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Voltaire, pe numele său adevărat François-Marie Arouet () a fost un scriitor, filosof, istoric, dramaturg, prozator și epistoler al Iluminismului francez.
Debutează în literatură la vârsta de 16 ani, fiind elev la Colegiul Louis le Grand.

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Autorul a adoptat numele de "Voltaire" în 1718, în urma incarcerarii lui de la Bastille. Originea sa este neclară. Este o anagrama de AROVET LI, ortografia latinizat a numelui său, Arouet, iar literele inițiale ale Le Jeune ( "tineri"). În conformitate cu o tradiție de familie printre descendenții surorii sale, el a fost cunoscut sub numele de Le petit volontaire ( "lucrul mic determinat"), ca un copil, și a înviat o variantă a numelui în viața sa de adult. Numele inversează, de asemenea, silabele Airvault, orașul natal al familiei sale în regiunea Poitou. Richard Holmes susține derivarea anagramatica a numelui, dar adaugă că un scriitor, cum ar fi Voltaire ar fi intenționat să transmită, de asemenea, conotațiile sale de viteză și îndrăzneț. Acestea provin de la asociații de cuvinte precum voltige (acrobații pe un trapez sau cal), schimbări de poziție (o filare pe cale să se confrunte cu dușmanii), și volatile (inițial, orice creatură cu aripi). "Arouet" nu a fost un nume de potrivire nobil pentru reputația sa în creștere, mai ales având în vedere faptul că numele de rezonanță cu rouer à ( "să fie bătut în sus") și Roue (un Debauche). Într-o scrisoare adresată lui Jean-Baptiste Rousseau martie 1719, Voltaire concluzionează întrebând că, dacă Rousseau dorește să-i trimită o scrisoare de întoarcere, el face acest lucru adresându-l domnului de Voltaire. Un post-scriptum explica: "J'ai été si Malheureux sous le nom d'Arouet que j'en AI pris Autre onu surtout pour n'être plus confondu avec le Roi Poète", (am fost atât de nefericit, sub numele de Arouet pe care am luat o alta, în primul rând, astfel încât să înceteze să fie confundat cu poetul Roi.) Aceasta se referă probabil la Adenes le Roi, iar diftongul "oi" a fost apoi pronuntat la fel ca "ouai" moderne, astfel încât asemănarea cu "Arouet "este clar, și, astfel, s-ar putea sa fi fost o parte din raționamentul său. Intr-adevar, Voltaire este cunoscut, de asemenea, s-au utilizat cel puțin 178 de pseudonime separate, în timpul vieții sale. În luna februarie 1778 Voltaire a revenit pentru prima dată în peste 25 de ani la Paris, printre alte motive pentru a vedea premiera ultimei tragedii ale sale, Irene.

Curând s-a îmbolnăvit din nou și a murit în 30 mai 1778. Povestirile despre moartea lui au fost numeroase și variate și nu a fost posibil să se stabilească detaliile exacte a ce s-a întâmplat. Dușmanii lui au povestit ca el s-a pocăit și a acceptat ultimele ritualuri făcute de un preot catolic, sau că a murit în mare chin, în timp ce adepții lui au spus că a fost sfidător până la ultima suflare. Potrivit unei povesti, ultimele lui cuvinte au fost "Acum nu este momentul să-mi fac noi inamici." A fost răspunsul lui către un preot de lângă patul său de moarte, cerându-i lui Voltaire să se lepede de Satana. Totuși, acest lucru pare să-și fi avut originea într-o glumă care a fost publicată pentru prima oara într-un ziar din Massachusetts în 1865, și a fost atribuită lui Voltaire doar în anii 70.

Datorită bine cunoscutei sale critici a Bisericii, pe care a refuzat să o retragă înaintea morții, lui Voltaire i-a fost interzisă o înmormântare creștină în Paris, dar prieteni și relații au reușit să-i îngroape trupul în secret la Abația din Scellières în Champagne. Inima și creierul său au fost îmbălsămate separat.

În 11 iulie 1791, a fost depus în racla din Pantheon, după Adunarea Națională a Franței, care l-a considerat pe el premergătorul Revoluției Franceze, a avut rămășitele aduse înapoi în Paris. Se estimează că un milion de oameni au participat la procesiune, care s-a întins prin Paris.

Fiind fiul unui notar avut, Voltaire a mers la colegiul iezuit Louis-le-Grand. Aici și-a descoperit spiritul critic. Unchiul său l-a introdus în cercul deiștilor. La rugămintea tatălui său, în 1711 a început Dreptul, pe care nu avea să-l termine, interesat fiind mai mult de discuțiile intelectualilor, scriitorilor și aristocraților, ce se desfășurau în palatele sau în cafenelele din Paris. Din pricina viziunilor sale critice, pe care le reda în batjocură, a fost întemnițat în 1717 pentru unsprezece luni la Bastilia. Fiind amenințat de o nouă arestare în Franța, a petrecut un timp (din 1726 până în 1729) în Anglia. Acolo, el a fost influențat de empirismul lui John Locke Empirismus și de nou-apărutul deism. În ale sale Lettres philosophiques, a detaliat liberalismul englez (1731).

Ca deist și francmason, Voltaire a practicat criticismul în fiecare formă a religiei instituționale, dar și în neînțelegerile politice. El s-a autonumit Theist, un om cu credința în Dumnezeu, dar care a renunțat la creștinism. Când a fost emis un nou mandat de arestare împotriva lui în 1734, el a fugit în Lorena. Din 1734 până în 1748, a trăit cu prietena sa Émilie du Châtelet la Castelul Cirey în Champagne. Aici și-a scris memoriile, tratatele de științe naturiste, istorie și politică, dar și opere dramatice și poetice. Prin mijlocirea Madamei de Pompadour la curțile regale, Voltaire a fost numit istoriograf și acceptat în Academia Franceză. Frederic cel Mare, care aparținea el însuși spiritelor iluminate ale secolului XVIII, l-a luat cu el în 1750 la Potsdam, unde și-a putut exprima credințele sale anticlericale și unde a putut lucra la o istorie universală, a putut colabora la Encyclopédie a lui Denis Diderot și unde a putut scrie primele articole pentru Dictionnaire philosophique portatif. Totuși, Voltaire a ajuns la contradicții cu Friedrich al II-lea, așa încât a fost necesar să părăsească Potsdamul în 1753. Voltaire a continuat să se îngrijească de corespondența cu Friedrich cel Mare . În 1755 s-a stabilit lângă Geneva, unde și-a petrecut pe proprietatea sa din Ferney ultimul deceniu ca "înțeleptul din Ferney".

Voltaire a rămas celebru pentru ocara sa periculoasă. Când au fost îndepărtați jumătate din caii grajdurilor regale din motive economice, el a propus ironic, că ar fi fost mai bine să fi fost eliberați jumătate din măgarii de la curtea regală. Pe de altă parte, a devenit cunoscut și pentru toleranța sa. Astfel și-a exprimat odată punctul său contradictoriu față de un adversar: "Părerea dumneavoastră mi se pare respingătoare, dar m-aș lăsa omorât, pentru ca dumneavoastră să puteți să v-o exprimați."
Concepția sa politică se întemeiază pe armonia dintre monarhii care dețin puterea politică și filozofii care dețin înțelepciunea. De asemenea, Voltaire reprezintă spiritul cel mai înalt al epocii sale, doctrina sa fiind unul din fundamentele Revoluției din 1789. Voltaire a fost împreună cu Jean-Jacques Rousseau un inițiator al Revoluției franceze. Mari realizări îi sunt atribuite și ca istoric iluminist. În Dictionnaire philosophique (1764) și-a imaginat Senzualismul.

Voltaire a fost un scriitor prolific, și a produs în aproape fiecare opere literare de formă (piese de teatru, poezie, romane, eseuri, lucrări istorice și științifice, peste 21.000 de scrisori și peste două mii de cărți și pamflete). Multe din lucrările sale de proză și idile I au fost scrise ca polemici.Voltaire a respins filosofia pesimistă și a încercat să orienteze un curs de mijloc în care omul a fost capabil să găsească virtute morală prin rațiune.

Cea mai mare lucrare filosofică a lui Voltaire a fost "Dictionnaire philosophique" ( "Dicționar filozofic") Publicat în 1764. Criticile se îndreptată către instituțiile politice franceze, dușmani personali, Biblia și Biserica Romano-Catolică.

El este amintit și onorat în Franța ca polemist Curajos care a luptat neobosit pentru drepturile civile (dreptul la un proces echitabil, libertatea de exprimare și libertatea religioasă) și care au denunțat nedreptățile

Deși El a susținut pe motive intelectuale pentru stabilirea unei monarhii constituționale în Franța, ceea ce sugerează o înclinație spre liberalism. Voltaire a văzut pe an monarh luminat sau absolutistă (un despotism binevoitor, similar cu cel susținut de către Platon), sfătuit de Filosofi ca și el.

Voltaire este adesea gândit  ca ateu, cu toate că, în fapt, el a luat parte la activități religioase și de luare a construit chiar și o capelă, la moșia sa de la Ferney.

Sursa principală de concepție greșită este o linie de la una din poeziile sale (numită "Cei 3 impostori"), care este de obicei tradus ca: "Dacă Dumnezeu nu ar exista, ar fi necesar să-L inventeze ". Mulți comentatori au argumentat că acesta este un mod ironic de a spune că nu contează dacă Dumnezeu există sau nu, deși alții susțin că rezultă clar din restul poemului că orice critică a fost concentrat mai mult față de acțiunile religiei organizate.

