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Chavez Distinguished by Faith, Spirituality
Article by J. Michael Parker, Originally Published on the OST Blog
For many Latinos, Cesar Chavez was the standard bearer for a revolution in empowerment and the inspiration for good causes, but his abiding faith and deep spirituality were what truly distinguished him, his son Paul Chavez said.
The younger Chavez was the main keynote speaker Sept. 22 at Oblate School of Theology's Institute of Spirituality and Social Justice, whose theme was "Faith Seeking Justice." He said his father was a beacon of hope whom many saw as the Gospels in action.
"He led peregrinaciones (pilgrimages), not just marches. At the head of the peregrinacions was a standard of Our Lady of Guadalupe, the patron saint of Mexico. Masses were celebrated during union conventions and other union functions. His fasts were not hunger strikes (political acts to get someone to do something); his fasts first and foremost were directed at himself. They were acts of penitence in the Catholic tradition…for what he perceived to be his shortcomings as a leader," said the civil rights leader's son, who is President of the Cesar Chavez Foundation in Keene, Calif.
He said his father's vision was much bigger than better wages, hours and working conditions. In the 1980s, Chavez and the Rev. Chris Hartmire wrote a Prayer for the Farm Workers that still guides the United Farm Workers and the Cesar Chavez Foundation. It's not solely for the farm workers, either, his son pointed out. It's also for others, because Chavez was convinced that God is present in every person and that non-violence was more successful than violence. "He would say, 'When you practice non-violence, then you are in control of the fight, instead of reacting to attacks from your opposition." He saw violence as a shortcut for angry, frustrated people," and Chavez didn't believe in shortcuts.
"My father also understood that grape strikers were not just struggling for better wages and conditions; they were really struggling for respect. He knew that violence might scare the growers into concessions but it would never earn their respect," Paul Chavez explained.
During his first long fast, Chavez prayed and reflected on his own actions and shortcomings. He lost 35 pounds in 25 days, but as followers saw his suffering, the younger Chavez said, "they asked themselves, 'If he's willing to die for his beliefs, what more am I willing to do?'" The talk of violence stopped, and the grape strikers kept sacrificing for two and a half years. The boycott persuaded the growers to sign their first union contracts in 1970 and established the first enduring farm workers' union in U.S. history.
Cesar Chavez firmly believed that real change would never come unless farm workers took personal responsibility for building their own union. He declared that how workers used their lives would determine what kind of men they were. "The truest act of courage, the strongest act of manliness, is to sacrifice ourselves in a totally nonviolent struggle for justice," his son quoted him as saying. "To be a man is to struggle for others. God help us to be men."
In his 31 years leading the farmer workers' union, Cesar Chavez had many more defeats than victories, but he declared, "Victory is ours if we persist, if we resist, and if we refuse to give up."
A Catholic, Chavez drew inspiration from African American Protestant church services with their enthusiastic singing and clapping, as well as from the Southern civil rights movement's songs such as "We Shall Overcome," and the Catholic Cursillo Movement. The farm workers used a variety of art forms to enliven the spirit of their movement and to celebrate life. Paul Chavez recalled that his father fostered a community in which thousands joined him to work for social justice and to live out the principles of nonviolence, self-sacrifice and service.
He moved the union headquarters from Delano, Calif., to a place he christened Nuestra Señora de la Paz (Our Lady, Queen of Peace) on 187 acres in Keene, in the mountains near Bakersfield. It offered Chavez and many others a place of peace where they could rest and renew themselves for later battles. He invited the Brazilian Archbishop Dom Helder Camara, actor Anthony Quinn and Mexican singer Cornelio Reyna to speak to the community.
Paul Chavez recalled that his father maintained relationships with Catholic and Protestant organizations that organized people around things other than money, such as Catholic religious orders, the Bruderhof Christian sects who served the poor, Dorothy Day's Catholic Worker movement and Hare Krishna communities.
"My father understood the strength of community," the younger Chavez commented. "When people work and eat together, it can be very powerful. At La Paz, people drew strength from one another and lived their lives for a common cause," he said. Today, countless U.S. communities honor Cesar Chavez with schools and streets named for him, and 11 states include his birthday as an official holiday. In 1994, Chavez was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Bill Clinton.
Yet Chavez never saw himself as a hero; in fact, he was uncomfortable being singled out for recognition, refused most personal awards and rarely allowed anyone to name something for him. He ensured that his movement remembered five martyrs who lost their lives during the farm workers' strikes – Nan Freeman (Jewish), Nagi Daifallah (Muslim), Juan de la Cruz, Rufino Contreras and Rene Lopez (Catholics).

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Q: Проблема политики безопасности Flash приложения Имеется Node.js сервер с установленной библиотекой Socket.IO. А так же Flash приложение, использующее для соединения с этим сервером библиотеку socket.io-flash
Если сервер находится в localhost — то при компиляции в Flash Builder, приложение подключается к серверу.
Если сервер находится по адресу (в интернете) 123.123.123.123:10081 - то при компиляции в Flash Builder, приложение тоже подключается к серверу.
Если я выкладываю приложение в Контакт, которое коннектится к адресу 123.123.123.123:10081 - приложение выдаёт ошибку политики безопасности.
Flash приложение первым делом (как я понимаю) запрашивает файл политики безопасности с порта 843. Тогда я поставил на Node.js библиотеку FlashPolicyFileServer и запустил её собственно на 843 порт для отдачи этого файла.
Вот код сервера:
    var pf = require('policyfile').createServer();
    pf.listen(843, function(){
        console.log(':: Server FlashSocketPolicyFile run ::');
    });

    var io = require('socket.io').listen(10081);
    //io.set('log level', 1);

    io.sockets.on('connection', function (socket) {
        console.log('Пользователь подключился: '+socket.id);

        socket.on('message', function(message, callback) {
            console.log('Сообщение: '+message+'   callback: '+callback);
        });

        socket.on('disconnect', function() {
            console.log('Пользователь отключился: '+socket.id);
        });
    });

    console.log(':: Server run ::');

Но это не помогло, приложение, выложенное вконтакт, всё так же выдавало ошибку политики безопасности. При этом если перейти по адресу (в интернете) 123.123.123.123:843 — сервер выдавал файл политики безопасности:
<cross-domain-policy>
<allow-access-from domain="*" to-ports="*"/>
</cross-domain-policy>

В чём может быть моя ошибка?!

