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Tocqueville and America
– James Q. Wilson, "Tocqueville and America," Claremont Review of Books, Vol. 12, No. 2, Spring 2012, pp. 14-16.
Excerpt of an admiring but critical essay by James Q. Wilson on Tocqueville: Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville is no doubt the greatest book ever written by a foreigner about this country. It may be one of the greatest books written about any… More
Measuring the Slant
– James Q. Wilson, "Measuring the Slant," Claremont Review of Books, Vol. 12, No. 1, Winter 2011-2012, pp. 80-81.
Muffingate and the Media's Big Fat Mistake
– James Q. Wilson, "Muffingate and the Media's Big Fat Mistake," Wall Street Journal, December 8, 2011.
Optimistic or Pessimistic About America
– James Q. Wilson, "Optimistic or Pessimistic About America," Commentary, November 2011.
Burying the Hatchet
– James Q. Wilson "Burying the Hatchet," Wall Street Journal, October 1, 2011.
Crime and the Great Recession
– James Q. Wilson, "Crime and the Great Recession," City Journal, Vol. 21, No. 3, Summer 2011.
Not-So-Dismal Science
– James Q. Wilson, "Not-So-Dismal Science," Claremont Review of Books, Vol. 11, No. 3, Summer 2011, pp. 65-66.
Hard Times, Fewer Crimes
– James Q. Wilson, "Hard Times, Fewer Crimes," Wall Street Journal, May 28, 2011.
In the Pew Instead of Prison
– James Q. Wilson, "In the Pew Instead of Prison," Wall Street Journal, May 9, 2011.
Uneven Progress
– James Q. Wilson, "Uneven Progress," Claremont Review of Books, Vol. 11, Nos. 1 and 2, Winter 2010-Spring 2011, pp. 88-89.
Beyond Ideology
– James Q. Wilson, "Beyond Ideology," Wall Street Journal, January 21, 2011.
The Future of Blame
– James Q. Wilson, "The Future of Blame," National Affairs, Number 2, Winter 2010.
Lessons of the Stimulus
– James Q. Wilson and Pietro S. Nivola, "Lessons of the Stimulus," Essays in Public Policy, Hoover Institution, October 14, 2010.
– James Q. Wilson, "Free to Use," Claremont Review of Books," Vol. 10, No. 1, Winter 2009-2010, pp.
Will Washington Pay for the Terror Trials?
– James Q. Wilson, "Will Washington Pay for the Terror Trials?" Wall Street Journal, January 21, 2010.
The DNA of Politics
– James Q. Wilson, "The DNA of Politics," City Journal, Vol. 19, No. 1, Winter 2009.
– James Q. Wilson, "Free to Use," Claremont Review of Books, December 2009, pp. 33-34.
A Life in the Public Interest
– James Q. Wilson, "A Life in the Public Interest," The Wall Street Journal, September 21, 2009.
Religion and Polarization
– James Q. Wilson, "Religion and Polarization," in Robert Faulkner and Susan Shell, editors, America at Risk: Threats to Liberal Self-Government in an Age of Uncertainty (University of Michigan, 2009).
Pat Moynihan Thinks About Families
– James Q. Wilson, "Pat Moynihan Thinks About Families," Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, No. 621, January 2009, pp. 28-33.
Why Don't Jews Like the Christians Who Like Them?
– James Q. Wilson, "Why Don't Jews Like the Christians Who Like Them?" City Journal, Vol. 18, No. 1, Winter 2008.
– Peter H. Schuck and James Q. Wilson, "Looking Back," in Peter H. Schuck, and James Q. Wilson, editors, Understanding America: The Anatomy of American Exceptionalism (Public Affairs, 2008).
– James Q. Wilson, "Criminal Justice," in Peter H. Schuck and James Q. Wilson, editors, Understanding America: The Anatomy of American Exceptionalism (Public Affairs, 2008).
Christians, Jews, and Israel
– James Q. Wilson, "Christians, Jews, and Israel." Wilson Lecture, Manhattan Institute, 2007.
Transcript of James Q. Wilson's 2007 Wilson Lecture to the Manhattan Institute.
A Real Insurance Fraud
– James Q. Wilson, "A Real Insurance Fraud," Wall Street Journal, November 16, 2007.
Bowling with Others
– James Q. Wilson, "Bowling with Others," Commentary, October 2007.
Excerpt: In his celebrated book, Bowling Alone (2000), the political scientist Robert D. Putnam argued that America, and perhaps the Western world as a whole, has become increasingly disconnected from family, friends, and neighbors. We once bowled in leagues;… More
Gun Control Isn't the Answer
– James Q. Wilson, "Gun Control Isn't the Answer," Los Angeles Times, April 20, 2007.
War and the Mass Media
Transcript of James Q. Wilson's 2006 Wilson Lecture at the Manhattan Institute.
The Press at War
– James Q. Wilson, "The Press at War," City Journal, Vol. 16, No. 4, Autumn 2006.
The Need for Evaluation Research
– James Q. Wilson, "The Need for Evaluation Research," Journal of Experimental Criminology, Vol. 2, No. 3 (September 2006), pp. 321-328.
– James Q. Wilson, "American Exceptionalism," American Spectator, September 2006. This essay also appeared in James Piereson, editor, The Pursuit of Liberty: Can the Ideals that Made America Great Provide a Model for the World? (Encounter, 2008).
A Quarter Century of Broken Windows
– James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling, "A Quarter Century of Broken Windows," American Interest, September-October 2006, 99. 168-172.
How Divided Are We?
– James Q. Wilson, "How Divided Are We?" Commentary, February 2006.
Divided We Stand
– James Q. Wilson, "Divided We Stand," Wall Street Journal, February 15, 2006.
America's Mayor
– James Q. Wilson, "America's Mayor," Claremont Review of Books, December 2005, pp. 13-15.
Defending and Advancing Freedom
– James Q. Wilson, "Defending and Advancing Freedom," Commentary, November 2005.
Tanner Lectures
– James Q. Wilson, "I. Politics and Polarization" and "II. Religion and Polarization," Tanner Lectures on Human Values, Harvard University, November 2-3, 2005.
The Sources of American Conduct
– James Q. Wilson, "The Sources of American Conduct," American Interest, Autumn 2005.
– James Q. Wilson, "Freakonomics," Commentary, July 2005.
Character and Culture
– James Q. Wilson, "Character and Culture," The Public Interest, Number 159, Spring 2005.
Marriage and Commitment
– James Q. Wilson, "Marriage and Commitment," Marriage and Families, Vol. 16, No. 1 (2005), pp. 2-11.
What Makes a Terrorist?
– James Q. Wilson, "What Makes a Terrorist?" City Journal, Vol. 14, No. 1, Winter 2004.
Islam and Freedom
– James Q. Wilson, "Islam and Freedom," Commentary, December 2004.
Why Did Kerry Lose? Answer: It Wasn't "Values"
– James Q. Wilson, "Why Did Kerry Lose? Answer: It Wasn't 'Values'," Wall Street Journal, November 8, 2004.
Why America Works
– James Q. Wilson, "Why America Works," Claremont Review of Books, Vol. 4, No. 4, Fall 2004.
– James Q. Wilson, "Broken," Commentary, October 2004.
Sex Matters
– James Q. Wilson, "Sex Matters," Wall Street Journal, July 13, 2004.
Why Freedom Can Be A Lot More Important Than Democracy
– James Q. Wilson, "Why Freedom Can Be A Lot More Important Than Democracy," Sunday Times, May 2, 2004.
The Independent Mind of Edward Banfield
– James Q. Wilson, "The Independent Mind of Edward Banfield," The Public Interest, Number 150, Winter 2003.
A Guide to Schwarzenegger Country
– James Q. Wilson, "A Guide to Schwarzenegger Country," Commentary, December 2003.
Has the Supreme Court Gone Too Far?
– James Q. Wilson, "Has the Supreme Court Gone Too Far?" Commentary, October 2003.
Defining the "Peace Party"
– James Q. Wilson and Karlyn Bowman, "Defining the 'Peace Party'," The Public Interest, Number 153, Fall 2003.
Mexifornia by Victor Davis Hanson
– James Q. Wilson, "Mexifornia by Victor Davis Hanson," Commentary, September 2003.
Gentleman, Politician, Scholar
– James Q. Wilson, "Gentleman, Politician, Scholar," The Public Interest, Number 152, Summer 2003.
The Challenge of Crime
– James Q. Wilson, "The Challenge of Crime," Commentary, June 2003.
Convincing Black Students that Studying Hard is Not "Acting White"
– James Q. Wilson, "Convincing Black Students that Studying Hard is Not 'Acting White',"Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, No. 39 (Spring 2003), pp. 85-88.
The Right Man
– James Q. Wilson, "The Right Man," Commentary, March 2003.
The Family Way
– James Q. Wilson, "The Family Way," Wall Street Journal, January 7, 2003.
Reflections on the Political Context
– James Q. Wilson, "Reflections on the Political Context," in Henry J. Aaron, James M. Lindsay, and Pietro S. Nivola, editors, Agenda for the Nation (Brookings Institution, 2003), pp. 527-550.
Why We Don't Marry
– James Q. Wilson, "Why We Don't Marry," City Journal, Vol. 12, No. 1, Winter 2002.
The Reform Islam Needs
– James Q. Wilson, "The Reform Islam Needs," City Journal, Vol. 12, No. 4, Autumn 2002.
Liberalism and Diversity
– James Q. Wilson, "Liberalism and Diversity," The Public Interest, Number 148, Summer 2002.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court: A Biography
– James Q. Wilson, "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court: A Biography," in Charles R. Kesler, editor, Edward C. Banfield: An Appreciation (Henry Salvatori Center at Claremont McKenna College, 2002).
Slavery and the Black Family
– James Q. Wilson, "Slavery and the Black Family," The Public Interest, Number 147, Spring 2002.
Sex and the Marriage Market
– James Q. Wilson, "Sex and the Marriage Market," Commentary, March 2002.
– James Q. Wilson and Heather Higgins, "Profiles in Courage," Wall Street Journal, January 10, 2002, p. A12.
– James Q. Wilson, "Crime," in Abigail Thernstrom and Stephan Thernstrom, editors, Beyond the Color Line: New Perspectives on Race and Ethnicity in America (Hoover Institution Press, 2002), pp. 115-126.
Schools, Vouchers, and the American Public
– James Q. Wilson, "Schools, Vouchers, and the American Public," Commentary, September 2001.
What Do We Make of the Election?
