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Glass artist Alison Lowry at her exhibition Alison Lowry: (A) Dressing Our Hidden Truths, which opens March 27th at the National Museum of Ireland Museum of Decorative Arts & History. Picture: JULIEN BEHAL PHOTOGRAPHY.
The woollen red cardigan that Connie Robert wore as a child of four before the industrial school took her away hangs recreated in crushed glass in the National Museum of Ireland. She had written a poem about it some years ago after it was found in a suitcase above a press following the death of her mother, bringing with it a fresh round of memories and sorrows.
"There were six crude mendings in it and I could picture my mother darning it by the range, waiting for me to come home," she says.
Connie, now aged 56 and a 36-year resident of the US, didn't come home for 12 years after she was sent to Mount Carmel Industrial School in Moate, Co Westmeath, to the grief of her battered mother who lost all 15 of her children to institutions because of the violence of her alcoholic husband. Now the artistic representation of the cardigan and Connie's poem form part of an absorbing new exhibition in the museum's Collins Barracks campus.
(A)Dressing Our Hidden Truths is the work primarily of Northern Ireland artist Alison Lowry. She has selected items that symbolise some of the darkest parts of Ireland's recent history — industrial schools, mother and baby homes, and Magdalene laundries — and recreated them in pate de verre, layers of crushed glass made into a paste and fused into shapes with both strength and fragility.
In one display, pairs of glass scissors are suspended from rosary beads above a pile of cruelly hacked hair, remembering the women shorn of their identity when they had their names and hair stripped from them on entry to the institutions. In another, nine children's christening gowns hang glistening in the dark in memory of the 796 babies and children buried in the disused septic tank in Tuam.
A soft voice in the background lists all 796 names while dotted between all the displays are earphones for listening to the recorded memories of survivors. The final displays deal with the current issues of sexual assault and domestic violence to show that the subjugation of women is not only historical. Audrey Whitty, curator of the exhibition, says while the subjects are not easy to explore, exploration through art is a valuable pursuit.
"A national museum in the true sense presents all history pertaining to that particular nation and if you're looking at the history of 20th-century Ireland and you were not to respond to these issues, you wouldn't be doing your job," she says.
The exhibition is being opened tonight by Children's Minister Katherine Zappone who is urging all schools to visit it.


The war on Libya started in March 2011.
This article was originally published by GR in September 2011, following the devastation triggered by seven months of intensive NATO bombings.
Today, Libya as a country and a nation state has been destroyed. Under Nuremberg, the leaders of the NATO member states involved in the war on Libya are war criminals.
"There is no tomorrow" under a NATO sponsored Al Qaeda rebellion.
While a "pro-democracy" rebel government has been instated, the country has been destroyed.
The rebels are casually presented as "liberators". The central role of Al Qaeda affilated terrorists within rebel ranks is not mentioned.
"Starting afresh" in the wake of destruction? Fear and Social Despair, Countless Deaths and Atrocities, amply documented by the independent media.
No euphoria…. A historical reversal in the country's economic and social development has occurred. The achievements have been erased.
The NATO invasion and occupation marks the ruinous "rebirth" of Libya's standard of living That is the forbidden and unspoken truth: an entire Nation has been destabilized and destroyed, its people driven into abysmal poverty.
The objective of the NATO bombings from the outset was to destroy the country's standard of living, its health infrastructure, its schools and hospitals, its water distribution system.
And then "rebuild" with the help of donors and creditors under the helm of the IMF and the World Bank.
The diktats of the "free market" are a precondition for the instatement of a Western style "democratic dictatorship ".
An entire nation has been bombed with the most advanced ordnance, including uranium coated ammunition.
Already in August, UNICEF warned that extensive NATO bombing of Libya's water infrastructure "could turn into an unprecedented health epidemic " (Christian Balslev-Olesen of UNICEF's Libya Office, August 2011).
These developments are in sharp contrast to what most Third World countries were able to "achieve" under Western style "democracy" and "governance" in the context of a standard IMF-World Bank Structural Adjustment program (SAP).
Public Health Care in Libya prior to NATO's "Humanitarian Intervention" was the best in Africa.
Confirmed by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), undernourishment was less than 5 %, with a daily per capita calorie intake of 3144 calories. (FAO caloric intake figures indicate availability rather than consumption).
The Libyan Arab Jamahiriya provided to its citizens what is denied to many Americans: Free public health care, free education, as confirmed by WHO and UNESCO data.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO): Life expectancy at birth was 72.3 years (2009), among the highest in the developing World.
Gross primary school enrolment ratio was 97% for boys and 97% for girls (2009) .
The pupil teacher ratio in Libya's primary schools was of the order of 17 (1983 UNESCO data), 74% of school children graduating from primary school were enrolled in secondary school (1983 UNESCO data).
Based on more recent date, which confirms a marked increase in school enrolment, the Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) in secondary schools was of the order of 108% in 2002. The GER is the number of pupils enrolled in a given level of education regardless of age expressed as a percentage of the population in the theoretical age group for that level of education.
For tertiary enrolment (postsecondary, college and university), the Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) was of the order of 54% in 2002 (52 for males, 57 for females).
With regard to Women's Rights, World Bank data point to significant achievements.
In most developing countries, essential food prices have skyrocketed, as a result of market deregulation, the lifting of price controls and the eliminaiton of subsidies, under "free market" advice from the World Bank and the IMF.
In recent years, essential food and fuel prices have spiralled as a result of speculative trade on the major commodity exchanges.
Libya was one of the few countries in the developing World which maintained a system of price controls over essential food staples.
The Libyan Arab Jamahiriya had established a system of price controls over essential food staples, which was maintained until the onset of the NATO led war.
While rising food prices in neighbouring Tunisia and Egypt spearheaded social unrest and political dissent, the system of food subsidies in Libya was maintained.
These are the facts confirmed by several UN specialised agencies.
War and Globalization are intiricately related. The IMF and NATO work in tandem, in liason with the Washington think tanks.
The NATO operation purports to enforce the neoliberal economic agenda. Countries which are reluctant to accept the sugar coated bullets of IMF "economic medicine" will eventually be the object of a R2P NATO humanitarian operation.
Today we call it "Regime Change" and "Missile Diplomacy" which invariably takes the shape of a UN sponsored "No Fly Zone". Its objective is to impose the IMF's deadly "economic medicine" of austerity measures and privatization.
Libya`s frozen overseas financial assets are estimated to be of the order of $150 billion, with NATO countries holding more than $100 billion.
Prior to the war, Libya had no debts. In fact quite the opposite. It was a creditor nation investing in neighboring African countries.
The R2P military intervention is intended to spearhead the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya into the straightjacket of an indebted developing country, under the surveillance of the Washington based Bretton Woods institutions.
Getting IMF recognition is significant for Libya's interim leaders as it means international development banks and donors such as the World Bank can now offer financing.
The Marseille talks came a few days after world leaders agreed in Paris to free up billions of dollars in frozen assets [stolen money] to help [through loans] Libya's interim rulers restore vital services and rebuild after a conflict that ended a 42-year dictatorship.
The financing deal by the Group of Seven major economies plus Russia is aimed at supporting reform efforts [IMF sponsored structural adjustment] in the wake of uprisings in North Africa and the Middle East.
Michel Chossudovsky is an award-winning author, Professor of Economics (Emeritus) at the University of Ottawa. He is the Founder and Director of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG), Montreal and Editor of the globalresearch.ca website. He is the author of The Globalization of Poverty and The New World Order (2003) and America's "War on Terrorism" (2005). He is also a contributor to the Encyclopaedia Britannica. His writings have been published in more than twenty languages.
Yes it was a dictatorship. Yet the country prospered under its government. The UN and NATO chose to destroy the country economically, politically and humanitarily. This was nothing more then war crimes personified. No excuse can defend the brutal actions of these two war mongering groups. What happened here could obviously happen to you and your country until and unless these thieving killers are served and adiquite punishment is enforced. Think back a couple of years during the obama administration when trains of hundreds of military vehicles all labeled with the UN insignia were being transported around the United States. Where are they now? What nefarious plans are waiting to be set upon our nation? Don't kid yourself, these things are happening at a much higher level then our President can control. I believe that out money is next to be taken down to attempt a global money system run by the IMF and the UN. PLEASE REMEMBER THE ROLE OF THE UN IS NOW TO ESTABLISH A ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT. This is the key point you must understand in order to make sense of what is going on "behind the green curtain". Take care, be careful well and most of all be alert.
The American people have been lied to about Lybia, Qaddafi, Sadam and Bin Laden.
Qaddafi and his country were rich beyond imagination, he had stock piles of Gold and he refused to join the central banking system so they killed him and stole his gold.
Now that area North Africa is a Hub for human trafficking.
Obama and Hillary ruined Lybia. Qaddafi gave his people everything for Free, but the MSM told you he was a Dictator and a Monster.
Question Everything, do your own research. The truth is out there, but you wont find it if you dont look for it.