De fapt, la fel ca multe alte personaje-cheie în timpul Iluminismului european, Voltaire se considera un deist, iar el a contribuit la răspândirea deismul lui din Anglia în Franța, în timpul vieții sale. El nu credea că credința absolută, bazată pe orice text religios particular sau singular sau tradiție a revelației, era nevoie să creadă în Dumnezeu. El a scris: "Este perfect evident pentru mintea mea că există o ființă necesară, etern, suprem și inteligent. Aceasta nu este o chestiune de credință, ci a rațiunii". Într-adevăr, să se concentreze pe ideea unui univers bazat pe rațiune și respect pentru natură a reflectat panteismul, care a fost din ce în ce mai populare de-a lungul secolelor 17 și 18.

El a fost extrem de critic al catolicismului predominant, și, în special, el credea că Biblia era o referință legală și / sau morală depășită, că a fost în mare măsură metaforic oricum , și că a fost munca omului și nu un dar divin, toate care i-au câștigat oarecum o reputație proastă în Biserica catolică. Atitudinea lui față de Islam a variat de la "o sectă falsă și barbari" la "o religie înțeleaptă, severă, castă și umană". El a arătat, de asemenea, la un moment dat o înclinație spre ideile hinduismului și lucrările preoților Brahman.

Voltaire este cunoscut pentru mai multe aforisme memorabile, cu toate că ele sunt adesea citate din context. "Dacă Dumnezeu nu ar exista, ar fi necesar să-L inventeze", așa cum a fost menționat, este încă aprig dezbătută la semnificația și intențiile sale. "Totul este pentru cel mai bun din cele mai bune din toate lumile posibile", din nuvela lui "Candide", este de fapt o parodie a optimismului Leibniz și a religiei.

Opera

 Œdipe (1718)
Lettres philosophiques (1731)
Zaïre (1732)
Eriphile (1732)
Le siècle de Louis XIV (1751)
Poème sur le désastre de Lisbonne (1756)
Essai sur les moeurs (1756)
Candide (1759)
Histoire de l'Empire de Russie sous Pierre le Grand (1763)
"Zadig" (1747)
Traité sur la tolerance (1763)
Dictionnaire philosophique (1764)
Traité sur la tolérance (1763)
Irène (1778)
Socrates
Mahomet(1741)
Mérope (1743)
Nanine (1749)
La princesse de Navarre (1745)
 L'Orphelin de la Chine (1755)

Note

Bibliografie
 App, Urs. The Birth of Orientalism. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010 (hardcover, ISBN 978-0-8122-4261-4); contains a 60-page chapter (pp. 15–76) on Voltaire as a pioneer of Indomania and his use of fake Indian texts in anti-Christian propaganda.
 Besterman, Theodore, Voltaire, (1969).
 Brumfitt, J. H. Voltaire: Historian  (1958) online edition
 Davidson, Ian, Voltaire. A Life, London, Profile Books, 2010. ISBN 978-1-60598-287-8
 Durant, Will, The Story of Civilization. Vol. IX: The Age of Voltaire. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1965.
 Gay, Peter, Voltaire's Politics, The Poet as Realist, Yale University, 1988.
 Hadidi, Djavâd, Voltaire et l'Islam, Publications Orientalistes de France, 1974. ISBN 978-2-84161-510-0
 Knapp, Bettina L. Voltaire Revisited (2000)
 Mason, Haydn, Voltaire, A Biography (1981) ISBN 978-0-8018-2611-5

 Muller, Jerry Z., 2002. The Mind and the Market: Capitalism in Western Thought. Anchor Books. 978-0385721660
 Pearson, Roger, 2005. Voltaire Almighty: a life in pursuit of freedom. Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-1-58234-630-4. pp. 447
 Quinones, Ricardo J. Erasmus and Voltaire: Why They Still Matter (University of Toronto Press; 2010) 240 pages; Draws parallels between the two thinkers as voices of moderation with relevance today.
 Schwarzbach, Bertram Eugene, Voltaire's Old Testament Criticism, Librairie Droz, Geneva, 1971.
 Torrey, Norman L., The Spirit of Voltaire, Columbia University Press, 1938.

 Wright, Charles Henry Conrad, A History of French Literature, Oxford University Press, 1912.
 "The Cambridge Companion to Voltaire", ed by Nicholas Cronk, 2009.
 " Scriitori francezi" - Mic dicționar, Ed. Științifică și Enciclopedică, București, 1978.

În franceză
 René Pomeau, La Religion de Voltaire, Librairie Nizet, Paris, 1974.
 Valérie Crugten-André, La vie de Voltaire

Surse primare
 Morley, J., The Works of Voltaire, A Contemporary Version, (21 vol 1901), online edition

Legături externe

 Encyclopédie , ARTFL Project, University of Chicago
 PRÉSENTATION DES OEUVRES COMPLÈTES DE VOLTAIRE EN CD-ROM, Voltaire: Édition Electronique
 Château de Cirey – Residence of Voltaire, visitvoltaire.com
 Gabrielle Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil Marquise du Châtelet, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews, Scotland

 The Société Voltaire
 An analysis of Voltaire's texts (in the "textes" topic)
 Complete French ebooks of Voltaire
 Biography and quotes of Voltaire
 Full Ebooks of Voltaire in French on the website  "La philosophie"
 Institut et Musée Voltaire, Geneva, Switzerland
  Works by Voltaire edited at athena.unige.ch
 Internet Encyclopaedia of Philosophy on Voltaire
 Monsieur de Voltaire Correspondence in French
 The Life of Voltaire Essay by Caspar J M Hewett
 VisitVoltaire.com site with images
 Voltaire Foundation, Oxford, United Kingdom
 Voltaire on the 10 French Franc banknote.
 Voltaire's Candide and Leibniz
 Voltaire's works: works: text, concordances and frequency list
 Voltaire's writings from Philosophical Dictionary. Selected and Translated by H.I. Woolf, 1924
 Worldly and Personal Influences on Voltaire's Writing

 Free eBooks by Voltaire at Manybooks [English and French]

 Works by Voltaire in free audio format from LibriVox
 Voltaire's works and chronology
 About Voltaire in "Lucidcafé"
 Online Library of Liberty – The Works of Voltaire (1901). Some volumes, including mostly the unabridged Dictionnaire philosophique, translated by William F. Fleming
  Voltaire, his work in audio version

Nașteri în 1694
Nașteri pe 21 noiembrie
Decese în 1778
Decese pe 30 mai
Dramaturgi francezi
Eseiști francezi
Fellows of the Royal Society
Filozofi din secolul al XVIII-lea
Filozofi francezi
Filozofi ai Iluminismului
Filozofi moderni timpurii
Francezi cunoscuți sub pseudonimele folosite
Francmasoni francezi
Gânditori deiști
Istorici francezi
Membri ai Academiei Franceze
Membri ai Academiei de Știință a Prusiei
Membri onorifici ai Academiei de Știință din Sankt Petersburg
Memorialiști francezi
Monarhiști
Satirici francezi
Scriitori cunoscuți sub pseudonimele folosite
Scriitori francezi din secolul al XVIII-lea
Filozofi ai istoriei
Personalități ale Revoluției Franceze
Poeți din secolul al XVIII-lea
Absolvenți ai Lycée Louis-le-Grand
Eponime ale asteroizilor
Scriitori francezi de literatură fantastică
Critici ai religiei


in my apartment on the Victory Avenue.
and you were clutching your militsiya hat between your legs.
you never thought the tyrant could ever die.
in an orphanage in our beloved city of Stalin.
and you used to steal food from the communal kitchen.
of being born a tabula rasa.
Interruption of pregnancy is forbidden.
so I decided it would be mine, too.
is no friend of the state.
on the streets of Bucharest.
and you were donning the blue uniform of the militsiya.
wearing the face of a clerk.
like the sounds do when you try to call out my name.
and I was a middle aged shopkeeper.
but we ate in the dark because they cut the electricity again.
You said you found your place in the world.
I was a stranger everywhere I went.
while my solitude consumed me like a cancer.
and none of them were me.
and I've been living my life unknown by others.
changed everything while everything still stayed the same.
to flood your famished mouth.


