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DeOccupy Honolulu vs City and County of Honolulu – my list of demands re sidewalk Free Speech, Hawaiian Independence and Homelessness
Chelsea Manning Art Portrait
Timely Conniving – Public Holidays, Public Statues and the US Hawaiian Occupation
By Michael Daly Editor in Art and Culture, Hawaiian Independence, Hawai`i, State of Hawaii
Today is Lā Kūʻokoʻa ~ the 172nd anniversary of Hawaiian Independence Day. It's held on November 28 every year and it falls within days of, or even on the same day as, the US Thanksgiving holiday which is the forth Thursday in November.
My post can stand alone here however it was written to follow on from the statement in the description section of my Vimeo video above.
Since the USA has a military occupation happening, of some 120 years, in the region the Hawaiian calendar has been usurped by the USA calendar. This is complete with Veterans Day, Presidents Day, Halloween (that's not an official day – not that Joe Biden or the White House seem to understand that) and not least of all it's own Independence Day, the Forth of July.
Here, holidays with gift giving, parades, sweets, fowl, remembrance, nostalgia or fireworks remain the hallmark of occupational propaganda – it's called Occupation 101 and public holidays are up there with rewriting school history lessons, changing the flags as well as the national oaths and anthems, and of course controlling the media. In Burma the military occupation changed the side of the road for drivers to drive on just to reaffirm in everyone's consciousness the end of one regime and the beginning of another.
Of course since the islands lost aloha time and were converted to corporate business and tourism time, workers are often working regardless of what the state purports to be of such community and cultural value as to be a holiday.
Of concern surrounding the media's roll since the Overthrow, it's important know some background. In the 1890s the chief architect of the Overthrow was Lorrin A. Thurston. He owned the Honolulu Advertiser after purchasing it from Walter Gibson who owned it under the name Pacific Commercial Advertiser. Gibson is a colourful figure who had the ear of King Kalakaua. He talked Kalakaua into commissioning Thomas R. Gould, a sculptor living in Italy, to make a bronze statue of King Kamehameha I at a cost of $10,000. Kalakaua eventually divorced himself from the project and Gibson fled Hawaii and died poor in San Francisco.
Yet the replica copies and the fascinating story of the original art installation being lost at sea live on. The copies seem to appear everywhere like Hollywood pop-culture lapped up by Japanese and Chinese tourists who have no idea that King Kamehameha never looked like that or stood that way. The sculpture copied works portraying Julius Cesar.
Thurston was the rebel traitor and co-conspirator who worked with John L. Stevens and the USA Government in the Overthrow and takeover of the ʻIolani Palace in 1893. Stevens was the USA consulate representative in Honolulu and had marines on the USS Boston sent ashore to abduct the Queen. Once on shore they assembled where King Kamehameha's statue is on King Street and aimed riffles at the palace.
Thurston and Stevens were both connected to publishing and knew its power. Stevens had published the Kennebec Journal in Maine where Thurston's parents who were missionaries, came from. Stevens and his newspaper partner, James G. Blaine were both founding members of the Republican Party in Maine. And Blaine had become US Secretary of State by 1892. About that time they corresponded about Hawaiʻi: "The Hawaiian pear is now fully ripe, and this is the golden hour for the United States to pluck it" Stevens wrote.
But in a capitalist takeover it's not so much as it appears, even if one gets to first base in knowing that a coupe or occupation is in place and that remedies are at hand. To the more astute, it may look like the state and military are in control of the media and business, however the reverse is more likely: the media and business control the state and military – and without it ever being noticed thus confusing and complicating the conversation, and hiding the core targets from protest actions and truth-sayers.
The business rebels in Hawaiʻi, otherwise known as Annexationists, and their descendants had their eye on the gem of all gem USA holidays: July 4th. They desired it at every turn of the play. Forth of July was used to proclaim their new "Republic" on the footsteps of the Queen's palace. A generation later, in the 1950s Lorrin P. Thurston (son of A. Thurston) who was both publisher of the Honolulu Advertiser and Statehood Commissioner, intended Hawaiʻi to become the 50th State on the Fourth of July but it didn't happen until Admissions Day in 1959, and now holiday every August 21.
However, Mr Thurston did set off a neighborhood and school boy frenzy of celebration on March 12 of that year on news from President Eisenhower that Senate Bill 76-15 and House Bill 323-89 were passed and that statehood was on its way. Thurston was certainly in control of the news and would have likewise been the man behind the Territory sounding off sirens and declaring "AN AUTOMATIC TWO-DAY HOLIDAY!" Yet the public referendum on the Statehood question was not due until June 27.
Only US digestible holidays are included in the local Hawaiian calendar and when they do, they are "State" holidays all invented or otherwise sanctioned after occcupation. The State of Hawai`i now often referred to by locals and politicians alike as the "fake State" is the administration arm of the military regime identified as the occupational enemy in an ongoing act of war – and it is corporations and media that contain the operation.
Today, the Honolulu Star Advertiser is the namesake of the notorious Honolulu Advertiser and the Star Bulletin combined. The papers merged in 2010 under Canadian publisher and oil refiner David Holmes Black – Black Press.
Out of thirteen holidays here, three are uniquely Hawaiian-kind holidays:
Prince Kūhiō Day (March 26, declared by the Territorial government in 1949)
King Kamehameha I (June 11, declared first by Kamehameha V in 1871, and then re-invoked by the State of Hawaii in its first year of 1959) and
Statehood Day itself (the third Friday in August)
Of these three, only King Kamehameha I can be said to harken back prior to the occupation. It's a safe holiday for the state since Kamehameha the Great goes back well beyond the generation of the coupe rebels – and the king's mythology is well admired as the Kingdom unifier.
Also, the very popular brass replicas of his statue -Caesar look a-likes- are installed on King Street Honolulu, Kapaʻau and Hilo (Big Island), and Emancipation Hall, US Capitol no less (Washington DC) are big attractions. But Kamehameha passes with little funding and fair, not a patch on the original holidays of 1871 which featured carnivals and fairs, foot races, horse races and velocipede races.
Prince Kūhiō Day (which marks his birthday) is a safe state holiday too. It is recognized by the state because the prince submitted to the US overthrow. By 1903 he decided on what he could do in the best interest of the Kanaka Maoli people, or so the story goes. He became a Territorial delegate to Congress in Washington DC.
He did so during the lifetime of Queen Lili'okalani who held out for international law and her nation's sovereignty well beyond her own life. She died at age 79 in 1917. Prince Kūhiō is acknowledged forging the Hawaiian Homelands Commission while in office in Washington but as the heir to the throw he abandoned it, and with that, the nation, the non-Kanaka Maoli subjects and the whole constitution of material and intellectual property belonging to the kingdom.
He even attempted a Statehood Bill in 1919 which failed. This is probably no surprise since the controlling Annexationists would not support such. They were content having tied-up the Hawaiian Kingdom and at the same time, out of reach here in the Pacific out of Washington DC's statehood union which stipulated anti-slavery laws and other restrictions.
Prince Kūhiō's departure is possibly the most decisive of all blood-designation narratives and policies that the USA and state seized on at the time and have not let go of to this day in their intent to confuse and divide a nation. His conduct is contrary to Queen Lili'okalani's course. She had a the deep regard and understanding for nationhood and the breadth and value of it's multiethnic people contributing in their own ways. And apart from that she practiced a spirit of aloha that was based in peace, self preservation and humanitarianism which is fast proving to be the path to sustainability and something this generation should identify with and help her finally fulfill.
Prince Kūhiō's Honolulu statue has equal prominence to surfer Duke Kahanamoku in Waikiki. A massive turnover of international tourists are exposed to the man who worked with the USA. By contrast the much more important and beloved figure of Queen Liliʻuokalani has no holiday, and her statue has little prominence and her Waikiki history board is tucked away in the soup end of the Ala Wai Canal. Liliʻuokalani was a thorn, and still is posthumously. Not so strangely, Prince Kūhiō's statue is actually across from Queen Lili'uokalani's former estate where some recognition of her would be appropriate. The Pacific Beach Hotel is now on her property.
The Annexationists, now Territorialists were content being isolated from Washington but Statehood did become fact for them because it became imperative as the year 1960 drew near.
That was the year the United Nations would be scrutinizing Hawaiian rule under it's List of Non-Self Governing Territories. By becoming a state in 1959 the USA and Thurston (P.) evaded the review by having Hawai`i struck off the list. It's strange how the UN didn't question this and the history of timely coniving.
Most Hawaiian independence supporters already recognize significant anniversaries of Queen Liliʻuokalani, not one is recognized by the State of Hawaii:
January 17, 1893 – The abduction and ouster of Queen Liliʻuokalani, the theft of a nation
September 2, 1838 – The birth of Queen Liliʻuokalani
November 11, 1917 – The death of Queen Liliʻuokalani
People also recognize the two holidays laid out by King Kamehameha III:
July 31, 1843 – The reinstatement of the Hawaiian Kingdom after a 5 month British occupation
November 28, 1843 – Lā Kūʻokoʻa, Hawaiian Independence Day
Hawaiian Independence Day vs USA Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday
Independence Day is probably the most important of public holidays in the Hawaiian Kingdom calendar since 1843 when King Kamehameha III proclaimed it. But since the USA invasion and occupation the day has been suppressed. The imposed USA Thanksgiving Day holiday overshadows it.
Lā Kūʻokoʻa honours international recognition of the Hawaiian Kingdom. Recognition happened in the Court of London by a joint proclamation of Great Britain and France. Belgium also made a declaration at the time. See the Vimeo video "Part 1 Highlights" of the 2014 concert where Dr Baron Ching gave a brief talk of the independence history.
Interestingly the Thanksgiving national holiday was declared by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863. The Hawaiian Lā Kūʻokoʻa holiday had been established twenty years earlier.
According to Sarah Sunshine Manning in the aftermath of the Civil War, Lincoln was in need of building national unity and esteem for the country. So Thanksgiving Day and the myth of goodwill between native Americans and European settlers was installed. Yet the slaughter, betrayal and ongoing genocide of the native cultures and nations across the continent were more important facts to acknowledge – then and now. Now, because fundamental native American claims and discriminations are left unreconciled.
Today the Hawaiian independence movement continues. The USA and State of Hawaii continues too to lead the narrative, and impose solutions based on the notion of damages pertaining to "Native Hawaiians" as the full extent of culpability. This internal domestic story disregards the proper international claimant of the Hawaiian Kingdom, and it seeks to demolishes the very entity of recognition that King Kamehameha III and his associates made real. That sovereignty has never been relinquished, it is active.
Sadly, as the Kanaka independence leaders and activists follows the USA narrative, so too, national recognition is forsaken for superficial impressions of race that the occupational forces regurgitate in decade cycles.
The grieved entity, the one of needed recognition and the one foundation of unity upon which Hawaiians can stand together is the national Monarchy: Queen Lili'uokalani, the wealth of the Pacific archipelago and all its people of diversity and creativity being rooted in the local 'aina.
Michael Daly
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Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud is set to step down as chief minister at the end of the month. – The Malaysian Insider pic, February 12, 2014.He may be stepping down as the Sarawak chief minister after 33 years but Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud today sent a powerful message to Putrajaya that he remains fully in charge.
Taib today announced that his successor is to be his brother-in-law Tan Sri Adenan Satem, after he handed over his resignation letter dated February 28 to Sarawak Yang di-Pertua Negeri Tun Abang Muhammad Salahuddin.
His choice of replacement, Adenan, was not the man Putrajaya was expecting to be named as the new chief executive of Sarawak.
Taib submitted his resignation letter to the Yang di-Pertua Negeri at the Astana Negri in Kuching this afternoon.
After Taib told the country's top leadership that he intended to step down, he was made aware that Putrajaya would work well with Parti Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu (PBB) deputy president Datuk Amar Abang Johari.
Taib earlier this week had told reporters that he would seek audience with the head of state on February 15.
Today, Taib arrived at 2.55pm and went to a closed door private discussion with State Secretary Tan Sri Morshidi Ghani.
An hour after arriving at the Astana Negri, Taib left the main audience room with several senior state ministers. – February 12, 2014.


