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Remembering (Nasty) Women (Witches).
On this day in history, October 30, 1971, 60 women, clergy and laity, gathered at Virginia Theological Seminary, just outside our national capital, to organize the effort at the 1973 General Convention to allow access to all three orders of ordination in the church - deacons, priests and bishops - to women.
(NB: Women had been ordained deaconess since 1889 but not considered within the diaconte until 1968 and began being ordained deacons alongside men in 1971.)
A time line of the Ordination of Women in The Episcopal Church can be found here.
They crafted a letter to then Presiding Bishop Hines, stating their shock and distress over the latest meeting of the House of Bishops in the Pocono Mountains which voted to refer the "issue" to yet another commission to "study".
Over the years, the good Bishops had commissioned, received and apparently forgotten a whole series of "studies" including a "blue ribbon" study done as recently as 1967.
The letter to Presiding Bishop Hines, signed by all 60 women present, expressed their shock and disappointment and informed him that none of them would serve on the commission if asked. They also told him that they would not encourage any other woman to serve on the commission, since the time for study had long past.
They also requested (and eventually received) money from the Board of Theological Education (BTE) to hold a series of regional conferences for women and men about the ordination of women.
In signing the letter, the group constituted itself as "The Episcopal Women's Caucus."
You can read Marge Christie's history of The Caucus here.
Let me press "pause" here for a moment, to let that sink in.
Forty-five years ago - today - sixty women of absolutely no standing or authority in the church wrote to the Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church and said 'Fie!" on your special commission.
These sixty women of "low estate" proclaimed to the man who held the highest office in the institution that they were boycotting his special commission and encouraging every woman in the church to do the same.
Oh, they said, and we want you to give us money so WE the PEOPLE - you know, the ones we 'talk' about as "the priesthood of all believers" and refer to in the invitation to the Service of Ordination with the words, "God willing and the PEOPLE consenting"? - can bring "the issue" to the people for consideration.
What a perfectly uppity thing to do, right?
Or, in current parlance these were some "nasty women".
Herstory notes that those uppity, nasty women were not successful, first time up at bat. Indeed, they were a colossal failure. The resolution they crafted to change the canons of the church to allow for women to be ordained deacons, priests and bishops, which they took to General Convention in Louisville, 1973, failed miserably.
The vote in the House of Deputies was more profoundly anti-woman (in a vote-by-orders of the clergy) in 1973 than it was in 1970. That seemed like prima facia evidence that bishops had been very busy ... um... "talking" with their clergy.
It was devastating, simply devastating. That was so because, in part, they were naive.
I recall Marge Christie, one of the founders of The Caucus, saying, "You know, we really thought that if we just had the opportunity to allow women to tell their stories, people would see the strength of their call and do the right thing."
I think - I'm not absolutely 100% certain, but I think - this was the moment when merely "uppity women" became strong, bold, brave, convicted, focused - and otherwise "nasty" - women.
It was time to use the rules to break the rules and bring about justice.
If the theological argument was one of "ontology"; if the presumed presenting barrier to the ordination of women was that they did not possess "sufficient ontological matter to be an authentic bearer of a sacerdotal presence," then, by God, it was time for the incarnation.
Or, as my dear friend Ed Bacon has said, "I'm so glad Mary didn't wait for the formulation of a Doctrine of the Incarnation before she said 'Yes" to God."
On July 10, 1974, seven women who were deacons met with four bishops to discuss a possible ordination. A date was set for July 29, 1974 - the Feast of Mary and Martha of Bethany - where, at 11 o'clock in the morning, eleven women who were deacons were "irregularly" ordained to the priesthood at the Church of the Advocate in Philadelphia, PA.
There were supposed to have been 12 and there's a backstory about "good deacons" and another strong letter from another strong woman to another bishop which I'll leave for another time.
I want to hit the "pause" button again and ask you to let that all sink in.
The event we so easily refer to as "The Philadelphia Eleven" happened three (3) years after sixty (60) uppity women of little or no institutional standing sent a letter to the Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church, rejecting his offer to "study their issue" and asking for money for the "priesthood of all believers" to determine the issue of ordination for women.
That ordination - and the ordination of women in the church - would not be "regularized" and the canons changed to allow for the ordination of women for another two (2) years.
It was not until General Convention in Minneapolis, in September 1976, that the canons were changed. Women began to be ordained "regularly" on January 1, 1977 - six years after the founding of The Episcopal Women's Caucus.
Just pause for a moment and put yourself in their sacristy slippers. Imagine waiting two years after your ordination to be declared "legal" and "legitimate".
Let that sink in.
Now, add to that and understand that in those intervening two years the church absolutely erupted in turmoil. Churches flew their Episcopal flags upside down and at half-mast - a combination of the symbols of international distress and a significant death. (I am not making this up.)
Male clergy who allowed the newly ordained to preside at Eucharist at the altar in their churches were brought up on ecclesiastical charges for "disturbing the peace and well being of the church". (Because, you know. prophetic action never disturbs the peace.)
On August 18, 1974, Dr. Charles Willie, the first African American to be Vice President of the House of Deputies, resigned his position in protest of a statement of the House of Bishops which called the ordinations in Philadelphia "invalid"; he referred to the statement as "a blatant exercise of male arrogance." (And, it was, but there was more to come. To wit - )
On October 27, 1974, a special service was sponsored by the National Council of Churches and held at Riverside Church in NYC to honor and support the Philadelphia ordinations. A collection was made and sent to Presiding Bishop Allin for the the Presiding Bishops Fund for World Relief.
Bishop Allin returned the check because of its "tainted" genesis. (You can NOT make this stuff up.)
There's so much more of the story to tell. So much that makes me ashamed of my church. So much that gives me hope for the church.
So much that is the stuff - the good, the bad and the ugly - of the Body of Christ.
As Jack Spong has said, "The church will die of boredom long before it dies of controversy."
But, here's the lesson learned: 'Incarnation beats Idea' any day of the week and twice on Sunday.
Let me pause and let that sink in: "Incarnation beats Idea".
Jane Holmes Dixon, Cynthia Black, Mary A.R. MacCloud
After July 29, 1974, ordained women were no longer an abstract idea.
They were a reality.
They were incarnate.
Their "ontological matter" was, in fact, "sufficient" to be an "authentic sacerdotal bearer," because, well, there they were.
Women. And, ordained priests.
Whatcha gone do now, bro?
Or, as the astute, modern theologian, Woody Allen, once said, "Showing up is 80% of life."
I encourage you to read Marge's history of The Caucus. as well as all the many wonderful books that have been written, some by the Philadelphia Eleven themselves.
I still strongly recommend as an excellent place to start Carter Heyward's, "A Priest Forever" and Alla Bozarth's "Womanpriest."
All these books on the ordination of women in The Episcopal Church provide study lessons in religious community organizing which, I think, honors the past and serves the future of this amazing church of ours.
I write this not just to honor and celebrate The Episcopal Women's Caucus, an organization I was privileged to serve as President/Convener for over a decade, but also because I feel it is more and more imperative that we remember our herstory.