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tv Washington Journal Mark Mix Discusses Right to Work Laws CSPAN September 4, 2017 8:00am-8:31am EDT
to work. at 8:00, senior editor jonah goldberg. >> conservatives should not place all their hopes in any politician. go back and read the federalist papers. they say this over and over again, you should have a healthy distrust of any political leader. sometimes particularly the ones that claim to be speaking for you. >> then at 9:00 p.m. eastern, the university of southern california annenberg professor, diane winston. >> six corporations own much of the american news media. and the digital revolution has meanwhile transformed the economy. networks and daily newspapers no longer set our national agenda. instead, many of us find information niches that reinforce our opinions. polarization seems to have split us into two nations. >> watch today on c-span and
c-span.org and listen ton the free c-span radio app. >> c-span, where history unfolds daily. c-span was created for america's television companies brought to you by our cable and satellite providers. ashington journal. >> our national right to work legal defense foundation and start by reminding our viewers what right to work laws and what the foundation does. guest: our right to work law protects every workers' right to join the union but would not contemplate workers being fired from their jobs for dues or fees to a organization, the labor union. 28 states have right to work laws on the books. one, missouri is being contested at this point and
probably will wind up on the ballot in 2018. over the past five years, six new states passed right to work laws and again, it's very simple and protects a workers right to join or not join a labor union as a condition of employment. host: you mentioned right to work laws state a map on your website showing those states with right to work laws on the books. we'll talk about missouri over the course of this half-hour that you're joining us. but in your views, are unions a bad thing? guest: absolutely not. there's a place for unions and has been a and there would be a place but there's no place for compulsion in the union movement. they've relied on government privileges to force workers to join them and pay dues and fees as their primary organizing model. that's not a really good recipe for success. we would encourage union officials to sell their product to workers like they do in right to work states and convince workers to provide a service that's necessary and important and can add value to a relationship in the employment field. there's no place for compulsion
and plenty of places for workers to join together voluntarily and have their voices amplified. host: what about the argument nonunion members get a free ride on benefits unions negotiate. guest: that's one of the topically palatable arguments union officials make all the time but when you look at it in substance from a statutory construction frame point you find it's totally false. what happens is union officials have negotiated and actually encouraged and lobbied for the privilege to be the exclusive bargaining agent for every workers in the bargaining unit. that means you john as an individual can't talk to your employer directly and if he thinks you're doing a great job he can't reward you for that because there's a monopoly voice in the marketplace and that's the labor union so what they want is they want the exclusive power to speak for all workers and then they want to have everyone pay them for the privilege of taking away their right to represent themselves and that's the injustice. it's the compels membership and association that comes with the law and on top of that they say
you have to pay for it even though you never asked for it and never voted for. host: in the segment of the washington journal, a special line for union member it is you want to call in and ask questions for mark mix. it's 202-748-8003 or otherwise lines as usual, democrats 202-748-8000, republicans 2o 2-748-8001 and independents, 272-748-8002. we showed the map right to work states and what about the argument wages are better for workers in states that don't have right to work laws on the book. the economic policy institute we're having an economist from the institute on after you. they have a report, wages 3.1% lower in so-called right to work states for union and nonunion workers alike after correctly accounting for differences in cost of living, demographics and labor market changes. they say the negative impact of right to work laws translates to $1,560 less a year in earnings for the typical
full-time workers. guest: i would suggest we question their statistics. finally, they've noted the need to adjust for cost of living. the e.p.i. never did that before and they would have this union and nonunion differential that was completely -- didn't make any cents because they weren't adjusting for cost of living. they say they do that but the adjustments are very technical. here's the first principle. should a worker be forced to pay union dues to get or keep a job today. principle number one. principle two talks about economic issues and issues of wages. i would suggest to you we can produce a study from the professor of university of colorado and one from brooklyn university that shows when adjusted for cost of living workers in right to work states have $2,600 more in disposable income than workers in forced union states. we can argue about the statistics but not the compulsion in the law. host: what's the legal defense foundation role in these sort of public debates we're having and in these individual efforts
for the move right to work laws for states. guest: the legal defense foundation role is to respond to employees subject to union compulsion. when they call and say hey, i lost my job because i wouldn't pay union fees to a union that's corrupt or embezzling money or spending it on politics i disagree with, how can you help me? the legal defense has been providing free legal aid to workers atropical storm the nation since 1968 and we've been from the local court to the u.s. supreme court representing workers specifically. we sue employers and unions on behalf of workers in their exercise to work in the workplace. host: mark mix is the president of the right to work legal defense fund here to take your questions on this labor day morning. special line for union members, 202-748-8003. for democrats, we'll start with james in virginia beach, virginia, good morning. caller: good morning. the united k to
the workers trained right to work, they're taking hese jobs, taking the jobs and republicans, what they did is started shipping jobs overseas instead of bringing slaves to work and brought in slave labor. host: i'll ask you your opinion on unions today? caller: not the right to work under any conditions that don't have no benefits. this is why the republican party, donald trump, they vls cut wages. host: and we'll talk about the
history he lays out. guest: james gets to the point of history, that's the discrimination. if you look at the bargaining privilege unions enjoy, it was primarily instituted through a judicial precedent in the supreme court when in the railway business white union officials decided they didn't want to represent black railway workers. and these black railway workers went to the court and said how can you force us to join this union and be a member of the union and pay dues to the union and allow them to say they're not going to represent us in the workplace. and in a case of 1944, the u.s. supreme court court, the louisville national railroad versus steel the supreme court said we've given power to union officials equal to government, almost like to sovereign to say we can speak on your behalf and if you're going to take that monopoly power then you have to speak for everyone. so in 1944 that was the case. another statute, the davis-bacon law which deals with government construction, 1931, that law was passed to keep black workers from moving
to the north to taking construction jobs. there's a history of what james speaks of. i would disagree with his final point. i believe giving him a choice in the workplace, whether or not to be represented by the union or pay union dues is actually protecting his liberty, not taking away from it. host: special line for union members. bill's on that line in wilmington, north korea. bill, go ahead. caller: good morning. as a retired autoworkers, i actually still pay union dues but it's my choice. it's a small amount and i don't have to but i do. the only problem i have is the radioity -- right to work state and you correct me if i'm wrong. if you work in a place union membership is voluntary and employee joins the union and employee b does not join the union, when the union negotiates a new contract, employee b who is not a member, if there are raises and so forth and benefits involved, he
automatically gets those. if that's true, that's where i think it's wrong. if you're the union member and paying dues and if there are any rewards to be had you should get them. employee b who is not a union member and other employees, if they want something they should go negotiate for themselves. they should not be included in any union benefits. correct me if i'm wrong. guest: i would agree with you with that. as we mentioned ear originally in the leadup, the union officials have this extreme privilege called exclusive monopoly representation. union officials don't contest this privilege they've been granted in that they can speak for every worker. as i mentioned with the last caller, james, the idea that the union would be able to be the exclusive bargaining agent, meaning the sole voice in the workplace meaning you can't to your employer without them present if they want to be, you
can't adjudicate a grievance question without the union signing off on it because they're the exclusive bargaining agent. if union officials would simply represent the workers that want to join them voluntarily and allow everyone else who doesn't to be able to speak for themselves in the workplace, that would solve the problem. we tried that. we actually introduced a bill on capitol hill in 1993 i believe it was and then congressman dick armey introduced a bill called the voluntary bargaining act which would have reformed the labor policy and allow union officials to bargain only for their members. you might guess who opposed that, lane kirkland, president of the afl-viu saying it was anti-union to represent the workers who want to voluntarily join and give them the benefits of that organization and exclude individual workers who didn't want to join the union and they opposed it because they know this exclusive representation and monopoly bargaining gives them power over the entire work force and gives them the ability to make the claim that workers ought to pay them as a condition of
employment. host: that's from the bureau of labor statistics on union membership in the united states. this is in 2016, total union membership about 10.7% of the work force is much higher in the public sector, 34.4% than in the private sector, 6.4% to show you that number over time in the years that the bureau of labor statistics has been tracking this has gone steadily downwards from 10.7% in 2016 and 11.1% in 2015 and in 2005, 12.5% and 1995, 14.9% and 1985, 18% of the work force was involved in unions. last week the president of the afl-cio, richard trumpka and asked about the decline of union membership over the years and what he had to say. [video clip] >> it's going to take us a multifaceted campaign to be able to reverse that trend group there is a strong
of people well financed that want to eliminate unions from the playing field. the republican party by and large attacks unions whether at the state level or federal level. so we have to work on the political climate there. but we also have to start fighting and fighting to change the rules of the economy so that working people get a fair shot. and whether that's trade rules, tax rules, labor laws or anything else that make it harder or easier for workers to get a voice on the job, we have to attack those. and then there's us. we have to ramp up the scale that we approach organizing with and we have to become better at coordinating with each other on the organizing front. it's no longer acceptable, i
guess, it's no longer a smart strategy, let me put it that way, for us to individually pursue units. it's more important for us to do so collectively and strategically and that's what we're working on. is that going to reverse overnight? it's a long shot. it's a long thing. and i said, when you're being attacked in 25 or 26 states at every different level and well financed people like the coke brothers and shell natleson and some of the others and owners of the papers that are here i would venture to say, when their sole mission is to eliminate workers having a voice so they can have the playing field to themselves, it's going to be a fight but it's nothing new. labor has always been under attack. host: mark mix said they're a
well financed organization to aimeliminate unions from the playing field. is he talking about his group? guest: he believes it in his mind. the week before one of the unions affiliated with him said they'd spend $100 million in six states to repeal right to work laws and is the opposite of what they're saying, they have to convince working men and women to join them. they are wards of the government and their privileges have been granted and is protected by government entities and why they have to play so hard in politics. if richard trumpka would spend less time worrying about us and the members he wants to represent, the union would be just fine. host: go ahead, pat. caller: good morning to john and your guest there. sir, you came on there and one of the first things you said during your open there was that you were protecting people from these lousy labor unions that
