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Jacob Wothly (eigentlich Jacob Woodtlj; * 2. Juli 1823 in Oftringen; † 27. Juni 1873 in Bözingen, Schweiz) war ein deutscher Fotograf. Wothly gilt als ein Pionier der Fotografie.

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Jacob Woodtlj war das siebte Kind von Rudolf Jakob Woodtlj (17. April 1772–24. Oktober 1843) vom Schneggenberg und Elisabeth, geb. Bär (12. September 1783 Aarburg–21. August/April 1846 Biel). Später änderte er seinen Nachnamen in "Wothly". Als 17-Jähriger war er Zeichenschüler der Kunstakademie München. Wothly kam als Assistent eines Bärenführers nach Aachen. Tanzbären und Scherenschnitte waren zeitgenössische Jahrmarkt-Attraktionen. Im Herbst 1849 war der 27-jährige Wothly als Silhouetteur im Zentrum von Aachen unter der Anschrift Friedrich-Wilhelm-Graben 583 tätig. In der Aachener Zeitung warb er mit den Worten:  "Das Sitzen dauert höchstens 5 Minuten, für die vollkommenste Ähnlichkeit und der feinsten Ausführung wird garantiert. Silhouetten können bei Nacht ebenso wie bei Tag angefertigt werden. Ich bin anzutreffen von Morgens 9 bis Abends 8 Uhr."

Einen Monat bevor er nach Aachen kam, hatte Jacob Wothly am 6. September 1849 in Düsseldorf-Hamm Mathilde Juliane Johanna Linden, Tochter des Kellners Friedrich Wilhelm Linden aus Düsseldorf, geheiratet. Es ist anzunehmen, dass sich Jacob Wothly vor seinem 24 Jahre dauernden Lebensabschnitt in Aachen eine Zeit lang in Düsseldorf aufhielt. Ab dem 10. Dezember 1849 porträtierte er in Öl und Pastell in einer Aachener Hauptgeschäftsstraße, der Großkölnstraße 964.
Ab 1850 fertigte er Daguerreotypien an. Seine erste tradierte Aufnahme ist die Abbildung von Joseph La Ruelle. 1855 führte er sein Atelier in der Nähe des Theaters und Telegraphenamtes, 1858 in der Komphausbadstraße, bevor er sich spätestens ab 1861 am Büchel 45 niederließ. Die Räume in der Komphausbadstraße nutzte nach Wothly der Aachener Fotograf August Kampf. Nachdem Wothly den Prinzen Georg von Preußen abgelichtet hatte, erhielt er 1861 das Recht verliehen, die Bezeichnung "Hof-Photograph" zu führen.

Der Geschäftsmann Wothly verkaufte seine Patente und handelte mit eigenen Apparaten. 1867 unternahm er eine Italienreise. Kurz vor seinem Tod verlor Wothly durch Zahlungsschwierigkeiten  des Bankhauses Robert Suermondt  & Cie infolge des Gründerkrachs fast sein gesamtes Vermögen.  Auf einer Reise durch die Schweiz verstarb Jacob Wothly am  27. Juni 1873 in Bözingen bei Biel. Möglicherweise führten die giftigen und radioaktiven Chemikalien mit denen er gearbeitet hatte, zu seinem frühen Tod.

Werk
Jacob Wothly fertigte Porträt- und Architekturfotografien an. Er war auch als Silhouetteur, Maler, Autor, Entwickler von Photoemulsionen und Ingredienzien, Apparaturen und Hersteller seiner eigenen Linsen tätig. Wothly war Autodidakt in Chemie und Physik.

Atelier

Wothly hat sein Unternehmen unter der Firma Jacob Wothly in das Handelsregister eintragen lassen. Sein Wohn- und Atelierhaus Auf dem Büchel 45 war ein schlichtes Aachener Dreifensterhaus. Es verfügte über einen Laden im Parterre mit "Lager von Etuis, Medaillons, Rahmen sowie Apparate für die Photographie, auch werden Bilder nach Gemälden und Zeichnungen in jedem beliebigen Maßstab geliefert."

Am 30. September 1864 kaufte er das Gut Tivoli mit 10,5 Morgen Land. Der Park des Gutes erinnerte "an die Gärten des italienischen Ortes Tivoli (Latium)". Er stattete es mit einer Glasschleiferei aus und fertigte in dieser Linsen an. Von 1865 bis 1870 führte er kein Atelier, "um sich hauptsächlich photographischen Experimenten zu widmen." Seine Dunkelkammer erhielt "ihr Licht durch gelbes Glas (erhält), woselbst er die Ingredienzien, sogenanntes Harz-Collodion und den empfindlich machenden Liquer (…) mischte und nach wenigen Minuten eine Reihe halber Bögen in unglaublicher Schnelligkeit tadellos überzog und zum Trocknen aufhing."

1872 war Wothly wieder in seinem Atelier auf dem Büchel tätig und wohnte privat im Tivoli vor dem Sandkaultor.

Wothlytypie

Die 1860 entstandene Wothlytypie war ein Resultat von Jacob Wothlys spätestens ab 1857 unternommenen Anstrengungen zur Verbesserung der fotografischen Verfahrenstechnik. Sie ist ein Verfahren zur Herstellung von positiven Bildern unter Verwendung eines Uransalzes, des radioaktiven Uranylnitrat als lichtempfindlichem Material und eines mit einer Kollodiumlösung beschichteten Papiers als Träger.

Die Wothltypie wurde in der Fachwelt unterschiedlich beurteilt und konnte sich letztendlich nicht dauerhaft durchsetzten. Ein Beweis über die ihm nachgesagte Preisgünstigkeit im Vergleich zum gewöhnlichen Chlorsilberverfahren konnte nicht schlüssig geführt werden.

Die Präparate für dieses nach ihm benannte Verfahren unter Verwendung von Uransalzen als lichtempfindlichem Material, ließ Wothly in "dem Laboratorium des Apothekers Ernst Christian Friedrich Schering in Berlin" herstellen. Das Verfahren ließ sich Wothly 1864 in England und am 15. August  1865 in Paris patentieren. Die Lizenzvergabe für dieses Wothlytypie-Verfahren übernahm für Frankreich und Belgien die von Emmanuel Mangel du Mesnil 1865 gegründete Société française de Wothlytypie.

Heliostat (Solarkamera)

Jacob Wothly erfand um 1860 eine Solarkamera. Mit dieser Kamera, die das Konstruktionsprinzip eines Heliostaten aufwies, konnte Wothly bis zu 2 × 1,5 m große Fotografien herstellen. Er stellte das Verfahren erstmal in der französischen Akademie der Wissenschaften vor.
Der von ihm konstruierte Apparat war "ein Vergrößerungsgerät für Sonnenlicht mit selbst hergestellten Linsen von großer Brennweite. Ihre "Kondensorlinse hat 1 m Durchmesser und 2 m Brennweite." Noch 1890 erwarb Josef Maria Eder (1855–1944, österreichischer Photochemiker) eine "von Wothly gebaute(s)" Solarkamera. Er stellte sie auf das flache "Dach der Graphischen Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt in Wien." Eder galt als der "ideelle Gründer der 'k.k. Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt für Photographie und Reproduktionsverfahren'." Er leitete diese 1888 gegründete Einrichtung über 30 Jahre lang. Eder schreibt 1932, das Wothly 1860 den 1857 von Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Janvier Woodward (1833–1884) konstruierten Vergrößerungsapparat praktisch veränderte und "seine fast lebensgroßen Porträte in der Sitzung der französischen Akademie der Wissenschaften am 8. Oktober 1860 (präsentierte) ... Disdéri in Paris erwarb sich im selben Jahre dieses Verfahren mit dem Rechte es in Frankreich auszuführen, um 20.000 Franken. Diese Funktion der Kamera bestand darin, dass der Reflektor von dem Apparate getrennt wurde, wodurch Erschütterungen durch das Drehen des Spiegels während der Belichtung vermieden wurden. ... Die Dimensionen der Wothlyschen Solarkamera waren sehr groß. ... . Die enorme Hitze der kondensierten Sonnenstrahlen machte eine Kühlung mit planparallelen Wasserwannen erforderlich." Auch Hof-Fotograf Joseph Albert stattete sein riesiges Atelierhaus mit einer nach Wothlys System erbauten Solarkamera aus.
Mit seinem selbst konstruierten Solar-Gerät erzielte Wothly auf mehreren Ausstellungen Preismedaillen für Vergrößerungen.

