German Roosen, Second Secretary at the Uruguayan embassy in Havana. Willing to assist in helping people defect for a fee.
The wife of AMHALF-2 met with Tony Sforza in Mexico to discuss an "exfiltration" on 11/22/63. This may have been about AMCANOE-3, who was attempting to escape from Cuba that day. There was discussion about trying to get him into the Uruguayan embassy before trying the same manuever with AMLEO-3.
9/18/63 memo from JMWAVE to Director: "At 2100 hours 7 Sept 63 AMLEO-3 received phone call from wife Hava stating she had maneuvered personal meeting with AMTHUG-1 (Fidel Castro) at his Santa Maria beach house some two hours previously. Result (of the) conversation, during which wife pleaded for permission (to) leave Cuba, was AMTHUG-1 told her if A-3 wanted (to) see wife, children he would come (to) Cuba to do so. AMTHUG-1 also said he knew A-3 was behind and to blame for many recent attacks and anti regime activities now occurring (in) Cuba." "Wife AMHALF-2 currently Miami discussing with WAVE possible asylum for AMCANOE-3 which WAVE would like (to) carry out 14 Sept. This op if successful would be valid test (for) AMHALF-2 mechanism. Thus if it worked out it could be used 19/20 Sept for arranging asylum for AMLEO-3's family. This channel involves using diplomatic car make pickup of potential asylee at fixed date, time and place and transporting prospective asylee into Uruguayan embassy past Cuban milit a guards. This technique has worked in the past but has not been used recently due (to the) fact diplomat who makes pickup with diplomatic car can be PNG'd (declared persona non grata) and potential asylee taken from car and arrested or shot...AMHALF-2 has fee for his asylum service but do not believe it will be prohibitive. However, AMHALF-2 is unscrupulous type and not entirely dependable thus desire (to) test this channel with AMCANOE-3 before it used with AMLEO-3's family."
Memo written in late evening hours of 11/22/63 (apparently sent 11/23), IMMEDIATE ACTION JMWAVE to Director, WAVE 8057: ..."Miami Herald reported IAPA delegates said US must overthrow Castro because there is little chance (of) internal revolt. Latin editions did not think USSR would fight over Cuba, and agreed Castro regime must be eradicated for sake of hemispheric security...on WMIE 21 Nov Alfredo Perez Berreiro interviewed Brigade 2506 members to whom President spoke at airport on 18 Nov. They reported President said following: To Jose Perullero: 'I am not forgetting you.' To Bernardo Torres: 'I am not forgetting Cuba' and to Antonio Paz, 'Do not become desperate, everything will come.'...Operational Developments...Henry J. Sloman (Tony Sforza) departed WAVE for MEXI to meet (the) wife of AMHALF."
11/22/63 memo, IMMEDIATE ACTION JMWAVE to Director, WAVE 8065: "Henry J. Sloman arriving Mexi 22 Nov order meet with AMHALF-2. WAVE expecting priority message, *concerning maritime exfil of Headquarters asset*, in (Digraph-deleted)EXIT pouch which presumably will arrive MEXI 22 nov. Sloman will contact Choaden (David Phillips) by phone either at station or home 23 Nov arrange pick up any material EXIT-3 may have received 22 Nov."
11/27/63 memo, slugline AMHALF, from JMWAVE to Director: Most of document is redacted. Notice that two of the five people it is sent to are C/CI Jim Angleton and DDP Richard Helms.
4/13/64 memo, from JMWAVE to Director: "AMHALF-2 reported member (of) JURE...visited him at Dupont Plaza Hotel on 9 Apr and asked if A-2 would grant asylum to member JURE and authorize him (to) carry out anti-Castro activities and communicate with persons outside Cuba from within AMHALF embassy. A-2 refused."
11/30/63 Mexico City memo to Director: "Travel data shows the Garman Roosen, Uruguayan DIP PP 2891 arrived in Mexico from Habana on 23 November..."
1994.06.17.11:32:59:600005: Reel 47, Folder H - MEXI 6320 - 6417 CABLES.
9/30/63: Slugline INTEL LIFIRE JMGIN. Arrived in Mexico City from Habana: "Uruguyans: German Roosen DIP PP No. 2891 and Alfredo Concalvez DIP PP No. 2757."
"The main Miami operation related to Uruguay, however, is the AMHALF project involving three Uruguyan diplomats assigned in Havana. They are the Charge d'Affairs, Zuleik Ayala Cabeda, and two diplomats: German Roosen, Second Secretary, and Hamlet Goncalves, the First Secretary. No one of them is supposed to know that the other is working for the CIA but the Miami station suspects they have been talking to each other. Their tasks in Havana include arranging for asylum for certain Cubans, loading and unloading dead drops used by other agents, currency purchase and visual observation of certain port and military movements. Communication to the agents from Miami are through the One-Way-Voice-Link radio..."
11/27/63, WAVE 8204, memo to Director with slugline RYBAT TYPIC AMHALF, looks like this may be a description of the wife of AMHALF-2: "MEXI 4781 describes her arrival from Cuba by air 4 June 63. Subject appears ca 28 years old. 5 foot 6. Chestnut hair. About 125 pounds...Subj monthly traveler to Cuba and US."
Story recounts how more than 200 Cuban refugees are allegedly in the Uruguyan embassy in Havana. There was a shootout involving four men who crashed into the embassy in a jeep, resulting in the death of Jose Antonio Lazo. "(Zuleik Ayala) said the men seeking asylum were not uniformed and had no weapons."
11/22/63 WAVE 8065 memo from JMWAVE to Director: "Henry J. Sloman (Tony Sforza) arriving Mexi 22 Nov order meet wife AMHALF-2. WAVE expecting priority message, concerning maritime exfil of headquarters asset, in ()EXIT pouch which presumably will arrive MEXI 22 Nov. Sloman will contact Choaden (David Phillips) by phone either at station or home 23 Nov arrange pick up any material which ()EXIT-3 may have received 22 Nov."


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Q: Vectorize functions on regions of array Octave/ Matlab I would like to vectorize the following Octave code:
A = 1:100;
B = [20 40 60];
C = zeros(3,11);

for i = B,
    C(i,:) = A( (B(i) - 10) : B(i) );
end

Which extracts sub-arrays starting at specific indexes from a longer array.
I tried:
C = A(B - 10,B);

But this only returns the first sub-array.
Thanks

A: How about
>> C = A( bsxfun( @plus, -10:0, B' ) );

C =

    10    11    12    13    14    15    16    17    18    19    20
    30    31    32    33    34    35    36    37    38    39    40
    50    51    52    53    54    55    56    57    58    59    60

If you don't have bsxfun in octave, you can do this with repmat
C = A( repmat( -10:0, [3 1] ) + repmat( B', [1 11] ) );

PS,
It is best not to use i as a variable in Matlab.

