomeini's influence on the Palestinian branch of Islamic Jihad. Its founder was another physician, this one named Fathi Shqaqi. His 1979 encomium Khomeini: The Islamic Alternative was dedicated to both the Iranian ruler and Hassan al-Banna ("the two men of this century"). The first press run of 10,000 sold out in a few days.[25] Shqaqi, who was of course a Sunni, had nonetheless traveled to Tehran to share the Friday sermon podium with Ali Khameini, denouncing the Mideast peace process and accusing Yasser Arafat of treason.[26] Distorting Islam's History and Teachings As these examples show, such distinctions as may exist among these terrorist groups are overshadowed by their readiness to coalesce and collaborate according to a common set of ideological beliefs. These beliefs are properly called "Islamist" rather than "Islamic" because they are actually in conflict with Islam-a conflict that we must not allow to be obscured by the terrorists' habit of commandeering Islamic religious terminology and injecting it with their own distorted content. One illustration is the Islamists' interpretation of the hijra-Mohammed's journey, in September 622 C.E., from Mecca to Medina to found the first fully realized and autonomous Islamic community (umma). Despite a wealth of historical and doctrinal evidence to the contrary, half-educated Islamists insist on portraying this journey as a revolutionary rupture with existing society that licenses their desire to excommunicate contemporary Muslim societies in favor of their own radically utopian vision. The Islamic Republic of Iran also rests on heterodoxy, in this case Khomeini's novel and even idiosyncratic theory of the absolute power of the single, supreme Islamic jurisprudent (faqih). It was not a coincidence that one of the first uprisings against Khomeini's regime took place under the inspiration of a leading ayatollah, Shariat Madari.[27] Officials of the regime have admitted that most Iranian clerics have always taken a wary view of Khomeinism. It is important to realize that the religious references which Khomeini used to justify his rule were literally the same as those invoked a century earlier by an eminent ayatollah who was arguing for the legitimacy of parliamentarism and popular sovereignty on Islamic grounds.[28] Koranic verses lend themselves to many different and even contradictory interpretations. It is thus to something other than Islamic religious sources that we must look if we want to understand Islamism and the war that it wages on its own society, a war in which international terrorism is only one front. In a brief article on bin Laden's 1998 declaration of jihad against the United States, Bernard Lewis showed brilliantly how bin Laden travestied matters not only of fact (for instance, by labeling the invited U.S. military presence in Saudi Arabia a "crusader" invasion) but also of Islamic doctrine, by calling for the indiscriminate butchery of any and all U.S. citizens, wherever they can be found in the world. Reminding his readers that Islamic law (shari'a) holds jihad to be nothing but a regular war and subject to the rules that limit such conflicts, Lewis concluded, "At no point do the basic texts of Islam enjoin terrorism and murder. At no point do they even consider the random slaughter of uninvolved bystanders."[29] What gives force to the terrorist notion of jihad invented by the Iranians and later embraced by bin Laden is not its Koranic roots-there are none-but rather the brute success of terrorist acts. Bin Laden has spoken with particular admiration of the Iranian-sponsored suicide truck bombing that killed 241 U.S. Marines and others in Beirut on 23 October 1983, precipitating the U.S. withdrawal from Lebanon.[30] Bin Laden was also not the first to think of setting up training camps for international terrorists-the Tehran authorities were there before him.[31] A Friday sermon given in 1989 by one of these authorities, Ali-Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, then president of the Islamic Parliament, reveals better than any other the logic of Islamist terrorism. Attacking the existence of Israel as another front in the pervasive war of unbelief (kufr) against Islam, Rafsanjani added: If for each Palestinian killed today in Palestine five Americans, English, or French were executed, they would not commit such acts anymore. . . . [T]here are Americans everywhere in the world. . . . [They] protect Israel. Does their blood have any value? Scare them outside Palestine, so that they don't feel safe. . . . There are a hundred thousand Palestinians in a country. They are educated, and they work. . . . [T]he factories that serve the enemies of Palestine function thanks to the work of the Palestinians. Blow up the factory. Where you work, you can take action. . . . Let them call you terrorists. . . . They [the "imperialism of information and propaganda"] commit crimes and call it human rights. We call it the defense of rights and of an oppressed people. . . . They will say the president of the Parliament officially incites to terror. . . . [L]et them say it.[32] There is no reference here to religion; Rafsanjani's appeal is purely political. The West's offense he calls human rights; against it he urges Muslims to wield terror as the best weapon for defending the rights of an oppressed people. Rafsanjani, moreover, proudly commends "terror" by name, using the English word and not a Persian or Arabic equivalent. Thus he employs the very term that Lenin had borrowed from la Terreur of the French Revolution. The line from the guillotine and the Cheka to the suicide bomber is clear. With this in mind, let us look for a moment at the French Revolution, where the modern concept of political terror was invented, to find the explanation that the Islamic tradition cannot give. When it announced its policy of terror in September 1793, the "virtuous minority" which then ran the revolutionary government of France was declaring war on its own society. At the heart of this war was a clash between two understandings of "the people" in whose name this government claimed to rule. One was a group of 25 million actually existing individuals, each endowed with inherent rights. The other was an essentially ideological construct, an abstraction, an indivisible and mystical body, its power absolute. The Terror of the French Revolution was neither a mistake nor an unfortunate accident; it was meant to purify this mystical body of what the terrorist elite regarded as corrupting influences, among which they numbered the notion that individual human beings had unalienable rights.