I know. That's probably just the old woman who has quite suddenly (and, without invitation, I might add) taken up residence in my body, talking that mess again. But, I have to admit that I am especially alarmed when I listen to young, newly ordained women who have absolutely no idea about the struggles which allowed the privilege of their status of ordination.
Indeed, as privilege is of't want to do, these women seem completely oblivious to the privilege which is theirs which was hard fought and well won by their sisters.
I watch them and I listen to them complain about the flagrant injustices in opportunities and compensation, the insensitivities demonstrated by their bishops and rectors - and the harsh judgements and incessant demands of some of their congregations - as they try to juggle priesthood and parenthood.
Oh, hear me clearly: This is not to deny that the struggle is real. It is. Very real.
They complain and seek solace from other clergy, and everyone is empathic and pastoral, but when someone raises the possibility of organizing to change diocesan policy around things like employment, compensation or parenting leave, it stops the conversation immediately. And then, a few months later, someone else posts a complaint and the cycle repeats itself.
Some progress has been made in a few dioceses but the overwhelming status of women in the church is, on average, pretty dismal. Sexism and misogyny continue their powerful presence in our structures and attitudes.
I write that even as I celebrate that the church has elected two women to the episcopacy this year alone - two diocesans, back to back (Spokane and Indianapolis).
And, and, and... besides the first African American diocesan bishop to be a woman, this is the first time a woman diocesan has been followed by the election of another woman diocesan - the first time that's happened in the church since 1996. (That's 20 years but who's counting?)
That's progress at the top levels of the church. Which is progress. Undeniably.
In my experience (see paragraph above), "trickle down theology" is no more effective than its cousin in economics. That said, I am "a very prisoner of hope" that, as we move past the novelty of "firsts" and even "seconds" and reach a "critical mass" of women in the House of Bishops, the status of women throughout the church will improve.
It's always astounding to me when, at the Booths at General Convention, at least two to three women a day look at the banner proclaiming, "The Episcopal Women's Caucus," and, befuddled and bewildered, ask, "What's that?"
I didn't attend the last General Convention, but I'm told the same thing happened - to the same astonishment of the members of The Caucus.
I actually, physically cringe - because it causes actual emotional, spiritual and physical pain - when I read what some women write in social media. This was posted just the other day about the first African American woman to be elected a Bishop Diocesan, "I just like to see qualified candidates. I don't look so much as to color and gender and race. Those things are divisive."
Le sigh. See also: The perils of being naive.
The Witch of Endor
I write this, on the occasion of the 45th anniversary of the founding of The Episcopal Women's Caucus to point us to another "nasty woman."
Tomorrow, October 31st, is the lesser feast of All Hallow's Eve (BCP 106).
In some circles - mostly inhabited by women, it is the even lesser feast of the Witch of Endor. Indeed, her story (1 Samuel 28:3-25) is included as the first reading of All Hallow's Eve.
What I love about this story is that it raises lots more than the ghost of Samuel. Like? Well, like the fact that misogyny in Endor is as old as the Garden of Eden.
Power that can't be controlled must be Evil and if the power of a woman can't be controlled, she must be the embodiment of Evil. The 'woman' of Endor is considered the 'witch' of Endor.
Women who don't know their place are "uppity".
Women who know how to play political hardball with the big boys are "nasty" and have "so much hate in their heart" they should "lock her up" and any contribution she could make must be "tainted."
As we head into this sacred time of facing into what scares and frightens us as we prepare to remember the dead, I ask that you hit the 'pause' button in your life to remember the women.
Remember them and give thanks for all the women / witches in your life and our lives of faith: The Witch of Eden. The Witch of Endor. The Witch of Bethlehem (who had to become a Virgin for her story to be heard and believed!!!). The 60 Witches of The Caucus. The 11 Witches of Philadelphia. The four Witches of Washington.
Remember that, without a woman named Mary of Bethlehem, God could not have achieved God's greatest creation in the sacrificial, salvific incarnation of Jesus.
And then, do something bold and brave and risky yourself.
Say 'no' to same-old-same-old.
Say 'yes' to possibility.
Be 'nasty' your very own badself and demand the financial resources which will enable the people of God to remove walls of ignorance and intolerance and build bridges of knowledge and understanding.
Know that you are standing on a very firm foundation.
You are standing on the shoulders of giants who were the 'nasty' women of their day.
You are held in the arms of some pretty amazing witches.
Now, just hit 'pause' for a moment and let all that sink in.
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Walking on Broken Glass
I'm going to go watch videos with puppies and kitties in a minute but I have to say that I just read an article in the NY Times, the headline of which proclaimed that Trump was "ebullient" over the emails being investigated by the FBI.
You know. The ones Comey doesn't know anything about, much less whether they are important or even pertinent. He's not sure HRC wrote them or sent them. Not sure they are classified or not. They could just be duplicates of what has already been deemed insignificant.
I also saw Trump's campaign manager, that ubiquitous, whitest-of-white women, Kellyann Connors, beaming as she pronounced this "a very good week for our campaign."
What kind of people rejoice at the misfortunes - the injustices - done to others?
That's a serious question. I can't get my head wrapped around this.
When the Access Hollywood tapes were released and we got to hear Donald describe himself as a sexual predator, I don't remember HRC or anyone in her campaign gleefully clapping their hands.
And, when yet another woman came forward to testify that she was groped by Donald, just as he had described, I don't remember HRC or anyone from her campaign pronouncing this "a very good week for our campaign."
It is so tempting to turn the tables on Donald and say, "You know, you're right. The system IS 'rigged'," but that would be stooping to his level. It wouldn't be right; neither would it be correct.
The system has lots of stupid people - incompetent people - little people who do not have the courage to be leaders. The "system" is also filled with prejudice and bigotry toward people of color - ALL people of color - and women and LGBT people and people with disabilites.
It needs to be changed. Fixed. But, it is not 'rigged'.
I have this feeling, deep in my gut - it's inexplicable, really, just a feeling - that this is all going to work for HRC.
In a few days, Comey is going to be pressured - by BOTH sides - to say more about those emails.
And, it's going to blow this whole thing up. Donald will have his usual conniption fit, shoot himself in his foot with something that comes out of his mouth and blame everyone else because he's limping.
And, HRC will, as usual, handle herself with grace and style, skill and confidence - even as the GOP continue to metaphorically go through her underwear drawer, contemptuously sniffing around to see what they can find.
That will go on for the next eight years while she is POTUS. It's not been an easy election. It will not be an easy presidency. The "boys" will make absolutely certain of that.
Sometimes, when you break a glass ceiling, you can get cut by falling glass shards. I believe that's what this whole Comey email "scandal" is all about. Glass shards. The ceiling is cracked. It's about to be broken. Things will never again be the same.
Did you really think this would be easy?
Off we go, then, into the last 10 days of this most despicable election season of all election seasons. Just keep repeating Michele's mantra: "When they go low, we go high."
Say it again, "When they go low, we go high."
