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Posted on October 1, 2018 by Ice Stream
Apologies for some downtime over the last 48 hours!
Shoutcast 2 has been migrating to new servers which required changes to our various players.
We are pleased to report that all players have now been re-coded and all is well again!
The AAC Stream Is Back
Posted on September 18, 2017 October 22, 2017 by Ice Stream
Back by popular demand the 128 AAC stream has returned and is free-to-listen and now available on the new SHOUTcast2 system:
The Ice Stream AAC Player
http://listen.shoutcast.com/theicestream-aac-
It’s Cold Up North!
Posted on June 11, 2017 by Ice Stream
While the temperatures may be low in Scandinavia, much of the music is so uplifting that you forget about the icicles dripping from your instrument. In particular, you may be unfamiliar with a music genre known as Yoik. It has nothing to do with the exclamation “Yoiks” but refers to a traditional form of song of the Sami people of the Nordic countries and Kola peninsula of Russia. Originally, yoik (sometimes spelled joik) referred to only one of several Sami singing styles, but in English the word now tends to refer to all types of traditional Sami singing. As an art form, each yoik is meant to reflect or evoke a person, animal, or place and the sound is comparable to the traditional chanting of some Native American cultures.
A composer who is at the forefront of this genre is the Norwegian yoiker Frode Fjellheim who was responsible for the main theme in Disney’s “Frozen”. Frode has subsequently received praise from the Norwegian Sámi President for spreading yoik to new audiences. Similarly, the Norwegian female choir that appeared on the Disney soundtrack have also garnered some notoriety for the same reason and are busy capitalising on this success with the release of a new album called “Northern Lights”.
The choir was founded in 1986 and consists of around 30 amateur singers based in Trondheim. Despite being an amateur choir, they have attained an extremely professional international standard winning several international competitions over the last few years. Their cool new album was just begging to have a handful of tracks featured on our Album Playlist which is exactly what we have done!
Decca Re-Releases A Definitive
Posted on April 21, 2017 by Ice Stream
Always a dangerous statement as “one man’s meat is another man’s poison”, however, this newly packaged set of Beethoven’s complete String Quartet cycle could certainly qualify as a possible definitive for many – it is certainly a favourite for many critics. If you like your Beethoven more sweet and slow (a la Klemperer) the Allegri String Quartet may be more your “cup of tea”. On the other hand, if you prefer to hear Ludwig with rather more sharpness and alacrity (a la Karajan) we think that the Takacs Quartet will be “right up your street”. Here at The Ice Stream we are certainly more than happy to feature selected tracks from this mighty collection on our featured album playlist.
Originally released on 3 albums between 2002 and 2005, Decca has now put the whole cycle in one box set. While the CDs will bash your plastic to the tune of £34, this no lightweight collection but possibly a small price to pay for a definitve? Don’t just take our word for it – the three “Rasumovsky” Quartets album originally was a Grammy Award Winner for Best Chamber Music Recording & Gramophone Award Winner when it was first released.
It all began in 1975 when four students at the Music Academy in Budapest, Gábor Takács-Nagy (first violin), Károly Schranz (second violin), Gábor Ormai (viola), and András Fejér (cello) formed The Takács Quartet. According to their own story, Takács-Nagy, Ormai and Fejér had been playing trios together for several months when they met Schranz during a pickup soccer game after classes. With the immediate addition of Károly to their group the trio became a quartet.
They first received international attention in 1977, winning the First Prize and the Critics’ Prize at the International String Quartet Competition in Evian, France. After that the quartet won the Gold Medal at the 1979 Portsmouth and Bordeaux Competitions and First Prizes at the Budapest International String Quartet Competition in 1978 and the Bratislava Competition in 1981. The quartet made its first North American tour in 1982.
In 1983, the group decided it would be best for them and their families if they moved to the United States. A colleague offered them a position as quartet-in-residence at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and they accepted the job. This was also the year that Takács-Nagy left the group. While he was the first to go ,he was not the last and now Karoly Schranz and Andras Fejer are the only original members. British violinist Edward Dusinberre has been with the Quartet since 1993 and violist, Geraldine Walther (previously with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra), joined in 2005 – the same year the quartet became associate artists at the South Bank Centre
Throughout its long journey, the Takacs Quarter has embarked on a successful series of recordings: a cycle of all six Bartók quartets (dedicated to the memory of Ormai, who died in 1995) and this critically acclaimed complete Beethoven quartet cycle, as well as quartets by Smetana and Borodin.
Live Long And Prosper
Posted on April 5, 2017 by Ice Stream
In our opinion, the abundant growth in the quantity of British Television has not yielded a similar increase in quality drama productions. In all probability we will not see the likes of superb productions many remember from the 70s & 80s again. There have been notable exceptions, of course, such as Downton Abbey which has been an international hit. This shining light amidst the gloom of reality television has brought about a small glimmer of a possible resurgence in high grade television.
One of ITV’s grasps at a follow-up to Downton’s successful period piece has been The Halcyon. The show tells the story of a glamorous five star hotel run by aristocracy during the Second World War. There is no doubt that the program makers spent a good deal of time, thought (and money) in putting this 8 part series together. It is, therefore, disappointing that ITV has announced that it has axed the show after just one series despite fans begging for more.
Here at The Ice Stream we were particularly disappointed by this news as the series music overseen by the accomplished film and televison composer Samuel Sim is superb. In addition to his input numerous guest stars such as Jamie Cullum, Beverley Knight and Tracy Kashi appear on the soundtrack. Renowned Eastenders star Kara Tointon also proved herself to be a budding charismatic singing talent in the mix of quasi classical and traditional jazz music. Fans of the series may prove to be unsuccessful in their campaign to get the series reinstated but they can, at least, relive some of the musical highlights here on The Ice Stream where we have put a selection of tracks from the soundtrack CD released in January this year on our new Album Playlist.
Tinkling Somebody Else’s Ivories
Posted on February 22, 2017 by Ice Stream
The latest addition to our current feature album playlist is a real showstopper! It is a new release from a man who has sold over 50 million albums. Aside from records with many groups such as Yes and The Strawbs, Rick Wakeman has released more than 100 albums as a solo artist alone!
Piano Portraits came out in January this years and, upon release, reached number 6 on the UK Albums Chart, becoming Rick’s highest charting album in the UK since 1975. Reaching the Top 10 these days is somewhat meaningless compared to the heady days of the 70s, but be in no doubt that this is truly worthy of success!
The album was made following the positive reception to Rick’s live radio performance of his piano arrangement of “Life on Mars?” by David Bowie following the singer’s death in January 2016. A subsequent single of the track was released in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support later in the year.
After Wakeman received offers from several music labels to produce an album of piano arrangements, he picked Universal. He has chosen a roster of songs that are his favourites or that he has played on as a session musician and as a member of Yes together with some classical pieces and original material. It is good to have the man back really “on form” and he is going to be promoting this new album on a 10-day tour of the UK between May and July of this year.
New Nobex Smarthone Apps
Posted on February 21, 2017 by John Brocks
In our continued quest to upgrade all of our streams to SHOUTcast 2 we have now given our smart phone apps a “makeover” in conjunction with our partners Nobex.
