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2017 National Championshipsinterviews
Interview: Kerry Werner – Chasing a Fourth Nationals Title, with an Eye on Europe, Tubeless Tires and a Tandem Ride
andrew — December 31, 2016
As we near the start of the 2017 USA Cycling Cyclocross National Championships in Hartford, Connecticut, we've got a series of interviews with Nationals racers ready to roll as we build-up to the big week of racing.
Kerry Werner (Kona) is on pace for the best-ever cyclocross season of his young professional career. photo: Jingle Cross Day 3, Werner's top 10 finish. © A. Yee / Cyclocross Magazine
First up is Kerry Werner of Kona Bikes. Werner heads to Nationals after an impressive season, finishing fourth in the USA Cycling PRO CX rankings behind Stephen Hyde and U23 Tobin Ortenblad and Curtis White. He also heads to Hartford with one of the best track records in the sport, having come away with a stars and stripes jersey in three of his five attempts.
We spoke with Werner earlier this season as he came off back-to-back wins at DCCX but already had his sights on Nationals and Worlds. What follows is a portion of our conversation. Stay tuned for some Werner's best stories in our upcoming feature in our print magazine.
Cyclocross Magazine: When did you start bike racing?
Kerry Werner: I was like 15. That's when I first started mountain biking. I didn't start racing 'cross until, I don't know, maybe four years ago.
CXM: Really?
KW: Yeah, I mean my first Collegiate Nationals was really my first year of trying to race 'cross I guess [2012 Nationals] .
CXM: Wow, you're still relatively new to the sport, compared to some of your peers.
KW: Yeah, I think so. But with that said, before that I'd been involved with the US National Mountain Bike Team for two or three years. So it's not like I haven't been exposed to a really high level of racing. It's just that I [hadn't] really dabbled in 'cross because I've always been so focused on mountain biking that when you come into fall, the idea is just like pump the brakes real hard, and hang out and party and have fun, all fall, and then kind of ramp back up through the spring into the summer. So when I went to college that was kind of the mindset, and I had so many friends get on my case my freshman year at college about racing 'cross, and I didn't want to hear anything about it because I was focused on mountain biking for the summer to come. And then finally I bought a piece of shit 'cross bike and tried it out, and I really liked it. And it kind of grew from there.
CXM: It seems like you've taken a big jump up this season. After a rough CrossVegas, you've had a strong season. I'm wondering if there's one main reason behind the improvement?
KW: Well, first I think that looking at CrossVegas as a result for the rest of the season isn't… I mean, for me personally, I hate CrossVegas. It's not reflective of anything else that's 'cross racing at the [UCI] World Cups. You could be a roadie and go out there and do well, as long as you're fit and can handle the accelerations. It's just so different. But besides that anyway, I did have bad luck there, and I feel like if I hadn't, I would have been able to throw together a decent result. But that's the way it is.
CXM: Sure. That's racing right?
KW: Yeah, in general though, I've been able to do better this season so far because of the fact that, I guess it was kind of unfortunate, but last year I was cut from the Raleigh/Clement program. And last year, during the year, with Raleigh I raced mountain bikes, and then jumped right into 'cross season and did a full year of racing. And last year I decided that 'cross was kinda gonna be my focus.
This year, the fact that I didn't have a team to race mountain bikes for, it was really easy for me to say, "Okay, step back and just do a few races and maintain fitness. And then go into the summer and then really hit 'cross hard."
Kerry Werner (Kona) started this season fresher, and hit the early season with good form, finishing 9th in the UCI C1 race at Jingle Cross Day 3. © A. Yee / Cyclocross Magazine
That's what I ended up doing and ended up just really basically racing [the] Pisgah Stage Race, Transylvania Stage Race, and then two mountain bike races towards the end of the summer. And then I was able to come into 'cross way fresher and more mentally able to handle the length of the 'cross season starting so early, and then, hopefully for me, at Worlds. I guess that's the first weekend of September until mid-February.
CXM: Got it. So, physically and mentally fresher, compared to the season prior?
KW: Yeah. I just remember last year, I was really looking forward to Mountain Bike Nationals last year in Mammoth. Not for a good result, but because it was gonna be the last mountain bike race of the season for me.
CXM: Wow. That was probably a strong sign you were already spent?
KW: I was looking forward to it so much because after that I was gonna take a three-week hiatus [when] I just hiked some awesome mountains and hung out. And I think being able to do that helped me reset mentally for the 'cross season. But I think actually being able to physically not go so hard all year kinda helped me come into this season way fresher and sharper.
CXM: You won the Collegiate Nationals three times. I should know, but has anyone else ever done that?
KW: It was three consecutive years, yeah, and I don't think anyone else has.
Three in a row for Werner in D1 Collegiate Nationals at Valmont in Boulder. © Steve Anderson
CXM: Two in Wisconsin and one in…
KW: In Boulder.
CXM: Boulder. So the Collegiate Nationals in Wisconsin, they both were pretty cold and frozen events. Does that make you more excited for Hartford, where it has a good chance to be really darn cold?
KW: Yeah, I mean… I don't necessarily think it was the cold that helped me. I think it was the fact that the course…with Collegiate racing, we raced first thing in the morning. I remember I had on three layers of top and two layers down low. I think I had a regular bib and a fleece bib on. I was afraid of frostbite down under! But anyway, it was so cold that morning that the course was like ice, and I remember hitting frozen ruts and pieces of dirt that you'd think that looked like grip and it was crazy, you probably couldn't have walked on them with regular boots, but somehow we managed to race on it.
KW: But I don't know, Hartford…
CXM: You like those conditions?
KW: Well, I like different conditions. Conditions where you can't just put power down and not think about how much you have to lean your bike into a corner. Just different things like that. Last year, at Asheville, that was my favorite course by far, and before that, Jingle Cross was really close up there too. It's hard. There's elevation change. It's not just a dirt crit. And a lot of courses in America you get, the only time it's gonna be hard is when it's really, really wet and gnarly. So I'm not sure what the Hartford course is like, but I heard that if the weather isn't nice, it's gonna be like a tractor pull. I heard it's just on a floodplain and there's not much elevation change, and it's kind of down by the river in Hartford. But I don't know. I mean Louisville is down by the river, too, and Louisville's always a really good course.
CXM: Last year you had a successful campaign with Raleigh-Clement. How did the team change from them to Kona this year happen?
KW: So Kona really came in out of nowhere. Last year [after getting the Raleigh news] I was reaching out to every contact that I had, and every contact that I could get, trying to figure out a program. And it just wasn't working out, and finally I got in touch with Brian Fornes, who used to work at Raleigh, and then he went to Kona, and I got in touch with him. Actually Allen Krughoff had set me up and put in some good words for me. And Donn [Kellogg] from the Raleigh team, he was really pivotal, and kinda put in really good words with me with the Kona crew. I just had a lot of good people pulling for me with them. And I knew it was an option in December before the end of my 'cross season with Raleigh-Clement.
CXM: That must have been a relief?
KW: Yeah, because I reached out. I knew that it was there, and I reached out to Barry, and he was like, "Oh yeah, cool. Thanks for reaching out. We haven't figured anything out with our 'cross roster yet, but I'll keep in touch." And I'm sure he thought I was a pain in the ass because I probably emailed him once a week saying, "Hey man! You got any updates? Come on, let me know what's going on." [laughs]
Finally… I mean, it took a while. It was like the end of May, when finally Kona was like, "Okay, here's the thing" And they were offering me something. And it was still in talk then, and at that point, I had reached out to Rachel Heal at United Health Care for their 'cross program. And so I had two options all of a sudden. So it was pretty incredible because I know in the bike industry, it's kind of hard to get things done quickly, a lot of the time.
CXM: Right. We can relate for sure.
KW: I'm sure. So to have this happen and, you know we were talking about it. It was basically just talk for a month or a month-and-a-half, and then within two days it was like, "Okay, here's like the actual budget and here's what's actually gonna happen," so that was pretty cool.
Werner and Timerman were locked together for a majority of the race © Mark Colton
CXM: Your Kona cyclocross bike, is that a special frame or a leftover model from previous years or is that a black version of the green carbon Jake CR that the company sells now?
KW: It is the Major Jake.
CXM: That's what they sold previously, right?
KW: Yeah, so that's last year's bike. I think we're waiting on some new re-designed frames, but I'm not sure when they're gonna get those out to us.
CXM: How is the equipment working out?
KW: Yeah, it's great. So the big thing… I mean with Kona everything was all set up, all I had to do was figure out a wheel sponsor. I guess they went through OEM stuff for everything else, and also they paired with Barry [Wicks]'s endurance mountain bike program. So we allocated sponsors from the mountain bike program into this 'cross program to get the little accessory pieces that I needed. And then the big thing was wheels, and I have a really good friend that I actually went to college with, Eric Thompson, who works at HED. He works in [the] marketing department, and I reached out to him about getting some deals on some wheelsets. And HED was able to help me out big time with that so, yeah, after I got wheels, I was ready to go because Donn had jumped on board from last year with tires. I had that, and then everything else kind of just flowed through from Kona and from Barry with his mountain bike program.
It was a little crazy last year with Raleigh because there was like six racers at every 'cross race with Rebecca from the Amy D Foundation and then the Raleigh crew. So [the change] was kind of like a fresh breath of air.
CXM: An upside to an unexpected change?
KW: For Donn and the mechanics as well. I know James, the head mechanic there now… I'm sure he's much more happy this year with only four riders so… And it worked out for both Rebecca and I even though we're not part of that program anymore, we're resourceful people, and we are nice and we burned no bridges, so people were willing to help us.
CXM: Right, that's a great professional training.
KW: Yeah. So we're very fortunate for that. But it's worked out really well for both of us this year so far.
"And it worked out for both Rebecca and I even though we're not part of that program anymore, we're resourceful people, and we are nice and we burned no bridges, so people were willing to help us."
CXM: So, I know you're racing Clement tubulars tires, and you had two great, close battles with Timmerman [in DC], who's riding tubeless tires. I'm curious whether you think tubulars are still a significant advantage?
The Men's DCCX race came down to a photo finish with Kerry Werner Jr. just barely snatching the win from Dan Timmerman © Mark Colton
KW: You know, it's actually interesting, I'm really curious because, I've talked to Dan, not a lot, but a little bit about this because I've been curious myself, because the idea of having a tubeless tire and being able to have, instead of eight sets of rims, to have tubulars glued to, you can have three sets of rims and just pop tires on and off. That sounds awesome. From a consumer standpoint, that's the way to go. But I don't know from a professional nitty gritty standpoint… He claims to run tubular pressure in his tubeless tires and he never burps, and he never pinch flats. Stan's been around for a while, so they have their side of it dialed. And so from the rim and tubeless setup, they're all set. But this year, I think they're on IRC tires, which they claim is a really, really tight tire to put on. So, I guess that helps also, so I don't know, it's interesting.
I haven't been able to try it too much. I have a set of Clement MXPs set up tubeless right now on a training set of wheels. And I've gone down to 24, 26 no problem, and I raced them in a local 'cross-race two weekends ago, and I didn't have any problems with them.
