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Father John Misty Makes it Official, Announces New Album Pure Comedy
By Scott Russell | January 24, 2017 | 10:54am
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It's official, folks: Father John Misty's third album is on the way, and it's Pure Comedy.
The album is due out April 7 via Bella Union in Europe and Sub Pop everywhere else. FJM, real name Josh Tillman, first shared the news this morning via Facebook. Per a press release, "The album navigates themes of progress, technology, fame, the environment, politics, aging, social media, human nature, human connection and his own role in it all with his usual candor."
Tillman wrote most of the record over the course of 2015, and in March of 2016, recorded the bones of it live to tape—in no more than two takes each—at Los Angeles' storied United Studios. He co-produced Pure Comedy himself alongside his long-time producer Jonathan Wilson.
Pure Comedy's front and back album covers and gatefold feature a massive original piece by Ed Steed of The New Yorker—the artwork is Steed's first-ever commission of its kind. The album art comes in four different variations, as you'll see in the .GIF below, which will be randomly distributed—superfans are encouraged to collect them all—and each one is utterly eye-popping.
In addition to his album announce, Tillman has shared Pure Comedy: The Film, which he co-directed alongside Grant James (of Tillman's amazing "I Love You, Honeybear" video). The 25-minute film is a black-and-white document of Pure Comedy's live tracking, as well as a surreal glimpse of Tillman's writing process.
Tillman's very first performances in support of Pure Comedy will be on the main stage of this year's Coachella festival on Friday, April 14, and Friday, April 21.
Find Pure Comedy's film, tracklist, album art and title track below, beneath Paste Cloud audio from Misty's 2012 Daytrotter session. Further down, you'll find what a press release accurately describes as "a veritable fuck-ton" of words from Father John Misty himself. You can preorder the album, available in deluxe double LP, double LP, CD, digital and cassette formats, through Father John Misty, Sub Pop or Bella Union.
Pure Comedy Tracklist:
01. Pure Comedy
02. Total Entertainment Forever
03. Things it Would Have Been Helpful to Know Before the Revolution
04. Ballad of the Dying Man
05. Birdie
06. Leaving LA
07. A Bigger Paper Bag
08. When the God of Love Returns There'll Be Hell to Pay
09. Smoochie
10. Two Wildly Different Perspectives
11. The Memo
12. So I'm Growing Old on Magic Mountain
13. In Twenty Years or So
Pure Comedy Album Art:
Tillman's "veritable fuck-ton" of words:
"What has been is what will be,
and what has been done is what will be done,
and there is nothing new under the sun.
Is there a thing of which it is said,
'See, this is new?'
It has been already
in the ages before us.
There is no remembrance of former things,
nor will there be any remembrance
of later things yet to be
among those who come after."
- Ecclesiastes
Pure Comedy is the story of a species born with a half-formed brain. The species' only hope for survival, finding itself on a cruel, unpredictable rock surrounded by other species who seem far more adept at this whole thing (and to whom they are delicious), is the reliance on other, slightly older, half-formed brains. This reliance takes on a few different names as their story unfolds, like "love," "culture," "family," etc. Over time, and as their brains prove to be remarkably good at inventing meaning where there is none, the species becomes the purveyor of increasingly bizarre and sophisticated ironies. These ironies are designed to help cope with the species' loathsome vulnerability and to try and reconcile how disproportionate their imagination is to the monotony of their existence.
Now all of a sudden they expect light in the dark, warmth in the cold, and to make something out of nothing. Cooperation among the species to achieve these goals eventually yields a worldview wherein some among the species believe that there are individuals for whom this type of work is maybe ill-suited. The contribution of the ill-suited is of a more abstract, inspirational nature. The ill-suited begin to make subtle distinctions among themselves that extend beyond "eaten by a bear/not eaten by a bear". These distinctions involve do-it-ness, cool-face-and-body-ness, craftiness, etc. – an arrangement emerges where these traits can be traded in for better-than-ness. This better-than-ness really starts to run rampant, and the species begins to wonder if there isn't a Sky-Man in the sky who is perhaps the source of all better-than-ness. It seems like a pretty good explanation for why the species is so important.
Sky-Man pretty much runs the show for a really, really long time, and his inner-circle of better-thans gets increasingly smaller and smaller, even though by the end of his reign everyone in the species considers themselves one. Unfortunately there are some better-thans who get together and decide that one way of better-than-ness is better than other betters-thans' better-than-ness and teach their little half-formed-brain babies as much (most who interpret this distinction as "me's" vs. "not-me's"). "Not-me's" eventually come to encapsulate everyone that is not a single "me" at any given time, and this paves the way for incredibly distasteful behavior until the species arrives at a place of such alienation and fear there is really nothing so horrible that one of them wouldn't do to the other. To deal with this less than ideal state of affairs, which seems suspiciously incompatible with how progressive and evolved they are by this point, they set about to entertain themselves into an oblivion with politics, sex, finance, philosophy, and other games of war. This they do until they are so numb, and the idea of any "not-me" so untenable, that they are blissfully incapable of noticing they're all dead. This happens more or less on an infinite loop until the end of time.
Imagine if you will, as the album starts, that you're way out in space looking at the earth and, though it's impossible to "fall" through space, you start a free fall anyway in the direction of the bright blue marble. For the next 75 minutes you plummet toward the earth, losing more and more perspective on what an abstract and impermanent place our planet is, how predictably we step on the same rakes, slip on the same banana peels over and over again through the ages, quickly becoming more and more immersed in the very messy business of being a human – the dubious privilege of being here, the elusiveness of meaning, true love and its habitual absence, random euphoria and the inexplicable misery of others, truth and its more alluring counterfeits, the sophistication of answers that don't make any sense, the barbarism of our appetites, lucky breaks and injustice, faith and ignorance, crippling, mind-numbing boredom, and the terror of it all ending too soon. Before you know it, you've delicately crash-landed and find yourself lying on your back looking up at the stars. If you're lucky, with someone you love; even if just for a day, a year, a lifetime. Though just an hour has passed you have no recollection of what the earth looked like from the far-flung reaches of space, nor how simple it all seemed a matter of minutes ago.
I know everyone doesn't feel the same about what's going on right now. What for some is clearly garden-variety violent white nationalism serving as a catch-all for any number of paranoia-induced anti-fantasies foisted upon the poor and uneducated precisely by the ideologues bent on manufacturing voters who can be manipulated into voting against their own interests by making good and sure they remain poor and uneducated before cravenly blaming their problems largely on people bearing distinctions like race, gender, and sexuality so people forget everything that's good about the American experiment, is to others an opportunity to wrench the country back from the in?uence of hypocritical corporate tyrants bent on enslaving our minds with spineless liberal rhetoric in order to justify wiping out the jobs of decent people so they can fulfill their fey utopian dream of an impossible global community designed to profit only its architects (probably Banking Consortiums, pedophile rings, and definitely The Illuminati).