Hintergrundkopiermaschine

Im März 1864 stellte Wothly seine Hintergrundcopiermaschine in den Photographischen
Monatsheften vor. Als Argumente für sein Tool erklärte er, dass die bisher eingesetzten Glas-Vignetten kostspielig und zerbrechlich waren. Das Einbrennen der Umrissfarben verminderte die Transparenz der Mitte. Eine weitere Methode war eine Art Passepartout, um einen abgetönten Hintergrund bei Kopien zu erzielen. Das Papp-Passepartout musste von einem Assistenten gehalten werden. Daher wurde nur ein Bild pro Kopiervorgang erzielt. Wothly ersetzte den Assistenten durch eine Maschine. Fortan war eine beliebige Anzahl von Kopien mit variabler Einstellung der Pappdeckel möglich. Die Drehung des Tisches verbesserte laut Wothly den Lichteinfall. Die von Wothly konstruierte Hintergrundkopiermaschine ließ er in der Maschinenfabrik von Johann de Houben auf dem Karlsgraben in Aachen anfertigen.

Schüler
1853 zählte der Berner Fotograf Carl Durheim zu seinen Schülern. Vermutlich gingen einige Aachener Photographen bei Jacob Wothly in die Lehre. Eventuell auch Carl und Egidius Billotte, die Söhne des Malers Heinrich Franz Carl Billotte.

Nachfolger
Ab 1874 trat an seine Stelle sein Sohn Photograph Albert Wothly (Albert Rudolph, geb. 18. Nov. 1852 in Aachen, gest. 16. August 1879). Er firmierte als eingetragene Firma im Handelsregister Jacob Wothly (Albert), hatte 1874 auf dem Büchel 45 das Atelier und 1875 auf Gut Tivoli. Seine Mutter wohnte spätestens 1883 auf dem Sandkaulsteinweg 196, der heutigen Krefelder Straße (B57); der (Tivoli war Sandkaulsteinweg 205). Witwe Mathilde Wothly verstarb 20 Jahre nach ihrem Sohn im Alter von 78 Jahren Montag, den 10. Juli 1899 im Aachener Luisenhospital.

Ab 1871 begann mit der Trockenplatte der Siegesfeldzug der Amateurphotographie. Bis dato galt Aachen als "Stadt der Photographie" dank Jacob Wothly.

Rezeption
Die charakteristische Persönlichkeit von Jacob Wothly soll sich Friedrich Wilhelm Hackländer für die Figur des Photographen Wilbert in seinem Seeroman "Sturmvogel" zum Vorbild genommen haben. Dies wird ebenfalls über den Hof-Photographen Joseph Albert (1825–1886) gesagt. Wilbert tritt im 16. Kapitel: Reiseeindrücke und 17. Kapitel: Bei den Sonnenkindern auf. Der gebürtige Burtscheider und am Starnberger See wohnende Hackländer hat sich von J. Wothly und J. Albert inspirieren lassen. Das Atelier erinnert an Albert. Bei der Bezeichnung Wilbert/Wilbertypie klingt Wothly/Wothlytypie an. Der Zusatz Heliotypie weist auf Albertotypie. Der Hinweis der Zunutzbarmachung der Sonne an Wothly's Solarkamera. Die Eigenart des Romanphotographen die Aufträge seiner Kunden auf seine Manschettenärmel zu schreiben, die sein Sekretär all abendlich ordnet, lässt Wothly vermuten. Der Titel des Romans bezieht sich auf das Segelschiff Dagoberts Baron von Elmbach. Er wohnt auf dem Lande an einem See. Die Gegend ist das Hochgebirge. Im Zuge der Nachforschungen nach einer verschwundenen Dame namens Margarethe sucht Baron von Elmbach Wilbert's Atelier in der Stadt auf. Er ist in Begleitung von Alexander Dellwing, einem jungen talentierten Maler. Dellwing wurde bei der letzten Ausstellung eine Medaille verliehen. Der Baron protegiert den jungen Künstler. Elmbach ist mit Wilbert befreundet und erhofft sich "von seinen Freunden und Kollegen, die er in allen Theilen Europas hat, photographische Damenporträts zur Ansicht zu verschaffen" um die Gesuchte zu finden.

Auszeichnungen
 1857 Medaille der "Gesellschaft zur Förderung der industriellen Künste in Belgien", Brüssel
 zw. 1858 und 1861 königlich preußischer Hof-Photograph
 1862 Weltausstellung in London Medaille: "HONORIS CAUSA"
 1863 Urkunde zum Ehrenmitglied und Meister in Frankfurt am Main
 1865 Preismedaille der Ausstellung in Berlin für seine "erste Anwendung des Urancollodions im Positivprocess."
 1865 im Dezember wird ihm die Medaille für gewerbliche Leistungen "in Anerkennung seiner verdienstlichen Leistungen auf dem Gebiete der Photographie" von dem Minister für Handel, Gewerbe und öffentliche Arbeiten, Heinrich Friedrich von Itzenplitz, überreicht. Diese Auszeichnung hat König Friedrich Wilhelm IV. am 22. Oktober 1849 gestiftet.

Werke
1. Photographien
 Acht div. Porträts im Kabinettformat 1860?, 1864/65; Aachen: Elisenbrunnen. Rathaus, TH Baubeginn u. Bahnhof Templerbend, Kabinettformat 1865; Reproduktion eines Stichs, 1864 oder früher. Wothlytypien (Urannickelalbuminpapier/Albuminpapier) der Albertina (Wien).
 Porträt eines Unbekannten, Kunstsammlung Biel/Bienne, um 1866.
 Kinder-Porträt Maria Lambertz, Tochter von Henry Joseph Napoléon Lambertz, 1866, RMS.
 Grundsteinlegung der TH Aachen, Schlossbibliothek Berlin. Verschollen.
 Porträt Heinrich Croon (Megalo Phototypie, ca. 40 cm, im original Biedermeierrahmen); Photokopie: Drei Personen Aufn. Nellessen? (Lohmeyer, Franz); Abzüge von der Grundsteinlegung 1865 der Technischen Hochschule Originale in der Schlossbibliothek in Berlin Copie Nr. 357–60; Aachen Carte de Visite: Burg Frankenberg, Elisenbrunnen, Rathaus, Grashaus, Stadtarchiv Aachen.

2. Publikationen
 1855: "Photographie auf Seide, Leder und Wachstuch."
 Nach 1855: "Photographie auf Papier."
 Am 2. Mai 1865: "Ein neues Uran-Platin-Collodiumverfahren für positive Papierbilder" von J. Wothly
 1865  J. Wothly, Mangel du Mesnil: "WOTHLYTYPIE. Application de nouveaux procédes photographiques."

Einzelnachweise

Weblinks

 Porträt eines unbekannten Mannes (Rabbiner?). Carte de visite in der Kunstsammlung Biel/Bienne.
 Pifferari with Repast, circa 1865 von Emmanuel Mangel du Mesnil. Mesnil erwarb die frz. Lizenz für Wothlytypie. Dies ist eine Copie von Jacob Wothly: Drei Zigeuner (1860?), Albertina Wien.
 ausführliche Beschreibung zur "Wothlytypie" in Photographische Correspondenz, 1865,  S.: 8, 13, 19, 20, 48, 63, 101.