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Higashiyama Onsen Mukaitaki (Review)
The Pearl of Aizu Wakamatsu's Ryokan Inns
Mukaitaki is a ryokan Japanese traditional inn located in Higashiyama Onsen, a thermal resort of Aizu-Wakamatsu, in Fukushima prefecture. In addition to its onsen hot springs, the inn charms with its authentic wood architecture and unique atmosphere.
A complex and splendid wood architecture
Traditional rooms with a refined decoration
An authentic ryokan of Aizu region
How to go to Higashiyama Onsen Mukaitaki?
Even seasoned travelers are bound to find some places so impressive that they immediately rank and stay in the top of their best discoveries, in the same way as the beauty of a natural site or the pleasure of an unexpected encounter. In the heart of the authentic Higashiyama Onsen ♨ thermal village in Aizu area in Fukushima, Mukaitaki ryokan is a gem of a Japanese lodging that we highly recommend to experience.
Mukaitaki inn was established in a valley, on the bank of Yu-gawa River, and its name derives from the four waterfalls that can be visited in the village. On the other side of a typical little bridge, its traditional raw wood front perfectly fulfills the promise of discovering the quintessence of the Japanese ryokan in a timeless experience.
The unique intricate architecture of the inn unveils upon entering the building. From the lobby, customers face an indoor labyrinth composed of running corridors, half stairs and stairways and circulation arranged around a wonderful Japanese garden. This feel of a "ninja house," despite the difficulty to find one's way, is the guaranty of a great privacy for the customers who rarely meet the other guests. The feeling of being alone in this 24 rooms ryokan is rather enjoyable, especially knowing that Mukaitaki's occupancy rate is quite high and that one must book several months in advance to make sure staying at the desired dates.
High-end finishing touches, such as washbasins made in single marble blocks or long beams made of single tree trunks complete the luxurious inn. Architectural sophistication is also displayed in the rooms that all have their own identity, a name, a unique view on the garden, the mountains or the river, and a specific decoration of ceilings and walls. Mukaitaki inn's official website even provides a 360° view of each room or suite to choose your favorite.
Each room was laid out in the purest Japanese tradition, namely a single space on a tatami flooring, that can be divided with fusuma sliding doors for the most spacious suites. Originality of the area: the Washi paper panels, placed as additional layers on the windows, can be opened by the bottom to admire snow in winter. The furniture are kept to the essentials, with a simple and refined design, with:
A main coffee table for dinner and breakfast,
Futon bedding, unfolded every night, and,
Two comfortable armchairs in the lounge corner by the bay windows.
The rooms are fitted with air conditioning, a Wi-Fi Internet 📶 connection, a small TV and a kettle, as well as a sink and modern washlet type toilets 🚽, but they don't have a private bathroom 🛁 (except for three of them). Like any Japanese traditional inn, the baths are shared and part of the "onsen" offer of the establishment.
Hot springs in Mukaitaki ryokan are 100% natural, with no chemicals added and they are renowned for their beneficial effects in skin care and to help relieve pain in the legs. The most ancient spring 🌸 has been harnessed since the feudal times when the samurais of Aizu clan came here to replenish themselves. The onsen baths are always available for the inn's customers, but not open to other visitors. They include:
Two shared baths (Kitsuneyu and Sarunoyu), divided into a space for men and another for women,
Three small family baths (Tsutanoyu, Fukubenoyu and Suzunoyu) for a private use.
The quality of the thermal water helps glossing over the confined space of the bathing areas, and the absence of an outdoor bath.
On the catering side, amateurs of authentic Japanese cuisine will not be disappointed. The traditional kaiseki menu is served at dinner and at breakfast, in a profusion of typical and local small dishes selected according to the season. The delicate taste of the regional beef meat is incredible. In addition, a matcha green tea and its wagashi confectionery are offered upon arrival in the room. Mukaitaki's high-end service is largely featured in its gastronomy, which is healthy, delicate, and with a careful selection of fresh, regional and premium quality ingredients.
Mukaitaki inn is probably one of the most beautiful buildings of Higashiyama Onsen, a village that has been frequented for its healing and relaxing waters for more than 1,300 years and located a few minutes by bus or car 🚙 from Aizu-Wakamatsu's touristic center.
This article was written after a tour sponsored and organized by Tohoku area and related prefectures. Kanpai has been invited and guided but keeps a total freedom of editorial content.
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By bus -- ~10 minutes from Aizuwakamatsu station, Classic Town Bus, Haikara-san and Akabee Lines, Stop at Higashiyama Onsen Eki (東山温泉駅)
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Higashiyama Onsen Mukaitaki Opening Times
Check-in from 3 p.m. and check-out until 10 a.m.
When to visit Higashiyama Onsen Mukaitaki?
All year round, for one to two nights
How to say Higashiyama Onsen Mukaitaki in Japanese?
東山温泉 向瀧
For 1 adult and per night (VAT not included): from ~¥18,000 (~US$137.77) to ~¥28,000 (~US$214.30), dinner and breakfast included
The Hanare suite is a high-end VIP room, with prices starting from ~¥35,000 (~US$267.90) per adult (degressive rate available according to the total number of guests in the room)
Online and English booking available here
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Locations for piercings other than the earlobe include the rook, tragus, and across the helix . The simple term "ear piercing" usually refers to an earlobe piercing, whereas piercings in the upper part of the external ear are often referred to as "cartilage piercings". Cartilage piercings are more complex to perform than earlobe piercings and take longer to heal.
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It's something I've wanted to do for decades and I finally did it. I wanted to ride the California Zephyr to, where else, California. I'm still in California. In a matter of days, I'll be returning via the Southwest Chief.
Equivalent to 4200 horses, Amtrak 39 delivers me to Emeryville near San Francisco.
Who is that handsome devil by the choo-choo train ;p? I hope it's been fun and look forward to hearing tales of your travels.
I have no idea who's up by the choo choo train. Probably a passenger who drove 2 hours to Denver, then rode the train 2 hours back, passing within a few miles of where he started. Why the train couldn't make a special stop for him, I'll never know.
So you slept in a sleeping car and the whole deal? I've done Amtrak on a day trip but never overnight. I know some people just sleep in their seats while others get the little sleeper cabins.
I did the whole deal! 🙂 There was even a sleeping car attendant named Jason. Now I know what your real job is.
That station looks familiar. Have I been there before? LOL!


