The Princess Sapphire makes it so easy to order breakfast in your suite. Simply call or leave the menu out the evening before and set the time for delivery. Eating breakfast on the balcony has its perks as far as privacy but the food really was not that good. We opted to dine at Sabatini's or the buffet for most breakfast meals.


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Taiwan and Nepal reverse fixtures
Nepal sent a request to Taiwan asking to reverse their World Cup qualifying fixtures because Nepal's ground was damaged in a recent earthquake and the stadium restoration will not be completed in time.
Taiwan agree to fixture change
Taiwan has agreed to reverse the home and away fixtures for their games against Nepal, due to Nepal's national stadium being damaged in an earthquake. The repairs will not be completed before September, 10th which is the date of the fixture. Therefore Nepal asked to play in Taiwan on this date.
Taiwan has agreed to change the dates, because they stated, "We are also in the seismic zone. We fully understand the situation in Nepal and agree to reverse the order of home and away." This is a nice gesture towards Nepal from Taiwan, but we don't believe any team would refuse this kind of request.
Therefore, the fixtures will now be played on:
Taiwan vs Nepal: 10th September, 19:10 kick-off (Taiwan Time), Taipei Stadium
Nepal vs Taiwan, 26th March 2020, Kathmandu
Asian Football Confederation agree to fixture change
As expected, there was no issue from the AFC regarding the fixture change. This is because of the genuine reasons involved. I don't think either the Chinese Taipei Football Association or the All Nepal Football Association expected the AFC to refuse this request.
This will be a rerun of the recent friendly between the two sides that took place in Kaohsiung, with the game ending 1-1.
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Posted by:	Valerie Vaz MP
I responded to the Government's Business Statement on 30 January, on the eve of Britain's formal departure from the European Union. You can read my speech below:
I thank the Leader of the House for the forthcoming business. May I start by asking him to clarify the new system that UK Visas and Immigration has put in place? There is a central system, and I was told yesterday that, if I was to write a letter and then ring, I would not get a written response. It is right that if Members write to UKVI, they should get that written response. I would be grateful if he could clarify that.
There is clearly time in the business to update the House on any ongoing negotiations. I am referring, albeit subtly, to negotiations to secure the release of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, Anousheh, Kylie and other British hostages. Given that we have a debate on global Britain, I wondered whether anyone would update the House on that. It was raised last week by my hon. Friend the Member for Hampstead and Kilburn (Tulip Siddiq).
The Leader of the House has very kindly given us the dates of sitting Fridays up to January 2021. Can he confirm that this Session will end in May, and that there will be a new Queen's Speech? Everybody is working to that timetable, so it would be helpful to have that confirmation.
I want to congratulate all the new Select Committee Chairs, but we wait for the machinery of Government to announce some changes, and we hope that that will happen inside this House, not outside it. Clearly, the Department for Exiting the European Union is no more as of 11 pm tomorrow. With parliamentary sovereignty in place, is the Leader of the House able to say which Ministers will be answering questions and appearing before the Exiting the European Union Committee, which still exists? No. 10 has said this:
"The negotiations on the future relationship with the EU will be led from a Taskforce Europe team within Number 10…reporting directly to the Prime Minister."
How will this taskforce be subject to any parliamentary scrutiny?
There is more taking back control to No. 10, rather than parliamentary scrutiny—which is why we are all here. The Government removed clause 31 from what became the European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Act 2020. We would have had a vote on trade negotiating objectives, regular reporting during negotiations and a final vote on a final UK-EU trade deal. I thought that people voted in the referendum to take back sovereignty, so can the Leader of the House say why MEPs in Brussels have more say over the UK-EU future relationship than this House? Can we have a debate on parliamentary sovereignty generally and scrutiny of these negotiations specifically?
The Leader of the House will recall these words on Huawei's involvement in our telecommunications network. It is a "bad policy decision" that risks:
"alienating our closest defence allies, and potentially putting at risk our communication system."
As someone said, was the Education Secretary stitched up for being right? Can the Leader of the House answer his own question? Will he also find time for a further statement on this decision, as, I think, negotiations are still ongoing? Discussions are still going on with No. 10. This affects our national security, and the Government appear not to have made the case—not even on their own side.
We seem now to have policy by press release. The Prime Minister announced a new talent visa, but no immigration Bill. He says that he wants to attract people of talent. We do, too—this country is brimming with talent that austerity has not allowed to flourish. It is a two-way system. We want the exchange that enables our talented people to work and live abroad. That is why Erasmus was so important. More than 17,000 students at UK universities study or work abroad. Earlier this month, the Government voted down the amendment on Erasmus, and yesterday the Prime Minister said that a statement was due, so can we have that sooner rather than later? It is sad that the Government do not want to be patriotic and invest in our own talent.
Finally, as we leave the EU, let us remember the following: the more than 3 million UK jobs linked to our trade with the EU, which the CBI has estimated to be worth 4% to 5% of GDP, or £62 billion to £72 billion a year; the right to paid holiday leave; maximum working hours; equal treatment for men and women; health and safety standards; and EU investment in climate finance for emerging countries. Let me say something about parliamentary sovereignty, for the record. It was set out by John Laws, in the case of the metric martyrs, which many people will know—he happens to be the uncle of someone who works in No. 10. He said that rights created by the EU must be incorporated into UK law and take precedence, but the legal basis of that supremacy rests with Parliament. Parliament delegated that power to the EU and could take it away at any time—Parliament was always sovereign. Just as the EU evolved, so it will again.
I hope that the Leader of the House will join me in thanking all the public servants who have worked in the EU, our elected representatives, commissioners and civil servants—those who have served their country and put the UK at the heart of Europe. We hope that peace, the security of our citizens and the co-operation of nearly 50 years will live on. Auld acquaintance will never be forgot.
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The clowns train very hard to teach safety lessons - and even become students themselves every year at a Clown College. Once Frisco Fire Safety Town opened, Ashes, Red, Blaze, Pumper, Siren, and Skwert all moved in, and now call Safety Town their home. You may see them at local parades and special events. When you do, be sure to stop by and tell them hello.
The Frisco Fire Department's Clowns specialize in Fire Safety Education. Each October they visit all elementary schools in Frisco for Fire Prevention Month. Clown appearances are reserved only for City of Frisco-sponsored events and FISD visits during Fire Prevention Month.
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Spanish Association Decries Kidnapping & Detention of Sahrawi Women in Tindouf
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Spanish Association "La Libertad es su derecho" has denounced the abduction and confinement of dozens of Sahrawis women in Tindouf camps, Southern Algeria, by the Polisario separatist front.
Members of this Association were received lately in Madrid by Spanish Secretary of State to Foreign Affairs Fernando Martín Valenzuela who was briefed on the plight and lamentable situation suffered by these Sahrawis women, some of whom have Spanish nationality.
During the meeting, spokesperson of "La Libertad es su derecho" Elisa Pavón made a presentation focusing on the complaint filed at UN Human Rights Council and the call launched by the European Parliament's petitions committee, urging European institutions to act against the atrocities and the human rights violations committed by the polisario militiamen who are armed, funded and sheltered by Algerian authorities.
Mrs. Pavón underlined the responsibility of the Algerian government to ensure the respect of the rights of the Sahrawi women sequestered in the Tindouf camps and called on the Spanish government to take urgent actions to end the sufferings endured by these women, who are Spanish citizens.
The Spanish Secretary of State to Foreign Affairs pledged to maintain contact with the Spanish adoptive families of these Sahrawi women held against their will in the Tindouf camps by the Polisario separatists.
Human Rights Watch has expressed serious concerns over the restrictions imposed on Sahrawi women in the Tindouf camps, saying "holding an adult woman against her will is illegal confinement".
HRW affirmed that "these women should exercise their freedom of movement", noting that "past and future acts of illegal confinement are punished as crimes."
As adults, these Sahrawi women "have the right to decide freely whether they wish to remain with their family members in the Tindouf camps or leave. Their right to freedom of movement does not depend on their nationality, but is a right enjoyed by everyone", underlined the human rights organization.
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Juan I de Portugal (Lisboa, 11 de abril de 1357-Lisboa, 13 de agosto de 1433) fue rey de Portugal, fundador de la Dinastía de Avís. Era hijo natural del infante Pedro (que luego sería el rey Pedro I de Portugal) y de la plebeya (lisboeta o gallega) Teresa Gille Lourenço.