were crooked and stealing and different things like that and don't deny that you said it, sir. that's what you said. you said you were protecting people from that. but i'm not going to go and say something about lawyers who have a stake in this and putting money in their back pockets and there's a alec that's funded by the coke brothers and they are fighting this in 30 some states, i'm not going to mention that. host: what's your question for mark mix? caller: john, let me finish, please. i won't take up too much time. but notice how i turned the tables just like he did on framing my questions. but i've got about three questions for you, sir. are a capitalist? do you believe in the capitalist exist? guest: i believe in the market system that hard work usually pays off, i believe that, yes.
caller: i agree with you on that. now, let me ask you this, when it's ess is framing bottom line, it includes labor as one of the so-called products in its cause, so they go out on the market and buy that labor. then why can't people who sell labor as a product, why can't they get together just like corporations do and sell their product, sir. why can't they do it? why do you want to restrict them from the right to gather together? caller: they do it every day, sir. they do it every day. we have 6% private sector union density in this country. we have 37% union density in the government sector. are you saying there's no right to unions in the right to work states? would it surprise to you know in alabama the right to work state is higher than in missouri a nonright to work state. what i would suggest to you s writer s first of all as far as protecting individual workers rights, that's what we do.
i don't think i turned the phrase and i disagree with what you said as you turn my phrases around, protecting workers is what we do. i'm not a lawyer, by the way, f.y.i. i stayed at a holiday inn select last night but i'm not a lawyer. protecting individual workers rights is an important thing to do, whether it be unions protecting their rights or individuals protecting their own rights through the use of an organization like ours at the national right to work legal defense foundation. there's nothing in the laws in any of the right to work states or here in washington that prohibits anyone from joining a union or participating in a union. if you want to give your entire paycheck to a union official, you can do that. no one will argue with that. maybe your wife would but i wouldn't and the law wouldn't. in right to work states they're simply protected and can't be fired for tail you are to tender dues or fees. it's that simple. host: we talk about right to work laws, explain what's going on in missouri right now? guest: in missouri the legislature passed and the new governor signed a right to work law making missouri the 28th state to do that. union officials down there, the
afl-ciu filed petitions with the secretary of state to exercise what they call a veto referendum. where the public can go in and overturn a statute passed by the legislature. it looks like those petitions will be certified by the secretary of state and that should happen in another week or two and what that means is the right to work law won't go into effect until the people get a chance to vote on it and likely that vote will occur in november of 2018 where they say yes we agree with what the legislature did or no, we don't. if they do that and they agree, then the right to work law will go into effect and if it doesn't they'll have to do it again. host: are there other states right to work laws will be on the ballot in 2018 at this point. guest: not that we're aware of. this is a bill to repeal the right to work law that passed statutorily. there are other states that consider putting right to work on the ballot but the general proposition is to go to the legislature and have your officials vote on whether a orker should be free to join and then hold them accountable. ost: the lines as usual,
202-748-8000 and republicans 202-748-8001 and mark mix is with us for about the next 10 minutes or so. he's president of the national right to work legal defense foundation on twitter it's easy,@righttowork if you want to follow along. george is in ocala, florida, republican. go ahead. caller: how are you doing, guys? good morning. just wanted to say that you had the barons and they took a monopoly on everything and they did and they kept labor down. then you had the collective bargaining which were the unions that took back the power and kind of like evened things out. but then they went over the top. because they are corporations whether people know that or not. and then i remember when i first got out of vietnam, i'm a combat veteran and spent time,
in vietnam they grabbed louie lamont and his mother had a car and we'd go down to labor unions and figure man, this is the way to do it, get in the union as an atrent us and go on. all right. they laughed at us. well, one guy did but he was back of the glass, you know what i mean but three or four other guys took our -- one guy we saw thrown in the trash can because you know why, you got net -- you got to have participant. you've got to have a brother or father -- my brother is a union electrician for 30 some years up in philly and he just got his son in, you foe what i mean? so it ain't like you can just go down there and join. i thought the unions wanted the whole world to be union. then the last thing i'm going to say is i'm going on too long
now is -- not the last thing, one other thing. mafia, these guys are like more owned by the mafia and use labor to twist business. host: you make some great points. senator mcclellan from arkansas during the hearings in 1959 under the laundry rum griffin act, the labor management reporting and disclosure act he said compulsion and corruption go hand in hand. and he has a point. no union officials can force them into this legislative and force them to accept them as the bargaining agent and force them to pay dues as a condition of employment, that lead to interest in other things and those other things become the type of corruption you're talking about which is part of labor union history and part of all our histories but the labor unions when you compel someone to pay dues it eliminates the need for customer service and union officials i think will be
st fine if they decide to do voluntary membership. the founder of the afl-ciu, we call him the father of labor unions, he said they're here to volunteer institutions and anything sells a men toys their rights. in america we created a law that compels people into these collectives whether they want to be or not. common sense tells you a group that's brought together through voluntary means is inherently stronger than ones compelled and forced together by compulsion. host: a union member in griffin, georgia. good morning. caller: good morning. what he's not telling you is no one forces you to join a union. i used to work for the phone company. no one forced me to join the union. i joined voluntarily and the union dues were not that much. and he's also not telling you that if you live and work in a right to work state, they can fire you for no reason or any
reason. they don't have to have a reason to fire you. they can just say we don't need you anymore and you're stuck out there by yourself. and if you don't belong to a union, how in the world will you negotiate for yourself, just one person? one person walks in and says i need a raise and then next week they say no, we don't want to give her a raise, we'll find a reason to get rid of her. so he needs to stop spinning and sprouting all those lies he's telling. host: let's let mark mix respond. caller: thanks for the call and thanks for joining voluntarily in the labor union and you're one example of how a union provided benefit to you. i think the legal doctrine you're talking about is the employment at will doctrine that's completely separate from the right to work doctrine. the employment at will indicates an employer doesn't have to have a reason for firing. that's a completely different statute. so let's not confuse the two. a right to work doctrine says you can join a union or don't have to join a union.
and obviously membership in a union, formal membership is no longer required and was from 1937 to 1961. the supreme court looked at the labor policy in the country and said, you know, it's probably a little bit of a stretch to force people to formally join a private organization. that's like saying you have to join the chamber of commerce or you have to join the presbyterian church. that's the theory they finally came to in 1961 and said you no longer can be forced to be a formal member of a union but be forced to pay up to 100% of dues which is pretty close to being a formal member. when you say i say forced to join a union, no, i don't think i said you can be forced to join a union, i said forced to join a union or pay dues or fees to a union. if you work in a place there's a union security agreement in the contract and you don't pay your union dues, you lose your job. that's a fact. host: long tooth writes in stagnant wages and union decline are not a coincidence.
found a chart that can speak to that tweet, this also from the economic policy institute. the red line on this chart showing union membership as a percentage of the work force in the country. the blue line, the share of income going to the top 10% in this country. u see since the 1960's the decline in union member leadership and the share going to the top 10% and they write labor unions both sustained prosperity and ensured it was shared. the bottom line is clear here's a demonstrable wage difference and it's more pronounced for lesser skilled workers and spills over in nonunion workers. guest: why would they descent compulsion. their problem or reason is the solution to all our woes in this country and yet still rely on the ability to force a worker to pay them dues or fees to keep a job. it doesn't make sense and is a
complete disconnect. if their product was so good workers would join them voluntarily and wouldn't need compulsion but yet they go to legislatures across the country and come to washington and as richard trumpka says in the speech in front of the christian science monitor needs to change the way they operate. he admits it. volunteerism is a nice reform for richard trumka and the afl. host: good morning, an independent. caller: thanks for taking me call. pardon me but in the union you said the union was a monopoly and that stuff. but you totally failed to mention wal-mart, target, all these other stores, all these other places and corporations are monopolies, also. so basically in one word when trying to counter one thing with the other thing and second, when you say right to work it should be right to work for less because all the wages are different and the unionized states. i saw a map and basically
everything was all the lower states. guest: there's 28 of them. that's more than half. i don't under. i apologize about that. i don't know if wal-mart can compel you to shop there. it may be one of the few options open to people that live in certain areas. i don't know target can force you to shop at their store. i won't get into an argument whether or not you think they are monopolies or not. what i will say is under current law, union officials can have mp bargaining privileges meaning they're the only voice in the workplace. that's a pretty good definition of monopoly. host: another tweet from vatex and labor unions, an obsolete relic of the 19th century. mike is a union member in ohio. go ahead. caller: let me express my outrage you would have this person on labor day to
celebrate the workers of america. i'm a retired operating engineer and because i was able to retire with a decent pension with health care, thank god for unions. and let me say another thing, this person is nothing but a highly paid man for the top 1% and 2% backed by charles and david coke. they have their beginnings. it's been decades and what their idea is, is to plug the court system with lawsuits against unions and unions do t have the money behind them to protect them from people like him. their idea is to bankrupt unions and now that they have kneel gorse itch in the supreme court court, watch for lawsuits
and you name it. and unions won't be able to fight back. host: i got your point. mark mix, a chance to respond and explain how the national right to work legal defense foundation is funded and how it's operated. guest: mike makes the point about -- well, obviously made lots of points about me and my ability to speak here this morning. i think c-span for the opportunity to talk about this issue because the right to work foundation represents employees like mike and they come to us with concerns, obviously a different viewpoint than mike but the idea that somehow this is an attack, union officials raise and spend about $20 billion a year. that's a pretty big operation. in fact, their political operation according to studies from their own reports here in washington, they spend $1.7 billion on politics over the last two years in the presidential election. that's more than the democratic party, it's more than the republican party and more than donald trump and more than the coketh
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Radij Faritowitsch Chabirow (baschkirisch: Радий Фəрит улы Хəбиров, russisch: Радий Фаритович Хабиров, * 20. März 1964 im Dorf Sajranovo, Rajon Ischimbai, Baschkirische ASSR, RSFSR, UdSSR) ist ein russischer Politiker (Einiges Russland) und seit 19. September 2019 Oberhaupt der Republik Baschkortostan.