– James Q. Wilson, "What Do We Make of the Election?" Slate, November 10, 2000.
Is the Electoral College Worth Saving?
– James Q. Wilson, "Is the Electoral College Worth Saving?" Slate, November 3, 2000.
Why They Don't Campaign About the Environment
– James Q. Wilson, "Why They Don't Campaign About the Environment," Slate, October 27, 2000.
Can We Believe the Polls?
– James Q. Wilson, "Can We Believe the Polls?" Slate, October 20, 2000.
Guns and Bush
– James Q. Wilson, "Guns and Bush," Slate, October 13, 2000.
A Campaign About Issues
– James Q. Wilson, "A Campaign About Issues," Slate, October 6, 2000.
An Enemy of the Estate Tax
– James Q. Wilson, "An Enemy of the Estate Tax," Slate, September 14, 2000.
Soft Money and Politics
– James Q. Wilson, "Soft Money and Politics," Slate, September 29, 2000.
The Wisdom of the National Debt
– James Q. Wilson, "The Wisdom of the National Debt," Slate, September 22, 2000.
Why Not Cut Taxes?
– James Q. Wilson, "Why Not Cut Taxes?" Slate, September 8, 2000.
What Death-Penalty Errors?
– James Q. Wilson, " What Death Penalty Errors?" New York Times, July 10, 2000, p. A19.
The Fourth Great Awakening
– James Q. Wilson, "The Fourth Great Awakening," Commentary, June 2000.
A New Strategy for the War on Drugs
– James Q. Wilson, "A New Strategy for the War on Drugs," Wall Street Journal, April 13, 2000.
Two Cheers for Capitalism
– James Q. Wilson, "Two Cheers for Capitalism," The Public Interest, Number 139, Spring 2000.
Democracy for All?
– James Q. Wilson, "Democracy for All?" Commentary, March 2000.
Religion and Public Life
– James Q. Wilson, "Religion and Public Life,"E.J. Dionne, Jr., and John J. DiIulio, Jr., editors, What's God Got to do With the American Experiment? (Brookings Institution, 2000). This essay also appeared in James R. Wilburn, editor, Faith and Public Policy (Lexington Books, 2002).
Dutch by Edmond Morris
– James Q. Wilson, "Dutch by Edmond Morris," Commentary, December 1999.
The Man Who Knew Too Much: Edward C. Banfield, 1916-1999
– James Q. Wilson, "The Man Who Knew Too Much: Edward C. Banfield, 1916-1999," The Weekly Standard, October 18, 1999, vol. 5, no. 5.
Cultural Meltdown
– James Q. Wilson, "Cultural Meltdown," The Public Interest, Number 137, Fall 1999.
Hate and Punishment
– James Q. Wilson, "Hate and Punishment," National Review, September 13, 1999.
A Gap in the Curriculum
– James Q. Wilson, "A Gap in the Curriculum," New York Times, April 26, 1999.
Thinking about Parent and Child
– James Q. Wilson, "Thinking about Parent and Child," The Public Interest, Number 135, Spring 1999.
– James Q. Wilson, "Religion and Public Life," Brookings Review, Spring 1999, pp. 36-41.
City Life and Citizenship
– James Q. Wilson, "City Life and Citizenship," in Martha Derthick, editor, Dilemmas of Scale in America's Federal Democracy, (Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Cambridge University Press, 1999), pp. 17-36.
Idealizing Politics
– James Q. Wilson, "Idealizing Politics," Critical Review, Vol. 12, No. 4 (1998), pp. 563-568.
The Closing of the American City
– James Q. Wilson, "The Closing of the American City," The New Republic, May 11, 1998.
A review essay of Lou Cannon's Official Negligence and Tamar Jacoby's Someone Else's House.
In Paul Johnson's America
– James Q. Wilson, "In Paul Johnson's America," Commentary, April 1998.
Human Remedies for Social Disorders
– James Q. Wilson, "Human Remedies for Social Disorders," The Public Interest, Number 131, Spring 1998.
American in Black and White
– James Q. Wilson, "American in Black and White," Commentary, January 1998.
Criminal Justice in England and America
– James Q. Wilson, "Criminal Justice in England and America," The Public Interest, Number 126, Winter 1997.
Making Justice Swifter
– James Q. Wilson, "Making Justice Swifter," City Journal, Vol. 7, No. 4, Autumn 1997.
Race, Crime, and the Law
– James Q. Wilson, "Race, Crime, and the Law," Commentary, September 1997.
Hostility in America
– James Q. Wilson, "Hostility in America," The New Republic, August 25, 1997. This essay also appeared in the University of Colorado Law Review, Vol. 69, No. 4 (Fall 1998).
Democracy Needs Pork to Survive
– James Q. Wilson, "Democracy Needs Pork to Survive," Wall Street Journal, August 14, 1997, p. A12.
Cars and Their Enemies
– James Q. Wilson, "Cars and Their Enemies," Commentary, July 1997.
Paternalism, Democracy, and Bureaucracy
– James Q. Wilson, "Paternalism, Democracy, and Bureaucracy," in Lawrence M. Mead, editor, The New Paternalism: Supervisory Approaches to Poverty (Brookings Institution, 1997), pp. 330-343.
How Do We Know We are Doing Good?
– James Q. Wilson, "How Do We Know We are Doing Good?," in John W. Barry and Bruno V. Manno, editors, Giving Better, Giving Smarter: Working Papers of the National Commission on Philanthropy and Civic Renewal (National Commission on Philanthropy and Civic Renewal, 1997), pp. 207-213.
Against Homosexual Marriage
– James Q. Wilson, "Against Homosexual Marriage," Commentary, March 1996.
No More Home Alone
– James Q. Wilson and Kathleen Sylvester, "No More Home Alone," Policy Review, March 1996, pp. 34-39.
Reading Jurors' Minds
– James Q. Wilson, "Reading Jurors' Minds," Commentary, February 1996.
The Corporation as a Political Actor
– James Q. Wilson, "The Corporation as a Political Actor," in Carl Kaysen, editor, The American Corporation Today (Oxford University Press, 1996).
Culture, Crime, and Human Nature
– James Q. Wilson, "Culture, Crime, and Human Nature," in T. William Boxx and Gary M. Quinlivan, editors, Culture in Crisis and the Renewal of Civil Life (Rowman and Littlefield, 1996).
Cultural Aspects of Poverty
– James Q. Wilson, "Cultural Aspects of Poverty," in Michael R. Darby, editor, Reducing Poverty in America: Views and Approaches (Sage, 1996), pp. 367-372.
Welfare Reform and Character Development
– James Q. Wilson, "Welfare Reform and Character Development," City Journal, Vol. 5, No. 1, Winter 1995.
– James Q. Wilson, "Capitalism and Morality," The Public Interest, Number 121, Fall 1995.
Liberal Ghosts
– James Q. Wilson, Liberal Ghosts, New Republic, May 22, 1995, pp. 31-34.
Use Drug Tests to Reduce Demand for Narcotics
– James Q. Wilson, "Use Drug Tests to Reduce Demand for Narcotics," American Enterprise, May 1995, pp. 49-50.
Just Take Away Criminals' Guns
– James Q. Wilson, "Just Take Away Criminals' Guns," American Enterprise, May 1995, pp. 37-38.
New Politics, New Elites, Old Publics
– James Q. Wilson, "New Politics, New Elites, Old Publics," in Marc K. Landy and Martin A. Levin, editors, The New Politics of Public Policy (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995), pp. 249-267.
Justice versus Humanity in the Family
– James Q. Wilson, "Justice versus Humanity in the Family," in The Neoconservative Imagination: Essays in Honor of Irving Kristol (AEI Press, 1995), pp. 147-164.
Thinking About Reorganization
– James Q. Wilson, "Thinking About Reorganization," in Roy Godson, Ernest R, May, and Gary Schmitt, editors, US Intelligence at the Crossroads: Agendas for Reform (Brasseys, 1995).
Liberalism, Modernism, and the Good Life
– James Q. Wilson, "Liberalism, Modernism, and the Good Life," in Mary Ann Glendon and David Blankenhorn, editors, Seedbeds of Virtue: Sources of Character and Citizenship in American Society (Madison Books, 1995).
A New Approach to Welfare Reform: Humility
– James Q. Wilson, "A New Approach to Welfare Reform: Humility," Wall Street Journal, December 29, 1994.
Reinventing Public Administration
– James Q. Wilson, "Reinventing Public Administration," PS: Political Science and Politics, Vol. 27, No. 4 (December 1994), pp. 667-673.
Prisons in a Free Society
– James Q. Wilson, "Prisons in a Free Society," The Public Interest, Number 117, Fall 1994.
Bring Back the Orphanage
– James Q. Wilson, "Bring Back the Orphanage," Wall Street Journal, August 22, 1994.
What To Do About Crime
– James Q. Wilson, "What To Do About Crime," Commentary, September 1994.
Tales of Virtue
– James Q. Wilson, "Tales of Virtue," Commentary, April 1994.
On Abortion
– James Q. Wilson, "On Abortion," Commentary, January 1994.
Can the Bureaucracy be Deregulated?
– James Q. Wilson, "Can the Bureaucracy be Deregulated? Lessons from Government Agencies," in John J. DiIulio, Jr., editor, Deregulating the Public Service: Can Government Be Improved? (Brookings Institution, 1994), pp. 37-61.
Culture, Incentives, and the Underclass
– James Q. Wilson, "Culture, Incentives, and the Underclass," in Henry J. Aaron, Thomas E. Mann, and Timothy Taylor, editors, Values and Public Policy (Brookings Institution, 1994), pp. 54-80. This essay also appears in Don E. Eberly, editor, The Essential Civil Society Reader: The Classic Essays (Rowman and Littlefield, 2000), pp. 195-216.
Calvin and Hobbes and John Paul
– James Q. Wilson, "Calvin and Hobbes and John Paul," New York Times, November 26, 1993.
In Loco Parentis: Helping Children When Families Fail Them
– James Q. Wilson, "In Loco Parentis: Helping Children When Families Fail Them," Brookings Review, Fall 1993, pp. 12-15.
A Rhythm to the Madness
– James Q. Wilson, "Crime: A Rhythm to the Madness," Time, August 23, 1993.
On Gender
– James Q. Wilson, "On Gender," The Public Interest, Number 112, Summer 1993.
Stagestruck
– James Q. Wilson, "Stagestruck," The New Republic, June 21, 1993.
A review essay of Kiku Adatto's Picture Perfect.
What Is Moral, and How Do We Know It?