Fue el primer monarca en redactar en lengua vernácula (portugués) las leyes de su reino; ejecutó numerosas obras públicas y mereció los apelativos de "Juan el Grande", «Juan el Grandioso» y «Juan el Padre del Pueblo». Sin embargo, el único título que se le atribuye en Portugal es «El de Buena Memoria».

Nacido durante las postrimeras del reinado de su abuelo Alfonso IV, su padre subió  al trono portugués en mayo de 1357, a un mes de su nacimiento. Ya que no podía ser criado en la Corte, por encargo de su padre el infante Pedro, Juan fue criado y educado por su abuelo materno, el mercader Lourenço Martins da Praça. En 1364 fue consagrado maestre de la Orden de Avis.

A la muerte de Pedro I, el 18 de enero de 1367, ascendió al trono el hijo de este (medio hermano de Juan), Fernando I de Portugal. Fernando I murió en Lisboa el 22 de octubre de 1383.

A la muerte del rey Fernando I, Leonor, su viuda, conforme al tratado de Salvaterra de Magos por el que se llevó a cabo el matrimonio entre su hija Beatriz y el rey Juan I de Castilla, y conforme al testamento del rey difunto, se encargó de la regencia y el gobierno en nombre de su hija Beatriz.

A su muerte (causada por la peste negra) en 1433 fue sucedido en el trono por su hijo Eduardo.

Crisis dinástica de 1383-1385
Cuando el 22 de octubre de 1383 falleció el rey Fernando I estalló una importante crisis dinástica, debido a la no existencia de heredero varón. El trono correspondía por derecho a la infanta Beatriz de Borgoña, hija del difunto rey, pero esta posibilidad contaba con fuertes opositores, ya que Beatriz se había casado con Juan I rey de Castilla, por lo que de heredar la corona portuguesa, el rey castellano se convertiría en monarca de Portugal, lo que supondría la sumisión de Portugal a Castilla y la pérdida de la independencia.

El rey Juan I de Castilla tomó el título de rey de Portugal por derecho de su esposa Beatriz, e inició una intervención militar en Portugal estableciéndose en Guarda; ante esto, el temor de la integración de Portugal en Castilla, y la oposición a la regencia de Leonor Téllez, generó una rebelión popular y una guerra civil. A principios de diciembre de 1383, se produjo en Lisboa el levantamiento. El maestre de Avís asesinó al favorito de la regente, Juan Fernández de Anderio, conde de Ourém, y tras ello el pueblo llano se levantó contra el gobierno a instigación de Álvaro Pais, en el que resultó muerto Martinho Anes, obispo de Lisboa. El levantamiento se extendió a las provincias, cobrándose la vida de la abadesa de monjas benedictinas en Évora, el prior de la colegiata de Guimarães, o de Lançarote Pessanha, Almirante de Portugal, en Beja.

La reina Leonor huyó de Lisboa con la Corte y se refugió en Alenquer. En Lisboa, Álvaro Pais propuso el matrimonio del maestre de Avís con Leonor para encargarse de la regencia de forma conjunta, pero Leonor lo rechazó, y ante las noticias de la venida del rey castellano, el maestre de Avís fue elegido defensor y regidor del reino el 16 de diciembre de 1383, como defensor de los derechos del infante Juan de Portugal, primogénito de Inés de Castro, designó a João das Regras como canciller y a Nuno Álvares Pereira como condestable, y pidió ayuda a Inglaterra. Trató de asediar Alenquer pero Leonor huyó a Santarém. De modo que regresaron a preparar la defensa de Lisboa. En Santarém, Leonor procedió a reclutar un ejército y pidió ayuda a su yerno el rey de Castilla. Juan I de Castilla emprendió el camino de Santarém, y allí obtuvo el 13 de enero la renuncia de Leonor a la regencia. El levantamiento tuvo el apoyo de la burguesía pero no de la aristocracia, que se mantuvo apoyando a la regencia de Leonor. y cuando esta renunció, en apoyo del rey Juan I de Castilla y de su esposa Beatriz. Sin embargo, esto alentó a la causa del maestre de Avís a justificar la revuelta en tanto que se había conculcado el tratado de Salvaterra de Magos.

Los fracasos de Juan I de Castilla favorecieron la causa del maestre de Avís, y el 6 de abril de 1385 las Cortes portuguesas reunidas en Coímbra, tras haber declarado ilegítima a Beatriz, procedieron a elegir y proclamar al maestre de Avís como Juan I de Portugal. Las siguientes derrotas castellanas en Trancoso y Aljubarrota en mayo y en agosto de 1385 supusieron el fin de la posibilidad de imponerse Juan I de Castilla y Beatriz como reyes de Portugal.