Once more: "When they go low, we go high."
Got it? Good. Now, back to work with the lot of you.
We've got a cracked ceiling to break.
Mind the glass shards. There's bound to be a few more.
But first, just a few minutes to watch videos about puppies and kitties.
Cuz, a girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do to get the job done.
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This morning
Daryl Thetford
He sits there,
alone in his boat
completely unaware
bundled up against the October chill
in his plaid jacket.
He is oblivious to the fact that he is
as he watches the water
lap against the side of his boat
at the dock in front of his house.
Perhaps it is too cold to take the boat out.
Perhaps the water on the bay is rough this morning.
Perhaps he doesn't have enough money for fuel.
Perhaps his wife has given him the
stink eye, the
cold shoulder, the
reserved for retired husbands who are
Getting Under Foot.
He'll be leaving in a few days.
where it's warmer in winter.
Or, always was, until the
Climate Change(d).
He sits there, alone in his boat,
tinkering with this
and that,
trying to avoid the inevitability of
docking the boat for winter.
He is completely unaware that
he is a poem.
Or, at least,
my poem.
On Sunday, October 23, 2016, family and friends and friends who have become family gathered for the 10 AM service at All Saints Episcopal Church, Rehoboth Beach, DE to celebrate the 30th Anniversary of my ordination in The Episcopal Church and the 40th Anniversary of the covenant made between my Beloved Ms. Conroy and I.
Bishop Gene Robinson, retired of DioNH, was celebrant and preacher.
The lessons included part of the the story about Judith, from the Apocrypha. It was the passage I chose for my ordination - Judith 10:1-10 , brilliantly read by my dear friend, David - wherein Judith breaks her time of mourning for the death of her husband, Manasseh, who was killed by the King. After a time of prayer she gets up, gets dressed, puts on her makeup and jewels and does what needs to be done. That is, she prepares herself to seduce King Holofernes so that she may decapitate him, avenging the death of her husband.
As Bishop Gene Robinson jokingly said, ""I don't know this to be fact but I suspect Judith was a badass lipstick lesbian."
At the very least, she was a "nasty woman" of antiquity.
The Gospel was Matthew's Beatitudes, Matthew 5:1-12, Bishop Gene preached brilliantly on the passage, drawing a distinction between optimism and hope. Optimism is a human condition. Hope, is a spiritual one. Hope is central to being a Christian.
Hope is why people like Barbara and I come back to the church. Not because we trust in the Church but because we trust in God.
I do wish we had thought to record his sermon. It was, as usual, simply brilliant.
After the Prayers of the People, Barbara and I and Bill and Anita, the two people who witnessed our legal marriage that day at breakfast at the Long Neck Diner, came forward.
Before God and our family and friends, Gene wrapped our hands in his stole and blessed our covenant.
He used these words, adapted from the Wedding Prayer in the film, "Braveheart". (Yes, that violent film had at least this tender moment. I've been saving it for such a moment as this.)
Nasty women
Fred and Ethel and Persistent Prayer
Billy Bush is Everyman


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Upon retiring as the Director of the Italian Cultural Institute in San Francisco, Amelia Antonucci found that her energy had not declined while her love of film persisted. Thus Cinema Italia SF was born, and it's now in its fifth year.
As a young girl, growing up in Salerno , Amelia Antonucci  used to spend almost every night at the movies. She likely had no idea then that part of her life would end up being dedicated to this great passion of hers and that she would have the chance to share it with so many. After graduating with a degree in modern literature, Antonucci began a career as a cultural attaché at the most important Italian Cultural Institutes in the US. First in New York, where she would become the deputy director in charge of the film department of the Italian Cultural Institute, then in San Francisco, where she moved in 1996.
Thus Cinema Italia San Francisco was born. It consists of one full day of showings from morning till night; four or five films from the same director with a themed party to follow. The location is the Castro Theatre , San Francisco's historic art-deco palace. The first exhibition was in 2013, with a retrospective dedicated to Pier Paolo Pasolini . The guest of honor from Italy was Giovanni "Ninetto" Davoli , a notable protagonist in such Pasolini films as Uccellacci e Uccellini (The Hawks and the Sparrows) and Il vangelo secondo Matteo (The Gospel According to St. Matthew).
The public was enthusiastic, and the program caught on in San Francisco, becoming an essential event for cinema lovers. In 2014 Cinema Italia San Francisco presented the works of Bernardo Bertolucci ; in 2015, Vittorio De Sica's ; in 2016, Anna Magnani's ; and in 2017, Dino Risi and Lina Wertmüller's .
The support of Luce Cinecittà, and the collaboration of the Italian Consulate and Italian Cultural Institute, are fundamental in the success of the event. The program graphics are by publisher, designer, and curator Colpa Press . The biggest challenge that Antonucci faces is certainly the budget. "It's a project that needs financing because the box office covers only a small portion of the expenses. We are constantly looking for public or private sponsors." On the last day of the 2017 edition earlier this Fall, Antonucci was able to involve sponsors like the eyeglass company Zenni Optical—a natural choice since one of the films presented was Behind White Glasses, a documentary on Lina Wertmüller by Valerio Ruiz. Wertmüller was the first woman in the history of cinema to be nominated for an Oscar for Best Director. Antonucci was able to get four of Wertmüller's films and a documentary in a restored format from New York film distributor Kino Lorber .
Passion and a lot of hard work carry Amelia through her ambitious project: to be able one day to transform Cinema Italia San Francisco into a true Italian film festival in America. She is convinced of the project's great potential thanks to the encouraging response that is coming not only from the Italian and Italian-American public, but also from the general American audience.
Amelia Antonucci is very active in the Italian community in SF. She is the president of the non-profit Leonardo Da Vinci Society, and one of the administrators of the group called DIVE (Donne Italiane che Vivono all'Estero). However, although Cinema Italia San Francisco is primarily geared towards the Italian community, its audience is mixed. "Actually, the biggest boost comes from the general public. Americans who love films in their original languages are the ones buying tickets. These are the same people who go to see films in German and French. We've become part of something that goes beyond the reaches of the Italian and Italian American communities."
Antonucci is aware that hers is an uphill battle, as Italian cinema lacks industrial investments and a consistent policy of promotion and distribution. "At the San Francisco International Film Festival," she says, "France is able to present an average of 30 films a year. We Italians need to jump through hoops to be able to present even one! We still have a lot of work to do in terms of both investments and promotion." Neverthess, she is optimistic. She notes that Luce Cinecittà is now being restructured along lines similar to UniFrance—the French agency for cinema promotion. "Soon we too will be able to show our cinema abroad with greater strength—both classic and contemporary cinema!" One thing is certain: Amelia Antonucci is a force of nature. And her optimism is contagious.


THE Sinn Féin Local Election candidate for Waterford City East, Michael Doyle, has criticised the Government's decision to yet again delay announcing their planned increase in local property tax valuations until 2020.