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WASHINGTON (CN) – Before the Senate confirmed Tom Price as secretary of health and human services, an election-law group claims, the Georgia Republican's campaign committee made improper donations to a conservative political group that supported his nomination.
Filed Friday with the Federal Election Commission, the 8-page complaint by the Campaign Legal Center says the conservative political group America Rising began running videos and conducting research to support Price's nomination after his campaign committee, Price for Congress, sent it $40,000 on Jan. 26.
Less than a week after the contribution, the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee approved Price's nomination to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, and the full Senate approved him on Feb. 10.
"Price for Congress' payments to America Rising were not related to Price's re-election campaign in Georgia's sixth congressional district, nor were the payments in any way connected to Price's duties as a federal officeholder – meaning, under commission regulations, his duties as a member of Congress," the complaint states.
Federal election law prohibits candidates from using campaign money for their "personal use," which the Campaign Legal Center says Price's payment to America Rising clearly was.
The complaint points to reporting by Slate this month that three other cabinet nominees donated to America Rising around the time of their confirmations, though Price was the only one to use money from his campaign committee to do so.
"In effect, Price for Congress paying $40,000 to America Rising amounted to the use of campaign funds to help Rep. Price get his next job," the complaint states.
The complaint, filed by Campaign Legal Center attorney Brendan Fischer, asks the FEC to start an investigation, which could result in sanctions against Price's campaign committee.
The Campaign Legal Center is joined in the complaint by Democracy 21, a nonprofit that works for campaign-finance reform.
The Department of Health and Human Services did not respond to a request for comment on the complaint.


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 "to oppose any cession of sovereignty from the United Kingdom or any of its constituent parts to the European Union or to other supranational bodies without the direct consent of its people by way of referendum and to expose the operations and activities of those bodies that run contrary to the interests of the United Kingdom and its people;
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See also
 Business for Britain
 Conservatives for Britain
 Democracy Movement
 Grassroots Out (GO)
 Labour Leave
 Leave Means Leave
 Leave.EU
 Vote Leave

References

External links
 Campaign for an Independent Britain website
 Campaign Against Euro-federalism
 Labour Euro-Safeguards Campaign
 Catalogue of the papers of the Campaign for an Independent Britain held at LSE Archives