A: Код сервера тут не причем. Тебя сам Flash клиент просит поднять demon для отдачи policy file. Создай отдельно файлик policy.js. И стартуй его.
net = require("net");

function p(text) {
    var date = new Date();
    console.log('['+date.getHours()+':'+date.getMinutes()+':'+date.getSeconds()+':'+date.getMilliseconds()+'] '+text);
}

function onConnect(socket) {

    socket.write("<?xml version=\"1.0\"?>\n");
    socket.write("<!DOCTYPE cross-domain-policy SYSTEM \"http://www.adobe.com/xml/dtds/cross-domain-policy.dtd\">\n");
    socket.write("<!-- Policy file for xmlsocket://socks.mysite.com -->\n");
    socket.write("<cross-domain-policy>\n");
    socket.write("<allow-access-from domain=\"*\" to-ports=\"*\" />\n");
    socket.write("</cross-domain-policy>\n");

    socket.end();

    socket.on('error', function(err) {
        p('Error policy file : '+err.stack);
    });

}
net.createServer(onConnect).listen(843);

Если ты делаешь игру для Вконтакте, то аватарки чтобы работали (со всех серверов).
Политик файл нужен http://site.com/crossdomain.xml.
Иначе с одного сервера будут показываться автарки, с другого нет.

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an interview with Will Barrett at Sabotage reviews - a turning point
I decided in this interview to be more direct about my aesthetic opinions than I had ever done before. Why that is so is extremely complex. All I will say is this is result of years of considered thought, many missteps, much doubt and a constant desire to pressure test my ideas. I have finally reached the point that I believe firmly in these notions and that I can stand by them, they have been mettled. Of course revisions will come, but this seems the truth, as far as my opinion goes.
I have received a remarkable volume of heartfelt messages of support from people after the interview, and to those people I am exceedingly grateful. And I am grateful to Will too, and to Sabotage. And to everyone who has disagreed, and who has done so acknowledging, as I hope I have, that people are more than poetry.
The interview runs over 5000 words, so I won't post it all. In fact just the first question. It can be found in full http://sabotagereviews.com/2015/03/10/its-all-one-enormous-blancmange-an-interview-with-s-j-fowler/ Please do check it out.
WB I think for this interview we should stick mostly to your collection The Rottweiler's Guide to the Dog Owner, which came out last year on Eyewear. For anyone completely new to your work, and this book, what advice would you give them as readers? Let's assume they're not very familiar with 20th or 21st century poetry.
SJF Okay, so I'm going to hit you with a deluge. Do forgive me, please take it as me taking your questions seriously. The advice I can give is theoretical rather than contextual, in that if you have what is a traditional, or shall we say dominant, notion of what poetry is, my poetry won't mean much to you.
There is a profound error made about what poetry is, that pre-dominates in the UK, and beyond, but definitely in the UK right now in 2015. Poetry is made of language, not of emotions. Its building blocks are letters and words and the often fractious relationships to the meanings we attribute to these materials. This is the starting point of any poem, any text. Moreover, the poem exists as a physical thing, first seen, then read. Its context and its appearance, has great power, alongside its meaning. Language is the material of conversation, and of thought (perhaps, somewhat), and poetry, unlike music, has to work within the material of its own consideration and concept. What I mean by this is that poetry uses the thing we use to conceive and express all things. Music, visual art, sculpture – they do not. That is, unfortunately, their advantage in our time.
Therefore, very simply, poetry is, to me, the thing we do that uses this language material for something other than conversation or declaration. How is it, then, that the majority of poetry, or what most people know poetry to be, is essentially a conversation with oneself? Most poetry is first person 'I', narrative, subjective, descriptive, anecdotal and sentimental. It enforces a singular, limited notion of self-hood (one authorial voice) and employs language for its everyday function. It conceives emotional expressiveness, or 'insight', as the last moment of poetry, the crowning moment. Whereas, in reality, it is the first moment – an adolescent urge to express one's feeling, one's emotions and experiences, directly, often quite literally. Assuming a myriad of things, perhaps worse of all, the assumption that is interesting to other people. It brooks no ambiguity of meaning in its content, and it mistakes realism, or descriptive narrative (with occasional adjective flourish or familiar metaphor) for reality. It emphasises the romantic notion that the poet has a god given gift, that they are inspired by a muse, an essentially theological aesthetics (the poet alone with their god). It is Calvinist, the lucky few are born chosen. Moreover is represents a bizarrely specific type of writing, one we have come to know as 'poetic', one that is of a very certain time, and world of language, and that is now, horrifically retrograde.
For me, poetry is about the human animal in wonderment about the very possibility of language at all. It should be about refracting and reflecting and mulching the endless and idiosyncratic world of language, its materials, its meaning and the expression of that which surround us all differently. The poet's 'gift' is the skill, attention and uniqueness of this refraction. This then is a poetry that reflects our world. It is one that keeps pace. It allows for a poetry that takes in data, algorithms, the changing nature of speech, the changes in our very cognition due to technology and so on. It is a poetry that allows us to be the multiple people we are, from our varying moods, to our varying languages, to our feelings in and out, and at the edges of expression. It does not hoot the same horn for forty years. And it is a poetry where the meaning is not closed. The reader should complete a poem with their world of meaning and language and understanding. The poet confronts the material of all conception and displaces and displays it for others to understand.
This is probably reads as shrill, but it is not a myth. If the situation we have in poetry was applied to other artistic fields it would be as though painters in 2015 could really only be known for painting pastoral landscapes, or contemporary composers could only write melodies in order to gain widespread acclaim. Of course they could toil away in obscurity, trying to respond to the actual world around them and not the romantic tradition hundreds of years deep, but we'd call them 'experimental', and gently shift them to the margins. This first-person anecdotal mode of poetry is the absolutely dominant in prizes and festivals in the UK. The fact is, there are thousands of poets in this country and around the world that have reacted to the same stimulus as those in the art world, the developments of thought, and of life, in the post-war era. They are just not known. They certainly have not been lauded or recognised here.
This comes down to a few simple factors, and this is the best way to introduce my work, through its aspiration. Rich aesthetic experience, be it poetry, music, art – requires attention. It requires context, theory and concentration to engage with it, to appreciate it, to develop a taste for it. It requires investment. A Rothko takes time to understand, to reflect itself back onto you, to represent the majesty of the non-literal – the moods that escape description in conversational language. A Schoenberg piece requires multiple listens, to attune oneself to the layering, the brilliance that sits in between the complex sounds that lie outside of our ordinary ear. Why is a poem expected to offer gratification immediately? I am attracted to that which requires me to work toward understanding, and that requires me to grow in perception. How have we come to value reduction? To mistake a flowery speech or an anecdote broken into lines as a poem?