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Евге́ний Андре́евич Миро́нов (11 января 1905, Александров-Пограничный, Варшавская губерния, Царство Польское, Российская империя — 24 мая 1976, Житомир, УССР, СССР) — советский военачальник, генерал-майор.

Биография
Родился 11 января 1905 года в городе Александров-Пограничный (ныне г. Александрув-Куявски в Куявско-Поморском воеводстве, Польша). Русский.

Военная служба

Межвоенные годы
В августе 1927 года Мазур был призван в РККА и зачислен курсантом в учебный дивизион 101-го артиллерийского полка ЛВО в городе Детское Село. В октябре 1928 года из этого полка командирован во 2-е Ленинградское Краснознаменное артиллерийское училище. Член ВКП(б) с 1929 года. После завершения обучения в феврале 1932 года продолжил службу в училище на должностях командира взвода батареи обслуживания, командира батареи и командира взвода курсантов.

С ноября 1937 года служил в 111-м артиллерийском полку начальником штаба и командиром дивизиона. В апреле 1939 года назначен командиром 317-го отдельного артиллерийского дивизиона особой мощности Ленинградского военного округа. В ходе советско-финляндской войны 1939—1940 гг. воевал на Карельском перешейке. Указом Президиума ВС СССР от 11 апреля 1940 года за боевые заслуги, личное мужество и героизм капитана Миронов был награжден орденом Ленина. В мае 1940 года дивизион был передислоцирован в ОдВО и участвовал в походе Красной армии в Бессарабию. С июля 1940 года майор Миронов — командир 473-го гаубичного артиллерийского полка РГК ПриВО. В 1940 году Ммиронов окочил 2 курса вечернего отделения Военной академии РККА им. М. В. Фрунзе.

Великая Отечественная война
С началом войны 473-й полк в составе 13-й армии воевал на Западном, Центральном и Брянском фронтах. Участвовал в Смоленском сражении и Орловско-Брянской оборонительной операции. В ходе последней с 3 по 18 октября находился в окружении в районах Суземка, Севск, Середина-Буда. Умело командуя полком, Миронов сумел сохранить его организацию и боеспособность, вывел более 800 человек личного состава с оружием. По выходу полк находился на переформировании, затем направлен на Северо-Западный фронт и воевал в составе 34-й армии против демянской группировки противника.

С 29 октября 1942 года по 8 июня 1943 года Миронов проходил обучение в Высшей военной академии им. К. Е. Ворошилова, затем был назначен командиром 5-й гвардейской Сталинградской артиллерийской дивизии прорыва РГК. В это время дивизия в составе 5-го артиллерийского корпуса находилась в резерве Ставки ВГК в МВО. 20 июня 1943 года она была преобразована в 5-ю гвардейскую тяжёлую артиллерийскую Сталинградскую дивизию прорыва РГК. В июле дивизия вместе с корпусом была передана Западному фронту и в его составе участвовала в Смоленской наступательной операции, поддерживая войска 33-й и 68-й армий.

С 24 сентября 1943 года полковник Миронов переведён на должность командующего артиллерией 9-го гвардейского стрелкового корпуса. Его соединения и части в составе 61-й армии Центрального фронта в ходе битвы за Днепр отличились при форсировании реки в районе пгт Любеч, сёл Мысы и Неданчичи, захвате и удержании плацдарма на правом берегу Днепра. В последующем корпус участвовал в Гомельско-Речицкой, Калииковичско-Мозырской и Белорусской наступательных операциях. В июле того же года Миронов переведён на должность заместителя командующего артиллерией 8-й гвардейской армии. Участвовал с ней в Люблин-Брестской наступательной операции, в форсировании рек Западный Буг и Висла и боях по овладению Мангушевским плацдармом. В январе 1945 года отличился в Варшавско-Познанской наступательной операции, особенно при ликвидации окруженной группировки противника в районе города Познань. В марте был переведён на должность командующего артиллерией — заместителя командующего по артиллерии 69-й армии 1-го Белорусского фронта. Участвовал с ней в Берлинской наступательной операции, в овладении городами Франкфурт и Магдебург.