Tras estas derrotas castellanas, Juan I de Portugal obtuvo el control de las plazas que aún le eran adversas. Desde la comarca de Santarem, emprendió el dominio de la región al norte del Duero donde había caballeros portugueses que mantenían fidelidad a Beatriz y a Juan I de Castilla: Villareal de Pavões, Chaves y Braganza capitularon a finales de marzo de 1386, y Almeida, a principios de junio de 1386. El 9 de mayo de 1386, Portugal e Inglaterra establecieron una alianza por el tratado de Windsor por la que Portugal apoyaba las reivindicaciones legitimistas de los descendientes de Pedro I el Cruel: su hija Constanza y su marido Juan de Gante, que se intitulaban como reyes de Castilla desde 1372. Sin embargo, la campaña anglo-portuguesa contra Castilla no tuvo éxito por lo que Juan de Gante y Juan I de Castilla negociaron un acuerdo a espaldas del rey portugués, el tratado de Bayona del 8 de julio de 1388. La interrupción de la guerra de los Cien Años en la tregua de Leulinghem motivó la tregua de Monçao del 23 de noviembre de 1389, por la que Castilla y Portugal restauraban al adversario las plazas ocupadas, pero aún quedaban pendientes las reclamaciones dinásticas que alargaron el sistema de treguas con Castilla hasta la paz definitiva en 1431.

Reinado

Juan I de Castilla murió en 1390 sin hijos de su esposa Beatriz, lo que significaba que una línea de sangre legítima competitiva con un reclamo al trono de Portugal se extinguió. Juan I de Portugal pudo gobernar en paz y concentrarse en el desarrollo económico y la expansión territorial de su reino. Las acciones militares más importantes fueron el asedio y conquista de la ciudad de Ceuta por parte de Portugal en 1415, y la defensa exitosa de Ceuta de un contraataque marroquí en 1419. Estas medidas estaban destinadas a ayudar a tomar el control de la navegación de la costa africana y las rutas comerciales del interior de África

Las incursiones y ataques de la Reconquista en la península ibérica crearon cautivos en ambos lados que fueron rescatados o vendidos como esclavos. La corona portuguesa extendió esta práctica al norte de África. Después del ataque a Ceuta, el rey buscó el reconocimiento papal de la acción militar como una cruzada. Tal decisión habría permitido que los capturados fueran vendidos legítimamente como esclavos. En respuesta a la solicitud de Juan, el papa Martín V emitió la bula papal Sane charissimus del 4 de abril de 1418, que confirmó al rey todas las tierras que podría ganar de los moros. Bajo los auspicios del Príncipe Enrique el Navegante, se organizaron viajes para explorar la costa africana. Esto condujo al descubrimiento de las islas deshabitadas de Madeira en 1417 y las Azores en 1427; todos fueron reclamados por la corona portuguesa.

Falleció en 1433 y recibió sepultura en la Capela do Fundador en el monasterio de Batalha, donde también habían sido depositados los restos de la reina Felipa.

Legado
Los escritores contemporáneos describen a Juan como un hombre ingenioso que estaba muy interesado en concentrar el poder en sí mismo, pero al mismo tiempo poseía un comportamiento benévolo y amable. Su educación juvenil como maestro de una orden religiosa lo convirtió en un rey excepcionalmente aprendido para la Edad Media. Su amor por el conocimiento y la cultura se transmitió a sus hijos, a quienes los historiadores portugueses se refieren colectivamente como la "generación ilustre" (Ínclita geração): Eduardo, el futuro rey, era poeta y escritor; Pedro, duque de Coímbra, fue uno de los príncipes más eruditos de su tiempo; y el príncipe Enrique el Navegante, el duque de Viseo, invirtió fuertemente en ciencia y en el desarrollo de actividades náuticas. En 1430, la única hija sobreviviente de Juan, Isabel, se casó con Felipe el Bueno, duque de Borgoña, y disfrutó de una cultura de corte extremadamente refinada en sus tierras; ella era la madre de Carlos el Temerario.

Descendencia

Antes de contraer matrimonio con Felipa de Lancaster y siendo aún maestre de Avis, mantuvo una relación amorosa con Inés Pires de quien tuvo dos hijos:
 Alfonso (c. 1371-1461), VIII conde de Barcelos y I duque de Braganza, fue el fundador de la Dinastía de Braganza;
 Beatriz, casada con Thomas FitzAlan, XII conde de Arundel.

En el año 1387 contrajo matrimonio con Felipa de Lancaster, hija de Juan de Gante, duque de Lancaster e hijo de Eduardo III de Inglaterra, y hermana de Enrique IV de Inglaterra. De esta unión nacieron:

 Blanca (Lisboa, 13 de julio de 1388-1389), vivió unos ocho meses y fue sepultada en la catedral de Lisboa a los pies de su bisabuelo, el rey Alfonso IV;
 Alfonso (Santarém, 30 de julio de 1390-22 de diciembre de 1400), el heredero, vivió unos diez años y fue enterrado en la catedral de Braga;
 Eduardo o Duarte (Viseo, 31 de octubre de 1391-1438), sucesor de su padre con el nombre de Eduardo I;
 Pedro (Lisboa, 9 de diciembre de 1392-20 de mayo de 1449), I duque de Coímbra, señor de Montemor-o-Velho, y regente de Portugal durante la minoría de su sobrino Alfonso V;
 Enrique el Navegante (Oporto, 4 de marzo de 1394-1460), I duque de Viseo y señor de Covillana;
 Isabel (Évora, 21 de febrero de 1397-1471), duquesa consorte de Borgoña por su matrimonio con Felipe III el Bueno y madre de Carlos el Temerario;
 Juan (Santarém, enero de 1400-1442), regidor y gobernador de la Orden de Santiago;
 Fernando el Santo Infante (Santarém, 29 de septiembre de 1402-1443), regidor y gobernador de la Orden de Avis.

Ancestros

Véase también
 Crisis de 1383-1385 en Portugal

Referencias

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Nacidos en Lisboa
Regentes de Portugal con la casa de Avís
Reyes de Portugal del siglo XIV (casa de Avís)
Reyes de Portugal del siglo XV (casa de Avís)
Maestres de la Orden de Avis
Hijos ilegítimos de monarcas de Portugal
Fallecidos en Lisboa