To my eyes, most poems are bad speeches, and this is where spoken word sits even further beyond what I take poetry to be. It is most often a speech, given in exhortation, performed in a contrived rhythm. It allows for no misunderstanding of meaning, brooks no ideological inquiry and tells its readers or listeners what they already know, and by and large agree with. It takes for granted that language has situated, static meanings and it mistakes speech without rigour for poetry, and couches this in affectation. If I asked what differentiates a dominant/traditional or spoken word poem from a sentimental anecdote or a banal political speech you could perhaps point to the former being in lines and the latter being a block of words. There is no difference, generally speaking, otherwise.
And before you think this is just aesthetic malingering, all of this is underpinned by a fundamental, ethical choice about how we see existence. When confronted with the unknowable, adversarial, immensity of life – just take mortality itself, that everything is permeated on our absolute certainty of aging towards expiry – you can either admit your limitations and be grateful for life itself, a life lived in confusion, or you can try and make up an answer to all, and pretend you have control. The traditional, dominant mode of poetry is founded upon the notion that the poet can control language to represent the profound experiences of life. In so doing they employ means which are less than the things they wish to represent. In anecdotes, observation and conversation, and with sentiment, they reduce the world onto their pages. They transfuse life. Faced with overwhelming complexity, the response is assuredness. This is disingenuous at best, ignorant at worst. The contemporary, or what is called experimental poet, is making what is immensely complex in existence equally complex in language. This is what my work is about.
Tags interview, sabotage, reviews, will, barrett, sj, fowler, steven, modernism, vanguard, avant, garde, poetry, poem, poet
it remains sonic occultation - an interview with Will Alexander for 3am magazine
http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/interview-will-alexander/ Any lineage one might trace to the poetry of Will Alexander could only be made up of those who defied formal influences – originators – Will Alexander is firmly in the tradition of the pioneer. More than that, more than just being original, he is authentic. And more than just being a resonate, profound, distinct voice in American poetry over the late 20th and early 21st century, his poetics are so grand, exponential, luminous and visionary, that his singular voice, unmistakable as it is, is the all the more remarkable for its rootedness. No less than expanding beyond consciousness, beyond prosaic dimensions of language and understanding, his praxis is exploration – through art, physics, botany, history, astronomy, architecture, all becomes poetry, mulch for refraction through the poet, who is made up of the endlessness of language and experience. His is a poetry ever growing through the page, through the expectations of poet and reader and on into something else, which cannot be so easily defined or described, lest it not be poetry. To celebrate his visit to the Contemporary Poetics Research Centre, Birkbeck college, London, to share his work with European audiences, we present an interview with Will Alexander.
3:AM:A profound achievement of your work I think is to make an identity purely through your language and its content in flux, rather than the positing of your own authorial presence. Many achieve the occlusion of the authorial identity, but few are able to form something that takes its place through the sheerness of their work, through the language becoming its own identity. Is this an active process in your writing?
Will Alexander: To say it succinctly language is life and life being motion what follows is the intuitive understanding that creative language cannot be plotted by contiguous, or what I would call verbal architectural planning. For me it is suffused with explosive electrical motion, wayward, encyclopedic, seismic – alive by means of seeming disorder. Which does not allow for the controlling posture of "the author", anchored as he or she is by extrinsic classification....
plus a poem, original to 3am magazine, a Nexus of Phantoms http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/anexusofphantomswillalexander/
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Will Alexander reading at Birkbeck, London - Dec 2nd
Birkbeck Contemporary Poetics Research Centre is delighted to welcome Will Alexander. A rare chance to hear him read in London. Monday 2 December, Keynes Library, 43 Gordon Square, WC1, 7pm. All welcome.
Los Angeles poet Will Alexander works in multiple genres: the novel, essay, aphorism, play, philosophy, visual art, and music (as pianist). His influences range from poetic practitioners, such as Aimé Césaire, Bob Kaufman, Andre Breton, Antonin Artaud, and Philip Lamantia, to the encompassing paradigm of Sri Aurobindo's Integral Yoga, and the Egyptian worldview as understood by Cheikh Anta Diop and R.A. Schwaller de Lubicz. His work explores the fields of art, physics, botany, history, astronomy, architecture, and poetics, amongst others. Alexander's books include Kaleidoscopic Omniscience, Asia and Haiti, The Sri Lankan Loxodrome, Compression and Purity, Sunrise In Armageddon, Diary As Sin, Inside the Earthquake Palace, Towards The Primeval Lightning Field, and Mirach Speaks To His Grammatical Transparents. His collected essays, Singing in Magnetic Hoofbeat (Essay Press, 2013) received an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation.
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/will-alexander / http://ndbooks.com/author/will-alexander
Tags alexander, birkbeck, centre, contemporary, london, poetics, poetry, research, will
Will Rowe anthology by Veer books
To celebrate the reading which celebrates the career of Will Rowe on the eve of his retirement from Birkbeck college and the Contemporary Poetics Research Centre, Veer books, of which Will is one of the founders, have published a remarkable anthology of original work dedicated to Will and his achievements. The poets include Bruce Andrews, Allen Fisher, Peter Jaeger, Alan Halsey, Geraldine Monk, Sean Bonney, Maggie O'Sullivan, and many others, and my work, written specifically for Will, found, pictured, below. Go here and email them and buy a copy! http://www.veerbooks.com/
Tags anthology, birkbeck, books, rowe, veer, will
Will Rowe - the pre-eminent British Vanguard critic of the latter 20th century
I have the great privilege of being associated with Will Rowe in a number of ways. He edited my book Fights for Veer, he was pivotal in my early involvement with the Writers forum and he is my doctoral supervisor. I am perhaps biased when calling him the most considerable scholar of the avant garde in this country of the last half century, eye to eye with Eric Mottram. As Stephen Watts said so eloquently at this event, held for Will's retirement, and absolutely packed to the rafters with admirers, friends, colleagues, well wishers and some of the best poets of his generation and the two or three following, Will is the consummate witness - never disturbing the integrity of his subjects, the great avant gardists of our time, but complimenting them, growing an understanding of their work and their selves, always alongside. Integrity is the word I would associate with Will, integrity and responsibility. Will's vast career is a testament to a life spent in pursuit of an ideal, and one which has been wholly successful. It is humbling to be before it, so very much aware my own piffling journey is just
beginning. This was a great evening. A day of talks were rounded off with a three hour reading session which featured some of the finest and warmest and most intense readings I've witnessed. Often I believe the London avant garde community has elements of stand offishness which can create unfortunately tapered atmospheres, but not on this day, so far away was that feeling of defence. This was all about celebration, about a genuine feeling of respect. Sean Bonney, Martin Bakero, Carol Watts were just a few whose variant styles and performances genuinely captivated everyone. It was delightful to see people come from around the globe to celebrate Will and his work, and all the more so that we could all share it in one place at one time, in an environment that truly represented his achievement.
Tags birkbeck, bonney, carol, celebration, martin bakero, reading, retirement, rowe, sean, stephen, watts, will