Section 1, act June 30, 1906, ch. 3915, § 1, 34 Stat. 768, made it unlawful to manufacture adulterated or misbranded foods or drugs in Territories or District of Columbia and provided penalty for violations. See sections 331 and 333 of this title.
Section 2, act June 30, 1906, ch. 3915, § 2, 34 Stat. 768, prohibited introduction, shipment, delivery or sale of adulterated or misbranded foods or drugs in interstate or foreign commerce, provided penalty for violations and exempted exports conforming to specifications of foreign purchaser and not in conflict with laws of foreign country importing the same. See sections 331, 333 and 381 of this title.
Section 3, acts June 30, 1906, ch. 3915, § 3, 34 Stat. 768; Mar. 4, 1913, ch. 141, § 1, 37 Stat. 736, authorized Secretaries of the Treasury, Agriculture, and Commerce to make uniform rules and regulations for enforcement of food and drug laws, including collection and examination of specimens. See section 371 of this title.
Section 4, act June 30, 1906, ch. 3915, § 12, 34 Stat. 772, provided that act or omission of officer, agent, and so forth, of corporation, shall be deemed act or omission of corporation.
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Franchising Terror
News May 2019
What next from Islamic State?
Islamic State (IS) in Syria as a territorial entity has effectively been defeated. As a result, over 30,000 fighters and families have been displaced with many being held in Kurdish camps including some foreign fighters. Al Baghdadi the organisation's leader has responded by making a rare video appearance. His message, I am still here and so is Islamic State, our focus has changed but we are still leading the struggle. He refers to the long battle ahead and to affiliates across the globe, specifically acknowledging the recent attacks in Sri Lanka as an example of a partnership in terror.
Sitting on the floor cross legged, with a short barrel AK 47 at his side in a pose mimicking that of Usama Bin Laden in footage after 9/11. Baghdadi, casting himself in the image of a guerrilla leader and IS as an insurgency movement rather than as the established Khalif of an Islamic State, as he did when he last stood before the cameras in Mosul five years ago.
A reminder that the threat from Islamic State is multifaceted and global and still represents the primary international terrorist threat. Its perhaps illustrative that the US governments price on Al Baghdadi's head is now twenty-five million USD, while Usama Bin Laden's son only commands a mere one million.
Creating a populist universal brand
Islamic State has morphed over time from its origins as Al Qaeda in Iraq under Zarqawi, then its takeover of Al-Nusra or AQ in Syria, despite opposition from the leader of AQ Zawahiri. Followed by the declaration of Islamic State and breaking its ties with AQ. IS has gone on to develop its own "brand" of jihadism, more fundamentalist and uncompromising, more literal in its interpretation of the Koran, more populist and untainted by modern influence. Proclaiming itself as pan-Muslim rather than a pan-Arab no doubt in response to a perception amongst some that AQ was first and foremost an Arab dominated organisation.
Build and they will come
The taking and holding of territory provided Islamic State with a sense of place, the Caliphate made real, a physical rallying point and magnate to draw in aspiring jihadis, an achievement that no other group has accomplished. They created local administrative structures and a tax regime. Fighters were well paid, and widows looked after through a rudimentary welfare system. But it was tough love, punishments were harsh for those who broke the rules. In each town square executions and other punishments would be carried out. Severed heads left on poles and each square hosted a cage where those who committed minor infractions would be held for several days at a time as a reminder to all.
Islamic State grew strong in terms of recruits and revenue and through its exploits established itself as the most high-profile jihadi organisation in the world
A triple track global strategy
While IS was building its Caliphate, it was in parallel developing a wider global strategy, no doubt mindful of its own fallibility in Iraq and Syria. With an eye towards potential safe areas elsewhere and its wider aspirations to become a global brand. There were three key elements to this strategy:
Firstly, developing their own independent ability to deliver complex attacks in third countries such as those in Paris. IS have over the years attempted to head hunt international planners and facilitators from AQ in Pakistan and established a Foreign Department to plan and manage overseas operations and sleeper cells. Some of these seeded with IS trained operatives from Iraq and Syria being played back into their home countries to bolster these networks.
Secondly, realising that IS would only ever be capable of directly planning and delivering a limited number of complex attacks worldwide and that these would be vulnerable to disruption from local security services, they worked on their global network. Re-assembling a wider alliance that AQ had attempted to establish but had fallen into disrepair in recent years.
This network now consists of over thirty associated groups who have declared allegiance to IS, drawn to its global brand and pan Muslim image. This network continues to grow particularly across Africa; Daesh Sinai in Egypt, IS in the Levant in Libya, Al Shabaab in Somalia, Boko Haram in Nigeria, across the Sahel and now of course in India and Sri Lanka. Thus, providing IS with new potential safe areas beyond Eastern Syria and Western Iraq as well as a proxy international network. Allowing IS to take credit for third country attacks with limited IS input or guidance, relying on local, existing networks or cells to carry out the operations.
Thirdly, IS worked hard to develop an effective PR machine exploiting its global brand and encouraging self-starters to go out and conduct simple attacks in its name often without any direct contact let alone control. An enabling ideology for the frustrated and angry looking for a cause in who's name they can vent their anger.
After the 2015 attack in San Bernardino a study of the perpetrator's internet activity showed years of passively viewing AQ and Al Shahab propaganda. Then shortly before the attack they began to follow IS, started planning their attack and ultimately declared allegiance to the group. It seems the IS brand and propaganda was the enabling ideology needed to take them to the next level.
Its interesting to note that a study on the extent of IS involvement in attacks which bore their name during a twelve-month period at that time found that in only 5% of cases was there any direct contact with or direction given by IS's Foreign Department.
The new battlespace
So, for IS the battlespace is changing from the deserts of Syria and Iraq to the internet and a war of ideas from conventional fighting to insurgency in Iraq and Syria and as an enabling ideology for terrorism abroad often through proxy groups or self-starters.
For the IS leadership a strategic change their focus moving from defending territory to developing a pro-active insurgency and a terrorist campaign carrying out attacks directly and through its affiliates across the globe. Thus, conversely seeing the conventional defeat of IS in Syria lead to an increased third country threat across the Middle East, Africa and Europe.
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The seven new pilots premiering early next year will include hour-long shows Cocked from Sam Baum (Lie to Me) and Sam Shaw (Manhattan – TV series), Mad Dogs from Cris Cole (The Bill) and Shawn Ryan (The Shield), The Man in the High Castle from Frank Spotnitz (The X-Files), and Point of Honor from Carlton Cuse (Lost) and Randall Wallace (Braveheart). In addition, three half hour pilots will debut including Down Dog from Robin Schiff (Are You There, Chelsea?) and Salem Rogers from newcomer Lindsey Stoddart, as well as The New Yorker Presents, a docu-series pilot produced in cooperation with America's most award-winning magazine. The program will include scripted narrative and documentary segments based on the magazine and is produced by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney's Jigsaw Productions and Condé Nast Entertainment.
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Army Scientists Build a Better Battery
Andrew Tarantola
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Single-cell batteries have an inherent design limitation that prevents them from producing more than 4 volts—they simply can't do it, there isn't enough energy density to produce that extra bit of output. That is, until now.