– James Q. Wilson, "What Is Moral, and How Do We Know It?" Commentary, June 1993.
The Family-Values Debate
– James Q. Wilson, "The Family-Values Debate," Commentary, April 1993.
The Moral Sense
– James Q. Wilson, "The Moral Sense," American Political Science Review, Volume 87, Number 1, March 1993, pp. 1-11.
Presidential Address, American Political Science Association, 1992.
Crime, Race, and Values
– James Q. Wilson, "Crime, Race, and Values," Society, Vol. 30, No. 1 (November-December 1992), pp. 90-93.
Redefining Equality: The Liberalism of Mickey Kaus
– James Q. Wilson, "Redefining Equality: The Liberalism of Mickey Kaus," The Public Interest, Number 109, Fall 1992.
The Contradictions of an Advanced Capitalist State
– James Q. Wilson, "The Contradictions of an Advanced Capitalist State," Forbes, September 14, 1992, pp. 111-116.
Scholars Must Expand Our Understanding of Criminal Behavior
– James Q. Wilson, "Scholars Must Expand Our Understanding of Criminal Behavior," Chronicle of Higher Education, June 10, 1992.
How to Teach Better Values in Inner Cities
– James Q. Wilson, "How to Teach Better Values in Inner Cities," Wall Street Journal, May 18, 1992, p. A14.
To Prevent Riots, Reduce Black Crime
– James Q. Wilson, "To Prevent Riots, Reduce Black Crime," Wall Street Journal, May 6, 1992, p. A16.
Edward Banfield, American Skeptic
– James Q. Wilson, "Edward Banfield, American Skeptic," The Public Interest Number 107, Spring 1992.
Incivility and Crime
– James Q. Wilson, "Incivility and Crime," in Edward C. Banfield, editor, Civility and Citizenship (Paragon House, 1992).
Reforming the Schools
– James Q. Wilson, "Reforming the Schools," Commentary, December 1991.
The Government Gap
– James Q. Wilson, "The Government Gap," The New Republic, June 3, 1991.
A review essay of E.J. Dionne's Why Americans Hate Politics and Alan Ehrenhalt's The United States of Ambition.
Interest and Deliberation in the American Republic
– James Q. Wilson, "Interest and Deliberation in the American Republic, or, Why James Madison Would Never Have Received the James Madison Award," PS: Political Science and Politics, Volume 23, Number 4 (December 1990), pp. 558-562.
Juridical Democracy versus American Democracy
– James Q. Wilson, "Juridical Democracy versus American Democracy," PS: Political Science and Politics, Vol. 23, No. 4, (December 1990), pp. 570-572.
– James Q. Wilson, "Multiple Choice Test," The New Republic, October 8, 1990.
A review essay of John Chubb and Terry Moe's Politics, Markets, and America's Schools.
Beyond 911: A New Era for Policing
– James Q. Wilson, "Beyond 911: A New Era for Policing," Washington Monthly, October 1990, pp. 58-62.
The Politics of Rich and Poor
– James Q. Wilson, "The Politics of Rich and Poor," Commentary, October 1990.
Against the Legalization of Drugs
– James Q. Wilson, "Against the Legalization of Drugs," Commentary, February 1990.
The Relationship Between Police Practice, Community Characteristics, and Case Attrition
– Joan Petersilia, Allan Abrahamse, and James Q. Wilson, "The Relationship Between Police Practice, Community Characteristics, and Case Attrition," Policing and Society, Vol. 1, No. 1, 1990, pp. 23-38.
– James Q. Wilson, "Drugs and Crime," Crime and Justice, Vol. 13 (1990), pp. 521-545.
Crackdown: Treating the Symptoms of the Drug Problem
– James Q. Wilson and John DiIulio, "Crackdown: Treating the Symptoms of the Drug Problem," New Republic, Jul 10, 1989.
Making Neighborhoods Safe
– James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling, "Making Neighborhoods Safe," Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 263, Issue 2 (February 1989), pp. 46-52.
Entering Criminology Through the Back Door
– James Q. Wilson, "Entering Criminology Through the Back Door," The Criminologist: Official Newsletter of the American Society of Criminology, Volume 13, Number 6, November-December 1988.
– James Q. Wilson, "Into the Abyss," Commentary, July 1988.
Some Elites are More Equal Than Others
– James Q. Wilson, "Some Elites are More Equal Than Others," The Public Interest, Number 91, Spring 1988.
Libel and the Media
– James Q. Wilson, "Libel and the Media," Commentary, March 1987.
Strategic Opportunities for Delinquency Prevention
– James Q. Wilson, "Strategic Opportunities for Delinquency Prevention," in James Q. Wilson and Glenn C. Loury, editors, From Children to Citizens: Vol. 3: Families, Schools, and Delinquency Prevention (Springer-Verlag, 1987), pp. 291-311.
Police Performance and Case Attrition
– Joan Petersilia, Allan Abrahamse, and James Q. Wilson, Police Performance and Case Attrition (RAND Corporation, 1987).
Why Reagan Won and Stockman Lost
– James Q. Wilson, "Why Reagan Won and Stockman Lost," Commentary, August 1986.
Political Parties and the Separation of Powers
– James Q. Wilson, "Political Parties and the Separation of Powers," in Robert A. Goldwin and Art Kaufman, editors, Separation of Powers: Does It Still Work? (AEI Press, 1986), pp. 18-37.
The Judge and the Schools
– James Q. Wilson, "The Judge and the Schools," Commentary, January 1986.
The Rediscovery of Character: Private Virtue and Public Policy
– James Q. Wilson, "The Rediscovery of Character: Private Virtue and Public Policy," The Public Interest, Number 81, Fall 1985.
Public Ownership vs. Energy Conservation
– James Q. Wilson and Louise Richardson, "Public Ownership vs. Energy Conservation: A Paradox of Utility Regulation," Regulation, Vol. 9, No. 13 (September-October 1985), pp. 13-17, 36-38.
Are Criminals Made or Born?
– Richard J. Herrnstein and James Q. Wilson, "Are Criminals Made or Born?" New York Times Magazine, August 4, 1985, pp 30-32, 43, 46.
Unemployment and Crime: What's the Connection?
– James Q. Wilson and Philip J. Cook, "Unemployment and Crime: What's the Connection?" The Public Interest, Number 79, Spring 1985.
Neglected Areas of Research on Regulation
– James Q. Wilson, "Neglected Areas of Research on Regulation," in Roger G. Noll, editor, Regulatory Policy and the Social Sciences (University of California Press, 1985 ), pp. 357-363.
Crime and American Culture
– James Q. Wilson, "Crime and American Culture," The Public Interest, Number 70, Winter 1983.
A Longitudinal Study of the Effect of Race on Sentencing
– Charles R. Pruitt and James Q. Wilson, "A Longitudinal Study of the Effect of Race on Sentencing," Law and Society Review, Vol. 17, No. 4 (1983), pp. 613-636.
Thinking About Crime
– James Q. Wilson, "Thinking About Crime," Atlantic Monthly, September 1983.
Dealing with the High-rate Offender
– James Q. Wilson, "Dealing with the High-rate Offender," The Public Interest, Number 72, Summer 1983.
– James Q. Wilson, "Raising Kids," Atlantic Monthly (1983), pp. 45-56.
The City of Angels and Autos
– James Q. Wilson, "The City of Angels and Autos," New York Times, April 18, 1982.
The Dilemmas of Conservatism II
– James Q. Wilson, "The Dilemmas of Conservatism II: Reagan the Politician," American Spectator, March 1982, pp. 13-16.
Broken Windows
– George L. Kelling and James Q. Wilson, "Broken Windows: The Police and Neighborhood Safety," Atlantic Monthly, March 1982.
Thinking About Terrorism
– James Q. Wilson, "Thinking About Terrorism," Commentary, July 1981.
"Policy Intellectuals" and Public Policy
– James Q. Wilson, "'Policy Intellectuals' and Public Policy," The Public Interest, Number 64, Summer 1981.
The Effects of the Police on Crime
– James Q. Wilson and Barbara Boland, "The Effects of the Police on Crime: A Response to Jacob and Rich," Law and Society Review, Vol. 16, No. 1 (1981-1982), pp. 136-170.
Neoconservatism: Pro and Con
– James Q. Wilson, "Neoconservatism: Pro and Con," Partisan Review, Vol. 47, No. 4 (1980).
What Can the Police Do About Violence?
– James Q. Wilson, "What Can the Police Do About Violence?" Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 452 (November 1980), pp. 13-21.
Reagan and the Republican Revival
– James Q. Wilson, "Reagan and the Republican Revival," Commentary, October 1980.
"What Works?" Revisited: New Findings on Criminal Rehabilitation
– James Q. Wilson, "'What Works?' Revisited: New Findings on Criminal Rehabilitation," The Public Interest, Number 61, Fall 1980.
The Changing FBI: The Road to Abscam
– James Q. Wilson, "The Changing FBI: The Road to Abscam," The Public Interest, Number 59, Spring 1980.
The Politics of Regulation
– James Q. Wilson, "The Politics of Regulation," in James Q. Wilson, editor, The Politics of Regulation (Basic Books, 1980), pp. 357-394.
Police Research and Experimentation
– James Q. Wilson, "Police Research and Experimentation," in Richard A. Staufenberger, editor, Progress in Policing: Essays on Change (Ballinger, 1980).
– James Q. Wilson, "In California," Commentary, September 1979.
American Politics, Then and Now
– James Q. Wilson, "American Politics, Then and Now," Commentary, February 1979.
– James Q. Wilson, "Double Standard," Commentary, January 1979.
Does the Separation of Powers Still Work?
– James Q. Wilson, "Does the Separation of Powers Still Work?" The Public Interest, Number 86, Winter 1978.
Buying the Vote
– James Q. Wilson, "Buying the Vote," Commentary, December 1978.
Harvard's Core Curriculum: A View from the Inside
– James Q. Wilson, "Harvard's Core Curriculum: A View from the Inside," Change, Vol. 10, No. 10 (November 1978), pp. 40-43.
Buggings, Break-Ins, and the FBI
– James Q. Wilson, "Buggings, Break-Ins, and the FBI," Commentary, June 1978.
Age, Crime, and Punishment
– Barbara Boland and James Q. Wilson, "Age, Crime, and Punishment," The Public Interest, Number 51, Spring 1978.
The War Against the Automobile
– James Q. Wilson, "The War Against the Automobile," American Spectator, February 1978, p. 30.