[33] The spokesmen of the Islamist revolution echo the terrorists of Jacobin France. The denigration of human rights marks the spot where the internal war on Muslim society meets the terrorist war against the West. Suffice it to hear bin Laden's comments on the destruction of the World Trade Center: "Those awesome symbolic towers that speak of liberty, human rights, and humanity have been destroyed. They have gone up in smoke."[34] Every Islamist terror campaign against Westerners during the last 20 years has had as its cognate an Islamist effort to tyrannize over a Muslim population somewhere in the world. Think of the ordeal to which the Taliban and al-Qaeda subjected the people of Aghanistan, or of what ordinary Algerians suffered during the savage Islamist civil wars of the 1990s. Or think of the state terror that daily labors to strangle any hope for recognition of human rights in Iran. To explore fully this correlation between terror against the West and tyranny against Muslims would take a separate essay. Yet we can get an idea of its nature by considering the first instance of Islamist terrorism against the United States, the 1979 hostage-taking in Tehran. Holding Democracy Hostage to Terror As they released the hostages in January 1981, the Tehran authorities crowed over their victory, which Prime Minster Mohammad Ali Rajai called "the greatest political gain in the social history of the world" and an act that "had forced the greatest satanic power to its knees." At first glance this claim might seem foolish, for the United States had said no to the revolutionary government's demands to hand over the shah and unfreeze Iranian assets. But a closer look shows that the Iranian Islamists had in fact scored a big political and ideological victory over both the United States and their domestic opponents, and thus had ample cause for jubilation. The seizure of the U.S. embassy took place at a time when Khomeini and his allies had not yet consolidated their tyrannical regime. An Assembly of Experts was drafting the constitution of the Islamic Republic. Opposition was gaining strength daily in religious as well as in moderate secular circles. The Marxist-Leninist left, angered by a ban on its press, was growing restive. Open rebellions were breaking out in sensitive border regions populated by ethnic Kurds and Azeris. By sending in its cadres of radical students to take over the U.S. embassy and hold its staff hostage, the regime cut through the Gordian knot of these challenges at a single blow and even put itself in a position to ram through its widely criticized Constitution. Rafsanjani's assessment of what the act meant is instructive: In the first months of the revolution, the Washington White House decided in favor of a coup d'état in Iran. The idea was to infiltrate Iranian groups and launch a movement to annihilate the revolution. But the occupation of the embassy and the people's assault against the U.S.A. neutralized this plan, pushing the U.S. into a defensive stand.[35] One could describe this version of the facts as a parody: the U.S. government in 1979 clearly had neither the will nor the ability to stage a coup against the Islamic Republic. But totalitarians typically speak an esoteric language of their own devising. Those who administered the Terror in revolutionary France painted some of their country's best-known republicans with the label "monarchist" before sending them off to be guillotined. The Bolsheviks called striking workers and the sailors of Kronstadt "bandits" and "counterrevolutionaries" before slaughtering them. In 1979, promoting human rights was a prominent aspect of how the United States described its foreign policy. By Rafsanjani's logic, therefore, any Iranian group that spoke of human rights was thereby revealing itself as a tool of the United States. And indeed, as muddled negotiations over the hostages dragged on, the administration of President Jimmy Carter dropped any talk of supporting democracy in Iran[36] -the very cause for which Carter had taken the risk of ending U.S. support for the shah. Meanwhile, the revolutionary regime began using the Stalinist tactic of claiming that anyone who spoke in favor of a more representative government was really a U.S. agent.[37] With the hostage crisis, the Islamist regime was able to make anti-Americanism such a leading theme that Iranian Marxists rallied to its support, while Moscow extended its tacit protection to the new theocracy. After the failure of the U.S. military's "Desert One" rescue attempt on 25 April 1980 and eight more months of negotiations, the United States at last succeeded in obtaining the release of the hostages. To do so, it had to agree to recognize the legitimacy of the Iranian revolutionary regime, and it had to promise not to file any complaints against Iran before international authorities, despite the gross violations of human rights and international law that had occurred. Though these concessions may have appeared necessary at the time, in retrospect we can see that they emboldened the Islamists to sink to new levels of hatred and contempt for the West and its talk of human rights. For had not the revolutionary students and clerics in Tehran forced the Great Satan to abandon its principles and brought it to its knees? The terrorists accurately assessed the extent of their victory and drew conclusions from it. They used terror to achieve their goal, and upon the continued use of terror their survival depends. "[America] is on the defensive. If tomorrow it feels safe, then it will think to implement its imperialistic projects."