Biographie
Chabirow wurde in eine Familie von Pädagogen geboren. Er ist der jüngste unter drei Söhnen.

Chabirow war Fräserlehrling von 1981 bis 1982 im Ischimbai-Werkes für Fahrzeugbau. Nachher leistete er seinen Grundwehrdienst in der Sowjetarmee von 1982 bis 1984 ab. Von 1984 bis 1989 studierte er an der juristischen Fakultät der Baschkirischen Staatlichen Universität. Danach war er als Assistent am Lehrstuhl für Staatsrecht und sowjetischen Aufbau an der juristischen Fakultät der Baschkirischen Staatlichen Universität (BSU) von 1989 bis 1992 tätig. Zeitgleich war er Vorsitzender des Gewerkschaftskomitees der Studenten der BSU. Von 1992 bis 1994 studierte er an der Bilkent-Universität in Ankara (Türkei). Nach seinem Abschluss dort wurde ihm der akademische Grad Magister verliehen. Im Anschluss war er von 1994 bis 2003 wieder an der BSU tätig, als Oberdozent bis 1998, als Prodekan und Hochschuldozent bis 2002 und als amtierender Direktor, Direktor der Hochschule für Rechtswissenschaften bis 2003. Danach wechselte er in die Politik.

Chabirow hat zwei Töchter aus erster Ehe mit Larisa Lukjanowa, mit der er von 1987 bis 2013 verheiratet war. Seine zweite Ehefrau ist Karine Chabirowa, geborene Awetisjan. Mit ihr zusammen hat er seit 2017 einen Sohn.

Politische Karriere
Von September 2003 bis Juli 2008 war er Leiter der Präsidialverwaltung der Republik Baschkortostan und vom 27. August 2008 bis Dezember 2008 als Leiter der Abteilung für Zusammenwirken mit der Föderationsversammlung Russlands und den politischen Parteien des Amtes der russische Präsidialverwaltung für Innenpolitik tätig. Im Jahr 2009 übernahm er den Posten des stellvertretenden Leiters des Amtes der russischen Präsidialverwaltung für Innenpolitik bis zum 19. September 2016. Am 25. Januar 2017 wurde er amtierender Bürgermeister des Stadtkreises Krasnogorsk in der Oblast Moskau und ab dem 28. März 2017 Bürgermeister des Stadtkreises.

Seit dem 11. Oktober 2018 war er geschäftsführendes Oberhaupt der Republik Baschkortostan. Am Einheitstag der Stimmabgabe, dem 8. September 2019, wurde er mit einem Ergebnis von 82,02 % in der ersten Runde der Wahlen zum Oberhaupt der Republik Baschkortostan gewählt. Er trat am 19. September offiziell das Amt des Oberhauptes der Republik an. Seine Amtszeit endet 2024.

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Im Vorfeld der Präsidentschaftswahlen 2003 in der Republik Baschkortostan warfen die Oppositionskandidaten Chabirow vor, eine geheime Druckerei zu betreiben, in der gefälschte Stimmzettel gedruckt worden seien. Ein Mitarbeiter der örtlichen Staatsanwaltschaft, der diesen Fall öffentlich gemacht hatte, wurde kurze Zeit später entlassen und die Ermittlungen eingestellt.

Klassenrang
Aktueller Staatsrat der Russischen Föderation der Klasse 2 (seit dem 7. Mai 2009 gemäß dem Präsidialerlaß Nr. 520).

Auszeichnungen und Titel
 2014 Ehrenurkunde des Präsidenten der Russischen Föderation verliehen für Arbeitserfolge, bedeutenden Beitrag zur sozioökonomischen Entwicklung der Russischen Föderation, Verdienste um den humanitären Bereich, Stärkung von Gesetzlichkeit und Rechtsordnung, aktive Rechtsetzungs- und Öffentlichkeitstätigkeit, vieljährige gewissenhafte Arbeit
 2015 Orden der Pflichttreue der Republik Krim verliehen für Mut, Patriotismus, politisch-gesellschaftliche Aktivitäten, persönlichen Beitrag zur Stärkung der Einheit, Entwicklung und Gedeihen der Republik Krim und im Zusammenhang mit dem Tag der Wiedervereinigung der Krim mit Russland
 Verdienter Jurist der Republik Baschkortostan