Our shiny new smart phone apps are now available for iPhone, Android or Blackberry completely FREE by searching for The Ice Stream on the appropriate app store for your phone. These new apps are all now SHOUTcast 2 compatible.
You can also find the links on our Web Site by clicking on the Nobex logo on our home page or by selecting the Smart Phone Apps tab.
The new Ice Stream smart phone apps future-proofing The Chill!
No More Waiting!
It seems to have been quite a few weeks since we have had any likely candidates for a new featured contemporary album to go on our playlist. Fortunately, the end of January 2017 saw just the sort of thing we were looking for with the release of Una Healy’s debut solo album “The Waiting Game”. The hit single from it, “Stay My Love” also features guest star, Sam Palladio, the British actor and musician.
Una is an Irish singer-songwriter and former member of the band, The Saturdays. Born in Tipperary in 1981, she certainly seems to have been blessed with the touch of the blarney stone. However, a career in music is not what she originally envisioned having studied to become a primary school teacher and worked as a medical secretary. It was not until she was 23 that she decided to pursue a career in music.
After a short period of playing and singing in local pubs and clubs in Ireland, she felt that she wanted her newly chosen profession to have a clearer direction and traveled to London in search of opportunity. In 2007 she found just that, suceedding in an audition with foundling band, The Saturdays. The group enjoyed thirteen Top 10 hits and four Top 10 albums. Somehow, during this whirlwind success, Una managed to find time to date Irish International Rugby Union fullback Ben Foden who she eventually married in 2012.
Since then, the couple have had two children – daughter Aoife Belle (born March 13, 2012) and son Tadhg John (born February 2, 2015). With the maturity that family life brings, Una has now embarked on a solo career in music and can also be seen on TV as one of the judges on “The Voice Of Ireland” show.
Compilation Of Finery
Posted on December 14, 2016 December 14, 2016 by John Brocks
Here at The Ice Stream we don’t often put compilation albums on our featured album playlist – but there are exceptions! Roberto Cacciapaglia’s latest double CD “Best Of” entitled “Atlas” is just so sublime we couldn’t resist adding it – particularly as Roberto is not that well known in many places outside of his native Italy.
This brand new album (released on 25th November) is a collection of 28 tracks remastered from this illustrious composer’s prolific output over the past 40 years. There is also a smattering of new tracks which include an outstanding version of “Starman” recorded as a tribute to the memory of David Bowie.
Roberto Cacciapaglia was born in Milan in 1953 and is an Italian pianist and composer. He graduated in composition from the Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi under the direction of Bruno Bettinelli, where he also studied conducting and electronic music. Over the years he has worked at the studio of Phonology of Rai and collaborated with the CNR (National Research Council) in Pisa where he studied computer applications in the field of music.
He is also founder of the Educational Music Academy which aims to give a voice to young musical talents and assists them to achieve professional mastery in their works. His teachings have been sought outside of Italy and he has led several seminars and workshops at the Turkish Music State Conservatory.
Roberto performs his own compositions live and has enjoyed great success with his concerts – particularly at home in Italy as well as in Spain and Russia.
When Is It Classical?
Posted on October 2, 2016 by John Brocks
Fortunately not a question we have to answer too often here at The Ice Stream as we play all sorts! Born in Brittany in 1970 Yann Tiersen’s musical career is split between studio albums, collaborations and film soundtracks. Whatever you decide, he is an excellent addition to our repertoire and we think he could easily be confused as a classical composer even if he doesn’t consider himself to be one.
Yann says “I’m not a composer and I really don’t have a classical background. My real focus is on touring and studio albums which just happen to often be suitable for film”. His most famous soundtrack for the film “Amélie” was primarily made up from tracks taken from his first three studio albums.
His latest album is his ninth and is called “Eusa” and was released in Spetember 2016.
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Hippolyte Petitjean
Hippolyte Petitjean was active/lived in France. Hippolyte Petitjean is known for portrait painting, optical and neo-impressionism.
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A noted Neo-Impressionist painter, Hippolyte Petitjean was born on September 11, 1854 in Macon. In 1872 he went to Paris to continue his studies entering the Ecole des Beaux Arts, and also the atelier of Alexandre Cabanel. He exhibited at the Salon beginning in 1880. By far the most significant event in Petitjean's development was meeting Seurat in 1884. Petitjean joined the Neo-Impressionist group in 1886, and in 1887 he showed his first major work in this style. In 1891 he switched from the Salon to exhibit with the Independents. He also exhibited in Brussels in 1893 and 1898, Berlin in 1898, Weimar in 1903, and Wiesbaden in 1921.
Petitjean remained loyal to Seurat's optical theories along with Signac and Pissaro until after 1894 when he began to combine the pointillist dot with more feathery strokes. After 1910 he returned to a Neo-Impressionist manner in a series of decorative watercolors. These works depicted both landscapes and people with a remarkable shimmering effect created by individual spots of pure color.
Museum Collections Include:
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; Musee d'Art Moderne, Paris
About Hippolyte Petitjean
Born: 1854 - Macon, France
Known for: portrait painting, optical and neo-impressionism


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11. A pupil deemed to be a worker under the Education Act. (“travailleur”) 1997, c. 16, Sched. A, s. 2 (1); 1999, c. 6, s. 67 (2-4); 2002, c. 18, Sched. J, s. 5 (1); 2005, c. 5, s. 73 (2-4).
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New York City public school kids getting new Muslim, Lunar New Year holidays
Mayor de Blasio said Monday that he’d move forward with closing schools for Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha, two Muslim holy days, and for Lunar New Year. But he was hesitant regarding Hindu festival Diwali.
Appearing on WNYC’s “Brian Lehrer Show” on Monday, the mayor said he hadn’t taken a position on whether Diwali, the festival of lights celebrated in India and other South Asian countries, should be a day off from school.
But he said he’d move forward with closing schools for Lunar New Year and for Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha, Muslim holy days.
“It is complicated in terms of logistics and school calendar and budget. But it’s something I want to get done in a reasonable time frame,” he said.
NY Daily News: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/education/nyc-public-school-kids-new-holidays-article-1.1601237#ixzz2tY0E5Rjl
Author researcherPosted on 17th February 2014 Categories United StatesTags Daily News, Eid, holidays, New Year, New York, New York City, religious holidays, schools, South Asian, WNYC
Vilks will speak at a Anti-Muslim Conference
Lars Vilks* will speak at a conference in New York on September 11, 2012. The organizer is the anti-Muslim organization SION (Stop Islamization of Nations). Its founder says to have inspired Anders Behring Breivik. A representative of SION was recently in Stockholm to hold his first speech at “the first global meeting against Jihad and radical Islamism.”
According to Anna-Sofia Quensel, a researcher at EXPO (an organization which regularly reports on activities of the far-right extremists), SION has its roots in Denmark going back to 2005. Since then there have been a European and an American branch, but since the beginning of 2012 an international umbrella organization has been formed (SION).
”The organization is a part of the counter-jihad movement. Its members claim that an intricate Islamizing conspiracy is underway against the West. Among other things, they claim that a holy war is being waged against the West and our ideas,” says Quensel. It is from this milieu that Breivik retrieved much of his opinions. Robert Spencer, who is one of the initiators of SION, has been quoted over 150 times in Breivik’s manifesto, according to Quensel.