So I don't know, I think that from a professional standpoint that tubulars are the way to go. Especially in muddier races where pressure matters. But I think from a consumer standpoint, I think that's the way the market's gonna start going. And I think you're gonna see more and more tire companies starting to cater to that. I know Clement is already starting to cater to the tubeless market. I'm sure Challenge is gonna jump on that at some point. And having a team like the Stan's No Tubes team run only that, I think is only gonna help push that through faster. Which is cool, because what is racing about? Or what is biking about? Being a professional about? It's about getting more people interested in racing and having a good time. And if that means that people can relate to a pro by running tubeless, then I think that's awesome because it's only gonna grow our sport.
"…I've been curious myself, because the idea of having a tubeless tire and being able to have, instead of eight sets of rims, to have tubulars glued to, you can have three sets of rims and just pop tires on and off. That sounds awesome."
CXM: So what benefits do you still see with tubulars?
KW: I think the fact that, like with Clement, the system is just a vulcanized system. So like the inner-tube inside and the outer rubber piece of the tire is all just vulcanized together. So when you glue that on a rim surface, you get this really predictable piece of traction to where when you lower pressure, it's not just gonna… I feel like with a tubeless because it's that U-shaped tire, because of the bead and the way that it's set up on the rim. I feel like if it were to fold over, it would be really unpredictable. And the lower pressure you go, I feel like that's where you're gonna run into issues. Because just with a tubular, the rim surface itself isn't as deep, it's just more stable. I think it's just, like I said, at lower pressure it's just more predictable, and I guess it's more of an issue over in Belgium where it's muddy all the time. For us, we've had two muddy races this year, so it's like, whatever…
CXM: So, you had one of your best weekends with double wins in DC, what are your goals for the rest of the season?
KW: Yeah, I mean coming off of that weekend, was really, I was really happy with that. But like I said earlier, it wasn't the highest contested race, so…
CXM: You gotta take some credit. You showed up.
KW: No. I mean, I'm very happy with the way it went down, and I mean just because you show up doesn't mean you're gonna win kinda thing. I know that very well. So, my focus is kinda on C1s, and that's where the points are. The C2s are nice, to get the exposure and get that confidence, there's a lot to be said for the mental boost you get from coming off of a double weekend win or even a win or whatever, you know a podium. But for me, I'm really looking forward to go to the two World Cups before Worlds and then Worlds. So Nationals through Worlds is kinda my big goal right now.
CXM: You mentioned focusing on the C1s. Would there be a time when you would actually just do the C1s like Jeremy Powers has done in recent years, and skip the C2s?
KW: Nah, nah. I mean, Jeremy has his program…I understand where he's at especially if you're gonna incorporate a lot of overseas travel, and you know he's done enough double weekends that he knows what he needs to do, but for me, I kinda want all the experience I can get right now.
At this point in my career, I'm just starting to hang on those guys' wheels. So, from last year, it's a big jump up to me, and whether or not Jeremy [races] both weekends, Stephen does, or Jamey does…It's like I'm always there learning, which is important I think.
CXM: Got it, that makes sense. In terms of Nationals and Worlds, you seem like a shoo-in for the Worlds team. Would you trade a Nationals podium, let's say, for a World's top 10? How do you weigh the two?
KW: Oh, a Worlds top 10 for sure.
KW: Definitely. Yeah, I mean a lot of guys… It's interesting I actually even reached out to Marc Gullickson about this because him and I are pretty tight just from my past involvement with the USA Mountain Bike National Team. And I always like bouncing off ideas of him. Because he's done basically what I did. He started in mountain biking, jumped into 'cross, and he was really successful in both, so I really value his opinion in a lot of different ways.
CXM: Sure.
KW: So, I've asked him about it, and I always hear every year and I always get jealous no matter what happens in the season about guys going over for those Christmas races, just because it sounds like such a fun experience to raise that much, and be that submerged in the cyclocross culture over there.
But at the same time, after Hendersonville, North Carolina, which will be my last race in December before Nationals, there are three weekends off before Nationals. And I could go over to Europe, and I could waste some time traveling over there and then, not necessarily waste time, but instead of training, I'll be preparing for races while I'm over there. And then I come back, and I have to race Nationals. If I skip that trip then I can spend two-and-a-half weeks of really solid training and hit Nationals with really, really good form and then try to carry that through Worlds.
I think budget-wise that makes sense for me because I don't know that's necessarily in my budget for two trips over there either. I think it also makes more sense for Kona because… You know, Helen Wyman's been around for a while for Kona racing, the international scene. And I don't know that I'm at the level that she's at to finish in top 10's in the World Cup. So, for me I think to stay and podium or climb to that top step at Nationals, I think that would be much bigger for Kona as a brand and kinda help me solidify myself with them for a couple of years to come.
CXM: Got it. What did Gully… What advice did he have for you?
KW: Was just to save it basically. The travel is a lot, and he said, "There's three weekends off. That's a lot of good training." And he was actually the one that kinda said to me, "From a marketing aspect that Kona can… That they would value you having a better Nationals result than they would you having 20th in a World Cup." Which is more realistic for me, 20th in the world than a top 10. So it kinda makes sense to do it that way.
CXM: He's pretty familiar with that situation. Gully, before Jonathan Page' silver, I think he had one of our best showings ever at Worlds with 13th one year.
KW: Yeah, Gully is a bit of an unknown legend I think. To the people that come up under him that he takes over to Europe and everything to race. Nobody really understands how good he actually was though. It is kinda cool.
CXM: What do you do when you're not bike racing, and you want to just have a good time? Do you have any other hobbies?
KW: It's really hard because now bike racing and just bikes, in general, have become such a big part of my life that I'm already thinking down the road. I'm super pumped on this season and really focused on 'cross, but I'm already thinking down the road towards the summer, and my girlfriend and I have a…you could probably look at it as a make or break our relationship plan, but we want to do a tandem ride, a through ride on the Blue Ridge Parkway. So we want to start up North and ride it all the way South, which is like 476 miles, and we want to bike pack it on a tandem. So that's pretty ambitious, but I'm just really into adventure and kind of just… I really like to experience new places especially outside.
So it doesn't matter if I'm on a bike or I'm hiking, or I like to run every now and then. Not too often, but every now and then. And I don't know… I don't post too much about it, but I do have a KTM 250 moto. So, I'm big into that when I have time for it, and I'll definitely dust the cobwebs off of that this spring. And there's some OHV parks, not too far from where I am in Winston, so I'll get to take that out and throw some smoke out the exhaust. But besides that, it's just… I don't know. Being outside, and just… As many experiences as I can get. That's kind of what I'm going for.
CXM: Are you officially a dedicated 'cross racer? Or do you still consider yourself a mountain biker as well?
KW: No. I do love mountain biking, and that's where my… In terms of riding, that's where I can associate with the most, just like my attitude towards cycling. I am more associated with mountain biking, and maybe that's only because 'cross hasn't really gotten the stigma yet. Like there's roadies, and there's mountain bikers, but nobody is ever like, "Oh, dude, you're a 'cross racer." You know what I mean?
Maybe at some point, I'll be there, but right now I'm definitely a mountain biker. And just because that's where I started, at heart, I really love going out for trail rides and having fun and finding the flow. But for racing, it's kinda weird because…but I guess I don't really like racing mountain bikes anymore. I mean I like it, but I [would pick racing] 'cross. It's just so much more exciting and thrilling for me in a 'cross race, and maybe it's because I find myself better at it, but I just don't like the direction that UCI mountain biking is going now. It's just like really shitty, short courses and just not very fun. I really like 50-mile mountain bike races…the Epic Ride Series is where I am. They have some sick races. Awesome trails. Great for pros and just citizen racers going out there, that is epic. When I did Carson City last year, I saw some of the sickest views ever, and that was in a mountain bike race! That wasn't like me, going out for a hike and looking for views. That was in a race. I saw some sick stuff. So that was cool. And I think that's actually the direction of the sport where it's going right now. I'm all about that.
CXM: Nice. And your contract with Kona is for two years, so for sure, we'll see you doing a full 'cross season next year in Kona Jersey?
KW: Yeah, that's the plan. Right now, we're talking about going into… Transitioning into the mountain bike endurance team for mountain bike. Like I said, I'm going to focus on 'cross, but if I can put a Kona kit on, and do some really cool mountain bike races… I plan on doing Trans-Sylvania this year, after I won it last year, I get a free entry fee out of it. So, that's a no-brainer, and it's so close to my home. The trails are awesome. That race and then maybe a few races this summer like the Boston and Windham race just because they're close to me…but I don't think I'll be doing like a full pro XCT, like full pro UCI Mountain Bike schedule, anything like that.
CXM: Any interest in any of these like longer gravel events?
KW: Yeah. Actually… Not like Dirty Kanza, I think that race is ridiculous…one race that I'll never ever do.
CXM: Maybe like a Lost and Found or Grinduro or those kinds of things?
KW: Oh man, Grinduro is sick, right from its inaugural year, I was like, "I wish this wasn't during 'cross season." Because I would totally find a way to go to that. But yeah, Grinduro looks cool, and even just up near my place in the Northeast, like the Rochester area's coming up with a pretty cool gravel series this year in May and April. So yeah, I think it's cool. It's good way to get in some base miles and not consider yourself a roadie I guess, which is good.
CXM: For any young junior or collegiate racer who sees someone like you and sees you doing so well, do you have any advice for them if they have aspirations of making it in the pros?
KW: Yeah, for sure. My big thing and this is so cliche because everybody's gonna say this, but it's like don't give up. But that's really what it's about. It's just about… And it's not necessarily just with racing and training or anything, it's also when reaching out to people, and really it's about marketing yourself, and as much as it sucks to say, results aren't a huge issue anymore, especially with social media and everything. [Related: See Craig Richey's tips to getting sponsored here.]
CXM: Thanks a lot for the time, and good luck with the rest of your season. See you in Hartford.
KW: Thank you!
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Q: Issue giving nautilus special access rights According to a previous post I made here:
https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/180170/protecting-folder-contents-from-processes, it should be technically possible to implement a system that utilizes the standard Discretionary Access Control model that the linux kernel natively supports, in which a list of processes of my choosing will be the only ones capable of reading a specific mounted directory.
Specifically I wish to have my file manager (Nautilus) be able to read from the contents of my mounted directory and display to me the folders and files inside as it normally should, but have any other process be unable to do so.
To that end, I created a new group for that specific purpose, I changed the executable /usr/bin/nautilus 's group from "root" to that special group and I also set the setgid flag on that file so that the processes initiating from that file will have their effective group ID the one of the group which is meant to have access to that mounted folder. Basically nautilus' effective running group as a process will be the special group.
Finally, I went to the mounted folder and did a "chgrp -R special_group ." and "chmod -R 770 .". The owner of the that folder is "root".
All fine and dandy, except that now I'm locked out of the mounted folder. Nautilus, for whatever reason, cannot access this folder and gives me generic "Permission denied". Worse, I cannot access my own user's Trash folder because of the same error.
Am I doing something completely wrong here?

