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GW170104: Observation of a 50-Solar-Mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence at Redshift 0.2 (1706.01812) The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration: B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott, F. Acernese, K. Ackley, C. Adams, T. Adams, P. Addesso, R. X. Adhikari, V. B. Adya, C. Affeldt, M. Afrough, B. Agarwal, M. Agathos, K. Agatsuma, N. Aggarwal, O. D. Aguiar, L. Aiello, A. Ain, P. Ajith, B. Allen, G. Allen, A. Allocca, P. A. Altin, A. Amato, A. Ananyeva, S. B. Anderson, W. G. Anderson, S. Antier, S. Appert, K. Arai, M. C. Araya, J. S. Areeda, N. Arnaud, K. G. Arun, S. Ascenzi, G. Ashton, M. Ast, S. M. Aston, P. Astone, P. Aufmuth, C. Aulbert, K. AultONeal, A. Avila-Alvarez, S. Babak, P. Bacon, M. K. M. Bader, S. Bae, P. T. Baker, F. Baldaccini, G. Ballardin, S. W. Ballmer, S. Banagiri, J. C. Barayoga, S. E. Barclay, B. C. Barish, D. Barker, F. Barone, B. Barr, L. Barsotti, M. Barsuglia, D. Barta, J. Bartlett, I. Bartos, R. Bassiri, A. Basti, J. C. Batch, C. Baune, M. Bawaj, M. Bazzan, B. Bécsy, C. Beer, M. Bejger, I. Belahcene, A. S. Bell, B. K. Berger, G. Bergmann, C. P. L. Berry, D. Bersanetti, A. Bertolini, J. Betzwieser, S. Bhagwat, R. Bhandare, I. A. Bilenko, G. Billingsley, C. R. Billman, J. Birch, R. Birney, O. Birnholtz, S. Biscans, A. Bisht, M. Bitossi, C. Biwer, M. A. Bizouard, J. K. Blackburn, J. Blackman, C. D. Blair, D. G. Blair, R. M. Blair, S. Bloemen, O. Bock, N. Bode, M. Boer, G. Bogaert, A. Bohe, F. Bondu, R. Bonnand, B. A. Boom, R. Bork, V. Boschi, S. Bose, Y. Bouffanais, A. Bozzi, C. Bradaschia, P. R. Brady, V. B. Braginsky, M. Branchesi, J. E. Brau, T. Briant, A. Brillet, M. Brinkmann, V. Brisson, P. Brockill, J. E. Broida, A. F. Brooks, D. A. Brown, D. D. Brown, N. M. Brown, S. Brunett, C. C. Buchanan, A. Buikema, T. Bulik, H. J. Bulten, A. Buonanno, D. Buskulic, C. Buy, R. L. Byer, M. Cabero, L. Cadonati, G. Cagnoli, C. Cahillane, J. Calderón Bustillo, T. A. Callister, E. Calloni, J. B. Camp, M. Canepa, P. Canizares, K. C. Cannon, H. Cao, J. Cao, C. D. Capano, E. Capocasa, F. Carbognani, S. Caride, M. F. Carney, J. Casanueva Diaz, C. Casentini, S. Caudill, M. Cavaglià, F. Cavalier, R. Cavalieri, G. Cella, C. B. Cepeda, L. Cerboni Baiardi, G. Cerretani, E. Cesarini, S. J. Chamberlin, M. Chan, S. Chao, P. Charlton, E. Chassande-Mottin, D. Chatterjee, K. Chatziioannou, B. D. Cheeseboro, H. Y. Chen, Y. Chen, H.-P. Cheng, A. Chincarini, A. Chiummo, T. Chmiel, H. S. Cho, M. Cho, J. H. Chow, N. Christensen, Q. Chu, A. J. K. Chua, S. Chua, A. K. W. Chung, S. Chung, G. Ciani, R. Ciolfi, C. E. Cirelli, A. Cirone, F. Clara, J. A. Clark, F. Cleva, C. Cocchieri, E. Coccia, P.-F. Cohadon, A. Colla, C. G. Collette, L. R. Cominsky, M. Constancio Jr., L. Conti, S. J. Cooper, P. Corban, T. R. Corbitt, K. R. Corley, N. Cornish, A. Corsi, S. Cortese, C. A. Costa, M. W. Coughlin, S. B. Coughlin, J.-P. Coulon, S. T. Countryman, P. Couvares, P. B. Covas, E. E. Cowan, D. M. Coward, M. J. Cowart, D. C. Coyne, R. Coyne, J. D. E. Creighton, T. D. Creighton, J. Cripe, S. G. Crowder, T. J. Cullen, A. Cumming, L. Cunningham, E. Cuoco, T. Dal Canton, S. L. Danilishin, S. D'Antonio, K. Danzmann, A. Dasgupta, C. F. Da Silva Costa, V. Dattilo, I. Dave, M. Davier, D. Davis, E. J. Daw, B. Day, S. De, D. DeBra, E. Deelman, J. Degallaix, M. De Laurentis, S. Deléglise, W. Del Pozzo, T. Denker, T. Dent, V. Dergachev, R. De Rosa, R. T. DeRosa, R. DeSalvo, J. Devenson, R. C. Devine, S. Dhurandhar, M. C. Díaz, L. Di Fiore, M. Di Giovanni, T. Di Girolamo, A. Di Lieto, S. Di Pace, I. Di Palma, F. Di Renzo, Z. Doctor, V. Dolique, F. Donovan, K. L. Dooley, S. Doravari, I. Dorrington, R. Douglas, M. Dovale Álvarez, T. P. Downes, M. Drago, R. W. P. Drever, J. C. Driggers, Z. Du, M. Ducrot, J. Duncan, S. E. Dwyer, T. B. Edo, M. C. Edwards, A. Effler, H.-B. Eggenstein, P. Ehrens, J. Eichholz, S. S. Eikenberry, R. A. Eisenstein, R. C. Essick, Z. B. Etienne, T. Etzel, M. Evans, T. M. Evans, M. Factourovich, V. Fafone, H. Fair, S. 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Kalogera, S. Kandhasamy, G. Kang, J. B. Kanner, S. Karki, K. S. Karvinen, M. Kasprzack, M. Katolik, E. Katsavounidis, W. Katzman, S. Kaufer, K. Kawabe, F. Kéfélian, D. Keitel, A. J. Kemball, R. Kennedy, C. Kent, J. S. Key, F. Y. Khalili, I. Khan, S. Khan, Z. Khan, E. A. Khazanov, N. Kijbunchoo, Chunglee Kim, J. C. Kim, W. Kim, W. S. Kim, Y.-M. Kim, S. J. Kimbrell, E. J. King, P. J. King, R. Kirchhoff, J. S. Kissel, L. Kleybolte, S. Klimenko, P. Koch, S. M. Koehlenbeck, S. Koley, V. Kondrashov, A. Kontos, M. Korobko, W. Z. Korth, I. Kowalska, D. B. Kozak, C. Krämer, V. Kringel, B. Krishnan, A. Królak, G. Kuehn, P. Kumar, R. Kumar, S. Kumar, L. Kuo, A. Kutynia, S. Kwang, B. D. Lackey, K. H. Lai, M. Landry, R. N. Lang, J. Lange, B. Lantz, R. K. Lanza, A. Lartaux-Vollard, P. D. Lasky, M. Laxen, A. Lazzarini, C. Lazzaro, P. Leaci, S. Leavey, C. H. Lee, H. K. Lee, H. M. Lee, H. W. Lee, K. Lee, J. Lehmann, A. Lenon, M. Leonardi, N. Leroy, N. Letendre, Y. Levin, T. G. F. Li, A. Libson, T. B. 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Shaddock, T. J. Shaffer, A. A. Shah, M. S. Shahriar, L. Shao, B. Shapiro, P. Shawhan, A. Sheperd, D. H. Shoemaker, D. M. Shoemaker, K. Siellez, X. Siemens, M. Sieniawska, D. Sigg, A. D. Silva, A. Singer, L. P. Singer, A. Singh, R. Singh, A. Singhal, A. M. Sintes, B. J. J. Slagmolen, B. Smith, J. R. Smith, R. J. E. Smith, E. J. Son, J. A. Sonnenberg, B. Sorazu, F. Sorrentino, T. Souradeep, A. P. Spencer, A. K. Srivastava, A. Staley, M. Steinke, J. Steinlechner, S. Steinlechner, D. Steinmeyer, B. C. Stephens, S. P. Stevenson, R. Stone, K. A. Strain, G. Stratta, S. E. Strigin, R. Sturani, A. L. Stuver, T. Z. Summerscales, L. Sun, S. Sunil, P. J. Sutton, B. L. Swinkels, M. J. Szczepańczyk, M. Tacca, D. Talukder, D. B. Tanner, M. Tápai, A. Taracchini, J. A. Taylor, R. Taylor, T. Theeg, E. G. Thomas, M. Thomas, P. Thomas, K. A. Thorne, K. S. Thorne, E. Thrane, S. Tiwari, V. Tiwari, K. V. Tokmakov, K. Toland, M. Tonelli, Z. Tornasi, C. I. Torrie, D. Töyrä, F. Travasso, G. Traylor, D. Trifirò, J. Trinastic, M. C. Tringali, L. Trozzo, K. W. Tsang, M. Tse, R. Tso, D. Tuyenbayev, K. Ueno, D. Ugolini, C. S. Unnikrishnan, A. L. Urban, S. A. Usman, K. Vahi, H. Vahlbruch, G. Vajente, G. Valdes, M. Vallisneri, N. van Bakel, M. van Beuzekom, J. F. J. van den Brand, C. Van Den Broeck, D. C. Vander-Hyde, L. van der Schaaf, J. V. van Heijningen, A. A. van Veggel, M. Vardaro, V. Varma, S. Vass, M. Vasúth, A. Vecchio, G. Vedovato, J. Veitch, P. J. Veitch, K. Venkateswara, G. Venugopalan, D. Verkindt, F. Vetrano, A. Viceré, A. D. Viets, S. Vinciguerra, D. J. Vine, J.-Y. Vinet, S. Vitale, T. Vo, H. Vocca, C. Vorvick, D. V. Voss, W. D. Vousden, S. P. Vyatchanin, A. R. Wade, L. E. Wade, M. Wade, R. M. Wald, R. Walet, M. Walker, L. Wallace, S. Walsh, G. Wang, H. Wang, J. Z. Wang, M. Wang, Y.-F. Wang, Y. Wang, R. L. Ward, J. Warner, M. Was, J. Watchi, B. Weaver, L.-W. Wei, M. Weinert, A. J. Weinstein, R. Weiss, L. Wen, E. K. Wessel, P. Weßels, T. Westphal, K. Wette, J. T. Whelan, B. F. Whiting, C. Whittle, D. Williams, R. D. Williams, A. R. Williamson, J. L. Willis, B. Willke, M. H. Wimmer, W. Winkler, C. C. Wipf, H. Wittel, G. Woan, J. Woehler, J. Wofford, K. W. K. Wong, J. Worden, J. L. Wright, D. S. Wu, G. Wu, W. Yam, H. Yamamoto, C. C. Yancey, M. J. Yap, Hang Yu, Haocun Yu, M. Yvert, A. Zadrożny, M. Zanolin, T. Zelenova, J.-P. Zendri, M. Zevin, L. Zhang, M. Zhang, T. Zhang, Y.-H. Zhang, C. Zhao, M. Zhou, Z. Zhou, X. J. Zhu, A. Zimmerman, M. E. Zucker, J. Zweizig Oct. 23, 2018 gr-qc, astro-ph.HE We describe the observation of GW170104, a gravitational-wave signal produced by the coalescence of a pair of stellar-mass black holes. The signal was measured on January 4, 2017 at 10:11:58.6 UTC by the twin advanced detectors of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory during their second observing run, with a network signal-to-noise ratio of 13 and a false alarm rate less than 1 in 70,000 years. The inferred component black hole masses are $31.2^{+8.4}_{-6.0}\,M_\odot$ and $19.4^{+5.3}_{-5.9}\,M_\odot$ (at the 90% credible level). The black hole spins are best constrained through measurement of the effective inspiral spin parameter, a mass-weighted combination of the spin components perpendicular to the orbital plane, $\chi_\mathrm{eff} = -0.12^{+0.21}_{-0.30}.$ This result implies that spin configurations with both component spins positively aligned with the orbital angular momentum are disfavored. The source luminosity distance is $880^{+450}_{-390}~\mathrm{Mpc}$ corresponding to a redshift of $z = 0.18^{+0.08}_{-0.07}$. We constrain the magnitude of modifications to the gravitational-wave dispersion relation and perform null tests of general relativity. Assuming that gravitons are dispersed in vacuum like massive particles, we bound the graviton mass to $m_g \le 7.7 \times 10^{-23}~\mathrm{eV}/c^2$. In all cases, we find that GW170104 is consistent with general relativity. Binary Black Hole Mergers in the first Advanced LIGO Observing Run (1606.04856) The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration: B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott, M. R. Abernathy, F. Acernese, K. Ackley, C. Adams, T. Adams, P. Addesso, R. X. Adhikari, V. B. Adya, C. Affeldt, M. Agathos, K. Agatsuma, N. Aggarwal, O. D. Aguiar, L. Aiello, A. Ain, P. Ajith, B. Allen, A. Allocca, P. A. Altin, S. B. Anderson, W. G. Anderson, K. Arai, M. C. Araya, C. C. Arceneaux, J. S. Areeda, N. Arnaud, K. G. Arun, S. Ascenzi, G. Ashton, M. Ast, S. M. Aston, P. Astone, P. Aufmuth, C. Aulbert, S. Babak, P. Bacon, M. K. M. Bader, P. T. Baker, F. Baldaccini, G. Ballardin, S. W. Ballmer, J. C. Barayoga, S. E. Barclay, B. C. Barish, D. Barker, F. Barone, B. Barr, L. Barsotti, M. Barsuglia, D. Barta, J. Bartlett, I. Bartos, R. Bassiri, A. Basti, J. C. Batch, C. Baune, V. Bavigadda, M. Bazzan, M. Bejger, A. S. Bell, B. K. Berger, G. Bergmann, C. P. L. Berry, D. Bersanetti, A. Bertolini, J. Betzwieser, S. Bhagwat, R. Bhandare, I. A. Bilenko, G. Billingsley, J. Birch, R. Birney, O. Birnholtz, S. Biscans, A. Bisht, M. Bitossi, C. Biwer, M. A. Bizouard, J. K. Blackburn, C. D. Blair, D. G. Blair, R. M. Blair, S. Bloemen, O. Bock, M. Boer, G. Bogaert, C. Bogan, A. Bohe, C. Bond, F. Bondu, R. Bonnand, B. A. Boom, R. Bork, V. Boschi, S. Bose, Y. Bouffanais, A. Bozzi, C. Bradaschia, P. R. Brady, V. B. Braginsky, M. Branchesi, J. E. Brau, T. Briant, A. Brillet, M. Brinkmann, V. Brisson, P. Brockill, J. E. Broida, A. F. Brooks, D. A. Brown, D. D. Brown, N. M. Brown, S. Brunett, C. C. Buchanan, A. Buikema, T. Bulik, H. J. Bulten, A. Buonanno, D. Buskulic, C. Buy, R. L. Byer, M. Cabero, L. Cadonati, G. Cagnoli, C. Cahillane, J. Calderón Bustillo, T. Callister, E. Calloni, J. B. Camp, K. C. Cannon, J. Cao, C. D. Capano, E. Capocasa, F. Carbognani, S. Caride, J. Casanueva Diaz, C. Casentini, S. Caudill, M. Cavaglià, F. Cavalier, R. Cavalieri, G. Cella, C. B. Cepeda, L. Cerboni Baiardi, G. Cerretani, E. Cesarini, S. J. Chamberlin, M. Chan, S. Chao, P. Charlton, E. Chassande-Mottin, B. D. Cheeseboro, H. Y. Chen, Y. Chen, C. Cheng, A. Chincarini, A. Chiummo, H. S. Cho, M. Cho, J. H. Chow, N. Christensen, Q. Chu, S. Chua, S. Chung, G. Ciani, F. Clara, J. A. Clark, F. Cleva, E. Coccia, P.-F. Cohadon, A. Colla, C. G. Collette, L. Cominsky, M. Constancio Jr., A. Conte, L. Conti, D. Cook, T. R. Corbitt, N. Cornish, A. Corsi, S. Cortese, C. A. Costa, M. W. Coughlin, S. B. Coughlin, J.-P. Coulon, S. T. Countryman, P. Couvares, E. E. Cowan, D. M. Coward, M. J. Cowart, D. C. Coyne, R. Coyne, K. Craig, J. D. E. Creighton, J. Cripe, S. G. Crowder, A. Cumming, L. Cunningham, E. Cuoco, T. Dal Canton, S. L. Danilishin, S. D'Antonio, K. Danzmann, N. S. Darman, A. Dasgupta, C. F. Da Silva Costa, V. Dattilo, I. Dave, M. Davier, G. S. Davies, E. J. Daw, R. Day, S. De, D. DeBra, G. Debreczeni, J. Degallaix, M. De Laurentis, S. Del'eglise, W. Del Pozzo, T. Denker, T. Dent, V. Dergachev, R. De Rosa, R. T. DeRosa, R. DeSalvo, R. C. Devine, S. Dhurandhar, M. C. Díaz, L. Di Fiore, M. Di Giovanni, T. Di Girolamo, A. Di Lieto, S. Di Pace, I. Di Palma, A. Di Virgilio, V. Dolique, F. Donovan, K. L. Dooley, S. Doravari, R. Douglas, T. P. Downes, M. Drago, R. W. P. Drever, J. C. Driggers, M. Ducrot, S. E. Dwyer, T. B. Edo, M. C. Edwards, A. Effler, H.-B. Eggenstein, P. Ehrens, J. Eichholz, S. S. Eikenberry, W. Engels, R. C. Essick, T. Etzel, M. Evans, T. M. Evans, R. Everett, M. Factourovich, V. Fafone, H. Fair, S. Fairhurst, X. Fan, Q. Fang, S. Farinon, B. Farr, W. M. Farr, M. Favata, M. Fays, H. Fehrmann, M. M. Fejer, E. Fenyvesi, I. Ferrante, E. C. Ferreira, F. Ferrini, F. Fidecaro, I. Fiori, D. Fiorucci, R. P. Fisher, R. Flaminio, M. Fletcher, H. Fong, J.-D. Fournier, S. Frasca, F. Frasconi, Z. Frei, A. Freise, R. Frey, V. Frey, P. Fritschel, V. V. Frolov, P. Fulda, M. Fyffe, H. A. G. Gabbard, S. Gaebel, J. R. Gair, L. Gammaitoni, S. G. Gaonkar, F. Garufi, G. Gaur, N. Gehrels, G. Gemme, P. Geng, E. Genin, A. Gennai, J. George, L. Gergely, V. Germain, Abhirup Ghosh, Archisman Ghosh, S. Ghosh, J. A. Giaime, K. D. Giardina, A. Giazotto, K. Gill, A. Glaefke, E. Goetz, R. Goetz, L. Gondan, G. González, J. M. Gonzalez Castro, A. Gopakumar, N. A. Gordon, M. L. Gorodetsky, S. E. Gossan, M. Gosselin, R. Gouaty, A. Grado, C. Graef, P. B. Graff, M. Granata, A. Grant, S. Gras, C. Gray, G. Greco, A. C. Green, P. Groot, H. Grote, S. Grunewald, G. M. Guidi, X. Guo, A. Gupta, M. K. Gupta, K. E. Gushwa, E. K. Gustafson, R. Gustafson, J. J. Hacker, B. R. Hall, E. D. Hall, H. Hamilton, G. Hammond, M. Haney, M. M. Hanke, J. Hanks, C. Hanna, M. D. Hannam, J. Hanson, T. Hardwick, J. Harms, G. M. Harry, I. W. Harry, M. J. Hart, M. T. Hartman, C.-J. Haster, K. Haughian, J. Healy, A. Heidmann, M. C. Heintze, H. Heitmann, P. Hello, G. Hemming, M. Hendry, I. S. Heng, J. Hennig, J. Henry, A. W. Heptonstall, M. Heurs, S. Hild, D. Hoak, D. Hofman, K. Holt, D. E. Holz, P. Hopkins, J. Hough, E. A. Houston, E. J. Howell, Y. M. Hu, S. Huang, E. A. Huerta, D. Huet, B. Hughey, S. Husa, S. H. Huttner, T. Huynh-Dinh, N. Indik, D. R. Ingram, R. Inta, H. N. Isa, J.-M. Isac, M. Isi, T. Isogai, B. R. Iyer, K. Izumi, T. Jacqmin, H. Jang, K. Jani, P. Jaranowski, S. Jawahar, L. Jian, F. Jiménez-Forteza, W. W. Johnson, N. Johnson-McDaniel, D. I. Jones, R. Jones, R. J. G. Jonker, L. Ju, Haris K, C. V. Kalaghatgi, V. Kalogera, S. Kandhasamy, G. Kang, J. B. Kanner, S. J. Kapadia, S. Karki, K. S. Karvinen, M. Kasprzack, E. Katsavounidis, W. Katzman, S. Kaufer, T. Kaur, K. Kawabe, F. Kéfélian, M. S. Kehl, D. Keitel, D. B. Kelley, W. Kells, R. Kennedy, J. S. Key, F. Y. Khalili, I. Khan, S. Khan, Z. Khan, E. A. Khazanov, N. Kijbunchoo, Chi-Woong Kim, Chunglee Kim, J. Kim, K. Kim, N. Kim, W. Kim, Y.-M. Kim, S. J. Kimbrell, E. J. King, P. J. King, J. S. Kissel, B. Klein, L. Kleybolte, S. Klimenko, S. M. Koehlenbeck, S. Koley, V. Kondrashov, A. Kontos, M. Korobko, W. Z. Korth, I. Kowalska, D. B. Kozak, V. Kringel, B. Krishnan, A. Królak, C. Krueger, G. Kuehn, P. Kumar, R. Kumar, L. Kuo, A. Kutynia, B. D. Lackey, M. Landry, J. Lange, B. Lantz, P. D. Lasky, M. Laxen, A. Lazzarini, C. Lazzaro, P. Leaci, S. Leavey, E. O. Lebigot, C. H. Lee, H. K. Lee, H. M. Lee, K. Lee, A. Lenon, M. Leonardi, J. R. Leong, N. Leroy, N. Letendre, Y. Levin, J. B. Lewis, T. G. F. Li, A. Libson, T. B. Littenberg, N. A. Lockerbie, A. L. Lombardi, L. T. London, J. E. Lord, M. Lorenzini, V. Loriette, M. Lormand, G. Losurdo, J. D. Lough, C. Lousto, H. Lück, A. P. Lundgren, R. Lynch, Y. Ma, B. Machenschalk, M. MacInnis, D. M. Macleod, F. Magana-Sandoval, L. Magana Zertuche, R. M. Magee, E. Majorana, I. Maksimovic, V. Malvezzi, N. Man, I. Mandel, V. Mandic, V. Mangano, G. L. Mansell, M. Manske, M. Mantovani, F. Marchesoni, F. Marion, S. Márka, Z. Márka, A. S. Markosyan, E. Maros, F. Martelli, L. Martellini, I. W. Martin, D. V. Martynov, J. N. Marx, K. Mason, A. 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Wessels, T. Westphal, K. Wette, J. T. Whelan, S. E. Whitcomb, B. F. Whiting, R. D. Williams, A. R. Williamson, J. L. Willis, B. Willke, M. H. Wimmer, W. Winkler, C. C. Wipf, H. Wittel, G. Woan, J. Woehler, J. Worden, J. L. Wright, D. S. Wu, G. Wu, J. Yablon, W. Yam, H. Yamamoto, C. C. Yancey, H. Yu, M. Yvert, A. Zadrożny, L. Zangrando, M. Zanolin, J.-P. Zendri, M. Zevin, L. Zhang, M. Zhang, Y. Zhang, C. Zhao, M. Zhou, Z. Zhou, X. J. Zhu, M. E. Zucker, S. E. Zuraw, J. Zweizig Oct. 23, 2018 gr-qc, astro-ph.CO The first observational run of the Advanced LIGO detectors, from September 12, 2015 to January 19, 2016, saw the first detections of gravitational waves from binary black hole mergers. In this paper we present full results from a search for binary black hole merger signals with total masses up to $100 M_\odot$ and detailed implications from our observations of these systems. Our search, based on general-relativistic models of gravitational wave signals from binary black hole systems, unambiguously identified two signals, GW150914 and GW151226, with a significance of greater than $5\sigma$ over the observing period. It also identified a third possible signal, LVT151012, with substantially lower significance, and with an 87% probability of being of astrophysical origin. We provide detailed estimates of the parameters of the observed systems. Both GW150914 and GW151226 provide an unprecedented opportunity to study the two-body motion of a compact-object binary in the large velocity, highly nonlinear regime. We do not observe any deviations from general relativity, and place improved empirical bounds on several high-order post-Newtonian coefficients. From our observations we infer stellar-mass binary black hole merger rates lying in the range $9-240 \mathrm{Gpc}^{-3} \mathrm{yr}^{-1}$. These observations are beginning to inform astrophysical predictions of binary black hole formation rates, and indicate that future observing runs of the Advanced detector network will yield many more gravitational wave detections. Tests of general relativity with GW150914 (1602.03841) The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration: B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott, M. R. Abernathy, F. Acernese, K. Ackley, C. Adams, T. Adams, P. Addesso, R. X. Adhikari, V. B. Adya, C. Affeldt, M. Agathos, K. Agatsuma, N. Aggarwal, O. D. Aguiar, L. Aiello, A. Ain, P. Ajith, B. Allen, A. Allocca, P. A. Altin, S. B. Anderson, W. G. Anderson, K. Arai, M. C. Araya, C. C. Arceneaux, J. S. Areeda, N. Arnaud, K. G. Arun, S. Ascenzi, G. Ashton, M. Ast, S. M. Aston, P. Astone, P. Aufmuth, C. Aulbert, S. Babak, P. Bacon, M. K. M. Bader, P. T. Baker, F. Baldaccini, G. Ballardin, S. W. Ballmer, J. C. Barayoga, S. E. Barclay, B. C. Barish, D. Barker, F. Barone, B. Barr, L. Barsotti, M. Barsuglia, D. Barta, J. Bartlett, I. Bartos, R. Bassiri, A. Basti, J. C. Batch, C. Baune, V. Bavigadda, M. Bazzan, B. Behnke, M. Bejger, A. S. Bell, C. J. Bell, B. K. Berger, J. Bergman, G. Bergmann, C. P. L. Berry, D. Bersanetti, A. Bertolini, J. Betzwieser, S. Bhagwat, R. Bhandare, I. A. Bilenko, G. Billingsley, J. Birch, R. Birney, O. Birnholtz, S. Biscans, A. Bisht, M. Bitossi, C. Biwer, M. A. Bizouard, J. K. Blackburn, C. D. Blair, D. G. Blair, R. M. Blair, S. Bloemen, O. Bock, T. P. Bodiya, M. Boer, G. Bogaert, C. Bogan, A. Bohe, P. Bojtos, C. Bond, F. Bondu, R. Bonnand, B. A. Boom, R. Bork, V. Boschi, S. Bose, Y. Bouffanais, M. Boyle, A. Bozzi, C. Bradaschia, P. R. Brady, V. B. Braginsky, M. Branchesi, J. E. Brau, T. Briant, A. Brillet, M. Brinkmann, V. Brisson, P. Brockill, A. F. Brooks, D. A. Brown, D. D. Brown, N. M. Brown, C. C. Buchanan, A. Buikema, T. Bulik, H. J. Bulten, A. Buonanno, D. Buskulic, C. Buy, R. L. Byer, L. Cadonati, G. Cagnoli, C. Cahillane, J. Calderón Bustillo, T. Callister, E. Calloni, J. B. Camp, K. C. Cannon, J. Cao, C. D. Capano, E. Capocasa, F. Carbognani, S. Caride, J. Casanueva Diaz, C. Casentini, S. Caudill, M. Cavaglià, F. Cavalier, R. Cavalieri, G. Cella, C. B. Cepeda, L. Cerboni Baiardi, G. Cerretani, E. Cesarini, R. Chakraborty, T. Chalermsongsak, S. J. Chamberlin, M. Chan, S. Chao, P. Charlton, E. Chassande-Mottin, H. Y. Chen, Y. Chen, C. Cheng, A. Chincarini, A. Chiummo, H. S. Cho, M. Cho, J. H. Chow, N. Christensen, Q. Chu, S. Chua, S. Chung, G. Ciani, F. Clara, J. A. Clark, F. Cleva, E. Coccia, P.-F. Cohadon, A. Colla, C. G. Collette, L. Cominsky, M. Constancio Jr., A. Conte, L. Conti, D. Cook, T. R. Corbitt, N. Cornish, A. Corsi, S. Cortese, C. A. Costa, M. W. Coughlin, S. B. Coughlin, J.-P. Coulon, S. T. Countryman, P. Couvares, E. E. Cowan, D. M. Coward, M. J. Cowart, D. C. Coyne, R. Coyne, K. Craig, J. D. E. Creighton, J. Cripe, S. G. Crowder, A. Cumming, L. Cunningham, E. Cuoco, T. Dal Canton, S. L. 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Vyatchanin, A. R. Wade, L. E. Wade, M. Wade, M. Walker, L. Wallace, S. Walsh, G. Wang, H. Wang, M. Wang, X. Wang, Y. Wang, R. L. Ward, J. Warner, M. Was, B. Weaver, L.-W. Wei, M. Weinert, A. J. Weinstein, R. Weiss, T. Welborn, L. Wen, P. Weßels, T. Westphal, K. Wette, J. T. Whelan, D. J. White, B. F. Whiting, R. D. Williams, A. R. Williamson, J. L. Willis, B. Willke, M. H. Wimmer, W. Winkler, C. C. Wipf, H. Wittel, G. Woan, J. Worden, J. L. Wright, G. Wu, J. Yablon, W. Yam, H. Yamamoto, C. C. Yancey, M. J. Yap, H. Yu, M. Yvert, A. Zadrożny, L. Zangrando, M. Zanolin, J.-P. Zendri, M. Zevin, F. Zhang, L. Zhang, M. Zhang, Y. Zhang, C. Zhao, M. Zhou, Z. Zhou, X. J. Zhu, M. E. Zucker, S. E. Zuraw, J. Zweizig, M. Boyle, M. Campanelli, D. A. Hemberger, L. E. Kidder, S. Ossokine, M. A. Scheel, B. Szilagyi, S. Teukolsky, Y. Zlochower Oct. 23, 2018 gr-qc The LIGO detection of GW150914 provides an unprecedented opportunity to study the two-body motion of a compact-object binary in the large velocity, highly nonlinear regime, and to witness the final merger of the binary and the excitation of uniquely relativistic modes of the gravitational field. We carry out several investigations to determine whether GW150914 is consistent with a binary black-hole merger in general relativity. We find that the final remnant's mass and spin, as determined from the low-frequency (inspiral) and high-frequency (post-inspiral) phases of the signal, are mutually consistent with the binary black-hole solution in general relativity. Furthermore, the data following the peak of GW150914 are consistent with the least-damped quasi-normal mode inferred from the mass and spin of the remnant black hole. By using waveform models that allow for parameterized general-relativity violations during the inspiral and merger phases, we perform quantitative tests on the gravitational-wave phase in the dynamical regime and we determine the first empirical bounds on several high-order post-Newtonian coefficients. We constrain the graviton Compton wavelength, assuming that gravitons are dispersed in vacuum in the same way as particles with mass, obtaining a $90\%$-confidence lower bound of $10^{13}$ km. In conclusion, within our statistical uncertainties, we find no evidence for violations of general relativity in the genuinely strong-field regime of gravity. Collision Energy Dependence of Moments of Net-Kaon Multiplicity Distributions at RHIC (1709.00773) STAR Collaboration: L. Adamczyk, J. R. Adams, J. K. Adkins, G. Agakishiev, M. M. Aggarwal, Z. Ahammed, N. N. Ajitanand, I. Alekseev, D. M. Anderson, R. Aoyama, A. Aparin, D. Arkhipkin, E. C. Aschenauer, M. U. Ashraf, A. Attri, G. S. 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Guo, A. Gupta, W. Guryn, A. I. Hamad, A. Hamed, A. Harlenderova, J. W. Harris, L. He, S. Heppelmann, S. Heppelmann, N. Herrmann, A. Hirsch, S. Horvat, B. Huang, T. Huang, X. Huang, H. Z. Huang, T. J. Humanic, P. Huo, G. Igo, W. W. Jacobs, A. Jentsch, J. Jia, K. Jiang, S. Jowzaee, E. G. Judd, S. Kabana, D. Kalinkin, K. Kang, D. Kapukchyan, K. Kauder, H. W. Ke, D. Keane, A. Kechechyan, Z. Khan, D. P. Kikoła, C. Kim, I. Kisel, A. Kisiel, L. Kochenda, M. Kocmanek, T. Kollegger, L. K. Kosarzewski, A. F. Kraishan, L. Krauth, P. Kravtsov, K. Krueger, N. Kulathunga, L. Kumar, J. Kvapil, J. H. Kwasizur, R. Lacey, J. M. Landgraf, K. D. Landry, J. Lauret, A. Lebedev, R. Lednicky, J. H. Lee, X. Li, W. Li, Y. Li, C. Li, J. Lidrych, T. Lin, M. A. Lisa, F. Liu, P. Liu, Y. Liu, H. Liu, T. Ljubicic, W. J. Llope, M. Lomnitz, R. S. Longacre, X. Luo, S. Luo, G. L. Ma, L. Ma, R. Ma, Y. G. Ma, N. Magdy, R. Majka, D. Mallick, S. Margetis, C. Markert, H. S. Matis, D. Mayes, K. Meehan, J. C. Mei, Z. W. 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Smirnov, D. Smirnov, W. Solyst, P. Sorensen, H. M. Spinka, B. Srivastava, T. D. S. Stanislaus, D. J. Stewart, M. Strikhanov, B. Stringfellow, A. A. P. Suaide, T. Sugiura, M. Sumbera, B. Summa, Y. Sun, X. Sun, X. M. Sun, B. Surrow, D. N. Svirida, A. H. Tang, Z. Tang, A. Taranenko, T. Tarnowsky, A. Tawfik, J. Thäder, J. H. Thomas, A. R. Timmins, D. Tlusty, T. Todoroki, M. Tokarev, S. Trentalange, R. E. Tribble, P. Tribedy, S. K. Tripathy, B. A. Trzeciak, O. D. Tsai, T. Ullrich, D. G. Underwood, I. Upsal, G. Van Buren, G. van Nieuwenhuizen, A. N. Vasiliev, F. Videbæk, S. Vokal, S. A. Voloshin, A. Vossen, G. Wang, Y. Wang, F. Wang, Y. Wang, G. Webb, J. C. Webb, L. Wen, G. D. Westfall, H. Wieman, S. W. Wissink, R. Witt, Y. Wu, Z. G. Xiao, G. Xie, W. Xie, Y. F. Xu, J. Xu, Q. H. Xu, N. Xu, Z. Xu, S. Yang, Y. Yang, C. Yang, Q. Yang, Z. Ye, Z. Ye, L. Yi, K. Yip, I. -K. Yoo, N. Yu, H. Zbroszczyk, W. Zha, Z. Zhang, J. Zhang, S. Zhang, S. Zhang, J. Zhang, Y. Zhang, X. P. Zhang, J. B. Zhang, J. Zhao, C. Zhong, L. Zhou, C. Zhou, X. Zhu, Z. Zhu, M. Zyzak Sept. 17, 2018 hep-ph, hep-ex, nucl-ex, nucl-th Fluctuations of conserved quantities such as baryon number, charge, and strangeness are sensitive to the correlation length of the hot and dense matter created in relativistic heavy-ion collisions and can be used to search for the QCD critical point. We report the first measurements of the moments of net-kaon multiplicity distributions in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}$ = 7.7, 11.5, 14.5, 19.6, 27, 39, 62.4, and 200 GeV. The collision centrality and energy dependence of the mean ($M$), variance ($\sigma^2$), skewness ($S$), and kurtosis ($\kappa$) for net-kaon multiplicity distributions as well as the ratio $\sigma^2/M$ and the products $S\sigma$ and $\kappa\sigma^2$ are presented. Comparisons are made with Poisson and negative binomial baseline calculations as well as with UrQMD, a transport model (UrQMD) that does not include effects from the QCD critical point. Within current uncertainties, the net-kaon cumulant ratios appear to be monotonic as a function of collision energy. Global polarization of $\Lambda$ hyperons in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{_{NN}}}$ = 200 GeV (1805.04400) STAR Collaboration: J. Adam, L. Adamczyk, J. R. Adams, J. K. Adkins, G. Agakishiev, M. M. Aggarwal, Z. Ahammed, N. N. Ajitanand, I. Alekseev, D. M. Anderson, R. Aoyama, A. Aparin, D. Arkhipkin, E. C. Aschenauer, M. U. Ashraf, F. Atetalla, A. Attri, G. S. Averichev, X. Bai, V. Bairathi, K. Barish, AJ Bassill, A. Behera, R. Bellwied, A. Bhasin, A. K. Bhati, J. Bielcik, J. Bielcikova, L. C. Bland, I. G. Bordyuzhin, J. D. Brandenburg, A. V. Brandin, D. Brown, J. Bryslawskyj, I. Bunzarov, J. Butterworth, H. Caines, M. Calderón de la Barca Sánchez, J. M. Campbell, D. Cebra, I. Chakaberia, P. Chaloupka, F-H. Chang, Z. Chang, N. Chankova-Bunzarova, A. Chatterjee, S. Chattopadhyay, J. H. Chen, X. Chen, X. Chen, J. Cheng, M. Cherney, W. Christie, G. Contin, H. J. Crawford, S. Das, T. G. Dedovich, I. M. Deppner, A. A. Derevschikov, L. Didenko, C. Dilks, X. Dong, J. L. Drachenberg, J. C. Dunlop, L. G. Efimov, N. Elsey, J. Engelage, G. Eppley, R. Esha, S. Esumi, O. Evdokimov, J. Ewigleben, O. Eyser, R. Fatemi, S. Fazio, P. Federic, P. Federicova, J. Fedorisin, P. Filip, E. Finch, Y. Fisyak, C. E. Flores, L. Fulek, C. A. Gagliardi, T. Galatyuk, F. Geurts, A. Gibson, D. Grosnick, D. S. Gunarathne, Y. Guo, A. Gupta, W. Guryn, A. I. Hamad, A. Hamed, A. Harlenderova, J. W. Harris, L. He, S. Heppelmann, S. Heppelmann, N. Herrmann, A. Hirsch, L. Holub, S. Horvat, X. Huang, B. Huang, S. L. Huang, H. Z. Huang, T. Huang, T. J. Humanic, P. Huo, G. Igo, W. W. Jacobs, A. Jentsch, J. Jia, K. Jiang, S. Jowzaee, E. G. Judd, S. Kabana, D. Kalinkin, K. Kang, D. Kapukchyan, K. Kauder, H. W. Ke, D. Keane, A. Kechechyan, D. P. Kikoła, C. Kim, T. A. Kinghorn, I. Kisel, A. Kisiel, L. Kochenda, L. K. Kosarzewski, A. F. Kraishan, L. Kramarik, L. Krauth, P. Kravtsov, K. Krueger, N. Kulathunga, S. Kumar, L. Kumar, J. Kvapil, J. H. Kwasizur, R. Lacey, J. M. Landgraf, J. Lauret, A. Lebedev, R. Lednicky, J. H. Lee, X. Li, C. Li, W. Li, Y. Li, Y. Liang, J. Lidrych, T. Lin, A. Lipiec, M. A. Lisa, F. Liu, P. Liu, H. Liu, Y. Liu, T. Ljubicic, W. J. Llope, M. Lomnitz, R. S. Longacre, X. Luo, S. Luo, G. L. Ma, Y. G. Ma, L. Ma, R. Ma, N. Magdy, R. Majka, D. Mallick, S. Margetis, C. Markert, H. S. Matis, O. Matonoha, D. Mayes, J. A. Mazer, K. Meehan, J. C. Mei, N. G. Minaev, S. Mioduszewski, D. Mishra, B. Mohanty, M. M. Mondal, I. Mooney, D. A. Morozov, Md. Nasim, J. D. Negrete, J. M. Nelson, D. B. Nemes, M. Nie, G. Nigmatkulov, T. Niida, L. V. Nogach, T. Nonaka, S. B. Nurushev, G. Odyniec, A. Ogawa, K. Oh, S. Oh, V. A. Okorokov, D. Olvitt Jr., B. S. Page, R. Pak, Y. Panebratsev, B. Pawlik, H. Pei, C. Perkins, J. Pluta, J. Porter, M. Posik, N. K. Pruthi, M. Przybycien, J. Putschke, A. Quintero, S. K. Radhakrishnan, S. Ramachandran, R. L. Ray, R. Reed, H. G. Ritter, J. B. Roberts, O. V. Rogachevskiy, J. L. Romero, L. Ruan, J. Rusnak, O. Rusnakova, N. R. Sahoo, P. K. Sahu, S. Salur, J. Sandweiss, J. Schambach, A. M. Schmah, W. B. Schmidke, N. Schmitz, B. R. Schweid, F. Seck, J. Seger, M. Sergeeva, R. Seto, P. Seyboth, N. Shah, E. Shahaliev, P. V. Shanmuganathan, M. Shao, W. Q. Shen, F. Shen, S. S. Shi, Q. Y. Shou, E. P. Sichtermann, S. Siejka, R. Sikora, M. Simko, S. Singha, N. Smirnov, D. Smirnov, W. Solyst, P. Sorensen, H. M. Spinka, B. Srivastava, T. D. S. Stanislaus, D. J. Stewart, M. Strikhanov, B. Stringfellow, A. A. P. Suaide, T. Sugiura, M. Sumbera, B. Summa, Y. Sun, X. Sun, X. M. Sun, B. Surrow, D. N. Svirida, P. Szymanski, Z. Tang, A. H. Tang, A. Taranenko, T. Tarnowsky, J. H. Thomas, A. R. Timmins, D. Tlusty, T. Todoroki, M. Tokarev, C. A. Tomkiel, S. Trentalange, R. E. Tribble, P. Tribedy, S. K. Tripathy, O. D. Tsai, B. Tu, T. Ullrich, D. G. Underwood, I. Upsal, G. Van Buren, J. Vanek, A. N. Vasiliev, I. Vassiliev, F. Videbæk, S. Vokal, S. A. Voloshin, A. Vossen, G. Wang, Y. Wang, F. Wang, Y. Wang, J. C. Webb, L. Wen, G. D. Westfall, H. Wieman, S. W. Wissink, R. Witt, Y. Wu, Z. G. Xiao, G. Xie, W. Xie, Q. H. Xu, Z. Xu, J. Xu, Y. F. Xu, N. Xu, S. Yang, C. Yang, Q. Yang, Y. Yang, Z. Ye, Z. Ye, L. Yi, K. Yip, I. -K. Yoo, N. Yu, H. Zbroszczyk, W. Zha, Z. Zhang, L. Zhang, Y. Zhang, X. P. Zhang, J. Zhang, S. Zhang, S. Zhang, J. Zhang, J. Zhao, C. Zhong, C. Zhou, L. Zhou, Z. Zhu, X. Zhu, M. Zyzak May 11, 2018 nucl-ex Global polarization of $\Lambda$ hyperons has been measured to be of the order of a few tenths of a percent in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{_{NN}}}$ = 200 GeV, with no significant difference between $\Lambda$ and $\bar{\Lambda}$. These new results reveal the collision energy dependence of the global polarization together with the results previously observed at $\sqrt{s_{_{NN}}}$ = 7.7 -- 62.4 GeV and indicate noticeable vorticity of the medium created in non-central heavy-ion collisions at the highest RHIC collision energy. The signal is in rough quantitative agreement with the theoretical predictions from a hydrodynamic model and from the AMPT (A Multi-Phase Transport) model. The polarization is larger in more peripheral collisions, and depends weakly on the hyperon's transverse momentum and pseudorapidity $\eta^H$ within $|\eta^H|<1$. An indication of the polarization dependence on the event-by-event charge asymmetry is observed at the $2\sigma$ level, suggesting a possible contribution to the polarization from the axial current induced by the initial magnetic field. $J/\psi$ production cross section and its dependence on charged-particle multiplicity in $p+p$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 200 GeV (1805.03745) STAR Collaboration: J. Adam, L. Adamczyk, J. R. Adams, J. K. Adkins, G. Agakishiev, M. M. Aggarwal, Z. Ahammed, N. N. Ajitanand, I. Alekseev, D. M. Anderson, R. Aoyama, A. Aparin, D. Arkhipkin, E. C. Aschenauer, M. U. Ashraf, F. Atetalla, A. Attri, G. S. Averichev, X. Bai, V. Bairathi, K. Barish, A. J. Bassill, A. Behera, R. Bellwied, A. Bhasin, A. K. Bhati, J. Bielcik, J. Bielcikova, L. C. Bland, I. G. Bordyuzhin, J. D. Brandenburg, A. V. Brandin, D. Brown, J. Bryslawskyj, I. Bunzarov, J. Butterworth, H. Caines, M. Calderón de la Barca Sánchez, J. M. Campbell, D. Cebra, I. Chakaberia, P. Chaloupka, F-H. Chang, Z. Chang, N. Chankova-Bunzarova, A. Chatterjee, S. Chattopadhyay, J. H. Chen, X. Chen, X. Chen, J. Cheng, M. Cherney, W. Christie, G. Contin, H. J. Crawford, S. Das, T. G. Dedovich, I. M. Deppner, A. A. Derevschikov, L. Didenko, C. Dilks, X. Dong, J. L. Drachenberg, J. C. Dunlop, L. G. Efimov, N. Elsey, J. Engelage, G. Eppley, R. Esha, S. Esumi, O. Evdokimov, J. Ewigleben, O. Eyser, R. Fatemi, S. Fazio, P. Federic, P. Federicova, J. Fedorisin, P. Filip, E. Finch, Y. Fisyak, C. E. Flores, L. Fulek, C. A. Gagliardi, T. Galatyuk, F. Geurts, A. Gibson, D. Grosnick, D. S. Gunarathne, Y. Guo, A. Gupta, W. Guryn, A. I. Hamad, A. Hamed, A. Harlenderova, J. W. Harris, L. He, S. Heppelmann, S. Heppelmann, N. Herrmann, A. Hirsch, L. Holub, S. Horvat, X. Huang, B. Huang, S. L. Huang, H. Z. Huang, T. Huang, T. J. Humanic, P. Huo, G. Igo, W. W. Jacobs, A. Jentsch, J. Jia, K. Jiang, S. Jowzaee, E. G. Judd, S. Kabana, D. Kalinkin, K. Kang, D. Kapukchyan, K. Kauder, H. W. Ke, D. Keane, A. Kechechyan, D. P. Kikoła, C. Kim, T. A. Kinghorn, I. Kisel, A. Kisiel, L. Kochenda, L. K. Kosarzewski, A. F. Kraishan, L. Kramarik, L. Krauth, P. Kravtsov, K. Krueger, N. Kulathunga, S. Kumar, L. Kumar, J. Kvapil, J. H. Kwasizur, R. Lacey, J. M. Landgraf, J. Lauret, A. Lebedev, R. Lednicky, J. H. Lee, X. Li, C. Li, W. Li, Y. Li, Y. Liang, J. Lidrych, T. Lin, A. Lipiec, M. A. Lisa, F. Liu, P. Liu, H. Liu, Y. Liu, T. Ljubicic, W. J. Llope, M. Lomnitz, R. S. Longacre, X. Luo, S. Luo, G. L. Ma, Y. G. Ma, L. Ma, R. Ma, N. Magdy, R. Majka, D. Mallick, S. Margetis, C. Markert, H. S. Matis, O. Matonoha, D. Mayes, J. A. Mazer, K. Meehan, J. C. Mei, N. G. Minaev, S. Mioduszewski, D. Mishra, B. Mohanty, M. M. Mondal, I. Mooney, D. A. Morozov, Md. Nasim, J. D. Negrete, J. M. Nelson, D. B. Nemes, M. Nie, G. Nigmatkulov, T. Niida, L. V. Nogach, T. Nonaka, S. B. Nurushev, G. Odyniec, A. Ogawa, K. Oh, S. Oh, V. A. Okorokov, D. Olvitt Jr., B. S. Page, R. Pak, Y. Panebratsev, B. Pawlik, H. Pei, C. Perkins, J. Pluta, J. Porter, M. Posik, N. K. Pruthi, M. Przybycien, J. Putschke, A. Quintero, S. K. Radhakrishnan, S. Ramachandran, R. L. Ray, R. Reed, H. G. Ritter, J. B. Roberts, O. V. Rogachevskiy, J. L. Romero, L. Ruan, J. Rusnak, O. Rusnakova, N. R. Sahoo, P. K. Sahu, S. Salur, J. Sandweiss, J. Schambach, A. M. Schmah, W. B. Schmidke, N. Schmitz, B. R. Schweid, F. Seck, J. Seger, M. Sergeeva, R. Seto, P. Seyboth, N. Shah, E. Shahaliev, P. V. Shanmuganathan, M. Shao, W. Q. Shen, F. Shen, S. S. Shi, Q. Y. Shou, E. P. Sichtermann, S. Siejka, R. Sikora, M. Simko, S. Singha, N. Smirnov, D. Smirnov, W. Solyst, P. Sorensen, H. M. Spinka, B. Srivastava, T. D. S. Stanislaus, D. J. Stewart, M. Strikhanov, B. Stringfellow, A. A. P. Suaide, T. Sugiura, M. Sumbera, B. Summa, Y. Sun, X. Sun, X. M. Sun, B. Surrow, D. N. Svirida, P. Szymanski, Z. Tang, A. H. Tang, A. Taranenko, T. Tarnowsky, J. H. Thomas, A. R. Timmins, D. Tlusty, T. Todoroki, M. Tokarev, C. A. Tomkiel, S. Trentalange, R. E. Tribble, P. Tribedy, S. K. Tripathy, O. D. Tsai, B. Tu, T. Ullrich, D. G. Underwood, I. Upsal, G. Van Buren, J. Vanek, A. N. Vasiliev, I. Vassiliev, F. Videbæk, S. Vokal, S. A. Voloshin, A. Vossen, G. Wang, Y. Wang, F. Wang, Y. Wang, J. C. Webb, L. Wen, G. D. Westfall, H. Wieman, S. W. Wissink, R. Witt, Y. Wu, Z. G. Xiao, G. Xie, W. Xie, Q. H. Xu, Z. Xu, J. Xu, Y. F. Xu, N. Xu, S. Yang, C. Yang, Q. Yang, Y. Yang, Z. Ye, Z. Ye, L. Yi, K. Yip, I. -K. Yoo, N. Yu, H. Zbroszczyk, W. Zha, Z. Zhang, L. Zhang, Y. Zhang, X. P. Zhang, J. Zhang, S. Zhang, S. Zhang, J. Zhang, J. Zhao, C. Zhong, C. Zhou, L. Zhou, Z. Zhu, X. Zhu, M. Zyzak May 9, 2018 hep-ex, nucl-ex We present a measurement of inclusive $J/\psi$ production at mid-rapidity ($|y|<1$) in $p+p$ collisions at a center-of-mass energy of $\sqrt{s}$ = 200 GeV with the STAR experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). The differential production cross section for $J/\psi$ as a function of transverse momentum ($p_T$) for $0<p_T<14$ GeV/$c$ and the total cross section are reported and compared to calculations from the color evaporation model and the non-relativistic Quantum Chromodynamics model. The dependence of $J/\psi$ relative yields in three $p_T$ intervals on charged-particle multiplicity at mid-rapidity is measured for the first time in $p+p$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 200 GeV and compared with that measured at $\sqrt{s}$ = 7 TeV, PYTHIA8 and EPOS3 Monte Carlo generators, and the Percolation model prediction. Beam energy dependence of rapidity-even dipolar flow in Au+Au collisions (1804.08647) May 7, 2018 nucl-ex New measurements of directed flow for charged hadrons, characterized by the Fourier coefficient \vone, are presented for transverse momenta $\mathrm{p_T}$, and centrality intervals in Au+Au collisions recorded by the STAR experiment for the center-of-mass energy range $\mathrm{\sqrt{s_{_{NN}}}} = 7.7 - 200$ GeV. The measurements underscore the importance of momentum conservation and the characteristic dependencies on $\mathrm{\sqrt{s_{_{NN}}}}$, centrality and $\mathrm{p_T}$ are consistent with the expectations of geometric fluctuations generated in the initial stages of the collision, acting in concert with a hydrodynamic-like expansion. The centrality and $\mathrm{p_T}$ dependencies of $\mathrm{v^{even}_{1}}$, as well as an observed similarity between its excitation function and that for $\mathrm{v_3}$, could serve as constraints for initial-state models. The $\mathrm{v^{even}_{1}}$ excitation function could also provide an important supplement to the flow measurements employed for precision extraction of the temperature dependence of the specific shear viscosity. Constraints on cosmic strings using data from the first Advanced LIGO observing run (1712.01168) The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration: B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott, F. Acernese, K. Ackley, C. Adams, T. Adams, P. Addesso, R. X. Adhikari, V. B. Adya, C. Affeldt, M. Afrough, B. Agarwal, M. Agathos, K. Agatsuma, N. Aggarwal, O. D. Aguiar, L. Aiello, A. Ain, P. Ajith, B. Allen, G. Allen, A. Allocca, P. A. Altin, A. Amato, A. Ananyeva, S. B. Anderson, W. G. Anderson, S. Antier, S. Appert, K. Arai, M. C. Araya, J. S. Areeda, N. Arnaud, K. G. Arun, S. Ascenzi, G. Ashton, M. Ast, S. M. Aston, P. Astone, P. Aufmuth, C. Aulbert, K. AultONeal, A. Avila-Alvarez, S. Babak, P. Bacon, M. K. M. Bader, S. Bae, P. T. Baker, F. Baldaccini, G. Ballardin, S. W. 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Warner, M. Was, J. Watchi, B. Weaver, L.-W. Wei, M. Weinert, A. J. Weinstein, R. Weiss, L. Wen, E. K. Wessel, P. Wessels, T. Westphal, K. Wette, J. T. Whelan, B. F. Whiting, C. Whittle, D. Williams, R. D. Williams, A. R. Williamson, J. L. Willis, B. Willke, M. H. Wimmer, W. Winkler, C. C. Wipf, H. Wittel, G. Woan, J. Woehler, J. Wofford, K. W. K. Wong, J. Worden, J. L. Wright, D. S. Wu, G. Wu, W. Yam, H. Yamamoto, C. C. Yancey, M. J. Yap, Hang Yu, Haocun Yu, M. Yvert, A. Zadro.zny, M. Zanolin, T. Zelenova, J.-P. Zendri, M. Zevin, L. Zhang, M. Zhang, T. Zhang, Y.-H. Zhang, C. Zhao, M. Zhou, Z. Zhou, S. J. Zhu, X. J. Zhu, M. E. Zucker, J. Zweizig May 2, 2018 gr-qc, astro-ph.CO Cosmic strings are topological defects which can be formed in GUT-scale phase transitions in the early universe. They are also predicted to form in the context of string theory. The main mechanism for a network of Nambu-Goto cosmic strings to lose energy is through the production of loops and the subsequent emission of gravitational waves, thus offering an experimental signature for the existence of cosmic strings. Here we report on the analysis conducted to specifically search for gravitational-wave bursts from cosmic string loops in the data of Advanced LIGO 2015-2016 observing run (O1). No evidence of such signals was found in the data, and as a result we set upper limits on the cosmic string parameters for three recent loop distribution models. In this paper, we initially derive constraints on the string tension $G\mu$ and the intercommutation probability, using not only the burst analysis performed on the O1 data set, but also results from the previously published LIGO stochastic O1 analysis, pulsar timing arrays, cosmic microwave background and Big-Bang nucleosynthesis experiments. 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Zyzak April 2, 2018 nucl-ex, nucl-th We present measurements of three-particle correlations for various harmonics in Au+Au collisions at energies ranging from $\sqrt{s_{{\rm NN}}}=7.7$ to 200 GeV using the STAR detector. The quantity $\langle\cos(m\phi_1+n\phi_2-(m+n)\phi_3)\rangle$ is evaluated as a function of $\sqrt{s_{{\rm NN}}}$, collision centrality, transverse momentum, $p_T$, pseudo-rapidity difference, $\Delta\eta$, and harmonics ($m$ and $n$). These data provide detailed information on global event properties like the three-dimensional structure of the initial overlap region, the expansion dynamics of the matter produced in the collisions, and the transport properties of the medium. A strong dependence on $\Delta\eta$ is observed for most harmonic combinations consistent with breaking of longitudinal boost invariance. Data reveal changes with energy in the two-particle correlation functions relative to the second-harmonic event-plane and provide ways to constrain models of heavy-ion collisions over a wide range of collision energies. Constraining the initial conditions and temperature dependent transport with three-particle correlations in Au+Au collisions (1701.06497) We present three-particle mixed-harmonic correlations $\la \cos (m\phi_a + n\phi_b - (m+n) \phi_c)\ra$ for harmonics $m,n=1-3$ for charged particles in $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=$200 GeV Au+Au collisions at RHIC. These measurements provide information on the three-dimensional structure of the initial collision zone and are important for constraining models of a subsequent low-viscosity quark-gluon plasma expansion phase. We investigate correlations between the first, second and third harmonics predicted as a consequence of fluctuations in the initial state. The dependence of the correlations on the pseudorapidity separation between particles show hints of a breaking of longitudinal invariance. We compare our results to a number of state-of-the art hydrodynamic calculations with different initial states and temperature dependent viscosities. These measurements provide important steps towards constraining the temperature dependent transport and the longitudinal structure of the initial state at RHIC. A Search for Tensor, Vector, and Scalar Polarizations in the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background (1802.10194) The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration: B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott, F. Acernese, K. Ackley, C. Adams, T. Adams, P. Addesso, R. X. Adhikari, V. B. Adya, C. Affeldt, M. Afrough, B. Agarwal, M. Agathos, K. Agatsuma, N. Aggarwal, O. D. Aguiar, L. Aiello, A. Ain, P. Ajith, B. Allen, G. Allen, A. Allocca, P. A. Altin, A. Amato, A. Ananyeva, S. B. Anderson, W. G. Anderson, S. V. Angelova, S. Antier, S. 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The polarization of gravitational waves is encoded in the spectral shape of the stochastic gravitational-wave background, formed by the superposition of cosmological and individually-unresolved astrophysical sources. Using data recorded by Advanced LIGO during its first observing run, we search for a stochastic background of generically-polarized gravitational waves. We find no evidence for a background of any polarization, and place the first direct bounds on the contributions of vector and scalar polarizations to the stochastic background. Under log-uniform priors for the energy in each polarization, we limit the energy-densities of tensor, vector, and scalar modes at 95% credibility to $\Omega^T_0 < 5.6 \times 10^{-8}$, $\Omega^V_0 < 6.4\times 10^{-8}$, and $\Omega^S_0 < 1.1\times 10^{-7}$ at a reference frequency $f_0 = 25$ Hz. 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Wang, Y. Wang, G. Webb, J. C. Webb, L. Wen, G. D. Westfall, H. Wieman, S. W. Wissink, R. Witt, Y. Wu, Z. G. Xiao, G. Xie, W. Xie, Q. H. Xu, Y. F. Xu, J. Xu, N. Xu, Z. Xu, C. Yang, S. Yang, Q. Yang, Y. Yang, Z. Ye, Z. Ye, L. Yi, K. Yip, I. -K. Yoo, N. Yu, H. Zbroszczyk, W. Zha, J. B. Zhang, J. Zhang, S. Zhang, L. Zhang, J. Zhang, X. P. Zhang, Z. Zhang, S. Zhang, Y. Zhang, J. Zhao, C. Zhong, C. Zhou, L. Zhou, X. Zhu, Z. Zhu, M. Zyzak Feb. 28, 2018 hep-ex, nucl-ex The transversity distribution, which describes transversely polarized quarks in transversely polarized nucleons, is a fundamental component of the spin structure of the nucleon, and is only loosely constrained by global fits to existing semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering (SIDIS) data. In transversely polarized $p^\uparrow+p$ collisions it can be accessed using transverse polarization dependent fragmentation functions which give rise to azimuthal correlations between the polarization of the struck parton and the final state scalar mesons. This letter reports on spin dependent di-hadron correlations measured by the STAR experiment. The new dataset corresponds to 25 pb$^{-1}$ integrated luminosity of $p^\uparrow+p$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=500$ GeV, an increase of more than a factor of ten compared to our previous measurement at $\sqrt{s}=200$ GeV. Non-zero asymmetries sensitive to transversity are observed at a $Q^2$ of several hundred GeV and are found to be consistent with the former measurement and a model calculation. %we observe consistent with the former measurement are observed.} We expect that these data will enable an extraction of transversity with comparable precision to current SIDIS datasets but at much higher momentum transfers where subleading effects are suppressed. Full Band All-sky Search for Periodic Gravitational Waves in the O1 LIGO Data (1802.05241) The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration: B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott, F. Acernese, K. Ackley, C. Adams, T. Adams, P. Addesso, R. X. Adhikari, V. B. Adya, C. Affeldt, M. Afrough, B. Agarwal, M. Agathos, K. Agatsuma, N. Aggarwal, O. D. Aguiar, L. Aiello, A. Ain, B. Allen, G. Allen, A. Allocca, P. A. Altin, A. Amato, A. Ananyeva, S. B. Anderson, W. G. Anderson, S. V. Angelova, S. Antier, S. Appert, K. Arai, M. C. Araya, J. S. 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Wessel, P. Wessels, J. Westerweck, T. Westphal, K. Wette, J. T. Whelan, B. F. Whiting, C. Whittle, D. Wilken, D. Williams, R. D. Williams, A. R. Williamson, J. L. Willis, B. Willke, M. H. Wimmer, W. Winkler, C. C. Wipf, H. Wittel, G. Woan, J. Woehler, J. Wofford, W. K. Wong, J. Worden, J. L. Wright, D. S. Wu, D. M. Wysocki, S. Xiao, H. Yamamoto, C. C. Yancey, L. Yang, M. J. Yap, M. Yazback, Hang Yu, Haocun Yu, M. Yvert, A. Zadro.zny, M. Zanolin, T. Zelenova, J.-P. Zendri, M. Zevin, L. Zhang, M. Zhang, T. Zhang, Y.-H. Zhang, C. Zhao, M. Zhou, Z. Zhou, S. J. Zhu, X. J. Zhu, M. E. Zucker, J. Zweizig Feb. 14, 2018 gr-qc We report on a new all-sky search for periodic gravitational waves in the frequency band 475-2000 Hz and with a frequency time derivative in the range of [-1.0e-8, +1e-9] Hz/s. Potential signals could be produced by a nearby spinning and slightly non-axisymmetric isolated neutron star in our galaxy. This search uses the data from Advanced LIGO's first observational run O1. No gravitational wave signals were observed, and upper limits were placed on their strengths. For completeness, results from the separately published low frequency search 20-475 Hz are included as well. Our lowest upper limit on worst-case (linearly polarized) strain amplitude h_0 is 4e-25 near 170 Hz, while at the high end of our frequency range we achieve a worst-case upper limit of 1.3e-24. For a circularly polarized source (most favorable orientation), the smallest upper limit obtained is ~1.5e-25. Beam-Energy Dependence of Directed Flow of $\Lambda$, $\bar{\Lambda}$, $K^\pm$, $K^0_s$ and $\phi$ in Au+Au Collisions (1708.07132) STAR Collaboration: L. Adamczyk, J. R. Adams, J. K. Adkins, G. Agakishiev, M. M. Aggarwal, Z. Ahammed, N. N. Ajitanand, I. Alekseev, D. M. Anderson, R. Aoyama, A. Aparin, D. Arkhipkin, E. C. Aschenauer, M. U. Ashraf, A. Attri, G. S. Averichev, X. Bai, V. Bairathi, K. Barish, A. Behera, R. Bellwied, A. Bhasin, A. K. Bhati, P. Bhattarai, J. Bielcik, J. 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Herrmann, A. Hirsch, S. Horvat, B. Huang, T. Huang, X. Huang, H. Z. Huang, T. J. Humanic, P. Huo, G. Igo, W. W. Jacobs, A. Jentsch, J. Jia, K. Jiang, S. Jowzaee, E. G. Judd, S. Kabana, D. Kalinkin, K. Kang, D. Kapukchyan, K. Kauder, H. W. Ke, D. Keane, A. Kechechyan, Z. Khan, D. P. Kikoła, C. Kim, I. Kisel, A. Kisiel, L. Kochenda, M. Kocmanek, T. Kollegger, L. K. Kosarzewski, A. F. Kraishan, L. Krauth, P. Kravtsov, K. Krueger, N. Kulathunga, L. Kumar, J. Kvapil, J. H. Kwasizur, R. Lacey, J. M. Landgraf, K. D. Landry, J. Lauret, A. Lebedev, R. Lednicky, J. H. Lee, X. Li, W. Li, Y. Li, C. Li, J. Lidrych, T. Lin, M. A. Lisa, F. Liu, P. Liu, Y. Liu, H. Liu, T. Ljubicic, W. J. Llope, M. Lomnitz, R. S. Longacre, X. Luo, S. Luo, G. L. Ma, L. Ma, R. Ma, Y. G. Ma, N. Magdy, R. Majka, D. Mallick, S. Margetis, C. Markert, H. S. Matis, D. Mayes, K. Meehan, J. C. Mei, Z. W. Miller, N. G. Minaev, S. Mioduszewski, D. Mishra, S. Mizuno, B. Mohanty, M. M. Mondal, D. A. Morozov, M. K. Mustafa, Md. Nasim, T. K. Nayak, J. M. Nelson, D. B. Nemes, M. Nie, G. Nigmatkulov, T. Niida, L. V. Nogach, T. Nonaka, S. B. Nurushev, G. Odyniec, A. Ogawa, K. Oh, V. A. Okorokov, D. Olvitt Jr., B. S. Page, R. Pak, Y. Pandit, Y. Panebratsev, B. Pawlik, H. Pei, C. Perkins, J. Pluta, K. Poniatowska, J. Porter, M. Posik, N. K. Pruthi, M. Przybycien, J. Putschke, A. Quintero, S. Ramachandran, R. L. Ray, R. Reed, M. J. Rehbein, H. G. Ritter, J. B. Roberts, O. V. Rogachevskiy, J. L. Romero, J. D. Roth, L. Ruan, J. Rusnak, O. Rusnakova, N. R. Sahoo, P. K. Sahu, S. Salur, J. Sandweiss, M. Saur, J. Schambach, A. M. Schmah, W. B. Schmidke, N. Schmitz, B. R. Schweid, J. Seger, M. Sergeeva, R. Seto, P. Seyboth, N. Shah, E. Shahaliev, P. V. Shanmuganathan, M. Shao, W. Q. Shen, S. S. Shi, Z. Shi, Q. Y. Shou, E. P. Sichtermann, R. Sikora, M. Simko, S. Singha, M. J. Skoby, N. Smirnov, D. Smirnov, W. Solyst, P. Sorensen, H. M. Spinka, B. Srivastava, T. D. S. Stanislaus, D. J. Stewart, M. Strikhanov, B. Stringfellow, A. A. P. Suaide, T. Sugiura, M. Sumbera, B. Summa, Y. Sun, X. Sun, X. M. Sun, B. Surrow, D. N. Svirida, A. H. Tang, Z. Tang, A. Taranenko, T. Tarnowsky, A. Tawfik, J. Thäder, J. H. Thomas, A. R. Timmins, D. Tlusty, T. Todoroki, M. Tokarev, S. Trentalange, R. E. Tribble, P. Tribedy, S. K. Tripathy, B. A. Trzeciak, O. D. Tsai, T. Ullrich, D. G. Underwood, I. Upsal, G. Van Buren, G. van Nieuwenhuizen, A. N. Vasiliev, F. Videbæk, S. Vokal, S. A. Voloshin, A. Vossen, G. Wang, Y. Wang, F. Wang, Y. Wang, G. Webb, J. C. Webb, L. Wen, G. D. Westfall, H. Wieman, S. W. Wissink, R. Witt, Y. Wu, Z. G. Xiao, G. Xie, W. Xie, Y. F. Xu, J. Xu, Q. H. Xu, N. Xu, Z. Xu, S. Yang, Y. Yang, C. Yang, Q. Yang, Z. Ye, Z. Ye, L. Yi, K. Yip, I. -K. Yoo, N. Yu, H. Zbroszczyk, W. Zha, Z. Zhang, J. Zhang, S. Zhang, S. Zhang, J. Zhang, Y. Zhang, X. P. Zhang, J. B. Zhang, J. Zhao, C. Zhong, L. Zhou, C. Zhou, X. Zhu, Z. Zhu, M. Zyzak Jan. 15, 2018 hep-ex, nucl-ex Rapidity-odd directed flow measurements at midrapidity are presented for $\Lambda$, $\bar{\Lambda}$, $K^\pm$, $K^0_s$ and $\phi$ at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} =$ 7.7, 11.5, 14.5, 19.6, 27, 39, 62.4 and 200 GeV in Au+Au collisions recorded by the STAR detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. These measurements greatly expand the scope of data available to constrain models with differing prescriptions for the equation of state of quantum chromodynamics. Results show good sensitivity for testing a picture where flow is assumed to be imposed before hadron formation and the observed particles are assumed to form via coalescence of constituent quarks. The pattern of departure from a coalescence-inspired sum-rule can be a valuable new tool for probing the collision dynamics. Estimating the Contribution of Dynamical Ejecta in the Kilonova Associated with GW170817 (1710.05836) The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration: B. P. Abbott, R. 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J. Zhu, A. B. Zimmerman, M. E. Zucker, J. Zweizig Jan. 8, 2018 astro-ph.HE The source of the gravitational-wave signal GW170817, very likely a binary neutron star merger, was also observed electromagnetically, providing the first multi-messenger observations of this type. The two week long electromagnetic counterpart had a signature indicative of an r-process-induced optical transient known as a kilonova. This Letter examines how the mass of the dynamical ejecta can be estimated without a direct electromagnetic observation of the kilonova, using gravitational-wave measurements and a phenomenological model calibrated to numerical simulations of mergers with dynamical ejecta. Specifically, we apply the model to the binary masses inferred from the gravitational-wave measurements, and use the resulting mass of the dynamical ejecta to estimate its contribution (without the effects of wind ejecta) to the corresponding kilonova light curves from various models. The distributions of dynamical ejecta mass range between $M_{ej} = 10^{-3} - 10^{-2} M_{\odot}$ for various equations of state, assuming the neutron stars are rotating slowly. In addition, we use our estimates of the dynamical ejecta mass and the neutron star merger rates inferred from GW170817 to constrain the contribution of events like this to the r-process element abundance in the Galaxy when ejecta mass from post-merger winds is neglected. We find that if $\gtrsim10\%$ of the matter dynamically ejected from BNS mergers is converted to r-process elements, GW170817-like BNS mergers could fully account for the amount of r-process material observed in the Milky Way. Azimuthal transverse single-spin asymmetries of inclusive jets and charged pions within jets from polarized-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 500$ GeV (1708.07080) Dec. 28, 2017 hep-ex, nucl-ex We report the first measurements of transverse single-spin asymmetries for inclusive jet and jet + $\pi^{\pm}$ production at midrapidity from transversely polarized proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 500$ GeV. The data were collected in 2011 with the STAR detector sampled from 23 pb$^{-1}$ integrated luminosity with an average beam polarization of 53%. Asymmetries are reported for jets with transverse momenta $6 < p_{T, jet} < 55$ GeV/c and pseudorapidity $|\eta| < 1$. Presented are measurements of the inclusive-jet azimuthal transverse single-spin asymmetry, sensitive to twist-3 initial-state quark-gluon correlators; the Collins asymmetry, sensitive to quark transversity coupled to the polarized Collins fragmentation function; and the first measurement of the "Collins-like" asymmetry, sensitive to linearly polarized gluons. Within the present statistical precision, inclusive-jet and Collins-like asymmetries are small, with the latter allowing the first experimental constraints on gluon linear polarization in a polarized proton. At higher values of jet transverse momenta, we observe the first non-zero Collins asymmetries in polarized-proton collisions, with a statistical significance of greater than $5\sigma$. The results span a range of x similar to results from SIDIS but at much higher $Q^{2}$. The Collins results enable tests of universality and factorization-breaking in the transverse momentum-dependent formulation of perturbative quantum chromodynamics. First narrow-band search for continuous gravitational waves from known pulsars in advanced detector data (1710.02327) The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration: B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott, F. Acernese, K. Ackley, C. Adams, T. Adams, P. Addesso, R. X. Adhikari, V. B. Adya, C. Affeldt, M. Afrough, B. Agarwal, M. Agathos, K. Agatsuma, N. Aggarwal, O. D. Aguiar, L. Aiello, A. Ain, B. Allen, G. Allen, A. Allocca, P. A. Altin, A. Amato, A. Ananyeva, S. B. Anderson, W. G. Anderson, S. V. Angelova, S. Antier, S. Appert, K. Arai, M. C. Araya, J. S. Areeda, N. Arnaud, K. G. Arun, S. Ascenzi, G. Ashton, M. Ast, S. M. Aston, P. Astone, D. V. Atallah, P. Aufmuth, C. Aulbert, K. AultONeal, C. Austin, A. Avila-Alvarez, S. Babak, P. Bacon, M. K. M. Bader, S. Bae, P. T. Baker, F. Baldaccini, G. Ballardin, S. W. Ballmer, S. Banagiri, J. C. Barayoga, S. E. Barclay, B. C. Barish, D. Barker, K. Barkett, F. Barone, B. Barr, L. Barsotti, M. Barsuglia, D. Barta, J. Bartlett, I. Bartos, R. Bassiri, A. Basti, J. C. Batch, M. Bawaj, J. C. Bayley, M. Bazzan, B. Bécsy, C. Beer, M. Bejger, I. Belahcene, A. S. Bell, B. K. Berger, G. Bergmann, J. J. Bero, C. P. L. Berry, D. Bersanetti, A. Bertolini, J. Betzwieser, S. Bhagwat, R. Bhandare, I. A. Bilenko, G. Billingsley, C. R. Billman, J. Birch, R. Birney, O. Birnholtz, S. Biscans, S. Biscoveanu, A. Bisht, M. Bitossi, C. Biwer, M. A. Bizouard, J. K. Blackburn, J. Blackman, C. D. Blair, D. G. Blair, R. M. Blair, S. Bloemen, O. Bock, N. Bode, M. Boer, G. Bogaert, A. Bohe, F. Bondu, E. Bonilla, R. Bonnand, B. A. Boom, R. Bork, V. Boschi, S. Bose, K. Bossie, Y. Bouffanais, A. Bozzi, C. Bradaschia, P. R. Brady, M. Branchesi, J. E. Brau, T. Briant, A. Brillet, M. Brinkmann, V. Brisson, P. Brockill, J. E. Broida, A. F. Brooks, D. A. Brown, D. D. Brown, S. Brunett, C. C. Buchanan, A. Buikema, T. Bulik, H. J. Bulten, A. Buonanno, D. Buskulic, C. Buy, R. L. Byer, M. Cabero, L. Cadonati, G. Cagnoli, C. Cahillane, J. Calder'on Bustillo, T. A. Callister, E. Calloni, J. B. Camp, P. Canizares, K. C. Cannon, H. Cao, J. Cao, C. D. Capano, E. Capocasa, F. Carbognani, S. Caride, M. F. Carney, J. Casanueva Diaz, C. Casentini, S. Caudill, M. Cavaglià, F. Cavalier, R. Cavalieri, G. Cella, C. B. Cepeda, P. Cerd'a-Dur'an, G. Cerretani, E. Cesarini, S. J. Chamberlin, M. Chan, S. Chao, P. Charlton, E. Chase, E. Chassande-Mottin, D. Chatterjee, B. D. Cheeseboro, H. Y. Chen, X. Chen, Y. Chen, H.-P. Cheng, H. Chia, A. Chincarini, A. Chiummo, T. Chmiel, H. S. Cho, M. Cho, J. H. Chow, N. Christensen, Q. Chu, A. J. K. Chua, S. Chua, A. K. W. Chung, S. Chung, G. Ciani, R. Ciolfi, C. E. Cirelli, A. Cirone, F. Clara, J. A. Clark, P. Clearwater, F. Cleva, C. Cocchieri, E. Coccia, P.-F. Cohadon, D. Cohen, A. Colla, C. G. Collette, L. R. Cominsky, M. Constancio Jr., L. Conti, S. J. Cooper, P. Corban, T. R. Corbitt, I. Cordero-Carri'on, K. R. Corley, N. Cornish, A. Corsi, S. Cortese, C. A. Costa, M. W. Coughlin, S. B. Coughlin, J.-P. Coulon, S. T. Countryman, P. Couvares, P. B. Covas, E. E. Cowan, D. M. Coward, M. J. Cowart, D. C. Coyne, R. Coyne, J. D. E. Creighton, T. D. Creighton, J. Cripe, S. G. Crowder, T. J. Cullen, A. Cumming, L. Cunningham, E. Cuoco, T. Dal Canton, G. D'alya, S. L. Danilishin, S. D'Antonio, K. Danzmann, A. Dasgupta, C. F. Da Silva Costa, V. Dattilo, I. Dave, M. Davier, D. Davis, E. J. Daw, B. Day, S. De, D. DeBra, J. Degallaix, M. De Laurentis, S. Del'eglise, W. Del Pozzo, N. Demos, T. Denker, T. Dent, R. De Pietri, V. Dergachev, R. De Rosa, R. T. DeRosa, C. De Rossi, R. DeSalvo, O. de Varona, J. Devenson, S. Dhurandhar, M. C. D'iaz, L. Di Fiore, M. Di Giovanni, T. Di Girolamo, A. Di Lieto, S. Di Pace, I. Di Palma, F. Di Renzo, Z. Doctor, V. Dolique, F. Donovan, K. L. Dooley, S. Doravari, I. Dorrington, R. Douglas, M. Dovale 'Alvarez, T. P. Downes, M. Drago, C. Dreissigacker, J. C. Driggers, Z. Du, M. Ducrot, P. Dupej, S. E. Dwyer, T. B. Edo, M. C. Edwards, A. Effler, H.-B. Eggenstein, P. Ehrens, J. Eichholz, S. S. Eikenberry, R. A. Eisenstein, R. C. Essick, D. Estevez, Z. B. Etienne, T. Etzel, M. Evans, T. M. Evans, M. Factourovich, V. Fafone, H. Fair, S. Fairhurst, X. Fan, S. Farinon, B. Farr, W. M. Farr, E. J. Fauchon-Jones, M. Favata, M. Fays, C. Fee, H. Fehrmann, J. Feicht, M. M. Fejer, A. Fernandez-Galiana, I. Ferrante, E. C. Ferreira, F. Ferrini, F. Fidecaro, D. Finstad, I. Fiori, D. Fiorucci, M. Fishbach, R. P. Fisher, M. Fitz-Axen, R. Flaminio, M. Fletcher, H. Fong, J. A. Font, P. W. F. Forsyth, S. S. Forsyth, J.-D. Fournier, S. Frasca, F. Frasconi, Z. Frei, A. Freise, R. Frey, V. Frey, E. M. Fries, P. Fritschel, V. V. Frolov, P. Fulda, M. Fyffe, H. Gabbard, B. U. Gadre, S. M. Gaebel, J. R. Gair, L. Gammaitoni, M. R. Ganija, S. G. Gaonkar, C. Garcia-Quiros, F. Garufi, B. 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W. K. Wong, J. Worden, J. L. Wright, D. S. Wu, D. M. Wysocki, S. Xiao, H. Yamamoto, C. C. Yancey, L. Yang, M. J. Yap, M. Yazback, Hang Yu, Haocun Yu, M. Yvert, A. Zadro.zny, M. Zanolin, T. Zelenova, J.-P. Zendri, M. Zevin, L. Zhang, M. Zhang, T. Zhang, Y.-H. Zhang, C. Zhao, M. Zhou, Z. Zhou, S. J. Zhu, X. J. Zhu, M. E. Zucker, J. Zweizig Dec. 5, 2017 gr-qc, astro-ph.HE Spinning neutron stars asymmetric with respect to their rotation axis are potential sources of continuous gravitational waves for ground-based interferometric detectors. In the case of known pulsars a fully coherent search, based on matched filtering, which uses the position and rotational parameters obtained from electromagnetic observations, can be carried out. Matched filtering maximizes the signal-to-noise (SNR) ratio, but a large sensitivity loss is expected in case of even a very small mismatch between the assumed and the true signal parameters. For this reason, {\it narrow-band} analyses methods have been developed, allowing a fully coherent search for gravitational waves from known pulsars over a fraction of a hertz and several spin-down values. In this paper we describe a narrow-band search of eleven pulsars using data from Advanced LIGO's first observing run. Although we have found several initial outliers, further studies show no significant evidence for the presence of a gravitational wave signal. Finally, we have placed upper limits on the signal strain amplitude lower than the spin-down limit for 5 of the 11 targets over the bands searched: in the case of J1813-1749 the spin-down limit has been beaten for the first time. For an additional 3 targets, the median upper limit across the search bands is below the spin-down limit. This is the most sensitive narrow-band search for continuous gravitational waves carried out so far. All-sky search for long-duration gravitational wave transients in the first Advanced LIGO observing run (1711.06843) The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration: B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott, M. R. Abernathy, F. Acernese, K. Ackley, C. Adams, T. Adams, P. Addesso, R. X. Adhikari, V. B. Adya, C. Affeldt, M. Agathos, K. Agatsuma, N. Aggarwal, O. D. Aguiar, L. Aiello, A. Ain, P. Ajith, B. Allen, A. Allocca, P. A. Altin, A. Ananyeva, S. B. Anderson, W. G. Anderson, S. Appert, K. Arai, M. C. Araya, J. S. Areeda, N. Arnaud, K. G. Arun, S. Ascenzi, G. Ashton, M. Ast, S. M. Aston, P. Astone, P. Aufmuth, C. Aulbert, A. Avila-Alvarez, S. Babak, P. Bacon, M. K. M. Bader, P. T. Baker, F. Baldaccini, G. Ballardin, S. W. Ballmer, J. C. Barayoga, S. E. Barclay, B. C. Barish, D. Barker, F. Barone, B. Barr, L. Barsotti, M. Barsuglia, D. Barta, J. Bartlett, I. Bartos, R. Bassiri, A. Basti, J. C. Batch, C. Baune, V. Bavigadda, M. Bazzan, C. Beer, M. Bejger, I. Belahcene, M. Belgin, A. S. Bell, B. K. Berger, G. Bergmann, C. P. L. Berry, D. Bersanetti, A. Bertolini, J. Betzwieser, S. Bhagwat, R. Bhandare, I. A. Bilenko, G. Billingsley, C. R. Billman, J. Birch, R. Birney, O. Birnholtz, S. Biscans, A. Bisht, M. Bitossi, C. Biwer, M. A. Bizouard, J. K. Blackburn, J. Blackman, C. D. Blair, D. G. Blair, R. M. Blair, S. Bloemen, O. Bock, M. Boer, G. Bogaert, A. Bohe, F. Bondu, R. Bonnand, B. A. Boom, R. Bork, V. Boschi, S. Bose, Y. Bouffanais, A. Bozzi, C. Bradaschia, P. R. Brady, V. B. Braginsky, M. Branchesi, J. E. Brau, T. Briant, A. Brillet, M. Brinkmann, V. Brisson, P. Brockill, J. E. Broida, A. F. Brooks, D. A. Brown, D. D. Brown, N. M. Brown, S. Brunett, C. C. Buchanan, A. Buikema, T. Bulik, H. J. Bulten, A. Buonanno, D. Buskulic, C. Buy, R. L. Byer, M. Cabero, L. Cadonati, G. Cagnoli, C. Cahillane, J. Calder'on Bustillo, T. A. Callister, E. Calloni, J. B. Camp, M. Canepa, K. C. Cannon, H. Cao, J. Cao, C. D. Capano, E. Capocasa, F. Carbognani, S. Caride, J. Casanueva Diaz, C. Casentini, S. Caudill, M. Cavagli`a, F. Cavalier, R. Cavalieri, G. Cella, C. B. Cepeda, L. Cerboni Baiardi, G. Cerretani, E. Cesarini, S. J. Chamberlin, M. Chan, S. Chao, P. Charlton, E. Chassande-Mottin, B. D. Cheeseboro, H. Y. Chen, Y. Chen, H.-P. Cheng, A. Chincarini, A. Chiummo, T. Chmiel, H. S. Cho, M. Cho, J. H. Chow, N. Christensen, Q. Chu, A. J. K. Chua, S. Chua, S. Chung, G. Ciani, F. Clara, J. A. Clark, F. Cleva, C. Cocchieri, E. Coccia, P.-F. Cohadon, A. Colla, C. G. Collette, L. Cominsky, M. Constancio Jr., L. Conti, S. J. Cooper, T. R. Corbitt, N. Cornish, A. Corsi, S. Cortese, C. A. Costa, M. W. Coughlin, S. B. Coughlin, J.-P. Coulon, S. T. Countryman, P. Couvares, P. B. Covas, E. E. Cowan, D. M. Coward, M. J. Cowart, D. C. Coyne, R. Coyne, J. D. E. Creighton, T. D. Creighton, J. Cripe, S. G. Crowder, T. J. Cullen, A. Cumming, L. Cunningham, E. Cuoco, T. Dal Canton, S. L. Danilishin, S. D'Antonio, K. Danzmann, A. Dasgupta, C. F. Da Silva Costa, V. Dattilo, I. Dave, M. Davier, G. S. Davies, D. Davis, E. J. Daw, B. Day, R. Day, S. De, D. DeBra, G. Debreczeni, J. Degallaix, M. De Laurentis, S. Del'eglise, W. Del Pozzo, T. Denker, T. Dent, V. Dergachev, R. De Rosa, R. T. DeRosa, R. DeSalvo, R. C. Devine, S. Dhurandhar, M. C. D'iaz, L. Di Fiore, M. Di Giovanni, T. Di Girolamo, A. Di Lieto, S. Di Pace, I. Di Palma, A. Di Virgilio, Z. Doctor, V. Dolique, F. Donovan, K. L. Dooley, S. Doravari, I. Dorrington, R. Douglas, M. Dovale 'Alvarez, T. P. Downes, M. Drago, R. W. P. Drever, J. C. Driggers, Z. Du, M. Ducrot, S. E. Dwyer, T. B. Edo, M. C. Edwards, A. Effler, H.-B. Eggenstein, P. Ehrens, J. Eichholz, S. S. Eikenberry, R. A. Eisenstein, R. C. Essick, Z. Etienne, T. Etzel, M. Evans, T. M. Evans, R. Everett, M. Factourovich, V. Fafone, H. Fair, S. Fairhurst, X. Fan, S. Farinon, B. Farr, W. M. Farr, E. J. Fauchon-Jones, M. Favata, M. Fays, H. Fehrmann, M. M. Fejer, A. Fern'andez Galiana, I. Ferrante, E. C. 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Zweizig Nov. 18, 2017 gr-qc, astro-ph.HE We present the results of a search for long-duration gravitational wave transients in the data of the LIGO Hanford and LIGO Livingston second generation detectors between September 2015 and January 2016, with a total observational time of 49 days. The search targets gravitational wave transients of \unit[10 -- 500]{s} duration in a frequency band of \unit[24 -- 2048]{Hz}, with minimal assumptions about the signal waveform, polarization, source direction, or time of occurrence. No significant events were observed. %All candidate triggers were consistent with the expected background, As a result we set 90\% confidence upper limits on the rate of long-duration gravitational wave transients for different types of gravitational wave signals. We also show that the search is sensitive to sources in the Galaxy emitting at least $\sim$ \unit[$10^{-8}$]{$\mathrm{M_{\odot} c^2}$} in gravitational waves. GW170608: Observation of a 19-solar-mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence (1711.05578) The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration: B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott, F. Acernese, K. Ackley, C. Adams, T. Adams, P. Addesso, R. X. Adhikari, V. B. Adya, C. Affeldt, M. Afrough, B. Agarwal, M. Agathos, K. Agatsuma, N. Aggarwal, O. D. Aguiar, L. Aiello, A. Ain, P. Ajith, B. Allen, G. Allen, A. Allocca, P. A. Altin, A. Amato, A. Ananyeva, S. B. Anderson, W. G. Anderson, S. V. Angelova, S. Antier, S. Appert, K. Arai, M. C. Araya, J. S. Areeda, N. Arnaud, K. G. Arun, S. Ascenzi, G. Ashton, M. Ast, S. M. Aston, P. Astone, D. V. Atallah, P. Aufmuth, C. Aulbert, K. AultONeal, C. Austin, A. Avila-Alvarez, S. Babak, P. Bacon, M. K. M. Bader, S. Bae, P. T. Baker, F. Baldaccini, G. Ballardin, S. W. Ballmer, S. Banagiri, J. C. Barayoga, S. E. Barclay, B. C. Barish, D. Barker, K. Barkett, F. Barone, B. Barr, L. Barsotti, M. Barsuglia, D. Barta, J. Bartlett, I. Bartos, R. Bassiri, A. 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Wimmer, W. Winkler, C. C. Wipf, H. Wittel, G. Woan, J. Woehler, J. Worden, J. L. Wright, D. S. Wu, G. Wu, J. Yablon, W. Yam, H. Yamamoto, C. C. Yancey, H. Yu, M. Yvert, A. Zadro.zny, L. Zangrando, M. Zanolin, J.-P. Zendri, M. Zevin, L. Zhang, M. Zhang, Y. Zhang, C. Zhao, M. Zhou, Z. Zhou, X. J. Zhu, M. E. Zucker, S. E. Zuraw, J. Zweizig Oct. 8, 2019 gr-qc, astro-ph.IM The first observing run of Advanced LIGO spanned 4 months, from September 12, 2015 to January 19, 2016, during which gravitational waves were directly detected from two binary black hole systems, namely GW150914 and GW151226. Confident detection of gravitational waves requires an understanding of instrumental transients and artifacts that can reduce the sensitivity of a search. Studies of the quality of the detector data yield insights into the cause of instrumental artifacts and data quality vetoes specific to a search are produced to mitigate the effects of problematic data. 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The merger rate of binary neutron stars estimated from this event suggests that distant, unresolvable binary neutron stars create a significant astrophysical stochastic gravitational-wave background. The binary neutron star background will add to the background from binary black holes, increasing the amplitude of the total astrophysical background relative to previous expectations. In the Advanced LIGO-Virgo frequency band most sensitive to stochastic backgrounds (near 25 Hz), we predict a total astrophysical background with amplitude $\Omega_{\rm GW} (f=25 \text{Hz}) = 1.8_{-1.3}^{+2.7} \times 10^{-9}$ with $90\%$ confidence, compared with $\Omega_{\rm GW} (f=25 \text{Hz}) = 1.1_{-0.7}^{+1.2} \times 10^{-9}$ from binary black holes alone. Assuming the most probable rate for compact binary mergers, we find that the total background may be detectable with a signal-to-noise-ratio of 3 after 40 months of total observation time, based on the expected timeline for Advanced LIGO and Virgo to reach their design sensitivity. On the Progenitor of Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817 (1710.05838) The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration: B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott, F. Acernese, K. Ackley, C. Adams, T. Adams, P. Addesso, R. X. Adhikari, V. B. Adya, C. Affeldt, M. Afrough, B. Agarwal, M. Agathos, K. Agatsuma, N. Aggarwal, O. D. Aguiar, L. Aiello, A. Ain, P. Ajith, B. Allen, G. Allen, A. Allocca, P. A. Altin, A. Amato, A. Ananyeva, S. B. Anderson, W. G. Anderson, S. V. Angelova, S. Antier, S. Appert, K. Arai, M. C. Araya, J. S. Areeda, N. Arnaud, K. G. Arun, S. Ascenzi, G. Ashton, M. Ast, S. M. Aston, P. Astone, D. V. Atallah, P. Aufmuth, C. Aulbert, K. AultONeal, C. Austin, A. Avila-Alvarez, S. Babak, P. 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Bundala National Park from Ahangama Bundala National Park Safari offers a great opportunity to see some amazing wildlife and bird species in the South of Sri Lanka. Don’t miss this chance to see the Greater Flamingo one of the most famed bird species that winters here. Hotel pickup & drop-off from/to Ahangama. Transport throughout the tour in an air-conditioned vehicle with the service of an English-speaking chauffeur. Entrance fees to Bundala National Park. You will be starting your tour from Ahangama at 11.00 am. Your chauffeur will be picking you up from Your hotel In Ahangama and driving you to Bundala. You will reach the Bundala by 2:00 pm, proceed to Bundala National Park where you will meet your safari jeep to go on a lovely jeep safari. Enjoy a three-hour safari which would give you a chance to explore the amazing Bundala National Park. Bundala is a UNESCO designated Biosphere Reserve, an Important Bird Area designated by Birdlife International and also the very first Ramsar site in Sri Lanka. Based on the southern coast of Sri Lanka, Bundala National Park has a low country dry zone climate with five saltwater lagoons. The park as a whole is a home ground for many species of plant life, many of them aquatic. Your safari will give you a chance to see many of the 324 species of animals that can be found in Bundala. Small herds of elephants roam the park. Meanwhile, you may see langurs, pangolins, barking deer, sambar and many other types of deer, wild boar, rusty-spotted cats, black-naped hares, and jackals. These are merely the tip of the iceberg. In addition to these mammals, Bundala is also famous for its crocodile population. It is the only park in Sri Lanka where you can see both the species of crocodiles available in Sri Lanka; the freshwater (mugger) crocodile and the estuarine crocodile. Other reptiles seen here are tortoises, the many species of snakes including the endemic flying snake, and turtles including all five of the species of globally endangered sea turtles that nest in Sri Lanka. Bundala is also a haven for almost 200 species of birds at the peak of migration. Greater flamingos, which migrate by the thousands to escape winter, also count among this number. Some of the birds that you may get to see are; the many species of cormorants; ducks, such as the lesser whistling duck or garganey; spoonbills; storks such as the painted stork or the black-necked stork; and other birds like the Eurasian coot. After the safari, you will return to your vehicle and you’ll get back to Ahangama by 8.30 pm, completing your tour.