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When posed a question on the payment during a press briefing the day after Republican election expert Trevor Potter said on 60 Minutes the payout could be an "illegal in-kind contribution," White House deputy press secretary Raj Shah did not defend the parties outside the White House.
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Cohen admitted he paid Daniels with his own money days before the 2016 presidential election to keep her silent on her claims that she and Trump had a sexual encounter in 2006.
Potter, who was chairman of the Federal Election Commission (FEC) under President George H.W. Bush, on Sunday called it "a $130,000 in-kind contribution by Cohen to the Trump campaign, which is about $126,500 above what he's allowed to give."
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Shah's statement that the White House did not engage in any wrongdoing can be viewed as meaningless because at the time the alleged payment was made, Barack Obama, not Trump, was president.
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Southern Oregon University Becomes Bee Campus USA
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The pedigree of honey Does not concern the bee; A clover, any time, to him is aristocracy.
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This past week, Southern Oregon University reached a milestone–the nation's first "Bee Campus USA." Bee City USA has recently launched this new program across the nation's college campuses to raise awareness of the importance and plight of pollinators, most notably, honeybees.
More than just a designation, SOU is acting, by planting native trees and plants throughout the campus in an effort to support local bees. Native plants are naturally suited to the local environment, and are said to be ideal for supporting resident pollinators, which include native bees, butterflies, moths, bats, hummingbirds, and of course, honeybees.
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While mostly relied upon for pollinating food crops, bees also provide honey. Unlike refined sugars, honey is rich in vitamins and minerals, and according to Thomas Lee Ogren, author of Allergy-free Gardening, honey has a reputation of helping people overcome regional allergies,"It may seem odd that straight exposure to pollen often triggers allergies but that exposure to pollen in the honey usually has the opposite effect. But this is typically what we see. In honey the allergens are delivered in small, manageable doses and the effect over time is very much like that from undergoing a whole series of allergy immunology injections."
In 2006, bee colonies around the world began to collapse. Bees left their hives in search of pollen, and never returned. It is estimated that approximately one third of our nations bees have since perished. Scientists have named this phenomenon Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD). In the PBS documentary Silence of the Bees, CCD and it's possible causes were investigated. Some possibilities include pesticides, predatory insects such as the deadly Varroa destructor mite, malnutrition, and an AIDS like virus which may infect the bees immune systems. The good news is that after ten years, bees are making a comeback. While the cause of the disorder has yet to be determined, the winter losses of bee populations have begun to return toward historically normal levels. Still, bees are not yet out of the woods, and experts say they need help.
Southern Oregon is a haven for beekeepers, and one of our local bee celebrities, the Bee Girl, noted several challenges local bees and other pollinators face. Habitat loss and climate change are particularly troubling for the local area. Warmer winters lead to greater infestations of the deadly Varroa mite, and dry summers add to the habitat loss issue as fewer flowers are available as a food source. Toxic chemicals also contribute to the bees plight. Herbicides, such as glyphosate (Roundup) eliminate valuable food sources such as clover and wildflowers, and of course with pesticides, direct mortality. The Bee Girl asks consumers to "vote with our fork, by choosing to purchase local grown, environmentally friendly foods, and plant flowers for the bees, especially over summer. Everybody can be a part of the solution."
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You're going to be spending time alone in the studio perfecting ur skills when ur mates are out there living a life but can't cuz this is the life you choose and time is of the essence you can't afford to waste it.
Ans: So don't waste ur time if ure not sure its music production for u. Cuz it'll take up ur time.
Response: Hmmm, Thanks so much I am glad our readers as well will pick one or two words from what you've slated above.
Question: Can you tell us anything about your Relationship? Do you have a girlfriend?
Question: How has she been supportive to your profession?
Ans: Aside God who's my source of inspiration, she is an inspiration. In my 30s, its a sin if I don't have.
Question: Huh, are you saying! Man in their 30s without a girlfriend has committed a sin?
Ans: Lol, no. They have a problem ni! Time man, time. E no dey, Kere-kere look how far I've come, what have I accomplished? Yet time dey go. E no send!
Question: Oh,, What's the full meaning of MNS?
Ans: Mayowa, Nice & Special..
Question: What brought about Mayowa, Nice & Special?
Ans: Cuz that's the summary of me. My character and personality. Even when I'm bad, I'm nice nooni.
Question: Where's your studio situated at? Lagos?
Ans: Presently its in Sango-Ijoko, Ogun State.
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Rachel Ray named 3rd Team All-American
Waxahachie, Texas – May 29, 2017- The National Christian Colleges Athletic Association (NCCAA) has released their list of the best in the nation and Southwestern Assemblies of God University (SAGU) softball pitcher Rachel Ray was on a Third Team All-American pick.
Ray is a 6'0 junior from Brazoria, Texas . On the mound, Ray pitched 170 innings and had 141 strike outs. She also picked up 12 wins.
"I am extremely excited for Rachel and this prestigious recognition," explains SAGU Head Coach Sarah Harman , "She has been working through an injury all season long and still was successful for us in the circle. Rachel consistently performs on the field at an elite level And her work ethic and dedication is outstanding. She is a wonderful representative of the SAGU softball program"
This isn't the only post-season honor Ray has received. She was also named to the 2 nd Team Sooner Athletic Conference.
Southwestern Assemblies of God University is a private, Christian university located 30 minutes south of the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex in Waxahachie, Texas. The university was established in 1927, and now offers more than 70 associate, bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees on campus or online. More information is available at www.sagu.edu or by calling 1-888-YES-SAGU.


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From our Birdie Bruch reader Betsy L.
THANK YOU for today's (9/11/16) birdy brunch! It was perfectly timed….
Yesterday evening, a Quaker parrot landed on my friend's head while he was out on his deck (near Lawrence and Kedzie – in Chicago).
Just as the name implies, this is a series of quick and easy ways to help your The birds stay happy and healthy around-the-clock.
This is a series of short but incisive ideas you can apply today bringing you closer to bird care nirvana.
The number of things necessary to provide foraging in Richmond for your birds can be found in the series of quick and simple ideas.
Don't sell your birds short and be prepared to experiment until you find the right formula that provides happiness to those feathered creatures you keep in cages within your home.
How do I pet my African grey parrot without getting bit? I'm really scared.
It's a bird not a dog and doesn't necessarily want to get pet.
Birds want to be preened.
From Quora Re: "Larry's was more direct.
"He let himself get bitten.
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What Do You Know About Macaw Asthma? It's Really A Thing.
Is it unsafe to have a cockatoo in your home and a macaw, Given that many macaws are susceptible to asthma? Following up, is there any sort of test a macaw could have done to identify asthma?
Macaw Asthma aka Macaw Respiratory Hypersensitivity disease is found in several species of macaws but is especially prevalent with blue and gold macaws.
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How far is too far out of the birdcage?
This image received a lot of negative blow back on social media about how the bird was being imperiled.
As an avid motorcyclist, I know the first rule motorcycling is "if you don't want to be injured on a motorcycle – don't get on a motorcycle".
If this motorcyclist were to have an accident – be it solo like running off the road or a collision with another vehicle – I think it would be more likely that the bird would fly away unharmed With the human sustaining injuries.
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How Do I Train My Birds To Always Fly Back To Me?
Original verbatim Quora question(s): How do I train a budgie to free flight and come back to me without having to fly away?
How do you train two budgies to free flight?
Can you train two budgies to free flight at the same time?
These questions were found as a single question on Quora.
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Highlights from BYU Colleges: Identifying and eradicating racism in books, researchers create hybrid quinoa crops
Andrea Zapata Mejia
Books and movies that perpetuate stereotypes of people of color are harmful to that community, especially kids. BYU adjunct professor Madeleine Dresden encourages writers to be aware of and understand their biases and how they can affect representation of other races. (BYU College of Humanities)
Adjunct English professor Madeleine Dresden gave a presentation at the 2021 Latter-day Saint Publishing and Media Association Conference on Oct. 9. Her lecture highlighted the importance of representation for people of color and identifying the tropes and stereotypes present in books and media.
She asked writers to consider the impression and impact their writing has and could have on minority readers. To achieve this, she encouraged them to "read diverse books."
"If you want to tell a diverse story, read at least a hundred books that come from that perspective," Dresden said.
Dresden said she firmly believes in writing as a powerful tool to community and changing the culture in order to "empower those who still need to tell their stories."
Marriott School of Business
A new experience design management class titled Current Trends and Opportunities in the Experience Economy, explores the reasons why experimental businesses such as candle-making shops, hatchet throwing companies and escape rooms find success in places like Provo.
"In one unit, we study Universal Studios' The Wizarding World of Harry Potter and Disneyland's Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge theme parks," said Case Lawrence, an EXDM adjunct professor who teaches the class.
This class focuses on the different business models and trends behind companies from amusement parks to traveling events to concerts. Lawrence said one of the class's assignments is to come up with an experimental business idea.
"I personally review all of these projects and give feedback, and several projects from last semester are currently being developed into real businesses," Lawrence said.
College of Life Sciences
BYU plant and wildlife Sciences professor Rick Jellen shows BYU student Lauren Young different varieties of crops based on the sequenced quinoa. These crops will help farming communities be able to grow food in spite of inconvenient weather conditions. (BYU College of Life Sciences)
After studying and sequencing the genome of quinoa, BYU researchers are starting to introduce hybrids of the crop to developing nations.
Quinoa is a food rich in protein, and it can grow in very dry conditions. These qualities make it so that farmers can use it as a reliable food source, especially in developing nations struggling to grow food during droughts.
"Having a crop like quinoa would enable them to have a stable food source where they're not worrying year-to-year if they'll have food on the table every day," BYU student researcher Lauren Young said.
This research has resulted in a project involving trips to Morocco where BYU students and professors introduced quinoa to farmers.
"In Morocco, you see a lot of rural people struggling, especially in years where there's such unpredictable drought," Young said. "It's hard to hear about the struggles people are having, yet it's something we can fix."
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Founded in 1976, the association Defensa Derechos Animal (Defending Animal Rights), was the first Spanish NGO devoted to the defence and well-being of animals in general. Declared to be of "Public Benefit" in 1981 and non-lucrative, ADDA is a non-governmental, apolitical and independent organization.
It forms part of the Board of Directors of the WSPA (World Society for Protecting Animals). For years it has collaborated and worked jointly, on various European coalitions and with different associations in various countries.
Denounce the abuse and ill treatment of animals. Promote and participate in drawing up appropriate legal standards. Pressurise through acts of protest or vindication. Information and awareness campaigns. Preparing and publishing educational programmes. Editing publications and awareness material. Promote participation platforms in favour of respecting animals. The people that direct the NGO, and set up activity programmes, do so full time, voluntarily and generously.
ADDA is financed by its members' fees, donations and charity shop.