За время войны полковник Миронов был один раз персонально упомянут в благодарственных приказах Верховного Главнокомандующего.

Послевоенное время
После войны в сентябре 1945 года Миронов был переведён на должность старшего преподавателя кафедры артиллерии в Высшую военную академию им. К. Е. Ворошилова. В мае 1947 года назначен начальником штаба Управления командующего артиллерией 3-й ударной армии ГСОВГ, с июля 1950 года — командующим артиллерией той же армии. В апреле 1952 года переведён в ПрикВО на должность командующего артиллерией 8-й механизированной армии. С 11 января 1956 года генерал-майор артиллерии Миронов зачислен в распоряжение 10-го управления Генштаба Вооруженных Сил СССР. С 6 февраля 1956 года по 19 мая 1958 года находился в командировке в Румынии в качестве военного советника командующего артиллерией военного округа и старшего военного советника командующего артиллерией Румынской армии. По возвращении в СССР он был назначен начальником военной кафедры Днепропетровского горного института. 15 августа 1959 года гвардии генерал-майор артиллерии Миронов уволен в запас.

Награды
 два орден Ленина (11.04.1940, 20.04.1953)
 четыре ордена Красного Знамени (31.10.1943, 14.08.1944, 17.07.1945, 06.11.1947)
 орден Кутузова I степени (31.05.1945)
 орден Отечественной войны I степени (21.11.1942)
 орден Красной Звезды (21.02.1945)
 медали в том числе:
 «За оборону Сталинграда» (1943)
 «За Победу над Германией в Великой Отечественной войне 1941—1945 гг.» (27.09.1945)
 «За взятие Берлина» (1945)
 «За освобождение Варшавы» (1945)
 «Ветеран Вооружённых Сил СССР» (1976)
Приказы (благодарности) Верховного Главнокомандующего, в которых отмечен Е. А. Миронов.
 За завершение ликвидации группы немецких войск, окруженной юго-восточнее Берлина. 2 мая 1945 года. № 357.

Примечания

Литература

Ссылки
 «Память Народа» — информационный проект

Выпускники Михайловского артиллерийского училища
Артиллеристы СССР
Участники советско-финляндской войны (1939—1940)
Участники Бессарабского похода Красной армии (1940)
Артиллеристы Великой Отечественной войны
Командиры полков в Великой Отечественной войне
Командиры дивизий в Великой Отечественной войне
Участники Смоленского сражения (1941)
Участники Сталинградской битвы
Участники битвы за Днепр
Участники освобождения Варшавы
Участники Берлинской операции
Выпускники Военной академии имени М. В. Фрунзе
Выпускники Военной академии Генерального штаба
Преподаватели Военной академии Генерального штаба Вооружённых сил Российской Федерации
Преподаватели Днепровской политехники
Члены КПСС
Похороненные в Житомире

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and a rare Pepsi commercial from 1986. Glenn Frey wrote and sung some of the most memorable songs ever with the Eagles, as well as solo. In a week that has seen too much loss in the music business, we were saddened to learn of his death on January 18, 2016.
And on page 2 below, see a rare 1986 Pepsi commercial with Glenn and Don Johnson.


The topic of customer advisory board agendas is one of high interest to most customer advisory board (CAB) managers. In Part 1 of this 2-part blog post, we covered the critical agenda elements of the internal prep meeting, social interaction opportunities, the welcome session and introductions.
Strategy Overview: A key element of most CAB meetings will be to update members on what's going on within the host company. The key driver here is to present (or review) the company's top strategic initiatives, and gather member feedback. This should not be a one-way presentation: be honest about bottlenecks, tradeoffs, or 'fork-in-the-road' decisions that the host company would sincerely like to collect member opinions. In addition, the strategy overview can include company updates – acquisitions, partnerships, new products or other corporate developments – that the members may have missed, and, just as importantly, answer questions and address the implications on them. This strategy session offers the added bonus of the host company going first in opening up honestly, and encouraging the same from the members for the rest of the meeting. In fact, my colleague, Judy Davis, suggests that this session might be done the day before the full meeting day itself.
Breakout sessions: A CAB meeting will not be engaging or successful if it consists exclusively of host company executives presenting PowerPoint slides to the attending customer members. A great way to get members contributing and collaborating – and physically moving about – is by conducting breakout sessions in which they are engaging just with each other on shared industry challenges and potential solutions. Be sure to be clear and specific the breakout timelines, the question at hand, and the desired inputs and outputs. Such breakout sessions are also very highly rated by CAB members.
Wrap sessions: At the end of each day, a wrap session summarizes the day's discussions, findings, key takeaways and potential action items. In addition, any desired changes or course corrections can be discovered and addressed before the meeting ends. For the final, concluding session of the CAB meeting, the next steps of the program should be described, including a timeline of upcoming engagements. By doing so, the participants see what's coming down the road, so they'll be ready for it when the invitation comes.
Post-mortem (internal only): A post-meeting debrief should take place immediately after the formal meeting close with all host-company attendees and third party consultants — while the meeting content and feedback is fresh in everyone's minds. The post-mortem should include overall meeting feedback, potential top-priority discoveries and action items, as well as what worked best for the meeting and what can be improved for the next one. In addition, a review of the members themselves can be in order, especially if any were problematic.
Including the essential customer advisory board agenda elements for your CAB meeting described in Parts 1 and 2 of this blog should help ensure the meeting will be the most beneficial it can be to the attending members and the host company alike.


Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings to Hispanics: "We're with you" Rawlings may collide not only with President Trump – but also with Governor Greg Abbott and the Texas Legislature.
Nowhere in this Dallas Morning News article do the words "Sanctuary City" appear.
But what the Mayor of Texas' third-largest city seems to be saying is similar to what liberal mayors in New York, Chicago, and Seattle have said — that their towns will remain safe sanctuary for people that have entered our country illegally.
Rawlings seems more measured than, say, Chicago's Rahm Emanuel.
He simply says that his city has Hispanic families' backs.
Rawlings is a staunch Democrat and a supporter of Hillary Clinton in the recent election. If he elects to keep Dallas as a Sanctuary City, he will collide not only with President Trump – but also with Governor Greg Abbott and the Texas Legislature—both of which are sure to implement strict policies on immigration law enforcement. Rawlings may not be able to fight both the federal government – and his own state.
It's OK to love Hispanics.
But it's NOT OK to pander to anyone that has broken our immigration laws.
Rawlings seems interested in trade with Mexico. He even went on a trade mission to Mexico earlier this year, and the newspaper article notes that North Texas has deep ties to Mexico from an economic standpoint. That's fine if you trade with Mexico and export your products; it's not so fine if you're seeing American companies move there for the cheap labor. But it's up to Rawlings to decide what he wants to do.
It just galls me and it always has that liberals believe there is a class of people – typically Hispanics – who are willing to clean our toilets and make our beds and pick fruit – all for slave wages. These leftists seem to think that "Hispanics" will be happy slaving away at crap jobs for the rest of their lives – and I've never thought that. Some day, technology will take all those jobs.
Once humaniform robots that look and act like humans are commonplace, they can pick fruit without food, water, rest – or a paycheck. So these menial jobs will not last forever – and then what?
Naturally, poor Mexicans and others now trying to get into our country by hook or by crook will need a new plan. We ought to start on it now by working with Mexico for reforms – just as Trump wants to do with Cuba.
Meanwhile, we have laws. Even in Dallas.
It is my hope that big city mayors like Rawlings will realize that they are operating under a Republic – not a city-state. Rawlings and his City Council "run" Dallas only under laws that have been duly passed. Those laws have not been changed because proponents of "Comprehensive Immigration Reform" have not been able to garner the votes. If Rawlings wants Dallas to be a Sanctuary City, he needs to work for more votes for his way.
Otherwise, he should run his city under the law as it stands – or he should be charged with aiding and abetting criminal activity and thrown in a cell alongside Rahm Emanuel.


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Kodak to Chop Another 1,000 Jobs
By Jennifer Booton Published September 10, 2012 RetailFOXBusiness
Eastman Kodak said on Monday it plans to cut another 1,000 employees by the end of this year as it continues to lower costs as part of turnaround efforts designed to help the ailing company emerge from bankruptcy.
The Rochester, N.Y.-based maker of cameras and printers has chopped its workforce by about 2,700 people worldwide since the beginning of this year.
The latest cuts will save about $330 million annually in headcount costs, including compensation and benefits. Kodak CEO Antonio Perez said an analysis is under way to determine whether further staff reductions are needed.
"Kodak is becoming a more focused and competitively scaled company," Perez said. "We recognize that we must significantly and expeditiously reduce our current cost structure, which is designed for a much larger, more diversified set of businesses."
Kodak also continues to reorganize its senior management team. Earlier this year the company said it was tweaking its organizational structure in an effort to build out its consumer and commercial digital products and distance itself from its iconic but struggling photography business.
The company will report three business segments: digital printing and enterprise; graphics, entertainment and commercial films; and a new segment led by Kodak President Laura Quatela that includes the for-sale personalized imaging and document imaging businesses.
Kodak on Monday said Quatela will assume the additional role of president of the personalized imaging business and will lead the group through the sales process, while Dolores Kruchten will become president of the document imaging group, where she also will oversee its sale. Both executives are expected to remain with Kodak until the sales of their respective businesses are completed in the first half of next year.
Meanwhile, Philip Faraci, a Kodak president who focused on the digital printing and enterprise group and also served as chief operating officer, will leave the company, Kodak said.
Chief Financial Officer Antoinette McCorvey has also decided to leave the company and will be replaced by Rebecca Roof on an interim basis. Roof currently serves as managing director of Kodak's restructuring advisory firm AlixPartners.
Perez said the moves will help the company conclude the Chapter 11 process and position Kodak to emerge as a "growing, sustainable, profitably company."
Kodak filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in January after depleting its cash reserves following several quarters of soft sales and failing to sell 1,100 digital imaging patents.