Quensel also points out that from the SION’s point of view, Lars Vilks is an important person. “He is often mentioned because he has been threatened for his drawings and installations. He will speak about freedom of expression and he is used as an example of what can happen and how freedom of expression is threatened.” According to her Lars Vilks is a figurehead for SION, and his presence at the conference will also put focus on Sweden. “He comes as one of those who has received death threats and will be used as such. It sends a signal to the entire movement that Lars Vilks actually shares their views so that becomes a powerful signal to the outside.” Moreover, according to Quensel, there is a great risk that Lars Vilks legitimizes the movement, regardless of his personal motives (to participate).
”This is anti-Muslim environment and a movement which is active in attempts to prevent an Arabic TV-channel’s broadcasting from the US. In this environment he (Vilks) chooses to speak about freedom of expression. Now, which signals this sends is a matter of interpretation,” says Anna-Sofia Quensel.
When DN (Daily News) contacts Lars Vilks he says that he is attending the conference to speak about his experiences. “This is above all a part of my art project where I include Al Qaida and Al-Shabab. When this organization (SION) contacted me they became a part of my project. They play a large role in the big drama about Islam, Muslims and fundamentalism.”
What does it mean for you that the organizers have expressed anti-Muslim views?
“They can have any opinion thet want in the name of the freedom of expression.” Cannot see that I play any significance in their situation. I want to have insight of the movement and how they think.”
EXPO (a racism watchdog organization) is of the opinion that your presence there contributes significantly to the anti-Muslim movement and that they will use this event to advertize (their views). What is your view on that?
”It is free to have any opinion you like, we should protect that.”
Do you think that other people can interpret (your presence at the conference) as you legitimizing them (the anti-Muslim movement)?
“Sure, we have freedom to interpret things differently. I have been exposed to various interpretations, so I’m used to it.”
Are you not concerned that you might add to the wrong interpretation of your (work), something that you usually mention?
“No, you have to shoulder that risk when you do art which touches upon suh a delicate issue. I will most likely create more enemies, but I’m used to it. People who do not want any nuances will view things in black and white.”
You have received much attention. Do you see all of this as a PR-stunt?
”No I can’t say i do. I have already received much attention even before,” yas Lars Vilks.
Signed: Fredrik Lennander
* Lars Vilks is a Swedish artist. He is best known for his defamatory portrayal (street installation) of Muhammad, the prophet of Islam. Vilks has characterized his own skill in the actual crafts involved in sculpture as quite limited, and although his artistic ideas can be seen as characteristic for his generation of Swedish conceptual artists, he has remained something of an outsider in the Swedish art scene for most of his career.
Author Euro-IslamPosted on 12th August 2012 Categories Discrimination and Xenophobia, Public Opinion and Islam in the Media, ScandinaviaTags Anti-Muslim, conference, Daily News, event, EXPO, Lars Vilks, organization, PR, racism, watchdog
Tennessee Muslims feel blessed this Ramadan after federal court rules in their favor
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — The Muslim holy month of Ramadan is always a joyful time for believers, but a Tennessee congregation was feeling especially blessed this year as they worshipped Friday.
Opponents spent two years trying to halt construction of a new mosque for the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro, but a federal judge ruled this week the congregation has a right to worship there as soon as the building is ready.
“Ramadan this year reaches us at a very special time for us as a community,” Imam Ossama Bahloul told the congregation at Friday prayers. “We have received the good news about the federal court not standing on our side, but standing on the side of the Constitution
Although there has been an Islamic center in Murfreesboro for 30 years, the new building brought vehement opposition, including a lawsuit, a large rally and even vandalism, arson and a bomb threat.
Opponents of the mosque, who used the issue to raise wider arguments against the faith of Islam, have not commented to The Associated Press on the federal ruling.
Joe Brandon Jr., an attorney for mosque opponents, told Murfreesboro newspaper The Daily News Journal that he is exploring options for legal action.
Author Euro-IslamPosted on 26th July 2012 Categories Islamic Practice and JurisprudenceTags building, construction, court, Daily News, Islamic center, Murfreesboro, rally, Ramadan, Tennessee, Tennessee Muslims
A Swede was a secret agent working for three different countries
Spying against Sweden is increasing according to the Swedish Intelligence Agency (SÄPO). The Agency also suspects that at least 15 states are doing illegal surveillance in the country. The Daily News has reported that a Swedish man have been a secret informer for Libyan, British and Swedish intelligence services simultaneously. His code name is “Joseph” and he has on the regular basis reported Muslims as suspected terrorists.
Usually foreign spies target large Swedish firms and sensitive information on Swedish policies/politics. Another focus is given to spying on recent immigrant communities, and usually those who are political activists seeking asylum in Sweden. Regime critics and opposition activists who live in Sweden have regularly been threatened and their movements and activities traced.
The information about Joseph’s activities today is uncertain – he lives in a city in Sweden, he has children and officially his financial circumstances are highly limited. Despite that, he is regularly traveling across the world. AS recently as couple of weeks ago, he had visited his former homeland, Libya. This we his second trip since the fall of the regime. Moreover, according from the information from DN he had met with one of the rebel leaders Abdel Hakim Belhaj on his last trip.
Joseph claims that he is not an informant working for any of the mentioned states. “You are talking to the wrong guy here. Alright. You know nothing what this is all about,” he was reported to have said to a DN’s reporter. Howoever, a fax message from the British intelligence agency MI6 from 2003 is contradicting his claims. The message is a part of a set of documents gathered by Human Rights Watch in Libya in the wake of administrative vacuum followed by the fall of Qaddafi regime.
The MI6 document starts with the words, “Greetings from MI6 in London” and it is a four pages long document describing a meeting with “Joseph” in Manchester. It is dated December 11, 2003 with an address of the Libyan Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The fax message gives details about Joseph and how he was recruited by MI6. He had names of 11 Muslims from Sweden who he described as possible terrorists and accomplices. He also had a list of names of individual board members in a Muslim association in Sweden. The document further shows that Joseph had contacts with Qaddafi’s intelligence services (ESO) and the Swedish security agency (SÄPO). The document further hints that his first step has been to hand over the list of names to (MI6). The names of people he suspected to be “jihad sympathizers” in Sweden. MI6 in turn sent the list to Libya.
The DN had investigated the list and, at least, two individuals from the list more closely. The two persons have been in Joseph’s immediate closeness. Another individual was now deceased Muhammad Moumou (Abu Qaswarah) listed as a terrorist by both the United Nations and the European Union in 2006.
One of the most important question Joseph had posed is how is he to handle his contacts with the Swedish SÄPO. Joseph further wanted to inform MI6 about his contacts (with SÄPO), something MI6 was not interested in him doing. The Libyan ESO has, according to the document, been deeply aware of his informant status and work. Joseph had also been firmly instructed not to reveal his cooperation with other agencies to SÄPO. ESO and MI6 agreed that Joseph shall cancel his meetings with Swedes and inform them that he was ill.