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stated on February 19, 2020 in the Las Vegas debate:
"Mayor Bloomberg was busy blaming African Americans and Latinos for the housing crisis in 2008."
Democratic presidential candidates Mike Bloomberg, left, and Elizabeth Warren gesture during a primary debate on Feb. 19, 2020, in Las Vegas. (AP)
By Amy Sherman February 20, 2020
Mike Bloomberg's redlining remarks distorted by Elizabeth Warren
Bloomberg in 2008 linked the financial crisis to pushback against redlining.
When Bloomberg brought up redlining, he made no mention of minorities but instead brought up poor neighborhoods.
Bloomberg also cited other factors for the financial crisis, including automated trading and inadequate regulation.
U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., used the Democratic primary debate in Las Vegas to launch attacks against Mike Bloomberg, including his the billionaire's rhetoric on the collapse of the housing market and financial crisis.
"When Mayor Bloomberg was busy blaming African Americans and Latinos for the housing crash of 2008, I was right here in Las Vegas literally just a few blocks down the street holding hearings on the banks that were taking away homes from millions of families," Warren said.
Warren was referring to a statement Bloomberg made in 2008 in which he said that the end of redlining — a discriminatory practice in which banks refused certain applicants, often African Americans, loans to live in certain neighborhoods — contributed to the collapse of the housing market. But Bloomberg did not blame African Americans, Latinos or any minority group.
What Bloomberg said about the causes of the financial crisis
The Warren campaign pointed to what Bloomberg said at a forum in September 2008 at Georgetown University. At various points in the hourlong interview, Bloomberg spoke broadly about loose lending as a factor in the financial crisis. Bloomberg identified pressure by Congress to expand lending after the ban on redlining as one of those causes. The term "redlining" comes from when bankers would draw lines on maps indicating poorer neighborhoods where they would avoid offering mortgages. Those areas often include large minority populations.
Bloomberg did not talk about the racial aspects of redlining or bring up any minority groups. Instead, he seemed to define redlining narrowly as excluding loan applicants in poor neighborhoods. And he described a system in which, by enacting a ban on redlining, Congress encouraged banks to give mortgages to people whether or not they could afford them.
Here's what Bloomberg said:
"It all started back when there was a lot of pressure on banks to make loans to everyone. Redlining, if you remember, was the term where banks took whole neighborhoods and said, 'People in these neighborhoods are poor, they're not going to be able to pay off their mortgages, tell your salesmen don't go into those areas.'"
He continued: "And then Congress got involved — local elected officials, as well — and said, 'Oh that's not fair, these people should be able to get credit.' And once you started pushing in that direction, banks started making more and more loans where the credit of the person buying the house wasn't as good as you would like."
Warren's argument is essentially that by citing the pushback against redlining as factor in the crisis, Bloomberg was blaming African Americans and Latinos.
Bloomberg's description of redlining may have sounded naive in that he didn't explicitly acknowledge the discriminatory impact against racial minorities. But that's a long way from blaming African Americans or Latinos for the housing collapse.
In the same interview, Bloomberg cited several other factors that led to the crisis, but he made no mention at all of minorities.
Bloomberg talked about how the mortgage crisis accelerated after mortgages were approved too easily for borrowers who didn't have the means to repay them.
"There was pressure to open up the spigot and to sell mortgages to everyone," he said.
stated on May 8, 2010 in a press release.
"McCollum admitted he didn't think that the subprime mortgage crisis was a big deal, telling reporters he thought that the subprime collapse had been exaggerated by the media and investors and that 'it's not the end of the world.' "
By Aaron Sharockman • May 11, 2010
Bloomberg's eight-minute answer also lobbed criticism at financial companies, saying that they didn't understand the risks and volatility of their own products. He said that Bear Stearns, AIG and Lehman Brothers all had reputations for being very aggressive.
"They got themselves so far out there that when the mortgage market collapsed, they couldn't value the things that they owned," he said. "They didn't know how many mortgages at the very bottom were going to be good."
In 2011, Bloomberg repeated his opinion that Congress was to blame for the crisis, because it "pushed the banks to loan to everybody." In this statement, he appeared to let bankers off the hook.
"It was not the banks that created the mortgage crisis," he said. "It was, plain and simple, Congress who forced everybody to go and to give mortgages to people who were on the cusp. Now I'm not so sure that was terrible policy because a lot of those people who got homes still have them, and they wouldn't have had them without that."
RELATED: What caused crisis? No one thing
Many experts have pushed back against the idea that eliminating redlining was a culprit for the financial meltdown. The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission concluded that the 1977 law against redlining was "not a significant factor in subprime lending or the crisis."
When we contacted the Bloomberg campaign, the campaign pointed to other statements Bloomberg made in which he mentioned various factors.
Speaking in London in October 2008, Bloomberg said that automated trading contributed to the market's volatility. He said that the United States had an "antiquated patchwork of regulatory bodies" that lacked transparency.
At that event, Bloomberg was asked to respond to a magazine article suggesting the origins of the subprime mortgage crisis could be traced to the Clinton administration's anti-discrimination drive that cajoled banks to lend to people who were not creditworthy.
Bloomberg said: "I think it might have contributed a little bit, but what happened was fundamentally everybody was doing well. And when everybody's doing well, we let our guard down, we take risks that we would not otherwise have taken, and what happened plain and simple is that the modeling said these mortgages were going to be paid off."
Warren said, "Mayor Bloomberg was busy blaming African Americans and Latinos for the housing crisis in 2008."
Warren makes it sound like Bloomberg made a clear cut statement blaming minorities for the collapse of the housing market, when that's not the case.
Bloomberg in September 2008 brought up redlining when he was asked about the causes of the financial crisis. Bloomberg said after politicians deemed the process of redlining unfair, banks and lenders extended loans to applicants with poor credit.
But Bloomberg made no mention of race or minorities — he spoke about people in poor neighborhoods. Bloomberg faulted other factors in the crisis including inadequate regulation.
Warren's statement contains an element of truth but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. We rate this statement Mostly False.
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Washington Post, Clinton pushes homeownership strategy, June 6, 1995
Los Angeles Times, Minorities' Home Ownership Booms Under Clinton but Still Lags Whites' May 31, 1999
PolitiFact, What caused crisis? No one thing, Nov. 30, 2008
NBC News, Live Blog / Las Vegas Democratic debate live updates: Six candidates face off in Nevada, Feb. 19, 2020
YouTube, Mike Bloomberg at Georgetown University, Sept. 17, 2008
C-SPAN, Mike Bloomberg at Georgetown University, Sept. 17, 2008
Washington Post, Sanders steps up attacks on Bloomberg at candidates event in Nevada, Feb. 16, 2020
AP, Bloomberg once blamed end of 'redlining' for 2008 collapse, Feb. 12, 2020
New York Times, Bloomberg Once Linked 2008 Crisis to End of Redlining Bias in Home Loans, Feb. 13, 2020
Mike Bloomberg campaign website, Housing Affordability and Homelessness, 2020
CityLab, What Mike Bloomberg Got Wrong About Redlining and the Financial Crisis, Feb. 13, 2020
Washington Post perspectives by Robert Kuttner, I wrote the law Bloomberg blames for the financial crisis. He's wrong. Feb. 15, 2020
Federal Reserve, Federal Fair Lending Regulations and Statutes Fair Housing Act
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Employers are missing talent when they only consider graduates with first class degrees, writes Charlotte Esler.
A couple of years ago a friend of mine announced that he was going to drop out of his degree, just weeks before his finals. Why? Because he didn't want to get a "Desmond". The thought of graduating with a "Desmond Tutu", or 2:2 grade, he felt, would have been of even less benefit to him than not graduating at all. At least the second option meant he got a head start in the job hunt.
Following the latest report from the Association of Graduate Recruiters, I can see where he was coming from. The report suggests that the labour market has become so saturated by graduates that the easiest way for employers to sift through them is to ignore those who fail to obtain first-class honours in their degree. A further study by High Fliers Research noted that 70 percent of employers have 2:1 as their minimum requirement.
The problem is a multidimensional one. Take the unprecedented number of graduates, coupled with the fact that many top companies stopped running their official grad schemes during the financial crisis. Add to this the fact the number of graduates with first-class honours has more than doubled in the past 10 years, and the problems faced by all but the most gifted candidates becomes clear. The numbers are so skewed that there are now over 70 applicants for every graduate job, and that number doubles in sectors such as investment banking and retail.
But all this raises the question as to what exactly a first can guarantee for an employer. When many graduates, particularly from the arts and social sciences, go into employment not directly related to their degree course, the only thing that top honours can guarantee graduate recruiters is academic ability. This is an achievement in itself, but by no means the unambiguous promise of a successful career.
It might not only be recent graduates who are missing out then, but employers too. Such a heavy focus on academic attainment seems to ignore other important credentials, so-called "soft skills", such as willingness to learn, leadership ability, interpersonal skills and creativity.
Do graduates need a first to get a good job?
Top graduate employers of course also test for these things by means of detailed online application forms, psychometric testing, individual interviews and group problem-solving scenarios, in order to gauge applicant competency in other fields. But as long as the majority of employers request a 2:1 as the absolute minimum at degree level, the business acumen and creativity of graduates with 2:2 or below, nearly 40 per cent of graduates, will remain ignored and they will be left at the first hurdle.


