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I suppose I should admit something from the start: I'm not particularly religious, and I certainly do not have anything but the most superficial knowledge of Biblical writing. Still, I have come to appreciate the glory of metaphor and how it is able to transmute otherwise ineffable concepts into words. Feelings. Poetry, of course, aspires to that, but so do many of the texts in the Bible -especially the in 'Old Testament', apparently.
And yet, except for a very few of the more memorable lines I was taught in Sunday school as a child -parts of Psalm 23 spring to mind- I can't say I was ever able to differentiate the poetry from the -what?- commands: the instructive reverence with which I was intended to regard the message. But, it seems to me that by its very nature, poetry, through metaphor, simile, and even word play would be particularly helpful for some of the ideas the Bible is trying to describe -things like lamentations, or hymns of praise where it would make sense to draw on the emotive powers of poetry to make a point.
In my adult years, on those rare occasions when the subject of biblical poetry has arisen, I have usually attributed my wonted tone-deafness to translational problems. Cross cultural, not to mention cross-temporal issues mean that some figures of speech, or clever puns in the original language do not have much chance of making the same impact on us as they would have on the recipients when and where they were originally composed.
Even nowadays, the European poems of Schiller (German), or Baudelaire (French), for example, are difficult to translate into English and preserve their same emotional intensity -and they were written as recently as the 18th and 19th centuries, respectively. Imagine the difficulty of attempting to render the writings of people living more than 2000 years ago into meaningful word-pictures that would resonate in today's modern world. And, given the sacred nature of the Bible, any attempt to change the wording, or render the sentences into something like their original poetry, risks immediate condemnation.
The very idea that someone was willing to take the risk intrigued me. It would require impeccable credentials in ancient Hebrew with an equivalent temporal knowledge of the customs and literary devices used so long ago -and an ability to maintain the intended meaning without trivializing the message.
Of course, I have no way of knowing how well any translational skills succeeded in walking that obviously difficult path, but some of the word-play involved in the effort was explained in an article in Aeon by Robert Alter, a professor of Hebrew and comparative literature at the University of California at Berkeley: https://aeon.co/ideas/how-translation-obscured-the-music-and-wordplay-of-the-bible
'An essential fact about the Hebrew Bible is that most of its narrative prose as well as its poetry manifests a high order of sophisticated literary fashioning. This means that any translation that does not attempt to convey at least something of the stylistic brilliance of the original is a betrayal of it, and such has been the case of all the English versions done by committee in the modern period.' True, the Hebrew Bible is basically a religious text, and yet, 'If a translation fails to get much of its music across, it also blurs or even misrepresents the depth and complexity of the monotheistic vision of God, history, the realm of morality, and humankind.'
So how, after millennia, can one ever hope to express this language from the depths of time into relevant, let alone evocative English phrases? The accuracy of the message is one thing, of course, but conveying it in anything like the clever style of the original so the reader can still appreciate the poetry is another. 'One small but telltale manifestation of the artistry practised by the biblical writers is their fondness for meaningful word play and sound play.' However, 'translation… entails a long series of compromises because full equivalence is rarely an option.'
For example, 'The prophet Isaiah, like any great poet, commands a variety of formal tools – powerful rhythms, striking imagery, pointed literary allusions (in his case, to earlier biblical texts). Isaiah is particularly fond of sound play that verges on punning. In order to convey with force the perversion of values in the kingdom of Judah, he often juxtaposes two words that sound rather alike but are opposite in meaning… The Hebrew writers repeatedly revelled in the expressive possibilities of their medium, working inventively and sometimes surprisingly in their stories and poems with rhythm, significant repetition, narrative point of view, imagery, shifts in diction, the bending of language in dialogue to represent actual speech or the nature and location of the speaker.'
The article offers a few examples of Alter's clever compromises to restore the music of the text, but I suspect it is intended more as a kind of a proof-of-concept than as a detailed slog through each Biblical book and chapter; it was both tantalizing and yet mercifully short. Still, it was enough to alert me to the things I never appreciated in my Protestant Sunday school. In fact, I don't recall them ever mentioning anything about Biblical writing styles -it was the message they were trying desperately to inculcate in our young minds, I suppose.