This album does not espouse either of those views.
Both of those views take for granted a certain degree of sophistication, or at least a knack for cooperation, that I'm absolutely convinced humans do not possess; not to mention some kind of innate logic to the proceedings here on Earth – which make a much better case for being some kind of demented joke than anything else.
The terrifying reality concerning the dilemma above is everything is chaos and no one is really in control of anyone or anything.
But what about the well-documented history of humans making life a living hell for other humans since time began?
There is no intellectual, political, or spiritual explanation that will ever satisfy anyone for longer than a moment, least of all this, the only explanation with any dignity. The explanation that appeases both our instincts for compassion and liberation. The explanation that we can either accept and move forward together or keep screaming to our respective heavens, "Why, God, why?"
Things are the way they are because this is how we, the human race, want them.
This is how we want it.
Hold the motherfucking phone. Josh Tillman, you have said and done some stupid fucking things since we've known you, but this is too much.
Now the liberals and the conservatives are both outraged because that is a sentiment that is so profoundly insensitive to the ways in which the other side is clearly wrong in objective ways regarding basic decency, but what's the alternative? We're either all complicit in this purest comedy, or the people who aren't to blame are at war with the people who are to blame until everyone is dead. Simple as that.
Is progress possible? What does it look like? The conversion of everyone to our respective beliefs? Well, we've seen how that typically goes. The destruction of everyone who fails to conform? That's not it. The erection of institutions with the power and infrastructure to enforce a rule of law with the good of as many as possible at heart? Not much evidence for that panning out.
What I recommend is this: we return to the Vedic cycle and submit ourselves to the likelihood that many of us will end up getting eaten by bears. It's only natural. What if instead of imbuing our expectations for the quality of our lives to include perpetual happiness, dream ful?llment, excessive painlessness, existential certitude, material wealth, and all variety of romantic stimulation, we were just grateful for every day that didn't involve getting eaten by a bear? What if progress only meant literally progressing from one day to the next without getting violently dismembered by a 9-foot tall, 500-pound grizzly?
The irony here of course is that many more humans than we'd like to think, most of whom are not reading the interminable liner notes to a folk rock album, do live in daily, perpetual fear of getting killed by a mammal far more terrifying than a bear, and I think you know the one to which I refer. This form of mammal attack is made all the more nightmarish by virtue of the fact that the mammal in question kills purely ideologically. Bears kill because they're hungry; they're very reasonable in that way. So maybe we should submit ourselves to their authority. Bears we can trust.
Bottom line is that as long as we expect to live in such a way – immune to the natural laws of this godless rock that govern everything else here – human existence will continue to be a cruel joke. I fear, however, that it is too late for us to go back into the natural order. We have no desire to return to our primal scene. We like the way things are. We've got sandwiches when we're hungry! Airplanes for when we want to go somewhere! Social media when we want our voices to be heard by all God's creation! We know that these magical conveniences come at a staggering price, and that excess for the few is based on the scarcity of the many, but that's why we invented the business of globalization! We've already built the wall! It's a great, great wall that goes up to the heavens and is as transparent as museum glass. It's a beautiful wall that winds surgically through nations, cities, neighborhoods, and sometimes even homes. It is a globe within a globe, and those who live within its interior are as clueless as to what's happening on the other side as we are to what's happening right now on the far side of Mars.
There's only one creature that can penetrate that wall, friends, and it is bears. Bears can smash through that glass like a pitcher of sugar water through a brick wall. The equalizing revolution of bear justice is coming too. Sooner than you think. As it gets hotter and hotter, they're coming. They're coming into our neighborhoods, they're coming into our schools, into our churches, into our banks, into our places of business, into our governments, into our beds.
The joke is that the best we can do is keep on keeping on, which we've proven ourselves pathologically adept at. We're going to save the planet alright, and it will be a glorious sacrifice just like the Sky-Man we invented showed us how.
Bears, man.
pure comedy
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When we reviewed the original ClamCase, we found a few flaws that kept it from being a homerun: a cramped keyboard, a mediocre plastic build and a cumbersome power switch. It was decent, but it could have been better. The peripheral's makers seemed to agree -- the ClamCase Pro addresses every single one of our original complaints. Although the Pro is still a double-jointed iPad Bluetooth Keyboard at heart, it now features a more widly spaced chicklet keyboard, aluminium and polycarbonate construction and automatic wake / sleep functions, to keep its battery life in check. Drop in your tablet, and the whole package looks a lot like something that might come straight from Cupertino. Groundbreaking? No, but it's always nice to see follow up product directly answer its predecessor's flaws. The ClamCase Pro is compatible with the iPad 2 and up, too -- so you won't have to worry about buying different versions for multiple generations. The asking price sits at $170 -- but the company will toss you a $20 discount if you "like" them on Zuckerberg's social network.


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Local anesthetics can block conduction of nerve impulses along all types of nerve fibres, including motor nerve fibres that carry impulses from the brain to the periphery. It is a common experience with normal dosages of an anesthetic, however, that, while pain sensation may be lost, motor function is not impaired.
1. How can drugs, such as novocaine, effectively block the transmission of pain impulses? Why don't they block motor impulses-or do they? 2. What effect does alcohol have on the transmission of electrical impulses?
1. How can drugs, such as novocaine, effectively block the transmission of pain impulses? Why don't they block. motor impulses—or do they? 2. What effect does alcohol have on the transmission of electrical impulses? 3. How can rubbing one's nose decrease the possibility of a sneeze? Discuss in terms of EPSPs and IPSPs. 4.
Novocaine works by keeping neurons from communicating with each other. Neuron 1 can still send a pain message, but when neuron 2 gets the message, it can't open the ion gates that cause the neuron to fire and send the message through the neuron. So the pain signal never goes to your brain.
Procaine blocks nerve conductance via inhibiting Na+ at the membrane, thus no psycho-stimulation. Both reactions are brief. Side effects? Despite the past widespread use of procaine, reports of side effects have been rare, and are usually associated with excessive dosage, rapid absorption or inadvertent intravascular injection.
Local anesthetics are 'local' ONLY because of how they are administered! (Selectivity) Local anesthetics are the agents used to bring about local effects by targeting specific restricted areas. The effects can be easily reversed. Administered by topical application or injection into superficial region, where they cause loss of sensations.


The 76.2 mm divisional gun model 1902 (Russian: 76-мм дивизионная пушка образца 1902 года) was a Russian light field gun used in the Russo-Japanese War, World War I, Russian Civil War and a number of interwar armed conflicts with participants from the former Russian Empire (Soviet Union, Poland, Finland, Estonia, etc.). Modernized versions of this gun were employed at the early stage of World War II.