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Holger Böhme (* 1965 in Dresden) ist ein deutscher Autor sowie Hörspiel- und Theaterregisseur.

Leben und Wirken
Zunächst arbeitete Holger Böhme ab 1983 als Transportarbeiter, später als Beleuchter am Staatsschauspiel Dresden. 1990 wechselte er ans Dresdner Brettl, wo er unter der Leitung von Friedrich-Wilhelm Junge als Beleuchtungsmeister angestellt war. Im selben Jahr machte er mit dem Hörspiel Es ist noch einmal gut gegangen mit Jörg Gudzuhn in der Hauptrolle auf sich aufmerksam. Er übernahm 1991 die Regie in dem Lene-Voigt-Programm Sächsische Variationen, bei dem er gemeinsam mit dem Schauspieler Tom Pauls die Figur der Ilse Bähnert entwickelte, welche später zu einer Paraderolle von Pauls wurde. Anfang der 90er-Jahre erwarb er gemeinsam mit Pauls einen alten Lastkahn und gründete zusammen mit Friedrich-Wilhelm Junge, Pauls und anderen den Theaterkahn Dresden, der 1994 als neue Spielstätte des Dresdner Brettls den Spielbetrieb aufnahm. In der Folge übernahm er zahlreiche Regiearbeiten, vor allem am Dresdner Brettl, aber auch an anderen Bühnen. Böhme schrieb weiterhin Hörspiele, so 1994 Krauses Tod in der Regie von Joachim Staritz mit Axel Wandtke in der Rolle des Jochen. Böhme schrieb und inszenierte 1994 das Theaterstück Ausgebremst oder der Traum vom Fahren, das 1995 am Dresdner Brettl uraufgeführt wurde. Er erfand in diesem Stück die Figur des Lothar, welche zu einer weiteren populären Rolle von Pauls wurde.

1997 gründete Böhme gemeinsam mit dem Puppenspieler Jörg Bretschneider und dem Bühnenbildner Mathias Hänsel das Dresdner Figurentheater, wo er mehrere Stücke sowohl für Kinder als auch für Erwachsene inszenierte.

Seit 2000 ist Böhme freischaffender Regisseur und Autor. 2005 begann seine regelmäßige Zusammenarbeit mit dem Kabarett Academixer in Leipzig, sowohl als Autor als auch als Regisseur. Unter anderem inszenierte er die Stücke Sitzenbleiber, Oberhalb der Gürtellinie und Gib's doch zu.

2000 veröffentlichte Böhme seinen ersten Erzählband, Die Forelle, 2005 folgte Klingel defekt! und 2008 der Roman Frau Brumbolski, die anderen und ich. Außerdem ist er Autor einer Vielzahl von Hörspielen, zum Beispiel In einem Zug mit Axel Prahl. Für Sonnenwende. Toter Hund wurde Böhme 2002 mit dem Zonser Hörspielpreis ausgezeichnet.
In den letzten Jahren tritt Böhme zunehmend als Autor von Theaterstücken in Erscheinung, so mit den jeweils uraufgeführten Stücken Gib alles (2014), Bauland (2015) sowie Lothar und der große Geist (2016) mit Tom Pauls und Jörg Schüttauf.

Zahlreiche Gastspiele führten ihn nach Italien, Mexiko, die Türkei und Belgien.

Seit August 2017 ist Böhme Intendant des Theaterkahns.

Auszeichnungen
 2002: Zonser Hörspielpreis für Sonnenwende – Toter Hund, Regie: Joachim Staritz (SRF/ORB/NDR).
 2017: Robert-Geisendörfer-Preis für Die meisten Afrikaner können nicht schwimmen, Regie: Stefan Kanis (MDR)
 2018: Zonser Hörspielpreis für Manitu, Regie: Gabriele Bigott (MDR)