A: You can launch nautilus by using sudo command.
$ sudo nautilus

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Q: Performance of assignment operator Hello I have a class Truck with only one property of type int. I am not using any pointers in the whole class. I have written 2 versions of the operator=:
 Truck& operator=( Truck &x)
  {
     if( this != &x)
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         price=x.getPrice();
     }
     return *this;
  }

 Truck operator=(Truck x)
  {
     if( this != &x)
     {
         price=x.getPrice();
     }
     return *this;
  }

Both of them work, but is there any performance issue with anyone of them? And, what if I used pointers to declare my properties, should I stick to the first type of declaration?

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Both of them work, but is there any performance issue with anyone of
  them?

There is a potential performance issue with both of the code samples you've posted.
Since your class only has an int member, writing a user-defined assignment operator, regardless of how well-written it may look, could be slower than what the compiler default version would have achieved.
If your class does not require you to write a user-defined assignment operator (or copy constructor), then it is more wise not to write these functions yourself, as compilers these days know intrinsically how to optimize the routines they themselves generate.
The same thing with the destructor -- that seemingly harmless empty destructor that you see written almost as a kneejerk reaction can have an impact on performance, since again, it overrides the compiler's default destructor, which is optimized to do whatever it needs to do.
So the bottom line is leave the compiler alone when it comes to these functions.  If the compiler default versions of the copy / assignment functions are adequate, don't interfere by writing your own versions.  There is a potential for writing the wrong things (such as leaving out members you could have failed to copy) or doing things less efficient than what the compiler would have produced.

A: Way 1 is a valid way for assign operator, except it is recommended to pass a constant reference there. It returns a reference to this, i.e. a lightweight pointer.
Way 2 can decrease performance. It constructs and returns a copy of this object. Furthermore, it is invalid. Why a reference return in assign operator is a standard signature? It allows expressions like
copy1 = copy2 = original;
while ((one = two).condition())
    doSomething();

Let's consider the following:
(copy = original).changeObject();