This gun, known as the "three-incher", (трёхдюймовка) was developed by Putilovski Works in Saint-Petersburg in 1902. The lead designers were L. A. Bishlyak, K. M. Sokolovskiy and K. I. Lipnitskiy. It incorporated many new features for that time - carriage with recoil devices, traverse and elevation tracking mechanisms, precision sight for direct and indirect firing, manual interrupted screw breech and single-piece ammunition loading.
For simplifying the mass production process designers used in the gun's construction cheap types of carbonized steel without or with minimal use of rare and expensive nickel-, manganese- or chromium-added types of steel. Early version had two seats for the crew on both sides of a barrel, from 1906 they were replaced with an armoured shield. The shield had a specific design: an outer shield, with a big rectangular opening, and a smaller, inner shield behind it. The upper and lower portion of the bigger shield were folding during transport.
The gun had fragmentation shrapnel and canister ammunition. More specialized types of projectiles included smoke, incendiary, and chemical rounds. Many ammunition pieces were French originated. Limbers could carry 40 or 44 rounds in a light artillery and 28 rounds in a mounted artillery, while caissons carried 48 rounds in both cases.
M1902 divisional guns were the mainstay of Russian Empire artillery and were accepted well by the army. Their characteristics were at the same level with similar 75-mm French and German guns. The gun was used in action for the first time in the Russo-Japanese War at the Battle of Telissu, but proved ineffective due to lack of crew training and the outdated conceptions of the senior artillery officers.
The M1902 was also used during World War I. After the collapse of the Russian Empire in 1917 M1902 guns were employed by different factions: bolshevist Red Army, monarchist or counter-revolution White Guard, nationalist forces in Russian-minority areas, national armies of Poland and Finland and simply anarchists and bandits throughout the vast territories of former imperial Russia. In some episodes the gun saw its first anti-tank usage. The White Guard and intervening Allied forces used a small number of tanks, primarily French Renault FTs and British Mk Vs or Whippets. The M1902 gun with its high muzzle velocity was an effective weapon against such targets with only anti-bullet armour protection. In the 1920 Polish-Soviet War M1902 guns were again used against Polish FTs.
Due to a string of Russian defeats during the first two years of World War I large numbers of M1902's and their ammunition ended up in German hands. A combination of factors led the Germans to issue M1902's to their troops as replacements.
An underestimation of light field artillery losses during the first two years of the war and an inadequate number of replacement guns being produced.
An underestimation of ammunition consumption, inadequate production and resulting shortages.
The superior ballistic performance of the M1902 compared to German designs.
Once production of German guns and ammunition caught up during the last two years of the war the M1902's were converted to anti-aircraft guns on a number of different high-angle mounts and these continued in German service until the end of the war with German ammunition.
Poland captured large numbers of M1902 guns in a course of the Polish-Soviet War and impressed them into service as a standard piece of the mounted artillery, designated 76,2 mm armata wz.1902. In 1923, there were 568 guns wz.1902 in inventory. Most were converted to wz.02/26 guns in 1926-1930 (see below), however, Poland also retained some of the guns in the original 76 mm caliber to use existing stocks of ammunition. There were 89 of original guns available at the outbreak of World War II, among others, the sole gun used during the Battle of Westerplatte on 1 September 1939.
Poland and Soviet Union modernized their M1902 guns after the end of World War I. Polish designers made their minor enhancements in 1926, resulting in the Armata 75 mm wz.02/26 gun, which was rechambered for firing 75 mm shells used by the most numerous Polish field gun, the Canon de 75 modèle 1897. The USSR continued mass production of M1902 gun until 1931 when it was replaced by its enhanced M1902/30 variant. For Soviet modernization see 76 mm divisional gun M1902/30. Both variants were utilized in the early stages of World War II. There were still 2066 guns of M1902 model available in 1941. The Soviet stockpiles of 76 mm ammunition for this gun were so large that the Soviet army decided to retain the 76 mm caliber ammunition for their modern field guns designed in the 1930s (F-22, USV and ZiS-3), even as other armies changed to larger calibers for their basic field gun.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to 76.2 mm divisional gun M1902.
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^ "77-77 MM CALIBRE CARTRIDGES". www.quarryhs.co.uk. Retrieved 5 September 2017.
^ Kowner, Rotem. Historical Dictionary of the Russo-Japanese War, The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2006, p. 372.
^ Fleischer, Wolfgang. German artillery : 1914-1918. Barnsley. pp. 89–90. ISBN 9781473823983. OCLC 893163385.
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Ending Endless Wars and the Islamic State
Michael J. Mooney
Last week, U.S. Vice President Mike Pence, in a speech at the Global Chiefs of Mission Conference in Washington, DC, emphatically declared that the Islamic State (or ISIS) caliphate had "crumbled" and that "ISIS is defeated". This statement garnered much attention in the press due to the awkwardly tone-deaf nature of his pronouncement. Only hours before his speech, ISIS had claimed responsibility for a deadly attack in Manbij, Syria which killed four Americans, making his claim ring hollow. Later that day the Vice President issued a statement denouncing the attack, removing any mention of the defeat of ISIS to more precisely restate that the caliphate had been "crushed" and its capabilities "devastated".
What is just as telling, but lost in the rush to point out Mr. Pence's ill-timed declaration of defeat, are the comments made by the Vice President immediately following his boast of victory, which bear examination and scrutiny as well.
The Vice President first spoke of the U.S. remaining engaged in the region and "staying in the fight" against ISIS to "ensure that ISIS does not rear its ugly head again" and "to protect the gains that our soldiers and coalition partners have secured." This is a strong and (very necessary) statement meant to reassure U.S. allies of the Trump Administration's commitment to combating the Islamic State.
"But this President," Mr. Pence went on to say, "has often spoken about his desire to bring an end to endless wars in America. And the ability to bring our troops home. To bring them home in an orderly and effective way, out of their current deployment in Syria, remains a priority for this President."
That the President desires to bring "an end to endless wars" is an admirable and rational objective. However, it ignores the fact that, as trite as it has become to state, the enemy (in this case ISIS) has a vote in what happens on the battlefield. It also illustrates a fundamental lack of understanding of the enemy.
The Islamic State fully incorporates the views of its founding father Abu Mus'ab al-Zarqawi in many areas. Brian Fishman, in his book The Master Plan: ISIS, al-Qaeda, and the Jihadi Strategy for Final Victory, explains that Zarqawiism fully embraces the notion that "religious and political legitimacy is primarily a function of participating in war." He goes on to state that Zarqawi "…argued that Muslims could not truly fulfill their obligation to God without fighting. As a practical matter, it means that the Islamic State will always be at war."