"This is what you would call a quantum leap," Army researcher Arthur Cresce said in a press release. "We've gone from circling around a certain type of four volt energy for quite a while. All of a sudden a whole new class of batteries and voltages are open to us. The door is open that was closed before." This breakthrough comes after years of research by the U.S. Army Research Laboratory into how the various battery components interact with one another.
The research team found that the inclusion of a specific, proprietary (and now patented) additive bumps the battery output from four volts to five—that's a 30-percent increase and a huge deal. As Cynthia Lundgren, chief of the electrochemical branch at the USARL explained:
There has never been a battery, a single cell, that operated at five volts. Through our understanding of that interface, we were able to design an additive that you add into the electrolyte that is somewhat of a sacrificial agent. It preferentially reacts with the electrode and forms a stable interface. Now the battery is able to operate at five volts.
This technology could see immediate use both on the battlefield and in your gadgets. The Army hopes this will lead to even more energy-dense technologies, freeing up precious pack space, while consumers should see better performance and longer life from their electronics. The technology can even be applied to renewable energy storage, helping drive wind and solar power adoption. [US Army via Treehugger]
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But if I really say it, the radio won't play it
Posted on March 27, 2015 by brucehhackett
Boldly creative art has been facing censorship for centuries, and attempts to stifle provocative popular music lyrics have been going on since the Top 40 Hit Parade debuted way back in the 1930s. Over the years and still true today (although to a far lesser extent), song words have been occasionally bleeped, masked and even outright banned to keep lyrics deemed inappropriate or objectionable from being heard on the public airwaves.
Much as films were heavily censored in the '30s, '40s and '50s to remove any scenes or dialog considered by industry watchdogs to be immoral, popular music in the first decades of the rock and roll era often came under the same sort of scrutiny by record company executives and radio programmers.
Instances of censorship involved different types of objections — profanity, politics, sacrilege, sexual content, drug abuse, even commercial product mentions. Radio programmers typically said they were worried of running afoul of decency laws or offending powerful interests, but more often than not, they were just as concerned about losing revenues from advertisers or local retailers who refused to be associated with a song's edgy lyrical content.
But what, exactly, is edgy? How do we define it? Standards regarding what is objectionable have changed significantly over 80+ years. This is particularly true when it comes to lyrics about sex. In 1943, for example, a British singer named George Formby found out that his recording of a song called "Who I'm Cleaning Windows" was going to be banned from airplay because the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) decided the lyric was "too racy." Here's how it went: "The blushing bride she looks divine, the bridegroom he is doing fine, I'd rather have his job than mine, when I'm cleaning windows…" Wow. This innocuous song was banned, evidently, because someone determined we shouldn't hear lyrics that they thought described a voyeur spying on newlyweds from his perch on the window washing scaffold.
Van Morrison's beloved 1967 classic "Brown-Eyed Girl" raised eyebrows at the time because of the obvious sexual lyric "making love in the green grass behind the stadium with you" in the third verse. Most stations were reluctant to ban the whole song, so they simply removed that line and replaced it by repeating "laughing and a-running, hey hey" from the first verse, despite Morrison's heated protestations.
(It's interesting to note that Morrison had originally written the song about a Caribbean woman and had entitled it "Brown-Skinned Girl," but the record company refused to release a song that seemed to endorse a mixed-race relationship, so he grudgingly agreed to change it to "Brown-Eyed Girl.")
By 1987, the George Michael hit "I Want Your Sex" managed to reach #1 that year, but it met enough resistance in a few conservative areas to create the alternate version "I Want Your Love." And through the years, there has been no shortage of rather graphic sex-oriented lyrics hidden deep on rock albums (check out Frank Zappa's "Dinah-Moe Humm" from 1973), but they usually slid under the radar because they didn't get radio play except on the most maverick FM stations.
Many songs with references to drug use started in the freewheeling '60s with tracks like Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit," which tied the story of "Alice in Wonderland" to hallucinogens. And while John Lennon always maintained the "LSD" initials of The Beatles' "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" was purely coincidental, the song was clearly awash in psychedelic imagery.
And there are much earlier examples: Some versions of the 1940s-era Cole Porter standard "I Get a Kick Out of You" were rewritten to remove the second verse — "Some, they may go for cocaine, I'm sure that if I took even one sniff, it would bore me terrifically too, yet I get a kick out of you" — because censors feared it would glamourize drug use (even though it's clear the singer didn't even try the stuff!).
While drug-oriented lyrics abound on many album tracks of rock LPs, if they show up in the hit singles, they're usually subject to some sort of censorship. Tom Petty's 1994 song "You Don't Know How It Feels" includes the line, "Let's get to the point, let's roll another joint," a blatant marijuana reference that was intentionally garbled by many radio stations.
Sometimes the censors were totally off-base, interpreting an innocent children's fairy tale like Peter, Paul & Mary's "Puff the Magic Dragon" as a veiled reference to smoking weed. "Oh, for crying out loud," said Peter Yarrow in 1963 when the song was released. "It's just a children's song, a story about a boy and a dragon." But some stations in conservative areas blackballed it anyway, at least for a while.
Overt political views were sometimes deemed too controversial for radio play. Barry McGuire's antiwar song "Eve of Destruction" (1965) made waves because of the line 'they're old enough to kill but not for votin'." The Sex Pistols' "God Save the Queen" (1976) and Paul McCartney's "Give Ireland Back to the Irish" (1972) were banned from the BBC for their perceived anti-government opinions.
Stations squeamish about offending religious groups took issue with The Beatles' "The Ballad of John and Yoko" (1969), which was bleeped in most Bible Belt markets each time Lennon sang, "Christ! You know it ain't easy…" Producers of the rock opera "Jesus Christ Superstar" had to battle mightily for a while to get the title track played in some communities that assumed it was blasphemous. The Charlie Daniels Band's "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" (1979) met resistance too — not because of Satan (who loses the fiddle duel, after all), but with the line "I told you once, you son of a bitch," which was changed to "son of a gun" in some markets.
The Who's "My Generation" (1965), with its stuttering vocals, was thought by some to be offensive to those with speech impediments. Dire Straits' "Money for Nothing" (1985) faced a fight regarding what many considered a defamatory remark against gays in the second verse — "that little faggot is a millionaire" — even though composer Mark Knopfler pointed out he was belittling the small-minded thinking of the character who spoke the line. In these cases, the bans didn't last more than a week or so, but it's interesting to note that objections were raised at all.
The BBC even had a firm rule against any commercial product placement in song lyrics, which caused problems for Paul Simon's hit "Kodachrome" (1973). The Kinks' singer Ray Davies had to return to a London studio to re-record a vocal part for the 1970 hit "Lola," revising the lyric from Coca-Cola to cherry cola.
For years, "The Ed Sullivan Show" ruled supreme as the arbiter of which rock 'n roll groups were worthy of nationwide TV exposure, beginning with Elvis in 1956 and up through the game-changing Beatles performances in early 1964. But Sullivan reserved the right to approve all material, and in 1967, he rolled the dice twice by inviting two edgier acts to appear. First he booked those bad British brats, The Rolling Stones, and demanded that their brash young singer, Mick Jagger, change the words of "Let's Spend the Night Together" to "Let's Spend Some Time Together." Jagger went along, but rolled his eyes at the camera each time he sang it.