Social Science and Public Policy
– James Q. Wilson, "Social Science and Public Policy: A Personal Note," in Lawrence E. Lynn, Jr., editor, Knowledge and Policy: The Uncertain Connection (National Academy of Sciences, 1978).
Can the Government Regulate Itself?
– James Q. Wilson and Patricia Rachal, "Can the Government Regulate Itself?" The Public Interest, Number 46, Winter 1977.
Changing Criminal Sentences
– James Q. Wilson, "Changing Criminal Sentences," Harper's Magazine, November 1977, pp. 16-20.
Zero-Based Budgeting Comes to Washington
– James Q. Wilson, "Zero-Based Budgeting Comes to Washington," American Spectator, February 1977, p. 5.
The Greasy Pole
– James Q. Wilson, "The Greasy Pole," Commentary, February 1977.
– James Q. Wilson, "Police Discretion," in Leon Radzinowicz and Marvin E. Wolfgang, editors, Crime and Justice: Volume II: The Criminal in the Arms of the Law (Basic Books, 1977).
Who is in Prison?
– James Q. Wilson, "Who is in Prison?" Commentary, November 1976.
Crime in Society and Schools
– James Q. Wilson, "Crime in Society and Schools," Educational Researcher, Vol. 5, No. 5 (May 1976), pp. 3-6
Crime and Punishment, 1776-1976
– James Q. Wilson, "Crime and Punishment, 1776-1976," Time, April 26, 1976.
Crime and Punishment in England
– James Q. Wilson, "Crime and Punishment in England," The Public Interest, Number 43, Spring 1976.
Can America Win the Next War?
– James Q. Wilson, "Can America Win the Next War?" Commentary, February 1976.
The Rise of the Bureaucratic State
– James Q. Wilson, "The Rise of the Bureaucratic State," The Public Interest, Number 41, Fall 1975.
Checking Our Premises on Crime
– James Q. Wilson, "Checking Our Premises on Crime," American Spectator, June 1975, pp. 13-15.
Abolish "Reform"
– James Q. Wilson, "Abolish 'Reform'," American Spectator, May 1975, p. 9-10.
The Return of Heroin
– James Q. Wilson, "The Return of Heroin," Commentary, April 1975.
The Riddle of the Middle Class
– James Q. Wilson, "The Riddle of the Middle Class," The Public Interest, Number 39, Spring 1975.
Do the Police Prevent Crime?
– James Q. Wilson, "Do the Police Prevent Crime?" New York Times Magazine, October 6, 1974, pp. 18-19.
Crime and the Criminologists
– James Q. Wilson, "Crime and the Criminologists," Commentary, July 1974.
The Rhetoric of Community
– James Q. Wilson, "The Rhetoric of Community," Commentary, May 1974.
– James Q. Wilson, "The Politics of Regulation," in James W. McKie, editor, Social Responsibility and the Business Predicament (Brookings Institution, 1974).
On Pettigrew and Armor: An Afterword
– James Q. Wilson, "On Pettigrew and Armor: An Afterword," The Public Interest, Number 30, Winter 1973.
The Sick Sixties
– James Q. Wilson and Robert L. DuPont, "The Sick Sixties," Atlantic Monthly, October 1973, pp. 91-98.
Politics and the Parties
– James Q. Wilson, "Politics and the Parties," Commentary, October 1973.
A Radical Life
– James Q. Wilson, "A Radical Life," Commentary, July 1973.
Rhetoric and Reality
– James Q. Wilson, "Rhetoric and Reality," Commentary, June 1973.
Emerging Patterns in American Police Administration
– James Q. Wilson, "Emerging Patterns in American Police Administration," Police Journal 46 (April 1973).
If Every Criminal Knew He Would Be Punished If Caught
– James Q. Wilson, "If Every Criminal Knew He Would Be Punished If Caught," New York Times Magazine, January 28, 1973, pp. 52-56.
Social Theorist
– James Q. Wilson, "Social Theorist," Commentary, January 1973.
The Problem of Heroin
– James Q. Wilson, Mark H. Moore, and I. David Wheat, Jr., "The Problem of Heroin," The Public Interest, Number 29, Fall 1972.
Liberalism versus Liberal Education
– James Q. Wilson, "Liberalism versus Liberal Education," Commentary, June 1972.
Liberalism and Purpose
– James Q. Wilson, "Liberalism and Purpose,"Commentary, May 1972.
Market Control of Public Services
– James Q. Wilson, "Market Control of Public Services," Reason, April 1972, pp. 14-16.
Power Structure and Civic Leadership
– Edward C. Banfield and James Q. Wilson, "Power Structure and Civic Leadership," in Fred M. Cox, John L. Erlich, Jack Rothman, and John Tropman, editors, Strategies of Community Organization (Peacock, 1972), pp. 112-122.
The Police and the Ghetto
– James Q. Wilson, "The Police and the Ghetto," in Robert F. Steadman, editor, The Police and the Community (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1972), pp. 51-90.
Ultimate Politics
– James Q. Wilson, "Ultimate Politics," Commentary, January 1972.
Violence, Pornography, and Social Science
– James Q. Wilson, "Violence, Pornography, and Social Science," The Public Interest, Number 22, Winter 1971.
Political Ethos Revisited
– James Q. Wilson and Edward C. Banfield, "Political Ethos Revisisted," American Political Science Review, Vol. 65, No. 4 (December 1971), pp. 1048-1062.
The Dead Hand of Regulation
– James Q. Wilson, "The Dead Hand of Regulation," The Public Interest, Number 25, Fall 1971.
The Moralist
– James Q. Wilson, "The Moralist," Commentary, March 1971.
Crime and the Liberal Audience
– James Q. Wilson, "Crime and the Liberal Audience," Commentary, January 1971.
– James Q. Wilson, "Crime," in Daniel P. Moynihan, Toward a National Urban Policy (Basic Books, 1970), pp. 140-151.
The Young People of North Long Beach
– James Q. Wilson, "The Young People of North Long Beach," Harper's Magazine, December 1969.
The Urban Mood
– James Q. Wilson, "The Urban Mood," Commentary, October 1969.
The Mayors vs. the Cities
– James Q. Wilson, "The Mayors vs. the Cities," The Public Interest, Number 16, Summer 1969.
Is the Court Handcuffing the Cops?
– James Vorenberg and James Q. Wilson, "Is the Court Handcuffing the Cops?" New York Times Magazine, May 11, 1969.
What Makes a Better Policeman
– James Q. Wilson, "What Makes a Better Policeman," Atlantic Monthly, (March 1969), pp. 129-134. This essay also appeared in Stephen M. David and Paul E. Peterson, editors, Urban Politics and Public Policy: The City in Crisis (Praeger, 1976).
– James Q. Wilson, "Crime and Law Enforcement," in Kermit Gordon, editor, Agenda for the Nation (Brookings Institution, 1969).
Dilemmas of Police Administration
– James Q. Wilson, "Dilemmas of Police Administration," Public Administration Review, Vol. 28, No. 5 (September-October 1968), pp. 407-417.
Movie Cops: Romantic vs. Real
– James Q. Wilson, "Movie Cops: Romantic vs. Real," New York Magazine, August 19, 1968, pp. 39-41.
The Urban Unease: Community vs. City
– James Q. Wilson, "The Urban Unease: Community vs. City," The Public Interest, Number 12, Summer 1968.
Why We Are Having a Wave of Violence
– James Q. Wilson, "Why We Are Having a Wave of Violence," New York Times Magazine, May 19, 1968, pp. 23-24. This essay also appeared in Nathan Glazer, editor, Cities in Trouble (Quadrangle, 1970), pp. 55-66.
Corruption is Not Always Scandalous
– James Q. Wilson, "Corruption is Not Always Scandalous," New York Times Magazine, April 28, 1968, pp. 54-62.
The Police and the Delinquent in Two Cities
– James Q. Wilson, "The Police and the Delinquent in Two Cities," in James Q. Wilson, editor, City Politics and Public Policy (Wiley, 1968), pp. 173-195.
The Bureaucracy Problem
– James Q. Wilson, "The Bureaucracy Problem," The Public Interest, Number 6, Winter 1967.
Black and White Tragedy
– James Q. Wilson, "Black and White Tragedy," Encounter, October 1967, pp. 63-67.
A Reader's Guide to the Crime Commission Reports
– James Q. Wilson, "A Reader's Guide to the Crime Commission Reports," The Public Interest, Number 9, Fall 1967.
A Guide to Reagan Country
– James Q. Wilson, "A Guide to Reagan Country: The Political Culture of Southern California," Commentary, May 1967.
A Crime-Control Pill?
– James Q. Wilson, "A Crime-Control Pill?," Harper's Magazine, February 1967.
Urban Problems in Perspective
– James Q. Wilson, "Urban Problems in Perspective," in James Q. Wilson, editor, The Metropolitan Enigma (Harvard University Press, 1967, 1968, 1970).
– James Q. Wilson, "Violence," in Daniel Bell and Stephen R. Graubard, editors, Toward the Year 2000: Work in Progress (American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1967, 1968, 1997), pp. 277-296.
Corruption: The Shame of the States
– James Q. Wilson, "Corruption: The Shame of the States," The Public Interest, Number 2, Winter 1996.
Crime in the Streets
– James Q. Wilson, "Crime in the Streets," The Public Interest, Number 5, Fall 1966.
The War on Cities
– James Q. Wilson, "The War on Cities," The Public Interest, Number 3, Spring 1966.
"The Flamboyant Mr. Powell"
– James Q. Wilson, "'The Flamboyant Mr. Powell'," Commentary January 1966.
Problems in the Study of Urban Politics
– James Q. Wilson, "Problems in the Study of Urban Politics," in Edward H. Buehrig, editor, Essays in Political Science (Indiana University Press, 1966), pp. 131-150.
Innovation in Organizations: Notes Toward a Theory
– James Q. Wilson, "Innovation in Organizations: Notes Toward a Theory," in James D. Thompson, editor, Approaches to Organizational Design (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1966), pp. 193-218.
The Negro in City Politics
– Edward C. Banfield and James Q. Wilson, "The Negro in City Politics," in Raymond J. Murphy and Howard Elinson, editors, Problems and Prospects of the Negro Movement (Wadsworth, 1966), pp. 376-394.
The Negro in Politics
– James Q. Wilson, "The Negro in Politics," Daedalus, Vol. 94, No. 4 (Fall 1965), pp. 949-973. Reprinted in Talcott Parsons and Kenneth B. Clark, editors, The Negro American (Houghton Mifflin, 1965).