As such, there are no thoughts of capitulation, ending the struggle, or a lack of motivation to reestablish the caliphate in the minds of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and the leadership of the Islamic State. For ISIS, this is an endless war – an existential one – which must culminate with the creation of an enduring caliphate in accordance with the prophetic method, expanding over time to encompass all corners of the globe.
Al-Baghdadi's most current audio message in August 2018 to the Islamic State faithful illustrates his lack of anxiety about the loss of the caliphate: "The scale of victory or defeat…is not tied to a city or village," Baghdadi declared, going on to acknowledge that the United States can indeed speak of its "so-called victory in expelling the [Islamic] State from the cities and countryside in Iraq and Syria, but the land of God is wide and the tides of war change."
This message is not a new one, but a continuation of the narrative put forth by the Islamic State well before the physical caliphate was destroyed. In May 2016, the now-deceased ISIS spokesman Abu Muhammad al-'Adnani issued an audio statement containing the same message to the followers of ISIS:
"Do you think, America, that victory will come by killing one or more leaders?" "Do you reckon, America, that defeat is the loss of a city or the loss of territory?" Responding to his own questions, 'Adnani declared that killing the Islamic State's leaders would not defeat the greater "adversary"—the group itself—and that taking its land would not eliminate its "will" to fight. Even if the Islamic State were to lose all its territories, he said, it could still go back to the way it was "at the beginning," when it was "in the desert without cities and without territory." The allusion here is to the experience of the Islamic State of Iraq, which between 2006 and 2012 held no significant territory despite its claim to statehood. For this reason it was derided as a "paper state." 'Adnani is thus suggesting that even if defeated the Islamic State could take refuge in the desert, rebuild, and return anew.
Granted these are carefully tailored strategic communications by ISIS designed to bolster the morale of Islamic State followers, but nevertheless, the underlying message it sends is clear: Just because the U.S. desires an end to protracted wars, does not make it so. File this under the strategic pitfall of "wishful thinking."
Why "wishful thinking?" In his magnum opus On War, the renowned 19th century Prussian theorist Carl von Clausewitz warned that "…the ultimate outcome in war is not always to be regarded as final. The defeated state often considers the outcome merely as a transitory evil, for which a remedy may still be found in political conditions at some later date."
This is exactly how the Islamic State leadership views the loss of the caliphate – a transitory evil which will be swept away when the tides of war shift to their favor. This war is not over for the Islamic State by a long shot. In al-Baghdadi's view, time, the growing fatigue, cost, and eroding will of the international community are all on his side.
The tragedy is that the U.S. has seen this movie before; after being "defeated" in Iraq, the surviving members of al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) simply melted into the population or found sanctuary in the deserts of al Anbar. Subsequently the U.S. withdrew its forces, only to see AQI reemerge in 2014 as the Islamic State. Then as now, following revolutionary warfare theory, the fighters and core ISIS leadership have simply regressed to Mao's "stage one", what is known as the "strategic defensive". In examining the current status of the Islamic State, the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point assessed in December 2018 that:
"Quantitative attack metrics paint a picture of an insurgent movement that has been ripped down to its roots, but qualitative and district-level analysis suggests the Islamic State is enthusiastically embracing the challenge of starting over within a more concentrated area of northern Iraq."
Brett McGurk, the former U.S special presidential envoy for the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS, who certainly possesses more intimate knowledge of the strategic nuances and intricacies of combating ISIS than probably anyone in the U.S. government, steadfastly believes that the Islamic State is far from defeated:
"In early December [2018], Secretary Mattis and I met with all the military contributors of our coalition, including many countries that had been attacked from ISIS out of Syria and the unanimous view is that ISIS is not defeated, this mission is not over," McGurk told [Christiane] Amanpour. "I do not think there would be a single expert that would walk in the Oval Office and tell the President that this is over."
As for "bringing the troops home," this too is an admirable and rational objective. That all Americans, regardless of political affiliation, wish to keep the men and women of our military out of harm's way is a given, and an easy position to support. However, here it seems that U.S. foreign policy is caught on the horns of a dilemma with competing political objectives of "staying in the fight," "bringing our troops home" in an orderly and effective way, and protecting "the gains that our soldiers and coalition partners have secured." What is most important of these three? Can all three be accomplished, or are they in fundamental conflict with each other?
Again, Clausewitz offers insight to the cost/benefit rational calculus of grappling with such a strategically important decision: a concept he called the "value of the object." "[W]ar is not an act of senseless passion but is controlled by its political object," said Clausewitz. "[T]he value of this object must determine the sacrifices to be made for it in magnitude and also in duration. Once the expenditure of effort exceeds the value of the political object, the object must be renounced…" In theory, the value of the object is an expression of one's political will – for how long, and how much of a country's finite resources, is one willing to dedicate to achieving the political objective. Consciously or not, all political and military leaders assign a "value of the object" to their political objective as a result of the means and ways put into practice to achieve it.
So, the question follows, what is the value of the (political) object of "defeating" ISIS for the U.S.? What is the value of the object for the U.S. in bringing the troops home? In preserving the gains secured? For each one, is it high or low? Which is highest? What is the magnitude of resources (i.e., military forces, casualties, money, political/diplomatic clout, humanitarian aid, etc) and duration (i.e., amount of time) we as a nation are willing to dedicate to the goal (i.e., political object) of "defeating" ISIS, knowing that for our enemy this is an "endless war"?
Of course, there are many elements of national power the U.S. can utilize to "stay in the fight"; sometimes military power is the appropriate tool. Sometimes it is not. However, the simple fact is that without U.S. leadership and military power anchoring the Global Coalition, we would not be at the point we are in the fight against the Islamic State. Its physical caliphate is indeed destroyed, but as a symbiotic system comprised of ideologically linked components, ISIS is far from defeated. These remaining components - multiple regional wilayats or provinces, and an international cloud of aspirants connected via social media – still practice and promote their atavistic practices and dystopian views, creating disorder, instability, and immense suffering around the globe.
How the U.S. strategically addresses the problem of bringing an "end to endless wars" as ISIS reconstitutes and reassesses their next step - especially regarding the best combination of means and ways to be applied to "defeating" ISIS - are crucial questions facing the President and his national security team. The grand strategic thought and design a problem such ISIS requires demands a ruthless prioritization of finite resources balanced against multiple competing national security demands, with no simple or easy answers. However, declaring ISIS "defeated" simply because the lands of its self-declared caliphate have been liberated does not add value to the debate. At the very best a half-truth. At worst it is hyperbolic, misleading, and dangerous.
Eight months ago as I opined about the reasons behind the destruction of the Islamic State caliphate, I cited the words of the Athenian general and statesman Pericles who 2,500 years ago warned his fellow citizens that in battling the Spartans, more than the enemy's strategy, he feared the Athenians' own strategic blunders. "One can only hope that in moving forward the key stakeholders in this struggle [against the Islamic State] can avoid the strategic blunders which could enable the Islamic State to rise yet again," I concluded. Unfortunately, the trajectory of events as it stands now does not look encouraging.