Last weekend, our JO team levels 3-8, and our Xcel Platinum team competed at the Handsprings and Heroes Invitational, hosted by Prestige Gymnastics in Swansea, Massachusetts. Our level 5 and level 7 teams each won first place, and we had several event and all-around champions!
Abby - clean sweep! first place on vault, bars, beam, AND floor, all-around champion!
Way to go ladies! Our JO team will compete again this weekend at a local meet hosted by Gymnastics at Brentwood Commons.
Another season of high school gymnastics has come and gone as Salem High School hosted the State Championships on Saturday. Pinkerton reclaimed the first place title, followed by Salem and Bishop Guertin. Salem's Nina Whittaker was crowned individual all-around, uneven bars, and floor exercise champion, while Londonderry's Maddie Britting was vault champion and Bishop Guertin's Carolyn Nichols was balance beam champion.
We have current and former Spectrum gymnasts competing for Londonderry, Campbell, Pinkerton, Goffstown, Manchester Memorial, and Windham, and our own Coach Emily and former Spectrum gymnast Heather Tuden coach the Londonderry team (they placed fourth!).
High school gymnastics teams features athletes of all levels of ability and experience. It is an area where high level gymnasts compete alongside girls who are maybe just trying gymnastics for the first time.
Many high school teams feature gymnasts who train at different clubs, who would otherwise never interact with each other or be teammates, encouraging new friendships and bonds.
Competing in high school meets gives club gymnasts more competitive experience in front of a judge, making them more confident when they compete for their club.
Girls who no longer compete for a club often continue to do high school. It is a way of staying involved with the sport.
High school doesn't have a team? No problem. You can still compete as an independent. If a school has less than 5 athletes on the roster, they are considered "independents". This gives gymnasts an opportunity to compete and represent their school as an individual, even if there is no "team" in place.
High school gymnastics gives girls who have never done gymnastics before (but who always wanted to try it) a way to do it; to learn something new and be part of a team.
High school gymnastics encourages creative routine structure and encourages club gymnasts to compete different skills than they would for their club.
I could sing the praises of high school all day long if I really wanted to. The next step for the top 3 teams, top 6 gymnasts per event, and top 6 in the All-Around is the New England Regional Championships in Massachusetts.
Congratulations to all of the high school competitors on a great season!
Last weekend, our competitive team competed in the Valentines Masquerade Ball, hosted by Phantom Gymnastics. The girls wore masquerade masks during warm ups, and won ribbons, medals, and tiaras. In addition to placing on the events, there was one "special" award per event: the "Straight as Cupid's Arrow" vault award for the straightest vault shape, the "Sealed with a Kiss" bars award (where they could blow the judges a kiss after their bar routine), the "Don't Break My Heart" beam award (awarded to the "best save" on beam), and the "Sweetheart Presentation" award for the best presentation on floor.
SGA is off this weekend for meets, but will be competing at the Handsprings and Heroes invitational, hosted by Prestige Gymnastics in Swansea, Massachusetts the following weekend!
When I talk about my Fantasy Gymnastics team, I am usually met with reactions of raised eyebrows and exclamations of, "is that a real thing?". Yes, it's a real thing. CollegeFantasyGymnastics.com is the first website of its kind that applies the concept of "fantasy" sports teams to collegiate gymnastics. Let's face it: gymnastics isn't a sport like football or basketball whose fanbase transcends gender, race, religion, locality and socioeconomic status. It doesn't have its own night dedicated to it on television. It really only finds itself in everyone's living room and at the center of everyone's attention once every four years during the Olympics. With fewer than 100 collegiate gymnastics programs nationwide, it's not exactly the most closely followed or hyped collegiate sport. So to me, the creation of this website is a big deal. It connects us fans to our favorite gymnasts, helps us to discover new favorites, and gives us a sense of pride and ownership.
So how does it work? Before the season started, you could sign up for a free account. From there, you could "draft" up to 150 college gymnasts. Out of those on your draft, you are randomly given 20 to make up your team. All users are divided into conferences. Each week, you have to submit your lineup on each event (vault, bars, beam, and floor). You can choose up to 8 gymnasts per event. Out of those 8, the top 5 scores count towards your final score. The scores are real and come from the meets your gymnasts compete in that week. The catch is knowing who is going to compete, determining the best and most consistent on each event, and maximizing scoring potential.
I've really enjoyed playing this year, and I have grown to be very competitive. I am so competitive that I have cemented my spot as 1st place in my conference for the past four weeks in a row. I derive a lot of pride from my team. As strange (and maybe slightly nerdy) as it sounds, I feel like they are my team. I celebrate with their victories and shake my fists at the sky with their failures. Like any real college gymnastics coach, I plot, strategize, and make difficult lineup decisions. Like any real college gymnastics coach, I am constantly thinking about how I can make my team better.
So who are the key players on my team?
I was so excited that I got her! 2008 Olympian Sam Peszek is a rockstar for the Bruins. Unfortunately, she is recovering from an injury so I haven't been able to use her much.
Lindsay is the kind of gymnast I watch and say, "how is she THAT good?" She is truly electrifying on all four events and I was very lucky to see her compete a few weeks ago at UNH (video above)!
Tory is such a dynamic and consistent performer! Her vaulting and tumbling skills are explosive! I can usually count on her to get me some good scores.
What makes Moriah so cool? Besides being one of the top All-Arounders in the country, she doesn't use grips and she and I share a birthday!
How can I count the ways I love Alicia? To start, she has floor choreography and artistry to die for, her lines are very clean, and she performs a Bhardwaj on bars! What's not to love?
Fantasy Gymnastics is just that: a fantasy; something intangible and illusory. It may not be totally real, but it's real to the players. It allows us to live vicariously through the athletes and experience life as a coach in a virtual reality college gymnastics world.
I'll spend my free time this weekend monitering all my gymnasts scores and ferociously editing my spreadsheets as I look to defend my #1 spot in my conference. Go team!
Last weekend, our compulsory gymnasts (JO team levels 3-5) competed at the New Hampshire Sectional. In order to qualify to sectionals, the gymnast must have scored at least a 31.0 all-around at some point this season. At sectionals, the score of a 33.0 or higher qualifies them to the State Championships in April. We had several state qualifiers and several event and all-around champions! The meet was hosted by Tri-Star gymnastics in Dover, NH.
The Spectrum team (Xcel and JO) will next see competitive action this weekend at the Valentine's Masquerade Ball, hosted by Phantom Gymnastics and A2 Gym & Cheer!
At the end of January, our JO team competed at the Hot Cocoa Classic, hosted by Roots Gymnastics in Westfield, Massachusetts.
Skyler - 2nd vault, 2nd beam, 2nd floor, 10th AA, "Grips of Steel" Uneven Bars Perseverance Award.