The Negro in American Politics: The Present
– James Q. Wilson, "The Negro in American Politics: The Present," in John P. Davis, editor, The American Negro Reference Book (Prentice-Hall, 1965), pp. 431-457.
Urban Renewal Does Not Always Renew
– James Q. Wilson, "Urban Renewal Does Not Always Renew," Harvard Today, January, 1965.
Necessity versus the Devil
– James Q. Wilson, "Necessity versus the Devil," Society, January-February 1965.
Voting Behavior on Municipal Public Expenditures
– James Q. Wilson and Edward C. Banfield, "Voting Behavior on Municipal Public Expenditures: A Study of Rationality and Self-Interest," in Julius Margolis, editor, The Public Economy of Urban Communities (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1965).
Public-Regardingness as a Value Premise in Voting Behavior
– James Q. Wilson and Edward C. Banfield, "Public-Regardingness as a Value Premise in Voting Behavior," American Political Science Review, Vol. 58, No. 4 (December 1964), pp. 876-887.
Patronage in New York State, 1955-1959
– Daniel Patrick Moynihan and James Q. Wilson, "Patronage in New York State, 1955-1959," American Political Science Review, Vol. 58, No. 2 (June 1964), pp. 286-301.
Generational and Ethnic Differences Among Career Police Officers
– James Q. Wilson, "Generational and Ethnic Differences Among Career Police Officers," American Journal of Sociology," Vol. 69, No. 5 (March 1964), pp. 522-528.
An Overview of Theories of Planned Change
– James Q. Wilson, "An Overview of Theories of Planned Change," in Robert Morris, editor, Centrally Planned Change (National Association of Social Workers, 1964).
The Changing Political Position of the Negro
– James Q. Wilson, "The Changing Political Position of the Negro," in Arnold M. Rose, editor, Assuring Freedom to the Free (Wayne State University Press, 1964), pp. 163-184.
Planning and Politics: Citizen Participation in Urban Renewal
– James Q. Wilson, "Planning and Politics: Citizen Participation in Urban Renewal," Journal of the American Institute of Planners, Vol. 29, Issue 4 (November 1963), pp. 242-249.
Police and Their Problems
– James Q. Wilson, "The Police and Their Problems: A Theory," Public Policy, Number 12 (1963), pp. 189-216.
The Citizen in the Renewal Process
– James Q. Wilson, "The Citizen in the Renewal Process," Journal of Housing, Vol. 20. No. 2 (1963), pp. 622-627.
Politics and Reform in American Cities
– James Q. Wilson, "Politics and Reform in American Cities," in Ivan Hinderaker, editor, American Government Annual, 1962-1963 (Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1962), pp. 37-52.
The Amateur Democrat in American Politics
– James Q. Wilson, "The Amateur Democrat in American Politics," Parliamentary Affairs, Vol. 16, Is. 1 (1962), pp. 73-86.
The Strategy of Protest: Problems of Negro Civic Action
– James Q. Wilson, "The Strategy of Protest: Problems of Negro Civic Action," Journal of Conflict Revolution, Volume 5, Number 3 (September 1961), pp. 291-303.
Incentive Systems: A Theory of Organizations
– Peter B. Clark and James Q. Wilson, "Incentive Systems: A Theory of Organizations," Administrative Science Quarterly, Vol. 6, No. 2 (September 1961), pp. 129-166.
The Economy of Patronage
– James Q. Wilson, "The Economy of Patronage," Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 69, No. 4 (August 1961), pp. 369-380.
Two Negro Politicians: An Interpretation
– James Q. Wilson, "Two Negro Politicians: An Interpretation," Midwest Journal of Political Science, Vol. 4, No. 4 (November 1960), pp. 346-369.
How Will the Negroes Vote?
– James Q. Wilson, "How Will the Negroes Vote?" Reporter, October 13, 1960, pp. 34-36.
How the Northern Negro Uses His Vote
– James Q. Wilson, "How the Northern Negro Uses His Vote," Reporter, March 31, 1960, pp. 20-21.
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Q: Angular 2: What does variable name with ? mean? What does variable name with ? mark mean ? e.g.
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I see this in lots of places and couldn't understand what it means.

A: ? indicates the parameter is optional. This is something specific to typescript - not angular or javascript (in javascript, all parameters are optional by default).
From Typescript documentation,

In JavaScript, every parameter is optional, and users may leave them off as they see fit. When they do, their value is undefined. We can get this functionality in TypeScript by adding a ? to the end of parameters we want to be optional.

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let result3 = buildName("Bob", "Adams"); // ah, just right

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Big Heart Pet Brands Doggy Loving Index ranked the "most puppy-loving states," with Texas in the seventh spot.
Texas has a low labor participation rate, according to Express Employment Professionals figures. The state's labor participate rate ranks lower than the national average.
According to the 2014 Annual Report from America's Health Rankings, Texas is ranked 25 in binge drinking.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry speaks to reporters after meeting with business owners Wednesday, April 23, 2014, in New York. Perry made the trip to try to convince companies to move their operations to Texas, where he says the business climate is friendlier.
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Chiang Rai City Football Club (Thai: สโมสรฟุตบอลเชียงรายซิตี้) is a Thai professional football club based in Chiang Rai Province, a city located in the very northern part of Thailand. The club currently plays in Thai League 3 Northern Region.

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 Runner-up (1) : 2017
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Association football clubs established in 2010
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President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday explained why the Federal Government never challenged anti-open grazing bill signed into law by the Benue State government.
According to a statement in Abuja by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, government is to hold a stakeholders' conference on infrastructural and agricultural development.
He added that the move was to proffer short and long-term solutions to the frequent clashes between farmers and cattle rearers in parts of the country.
The conference, according to Shehu, is drawing up a 20-30 year development plan that takes cognisance of environmental impact.
Buhari, the statement said, had been concerned about these conflicts.
The statement reads: "He is equally worried about some public pronouncements and finger-pointing that are, in most cases, very unhelpful to peaceful coexistence of our people.
"The President is conscious of his duty to Nigerians, not the least because he is accountable to everything that goes wrong. He deeply sympathises with the families and all the other direct and indirect victims of this violence. He is determined to bring it to a permanent end.
"While there are many Nigerians who see the conflict between the nomadic herdsmen and peasant farmers as an ethnic problem, others point to religious differences and agenda. The President does not subscribe to such simplistic reductionism.
"President Buhari holds the view, as do many experts, that these conflicts are more often than not, as a result of major demographic changes in Nigeria.
"When Nigeria attained independence, the population of the country was estimated at about 63,000,000. Today the population is estimated at close to 200,000,000; while the land size has not changed and will not change. Urban sprawl and development have simply reduced land area for both peasant farming and cattle grazing.
"It is therefore both unfair and unkind for anyone to keep insinuating that the President is condoning the spate of killings in Benue and neighboring states.
"The President has publicly condemned the violence at every turn. He is prepared to permit every possible step that can lead to the stoppage of the killings. It is on account of this that he brushed aside an opinion that the Federal Government should challenge the constitutionality of the anti-open grazing bill in Benue State.


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Glasgow Film Festival 2013, Reviews
GFF13: The Final Member
15/02/2013 James Diamond	1 Comment
Tom Mitchell, and his plans for Elmo's final resting place
There are generally two types of theatrical documentary. One involves months, even years, of meticulous research, planning, interviews and fact-checking. The other type often feels like all the film-maker needed to do was turn up, start filming, and let the characters tell the story. The Final Member is firmly in the second camp, but is taken to another level by some beautiful photography, a wonderful soundtrack, and a tension-building finale to rival the best Hollywood thriller.
Siggi Hjartarson runs the world's first and only Penis Museum, in Iceland. His collection started in the 1970s with a joke gift of a bull's decapitated member from a friend (odd, but certainly more original than a 'grow your own girlfriend' kit and some chocolate boobs). Over the years his collection grew, and he now has thousands of specimens of mammalian penises. Just one thing is missing from his House of Glans though; a Homo sapiens penis.
Believe it or not, two men have chosen to volunteer their phallus to the museum. 93-year-old Pall Arason is Siggi's preferred candidate; a famous Icelandic adventurer who claims to have slept with 300 women "not counting prostitutes". Pall's rival is 60-year-old Tom Mitchell of the USA, a man who introduces himself "I'm Tom Mitchell, and I'm an American". Pall's fame in Iceland would make him the ideal candidate, but his advancing years may potentially cause too much shrinkage, and Tom is prepared to go to great lengths, including offering to donate his penis while he is still alive, in an effort to beat off the competition from Pall and ensure his Yankee Doodle Dandy becomes "the most famous penis in the world".
Siggi's frustration with Tom's overzealous communications and ideas for how best to display his penis lead to some of the film's most wonderful moments. The absurdity of the situation finally dawns on Siggi when he receives word that Tom has commissioned his own display cabinet for Elmo. That's right, Tom has named his penis Elmo, but don't worry, it was "long before the Muppet appeared". Siggi is furious at the eroding of his authority, and issues Tom with a 'take it or leave it' offer and heads off to translate a book by a Spanish monk into Icelandic.
Honestly.
The real star of the show is Pall Arason though. His brief appearances in the film are a wonderful portrayal of the type of eccentric character you fear the 21st century will no longer produce. In the absence of a documentary of Pall's life, we'll have to make do with archive footage of his appearance on a UK television show (unnamed, but it surely must either be The Word or Eurotrash), where a poor researcher is charged with making a plaster cast of Pall's penis. The ensuing cock-up is comedy gold that left me laughing out loud in spite of myself. Sometimes the simplest things please the simplest minds.
In spite of my remarks in the opening paragraph, I know how much hard work went into making this documentary. To use a football analogy, the best kind of referee is one that you don't notice during the match. In film terms, the greatest success of The Final Member is that you don't notice the artifice of the film-maker encroaching into a compelling story.
The Final Member is destined to become a festival hit, and you can be one of the first to see it at the Glasgow Film Festival on Friday 15th and Saturday 16th February.
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Susan E. Lopez
There isn't a football fan base more fractured than the one in Los Angeles. The United States' second-largest media market was devoid of a football franchise from 1994 to 2016 just as the NFL started becoming the multi-billion dollar behemoth that it is today. Then seemingly overnight, an unprecedented relocation carousel took place that brought
There isn't a football fan base more fractured than the one in Los Angeles. The United States' second-largest media market was devoid of a football franchise from 1994 to 2016 just as the NFL started becoming the multi-billion dollar behemoth that it is today.