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14 Books By Professors I Had in College
Posted by Aryssa on August 20, 2018 August 12, 2018
In honor of Back to School time and the fact that I'm low on ideas right now, here's a list of books by professors I had during my undergraduate career at Yale. Holla at that English department, am I right? Only a few of them are fiction, but if you like scholarly work or you're an English major you might find something interesting here.
And if you're wondering if I ever took classes outside of the English department…the answer is pretty much no. Only when absolutely necessary.
Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr by John Crowley
Dar Oakley—the first Crow in all of history with a name of his own—was born two thousand years ago. When a man learns his language, Dar finally gets the chance to tell his story. He begins his tale as a young man, and how he went down to the human underworld and got hold of the immortality meant for humans, long before Julius Caesar came into the Celtic lands; how he sailed West to America with the Irish monks searching for the Paradise of the Saints; and how he continuously went down into the land of the dead and returned. Through his adventures in Ka, the realm of Crows, and around the world, he found secrets that could change the humans' entire way of life—and now may be the time to finally reveal them.
The Hours by Michael Cunningham
The Hours tells the story of three women: Virginia Woolf, beginning to write Mrs. Dalloway as she recuperates in a London suburb with her husband in 1923; Clarissa Vaughan, beloved friend of an acclaimed poet dying from AIDS, who in modern-day New York is planning a party in his honor; and Laura Brown, in a 1949 Los Angeles suburb, who slowly begins to feel the constraints of a perfect family and home. By the end of the novel, these three stories intertwine in remarkable ways, and finally come together in an act of subtle and haunting grace.
Master Class in Fiction Writing by Adam Sexton
Many writers believe that if they just find the right teacher or workshop, their writing will reach new heights of skill. But why not learn from the best? In his popular workshops in New York City, creative writing instructor Adam Sexton has found that the most effective way for any writer to grasp on the elements of fiction is to study the great masters. Master Class in Fiction Writing is your personal crash course in creative writing, with the world's most accomplished fiction writers as your guides.
The Trouble with Normal by Michael Warner
Michael Warner, one of our most brilliant social critics, argues that gay marriage and other moves toward normalcy are bad not just for the gays but for everyone. In place of sexual status quo, Warner offers a vision of true sexual autonomy that will forever change the way we think about sex, shame, and identity.
Paper Minds: Literature and the Ecology of Consciousness by Jonathan Kramnick
How do poems and novels create a sense of mind? What does literary criticism say in conversation with other disciplines that addresses problems of consciousness? In Paper Minds, Jonathan Kramnick takes up these vital questions, exploring the relations between mind and environment, the literary forms that uncover such associations, and the various fields of study that work to illuminate them.
It by Joseph Roach
That mysterious characteristic "It"—"the easily perceived but hard-to-define quality possessed by abnormally interesting people"—is the subject of Joseph Roach's engrossing new book, which crisscrosses centuries and continents with a deep playfulness that entertains while it enlightens. Roach traces the origins of "It" back to the period following the Restoration, persuasively linking the sex appeal of today's celebrity figures with the attraction of those who lived centuries before. The book includes guest appearances by King Charles II, Samuel Pepys, Flo Ziegfeld, Johnny Depp, Elinor Glyn, Clara Bow, the Second Duke of Buckingham, John Dryden, Michael Jackson, and Lady Diana, among others.
London in the Age of Shakespeare by Lawrence Manley
London in the age of Shakespeare was one of the largest and most important cities of Europe. Poets and poetasters, rhetoricians and preachers were able to use the city as an object for displays of technical rhetoric in ballads, bawdy jests, sermons, and tales. There is today an unparalleled wealth of contemporary descriptions which give us a vivid picture of what life was like in London in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Professor Manley has collected a rich variety of such documents on Shakespeare's London, many of which have never before been translated into English
Beautiful Fools by R Clifton Spargo
In this evocative and meticulously detailed novel about the last romance of one of America's greatest literary couples, R. Clifton Spargo crafts an exhilarating portrait of the passionate yet tragically dysfunctional relationship between F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald.
The Intellectual Life of Edmund Burke by David Bromwich
This biography of statesman Edmund Burke (1729-1797), covering three decades, is the first to attend to the complexity of Burke's thought as it emerges in both the major writings and private correspondence. David Bromwich reads Burke's career as an imperfect attempt to organize an honorable life in the dense medium he knew politics to be.
The Victorian Verse Novel by Stefanie Markovits
The Victorian Verse-Novel: Aspiring to Life considers the rise of a hybrid generic form, the verse-novel, in the second half of the nineteenth century. Such poems combined epic length with novelistic plots in the attempt to capture not a heroic past but the quotidian present. Victorian verse-novels also tended to be rough-mixed, their narrative sections interspersed with shorter, lyrical verses in varied measures. In flouting the rules of contemporary genre theory, which saw poetry as the purview of the eternal and ideal and relegated the everyday to the domain of novelistic prose, verse-novels proved well suited to upsetting other hierarchies, as well, including those of gender and class.
An Enlarged Heart by Cynthia Zarin
An Enlarged Heart, the exquisitely written prose debut from prize-winning poet Cynthia Zarin, is a poignantly understated exploration of the author's experiences with love, work, and the surprise of time's passage. In these intertwined episodes from her New York world and beyond, she charts the shifting and complicated parameters of contemporary life and family in writing that feels nearly fictional in its richness of scene, dialogue, and mood.
Fallible Authors: Chaucer's Pardoner and the Wife of Bath by Alastair Minnis
This innovative book places these "fallible authors" within the full intellectual context that gave them meaning. Alastair Minnis magisterially examines the impact of Aristotelian thought on preaching theory, the controversial practice of granting indulgences, religious and medical categorizations of deviant bodies, theological attempts to rationalize sex within marriage, Wycliffite doctrine that made authority dependent on individual grace and raised the specter of Donatism, and heretical speculation concerning the possibility of female teachers
The American Play: 1787-2000 by Marc Robinson
In this brilliant study, Marc Robinson explores more than two hundred years of plays, styles, and stagings of American theater. Mapping the changing cultural landscape from the late eighteenth century to the start of the twenty-first, he explores how theater has—and has not—changed and offers close readings of plays by O'Neill, Stein, Wilder, Miller, and Albee, as well as by important but perhaps lesser known dramatists such as Wallace Stevens, Jean Toomer, Djuna Barnes, and many others.
Bardic Nationalism by Katie Trumpener
This magisterial work links the literary and intellectual history of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Britain's overseas colonies during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries to redraw our picture of the origins of cultural nationalism, the lineages of the novel, and the literary history of the English-speaking world.
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If you blog, this has probably happened to you: you are anticipating an event and shaping it into a blog post before it even happens and then it goes differently than you thought it would, in a big or even in a small way, and then you're not sure how to present it.
Anyway, we had out-of-town relatives visit this weekend and went to see the cherry blossoms and June has her first loose tooth. Both events were long anticipated. The original prediction for peak bloom was the last week of March and we thought we might miss it while we were out of town, but then we had a long cold spell and it was pushed back not once but twice, all the way to last weekend, which coincided with a visit from my mother, aunt, cousin and cousin's son. It seemed like the stars were aligning for my mom, who has never seen the cherry blossoms in full bloom despite several tries. We did come awfully close last year, though ("Cherry Blossom Baby," 3/25/12).
Meanwhile, June has been watching her friends lose their teeth for years (the first kid she knew to lose one was a preschool classmate) with jealousy and impatience and the occasional spurious claim that she had a loose tooth of her own. But then on Wednesday evening she was eating a banana and when she bit into it she said her tooth hurt. A little later she said it was loose and I asked her to wiggle it and sure enough it wasn't just loose but nearly ready to come out, from what I could tell. She showed it to her friends at school the next day and Megan, who has experience with loose teeth, predicted it would be out by Sunday at the latest.
I had a dentist appointment in the city in the morning to reattach a crown that popped off while I was eating saltwater taffy earlier in the week so after that Mom and I met at the Phillips Collection and spent several hours there. I'd almost forgotten it was possible to spend so much time in a museum, rather than rushing in and out so the kids won't get antsy. I'd picked it mainly out of convenience because it's close to my dentist. But that didn't matter, almost any museum would have done.
At this one there was an exhibit on three abstract expressionists, one of Italian photographs, and another one consisting of rubber sculptures that were "meditations on the brevity of life." (This sounds weird, but I recommend it. You really have to see it to get it.) We listened to a gallery talk on Renoir's "Luncheon of the Boating Party" and went into a new, permanent installation, a closet-sized room whose walls have been coated with beeswax. It smells wonderful and it's quite soothing to step into it. We also saw part of a Jacob Lawrence series of Northern migration of African Americans, and a good bit of the permanent collection, including Van Gogh, Cézanne, O'Keefe, and many other familiar artists. In between we had lunch at the museum café and browsed in the gift shop.
At brunch we learned Josiah also has his first loose tooth and I told Emily we might have just the thing for it—some saltwater taffy we'd bought for them at the beach. After all, it took a tooth out of my mouth, albeit a fake one. I'd forgotten to bring it to the restaurant, (the taffy, not my crown) but I promised to bring it to our next rendezvous. Surely one of these kids is going to lose a tooth this weekend, I thought.
After brunch and some playground time (during which Noah seemed to have as much fun pretending the big climbing/slide structure was a ship going to France and then Indiana as the younger kids did) we split up so the out-of-town folks could go to Air and Space while we stayed home for homework, grocery shopping, and a birthday party. We met up again in the city for dinner at an Ethiopian restaurant, very close to where we used to live in DC. This mural really took me back when we exited the station. Seeing all those painted people was like re-encountering long-lost friends.
Mom and Beth had a difficult time convincing me to agree to this outing because I am a stick in the mud and I didn't think the kids would eat anything and I knew even an early dinner would keep us out later than I'd like. I was wrong on the first count. Noah actually liked the food and said he wants to go back some day. June mostly ate tomatoes we picked out of one dish and the spongy bread, but it was okay because she was still full from birthday cake at her friend's party. After dinner, Josiah tore into the taffy, but his tooth did not exit his mouth.
Sunday was the main event: cherry blossoms. I mentioned this on Facebook Saturday evening and a friend of mine said she'd been there that day and the blossoms were not in bloom yet, although she said they looked "ready to burst." Sometimes a day can make a big difference, so I hoped for the best.
We all met at the Smithsonian metro stop and walked toward the Tidal Basin. I warned my mom ahead of time about what my friend said, and it was probably a good thing I did because they just weren't there yet. A few trees here and there were in bloom (we found one for the group photo), but mostly they were just as Kathryn had said, "ready to burst," but not bursting.
Still, it was a lovely spring day, a bit chilly in the morning, but sunny and warmer as the day progressed. We walked all around the Tidal Basin, stopping to admire the MLK Memorial and to look at the statues and waterfalls and climb the rocks at the FDR Memorial. We picnicked on fried rice and eggrolls from the Asian food stand and everyone seemed to have a good time, even without the blossoms.
Anyway, the moral of this blog post was going to be about the exuberance of spring and kids growing up and waiting for things and being rewarded, but the blossoms didn't cooperate and neither June nor Josiah lost a tooth, so I guess it must be about something else. Of course the blossoms will bloom, whether we make it down there at the right time this year or not, and those wiggly teeth are going to come out sooner or later. So maybe it's about patience and enjoying what you have while you wait for other things, and doing that with equanimity rather than just managing keep a grip. That's often a good strategy for life anyway.
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Indonesia remains the number 1 leisure location for Australian travellers with more than 1,2 million visits annually, and while the appeal is obvious, it's not uncommon to think Bali is just a stereotypical Aussie holiday destination filled with, well, let's just say an often less desirable crowd. While this is true in certain areas of Kuta, Legian and Seminyak, the outskirts of Bali, like Uluwatu, is where the real magic happens. It's where you experience the best that Bali has to offer from arguably the world's best clifftop sunsets to authentic cultural experiences. It's here where you get the best Indonesian food, meet the most amazing local people and where you truly relax, like to the core relax.
The Renaissance Resort & Spa in Uluwatu perfectly encapsulates what a real Bali holiday should look like as it provides unprecedented luxury and service but still manages to co-exist harmoniously with its environment as they embrace the local culture. Plainly said, this is what makes a good hotel great.
From the moment you arrive you feel at ease, and we're not just referring to arrival at the hotel, we're referring to your arrival at Bali airport (Denpasar). The Bali airport can be very overwhelming when you arrive with 100's of taxi drivers approaching you, asking if you need a taxi and as is standard, they will try to squeeze the most money possible from you. As a guest of the Renaissance, let them take care of your airport pick up with a designated driver awaiting your arrival holding a sign with your name on. Anxiety be gone.
If ever there was a moment in your life where you'd opt for the slightly better, slightly more expensive option just to treat yo'self, this is it fellas! The junior suite is just remarkable with breathtaking views; it's easy to see that this large open plan room was designed with absolute enjoyment and relaxation in mind. A large king bed with the fluffiest duvet and pillows, a private balcony, a stylish kitchenette island and a bathroom to die for. These are just the main features, wait till you see the stand-alone bath overlooking lush greenery through its floor to ceiling windows. That's some jaw-dropping stuff.
Uluwatu is famous for many things, but it has to be the cliffs that take the crown. The Renaissance Resort and Spa is situated on top of one of these beautiful inland clifftops complete with an infinity pool to ensure your better half gets that perfect holiday 'gram. The hotel is conveniently located to be close enough to the things that matter, but far enough from the sometimes-overwhelming Bali crowds. As a bonus, you'll struggle to find a better sunset in Bali than right by the Renaissance pool bar, cocktail in hand of course.
Have you even been on holiday if you haven't gone for a spa treatment? We'd suggest going for the 60 or 90-minute traditional Balinese massage and we can almost guarantee that you will walk out of there feeling like you've slept for days. Then tomorrow, do it again… because for a world-class spa treatment at less than half the price it would cost you in Sydney, why the hell not?
Ever heard of a Hotel Navigator? It's a new concept introduced by the Renaissance group and basically, it's a concierge with super-powers. This guy can do everything and organize anything for you. Anything. You want to go on a fishing trip with a local? He'll organize that plus have the hotel restaurant cook your catch for dinner. Want to have breakfast on a private beach with someone playing the guitar in the background just for you? No worries. Want to go to an organic farm to pick your own bok choy? You get the picture.
You'd have to search far and wide to find a hotel that can match the facilities of the Renaissance in Uluwatu. Other than the expected, the following facilities really stood out for us: The infinity pool, the pool lounge area, the pool bar (really, the whole pool area is amazing) the in-house pottery classes, the on-site chapel, the resort departure lounge and the fitness centre on the edge of the hotel cliff with floor to ceiling windows.
Beach clubs are a genuine good time and as you probably already know, Bali is famous for having some of the best in the world. Now welcoming another to this elite list is the Renaissance's very own Roosterfish Beach Club that's only a short drive from the hotel. Hotel guests also receive a complimentary shuttle service to and from the Roosterfish Beach Club because, well, they're absolute legends.
The Renaissance Hotel has made a conscious decision to be eco-friendly with various initiatives to help the environment flourish.
Where do I even begin? Every single person working at the Renaissance in Uluwatu genuinely wants to make sure you have the time of your life. Your happiness is their happiness.
There you have it. An absolute no-brainer for your next trip to Bali. Just sit back, relax and let the good times roll.
Man of Many travelled to Bali as a guest of The Renaissance Resort & Spa in Uluwatu. All photos credited to Marriot International.