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Hurricane Watcher - The Lady's Not For Turning
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13 Jun, 16 tweets, 5 min read
(1) Thread: Left vs right in 2021
If you read Thomas Sowell or any other free markets economist or thinker, you can learn why the left is now on the ascendancy in so many countries.
Where did the "right" go so wrong?
(2) IMO, when right wing parties fail to get their economic messages across, a lot of ground is ceded, & a lot of damage can be done to a country. During a pandemic or other crisis it's x1,000.
Then add in extremism. (Actually, don't do that, OK?)
https://twitter.com/FreedomFriesInc/status/1396410386354622464
(3) The extremist ideology and tactics that were escalated by most of the GOP leadership in the past 18 months has blown away any hope of reaching new voters, or keeping the ones they had.
(4) Because of the current GOP leadership's deathlike grip on their "#MoveOn from 1/6" false narrative, I can't support them anymore. And I certainly can't get far in challenging Democrats' anti-free market policies, bc the GOP atm is rotten to the core re domestic terrorism.
(5) Which brings me to the main point of this thread.
I'm 50-ish and can remember a USA in which most people trusted the democratic process enough to discuss issues and resolve them peacefully. Pretty much everyone was clear on what terrorism is and what to do about it.
(6) Both sides have an extremist wing that needs to be kept contained so that the grown-ups can get on with the job in peace.
For now, the far right is a far more clear and present danger to the US than the far left. (GOP won't even concede this point.) fbi.gov/file-repositor…
(7) While I wait for the proper 1/6 accountability to be sought (largely through the criminal courts) I've brought my attn back to economic, social, & natsec policy. (The latter includes counter-terrorism, led by the DHS.)
Because one day we might all get back to that.
(8) Discussing economics with the followers of the left in 2021 is very different to say 1991, because there was a higher level of education and understanding of the subject. It's truly alarming to read survey results of college students on this stuff.
(9) I won't do it here very often now. My hunch is that at least among people over 30 years old, there is a lot of emotional and physical exhaustion from the events of the last decade or so, & then the pandemic arrived.
Most are too busy with their lives to care about politics.
(10) It's those voters, the moderates & swing voters, that must be reached in order to have a chance at winning elections.
Younger folk tend to have a more B&W view of politics, & now tend to insert it into every aspect of life. That's a known selling tactic of extremists, BTW.
(11) Non-moderates on both sides believe their opponents are trying to change the electoral system in their own favor, because demographic shifts mean "they can't win it any other way."
Seriously. They both use that false assertion. It's sad to watch.
(12) So I found a new dimension of the current divide. Not just left v right, it's also young vs middle aged/older voters. (*Yes these are generalizations, deal with it. If you learned about the subject.)
Trust in institutions is near rock bottom in the US. Other countries too.
(13) Restoring trust in institutions is vital if the US & others are to rediscover the beauty of a truly peaceful transfer of power, & how that flows on to all aspects of having a rules-based country & world.
My perspective is foreign, and I think that adds a bit of value.
(14) I'm more likely than most to dig in to the political history of many countries, looking for patterns & differences.
Unfortunately there are & were many dictatorships/ authoritarian regimes all over the world. Their actions are more telling than if they're left/ right.
(15) All authoritarian regimes use similar tactics to seize & maintain power.
Some folk in both US major parties work toward that goal year in, year out. They play the long game (another accusation both toss at their opponent.)
Anti-hypocrisy has never been more necessary.
(16) Summary: Don't expect most folk to work on the assumption that healthy civic discourse & institutions are critically important, or even possible.
I continue speaking into the void in case someone out there wants to listen. It helps me, too.
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(1) My sincere condolences to the family and friends of Christopher Sign.
Here's a short thread with some background into what the internet will be talking about today in relation to his death.
Nowadays when I write about those claiming #Arkancide is real, I pull no punches.
https://twitter.com/HARRISFAULKNER/status/1403877933513461760
(2) I'm the first to admit that years ago I believed that at least a few of the so-called Arkancide cases likely were homicides, not suicides. I still don't know if they were, and nor do you.
I later changed my view and in 2019 became so furious I wrote about it (next tweet)
(3) Please note the context of the below thread; the date on which it was written, and proximal events.
It represents my attempt to accurately (at the time) assess the threat level of the "Q" movement that would later be implicated in 1/6/21.
Current mood: Savoring the musicality and memories of my favorite song for the past 23 years. Dr HW prescribes it for both the down times and the up times.
Life lesson: You make it happen in your life, no one else will, or can. #YouGetWhatYouGive
I'm aware this the greatest one hit wonder of the 1990s was also Beau Biden's song.🇺🇸 Let's call it even, bc most of us around in 1998 who heard the song loved it too.
I was gutted they didn't keep going, but I get it. Unwilling to do the round of promoting gigs & albums.
The lyrics are so good, every one of them.
I can't tell you how many times I thought of or played this song to get me through difficulties. Not going to complain but yeah, I've had my fair share of troubles in five decades. Songs like this were a big part of surviving them.
(1) Thread: The self-exiled Harry recently claimed his father was a bad parent, and he had no kind words to say about anyone in his "family of origin," except his late mother, who can't be called to testify.
Watch this short 1992 clip:
(2) I remember watching the great royal wedding of 1981, then seeing two newborn princes carried down the steps of the Lindo Wing in 1982 and 1984, respectively.
That short clip from Balmoral shows the 10 and 8 year old brothers relaxing as they kick around a soccer ball.
(3) It was 1993 not 1992, sorry. I watched the clip a few times, listened to Charles' wise words, and noted the body language throughout.
After the past few months I like and respect my two future Kings even more than I did before. William has really come into his own.
(1) A quick thread about my pinned tweet of June 1, 2021.
And some updates to my profile bio. A huge proportion of 2016 and 2020 Trump voters admired Margaret Thatcher & her economic, social, & national security policies.
They're ignoring that now.
(2) Trump & the GOP were in a good position electorally in January 2020. But he & they threw it all away, for nothing.
Sure, they blame the pandemic. Some of us don't tend to buy excuses. We prefer logic & evidence.
Anyone living in the UK between the 1960s & the 90s gets it.
(3) Don't call it "The Troubles." It was an ethno-nationalist separatist IRA insurgency campaign that murdered more than 3,500 people and injured more than 50,000.
If 1/6 isn't properly addressed, you will see something similar in the USA.
(1) Thread: Public figures and mental health.
I'm glad Naomi Osaka has withdrawn from this event and of course I hope she gets the help she needs.
Prior to this announcement a lot of people were angry with her, including me.
https://twitter.com/naomiosaka/status/1399422304854188037
(2) IMO this unfortunate saga would not have happened if her manager (who she employs) had given her better advice & arranged for an excellent sports psychologist to work with her. Now, it may turn out that her manager did do this, we'll see. I can only work from what is public.
(3) As someone who has PTSD myself, I believe I understand the kind of issues at stake here. I welcome the increased focus on mental health issues throughout society we've all seen of late. I detest it when people fake it or publicly blame others who can't defend themselves.
For those who believe Sicknick's stroke right after an improvised chemical weapon was sprayed in his face is just a coincidence,
The mob trampled a woman to death
Two cops suicided from the PTSD
The cop who had to use lethal force on Babbitt is being doxxed by the far right
https://twitter.com/labyrinthweaver/status/1398348159949021186
That's right. Q cult victim Ashli Babbitt tried to climb through a broken window that a team of cops were defending while innocent bystanders were still evacuating.
Y'all defend a POS like Derek Chauvin while doxxing and threatening an LEO who did his duty, lawfully.
Trump and the rest of the MAGA movement do not support the police.
I became a Trump supporter in 2016 for reasons like his promise to support LEOs & military. His encouraging, enabling and condoning of 1/6 endangered hundreds of cops AND abandoned all the others in the country.
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Q: How long are image serving URLs valid for with Google Cloud Storage/Blobstore? Is the storage cost redundant? There's no expiration or storage details listed for image serving URLs on Google's Cloud platform:
https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/go/images/reference#ServingURL — This documentation is quite unclear. Is the image stored temporarily on a CDN or something, or is it stored in the Blobstore of the project indefinitely and we're paying for many multiples of storage? Or, does the URL expire after a set amount of time and that size of the image is discarded?
The reason I'm asking is because I've heard that calls to this function add latency, and I wanted to be sure to cache the response if possible and if this was the case. However, I need to know the cache expiration point, if ever, if so.
Any help or clarification would be appreciated.