With way 1 this expression is what a programmer expect. In the second way it is incorrect: you call changeObject for a temporary object returned by the assign operator, not for a copy.
You can say: "I don't want to use such ugly syntax". In this case just don't allow it and return nothing in operator=. Hence, it is recommended to return a reference to this.
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Arts integration will be adopted by identified schools as a school improvement strategy, which will impact the percentage of students proficient in math and reading on district and state assessments. A project-developed arts integration readiness rubric tool will identify readiness criteria and a cohort of arts integration model (AIM) schools that receive targeted support to examine student achievement through the lens of arts integration.
AIMing for Quality Arts and Achievement will improve high-quality instruction across multiple art disciplines through a tiered approach that supports fine-arts instructors, classroom teachers, and school communities in order to (1) increase access to high-quality, standards-based arts education, (2) integrate standards-based arts education into other subjects as part of a well-rounded education, and (3) improve students' academic performance, including their knowledge and skills in creating, performing, and responding to the arts. A leveled system of support was designed to provide differentiated, data-informed assistance for educators across MPS based on their individualized school needs and teaching positions.
More than 250 teachers from 17 schools will receive professional development and support from this program. These are the schools for the 2019–20 school year:
Academia de lenguaje y bellas artes (ALBA) Alexander Mitchell Integrated Arts School Allen-Field Elementary School
Brown Street Academy Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School Elm Creative Arts School
Forest Home Avenue School Hayes Bilingual School Lad Lake Synergy
Lancaster School Lincoln Center of the Arts Longfellow School
Milwaukee High School of the Arts Milwaukee Parkside School for the Arts Roosevelt Creative Arts Middle School
Sherman Multicultural Arts School Starms Early Childhood School
Citywide Programs
Saturday Instrumental Music Programs
Milwaukee Public Schools offers instrumental music lessons through the Department of Recreation. Classes provide students with the opportunity to learn and develop their skills on woodwinds, brass, percussion, strings, and piano. Students from grades 4-12 are welcome. All experience levels are welcome. For more information, please go to www.MilwaukeeRecreation.net or call 414-475-8811.
Citywide Events
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Art Contest
The MPS Fine Arts Department invites your school to participate in the district's annual celebration of the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The art contest is open to students in K4–grade 12 who live in the City of Milwaukee or are enrolled in a school, either public or private, in the City of Milwaukee. Each year the theme is based on Dr. King's speeches or writings.
The MPS Fine Arts Department will present school vocal and instrumental ensembles in the halls of Central Services, located at 5225 W. Vliet Street. This is an opportunity to perform winter concert material for an enthusiastic audience of MPS Central Services staff.
Drumline Competition
Middle and high school drumlines have the opportunity to participate in competition and receive feedback from drumline performers and educators.
WSMA Solo and Ensemble
Middle and high school students prepare vocal or instrumental solos, duets, trios, or small ensembles to perform before an adjudicator. The festival is free and open to the public.
WSMA music festivals provide students with the opportunity to perform and be evaluated. Over the years, the emphasis of these musical events has changed from "contests," where ratings were the most important, to "festivals," which are clearly focused on providing a positive learning experience for students.
WSMA Concert Festival
School bands, choirs, and orchestras perform two to three selections – one of which is chosen from the WSMA Festival music list – for a panel of adjudicators. The adjudicators provide written and verbal critique for the ensemble and award a rating based on defined criteria. Directors also have the option of performing for "comment only," for which their group will receive written and verbal critiques but no rating is given.
Fine Arts in MPS
Deb Bowling, Fine Arts Manager
Email: westfad@milwaukee.k12.wi.us
Anthony Soyak, Music Curriculum Specialist
Email: soyakaj@milwaukee.k12.wi.us
Sarah Zawadiwski, Instrument Specialist
Email: zawadisf@milwaukee.k12.wi.us
Theresa Harmon, Secretary
Email: harmont1@milwaukee.k12.wi.us
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es una película japonesa del género kaiju de 1994 dirigida por Kensho Yamashita, escrita por Hiroshi Kashiwabara y producida por Shōgo Tomiyama. Producida y distribuida por Toho Studios, es la película número 21 de la franquicia Godzilla, así como la sexta película de la Era Heisei de la franquicia. La película presenta a los monstruos ficticios Godzilla, Mothra, Godzilla Junior y SpaceGodzilla, así como al personaje mecha M.O.G.U.E.R.A., en su primera aparición desde la película de 1957 The Mysterians.

Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla es protagonizada por Megumi Odaka, Jun Hashizume, Zenkichi Yoneyama, Akira Emoto y Towako Yoshikawa, con Kenpachiro Satsuma como Godzilla. La película se estrenó en Japón el 10 de diciembre de 1994. En Japón, la película fue seguida por Godzilla vs. Destoroyah al año siguiente.

Reparto
Megumi Odaka como Miki Saegusa.
 Jun Hashizume como Lt. Koji Shinjo
 Zenkichi Yoneyama como Lt. Kiyoshi Sato
Akira Emoto como Mayor Akira Yuki.
 Towako Yoshikawa como Prof. Chinatsu Gondo
 Yōsuke Saitō como Dr. Susumu Okubo
Kenji Sahara como Ministro Takayuki Segawa.
Akira Nakao como Comandante Takaki Aso.
 Koichi Ueda como General Hyodo.
 Sayako Osawa y Keiko Imamura como Cosmos.
 Ronald Hoerr como Prof. Alexander Mammilov
 Tom Durran como "Yokuza" Boss McKay.
Kenpachiro Satsuma como Godzilla.
 Little Frankie como Little Godzilla.
 Ryō Haritani como SpaceGodzilla.
Wataru Fukuda como M.O.G.U.E.R.A.

Producción
Aunque el director Kensho Yamashita y el guionista Hiroshi Kashiwabara tenían más experiencia en la producción de películas de ídolos adolescentes, no eran recién llegados al género kaiju, ya que ambos asumieron papeles menores en la creación de Mechagodzilla no Gyakushū. Los dos decidieron al principio de la producción hacer que la película fuera más ligera que sus predecesoras y más centrada en el desarrollo del personaje, centrándose en el personaje recurrente de Megumi Odaka, Miki Saegusa, que previamente había desempeñado papeles marginales en la serie. El énfasis en la ligereza fue tal que una escena que representa a Godzilla tratando desesperadamente de rescatar a su hijo de la prisión de cristal de SpaceGodzilla fue eliminada debido a su seriedad, una decisión desaprobada por el actor del traje de Godzilla Kenpachiro Satsuma.

La idea de un "Godzilla espacial" se concibió por primera vez en 1978, y fue diseñada como un homenaje al progenitor insinuado del monstruo, Biollante mediante la incorporación de colmillos y un rugido silbante que recuerda al último monstruo. El diseñador de criaturas Shinji Nishikawa había imaginado inicialmente a SpaceGodzilla como una criatura mucho más parecida a un dragón occidental con grandes alas en forma de aleta en la parte posterior. El diseño final se parecía más a la forma final de Godzilla del videojuego Super Godzilla, también diseñado por Nishikawa. El artista de efectos Koichi Kawakita rediseñó al hijo de Godzilla como un personaje de aspecto más caricaturesco, ya que no le gustó la versión de dinosaurio en Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II y con la esperanza de lanzar una serie de televisión spin-off para niños titulada Little Godzilla's Underground Adventure. El traje de M.O.G.U.E.R.A. fue usado por el actor de Mechagodzilla, Wataru Fukuda, y consistió en tres piezas aplicadas por separado. El nuevo traje de Godzilla usado para la mayoría de la película combina aspectos de los trajes usados en Godzilla vs. Biollante / Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah y Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II, con una constitución robusta y triangular, hombros anchos y nervaduras mucho menos pronunciadas en el cuello. La cara tenía similitudes con las utilizadas en las dos películas anteriores, aunque los ojos aumentaron de tamaño y se les dio escleróticas más prominentes, lo que lo hacía relativamente menos amenazante que sus predecesores. Las innovaciones incluyeron la capacidad de la cabeza para rotar completamente alrededor del cuerpo, y la incorporación de un conducto de aire que resolvió los problemas crónicos de ventilación presentes en trajes anteriores. El traje de Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II fue reutilizado para la entrada y salida de Godzilla de la Isla del Nacimiento y durante la escena en que SpaceGodzilla lo arroja telequinéticamente.

El compositor Akira Ifukube se negó a participar en la película después de leer el guion, lo que le recordó demasiado a una película de ídolos adolescentes e incluyó música rap.

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Межи́сить — село в Україні, у Ратнівському районі Волинської області. Населення становить 703 осіб.

Назва
Є кілька пояснень походження назви села. За однією з них назва утворилась від місця, куди жителі сусіднього села їздили на покоси — «межи ситі», — тобто тут була гарна трава. За іншою версією, назва пішла від того, що поселення знаходилось серед багатьох дупол, де роїлися бджоли — від «межи "ситями"» («ситями» називали мед).

Географія
З північного боку село омивається озером Оріхове. Знаходиться у прикодонній зоні з Білоруссю .

Поблизу, у лісі, знаходяться два озерця — «Озірця».

До сільської ради відносяться хутори: Залисиця, Бродятино, Денисі, Голики, Вал, Загора.

Історія
У 1906 році хутір Хотешівської волості Ковельського повіту Волинської губернії. Відстань від повітового міста 88 верст, від волості 27. Дворів 27, мешканців 182.

Населення
Згідно з переписом УРСР 1989 року чисельність наявного населення села становила 637 осіб, з яких 309 чоловіків та 328 жінок.

За переписом населення України 2001 року в селі мешкало 697 осіб.