Brexit–related advocacy groups in the United Kingdom
Cross-party campaigns
Euroscepticism in the United Kingdom
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1969 establishments in the United Kingdom
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RIP Johnny Clegg
17/07/2019 by Junior Wells 36 Comments
I was always dismissive of Juluka. A mixed race cross-over band from South Africa. Not pure enough for me, too poppy. I was into hardcore township stuff.
But I think I did Johnny Clegg and Juluka a disservice. From the Guardian obit – Clegg's reputation as a "Zulu guitarist" led to a meeting with self-taught street musician Sipho Mchunu, another migrant worker, and the pair went on to found the band Juluka, which means "sweat" in Zulu.
This was brave stuff in an era of apartheid where this sort of interaction risked regular bashings at a minimum. Importantly the band opened the eyes of many whites in Sth Africa to the joys of indigenous music. A friend of mine who runs Matsuli Records which specialises in reissuing rare out of print Sth African jazz used this very term" opened my eyes" in respect of seeing Juluka.Clearly they were politically, musically, indeed culturally important in South Africa and Johnny Clegg was a brave and gifted individual.
So respect and I'm sorry I was such as snob. I will post my favourite song below.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/16/johnny-clegg-south-african-singer-and-activist-dies-aged-66
Junior Wells says
https://youtu.be/biy0TJ-Kql8
fentonsteve says
Cor! That's great. Duly ordered.
Their very first album
Vulpes Vulpes says
First in the west, certainly – think there were one or two earlier ones in SA?
Second actually. Soz
The arrogant hardliner in me would have dismissed this as sop in the past, but, these days, anything with the great man Nelson Mandela in it is alright by me.
https://youtu.be/BGS7SpI7obY
Alias says
He was undoubtedly a good guy. I wasn't a big fan of his music, but (I suspect like you) I was comparing his music to that on the Indestructible Beat Of Soweto series and things like Mahlathini and the Mahotella Queens and The Soul Brothers that Earthworks released, which were all fantastic.
Not being at that level didn't make his music bad, just less essential.
Exactly @Alias, for us focussing just on the music. But of course, their existence was a potent political statement, especially Clegg mastering Zulu guitar.
Tahir W says
I was going to avoid commenting on this thread, after all the guy is a national icon, preached national unity, etc, and now he's dead. But I didn't like his music.
When Juluka reformed, they did a gig at the Grahamstown festival in 1996 at a venue in the township, which happened to be a non-smoking venue (unusual in those days, especially for the townships). I went to the gig with some women friends who were big fans. Being a smoker then, I went outside for a cig and met an old student buddy, also smoking. So we got chatting about the old days and one cig led to another and next thing we saw everyone coming out, all of them with that post-gig glow that true fans have. I'd missed the show, except for about the first two songs. It didn't bother me, and the ladies had had a good time.
But why I never liked them. Firstly because I've never liked any of the Afro-pop crossover acts in SA, including Mango Groove, Freshly Ground, etc,. I found them all shallow and commercially opportunistic. I mean one may like the idea of a multi-ethnic South African Abba, the idea of a Jewish Zulu, the idea of resistance to musical apartheid and all that. Well and good, but if the music is bland and the sentiments driving its popularity are facile or simplistic, then you might just turn away like I did. The fruits of African nationalism in SA, which were so unproblematically celebrated in this way, have been such that most of those whites who were were celebrating so joyously have now left the country in disgust. Those of us who thought it was not going to be so easy to rewrite history always had a more jaundiced view.
I did buy a copy of the first Juluka album. Played it about twice, dunno what happened to it. Before that, when I was a student I did some gigs with a guy from Grahamstown township, mostly on campus or at student parties (ca 1980). A visiting American academic, after seeing us at a party, told me we reminded him of Johnny and Sipho, whom he'd obviously seen in Jo'burg — they were not yet Juluka. I didn't even know who or what he was talking about. But we were just two oddly matched guys hamming it up. Juluka on the other hand obviously had their eye on the prize, the Next Big Thing. Andy boy, did they hit the moment.
There is just one song of this genre that I do like; it's 'Moments away' by Mango Groove, which is a genuinely good pop song, slightly reminiscent of Abba and not so self-consciously feelgood political.
But Yeah, RIP. Those of us left behind know that the social peace is a bit more elusive.
Kaisfatdad says
Must hear that one then…..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yv8F9ifn70M
Agreeably funky band!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZU-PuNG-PIg
I'm not sure that anyone in their right mind ever thought that SA history could be rewritten; it had to be acknowledged first, and then allowed to fade. But more to the point, well before he sold a truckload of records, Johnny Clegg put himself out there with the rest of the awkward people who got beaten up by the authorities – on more than one occasion – and he knew full well that he was also quite possibly in line for worse than a beating; many of his peers and friends were murdered for their trouble.
Surely commercial opportunism means reaching more people? Isn't that a good thing, maybe even more so when you're making political statements of resistance as a part of your art? Hugh Masekela made the same efforts to be popular, as did Miriam Makeba, Dollar Brand and many others.
Well there is still some of the naivety in the above that I was talking about. But I don't want to go on about this, suffice it to say there is no fading of the kind you are talking about. More like chickens coming home to roost. Crime, violence, grinding poverty and greater inequality than during apartheid, as well as some of the most stinking political leadership anywhere in the world. And among those many SA accents that you will now hear in London, Sydney and other places, are precisely those who were arrogant enough not to want to hear any critical comments about what was coming down the pike. They can sit where they are now comfortably ensconced and listen to Juluka with sentimental tears in their eyes, but will they come back?
But I do like that Mango Groove tune!
Travelling and working around the eastern end of Europe in the late 70s, SA accents cropped up all over the place along with Oz and Kiwi voices; I also worked with guys who had fled the draft in Rhodesia, and with others who had actually done their lethally dangerous National Service time in Africa as Portuguese citizens. Sadly, it was often the SA tones you avoided if possible, especially if near or in a bar after a few beers had been drunk. Not great ambassadors, a lot of them, it has to be said.
I like the track Junior posted above. It might not be "authentic" to someone from SA, but I live in Cambridge. I like some of the scratchy stuff I've heard as well (e.g. Bhundu Boys' Shed Sessions). The two are not mutually exclusive.
By the same line of reasoning, as a music bore, I should not like Paul Simon's Graceland, but I do.
Surely enjoyment of music shouldn't be a question of "is this authentic?" but simply "do I like this?"
Well yeah. The authenticity point wasn't mine, but Junior's.
I also like some of the tracks on Graceland. In fact the kind of people I was complaining about often didn't take to Graceland, just because it was a rich white foreigner come to exploit SA music, not someone from here promoting national unity. Not being a nationalist of any kind myself, that was never my argument.
I just didn't want to support bland music like Juluka's just because of its (rather simplistic) political message. It would be the same for me with stuff from other countries, e.g. some of the political 'folk' that you get in the US and elsewhere.
retropath2 says
Totally reasonable post. We weren't there.
Quite. I wasn't there, and it sounds great to me now, however bland it might have been to those there at the time. Or whatever the politics behind it.
Whereas I was in the right part of the globe for Oasis, but I thought they were shit then and I have yet to be convinced otherwise. I bet they were big in SA.
I wasn't there either. But this guy was and still is, not sitting in a lounge overseas sentimentally listening to Juluka. This guy has been responsible for forgotten artists being rediscovered and being rewarded for their art. Thisis his view on Johnny Clegg.
…I bought Universal Men in 1981 and Ubuhle Bemvelo in 1982, and the cross-over there was authentic, and the Zulu music as musically legitimate as what a revived Mahotella Queens and others came to do with and following Paul Simon. Malopoets were also starting to do something along similar lines … but, in the end, Clegg and Mchunu reached deep places in the hearts of many many people that us slightly removed white and non-Zulu-speaking people could not apprecitate. His 70s stuff was even more deeply rooted in the traditional. Yes, post Paul Simon he became more poppy and synth and sacharine at times … but his messaging and vision were constant
1971 Vorster was still leading the apartheid regime.
The mighty Malombo! Now ya talking. Caught them at Rhodes university in 1977. Still one of the greatest gigs I've ever been to anywhere ever. Fundamentally changed some of my ideas about music. Unfortunately none of their recordings have ever quite captured for me the magic of that gig.
I interviewed the great Philip Tabane after the gig for the student newspaper. I asked him about his having played with Miles Davis. Far from having been overawed by the experience, he proudly told me that a critic in the US wrote that he was playing the kind of music that Miles was "trying to play". Said he never thought about leaving SA, despite the conditions here. "I would lose my sounds," he said.
The Wits gig of that poster above was nothing if not eclectic. Malombo on the same bill as Freedom's Children, SA's heaviest 'underground' rock band of the time!
Leedsboy says
He was an absolute top man. RIP.
He made waves internationally too. I remember seeing him in Stockholm supporting ??? (Earth Wind and Fire?) and he put on a fine show.
A sad loss
Johnny99 says
My favourite song of his :
https://youtu.be/6Ca2uVZuiY0
Crumbs, I had no idea he was seriously unwell. What an inspiration he was – like you I was dubious the first time I saw his white face on what purported to be an African release, but the back story and the music itself told a different tale. A true pioneer, and another spirit that Africa will miss badly.
I remember the first time I heard Scatterlings of Africa, a song I still think makes up for any of the possibly thinner fare a crossover audience were sold as essential
Wasn't there Savuka and Juluka?
(Sorry, should have read the obit first)
Savuka was Clegg's band after he split with Sipho Mchunu
The way I heard it, Sipho did the splitting! He had had enough of the touring musician's life, and went back to farming, having made enough moolah playing with Juluka for him to be able to retire.
When they got back together again yonks later to do one final album for the heck of it, the Zulu title of the album (which I can't recall at the mo', and which I haven't heard) meant "The Bull has risen" or something similar. "Sweat" – Juluka – having been the name of Sipho's prize bull, who gave his name in Zulu to the band in the first place!
Yes Foxy Sipho was the one who left. I got that wrong. .
Billybob Dylan says
I saw him opening for Steve Winwood at the Hammersmith Odeon (as it was then) sometime in the mid eighties. It was a great show.
Lodestone of Wrongness says
I can say nothing more than if I I knew now what I didn't know then I, more fool me, would have realised what's goin' on.
For those still bothering to follow this thread, this was forwarded to me about Clegg's connection to the Zulu clans and the early years.
Journalist: You are an honorary Zulu. What does that mean?
Johnny Clegg: Well, I wouldn't quite put it like that, but I have a special relationship with four clans. The Zulu, in fact, are a language group very much – if you want to conceptualize them – like the Scottish, in a way. They're a group of clans who are fiercely independent of one another, brought together by a common language and culture. But the clans themselves are very powerful bodies. They have their own rituals, their own history, and in a way, their own little subcultures. Over the period of the past twenty-odd years, I've been incorporated into four clans, in a ritual relationship. They have certain claims and obligations over me and I have certain claims and obligations towards them.
The clans, in particular, are the clans of Sipho Mchunu, the Chunu people; the clans of Ndlovu, which is the clan of the dancer-percussionist who works with us in Savuka, Dudu Ndlovu; and the clan of Qoma, who's a very special friend of mine. He's a man who makes imbatata, car tyre dancing sandals for Zulu war dancing teams in Johannesburg. He makes his living from this. He's known as Bafazane. I wrote a song for him called 'Bullets for Bafazane', during the Juluka period. And also with the clan of the Ngele people. These people were very good to me when I was conducting research into the origins of a particular dance style which I was investigating for my MA degree.
The claims and obligations are essentially that as a clan member I'm obliged to see that if any young member of a clan who arrives in Johannesburg is in trouble, or in jail, or needs a job or has been arrested, or has a problem, or needs money to get back home, or needs to use the phone or whatever it is, he knows that there's a clan member there. Myself the same way, if I require assistance in any way. Also during certain festivities and ritual celebrations in Zululand, I'm obliged to be present at these festivities, whether it's a Christmas celebration, a New Year's celebration, or a slaughtering for the ancestors. It all sounds very serious, but it's also a lot of fun. We're all age mates, which means we're peers, and that's a very important principle in Zulu society, the age principle. Because you grow old together in the world and you're part of an age regiment.
Journalist: Does this ever bring on problems with the police?
Johnny Clegg: In the early days, obviously, I got into a lot of trouble. My first arrest was for trespassing into a black area. In fact it was a municipal compound where the Zulu migrant workers were living. Subsequently I was arrested in all these other alternative venues that I mentioned before – compounds, apartment block rooftops, migrant hostels-even in Zululand itself, when I went to visit Sipho's family to meet them. I knew him for about a year and a half and I really wanted to meet his family.
We went down there, and after three days the security police arrived and threatened to deport me back to England. Sipho was charged and brought to trial for bringing a white man illegally into a tribal area, which is considered to be a security zone by the police. Sipho won the case on a technicality, saying that there wasn't a sign. In all these areas there used to be a very big green board with white lettering saying, "You are now entering a black area. Anybody with white skin has to have a government permit." And there was no board, so he got off.
From the book, 'Stolen Moments: Conversations With Contemporary Musicians' (1988) by Tom Schnabel, an American journalist, author, DJ, music producer and teacher.
Fascinating stuff to this white westerner, who has never lived under a Police state.
I just had lunch at work on a table of 8, and I was the only UK native. I'd miss a lot without my daily encounters with the rest of the world. All are currently applying for UK citizenship, at a time I'm thinking of buying a one-way ticket in the opposite direction…
Thanks for that Junior. The guy – an academic anthropologist too – was the real deal.
Well yes, no arguing with that. No sir.