But lest readers of my humble feuilleton suspect that in these penultimate years I am finally succumbing to Pascal's wager and conceding that even though the existence of God may be unlikely -and at any rate unprovable- and that the potential benefits of belief far outweigh shuffling off unshriven, let me assure them that any quest for hidden beauty need not involve ulterior motives. In the words of the poet Kahlil Gibran, Beauty is life when life unveils her holy face.
Sometimes it's enough to know what one's education may have missed without having to read the whole of Tolstoy's War and Peace. No, Alter stirred my interest enough to allow me to finish his essay, but, sadly, not enough to make me want to retrain as a biblical scholar. I'm happy the Bible is poetic, but not, well, overjoyed, or anything…
Tagged 'Old Testament', Aeon.co, ancient Hebrew, Bible, Biblical scholarship, Hebrew bible, language, metaphor, poetry, Psalm 23, religion, Robert Alter, sound-play, the prophet Isaiah, University of California Berkeley, word-play
The Devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
Religious writings usually serve a special function amongst their adherents -not the least of which is to convey the beliefs and principles in a way that allows them to be used as a reference. They may be regarded as sacred if believed to be divinely revealed, or merely special guides to expected behaviour. But whichever, they usually embody the fundamental assumptions of their divine source. And, although they may be summarized for the easier assimilation of their acolytes, the message is the same, no matter the simplified wording.
I am not an especially religious person, but I was brought up in the Christian Protestant traditions, with the Bible -amongst fervent believers, at any rate- a sacred book to be searched for clues as to proper comportment. It was a moral and ethical guide, if sometimes a little vague on specifics.
Indeed, so important was the Bible, that Martin Luther felt that it, not the Pope, should be the only source of divinely revealed knowledge from and about God. He also translated the it into German making it more available for any of the laity who could read.
My point is that the Bible has been considered the foundational book for the Judeo-Christian tradition, and its wisdom, I assumed, undisputed until relatively recently. Altering it or questioning its teachings was anathema, and anyway, unthinkable. So it was with considerable surprise that read about the changes made to it by British missionaries in the Caribbean: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/heavily-abridged-slave-bible-removed-passages-might-encourage-uprisings-180970989 Today, just three copies of the so-called "Slave Bible" are known to exist. Two are held in the United Kingdom, and one is currently on view at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C.
'When 19th-century British missionaries arrived in the Caribbean to convert enslaved Africans, they came armed with a heavily edited version of the Bible. Any passage that might incite rebellion was removed; gone, for instance, were references to the exodus of enslaved Israelites from Egypt… The abridged work was first printed in London in 1807, on behalf of the Society for the Conversion of Negro Slaves. The missionaries associated with this movement sought to teach enslaved Africans to read, with the ultimate goal of introducing them to Christianity. But they had to be careful not to run afoul of farmers who were wary about the revolutionary implications of educating their enslaved workforce.'
'That meant the missionaries needed a radically pared down version of the Bible. A typical Protestant edition of the Bible contains 66 books, a Roman Catholic version has 73 books and an Eastern Orthodox translation contains 78 books… By comparison, the astoundingly reduced Slave Bible contains only parts of 14 books.'
I must admit that I don't recognize many of the omitted texts, but I can see that some of them might induce some anxiety in the slave holders and, no doubt, some inspiration in those who were enslaved. For example, 'Exodus 21:16—"And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death" -they cut that one out, but of course, were happy to leave 'Ephesians 6:5: Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ.'
I suppose an obvious point about leaving things out of Biblical text needs to be made here: Luther, and what he decided to do with his translations. Because he believed in Sola Scriptura -in other words that the scripture alone was adequate to define Doctrine- he decided that some of the other (opposing) apostolic traditions of the existing church weren't appropriate. The book of James comes to mind. Luther felt it disagreed with his Sola Scriptura, so in his 'Protestant' Bible he put it, and a few others, in a separate section, the Apocrypha.