Categories: Islamic State - ISIS - Syria
Michael J. Mooney is a retired U.S. Marine Corps colonel, having previously served as a Military Professor of Strategy and Policy, U.S. Naval College. He currently serves as an adjunct faculty member in the Program on Terrorism and Strategic Studies (PTSS) at the George C. Marshall Center, as well as a Senior Associate with the Naval College's Center for Irregular Warfare and Armed Groups (CIWAG). The views expressed in this article are solely those of the author.
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So let's look at these matters -- less from the "ISIS is defeated angle" -- and more from the perspective of the U.S./the West's determining -- via the Clausewitzian thesis and cost/benefit analysis noted at my quoted item above -- that:
a. The expenditure of effort --
b. To achieve our grand political objective --
c. Of transforming the outlying states and societies of the world more along modern western lines --
d. This such "expenditure of effort" -- re: this exact such political objective:
1. Now "exceeds the value of the political object" and, thus,
2. "The object" (the goal of transforming the outlying states and societies of the world more along modern western lines), "must be renounced."
(Thus, to see ALL of Trump's decisions as to "withdrawal," "declaring victory," etc., as being consistent with his more general and overall view; this being that [a] "the cost" of transforming the outlying states and societies of the world more along modern western lines -- this [b] far "exceeds the value" of achieving these such transformation/this such political objective?)
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Speaking at the occasion Mr. Kabeer Naqvi – President & CEO of U Microfinance Bank said that "We strongly believe that collaboration between traditional microfinance and digitization is necessary to build a forward-looking financial sector geared towards serving a larger segment of financially excluded society. These collaborations will become the starting point for access to credit, savings, health insurance, and much more. We are excited about our partnership with a microfinance pioneer like Kashf Foundation which will unlock potential for both partners by streamlining services and bring efficiency and ease to the lives of the customers".
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In latest years, the feminist motion has taken root in Argentina, challenging parts of presidency and tradition which have long been failing Argentinian ladies. Argentina has made great strides toward positive change and equality however the country still experiences excessive rates of femicide — gender-based hate crimes that end result within the intentional killing of females. Despite the hurdles the country has faced with regard to women's rights in Argentina, the country is making efforts to create a more inclusive Argentina. The Central Europeans and Italians who discovered refuge in Argentina within the Thirties and Nineteen Forties faced challenges that differed from these encountered by the Eastern Europeans. A few German speakers headed to the colonies, but the women tended to leave the countryside for Buenos Aires, remitting earnings that enabled their families to stay on the land. In the capital, these and different young German-speaking ladies found jobs as nursemaids, governesses, servants, secretaries, and dressmakers.
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Vayekhi — Genesis 47:28 – 50:26
December 27, 2017 / Christopher Rieger
One of the greatest malaises of Western civilization to this day was captured by Ernest Becker (1924-1974) in his book, Denial of Death. Becker points to the reality we know all too well, that we shield and mask death from our lives until it is too late. What we seek to mask, according to Becker, is a deeper anxiety of death and mortality, which itself is the result of an evolutionary clash between our will to survive and the peculiar survival strategy to cope with the ultimate futility of that survival urge.
And so, without any denial possible any longer, on his deathbed, Jacob announces: "…I am now old, and I do not know how soon I may die… So that I may give you my innermost blessing before I die." (Genesis 27: 2,4)
In the course of this grandiose blessing of the next generation, a tragic moment almost passes everyone by when it comes to Jacob's grandchildren, Ephraim and Manasseh, who Jacob does not recognize. He asks his son Joseph about his grandchildren: "Who are these?" (Genesis 48:8) Eventually, Jacob agrees to bless his grandchildren, but Joseph is displeased as his father appears to be flouting the social etiquette by blessing Ephraim, the younger, before Manasseh, the elder. True to the ongoing disruption of primogeniture in Genesis, Jacob corrects his son, Joseph, who has assimilated the primacy of primogeniture in Near Eastern society, wherein the elder ruling over the younger sibling is an expected norm.
In the end, no matter how assimilated, Joseph accepts his father, Jacob's unconventional blessing for his own children that both challenges societal norms while following in his father's footsteps. Respecting his father's last wishes, now also his own, both Jacob and Joseph are interred in the Holy Land together with their ancestors, bringing Genesis to a close.
Torah is our primary Jewish lens to bring meaning to our own confrontations with endings and new beginnings.
Artwork note: This week's illustration is a wallpaper-like pattern featuring different icons associated with the story of Joseph, which we conclude in Parashat Vayekhi. The eyes symbolize Joseph's vision and prognostication; the tears reference the weeping he does in moments of loneliness, forgiveness, and joy; the heart is a symbol not only of the profound love Jacob felt for Joseph, but also for the big-hearted actions taken by Joseph as Bereshit (Genesis) draws to a close. Illustration by Christopher Orev Reiger.
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Beraysheet -- Genesis 1:1 – 6:8
October 11, 2017 / Christopher Rieger
"Living God and Master of the Universe
on high and dwelling in eternity,
His name holy
and He is sublime
and created His world
out of three words: sefer, sfar, sippur – letter, limit, and tale."
So begins the ancient treatise, Sefer Yetzirah, which focuses on sound and its magical capacity for "making" and "world building." This book takes on the grammar of creation as expressed through the Hebrew language.
In acknowledging that all our beginnings are made through language, this year we have an opportunity to be more mindful of how we use language to create and destroy realities, through each letter, its limit, and the tale that we chose to tell. Sefer Yetzirah shares this mutual concern for "making" and "world building" that is at the core of Genesis.
The story of creation we read this week is a story of beginnings and creative inspiration, and all of this transpires within the creation that has already occurred – the divine Creator creates more than once. God as Creator forms the first human body from the unformed earth, blowing a living breath into it to form a soul. A help mate, Eve, is then formed for Adam. Moving from a state of radical loneliness to begin building community happens in relationship. But not all beginnings bode well or even last, and creation begins again with Noah, a righteous man alone in a corrupt world.
Are the end and the beginning of these episodes in the human condition "always there"? If so, what does this teach us about the way we wander and dwell in the here and now?
As we reflect upon how we use language to create and destroy realities, consider catching Israeli artist Victoria Hannah during her current residency at Magnes Museum when she performs her own rendition of 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet in Sefer Yetzirah. Victoria draws inspiration from each Hebrew letter, which is said to symbolize or relate to a specific element in the universe and in the human body, each letter an exact signal, sound, and frequency in space. Stylistically, Hannah's creations span from traditional Jewish music to new music and hip-hop.