A: Pricing and Caching
That is described a little better here:

You simply store a single copy of your original image in Blobstore, and then request a high-performance per-image URL.

As Paul said in his comment, you only pay for the storage space of 1 copy of the original image in the Blobstore, plus normal bandwidth charges when it is served. When you create URLs that serve the image at different sizes, it is up to Google whether they cache a copy of the image at that size or not; either way you will still only pay for the storage of the original image at the original size.
I have seen reports that serving URLs can work for days after deleting the original image, so obviously Google does some caching at least sometimes, but those details are not specified and could change case-by-case.
Expiration
The URL will never expire, unless you delete it or the original image explicitly.

Whether you store your images in Cloud Storage or Blobstore, the right way to stop an image from being publicly accessible through the serving URL is to call the image.DeleteServingURL function.

Performance
I cannot comment on how much latency could be added by serving a resized copy of an image. I assume the answer is "not enough to care about", but again, I don't know. If you experiment and find the added latency unacceptable, you could try creating multiple versions of the image to store in Blobstore yourself, to serve at their natural sizes. I cannot say whether that would actually increase performance or not. You would of course pay for storing each copy in that case. I suggest not worrying about that unless you see it becomes a problem.

Images are served with low latency from a highly optimized, cookieless infrastructure.

So I doubt you could gain much benefit from trying to optimize it more yourself.


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Tesla Software Update Hints at Support for Apple Music
Monday December 28, 2020 6:34 am PST by Hartley Charlton
Tesla may soon add support for Apple Music, according to references in a Tesla software update found by Twitter user @greentheonly (via Tesla North).
Spotify has been the main way to listen to music using Tesla's infotainment system for some time, with no support for other music streaming services such as Apple Music, Tidal, or Amazon Music. Tesla first announced support for other music streaming services, including Tidal in particular, during its Battery Day presentation earlier this year.
Alongside references to Tidal in the latest 2020.48.26 software update, there also appear to be options for Apple Music and Amazon Music.
they's been working on it for quite some time
it's a bit of a stub now so who knows when it actually comes, the tidal is the next one I think because it actually started to get things populated. pic.twitter.com/du3TG1QYRX — green (@greentheonly) December 27, 2020
Although Tesla has been reported to be working on Apple Music support for some time, the option hidden in the software update does not work yet. In spite of this, Tidal is expected to be the first additional music streaming service to come to Teslas.
So far, the only automaker to have directly integrated Apple Music into its infotainment system has been Porsche for its all-electric Taycan model.
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Nick A
Clearly, Tesla does not have enough (good) developers to implement all the great ideas one can continuously come up with thinking about the screen and the capabilities of the hardware.
Clearly you haven't used Tesla's UI, it's excellent.
adamjackson
Why are they making this so difficult. Just add CarPlay and call it a day.
I'm torn on Tesla implementing CarPlay. For other auto manufacturers sure because their infotainment systems are all sub-par compared to Apple's implementation. Tesla on the other hand has an excellent UI that they've put a ton of work into and I don't think they want to take away from what they've done to put CarPlay in there and make it take up a good part of the UI. Plus the design language between the two UIs wouldn't look nice together.
Also remember that unlike other cars the ENTIRE car is controlled via the display and every inch of it is used to do so. To allow CarPlay they would have to shift essential functions around to stick CarPlay in somewhere, I honestly don't think it would work in a way that Tesla would be happy with.
I just wish Tesla would add support for 3rd party maps and if they did that there really would be no reason to implement CarPlay. Or Tesla if you're listening, just add an App Store already!
TheralSadurns
Tesla's do not support CarPlay and I hope they keep it that way.
Okay... that comment is just dumb.
Even if YOU don't particularly like CarPlay... it'd still be nice it if were offered. Nobody would force you to use it...
Me... as a strict iOS user... would welcome BOTH CarPlay, AND Android Auto support. Even if I have no use for the latter, and generally think that Android is pretty bad.
ccmovies
At least Tesla support CarPlay though right? Albeit I get even if it does the user would have to switch back and forth between CarPlay and Tesla's native interface.
They do not support CarPlay unfortunately. It's one of the things I miss.
dontwalkhand
The screen is too big, however they could just let CarPlay run in a section like Volvo, or Dodge does.
Apple Music TV Expands to the UK and Canada
Friday April 9, 2021 8:07 am PDT by Hartley Charlton
Following its launch in October last year, Apple Music TV has today expanded to the UK and Canada (via 9to5Mac). Apple Music TV offers a constant live stream of currently popular music videos, live shows, and events that run for 24 hours every day. Every Friday, Apple Music TV debuts new videos and there are appearances from Apple Music 1 radio hosts with interviews and more. The...
Apple Music Coming to Mercedes-Benz MBUX Infotainment System
Friday June 4, 2021 4:06 am PDT by Hartley Charlton
Mercedes-Benz has announced that Apple Music integration is coming to its MBUX infotainment system, starting with C-Class, S-Class, and EQS models. Apple Music will integrate directly into Mercedes-Benz's MBUX infotainment system. Users simply need to link their online "Mercedes me" account to their vehicle, and then Apple Music subscribers will have access to its full library of more than...
Apple Music Beta for Android Confirms Lossless Audio Streaming in the Works
Friday May 14, 2021 11:40 am PDT by Sami Fathi
Following a report that Apple could announce a brand new HiFi Apple Music tier as soon as Tuesday, May 18, new warnings within the music streaming services app on Android have confirmed that lossless audio is in the works. As reported by 9to5Google, the Apple Music beta for Android has multiple warnings within the app that inform users that streaming audio at lossless, another term often...
Apple News Gaining Apple Music Editorial Content
Wednesday April 21, 2021 8:06 am PDT by Sami Fathi
Apple is bringing Apple Music editorial content into Apple News as a way to offer readers even more content about the artists, songs, and more that they love. Apple has started a new Apple Music channel within Apple News, as first spotted by MacStories, that currently has a limited selection of articles, but seems to be frequently posting. Based on the current posts, Apple plans to publish...
iOS 14.6 Beta 1 Code Hints at Upcoming HiFi Apple Music Support
Saturday May 1, 2021 10:41 am PDT by Sami Fathi
Apple is laying the groundwork for adding HiFi support to Apple Music which would offer Apple Music subscribers and owners of compatible devices, such as certain models of AirPods, access to high-fidelity audio streaming, according to code within the iOS 14.6 beta discovered by MacRumors. Earlier today, a report claimed that Apple will announce a new $9.99 per month Apple Music tier that...
Apple Music Announces 'Special Event' Tomorrow, Immediately After WWDC Keynote
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In a video posted on Apple Music, first spotted on Twitter, Apple is teasing a "special event" that will take place on June 7 at 12 p.m PT, two hours after the main WWDC keynote begins. Currently not on the WWDC schedule, this event is related to Spatial Audio for Apple Music, which Apple has said will launch later this month. Apple announced that Spatial Audio, powered by Dolby Atmos, will...
Rumor: Apple to Announce Third-Generation AirPods and HiFi Apple Music Tier on May 18
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Newswire (New Zealand), May 10, 2006
Auckland, New Zealand -- Plans to build a ten-storey Buddhist tower, a pagoda, in south Auckland has angered some residents. The Buddhist temple in Flat Bush has applied for resource consent to build the tower, where the ashes of cremated followers will be stored.
But many locals are opposed to the development, including the principal of the Baverstock Oaks School, Mary Wilson, who says it will border the school field.She is worried many of the children will be frightened to know that ashes are inside the tower.
Mr Wilson says the twice daily ringing of bells and drumming at the tower could also disrupt children's learning.
Manukau City council has halted the resource consent process while an official acoustic report is carried out.