I'm certainly not a Biblical scholar, so I have to admit I'm obviously floating on the surface here, but my point is that one might well argue that rearranging the text, as did the Society for the Conversion of Negro Slaves, does not set any precedents. What it does do, however, is change the entire thrust of the Biblical message by not merely rearranging it, but by expurgating it. It ends up as different information -a different spirit.
It is a variety of historical revisionism -history is written by the victors, after all: the most powerful. And the winning side not only gets to control the propaganda, it also gets to interpret the outcome, doesn't it? Views change as history moves on I suppose, but sometimes we can only contextualize things in retrospect. At the time, it's only too easy to cave in to vested interests too comfortable to omit the inconvenient truths.
With the egregious omissions of the Slave Bible, the intent is fairly obvious, of course, but there seems to have been no effort to adhere even to Luther's stringent changes, and at least from the article, I'm not convinced that the Christianity promulgated was of much comfort to the enslaved workers either.
Unfortunately, we often rationalize the means to whatever end we have convinced ourselves is right -whether it be for the good of Britain's overseas empire that enriched the home country establishment, or for the benefit of the government closer to home. After all, in Canada, we decided that the aboriginal owners of the land we appropriated would be more manageable if they came to accept our Old World -largely European- values. So, we stole their children and forced them into Residential Schools with or without parental permission and attempted to interdict their native languages and inculcate standards entirely foreign to them. Although we all pretended it was for their own good, the reasoning was an opaque attempt at domination. And the irony, in Canada at least, was that it was done both with the blessings, and under the aegis of the Church.
Plus ça change, eh? We have learned little over the years, I think. There still seems to be a need to convince anyone who will listen -and perhaps especially those who won't- of the righteousness of our beliefs. Of our cause. And yet, a hundred or so years in the future, if there's still anyone left, they will study us and sigh. 'What were they thinking?' they will ask, and then shrug and read their own zeitgeist into the story.
Tagged abridgement, acolytes, African slaves, Apocrypha, Bible, Biblical books, British Missionaries, Caribbean slaves, Christianity, ethics, expurgation, historical revisionism, laity, Martin Luther, missionaries, Museum of the Bible, Protestantism, religion, religious writings, sacred, scripture, Slave Bible, slaves, smithsonianmag.com, Sola Scriptura, The Society for the Conversion of Negro Slaves
March 7, 2018 by gozzter
We Know Not What We May Be
There are times when we only seem to hear in sentences, and forget that their meaning and colour is dependent on the words –it's like ignoring the rivers that feed a lake. It's like assuming that the story of a wall is written in the bricks we notice, not the mortar we don't. History can become like that, too: a sentence, a reality -until we parse the words that is. Each word.
Take, for example, women in the workforce. Until relatively recently, their collective contribution was both underestimated, and definitely undervalued. In fact, if there was anything for which they were eminently suited other than family matters or, perhaps, a subordinate role in cleaning and food preparation, it was seldom apparent in the prevailing ethos. But, like the image on a developing photograph, it was there, but blurred. Hard to see… and yet there, however indistinct.
The invisible is all around us –like the nuns. And, as an abstract from a 2005 issue of Women's History Review informs us, 'Despite their exclusion from historical texts, these women featured prominently in negotiating the boundaries of religious life […]Prescriptive literature gave one model of womanhood, married life, with a second model, single life, clearly an inauspicious alternative. Women religious provided a different model and created a religious, occupational and professional identity that varied from the prescriptive literature of the day.' –the workplace, in other words. We see the world but through a glass darkly, indeed; maybe change is the only constant. There are none so blind as those who will not see. A BBC article forced me to look again: http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20170908-the-extraordinary-undervalued-work-of-nuns
'Becoming a nun [was] not often associated with women's emancipation. But it did offer an interesting career option for women. […]But Catholicism in the 20th Century saw the world of work as fraught with dangers for women, and could only reconcile female professionals with the notion of them entering professions in a wider spirit of religious charity and sacrifice.'