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In their merry Oldsmobiles: Lansing’s car brand lives on in hometown 15 years after demise The former Oldsmobile world headquarters at GM Lansing Assembly sits empty as it's used as a giant advertisement billboard for Cadillac. Dennis Burck Evan Hope is a proud owner of a 1982 Oldsmobile Toronado convertible. Co-owner of Badgley's garage Trevor Badgley specializes in Oldsmobiles. An Oldsmobile 98 with a rusted out subframe is on its last leg at a Midas repair shop in Lansing. R.E. Olds Transportation Museum volunteer Jerry Garfield stands next to a 1966 Oldsmobile Toronado. Posted Thursday, September 26, 2019 9:40 am Badgley’s Garage sits humbly on Clippert Street in Lansing Township, a building of unassuming white concrete blocks. And though many repair shops carry garage in their namesakes, Badgley’s Garage is just that — one big bay that can fit two cars. There is no office and nowhere to sit to wait for a repair. Customers are served through a small window with what looks like the square footage of a closet. Manning the shop is Trevor Badgley, a third-generation Oldsmobile mechanic and owner of the garage, dressed in simple mechanic overalls. As the striking United Auto Workers show, General Motors is still a big presence in Lansing, but in 2004 the company shuttered its Oldsmobile division, the brand tied to Michigan’s capital for 107 years. Fifteen years after the last Oldsmobile rolled off the assembly line, Badgley’s still specializes in the hometown brand. It’s one of the last Oldsmobile-specific shops in the United States and the very last in Michigan. Inside the garage is a museum-quality display of Oldsmobile signs and memorabilia throughout the years, salvaged from former dealerships, garages and shops. “We specialize in Oldsmobiles and are known for that around the country. We’ll have cars shipped in from Tennessee, Illinois and New York,” Badgley said. “Some of these Oldsmobiles have been passed down from generation to generation. Some are recent purchases that come back to Lansing because people are looking to buy the car their dad worked on at the factory.” Despite a shortage of parts, manuals and mechanics, Oldsmobiles and their stubborn owners prove that the brand is very much alive in its hometown after being defunct for over a decade. A step inside the R.E. Olds Transportation Museum sees a score of monthly magazines and newsletters from different Oldsmobile clubs across the country on how to maintain and find parts for the aging vehicles. Bumper stickers are also for sale, proclaiming “I don’t care what GM says, Oldsmobile will never die!” The history of R.E. Olds can be traced to Lansing in 1897, when Ransom Olds founded the Olds Motor Vehicle Company. Among Oldsmobile’s pioneered inventions over a century in business were the passenger airbag, automatic transmission, chrome plating and onboard GPS navigation. The concept of the brand’s death would’ve been laughable in the 1980s. The Oldsmobile Cutlass was the best-selling model of any car in 1986, selling over a million per year. At this highpoint, Oldsmobile employed 21,000 in Lansing and operated its world headquarters out of Building 70 on Townsend Street near Lansing Assembly. The building now sits overgrown and fenced off. GM appears to use it solely to hang an enormous advertisement for Cadillac, a brand still produced in Lansing at Grand River Assembly. The biggest challenge to keeping the brand alive today is parts, Badgley said. “If it is a high-performance Oldsmobile, parts are readily available through aftermarket sources. But if it is just your plain Jane Oldsmobile 98, some of that stuff is not so easy to locate.” On Evan Hope’s 1982 Oldsmobile Toronado convertible, a plastic piece between the front bumper and the body is rotting away from age. Hope covers the rot with a white piece of tape, the only noticeable cosmetic defect to an otherwise spotless machine. “I can’t find the original part for this,” Hope said. “I can find something similar, but there will be an ugly gap at each bend.” Hope, who is the Delhi Township clerk, purchased his Toronado a year ago. It has been a lifelong dream of his to own an ’80s Oldsmobile after rolling around in his neighbor’s late ’70s Oldsmobile 98 when he grew up in Holt. “You could not feel the road, and it felt like we were floating,” Hope said. “Other 10-year-olds might have been interested in exotic sports cars in the '80s like a Lamborghini Countach. For me, it was luxury cars like Olds.” Hope hunted for a cheap daily driver, but he couldn’t pass up the chance to own an Oldsmobile convertible. “It had plush seats, a cloud ride, spokes and white walls. That’s what made it a nice car to me. I like those quirky big cars that are unloved right now.” His car is a testament to the bulky square design of the '80s. The dashboard is an amalgam of fake wood and an absurd amount of squares and rectangles. At 82,000 miles, he hopes it will last for years to come. “I drive this every chance I get,” he added. “GM probably didn’t need three luxury brands, but I know a lot of people around here liked Oldsmobile because it rode just like a Cadillac without being one.” Pronounced dead With cherry red paint and chrome rims, the last Oldsmobile ran off the Lansing Assembly line in 2004 amid a flurry of national media parachuting in to write the obituary of America’s oldest car manufacturer at 107 years old. R.E. Olds Museum historian Dave Pfaff was at the museum when the final 2004 Alero rolled in. It was the 35,229,218th vehicle assembled in Oldsmobile history. “It was a very sad day,” Pfaff said. “I just thought ‘Why Oldsmobile?’” Oldsmobile became the canary in the coal mine for the death of GM’s numerous divisions. Saturn would follow suit in 2009 and Hummer and Pontiac in 2010, all victims of the GM bankruptcy. Pfaff, who worked at Olds as an engineer from 1962 to 1999, said the decline of the brand came down to mismanagement and “badge assembly” where GM produced the same car across its divisions with only cosmetic differences. “We started making cars that shouldn’t have been made,” Pfaff said. “Cars like the Oldsmobile Omega and Firenza didn’t make sense.” Badgley saw the change from the mechanic’s point of view. “At a certain point you weren’t really driving an Oldsmobile anymore. They switched from making Oldsmobiles exclusively to ‘BOP’ or Buick, Olds and Pontiac cars. That’s when they lost their identity, because they all went down the same line,” he said. Another nail in the coffin was its advertising. The infamous “This is not your father’s Oldsmobile” ad campaign was supposed to reclaim the brand for a new generation. It was a dud. Oldsmobile’s boxy cars of the late '80s did little to motivate young American buyers while the ad alienated its loyal fan base. “That ad was the dumbest thing they could’ve done,” Pfaff said. “My father had a 442.” Pfaff’s father’s Oldsmobile 442 was not a geriatric cruiser by any means. The car was powered by a 350-horsepower V8 and was Oldsmobile’s answer to the high performance horsepower cars of the muscle car era. “It was insulting to our customer base,” he added. “We always had terrible marketing.” Two years before the 1986 ad, Oldsmobile sold 1,050,832 vehicles. By 1990, sales were down to 489,492. But as Oldsmobile took flak from car culture for its failed advertising campaign, its Lansing engineers forged ahead by working on a monster to set a new closed course land-speed record for some much needed positive PR. That creation, the Oldsmobile Aerotech I, debuted in 1987, featuring a turbocharged 1,000-horsepower Quad 4 engine and the silvery looks of a rocket ship. Flat out, the car ran 267 miles per hour, setting the bar for a closed course land-speed record and high-speed endurance record. By the time the car was fully tested on the track in 1992, the Oldsmobile Aerotech I had broken 47 speed-endurance records against the prestigious former world champion, Mercedes Benz. According to a Jalopnik.com profile on the Aerotech, some of those endurance records still stand today. However, the daily driving populace wasn’t driven to the brand by Olds’ blistering fast prototype and the Aerotech I faded into relative oblivion. Sales and production at the brand declined throughout the 1990s. “I was lucky to get out when I did,” Pfaff said. The Last Oldsmobiles During Oldsmobile’s final days of production, owner Dick Poulin of Dick Poulin Chevrolet received an Alero as a stock inventory car from GM. However, upon closer inspection, he noticed something peculiar about it. “It was numbered 499 of 500 and I thought ‘Wow, that’s worth keeping,’” Poulin said. In the luck of the draw, GM delivered Poulin the last Oldsmobile to be offered for sale by dealer. It is currently for sale at Poulin's dealership for $32,000. Poulin kept it in his showroom for the past 15 years. With only 42 miles on the car, the Alero only went in and out of the showroom for periodic inspections and to refresh the gas. “It has all of its original stickers and everything. It’s like it is still in the wrapper,” Poulin said. “You have to find a special person who wants this car, but there are still a lot of people who love the Olds brand.” After dealing GM brand cars for 33 years, GM cancelled his dealership during its bankruptcy and Poulin made the switch to Chrysler. He listed the car in June to thin out his oddball vehicle collection. “I loved Oldsmobile, but I’ve had no love for GM since they canceled me,” Poulin said. Oldsmobile Alero owner Jerry Garfield proudly sports a license plate saying “LSTOLDS” framed with a “Forever Proud” cover. If Oldsmobile had a cheerleader, it would be Garfield. He volunteers each week at the R.E. Olds Transportation Museum and wrote an article in the Oldsmobile Club of America’s “Journey with Olds” monthly magazine about his 2004 Alero. With regular maintenance and measures taken for rust prevention, Garfield aims to keep his Alero running as long as he can. For aid, he relies on its shop service manual. He worked as a service manual supervisor for Oldsmobile from 1980 to 1993 in a 40-year career with GM. “It was fun, hard work, full of pressure and anxiety, but full of accomplishment,” Garfield said. When the announcement to end production came, Garfield was in shock. “It was like somebody closed the door on my home and I couldn’t get back in,” he said. The announcement spurred him to buy the last model Alero. He keeps it keeps it running to this day. “It wasn’t too big or too small and it was assembled in Lansing. I have an affection for my hometown because of Oldsmobile,” Garfield said. As for the very last Oldsmobile ever made? Pfaff, the museum historian, thought it would eventually come back to the museum after GM’s bankruptcy. However, in 2017, The GM Heritage Center sold off the final 500 Alero to a private collector for $42,000. Its purchaser declined to be identified at the closed door dealer-only auction. Christo Datini, manager of archives and special collections at the GM Heritage Center, wrote the following statement in an email correspondence when asked about the decision to sell the last Oldsmobile: “We are not able to locate the individuals involved in the sale of this particular automobile. However, we can confirm there are nearly 50 historically significant Oldsmobiles in our collection, including a 1903 Curved Dash, a 1911 Limited, the first production 1966 Toronado and Final 500 editions of the Aurora, Bravada and Silhouette.” Garfield said he doesn’t know if Oldsmobile will be remembered 100 years from now. “Since Lansing is its hometown, it will be remembered here more than any other place,” Garfield said. “Coming here to the museum I call my therapy day. I enjoy working on the old cars with my former colleagues. People from younger generations only knowledge of Oldsmobile might come from our work at this museum. It is truly therapeutic not only to preserve the past, but because it is fun too.” Berl Schwartz Founding Editor & Publisher How this weekly miracle comes out every week — and has done so since 2001 — is a tribute to the folks on this page and the many who came before them. I’m glad to contribute a few tricks I’ve learned from 54 years in journalism all over the map. You can reach Berl at: publisher@lansingcitypulse.com or (517) 999-5061

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That Was the Week That Was (#32) Posted in Current Events, History, Miscellaneous, News, Perception, The Dark Side, Tyranny, tagged Above the Law, Australia, Broken Record, brothels, Business Opportunity, California, carnival, censorship, cops, dirty, Down Under, ethics, Europe, Feminine Pragmatism, Finding What Isn’t There, Hollywood, hotels, hysteria, law, lawheads, Legal Is as Legal Does, Michigan, neofeminism, New Orleans, New Zealand, Norway, pimps, porn, prohibitionist myths, Prudish Pedants, rape, Saving Them from Themselves, sexting, sporting events, stereotypes, stripping, Swedish model, Texas, The Course of a Disease, The More the Better, The Notorious Badge, United Kingdom, violence vs. sex workers on August 11, 2012| 29 Comments » The reality is that the law has made it more difficult for women in prostitution. – Anniken Hauglie You think we should tell this “lobby group” that Australian governments already know they’re lying, or just let them waste their money? “A sex industry lobby group in Tasmania is pushing for the introduction of laws which penalise the clients of prostitutes…Dr Christy Giselsson from the Nordic Model Australian Coalition, says the group believes changing the focus of the legislation would reduce the demand for sex workers. ‘For example in Sweden it’s been shown to halve street prostitution’…” In any case, someone definitely needs to tell this reporter that Swedish Model proponents are NOT “sex industry lobby groups”. Another example of politicians wasting other people’s money to fight a legal sex business: “Fighting plans for a brothel at Narellan last year came at a cost of almost $60,000 for Camden Council but councillors described the battle as a fight they had to have…Mayor Greg Warren (pictured) said the council’s position to refuse the sex premises reflected the concerns of the community…owner Greg Hall said the money…could have been better spent on community projects. ‘There are thousands of places it could have been spent than to waste it in court for a decision we all knew was going to get through anyway,’ he said…” Saving Them From Themselves Detroit school officials plan to fight the scourge of “sexting” by searching students’ phones and computers: School officials in a Detroit suburb announced they may search student cell phones and laptops, in an effort to tackle the problem of teenage “sexting”…The rule did not result from any particular incident, but was “just a matter of being proactive,” [said] Rich Machesky, Troy’s assistant superintendent…Students could refuse a search request…in which case the district would contact the child’s parents instead…The ACLU is concerned over how broad the policy is and whether school officials would then hand off students’ phones to the police…While sexting is not illegal…kids who text can be prosecuted under child pornography laws and can be sentenced with 20 years in prison if convicted. Even having sexually explicit photos on your phone is a four-year felony… Because obviously nude pictures are far more dangerous to “children’s” lives than spending 20 years in prison. They All Axed For You Anyone who’s ever lived in New Orleans knows about Hubig Pies, tasty little treats which come in a large variety of flavors and put other commercial snack pastries to shame. Unfortunately, their century-old factory burned down before dawn on July 27th and it may be quite some time before it’s rebuilt. This video may be of interest to my readers because it provides an extended example of the “Yat” dialect spoken by a woman who sounds like a very typical New Orleans character. Legal Is As Legal Does Two stories from different Australian states demonstrating the weird situations that arise from legalization. The first is from Queensland, and updates an item from the original column: “A sex worker has won an anti-discrimination case against motel owners in a Queensland mining town who refused to rent her a room…[she] had stayed at the motel 17 times in two years until [the] owners…discovered…she was bringing clients to her room…[her] lawyer argued many people used the telephone or internet at the motel for business, and a bed was no different.” The owners argued that the worker’s activities were “disturbing” other guests, which is of course nonsense if she had been there 17 times before without incident. Furthermore, how is paid sex any more “disturbing” to other guests than giveaway sex? The second item is from a town in Victoria, where sex work is legal but “brothels” (the term is defined so loosely it can mean virtually anything police want it to mean) must be licensed: Police suspect an illegal brothel has been operating in a residential street…[in] Bendigo…[they] raided a house…and took a woman back to the station for questioning…“We believe she’s a sex worker involved in an illegal brothel at that address,” [a detective] said. “We’re waiting for a Chinese interpreter to come so we can interview her”…[a neighbor] was concerned about the well-being of the [sex worker]…“She’s very friendly – a lovely young lady.” According to a comment on the story, Bendigo is practically the only city in Victoria without a brothel, which may explain why its government feels the need to harass women on technicalities. The More the Better Perhaps one day we’ll arrive at the point where, “He was so desperate to raise money he actually opened a legal business!” sounds as ridiculous to most people as it does to me: A New Zealander was so desperate to fund his dream to compete in the London 2012 Olympics that he opened a brothel…[after] Logan Campbell…lost his bid for Olympic glory in Beijing in 2008, he was too strapped for cash to take his [taekwondo] career to the next level and train full-time…So…to make the $200,000 he needed to go to London, he opened a 14-room brothel in Auckland. Campbell…wants to repudiate the perception that he was a pimp selling women on a street corner. New Zealand decriminalised prostitution in 2003. “I sold the brothel so I don’t really want to talk about it now, OK?” he said. “It’s a legal business in New Zealand. It’s completely different from other countries in the world…No one was forced into the industry, and they’re not doing it because they are in poverty because we have a really good welfare system”… It’s a start; now we need to work on getting similar sentences for the thousands of real cops who regularly do the same thing. Note the incredible concluding sentence: “A man who faked being a Texas law officer and demanded free sex from a prostitute has been sentenced to 35 years in prison…The woman submitted to [Raul Garza III] but later called police when he allegedly wanted suggestive photos of her 10-year-old daughter. Garza…testified he never committed a crime and just refused to pay the prostitute.” Finding What Isn’t There Most of this overblown and sensationalistic article is just repetition of the usual “sex trafficking” myths and exaggerations combined with the characteristic cop-culture strutting and bragging, but it’s notable for the accusation that the Department of Justice is “ignoring child sex trafficking victims” because it isn’t creating enough of them to support the hysterical predictions. That sound you hear is me clapping quite slowly. While it’s nice to see an article actually leading off with the truth about sex work around major sporting events, I feel I must comment on this historian’s absurd exaggeration: …Georgina Perry, who works at Open Doors, a support project…[for] East London prostitutes…says the Olympics are never good for the sex trade. “All the studies show there’s no increase in sex workers,” she says of past Olympics…Gone, it seems, are the good old days for your average harlot when the best athletes gathered. “Prostitution was a huge deal in the ancient Games,” says historian Tony Perrottet, author of The Naked Olympics: The True Story of the Ancient Games. The original festival attracted 40,000 sports fans — all male — to the remote religious sanctuary. “Brothel owners … brought in teams of beautiful girls from around Greece, Egypt and Asia Minor.” Any good prostitute would try to get to the Olympics, and earn in five days what would normally take her a year to make… This is nothing but another permutation of the stupid “50 clients a night” idiocy. It is simply not physically possible for any full-time whore to make in 5 days what she could make in 360, unless perhaps she came from some rural district where she usually only got one client a day, managed 12 per day at the Olympics (difficult but doable), and charged six times her usual fee. Metaupdates Feminine Pragmatism in TW3 (#13) Behold the lawhead psychosis in action: Cash-strapped Nadya Suleman…has turned to various X-rated money-making ventures to help pay the bills – all with the encouragement of Orange County (Calif.) Child Protective Services. “They’re on my side–they’re supporters,” Suleman [said]…“It’s ironic. Once I talked with a CPS worker in regards to the adult stuff, she was like, ‘Are you really doing that?’ Well, it’s not illegal. More power to you!’ So it was almost like a green light–like, ‘Do what you need to do to take care of your family’”…A rep for the Orange County…Social Services Agency…[said] “The law allows a wide latitude in parenting styles and in parenting vocations. I don’t think that anybody would ever want it any other way. So as long as children remain free from harm or danger…then the Social Services Agency would not become involved.” Unless the mother is a whore, of course, which automatically makes her less fit than Octomom. The Course of a Disease in TW3 (#26) Norwegian study demonstrates that the Swedish Model causes “sex trafficking”: Prior to the 2009 Sex Purchase Act, Norway had one of Europe’s smallest and least organized markets for prostitution. Women…voluntarily…sold sex…without the interference from any pimp. The introduction of the law has made this process more complicated, according to a report in the Stavanger Aftenblad…”The women are very vulnerable towards the police and to a greater extent on the network and support that pimps can offer,” said [researcher] Guri Tyldum…”The criminalization intended to demonstrate that prostitution is not wanted in Norway. The risk is that the most dangerous and serious form of prostitution that remains,” she said…Norway’s Ministry of Justice has announced an evaluation of the sex purchase act. This is not only what we’ve said for over a decade, it’s the inevitable result of putting the desire to “send a message” above the needs of real people. The Notorious Badge in TW3 (#27) Upon reading this I was irresistibly reminded of Sarah Woolley’s article: I felt really exposed. It didn’t hit me until the first moment where the scene called for me to expose myself, because what came over me was such shame. Which was weird, because they weren’t my breasts, and it was what I had signed up to do….I started to cry, and if you look closely at those scenes when I’m opening my blouse, I’m smiling, but not in my eyes…I was just feeling really emotional and trying to hide it. Boo fucking hoo. Women like this (Jessica Alba is another one) piss me off to no end. If you’re such a prudish twit you supposedly “cry” from partial nudity with FAKE TITS, I have a suggestion: restrict yourself to playing nuns, and leave the sex worker parts to grown women. Prudish Pedants in TW3 (#31) Good news for Simon Walsh, but I have to wonder how this would have turned out had the same thing happened in America: A man who was tried this week…for possessing images of “extreme” sexual acts has just been cleared on all counts…David Allen Green, solicitor and legal correspondent for the New Statesman, said: “This was a shameful and intrusive prosecution which should never have been brought. It was bad law to begin with, but a good man has had his sex life examined in open court for no good reason. There are serious questions for the CPS to answer about bringing this prosecution.” This Week in 2011 The bittersweet experience of “Leaving the Life”; “authorities” using their power to rape whores; “The New Victorianism”; the effects of defining everything as “violence against women” or “human trafficking”; what it looks like when individuals behave as “authorities” do; and the truth about “safe harbor” laws. Cops’ weird anti-condom neurosis; “How To Be a Stupid, Greedy Whore”; why hookers should never let clients turn off the lights; how self-proclaimed “feminists” have been betraying women for 130 years; and a two-part column about regular clients.

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InfiNet Wireless to unveil record-breaking spectral efficient solution at GITEX 2018 InfiNet Wireless, the global leader in fixed broadband wireless connectivity, has announced its plans to participate in GITEX Technology Week, to be held in Dubai, UAE from October 14-18. On display will be Quanta 5, the company’s brand new 5 GHz Point-to-Point (PTP) solution, designed on InfiNet’s latest Software Defined Radio (SDR) technology. Providing the highest spectral efficiency available in today’s wireless marketplace-even when operating in high interference environments, often experienced in many parts of the Middle East -the new Quanta 5 solution is ideal for a diverse range of applications, and more specifically back-hauling for WiFi, LTE and 4G base stations, transmission of high resolution CCTV and video streams, as well as providing internet access to remote locations. Speaking about the relevance of the solution for applications of all types in the Middle East, Kamal Mokrani, Global Vice President at InfiNet Wireless said, "Solutions like the Quanta 5 deliver even higher performance than our previous platforms, making it ideal for any service provider considering the launch of new generation infrastructures aimed at catering to current and future 5G and IoT requirements. We designed this solution as an all-in-one package to enable operators of all sizes to quickly deliver high-capacity premium services to their corporate clients, to interconnect their network nodes wherever they are located, or simply to provide internet connectivity to end users. Quanta 5 can also be deployed as part of a wide area network to connect remote locations to the main control and operations centres, whether for oil & gas companies as a part of their smart oilfield strategy, or for financial institutions wishing to seamlessly connect all their branches and offer better a customer experience." Other solutions on display alongside the Quanta 5 will include the latest generation of the successful InfiLINK XG product family. Available in new frequency bands, the InfiLINK XG is the ideal solution for unlicensed backhauling in multiple bands such as 2 GHz and 3 GHz for legacy WiMAX and microwave replacements, or 4 GHz and 6 GHz which are specific frequency allocations depending on specific countries. Building on these capabilities, the InfiLINK XG 1000 doubles the capacity of the XG up to 1 Gbps. By supporting two non-adjacent 40 MHz channels instead of a single 80 MHz channel, the XG 1000 can provide connectivity over distances in excess of 60 km, delivering unparalleled reliability and scalability to meet both current and future demands. InfiNet Wireless can be found in Zabeel Hall, Stand Z2-C8. Infrastructure InfiNeT Wireless Kamal Mokrani Spectral efficient solution Quanta 5 Software Defined Radio

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Share Your Talents Conquer Your Addictions Take Stock of Your Life Trust Your Fate to Higher Power Assume Responsibility Check Your Safety Net Supplement Your Diet Improve Your Environs Participate in Community Buddy-up Written by Chuck Guilford Way 2 Age is an interactive online community focused on healthy, creative aging. Our mission is to provide a venue for exploring the rewards and challenges of the aging process. We invite you to become a member and to share your stories, information, jokes, hobbies, wisdom, research, poems, pictures, and videos. As you do, and as you interact with others from around the world who are doing the same, you should discover fresh insights and new perspectives that will enrich and enlarge your experience. We provide a structure that will allow that process to happen. Besides offering blogs and commenting features that enable you to contribute to the site, we also provide some core ideas, which you are free to comment on, and regular links to and news from other sites that we believe may be of interest. And, as with any Web site, this one is a work in progress---always evolving and growing. Come back often to see what we're up to. Chuck Guilford is the creator of Paradigm Online Writing Assistant, and his textbook, Beginning College Writing, was published by Little, Brown. He is also the author of many poems, stories, essays, reviews, and articles, which have appeared in Poetry, College Composition and Communication, College English, Coyote\'s Journal, and other places. Besides Paradigm and this site, he is the creator of poetryexpress.org. What Counts, a chapbook collection of his poems, is available from Limberlost Press. He has thirty years of experience teaching a variety of university-level courses. He holds a Ph.D. in English and is an emeritus English professor at Boise State University, where he taught composition, creative writing, and literature classes at both graduate and undergraduate levels. He has also taught numerous poetry workshops for young people. A longtime member of N.C.T.E. and C.C.C.C., he has been a frequent conference participant and is the founder of the Council on Basic Writing (C.B.W.), a 4C's special interest group. Copyright © 2008-2011 by Chuck Guilford. Provided "as is" without expressed or implied warranty. You may use Way 2 Age free of charge for any educational or nonprofit purpose. Please give appropriate acknowledgment. For other permissions contact the author directly. A Christmas Carol as a Guide to Personal Legacy Slowing Energy? Give Yourself a Quick Recharge! Versatile Salads Defend Against Illness and Aging Ah, Those Moments . . . Next Avenue Money & Security Work & Purpose Living & Learning © 2020 Way 2 Age

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Читај на македонски Ramsfeld: Greek Intimidation Tactics Getting Old Source: Wall Street Journal New York - Greece threatens to veto Macedonia's admission to NATO, and the future of the Alliance is too important to be constrained by intimidation tactics more befitting the last century. These are the remarks by the former U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, the author of commentary "NATO Expansion Should Continue", published in Wall Street Journal. "Greece threatens to issue a sole veto over Macedonia's entry because Macedonia refuses to change the country's name. The future of the trans-Atlantic alliance and its credibility as the pre-eminent political and military instrument of the world's democracies are too important to be constrained by narrow disputes over semantics or to intimidation tactics more befitting the last century," Rumsfeld said. He underlines there is no better way for NATO to move forward than by extending full membership invitations to Albania, Croatia and Macedonia and by beginning the process to bring Georgia and Ukraine into the alliance in the future through membership action plans (MAPs). At a time when European commitments to the NATO mission in Afghanistan are being questioned, the determination of Albania, Croatia and Macedonia to contribute to tough missions is clear. Collectively, the three Balkan nations have more than 650 troops currently serving in Afghanistan and Iraq. For the past several years under membership action plans, the governments of Albania, Croatia and Macedonia have been preparing to join the ranks of NATO. They now meet the necessary criteria for membership. "Perhaps most important in light of NATO's demonstrated shortcomings, Albania, Croatia and Macedonia have made use of those capabilities in Afghanistan and Iraq by taking on the tough missions that several current NATO members are unwilling to carry out." Expanding NATO to Albania, Croatia and Macedonia and building closer partnerships with Georgia and Ukraine would help to assuage any concerns that the alliance no longer has the collective grit for the tough work necessary to overcome the challenges in Afghanistan. All five non-NATO nations currently under consideration -- in contrast with several full NATO members -- have demonstrated willingness to accept NATO responsibilities. "Albania, Croatia and Macedonia are today ready to accept those responsibilities. Georgia and Ukraine will likely be ready to accept NATO responsibilities in the coming years if issued membership action plans next week. The Bucharest summit presents an opportunity to advance the interests of all 26 member nations by expanding the NATO alliance. Now is not a time for self-doubt. It is a time for U.S. and European Union leadership."

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Phil Simms: ‘I Wouldn’t Want To Play The Chargers In The Playoffs’ Filed Under:AFC West, Denver Broncos, DJ Sixsmith, Inside The NFL, Kansas City Chiefs, NFL, Oakland Raiders, Phil Simms, Showtime Sports By DJ Sixsmith Last year, the AFC West was one of the best divisions in all of football. This year, it’s a much different story. The Denver Broncos have lost six in a row, the Oakland Raiders are two games under .500 and Alex Smith and the Kansas City Chiefs are 4-5 since their red-hot 5-0 start. Good news for the Chiefs is that they don’t play a team with a winning record the rest of the season. However, Kansas City does have to face a Chargers team in Week 15 that just put up 54 points against the Buffalo Bills. LA is heating up at the right time, with four wins in their last six games. There’s a lot to talk about when it comes to the AFC West. CBS Local Sports caught up with Inside The NFL analyst and Super Bowl MVP Phil Simms to discuss who will win the division, why the Chargers are the most dangerous team in the division and how things got so bad in Denver. Simms, along with Boomer Esiason, Ray Lewis and James Brown break down this and other NFL storylines all season long each Tuesday night at 9 p.m. ET on Showtime’s Inside The NFL. CBS Local Sports: Who will win the AFC West? Phil Simms: There is a two-game lead for Kansas City, so you have to think Kansas City has the best chance. They still have Andy Reid as there coach, and Alex Smith is a smart quarterback. He has 18 touchdowns and three interceptions. Those are incredible numbers, and I don’t care what you are doing as a quarterback. Nobody is good enough in the division to just go on a run or win out. I don’t think that can happen. I think it will be the Kansas City Chiefs. CBS Local Sports: How much trust do you have in the Los Angeles Chargers going forward? Phil Simms: I like the Chargers. First off, they’re fun to watch, they’re as dynamic as any team you will see in the NFL. Philip Rivers has only been sacked 12 times this year and knows how to get rid of the football. He has a very good receiving core, and they have Melvin Gordon. On the other side, they have two excellent safeties, Casey Hayward at cornerback. And the two most important guys are Joey Bosa and Melvin Ingram, who are terrors. The Chargers are dangerous no matter who they play, and if they get in the playoffs, I wouldn’t want to play them. CBS Local Sports: Who’s in bigger trouble right now, the Denver Broncos or the Oakland Raiders? Phil Simms: That’s a good question. I kind of look at them almost the same. I probably would give Oakland an edge over the Denver Broncos in how they’re doing, just because of Derek Carr, the receiving core and the fact they past protect extremely well. The offensive line is a unit you can really count on. Denver had an outstanding defense, but its kind of fallen apart a little bit, and some of that has to do with the fact that their offense has not been performing well.

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" I’m the happiest I’ve ever been right now": Audrina Patridge gushes after reconciling with Ryan Cabrera The Hills stars seemed to have picked up right from where they left and Audrina feels especially happy to find Ryan back in her life. Published on : 22:20 PST, Jun 4, 2018 Eight years ago Audrina Patridge and Ryan Cabrera decided to go their separate ways but the two found their way back to each other. Even after being apart, it seems like the two have picked right from where they left and Audrina can't stop gushing about it. “I mean, I’m the happiest I’ve ever been right now,” she told People. You know, things are going really good.” Audrina says she is the happiest she has ever been (Photo by Jason Merritt/Getty Images for Delphine) She added that at the moment they are trying to keep their relationship simple. “We’re just having fun. Nothing is forced,” she said. “You know, great things happen when it’s not forced, and things are naturally just happening. And that’s what it is. We just have the best time together.” Audrina also dished details on how their typical date night looks like. “I don’t really have a lot of date nights, because I’m always with [my daughter] Kirra, and Ryan is touring a lot,” she said. “But we just do a lot of group things and hang out.” The news about the pair reuniting came in April. A source close to the couple told People at that time that the pair has reunited after eight years. “They’re dating. They’ve been spending a lot of time together recently and are having a good time," the source said. Audrina and Ryan were first romantically linked in 2010 and dated seriously, as seen on the hit MTV reality series, The Hills. The pair reunited eight years after their split (Photo by Christopher Polk/Getty Images for Las Palmas) They ended up parting ways that very same year. The couple reportedly split at that time due to Ryan's habit of partying. “There were issues in their relationship. But a lot comes from his partying ways,” a source told the magazine at that time. The pair even sat down on the show to discuss their relationship. “I’ve just been thinking a lot about us and questioning everything and like – is this right?” Audrina said in the video. “You’re going to be going on tour … that’s one of my concerns … the girls and drinking and, you know, drinking too much and them taking advantage," she continued. At this point, Ryan insisted that he had been faithful. “There’s no point for me to party. I have a girl that I love. I don’t need that," he said. To this, Audrina replied, "Maybe this is too much too soon. Maybe we rushed into this, and now it’s just like at a dead end.” The news about Ryan and Audrina relationship comes after she filed for divorce from estranged husband Corey Bohan. According to the website, Audrina requested temporary restraining and child abduction prevention orders against Corey. A judge later granted her full custody of their child, 22-month-old daughter Kirra Max. Corey was given visitation rights and was asked that any conversations between them would be held through the communication service Talking Parents.

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Know IT All for Primary Schools MEDEA Overall Award Winner 2009 Know IT All for Primary Schools includes a vibrant new 3D SMART animation created by Childnet International, designed especially for both primary school staff and primary pupils. The resources are designed to help school staff to understand important e-safety issues and to offer strategies and information on how to support young pupils to get the most out of the Internet. Childnet’s SMART rules are illustrated by this exciting and engaging animation. Two main animated characters Kara and Winston were created who, together with their friends learn about different technologies and their safe use. The showcase video of the project Know IT All for Primary Schools, including an interview with Lucinda Fell Through their travels the animated characters use the Internet, mobile phones, social networking pages and a games console and chat to negotiate and navigate their way through a series of realistic online situations. On their journey they are able to interact with a real life SMART crew and request help from young children (in live footage) who guide the cartoon characters in their quest, helping them to make informed and responsible online decisions along the way and helping the viewer to remind him/her that the challenges the characters face are not unique to the animation, but are applicable in the real world. The animation is accompanied by an interactive training film that combines real footage with animated illustrations to help primary school teachers present the safety message. What the judges said of this entry: Screenshot of the entry Know IT All for Primary Schools “It is an attractive educational adventure story which is playfully realized and with lots of emotions. The critically important topic of internet safety is targeted with aplomb for its young audience. The animations are most engaging, well-scripted and the added value of the smart kids hits the spot perfectly. Adding the Live Crew (real live peers) is a successful way of making the story and the experiences of the 3D characters more recognizable for the target audience. Know it All for Primary Schools provides a very complete and detailed pedagogical framework, excellently realized and with outstanding pedagogical quality of the various learning materials! It is excellent, compelling, with a high production value and as easy to use as a rental DVD. It is a most impressive resource which deserves a very wide uptake.” About the creation of Know IT All for Primary Schools The Teacher's Presentation of Know IT All for Primary Schools, MEDEA Overall Award Winner 2009 Miss Lucinda Fell, Policy and Communications Manager from Childnet International, talks about the creation of Know IT All: “Childnet recognised that primary school aged children have a wide range of online experience and knowledge. While some children are very familiar with many services and online applications, others have more limited experience and knowledge. Very often, teachers struggle with how to teach these vital safety messages to empower their pupils to be fully active in the online world. Know IT All for Primary Schools was designed to address the need for clear, targeted and up-to-date e-safety information for primary aged users and to help equip teachers in establishing fundamental strategies and key advice for children on these issues in a clear and engaging way. Childnet believes that e-safety guidance should be given to pupils wherever and whenever use occurs in a manner appropriate to the age, background knowledge and skill level of the pupil. The animation and accompanying information pack has been designed to inform and educate teachers, parents and other adults working with children. Some groups of children are potentially more vulnerable and more at risk than others when using ICT, including children with emotional or behavioural difficulties, learning difficulties, and other complex needs in addition to those for whom English is an additional language. Childnet has recognised that these are challenging and complex issues for schools and those in the education workforce to deal with. A number of resources have been designed to accompany the animation so that as many children as possible can get the most out of the animation. Optional subtitles, a British Sign Language version of the SMART rules, screen captures, picture and symbol resources and the full script of the animation are available to further explore the key learning objectives presented in the animation with children.” About Lucinda Fell Lucinda Fell Lucinda Fell is Policy and Communications Manager at Childnet International, which she joined in October 2007 taking responsibility for Communications and the formulation of Childnet's policy responses as well as contributing to the production and publication of various key resources. Lucinda promotes a balanced approach to online risks, highlighting the importance of education and recognition of the positive opportunities that engagement in the online world can bring young people. She is a member of UK Council for Child Internet Safety and a member of the European Commission Social Networking Taskforce. Lucinda is leading Childnet’s Youth IGF Project, designed to take the voice of the youth to the UN mandated Internet Governance Forum. Before joining Childnet Lucinda worked with the UK's leading trade association for ISPs as Public Affairs Manager since 2004, giving her wide experience of working with both Industry and Government on Internet policy. Prior to her role with Industry, Lucinda was a Policy Advisor in the International Communications Directorate of the then DTI. Lucinda holds an honours degree in Politics and International Relations from the University of Birmingham and was awarded the University International Relations Award. Lucinda Fell (right) after receiving the MEDEA Overall Award 2009 from Maruja Gutierrez-Diaz (European Commission)(left) Lucinda, who represented Childnet at the prize-giving ceremony in Berlin and who graciously accepted the bronze MEDEA statuette as well as prizes including a MicroTrack II mobile digital recorder (sponsored by AVID) and an Adobe Production Premium Creative Suite 4 Licence (sponsored by Adobe Systems), said the following after winning the award: “I am thrilled that Childnet's recently launched Know IT All for Primary resource has been recognised as the winner of the MEDEA Award 2009. Equipping children to use the internet and mobile phones safely is crucial and this resource has been designed to share key messages and lessons in an exciting and engaging way at the time when children are at an early stage in using these powerful tools. Since we launched this resource in June 2009 there has been huge demand from primary schools in the UK for it. Both Childnet and the partners involved in this project are delighted with MEDEA's recognition of its detailed pedagogical framework.” http://www.childnet.com/kia/primary/

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“Hidden-in-Plain-Sight” Toxin Raises Your Risk for Developing Diabetes by 65% It’s one of the world’s most under acknowledged causes of illness. Elevated levels of it are linked to heart disease, impaired cognitive function, chronic fatigue syndrome, immune system dysfunction, hormone imbalance, and even attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Your average physician and dentist don’t have a clue about the devastating damage this poison can cause in the human body. But now a bombshell study, published in the world’s top diabetes journal, may finally change all that. The hidden-in-plain-sight mystery toxin I’m referring to is mercury. Researchers from the Indiana University School of Public Health found that adults who were exposed to higher mercury levels when they were younger had a whopping 65 percent increased risk of developing type-2 diabetes later in life.1 The study tracked 3,875 American men and women between the ages of 20 and 32 for 18 years. Even after controlling for dietary and lifestyle factors such as omega-3 fatty acids and magnesium—both of which can help with blood sugar metabolism and can help reduce the toxic effects of mercury—researchers found that the jump in risk remained. Hidden heavy metal may wreak havoc with your pancreas Have you ever wondered why some people who seem relatively healthy otherwise develop type-2 diabetes? Mercury toxicity could be the reason. Mercury that was unknowingly being ingested when eating fish or from decaying amalgam fillings could have caused the cells of the pancreas to malfunction allowing glucose to build up in the blood. Also, toxic metals such as mercury can disrupt normal enzyme function in all your cells. With its link to a 65 percent increase in diabetes risk, mercury toxicity is now on the same list with the other two widely known causes of diabetes: refined carbohydrates and high-sugar foods. My friend, make no mistake about it, this is a game changer. A poor diet, not enough exercise, and mercury exposure from the time you’re in the womb is a triple whammy that can almost certainly send you down the road to diabetes. Mercury is highly toxic to human health I routinely screen patients for elevated body levels of toxic metals, including mercury, lead, arsenic, aluminum, and cadmium, using fully accredited medical laboratories to ensure accuracy. Elevated levels of any toxic metal can be treated with chelation and detox therapy. When these metals are removed from the body, patients typically find that good things happen: energy improves, the mind becomes clearer, digestion improves, autoimmune response markers come down, skin conditions resolve, and pain levels are reduced. Conventional medical doctors and dentists commonly claim that mercury had nothing to do with health problems or that lab tests are somehow inaccurate. But the countless positive heavy-metal detox experiences of my patients refute this ridiculous assertion. The fact is, there’s a mountain of evidence showing that mercury is a dangerous toxin that can harm both the human body and the environment. Even the World Health Organization acknowledges this. For years they’ve published guidelines for acceptable mercury levels. Their publication “Exposure to Mercury: A Major Public Health Concern” says it all in its title, and clarifies the risk in the first sentence: “Mercury is highly toxic to human health.”3 Seeking out sources of mercury exposure Mercury occurs naturally in the environment in several different forms. Human beings can neither create it nor destroy it. It’s found in the earth’s crust and in rocks, including coal. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, “Coal burning power plants are the largest human-caused source of mercury emissions to the air in the United States.”4 It’s also released into the atmosphere as a byproduct of gold and mercury mining, and in the manufacturing of cement, pesticides, chlorine, mirrors, medical equipment, and through dentistry (amalgam fillings), industrial leaks, and corpse and waste incineration.5 The most common forms of mercury are elemental mercury, methyl mercury, and inorganic mercury compounds. The elemental form is commonly (and safely) used in medical equipment such as thermometers, blood pressure cuffs, barometers, and some types of light bulbs. However, if the elemental mercury isn’t enclosed in a container it will give off vapor. High levels of this vapor breathed in over a short period of time can be fatal. The two other forms are what we’re most commonly affected by. Elemental mercury is no longer safe when it’s released into the environment as a byproduct of coal burning power plants. In fact, it’s a major source of human exposure to the toxic metal. According to the WHO “It can stay for up to a year in the atmosphere, where it can be transported and deposited globally. It ultimately settles in the sediment of lakes, rivers or bays where it is transformed into methyl mercury, absorbed by phytoplankton, ingested by zooplankton and fish, and accumulates especially in long-lived predatory species, such as shark and swordfish.”3 And, of course, fish that eat the toxic methyl mercury pass that mercury on to humans when we eat the fish, which explains why fish are ultimately the biggest source of mercury toxicity in the human body. The more methyl mercury a fish feeds on, and the longer it lives, determines how much mercury it passes on to us. Fish are a major source of mercury toxicity Shockingly, a recent study found that between 43% and 100% of the fish from nine countries (including the United States) contained mercury at levels so high that eating them more than once per month would be unsafe.6 The biggest risk is to children, especially those who are still developing in the womb and being exposed to mercury when the mother consumes unsafe fish (mercury passes through the placenta into the bloodstream of the fetus). However, adults are affected, too. Richard Gelfond, the CEO of the movie company IMAX is a good example of just how dangerous mercury exposure in adults can be. Gelfond developed a balance problem that became so severe he couldn’t even cross a street without his wife holding his hand. After seeing many specialists a neurologist finally thought to ask him how much fish he was eating. It turns out Gelfond, a fish fan, was eating two meals of fish a day. His diagnosis? You guessed it—mercury toxicity.7 Do you have a mouthful of mercury? Dental amalgams (silver fillings), which contain approximately 50% mercury, are a source of exposure to the troublesome inorganic mercury. A study in Journal of Dental Research analyzed mercury vapor concentration in 46 people, 35 of whom had amalgam fillings.8 Researchers found that participants with amalgam fillings produced mercury vapors that were nine times greater than baseline levels in participants with no amalgams. Chewing increased their mercury concentration by six-fold compared to non-chewing mercury levels—a stunning 54-fold increase over people without amalgam fillings.8 (If a dentist tries to tells you silver fillings don’t increase body mercury levels direct him to this study published in a reputable dental journal.) And to make matters worse some of the mercury from fillings that enters the digestive tract is transformed into methylmercury, the type of mercury commonly found in fish. Another form of inorganic mercury compounds are known as mercury salts. They have long been used in folk medicine and in herbal formulas developed by traditional Chinese medicine or Ayurvedic medicine practitioners. It would be rare for Chinese or Ayurvedic medicine herbalists in the United States to use formulas that contain this very toxic form of mercury. However, herbal supplements and teas imported from China and India have been found to contain mercury and other contaminants. Therefore I recommend using only herbal products that are harvested and manufactured in the United States, or at least independently tested for toxic metals and other contaminants. Diagnosing mercury toxicity There are several tests that can be used to diagnose your mercury burden. These include hair, urine, stool, toenail and blood analyses. For children, hair analysis is usually the easiest test to use. For adults any of the tests…or a combination of them…can be used. When testing finds elevated levels of mercury, especially the methyl mercury type, the first step in treatment is to eliminate the source. This means avoiding mercury-laden fish, especially tuna, swordfish, and shark. (In fact, I recommend this for everyone as a preventative measure.) And the proper removal of amalgam fillings is critical (a holistic dentist can take care of this). Next, you should start on a chelation and detoxification program. The key to the successfully removing mercury from the body is to make sure the body’s detoxification systems are working properly. The liver and kidneys are particularly important because they work to metabolize and excrete mercury out of the body. A healthy diet that contains adequate protein, fiber, and nutrients is important for these organs to work properly. Most mercury is excreted through the stool. This requires enough fiber in the diet to bind and carry the mercury out so that it’s not reabsorbed through the gut right back into the blood stream. A diet high in vegetables is critical. Ground flaxseeds, chia seeds, and psyllium seeds can boost your fiber levels to aid with the elimination of mercury. Adequate filtered water is necessary for proper detoxification as well. Glutathione helps you metabolize mercury Glutathione is a valuable antioxidant that supports your body’s ability to metabolize mercury. It works on a cellular level to help your body to detox from mercury. There are several ways to increase glutathione levels. These start with intravenous, transdermal, and inhaled or nebulized glutathione, all of which must be administered by a healthcare professional. Or you can take some additional supplements, which will naturally stimulate your own glutathione production including: ▶ Selenium—200 mcg daily ▶ N’acetylcysteine—1000 mg daily ▶ Whey protein—25 grams daily ▶ Vitamin C—1000 mg twice daily ▶ Alpha lipoic acid—600 mg daily ▶ Milk Thistle—500 mg daily Glutathione levels can also be increased orally. Technological advances have allowed us to make a form of the supplement, called S’acetyl glutathione, that can survive stomach acid. A typical dosage is 200 mg taken two to three times daily. There are a number of good glutathione products available from Max International. More supplements that help with mercury detox Several small human studies have found that chlorella, a type of algae, may support mercury detoxification. The algae appear to bind with mercury in the digestive tract helping to eliminate it. A typical adult dose is to work up to 1000 mg twice daily. Probiotics are the good bacteria in the digestive tract which also help to metabolize mercury. They are an important part of the detoxification activity in the gut. Take a quality probiotic daily. Vitamin C not only supports glutathione levels, but also aids in the detoxification of mercury in several ways. It acts as an antioxidant and also increases bile production. Take 1000 mg twice daily. Multivitamin and mineral formulas provide a base of nutrients that aid your organs and cells in eliminating mercury. Take as directed. For patients with high levels of mercury or conditions I feel are directly caused by their mercury toxicity I also use more aggressive protocols. This can involve the oral use of DMSA (Meso-2, 3-dimercaptosuccinic acid) which is a chelating agent shown to chelate heavy metals including mercury. It has been used for the treatment of heavy metal toxicity since the 1950’s. Research has shown that it’s safe and effective. I typically have patients use 250 mg to 500 mg a day for several weeks with breaks to help pull mercury out of the body. Another approach I use is the intravenous administration of DMPS (2,3-Dimercapto-1-propanesulfonic acid), which similar to DMSA works to pull mercury out of the body’s tissues. I’ve found that one treatment every 3 weeks for 5 treatments is very effective in reducing mercury levels. Saunas, whether they are steam, dry, or infrared, can help to eliminate mercury as well. Some practitioners also recommend colonics to support colon cleansing as part of a mercury detoxification regimen. The length of time it takes to eliminate mercury from the body depends on many factors. This includes the health of the patient, how high the mercury levels are, type of chelation program used, genetics (people vary in their ability to detoxify mercury based on their genetics) and if the source of the mercury contamination is eliminated (such as fish consumption or amalgam fillings). For some patients it takes a few months while for others with a high body storage level it can take six months or longer. During treatment I find that some patients have a temporary increase in their mercury levels as their body releases stored metal. This is normal and means the chelation treatment is pulling the mercury out of the tissues it’s stored in. Over time the levels will drop. I very rarely see side effects with mercury chelation. If a patient’s mineral levels dip too low I have him supplement with extra minerals and reduce the strength or frequency of his chelation program. Your holistic doctor can use tests to determine when you are done treatment. It’s important to avoid mercury contamination and to get your levels tested and treated if elevated. This is particularly true if have a chronic disease including diabetes. I suspect researchers have only scratched the surface on the detrimental effects of mercury on human health. Fortunately we already have effective methods for preventing, identifying, and treating the problem. K. He, et al. Mercury exposure in young adulthood and incidence of diabetes later in life: the CARDIA trace element study. Diabetes Care. 2013 Feb 19. Epub ahead of print. The Proceedings from the 13th International Symposium of The Institute of Functional Medicine. Managing Biotransformation: The Metabolic, Genomic, and Detoxification Balance Points. Alternative Therapies website. Accessed online April 20, 2013 at http://www. alternative-therapies.com/at/web_pdfs/ifm_proceedings_ low.pdf Preventing Disease through Heal Thy Environment Exposures to Mercury: A Major Public Health Concern. World Health Organization. Accessed April 24, 2013 online at http://www.who.int/ipcs/features/mercury.pdf EPA website. Mercury. Accessed April 14, 2013 online at http://www.epa.gov/hg/about.htm. BioDiversity Research Institute website. Global Mercury Hotspots. Accessed online April 14, 2013 at http:// www.briloon.org/uploads/documents/hgcenter/gmh/ gmhSummary.pdf CBS Evening News Website. Accessed online April 14, 2013 at http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162- 57563739/study-finds-unsafe-mercury-levels-in-84- percent-of-all-fish/ Vimy MJ, Lorsheider FL. Intra-oral air mercury released from dental amalgams. J Dent Res 1985;64(8):1069-1071. Emedicine health website. Mercury poisoning. Accessed online April 14, 2013 at http://www.emedicinehealth.com/ mercury_poisoning/page3_em.htm Used with permission from Dr. Mark Stengler’s Health Revelations newsletter (www.healthrevelations.com) Articles, Health Risks I Am SO Tired of These Extra Pounds!

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Jennifer Lawrence: 'Hunger Games' isn't 'Twilight' While that may seem like a Captain Obvious statement, hear Jennifer Lawrence out. The 21-year-old actress, who stars as heroine Katniss Everdeen in "The Hunger Games," was responding to a question from Vanity Fair that asked whether she's thought about the implications of starring in a movie that has the potential to become as successful as "Twilight." To which Lawrence said that she's been trying "not to think too much about it." She continued, "'Hunger Games' is not 'Twilight,' and while I hear the comparisons, it's really premature to say it'll be the same phenomenon. I'm so proud of the work we did on the film - [director] Gary [Ross] and the entire cast and the crew were amazing, and I can't wait for it to be brought to life because I think it's an important story. If it does become a crazy phenomenon, I'll soak up my freedom now!" Whether it becomes a runaway success or not, Lawrence promises that the film franchise will "absolutely" live up to the books. "I had read the books before I even knew I would be auditioning for the movie, and was a huge fan of the material," she says. "Katniss is an incredible character: she's a hunter but not a killer, a 16-year-old who's being forced into the arena. The kids are killing one another only because if they don't, they'll die." But in all honesty, are we wrong in thinking there's really no way the "Hunger Games" series WON'T become an irrepressible franchise? We suppose we'll find out when "The Hunger Games" opens on March 23, 2012. Filed under: movies Next entry »Jessica Biel: I wish I'd landed 'Notebook' role « Previous entryCam picks up a woman on 'Modern Family' Briareos The Hunger Games is definitely NOT Twilight! It's Battle Royale!!! Its The Lottery, with a little Lord of the Flies mixed in. Stephen king already did it(Marathon Man) but he is more a world builder. Collins is a character builder and that's the strength of this book. Its the characters she creates. Red Pison Hunger Games isn't Twilight. It's Running Man and Battle Royale for sissies. So you have not read the books. Twilight is about a bunch of whiny babies. Hunger games is about a bunch of children thrown into a death pit. No comparison. Yeah I have read both series. avidreader I think part of the reason why people have taken offence at the comparison between the Twilight series and the Hunger Games series relates to the focus of the message. Twilight relates to the mentality of most teenagers – their world is centered on them and how they are feeling and what their struggles are. The Hunger Games puts teenagers in situations that most adults wouldn't know how to cope with. Dytopian themes urge people to look at larger issues and hopefully think a little more about their daily life. The main characters make huge sacrifices for causes they believe in. Is the Hunger Games going to end up in a classics section and be studied in schools across America? Possibly – because it is a gateway to those larger themes and problems that our society may one day face. There needs to be an entry point for people and I think that Suzanne Collins has gotten a lot of people thinking about things other than themselves and I commend her for that. As for the movie – I am nervous for how it will be crafted. But we can only wait and see. The books really weren't that good. The writing was quite bad. I hope the movies are much better. Twilight....smh. That is even worse. Lol. Hope they will make movies out of all the Hunger Games books. One is not enough – they need to finish the series. Like the Hunger Games books better than Twilight. February 7, 2012 at 5:36 pm | Report abuse | Log in to Reply Battle Royale ripoff. Come up with some new ideas Hollywood. It wasn't Hollywood who made the book.... Agreed. Very much a ripoff, but that's the authors doing. Um, considering the author of the book, who wrote the description for Katniss, loves Jennifer Lawrence playing the role and has said that she is just what she imagined, I don't think we should be complaining that Jennifer Lawrence doesn't fit our own ideas of what Katniss should look like. November 7, 2011 at 11:25 am | Report abuse | Log in to Reply Does this trashy drunk make money from this video ? November 6, 2011 at 11:56 pm | Report abuse | Log in to Reply who in the hell is this trashy person and what is she talking abouy? Mastodonrocks Just stick to "The Hunger", "Interview with a Vampire", and "Bram Stokers Dracula" and you should be ok. Absolutely no need for these "tweeny bop" wanna be vampire films. 'Hunger Games' isn't a vampire film, tweeny or otherwise. I loved the books, but I am hesitant to see the movies because they have been rated pg-13..I think they are going to tone down the violence and mature themes that made the books as great as they were. This looks like a dvd rental at best. November 6, 2011 at 8:30 pm | Report abuse | Log in to Reply Lizzy10 I just finished the Hunger Games and can't wait to start the next book. Couldn't have said it better myself. Cheers. I read the first HG book with anticipation based on all the shameless gushing about it. I came away with.... boring. I honestly almost threw the book against the wall if it didn't get a move on and get to the actual games. When I got to the games they were.... well.... boring. This is "The Running Man" written by a girl. I had no urge to go to book 2. Girl gets to the woods, almost gets burned, heals, etc. I have NO clue what people saw in this when there are so many other books better than this. Was it the hype machine? How? How did this happen? I am sorry for you. I am 52 years old, well-educated and well-read. I have read all three books (ahead of my daughter reading them) and thought they were quite good. The layering of themes was very well done, along with good writing that kept me interested but isn't too advanced for my 13-year old. If you were bored I'm afraid you belong to the crowd who need a lot more exposure to literary themes, as well as how books aren't about just the plot summary on the back cover. November 6, 2011 at 8:36 am | Report abuse | Log in to Reply I love how Jean's reaction to your honest critique of the series resulted in her stating that you have not been exposed to literary themes and complex novels; essentially intimating a lack of intelligence on your part. I, however, understood your critique to mean that you are more accustomed to books that have more complex themes. As the series is geared for young teen girls, I can understand your disappointment in finding the series lacking. It is sad that a 52 year-old parent resorted to insulting your intellect simply because you were not a fan of a teen book series. Actually Tom, I took DFW's 'critique' as a statement about the dearth of action in the 'Hunger' books, and as a complaint about the prominence and exploration of the characters relationships and emotions, not a plea for more complex themes. Your attempt at being 'anti-elitist' fails, where Jean was simply insisting that a reader familiarize himself with some of the classics themes in literature that are the structure of many of today's novels, including 'Hunger Games'- Shakespeare, Conrad, Bronte, Greek mythology. You fail a second time when you turn around and insult the intelligence of anyone who'd read or defend a 'teen book series'. DFW: I agree. I read the books because my friend kept raving about it. I really didn't care too much for the series, but moreso as a writer. I felt the main character was all over the place. Then ending made no sense whatsoever and while the idea was good I just think the series was poorly executed. I think the HG was average and I don't get all of the hype, but that's just my opinion. The movie may be okay. At least the cast looks pretty good. I will say, I am a huge fan of The Hunger but mainly about Death Game parody. Lol. A lot of it's content reflected my thoughts. Because people are satisfied with mediocrity just as long as it's simple to understand. They can't wrap their brains around complex storylines anymore hence why crap like Twilight and Transformers are popular. kernel thai First it is huge disservice to compare this Twilight whether u like Twilight or not. Only the fans can decide whether this movie series will be huge box office success. These silly predictions only lead to hype which prolly hurts the movie in the long run. Second, the thing that was lost with the casting of Jennifer Lawrence isnt that she isnt olive skinned. A lot was lost when they failed to chose a teen to play this role. Katniss is a young girl who displays amazing courage and I feel an age appropriate actress would have gotten that point across. The movie is the story of a teen hero as played by an excellent 21 yo actress. T3chsupport I'm still on the fence for Katniss's casting, but I think they nailed Peeta right on the head. The books are incredible. I'm afraid for the movie! I really hope that the "Hunger Games" does not become the next "Twilight". As a 17 year old male I very much enjoyed reading the books. If it were to turn into the feminine phenomena that is "Twilight" I can't see myself going to the movies. I also read the "Twilight" series (absolutely horrible writing) and cannot see "Hunger Games" becoming at all like it. What I could see though is a cultural element of "Twilight" transfering over to "Hunger Games". They are two different books, one well written, and the other not. The only way "Hunger Games" becomes "Twilight" is if the media turns it into it. Love the books!!! Although Movies never turn out as good as the books, i am still looking forward to getting a good visual of the story. Bookenz I just finished the books and was enthralled – can't wait for the movies. peacsktr IDK WERE MOST OF YOU ARE GETTING THAT KATNISS WAS OF COLOR BECAUSE IN ALL THE BOOKS SHES DESCRIBED AS WHITE THIS IS RIDICULOUS THAT PEOPLE DONT GET DISCRIPTIONS THE ONLY CHARACTERS OF COLOR ARE RUE AND THRESH AND CINNA. BUT THATS BESIDES THE POINT I AM DIEING FOR THE MOVIE I LOVE ALL THE ACTORS AND I WILL BE THERE MIDNIGHT PREMIRE ON TE 22ND I LOVE ALL THE ACTORS THEY CHOSSE THE ONLY ONE I DIDNT IMAGINE WITH CINNA BUT ONLY TIME WILL TELL. GO HUNGER GAMES And Chaff, too, but he's not a very important character True Brian about chaff I have read all three books... and thought they were amazing. I have seen Jennifer Lawrence in "Winter's Bone" and thought she was an outstanding actress. She may not look exactly how everyone pictured Katniss (including myself), who cares... I think she will do wonderful in this role. I would rather have a great movie with top notch acting, then a movie filled with the most popular actors who can't really act. The problem is, Niki, none of the actors who would fit Katniss's descriptions could be called "the most popular actors" because non-white actors don't get a chance to be in anything. There are many excellent actresses of color who would be great fits for Katniss, but the casting director only considered white girls. That isn't really fair. District 12, where Katniss and Peeta hail from in the story, is supposed to be in the West Virginia or Kentucky area. She's described as basically having dark features- but I think a director and producer have as much right to license as a writer does when interpreting the written word to film, especially in "Hunger", where race was not the point. Here we go. Another excuse to make a color/nationality complaint. Does the color the lead actress' skin really matter? Jennifer Lawrence is amazing. Am I the only one who saw Winter's Bone? I've never read the books but the whole concept seems interesting enough. Plus both Lawrence and Josh Hutchinson are from my state of Kentucky so I have to dedicate support them. As for the comment that HG is the most overhyped movie of the decade, I gotta say that that is way off since that honor belongs solely to The Social Network. "A modern day Citizen Kane"? Puh-leeze. Mike, Google "racebending" and educate yourself. Jennifer Lawrence may be a good actress, I'm not denying that, but she does not fit the description of Katniss given in the books. Period. End of story. http://michaelfury.wordpress.com/2009/09/25/first-person-sho0ter/ Nominated as the MOST over-hyped movie of the DECADE. GIJeff It cracks me up how offended people get at the comparison to Twilight.. "Star Wars is better." "No, Star Trek is better!" LoL. Any vampire/werewolf movie made in decades to come will be compared to Twilight. Get over it. Second.. I'm a soldier in the United States Army. I went to Iraq. Let me rephrase, I VOLUNTEERED to not only join the Army, but also to go to Iraq. So, how does forcing a bunch of kids to kill each other relate? All-volunteer Army. I'm also probably more educated than most of It cracks me up how offended people get at the comparison to Twilight.. "Star Wars is better." "No, Star Trek is better!" LoL. Any vampire/werewolf movie made in decades to come will be compared to Twilight. Get over it. Second.. I'm a soldier in the United States Army. I went to Iraq. Let me rephrase, I VOLUNTEERED to not only join the Army, but also to go to Iraq. So, how does forcing a bunch of kids to kill each other relate? All-volunteer Army. I'm also probably more educated than most of you with my Master's, sorry if that ruins one of the most common attacks you'll have towards me for joining the military. with my Master's, sorry if that ruins one of the most common attacks you'll have towards me for joining the military. Stupid phone. Guess that ruins my comment about my education huh? Haha I don't see a lot of soldiers in my neck of the woods, but thank you for serving. The books are about a totalitarian government who forces the citizens to participate in the games to terrorize and remind the people who is really in charge. The books also rip on how when a society degenerates it seeks more and more intense excitement, even to the point where people (in this case young kids and teenagers) are getting killed for entertainment purposes. There are also parallels to the 'Panem et Circenses' (sorry if I misspelled that) of Roman society. Blibz "Any vampire/werewolf movie made in decades to come will be compared to Twilight. Get over it." Hunger Games has neither vampires nor werewolves, so why should it be compared to twilight? apoc3 Nice try GIJeff... next time do your research and don't look like an idiot. You people should stop worring about who the actors are or what kind of political crap it's about just focus on how the movie is and if it's any good compared to the book. I don't know about this whole Hunger Games thing. Twilight as retarded as it was didn't go into all the political crap that this tries to do. Kids killing kids in a hunt to the death is supposed to be somehow kool? It's sad that this is what has to pass as a blockbuster franchise nowadays. If you want to see kids dying, go to Darfur or part of Africa, or maybe the gangs in Brazil where teens carry guns and shoot to kill other kids. Yeh, let's make Hollywood some money. Buck1 Buck, you need to chill out. Vivian Volkoff The whole series is like a parody of real life. We're sending kids out into the world to kill each other and the government is getting their kicks that way. Iraq? Afghanistan? Iran? Anybody? Bueller? Entertainment can educate as well as entertain and if The Hunger Games teaches just one child that violence isn't the answer, that war is bloody and needless, then I'd say that is a movie worthy of making money. First of all, the whole point of the series was not that kids killing each other was cool. The Hunger Games was a book series before it was a movie. If you want to 'blame' someone, don't be blaming Hollywood. The books are centered around the fact that the Games are cruel, and I'd say you haven't read them from the way you're talking. The rebellion to overthrow the Capitol, which Katniss unwillingly becomes the Mockingjay, their symbol, in. Colllins was not trying to be 'cool' when she wrote this. She was stating a fact, regardless of how she did it. The United States, heck everyone, sends men, boys really, barely nineteen or twenty, and throws them into wars like Iraq and Afganistan. It supposed to say that war is cruel and that you lose people. It's supposed to teach kids that violence isn't the answer, that it only makes things worse. Especially keeping your people trodden down by selecting 2 kids randomly to fight to the death and making everyone watch. It was their way of saying they had complete authority over the Disticts, that they ruled them completely. You do not seem to get that, so please stop making ignorant comments on a board that is talking about how this isn't going to be another Twilgiht (which I'm incredibly grateful for. Twilight by itself is horribly bad anyway without comparing phenomenally better series to it). There is much more to it than that... Read the books before judging it... Sounds like someone ripped off Battle Royale 1 & 2 Actually, I have seen many, many parallels between the Hunger Games and Shakespeare's 'Julius Caesar', of all things. Go back and read the Hunger Games trilogy, then read Julius Caesar and see the similarities. While I cannot deny that there is definitely a Battle Royale kind of theme going on with the books, this kind of theme has actually been around for a while. It has elements of the TV Show 'Survivor' and The short science fiction story Survivor, by Walter F. Moudy. And don't forget the gladiator games of ancient Rome, which is where all 'fight to the death with an audience' stories originate from anyway. Pattymouth It is a LOT like Battle Royale. One of the main differences is that in BR, most of the kids don't seem to really like or care about one another enough to have a problem with going right to the slaughter – even though they had all been classmates. In HG, there are many kind and sensitive kids who struggle with killing people because they spent time practicing and observing one another in the training classes after the 'selections' in their different districts. Personally, I couldn't stomach BR because of that difference. Joshuax My first thought...... They're called ARCHETYPES, and the plot of every single story on the planet follows one or more of them, from ancient folk tales like the story of Gilgamesh to Harry Potter and yes, Battle Royale and The Hunger Games. Look it up. I don't like any of the three lead actors, so I won't be seeing the movie version. I still wish they would have cast a non-white actress for Katniss. I always had a mixed-race girl in mind for the role. It's simple. White teenage girls make a ton of money for movies. Minorities don't. Katniss is from the Appalachian area, which I always thought was mostly white, even if she's not fair in the books. I think she'll rock it. She's a good actress. The books mention several times how people from the part of the district where Katniss lives, 'the Seam,' usually have an olive complexion and dark hair and eyes. That's how she could claim Gale was her cousin and people believed her. An olive complexion is generally associated with people of European descent. It says she has Olive skin and grey eyes. That is usually European. So no she should NOT be mixed. Prim is mixed and Cinna are mixed, not Katniss and Gale. I think she will rock it. I had my doubts at first no doubt but I'm confident in her, you imagined her as mixed colored yet it says in the book her sister has fair skin and light hair... I love Jennifer Lawrence. She's a really good actor with a lot of potential to grow and this role will only sky rocket her career. You should see Winter's Bone, you'll change your mind about her playing Katniss. I'm only annoyed because the two main male leads are being played by Miley Cyrus's boyfriend and that Jounery to the Earth kid. BOOOOOO!!!! They look nothing like what the book described. gresi Well, I really really hope it won't be as mellow and gloomy and boring as twilight. Clearly you haven't read a single chapter of any of the HUNGER books or you wouldn't have made such a ridiculous, uninformed comment. Look at the photo accompanying this article; that's Katnis, the protagonist of the Hunger Games story. Does that still featuring a bow-wielding warrior remind you at all of the pathetic, glowering victim-who-needs-protection Bella of the Twilight series? i love you john I think his comment is valid. Lets hope it won't be as mellow and gloomy and boring as twilight. I thought the books were great (well... the first two...). I don't have a lot of faith in Hollywood though. They are more likely to try to copy the success of Twilight than to make an accurate translation of the books. Hopefully I'm wrong though... I'm keeping my fingers crossed. I'm really starting to come around to her as the acress for Katniss. We can only wait and see how much the movies live up to the fabulous books! Can’t wait either! I think the books were great. How did the war start in the USA? The 1% liberals and the 1% conservatives wanted more and the 1% liberals won (The Capital is west of the Rockies, LA LA land). To keep the 99% in check the Capital creates a reality show called the Hunger Games. I hope I don’t see a Google ad in the movie, I don’t need a company telling me what I need to buy because I only buy what I need. Uhhh... what in the world are you talking about 99%? I'm firsty!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yay!!!!!!!!! People like you should not be allowed to own computers. If you're going to post first, perhaps you should comment on the article Why not set your personal achievement bar a little higher by making a meaningful comment?

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Yahoo bought by Verizon for $4.83 billion Yahoo president and CEO Marissa Mayer speaks during the Fortune Global Forum on November 3, 2015, in San Francisco, California. Image: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images By Jason Abbruzzese 2016-07-25 11:29:49 UTC Yahoo's 22-year run as an independent company is over, marking the end of an era for one of the earliest web giants — and one of the few to maintain some level of relevance as the internet evolved. Verizon acquired Yahoo's core business on Monday for $4.83 billion, the culmination of months of speculation about the future of the web company. SEE ALSO: How Yahoo derailed Tumblr It had been widely expected that a sale deal would be the end of CEO Marissa Mayer's tenure atop the company, but in an email to employees, Mayer said she's staying. "For me personally, I’m planning to stay. I love Yahoo, and I believe in all of you. It’s important to me to see Yahoo into its next chapter," she wrote. "Yahoo is a company that changed the world. Now, we will continue to, with even greater scale, in combination with Verizon and AOL," she added. The text of her post can be found at the bottom of this story. Mayer's turnaround efforts had been the subject of plenty of criticism, particularly for numerous expensive acquisitions that did little to stem a broader decline in its online advertising business. Just how long Mayer will remain with Verizon has already become the subject of plenty of speculation. Recode reported that Mayer will be out after the deal is officially completed. If Mayer is pushed out, she is inline for a severance package that could be worth more than $50 million — bringing her overall compensation for her work at Yahoo to about $218 million, according to compensation analysis firm Equilar. The addition of Yahoo is Verizon's second major digital acquisition in about a year, following on its $4.4 billion purchase of AOL in May 2015. Yahoo and AOL are expected to merge some of their operations. The combination of AOL and Yahoo now gives Verizon two of the biggest and oldest online media operations, which is notable since they still tend to receive traffic directly to their homepages thanks in part to email services. Together, Verizon/AOL and Yahoo would make up around 2.2% of 2016 global ad revenue, making it among the leaders but still well behind Google (31%) and Facebook (12%), according to eMarketer. “Just over a year ago we acquired AOL to enhance our strategy of providing a cross-screen connection for consumers, creators and advertisers," said Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam in a press release. "The acquisition of Yahoo will put Verizon in a highly competitive position as a top global mobile media company, and help accelerate our revenue stream in digital advertising." The deal ends a contentious battle between Yahoo's executives, namely Mayer, and investors that had called for the company to look for a buyer. Mayer had served as chief executive for just under four years, having attempted to modernize the company by focusing on newer areas such as mobile, video and native advertising, in which Yahoo lagged. That turnaround had done little to improve the company's earnings or sway investors that the company could return to glory. For all Yahoo's troubles, the company had a major ace up its sleeve — a sizable stake in e-commerce giant Alibaba. Yahoo's stock became a proxy investment in Alibaba, allowing investors to grab a piece of the ecommerce giant before it went public. Yahoo's stock price kept going up despite meager earnings. That provided Mayer with something of a runway that would eventually end in September 2014, when Alibaba went public. At that point, the blessing of Alibaba stock became a curse for Mayer. Yahoo was sitting on a huge chunk of valuable stock, and investors felt they were entitled to a payday from that investment. Since then, Mayer has been under serious pressure to return that investment to investors in a way that avoids major taxes. The company had originally explored spinning the Alibaba stake off into a separate company. Those plans did not come to fruition, and Mayer was eventually forced to cave to investor pressure to sell its core business. For the average Yahoo consumer, it does not look like much will change, at least not in the near future. The company's consumer services, including email, will continue to run — but now they're owned by Verizon. The rest of the company — Alibaba, Yahoo Japan and a patent portfolio — is being left behind. Change is expected, however, inside Yahoo. The company currently employs more than 10,000 people, a number that could be drastically cut. There are also various parts of Yahoo that is being left behind. Verizon bought what is called Yahoo's "core" business — primarily just its U.S. web operations and advertising business. That leaves behind various holdings including its valuable shares of ecommerce giant Alibaba, Yahoo Japan and a series of patents. Those assets will remain with the original company, which will change its name and be publicly traded. The Marissa Mayer email in full: Dear Yahoos, Moments ago, we announced an agreement with Verizon to acquire Yahoo’s operating business. This culminates a rigorous, thorough process over many months, and yields a great outcome for the company. Today’s announcement not only brings us an important step toward separating Yahoo’s operating business from our Asian asset equity stakes, it also presents exciting opportunities to accelerate Yahoo’s transformation. Among the many entities that showed interest in Yahoo, Verizon believed most in the immense value we’ve created, and in what a combination could bring our users, our advertisers, and our partners. This is a good moment to reflect on Yahoo’s journey to date. Yahoo is a company that changed the world. Before Yahoo, the Internet was a government research project. Yahoo humanized and popularized the web, email, search, real-time media, and more. What really sets Yahoo apart is the shared passion to create great products for our 1B+ users, and in doing so, transforming the world for the better. You can clearly see that spirit, that commitment, that fight in the work we’ve done together over the past few years. We set out to transform this company – and we’ve made incredible progress. We counteracted many of the tectonic shifts of declining legacy businesses, and built a Yahoo that is unequivocally stronger, nimbler, and more modern. We tripled our mobile base to over 600 million monthly users, we invested in and built Mavens from basically zero in 2011 into $1.6B of GAAP Revenue in 2015, we streamlined and modernized every aspect of our consumer products, and, with Gemini and BrightRoll, we dramatically improved our advertiser products. This only scratches the surface of what we’ve achieved… and we all know how much hard work it took to get here. It’s because of that hard work and resilience, that Yahoo will realize amazing opportunities in its next chapter. This sale is not only an important step in our plan to unlock shareholder value for Yahoo, it is also a great opportunity for Yahoo to build further distribution and accelerate our work in mobile, video, native advertising, and social. As one of the largest wireless and cable companies in the world, Verizon opens the door to extensive distribution opportunities. With more than 100 million wireless customers, a shared view of the importance of mobile and video ad tech, a deep content focus through AOL, Verizon brings clear synergies to the table. And with their aggressive aims to grow global audience to 2B users and $20B in revenue within the mobile-media business by 2020, Yahoo’s products and brand will be central to achieving these goals. Joining forces with AOL and Verizon will help us achieve tremendous scale on mobile. Imagine the distribution challenges we will solve, the scale we will achieve, the products we will build, and the advertisers we will reach now with Mavens – it’s incredibly compelling. The strategic process has created a lot of uncertainty, but our incredibly loyal and dedicated employee base has stepped up to every challenge along the way. Through the first half of the year, we met our operational goals and overachieved on plan. But, further, there are things that you cannot measure, like the passion of the people behind the products. The teams here have not only built incredible products and technologies, but have built Yahoo into one of the most iconic, and universally well-liked companies in the world. One that continues to impact the lives of more than a billion people. I’m incredibly proud of everything that we’ve achieved, and I’m incredibly proud of our team. For me personally, I’m planning to stay. I love Yahoo, and I believe in all of you. It’s important to me to see Yahoo into its next chapter. As we work to close this agreement in Q1 2017, it’s more important than ever that we come together as one global team to continue executing on our strategic plan through the remainder of the year. We have delivered the first half of the year with pride, achieving our goals. Now, it is up to us to make Yahoo’s final quarters as an independent company count. Yahoo is a company that changed the world. Now, we will continue to, with even greater scale, in combination with Verizon and AOL. Topics: Business, Media, Yahoo

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List of the Sons of Liberty» History of Women, Gender and Sexuality Seminar "For I'd Rather Be Dead Than Not to Dream of a Better World": Mae Gadpaille's Vision of the Montessori Family Centre Community registration required at no cost 21 January 2020.Tuesday, 5:15PM - 7:30PM Mary McNeil, Harvard University Comment: Ashley Farmer, University of Texas – Austin In 1967, Mae Gadpaille, the director of a black Montessori preschool in Roxbury, faced displacement; the church that housed her school was slated to be cleared for an urban renewal project. In response, Gadpaille launched a campaign to build the Montessori Family Centre Community, a living community for approximately 150 families with a PreK-12 Montessori school in the center. This talk traces Gadpaille's efforts to realize her vision, paying special attention to how she thought Montessori methods could help advance a black nationalist project of self-determination, while also considering the limitations of such a vision – namely, who could "belong" to this community and who might be left at the margins.

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Talk Of Fame Network NFL Stories State Your Case HOF Interviews State Your Case: Why the career of Ray Donaldson deserves a HOF look Rick Gosselin The wait continues for Kevin Mawae…and everyone else in line behind him. And that’s not fair to Ray Donaldson. There are only seven centers from the NFL’s modern era in the NFL Hall of Fame but only one has been enshrined in the last 20 years – Dermontti Dawson. Mawae was a finalist for the Class of 2018 for a second consecutive year but was passed over for a second consecutive year. Mawae is a deserving candidate. He was a first-team all-decade center for the 2000s – and every first-team center from the 1920 decade on has already been enshrined in Canton. Mawae went to eight Pro Bowls and was a seven-time first-team all-pro, so it’s only a matter of time before he gets his bust. But every year Mawae doesn’t move up in the queue is another year Donaldson loses in his candidacy. Candidates have a 20-year window of modern-era eligibility – and Donaldson has already burned 17 of those years. Time is running out on a trailblazer at his position. Donaldson became the 32nd overall selection of the 1980 draft by the Baltimore Colts. At the time, that was the highest an NFL team had ever selected an African-American center. He went 16 picks ahead of fellow African-American center Dwight Stephenson, who now has a bust in Canton. Then Donaldson became only the second African-American to start in the NFL at the center position in 1981, beating Stephenson onto the field at Miami. Only Larry Tearry, who started for the Detroit Lions in 1978 and 1979, preceded Donaldson and Stephenson into an NFL lineup. Over the next 16 seasons, Donaldson performed among the elite at his position. Donaldson blocked for NFL rushing champions Eric Dickerson and Emmitt Smith. He also blocked for AFC rushing champion Chris Warren plus an 1,100-yard season by Curtis Dickey. Donaldson was voted to six Pro Bowls, including each of his final two seasons in 1995 and 1996 with the Cowboys. His final Pro Bowl came at the age of 38 when he was part of a blocking front that allowed a league-low 19 sacks. He won his first Super Bowl at the age of 37. But there was so much losing before then at Indianapolis and Seattle that doomed Donaldson to a lower profile and now seems to have damaged his candidacy. His teams posted a 76-139 record during that 14-year stretch before he arrived in Dallas. The Hall of Fame selection committee likes winners. Mick Tingelhoff holds the NFL record for centers with 240 career starts. He played in four Super Bowls and six Pro Bowls with the Minnesota Vikings. It still took him 32 years to get his bust in Canton and only then as a senior candidate. Mawae is next on the all-time list at center with 238 starts, followed by Donaldson in third at 228. Does Ray Donaldson belong in the Hall of Fame? The jury, obviously, remains out. But when you play 17 seasons, start 228 games, go to six Pro Bowls, block for two NFL rushing champions and win a Super Bowl, you certainly deserve to have your career discussed and debated to determine where your game fits in an historical context. But time is running out on the chance for Donaldson to have that discussion. Playoff Judgements III: 49ers, critics last obstacles for Chiefs' Andy Reid Kansas City's Andy Reid is going to a second Super Bowl but won't dwell on how it affects his legacy. He should. Clark Judge Tagliabue finally makes it to Canton as one of 15 in Hall's Centennial Class The Hall-of-Fame's Centennial Class has been named, and former commissioner Paul Tagliabue is part of it. brian wolf Rick Gosselin's 2019 NFL special teams rankings: a heavenly finish for Saints Darren Rizzi had a history of special-teams success with the Miami Dolphins. He brought it with him to New Orleans. The Playoff GPS, Week III: Mahomes vs. Henry, Rodgers vs. history; Who wins? Kansas City and San Francisco are favored to win Sunday. One problem: Derrick Henry and Aaron Rodgers are in the way. The family of Alex Karras waited 45 years for this call from Canton The family of Alex Karras believed he was a Hall-of-Fame football player. Confirmation finally came this week. Answering the unsolved questions for the Hall's Centennial Class of 2020 The Pro Football Hall-of-Fame's Centennial Class will be revealed Wednesday. Here's what we need to know. JeffS76 Cliff Branch once again shut down by Hall-of-Fame voters Cliff Branch was finally a finalist for the Pro Football Hall of Fame, but the voters shut him down again. Who knows why Ron Borges Kryk: Wistert, Pearson and how deeply it hurts when Canton doesn't call You know about the 10 seniors who reached the Hall Wednesday. But there were 10 others who did not. Here are two. Now the question: Is Luke Kuechly a Hall of Famer? Here's one historian's take NFL historian John Turney examines the career of Luke Kuechly and assesses his chances of reaching Canton. Plawren2 Playoff Judgements, Week II: More than one winner when Packers held off Seattle Green Bay wasn't the only big winner Sunday night. So was its next opponent, San Francisco. Here's why.

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maxonmotoraust Global leading provider of quality and high-precision drive systems. Archive | June 2012 in DC servo motor, Robotics, Automation Rib Spreading Tool Gets Robotic Update It may sound unbelievable, but some tools that physicians use to perform invasive surgery were originally developed in the 1930s and have gone through minimal updating since. Most often, these tools have been efficient enough to do the job, even if patients took a long time to heal. This is especially true when a surgeon has to enter the chest cavity for heart or lung operations. To date, there are two primary methods used to open a space large enough for a doctor to work inside the chest: a thoracotomy or a sternotomy. The thoracotomy is where an incision is made between two ribs to gain access. For a sternotomy, the surgeon saws through the sternum and then spreads it apart. In both cases, the surgeon pries apart the ribs or sternum using a hand-cranked, stepping mechanical jack called a thoracic retractor. Large forces are needed to spread the ribs. In fact, the Physcient team discovered that the forces necessary to separate the ribs are roughly equal to the weight of the person being operated on, which means that using a thoracic retractor can result in broken bones, crushed nerves, wrenched joints, and torn ligaments. All of these factors offer adverse post-surgical effects that can be ongoing. Physcient has developed technologies that are expected to greatly reduce the damage of thoracic retraction. “Two of the concerns we ran into,” said Chuck Pell, cofounder (with Hugh Crenshaw) of Physcient, “were that we had to maintain the same footprint as other thoracic retractors being used in the operating room today, plus we had to be able to sterilise the tool repeatedly, to be used for literally hundreds of cycles.” The company’s Assuage Smart Retractor was designed to apply technology to solve a longstanding problem without changing surgeons’ procedures. According to Pell: “We both (he and Crenshaw) studied biomechanics, and it is that understanding of how creatures move that we use to translate into technology. We recently turned that knowledge to surgical tools, and are finding it very interesting. Many of the tools used in surgery today were invented prior to biomechanics becoming a mature science.” According to the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, more than half a million heart surgeries are performed every year. Add to that number another hundred thousand lung surgeries, and the need for better tools quickly becomes apparent. Because of the antiquated design of thoracic retractors being used today and the number of surgeries being performed, the incidents of rib fractures has continued to increase. Crenshaw and Pell recognised that there had been little research pertaining to the forces generated by rib spreaders in the past, and brought together a team to measure the effects and produce the technology to greatly reduce damage. Bones can flex quite a bit before breaking, often due to the rate at which the spreader moves — a sudden bend like that delivered by a hand-cranked thoracic retractor can cause a rib to snap. Bone fibers need a little time to adjust. By placing sensors in the Assuage rib spreader, it’s easier to detect whether fibres begin to break down. This information is then fed back into the tool so that it responds instantly to tissue events. This closed-loop feedback to the motor must have a high degree of precision and be completely reliable to be used inside medical devices. Physcient designed a prototype rib spreader around a motor manufactured by Maxon. One of the more important specifications for the motor was the lack of cogging that often occurs at very low speeds. The rib spreader has to be able to move smoothly without jerking motions that can cause undue damage to the patient. DC brushless motors easily operate from a battery, and an onboard controller and sensor system helps to maintain a controlled spreading process. In order to handle the high forces necessary, Physcient selected high-torque motors. “The motors we use from Maxon not only have to handle the greatest retraction forces ever measured in the medical industry, they also have to be precise in order to reduce damage to ligaments and soft tissues,” Pell said. Maxon manufactures a complete line of motors from 6mm to 90mm for a wide variety of applications. They are electronically commutated for minimal electrical noise. The company’s DC brushless motors have no mechanical brushes to wear out, which allows them to provide long motor life. By being designed using high-grade, preloaded ball bearings, an additional benefit in longevity is added to the motor. Maxon motors provide a low-profile design ideal for applications requiring a small footprint. The Physcient Assuage Smart Retractor takes into consideration the physics of bone and tissue. As with most cardiothoracic research, tests were run on pigs, which are biomechanically similar to humans. The Physcient team built a prototype that used two rows of curved metal fingers, meant to cradle a single rib. As the retractor automatically spreads the ribs, sensors provide feedback to the Maxon motor, providing smooth opening. In the experiments, Physcient’s retractor greatly reduced tissue trauma, reduced pain, improved breathing, and resulted in better overall recovery. Once the team at Physcient produces the Assuage rib spreader, it plans to look into other medical equipment that hasn’t changed over many years. Its aim has always been patient-oriented through offering the right tools for the surgeons, and it plans to automate and upgrade the entire surgical toolkit. Physcient plans to bring Assuage Smart Retractor to market in 2013. www.maxonmotor.com.au New Formulae Handbook for Drive Technology maxon motor provides effective help for drive selection. The extensive collection with illustrations and descriptions includes formulae, terminology and explanations of the calculations that are relevant for drive systems. A flow chart provides assistance in selecting the right drive for each purpose The Formulae Handbook lists the most important formulae in relation to all components of the drive system. It makes use of a flow chart that supports quick selection of the correct drive. Numerous illustrations and the clear descriptions of the symbols on the respective page make it easier for the reader to understand the formulae. Roughly speaking, it is a collection of the most important formulae from the maxon catalog, as well as from the book “The selection of high-precision microdrives”, published by maxon academy. The author of the book, Dr. Urs Kafader, Head of the maxon academy, gave the initiative to compile the Formulae Handbook to Jan Braun, technical instructor at the maxon academy. The book “The selection of high-precision microdrives” contains extensive know-how from the 50-year long success story of maxon DC drives with low power (below approx. 500 W). The new Formulae Handbook is intended for engineers, lecturers and students, as a perfect supplement to the above-mentioned book. The Formulae Handbook consists of 58 pages in A5 format and is available free of charge in German and English. maxon motor Group presents good results again maxon motor Group again achieved good results in 2011 – Revenue doubled since 2001 – Strengthened market leadership in the field of high-precision drive technology – Well-filled product pipeline – Cautiously optimistic look at the future. Sachseln/OW (CH). – The 2011 business year proved to be very positive for the maxon motor Group. Building on the excellent results of the year before, maxon increased the revenue to 339.6 million Swiss francs. The cash flow amounts to 37 million Swiss francs, allowing the company to finance all investments using own funds only. At the end of 2011, maxon employed more than 2,000 persons at the locations in Sachseln (Switzerland), Sexau (Germany) and Veszprém (Hungary). The export share at maxon is 81.5%. Due to the uncertain economic development worldwide, maxon is hesitant to make predictions for the current business year. “2011 was characterised by currency declines and massive increases in the prices of commodities, especially magnets. In spite of these obstacles, we reached our targets,” said Karl-Walter Braun, majority shareholder of the maxon motor Group, at the annual results media conference. The company exports to all important markets of the world. The largest increases were achieved in Northern America, Scandinavia, as well as Germany and Italy. In Asia, maxon was able to keep the revenue stable, in spite of the decline of the Asian currencies and the events in Fukushima. In Switzerland, maxon recorded very good results. The diversified company is well-established in the fields of medical technology and industrial automation, as well as in the aerospace industries, etc. “With around 2,000 employees, we are large enough to implement ambitious projects, yet still manageable enough to react and decide quickly,” says Jürgen Mayer, President of the Board of Directors. maxon, two-time winner of the Innovation Prize awarded by the Central Switzerland Chamber of Commerce, has introduced various new motors to the market, with a continuing trend towards miniaturisation. In 2011, as before, the investments for research and development are at a very high level, with 8.3% of the revenue being dedicated to this area. “Currently the product pipeline is filled with many promising developments, and with our expertise, we will generate true innovations for new markets,” says Eugen Elmiger, CEO. “In the perpetually dynamic market environment, we can maintain our position by constantly introducing new products featuring Swiss precision into the market,” states Elmiger. The micro motors are, for example, used in intelligent leg prosthesis systems, in deep drilling and in implantable medication delivery systems. Cautious look at the future “The prospects for a positive development of the global economy are intact – if only it wasn’t for the euro and the euro crisis,” says Karl-Walter Braun. “In this unpredictable situation, we can count on our solid financial basis and the high-quality technological products that are needed all around the world and are used in a wide range of applications.” A change occurred on the management level; the employment contract with Armin Lederer, Head of Operations, has been dissolved, due to difference of opinion regarding the strategic direction of the company. His successor will be announced in due course. The digital positioning controller EPOS3 70/10 EtherCAT meets the highest demands in real-time positioning of synchronized multi-axis systems. Extremely compact in size, the EPOS3 possesses a wide nominal power supply voltage range from 11 to 70 VDC and delivers a continuous output current of 10 A, during acceleration and deceleration even up to 25 A. Designed for DC and EC motors with a power range up to 700 Watt, it provides outstanding uniform running for motors equipped with incremental encoders. Humanoid Robot Fights Fires on Ships Agility, speed, strength, and balance are all qualities needed to fight fires, especially when those fires are shipboard. Such feats are difficult for humans, let alone humanoid robots. But that’s just what the RoMeLa labs at Virginia Tech are working on. “The SAFFiR [Shipboard Autonomous Firefighting Robot] will be able to carry and operate fire extinguishers, fire hoses, throw PEAT [propelled extinguishing agent technology] canisters, as well as interact with humans and find fires. We’ve already built the legs of the robot and are working on the rest of it,” said Derek Lahr, a PhD candidate and project manager. The SAFFiR’s legs are a highly compact amalgamation of motors, pulleys, wire harnesses, and controllers that allow the robot not only to walk, but also to walk while on a ship as it pitches and rolls through waves. Key concerns while designing the SAFFiR included the need to control the robot’s locomotion from both a purely mechanical stance and a balance standpoint. For example, if the ship pitches forward, the robot might need to speed its leg movement and produce a longer stride length to keep itself from getting off balance. Lahr said that by using maxon motors’ EPOS controls, the project engineers were able to interconnect all operations easily. “For six degrees of freedom in each leg, we use six motors. That’s 12 motors being used in just the legs section of the SAFFiR.” Both speed and torque were necessary, since at different parts of a stride, the leg will alternately move fast and free and then slow and more controlled. Lahr and his team used multiple 30mm maxon motors for the legs. Wherever possible, they designed in 100W motors to help reduce the weight of the unit. The motors provide the largest amount of mass in the robot, so any reduction in weight was a plus. “Maxon motors actually provide the highest power to weight ratio we could find in a brushless motor anywhere,” Lahr said. “And humanoid robots can be more sensitive to weight than an airplane.” For certain critical joints like those in the knees, 200W motors were used. The knees of the robot, just like human knees, take the brunt of the load, especially when squatting or kneeling. They also have to move the fastest while walking. Those joints needed the additional torque and speed combination available with the larger wattage units. At this point in the design testing phase, the robot is tethered much of the time, but the engineers have tested and confirmed the use of a pair of 10 amp/hour lithium polymer batteries (about the size of a small brick) will be able to power the robot for at least a half-hour with a 20A average current draw. This includes all the motors, sensors, and controls. Because the robot operates off a closed-loop system and uses 12 motors just in the legs (there will be another 12 in the arms and hands, as well as two in the neck), Lahr and his team needed controllers that could handle the load. “We chose maxon’s EPOS 50/5 controllers for the joints, aside from two EPOS 24/5 controllers used for less demanding degrees of freedom,” he said. One of the main reasons the team chose to use the EPOS (Easy Positioning System) series controllers was that they came equipped to use the CANopen bus system. “Several of us were familiar with CANopen from other applications, so we were attracted by the familiar operating and programming needs of the system software from the beginning,” Lahr said. This makes the EPOS embedded controllers well suited for multi-axis distributed controls that also feature electronic gearing, PVT, step and direction, and point-to-point positioning. The EPOS controls are used in two different modes — position control mode and force control mode. Position control allows for higher-level controllers to read position data from the sensors and closely regulate the specific position of the leg, so that corrections can be incorporated while walking. Force control mode is the latest thing in locomotion, according to Lahr. “It combines current control circuitry with load cell feedback to create a ‘pure force’ actuator, which allows the leg to swing freely,” he said. “The EPOS controllers allow us to switch modes on-the-fly.” This is important so that the leg impact doesn’t harm any of the actuators. “We can switch from position control to force control at the last millisecond, so that we can accurately control stride length and impact power,” he said. An additional benefit of using the maxon controllers is that they come with EPOS Studio (a GUI-based free software package provided by maxon), which provides a simple utility to program the controllers and helps the user to bug-check software before implementing it into the CANopen system. In general, EPOS controllers have been designed using advanced 32-bit DSP technology, which provides users like Lahr and his team the extended functionality of a miniature embedded controller. The units were specifically developed to meet demanding size and performance requirements often found in robotic, medical, and semiconductor applications. This closeup shows four 30mm brushless motors manufactured by maxon motors. Tethered to a power system, the SAFFiR walks while packing more than 12 maxon motors and 10 EPOS controller Bikedrive brushless DC motor DC servo motor DC servo motor, Robotics, Automation DC servo motor controller Oil and Gas Australia Online configuration Submersible DC motor Subsea applications Subsea Thruster WorldSkills2015 Maxon Facebook maxon Twitter Feed

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The Last Exorcism part II Continuing where the first film left off, The Last Exorcism part II begins as Nell Sweetzer (Ashley Bell) is recovering after having survived a terrifying exorcism. Completely traumatized, Nell can’t remember entire portions of the previous months, only that she is the last surviving member of her family. Academy Award-nominee Guillermo del Toro presents Mama, a supernatural thriller that tells the haunting tale of two little girls who disappeared into the woods the day their parents were killed. When they are rescued years later and begin a new life, they find that someone or something wants to come tuck them in at night. Clueless director Amy Heckerling and star Alicia Silverstone reunite in Vamps, a cheeky, fresh comedy about two eternally young party girls navigating the dating world in the Big City Directed by Dunstan and starring Josh Stewart, Emma Fitzpatrick and Christopher McDonald, the film centers on a traumatized man forced to help rescue a beautiful woman who has become the latest obsession of a crazed killer who “collects” humans in a booby-trapped house of horrors. Resident Evil: Retribution The wildly successful film franchise adaptation that has grossed nearly $700 million worldwide to date returns in its highly anticipated fifth installment, Resident Evil: Retribution, written and directed by Paul W.S. Anderson, in state-of-the art 3D. The Possession From horror master Sam Raimi and legendary Danish director Ole Bornedal (Nightwatch, The Substitute) comes a contemporary supernatural thriller that is based on a terrifying true story of paranormal events — and the unleashing of an ancient evil into our 21st Century world. Bait 3D When a monstrous freak tsunami hits a sleepy beach community, a group of survivors from different walks of life find themselves trapped inside a submerged supermarket. As they try to escape to safety, they soon discover that there is a predator among them more deadly than the threat of drowning. Filmmakers have adapted to an evolution of storytelling techniques and tools to deliver heightened suspense – editing, visuals, atmosphere and sound effects, it’s a strenuous manipulation of various factors to set an audience on the edge of their movie theater seat. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter is a 2012 American 3D supernatural horror film based on the 2010 mashup novel Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter. The story of how President Lincoln’s mother death by a supernatural creature fuels his passion to crush vampires and their slave-owning helpers. Beneath the Darkness Beneath the Darkness is a horror-thriller film directed by Martin Guigui, and starring starring Dennis Quaid, Aimee Teegarden, Tony Oller, Devon Werkheiser, Brett Cullen and Stephen Lunsford. After watching their best friend get murdered, a group of teens struggle to expose a local hero as the vicious killer The Devil Inside is an horror thriller centered on a woman who has been led to believe her mother brutally murdered three people because she was clinically insane. After being told the murders occurred during an exorcism, she sets out to discover the truth 11-11-11 is a horror-thriller set on 11:11 on the 11th day of the 11th month and concerning a entity from another world that enters the earthly realm through Heaven’s 11th gate. Directed by Darren Lynn Bousman. Starring Timothy Gibbs, Michael Landes, Denis Rafter. Previous Page 1 2 3 4 5 6 Next Page

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Category: Family Issues Posted on December 13, 2002 at 5:16 am In “Dave” and “Big” screenwriter Gary Ross gave us characters whose innocent honesty and goodness revealed and transformed the adult world. Now, as both screenwriter and director of “Pleasantville,” he has created teen-aged twins who are transported into an idyllic black and white 1950’s television sitcom where everything is perpetually sunny and cheerful, married couples sleep in twin beds, the basketball team never loses, and messy complications simply don’t exist. Tobey Maguire (David) and Reese Witherspoon (Jennifer) are well aware of the messy complications of the modern world. David has retreated into reruns of “Pleasantville,” a television show that makes “Andy of Mayberry” and “Father Knows Best” look like hard-hitting docudramas. And Jennifer is something of a self-described “slut.” When a mysterious TV repairman played by “Andy of Mayberry’s” Don Knotts gives them a magic remote control, David and Jennifer find themselves transformed into Pleasantville’s Bud and Mary Sue. As the twins interact with Pleasantville’s black and white world, they cannot help revealing its limits and ultimately transforming it. “Mary Sue” mischeviously introduces the concept of sex to her high school classmates, and then, more sensitively, to her Pleasantville mother (Joan Allen). “Bud” tells them about a world where the roads go on to other places, where the weather is not always sunny and mild, where people can decide to do things differently than they have before. As the characters open themselves up to change, they and their surroundings begin to bloom into color, in one of the most magical visual effects ever put onto film. But some residents of Pleasantville are threatened and terrified by the changes. “No colored” signs appear in store windows. New rules are imposed. When the twins’ Pleasantville father (William H. Macy) finds no one there to hear his “Honey, I’m home!” he does not know what to do. He wants his wife to go back to black and white. At first, Jennifer thinks that it is sex that turns the black and white characters into color. But when she stays “pasty,” she realizes that the colors reveal something more subtle and meaningful — the willingness to challenge the accepted and opening oneself up to honest reflection about one’s own feelings and longings. High schoolers may appreciate the way that the twins, at first retreating in different ways from the problems of the modern world, find that the rewards of the examined life make it ultimately worthwhile. Topics for discussion include the movie’s parallels to Nazi Germany (book burning) and American Jim Crow laws (“No colored” signs), and the challenges of independent thinking. NOTE: parents should know that the movie contains fairly explicit references to masturbation (and a non-explicit depiction) and to teen and adulterous sex. Drama Family Issues Fantasy Previous PostPrevious Splendor in the Grass Next PostNext Bowfinger Price of Glory In the 1940’s, this movie would have starred John Garfield and been on the lower half of a double feature. In 2000, it stars Jimmy Smits as the father who pushes his three boys to be championship boxers, because his own dreams of being a champion were dashed. Despite the attractive performances, the movie is k-o’d in the first round by a cliche-filled script with dialogue that has a higher specific gravity than a heavyweight contender. Come on, recite along with me as papa Jimmy Smits argues with mama Maria del Mar: “Do colleges give scholarships for boxing?” “I’m just thinking about their future.” “So am I, damnit!” “I’m their manager!” “No, Arturo, you’re their father!” “It’s not about the money — it’s about being the best!” Smits plays Arturo Ortega, scion of “The Fighting Ortegas,” each of whom faces his own challenges. Sonny, the oldest, wants to marry his girlfriend and make some of his own decisions. Jimmy struggles to gain his father’s approval, and, when he feels that is impossible, becomes involved with drugs. Johnny, the youngest and most talented, wants to be his father’s “avenging angel” and make up to him not only for the disappointment of his own career, but also for his disappointment in the older two boys. Arturo lives in a border town. He tells a fight promoter, “Every day, I see people cross that line looking for something better.” Arturo has a clearly established line in his own mind that he wants to cross — his way, in a Cadillac, as the father of champions. And he wants to manage his sons all the way to the title. But Arturo knows more about teaching boxing than he does about managing a boxing career. And he knows more about both than he does about being a father. Someone has to be killed before he can admit that though he tried to give his sons more, “maybe less would have been better, less of me.” Parents should know that in addition to very rough boxing matches, there is some gun violence and drug use, and that the language is strong for a PG-13, really on the edge of R. Families who see this movie should talk about how parents find a way to balance their dreams for their kids with the kids dreams for themselves. Drama Family Issues Sports about Nell Minow Follow Movie Mom on Twitter THE MOVIE MOM® is a registered trademark of Nell Minow. Use of the mark without express consent from Nell Minow constitutes trademark infringement and unfair competition in violation of federal and state laws. All material copyright Nell Minow 1995-2017, all rights reserved, and no use or republication is permitted without explicit permission. Movie Mom's Archives This site hosts Nell Minow’s Movie Mom® archive, with material that originally appeared on Yahoo! Movies, Beliefnet, and other sources. Much of her new material can be found at Rogerebert.com, Huffington Post, and WheretoWatch. Her books include The Movie Mom’s Guide to Family Movies and 101 Must-See Movie Moments, and she can be heard each week on radio stations across the country. 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‘The Graysons’ Isn’t Intended to Replace ‘Smallville’ The Graysons Isn’t Intended to Replace Smallville — October 7, 2008 in TV News Fans of Smallville have been somewhat upset about the news out of the CW network that the producers of the show have pitched The Graysons, another superhero series, to the network. Fears have run high that this pitch suggests that there won’t be a ninth season of Smallville, and they seem to squash hopes of a spin-off series focusing on either The Justice League, Supergirl, or Green Arrow. Well, no fear - Smallville producers Brian Peterson and Kelly Souders wrote a message to fans of the series over at KryptonSite, reassuring them about the series. They wrote: Dear Smallville fans, As news and rumors swirl around the development of The Graysons for the CW, we have every intention of letting you, our fans, be the first to know the reality. Never have we been so committed to the continuing success of Smallville as we are to seasons 8 and 9. While we are extremely excited to be working hand-in-hand with Wonderland, Warner Bros. and the CW to create the origin story of Dick Grayson, it has never been intended as a replacement for Smallville, as is speculated in some media. The cast, crew, writers and producers are all working full-steam ahead on a story-line for Clark that allows for seasons of further trials and adventures for our favorite hero. As always, we all have you to thank for achieving eight years of this amazing show that Al and Miles created, and we're looking far beyond! RELATED: Superman's Perceived Lack of Relevance at Warner Bros. Sparks Online Outrage Brian Peterson & Kelly Souders Based on what they’re saying, it sounds like the success (or failure) of both The Graysons and Smallville are going to be unconnected. Furthermore, it sounds like they have a concrete plan for at least a ninth season of the show – and my be planning on ways to transform Smallville into a modern-day series about the adventures of Superman. Smallville airs Thursday nights on the CW. The drama about the early days of Clark Kent stars Tom Welling, Erica Durance, Allison Mack, Aaron Ashmore, Justin Hartley, Cassidy Freeman and Sam Witwer. Topics: Superman, Smallville Josh Hartnett Only Turned Down Superman, Never Spider-Man or Batman Why James Gunn Passed on Superman to Direct The Suicide Squad Michael B. Jordan Knows How He'd Handle Superman If It Happens Will Henry Cavill's Superman Return in Black Adam?