Artwork note: This week's illustration is inspired by Genesis 4:15: "...and the Lord placed a mark on Cain that no one who find him slay him." What exactly is the mark or brand of Cain? From ancient times through today, biblical scholars and rabbis debate what is meant by the Hebrew word ot, which is variously translated as "mark," "sign," "pledge," or "oath." Many ancient interpreters insisted this mark was meant literally, a symbol that consisted of fearsome animal horns. Here, we see such a sign painted on the wall of a desert cave along with a number of falling human forms. Illustration by Christopher Orev Reiger.
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High Holy Days Sermons And Teachings
November 13, 2016 / Christopher Rieger
Many congregants have requested copies of Rabbi Glazer's High Holy Days sermons and teachings. Sermons are meant to be heard (not read), so we're delighted to report that Rabbi Glazer has recorded each and every one of his Yamim Noraim service contributions for your listening edification. As a bonus, we've included Rabbi Glazer's thoughtful drash for Parashat Beraysheet.
If you missed any of the High Holy Days services, or if you just want to revisit some of your favorite teachings, we invite you to spend some time with the audio archive below. Listen to the recordings by clicking the play button under each title and description. (If you prefer to download the file so that you can listen to it while on the go, click the relevant download link.)
Finding Space To Love -- Drash, Erev Rosh Hashanah 5777
Ruminating on Jefferson Airplane's Somebody To Love and our individual and social want for connection.[audio mp3="http://bethsholomsf.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/ErevRH_HHD5777.mp3"][/audio] (Click here to download.)
Bonobos, Sarah, & the Great Mother -- D'var Torah, Rosh Hashanah Day 1 5777
Spiritual evolution: Can the survival of the fittest also be the empowerment of the pacifist?[audio mp3="http://bethsholomsf.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/RH1DvarTorah_HHD5777.mp3"][/audio] (Click here to download.)
Falling To Get Back Up -- Drash, Rosh Hashanah Day 1 5777
On finding the resilience to rise again after falling.[audio mp3="http://bethsholomsf.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/RH1Drash_HHD5777.mp3"][/audio] (Click here to download.)
"Brace For Impact" in Sully's Akedah -- D'var Torah, Rosh Hashanah Day 2 5777
Emunah, kehillah kedoshah (sacred community), and preparing ourselves to confront trials of uncertainty.[audio mp3="http://bethsholomsf.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/RH2DvarTorah_HHD5777.mp3"][/audio] (Click here to download.)
Why I Don't Believe -- Drash, Rosh Hashanah Day 2 5777
On the 50th anniversary of the State of Jewish Belief (1966), contemplating faith versus conviction.[audio mp3="http://bethsholomsf.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/RH2Drash_HHD5777.mp3"][/audio] (Click here to download.)
What The Seal Of Truth Is Good For -- Drash, Kol Nidre 5777
On distinguishing between lies and truth.[audio mp3="http://bethsholomsf.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/KNDrash_HHD5777.mp3"][/audio] (Click here to download.)
Sitting In The Belly Of The Whale: Part I -- D'var Torah, Yom Kippur 5777
On "soul-making" in HaNeshama Lakh.[audio mp3="http://bethsholomsf.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/YKDvarTorah1_HHD5777.mp3"][/audio] (Click here to download.)
"Ghosting" Vs. Bidding Adieu In The Last Kaddish --
Drash, Yom Kippur Yizkor 5777
On letting go and intimately marking the passing of a loved one.[audio mp3="http://bethsholomsf.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/YKYizkor_HHD5777.mp3"][/audio] (Click here to download.)
Sitting In The Belly Of The Whale: Part II -- D'var Torah, Yom Kippur 5777
On "soul-making" in the Book of Jonah.[audio mp3="http://bethsholomsf.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/YKDvarTorah2_HHD5777.mp3"][/audio] (Click here to download.)
The Bus Driver Who Wanted To Be God – And Has Even More Compassion --
Drash, Yom Kippur Ne'ila 5777
Choosing compassion to ensure that the door of the bus remains open for all.[audio mp3="http://bethsholomsf.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/YKNeila_HHD5777.mp3"][/audio] (Click here to download.)
Prayer For Israel -- A Yom Kippur Teaching, Yom Kippur 5777
Putting together the ultimate "prayer package" for the State of Israel.[audio mp3="http://bethsholomsf.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/PrayerForIsrael_HHD5777.mp3"][/audio] (Click here to download.)
The Genesis of Murder: New Exegesis from Saramago to Levinas --
Drash, Beraysheet (27 Tishrei 5777)
The story of Cain, the genesis of murder, and the importance of gratitude.[audio mp3="http://bethsholomsf.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/GenesisBeraysheet_5777.mp3"][/audio] (Click here to download.)
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Beraysheet -- Genesis 1:1-6:8
New Beginnings: How do I want to begin again this year?
Whenever a new chapter in life is about to begin, it is wise to take a step back and ask: How do I want to begin? What are my hopes, aspirations, and dreams?
The Jewish New Year is a time to ask ourselves similar questions: How do I want to begin again this year? And, as we begin again at the Torah scroll's start, with Genesis, what role does my kehillah kedoshah (my sacred community) play in this new beginning?
Six decades ago, on Yom Ha'atzmaut, the American Jewish community was searching for a way to begin again with its religious Zionist dreams. Rabbi Yosef Dov haLevi Soloveitchik (z"l) delivered a now-classic talk about religious Zionist philosophy at Yeshiva University. "The Voice of My Beloved Knocks (Kol Dodi Dofek)" elaborates upon God's tangible presence in the recent history of the Jewish people and the State of Israel — does this relationship constitute a "covenant of fate" (berit goral) or a "covenant of destiny" (berit yi'ud)?
Let's contrast fate and destiny. Although Jonah did not necessarily experience the joys of fate once the lots were drawn and he was cast off the ship by the sailors, we can still discern four positive consequences of the awareness of a shared fate: 1. shared historical circumstances; 2. shared suffering; 3. shared responsibility and liability; 4. shared activity. As opposed to the "covenant of fate," which was made with an enslaved people without free will, the "covenant of destiny" was made with a free nation which could, and did, make up its own mind. God does not simply impose the Torah on community; God offers it to us. And every year, God is still awaiting our response — anew. As a "people" ('am, from the word 'im, meaning "with"), therefore, we have no way to determine our own fate; as a "nation" (goy, related to the word geviyah, meaning "body"), however, we have the ability to forge our own destiny.
The story of creation we read of this week in Genesis 1:1-6:8 is a story of beginnings and creative inspiration, and all of this transpires within the creation that has already occurred – the divine Creator creates more than once. God as Creator forms the first human body from the unformed earth, blowing a living breath into it to form a soul. A help mate, Eve, is then formed for Adam. Moving from a state of radical loneliness to begin building community happens in relationship. But not all beginnings bode well or even last, and creation begins again with Noah, a righteous man alone in a corrupt world.