Mr Doyle said: "It is wrong that the public are to be kept in the dark in regards to these plans and the Government along with their Confidence and Supply partners Fianna Fáil are being totally dishonest in their moves on the Local Property Tax.
"This is pure electioneering just before the Local and European elections and is par for the course in how both of these establishment parties have treated the electorate in relation to tax increases over decades in power," Mr Doyle claimed.
"Sinn Féin has been consistent in outright opposition to the Local Property Tax. Fine Gael has championed the tax but is now afraid to announce their plans until next year.
"Fine Gael previously kicked the can down the road before the last general election. To do so again in the mouth of local and EU elections is cute hoor politics and will not go unnoticed.
"Both the Thornhill Report and the Parliamentary Budget Office have warned that any further delay would in fact be open to constitutional challenge," said Mr Doyle.


I finished the Australia journal case. It ended up being a box because of how everything would fit and be protected. Here on the cover I used a watercolor I made of Tasmania's soils turned into watercolors and my own colors from North Carolina making tracks through the land. The box is about 11″ x 8″ x 3.5″.
Here it is opened. The map is folded and placed in a built in pocket inside the lid. The small leather covered journals line up between added walls with the small burned driftwood sticks made by Toni Rogers in Queensland. The sienna toned papers were purchased in Australia from my favorite paper vendor at the conferences. The one that lines the box and covers the outside is a leather-feeling one that is not easy to find here in this country.
The coptic bound book of botanical impressions was made at Beautiful Silks. Each folio is stitched individually. The paper that lines the bottom of the box is an old map of Sydney….the welcoming place for people coming into the country.
Here you can see more of the city map and end walls supporting Toni's small sticks. Everything comes out and is placed on the map.
I love the tumbled-ness of how this looks. Each piece is about taking a closer look of what was seen in the country, and what caught my attention for further documentation.
I had a chance to get away for an overnight in Asheville with friends and a terrific dinner out starting with a cucumber/basil martini, then watermelon whipped feta/strawberry salad and finally seared tuna that is so hard to get here where I live.
So this wraps up the final work I will do about Australia. It has been such a thrill to revisit the country this way. Heading back in March 2019 is anticipated with just as much enthusiasm.
Another topic later this weekend after company goes back home and we get back to the new normal.


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Sending Postcards from the Harlem Line (Part 7)
Admit it, readers – somewhere in the back of your head you were wondering when I'd get around to showing you more railroad-themed postcards. My postcard collecting addiction has been well documented, and roughly every other month I do a new post full of my newly acquired cards. Today's lineup includes Amenia, one of the abandoned Upper Harlem stations, and Towners, another abandoned station. There are also a few cards of station buildings still around today, like Katonah, Bedford Hills, and Scarsdale. Again, I must sincerely thank Steve Swirsky for his wonderful contributions to our extensive collection of postcards. The...
The Harlem Line, in panoramas
I've spent many months posting various panoramas of the Harlem Line stations. I'm now excited to be able to post the entire Harlem Line, viewed in panoramas. You can watch as the farmland and rural greenery morphs into the suburbs, before changing into the concrete jungle of New York City. If you want to see more photos from each of the stations, just click on the picture. Anybody have a favorite panorama? I think my two favorites are Tenmile River and Harlem-125th Street – the two of them are polar opposites in terms of the scenery visible while taking a...
Tuesday Tour of the Harlem Line: Purdy's (and bonus Copake Falls)
Several months ago I wrote about some of the names of the towns located along the Harlem Line, and how they have evolved over the years. Many of the names were taken from the families that owned the land, or perhaps donated it for the railroad to use, and the name had a possessive. For example, Brewster was known as Brewster's after former land owners James and Walter Brewster. "Golden's Bridge" was always a particular enigma, as the majority of use has evolved beyond the apostrophe (town signage does not use it, and the railroad stopped using it in 2003...
Friday's From the Historical Archive: Old Maps and Station Names
Some of the very first things that were added when I created the Historical Archives were maps I found thanks to the Library of Congress. It was interesting to see the network of railroads in the country grow in size exponentially through the 1800's, and then later in the mid 1900's crash and quite a few disappeared. There was one map, however, that caught my attention. That map lists a station along the Harlem Line: Golding's Bridge. Was it a typo? In the back of my mind I had always wondered about the apostrophe thing. Is Goldens Bridge written properly...
Tunnel Under the Tracks
Obviously if you've ever been on the Harlem Line you know that the tracks run alongside various bodies of water. An astute observer can see the Kensico Dam in Valhalla… And around the stations of Purdy's through Katonah if you look out you will notice the Muscoot Reservoir. Over the summer I purchased a small row boat in order to go out on the reservoir. The DEP is actually rather strict what varieties of boat can go out, and where the boats must be kept. My boat was assigned a spot up in Purdy's, and it is named the Brazilian...

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The air show in Singapore is held every two years with the support of the civil aviation organisation of the country. In 2018, more than 1,000 companies from approximately 70 countries announced their wish to take part in the exhibition.
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Russia flies its new passenger aircraft MC-21
This is a landmark event for all enterprises of the Russian aerospace industry without exception. Russia's aviation equipment finds no demand at other major shows in France (Le Bourget) and in the UK (Farnborough), because the location of these professional events does not correspond to the geography of sales of the products of the Russian aviation industry.
Russia's commercial zone traditionally covers developing countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America, even though it is hard to call China and India as 'developing' states. Western European countries can only look at Russian aviation for the purpose to draw adequate comparisons with their own products.
Singapore, no less than Abu Dhabi (where the arms show is held regularly as well), comes in line with Russian business interests. Over the past ten years, Russia has sold at least 400 combat helicopters and airplanes in this zone. The after sale support system has significantly improved; the fast delivery of spare parts (fast tracking) has been developed as well, which also fuels the growth of interest in the products of the Russian defence industry.
This year, more than 70 companies of the aviation cluster have arrived in Singapore. Russia showcases such models as Yak-152, Yak-130, Su-35, Ka-52 and Ansat helicopters, as well as MC-21 and SuperJet-100 aircraft.
Noteworthy, it is at the Singapore Air Show 2018, where Sukhoi Superjet-100 demonstrated its wing tips. The refinement will allow to reduce up to five percent of expenses on aviation kerosene.
The multi-purpose Tatar helicopter Ansat (translates from the Tatar as "simple") is very interesting as well. This helicopter can be used in many areas. The Ansat is a light two-engine gas turbine multipurpose helicopter that has up to nine seats. The Ansat helicopter can carry up to 1,300 kilograms of payload in the cockpit.
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Unfortunately, the future of the new Russian airliner MC-21 is not clear. Of course, neither Boeing not Airbus are going to give any of their markets to the Russian competitor. At the same time, it remains unclear whether Russian air carriers are going to place orders for the new passenger jetliner. The MC-21 needs to overcome the threshold of 100 aircraft to enter serial production.
Alexander Artamonov
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Bac Giang province gears towards digital government
Bac Giang province will continue carrying out the e-government building programme in a comprehensive, timely and effective manner with a view to set up a digital government in the near future, according to Director of the provincial Department of Information and Communications Tran Minh Chieu.