[38] Among these projects are human rights, which a representative of the Islamic Republic denounced before the UN Human Rights Committee as an "imperialist myth."[39] From the taking of the hostages in Tehran in 1979 until the terrorist attacks of last September, Western policy makers too often implicitly downgraded the claims of justice and shirked their duty both to their own citizens and to the cause of human rights by refusing to pursue the terrorists with any real determination. Considerations of "pragmatism" and "prudence" were put forward to justify a sellout of justice which, in one of the cruelest ironies revealed by the harsh light of September 11, proved not to have been prudent at all. Since the impunity granted to the hostage-takers of Tehran, terrorist outrages have increased both in frequency and in scale. In addition to all the questions raised about security measures, intelligence failures, accountability in foreign-policy decision making, and the like, the atrocity of September 11 also forces citizens of democratic countries to ask themselves how strongly they are committed to democratic values. Their enemies may believe in a chimera, but it is one for which they have shown themselves all too ready to die. In the mirror of the terrorists' sacrifice, the citizens of the free world are called to examine their consciences; they must reevaluate the nature of their loyalty to fragile and imperfect democracy. In particular, the strongly solidaristic networks that the Islamist totalitarians have created should make citizens in democratic societies ask how much they and their governments have done to help prodemocracy activists who have been persecuted for years in Iran, in Algeria, in Afghanistan, in Sudan, and elsewhere. Unarmed, they stand on the front lines of the struggle against terror and tyranny, and they deserve support. Here is a moral, political, and even philosophical challenge upon which the minds and hearts of the West should focus. Whither the Muslim World? Islamist terror poses a different but no less grave problem for those of us (including the authors of this essay) who come from Islamic countries, and it carries a special challenge for Muslim intellectuals. Public opinion in the Muslim world has largely-if perhaps too quietly-condemned the massacres of September 11. In Iran, young people poured spontaneously into the streets, braving arrest and police violence in order to hold candlelight vigils for the victims. But there were also outbursts of celebration in some Muslim countries, and sizeable anti-American demonstrations in Pakistan. Perhaps more disturbing still have been the persistent and widespread rumors going around Muslim societies that somehow an Israeli conspiracy was behind the attack. The force and pervasiveness of this rumor are symptoms of a collective flight from an uncontrollable reality. It is true that the Palestinian question is a painful and complicated one that requires an equitable solution. But it is equally true that reaching for foreign conspiracies has become an easy way of evading responsibility for too many of us from Muslim countries. For the last several centuries, the Islamic world has been undergoing a traumatizing encounter with the West. Since this encounter began, our history has been a story of irreversible modernization, but also of utter domination on the one side, and humiliation and resentment on the other. To Muslim minds the West and its ways have become a powerful myth-evil, impenetrable, and incomprehensible. Whatever the Western world's unfairness toward Muslims, it remains true that Western scholars have at least made the effort to learn about and understand the Islamic world. But sadly, the great and brilliant works of the West's "Orientalists" have found no echo in a Muslim school of "Occidentalism." We have been lacking the ability or the will to open up to others. We have opted for an easy solution, that of disguising in the clothes of Islam imported Western intellectual categories and concepts. In doing so we have not only failed to grasp the opportunity to understand the West, we have also lost the keys to our own culture. Otherwise, how could a degenerate Leninism aspire today to pass itself off as the true expression of a great monotheistic religion? The Islamists see themselves as bold warriors against modernity and the West, but in fact it is they who have imported and then dressed up in Islamic-sounding verbiage some of the most dubious ideas that ever came out of the modern West, ideas which now-after much death and suffering-the West itself has generally rejected. Had we not become so alien to our own cultural heritage, our theologians and intellectuals might have done a better job of exposing the antinomy between what the Islamists say and what Islam actually teaches. They might have more effectively undercut the terrorists' claim to be the exclusive and immediate representatives of God on earth, even while they preach a doctrine that does nothing but restore human sacrifice, as if God had never sent the angel to stop Abraham from slaying his son. Our incapacity to apprehend reality lies at the root of our paranoia. If we were to take a clear and careful look at the West, we would see that it draws its strength from its capacity for introspection and its intransigent self-criticism. We would know that Western culture has never stopped calling on us, on the figure of the stranger, to help it understand itself and fight its vices. When it could not find the other, it invented it: Thomas More imagined a faraway island called Utopia to mirror the social problems of his time; Michel de Montaigne couched his criticisms of French politics in the form of a conversation with an Indian chief from Brazil; and Montesquieu invented letters from a Persian tourist to denounce the vices of Europe. Had we had our own eminent experts on Western civilization, we might know that the West is a diverse, plural, and complex entity. Its political culture has produced horrors but also institutions that protect human dignity. One of these horrors was the