Stücke
 1991: Sächsische Variationen (Regie)
 1992: Der Tod und das Mädchen (Regie)
 1992: Bitte leise zum letzten Bild (Regie)
 1993: Die unheilige Jungfrau der Saftpresse (Uraufführung, Regie)
 1993: Thema Nr. Zwo (Regie)
 1993: Hundeherz (Regie)
 1994 Das Jahrmarktsfest zu Plundersweilern (Regie)
 1994: Liebesbriefe (Regie)
 1994: Indien (deutsche Erstaufführung, Regie)
 1995: Jenseits der Hast (Regie)
 1995: Das kunstseidene Mädchen (Regie)
 1996: Die kleinen Freuden des Lebens (deutsche Erstaufführung, Regie)
 1997: Ausgebremst oder der Traum vom Fahren (Autor, Regie)
 1997: Der Zimmerspringbrunnen (Regie)
 1998: Goldrausch (Autor, Regie)
 1999: Die Leiche im Keller (Regie)
 1999: Der Fall (Albert Camus) (Bühnenfassung, Regie)
 1999: Der Heiratsantrag (Regie)
 1999: Wie werd Millionär (Uraufführung, Autor, Regie)
 2000: Tanz der Unterwelt (Regie)
 2001: Kunst (Regie)
 2002: Strategie eines Schweins (Regie)
 2002: Zwiefach sind die Phantasien (CD, Regie)
 2002(?): Tannhäuser (Regie)
 2003: Schwarze Augen – Eine Nacht im Russenpuff (Regie)
 2003: Die Olsenbande dreht durch (Regie)
 2004: Tod eines Handlungsreisenden (Regie)
 2005: Taxi, Taxi oder Der doppelte Ehemann (Regie)
 2005: Klingel defekt! (Erzählungen)
 2006(?): Psycho (Regie)
 2006(?): Leichen verschickt man, Frauen ziehen sich aus (Regie)
 2007: Fernsehkommissare haben's gut (Regie)
 2007: Kauf mich! (Regie)
 2007: Die Grönholm Methode (Regie)
 2008: Frau Brumbolski, die anderen und ich (Roman)
 2009(?): In der Nacht ißt der Mensch nicht gern alleine (Regie)
 2009(?): Ein Mann räumt auf oder das verliebte Einweckglas (Regie)
 2009: Au Backe (Regie)
 2009: Kamasutra will gelernt sein (Regie)
 2009(?): Die Geschichte vom kleinen Muck (Regie)
 2009: Der Feuermann (Regie)
 2010(?): Die Säulen der Macht oder Die Geschichte einer Tigerin (Regie)
 2010: Der letzte Raucher (Regie)
 2010: Lothar und der Kormoran (Autor, Regie)
 2010: Hans im Glück oder was ist deutsch mit Friedrich-Wilhelm Junge (Regie)
 2010: Die sieben Tage des Simon Labrosse (Regie)
 2014: Gib alles (Regie)
 2015: Bauland (Autor, Regie)
 2016: Lothar und der große Geist (Autor, Regie)
 2018: Dieter und der Wolf (Uraufführung, Regie)
 2019: Oleanna (Regie)

Hörspiele
 1990: Es ist noch einmal gut gegangen (Autor)
 Ursendung: DS Kultur 1990, 36'40, Regie: Barbara Plensat
 1991: Ausbruch (Autor)
 Ursendung: ORB 1992, Regie: Achim Scholz
 1992: Krauses Tod (Autor)
 Ursendung: ORB 1994, 47'52, Regie: Joachim Staritz
 1993: Still, Mutter (Autor)
 Ursendung: MDR 1997, 40'17, Regie: Joachim Staritz
 1996: Stillleben mit Dorf und Leichen (Autor)
 Ursendung: ORB/RB 1996, 54'17, Regie: Joachim Staritz
 2002: Sonnenwende. Toter Hund (Autor)
 Ursendung: SFB 3, 6. April 2002, 52'10, Regie: Joachim Staritz
 2003: Spritztour mit Leichenwagen (Autor)
 Ursendung: DLR 2003, 49'46, Regie: Wolfgang Rindfleisch
 2004: Von der Liebe und von anderen Einsamkeiten 1-5 (Autor)
 Ursendung: RBB Kulturradio ab 21. Juni 2004, Regie: Gabriele Bigott
 2005: In einem Zug (Autor)
 Ursendung: RBB/DLF 2005, 46'15, Regie: Barbara Plensat
 2010: Der Fall Karassek (Autor)
 Ursendung: 1. Oktober 2010, RBB Kulturradio, 54'12, Regie: Ulrich Lampen
 2013: Der Kormoran (Autor)
 Ursendung: 23. Juni 2013, MDR Figaro, 54'30, Regie: Gabriele Bigott (Hörspiel des Monats Juni 2013)
 2016: Die meisten Afrikaner können nicht schwimmen (Autor)
 Ursendung: 21. August 2016, MDR KULTUR, 48'45, Regie: Stefan Kanis
 2017: Manitu (Autor)
 MDR 2017, 48'31, Regie: Gabriele Bigott (Hörspiel des Monats Februar 2018)
 2019: Dieter und der Wolf (Autor)
 Ursendung: 25. Februar 2019, MDR KULTUR, 53'00, Regie: Gabriele Bigott
 2019: Die Entgiftung des Mannes (Autor) – nominiert für den Hörspielpreis der Kriegsblinden 2020
 Ursendung: 4. November 2019, MDR KULTUR, 54'00, Regie: Stefan Kanis

Referenzen

Weblinks

 Webseite zum Stück "Sonnenwende - Toter Hund"
 Seite von henschel SCHAUSPIEL über Holger Böhme