Then a month later came Jim Morrison and The Doors, who were forced to alter their #1 hit "Light My Fire" by changing "girl, we couldn't get much higher" to "girl, we couldn't get much better" (even though it didn't rhyme with "liar" and "fire"). Morrison played along during rehearsals, but when the show was taped, he looked defiantly into the camera and sang the real lyric, and Sullivan went through the roof, canceling all future appearances by the group.
The main problem with censorship, though, has alway been that it's arbitrary and uneven in enforcement. Who gets to say what is objectionable? How do we determine the standards? When and where are they enforced? Why do some songs face an embargo or tampering while others skate by without any challenges?
A couple of Gary Puckett songs in the late '60s — "Young Girl," "This Girl is a Woman Now" — focused on a creepy infatuation of a young girl by an older guy that, looking at it now, clearly bordered on pedophilia, but they somehow escaped the censors' attention at the time. Even more curious was the case of The Buoys, a one-hit wonder group who had the sheer chutzpah to release a single in 1971 called "Timothy" that told the disturbing tale of three poor souls who were trapped in a caved-in mine, and two of the boys ate the third boy in order to survive!
The hypocrisy and randomness of the censors' actions was puzzling, to say the least. Having sex in the grass? No way, Jose. Cannibalism? Hey, no problem. Share a little weed? Not on your life. Interest in underage girls? Oh, that's okay.
Perhaps the most extreme response to a supposedly objectionable lyric came in 1963 when a team of agents from J. Edgar Hoover's FBI spent months investigating whether the words to The Kingsmen's "Louie Louie" were obscene. Teens had furtively talked about how the lyrics were allegedly about a sexual liaison, but in fact, the song (written in 1957) was a rather bland ode from a sailor to his girl back home. Thanks to a marble-mouthed vocalist and less-than-optimum recording techniques, the words were pretty much impossible to decipher, even when studied at different speeds under headphones, and the FBI eventually threw up their hands.
But that was then, this is now. In 2010, R&B artist CeeLo Green had an enormous hit with a song called, believe it or not, "F–k You." They released a cleaned-up version called "Forget You" to satisfy radio programmers, but most listeners, to no one's surprise, preferred the original.
The times they are a-changin', indeed…
Separating the wheat from the chaff
Make tonight a wonderful thing
Ted Molter · March 27, 2015
Or put another way "mandatory mondegreens"
I remember hearing CeeLo 's unedited version in Italy, on the radio, played loudly in a very public place. Someone must have believed that Italians are unable to decipher the lyric when presented in English.
Budd · March 27, 2015
I remember when Cecilia came out from Simon and Garfunkel. The line about "making love in the afternoon …" was taken completely out of the radio version. I still remember some kids younger than I was (I was 14) talking about it while playing tennis at the park, and giggling about the fact that the line was taken out.
CRO · March 28, 2015
My brother and I got our first taste of censorship from Dad when we scored the Steppenwolf album on cassette and we cranked up "The Pusher Man." Bedroom door flew open, Pops ejected and confiscated the tape and left. Found it in his Playboy drawer a day later. "You know I've seen a lot of people walkin round with tombstones in their eyes, but the Pusher don't care if you live or if you die…" John Kay was the man!
brucehhackett · March 28, 2015
Funny thing is, Carl, it was a blatantly ANTI-drug song. The lyrics say, "Goddamn the pusher man…" repeatedly. Ha!
Carrie Gaul · March 29, 2015
I LOVE the blog this week!!! I have always been interested in censorship and who determines what is "acceptable " for the general public…..be it music, TV, movies or literature. I remember secretly reading Peyton Place during study hall in high school.
The "Louie, Louie" controversy was raging when I was a young teen as well. "Brown Eyed Girl" now seems laughable but was a cause for concern in 1967. As for the Cole Porter song, I have heard the lyric changed to "I get no kick from champagne" rather than cocaine…..interesting. How about Marvin Gaye's "Sexual Healing?" Was that ever banned or changed? That is definitely explicit in the lyrics. Anyway….thanks for all of this information! One last note: I never knew that "Crystal Blue Persuation" was a drug related song until recently. Guess my naïveté is showing, huh?
I don't think there was "crystal blue meth" back in 1969, so I'm not sure about that one, except to say that that song and "Crimson and Clover" both utilized druggy-sounding recording techniques… Marvin Gaye's "Sexual Healing" didn't face any opposition that I know about, interestingly enough…
Vickie Carr · March 29, 2015
Bruce, I enjoyed your column this week. Does anybody remember this song DOA which was censored on the radio. My neighbors had a copy and we played it endlessly. Another one is the wrapper, it was played rarely because the lyrics were supposed to appear as the raper.
Yes, Vickie, "D.O.A." was by Bloodrock, and inexplicably, it made the Top 40 (#36) in 1971, despite the fact that the lyrics gave a gruesome account of a survivor of a plane crash ("The sheets are red and moist where I'm lying… I try to move my arm and there's no feeling, and when I look, I see there's nothing there…").
Mark Frank · April 9, 2015
Cop killing and misogynistic rap lyrics are too much for me. I prefer the subtleness of lyrics like: I whipped off her bloomers 'n stiffened my thumb
An' applied rotation on her sugar plum
brucehhackett · April 10, 2015
Yeah, Frank Zappa was a subtle dude, wasn't he? Not.
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The countdown is on to this year's Andoversford Races, one of the most established fixtures in the Gloucestershire sporting calendar, and also one of the fastest growing and valuable Point-to-Points, writes Pete Mansell.
There's a packed programme of entertainment built around the Robert Hitchins Group Andoversford Grand Annual which was first held here in 1834. The racing offers a valuable programme with over £4,000 on offer across 6 races.
The Well Road won the Intermediate last year and this meeting has provided rich pickings for connections in the past. Sam Jukes mount has a choice of engagements either in the Tayler and Fletcher 9-year-old and upwards Conditions where he has to give 7 lb away to his rivals or in the Robert Hitchins Group Andoversford Grand Annual where he meets most of the opposition on level terms.
Premier Portrait is owned by Dr Charles Levinson who lives just a stone throw from the course so success would go down well with the locals. The 12-year-old has struggled for form so far this season but like The Well Road connections his owners have to choose between the Conditions and Mens Open - a decision that will be watched with interest.
The Martin & Co Ladies Open has a small but select field which includes Hellorboston who scored a narrow victory 12 months ago. Chu Chu Percy comes from a good stable while Well Mett does not look the most enthusiastic of horses but has given connections a lot of fun over the years.
She has a potential winning opportunity in the Porsche Centre Tewkesbury Restricted but could come up against Cheltenam De Vaige who scored an impressive win at Monmouth 7 days ago. Connections may be keen to strike while the iron is hot but he would not be one to back at short odds as he had unseated his rider twice before that success.
The concluding Concierge Medical Open Maiden is unlikely to see anything of the quality of last years winner Eurobot who was sold for a six-figure sum after that victory.
Skarloey, Lady Legend and Give a Hoot will be there to pick up the pieces if more fancied rivals fail to perform, while Jake Slatter will need to be a magician if You're the Man claims the prize based on that horse's recent performances.
There is no such thing as a racing certainty, but the nearest you can get to it is Mankala in the GX Land Rovers Intermediate. The 9-year-old has won his last 3 races and his record is head and shoulders above that of his rivals and a clear round is all that is needed to prevail over Jungle Legend and Order in Court who are likely to fight out the minor placings.