imperialism imposed on Muslim and other lands, but even that did as much harm to the Europeans themselves as it did to us, as anyone familiar with the casualty figures from the First World War will know. Our experts might have helped us understand that Qutb and Khomeini's denunciations of human rights were remarkably similar to Pope Pius VI's denunciation of the French Declaration of the Rights of Man of 1789. We might have grasped that, not long ago, Westerners faced the same obstacles that we face today on the road to democracy. Citizens in the West fought for their freedoms; in this fight they lost neither their souls nor their religion. We too must roll up our sleeves to fight for freedom, remembering that we are first and foremost free and responsible human beings whom God has endowed with dignity. [Ladan Boroumand, a former visiting fellow at the International Forum for Democratic Studies, is a historian from Iran with a doctorate from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. She is the author of La Guerre des principes (1999), an extensive study of the tensions throughout the French Revolution between the rights of man and the sovereignty of the nation. Her sister, Roya Boroumand, a historian from Iran with a doctorate from the Sorbonne, is a specialist in Iran's contemporary history and has been a consultant for Human Rights Watch. They are working on a study of the Iranian Revolution.] [We would like to thank Hormoz Hekmat for his useful comments and critiques and Laith Kubba for providing some useful information.] Bernard Lewis, The Assassins: A Radical Sect in Islam (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987), 133-34. On the heterodoxy of the Islamists' references to Muslim jurisprudent Ibn Taymiyya (1263-1328), see Olivier Carré, Mystique et politique: Lecture révolutionnaire du Coran par Sayyid Qutb, Fr'ere musulman radical (Paris: Cerf, 1984), 16-17. On Ibn Taymiyya's theology and life, see Henri Laoust, Pluralisme dans l'Islam (Paris: Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner, 1983). This account of the Saleh case is based on reports in Le Monde (Paris), 8 and 10 April 1992. For an overview of the career of Islamist terror networks, see Xavier Raufer, La Nebuleuse: Le terrorisme du Moyen-Orient (Paris: Fayard, 1987); Roland Jacquard, Au nom d'Oussama Ben Laden: Dossier secret sur le terroriste le plus recherché du monde (Paris: Jean Picollec, 2001); Yossef Bodansky, Bin Laden: The Man Who Declared War on America (Rocklin, Calif.: Prima, 1999); Gilles Kepel, Jihad: Expansion et déclin de l'islamisme (Paris: Gallimard, 2000); and Yonah Alexander and Michael S. Swetnam, Usama Bin Laden's al-Qaida: Profile of a Terrorist Network (New York: Transnational Publishers, 2001). To confront Western colonialism, Muslim intellectuals and religious scholars such as Sayyid Jamal al-Din 'al-Afghani of Iran and Muhammad Abduh of Egypt concluded that a reformation and a new interpretation of Islam were needed in Muslim societies. The reforms that they advocated were aimed at reconciling Islam and modernity. They sought to promote individual freedom, social justice, and political liberalism. After the First World War, however, this movement was succeeded by one that was hostile to political liberalism. On Afghani, see Nikki K. Keddie, An Islamic Response to Imperialism: Political and Religious Writings of Sayyid Jamal al-Din 'al-Afghani (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983). On Abduh, see Yvonne Haddad, "Muhammad Abduh: Pioneer of Islamic Reform," in Ali Rahnema, ed., Pioneers of Islamic Revival (London: Zed, 1994), 31-63. This section draws on David Dean Commins, "Hassan al-Banna (1906-49)," in Ali Rahnema, ed., Pioneers of Islamic Revival, 146-47; as well as Richard P. Mitchell, The Society of the Muslim Brothers (London: Oxford University Press, 1969). See also Gilles Kepel, Muslim Extremism in Egypt (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993). Richard P. Mitchell, The Society of the Muslim Brothers, 29. The widespread but mistaken impression that a Shi'ite cult of martyrdom serves as a religious inspiration for suicide attacks is one of the illusions about themselves that the terrorists skillfully cultivate. It is true that Shi'ites revere Hussein (d. 680 C.E.), the third Imam and a grandson of the Prophet, as a holy martyr. Yet Shi'ite teaching also enjoins the avoidance of martyrdom, even recommending taqieh ("hiding one's faith") as a way of saving one's life from murderous persecutors. Moreover, Sunnis are not noted for devotion to Hussein, and yet when it comes to suicide attacks, there is little difference between the Sunnis of al-Qaeda and the mostly Shi'ite cadres of Hezbollah. There are striking similarities between the Islamist justification for violence and martyrdom and the discourse of German and Italian Marxist terrorists from the 1970s. On this subject see Philippe Raynaud, "Les origins intellectuelles du terrorisme," in François Furet et al., eds., Terrorisme et démocratie (Paris: Fayard, 1985), 65ff. On Mawdudi, see Seyyed Vali Reza Nasr, The Vanguard of the Islamic Revolution: The Jama'at-i Islami of Pakistan (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994); and Seyyed Vali Reza Nasr, Mawdudi and the Making of Islamic Revivalism (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996). Olivier Carré, Mystique et politique, 206-7. Muhammad Qutb, Sayyid Qutb's brother, was among the Muslim Brothers who were welcomed in Saudi Arabia. He was allowed to supervise the publication and distribution of his brother's works, and became ideologically influential in his own right: the official justification for the Saudi penal code uses his definition of secular and liberal societies as a "new era of ignorance." Exiled Muslim Brothers became influential in Saudi Arabia. Wahabism, the intolerant and fanatical brand of Islam that prevails in Saudi Arabia, was not in its origins a modern totalitarian ideology, but it provides fertile ground for the dissemination of terrorist ideology and facilitates the attraction of young Saudis to terrorist