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There is only one species in the genus Aulostomus.
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Wax is back – and the vinyl record revival is good news for indie artists
November 20, 2014 April 20, 2021 Keith Hatschek Audio Mastering
Vinyl record sales were up again – 26% from last year – and this vinyl record revival can be a sales driver for independent artists.
The 33 1/3 RPM album became the dominant release medium in the late 1960s and '70s, as American record buyers moved from 45 RPM singles to albums. Fans anxiously awaited not only the latest music from their favorite artists, but the album package itself, which became a palette that artists used to express themselves in a seemingly endless procession of funny, shocking, thought provoking or elegant pieces of artwork.
Cassette albums and singles took off in the 1980s, which replaced the older, clunky 8-track cartridges in cars and allowed fans to make their own custom tape compilations. When the CD was introduced to consumers in 1982, the digital age of music was upon us and record labels saw the CD as the ultimate profit-maker as fans started to replace their aging and scratchy vinyl with the nearly indestructible compact disc. Record stores rightly were concerned that carrying vinyl, cassettes, and CDs on each title would require new fixtures and much more real estate. So labels and retailers rapidly phased out vinyl albums in favor of CDs. Soon after, by the mid-90s, cassettes were phased out too, leaving the more profitable CD as the primary record release medium for the music business from the late 1980s until the advent of the iTunes store in 2003.
DJs help save the grooves
While record labels did their best to phase out vinyl completely, the hundreds of millions of records found in homes and used record stores all across America continued to be played and enjoyed by fans. DJs used vinyl as the basis for their art form. In fact, the thriving underground club culture, which consistently supported a small but loyal market for 12" vinyl releases, is what kept the few surviving vinyl pressing plants alive through the 1990s and into the new millennium.
So-called house music, which grew out of DIY dance parties held in warehouses in Chicago, Detroit, and New York, relied on vinyl as the optimum format for creating live sets. The term "cratedigger" refers to DJs with massive vinyl collections built up by scouring thrift shops and used record stores searching through hundreds of crates, bins, and boxes to find obscure albums that contained music suitable for their performances.
In addition to introducing listeners to classic tracks by James Brown, George Clinton, and Chic, DJs created new mixes to share with clubs and other DJs around the world and vinyl was the preferred medium for many established DJs. While the vast majority of US pressing plants were shuttered as the major labels abandoned the format, these DJs kept a small number of plants running.
The vinyl record revival
In 2006, a strong uptick in vinyl sales was noted, largely spurred by millennials, to whom the LP was actually a "new format." The combination of the 12" sleeve and its artwork, with the realization of the warmer, richer sounds emanating from the turntable when compared to an MP3, created a loyal following of vinyl lovers that has been steadily growing.
According to Slate.com senior technology writer Will Oremus, "Many prefer [vinyl], whether for the sound quality, the nostalgic appeal, or simply the beauty of a vinyl record as a design object. Within the music industry, vinyl's renaissance is also tied to notions of 'the album' as a cohesive artistic statement, usually by an actual band."
The tangible album spinning on a turntable has a coolness factor that blows away MP3s, while liner notes, colored vinyl, and the delicate sound of the needle hitting the run-in groove are once again becoming anticipated experiences for vinyl fans young and old. In Portland, OR, roughly two dozen independent record stores are thriving today. According to the Oregonian's David Greenwald, "You'd be hard pressed to find a city with a higher LP density." Not surprising for a city that prides itself on its fierce independence from mainstream sameness.
By 2013, vinyl had grown to more than 6.1 million records sold, topping a steady six-year run of ever increasing sales. This was up 33% from the previous year's record-breaking total of 4.5 million. (Sales from January through June 2014 are already at 4 million). Billboard reported that 66% of vinyl records were purchased at independent record stores and that rock was the dominant genre purchased, making up three out of every four LP record sold.
Also reflected in the numbers are growing sales to baby boomer record collectors purchasing reissues of classic albums on pristine, high-quality vinyl in limited pressings. For instance, in September of this year, EMI Records released a 14-LP box set titled The Beatles in Mono which included the Beatles first 14 UK album releases pressed in limited edition, premium 180-gram vinyl, with the original artwork beautifully reproduced.
A 108-page hardcover coffee table book accompanies the set. During its first week of availability, 2,300 fans rushed to purchase while individual LP sales of a few of the individual albums from the set (Revolver, Sgt. Peppers, etc.) also topped 2,000 copies each. This pushed those albums onto the current Billboard 200 chart fifty years after they had first appeared! Price tag for the full set? A cool $350 per box set shelled out by fans who probably already have some of the music on LP and CD, which demonstrates the solid market for vinyl reissues for classic albums.
Another contributor to the rising prominence of vinyl is Record Store Day, an annual worldwide event held on the third Saturday of April by independent record store owners and employees to celebrate records, vinyl, and the music (and musicians) that may not get to the top of the Billboard charts. It's a chance for fans of current bands and collectors to descend on the nearest participating record store and support the music they love. As vinyl continues to grow in popularity, this network of more than 1,400 independent record stores is in place, so the pipeline to get vinyl releases to fans has been firmly re-established which makes releasing on vinyl more than an exercise in nostalgia for today's indie artists.
San Diego-based band Sledding with Tigers is preparing their second vinyl release for early next year. Founding member Dan Faughnder says he was surprised at what a demand there was for the band's music on vinyl. The group makes all of its music available to fans online at no cost via BandCamp but still find that when they do a cassette or vinyl release, the audience buys it as a way to support the band.
According to Dan, "Our first ever 12-inch was titled A Necessary Bummer, and came out last year. We usually release our music on cassette and will do limited runs of 50-100 cassette EPs a few times each year. Those short runs usually sell out in about a week. Boston-based Antique Records has been putting out our vinyl releases, and once we announced that our first vinyl was in the pipeline, we received enough pre-orders to basically break even on the pressing cost before we even got our test pressings from the plant."
The label pressed 500 of the 45 RPM single featuring both black and colored vinyl. Dan continued, "We learned a lot, especially that the lead time required with vinyl is much longer than we anticipated. A few of our fans that placed pre-orders wondered if they were going to get them! From day one, we have encouraged everyone to share our music freely with everyone, so it's gratifying to still have them purchase it when we do a release," he concluded. The new EP due out in January is titled, Not the Beatles Yet, typical of the band's tongue-in-cheek approach to the normal gravity associated with making it big in the music industry.
Is vinyl right for you?
If you are considering doing a vinyl release, be advised that you'll need to mindful of the format's requirements and limitations, such as no more than 22 minutes of music per side for 33 1/3 RPM 12" albums and six minutes per side for 7" vinyl records. If you choose to release at 45 RPM as Sledding with Tigers does, then the run times are reduced (four and a half minutes).
The vinyl record revival offers indie artists a great opportunity to reach out to their fans and ask them if they would support a limited edition vinyl release. Consider the costs involved, and create a realistic budget for a vinyl release. To find out if your audience would support such a project and if the feedback is positive you might even consider doing a crowd funded initiative via Pledge Music, Indiegogo, or another platform to enlist their support to bring the project to completion. Remember, vinyl has a cachet all its own, and if you time your release properly to make it an event, your audience is likely to respond positively if you create a memorable project that takes advantage for the new passion for wax.
Disc Makers offers vinyl record manufacturing for independent artists, as well as post-production mastering services for your vinyl release.
Record Store Day is June 12th, 2021!
Record Store Day is a celebration of the enduring importance and coolness of the independent record store. According to the Record Store Day website, it's a "day for the people who make up the world of the record store to come together and celebrate the special role independently owned stores play in their communities. Special vinyl and CD releases and various promotional products are made exclusively for the day and hundreds of artists across the globe make special appearances and performances."