Then seemingly overnight, an unprecedented relocation carousel took place that brought the Rams and Chargers to Tinseltown in back-to-back years in 2016 and 2017. The initial reaction and acceptance from Angelenos for the Rams and Chargers was a milquetoast one … at best. Yes, the Rams had played in Los Angeles from 1946 until 1994 and even appeared in the Super Bowl before they were unceremoniously relocated to St Louis in 1995, but LA residents didn't seem to care for a team that was forced back on to them.
Of course, winning is the best wake-up call for any dormant fan base. As the 2018 season unfolded, the Rams and Chargers both made the playoffs, and the city seemingly rallied around the two teams. With the Los Angeles Rams now ready to square off with the New England Patriots at Super Bowl LIII on Sunday, there is renewed interest throughout the city.
Earlier this week, the Rams departed for Atlanta following a boisterous farewell mere steps away from their soon-to-be-opened, $5bn palatial stadium near Los Angeles International Airport. Thousands of fans gathered in Inglewood to give the team a proper send-off and roared the their trademark "Whose House? Rams House!" chant. "We appreciate all your support," quarterback Jared Goff said from the stage. "We're ready to bring the Lombardi Trophy back to Los Angeles."
Those scenes were a far cry from the optics witnessed over the last three seasons, when Rams' home games at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, where the stands often appear to be equally split between the Rams' blue and yellow and the jerseys of visiting fans. The scene a few miles away in Carson at the Chargers' temporary field is even worse, where home-field advantage effectively does not exist.
But the notion that the Rams do not have a strong fan base in the city is not as entirely true as some in the media have purported. In three short years, freshly unpackaged hats, jerseys and car flags have sprouted up to complement throwback jerseys of yesteryear, and the franchise has done a commendable job reestablishing themselves in a town where basketball, baseball and college sports traditionally reign.
The Rams' resurgence and reacquisition of fans can largely be pinned on the shoulders of franchise cornerstones Todd Gurley, Aaron Donald, Brandin Cooks and Goff playing to their full potential under the tutelage of 33-year-old wunderkind coach Sean McVay.
The front-office regime has spared no expense on acquiring talent either, and the bold moves have shown in the standings. The Rams finished 4-12 in their inaugural season in 2016, and have since improved to 11-5 and 13-3 and successive years.
Los Angeles is a city filled with millions of transplants with allegiances for out-of-state teams. Many of them are like Jesse Silver, a die-hard New England Patriots fan from Boston who also has been a Rams season ticket holder ever since the team returned.
His loyalty won't be tested, though, on Sunday – he will be rooting for Tom Brady and Bill Belichick to win their sixth Super Bowl since 2002. Silver attends Rams games because he enjoys sports and the communal feeling he gets watching football with his friends.
"I love my Rams, but it will never come close to the [Patriots] blood in my veins," said Silver. "It was a dream for my old home and new home to meet in the championship game. Being a new Rams fan attending games at the Coliseum, there is an energy of new and old. Like a return of what was lost. People love their Rams," said Silver. "Now it's the Rams' house. We go toe-to-toe with any visitors … I think we need to see what happens here in LA when it's not a constant playoff showing."
Much like many sports town, Los Angeles is a city that gets behind its teams when they are winning. Organizations like the Lakers, Dodgers, Kings and universities like USC and UCLA can attest to that during lean years as well. The Rams' lone home playoff game this year was a victorious one against the Cowboys, but all indication concluded that the fans in attendance were split 50-50.
One man who will be hoping the Rams can continue their success is owner Stan Kroenke, who is most familiar to fans across the pond for his control of Arsenal. Come 2020, Kroenke opens his privately financed stadium and entertainment complex, which will be the Rams' new home. It is supposed to be most glamorous facility in the world, and will be larger than Disneyland. He hopes that by then, Angelenos will have a Super Bowl to spur them to fill the arena's 70,000 seats.
A victory this Sunday will be the first strong step in that direction and help shift the narrative that Los Angeles has more interesting things to distract itself than the Rams.
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A reflection on All Saints and Holy Trinity Utrecht, nine months into the start of All Saints as a new Anglican Church Plant, within the the Diocese of Europe. (Originally written in September 2016).
We upload this, so visitors and members of the church, can know more of the story and journey of All Saints over the past months since it began in December 2015, and how that new church plant, affected Holy Trinity Utrecht, the mother church.
This was an article originally written by Revd David Phillips (Holy Trinity), and Revd Grant Crowe (All Saints Amersfoort).
How many would go? What about friendships and pastoral relationships built up over the years? What would it be like for those remaining in Utrecht, especially for the Sunday school, with many children from Amersfoort? What about language of worship? What about our ecumenical relations? Could we afford and sustain two full time chaplains and two church buildings? We are now 9 months into the church plant in Amersfoort and the "replant" in Utrecht and here is a brief update.
All Saints Anglican Church Amersfoort began on 20th December 2015, a new Anglican church in the geographical centre of the Netherlands. It was born through the blessing of the Lord. There was prayerful reflection and strategic thinking by Holy Trinity Utrecht followed by sacrificial giving in terms of giving money and people to the project.
And now, in September 2016, there is a new congregation averaging 50-70 adults and 20 children. We have so many things to be thankful for to the Lord. Luke 5 talks of the Lord asking Simon and the others to let down their nets in an area they had worked hard and they were (reluctantly!) obedient and the rest we know. Often we never know what the Lord has planned until we take those steps of faith!
It has been a great learning curve. The simple things which you take for granted as part of an existing church life, but in a new church, many ministries need to be started afresh. For example, we needed 8 Sunday School teachers and at one stage we only had three, but after requests from the front, and prayer by people inside and outside the church, the Lord provided.
Our new minister – the Revd Grant Crowe – moved, from England, with his family last November, and he was formally licensed in March this year. It was a great service, noted also for the number of local ministers and preachers who made a point of attending in support, apart from the Anglican chapter. And we hope, as All Saints was blessed and encouraged by those local churches, All Saints can be a blessing to our fellow parts of the Body of Christ, and bring blessing to the city in which we are located.
We rent the use of a Roman Catholic church building in the south of Amersfoort. It has been a great home for us to use and to move from being a baby church into a toddler… But unfortunately that church building has been sold, and next year (2017), after Easter, so we will be homeless. We would ask your prayers for a new home – trusting as the Lord began a good work, he will carry it on in Amersfoort.
At Holy Trinity Church in Utrecht we experienced the shock of not having an overfull or even a full church, a change in the volume of singing, a lessening of overall energy. Our main Sunday service now has 70 to 90. But new people have come to both churches. Since starting the new church in Amersfoort the total numbers worshipping between the two churches on a Sunday has grown by about 25%. Practical changes: a change in service times to encourage more to come for fellowship after services; new people have become involved in the many tasks and ministries in the church that had opened up; and we will need to decide if the 1st, 3rd and 5th Sunday early services will continue. With fewer people attending, our focus on ministry to the many university students in Utrecht has come more to the forefront. As well, greater attention can be given to newcomers.
The replanted Utrecht congregation met for an Away Day last June to reflect together and brainstorm on five aspects of being church together – teaching, fellowship, the breaking of bread, and prayers (from Acts 2:42) – and in the context of considering our mission to the world. The results of that day will help guide the Council in the coming years. We're also enjoying new opportunities offered by having two Anglican churches in the neighbourhood – participating in each other's worship, fellowship and educational initiatives. After a summer of rest, we are excited about the new possibilities opening up before us. We are grateful for your prayers as we enter this new phase of being church here.


Photoionization of atomic and molecular species is an important process in determining the ionization balance and hence the abundances of elements in photo-ionized astrophysical nebulae. It has recently become possible to detect neutron n-capture elements (atomic number Z>30) in a large number of ionized nebulae [1-2]. These elements are produced by slow or rapid n -capture nucleosynthesis (the s -process and r -process, respectively). Measuring the abundances of these elements helps to reveal their dominant production sites in the Universe, as well as details of stellar structure, mixing and nucleosynthesis. These astrophysical observations provide an impetus to determine the photoionization and recombination properties of n -capture elements. Planetary nebulae (PNe) progenitor stars may experience s-process nucleosynthesis, in which case their nebulae will exhibit enhanced abundances of trans-iron elements. The level of s - process enrichment for individual elements is strongly sensitive to the physical conditions in the stellar interior. Accurate assessment of elemental abundances in astrophysical nebulae can be made from the direct comparison of the observed spectra with synthetic non-local thermodynamic equilibrium (NLTE) spectra, if the atomic data for electron and photon interaction processes are known with sufficient accuracy. Experiments on trans-Fe and astrophysical important atomic and molecular ionic species at third and fourth generation synchrotron radiation facilities ; Advanced Light Source (ALS) in Berkeley, California, USA, SOLEIL in Saint-Aubin, France, ASTRID II in Aarhus, Denmark and PETRA III, in Hamburg, Germany, have all highlighted the need for high quality theoretical work to fully interpret experimental results. Recently developed methods for atomic systems using parallel computing architectures [3,4,10-13] (incorporating the necessary relativistic effects within a Dirac-equation formulation) has been used to perform detailed photoionization cross-section calculations on a variety of atomic species, e.g. ; Fe , Se [4,5], Kr [6,7], Ar , Xe [6,15], W [9-14,16-19], Cl , Si , S , Zn , Rb , Ca , N[26,27,28] and O[29,30,31] in neutral or low stages of ionization. Where possible we compare our theoretical results with ongoing experiments being performed in the valence and x-ray photon energy ranges at third and fourth generation synchrotron facilities and with satellite observations. Such comparisons serve as the ultimate benchmark in order to have confidence in the atomic and molecular data incorporated into databases and modelling codes such as CLOUDY, XSTAR, CHIANTI and ATOMDB.
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John Osborne/ March 4, 1972
Mission to China
From the Editors: February marks the thirty-eighth anniversary of President Nixon's landmark visit to Beijing, and, back in 1972, TNR was one of the few media outlets able to get a first-hand report from the trip. John Osborne's report, "Mission to China," provided a snapshot of a country far removed from the modern economic power it is today. "China, feared though it has been and mightier now than it has ever been before, is still a poor country and, in the scales of world power, a weak country," Osborne wrote. "[T]here was something in the grey pallor of the afternoon, the rows of bare trees and the bare fields and the glimpses of huddled farm buildings and of laboring men and animals along the road, that bespoke to us the poverty and weakness." As he followed Nixon everywhere, from a state dinner to the ballet to a gymnastics exhibition, Osborne also described some of the inevitably awkward diplomatic exchanges between the president and his Chinese hosts. "Hearing the PLA [People's Liberation Army] band play 'Turkey in the Straw' and 'Home on the Range' for an American President and his wife deserved to be but wasn't noted by Nixon as one of his historic firsts."