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Architect hopes to help improve accessibility
Amanda Dale, Sub-editor/Writer
Friday, March 25, 2011 7:03 AM
Keith Simmons, accessibility officer at the National Office for Seniors and the Physically Challenged, and Vanessa J. Daniel, a senior architectural technologist at OBM International. *Photo by Amanda Dale
FRIDAY, MAR. 25: Bermuda is praised for its beauty and unique architecture, but many residents and tourists face problems getting around.
Disabled people in wheelchairs, moms with strollers, those with sight and hearing impairments and people with crutches often face obstacles in accessing buildings, bars and restaurants or even just heading down the sidewalk.
As the U.S. brings its 2010 Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Standards for Accessible Design into force, an architect has taken the time to compile a booklet and set of drawings to encourage Bermuda's designers and contractors to take on universal design and ADA standards.
Although Bermuda is a British Overseas Territory, we comply with a lot of the American standards and codes.
Vanessa J. Daniel, a Senior Architectural Technologist at OBM International, produced the guide and AutoCAD drawings independently, out of an interest in disabled people's rights.
"Returning back to Bermuda after working as an architect in New Mexico, I wanted to get this information out there," she said.
"From the designer, architect and contractor side of things, there just isn't the information and drawings available in Bermuda.
"It is about making the built environment more accessible for everyone.
"It's not just people with physical disabilities, it's also for the elderly, pregnant women.
"Even mothers with buggies walking along Front Street face different levels and trip hazards.
Miss Daniel has given a copy of her booklet and drawings to Keith Simmons, accessibility officer at the National Office for Seniors and the Physically Challenged.
The guide features everything from grab bars and clearance space for wheelchairs in toilets, to sink height and the need for braille on signs.
"It's an excellent resource and tool for designers, architects and anyone in construction," Miss Daniel said.
"While the (booklet) information may initially help those in the construction industry, it is also useful to all Bermuda citizens as they plan how to upgrade homes, offices, public spaces and so forth.
"It will help them to get Planning approval.
"I can provide the drawings and booklet to anyone who wants them. This could be architects, interior designers, contractors and sub-contractors, anyone in construction.
"They will also help Mr. Simmons to increase awareness of accessibility in all building design. If it helps him in his efforts with Government, then I am happy to assist.
"It's about making the community better for everyone."
Mr. Simmons told the Bermuda Sun Government has almost finished a review of the Residential Building Code and will then upgrade its Commercial Building Code. The new ADA standards would therefore make a difference.
"Once completed, it (the Residential Code) will have accessibility codes and also green building codes, so that's a step forward," said Mr. Simmons.
"Government looks to upgrade standards every few years and to adopt some of the international building code standards. These include the latest accessibility standards."
Mr. Simmons said Bermuda's use of CABO (Council of American Building Officials) and BOCA (Building Officials Code Administrators) standards was now out of date.
Government has adopted the ANSI A117.1 (American National Standard Institute) standards but will be looking at the latest international guidelines in its review.
He said the new 2010 ADA standards would "keep Government in line with any upgrades".
"There's one or two changes from the ANSI A117.1, so this will help us move forward in adopting new accessibility legislation," he said.
"It will bring us up to date in 2011."
"For example, BOCA requires 50 per cent accessibility in buildings but the new codes have gone up to 60 to 70 per cent of your building accessibility."
Mr. Simmons said: "Miss Daniels' booklet will help us in changing the mindset, because unfortunately we still have some architects who are not taking on accessibility."
In Bermuda he said people not only had problems with buildings and sidewalks, but that, "a lot of the car parks need to be changed, as the entrances are pitched too steeply".
There were also problems with restaurants and shops.
"A lot of them have poor access. There are some proprietors working to make their premises more accessible, but some just don't seem to be interested."
The Bermuda Sun asked for an update from Governemnt on its building standards and the review but received no response at the time of going to press.
For a copy of Miss Daniels' booklet email vdaniel@obmi.com or call 278-8563. You need to provide a CD.
A case study: LF Wade International Airport
Earlier this month a member of the public wrote to Aaron Adderley, airport general manager, to complain about the problems an elderly woman faced in negotiating the restrooms in a wheelchair. The letter was reproduced in The Royal Gazette this week.
Suzette Aruda, of the City of Hamilton, said she was travelling through L.F. Wade International Airport when she saw the senior make several attempts to enter the women's restroom in the departures lounge.
"I went to assist her and found, to my astonishment, that the wheelchair could not fit through the door," said Ms Aruda.
"The wheelchair was a standard size used by the airlines; it was the doorway that was too narrow.
"Once I helped her into the restroom, I checked to see if there was an ADA compliant stall. Again I was surprised to see that there was not one."
"I do not understand why an international facility such as our airport is not ADA-compliant," she said.
Mr. Adderley however, told the Bermuda Sun there are specific ADA-compliant restrooms on each floor of the terminal. The airport has just completed an 18-month refurbishment of its restrooms, in which it aimed to meet the ADA minimum capacity of restroom stalls, urinals and sinks, and other guidelines.
Mr. Adderley said: "We just spent tens of thousands of dollars on all the bathrooms, and in doing so, made sure they were wheelchair accessible. Any passengers in wheelchairs are usually assisted by airline personnel, so I'm assuming this lady in question was unattended that day and went to a bathroom inaccessible to wheelchairs.
"We have since done an inventory of our signage throughout the airport. The fact this lady went into a bathroom which was not accessible has made me think about putting up additional signage, to make them even more visible."
How it works in the U.S.
Last week the 2010 Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Standards for Accessible Design came into effect in the U.S.
The U.S. Department of Justice published the revised regulations to the 1994 standards on September 15.
But as of March 15, all new construction in the U.S. should follow the 2010 guidelines.
There is a year's grace until they become enforceable in building codes, on March 15, 2012.
The standards relate to new construction and modifications to public and commercial buildings.
The standards must be met for plans to get signed off by local authority planning inspectors.
The public can also file complaints or individual private lawsuits if a building or facility doesn't come up to scratch.
Bermuda does not follow this legislation but the U.S. requirements tend to set the standard for the island's own building codes.
In the U.S. they cover everything from parking and passenger loading zones, to elevators, doors and windows, toilet stalls and urinals, sinks, water coolers, telephones, ATMs (Automated Teller Machines), and fitting rooms.
As well as commercial buildings, they cover restaurants, medical care, libraries, hotels and transportation facilities.
The Americans with Disabilities Act was passed in 1990 and became effective in January 1992. It prohibited discrimination against disabled people in services and employment, and set forth structural accessibility requirements.
The ADA Standards for Accessible Design in 1994 stated: The minimum wheelchair passage width was 32 inches, and 60 inches for two wheelchairs to pass.
Drinking spouts should be no higher than 36 inches from the ground.
The gripping surfaces of all handrails and grab bars should be 1.25 to 1.5 inches, and 1.5 inches from a wall.
In restaurants tray slides should be no higher than 34 inches from the floor.
At counters in banks, information centres, ticketing outlets and hotel receptions of at least 36 inches, a portion should be a maximum 36 inches in height.
The 2010 ADA Standards widen the recommendations to include assembly areas, detention facilities, amusement rides, recreational boating, exercise machines, fishing piers, golf facilities, saunas and steam rooms, and swimming pools.
The revisions include a minimum wheelchair passage width of 36 inches.
Gripping surfaces for handrails and grab bars should be 1.25 to 2 inches maximum.
For more information, go to: www.ada.gov/2010ADAstandardss_index.htm.
Book aims to help parents of disabled children
'More is needed for the disabled'
Government asked to consider challenges of those with disabilities
Bermuda celebrates those with disabilities
'Bermuda has potential for those with disabilities'
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The singer-composer, 64, has crooned disco numbers like I am a disco dancer, Ramba ho, Hari Om Hari and Yaar bina chain kahan re.
Veteran music director, composer and singer Bappi Lahiri says he created disco music in the Hindi filmdom. "Disco (genre) I have created, and from 1980s to 1990s -- the only disco era that was happening (in Bollywood) was all Bappi Lahiri," said Lahiri, who is fondly called the king of disco music.
The singer-composer, 64, has crooned disco numbers like I am a disco dancer, Ramba ho, Hari Om Hari and Yaar bina chain kahan re. "I also made folk in disco with De de pyaar de," he added.
Lahiri says that actor Mithun Chakraborty was his partner. "People say old is gold... This is said to people whose songs were popular. Till today Bappi Lahiri songs are super duper hit," said the singer, who has crooned hits like Tamma tamma and Ooh la la.
Lahiri says the disco genre is still there. "Disco (music) which I created in the 1980s is still going on till 2017," he added.