It would be too much to expect that their rewards would be commensurate with their worth, but rewards come in different forms. 'Revelations of women being paid less than men for doing the same job make it clear that society has a serious issue when it comes to valuing women's work. Nuns offer a unique insight into how work is divided between the sexes and rewarded accordingly.'
In fact, in spite of the widely held belief in the subordinate and often inadequate abilities of women at the time, 'The testimonies I [the author: Flora Derounian] collected shared many commonalities, the most striking of which is the contrast to the existences of most other women living in the epoch between 1947 and 1965, otherwise known as "the era of the housewife".' So, for example, '[…] interviewees had founded communities in rural Burundi, housed victims of civil war, and set up pharmacies in the Pakistani desert. Many others had taught in schools, cared for the elderly, worked with drug addicts, or given communion and comfort to the dying.'
The article reminded me of the time I found myself sitting beside a nun on the bus a few weeks ago. I didn't know they even took buses, but maybe that's because many of them nowadays are like unmarked police cars –you don't know until they catch you unawares. Anyway, I don't know that I was so much caught as observed, staring at the Bible she was reading. Well, more likely the spreadsheet under it on her lap. The combination seemed jarring.
I could see her smiling as she noticed my interest. "Is it the Bible, or the spreadsheet that caught your eye?" she said with a mischievous grin. A short woman with even shorter auburn hair, she was wrapped in a dark grey raincoat, and except for the oversized briefcase at her feet, looked like any other person on the bus.
I have to admit I was embarrassed at the question and I think I shrugged. "Oh…" I tried to think of a quick answer. "… Is that a Bible?" Stupid thing to say, and my face immediately reddened.
I could swear she winked at me before I hastily withdrew my eyes, though.
"I prefer the King James, but my Order decided to go modern over traditional…"
"New Jerusalem Bible…" She watched me for a second. "Less literary, I'm afraid, but more literal… Maybe they chose it because it's also more gender neutral. Anyway, I use it for work now and then."
I allowed my eyes to hover around her face for a moment and then called them home.
"We like to believe we were the first feminists, but…" she studied my reaction with a steady, almost practiced gaze, and then relented. "… It depends on the motherhouse, of course. I was fortunate, as it turns out."
"Oh? And why is that?" I said, hypnotized by her eyes. And her voice was so soft and reassuring, I couldn't help smiling. She could have sold me tundra in the far north and I would have felt honoured.
"We're allowed to work in the world at large, as long as we donate our salaries to the Order." I could see her watching my eyes hover above the spreadsheet. "I find it's easier to work with this," she said, touching the paper, "rather than booting up my computer on the bus."
"I see," I said, pretending I actually did. "So… Are you an accountant, or…?"
Her eyes twinkled and she giggled softly. "Why don't you try to guess?"
I shook my head. "I don't know. An office manager? A bookie…?"
We both laughed. "Nobody gets it right," she said and shrugged as if it wasn't all that mysterious nowadays. "I started a company with a group of my sister nuns…" She glanced out of the window to see if the bus was approaching her stop. "We're a compassionate order serving single moms and homeless or troubled girls in the city and we -okay I– thought maybe we could be more proactive about it. Should be, in fact…"
I sat up straighter in my seat as she pulled the cord for the next stop. "How, can you be proactive about that?"
A mischievous smile gradually surfaced and she winked again –this time for sure- as she stood up to squeeze past me. "I'm the CEO of an online dating service," she said and squeezed my left hand naughtily as she reached the aisle. "No ring, eh?" she whispered, and handed me her card.
I glanced at it as the bus pulled away again. There was just one word, Inundate, superimposed over a picture of a large crowd. Clever.
I'm tempted to send in a profile…
Tagged BBC Capital, Bible, bus passengers, Catholicism, CEO, dating profile, dating site, Flora Derounian, King James Bible, motherhouse, New Jerusalem Bible, nuns, women in the workforce, Women's History Review, workforce
October 3, 2017 by gozzter
She wears her faith but as the fashion of her phone.