The first proponent of the claim that socialist economic calculation was impossible was the economist of the Austrian school von Mises. In his book Human Action 1 he devoted a chapter to arguing against socialism. He had two main arguments: on the one hand he said that the socialists themselves could not agree on what socialism meant, on the other he tried show that economic calculation would be impossible without a market.
This seems to us to be a fairly accurate caricature of a substantial fraction of the socialist movement. Whilst the communist parties tended to have a fairly clear idea of what they wanted to achieve, based for the most part on an emulation of the USSR, other socialist parties have been loath to give a concrete view of how socialism should be organised. On all sides there has been a reluctance to examine the practical problems of organising a socialist economy.
Socialism arose first as philosophical movement by thinkers like Owen, and Fourier in the early 19th century.At that stage socialist thinkers were willing to advance quite detailed utopian plans for the reorganisation of society. Later it became a political movement of the working classes seeking a just society. Marx and Engels the socialist thinkers with the most lasting influence in the workers movement applauded the work of the early utopians in establishing the socialist movement. They were in particular full of praise for Owen. But they were severely critical of the utopias of later philosophers like Proudhon and Duhring. They claimed that the later utopians were pale reflections of the earlier pioneers and that their utopias were for the most part internally inconsistent.
Marx took the view that as a scientist he could not put forward detailed theories about socialism, a form of society that did not yet exist. Economic and social research had to base itself upon the data provided by real society. He was ready to identify features of contemporary capitalism that revealed the potential for a future socialised production system but not to construct a detailed theory of socialism in the absence of data. He was willing to say that capitalism had generated a class struggle that would lead ineluctably to the dictatorship of the proletariat and thence to a classless society. As to what this society would be like, he was only willing to give sketchy predictions: that it would be based on planned production rather than the market, that it would not use money, etc.
After the Russian revolution, and in particular after the mid 30's the Communists held that Marx's views had been amply born out in practice. The dictatorship of the proletariat held sway, the economy was operated under a single plan and classes were being abolished. They had had to invent things as they went along. They had had to improvise and much of what they had done could not have been predicted in detail from Marx's writings. But this was to be expected, socialism was something born out of real life and history not the crystallisation of philosophers dreams. For the Communists, from the '30s to the '60s, if you wanted to know what socialism was you had just to look at Russia.
For other, non-communist, socialists the issue was more problematic. Although the great majority of socialists during the period from the '30s to the '50s took things at face value and accepted that Russia was socialist, there was always a minority who did not, and, in Western Europe during the last 30 years such views have probably come to represent a majority of socialist opinion.
From the early days of the communist revolution in Russia the Social Democratic parties in Europe argued that socialism could not be established by the methods of dictatorship that the Bolsheviks were using. They argued that the workers movement had during the previous decades struggled hard to win the franchise and for freedom of association and the press. To establish a one party dictatorship, impose censorship, imprison and execute political opponents went against everything that the movement had stood for.
Socialism they argued could only be established on the basis of a free press, free political parties and open parliamentary elections. A socialism that denied this was either not socialism or was not worth having. This is a clear and principled argument and the Social Democrats have stuck to it for seven decades. Its weakness was that the communists could simply retort: ``Who says you can't build socialism using a dictatorship. That's just parliamentary cretinism. We have tried dictatorship and it works. You tried parliament and where is your socialism?"
On economic grounds, the Social Democrats had less to say against communism. Social Democracy has a `liberal' definition of socialism both in the sense of looseness and in the Manchester sense. A mixed economy with social welfare legislation and some elements of industrial planning would certainly qualify, so their economic criticism of Soviet Communism is that it was not necessary to go so far. The economic direction was not in question, rather it was the council of moderation. Public ownership of the means of production, planning, welfare rights and an egalitarian income distribution were accepted as socialist objectives by both Communists and Social Democrats. The latter presented themselves as the democratic socialists without challenging the socialism of the latter, only their totalitarianism.
It is in principle impossible to build socialism in a single country.
The USSR is one country.
It follows that the USSR could not be socialist.
Socialism is only possible in conditions of abundance when mankind passes from the real of necessity to freedom.
The USSR was plagued by shortages, which in turn stem from it being an isolated country.
Hence the USSR could not be socialist.
Is socialism possible in one country?
Is socialism possible in more than one country?
In short our answers to this would be 1) Yes, 2) Yes, 3) a. This may seem a bit paradoxical but our meaning will become clearer as the argument progresses.
From our perspective questions 1 and 2 are partly empirical. Only partly, because the meaning of the question still relies upon the interpretation on makes of the word country. This is commonly used to refer to a nationstate, but nations and states are not coterminous. The USSR was an international organisation of proletarian state power not a nation state in the old sense. If by country we mean explicitly a nation then it must be said that we lack empirical evidence to decide if socialism is possible in a single country. If by a country then we mean a single state power, then we have historical experience of the existence of a single socialist state from the early '30s to the late '40s. The time period given is determined by the point at which the distinguishing characteristics of a socialist economy came into being. On either definition of a country: nation, or unitary state power, then since the late 1950s it has been clear that a plurality of socialist countries can co-exist. We give the late 50s as the crucial period here, since until then the Peoples Democracies of Eastern Europe were only nominally independent state powers, Communist Parties there were the effective agents of state power and the CPs remained so tightly co-ordinated that it was doubtful that the states could really be considered as independent. China, where the CP was independent of Moscow, had not established a socialist economy in the early 50's. On the question of whether socialism is more stable in one country or several, it appears that it is more stable in one provided that by `country' one means a unitary state power. A unitary state power is better placed to present a united front to the hostile capitalist world, and best placed to coordinate the economic development of nations at different levels of development. One only has to consider what the chances of socialism's survival would have been had the USSR not been formed, and had there existed instead a multiplicity of sovereign nation-states on its current territory. The imperialist powers would undoubtedly have picked them off one by one. In the post war period, splits between socialist states: USSR/Jugoslavia or USSR/China or China/Vietnam have been exploited to disasterous effect by the USA and hamstrung socialisms economic development. In a paradoxical sense, it can be said that the abandonment of the policy of socialism in one country in the sense of a monolithic state by the communist movement in the late '40s early '50s contributed to their collapse in 1990.
The argument from plenty is convincingly dealt with by Nove 2 , we can give a brief summary of its problems here. Consider the standards of life of the working classes of Europe when Marx or even Lenin were writing. Now consider what the conception of abundance would have been then: adequate and nutritious food, warm clothing and good dry shoes, houses with good heating and sanitation, access to education, culture, literature and leisure, an 8 hour day, free medical treatment. Given the conditions of life of the 19th century British proletariat, or the workers in Czarist Russia this would have seemed abundance 3. Cars, televisions, home video cameras would not have featured. By the standards that the workers movement originally had in mind, the workers of East Germany, Czechoslovakia and to large extent the USSR were already entering into an age of abundance by the '80s4. Despite this these economies were still clearly in the thrall of scarcity. This was true whether the measure of scarcity was the presence of queues, the budgetary constraints faced by the government or the aspirations of the population for oriental luxuries. The advance of technology had given rise to new aspirations which had yet to be met. In any technically advancing world this is bound to be the case. Newly developed technologies open up possibilities that can not immediately be met in unlimited quantities. It may well be the case that in market economies advertising artificially stimulates these needs, (which is the case against advertising), but even in the absence of adverts there was no lack of demand on the black market for Sony products in the USSR. Beyond this, it is an open question as to whether the current living standard of say France could be extended to the whole world population given the ultimately limited resources of the globe. It is even questionable whether the establishment of a socialist world economy would, in the short run at least, be helpful in alleviating scarcity in the USSR. Although its national income per head is below that of the leading capitalist countries, it is still well above average by world standards. As such, it might be expected that it would have to make substantial aid contributions to socialist countries in the third world. The contributions that it made to Vietnam, Cuba, Angola etc, were already a subject of some popular resentment.
Another school of socialist thought was the Communist Left criticised by Lenin in his pamphlet Left Wing Communism . Given his influence at the time, their views came to be largely discredited. Their most articulate theorist was Amadeo Bordiga, the founder of the Italian Communist party. Supprisingly enough, he remained politically active down to the 1960's. In 1952 Stalin published his booklet Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR which set the terms of communist orthodox debate about the Soviet Economy. Shortly thereafter a publication by Bordiga appeared under the imprimature of the International Communist Party, called Dialogue with Stalin. In this Bordiga argued against the idea that the USSR was socialist, holding instead that its economy was a form of state capitalism. Some of his arguments parallel those of the Trotskyists, that socialism was not possible in one country and that it demanded abundance. To this he added the argument that the USSR continued to be a commodity producing society. The Marxist vision of socialism had always been one in which commodity production was abolished, he argued. But in the USSR workers still worked for money wages and payed Roubles for goods in the shops.