Мова
Розподіл населення за рідною мовою за даними перепису 2001 року:

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Посилання
 Неофіційний сайт села Межисить
 Група у Facebook
 Межиситський ліцей
 ХРОНІКА МЕЖИСИТІВСЬКОЇ ШКОЛИ З 75-ЛІТНЬОЮ ІСТОРІЄЮ
 МЕЖИСИТІВСЬКА СІЛЬСЬКА РАДА 2017
 Розклад руху автобусів з АВ Ковель до села Межисить
 Розклад руху автобусів з АВ Луцьк до села Межисить
 Старі мапи України. Межисить
 Супутникова карта села Межисить
 Погода в селі Межисить

Населені пункти Ковельського району (1940—2020)
Села Волинської області


That's a big win, that was my thought on the final whistle and still is now for so many reasons.
We finished last season in chaos and had to face the humiliation of that final day result and when the fixtures computer sent us back there for the very first fixture of the new season, I was concerned. Stoke is a hard enough place to get anything from, our record there is terrible and they well, really well at their ground against everybody, add to this the extra pressure from that result last year, the worries, the concerns that the players must of had and you can see why I think we were all concerned.
Stoke are simply a horrible team to play. I hear people tell me how they have changed styles, "that's not them anymore", "they like to get the ball down and play", " under Hughes they are different" but I saw different very physical all over the pitch, dirty even, huge long balls to the head of Walters throughout the game who played on Gomez trying to intimidate him throughout the match. A big reliance on set plays that were again pumped into the box and so on for me not much has changed. Not a criticism, all legitimate tactics to win a Premier League game, but horrible to play against and not the new Stoke we have been fed by the media. Liverpool had to stand up to the physicality, win individual battles, stay organised and strong at the back and hope the extra class would tell, they achieved all this and that is a credit to all the players.
Our manager, and players were under huge pressure to get a result following last seasons result at Stoke, the general failure to perform last year in particular in the run in, the pressure on the manager due to this failure last season and many fans belief that he should have been replaced, I'm certain that the manager has been put under extra pressure from the owners they have spent money they have given him the support in every way and I believe that they will expect a better level of performance for everybody.
The fixtures computer has given us a tough start to the season with a string of very difficult away games, to pick up points and stay in the race is going to be very difficult, extra pressure on everybody, again I'm not sure the manager will survive a poor start to the season with the expectations the owners must now have.
All the above combined made this fixture in my eyes before the game almost impossible, probably the worst possible opening day fixture we could have had and I think if before the game we were offered a draw we would have taken it, beyond any doubt. But we did better far better than that.
if we are honest it was a dog of a game it had to be we had to dog it out it's Stoke and they are horrible, we had to try and be strong, solid, compact we couldn't take another defeat like last year and we had to get something from the game to keep fans and owners happy or jobs may be at stake even this early,mother pressure would certainly been added to my media and the support, but we dodged it out well defenders did ok when last year they would have crumbled new full backs did very well under pressure midfield players covered huge amounts of ground and forwards battled and tried to find space with little quality service and then our quality told one moment of pure magic and we had the three points. We have players who can do that.
Because of the reasons listed above this game was hugely difficult and Liverpool overcame them all and won they got the three points and that could be huge, we will gain confidence, we will get belief the support will remain optimistic and positive, at least for one more week, a little of the pressure on the manager has been lifted, new players get more time to settle, to show us what they can do and perhaps most importantly we have a start, just a hint of momentum.
It meant a lot to everybody players, supporters, management and I sure owners you could tell by the players passion on scoring the goal and the away end went off, but let's keep our feet on the ground Bournmouth next and three more points badly needed.


Goalkeeper Angus Gunn has joined Southampton on a five-year deal from Manchester City.
The England U21 international has switched clubs in a deal worth £13.5m, according to Sky sources.
It is understood the deal will see Saints pay £10m plus £3.5m in add-ons.
Gunn told Southampton's official website: "The opportunity was there for me to stay at Manchester City but I saw the potential of this club and the squad.
"The manager and Dave Watson were a big part of the reason why I have chosen to join and speaking to them both was a big factor in my decision.
"I think the club has got a big future and I'm looking forward to getting started now. I've spoken to Dave Watson and he said it would be a great environment to come in to work. It feels really good and I'm buzzing to get going."
Gunn, who graduated from Manchester City's academy, spent last season on loan at hometown club Norwich playing in the Championship.
Southampton manager Mark Hughes said: "Angus is a player who clearly possesses a tremendous amount of potential, but his performances for Norwich and for the England U21 team also demonstrate the capabilities he already has right now.
"He represents another excellent addition, and we are excited about what he brings to the squad and the further progression we feel he can make with us.
Sky Sports News reported last month that Southampton are listening to offers for goalkeeper Fraser Forster, while current No 1 Alex McCarthy signed a new four-year contract in June.
Gunn could be joined at St Mary's by Denmark international Jannik Vestergaard after Southampton agreed an £18m fee for the defender with German club Borussia Monchengladbach.


Thanks to our 111 members on this 32nd anniversary of our incorporation.
NCRC ready to go in Fredericton!
CHSR-FM in Fredericton, NB is looking forward to hosting the annual National Campus/Community Radio Conference for 2018, the grand gathering of hosts, staff, volunteers, artists, volunteers, board members and other wonderful people from member stations of the NCRA from across Canada.
The conference will run from June 6 (arrival day) to June 10 (departure day).
REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN! WOOT!
The NCRA, with the assistance of the Community Radio Fund of Canada, is able to provide some assistance for those travelling to the conference in the form of a travel subsidy. The support is regionally focused, and when you fill out the form, bear in mind that this is not available to help fund registration fees, just travel costs. The NCRA is committed to bringing as many people to the conference as possible. You can apply to the funding by filling out the form at chsrfm.ca/ncrc37subsidy .
The 37th National Campus and Community Radio Conference (NCRC) hosted by CHSR-FM in Fredericton is happening on June 7-10, 2018, and we want to see you there!
14 radio stations from coast to coast come together to shine a light on homelessness across Canada. With an incredible 18 hours of original programming from dozens of volunteers across Canada. They explore issues of poverty, financial insecurity and more. Be sure to check your local station the logos for the participating stations are in our image or go to www.localfm.ca for the live-stream!


This is related to our VC++ 2008 SP1 x86 prerequisite.
Generally this should not cause an issue, but in cases where a previous install or system update did not complete VC++ can fail to install with Error 1935.
Then try installing Warewolf again.
If the VC++ install fails here are a few references you can use to further troubleshoot the issue as it appears to be a general Windows problem.
Generally this should not cause issue but in cases where a previous install or system update did not complete it can fail to install the VC++ prerequisite.
Generally this should not cause an issue, but in cases where a previous install or system update did not complete VC++ can fail to install with Error 19.