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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Global stocks hit record highs on Wednesday as growing hopes of deals on U.S. fiscal stimulus and Brexit and the Federal Reserve's pledge to keep its benchmark interest rate near zero offset concerns over the economic impact of COVID-19.
The U.S. central bank promised to keep funneling cash into financial markets further into the future to fight the recession.
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NO ONE KNEW where she had come from. Some said she was a sign of the Last Days when darkness shall cover the earth and the angels shall sound their trumpets. Some said that perhaps the mother of abominations in the scriptures wasn't a church at all but a person, and her arrival heralded the persecution and bloodshed that had been foretold. Others said she had been there before and believed, in her woman's pride, that she had been wronged and had returned for blood. A very few, the smallest number, thought she was nothing more than a woman who wore pants and purchased property—mistaken in her ideas and sinful undoubtedly—but no more trouble than any other woman from The Outside, easily handled with a few firm words while carrying a hunting rifle. This last group kept their thoughts to themselves, knowing their more imaginative neighbors craved signs from God in everything that blew through Zion.
But everyone agreed, even before they saw her, that the woman who had bought the ranch north of Zion was ungodly and sinful and would bring a blight upon the valley.
That morning Brother Richardson had awakened to the first frost of the season, ice crystals sugaring the fields. Richardson knew that a frost at the end of October was nothing unusual. But his neighbors would see it as a confirmation of their worst fears. She has done this, they would say. With all the superstition of medieval peasants. Eve has come to Eden.
He leaned his forehead on his palm. You mean the serpent. The serpent was the one who brought evil to Eden. Just imagining the arguments he could have with his neighbors wearied him. Especially Jed, little Emma's father.
Little. He sipped his coffee. She was already 15. As was his daughter Laura. He had seen the elders eyeing the two girls as they walked out of church last Sunday, collapsed against each other in giggles.
He looked out his kitchen window at the slow trickle of men and women walking towards the fields. The husbands carried rakes, and the wives puffed their steaming breaths into their hands, all of them ready to help with tilling the fields but not awake enough to have noticed the frost. Their best laid plans were no good now. They'd have to wait for the sun to melt it or pray for a better day. God usually granted better days if you just waited long enough.
He went to the sink to rinse his mug, neither of his wives being up yet to do it for him. Let them sleep. In sleep, their foreheads were smooth as ironed sheets, their eyes soft. He never saw Sariah and Jane look so peaceful during the day.
He turned to the window again. Something was up on the northern ridge. He leaned on the counter and squinted. It looked like a horse. A bear. A buffalo.
Then a herd of cattle crested the ridge, and he realized it was a horse and rider. The rider led a small herd, fewer than 50 head. But still. It was nothing he'd ever seen in Zion.
The rider was now carefully guiding the horse down the sage-spotted hillside. Its movements looked almost dainty. Such superb skill.
The horse made quick time and was soon trotting down the road winding through Zion. As the cattle loped towards them, the people on the road stopped. They looked, too. Everyone looked.
The rider wore a sheepskin coat and a cowboy hat, and Richardson caught his breath as he realized it was the ranchwoman riding straight for them. Shit. He strapped on his overalls and zipped up his coat and banged out the front door.
As soon as he reached the road, he grabbed people he knew. Elder Fife. Brother Michaels. Brother Sorenson. "Why don't you head on home? We'll have to wait for the frost to thaw anyhow."
He hadn't needed to panic. As soon as it was clear that the rider was a woman, the husbands took their wives by the elbow and steered them homeward. Some of the wives turned to raise a defiant finger to the rider as she cantered down the road. Doors slammed. Blinds dropped behind windows. The road emptied.
By the time she got there, no one was left but Richardson standing on the shoulder.
"Morning." He said.
She nodded. He noticed a rifle strapped over her left shoulder.
"These here are private lands," he said. "If you don't want trouble, you best not be riding through."
His words did not have the usual effect. She halted her horse, and a corner of her mouth lifted in a smirk. "Maybe it's trouble I'm looking for."
He looked up at her, a braid draped over one shoulder and streaked with gray. It was his turn to cock a smile. "That would be a first, ma'am."
"You ain't scared?" She said.
He almost laughed. "I'm not one to run from cattle."
She scanned the row of shut doors, drawn blinds. "I meant of me."
"I don't see anything to be scared of."
She clicked her tongue, and the cattle moved on, flowing around her horse like a stream around a boulder.
"Look harder." She spurred her horse, and it joined the current of creatures around her.
He stayed watching from the side of the road as she drifted away from him. For an instant, she turned back, a gloved hand perched on her horse's haunch. "It's either me or Isaiah. So if it's not me you're scared of, then you better keep an eye on him."
And then she turned back to the herd and galloped ahead.
Back inside, Richardson saw the dust rising in their path long after the cattle had gone. It felt like a storm had swept through the valley, one that had left the air cold and sharp. No one here told Outsiders sacred things. And nothing was holier than a name.
She had known their prophet's name.
2 thoughts on "Excerpt from The Gods of Kittitas County"
Jack Remick says:
Nice work, MC. Glad I know you. Would like to see more. When is the book coming out? And the novel?
M.C. Easton says:
Thanks, Jack. I'm deep in revisions. The plan is for it to be done this coming August. Not so sure about the novel. I may put it in a drawer and tackle Novel #2.