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Hanoi (VNA) - Bac Giang province will continue carrying out the e-government building programme in a comprehensive, timely and effective manner with a view to set up a digital government in the near future, according to Director of the provincial Department of Information and Communications Tran Minh Chieu.
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Mohamed Aziz Lahbabi's 'Muslim Personalism'
Draft of an Islamic Anthropology
The idea of the human being as an individual personality bears the deep stamp of the Christian religion and European culture. For Muslims, this way of thinking is not a matter of course. Moroccan philosopher Mohamed Aziz Lahbabi interpreted the concept of the person from the perspective of Islamic sources, generating a dialogue between the Muslim image of man and that of Western anthropologies. An interview with Markus Kneer, expert on Lahbabi's philosophy
You recently published an annotated translation of Lahbabi's work "Le personnalisme musulman" (in English: "The Muslim Personalism") and other writings, in German. As a Christian theologian who is also interested in the inter-religious dialogue, you have been studying Lahbabi's work for several years now. Why Lahbabi? And how is his thinking pertinent for us today?
Markus Kneer: When I came upon the writings of Mohamed Aziz Lahbabi (1923–1993) a good thirteen years ago, I was searching for a Muslim approach that juxtaposed the Islamic image of man with modern Western anthropologies. It seemed to me that localising what is to a great extent a Christian and Occidental concept of the individual within a Muslim context harboured the potential for a dialogue on the Christian and Islamic images of man – potential that should by all means be tapped. Lahbabi's "Muslim personalism" consists of just such an articulation of the human individual from Islamic sources. His points of reference in European philosophy are the personalism of Emmanuel Mounier (1905–1950) and Jean Lacroix (1900–1986) as well as the life philosophy of Henri Bergson (1859–1941).
Echoes of Lahbabi's philosophy: "I think it's no accident that in recent official publications of the Arab League on the subject of human rights the Arabic equivalent of person, 'shakhs', frequently appears," says Kneer
We are speaking here of the 1950s and 60s, when Lahbabi developed his philosophy, and when Mounier's dedicated thinking and that of the journal Esprit, which he founded, exercised a major influence in France and beyond. Today, personalism has largely been replaced by other discourses. Nevertheless, contemplation of the human as person is more intense today than in past decades, and what Paul Ricœur already predicted thirty years ago now seems to be coming true: "Personalism will die, but the person will return!"
This concept after all bundles together other values that are of great importance for the articulation and ethical analysis of human life: e.g. dignity, freedom, responsibility. And I think it's no accident that in recent official publications of the Arab League on the subject of human rights the Arabic equivalent of person, "shakhs", frequently appears.
Yet the question remains: How is this concept understood from the Muslim point of view? Lahbabi's topicality consists in his effort to articulate a Muslim understanding of the person, one that allows the sources of the Islamic image of man to be heard within a universal perspective so that they can be compared with other understandings of the person.
According to Lahbabi, the human is not that which he is already, but that which he should be. He is the normative ultimate goal of the personalisation process. What role is played by the Other in this process of becoming human?
Kneer: Becoming a person is a complex process, which Lahbabi analysed in his first major work "From Being to Person" ("De l'être à la personne", Paris 1954). Personalisation takes place in multiple dimensions, which can be identified by the fact that the personalising Self is always embedded in them: it is embedded in a flow of time and in a spatial horizon, it is embedded in a world of language and emotion, in a world of values and one of engagement. These are the dimensions our Self finds itself in. It has an effect on them without however determining them completely. For these dimensions only come about with, and through, our relationships to others.
Anti-Colonial thinker: Moroccan philosopher, novelist and poet Mohamed Aziz Lahbabi (1922–1993)
Time as history comes about when the Self experiences time as time shared with others, and realises that time goes on, becomes a flow. Horizons come about by the Self localising itself spatially in relationship to others. Language, communication come about solely through the encounter with others. The same can be said of our inner, mental life and our emotions. The Self, the person, transcends its own bounds in these relationships with others, goes beyond itself. The Other is thus omnipresent in the constitution of the person. The demand that arises in the context of the world of values that the person should fulfil himself more and more in a continuous process of transcending his own humanness has its origin in the process of transcending the boundaries of self that is triggered by others.
So much for the theory. The historical and practical reasons why Lahbabi chose to analyse the process of becoming a person can be found in the identity crisis experienced by the colonised populace during the colonial era – in particular by the intellectuals. Lahbabi described how the colonial system had depersonalising effects for him and many others. Instead of experiencing language, communication and mental life as fields for personalisation, his generation suffered from speechlessness, non-communication and a feeling of inner emptiness. He wondered for a long time whether he was a person equal to the others, in other words, to the Europeans. The role of the Other in becoming a person and a human is thus not unproblematic.
"Personalism", says Lahbabi, "begins where the person refuses the blind subjugation under someone or something, and recognises reason and the intellect as the highest value". Doesn't this emphasis on reason contradict Lahbabi's idea of a "humanism with God"?
Kneer: At no point in his work does Lahbabi set up religious faith and reason in such opposition to one another. Like the persons who apply it, reason is also found in prescribed contexts. And one of these contexts is for Lahbabi the religious one. Here, as in other contexts, reason takes on a central function: it allows the person to understand the religious context, i.e. belief in God, his commandments, etc. Understanding, which Lahbabi clearly distinguishes from explaining, means here working out the rationality inherent in religious faith.
Three points are connected with this process: 1. Through the understanding of his faith, it also becomes a field for the personalisation of the person. 2. The person makes the faith understandable for others as well and hence part of their mutual mental horizon. Faith must stand the test of this communication horizon. 3. Understanding faith also means that it becomes dynamic. The religious person transcends his own boundaries in his continuous rational reflection on his beliefs and develops himself and his faith further.
"A humanism with God": Cover of Markus Kneer's book on Lahbabi, "Man: Witness of God – Draft of an Islamic Anthropology"
The passage you quoted is to be understood in this context: Lahbabi is not talking about an absolute reason of the word, divorced from the religious context, but rather a reason that illuminates and lends dynamics to this context. In other words, ijtihad, the term used in Islamic theology to describe the personal and rational adoption of faith, must be rehabilitated as the fundamental method of theological work. Lahbabi's profound criticism of taqlid, the blind mimicking of and adherence to opinions passed down by the great Muslim scholarly authorities, is connected with this stance. Only shahada (profession of the one and only God, the Muslim creed) that reflects true ijtihad has personalising value, says Lahbabi.
With his dynamic concept of reason, Lahbabi takes up a position within value hermeneutics that mediates between the cultural and religious sources of values and their universal validity. In the process of transcending the bounds of the self, culturally inflected values become understandable against the horizon of other value traditions, and their universality can be tested. One-sided culturalism or universalism is not possible with Lahbabi.
"Liberation" is a central concept in Lahbabi's philosophy. How can we apply this concept today to the "Arab revolutions"?