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RNC Capital Management LLC Decreases Position in NIKE, Inc. (NYSE:NKE)
Posted by Micah Haroldson on Jan 14th, 2021
RNC Capital Management LLC lessened its holdings in NIKE, Inc. (NYSE:NKE) by 26.1% during the fourth quarter, according to the company in its most recent 13F filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The firm owned 26,201 shares of the footwear maker's stock after selling 9,252 shares during the quarter. RNC Capital Management LLC's holdings in NIKE were worth $3,707,000 as of its most recent filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission.
A number of other large investors have also modified their holdings of the stock. Chemung Canal Trust Co. raised its position in NIKE by 11.4% in the 4th quarter. Chemung Canal Trust Co. now owns 34,487 shares of the footwear maker's stock worth $4,879,000 after purchasing an additional 3,518 shares during the period. IFM Investors Pty Ltd raised its position in NIKE by 17.0% in the 4th quarter. IFM Investors Pty Ltd now owns 119,847 shares of the footwear maker's stock worth $16,955,000 after purchasing an additional 17,391 shares during the period. Norway Savings Bank raised its position in NIKE by 6.1% in the 4th quarter. Norway Savings Bank now owns 8,902 shares of the footwear maker's stock worth $1,259,000 after purchasing an additional 515 shares during the period. Redpoint Investment Management Pty Ltd raised its position in NIKE by 6.3% in the 4th quarter. Redpoint Investment Management Pty Ltd now owns 31,730 shares of the footwear maker's stock worth $4,489,000 after purchasing an additional 1,888 shares during the period. Finally, Livingston Group Asset Management CO operating as Southport Capital Management raised its position in NIKE by 8.0% in the 4th quarter. Livingston Group Asset Management CO operating as Southport Capital Management now owns 12,385 shares of the footwear maker's stock worth $1,752,000 after purchasing an additional 918 shares during the period. Institutional investors own 55.61% of the company's stock.
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NYSE:NKE traded down $2.01 during mid-day trading on Wednesday, hitting $143.04. 3,212,191 shares of the company's stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 4,610,482. NIKE, Inc. has a one year low of $60.00 and a one year high of $147.95. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.02, a current ratio of 2.55 and a quick ratio of 1.77. The business has a fifty day moving average price of $139.88 and a 200 day moving average price of $120.86. The company has a market cap of $224.55 billion, a PE ratio of 85.65, a P/E/G ratio of 2.76 and a beta of 0.84.
NIKE (NYSE:NKE) last issued its earnings results on Thursday, December 17th. The footwear maker reported $0.78 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.63 by $0.15. The business had revenue of $11.24 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $10.51 billion. NIKE had a net margin of 7.20% and a return on equity of 34.62%. The business's revenue for the quarter was up 8.9% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the company earned $0.70 earnings per share. On average, equities analysts forecast that NIKE, Inc. will post 2.85 EPS for the current fiscal year.
The company also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Tuesday, December 29th. Shareholders of record on Monday, December 7th were issued a $0.275 dividend. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Friday, December 4th. This is a boost from NIKE's previous quarterly dividend of $0.25. This represents a $1.10 annualized dividend and a yield of 0.77%. NIKE's payout ratio is 59.46%.
NKE has been the topic of a number of recent analyst reports. Pivotal Research raised their price target on shares of NIKE from $118.00 to $137.00 and gave the stock a "buy" rating in a report on Thursday, September 17th. Jefferies Financial Group set a $140.00 price target on shares of NIKE and gave the stock a "neutral" rating in a report on Monday, January 4th. Bank of America raised their price target on shares of NIKE from $130.00 to $150.00 and gave the stock a "buy" rating in a report on Wednesday, September 23rd. Cowen raised their price target on shares of NIKE from $150.00 to $165.00 in a report on Tuesday, December 8th. Finally, Royal Bank of Canada set a $160.00 price target on shares of NIKE and gave the stock a "buy" rating in a report on Monday, January 4th. One analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, five have issued a hold rating and twenty-eight have issued a buy rating to the company's stock. The company currently has a consensus rating of "Buy" and a consensus price target of $153.85.
In other NIKE news, Director Timothy D. Cook sold 52,000 shares of NIKE stock in a transaction dated Monday, November 30th. The shares were sold at an average price of $133.91, for a total value of $6,963,320.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the director now directly owns 55,433 shares of the company's stock, valued at $7,423,033.03. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through this link. Also, CAO Hilary K. Krane sold 5,670 shares of NIKE stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, October 28th. The stock was sold at an average price of $123.30, for a total transaction of $699,111.00. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Insiders sold 450,170 shares of company stock valued at $63,160,981 over the last ninety days. Corporate insiders own 3.80% of the company's stock.
NIKE, Inc, together with its subsidiaries, designs, develops, markets, and sells athletic footwear, apparel, equipment, and accessories worldwide. The company offers NIKE brand products in six categories, including running, NIKE basketball, the Jordan brand, football, training, and sportswear. It also markets products designed for kids, as well as for other athletic and recreational uses, such as American football, baseball, cricket, golf, lacrosse, skateboarding, tennis, volleyball, walking, wrestling, and other outdoor activities; and apparel with licensed college and professional team and league logos, as well as sells sports apparel.
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The American Revolution of Jean-François Revel
Mary McCarthy
September 2, 1971 issue
The following will appear as an Afterword to Jean-François Revel's Without Marx or Jesus, to be published by Doubleday.
Listen to the first sentence. "The revolution of the twentieth century will take place in the United States." Pow!!! The French reader is already seeing stars when the second sentence hits him. "It can take place nowhere else." Americans may feel bewildered, skeptical, glad, or sorry to hear the news, curious to know more. But you have to be French to get the full impact, the "visceral reaction." Ever since you could count up to ten or spell c-h-a-t, you have been secure in the thought that the US is the citadel of imperialism, racism, vulgarity, conformism, and now a Frenchman returns from a voyage of discovery to say it is a hotbed of revolution.
Blandly, with a straight face, the enormity emerges, buttressed by figures and arguments, precedents, citations. Is it a joke? No and yes. It may have started out as a hardy quip or demolishing retort, and somewhere behind these pages Jean-François Revel is still suppressing an inadvertent smile. We, his readers, not required to school our features, laugh out loud in delight. At what exactly? At the French, of course, and their starchy preconceptions, which are being shaken, jostled, disarrayed, like a matron in some old slapstick comedy. But also at the author himself, that expressionless comedian, swinging from a precipice, teetering on a tightrope. We laugh at his imperturbability in the presence of his imminent danger, at his reckless aplomb in courting ridicule—the reverse of sympathetic chuckles. He is serious, he protests: "Why are you laughing?"
All Jean-François Revel's books are cliff-hangers. He is a pamphleteer, and his first necessity therefore is to boldly secure attention. Characteristically, in his opening pages he risks being removed from the scene in a strait jacket. His pamphlets are heresies and they generally result from prolonged exposure to piety. He is restive, like a schoolboy in a church, surrounded by hushed worshipers and prompted to commit a sacrilege—stand up and prove to them that the Bible cannot be true. His anticlerical nostrils are quick to detect the slightest smell of incense, and misfortune—or good luck—has placed him in a variety of churches, chapels, oratories, cenacles. He has passed most of his life among the devout.
Gaullist France itself is one huge basilica, consecrated to Glory. The Sorbonne is a monastery from which pilgrims set out for the wayside shrines of the national lycée system or go on foreign missions, spreading French culture. Revel started off in clerical disguise. He was an agrégé in philosophy and taught, first abroad—at the University of Mexico and the University of Florence and at the local French Institutes—later in lycées at Lille and Paris: history of philosophy, history of art, French literature, geography.
His first published blasphemy or tale-told-out-of-school was Pourquoi les philosophes, an attack on the then reigning gods of French philosophy. Next came Pour l'Italie, a tract against Italy—for Revel a natural by-product of four years as a lecturer in Florentine classrooms. A simple corrective, he would have said, of Italophilia, a healthy explosion of the whole bag of myths about Italian art, Italian culture, Italian virility, Italian gaiety, good looks, liveliness, all of which he found nonexistent, and backed up the verdict with real-life anecdotes and observations, many true, many funny, some brutal, such as the one, which gave much offense to feminine readers of Epoca, that Italian women have hair on their legs.
Not a word, I am sure, was invented, and yet the book was biased to a point that someone who loved Italy could have considered almost insane. Or the result of some personal grievance—an idea that was aired in the Italian press at the time and that I rather subscribed to myself simply from reading the book, which has many complaints about the unavailability of Italian girls. Knowing Revel, as I now do, I no longer think that explanation can have been right. There is something wonderfully disinterested about Revel's biases, a joy in bias itself as an artistic form, embracing hyperbole and conducing, finally, to laughter. He has a Falstaffian side and only cares that his "slant" should run counter to respectable culture and received opinion. If he has a personal grievance, it is a long-standing, deeply nurtured one against the immovable forces of entrenched beliefs that insult his sense of the self-evident.
There followed one of his most charming and persuasive works, Sur Proust. It is not so much controversial as, again, heretical. Revel loves Proust, which means that he is against orthodox Proustians, including Proust himself at certain moments. He makes the convincing argument that what is good in A la recherche du temps perdu is the wordly social side, the human comedy, whereas the "deeper" parts, the philosophy of time and memory, the madeleine and so on, are simply commonplaces of French philosophy already out of date at the time Proust wrote and often at variance with the book's real story. I.e., what is considered "superficial" in Proust is profound, and vice versa.