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no. 14 squadron
July 3, 2012 by Rommelsriposte
Notes from the Receiving End
In a prior post at this link I analysed the Commonwealth close air support system during CRUSADER, and in another post at this link I wrote about the South African Maryland squadrons active in strike missions for close air support, battlefield interdiction, and attaining air superiority. Reading through the war diary of the D.A.K., I found some notes on the effect of attacks during the battle in the Agedabia position around the turn of the year. These are quoted below. The attacks were carried out by No. 11[1] and No. 14 Squadrons R.A.F. and the Free French Lorraine Squadron (No. 342), all with Blenheim Mk. IV light bombers.
A formation of five Blenheim Mark IVs (Z5893 'W' nearest) of No. 14 Squadron RAF in flight over the Western Desert. A Curtiss Kittyhawk, one of the escorting fighters, can be seen on the far right. This would put the picture into late 1941 or later. Courtesy of the IWM.
Wing Commander Buchanan DFC[2], who led the raid on 31 December, of No. 14 Squadron RAF, shortly after his appointment as Officer Commanding, No. 14 Squadron RAF. From the outbreak of the Second World War, Buchanan flew Vickers Wellingtons with No. 37 Squadron RAF, participating in many of the early bomber operations from the United Kingdom. He was posted to No. 14 Squadron in the Sudan in late 1940, and saw action with them in Eritrea, Egypt and Iraq. After leading the Squadron during Operation CRUSADER in Libya, he was rested before moving to Malta to take command of No. 272 Squadron RAF. Courtesy of the IWM.
The Effectiveness of Raids
One raid is reported by the war diary of Ariete division on 30 December as "light bombardment[3] by enemy air forces, light damage." It likely this, as well as the D.A.K. entry for 31 December below, refers to the 30 December raid by 11 Squadron, which itself reported no observed hits.
11.30 hrs […] Enemy bomb strike of 9 bombers on [Italian] motorised Corps, accompanied by numerous fighters, passes without losses worth mentioning. German fighters intervene immediately, shooting down 2 enemy planes, AA of 21. Pz.Div. shooting down another one. Attacks with the same strength repeat themselves twice today. Since only HE bombs of smaller weight are dropped, and these without being targeted particularly well, no losses were suffered.
On 31 December however 15.Pz.Div. reports two attacks by 9 planes each, and these were carried out by No. 14 and Lorraine Squadrons, but with 12 planes (6 and 6) in a so-called 'Buchanan Party'. Again one raid at 1300 with no reported damage, and another at 1430 with 'only light damage'. The first raid was reported to have caused good damage by No. 14 squadron, with confirmation claimed by photo recce, and 12 vehicles reported to have been hit, very likely an overclaim.
For the second raid the ORB claims results that weren't as good as the first one. The ORB mentions the dog fight of the top cover with enemy fighters, and the loss of two Hurricanes as a result. One Me 109F is claimed as well. On the other hand, the Germans also overclaimed, since none of the Blenheims appears to have been lost, based on the reporting by No. 14 Squadron. While it is of course possible that the Lorraine Squadron lost a plane, there is no evidence for this. It reports the squadron leader's plane heavily hit and the raid abandoned, due to a mistake in setting the attack height too low, at only 1,200 feet, exposing the attackers to the full force of light AA. no loss is mentioned in 'Croix de Lorraine et Croix du Sud' either, so I don't think a plane was lost, even though some of the Blenheims were damaged by AA, including one of Lorraine.
Blenheim Mk. IV of Lorraine Squadron, clearly displaying the Cross of Lorraine.
From Ciel de Gloire website.
12.45 hrs bombing attack occurs by 12 Bristol Blenheim on 15. Pz.Div. 1 dead, 1 severely wounded, 6 motor vehicles total loss. 1 enemy bomber shot down by AA.
This far more severe raid again hit Schtz. Rgt. 115¸of 15.Pz.Div., and the division reported 1 KIA and two severely wounded. The loss is given as five trucks and one Kfz.81 [4]. The raid is well covered in the ORB of No.11 Squadron RAF which led it, and shows that at least sometimes there was astonishing accuracy in reporting damage caused.
1st January, 1942
Bombed dispersed M.T. at BELANDAH, pin-point 3005 from 2,000 feet.
All bombs were observed to fall in target area amongst 150 – 200 M.T. well dispersed. Top cover fighter escort reported 5 vehicles left burning and one lorry presumed to contain ammunition explode. This formation operated with aircraft of NO.14 Squadron and the FREE FRENCH LORRAINE SQUADRON. One run was made over target without dropping bombs.[5] The second run was made and the target bombed. The A.A. at this stage was intense and on turning away from the target the formation ran over another bunch of dispersed M.T., aircraft NO. 2226, piloted by P/O FROGGATT[6] was shot down in flames and seen to explode on hitting the ground.
Two other aircraft of No. XI SQUADRON were also hit by A.A. but slight damage resulted and the aircraft returned to base safely.
The A.A. was light and medium calibre very intense and accurate as to height and direction.
Weather:- Fair over target – wispy clouds. Visibility:- Fair.
Bombs dropped:- 20x 250 lbs G.P. fitted with extension rods.
Participating aircraft:
5604(?) S/ldr. Murray, Sgt. Cameron, F/Sgt. Ware, lead aircraft
2226 – see note below
5819 P/O H.T.L. Smith, P/O Sayers, Sgt. Alderton
5586 Sgt. White, Sgt. Stair, Sgt. Watt
7685 Sgt. Payne, Sgt. Burnside, Sgt. Cameron
What is of interest is that this raid was carried out at a considerably lower height, only 2,000 feet, compared to 4,500 feet in the raids on 31 December. W/Cdr Buchanan, according to 'Croix de Lorraine et Croix du Sud' chose bombing height such that it was at the edge of prevalent AA range, in this case the light 20mm guns.
Nevertheless, also on 31 December it is noted that the decision by Rommel to retreat from the Agedabia position was due in the first instance to the weakness of the Axis air forces, which had a range problem in covering this position, and the consequent ability of the English (sic!) air force to smash Axis tanks and vehicles at their leisure. One wonders if this is the first instance of Rommel's fear of the Allied air forces, that was later to play such a prominent role in the German command debate on how to react to the landing there.
[1] No. 11 Squadron was back in action in Libyan skies during 2011, this time flying Eurofighter Typhoons.
[2] W/Cdr Buchanan DSO, DFC, Croix de Guerre (Belgium) died at sea after his Beaufighter was shot down south of Athens in 1944 and he managed to escape into a dinghy. He was by then CO of No. 227 Squadron operating out of Malta. See this link and this link for some background on this very interesting officer.
[3] spezzonamenti – spezzoni were light (10-20kg) bombs used by Italian planes. It says something not very favourable for the impact of 250lb GP bombs that they were confused with 20-40lb bombs.
[3] Version of standard light Krupp truck. The Kfz.81 was the ammunition carrier version for the 2-cm AA gun. So again a clear confirmation of the claim.
[4] Presumably to ensure that the target was Axis, and not friendly, vehicles.
[5] With P/O Froggatt were Sgt. Prentice as observer and Sgt. Young W/Opw/AG – the whole crew was killed in the crash, and are buried on the CWGC cemetery in Benghazi.
National Archives, Kew: AIR27/193 and AIR27/199, ORBs of No. 14 Squadron. AIR27/157, ORB of No. 11 Squadron.
NARA, College Park, MD: war diaries of Deutsches Afrika Korps and 15.Pz.Div.
Ferry, Vital 'Croix de Lorraine et Croix du Sud'.
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Review – TaylorMade Golf Irons
September 19, 2017 September 19, 2017 / Until The Next Tee
One of the many things that I take great pride is knowing that I deliver reviews and observations that are strictly natural and organic. Most of the time my testing and reviewing opportunities have been first-hand observations from swinging a club for a brief period of time and from that I draw a conclusion. For these types of opportunities I really do depend on my attendance at the PGA Merchandise Show and Demo Day that takes places every January in Orlando. Getting the chance to swing new products like the newest irons from TaylorMade Golf is a prime example.
This year leading up to the show I talked to Nick Obritsch (Marketing Manager TaylorMade Golf Canada) and he arranged for me to spend some time with Stewart Bannatyne who is a Fitter at the TaylorMade Performance Fitting Lab at the TaylorMade Golf HQ in Woodbridge, Ontario. While I spent the time with Mr. Bannatyne I had the chance to swing all of the irons that were coming out this year (excluding recent additions like the P790, P730 and M CGB irons). Upon the conclusion of my demo experience swinging the new hardware I was fortunate enough to get the chance to spend some time with Tomo Bystedt (Senior Director of Iron Creation) who walked me through the entire line-up (please see video). After discussing a little bit about what makes these irons tick I will give you my impressions of each iron.