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The 1965–66 DDR-Oberliga was the 17th season of the DDR-Oberliga, the first tier of league football in East Germany.

The league was contested by fourteen teams. National People's Army club FC Vorwärts Berlin won the championship, the club's fifth of six national East German championships all up.

Henning Frenzel of 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig was the league's top scorer with 22 goals, while Jürgen Nöldner of FC Vorwärts Berlin won the seasons East German Footballer of the year award.

On the strength of the 1965–66 title Vorwärts qualified for the 1966–67 European Cup where the club was knocked out by Górnik Zabrze in the first round. Seventh-placed club BSG Chemie Leipzig qualified for the 1966–67 European Cup Winners' Cup as the seasons FDGB-Pokal winner and was knocked out by Standard Liège in the second round. Third-placed 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig qualified for the 1966–67 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup where it was knocked out in the quarter finals by Kilmarnock F.C.

In December 1965 and January 1966 East German football saw a major restructuring with the introduction of football clubs (FC) as separate entities from the sports clubs (SC). With one exception, this only affected clubs playing in the DDR-Oberliga at the time. As a result of the restructuring, ASK Vorwärts Berlin became FC Vorwärts Berlin, SC Motor Jena became FC Carl Zeiss Jena, SC Leipzig became 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig, SC Empor Rostock became FC Hansa Rostock, SC Karl-Marx-Stadt became FC Karl-Marx-Stadt, SC Dynamo Berlin became Berliner FC Dynamo, SC Chemie Halle became Hallescher FC Chemie, SC Turbine Erfurt became FC Rot-Weiss Erfurt and SC Aufbau Magdeburg became SC Magdeburg and then 1. FC Magdeburg. Outside the DDR-Oberliga, TSC Berlin became 1. FC Union Berlin. TSC Berlin was only playing in the second tier DDR-Liga at the time. Hower, 1. FC Union Berlin finished the 1965-66 DDR-Liga Nord on first place and was promoted to the 1966-67 DDR-Oberliga. With the exception of FC Vorwärts Berlin, all football clubs retained their name until the disbanding of the Oberliga in 1991 and, in some cases, beyond that.

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The 1965–66 season saw two newly promoted clubs, Hallescher FC Chemie and FC Rot-Weiss Erfurt.

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In late classical and early medieval China, ascetics strove to become transcendents--deathless beings with supernormal powers. Practitioners developed dietetic, alchemical, meditative, gymnastic, sexual, and medicinal disciplines (some of which are still practiced today) to perfect themselves and thus transcend death. Narratives of their achievements circulated widely. Ge Hong (283-343 c.e.) collected and preserved many of their stories in his Traditions of Divine Transcendents, affording us a window onto this extraordinary response to human mortality.
Robert Ford Campany's groundbreaking and carefully researched text offers the first complete, critical translation and commentary for this important Chinese religious work, at the same time establishing a method for reconstructing lost texts from medieval China. Clear, exacting, and annotated, the translation comprises over a hundred lively, engaging narratives of individuals deemed to have fought death and won. Additionally, To Live as Long as Heaven and Earth systematically introduces the Chinese quest for transcendence, illuminating a poorly understood tradition that was an important source of Daoist religion and a major social, cultural, and religious phenomenon in its own right.
Robert Ford Campany is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is coeditor of the Journal of Chinese Religions and author of Strange Writing: Anomaly Accounts in Early Medieval China (1996).
'Campany's analysis will likely prove definitive, and through such authoritative critical studies this century's understanding of Taoism and Chinese religion will reach its maturity." —Russell Kirkland, Univ. of Georgia Religious Studies Review
"This book marks a new milestone in the study of Chinese religious history. Only a scholar as intelligent and dedicated as Campany would dare tackle and so eloquently translate one of the most important and difficult works of early Chinese religious history."—Paul Katz, author of Images of the Immortal: The Cult of Lu Dongbin at the Palace of Eternal Joy
"This is a pathbreaking work of lasting significance to the field of Chinese religious history. The scholarship is solid and current, drawing upon the best research from America, Europe, China, and Japan. The translation is accurate, clear, and elegant, based upon an innovative analysis of surviving sources."—Terry Kleeman, author of Great Perfection: Religion and Ethnicity in a Chinese Millennial Kingdom
"A competent translation of Ge Hong's hagiographies, with close attention paid to sources and editions, would already have constituted a major contribution to the field of Taoist studies. But Campany provides as well a survey of religious practices in Ge Hong's writings and a reading of the hagiographies which enables us to see the social practices that lie behind them. Together, these two works-in-one constitute the best available portrait of religion and society in early fourth-century China."—John Lagerwey, author of Taoist Ritual in Chinese Society and History
"Campany's annotated translation of Ge Hong's (283-343) classic, the first in English, admirably captures the book's rich evocation of the religious culture of Southern China in the fourth century. Ge Hong here offers a series of case studies of what he regarded as the historical and exemplary evidence for the existence of immortals. This translation of Traditions of Divine Transcendents conveys a lively and multifaceted vision of the Taoist conception of physical immortality. The book's emphasis on practices related to the cult of the immortals and the hope for transcendence squarely places its subject in the religious life of traditional Chinese society."—Franciscus Verellen, co-editor of The Taoist Canon: A Historical Guide
PART ONE: TRADITIONS OF DIVINE TRANSCENDENTS AND ITS CONTEXT
Ge Hong and the Writing of Traditions of Divine Transcendents
The Nature of the Religion Reflected in Ge Hong's Works
Text-Critical Matters
PART TWO: A CRITICAL, ANNOTATED TRANSLATION AND COMMENTARY
Group A: Earliest-Attested Hagiographies
Group A: Earliest-Attested Fragments
Group B: Early-Attested Hagiographies
Group B: Early-Attested Fragments
Group C: Later-Attested Hagiographies
PART THREE: TEXT-CRITICAL NOTES
On the Source Tests and the Temporal Differentiation of Passages
Group A: Sources of Earliest-Attested Hagiographies
Group A: Sources of Earliest-Attested Fragments
Group B: Sources of Early-Attested Hagiographies
Group B: Sources of Early-Attested Fragments
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David A Palmer, Xun Liu
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Nataraja Service () is a 2016 Indian Kannada language romantic emotional comedy film directed by Pavan Wadeyar, produced by N.S. Rajkumar and presented by Puneeth Rajkumar. It stars Sharan and Mayuri Kyatari. The music was composed by Anoop Seelin whilst the cinematography was by Arul K. Somasundaram.