Kneer: I'm almost inclined to cite "liberation" as the central concept in the philosophy of Lahbabi, but one that takes on different nuances. In the introduction to "From Being to Person" Lahbabi confirms that he means with this term the individual path the human being takes toward mastering his instincts, drives and passions. In the search for a balance between emotion and reason, the person goes through a process of liberation from natural fixations. A second nuance can be discerned in "Liberty or Liberation?" ("Liberté ou libération?", Paris 1956), a work published the year Morocco gained its independence. Based on the critique voiced by a certain school of European philosophy that freedom was solely a subjective human category, Lahbabi shows that the human person strives for different kinds of freedom in different contexts – not only the subjective variety, but also the economic and political.
These forms of freedom must however never be regarded as static, so that persons can possess them once and for all. Freedoms, too, are embedded in the process of liberation, so that, after individual liberties are gained, the new economic, political and social contexts that result then call for new liberation movements. By placing freedoms in context, Lahbabi demonstrates that liberation can never be understood as an individual process alone, but rather one in which persons share in the struggle for common values.
"Every human is a person". The current fight for human and civil rights in the Islam-dominated countries of North Africa and the Middle East casts a new light on Lahbabi's philosophy of the person and liberation, says Kneer
The current fight for human and civil rights in the Islam-dominated countries of North Africa and the Middle East casts a new light on Lahbabi's philosophy of the person and liberation. For, just as he describes the way persons transcend their respective contexts and are able to act within them to liberate themselves, we encounter there Mohamed Bouazizi as exemplary of the many people who are risking their lives to demonstrate for their freedoms – the man from Sidi Bouzid in Tunisia who, through his desperate act of self-immolation, set the whole movement in motion. Bouazizi, too, felt that depersonalising structures violated the dignity of his personhood, and he therefore sought liberation from them, which he then – hopefully – ended up achieving for many others.
In his later works, in which he developed a philosophy for the so-called "third world", Lahbabi denounced the depersonalising structures brought about by neo-colonialism and its aftermath, and described the resulting traumas. At the same time, he stood by his thesis that every human – ineluctably and irreducibly – is a person. And that it is an innate trait of the human person to strive for freedom and dignity – including, and in particular, in a culture and society shaped by Islam. We are currently witnessing just such a striving in North Africa and the Middle East.
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Mohamed Aziz Lahbabi (1923–1993) was one of the first chairs of General Philosophy at Muhammad V University in Rabat/Morocco. He was president of the Moroccan Philosophy Society. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1987 based on his literary writings.
Markus Kneer (born 1972) studied Catholic Theology, Philosophy and Islamic Studies and is Commissioner for the Christian-Muslim Dialogue in the Archbishopric of Paderborn.
Mohamed Aziz Lahbabi: Der Mensch: Zeuge Gottes. Entwurf einer islamischen Anthropologie. Selected writings, translated into German and annotated by Markus Kneer. Herder 2011.
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Comments for this article: Draft of an Islamic Anthropology
Lahbabi
Lahbabi's Personalism was also discussed in Marien van den boom 1984 PhD thesis 'De Bevrijding van de Mens in Islamitisch Perspektief' (The Liberation of Man from an Islamic Perspective).
Dr Carool Kersten27.05.2011 | 19:20 Uhr
Different prespective
"Lahbibi described how the colonial system had depersonalising effects for him and many others. Instead of experiencing language, communication and mental life as fields for personalisation, his generation suffered from speechlessness, non-communication and a feeling of inner emptiness."
Interesting that this was not the case in Egypt where there were clearly a ferment and new ideas of identity and culture in the years between the two world wars.
In Egypt the big downfall was the 1967 defeat that destroyed all the propaganda that the Nasser regime had built and together with it started a deep search for identity, purpose and ideology which ended up being dominated by the Islamists.
Maybe things were different in the Maghreb?
Raouf Eldeeb28.10.2014 | 20:42 Uhr
Rachid Boutayeb
Mashriq, Morocco
https://en.qantara.de/node/82


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During the course of their out of body experiences the boys inadvertently open a portal into the Unseen World, and their sleepy town of Suiten is soon overrun with ghosts and other paranormal entities. The daughter of the local priest is eventually possessed by a malevolent spirit, and it is up to the three boys to come to terms with their own abilities, as well as the horrors of the past, in order to save her.
Ghost Hound is an endlessly inventive and highly original series. It's hardly the most light-hearted of fare and some of its themes are truly harrowing, though thankfully these are tempered by some excellent vocal performances courtesy of the Japanese cast and Nakamura's flawless direction. The cinematography is also stunning throughout and the spirit world is effectively, and sometimes chillingly, rendered, thanks in part to a sublimely evocative score. The colour palette veers from lush and resonant to darkly macabre depending on the subject matter at hand, the pacing is tight and the storyline is gripping from the outset.
There are no bonus features worth mentioning, just some trailers and an image gallery, but with eleven episodes spread out over three discs, as well as some extremely handsome packaging, you aren't exactly left feeling short changed. Ghost Hound is a thought-provoking and highly successful series, and one that's highly recommended for those who like their anime both meaningful and mysterious.


Liberty Alliance, the global identity consortium working to build a more trusted Internet for consumers, governments and businesses worldwide, today announced the public release of the Liberty Identity Assurance Framework (IAF). The IAF has been developed by Liberty's Identity Assurance Expert Group (IAEG) to simplify and speed the deployment of identity federations by standardizing identity assurance levels and the certification process for all identity assurance service providers participating in federated relationships. Liberty Alliance will hold a public webcast to review the Identity Assurance Framework on Thursday, November 29 at 8:00AM US PT.
Developed by IAEG members representing the financial services, government, healthcare, IT and telecommunications sectors, the IAF fills cross-industry requirements for baseline identity assurance policy standards for all public and private sector federations. The IAF has been designed to remove the unnecessary costs and complexities organizations face when making trust decisions for acceptance of credential-based assertions of identity information within federations. The Identity Assurance Framework is available for public input and review at http://www.projectliberty.org/liberty/content/download/3736/24651/file/l... y-identity-assurance-framework-v1.0.pdf (Due to length of URL, please copy and paste into browser for viewing).
"The Identity Assurance Framework provides answers to the tough questions organizations in every sector have about how to best address today's complex digital identity landscape in order to drive new and valuable federated services into global markets," said Jane Hennessy, Senior Vice President, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. and co-chair of the Liberty Alliance Identity Assurance Expert Group. "With the release of the initial public draft of the Identity Assurance Framework, organizations now have an industry standard for quickly moving wide scale interoperable federations ahead based on identity assurance which enables a foundation of trust."
Because varying levels of risk are associated with different electronic transactions, the IAF defines four identity assurance levels based on a comprehensive set of process and policy criteria required to meet each level of assurance. Federation operators and their respective relying party members will leverage IAF assessments performed by Liberty accredited assessors to determine the credential-based identity services they are willing to trust. Ranging from one to four with corresponding identity confidence levels scaling from low to very high, the Identity Assurance Framework details authentication requirements to allow federation operators and federating organizations to address cross-industry business, policy and privacy issues related to each identity assurance level.