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Search for a memorial: Order by date of death Order by name | ANY | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z | Nancy Thorpe March 7, 1969 - February 9, 2017 Passed away suddenly with family by her side at the age of 47. Cherished wife of Jeff for 21 years. Beloved mother of Madison and Marissa. Dear daughter of Claude and Louisette Crevier. Sister of Ginette... Annabelle Tellier (nee Campeau) August 4, 1925 - June 6, 2016 In her 91st year, passed away peacefully with her family by her side on June 6, 2016 at WRH-Metropolitan Campus. Beloved wife of Gerald “Bill” Tellier (1988). Loving mother of Clare Leboeuf (Mitch), Geraldine... Paul Trepanier April 10, 1927 - May 23, 2016 Beloved husband of Colleen (nee Byrne) for 66 years. Devoted father of Tim and Lynn, Francis, Joyce(The Reverend Christopher Chornyak), Elizabeth(Robert Smith), Theresa(Charles Martinu), Lois(Paul Limoges).... (Claire) Theresa Triembacher (nee Dubois) It is with , great sadness that the family announces the death of their loving mother, grandmother and great-grandmother on February 3, 2016. Beloved wife of the late Anton (1994). Loving mother to Michael and... Victor Trepanier Trepanier, Victor Joseph 72 years, on Thursday, July 16, 2015. Beloved son of the late Edward and Laurentia. Predeceased by his wife Rose-Mai. Dear father of Lisa Moore (Jay), step father to Camille (Yvette)... Carl Louis Trepanier November 19, 1955 - July 14, 2015 59 years, passed away peacefully with family by his side on July 14, 2015. Beloved husband of Annette for 38 years. Loving father of Jeff Trepanier (Patti) and Nicole Guerard (Rob), Papa to Donaven, Brody,... April 7, 1938 - July 4, 2015 TAYLOR, Thomas Phillip 1938-2015 Tom was born and raised in Belle River and passed away peacefully at Met Hospital on July 4, 2015 at the age of 77. Loving husband of Lynne (nee Hedrick) for almost 53 years.... Jeannette Trotechaud (nee Laporte) October 1, 1932 - February 2, 2015 Born October 1, 1932, after a long battle with illness, she returned to her Lord on February 2, 2015, Late of the town of Tilbury, with her loving husband Joseph and sons by her side. Loving mother of Tom... Roy Trepanier May 13, 1969 - January 20, 2015 45 years, passed away peacefully with his family by his side after a courageous battle with cancer on January 20, 2015. Loving son of the late Bernice (1992) and Robert Trepanier (1993). Dear brother to the... Richard Tighe TIGHE Dick It is with heavy hearts that we announce the sudden passing of our dear husband, father and grandfather on November 7, 2014 at the age of 78. Loving husband of Shirley (Child). Dear father and friend...

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Kissinger on Trump and 'The Cunning of Reason' The Financial Times has a diverting weekly feature - "Lunch with the FT" - in which its correspondents interview some notable person over lunch. You get the human to-and-fro of a sometimes revealing conversation between two individuals. You get appreciative comments about the attractive and vivacious maitre d', the bottle of Corton-Charlemagne Grand Cru 2013, the fillet of sea bream poached in layers of leek. Last week the FT's man in Washington Edward Luce had lunch (paywall) with the "grand consigliere of American diplomacy," former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. At 95, Kissinger is not only still alive but "hops on and off planes" to meet the likes of Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping, is writing a book on great statesmen and women he has known, and charges "princely sums" for his thoughts, through his geopolitical consultancy Kissinger Associates. Luce is on a mission to find out what Kissinger "really thinks about Donald Trump." The timing he thinks is perfect, the day after Trump's much-reviled summit with Putin in Helsinki. But, despite several attempts to pounce upon his aged quarry, Luce is unable to corner Kissinger into a direct comment on Trump. Except for this evidently premeditated and striking if cryptic assessment: "I think Trump may be one of those figures in history who appears from time to time to mark the end of an era and to force it to give up its pretences. It doesn't necessarily mean that he knows this, or that he is considering any great alternative. It could just be an accident." I make five points. Four are specific to Kissinger on Trump. The last is on the Hegelian model of historical change - the cunning of reason - that Kissinger rather casually deploys here while toying half-heartedly with his branzino (European bass) on a bed of green vegetables. First, Kissinger thinks Trump may already be a substantial figure in world history, not, alas, some bizarre printer's error that Trump-opponents hope to erase from its pages. Second, he's not just any historical figure but one who marks the end of an era. This much should be apparent even from Trump's critics, who denounce him for upending the post-war "liberal international order," among other epochal crimes. Third, Kissinger hints that the era which is ending may indeed deserve to go. Trump is forcing it to give up its pretences. Here one longs for Kissinger to descend from the clouds. Which era, and which pretences? There were not one but two post-war liberal democratic orders. The first prevailed during the Cold War, from say 1948 to 1989. This was an alliance of sovereign liberal-democratic nation-states that sought to contain Soviet communism and to prudently expand the scope of international trade and investment while retaining the main levers of the economy with the nation-state. The second is the 'hyper-globalist' model that the United States, Europe and others adopted after the end of the Cold War, which looks as its ideal to unfettered movement of capital, trade and people in an essentially borderless world, in which the democratic nation-state is stripped of purpose and withers away. Is it this imprudently utopian post-Cold War version of the liberal international order that Trump is forcing to give up its pretences? Fourth, says Kissinger, Trump could play a world-historical role without necessarily knowing what he is doing. This idea may challenge many Trump-critics, who work with a historical model in which good results can flow only from good people with good intentions, not from some ignorant, amoral "orange-haired baboon." Historic individuals who mark the end of "eras" by forcing them to "give up their pretences," without necessarily being aware of what they are doing - this is a language and dynamic that Kissinger draws from George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's "Lectures on the Philosophy of History" of 1837. Rather than attempt the technicalities of Hegel's text, which, to be frank, I have not read, I follow a brilliant exposition by the political scientist and historian Robert C. Tucker: "The Cunning of Reason in Hegel and Marx." [1] "According to Hegel, universal history is the realization of the Idea of Reason in a succession of National Spirits. These are manifested in the deeds of heroes... However, the Idea of Reason does not work itself out in history in a manner which would seem reasonable on the surface. It is not actualized in this or that of its stages as a consequence of men consciously adopting it as their ideal and striving to translate it into reality through their mode of life and conduct. It is not, as it were, through the imitation of Reason that Reason is realized in history. How, then, does this take place? "Hegel's answer to this question is contained in his doctrine of the Cunning of Reason. Briefly, he holds that history fulfills its ulterior rational designs in an indirect and sly manner. It does so by calling into play the irrational element in human nature, the passions." Tucker stresses that it is not the ordinary human desires for mere happiness, pleasure or enjoyment that Hegel has in mind here. For "those world-historic individuals whose passions drive them on to 'deeds of universal scope'...the aim was not to be happy: 'they wanted to be great.' This is the key phrase. When he employs the word 'passions,' Hegel especially has in mind the range of emotions which center in the will to be great: pride, ambition, the love of fame, the craving for power, the urge to conquer. These might be summed up by the phrase 'passion for self-aggrandizement,' and the activity which results under the influence of this passion might be described as a Quest for Mastery." Sound familiar? In sum: "Hegel's view is that the passion for self-aggrandizement leads the great men of history to become the instruments of an ulterior rational design of which they themselves may remain oblivious and to which, without being clearly aware of it, they are sacrificed: 'This may be called the cunning of Reason - that it sets the passions to work for itself, while that through which it develops itself pays the penalty and suffers the loss.' ...Thus the Idea of Reason, which is simply the entire scheme of development which the Spirit traverses through human history, is fulfilled in and through the deeds of an individual who is carried away by the passion for self aggrandizement. The Cunning of Reason consists in the fact that the 'particular purposes' of the individual are made to serve the 'substantial will' of the World Spirit." Should we be surprised to find one of the most consequential American Secretaries of State of the 20th century unleashing Hegelian tropes over lunch at the Jubilee restaurant in Midtown Manhattan? Perhaps not, especially when we read of those primarily German historians who most influenced Kissinger's intellectual formation as a young academic in the Department of Government at Harvard in the 1940s and early 1950s. William Weber says in an article on "Kissinger as Historian" that "those historians fall into a brand of historicism which began with Hegel and was further modified by Ranke, Meinecke, Spengler and Toynbee." [2]. Kissinger himself talked about the influence of Hegel on his thinking in an astonishingly frank and wide-ranging conversation with Mao Tse-tung, in Beijing, on November 12, 1973: Chairman Mao: And the philosopher of your motherland, Hegel, has said—I don’t know whether it is the correct English translation—”freedom means the knowledge of necessity.” The Secretary: Yes. Chairman Mao: Do you pay attention or not to one of the subjects of Hegel’s philosophy, that is, the unity of opposites? The Secretary: Very much. I was much influenced by Hegel in my philosophic thinking. Chairman Mao: Both Hegel and Feuerbach, who came a little later after him. They were both great thinkers. And Marxism came partially from them. They were predecessors of Marx. If it were not for Hegel and Feuerbach, there would not be Marxism. The Secretary: Yes. Marx reversed the tendency of Hegel, but he adopted the basic theory. Chairman Mao: What kind of doctor are you? Are you a doctor of philosophy? The Secretary: Yes (laughter). [1] Robert C. Tucker. "The Cunning of Reason in Hegel and Marx." The Review of Politics. Vol.18, Number 3 (July 1956), pp. 269-295. [2] William T. Weber. "Kissinger as Historian: A Historiographical Approach to Statesmanship." World Affairs. Vol. 141, Number 1 (Summer 1978), pp. 50-46. Posted in: chinadiplomacyglobalismglobalizationhegelhistoricismmarxnation statephilosophical historytrump

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4K & HD Video Production Military Video Medical Video Stock Footage Categories Sample Footage & Video Stock Footage Rates & Licensing Shark Video Blackbeard Project Images Blackbeard’s Queen Anne’s Revenge Shipwreck Project “Mystery Mardi Gras Shipwreck” Documentary Sand Tiger Sharks Blackbeard’s Lawsuit Shipwreck Images Property of NC Being An Underwater Cinematographer Diver’s Dictionary RICK ALLEN, Co-Founder, EP, Director – broadcast video producer and videographer has been diving the oceans of the world and shooting video since 1983. As a video producer, director and videographer his work has appeared on ABC, A&E, BBC, CBS, 60 Minutes, Discovery, The Learning Channel, 48 Hours, ESPN, Lifetime, National Geographic, Turner and more. He has traveled from Cuba to Kazakhstan with the US Military, weathered live broadcasts during hurricanes and gone nose to nose with 14 foot Great White sharks during underwater expeditions. After 12 years in broadcast television Allen opened his own video production company in 1997 focused on documentary production and providing freelance videography and underwater video services to broadcast clients. Allen is an avid wreck diver and shark lover who can be found most weekends diving the Graveyard of the Atlantic. CINDY BURNHAM, Co-Founder, Still Photographer – Cindy’s thirty plus years of photojournalism experience reflects the extremes of humanity and nature. From the intensity of the warfare reflected on an American soldier’s face, to the surrealness of an underwater morgue of an Atlantic shipwreck, her images have appeared on the covers and pages of Newsweek, New York Times, and the Time Life book, Sky Soldiers. Additional publications include, Army Times, USA Today, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and numerous other monthly, weekly, and daily periodicals. She is the co-founder of Nautilus Productions, a freelance photography and video company. She retired as the senior photographer at the Fayetteville Observer in 2016. Her work has repeatedly been recognized by both North Carolina and South Carolina press photography associations. KIMBERLY FAULK, MA, Marine Archaeologist, Historian, Field Producer – Faulk graduated with a BA in History and a minor in theatre from Roanoke College in Salem, Virginia. She holds a Master of Arts from East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina from the Program in Maritime Studies. Her research for the last several years has focused on the S.S. Commodore, an ocean going steam tug that was illegally running guns to Cuba and sank in 1897 near Ponce Inlet, Florida. Faulk has worked in the archaeological community since 1998. She spent two years with North Carolina’s Blackbeard Shipwreck Project, three years with the Ponce Inlet Lighthouse Association as Principal Investigator for the Commodore Project, and two years with the St. Augustine Lighthouse & Museum and the Lighthouse Archaeological Maritime Program as Field Director. Her underwater work has taken her all along the East Coast, Gulf of Mexico and Great Lakes on projects ranging from Colonial American to World War II sites. Formerly Faulk worked as the Sr. Marine Archaeologist/Business Development Manager at Geoscience Earth and Marine Services Inc. (GEMS) in Houston, Texas. She was responsible for interpretation of high resolution geophysical data (AUV and conventional), ROV target investigations, and archaeological assessments. Currently she is the COO of the PAST Foundation whose goal is furthering their vision of bringing community, industry, and educators together to find new solutions to best prepare the students of today and tomorrow. Faulk is also an avid tech diver and equally at home in either zero visibility or blue water. LAWRENCE TAYLOR, MSc, Producer, Writer, HD Videographer, Biologist – Taylor’s photographic career began at the knee of his freelance cinematographer father in Toronto where he also worked as a commercial stills photographer. After completing a BSc degree and diving certification at the University of Guelph, he taught science and math at Pickering College, Newmarket, before moving to Halifax to complete his MSc degree at Dalhousie University. After graduate school, Lawrence developed his underwater videography skills during a three year scientific scallop project in Lunenburg. Since then, and 1,000 hours diving and snorkeling later, Lawrence has surfed the technological digital wave in underwater filming, non-linear editing, word processing and Internet communications to film, write magazine articles, host TV shows, produce Industrial Environmental videos and marine related radio pieces. Since 1997, Lawrence has filed “Under the Sea”, a monthly radio column on “Information Morning”, CBC, Halifax and continues to give lectures and public video presentations: Dalhousie University, U. of Maine, Ontario Science Centre and Boston Sea Rovers. Lawrence still remains tightly associated in the field of science and continues his research on Atlantic Salmon towards a PhD. Taylor specializes in Natural History productions above and below the water, in dry suits or manned submersibles from the Arctic to Haiti for clients like CBC LAND & SEA/COUNTRY CANADA, Survival Anglia, and Discovery. Taylor also shoots for dramatic and documentary productions like Paramount’s SIGHTINGS, Salter Street’s LEXX: THE DARK ZONE and Eco Nova’s THE SEA HUNTERS. NOMEE LANDIS, Writer, Producer – Landis has enjoyed a writing career in newspapers for more than 10 years. After earning a journalism degree from the University of North Carolina, she worked as a reporter, an editor and a columnist at two newspapers in southeastern North Carolina. In February 2008, she plunged into the freelance writing and editing business. She recently launched Nomee Ink, a writing, marketing and publishing firm in Fayetteville, N.C., where she lives with her husband, three children and assorted cats and dogs. Most recently she completed the book “Answering the Call,” the story of the Texas Army National Guard’s 36th Combat Aviation Brigade and its experiences in Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2006 and 2007. She is working to bring her creative ideas to the marketplace and in her spare time enjoys pondering how she can bring a little more country to her home in town. ROBYN MOORING, Writer, Producer – Mooring’s 19 years of working in broadcast media and video production have taught her that there’s no such thing as a boring story. Through her experiences in covering a wide spectrum of issues involving crime, natural disasters, business, state and local government, politics, the arts, education, sports, parenting, and healthcare, she has learned that whenever people are involved, a good story is waiting to be told. Mooring is also a video editor and award-winning print writer and has worked as a speechwriter, an adjunct Journalism professor, and a writer and associate editor for a parenting magazine. She is a graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill with degrees in Journalism and Political Science. RIC HASE, Audio & Lighting – Since 1978, Ric has been involved in the acquisition side of video and film production. After graduating from Syracuse’s School of Newhouse Communications, Ric landed a job with WTAE-TV in Pittsburgh as an Associate Director /Promotions Writer. In 1987 Ric left the sequestered protection of studio production to explore the world of freelance, and in the following 6 years acted as grip for numerous feature films being shot in the Pittsburgh vicinity. He also freelanced as a sound tech for various production houses in Pittsburgh before moving North to the chillier climes of Upstate New York and Cornell University. For five years, Ric was on staff with Cornell University’s Media Dept. as a videographer. Eventually, the harsh winters got to him, and he decided to move down to warmth of the people and climate of North Carolina. There he took his first position as a broadcast re-seller, helping solve his client’s various video, sound and lighting needs. However he missed the joys of freelance and in late 2001 took a sales position with Technical Video Systems, eventually followed by full time work as freelance soundman. 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Willow Caravans Northern Ireland Benone Causeway Coast Caravan Rentals Activities, Historic, Tourist 12 Jan 2019 / In the small village of Bushmills, settled on the banks of the river you’ll find the oldest working distillery in Ireland. Old Bushmill’s Distillery. A place where family and friends have worked for generations, in a small Northern Irish village that for over 400 years has kept to the philosophy that hand crafting small batches is the way to produce beautifully smooth tasting Irish whiskey. Historic, Tourist, Walking The Ulster American Folk Park is 63 miles from “Willow” and takes approx. 1hour 45 minutes by car, it is well worth a day trip. Immerse yourself in the story of the brave emigrants who made the journey across the Atlantic to America hundreds of years ago. Wander through the thatched cottages and log cabins and meet costumed characters who will show you traditional crafts, tell you a few stories and maybe even share a bit of their good food. Board a full-scale emigrant ship to experience the conditions faced by many as they set sail for a new life in America. With 30 buildings and exhibits to explore, masses… Historic, Tourist Doagh Famine Village Approx. 30 miles by ferry & 45 minutes by car from “Willow” . A MUSEUM LIKE NO OTHER Doagh Famine Village tells the story of Irish life from the Great Famine of the 1840s through until the present day. Our tour guides will take you on a journey showing how families and communities have lived on the edge generation after generation, adapting and surviving as the environment and society around the local area changed over the years. A combination of informative story telling and life size exhibits provides an informative, thought-provoking and at time humorous look at Irish life. Attractions include original thatched Irish cottages (inhabited as recently as the… Approx. 40 miles and 1hour 30 minutes by car & ferry from “Willow” Malin Head, in County Donegal, is renowned for its rugged coastal landscape and attractive beaches. The area is steeped in history and folklore. Malin Head is an area for all tastes, including walking, fishing, swimming, photography, studying rock formations or rare flora and it is close to Inishowen’s splendid golf courses. Discover some of the largest sand dunes in Europe at the famous Five Finger Strand from Knockamany Bens. At low tide, see if you can spot the wreck of the Twilight, which sank in 1889 on its voyage to Derry. The circuit of the head will… Dunree Fort Approx 32 miles & 1hour 15 minutes by car & ferry from “Willow”. Fort Dunree is situated 7 miles outside Buncrana on the Inishowen Peninsula, housing a Military Museum, Wildlife Discovery Room and Coffee Shop. Dunree, Dun Fhraoigh in Irish means, “Fort of the Heather” and indicates that this site has been an important defensive site down through history. Today however, its stunning natural beauty and abundant wildlife are drawing increasing numbers of visitors to one of Inishowen’s most beautiful and peaceful locations.. Fort Dunree was first opened to the public in 1986 and has attracted tourists from all over the world ever since. It has one of the best… Historic, Scenic, Tourist, Walking Grianan of Ailigh The Stone Fort of Grianán of Aileach sits on a hilltop in Inishowen County Donegal. 250m above sea level, the stone fort was probably first built on an earthen rath. The view from Aileach is breathtaking. The glistening waters of Lough Foyle and Lough Swilly are clear, as is the form of the entire peninsula. A windy and exposed place, Grianán has been a silent witness to the history of Ireland. The origins of the Grianán of Aileach fort are dated back to 1700 BC. It is linked to the Tuatha de Danann who invaded Ireland before the Celts and built stone forts on top of strategic hills. They worshipped… Van Willow

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Global Cinemas Entertainment Tue, 3 May 2016 Happy 37th birthday to Genevieve Nnaji Today is the 37th birthday anniversary of the celebrity actress, entrepreneur, movie producer, model and red carpet presenter- Genevieve Nnaji. She was born on May 3, 1979, in Mbaise Imo State, Nigeria. Her father was an engineer while the mother was a teacher. Genevieve is the 4th out of the 8 children of her parents. She kick-started her acting career at the age of 8 with Soap operas in the 1980s entitled ‘Ripples’. She ventured into acting in 1998. Her debut movie was ‘Most Wanted’- she was 19 years that time. She is an alumna of University of Lagos. She made some attempts in the music industry, but when she couldn’t find her feet there, she quickly took to her heels. Genevieve actually suppressed that musical passion when her maiden album ‘one logologo line’ received lots of negative feedbacks from her fans, and couldn’t make any impact in the society. However, she worked hard to fine-tune her acting and entrepreneurial skills. She has a viable clothing line ‘St. Genevieve’. She has won many awards and recognitions both within and beyond the shores of the African continent. During a TV talk show in 2009, Oprah Winfrey refers to her as the Julia Roberts of Africa. The screen diva was decorated by the former president of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan as a member order of the Federal Republic (OFR) due to her unflinching support and contributions to Nollywood. Happy Birthday Genevieve. May you age with Grace! Source: africanentertainment.com

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Kwe! In Blog, Canada, Travelogue Shadow under the clouds Bremen Town Musicians In Blog, Europe, Latvia, Travelogue The historic Tram # 7N In Blog, Europe, Sweden, Travelogue Discovering Brahehus Castle Road tripping from Stockholm to Copenhagen In Blog, Denmark, Europe, Sweden, Travelogue Blog, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Europe, Travelogue Make haste slowly It measures 38m long, has an unusual loop that runs right in the middle and best of all, is designed by three students. Go take a walk on the Festine Lente in Sarajevo. View of Festine Lente bridge I was looking for the Latin Bridge. The same bridge that brought Sarajevo into the limelight and had the whole world at war with itself in 1914. Not like it is hard to find. On a good day, expect to see curious tourists milling around the bridge and the building wall close by. Surprisingly, it was this other pedestrian bridge that caught my fancy. The Festine Lente, or looping bridge. It translates… From the sea to the sky The legend’s graveyard Laos visa on arrival Asia, Blog, Travelogue, Vietnam The Reunification Express First things first. There is no Reunification Express. At least not officially. It is called the North–South Railway. Covering 1,726 kms, it is the main railway line that connects the political capital of Hanoi with the commercial capital of Saigon. View of the South China sea A bit of history first Construction of the line linking these two cities began during the French rule in 1899. It took nearly 40 years for its completion, finally connecting the cities in 1936. However, the line was continuously sabotaged and bombarded during the Vietnamese fight with the French, and later during the Vietnam War. It wasn’t after the war finally ended, in 1975,… NAM Vietnamese Kitchen, BBQ & Beer 11 things to do in Luang Prabang Aah Saigon! Ho Chi Minh City, popularly known as Saigon, can be a chaotic place that asks whether you are ready to go along for a ride. Motorbikes rush past on a busy street in Saigon It starts the moment you arrive into the city. At first, the hustle and bustle of the busy streets can be quite overwhelming, especially with the number of two-wheelers that zip by. However, in time, you realise there is a certain order to this chaos. Let me explain. Crossing the streets must be the most daunting task any traveller would face in Vietnam, and especially in Saigon. While the four-wheel vehicles are fine, it’s the sheer… Blog, Denmark, Europe, Travelogue Bevar Christiania Christiania is one of Copenhagen’s, and Denmark’s most popular destinations. In fact, for many residents, it is a way of life that started as a social experiment and continues to thrive today. Always controversial, this Freetown is much loved by many, including locals and tourists. Graffiti spray painted on the outside walls of Christiania The only reason I wanted to go to Copenhagen was to see the Little Mermaid, perhaps the city’s most iconic statue, and based on the fairy tale of the same name, written by Hans Christian Andersen. As luck would have it, she wasn’t there. Instead, she had been shipped off to an exhibition, somewhere in China.… Asia, Blog, Thailand, Travelogue It is one of Bangkok’s oldest temples and dates to the Ayutthaya era which lasted until 1767. A shrine inside the Golden Mount Originally called Wat Sakae, King Rama I had the temple restored during his reign which lasted between 1782 and1809. He had it renamed as Wat Saket Ratcha Wora Maha Wihan, or Wat Saket as it is popularly known as. The hill itself is man-made. For many years, it used to be the highest point in Bangkok. Today, it is more famous for its 80-meter-high structure Golden Mount and the gold-plated stupa that sits on top of it. It also hosts a nine-day temple fair each November, during… Party all night long March 26, 2019 / 1 Comment As the sun sets over Ho Chi Minh City, or Saigon as it is popularly known as, there’s one street that is slowly waking up. Bui Vien Street. A street vendor in costume If there’s one word that, to me, describes this street, it’s ‘Madness’. It’s loud. It’s bright. It’s seedy. It can get aggressive. And it goes on till the wee hours of the morning. It’s got to be one of the craziest streets I’ve ventured into. It’s no wonder, as it is also Saigon’s backpack quarter. Which means cheap hotels and hostels, and even more cheap beer and street food. Massage parlours flourish and disco lights light up… Ride to the Pak Ou Caves and Whiskey Village There are two different Cu Chi tunnels. Yes, Ben Duoc and Ben Dinh are part of the same tunnel network. However, they are two different sites. Mannequins of Viet Cong women soldiers Your experience will be different, depending on which of the two sites you visit. I visited Ben Duoc. It is a bit further from Ho Chi Minh City, and is also less crowded. The tunnels are also a lot more authentic and closer to how they were during the Vietnam war. Ben Dinh on the other hand, is mostly reconstructions. Keeping in mind the large number of western tourists who visit, many of the tunnels are wider to… Museum of Ethnology Asia, Blog, Resources, Reviews, Travelogue, Vietnam It was the last leg of our Indochina trip and with money running low, we wanted to stay in an area that wasn’t expensive. Which is why any decent place around Bui Vien Street made sense. It is, after all, the backpacker quarter district in Saigon, Vietnam. View of Bui Vien street from NAM Kitchen We also wanted it to be in District 1, which is what most reviews recommended. We chose a hotel next to Bui Vien Street. It’s where all the action is, we were assured by some well travelled friends. On hindsight, we should have asked what kind of action it is that they had in mind.… Discover a gem in Meghalaya Sunset over Luang Prabang

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Nau mai Haere mai ki e Whanganui-a-Tara Welcome to Wellington Looking for things to do in Wellington? Here’s our top tips. Te Papa Museum An interactive museum. See the giant squid, the earthquake house, the Gallipoli exhibition and much more… Every day 10am—6pm Free entry (Charges apply to some short-term exhibitions and activities.) Allow at least an hour but you could spend several. You might need a second visit! Make your way to Wellington waterfront. Include an enjoyable walk by the harbour. It’s a 15-minute walk from Lambton Quay. https://www.tepapa.govt.nz/ Wellington Cable Car and Botanical Gardens Historic cable car runs daily between Lambton Quay and Kelburn. Go to the top to enjoy beautiful views of Wellington harbour and walk through the Botanical Gardens. You can follow the paths downhill, stop at the café, and then carry on walking down into the city. If you stay at the top, you can get a free shuttle to Zealandia (see below). If you get off at Salamanca (before you reach the top), you can walk to the university on Kelburn Parade. The cable car runs every 10 minutes throughout the day – 7am – 10pm Monday – Friday 8.30 am – 10pm Saturday 8.30 am – 9pm Sunday The Botanical Gardens are open from dawn to dusk. Return $9, single $5 (See website for further details). You can buy a ticket online or go to the kiosk at the entrance on Lambton Quay. The Botanical Gardens are free. It’s only a 5-minute journey in the cable car but queues can be long if there are visitors off a passenger ship on that day. Allow 30 minutes to walk downhill in the gardens but take longer to explore (see map.) https://www.wellingtoncablecar.co.nz/English/Home.html https://wellington.govt.nz/recreation/enjoy-the-outdoors/gardens/botanic-garden PWT – Zealandia Imagery. Photographer – Jeff McEwan / Capture Studios Date taken 23rd October 2013 ZEALANDIA is an ecosanctuary, with beautiful walks where you can discover New Zealand native wildlife, like the tuatara and weta. Zealandia is a conservation project that has successfully reintroduced species of native wildlife back into the area. Café on site. 53 Waiapu Road, Karori Adults $19.50 (see website for further details) Allow 1 – 2 hours Free shuttle bus from top of the cable car, or a 20 to 30-minute walk from there. If you take a bus, stop at the end of Waiapu Road. (See www.metlink.org.nz for timetable.) https://www.visitzealandia.com/ Weta Cave The Weta Cave is a special effects studio, museum and shop. Visit to see the work of Weta artists who have created for films such as The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, District 9, King Kong, and The Chronicles of Narnia. Take a tour round Weta Workshop for a behind-the-scene look at how props, weapons, costumes and vehicles are crafted. Tours depart every half hour from the Weta Cave shop. Book online and collect ticket from front desk at Weta Cave at least 15 minutes before tour starts. 1 Weka Street, Miramar 9am – 5.30 pm, 7 days a week Weta Cave – free Tours start from $28 per adult. See website for further details. $28 tour lasts 45 minutes You can take a bus from Lambton Quay North – Stop D, no 24. Get off at Nevay Road. 45-minute journey. Then 7-minute walk to Weta Cave. https://www.wetaworkshop.com/visit-us/the-weta-cave/ Wellington Zoo New Zealand’s first zoo and home to more than 500 native and exotic endangered animals. Café on site but you might want to take a picnic. Alternatively, you might enjoy a trip to the zoo with a walk round Newtown, a quirky suburb with a range of cafés. 200 Daniell Street, Newtown 9.30 am – 5 pm, 7 days a week $25 per adult. See website for further details. Spend as long as you want. There are keeper talks and feeding times throughout the day. The first one starts at 10.15am with the Farm Feed and the last one is at 4pm with the Panda Talk. See website for further details. The No. 23 buses stop right outside the Zoo. Take a bus to Wellington Hospital (for example the No.1 and No. 3) and transfer at the Wellington Hospital hub (stop C). See www.metlink.org.nz for timetable. Takes approximately 30 minutes. https://wellingtonzoo.com/ Explore Wellington city centre Follow a heritage trail or find others on the website (https://wellington.govt.nz/recreation/enjoy-the-outdoors/walks-and-walkways/across-the-city/heritage-trails). Or maybe just wander and see what you find. Here are two places to enjoy: Cuba Street: A quirky street in Wellington with off-beat shops, cafés and a bucket fountain. It’s a 10-minute walk to: Old Bank Arcade: This was the headquarters for the Bank of New Zealand, which was opened in 1901. After falling derelict, it has been restored to its former grandeur. It now contains upmarket shops and a café. The mechanical, musical clock is well worth seeing. It performs on the hour every hour. Also, if you go downstairs, you can see the remnants of a sailing ship under the floor. The ship would have ended up on land after the 1855 earthquake. It was discovered during building renovations. http://www.oldbank.co.nz/ https://www.victoria.ac.nz/study/why-victoria/living-in-wellington https://wellington.govt.nz/about-wellington/what-to-do https://www.backpackerguide.nz/9-free-or-cheap-things-to-do-in-wellington/ For a map: https://www.wellingtonnz.com/assets/Uploads/Wellington-map.pdf

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Home / Bible Commentaries / Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible/ Isaiah Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible Isaiah Isaiah 39 Chapter 38 Hezekiah’s Illness And the Wondrous Sign From God Guaranteeing the Deliverance of Jerusalem. This was prior to the visit of ambassadors from Merodach-baladan (Isaiah 39:1) and thus chronologically prior to chapters 36-37. The chronological transposition suits Isaiah’s purpose. He wanted to bring the threat of Babylon in juxtaposition with the second part of the book where Babylon is revealed as finally destroyed. But it would not be understandable in 2 Kings unless 2 Kings was influenced by Isaiah. Thus it is unlikely that 2 Kings can be primary. But it is also unlikely that 2 Kings is simply an expanded version of Isaiah 36-39. The explanation that fits all situations is that Isaiah also wrote a longer version of the events described here at the time that they happened, which was incorporated in 2 Kings (2 Chronicles 32:32), while also being summarised here. Chapters 38-39 cap the first part of the book. They demonstrate that Yahweh did indeed give a wondrous sign of His willingness to deliver a member of the Davidic house when he was acting on behalf of his people. Ahaz had refused such an offer (compare Isaiah 7:11-14), but now He was giving the house of David another chance. Here Hezekiah was to see that the sun performed Yahweh’s bidding. But instead of this resulting in Hezekiah trusting in Yahweh, he turned rather to Babylon for help. This final failure to trust Yahweh completely, revealing even the good king Hezekiah and his descendants in a bad light as unsuitable to be the Coming King, resulted in his being cast off. The final verdict is that in fact his descendants in the Davidic house will not achieve glory, but will rather be led into humiliating captivity and prevented from bearing children. So all Isaiah’s exhortations to Judah/Israel and to Hezekiah had proved in vain, just as God had said they would at his inaugural call (Isaiah 6:9-10). This then leads on into the second part of the book, where the emphasis is not on the coming Deliverer as a member of the Davidic house, but on the humble but glorious Servant (compare ‘David My Servant’ - Isaiah 37:35), although as also introducing the ‘sure mercies of David’ (Isaiah 55:3). He is still a greater David, descended from David, or the sure mercies would not apply, but not a crowned king in an earthly sense. Rather he is to be essentially Yahweh’s Servant (Isaiah 42:1-4; Isaiah 49:1-6; Isaiah 52:13 to Isaiah 53:12). Hezekiah’s Illness and The Great Sign (Isaiah 38:1-8). The centrality and importance of this chapter must not be overlooked. It was God’s final attempt to woo over the reigning house of David to a life of obedience and trust. From this chapter onwards (along with its consequence in chapter 39) attention turns to the coming Servant of Yahweh Who will accomplish what the current house of David has proved itself incapable of doing. ‘In those days Hezekiah was sick unto death. And Isaiah, the prophet the son of Amoz, came to him and said, “Thus says Yahweh, Set your house in order for you will die and not live.” ’ ‘In those days.’ An indeterminate phrase, the plural of ‘in that day’ Here it simply loosely connects what is to happen with the days of which Isaiah is speaking. Hezekiah is declared to be very ill, indeed dying. He has a mortal illness. He was ‘sick unto death.’ And the prophet comes to him with confirmation from Yahweh. ‘Thus says Yahweh --- you will die.’ He must prepare for death and do all that is necessary for a king to do to ensure that affairs of state are passed to his successor smoothly. God is concerned for the future of his people. This verse with its subsequent narrative is quite remarkable. It demonstrates that even the word of Yahweh can be reversed by repentance. For here is a prophetic word which will be so altered. What seems to be a situation which cannot be altered, is altered through prayer. The same was always true of God’s judgments (compare Jonah and Nineveh). ‘Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall, and prayed to Yahweh, and said, “Remember now O Yahweh I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight.” And Hezekiah wept grievously.’ Outwardly Hezekiah’s concern would appear to be for the situation he found himself in personally. There is nothing sacrificially noble about his prayer. It is presented as outwardly purely selfish, as Isaiah 39:6-8 also reveals him to be. He was a good king, a godly king, and yet his perspective was limited and selfish. It was not stated to be the future of the kingdom or the purposes of God that concerned him. What concerned him was his own survival. How many there are of God’s people who are like this. When it comes down to it they are the godly selfish, (what a contradiction in terms, and yet how true of so many) and that is why they will achieve little. Outwardly it would appear that Hezekiah was successful, but he failed deeply in the purposes of God because his own ambitions took precedence. He presided over an almost catastrophe. Nevertheless here part of his problem was also that he saw his premature death as resulting from sin. So he was not only crying out for life, he was crying out for forgiveness. One reason why he wanted to live was because in his eyes it would prove that he had become right with God. So his personal concern is to some extent understandable. ‘Turned his face to the wall.’ He could not get to the privacy of the Temple so this was second best. He wanted to be alone with God. He summed up his life to God a little idealistically, and yet it was basically true. He had sought truth, he had sought to do what was right, he had sought to please God. He had lived a godly life. But we are intended also to see that his life was flawed, as we will learn in the next chapter. For he was unable to get away from his own selfish ambitions. Yet having said all that we may well see hidden under his tears a concern for his people. While it was not prominent in the way his thoughts were expressed, he would know that in losing him his people were losing one who could strongly affect their future, for he had no grown sons. It may well be therefore that we are to see this thought as included in his prayer. And it may possibly be that God recognised his concern, which might be why the next verses speak of deliverance from Sennacherib’s hands. ‘And Hezekiah wept grievously.’ He did not want to die. He was fighting for life. Given all this we can sum up Hezekiah’s prayer as indicating, 1) That he was horrified at the thought of premature death. 2) That this was at least partly because he saw it as indicating that God saw him as having sinned grievously so that he was being punished for it, and was thus unforgiven. 3) That underneath, unstated but known by God, was his concern for his people in the trying days that lay ahead of them, and in the face of the threat of invasion. Yet we cannot hide from the fact that he did not articulate all these thoughts in his prayers. His prime concern is presented as being for his own deliverance. It was God Whose major concern was for His people. ‘Then came the word of Yahweh to Isaiah, saying, “Go and say to Hezekiah, Thus says Yahweh, the God of your father David, I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears. Look, I will add to your life fifteen years. And I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria, and I will defend this city.”’ Hezekiah knew that his behaviour in the religious and political field had angered the king of Assyria. He had purified the temple, removing the Assyrian gods; he had refused to pay tribute; he had had discussions with his neighbours (2 Kings 18:7). He could hardly doubt that this had been noted and that the detail was known to Sennacherib’s spies. Thus he could have had little doubt that he would at some stage be called to account. This must surely have been part of the reason for his distress, that he was dying when his country needed him. That also explains why God sends to him and promises him, not only an extension of life, but also deliverance for him and Jerusalem out of Sennacherib’s hand. He promises that He will give Hezekiah a further fifteen years, and will successfully defend Jerusalem. This met his major concerns. But it is also clearly implied that it would not be because of his own worthiness but because of God’s promises to David - it is to be from ‘the God of your father David’. The figure of ‘fifteen years’ is probably significant. Five is the number of covenant, and threefold five is covenant completeness. Thus it implies that God is acting within the covenant and for covenant reasons. Hezekiah will be living on borrowed time so that he can further the application of that covenant. (Fifteen and other multiples of five were a regular measurement in the Tabernacle. Compare also the twofold ‘five words’ of the commandments, and the five books of the Law and of the Psalms, all aspects of the covenant). By these promises God is revealed as the giver of life and as the Great Defender of His people, and Hezekiah as the great beneficiary. Surely now he will be dedicated to Yahweh with all his heart and lean wholly on Him. And in order to seek to ensure this, God in His graciousness goes further. He adds to this an even greater wonder. “And this will be the sign to you from Yahweh, that Yahweh will do this thing that he has spoken. Behold, I will cause the shadow on the steps, which has gone down on the steps of Ahaz with the sun, to return backward ten steps.” So the sun returned ten steps on the steps on which it had gone down.’ It is futile to seek to speculate on how this happened apart from the fact that we know that it was Yahweh’s doing. The steps of Ahaz are not said to be a sundial, although it is often assumed by commentators. They are rather chosen here as a reminder of the person of Ahaz, the one who refused God’s sign, the one who would not listen to Yahweh. They are possibly the steps that had led up to Ahaz’s house of idolatry (2 Kings 23:12). But as that may have been designed for the worship of the sun god, it may well be that the steps had also been designed to follow the sun’s shadow, thus linking it with the passing of time. But the point is that what faithless Ahaz set up was to be used as the conveyor of a sign from God to his successor who was now being given the same great opportunity as he had had, the opportunity to see God producing a miracle enabling him to trust in God alone and reject all earthly support. The sign will be indicated by the movement of the shadow caused by the sun on these steps. The advancing shadow will retreat ten steps. Those ten steps which had come into the shade will become once more open to the sun. This was too great a degree of change to be mistakable. Only an act of God could produce this phenomenon. And it was clearly witnessed, probably by Isaiah himself, for he asserts that it happened. It is possible that the retreating of the shadow was intended to be an indication that God would remove the shadow which was hanging over Hezekiah, and the shadow which was hanging over Jerusalem, the ten indicating covenant witness and certainty (twice five). It was certainly in order to indicate that the Creator could do whatever He would on the earth. And if the shadow of the sun could be controlled how much more Sennacherib, and the ‘host of heaven’ (2 Kings 17:16; 2 Kings 21:3-5) whom he worshipped. It may also indicate that God was giving the house of David a second chance. Time was, as it were retreating, thus eliminating the failure of Ahaz. (How God did it is not a question we can look at scientifically for we do not have all the facts. We are not told that the phenomenon achieved a permanent change in the position of the sun. Nor indeed is the sun said to have been observed as moving. It was the shadow caused by the sun that was observed as moving, and that only on the steps of Ahaz. We can only look on and wonder, as they no doubt did). The greater detail in 2 Kings at this point is against 2 Kings being just an expansion of Isaiah here, unless they had further material from a more detailed written record of Isaiah to go on. Perhaps there was an original detailed record from which he extracted what is written here, selecting the salient points for what he wanted to convey. In 2 Kings the great sign is more closely related to Hezekiah’s healing. The significance of all this must not be lost. God’s purpose in Hezekiah’s illness was to establish his faith and to give him the opportunity of reversing what Ahaz had done in bringing about the rejection of the earthly house of David. In the same way as the shadow of the sun had reversed, God could reverse that rejection. Indeed He gave him multiple evidence that he would if only Hezekiah would believe. He demonstrated that He had control over life and death, and over the movements and effects of the sun. And He guaranteed the deliverance of Jerusalem by His own hand. What more could He do? We are at the ultimate climax. Surely this Davidic king will now fully do His will? Chapter 39 will be the anti-climax, and will give a negative answer. Hezekiah’s Psalm of Praise (Isaiah 38:9-20). ‘The writing of Hezekiah the king of Judah when he had been sick and had recovered from his sickness.’ This was clearly originally a record on its own, written by Hezekiah. It was then incorporated by the compilers into the book. It stresses that it was Hezekiah who wrote it down. It was his purpose that it be sung in the Temple (Isaiah 38:20), and was in gratitude for his deliverance from death. ‘I said, in the noontide of my days, I will go through the gates of Sheol, I am deprived of the residue of my years. I said I will not see Yahweh, Yah in the land of the living, I will look on man no more, Among the inhabitants of cessation. My period of life is removed, And is carried away from me like a shepherd’s tent, I have rolled up my life like a weaver. He will cut me off from the loom.’ In the first part of the Psalm Hezekiah picturesquely describes his sense that, for him, life is over, and bemoans the fact that he is to be cut off without reaching old age. He was concerned that he would go through the gates of the grave-like world of the dead while still not old, deprived of part of his allotted years; that he would no longer be able to see the activity of God among living people; that he would no longer be able to enjoy life, and watch man about his activities, for he himself would be among the inhabitants of that world where all such activities have ceased. He sees his life as temporary, as being as transient as the pitching and striking of a shepherd’s tent, and reluctantly consigns himself to death, as someone who would be cut off like a piece of cloth would be cut off from the larger piece on the loom and rolled up. He has woven his life and now it has been prematurely cut off. He is totally despondent. ‘He will cut me off from the loom.’ Literally, ‘from the thrum.’ The second figure is that of a web completed and removed by the weaver from the loom. The thrum is the ends of the threads by which the web is fastened to the beam. ‘I thought over things until morning. Like a lion he breaks all my bones. From day even until night, will you make an end of me.’ Like a swallow or a crane so did I chatter on, I mourned as a dove, my eyes fail to look upward. O Yahweh, I am oppressed. You be my surety. He then recognises the finality of death, and feels that his life is being wrenched from him. He feels that he will be like the prey of a lion, leaped upon and crunched to pieces almost immediately. He will no more experience day and night, for God will have made an end of him. That is why he does nothing but can only chatter on, uselessly and nervously, like the birds, mourning like a dove with downcast eyes. But then he takes hold of himself and calls on Yahweh to act as his surety, the One Who stands up for him, and all is then changed. ‘What shall I say? He has spoken to me, and he himself has done it, I will go carefully all my years, because of the bitterness of my soul.’ God has spoken to him and answered him directly by His action. Thus he is not to die, but will have many years ahead (‘all my years’). But he will treasure them and use them carefully because of the bitterness of what he has endured. He has learned through suffering to make the most of life, walking in obedience to God’s ways. ‘O Lord, by these things men live, and wholly in them is the life of my spirit, So do you make me recover, and make me live.’ ‘These things’ are the bitter experiences he has gone through, learning the lessons of life. It is such things as these that tend to make men seek and find life, and his own spirit has now been inspired by them. Compare Deuteronomy 8:3 where we read, ‘And He humbled you and made you suffer hunger, -- that He might make you to know that man does not live by bread alone, but by everything that proceeds from the mouth of God does man live.’ Such suffering, says the writer, is in the end what makes men seek true life through the word of God. And so, having experienced suffering, he prays that God might now make him recover so that he can live that life in His will. ‘Behold it was for my welfare (peace) that I had great bitterness, But you have in love for my soul, delivered it from the pit of corruption. For you have cast all my sins behind your back.’ He acknowledges that it was for his own good that he has gone through these experiences. He has learned from them the importance of life (‘I will go carefully’ - Isaiah 38:15). But he also rejoices because he now knows that God has in love for him cancelled out the effect of his sin, the sin which would have produced premature death, and He has done it by casting his sins behind His back. That is why he has been allowed to live. That is why God has delivered him from the pit where he would have become a rotting corpse. He recognises that had it not been for the suffering he had undergone he would never have experienced this forgiveness so fully. So overall he acknowledges that the experience has been good. Israel at its best recognised clearly the connection between sin and death as it is described here. The man who sinned would die (Ezekiel 18:4). Thus death resulted from sin, and premature death was a pointer to sin. The corollary was that death could be delayed by true repentance and looking to God, and finding forgiveness for sins committed. This was their simple faith. What lay beyond they did not know, unless they had read Isaiah’s earlier revelations. ‘For the grave cannot praise you, death cannot celebrate you, Those who go down into the pit cannot hope for your truth. The living, the living, he will praise you as I do this day, The father to the children will make known your truth. The idea is that once a man has died, it is too late for him, either to seek to praise God, or to celebrate Him. It is too late to look for truth. That is only available to the living. And it is the living who will praise God as Hezekiah was doing this very day, it is the living who teach and pass on truth. The father teaching the children was the main way in Israel of them growing up in the truth about Yahweh and His covenant (Deuteronomy 11:19). So death is to be avoided if at all possible, and it is good that Yahweh is restoring him to life. Hezekiah is not commenting on the afterlife as we know of it. He is speaking of the certainties that he knew of. What he says positively is true. What lay on the other side he did not surmise. Indeed, as far as he was aware there was nothingness, a shadowy world of the grave. Thus a man should seek to live by following the word of Yahweh. Yahweh is ready to save me, Therefore will we sing with stringed instruments, All the days of our life in the house of Yahweh.’ As a result of Hezekiah’s experience he now knows that each man can know that God is ready to save him, if he turns to Him, as Hezekiah, had done in repentance. Each can say, ‘Yahweh is ready to save me.’ That is why they come to the house of Yahweh and sing with stringed instruments all their days. This ending reveals that Hezekiah expected his Psalm to be used in worship in the Temple. It was his public testimony to God. Alternatively it may have been added once the Psalm was presented to the Temple for such use. Verse 21-22 Final Conclusions (Isaiah 38:21-22). It would be a mistake to see these as comments as words casually added on with no real significance, and to pass over them too quickly. The first states how his healing was brought about, by a laying of a poultice on his eruption of the flesh, bringing out that it was indeed God Who had restored him. The second was even more significant, for it leads on into what follows and stresses that it is to be seen in the light of the fact that Hezekiah had asked for and received a God-given miraculous sign. At first sight both seem to be equally pious comments. Isaiah confident that Yahweh would heal him, Hezekiah eager to go up to the house of Yahweh. But what a difference in attitude. One was eager that God’s power might be revealed, the other simply concerned about the certainty of his own healing. ‘Now Isaiah had said, “Let them take a cake of figs and lay it for a plaster on the boil, and he will recover.’ Note that Isaiah’s work of healing is not described as though it was the most important aspect of the account. It almost has the appearance of an afterthought. For the concentration of the passage is not on the healing but on the significance of Hezekiah’s experience. But it is an important afterthought. It is brought in to emphasise that the healing was indeed genuinely of God through His prophet. The boil and the seriousness of the illness possibly indicate some kind of plague illness. The method of using a poultice to draw the boil was clearly known. And it equally clearly worked. If it was a miracle no emphasis is laid on the fact that it was so. The emphasis is rather on the fact that it was God’s doing. Once the boil was drawn healing could go on apace. But Hezekiah certainly saw it as a miracle of forgiveness and healing. A similar kind of plaster (of dried raisins) for use on horses is witnessed to in a Ugaritic text. ‘Hezekiah had also said, “What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of Yahweh?” ’ Hezekiah’s main concern was whether the healing would occur as quickly as Yahweh had promised (1 Kings 20:28). This note is added in order to prepare for the following verses. ‘The sign’ here must be the one described in Isaiah 38:7, for it is the only one mentioned in the passage. Here in Isaiah that sign was stated as having a twofold purpose, ‘Look,’ had promised Yahweh, ‘I will add to your life fifteen years, and I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria, and I will defend this city. And this will be the sign to you from Yahweh, that Yahweh will do this thing that He has spoken’ (Isaiah 38:5-6). Thus the sign was intended to point both to his healing and the certainty of the coming miraculous deliverance. But 1 Kings 20:28 explains that the sign that was given to Hezekiah had in fact been asked for by him as evidence that he would be healed so that he could go up to the house of Yahweh within three days. And it is made clear here that that is his main concern, his own healing, and progression from it. While God had wanted it also to be the greater sign of His power to deliver and His promise of future deliverance (Isaiah 38:6), Hezekiah only thought in terms of his own healing. So Hezekiah, instead of being taken up with, and excited about, the promise of future deliverance, expresses concern lest he be unable to go up to the house of Yahweh on the third day. This again brings out Hezekiah’s selfish concentration on his own need rather than on his people’s needs. It sounded pious enough, but it was proof of his mediocrity. No doubt he also saw himself as being restrained from going up to the house of Yahweh because the eruption rendered him unclean (see Leviticus 13:18), and it suggests that he longed to do so as soon as appropriate. He wanted to be ‘clean’ again. Such an ambition was not to be despised. It was good that he wanted to go up to the house of Yahweh. But why did he want to do it? Are we to see this as because he longed to carry out his intercessory prayer as the priest after the order of Melchizedek? (compare Isaiah 37:1; Isaiah 37:14). But that was no longer necessary. The sign had been God’s guarantee of deliverance. Or are we to see it as in order that he might give thanks for his recovery? That he saw it as putting the cap on any delay in his recovery? The context suggests the latter. In other words his mind was concentrated on the wrong thing. While God had tried to direct his thoughts to the great deliverance, all Hezekiah could think of was his own restoration. There could be no greater contrast than that between this current representative of the house of David, whose only desire was to survive and to whom the coming deliverance was secondary, and the coming Servant whom Isaiah will shortly describe, Whose whole concern will be to do the will of God and Whose whole attention will be on the final deliverance, even though He would have to face death in order to bring it about (Isaiah 52:13 to Isaiah 53:12). The Hezekiah revealed here fits well with the Hezekiah revealed in Isaiah 39:8. Pett, Peter. "Commentary on Isaiah 38:4". "Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible ". http://odl.studylight.org/commentaries/pet/isaiah-38.html. 2013.

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Bhutan, a Buddhist kingdom on the Himalayas’ eastern edge, is known for its monasteries, fortresses (or dzongs) and dramatic landscapes that range from subtropical plains to steep mountains and valleys. In the High Himalayas, peaks such as 7,326m Jomolhari are popular trekking destinations. Paro Taktsang monastery (also known as Tiger’s Nest) clings to cliffs above the forested Paro Valley. Hiking is the preferred term, in Canada and the United States, for a long, vigorous walk, usually on trails (footpaths), in the countryside, while the word walking is used for shorter, particularly urban walks. On the other hand, in the United Kingdom, and the Republic of Ireland, the word “walking” is acceptable to describe all forms of walking, whether it is a walk in the park or backpacking in the Alps. The word hiking is also often used in the UK, along with rambling (a slightly old-fashioned term), hillwalking, and fell walking (a term mostly used for hillwalking in northern England). The term bushwalking is endemic to Australia, having been adopted by the Sydney Bush Walkers club in 1927. In New Zealand a long, vigorous walk or hike is called tramping. It is a popular activity with numerous hiking organizations worldwide, and studies suggest that all forms of walking have health benefits. Floating markets and Sampran Bhutan Ashi Sightseeing Cruise A hot air balloon is a lighter-than-air aircraft consisting of a bag, called an envelope, which contains heated air. Suspended beneath is a gondola or wicker basket (in some long-distance or high-altitude balloons, a capsule), which carries passengers and a source of heat, in most cases an open flame caused by burning liquid propane. The heated air inside the envelope makes it buoyant since it has a lower density than the colder air outside the envelope. As with all aircraft, hot air balloons cannot fly beyond the atmosphere. Unlike gas balloons, the envelope does not have to be sealed at the bottom, since the air near the bottom of the envelope is at the same pressure as the surrounding air. In modern sport balloons the envelope is generally made from nylon fabric and the inlet of the balloon (closest to the burner flame) is made from a fire resistant material such as Nomex. Modern balloons have been made in all kinds of shapes, such as rocket ships and the shapes of various commercial products, though the traditional shape is used for most non-commercial, and many commercial, applications. A safari is an overland journey, usually a trip by tourists in Africa. In the past, the trip was often a big-game hunt, but today, safaris are often to observe and photograph wildlife—or hiking and sightseeing, as well. In 1836 William Cornwallis Harris led an expedition purely to observe and record wildlife and landscapes by the expedition’s members. Harris established the safari style of journey, starting with a not too strenuous rising at first light, an energetic day walking, an afternoon rest then concluding with a formal dinner and telling stories in the evening over drinks and tobacco. The hunting aspect traditionally associated with the safari is said to have its origins in the early 1800s in the region of Évora, Alentejo, where villagers got together to hunt wild boar and reclaim land for farming. Mountaineering is the sport of mountain climbing. While some scholars identify mountaineering-related activities as climbing (rock and ice) and trekking up mountains, others are also adding backpacking, hiking, skiing, via ferrata and wilderness activities, and still others state that mountaineering activities also include indoor climbing, sport climbing and bouldering.However, to most of the scholars, the term mountaineering is understood as climbing (which now refers to adventure climbing or sports climbing) and trekking (hill walking in ‘exotic’ places).Hiking in the mountains can also be a simple form of mountaineering when it involves scrambling, or short stretches of the more basic grades of rock climbing, as well as crossing glaciers. While mountaineering began as attempts to reach the highest point of unclimbed big mountains, the sport has branched into specializations that address different aspects of the mountain and consists of three areas: rock-craft, snow-craft, and skiing, depending on whether the route chosen is over rock, snow or ice. All require experience, athletic ability, and technical knowledge to maintain safety. Scuba diving is a mode of underwater diving where the diver uses a self-contained underwater breathing apparatus (scuba) which is completely independent of surface supply, to breathe underwater.Scuba divers carry their own source of breathing gas, usually compressed air, allowing them greater independence and freedom of movement than surface-supplied divers, and longer underwater endurance than breath-hold divers. Open circuit scuba systems discharge the breathing gas into the environment as it is exhaled, and consist of one or more diving cylinders containing breathing gas at high pressure which is supplied to the diver through a regulator. They may include additional cylinders for range extension, decompression gas or emergency breathing gas. Closed-circuit or semi-closed circuit rebreather scuba systems allow recycling of exhaled gases. The volume of gas used is reduced compared to that of open circuit, so a smaller cylinder or cylinders may be used for an equivalent dive duration. Rebreathers extend the time spent underwater compared to open circuit for the same gas consumption; they produce fewer bubbles and less noise than open circuit scuba which makes them attractive to covert military divers to avoid detection, scientific divers to avoid disturbing marine animals, and media divers to avoid bubble interference. Tourism is travel for pleasure or business; also the theory and practice of touring, the business of attracting, accommodating, and entertaining tourists, and the business of operating tours. Tourism may be international, or within the traveller’s country. The World Tourism Organization defines tourism more generally, in terms which go “beyond the common perception of tourism as being limited to holiday activity only”, as people “traveling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure, business and other purposes”. Dedicated road bicycles have drop handlebars and multiple gears, although there are single and fixed gear varieties. Road bikes also use narrow, high-pressure tires to decrease rolling resistance, and tend to be somewhat lighter than other types of bicycle. The drop handlebars are often positioned lower than the saddle in order to put the rider in a more aerodynamic position. In an effort to become more aerodynamic, some riders have begun using aerobars. And when aerobars where invented is unclear but they seem to date back to the early 1980s. The light weight and aerodynamics of a road bike allows this type of bicycle to be the second most efficient self-powered means of transportation, behind only recumbent bicycles due to the latter’s higher aerodynamic efficiency. Mountain bikes fitted with slick or semi-slick are also popular for commuters. Though less efficient, the upright riding position allows the cyclist a better view of traffic, and they can also be readily fitted with mudguards, cargo racks and other accessories. Mountain bikes are usually ridden on unpaved roads and tracks but they are not to be confused with cyclocross bikes.

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Chemical bonding and surface interactions in Bi2Se3 and Bi4Se3 Resolve DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comptc.2014.09.023 Search for: Christian, Matthew S.; Search for: Whittleton, Sarah R.; Search for: Otero-de-la-Roza, Alberto1 ; Search for: Johnson, Erin R. Topological insulators are a new class of materials that are insulators in the bulk but have near zero electron transport dissipation behavior on the surface. These surface states are topologically robust (resistant to impurities, defects, and geometry deformations), which makes these materials ideal candidates for a number of technological applications. Well-known three-dimensional topological insulators are bismuth selenide (Bi2Se3), which is composed of five-atom-thick layers that interact non-covalently with each other, and Bi-Se alloys resulting from combining these quintuple layers with elemental bismuth bilayers. In this article, we examine the surface sliding and binding energetics of the combinations of quintuple layers and bisumth bilayers found in Bi2Se3 and Bi4Se3. In addition, we investigate the nature of the chemical bonding in these systems and its relation to the surface energetics. 476d1a0c-b54e-42ab-a320-f8758fada066

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Oakland’s reckoning: Raiders or A’s? More info about the pending lease extension came out via Lowell Cohn over the weekend and from Mark Purdy today. If you’ve been following the story since November, you’ll know that there aren’t many new items here. Yes, the A’s will pay slightly more in rent than they are now or were in the last lease. Yes, they want to put in new scoreboards. And yes, the lease term will be 10 years, with an escape clause if the Raiders build a new stadium that forces the A’s to be displaced. There is one new wrinkle, in that the “eviction” process for the A’s will include a 2 year advance notice by the JPA. That should allow the A’s enough time to properly scope out temporary venues, whether they are existing ballparks in the region or something else like a temporary new stadium. It should also put MLB at ease since they won’t have to go into scramble mode trying to make accommodations for the A’s or visiting clubs. Cohn’s long blog post is probably the most evenhanded take he’s ever had on Lew Wolff. That alone is notable. More importantly, the post gets comments from both Wolff and Raiders owner Mark Davis on their desires for the Coliseum. Davis confirmed that he would prefer the Raiders to have Coliseum City to themselves. In Purdy’s piece, Wolff confirmed that he has no interest in Coliseum City as currently (or formerly) conceived, citing the complexity of acquiring land for the whole project, three-quarters of which (600 acres) is privately held. Wolff has experience with this, having explored and failed with that option, the Coliseum North/66th-High plan. Wolff is a developer, and unlike the Coliseum City-Raiders concept, doesn’t need to bridge a $500-600 million funding gap. There could still be a gap, but that could be filled in by the usual private commitments (premium seat lock-in, charter seats, season ticket subscriptions). In turn, Wolff could develop the Coliseum in a more phased manner, with fewer pie-in-the-sky projections. Like Davis, Wolff wants control of a single venue and all of the revenue streams that come with it. “But under no condition will we become a tenant of anyone in a new facility,” Wolff said. “We have to control our own destiny . . . We would be interested in the land that’s under city control. Once we’ve extended our lease, we can examine that.” Moreover, Wolff continued to dismiss Howard Terminal, even go so far as to make the elimination of that site as a condition of negotiating on a new Coliseum ballpark, should that opportunity arise. Naturally, there will be grousing by many in the stAy crowd about Wolff’s supposed fear of Howard Terminal. That’s ridiculous. It really comes down to two things: focus and resources. Right now Oakland is focusing most of its pro sports effort on Coliseum City through the JPA. It has spent money on an EIR, a draft of which is due in weeks. Howard Terminal, on the other hand, has no EIR even started yet. OWB, the group supporting the site, is providing $50-100k on limited work. The rest of the EIR will take at least 18 months from the start and would probably cost $2-3 million to complete. Wolff, having seen prior reports on Howard Terminal, sees this as a waste of money, time, and effort. Why spend $2-3 million to prove a negative? If OWB wants to spend that money, let them. They have the most to gain from an HT park. Something tells me that they won’t. Then I started to think about the stadium boom of the last 25 years. I tried to figure out if there were any cities or municipalities that worked on two completely new stadium projects within the same city or market simultaneously. There aren’t many examples. New York City – Citi Field & Yankee Stadium built at the same time, opened in 2009 thanks to Rudy Giuliani muscling it through. Philadelphia – With Veterans Stadium and The Spectrum getting old, three venues replaced those two: Wells Fargo Center (1996), the Linc (2003), and CBP (2004). Cleveland – The Jake (Progressive Field) and Gund Arena (The Q) both opened in 1994 thanks to the implementation of a city-wide sin tax. Glendale, AZ – Jobing.com Arena and University of Phoenix overlapped by mere months, and have nearly bankrupted Glendale in the process. Pittsburgh – Heinz Field and PNC Park opened flanking the now-departed Three Rivers Stadium. Houston – Toyota Center and Reliant Stadium (NRG) also overlapped by a year and are in different parts of the city. Seattle – Safeco Field and CenturyLink Field were timed to replace the Kingdome in short order. Five of those cities had two venues built next to each other. The dual ballparks in NYC, an outlier due to circumstances, happened thanks to shady politics and shadier financing arrangements. The rest were your typical boom-era projects with huge amount of public funding. Most other venues are single-issue, pushed by the teams, and have their own unique financing structure. Oakland and Alameda County aren’t in the position those other cities are, not if various elected officials want to keep their jobs. The Raiders stadium will cost around $1 billion, while the A’s ballpark could cost $500-700 million depending on site. Oakland’s not going to be able to foot even 25% of each venue, so why would Davis and Wolff entertain the JPA’s grand schedule if they’re the ones footing the bill. The last thing Wolff and Davis want is Oakland to have divided focus on two projects that could ultimately compete against each other for scarce resources, whether money or personnel. They’re looking out for their franchises first and foremost. If Oakland gets a civic boost, great, but that’s not paramount for the owners. And that’s why Oakland will inevitably have to choose between these two teams. Just building a single stadium, getting it approved, getting it vetted by civic groups and voters, will be its own set of difficult tasks. That demands full, undivided attention. If Oakland can’t provide that, it’s worth asking how truly serious Oakland is about all of this. That’s what Wolff and Davis are asking. This entry was posted in Athletics, Baseball, Coliseum, Editorial, Football, News, Oakland, Owners, Politics. Bookmark the permalink. ← Blackwell could become Coliseum City consultant, JPA to vote on lease extension 6/20 SF among 4 finalists for potential 2024 Summer Olympics bid → 96 thoughts on “Oakland’s reckoning: Raiders or A’s?” SierraSpartan “That demands full, undivided attention. If Oakland can’t provide that, it’s worth asking how truly serious Oakland is about all of this. That’s what Wolff and Davis are asking.” When was the last time Oakland demonstrably provided its “full, undivided attention” on anything? My guess would be the rebuild after the Berkeley Hills fire. Anybody got anything else? I just don’t see Oakland conceding on any of the teams. The city will continue to try to shoehorn in new stadium proposals that don’t involve any city or county money (when there is none to have for stadiums). The teams and leagues, or one of each, at least, will have to be the ones deciding its over in Oakland. It’s good to see that the obvious question (one or the other) that needed to be asked for 10 years is finally coming to a head. Kind of amazing that after all this time Oakland might keep the A’s after all, and if it takes a commitment that drives the Raiders out again, I’d say so be it. It can be argued the extent to which stadiums truly act as the economic engines they’re cracked up to be, but if you’re picking one over the other,30,000+ 81 times a year vs. 10 football games seems like a no brainer, especially given that the football stadium will always be the second choice for any big event to Levi’s. Minor correction on New York – Guiliani made deals for two new stadiums (with retractable roofs!) in his last few days and tried to get some steam behind them, but Bloomberg quickly exercised escape clauses before eventually reaching different terms. I was at Safeco Field last weekend, and almost made a Sounders game. That pairing is beautiful with train station clock tower on the adjacent block. I also walked the perimeter of the Rogers Arena and BC Place a few days later. BC Place is another gorgeous structure when lit up. So, each Vancouver and Seattle have a pair of sports venues in their downtown areas. As for the list of dual stadia/arena projects above, you can’t forget about the Mount Davis/Coliseum Arena II construction in ’95-’97. re: The A’s ownership is definitely not embracing the “Coliseum City” project championed by many East Bay leaders, at least partially because just 200 of the 800 acres in the plan are now owned or controlled by the city. …Wow, that’s an eye-opener. Who’s going to pay for the other 600 acres? I thought the city ownership of the land was the key enticement and it turns out they only have 25% of it. (Does Purdy actually means controlled by the city and county, not just the city?) @pjk – The 600 acres is Part B, the area on the other side of 880. It’s been ignored because it wouldn’t be developed years, even decades after the venues are built. Yet that’s the area that’s needed to help pay for everything. re: a $500-600 million funding gap. …In other places, this gap gets bridged by the city, county and state. Notso in California. ML is right; Oakland has to pick one team and Wolff has made it clear without directly saying it. He knows he cannot build on the Coliseum site as long as the Raiders are there. Raiders games pack the parking lot to the point of needing to use the overflow lots across 880. If a new stadium is constructed in the main lot or even the old Homebase site it would be a nightmare for Raiders fans….Even Warriors fans until the team leaves for SF. By saying he is “interested” in building at the Coliseum site he is extending an “olive branch” to Oakland. A baseball stadium will be far easier to build than a football stadium. Oakland can pitch in 100M and Wolff can do the rest or 300M-400M. Versus Oakland pitches in 100M and the Raiders 200M there is still a 500M gap. Wolff is trying to make Oakland see the “light” and let go of the Raiders who can move to Santa Clara and play in a state of the art stadium with zero capital investment. But we all know Oakland, they will linger and let both teams rot since neither has no where to go. Raiders by choice the A’s by force (Giants/MLB). Oakland deserves to lose all 3 teams… NonFictionBrown Regarding the Raiders funding gap: Are they expecting Colony or whomever mystery developer to fund the $500M through the Part B development? And if that is years down the road, they are expecting a loan on this with the development company? The city to pick up the loan? I’m still having a hard time understanding how any of the CC plans make any sort of financial sense if you are counting on development on the West Side of 880. I have always gotten the impression that the majority of the Davis family wealth is tied directly to the franchise value, so it would make little to no sense for them to take on a loan. The more I read about CC for a football stadium, it seems more and more outlandish. Doesn’t Colony want a huge chunk of ownership of the team, which would theoretically at least give them access to a big chunk of the Raiders’ TV revenues? While the team does not do well at the Box Office (tarping seats, many luxury suites sitting empty), the big TV cash is a guaranteed source of revenue. But what would forking that over to Colony mean for making the Raiders’ payroll? Of course, this is all theoretical since I don’t really know what Colony wants or if the TV revenue would be part of any deal. Looking at the HOK study in 2001 they have a Coliseum ballpark next door to Oracle Arena on the backside on the parking lot or on the 66th Ave side. The cost in 2001 was 400M flat. With inflation it should be around 450M-500M in this day and age since nothing has been to the site in general since. Building at the Coliseum makes sense for this reason and I see why Wolff is looking at it. He just needs Oakland to give up on the Raiders and CC and just do a baseball stadium only and give Wolff rights to develop adjacent city owned land so he can re-coup his private investment. But this all is contingent on MLB allowing the A’s to stay on revenue sharing…..That is such a big moving part and I think that is why MLB rejected the Coliseum years ago. Apologies, I meant to say I think that was “part” of the reason MLB rejected the Coliseum years ago that and it not being in a urban downtown setting. Well, it looks like MLB wants the A’s to stay in Oakland but wanted a downtown site (no can do) or a waterfront site (no can do) and wanted the A’s off revenue sharing when the stadium is built (no can do). If MLB wants to confine the A’s to their current territory, then, as I and others have said, show the A’s the money to enable that to happen (as in permanent revenue-sharing). Have the A’s rebuild in the same old parking lot, throw in some stores and condos and give the A’s a big MLB check every year. Problem solved. MLB continues to let vast amounts of corporate dollars sit on the table by turning down San Jose so maybe money is not as important to MLB as we thought. Lakeshore/Neil @pjk/Sid I believe we (most of us here), have held the view that MLB would have to be flexible concerning the revenue sharing program, if they wanted the A’s to say in Oakland/ACC., the only way I think they may have gotten around that would have been Fremont. @pjk Re: “I just don’t see Oakland conceding on any of the teams.” I agree with you here, I don’t think Oakland will make a decision, or choice, I think it will be made for them. It all comes down to Mark Davis and just how much he really wants to build at the coliseum (if at all), if he wants it bad enough he will have to sacrifice more then he wanted, and perhaps a little more than he is comfortable with, because Oakland/Alameda county will not come up with the money, that other municipalities will come up with. Davis has a motive that goes beyond money, or community pride, his father is rests in Oakland, his mother will probably be put to rest there as well, his father’s legacy of a true trail blazer and idea of a Raiders hall of fame, must be built in the Mecca of Raider history OAKLAND. It’s not just about money with Mark, because if it were he would have sold to L.A. interest a long time ago. If Mark can’t pull it off (choice one), then the door opens for Wolff (choice two), Wolff is only listed as the second choice, because he won’t make a choice in till the Raiders have to make one, and of course since it does not look although he will get his prefer choice San Jose. He may consider his third or forth choice land at the coliseum. ML said “it’s worth asking how truly serious Oakland is about all of this. That’s what Wolff and Davis are asking. “ Well it’s also worth asking how truly serious Wolff and Davis are about all this. That’s what Oakland is asking. The idea that Oakland has to make a “CHOICE”, is a bit misleading, we are not even sure Oakland is in the position to make a choice (if and when, they ever are); we can only hope they will actually make one. BTW: The fact that Oakland, and (or) Alameda county only own or control 200 of the 800, would seem to be a bit of a problem, sense that was supposed to be the selling point in the first place.. Lakeshore: Tough for Oakland pols to maintain an air of victimhood if they come out and say, “Bye bye Raiders – it’s been fun.” Much easier for them to let the Raiders or the NFL, the A’s or MLB, declare the Raiders and/or the A’s gone, then the pols can field questions about how poor victim Oakland is being pushed around again… @pjk agree 100% Who here thinks if and when the A’s sign the 10-year lease, regardless of the terms, that it will finally nudge the Raiders to make a decision this Winter regarding their status in Oakland? The lease may be the final straw for the Raiders that sends them to Santa Clara or Los Angeles. jeopardydd I can’t see any situation whatsoever in which MLB continues to give the A’s revenue sharing after getting a new ballpark. I think it’s possible it could even go the other way – remove it even without a new ballpark. What do you think an A’s World Series run would mean in terms of press coverage and focus on the stadium situation? Would Selig feel pressure to broker a deal between the A’s and Giants for San Jose? Not doing so would seem to expose a black eye to the world that only the Bay Area knows best. What better stage than to discuss sewage issues and a crumbling stadium than MLB’s world showcase event? @Jeff – Winning a World Series might help. I wouldn’t bet on it based on prior history. there is no freaking way MLB would stop the RS for the A’s w/o a new park. Maybe when the earth crashes and burns to hell. I could totally see that happening, Davis really should have worked with the 49ers in the first place. It’s not my preference, but at this point something has got to happen, love it, like it, hate it, does not matter, all the bull s#it is finally coming to a head. @ jeopardydd I sure hope you are wrong, with all the evidence we have the A’s would have to be eligible for revenue sharing in Oakland for it to work, nothing suggest they would be a top 10 revenue team in Oakland, perhaps not even top 15, it’s not even a slam dunk that they would be a top 10 revenue team in San Jose. Help me out here you have both the N.Y. teams, both the L.A. teams, Boston, the Cubs, Philadelphia, the Rangers, Toronto, and the SF Giants, I could be little off, perhaps I am missing a team, or don’t have them slotted correctly, but the fact is even the A’s in San Jose would have a hard time cracking the top 10, but the unfortunate truth is we could lose our team. Oakland, San Jose, and the rest of the Bay Area, along with all of baseball, to a much smaller degree but we could all lose. I agree. I don’t see how they could. It’s scheduled to stop when the current labor agreement is over. They’ll have to put it in again. I think they will, but they made a big deal about it being a temporary thing, and listed the A’s as a team that won’t be getting it in the future. They will probably keep it going until the A’s get a new stadium, but it’s not close to a guarantee. And there’s almost zero chance of it after the A’s get a ballpark. Honestly I think the decision has already been made for Oakland by Kaplan. If the A’s sign a long term lease with the city it’s a pretty clear sign, even with the 2 yr notice clause, to the Raiders and Colony that their pipe dream is going to remain that. Kaplan may be just what Oakland needed, someone decisive enough to bite the bullet and tell one of the teams they’re SOL when it comes to building in Oakland. If the A’s are forced to stay where there is poor corporate support and no public support, how does MLB expect the A’s pay the bills (which will be pretty big in a privately funded ballpark) without revenue-sharing? MLB wants the A’s in Oakland, so it should, well, step up to the plate and do what needs to be done. MLB should look at the A’s based on actual conditions (a small market team confined to a struggling city that has no money for a ballpark, and plays a distant second fiddle to a team 8 miles away) and not on fantasy conditions (a Big $$ Big Market Team). @ pjk Could not have said it better myself, MLB can’t have it both ways, or should not be able to have it both ways, if they are going to require the A’s be off of the revenue sharing program then they need to open up San Jose, if not they need to be prepared to do their part, after all they are the people requiring Wolff to build in Oakland/Alameda Contra Costa counties. Or there’s a third option. Perhaps MLB sees more potential in Oakland’s future prospects for growth than many on here, myself included, do. I mean the entire region has begun to see a big shift in gentrification that will eventually subsume even parts of Oakland. Perhaps MLB sees more market potential in the A’s limited east bay territory than we can fathom. While I’m still dubious on the idea, seeing the changes wrought on the Bay Area in just the last 5 years I’d not be surprised if the area around even the Coliseum didn’t organically become a nicer more affluent area eventually in the next 15-20 years independent of any of the city’s machinations regarding Coliseum City. Oakland has been stagnant in population and it has $2 billion in unfunded pension liabilities. It also trails in tech businesses, things like that. There aren’t too many numbers that people can look at and project that Oakland will be a boom town soon. Oakland has less than half the population of San Jose and nothing close to the number of corporate HQs that the South Bay has. By keeping the team in Oakland, MLB is artificially constraining the franchise’s revenue-generation possibilities, particularly when there’s another far more popular team 8 miles away. So MLB should be prepared to make up the difference in revenue potential of the South Bay vs. revenue potential of the East Bay. ah, I see where you are getting confused. You are hung up on what’s fair. Let me ask you this: Has MLB ever concerned itself with what is fair to the A’s? Anyway, the MLB Constitution specifically says that the A’s will not get revenue sharing after they get a new park. Jeopardy: Does MLB want another NJ Devils situation where the team’s finances were so bad it couldn’t pay its bills? If the A’s are in a situation where the team does not make enough money to pay its creditors – a situation specifically heaped upon it by the MLB’s stance on where the team has to play its games – then it is up to MLB to make the franchise whole. What good will it be if the A’s need, say, $200 million to operate every year but they can only generate $150 million? What does that do to franchise values to have a franchise in bankruptcy court? We already know corporate support in the East Bay is weak and public support nonexistent. The money has to come from somewhere. MLB is fine with huge disparities in revenue/profit. The A’s are not going to go bankrupt if they get a new stadium because they won’t build a stadium unless there’s a ton of profit in it. I think we’ve seen that much over the many years. So if there won’t be huge profits, then the A’s stay in the sewage-spewing football stadium for years to come. Revenue-sharing could very well be the difference between the team breaking even/making a few dollars or losing money. Perhaps. The A’s could also just cut payroll by a fair amount and make a profit without revenue sharing. Come on man, you know you can’t lower the payroll to much, because then the players union would be all over you. I always in joy your input,and there are times you bring up great point’s I may not have thought of, but I think pjk has got you on this one. Anthony Benton Keep both and stop the suggestive foolishness. llpec MLB cannot have it both ways, force the A’s to remain within their less lucrative designated East Bay territory, and at the same time end their eligibility to receive revenue sharing. If MLB truly wants for the A’s to give up their revenue recipient status, MLB must allow the A’s to build their new ballpark at the Bay Area site of their own choosing. In other words, return the Bay Area market into one truly shared territory, as are the other shared markets in MLB. If the MLB’s damn ATE was tossed out, like basically every legal analysis thinks it should be, this wouldn’t be an issue. That is one dinosaur that just needs to die already. BayMetro I really do think what’s going to end up happening is that the Raiders will have to share Levi’s with the Niners. People will tout Los Angeles as a possibility for the Raiders but I don’t believe the business community there will get behind the Raiders in providing corporate support (the most lasting legacy of the ‘Los Angeles’ Raiders is the gangster association; LA has worked very hard the last 15 years to get rid itself of that association and image). If Oakland is smart – and perhaps if Kaplan is elected mayor – I believe more of the focus will shift towards the A’s. Now you may ask: “what about Coliseum City?” I quite frankly don’t believe that will happen. The Coliseum is located in one of the most economically depressed communities in all of the Bay Area; who supports all these proposed businesses at CC? And more importantly, who invests? Oakland is one of the largest cities in the country to not have an actual shopping mall within its city limits. Eastmont Mall ceased to be a real mall more than 20 years ago and most Oaklanders unfortunately do all their retail shopping in other cities. So as I see it, if any work is actually done to get a new stadium built in Oakland, the focus will shift to the A’s. The Raiders will probably be forced to move to Levi’s with the Niners, and similar to the Jets/Giants in New Jersey, neither team will be playing in the cities they’re named for. @BayMetro, Ever since the 49ers did the difficult task of getting a new stadium built in Santa Clara, I always believed that the Raiders would ultimately wind up there, too. The 49ers have the financial, corporate backing, and political wherewithal to get a new stadium deal done, while the Raiders do not. If there is any chance of Oakland retaining any of its teams, the Oakland A’s have the best and only realistic chance of staying. However, to induce the A’s to build their own ballpark at the Coliseum site, both Oakland and MLB will have to provide enough incentives to the A’s to make that site financially viable enough for the A’s to go ahead and build their ballpark at what they believe to be a less desirable site. @Lakeshore There are currently teams with $35 million lower payroll than ours. I don’t know why you think that the players union would be able to do something to the A’s for doing what other teams are currently doing. Again, I said that it’s possible they could remove it in the future without a new ballpark. I also specifically said, MULTIPLE TIMES that I don’t think they would. How is that “pjk getting me” on anything? I was agreeing that it’s unlikely. The strongest statement I said was that, while I don’t think it would happen, it’s even more likely than what pjk was saying about us continuing to get it even with a new stadium. The CBA lists the A’s as not receiving revenue sharing, but says that the A’s can get it until a new stadium. It doesn’t say that they can get it until MLB makes territory changes. I still question what incentive the ‘9ers have at this point to share their new stadium with the Raiders given that it is sold out and they have by-and large managed the construction costs with the SBL prgoram. I know everyone mentions the “3rd locker room”- reality is that had to be included if they expected to host anything but football which they obviously will—note the recent partnership with the Earthquakes. From a Raiders perspective what is better—paying rent to play in a new stadium that doesn’t reflect your team at all or continue to play at the Coli as is where they pay minimal rent and are able to keep parking fees etc. I wouldn’t be suprised to see Davis come back and ask for a 5-10 year lease while they try to figure it out in Oakland–I really think his options are limited– I am sorry I guess I should have read a little more closely, I hear your point on the payroll, I am not saying I disagree with you Iam only saying that it could only get so low before the players union would start to complain, and while they may not be able to do a lot directly, there may not be a true salary cap in MLB, but the players could apply a lot of pressure to have a hard line bottom to the pay scale. This is where the A’s situation comes in to play, as we know they need a new modern baseball only venue to support the revenue streams that paying players demands, so it’s in the players best interest that the A’s get a new stadium, it’s also in their best interest that it be in San Jose, but if it has to be in Oakland it still needs to be new. As far as what pjk had to say , I agreed with him on the general idea that MLB would have to keep the A’s on the revenue sharing program, if they were going to confine the A’s to build in Oakland/ Alameda Contra Costa counties, or as llpec would say a Bay Area location of their choosing. I was under the impression that he (pjk), was referring to this portion of what you said: “I can’t see any situation whatsoever in which MLB continues to give the A’s revenue sharing after getting a new ballpark. I think it’s possible it could even go the other way – remove it even without a new ballpark.” I simply don’t agree with you on this one, but concerning the last part of your statement, I could see a scenario where the other owners get mad enough at Wolff to threaten to take the A’s off of the revenue starring program, if he does not get his ass in gear and start to build somewhere in his designated territory, not that it would be fair toward Wolff, but I could see them doing that. Lastly the CBA can say whatever it wants, it’s not written in stone, it changes every time it expires, it can, and most likely will be changed, hell for that matter its written, in (I think), the MLB constitution, that the SF Giants own San Jose, and many here fill that will change, or is thinking in absolute terms only for the Oakland-Only folks. Sorry I meant to say: , or as llpec would say a Bay Area location of “NOT” their choosing. @GoA’s: The 49ers are the ones who requested that an option for a 2nd NFL team be included with their agreement with Santa Clara. Their incentive would vary depending on the situation, but I believe the Raiders would be negotiating with the Santa Clara Stadium Authority, not the 49ers. @Briggs- A 2nd NFL team would pay rent to the 49ers directly. The reason why is they already are paying 30M a year in rent plus any short fall on the debt service year to year. So it does not make sense for Santa Clara to negotiate a 2nd team if the 49ers are the ones on the hook for the yearly payments to pay down the overall debt. The Stadium Authority is simply a tax sheltered mechanism to manage the debt. @Sid: Ah. Thanks for the info. @LSN- I agree with you on your takes on revenue sharing and there is no way MLB would ever remove the A’s from revenue sharing at the Coliseum. According to Bloomberg the A’s had 175M in revenue in 2013 or good for 29th in the league. The got 36M in revenue sharing as well and even with a good playoff run made (according to forbes) 27.4M in profit….of course these are “estimates”. Without the 36M the A’s would have lost nearly 10M, that is unacceptable. To put in perspective on how “greedy” the Giants are: Giants were 6th in revenue at 300M in 2013 (Bloomberg) They had a 142M payroll and paid 21M (Bloomberg) into revenue sharing plus their mortgage at the ballpark is 20M (high estimate) or so per year. 300M-21M-142M-20M= 117M (Gross Profit) After paying out all the people who work for the Giants (15M-20M), and that is generous)they are looking at approximately 100M in profit per year! These are the same guys who complain if the A’s move to San Jose it will “cripple their franchise”? This is of course after two WS titles in 3 years but they went 76-86. Forget the fact they own a big chunk of Comcast Bay Area….another revenue animal not being factored here. The A’s in San Jose with premium seating, corporate sponsors, and a new stadium would be around the 250M a la the LA Angels (253M in 2013), this assumes a winning team of course and a new ballpark. 250M-35M (ballpark debt service)- 120M (Payroll)- 30M (Revenue sharing Angels put in 2014= 65M in gross profit. Subtract the employees (15M-20M, once again generous #s) the A’s are making 40M-45M in profit and be 10th in payroll for 2013. I am befuddled on how MLB does not see this? They could have two profitable teams in this market with ease instead of paying the A’s 36M and the Giants only paying in 21M? This borderlines insanity for MLB to fight SJ in court…. @ Sid Forbes is notorious for underestimating franchise revenue and value. Ok, lets see if I have this straight: You all think that the A’s will continue to get revenue sharing even after getting a new ballpark, despite MLB agreeing and stating in writing that that’s not the case, because; 1) It would only be fair 2) it would help the A’s; 3) MLB has shown that it tends to be fair and wants to help the A’s err….wait…. 4Libertee MetroBay: Detroit has 650,000 people, no mall, and the Tigers draw over 3.0 million, and the Lions and Red Wings sell out most of their games. I hear the Warriors draw pretty well in Oakland. Besides a poor stadium, the problem with the A’s is that there are not that many A’s fans in the Bay area. A new stadium in San Jose (or Oakland, for that matter) will solve the first problem (stadium); what will solve the second (not many fans)? @ 4Libertee : The Sharks did not have many hockey fans either ! It is what Frisco wants BullShit and MLB to believe. No bb fans in SJ, right @Jeopardydd, MLB will have to give in and allow the A’s to continue on as revenue sharing recipients, if they truly want for the A’s to build their own new ballpark in Oakland. Plain and Simple! 4Libtee – There are plenty of A’s fans locally. The A’s will likely average over 24K per game for 2014. There is likely no MLB fanbase in MLB that would draw over 30K a game if they played in a dump similiar to the Coliseum. Furthermore, before the giants moved to their phonebooth park, the A’s outdrew the giants – in some seasons the A’s drew 3 mil. The idea that that A’s dont’ have much local fan support is a myth spun by the giants management. Not necessarily. For example, if the A’s get control of enough land form the City of Oakland for development. No stadium will be built in Oakland unless there’s likely to be enough profit that the A’s won’t get revenue sharing. Personally, I think the A’s rot in the coliseum until some other place offers a bunch of public money (subject to the outcome of the SJ case, that is). The A’s have never drawn 3 million fans in Oakland. The best they did was 1990 (2.9 million fans) when they were defending champs, the Giants still played at Candlestick and the Raiders were in LA. The Giants have outdrawn the A’s since Barry Bonds came to town in the 1993-94 time frame – many years before the new stadium opened. The A’s long history of poor support – only 7 times over the average MLB attendance in 44(?) years despite 16(?) playoff seasons – speaks for itself. Poor attendance is the rule for the A’s; great attendance is a statistical anomaly for them. re: The A’s will likely average over 24K per game for 2014. ..The A’s draw well when the Giants, Red Sox or Yankees are in town, when there’s a bobblehead or jersey giveaway or fireworks. The rest of the time? Notsomuch. Re: “Personally, I think the A’s rot in the coliseum until some other place offers a bunch of public money (subject to the outcome of the SJ case, that is).” I think you have a good point there, it’s a real possibility that if the A’s don’t get San Jose, they could over time move out of the Bay Area. I think that is less likely, with the way Wolff has been talking of late, but it’s a possibility. From time to time I say to my Oakland–Only friends, be careful what you wish for concerning the A’s to San Jose, because you just might get it. San Jose eventually may be the one thing that keeps the team in the Bay Area. Duff, it’s not a fantasy spun by the Giants and hasn’t been for over 20 years now. Yes the A’s outdrew the Giants some years back when the A’s had the far better venue. But that’s old news. In the modern Bay Area there’s no comparison. Starting with the Bonds era before they even left Candlestick the Bay Area has been squarely Giants. And it gets worse every year. It’s not just the Giants spinning that, it’s the reality of the situation. Fact is the A’s have about 18% of the local fan base according to those most recent NY Times polls to the Giants roughly 65%. And walking any street in any city in the Bay Area bears that out just looking at the caps, shirts, etc… people are wearing. And this isn’t just a new development since the World Series win by the Gnats. This has been the case since McGowan’s group picked the Giants up out of the hole that Lurie had dug them into. How funny would it be if the Raiders come out and sign their own 5-10 year lease on the Coliseum? It’s not like Davis has any good options right now. Sure, project planning might still move forward, but we would have no more “crisis” situation forcing any kind of resolution. Just status quo for the foreseeable future. Thank god for the San Jose lawsuit. That may be the only thing moving us forward. @jeopardydd, Unlike all the other shared two team markets, MLB has knowingly and unfairly divided the Bay Area market into two separate and unequal territories. As a result, the Giants were granted the most populous and affluent areas for their territory while the A’s were designated an area with less population and with a significantly much less affluent and corporate based community. The least thing MLB should do is to allow the A’s to continue receiving revenue sharing to help compensate the A’s for MLB’s dividing up of the Bay Area market in such an unfair and unequal manner. @llpec you said “The least thing MLB should do is…” I agree. But that’s not what I’m talking about. I’m not talking about what the SHOULD do, but what they WILL do. MLB and the players’ union have made it very clear that they consider the entire Bay Area as the A’s market when it comes to revenue sharing. That market is one of the biggest in MLB, and the top-15 markets will have to pay into it, not take out of it. They explicitly include the A’s in that, but have an astrix exempting them UNTIL they get a new stadium. I don’t see how much more clear they can be on this matter. IIpec, or MLB might expect the A’s to finally cultivate the affluent fans they have living in places like Tri-Valley and up through the Lamorinda corridor. Areas the A’s have long since seemed willing to cede to the Giants in fact if not by rule. Sure the A’s designated territory in the Bay Area isn’t as big as the Giants. But the fact remains the A’s have an “exclusive” area that has it’s own share of affluence that they could tap into particularly with a new ballpark, even one at the Coliseum site. Remember even if you only include their current counties when talking about the A’s they’re still in the upper half of MLB regions by population. And on top of that there has never been anything stopping the A’s from trying to tap into the greater Bay Area’s affluence in places like Santa Clara County and on the peninsula even if their stadium isn’t directly in either of those areas. Remember the A’s may be more constrained than they or many of us would like by being forced to build their ballpark in their existing territories, but it’s also not like the A’s are entirely the victim here either. There’s a lot more they could be doing now and that they’d be able to do with a new ballpark ANYWHERE in the Bay Area. djhip228 @pjk – Are you referring to the timeframe leading up to AT&T park opening, when: Giants: Bob Lurie’s threatens to move the team and suddenly reversed 180 degrees when new ownership commits to SF and, oh yeah, signs Barry Bonds. A’s: Haas sells team to Schottmann. Before the sale was even finalized, Schott denigrates McGwire and several others in a newspaper interview, including Rickey Henderson. He also made it very clear that he wanted out of Oakland and charged his newly-hired president to get that done asap. Maybe he forgot about that $30 million he received from Oakland and Alameda County for stadium-related improvements and reimbursements. Nonetheless, ownership continued courting SJ as the new home for the A’s while the G’s and their growing fan base were getting amped up for their new park. Giants had a .521 WP versus the A’s .459 during this time. G’s 23,500 versus A’s 17,900 attendance. Oh, and there were the years 1994-95 when teams played about 130 games over 2 seasons with no WS in 1994. At one point during the Schottmann era, ownership actually suggested that the A’s combine with the Angels and move to Anaheim. In a newspaper interview. Selig also commented that moving to Oakland was a mistake. In a newspaper interview. These statements were made right around the time MLB rejected an ownership group willing to keep the A’s in Oakland and build a new stadium privately. I almost forgot, during all of this drama, the Giants were enjoying their sparkling brand new park. I could continue but I’d be wasting my time, and I know that. You know, at one point shortly after Schottmann took over, there was a survey done to find out why season tickets were not being renewed. The runner-up was that they weren’t convinced the A’s would even stay in Oakland. If I owned a business, let’s say a restaurant, and my business began losing money; lack of guests for dinner and such, whatever. I just might want to find out what’s causing this. If I did a survey and looked at, say, the top 3 reasons people stopped coming to dine, I may want to address those. It doesn’t appear that is what occurred with Schottmann. Dare I say, it seems like they purposely put more fuel to the fire. It seems to have continued with Wolff. Unlike some Oakland-only types who post here, I’m not going to just go along to get along and agree with everything. The bottom line is that the dynamic from the early 90’s leading up to AT&T Park was complex and simple at the same time: One team got rid of the owner who was going to take them away and installed a new owner totally committed and, as a plus, signed a huge player. Versus, a team whose formerly beloved owner sold the team to what appeared to be a negative, condescending fool with too much money to spend but unwilling to spend it. Lest we forget that the original contract stated that a discount would apply to a buyer who keeps the team in Oakland. Schott was already talking up San Jose before the transition even occurred. And…. an ownership group willing to keep the team in Oakland and fund a new stadium was denied by MLB. I know, tin-foil hat, right? Ok, so from day one you have focused on attendance, the horribly low income of the “east bay,” and that there are zero corporate dollars in the area. From a rational standpoint, if you were to look at the comparison between the two teams, ownership, on-field play, publicity, etc. Would you not make a guess that the A’s would lose fans to the Giants gains? Maybe I’m wrong, although I don’t think I am. AT&T has since then dominated the baseball scene. Maybe it’s just me but it kind of makes sense. A common topic is “there’s a Giants store in Walnut Creek.” I wonder why. Lastly, spare me the analysis of the 1970’s attendance. I’ve heard it enough and it proves nothing about today’s world. Both teams had crappy attendance along with most of the rest of MLB during that time. The Bay Area didn’t have the population to support 2 MLB teams at that time. Not to mention, the Giants were here for 10 years before the A’s and were considered the Bay Area team. The A’s were the red-headed stepchild with schadenfreude looming everywhere. I’m not exactly sure why you denigrate Oakland while pumping up SJ. I know you live there so that’s obvious. Perhaps you want them to move there for civic pride; get SJ on the map, etc. I understand that. Just remember, though, that while you are rooting for your hometown, despite the spin on attendance and corporate dollars, etc., a team has been threatening to leave for 2 decades. Do you not understand that one leads to the other? AT&T Park was a clear sign to their loyal fans that they were staying. Bandwagoners soon joined in droves and, add in a couple of WS championships, the rest is history. A dump with a team constantly threatening to move is dramatically different. Playoffs or no playoffs. The East Bay is not the problem. Steve, I think it’s far more likely that this is the Raiders final year in the Coliseum than it would be likely they’ll sign a long term lease of their own at the Coliseum. Particularly if the A’s sign a 10 year deal. There’s really no reason for the Raiders to stay if they don’t think Coliseum City is going to happen. Not when they have a very apparent, easy and desirable option not 40 miles south. One that’s far better than staying at the Mausoleum for half decade or more. re: The East Bay is not the problem. …We know the Raiders were given 120something state-of-the-art, brand new luxury suites in the mid-90s and have not much success leasing them. If there is corporate dollars in the East Bay to be tapped for suite sales, then apparently it hasn’t been enough. And the Warriors, despite yearly sellouts and no nearby NBA competition, still want to go to Frisco and leave Oakland behind. As far as any improvements to the Coliseum done on behalf of Schott, these certainly were dwarfed by the $200 million ruination of the Coliseum in 1995, leaving the A’s playing in a hulking football stadium with their wonderful view of the Oakland hills just a memory. If the A’s can get it done in Oakland, great. But if they can’t make it work financially, then MLB either needs to keep the A’s on revenue-sharing or let them go to San Jose. I don’t think you would like the um, other option: A’s leaving the Bay Area. @djhi228 Boy you said a mouth full, many of your points I have been trying to make for some time, much of that time without success. The complexity of this situation is much deeper then “Oakland sucks”, which is the conclusion some come to, or because it can work well in San Jose, it “can’t work in Oakland”. I have said several times this is a three city (San Francisco, Oakland,San Jose), two teams (Athletics, Giants), one league (MLB), high wire soap-opera. It has not worked as well in Oakland, as it could have over the years for a variety of reasons and fault can be found in every direction, but that doesn’t mean Oakland and the East Bay can’t be a much better market. @4libertee, I said Oakland was “one of” the largest cities in the country without a shopping mall, so your referencing Detroit would be an example of another. And yes, Detroit teams do draw well, but you must remember the Lions/Tigers/Red Wings/Pistons are Michigan’s ONLY professional teams and collectively are a source of pride for that state. The A’s (as much as I love them) are probably the least popular team in California despite being the state’s second most successful (at least in terms of World Series won). But back to the point…. My referencing Oakland’s lack of a shopping mall was simply to highlight the fact that a Coliseum City type concept would not work in Oakland (or at least not in East Oakland). The most commercial investment we’d probably see at CC is a sports memorabilia store and maybe a Sizzler. As I’ve said before, If Oakland decides to do the right thing, they will start figuring out how to make something happen for the A’s (other than a new lease at the Coliseum). Levi’s field has two home locker rooms, and Mark Davis is probably just holding out to see what Oakland will do. He knows the NFL is not going to let him move the team and he knows that Oakland doesn’t have anything to give him. He also knows that the NFL ultimately wants the West Coast version of the Giants/Jets with the Raiders and Niners sharing a stadium. It all just makes too much sense; let’s hope Oakland realizes this sooner than later. Davis should have gotten in on the ground floor of Levi’s before it became decked out in 68,000 49er red sets and we know there will be a 49ers museum, probably statues of Joe Montana, etc. How much could they really neutralize the setting for the Raiders? Defiantly agree with you on that one. Davis should have been working with the 49ers in the first place, or new beyond a shadow of a doubt he could make it happen in Oakland without a lot of help, as it stands he may have over played his hand, if the NFL won’t let him back in LA. If it was a better deal he was hoping to get from Oakland/Alameda county, that is surly to back fire, because there just is not any money or the will to spend what is there (in California). Sorry: or “knew” beyond a shadow of a doubt he could make it happen in Oakland I believe Levi’s Stadium was designed so that Stadium signage and colors can be changed to reflect the colors of either the 49ers or Raiders. As for the red seats, it won’t really matter when the fans are sitting in their seats. Also, Levi’s stadium capacity will likely be reduced if and when the Raiders do play there. I’m certain these seats will be tarp covered in the black and silver of the Raiders, thus giving even more a Raiders home stadium feel. Regarding revenue sharing, back in 1999, MLB said they needed to address “chronic competitive imbalance.” I don’t think that was the whole truth. I believe it was enacted to satisfy the MLBPA. The more teams have to spend, the more they can participate in free agent bidding. Additionally, this accelerates player salary inflation year over year. If the A’s get booted from revenue sharing, the MLBPA could very well put their foot down. @ Briggs, The Player’s Union agreed to the A’s not being eligible for revenue sharing whenever they get a new stadium. http://mlb.mlb.com/pa/pdf/cba_english.pdf They want half of the teams to be disqualified from revenue sharing and half the teams to get it. Whether the A’s get it or not probably won’t change the overall picture and shouldn’t matter to the Player’s Union. The big reason why the A’s do not get attendance is their location. On the weekends you will notice they get fans. All Sat/Sun home games for the A’s in 2014: Sat April 5th vs. Seattle 30,290 Sun April 6th vs. Seattle 32,852 Sat, Apr 19 vs. Houston 33,166 Sun April 20 vs. Houston 16,382 Sat, May 10 vs. Washington 36,067 Sun May 11 vs. Washington 28,205 Sat, May 31 vs. LA Angels 35,067 Sun, June 1st vs. LA Angels 32,231 Only the Sun Apr 20th game vs. Houston was low at 16,382 On Sat/Sun the A’s are averaging 30,532 on Sat/Sun games. If that is what they averaged throughout the season they would be 11th in the league….not bad at all. That means for weekday games they are averaging 18,015…only ahead of Tampa and Cleveland. That is sad considering how good the A’s are. What could be the reason for this? As someone who went the Wednesday night game vs. Detroit a couple weeks back (Donaldson walk off) it is murder getting to the Coliseum during the week, that game had 15k in fans. There is so much traffic (both ways) near the Coli on 880 it is simply not worth it. Even on 580, 92, 80, they are all jam packed north of the Coli and south into Hayward. BART does bring some fans to the games but a majority of people drive as this Cali car culture. This is why I believe the Coliseum is a bad site for a new stadium. It does not fix the traffic issues in the general area. Would a new stadium help attendance at the Coli? Of course, but instead of averaging 21k overall per game it would be 25k or so and that is with a good team, first few years would be sellouts with a good team. But on the weekends you can get the Coli no problem and people pay significantly higher prices as well. The A’s for this reason need to get to San Jose where traffic only flows in one direction on every freeway. They would do a lot better during the week in Downtown SJ because of this. If the A’s were in SJ people from East/South SJ would have no traffic. That is where a majority of Sharks fans live for example. People south in Morgan Hill, Gilroy, Santa Cruz, Scotts Valley and the East Bay (Tri Valley and up to Union City) would be driving against traffic. Unlike the Coli where everywhere you come from there is traffic. Sid, that’s the case going to ANY venue in the Bay Area. Every freeway in the region is packed to the gills. The Bay Area has become LA north in the last few years. Coliseum though does have a very viable public transit option that I wish more people would take the time to use. Coliseum BART might not be the prettiest station, but it definitely makes the Coliseum the easiest stadium in the Bay Area to get to of the current venues. Even from the south bay if you drive to Fremont and soon Warm Springs it takes a nice chunk off your drive. Also I’d love to see the stats that make you think Sharks fans mainly come from south and east of SJ. All of those, except for the one that drew 16K fans, were promotional nights as well as weekends. So I really don’t think you can draw any conclusions about it being due to less traffic on the weekends. @Dan- ATT Park is way easier to get to than the Coli from San Jose for example via 280 and it is 15 miles further away for example. Your right on BART but its Cali Car Culture, a lot of people frown upon the BART and most do not take it. The Coli site is smack in the middle of traffic hell, you go north or south your stuck on a weekday. This is my theory on why the A’s do not get great attendance during the week but the weekends get excellent attendance. As for the Sharks, I have lived in San Jose a long time, it has been well known most of the season ticket holders are in South SJ (Blossom and Almaden Valley) and East SJ (Evergreen). These are nice areas of the city and the fans have $$ to spend. @Jeopardydd- My point is because of the weekday traffic being so awful in the general area (north and south) it hurts the A’s from getting fans to show up. While on the weekends they are getting great attendance and regardless of giveaways the tickets are significantly more expensive. The A’s are very good so you cannot point to on field performance. Traffic is a big part of it, of course the stadium being a dump does not help. But if attendance is great on the weekends in a dump……it gives my theory some weight the other thing that hurt the A’s is they are not on a AM radio station. Unless the A’s find themselves on a 50000W AM station, they will continue to suffer. FM95.7 signal sucks hard. When you are in SJ, the signal barely audible in some downtown spots. dmoas Sid, before any of that is relevant, you need to pull out Friday and look at evening games only from Monday through Thursday. The reason games are less attended during the week is because people work the next day and getting home after midnight isn’t always feasible. And day games are their own issue with people actually working. Friday sees an uptick as well, not because traffic is somehow better (it’s actually worse) but because they don’t have somewhere they need to be in the morning. I’m glad the Raiders aren’t in Levi. It would have ruined it the same way MetLife was ruined by the Jets/Giants sharing it. That place is a $1.6 billion compromise, and is completely soulless. A question for ML (or others): What are the Giants/A’s mandated “territorial limits” beyond geographic location of stadiums? Really, I’d like to know. Obviously, there’s nothing preventing * someone who lives in SF from going to a game in Oakland, * or an A’s broadcast from reaching a fan in any part of the bay area, * or a bay area business or corporation from “sponsoring” (signage, advertising, luxury suites) a team in Oakland * money moving from any pocket in the bar area into the A’s coffers. Traffic is rough to practically all Bay Area venues for evening events. The thing is, people don’t mind putting up with it for a nice evening at AT&T Park. It’s worth the effort. There’s nothing to do before or after A’s games except stand around in the parking lot. Personally, I didn’t mind that as much when I was younger because I’d pound a six pack. In recent years I’ve dialed way back on brown baggin’ it and I’d rather have some food options or other activities, which the Coliseum doesn’t provide. Even with dirt cheap tickets, the Coliseum just isn’t work the effort for many people. @ely: The territorial rights only pertain to where teams can build their stadiums. The A’s and Giants can market themselves in Boston if they want. Personally, if I were to rank the A’s true enemies, the Giants wouldn’t crack the top 3. @ Briggs That’s an interesting take “Personally, if I were to rank the A’s true enemies, the Giants wouldn’t crack the top 3”. I would rank the SF Giants as one of the top 3 enemies of the A’s economic success in the Bay Area, but I am intrigued, as to what your top 3 would be?, because I almost always agree with you and even when I don’t, I can’t recall a time when I did not at least see where you were coming from. Daniel, that’s one thing I’ll agree with. Recently I was driving from the Pleasenton area down to San Diego. I was listening to the A’s on 95.7 and before I’d even left Alameda County going over Altamont Pass I’d lost the A’s on the radio. But over 270 miles north of San Diego somewhere between Avenal and Lost Hills on I-5 I tuned in to 1090 AM and I was already picking up the Padres game. And the Padres traditional fanbase doesn’t generally extend that far north. But their radio station sure does (and mind you it broadcasts from another 35 miles south of San Diego in Rosarito, BC). But that’s what 50,000 watts 24/7 will do (which even KNBR doesn’t do I’d add). 95.7 may have an interesting and clear sound when you can get it by virtue of being FM (though I honestly prefer the AM sound for baseball), but it sure doesn’t have the range the A’s need. But at 6,900 watts “The Game” isn’t even as well powered as KNBR is at night or the Padres back up station are at 10,000 watts. How are you declaring the difference in attendance to be due to traffic rather than people having more time (because it’s the weekend)and/or the giveaways? Moreover, there’s actual evidence that it is the giveaways to a large extent: There is one date you gave that had low attendance, and that’s the one without a giveaway. You can’t just say “nah, it’s the traffic”. You have to give evidence for why it’s not the other aspects of weekend games. “Even from the south bay if you drive to Fremont and soon Warm Springs it takes a nice chunk off your drive” Maybe when Warm Springs opens. Fremont is so far north and so far off the freeway that it barely saves any time driving there (in traffic) and adds 30-45 minutes coming home (after traffic, adding in the BART ramp crunch leaving the game). Nathan, that may be true. But it’s no worse that the similar transit options when leaving AT&T Park. And it has the added advantage of not requiring a transfer like both long range options (Caltrain or BART) do out of AT&T Park. To say nothing of every other major venue in the Bay Area which don’t even come close to the accessibility of the Coliseum site as it stands today. @Briggs – the Giants are the enemy. If the Giants could prevent the A’s from building a new ballpark in Oakland – they would attempt to prevent that too. It would be interesting what actions they might attempt if Wolff decides to build at the CC site – you can’t put anything past the giants organization. With the BART extension to Santa Clara County coming within a few years, it seems obvious that public transit access between San Jose and the Coliseum will be greatly improved. Could this improved accessibility lead to better attendance at A’s games, especially from fans coming from San Jose, Milpitas, and other near surrounding areas? Also, could the BART extension help to alleviate some of the huge traffic congestion between San Jose and the Coliseum during peak late afternoon early evening travel times? I agree with you, The Bay Area traffic is going to be difficult no matter which way you slice it, and as you mentioned the coliseum site (no matter how hard to get to at times), is accessible, hell accessibility is perhaps the one thing the site has going for it. Not saying mid-week traffic is not part of many of the problems, I just find it difficult to believe, it’s one of the major reasons we (the A’s), have not done better in attendance then we have. re: Traffic is rough to practically all Bay Area venues for evening events. The thing is, people don’t mind putting up with it for a nice evening at AT&T Park. It’s worth the effort. There’s nothing to do before or after A’s games except stand around in the parking lot. Dude you nailed it. The Coliseum is the one of the worst venue in all of sports for this very reason. People would not complain so much about the Coliseum if there were entertainment, bars and restaurants close by. @llpec: Yes. There is no good public transit between the South Bay and Oakland/Easat Bay right now. The BART extension is going to be huge and it’ll get even more important if/when they extend it to Diridon. Leave a Reply to SMG Cancel reply

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Morgan drops Watchmen details Filed to:Newswire While on a press junket for P.S. I Love You (ick), actor Jeffrey Dean Morgan enthusiastically answered a few questions about Zack "300" Snyder's upcoming Watchmen–perhaps the most anticipated and debated-over graphic-novel adaptation ever. Snyder is currently filming Alan Moore's superhero opus with Morgan starring as The Comedian, and while fans are justifiably leery about the director's ability to translate such a multilayered epic in the confines of a two-hour movie, Morgan has some positive things to say about the project. Most assuring quote: "[Synder]'s got a copy of the graphic novel in his hand at all times. It never comes out of his hand. He's constantly referring to it. He'll set up a shot looking at the novel. It's insane." And while the film is tentatively set for a March 2009 release, Morgan confirms that Snyder will premier footage at San Diego's Comic-Con in August '08. And to answer your question: No, I don't get out much.