At a formal level he was certainly correct in this. But the difficulties involved in establishing a genuine market economy in Eastern Europe after the counter revolution of 1990 indicate that the social reality behind money and prices in these countries was somewhat different from that in the West. In the consumer goods markets, the prices bore little relation either to the amount of social labour required to produce them or to demand. In producer goods there was not really a market at all, since money alone did not suffice to ensure supply of a good if it had not been allocated in the plan. Bordiga was right in raising the existence of money and the commodity form as a potential problem, but like other left communists he was none to specific as to what alternative form of economic calculation should be used.
During the 1960s the Maoist section of the Communist Party of China started to argue that the USSR had reverted to capitalism. It was claimed that Khrushchev and then Kosygin, had taken the road to capitalism and that the USSR had passed from being a socialist state to being a social-imperialist one.
Given that the economic changes introduced by Khrushchev were fairly minimal this argument was hard to sustain. If, however, one views them as allegorical comments on an internal Chinese political debate about the appropriate way forward, then they make a lot more sense. Within China there was a fierce struggle between the Maoists and the followers of Liu Shaoqi and Deng. Liu was stigmatised as China's Khrushchev. Alternatively this can be seen as labeling Khrushchev as Russia's Liu.
If the economic policies followed by Deng after he came to power are indicative of what was being proposed in secret party debates during the '60s then the charges of `capitalist roadism' seem to have been accurate in the Chinese context. But until Gorbachov, those advocating similar measures � in Russia were far from the centers of political power.
It is now a century and more since Marx was writing and there is much more historical evidence to go on. We have had extensive opportunities to observe societies that were by common understanding called socialist. we say by common understanding, being well aware that some people dissent from this, but whether one takes account of the constitutions of these societies, which proclaimed them to be socialist, the common view of their citizens who believed them to be socialist or the common view of the international press which declared them to be socialist that appears to have been the consensus view.
Many currents of thought in the socialist movement have dissented from this consensus, on the grounds that the conditions in countries of `actually existing' socialism violated numerous socialist ideals.
This may well be true, but as materialists we can not judge the material world by the standards of the ideal. It is not the job of reality to materialise our ideals. Reality just is in all its glories horrors and contraditions. In judging the reality of socialism by comparing it with ideals advanced by its early advocates one is adopting an unusual criterion. We do not judge feudalism or capitalism by the standards of an ideal, were we to do that we would soon find that no real capitalist society corresponded in whole to this ideal. One may note here that it was a common argument by opponents of Marxism to say that since welfare state Britain differed in many respects from the ideal type of 19th century capitalism, it was no longer really capitalist.
If one advances a theory about a class of society before it ever comes into existence the scientific status of that theory is not strong. If the predictions of the theory come to conflict with later observation one can either decide that the theory needs modification or that reality has been misbehaving. If one adopts the later policy and says that socialism has never existed anywhere in the world, one may hope ( we think vainly ) to escape the current political unpopularity of existing socialism, but one has hardly advanced ones ability to practically intervene in the contradictions that led to this unpopularity. An ideal can be kept pristine but its very distance from reality vitiates its practical political force and one is left in precisely the predicament that Marx criticised in Utopianism.
We therefore take an empirical approach to determining what have been the distinguishing characteristics of socialist society.
The absence of a class of wealthy private proprietors in agriculture or industry.
The allocation of instruments of production by means of a system of state directives.
A consequent absence of capital goods or raw materials markets. Indeed one may question the meaning of the term capital goods in these societies.
A significant portion of consumer goods were distributed by means other than purchase or sale.
The price mechanism in the consumer goods market was generally non-operative.
The absence of a market in land, and the absence of rent as an economic category.
A lower variance of incomes from the mean than was the case in capitalist countries at an equivalent stage of industrial development.
g) A distinct mode of extraction of the surplus product: the politically determined division of the concrete forms of the social product between the categories of current consumption, accumulation and unproductive consumption.
The relegation of taxation from a means of extraction of a surplus to means of securing monetary stability.
The existence of money and wage labour.
The absence of a reserve army of unemployed, often associated with chronic labour shortages.
These seem to be the significant structural features that marked off the socialist world from the capitalist. These are also the features that the advocates of capitalism in these countries wish to abolish.
Those socialists to the left of Social Democracy who deny that socialism has ever existed do not generally specify which of them are incompatible with socialism. One has to assume that the socialist systems they advocate would share most of these features. Exceptions to this are perhaps the Bordigist International Communist Party, who argue that the continued existence of money was a decisive factor in preventing the USSR etc from ever having been socialist.
Our view is that although it is fruitless to question whether the USSR was socialist, it does not follow that one has to accept the political and economic policies followed by its government. If one abandons the utopian viewpoint and sees socialism as concrete form of society with its own contradictory forms of development, then one can start to ask just what economic and social policies should be followed in a socialist state. Any real society is fraught with contradictions, and is either destroyed by them or develops by resolving them.
By the 1930s it was widely recognised that liberal capitalism had reached a dead end and offered the world no prospect other than an appalling alternation of world war and economic recession. Not supprisingly many people concluded that only Nazism or Communism offered any hope for the future. By the 1950s that had all changed. The subordination of all other capitalist powers to the USA, keynesian economics, GATT and the IMF had transformed its prospects.
The economic contradictions of the socialist world have been evident and growing for a couple of decades. It is now as self evident that socialism is finished as it was that capitalism was finished in the '30s. As self evident and as false. Our opinion is that the crisis of socialism stems primarily from bad economic policies and can be resolved by a radical transformation of these policies. We do not put our views forward as an unvarying blueprint and anathemise every deviation from them. We do claim that they are more soundly based, and more likely to be sucessful than the economic policies followed by socialist governments in the recent past.
This is a somewhat brief treatment of the issue so our reply can also be concise. We have shown in other chapters that the labour theory of value does allow one to assign definite measures to the different value creating powers of labours of different degrees of skill. The essence of the method is to cost the training of workers in terms of labour also and impute this to the work they do once they have been trained. As for the failure to take into account the original material factors of production, the classical theory of rent shows how the level of differential ground rent is governed by the marginal labour costs of production. There is no reason why this calculation can not be applied directly in a socialist economy. If this basis were followed, then the resulting environmental destruction should be no worse than that routinely produced by the application of the same principle in market economies.
Given the widespread environmental damage produced to the world's natural ecosystems from the bourgeois principle of valuing natural resources on the basis of marginal costs of production, we hope that a socialist planning agency would adopt somewhat stricter rules.
He rejects the suggestion that the unit of measure be utility on the grounds that this is not directly measurable. We would agree with this.
He rejects what is essentially the market socialist approach on the ground that the market is essentially the pursuit of self interest and that its effective operation implies the existence of risk taking entrepreneurs. If one accepts that the pursuit of self interest through the market is necessary for economic calculation then it is inconsistent to try and exclude the function of the entrepreneur. In the view of what has happened in USSR since Gorbachov, this was a politically astute observation. Once the socialists have conceded the virtue of the market it is hard to denounce the vice of the exploiter clothed as it now is in the shining raiment of enterprise.
He argues against the use of ``the differential equations of mathematical economics'' as a technique of socialist economic calculation. It is not clear exactly which differential equations he means, but they appear to be those of comparative statics. Modern economics tends to assume that a differential equation will involve derivatives with respect to time, and thus that its function is to capture the dynamics of an economy. We assume that Mises means simply the differential calculus which is used in neo-classical economics to deduce static equilibrium conditions. The gist of his argument is that the equilibrium condition dealt with in comparative statics is an entirely abstract construction which never really occurs. The economy is constantly in a process of change and current resources available to it are always a hangover from the past unsuited to current wants.
Throughout, Mises identifies calculation with arithmetic. This is understandable since commercial calculation and arithmetic have been strongly associated. Calculation 9 and arithmetical operations are practically synonymous. But calculation can be seen as a particular instance of the more general phenomenon of computation or simulation. What a control system requires is the ability to compute. This is true whether the control system in question is a set of firms operating in a market, a planning agency, an autopilot on an aircraft or a butterfly's nervous system. But it is by no means necessary for this computation to proceed by arithmetical means.
2�. Arithmetical orderings are the only way of achieving optimization.
As we have shown, these stronger claims are false: there are non arithmetical methods of optimsation and money is not the only method of converting into a common unit of measure.
3 It would still be abundance to most of the worlds population. It is easy to forget, living in Western Europe, that the norm for the world capitalist economy is Mexico city rather than Berlin, Lagos rather than Stockholm.
4 Whilst for significant sections of the population even a rich free market economy like the USA fails to provide abundance of such necessities.
5 The 'director' is von Mises term for the dictator of a socialist state: a peculiar adoption of capitalist corporate terminology that is perhaps understandable for a book published in 1940. His argument however is not dependent on the planning process being subordinated to the will of a single individual, but is more general so that for 'director' one could read: planning agency.
9 From calculus a pebble or stone used in counting.