Everything is a matter of time, isn't it? Everything changes. Like the apocryphal monkeys typing away infinitely, everything will be written. Everything will be transmogrified somewhere. Some time. Somehow. I suppose that should be a comfort, but I can't escape the nagging feeling that there is something unrequited in all that: an imbalance between now and then -no bridge to mediate between what is, and what some nebulous future may unfurl for our children's children.
And yet, an article I found offers some hope that I might have missed the entr'acte, missed a vital link in the ever lengthening chain of progress –or at least underestimated its importance. I'm talking about the smartphone. I grow old… I grow old… I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled, as T.S. Eliot wrote –that, at least, may be a suitable mea culpa for my inattentiveness, perhaps.
I should have seen that with all of the changes occasioned by the phone, other subtle philosophical alterations might well hide within its shadow. 'He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat; it ever changes with the next block', as Beatrice says in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing. Who would have thought that religion itself might live the same fate? http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170222-how-smartphones-and-social-media-are-changing-religion The mobile phone Bible seems to be replacing the book Bible –at least with many of the younger religious crowd. And the result may have been a loss of context –no thumbing through the pages looking for something, just an arrival at whatever nugget was requested –like looking it up in Wikipedia. In other words, an information Christianity, a virtual religion. '"A new kind of mutated Christianity for a digital age is appearing," says Phillips [director of the Codec Research Centre for Digital Theology at Durham University in the UK]. "One that follows many of the ethics of the secular world." Known as moralistic therapeutic deism, this form of belief is focused more on the charitable and moral side of the Bible – the underlying tenets of religion, rather than the notion that the Universe was created by an all-seeing, all-powerful leader.'
Although I hold neither religious affiliation, nor any particular interest in the Bible, I have to say I am intrigued by the philosophical machinations the smartphone seems to be engendering –the moralistic therapeutic deism, as it is increasingly being referred to. The results of interviews with three thousand teenagers were summarized in (sorry) Wikipedia, and seem to establish the tenets of this theism. First of all, 'A god exists who created and ordered the world and watches over human life on earth.' And 'God wants people to be good, nice, and fair to each other, as taught in the Bible and by most world religions. The central goal of life is to be happy and to feel good about oneself.' But what I found particularly interesting was the idea that 'God does not need to be particularly involved in one's life except when God is needed to resolve a problem.'
And why do I find this so-called 'moralistic therapeutic deism' so interesting? It seems to me it may be the early phases of an evolution of religious thought engendered by the way we are beginning to assimilate information. Or perhaps I should say they are –the millennials. I suspect that we elders –or should I say just 'olders'- still adhere to the belief that data does not necessarily spell knowledge.
But, as the article points out, '[…]a separate strand of Christian practice is booming, buoyed by the spread of social media and the decentralisation of religious activity. For many, it's no longer necessary to set foot in a church. In the US, one in five people who identify as Catholics and one in four Protestants seldom or never attend organised services, according to a survey conducted by the Pew Research Centre. Apps and social media accounts tweeting out Bible verses allow a private expression of faith that takes place between a person and their phone screen. And the ability to pick and choose means they can avoid doctrine that does not appeal. A lot of people who consider themselves to be active Christians may not strictly even believe in God or Jesus or the acts described in the Bible.'
I doubt that this phenomenon is exclusive to Christianity, either. Any religious doctrine which has a credo that can be digitized, is susceptible -nuggetable into bite-sized digestible portions. Wikipediable.
I think that is what two girls were talking about at the bus stop a few days ago. Both wearing delightfully colourful hijabs, they were huddled around their smartphones giggling.
"Where did you find that?" the taller of the two said shaking her head. She was dressed just like any other teenager –running shoes, jeans, and a bright orange leather jacket- but a dark blue hijab seemed almost tossed onto her head and barely draped over her shoulders. Perhaps it was the wind, but the almost-studied disarray was charming.