At this point in Revel's career, it might have been said that the man was simply an attention-seeker, moving lightly from field to field, in search of provocative positions to occupy and abandon, a journalistic enfant terrible or disgruntled academic whose formula was to assert the opposite of what "everybody" was saying. This would have been to ignore the solidity and breadth of his learning but, more than that, to mistake the impetus behind his contrariness, the irrepressible spirit of contradiction that guides him, like a dowser, in the hope of striking truth.
Self-dramatization, eagerness for the spotlight must count very low among Revel's motivations. He has some traits in common with Shaw (he was once meditating a book against Shakespeare) but he totally lacks Shaw's theatrical vanity and Irish flair for personal publicity. Unlike Shaw, Revel does not play the sage, ready for consultation by newsmen on all manner of subjects; no Isadora Duncans, so far as I know, have been asking to have babies by him. He is not a highly advertised "brain," in fact makes no pretensions to having anything more than common garden intelligence; if he is different from the majority, he would say, it is only because he is not ashamed to be caught using that very ordinary faculty—the natural light of reason.
Far from being a star or aspiring to prominence, Revel is very much the citizen, a bourgeois in the old Enlightenment sense of the term—a townsman, fond of domestic tranquility and the arts of peace and commerce. His nature appears placid, benevolent, easygoing, sentimental, that of a private householder going about his business, reading his newspaper without the expectation of finding his own name in it, an urban Cincinnatus. He has a round, flat "Dutch" face (though he is of pure French blood) that looks as if it had seen service in the battles of William the Silent against the Spanish oppressor. It is a moon face; indeed there seem to be several moons perspicaciously turning in its dial, like in one of those grandfather clocks that keep track of astronomical time. He is a better and likes to go to the races, wears a gray suit and carries a briefcase.
Despite the stir of indignation excited by some of his broadsides, his person does not inspire fear nor cause a swift turning of heads in a restaurant. His picture, in L'Express every week over his column, has something bullish about it, the broad-browed, head-lowered promise of some intransigent charge into the arena, and yet it is a good bull, scarcely more than a rambunctious steer. He is occasionally seen on television and once ran for office (Cincinnatus called from the plow) on the Federated Left ticket in the suburban district of Neuilly—not his natural territory. He came in a bad third, behind the Gaullist and the Communist. Notwithstanding the weekly photo in a mass circulation magazine, his "image" somehow, as if from modesty, retires from circulation; if polled, fewer Parisians could identify J.-F. Revel in the rogue's gallery of current celebrities than could identify Robbe-Grillet, Marguerite Duras, Roland Barthes, Michel Rocard, Alain Krivine, or the man, "La Reynière," who writes the restaurant column in Le Monde. Not to mention J.-P. Sartre, J.-J. Servan-Schreiber, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Luc Godard, etc.
Yet in terms of meritorious service in the combat against General de Gaulle and Gaullism, the outstanding antagonist was surely not any of the above-named opinion leaders, left or center, nor François Mitterand, nor Lecanuet, but Jean-François Revel. His spirit of contrariety found in the General its absurd predestined windmill to tilt at indefatigably. Three brilliant pamphlets sprang from his pen: Le style du Général, En France: la fin de l'opposition, Lettre ouverte à la droite. He slew de Gaulle again and again, and if the General had more lives than a cat and more heads than a hydra, that did not really daunt Jean-François, though he publicly confessed to battle weariness. In fact, like the deathless General himself, he came back refreshed, reinvigorated, having found a new point of attack, new weapons, generally captured from the enemy camp.
He is still fighting, this time on the left flank. Ni Marx ni Jésus, where the old Gaullist bugbear, the United States, is tenderly embraced as an ally, suddenly discovered, in the struggle, is another engagement with the adversary, resurgent in the form of Georges Pompidou, and that adversary's eternal cohorts, as Revel sees them, of the French Communist Party and the splinter grouplets of the left. If the emphasis here is more on the vacuities of the left, old and new, than it was in some of the preceding pamphlets, it is only a shift of emphasis.
From start to finish, Revel has seen the so-called left as the right's accomplice, and vice versa, two sides of the same worn coin—an agreement to perpetuate the status quo. What he holds against both right and left is their joint blocking the way to any real social advance. I am not sure whether Revel, like Shaw, believes in a theory of socialism, but at least during his short electoral career he was running on a socialist ticket. Certainly he is a democrat and egalitarian. To him, plainly, right-left in France is a symbiosis mutually advantageous to both parties and deathly to human liberty. Or as de Gaulle is supposed to have said of Jean-Paul Sartre: "Sartre, c'est aussi la France."
De Gaulle is France, Sartre is France, the CGT and the Communists are France. France, for Revel, is a suspended solution in which all these elements refuse either to precipitate or to dissolve. What Revel is fighting, singlehanded, is "France," which has become to him the arch-symbol of all those forces of inertia that the original Adam in him felt bound to contradict when he still thought their locus might be Shakespeare or the obscurantist jargon of the Sorbonne chapel of philosophy. He is somewhat more indulgent toward the young Maoists, Trotskyites, and Castroites because they are young and the objects of a judicial campaign of terror, backed up by riot squads. But for him they too are "France," in the unreality of their perspectives, doctrinaire slogans, and practical failure to get anything done.
Sometimes one feels that Revel, as an infant, was nurtured in a debating school where the training consisted of being obliged to take the negative of such seemingly unassailable propositions as: The earth is round; Proust was a snob; Fresh air is good for you; Travel broadens the mind. And where daily exercise in the gymnasium meant standing on their heads maxims like Klauswitz's "War is a continuation of politics by other means" (Without Marx or Jesus, "Foreign policy is an initiation of war by other means").
This would not be such a bad school for educating not mere mental contortionists versed in paradox but free minds. There is always the possibility that the exact opposite of what you think (or think you think) may be true. At least it is worth trying on for size, and experiment will show that the converse of many dogmas, once stated, appears to be just as plausible as the original. Moreover, anything repeated a sufficient number of times has a natural tendency to upend itself, as though obeying some physical law of balance, like a Cartesian devil or a Mexican jumping bean. E.g., if I hear often enough "Poverty is no crime," I feel an urge to reply "Poverty is a crime," meaning that it is against the laws of humanity or that to be poor is to be already two-thirds of a criminal in the eyes of the police.
In reality few propositions are entirely true and many are lucky if they contain a grain of truth. Thus automatically to take the opposite of any received idea, say, that Proust was a snob or that the United States is the citadel of world reaction, is almost bound to disclose unexpected evidence to the contrary. The danger in such operations is to mistake those grains of truth newly brought to light for the whole truth and to fall into a reverse orthodoxy, which will not long have the merit of being your own private opinion or stubborn form of dissent but will soon be on "everybody's" lips. Far from being free to perceive what is there, outside, you are suddenly the captive of your own heresy and the adherents you have gained for it, many of whom have drawn near to listen not from an attachment to truth but from self-interested motives or simple love of novelty.
I do not think Revel has altogether escaped this danger in Without Marx or Jesus. Less than in his earlier polemics. The reason is that previously he stood virtually alone, his back to the wall, with not many more "voices" in his favor than he found to vote for him in Neuilly in 1967. But here the ally he has embraced in the shape of the United States is likely to smother him with warm moist grateful kisses. Even before US publication, you can already hear those smacks resounding from the pages of Time and Newsweek. And in the French press, surprisingly, there have been quite a few huzzas. Only on the ultra-right and the ultra-left has the book been savaged. The Communist press, though naturally critical of his un-Marxist approach, has been remarkably unvituperative, no doubt because Revel's views, on some domestic issues, coincide with their own policy of parliamentary "opposition" and reprehension of extra-legal and guerrilla tactics. The fact that Revel is offering a happily distant, transatlantic alternative to the awful specter of helmeted local revolutionaries armed with Molotov cocktails and preaching a Maoist or Castroite gospel must appeal to readers of L'Humanité as much as to readers of Figaro and France-Soir.
That is not Revel's fault, and if his thesis is true, it does not matter who takes comfort from it. Besides, if the French middle classes relax in the assurance that the revolution can only take place in America, they may get a surprise. More curious, and for Revel perhaps more disquieting, is that the French reviews paid almost exclusive attention to the "positive" sections of the book, those dealing with the United States, and virtually ignored the "negative" sections, those dealing with France. Yet to my mind these contain some of his most splendid tirades, his highest comedy, and most acute observations: e.g., Pompidou rebounding from rough American to deferential French newsmen is as good as a play.
Up to now, the complaint about Revel's pamphleteering has been that it is "negative." "Why does he have to tear down?" and so on. He answered the judgment at length in the final section of La Cabale des Dévots, where his defense rested on the commonsense argument, How can you expect me to be positive about a negative?—in that case the calamitous and self-satisfied state of French philosophy.
Of course his defense was right. The insistence on "constructive criticism" has no place in intellectual discussion. According to that notion, one could never "damn" a play, a picture, or a poem without putting in its place another play, picture, or poem, as though it were a question of an inventory and the withdrawal of one article from the common stock demanded immediate replenishment to maintain a constant level. A false equation is made with the necessities of practical life, where if I declare that the doctor treating a patient is a quack, I am under some slight obligation to try to find a more reliable man to speed to the bedside or the operating table. The idea that all doctors are quacks, true or not, is insupportable to a sick person, but quite supportable in argument.
Without Marx or Jesus, however, breaks with Revel's critical habit by offering a positive model, the United States, to offset the otherwise gloomy picture he draws of mankind's revolutionary perspectives. If it were not for the United States, he is at pains to show, they would be nil. No hope. But why, one might ask, is a revolution called for? Why not gradual evolution? It is true that to the emotions the world situation appears so grim that only a revolution seems capable of altering it for the better; we hope for a revolution as desperate peoples in the past hoped for a miracle to save them when all other resources had run out—battalions of angels flying in from the sky, manna flowering in the desert. A revolution is a sort of miracle, a widening crack in the social crust that is finally perceived to be an earthquake, and, like a miracle, it is outside the laws of prediction, except from the point of view of hindsight.