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Majesty & Grace VII: The Reign of Elizabeth Windsor – The Coronation; Dawn of a New Era & Dusk of Empire, 1953-58.
Map of the Coronation Procession, 2nd June 1953: The Map below commemorates a day which brought a sense of relief to the people of the United Kingdom after the trials and tribulations of the Second World War and the years of austerity which had followed it. The Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II on 2nd JuneContinue reading "Majesty & Grace VII: The Reign of Elizabeth Windsor – The Coronation; Dawn of a New Era & Dusk of Empire, 1953-58."
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Majesty & Grace V: The Lives & Times of the Windsors – King, Country & People's War, 1940-45:
'Ribbentrop's War' – The Assault on the West: After the defeat of Poland, Hitler wanted to wage a winter campaign in the west, but bad weather prevented it, and both sides sat through a winter of 'phoney war.' For this reason and with some justice, the Second World War has been called 'Ribbentrop's war.' AlthoughContinue reading "Majesty & Grace V: The Lives & Times of the Windsors – King, Country & People's War, 1940-45:"
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Majesty & Grace IV: The Lives & Times of the Windsors – The Reign of 'Albert the Good' – George VI, 1936-39.
The Deep Despair of the Duke & Duchess: The Duke of York, Albert, and his family had been in Scotland during the days preceding the Abdication Crisis. When the British press broke their self-imposed silence about King Edward's affair with Mrs Simpson on 3rd December 1936, the Yorks were on their way back to LondonContinue reading "Majesty & Grace IV: The Lives & Times of the Windsors – The Reign of 'Albert the Good' – George VI, 1936-39."
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Majesty & Grace I – The Lives & Times of the Windsors, 1901-1921: The Reigns of Edward VII & George V.
Picture: The Battle of Jutland in the North Sea in 1916. Neither side won the battle, but the German fleet was forced to shelter in harbour until 1918. George V's second son, Albert George (Bertie), Duke of York from 1920, future George VI and the father of the late Queen Elizabeth II, was an officer on board HMS Collingwood.
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The Coming of the Northmen: from Coastal Raids to Inland Battles in Britain & Ireland, 789-871.
Pirates or Merchant Adventurers? Out of the North, they came, more warriors from the fringes of the Baltic. Norsemen, Vikings, Danes, many names, but one overriding characteristic – they came first to raid and plunder in tall-prowed sailing ships that had carried these sea-rovers to the Mediterranean and the coasts of a new world acrossContinue reading "The Coming of the Northmen: from Coastal Raids to Inland Battles in Britain & Ireland, 789-871."
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The Radical Messiah and The Politics of Love in the Bible: Part 2 – Christianity, Church and Society over two Millennia.
'The Farthest Limits of the West': I will always remember my first visit to Bangor, North Wales (originally the furthest western outpost of the Roman Empire), to attend an interview for a university place in Biblical Studies and History. It was a long journey by train from Birmingham, where I grew up as the sonContinue reading "The Radical Messiah and The Politics of Love in the Bible: Part 2 – Christianity, Church and Society over two Millennia."
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Thoughts: Here's a female-driven, star-studded shake-up of the Ocean's Eleven heist series started by George Clooney, Matt Damon, Brad Pitt, and a host of other A-Listers back in 2001. After three films, the boys are taking a back seat to the women and it's about dang time. Set for a summer 2018 release, Ocean's 8 has Sandra Bullock (The Heat) headlining a new crop of lady crooks plotting to swindle some bling off a famous actress (Anne Hathaway, Les Misérables) at the stylish Met Ball. Bullock is joined by Cate Blanchett (Thor: Ragnarok), Mindy Kaling (The Five-Year Engagement), Sarah Paulson (Mud), Rihanna (Battleship), Helena Bonham Carter (Suffragette), James Corden (Into the Woods), and perhaps a familiar Ocean's face or two. Written/directed by Gary Ross (The Hunger Games), I'm looking forward to this, looks like it could be a lot of fun.