With common business rules and policies for determining the reliability of asserted identity in place, the Identity Assurance Framework goes on to define the standard assessment criteria, accreditation and certification rules for federating organizations to meet each of the four levels of assurance. This will allow identity related transactions to occur within and across multiple federations with uniform understanding of the underlying due diligence applied to the issuance and use of identity credentials being asserted in any given federated transaction. Liberty Alliance expects to launch the identity assurance accreditation and certification program during mid-2008.
"The release of the Identity Assurance Framework represents a significant milestone in eliminating the many business and policy barriers organizations face when moving to deploy wide-scale federated identity solutions," said Brett McDowell, executive director of the Liberty Alliance. "Today's news is about providing federation operators and their members with a comprehensive process and policy standard they can immediately leverage to more easily build, manage and scale their trusted identity federations."
Hosted by Jim Gross, Senior Vice President, Wells Fargo, and Brett McDowell, Executive Director of the Liberty Alliance with participation from Jane Hennessy, Senior Vice president, Wells Fargo, and Roger Sullivan, President of the Liberty Alliance Management Board and vice president Oracle Identity Management, the initial webcast will review why the Identity Assurance Framework is critical to advancing trusted federations, the current state of federation policy and processes, immediate next steps and the roadmap for 2008. A Q and A will follow the online presentation. Registration and more information about the Liberty Identity Assurance Webcast is available at http://www.projectliberty.org/news_events/events/webcast_identity_assura... ramework_advancing_the_marketplace (Due to length of URL, please copy and paste into browser for viewing).


Can I get into University of South Carolina-Upstate? The school has a 58% acceptance rate. Last year, 2,203 out of 3,809 applicants were admitted making University of South Carolina-Upstate a more competitive school to get into with a good chance of acceptance for qualifying applicants. Academically, it has extremely easy requirements for admission test scores, generally admitting students who score in the top 64 percent. University of South Carolina Upstate typically accepts and attracts "A-" average high school students. Only 40% of those admitted chose to enroll in the school. Most incoming freshmen graduated in the top half of their high school class.
What are the SAT requirements for students to be admitted to University of South Carolina Upstate?
University of South Carolina Upstate typically requires applicants to be in the top 60 percent of SAT test takers. The school consistently takes SAT composite scores down to 1000 on a 1600 scale, below which admission should be considered a reach. We estimate some students could be accepted with SAT's as low as 910. The estimated average SAT composite for admitted freshman is 1090 out of 1600. 58 percent of applicants submit SAT scores to the school. Note: SAT scores presented on this page have been adjusted upwards per the College Board's concordance tables for test takers after March 2016.
What are the ACT requirements for prospective students to get into University of South Carolina-Upstate?
Admission data indicates that University of South Carolina-Upstate regularly accepts students with ACT's of 17 and above. Successful applicants typically send ACT scores in the top 69 percent nationally. We estimate the school accepting minimum ACT composite scores around 14 in some instances. Prospective students submitting an ACT composite of 20 or higher should be in the upper half of applicants - and students with a 22 and above have very competitive chances. Scoring well on the ACT is very important as 64 percent of applicants submit ACT scores to University of South Carolina Upstate.
You will need very good grades in high school to get into University of South Carolina Upstate. The average high school GPA of the admitted freshman class at University of South Carolina Upstate was 3.7 on the 4.0 scale indicating that primarily A- students are accepted and ultimately attend. If your high school GPA meets these requirements, there is a good chance you will be accepted as University of South Carolina-Upstate accepts 58% of students who apply.
77% of University of South Carolina Upstate freshman were in the top half of their high school graduating class.
What are the requirements for admission to University of South Carolina Upstate and what considerations affect admission decisions?
Primary data source, U.S. Department of Education https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?id=218742 IPEDS survey data for University of South Carolina Upstate.


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Writers on the Range: Houses must be built to withstand wildfire
Stephen Pyne and Jack Cohen
Writers on the Range
That the scene has become familiar makes it no less wrenching: A distraught couple searches through the ash, char and melted metal of what was once their home. Only the concrete pad and the occasional fireplace remain.
What is also in that tableau — but hardly noticed — are trees. A few are killed, and many are scorched, but most are alive and green. The house vaporized because it could not cope with fire; the forest survived because it could. And paradoxically, it was the house fire that killed the trees.
Those early-kindled houses then cast fire to neighbors. What began as a wildland fire amplified into an urban conflagration. It's the sort of scene that was common in the American frontier over a century ago. Watching it burn through Paradise or Berry Creek, California, today is like watching smallpox or polio return.
Before-and-after photos of a devastated neighborhood reinforce the sense that a tsunami of fire rushed through and crushed the community. Images of soaring flame-fronts ahead of the town pair with post-burn moonscapes of ruin after the fire has passed. Our desire for a narrative fills in the storyline with a moving line of flame, telling us to attack the wildfire before it can breach the perimeter.
Yet detailed studies, over and over, move the primary problem from the source, where the fire comes from, to the "sink," where the flames go. A tidal wave of fire we can't stop. But the threatening fire actually moves into and through the town more like a blizzard of sparks. If there are places of vulnerability, embers will find them.
That is why the best defense is to harden our houses. Surviving fires depends on what fire researchers call the home ignition zone or HIZ. Flammable roofs, close vegetation next to wood siding or porches, open eaves, cracks in paneling, vent meshing too large to stop sparks, ground cover that can carry fire along the surrounding surface or radiate heat sufficient to crack single-pane window glass — all are chinks that fire can exploit.
Since structures typically occupy a setting with other structures, the vulnerability of each depends on the vulnerability of its neighbors, and a town itself might be likened to a rambling structure that also needs defensible space.
Zoning, greenbelts and codes regulating the relative risk of collective housing won't halt embers, but they can make protecting hardened structures easier and safer. Call that expanded site the housing environmental risk zone or HERZ.
Because the reality is, we can't abolish fire in the countryside and shouldn't want to. A century of trying has taught us we can't muster a counterforce to halt the conflagrations that cause most of the damage. Even attempting to eliminate all fires only disrupts ecological benefits and lets fuels build up that create the conditions for even worse fires. So while the fire source does matter, the fire sink matters more.
We've lived through waves of fire like this before, twice. The country endured a horrific chronicle of conflagrations with agricultural settlement through the 19th and early 20th centuries. And it suffered through routine city infernos that burned like their surrounding landscapes since they were made of the same materials. Both faded away a century ago.
The last big urban outbreak occurred when San Francisco burned in 1906. The last big rural community that burned during the 1918 fires occurred outside the town of Cloquet, Minnesota. It killed 435 people, some while fleeing in their automobiles.
In recent decades, the country has recolonized formerly rural lands with an urban outmigration. Most are exurbs that don't rely on a rural economy or use fire in traditional ways. The fire susceptibility that resulted, however, was identified by the wildland fire community as houses crowding into wildlands. More accurately, the scene could just as easily be characterized as bits of cities with peculiar landscaping.