P Ravi Shankar makes a special appearance in the song "Allah Allah Nataraja Bartonella" which was rendered by music director Anoop Seeli.

Cast
 Sharan as Nataraja
 Mayuri Kyatari as Sahana
 Rockline Venkatesh
 Apoorva
 Yathiraj
 Nagaraj Murthy
 P. Ravi Shankar in a special appearance

Production
Principal photography for the film began in October 2015. The shooting was held at Bangalore, Mysore, Shimoga, Davanagere, Mandya, Dandeli and Sirsi locations and was completed in early June 2016. After several announcements, the film was finally released on 17 November 2016.

Soundtrack

Anoop Seelin composed the film's background score and soundtrack. An opening song of the film is sung by Puneeth Rajkumar and penned by Pavan Wadeyar. According to Wadeyar, the song speaks about the "benefits of walking" and has a philosophical message as the theme. The audio was released on 28 July 2016.

References

External links
 Facebook page

2016 films
2016 romantic comedy films
Films scored by Anoop Seelin
Indian romantic comedy films
2010s Kannada-language films
Films directed by Pavan Wadeyar


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LSO and federation push Metrolinx to find alternative to new subway station on Osgoode Hall property
Provincial legal regulator says Metrolinx agreed to await the findings of an independent review
Professors Bruce Ryder and Patricia McMahon, Osgoode Hall Law School
BY Aidan Macnab 27 Nov 2022
Metrolinx has advised the Law Society of Ontario it will begin construction for a new Ontario Line subway station on the grounds of Osgoode Hall Dec. 5, which will include the removal of trees from the southwest quadrant of the property, at the corner of Queen Street and University Avenue.
The Law Society of Ontario, whose operations are located at Osgoode Hall, says Metrolinx is taking this step despite having committed to support a third-party independent review of alternative station designs, overseen by the City of Toronto, which has yet to be concluded.
"It is the Law Society's position that tree removal or any other invasive work should not proceed until City Council receives and responds to the study and the community is fully consulted," says Wynna Brown, LSO's director of external relations and communications.
On Friday, the Federation of Ontario Law Associations, which represents 46 county and district law associations in Ontario, sent a letter to Mayor John Tory voicing its "grave concerns" about Metrolinx's plans, and urging the City of Toronto to take action. The excavation and tree-removal will have "devastating and irreversible impacts… that will take a lifetime to repair," said the letter. Proceeding with work before the City receives and responds to the independent review is "premature, and in our view, disrespectful and heavy-handed," FOLA said.
"It would appear that Metrolinx is trying to short-circuit the very process it agreed to, because once the mature trees are gone, it will be too late for any change in course," FOLA chair Douglas Judson told Law Times. "They're racing to start the project before further political resistance finds its feet to stop them. It's important that people understand that both the building and the grounds have a heritage designation."
"Law Society is the custodian of this historic property and greenspace, and they are not supportive of what Metrolinx is doing," he says. "That should tell people something."
In the public notice it sent to the LSO on Nov. 17, Metrolinx said that from Dec. 5 to 9, it will remove five trees to make room for a 41-metre-by-28-metre test pit that it will use to conduct an archaeological assessment of the Osgoode Hall Property. The notice said "all other trees on the property will be retained and protected as part of this work," and that the tree-removal had been approved by the City.
When the news broke on Tuesday, Osgoode Hall law professors, lawyers, and many others took to Twitter to express outrage at Metrolinx's plans to tamper with a rare green space in downtown Toronto, which has been maintained for more than 200 years.
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Osgoode Hall Law School professor Bruce Ryder Tweeted: "Osgoode profs should chain ourselves to the trees."
Ryder told Law Times: "I was shocked that they were making the announcement before the consultant study has been released or completed… The grounds of Osgoode Hall, to me, are a very important part of the history of the city and we don't have many spaces like it that are still green."
Ryder has been on the Osgoode Hall Law School's faculty since 1987, and is an expert in contemporary constitutional issues including federalism, equality rights, freedom of expression, Aboriginal rights, and Quebec secession. While he says expanding transit is an important objective, it does not justify steamrolling over other important interests, and the decision must be made with adequate public consultation.
"I, of course, understand the objectives and the need for this subway line. What's disturbing is when the importance of the objective is used to create a false sense of urgency, or false necessity. And I think we've seen that from this government on a number of files."
Professor Patricia McMahon, who teaches and researches in civil procedure, law and equity, and legal history at Osgoode, says that one of the important features of process is how it serves as "a way to level the playing field" so that interested stakeholders are given notice and an opportunity to respond. McMahon says she was shocked when she heard Metrolinx planned to move ahead despite having agreed to await an independent third-party review.
"That's not what we expect from public agencies. We expect everyone to abide by decisions to follow public processes, especially when the participants agree to do so. That's the way the rule of law works."
"I hope Metrolinx does the right thing and agrees to wait until the review is complete before taking down the trees," she says. "Hopefully, there will be a meaningful community discussion to figure out how best to accommodate needs for public transit and trees. Public transit and trees shouldn't be a zero-sum proposition."
Judson adds that the construction could undermine the functioning of the courts located at the Osgoode property.
"Osgoode Hall is Ontario's judicial centre," he says. "We set out in our June 1 letter the level of disruption that Metrolinx intends to inflict on it. Fifty truck per day. Removal of 96,000-squared meters of material. Back-up beepers. Pile driving right outside the Court of Appeal windows. None of this is conducive to ensuring public confidence in the administration of justice."
Judson also shared on Twitter a letter from the Sir William Campbell Foundation, addressed to Ontario Line sponsor Malcolm MacKay. The foundation operates Campbell House, which is located across University Avenue from Osgoode Hall on the north-west corner of the intersection. Noting that the decision to commence construction "would fly in the face of Metrolinx's prior commitment to the city and to the community that it would support the City's third-party independent review," the foundation is requesting that Metrolinx pause the removal of trees slated for Dec. 5 until City Council has received and responded to the review. Campbell House also asks that Metrolinx organize a community meeting to discuss the matter.
A spokesperson from Metrolinx told Law Times that its technical teams considered six locations other than the Osgoode Hall property, but concluded that "this is the option that provides the most benefits."
"The northeast corner of University Avenue and Queen St. W is the only location that can accommodate the construction of Osgoode station," the spokesperson says. "Land is required for the construction laydown and digging of a shaft that will allow for underground excavation and construction of this new large underground complex, while leaving room to ensure existing pedestrian, bicycle, transit and vehicle traffic continues to flow."
Metrolinx must ensure there is enough space for passengers, to adhere to fire codes, accessibility standards, and to facilitate the transfer to streetcars on street level, the spokesperson says.
Though Law Times asked, the spokesperson did not say whether Metrolinx committed to the third-party review nor what its current status is.
The spokesperson noted that Osgoode Station will be within a 10-minute walk from more than 16,500 residents, and connect to more than 110,500 jobs in the area. The company expects the station will serve nearly 12,000 passengers at peak hours.
"Metrolinx will make sure to take every reasonable effort to lessen short-term impacts at Osgoode Hall and then work with partners to restore and beautify the grounds," the spokesperson says.
"We will continue working through these issues with the City, Law Society of Ontario and other stakeholders in the coming months and years as the project advances. Another community meeting will be held in the coming weeks to provide the very latest plans for the Ontario Line Osgoode Station."
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Tolstoy, Art, Emotion and the Audience
Tolstoy, Art, Emotion and the Audience Argumentative Essay
Argues against Tolstoy's theory of art's emotional communication by citing the work of Banksy, Andy Warhol, Emily Dickinson and the author.