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Nickelodeon is making a new Star Trek animated series for kids Paramount’s Star Trek TV factory has been going kind of nuts lately. After several years where the franchise’s television fortunes seemed to be trundling along at impulse (this is a Star Trek joke), allowing J.J. Abrams’ nu-Trek movies to carry the torch, the success of CBS All Access’ Star Trek: Discovery appears to have reinvigorated the series, kicking it back into Warp A High Number That’s Probably Pretty Good. (Warp 7? Warp 8? Surely not Warp 9, right?) Over the last year or two, Paramount and CBS have announced something like four new Star Trek TV projects, including the Short Treks short film anthology, the Patrick Stewart-fronted Picard show, an animated comedy series from Rick & Morty’s Mike McMahan, and an as-yet untitled spy series centered on Michelle Yeoh. Now we can add a fifth project to that grab-bag of space-utopian content, with Deadline reporting today that Nickelodeon has started work on a kids-focused animated Trek series of its very own. Details about the show’s plot are being kept tighter than a Tribble’s butthole (this is also a Star Trek joke), but it’s being masterminded by Alex Kurtzman, whose various credits in big-budget Hollywood franchises will never stop him from being “The Mummy director Alex Kurtzman” in our hearts. It’s being written, meanwhile, by Kevin and Dan Hageman, whose past accomplishments include The Lego Movie and Hotel Transylvania. If it goes to series, the show would be the first Star Trek TV project explicitly aimed at kids, and the first of this new glut of shows to air on cable, rather than the looming, content-packed Death Star of CBS All Access. (That was not a Star Trek joke.) Jean-Luc Picard to come back to save us from ourselves in late 2019 CBS All Access grows its Star Trek universe with animated comedy from Rick and Morty writer Michelle Yeoh is in talks for her own Star Trek spin-off

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Ford Center Campaign Honors Chancellor Emeritus Khayat All giving levels can grow UM performing arts center's endowment April 24, 2019 by Angela Atkins UM Chancellor Emeritus Robert Khayat, who enjoys music and other performing arts, led the university’s efforts to fund and build the Gertrude C. Ford Center for the Performing Arts. Photo by Robert Jordan/Ole Miss Digital Imaging Services OXFORD, Miss. – Organizers of a fundraising campaign for the University of Mississippi‘s performing arts center plan to honor Chancellor Emeritus Robert C. Khayat, who led the effort to bring the facility to life 16 years ago. The Celebrating the Arts campaign aims to increase the endowment of the Gertrude C. Ford Center for the Performing Arts to $3 million. The portion of that effort to honor Khayat will be open to all giving levels through mailed and in-person gifts and the university’s crowdfunding platform, Ignite Ole Miss. “We are thrilled to have the opportunity to honor former Chancellor Robert C. Khayat through this Ignite campaign,” said Julia Aubrey, Ford Center director. “His vision for this wonderful facility inspired me as a new faculty member in 1995, and I am honored to continue his efforts to celebrate the arts as the director of the Ford Center. “Dr. Khayat’s extraordinary generosity, energy and commitment to making this performing arts center a regional arts leader continues to this day.” The Ford Center opened in 2003 as a multimillion-dollar, state-of-the-art facility, the only one of its kind in the area. Since then, it has hosted 150 events annually – everything from blues legend B.B. King, operas by national touring companies, best-selling authors, arts events for children and even the 2008 presidential debate. Each event comes with costs, both overt and hidden. Musicals cost as much as $70,000 to bring to Oxford. The center requires a full-time staff to manage the schedule, reach out to the community and care for the facilities. After near-constant use, the Ford Center requires repairs and upgrades to maintain its beauty and functionality. While the campaign has already targeted major donors, the Ignite Ole Miss campaign to honor Khayat allows patrons to support the effort at all giving levels. “It is very fitting this campaign honors Chancellor Emeritus Robert Khayat, who was instrumental in securing the funding and establishing such an outstanding performing arts center on our campus,” Interim Chancellor Larry Sparks said. “For more than 16 years, the Gertrude C. Ford Center for the Performing Arts has provided a rich array of arts and cultural opportunities for our community. This campaign will help ensure that we continue offering vibrant resources and programs to benefit the entire region.” UM Chancellor Emeritus Robert Khayat (left) visits with country music star Marty Stuart onstage at the Ford Center during rehearsals for Stuart’s 2007 concert at the venue. Photo by Robert Jordan/Ole Miss Digital Imaging Services The Ford Center commissioned a bronze tree sculpture for the building’s lobby to honor major donors to the campaign. As part of this Ignite Ole Miss campaign, a prominent portion of the sculpture will be named for Khayat. “The bough honoring Dr. Khayat will be unveiled during our inaugural Friendship Ball on May 18,” Aubrey said. “I hope many of his fans will attend and help us celebrate the individual responsible for giving us a lovely home for the performing arts in Oxford, Mississippi.” Increasing the Ford Center’s endowment provides some permanent funding for years to come, but much more will be needed. “We are excited about our current capital campaign and the opportunity to honor Chancellor Khayat in this meaningful way,” said Rob Jolly, associate director of development for the Ford Center. “However, the capital campaign is just the beginning. Ongoing private support is crucial to the continued success of the Ford Center. “Future financial support from generous donors, alumni and friends will help ensure that the Ford Center remains the focal point for the performing arts at Ole Miss and the entire region. It is incumbent on everyone touched by Khayat’s vision to commit themselves to continuing that legacy.” To make a gift, visit https://ignite.olemiss.edu/rck. Alumni and friends also can mail a check, with the fund noted in the memo line, to the University of Mississippi Foundation, 406 University Ave., Oxford, MS 38655. For more information, contact Rob Jolly at 662-915-3085 or jolly@olemiss.edu. Filed Under: Featured News, Ford Center for the Performing Arts, News Releases, University of Mississippi Foundation

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University Creates Distinguished Professor Honor Three faculty named inaugural honorees based on research, teaching excellence and reputation May 11, 2018 by Shea Stewart Ikhlas A. Khan, director of the National Center for Natural Products Research and professor of pharmacognosy, has been appointed as a Distinguished Professor at UM. Photo by Kevin Bain/Ole Miss Communications OXFORD, Miss. – Three University of Mississippi faculty members were appointed as Distinguished Professors during the spring faculty meeting Friday (May 11) in Fulton Chapel. The honorees are John Daigle, director of the Center for Wireless Communications and professor of electrical engineering; Donald Dyer, associate dean for faculty and academic affairs in the College of Liberal Arts and professor of Russian and linguistics; and Ikhlas A. Khan, director of the National Center for Natural Products Research and professor of pharmacognosy. The Distinguished Professor is a new designation that recognizes the best faculty with sustained excellence at UM. The award was created in response to the university’s strategic initiative to develop a post-professorial recognition. “I am thrilled that we now have a way to further recognize our most outstanding faculty members,” Provost Noel Wilkin said. “The accomplishments of the university are really the accomplishments of its people. “This is an outstanding way for us to properly acknowledge the value of excellence and the contributions made by these faculty members to their disciplines and our community of scholars.” Daigle joined the faculty in 1994 after earning his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Louisiana Tech University in 1968, his master’s in electrical engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in 1969 and his doctorate of engineering science in operations research from Columbia University in 1977. He was named as an Erskine fellow by the University of Canterbury in New Zealand in 2009, was the 2004 recipient of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Communications Society Technical Committee on Computer Communications Outstanding Service Award and was named an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers fellow in 1993. Daigle also is a member of Eta Kappa Nu, the honor society of the IEEE; Omega Rho, the international honor society for operations research and management science; and Sigma Xi, an international honor society of science and engineering. Donald Dyer, associate dean for faculty and academic affairs in the College of Liberal Arts and professor of Russian and linguistics, has been named a Distinguished Professor. Photo by Kevin Bain/Ole Miss Communications A professor who has recently taught undergraduate and graduate classes such as local area networks and applied probability modeling, Daigle conducts research into the analysis and design of communication networks and systems. “Professor John Daigle has an illustrious career that spans more than 46 years, primarily in academia, but also some years in military and high-tech companies,” wrote Ramanarayanan “Vish” Viswanathan, chair and professor of electrical engineering, in his letter of support to Daigle’s appointment. “Professor Daigle has an exemplary research record and has contributed strongly in teaching, student mentorship and service to (his) profession and the university. “John holds (a) cherished conviction that a student should graduate from the school with sound fundamentals. He also believes that a strong learning ability need not necessarily be gifted at birth or developed in early childhood, but can be acquired through hard work and perseverance. Hence, he advocates greater access to college education and at the same time upholding rigorous requirements for graduation.” Dyer earned his undergraduate degree in Russian from the University of North Carolina in 1980, and his master’s and doctorate in Slavic linguistics from the University of Chicago, in 1982 and 1990, respectively. He joined the Ole Miss faculty in 1988. He served as chair of the Department of Modern Languages from 2005 to 2017 and was awarded the 2017 Thomas F. Frist Sr. Student Service Award, which recognizes a faculty member for going the extra mile in unwavering dedication and service to students. He is the editor of Balkanistica, a peer-reviewed journal of Balkan studies. He has served as co-director of the Chinese Language Flagship Program since 2005 and has taught classes such as Freshman Honors II in the Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College and topics in linguistics. His teaching and research interests include Slavic and Balkan linguistics and language in contact. “There is no doubt in my mind that Dr. Dyer embodies what we in the College of Liberal Arts have determined (via our guidelines) to merit this award,” wrote Lee M. Cohen, dean of the College of Liberal Arts, in his recommendation letter. “Dr. Dyer has made a significant positive impact at the University of Mississippi over the past three decades, all the while making a name for himself as one of the most distinguished scholars in his field. His work is creative, impactful and has a wide range of influence.” John Daigle, director of the Center for Wireless Communications and professor of electrical engineering, is one of three UM faculty members appointed as a Distinguished Professor. Photo by Robert Jordan/Ole Miss Communications “Effusive praise of his work comes from the Department of Modern Languages and across the nation, and it rings loudly throughout the international scholarly community,” wrote Daniel O’Sullivan, UM chair and professor of modern languages, in his letter of support. Khan earned his bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Aligarh Muslim University in India in 1980, a master’s in organic chemistry from Aligarh Muslim University in India in 1982 and his doctorate in pharmacy from the Institute of Pharmaceutical Biology in Germany in 1987. He has been at Ole Miss since 1992, but worked as a postdoctoral research associate at the university in 1988 and 1989. From 1989 to 1992, Khan worked as a postdoctoral research associate at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. He also serves as coordinator for Natural Products Research in the Center for Water and Wetland Resources, among other academic and research appointments. In 2016 Khan received the UM Distinguished Research and Creative Achievement Award, and in 2002 he was awarded the UM School of Pharmacy Faculty Research Award. He is a fellow in the American Institute of Chemists and the Royal Society of Chemistry, and is a member of the American Chemical Society. Earlier this year he received the AOAC International’s 2018 Harvey W. Wiley Award, which recognizes lifetime scientific achievement. His research interests include efforts related to medicinal plants, drug discovery and applications of analytical tools in evaluation of quality and safety of dietary supplements. “Dr. Khan’s career at UM is consistent with the expectations of a Distinguished Professor appointment,” wrote Kristie Willett, chair of the Department of BioMolecular Sciences and professor of pharmacology and environmental toxicology. “He in fact has ‘exemplary accomplishments in research’ and potentially unprecedented amongst UM faculty ‘international recognition in his field.’ “His research productivity and service to the field of pharmacognosy as measured by publications, invited presentations, editorial and advisory boards and international awards are outstanding. Furthermore, he has provided mentorship to nearly 40 graduate students in our department over his career.” The three professors were officially recognized during the spring faculty meeting. No more than 5 percent of eligible faculty can be appointed as a Distinguished Professor. Each school and college has their own guidelines for nominating their faculty, but the university requires that nominated faculty have at least six years of service at the highest rank of professor, along with exemplary accomplishments in research and creative achievement, teaching and service. Also, it is expected that awardees will have achieved a significant degree of national or international recognition. The recommended appointments are made by a committee of faculty chosen by the Faculty Senate and the provost, and the committee has representatives from across campus. Filed Under: College of Liberal Arts, Faculty and Staff News, Featured News, News Releases, Ole Miss News, School of Engineering, School of Pharmacy

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Tagged: westeryear Carousel / In the News / Westeryears / WT Stories Westeryears: The Scandal That Led To Swope Chapel Swope Chapel is a cherished source of past memories for Westminster College. Margaret “Maggie” Christman Swope had been convinced by Rev. John J. Rice, Jr. ’06, the grandson of Nathan L. Rice, first president of Westminster who... Westeryears: The Mustard Seed—”Anything That Isn’t Given Away, They Can Sell.” The First Mustard Seed Group, from the Blue Jay Yearbook 1921 In the early years of Westminster, campus activities had no person in charge, organized plan, or source of financing. Various students who were interested in... Westeryears: Truman’s Commencement Address As the 107 graduates gathered on June 8, 1964, for the outdoor commencement exercises—the largest Westminster graduating class in the school’s history at that time—they had no idea that, rather than the customary sage... Westeryears: Student Conduct in the Early Days of Westminster When the Westminster Board of Trustees met for their June 1860 meeting, they approved a college catalog that among other matters set out rules for expected student conduct. College students today who sometimes feel campus... Westeryears: The Trustee Tragedy Charless House in St. Louis The untimely end of Joseph Charless, Jr. (1804-1859), a prominent St. Louis financier and banker and one of the founding members of the Board of Trustees of Westminster College, is one of the most sensational and... Alumni & Friends / Campus Life / Carousel / Westeryears / WT Stories Westeryears: The World Classroom of the Blue Blazers Investment Committee Blue Blazers Investment Committee 2001 As with any great idea, the concept of the Blue Blazers Investment Committee (BBIC) evolved from a series of circumstances that were connected by one visionary, BBIC founder and advisor Brock... Westeryears: Westminster College’s First President Finding a first President for Westminster College was no easy task. In fact, for the first few years (1851-1855), the faculty took turns being in charge in a weekly rotation. The first choice of the Board of Trustees was... Westeryears: The Lighter Side of Civil War Westminster Featured is the official flag of the Kingdom of Callaway. In 1961, the 100th anniversary of the Kingdom’s foundation, the Callaway County Court signed a court order establishing the official flag of the Kingdom.... Westeryears: Linkletter Said the Darnest Things at Westminster Over 1,000 people gathered in Champ Auditorium on December 5, 1967, to listen to the pioneer of today’s reality television programming, Art Linkletter (1912-2010), lecture on “The Tube and American Manners.” Linkletter, the host of two of the longest-running shows... Westeryears: Early Spiritual Life at Westminster College The Young Men’s Christian Association at Westminster 1895 Because Westminster was strongly rooted in the Presbyterian faith at its conception, the founders were as deeply concerned about the spiritual life of the students as they were...

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Mormon Newsroom 3 October 2019 - Salt Lake City October 2019 General Conference Leadership Meetings Continue Leaders address the use of the correct name of the Church and other topics Instruction to leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints continued Thursday in leadership meetings associated with general conference. Leaders spoke about service, repentance, the new program for children and youth, ministering, the correct use of the name of the Church, temple and family history work, welfare and self-reliance, and the faith’s home-centered, Church-supported model for learning. The following are highlights from their messages to the General Authorities and General Officers of the Church. Noting the importance of the second great commandment to love our neighbor, Acting President of the Quorum of Twelve Apostles M. Russell Ballard said, “Imagine what good our members can do in the world if we all join together, united as followers of Christ, anxiously and busily responding to the needs of others and serving those around us—our families, our friends, our neighbors, our fellow citizens.” “Service to Heavenly Father’s children is another opportunity to follow the example of His Beloved Son. Some service opportunities are formal. Many other opportunities to serve are informal—without assignment—and come as we reach out to our neighbors in life’s journey.” President Ballard spoke of serving others through missionary work, seeking to help those who do not regularly attend our worship services and helping new members feel welcome, participate in worship services and learn more about the gospel of Jesus Christ. President Ballard taught of how service helps develop positive relationships with faith and community leaders and helps others to understand the true nature of the Church and its members. He specifically focused on JustServe.org, a community service initiative to help Church members and our fellow citizens follow the Savior’s admonition to “love thy neighbor as thyself.” After sharing examples of how service blesses members of the Church, missionaries and all of God’s children, he concluded by teaching “service is pure religion, and … can be done right where we live; it doesn’t have to be a long way from home. There are many service opportunities all around us. Testimonies will be strengthened, hearts will be changed and lives will be blessed through loving our neighbor as ourselves.” Drawing from examples in the Holy Bible and Book of Mormon, Elder David A. Bednar of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles taught of the role of repentance in our lives. “Repenting is the first and natural consequence of placing our trust and confidence in the Savior. Described most simply, repentance is turning away from evil and turning to God. As we exercise faith in and on the Lord, we turn toward, come unto and depend upon Him. Thus, repentance is trusting in and relying upon the Redeemer to do for us what we cannot do for ourselves.” Elder Bednar shared three fundamental truths regarding repentance: Repentance requires the Redeemer. “Recognizing and forsaking sin, feeling remorse and making restitution for sin and confessing sins to God and, when needed, to our priesthood leaders, are all necessary and important elements in the repentance process. However, these essential steps do not constitute a mere behavioral checklist we can mechanically, quickly, and casually complete. If we do these things and fail to recognize and depend upon the Redeemer and His atoning sacrifice, then even our best efforts are in vain.” Repentance requires an honest heart and real intent. “As we repent and turn to the Lord, it is important that we are honest with ourselves. We must work to overcome the excuse making, blaming and rationalizing that can divert us from truly turning to the Lord.” Repentance is discipleship. “Sincere repentance is not merely an element of discipleship; rather, repentance is discipleship. Discipleship is established upon the principles of faith in Christ and repentance. Discipleship is nurtured and strengthened in the holy temple.” Children and Youth Program In a presentation by Elder Quentin L. Cook and Elder Ulisses Soares of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles; Sister Bonnie H. Cordon, Young Women general president; Sister Joy D. Jones, Primary general president ; and Brother Stephen W. Owen, Young Men general president leaders were taught of the purposes and focus of the new program for children and youth. Elder Cook said: “Understanding the great capacity of our youth, the Children and Youth Introductory Guide to parents and leaders, includes this invitation from the First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve: ‘The principles taught in this effort for children and youth represent a higher, holier way to encourage the rising generation to follow Jesus Christ and apply His gospel in all areas of their lives. This major effort will include gospel learning, the privilege of service, personal development, and exciting activities. This effort starts at home. Parents have a sacred responsibility to teach their children in light and truth. Church leaders offer valuable support and guidance to children, youth, and their families.’ Sister Jones spoke of the new efforts to support children and youth. “This initiative begins to build an important gospel pattern and foundation for children as they enter the covenant path through baptism,” she said. “Primary children grow up to be young women and young men. We love the opportunity that is being given to children beginning in the year they turn 8 years old to start to intentionally follow the Savior. The central objective of this effort is to help children and youth bring the Savior into all aspects of their lives on the Sabbath and throughout the week.” “Brothers and sisters, wonderful things are happening to bless and strengthen the children and youth,” said Elder Soares. “The Lord is truly raising up a generation to accomplish His work today.” Elder Cook concluded the presentation by sharing that the vision of these efforts“is to strengthen the rising generation’s faith in Jesus Christ, and to help children, youth and their families progress along the covenant path as they meet life’s challenges. As we do so, our children and youth will: Know their eternal identity and purpose. Deepen their conversion to Jesus Christ, getting His gospel into their hearts and inspiring them to choose to follow Him. Fulfill Aaronic Priesthood duties. Participate together in the work of salvation. Develop personally with parental support and leaders assisting as needed. Be worthy to attend the temple and have enduring joy on the covenant path.” The topic of ministering was a significant theme in the meetings, with instruction provided by Elder Dieter F. Uchtdorf and Elder Ronald A. Rasband of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles; Elder Robert C. Gay and Elder Michael T. Ringwood of the Seventy; Sister Jean B. Bingham, Relief Society general president; and Sister Cristina B. Franco, second counselor in the Primary general presidency. The instruction focused on how ministering to those in the Church, through elders quorums and Relief Societies, and those not of our faith, through the members and missionaries, can bless the lives of all. “While good things are happening, we can and must do better,” Elder Rasband said. “We need to take seriously the inspired counsel of our prophet and refocus our efforts to improve ministering interviews.” Sister Bingham further explained: “We’ve had reconfirmed over the last year and a half that the ministering done by ministering brothers and sisters is only one-half of the equation. The other half is the ministering done by presidency members as they hold interviews. That ministering looks like encouraging, listening and sharing spiritual impressions, instructing when needed and expressing the love of the Savior.” Elder Uchtdorf spoke of ministering as missionaries and members. “Brothers and sisters, we need to find, teach, baptize and make disciples. It does not need to be complicated, but we need to be courageous enough to invite people to come and see and come and help, and eventually they will come and stay!” Sister Franco taught that our goal is to invite “all to become part of this great work — those active in the faith, those on the sidelines and those who know not yet the blessings of the restored gospel. Taking the excitement of the gospel to our friends and neighbors, both inside and outside of the Church, is the practical application of the Savior’s admonition to let our light shine before men, and not to cover it with a bushel.” Use of the Correct Name of the Church Elder D. Todd Christofferson and Elder Gerrit W. Gong of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles; and Sister Lisa L. Harkness, first counselor in the Primary general presidency, spoke of the great progress that has been made in recent months to follow the counsel of President Russell M. Nelson to use the correct and full name of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. For example, Elder Christofferson shared that: 95% of outward-facing references to the Church have been corrected. Over 800 new domain names – in many languages and countries – have been acquired to replace incorrect references to the Church. 90% of all public Church entities and products that previously included the term “Mormon” or the acronym “LDS” have been updated. Mormon.org and associated social media channels have been changed to ComeUntoChrist.org. 93% of work on technology systems has been completed to use the new domain name: ChurchofJesusChrist.org Sister Harkness shared examples from the lives of members who are seeking to use the correct name of the Church in their interactions with others, including a young boy from Denver, Colorado, who invited friends and neighbors to his baptism. “Three of his neighbors attended, including a minister of another faith. When asked after the baptism, the minister and his wife said they never would have come to a ‘Mormon’ church baptism. But because it was a baptism into a church focused on Christ, the minister attended.” Elder Gong reminded those in attendance to “remember this is not a name change or a rebranding. It is a course correction. Of course, we want members and friends to refer to the Lord’s Church by its proper name. But, even more fundamentally, we desire to acknowledge the Lord Jesus Christ in our lives – and invite all to come unto Him. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints--the revealed name of His restored Church— is itself a testimony of our Savior.” Home-centered, Church-supported Model for Learning At the conclusion of the leadership meetings, Elder Jeffrey R. Holland, of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles; Brother Mark L. Pace, Sunday School general president; and Sister Michelle Craig, first counselor in the Young Women general presidency, reflected on the many changes in the Church that are intended to create greater strength in the home. “Whatever the issue or initiative a lot of work lies between an announcement and an accomplishment. We have had a wonderful series of announcements by the President of the Church himself on a home-centered, Church-supported model for learning doctrine, strengthening faith and fostering greater personal experience in Sabbath worship and living the gospel daily.” Sister Craig said “families are blessed when they act in faith. Families all over the world are being blessed as a prophet has promised us as they study the gospel together at home.” “Families are—in a more significant way—studying the scriptures. It’s bringing the blessing of conversion,” said Brother Pace. In a discussion led by Elder Holland, several leaders from around the world shared their experiences and observations about how these changes to a home-centered, Church supported model are blessing families at home, at church and in their communities. Elder Holland concluded, “This is the other half of the much-discussed and very popular reduction in the Sunday schedule. I invite each of us to consider how we can better follow this model in our own lives.” Other presentations included instruction from Elder Gary E. Stevenson and Elder Dale G. Renlund of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles; and Sister Reyna I. Aburto, second counselor in the Relief Society general presidency, about temple and family history work. The Presiding Bishopric and Sister Jean B. Bingham, Relief Society general president, gave instruction on welfare and self-reliance. People from around the world are invited to join the upcoming five sessions of the 189th Semiannual General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints that begin Saturday, October 5, at 10:00 a.m. mountain daylight time and concludes Sunday. The conference will include inspirational messages and music centered on the gospel of Jesus Christ. Options for viewing or listening to the conference can be found at ChurchofJesusChrist.org. Temple and Family History Work “The need has never been greater than now to personally partake of the joy of the temple to protect our families and prepare them for eternal life,” said Elder Stevenson. Elder Stevenson—joined by Elder Renlund and Sister Aburto—taught of the power of temples to unite families and gather Israel on both sides of the veil. Elder Renlund shared the story of a woman from Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, who was sent away by her father to live with relatives after she joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Many years later, while working in the temple, she learned that her father had also joined the Church and was in the temple that day. He said, “Tears flowed freely as daddy and daughter reconciled and their relationship was healed in that sacred house of God. Don’t all families need miracles?” Elder Renlund then taught of the power of involving new converts and children over the age of 11 in temple and family history work. Sister Aburto taught of the roles that leaders and members in a congregation can play in strengthening and furthering temple and family history work, and she demonstrated some of the technology that is available to members and friends in the FamilyTree app or on familysearch.org. “Imagine ministering brothers and sisters doing these activities in the homes of Church members showing them how they can share these meaningful activities with their family and friends.” Welfare and Self-Reliance The Presiding Bishopric and Sister Bingham gave instruction on welfare and self-reliance. “The ultimate purpose of welfare and self-reliance efforts is to follow the two great commandments,” said Presiding Bishop Gérald Caussé. “We do so as we reach out to provide compassionate relief, but always with an eye toward helping those we serve to lift themselves to greater temporal and spiritual self-reliance. When ministering is carried out in this balanced way—the Lord’s way—both givers and receivers are uplifted and blessed.” Illustrating with the parable of the good Samaritan, Bishop Dean M. Davies said, “Imagine the good and successful outcomes that can occur as Church leaders and members, particularly ministering sisters and brothers, learn to have eyes to see—which includes both eyes to discern the temporal needs of those whom they serve as well as the spiritual and understanding eyes to envision their potential to walk on their own two feet.” Bishop W. Christopher Waddell spoke of the ancient law of the fast and its capacity to bless both the giver and receiver. “The Lord promises to pour out His blessings upon all who obey the law of the fast. Hence, fasting and the donation of fast offerings—like tithing—actually becomes a means through which faithful members can be lifted out of a position of want and eventually into a position of self-reliance.” “For those of us who have responsibility to administer the welfare and self-reliance efforts of the Church, our role is to support leaders and members by providing resources that will enhance their ability to minister to temporal needs and strengthen self-reliance,” Sister Bingham taught. October 2019 General Conference News and Announcements Previous Article  General Conference Leadership Meetings Begin Next Article Leadership Changes Announced at October 2019 General Conference

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The OFFICE Featured in Victoria Advocate Hello Member Login Ben Galvan brought a Texas metropolitan developer to the three-story CivilCorp building to ask what he should do with an empty 25,000-square-foot space on the second floor. The developer answered with two words: “Google co-working.” Galvan, president of engineering company CivilCorp, started researching the idea. About a year later, he opened the first co-working space in Victoria on Jan. 3: The Office at CivilCorp. The space is designed for entrepreneurs, freelancers, designers, startups or anyone who wants to collaborate with others in a professional open office space, Galvan said. “It’s a new trend that is happening in the bigger cities,” he said. “I thought it would be something cool to have in Victoria.” Clients of business owners who rent the office space will be greeted by a virtual receptionist, a touch screen that will ring the cellphones of the long-term tenants using the space. The receptionist space is complemented by a painting of iconic Crossroads buildings done by Roger Salazar, a CivilCorp technician, and a lobby with a modern feel. Office space can be rented by the day, week or month. Executive offices can only be rented for a minimum of six months at a time. The space offers free Wi-Fi and printing for everyone and lockers for long-term tenants. “Synergy: If you’re sitting in your living room confined to your space, I think you’ll get a whole lot more out of a work environment where you can bounce ideas off of other people,” Galvan said. “It’s really a millennial idea.” The space offers 14 open desks, three offices and one conference room. Large windows in the space overlook the Club at Colony Creek golf course. A kitchenette and free coffee are also provided. Eddys Velasquez, 25, Brain Bank Media owner, was the first tenant to use the space Wednesday. The company offers marketing and advertising strategies to businesses to increase the flow of customers. Velasquez usually works from his home, he said. “That’s one of the reasons I came to the office, just trying to get out of the house environment,” he said. “This is a way to get away from the distractions. At the house, I have my sisters and grandmother.” Velasquez found the space on Craigslist by searching for open office spaces in Victoria on Google. Through the space, Velasquez might be able to meet other people with similar businesses, which could spur new ideas for his business, he said. “This would be a great place for anyone who is looking to focus or anyone looking for a community” he said. “Sometimes, in a lot of our types of businesses, we work by ourselves. Coming to a place like this, you probably have all types of different people: graphics, design people, marketing people.” In a space like The Office at Civil Corp, people who are starting their businesses can meet people who will help them along the way, Velasquez said. Co-working spaces are unusual for mid-sized cities like Victoria and more common in large metropolitan areas, said Dale Fowler, Victoria Economic Development Corporation president. “In a small market like ours, with some of the work that is being done by Victoria College and UHV and their degree plans in technology as well as entrepreneurship, the timing may be just right for Victoria,” he said. The space could become a model for other mid-sized cities, Fowler said. “Hopefully, starting businesses will spin off from that space and develop their companies to become larger,” he said. “This gives someone an opportunity to start small. As they become more successful and grow their business, they can move on to larger spaces.” The concept of co-working is different, said Joe Humphreys, University of Houston-Victoria Small Business Development Center director. “As a (baby) boomer, boomers are so traditional in their thinking, and this is so non-traditional,” he said. This gives business owners who operate out of their homes the opportunity to have a professional space to meet clients without a long-term commitment, Humphreys said. “This is almost like a virtual office where they can have an address, they can have this location that they can work out of, but it doesn’t cost too much,” he said. “It really gives a startup or a small business real opportunities.” Read full article: ​https://www.victoriaadvocate.com/news/2017/jan/08/first-co-working-space-opens-in-victoria/ By The Office at CivilCorp|February 19th, 2019|The Ofiice|0 Comments 4611 E. AIRLINE RD. STE: 202 VICTORIA, TX 77904 Proudly Serving Victoria, Texas and Surrounding Communities

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Broncos fire OC Scangarello, reportedly will hire Shurmur Field Level Media The Denver Broncos fired offensive coordinator Rich Scangarello, the team announced Sunday. According to multiple reports shortly after the news was announced, the Broncos are expected to hire former New York Giants head coach Pat Shurmur to fill the vacancy. The 2019 season was Scangarello's only season as offensive coordinator. The 47-year-old spent the previous two seasons as quarterbacks coach of the San Francisco 49ers before joining the Broncos. "After a lot of consideration and discussion after the season, I determined that a change at offensive coordinator ultimately would be best for our team," Denver coach Vic Fangio said in a statement. "We need to do everything we can to get better -- in all areas -- as we start working toward next year. "Rich is a bright coach with a great future ahead of him. I appreciate all of his hard work and thank him for his contributions to the Broncos." Denver ranked 28th in the NFL in both scoring offense (17.6) and total offense (298.6) in 2019. The Broncos used three starting quarterbacks in Joe Flacco, Brandon Allen and Drew Lock. Denver (7-9) went 4-1 with Lock as the starter to close the season during Fangio's first campaign as coach. Shurmur would be the fifth in five seasons for the Broncos, with Scangarello following Bill Musgrave, Mike McCoy and Rick Dennison. He was fired by the Giants on Dec. 30 after going 9-23 in two seasons as head coach. The 54-year-old has also been a head coach for Cleveland (2011-12) and an offensive coordinator for the then-St. Louis Rams (2009-10), Philadelphia (2013-15) and Minnesota (2016-17), where he helped Case Keenum have a career year in 2017. According to 9News Denver, Shurmur has three years and about $18 million remaining on his contract with the Giants, and the Broncos will only pay the offset. --Field Level Media

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slick propaganda for "no plane" hoax Context: released just before 2004 Presidential "election" Misrepresents eyewitness testimony (claims people who said they saw the plane supposedly saw a missile) Misrepresents Physical evidence (falsely claims "small hole" which is not true) Used as Straw Man by Media to Debunk 9/11 Truth Pentagon Strike is a film released in late summer 2004 that promotes the "no plane hit Pentagon" hoax A video clip that was posted to numerous sites in late summer 2004 supposedly documents the "no plane" at the Pentagon claims. It was released shortly after "In Plane Site" -- but only focuses on the "no plane at Pentagon" hoax. It is probable that "Pentagon Strike" was the sequel to "Plane Site," since "Plane Site" had so many crackpot claims in it that it encountered considerable opposition in its effort to redefine 9/11. Pentagon Strike is focused solely on the "no plane at Pentagon" hoax, which unfortunately has been treated more seriously. This film is slick propaganda that avoids most of the real evidence, flashes quickly from point to point, distracts the viewer with rock music (perhaps a type of "bait" to snare youthful web surfers?), and would not qualify as forensic evidence in any courtroom. It is a form of "disinfotainment." Pentagon Strike is only a couple minutes long, and a couple megabytes in size - easily downloadable, even without high speed internet. It has been hosted on countless websites. Pentagon Strike has been much more effective at spreading disinformation than In Plane Site. The Washington Post's review of this film was very effective at discrediting 9/11 truth issues in the national capital area a month before the pseudo-election of 2004. misrepresents eyewitness testimonies Pentagon Strike superimposed quotes from eyewitnesses (some of them out of context) in a black stripe over a photo of the impact zone - the stripe obscures the view that shows the full extent of the damage caused by the plane. "Pentagon Strike" implies that the eyewitnesses did not see American Airlines Flight 77. These eyewitness reports (from various media sources) were used selectively in this "film" to imply that they saw a missile - when the full quote clearly states they saw the plane. Many people who had a good view of the plane were surprised that the aftermath did not leave large pieces of the plane (although many, many small pieces were scattered widely). The RED TEXT shows the section that was used by Pentagon Strike. “I was going up Interstate 395, up Washington Boulevard, listening to the radio, to the news, to WTOP, and from my left side, I don’t know whether I saw or heard it first -- this silver plane; I immediately recognized it as an American Airlines jet,” said the 25-year-old O’Keefe, managing editor of Influence, an American Lawyer Media publication about lobbying. “It came swooping in over the highway, over my left shoulder, straight across where my car was heading. I’d just heard them saying on the radio that National Airport was closing, and I thought, ‘That’s not going to make it to National Airport.’ And then I realized where I was, and that it was going to hit the Pentagon. There was a burst of orange flame that shot out that I could see through the highway overpass. Then it was just black. Just black thick smoke. The eeriest thing about it, was that it was like you were watching a movie. There was no huge explosion, no huge rumbling on ground, it just went ‘pfff.’ It wasn’t what I would have expected for a plane that was not much more than a football field away from me.The first thing I did was pull over onto the shoulder, and when I got out of the car I saw another plane flying over my head, and it scared ...me, because I knew there had been two planes that hit the World Trade Center. And I started jogging up the ramp to get as far away as possible. Then the plane -- it looked like a C-130 cargo plane -- started turning away from the Pentagon, it did a complete turnaround. - John O'Keefe "I was right underneath the plane." "I heard a plane. I saw it. I saw debris flying. I guess it was hitting light poles," said Milburn. "It was like a WHOOOSH whoosh, then there was fire and smoke, then I heard a second explosion." - Kirk Milburn Michael DiPaula 41, project coordinator Pentagon Renovation Team - He left a meeting in the Pentagon just minutes before the crash, looking for an electrician who didn't show, in a construction trailer less than 75 feet away. "Suddenly, an airplane roared into view, nearly shearing the roof off the trailer before slamming into the E ring. 'It sounded like a missile,' DiPaula recalls . . . Buried in debris and covered with airplane fuel, he was briefly listed by authorities as missing, but eventually crawled from the flaming debris and the shroud of black smoke unscathed. http://www.sunspot.net/search/bal-archive-1990.htmlstory As I came up along the Pentagon I saw helicopters. That's not strange. It's the Pentagon. Then I saw the plane. There were only a few cars on the road, we all stopped. I know I wanted to believe that plane was making a low descent into National Airport, but it was nearly on the road. And it was headed straight for the building. It made no sense. The pilot didn't seem to be planning to pull up anytime soon. It was there. A huge jet. Then it was gone. A massive hole in the side of the Pentagon gushed smoke. The noise was beyond description. ... I called my boss. I had no memory of how to work my cellphone. I hit redial and his number came up. "Something hit the Pentagon. It must have been a helicopter." I knew that wasn't true, but I heard myself say it. I heard myself believe it, if only for a minute. "Buildings don't eat planes. That plane, it just vanished. There should have been parts on the ground. It should have rained parts on my car. The airplane didn't crash. Where are the parts?" That's the conversation I had with myself on the way to work. It made sense this morning. I swear that it did. ... There seems to be no footage of the crash, only the site. The gash in the building looks so small on TV. The massiveness of the structure lost in the tight shots of the fire. There was a plane. It didn't go over the building. It went into the building. I want them to find it whole, wedged between floors or something. I know that isn't going to happen, but right now I pretend. I want to see footage of the crash. I want to make it make sense. I want to know why there's this gap in my memory, this gap that makes it seem as though the plane simply became invisible and banked up at the very last minute, but I don't think that's going to happen. - "skarlet" I was at a complete stop on the road in front of the helipad at the Pentagon; what I had thought would be a shortcut was as slow as the other routes I had taken that morning. I looked idly out my window to the left -- and saw a plane flying so low I said, “holy cow, that plane is going to hit my car” (not my actual words). The car shook as the plane flew over. It was so close that I could read the numbers under the wing. And then the plane crashed. My mind could not comprehend what had happened. Where did the plane go? For some reason I expected it to bounce off the Pentagon wall in pieces. But there was no plane visible, only huge billows of smoke and torrents of fire. -- Christine Peterson misrepresents the physical evidence lots of photos and background information at www.oilempire.us/pentagon-hole.html and www.oilempire.us/pentagon-photos.html www.questionsquestions.net/blog/041116walter.html Jimmy Walter (reopen911.org): A sugar daddy with poison pills ... the ground-level entry area (where the walls were missing and support columns were missing or severely damaged and severed) was about 90 feet wide. Only the second floor area of the hole was small. Both In Plane Site and the Pentagon Strike web movie disingenuously use selective photos in which the 90-foot ground level hole is hidden behind smoke & water being sprayed by a firetruck, and it isn't even mentioned. But note that not all Pentagon no-757 advocates hide the real proportions of the hole in this way, which makes this misprepresentation even more egregious. there IS wreckage, not on the lawn (another example of deceptive, selective choice of photographs) but all over the South parking lot and part of the Heliport (easily visible in the photos taken by Steve Riskus), which were in fact closer to the impact point than the area of lawn that is shown (severe telephoto foreshortening illusion makes the lawn area look close to the building). Sure, one might attempt to debate whether the existing debris field is consistent with an airliner impact, but not acknowledging its existence at all (or the existence of the ground-level 90 foot entry hole) as is the case with In Plane Site and Pentagon Strike, only serves to make 911 skeptics look like conniving liars. Washington Post - October 2004 used "Pentagon Strike" to discredit 9/11 truth note how this article "sandwiches" mention of David Ray Griffin's book in-between discussions of alien abduction and communication with beings in other dimensions - a great way to discredit "New Pearl Harbor" a month before the Kerry/Bush "election" - note also that the Post implied that the "no plane" claim was the only issue mentioned in New Pearl Harbor - when it was only a small part of the book (the rest of the book is excellent and highly recommended) A website that critiques the "casseopeia" group is www.cassiopaeacult.com/who-are-the-cassiopaeans/ www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13059-2004Oct6.htmlD Conspiracy Theories Flourish on the Internet By Carol Morello Thursday, October 7, 2004; Page B01 Working from his home office in a small town in England, Darren Williams spent four weeks this summer making a short but startling video that raises novel questions about the 2001 attack on the Pentagon. The video, "9/11: Pentagon Strike," suggests that it was not American Airlines Flight 77 that slammed into the Pentagon, but a missile or a small plane. With rock music as a backdrop, the video offers flashes of photographs taken shortly after impact, interspersed with witness accounts. The pictures seem incompatible with damage caused by a jumbo jet, and no one mentions seeing one. Red arrows point to unbroken windows in the burning building. Firefighters stand outside a perfectly round hole in a Pentagon wall where the Boeing 757 punched through; it is less than 20 feet in diameter. Propelled by word of mouth, Internet search engines and e-mail, the video has been downloaded by millions of people around the world. American history is rife with conspiracy theories. Extremists have fed rumors of secret plots by Masons, bankers, Catholics and Communists. But now urban legends have become cyberlegends, and suspicions speed their way globally not over months and weeks but within days and hours on the Web. "The dissemination is almost immediate," said Doug Thomas, a University of Southern California communications professor who teaches classes on technology and subgroups. "It's not just one Web site saying, 'Hey, look at this.' It's 10,000 people sending e-mails to 10 friends, and then they send it on." The Pentagon video could be a case study. Williams created a Web site for the video, www.pentagonstrike.co.uk. Then he e-mailed a copy to Laura Knight-Jadczyk, an American author living in France whose books include one on alien abduction. Williams, 31, a systems analyst, belongs to an online group hosted by Knight-Jadczyk that blends discussions of science, politics and the paranormal. On Aug. 23, Knight-Jadczyk posted a link to the video on the group's Web site, www.Cassiopaea.org. Within 36 hours, Williams's site collapsed under the crush of tens of thousands of visitors. But there were others to fill the void. In Texas, a former casino worker who downloaded the video began drawing almost 700,000 visitors a day to his libertarian site. In Louisiana, a young Navy specialist put the video on his personal Web page, usually visited by a few friends and relatives; suddenly, the site was inundated by more than 20,000 hits. In Alberta, traffic to a cabdriver's site shot up more than sixfold after he supplied a link to the video. Across thousands of sites, demand for the video was so great that some webmasters solicited donations to pay for the extra bandwidth. "Pentagon Strike" is just the latest and flashiest example of a growing number of Web sites, books and videos contending that something other than a commercial airliner hit the Pentagon. Most make their case through the selective use of photographs and eyewitness accounts reported during the confusion of the first hours after the attack. They say they don't know what really happened to American Airlines Flight 77 and don't offer other explanations. The doubters say they are just asking questions that have not been answered satisfactorily. The ready and growing audience for conspiracy theories about the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks has been particularly galling to those who worked on the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, the bipartisan panel known as the 9/11 commission. "We discussed the theories," said Philip D. Zelikow, the commission's executive director. "When we wrote the report, we were also careful not to answer all the theories. It's like playing Whack-A-Mole. You're never going to whack them all. They satisfy a deep need in the people who create them. What we tried to do instead was to affirmatively tell what was true and tell it adding a lot of critical details that we knew would help dispel concerns." Conspiracy theories are common after traumatic events. Michael Barkun, a political scientist at Syracuse University who has written books on the culture of conspiracies, said contradictory and inconclusive eyewitness accounts often leave room for different interpretations of events. "Conspiracy theories are one way to make sense of what happened and regain a sense of control," Barkun said. "Of course, they're usually wrong, but they're psychologically reassuring. Because what they say is that everything is connected, nothing happens by accident, and that there is some kind of order in the world, even if it's produced by evil forces. I think psychologically, it's in a way consoling to a lot of people." The belief that the government is lying about the Sept. 11 attacks is coming from both the right and the left. Experts say more than suspicion of the Bush administration is at work. "It seems that since the end of the Cold War, the enemy is the United States government, the enemy is within," said Rick Ross, whose Ross Institute of New Jersey monitors cults and other controversial groups, many of which see manipulative forces working behind the scenes. "Instead of projecting conspiracy theories out, it's become internalized." Zelikow, for example, lacks credibility with many who question the work of the 9/11 commission because he wrote a book with national security adviser Condoleezza Rice. He believes that it is futile to discuss evidence with people convinced of a conspiracy. "The hardcore conspiracy theorists are totally committed," Zelikow said. "They'd have to repudiate much of their life identity in order not to accept some of that stuff. That's not our worry. Our worry is when things become infectious, as happened with the [John F. Kennedy] assassination. Then this stuff can be deeply corrosive to public understanding. You can get where the bacteria can sicken the larger body." David Ray Griffin considers himself an unlikely recruit to what is called the "9/11 Truth Movement." The retired theologian, who taught religion for three decades at Claremont School of Theology, initially dismissed the notion that it was not an airliner that hit the Pentagon. But after visiting several Internet sites raising questions about the attack, he ended up writing a book. "The New Pearl Harbor," published in the spring, argues that a Boeing 757 would have caused far more damage and left more wreckage strewn around the Pentagon. "There are reasons why people doubt the official story," he said. "There are photographs taken, and there is no Boeing in sight." Suspicions formed as the Pentagon still smoldered. For 2 1/2 years, the attack on the Pentagon has been discussed and researched by members of Knight-Jadczyk's online group, the Quantum Future School. The group's talks formed the basis for articles in which Knight-Jadczyk argues that after the attack on the World Trade Center, eyewitnesses at the Pentagon were predisposed to see a large airliner. She believes that the Pentagon was attacked by a smaller plane and that members of the Bush administration were somehow complicit because it was beneficial for war-profiteers and Israel. Interviewed by telephone from what she said is a 17-bedroom castle outside Toulouse, where she lives with her Polish physicist husband and five children, Knight-Jadczyk acknowledged that her group is considered "fringe."Knight-Jadczyk, 52, a Florida native, has been a psychic and a channeler. She is now involved in experiments in what she calls "superluminal communication," which she described as involving "time loops" that would enable people to communicate with their former selves. Knight-Jadczyk said she never imagined anyone outside her group would ever view "Pentagon Strike." "The fact everybody's been sending it to his brother and his cousin, almost frenetically, reflects the fact that there is a deep unease," she said. "They don't come out and say it. They don't want to be accused of being with terrorists, anti-American or anti-patriotic. But they still feel something's wrong." Bret Dean of Fort Worth said he considers it "baloney" to question whether a plane hit the Pentagon. But he also believes that the government ignored warning of the attacks. After posting a link to the video on his libertarian site, www.freedomunderground.org, Dean recorded more than 8 million hits. At least one came from inside the Defense Department, he said. "I don't think the video is an instigator," said Dean, 45, a former casino worker. "It's a symptom. A lot of people don't trust the government's explanation because the government's classified all the information." Asked if there were unreleased photographs of the attack that would convince the doubters, Zelikow, of the 9/11 commission, said, "No." "The question of whether American 77 hit the Pentagon is indisputable," Zelikow said. "One reason you tend to doubt conspiracy theories when you've worked in government is because you know government is not nearly competent enough to carry off elaborate theories. It's a banal explanation, but imagine how efficient it would need to be."

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You are here: Home / Archives for Steve King Newt’s immigration stand “makes it harder” to back him, King says November 23, 2011 by O.Kay Henderson Iowa Congressman Steve King says the immigration stand Newt Gingrich articulated in last night’s debate is a problem for Gingrich. Gingrich said his proposal was the “humane” way to deal with the problem, by giving some illegal immigrants who’ve lived here for years a pathway to legal status. “I think if Speaker Gingrich had that to do over again he might couch his language differently, at a minimum,” King says. “…It is a form of amnesty.” King says this “makes it harder” to support Gingrich. “That piece is something that concerns me because the rule of law is one of the essential pillars of American exceptionalism and if we let the rule of law be eroded and we allow people to be rewarded for breaking the law and by the way these people probably had false identification; they were working illegally; they maybe just didn’t get arrested in a quarter of a century, so I think that principle of the rule of law needs to be examined and I’d like to hear Speaker Gingrich speak to that.” When pressed, King said those remarks last night “had moved a little bit away” from Gingrich. King said all the candidates have “something to offer,” and he “hopes” to publicly endorse a candidate before the caucuses. King made his comments during taping of “Iowa Press” which airs tonight Friday at 7:30 p.m. on Iowa Public Television. Filed Under: Iowa Caucuses, Politics Tagged With: Newt Gingrich, Steve King King’s aide endorses Santorum November 7, 2011 by O.Kay Henderson Chuck Laudner, former executive director of the Iowa GOP in 2007-08 and a long-time aide to Congressman Steve King, has endorsed Rick Santorum. Urbandale, IA – Former Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA) announced today that his campaign has received the endorsement of leading Iowa conservative Chuck Launder. Laudner will work with the Santorum campaign to organize its grassroots efforts throughout Iowa. Chuck Laudner said: “Senator Santorum has been a consistent, conservative leader – not just in good times, but when the times have been tough. Senator Santorum has stood tall for faith, family, and the freedoms Iowans care deeply about. He has also worked tirelessly to earn the votes of Iowa Republicans and has shown a true commitment to grassroots organizing and retail politics that Iowans demand. Senator Santorum stands out from the pack as the most accomplished, best equipped, and best prepared to not just take on President Obama, but lead the nation. I am excited about the opportunity to work with the Santorum campaign and elect Rick Santorum the next President of the United States.” Senator Santorum said: “I am thrilled to have Chuck’s endorsement. Chuck has been a leading voice for the Republican Party in Iowa and for conservative values. Chuck was an influential leader in the campaign to unseat Supreme Court justices that took it upon themselves to redefine marriage, and he has been a loyal and trusted counselor to one of our nation’s brightest conservative stars in Congress – Steve King – which speaks volumes for Chuck’s ability and principles. I am greatly looking forward to working with Chuck as we work toward victory in the Iowa Caucuses.” Chuck Laudner is a well-respected and well-known Iowa conservative leader. Laudner has served as Executive Director of the Republican Party of Iowa, as well as Chief of Staff to Congressman Steve King (R-IA). During the 2010 election cycle, Laudner was campaign manager for Iowa for Freedom, the successful campaign to unseat three Iowa Supreme Court justices who took it upon themselves to redefine marriage in Iowa. Filed Under: Iowa Caucuses, Politics Tagged With: Rick Santorum, Steve King Christie not “feeling it” about 2012 field (audio) July 25, 2011 by O.Kay Henderson New Jersey Governor Chris Christie just told a small group of reporters in Des Moines he may endorse a 2012 Republican presidential candidate. “If someone has distinguished themselves in a way on the issues that I care about, that if I feel enthusiastic enough to endorse them, I will. Now, as was alluded to in one of the earlier questions, I’m not a half-way kind of guy, so if I’m going to get in and support someone I’m going to do it 100 percent and to get there, I have to feel that way about one of the people offering themselves for president and so if that moment comes, I certainly won’t keep it a secret, but I certainly am under no legal obligation to endorse anybody,” he said. “….If I felt it right now, I’d endorse somebody. I don’t.” AUDIO: Full exchange about the presidential race, which starts at the 11-minute mark. Christie was in Des Moines to give a speech at Governor Branstad’s Education Summit. He’s headlining a fundraiser this evening for Congressman Steve King. Twice during the news conference Christie said he had come to Iowa at Governor Branstad’s invitation rather than his own initiative. Christie was asked if he had gotten any encouragement “during your short trip here” that would make him change his own mind about running for president in 2012. “I don’t think there’s anything in particular that has happened since I landed here,” Christie paused to look at his watch, “about an hour and a half ago.” He was also asked about 2016. At the start of the news conference, Christie was asked about a lawsuit seeking documents about a meeting he had with Roger Ailes. Here is Christie’s answer: “I hear they’re dropping it now because we had no documents of communication between myself and Roger Ailes. The only document we had was an entry in my calendar about a dinner that I went to at Mr. Ailes’ home, which everybody already knew about, which Mr. Ailes had confirmed on the record. We’ve provided that calendar entry to the media organization that asked for it and told them that there are no other documents between me and Mr. Ailes at all and so my understanding is now from my staff is that they’ve been contacted and told that the suit is going to be dropped.” Filed Under: Iowa Caucuses, Politics Tagged With: Chris Christie, Steve King, Terry Branstad Iowa congressional delegation statements re: bin Laden May 2, 2011 by O.Kay Henderson Four Iowa congressmen issued statements shortly after President Obama announced the world’s most-wanted man had been killed in a U.S. military operation. Waterloo, IA — Today, Congressman Bruce Braley (IA-01) released the following statement after the announcement of Osama Bin Laden’s death: “Today the world is a safer place. Tonight’s announcement that Osama Bin Laden has been killed by U.S. forces is good news for all Americans. Nearly ten years after his cowardly attacks on innocent Americans and citizens of the world, and on the eighth anniversary of declaring “Mission Accomplished,” we can finally close a tragic chapter in our nation’s history. Our troops have made tremendous sacrifices, with many lives lost and many changed forever, and we must never forget the real cost of this war on terror.” Des Moines, IA – Congressman Leonard Boswell released the following statement after President Obama announced the death of Osama bin Laden. “After hearing the news of Osama bin Laden’s death tonight, I immediately thought of our men and women in uniform who have bravely fought al Qaeda forces in the pursuit of the man responsible for attacking our nation on September 11, 2001,” said Congressman Leonard Boswell, who recently returned from a congressional trip to Afghanistan. “President Obama and our military leaders should be commended for their steadfast commitment to pursuing Osama bin Laden and his followers. I look forward to joining Iowa’s military families in welcoming our brave troops as they return home.” WASHINTGON, DC- Congressman Loebsack issued the following statement after President Obama’s announcement that Osama Bin Laden has been confirmed dead. “Tonight’s announcement is a testament to the men and women of our armed forces’ and intelligence community’s commitment to tracking down the man responsible for the death of thousands of innocent Americans. Tonight stands as a profound chapter in our nation’s fight against those who work every day to do harm to the American people. Even as we mark this day, however, we must remain vigilant – the threat against the American people remains and there are those who may seek revenge. The safety of our nation is paramount. Having just travelled to Islamabad to discuss critical counter-terrorism issues, and as a member of the House Armed Services Committee, I will continue to work to ensure the security of our nation.” WASHINGTON, DC – Iowa Congressman Tom Latham issued the following statement after President Obama announced that Osama bin Laden had been killed: “The reign of a ruthless killer has been brought to an end. The death of Osama bin Laden is welcome news for America and her allies around the globe. We owe a debt of gratitude to the military and intelligence officials who carried out this operation. This is a critical victory for the cause of freedom and liberty. God bless the victims of the September 11 terrorist attacks, and God bless the United States of America.” Neither of Iowa’s U.S. Senators issued statements Sunday evening, nor did Congressman Steve King. Filed Under: Congress, Politics Tagged With: bin Laden, Bruce Braley, David Loebsack, Leonard Boswell, Obama, Osama bin Laden, Steve King, Tom Latham AUDIO: Christie Vilsack talks about campaign Former Iowa First Lady Christie Vilsack just called into the Radio Iowa newsroom to ahve a conversation with me about running for congress. Listen: Christievilsack (mp3 runs about 9 minutes). Here’s Vilsack’s answer to a question about the voter registration edge in the district (GOP has the edge in the new fourth district): “I looked at the numbers and they were pretty much the same as when Tom ran for governor all across Iowa and I think it’s a winnable district. Everybody I’ve talked to and all the people who are working with me think it’s a winnable district and I think it’s the most winnable district for me. I am a small town person and this is a district of small towns flanked by two or three really good-sized Iowa cities and I just think, all things considered, I thought it was the best district and I’m in it to run. I’m in it to win and if I decide to get to get in it, when the time comes after my exploration is done, then I’m going to go for it and I think this is the best place to win.” I’ll be back with more from the interview, including Vilsack’s response to Governor Branstad’s “fish out of water” assertion and her own husband’s characterization of a Christie Vilsack versus Steve King match-up as a “holy war.” UPDATE: Here’s the Radio Iowa story. From that story: On her husband’s “holy war” statement: “Well, I think my husband two days ago wasn’t the spouse of a potential candidate and I don’t think he’s got the spouse thing down quite yet,” she told Radio Iowa. “But today he is and I think he’ll be able to stand next to me and be supportive.” On Branstad’s “fish out of water” staement: “I could have run in any of Iowa’s districts because I feel like all Iowa is my home,” Vilsack said this morning. “But, you know, I was in Emmetsburg in the parade at St. Patrick’s Day, right behind (Governor Branstad) and I’ve been in Crawford County — I’ve been traveling all over that district for the last 12 or 14 years and they’re my people and I feel very comfortable with them and I feel like it’s the best district for me as I reviewed it.” I also asked her why she didn’t run against Congressman Boswell (D-Des Moines) in the new third district or against Congressman Loebsack (D-Mount Vernon, moving to Iowa City) in the new second: “I really used quite a process and spent a long time trying to decide, really, what’s best for me and my family, what district fits me best and what’s best for my party,” Vilsack said. “…I wanted to run where I had the best chance of winning and I think I have the best chance of winning in the new fourth.” Andrea Bozek of the National Republican Congressional Committee emailed the following: After floating her name for practically every political office in Iowa, Democrat Christie Vilsack today announced her plans to move into Iowa’s new 4TH Congressional District to run against Republican Rep. Steve King. Please consider the following quote as you follow Vilsack’s announcement. “Considering Vilsack’s support for the government takeover of healthcare she will fit right in with liberal Nancy Pelosi’s big government and spending agenda. Iowa voters understand that sending Vilsack to Washington will only result in more debt and a vote to try to put Nancy Pelosi back in the Speaker’s Chair. ” – NRCC Spokeswoman Andrea Bozek New District Breakdown: Steve King has represented nearly half of the new Fourth District since 2002. McCain received 50.2% in the new fourth. Republican Gov. Terry Branstad received 59.4% in the new fourth. Filed Under: Congress, Politics, State Government Tagged With: Audio, Christie Vilsack, David Loebsack, Steve King, Terry Branstad Latham statement The new redistricting plan would pit Republican Congressman Tom Latham of Ames against Republican Congressman Steve King of Kiron. Latham is not granting interviews today. He released a written statement: “Iowans are lucky to have what is widely regarded as one of the fairest redistricting processes in the country governing how the new congressional districts will be drawn. I know that the members of the Legislature will keep the best interests of the people of Iowa at heart as they move forward with the next steps of this redistricting process. I am honored to represent the good people of Iowa in the United States Congress, and, regardless of the specifics of the final map, I will continue to work on behalf of the interest of all Iowans.” Filed Under: Congress, Legislature, Politics Tagged With: redistricting, Steve King, Tom Latham And they paired off, two-by-two The redistricting plan for Iowa’s congressional and legislative districts was released this morning. It pairs Congressmen Tom Latham of Ames and Steve King of Kiron in one district. They’re both Republicans. It pairs Congressmen Bruce Braley of Waterloo and Dave Loebsack of Mount Vernon in another district. They’re both Republicans. It is possible, no probable that if the Iowa General Assembly approves this plan that two of those aforementioned congressmen will move. Latham has moved before. Loebsack could move into Johnson County, the Iowa City area. In the last reapportionment, then-Congressman Jim Leach moved from Davenport to Iowa City. And Congressman Leonard Boswell moved from Davis City to Des Moines. It will be a few hours before the full extent of pairings in state legislative races for House and Senate seats is known. Filed Under: Congress, Politics Tagged With: Bruce Braley, David Loebsack, Leonard Boswell, redistricting, Steve King, Tom Latham Bachmann speaks at King’s event in Des Moines (audio) Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (Photo courtesy of Dave Davidson, www.hereiniowa.com) Minnesota Congressman Michele Bachmann is the third maybe/could be/might be presidential candidate to speak at Congressman Steve King’s “Conservative Principles Conference” today. It was a barn-burner, as they say in these parts. Anyone listening to it can conclude Bachmann’s “in” the race. AUDIO 25 min As she was being introduced, there was an audible “oh” from the crowd when introducer Matt Whitaker said Bachmann & her husband have been foster parents to 23 children (in addition to their five biological children). “Isn’t it exciting to be here?,” Bachmann said when she reached the stage. ” There is no place like Iowa. We love it…and it’s wonderful to be in a state where you have the king of conservatism.” (That would be…Steve King.) Bachmann is the queen of the quips today and she’s getting the crowd involved early in a cadence that starts on the topic of the economic stimulus package. “Did President Obama correctly diagnose the problem with job creation?” Bachmann asked. The crowd responded, “No.” “Did he have the correct solution?” she asked. “No,” the audience replied. She quickly followed, asking the crowd what “level of credibility” Obama had on the subject. “None,” the crowd said. Bachmann added her own “not so much” and then started another cadence, praising the crowd for being “extremely good looking and well tempered.” Bachmann took a shot at Obama — over his picks in the NCAA men’s basketball tournament. “The president was 0-4 last year in his Final Four predictions. Do you remember that. OK, we’ll let him have that. Now he has us engaged in yet another third middle eastern war and so, I think, talk about March Madness. Can anybody say Jimmy Carter?” she said. “That’s kind of where we’re going.” She mentioned her Iowa roots, then talked about the stakes of 2012 before launching into a Power Point presentation in which numbers (in white) were featured on the black screens to her left and right. She decried the national debt. “That made our Chinese banker friends very happy and you know that the Chinese leader is named President Hu and so clearly we know now ‘Hu is your daddy,'” she joked. The crowd clapped and hooted. “Who says Iowa doesn’t have a sense of humor? It’s born right here.” She marched on through other numbes, declaring one was “enough to curl your hair.” She got to 3.8 million. “What could that be?” she asked the crowd, then quickly supplied the answer. “That’s approximately the number of words in the tax code…Let’s make it simple. What about fairer? Anybody like a fair tax or a flat tax?” The crowd erupted. Her final quip on this topic: “Our current United States tax code is a weapon of mass destruction.” Another number from the Bachmann Power Point: 1.83. She said it was the price that gasoline was the day before Barack Obama was sworn in as president. “Is it time for a change?” she asked, borrowing a bit from Obama’s 2008 campaign theme. “Yes,” the crowd responded. “Absolutely it’s time for a change!” Bachmann returned. She dismissed Washington, D.C. as the place “where the money spigot never shuts off.” She mentioned New York Congressman Anthony Weiner, a Democrat, and the crowd booed. She chided them: “Now, we’re nice here in Iowa. I just want to remind you.” She suggested Weiner was seeking a waiver from “ObamaCare”. Bachmann then quipped: “I want a waiver from the last two years of President Obama. Are you with me?” If you listen to the speech, you will know that the crowd was with her at this point. She ridiculed federal funding for “cowboy poetry festivals” and derided the idea of new regulations on light bulbs. “I introduced the Lightbulb Freedom of Choice Act,” she said, getting a strong positive response from the crowd. “I think Iowans are to be trusted on the choice of their own lightbulbs.” She gave a sort of shout out to governors in Wisconsin and Ohio who have taken on public sector unions. Remember Obama’s “we are the ones we’ve been waiting for” speech? Bachmann’s next riff was reminiscent of that. “We are the answer to the problem,” she said, before launching into the next part of her speech which was about the “intact, two-parent family” being the driving force for America’s “economic growth, health and well-being.” “…We’ve been told we need a truce on social issues and I would highly disagree with that because social conservatism is fiscal conservatism,” she said. Bachmann returned to the tax issue, mentioning she’d been a tax lawyer. “We make the tax code simpler by first abolishing it,” she declared, getting another strong positive response from crowd, including one very loud whistle. “And from there, we’re going to fly.” She suggested it was time for a “change in attitude” in D.C., but then put a finer point on it: “What we need is a change in address form for the person who is living at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.” That drew sustained applause, too. Bachmann compared herself with “another dark-horse candidate” — Abraham Lincoln. “What Lincoln said…is still true today in Des Moines, Iowa….will we survive to the latest generation? Will we survive?…I say to you…don’t look to me. Don’t look to any other politician…the idea of liberty is so great and so precious that the founders recognized that it would only be entrusted to the brain trust and that’s the people of this nation.” “…I am so absolutly confident in 2012…America has made their decision. We are going to take our country back…We are going to have a better day….Are you in? Are you in for 2012? Are you in? Are you going to make it happen?” Bachmann concluded by saying she’s in. Indeed. Filed Under: Congress, Iowa Caucuses, Politics Tagged With: Audio, Michele Bachmann, Obama, Steve King Gingrich speaks @ King’s conference in DSM (audio) Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is the second prospective “candidate” to speak at Congressman Steve King’s conference in Des Moines. Listen: GingrichMarch26 “First of all, it’s great to be here and I’m very proud of what…Steve King is doing in Washington to defund ObamaCare,” Gingrich said to start. “…What he is doing is really important because we have to draw the line in the sand this year and we have to stop ObamaCare being implemented this year.” (Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour — the first speaker at this event — did not do the same kind of homage to King, BTW.) Gingrich mentioned some aspects of the health care reform act dealing with dental care. “It’s not a laughing matter and Steve King understand that,” Gingrich said. Gingrich then mentioned his wife, Callista, who went to college in northeast Iowa. “She spent four years getting to know Iowa winters better, but since she’s from western Wisconsin, she actually thought of it as going south for the winter,” he joked. Gingrich declared himself “very optimistic” about the 2012 election. “I think there are three large topics on which we can recenter America. The first is values…the second is the economy…and the third is national security,” he said. Gingrich derided “many of our tenured faculty” at colleges around the country, then suggested “every class in K-12, in every tax-paid college university should teach the Declaration of Independence.” This drew applause. “And I don’t care what the ACLU says, they should teach it accurately and they should explain what the Founding Fathers meant when they said, ‘We held these truths self-evident…and that we are endowed by our creator with certain inalienable rights.'” Gingrich next rejected the idea the GOP should focus on economic rather than social issues in 2012. “If you don’t start with values…the rest of it doesn’t matter. Life is not just about money,” Gingrich said, to applause. Gingrich addressed economic issues, then went to national security, addressing his statements about Libya. (Read background here.) Gingrich said at this point, the “only rational objective” of the current U.S. involvement in Libya is the removal of Gaddafi “as quickly as possible.” Gingrich, as he has recently, derided Obama as a “spectator in chief” who is “confused” about “whether his job is kicking a soccer ball” or being the leader of the free world. Gingrich mentioned the 200 executive orders he’d sign on day one if he’s elected president. “We can turn it around with remarkable speed,” Gingrich said as he neared conclusion. Filed Under: Congress, Iowa Caucuses, Politics Tagged With: Audio, Haley Barbour, Newt Gingrich, Obama, Steve King

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Who’s looking out for male writers? By Adam Ford 24.Jun.15 This September, Black Inc. is publishing an all-male anthology of short stories called Where there’s smoke. It’s going to feature people like Nam Le, Tim Winton, Shane Moloney, David Malouf and JM Coetzee. When I first heard about this all-men anthology, I thought it was a joke. Then someone told me it was being released as a companion volume to Something special, something rare, Black Inc.’s recent all-women short story anthology, featuring people like Cate Kennedy, Joan London, Kate Grenville, Alice Pung and Sonya Hartnett. I thought that was part of the joke, too. Then I checked the Black Inc. website. It wasn’t a joke. I really wish it had been. The single worst way to follow up an anthology celebrating the cream of Australia’s women writers is to turn right around and publish an all-men book less than six months later. Why would anyone even do that? Is it some kind of attempt to ‘balance things out’ – to make sure that in all the focussing on women’s writing we don’t overlook men’s writing? That’s doubtful: as has often been discussed in literary circles, men’s writing is hardly at risk of being overlooked. Statistics provided by the Stella Count and the VIDA Count make it clear how much gender imbalance has existed in the history of publishing, and how differently writing by men and women has been treated. These differences manifest themselves in many ways including the way women authors are reviewed, the amount of time or column inches devoted to reviewing writing by women, the relative numbers of male and female reviewers (and their prominence, both in terms of page layout and frequency of publication), and the way that books by men and women are marketed. In every single instance, male authors receive more consistent and more prominent publication and promotion than women authors. Even writing that focuses on the experience of men, whether written by women or men, is generally treated as better than writing that has female protagonists. All of these differences support the false assumption that, because more male writers are written about – and written about more prominently – male authors must be more worthy of being written about than women. It also supports the assumption that the opinions, views and ideas of male writers are worth more than those of women writers, and thus that the opinions of men in general are worth more than the opinions of women. Until very recently there has been a distinct lack of public acknowledgement of this longstanding bias, except in specialist circles. This has allowed it to continue unchallenged for a very long time. To a large proportion of the reading public, these differences aren’t a result of bias at all – they’re simply how things are. The titles of these two anthologies are a perfect example of this kind of bias in action. The all-men book gets a title evocative of the power of fire, while the all-women book’s title implies that talented women writers are difficult to find. Now it may be the case that these books’ titles came from titles of the stories in the collections themselves, but surely there were other, better choices on offer. I contacted Black Inc. to ask them about their motivation for publishing Where there’s smoke. They responded with the following: Just as it’s interesting and valuable to consider women’s writing as a collective body or canon of work (as we did in our recent collection, Something Special, Something Rare) it is interesting and valuable to observe men’s writing in this way too (not as the default, but as a formal exercise). Within each group there is great diversity of voices – there’s no one ‘women’s writing’ or ‘men’s writing’ – and this becomes even clearer once their respective canons are separated. But publishing a collection that focuses on the work of women writers isn’t ‘interesting’. It’s essential if you want to push back against the gender bias that exists in the Australian publishing industry. Publishing an all-male anthology isn’t interesting either. In fact, it’s an incredibly loaded gesture. If a natural response to an all-women anthology is to publish a collection by men, do we also need an all-male literary award in response to the Stella Awards? Perhaps as a formal exercise to see what kind of diverse male authors’ work such an award would celebrate? Maybe we need more anthologies featuring only white authors in response to anthologies that focus on Indigenous Australian authors or writers from non-European backgrounds? Of course we don’t. Male (particularly white male) authors already get more than enough column inches, airtime and accolades to illustrate and celebrate the diversity within their ranks. In a culture where privilege sits most with men, any attempt to shift gender imbalance is going to involve telling men, ‘this is not for you’. This is a problem for some men. But given that most publishers, editors, producers and reviewers are also men, they can often overlook such challenges. The issue is this: we don’t get social equality by making sure that everyone gets an equal share. We get social equality by questioning and rejecting the long-standing inequalities that have shaped society over centuries by creating false assumptions about people’s relative value. We do that by working to make sure the people who are the beneficiaries of that inequality (directly or indirectly) are challenged, even provoked, into becoming aware of their privilege and prevented from blithely taking advantage of it. The hope is that they won’t respond to genuine attempts to address that inequality by saying, ‘Where’s mine?’ Challenges to gender bias in publishing have been taking place for a relatively short time. It’s far too early to start pushing back and arguing for equal treatment for men. What’s confronting for some about this is the need to accept that men already have a more than equal share of things. Indeed, men are going to have to give some things up if they want to make a difference to the way things are – things like salary increases, job opportunities and, yes, the chance to be published in an all-male short story anthology. There’s no need for a book like Where there’s smoke. The Australian reading public doesn’t need another ‘celebration’ of men’s writing. None of the authors in this anthology need help getting published (none of them are particularly hard to find in bookshops, either). The same cannot necessarily be said for the authors in anthologies that focus on excluded writers. Such writers need the help of specialist collections to raise their voices above the loud and pervasive promotion of men and their writing. Men don’t. Adam Ford is the author of Man Bites Dog, The Third Fruit is a Bird, Not Quite the Man for the Job and Heroes and Civilians. He has written for Australian Author, Desktop, Going Down Swinging and Cordite. He blogs at theotheradamford. More by Adam Ford From Tom on 24 June 2015 at 2.22 pm What an aptly titled book. From Rupert P-h on 24 June 2015 at 2.32 pm Nice article – the title raised my hackles, admittedly, I worried it was going to be arguing for exactly what it was critiquing. This was very thoughtful! I don’t think any of the issues you raise are relevant in any way, shape or form. First, in the general industry I would say most people in publishing are female, except of course the very top (and that is an issue). At Black Inc. it appears 50% of management is female http://www.blackincbooks.com/contact And if I recall Black Inc. is largely bankrolled by one man (may be wrong)? Anyway, these aren’t a bunch of MRAs saying ‘BUT WHAT ABOUT MEN?!?’ this is just a mirrored publishing decision to tie into what I assume was a successful all female anthology. Who knows, maybe they plan to follow up with an all Aboriginal anthology, or one focussed on migrant writers? Besides Coetzee’s Disgrace is one of the best explorations of privilege around. Again, this has nothing to do with equality, just a pretty basic publishing decision. From Michael on 24 June 2015 at 4.14 pm “in the general industry I would say most people in publishing are female” – it may seem powerful to be inclined to say something that justifies your opinion, but i would say it’s much more useful (and convincing) to cite some actual facts rather than throw random guesses out there and pretend they’re statistics. Just my opinion though I didn’t post any statistics because I already knew the answer. But if you insist. http://www.abs.gov.au/Ausstats/ABS@.nsf/0/E4088063ED40808DCA257968000CBCFD?opendocument ‘Meanwhile, the pay gap between men and women—the other well-known imbalance in the industry—continued in 2013, even though women accounted for 74% of the publishing workforce and men only 26%.’ http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/64083-publishing-s-holding-pattern-2013-salary-survey.html ‘Now it may be the case that these books’ titles came from titles of the stories in the collections themselves.’ https://books.google.com.au/books?id=j_iBBwAAQBAJ&pg=PT3&lpg=PT3&dq=contents+of+Something+special,+something+rare&source=bl&ots=5rnR6lHOvX&sig=g0VGycTSsPP4Umic9VxtifIG0zk&hl=en&sa=X&ei=nTOKVcfQIYPXmAXZpbOoDw&ved=0CCMQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=contents%20of%20Something%20special%2C%20something%20rare&f=false From Francis on 24 June 2015 at 3.02 pm At least all those writers that are in this anthology are (NOT) struggling, emerging new talent, new underrepresented voices and so on … Why would anyone want to read Tim Winton is beyond me. That guy is a poster boy for anglo dominated literary establishment. Francis, publishing decisions are rarely based on personal opinion alone. Nor are all books going to feature emerging new talent. In fact, those two facts combine and point to the fact that publishing houses like to make a profit sometimes (not that they tend to with any anthologies). From Helen on 24 June 2015 at 3.26 pm Tom, what is a “basic publishing decision” and why shouldn’t we criticise such decisions? Are you saying that because the publishers might have been motivated by purely commercial reasons, or by an unexamined desire to “balance out” or complement the all-female anthology, it’s pointless to question the politics of the project? The publishers obviously aren’t “a bunch of MRAs”. But it’s still an oddly MRA-like project: “Hey, the ladies got a whole book to themselves! What about the men??” Their official explanation seems naive at best, disingenuous at worst — could such a politically engaged publishing house really be so blind to the point Adam Ford makes so succinctly in his last paragraph? Publishing an all-male collection isn’t just unnecessary. It also sends a message that women and men are “different but equal”, and that gender imbalance isn’t a real problem. Also: I hate hate hate the title of the women’s anthology. So ladylike, so polite. In 1975 Outback Press, published “Mother I’m Rooted”. Are we going backwards? Succinct last paragraph? There’s no need for a book like Where there’s smoke. That’s just, like, your opinion, man. The Australian reading public doesn’t need another ‘celebration’ of men’s writing. It’s just another book in the endless sea of published titles. It ain’t making or breaking anything. Besides, I believe Black Inc. used the term ‘observe’, not ‘celebrate’. None of the authors in this anthology need help getting published (none of them are particularly hard to find in bookshops, either). In both anthologies I see big names and people I don’t recognise. This isn’t about finding emerging writers, so moot point. The same cannot necessarily be said for the authors in anthologies that focus on excluded writers. Hence them being in other anthologies published by companies that focus specifically on these niche markets. Please see Twelfth Planet Press. I really don’t understand what the point here is? This is all just one big exercise in outrage and putting your words in the mouths of someone else, that being Black Inc. in this case. ‘could such a politically engaged publishing house really be so blind’ The answer is almost definitely no. “This is all just one big exercise in outrage and putting your words in the mouths of someone else, that being Black Inc. in this case.” Huh. I thought it was an interesting and worthwhile discussion. I didn’t claim to know what Black Inc. was thinking, and I don’t think Adam Ford did, either. It’s not “putting words into the mouths of someone else” – it’s questioning the political significance of an action, whatever the publisher’s stated motivation might have been. You say “niche markets”, Ford says “excluded writers” – those two phrases probably sum up where we disagree. Gender (or race, or class, for that matter) aren’t simply marketing categories, and they’re not politically neutral. I don’t think anyone is attacking Black Inc. But publishing a single-gender anthology is undeniably political – it’s hardly surprising if it prompts a debate. Interesting points of discussion include gender pay gaps, review coverage, prizes promoting women and other initiatives, not whether one politically minded publisher decided to follow up an all female anthology with an all male one. Really, it’s just marketing and barely worth raising an eyebrow. From Adam Ford on 24 June 2015 at 3.38 pm “Mother I’m Rooted” – god I love that title. Is that a Kate-Jennings-helmed anthology? She’s awesome. Yes! It’s a great title, right? And, a neat bit of trivia: published by Outback Press, ie Morry Schwartz, ie proprietor of Black Inc., ie publisher of both the anthologies in question and Kate Jennings. Who, agreed, is awesome. From Penelope on 24 June 2015 at 4.05 pm The title of the Men’s Book reminded me of Fahrenheit 451. Just sayin’ From A Reader on 24 June 2015 at 4.55 pm Canonical camouflage may be a term I’d apply to the Black Inc. anthologies being floated here as some sort of gender harangue. (If I could be bothered reading both, that is.) From Stephen on 24 June 2015 at 5.41 pm What a massive cringe-worthy fail from Black Inc. Their rationale for this absurd tome speaks volumes for their take on literature; a neoliberalised meritocracy where any criticism in regard to exclusion of any group is met with the argument that we just ‘publish the best’. Their stated defence for this strange publishing decision can only lead to the conclusion that we don’t need collections of women’s writing, because there is no such thing. This is not only a bizarre and frankly right wing point of view, but one that denies the entire history of feminist literature. If Joanna Russ were alive to update her essay ‘How to suppress women’s writing’ Black Inc would probably get a special mention. I think we should now and forever refer to the argument that a feminist gender politic doesn’t apply to the production of literature as ‘The Black Inc Defence’. I always ask myself why it’s the dudes writing in angry response… Anyway, it’s not really what Black Inc. do. As I have said previously, there are plenty of anthologies promoting excluded writers. Now they may not have the clout of Black Inc. but that’s besides the point. Please explain how publishing this anthology somehow sets back feminism or offends anyone in anyway? It’s not like it’s replacing an Aboriginal anthology. I was asking myself the same thing about your comments, Tom! Maybe blokes feel they have more license to let loose with the aggro. Doesn’t mean women aren’t angry. We’ve just been trained to couch it in gentler language (sadly). To your question: The decision to publish an all-male anthology sets back feminism because it either rejects or ignores the very reason why all-female anthologies are necessary: ie, the fact that writing by women has been, and in mainstream publishing and criticism still often is, marginalised, trivialised and undervalued. As the article says, that’s why the idea of an all-male anthology is silly: male voices already dominate. There’s no shortage of them, and they are listened to more attentively. You could argue with these statements – I’m just setting out a feminist rationale for talking about “women’s writing”. But that doesn’t seem to be Black Inc’s reason for publishing an all-female collection. If it were, why follow it up with a collection that reproduces the very male dominance that already exists? As the article says, it’s the same as publishing an “all-white” or “all-straight” anthology: unnecessary (because those voices already dominate) and conservative. If Black Inc’s women’s anthology had been a feminist exercise, the men’s anthology wouldn’t exist. If you don’t buy the feminist rationale for a women’s anthology, and don’t think gender disparity is a real problem, the only other possible justification for sex-segregated collections is that you think men and women write differently, and that “men’s writing” and “women’s writing” are distinct and useful genres. Personally I don’t believe that, but it seems to me that’s the only other possible reason to publish sex-segregated books, if (like Black Inc) you don’t accept the feminist rationale outlined above. But Black Inc’s own statement says they don’t think this, which makes me think the whole thing may be an ill considered and half baked attempt to have it both ways – to be seen to promote and encourage women’s writing (and sell some books to women in the process), while giving a nod to any MRA types who might be pissed off by a women’s collection (and maybe grab some extra sales with a second book). That’s why I’m miffed by it, anyway. Will it destroy feminism? No. Of course not. But Tom, all of your arguments seem to end in telling us simply to stop talking about it – “it’s a moot point, it’s not important, it’s not a big deal.” You haven’t offered any answer to the actual criticism of the book. Do you work for Schwartz Media, or are you in the anthology? If not, I don’t get why you’re so annoyed by people discussing it. From Glen on 24 June 2015 at 10.41 pm Nicely summed up, Helen. From Facts and Figures on 24 June 2015 at 8.51 pm Feminism and so-called feminist literature must be pretty flimsy if WHERE THERE’S SMOKE ‘denies’ its ‘entire history.’ LOL. Give me a break. Ladies, come on. This, if you want, is also the nonsense you should be fighting against. Just saying. The irony of the title extends well beyond the book itself. From build a bridge on 24 June 2015 at 9.24 pm What a storm in a nothing cup. Who cares what Black Inc. chooses to publish? Anyway, surely that’s their prerogative. If you don’t like – don’t buy – don’t read. Move on to other more pressing concerns – there are plenty that need more attention than this piddling non-issue. It isn’t always “the dudes” writing in angry response. Google Amy Gray, Van Badham, Clementine Ford and Catherine Deveney for a start, Tom. Great writers all, women all, and all completely dismissed by your comment there. From Susan Hawthorne on 24 June 2015 at 10.42 pm I am a writer and a publisher. In 2014, I published two books which have barely been reviewed in Australia. My book ‘Bibliodiversity:A Manifesto for Independent publishers’ which tackles all these issues and more has not had a single review in Australia and yet there is a Canadian edition and translations are underway in Arabic and French. And a review overseas in Publishing Perspectives. Not all publishers are men either, and try veing a feminist publisher! As I wrote in my 2012 article ‘To whinge or not to whinge’ you would think that a feminist publisher would be approached by writers festivals running sessions on feminism. Spinifex has NEVER been approached for suggestions of feminists writers and yet we have thousands of feminist writers and hundreds in Australia (now and then a writer gets to speak about feminism but it’s usually an accident and sometimes a set up to knock down the writer). And if I sound like I’m still whinging it’s because it continues to get worse. The vast majority of reviews of my other book, a poetry collection called ‘Lupa and Lamb’ have appeared in the USA, a few in Australua but you’d expect it to be the other way round. Whingers of the world unite 🙂 From Jennie on 27 June 2015 at 3.04 pm I notice no-one commented on anything you said. Perhaps because “personal experience” doesn’t count for much in a world of number-crunching and profit. Thanks for a picture of reality. WOTWU! From Adam Ford on 27 June 2015 at 11.31 pm Apologies for not replying earlier and thanks for this comment. I’ve requested copies of bibliodiversity to be bought by my local library and the city of Melbourne library. I look forward to reading it and hope the PLR helps out too. From Gerard on 24 June 2015 at 10.44 pm I will buy the book ‘Where there’s smoke’. For the simple reason I like the authors & short stories. From Chris on 25 June 2015 at 5.40 am Males dominate in some niche areas of literature, but largely female authors are the ones who are romanticised and interpreted. From genial westie on 25 June 2015 at 8.33 pm evidence much appreciated here, Chris. WHO are you talking about? From Rutegar on 25 June 2015 at 7.59 am “… we don’t get social equality by making sure that everyone gets an equal share …” Not quite Martin Luther King’s I HAVE A DREAM speech … From James May on 25 June 2015 at 8.11 am Live by the sword, die by the sword. Read the lit or read the sex. You’re not going to have this argument both ways no matter how much you wish it. People are often startled when their own actions are held up in a mirror. From Adam Ford on 25 June 2015 at 8.23 am Chris – the VIDA and Stella statistics linked to above show that it’s not niche areas of publishing where men dominate – it’s in both mainstream newspapers/magazines AND literary journals that a disparity between the attention given to male and female authors can be seen Rutegar – MLK was a smart man. I’m sure he understood that achieving equality is about redistribution of privilege, which necessarily means taking from the privileged to give to the underprivileged. It’s not about just saying “okay we’re all equal. now what?” It’s about making things equal by changing the way things are done. It’s up to those with privilege to realise what’s happening – and why – and be empathic enough about it not to push back against this kind of redistribution From Marius on 25 June 2015 at 1.27 pm I don’t have an opinion one way or the other on these two anthologies – I’d probably buy them both because I like the short story form. It should be said though that for some time now female writers have dominated short story anthologies like Best Australian Stories and Margaret River Press by a ratio of about five to one – principally because more women write short stories and they probably write better short stories. This isn’t an argument for all male anthologies but – at least in this one small section of the publishing world – female writers are well represented (think Clare Aman, Michelle Wright, Melanie Napthine, Eva Lomski – all great exponents of the form) Just going to leave this here: ‘Tuffield will specialise in fiction but will also acquire nonfiction titles. She will work part-time, continuing her role as executive director of the Stella Prize.’ http://www.booksellerandpublisher.com.au/item/33361 ‘Aviva Tuffield has been appointed publisher at Black Inc.’ That’s great news. Congratulations to Aviva and Black Inc! From Gert Loveday on 26 June 2015 at 9.04 am It’s interesting that when you read about an “all male” anthology it seems such a bizarre idea, but when you read about an “all-female” one it doesn’t. It doesn’t because we accept that publishing is not democratic and we think there has to be special provision for women, like quotas in politics. And I’m sure that the people who buy the ‘all male’ will do so because of the big names in it, not because they care about the idea, whereas many women especially will buy the all-female one regardless of who’s in it. So in the end, instead of evening up the playing field, as Black Ink seems to be suggesting, it just maintains the tilt. The male one will sell better because male names have higher cachet and recognition value, everyone will say male writers sell better/are better, and on we go. From Tom on 26 June 2015 at 11.20 am Aside from the stereotyping and assumptions going on here, I would point out that the release of the male anthology will probably help boost sales of the previous title. Stores should have copies of the previous title, and reps may offer discounts so as to incentivise buyers. A good bookstore would put them side by side. From Jacinda Woodhead on 26 June 2015 at 12.27 pm I don’t think we can second-guess what bookshops will do here. For all we know, bookstores may think women’s anthologies don’t sell and so take the women’s collection off the shelf. Or that it’s much easier to sell one book than two. For these reasons and more, I don’t think we should be concentrating on how these books will be sold. As Adam argued, the primary issue at stake here is that all-women anthologies are put together to counter the fact that there is material bias toward men’s writing in the publishing industry. This bias results in a lack of representation of and interest in women’s writing – even though, as commenters here have pointed out, more women write short fiction. (Which actually means women are woefully underrepresented in anthologies and collections more generally.) The last point I’d make is this: institutional sexism and racism aren’t eliminated by having women or people of colour in positions of power. Which brings us back to Adam’s original question: what is the purpose of publishing an all-male anthology at this very moment in time – when all the discussion and evidence points to the exclusion of women writers? Surely a better follow-up anthology would have been one that included both men and women writers. From sooty on 26 June 2015 at 11.45 pm ‘what is the purpose of publishing an all-male anthology at this very moment in time(?)’ does there have to be a some profound political purpose? maybe to sell a few copies? showcase a some good writers? seriously, this article and many of the responses look more like a Destroy the Joint post than something on Overland. It’s a provocative article based on some generalisations, selective facts, and some courageous leaps of logic. I don’t blame the guy for writing it. But Overland should apply a bit more rigour. But god, when did everyone become so precious? last time I checked, women in Australia are not having too many problems getting published or making sales. So you care what a few wizened reviewers might say that about 6 people read and only 2 actually listen to? Is that really the main game? God … hasn’t everyone got ‘faux outrage’ fatigue yet? From jacinda on 27 June 2015 at 9.39 am I understand you might not be a regular Overland reader Sooty, but we’re a literary journal, and so often publish on issues to do with literature, books and writing – marginalised writers, writers and payment, literary envy and the politics of publishing (to name a few). I’m sorry you don’t think there’s a problem for women in publishing, but that doesn’t change the facts or the experiences of many women in the field. ‘last time I checked … sales’: so where are your stats? What did you check? Which authors and compared to what – submissions? Merely asserting your opinion does not change reality. If this article isn’t of interest to you, perhaps you could read one of the 27 other pieces currently on the front page. I think how it’s sold/packaged has everything to do with this. And I don’t know why I’m the only one being positive about sell-in. If they were going to do a combined anthology, it’d be one hit, mix of women and men. This way they have more contributors, a double hit in the market for publicity/sales and have a nice mirrored effect (literally, the books are mirrors). It’s a bunch of well-regarded writers of both sexes, split over two books. They are presented equally with zero bias. I see your point vis a vis ‘…all-women anthologies are put together to counter the fact that there is material bias toward men’s writing…’ but I can safely say that this is not the intention of Black Inc. per se. This is an anthology with that mindset in mind http://www.twelfthplanetpress.com/news/defying-doomsday-crowdfunding-campaign-on-pozible This is also an anthology with that mindset in mind http://www.xoum.com.au/shop/stories-of-sydney/ These Black Inc anthologies are made of High Lit stories from (mostly) authors of Privilege (that is, known). There is not a chance in Hell Black Inc didn’t consider the implications before going to print, but they firmly believe that this is the right choice. There is no malice (perhaps stupidity; at least naivity) here. ‘If a natural response to an all-women anthology is to publish a collection by men…’ This was not a natural response, the two were always going to be printed, and I think they deliberately put the female anthology first (imagine the backlash if that hadn’t been the case!). And my point about the women working at Black Inc is more to do with Adam’s counterfactual remark, ‘But given that most publishers, editors, producers and reviewers are also men…’ I don’t know about reviewers. I know institutionalised racism/sexism is harder to remove than that. From Bronwyn Lovell on 26 June 2015 at 10.14 am Such an important discussion to continue. Excellent article, Adam. Thank you for writing it and thanks to Overland for publishing and promoting it. From David on 26 June 2015 at 10.24 am I think Black Inc.’s point is that while writing by women is read as demonstrating something about the conditions and lives and experiences of women, writing by men is read as demonstrating the human condition; of saying something about all of us. Clearly, there is a (sensible and worthwhile) ongoing effort by many to encourage the reading of women’s writing as being equally (capable of being) about the universal human condition. It seems to me that Black Inc.’s point is that sometimes male writers are writing about being men, not about the human universal, and maybe we would gain something by reading them that way more — hopefully not to increase the privileging of male experience, but to demonstrate that men shouldn’t be read as the default humans. Sometimes they write things that say something profoundly universal, and sometimes they don’t, just as it is for women. Publishing some stories specifically to get involved this issue seems worth doing, even if it isn’t going to solve the whole problem of the perception of women’s and men’s writing in one slim volume. Nobody would expect that that is ever possible on any issue. I agree that the actual lineup is a bit of a disappointment, for various reasons outlined by others above. From James on 26 June 2015 at 11.49 am This is a very specious and disingenuous article. Why can’t we celebrate both men’s and women’s writing? The author’s vitriol towards an all-male anthology seems to indicate some thinly-veiled misandry. Not cool, man. I am grateful, though. As a young male writer, I hadn’t even heard of Where There’s Smoke, so now I know of it I look forward to purchasing a copy. From Valerie Solanas on 26 June 2015 at 12.04 pm Whoa James nice, thickly-unveiled misogyny going on there. “Everyone should read writing by all genders” yet you only plan to purchase the all-male one??????? Telling. By the way, you read with your eyes not your dick I wish I could like comments, Valerie, because that was a great response. There is just nowhere to write, ‘As a young male writer…’ and not come off badly. Agree completely. Valerie’s comment is my favourite part of this entire discussion. From Maxine on 26 June 2015 at 12.33 pm I adore Black Inc as a publisher. I have been watching and reading wonderfully diverse Black Inc titles for years… and at the same time watching their ‘best ofs’ and anthologies remain/become whiter and whiter. I hope Black Inc continues to instill on Black Inc publishers their well known and widely respected ethos of acquiring diverse new voices such as Alice Pung, Benjamin Law and Michelle Diconoski. From Penelope on 26 June 2015 at 12.36 pm I finally figured out what was annoying me about the title ‘Something special, something rare’; it sounds like an advertisement for meat at Coles. Perhaps meat spiced with orchid genes. spliced, not spiced From sales exec on 27 June 2015 at 10.55 am All publicity is good publicity? Black Inc. surely are grateful for the advertorial promotion and possible sales boost Overland is providing here (especially with those all so important corporate ‘bottom line’ facts and figures included). From sooty on 28 June 2015 at 4.59 pm Dear Jacinda. Sorry if my comments seemed too provocative. But before you make patronising assumptions, I actually am a regular reader (and longtime subscriber). A bit of diversity of opinion doesn’t go astray, does it? And you’re right – I didn’t quote any stats (if you’re interested, maybe check out the current NYT best seller list). As for merely asserting my opinions, the author of this piece does exactly the same thing, but was good enough to publish. From what I understand, neither the Stella Count of VIDA brings up sales. Books by women sell very well, irrespective of what reviewers say. If sales were less for women, do you not think both the Stella list and VIDA would point that out? Of course they would. The reason they don’t is because it is not the case. Ask any publisher who it is that buys books. The majority are bought by women and read by women. It is fair, appropriate and accurate to point out that a majority of reviews are about books written by men. But to suggest that Black Inc shouldn’t publish a book featuring male writers is a strange leap of logic. Perhaps, to be charitable, the online articles on Overland are not subject to the same level of rigour as the hardcopy. I just wanted to thank those male commentators who took the time to explain why sexism isn’t a problem in the Australian book industry. Sometimes we ladies get all het-up over media bias, historical inequalities, institutionalised mysogyny, blah blah blah. Dare I say, we can get a little hysterical with our “faux outrage” and our “piddling non-issues”. Luckily, it’s nothing a firm talking-to in a gruff voice can’t fix. Thanks, fellers. From building an iron bridge on 29 June 2015 at 3.37 pm Thanks for finally seeing the light on this ‘piddling non-issue’, which happens to excludes “media bias (mostly), historical inequalities, institutionalised mysogyny (sic), (and whatever is subsumed by the) blah blah blah”, all of which fall under the “more pressing concerns” noted above, covered daily and superbly, I might add, in short stories published by Overland, stories far superior to those published by Black Inc. if genres are mixed to the extent of seeing and reading non-fiction or ‘writing the real’ as literary forms too. iron bridge is right. Personally, my only issue was this specific one which yes I still think is insignificant in perspective, not the definite problems in the industry at large. I believe it’s called picking your battles, or conserving your resources? I dunno, something like that. From bridges on 30 June 2015 at 1.40 pm yes, i can see that (singular) point – guess i wished to point out that maybe literature as a set of reified canonical forms has had its day, perhaps – and that an open field is up for grabs to all genders yes, i can see that (singular) point – guess i wished to point out that literature as a set of reified canonical forms has had its day, perhaps – and that an open field is up for grabs to all genders From Jude Davey on 8 July 2015 at 9.44 am I just want to thank Adam Ford for bringing shrill and ridiculous attention to a book I otherwise would not have known about, let alone considered purchasing. Buying two copies has brought a warm glow. From Adam Ford on 8 July 2015 at 2.26 pm No problem Jude – any time you need some shrill and ridiculous recommendations, I’m happy to help! From Helen on 8 July 2015 at 3.28 pm “SHRILL AND RIDICULOUS” a podcast crying out to be made? (I’d listen to it.) From Adam Ford on 10 August 2015 at 8.56 am But would there be an issue here if the women’s anthology hadn’t been published first? You start by assuming causality between two distinct events, and agency on behalf of Black Inc. In fact all the things you target are actually just your own assumptions about what’s going on. There is absolutely no basis on which to say “men’s voices and men’s writing studied as such is invalid if it follows on from a similar women’s effort”. That book deserves to be read, analysed and reviewed on its own merit. The men whose words are in that book would be pretty disappointed to have their writing invalidadted in this way, especially where they’re unlikely to have known anything about the broader context here when they penned them. In short, no we don’t support tokenism in gender politics, but I don’t think its fair to characterise an anthology of work from a series of individual writers that would have fap all clue what on earth Black Inc had ever published in that way. And behind all this somewhere is the mildly sexist notion that publishing women’s voices is some kind of “special free kick for the ladies that evens things out with the blokes”. You’ve actually fallen into the trap you’re warning about. Why do you feel the need to discuss an anthology of women’s writing by sizing it up against the male equivalent? Why can’t women’s writing EVER just stand on its own? Because the publication of the second volume doesn’t change one syllable of the first. Yet somehow the existence of the men’s volume has lessened the import of the women’s? That’s all your context and all taking place in your head. – the other other Adam Ford From Thomas on 18 December 2015 at 10.02 am As much I didn’t agree with this article, I just went and bought Something Special, Something Rare https://itunes.apple.com/au/book/something-special-something/id943279776?mt=11 Leave a Reply to Jude Davey Cancel reply

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Article: 94 Prime Minister continuing in office 1[94. Prime Minister continuing in office.-The President may ask the Prime Minister to continue to hold office until his successor enters upon the office of Prime Minister.] 1. Item 20 of the schedule to P.O. No. 14 of 1985, amended the provision of Art. 93, as adopted in 1973 and reproduced it, in place of Art. 94, (w.e.f. March 2, 1985). Art. 94, deleted by substitution, read : “94. Resignation of Prime Minister.–(1) Subject to clause (2), the Prime Minister may by writing under his hand addressed to the President, resign his office and, when the Prime Minister resigns, the Federal Ministers and Ministers of State shall cease to hold office; (2) The Prime Minister and, at the request of the Prime Minister, a Federal Minister shall continue to perform the functions of the office of Prime Minister or, as the case may be, Federal Minister until a new Prime Minister has been elected and has entered upon his office. (3) If the National Assembly is in session at the time when the Prime Minister resigns his office, the Assembly shall forthwith proceed to elect a Prime Minister, and if the Assembly is not in session the President shall for that purpose summon it to meet within fourteen days of the resignation.” Comparative Table of Article 94 of the Constitution of Pakistan, 1973 : Leading & Latest Cases on Article 94 of the Constitution of Pakistan, 1973 : P L D 1977 KARACHI 226 SAEEDA BEGUM AND OTHERS GOVERNMENT OF PAKISTAN AND ANOTHER P L D 1993 SC 473 MUHAMMAD NAWAZ SHARIF PRESIDENT OF PAKISTAN AND OTHERS

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Tentative opioids settlement falls short of nationwide deal GEOFF MULVIHILL and DAVE COLLINS CORRECTION Opioid Crisis Purdue CORRECTS STATE TO OHIO NOT PENNSYLVANIA - Narcotics detective Ben Hill, with the Barberton Police Department, shows two bags of medications that are are stored in their headquarters and slated for destruction, Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2019, in Barberton, Ohio. Attorneys representing some 2,000 local governments said Wednesday they have agreed to a tentative settlement with OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma over the toll of the nation's opioid crisis. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic) HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A tentative settlement announced Wednesday over the role Purdue Pharma played in the nation's opioid addiction crisis falls short of the far-reaching national settlement the OxyContin maker had been seeking for months, with litigation sure to continue against the company and the family that owns it. The agreement with about half the states and attorneys representing roughly 2,000 local governments would have Purdue file for a structured bankruptcy and pay as much as $12 billion over time, with about $3 billion coming from the Sackler family. That number involves future profits and the value of drugs currently in development. In addition, the family would have to give up its ownership of the company and contribute another $1.5 billion by selling another of its pharmaceutical companies, Mundipharma. Several attorneys general said the agreement was a better way to ensure compensation from Purdue and the Sacklers than taking their chances if Purdue files for bankruptcy on its own. Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich said the deal "was the quickest and surest way to get immediate relief for Arizona and for the communities that have been harmed by the opioid crisis and the actions of the Sackler family." But even advocates of the deal cautioned that it's not yet complete. "I don't think there's a settlement," said Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost whose state was among those supporting it. "There is a proposal that's been accepted by a majority of attorneys general, but there are quite a few significant states that have not joined at this point." "There's still a lot of telephone calls going on. I think we see the outlines of a thing that might be, but it's not yet," Yost said in an interview. Opioid addiction has contributed to the deaths of some 400,000 Americans over the past two decades, hitting many rural communities particularly hard. The lawsuits against Stamford, Connecticut-based Purdue paint it as a particular villain in the crisis. They say the company's aggressive marketing of OxyContin downplayed addiction risks and led to more widespread opioid prescribing, even though only a sliver of the opioid painkillers sold in the U.S. were its products. The tentative agreement and expected bankruptcy filing would remove Purdue from the first federal trial over the opioids epidemic, scheduled to begin next month in Ohio. In a statement after Wednesday's announcement, the company said that it "continues to work with all plaintiffs on reaching a comprehensive resolution to its opioid litigation that will deliver billions of dollars and vital opioid overdose rescue medicines to communities across the country impacted by the opioid crisis." Even with Wednesday's development, many states have not signed on. Several state attorneys general vowed to continue their legal battles against the Sacklers and the company in bankruptcy court. Roughly 20 states have sued members of the Sackler family in state courts. Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Wisconsin were among the states saying they were not part of the agreement. "Our position remains firm and unchanged and nothing for us has changed today," Connecticut Attorney General William Tong said in a statement. "The scope and scale of the pain, death and destruction that Purdue and the Sacklers have caused far exceeds anything that has been offered thus far," Tong said. "Connecticut's focus is on the victims and their families, and holding Purdue and the Sacklers accountable for the crisis they have caused." Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro called the tentative deal "a slap in the face to everyone who has had to bury a loved one due to this family's destruction and greed." He said he intends to continue fighting the Sacklers, who he said did not have to acknowledge any wrongdoing in their agreement. "This is far from over," he said. Ryan Hampton, a Los Angeles-based advocate for people in recovery from opioid addiction, said he was launching "a massive effort" among victims' families and others impacted by the crisis to urge state attorneys general not to accept the deal. "The amount of money that's being offered in this settlement doesn't even scratch the surface for what's needed," Hampton said. "We want to see Purdue have their day in court. We know more money will come if this case goes to trial." Wednesday's announcement came just days after a group of attorneys general negotiating directly with Purdue and the Sacklers said they had reached an impasse in talks. At the time, several attorneys general said they were not confident Purdue would pay the amount promised and wanted more assurance that the money would come through. In the latest settlement agreement, New York Attorney General Letitia James accused the Sacklers of "attempting to evade responsibility and lowball the millions of victims of the opioid crisis." On Wednesday, the Sackler family said in a statement that it "supports working toward a global resolution that directs resources to the patients, families and communities across the country who are suffering and need assistance." "This is the most effective way to address the urgency of the current public health crisis, and to fund real solutions, not endless litigation," it said. Some 2,000 lawsuits brought by local governments, Native American tribes, unions and hospitals have been consolidated under a federal judge in Cleveland, who has been encouraging the parties to settle. U.S. District Court Judge Dan Polster invited state attorneys general, who had filed their own lawsuits, to lead the negotiations. How any money from the settlement would be divided among all the entities is not entirely clear. Nevertheless, attorneys representing the local governments issued a statement saying they recommended the governments agree to the deal as a way to bring relief to their communities. In March, Purdue and members of the Sackler family reached a $270 million settlement with Oklahoma to avoid a trial on the toll of opioids there. A court filing made public in Massachusetts this year asserts that members of the Sackler family were paid more than $4 billion by Purdue from 2007 to 2018. Much of the family's fortune is believed to be held outside the U.S., which could complicate lawsuits against the family over opioids. The Sacklers have given money to cultural institutions around the world, including the Smithsonian Institution, New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art and London's Tate Modern. Mulvihill reported from New Jersey. Associated Press writers Jonathan J. Cooper in Phoenix, Carla K. Johnson in Seattle and Julie Carr Smyth in Columbus, Ohio contributed to this report. Paul Gascoigne has pellets in his groin that 'treat alcoholism' - how do they work?