groups. See Olivier Carré, L'utopie islamique dans l'Orient arabe (Paris: Presses de la Fondation Nationale des Sciences politiques, 1991), 112-14; and Gilles Kepel, Jihad, 72-75. Banna's followers recalled that he often said, "Each of the four schools [of Islam] is respectable," and urged, "Let us cooperate in those things on which we can agree and be lenient in those on which we cannot." Richard P. Mitchell, The Society of the Muslim Brothers, 217. Mawdudi, The Process of Islamic Revolution (Lahore, 1955). See Baqer Moin, Khomeini: Life of the Ayatollah (London: I.B. Tauris, 1999), 246. Cited in Olivier Carré, L'utopie islamique dans l'Orient arabe, 197. Cited in Olivier Carré, L'utopie islamique dans l'Orient arabe, 231-32. Olivier Carré, L'utopie islamique dans l'Orient arabe, 232. The then-head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, Mohsen Rafiqdoust, said that "both the TNT and the ideology which in one blast sent to hell 400 officers, NCOs, and soldiers at the Marine headquarters have been provided by Iran." Resalat (Tehran), 20 July 1987. On 22 March 1998, the Times of London reported that bin Laden and the Iranian Revolutionary Guards had signed a pact the previous February 16 to consolidate their operations in Albania and Kosovo. Roland Jacquard adds that in September 1999, the Turkish intelligence services learned of an Islamist group financed by bin Laden in the Iranian city of Tabriz. See Roland Jacquard, Au nom d'Oussama Ben Laden, 287-88. The first conference on the unification of Islamist movements was organized under Iranian auspices in January 1982. See the speeches of Khamenei and Mohammad Khatami (who is now the elected president of the Islamic Republic) in Etela'at (Tehran), 9 January 1982. Xavier Rauffer, La Nebuleuse, 175. Charles Tripp, "Sayyid Qutb: The Political Vision," in Ali Rahnema, ed., Pioneers of Islamic Revival, 178-79. Gilles Kepel, Jihad, 122-23. Roland Jacquard, Au nom d'Oussama Ben Laden, 76. Gilles Kepel, Jihad, 187 and 579. 2As reported in Jomhouri-e Islami (Tehran), 5 March 1994 (14 esfand 1372), 14 and 2. Reported in the daily Khalq-e Mosalman, 4 and 9 December 1979. M.H. Naïni, Tanbih al-Omma va Tanzih al-mella 5th ed. (Tehran, 1979), 75-85. Bernard Lewis, "License to Kill: Usama bin Ladin's Declaration of Jihad," Foreign Affairs 77 (November-December 1998): 19. Bin Laden's declaration of jihad mentions Ibn Taymiyya's authority and yet clearly contradicts the latter's ideas on jihad. Ibn Taymiyya explicitly forbids the murder of civilians and submits jihad to strict rules and regulations. See Henri Laoust, Le traité de droit public d'Ibn Taimiya (annotated translation of Siyasa shar'iya) (Beirut, 1948), 122-35. See "Declaration of war against the Americans occupying the land of the two holy places: A Message from Usama Bin Muhammad bin Laden unto his Muslim Brethren all over the world generally and in the Arab Peninsula specifically" (23 August 1996), in Yonah Alexander and Michael S. Swetnam, Usama Bin Laden's al-Qaida, 13. In 1989, the vice-president of Parliament, Hojatol-Eslam Karoubi, proposed the creation of training camps for the "anti-imperialist struggle in the region." Quoted in the daily Jomhouri-e Eslami (Tehran), 7 May 1989, 9. 3omhouri-e Eslami (Tehran), 7 May 1989, 11. 3In this connection, it is worth noting that after the end of the Terror, the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen was not officially restored to constitutional status in France until 1946. Howard Kurtz, "Interview Sheds Light on Bin Laden's Views," Washington Post, 7 February 2002, A12. Bin Laden gave this interview to Tayseer Alouni of the Arabic-language satellite television network al-Jazeera in October 2001. Ali-Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Enqelabe va defa'e Moqadass (Revolution and its sacred defense) (Tehran: Press of the Foundation of 15 Khordad, 1989), 63-64. Russell Leigh Moses, Freeing the Hostages: Reexamining U.S.-Iranian Negotiations and Soviet Policy, 1979-1981 (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996), 174-75. In an interview that ran in the Tehran daily Jomhouri-e Eslami on 4 November 1981 to mark the second anniversary of the embassy seizure, student-radical leader Musavi Khoeiniha remarked that the neutralization of Iranian liberals and democrats was the hostage-taking's most important result. Ali-Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Enqelabe va defa'e Moqadass, 64. Amnesty International Newsletter, September 1982. The representative was Hadi Khosroshahi, another translator of Sayyid Qutb.

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by Pr3m1eR | September 3, 2019 · 10:07 am ” Chile, the early 1970s. A violent far-right nationalist group is looking to overthrow Allende’s government. Amid the fervour of crime and conspiracy, group members Inés, her husband Justo and their best friend Gerardo pull off a political crime that changes the course of history. The shadow of betrayal kept them apart for 40 years until Gerardo decides to jumpstart the nationalist cause of his youth. Now, Inés is powerful businesswoman with a reputation to protect. As the police monitor Gerardo and his growing home arsenal, she will do whatever it takes to keep him from revealing her dangerous political and sexual past.” The scenario of Andres Wood’s latest film ‘Araña’ (Spider) for 20th Century Fox Chile. It’s our third collaboration (Machuca 2004, The Good Life, 2008) and this time, Andres asked me to be Creative Consultant. The premier international screening of Araña is at the Toronto festival (TIFF) on 6 September and its European premiere at the the San Sebastian festival on 24 September. Sorry I cannot be there to see it but I wish Andres all the best of luck for for the film in the “Latin Horizons’ competition. Mamoun Hassan Read more on the Variety website: https://variety.com/2019/film/festivals/san-sebastian-horizontes-latinos-the-moneychanger-spider-chicuarotes-1203293556/ Filed under News, Production Tagged as Andres Wood, Arãna, La Buena Vida, Machuca, Mamoun, Mamoun Hassan, Movie Masterclass, San