Do that, and it is clear what measures must be taken to protect them from fire. You apply the same strategies and techniques that earlier removed fire from cityscapes. Meanwhile, the wildland-urban fire problem has been unnecessarily complicated because it got mis-defined.
It will prove tricky to unwind because so many communities built in the flush times will have to be retrofitted to accommodate the current conditions. The good news is that HIZ, HERZ and history show us where to concentrate the effort. The bad news is that there isn't much time to dawdle.
Stephen Pyne and Jack Cohen are contributors to Writers on the Range, writersontherange.org, a nonprofit dedicated to spurring lively conversation about the West. Pyne is the author of "Between Two Fires: A Fire History of Contemporary America" and "To the Last Smoke," a series of regional fire surveys. Cohen is a retired U.S. Forest Service fire researcher and the inventor of the home ignition-zone concept.
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GENERAC HOLDINGS SHAREHOLDER ALERT BY FORMER LOUISIANA ATTORNEY GENERAL: KAHN SWICK & FOTI, LLC REMINDS INVESTORS WITH LOSSES IN EXCESS OF $100,000 of Lead Plaintiff Deadline in Class Action Lawsuit Against Generac Holdings Inc. - GNRC
Saturday, December 10, 2022 at 3:50am UTC
NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 9, 2022
NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Kahn Swick & Foti, LLC ("KSF") and KSF partner, former Attorney General of Louisiana, Charles C. Foti, Jr., remind investors that they have until January 30, 2023 to file lead plaintiff applications in a securities class action lawsuit against Generac Holdings Inc. (NYSE: GNRC), if they purchased the Company's shares between April 29, 2021 and November 1, 2022, inclusive (the "Class Period"). This action is pending in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin.
What You May Do
If you purchased shares of Generac and would like to discuss your legal rights and how this case might affect you and your right to recover for your economic loss, you may, without obligation or cost to you, contact KSF Managing Partner Lewis Kahn toll-free at 1-877-515-1850 or via email (lewis.kahn@ksfcounsel.com), or visit https://www.ksfcounsel.com/cases/nyse-gnrc/ to learn more. If you wish to serve as a lead plaintiff in this class action, you must petition the Court by January 30, 2023.
About the Lawsuit
Generac and certain of its executives are charged with failing to disclose material information during the Class Period, violating federal securities laws.
On October 19, 2022, the Company released dismal preliminary financial results for 3Q2022 including a $55 million pre-tax charge relating to its clean energy product warranties and expenses, due to a distributor that had filed for bankruptcy. On this news, shares of Generac fell by $37.44 per share, or 25%. Then on November 2, 2022, the Company released its third quarter earnings and significantly lowered full-year guidance on sales by its solar energy business of approximately 40% due to the loss of a major customer and $37.3 million worth of clean energy product warranty-related issues. On this news, shares of Generac fell an additional $8.99 per share, or 8%.
The case is County Voluntary Employees' Beneficiary Association and Oakland County Employees' Retirement System v. Generac Holdings Inc., No. 22-cv-1436.
About Kahn Swick & Foti, LLC
KSF, whose partners include former Louisiana Attorney General Charles C. Foti, Jr., is one of the nation's premier boutique securities litigation law firms. KSF serves a variety of clients – including public institutional investors, hedge funds, money managers and retail investors – in seeking recoveries for investment losses emanating from corporate fraud or malfeasance by publicly traded companies. KSF has offices in New York, California, Louisiana and New Jersey.
To learn more about KSF, you may visit www.ksfcounsel.com.
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About Tosca
Tosca Lee is the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of The Line Between, The House of Bathory Duology (The Progeny, Firstborn), Iscariot, The Legend of Sheba, Demon: A Memoir, Havah: The Story of Eve, and the Books of Mortals series with New York Times bestseller Ted Dekker.
A notorious night-owl, she loves watching TV, eating bacon, playing video games with her kids, and sending cheesy texts to her husband. You can find Tosca hanging around the snack table or wherever bacon is served.
A Single Light, Tosca's highly-anticipated sequel to The Line Between, releases September 17 from Simon & Schuster and is available for pre-order now!
"One of the most gifted novelists writing today."
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"Superior storytelling."
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Q: What is your favorite and least favorite part of being a writer?
A: I love getting to pour it onto the page. To look back, re-read, and say, "Yes. That's it!" And I love hearing from readers. I seriously have the best readers in the world.
Q: What is your writing day like?
A: When I'm working on a project, I'll spend three to six months researching and another three to six writing, depending on the topic. When I'm on deadline, I write up to 20 hours a day, between 2,000 and 10,000 words a day. Between projects, I may go days without writing a thing. Weeks. Let's just say routine is not one of my virtues.
Q: What is life like when you're not writing?
A: I sleep. And wash my hair (well, sometimes.) I hang out with my kids and obsessively catch up with all the friends, cleaning, projects, e-mail, TV shows and errands I neglected while I was writing. But even then writing has a way of creeping in-–especially when I travel.
Q: What's the best advice you've received on writing/publication?
A: Do your part, do the work and then surrender the results. Of course, your part goes far beyond the actual writing.
Q: What is the worst piece of writing advice you've heard?
A: Write what you know. If I did that, I'd be writing about how to watch Hulu on your phone and catch your dog drinking out of the toilet.
Q: Can you read my writing if I send it to you?
A: Unfortunately, no. Please don't send it as it will be deleted. I can, however, refer you to several professional mentors and editors.
Q: What was your road to publication like?
A: What? There was a road?
Q: About that pageant thing…
A: You know, that was one of those things where someone saying, "You should do that" opened a possibility to me that I never would have considered. It was a fascinating experience. And by doing it, I had the privilege to represent numerous local charities and women's causes, including breast cancer.
Q: You seem to travel a lot. Where is your favorite place you've been?
A: The place I haven't been yet. Though I admit a special love for Bora Bora, New Mexico, and my mom's kitchen.
Q: Do you still model?
A: I do–when I have time.
Q: Did you always want to be a writer?
A: I was a ballet dancer until height and injuries conspired against me. Despite the fact that I won writing contests in school and published my first piece in third grade, it wasn't until I went to college that I began to seriously consider writing a "thing."
Q: What do you do for fun?
A: I sleep. Eat. Shop. I have three boys at home, so I play a lot of football and Call of Duty.
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Lenoir, North Carolina, located in Caldwell, has a population of 18,529. The population has increased 1% since 2000. The average temperature in January is 36° and 76° in July. The community includes 7,761 households, with an average household size of 2 people. Lenoir households are made up of an estimated 8,743 men and 9,786 women. In Lenoir, 41% of those living in the area are married and of the 7,761 households, 58% are families with two or more people living in the home. About 25% of families have one or more children living at home. The median age of Lenoir residents is 40 years. The city is home to many loyal Hickory Crawdads (A) sports fans. With a carbon monoxide risk index of 61, amidst growing concerns about environmental health and protection, we recommend protecting your life with a CO detection system.
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