”Joseph” is protected as a source by DN, however the newspaper’s reporters investigated into his real identity and could establish it after some time. He is a 45-year old male who immigrated to Sweden in the end of 1980s from Libya. A few years later be became a citizen. He is registered to reside in a two-room apartment in a well-kept residential building. During some periods he worked as a store assistant. People familiar with Joseph describe him as secretive and suspicious of others. He could disappear without any explanation despite his limited funds on long expensive trips. He has even been convicted of domestic violence for beating up two of his earlier girlfriends. He has also been sentenced for theft and for making threats. Most recently he has been convicted of shoplifting.
Despite all of these issues he has established himself as a known figure in the Muslim community. “He knows people everywhere, in Stockholm, Malmö, Göteborg,” one of his acquaintances comments.
SÄPO never comments any individual cases, however, according to their annual rapport for 2011 Libya is one of the countries which has conducted intelligence gathering in Sweden during several years. On several occasions the Swedish authorities have deported Libyan spies. Furthermore, according to SÄPO persons as information sources are tremendously important in intelligence gathering (counterterrorism etc.)
According to Magnus Ranstrorp (researcher at the Swedish Defense College) it is unusual to be an agent for three separate intelligence agencies. “It is unusual since there are so many states involved, that is, that the Libyan regime and the British agency and even the Swedish (SÄPO) seem to have bilateral relationships to him (Joseph).”
Signed: Mattias Carlsson
Author Euro-IslamPosted on 27th June 2012 Categories Issues in Politics, Scandinavia, Security and CounterterrorismTags Daily News, DN, ESO, intelligence, Libya, limited, names, PO, Sweden
‘SalamWorld’ to be Facebook for Muslims — but much cleaner
Salamworld, based in Istanbul, will be launched during Ramadan in July in eight languages. The social network aims to have 50 million users within five years.
Muslim users who choose to ditch Facebook for the upcoming social network SalamWorld shouldn’t expect to find a Madonna video or discussion of sex anywhere on the site.
The company hopes to be a far cleaner version of Facebook, by “filtering out harmful content” and ensuring that its pages “uphold and respect family values,” according to the company’s commercial.
“The content that is being used on other social networks is not very secure and full of haram,” one of Salamworld’s owners, Abdulvahed Niyazo, told the Hürriyet Daily News. Haram is an Arabic term meaning “forbidden.” “We don’t want our young people to absorb all these ideas that are not familiar to them,” he said.
But some believe that young Muslims won’t welcome a social media site containing only halal content, as they will perceive the filtering of content as Web censorship.
Author researcherPosted on 5th March 2012 Categories News by Country, News by Issue, Muslim Advocacy and Organizations, Technology and the Internet, Youth and Pop CultureTags Abdulvahed Niyazo, Daily News, discussion, Facebook, haram, languages, network, social, young Muslims
Canadian Diplomat’s Grave Moved in Turkey after Muslim Complaints
The National Post – December 14, 2010
The remains of a Canadian diplomat buried in Turkey were reportedly forcibly removed from a local cemetery after a prominent Muslim family said they weren’t comfortable praying next to a Christian grave. Hans-Joachim Himmelsbach, 65, a retired trade commissioner from Vancouver who was living in Turkey, died about three weeks ago after suffering a blood clot to his brain while he was recovering from a throat operation, his stepfather, Heinz Koletzko, said in an interview.
Mr. Himmelsbach was buried in a Christian ceremony at a local cemetery in Bodrum, a tourist resort community on Turkey’s south Aegean coast. Mr. Himmelsbach’s family obtained permission from the municipality for a priest to perform the ceremony, Mr. Koletzko said, as is required in Turkey for religious groups not officially recognized by the state.
But his wife, Ilknur Himmelsbach, a Turkish citizen, told the Hurriyet Daily News and Economic Review that Mr. Himmelsbach’s grave was recently moved against her wishes to a remote area of the cemetery at the request of a local Muslim businessman who felt Mr. Himmelsbach was buried too close to the family plot.
Author researcherPosted on 21st December 2010 Categories Islamic Practice and JurisprudenceTags cemetery, Christian, Daily News, family, Heinz Koletzko, Ilknur Himmelsbach, National Post, National Post December, Turkey
Five years after 7/7 bombings London commemorates its victims
Five years after the terrorist attacks on the London underground, the papers review what has changed since then in terms of security, anti-terrorism laws and the situation for British Muslims.
The Guardian features a comment on the lost narrative of British Muslims, who have been “stigmatised en masse” by some media and government policies. Another Guardian article talks of the flaws of neo-liberal government policies towards terrorism that have only increased the risk of new attacks, which another comment in the same paper supports, claiming that the government’s “Prevent strategy” has not made anyone any wiser and urging the government to learn how to work with “ordinary Muslims”. A commentator of The New Statesman describes how his life, being a commuter and a Muslim living in Britain, changed on 7/7 2005. The London Daily News commemorates the victims and lists the names of those deceased in the attacks, while The Independent talked to those who witnessed the bombings but survived them, and gives an insight into how they cope with the experience today.
Author researcherPosted on 7th July 2010 Categories UncategorizedTags 7/7, attacks, bombings, british muslims, Daily News, Five years after 7/7 bombings, London, London commemorates its victims, names, New Statesman, Prevent, Prevent Strategy, The Independent
Veteran Vendor Lance Orton Is Times Square Hero
(CANVAS STAFF REPORTS) – “I’m not a celebrity, I’m just an average Joe,” Lance Orton told the New York Daily News Sunday night from his apartment in the Bronx. But this average Joe is being hailed as the savior of Times Square.
Orton is one of the street vendors who alerted police to the suspicious dark-colored SUV that contained a home-made bomb, reported The New York Times . Orton sells T-shirts near the area in which the car was parked.
He and Duane Jackson, a handbag vendor, were the first to notice that something was strange about the car. Jackson told MyFox NY’s ‘Good Day NY’ co-host Greg Kelly : “When the smoke started, I realized there might be more to this than meets the eye.”
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg had dinner on Sunday night in Times Square with Jackson and NYPD Officer Wayne Rhatigan, who was alerted by the vendors and was the first to begin to clear the are around the SUV. Orton, though passed on dinner with the mayor, according to MSNBC.com .
According to Reuters , New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg praised Orton: “Lance Orton saw something and did something about it.”
Orton said in a TV interview after the incident that he’s been a street vendor for 22 years. Walking with a limp and wearing a Monster energy drink T-shirt, he said of his vending position: “I don’t have too much choice. Nobody’s giving me a job.”
Surrounded by reporters as he walked to a taxi on Sunday morning, Orton was a bit surly, claiming: “Part of my reason for having this attitude is I’ve given some of you interviews before and you wrote the opposite of what I said in the paper, so that’s my problem with you.”
When asked if he was proud of his actions, he said: “Of course, man. I’m a veteran. What do you think?” As he got into the cab, the Vietnam vet said his advice to the city of New York was: “See something, say something.”
Now Orton is being mentioned in news articles around the world. His family members are also being sought out.
Miriam Citron, the mother of Orton’s son, told the New York Times that Orton would regularly alert police if something didn’t look right: “When he was in Vietnam, he said they had to make decisions and judgments from their gut, from their own feelings … His instinct was telling him something’s not right.”