Sebastian Festival, spider, TIFF, Toronto, Toronto festival by Pr3m1eR | July 31, 2019 · 11:28 pm Following Mamoun’s introduction to Babylon in Calgary, he was invited to introduce it again at the BFI Southbank in London this July, as part of a coordinated series of events linked to ‘Get Up, Stand Up Now’ at Somerset House in London, which also included an event at the Jazz Cafe featuring a musical reworking of music from the film by members of the original cast/band. Mamoun was initially reluctant to revisit the film so soon, but chose, instead, to change his normal rule of not quoting or directly commenting on the impact of a film, as his own revisit to Babylon had been so powerful. We urge you to make your own voyage of discovery. Filmed by Sherief Hassan Edited by Sherief Hassan Babylon can be purchased on Amazon in the UK here, and on Amazon international/US here. Anyone wanting to own a restored Blu-ray copy, should follow the International/US link. Tagged as Arts and Entertainment, aswad, babylon, babylon movie, BFI Southbank, brinsley forde, british cinema, British Film Institute, Franco Rosso, Mamoun Hassan, Masterclass, Movie Masterclass, NFFC by Pr3m1eR | June 14, 2019 · 11:52 pm During a visit to family in Alberta, Canada, Mamoun’s elder son, Sherief, in England sent the barely credible news that Babylon was to be screened in Calgary as part of the Riddim West reggae festival. The last and only time the film had been shown in Canada was at the Toronto Film Festival in 1980. Anies, Mamoun’s younger son, contacted the reggae festival’s organiser, Leo Cripps, and mentioned Mamoun’s connection with Babylon. Leo graciously invited Mamoun to introduce the film. Filmed by Anies Hassan and Eric Giesbrecht Edited by Anies Hassan Tagged as aswad, babylon, babylon movie, brinsley forde, calgary, calgary reggaefest, Franco Rosso, Mamoun Hassan, Masterclass, Movie Masterclass, NFFC, reggaefest by Pr3m1eR | June 2, 2019 · 5:56 pm Babylon at 40 – Restored and Reborn in the USA A brand new forty year-old British film, Franco Rosso’s Babylon, has been released in the USA to startling reviews. The film’s subject is black youths in south London, fun and fight jostle – its theme racism, its attitude defiant, its voice Reggae. The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 1980, and received very good notices back home. It played well, but some exhibitors feared its reception might be too exuberant – and demurred. The film’s importance was underlined when Lord Scarman, who led an inquiry into the Brixton Riots of 1981 which took place in the very streets seen in the film, asked specifically to see Babylon. Its authenticity and veracity made it a historical document. It was initially invited to the 1980 New York Film Festival but then was quickly banned for fear it would exacerbate racial tension. A very good film is always new, but what adds relevance to Babylon in 2019 is the furore around Green Book and BlacKkKlansman. The embers of resentment have been rekindled about who owns the stories of black life. The history of the making of Babylon may add another dimension. It was mainly financed by public money, by the UK’s National Film Finance Corporation (NFFC). In January 1979, I had just been appointed managing director. At my first Board meeting I proposed funding Babylon; my chairman, banker Geoffrey Williams, later said that Babylon was a multiple risk: a difficult and unfamiliar subject, a first-time director and a commitment of over eighty per cent of the budget as against the accustomed thirty per cent. I had no reservations. The NFFC was formed in 1950 and part-financed 500 features in its first ten years. By the late 1970s the corporation was hard hit by cuts, and the stream of films were reduced to a trickle of two or three features a year. Every decision became significant, every game a Cup Final. Worse was to come. Within months of my joining, the Labour government was ousted and the Tories took over. The incoming Tory films minister, Norman Tebbit, (now The Lord Tebbit CH PC) decided that £1.5m per annum, funded via a box office tax, should suffice – £1.5m a year for a population of 60m, that is 2.5p per person. What mattered to all governments was television. My friend and teacher, the film and theatre director Lindsay Anderson, used to say that, on cinema, the English were philistines. My chairman, Geoffrey Williams, while at a prestigious public (English patois for ‘private’) school, was discouraged from visiting the local cinema because that was ‘where one picked up communicable diseases’. Geoffrey, an inveterate cinemagoer, ignored the ruling and looked in rude health to me. The writers of Babylon, Martin Stellman and Franco Rosso, did not originally have a director or a producer attached to the project. Martin was a former student at the National Film School, where I had been Head of Directing. I knew something of the script’s history – that it had been developed by the BBC, who had passed on it, as had the British Film Institute Production Board under Peter Sainsbury, where I had been head of production previously and, ironically, where the last film the Board had backed just before I left, was Pressure (1976) the first British black feature, written and directed by Horace Ove. The central figure of Pressure is a first-generation young black Brit, who does not fully belong in either the black or the white community. This is not the war zone of Babylon but a place where racism hides behind the everyday and is expressed through exclusion or diminution in all the areas that create communality and community: housing, education and jobs. Ironically – and optimistically – it is a white teenage girl who expresses her outrage of white racism. But there is police violence, possibly rogue: ‘The law is not concerned with you and your lot,’ says a plain-clothes officer during a brutal police raid of a legitimate political gathering. Horace Ove said afterwards that his next film would not be a black film but a film. Ghettos come in all colours, shapes and sizes. The Board also backed the first feature about the Asian community, A