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2. It is available in multiple sizes and shapes for various hydroponic applications.
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20 years ago today – When a Man Loves a Woman. (Film Review)
Posted by lisathatcher on April 29, 2014 in Film Reviews | 5 Comments
There have been several top-notch films about alcoholism and there have been hundreds of terrible ones. When A Man Loves A Woman is one of the better ones, underrated even all these years later as it is being more appreciated for its depiction of the complications of sobriety after a person leaves rehab. We know now that sobriety doesn't end alcoholism, and what needs to be faced once one is clean is what one drank to avoid. When a Man Loves a Woman is a film that deals, not only with an alcoholic, but her enabling husband and the toxicity the marriage absorbed with a drinker at the helm.
Also interesting about When a Man Loves a Woman is its positioning in the career of Meg Ryan, an actor who made many films and yet was thought to be typecast as the original girl next door in romance comedies. Her first Romcom was the enormously famous and successful (and lets face it, brilliant) romance comedy When Harry Met Sally, a film that launched a contemporary version of the romance comedy, and established Meg Ryan as the queen of the genre. Over the next six years she was the female lead in nine films, four of which were romance comedies, but they happened to be Sleepless in Seattle, Joe Versus the Volcano, I.Q. and French Kiss. All the other roles were serious acting pieces, several of which, When a Man Loves a Woman included, she was the lead performance. However, by the end of the six-year period she was firmly ensconced as the queen of the romcom genre, while her superb performance in other films, such as The Doors and When a Man Loves a Woman were forgotten or ignored. In the next seven years, she starred in eleven films, Five were Rom Coms and six were other genres, but again, films such as In the Cut when she gave a great performance, she was downgraded by critics who claimed primarily that no one wanted to see America's sweetheart in such a dark film that looked at females attraction to abusive males, and included a dark sexuality. In the cut remains a brilliant Jane Campion film, typically underrated by Americanised critics / audiences but adored outside of that closed off circle, a problem typical of Meg Ryan's career. Like In the Cut, When a Man Loves a woman is a truly great performance from Ryan, voted down probably because critics wanted to see Meg Ryan falling over food trolley's and faking orgasms in restaurants.
Interestingly the film is co written by super Hollywood writer Rob Bass, one of the highest paid writers in Hollywood, and Al Franken and part of its strength is that it closely follows the experience of both protagonists. At the time the film was made, Bass was nursing an academy award he won for Rain Man, and Franken was writing comic pieces for SNL. They're an unlikely duo, and yet they meet well in this film, properly developing the recovering alcoholic wife and the difficulties her husband has with discovering and recovering from his co-dependency. Her drunkenness and his nice-guy-help-out-routine was what brought them together in the first place. It's a common story with people who make dramatic life changes, like giving up substance abuse or losing a lot of weight the new human being can't relate to the spouse of the old marriage. In other famous alcoholic films, such as Leaving Las Vegas, Barfly or Days of Wine and Roses, the relationships are ruined before the alcohol is absent. When a Man loves a Woman doesn't even supply a happy ending – it offers hope, but nothing else. If alcoholism is a disease of denial, then Bass and Franken include the denial of the affected sober also.
Other clever aspects of the script include Alice's job as a high school councilor, when she started to drink in high school and never stopped; Micheal's absence because his job as a pilot coupled with his almost crippling (and very humiliating) perpetual assistance when he is there; we are witness to Alice's rock bottom when she hits her child and falls through a plate of glass, but it is only in the closing speech of the film that we understand the full atrocities of what this mother did to her kids. Problems with the script include the unnatural beauty the lovely family of four continually exude. The closest Meg Ryan comes to looking hungover is a Kim Kardashian eyeliner smudge and her sobriety is supposedly emphasised by her lack of makeup. The lovely clothes, the beautiful home, the perfect nanny, the mind-blowing handsome husband are a problem in a film that is trying to be this serious, but it is worth remembering alcoholism was a huge (read fashionable) deal in 1994, and buzz phrases such as "disease", "co-dependence" and "Enabler" were a new trend. A script this heavy could only hit main stream release if it used major stars and clothed them beautifully, Ryan's trade mark stunning locks perfectly coiffed into submission. It probably only got made because the subject matter was fashionable and Hollywoodised to a degree. It is to the actors and film makers credit that the meat and bones of the piece were not sacrificed for popularity. That was left to a trendy wardrobe and a overattendant hairdresser. The rest of the film claims and stands by its awarded authenticity, and stands the test of time.
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Paul S April 29, 2014
I really enjoyed the review, especially your eloquent analysis of Meg Ryan's career. I often feel like a lone voice championing Meg's talents but even in seemingly lightweight films such as Prelude to a Kiss and Joe Versus the Volcano she showed great versatility.
As she demonstrated in this film and Flesh and Bone 12 months earlier, Meg could convey sadness with a soulful indomitability as no other screen woman I've ever seen.
lisathatcher Post authorApril 30, 2014
I agree with you Paul – she's an enormously underrated actress. I remember seeing In The Cut at the movies, being a huge jane Campion fan, and I recall reading everywhere that it was shocking that Meg Ryan went bare breasted, that she plays a female grappling with attraction to a man who may be a killer, etc. People were saying it was an attempt for her to escape typecasting. In fact, it is a film MORE consistent with her previous oeuvre than a romcom. Almost all the "other" films she made were drama pieces, with the odd bio pic (The Doors) and action/adventure (Proof of Life), and all of them were as main stream, and many of them more critically successful than her romcoms. We've done her a great disservice and missed out on recognizing some excellent performances by closing our eyes to who she is.
Michael Graeme April 30, 2014
Thanks Lisa,
I do remember watching this film shortly after release as a video rental, and making the assumption "Meg Ryan" = Romcom, and something easy going I could watch with my wife. Setting out with those expectations, it made uncomfortable viewing, and certainly broke the mould of Harry met Sally for me – though I agree it's certainly a good film. It's a pity of course someone of her ability can be typecast this way and her deeper roles overlooked. I've been careful not to make the same mistake again. An impressive actress – but like most guys my age it was in Harry Met Sally I first fell in love with her.
lisathatcher Post authorMay 1, 2014
That's a great story – thanks for telling it – about hiring the video.
I have to agree with you about the When Harry Met Sally thing though. I love that film so much. Everyone at their peak – Billy Crystal, Nora Ephron, Meg Ryan, Bruno Kirby and Carrie Fisher… SUCH a great film.
dawnspitfire April 18, 2015
Reblogged this on dawnspitfire's blog and commented:
Wow. ..this is also the only film where he is prettier than she 😉 #distracting even.
Still love her though…and him ♡
We love Billy Crystal and Tom Hanks too of course. But DANG.:D


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is a Japanese fantasy novel series by Kenichi Kakutani, which is the president of the Kyoto-based company Wakasa Seikatsu. Discover 21 have published two volumes since July 2020 under their Discover Business Publishing imprint. A six-chapter manga adaptation with art by Kumiko Yamaguchi was serialized online via the Wakasa Seikatsu Bookstore website from September 2021 to 2022. It was collected in a single tankōbon volume. An anime film adaptation by Noovo premiered in Kyoto in July 2022.