Orton’s mother, Jean Jarrett, told the Daily News : “I’m sure he saved a lot of lives.”
Author researcherPosted on 7th May 2010 Categories Articles and Essays, Immigration and Integration, Issues in Politics, Muslim Advocacy and OrganizationsTags Daily News, House of Commons, Lance Orton, Mayor Michael, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Muslim MPs, Muslim News, New York, NY, police, Sadiq Khan, Shabana Mahmood, Shahid Malik, SUV, Times Square, Vietnam, Yasmin Qureshi
Germany to take steps to integrate Turkish community
Placing immigrant integration into society at the center of state policy after years of denial and neglect, the German government is finally dedicating time, money, and energy for progress on this still unresolved matter, the Turkish Daily News (TDN) wrote on Monday.
The diagnosis of the “disease” by the coalition government led by Germany’s first female chancellor, Angela Merke – a Christian Democrat elected in 2005 – is seen by Turkey as a significant turning point after years of implementing a so-called denial policy. The German government has long ignored the parallel societies arising from differing social, cultural, and religious traditions of the Turkish immigrants that began arriving in the country in the 1960s under the guest worker scheme. Turkey may also be to blame for failing to develop strategies to help its citizens integrate into German society, considering them sources of capital flow back to the country.
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Author researcherPosted on 22nd November 2008 Categories News by Country, News by Issue, Immigration and IntegrationTags Christian Democrat, community, Daily News, female, Germany, Integration, policy, TDN, Turkey, Turkish Daily News
Link between child porn and Muslim terrorists discovered in police raids Paedophile websites are being used to pass information between terrorists
A link between terrorism plots and hardcore child pornography is becoming clear after a string of police raids in Britain and across the Continent, an investigation by The Times has discovered. Images of child abuse have been found during Scotland Yard antiterrorism swoops and in big inquiries in Italy and Spain. Secret coded messages are being embedded into child pornographic images, and paedophile websites are being exploited as a secure way of passing information between terrorists.
British security services are also aware of the trend and believe that it requires further investigation to improve understanding of terrorists’ methods and mindsets. Concerns within the Metropolitan Police led to a plan to run a pilot research project exploring the nature of the link. One source familiar with the proposal said that this could eventually lead to the training of child welfare experts to identify signs of terrorist involvement as they monitor pornographic sites. Concerns have already been expressed at Cabinet minister level about the risk of vulnerable Muslim youths being exploited by older men. Officers have noted that child sex abuse images have been found during investigations into some of the most advanced suspected plots. However, it is understood that the proposed research project was never implemented because the AntiTerrorism Branch was overwhelmed by the sheer number of cases it was having to deal with. Richard Kerbaj and Dominic Kennedy report.
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Times Online
London Daily News
Author researcherPosted on 17th October 2008 Categories News by Country, News by Issue, Security and Counterterrorism, Technology and the InternetTags abuse, Daily News, investigation, Metropolitan Police, networks, online, police, police raids, pornography, raids, Scotland Yard, Spain, Terrorism, terrorists


Home Features The Life, Death, and Rebirth of Clayborn Temple
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The Life, Death, and Rebirth of Clayborn Temple
The clarion call of a resurrected Memphis landmark.
by Chris McCoy
photograph courtesy clayborn reborn
Frank Smith (left) and Rob Thompson survey the renovation work being done at Clayborn Temple in 2017.
Since its opening in 2004, FedExForum has drawn millions of people to Downtown Memphis. As a goodly portion of those people waited on Linden (now Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue) to park in the Grizzlies garage, they couldn’t help but notice the huge, boarded-up stone church across from the entrance, just south of bustling Beale Street. In a city beset by blight, Clayborn Temple seemed like something of a talisman.
It wasn’t always this way, of course. For most of its existence, this historic church — first serving a white congregation, then an African-American one — was a symbol of the community it served. “This was the largest church building south of the Ohio River when it opened in 1892,” explains Rob Thompson, president of Clayborn Reborn, the nonprofit group charged with Clayborn Temple’s restoration as a major community institution.
When the thriving Second Presbyterian Church of Memphis that year completed the $100,000 Romanesque Revival structure on the corner of Hernando and Pontotoc, it became the crown jewel of a downtown district filled with houses of worship. Next door to the temple, where now there are only two rows of trees bordering an empty lot, was a large Episcopal Church. A Methodist church once stood where the Forum’s parking lot is now located. On Sunday mornings, the three blocks north of Linden were crowded with worshippers.
“People rode their horses, or walked, to church,” explains Thompson. “Memphis was very dense and urban. The city’s eastern boundaries in the 1890s would have been no further than Manassas, if even that far. In the 1870 census, the population between Pontotoc and the Mississippi was 50-50 black and white. People were living together, on top of each other. I think it was interesting to think about how it was back then. A wealthy congregation built an opulent, beautiful place, a block and a half from Beale Street. This church’s organ was waking people up on Beale Street after a hard Saturday night.”
That Temple’s organ was the first one in the city powered by electricity, and with at least 5,000 pipes, it remains the city’s largest. For more than five decades, this landmark building was the spiritual and physical home of Second Presbyterian Church. But by the end of the 1940s, the congregation wasn’t what it used to be. As the city expanded eastward, many of its wealthier members bought homes in the newly created suburbs. By then, the automobile had transformed the country, and the city of Memphis along with it — a transformation that proved to be a double-edged sword for Second Presbyterian.
“A lot of the congregation was lost during World War II, because of gas rationing,” explains Thompson. In 1949, Second Presbyterian recorded only a single baptism. “It was an older congregation,” Thompson says. “There were no young people having babies.”
Dance and musical performances, such as a concert by Kirk Whalum (right) have drawn people to the old church while it is being restored.
Jamie Harmon
That year, the Second Presbyterian congregation decided to sell the building on Linden, and move to a new home at Goodlett and Central, which was then the eastern boundary of the expanding city. At the time, postwar suburbanization was in full effect, and the building’s buyers reflected Downtown’s changing demographics. The African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church had been founded in Philadelphia in 1816, making it the oldest independent Protestant church denomination in the world founded by African Americans. The AME church paid $100,000 for the building and grounds — the same amount of money in absolute terms it was built for, but the equivalent of $270,000 in 1891 dollars.
The AME renamed the building “Clayborn Temple” after its dynamic pastor, Bishop J.M. Clayborn, and once again, it became the home to a large, thriving congregation with deep roots in the community. “[The AME] has had, since its founding, a long tradition of what we would call social activism,” says Thompson. “It was just natural that, once the group moved into this building, they would rename it Clayborn Temple, after the bishop of this district. This was a socially motivated, socially active congregation.”
Clayborn Temple’s location next to Beale Street, the historic economic and social hub of black life in the Mid-South, made it the most prominent African-American church in the city. When the first rumblings of the civil rights movement were heard in the 1950s, the church naturally became a local hub for activism, setting the church on the course to its date with destiny.
An artists’ roundtable event in the sanctuary.