Are the end and the beginning of these episodes in the human condition "always there"? If so, what does this teach us about the way we wander and dwell in the here and now? I suggest that God offers us the opportunity to begin again by becoming a goy kadosh ("holy body") not only at Sinai (in the Book of Exodus), but also at the beginning of each year's Torah cycle – we have this opportunity for real growth.
Whether we live up to the challenge and take hold of Torah in our lives is really our choice – and our destiny. Each of us has the potential and creative power to harness a renewed covenantal relationship with our kehillah kedoshah, our sacred community at CBS. May this year give us all another opportunity to join and deepen our relationships to each other as we take hold of Torah – once again at the beginning everafter...
Artwork note: This week's artwork is inspired by one of the best known lines in the Torah. "And God said, 'Let there be light,' and there was light." (Genesis 1:3) The image was created with both the Kabbalistic creation story (the nitzotzot, or sparks of the divine) and prevailing cosmological theory (the Big Bang) in mind. Illustration by Christopher Orev Reiger.
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Ilan Salomon-Jacob's Bar Mitzvah
Shalom, my name is Ilan and I'm in the 8th grade at the San Francisco School. I enjoy playing sports, making videos, composing music digitally, and playing drums on my own or in my band. I also like talking, laughing, and hanging out with friends.
My bar mitzvah is this coming Shabbat and, to be honest, I have a whole swarm of butterflies in my stomach! I am very excited to share this day with my family, friends, and members of the congregation.
I will be chanting Torah from Parashat Beraysheet. In it, God creates the heavens and the Earth, along with all living beings, in six days. God then takes a day of rest. On one of those days, God creates Adam and Eve, the first humans, and puts them in the Garden of Eden. When they disobey God's orders, they are cast out. They have two children named Cain and Abel who don't get along so well. Cain is jealous and kills Abel. The parsha ends with a recounting of many generations of descendants, and God is unhappy with the actions of many of them. It finishes on a positive note, however, as God finds hope in a man named Noah.
I would like to thank my family for being supportive throughout this process. I would also like to thank my tutor, Marilyn Heiss, for teaching me how to chant Torah, and Rabbi Glazer for helping me write my d'var Torah. Lastly, I would to thank the Beth Sholom community for always welcoming me and making me feel at home.
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Kezayit (An Olive's Worth): What's In A Name? (Or What's With Orev?)
February 18, 2016 / Christopher Rieger
Now and again, someone asks me why I sign my CBS emails with a two-part first name: Christopher Orev. Fair question.
In day-to-day life, I prioritize my given, secular name, Christopher. In this respect, I'm like most Jewish Americans. My patronymic Hebrew name, Orev ben Avraham Avinu v' Sarah Imanu, is known by very few people and used by fewer still, generally reserved for use in a ritual context.
So why, then, do I insist on writing Christopher Orev? Because my Hebrew name is very important to me, and I feel it should appear in formal correspondence, especially in a Jewish context. Because the name itself is unusual, however, I'm often asked what it means. Not long ago, Rabbi Glazer suggested that I share the origin of the name on the CBS blog in the hopes that a handful of readers might find my explanation of interest.
Those well-versed in Tanakh might worry that I've chosen Orev in some misguided tribute to one of the two Midianite chieftains killed in Shoftim 7:25. But, no, the ill-fated Midianite is not my namesake.
Because Orev means 'raven,' some friends of mine have assumed that my choice stems from my fondness for natural history and especially for reviled and misunderstood species. I am fascinated and excited by ravens, but that partiality isn't my principal motivation, either. Instead, I chose Orev because of the raven's mysterious role in the story of Noah.
"And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made. He sent out the raven, and it kept going and returning until the drying of the waters from upon the earth. And he sent out the dove from him to see whether the water had subsided from the face of the ground." (Bereshit 8:6-8).
Where did the raven go?
Contemporary biblical critics contend that the raven's disappearance is evidence of the biblical narrative's many sources. According to these scholars, when the stories of Torah were first edited and assembled, scribes often included details from differing accounts (rather than choosing between them). By this reckoning, one of the ancient riffs on the flood story had it that a raven was released while another, slightly different version of the tale assigned the recon flight to a dove. The two versions were simply spliced together so that Noah released the raven and then the dove.
The literary, analytical, and rational inclinations of this particular Torah reader make me appreciative of such striking examples of narrative juxtaposition and mythmaking. But while I appreciate our sacred text through a decidedly non-supernatural lens, I also invest Torah with much social and mystical power. These two, very different approaches to Torah — one universalist and secular, the other specific and traditional — place me in a grey zone of contemporary Jewish identity, but I consider this balancing act (this push-pull or hybrid position) to be the very essence of the Conservative movement's philosophy.
But what does this have to do with my name? Back to Noah's raven; what became of it? There are a number of traditional drashs that explain the raven's disappearance, but I view the stray bird as an analog of my Jewish neshamah (soul). This particular orev "flew the coop," so to speak, for a few generations, but has at last come back to the ark (through the covenant of conversion).
I find a satisfying etymological riff on this interpretation in the Hebrew name itself, עורב. Ayin means "eye," Vav means "and," Resh means "beginning" or "head," and Beit means "house" or "home." Orev, therefore, can be read as "eye and head home," an oblique reference to the raven's "seeing" his way home. Likewise, my neshamah has turned anew (or returned) to Judaism and Jewish peoplehood.
Another gratifying etymological connection has been made between orev and erev, meaning 'evening' or 'dusk.' Both words are comprised of the same letters, and Hebrew linguists believe that the word orev was derived from erev, a reference to the raven's dark plumage. If so, the raven's name is born of the gloaming, my favorite time of day, one electric with magic and possibility, and ideal for sustained rumination.
But the etymology can be (and is) taken one step further. Ervuv is the Hebrew word for 'mixture' and, just as day mixes with night at erev, some rabbis point out that, although it is officially deemed treif, the raven is the only bird species to split the difference on the Mishnah's four kashrut qualities; it possesses two kosher attributes and two treif attributes, and is therefore a "mixed" creature.
This mixture angle is also important to me. When I emerged from the mikveh, I was a new Jew. If you had asked me then if I stood at Sinai, I would have confidently replied, 'Yes.' Yes, at least, with respect to metaphysics and psychology...but my personal history is not that of Hebrew school, kugel, or Camp Ramah. My Gentile past informs my Jewish identity in unexpected, generally positive ways, but the individual ger, like the individual shul, will never please klal Yisrael. Because I am actively engaged in the Jewish community (across the denominational, political, and theological spectrums), my very "Jewishness" is sometimes challenged. Some fellow Jews review my attributes and deem me kosher; others say I'm treif. I'd be fibbing were I to claim that this limbo doesn't trouble me, but I also recognize that it provides me with a special opportunity to examine questions of identity. I will be wholly Jewish and yet I will be "the stranger that sojourns among" my fellow Jews. The name I have chosen embodies two themes that are important to me: my (re)turn to Jewish peoplehood and also the peculiar/particular Jewish identity of the ger.