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PAX Moot 2020 About The Moot Horatia Muir Watt Horatia Muir Watt is a Professor of Private International Law and Comparative Law at Sciences Po à Paris, where she co-directs the ‘Global Governance Studies’ program with Jean d’Aspremont. She is a member of the Institute of International law and of the Institut Universitaire de France, and director of the Revue critique de Droit international privé. In private international law, her main publications include a treatise Droit international privé published by Presses Universitaires de France, with Dominique Bureau (4th edition, 2017); Aspects économiques de droit international privé, RCADI 2004 t. ; Discours sur les méthodes du droit international privé, RCADI 2017 and Pocket Bookseries 2018. She directs the PILAGG (private international lawas global governance) research group at Sciences Po. Hans Van Loon Hans Van Loon was Secretary General of the Hague Conference on Private International Law from 1996 until 2013, and a member of its Permanent Bureau (scientific secretariat) since 1978. He contributed to a dozen Hague Conventions on private international law. He also acted as Executive Secretary of the Netherlands Standing Government Committee for the Codification of Private International Law, and as deputy judge in the Arrondissementsrechtbank (District Court) at The Hague. He is a member of the Institut de Droit International, of the Groupe européen de droit international privé (GEDIP), and a honorary member of the Asociación americana de derecho internacional privado (ASADIP). He has lectured and published widely, and advised governments and international organisations on issues of private and public international law. Christelle CHALAS-FASTERLING Christelle Chalas specialises in Private International Law. Her main field of research is family law and international jurisdiction. She wrote her PhD thesis on Forum non conveniens. She regularly publishes in themain French review in PIL, the “Revue critique de droit international privé”. Recently she has been working on Prenuptial Agreements(comparative and international perspective) and on the European Regulations in the fields of divorce, matrimonial regimes and parental responsibility. She is the Maître de conférences (habilité à diriger des recherches) at l’Université Paris 8 / Lecturer (qualified to supervise academic research) at the Université of Paris 8. She also teaches at Sciences Po Law School. Hélène van Lith Hélène van Lith recently joined University Paris IX Dauphine PSL as an Associate Professor of its School of Law. Before that she worked as an Associate Researcher at Sciences Po Law School. Her academic research work includes her doctoral thesis :”International Jurisdiction and Commercial Litigation – Uniform Rules for Contract Disputes”, which was awarded the Swiss AISDC Prize, as well as her research for the Dutch Ministry of Justice on Collective Settlements and Private International Law. In her work at the ICC International Court of Arbitration, Hélène van Lith manages the Commission on Arbitration and ADR and is responsible for several ICC Task Forces. Marta Pertegas Marta Pertegás is a Professor of Law working in the area of private international law, international commercial law,international family law and international civil procedure. From 2008 to 2017,she served as First Secretary at the Permanent Bureau of The Hague Conference on Private International Law in The Hague. Since April 2018, she is also affiliated with Maastricht University as a Full Professor. Professor Pertegás has developed research and outreach projects in cooperation with other international organisations such as the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), in Vienna, the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT) in Rome and the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) in Geneva. Johan Meeusen Johan Meeusen (°1969; LL.M. University of California at Berkeley, 1993; Ph.D. University of Antwerp, 1997) is full professor at the University of Antwerp, where he teaches European Union Law and Conflict of Laws (Private International Law). Professor Meeusen is honorary vice-rector of the University of Antwerp. Professor Meeusen served as vice-rector of the University of Antwerp (2008-2016) and as the dean of its Faculty of Law (2006-2008). Location 27 Rue Saint-Guillaume, 75007 Paris E-mail info@paxmoot.com

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Ximenez-Fatio House to host Sing Out Loud Festival Gamble Jam in September Posted Thursday, August 29, 2019 12:00 am The Ximenez-Fatio House Museum will serve as a unique venue during the Sing Out Loud Festival, Florida’s largest free live entertainment festival and benefit concert returning to St. Augustine in September. The 2019 Sing Out Loud Festival will host hundreds of free concerts at multiple venues around St. Augustine between Sept. 6 and Sept. 29 in a celebration of local, regional and national singers, songwriters, musicians, poets and comedians. Located at 20 Aviles Street, in the renowned original art district in downtown St. Augustine, the Ximenez-Fatio House Museum will feature artists and live music during the festival from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on several Saturdays including Sept. 7, 14 and 28. Plein Air painters will be featured in the Ximenez-Fatio House Museum courtyard from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. and the Gamble Jam with live music will be held from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. The jam session will feature local musicians, plus refreshments available for purchase. Free bottled water will be offered with open areas for seating on grass for visitors and guests. Additionally, Ximenez-Fatio House historic grounds, several rooms and the gift shop will be open. In partnership with the Gamble Rogers Showcase Stage located at Aviles Street and Artillery Lane, the House Museum will serve as another unique venue on Aviles Street during the select dates of the Sing Out Loud Festival. The open jam sessions will feature local musicians who will encourage the public to bring an instrument to participate and play along, or to visit and enjoy the show. For more information and performance schedules, visit www.singoutloudfestival.com.The events are open to the public and free of charge. The City St. Augustine continues to build on the Sing Out Loud Festival’s success with its fourth edition by bringing unique performances ranging from bittersweet Americana, socially conscious punk rock, and powerhouse soul to progressive bluegrass, alternative country and indie pop. Since its inception in 2016, the festival has attracted an estimated 25,000 music fans and featured more than 600 performing artists at more than a dozen venues. Each year the merchants of Aviles Street welcome the music for four Saturdays on the Artillery Lane Sing Out Loud stage. According to Julie Vaill Gatlin, executive director of the Ximenez-Fatio House Museum, the celebrated historic property supports the significance of Aviles Street as a key visitor destination and the oldest street in the USA along with the merchant association’s diligent work to promote the district during the Sing Out Loud festival, and many activities throughout the year. Additionally, the mission of the Ximenez-Fatio House Museum is to participate in ongoing, local public awareness events to further America’s national heritage through historic preservation, patriotic service, and educational projects. The upcoming activities support the property owners, The National Society of The Colonial Dames of America in The State of Florida and the organization’s mission to encourage public outreach which promotes the nation’s heritage through preservation, patriotic service, and educational projects. As a visitor destination, the Ximenez-Fatio House Museum is open for tours from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, and guided tours of the buildings and rooms are available from 10 a.m. until 2:30 p.m., closed on Sundays and Mondays. The property is available for group functions including weddings and events. During tours, regular admission is $5 for St. Johns County residents; adults $10; children, students, seniors and military $8, and the family rate is $25. Private group rates are $6.50 per person. The Ximenez-Fatio House is listed in the National Register of Historic Places and the Historic American Buildings Survey. It is a Florida Heritage Landmark and is also recognized as an integral part of the St. Augustine Town Plan National Historic Landmark District. The House is rated as a top Hall of Fame attraction in St. Augustine by TripExpert and is a TripAdvisor Certificate of Excellence designation venue, awarded to accommodations, attractions and restaurants that consistently earn the highest levels of reviews from travelers. The National Society of The Colonial Dames of America in The State of Florida was incorporated in 1899. In 1939, they bought the Ximenez-Fatio House from the Fatio heirs to use as their state house museum. Considered as one of St. Augustine’s best-preserved Spanish colonial dwellings, the museum depicts the boarding house lifestyle of Florida’s Territorial/Early Statehood Period. It is one of the first museums in America to interpret 19th century women’s history. To view the full schedule of the Sing Out Loud Festival, visit www.singoutloudfestival.com/schedule.

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Watchdog Expected to Find Russia Probe Valid, Despite Flaws By:PolitPoshta The Justice Department’s internal watchdog will release a highly anticipated report Monday that is expected to reject President Donald Trump’s claims that the Russia investigation was illegitimate and tainted by political bias from FBI leaders. But it is also expected to document errors during the investigation that may animate Trump supporters. The report, as described by people familiar with its findings, is expected to conclude there was an adequate basis for opening one of the most politically sensitive investigations in FBI history and one that Trump has denounced as a witch hunt. It began in secret during Trump’s 2016 presidential run and was ultimately taken over by special counsel Robert Mueller. The report comes as Trump faces an impeachment inquiry in Congress centered on his efforts to press Ukraine to investigate a political rival, Democrat Joe Biden — a probe the president also claims is politically biased. Still, the release of Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s review is unlikely to quell the partisan battles that have surrounded the Russia investigation for years. It’s also not the last word: A separate internal investigation continues, overseen by Trump’s attorney general, William Barr and led by a U.S. attorney, John Durham. That investigation is criminal in nature, and Republicans may look to it to uncover wrongdoing that the inspector general wasn’t examining. Trump tweeted Sunday: “I.G. report out tomorrow. That will be the big story!” He previously has said that he was awaiting Horowitz’s report but that Durham’s report may be even more important. Horowitz’s report is expected to identify errors and misjudgments by some law enforcement officials, including by an FBI lawyer suspected of altering a document related to the surveillance of a former Trump campaign aide. Those findings probably will fuel arguments by Trump and his supporters that the investigation was flawed from the start. FILE – U.S. Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz testifies on Capitol Hill, in Washington, Sept. 18, 2019. But the report will not endorse some of the president’s theories on the investigation, including that it was a baseless “witch hunt” or that he was targeted by an Obama administration Justice Department desperate to see Republican Trump lose to Democrat Hillary Clinton in 2016. It also is not expected to undo Mueller’s findings or call into question his conclusion that Russia interfered in that election in order to benefit the Trump campaign and that Russians had repeated contacts with Trump associates. Some of the findings were described to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity by people who were not authorized to discuss a draft of the report before its release. The AP has not viewed a copy of the document. It is unclear how Barr, a strong defender of Trump, will respond to Horowitz’s findings. He has told Congress that he believed “spying” on the Trump campaign did occur and has raised public questions about whether the counterintelligence investigation was done correctly. The FBI opened its investigation in July 2016 after receiving information from an Australian diplomat that a Trump campaign adviser, George Papadopoulos, had been told before it was publicly known that Russia had dirt on the Clinton campaign in the form of thousands of stolen emails. By that point, the Democratic National Committee had been hacked, an act that a private security firm — and ultimately U.S. intelligence agencies — attributed to Russia. Prosecutors allege that Papadopoulos learned about the stolen emails from a Maltese professor named Joseph Mifsud. Papadopoulous pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about that interaction. FILE – Former special counsel Robert Mueller checks pages in the report as he testifies before the House Judiciary Committee hearing on his report on Russian election interference, on Capitol Hill, July 24, 2019. The investigation was taken over in May 2017 by Mueller, who charged six Trump associates with various crimes as well as 25 Russians accused of interfering in the election either through hacking or a social media disinformation campaign. Mueller did not find sufficient evidence to charge a criminal conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia. He examined multiple episodes in which Trump sought to seize control of the investigation, including by firing James Comey as FBI director, but declined to decide on whether Trump had illegally obstructed justice. The inspector general’s investigation began in early 2018. It focuses in part on the FBI’s surveillance of a former Trump campaign adviser, Carter Page. The FBI applied in the fall of 2016 for a warrant from the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to monitor Page’s communications, with officials expressing concern that he may have been targeted for recruitment by the Russian government. Page was never charged and has denied any wrongdoing. Sen. Lindsey Graham, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, which is scheduled to hear testimony from Horowitz on Wednesday, said he expected the report would be “damning” about the process of obtaining the warrant. “I’m looking for evidence of whether or not they manipulated the facts to get the warrant,” Graham, a Republican, said on Fox News Channel’s “Sunday Morning Futures.” The warrant was renewed several times, including during the Trump administration. Republicans have attacked the procedures because the application relied in part on information gathered by an ex-British intelligence operative, Christopher Steele, whose opposition research into the Trump campaign’s connections to Russia was funded by Democrats and the Clinton campaign. In pursuing the warrant, the Justice Department referred to Steele as “reliable” from previous dealings with him. Though officials told the court that they suspected the research was aimed at discrediting the Trump campaign, they did not reveal that the work had been paid for by Democrats, according to documents released last year. Steele’s research was compiled into a dossier that was provided to the FBI after it had already opened its investigation. The report also examined the interactions that senior Justice Department lawyer Bruce Ohr had with Steele, whom he had met years earlier through a shared professional interest in countering Russian organized crime. Ohr passed along to the FBI information that he had received from Steele but did not alert his Justice Department bosses to those conversations. Ohr has since been a regular target of Trump’s ire, in part because his wife worked as a contractor for Fusion GPS, the political research firm that hired Steele for the investigation. This is the latest in a series of reports that Horowitz, a former federal prosecutor and an Obama appointee to the watchdog role, has released on FBI actions in politically charged investigations. Last year, he criticized Comey for a news conference announcing the conclusion of the Clinton email investigation, and for then alerting Congress months later that the probe had been effectively reopened. In that report, too, Horowitz did not find that Comey’s actions had been guided by partisan bias.

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Protests in Hong Kong continue despite escalating police violence By Ben McGrath Protesters demonstrated for the eighth straight weekend in Hong Kong to denounce police violence and to continue demanding democratic reforms, including the full withdrawal of the controversial extradition bill, the resignation of Chief Executive Carrie Lam, and universal suffrage. Rallies took place in different locations throughout the city. On Friday, around 15,000 people staged a sit-in protest at the Hong Kong International Airport, expanding their efforts to reach a broader international audience. They occupied two arrival lobbies, distributing leaflets and holding banners. Protesters also gathered more than 14,600 signatures for a petition demanding government authorities arrest the gangsters involved in an attack on protesters going home last Sunday at a train station in Yuen Long. Protesters in Hong Kong [Source: Twitter—Denise Ho (@hoccgoomusic)] “We want to share this news with tourists, to let the world know about Hong Kong,” a flight attendant and one of the organizers of the rally told the South China Morning Post. “We need the international community. We need people to voice out for us. Maybe on television, you don’t know the full story, but here we have videos and more information and we’re ready to talk to people to explain what is happening,” she said. Margarita Duco, a 24-year-old tourist from Chile, expressed solidarity with the protesters, saying: “The excessive use of violence when there are peaceful manifestations, it’s very common in my country so I can relate to what they are going through.” Flight attendants and airport staff, including those just getting off work, joined the demonstration. The Flight Attendants Union of Cathay Pacific, Hong Kong’s largest airline, stated that it encouraged its membership to participate. The union is a member of the Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions, which supports the pan-democrats in the city and has not organized broader working-class action against the attacks on democratic rights or police violence. Meryl Yeung, a 29-year-old flight attendant, said it was important to dispel notions people had of the protesters as being nothing but violent. “They have no idea at all, they only get information from one side. They think everyone coming to a protest, to a rally, are all rioters or promoting Hong Kong independence.” A group of air traffic controllers stated that they could take action if protesters’ demands are not met. “The (Hong Kong) airport is the world’s busiest cargo gateway and one of the world’s busiest passenger airports,” the statement read. It warned there would be a “huge economic loss” if they decided to halt operations. Further demonstrations took place Saturday in Yuen Long. Rally organizers moved a march planned for Kowloon to the town, but police had not given authorization. Protesters spoke out against the attack carried out the previous week by gangsters affiliated with pro-Beijing lawmaker Junius Ho. The rally began around 2:30 p.m. and grew to 300,000 participants. By 5:30 p.m., the police moved to disperse the protesters, firing tear gas and rubber bullets into the crowd. The authorities attempted to portray the marchers as violent, wielding poles or other makeshift weapons, to justify the sharp escalation in police violence. By the end of the evening, police conducted a baton charge on protesters who were leaving for the evening. Matthew Lam, an 18-year-old demonstrator, described the scene, saying, “The police rushed in without any warning. They were hitting and hitting, they were beating protesters and regular people continuously for at least 20 seconds.” In total, 24 people were sent to the hospital, with those injured ranging in age from 15 to 60. An additional 13 people were arrested between the ages of 18 and 68. Amnesty International condemned the police violence, refuting claims that protesters were responsible for the violence. Man-kei Tam, director of Amnesty International Hong Kong, stated, “There were repeated instances today where police officers were the aggressors; beating retreating protesters, attacking civilians in the train station and targeting journalists.” He added: “Such a heavy-handed response now appears the modus operandi for Hong Kong police and we urge them to quickly change course.” A similar scene occurred during a smaller demonstration on Sunday of tens of thousands, which began at Chater Garden in the Central district, also to denounce police violence. Police had rejected a request for a second demonstration in Sheung Wan, near Beijing’s liaison office, which last week was surrounded by a few hundred demonstrators who sprayed graffiti on the walls of the building. Police responded to last week’s gathering with tear gas and rubber bullets, far out of proportion to the number of protesters. After the Chater Garden rally yesterday, approximately 200 protesters began marching towards the liaison office before being stopped by police. A larger group marched towards the Causeway Bay shopping district. Police again used tear gas to disperse the marchers. Some of the rally participants shouted slogans including, “Reclaim Hong Kong, the revolution of our times,” a phrase used by Edward Leung in the 2016 election. Leung belongs to the right-wing, chauvinist organization Hong Kong Indigenous, which along with similar right-wing groups like Civic Passion, advocates Hong Kong independence. These formations scapegoat mainland Chinese in the city, including children, accusing them of destroying Hong Kong culture and blaming them for the economic crisis facing workers and youth throughout the city. Civic Passion and Hong Kong Indigenous are just one relatively minor political current in a huge, but rather politically amorphous, movement of youth and working people who are determined to defend democratic rights threatened by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) regime and the pro-Beijing administration in Hong Kong. The threat of industrial action by air traffic controllers points to the involvement of the working class and deeper social concerns about poverty, the lack of welfare and housing, and the high cost of living. The movement in Hong Kong is part of a far broader upsurge of the working class internationally against the austerity agenda of governments and attacks on democratic rights. The persistence of the protests in Hong Kong involving a sizeable proportion of the city’s population is paralleled by the long-running “yellow vest” protests in France and the huge rallies in Puerto Rico that ousted Governor Ricardo Rosselló. Despite their size and militancy, the protests in Hong Kong lack a clear political perspective. While most protesters reject the anti-Chinese chauvinism of extreme-right groups such as Civic Passion and Hong Kong Indigenous, the prevalence of so-called Hong Kong localism—seeking to preserve Hong Kong’s culture as distinct from mainland China—is a political dead end. Beijing’s veiled threat last week to use the military to suppress the Hong Kong protests underscores the necessity of a political fight to unify the Chinese working class in Hong Kong and on the mainland where workers also face oppressive social conditions and the ruthless suppression of their democratic rights. Such a struggle against the impact of the worsening crisis of capitalism has to be based on the program of socialist internationalism and the lessons of the historical struggles of the Trotskyist movement—the International Committee of the Fourth International—against Stalinism and Maoism. One million march in Hong Kong on New Year’s Day Pro-Beijing parties suffer heavy defeat in Hong Kong district elections Trump signs Hong Kong “democracy” bill The lessons of the Hong Kong protests for the working class 210 Hong Kong demonstrations US and UK clash over Huawei involvement in 5G rollout US-China trade deal leaves basic conflict festering New Zealand fascist group targets Chinese-born MP Trump sets date for signing of “phase one” trade deal with China

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Prime Minister announces even closer cooperation with Israel The Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, met with the President of Israel, Reuven Rivlin, to celebrate the 70th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Canada and Israel, and the two countries’ long history as close friends, steadfast allies, and partners in international organizations. During the visit, Prime Minister Trudeau and President Rivlin discussed the benefits of progressive trade, and how the updated Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement (CIFTA) will help grow our economies and create good jobs and new opportunities for people and businesses in both our countries. CIFTA will allow for expanded bilateral trade and investment and support Canada’s efforts to diversify our export markets. In addition, Canada and Israel have launched discussions on a youth mobility agreement. The agreement would allow young people from both countries to work when they travel to each other’s country, which would deepen our countries’ strong people-to-people ties and help more young people gain valuable international work experience. Prime Minister Trudeau and President Rivlin agreed on the need to always speak out in the strongest possible terms against anti-Semitism wherever it occurs, and to confront and counter all forms of hatred. “Canada and Israel are close friends and steadfast allies united by democratic values and deep people-to-people bonds. We are proud to stand with Israel. We are continually looking for new ways to expand the trade and security relationship between our two countries – and we will always stand up and speak out against anti-Semitism, wherever it occurs. By updating the Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement, and exploring a youth mobility agreement, we are setting up both of our countries for future prosperity and growth, creating new jobs, and paving the way for an even closer Canada-Israel relationship.” On May 11, 1949, Canada officially recognized and established diplomatic relations with the State of Israel. There are close to 35,000 Canadians living in Israel and a large number of Canadian tourists visit Israel annually. The Canadian-Jewish community numbers more than 350,000 – the fourth largest Jewish community in the world. President Rivlin met with Governor General Julie Payette and planted a blue beech tree on the grounds of Rideau Hall to commemorate his visit. President Rivlin joined the Prime Minister at the National Holocaust Monument in Ottawa, where he laid a wreath. In Toronto, the President launched the Canada-Israel Business Forum. Canada and Israel have a healthy commercial relationship. In 2018, Canadian exports to Israel totalled almost $500 million. Imports from Israel totalled almost $1.4 billion. Since CIFTA’s entry into force, two-way merchandise trade between Canada and Israel has more than tripled, totaling $1.9 billion in 2018. In addition to CIFTA, a key element of the commercial relationship is collaboration in science, technology and innovation. Bilateral science, technology and innovation relations are strong, developed through more than 20 years of close collaboration. The 2014 Canada-Israel Strategic Partnership Memorandum of Understanding facilitates deeper cooperation in areas including energy, security, international aid and development, innovation and the promotion of human rights globally. Governor General announces state visit Canada-President of Israel Canada – Israel Relations

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Matot-Masei 5764-2004 “The Mitzvah of Living in the Land of Israel” In parashat Masei, the second of this week’s double parashiot, G-d speaks to Moses in the Plains of Moab and tells him to tell the Children of Israel that when they pass over the Jordan river and enter the land of Canaan they are to drive out all the inhabitants of the lands and destroy their idols and their places of worship (Numbers 33:50-52). In the next verse, (Numbers 33:53), the people of Israel are once again instructed to rid the land of the inhabitants. “V’ho’rash’tem et ha’ah’retz, vee’shahv’tem bah, kee lah’chem nah’tah’tee et ha’ah’retz la’reh’shet oh’tah.” You shall drive out the inhabitants of the land and dwell therein, for unto you have I given the land to possess it. There is an ancient tradition that the Torah contains “Taryag ,” or 613 mitzvot. What these 613 mitzvot are, however, is subject to dispute. One of the major disputes concerning the 613 mitzvot is whether there is an explicit Torah mitzvah to settle in the land of Israel. Based on these verses in parashat Masei, Numbers 33:52-53, the Ramban (Nachmanides, Rabbi Moshe ben Nachman, 1194-1270, Spanish Torah scholar and commentator) counts the mitzvah of settling in the land of Israel as number 4 on his list of mitzvot. Hence it is known as the “Fourth Mitzvah.” This mitzvah incorporates the command to accept G-d’s offer of the land and to live in it. In his commentary, Nachmanides proclaims this doctrine forcefully: In my opinion, this constitutes a positive command of the Torah, wherein He [G-d] commanded them [the people of Israel] to settle in the land and inherit it; for He gave it to them; and they should not reject the heritage of the Lord! Should it enter their mind, for instance, to go and conquer the land of Shinar [Babylon] or Assyria or another country and settle therein, they would have transgressed the commandment of the Lord… As opposed to Rashi (Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki, 1040-1105, foremost commentator on the Bible), who maintains that the phrase (Numbers 33:52-53), “V’ho’rahsh’tem” means that the people of Israel must drive out (from the root of the Hebrew word “to conquer”) the indigenous inhabitants, Nachmanides interprets ” V’ho’rahsh’tem” to mean that one must “inherit” the land as patrimony. Nachmanides emphasizes that it is up to the people to take this Divinely granted heritage and not be further concerned, for G-d will provide for the security of the Land. In his comments on the Sefer Ha’Mitzvot (Book of Divine Precepts) authored by Maimonides (the Rambam, the great Jewish philosopher, codifier and physician, 1135-1204), Nachmanides outlines at great length where and how he differs with Maimonides in his method of reckoning the 613 mitzvot. Nachmanides takes Maimonides to task for not counting the duty to settle in the land of Israel as a separate mitzvah. Despite the fact that Maimonides, in many of his writings, often underscores the indispensable importance of the land of Israel, he never spells out the mitzvah of settling in the land of Israel as one of the 613 mitzvot. Rabbinic and Talmudic tradition place great emphasis on living in Israel. The midrashic commentary on the Torah known as Sifrei (Deut. 12:29) tells of four rabbis who journeyed from Israel to the Diaspora. When they reached Palatium, a location outside of Israel, they remembered the land of Israel and their eyes welled up with tears. They proceeded to rend their clothes, while recalling the verse: “And thou shall drive out the inhabitants of the land and dwell therein” (Numbers 33:53). At that point, retracing their steps, they returned to Israel and declared forcefully that living in Israel is equal to all the other mitzvot in the Torah. The Talmud in Ketubot 110b underscores the centrality of the Land of Israel by reminding all Jews that it is preferable for a Jew to dwell in a city in Eretz Yisrael, where the majority of the residents are idolaters, than to live outside of Israel, even in a city mostly inhabited by Jews. The rabbis declare that those who reside in the land of Israel are like people who have a G-d, while those who reside outside of Israel are like those who have no G-d and serve idols. Whereas all the other nations merely inhabit and reside in their homelands, the Jews have a particular obligation to observe an ethical and religious way of life in the land of Israel. That is why, according to Nachmanides, the Jews are specifically commanded to take possession of the land of Israel and to live there in order to fulfill this religious mission. Many argue that, in fact, Maimonides also maintained that Jews are duty bound to live in Israel, even though he did not list it among the “Taryag ,” the 613. Maimonides considered himself a sinner for not living in the Holy Land. Furthermore, it is an undisputed halachic ruling that either a husband or wife may insist that their spouse make aliyah (move to Israel), and if the spouse refuses, he/she is penalized. There are those who argue further that Maimonides actually sees the mitzvah of living in the land of Israel as so fundamental that he did not deem it necessary for the mitzvah to be listed and counted. So where does that leave us? Jews who live in galut , the Diaspora, often proffer a host of legitimate and not so legitimate excuses for not living in Israel. Be that as it may, there really are no valid excuses for not visiting Israel regularly or supporting Israel economically. If Diaspora Jews purchase second homes, they should purchase those homes in the land of Israel. If they wish to invest in additional businesses, the land of Israel should be a primary investment consideration. To paraphrase Nachmanides, we, the Jews of the Diaspora, should not look to conquer the alien lands of “Shinar” or “Asyria” or any other country to settle therein. The Diaspora should not be allowed to become the long-term alternative to the land of Israel. To the contrary, the land of Israel must always be seen as the Jew’s primary residence and the Diaspora as a way-station, not a destination. Israel is our land to conquer and to possess. And if we really wish to “possess” it, we can do so only by first “conquering” ourselves. 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“Richmond International Speedway” Henrico County, Virginia 0.75-mile (1.21 km) Short D-Shaped Oval Richmond Raceway (RR) is a 0.75 miles (1.21 km), D-shaped, asphalt race track located just outside Richmond, Virginia in Henrico County. It hosts the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series and NASCAR Xfinity Series. Known as “America’s premier short track”, it has formerly hosted such illustrious events as the NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series, IROC series, IndyCar Series, and the USAC sprint car series. Due to Richmond Raceway’s unique “D” shape which allows drivers to reach high speeds, Richmond has long been known as a short track that races like a superspeedway. With its multiple racing grooves, and proclivity for contact Richmond is a favorite amongst NASCAR drivers and fans.[2] Richmond Raceway is the only track in NASCAR with multiple races on the schedule that hosts all of its events at night. The “Action Track” is noted for having sold out an incredible 33 consecutive NASCAR Cup Series races. The sellout streak ended in September of 2008 partially due to the economic downturn, though the major factor in ticket sales was the impact of Tropical Storm Hanna.[3] Richmond has hosted the final “regular-season” race, leading up to the start of the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs, each year since the concept was introduced in 2004. However, it was announced late in 2017 that Richmond would be moved into the playoffs for the 2018 season. In 2010, the track introduced a state-of-the-art video scoring tower that boasts more LED square footage than any other in the motorsports industry. The cap features four high definition LED screens that measure 38-feet wide by 24-feet high. The screens broadcast live race action and pre-produced video and graphics. The stem shows the running order and has the ability to rotate through the entire field. www.richmondraceway.com

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RAIM-Denver Our Program, FAQ, Contact, More Info… ← Stolen At Gunpoint: Interview with J. Sakai Update 4.31.07 → When Race Burns Class: Interview with J. Sakai WHEN RACE BURNS CLASS “Settlers” Revisited An Interview With J. Sakai EC: In the early eighties you wrote Settlers: Mythology of the White Proletariat, a book which had a major impact on many North American anti-imperialists. How did this book come about, and what was so new about its way of looking at things? JS: Settlers completely came about by accident, not design. And what was so “new” about it was that it wasn’t “inspiring” propaganda, but took up the experience of colonial workers to question how class really worked. It wasn’t about race, but about class. Although people still have a hard time getting used to that–it isn’t race or sex that’s the taboo subject in this culture, but class. Like many radicals who struggle as organizers, i had wondered why our very logical “class unity” theories always seemed to get smashed up around the exit ramp of race? At the time i’d quit my fairly isolated job on the night shift as a mechanic on the railroad, and was running a cut-off lathe in an auto parts plant. The young white guys in our department were pretty good. In fact, rebellious counter-culture dope smoking Nam vets. After months of hanging & talking, one night one of them came up to me and said that all the guys were driving down to the Kentucky Derby together, to spend the weekend getting drunk and partying. They were inviting me, an Asian, as a way of my joining the crew. Only, he said, “You got to stop talking to those Blacks. You got to choose. White or Black.” Every lunch hour i dropped in on a scene on the loading dock, where a dozen brothers munched sandwiches and had an on-going discussion. About everything from the latest sex scandal to whether it was good or not for Third World nations to be getting A-bombs (some said it was good ending the white monopoly on nuclear weapons, while others said not at the price of endangering our asses!). Plus the guy from the League of Black Revolutionary Workers in our plant area had recruited me to help out, since he was facing heavy going from the older, more established Black political tendencies ( various nationalists, the CPUSA–who had great veterans, good shop floor militants –etc). And, why would i go along with some apartheid agenda anyway? Needless to say, the white young guys cut me dead after that (though they later came out for me as shop steward, which shows you how much b.s. they thought the union was). That kind of stuff, familiar to us all, kept piling up in my mind and got me started trying to figure out how this had come about in the u.s. working class. So for years after this i read labor history and asked older trade union radicals questions whenever i could. Finally, an anarchist veteran of the autoworkers’ historic 1937 Flint Sit-Down strike told me that the strike had been Jim Crow, that one of the unpublicized demands had been to keep Black workers down as only janitors….or out of the plants altogether. This blew my mind. That’s when it hit me that the wonderful working class history that the movement had taught us was a lie. So i decided to write an article (famous writer’s delusion) on how this white supremacy started in the u.s. working class. i didn’t know–maybe it was in the 1920s?, i thought. So Settlers was researched backwards. i knew what the conclusion was in the mid-1970s, that white supremacy ruled the white working class except in the self delusions of the Left. “No politician can ever be too racist to be popular in white amerikkka”, is an amazingly true saying. Settlers was researched going back in time, trying to find that event, that turning point when working class unity by whites had dissolved into racial supremacy. 1930s, 1920s, pre-World War I, Black Reconstruction, Civil War, 1700s, 1600s, i kept going back and back, treading water, trying to touch non-white supremacist ground. Only, there wasn’t any! By then it was years later in our lives, and i’d been recruited into doing national liberation movement support work. And was reading Black nationalist writings. One day i caught a speech in which u.s. whites were referred to as “settlers”, meaning invaders or interlopers, as in South Afrika and Rhodesia. Of course, white history always talks about settlers with the non-political connotations of pioneers or explorers or the first people to live in an area (native peoples didn’t count as real people to euro capitalism. They were part of the flora and fauna). This was a moment of the proverbial light bulb turning on in my mind! First chance i got, i asked the UN representative of an Afrikan liberation movement if he thought u.s. whites as a society, including workers, were settler oppressors in the same way as Rhodesians, Boers,or Zionists in Israel? He just said, “Of course.” Upset, i demanded to know why he didn’t tell North Americans this. He only smiled ironically at me, and i won’t even bother telling you what certain Indian comrades said. So Settlers didn’t involve any great genius on my part, just finally listening to the oppressed and what the actual historical experience said about class. Finally. From there it was hard research work, but no conceptual leap at all to see that in general in u.s. history the colonized peoples have been the proletariat, while the white working class has been a labor aristocracy. This has been camouflaged in capitalist history by retroactively assigning white racial membership to various european immigrant peoples who weren’t “white” at the time. For instance, when leading u.s. capitalists started the “Interracial Council” to promote patriotic nationalist integration during World War I, the “races” they wanted to bring together were the Irish race, the Welsh race, the Polish race, the Lithuanian race, the Hungarian race, the Sicilian race, the Rumanian race, and other Europeans that we now think of as only nationalities within the white race. Shows you how race is another capitalist manufactured product. So groups who we think of as “white” today, were definitely not considered “white” in the past. Like in the Midwest steel mills just before World War I, when native-born American WASP men were all foremen and skilled workers—what was called “white man’s work”–while the back-breaking laboring gangs were made up of “Hunkys”, Eastern Europeans. Like immigrant Finnish workers, who weren’t citizens, didn’t speak English, weren’t considered white but “Mongolian”, who were oppressed like draft animals in small town mines and mills in the Northern Midwest, and who made up something like 60% of the total membership of the early communist party. They wanted armed revolution right then, just like against the Czar, and most of them were actually imprisoned or deported. Wiped out as an oppressed class and national group. It’s a long distance in real class from those oppressed revolutionary women and men to the middle-class pedants and would-be commissars of today’s Left. Settlers goes through this real class history. EC: How is settlerism different from racism? JS: This is a useful question, because people are confused about the two. Some people think that “settler” is just a fancy way of saying “white people”, and that it’s all just about racism anyway. Racism as we know it and settlerism both had their origins in capitalist colonialism, and are related but quite distinct. Settler-colonial societies started as invasion and occupation forces for Western capitalism, social garrisons usually in the Third World, as Western capitalism expanded out of Europe into the Americas, Afrika and Asia. Racism as we experience it today didn’t exist before capitalism, which is why many revolutionaries see rooting out the one as requiring rooting out the other. To Europeans before modern capitalism the most important “races” were what we would call nations. Indeed, until well into the 20th century it was widely assumed by Europeans that even different European nationalities were biologically different, and had different mental abilities and propensities. Slavs were thought to be biologically different from Nordics, and Jews were thought to be an exotic race all by themselves. Pre-capitalist and even early capitalist Europe was a lot different from our racial stereotypes. It wasn’t that oppression and bigotry didn’t exist. Obviously, for example, there was a long tradition of anti-semitic and anti-romany persecution in “Christendom”. But the whole context of “race” was unlike what we usually think of. i was astonished to learn that in early 18th century Germany, a leading philosopher, Anton-Wilhelm Amo who lectured at the University of Halle and the University of Jena, was a Black German ( born in Africa, he also signed his name in Latin as “Amo Guinea-Africanus” or Amo the African). Or that Russia’s greatest poet, the 19th century aristocratic Pushkin, was Black by American standards. And nobody cared. And in the time of Marx and Bakunin, the major leader of early German radical unionism was also very visibly Black, and his part-Afrikan heritage accepted. Well, what we’ve been saying all along is that “race” in modern capitalism was originally changed from an undefined difference into a disguise for “class”. Capitalism, after all, always prefers to restructure class differences in drag of some kind (all the better for their manipulations). Like Northern Ireland, where there is supposedly a “religious” or “ethnic” bloody conflict between Catholic Irish Republicans and Protestant Loyalists. Actually, this has been an up-front class conflict between British capitalism’s historic settler garrison population (the Prots) and the historic colonial subjects (the “Catholics”). Both sides European, both “white”. The Northern Ireland Protestant settler working class has always had relative privilege, including the best jobs (sound familiar?). Belfast’s traditional blue-collar “big employer”, the Harland & Wolff shipyard, had always been so dominated by Protestant settler workers that the shipyard union called a pro-imperialist political strike in the 1970s, closing down the yards, to oppose granting any democratic rights at all to Irish Catholics. ( Now, of course, the obsolete shipyards are going out of business, and a globalized British imperialism has much less need for their loyal Unionist servants). The”Orangemen” settlers in Northern Ireland have hated the Irish with just as much crazed viciousness as white u.s. workers hate the oppressed. Irish revolutionary Bernadette Devlin McAliskey picked up on this same comparison in real class when visiting the u.s. in the 1970s. She said afterwards: “I was not very long there until, like water, I found my own level. ‘My people’—the people who knew about oppression, discrimination, prejudice, poverty and the frustration and despair that they produce– were not Irish Americans. They were black, Puerto Ricans, Chicanos. And those who were supposed to be ‘my people’, the Irish Americans who knew about English misrule and the Famine and supported the civil rights movement at home, and knew that Partition and England were the cause of the problem, looked and sounded to me like Orangemen. They said exactly the same things about blacks that the loyalists said about us at home. In New York I was given the key to the city by the mayor, an honor not to be sneezed at. I gave it to the Black Panthers.” So settler-colonialism usually has taken racial form, but it doesn’t have to. In fact, one of the newest examples—the Chinese capitalist empire’s Han settler occupation of Tibet–is all Asian. What we never should lose sight of is that these may be socially constructed differences—but they are real. There’s a certain trend of fashionable white thought that claims that race (or nation) is nothing more than a trick, an imaginary construct that folks are fooled into believing in. So we even find some middle-class white men claiming that they’ve “given up being white” (i can hear my grandmother saying, “More white foolishness!” with a dismissing headshake). Needless to say, they haven’t given up anything. Race as a form of class is very tangible, solid, material, as real as a tank division running over you … tank divisions, after all, are also socially constructed! About another form of this same white racist game—white New Age women deciding to play at “becoming Indian”—Women of All Red Nations activist Andy Smith used to wearily suggest that if they really really wanted to “become Indian” they should live on the rez–the u.s. colony– without running water or jobs, without heat in the winter or education for their children, with real poverty, alcoholism, and violent oppression. So both racism as we know it and settlerism each had their origins in capitalist colonialism and are related, but are also quite distinct. Settler-colonial societies have a specialized history, because they started as invasion and occupation forces for Western capitalism. Usually as social garrisons in the Third World, as Western capitalism expanded out of Europe into the Americas, Afrika, Asia. EC: Some critics have argued that your book suggests that “racial issues” should take precedence over “class issues”… JS: This liberal intellectual polarity that “race issues” and “class issues” are opposites, are completely separate from each other, and that one or the must be the main thing, is utterly useless! We have to really get it that race issues aren’t the opposite of class issues. That race is always so electrically charged, so filled with mass power, precisely because it’s about raw class. That’s why revolutionaries and demagogues can both potentially tap into so much power using it. Or get burned. You can’t steer yourself in real politics, not in amerikkka and not in this global imperialism, without understanding race. “Class” without race in North America is an abstraction. And vice-versa. Those who do not get this are always just led around by the nose, the manipulated without a clue — and it is true that many don’t want any more from life than this. But wising up on race only means seeing all the class issues that define race and charge it with meaning. Why should it be so hard to understand that capitalism, which practically wants to barcode our assholes, has always found it convenient to color-code its classes? When i started high school way back in the daze, it was up North and in theory there was no segregation. But our city school system had five intellectual levels or “tracks”—from the highest college-prep track to the lowest remedial vocational ed track. In a high school that was 85% Black, the top college-prep track never had more than one or two New Afrikans. In fact, those classes would literally close for Jewish holidays. When we started high school all of us non-white types were automatically assigned to the bottom two tracks, which we could only rise out of by “achievement”. Those two “colored” tracks (although there were a few hillbillies in them, too) were non-academic, which meant that after four years of attendance you “graduated” high school—but instead of a diploma you only got a paper “certificate of satisfactory attendance”. This was real good for getting you your slave job as a porter or at the garment factory — my first full-time job, the summer i was 14 — but in fact you couldn’t qualify for college with it even if you had somehow managed to get literate. So college education and middle-class careers just “accidentally” happened to be legally forbidden to most New Afrikans in our city. Everyone knew this who wanted to, it was just a fact of life. So much so that when i started working for the neighborhood gang council (some small gangs, but mostly the big vice-lords and cobras and d’s) as a nerdy ten year-old, the leader said that they wanted me to go on to graduate from high school since none of the rest of them would (obviously, even then Asians were designated to finish school). Of course, now neo-colonial capitalism has had to get much slicker and share some loot, create neo-colonial bourgy classes. Starting a new movement, a new radicalism, we need a better map of class. Which means we need to see what’s really happening with race just for starters. Settlers did that for u.s history, particularly for the Black-Indian-white main structure of colonial capitalism here, but that’s only a beginning. An outline not a full map. It might be good to come at this from a different angle than the customary Black/white situation. Let me use an obscure example from my own life in which race and even anti-racism played out a different kind of subtle class politics. A number of years ago, i was trying to help a group of young Chinese-American activists on an anti-racist campaign. This was an interesting case of how a pure “race” issue only fronted for class politics. Now, these folks were “paper Maoists” in every worst way you could think of — and all my friends know that i’m someone who has warm feelings for the old Chairman. Not only did they have what Mao once called “invincible ignorance”, but were also arrogantly full of Han nationalism. They did have physical courage, at least. Their project was to protest the sports racism in the famous industrial town of Pekin, Illinois—which was originally named in the 19th century after Beijing, and whose high school sports teams were colorfully named “the Chinks”! (capitalism, what an ever-amazing civilization—what next? “Auschwitz! The Perfume!” ). Every week a few carloads of young Asian protesters would arrive in Pekin to picket the high school and city hall, hold television news conferences, and keep the issue simmering in the news. You see, the small flaw in the campaign was that all the protesters had to be imported from New York and Chicago. There were only eight Chinese families in town, and all were refusing to have anything to do with the anti-“Chinks” campaign (not wanting to lose their livelihoods, homes, and be driven out of town by the controversy). By accident, not in any political way, i had casually met two vaguely liberal young white guys there. One was a teacher in that very high school. The second was a UAW (United Auto Workers union) shop steward at the nearby giant Caterpillar tractor assembly plant, which was Pekin’s main industry. So i thought maybe they could be persuaded to get some local people to take a moderate wishy-washy public stand, anything just to give the Chinese families some local community cover if they wanted to speak out (there was zero local support of any kind, including all the unions and churches of course). When i suggested it to this Maoist group, there was a moment’s startled stony silence. Then the leader barked, “We do not work with white people!” Discussion over. So, is this a good example of that error of “racial issues taking precedence over class issues”? i know some radicals might think that, but they’d just be getting faked out. First off, to those activists running it, “race” was not what was central to their thinking. After all, if those Asian American dudes had really been into either “race” or anti-racism they might have started by organizing and working with the local Asian families. They might have tried to help find some survival strategy for these families, who couldn’t just drive off into the sunset after each press conference (being an isolated Asian family in a heavy white racist scene is no joke, obviously). This is just a normal problem in anti-racist work, which folks had to deal with all the time in small towns in 1960s Mississippi, for instance. It also wasn’t true that those Chinese-American leftists “didn’t work with white people”. They did that all the time, when they wanted, and these Han nationalists even argued for the “revolutionary” nature of the white working class . What i came to realize was in that situation they didn’t want any broad community support for the Chinese families there, or to let others into “their” issue. Because they had a really different agenda. Which was to get sole public credit for this and other anti-racist issues, so that their little Maoist “party” could vault into political dominance over the Chinese-American communities. Later, when they thought it necessary, they even used physical violence and death threats to drive other Asian groups away. They intended to be the people in ethnic power, in effect like replacing the tongs . These “paper Maoists” had a pure class agenda, all right, only it was a bourgeois agenda. Although they themselves might have honestly believed what they did was “revolutionary”, they had anti -working class politics hidden by “anti racism” and left people of color talk. And this Maoist group really did get their Andy Warhol-like “15 minutes of fame”, becoming large in part because the more dishonest and destructive their “anti-racist” maneuvers became, the more support they got from white middle-class liberals and “progressives” (coincidentally?). i mean, from many white social-democrats, those white anti-repression “experts”, academic leftists, etc. Those types that subject us to those endless droning lectures about “the working class” (which they aren’t in and don’t get, of course). As a sage comrade of mine always says, “Like is drawn to like” even if their outward appearance is very different. This is a more difficult, easy to slip and fall on, even dangerous way of seeing things than radicals here are used to. But either we learn it well or we’re lost in this post-modern decaying civilization. That dead left way of thinking about “race” and “class” not only isn’t radical, it’s corrupt and anti working class. Why the giant United Auto Workers local down there near Pekin never saw anything wrong with Asian children being forced to go to school in a white supremacist haze, surrounded by constant references to “the Chinks”, was just business as usual for the labor aristocracy in America. In the 1960s and 1970s all those government regulated American unions fought even elementary Civil Rights tooth and nail. Including the most liberal, including those run by white “socialists” like the East Coast garment workers and West Coast longshoremen. Many dissenting Black longshoremen in the 1960s and 1970s were literally barred from the industry for life by the dictatorship of the settler “socialist” labor bosses of the ILWU. As outrageous as it may be, those “socialist” union dictators could just issue orders that this New Afrikan or that Chicano was not to be allowed to work on the docks again ever. Oh, they loved Martin orating and marching non-violently far off in Washington, but they fought Civil Rights inside their industries & unions every bitter step of the way (it’s also true that in places, in Detroit, San Francisco, Flint, New York City, there were small handfuls of maverick white socialists and anarchists who sided with the Black and Latino workers even against their own white left ). The funny thing is that for all the constant “Marxist” blah-blah about government unions as “main roads of the class struggle”, in our lifetime the AFL-CIO unions have been on the wrong side of just about every major mass movement. That’s why they have been back-slapping with Pat Buchanan and helping to legitimize white racism in the current anti-WTO campaign. i guess because that’s their job. Many people conveniently forget that these business unions were rebuilt to conform to tight capitalist laws, are constantly u.s. government regulated and monitored, have involuntary “membership”, and are about as democratic as the USSR (which had elections, reforms and repairs, too, before it broke down under the mismanagement of primitive capitalist empire). Once workers’ “unions” were free associations, were wild, were outside bourgeois law and part of a counter-culture of the oppressed, but these genetically modified creations only use the same name. EC: Speaking of white workers, another criticism I have heard is that you are denying that there even is a white working class in the United States. Would you say this is an accurate reading of your work, or are people missing the point? JS: Now, there obviously is a white working class in the u.s. A large one, of many, many millions. From offshore oil derricks to the construction trades to auto plants. But it isn’t a proletariat. It isn’t the most exploited class from which capitalism derives its super profits. Far fucking from it. As a shorthand i call it the “whitetariat”. These aren’t insights unique to Settlers, by any means. Unfortunately, whenever Western radicals hear words like “unions” and “working class” a rosy glow glazes over their vision, and the “Internationale” seems to play in the background. Even many anarchists seem to fall into a daze and to magically transport themselves back to seeing the militant socialist workers of Marx and Engels’ day. Forgetting that there have been many different kinds of working classes in history. Forgetting that Fred Engels himself criticized the English industrial working class of the late 19th century as a “bourgeois proletariat”, an aristocracy of labor. He pointed out how you could tell the non-proletarian, “bourgeois” strata of the English working class—they were the sectors that were dominated by adult men, not women or children. Engels also wrote that the “bourgeois”sectors were those that were unionized. Sounds like a raving ultra-leftist, doesn’t he? (which he sure wasn’t). So that this is a strategic and not a tactical problem, that it has a material basis in imperialized class privilege, has long been understood by those willing to see reality. (the fact that we have radical movements here addicted to not seeing reality is a much larger crisis than any one issue ). EC: Don’t some of the benefits of living in an imperialist metropole trickle down even into some of the internal colonies, causing some of the distorting effects of settlerism to be replicated within, for instance, the non-white working classes within the United States? JS: Yes, absolutely. Radical workers themselves have often understood this, although the official “Marxist” left has always worked to silence them. Way back in the 1970s two Detroit auto workers wrote a short pamphlet about politics, addressed to “fellow workers who have begun to wonder whether they are going to spend the rest of their lives just hustling for more money…” What was so striking about this was the authors, James Boggs and James Hocker, who between them had over fifty years experience in the plants. Strikes, militant factory caucuses, revolutionary organizations, Black nationalism, mass ghetto rebellions, they had taken part in it all. One of them, James Boggs, had been a close comrade and co-author of the Pan-Afrikan revolutionary historian C.L.R.James. Boggs was one of the leading working-class theoreticians of the 1960s Black Revolution. The role of the white racist construction trades unions back then, who were used by the u.s. government as their unofficial goon squads to beat up Anti-Vietnam War protesters, was infamous. But Boggs and Hocker don’t let their fellow factory workers escape responsibility, either . They remind them (and the rest of us) that all the AFL-CIO unions, even the liberal ones, completely backed u.s. military aggression in Asia, the Caribbean, and Latin America. Nor did it stop there, since Boggs and Hocker saw a direct relationship between the opportunism of all the unions and the opportunism of a bribed u.s. working class. What was so refreshing was that Boggs and Hocker expressly rejected the time-worn and worn-out “radical” argument that u.s. workers are free from all sin ( sort of like the ultimate condom of immaculate conception ), since supposedly “it is only sellout by the union bureaucracy which has kept the workers in check.” “Workers coming into the auto plants today receive economic benefits undreamed of by their predecessors. These benefits tie workers to the company, particularly the high senority workers. It also creates in them a vested interest in the system which exerts a growing influence on how they view the social reality around them. More and more they think only about their own interests. They worry only about how to ‘get mine’ or, at best, ‘get ours'” The two pointed out how auto workers in Detroit refused to fight for better mass transit, because, although they know how much poor people need this, “they also think that adequate public transportation might mean fewer jobs for them.” “This opportunism is clearly demonstrated in dealing with the most important issues of our time, such as the war in Indochina and the inflation caused by the war. “The war in Indochina took the lives of thousands of youth in this country, many of them sons of working class families. But it was the workers and their organizations who demonstrated enthusiastic support for the clearly illegal war perpetrated by the United States government, even when other groups in the society, especially students, were showing by their actions increasing distaste for the war. “Many workers, when challenged individually, would deny that they supported the war. But at the same time they refused to take any actions to exhibit opposition to the war and clearly were hostile to the students who opposed the war. The attitude of most workers was ‘The President knows best’ and in any case what mattered was their jobs—even if their job was making bombs or napam to burn up the Vietnamese… These guys were seriously pissed off at their own class, at their brothers and sisters, and not afraid to lay it all out. But saying that u.s. industrial workers are not as a whole revolutionary or “class conscious”—and check out that Boggs and Hocker, who worked in the Detroit auto factories that were Black-majority, are definitely not just exposing the “whitetariat” alone but Black workers as well— isn’t the end of the road. i’m not saying that we should forget about working class organizing. What i am suggesting is that radical working class politics here needs different strategies than the traditional left has understood. Everything that we’ve discussed just clears away all the middle-class left underbrush, so people can see the actual path before us and get down to work. Settlers didn’t directly deal with all this, naturally, since it’s historical analysis of the oppressor class structure and history . EC: Would you say that organizing within the present-day white working class is hopeless? JS: We need to talk about how people unthinkingly objectify the working classes. It never occurs to anyone to believe that the metropolitan middle classes are going to overthrow the system that privileges them. No one says, “The white doctors and professors and managers are the revolutionary class.” Yet, without any big fuss or posturing, middle-class radicals just organize in those classes when and where they can, all around themselves. Students just form issue groups in even the most elite universities. Teachers try to open minds to social justice, while even some doctors volunteer to serve in refugee camps or argue with the majority of their criminal profession about being healers not rip-offs or stock market addicts. For better or worse, success or defeat. No big political deal, it’s just living the life, the meal that’s set before us. But when it comes to the working classes, whoa, then it’s all this ideological ca-ca. To believe what we’re told, no one should want to organize or educate workers unless they can be sure that the entire class is “bound for glory” as the main force for revolution! (which you won’t see here in this lifetime, trust me). So the white workers as a whole are either the revolutionary answer—which they aren’t unless your cause is snowmobiles and lawn tractors—or they’re like ignorant scum you wouldn’t waste your time on. Small wonder rebellious poor whites almost always seek out the Right rather than the left. There’s an underlying assumption that revolutionary movements worldwide share, that’s always there for us, that we are part of the working classes. That we live our lives in these communities, hold those jobs, try to live productive lives not just do capitalist bullshit, struggle within these class situations. We’re talking in a wide arc here, maybe, but to a point: to how we need to build movements that have the learned skill of the recognition of reality. That understand revolutionary politics as more than abstract ideology, in more than an academic or reform movement way. If radicalism can build small counter-currents of liberation in the overwhelmingly corrupt middle classes, why should similar work be questioned in the white working class communities? What i am fighting is the slick “Marxist” or “anarchist” opportunism, which sees aligning with the white settler majority and reform politics as the absolute necessity. Malcolm X and Women’s Liberation, ACT-UP and Wounded Knee II, Anti-Vietnam War draft card burning and radical ecology, were all shocking to the majority of North Americans. Radical threats to “the American Way of Life”— and loudly condemned not only by the majority but more specifically by the white working class — these political offensives by the few turned everything upside down. Because in the metropolis, radical and democratic change can only come against the wishes of the bribed majority. That may be tough to swallow for white folks, but reality is just reality. This obsession with needing a social majority has nothing to do with being “practical”. What it has to do with is bourgeois and defeatist thinking.This is like the left thinking that could not build a practical anti-fascist movement in Weimar Republic Germany during the 1920s and 1930s, although millions hated Nazism and wanted to do something, because that German left was too preoccupied with fantasies of either seizing or getting elected into state power for itself. That left was too lost in delusions of success almost within their hands, delusions of maneuvering together a majority, to bother even really understanding fascism coming up fast in their rear view mirror. The urgent need was to organize a working minority to counter fascism in a much more radical way. Not by trying to defend liberal bourgeois rule. All the real things that had to be done by scattered German anti-fascists later after the Nazis were put into power—such as to survive politically, to significantly sabotage the war effort, to rescue Jews and Romany and gays, to build an underground against the madness of the Third Reich–all these things were attempted bravely but largely unsuccessfully, because they had to be done too late from scratch. This is a much larger subject, too large to dive into now, but it is on the horizon, like the smoke of a distant forest fire. EC: Are the settler societies of North America different from the racist and imperialist countries in Europe in any kind of fundamental way which should be important to anti-fascists? JS: Which takes us into somewhat different ground. i’m not knowledgeable enough on European politics–or on Canada– so that i could do a list of point by point comparisons. What i’d like to do instead is to talk about u.s. society, and readers themselves can see if the comparisons make any sense. And, yes, i’ve run into young fascists of the “stormtrooper” variety, with their gray semi-waffen s.s. uniforms, open veneration of Hitler, open talk of “mud races”, etc. i still think that fascism here has been very influenced by its birth within a settler society, instead of being just some lame copy of the German experience. Just as Israeli settler neo-fascism has a very different language and public look from that of their Nazi tutors (taking a religious fundamentalist form). The most conspicuous difference between Europe and North America was class in the outward form of race. In the centuries before World War II, the overwhelming mass of the European populations were poor and in misery. They were the proletarian classes, the laborers, poor peasants, and oppressed industrial workers. But in the settler colonies and nations, the lowest classes, the proletarians, were the natives, the conquered, or the imported colonial laborers. While white settler workers were automatically, from birth, no matter how poor, a whole level up. As W.E.B. DuBois remarked about poor white workers in the post-Civil War South. Thanks to imperialism. Which is why the mass of French colons in Algeria solidly supported imperialism against the Algerian people. Why millions of working class and poor whites in the segregationist u.s. South were more than willing to help police and kill and terrorize Black people. And even today, a century and more later, if we left it up to the white majority, the u.s. would secede from NAFTA and the WTO all right—and fly the Confederate flag! In many settler societies, historically the white population not only supported the police, in part they were the police. Unlike in Old Europe, where in general the masses of people were kept disarmed and landless, in settler colonies often the entire euro-male culture revolved around common and cheap access to land and rifles and the bodies of the oppressed. Posses or militias or “Committees of Correspondence” or lynch mobs of armed men enforced the local settler dictatorship over Indians, Latinos, Afrikans, Asians, North Afrikans, women, etc. And white men of all classes joined in, to affirm their membership in the most important “class” of all. Settlerism filled the space that fascism normally occupies. So in the 1920s and 1930s large fascist movements arose in Old Europe out of the bitter class deadlock in war-torn societies. But in the u.s. then, while there were small fascist groups and certainly real currents of sympathizers (enough to fill Madison Square Garden in Manhattan on one occasion), there was no mass movement for fascist seizure of power itself. Nor was the ruling class close to implementing fascism. The sputtering flareups of attempted fascist coups by ruling class elements against the reformist Roosevelt New Deal (Colonel McCormick’s Chicago Tribune newspaper calling for the assassination of the President, or the DuPont abortive seizure of Washington using suborned u.s. marines) were easily shrugged off. There was major u.s. imperialist support for Italian, Spanish and German fascism before and even during World War II, as opposed to support for fascism at home. Fascism was distinct from racism or white supremacy, which were only ” As American as apple pie.” Neither the ruling class nor the white masses had any real need for fascism. What for? There was no class deadlock paralyzing society. There already was a long standing, thinly disguised settler dictatorship over the colonial proletariat in North America. In the u.s. settlerism made fascism unnecessary. However good or bad the economic situation was, white settlers were getting the best of what was available. Which was why both the white Left and white Far Right alike back then in the 1930s were patriotic and pro-American. Now only the white Left is. The white Left here is behind in understanding fascism. When they’re not using the word loosely and rhetorically to mean any repression at all (like the frequent assertions that cutting welfare is “fascism”! i mean, give us a break!), they’re still reciting their favorite formula that the fascists are only the “pawns of the ruling class”. No, that was Nazism in Germany, maybe, though even there that’s not a useful way of looking at it. But definitely not here, not in that old way. The main problem hasn’t been fascism in the old sense–it’s been neo colonialism and bourgeois democracy! The bourgeoisie didn’t need any fascism at all to put Leonard Peltier away in maximum security for life or Mumia on death row. They hunted down the Black Panthers and the American Indian Movement like it was deer hunting season, while white America went shopping at the mall–all without needing fascism. And the steady waterfall of patriarchal violence against women, of rapes and torture and killings and very effective terrorism on a mass scale, should remind us that the multitude of reactionary men have “equal opportunity ” under “democracy “, too. They don’t need fascism–yet. Right now under neo-colonial “democracy”, the system of patrolling and confining the Black Nation is at a fever pitch. Every known narcotic is being shoved and shoveled onto the streets of the Nation like it was confetti at parade time—coke, heroin, malt liquor, Bud, crack, commodified sex, you name it. The huge 2 million inmate u.s. prison system contains the largest single Black community of all. One out of every four Black men in Washington, D.C. is in jail, prison, on parole or probation, or awaiting trial–i.e. under direct supervision by the law enforcement system . Even Ronald K. Noble, the new Secretary General-designate of INTERPOL, has written that he regularly gets stopped, questioned, and sometimes even searched by u.s. police (in Europe, too, of course). And if the top law enforcement official in the capitalist world gets routinely stopped as a Black man for u.s. racial police checks, guess what happens to the unemployed, to young working class Black men. The old Black industrial working class has been largely wiped out, and warlord armies and gangs given informal state permission to rule over much of the inner city at gunpoint. A few years ago i went home with a comrade. When we got off the bus, all the passengers started walking home down the middle of the street. My friend explained that all the sidewalks were “owned” by one or another dope gang or dealer, reserved for their crew and customers. You walked in the street or you got taken down by a 9mm. While the new Black middle class takes itself out of the game, flees the old communities and disperses itself into the suburbs.Why would capitalists need fascism? “Democracy” is doing the job for them full gale force–and let’s not forget that North America has at the same time become the conscience of the world lecturing everyone else on human rights. “How sweet it is!” ( Guess Leonard Peltier must be a prisoner in China ). But i am not saying that the situation is static, or that past history isn’t being razed and rebuilt. All variants of capitalist metropolitan societies are becoming slowly but surely more alike, Quebec and Raleigh, Tokyo and Frankfurt, as capital expands, develops, and merges. While Western European farmers complain about McDonalds and agrobusiness, they willingly accept the most significant “Americanization”–the replacement of Western European labor with Algerians, Turks, Albanians, etc. Throughout Europe the proletariat has been pushed outside of national boundaries socially–just as euro-settlerism once did in the Third World–and is being redefined as Arab, Filipino, Algerian, Turkish, Albanian, Afrikan, and so on. And, as Arghiri Emmanuel has noted, imperialism is gradually abandoning its own kith and kin, its settler societies. We first saw this in Kenya in 1960, where the British settler colony was unceremoniously dumped after the Mau Mau Rebellion in favor of an Afrikan neo-colonial regime. Then in Algeria, where French imperialism gave up on what had by their laws been an actual province of France–and left a million French Algerian settlers to lose their farms and homes and possessions, to flee in a frenzied mass evacuation. Capitalism has no loyalties, after all, only interests (to paraphrase a famous statesman). It was only then that the colons and their military sympathizers sought an end to French bourgeois democracy, to start a new fascist interlude. Even in North America settlers are being told by imperialism to move over and make room for new immigrants from Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and Afrika. To pay the bill as the state gives back some land and reparations and tax concessions to Native nations. And they certainly hate it! So there is a certain convergence, of settler and non-settler metropolitan societies becoming more alike. In the u.s. the increasingly global ruling class has no need of domestic fascism– so far. But white mass politics is not confined to taking phone calls from the ruling class. Far from it. EC: How do you view the rise of the Far Right, specifically the American Far Right? JS: We can see that neo-fascism is a growing factor in u.s.politics. Still marginal, but already more significant than,say, white Marxism. The Far Right is politically strong enough, represents so much mass sentiment, that its momentary electoral champion—Pat Buchanan—has become the hero of some trade unions and the closet ally of white socialists and anarchists in the anti-WTO campaign. [for more details on the right wooing the left in the anti-globalization movement, see My Enemy’s Enemy, published by Anti-Fascist Forum] And again, to understand this dynamic we have to lay aside 1930s’ political formulas and take the social reality in a fresh way. Were Timmy McVeigh and his comrades “tools of the ruling class” when they dusted the federal building in Oklahoma City? Does finance capital & the big bourgeoisie pull the strings behind the Militia Movement as it spreads doctrines of tax resistance, seizing federal land, and targeting the imperialist state as white man’s main enemy? You’d have to be nuttier than they are to believe that! The old “pawns of the ruling class” 1930s analysis of European fascism do not apply right here in the old way. This is too big a subject for me to go into fully here, but the broad outline is obvious. The Far Right is growing steadily, moving on the offensive, as white settler society itself is fragmenting and being forced to gradually give up its old national form under immense pressures from the new global imperialism. In this fragmentation, some sectors and classes of the old settler society are now more open to neo-fascism in their desperate search for a new civilization for themselves in which they will still be masters of the land. While in Europe the much larger fascist current has manifested itself by violent attacks on immigrant labor and on defending the concept of the old nations, in the u.s. the New Right is primarily concerned with attacking the u.s. state itself, using both armed struggle and mass political organizing, and founding new self-governing cults and societies . That is to say, it is an emerging revolutionary movement, albeit still a small one. The Left has little daily contact with the fascists, because they are in different classes and live in different geographic areas and are in diverging societies. In the best guerrilla fashion, this New Right is by-passing the major cities, with their massive Third World populations, corporate economies and large state machinery. Rather, their focus is on winning de facto power inside the marginalized white male populations. Romeoville, Illinois rather than Chicago. Prisons rather than Ivy League colleges. Theirs is a re-statement of the early settler vision, of setting up independent outposts of a racially-cleansed culture, on re-pioneered white land. With heavily armed bands of once again masculine white men pushing out the mercenary u.s. authorities. For a period of time we could see both white fascist Right and the white Left–working in geographically separate cultures on this vast continent– grow without impinging on or really clashing with each other. Both mostly white “Free Mumia” campaigns in the old major cities and the quiet ouster of federal agents from Western lands. The old Right of the 1920s Klan or 1960s White Citizens Councils or Minutemen or Jewish Defense League were patriotic & pro-u.s.a. They saw themselves as “saving” the traditional America, and often cooperated closely with and were led by local business, police, the f.b.i. and government officials. In a major reversal, the new Far Right is radically anti-American. It sees their white male settler empire of “America from sea to shining sea” as really lost. Its cities taken over by the sub-human millions of the “mud races”, its economy drained by the “Jew banks” and the alien corporate economy, its culture polluted by hostile genetic contaminants, its once-proud citizens increasingly without rights and dictated to by the shell of the former “u.s.government” which is now the “Zionist Occupation Government”. And while the masses of conservative euro-amerikans are not yet fascist, neither are they anti-fascists. And the hard-core of the new Far Right is very fascist, since neo-fascism represents the basic ideology that the aspiring white “lumpenbourgeoisie” need to restart and reorganize a part of settler society as their own private fiefdom. The u.s. constitution just doesn’t work for them. Just as Trudjman and Milosevic, who once were Yugoslavian patriots and “socialists” when that met their class interests, turned to neo fascism and genocidal ethnic nationalism to be “born again” as the local “lumpenbourgeoisie” under global imperialism. Take the David Duke phenomenon. As we all know, in 1990 Louisiana state representative David Duke ran for the u.s. senate. In losing Duke still won a large majority of the statewide white vote, some 57%. His highest percentage of votes came from white workers with incomes under $15,000 a year. This despite the fact that Duke was and is notorious not “merely” as a racist, but as someone who has spent his entire adult life as a very public neo-nazi organizer, propagandist, and leader. He was opposed by both Republican and Democratic Parties, and the churches, civic and business organizations. The entire media machine kept exposing and criticizing him, repeatedly running old photos of him in his American Nazi Party uniform. Yet, if it wasn’t for the Black voters, David Duke–naked fascist agenda and all– would have emerged as one of the most powerful politicians and in the u.s. senate. You can see why granting Black people the vote was so important to u.s. imperialism–and why the white masses were carefully never given a chance to directly vote on it! For sure, the growth of fascism here has many class contradictions of its own, and their Aryan future is far from certain. But it is significant that while the masses of euro-amerikans are not fascists, being neo-fascist is quietly acceptable to many of them. Today the radical future is dividing into those who–whatever their strategies and ideologies–recognize that fact, and those who still wish to avoid facing it. 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Bret McKenzie (I) Soundtrack | Writer | Actor Known for Flight of the Conchords (2007-2009), The Muppets (2011), Muppets Most Wanted (2014), The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) Jun 29, 1976 (age 43) | 6' 0" (1.83m) 1 official web site & 13 more links Become a member to see Bret McKenzie's STARmeter. Won 1 Oscar Award. Another 11 wins & 24 nominations Become a member to see Bret McKenzie's contact information. Projects in Development (4 titles) Bob: The Musical Original Songs By Original Songs By See fewer Development Unknown Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas (TV Special) - Writer Writer See fewer Optioned Writer Writer See fewer Untitled Bret McKenzie Project Producer ("Hooray! We Did It"), Writer ("Hooray! We Did It") Producer ("Hooray! We Did It"), Writer ("Hooray! We Did It") See fewer Sainsbury's: The Greatest Gift (2016) (Video) - Composer Composer See fewer Ninja Sex Party: 6969 (2016) (Short) - Thanks (as Flight of the Conchords) Thanks (as Flight of the Conchords) See fewer Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016) Very Special Thanks Very Special Thanks See fewer Flight of the Conchords: Ladies of the World (2014) (Video) - Himself, Composer Himself, Composer See fewer Muppets Most Wanted (2014) Music Supervisor, Original Songs By, Lyrics ("Interrogation Song"), Music ("Interrogation Song"), Producer ("We're Doing a Sequel", "I'm Number One", "The Big House", "I'll Get You What You Want (Cockatoo In Malibu)", "Interrogation Song", "Something So Right", "Together Again"), Writer ("Life's A Happy Song", "We're Doing a Sequel", "I'm Number One", "The Big House", "I'll Get You What You Want (Cockatoo In Malibu)", "Something So Right") Music Supervisor, Original Songs By, Lyrics ("Interrogation Song"), Music ("Interrogation Song"), Producer ("We're Doing a Sequel", "I'm Number One", "The Big House", "I'll Get You What You Want (Cockatoo In Malibu)", "Interrogation Song", "Something So Right", "Together Again"), Writer ("Life's A Happy Song", "We're Doing a Sequel", "I'm Number One", "The Big House", "I'll Get You What You Want (Cockatoo In Malibu)", "Something So Right") See fewer NotBad (2013) (Short) - Writer ("One by One") Writer ("One by One") See fewer Austenland (2013) Martin Martin See fewer £4.9MM Lindir Lindir See fewer Deano and Nige's Best Last Day Ever (2012) Nige Nige See fewer The Pirates! Band of Misfits (2012) Writer ("I'm Not Crying") Writer ("I'm Not Crying") See fewer Outback (2012) Hamish (voice) Hamish (voice) See fewer The Muppets (2011) Music Supervisor, Original Songs By (uncredited), Lyrics ("Rainbow Connection (Moopet Version)"), Producer ("Life's a Happy Song", "Pictures in My Head", "Me Party", "Let's Talk About Me", "Man or Muppet", "Rainbow Connection", "Life's a Happy Song (Finale)"), Writer ("Life's a Happy Song", "Me Party", "Let's Talk About Me", "Man or Muppet", "Life's a Happy Song (Finale)") Music Supervisor, Original Songs By (uncredited), Lyrics ("Rainbow Connection (Moopet Version)"), Producer ("Life's a Happy Song", "Pictures in My Head", "Me Party", "Let's Talk About Me", "Man or Muppet", "Rainbow Connection", "Life's a Happy Song (Finale)"), Writer ("Life's a Happy Song", "Me Party", "Let's Talk About Me", "Man or Muppet", "Life's a Happy Song (Finale)") See fewer Bret and Jemaine's Announcement (2010) (Short) - Himself, Writer Himself, Writer See fewer Diagnosis: Death (2009) Dr. Cruise Dr. Cruise See fewer Pantsed (2008) (Short) - Date Date See fewer Sheep Man (2006) (Short) - Composer Composer See fewer What We Do in the Shadows: Interviews with Some Vampires (2005) (Short) - Special Thanks (as Bret) Special Thanks (as Bret) See fewer Futile Attraction (2004) Wickham Wickham See fewer NZD 30K Elf Escort Elf Escort See fewer Tongan Ninja (2002) Kitchen Choreographer Kitchen Choreographer See fewer Figwit (uncredited) Figwit (uncredited) See fewer The Sara Cox Show (2019) (TV Series) - Writer ("Think About It") (1 episode, 2019) Writer ("Think About It") (1 episode, 2019) See fewer Episode #1.23 (Jul 6, 2019) Season 1, Episode 23 - Writer ("Think About It") (uncredited) Writer ("Think About It") (uncredited) See fewer Flight of the Conchords: Live in London (2018) (TV Special) - Bret, Composer, Producer, Writer Bret, Composer, Producer, Writer See fewer Bajillion Dollar Propertie$ (2017) (TV Series) - Huck (1 episode, 2017) Huck (1 episode, 2017) See fewer Looking Foreword (Jun 1, 2017) Season 3, Episode 7 - Huck Huck See fewer The Simpsons (2010–2015) (TV Series) - Kurt (1 episode, 2010), Music ("Medium T-Shirt", "Meal Lady", "We Never Do That", "Artists", "Artists Reprise", "Playing Guitars") (1 episode, 2010), Music ("LV U 4 Ever") (1 episode, 2015) Kurt (1 episode, 2010), Music ("Medium T-Shirt", "Meal Lady", "We Never Do That", "Artists", "Artists Reprise", "Playing Guitars") (1 episode, 2010), Music ("LV U 4 Ever") (1 episode, 2015) See fewer Friend with Benefit (Nov 8, 2015) Season 27, Episode 6 - Music ("LV U 4 Ever") Music ("LV U 4 Ever") See fewer Elementary School Musical (Sep 26, 2010) Season 22, Episode 1 - Kurt (voice), Music ("Medium T-Shirt", "Meal Lady", "We Never Do That", "Artists", "Artists Reprise", "Playing Guitars") Kurt (voice), Music ("Medium T-Shirt", "Meal Lady", "We Never Do That", "Artists", "Artists Reprise", "Playing Guitars") See fewer Todd's Pop Song Reviews (2010–2015) (TV Series) - Writer ("Business Time") (1 episode, 2010), Writer ("It's Business Time") (1 episode, 2015) Writer ("Business Time") (1 episode, 2010), Writer ("It's Business Time") (1 episode, 2015) See fewer Top Ten Best Hit Songs of 2014: Part 1 (Jan 31, 2015) Season 7, Episode 3 - Writer ("It's Business Time") Writer ("It's Business Time") See fewer Bedrock (Mar 4, 2010) Season 3, Episode 12 - Writer ("Business Time") Writer ("Business Time") See fewer Danville 2nd Ward Young Men (2013) (TV Series) - Writer ("Life's A Happy Song" (from "The Muppets"), "Hiphopapotamus vs. Rhymenoceros" (from "Flight of the Conchords")) (1 episode, 2013) Writer ("Life's A Happy Song" (from "The Muppets"), "Hiphopapotamus vs. Rhymenoceros" (from "Flight of the Conchords")) (1 episode, 2013) See fewer Showbiz Tour 2013 (Jun 19, 2013) Season 5, Episode 4 - Writer ("Life's A Happy Song" (from "The Muppets"), "Hiphopapotamus vs. Rhymenoceros" (from "Flight of the Conchords")) Writer ("Life's A Happy Song" (from "The Muppets"), "Hiphopapotamus vs. Rhymenoceros" (from "Flight of the Conchords")) See fewer Dancing with the Stars (2011) (TV Series) - Writer ("Life's a Happy Song") (1 episode, 2011) Writer ("Life's a Happy Song") (1 episode, 2011) See fewer Round Nine: The Results (Nov 15, 2011) Season 13, Episode 21 - Writer ("Life's a Happy Song") Writer ("Life's a Happy Song") See fewer Naruto: The Abridged Comedy Fandub Spoof Series Show (2010) (TV Series) - Writer ("Bowie") (1 episode, 2010) Writer ("Bowie") (1 episode, 2010) See fewer Bowie no jutsu! 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Help to Buy near Elephant and Castle Elephant park Elephant Park is one of the capital’s greatest reinventions. And if you invest here, you’ll be reaping the rewards in years to come. Where is it? In Elephant and Castle of course. Once-upon-a-time, this corner of Southwark conjured dreary images of concrete and quite possibly, one of London’s ugliest shopping centres. And if you’ve ever cycled around its multi-lane double roundabout, you’re made of stronger stuff than most. Fast-forward a few years, however, and a whole new aesthetic is slowly transforming this southern corner of the capital thanks to a whopping cash injection of £3 billion. How is the skyline changing? New contemporary and design-focused housing developments. As for the roundabouts, they’re still there but they’ve had a bit of a facelift, and the shopping centre is being perked up too. Thanks to the transformative works, a crowd of bright young things are moving in, bringing a fresh, creative energy that’s spawned a bunch of interesting independent enterprises: look to the Artworks Hub – a collective of yoga studios, foodie joints with far-flung flavours and quirky clothes emporiums. There’s also Lost Rivers Elephant – a thriving new entertainment space, crafted from shipping containers, where live bands, performance artists and comedy acts take to the stage. What can we expect from Elephant Park? Big things. It’s an intensive regeneration project bringing 3,000 new homes to the borough by 2025, plus shops, restaurants, cafes and workspaces. This is all centred around a vast rambling park - the largest new green space in central London for 70 years - peppered with children’s play areas, cycle paths and meadows. All this and you’re still in Zone 1 with fast links thanks to nearby Elephant and Castle underground station (Bakerloo and Northern) and Elephant and Castle railway station (served by Thameslink and Southeastern trains), as well as more than 50 bus routes. Just because Elephant Park is new and innovative and in Zone 1, doesn’t mean first-time buyers won’t have a look in. Far from it. Many of the plush properties for sale in Elephant Park are available through help to buy – the government-backed scheme that helps homeowners step on the property ladder with just a 5% deposit and an equity loan that’s interest free for the first five years. What’s currently on the market? Look to West Grove – the second phase of Elephant Park – with its luxurious collection of one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments, some with spacious balconies, others with terraces and far-reaching city views; but all are light-filled, slick and modern. Buy here and you’ll also have round-the-clock concierges, an on-site gym and surrounding lush gardens. There’s also South Gardens with similarly smart apartments up for sale, many of which open to views of the landscaped courtyards. So what are you waiting for? Create an account and Property Booking will guide you through the process and you’ll be onto a winner.

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Supreme Court Blocks Trump Administration From Restarting Federal Executions Written by <a href="index.php?option=com_comprofiler&task=userProfile&user=6551"><span class="small">Mark Sherman, Associated Press</span></a> Sherman writes: "The Supreme Court on Friday blocked the Trump administration from restarting federal executions next week after a 16-year break." Supreme Court building. (photo: Scott Applewhite/AP) By Mark Sherman, Associated Press he Supreme Court on Friday blocked the Trump administration from restarting federal executions next week after a 16-year break. The justices denied the administration’s plea to undo a lower court ruling in favor of inmates who have been given execution dates. The first of those had been scheduled for Monday, with a second set for Friday. Two more inmates had been given execution dates in January. Attorney General William Barr announced during the summer that federal executions would resume using a single drug, pentobarbital, to put inmates to death. U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan in Washington, D.C., temporarily halted the executions after some of the chosen inmates challenged the new execution procedures in court. Chutkan ruled that the procedure approved by Barr likely violates the Federal Death Penalty Act. The federal appeals court in Washington had earlier denied the administration’s emergency plea to put Chutkan’s ruling on hold and allow the executions to proceed. Federal executions are likely to remain on hold at least for several months, while the appeals court in Washington undertakes a full review of Chutkan’s ruling. The Supreme Court justices directed the appeals court to act “with appropriate dispatch.” Justice Samuel Alito wrote in a short separate opinion that he believes the government ultimately will win the case and would have set a 60-day deadline for appeals court action. Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh joined Alito’s opinion. Justice Department spokeswoman Kerri Kupec said the legal fight would continue. “While we are disappointed with the ruling, we will argue the case on its merits in the D.C. Circuit and, if necessary, the Supreme Court,” Kupec said in a statement. Four inmates won temporary reprieves from the court rulings. Danny Lee was the first inmate scheduled for execution, at 8 o’clock Monday morning. Lee was convicted of killing a family of three, including an 8-year-old. The government had next planned on Friday to execute Wesley Ira Purkey, who raped and murdered a 16-year-old girl and killed an 80-year-old woman. His lawyers say Purkey is suffering from dementia and he has a separate lawsuit pending in federal court in Washington, D.C. Then in January, executions had been scheduled for Alfred Bourgeois, who tortured, molested and then beat his two-and-a-half-year-old daughter to death, and Dustin Lee Honken, who killed five people, including two children. A fifth inmate, Lezmond Mitchell, has had his execution blocked by the federal appeals court in San Francisco over questions of bias against Native Americans. Mitchell beheaded a 63-year-old woman and her 9-year-old granddaughter.

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UK Voters Choose a New Government to Resolve Brexit Impasse Written by <a href="index.php?option=com_comprofiler&task=userProfile&user=52534"><span class="small">Danica Kirka, Mike Corder and Jill Lawless, Associated Press</span></a> Excerpt: "Britons who have endured more than three years of wrangling over their country's messy divorce from the European Union cast ballots Thursday in an election billed as a way out of the Brexit stalemate in the deeply divided nation." Britain's opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn poses outside a polling station after voting in the general election in London, Britain, December 12, 2019. (photo: Hannah McKay/Reuters) By Danica Kirka, Mike Corder and Jill Lawless, Associated Press ritons who have endured more than three years of wrangling over their country’s messy divorce from the European Union cast ballots Thursday in an election billed as a way out of the Brexit stalemate in the deeply divided nation. On a dank, gray day in most of the country, voters went to polling stations in schools, community centers, pubs and town halls after a bad-tempered five-week campaign rife with mudslinging and misinformation. The contest pits Conservative Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who says he will take Britain out of the European Union by Jan. 31, against the opposition Labour Party led by Jeremy Corbyn, who promised another referendum on Brexit. All 650 seats in the House of Commons are up for grabs in the election that is being held more than two years ahead of schedule. Opinion polls suggest the Conservatives have a lead over Labour. But all the parties are nervous about the verdict of a volatile electorate fed up after years of Brexit wrangling. At a fish market in the eastern England port of Grimsby, seafood company owner Nathan Godley summed up the hopes of many people that — one way or another — the election would provide a pathway to a resolution of Brexit. “I think we all got a bit weary of the politicians over the last few years really and I think having a government with a majority to give them the clout to actually do what they want is a good thing,” he said. Johnson voted near the prime minister’s Downing Street residence in London, accompanied by his dog, Dilyn. Corbyn was greeted by supporters and an activist dressed as Elmo from “Sesame Street”as he arrived to vote at a school in his north London constituency. The two parties are offering voters starkly different visions of the future. Johnson campaigned relentlessly on a promise to “Get Brexit done” — and promised a modest increase in public spending — while Labour vowed to tax the rich, nationalize industries such as railroads and water companies and give everyone in the country free internet access. On Brexit, Labour says it will negotiate a new divorce deal with the EU and then offer voters the choice of leaving the 28-nation bloc on those terms or remaining. The prime minister pushed for this early election to try to break a logjam in Parliament that stalled approval of his Brexit agreement in October. He says that if he wins a majority, he will get Parliament to ratify his “oven-ready” divorce deal with the EU and take Britain out of the bloc as scheduled on Jan. 31. Opinion polls have consistently showed the Conservatives in the lead, but recent surveys suggest the margin may have narrowed in the final days of campaigning. While Labour is unlikely to get an outright majority, smaller opposition parties hope to win enough seats so they can team up to block Johnson’s Brexit plans. Photos of lines at polling stations suggested a brisk early turnout. Chris Schofield said more than 70 voters were waiting in the Bermondsey and Old Southwark constituency in London. “It’s about 20 times busier than it was in 2017, and for the locals and Euro elections,” the 27-year-old consultant told the Press Association news agency. “Atmosphere is very London: orderly queuing and no-one is talking to each other!” In Glasgow, Simon MacFarlane, a 49-year-old trade union worker, said the election was about more than just Brexit. “The issues facing the poorest people in Glasgow are no different from the poorest people in Liverpool, Manchester, or elsewhere around the whole of the country and Belfast,″ he said. “So, we need to tackle those issues. We have had enough of constitutional politics at this point in time.″ The Conservatives have focused much of their energy on trying to win in a “red wall” of working-class towns in central and northern England that have elected Labour lawmakers for decades but also voted strongly in 2016 to leave the EU. Polls suggest that plan may be working, and the Conservatives also have been helped by the Brexit Party led by Nigel Farage, which decided at the last minute not to contest 317 Conservative-held seats to avoid splitting the pro-Brexit vote. Labour, which is largely but ambiguously pro-EU, faces competition for anti-Brexit voters from the centrist Liberal Democrats, Scottish and Welsh nationalist parties, and the Greens. Labour has tried to focus the campaign on the National Health Service, a deeply respected institution that has struggled to meet rising demand after nine years of austerity under Conservative-led governments. One of the campaign’s defining images was a photo of a sick 4-year-old boy sleeping on a hospital floor because no beds were available. Johnson’s initial failure to even look at the photo in an on-camera interview put him on the defensive, portraying him as being insensitive to the child’s plight. The photo, initially published by the Yorkshire Evening Post, swept across social media like a firestorm, injecting an explosive jolt into the political war of information in the final days of the campaign. For many voters, the election offered an unpalatable choice. Both Johnson and Corbyn have personal approval ratings in negative territory, and both have been dogged by questions about their character. Johnson has been confronted with past broken promises, untruths and offensive statements, from calling the children of single mothers “ignorant, aggressive and illegitimate” to comparing Muslim women who wear face-covering veils to “letter boxes.” In Uxbridge, the suburban London seat that Johnson represents in Parliament, Stefan Hay said he was voting for the prime minister despite his flaws. “At the end of the day, whether you like him or not, with all of his eccentricities, I think he has leadership ability and I think he is the best man for the job, simple as that,” Hay said. “The alternative would be excruciating.” Corbyn has been accused of allowing anti-Semitism to spread within the party. The 70-year-old left-winger is portrayed by opponents as an aging Marxist with unsavory past associations with Hamas and the IRA. With so much at stake, political parties have pushed the boundaries of truth, transparency and reality during five weeks of campaigning. Social media platforms were a critical battleground, as the parties bombarded voters with social media messages — many of which were misleading. The Conservatives, in particular, were criticized for using underhanded tactics on social media. The party circulated a doctored video that made it look as if an opposition leader had been stumped when asked about his position on Brexit. Then during a TV debate, the party re-branded its press office Twitter account as a fact-checking service. Labour also sought to co-opt the role of independent fact-checker, rolling out a website called The Insider, which urged voters to “trust the facts.” Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, director of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford, said the digital campaign showed that the political landscape had changed. “You don’t get more establishment than the British Conservative Party,” Nielsen said. “If that is what they see as fit and proper, we must confront the fact that this is the new normal.″ Last Updated on Thursday, 12 December 2019 14:09

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US Troops Fire Teargas to Disperse Protesters at Baghdad Embassy Written by <a href="index.php?option=com_comprofiler&task=userProfile&user=22014"><span class="small">Associated Press</span></a> Excerpt: "US troops have fired teargas to disperse pro-Iran protesters gathered outside the US embassy compound in Baghdad for a second day. Pro-Iranian militiamen and supporters outside the US embassy in Baghdad on Wednesday. (photo: Khalid Mohammed/AP) Dozens of pro-Iran militiamen and supporters camped out at gates of embassy overnight S troops have fired teargas to disperse pro-Iran protesters gathered outside the US embassy compound in Baghdad for a second day. Dozens of militiamen and their supporters camped out at the gates of the embassy overnight. On Tuesday, dozens of protesters had broken into the compound, damaging a reception area and smashing windows in one of the worst attacks on the embassy in recent memory. US Marines guarding the embassy fired teargas as more people arrived and after the protesters lit a fire on the roof of the reception area. Smoke could be seen rising from the building. Demonstrators firebombed a gate, starting another fire and US soldiers were seen on the roof of the main embassy building. The breach at the embassy followed US airstrikes on Sunday that killed 25 fighters of the Iran-backed militia in Iraq, the Kata’ib Hezbollah. The US military said the strikes were in retaliation for last week’s killing of an American contractor in a rocket attack on an Iraqi military base, which the US blamed on the militia. No US casualties or evacuations were reported after Tuesday’s embassy attack. Iraqi security forces made no effort to stop the protesters on Tuesday as they marched to the heavily fortified Green Zone after a funeral for those killed in the US airstrikes, and nor did they intervene on Wednesday as the protests and fire-bombing resumed. Donald Trump blamed Iran for the attack. His defence secretary, Mark Esper, later announced the immediate deployment of an infantry battalion of about 750 soldiers from the army’s 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, to the Middle East. He did not specify their destination, but a US official familiar with the decision said they would go to Kuwait. The developments represent a downturn in Iraq-US relations that could further undermine US influence in the region and weaken Washington’s hand in its pressure campaign against Iran. Iraq has long struggled to balance its ties with the US and Iran.