By the late 1960s, the Jim Crow South was crumbling under the assault of the national civil rights movement. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 gave African-Americans unfettered access to the ballot box for the first time since Reconstruction. But the racist power structure was not giving up without a fight. Working conditions for white and black Memphis Sanitation Department workers showed a vast disparity, with black workers not even being allowed to use the showers, and thus having to ride the bus home while stinking of garbage.
During the 1960s, tensions rose in the department until, on February 1, 1968, two black sanitation workers, Echol Cole and Robert Walker, were crushed to death while seeking shelter from the freezing rain in the back of a garbage truck. Ten days later, more than half of Memphis’ 1,200 African-American sanitation workers walked off the job.
“It was a truly grassroots deal,” explains Thompson. “That’s what makes it so Memphis to me. … The national union [ASCME] was frustrated. You don’t start a strike in February. You start a strike in July or August, when the garbage is really going to stink. … These guys risked everything for their dignity.”
Clayborn Temple became the rallying point for the strikers, who would gather daily at the Temple and march en mass to the courthouse. “This particular African-American congregation had a white minister from Canada named Malcolm Blackburn,” Thompson says. “He was what today we could call a bi-vocational pastor — he had two jobs. He was a journeyman printer. He had a printing press in the basement. The original signs that the strikers used were printed on that press. They opened up the church and said, ‘You guys are welcome to come here every day and organize.’ Eventually, they had nightly meetings, and the community began showing up, too.”
By mid February, the marching strikers were regularly being met with force by the police. On February 24th, after a particularly bloody march, Rev. James Lawson addressed the strikers assembled in Clayborn Temple. “For at the heart of racism is the idea that a man is not a man, that a person is not a person. You are human beings. You are men. You deserve dignity.”
Since then, Lawson’s words, printed on placards by Malcolm Blackburn’s printing press, have reverberated across the world. “There were lots of different signs early on,” says Thompson. “In some of the old photos, you can see that. But ‘I Am A Man’ became the hallmark. When the Arab Spring happened six years ago in Egypt, there were people walking around with ‘I Am A Man’ signs in Cairo. During the protests in Ferguson two years ago, it was ‘I Am A Human Being.’”
After the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965, civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. became increasingly vocal about the economic plight of not only African Americans, but all poor people. In the Memphis sanitation workers’ strike, King and his organization, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, saw an opportunity to address the intersection of race and class.
On March 28th, King traveled to Memphis to lead the strikers on their daily march to the courthouse. But as the marchers rounded the corner at Linden and Main, someone broke a window at the Goldsmith’s department store, and police attacked the marchers, who retreated back to the Temple. Police surrounded the building and fired tear gas through the stained-glass windows, flooding the sanctuary filled with women and children with caustic gas. As the strikers dispersed throughout the city, running battles broke out. Larry Page, a 16-year-old boy, was killed by a shotgun-wielding policeman. His open casket funeral, attended by thousands, was held at Clayborn Temple.
King vowed to return to Memphis and hold a peaceful march. On the afternoon of April 4, 1968, he was gunned down while standing on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel. Four days later, 42,000 people marched from Clayborn Temple to the court house. On April 18th, Mayor Henry Loeb agreed to the strikers’ demands.
"The limestone walls are almost three feet thick,” says Thompson. “This thing is not going anywhere.”
But the survival of the building doesn’t necessarily translate to the survival of the congregation. In the wake of the social chaos of the Sanitation Workers Strike, Downtown Memphis hollowed out. White flight intensified, and the black families who could leave also headed for the suburbs. The congregation dwindled in size throughout the 1970s and 1980s, but its commitment to social activism remained intact. In its final incarnation, the church ran a homeless shelter and soup kitchen, which helped ten of thousands of impoverished citizens. Then, in 1999, Clayborn Temple closed its doors for the last time.
“The fact that it is the way it is, is a metaphor for Memphis in a lot of ways,” says Thompson. “Clayborn Temple is beautiful, it’s rich in history and cultural significance, and it has indelible ties to our community. And yet it was boarded up and forgotten for 18 years.”
Several attempts have been made over the years to resurrect the structure. The city has repeatedly mulled plans to preserve it. The late Judge D’Army Bailey championed the idea of creating a gospel music museum in the space. In 2003-2004, the AME and Second Presbyterian churches worked together on a scheme to create a new congregation in the structure. Each would contribute a pastor, one black and one white, to create a racially integrated, diverse congregation. But the building’s state of disrepair was too great, and the movement floundered. There it would sit until Frank Smith came along.
"It was an easy, innocent beginning,” says Smith, owner of Wiseacre Brewery. “It has to do with my church. About a dozen years ago, I began to be disturbed by the fact that I looked around on Sunday mornings, and everybody looked like me. They vote like me, they process world issues like me. I needed some diversity in my life, some perspective.”
Smith and his family joined the Downtown Church, a congregation dedicated to diversity in both race and class. “For the last three years, we’ve ended up meeting in the train station, which is undergoing redevelopment. So we got kicked out of the train station. There’s no good answer as to where a 350-member congregation goes to worship on Sunday downtown.
“So instead of buying a piece of dirt and building another church building — Memphis doesn’t need another church building — I said, innocently, one day, ‘I wonder what would happen if we got that old church over by the Forum?’ I knew a little bit about it, not much. When I started digging on it, it took 15 months from the time I first had that thought to convince the AME church to part with it.”
One of the reasons urban blight can be such an insoluble problem is that it is, at once, everyone’s problem and yet no one’s problem. Responsibility for abandoned and decaying properties is shared among the owners, the city, and the banks and financial institutions, with none of them having clear incentives to fix the problem.
Neighborhood Preservation, Inc. (NPI) was founded to bridge those incentive gaps. “NPI gets involved when the government can’t, because they have no programs,” explains NPI attorney Steve Barlow. “The private sector won’t, because there’s no money to be made, but we really believe that somebody in our community must. Somebody must care about these properties and do something about it.”
Neighborhood Preservation, Inc. stepped in to act as a go-between to facilitate the sale of Clayborn Temple to Smith and the Downtown Church. “We became a part of a community movement, where we said we would be willing to hold title to the property as long as we have an exit strategy,” Smith explains. “So long as we have some partners who are willing to occupy it, to do the work, to get creative about programming it.”
Smith says the nonprofit structure created by NPI was vital to convincing AME to let go of the historic structure, which they loved but could not afford to maintain. “It was an emotional and painful thing for them to do,” he recollects, “but the Bishop for this district, Bishop Jeffery Leath, in Nashville, had a lot of courage. He spent a lot of relational capital inside his own organization, but finally they allowed us to put it into this nonprofit status.
“It wouldn’t have worked if we had put it in a for-profit framework. … Steve’s group [NPI] is the perfect partner. They provided a financial structure to sort of park the title. We’re in the process now of forming our own not-for-profit.”
“This place is way too important for it just to be a church on Sunday. It needs to be alive and breathe with the same kind of energy it did all of its life.”
— Frank Smith
After years of neglect, the physical state of the building was not good. Much of the original hardwood flooring had rotted away. The giant organ is a long way from being able to make sweet music.