Keith Hatschek is a regular contributor to Disc Makers Echoes blog and directs the Music Management Program at University of the Pacific. He's also written two music industry books, How to Get a Job in the Music Industry and The Golden Moment: Recording Secrets from the Pros.
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John In Billings says:
I'd like to put forth the concept that LP's longer than 22 minutes a side were and can still be made. The main reason for the timing is the speed and/or length of the reel to reel tape masters being used at that time in history. I have both a Pioneer 10 inch "NAB style" hub reel to reel, and is also quadraphonic for playback of my many tapes, but I also picked up an older mastering deck that does 15-IPS on smaller 7 inch "standard hub" reels. in either case, the limit was based on the ability to cut and splice tapes together, and the individual cutting the "mothers" for the LP's themselves. A standard 1800 foot 7-inch reel to reel tape recorded at 3 3/4-IPS worked out to 45 minutes a side, or 22 minutes if it was used as the master tape at 7-IPS. This is the main reason LP's were 22 minutes a side. They also recorded multi-track tapes at 15-IPS and 30-IPS in most studios, then mixed them down to 1/4-inch tape for the final mixes.
George Frenchman says:
Putting new music on vinyl is great for nostalgia. The analog recording process is what gave vinyl it's warm sound. Today's recording is still done digitally, recording analog and then pressing to vinyl would be the way to really capture the sound that vinyl provided. Until then it can be considered a novelty.
Actually your right about analog recordings George but only to a degree. Pro engineer/producers today are using analog front ends and some even 2″ tape still to record their masters so it isn't all didi by any means. Vinyl still sonically improves the release format tone over 44.1 /16 bit but maybe Pono will change that. We'll wait and see. Certainly the noise floor is better currently with CDs. I'm considering a vinyl release of my next album with a cd.
Douglas in NJ says:
Actually, George,
CD's are more than capable or reproducing everything from an analog recording if properly mastered.
The problem came in when the record companies were faced with the prospect of re-mastering for the new format. Instead of doing a new master from scratch to fit the medium, most companies chose to simply "chop off" for lack of a better term, the very high and very low end of the recordings as sort of a faux master bus compressor. It was, of course, infinitely cheaper to do and thus the "lack of warmth" comparison was born.
There are plenty of CD re-masters that are true re master jobs that sound incredible. I am personally fond of Peter Henderson's work on the Supertramp re releases. If you check them out, I think you'll agree, in addition to plenty of "warmth" there are things on those recording you may never have noticed before. Best of both worlds, in a way.
Oh, and by the way,
many companies are now choosing to do the same thing with new digital recordings intended for CD's and download and simply transfering the existing masters to vinyl with slight modifications to "jam it in" to the new format.
Guess how they sound?
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Donald Sanders, left, and Lindsay Neathawk of Williamstown flank the replica Neathawk created of the 'Spoils' panel of the Arch of Titus.
Lindsay Neathawk of Williamstown used this CNC machine to create the 'Spoils' replica.
Lindsay Neathawk of Williamstown used these tools to create the 'Spoils' replica.
Donald Sanders, left, and Lindsay Neathawk, center, discuss the 'Spoils' panel with a guest at the open house on Sunday.
Artist Lindsay Neathawk used this image in creating the replica.
The 'Spoils' replica will be on display in New York City from September 2017 through January 2018.
Williamstown Artist Creates Replica of Roman Sculpture Panel
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A colorized, completed image of the 'Spoils' panel of the Arch of Titus created by Donald Sanders of Williamstown is projected onto the replica created by Williamstown artist Lindsay Neathawk.
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Technology from the 21st century has brought a piece of artwork from the first century back to life.
Using a CNC (Computer Numeric Control) machine, Williamstown artist Lindsay Neathawk recently completed a replica of the "Spoils" panel of the Arch of Titus. The arch is located in Rome and was constructed around the year 82 by the Emperor Domitian shortly after the death of his older brother Titus, to commemorate Titus' victories, including the Siege of Jerusalem in the year 70.
The "Spoils" panel is on the south side of the arch and depicts Roman soldiers carrying items taken from the Jerusalem Temple, including the temple menorah, trumpets and sacred cups. On the north side of the arch is another panel depicting the arch itself, through which the soldiers would pass.
Neathawk's replica was done in conjunction with Learning Sites, a business run by her Williamstown neighbor, Donald Sanders. Learning Sites is a company that digitally reconstructs the ancient world for interactive education and research; that company was approached by the Yeshiva University Museum in New York City for help with an exhibit on the Arch of Titus it was planning to open this September.
Sanders said he was working with Yeshiva on tasks like colorizing images of the arch, and in the course of that work proposed a three-dimensional replica of the panel. Once the museum said yes, he knew right where to turn: Neathawk, who owns Neathawk Designs on North Hoosac Street. After working up estimates and crunching the numbers, she agreed.
On Sunday, Neathawk held an open house to show off the completed panel — which stands 6 feet tall and weighs between 900 and 1,000 pounds — before movers came Monday to transport it to New York City.
"I had every emotion I could have had," Neathawk said about the project, which consumed 10 to 12 hours a day since she started it at 10 a.m. July 10 and finished it on Aug. 17 — more than 600 hours overall. "I'm excited. I can't believe I did this."
To create the replica, she converted scans of the panel into CAD files, which she then fed into the CNC machine. The CNC machine, however, is not three-dimensional. So Neathawk printed "slices" of the replica on 6-foot by 8-foot by two-inch-thick pieces of high-density urethane foam, which she glued together to create a three-dimensional piece. All together, she used 26 sheets of the foam.
The machine did 90 percent of the carving, with Neathawk doing the rest and piecing it together.
"I had to put it together like a puzzle," she said, telling a guest that the project had taken "a lot of sweat, tears and blood. A lot of tears."
The menorah from the Jerusalem Temple, seen here as part of the 'Spoils' panel of the Arch of Titus sculpture, still has not been recovered.
But she was all smiles Sunday at the open house, as she mingled with guests to talk about the project. Sanders even brought a projector to give a glimpse of a part of the exhibit he is working on: not just colorizing the original sculpture but also re-creating the pieces missing from the relief, including legs and heads that have worn off with age. The program he uses beams the completed colored image onto the sculpture itself, creating a simulation of what the original could have looked like all those centuries ago.
"I'm excited," Neathawk said, and Sanders concurred. "It's amazing," he said.
Neither are sure what will happen to the replica after the Yeshiva exhibit closes in January, but they hope it will travel so more people can see it, maybe even back to the homeland.
"The hope is to maybe make it back to Israel," said Neathawk, who said the menorah depicted in the relief has never been accounted for. "They're still searching for it. It's pretty cool."
Finding ancient artifacts, and preserving history, are critical to the future, said Sanders, whose business is the merging of his two professions: architecture and archaeology. His website states as much: "Among our fundamental early concerns were the on-going destruction and loss of cultural patrimony taking place both in materials housed in collections and in those remaining at archaeological sites around the world."
On Sunday, Sanders echoed those concerns as he surveyed the final version of the relief.
"We're losing so much cultural heritage," he said, attributing the loss to wars, climate change and other reasons. "Stuff has got to be saved as quickly as we can."
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Completion of Lafayette Trail Celebrated in Hancock
By Andy McKeeveriBerkshires Staff
03:53AM / Tuesday, July 16, 2019
Hancock officials celebrate the designation recognizing the role the town had in history.
HANCOCK, Mass. — During the American Revolution, famed French general the Marquis de Lafayette played a significant role as an ally of the rebellious colonies.
So much so that President James Monroe invited him on a farewell tour of the nation in 1824, celebrating the country's 50th birthday.
Lafayette traveled all 24 of the United States, including going directly across the Berkshires on his way to Boston.
Now, the Berkshires have recognized his contributions by designating the trail he took from Hancock to Hinsdale on his way back Boston with an official designation as the Lafayette Trail.
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