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Persecution as Opportunity – 1 Peter 3:13-16 Persecution is therefore not a cause for fear, but rather an opportunity to honor Christ and revere him as Lord (as opposed to Caesar!) Peter is not commanding a completely passive acceptance of suffering. Rather, he tells the readers to be ready to give an answer when asked about their hope in Christ (v. 15b). Typically this verse is used to encourage people to know what they believe and why they believe it. This is a good application (and it is true that you ought to know why you believe what you do), but Peter has in mind believers who are being unfairly harassed because of their faith in Jesus. Although it may not be the case than anyone has been tried before a court on account of their faith in Jesus, the word Peter uses here is typically used for a legal defense (ἀπολογία, Acts 22:1, 25:16; 1 Cor 9:3). The believer is not to revile his opponent or repay insults with insults, but he is ready to give an honest answer when asked why he suffers for his faith. The command is to be prepared, meaning that the believer has already knows why they are willing to put up with harassment for their faith. To prepare something is to do the work ahead of time. The word “always” or “constantly” also implies that the reasons for one’s faith are prepared and always available. Peter does not envision a sudden rush of the Holy Spirit inspiring someone to give a good defense, rather the believer has ready an explanation for why they are humbly suffering for their faith. By way of analogy, if someone is called into court on some charge, a lawyer “prepares a case.” this means there is some investigation of the evidence so that the lawyer can anticipate questions and give a good answer. A lawyer who comes into court without ever looking at the case ahead of time will fail and the person under arrest will be convicted. This defense is to be “with gentleness and respect.” Since the Roman world was used to verbal abuse between philosophical schools, it would be very easy for the Christian to give his defense of his faith with the same sort of abuse the orator heaps on his opponents. This is a very convicting verse since there are many Christians who have no idea what they believe, or if they do know what they believe, they are unable to give much of a reason for that belief. (The old hymn, I need no other argument, I need no other plea, it is enough that Jesus died, and that he died for me – that is a nice sentiment, but perhaps knowing a little bit of the “device or creed” will help confirm one’s faith when suffering does occur!) The “hope we have” should be taken as eschatological. In the midst of suffering, the believer can know than Jesus is going to return at some point at render justice. For the believer, that means vindication (they were suffering unjustly) and reward, but for the persecutor, it means punishment. The point of all of this is that the Christian ought to maintain a clear conscience so the outsider will be ashamed to slander the Christian faith (v. 16). This seems to me to be opposite of Christianity in recent years, or perhaps it only seems so because the media is able to broadcast a few particularly shameful examples of Christian hypocrisy. Think for a moment about presidential candidates claiming to be Christian yet giving hate-filled and vulgar speeches. Rather than dwell on people who are shameful yet claim to be believers, what are some positive examples of Christians who are living out this “patient suffering” and have given outsiders no reason to slander them? 1 Peter, Jewish Christian Literature 1 Peter, Persecution, Peter, Suffering, Wives Suffering for Doing Good – 1 Peter 3:13-16 1 Peter 3:13 makes the simple point that no one usually attacks people for doing good things. As he stated in 2:13-14, people generally do not suffer insults and persecution for doing good things (although there are always exceptions). It is better to suffer for doing good even if it is unjust, than suffer justly for doing wrong things. The verb “zealous” may have been chosen because at this point in Judea the Zealots were beginning to coalesce into an armed resistance against Rome. Even if the “zealous Jews” were rebellion against Rome in Judea, Peter tells his readers to channel their zeal into a quiet life that is worthy of respect. But Peter knows that “strangers and aliens” are not always fairly treated, and it is likely that they will be attacked unjustly (v. 14-15a). The syntax of verse 14 is very difficult, the ESV’s “even if you are persecuted” expresses the optative verb well. It is not that the readers are already facing regular persecution, but the sorts of slander that outsiders usually face when they live in another culture. The verb is a present active optative from πάσχω, the verb Jesus used to describe his suffering in Luke 22:15, for example, but it also appears frequently for Christian suffering (1 Peter 2:21, Phil 1:29). Peter may allude to the teaching of Jesus when he says that the believer will be blessed when people persecute them. In Matthew 5:10 Jesus says much the same thing (in the form of a beatitude). The one that suffers for Christ’s sake has no reason for fear or trouble, probably an allusion to Isa 8:12-13. This is a significant because the original line in Isaiah referred to a time in Judah’s history when Jerusalem was threatened by the politics of the larger world. Isaiah is warned in 8:11 not to walk in the ways of the people of Jerusalem, who are afraid of the nations that threaten the city. In contrast, Isaiah is to not fear the things that the people fear, but rather to honor and fear the Lord alone. The readers are living as strangers and aliens, among people that suspect them and will eventually begin to hate them and physically persecute them. The quote functions as an encouragement for the readers to fear what really needs to be feared, the Lord and him alone. Fearing persecution is not necessary since the Romans cannot really harm the believers (Matt 10:28). Peter has just said this specifically to the wives in 3:6, now he repeats the command to the whole congregation. 1 Peter, Peter, Slaves, Wives Responding to Malicious Attacks – 1 Peter 3:8-12 Since Peter’s audience is about to face persecution, he tells them how they are to respond to attacks on their faith. Most scholars think that the kind of persecution that Christians faced in Asia Minor in the middle first century was the sort of insult and malicious character attacks that typically occurred in the Roman world (Jobes, 1 Peter 216; Elliott, 1 Peter, 607). In order to build one’s own honor, it was sometimes necessary to attack an opponent in order to reduce their honor (i.e., to shame them). This is not unlike modern politics, where an opponent is often attacked publicly in order to “hurt them politically,” but it went far beyond that. In modern political cartoons some characteristic of the politician is over-emphasized (think of cartoons featuring political figures). The typical response to an attack on one’s character in the Roman world would be an equally spiteful attack in revenge. This sort of verbal “eye for an eye” was common and accepted as a part of society. One did not suffer insults quietly! Peter’s command to not reply to insults with insults is therefore socially disruptive. The Christian community does not retaliate with the sort of verbal assaults common in the society. Just as Jesus was silent, Peter said in 2:23, so too ought the Christian is not to pay back evil for evil. Rather than reviling opponents, Peter tells his readers they are to bless those who attack them. Followers of Jesus are to be like Jesus and do good toward those who attack them, rather than follow the culture and seek revenge. This non-retaliation is exactly what Jesus taught in the Sermon on the Mount (Luke 6:27-26, Matt 5:43-47, “love your enemies,” Matt 5:38-42, “turn the other cheek,” etc.). Paul teaches virtually the same thing in Romans 12:14, 17-21. The real challenge is actually doing what Jesus, Peter and Paul all say that we ought not do. Not retaliating when we are attacked is difficult, but to actually do something that blesses our accusers is culturally shocking. Christians sometimes reduce this “blessing” to prayer. When we face persecution we pray for our enemy so that we can “heap burning coals on their head.” If you are praying to harm your enemy, you are not at all catching the spirit of this command, and are engaging in some sort of curse-prayer that seems inappropriate to Christians. “Blessings” are tangible in this context, not simply prayers for the salvation of the bad people who are hurting you. If you are suffering abuse from someone. Peter says that it is not only inappropriate for the Christian to attack, but they ought to do some real, tangible action that brings some blessing on the attacker. Imagine a politician who did not respond to some slander, but rather offered his attacker an opportunity to make his claim on national TV, tells people to buy the guy’s book, etc. That would be a shocking response! But Peter is not talking to political candidates, but the church. How should Christians respond to someone who is attacking their faith? In America, the some Christians immediately go on the offensive against their alleged persecutors, claiming a a “war of Christmas” or using the Martin Luther Insult Generator to vilify them. Setting aside the question of whether this is real persecution or not, is this a proper response? How can we “bless those who persecute” in a tangible way? 1 Peter, Persecution, Peter An Ideal Christian Community – 1 Peter 3:8-12 Peter concludes the ethical section of the letter with a description of what the Christian community ought to look like (v. 8). All five of these phrases are single words in Greek, and are rare outside of this passage. (The only exception is tender hearted, although it appears in medical texts to describe a physical condition.) The first and the last words refer to the mind (φρήν, φρονέω), and the middle three refer to some aspect of emotions. This implies that there is a conscious choice to have unity or humility, to control one’s passions so that they are sympathetic and loving. Peter is not commanding the Christians to be servile, trembling before their betters. Rather, they are making a choice to have unity and humility. Unity of mind (ὁμόφρων). This word means something like “thinking the same things.” The Greco-Roman world appreciated traditions that held communities together, especially in families. It is shameful for families to disagree among themselves, or for brothers to fight among themselves. While the modern world commonly has families with several religions or political associations, that simply did not happen in the Roman world. Families were defined by their common beliefs that everyone held. For Peter, the Christian community has a set of beliefs and values that define it as a “family” so that outsiders can see that there is no discord within the family. Sympathy (συμπαθής). This word does not mean “pity,” as it does in modern English. If “unity of mind” means thinking the same things, sympathy refers to “feeling the same things.” The passions of the Christian community are unified in the same way their beliefs are. Again, on the analogy of a family, the Christian community ought to respond to situations with a similar emotion (compassion on those who need it, encouragement to those who need it, etc.) Brotherly love (φιλάδελφος). This virtue is found in descriptions of families, where the “brother” is literal (it appears on gravestones, for example, praising the person for being a good brother). It is shameful in the Roman world for siblings to fight and feud among themselves. A tender heart (εὔσπλαγχνος). Like sympathy, a “tender heart” sounds like “soft heart,” or even pity. A hard-hearted person never forgives or hears another person’s views, but a “tender heart” is open and teachable. Quite literally the word refers to “good compassion. (It actually means “good bowels” and appears in medical texts referring to regularity). Like brotherly love, the tender heart is a characteristic of a family in the Roman world (see f0or example, Pilch and Malina, Biblical Social Values and their Meaning). A humble mind (ταπεινόφρων). Of the five virtues listed here, humility was the least likely to be considered a virtue in the Greco-Roman world. The competition for honor in the Roman world made humility and humble service of others a liability. Imagine an athlete who humbly allows others to succeed without thinking about his own success, a rare thing indeed! But in a family, the other members of the family do what they can to help their brothers and sisters succeed because any success brings honor to the family. These virtues are particularly applicable to the family, especially brotherly love and tender hearts (Jobes, 1 Peter, 214). The reason for this is that Peter sees the Church as a “real family” that deserves the kind of loyalty one finds in biological families. The Church is supposed to be a place where the believer is free from the sort of hostile attacks that they face when they are in the world. When the believers gather, they are coming from situations where they are the subject of malicious gossip or abuse on account of their faith in Jesus (the unsaved husband or the unsaved master in the previous passage). Peter wants his churches to be like the proper family that the individual Christians have lost when they accepted Christ as savior. Husbands, In the Same Way – 1 Peter 3:7 After lengthy instructions to slaves and wives, Peter simply tells husbands to “live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.” Unlike the slaves and the wives, the husband is told to live with their wives in an “understanding way.” The way this is stated makes is sound as though the husband is to have a kind and tender heart toward his wife, and that is certainly part of the point. But Peter is saying that the husband must live with his wife fully aware of who she is and with full awareness of his responsibility toward her. If the context throughout this passage has been living in a way that attracts an unbelieving spouse or master to Christ, then perhaps that is the case here as well. If a Christian husband is married to a wife who is not a believer, the culture would dictate that she ought to convert as well. But this might not be a willing submission to her husband’s new religion, the Christian husband has to be aware that his wife might not be fully in agreement with his religious choice! The instructions are given to believing husbands, and it is at least possible “women” refers to all the women living within a household. If a man converted to Christianity, the whole household would be effected. Women typically “converted” with their husbands and slaves would now be working in a Christian household. But it is unlikely all members of a household were actually now Christians. A Christian husband must live his new life in a way which draws his wife and all others in his household to Christ. Calling women the “weaker vessel” is troublesome to many modern readers, and sometimes Peter is dismissed as a pre-modern he-man woman hater. But Peter’s words here are in keeping with the Greco-Roman belief that woman are weaker than men, both physically and sometimes emotionally. Tacitus called women “a sex naturally weak” and if left to themselves will be “at the mercy of its own voluptuousness and the passions of others” and a marriage is preserved only by a “husband’s personal vigilance” (Annals, 3.34). Peter’s words cannot be taken as an endorsement of misogyny, however. In fact, Peter tells the husbands to honor (τιμή) their wives, the same word he used for “honor the emperor” (τιμάω) in 2:17. Imagine that a husband gave his wife the same honor demanded of the Roman emperors! As Karen Jobes concludes on this section, Peter’s purpose in the whole household code is evangelistic and apologetic (1 Peter, 210). Peter recognizes the common problem of one member of a household becoming a Christian. If they are slaves or wives, then submission to a non-Christian master or husband is required in order to draw them to Christ. But if the head of the household has become a Christian, then he must live even more carefully in order to bring those who were part of a Christian household unwillingly to Christ. Jobes also points out this is a different strategy than Paul, who rooted his similar teaching in the order of creation (see Eph 5:21-33, and my comments on 1 Timothy 2:11-15 here). Peter is thinking of the practical ramifications of the conversion of members of a household, Paul’s teaching is rooted Jewish wisdom thinking that bases behavior in the orderliness of creation. This is why Paul is far more difficult than for modern readers than Peter! The problem is how this teaching is applied in a modern context. Modern Christians look to these kinds of passages for guidance for modern marriages between spiritual equals in the Body of Christ. Our marriages are made because of love not arranged for social or economic reasons. Peter is not thinking of a couples retreat in a modern mega-church! Imagine how a Muslin woman who converted to Christianity might read 1 Peter, or a Buddhist husband, or a child in a Hindu family? 1 Peter is far more applicable in those situations, but how can 1 Peter 2:18-3:7 be used in a Western Christian context? 1 Peter, Husbands, Peter, Slaves, Wives Slaves and Wives – 1 Peter 2:18-3:7 (Part 3) When Peter begins to address wives in the congregation, his focus is on how the outsiders understand the Christian wife. The situation in view in 3:1 is of a wife who has come to Christ, but her husband is not a Christian. While there are many examples of this sort of thing in our modern experience. In the Roman world, the wife is expected to adopt the gods of her husband’s family when she marries. The same would be true of a Jewish family, although it is less likely that a Jewish man would marry a Gentile woman. In either case, the ancient world did not really have religiously “mixed marriages.” If a husband became a believer, then the Roman world would have expected the wife to also convert. It is possible that a husband converting was not as socially disruptive as a wife. Messalina, Roman Empress, Wife of Claudius Like the slave, the wife is to have respectful and pure conduct so that an unbelieving husband may believe (v. 2). The same language is used for the wife as for the slave (ὁμοίως, likewise). This does not mean that the woman is socially like a slave, but within the Greco-Roman or Jewish household, the wife did in fact defer to the husband. Peter has already commanded the reader s to live honorable lives so that the Gentiles will see and honor God (1 Peter 2:12), but here he narrows the application to a believing wife who is under the authority of her husband. The goal of this respectful behavior is missional. Perhaps the husband will be “won” to Christ. This is a common way for modern evangelicals to express evangelism, but the use of this verb (a future passive form of κερδαίνω) is unique in the New Testament. As Karen Jobes points out, if a woman began to worship Jesus and reject her husband’s family gods, she would be in a socially dangerous position (1 Peter, 202-3). Both Greco-Roman and Jewish society would see this as a kind of rebellion against proper family values. Since she is rejecting the family gods, she would be seen as a rebellious wife, and perhaps could be seen as a kind of “home-wrecker.” The husband could potentially find himself in socially embarrassing situations. A wife that rejected the community gods would be a shame for the husband to bear. Attendance at Christian worship would mean that the wife had social connections outside of her husband’s friends and family. This too was a strange behavior in that culture and would be viewed suspiciously by Romans or Jews. This would be the case for a Jewish woman as well, especially if Jewish followers of Jesus were being persecuted in the synagogue. To avoid the appearance of rebellion, the godly wife should strive to maintain a true, “imperishable” beauty (3:3-4). For the most part there is nothing unusual about this description of true beauty even in the Greco-Roman world. Similar statements are made in secular Greek concerning modest dress and appropriate adornments. The principle is modesty; a woman would not want to be confused with a courtesan! The temperate, freeborn woman must live with her legal husband adorned with modesty, clad in a neat, simple, white dress. . . She must avoid clothing that is either entirely purple or is streaked with purple and gold, for that kind of dress is more by a hetarae (courtesan) when they stalk the masses of men . . . You should have a blush on your cheeks as a sign of modesty instead of rouge, and should wear nobility, decorum and temperance instead of gold and emeralds. (Pseudo-Melissa, Letter to Kleareta, 160-162, Witherington, Letters and Homilies, 2:164) True beauty is a gentle and quiet spirit, not unlike the woman described in Proverbs 31. In contrast, the woman who has an obnoxious, loud spirit will not be a good witness to her unbelieving husband. A third century mosaic from Uthina, Tunisia The relationship of a slave to his master must be “respectful submission” (1 Peter 2:18-19). The word translated “be subject” or “submit” (ὑποτάσσω) carries more negative connotations in English than in Greek. The word has the sense of being subordinate to someone or something for legitimate reasons. This is the same word he used in 2:13 to command the believer to submit to the government. In this case, a government official has been appointed to an office that has some authority, so an honorable person obeys that authority. This is the word regularly used for the relationship of the slave and master. A slave is subordinate socially and legally in the Roman world to the master and must obey the commands of the master. Slaves did not obey everyone’s orders, but those of their master. In the Roman world, slavery was often different than slavery in a modern sense. While it could be just as cruel and harsh, many slaves were well treated. Slaves were often educated and given responsibilities that were far beyond the modern, Western idea of a slave. In fact, slaves were the backbone of the Roman economy, the wealthy never worked since they had people working for them (the slave). Slaves were sometimes compensated for their work and could look forward to being set free. In fact, some slaves refused to be set free since they were more socially advanced as a slave of a wealthy, well-placed citizen that as a free (but poor) individual. In addition, Peter uses the word “household slave” (οἰκέτης). This might be understood as a domestic servant rather than a “field slave.” He is not talking about the slave who is laboring in the salt mines, or being whipped in the fields, but the slave who has responsibilities in the household and is often treated as though they are part of the household. Peter adds “with all respect.” It is possible for a slave to obey, but not respectfully. The Greek here is not “with all due respect,” but literally “in all fear” (φόβος). Fear is one of those words that can mean “for fear of getting a beating” in this context, or it can mean out of respect for the social standing of one’s master. All three members of the household are told to act with respect (slaves, wives and husbands). This mutual respect is a subtle counter-cultural maneuver in the Greco-Roman world where a husband/master would not really have to respect their wife or slave. The Christian slave is to submit to their master whether they are good and gentle, or unjust. As with any master/slave relationship, it is possible that a master could be unjust and cruel. The same is true for a boss/employee relationship (good boss vs. bad boss). However, the attitude of the slave ought not to depend on the personality or behavior of the master, they always are to be obedient and respectful regardless of how they are treated. Although some disrespect is “socially acceptable” for a non-believing slave, Peter’s point here is that the Christian slave must respect their master more other slaves because a Christian slave is a “stranger and alien” in this world. But this sort of humble submission is seems rare in modern, western Christianity. Perhaps this is a result of affluent Christians who are quite at home in this world – how do we get back to Peter’s ideal of living out a Christian life that treats non-Christians with respect so they might honor God as well? Paul: At the Feet of Gamaliel?

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… brakes for snakes, caiques, drakes, and fakes. No jokes or snarkiness up front today. Our Amazon Product du Jour is the new book from Garrett M. Graff. He has an article about the book at the Atlantic: On September 11, Blind Luck Decided Who Lived or Died. Which starts: Joseph Lott, a sales representative for Compaq computers, survived one of the deadliest days in modern American history because he had a penchant for “art ties,” neckties featuring famous masterpieces. “It began many years earlier, in the ’90s,” he said in an oral history with StoryCorps. “I love Impressionist paintings, and I use them as a way to make points with my kids. I’d put on an art tie, and then I would ask my kids—I have three daughters—I would say, ‘Artist identification?’ And they would have to tell me whether it was a van Gogh or a Monet, and we would have a little conversation about the artist.” On the morning of September 11, 2001, he had put on a green shirt before meeting colleagues at the Marriott hotel sandwiched between the Twin Towers, in advance of speaking at a conference that day at the restaurant Windows on the World. Over breakfast, his co-worker Elaine Greenberg, who had been on vacation the week before in Massachusetts, presented him with a tie she’d spotted on her trip that featured a Monet. “It was red and blue, primarily. I was very touched that she had done this,” Lott explained. “I said, ‘This is such a nice gesture. I think I am going to put this on and wear it as I speak.’ She said, ‘Well, not with that shirt. You’re not going to put on a red-and-blue tie with a green shirt.’” So when breakfast was done, his colleagues headed up to Windows on the World, located on the 104th floor of the North Tower, and Lott went back to his hotel room to change shirts. He ironed a white one, put it on, and then headed back down toward the hotel lobby. “As I was waiting to go from the seventh floor back down to the lobby and over to the bank of elevators that would take me to the top, I felt a sudden movement in the building,” he recalled. Graff notes the role of random chance and seemed-inconsequential-at-the-time decisions that can knock one's life in a new and unalterable direction. Or end it. Something to think about when you're having trouble sleeping. It won't help you sleep. A quote I saw years ago from an old Roman playwright, Plautus, has stuck with me ever since: The gods play games with men as balls. He said it in Latin, of course. I have no idea what sort of games the ancient Romans played with balls. But here's what I imagine: you, a happy little ball, just sitting in the grass, living your bally life. Unfortunately, the gods are playing some sort of polo. And you hear distant hoofbeats, growing louder, deafening… And suddenly, whack, the mallet finds you, you're speeding off in some unknown direction, perhaps to oblivion. In other news, Mark J. Perry has updated his classic graphic, based on the latest report on incomes and poverty from the Census Bureau. Maybe the most important finding from today's Census Bureau report on Income. Yes, the middle class is disappearing but it's because they're moving up to higher income groups. The share of US households making $100K (2018 $$) has more than tripled since 1967, from 9% to 30.4%. pic.twitter.com/1ZS9IzNmzo — Mark J. Perry (@Mark_J_Perry) September 10, 2019 Will trends continue? If my math is right, a straight-line extrapolation says the middle-income segment will disappear in… about 176 years. The Low-income group? Even quicker: they're gone in about 153 years. Everybody will be high-income then. But Bernie Sanders will still find something to gripe about. At Reason, Jacob Sullum extracts a probably-unintended lesson: Congressional Report on ‘Deaths of Despair’ Highlights the Hazards of Drug Prohibition. Bottom line: The upward trend in opioid-related deaths not only continued but accelerated after the government succeeded in reducing opioid prescriptions, pushing nonmedical users toward black-market substitutes. It's not hard to see why: Legally produced opioids come in uniform, predictable doses, while illegal opioids vary widely in potency, making fatal mistakes more likely. The emergence of fentanyl and its analogs as heroin boosters and replacements has only magnified that hazard. Based on mortality data published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, combined with drug use estimates from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health and the RAND Corporation, heroin is roughly eight times as deadly as prescription opioids. Just as prohibition made drinking more dangerous, it has made drug use more dangerous, both by favoring more-potent products and by creating a black market where consumers do not know what they are buying. After considering the broader puzzle posed by "deaths of despair," the report concludes that "we clearly remain in the grip of a national opioid crisis that requires the attention of policymakers." But depending on the form that attention takes, it can easily make matters worse rather than better. The government: killing people in the name of "compassion". David French, at National Review notes something that shouldn't surprise us: Elizabeth Warren’s Plans Consistently Unconstitutional. The latest example (well, the latest as of September 6): On my first day as president, I will sign an executive order that puts a total moratorium on all new fossil fuel leases for drilling offshore and on public lands. And I will ban fracking—everywhere. — Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) September 6, 2019 Yep, she’s going to ban fracking. When I read the tweet, I flashed back in my mind to Ronald Reagan’s famous retort to Jimmy Carter in a 1980 presidential debate — “There you go again.” Here the “again” isn’t just proposing a bad plan (it would have extraordinary negative effects on domestic energy production and would likely increase dependence on more “dirty” fuels to generate power), it’s proposing an illegal policy. She simply can’t ban fracking on her own. In fact, the executive branch’s authority over fracking is rather profoundly limited by statute. Beginning in 2012, the Obama attempted to introduce “additional regulatory effort and oversight” of fracking by introducing new regulations through the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). In 2015, the states of Wyoming and Colorado filed petitions for judicial review of the Obama regulations, and on June 21, 2016, federal district court judge Scott Skavdahl (an Obama appointee) held that the fracking rule was “unlawful.” She doesn't want to be President. She wants to be Queen. The old-style kind, that could issue unquestionable decrees and behead people. At the Technology Liberation Front, Adam Thierer asks: should we Socialize Journalism in Order to Save It?. Adam looks at Bernie Sanders' proposals and also one from a group at the University of Chicago. “The Sanders scheme would add layers of regulatory supervision to the news business,” notes media critic Jack Shafer. Sanders promises to prevent or rollback media mergers, increase regulations on who can own what kinds of platforms, flex antitrust muscles against online distributors, and extend privileges to those employed by media outlets. The academics who penned the University of Chicago report recommend public funding for journalism, regulations that “ensure necessary transparency regarding information flows and algorithms,” and rolling back liability protections for platforms afforded through Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. Both plans feature government subsidies, too. Sen. Sanders proposes “taxing targeted ads and using the revenue to fund nonprofit civic-minded media” as part of a broader effort “to substantially increase funding for programs that support public media’s news-gathering operations at the local level.” The Chicago plan proposed a taxpayer-funded $50 media voucher that each citizen will then be able to spend on an eligible media operation of their choice. Such ideas have been floated before and the problems are still numerous. Apparently, “saving journalism” requires that media be placed on the public dole and become a ward of the state. Socializing media in order to save it seems like a bad plan in a country that cherishes the First Amendment. Suggested Bernie slogan: "Awful ideas on innumerable levels."

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Risk analysis of damaged ships a data-driven Bayesian approach Kelangath Subin, Purnendu Das, John Quigley, Spyros Hirdaris Naval Architecture, Ocean And Marine Engineering An accident occurring at sea, though a rare event, has a huge impact both on the economy and the environment. A better and safer shipping practice always demands new ways to improve marine traffic and this essentially requires learning from past experience/faults. In this regard, probabilistic analysis of accidents and associated consequences can play a very important role in making a better and safer maritime transport system. Bayesian networks represent a class of probabilistic models based on statistics, decision theory and graph theory. This paper introduces the use of data-driven Bayesian modelling in risk analysis and makes a comparison with the different data-driven Bayesian methods available. The data for this study are based on the Lloyds database of accidents from 1997 to 2009. Important influential variables from this database are grouped and a Bayesian network that shows the relationship between the corresponding variables is constructed which in turn provides an insight into probabilistic dependencies existing among the variables in the database and the underlying reasons for these accidents. Ships and Offshore Structures Bayesian networks damage database data-driven Bayesian model damaged ships Bayesian approach Subin, K., Das, P., Quigley, J., & Hirdaris, S. (2012). Risk analysis of damaged ships: a data-driven Bayesian approach. Ships and Offshore Structures, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1080/17445302.2011.592358 Subin, Kelangath ; Das, Purnendu ; Quigley, John ; Hirdaris, Spyros. / Risk analysis of damaged ships : a data-driven Bayesian approach. 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Source: Presidencia de La República de Mexico During the presentation of the National Tourism Policy, President Enrique Peña Nieto said that the actions of the Federal Government regarding tourism will focus on creating a safe environment for travelers in the country. photo by: http://en.presidencia.gob.mx/ To ensure the success of the National Tourism Policy, “It is essential to offer tourists, both domestic and foreign, a safe environment. We will continue working to improve public safety, which is undoubtedly an essential condition for building and promoting our country, ” he said. He stated that Mexico is ready to upgrade and reposition its tourism industry globally. “It is time to consolidate and build on the tourism capital we already have,” and focus on existing destinations in order to modernize and revitalize them, he said. “This will be the best way to contribute to the social and economic development of our country.” President Enrique Peña Nieto said that the country should take advantage of is privileged position and tourist potential, “In order for the whole world to know Mexico and for us to have it here; let the world come to our country.” He said that on the basis of on a state policy that destroys inertia, “We will open up Mexico to the world, and let the world come to Mexico.” He emphasized that for the government, tourism is a key strategic sector for national development. It produces almost nine percent of the gross domestic product while salaries for employees in the tourism sector are 30 percent above the national average. He added that tourism is a wonderful vehicle to move towards a more prosperous, inclusive Mexico, “And thereby achieve two of the five major national goals my government has set.” The president declared that Mexico’s tourism sector still has enormous potential for growth, “And we will take advantage of this in a timely, intelligent fashion.” He said that it was necessary to create a great synergy between the action of the private sector and the government, “That will give us the opportunity to enhance the tourist sector for the country’s economic development.” photo by: http://elfederalista.mx/ As a country with a privileged geographical location, a great potential for connectivity, a large stock of natural, historical and cultural attractions, Mexico has also shown a great capacity to offer quality tourism products, he said. “Mexico has everything it needs to become a global tourism power, and we are going to achieve this; we want to be a world-class destination,” he added. The President declared said the National Tourism Policy is based primarily on four guidelines. First: Planning and Sectoral Transformation: the institutional framework will be restructured to improve decision making and ensure the effective implementation of the various programs to boost tourism. In order to coordinate government efforts, he ordered the creation of a Tourism Cabinet, to be led by the President. We want to achieve full coordination with the governors and the Head of Government of the Federal District to align the policy of the Federal Government with the efforts of the various states of the country,” he said. The second guideline is innovation and competitiveness: Mexico is much more than sun and beach resorts; diversification of tourist products is key to leveraging our many attractions and competing in the global era. He went on to say, “We therefore want to specialize in six segments: sun and beach tourism, cultural tourism, ecotourism and adventure tourism, health tourism, sports tourism and special interest or luxury tourism.” In order to ensure the quality of tourist services, we will implement the National Tourism Certification System “because to be successful, we will have to compete on the basis of the quality of services offered by our country.” He announced that he had instructed the Secretariats of Tourism and Economics to develop a competitiveness agenda for each of the country’s different tourist destinations. He also asked the Secretariat of Communications and Transportation to ensure that the National Infrastructure Program, to be presented shortly, includes a clear approach to tourism. After endorsing his commitment to completing the road from Guadalajara to Banderas Bay as soon as possible, the President pointed out that the third guideline is the development and promotion. “We must build and strengthen the confidence of investors in our country,” he said. He said that Mexico will be projected to the whole world, “But we must also project an image of reliability, infrastructure, modernity and of the various services offered today to international tourism.” The fourth guideline of the National Tourism Policy is sustainability and social benefit. We are going to create instruments to ensure that tourism in Mexico is a clean industry that cares for and preserves our natural heritage, history and culture,” he added. He also mentioned that a program will be promoted to make tourism affordable to all Mexicans “because tourism cannot be considered as simply an activity for the privileged few or certain sectors.” NATIONAL TOURISM POLICY DESIGNED TO FACILITATE PRIVATE INVESTMENT FOR THE BENEFIT OF MICRO, SMALL AND MEDIUM BUSINESSES: SECTUR photo by: http://www.visionradio.com.mx/ Claudia Ruiz Massieu Salinas, Secretary of Tourism, noted that the National Tourism Policy of the Federal Government is designed to “cooperate and build with state and local governments, facilitate private investment and encourage entrepreneurship and the development of micro, small and medium businesses, and diversify our product range. ” She said that the tourism sector, due to its ability to promote regional and community development, create formal quality jobs and protect, promote and disseminate our natural and human assets, is a significant driver of identity and social cohesion. This means that it is in a unique position to contribute to the five major objectives that President Peña Nieto has set for his government, he said. The Secretary of Tourism said that the president’s statement is clear: it is essential to work towards a peaceful, inclusive, prepared, prosperous and Mexico to meet the demands of the globalized world. A COUNTRY WITH TOURIST ATTRACTIONS NEEDS A LARGE INFRASTRUCTURE: photo by: http://azturismo.com.mx For his part, the president of the Iberostar hotel group and tourist services, Miguel Fluxá Rossello said that Mexico has an enormous potential and is one of the few nations that has the conditions for developing tourism. However, a great deal of work remains to be done regarding security in tourist areas, and reducing red tape for foreign companies planning to invest here. “I’m glad to see that the performance and promotion to boost tourism has begun. The best promotion we can achieve is quality, “he said. He added that in December, the Iberostar group will complete a hotel in this region, which will employ 550 people “in an area that needs a lot of work, and I think we all need to contribute.” THE TOURISM SECTOR, CRUCIAL TO THE NATIONAL ECONOMY BECAUSE IT CREATES JOBS AND WEALTH: ROBERTO SANDOVAL photo by: http://www.periodicoexpress.com.mx/ Roberto Sandoval Castañeda, Governor of Nayarit, acknowledged that, “the tourism sector is undoubtedly the key to the national economy. A large number of Mexican families have always depended directly or indirectly on this sector, which creates jobs and wealth, hence the importance of having a national tourism strategy in keeping with the times, allowing us to maximize our beautiful scenery and the greatness of Mexico. ” Sandoval Castañeda acknowledged President Peña Nieto’s decision, “To encourage the growth of this important sector and regard it as a cornerstone in Mexico’s incorporation into developed countries,” he said. COMMITTED TO WORKING TOGETHER TO BOOST TOURISM DEVELOPMENT: CONCANACO-SERVYTUR President of the Confederation of National Chambers of Commerce, Services and Tourism (CONCANACO-SERVYTUR), Jorge Dávila Flores said that connectivity in the country must be increased to facilitate transport for tourists, improve infrastructure in this area, encourage investments, and ensure the safety and integrity of travelers, in order to consolidate Mexico as one of the most popular destinations in the world. “We believe that the presentation of the strategic axes and action to promote sustainable, productive tourism will enable the public and private sector to work hand in hand to achieve better levels in the Tourism Competitiveness Index and therefore generate higher levels of economic growth and decent jobs for Source: Presidencia de La Republica

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EXECUTIVE INSIGHTS | Staff Reporter, UK Published: 13 Mar 19 EXCLUSIVE: Freshly Chopped eyes 200 stores in the UK The Irish brand recently launched its first shop in London. It is no secret that competition in London is the toughest in the country. To thrive in its high streets, a QSR not only must provide the highest quality food and the best service possible, but also innovate and capture the changing tastes of the British palate. A new brand trying to carve its own niche in the market might do better to test the waters elsewhere before vying for London’s attention. This was the strategy of the Dublin-based healthy food chain Freshly Chopped, which recently debuted in Piccadilly Plaza, Manchester. The new store is the brand’s 60th restaurant, and follows new outlets opening in Drogheda and Cavan since the start of 2019. Brian Lee, CEO and co-founder of Freshly Chopped, exclusively told QSR Media that London was the brand’s first choice when they had made the decision to move to England, but reconsidered once they discovered the costs and risks of opening there. “When we decided to make the move to England we explored a number of options. In the first instance, we naturally looked at London but felt that the cost and risk were too great for us to take the plunge on our first outlet. After numerous visits to locations across England, we felt Manchester was the ideal city to allow us establish a base here,” Lee said. Saturation in London’s QSR scene was part of the reason. In doing their market research, they found greater opportunities outside the city for Freshly Chopped to establish itself as a distinct brand in the healthy eating space. “Having conducted extensive research into locations across the country we don't feel the market is saturated outside of London. We truly believe that there is a massive opportunity to bring the much loved brand we have built up in Ireland over the past seven years to a new audience,” Lee said. Freshly Chopped co-founder and CEO Brian Lee. Photo: Supplied The new store will also serve as the brand’s testing grounds to learn more about the British market and assess how issues like Brexit impact the sector before committing to opening more stores. During its launch, Freshly Chopped announced a plan for a ‘careful and deliberate’ strategy for its rollout, and has created a new supply chain that is ‘Brexit-proofed’ to deliver a similar experience to its Ireland stores. “Finding and securing the right unit was the biggest challenge. We wanted to make sure that the first outlet has all the best parts of the brand and is located in the right position. Additionally, uncertainty created by Brexit has caused us to be very deliberate and strategic in our set up,” Lee added. Other key markets that the brand is looking at are cities like Birmingham, Bristol, Nottingham, and Leeds. While the first Manchester store is company-owned, Freshly Chopped is looking towards entering strategic partnerships to fuel growth in the future, and is currently in talks with franchise partners. The brand announced its plan to grow to 200 stores within the next few years. As a healthy food brand, Freshly Chopped seeks to offer a ‘create your own salad’ experience in front of its customers in minimum time. More than 90 ingredients are ‘chopped’ and freshly dressed into a unique salad bowl or in a sealed savoury wrap, available for delivery, collection, take-away and dine-in service, with fast meal service times. Slim Chickens set to launch its Kent store in February Flexible food-to-go operators likely to succeed in 2020: IGD Meeting changing consumer demands, creating new food locations amongst trends in food-to-go market: IGD Food businesses with ‘dark' kitchens can take advantage of online delivery: Regency Purchasing Group Latest Executive insights jobs View all Executive insights jobs

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It's not all about the creeks: Protection of multiple habitats will improve biodiversity conservation in a eucalypt forest Georgina J. Yeatman, Adrian Wayne, Harriet Mills, Jane Prince © 2016 CSIRO.Understanding patterns in the distribution and abundance of wildlife across the landscape can aid in identifying the relative importance of habitats for biodiversity conservation. We aimed to identify whether riparian habitats were more important than other areas in the landscape to small terrestrial vertebrates. The study site was surveyed using 450 pit traps distributed across riparian, midslope and ridge top habitat. Riparian sites had the greatest abundance of small vertebrates of the three habitats. During some months of the year, there was a significant difference in the composition of the faunal assemblage between habitats. Unsurprisingly, riparian habitats were particularly important for frog species and it was these species that accounted for the greater abundance in this habitat. Riparian habitat was less important for other taxonomic groups and the more floristically rich midslope and ridge habitats, which had a greater abundance of leaf litter, fallen logs and rock cover, were favoured by mammal and reptile species. The conservation of riparian sites, without the protection of other habitats, overlooks a substantial proportion of the biodiversity in the landscape. This study may help inform management decisions in the Upper Warren region and other similar forested landscapes, regarding the location and timing of fauna monitoring and the frequency of fuel reduction burns. https://doi.org/10.1071/ZO16007 vertebrate plant litter leaf litter Yeatman, G. J., Wayne, A., Mills, H., & Prince, J. (2016). It's not all about the creeks: Protection of multiple habitats will improve biodiversity conservation in a eucalypt forest. Australian Journal of Zoology, 64(4), 292-301. https://doi.org/10.1071/ZO16007 Yeatman, Georgina J. ; Wayne, Adrian ; Mills, Harriet ; Prince, Jane. / It's not all about the creeks: Protection of multiple habitats will improve biodiversity conservation in a eucalypt forest. In: Australian Journal of Zoology. 2016 ; Vol. 64, No. 4. pp. 292-301. @article{3db0adf482654ab8b4b1b41d99ed7eee, title = "It's not all about the creeks: Protection of multiple habitats will improve biodiversity conservation in a eucalypt forest", abstract = "{\circledC} 2016 CSIRO.Understanding patterns in the distribution and abundance of wildlife across the landscape can aid in identifying the relative importance of habitats for biodiversity conservation. We aimed to identify whether riparian habitats were more important than other areas in the landscape to small terrestrial vertebrates. The study site was surveyed using 450 pit traps distributed across riparian, midslope and ridge top habitat. Riparian sites had the greatest abundance of small vertebrates of the three habitats. During some months of the year, there was a significant difference in the composition of the faunal assemblage between habitats. Unsurprisingly, riparian habitats were particularly important for frog species and it was these species that accounted for the greater abundance in this habitat. Riparian habitat was less important for other taxonomic groups and the more floristically rich midslope and ridge habitats, which had a greater abundance of leaf litter, fallen logs and rock cover, were favoured by mammal and reptile species. The conservation of riparian sites, without the protection of other habitats, overlooks a substantial proportion of the biodiversity in the landscape. 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Unsurprisingly, riparian habitats were particularly important for frog species and it was these species that accounted for the greater abundance in this habitat. Riparian habitat was less important for other taxonomic groups and the more floristically rich midslope and ridge habitats, which had a greater abundance of leaf litter, fallen logs and rock cover, were favoured by mammal and reptile species. The conservation of riparian sites, without the protection of other habitats, overlooks a substantial proportion of the biodiversity in the landscape. This study may help inform management decisions in the Upper Warren region and other similar forested landscapes, regarding the location and timing of fauna monitoring and the frequency of fuel reduction burns. AB - © 2016 CSIRO.Understanding patterns in the distribution and abundance of wildlife across the landscape can aid in identifying the relative importance of habitats for biodiversity conservation. We aimed to identify whether riparian habitats were more important than other areas in the landscape to small terrestrial vertebrates. The study site was surveyed using 450 pit traps distributed across riparian, midslope and ridge top habitat. Riparian sites had the greatest abundance of small vertebrates of the three habitats. During some months of the year, there was a significant difference in the composition of the faunal assemblage between habitats. Unsurprisingly, riparian habitats were particularly important for frog species and it was these species that accounted for the greater abundance in this habitat. Riparian habitat was less important for other taxonomic groups and the more floristically rich midslope and ridge habitats, which had a greater abundance of leaf litter, fallen logs and rock cover, were favoured by mammal and reptile species. 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Looking Down the Road at San Diego February 16, 2016 by Doug Porter By Doug Porter It’s like a tale of two cities. The staff with the San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG) have put together competing proposals for spending priorities in advance of a ballot measure for countywide half-cent sales tax increase, raising $18 billion over the next 40 years. Two constituencies are targeted with these proposals: city politicians and environmentally conscious citizens. Both plans include construction of a new trolley line running from South Bay to Carmel Valley, a skyway system of gondolas connecting the first tier of mesas (Balboa Ave to PB, Sorrento Valley to UCSD) to the coast, along with various clean air and water projects. One proposal offers up 40% of revenues for cash-strapped localities to be spent on infrastructure, 30% for transit projects and operations and 10% on highways. spending priorities. The other proposal offers up 50% of revenues for transit, 17% for highways and zero for infrastructure. Here’s a link to the SANDAG agenda where this was discussed (PDF and a long read). Andrew Keatts has posted an overview (with many more details!) of these plans at Voice of San Diego: …SANDAG is trying to work out what’ll be part of the spending plan. But only one of the two plans has money for local infrastructure. It’s hard to see the one without that facet – the one with more transit projects – pleasing many people, since the public and the board have both expressed a desire for those projects. To transit advocates, it feels a bit like asking the board to choose between one plan that’s full of ice cream and one that’s full of broccoli. “It follows a pattern they’ve established where, anytime they offer a transit-friendly plan, they pair it with policies that are either unfeasible or political nonstarters,” said Colin Parent, policy counsel with transportation advocacy group Circulate San Diego. “It begs the question, why even present this option? What is the value of even considering this, if it’s something the board almost certainly wouldn’t be interested in adopting?” These proposals have more to do with finding the shortest route to a two-thirds majority on election day than the actual projects included, as the board of SANDAG can amend (with a super-majority) and modify the implementation of (with a simple majority) spending priorities. Tourism Bigwigs: Ooops. We Have No Plan B Another big pile of money around town comes from a 2% surcharge on hotel bills. This amounts to roughly $30 million annually and funds 70% of the Tourism Authority’s budget. And it may be disappearing in the future. At the Union Tribune, columnist Dan McSwain points out the questionable future for this funding stream as a lawsuit making its way through the courts claims it amounts to an illegal tax since it never went before voters. Two years ago California’s Fourth District Court of Appeal ruled that a similar hotelier-approved increase in room taxes to fund a convention center expansion was unconstitutional because it wasn’t put before voters. Attorney Cory Briggs filed both lawsuits on behalf of San Diegans for Open Government. Having failed to derail the lawsuit on technical questions (and a not-so-coincidental series of unflattering news reports), the case is headed for a pretrial conference in March. The hoteliers, as McSwain points out, are sticking their heads in the sand and have no plans for what to do should the lawsuit succeed. The city has hedged its bets: The city of San Diego is a co-defendant. If the court rules that the city has been collecting an illegal tax, the hotel industry could immediately demand a $30 million refund, because the law limits refunds of illegal taxes to one year, Briggs says. This explains why the city has held $30 million of TMD collections in reserve against litigation, and perhaps why hoteliers refused to indemnify the city. Maybe Plan B for local hotels boils down to extracting money from the city. Hoteliers could find the cash convenient. Their statute of limitations is four years. Some ambitious attorney could file class action lawsuits seeking refunds for every guest, from every hotel. “If we win the case, not only does the city owe the money for one year, but the hoteliers also are on line for four years of the tax,” Briggs said last week. Briggs was nice enough to offer a solution to this issue by circulating the Citizens’ Plan initiative, which would create a legal funding stream (among other things). The hoteliers and the city have been mostly silent on the subject because the new funding would go through entities with board structures offering more transparency and accountability. Those are two words they don’t like to see. SDPD: Ooops. Plan B Isn’t Working Plans for reforming the San Diego Police Department was something current Mayor Kevin Faulconer tackled even before he was sworn in. The Police Executive Research Forum, paid for by the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS), conducted a voluntary review of management practices and made 40 recommendations back in March 2015. At about the same time as the report and recommendations were being released, the UT broke a story about police department computers being used anonymously to go on Wikipedia and make changes showing the SDPD in a more favorable light. Here’s a noted local attorney, quoted on NBC7, with his impressions of the DOJ funded review shortly after it was issued: “It is garbage in, garbage out from the standpoint of, unless they’re looking at everything, then it’s really not a true audit, and it’s really just more lip service,” said attorney Dan Gilleon, who has represented SDPD officers in employments and injury cases. Wouldn’t you know it? There’s a brand new lawsuit less than a year later, claiming the SDPD engaged in racial discrimination and retaliated against Matthew Francois officer when he complained. From the Union-Tribune: Francois had previously done training in the Southeastern and Mid City divisions, which have large minority populations. The population covered by the Northeastern division is 60 percent white, the suit says. On his first day there, Francois said, he pulled over a white motorist and ran a routine records check. His field training officer criticized him, telling him it was “a waste of time and resources” to do checks on everyone pulled over in the division… …Francois was told “citizens of Northeastern deserved to be treated better than citizens of Southeastern or Mid City,” the suit alleges. The supervisor went on to say citizens there “actually voted,” favored police and were influential “like City Council members.” The Grammys: Black Music Matters The haters were a hatin’ last night on the interwebs following a powerful performance by Compton rapper Lamar Kendricks at the Grammys. The performance by Lamar, who was introduced by actor Don Cheadle as the author of “a hip-hop masterpiece”, was the night’s highlight. Walked onstage while shackled in chains with a prison-set performance of The Blacker the Berry, a celebration of black identity – “Everything black, I don’t want black / I want everything black, I ain’t need black / Some white some black, I ain’t mean black / I want everything black”, Lamar shifted to an African motif for a well-applauded rendition of Alright, joined by drummers and dancers in front of a bonfire the size of a house. Lamar then debuted a new verse which alluded to the death of Trayvon Martin, the 17-year-old fatally shot by George Zimmerman in 2012; it included the line ““On February 26th I lost my life, too.” He ended the performance with an image of the outline of the African continent beamed high above the stage, with the word “COMPTON” written on it. At the time of his performance, Lamar had won best rap song, best rap performance, best rap/sung collaboration, best music video and best rap album. FOX news writing up reports about Kendrick as we speak like “Thug Rapper Incites Hate Against Police” pic.twitter.com/3xu6gu0TM1 — JORDΛN (@ChefMabrie) February 16, 2016 Make no mistake about it. The Lamar’s song was, as Uproxx described it, “Beyonce’s Super Bowl 50 performance on steroids.” Speaking of Beyonce, the much-vaunted protest about her Super Bowl half time show failed to materialize in New York City. Big protest planned today over Beyonce’s offensive Black Lives Matter support – will it make a difference? https://t.co/huspzgnSzY #tcot — Carl DeMaio (@carldemaio) February 16, 2016 Despite mentions in major news media, Carl DeMaio plugging it on twitter, and a sign-up page on Eventbrite, exactly two people showed up. There were, based on Vines I saw via the Grio, several dozen TV cameras and a bunch of Beyonce supporters. UPDATE: A third protester showed, according to Vox.com So much for the social media power of white dudes living in mommy’s basement. On This Day: 1857 – The National Deaf Mute College was incorporated in Washington, DC. It was the first school in the world for advanced education of the deaf. The school was later renamed Gallaudet College. 1926 – Beginning of a 17-week general strike of 12,000 New York furriers, in which Jewish workers formed a coalition with Greek and African American workers and became the first union to win a 5-day, 40-hour week. 1959 – Fidel Castro seized power in Cuba after the overthrow of President Fulgencio Batista. Did you enjoy this article? Subscribe to “The Starting Line” and get an email every time a new article in this series is posted! I read the Daily Fishwrap(s) so you don’t have to… Catch “the Starting Line” Monday thru Friday right here at San Diego Free Press (dot) org. Send your hate mail and ideas to DougPorter@SanDiegoFreePress.Org Check us out on Facebook and Twitter. Filed Under: Business, Columns, Government, Media, Music, Politics, Race and Racism, The Starting Line « Civic San Diego’s Plan to Bypass the Living Wage Ordinance Who the Election Should Be For: The 7 Most Beaten-Down Americans » Love that line, “white dudes living in mommy’s basement.” I don’t want to know what they do when they party. michael-leonard says SANDAG dream: San Diego as “City of Gondolas.” Actually sounds like they chose the two massive projects and then decided we’d need a rise in sales tax to pay for them. And, perhaps also fund some actually NEEDED things on the side. But, let’s make “the voters” choose which other things they’d want more. Three constituencies: those two and “No, thanks!” I am definitely in the third camp. SANDAG will hafta do a lot of convincing to get my vote for either of these.

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Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1985–1989) Initially, a slick 80s update of classic Hitchcockian stories, that later added its own original tales... for better or worse Alfabeta22 January 2017 Warning: Spoilers This may be the first time that I'm truly surprised that a title here on IMDb has no user reviews. This show may not have been as popular as the genre anthology classics like The Twilight Zone, Tales from the Crypt, The Outer Limits or even The Ray Bradbury Theater and the original Alfred Hitchcock Presents but it certainly isn't some forgotten, obscure, one-off like Orson Welles' Scene of the Crime (1984) or Darkroom (1981). Ironically, both of these have IMDb user reviews. The show did have three things against it, though. It tried too hard to use the original's fame to promote itself, at least at first, and this was at the time when remakes were rarely popular if the original was still beloved (i.e. the maligned 1970s version of King Kong and its even more hated 1980s sequel or the original Godzilla vs. the first American Godzilla aka Godzilla 1985 or even John Carpenter's The Thing, a classic now but incredibly hated back when it first came out in 1982). Strike two for the show was that its own original stories were often not as strong as the ones from the 50s (sometimes to the point of being straight up generic garbage). Since the budget got lower and lower with each season (especially after the first season failed, so the show got picked up by a different TV network), even the visuals couldn't fix a bad episode. Finally, the producers of the show had controversially decided to colorize and reuse the introductory sequences from the 1950s version with, by the 1980s unfortunately very much late, Alfred Hitchcock himself. Although intriguing to some, this move was more often seen as a creepy gimmick to be made fun of, while others even saw it as nothing less than pure sacrilege and insultingly cynical desecration. On the other hand, the show definitely had its strengths as well. The remakes of the classic 50s and forgotten 60s episodes (the show is a remake of both classic "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" (1955) and the now completely forgotten "The Alfred Hitchcock Hour" (1962) anthologies) were often actually good 80s-fied updates, whether they were near shot-for-shot remakes (season 1 episode "Revenge" for example) or with its own small twists added to the mix (season 1 episode Road Hog) or sometimes even actually better than the original 1950s version (Martin Sheen's fresh meta/in-joke take on Robert Duvall's original episode Method Actor, again in season 1). However, some episodes also gleefully fed on 80s cynicism and really dark and bleak twists, which sometimes worked in a macabre way (season 1's Final Escape) and sometimes ended up being just plain sinister and disturbing (like in season 1's The Night Caller or possibly the bleakest and darkest episode of the entire show - season 1's The Gloating Place). The show also featured dark comedic tales like Tim Burton's The Jar (season 1 again) or even light comedies (like season 1 episode The Canary Sedan, one of the 1950s stories that received a complete overhaul, for better or worse). There were even a couple of sci-fi episodes like "The Human Interest Story" (season 1's remake of the 50s episode) and "Romance Machine" (season 4), both a mediocre mix between this show and The Outer Limits. As it was the case with other similar shows, many people who were famous at the time or were about to hit it big guest starred in season 1 (from John Huston and Melanie Griffith in the pilot's second segment Man from the South to Robert Loggia and very, very young Joaquin Phoenix in A Very Happy Ending). Some famous faces from TV at the time (like "The Equalizer" (1985) himself, Edward Woodward, in the show's only two-parter called Hunted, that served as the season 3 finale) or B-movies (like charismatic John Vernon in season 2's Conversation Over a Corpse) or aged stars (like The Good, the Bad and the Ugly star Eli Wallach in season 3 episode Kandinsky's Vault) appeared in later seasons as well but much less frequently. Later, the stories became much more formulaic and mediocre, so the writers relied on the twists to salvage them. These plot twists and twist endings reached the point of intentional self-parody with episodes like "Twist" in season 3. By season 4 (its final season) the show mixed things up a bit and tried some new tricks (again, for better or worse). For instance, it featured a number of in-joke episodes that served as tributes, either to other titles or actors. "The Prisoner" and "The Avengers" star Patrick Macnee appeared in this season's Survival of the Fittest as a retired top operative. George Lazenby, the forgotten one-off James Bond of On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) fame played a similar tongue-in-cheek role in Diamonds Aren't Forever. TV western and b-movie star Doug McClure appeared in a similarly tributary role in season 4's Ancient Voices, while the episode My Dear Watson actually featured Sherlock Holmes as protagonist. The show's underwhelming finale "South by Southeast" was a direct parody of Hitchcock's classic film "North by Northwest". The lowest point for the show probably came with a couple of infamous final season episodes that suspiciously felt and looked like blatant backdoor pilots. The most notorious of these are probably "Night Creatures", the only supernatural horror episode in the whole show, that was clearly made as a pilot for a vampire hunter series, and The Man Who Knew Too Little, again clearly made as a pilot for a series based on Hitchcock's classic film. Overall, this show is an interesting 80s TV time capsule exactly because of it's uneven quality. While most people won't care about a show like this today (most audience apparently didn't care even when the show was new), for anthology aficionados, 80s TV lovers or Hitchcockian completests, this is a show that ought to be seen. 10 out of 11 found this helpful. Was this review helpful? Sign in to vote. The best Alfred Hitchcock series. afonsobritofalves14 October 2018 One of the best series of the 80's, one of the biggest drama series and one of the best projects of Afred Hitchcock. Highly recommend. 4 out of 4 found this helpful. Was this review helpful? Sign in to vote. Nearly better than the original. searchanddestroy-110 October 2019 Of course there are many stories, inspired, if not entirely inspired by the same short novels written by the likes of Henry Sleasar and many more, stories which we can find in the old TV show. same topics then. But not all of them. The main difference between this new series and the old one is that here, you have so many twists, double, triple twists at each endings, more than in the old series, where you had only one. Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV Series) Jessica Steen 25 Favorite 80’s TV Shows Favorite Horror Anthology TV Series TV show reboots/Remakes TV Shows (Watchlist)

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Mississauga Centre, on Alghabra Mississauga Centre is at about 500 kilometres from Parliament Hill and 30 kilometres west of downtown Toronto. MiWay buses and GO Transit provide public transportation. The Credit River, which flows through Erindale Park, has a Chinook and Atlantic salmon population, as well as bass, trout, and pike. The riding is home to a number of parks including Camilla Park, Cooksville Park, Woodington Green and Kingsbridge Common, among others. Cooksville Creek runs through the riding. About 62% of the riding’s population are immigrants, with some of the largest populations born in India, Pakistan, and China. Arabic, Urdu, and Mandarin are the most common non-official mother tongues in the riding. Less than 1% of the riding’s population identify as Aboriginal. Celebration Square has a wading pool/ice rink, floral gardens, and art installations. It hosts cultural festivals, including Fiesta Kg Kalayaan, Viet Summerfest, and Muslimfest. Riverwood Park has trails and bike pathways, and is home to picturesque Chappell House and MacEwan Terrace Garden, popular spots for wedding photography. Square One Shopping Centre can be found in the heart of Mississauga Centre. With over 320 stores, the mall is the largest in Ontario. Mississauga is Canada’s sixth-largest city by population. There is a Mississauga Park in Japan. It’s the matching park to this riding’s Kariya Park, opened to mark the twin-city relationship between Mississauga and Kariya. Mississauga’s postmodern City Hall opened in 1987 and garnered several architectural awards. Nearly 250 architects submitted proposals, with Edward Jones and Michael Kirkland winning the competition. Sales and services, business, finance and administration, and natural and applied sciences are the top occupational fields. Average family income is $89,970. Over 60 of Canada’s “Fortune 500” companies base their headquarters, either globally or Canadian-based, in Mississauga. Pharmaceuticals, banking, electronics, and aerospace are some of the most dominant industries. Square One Shopping Centre’s “Green Steps” program tries to reduce the mall’s carbon footprint through increased recycling containers, an automated energy management system, high-efficiency lighting, and eco-friendly cleaning supplies. Indigenous Mississauga peoples were the first to inhabit the land the Mississauga Centre now sits on. French traders arrived in the 17th century, and the British signed various treaties with the Mississaugas throughout the 1800s to provide settlers hundreds of thousands of acres of land on which to live.

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Facility Type Assisted Living Independent Living Retirement Community Memory Care Nursing Home Respite Care Home Care Montebello On Academy 10500 Academy Rd Ne Website: Coming Soon New Residences: 877-311-6237 County: Look Below for the Map of Origin Monthly Rates from: Click Here Now to Find the Cost, Availability and Payment Options Unlock For More Information Get FREE Expert Assistance Do Cost Comparisons Get Inside Information on Facilities Choose the Right Community We value your privacy. By clicking "Request Information", you agree to our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. You also consent to us, or our provider partners, to contact you using a system that can auto dial. You do not need to consent to use our service. 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The city's nicknames are The Duke City and Burque, both of which reference its 1706 founding by Nuevo México governor Francisco Cuervo y Valdés as La Villa de Alburquerque, named in honor of then Viceroy the 10th Duke of Alburquerque, the Villa was an outpost on El Camino Real for the Tiquex and Hispano towns in the area (such as Barelas, Corrales, Isleta Pueblo, Los Ranchos, and Sandia Pueblo). Since the city's founding it has continued to be included on travel and trade routes including Santa Fe Railway (ATSF), Route 66, Interstate 25, Interstate 40, and the Albuquerque International Sunport. The population census-estimated population of the city as 560,218 in 2018, it is the principal city of the Albuquerque metropolitan area, which has 915,927 residents as of July 2018. The metropolitan population includes Rio Rancho, Bernalillo, Placitas, Zia Pueblo, Los Lunas, Belen, South Valley, Bosque Farms, Jemez Pueblo, Cuba, and part of Laguna Pueblo. This metro is included in the larger Albuquerque–Santa Fe–Las Vegas combined statistical area, with a population of 1,171,991 as of 2016. The CSA constitutes the southernmost point of the Southern Rocky Mountain Front megalopolis, including other major Rocky Mountain region cities such as Cheyenne, Wyoming, and Denver, Colorado, with a population of 5,467,633 according to the 2010 United States Census. Albuquerque serves as the county seat of Bernalillo County, and is in north-central New Mexico. The Sandia Mountains run along the eastern side of Albuquerque, and the Rio Grande flows north to south through its center, while the West Mesa and Petroglyph National Monument make up the western part of the city. Albuquerque has one of the highest elevations of any major city in the U.S., ranging from 4,900 feet (1,490 m) above sea level near the Rio Grande to over 6,700 feet (1,950 m) in the foothill areas of Sandia Heights and Glenwood Hills. The civic apex is found in an undeveloped area within the Albuquerque Open Space; there, the terrain rises to an elevation of approximately 6880+ feet (2,097 m). The economy of Albuquerque centers on science, medicine, technology, commerce, education, entertainment, and culture outlets. The city is home to Kirtland Air Force Base, Sandia National Laboratories, Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute, Presbyterian Health Services, and both the University of New Mexico and Central New Mexico Community College have their main campuses in the city. Albuquerque is the center of the New Mexico Technology Corridor, a concentration of high-tech institutions, including the metropolitan area being the location of Intel's Fab 11X In Rio Rancho and a Facebook Data Center in Belen, Albuquerque was also the founding location of MITS and Microsoft. Film studios have a major presence in the state of New Mexico, for example Netflix has a main production hub at Albuquerque Studios. 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Old Town Albuquerque's Plaza, Hotel, and San Felipe de Neri Church hosts traditional fiestas and events such as weddings, also near Old Town are the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, Albuquerque Museum of Art and History, Indian Pueblo Cultural Center, Explora, and Albuquerque Biological Park. Located in Downtown Albuquerque are historic theaters such as the KiMo Theater, and near the Civic Plaza is the Al Hurricane Pavilion and Albuquerque Convention Center with its Kiva Auditorium. Due to its population size, the metropolitan area regularly receives most national and international music concerts, Broadway shows, and other large traveling events, as well as New Mexico music, and other local music performances. Likewise, due to the metropolitan size, it is home to a diverse restaurant scene from various global cuisines, and the state's distinct New Mexican cuisine. 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The social roots of 'radicalisation' and 'violent extremism' in Africa Francesco Strazzari on Debate, Sahel, terrorism, radicalization, ISIS, al-Qaeda, Africa, Sahara, Boko Haram, al-Shabab, Mali Is 'radicalisation' the cause or the effect of violent conflict in Africa? English translation of the presentation given at the Mediterranean and Middle East Special Group of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in Rome, on Friday 24 November 2017. The task I have been given is to address the dynamics of radicalisation and violent extremism in Africa. We heard yesterday the President of the Italian Council talk about the 'future of Europe with Africa'. In this light it is important that we are demanding when it comes to an analysis of trends: fifteen years after 9/11 and the outset of the War-on-terror we are confronted with terrorism everywhere. The wars that ultimately produce radicalisation are far from ending, while Africa is definitely a field of contention among different definitions of the word radicalisation itself, a concept that has been adopted in relatively recent times. Within radicalisation, if we talk about Africa, we find a bit of everything: sectarian militias, liberation guerrillas, and urban-based cells with a jihadist vocation. Very often by amalgamating everything we create a kind of inflationary effect that does not help our analysis. If we look at perception surveys, radicalisation in Africa is not a priority for the vast majority of people. So there is a wide hiatus between local perceptions and international priorities over a phenomenon that in Africa, I recall, with al-Shabab on the one hand (part of the al-Qaeda constellation), and Boko Haram (the Islamic State in the West African province) on the other, by 2015 reached unprecedented levels of lethality. Today, if I may sketch a picture, in a nutshell, the landscape is only to some extent framed by the rivalry and mutual containment of the two 'brothers in method' — that is, Daesh and al-Qaeda. We can actually observe over the past few years an expansion of their operational range, a certain capacity of tactical innovation both in conducting attacks and in protecting their own forces, and — as the case of al-Qaeda in Mali clearly illustrates — the elaboration of multi-level strategies. Often praised in the recent past by international donors, Mali then becomes a sort of 'black swan' through the implosion and the creation of an embryonic Sahara emirate in 2012. Well, the point is whether those dramatic events are to be considered as an exception or rather as a flag that must alert us about what may happen along the Sahel in the years to come. In that region, we know that the 'Group to Support Islam and Muslims', that emerged out of the al-Qaeda matrix, aligns a series of five armed groups and adopts a strong rhetoric against colonial occupation. In the month of October 2017 alone, it carried out approximately 15 attacks, hitting some 115 people since March, when it was created. The group has established a series of regional alliances, including northern Burkina Faso where Ansar-ul Islam is present. All of this obviously has to be understood as part of a long-term strategy that al-Qaeda pursues. We know the Sahel G5 seeks to equip itself with the new counter-terrorism force, with regional conflict management capacity, showing some limits in its inception. The priority seems to me to understand the nature of the phenomenon and to avoid a simplistic reduction of radicalisation, understanding it as a phenomenon that occurs along a one-dimensional axis: radicalness on the one end, moderation on the other. In reality, the controversy for the political legitimacy project behind the definition of Islam in Africa today is something that sees radicalisation far more as a product than as a cause of the dynamics of those conflict that we are witnessing. If we interview the captured jihadists, we find some interesting data: about 70% of them tell us that the triggering element for their recruitment was state action. Very few have detailed knowledge of theology, while we often find that recruitment takes place within collective dynamics that involve a given area, a village, a social segment: it is not simply the individual's choice. All this makes us understand how the social roots of political mobilisation have to do with not-so-latent conflicts that underlie violent mobilisation and have to do with long-term dynamics. Among these dynamics, one may recall the erosion of Sufism in Africa, the strong presence of foreign interests in humanitarian action and development cooperation. I refer not only to Europe, I refer to the powers of the Gulf, I refer to local variations of Salafism that have a historical root in the Algerian civil war as well. But deeper still one finds a crisis of a clientelist system of political legitimacy and governance affecting many African states that have been hit by major factors. Not only climate change, but the neoliberal reforms of the 1990s which changed the entitlement of access to resources — land in primis — affecting the social dynamics that had to do with the relationship between fishermen, farmers and herders. There is a rather important and medium-term dynamic that we observe in jihadist preaching in different countries. That is the presentation of the militant verb as a function of social emancipation with respect to local leaders who are systematically accused of corruption, to be agents of foreign powers, to stifle a whole younger generation. The young African generation that as we know is demographically bursting out, struggling to stay within the marginality it often finds itself confined to, and sees in the attack on the corruption of a rapacious elite, against the political stability that somehow condemns them to a marginal role, a possibility of social mobility. The jihadist attacks in Africa often target state officials, particularly in the justice sector, which is often considered to be the weakest link in comparison to Shari'ah justice that is perceived as swift, not corrupt, and part of a moralising discourse. On the other hand, there is a giant problem with the education sector, where the Boko Haram case is so obvious, but far from unique: attacks on schools are something systematic, that we observe at different latitudes on the African continent. In short, there are various dynamics associated with radicalisation that have local roots, they are not just a model imported from the Middle East. We have to learn to read these dynamics in the context of the crisis of the state in Africa in the last twenty years if we want to understand that a significant part of what we will see depends on how African states — involved in international cooperation as they are — understand religious discourses as catalysts for violent mobilization. In summary and concluding, since I want to keep it really short, it is dangerous not to resist the often contingent interests that induce to define any form of political controversy in Africa as 'terrorist'. The obvious danger is that it is an incriminating, non-selective and non-strategic action, which at some point — as it already happens in the battle against Boko Haram in the South, a battle that has shifted considerably around Lake Chad — bundles together humanitarian elements like a mass of refugees fleeing the jihadists on the one hand, while on the other hand the same refugees are accused of jihadism, all because of our inability to understand local dynamics. All this can only help radicalisation in the medium to long-term. So if al-Qaeda has a medium to long-term strategy — and I think it is difficult to deny it — it is necessary that the international community, in its most organised institutional fora, adopts a medium-long-term response by avoiding quick fixes, stitched-up solutions that may serve in the short breath of the politics of their member states, but struggle to strike in depth a phenomenon; they coin extremely wide categories, but fail to bring to light the core of the problem. A huge humanitarian and geopolitical game is being played out around Lake Chad. The tectonic fault lines of what may be the problem of the day after tomorrow are shifting. The Sahara has operated for decades, perhaps centuries, as a geopolitical insulator. Today it is a connector. So sub-Saharan African affairs enter North African politics, they enter European politics and global politics. I think it is necessary to develop the criteria and the ability to read politics in Africa as part of a common problem. Thank you. (the English translation of the original Italian transcript has been slightly edited for clarity while retaining its character of oral presentation) For a more systematic treatment of these issues see: Francesco Strazzari, 'Radicalisation: Religious Extremism as a Vector of Violent Mobilization', in African futures: horizon 2025, edited by Valérie Arnould and Francesco Strazzari, EUISS, September 2017. Cover photo: Cour royale de Tiébélé, Burkina Faso, by Maarten van der Bent, (CC) 2013. Associate professor in international relations, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa | Adjunct research professor, NUPI Oslo | Adjunct professor, SAIS Europe - The Johns Hopkins University, Bologna https://francescostrazzari.eu Visual impressions from a field trip to Niger Regeni, the media chorus sides with the counter-revolution Under the Sycamores We Saw it Coming: Jihadist Terrorism, Challenges for the European Union From Hand to Hand Rome, a Criminal World-in-Between The Return of Geopolitics Zombies Books and Lives of the Exiled Everyday Practices of ‘Counter-Radicalisation’ and ‘Countering Violent Extremism’ Governing the Radical through Power, Knowledge, Economy and Routine. EISA Prague 2018 – Call for Papers and Panels. Convenors: Charlotte… Migration management and the death of an Iraqi child in Bolzano: a conversation with senator Francesco Palermo By Mattia Farris, Beatrice Autelli, Claudia Knering, and Alessia Muzzin - The wealthy Italian province of Bolzano/South Tyrol…

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The Future of Seawater Desalination: Energy, Technology, and the Environment Menachem Elimelech*, William A. Phillip† Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520-8286, USA. ↵*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: menachem.elimelech{at}yale.edu ↵† Present address: Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556–5637, USA. Science 05 Aug 2011: DOI: 10.1126/science.1200488 Menachem Elimelech For correspondence: menachem.elimelech@yale.edu William A. Phillip In recent years, numerous large-scale seawater desalination plants have been built in water-stressed countries to augment available water resources, and construction of new desalination plants is expected to increase in the near future. Despite major advancements in desalination technologies, seawater desalination is still more energy intensive compared to conventional technologies for the treatment of fresh water. There are also concerns about the potential environmental impacts of large-scale seawater desalination plants. Here, we review the possible reductions in energy demand by state-of-the-art seawater desalination technologies, the potential role of advanced materials and innovative technologies in improving performance, and the sustainability of desalination as a technological solution to global water shortages. Water scarcity is one of the most serious global challenges of our time. Presently, over one-third of the world’s population lives in water-stressed countries and by 2025, this figure is predicted to rise to nearly two-thirds (1). The challenge of providing ample and safe drinking water is further complicated by population growth, industrialization, contamination of available freshwater resources, and climate change. At the same time, greater recognition of the broad societal and ecological benefits that stem from adequate water resources—economic vitality, public health, national security, and ecosystem health—is motivating the search for technological solutions to water shortages. Several measures to alleviate the stresses on water supply should be implemented, including water conservation, repair of infrastructure, and improved catchment and distribution systems. However, while these measures are important, they can only improve the use of existing water resources, not increase them. The only methods to increase water supply beyond what is available from the hydrological cycle are desalination and water reuse (2). Of these, seawater desalination offers a seemingly unlimited, steady supply of high-quality water, without impairing natural freshwater ecosystems. Desalination of brackish groundwaters is also an option to augment water supply for inland regions; however, the management of brines from inland desalination plants is a major challenge because these plants are placed far from the coast. There has been rapid growth in the installation of seawater desalination facilities in the past decade as a means to augment water supply in water-stressed countries (1, 3, 4). Notable examples are the large-scale seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) desalination plants recently constructed in Spain (5) and Israel (6, 7). In 2016, the global water production by desalination is projected to exceed 38 billion m3 per year, twice the rate of global water production by desalination in 2008 (3). Early large-scale desalination plants, mostly in the arid Gulf countries, were based on thermal desalination, where the seawater is heated and the evaporated water is condensed to produce fresh water (8). Such plants, still in operation in the Gulf countries, consume substantial amounts of thermal and electric energy, which result in a large emission of greenhouse gases (9). Excluding those in the Gulf countries, the vast majority of desalination plants constructed in the past two decades, as well as future planned facilities, are based on reverse osmosis technology (Fig. 1), where seawater is pressurized against a semipermeable membrane that lets water pass through but retains salt (4). Reverse osmosis technology has improved considerably in the past two decades, and current desalination plants can desalinate seawater with much less energy than thermal desalination (4, 9). At present, reverse osmosis is the most energy-efficient technology for seawater desalination and is the benchmark for comparison for any new desalination technology. Conceptual drawing of an SWRO desalination plant showing the various stages—seawater intake, pretreatment, reverse osmosis, posttreatment, and brine discharge—and their interactions with the environment. The thickness of the arrows for the energy consumption represents the relative amount of energy consumed at the various stages. In this review, we assess the energy efficiency, the state of the technology, and the environmental challenges of seawater desalination. We highlight the main open questions, how future studies might address them, and what new approaches are needed to advance the science and technology of seawater desalination. What Is the Current Energy Efficiency of Desalination and Can It Be Improved? The amount of power needed to drive desalination in SWRO plants has declined dramatically in the past 40 years (Fig. 2A) (4, 8, 10, 11). This decrease in energy consumption is attributed to continual technological improvements, including higher-permeability membranes, installation of energy recovery devices, and the use of more efficient pumps (4). The potential to operate the desalination step at an energy consumption rate of 1.8 kWh/m3 using new, high-permeability SWRO membrane elements has recently been demonstrated on a controlled pilot-scale system at 50% recovery (11). (A) The change in power consumption for the reverse osmosis stage in SWRO plants from the 1970s to 2008 (SOM text). The horizontal dashed line corresponds to the theoretical minimum energy required for desalination of 35 g/liter seawater at 50% recovery (1.06 kWh/m3). The energy data presented exclude the energy required for intake, pretreatment, posttreatment, and brine discharge. (B) Theoretical minimum energy for desalination as a function of percent recovery for common seawaters: 25 g/liter is typical of the less saline seawater drawn from the Tampa Bay estuary, 35 g/liter is an average value for seawater, and 45 g/liter is characteristic of water from the Arabian Gulf. Minimum energies for recoveries between 45 and 55%, the range in which most SWRO plants operate, are highlighted. (C) A schematic of flows and pressures in a reverse osmosis desalination system. The pressurized feed volume, VF, is fed to a membrane module containing a semipermeable membrane where it is separated into a pure water permeate, VP, and a concentrate containing the retained salts, VC. The energy put into the system through a high-pressure pump is consumed at several points throughout the process. Understanding the minimum amount of energy required to separate pure water from seawater provides a benchmark for comparison and can help to guide future efforts to further reduce energy demand. This theoretical minimum energy, which is independent of the desalination method, is realized when the separation occurs as a reversible thermodynamic process (12). Thus, the energy for the separation will be equal in magnitude but opposite in sign to the free energy of mixing (13). There is a close relationship between the free energy of mixing and the osmotic pressure:−d(ΔGmix)=−RTlnawdnw=ΠsV¯wdnw(1)where ΔGmixis the free energy of mixing, R is the ideal gas constant, T is the absolute temperature, aw is the activity of water, nw is the number of moles of water, Πs is the osmotic pressure of the seawater, andV¯w is the molar volume of water. This connection between the minimum energy and the osmotic pressure is consistent with our physical understanding of reverse osmosis. In order to drive an infinitesimally small volume of water across a semipermeable membrane,V¯wdnw, the applied pressure must be equal to the osmotic pressure of seawater. The theoretical minimum energy of desalination as a function of percent recovery (i.e., the percent of seawater converted to fresh water) can be obtained from integration of Eq. 1 (12, 13) (Fig. 2B). As the salinity of seawater or desired water recovery increases, so does the minimum energy required for desalination. For example, the theoretical minimum energy of desalination for seawater at 35,000 parts per million (ppm) salt and at a typical recovery of 50% is 1.06 kWh/m3. The actual energy consumption, however, is larger because desalination plants are finite in size and do not operate as a reversible thermodynamic process. In a SWRO desalination unit, pressurized seawater, VF, is fed to a membrane module, where a pure water permeate, VP, and a concentrate, VC, containing the retained salts are produced (Fig. 2C). The energy to drive this separation enters the system through a pump that brings the feed volume to a high pressure, PH. This requires an amount of energy equal to VFPH. The concentrate that exits the membrane module still contains energy equal to VCPH, which can be recovered and transferred to the feed through the use of energy recovery devices. The invention of more effective energy recovery devices was crucial in reducing the power consumption of desalination to its current level (4, 8, 14). The energy to drive the permeation of water VPPH is split between the need to bring the seawater to a pressure equal to its osmotic pressure (i.e., VPΠs, the theoretical minimum energy) and the need to generate reasonable water fluxes, which requires an amount of energy equal to (PH − Πs)VP. The membrane permeability will determine the magnitude of the overpressure (PH − Πs) necessary to generate reasonable water fluxes. However, regardless of how permeable a membrane is, the applied pressure cannot be reduced below the osmotic pressure of the concentrate (15–17). The implications of this restriction are critical to examining the energy use of reverse osmosis. Reverse osmosis modules use several membrane elements in series, with the concentrate from the first element being the feed to the second element, and so on. Therefore, the pressure applied to the feed of the first element must be at least equal to the osmotic pressure of the concentrate leaving the last element (i.e., PH ≥ Πc) (15–17). When the applied pressure is equal to the osmotic pressure of the concentrate, the system is said to be operating at the thermodynamic limit. At this limit, kinetic considerations no longer influence the energy consumption of the process. For a system at the thermodynamic limit, highly permeable membranes may help reduce capital costs by reducing the membrane area needed, but they will not reduce energy consumption. The energy consumption is set by the need to bring the feed volume to a pressure equal to the osmotic pressure of the concentrate. Additional energy, >1 kWh/m3, is consumed by the intake, pretreatment, posttreatment, and brine discharge stages of the desalination plant (4). Of these stages, pretreatment of the raw seawater before it is fed into the reverse osmosis stage accounts for most of this energy use. Another source of energy consumption is the post-treatment for the removal of boron and chlorides to meet the requirements of irrigation water (6). To reduce boron and chloride to acceptable levels, part or all of the product water goes through one or more reverse osmosis passes, adding to the total energy consumption and capital cost (4, 6). Can Novel Materials Reduce Energy Consumption? At the core of the reverse osmosis desalination process is a semipermeable membrane capable of separating pure water from seawater (18). The first commercially viable membrane with the ability to effect such a separation was an asymmetric cellulose acetate membrane developed in the early 1960s (19). Membranes of this type were the best available technology until the 1980s when robust thin-film composite membranes were developed (20). Along with the ability to remain stable over a greater pH range than cellulose-based membranes, thin-film composite membranes exhibit much higher intrinsic water permeabilities because of their extremely thin (~100 nm) polyamide-selective layers (Fig. 3). Water and salt transport across such membranes is governed by a solution-diffusion mechanism, where species first partition into the polyamide phase and then diffuse down a concentration gradient (21). (A) A schematic of the interfacial polymerization used to form thin-film composite (TFC) membranes. The monomers m-phenylenediamine and trimesoyl chloride react to form a highly cross-linked polyamide layer, which allows for the selective transport of water over salt. Ultrathin films are fabricated by dissolving the m-phenylenediamine in water and trimesoyl chloride in a water-immiscible organic solvent, such as hexane. A porous support is soaked in the aqueous solution and then contacted with the organic solution. The resulting polyamide formation is confined to the region near the interface of the two solutions. One drawback of the polyamide chemistry is the amide linkage (highlighted in dashed box), which is susceptible to attack by chlorine and other oxidizing agents. (B) Micrographs displaying the structure of the TFC membranes (48). A transmission electron micrograph of the membrane cross-section shows the extremely thin polyamide layer on top of a porous polysulfone support. The dark regions on top of the polyamide layer are gold nanoparticles used to obtain sufficient contrast between the polyamide and polysulfone layers during imaging. (Inset) A scanning electron micrograph of the polyamide top surface showing the rough ridge and valley structure typical of these films. (C) Surface properties of TFC membranes (49, 50). Fouling-resistant membranes would be smooth and possess surface chemical properties postulated by (30); TFC membranes do not meet all of these constraints, consistent with their high fouling propensity. (D) Chemistries that have demonstrated the ability to resist protein or organic macromolecule adhesion: poly(ethylene oxide) (31), zwitterions such as poly(sulfobetaine) (33), sugar-derived molecules (30), and polyglycerol (34). The fabrication and performance of thin-film composite membranes have been greatly improved in the past few decades and today, nearly all reverse osmosis desalination operations use such membranes (18). Thin-film composite membranes exhibit water permeabilities around 3.5 × 10−12 m3 m−2 Pa−1 s−1 and can reject 99.6 to 99.8% of the salts dissolved in the seawater feed (10). Empirical evidence suggests that it is difficult to further increase the water permeability of these membranes without sacrificing selectivity (22). Despite the great improvements in thin-film composite membranes, there are still shortcomings that hinder their application. The fabrication technique has not been successfully extended to hollow fiber configurations that offer higher packing densities. In addition, the surface properties of thin-film composite membranes (Fig. 3, B and C) make them prone to fouling, which diminishes process performance. Biofouling—the growth of microbes on the membrane surface—could potentially be reduced or even prevented if chlorine or other oxidants were added to the feed. However, the amide linkage in polyamide composite membranes (Fig. 3A) is susceptible to attack by chlorine, and great care must be taken to prevent the membrane from being exposed to oxidizing agents (23). Given the limitations of thin-film composite membranes, along with recent developments in the fabrication of advanced materials, it is natural to question whether these advanced materials can be leveraged to improve the energy usage, reliability, and environmental impact of SWRO. Ultrahigh-permeability membranes have recently received a lot of attention as potential alternatives to thin-film composite membranes. It is argued that increasing the membrane permeability will reduce the pressure needed to drive permeation, thereby reducing the energy demand of reverse osmosis desalination. Two such ideas for ultrahigh-permeability membranes are based on incorporating aligned nanotubes (24, 25) or aquaporins (26) into a barrier matrix. Of these, aligned carbon nanotube membranes have demonstrated the most potential so far. Experiments with aligned carbon nanotubes have shown water fluxes that are three to four orders of magnitude higher than those expected from conventional hydrodynamic theories (24, 25). These extremely high water fluxes may be due to the molecular smoothness of nanotube walls, the structure that water takes within nanotubes (27), and the smooth energetic landscape inside nanotubes (28). Notably, none of these mechanisms provide a means for selectively rejecting the dissolved salts. Therefore, chemical functionalities that reject ions must be added to the mouth of the nanotube pores or the nanotube diameter must be small enough to sieve ions from solution based on size. A nanotube inner diameter of 0.5 to 0.6 nm can theoretically produce a separation comparable to that of thin-film composite membranes (i.e., 99% rejection) (27). To date, however, no experimental studies have demonstrated salt rejection adequate for desalination. If such nanotubes were incorporated into membranes at a pore density of 2.5 × 1011 pores per cm2 (24), the membranes would have water permeabilities that are four to six times higher than current thin-film composite membranes (27). The amount of energy that can be saved by using nanotube- or aquaporin-based membranes is likely to be very small. Current SWRO plants are already operating near the thermodynamic limit, with the applied pressure being only 10 to 20% higher than the osmotic pressure of the concentrate, Πc (10, 17). This additional pressure (PH − Πc) compensates for frictional losses along the membrane channel and ensures a positive net driving pressure just before the channel outlet. Although these membranes might make it possible to use a smaller membrane area, this would require a redesign of membrane modules because concentration polarization induced by high water fluxes already hinders performance of current thin-film composite membrane modules (29). Additionally, membrane fouling is exacerbated at higher water fluxes, further diminishing the value of ultrahigh-permeability membranes for SWRO desalination. The development of fouling-resistant membranes would improve the energy usage, reliability, and environmental impact of SWRO. Despite extensive research efforts on fouling-resistant membranes, to date, no such membranes have been developed that are suitable for desalination applications. Still, these efforts have helped to establish structure-property relationships between surface chemistry and the ability of a thin film to resist adhesion of biomolecules such as proteins, which is key to understanding fouling by organic matter and microorganisms. Surfaces that are hydrophilic, contain hydrogen-bond acceptors, and are electroneutral, but do not contain hydrogen-bond donors, tend to be best at resisting protein adhesion (30). It is hypothesized that films with these chemical properties can bind a thin layer of water to their surface, providing a steric or energetic barrier to adhesion (2, 30, 31). In addition, evidence suggests that surface roughness of thin-film composite membranes can increase the adhesion of substances to the membrane surface (32). Surface properties of thin-film composite polyamide membranes, however, do not possess several of the key characteristics for fouling resistance (Fig. 3C). Several chemistries that do meet the above criteria for fouling resistance have been found (Fig. 3D) (30, 31, 33, 34), and undoubtedly, many others will be. Another potential route for fouling prevention is to develop fouling release membranes that do not resist the adhesion of foulants, but have an active layer with a low surface energy so that adhered foulants can readily be washed away by hydrodynamic mixing in the membrane module (35). However, a major challenge is to implement these chemistries such that the water flux and salt rejection of the resulting membrane are not compromised. Recent research has examined the possibility of using sulfonated block copolymers (36) or self-assembled lyotropic liquid crystals (37) to fabricate chlorine-resistant membranes. Most work on these new materials has involved thick films on the order of 50 μm, but the reported intrinsic water and salt permeabilities are close to those of thin-film composite membranes when normalized for thickness. If these films could be made at a thickness of 100 to 250 nm, they may perform as well as thin-film composite membranes and thus improve the energy usage and reliability of SWRO. Are There Innovative Systems and Technologies That Can Reduce Energy Demand? Reverse osmosis desalination consumes more energy than the theoretical minimum energy required for desalination (Fig. 2A), but developing more-permeable membranes will not substantially close this gap. This apparent contradiction is a direct consequence of current SWRO system designs. To reduce capital costs, SWRO plants desalinate seawater using a single membrane stage fed by a high-pressure pump that brings the feed volume to PH (Fig. 4A) (12, 15). If we assume operation at the thermodynamic limit (PH = Πc), ideal equipment (i.e., 100% efficient pumps and energy recovery devices), and no concentration polarization or frictional losses down the channel, then a single-stage reverse osmosis operation consumes an energy per volume of fresh water produced equal to Πc. As an example, recovering 50% of a 35 g/liter feed will have a practical minimum energy of 1.56 kWh/m3 (SOM text) compared to the thermodynamic minimum energy of 1.06 kWh/m3 (Fig. 2). Thus, 0.50 kWh/m3 is expended because the system has a finite size and is not operating as a reversible thermodynamic process. This ideal energy consumption of 1.56 kWh/m3 is not too far off from reported energy consumptions of ~2 kWh/m3 from well-designed SWRO systems or controlled pilot-scale studies (Fig. 2A). (A) Energy use of a single-stage reverse osmosis (RO) desalination operation. The theoretical minimum energy required for desalination is equal to the energy needed to bring seawater to the osmotic pressure of fluid permeating across the membrane (represented by the area under the osmotic pressure curve). In practice, to ensure that water permeates across the membrane at all points along the membrane channel, the pressure applied to the feed volume must be at least equal to the osmotic pressure leaving the membrane channel (PH = Πc); this energy can be represented by the area of the rectangle. The difference between these two areas represents the energy that must be used to operate with a single stage. (B) Staged membrane operations can save RO desalination energy costs. The first stage operates at a lower applied pressure PH,1 and percent recovery. The concentrate from the first stage is then pressurized to PH,2 = Πc to achieve the desired percent recovery. This configuration needs to bring a smaller volume to Πc, thus saving the energy represented by the smaller hatched rectangle. (C) Waste heat as the energy source for desalination by forward osmosis. A “draw solution,” which has a higher osmotic pressure than seawater, is used to extract water from seawater into the draw solution. The diluted draw solution is then fed to a draw solution recovery unit that uses waste heat to separate product water from the draw solutes. The separated draw solutes can then be recovered and recycled. One system design that can bring the actual energy use closer to the theoretical minimum energy is a staged membrane operation (15). This design uses two high-pressure pumps and membrane modules in series (Fig. 4B). The first stage operates at a lower applied pressure and, hence, a lower percent recovery. The concentrate from this stage is then brought to a higher pressure before being fed to a second stage, where the overall desired percent recovery is achieved. This mode of operation allows smaller volumes of water to be brought to higher pressures, thereby consuming less energy. The optimal configuration is to operate each stage at the same relative percent recovery (15). Under these conditions and using ideal equipment, the energy needed to recover 50% of a 35 g/liter feed is reduced to 1.28 kWh/m3 (SOM text). In theory, for an infinite number of stages (i.e., infinite equipment size), the system would operate as a reversible thermodynamic process, thus using the minimum amount of energy required for desalination. However, this design is impractical, and even for systems with two stages, the energy savings might not offset the additional capital costs. Other designs of SWRO operations have been considered. For example, cyclic desalination operations obviate the need for energy recovery devices by recirculating the pressurized feed until the desired percent recovery is achieved (38). This design saves capital costs, but will use an amount of energy similar to that of current reverse osmosis configurations, and questions remain about membrane stability during the repeated loading and unloading of fluid from the recirculation loop. Another recently proposed design involves a hybrid system that combines an osmotic contactor with reverse osmosis for osmotic dilution of the seawater feed (39). In this design, the seawater is used as a “draw solution” to dewater treated wastewater effluent or impaired water, which reduces the energy consumption of reverse osmosis desalination by diluting the feed concentration. However, this scheme requires that the two operations be colocated and adds additional capital cost. It is also likely that such a scheme would need to overcome negative public perception of utilizing wastewater effluent. Several technologies have been proposed as alternative routes for desalination (40–42). One recent example is ion concentration polarization (40). In this method, an ion depletion zone evolves when a potential drop is applied across a nanochannel containing fixed charges, which thereby prevents ionic species from flowing into a freshwater reservoir. This method may be suitable for small-scale use in remote regions, because minimal pretreatment of the feed is needed, and the necessary equipment is lightweight and easy to use. However, the cost associated with fabricating systems capable of producing high water fluxes will likely prevent the technology from being used for large-scale desalination operations. In addition, the energy consumption for large-scale desalination will likely exceed the energy used by state-of-the-art SWRO. Waste heat, a by-product of power plants and several industrial operations, that cannot be used to produce electricity or as the energy source for evaporative desalination techniques may provide an opportunity to develop systems that can supplement reverse osmosis desalination. The technologies that use this waste heat to produce the desired separation will consume more total energy than reverse osmosis, but their electric energy use will be much lower (43, 44). Thus, because the energy source to drive the separation process is waste heat, which would otherwise be discharged to the environment, such systems may be economically viable. Forward osmosis is one emerging technology capable of desalinating seawater using low-grade or waste heat (Fig. 4C) (42). This process uses a solution with a lower chemical potential than seawater to draw water across a semipermeable membrane. The solutes in this draw solution are then recovered to accomplish the desalination. One potentially suitable draw solution is ammonia–carbon dioxide, and the feasibility of desalinating seawater with a heat source <60°C has been examined (43). The use of thermolytic salts as a draw solution may give forward osmosis an advantage over membrane distillation, which must evaporate water to produce fresh water (41). The low vapor pressure of water below 60°C may preclude the use of waste heat as a viable energy source for membrane distillation. The requirements placed on membranes for the forward osmosis process are different than those for the reverse osmosis process. Fabricating robust membranes designed to meet these requirements will allow for the use of lower draw solution concentrations, and thus lower the energy requirements of forward osmosis (42, 43). Is Seawater Desalination a Sustainable Technological Solution to Global Water Shortages? There are several concerns with desalination because of the potential for adverse environmental impacts. One is that thermoelectric energy, the main power source for SWRO desalination plants, results in the emission of air pollutants and greenhouse gases that further exacerbate climate change. Current state-of-the-art SWRO plants consume between 3 and 4 kWh/m3 and emit between 1.4 and 1.8 kg CO2 per cubic meter of produced water (4, 5, 45). To put this in perspective, Spain would require as much as 4000 GWh annually to produce its projected desalination capacity of 1 billion m3/year (5). Even when considering that the overall energy consumption of future SWRO plants will drop below 3 kWh/m3, the carbon footprint of large-scale desalination plants can be substantial. Hence, to minimize greenhouse gas emissions, renewable energy sources could directly power SWRO desalination plants. Alternatively, indirect compensation or offset measures, such as the installation of renewable energy plants that feed energy into the grid, could also power desalination plants (46), which would resolve problems with intermittent and variable intensities of wind and solar sources. A major problem associated with seawater intake is the impingement and entrainment of marine organisms (8, 46, 47). Entrainment can kill a large number of juvenile-stage fish, although the impact on a population level is not clear given the naturally high mortality of larval organisms in marine systems (8). Open surface intakes, commonly used in large desalination plants, can minimize impingement of large organisms through a combination of appropriate screens and low intake velocity. Entrainment of small planktonic organisms (e.g., larvae, eggs) can be substantially reduced or eliminated by locating the intakes away from biologically productive areas, such as in deeper water farther offshore, or by using underground beach wells (8, 46). The latter would also improve the quality of the feed water, reducing the process pretreatment demands. Beach wells, however, are difficult to implement for large-scale desalination plants because the hydraulic permeability of the underlying aquifer limits the rate of water uptake. Where possible, colocation of desalination and power plants should also be considered for larger plants (8). The total volume of the intake water can be reduced if the cooling water from the power plant serves as feed water for the desalination plant, thereby minimizing the impacts from entrainment and impingement. The elevated salinity of SWRO brines (about twice that of seawater) and the chemicals used in pretreatment and membrane-cleaning protocols also pose environmental risks to organisms when discharged to the marine environment (8, 46). The main chemicals that reverse osmosis plants discharge are antiscalants, coagulants, and cleaning chemicals (e.g., surfactants, alkaline and acid solutions, and metal-chelating agents) (4, 46). Despite myriad studies discussing the potential for adverse environmental impacts of desalination plant effluents (8), there is a lack of useful experimental data from laboratory tests or field monitoring to assess these impacts. For example, published data are inadequate to establish the salinity level at which marine organisms can tolerate long-term exposure. To avoid impacts from high-salinity brines, the desalination plant brine can be diluted with other waste streams, such as power plant cooling water and treated wastewater effluent, providing they are available (8, 46). Mixing and dispersal of the discharge plume can be enhanced by installing efficient diffuser systems, and by situating the discharge stream at a marine location where favorable hydrodynamics for rapid mixing and dissipation of the salinity load exist. Different coastal and marine ecosystems vary in their sensitivity to brine and chemical waste discharges. The least sensitive are high-energy oceanic coasts that have strong waves and exposed rocky shores, whereas the most sensitive are coral reefs, salt marshes, and mangroves (46). The environmental impact of discharged concentrate streams can be further reduced with the use of more robust, membrane-based (microfiltration or ultrafiltration) pretreatment methods that use less chemicals than conventional seawater pretreatment (coagulation followed by sand filtration). More effective pretreatment will also reduce the fouling rate and frequency of chemical cleaning. Lastly, the development of fouling-resistant membranes will minimize fouling and reduce chemical cleaning. Because limited research exists on the long-term effects of desalination on marine ecosystems, there is considerable uncertainty regarding the environmental impacts of desalination. Further, there is a lack of site-specific information necessary to assess the ecological impacts of both seawater intake and brine discharge. Regardless, the widely accepted view is that the environmental impact of seawater desalination on marine environments will not be substantial if appropriate measures, such as those discussed above, are implemented. The energy demand for seawater desalination by state-of-the-art reverse osmosis is within a factor of 2 of the theoretical minimum energy for desalination, and is only 25% higher than the practical minimum energy for desalination for an ideal reverse osmosis stage. Yet, the overall energy consumption of new SWRO plants is three to four times higher than the theoretical minimum energy due to the need for extensive pretreatment and posttreatment steps. Because thermodynamics set the limit on the energy demand for the desalination step, we argue that future research to improve the energy efficiency of desalination should focus on the pretreatment and posttreatment stages of the SWRO plant. Eliminating the pretreatment stage or reducing the pretreatment demands would substantially reduce the energy consumption, capital cost, and environmental impact of desalination plants, but this requires the development of fouling-resistant membranes with tailored surface properties, as well as membrane modules with improved hydrodynamic mixing. Accomplishing this goal is a daunting task because it requires the development of surface chemistries that resist the adhesion of a wide range of foulants while maintaining the high membrane permeability and selectivity necessary for seawater desalination. To aid in the development of such high-performance, fouling-resistant desalination membranes, it is imperative to develop detailed molecular models that establish structure-property relationships between membrane surface structure and chemistry, and membrane performance. Additionally, these models will assist in the development of oxidant-resistant membranes, which can also reduce the extent of pretreatment. Molecular simulation tools are used routinely in a variety of fields, including the development of drugs, catalysts, and chemicals, but their use for the development of water purification membranes is lagging considerably. Alternatively, developing new, energy-efficient desalination technologies that are inherently less susceptible to fouling compared to high-pressure, membrane-based desalination methods could also reduce or eliminate pretreatment. Advances in membrane technology can also reduce the need for posttreatment in SWRO plants, thereby improving energy efficiency and reducing capital cost. Reducing boron and chloride levels in desalinated water for agricultural use to levels that crops can tolerate necessitates posttreatment. However, developing thin-film composite membranes with higher selectivity, particularly for boron, will be difficult. This is a direct consequence of the separation mechanism of thin-film composite membranes, where increasing selectivity to allow higher removal of boron and chlorides will substantially reduce the membrane permeability, which will increase energy consumption. Developing reverse osmosis membranes with higher selectivity without sacrificing water permeability will necessitate a major paradigm shift, as it will require membranes that do not follow the solution-diffusion mechanism for desalination. Molecular simulations can aid in determining how membrane chemistry and structure can be tuned to produce high permeability and selectivity. In the coming decades, surging population growth, urban development, and industrialization will increase worldwide demand for fresh water, requiring new sources of water. 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Stokes, Electrolyte Solutions; the Measurement and Interpretation of Conductance, Chemical Potential, and Diffusion in Solutions of Simple Electrolytes (Butterworths, London, ed. 2d, 1959), pp. xv, 571 p. Acknowledgments: We acknowledge the support of WaterCAMPWS, a Science and Technology Center of Advanced Materials for the Purification of Water with Systems under NSF grant CTS-0120978. We also thank L. Hoover and A. Martinez for help with the manuscript, and E. L. Cussler, T. Pankratz, and M. Wilf for helpful discussions. You are going to email the following The Future of Seawater Desalination: Energy, Technology, and the Environment By Menachem Elimelech, William A. Phillip Science 05 Aug 2011 : 712-717

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‘Captain Marvel’ May Have Been Cast & Could Appear In ‘Avengers: Age of Ultron’ Posted March 25th, 2015 by Ben Silverio Even though the arrival of Spider-Man to the Marvel Cinematic Universe has pushed it back, we will still be seeing ‘Captain Marvel’ in 2018. However, rumors have been circulating since before the Phase Three slate was announced that Carol Danvers could appear in ‘Avengers: Age of Ultron.’ Recently, director Joss Whedon revealed that other Marvel characters are lined up to make surprise appearances in the upcoming Phase Two film (and apparently the last one for the fan favorite filmmaker at Marvel Studios for a while). Now, a new update on the character’s future in the MCU has surfaced. Latino Review’s El Mayimbe is reporting that Marvel Studios has already cast the role of Captain Marvel in preparation for her first appearance in ‘Age of Ultron,’ but the actress is being kept top secret. Previously, ‘Battlestar Galactica’ and ‘Riddick’ star Katee Sackhoff was said to be connected to the role. Though the casting would be pretty good, no facts have emerged to support the rumor since it first surfaced last year. Additionally, comic book writer Kelly Sue DeConnick has allegedly expressed interest in writing the screenplay. While it’s uncertain whether she landed the job or not, we already know for certain that she’s venturing into film and television along with her husband Matt Fraction thanks to their deal with Universal, so it would totally be fitting for her to bring Carol to the big screen. Finally, Jim Starlin is supposedly joining the project as a consultant. The legendary comic creator has strong ties to the original Captain Marvel, but he’s also associated with other key players in Marvel’s cosmic side like Adam Warlock, Drax the Destroyer, Gamora, and Thanos. You can see the whole report for yourself below thanks to Umberto Gonzalez’s Instagram post: RT! HOT #MARVEL #RUMOR ABOUT #CAPTAINMARVEL #SPOILER Apparently, from what I’m being told, the rumor is that the studio has cast the role of Carol Danvers & keeping it top secret. I’m also being told we will first see her in #AVENGERS #AgeofUltron as originally written in previous drafts of the screenplay. In terms of the standalone film, the Marvel brain trust has blocked out the plot & story with the intention of bringing an established writer to write the script. Comic writer Kelly Sue DeConnick wanted to take a crack at writing the screenplay but I’m not sure if she got the gig. Also, I’m told legendary comic writer Jim Starlin, who has a rich history with Captain Marvel is aboard the project as a consultant. All of the above is #UNCONFIRMED so take with grain of salt until further notice but it’s within the realm of plausibility. A photo posted by Umberto Gonzalez (@umbertogonzalez) on Mar 24, 2015 at 6:11am PDT Just as the post says, all of the above is still unconfirmed. That being said, it would be incredible to see Jim Starlin and Kelly Sue DeConnick work together on ‘Captain Marvel.’ Both comic creators have had a huge impact on the character, so there probably aren’t any other people more qualified to at least consult on the film than these two. And even though the film is still a way away, hopefully we get some solid information on the creative team or the casting sooner rather than later. What do you think about the latest rumors for ‘Captain Marvel’? Which bits do you hope to be true? And do you have any picks (besides Katee Sackoff) to play Carol Danvers in the Marvel Cinematic Universe? Sound off in the comment section, Carol Corps! ‘Captain Marvel’ flies into theaters on November 2, 2018. Ben Silverio Ben F. Silverio received a degree from Drexel University in the Screenwriting and Playwriting Program with a minor in Television Production. While at Drexel, Ben co-founded and co-hosted a film review show called The Pretentious Film Majors, which has evolved into a multi-format form of entertainment including blogs, podcasts on iTunes, articles in the school paper, and a potential tv show. Now armed with an extremely expensive piece of paper, Ben can begin climbing the treacherous ladder of the entertainment industry, which he hopes to do while streaming WWE wrestling matches, reading Marvel comics, and blogging about the excessive amount of movies and tv shows that he watches, all on the iPhone that is permanently attached to his hand. Toy News Tuesday: ‘Avengers’ Is The New ‘Guardians’ ‘Batman: Arkham Knight’ Release Date Gets Pushed Back Again Kurt Russell And Sylvester Stallone Will Be Returning To The MCU After ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’ Gal Gadot Has The Best Reaction To The Academy Awards’ ‘Wonder Woman’ Snub Comic Book Review: ‘Wolverine’ #8 Fox Schedules Two Mystery Marvel Movies For 2018 And 2019; Pushes Back ‘Kingsman 2’

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avocado and lemon words, food, yoga and philosophical whimsy Reading: And the Rat Laughed Posted on 28 December 2009 by avocadoandlemon I don’t normally have an urge to write about a book I’ve read. I’m not sure why that is — something to do with internalising the ideas, the atmosphere. Perhaps I’m a bit protective of the world a fiction book has created in my head (although my brother reminded me the other day that I used to constantly steal books he’d started, so I’m obviously not as concerned about other people maintaining those worlds in their own heads — sorry Tom!). I’m perfectly willing to talk endlessly about non-fiction, but I find it more difficult to articulate my feelings about fiction. And so I was surprised when my reaction to Nava Semel’s ‘And the Rat Laughed’ was to write about it. It’s an unusual book. Essentially, it’s about remembering the Holocaust — how a story should be told, if it should be told, how to tell a story of trauma to a young family member without traumatising them too, how to avoid diluting the story so much that the essence of the experience is lost, how to then continue passing the story on without it turning into a warped game of Chinese whispers. Memory fascinates me, which is possibly why I loved this book so much, despite whole sections that simultaneously irritated me with their format or style. The book is in five sections. The first is the old woman’s story, told in bits and pieces, at times difficult to decipher among her wondering about the damage she might do to her granddaughter, to whom she is telling the story, her guilt about telling her granddaughter when she has never told her own daughter, and through the cloud of her own memory loss. In the second section, the granddaughter apologetically tells her teacher that she failed to get a story from her grandmother, and could only elicit from her a seemingly meaningless legend about a rat that desperately wanted to laugh and a little girl in a pit who could not help him. The third section is a series of poems. Short, simple. Devastating to the reader having already read sections one and two. They sound like poems written by children, and in a later section we discover that this is exactly what they are. In part four I found myself skipping sections and forcing myself to go back and re-read them. It is set in 2099, in a time where people can communicate with one another through their dreams and send ‘b-mails’ (brain-mails, like emails). All the futuristic stuff was a bit far-fetched for me, but this section did serve to explore what can happen to a personal narrative once it’s removed from the person who had the experiences, and becomes a sort of myth. The fifth and last section comes back to the original story, and shows us the diary of the priest who eventually saved the little girl (who became the grandmother) from the pit and tried to rehabilitate her. At times I couldn’t help but feel that the Girl and Rat myth became a bit gimmicky, and took away from the devastating story of darkness and abuse, but then perhaps that’s the point. What does happen to our stories when they are told and retold in less and less accurate ways? Do the important parts disappear? Do they become myth? And if they become myth are they necessarily less emotionally potent? And this, perhaps, is why I felt compelled to write about this book: it left me with questions. This entry was posted in books, memory, reading, Uncategorized and tagged And the Rat Laughed, books, reading, review by avocadoandlemon. Bookmark the permalink.