“We’re trying to raise the money for a study to inventory everything that’s in there, to see if it can be restored,” says Thompson. “There are two major chamber rooms that have been vandalized. But the organ is critical; it’s the voice of the building that hasn’t been heard in at least 20 years.”
The restoration is well under way, and once the situation was stabilized enough for the Downtown Church to begin having weekly meetings there, they discovered that many people were eager to hold their events in the hallowed walls. This year’s Juneteenth celebration (Monday, June 19th) will feature a performance by the Prizm Ensemble and Chamber Orchestra.
“It’s an orchestra that is racially diverse in a way that mirrors the demographics of Memphis,” says Lecolion Washington, executive director of Prizm. “We’re bringing that orchestra to this space on that day to perform a work called Seven Last Words of the Unarmed.”
The contemporary classical piece was first performed last year in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Each of its seven movements is a eulogy to victims of police shootings. “It was originally just for a men’s choir and piano,” says Washington. “It’s been adapted and arranged for full orchestra.”
Washington says Prizm is reaching out to choruses from different churches all over the city. “As we know, the most segregated hour in America is on Sunday morning. We’re going to make sure we’re pulling from a diverse group of churches, so that the product is as diverse as the stage, as diverse as the music that is happening.”
And that’s just one of the events shaping up as the space slowly comes back to life. On June 15th, the On Location: Memphis Film Festival will begin a 15-week film series focusing on Memphis history, art, and spatial justice. The films will include the critically acclaimed Fruitvale Station, the Memphis music documentary Verge, the groundbreaking Hallelujah by King Vidor, which was the first-ever sound film musical, filmed in Memphis in 1928, and The Invaders, the made-in-Memphis documentary about the black power group who was intimately involved in the sanitation workers’ strike.
Frank Smith knows the building has a long way to go before it is restored to its former grandeur, but the surge of interest in Clayborn Temple gives him hope for the future.
“Everybody wants this to happen so badly,” he says. “Once they gave us permission to let people in here, you can feel something. It evokes an emotional, spiritual kind of response out of people.
“It also exposes vulnerability in a way that is really necessary for our city,” he continues. “You can’t heal until you first become vulnerable. That’s what we’ve decided now. We’re just going to live in this state of incompleteness. That’s like Memphis right now. We haven’t quite figured it out. Let’s use this place in its incompleteness to work it out. This runway up to the 50th anniversary of the King assassination seems like the kind of urgency we need to force relationships.”
As Smith surveys the fallen grandeur of the Clayborn Temple sanctuary, emotion creeps into his voice.
“This is a place to bring together opposing forces that do not naturally come together, but do it in a place of safety,” he says. “This place is way too important for it just to be a church on Sunday. It needs to be alive and breathe with the same kind of energy it did all of its life.
“What amazing poetry,” he continues. “Both the rich, white, and privileged and the struggling, black, and disadvantaged abandoned the place. Now to come back and be reactivated, redeemed ... it’s sacred. I really feel something exciting in Memphis these days. I feel proud of our city. We could really do something important from here. We could be a model nationally.”
Memphis magazine, June 2017 Editor's Picks
Chris McCoy is a freelance writer, filmmaker, and musician. He is currently the Film/TV Editor for the Memphis Flyer.
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Hyundai Motor to Partner with Algeria’s Global Group for Expansion of Worldwide Commercial Vehicle Business
• New joint venture to boost Hyundai Motor’s production of commercial vehicles in Algeria from 2020
• Partnership to further cement Hyundai’s commercial vehicle dominance in Algeria
• Hyundai to build momentum for economic and industrial cooperation between Korea and Algeria
SEOUL, December 17, 2018 — Hyundai Motor Company and Global Group of Algeria today signed an agreement to jointly produce Hyundai’s commercial vehicles in Algeria as Hyundai continues to expand its foothold in commercial vehicle businesses around the world.
Under the agreement, Hyundai and Global Group will establish a new plant in the city of Batna. Algeria to produce its major commercial vehicle models, including the Xcient, Mighty, Solati and County.
The new plant is expected to assemble the aforementioned models from 2020 with an initial annual capacity of about 6,500 units. Hyundai will also strengthen its sales and customer services networks through the joint venture.
The signing ceremony was held today in Algiers, Algeria’s capital, with attendees including Algerian Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahia, and South Korea's Prime Minister Nak-yon Lee, as the two nations agreed to strengthen economic and industrial cooperation.
“The joint venture will help Hyundai Motor to better serve Algerian customers with products and services that are specifically developed to meet their needs,” Don Ho Choi, Director and Head of Commercial Vehicle Export Division at Hyundai Motor said. “Through this partnership, Hyundai will build a momentum for further economic and industrial cooperation between Korea and Algeria”
Hyundai has been in collaboration with Global Group since 2016, which has been a crucial factor in expanding its presence in the Algerian commercial vehicle market in a very short period of time. Hyundai has been the top-selling commercial vehicle brand in the country since 2017 and expects to blossom to a total of about 6,000 units this year, claiming nearly half the market.
The commercial vehicle market in Algeria has grown rapidly in recent years with the country’s firm economic growth based on stable exports of oil and natural gas. Various developments and construction projects have also helped bolster demands for commercial vehicles.
Market experts forecast annual demand for commercial vehicles in Algeria to grow to as much as 22,000 units by 2025, nearly doubling from the 12,000 units produced this year. Last year’s industry demand was approximately 8,000 units and Hyundai accounted for about 46 percent of the market with sales amounting to approximately 3,700 units.
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(from left) Don Ho Choi, Director and Head of Commercial Vehicle Export Division at Hyundai Motor Company / Hacene Arbaoui, Chairman of Global Group
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Established in 1967, Hyundai Motor Company is committed to becoming a lifetime partner in automobiles and beyond with its range of world-class vehicles and mobility services offered available in more than 200 countries. Employing more than 110,000 employees worldwide, Hyundai sold more than 4.5 million vehicles globally. Hyundai Motor continues to enhance its product line-up with vehicles that are helping to build solutions for a more sustainable future, such as NEXO – the world’s first dedicated hydrogen-powered SUV.
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Whence “Arrival of the Fittest”?
The phrase “arrival of the fittest” is seen and heard from time to time, often contraposed with the phrase “survival of the fittest” (due to Herbert Spencer, but adopted by Darwin in the fifth and sixth editions of the Origin). Typically it is used in making the claim that natural selection cannot by itself account for evolution because selection must have variation upon which to act. Thus natural selection (it is claimed) explains the survival but not the arrival of the fittest. The rhyme between “arrival” and “survival” is catchy, and it’s not surprising that Google Scholar lists almost six hundred articles containing the phrase “arrival of the fittest,” with eighteen articles containing it in their title. There are also at least three books with the phrase in their title, of which the most recent is Arrival of the Fittest: Solving Evolution’s Greatest Puzzle (2014), by Andreas Wagner.