Given the common desperation, Revel can be excused for foreseeing a revolution in the US, since he cannot see one in the offing anywhere else. But to argue it is something different. At the risk of being destructive myself, I would say that his "revolution" is only a metaphor, a play on words. If he means that the US is different from the stereotype of it in French thought and that some changes are taking place there whose repercussions are already being felt elsewhere (the Berkeley Free Speech uprising anticipating "May" in Paris by nearly four years), then he is not saying anything very revolutionary, except perhaps to French ears.
I agree that draft refusal, dropping out, Woodstock, the drug culture, the Panthers, Women's Lib, the Yippies, concern about the environment, the back-to-Nature movement, open admissions to universities show that the US is "ahead" of all its partners in the West, if that can be taken as a value-free term rather than a blanket endorsement, for we are also "ahead" in sophisticated weaponry. I agree too that all this diverse effervescence may add up to some kind of transformation already as alarming to most people over forty as a universal bomb threat.
Very likely, as Revel says, American traditions embodied in the Bill of Rights and an old history of civil disobedience going back to 1776 have favored these developments, although the very rootedness of those traditions or folkways could suggest the opposite of his conclusion, suggest, that is, that they are not very exportable. It seems to be easier to transplant Coca-Cola than hominy grits or habeas corpus. But in any case to propose that these changes are a revolution is to detonate images of the taking of the Bastille, the Carmagnole, Trees of Liberty, the storming of the Winter Palace, the shot-heard-round-the-world. The reader sometimes feels that he is poring over a rosy positive print of the negative that met Martha Mitchell's eyes when she looked out her Washington window and saw a mob of "the very liberal Communists"—the Mobilization marchers—and thought she was in St. Petersburg in October, 1917.
Revel is of course careful to explain that he does not mean what everybody else means by a revolution, that most of what we call revolutions were really aborted revolts, e.g., the Paris Commune, the Russian Revolution, the Chinese Revolution, the Hungarian Revolution, which were either totally defeated or failed to achieve their ends and bogged down in tyranny. He believes that up to now there has been only one revolution—that which effectively took place in France, England, and the American colonies in the latter half of the eighteenth century (having originated in England in the seventeenth) and which, despite many setbacks, eventually replaced the old order by new democratic institutions.
One wonders, though, whether by his own strict criteria that protracted spasm was not also an aborted revolt, since many of its objectives have failed to this day to be realized, not only on a world-wide basis but in the countries where the whole thing started: The Rights of Man remain in large part on paper, like the Soviet Constitution, and equality is still a dream. So far as I can see, if one accepts Revel's definitions, the only successful revolution, up to now, has been the Industrial Revolution….
If Revel does not mean what everybody else means by the word, why use it, unless to startle and amuse? Why not find another word, such as reform? Reform, in its root sense, is what Jean-François is actually talking about: a reshaping of society. He does not have in mind a violent overturn but a renovation brought about largely by legal means, such as strikes, marches, and boycotts, with little bloodshed and with a strong dose of voluntarism. Possibly this gradual evolution will take place in America. The trouble is, Revel does not say how in political terms, and that is what counts for us Americans.
Perhaps he expects politics to wither away. If in the future the young dropouts of the counterculture did not vote, then voting would become a mainly ceremonial activity (which it is now, in a sense), engaged in by oldsters until they die off, and the Nixons of the future would be something like constitutional monarchs, useful for meeting their opposite numbers at airports, signing bills, redecorating the White House, throwing the first baseball of the year into the Washington stadium…. The Agnews would preside over the slumbrous Senate, another honorific body, like the House of Lords, and give employment to jokesters and makers of hate-dolls. Meanwhile the real majority life of revolutionized America would proceed undisturbed in communes and on campuses in a polyracial, polysexual ambiance.
The drawback to this fantasy (my own improvisation on Revel's theme) is that the intervening steps are not clear. Who arranges the transfer of power? What do we do in '72? If there is nobody possible to vote for, which seems likely, what action do we take? While the occupant of the White House is gradually being defused, he still has his enfeebled hands on the levers of destruction. There still is such a thing as capitalism.
Revel bases much of his hope on the fact, indeed impressive, that the protest movement drove Johnson from office. Yes. But it did not end the war. The sad truth seems to be that whatever else the protest movement can accomplish—organizing marches and student strikes, draft-card burnings, moratoria, sending resisters to Canada and deserters to Sweden, blocking defense-research contracts in universities, promoting beards and long hair, the sale of love beads, pot consumption—what it cannot accomplish is the very purpose that brought it into being.
It looks as if nothing inside the country can do that, short of revolution (and not the gradual kind Jean-François means) or a massive economic depression. Or the second leading to the first. There, again, is the rub. One of the factors he considers essential for the renovation he postulates—a steady high growth rate—is the obstacle to even such a small step in a forward direction as withdrawal from Vietnam. On the one hand, the certainty of American technical superiority rules out, for the Presidential mind, the very thought of defeat or "surrender." On the other, American prosperity makes the country feel it can tolerate the war as it can put up with taxes, airport congestion, smog—the cost argument, repeatedly made by the war's critics, has never made the slightest impression, and as for morality, the scaling down of US casualties, the changing of the color of the body count have allowed Nixon to do practically as he pleases. * If, as Revel says, a large section of affluent youth is disgusted by the consumer society, the great majority of the country is not. Until something more than moral dissatisfaction with the ruling values is felt, the war will go on and expand.
Besides, Revel is too intelligent not to perceive and point out the flaw in his own argument, which in logic amounts to this: If turned-off youth drops out in increasing numbers, the growth rate will fall to zero, and one of his necessary preconditions for successful revolution will no longer be present. If its numbers fail to increase, then dropout youth will remain a marginal phenomenon, which present society can afford or else move to repress. Revel does not follow up on this reasoning, but the consequence, it seems to me, is to be driven back to one of the old Marxist models and trust that an upheaval leading to renovation will come out of a capitalist crisis and not as an accompaniment of steady capitalist growth.
Perhaps it will never come, by that route or any other. Yet I do not wish to be forced by Revel's ineluctable logic into agreeing that if the revolution—whatever that is—does not take place in the United States, it will not take place anywhere. For an American, that is too discouraging a vista. And though Revel has proved to himself with dialectical relish that there can be no issue but that one, he is, again, too intelligent, too empirical, too in fact enamored of freedom not to be aware that any demonstration, no matter how rigorous, is only a demonstration.
If this little book is taken as a pamphlet, with all that connotes of provocation, surprise attack, deftness, rapidity, polemical sparkle, it will have done its work of disturbing—agit prop. But if American readers are led by it to believe that a Second Coming is materializing in the California desert, they will have misunderstood. They will be more right if they suspect that the America discovered by Columbus-Revel is an imagined and imaginary country, the antipodes of "France," though having many points of coincidence, naturally, with the homeland they know.
Revel is a satirist in the tradition of Montesquieu's Lettres persanes, Voltaire's Lettres philosophiques sur les anglais, Gulliver's Travels. Like these fabulists, he contrasts the institutions of his native country with institutions affirmed to exist among some ideal race of beings thought by the vulgar to be savages—the Persians, the English, or noble horses. There is something of Molière in him (Les Précieuses ridicules); the French sections of the book constitute a delicious comedy of manners. That was true too of En France and Lettre ouverte à la droite. For Americans, Without Marx or Jesus can be the occasion for a reciprocal discovery—of Jean-Francois Revel as a writer.
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Mary McCarthy (1912–1989) was a novelist, essayist, and critic. Her political and social commentary, literary essays, and drama criticism appeared in magazines such as Partisan Review, The New Yorker, Harper's, and The New York Review of Books, and were collected in On the Contrary (1961), Mary McCarthy's Theatre Chronicles 1937-1962 (1963), The Writing on the Wall (1970), Ideas and the Novel (1980), and Occasional Prose (1985). Her novels include The Company She Keeps (1942), The Oasis (1949), The Groves of Academe (1952), A Charmed Life (1955), The Group (1963), Birds of America (1971), and Cannibals and Missionaries (1979). She was the author of three works of autobiography, Memories of a Catholic Girlhood (1957), How I Grew (1987), and the unfinished Intellectual Memoirs (1992), and two travel books about Italy, Venice Observed (1956) and The Stones of Florence (1959). Her essays on the Vietnam War were collected in The Seventeenth Degree (1974); her essays on Watergate were collected in The Mask of State (1974).
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Sacked UI Lecturer Fingers Minister of Health in Alleged Threat to Life, Petitions Presidency
Adeola Oladele
By Adeola Oladele, Ibadan
A sacked lecturer in the employ of the University of Ibadan, Dr. Adenike Ogunshe, has petitioned President Muhammadu Buhari, indicting the Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, over threat to her life and victimization over what she described as morbid and mortal cruelties displayed against her by the minister.
Ogunshe, in a 20-page letter written to the minister, which a copy was made available to journalists on Thursday, titled: "Open Letter to You, On Your Protracted Life-Threatening Victimisation, Discrimination, Oppression, Violation of my Fundamental Human Rights and Defamation Against," noted that the minister who was the immediate-past Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ibadan was in 2009/2010 a member of the 3-man University of Ibadan Governing Council Committee that alleged her of plagiarism and other sundry matters in the Department of Botany and Microbiology of the institution, turned down her appearance before the committee which apparently resulted to her unlawful termination of duty.