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Written by Broderick Schwinghammer October 29, 2018 October 29, 2018
Box Office Rundown (Oct 26-Oct 28) Halloween Tops the Weekend Once Again!! Hunter Killer Sinks!! Mid90's Skates into the Top Ten!! Suspiria Dominates the Specialty Market!!
Weekend Box Office Top 10 (Oct 26-Oct 28): (Title / Weekend Gross / Percent Change from Last Week / Weekend # / Distributor), Sunday Estimates
Halloween / $32,045,000 / -58% / Weekend 2 / Universal
A Star is Born / $14,145,000 / -25.8% / Weekend 4 / Warner Bros.
Venom / $10,800,000 / -40.1% / Weekend 4 / Sony (Columbia)
Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween / $7,500,000 / -22.8% / Weekend 3 / Sony (Columbia)
Hunter Killer / $6,650,000 / (N/A) / Weekend 1 / Lionsgate (Summit)
The Hate U Give / $5,100,000/ -32.9% / Weekend 4 / Fox
First Man / $4,935,000 / -40.7% / Weekend 3 / Universal
Smallfoot / $4,750,000 / -27.8% / Weekend 5 / Warner Bros.
Night School / $3,255,000 / -33.5% / Weekend 5 / Universal
Mid90's / $3,000,000 / +1026.1% / Weekend 2 / A24
12. Johnny English Strikes Again / $1,626,000 / (N/A) / Weekend 1 / Universal
13. Indivisible / $1,575,000 / (N/A) / Weekend 1 / Pure Flix
22. Suspiria / $179,806 / (N/A) / Weekend 1 / Amazon
29. Border / $71,565 / (N/A) / Weekend 1 / Neon
18. Burning / $28,650 / (N/A) / Weekend 1 / Well Go USA
Halloween came in at number one this weekend once again, having officially racked up loads of cash in the lead up to Halloween night. All that remains is the question of whether or not it goes on to make a killing this coming Wednesday, and odds are that it will! Elsewhere in the top ten, Venom and A Star is Born continue to hold fantastically as they go forward and Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween took advantage of the Halloween lead in while Hunter Killer debuted to a disappointing gross. Mid90's did indeed pop into the number ten spot, winning the weekend against other specialty offerings vying for a place in the top ten. However, the real crown jewel of the specialty market this weekend was Suspiria, which made a distribution gamble that seems to have royally paid off as it scored the highest per-theater-average of the weekend.
Winning the weekend and claiming the number one spot is that of Halloween. Capitalizing on its positioning leading into the last weekend before Halloween, the sequel/reboot of the iconic John Carpenter franchise once again topped the box office top ten with a gross of $32 million. Currently, the film's domestic gross is that of $126.6 million with the worldwide gross growing to $172.2 million over the course of the weekend. All on merely a $10 million budget, this movie will be seeing loads of profit down the line and is already beckoning for a sequel (something which is entirely possible within a year's time as producer Jason Blum, alongside Universal, has already staked out a Halloween-adjacent release date in 2019; given the frugality and speed with which Blum is able to churn out a film, I would not be surprised to see an announcement soon that a new Halloween will be scheduled for next year). This potential sequel is even more likely given the intense audience interest that has been brewing since the film's release in exploring the rest of the Strode family women (played with equal levels of charm and edge by veteran actress Judy Greer, who plays Laurie's daughter, and newcomer Andi Matichak, who plays Laurie's granddaughter).
All that said, I am surprised at off my prediction was about the film's weekend drop. I had predicted a relatively bold 50% on the basis of the fact that Halloween very much has an "event movie" feel to it. I have stated a few times now that I have very mixed feelings toward the film, which I feel is lacking in a straightforward causal narrative but benefits from a cast that is not only totally game but also surprisingly talented. As a result of the clash, the only thing that makes the film worth seeing its theaters is the scares and the atmosphere that it adds to the season; the result of this is that I don't see how the film can play well outside of this Halloween window. It is for this reason that I predict that Halloween will see a very large drop next weekend, but also why I surmised that it would hold closer to 50% this past weekend given that the film was so in-season. However, the film instead fell 58%, much more in line with industry predictions that saw the film dropping around 55-57%. While it likely poses little concern to Universal and Blumhouse given the hyper-low budget and mega high gross (relatively), it is still very indicative of my early assessment that after Halloween passes, Halloween is seriously unlikely to stick around long.
In second and third place, respectively, we once again find A Star is Born and Venom (I think I might actually be getting slightly sick of saying that). Both, once again, saw strong holds, with A Star is Born boasting the second smallest drop in the top ten, 25% for a gross of $14.1 million which brings its domestic gross to $148 million (looks like its going past $150 million) and, when combined with a surge in popularity overseas, its worldwide gross to $253.3 million. Venom, however, is continuing to surprise and impress, this time with a weekend drop of only 40.1%, the film's best hold yet! At a current domestic haul of $187.2, the film is actually now within striking distance of the $200 million mark, something few would've expected merely a month ago (one has to wonder if the film is benefiting from the having a Sam Raimi-Evil Dead-type vibe to it and is thus playing well through Halloween). Worldwide, the film has grossed over $500 million and is primed and ready to take China by storm next weekend. Let's see if they love Venom as much as we apparently do.
In fourth place, Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween saw a much-needed boost from the Halloween-lead-in weekend, falling only 22.8% for a gross of $7.5 million and bring its total worldwide gross to $62.5 million. This still isn't fantastic for the movie, which hasn't actually been performing all that bad but is simply operating on a much smaller level than that of the first Goosebumps. The film is likely to at least break even when it comes to its budget (excluding P&A), but Sony should not expect any profits until much later down the line when the film hits streaming. Another movie heading toward the same fate looks to be that of Hunter Killer, which took the number five spot this weekend. The Gerard Bulter submarine warfare picture currently represents the fourth-lowest opening gross (in wide-release) of his career. The middling reviews for the film (calling it "by the numbers") definitely did not help, but what really drives home the bad opening is the fact that Butler is coming off the relative success of Den of Thieves and even London Has Fallen (both of which have sequels in development). Both pictures managed an opening weekend gross that was at least in mid-teens, and even Butler's recent flop, Geostorm, opened to $13 million when it was released last year (during late October I might add). With all that in mind, Hunter Killer's opening looks even worse than on paper. Lionsgate/Summit released the $40 million picture (produced by Millenium Films) stateside and in the U.K. and has reportedly covered at least 10% of the budget (along with stateside advertising). This would bring the net-budget of the film down to $36 million, but that still leaves the overall break-even point around $72 million, a break-even that is likely to never be reached with an opening that is this minute. There is a bright side to all of this in that the film did receive positive a reaction from audiences; the film sports an "A-" Cinemascore and a very surprising 4 out of 5 stars on PostTrak. A solidly positive audience response isn't terribly uncommon with Gerard Bulter films, which tend to be crowd-pleasing actioners with a patriotic flavor to them (hilariously ironic given that Butler himself is Scottish). Given that Lionsgate is only responsible for 10% of the budget on top of stateside advertising, their exposure on the film is being estimated to be somewhere in the $20 million range. That kind of exposure is much more likely to be recouped in theaters here in the states, and given that Lionsgate will likely handle home entertainment distribution, they will likely seem some kind of profit down the line through rentals.
As for the rest of the top ten, line up saw little change from the previous week. The Hate U Give saw great news in that it only dropped 32.9%. I had predicted it would fall within the range of 35-45% (standard for more prestige-type film), so to see it hold even stronger than predicted is wonderful. With a weekend gross of $5.1 million, the film's worldwide gross is up to $19.6 million. The film cost $23 million to make, so it is likely not to break even in theaters, but its strong performance up to now (along with good headlines thanks to holds like this) will definitely make it a strong player in the ancillary market where it could easily turn a solid profit, especially it the film can make some headway with awards season. On the other hand, First Man's chances of seeing a profit are getting worse and worse every weekend. While the bleeding is indeed slowing, with a 40% drop this weekend as opposed to 48% last weekend, the wound seems to be just too deep for First Man to recover. This weekend it came in seventh place with $4.9 million and is only up to $37 million domestically on a nearly $60 million budget. Worldwide, the film has grossed $74 million, but this is a far cry from the likely at least $180 million that would slide the film into profitability. Eighth and ninth place saw Smallfoot and Night School dropping 27.8% and 33.5% for grosses of $4.7 million and $3.2 million, respectively. Smallfoot's worldwide gross is only at $167 million, not at the over $200 million it likely needs to be profitable, but it has definitely broken even budget-wise and can boast an undeniably strong run at the box office as it begins to exit the top ten. Word-of-mouth has been very strong on the film and I expect that this will translate into some very strong rental and streaming sales come this Christmas (savvy move Warner Bros.). Night School also has a reason to be proud of itself as well since after an okay start and a surprisingly large second-weekend drop, the film has held on tight in the weeks since its release and has just crossed the $90 million mark worldwide. My general rule of thumb is that a film roughly becomes a success once it grosses three times its budget, and Night School has indeed crossed that mark off of its near $30 million budget. While it will be relegated to making a large amount of its money in the ancillary market, the fact that it has squeaked into profitability while still in theaters is definitely an accomplishment (just look at how many times I've used the words ancillary market, rental, streaming, and "down the line" when discussing the majority of the top ten). Tiffany Haddish should also be proud given that Night School's continued presence I the top ten has primed her to see some great success with her new film, Nobody's Fool, which comes out this coming weekend. Night School's foreign gross is also within striking distance of that of Girl's Trip's foreign gross, which is actually an asset given that films featuring black-leads don't typically tend to perform well outside of the U.S. If Tiffany Haddish can deliver foreign numbers on par with Girls Trip consistently across her other films, she is a major asset to any film. I'm excited to see how Nobody's Fool performs this coming weekend.
Going into the weekend, tenth place was shaping up to be a battle between several titles in limited release. Mid90's, The Old Man & the Gun, Johnny English Strikes Again, and Indivisible all looked to be jockeying toward a $2 million gross this weekend, but as the weekend progressed, most of them fell away from the competition completely. Mid90's ended up pulling ahead, cashing in on the capital it amassed last weekend with its massive upset against Can You Ever Forgive Me?, grossing $64k per theater (across 4 theaters) on its opening weekend. It when wide this past weekend in over 1,200 theaters and popped into tenth place with an estimated $3 million. I personally think it was a bad idea to go wide so soon after opening in limited release, but we'll have to wait and see if anything negative comes out of this. For now, Mid90's can celebrate the fact that it beat out last weekend's number ten spot hold The Old Man & the Gun (which fell respectably at 15%), Johnny English Strikes Again (which only made $1.6 million, though I'm sure Working Title, who produced the threequel couldn't care less as that gross helped to push the film past $100 million worldwide), and Pure Flix's Indivisible which didn't register with only $1.5 million.
Outside of the top ten, the biggest story of the weekend was that of Suspiria, which opened in limited release in two theaters nationwide. I had noted going into the weekend that the film had a divisive reaction amongst critics and wasn't in the best position to open with a large per-theater-average. This was only compounded by the fact that the film was only opening in two theaters, which I believed was a tactic that Amazon was using to inflate the per-theater average. Inflate that average it did, but with much stronger results than anticipated as Suspiria opened to $179,806, a massive $89,903 per-theater, the largest per-theater-average of the year to date. Maybe the Halloween season played into the fever surrounding the release, but the fact is that Suspiria truly defied many expectations. Detractors may be quick to point out that this per-theater-average was only across to two theaters, but Amazon need only clap back with the fact that last year's Best Picture winner, The Shape of Water, did the same thing last December (something I pointed out in my last post). To sweeten the comparison, the Luca Guadagnino-directed, Dakota Johnson-fronted, remake also managed to score a high per-theater-average than The Shape of Water (it debuted to an average of $83k). I still am not sure just how competitive Suspiria will be in the Oscar race this year, but if this opening is any indication, we definitely have a contender across several categories (most notably director some acting categories). Outside of Suspiria, Neon launched the well-received foreign flick Border in seven theaters while Well Go USA (an Asian distributor, currently behind the ninth highest grossing movie of the year, Operation Red Sea) released Burning, a social drama and South Korea's official Foreign Language Oscar submission for the year. Neither showed a strong per-theater-average, but I would keep an eye on Burning, as it is the first major lead role for former Walking Dead star Steven Yeun, as well as his first Korean film. The film has garnered high praise, particularly for Yeun's performance which many media outlets are pushing for Oscar attention. We'll have to keep track of the film has it expands.
(Data from BoxOfficeMojo.com, Deadline.com, and BoxOfficePro.com)
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An Aircraft Propeller Systems Technician works on propeller components on and off the aircraft and is involved in the repair, overhaul, modification, inspection, and testing of aircraft propeller components.
This Occupational Standard lists all of the tasks which an Aircraft Propeller Systems Technician should be able to perform anywhere in Canada. However, different employers and various parts of the country may work in a more specialized area of the occupation.
The Aircraft Propeller Systems Technician is thoroughly familiar with safe work practices and the rules and regulations affecting the individual's work and work place. The technician is involved in the set-up and operation of tools and equipment, as well as some semi-automatic processes. The technician should possess a high level of manual dexterity and a strong interest in aircraft systems. The individual must be able to work with others cooperatively and follow directives precisely.
To qualify for certification with CCAA, the applicant must possess the necessary knowledge and skills and have acquired a minimum of sixty (60) months in the occupation. Certification will also be granted with thirty-six (36) months of experience in the occupation and twenty-four (24) months of experience in any other occupation recognized by CCAA.
Technicians holding a P41 licence are exempt from completing the logbook, but must send a copy of their current licence with their application.