Much has changed in China, and in America's relations with the country, over the past 38 years. Osborne's vivid reporting about a burgeoning world power, however, remains timeless. Enjoy!
At a ballet staged for the Nixons on the second night of their stay in China, the thought came that we of the President's press party really were in attendance upon a dream. The ballet was The Red Detachment of Women, the tale of a peasant's daughter who escaped the clutches of a cruel landlord and his running dogs, joined the Red Army, fought with it and the broad revolutionary masses (who appeared to include a large proportion of beautiful women) until the victory of 1949 was won and the People's Republic was established "under the banner of Mao Tse-tung." It was a crude and simple tale, superbly presented, in which all of the enemies of the revolution were villains and all of its heroes were paragons of proletarian virtue. The landlord (suitably slain by the peasant's daughter) and his evil henchmen could, without excessive strain of the imagination, have been taken to typify Mr. Nixon's wealthy supporters and many of his other admirers at home. The brave and glowing fighters "for the freedom of all mankind," as the official synopsis of the ballet described them, could with equal ease have been supposed to represent Mr. Nixon's "campus bums" and militant segments of the Students for a Democratic Society. And there were Richard Nixon and his wife, applauding the show and, after it was over, thanking Premier Chou En-lai and Chiang ching, the small and demure and formidable wife of Chairman Mao Tse-tung, for arranging it and going with them to see it.
For the reporters who arrived on Sunday afternoon, 16 hours ahead of the President, the dream began in the wintry dusk that shrouded the way from the Peking Central Airport into the city. It was a poor time and a good time for getting to the city that Richard Nixon had been yearning and plotting to visit at least since 1967, when he wrote in a famous magazine article of the need to bring the United States and the People's Republic of China into accord. It was a poor time in the sense that we were weary, dulled by 13 hours in the air on the trip from Honolulu with brief stops at Guam and Shanghai. The doctors and advance men who counseled Mr. Nixon to break his journey across the international dateline with two nights in Honolulu and another in Guam were wise. The reporters had the same two nights in Honolulu, but the sudden leap from our Saturday to China's Sunday and the welcome at the Shanghai airport, meant by our Chinese hosts to be friendly and pleasant, but wearing because it made for useless delay, left us in a mood to be captious and disillusioned. We were both, and it was a good thing that we were.
In our fascination with our marginal share in a great adventure that could change the world, even the few old China hands among us needed to be reminded of a point that Chou En-lai has been making since last July to American enthusiasts who have interviewed him. The point is that China, feared though it has been and mightier now than it has ever been before, is still a poor country and, in the scales of world power, a weak country. Silly though the remark that follows may seem to people who know enough to distrust instant judgments, it is true that we saw the poverty and perceived the weakness during the 40 minutes of our bus ride from the airport into Peking. Over the years, I had seen deeper poverty and national weakness in other countries of Asia and some of my companions had observed far more of it, in pre-Communist China and elsewhere, than I had. But there was something in the grey pallor of the afternoon, the rows of bare trees and the bare fields and the glimpses of huddled farm buildings and of laboring men and animals along the road, that bespoke to us the poverty and weakness that Chou Enlai emphasizes when it suits his purposes.
The ride through the western sector of Peking, down the magnificent expanse of Chang an jie avenue and past Tienanmen Square, where Mao Tse-tung proclaimed the founding of the People's Republic in 1949 and where millions of Chinese come every year to celebrate the Republic's survival and success, had a similar effect in a rather odd way. This surely was not the storied Peking, the ancient city of gentle charm that countless Chinese and foreign writers depicted in the time before Mao and his Republic. This, it seemed then and has seemed in the three days since then, is a city of massive new' buildings, of national glory anticipated and exalted and yet to be realized to the full, and grimly sought until it is realized. Strangest of all to an occasional traveler who has lived with the bustle and racket of Hong Kong and Taipei, amid the sound of Chinese voices raised in continuous noisy dialogue, this Peking turns out to be a quiet city. On side streets off the boulevards and the immense ceremonial square where people are dwarfed by the expanse, there is a deafening and puzzling quietude. I read nothing into this fact except that it is an interesting fact.
Perhaps the pervasive quiet of Peking had something to do with the notably quiet reception that Mr. Nixon and his party got on Monday morning. We reporters related it at the time to the reception we got at the temporary press center in the Palace of Nationalities, adjoining the Nationalities Hotel where we were quartered. Our reception was at once friendly and clearly intended to remind us that we were here at the invitation and as the guests of a great country and a great government. It fell to Yu Chung-ching, a tall and authoritative official of the foreign ministry, to drive the point home. Mr. Yu, who speaks English with a British accent acquired at the London School of Economics in 1966, held forth at length upon the splendid facilities provided for us: among other things, 154 chairs at 22 tables equipped with 44 microphones; 25 teleprinter and telephone channels for communication, mostly by satellite, with the United States; 10 broadcast booths at the center and a whole new building, erected from scratch, at the airport for network studios and transmission. After noting that these conveniences had been provided by the People's Republic of China at the request of White House officials, Mr. Yu said with a rolling flourish: "If the American officials wish to use the press room for press conferences or other purposes, they are requested to raise the matter with the information office of the foreign ministry and consideration will be given to the matter." Reporters accustomed to the authoritative manner of Ronald Ziegler, the President's press secretary, absorbed the lesson and silently thanked Mr. Yu.
Ziegler said afterward that the Monday welcome "was exactly what we expected." The waiting reporters more or less expected it, too, having learned (for example) that the diplomats who represent 66 governments which recognize the People's Republic had been told on Friday, after persistent and often plaintive inquiries, that they would not be permitted to attend the President's arrival. It was an eerie welcome, all the same. No casual onlookers of any nationality were admitted to the airport. In a typical and previously agreed piece of reticence, neither Chinese .nor American officials would identify the Chinese greeters until they appeared, minutes before the President's jet landed and taxied up to the terminal. Just before that happened, the United States and Chinese flags were run up two flagpoles. Fifteen other poles remained naked. Premier Chou En-lai, placid and erect and unsmiling in a grey overcoat over a dark suit, marched onto the tarmac at the last moment, at the head of 17 senior officials and a separate party of 25 junior dignitaries. A People's Liberation Army honor guard, some 500 men in khaki and blue, precisely the same height and impressively drilled, and a PLA band were in place when the presidential plane door opened and the Nixons stepped onto the ramp. Mrs. Nixon's right hand rose in a short and tentative wave, then dropped. For the first time in more than three years that I have watched him leave his plane, the President kept his hands down and still. Within five minutes it was all over - the subdued greetings at the foot of the ramp, the playing of the national anthems, the march past the honor guard, and the departure in black Chinese limousines and the smaller grey sedans.
Once in Peking, down Chang an jie Avenue past Tienanmen Square to the compound of government guest houses where the Nixon party was put up, the only onlookers were people who had been forbidden by the police to cross or traverse the avenue. Half a million people had been summoned to the square to greet Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, a comparable throng to honor President Ceasescu of Romania. As foreign ministry functionaries and the interpreters assigned to the American reporters kept saying, it was proper, polite and appropriate - all, they said, that the chief of a government that didn't recognize the People's Republic could expect and, the available American officials said, in fact did expect. That was true enough. But an event soon to be known confirmed an impression that I had brought to Peking from Washington. The impression was that the Peking leaders wanted this visit and wanted the world to believe that Mr. Nixon wanted it more than they did. "He wanted to come so we invited him," Chou told interviewers last summer. This version was privately resented and quietly countered at the White House, but not so audibly or in such a way as to irritate Chou and Mao.
The confirming event was Chairman Mao's meeting in secret on Monday afternoon, in his yellow-roofed and modest home in a corner of the old Forbidden City, with Mr. Nixon before the President got down to serious talk with Premier Chou. The President knew before he left Washington that he would meet and confer with Mao, but he indicated during his flight from Washington that he didn't count on it happening so early in the visit. The fact that it did was supremely important to the visitor and his hosts, because it was a signal to the people of China that the anti-American signs which still graced the walls on Tienanmen Square no longer meant much. There was sure to be at least one more meeting with Mao; Chou implied the certainty when he said not long ago that the results and significance of the Nixon visit would not be known until the President had his "final talk with Chairman Mao."
The crowded Monday ended with Premier Chou's obligatory dinner for the President and his party. It was a sumptuous affair in the monumental Great Hall of the People, one of 10 huge buildings constructed in 1958 and 1959 in celebration of the Republic's 10th anniversary. President Nixon at table with Premier Chou and officials of the People's Republic under the American and Communist Chinese flags and in world view by way of television, was the stuff of dreams.
Hearing the PLA band play "Turkey in the Straw" and "Home on the Range" for an American President and his wife deserved to be but wasn't noted by Nixon as one of his historic firsts. Watching the President touch glass some 70 times with Chinese officials at the Premier's and adjoining tables was something to remember. But it was the toasts, Nixon's to Chou and Chou's to Nixon and to their respective countries, that historians will ponder.
The most to be said for Nixon's was that it was conventionally eloquent ("This is the hour. This is the day for our two peoples to rise to the heights of greatness") and that he imitated Lincoln at Gettysburg ("What we say here will not be long remembered. What we do here can change the world"). With television obviously in mind, he read his text straight through instead of pausing at intervals, as he usually does on such occasions, for translation in the host's language. Chou paused frequently for translation, and his statement had bite in it. The bite came with his recitation of the "Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence" that he first enunciated at the Bandung Conference in 1955. When Chou spoke of the duty of nations to practice "mutual respect for sovereignty" and "noninterference in each other's internal affairs," he was talking about Taiwan, the island home of Chiang Kai-shek's Republic of China, and once more putting Nixon on notice that there cannot be normal relations with the People's Republic so long as the United States questions Communist China's claim to Taiwan. He didn't mention other contentious issues that he has said he wants to discuss with Nixon - total American military withdrawal from Asia and the nearby Pacific, for instance - and he said the visit was "a positive move" toward "the normalization of relations." It was a happy sort of evening and it boded well for the outcome of the Nixon visit. An important question was what and how much the Peking government would tell the people of China through its controlled media.