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A History of Kingston, R.I. by Christian McBurney Pettaquamscutt Historical Society Kingston, RI (c) 2004 Christian M. McBurney 1-932433-35-X (paperback) For information on purchasing or ordering this book, please go to www.freewebs.com/kingstonrihistory From the Back Cover -- Kingston, a village in South Kingstown, Rhode Island, has a history in the 18th and 19th centuries as rich as any village in New England. The key is that it served for 100 years as one of the five rotating state capitals; for almost 150 years as the seat for the county courts in Washington County; and for 125 years as the town seat for South Kingstown (then including Narragansett). About the Author -- Christian M. McBurney was raised in Kingston, Rhode Island in the Potter Homestead. He graduated from South Kingstown High School in 1977 and Brown University in 1981. In high school he wrote Kingston: A Forgotten History (1975) and at Brown he wrote an undergraduate history thesis paper on colonial South Kingstown planter society. After graduating from New York University School of Law in 1985, he embarked on a career as an attorney. Currently, he is a partner with the law firm of Nixon Peabody LLP in its Washington, D.C. office. He lives with his wife, Margaret, and three children, Ryan, Kyle and Victoria, in Kensington, Maryland. Christian M. McBurney book printing | book printer © 1997 - 2005 Signature Book Printing, Inc. Updated 05/15/11

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The Past Review Movies By Rich Heimlich on January 24, 2014 An Iranian husband returns to France and his estranged wife to finalize their divorce in The Past. Marie Brisson (Bérénice Bejo) and her husband Ahmad (Ali Mosaffa) parted ways a few years back, leaving Marie to raise her two daughters (from a previous marriage) alone. Ahmad returns to France and Marie to check in on the family and tie up all the loose ends surrounding the divorce that Marie’s been asking for. He finds that she’s taken up with an Arab named Samir (Tahar Rahim) who has a young son of his own. Marie’s oldest daughter, Lucie (Pauline Burlet), is distraught over, well, just about everything. She’s a teenager, and she’s slowly pulling away from Marie, staying out later with each passing week. This French-language film is the latest work written and directed by Asghar Farhadi, who previously gave us the highly regarded A Separation. The two films share many similarities in both their approach and style. Both lay out a fairly simple story that slowly exposes deeper layers, leading the viewer to wonder where it’s all headed. With A Separation, the culmination was utterly jaw dropping. The challenge to both films is that the setup can try anyone’s patience. There’s nothing all that intriguing about Marie’s story. She’s just another mother from a broken marriage trying to get by. Hers is a basic life in a modest home that’s barely big enough for her and the kids. She’s found another guy that meets her needs and who, not surprisingly, has his own issues. Unfortunately, unlike the previous film, this one doesn’t reward the viewer with a payoff that’s worth the wait. It hints, time and again, at possibilities that never turn into anything all that revelatory. Everything has a totally plausible and fairly mundane explanation. This is another example that draws a clear line between film as an art form and film as entertainment. This is an extremely well-acted, well-executed piece of filmmaking. It’s also about as interesting as watching droplets of water slowly descend down a wall after a light rain. Long before they’ve reached the bottom, you’ve totally lost interest. I’m not entertained purely by the artistic aspects of a film. It needs to have a compelling plot to complement the rest of the piece. Dealing with issues most of us would view as rather typical doesn’t qualify in my book, no matter how authentic its presentation. All things considered, this tediously slow story, coupled with an ending that provides absolutely no resolution or satisfaction, isn’t worth the journey.

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A study of the electrochemical oxidation of hydrogen peroxide on a platinum rotating disk electrode in the presence of calcium ions using Michaelis-Menten kinetics and binding isotherm analysis Emad A. Khudaish, Wafaa R. Al-Farsi The present work demonstrates a potential suppression in the electrochemical signal of H2O2 oxidation due to the presence of Ca2+ ions. A mechanistic scheme was proposed to include a reversible interaction of Ca2+ ions with either the electrode surface binding sites (competitive) or the complex sites (non-competitive). The degree of inhibition was inspected by evaluating the kinetic currents as a function of [Ca2+] applying Koutecky-Levich kinetics. These observations were further supported with models based on enzyme kinetics such as Michaelis-Menten model applying Lineweaver-Burk plot along with non-linear least-square fitting analysis. The experimental results suggests that the strength of the complex binding sites decreases considerably with increasing [Ca2+] and that a single H2O2 molecule is required to combine with one available active binding site. Electrochemical oxidation Rotating disks Isotherms Enzyme kinetics Calcium ions Michaelis-Menten kinetics Khudaish, E. A., & Al-Farsi, W. R. (2008). A study of the electrochemical oxidation of hydrogen peroxide on a platinum rotating disk electrode in the presence of calcium ions using Michaelis-Menten kinetics and binding isotherm analysis. Electrochimica Acta, 53(12), 4302-4308. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electacta.2008.01.007 A study of the electrochemical oxidation of hydrogen peroxide on a platinum rotating disk electrode in the presence of calcium ions using Michaelis-Menten kinetics and binding isotherm analysis. / Khudaish, Emad A.; Al-Farsi, Wafaa R. In: Electrochimica Acta, Vol. 53, No. 12, 01.05.2008, p. 4302-4308. Khudaish, EA & Al-Farsi, WR 2008, 'A study of the electrochemical oxidation of hydrogen peroxide on a platinum rotating disk electrode in the presence of calcium ions using Michaelis-Menten kinetics and binding isotherm analysis', Electrochimica Acta, vol. 53, no. 12, pp. 4302-4308. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electacta.2008.01.007 Khudaish EA, Al-Farsi WR. A study of the electrochemical oxidation of hydrogen peroxide on a platinum rotating disk electrode in the presence of calcium ions using Michaelis-Menten kinetics and binding isotherm analysis. Electrochimica Acta. 2008 May 1;53(12):4302-4308. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electacta.2008.01.007 Khudaish, Emad A. ; Al-Farsi, Wafaa R. / A study of the electrochemical oxidation of hydrogen peroxide on a platinum rotating disk electrode in the presence of calcium ions using Michaelis-Menten kinetics and binding isotherm analysis. 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Letters to the Corinthians William Barclay More than 50 units in stock. 'The sun has one splendour and the moon another splendour and the stars another splendour' It was when he was in Ephesius in AD 55 that Paul, learning that things were not all well in Corinth, wrote to the church there. This was to be his call to one of the greatest and most cosmopolitan cities of the ancient world; a rebuke and an instruction and a call for unity within the Church. William Barclay guides the reader through these letters and the story they tell, showing how The Letters to the Corinthians, perhaps more than any of Paul's other writings, reveals the character of the man, his passion, humility, strength and zeal. These epistles are both a heartfelt appeal to the people of Corinth and a fierce defence of the Christian church. William Barclay once said that his life's aim was to help new generations "to know better their Bible, their God and their Saviour". The words and works of this great communicator of the Gospel inspire and sustain the Christian faith of thousands all over the world. Born in Wick, Barclay studied at the University of Glasgow before becoming a Church of Scotland minister in 1933. He returned to the university as a lecturer in New Testament language and literature in 1947 and was appointed Professor of Divinity and Biblical Criticism in 1963. 'It is as if he is so constantly excited by the subject matter that he hopes to infect the reader with his own sense of wonder at the riches which the Word of God has to offer.' -- John Bell 'The William Barclay commentaries are absolutely fantastic and I wouldn't give up my set for anything.' -- Steve Chalke Insights Love Barclay on the Lectionary Where Two or Three are Gathered Letter to the Romans Letters to Timothy, Titus and Philemon Sacred Highlands & Islands Sacred Perthshire & Tay Valley God be in My Mouth Beatha Iosa Chriosd George Mackay Brown Letter to the Hebrews Beginner's Guide to the New Testament The Letters of John and Jude Alphabet of Barclay Shetland Bible Parable Patter Letters to the Philippians, Colossians and Thessalonians God's Young Church

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This intriguing letter conveys the sad news to a suspecting mother that her daughter has married a bigamist. It appears that Mrs. Patterson’s daughter has realized her mistake before losing any of her dowry or inheritance — if she had any — and returned to her family. The letter confirms that the “monster” who married her daughter was named John Cleveland who had abandoned his wife and four children (according to the 1820 census) in Shelby County, Kentucky. A search reveals that not long after this letter was written, a man by that same name married Sarah Kingsley — a recent widow — on June 10, 1826, in Cincinnati, Ohio. Could this have been the same John Cleveland? ¹ Sarah and John Cleveland moved to a farm four miles east of Quincy, Illinois — the center of Mormonism at that time — where Sarah became a member of the Mormon church. In fact, Joseph Smith’s wife and children stayed with the Cleveland’s at Quincy while he was imprisoned in the Liberty jail. At the invitation of Joseph Smith, the Cleveland’s later (1841) moved to Nauvoo, Illinois, and, to make a long story short, Sarah became one of Smith’s numerous wives. Though this letter is datelined “Bairdstown,” it was obviously written from Bardstown, Kentucky — a few miles south of Louisville. I could not find any John Roberts who resided there at that time and given that the name of the town was miss-spelled, I doubt that it was written by a resident. This leads me to believe it was written by Judge John Roberts of Louisville, Kentucky, who may have been a logical choice for Mrs. Patterson to address her enquiry regarding the background of John Cleveland. Roberts may have simply written and mailed the letter from Bardstown while performing circuit duties. Addressed to Mrs. Sarah Patterson, Warrenton, Mississippi Bardstown [Kentucky] Your communication of the 14th inst. I have received and upon making the necessary inquiries in relation to its contents, I am now prepared to give you all the information required. It is, madam, with feelings of the most profound regret that it has become my duty instead of alternative, the distress and misfortune of distant strangers to add, as it were, the gale of bitterness to the injuries which they have already received. The impostor of whom you write (John Cleveland) was some years since a resident of what is now Spencer County about twenty miles from this town. It is certainly true that he left a wife with three or four children under circumstances the most unfavorable to himself since his departure from this country. His wife has been divorced and has married again in Shelby County and I am told is doing very well. This man has not been heard of more than once since leaving this country and then he was endeavoring to marry some girl in the State of Georgia. The unfortunate marriage of your daughter to this monster is one of the melancholy instances of a girl surrendering her self to the deceptions of a stranger and should be a warning to all young ladies for the future — especially to those who may have a knowledge of your much injured daughter’s fate. The ministered habit has heretofore been looked upon by all good with a kind of sacred reverence but it seems as though the time has actually arrived that behooves all men to be on the look as well among preachers as other men. For we not only see individuals resorting to all the imperfections incident to ____der depravity to accomplish their wicked designs but we find many willing to profane even the sanctuary of God and religion to arrive at their most abominable of of purposes. The happiest consolation which your daughter and her relations can now have is to know that she has escaped from one of the worst of our species and altho’ she may justly consider hers a hard fate, she must know that she is not the first of her sex who has thus been imposed upon but in many instances innocent females have not only been deceived by such impostors but have even been robbed of handsome estates and then turned out upon the world without a friend to sympathize their misfortune. Your daughter must therefore forget that she has been the wife of so vile a wretch and for her sake, look upon preachers — or pretended preachers — as other men; subject to all the imperfections of our nature. It is, madam, with great pleasure that I have thus attempted to give you a true statement of this matter and if upon a due consideration of its merits it may serve to afford you any relief, I shall be happy in having been able to bestow it with all the emotions of a sympathizing heart. I am, madam, with due respect, your most obedient servant, — John Roberts N. B. This John Cleveland was a Baptist in Spencer County but even pretended to preach there. He has therefore taken it up since leaving there. — J. R. ¹ On-line genealogical records indicate the John Alexander Cleveland (1790-1860) who married Sarah Maryetta Kingsley (1788-1856) was born in Schenectady, New York, a son of Gardner Cleveland (1764-1826) and Annis Durkee (1772-1871). No record of Cleveland’s whereabouts prior to his marriage with Sarah in 1826 exists that I have been able to find.

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10+ Moving Songs About Rivers Updated on May 3, 2019 Sherry Hewins I grew up in the "classic rock" era, but I love music of every genre. I love sharing my old favorites while still discovering new artists. A river has the power to move boulders, and cut through mountains. Rivers have been an important way for people to travel since before the invention of modern machinery. They have the power to turn darkness to light. They also have the power to touch our hearts and move our emotions. That power has moved many to write songs about rivers. Alison Krauss: “Down in the River to Pray” Sammy Davis Jr: “Ol’ Man River” Grateful Dead: “Big River” Talking Heads: “Take Me to the River” Doobie Brothers: “Black Water” Country Joe: “Roll on Columbia” The Kingston Trio: “Oh Shenandoah” or "Across the Wide Missouri" Andy Williams: “Moon River” Willie Nelson: “Whiskey River” Kate Wolf: “Like a River” Bonus Song 1. Alison Krauss: “Down in the River to Pray” When Alison Krauss sings "Down in the River to Pray" a capella, her voice is musical perfection. For any who doubt why she is the female artist with most wins in Grammy history, they only have to listen to this angelic vocal performance. The song is off of the soundtrack to the movie "Oh Brother Where Art Thou." The soundtrack is an integral part of the movie. The album was actually recorded before filming the movie. The song, also called "Down to the River to Pray," "Down in the Valley to Pray," "The Good Old Way," and "Come, Let Us All Go Down," is a traditional American song. It likely was composed by an African-American slave. The exact origins are unknown. Album: Oh Brother Where Art Thou 2. Sammy Davis Jr: “Ol' Man River” I knew I had to have this song on the list. I just didn't know which version I would use. While I was trying to decide I discovered this version. What a singer, with an incredible voice. I love this fantastic performance. I love Paul Robeson's version. It is very moving, but it is so slow and feels very old-fashioned. I was just looking for something a little different, but maybe not as different as The Beach Boy's rendition. Sammy Davis Jr. doesn't try to sing like Robeson. He makes this song his own, but gives it just as much emotion as Robeson did. Artist: Sammy Davis Jr. Album: Sammy Davis Jr. at Town Hall 3. Grateful Dead: “Big River” The Grateful Dead had two wonderful River songs. The other one is, of course, "Black Muddy River." I love both of them, but somehow "Big River" is the one that brings back the most memories for me. Johnny Cash wrote and originally recorded Big River in 1958. Artist: Grateful Dead Album: Steal Your Face 4. Talking Heads: “Take Me to the River” Al Green originally recorded “Take Me to the River” for his 1974 album, Al Green Explores Your Mind. Al Green wrote the lyrics and he collaborated with Mabon Hodges on the music. In 1978 it was a breakthrough single for Talking Heads. David Byrne redid the song without sacrificing its funk. The Talking Heads slowed the tempo and made the song their own. Green approved and jokingly commented that he hoped to cover one of Talking Heads' songs one day. Artist: Talking Heads Album: More Songs About Buildings and Food 5. Doobie Brothers: “Black Water” "Black Water" has a laid back vibe and a more bluegrass-influenced sound than the Doobie Brother’s early hits like “Long Train Runnin'' and “China Grove.” The song speaks of floating down the Mississippi River on a homemade raft. A delicate acoustic guitar and Appalachian strings support the laconic melody. If you have ever spent an afternoon floating down a lazy river, you will related to the lyric "I ain't got no worries / 'Cause I ain't in no hurry at all." When it came out in 1974, it did not sound like anything else on the radio. It has been one of the Doobie Brothers' signature songs for almost 45 years. Artist: Doobie Brothers Album: What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits 6. Country Joe: “Roll on Columbia” I have always loved this song, and found it quite inspiring. Apparently, Country Joe felt the same way. His rendition of the song is very faithful to the original. Woody Guthrie's most passionate cause was the plight of the worker during the Great Depression. During that time the building of the Grand Coulee Dam across the Columbia river provided employment to many in need, as well as providing irrigation and electricity for the area. The dam had unforeseen negative consequences for Native Americans whose traditional way of life revolved around salmon fishing. The dam does not have a fish ladder, so it blocks fish migration. It also flooded the lands of indigenous people and did not provide them with the electricity they were promised for their cooperation. Besides all of that, the nature of the Columbia River was forever changed. Woody Guthrie of course, wrote this song and it was included on his album “Dust Bowl Ballads” in 1940. I used Country Joe's version here mostly because all of the recordings I could find of Woody's version were very scratchy and the audio was not good. Artist: Country Joe Album: Thinking of Woody Guthrie! 7. The Kingston Trio: “Oh Shenandoah” or "Across the Wide Missouri" This song has been recorded an unbelievable number of times. It was hard to single out any one of them to feature here. In the end, I think I chose this one because it is the first one I ever heard, so it stuck with me. This is a traditional American folk song. It originated with American and Canadian fur traders working along the Missouri River in the 1800s. Artist: The Kingston Trio Album: Here We Go Again! 8. Andy Williams: “Moon River” “Moon River” is a lovely song. Audrey Hepburn's original version of this in Breakfast at Tiffany's is quite beautiful, sweet and touching. I have listened to Frank Ocean's version. I am so glad he is bringing this iconic song to a new generation. Still, to me it does not compare. There is so much power in Andy Williams' voice, and I so remember him starting his TV show with it each week. I just had to choose this version of the song for my list. Henry Mancini composed “Moon River,” with lyrics by Johnny Mercer. Artist: Andy Williams Album: Moon River and Other Great Movie Themes. 9. Willie Nelson: “Whiskey River” When I remember the joy of my first acquaintance with the music of Willie Nelson, back in the early '70s, the album Shotgun Willie, and the song “Whiskey River” topped the list. After decades in the music business, it was just at the beginning of Willie’s sudden rise to super stardom. Listening to it now, I am just drifting along on those lovely, amber currents. In my mind, this is really the best of the old Outlaw. Johnny Bush and Paul Stroud wrote the song. Johnny Bush recorded it himself in 1972. Album: Shotgun Willie 10. Kate Wolf: “Like a River” This song is not really about a river, but it is like a river. It reminds me of sitting on a hillside above the beautiful Yuba River in Nevada County, California. Kate Wolf was a well-known resident there. Kate Wolf is probably least known of the artists on this list. She was an American folk singer and songwriter. Born in San Francisco, she made ten albums and toured nationally in the late '70s and early '80s. Her rising career ended abruptly when she died of leukemia in 1986 at the age of 44. Even though her career was short, she had significant impact on the folk music scene. Musicians continue to cover her songs. Her best-known songs include "Here in California," "Across the Great Divide," "Unfinished Life," and "Give Yourself to Love." Thousands celebrate her memory each summer at the Kate Wolf Memorial Music Festival in Laytonville, California. Artist: Kate Wolf Album: Close to You Bonus - Marilyn Monroe: “The River of No Return” This is a bonus track/honorable mention. Marilyn sang this song so sweetly in the movie of the same name. Artist: Marilyn Monroe Movie: River of No Return Rivers and music both have the power to move our hearts and minds. These songs are meaningful to me, I hope you can feel their power. © 2018 Sherry Hewins 10 Classic Rock Songs You Didn't Know Were Covers by Sherry Hewins3 51 Songs About Overcoming Obstacles, Adversity, Hard Times, Challenges, and Not Giving Up by Nalini Marquez148 80 Songs About Fire by FlourishAnyway37 Top Filipino Novelty Songs (OPM) of All Time by Ray0 Top Ten Coolest Christian Songs Ever by Cari Jean18 100 Thoughtful Love Songs to Dedicate to Your Boyfriend by Ansel Pereira4 170 Songs About Sorrow, Grief, and Lost Loved Ones by FlourishAnyway198 100 Songs About Loneliness and Feelings of Isolation 14 months ago from Sierra Foothills, CA Dianna, Age is nothing to hide! It is a beautiful song, then and now. Dianna Mendez I am telling my age but I remember when Moon River as a hit with the young crowd. Still enjoy hearing it today. Shauna, Thanks for letting me know about the broken link. It was working yesterday! Anyway, I have replaced it now. I'm glad you appreciate Kate Wolf. She was a very pure talent; it's too bad her life and career ended so soon. I bet she would have been a star. 14 months ago from Central Florida My favorite in this playlist is "Take Me to the River". Unfortunately, the link is broken so I couldn't play it. I've never heard of Kate Wolf, but I sure do like her voice. She reminds me of Joni Mitchell. 15 months ago from East Chicago, Indiana I'd also recommend Ballad Of Easy Rider by the Byrds and River by Joni Mitchell, the latter of which is sometimes considered a holiday song. Also, if you've never heard Jerry Butler's version of Moon River, I hope you'll give it a listen.

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Sylvia Plath's Tragedy Paper One more brief post about Sylvia Plath and Cambridge that has grabbed my attention since the recent story about the skeletal remains of a woman, mouse & shrew to be back on exhibit in Cambridge after a long storage away from the public's eye. Sylvia Plath is considered a "Cambridge Author." It is on the website just linked to where we find something quite interesting about Plath's course in Tragedy. What you will find is "an examination of her work in the light of her academic experience in Cambridge. She studied the Tragedy paper - a cornerstone of the course from the very start - and resonances with the material she read for it can be identified in her writing." The site is broken into different parts, one being "Sylvia Plath and the Tragedy Paper." One of the more interesting pages and links appears in the section "The Tragedy Paper: Continuity and Change." It is here that a link is included to a PDF of the actual exam paper/test Plath took on 29 May 1957, which was 55 years ago today. As she read for the Tragedy paper, Plath caputured some of the exhaustion-inducing prepartion she was doing, such as in this letter to her mother from 28 April 1957: "I am living at the University library from morning to night... enjoying my work, really, steadily reading tragedy now, the Greeks, then on through 2,000 years up to Eliot, concentrating on several major figures: Corneille, Racine, Ibsen, Strindberg, Webster, Marlowe, Tourneur, Yeats, Eliot; there are so many. This tragedy paper (only a 3-hour exam for all that) is a fine help on my reading" (308). The morning of the paper, Plath wrote, "I am taking time early this sunny morning to limber up my stiff fingers in preparation for my Tragedy exam this afternoon..." (314). All in all a very good, interesting website. Thank you English department at Cambridge University. Plath's papers from her two years at Cambridge are largely -if not all- held in Plath mss II. at the Lilly Library, Indiana University at Bloomington. Some of her papers and books from this period are also there. An examination of these papers and books and notes and the English/British education of Sylvia Plath might make a fine paper for someone to submit to Plath Profiles? Labels: Archives , Cambridge (England) , Cambridge University , Indiana University , Lilly Library , Links , Plath Profiles , Sylvia Plath , Sylvia Plath Collections Did you know...Sylvia Plath, Valerie Pitt, and Pierre de Ronsard One of the reviews of the first Faber edition of The Bell Jar, the first edition to appear in print with Sylvia Plath's name as author, was by Valerie Pitt, in The Sunday Telegraph, 25 September 1966. Pitt's review, titled "Isolated Case," praises the novel story as being told with "controlling definiteness" and "disciplined clarity," remarking that these are also qualities of Plath's poetry. Very true. Pitt's review ends, "It is a book to make one regret, increasingly, the early death not only of so brilliant a writer but of so uncommon a personality." Valerie Pitt evidently was a reader of Plath's poetry at the time of the review, commenting that "Not surprisingly, the publishers have have followed the success of Sylvia Plath's 'Ariel'" by issuing her novel under her own name. It is Pitt's comment about Plath being so "uncommon a personality" that strikes me as interesting. It is possible to ascertain something of a writer's personality from the material they publish. And naturally it is possible if you actually know the person, too. For Pitt, though, which is it? The answer, did you know..., was both! Plath & Pitt both took a course in French translation (Montaigne, Racine, Baudelaire, among others) as well as Practical Criticism in Cambridge. For her French Translation course at Cambridge, under the tutelage of Miss Anne Judith Barrett, Plath wrote the paper "Passion as Destiny in Racine." This paper, dated 3 March 1956 is housed now in Plath mss. II at the Lilly Library, Indiana University. And we of course remember that Plath used an epigraph from Racine for her poem "Pursuit." Another French writer Plath translated during this course is Ronsard. In 1994, the Menard Press published some of Plath's translations in Theme & Version: Plath & Ronsard. Pierre de Ronsard lived from 1524-1585. From the Inpress Books website, "This book [Theme & Version: Plath & Ronsard] presents the previously unpublished translations of Ronsard which Sylvia Plath made in 1956 or '57, during her time as a mature student at Cambridge. "Daniel Weissbort, who knew Plath there, contributes an essay on her approach to translation. Audrey Jones's essay discusses Renaissance iconography in Ronsard and its mediation through Plath's work. The third essay is by Yves Bonnefoy, on the significance of his great precursor." Plath studied with Miss Barrett during her first year at Cambridge, in 1955-1956. If you are interested in buying Theme & Version, copies are available via Inpress Books, Amazon, and ABEbooks. Additionally, libraries also hold this title, so check out this link to WorldCat to see if one is near you. Labels: Cambridge University , Did you know... , Sylvia Plath , The Bell Jar , Theme and Version , Translation Sylvia Plath's "antique museum-cased lady" on Display Maev Kennedy at The Guardian just rocked my world with her news article, "Gnawed Roman skeleton that inspired Sylvia Plath poem goes on display." I'm so glad Kennedy mentioned that six years after penning the poem Plath killed herself because it is entirely relevant to the exhibit. Sarcasm aside, the embedded video is interesting, for video of the woman, the mouse, and the shrew, see about 4 minutes 22 seconds into it; though the whole video is well done. Labels: Cambridge University , Links , Sylvia Plath Sylvia Plath Collections: Olwyn Hughes Correspondence, British Library Although I received notice in February, it is only now that I realized I never posted about this archival update. The collection of Olwyn Hughes Correspondence is now open for research at the British Library. Back in September 2010, the British Library issued this press release about the acquisition. This blog made reference, too. Additional papers of Olwyn Hughes' are held at Emory University; visit the Archival Materials page over at A celebration, this is, for more information. You can access the full catalog descriptions of the collection via the British Library's website. To read the description of the collection, please go to the British Library search page, type in Add MS 88948, and you will see all the records which are applicable. The "details" option gives very good information on what is contained in each series/fonds. In addition to letters and poems sent from Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes to Hughes' sister, which are bound to garner the most attention, the collection also include some of Olwyn Hughes' personal papers such as school reports, receipts, and other miscellaneous items. The Olwyn Hughes Correspondence is arranged into the following four series & subseries: Add 88948/1: Letters from Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath Subseries/folder: Add 88948/1/1: 1954-1959 Add 88948/2: Letters to Olwyn Hughes from others Add 88948/3: Poetry and prose drafts by Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath Subseries/folder: Add 88948/3/1: Prose and poetry drafts by Ted Hughes ([1950s-1960s] ) Subseries/folder: Add 88948/3/2: Poetry drafts by Sylvia Plath (1950-1960) Add 88948/4: Miscellaneous papers While more information is available on via the catalogue, the information contained in this blog forthwith is a summary of the materials originated by Sylvia Plath. Undoubtedly this expands our knowledge of Plath's communication with her sister-in-law, and offers potentially interesting variations to Plath's then in-progress poetry. As well, the documents related to or about Plath, both during her lifetime and those created after her death might give insight into how the Hughes family, their friends, and her enemies/detractors dealt with the situation. Add 88948/1: Letters from Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath: Autograph and typescript letters written by Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath to Hughes' sister, Olwyn. In the letters the couple write about their work, their travels, people they have met and their future plans. The letters include the period, which Hughes and Plath spent living in the USA. Subseries: Add 88948/1/1: 1954-1959: Autograph and typescript letters from Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath. The majority of the letters are from Ted Hughes although some are written jointly with Plath or solely by her. Unless otherwise stated the letters are written solely by Hughes. Further information about the letters is as follows - [Items 1-9, 11-16, 22-23 : See the catalog] 10. Partial letter from Plath in which she writes about teaching at Smith College; on the development of Hughes' work and on how both of them used their experiences when writing. 9 February [1958]. 17. Partial letter from Plath in which she writes about the publication of some of her work and her job as secretary for the Head of the Sanskrit and Indian Studies department at Harvard. She also includes a cake recipe. The next five letters in this subseries were sent by Hughes (and Plath) to Olwyn Hughes and Hughes’ parents, William and Edith when the couple were staying at Yaddo from September until the end of November 1959. The following order aims to be chronological although it may not be completely accurate: 18. Letter to Hughes’ parents in which he writes about Yaddo in great detail describing the house and its grounds, the daily routine and the food they were served. 19. Letter to Hughes' parents in which the couple write about Yaddo and the other guests, and a play Hughes has written. 20. Letter to Olwyn in which Hughes writes about his new play and the work of Claudel and Brecht (11 November 1959). 21. Partial letter to Olwyn in which Hughes writes about French literature and asks her to forward a cheque that was being sent to him care of her address from the Guggenheim Foundation. Subseries: Add 88948/1/2: Autograph letters from Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath. The majority of the letters are from Ted Hughes although some are written jointly with Plath. Unless otherwise stated the letters are written solely by Hughes. Further information about the letters is as follows - [Items 1-4, 6, 8, 10-18: See the catalog] 5. Letter from Hughes and Plath in which both comment upon a dinner they attended with Stephen Spender, Rosamund Lehmnann and Louis McNeice. Both also mention the forthcoming publication of The Colossus [October 1960]. 7. Letter from Hughes and Plath in which Hughes writes about his work including a production of a play that he has written. He also includes a poem, which he was sent in his role as one of the judges for the P.E.N. Anthology 1962. Plath writes about an art exhibition of Leonor Fini [before Christmas 1960]. 9. Letter from Hughes and Plath who thank Olwyn for sending copies of the plays of Francois Billetdoux who they both admired. Hughes also writes about his interest in ‘Elouard’ [Eluard] while Plath writes about their new life in Devon [Autumn 1961]. Add 88948/2: Letters to Olwyn Hughes from others: Autograph letters to Olwyn Hughes from friends and family. Details of the correspondents and their letters are as follows - [See the catalog] Autograph and typescript drafts of poetry and prose written by the couple and sent to Olwyn Hughes. Includes a partial play draft and some unpublished poetry by Hughes. Subseries: Add MS 88948/3/1: [1950s-1960s]: Includes poetry and prose drafts some of which are unpublished as follows - Poetry: [Items 1-18, : See the catalog] Plays: [Item 20 : See the catalog] 19. 'The Captain's Speech': an excerpt from The House of Aries , a play broadcast on the BBC as part of the Third Programme. The excerpt was also published in Audience and Two Cities in 1961. Plath has noted two submissions on the left hand corner of the draft. Subseries Add MS 88948/3/2 : 1950-1960: Poetry drafts sent by Plath to Olwyn Hughes, as follows - 1. 'Spinster' and 'Mad Maudlin': both were published in The Colossus (1960). The first differs slightly from the published version and the second was published simply as 'Maudlin' 2. 'Nocturne' and 'Departure of the ghost': published in The Colossus as 'Hardcastle Crags' and 'The Ghost's Leavetaking' respectively. Both poems differ from the published versions. 3. 'The Hermit At Outermost House': published in The Colossus. 4. 'Swords into Ploughshares' (also known under the alternative title 'Bitter Strawberries'), which has been annotated 'SOLD ... C.S. Monitor August 1950'. Add 88948/4: Miscellaneous papers: Autograph and typescript papers relating to and written by Ted Hughes, Olwyn Hughes and Sylvia Plath as follows - [Items 1-5, and 8: See the catalog] 6. Small piece of pink card on which Sylvia Plath has written notes under title 'Underground Man' (undated). 7. Two drafts of an introduction by Hughes to Plath's Crossing the Water, which was published in 1971 (one autograph, one typescript). The text seems to have been written to accompany a reading of poetry from the volume. Labels: Archives , British Library , Olwyn Hughes , Sylvia Plath , Sylvia Plath Collections , Ted Hughes Full Moon and Assia Wevill Biographically, 50 years ago this weekend was a significant one for Sylvia Plath. It was that weekend that David and Assia Wevill visited Court Green. According to Plath's 1962 Letts Royal Office Tablet Diary, the Wevill's arrived on Friday 18 May. She made gingerbread and beef stew. At 6:40, Plath also had a note that there was a German program on the BBC. Saturday, 19 May, there was a full moon; and the day is clean from responsibilities save for Plath making a note about Nancy [Axworthy]. Sunday 20 May, the only note is that there was an Italian broadcast on at 3:10. And, of course, on Monday 21 May, Plath grabbed sheets of her typescript draft of The Bell Jar, turned the pages over, and wrote "The Rabbit Catcher" (originally titled "Snares") and "Event" (originally titled "Quarrel") because something went seriously wrong. Labels: Archives , Assia Wevill , Mortimer Rare Book Room , Smith College , Sylvia Plath , Ted Hughes The 50th of Sylvia Plath's First American Colossus Fifty years ago today, Sylvia Plath's The Colossus was published by Alfred A. Knopf in the United States. A small notice of the publication appeared in that day's New York Times, on page 26. On 1 May 1961, a year before publication, Plath headed her letter to her mother, published in Letters Home: "GOOD NEWS GOOD NEWS GOOD NEWS!" (417). Plath admitted, "After all the fiddlings and discouragements from the little publishers, it is an immense joy to have what I consider THE publisher accept my book for America with such enthusiasm. They 'sincerely doubt a better first volume will be published this year.'" (417-418). At the end of the letter Plath tells her mother that "I have been writing seven mornings a week at the Merwins' study and have done better things than ever before, so it is obvious this American acceptance is a great tonic" (418). The poems Plath wrote at this time were "In Plaster," "Tulips," "I Am Vertical," and "Insomniac." However, Plath was largely at work on The Bell Jar. On 14 May 1962, Plath wrote to her mother: "My book officially comes out in America today. Do clip and send any reviews you see, however bad. Criticism encourages me as much as praise" (454). A brief review in Plath's hometown newspaper, The Boston Globe, appeared on 3 June 1962, on page B22. The reviewer, Herbert A. Kenny, said Plath "writes her poetry with a directness and at time a minor brutality of image that sets her apart from most women poets. Her poems assume a power and poignancy as in her recollections of her grandmother at Point Shirley in Winthrop, one of the finest poems in the book." He continued the brief review by saying, "If some may find in her lines that 'the rats cry out' too much, the skill in language and the vivid workmanship are a compensation, and there is humor." A bit belated, but, CONGRATULATIONS! I am working on another post to do with The Colossus that should appear in a few weeks. If anyone cares to guess on what aspect of it - and guesses correctly - you will have our unending respect. Posted by Peter K Steinberg at 06:21 1 comment : Labels: Alfred A. Knopf Inc , Letters Home , Sylvia Plath , The Colossus Sylvia Plath in The Vanishers On 29 March, this blog mentioned a new novel that features "people who are obsessed with Sylvia Plath." Naturally my interest was piqued. The Vanishers by Heidi Julavits asks, to quote from the promotional page on Random House (Doubleday imprints) website, "Is the bond between mother and daughter unbreakable, even by death?" To continue an unoriginal review of the book, "Julia Severn is a student at an elite institute for psychics. Her mentor, the legendary Madame Ackermann, afflicted by jealousy, refuses to pass the torch to her young disciple. Instead, she subjects Julia to the humiliation of reliving her mother's suicide when Julia was an infant. As the two lock horns, and Julia gains power, Madame Ackermann launches a desperate psychic attack that leaves Julia the victim of a crippling ailment." It is a good book and a relatively quick read. To say it is thought-provoking might be tongue in cheek. I kept wondering if such a thing as psychic attacks is in fact possible. If there is, please, to quote Tom Petty, "don't do me like that." There are of course Plath references throughout the book. I was impatient to find the first instance of direct mention, and had to wait 71 whole pages! Then they came with some regularly on pages 83 [obliquely], 88, 89, 131, 143, 215, 246, 248, 256, and 263. In the novel, Julia's step-mother Blanche introduces her to Plath. Blanche"insisted" that she and Julia "memorize Plath's Ariel; the poems, she said, might help me understand why my mother had done what she'd done [killed herself]" (71). Plath is used in the novel in several ways. There are the poems that are quoted, such as lines from "The Applicant," "Death & Co.," "Daddy," and The Bell Jar; but it is "Death & Co." and the suicide that are most frequently referred to. On page 88, I think, is the best Plath reference and that is to photographs of Plath. Julia Severn says, "no matter how many photographs I'd seen of her, I had no idea what she looked like. Each photograph undermined the believability of the others, as though she'd been, even while alive, unwilling to commit to her own face" (89). This is something I have often felt about photographs of Sylvia Plath, that is it hard to reconcile one from the other as the light, the angle, the photographer each was able to bring out a different expression, and therefore capture a different Sylvia Plath from one moment to the next. In addition to the Plathian references, one of Julia's acquaintances in the novel is called Alwyn: and the similarity to Ted Hughes' sister, Olwyn, is unmistakable. Labels: Books , Links , Publications , Sylvia Plath Sylvia Plath eats "Mad Men" like air Last Sunday's episode (6 May) of Mad Men was called "Lady Lazarus" which has lead to about 1,000,000 news stories online making a connection to Sylvia Plath. Thanks to Jamie Hood for this link to a Slate.com interview "Sylvia Plath in Mad Men" by Julia Taylor. Posted by Peter K Steinberg at 21:17 No comments : Labels: Links , Sylvia Plath , Television Program Sylvia Plath's Cornucopia Julie Buckles has published recently an article in the Ashland Current titled "In Pen and Ink, Poet Plath Captures Cornucopia Harbor." The article, a great one, greatly benefited from information provided by a deep friend in Plath, poet and author David Trinidad, whose Plath Profiles 4 essay "On the Road with Sylvia and Ted: Plath and Hughes's 1959 Trip Across America" explores Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes' cross country trip in the summer of 1959, which included their brief stay in Wisconsin. The article looks at Cornucopia today and considers Plath's pen and ink sketch of the harbor, as was recently seen and sold at the Mayor Gallery's 2011 exhibit "Sylvia Plath: Her Drawings." Labels: David Trinidad , Exhibition , Links , Mayor Gallery , Sylvia Plath , Ted Hughes Review: Critical Insights: The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath Published earlier this year is a collection of essays on The Bell Jar edited by Janet McCann of Texas A&M University. The material includes eight new essays on The Bell Jar and reprints ten essays from the past. This is a valuable book on a book that receives far less critical attention than its cousins, the poems. Let's look at what's in the book and I will continue blithering below. "Biography of Sylvia Plath" by Jane Satterfield "The Paris Review Perspective" by Emma Straub for The Paris Review "The Domesticated Wilderness": Patriarchal Oppression in The Bell Jar by Allison Wilkins "Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar: Understanding Cultural and Historical Context in an Iconic Text" by Iris Jamahl Dunkle "Interruptions in a Patriarchal World: Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar and Susanna Kaysen's Girl, Interrupted" by Kim Bridgford "Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar: Critical Reception" by Ellen McGrath Smith "Sentient Patterning in The Bell Jar" by Pamela St. Clair "'I have your head on my wall': Sylvia Plath and the Rhetoric of Cold War America" by Sally Bayley "The Radical Imaginary of The Bell Jar" by Kate A. Baldwin "Plath, Domesticity, and the Art of Advertising" by Marsha Bryant "The Feminist Discourse of Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar" by E. Miller Budick "Sylvia Plath's Anti-Psychiatry" by Maria Farland "Mad Girls' Love Songs: Two Women Poets, a Professor and Graduate Student, Discuss Sylvia Plath, Angst, and the Poetics of Female Adolescence" by Arielle Greenberg and Becca Klaver "(Sub)textual Configurations: Sexual Ambivalences in Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar" by Renée C. Hoogland "'The woman is perfected, her dead body wears the smile of accomplishment': Sylvia Plath and Mademoiselle Magazine" by Garry M. Leonard "Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath : the self at stake" by Solenne Lestienne "The Fig Tree and the Black Patent Leather Shoes: The Body and its Representation in Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar" by Nóra Séllei. As with any book, the reader takes out of it what they want, as well as what the bring to it with prior reading and knowledge and passion for the subject. I particularly love The Bell Jar, so its faults notwithstanding, I really enjoyed this selection of essays . The Garry M. Leonard should be required reading and of the new essays, lets add Pamela St. Clair's "Sentient Patterning in The Bell Jar" and Allison Wilkins' "'The Domesticated Wilderness': Patriarchal Oppression in The Bell Jar." I enjoyed too Ellen McGrath Smith's "Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar: Critical Reception" as this kind of thing floats my boat. The older essays reprinted seem to stand on their own, though a couple (Bayley and Lestienne) felt out of place to me: the focus is less on The Bell Jar in these two essays and more on the poems and/or Woolf. The essays are excellent, mind you, but do not belong in this book. The mistakes that were present each essays first appearance persist, and in an ideal world the authors and/or editor might have been able to touch these up a bit. For example, Bayley claims The Bell Jar was written in "the late 1950s" (133); Hoogland that Heinemann accepted the novel only after several American publishers rejected it (282); and Baldwin in a footnote called Marco by a wrong name, Rico (177). Each of these instances are inaccurate. The citation style, also, throughout the text is inconsistent, particularly with the older essays. Of the newer essays, the errors rampant in the beginning Dunkle's essay turned me off severely but the text smooths itself out. And unfortunately there is a decent amount of overlap in the approach to interpreting the novel (topics discussed focus on historical and cultural situation of America in the 1950s and Cold War narratives/themes). If these were all essays published in different journals we might not notice it as much, but as they appear one after the other it rather has the effect of redundancy. Having online access included in the price is a nice touch as it gives one the chance to have full-text availability. Critical Insights: The Bell Jar, edited by Janet McCann, Texas A&M University Pasadena, Ca: Salem Press. List Price: $85 (Combines Print & Online Access) Labels: Book Review , Publications , Sylvia Plath , The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath's "queer and sultry summer" The Guardian recently ran "The 10 best first lines in fiction." The first lines of Sylvia Plath's novel The Bell Jar made the list, coming in at number 8. Of course the blurb under the quote has it a little wrong: Plath died about a month after it was published, not the month before, but whatever...It's only the details, right? At some point, The American Book Review ran the top 100 lines, and The Bell Jar finished 67th. Labels: Links , Sylvia Plath , The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath's Ariel: How Swede it is... A new translation of Plath's Ariel (as in the manuscript she prepared in late 1962 and that was subsequently, finally published in 2004) has been published in Sweden by Ellerströms. The translation was undertaken by Jenny Tunedal and Jonas Ellerström. For those who speak and read Swedish, there are two reviews of this new book that might be of interest to you. The first appeared in the newspaper Jönköpings-Posten, and is by Björn Kohlström, and another in Svenska dagbladet, which is one of Sweden's biggest newspapers If you are interested in reading them in English, try Google Translate but keep in mind it will be imperfect. While the main part of the text adheres to Plath's ordering of poems (the book ends with "Wintering"), there is an appendix of fifteen poems, including "Words" and "Edge." The book is attractively designed by Clara Möller. Thanks to both Björn Kohlström and Florian Flur for information on this title. Labels: Books , Publications , Sylvia Plath , Translation

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View Obituary Staten Island Advance Obituaries Marie Antoinette (Moringiello) Meyer Marie Antoinette Meyer, 81 Raised her family in Staten Island Marie Antoinette (Moringiello) Meyer, 81, beloved wife of Carl Richard Meyer, died Thursday, Sept. 19, 2019, at her home in West Simsbury, Conn. Marie was born April 28, 1938, in Brooklyn, N.Y., and was the daughter of the late Michael and Mary (Imbriale) Moringiello. Marie grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y., and raised her family in Staten Island, N.Y., prior to retiring to Tampa, Fla. and most recently Connecticut. Marie was a member of St. Catherine of Siena Catholic Church in West Simsbury, Conn., and was a long-standing parishioner of St. Charles Catholic Church in Staten Island, N.Y., and St. Agatha's Roman Catholic Church in Brooklyn, N.Y. (her childhood parish). Marie was a great Italian cook and also enjoyed crocheting and knitting. She dearly loved to make Christmas and birthday gifts by hand, especially for all of her children and grandchildren. Every item was labeled "Handmade with Love by Grandma Marie." In addition to her loving husband of 56 years, she is survived by her four sons, Michael (and Andy) of California, Carl (and Melissa) of Connecticut, Raymond (and Jane) of New Jersey, and Joseph (and Leslie) of New York, and 12 grandchildren, Declan, JP, Rileigh, Quinn, Georgia, River, Charlie, Riley, Jackson, Tessa, Ryan and Audrey. She has a brother, Joseph Moringiello, and was predeceased by her eldest brother, Daniel. A private service was held in Connecticut, and there will be a Memorial Mass at The Shrine Church of St. Bernadette in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Monday, Sept. 30, at 9:45 a.m. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital at https://www.stjude.org/donate/donate-to-st-jude.html . Please visit Marie's "Book of Memories" at www.vincentfuneralhome.com for online tributes. Memorial Mass The Shrine Church of St. Bernadette All arrangements are delivered by a local florist. Beautiful Spirit Arrangement The Beautiful Spirit™ Arrangement is a light and lovely way to honor the life of the deceased. A blushing display of pink roses, Asiatic lilies and Peruvian lilies are highlighted by stems of fuchsia carnations and spray roses as well as Bells of Ireland and assorted lush greens. Seated in a white woodchip basket, this graceful arrangement creates an exceptional way to offer peace and sympathy. Standard bouquet is Approximately 24"H x 16"W The Beautiful Spirit™ Arrangement is a light and lovely way to honor the life of the deceased. A blushing display of pink roses, Asiatic lilies and Peruvian lilies are highlighted by stems of fuchsia carnations and spray roses as well as Bells of Ireland and assorted lush greens. Seated in a white woodchip basket, this graceful arrangement creates an exceptional way to offer peace and sympathy.. Approximately 24"H x 16"W.

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Ludwig von Bertallanfy Terence McKenna Interviewed in ‘Critique’ Magazine (1989) March 10, 2018 March 10, 2018 / terencemckennaarchives / Leave a comment Critique: A Journal Exposing Consensus Reality was a quarterly countercultural publication that often specialized in issues surrounding conspiracy culture but also dealt with broader issues, as is made more clear in its alternate title: Critique: A Journal of Conspiracies & Metaphysics. It’s self-described purpose was “to question, explore, and expose consensus reality to assist in the transformation from consumer idiots to critically thinking, aware and developing individuals. And to prepare the way for the new paradigms and the new species.” Issue #31 (Summer 1989) contained a 3-page interview with Terence McKenna conducted by David Jay Brown & Rebecca McClen. This is a different edit from the same interview that also later appeared in High Times magazine in 1992, and which later appeared again (also with a different edit) in Brown & McClen (Novick)’s book Mavericks of the Mind in 1993. The interview also appears in Terence’s own book The Archaic Revival, identifying Critique as the original publication, although the interview is much longer in the book than in the magazine. The theme of this particular special issue of Critique was ‘End of the World or End of an Illusion’, so Brown & McClen selected out the sections of their interview that were most relevant to that theme. You can view a photocopy of the entire interview (as published in Critique) on pages 2-4, here. But, I’ll include some choice quotes below. A reference to Terence also appears elsewhere in the issue in Michael Grosso‘s article, ‘Endtime Anomalies’, where he says: “The anomalous signs in the sky — which we call UFOs — seem designed to undermine confidence in our prevailing sense of reality. Terence McKenna compares these unidentified sky signs with the Resurrection of Jesus in the ancient world, something meant to counfound, paralyze, and suspend the intellectual cocksureness of the powers that be.” -Michael Grosso In the introduction to the interview in Mavericks of the Mind, Rebecca McClen Novick provides some further details about the context of the interview: “This was our first interview. It took place on November 30th, 1988 in the dramatic setting of Big Sur. Overlooking the Pacific Ocean we sat on the top floor of the Big House at the Esalen Institute, where Terence was giving a weekend seminar. He needed little provocation to enchant us with the pyrotechnic wordplay which is his trademark, spinning together the cognitive destinies of Gaia, machines, and language and offering a highly unorthodox description of our own evolution.” TM: “What we can say concerning the singularity is this: it is the obviation of life in three dimensional space, everything that is familiar comes to an end, everything that can be described in Euclidean space is superseded by modes of being which require a more complicated description than is currently available.” TM: “We shouldn’t assume time travel is impossible simply because it hasn’t been done. There’s plenty of latitude in the laws of quantum physics to allow for moving information through time in various ways. Apparently you can move information through time, as long as you don’t move it through time faster than light. DJB: “Why is that?” TM: “I haven’t the faintest idea. (laughter) What am I, Einstein? (laughter) DJB: “I’m wondering what you think the ultimate goal of human evolution is? TM: “Oh, a good party. (laughter) TM: “It’s very interesting that in the celebration of the Eleusinian mysteries, when they took the sacrament, what the god said was, “Procreate, procreate.” It is uncanny the way history is determined by who sleeps with whom, who gets born, what lines are drawn forward, what tendencies are accelerated. Most people experience what they call magic only in the dimension of mate-seeking, and this is where even the dullest people have astonishing coincidences, and unbelievable things go on; it’s almost as though hidden strings were being pulled…” DJB: “Do you think that there’s any relationship between the self-transforming machine elves that you’ve encountered on your shamanic voyages and the solid state entities that John Lilly has contacted in his interdimensional travels?” TM: “I don’t think there is much congruence. The solid state entities that he contacted seem to make him quite upset…” TM: “Now let’s think about what machines are made of, in light of Sheldrake’s morphogenetic field theory. Machines are made of metal, glass, gold, silicon, and plastic; they are made of what the earth is made of. Now wouldn’t it be strange if biology were a way for earth to alchemically transform itself into a self-reflecting thing. In which case then, what we’re headed for inevitably, what we are in fact creating is a world run by machines… Actually the fear of being ruled by machines is the male ego’s fear of relinquishing control of the planet to the maternal matrix of Gaia. Ha. That’s it. Just a thought. (laughter). TM: “Consciousness can’t evolve any faster than language. The rate at which language evolves determines how fast consciousness evolves, otherwise you’re just lost in what Wittgenstein calls ‘the unspeakable’. You can feel it, but you can’t speak of it, so it’s an entirely private reality. …There have been periods in English when there were emotions which don’t exist anymore, because the words have been lost. This is getting very close to this business of how reality is made by language. Can we recover a lost emotion by creating a word for it? There are colors which don’t exist anymore because the words have been lost. I’m thinking of the word jacinth. This is a certain kind of orange. Once you know the word jacinth, you always can recognize it, but if you don’t have it, all you can say is it’s a little darker orange than something else. We’ve never tried to consciously evolve our language, we’ve just let it evolve, but now we have this level of awareness, and this level of cultural need where we really must plan where the new words should be generated. There are areas where words should be gotten rid of that empower politically wrong thinking… So planned evolution of language is the way to speed it toward expressing the frontier of consciousness.” TM: “It was Ludwig von Bertallanfy, the inventor of general systems theory, who made the famous statement that “people are not machines, but in all situations where they are given the opportunity, they will act like machines,” so you have to keep disturbing them, ’cause they always settle down into a routine.” TM: “I have named us [himself, Rupert Sheldrake, Ralph Abraham, and Frank Barr] Compressionists, or Psychedelic Compressionists. A Compressionism holds that the world is growing more and more complex, compressed, knitted together, and therefore holographically complete at every point, and that’s basically where the four of us stand, I think, but from different points of view.” Don’t forget about our ongoing crowdfund. Please help support the expansion of the Terence McKenna Archives: https://www.gofundme.com/terencemckennaarchives

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Christians Law, PLLC The Law Firm of Tyler Christians Waivers of Removability and Otherwise Admissible Petitioner seeking waiver of removability held “Otherwise Admissible” in Fares V. Barr Recently, in Fares v. Barr, No. 13-71916 (9th Cir. 2019), the Ninth Circuit held that a petitioner seeking a waiver of removability was “otherwise admissible” for purposes of immigration law after receiving a denial when applying for naturalization for failing to return to his country of origin for at least two years. Specifically, the panel held, “… that a noncitizen who seeks a section 237(a)(1)(H) waiver is ‘otherwise admissible’ even though he failed to return to his country of origin for at least two years, as required by INA section 212(e). Therefore, the BIA’s contrary interpretation contravened the statute’s text, and petitioner was otherwise admissible for purposes of section 237(a)(1)(H) waiver notwithstanding 212(e). In this case, notwithstanding his failure to satisfy or receive a waiver of the two-year residency requirement, petitioner was admissible under several provisions of 8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(15). The panel remanded for the agency to use its discretion in determining whether to grant the requested waiver.” Here is a link to the case summary. This holding is a potential gamechanger for many individuals seeking immigration benefits after failing to return home for two years to their countries of origin when required by immigration law. Although the law requires individuals to do so, this ruling might make it possible for certain individuals to be deemed “otherwise admissible” and therefore be eligible to apply for certain immigration benefits even if they fail or failed to meet this requirement. If you or someone you know failed to return to your country of origin for two years after being required to do so, and want to apply for immigration benefits, Christians Law, PLLC is here to help. Tyler Christians is an experienced immigration attorney and can help you with your immigration needs. Just give us a call by clicking or tapping here, text us by tapping here, visit our contact page, or simply fill out our short form below and we will get back to you as soon as possible. Thank you for visiting tchristians.com. Christians Law, PLLC is an immigration and criminal defense law firm with offices in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and Falls Church, Virginia, but we can help you wherever you are in the world. Se Habla Español: 571-286-7574 I have an immigration question that needs answered. Please note: All fields required to submit form. 111 Park Place #2D, Falls Church, Virginia 22046 Copyright © 2019, Christians Law, PLLC. All Rights Reserved. contact@tchristians.com | Disclaimer | Privacy Policy

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Grand Theft Auto V Is Getting A First-Person Mode, And It Looks Incredible Gaming / PlayStation / Xbox By Matt Lyons With an exclusive interview and trailer for IGN, Rockstar announced that a first-person mode is coming to the current gen remakes of Grand Theft Auto V. Even during the short three-minute teaser trailer that Rockstar put together to show off the new view, it is clear that this mode is not just a slapped together camera shoved closer to the action. The entirety of Los Santos was built from the ground up to accommodate this new viewpoint – and it shows. As animation director Rob Nelson explained, the primary reason this mode wasn’t included in the last generation versions of the game was due to a lack of time and powerful hardware. “We’ve always been in interested in it, but it’s never really been an option for us,” Nelson says. “I don’t think we could’ve put it in the [last-gen version] because we were too busy making the game. We were too busy working on our third-person controls and the missions.” “We were out of memory on the old consoles for animations. We were constantly fighting about what we could have and what we could still push in, and what other areas you could steal memory back from – audio, art, maps – for animation. So we could’ve added all the atoms to make a first-person mode to the level we wanted. We weren’t sure the world would have held up the way we would’ve wanted it to.” One of the most re-assuring statements from the articles, as someone who absolutely loves Grand Theft Auto Online, is the fact that the revamped viewpoint will be available in both single- and multi-player. The Grand Theft Auto Series has always been immersive in its own right, even when you were just playing as a sprite with a top-down perspective, but putting the giant city of Los Santos in front of you while in first-person is going to be incredible. Guns, cars, bikes, helicopters, and more all have their own specially crafted HUDs and screens. Cars feature working spedometers – something a lot of racing games still don’t even do – and your character will actually put on a helmet when getting on a bike or into a helicopter. So far, the only worrying thing about the announcement was the lack of confirmation that the first-person view will be available from day one. I don’t even need to mention the H-word when it comes to things missing from Grand Theft Auto anymore, but I just hope this is there on launch day and we are not forced to wait months for it. This feature alone is going to be enough to make fans who already owned the game on Xbox 360 or PS3 buy it again, and rightfully so. Check out the source link for the full details from IGN, and look for the shiny new version of your favorite crime-trio when Grand Theft Auto V comes out on Xbox One and PS4 on November 18th and on PC in early 2015. All images courtesy of IGN Related Items:first person, Grand Theft Auto, GTA, gta v, Rockstar Three classic Rockstar games coming to Xbox One Backward Compatibility Valley review: A (mostly) soothing, fascinating journey Microsoft’s Countdown Xbox Sale Official List Unveiled Weekly Refresh: CurrentC Woes, Xbox One Bundle Deals, Tim Cook Comes Out, and more – Oct 21-Nov 1 EA Stopping Development Of Free-To-Play MOBA Dawngate

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New York, NY (Top40 Charts) SLASH FT. MYLES KENNEDY & THE CONSPIRATORS will release their new album titled LIVING THE DREAM on September 21 via SLASH's own label Snakepit Records, in partnership with RoadrunnerRecords. The group unleashed "Driving Rain"--the first single off LIVING THE DREAM-today, to radio. Listen to "Driving Rain" HERE and watch the trailer HERE and purchase the new song digitallyHERE. ]SLASH describes the creation of "Driving Rain," "This is a riff I specifically remember playing with the guys for the first time at a venue in New Hampshire on the World on Fire tour. It's a cool guitar part we ran though, and from that point forward the rest of the song started to come together in my mind while on the road. We put it all together this year and Myles came up with a great melody for it." MYLES KENNEDY adds, "The riff is very reminiscent of vintage Aerosmith. It's got a certain funk to it that's compelling. Lyrically, it's a story about somebody who works on the road--it could be a musician, and it could be a traveling salesman. What makes it interesting is this guy has an addict girlfriend or spouse who continues to relapse, and she ends up getting him to come home. She's miserable and falls back into bad old habits, and that compels him to head back to her to save the day." LIVING THE DREAM is SLASH's fourth solo album, and third with SLASH and his bandmates MYLES KENNEDY (Vocals), BRENT FITZ (Drums), TODD KERNS (Bass & Vocals) and FRANK SIDORIS(Guitar & Vocals). Today, Wednesday, July 25 the band has launched a physical pre-order in the following formats for LIVING THE DREAM including: a limited edition Deluxe Premium 2LP Yellow Vinyl within a Premium "Living The Dream" Vinyl-size 20 page Hardback Book, an exclusive one- sided 7" single of "Driving Rain" featuring an etching on the B-side with a special set of SLASH guitar picks, Standard Digital and Physical CD album, poster as well as a limited-edition T-shirt and Hoodie are available. To view a variety of the LIVING THE DREAM CD/merchandise bundles available now, go to: https://www.slashonline.com. Massari Releases Third Studio Album "Tune In"; Watch The Video For The Title Track Featuring Afrojack & Beenie Man Drake Clinches UK Chart Double, And Earns 3rd No 1 Single Of 2018 With "In My Feelings" Drake Betters The Vamps On This Week's UK Albums Chart For 3rd Week At No 1 iHeartMedia Announces The Return Of The 2018 iHeartRadio Fiesta Latina, Celebrating The Best In Latin Music On November 3 In Miami Linda Thompson Celebrates The Music of The English Music Hall With My Mother Doesn't Know I'm On The Stage, Coming From Omnivore Sept. 28 Latin Jazz Icon Eddie Palmieri Releases New Album "Full Circle" Lisa Bouchelle's Stirring Rendition Of The Iconic "If You Could Read My Mind" Is Artfully Captured In New Video Todd Helder Drops His Remix Of Martin Garrix & Khalid's "Ocean" Ahead Of 'Tomorrowland 'Debut Mario Returns With Powerhouse New Single "Drowning" Roaring Truth Signs With DSN Music Reviver Releases Tenille Arts' New Single "I Hate This" Elton John: I'm Still Standing - A Grammy Salute Country Artist, Dani-Elle Kleha, Nominated For Multiple Honors Party In The Pines Adds Dan + Shay, Granger Smith, And More To 2018 Lineup 6ix9ine Drops New Song 'FEFE' Featuring Nicki Minaj! Page gen. in 0.8333881 secs // 4 () queries in 0.06604790687561 secs

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A master of altered images Category: Photography Tips Photographer Alex Sapienza has turned his back on the digital age by using a 150-year-old technique You have to rinse the plate completely, otherwise the acid would mix with the cyanide and release cyanide gas and that would kill us both,” warns Alex Sapienza as we squeeze into the bathroom that doubles as a darkroom in his studio on Dublin’s South William Street. At the bottom of a plastic tray, on a sheet of inky black glass, a negative image slowly appears. We’re not at the cyanide stage yet, but I hold my breath anyway. Who knew that getting your photograph taken could be lethal? An Italian who has lived in Ireland since 1996, Sapienza is a documentary and television cameraman. His love of the moving image has long been matched by a fascination for those that are still. “I was always involved with photography, in the last 10 years mostly digital photography,” he says. Sapienza honed his skills the traditional way, in a darkroom at film school in Rome. Lately, he had begun to feel digital photography had lost its edge. He watched his 10-year-old daughter playing with Instagram, an online photo-sharing application. “I could see that once she applies a couple of filters to the images, they’re as good as mine,” he says. So he decided to take a step backwards to a technique called wet-plate collodion, which was invented in England in 1851. He established the Analogue Studio, a commercial photographic studio that offers one-off portraits on plates of glass, as a kind of antidote to the throwaway, everyday commodity digital photography has become. “Every picture now seems to be so predictable, everything seems to be the same,” he says. “The level of photography has definitely increased, but then it has sort of flattened out. To me, there aren’t many striking images any more. The technical end of it has got better, but to find a picture that really stands out now is more difficult.” Sapienza enjoys modern photojournalism but finds contemporary fashion photography, in particular, “safe” and “bland”. “With digital you can take 20 snaps in five seconds and I can guarantee you even a non-photographer with the help of Photoshop can come out with a really good picture. To me that takes away from photography — that aspect of uncertainty that gave me the attraction to photography in the first place.” Six doors down from the studio, in Bagots Hutton basement wine bar, his first show is hanging. It includes images of Jennifer Maguire of RTE’s The Republic of Telly and The Fear, arts broadcaster John Kelly and musician Gavin Friday, but most are friends or other unknown faces. Each image is paired with a quote. The beautiful Virginia M offers risqué advice: “If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.” Maguire’s just says “Bold”. “I asked everybody to give me a quote,” says Sapienza. That they are all dark, edgy phrases is no surprise. There are no cheesy grins here. Without exception, the portraits reveal an uncompromising “other” side to their subject. “You get to see people’s faces in a way you don’t see in digital photography, almost that you don’t see in real life. There’s that kind of aura,” says Sapienza. He points out that some of his sitters’ friends haven’t recognised them in portraits. The darkness comes from the raw material: a plate of black glass. The grittiness is due to the antique equipment and the volatile nature of the chemicals, the balance of which begins to shift as soon as he opens a new batch. The unfaltering stares are the result of having to keep absolutely still for up to four seconds in order to allow enough light into the camera to produce an image. These portraits are eerie, ethereal, old-fashioned and timeless. In an age of digital perfection and ubiquitous retouching, the process is compellingly unpredictable and frequently unforgiving. It can produce an alabaster-skinned beauty such as Maguire’s image, or it can amplify blemishes and wrinkles to give the subject an air of ancient wisdom. One of Sapienza’s favourites is of a red-haired woman, her face so freckled it appears mottled. “If people come here expecting a clean, perfect picture, it’s not going to happen,” he says. “It’s totally inconsistent and there’s kind of a surprise element that’s actually the best part. I get a buzz out of it. I get an adrenaline rush when I walk into the darkroom and put the developer on and see the negative image coming up and I’m not sure if it’s going to be absolutely sharp.” Worldwide, wet plate has re-emerged mostly as a photographers’ hobby, but there are new professionals too. Sapienza shows me an online video of Ian Ruhter at work. This LA-based photographer makes enormous images using a truck he transformed into a giant, portable wet-plate camera. At one point Ruhter flings a huge aluminium plate into the wilderness in anger. It didn’t turn out right. This element of risk is what attracts contemporary photographers bored by the predictability of digital technology. “It’s also the handmade, craft element that in digital photography doesn’t exist any more,” says Sapienza. He says some photographers are adapting old lenses to use with digital cameras in order to produce the kind of vignetting effect that makes the image pin-sharp only at the centre. Others are adding the effect digitally afterwards but, in the face of what goes on at the Analogue Studio, that seems like cheating. His main piece of equipment is a century-old, wooden camera which he bought in the mid-1990s. He pairs this Victorian device with a 150-year-old lens from a New York antique shop to produce the largest 10in by 12in portraits. The lens is responsible for many of the unique qualities of the finished image. “It’s not as sharp as modern lenses and you’ve got a lot of aberrations on the edges. The actual lens itself is not pure,” says Sapienza. It also has a short depth of field, which means when the subject’s eyes are in focus, the tip of their nose, ears, neck and shoulders are not. He has a Rolleicord, a Hasselblad and Russian cameras which can produce smaller portraits for which he charges €70. The technique is not particularly portable; each image must be developed within 10 minutes, while the plate is still wet. The method is slow; one portrait takes 30 minutes. Wet plate also requires some understanding of chemistry, and access to the chemicals. One section of the studio looks like a science lab. “If it was that easy, everybody would do it,” Sapienza points out. Potassium cyanide, which is the fixing agent, is not even the most dangerous chemical in the process. “That would be silver nitrate, the main element. It’s so corrosive that if a drop goes into your eyes you’ll go blind. Sulphuric acid and acetic acid would pierce your skin. Cadmium bromide is really cancerous.” It sounds high-risk, but the revival in wet-plate photography is actually tied more to the idea of slowing things down, the concept of less is more. Because it is not possible to alter the image afterwards, it also challenges contemporary notions of photographic beauty and perfection. These antique cameras capture more than a split second — it’s a series of seconds, condensed into a single image. It seems to have links with the sentiment behind other back-to-basics campaigns, such as the slow-food movement. “There is a bit of that,” Sapienza agrees. “Again, it’s about disposable stuff. It’s like I’ve reached a limit of how much stuff I can throw away. I’d like to hold on to something. “You go home with just one image, but it’s a special image. It’s not disposable. It’s guaranteed 200 years once it’s varnished. It’s something to pass on. It’s an object, not something intangible like a digital picture.” The words “capture” and “immortalise” seem to apply more to this type of photography than they do to a split-second snap. Still, analogue must live side by side with digital. Sapienza’s brother Francesco is a professional photographer in New York and he visited the studio earlier this month to have his portrait taken. Within seconds of his image materialising in the tray, Francesco had Instagrammed his wet-plate portrait, and linked to the image online. He looks like Bruce Willis: shaved head, aviator sunglasses and a scarf wrapped loosely around his neck. It’s the modern way to let everyone know you’ve just had your portrait taken. But timeline updates soon become yesterday’s image, disappearing into the mammoth digital legacy we all add to daily. An image on a plate of glass, however, is something else.

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Classics is for Everyone Making the Classical World accessible to everyone How to… Build a temple timadelani / November 11, 2015 What considerations does an architect have to take into account when planning a temple? A building as important or as big as a temple must have been a huge undertaking especially in Ancient Greece due to the fact that a lot of money was spent on buildings, as well as their significance within a deeply religious society such as the Greeks. The architect in commissioned with such a herculean task had a huge weight on his shoulders considering the amount of things he had manage: from the availability to the type of building material; to the political statement the building was meant to portray. When all these matters were correctly put together we get wonders such as the temple of Apollo a Delphi. The most elementary aspect of the building that he had to consider was the type of building material to be used. In the beginning temples used to be made of mud brick and wood with thatched roofs. But by the 6th century B.C temples were made of marble. This being a very heavy material to build with and the sheer amount of it that was needed the architect needed to plan from where it could be sourced. Not all polis were surrounded by marble quarries and therefore had to be imported from abroad. An architect would also have to consider what colour the marble should be as well as whether to have it cut on site or at the quarry. This often depended on the accessibility of the place where the temple was to be built. The colour was also extremely important because of the location in which the temple was built. This is because the temple had to fit in with its surroundings and not stand out. Another feature which includes the building material is the weight of the roof and therefore the thickness of the walls. The tiles on the roof were extremely heavy and needed strong walls to support them. This was imperative because the roof could easily collapse and destroy the temple. One overruling standard of the Greek temple was conformity. An architect had to be able to plan and build a temple which was like all the others as this was more hilly appreciated and venerated than something unique in its design. To which god the temple was going to be dedicated to was also significant because the architect was planning their house and it was important to please that god in order to remain in their favour. He main gods as well as protector gods needed large and grand temples in order to keep their blessing and help the inhabitants of the city state. The altar in front of the temple also had to be considered because all the ceremonies occurred out there and so it had to be in a prominent place where many could see the sacrifice including the reading of entrails. Before even choosing the building material the architect had to consider the location of the temple and the landscape in which it would sit in. The landscape had to have some kind of flat ground on which the temple could be built. It was possible to flatten out land but there must have always been a starting point. Moreover, the architect how many trees would need to be cut down to produce an area large enough, however it needed to maintain the integrity of the site so the god could be more at home. The temenos or land set aside for the temple would have been included in the plans for the landscape. The architect would have to take this into account because it was seen as holy ground and therefore had to be preserved. The location of the temple went hand in hand with its orientation. The temple was orientated west to east with entrance facing west. This was extremely crucial as the Greek temples were designed in such a way that the sun rose over the statue of the god that was being celebrated in the temple and in the evening, near sunset, the light would shine into the temple and illuminate the statue of the god. This was really technical and the architect had to take quite accurate measurements to ensure that this happened. It would have been a sight to behold when the people looked up to see a huge structure backlit by the sun. The location of the temple had also another component that needed to be taken into account: the amount of space that was available for huge crowds to gather during processions. Especially at Pan-Hellenic sites such as Olympia and Delphi it was really important because massive crowds would congregate. An architect would need to work out how many roads or paths had to be built in order to reach the site as well as how close it should be to a settlement in order for it to be reached on a regular basis by all during festivals or processions. A further aspect of building a temple that the architect had to ponder was the political and economic statement the temple was supposed to promote. Temples were huge undertakings and depending on the size, could be very expensive. Rich polis such as Athens (who had access to silver mines) wanted demonstrate their power and wealth through the construction of a temple. The architect had to consider this when planning the building because the temple had to be bigger and more expensive than the one of the neighbouring polis. In this way, people who came to temple from other polis would be both in awe and in fear of that particular city state. Not only does it demonstrate wealth but also implies that the amount of money spent on the temple could easily be dispensed on raising an army. This was a powerful message to any city state thinking about attacking another. Incorporated in this showing off of wealth had to be the actual material and size of the statue. Really rich states could afford the statue in gold or ivory but usually they were made out of wood or bronze. Overall, the architect in charge of planning and building a temple had to take many variables into account which would astonish even the most senior of mathematicians as well as the most cultured and qualified artist or indeed a politician. The social, economic and political aspects of a temple had to be considered at length so that absolute perfection could be reached. The fact that people did not spend much on their personal property but more on communal buildings means that the statue and temple had to be of the highest quality because religion was the one thing that united all people from the helots to the nobles. In conclusion an ancient Greek architect was very similar to those in modern times although I doubt that the Shard will be standing in over 2000 years time! November 11, 2015 in Uncategorized. Tags: Ancient, Art, Author, Books, CLassics, Greece, History, Literature, Sculpture, Speech Clash of the Heras Why build the Parthenon? Hera and Zeus, head to head, toe to toe ← Exploited by Ovid, Ars Amatoria 1 Why build the Parthenon? → I, Augustus Scratching the surface with Tacitus Democracy? Persuasiveness- Plato, Pseudo-Xenophon, Herodotus timadelani on Roman Economics RedHeadedBookLover on Roman Economics Michael Hendry on Just sounding it out? Greek an… Richard Goode on Just sounding it out? 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Rand Paul’s Favorite Philosophers Think Poor People Are ‘Parasites’ Ian Millhiser Twitter Apr 13, 2015, 12:10 pm CREDIT: AP PHOTO/CHARLIE NEIBERGALL “There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what,” Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney famously told a room full of donors in May of 2012. These are the people, Romney claimed, who are “dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it.” It was an extraordinarily damaging moment for Romney’s campaign, but it was an equally candid disclosure of Romney’s campaign strategy. Romney — who campaigned on a budget that would privatize Medicare, throw as many as 13 million people off of food stamps and give the richest 0.1 percent of Americans a $264,000 tax cut — admitted that he had little to offer voters who live close to the margins of American society. So his best path to victory was to cobble together a coalition of Americans who did not need a social safety net to protect them from destitution. Ultimately, however, the strategy failed. In an ironic turn, Romney received only about 47 percent of the vote himself. What makes Sen. Rand Paul’s (R-KY) own bid for the presidency so fascinating is that he wholeheartedly rejects the strategy underlying Romney’s campaign. Though Paul supports slashing America’s safety net in ways that make Romney look like Paul Wellstone, and though Paul famously opposes bans on discrimination by private businesses, the senator behaves as if he can peel off traditionally Democratic constituencies by emphasizing the one aspect of his anti-government philosophy that has real potential to improve the lives of marginalized Americans, criminal justice. As Paul told a predominantly white audience in Nevada on Saturday, Go meet people who live in poverty, and ask them why their sons all seem to be incarcerated or killed . . . . The war on drugs has created a culture of violence and put police in an impossible situation. Three out of four people in jail for drug crimes are people of color, but if you look at the statistics, white people are using drugs at the same rate. We have somehow snatched up so many people of one race that it is now unfair, and we should do something to make it fair. He offers the poor and people of color a devilish deal: allow Paul to dismantle the American welfare and regulatory state, and he will free them from the all-too-common stories of police brutality and overincarceration. While Romney simply wrote off 47 percent of the nation, Paul calls for a philosophical sea change in how Americans view the role of government — and he offers the poor and people of color a devilish deal: allow Paul to dismantle the American welfare and regulatory state, and he will free them from the all-too-common stories of police brutality and overincarceration. Before anyone agrees to buy what Paul is selling, however, they should understand the full contours of his proposed deal. Genocide by Neglect The degree to which Paul proposes to tear down the master’s house with the master’s tools cannot be overstated. Though Paul now presents his anti-government philosophy as the antidote to a society which dooms far too many poor people of color to a life behind bars, that philosophy has far more insidious roots. As I explain in my book, Injustices: The Supreme Court’s History of Comforting the Comfortable and Afflicting the Afflicted, economic libertarianism was not built on a foundation of empathy for the poor and the downtrodden. To the contrary, the social theorist who is arguably the father of modern libertarianism literally argued that the impoverished and the unfortunate should be left to die in order to purify the human race. Though Paul’s proved more willing to compromise his libertarian principles — especially on matters of foreign policy than his father, the staunchly anti-government former Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX), the younger Paul’s departures from libertarian orthodoxy are typically on matters such as gay rights, marijuana legalization, and defense policy — issues where libertarians and liberals often find common ground. On economic matters and on issues like civil rights, Rand is very much his father’s son. As the New Yorker’s Ryan Lizza explained in a profile of Rand, “[i]t would be impossible . . . to describe Rand Paul’s politics without indicating his father’s influence.” Rand “grew up steeped in the libertarian political philosophy beloved by his father, and he worked as a strategist on Ron Paul’s many political campaigns, watching as his father’s ideas helped to shape the Republican Party and give rise to the Tea Party.” Where Rand has departed from his father’s rigid views, a friend and advisor to both Pauls told Lizza, it’s because Paul is more “committed to winning” than his father is. Ron Paul claims the late Murray Rothbard, an economist and self-described “anarcho-capitalist,” as a foundational figure in his own intellectual development. “It would be difficult to exaggerate Professor Murray N. Rothbard’s influence on the movement for freedom and free markets,” the elder Paul wrote in a collection of essays celebrating Rothbard’s work. “Rothbard is the founder of the modern libertarian movement,” Ron Paul continued, adding that “in my own political work, I have been profoundly influenced by the lucid and brilliant works of Rothbard.” Meanwhile, the man that Paul, père labels as “the founder of the modern libertarian movement” was himself heavily influenced by nineteenth century thinkers who laid the intellectual groundwork for modern libertarianism. The “greatest single work of libertarian political philosophy ever written,” according to Rothbard, is the British social theorist Herbert Spencer’s 1851 text Social Statics. The degree to which Paul proposes to tear down the master’s house with the master’s tools cannot be overstated. At the height of his popularity, Spencer enjoyed the kind of celebrity among American elites that is now reserved for movie stars. Spencer sold nearly 370,000 copies of his works to American readers, a figure that is virtually unheard of for authors producing difficult works of philosophy and sociology. When he toured the United States in 1882, hotel managers and railways competed for the opportunity to serve him, while reporters clamored for interviews. At a New York banquet in Spencer’s honor, he was toasted by a former United States senator and member of President Rutherford B. Hayes’s cabinet. At the time, America looked much like the kind of libertarian paradise that the Pauls offer up as utopia. The Industrial Revolution and the railroads enabled a single business to serve an entire nation, and that, in turn, enabled the owners of those businesses to grow wealthier than anyone who had ever previously lived. Meanwhile, the framework of worker safety laws, antitrust laws, and other legal protections needed to smooth the rough edges of this new economic reality did not yet exist, and the courts were often openly hostile to attempts to craft such protections. Indeed, many of the decisions of this era would probably even make the Pauls blush. When a 14-year-old girl employed by a laundry crushed her hand between the two heavy rollers of a machine used to press collars, New York’s highest court held that by merely “accepting this work and entering upon the employment about this machine,” the young girl assumed the risk she would be injured by it. Workers like this permanently disabled girl, the court wrote, “cannot call upon the defendant to make alterations to secure greater safety.” (The author of that decision, Judge Rufus Peckham, was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1895. Last January, Rand Paul praised Justice Peckham’s most famous decision, Lochner v. New York, which gave employers sweeping rights to exploit their workers, as a model for the judiciary to follow.) Speaking at the banquet in his honor, Spencer lavished great praise on the proto-libertarian nation where he was a guest. “From biological truths it is to be inferred,” Spencer told the attendees, “that the eventual mixture of the allied varieties of the Aryan race forming the population [of the United States] will produce a finer type of man than has hitherto existed.” If a man or woman is “sufficiently complete to live” than they should live. But if “they are not sufficiently complete to live, they die, and it is best they should die.” Spencer’s own philosophy can safely be described as genocidal libertarianism. In Social Statics, the book Rothbard raises up as the “greatest single work of libertarian political philosophy ever written,” Spencer argues that “[i]nconvenience, suffering, and death are the penalties attached by nature to ignorance, as well as to incompetence.” They are also, he adds, “the means of remedying” these traits. “By weeding out those of lowest development” Spencer explained, “nature secures the growth of a race who shall both understand the conditions of existence, and be able to act up to them. . . . Nature demands that every being shall be self-sufficing. All that are not so, nature is perpetually withdrawing by death.” Rather than proving nature’s cruelty, Spencer believed that this deadly game “purif[ied] society from those who are, in some respect or other, essentially faulty.” If a man or woman is “sufficiently complete to live,” then they should live. But if “they are not sufficiently complete to live, they die, and it is best they should die.” Needless to say, Spencer saw no place for what he labeled “[a]cts of parliament to save silly people.” A Kinder, Gentler Libertarianism Since the publication of Social Statics in the mid-nineteenth century, similarly-minded thinkers have learned to express their views in less stark terms, but they rarely tried to pretend that their philosophy would lift up the poor and the downtrodden. Economic libertarianism lost its hold on American government in the 1930s, when a nation caught in the grips of the Great Depression looked to Washington to relieve its suffering. Justice George Sutherland, the intellectual leader of a bloc of conservative justices who fought a losing battle to preserve Peckham’s libertarian approach to the law, took on a decidedly Spencerian tone in a dissenting opinion scolding the millions of Americans cast into destitution by the Great Depression. The “vital lesson” these Americans failed to learn, according to Sutherland, was that “expenditure beyond income begets poverty.” And just as Spencer urged lawmakers not to enact “[a]cts of parliament to save silly people,” Sutherland insisted that “[i]ndiscretion or imprudence was not to be relieved by legislation.” Today, activists who share the Pauls’ belief that Sutherland was right and President Franklin Roosevelt was wrong about the proper role of government frequently look to Ayn Rand for inspiration. Yet Ayn Rand dismisses people who seek government assistance during times of need as “irrational,” “parasites,” “dishonest,” “thieving loafers,” “compromising knaves,” “sniveling neurotics,” and as “both a beggar and a sucker.” This is not, to say the least, the kind of rhetoric that is designed to coax Americans close to the margins of society to support dismantling the safety net. In a 2009 video explaining that he is not, in fact, named after Ayn Rand, Rand Paul describes himself as a “big fan of Ayn Rand” who “cut my teeth” on her books in high school, and who “read a lot of the different free market Austrian economists who were sort-of fellow travelers with Ayn Rand.” One of those economists, by the way, was Rothbard, who Senator Paul says that he was “lucky enough to meet” in the 1980s when Rothbard spoke to a group of interns working in Washington, DC. After the talk, Paul drove Rothbard to the airport, and the economist regaled the future presidential candidate with personal stories of his (at times tense) relationship with Ayn Rand. Ayn Rand dismisses people who seek government assistance during times of need as “irrational,” “parasites,” “dishonest,” “thieving loafers,” “compromising knaves,” “sniveling neurotics,” and as “both a beggar and a sucker.” This is not, to say the least, the kind of rhetoric that is designed to coax Americans close to the margins of society to support dismantling the safety net. It is easy, in other words, to draw a clear intellectual line to Rand Paul’s anti-government philosophy that travels through past thinkers like Spencer, Ayn Rand, Rothbard and Ron Paul. What makes Paul different than the earlier members of his philosophical lineage, however, is his confidence that a broader libertarian philosophy can be sold to the men and women Ayn Rand once described as “parasites” if he only shifts focus to his own legitimate concerns about criminal justice. The Hard Part About Believing In Freedom Paul’s bid for those voters Ayn Rand calls “thieving loafers” and “compromising knaves” is an extraordinarily bold play. Outside of the criminal justice context, Paul’s policies are far crueler to marginalized Americans than Romney’s or even Romney’s running mate Rep. Paul Ryan’s (R-WI). Under Paul’s proposed budgets, “the Earned Income Tax Credit and the Child Tax Credit are basically eliminated; there are no Title I grants, IDEA grants to fund special education, or Section 8 housing vouchers; Obamacare is repealed; and Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program, and food stamps see more than a trillion dollars in cuts” — and that’s before you account for the fact that he also “substantially privatizes both Social Security and Medicare.” Paul’s 2014 budget also suggests that progressive taxation is unconstitutional, a view that makes Romney’s proposed $264,000 tax cut for the very wealthy look downright moderate. On race, Paul believes states should be free to enact laws that serve no purpose other than to disenfranchise voters of color and other groups that tend to prefer Democrats to Republicans. He claimed that he wants to “restore a federal role for the government in the Voting Rights Act” sometime after the Supreme Court neutered one of the act’s core provisions, but he’s neither signed onto a bipartisan proposal to reinvigorate the act nor has he proposed his own alternative. And then there’s his opposition to anti-discrimination laws. Last week, ThinkProgress argued that Paul “would be the worst president on civil rights since the 1800s” if he were elected. Though America has had no shortage of presidents who were openly racist and who pushed despicably racist policies, no president in the last century has called for the kind of wholesale dismantling of hard-fought civil rights legislation that Paul supports. According to Paul, “[d]ecisions concerning private property and associations should in a free society be unhindered,” even if that leads to employment discrimination and whites-only lunch counters. Allowing discrimination, Paul said in a 2010 interview where he explained his opposition to many key provisions of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964, is “the hard part about believing in freedom.” Nevertheless, in an essay that, had it not been published in the Daily Beast, would now exist in a metaphysical World of Being as the Platonic form of a #SlatePitch, the libertarian writer Nick Gillespie argues that Rand Paul may be the single best presidential candidate in any party on issues of race: [O]f all real and imagined Republican and Democratic candidates for the White House, Rand Paul is the only one who seriously questioned just what the fuck was going on last summer in Ferguson, Missouri, when an unarmed black man was shot and killed by a white policeman. “There is a systematic problem with today’s law enforcement,” wrote Paul in Time, on August 14. “Given the racial disparities in our criminal justice system, it is impossible for African-Americans not to feel like their government is particularly targeting them.” It was only a long two weeks later that Hillary Clinton, then and now the presumptive Democratic candidate, got around to weighing in on the matter with platitudes such as “we are better than that.” . . . Racially divisive drug laws and indefensible sentencing guidelines punish all Americans, but they punish blacks far more often and far more intensely. There’s only one major-party person running for president who has been raising any of this since he took office, and his name is Rand Paul. Notably, Gillespie barely mentions Rand Paul’s lifelong opposition to anti-discrimination laws preventing private discrimination, and he only mentions them long enough to assert that fears that a presidential candidate who openly opposes such laws may significantly harm the cause of civil rights are “wildly overblown.” The unspoken premise of Gillespie’s essay, and of Senator Paul’s broader appeal to low-income voters and people of color, is that addressing our broken criminal justice system is a matter of such paramount importance that a politician who speaks boldly about solving its many problems can overcome a litany of other proposals that would cast millions of Americans into destitution — or, worse, that Paul’s opposition to civil rights law should not count as a demerit against his civil rights record. In reality, however, the bargain the younger Paul offers is profoundly pessimistic. It tells the residents of poor and still-segregated neighborhoods throughout America that they cannot expect government to protect them from discrimination or to give them a leg up out of poverty, so the best that they can hope for is that their unarmed children will not be shot and killed by police officers. Moreover, even if one ignores the vicious intellectual roots of Paul’s economic policies, his suggestion that the federal government must curb its ambitions when it comes to civil rights ignores history. Jim Crow public school segregation did not end because the Supreme Court ordered state governments to cut it out — ten years after Brown v. Board of Education, only one in eighty-five Southern black children attended an integrated school. Rather, Southern schools began to integrate after big, Washington-centered government intervened, in part by making federal education funds contingent upon segregated schools agreeing to allow black and white children to learn together. Similarly, bans on private race discrimination did not, as Paul suggests, tear down respect for property rights. What they did do is help build a national consensus around the view that race discrimination by businesses is morally wrong and unacceptable. In Burwell v. Hobby Lobby, for example, which was decided almost exactly half a century after the enactment of the Civil Rights Act that Paul criticizes, all five members of the Supreme Court’s conservative bloc joined an opinion acknowledging that there is such a “compelling interest in providing an equal opportunity to participate in the workforce without regard to race” that this interest can overcome the strictest level of review under the Constitution. Nevertheless, Gillespie is right to acknowledge the challenge that Rand Paul presents for Hillary Clinton. Voters should not need to choose between food stamps and freedom from police brutality, or between the Civil Rights Act and the right not to be locked away over a few grams of marijuana. But if Clinton allows Paul to attack her from the left on criminal justice, many voters could face that choice in 2016, and some of them may be so consumed by their fears of a police force run amok that they will cast their lot with Paul. Clinton, and her fellow Democrats, can ensure that voters do not have to make this choice by offering equally ambitious proposals to reform our criminal justice system. If they do not do so, they shouldn’t be surprised if many of their traditional supporters take comfort in Paul’s rhetoric on police and incarceration, and fail to notice the many strings that come attached to Paul’s criminal justice agenda. #Justice, #Racial Justice, #Rand Paul

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Thanksgiving songs are the fruitcake of music Nov. 20, 2019, 7:21 p.m. | By Shruti Chauhan | 2 months ago The obscure Thanksgiving genre is the reason people hop to Christmas music right after Halloween. "If someone plays Christmas music on Halloween, I'm egging their house. I mean I'm going to roast them. Whether or not it's done in egg form, is up to me," junior Luka Smith says. There is a general consensus that Christmas melodies have no place in our playlists before Halloween. However, after Halloween, we seem to shift gears directly into Christmas season. We turn to our Christmas playlists, pull out our Santa hats, and start putting up decorations throughout our houses. But in all this excitement, we forget about one thing: Thanksgiving. Have you ever tried to find Thanksgiving music so you won’t be judged for listening to Christmas music? Because I'll save you the effort: Good Thanksgiving music really doesn't exist. Yes, you'll find a couple songs here and there about giving thanks, but there is no alternative to the real thing. The attempts by people singing about turkey are truly laughable. Junior Coltin Chao agrees. "Pandora has a [playlist] for Thanksgiving music and its terrible. I listened to one song and stopped. Thanksgiving music is a thing that sort of exists but really shouldn't," Chao says. This valiant effort to get into the Thanksgiving spirit is noble, but has little reward. Thanksgiving Music Photo: Blazers are definitely not listening to Thanksgiving music this holiday season (courtesy of Nathalie Molina). Below are a few songs that you can consider adding to your holiday playlist. They may not be top notch, but they’ll be sure to give a quick laugh or just a brief reminder that Thanksgiving is coming up soon. “ Thanksgiving Song ” by Adam Sandler When I asked Blazers if they had heard any Thanksgiving songs, this is the only one that occasionally came up. It’s a song about turkey and all the words that rhyme with turkey. Sandler originally performed the song on Saturday Night Live in 1992. He sang the tune in a high falsetto voice and can be seen stifling giggles as he sings the hilariously absurd lyrics. From a musical standpoint, it’s obviously a joke. But it’s a memorable one. “ Thank U, Next ” by Ariana Grande The second song Blazers were quick to mention, probably because of the fact that the title contained the word “thank” was “Thank U, Next.” The song is widely known as a breakup anthem, which has absolutely no relation to Thanksgiving. Grande sings about all her ex-boyfriends and the realizations she's had in the aftermaths of those relationships. But if this song somehow reminds you of Thanksgiving, by all means go ahead and give it a listen. “ Macy’s Day Parade ” by Green Day “Macy’s Day Parade” is Billie Joe Armstrong's commentary on commercialism, and how people focus too much on the material things (Macy's sponsors an annual Thanksgiving Day parade in the US). The song explains that he craves something, but it's not material; all he wants is hope in his life. It brings the core values of Thanksgiving to the forefront. “ We are Family ” by Sister Sledge Sure, this song is technically not about Thanksgiving. But “Let it Snow” is not technically about Christmas either. “We are Family” is a celebration of family and togetherness. The chorus and the title reference the fact that the group are the four sisters of a family.The song has since gone on to be used as a general expression of solidarity. Thanksgiving is a time to celebrate with family, so it makes sense for this song to make a greater appearance in the holiday season. “ I’ve Got Plenty to be Thankful For ” by Bing Crosby This is the tip of the iceberg of songs about thankfulness. Thanksgiving, as obvious by its name, is about giving thanks. So what better than songs that follow this theme? The truth is they’re not memorable. Crosby sings about how he is grateful for what he has, even though he doesn’t have much. Its a wholesome tale, but one that has been told countless times and has lost originality. Its worth a listen, but not much more than that. “ Thanksgiving Prayer ” by Johnny Cash Cash, an old and trusty country music favorite, gives yet another perspective on being grateful. He sings of cursing his aching feet and measly pay. But then corrects his tune, remembering that he's really doing fine despite his troubles. Giving thanks for these simple gifts is so important during the busy holiday season. As you’ve likely realized, these songs can’t even begin to compare to the endless productions of Christmas. Until songwriters start to focus on Thanksgiving day, it makes sense for anyone and everyone to jump right into the Christmas season. This doesn’t mean that Thanksgiving should be forgotten, but its music definitely should be left behind. Last updated: Nov. 24, 2019, 3:25 p.m. Tags: Blair music scene holiday music Thanksgiving Shruti Chauhan. Hi, I'm Shruti and I'm a junior at Blair! Apart from writing for SCO, I enjoy playing tennis, biking, and watching Netflix. More »