The notions of stability of holomorphic vector bundles in the sense of Mumford-Takemoto and Hermitian-Einstein metrics in holomorphic vector bundles are adapted for canonically polarized framed manifolds, i. e. compact complex manifolds together with a smooth divisor admitting a certain projective embedding. The main tool is the Poincaré metric, a special complete Kähler-Einstein metric on the complement of the divisor, whose asymptotic behaviour near the divisor is well-known due to results by Schumacher. The existence and uniqueness of Hermitian-Einstein connections in stable holomorphic vector bundles (Kobayashi-Hitchin correspondence) is proved in the setting of framed manifolds.


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Chiodos to co-headline tour with Blessthefall
Chiodos will be co-headlining a tour with Blessthefall starting in July. The poster for the tour is below. A statement from Bradley Bell of Chiodos and information about the tour is also below.
Chiodos has announced The Crowd Surf America co-headline tour with BlessTheFall. The tour will also feature special guests I Killed The Prom Queen and Capture The Crown and kicks off July 25th in Oklahoma City, OK and wraps up August 30th in Colombia, MO (tour dates below). A pre-sale launches today to purchase VIP and General Admission tickets at www.chiodos.net.
The VIP package will include:
One (1) General Admission Ticket
Chiodos Acoustic Performance
Meet and Greet and Photo Op with Chiodos
Limited Edition Flexi Disc with Chiodos Bonus Tracks, "R2ME2" and "Let Me Get You A Towel"
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Download of Flexi Disc Songs
Bradley Bell of Chiodos comments, "Releasing our new album Devil has enabled us to headline and share both our new and old catalogue with our fans. It's exciting to see our longtime fans and new ones join us on this journey. Our next endeavor is a co-headline run with our longtime friends BlessTheFall. We're excited to share the stage with them again and the bands I Killed the Prom Queen and Capture the Crown. It'll be the perfect way to end the summer."
The band continues to tour in support of their latest studio album, Devil (out via the band's new imprint drk/lght records in partnership with Razor & Tie) – iTunes Store (http://georiot.co/DEVIL). Devil debuted at #12 on the Billboard Top 200 Album Chart with more than 18,000 units sold. The album is produced by David Bottrill (Tool, Muse, Stone Sour) and mixed by Josh Wilbur. Devil finds founding front man Craig Owens and drummer Derrick Frost reunited with band members Bradley Bell, Pat Mcmanaman and Matt Goddard, as well as the first album to feature lead guitarist Thomas Erak (The Fall Of Troy).
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It's with great pleasure that we announce this year's first artist spotlight, Ok Sure
Ok Sure has been turning heads recently for her otherworldly style. Her first experience with electronic music came at the age of 13 and that segued into a career as Kaysh, which won her the Pioneer Pro DJ search in 2006. Her prowess continued to evolve until she became Ok Sure – a kinetic combination of dark, moody and melodic music designed for dance floors like Rainbow Serpent festival, Rose Quartz, Let Them Eat Cake and Revolver. She has also garnered support from Triple J & Triple J Unearthed, being added to regular rotation.
Check out her debut album Pleomorphism here -https://noisehive.lnk.to/Pleo
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Former NASA astronaut Chris Ferguson says he no longer plans to command the first-ever crewed mission of the Boeing Starliner, the spacecraft he's spent the last decade helping to build. © Terry Renna/AP Boeing astronaut Chris Ferguson looks on during a press conference at the Kennedy Space Center, in Cape […]
Former NASA astronaut Chris Ferguson says he no longer plans to command the first-ever crewed mission of the Boeing Starliner, the spacecraft he's spent the last decade helping to build.
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Boeing astronaut Chris Ferguson looks on during a press conference at the Kennedy Space Center, in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Thursday, Dec. 19, 2019. They will be part of the first crew to fly on the Starliner spacecraft some time next year.
NASA and Boeing made the announcement Wednesday morning, saying Ferguson made the decision for "personal reasons." Ferguson said in a follow-up tweet that he plans to prioritize his family, and he "made several commitments which I simply cannot risk missing."
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Ferguson, an engineer and veteran of three Space Shuttle missions, left the NASA astronaut corps in 2011 to help Boeing design and build a next-generation spacecraft that could take over the task of transporting astronauts to and from the International Space Station.
In 2018, Boeing announced Ferguson would command the Starliner's first-ever crewed test flight, and he was expected to become the first-ever NASA astronaut to travel to space after retiring from NASA. He was also seen as the first corporate astronaut — his flight suit bares a Boeing logo where others have the NASA emblem.
The astronauts who traveled on SpaceX's first-ever crewed mission in May, Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley, were both active members of the NASA astronaut corps, not SpaceX employee.
Ferguson was supposed to be the only Boeing employee onboard the Starliner test flight, and he was to be joined by two NASA astronauts inside the capsule on its maiden flight.
But now the flight will be all NASA astronauts.
NASA's Barry "Butch" Wilmore, who's served two prior stints on the International Space Station, will replace Ferguson as commander of the mission, joining NASA's Mike Fincke and Nicole Mann, who were previously assigned.
At the time Feguson was assigned to command the mission, Boeing expected the Starliner to be ready for flight by 2019. But the spacecraft's development has been plagued by development issues and schedule slips. In December 2019, during an uncrewed test flight of the vehicle, significant software errors caused the spacecraft's engines to misfire, and the Starliner would up on the wrong orbital path. The vehicle was forced to return to Earth days ahead of schedule and without having docked with the International Space Station. NASA and Boeing officials spent months hashing out what went wrong and why the problem wasn't caught before Starliner launched.
Boeing now plans to repeat the uncrewed test flight in December or January. Starliner is not expected to be ready for its first crewed flight before June 2021.
Ferguson said via Twitter that he remains "deeply committed to human spaceflight" and "dedicated to the Starliner program."
"I'm not going anywhere, I'm just not going into space next year," he said, confirming he'll continue to work with Boeing on the Starliner.
Boeing's Starliner spacecraft is being developed under NASA's Commercial Crew program, which allocated $4.2 billion to Boeing and $2.6 billion to SpaceX in 2014. Both companies were expected to develop spacecraft that would remain privately owned but that NASA could use to ferry astronauts to the ISS — a capability the space agency lost with the retirement of the Space Shuttle program in 2011.
SpaceX won the race to the launch pad with its May launch of a Crew Dragon capsule.