That question was answered on Tuesday, with a bang. The government's principal newspaper. The People's Daily, printed on its front page a big picture of Mao greeting Nixon; another of Mao and Nixon with Chou and Henry Kissinger, and a third of Chou greeting Nixon at the airport. Four more pictures on the second page, with the texts of the Chou and Nixon toasts, completed a statement to the Chinese people that this visit had the total blessing of Chairman Mao and that they should expect good and great things for the People's Republic to flow from it. Four pictures in Wednesday's paper, one of them showing Chou, the Nixons and the Chairman's wife, Chiang ching, applauding the performers of The Red Detachment of Women, and a spate of friendly stories, continued to prove' that what we are seeing here isn't a dream.
Midway in this incredible visit, the word is that Peking is quiet and that it's snowing and that Richard Nixon, taking in an exhibition of Chinese gymnastics on Wednesday night, must be a pleased and happy President. He isn't forgetting, one may be sure, that it's 1972.
By John Osborne
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Tramlijn 22 is een voormalige tramlijn in Rotterdam. De tram reed na de Tweede Wereldoorlog tot aan de grote reorganisatie van het tramnet bij gelegenheid van de indienststelling van de metro in 1968 van de 's-Gravenweg (Kralingen) naar de G.J. Mulderstraat. In 1947 werd lijn 22 ingekort tot Avenue Concordia en in 1956 ging lijn 22 gebruikmaken van de lus Voorschoterlaan – Concordiastraat – Avenue Concordia. Deze lus werd aangelegd met het oog op de instroming van eenrichtingswagens van de serie 1-15 die in 1957 in dienst kwamen.

De route was 's-Gravenweg – Oudedijk – Vlietlaan – Goudse Rijweg - Boezemsingel - Boezemstraat – Pijperstraat – Crooswijksestraat – Zaagmolendrift – Zaagmolenstraat – Bergweg – Walenburgerweg – Statenweg – Statentunnel – Henegouwerlaan – Eerste Middellandstraat - Middellandplein – Tweede Middellandstraat – Vierambachtstraat – Van Heusdenstraat – G.J. Mulderstraat.

Op 8 juni 1968 werd lijn 22 opgeheven en nam lijn 9 de route tussen de Avenue Concordia en de Middellandstraat over. De route via Walenburgerweg werd vervangen door Schiekade, Provenierssingel, Proveniersplein (= achterzijde Centraal Station), Stationssingel en Walenburgerweg. Vanaf het Middellandplein volgde lijn 9 de voormalige route van lijn 15 naar het Hudsonplein.

De tweede tramlijn 22 reed per 28 augustus 2000 als versterkingslijn in de ochtend- en avondspits op het drukste stuk van tramlijn 20, tram 20 reed toen nog door tot Beverwaard. De route liep vanaf het Centraal Station naar station Lombardijen. Door de onregelmatige dienstuitvoering, waarbij de trams vlak achter elkaar reden, besloot men alle beschikbare trams op het hele traject van lijn 20 in te zetten waardoor de regelmaat werd verbeterd en het lijnnummer 22 weer verviel.

Het is mogelijk dat de huidige lijn 2 in de toekomst in lijn 22 vernummerd zal worden om het systeem van de trampluslijnen te handhaven: daarin worden trampluslijnen genummerd van 20 tot en met 29.

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The 2nd Annual, Oxford Poetry Festival is Saturday and Sunday Apr 27-28.
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Home / US News / Viral / Muslims in California are asking people to not decorate for Easter orChristmas this year out of respect for Islam. Do You Support It ?
Muslims in California are asking people to not decorate for Easter orChristmas this year out of respect for Islam. Do You Support It ?
Mobi Lado March 28, 2019 US News, Viral
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EU MIGRANT FALLOUT: Slovakia passes law to BAN Islam from being registered as a religion
SLOVAKIA has passed a law which will effectively ban Islam from gaining official status as a religion, in the latest signs of a growing anti-Muslim sentiment across Europe.
The legislation hints at a dramatic changing attitude towards the religion in the past year across the continent, which has struggled to stem the escalating migrant crisis.
The former communist state has fiercely resisted European Union (EU) efforts to cope with an influx of migrants travelling into Europe by turning its back on the bloc's introduction of migrant quotas.
But prime minister Robert Fico's government has repeatedly said Islam has no place in Slovakia.
Parliament adopted a bill sponsored by the Slovak National Party (SNS), which requires a religion to have at least 50,000 members, up from 20,000, to qualify for state subsidies and to run its own schools.
The change will make it much harder to register Islam, which has just 2,000 supporters in Slovakia according to the latest census and no recognised mosques.
The Islamic Foundation in Slovakia estimates the number at around 5,000.
The SNS said the new law was meant to prevent speculative registrations of churches, such as the satirical Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, which has amassed followers worldwide.
SNS chairman Andrej Danko said:"We must do everything we can so that no mosque is built in the future."
The law was approved by a two-thirds majority in parliament comprising both ruling and opposition parties. Lawmakers turned down a proposal by the opposition far-right People's Party-Our Slovakia to raise the religion membership bar to 250,000.
The small central European country's population is 5.4 million and 62 per cent of it is declared Roman Catholic.
Mr Danko has previously called for steps to prevent the registration of Islam and ban the wearing of burkas in public.
A series of Islamist terror attacks across Europe has stoked an anti-Muslim feeling across the continent, making way for far-right, anti-immigrant parties.
Abba March 28, 2019 at 11:10 PM
F off islam...your religion is satanic ..a farce..a lie. Jesus is the way and the light and the SON Of GOD ALMIGHTY
With all due respect to Muslims in California and the USA, please don't try to bring your beliefs to me. The USA constitutional gives us rights the to practice our FREEDOM OF RELIGION. If I can handle your religion without stepping on your rights, please don't step on everyone's else's right to their religion. Agree? Or go home to your own county and see how rough you really have it. ( Respectfully ) .
tonygreene113 March 29, 2019 at 10:45 AM
This is a great piece of news that should be spread far and wide. Especially since the EU has every intention of having moslem followers taken into every European country.


The 2014 Jaguar XLR enters the R lineup as the largest and most powerful with a supercharged 5.0L V8 packing 550 horsepower and 502lb-ft of torque where the XFR, XKR Coupe and XKR Convertible all offer "only" 510 horsepower and 461lb-ft of torque. The 550hp engine in the new XJR is the engine found in the higher end models of the other R line models including the XFR-S and the XKR-S but with the XJ Supersport and Ultimate packages already using the 510hp mill from the other R models, the new XJR had to step up to the R-S engine with bigger power. In the long run, when you consider the fact that the XJ is Jaguar's top of the line luxury sedan – it is fitting that the XJR would pack more power than the other vehicles in the lineup to receive the R designation.
All of that power is funneled to the rear wheels via an 8-speed ZF automatic transmission that has been specially tuned for the new 2014 XJR and the result is a big, brawny luxury sedan that will rip from a stop to 60 miles per hour in just 4.4 seconds en route to a top speed (electronically limited) of 174 miles per hour. More importantly, with extreme amount of testing performed on the famed Nurburgring in Germany, the new XJR will handle every bit as well as it launches thanks to XJR-specific springs and dampers that have been tuned to optimize performance without killing the ride quality that you would expect from a modern Jag. A set of lightweight 20 inch wheels wrapped in high performance rubber make sure that the XJR brakes, corners and accelerates with the biggest names in the global luxury sport sedan segment.
"The XJR offers greater steering precision, higher levels of control and enhanced high speed stability, with the trade-off in refinement being very small," said Mike Cross, Chief Engineer, Vehicle Integrity, Jaguar. "The increase in power and torque give this car truly effortless, seamless performance."
Aside from the high performance drivetrain, the 2014 Jaguar XJR features an aggressive front fascia that bolsters aerodynamics and cooling, a vented hood that reduces lift and removes hot air from the engine bay, longer side sills that help stabilize the XJR and a new low profile rear lip spoiler that helps improve rear end downforce at high speeds. Of course, there is also the familiar R badge mounted in the lower corner of the gloss black mesh style grille and on the face of the trunk lid. The XJR is available in 12 exterior colors - Polaris White, Ebony, Ultimate Black, Stratus Grey, Lunar Grey, Rhodium Silver, Cashmere, Caviar, Carnelian Red, British Racing Green and Italian Racing Red.
On the inside, the 2014 Jaguar XJR offers a set of exclusive leather race inspired seats with deep base and side bolsters that can be ordered in Ivory, London Tan or Red Zone with more matching leather on the spacious rear seats as well. Beyond those seats, the interior of the XJR is finished almost entirely in black with rick chrome and gloss black accents throughout (carbon fiber is also available in place of the black). In addition to those package specific features, the interior comes loaded to the hilt with high tech luxury items including a digital gauge cluster, a large infotainment touch screen setup, power everything and an 825 watt, 18 speaker sound system from Meridian.
The 2014 Jaguar XJR is available in both standard and long wheelbase form with the smaller of the two starting at $116,000 while the long wheelbase starts at $119,000. These prices put the 2014 XJR just above the current XJ Supersport ($112,500) and significantly lower than the XJ Ultimate ($155,000) - both of which are powered by the 510hp supercharged V8 from the rest of the Jaguar R model lineup.


Description: Antique full figured woman solid cast iron doorstop by National Foundry. The design is known as Little Colonial Lady (see Jeanne Bertoia's book "Doorstop; Identification and Values" published by Collector Books in 1989, page 27). It is in the shape of a woman with a bonnet and wearing a ruffled dress normally decorated with colorful flowers. The woman's head is tilted to the back and she is wearing a hat. The back of the hat is also normally decorated with red and green flowers. This doorstop appears to have been repainted in a golden color and lost all of the details. It is original casting, but the colorful normal painting is gone and instead you see gold coloring. The door stop has a flat base which shows signs of many years of use. Please carefully view the photos as they are part and parcel of our description.
Date: Late 1800's or Early 1900's.
Size: 4 3/4" high and 3 1/4" by 3" at the base.
Distinguishing Characteristics - Most Interesting About The Piece: An authentic old doorstop, which has been repainted. It is made of solid cast iron and weighs over 3 1/2 pounds. It would make for a nice restoration project or as an addition to your old doorstop collection.
Condition: This doorstop is in good condition given its age. It has been repainted in gold color and the paint has considerable losses but still shows the features of the piece very well. The doorstop has general wear and considerable loss of paint. It does have some rust spots on the bottom of the base, but this is nothing to be concerned with.
Because of the issues mentioned here we are selling this piece "AS IS" at a low price, which is a fraction of its true value.
In Closing: This is a quality piece and is a worthy addition to your collection or for use around your country decorated home.