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Linden Hall Studio
Contemporary Art Gallery, Deal, Kent
18th September 2017 by
4 March – 1 April 2018
Linda Clarke
I studied at Medway Art College from the age of 16 and graduated with an NDD. I subsequently met and married Tony Smith. My first job in the holidays was hop-picking. I took my first baby in the pram to the hop gardens, where I trained hops and became familiar with the unique processes of hop cultivation. This exhibition is of paintings from sketches I have worked on all my life: of people working on the mudflats by the sea, in hop gardens and in other areas of farming.
When I was a student, a tutor said I would never get very far as I was neither modern nor traditional. Maybe she was right, although I have exhibited at the RA several times, together with the following:
N.E.A.C, Mall Galleries, London
New Metropole Art Centre, Folkestone
Drew Gallery, Canterbury
Eastern Rooms, Rye
Towner Art Gallery, Sussex
Lloyds Exhibition, Chatham
Alton Gallery Barns
Llewellyn Alexander, London
Forest Field Metropole, Folkestone
Remington Gallery, Faversham
Neville Gallery, Canterbury
Creek Creative, Faversham
I have always admired abstract painting and have often strived to push in that direction, but the subject matter that infuences my daily life – countryside, animals – are too overwhelming for me to be a figurative painter.
Catherine Farr
Catherine's work is based on the beach at the end of her road, her garden, and her favourite garden: Great Dixter (which she visits regularly to draw and take photos).
As a painter Catherine has always been interested in colour, the effects of colour next to each other and the light. Early studies of the German Expressionists developed the use of colour to create mood. This was gradually drawn into her work as well as the symbolic references to other things like choice of flower.
Catherine sees all of her work as a kind of self-portrait because they represent how she is feeling due to what is happening in her life at that time.
Her surroundings are very important to her…her subjects are places where she feels at ease and able to create.
Emily Smith Polyblank
Emily grew up on a smallholding surrounded by animals and has a deep understanding of their character and physique which she then translates through drawing into woodcuts. The grain of the wood predicts the outcome of the image. Emily then hand colours her prints with earthy colours to define the cuts more clearly.
This exhibition features a lot of dogs. (Emily has always had dogs in her life). She is developing her work to show movement, such as leaping and the speed of running, by concentrating on muscle shape and form.
Unlike other relief printmakers who concentrate on technique and layering colours, Emily works instinctively with each piece of wood and how it can be manipulated.
Born in 1968 to parents that were both Painters in Art.
As soon as I could walk I was taken with sketching materials (and dogs) to draw the view. And encouraged on holidays to always sketch and paint. I was schooled at a Rudolph Steiner School, near Canterbury.
Did a Foundation Course at Maidstone.
Then BA Hons Degree in Fine Art Printing at Farnham, West Surrey College of Art.
My work is figurative, showing my everyday life.
I specialise in woodcuts, choosing pieces of wood for the beauty of the grain and drawing straight onto the wood, working with the grain and knots. Eventually cutting and taking into consideration as to whether to print in dark or light colours. Then once happy with the printing, working into each print by hand with water colour or pastels.
My work has been or is on shows in:
The Biscuit Factory, Newcastle
Byard Art, Cambridge
West End House, Smarden
Creak Creative, Faversham
Forge 2 Gallery, Northampton
Noverre Gallery, Norwich
RA Summer Exhibition several times.
Mall Gallerys
Chaple Gallery, Devon
Bankside Gallery, London
Born in Kent. Studied at Medway College of Art, obtaining a National Diploma in Painting, Special in 1959, and then at Royal Academy Schools, graduating with an R.A. Certificate in 1962.
He taught at Medway, Canterbury K.A.D Adults in Ashford, Tonbridge Wells and the Metropole, Folkestone with Fed Cummings, Brian Oxley, Arthur Neal and Roy Oxlade.
Besides restoring several medieval houses, he taught and ran summer schools.
His Art earned the admiration and respect of his contemporise, and he was well on the way to a successful career, when it all ended with his untimely death.
Young Contemporaries
R.A. Summer Exhibitions
Travelling Exhibition
New English Art Club
Mall Galleries
Society of Landscape Painters
Royal Portrait of British Artists
Pictures for Schools Exhibition
Drew Gallery
Neville Gallery
Towner Gallery, Sussex
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Mantle Anisotropy beneath the New Madrid Seismic Zone and Adjacent Areas
Moikwathai Moidaki
Stephen S. Gao, Missouri University of Science and TechnologyFollow
Kelly H. Liu, Missouri University of Science and TechnologyFollow
Estella A. Atekwana, Missouri University of Science and TechnologyFollow
A total of 93 well-defined PKS, 54 SKKS, and 126 SKS shear-wave splitting parameters are determined at 25 broadband seismic stations in an approximately 1000 by 1000 km2 area centered at the New Madrid seismic zone (NMSZ) in order to map the direction and strength of mantle fabrics and to explore the origin of seismic anisotropy. Unlike most previous shear-wave splitting studies which suggested uniform station-averaged splitting parameters (fast direction and splitting time) in the same area, our results, when presented in the form of individual (instead of station-averaged) splitting parameters and used the PKS, SKKS in addition to SKS phases, suggest significant and systematic spatial and azimuthal variations in the splitting parameters. The azimuthal variations at most stations can be best explained as the combinedeffects of present SW-NE-ward asthenospheric flow related to the motion of the North American plate in a hot-spot reference frame, and the NNE trending lithospheric fabrics formed during past orogenic events. In the NMSZ, anticipated rift-parallel fast directions associated with vertical magmatic dikes or along-rift flow, rift-orthogonal fast directions from small-scale convection, or reduction in splitting times as a result of vertical asthenospheric flow are not observed, suggesting that the NMSZ is a shallow feature which is consistent with results from other geophysical studies such as seismic reflection surveys. Due to the large spacing between the stations, the boundaries between the areas with different characteristics of splitting parameters cannot be decided accurately, and consequently the correlation between the splitting parameters and results from other geological and geophysical studies cannot be uniquely determined. The upcoming Transportable Array stations will greatly improve the spatial resolution of the anisotropy measurements, and thus will most likely lead to more insights to the structure and dynamics of the NMSZ.
M. Moidaki et al., "Mantle Anisotropy beneath the New Madrid Seismic Zone and Adjacent Areas,", vol. 42, no. 2 Geological Society of America, Apr 2010.
North-Central Section (44th Annual) and South-Central Section (44th Annual) Joint Meeting (2010: Apr. 11-13, Branson, MO)
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