The letter read: "In doing everything to entrench plagiarism in the academic system that you are to protect its chastity, the staff involved in the case of plagiarism, were later, under your administration as the Vice-Chancellor (VC), given a behind the scenes punishment of two years delay of promotion. You used everything at your disposal as VC, to scheme for my destruction and that of my career!"
"I had always been subjected to punitive actions for my moral and principled stands against ethical violations of existing regulations on academic and administrative issues in the department. But my most-sordid ordeals commenced in 2006, due to my support of the existing university regulations, against the controversial appointment of a Senior Lecturer as Ag. Head of Department (HoD), instead of a Professor (who had no case or allegation against him, as the substantive HoD".
Dr. Ogunshe pointed out that the appointment of the Head of Department was based on seniority, as even supported by at least, two documents of the institution that existed, the University of Ibadan Vision Document for the 21st century (pages 122-124 and 133-134) and the University of Ibadan Staff Information Handbook (pages 15-16 and 21).
"Based on the afore-mentioned, I therefore, stood my grounds in support of scholarship, instead of mediocritise cheap politics in the academia. So, ever since then, I had been subjected to series of protracted segregation, oppression, and victimisation."
"It took the personal efforts of some lecturers, most especially. Prof. Augusta P. Omamor, to bluntly express the insecurity implications of the threats on my life, after which the Deputy Vice Chancellor (Administration), Prof. A. Ogunkunle, mandated the Chairman, Council Committee on Security, Prof. B. Fagbemi to formally address and take necessary action on the issue of threats' to my life."
"After brief interrogation by Prof. Fagbemi, in the presence of the Ag. Chief Security Officer (CSO), Mr. Akinmoladun, my case was referred to the Nigeria Police at Sango Police Station, Sango, Ibadan, the DPO being Police Officer Kashmir. When in 2006, I was conveyed by the university Security Unit in the Security official vehicle to the Police Station at Sango, Ibadan, for a formal report on the threats to my life, the enveloped, blood-written threat letter was taken from me at the Sango Police Station, as evidence."
"As the Departmental Examination Coordinator for the shortest period of time in the department, I ensured that, as many results of the students that I knew had been intentionally prevented from graduating were presented to the Faculty Board of Examiners, and ultimately, Senate, for considerations and approvals, under Dr. A.C. Odebode as Ag. HoD. So, as soon as Dr. Onilude took over from Dr. Odebode, as the controversially appointed Ag. HoD, I was relieved of all departmental responsibilities, including the Departmental Examination Coordination. Unfortunately, some students that I could not clear, as far back as 2005/2006 academic session, still did not have their results formally presented to the Faculty Board of Examiners and Senate, for considerations and approval, even till date! Prof. Adewole Sir, this information was equally in the memorandum I submitted to your Council Committee on alleged plagiarism and all other sundry matters."
"In order to frame me up, students' examination results were destroyed to implicate me, since I was the then Departmental Examination Coordinator. I was then written by Dr. Onilude, as the officer in charge, to hand over or explain the where-about of the originals of the entire results. But, after replying Dr. Onilude's memo, it was exposed that I was not in possession of the departmental results, since the Coordinator that I was to take over from, Dr. A.M. Salaam, did not hand over any of the originals of the entire departmental results to me. I even had to copy from Dr. Salaam, the results, which I needed for compiling the final year students' results, for the Faculty Board of Examiners and Senate's considerations and approval. The allegation was then silently dropped, and the issue of missing results had been comatose, till date!"
She disclosed that was reported by Dr. Onilude to the VC as, refusing to mark students' examination scripts, which they said, would affect all the concerned students, including those from other departments, adding that under the guise of unmarked students' scripts, Dr. Onilude then made a skewed request for another lecturer to mark the only supposed script of a former student, who only came for her transcript.
Ogunshe further added in the letter: "Prof. Adewole sir, this additional vital information, which should have been of serious concern to you and your committee, as also contained in the memorandum, which I submitted to your Council Committee on alleged plagiarism and all other sundry matters was simply referred to as, not being under your committee's terms of reference."
"Prof. Adewole Sir, in spite of some of the afore-mentioned ethical violations, you personally, as the VC, falsely accused me of not teaching; having even, known that for some sessions, I was un-procedurally disallowed from teaching, both at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels. This was in addition to being prevented from various departmental responsibilities and other academic assignments, as documented in official records, and also financially indicated. The few times that I was assigned courses to teach, the topics that I was to teach would only be made available to me, extremely quite late; sometimes, few weeks to the commencement of examinations, in order to create a disrepute for me among my students."
"Sir, without any fear of any form of contradiction, you further ensured that, in order for such sordid information to kept forever hidden, you enacted an unprecedented decree that, official records must no more be published in print forms. Ever since then, all the official university records, in form of University Bulletins, and the hard copies of minutes of Senate and Congregation meetings, etc., as well as, Senate and Congregation Papers, which had been synonymous with the tradition of the university was erased by you, simply to cover academic impunities!"
"Prof. Adewole Sir, due to your un-procedural and vindictive actions, my 2008 Senior Lecturership promotion was deliberately not approved until December 2013, which made me to lose several academic fellowships, scholarships and professional opportunities!"
Miffed by the sad development, Dr. Ogunshe,however, instituted a legal action against the University of Ibadan at the National Industrial Court, Ring Road, Ibadan, which is currently under the trial Judge, Hon. Justice J.D Peters.
While Barr. Femi Aborisade stands as the defense counsel for the claimant (Dr. Ogunshe), Barr. S.A Ajayi stands as the counsel for the defendant, the University of Ibadan. However, the case has been adjourned to January 15 for further hearing.
Ogunshe
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UFC On Fox: Velasquez Vs. Dos Santos Weigh-In Results
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Official weigh-ins for UFC on Fox were held on Friday at 7:00 p.m. ET/4:00 p.m. PT at Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California, and covered live on MMA Nation. All fighters made weight, including heavyweight standouts Cain Velasquez (249) and Junior dos Santos (239). The California crowd displayed their preference for the Salinas native throughout the proceedings, booing dos Santos fervently as he tipped the scales. Afterward, the Brazilian had just one response, declaring, "Get ready for a war."
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UFC on Fox weigh-in results will be streamed in real-time below:
Main card (Fox):
Heavyweight Championship: Cain Velasquez (249) vs. Junior dos Santos (239)
Preliminary card (Facebook and FoxSports.com):
Lightweight: Clay Guida (156) vs. Ben Henderson (156)
Featherweight: Dustin Poirier (146) vs. Pablo Garza (145)
Featherweight: Cub Swanson (145) vs. Ricardo Lamas (145)
Welterweight: DaMarques Johnson (171) vs. Clay Harvison (169)
Bantamweight: Norifumi Yamamoto (135) vs. Darren Uyenoyama (135)
Featherweight: Mackens Semerzier (146) vs. Robert Peralta (145)
Bantamweight: Alex Caceres (136) vs. Cole Escovedo (134)
Middleweight: Mike Pierce (171) vs. Paul Bradley (171)
Light Heavyweight: Aaron Rosa (204) vs. Matt Lucas (203)
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Schools Work to Keep Students Safe; New COVID-19 Cases; Road Woes; Road Closure
Written by George Henry on September 23, 2021
Schools Work to Keep Students Safe
School systems around the state are battling several fronts against the COVID-19 pandemic, on one hand there are parents that are fighting against the use of masks on their children and on the other hand there is still not a vaccine for younger children. The latter could change as Pfizer is now looking for approval for its vaccine for children ages 5 and up. Currently the vaccine is approved for 16 and older and 12-15 for emergency use. Vaccination rates for eligible students, under the age of 18, is just 64% in Lane County. Siuslaw School superintendent Andy Grzeskowiak says the high school is currently receiving vaccination status from parents on a volunteer basis. The information according to Grzeskowiak is to assist the school in determining the proper procedures when an exposure is reported. A student that properly wears a mask during the school day that is in contact with a person who is later determined to have the virus is not considered exposed and not required to quarantine. Grzeskowiak says knowing the vaccination status of a student helps with seating proximity and helps to keep more students health and in class. He also says that vaccination status is considered to be confidential.
New COVID-19 Cases
It was a one day lull in reporting for the Florence area as COVID-19 cases grew by 6 in yesterday's report from Lane County public Health. 630 is the all time total of cases since the beginning of the pandemic. Lane County total numbers for yesterday were 143 while the Oregon Health Authority reported 2,312. There were also 26 more deaths reported yesterday. According to the OHA, cases are on the decline overall in the state. In a weekly update reported yesterday there was a 10% decrease in cases. It was the second week of declining numbers, however, the death toll is rising there were 148 deaths last week compared to 120 the week before. The Delta Variant of the coronavirus is still the dominant strain in Oregon.
Road Woes
Congestion continues to be a problem for travelers headed southbound on highway 101. Delays of up to 20 minutes have snarled traffic along the southbound lane beginning at the Siuslaw River Bridge back to the intersection of 101 and highway 126. ODOT crews continue to progress on getting equipment set up on the bridge for surface refinishing. ODOT officials say the entire project will take until the end of October to complete. Traffic is down to one lane during daylight hours and delays are to be expected.
Lane County has announced an upcoming road closure. A section of North Fork Road between milepost 13 and 15.6 will be closed to install a large culvert. Traffic will be affected between Monday, September 27th through Wednesday September 29th. The road will be closed from 7am to 5 pm. Access through the area can be made through Highway 126 west of the closure and highway 36 on the east side of the closure.