TaylorMade M2 Irons – When it comes to the new M2 irons in 2017 there are three words that TaylorMade Golf had in mind when creating them. Distance + Height + Forgiveness. When this iron was developed… designers from TaylorMade R&D utilized a low CG, newly developed "Face Slots" and "Speed Pocket Technology" to create the most technologically advanced distance iron to date (at time of writing). Each of the introductions had a purpose. The Face Slots were to preserve ball speeds on shots that erred towards the heel or toe whilst the Speed Pockets were to preserve ball speed on strikes below the center of the face. These both add up to really great shots on your better strikes and good shots on your poor strikes. More forgiveness. Remember the fluting on the 2016 version. The fluting design is back and improved. The flutes were made thinner to save weight and to re-position it lower in the head. Making for easy launch from any lie. The lofts are strong with the PW having a staggering 43.5* of loft.
The M2. New "GeoCoustic Engineering Technology". (Photo Credit: TaylorMade Golf)
When I first looked at the M2 irons the first thing that I noticed was the cavity. Gone is the mostly black cavity as it has been replaced with a sleeker, semi-futuristic carbon fiber weave. This change was an attempt to improve the sound and feel to make them more pleasing from an acoustic/feel standpoint. This is a part of what is their trademarked "GeoCoustic engineering techniques". Strikes sounded better than in 2016 marking an improvement in two areas that I pay a lot of attention to. The feel translates very closely to the acoustics and the sound was better as well. The ball jumps off of the face with authority and swings that were less than optimum resulted in workable shots that would never get golfers into trouble. The ball flight was "majestic and high" a direct by-product of the weight being moved lower in the head. The ballflight however did not balloon which is partly because of the REAX 88 HL shafts by FST. If you want high, long and forgiving than these are your irons. My only issue with them is the potential of having severe gapping issues. But this is not a problem that every golfer has.
TaylorMade Golf M1 Irons – The M1 irons are a compromise between the M2 irons and the P770 and P750 irons. Also, they are the heirs to the M2 Tour irons of 2016. Think of the distance and forgiveness of the M2 irons but in a smaller, more compact head. That is what you get with the M1 irons. Between last year's two GI irons I leaned towards the smaller M2 Tour. The operative words here are "Distance + Height + Control". These irons were designed for golfers who wanted everything that the M2 irons have but on a smaller chassis and more playability. the perfect blend! However, there is more. Along with the smaller head is a golf club that features a thinner top-line and less offset. Like the M1 irons TaylorMade incorporated "GeoCoustic engineering technology". However the design team added a "very stiff fin badge" in the cavity connected to the back of the flexible face (Speed Pocket Technology and Face Slots were used in these irons as well).
Photo Credit: TaylorMade Golf
In my eyes these are a much better looking iron than the M2. Perhaps it just boils down to the smaller compact head. Offset doesn't bug me necessarily but I definitely liked the less offset in the M1 vs it's "brother". These irons are long and the ballflight is a touch lower than its brethren. Shot-shaping definitely can be accomplished but remember they are a GI iron at the root of their creation. That said, I had no problems making swings with them and getting them to fade or draw on command. The feel was strong at impact and the sound pleasing. These irons are long and loft does play a role in this fact. The PW has a stock loft of 45*. TaylorMade offers the True Temper XP 95 as its stock steel offering while in graphite they feature the Mitsubishi Rayon Kuro Kage Silver Series. Because there wasn't weight added in the sole combined with the TT XP 95 shafts the ballflight isn't as high but is aggressive. The ball goes… period! To compare to vehicles… if the M2 irons are a Ford -150 than the M1 irons are like a Ford Raptor. Muscle in a pick-up chassis with a better handling.
P750 Tour Proto on left with a smaller topline than the P770 pictured on the right.
TaylorMade Golf P770 Irons – These are one of two (at time of writing) iron sets that TaylorMade geared towards the better player. The P770 are an iron that is forged through an "advanced forging process". The result is a head that is pure and simple. A look that appeals to the more discerning golfer. TaylorMade designers etched "precision milled faces and grooves" into the 1025 Carbon Steel which is said to provide a "soft-solid" feeling at impact. Flipping over the club evident is a 70 gram Tungsten bar used for back-weighting (3-7 irons) resulting forgiveness. Meanwhile, the short irons are a one-piece forged head for added "feel and control". TaylorMade Golf received a lot of input when designing the P770 from its Tour staff. The focus was "carefully considered contours, including progressive offset, a thin topline, and a tight leading edge to promote an appealing look at address and crisp, clean contact. Further enhanced by a flatter, medium cambered sole, P770 also offers improved turf interaction after impact".
Aesthetically speaking these are a gorgeous iron to look at. They are pretty clean and there are no graphics that make you wonder what they were thinking. The futuristic "P" I'm okay with and I have learned to like it whereas when I first saw it I thought that it looked out of place. The lines are smooth and remind me of a classic 1957 Chevrolet BelAir. Contours in the right places! Putting aesthetics aside the performance of these irons were fantastic! I loved the aggressive ballflight and the stock KBS Tour FLT 120 is no slouch. I loved the ballflight as it was piercing and the feel even moreso. As one might expect the playability of these irons are what you'd expect. For 2017, these are actually one of my favorite sets of irons firmly in the Top 4 of irons that I've tried.
TaylorMade Golf P750 Tour Proto Irons – If the P770 are designed with the purist in mind than the P750 irons are geared towards the ballstriking. When only the best want the best TaylorMade wants you to look at the P770 irons. The P770 is a small, forged head for enhanced feel and shot-making which is blade-like in appearance. The P770 uses 1025 Carbon Steel manufactured from a "multi-step forging process". The face and grooves are CNC milled as it the rear of the cavity. The CNC milling ensures that the tolerances as far as face thickness, CG position and weight distribution are very tight. The P750 places a few grams of Tungsten into the sole to ensure that the trajectory is perfect in the 3-7 irons. The offset is minimal just the way that better players like it.
I fell in love with these irons in Orlando. It truly was love at first sight. As a matter of fact the P750 to this point are my second favorite as it relates to looks in 2017. That thin top-line, the minimal offset, the narrow sole… near perfection. Even the CNC milling on the rear of the head. Basically, the only thing stopping it from being number one is that darn "P". It's nit-picking but it is how I feel. From a performance point of view I really wanted to swing these really well. So badly in fact that I think I put too much pressure on myself to do so. I ended getting tight and never made many good passes with the P750 irons. Swinging small blades has never caused a problem and I actually prefer them. But things did not go well that day at Orange County National. I made a few decent passes which resulted in strikes that were low rockets. The ballflight was perfect for the winds of the Great Lakes. On the passes that were satisfactory the feel was a delight and these irons really "talk to you" with instant feedback. Actually, they sing to you. They are elegant like an "opera-singer" on good swings and the bad swings you ask? Sticking with the music theme I would say that they are like a lead singer of a "Death Metal" band. But they are great irons and if you're in the market for a set of irons and prefer a blade or something blade-like… look at the P750 Tour Proto irons.
Not even including the newest irons to come out recently TaylorMade Golf has a new iron for everyone. Packed with loads of R&D behind them and even more technology TaylorMade has some "can't miss" products in their range. Basically if it were up to me with all things being equal I would lean towards P770 irons with a serious eye on the M1 irons. But the P770 and M2 irons are outstanding products as well. High perforMance is what TaylorMade does.
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If you've followed my monthly playlists then you'll know I LOVE my music. I've been trying to keep at the gym during the winter months and not let the dark mornings put me off and to keep me motivated I've been listening to some great workout songs (obviously including the Christmas tunes too!) I want to maintain my fitness rather than letting it slide during December and then having to start all over again in January and it's bloody freezing in England so if anything going to the gym at least keeps me warm!
What are your favourite workout songs?