Private Enterprise (1975), directed by Peter K Smith and co-written with Dilip Hiro. Set in the Midlands, it was neorealist in style and remarkable in its breadth, touching on the lives of a young entrepreneur who wants to fit in, strikers at a white-owned factory, a conservative older generation, nouveaux riches whose lives centre on shopping in Harrods, and semi-detached white liberals. I never backed a film solely because of its ethnicity; it is others who did not back a film because of its ethnicity. Franco and Martin were inclined to ask Stephen Frears to direct. I admired Stephen’s work, but I thought he would be a foreign correspondent. I proposed that either Franco or Martin should direct. It became Franco’s first feature. Franco and Martin knew the subject intimately. Franco, a documentary editor, was born in Turin, came to Britain when he was eight and lived in South London, where Babylon takes place. In fact, young black men played Reggae and their sound systems at the bottom of his garden and annoyingly kept his children awake at two and three in the morning. Martin, the son of Jewish immigrants, was screenwriter on Franc Roddam’s Quadrophenia (1979), and had worked as a youth and community worker in the area. Chris Menges (later Oscar winner for The Killing Fields and The Mission, and who had, memorably, shot Ken Loach’s Kes,) joined as cinematographer and Gavrik Losey, son of Joseph Losey, as producer. Through determination and ingenuity, Gavrik found the balance of the budget. The composer was the legendary Dennis Bovell, the lead Brinsley Forde, actor and founder of the Reggae band Aswad, and all the main actors, bar one, came from the black community. They did not act; they embodied their roles. Italian neo-Realism was a conscious reference for Franco – and the cast had escaped conventional training. The film was unusually physical for the time and for an English film. The days of white western hauteur, sense of superiority and entitlement to speak with authority about and on behalf of just about everybody else are coming to an end. But the situation is not clear-cut. There was controversy in the sixties when the Free Cinema middle-class directors (Tony Richardson, Karel Reisz, Lindsay Anderson) made films about working-class subjects: A Taste of Honey, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, This Sporting Life and The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner. The screenwriters, however, were all working-class, at the top of their game: Shelagh Delaney, Alan Sillitoe and David Storey. Collaboration was key. Or take Algerian public investment in The Battle of Algiers (1966). This account of epic struggle and the creation of a nation was directed by Gillo Pontecorvo and co-written with Franco Solinas, both Italians. India, too, backed an outsider to tell the story of one of its founders: Richard Attenborough’s Gandhi, was part funded by the Indian Film Development Corporation. Also, significantly, Jack Lang, France’s minister of culture, approved Andrzej Wajda, the great Polish director, to direct Danton, a historical figure and the voice of the French Revolution. Creatively, the line should not be drawn between the outsider’s or the insider’s view – the line should be blurred or even fractured so as to surprise and illuminate. The watchword is authenticity – difficult to define but easier to recognise. After Tebbit became our boss at the NFFC, we sat on our hands while we waited for him to decide what to do with us. When government, any government, announces a review, the outcome is either ‘deep-sea diving boots’ or ‘the blindfolds’. In the interim, Tebbit appointed two new members to the Board. I was curious as to how he would react to the NFFC’s exceptional support of Babylon, which had been backed when Labour was in office a few months earlier. I did not have to wait long. I was summoned to meet a panjandrum from the elite of the civil service to learn our fate. We met in his office in a Georgian terrace house. The room had a high ceiling, tall doors, long windows and pale green wallpaper. It was more an eighteenth century salon than an office. He was courteous, offered me coffee and asked a few questions. Then he got down to business. It was to be the ‘diving boots’, to slow us down. Our budget would be cut. (I did wonder whether they wanted us to fail so that they could close the shop. If that was the aim, we were not cooperative – an NFFC-backed film participated at the Cannes Festival every year I was there and the Corporation put up 60% of the budget of £200,000 for Gregory’ Girl, which, it is reported, has grossed £25 million.) As I put my hand on the door handle to leave, he piped up behind me: ‘Mr Hassan, I take it you are going to back radical films and the like.’ Maybe he was thinking of Babylon. Or the films I had backed at the BFI. ‘Shouldn’t I?’ I asked. ‘Did I say you shouldn’t?’ he said. ‘No, you didn’t. I’ll remember that,’ I said. I went back to my office and prepared for a siege. The next two films were David Gladwell’s adaptation of Doris Lessing’s novel Memoirs of a Survivor, scripted by Kerry Crabbe, and Bill Forsyth’s Gregory’s Girl. I did not see Babylon as a stand-alone film. Together, all three films were about young people in a changing world: hostile in one, shattered in another, and the last apparently normal but actually heralding a new era.. ‘Gregory’s girl’ might be Dorothy the girl footballer, Gregory’s ideal, but two others also make a claim Gregory’s young sister, Madeline, and Susan, the girl who (quite literally) brings him down to earth. The three girls are the dynamic centre. Artists see today but also see tomorrow coming. The National film Finance Corporation was closed down in 1985, to be replaced, sequentially, by British Screen, The Films Council and The British Film Institute… Copyright©Mamoun Hassan, June 2019 Filed under New articles, News, News - Masterclasses, Production Tagged as babylon, babylon movie, brinsley ford, Chris Menges, Dennis Bovell, Franco Rosso, Gavrik Losey, Martin Stellman, National Film Finance Corporation, NFFC