The other girl, stouter and wearing a long black coat, also sported a red, hijab-like scarf that barely covered half her head despite her constant readjustments. "It's Al-Quran [an app, I later discovered]," she answered as if that should have been obvious.
The taller girl tapped on her screen for a moment and then nodded her head. "But, you know that's not what Abbad said…"
The other girl just shrugged. "He always thinks he knows everything, Lamiya."
"Well…" I could see Lamiya sigh, even though I was trying not to watch them. "He usually gets it right, Nadirah… I mean, don't you think…?"
I couldn't help but smile when Nadirah rolled her eyes. "He only gets it right when you don't know! If you don't check on it…"
Lamiya seemed to pout. "I just, like, took his word for it…"
"You can't do that blindly, Lami… Not anymore." She made another attempt to readjust her hijab in the biting wind. "Not when you can look it up!" She shivered deeper into her coat and I could see her breath whenever the wind died down. "Things just aren't what they used to be for our parents… We can actually, like, check," she said as their bus pulled up and they got on, leaving me still informationless in the cold.
Tagged Age, Al-Quran, apps, BBC news, Bible, change, Christianity, Codec Research Centre for Digital Theology, Durham University, evolution, God, hijab, moralistic therapeutic deism, Much Ado About Nothing, Pew Research Centre, religion, reverend Peter Philips, Shakespeare, smartphone, T.S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, Time, Wikipedia


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Toy Chest Theater: Groot and Ant-Man by pop_tastic_man
Fanboy Wonder
Once in awhile, we get a shot that's pure magic. Indeed, if I had to sum up this piece in one word, it would be magic.
What pop_tastic_man creates here is a truly wondrous, awe-inspiring moment between Baby Groot and Ant-Man. The bright expression on the face is perfect. Plus, there's something about the way this picture highlights the detail in the figure's hand. Somehow, that's what drew me in and sealed the deal on this one.
Either way, this image wouldn't be at all out of place in the trailer for a big Marvel Cinematic Universe release. Truly epic.
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A Civil War II #6 Review – Following the Moral Compass
TITLE: Civil War II #6
AUTHOR: Brian Michael Bendis
PENCILLER: David Marquez. Cover by Marko Djurdjevic.
An irony occurred to me after reading Civil War II #6. All this in-story drama and controversy among the superheroes is occurring because a teenager named Ulysses can supposedly see visions of the future. The actions taken by the heroes as a result of these visions have brought about the deaths of James Rhodes and Bruce Banner, the ruining of Clint Barton's public life, and a lot of bad blood among our characters.
But now it's all come to a head thanks to a vision of Miles Morales, Spider-Man, another teenager. As if we needed further confirmation that this story is really about the violence we see on the news every day, particularly involving young people.
After last issue's startling vision of Spider-Man moments after murdering Steve Rogers, the battle between the heroes has come to a stand still. Our characters reel from what they've just seen and ponder their next move.
This issue brings us some of the best work David Marquez and have done together. Naturally, much of it involves Miles. The genuinely unsettling two-page spread of Spidey and a dead Captain America is simply re-printed from last issue. I'd normally call that shamefully cheap. But it works to preserve the emotional intensity of the moment.
The page at right is the best in the issue. It shows us Miles' emotional state after seeing what he did, and is a classic example of showing instead of telling. I love that they took us inside the vision for one panel, and the red smears in the page gutters are a nice touch. Though that actually looks more like paint than blood. I think I had walls that color once…
Marko Djurdjevic's cover also adds a new dimension to the idea of Miles murdering Captain America. With his own shield? Really? C'mon man.
The reaction that Steve Rogers has to this is important. It's as big a character moment for him as anybody else. Not surprisingly Bendis gets it right, positioning Rogers as the compassionate moral compass. He then accents it by having Black Panther switch sides, saying that "if you are on Captain America's side…you can rest easy knowing you are on the right side."