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Emtec Named to CRN's 2017 MSP 500 List
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March 16, 2017 Press Release
Radnor, PA – March 16, 2017 – Emtec, Inc.®, an IT consultancy that enables end-to-end digital transformation, announced today that CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has named Emtec to its 2017 Managed Service Provider (MSP) 500 list in the Elite 150 category for the second consecutive year.
This annual list recognizes North American IT solution providers with cutting-edge approaches to delivering managed services. Their offerings help companies navigate the complex landscape of IT, provide the best customer experiences, improve operational efficiencies, and maximize return on IT investments. CRN's MSP 500 list showcases the most innovative of these key organizations.
Emtec was recognized for the depth of its Managed Services offerings in support of client's essential front and back office applications as well as the underlying IT infrastructure hosted on premise or in the Cloud.
"For 10+ years, Emtec's ClearCARE® Managed Services has played an integral role in providing crucial user support and essential day-to-day system management for our clients in a very cost effective manner," said Sunil Misra, President and Chief Operating Officer, Emtec. "We are proud to provide our clients with the vital support needed for their on premise and cloud investments so they can focus on driving growth and innovation."
"Managed service providers play an increasingly important role in the day-to-day operations of businesses across North America," said Robert Faletra, CEO of The Channel Company. "MSPs help organizations streamline their spending, effectively allocate limited resources, and benefit from advanced expertise in the latest technologies. We congratulate the service providers on CRN's 2017 MSP500 list who have continually succeeded in meeting their customers' changing needs and helped them get the most out of their IT investments."
The MSP500 list is featured in the February 2017 issue of CRN and online at www.CRN.com/msp500.
Copyright ©2017. Emtec, Inc. and ClearCARE are registered trademarks of Emtec, Inc. The Channel Company, LLC. CRN is a registered trademark of The Channel Company, LLC. All rights reserved.
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SLAS Annual Conference
I am honored to have been invited to participate in the Society for Latin American Studies (SLAS) Annual Conference, March 22-23, 2018, at the University of Southampton's Winchester campus. where a number of Latin American female artists will be discussing their work and their creative process. Because I am unable to attend, I will be sending this video in my place.
The University of Southampton is delighted to host the Society for Latin American Studies (SLAS) for its annual conference on 22-23 March 2018 at the University's Winchester campus.
The SLAS was founded in 1964 and is one of the leading Latin American studies organizations in the world. Annual conferences regularly gather scholars and students from the UK and abroad.
The theme of the 2018 SLAS Conference is: Latin American Studies Around the World
The Multimedia Works of Contemporary Spanish American
Women Writers and Artists
This exhibit consists of a short 5-10 minute video that we will show on a loop and a series of panels showcasing the work of contemporary Spanish American women artists and writers who no longer seem to feel bound by the traditional boundaries of genre, gender or nation. The transgressive thrust which defines their work has led these women to seek out new forms of expression which, we believe, require the new critical approaches and concepts we aim to develop as part of our project and in dialogue with the women themselves. The exciting generation of multimedia practitioners whose work will be on show produce works which straddle, are between or cross over diverse genres/forms. Whilst many of these women consider themselves primarily as writers or artists (poets, singers, performance artists, visual artists etc), they refuse to be confined by these labels of expertise or genre and share an interest in using diverse multimedia forms which they perceive as enriching their artistic and literary practices.
The roundtable which will accompany the exhibit will include a discussion of the project and its findings to dates, led by Dr Sarah Bowskill and Dr Jane Lavery, as well a live (online) performance by Lucia Grossberger Morales called 'Love Notes to the Planet'.
The roundtable will be preceded by a tour of the exhibit. Please join us at La Rotunda during the coffee break.