by Pr3m1eR | · 5:26 pm Landmark British films at the BFI Southbank – 19 July 2019 The release of Franco Rosso’s Babylon in the US earlier this year triggered a series of memories for me of cinema in the UK in the 80s. The film received rave review in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Rolling Stone, The LA Times and elsewhere. They spoke of it not only as a piece of compelling entertainment but also as a social and political document, as relevant today as it was four decades ago. British reviewers and critics have chosen to ignore the phenomenon. For a time now, the term ‘social realism’ as applied to British cinema has been one of dismissal or even contempt. It was just about OK if you added a prefix of ‘poetic’ or ‘neo’ before ‘realism’ – or, of course, if the film was foreign. We seem too caught up with stories of murderous psychotics and their multi-various and exotic ways of slaughter, and endless series of the lives of our dysfunctional Royals Through The Ages. Meanwhile Babylon and much else is falling apart.… The British Film Institute Southbank is screening: Dir Horace Ove Friday 19 July 2019 18.10 NFT3 GA Intro by Dr Elizabeth M Wiliams Dir Franco Rosso Intro from Filmmaker Mamoun Hassan Filed under Lecturing, News Tagged as babylon, BFI, british cinema, Franco Rosso, horace ove, Mamoun Hassan, Masterclass, Movie Masterclass, NFT, Pressure, Pressure movie by Pr3m1eR | May 17, 2019 · 4:51 pm Introduction to ‘The Lady with the Dog’ at the BFI Southbank Mamoun was very pleased that the screening of Iosif Heifitz lyrical adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s The Lady with the Dog was shown in the larger NFT 1 at the BFI Southbank. It is over 20 years since this classic film has been shown. The packed audience were moved to applause after the screening, and showed their appreciation to BFI programmer David Somerset for arranging this rare opportunity to see this masterpiece of Russian cinema. We will be sharing the filmed discussion held after the screening shortly. Tagged as Batalov, BFI, BFI Southbank, Chekhov, Heifitz, Josif Kheifitz, Lady with the Dog, Lenfilm, Mamoun Hassan, Masterclass, Movie Masterclass, Savvina by Pr3m1eR | April 30, 2019 · 1:38 pm The Lady with the Dog – at BFI Southbank 13th May 2019 The Lady with the Dog will screen on Monday 13 May at 2.00pm in NFT I at the BFI Southbank. Mamoun will introduce the film and there will be a Q&A at the end. You won’t find many adaptations of books or plays in anybody’s list of Ten Best Films. Francis Coppola’s two-parter of Mario Puzzo’s The Godfather might figure and also Satyajit Ray’s trilogy of Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay’s Pather Panchali, where it is difficult to know where the book ends and the film begins. But where are the other great writers: Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Dickens, Balzac, Ibsen, Melville, George Eliot…? So often we get illustrations of bits from here and there and dialogue, lots of it. Adaptation can be an inspiration but also a burden – a burden of responsibility to the original. Films need to break free, as in Kurosawa’s Throne of Blood (Macbeth) and Howard Hawks’s liberties with Hemingway’s To Have and Have Not. Books and films are more than plot, character and dialogue. To my mind, one of the most successful adaptations, where the book and the film are one, where the film is the book and the book is the film, is the 1960 realization by Soviet director-screenwriter Josif Kheifitz of Anton Chekhov’s great short story The Lady with the Dog. The original is only 17 pages long – no longer than a film treatment. Tagged as BFI Southbank, Chekhov, film adaptation, Josif Kheifitz, Mamoun Hassan, Masterclass, Movie Masterclass, National Film Theatre, NFT, the lady with the dog by Pr3m1eR | February 12, 2019 · 12:20 am BABYLON is released in the US this March An unused poster concept for Babylon given to Mamoun Hassan Kino Lorber Repertory and new distributor Seventy Seven are releasing BABYLON in the US next month. The film opens at the BAM Theatre in Brooklyn on 8 March, in Los Angeles on 15 March, and more widely after that. Forty years ago I backed my first film as managing director of the National Film Finance Corporation [NFFC]: that film was BABYLON. The Board members were invited to take a leap in the dark. The BBC had developed the script but had passed on it; the British Film Institute Production Board under Peter Sainsbury had rejected it. BABYLON was a first film for the director; it had no stars, a wholly unfamiliar cast, dialogue and accents that required subtitles in parts, as if it were a foreign film – which of course it was to most people; it was violent, and it had no distribution guarantee or co-investor. I recommended we invest 83% of the budget: anything less would not get the film made. It was unheard of. Historically, the NFFC offered 30% at most. Further, a couple of years earlier the NFFC had invested in Anthony Simmons’s BLACK JOY, described by a critic as a ‘lightly ironic clash of cultures comedy’. The auguries were not good. The script of BABYLON was co-written by Martin Stellman and Franco Rosso. There was no producer attached, but Franco and Martin had Stephen Frears in mind as director. I knew Stephen and admired his work, but the script was uniquely authentic, born out of Martin’s and Franco’s direct experience of the lives of black youth in south London. I thought Stephen would make a fine film, but it would perforce be a foreign correspondent’s view. Although neither of the two scriptwriters had directed a feature before, I suggested that one of them should direct it. Franco became the director and Martin the associate producer. Chris Menges agreed to shoot the film and Gavrik Losey joined as producer. The Board finally agreed my proposal. The first five minutes of the film will tell you why I backed BABYLON. BABYLON lives. Tagged as babylon, BAM, british cinema, Chris Menges, Franco Rosso, Kino Lorber Repertory, Mamoun, Mamoun Hassan, Martin Stellman, NFFC, Seventy Seven

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