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My experiments in confusion – Part-1: How many Jews does it take to confuse me?
My experiments in confusion – Part-1: How many Jews does it take to confuse me? Response to 'How many Rabbis does it take to create a Racist State?'
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The answer: Only one. Let me explain:
'In this particular case, it took 50 of them…' -- How many Rabbis does it take to create a Racist State?
'JERUSALEM (AFP) -- Fifty Israeli rabbis have signed an open letter warning Jews not to rent or sell property to non-Jews, saying those who do should be "ostracized," a copy of the letter showed on Tuesday.' -- December 07, 2010 'Don't rent to non-Jews,' Israeli rabbis warn
'Keep in mind that it is the Israeli himself that is the foreigner…. a fact that is way too often overlooked.' -- How many Rabbis does it take to create a Racist State?
But not according to the article by Ari Bussel, 'Israelis, Haters of Israel', appearing on December 9, 2010 at the Zionists' Canada Free Press:
'The Muslims have successfully engaged in deceiving the Western World. Deceit is permitted by their religion, even encouraged if it helps them attain their goals (of spreading Islam and reaching global dominance). It seems there was no one who excelled in it better, in recent history, than Arafat himself. He created the notion of a "Palestinian People," of some "Nationhood" and craving for Jerusalem as its "eternal capital." In short, he stole the Jewish-Zionist two thousand year history and rewrote it into his own narrative.
So successful was Arafat, that hardly even three decades later, the world itself stands saluting the idea of a Palestinian Statehood (in the boundaries of what was once known as Israel), with a Right of Return of millions of Palestinians that were kept in refugee camps throughout the Arab world, and with Jerusalem as their eternal capital.'
So, it appears that we have Jews piously arguing among themselves who "is the foreigner" and who has more "successfully engaged in deceiving the Western World".
Just as the Jews have argued pretty much about everything else under the sun from time immemorial.
Today, it spans the gamut from the invention of the Jewish peoples to the invention of the Palestinian peoples, from the King's Torah showing in how many ways the holy Jews can kill the unholy goy with Rabbinical blessings along with the holy Rabbis' latest Fatwa quoted above, to how many ways to settle the land of Canaan, which, as Shimon Perez put it on the occasion of the 60th Birthday bash when welcoming George W. Bush to Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion Airport: "Welcome to the new Israel: Three thousand years old, and going on sixty", while they all continue to live on occupied lands granted by imperial fiat.
Imperial fiat? Yes. Both, through one of empire's own instrument of the UN to legally sanction the theft of Palestine, ahem, the 1948 birth of the Jewish State after gratuitously Declaring the bold intention to birth-pang that fact into existence several years prior in 1917, and subsequently, through empire's active and tacit support for de-facto colonization since 1967 by sewing incremental fait accompli, i.e., sowing hard realities on the ground which are then argued as "impractical" to reverse.
So, even when I understand imperial fiat as it is pathetically public knowledge, whose claims can I believe? The guy who claims Jewish people are invented, or the guy who claims Palestinian peoples are invented? The guy who claims "Israeli himself that is the foreigner", or the guy who claims the Palestinians "stole the Jewish-Zionist two thousand year history and rewrote it into his own narrative"?
What confusion!
Okay, some might say, I can try to think for myself.
But when I try to do that, I run into conundrums and observe rather bizarre and funny things.
For example, the funny thing that I observe in this instance, is that when the Jews argue so energetically either side of dissent or consent, they also continue to live on the lands of the Palestinian peoples.
They continue to pay their taxes and spend their earnings into the Palestinian people's oppressors' economy.
And they continue to lend full legitimacy to the oppressors of the Palestinian peoples by being part of the very system of oppression, from economic to academic to military, by their very act of being there and spending their intellectual and physical earnings into that oppressive system, by their very act of carrying the oppressor state's identification papers, passport and travel documents, and by their very act of accepting the Jewish state's racial hospitality on the mere basis of their presumed Jewish bloodline, and most important of all, by their coming to live there eagerly when they were not themselves born there whereas those not of the right bloodline who were in fact born there are not permitted to live nor visit there!
And I find Palestinian peoples eagerly appreciating the support of these pious Jews in trying to liberate the Palestinians so very much!
I don't know about you, but I find that kinda bizarrely funny, at least in a Kafkaesque sort of way.
Here are two examples which illustrate this Kafkaesque humor more concretely than just the general empirical observations above which refer to no one in particular.
This first one is an example drawn from the late prof. Baruch Kimmerling, long time hero of many pious 'Left' Jews who glibly criticize their adopted homeland, the side which forcibly occupied Canaan most recently of course, from my essay: 'The endless trail of red herrings'. This essay was written when prof. Kimmerling was alive, and a draft was emailed to him for his comments which he replied with stony silence.
--- begin excerpt from 'The endless trail of red herrings'
Uri Avnery's confessional "I am an Israeli patriot," explains this enigma in as much clarity as the following gem from Baruch Kimmerling, another Israeli Patriot who calls Israel his land when he wasn't born there, and identifies himself in the oxymoronic category of "Jew, atheist, and Zionist" where the latter two may be consistent, but how does that pertain to being a Jew?
"As a Jew, an atheist and a Zionist, I have two memorial days in my country, Israel. One for the Holocaust and one for soldiers who fell in wars. I also have one day of celebration, the anniversary of the day Israel declared its statehood. [...] Independence Day is a holiday for me, but also an opportunity for intense self-introspection. A person needs a state and land, and this is my land, my homeland, despite the fact that I was not born here. I am proud of the unprecedented accomplishments of this country, and feel personally responsible for its failures, foolishness, injustice, evil, and its oppression of its citizens and residents (Jewish, Arab, and others) as well as of those who are defined and defined themselves as her enemies. I know that my holiday, a day of joy and pride for me, is a day of mourning and tragedy for some of Israel's citizens and, more so, for members of the Palestinian people everywhere. I know that as long as we, all Jews everywhere, do not acknowledge this, we will not be able to live here in safety, every man and woman under their vine and under their fig tree. Happy holidays, Israel." (My Holiday, Their Tragedy, 2002.)
Disingenuous self interest once again? Neither calling unequivocally for abolishing the apartheid state (as far as I am aware, and if they have already done so elsewhere, I eat crow with pleasure). And neither extending to the displaced Palestinians the privileges they apportion for themselves in Israel – making it their home when not being born there (although Uri Avnery may well have been I don't know, I have never met him) when they don't accord it to those who indeed were and were kicked out by the very founding of the state which Kimmerling is so proudly calling his independence day. He does indeed magnanimously calls for Jews acknowledging the suffering of the Palestinians so that he can live in peace in Israel, but not for remedying the injustice in the only just and moral way – but then, being an atheist, whence the source of morality? God is dead, Nietzsche is alive, and so are his mantle-bearing ubermensch! Witness it in his own essay the vacuous words without the concomitant unequivocal call to abolish apartheid and make it one homeland for those forcibly displaced by his independence day:
"The transformation of the Holocaust into a solely Jewish tragedy, as opposed to a universal event, only weakens its significance and its legitimacy, tarnishing us and the memory of the victims. Likewise, its unnecessary overuse by Jews in Israel and the rest of the world, particularly political bodies, has made the Holocaust banal. Above all, a provocative and dangerous approach has bought a place in our hearts: that Jews, as the victims of the Holocaust, are permitted to treat goyim however they want. Forceful and condescending, "anti-gentile-ism" is identical to criminal anti-Semitism. ... What can I do? A person is closer to his own friends, tribe, and people. Along with that, however, I cannot forget or refrain from mourning the victims of this bloody conflict and feel deep empathy with those who have suffered and still suffer as a result of the fatal encounter between Jews and Arabs in this land. I hope that the day will come when we will commemorate together and mourn together, Jews and Arabs alike, for all of the victims of the conflict. Only then will we be able to live together in this place in safety. ... I know that as long as we, all Jews everywhere, do not acknowledge this, we will not be able to live here in safety, every man and woman under their vine and under their fig tree." (My Holiday, Their Tragedy, 2002.)
I am sorry that I am less than impressed, despite the self-flagellation. "What can I do?" Kimmerling asks? Here are three immediate things a conscionable Israeli can do if he is a Moral-Activist (see example here): 1) Start a campaign to demand genuine justice – not mere words of contrition – by requiring the apartheid nature of the state and the "Berlin Wall" to be simultaneously demolished. 2) Stop paying taxes that contributes to the maintenance of the apartheid state. 3) As a conscionable person, leave Israel until such time that others who have more right to be there, on account of having being born there, and were forcibly evicted, are also allowed to return! To me, it appears that without any of the concomitant actions for Moral-Activism, the only reason Kimmerling calls for the recognition of the plight of the Palestinians is so that he and Zionist Jews like him can live in peace.
--- end excerpt from 'The endless trail of red herrings'
The second example is drawn from the recent new hero of many Palestinians, prof. Shlomo Sand, from my essay 'Palestine: The Struggle Forward'.
--- begin excerpt from 'Palestine: The Struggle Forward'
Recognizing such convolutions for what they are, is such a crucial and contemporary matter that it requires further elaboration. Professor Sholmo Sand is the new rage in the Palestinian town. Who hasn't heard of him or his book: The Invention of the Jewish People. He is a new hero among the Palestinians – well, among some at least, and like Professor Noam Chomsky before him, some excitedly carry him upon their head and shoulders just like they carry Professor Norm Finkelstein and many others. In fact, anyone from among the Jews who will sympathize with them becomes a new showcase for the Palestinians. Anna Baltzer is only the most recent example of that. Her leading performance with Dr. Mustafa Barghouti on American television left much to be desired. It is deconstructed here. [18] The indiscriminate attachment to Jewish sympathizers of Palestinian plight and permitting them to become the leading spokespersons for the Palestinians has been great for ensuring that the Palestinian narrative before the Western public is also controlled by the Jews – even though they be most earnest in their show of sympathy. The "soft Zionists" on the "left" have largely set the boundaries, or the book-ends, for the discourse on resolving Israel-Palestine in the West. Only a colonized mind accepts the victimizers to be their liberators. This is also a rather murky area and it is not easy to always know where to draw the line. Or whether there should even be a line in an honest common struggle when one sees enormously courageous Jews of conscience laying down their own precious lives on a matter of principle, like those in the ISM bearing witness to crimes against humanity and being shot dead by the Israelis. But let's just stay with the imposing Jewish academic in this article.
Look what Professor Shlomo Sand says in the following interview – and incidentally, after reading this interview, I lost all interest in reading his book which doesn't contain anything new for me anyway beyond what was revealed in The Thirteenth Tribe: Khazar Jews – The revelation of another Jewish hoax, By Arthur Koestler, 1976. It can be read here. [19]
Shlomo Sand's statements in Ha'aretz, 21/03/2008, Shattering a 'national mythology' By Ofri Ilani, can be read here. [20]
Begin Excerpt
"My initial intention was to take certain kinds of modern historiographic materials and examine how they invented the 'figment' of the Jewish people. But when I began to confront the historiographic sources, I suddenly found contradictions. And then that urged me on: I started to work, without knowing where I would end up. I took primary sources and I tried to examine authors' references in the ancient period – what they wrote about conversion."