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Our school aims to train architects, professionals able to express and argue their points of view, implement concrete solutions, develop a critical, personal stance towards their practice, and shoulder their ethical and social responsibilities.
The teaching of architectural design is understood as the set of ideas and principles which constitute architectural knowledge, linking theory and practice and seeking the mastery of a centuries-old culture to engage contemporary responses relevant to preparing for the future. This is why continuity in architecture is emphasised, to provide a better response to something which, within the current climate, is subject to
the incessant evolution of standards and regulations. The school offers a training programme leading to a degree in Architecture, organised into two cycles: undergraduate (three years) and Master's (two years). Students can register as soon as they have obtained the Baccalaureate or can join the course following an initial training programme.
The undergraduate degree focuses on the practice of design and on acquiring the basic concepts and tools of the discipline through four complementary areas: history and theory; construction; city planning and landscape design; and representation. It concludes with the production of a thesis, a genuine initiation into research.
The Master's degree allows students to develop critical thinking and a nuanced vision about the discipline. It is organised into four areas of specialisation:
Architecture & Experience
The major « Architecture & Experience » proposes a confrontation between a theoretical reflection on the rules guiding the conception of a project and specific conditions of an architectural program.
The work is nourished beforehand by committed reflection in the context of a seminar. The expected level of complexity is less about the scale or type of program than about the number of levels of meaning involved in the projects.
Culture and history are mobilized to support precise, articulated responses to the risks of constantly evolving contemporary situations.
The major « Fragments » questions architecture through its rapport with the Metropolis and to Region. The desired dialogue between geography and architectural idioms, impose changes in scale and viewpoint, assume a certain distance and imply permanent questioning of the project's thought. This major avoids apparent opposition between metropolitan contingences and architectural discipline and refuses to choose between the quality of the design and the complexity of the process. The hypothesis is that this is possible and that one must nourish and contribute to the other.
Thinking Material
The major « Thinking Material » blends with a hypothesis that architecture builds itself. Construction is not limited to the realization of the work, but relies on theoretical knowledge which contributes to developing a project from its materiality. Within the major "Thinking Material" is a program "Structure and Architecture", in partnership with ParisTech School of Bridges developed for both architecture students and engineering students which will allow to inform architects about the engineering world and will serve to get the respective universes out of their isolation.
"Structure and Architecture" constitutes added value as a professional. Once they have received their degree, the architects can continue, under certain conditions, their studies at the ParisTech School of Bridges to obtain the title of Engineer.
The major « Transformation » explores the architectural issues linked to the recycling or repurposing of buildings (building upon the built) and and to rethinking the first vocation of certain sites (empty tract housing zones and other large tracts, dormant zones, industrial no-man's lands, leftover infrastructure…). This course of study takes the "ScoT facteur 4" ["Scheme for the Coherence of Territories factor of 4" plan to achieve zero carbon emissions] seriously in its ban on urban expansion and explores the conditions for an architecture made with-and no longer on—the current world's ruins. How to transform must be learned.
Such transformations open up questioning around architecture-urban relations , construction processes and the economy of construction.
The teaching is based on the premise that from now on building must be done from what already exists with recycling or re-using what is already there.
These strands express distinct yet complementary ideological positions. The representations and ideas that underpin them are clearly outlined: this is the best way to allow students to construct their own architectural stance as well as to traverse a series of unique worlds throughout their training. Over these years of study, students come into contact with the professional world through an extended internship. We also allow them to take a gap year to obtain further experience if they wish to do so.
Following their degree in Architecture, students can obtain their professional licence or continue their studies. Within this framework, we offer two postgraduate training
programmes, in line with changes in the profession and the challenges of environmental transition in the context of architecture and urban
planning.
Since 2013, the specialised diploma "PoCa PostCarbone",
run in partnership with the École des Ponts ParisTech, explores the issue of the impact of buildings and infrastructure on the environment in greater depth.
The "DSA d'architecte-urbaniste" specialised diploma trains architects and landscapers in urban design and landscape architecture, paying particular attention to littlestudied
areas which give rise to themes such as risk management, territorial autonomy, agriculture, tourism, and so on.
Doctorate and research
Finally, the School welcomes doctoral students into a research team, the Suburban Condition Observatory, which focuses on the research areas of architectural theory, territorial architecture, energy, and – above all – the relationship between these three areas. One of the characteristic features of its activity is the publication of reference
works, primarily the journal Marnes: documents d'architecture ("Marnes:
architectural documents"). Research activity is structured as far as possible around the issues taught on the undergraduate, Master's and postgraduate courses, which feeds teaching in turn.
All these components function synergistically; they are underpinned by the shared conviction that the theory, history and practice of architectural design offer a precedent by which to envisage the lands of the future and to negotiate the transition imposed
by current environmental concerns.
The university year is interspersed with events contributing to the goal of openness and engaging with the critical, self-reflective nature of the school. As an example, for the last two years, with the aim of experiencing different teaching approaches, our undergraduate and Master's students have worked together to produce interdisciplinary reflections on the land, the city and architecture. For ten days, almost 250 students attend one of 10 intensive workshops offered by innovative teaching teams put
together for the occasion.
In addition, each year all students and staff from the school gather for a
public visit to the design workshops which welcome the expertise of figures outside the world of architecture. These discussions allow us to assess our work and so better develop our teaching. Finally, this openness manifests itself in the form of numerous conferences which we organise on key themes in our teaching: social transition, metropolisation, territorial representation, or even the issue of the digital in architecture, which is revolutionising contemporary practice. Our open approach is strengthened by discussions at the international level, and by numerous overseas study trips aimed at enriching our students' learning.
The school also participates in developing training linked to architecture, in partnership with the École des Ponts ParisTech, the Université Paris-Est Marne-la-vallée,
the École des Ingénieurs de la Ville de Paris, and others,
promoting interdisciplinarity.
Today, these partnerships are expanding within the framework of an alliance between the engineering schools, research centres and the university on our campus to tackle a scientific project on the sustainable, economical and resilient city, as part of which we seek to promote architecture. In the years to come, beyond the complex object of the city, we will continue to work to transform all regions, whatever their
nature as products of political, social, cultural and legal circumstances