# 150466 | 2,280 words | 1 source | MLA | 2010 |
Published on Feb 19, 2012 in Art (Fine Art) , Philosophy (General)
This paper explains that Leo Tolstoy, in his manifesto of 1896 "What is Art?", rejected the pre-existing notions of aesthetics by stating his emotional communication theory of art thus impeding twentieth century art by stating that art, like language, properly exists as a system of emotional communication between the artist and his audience. While the idea of art as a system capable of communicating emotion is entirely possible, the author argues that the assumption that an artist creates for an external source is unsound because an artist does not need the audience to define his work as art. The paper contends rather that the conscious artist process, as demonstrated by Emily Dickinson, graffiti artist Banksy, Andy Warhol and the author, defines the liminal, has a private, internal dialogue only with himself not the audience and then makes tangible artwork.
"For Tolstoy, art is a condition of human life and is first and foremost a means of interaction and communication amongst humanity. Essentially a communal act, Tolstoy's unfettering of art from subjective pleasures places an emphasis upon artistry as an intercourse that allows for the articulation of complex human emotion. The artist is therefore engaged in a direct relationship with his audience in that he experiences a feeling that he then endeavors to articulate through his artwork; if successful, the art conveys and evokes within the audience that same emotion felt by the artist. If, for example, a painter has an overwhelming experience of grief and subsequently distills that feeling of grief within a painting, the spectator should experience the same feeling originally conceived of by the painter through the painting. "A man suffers, expressing his sufferings by groans and spasms, and this suffering transmits itself to other people a man expresses his feeling of admiration, devotion, fear, respect, or love to certain objects, persons, or phenomena, and others are infected by the same feelings of admiration, devotion, fear, respect, or love to the same objects, persons, or phenomena." Only if an emotion experienced by the artist is one in the same as that felt by the audience can a. work of art be considered such."
Tolstoy, Leo. What is Art?. New York: General Books, 2009.
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By Team Techcolite On May 12, 2015
Blackberry had unveiled its new Phone named BlackBerry Leap a few days back in India. It finally launched the BlackBerry Leap in India on Monday, priced at Rs 21,490.
BlackBerry Leap has a 5-inch HD screen and is powered by a 1.5 GHz Qualcomm MSM 8960 processor with 2GB RAM. It has 16GB internal memory which can be further expanded to 128GB via micro-SD card. It has 8 megapixel rear camera with flash and 1.1 megapixel front camera. It is powered by a 2800 mAH non-removable Lithium Ion battery. Leap measures 144 x 72.8 x 9.5mm and weighs 170 grams. The Smartphone runs BlackBerry OS 10.3.1, which has few new elements as compared to BlackBerry OS 10.1. On the app front, to run Android apps one can side load an APK file and even or download a selection from the Amazon app store. The company claims 25 hours of battery life for the phone.
The device comes equipped with support for encryption, built-in malware protection and back-up, wipe and restore.
Two interesting features in BlackBerry Leap are Blend and Assistant. BlackBerry Blend brings messaging and content that is on your BlackBerry Smartphone to your computer and tablet for unified experience. It will work across desktop operating systems, including Mac OS X 10.7 +, Windows 7+ and Android tablets running Android 4.4+ via cellular, USB or Wi-Fi connections. Using it one can get instant message notifications, read and respond to work and personal email, text messages, access documents, calendar, contacts and media in real time on whatever device you are on.
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GERMANY: Bundesliga Week 26 round-up
March 21, 2013 · by Will Burns · in BUNDESLIGA, GERMANY. ·
Wolfsburg 1 Fortuna Dusseldorf 1
Dusseldorf picked up what could be an important point come the end of the season in this visit to Wolfsburg.
The hosts dominated the early stages of the game without making the breakthrough but it was Dusseldorf who took the lead on 37 minutes when Norwegian Mathis Bolly scored against the run of play.
The hosts were level 6 minutes into the second half when Ivica Olic scored his sixth goal of the season after some neat play from Yohandry Orozco. Wolfsburg had the better of the remainder of the game but were unable to get the winning goal and had to settle for a point.
Nuremberg 3 Schalke 0
Schalke suffered a blow to their Champions League hopes with a heavy defeat away to Nuremberg. The visitors dominated the opening 30 minutes of the game with Julian Draxler coming closest to opening the scoring when he hit the post but it was the hosts who took the lead on 31 minutes through Markus Feulner.
The second half went the same way as the first with Schalke pressing and controlling the game but continuing to miss chances with Benedikt Höwedes this time hitting the post. The hosts doubled the lead on 69 minutes when Alexander Esswein scored after being played in by Hiroshi Kiyotake. The win was rounded off with a third goal from Mike Frantz with three minutes remaining.
Borussia Dortmund 5 Freiburg 1
Dortmund hammered Freiburg to cement their place in 2nd place in the Bundesliga. Freiburg took the lead on 28 minutes with Jonathan Schmid grabbing the goal but 3 goals in the final four minute of the first half put the game to bed for Dortmund. Robert Lewandowski scored on 41 minutes to level things up and also got the third in injury time, in between a goal from Nuri Sahin, had put Dortmund ahead.
The second half saw Dortmund control the play without creating many chances but on 72 minutes they got the fourth goal and Sahin his second. The afternoon was rounded off nicely for the hosts when Leonardo Bittencourt scored the fifth after 78 minutes.
Hoffenheim 0 Mainz 0
Neither Mainz or Hoffenheim benefitted from this goalless draw with the home side remaining deep in relegation trouble in 17th position in the table. Nikolce Noveski cme closest to breaking the deadlock, in the first half when he hit the post for Mainz.
In the second half both sides missed good chances to claim the victory but neither side were able to grab the goal which would have resulted in victory.
Hamburg 0 Augsburg 1
Augsburg moved slightly closer to safety with an excellent win away at Hamburg on Saturday afternoon.
Jan-Ingwer Callsen-Bracker got the only goal of the game after 8 minutes when he headed home a corner from Tobias Werner. Before and after the break Hamburg dominated for long periods and wasted some excellent chances with Artjoms Rudnevs guilty of misses in both halves.
Maximilian Beister was sent off for the home side on 80 minutes for a poor tackle on Daniel Baier although any sign of a comeback had already begun to fade at that point in the afternoon.
Werder Bremen 2 Greuther Furth 2
Furth remains deep in relegation danger after letting a lead slip away to Bremen. After a goalless first half things livened up in the second period.
Aaron Hunt put the home side ahead from the penalty spot on 47 minutes but 15 minutes later Furth were ahead as Stephan Fürstner levelled things up on 56 minutes and then Thanos Petsos put them ahead. However Hunt's second penalty of the afternoon, on 70 minutes, levelled things up and left neither side happy with a draw.
Bayer Leverkusen 1 Bayern Munich 2
Munich continued their march to the league title with a victory away to Leverkusen. The visitors controlled the first half at the BayArena but it took until the 37th minute for the dead locked to be broken by Mario Gomez.
The second half saw Leverkusen push hard for an equaliser and it duly came in the 75th minute when Simon Rolfes tapped home from a Sidney Sam inswinging set piece. The champions elect were not to be held however and with 3 minutes remaining a Bastian Schweinsteiger free kick was deflected into his own goal by Philipp Wollscheid.
Eintracht Frankfurt 1 Stuttgart 2
Stuttgart's second win of 2013 eased the relegation fears for the club. Frankfurt took the lead in the 17th minute when Stefan Aigner finished in a neat fashion. The hosts controlled the play for the remainder of the half but were unable to extend the lead.
Stuttgart were level four minutes into the second half when Vedad Ibisevic equalised from the penalty spot. The visitors then grabbed the winner after 71 minutes when Georg Niedermeier headed home.
The defeat leaves Frankfurt with a fight on to qualify for Europe with several teams now breathing down their necks.
Borussia Monchengladbach 1 Hannover 0
Gladbach kept up the push for a European spot next season with a victory over Hannover. The hosts controlled and dominated the first half but only had a Luuk de Jong goal to show for their dominance at half time.
The second half saw Hannover come out and push for an equaliser and they controlled the game without creating any opportunities and their case was not helped when Sergio da Silva Pinto was sent off for a second booking with five minutes remaining.
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