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Violins of Hope
The Violins of Hope are a collection of restored violins that were played by Jewish musicians during The Holocaust. These instruments have survived concentration camps, pogroms and many long journeys to tell remarkable stories of injustice, suffering, resilience and survival. The collection was assembled and restored by Israeli master violin maker and restorer, Amnon Weinstein.
In some cases, the ability to play the violin spared Jewish musicians from more grueling labors or even death. Nearly 50 years ago, Amnon heard such a story from a customer who brought in an instrument for restoration. The customer survived the Holocaust because his job was to play the violin while Nazi soldiers marched others to their deaths. When Amnon opened the violin's case, he saw ashes. He thought of his own relatives who had perished and was overwhelmed. He could not bring himself to begin the project.
By 1996, Amnon was ready. He put out a call for violins from the Holocaust that he would restore in hopes that the instruments would sound again.
Amnon started locating violins that were played by Jews in the camps and ghettos, painstakingly piecing them back together so they could be brought to life again on the concert stage. Although most of the musicians who originally played the instruments were silenced by the Holocaust, their voices and spirits live on through the violins that Amnon has lovingly restored. He calls these 50 instruments the Violins of Hope.
Meandering Mythologies: Timothy Massey and Gary Monroe
January 6 - 26, 2017
Meandering Mythologies is a two-person exhibition featuring the work of Timothy Massey and Gary Monroe. Timothy Massey is the associate professor of art and chair of the Art Department at SUNY Brockport. He also serves as the director for the Tower Fine Art Gallery at SUNY Brockport. He studied printmaking and drawing at the University of Tennessee and Ohio State University. Gary Monroe is an artist from Knoxville, Tennessee who has exhibited nationally since the 1980's. Most recently Monroe's work has been featured in one-person exhibitions at the Estel Gallery, Nashville, TN, in 2011; the Clayton Center for the Arts at Maryville College in 2011; the Leu Art Gallery at Belmont University, Nashville, TN in 2009; and the Cue Art Foundation, New York, NY, in 2006.
Through the Lens of Ed Westcott
In 1942, the Army Corps of Engineers relocated James Edward Westcott to Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and assigned him the task of official photographer for the Manhattan Project - a massive wartime effort to produce the first atomic bomb. As secrecy of the project was paramount, the "atomic" city was fenced, and communication with the outside world was limited. What is more, no cameras were allowed inside its boundaries.
Thus, Westcott became not only the official photographer for the Manhattan Project, but he also became the sole photographer of the social and recreational events of Oak Ridge. It is only through Westcott's photographs that the visual history of Oak Ridge can be appreciated.


Unfinished Project: accentuate the positives (of new orleans).
accentuate the positives (of new orleans).
"How was New Orleans?!," I was asked by friends and coworkers last month after returning from a long weekend at Jazz Fest.
Normally such innocous pleasantries don't cause me anxiety (which is, in and of itself, remarkable because I'm anxious about nearly everything), yet unsure of how to honestly answer this question without immediately making things awkward, I dreaded people asking me about it.
First of all, do people really want to know about my vacation (or anyone's vacation, for that matter?), or are they are just being nice? Secondly, if someone was sincerely interested, I imagine a simple, "It was great!" or "We had a blast!" is probably all they're looking for - spare the details and keep it positive.
Yet, I found myself conflicted and unable to hide how the trip really was for me, because while there were definitely some musical and culinary highlights, as well as some good laughs shared with friends, the best words I can use to describe my trip to New Orleans are "complicated" and "off."
Jacob and I were off, the music was off, I felt . . . just off. And for everything to feel "off" in a town that is always "on," meant a lot of my super high expectations for the trip fell short.
Cue the Debbie Downer honk. Womp. Womp.
I suppose I could've just omitted blogging or talking about New Orleans altogether - I mean who wants to read about a bad vacation?
I had to chuckle, though, when I looked at the more than 200 photographs I took while I was there - you certainly wouldn't know that anything was off. Any evidence of the the not-so-great moments wasn't captured at all. Instead, smiling faces and beautiful scenery - lots of proof that there were plenty of good times.
I was so fortunate to have the opportunity to interview Vance Vaucresson for a piece I wrote for CNN. If there was such a thing as Mayor of Jazz Fest, Vance would win, hands down. In the few hours we spent together, our conversation was interrupted repeatedly by festival goers coming to his booth to say hello. He had so many stories about his life in New Orleans pre-and post-Katrina, I swear I had enough material to write five stories about him.
The first day of Jazz Fest, we befriended a group of people from Atlanta who invited us to set up our chairs next to them. We all became fast friends and Jacob and I agreed that with all the negativity in the world, there's nothing quite like a music festival to restore your faith in humanity. I realize how hippie and flaky that probably sounds, but in all seriousness, people at Jazz Fest are just really nice and friendly.
Music highlights for me included Jason Isbell and Jon Cleary performing "Stagger Lee" at a small club on Frenchman Street. Galactic and Phish put on good performances, but honestly with so many wonderful musicians in the same city, I'd hoped for more surprise guests and collaboration. Still, though, Jazz Fest is like pizza and even when it's bad, it's still pretty good.
New Orleans is so rich in culture and history and once you get away from the French Quarter, the city is so beautiful. The days we had to just wander around the city were my favorite.
Social media, for better or for worse, is a lot of smoke in mirrors. We put the most positive versions of ourselves out for the world to see.
Sure, I've been annoyed at what I consider a tendency of some to over.share.every.minute.detail.of.everyday with the world and others who disguise the tremendous dysfunction in their lives with glossy, smiley pictures of everything looking great. But thankfully I learned long ago not to compare my insides to someone else's outsides.
I think that most of us treat Facebook and Twitter like wearing makeup - we're really looking really just looking for an opportunity to accentuate the positives in our lives, not mislead anyone into thinking everything is perfect.
I took fun pictures of New Orleans, but the trip wasn't without its challenges.
Looking and feeling like we had been to a war, Jacob and I looked at each other and then we looked at the suitcase, and then we burst out laughing.
Now that's accentuating the positive.