In the text of his book, after inventorying a vast range of variation in the ways in which living things have adapted, Wagner writes, “Selection did not—cannot—create all this variation. A few decades after Darwin, Hugo de Vries expressed it best when he said that ‘natural selection may explain the survival of the fittest, but it cannot explain the arrival of the fittest’ (emphasis added). And if we do not know what explains its arrival, then we do not understand the very origins of life’s diversity.” De Vries (1848–1935) was a Dutch botanist, a pioneer of genetics, and (along with Carl Correns and Erich von Tschermak) one of the rediscoverers of Mendel’s work. Wagner is quoting the conclusion of de Vries’s Species and Varieties: Their Origin by Mutation, based on lectures that he delivered in 1904 at the University of California, Berkeley.
The story isn’t quite so simple, though, as Wagner acknowledges in a footnote: “de Vries does not claim to be the original of this statement, but attributes it to Arthur Harris without further reference.” Well, not quite: de Vries precedes the statement with, “Or, to put it in a term chosen lately by Mr. Arthur Harris in a friendly criticism of my views,” which at least hints at the source. Wagner was evidently able to find it, as was I, in a review by J. Arthur Harris, Ph.D.—so not Mr. but Dr. Harris, if we’re going to be picky!—of de Vries’s Die Mutationstheorie: Versuche und Beobachtungen über die Entstehung von Arten im Pflanzenreich (The Mutation Theory: Experiments and Observations on the Origin of Species in the Vegetable Kingdom, 1901–1903), published in the April 1904 issue of The Open Court.
James Arthur Harris (1880–1930) was a botanist who worked at the Carnegie Institution and the University of Minnesota; his colleagues published a volume in his memory (J. Arthur Harris: Botanist and Biometrician) in 1936, although he may be remembered less fondly by those on a diet—Harris coauthored A Biometric Study of Basal Metabolism in Man (1919), which provided equations to estimate daily kilocalorie requirements. But it’s not necessary to dwell further on Harris, because—as Wagner notes—in his review of de Vries’s book, Harris “declares it a quote but does not provide the source.” Actually, Harris didn’t quite go so far as to declare it a verbatim quote. He wrote, “I think I have the quotation not far from correctly stated: ‘Natural selection may explain the survival of the fittest but it cannot explain the arrival of the fittest.’”
Harris wasn’t far off. Whether he knew it or not, he was quoting from Jacob Gould Schurman (1854–1942). Born in Canada, Schurman earned his B.A. and M.A. from the University of London and his D.Sc. from the University of Edinburgh, after which he taught at Acadia College, Dalhousie College, and Cornell University, where he was a professor of Christian ethics and moral philosophy. He served as Cornell’s president from 1892 to 1920; the university remarks, “Schurman’s administration also saw the transformation of the American university from a teaching institution to a research establishment in which teaching is done.” After retiring from Cornell, he served as the United States minister to China and then ambassador to Germany. His books included The Ethical Import of Darwinism (1887), Belief in God: Its Origin, Nature, and Basis (1890), and Agnosticism and Religion (1896).
The object of The Ethical Import of Darwinism, Schurman wrote, “is to distinguish between science and speculation in the application of Darwinism to morals.” In so doing, of course, it was necessary for Schurman to sketch his understanding of evolution and of Darwinism (sensu the primacy of natural selection in evolution). A few pages after doing so, he wrote, “The survival of the fittest, I repeat, does not explain the arrival of the fittest.” He wasn’t literally repeating himself; that’s the first instance of the slogan in the book. But he articulated the same thought in the previous paragraph: “natural selection, or survival of the fittest, can accomplish nothing until it is supplied with material for ‘selection,’ until there has appeared upon the field an antecedent ‘fittest’—a fittest organ, function, habit, instinct, constitution, or entire organism.”
Schurman liked the phrase enough to repeat it almost verbatim in Agnosticism and Religion: “But pray observe,” he entreated his reader, “that the survival of the fittest does not account for the arrival of the fittest” (emphasis in original). Both versions—the earlier version with “explain” and the later version with “account for”—appear, with due credit to Schurman, in various theological writings around the turn of the nineteenth century, including in volume 2 of A. H. Strong’s influential Systematic Theology (revised edition, 1907), but by the time of the First World War his connection with the phrase seems to have been largely forgotten. Interestingly, though, a short story published in Scribner’s in 1909 features a biologist named Galen Dredge and his book The Arrival of the Fittest. Was it a coincidence, or was Schurman being read by Edith Wharton?


What Did the Southerners Do After the Election of 1860?
By John Peterson
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A Democratic party split over the expansion of slavery helped Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) win the election of 1860. To southerners, his election threatened to abolish slavery, and South Carolina seceded from the Union soon after the election. In the following weeks, six more states seceded, and the Confederate States of America was born with Jefferson Davis as president. The attempt by Lincoln to resupply the garrison at Fort Sumter led to the start of the Civil War in April 1861.
Democratic Schism
In the 1850s, the idea of popular sovereignty, or letting new states vote on allowing slavery, kept the fragile Democratic party intact. Southern Democrats, however, began to distance themselves from popular sovereignty after they were unable to make Kansas a slave state. The issue of expansion of slavery into new territories in the American West led to a regional schism within the Democratic party, and the party broke into North, South and West factions. The power of the party resided in the South, and without their contingent in a unified party, Lincoln won the 1860 election with only 40 percent of the popular vote.
South Carolina Secedes
Southerners viewed the rise of the Republican party as an unacceptable threat to the institution of slavery, and South Carolina called for a secession convention just a few weeks after the 1860 election. Radical South Carolinians led the citizens of their state to believe that slavery would eventually be abolished under a Republican president. The convention met Dec. 17, and South Carolina voted unanimously to secede from the Union on Dec. 20, 1860. This put the federal garrison guarding the important port at Charleston in peril, and the Civil War would begin at Fort Sumter a few months later.
The Confederacy
Soon after the secession of South Carolina, six more states followed suit: Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas. On Feb. 4, 1861, these states formally aligned and created the Confederate States of America with its first capital in Montgomery, Ala. Upon taking office in March 1861, Lincoln attempted to ease southern concerns and bring the Confederacy back into the Union by agreeing to allow slavery where it currently existed. However, he would not budge on the issue of popular sovereignty into new territories, and the Confederacy refused to rejoin the Union.
Fort Sumter was in a perilous location, guarding the port at Charleston, S.C. Because it was located offshore, it was able to resist early efforts by the Confederacy to take the fort by simply refusing to evacuate. However, it soon faced supply problems and an overwhelming Confederate force onshore. By April 1861, war seemed inevitable, and Fort Sumter had become the focus for the onset of war. When Lincoln authorized an attempt to resupply the besieged federal force within the fort, he gave the Confederacy the excuse needed to fire the first shots of the war on April 12. Soon after, four more states joined the Confederacy: Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee and North Carolina.
The Civil War in Art: The Election of 1860 and Secession
Smithsonian.com: Fort Sumter: The Civil War Begins (page 2)
Teaching American History in South Carolina Project: "An Ordinance to Dissolve the Union Between the State of South Carolina and Other States"
The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College: Election of 1860
Yale Law School the Avalon Project: Confederate States of America -- Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union
John Peterson published his first article in 1992. Having written extensively on North American archaeology and material culture, he has contributed to various archaeological journals and publications. Peterson has a Bachelor of Arts from Eastern New Mexico University and a Master of Arts from the University of Nebraska, both in anthropology, as well as a Bachelor of Arts in history from Columbia College.
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