The first fully operational mission of the Crew Dragon, which will take four astronauts to the ISS for a six month stay, is expected to take off October 31.
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Somebody's Daughter
Posted by Donna Herman | Jun 10, 2017 | Reviews
L-R: Michelle Heera Kim and Vanessa Kai in "Somebody's Daughter", Photo by Jeremy Daniel.
Michelle Heera Kim in "Somebody's Daughter", Photo by Jeremy Daniel.
By Donna Herman
Playwright Chisa Hutchinson's thing is exposing murky corners to the light of day. She does it with compassion and insight, but also with also with a firm finger on her funny bone. In her current show, Somebody's Daughter, at the McGinn/Cazale Theater, I suspect the wise-cracking character of the guidance counselor Kate Wu (Jeena Yi) is somewhat autobiographical. Her boyfriend Reggie Ward (Rodney Richardson) says to her, near the end of the play as she's standing in front of him crying and trying to crack a joke, "you only joke about things that matter."
And while there are plenty of laughs in Somebody's Daughter, it's no laughing matter. Chinese-American high school overachiever Alex Chan (Michelle Heera Kim), who has a 4.5 GPA, speaks 4 languages, plays 5 instruments, and is a National Merit Award finalist, tells Kate in the first scene that she's thinking of killing herself. Although they are seemingly polar opposites, Alex is shy, withdrawn and practically mute while Kate is witty, sophisticated, and confident; Kate, a Chinese-American woman who grew up with a "tiger mom" herself, can relate.
Throughout the play, Kate, who is supposed to be counseling her about college choices, tries to help her see that she has other choices in her life than the ones her mother and father have laid out for her. Including how to see herself and her future. But the more successful Kate is with influencing Alex to think for herself, the more Kate's life with Reggie falls apart.
At the same time, Alex's mother Millie (Vanessa Kai), is having a crisis of her own. She feels unloved and unwanted by her husband because she has not been able to produce a boy. She has had three abortions because they were not boys since Alex, their only child, was born. She is finally pregnant with a boy and all of a sudden her husband, Richard Chan (David Shih) is loving and attentive. But he sees her only as a vessel for childbirth.
There's a lot going on here. Culture clashes, sexism, racism, intergenerational issues, coming-of-age narratives, young love. And there are a lot of stereotypes being confronted, explored and exploded, not skirted, which is refreshing and healing. It's a small stage and the action takes place in a lot of different places. When I first walked into the theater and saw the set I thought "oy, there's too much going on." I counted 5 different rooms, 4 levels, and 4 different doorways. It felt cramped. But with May Adrales' crisp direction and fast pacing, and Seth Reiser's specific lighting, Lee Savage's set design actually wound up working quite well.
In general I was impressed with Ms. Hutchinson's insight into and understanding of the Chinese-American experience in Somebody's Daughter. And her ability to write sympathetic characters that broke stereotypes – especially the character of Millie, the "tiger mom." Although the character did some reprehensible things, in the end, I felt I understood her choices and sympathized with her. And Vanessa Kai did a stunning job of bringing Millie to life. I had a harder time with the character of Kate. She's someone who covers up with humor, and is very guarded with what she's feeling and why. As a result, I don't feel like I really understood her issues with Reggie and why things unfolded the way they did from her side. I certainly did from his, and I thought Rodney Richardson did a lovely job portraying the hurt and frustration of the character.
Somebody's Daughter By Chisa Hutchinson, Directed by May Adrales
WITH: Vanessa Kai (Millie Chan); Collin Kelly Sordelet (Russ Mitchell); Michelle Heera Kim (Alex Chan); Rodney Richardson (Reggie Ward); David Shih (Richard Chan); Jeena Yi (Kate Wu).
Scenic Design by Lee Savage; Costume Design by Sara Ryung Clement; Lighting Design by Seth Reiser; Sound Design and riginal Music by Kate Mrvin; Production Stage Manager, Lori Ann Zepp; Stage Manager, Merrick A.B. Williams; Casting by Telsey + Company. Produced by Second Stage Theater, Artistic Director Carole Rothman. McGinn/Cazale Theater 2162 Broadway, NYC. Performances through Sunday, June 25th . Tickets can be purchased by calling the Second Stage Theater Box Office at 212-246-4422 or online at www.2ST.com.
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Donna Herman is a native New Yorker and a self-confessed theater addict. It all started in her childhood, which was spent on movie and television sets and in dark empty theaters while her mother, an actress, and her father, a make-up artist and playwright/screenwriter, worked. She knew she wanted to be an actress at 4 years old while on location with her father who was working on the movie "West Side Story." They were filming the "Officer Krupke" number on the street and Donna was inside the police barricades being helpful and pressing the lever on the coffee urn for the crew. Meanwhile, the kids from the neighborhood were pressed against the sawhorses looking in. She knew then she always wanted to be on the inside. But it wasn't until her 8th birthday when she saw her first Broadway show, "My Fair Lady," that she fell prey to her addiction. Donna went on to act throughout her school career and attended Boston University's School of Fine Arts Theater Program where she studied Acting and Directing. After graduation, she returned to NYC and began the life of a struggling actress. She was fortunate enough to originate the role of Chang in John Jesurun's downtown cult serial classic play "Chang In A Void Moon" which performed a new episode at The Pyramid Club on Avenue A every Monday night for almost a year in the 80's. Many downtown notables were in the cast including Steve Buscemi, Black-Eyed Susan, David Cale, Greg Mehrten, and Anna Kohler. While pursuing acting, Donna made money by working in recording studios and eventually got hired full time to manage Spyro Gyra's new recording studio when Julian Lennon was recording his first album there. From there she became the Production Coordinator on the film of his concert tour for his production company. This led her to a job with the award winning audio post production facility where she stayed for 12 years and was the Controller. From there she went to Charlex, Inc. an award winning special effects and design company for the advertising industry, where she was the CFO and stayed for 17 years. But her love for the theater has never waned and living in New York, she has always been able to indulge it. She has even been called to revise her role as Chang occasionally over the years, the latest for episodes 59 to 61 in 2015. She is now looking to get back to a more creative life and reviewing theater and designing jewelry.
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Oleg Toumilovitch has produced an annotated star chart that would be useful for observers, especially ASSA members of the Deep Sky Section. This will increase the download size a little, but I think that in this "Big Data" age MNASSA will still be considered small! Anyway, this is a trial, and feedback from readers would be very much appreciated.