"The supreme paradigm of exile was needed in order to construct a long-range memory in which an imagined and exiled nation-race was posited as the direct continuation of 'the people of the Bible' that preceded it,"
"I started looking in research studies about the exile from the land – a constitutive event in Jewish history, almost like the Holocaust. But to my astonishment I discovered that it has no literature. The reason is that no one exiled the people of the country. The Romans did not exile peoples and they could not have done so even if they had wanted to. They did not have trains and trucks to deport entire populations. That kind of logistics did not exist until the 20th century. From this, in effect, the whole book was born: in the realization that Judaic society was not dispersed and was not exiled."
[Interviewer]: If the people was not exiled, are you saying that in fact the real descendants of the inhabitants of the Kingdom of Judah are the Palestinians?
"No population remains pure over a period of thousands of years. But the chances that the Palestinians are descendants of the ancient Judaic people are much greater than the chances that you or I are its descendents. The first Zionists, up until the Arab Revolt [1936-9], knew that there had been no exiling, and that the Palestinians were descended from the inhabitants of the land. They knew that farmers don't leave until they are expelled. Even Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, the second president of the State of Israel, wrote in 1929 that, 'the vast majority of the peasant farmers do not have their origins in the Arab conquerors, but rather, before then, in the Jewish farmers who were numerous and a majority in the building of the land.'"
[Interviewer] Why do you think the idea of the Khazar origins is so threatening?
"It is clear that the fear is of an undermining of the historic right to the land. The revelation that the Jews are not from Judea would ostensibly knock the legitimacy for our being here out from under us. Since the beginning of the period of decolonization, settlers have no longer been able to say simply: 'We came, we won and now we are here' the way the Americans, the whites in South Africa and the Australians said. There is a very deep fear that doubt will be cast on our right to exist."
End Excerpt
If Professor Sand himself argues that there is no such thing as a Jewish people, and the Arab Palestinians are the original inhabitants of Palestine, then on what basis does he say the following:
[Interviewer] Is there no justification for this fear?
"No. I don't think that the historical myth of the exile and the wanderings is the source of the legitimization for me being here, and therefore I don't mind believing that I am Khazar in my origins. I am not afraid of the undermining of our existence, because I think that the character of the State of Israel undermines it in a much more serious way. What would constitute the basis for our existence here is not mythological historical right, but rather would be for us to start to establish an open society here of all Israeli citizens." (emphasis added)
It is common among this breed of scholarly Zionists – which is perhaps why they also remain light-years ahead of the Palestinians – to argue among themselves not just whether Palestinians are a people (as both Moshe Katsav, Israel's former President, and Raphael Eitan, former Chief of Staff of the IDF, have variously pondered; it can be read here [21]), but also whether even Jews are a people. It's even reported in the New York Times: Scholars Debate Roots of Yiddish, Migration of Jews, October 29, 1996, which can be read here. [22]
There is nothing new Professor Shlomo Sand has to offer Palestinians in the Zionist's endless cycle of their own myth-constructions and their own myth-destruction, except a new twisted justification for the invaders to continue to occupy Palestine, despite himself arguing that he does not have any roots there! But wait, he is not packing up to leave as a matter of conscience, as a matter of principle, after learning all that truth about the myths he had been fed. Now, it is the new mantra of "establish an open society here of all Israeli citizens."!
It's akin to a robber comes into my house, takes over on the pretext of an asinine justification that god gave this land to his ancestors and I am the illegal occupant of his house; me and my children spend all our lives trying to show that world that the robber is not only criminal taking over my house but also an expert liar; then, a few years later, the robbers' children and grandchildren create a different drama, some showcasing books variously showing a) that there is no god and "in the age of atheism, the Jewish people can no longer base its existence on God but only on itself alone, on its labor, on its land, and on its state", and b) that even there is no Jewish people; but the current crop of legatees still want to stay in my house which he illegally occupied to start with?
Is that absurd? But not in Alice in Wonderland.
--- end excerpt from 'Palestine: The Struggle Forward'
I find these specific cases and those like them both perplexing and funny when I begin to think for myself. I don't rightly know what to make of it.
Perhaps it is easiest to forget such paradoxes, chalk them up to life's minor inconsistencies, and just move on?
It's evidently too costly to think anyway. It can cause one to lose valued friends and allies, comfort zones and treadmills, heroes and hero-worship.
But I would like to ask Jews who evidently think for themselves, what should I make of such funny conundrums? What do you make of them?
And since many respectable Palestinian thinkers demonstrate such sympathy and solidarity with Jewish dissent emanating from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, perhaps I can ask them too what do they do with such paradoxes. Do they simply ignore them?
Or do they take the easy way out like me and seriously consider stopping the onerous burden of thinking for themselves? The Jews most eloquently think for both sides of the divide anyway, thus certainly sparing the Palestinians any trouble.
I am most confused!
How many Jews does it take to confuse me?
Certainly not 50 pious Rabbis hell bent on exercising their chosen people's imperatives.
That categorical imperative I can quite understand.
It draws upon the ancient custom known as 'might is right'.
All rational and independent thought, all moral sense, all commonsense, must ultimately bow before that categorical imperative by definition.
No, it takes only one moral Jew to confuse me.
One single Jew who lives in Israel, is not born there, and proclaims Palestinian rights!
I would, I believe, be considerably less confused if all the pious Jews not born in Palestine but still living there – just because they are Jews and were given priority to immigrate there on that basis alone over those Palestinians who were born there, whose parents and grandparents were born there and forcibly evicted under state sponsored terrorism, and prevented from returning to their own ancestral continuously inhabited place of birth by the same state sponsored terrorism – were to first vacate their own personal occupation of another's home and rightfully return back to where they came from, BEFORE they started clamoring for Palestinian rights. It might be less confusing, and also more convincing, to those who dare to think independently.
I hope I may be forgiven this transgression of independent thought – it is surely a minefield and has confused the hell out of me – and I do believe the Rabbis have also forbidden the goy from thinking independently from the Jews precisely for that reason. We tend to get confused easily when we think on our own.
Isn't there also a clause in the King's Torah that any goy found thinking independently from the Jews should be immediately killed as he or she represents a potential threat to the very existence of the Jewish State? I do in fact recall statements from the King's Torah reproduced in several articles by other Jews including Gilad Atzmon's, that any goy who poses any threat to the legitimacy of the Jewish State, or to the Jews, can legally be killed by the Jews, preemptively.
Desire for such preemption, the killing of the goy in cold blood, in self-defense of course, was precisely expressed by Lawrence Kulak, writing for '5 Towns Jewish Times' 5tjt.com, 11/12/2008 (cached here):
'"Muslims believe in the literal interpretation of the Biblical doctrine of an eye for an eye, and they do not have respect for anything perceived as a lesser standard of justice. They killed our innocents, and unless we kill theirs, they will go on killing ours. The Torah, however, preaches a doctrine which, if implemented by the West, could finally put an end to all Islamic terror: If somebody is coming to kill you, rise up and kill him first."'
Such humble attempt at independent thinking as demonstrated here, surely poses a threat to the very existence of the Jewish state – for what if hundreds of thousands of Jews of the 4.5 million living on usurped lands, choosing not to be damn hypocrites anymore, suddenly left the Jewish state and renounced their ill-gotten citizenship of the racist oppressive state?
What if that number swelled to a million? Two million? They all, or most of them anyway, retain their original nationalities and passports, and there is no practical difficulties for them returning back once they recognize the very immorality of their being there due to their race alone when those who were born there cannot return!
Lighting such a fire in the mind of moral Jewish men and moral Jewish women of Israel, their Metanoia, surely qualifies as a dire threat to the very existence of the pariah Jewish State?
And thus easily become their target of assassination – who can hide from the almighty Mossad hitman anywhere in the world if Victor Ostrovsky is to be believed?
Could such precariousness of independent thought possibly be the reason why Palestinians often like the Jews to think for them and thus never encounter such funny absurdities in all their struggles from the safety of their forced Diaspora?
Is this also why courageous Palestinian leaders on ground zero who shy not from taking a bullet to their brains from the Israeli soldier who may or may not fire at them for their physical defiance, somehow prefer to not be assassinated for sure by Mossad for demonstrating their intellectual defiance?
For, these brave Palestinians evidently prefer to be accompanied by a beautiful Jewish voice, and principally permit her to plead for the Palestinians, as this chap, Dr. Mustafa Barghouti, did on prime time television. As I said, I get easily confused when trying to think for myself. From coast to coast, and continent to continent, excited Palestinians and their Jewish supporters cheered that finally the Palestinians' plight was heard on mainstream American television from a most beautiful and most eloquent American Jew who had suddenly woken up to the grotesque reality in the Holy lands and therefore had no reason to be biased. In fact, the narrative of the Jewish voice was almost mirrored by the Palestinian leader as well, sharing all the same axioms with precision. I must evidently be a very lonely fool to have tried this experiment of actually thinking for myself, because I came away rather confused by all this amidst the roaring applause of the supporters. That episode is narrated at length in 'Rescuing a Failed Struggle From Its Narratives'.
I could go on and on about my strange experiments with independent thinking. But I'll just end now. I will sheepishly admit though that I certainly used to enjoy life much better when I permitted others to think for me. My confusions then were much less about absurdities and almost entirely about whom to believe. It didn't matter if they were Jews, or Muslims, Christians, or atheists. Even a monkey was fine provided it came wearing a robe with 'expert' tattooed upon its forehead. I only had to choose from among the many competing experts, often going with the ones who represented my a priori world views the best. I never needed to forge my own thoughts independently.
Now, even a single moral Jew can send me off into deep convulsions of Kafkaesque proportions, as does most every other expert I encounter. Perhaps I am going about this free-thinking business all wrong? Perhaps there is some happy halfway compromise to fully independent thinking which will also help me gain friends and influence people?
So, thanks in advance for any enlightenment, and corrections to my method.
Source URL: http://print-humanbeingsfirst.blogspot.com/2010/12/how-many-jews-does-it-take-to-confuse.html
Source PDF (Rothschild Pamphlet): https://sites.google.com/site/humanbeingsfirst/download-pdf/pamphlet-the-invisible-house-of-rothschild-by-zahirebrahim.pdf
PDF (Palestine Pamphlet 2012) URL: https://sites.google.com/site/humanbeingsfirst/download-pdf/pamphlet-how-to-return-to-palestine-this-day-forward-5-15-2010-by-zahirebrahim-2ed.pdf
PDF (Palestine Pamphlet 2013-2015) URL: http://sites.google.com/site/humanbeingsfirst/download-pdf/pamphlet-undoing-the-theft-of-palestine-zahirebrahim.pdf
PDF (Oligarchic Primacy For World Government 2015) URL: http://sites.google.com/site/humanbeingsfirst/download-pdf/book-poor-mans-guide-to-modernity-9th-edition-2015-zahirebrahim.pdf
First Published December 10, 2010 | Links fixed January 31, 2016 | Excerpts shaded for clarity October 28, 2016
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