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Vivian Apple at the End of the World By Katie Coyle Used Price: A Year in Reading: Elizabeth Minkel Elizabeth Minkel | 10 My friends ask me if I am happy to be back in New York City. I am not. My U.K. visa expires in January, but I fly home a week before Christmas, frustrated and anxious about rebuilding a life in New York. In the new year I take a short-term sublet a few blocks from a Superfund site in northeast Brooklyn, across from a tow impound lot and next to an enormous industrial complex. I can’t figure out which industry exactly. I spend much of the month working from the apartment, which belongs to a puppet artist, hunkering down because when it’s not snowing, it’s staggeringly cold, the temperature hovering somewhere near zero. I watch snow pile up on the rusted-out old cars that line the edge of the industrial lot; I count a dozen cats, maybe more, slipping in and out between the tires. I am trapped, physically and metaphorically. At some point the year prior, I’d struck up an online friendship with the writer Katie Coyle. It began with little mutual hearts across the Internet; soon it was a series of emails that snowballed in length, the sort that took us both months to reply to. I bought her debut novel, Vivian Versus the Apocalypse, and its sequel, Vivian Versus America, at a convention in the height of the English summer, one of those rare days of unbroken blue sky. I’m bad with friends’ books: I psych myself out, worried I will be called upon to give constructive feedback, or worried I will give constructive feedback when it’s not called for. So I avoided Vivian for six months, placing her carefully on the shelf. In December, I packed her up in a huge shoddy box, held together by an entire roll of packing tape and hopeful desperation, and mailed her back across the Atlantic. Holed up during my month of icy stagnation, I devour both Vivian books. They were published as Vivan Apple at the End of the World and Vivian Apple Needs a Miracle in the U.S., some worry about readers’ apocalypse fatigue, I guess. The first one begins the day before the rapture, as predicted by a Christian cult gone mainstream, and tells the story of Vivian and her best friend, Harp, who drive across the country kicking ass as they try to figure out what’s really happened — and how to survive. The books make me cry a little and laugh a lot; they’re perfect. The winter drags on and I still find myself restless and boxed in, but for a few days, Vivian sets me free. The ice takes an extraordinarily long time to melt. I take a job that very quickly doesn’t work out, so by April I find myself holed up working again, this time in my new apartment, a fifth floor walk-up with high ceilings and a skylight. When I’m not hauling cat litter up those four flights, and when the light hits the right way, I feel like I’m living up in the clouds. I am assigned Kate Atkinson’s new novel, A God Among Ruins, an intertextual sequel of sorts to Life After Life, which I have not read. They’re only paying me to review one book, but I decide to read the two, and Life After Life is miraculous, not least if publishers think we have apocalypse fatigue, I certainly have Blitz fatigue. Atkinson brings the period into the sharpest focus I can remember encountering in a while. A God Among Ruins is harder, full of characters you want to shake by the shoulders, and poor Teddy, once peripheral and now fully fleshed out, the quiet tragedy of his life made plain. I read them both sitting out on the Promenade, even though it’s still a little too chilly when the wind picks up, and I watch the Staten Island Ferry trundling across the bay. But the book that sticks with me most in the spring is Mary Norris’s Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen, which I begin reading when ice is still collecting on the East River. I worked with Mary for five years at The New Yorker, deciphering her handwriting on proofs at all hours during my interminable years on the night shift. I find the same quiet brilliance and wry humor in the pages of her book, as well as a strange, almost unwanted nostalgia for my years spent making the magazine, as she describes her own decades there. And then, somehow, I start working for The New Yorker again. Just projects this time, mostly in the archives, spared from the grind of the weekly magazine. It’s more than a little strange to be back at the magazine. The World Trade Center is sterile and foreign and people seem confused about where I’ve been for the past few years. I don’t tell them about all the things I’ve learned, or about how my entire worldview has shifted. I complain about restrictive British visa laws, or how Brooklyn rents skyrocketed in my absence; my small talk shrinks even smaller. Other freelance work starts to trickle in — and then out of nowhere, it’s a flood. I take every project that comes my way, and the bills get paid. My mother says it seems like I’m struggling to stay afloat, which I strenuously deny, but on a deep level I know that she’s right. I’m treading water, as quickly as I can manage. I have learned my lesson from past New York summers. This year, when given the opportunity, I leave. I work a few weekends up at the racetrack, slow Saturday afternoons on a $50 window. I sit next to a joyful woman one day who tells me a customer recently gave her the perfect line: “Put a hundred dollar bill in the toilet and flush,” he told her. “If you reach for it, you’re not ready for the racetrack.” This was a new one, and a delight, because I’ve been taking bets so long that most lines feel scripted. “Good luck,” I say, and they smile ruefully and reply, “I need it.” But I am a fan culture journalist now, and summer is “con season.” I am invited to be on a panel at San Diego Comic-Con, so I fly across the country in early July. En route I read The Fangirl’s Guide to the Galaxy by Sam Maggs, billed as “A Handbook for Girl Geeks,” which is equal parts charming and empowering. I needlessly packed another three books for San Diego, as I do for every trip, and they remain buried under clothes and toiletries as I spend four long SDCC days confused and eager and oscillating between caffeinated and intoxicated. One night I crash a Playboy party, replete with half-assed nods to science (beakers and test tubes!) and mostly-naked women dropping from ropes on the ceiling; another night I trek across the length of San Diego to see the band that played the theme song to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, maybe two dozen of us waving foam glow sticks as they launch into the familiar guitar riff for the third time. As the racing season comes to a close, I get my hands on a copy of Felicia Day’s memoir, You’re Never Weird on the Internet (Almost), and a guy assigned to the window next to me tries to fake-geek-girl me by proxy, with a line of weirdly aggressive questions about what exactly Felicia Day had done beyond a gaming series he’s seen on YouTube — essentially, whether she was even qualified to write a memoir. This only makes me like the book more. And leaves me a little disheartened — the racetrack has always been my place for sexism from the past, sort of a “Nice tits, babydoll” kind of clientele, and now I’m stuck here defending Felicia Day’s right to be into video games. The world has changed — and my world has changed. American Pharoah loses the big race and the town deflates, and I head back down the Hudson. This year has been an exercise in putting off the big projects until fall, which is fast approaching. I’ve got an essay to write, a proposal to rework, a life to stabilize. Spoiler alert: a change in season doesn’t make this stuff any easier. In the last week of September, my copy of Carry On arrives in the mail. It is thick and beautiful and I clutch it to my chest the way I can only really remember doing with Harry Potter books in the past. It is a similar size and shape, and similarly magical. In the following weeks, I will go on to spill a ton of pixels about the nature of Rainbow Rowell’s newest book, and the seminal point, in my friend Connor’s words, that intertextuality ≠ fanfiction. But before all that, on the first chilly weekend of the year, I light a fire and curl up and read in a way I rarely do these days, the kind of reading where you look up and realize 200 pages have gone by, and the fire’s down to a few smoldering embers, and you can’t imagine this book ending. Of course, it will. I decide to spend October with Laura Miller’s The Magician’s Book: A Skeptic’s Adventures in Narnia, partly because it’s interesting and beautifully written, and partly because I’m trying to understand why certain texts grab us and drag us under. I read other books this year, books I won’t name because I thought they failed in some way, or in certain cases, many ways, but it’s the stuff that works — more than works, the stuff that you want to slow down for fear of finishing too soon — that intrigues me. I write about fans, after all. After Thanksgiving, I put neat bows on my projects through the end of the year, and I start to pack to go back across the ocean. It’s just for a few weeks, not a few years, and I have a tall stack of books to be read, maybe to be packed and remain buried under clothes and toiletries. The Daughters, by Adrienne Celt, or the copy of Helen Oyeyemi’s Boy, Snow, Bird I borrowed from a coworker, or Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven, which I should’ve read a year ago, or When We Are No More, by Abby Smith Rumsey, out in the early months of next year, about one of my favorite topics, cultural memory in the age of digital technologies. But this trip to England is not about the realities of living there, but the pleasure of visiting, so a friend and I will take a trip up to the Peak District, to see Chatsworth and presumably cross paths with Mr. Darcy. I’ve read it before but I can read it again: without a second thought, I toss Pride and Prejudice into my suitcase. Don’t miss: A Year in Reading 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005 The good stuff: The Millions’ Notable articles The motherlode: The Millions’ Books and Reviews Like what you see? Learn about 5 insanely easy ways to Support The Millions, and follow The Millions on Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr. A Year in Reading: Janet Potter Janet Potter | 2 Books I Read in One Day (or in One or Two Multi-Hundred Page Chunks) Silver Screen Fiend by Patton Oswalt Vivian Apple at the End of the World by Katie Coyle So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Best Depiction of Rural Indiana Marvel and a Wonder by Joe Meno Joe Meno’s latest novel is an incredible modern myth involving horses, a dying agrarian economy, and the idea of American masculinity, and it also happens to be the most spot-on depiction of north central Indiana in the mid-’90s I’ve ever read. See, I myself grew up in north central Indiana in the mid-’90s, and it’s not like I’ve spent the intervening years clamoring for its place in literature. “Will no one plumb the depths of Steuben County during the Clinton years?” was never the cry of my heart. But when I found it in the pages of this book, I was surprised by how deeply it affected me. Is this how New Yorkers feel every day of their lives? I met Joe Meno at a reading and we talked about Indiana, found out where the other person was from, and then said nice things to each other for five minutes because Hoosiers are raised to be pleasant. Favorite Learned Tidbit of Presidential History Woodrow Wilson had chronic digestive problems, which he referred to as “trouble in Central America.” Convincing Proof that I’m the Center of the Universe Sarah Vowell and David Mitchell are my two favorite living authors. Guns N’ Roses are my favorite band. Both Vowell and Mitchell published new books in October 2015. Both of those books mention Guns N’ Roses. Annual Reminder that Geoff Dyer Is a Genius It’s no secret around these parts that I love Geoff Dyer. Here’s a passage from But Beautiful that provided my most breathless two minutes of reading in 2015: The city quiet as a beach, the noise of traffic like a tide. Neon sleeping in puddles. Places shutting and staying open. People saying goodbye outside bars, walking home alone. Work till going on, the city repairing itself. At some time all cities have this feel: in London it’s at five or six on a winter evening. Paris has it too, late, when the cafes are closing up. In New York it can happen anytime: early in the morning as the light climbs over the canyon streets and the avenues stretch so far into the distance that it seems the whole world is city; or now, as the chimes of midnight hang in the rain and all the city’s longings acquire the clarity and certainty of sudden understanding. The day coming to an end and people unable to evade any longer the nagging sense of futility that has been growing stronger through the day, knowing that they will feel better when they wake up and it is daylight again but knowing also that each day leads to this sense of quiet isolation. A Year in Reading: 2015 Editor | 2 Now in its second glorious decade, the Year in Reading has become a Millions tradition, featuring contributions from a roster of emerging and marquee authors, staff writers, and friends of the site. It’s an effort that yields hundreds of books for to-be-read piles, as well as some of the best writing we run all year. After 13 years of solo striving, this was the first year that site editor C. Max Magee finally called for reinforcements; we happily stepped into the breach (now that we’ve seen the amount of work that goes into this, we’re a little frightened of him). It has been a thrill to look for exciting voices, to send emails like carrier pigeons off into the universe and hope they’ll come back bearing book recommendations from Stephen King (maybe next year). If you follow the literary world, you’d think that everyone is reading Elena Ferrante 24/7. And while lots of people are (you’ll see), Year in Reading is also our annual chance to peek behind the curtain at people’s singular reading lives—who went down a comics wormhole, or read multiple Freddie Mercury biographies, or discovered August Wilson for the first time. And not only what they read, but how they felt about what they read–how the reading shaped the year. There are a huge number of books represented in the series this year, many fantastic lists, and many extraordinary meditations on reading and life. We think you’ll enjoy reading them as much as we enjoyed putting them together. As in prior years, the names of our 2015 contributors will be unveiled throughout the month as their entries are published. Bookmark this post, load up the main page, subscribe to our RSS feed, or follow us on Facebook or Twitter to make sure you don’t miss an entry. – Your Year in Reading Editors, Lydia Kiesling & Janet Potter Stephen Dodson, co-author of Uglier Than a Monkey’s Armpit, proprietor of Languagehat. Ottessa Moshfegh, author of Eileen. Atticus Lish, author of Preparation for the Next Life. Angela Flournoy, author of The Turner House. Claire Messud, author of The Woman Upstairs. Celeste Ng, author of Everything I Never Told You. Nell Zink, author of Mislaid. Claire Vaye Watkins, author of Gold Fame Citrus. Chris Kraus, author of Summer of Hate. Katrina Dodson, translator of The Complete Stories of Clarice Lispector. Joyce Carol Oates, author of The Accursed, among many other books. Saeed Jones, author of Prelude to Bruise. The Book Report, everyone’s favorite literary show. Bijan Stephen, associate editor at the New Republic. Garth Risk Hallberg, contributing editor for The Millions, author of City on Fire. Lydia Kiesling, staff writer for The Millions and creator of the Modern Library Revue. Janet Potter, staff writer for The Millions. Elizabeth Minkel, staff writer for The Millions. Emily St. John Mandel, staff writer for The Millions and author of Station Eleven. Michael Schaub, staff writer for The Millions. Thomas Beckwith, social media and previews editor for The Millions. Anne K. Yoder, staff writer for The Millions. Chigozie Obioma, author of The Fishermen. Greg Hrbek, author of Not on Fire, but Burning. Terry McMillan, author of Waiting to Exhale. Sasha Frere-Jones, writer and musician. Matthew Salesses, author of The Hundred-Year Flood. Meaghan O’Connell, author of And Now We Have Everything. Cristina Henríquez, author of Come Together, Fall Apart. Vinson T. Cunningham, contributing writer for The New Yorker. J.M. Ledgard, author of Submergence. Nadifa Mohamed, author of The Orchard of Lost Souls. Manjula Martin, editor of SCRATCH: Writers, Money, and the Art of Making a Living. Lauren Groff, author of Fates and Furies. Alexander Chee, author of Edinburgh. Olivia Laing, author of The Lonely City. Rahawa Haile, author of short stories and essays. Rumaan Alam, author of Rich and Pretty. Justin Taylor, author of Flings. Julia Alvarez, author of How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents. Jaquira Díaz, editor of 15 Views of Miami . Dave Cullen, author of Columbine. Hannah Gersen, staff writer for The Millions. Tess Malone, associate editor for The Millions. Matt Seidel, staff writer for The Millions. Claire Cameron, staff writer for The Millions, author of The Bear. Nick Ripatrazone, staff writer for The Millions, author of We Will Listen for You. Edan Lepucki, staff writer for The Millions, author of California. Viet Thanh Nguyen, author of The Sympathizer. Daniel José Older, author of Shadowshaper. Lincoln Michel, author of Upright Beasts. Rebecca Carroll, author of Saving the Race. Ana Castillo, author of So Far from God. Patrick Rothfuss, author of The Name of the Wind. Katie Coyle, author of Vivian Apple at the End of the World. Sady Doyle, a writer in New York. Patricia Engel, author of Vida. Manuel Muñoz, author of What You See in the Dark. Karolina Waclawiak, author of The Invaders. Hamilton Leithauser, a singer/songwriter in New York City. Catie Disabato, author of The Ghost Network. Parul Sehgal, senior editor at The New York Times Book Review. Margaret Eby, author of South Toward Home. Tahmima Anam, author of A Golden Age. Sandra Cisneros, author of Have You Seen Marie?. Brian Etling, intern for The Millions. Nick Moran, special projects editor for The Millions. Jacob Lambert, staff writer for The Millions. Michael Bourne, staff writer for The Millions. Bruna Dantas Lobato, intern for The Millions. Bill Morris, staff writer for The Millions, author of Motor City Burning. Summer Brennan, author of The Oyster War. Kerry Howley, author of Thrown. Rachel Eliza Griffiths, author of Lighting the Shadow. Maggie Nelson, author of The Argonauts. Lauren Holmes, author of Barbara the Slut and Other People. Kate Harding, author of Asking for It. Year in Reading Outro. The Book Report: Episode 31: Seven Millions Questions with Katie Coyle The Book Report | 1 Welcome to a new episode of The Book Report presented by The Millions! This week, Janet and Mike have “Seven Millions Questions with Katie Coyle,” author of Vivian Apple at the End of the World and Vivian Apple Needs a Miracle. Discussed in this episode: doomsday religions, the Rapture, Pretty Monsters by Kelly Link, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling, juvenile delinquency as it pertains to flying car theft, The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, Julia Stiles, 10 Things I Hate About You (dir. Gil Junger), Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler, Neil Gaiman, awesome hair, Lorde, Taylor Swift, airplane etiquette. Not discussed in this episode: Whatever happened to Julia Stiles? Oh yeah! She was in the movie with Robert De Niro. And football. The Best Exotic Silver Playbook. Right? Something like that. Ask the Writing Teacher Ask the Writing Teacher: The Third Person Edan Lepucki | 3 Dear Writing Teacher, We met at the University of Tampa this past week and you gave me your email address in order to get book suggestions from you. I’m working on a young adult novel in close third person with a decent amount of world building involved in the narrative. I’ve found it difficult to find contemporary novels (and short stories) that aren’t written in first person so any suggestions you have, I would really appreciate. I have to admit that your question, initially, made me giggle. My in-house statistician hasn’t crunched the numbers yet (Nate Silver wasn’t available so I hired my dog, Omar Little, and, quite frankly, he sucks at the job), but I’m pretty sure the proportion of contemporary novels narrated in the third person is equal to those narrated in the first. Or at least it feels that way. I have so many good third-person novels to recommend to you! Stoner by John Williams. The Thin Place by Kathryn Davis. Off Course by Michelle Huneven. The Vacationers by Emma Straub. Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng. (I’m basically walking through my house, calling out titles. I could do it all day. The Fever by Megan Abbott!) Some of these books limit themselves to one character’s consciousness, like Stoner or Off Course. Others, like The Vacationers and The Fever, shift between multiple characters from chapter to chapter, or scene to scene. In these novels, the distance between the reader and the events of the narrator, or “the psychic distance” as John Gardner puts it, is fairly close. These narratives reflect what James Wood calls, in How Fiction Works, the free indirect style: “As soon as someone tells a story about a character, narrative seems to want to bend itself around that character, wants to merge with that character, to take on his or her way of thinking and speaking.” (If you haven’t read Wood’s book, you can read the first chapter here. And you can read Jonathan Russell Clark’s clever and helpful essay on close third here.) The Thin Place is told in a more elevated, all-knowing third-person point of view that skips from one small town resident to the next, including a dog, which is fitting since the book is about the thin scrim between the cosmic and the mundane, and the connection between all things. Everything I Never Told You also shifts its third person perspective, between family members, and its narrator has more knowledge than anyone; the book’s first sentence, “Lydia is dead. But they don’t know this yet…” makes that clear, and it emphasizes just how little this family understands about itself. In both these novels, perspective reflects theme especially well. If you’re trying for this more elevated perspective, I also suggest you read Edward P. Jones along with 19th-century masters like George Eliot. These writers alight on one perspective and then another and another, deftly providing access to a character’s most intimate motives in one passage only to gracefully move away to comment on the scene in the next. They drop Wisdom-with-a-capital-W and it’s great fun to read. (And write, I hope!) An omniscient third person narrator feels like a bodiless character who shapes our understanding of the narrative’s events. One of my writing teachers declared on multiple occasions that the third person point of view was easier than the first person. I disagree; each is easy and difficult in different ways. The first person has always come more naturally to me. Its performative qualities are revealing; I discover who my character is via language use and voice tics, confession and truth-dodging. Most importantly, there isn’t the elasticity of psychic distance that exists in the third person, which requires control and intention so that the reader doesn’t feel like she’s riding a narrative tilt-a-whirl. It’s disconcerting to be deep inside a character’s psyche and then, suddenly, to see him from afar. I bet many first drafts of third-person narrations struggle with finding the best distance from which to tell the story. I recommend you decide what your novel’s psychic distance is, and stick to it. If you’re after a closer third person perspective, keep in mind Wood’s image of the narrative bending around the character’s mind so that the language and observations reflect and imply that particular consciousness. Also, avoid using “seeing” verbs; instead of, for instance, “She saw the cup on the table,” just say something like, “The cup was on the table.” Since it’s a close third person, you don’t need to tell the reader who is doing the seeing — that’s already implied. It’s also easy to forget the body when writing in third person (just as it’s easy to forget the external world when writing in first person). One way to lessen the psychic distance between reader and story is to include physical experience: not what others see of the narrator, but how it feels, internally, to be this self: how it feels to be tired, to be restless, to be nauseated, and so on. (One of my pet peeves as a reader is when we learn about the hair of a protagonist from a (supposedly) close third person narration; people have very specific relationships to their hair, and they don’t view it, can’t experience it, from afar. If you’re gonna talk about a character’s hair, make sure it expresses the experience of having said hair, rather than something like, “She ran a hand through her shoulder-length straight auburn hair…” which puts me outside the character and her experience. In that example, I’m looking at the character, rather than seeing the world with her.) Since your novel requires world building, I also recommend you read the last story/chapter in Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad, “Pure Language,” which seamlessly depicts a future New York City and a music industry that caters to toddlers — or “pointers” as they’re known — from the third person perspective of a guy named Alex. As you read, mark the moments where Egan is providing the reader with expository information about the world. Where does Egan fit it in, and how? Perhaps more importantly, how do these passages reflect Alex’s psyche and and shape our understanding of him? For example, look at this passage, where he’s describing a woman he’s meeting for the first time: Lulu was in her early twenties, a graduate student at Barnard and Bennie’s full-time assistant: a living embodiment of the new “handset employee”: paperless, deskless, commuteless, and theoretically omnipresent, though Lulu appeared to be ignoring a constant chatter of handset beeps and burps. The photos on her page had not done justice to the arresting, wide-eyed symmetry of her face, the radiant shine of her hair. She was “clean”: no piercings, tattoos, or scarifications. All the kids were now. And who could blame them, Alex thought, after watching three generations of flaccid tattoos droop like moth-eaten upholstery over poorly stuffed biceps and saggy asses? I’m interested in how “handset employees” and “clean” are in quotation marks, which allows Egan to not only straight-up define these terms for the reader, but to show that Alex is apart from these communities. The phrasing of “All the kids” shows that Alex isn’t as young as Lulu. Overall, the description of her reveals that Alex is attracted to her — and also intimidated, I think. Egan could have left out the “Alex thought” in the last line — the sentence would still work without it — but its inclusion adds a few inches to the psychic distance, which perhaps gives Egan some flexibility of tone when describing this particular future. Part of your quandary, of course, is that you’re writing a young adult novel, and I’m no longer giggling because, you’re right, there are far fewer third person examples in that genre. Why is that? My friend Cecil Castellucci, who will publish her 12th (!) young adult novel, Stone in the Sky, in late February, has her own litmus test for categorizing a book as YA. Her definition sheds light on why so many are told in first person: For me, a book is YA when it has a young protagonist and the action is happening right now or has just happened. If a book has a young protagonist, but it is nostalgic or self-aware, then it is an adult book. Castellucci argues that a YA book feels like it’s happening “in the now,” and that this sense of urgency allows the reader to feel as if she’s “on the journey with the character as they clue in and grow.” The first person, and in particular the first person present, provides the kind of immediacy that the YA genre so excels at. In the third person, a sense of “nostalgia and awareness,” which Castellucci says is usually present in adult books with young protagonists, might creep in. Castellucci says there are beautiful examples of third person YA books, so I asked my friend Katie Coyle, who recently published her first YA novel, Vivian Apple at the End of the World, for her suggestions. She recommended Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell, The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart, Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein, and Malinda Lo’s Ash and Huntress. The first two are examples of realism, the third is historical fiction, and Lo’s are fantasies. Now that you have these recommendations, I suggest you ban the first person for at least six months. Read only novels written in the third person. Furthermore, try to read third person novels that have the same psychic distance you’re aiming for, be it close third, or an elevated omniscience, or something in between. When I’m struggling with a technical challenge in writing, I bang my head against the wall, write and rewrite and write again, and seek out books that have mastered said challenge. It’s useful if the book’s content is wildly different from mine — that way, I don’t feel like I will accidentally crib its ideas. For instance, if you’re writing an epigrammatic novel about, say, the workplace, it would be helpful to read Mrs. Bridge by Evan S. Connell for its succinct and perfect short chapters. (See also: Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill.) You’ll be wise to avoid books that share your subject matter. It’s form you’re after, not content. Aside from all that, I’d recommend writing, to yourself, your reasons for choosing the third person. Why does the story need to be told this way? It’s useful for me to articulate and defend my choices when I’m about halfway through a first draft. This lets me move partly (but never wholly!) out of intuition and into intention. Intention feels powerful. “Good luck, Tiffany!” she typed as she tucked her silky blonde hair behind her ear. The Writing Teacher The Future of the Book A Future for Books Online: Tumblr’s Reblog Book Club Elizabeth Minkel | 7 The Tumblr reblog holds a special kind of power. It’s the way that posts are shared on the platform — if, for example, I like your photograph, or link, or video, or 5,000-word analysis of our favorite TV show, I can re-post it on my own Tumblr, with or without additions, your original post fully intact. It will appear on my blog and on my followers’ dashboard feeds; if one of them reblogs it, and a few of her friends do the same, your post will gain momentum — it might even snowball to popularity. Posts on Facebook can slip into the ether, the whims of finicky algorithms; on Twitter, arguably the most temporal social network, your 140 characters have a matter of minutes, even seconds, before they drop out of sight down the infinite stream. On Tumblr, posts spread outward in networks of webs. They have drastically longer shelf lives than their counterparts on other social media outlets — reblogs, which make up 90% of Tumblr content, can make the rounds for weeks, months, even years, and with a tag search and a reblog or two, they can spring to life long after they’re published. In other corners of the Internet, you broadcast and consume information; on Tumblr, a platform built on mutual interests and passions, all that sustained sharing helps build real digital communities, one reblog at a time. Book lovers will be pleased to know that the Tumblr book community is thriving. The Millions has its own popular Tumblr and our own Nick Moran has done a few great round-ups of literary Tumblrs, and the community has only grown since the last installment. Book Tumblr is a space where basically everyone who regularly has their hands (or, I suppose in the digital age, their eyes) on books can gather: writers, artists, editors, publishers, lit mags, booksellers and their bookstores, librarians and their libraries, and, most important of all, readers. The Tumblr book fandom is as committed to the written word as they are to the platform’s creative and transformative slant: when they finish a book, they’re ready to pull the most thought-provoking quotes or draw fanart or bake the cake they read about in chapter 12. There’s equal space for criticism and celebration, and it’s the kind of community that forces me to talk sappily about the power of the web, how people thousands of miles apart can find each other and build friendships based on a single book, or a love of books generally. At the heart of Tumblr book fandom is books.tumblr.com and the woman who runs it, Rachel Fershleiser, once described by Lydia Kiesling here at The Millions as “an energetic person whose job at Tumblr (Literary and Non-Profit Outreach) seems to be using technology to make things happen with books to make things happen with technology.” Nicole Cliffe at The Toast recently took things a delightful step further by saying Fershleiser “represents for books on the Internet like an avenging angel who is also very nice.” Fershleiser (who, in the interest of full disclosure, I’ve met many times in bookish internet circles over the years) is a former book publicist who came to Tumblr from Housing Works, where she ran events — and got the bookstore onto Tumblr, one of the first institutions to create an analogous physical-to-digital space for readers to gather around books. At Tumblr, she encourages other organizations and writers onto the site; in a room full of publishers at the FutureBook conference in London a few months back, I seriously enjoyed watching her rep for Tumblr with enthusiastic and hyper-intelligent zeal. She curates a broad, book-positive discussion on Tumblr — and the Reblog Book Club, a year and a half old and now in its fifth round, is at the very center. “I wanted to do a Tumblr book club from the day I started,” Fershleiser told me a recently when I stopped by Tumblr’s offices near Union Square in Manhattan (the address is one that loyal Tumblrites will recognize instantly from every email they get about new followers). “I love to talk about books — that’s what I’m doing here — and I love to talk about books on the Internet, and Tumblr is such a rich place for engaging with art in a creative way. My actual lifelong dream is to be the Oprah of the Internet. So this seemed like a good place to start.” She launched the Reblog Book Club in the fall of 2013, and the first title was Rainbow Rowell’s Fangirl, a book (that I happen to be obsessed with) about a girl who writes fanfiction about the Harry Potter-like Simon Snow novels. “I got really in my head about choosing a first book,” Fershleiser said. “There were no rules: is it YA or is it adult, is it serious, or dystopian, or funny, and how can I choose one book for a hundred million people? It’s a really big community.” But Rowell proved to be a perfect choice. Her previous novel, Eleanor & Park, had come out earlier that year and had been a huge hit, and she was an active Tumblr user and unabashed fangirl — and, of course, she’d written a novel about loving books and celebrating them online. There weren’t a lot models for a massive-scale online book club — some sites set titles and interviewed the authors, and maybe opened up a comments section or discussion thread. But Tumblr is all about peer-to-peer exchange, and Fershleiser wanted to reflect that. She set a fairly loose schedule — dates by which chunks of the book would ideally be read — and an open format: all the tools of Tumblr, from gifsets to multimedia to chains of reblogged meta, were put to use. The ask box was always open, so Rowell could drop in and answer questions whenever was easiest (rather than the formally scheduled Q&A sessions we see with a lot of authors online). This kind of thing is relatively new territory for authors — how many times have you cringed in the past decade seeing writers forced to start blogs or Twitter accounts or somehow engage with their readers online when it didn’t come naturally, or worse, when it clearly made them uncomfortable? But these days plenty of writers do shine in digital spaces, and Rowell is one of them — and when Tumblr called, her publisher embraced the opportunity. Stephanie Davis, the marketing manager at St Martin’s Press, told me, “Working with Rachel to launch the Reblog Book Club was really exciting because the community on Tumblr is so expressive, creative, and authentic.” Davis cited the fact that Rowell was on Tumblr, and enthusiastically so, that made her an ideal first choice. The club was an experiment — and it was a successful one. It showed off the very best of the Tumblr book community: “It was thrilling to be able to approach a traditional book club in a new way,” Davis said. “And to see how the Tumblr community jumped in and participated — I’m still blown away by how talented her Tumblr fans are!” The conversations in the Reblog Book Club are nearly always civil, and usually pretty warm and engaged — something that’s particularly notable online. Perhaps it’s because Fershleiser is there to moderate, or perhaps it’s because the author is there, too, or perhaps it speaks to the kinds of readers attracted to the group. “This is my own little push-back against the idea that online conversation has to be mean and shallow,” Fershleiser said. “Not only are people kind and thoughtful, the conversation is nuanced and in-depth and we read complicated books about complicated characters and have complicated responses to them, and I think that’s wonderful. I want to smash it in the face of people who think that enjoying the Internet is the opposite of people enjoying real books.” The titles that followed Fangirl transcended genre labels and age designations. In the book store they’d be classified as middle grade, YA, and adult, verse and prose; in reality, they’re more like a collection of books about complex female protagonists getting things done. There was Laurie Halse Anderson’s The Impossible Knife of Memory, our own Edan Lepucki’s California, and Jacqueline Woodson’s Brown Girl Dreaming, for which she won the National Book Award late last year. It felt fitting to get in touch with Edan for a Millions piece, and she told me, “The Reblog Book Club was one of the most satisfying parts of publishing my book this summer because I got to see readers interacting with my work in ways that I couldn’t elsewhere. (A writer should always avoid reading their Amazon reviews, for instance, unless she wants to feel like a pile of shit in three seconds flat.)” She continued, On Tumblr, even if readers weren’t loving my novel, they were still engaging with it in these thoughtful ways, wrestling with how they felt about the characters, why I’d made certain choices, guessing about what was going to happen, etc. And when a reader loved my book — oh how they loved it! I feel like the internet has brought back sincerity and enthusiasm, made it acceptable, and that is refreshing. It’s not cool to be cool, it’s cool to get excited about stuff and to be a fan with a capital F…It truly made me feel like my book was alive for people in the way it had been for me, when I was writing it. And now, to start 2015, there’s Katie Coyle’s Vivian Apple at the End of the World. I’ve never met Coyle in person, but we followed each other on Tumblr about a year ago, and I feel like I know her deeply, from her enthusiasm for Doctor Who gifsets (it’s all about Peter Capaldi on that front) to her long, thoughtful essays, including a wonderful post last year in which she described the genesis of this book: Neil Gaiman had posted about the Hot Key Books Young Writers Prize on his Tumblr, and she’d seen it, entered, and won — and eventually got to thank him in person. The book was published as Vivian Versus the Apocalypse in the U.K., and was released there along with a sequel, Vivian Versus America, last year; the newly-titled version came out in the U.S. this month. Coyle seems to like Tumblr as much as I do, if not more. “I feel like there’s really no better place on the internet to be loud about the things you love than Tumblr,” she told me. “I’ve used it for my personal blog for about six years now, and in that time I’ve really noticed that it’s helped change my tastes, and open my eyes to new things I wouldn’t have otherwise heard about.” It was pretty hard for me to keep from falling in love with Vivian Apple at the End of the World: the characters — particularly the heroine, Vivian, who grows progressively bolder as the novel proceeds — are smart, dynamic, and seriously funny, and it’s a whip-smart satirical take on contemporary America, from religion (the big one — it’s about the Rapture) to consumerism to feminism to homophobia. And these past few weeks, Coyle watched her readers react to her work as they read it, something most authors never get the chance to do. “Overall it’s been really great,” she said. “I’m a debut author and basically had no feeling of assurance whatsoever that anyone other than my parents was going to read this book. To be able to go on Tumblr and see people not just reading it, but engaging with it, picking themes and characters and quotes they particularly liked or were interested by, has been overwhelming. It is a little weird to watch it unfold in real time. I’ve seen posts where people say, ‘I have a question about this, can’t wait to see how Coyle addresses it’ and I’m like ‘oh no oh god I never addressed that thing.’” She doesn’t have much to worry about, though: the Reblog Book Club seems to be loving the book, and engaging with it in typical fashion, with fanart and meta and playlists for the apocalypse. “I am a huge fan of fans,” Coyle said. “If there was a fandom fandom, I would belong to it, because nothing is more beautiful to me that goofy outrageous creativity being applied to movies and television shows and books, especially. So the idea that someone would read the book and make a playlist, or draw a picture, or paint their nails the color of the cover, was and is almost too wonderful for me to bear. I have long said that my only authorial goal is to inspire someone else to write fanfiction about my work. I’m not sure if that’s happened yet, but I feel like I’ve gotten a bit closer.” (I’ve advised her to watch her inbox on this front.) For the readers, some of whom come via the authors, others who show up for every title Fershleiser picks, the Reblog Book Club is a unique space on the web. Lauren Bates works in a library in Florida and has a dedicated book Tumblr, and she found out about the club through Rainbow Rowell’s Tumblr: “I was newly post-grad and unemployed and really very desperate to stay engaged with literature without the excuse of schoolwork,” she told me. “The literary community can sometimes be intimidating or inaccessible to people who don’t have connections to the industry or an active literary scene in their community, and even if you do live in a relatively literary community, it can be difficult to find people with a similar taste in books.” The Tumblr book community, she said, is a beautifully egalitarian space: “We have no idea what each other’s backgrounds are or where (or if) anyone attended college or what their major was or any of that. Your credentials don’t give your opinion more weight than anyone else’s.” Another active member, Sarah Smith-Eivemark told me that she “owe[s] her publishing career to the Bookternet:” I joined Tumblr a little over three years ago, but I didn’t start actively posting until about two years ago, when I realized that so many of the people who I respected in publishing, the people whose careers I wanted to emulate and work with, had a Tumblr of their own. I’m completely addicted now. I’ve met and connected with more people who share my love of reading and independent publishing through Tumblr than I have with, well, anything else.” Smith-Eivemark is now the publicist at Coach House Books in Toronto, and she still uses Tumblr in her professional life. If anything, the Tumblr book community shows her all the people out there incredibly excited about reading: “…it can just seem so challenging to simply get people to buy a book,” she said. “The Reblog Book Club encourages me, and reminds me that not only are there readers out there, they’re smart, funny, and exactly the kind of people I’d want to know (as we say) IRL.” It’s a little coincidental that this round of the Reblog Book Club coincided with the launch of another online “book club” at another behemoth of a social network: Mark Zuckerberg’s New Year’s resolution to read a book every two weeks led to the announcement of Facebook’s “A Year of Books,” in which 278,000 (and counting) members will “discuss” a new title once a fortnight. The inevitable comparisons to Oprah came and went — for an eloquent analysis of why exactly Zuckerberg is not and will never be Oprah, I’d recommend Anna Wiener’s fantastic piece on the subject in the Gawker Review of Books. “Oprah built an entertainment and media empire that trades in feelings; she is the definition of a successful personal brand,” she wrote. “Mark Zuckerberg built Facebook, a website buttressed by targeted ads with a well-intentioned but often emotionally clumsy experience. Oprah can make one’s life feel like an important journey to the center of the soul. Facebook can make one’s life feel inadequate, ephemeral, and commoditized.” But while the first meeting of the club was reportedly a mess, the first featured title, The End of Power by Moisés Naím, skyrocketed in sales. Maybe it doesn’t matter whether it’s possible to have a real discussion in this kind of space: Facebook merely suggesting a title will lead people to buy it (though not, it should be noted, to necessarily read it.) The contrast between Facebook’s book club and the conversations I see on Tumblr are striking. As much as the book industry needs — perhaps even is desperate for — a solid and regular base of book-club consumers, this big, dedicated driver of sales (on that front, Zuckerberg and Oprah will likely have much in common), people who make and distribute books also want passionate readers, the sort who will evangelize for a book that they love. Fershleiser agrees — during our conversation, she echoed some of my thoughts from my last fan culture column on the topic, on how book fandom is more about depth than breadth. She said: I think that some people think of fandom only as people who already have millions of people hanging on their every word. A lot of what we’re doing here starts smaller. For the books we choose for the Reblog Book Club, the authors are on Tumblr and they have some kind of following but it’s not because they’re the biggest authors on Tumblr, it’s because it’s going to be something interesting to talk about. It’s not that there are huge numbers of people participating in the book club, it’s that they’re really, really engaged and excited and when you have even 50 people on your platform who are talking about a book, every day, who are making incredible fan art, nail art, getting really excited, getting into heated debates about things, especially on a network like Tumblr, with the reblogging and the following, it reverberates through the network and it feels like, ‘What’s this thing that everyone’s talking about? It’s exciting and I want to be a part of it.’ It doesn’t take six million people to create that kind of feeling —–it grows organically. Is the Reblog Book Club the future of books online? I sure hope so, or at least that it’s a big part of it. It represents some of the best of what the web can offer — genuine connections and discussions, between groups that can’t realistically interact in the analog world, and a sort level playing field, bookstores and authors and librarians and readers sitting side by side, one post after another. And perhaps most importantly, the Tumblr book community gives permission to get deep into the world of a book: it’s cool to love it for a while, and to try to press it into the hands of everyone on your dash. With a few well-chosen gifs, of course. The Book Report: Episode 7: Katie Coyle’s ‘Vivian Apple at the End of the World’ Welcome to a new episode of The Book Report presented by The Millions! In this episode, we take a long look into Janet’s middle-school psyche, the hairstyles of manic pixie dream boys, and one of the most acclaimed young adult books in a long while: Vivian Apple at the End of the World by Katie Coyle. Also discussed in this episode: religion, gender roles, fundamentalism, the rapture, road trips, unrealistically wonderful boys with tousled brown hair, Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell, John Green, mix tapes, best friends, and God. Not discussed in this episode: Wait is “Rainbow Rowell” actually her real name, does anyone still make mix tapes anymore because those ruled, realistically terrible boys with neatly combed blond hair, Mike’s middle school experience wherein he was the popular captain of the football team, Mike’s propensity to tell obvious lies about his past. (Does anybody want to be Janet’s best friend?)

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The Theosophical Messenger (periodical) From Theosophy Wiki The Theosophical Messenger was the national journal of the American Theosophical Society from 1927-1931. L. W. Rogers was the editor, and the monthly periodical was published at the newly established headquarters of the Society in Wheaton, Illinois. It took up in December, 1927 as a successor to The Messenger, using the same volume and issue numbering. Thus, the first issue was designated as Volume 15, Issue 7. Numbering went to a calendar schedule beginning with Volume 17, Issue 1 in January, 1929, and continued monthly on this system until the final issue (Volume 20, Issue 12) on December, 1932. The successor journal was The American Theosophist. Index to the periodical the Union Index of Theosophical Periodicals has an index to the articles of this periodical. Production of the journal An insight to the printing and mailing process is found in this notice from the Membership Department: When a member fails to pay his dues on time, it makes far more than double work at Headquarters. First, we have to send him a letter after he is a couple of months behind time. Then, his delinquency continuing to the end of the first quarter, we have to shift his membership record card to the delinquent section, take his name off the MESSENGER list, and notify the printers. They throw his address plate into the metal scrap heap. Soon after that, in many cases, the tardy dues arrive, perhaps four or five months late. Then we have to shift the record card back to the original position, write it on the MESSENGER mailing list, notify the printer, and pay for the new address plate. In most cases the tardy member has, by that time, missed two or three copies of the MESSENGER because he was not entitled to them. But having now paid up, he is entitled to them, and we have the additional work of writing wrappers and mailing the magazines. Had he paid his $3 on time to his Secretary, all this work and expense would have been avoided.[1] ↑ "Training School Extension" The American Theosophist 17.12 (December 1929), 271. Retrieved from "https://theosophy.wiki/w-en/index.php?title=The_Theosophical_Messenger_(periodical)&oldid=27309" TS Adyar About Theosophy Wiki

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I dropped out of grad school and then I dropped out of life The Pensive Years Archive | Movies RSS feed for this section Some stuff about 2013 movies and awards Here is an alphabetical list of all the 2013 movies I have seen. There are 52. That works out to one a week. Amazing! I saw a lot in theaters, I saw some on Netflix or online through some other means. I saw every movie I wanted to see. I didn’t “miss” anything. If your movie isn’t listed, that means I had no interest in it. Sorry. I think I will probably see fewer movies this year. Most movies prove to be bland and formulaic in most regards. I find myself in the theater rooting for unpredictability. That usually leads to a disappointing movie experience. So I think I’ll cut back. I should note that in addition to these 52 I saw probably a couple hundred older movies. Maybe even a few hundred. I like movies. Also there will probably be spoilers in here somewhere. Frances Ha Gimme the Loot In a World… Stories We Tell What Maisie Knew Movies I especially liked I try not to intellectualize this kind of thing. I just picked movies that stuck with me or that I came out of feeling really good about. Inside Llewyn Davis was a borderline pick. It wasn’t always easy or fun to watch. I don’t know if it was supposed to be. I’ll need to see it again. A lot was made of the circular narrative structure thing. I thought that was great. The kind of thing only the Coens could pull off. I’ve made my love of Spring Breakers and Stoker known. Gatsby kind of got forgotten. Too bad. The Place Beyond the Pines was my favorite movie of the year. Movies I especially disliked I don’t have the energy to trash Her and The Wolf of Wall Street. A lot of people liked them. Fine. I emphatically did not. Not for any reasons that are unique. Read Molly Lambert and Richard Brody on Her, and Dana Stevens on Wolf. It was not my decision to see Ender’s Game. I want that on the record. I think I’ve written previously on this site about the others. How I would have voted for Oscar nominees in the major categories (obligatory note: the Oscars are a joke and are not to be taken seriously)(winners in bold): Only five movies. More than that is stupid. All is Lost over Gravity. They’re pretty much the same movie. I don’t know what to make of Gravity. That opening scene shot in one take is crazy, but how much credit should Cuarón get for that? How much technology was involved? I don’t know enough about the effects in that movie to really judge. That’s not the basis for my judgment. The dialogue in that scene was so horrifically embarrassingly laughably bad as to disqualify it. Sorry. American Hustle in the Argo slot as a big Hollywood movie that succeeded. Even though I thought it had a kind of glaring script problem at the end. The actors from top to bottom were excellent and the production design was fun and it was funny and was a generally really enjoyable movie to watch. Much more so than I expected. I don’t really have anything to say about any of the various Blue is the Warmest Color debates. I have read enough about them to know that some people think that as a straight white man I shouldn’t be allowed to like it. I think most of the criticisms that have been made are fair, but you know what? I don’t care. I was transfixed by it. I was sad when it was over. I wanted it to be longer. I’d have spent the whole day in the theater watching. Loved it. I’m glad I didn’t know about the prosthetic vaginas beforehand. I think that would have been distracting. That’s a pretty weird thing. I’m disappointed no one has mentioned The Place Beyond the Pines in like eight months. My favorite of the year. I think Bradley Cooper was the weak link. Everything else was near perfect. It’s a pretty complex premise, and I thought Derek Cianfrance nailed it. When a director swings for the fences and hits it might be my favorite thing in movies. And this was the best example this year. I’m looking forward to seeing Stoker again. So many striking small moments/shots/scenes that have stuck with me all year. Sandra Bullock, Gravity Julie Delpy, Before Midnight Adèle Exarchopoulos, Blue is the Warmest Color Brie Larson, Short Term 12 Robin Weigert, Concussion Michelle Williams, I missed you this year. This is a stacked category even without her. Tough omissions: Greta Gerwig in Frances Ha, Kathryn Hahn in Afternoon Delight, Amy Adams in American Hustle, Julia Louis-Dreyfus in Enough Said, and Shailene Woodley in The Spectacular Now. Apparently Cate Blanchett is the lock of all locks to win the real Oscar. Whatever. Concussion is a great movie. It’s on Netflix and everyone should watch it. Robin Weigert out of nowhere carried the whole thing. I love all the Before movies, and Julie Delpy is the best part of them. Short Term 12 wasn’t a very good movie, but it sort of falls into the same category as Her and Wolf. Larson was magnetic whenever she was on screen. She was also magnetic without saying anything in Don Jon. I like her. I thought Adèle Exarchopoulos was incredible. Screen presence etc. I’m not good at describing actors/acting. Note: Some of these performances involve considerable sex appeal. I really try not to think about that. But it’s a part of those movies and it’s complicated and I don’t know. I think this is something that male critics like to pretend doesn’t exist but it does so I’m mentioning it. Leonardo DiCaprio, The Wolf of Wall Street Chiwetel Ejiofor, 12 Years a Slave Jake Gyllenhaal, Prisoners Joaquin Phoenix, Her Robert Redford, All is Lost As much as I disliked Her and Wolf, it’s hard to deny the quality of the acting involved. DiCaprio and Phoenix are both always good, they should be in good movies. Like The Great Gatsby, which was a better DiCaprio movie, even though I don’t think he did much acting there. He certainly didn’t extend himself like he did in Wolf. I love Gyllenhaal. I think I might be the only one. I truly don’t understand why he isn’t taken more seriously. One of my favorites. There are a lot of reasons I’m not in love with 12 Years a Slave, but Ejiofor was better than I expected, mostly because the role was more complicated than I expected. I’ve seen him in a couple other things, but I don’t remember his performances in them, to be honest. I’ll be on the lookout for more from him. Redford was incredible. The comparison is, again, Sandra Bullock in Gravity. He’s better than Bullock. More peaceful, subdued. And he’s still able to convey desperation within that. I think it’s just age and experience. Maybe they should remake All is Lost with Sandra in 30 years and we can see how she does. Kaitlyn Dever, Short Term 12 Sally Hawkins, Blue Jasmine Lupita Nyong’o, 12 Years a Slave Léa Seydoux, Blue is the Warmest Color Octavia Spencer, Fruitvale Station I don’t feel as strongly about this category as I do about Best Actress. Nyong’o had a tough task because there’s not a lot to her character on the page. I wouldn’t presume to know what makes for effectively portraying a slave, but I was affected by her performance. Did you see what I did with effect and affect there? I hope you liked it. I thought about throwing in Selena Gomez from Spring Breakers, but I don’t think she was quite there. Sally Hawkins should be more famous. Happy-Go-Lucky is a good performance of hers to see. Dane DeHaan, The Place Beyond the Pines Nathan Fillion, Much Ado About Nothing Will Forte, Nebraska Ryan Gosling, The Place Beyond the Pines Jonah Hill, The Wolf of Wall Street Ryan Gosling is the best thing going in Hollywood. Pines gets hurt in the acting categories because of the way its set up. I almost put in Ben Mendelsohn too but that seemed like overkill. I hate to keep bringing up Wolf, but Jonah Hill might be a good actor. I didn’t get the fuss over him for Moneyball, but I was impressed with him here. I did not expect Will Forte to be good at playing sad, but he was the best part of Nebraska for me. And good job to Nathan Fillion, who managed to be funny while delivering 400-year-old malapropisms. The overt comedy stuff is always the hardest part of Shakespeare to pull off. Derek Cianfrance, The Place Beyond the Pines Alfonso Cuarón, Gravity Harmony Korine, Spring Breakers Baz Luhrmann, The Great Gatsby Chan-wook Park, Stoker There’s no accounting for taste. That’s mostly what this list is. None of the big name guys is doing anything innovative or unexpected these days. Cuarón is the guy who was most obviously pushing the envelope in terms of camera stuff. I mentioned earlier that I don’t know enough about the details there. I don’t know a lot of the details about directing in general, frankly. Best Screenplay* *I’m only doing one screenplay because I can’t keep track of which ones are original or not and I don’t care whether they are or not. Noah Baumbach/Greta Gerwig, Frances Ha Shane Carruth, Upstream Color Joel Coen/Ethan Coen, Inside Llewyn Davis Nicole Holofcener, Enough Said I should probably see Upstream Color again. Based on a first viewing and a reading of the plot summary on Wikipedia afterward I was amazed. This is sort of like the director category. I like what I like and I make no apologies. So those are my thoughts about movies. I didn’t do a movie-by-movie capsule recap. Too much work. I’ll try to get back into that this year. Categories Movies Film review quarterly: 2013 Q3 My Q2 review didn’t get as much traction on Google as Q1. Disappointing. But I’m still doing it. I wrote about all of these movies individually when they were released. I’m too lazy to link to all of them here. Search for them in the search box if you’re interested. I also slowed down a bit on seeing movies in the last couple months. A lot of movies are starting to run together. Even the ones that are good. It’s so disappointing to me that small independent movies are starting to get just as boring and formulaic as big blockbusters. Maybe I’ll catch some on Netflix or whatever. If you feel passionate about a movie I missed let me know in the comments jklol no one ever reads these let alone leaves a comment. I still feel great about this movie a couple months later. It’ll be interesting to see if it gets any awards heat. I doubt it. I was a little disappointed that this one didn’t seem to catch on much with a big audience. Maybe if you’re not from the Bay Area it doesn’t resonate as strongly. Either way, I hope this becomes the template for movies like this. Avoiding moralizing and overreaching. I was impressed with Ryan Coogler. Looking forward to more from him. This is the kind of weird movie I wish there were more of. I don’t even know if I would call it good, but it was totally captivating. I wonder what someone would think of this if they’d never seen a Woody Allen movie before. Would they love it or hate it? What would they think of all the little Woody Allen things? Maybe I’ll try to get my sister to watch it on DVD or something and ask. She’s probably one of millions of twentysomethings who’ve never seen a Woody Allen movie. This horrible younger generation etc. I’m still amazed at how bad this was. Fine. Entertaining. Some good performances. Etc. This is a pretty good example of the formulaicity I was talking about. Sort of the spy movie version of In a World… .It was good and everything, but what’s memorable or interesting or unexpected about it? Shailene Woodley is a star. I heard she had to turn down the lead in Fifty Shades of Grey because of a scheduling conflict. That would have been interesting. But that movie will probably be interesting regardless. Maybe the best case scenario for this kind of suburban Landmark Theaters-friendly independent movie. Brie Larson and Kaitlyn Dever were great. The New Yorker blurb compares this one to Mystic River and Zodiac. Zodiac is a good comparison, in a general feel/tone/Gyllenhaal way. Zodiac is the better movie. I actually watched Zodiac again recently. It was nominated for zero Oscars. That seems dumb to me, especially after the way everyone loved Argo last year for being a big expensive good studio movie. It wasn’t anywhere near as good as Zodiac. Maybe it was as good as Prisoners. I should stop thinking about Argo. There are spoilers in this. And this is a movie with actual stuff to be spoiled. I really enjoyed Prisoners. It wasn’t anything spectacular or unusual or especially ambitious, but who cares. It was two and a half hours long, and held my attention for the whole time. Not only that, but it did a very good job of building and releasing tension, staying unpredictable, and doing all the other things that successful thrillers need to be successful. I don’t have much to say about the plot. I don’t think it was watertight, but I’m not interested in dissecting it. It won’t go in the pantheon of thriller plots, but I don’t think that’s necessary for a successful movie. I think the goal was to have a character-driven rather than a plot-driven movie. That’s generally a good idea, because there’s a lot more room to maneuver with characters than the plot. If you make the plot the centerpiece, it needs to be perfect and memorable and you need some kind of hook etc. Inception is probably the standard-bearer. If you go down that road people start picking it apart, and no one remembers the acting performances, and if your gimmick or big reveal or whatever isn’t totally mind-blowing and amazing, you’re left with Shutter Island and all people remember is the gimmick. So Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhaal are thrust to the forefront. That’s really the focus of the movie, and I have some comments about each of them. Hugh Jackman doesn’t usually do the kind of movies I like, so I haven’t seen a lot of his work. I’ve only seen two or three of his movies. I hear he does a lot of stage work. Musicals and such. That really isn’t my thing, but I suppose that’s impressive range. I was not impressed with him in this movie. I can’t decide how much was him and how much was the script. His character is wildly unlikeable. For me at least. That kind of Real America white male who knows that all of society’s problems would be solved if everyone were just more like him. Those guys are out there. I’ve known a few. They’re the worst. I don’t know if we’re supposed to relate to or sympathize with this guy, but I definitely didn’t at any point. Mr. Jackman sure didn’t bring any nuance to the role. A lot of aggressive blustering and self-righteousness, but no sign that he’s acting with any kind of thought and never a hint that he stops to consider that he might be wrong about anything or that anyone else might have a better idea of what to do than him. Maybe that’s the point. Maybe we’re supposed to delight in him getting thrown in the pit under the car. But the movie isn’t set up that way. I don’t think that was the intent at all. With a character like that, you’re either dispositionally drawn to him or not. For those of us who aren’t, Mr. Jackman didn’t do anything to get us on his side. Obviously he’s not exactly a hero, and the director, Denis Villeneuve, wants us to stay skeptical of everything, but on some level it has to be the actor’s job to make us understand why his character is doing what he’s doing. The only reason I can think of is that deep down inside, all he is is a jerk. On the other hand. I’m a big Jake Gyllenhaal fan. I think he’s great. He doesn’t seem to get a lot of respect from critics or moviegoers, but I don’t understand why he’s not seen as a heavyweight. Maybe he’s still living down Bubble Boy. I haven’t seen all of his movies, but Zodiac, Brokeback Mountain, and End of Watch are three big-time Movie Star level performances off the top of my head. I think the reason he’s so good playing cops in End of Watch and Prisoners is that he doesn’t have the same air of impenetrable hardness that Mr. Jackman tried so hard to affect throughout this whole movie. He brings the sense of underlying vulnerability that these men always have. He communicates it so well without needing to say anything. His eyes, the way he carries himself, the considered way he speaks, all the subtle things that don’t draw attention to themselves. That’s where he really separates himself. That he’s able to do all that and simultaneously project the kind of authority that makes him believable is something that not many actors can do. He should be getting better roles and winning awards. Two smaller roles of note were played by Melissa Leo and Paul Dano. Melissa Leo is another actor who doesn’t get the kind of credit she deserves. And I really like Paul Dano. He didn’t have a lot to work with here, but I think he made it as believable as it could be. And poor Viola Davis. I say Mr. Dano didn’t have a lot to work with–he had far more than Ms. Davis. She deserves better than this. Come to think of it, I would have much rather seen the movie focus on her and Terrence Howard than Hugh Jackman and Maria Bello. Oh well. And one plausibility note. Guys like Hugh Jackman’s character don’t have black friends. That’s all there is to it. Also of note was the cinematography by Roger Deakins. He’s a treasure. Cinematography is one of those things that I have to consciously focus on and in an absorbing movie like this I miss a lot of it. But this movie looked terrific. The sequence shot from inside the car while Jake G. was driving to the hospital in the rain was amazing. I loved everything about it. That was the highlight of the movie for me. Tags: Prisoners I’m surprised at how much I enjoyed Short Term 12. I had heard a few good things about it, but I went in with trepidation. A movie about teenagers in an institutional setting has a high probability of feel-good substancelessness. I’m thinking of It’s Kind of a Funny Story from a couple years ago. That one started out with a lot of promise and devolved into trite stupidity. This is a syndrome that afflicts many, maybe even most, indie dramas, regardless of setting, but involving teenagers adds a higher level of risk. Not to say that this movie doesn’t have problems, or even that it escapes the neat ending/every character ends the movie with hope and bright prospects problem, but there were enough things to like that I’m willing to overlook some of the shortcuts and easy answers in the storytelling. I don’t think I even want to talk more about the plot. Its broad ideas aren’t new or especially interesting. The movie mostly succeeds because of the characters and acting performances. Brie Larson and Kaitlyn Dever were the center of the movie for me. I don’t want to short John Gallagher Jr, but his scenes with Ms. Larson weren’t nearly as compelling as those with Ms. Dever. The two of them recently co-starred in The Spectacular Now, and I think they played friends or classmates maybe? I’ll be honest, I didn’t realize that until I checked imdb after the fact. I didn’t recognize either of them from The Spectacular Now. But they had a kind of easy chemistry that made the two of them together stand out. Special kudos to the producers for casting Ms. Dever. She’s playing sixteenish, and she looks like she might actually be sixteenish in real life. It’s the kind of role that usually goes to someone in their twenties, which gets more ridiculous every time I go to the theater. The best performance was definitely Brie Larson as Grace. I thought this was going to be more of an ensemble piece or mostly a romance, but she was the focus, and she was more than able to hold things together. Again, maybe I’m shorting John Gallagher Jr playing her boyfriend, but after several days, it’s her that I remember. Even in the late stages, when the script threatens to go off the rails, she kept things believable. There were a couple of moments where things could have really gone over the top (the confrontation with her boss in particular) and a couple of poor line readings could have made it all seem ridiculous. So, I was impressed with her. One thing that confused me a little was the specifics of the setting. At the beginning it seems to be a DCFS/foster care kind of situation, but later on it feels like there’s a much heavier psychiatric influence. That was left pretty muddy, and it was kind of distracting. Another script problem. This character Nate might as well have been named Exposition. I felt sorry for the actor playing him. And again, distracting. It would have been better to open the movie with the staff giving someone a building tour and just explaining everything that way. Get it all out of the way and then let your characters be part of the story. I don’t know if this was the intent or not, but I felt very nervous about Grace’s baby throughout the whole thing. She schedules an abortion, then after she tells Mason she seems more ambivalent. All the while she’s running around with these wild kids. I thought they were setting it up for her to gradually get excited about the baby and then have a miscarriage. The scene where Grace holds down Jayden’s feet while she’s freaking out? I was positive that was the end of it. A kick, a panicked expression, new direction for the movie. Of course they way it actually did play out was more satisfying and probably a better way to go. Even though it verged on oversentimentality, I thought the ending was good. The symmetry with the beginning totally worked. That can be gimmicky and it’s something I’d dismiss or make fun of if it didn’t hit the right spots. I don’t have a reason for liking it. It just felt right. A lot of Short Term 12 felt like that. Tags: Short Term 12 Spoilers, etc. Political thrillers can be tricky. It has to be a little complicated, because you need plot twists and such, but it can’t get too complicated or the audience gets lost. And Closed Circuit didn’t have big action sequences to cover for its errors. Once it got going, I thought we were in for some pretty heavy-duty plot machinations. In the end it was a bit more simple than I expected, but I think that’s OK. I don’t want to get too deep into the plot, not least because I saw it a couple weeks ago now and I don’t want to make any mistakes. It was well-paced, there were the requisite betrayals and reversals, but none of it was too unexpected or implausible (at least within the world of the movies). Nothing that’s going to make the movie all that memorable, but it was enjoyable. The setting is London. I don’t know much about London, but I thought they didn’t take advantage as much as they could have. There were a few aerials of The Shard/Gherkin/etc., Eric Bana rowing in the Thames, and a sequence at Wembley. The way those were shot they could have been any river and stadium. A secret meeting during an England match is such a great idea. I was a little let down at the execution. Thrillers like this live and die by the quality of the small nuanced moments that turn things. One of those in Closed Circuit deserves a mention. The scene when Claudia first goes to visit Emir. Emir knows that the MI5 guy is in the other room watching them on the security camera. So he turns to the camera and says something like he wants the interview to be over. Then between the time when MI5 guy leaves the monitor and enters the room, he grabs Claudia’s tape recorder and whispers something into it in Turkish. That was a really slick touch. Running time is a tight 96 minutes. I would have liked more. I could have enjoyed another hour. The cast list is impressive. Ciarán Hinds, Jim Broadbent, and Julia Stiles are around, but none of them have anything to do. Mr. Broadbent and Ms. Stiles almost seemed surplus to requirements, as they’d say in London. More of the reporter, more of the Attorney General, more in general please. I wonder how much of that comes down to editing decisions. It’s hard to believe they’d put the reporter character in there and have her in two scenes and then die. I don’t think she advanced the story much. Same with the AG. At least I get what he was doing there. Although it was almost criminal how much better Mr. Broadbent is than that role. I think he might be my favorite actor (non-Michelle Williams category). Check out his imdb page. He’s 64 now. I don’t think most old-ish actors have anywhere near the range of Mr. Broadbent. Musicals, comedy, drama, he does so much more adventurous stuff than most actors. Anyway. Mr. Hinds had the biggest supporting role. I like him. He has such unexpected subtlety for someone so physically imposing. He looks like he should only play gangsters and, like, Russian generals. He does so much without speaking. Again, wish he’d had more here. Rebecca Hall and Eric Bana were both in top form. I don’t get why Eric Bana isn’t a huge star. He’s handsome and he’s great in movies like this. Isn’t there some way to put him in a big popular movie? If he were twenty years older maybe he would have been playing Jack Ryan etc. The kinds of movies that Harrison Ford made. Those movies don’t really exist anymore. Hard to imagine The Fugitive being a blockbuster in 2013. Recommended recent Eric Bana movie: Hanna. I was not expecting a performance like this from Rebecca Hall. A big departure from what I’ve seen from her in the past. Or maybe I haven’t been paying close enough attention. She was totally in control whenever she was the focus of a scene and more than held her own with Eric Bana, which is no small task when it comes to being a bad-ass who takes care of business. Conclusion: I don’t know. This was a fine movie and everything, but there just wasn’t enough there to make it stand out. Tags: Closed Circuit Spoilers follow etc. I think I might like The Spectacular Now. I need to let it marinate for a while. My feelings are mixed and I am conflicted. The first half of the movie was bad. I did not like it. It hit you hard and fast and often with “this is a high school movie”. I’m really not into that. It had all the high school movie stereotypes and archetypes. The characters and events were neither nuanced or interesting. I’m not the kind of guy who walks out of movies, but if I was, I probably would have left this one. Things improved once Sutter and Aimee* got together for good. It was like a different movie from that point on. It stopped being mostly about high school and started being about alcoholism, which was unexpected and welcome. The director is James Ponsoldt. I haven’t seen his first two movies, but they’re both also about alcoholism. I guess he’s an expert by now. He definitely seemed more assured in the second half. Although that’s kind of a backhanded compliment and I don’t think the first-half problems were really his fault. More of a script issue. I think a big part of it is that within the confines of a high school it’s impossible to imbue a story with any real stakes. If you’re not in high school it’s all easily recognizable as dumb bullshit. I certainly didn’t care about any of the characters at first. I wasn’t given any reason to. That didn’t change until the movie turned and started being about Sutter and Aimee and their families and drinking problems etc. *Yes, Aimee. Christ. That is NOT how you spell Amy. When they showed her name on screen my heart sank. The midpoint tone change also gave Miles Teller and Shailene Woodley a chance to do something other than be obnoxious and high schooly. I thought they both did a good job; Ms. Woodley more so than Mr. Teller. He wasn’t bad or anything, but he seemed less comfortable than his scene partner. Maybe that’s unfair. He had a much more demanding role. Plus Shailene is a lot more experienced and I thought she was almost as good here as she was in The Descendants. She’s been on one of those teen dramas on ABC Family or something for like five years. That was an unexpected discovery. I wouldn’t have thought of that kind of show as a breeding ground for capable actors. Maybe I’m wrong. Michelle Williams did come out of Dawson’s Creek, after all. Maybe I need to rethink that whole genre. Mr. Teller is at his best in the scenes between Sutter and his family. I thought he seemed a lot more natural there. Plus those scenes were a lot meatier than most of the other stuff. Maybe I’m just too focused on the parts of the movie I didn’t like. Sutter and Aimee visiting Sutter’s dad was uncomfortable and sad in a really believable way. The hesitancy of the kids, the way everyone tried a little too hard to be casual, the way Dad eventually got actually casual and ditched the kids, was affecting without being heavy-handed. The dinner party with Sutter’s sister was also that way. Until they ended it with the dumbass toast. Could have done without that. A lot of the endgame scenes similarly went a bit over the line for me. Some of the dramatics from Sutter got eyerolls from me. I guess that’s a bit subjective though. I bet that worked for a lot of people. I want to talk about the car accident. There’s nothing like a surprise car accident in a movie. I was totally surprised by this one. And it worked within the context of the movie. Even though the aftermath looked a lot less severe than I would expect. It’s a movie, fine. I can accept that. Shoutout to Meet Joe Black, by the way. The Citizen Kane of the genre. This is the only part of the movie I’ve seen. Feels like I don’t need to see any more. Jennifer Jason Leigh is Miles Teller’s mom. She’s probably still most famous for Fast Times at Ridgemont High, and now she’s playing the mom. Time flies. No one as pretty as Shailene Woodley is unpopular in high school. I know it’s a movie and whatever, but this trope is so tiresome that it needs to be pointed out every time until some brave director casts a woman who doesn’t look like a movie star in a movie like this. Tags: The Spectacular Now Spoilers below. I can’t decide if I need to keep saying this every time out. I feel conflicted. But I would hate it if I found a random essay about a movie on Google and then had the movie spoiled. Shrug. I saw In a World last week. The most “important” or whatever topic raised by the movie is that of women’s voices and how that relates to sex/power/feminism, etc. Since then Miley Cyrus has made all discussions of feminism that don’t involve Miley Cyrus feel old and irrelevant, which is just as well, since I don’t think I’m that qualified to talk seriously about In a World’s serious concerns. Plus I don’t think I have anything particularly new to say about them. There are plenty of places on the internet to read interesting things about this issue. And this is an actually very interesting issue, to me at least. Sexy baby voice, vocal fry, etc. Go read about it! You might have noticed that I referred to the movie as In a World. Not In a World…, which is the actual title . Hey producers, don’t put an ellipse in your movie title. It’s terrible. I hate it. I’ll be calling it In a World here. Even though I put the ellipse in the post title. That’s just for appearances. Making a movie about the world of voice-over artists is a great idea. Just the right kind of hyper-specific, small, offbeat little community just begging for someone to skewer. Writing that sentence made me think that a Christopher Guest movie about voice-over artists would be hilarious. I have such great ideas. The whole thing seems to have emanated from Lake Bell, whose name is in the credits at a Spike Lee level. (Writer, director, producer, star.) I recognize Ms. Bell from the couple episodes of Children’s Hospital I’ve seen. That’s an OK show, but watching it mostly makes me wistful for the glory days of Adult Swim. But that’s another topic altogether. Ken Marino and Rob Corddry are also involved here. They’re both steady and reassuring. They’re two of those guys who are always around in movies like this. Not spectacular, not stealing any scenes, but you know they’re pros. Maybe not charismatic enough to carry a movie, but ideal for the kind of supporting roles they have here. I don’t quite know how to categorize In a World. I liked it. But it didn’t feel especially groundbreaking and I wasn’t making mental notes of stuff that was going on like I do when I’m really engaged in a movie. Apart from the specific issues of women’s voices that I mentioned above, most of the themes were on a kind of general girl power level, which I thought worked, but most of the story didn’t say anything to me that hasn’t been said before. There was one exception to that. A brief little moment that was perfectly placed, perfectly executed, and left me a little shocked at its inclusion. It was totally unexpected. I’m talking, of course, about the interaction between Ms. Bell’s Carol and the producer played by Geena Davis. I don’t want to mangle her exact quote, but it boiled down to something like, “We both know you weren’t the best person for the job, I picked you because you’re a girl.” That was a devastating takedown, and it totally reframed the way that I thought about “what the movie is trying to say”. I think Ms. Bell has a more nuanced and detailed take on all this stuff than was presented in the movie. And that’s fine. It was a comedy, after all. I thought the Geena Davis moment was a nice subtle jolt to remind the audience that it’s important to think about issues on a deeper level and not accept a feel-good message from a movie as the definitive take on a complex problem. That’s how I took it, at least. Fred Melamed as Carol’s dad was a 10/10 in the casting department. He nailed it. He has the voice, and his body type and body hair and general physicality brought a dimension that I wouldn’t have expected from an aging voice-over star. This was a character that could have easily swung into over-the-top range, and that would have been too bad. Mr. Melamed brought what I thought was a restrained performance. Credit the writing, too. “Jerk who takes himself too seriously” is a hard character to make believable. Another thing that worked well was the romance angle with Demetri Martin. That was a well-crafted subplot. For a romantic-comedy kind of story, it was not that eye-rollingly ridiculous. Kudos. You know what? This was just an overall fun movie. Not a home run, but a stand-up double. An enjoyable way to spend an hour and a half. I hope that sounds like a compliment. Tags: In a World Follow me on the popular social media website twitter.com Culture/Media/Etc.

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If you call Nashville home then it's not unlikely that you'll be brought up knowing a thing or two about at least a couple of genres who can call the city their spiritual birthplace; it may even be in your blood. With Damned Rivers you get the sense that the latter is true. The quartet describe them selves as a "young band", and only began making music together last year, but they've already mastered their own take on alt-country-infused rock music that contains passionate lyrics and feels self-assured without being cocky. Their self-titled EP is out this week and contains five songs that don't seem like the work of a group who've only been together for a year or so. The entire EP is completely free to download, and it's worthwhile doing so. Perhaps the pick of the bunch is 'Watch You Fall' which is a blend of classic Americana, alt-rock and indie, all with the thoughtful lyrics that look like becoming a trademark for the band. The wailing guitar intro is very much in the vein of the great US alt-rock bands of the past couple of decades, but there's much more here than that. This song is over five minutes in length, and not a second is wasted, as the crashing drums and lead guitar give way to verses that tell a story to a slower beat, but it doesn't dull the track whatsoever, in fact it's quite the opposite. By the time you get to the Neil Young-esque guitar solo (Mr. Young seems to be very much in fashion again at the moment), then you really notice what a well put together listen 'Watch You Fall' is. Keep an eye out for this band, falling doesn't seem part of the plan. Watch them rise. Damned Rivers EP by Damned Rivers Damned Rivers' website Stream or download the EP

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HMCS Ottawa (ii) (H 31) Destroyer of the G class HMCS Ottawa (ii) as seen during the war. Navy The Royal Canadian Navy Class G Pennant H 31 Built by Vickers Armstrong (Barrow-in-Furness, U.K.): Parsons Ordered 5 Mar 1934 Laid down 20 Sep 1934 Launched 15 Aug 1935 Commissioned 20 Mar 1943 End service 31 Oct 1945 Transferred from the Royal Navy to the Royal Canadian Navy on 20 March 1943. Decommissioned 31 October 1945. Scrapped in January 1946. Former name HMS Griffin Commands listed for HMCS Ottawa (ii) (H 31) 1 Cdr. Hugh Francis Pullen, RCN 20 Mar 1943 8 Jun 1943 2 Cdr. Kenneth Frederick Adams, RCN 9 Jun 1943 6 Jul 1943 3 Cdr. Hugh Francis Pullen, RCN 7 Jul 1943 18 May 1944 4 T/Cdr. James Douglas Prentice, DSO, RCN 19 May 1944 9 Sep 1944 5 Lt. Eric Phillip Earnshaw, RCN 10 Sep 1944 6 Oct 1944 6 T/Lt.Cdr. Ronald James Herman, OBE, RCNVR 7 Oct 1944 11 Oct 1944 7 Lt. Noel Cogdon, RCN 12 Oct 1944 4 Feb 1945 8 A/Lt.Cdr. Patrick David Budge, DSC, RCN 5 Feb 1945 14 Jul 1945 9 A/Lt.Cdr. Geoffrey Huntley Davidson, RCN 15 Jul 1945 31 Oct 1945 Notable events involving Ottawa (ii) include: HMS H 33 (Lt. J.A. Spender, RN) conducted A/S exercises off Campbeltown with HMS L'Incomprise (Lt.Cdr.(Retd.) F.S. Deveson, RNR) and HMCS Ottawa (Cdr. H.F. Pullen, RCN). (1) HMS H 33 (Lt. J.A. Spender, RN) conducted A/S exercises off Lough Foyle with HMCS Kootenay (A/Lt.Cdr. K.L. Dyer, DSC, RCN), HMCS Ottawa (Cdr. H.F. Pullen, OBE, RCN), HMS Dianthus (T/A/Lt.Cdr. N.F. Israel, RNR), HMCS Arvida (T/Lt. D.G. King, RCNVR), HMCS Rosthern (T/Lt. R.J.G. Johnson, RCNVR) and HMCS Wetaskiwin (T/A/Lt.Cdr. J.R. Kidston, RCNVR). (2) HMS H 32 (Lt. J.A.R. Troup, DSC, RN) conducted A/S exercises off Lough Foyle with HMCS Kootenay (A/Lt.Cdr. K.L. Dyer, DSC, RCN), HMCS Ottawa (Cdr. H.F. Pullen, OBE, RCN) and HMS Egret. (3) HMS H 28 (Lt. E.C. Croswell, DSC, RN) conducted A/S exercises off Lough Foyle with HMCS Ottawa (Cdr. H.F. Pullen, OBE, RCN), HMCS Kootenay (A/Lt.Cdr. K.L. Dyer, DSC, RCN) and HMCS Kitchener (T/A/Lt.Cdr. W. Evans, RCNVR). (4) HMS H 32 (Lt. K.S. Renshaw, DSC, RNR) conducted A/S exercises off Lough Foyle with HMCS Rosthern (T/A/Lt.Cdr. R.J.G. Johnson, RCNVR), HMCS Ottawa (Cdr. H.F. Pullen, OBE, RCN) and another vessel [unable to read the name in the log of HMS H 32]. (5) HMS H 34 (Lt. R.L. Jay, RN) conducted A/S exercises off Lough Foyle with HMS Cam (Lt.Cdr. J.P. Smythe, DSC, RD, RNR), HMS Sweetbriar (A/Lt.Cdr. W. Whitfield, DSC, RNR), HMCS Ottawa (Cdr. H.F. Pullen, OBE, RCN) and HMCS Rosthern (T/A/Lt.Cdr. R.J.G. Johnson, RCNVR). (6) German U-boat U-678 was sunk in the English Channel south-west of Brighton, in position 50°32'N, 00°23'W, by depth charges from the Canadian destroyers HMCS Ottawa, HMCS Kootenay and the British corvette HMS Statice. German U-boat U-621 was sunk in the Bay of Biscay near La Rochelle, in position 45°52'N, 02°36'W, by depth charges from the Canadian destroyers HMCS Ottawa (Cdr. J.D. Prentice, DSO, RCN), HMCS Kootenay (A/Lt.Cdr. W.H. Willson, RCN) and HMCS Chaudiere (A/Lt.Cdr. C.P. Nixon, RCN). The depth charge attacks made by the Canadian destroyers HMCS Ottawa (Cdr. J.D. Prentice, DSO, RCN), HMCS Kootenay (A/Lt.Cdr. W.H. Willson, RCN) and HMCS Chaudiere (A/Lt.Cdr. C.P. Nixon, RCN) in the Bay of Biscay west of Brest, in position 48°16'N, 05°33'W, were earlier credited with the destruction of the German U-boat U-984, but were carried out against a nonsub target. ADM 173/17781 ADM numbers indicate documents at the British National Archives at Kew, London.

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Adjustment for smoking, alcohol consumption, and socioeconomic status in the California Occupational Mortality Study J. J. Beaumont, J. A. Singleton, G. Doebbert, K. R. Riedmiller, R. M. Brackbill, Kenneth W Kizer This paper presents methods for adjusting for smoking, alcohol, and socioeconomic status in death certificate-based occupational mortality surveillance. The methods were applied in the California Occupational Mortality Study, a statewide study of rates based on 180,000 deaths and census estimates of occupations. For each occupation, levels of smoking, alcohol consumption, and socioeconomic status were estimated using National Health Interview Survey and U.S. Census data, and an empirical Bayes procedure was used to improve the stability of smoking and alcohol estimates for small occupations. Expected death rates for occupations were calculated by modeling rates as a function of age, smoking, alcohol, and socioeconomic status with Poisson regression. The effect of adjustment was usually moderate and in the expected direction, and the adjusted mortality ratios were generally closer to 1.0. Full data on agricultural occupations are presented for illustration. American Journal of Industrial Medicine Alcohol Drinking Social Adjustment Health Surveys Beaumont, J. J., Singleton, J. A., Doebbert, G., Riedmiller, K. R., Brackbill, R. M., & Kizer, K. W. (1992). Adjustment for smoking, alcohol consumption, and socioeconomic status in the California Occupational Mortality Study. American Journal of Industrial Medicine, 21(4), 491-506. Adjustment for smoking, alcohol consumption, and socioeconomic status in the California Occupational Mortality Study. / Beaumont, J. J.; Singleton, J. A.; Doebbert, G.; Riedmiller, K. R.; Brackbill, R. M.; Kizer, Kenneth W. In: American Journal of Industrial Medicine, Vol. 21, No. 4, 1992, p. 491-506. Beaumont, JJ, Singleton, JA, Doebbert, G, Riedmiller, KR, Brackbill, RM & Kizer, KW 1992, 'Adjustment for smoking, alcohol consumption, and socioeconomic status in the California Occupational Mortality Study', American Journal of Industrial Medicine, vol. 21, no. 4, pp. 491-506. Beaumont JJ, Singleton JA, Doebbert G, Riedmiller KR, Brackbill RM, Kizer KW. Adjustment for smoking, alcohol consumption, and socioeconomic status in the California Occupational Mortality Study. American Journal of Industrial Medicine. 1992;21(4):491-506. Beaumont, J. J. ; Singleton, J. A. ; Doebbert, G. ; Riedmiller, K. R. ; Brackbill, R. M. ; Kizer, Kenneth W. / Adjustment for smoking, alcohol consumption, and socioeconomic status in the California Occupational Mortality Study. 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Plasmalogenase and phospholipase A1, A2, and L1 activities in white matter in canine distemper virus-associated demyelinating encephalomyelitis Sheung Chun Fu, Rita Mozzi, Steven Krakowka, Robert Higgins, Lloyd A. Horrocks Three weeks after inoculation of 24-day-old gnotobiotic dogs with Snyder-Hill canine distemper virus, white matter samples were taken from the primary predilection sites for canine distemper virus-associated demyelination. The plasmalogenase activity in extracts was nearly 6-fold greater than control values for a dog with extensive demyelination and was not detectable in tissue from a dog with non-demyelinating lesions. Acid and neutral phospholipases A1 and A2 were assayed in homogenates and extracts with phosphatidyl ethanolamine substrates. Phospholipase A2 activities at both pH 4.3 and pH 6.8 were less in the dog with severe demyelinating lesions than in dogs with less severe lesions. Phospholipase A1 activities were generally similar for all four dogs. The marked elevation of plasmalogenase activity in demyelinating tissue may be associated with a release from the plasmalogens of arachidonic acid which is converted to oxygenated metabolites that may then be responsible for the inflammation. Phospholipases acting on phosphatidyl ethanolamine do not seem to be involved in the pathogenesis of demyelination associated with canine distemper virus. Acta Neuropathologica Phospholipases A1 Canine Distemper Virus Encephalomyelitis Plasmalogens Germ-Free Life Phospholipases plasmalogenase Phospholipase Fu, S. C., Mozzi, R., Krakowka, S., Higgins, R., & Horrocks, L. A. (1980). Plasmalogenase and phospholipase A1, A2, and L1 activities in white matter in canine distemper virus-associated demyelinating encephalomyelitis. Acta Neuropathologica, 49(1), 13-18. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00692214 Plasmalogenase and phospholipase A1, A2, and L1 activities in white matter in canine distemper virus-associated demyelinating encephalomyelitis. / Fu, Sheung Chun; Mozzi, Rita; Krakowka, Steven; Higgins, Robert; Horrocks, Lloyd A. In: Acta Neuropathologica, Vol. 49, No. 1, 01.01.1980, p. 13-18. Fu, SC, Mozzi, R, Krakowka, S, Higgins, R & Horrocks, LA 1980, 'Plasmalogenase and phospholipase A1, A2, and L1 activities in white matter in canine distemper virus-associated demyelinating encephalomyelitis', Acta Neuropathologica, vol. 49, no. 1, pp. 13-18. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00692214 Fu SC, Mozzi R, Krakowka S, Higgins R, Horrocks LA. Plasmalogenase and phospholipase A1, A2, and L1 activities in white matter in canine distemper virus-associated demyelinating encephalomyelitis. Acta Neuropathologica. 1980 Jan 1;49(1):13-18. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00692214 Fu, Sheung Chun ; Mozzi, Rita ; Krakowka, Steven ; Higgins, Robert ; Horrocks, Lloyd A. / Plasmalogenase and phospholipase A1, A2, and L1 activities in white matter in canine distemper virus-associated demyelinating encephalomyelitis. In: Acta Neuropathologica. 1980 ; Vol. 49, No. 1. pp. 13-18. @article{0adc848899654e58b2240f4146a1a82b, title = "Plasmalogenase and phospholipase A1, A2, and L1 activities in white matter in canine distemper virus-associated demyelinating encephalomyelitis", abstract = "Three weeks after inoculation of 24-day-old gnotobiotic dogs with Snyder-Hill canine distemper virus, white matter samples were taken from the primary predilection sites for canine distemper virus-associated demyelination. The plasmalogenase activity in extracts was nearly 6-fold greater than control values for a dog with extensive demyelination and was not detectable in tissue from a dog with non-demyelinating lesions. Acid and neutral phospholipases A1 and A2 were assayed in homogenates and extracts with phosphatidyl ethanolamine substrates. Phospholipase A2 activities at both pH 4.3 and pH 6.8 were less in the dog with severe demyelinating lesions than in dogs with less severe lesions. Phospholipase A1 activities were generally similar for all four dogs. The marked elevation of plasmalogenase activity in demyelinating tissue may be associated with a release from the plasmalogens of arachidonic acid which is converted to oxygenated metabolites that may then be responsible for the inflammation. 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The plasmalogenase activity in extracts was nearly 6-fold greater than control values for a dog with extensive demyelination and was not detectable in tissue from a dog with non-demyelinating lesions. Acid and neutral phospholipases A1 and A2 were assayed in homogenates and extracts with phosphatidyl ethanolamine substrates. Phospholipase A2 activities at both pH 4.3 and pH 6.8 were less in the dog with severe demyelinating lesions than in dogs with less severe lesions. Phospholipase A1 activities were generally similar for all four dogs. The marked elevation of plasmalogenase activity in demyelinating tissue may be associated with a release from the plasmalogens of arachidonic acid which is converted to oxygenated metabolites that may then be responsible for the inflammation. Phospholipases acting on phosphatidyl ethanolamine do not seem to be involved in the pathogenesis of demyelination associated with canine distemper virus. AB - Three weeks after inoculation of 24-day-old gnotobiotic dogs with Snyder-Hill canine distemper virus, white matter samples were taken from the primary predilection sites for canine distemper virus-associated demyelination. The plasmalogenase activity in extracts was nearly 6-fold greater than control values for a dog with extensive demyelination and was not detectable in tissue from a dog with non-demyelinating lesions. Acid and neutral phospholipases A1 and A2 were assayed in homogenates and extracts with phosphatidyl ethanolamine substrates. Phospholipase A2 activities at both pH 4.3 and pH 6.8 were less in the dog with severe demyelinating lesions than in dogs with less severe lesions. Phospholipase A1 activities were generally similar for all four dogs. The marked elevation of plasmalogenase activity in demyelinating tissue may be associated with a release from the plasmalogens of arachidonic acid which is converted to oxygenated metabolites that may then be responsible for the inflammation. Phospholipases acting on phosphatidyl ethanolamine do not seem to be involved in the pathogenesis of demyelination associated with canine distemper virus. KW - Arachidonic acid KW - Canine distemper virus KW - Demyelination KW - Phospholipase KW - Plasmalogenase JO - Acta Neuropathologica JF - Acta Neuropathologica

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Detailed Car Cleaning Floor Sanding & Varnishing Fumigation & Pest Control Home Spring Cleaning Swimming Pool Cleaning Commercial Property Cleaning Executive Office Cleaning Event Clean Up Façade Cleaning Garbage & Waste Management Service Sanitary and Washroom Solution DAVID KIENGO GROUP CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER ALEX NYAGA HARRY MUGO CONSTANCE GAKONYO TOM ONYANGO Currently overseeing management and administration at Parapet Limited, Mr. David Kiengo has over 30 years’ experience in the cleaning industry and has served as a consultant in this field for many years. He was trained at S.C Johnson International in the UK on effective cleaning materials and use of allied equipment. With this extensive knowledge, he has been actively involved in recommending cleaning products suitable for the Kenya market and developing the cleaning industry as a whole. The result is that products are now being produced locally and to international standards since 1979. He has been a part time Trainer at Utalii College, Central Bank, Jomo Kenyatta Airport, Block Hotels and Lodges among others. He worked for S. C. Johnson for a period of 13 years and subsequently set up Petterson Africa Limited which has been one of the main suppliers of cleaning chemicals countrywide for the last 20 years. The latter are also accredited distributors for S.C. Johnson locally. He is a Consultant with Truvox International of the U.K. and is involved in selecting the most suitable equipment for Kenyan conditions. Truvox manufacture equipment for Clarke, Electrolux, Phoenix, G.S.M. and Hoko of Germany and are market leaders in supply of quality cleaning machines. He is currently the Marketing Director of Murphy Chemicals, a leading agro chemical distributor of farming chemicals in the East & Central Africa region. Serving as the Group Chief Executive Officer, Alex Nyaga has extensive training and experience in the hospitality sector. A serial entrepreneur at the age of 21, he attained his Degree in Hotel Management from the prestigious Ecole Les Roches Switzerland, as well as an Associate of Science Degree in Food and Beverage management from the New England Association of Hotel Management Schools, U.S.A. He has extensive international work experience at the Hotel Ambassador and Hotel City in Berne, Switzerland both exclusive 5 star establishments, the Hotel Erlibacherhof in Zurich and the Hotel & Restaurant Tre Cucine, Zurich to mention but a few. He sits in various investment company boards such as Health & Safety Systems Ltd (HSS), Sita Investments Ltd, Excloosive Limited, and Investment Cell Limited amongst others and is also a member of the leading International Sanitary Services Association (ISSA) an international organization with its headquarters based in the U.S. His passion for mentorship and environmental conservation is evident in the number of awards that have been bestowed upon him, most recent being the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award 2014-2015. With a degree in land economics from the University of Nairobi since 1973, Mr. Mugo is a registered and practicing valuer and a full member of the Institution of Surveyors of Kenya. He is also a registered Estate Agent. He has over 33 years of experience working as a valuer, property and estate manager working in both the private and public sector. 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Library » Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta » Ādi-līlā » CHAPTER ONE CC Ādi 1.19 এই তিন ঠাকুর গৌড়ীয়াকে করিয়াছেন আত্মসাৎ । এ তিনের চরণ বন্দোঁ, তিনে মোর নাথ ॥ ১৯ ॥ ei tina ṭhākura gauḍīyāke kariyāchena ātmasāt e tinera caraṇa vandoṅ, tine mora nātha ei — these; tina — three; ṭhākura — Deities; gauḍīyāke — the Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇavas; kariyāchena — have done; ātmasāt — absorbed; e — these; tinera — of the three; caraṇa — lotus feet; vandoṅ — I worship; tine — these three; mora — my; nātha — Lords. These three Deities of Vṛndāvana [Madana-mohana, Govinda and Gopīnātha] have absorbed the heart and soul of the Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇavas [followers of Lord Caitanya]. I worship Their lotus feet, for They are the Lords of my heart. The author of Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta offers his respectful obeisances unto the three Deities of Vṛndāvana named Śrī Rādhā-Madana-mohana, Śrī Rādhā-Govindadeva and Śrī Rādhā-Gopīnāthajī. These three Deities are the life and soul of the Bengali Vaiṣṇavas, or Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇavas, who have a natural aptitude for residing in Vṛndāvana. The Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇavas who follow strictly in the line of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu worship the Divinity by chanting transcendental sounds meant to develop a sense of one’s transcendental relationship with the Supreme Lord, a reciprocation of mellows (rasas) of mutual affection, and, ultimately, the achievement of the desired success in loving service. These three Deities are worshiped in three different stages of one’s development. The followers of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu scrupulously follow these principles of approach. Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇavas perceive the ultimate objective in Vedic hymns composed of eighteen transcendental letters that adore Kṛṣṇa as Madana-mohana, Govinda and Gopījana-vallabha. Madana-mohana is He who charms Cupid, the god of love, Govinda is He who pleases the senses and the cows, and Gopījana-vallabha is the transcendental lover of the gopīs. Kṛṣṇa Himself is called Madana-mohana, Govinda, Gopījana-vallabha and countless other names as He plays in His different pastimes with His devotees. The three Deities — Madana-mohana, Govinda and Gopījana-vallabha — have very specific qualities. Worship of Madana-mohana is on the platform of reestablishing our forgotten relationship with the Personality of Godhead. In the material world we are presently in utter ignorance of our eternal relationship with the Supreme Lord. Paṅgoḥ refers to one who cannot move independently by his own strength, and manda-mateḥ is one who is less intelligent because he is too absorbed in materialistic activities. It is best for such persons not to aspire for success in fruitive activities or mental speculation but instead simply to surrender to the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The perfection of life is simply to surrender to the Supreme. In the beginning of our spiritual life we must therefore worship Madana-mohana so that He may attract us and nullify our attachment for material sense gratification. This relationship with Madana-mohana is necessary for neophyte devotees. When one wishes to render service to the Lord with strong attachment, one worships Govinda on the platform of transcendental service. Govinda is the reservoir of all pleasures. When by the grace of Kṛṣṇa and the devotees one reaches perfection in devotional service, he can appreciate Kṛṣṇa as Gopījana-vallabha, the pleasure Deity of the damsels of Vraja. Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu explained this mode of devotional service in three stages, and therefore these worshipable Deities were installed in Vṛndāvana by different Gosvāmīs. They are very dear to the Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇavas there, who visit the temples at least once a day. Besides the temples of these three Deities, many other temples have been established in Vṛndāvana, such as the temple of Rādhā-Dāmodara of Jīva Gosvāmī, the temple of Śyāmasundara of Śyāmānanda Gosvāmī, the temple of Gokulānanda of Lokanātha Gosvāmī, and the temple of Rādhā-ramaṇa of Gopāla Bhaṭṭa Gosvāmī. There are seven principal temples over four hundred years old that are the most important of the five thousand temples now existing in Vṛndāvana. Gauḍīya indicates the part of India between the southern side of the Himalayan Mountains and the northern part of the Vindhyā Hills, which is called Āryāvarta, or the Land of the Āryans. This portion of India is divided into five parts or provinces (Pañca-gauḍadeśa): Sārasvata (Kashmir and Punjab), Kānyakubja (Uttar Pradesh, including the modern city of Lucknow), Madhya-gauḍa (Madhya Pradesh), Maithila (Bihar and part of Bengal) and Utkala (part of Bengal and the whole of Orissa). Bengal is sometimes called Gauḍadeśa, partly because it forms a portion of Maithila and partly because the capital of the Hindu king Rāja Lakṣmaṇa Sena was known as Gauḍa. This old capital later came to be known as Gauḍapura and gradually Māyāpur. The devotees of Orissa are called Uḍiyās, the devotees of Bengal are called Gauḍīyas, and the devotees of southern India are known as Drāviḍa devotees. As there are five provinces in Āryāvarta, so Dākṣiṇātya, southern India, is also divided into five provinces, which are called Pañca-draviḍa. The four Vaiṣṇava ācāryas who are the great authorities of the four Vaiṣṇava disciplic successions, as well as Śrīpāda Śaṅkarācārya of the Māyāvāda school, appeared in the Pañca-draviḍa provinces. Among the four Vaiṣṇava ācāryas, who are all accepted by the Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇavas, Śrī Rāmānuja Ācārya appeared in the southern part of Andhra Pradesh at Mahābhūtapurī, Śrī Madhva Ācārya appeared at Pājakam (near Vimānagiri) in the district of Mangalore, Śrī Viṣṇu Svāmī appeared at Pāṇḍya, and Śrī Nimbārka appeared at Muṅgera-patana, in the extreme south. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu accepted the chain of disciplic succession from Madhva Ācārya, but the Vaiṣṇavas in His line do not accept the Tattva-vādīs, who also claim to belong to the Madhva-sampradāya. To distinguish themselves clearly from the Tattva-vādī branch of Madhva’s descendants, the Vaiṣṇavas of Bengal prefer to call themselves Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇavas. Śrī Madhva Ācārya is also known as Śrī Gauḍa-pūrṇānanda, and therefore the name Madhva-Gauḍīya-sampradāya is quite suitable for the disciplic succession of the Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇavas. Our spiritual master, Oṁ Viṣṇupāda Śrīmad Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Gosvāmī Mahārāja, accepted initiation in the Madhva-Gauḍīya-sampradāya.

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Coming out of Sodom paulsimeon2014 October 28, 2014 October 28, 2014 Uncategorized How Cardinal Burke Guided a A Repentant Homosexual Back to the Catholic Faith By Eric Hess Originally published in Celebrate Life magazine As best as I can determine, my same-sex attraction began in reaction to my father, who was a violent alcoholic. He often drank, came home to throw things around the house and abuse my mother in addition to threatening me and my brother. I thought he hated us. Consequently, I didn’t want to be anything like him. In my sorrow, I started looking for the love of my father in the arms of other men. At age 17, a predator took advantage of me under the teacher/pupil dynamic and I became completely mixed up about human sexuality. Over the years, one thing led to another until I moved in with a man more than 20 years my senior. Before we go any further, it is important to realize a major cause of same-sex attraction disorder. As a former insider of the community, I can tell you that the so-called gay rights/abortion rights coalition is a proximate result of the contraceptive mentality which was predicted 40 years ago by Pope Paul VI in Humanae Vitae. People abusing one another as sexual objects brought about a mainstream culture of death that tolerates and advocates all kinds of adultery and child abuse, including abortion. This selfish mentality also led to human embryonic stem cell research and euthanasia. Return to my Father From 1990 to 1994, I went to Mass off and on. In 1995, I told my “partner” that I couldn’t go anymore because I was very angry with the Church. I boxed up all my crucifixes and Bibles and dropped them off at the office of the bishop of La Crosse, Wisconsin with a letter renouncing the Catholic faith. To my surprise, Bishop Raymond Burke replied with a kind letter expressing his sadness. He wrote that he would respect my decision and notify the parish where I had been baptized. Ever so gently, Bishop Burke said that he would pray for me and look forward to the time when I would reconcile with the Church. As one of Wisconsin’s most outspoken “gay” activists, I thought, “What arrogance!” Then I replied to Bishop Burke with a letter accusing him of harassment. I told him that his letters were unwelcome and I asked how he could dare to write to me. My efforts failed to put him off. Bishop Burke sent one more letter assuring me that he wouldn’t write again—but if I should want to reconcile with the Church, he would welcome me back with open arms. Indeed, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit never gave up on me. Within a few years, I spoke to a good priest, who intensely added to Bishop Burke’s prayers every day in August 1998. On August 14, the feast of Saint Maximilian Mary Kolbe and the vigil of our Blessed Mother’s Assumption, divine mercy penetrated my soul at a Chinese restaurant—of all places. Little did I know as I entered that restaurant with my “companion” of over eight years that the Lord would seize me that very afternoon and bring me to another place outside of Sodom, to the very judgment seat of His healing mercy, the holy Sacrament of Penance. The priest I had consulted was there. As I gazed across the room at him, an inner voice spoke to my heart. It was gentle, radiant and clear inside my soul. The voice told me, “This priest is an image of what you can still become, if you will only return to Me.” On the way home, I solemnly told my companion, “I need to return to the Catholic Church.” Although he was tearful, he lovingly responded, “Eric, I’ve known that for a long time. Do what you need to do in order to be happy. I knew all along that this day would come.” Next, I called Bishop Burke’s office. His secretary knew me well by then, so I told her that I wanted Bishop Burke to be the first to know that I was returning to the Church—that I was preparing for the Sacrament of Penance. She asked me to hold. When she returned, she announced that Bishop Burke wanted to schedule a meeting. Afterwards, I confessed my sins to a local, humble, devout Catholic pastor of souls and received absolution. As an essential part of my recovery, a good Catholic family gave me shelter until I could find my own home. A month after my reconciliation to God and the Church, I went to Bishop Burke’s office, where he embraced me. He asked if I remembered the belongings I had turned over to him with my letter of renunciation. Of course I remembered and Bishop Burke had saved them in the diocesan archives because he believed that I would return. For two years, I wondered if the mystical message meant that I was supposed to become a priest. Finally, I realized that I was not called to the priesthood. After all, the Vatican rules that men who have a well-established inclination to homosexuality may not be admitted to Holy Orders or monastic communities. Rather, the priest I saw at the restaurant was an image of what I could become faithful and holy through the sacraments. Like all persons—single, married and religious—I am called to chastity. It is enough for me to try and get to heaven. Therefore, I strive to faithfully live the single vocation. Ever since my mystical experience, I rejoice because of Raymond Burke, now the prelate of Saint Louis, Missouri. While some malign Archbishop Burke for his fidelity to God, Church and all souls, I say that he is a true shepherd of the faithful and a presentday Athanasius. I tell you that he remains a mentor and an inspiration to me. Although my own biological father rejected me, Archbishop Burke became my spiritual father by lovingly representing our Father in heaven. Like the Divine Persons of the Holy Trinity, Archbishop Burke was and is absolutely faithful to me. Despite the blessing of Archbishop Burke and priests like him, I want to stress that there are others who lead souls away from eternal life and happiness. For example, when I recently went to confession, a priest told me something that is both a contradistinction from and a contradiction of the truth that Archbishop Burke taught me. The apostate priest told me: You’re gay and the Church calls us to accept our sexuality. I am an ethicist—a scholar. And the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops is very close to this position—and this is the position—am I going too fast for you? If you are attracted to members of the same sex, that is natural for you. And for you to deny that and resist that is to go against natural law. I believe, as an ethicist, that you can have a male roommate and be intimate—of course without genital expression. But if you do slip in that regard, it would not be a mortal sin. This is the type of advice that convinced me to leave the Church. I heard it all too often from Protestants and various Catholic priests during the 1980s. I heard every heresy about sexuality and our Lord. Today, since I am separated from the “gay community,” I only hear such heresies from older priests in their fifties and sixties, but not priests in their forties or younger. Bad bishops and bad priests have led so many people astray about same-sex attraction alone. Yet there is no new gospel or scholarship and this spiritual malpractice must end. As someone who suffered in the state of mortal sin for many years, I assure you that there is no happiness outside of the moral order. The only authentic response to the challenge of same-sex attraction and sin is the truth in the Catechism of the Catholic Church. In addition to God’s teachings and grace, there is visible help on earth. For those who suffer from same-sex attraction, Father John Harvey established the Courage Apostolate and Encourage, which ministers to their families and friends. It is endorsed by the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for the Family. Through Courage, strugglers find the support and healthy friendships necessary to holiness and happiness, a way fully consonant with the culture of life. See more about Courage retreats, conferences and resources at www.CourageRC.net or call its New York City office at the Church of Saint John the Baptist, 212-268-1010. Eric Hess lives in Wisconsin Then Jesus said to His disciples, “Whoever wishes to come after Me must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow Me. For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it. What profit would there be for one to gain the whole world and forfeit his life? Or what can one give in exchange for his life? For the Son of Man will come with His angels in His Father’s glory, and then He will repay everyone according to his conduct.” cardinal burke Previous NYT columnist urges conservative Catholics to preserve pope from error Next The Ugly Truth Begins To Emerge Eileen Busietta says: A very nice story That proves that God is always there no matter what you Nancy Lyon says: I am so happy for you Eric and thank you for your testimony. Hopefully it will save many souls. I have been attending the Church Teaches Forum in Louisville, Ky. for years and have heard and seen Cardinal Burke for many of those years there. He is truly a devout and obedient shepherd of Christ. Thank God for his perseverence, especially in light of all the publicity he is receiving at present. Let us keep on praying for his perseverence in standing up for TRUTH. im so moved by this sharing. God makes a way for those who want to change…i also ask st Max Kolbe to draw away my husband from drugs. as this is destroying his life. Padre Pio, pls interced for us. Pingback: Saindo de Sodoma | Kerigma, A proclamação da Palavra Pingback: Saindo de Sodoma | Corpo Místico de Cristo

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