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In His Footsteps
When we research the collateral lines of our family tree, we seldom expect to run into biographies of those caught in the middle of history's low points. And yet, in following the strands tying together the life story of a man connected to my paternal grandparents' land of origin, the saga points straight toward the early years of the second World War.
Father Edward Gramlewicz, nephew of the Polish-American priest we discussed last week—Father Ignacy Benevenuto Gramlewicz, pastor at Nanticoke, Pennsylvania—was, at first, a name I picked up, only thanks to discovery of a genealogy website in Poland called BaSIA. There, I was gleaning information on every entry I could find for the extended family named Gramlewicz in the tiny town of Żerków.
My original plan was to piece together a chart which could outline the lines of relationship between my second great-grandmother, Elżbieta Gramlewicz Laskowska, and another Gramlewicz-Laskowski marriage of the same time. If I hadn't discovered a young Gramlewicz woman declared as a niece in my great-grandparents' Brooklyn, New York, household, perhaps I wouldn't have begun such a research journey, but the further I became enmeshed in the research, the more tangled it became.
Thankfully, the discovery of a lengthy memorial article upon the passing of parish priest Father Benevenuto Gramlewicz helped confirm the relationships I had found on the BaSIA website. That niece, Annie Gramlewicz, did indeed have a fascinating heritage, as I discovered when I pieced together her connection all the way back to Blasius Gramlewicz.
From her connection to Blasius, I simultaneously discovered his grandchildren Marianna Kujawa, Stanislaus Weinert, and Edward and Hedwig Gramlewicz—all nieces and nephews mentioned in Father Benevenuto Gramlewicz's obituary. That same article mentioned that nephew Edward was also a priest, so I searched to see what information could be found about him, as well.
To say that Edward Gramlewicz followed in his uncle's footsteps is one way to explain the outcome of his life—although the accolades at his life's end were greatly delayed and offered under far different circumstances. To be sure, both nephew and uncle dedicated themselves to serving their Lord in the Polish way of seeing integration of church and life—a viewpoint I can appreciate only after immersing myself in reports of church life written during their era.
Like uncle, nephew Edward was said to have been a passionate social activist. Not unlike the elder priest, for whose newspaper mentions journalists often included imputations of controversy, the younger priest also was said to have had a "hot tempered reputation" and seemed incapable of—or perhaps unwilling to—avoid conflicts, "neither with parishioners nor local authorities."
In a land of freedom of speech, heated discourse might have meant merely that two parties disagreed, but not in Poland. Father Edward Gramlewicz, ordained in Poznań in 1907—only three years before his uncle's passing in Pennsylvania—served in various parishes in western Prussia. By the end of the first World War, during the Greater Poland Uprising, Father Edward was deeply involved in the risky business of sheltering fellow priests targeted by various German terror programs designed to quell Polish opposition.
Perhaps that was a foreshadowing of events to come, both for that Polish homeland and for Father Gramlewicz and his fellow priests. Almost immediately after Hitler's invasion of Poland in 1939, various German "operations" detained the "intelligentsia"—teachers, professors, politicians, priests, physicians, community leaders—and destroyed them in mass murders. Estimates of how many Polish leaders and influencers were killed through such Nazi programs reach up to one hundred thousand.
One of those who faced such a fate was Father Edward Gramlewicz who, after being detained, was held in various prisons by the Germans until moved to the concentration camp at Posen, Fort VII, where he died in 1940.
While being outspoken in one's religious duties may brand someone like Father Benevenuto Gramlewicz as "controversial" in an American setting, obviously life's twists did not turn out so well for Father Edward Gramlewicz in German-occupied Poland.
Though memorialized years later in various websites—including one ten-page biography which includes a photograph (on page nine) of his mother, Antonina Nawrocka Gramlewicz, and the same sister Hedwig we've already discussed—the inability of his people to mourn their priest's passing publicly when it happened makes my borrowing these documents for family history research eighty years later seem incongruously chirpy. And yet, I cling to such reports to help me understand—and perhaps all those fellow researchers who bemoan our Polish ancestors' unwillingness to talk about their past life in the land of their birth—why they might have been so tight-lipped.
After all the horror of those years in their homeland—whether for those who lived through World War II, or the Great War, or the many Prussian battles which ravished their town for decades before that point—those (likely German-perpetrated) maligning epithets about Polish people which followed them post-war seem an unfairly-borne after-effect, considering the indignities already suffered. Even in my childhood, long after the close of the second World War, I can remember demeaning jokes about the supposed ineptitude of Polish people. How far I was, at that point, from even knowing I was one of those people, myself, let alone gaining the empathy to understand why such experiences would silence a people so displaced from ever speaking again of their heritage—or sharing its legacy.
Labels: Church History, Gramlewicz, Poland, Wars
Miss Merry December 21, 2020 at 7:13 AM
A sad discovery. Sometimes it is hard to fathom the atrocities suffered by those who come before us. My husband's grandmother spoke only Polish after she came to New York state. His mother spoke Polish and English and translated for her mother. My husband refused to learn Polish.
The circle comes around when my daughter married a man in another city whose grandmother learned Polish from her mother. And she taught my oldest grandchildren to speak it.
Jacqi Stevens December 21, 2020 at 4:45 PM
What an interesting full circle your daughter completed, Miss Merry. Thank you for sharing that story.
I have heard that Polish is one of the most difficult European languages for English-speaking people to learn. That is one of those languages far better to absorb by daily exposure from family--natural language acquisition. What a blessing that your oldest grandchildren had that opportunity.
I went to the document you linked. What a fantastic find!! And the pictures!! What an important document.
That is one of those fortunate Google discoveries--yes, a fantastic find. Glad you took the time to take a look, Miss Merry.
Far Side of Fifty December 23, 2020 at 9:10 PM
I had a friend who was Polish and she took all the teasing in stride. You have been so busy with your research!
For all the work done all year long on these goals, it wasn't until these last few months that I finally made a breakthrough--mostly thanks to help from those DNA tests.
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