This, of course, casts poor Carol Danvers as the bad guy. Her protege Ms. Marvel even stands against her in this issue (Though she'd already done that in the Ms. Marvel ongoing.). Carol has more or less been in the bad guy position the entire time, making her decisions based on events that could happen, rather than what has happened. Perhaps recognizing this, Bendis takes time in this issue to remind us she's still trying to do the right thing, and doesn't want to hurt Miles. We see her guilt, and she gets a nice moment of reassurance from Peter Quill. But the violence that's resulted from all of this is causing her case to fall apart. Kitty Pryde's expression in the image below says it all.
We get what I imagine was meant to be a bit of foreshadowing for Champions, as Ms. Marvel, Nova, and young Cyclops rally to protect Miles. The delays that have plagued Civil War II obviously tarnish that. But this scene was my first exposure to Riri Williams, who will be taking on the Iron Man role soon. I imagine that's the case for quite a few readers. So perhaps the upside is worth it.
Civil War II showed up late, in more ways than one. This story just found its second gear last issue, and it finally feels it has the stakes an event comic should have. Hopefully those stakes continue to rise. Toward the end of the issue there's a spooky page with Ulysses. A descent into evil may be forthcoming.
The question is, does he drag Carol Danvers down with him?
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The Greek economy suffered a surprise contraction at the end of last year, reversing tentative signs of sustained growth and inflicting a fresh blow on the hopes of its international creditors.
Quarterly growth fell by 0.4 per cent in the three months ending in December after a 0.9 per cent expansion recorded in the third quarter, suggesting the country's stuttering bailout talks are doing nothing to help boost the real economy and belying hopes that growth is finally back on track.
Greece's EU creditors have championed the return of economic growth in 2016, heaping praise on the Syriza government's efforts to boost its public finances through higher taxes and reduced spending. Brussels expects the economy to bounce back strongly this year to expand 2.7 per cent from just 0.3 per cent in 2016, contingent on success in its bailout talks.
The International Monetary Fund has however taken a far more pessimistic view on Greece's growth prospects, arguing that a six-year austerity project has seen it suffer an economic contraction worse than the US Great Depression.
The IMF is now demanding Athens legislate for around €3.6bn in additional tax and pension reforms as its condition to stay involved in the bailout – demands the left-wing government has resisted.
Today's growth setback is likely to embolden critics within the government who have long argued the economy cannot endure another round of belt-tightening.
In its latest, disputed assessment of the country, the IMF also revised down its long-term economic growth projection to 1 per cent from 1.5 per cent.
Greece's central bank governor warned yesterday the fragile recovery and troubled banking system was vulnerable to any major setback in bailout talks.
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Q: Move Angular Material Dropdown menu to the left I am using Angular Material. I have successfully created a navigation bar and a dropdown menu.
It looks like this:

I would like to move the DROPDOWN to the left-hand side. Now, it appears around the centre.
HTML code:
<md-toolbar layout="row" class="md-whiteframe-z3" style="padding: 0px;margin:0px;float: left;">

Material NavBar

    <md-menu>
        <md-button md-menu-origin ng-click="$mdOpenMenu()">Dropdown</md-button>
        <md-menu-content width="2">
            <md-menu-item>
                <md-button>Help</md-button>
            </md-menu-item>
            <md-menu-item>
                <md-button>About</md-button>
            </md-menu-item>
        </md-menu-content>
    </md-menu>
    <md-button aria-label="Go Back">
        Go Back
    </md-button>
    <md-button>Item 1</md-button>
    <md-button>Item 2</md-button>
</md-toolbar>

How can the code be modified to move DROPDOWN to the left just beside the text Material NavBar?

A: You just need to add   in your code.
<md-toolbar layout="row" class="md-whiteframe-z3" style="padding: 0px;margin:0px">

Material NavBar

<md-menu>
    <md-button md-menu-origin ng-click="$mdOpenMenu()">Dropdown</md-button>
    <md-menu-content width="2">
        <md-menu-item>
            <md-button>Help</md-button>
        </md-menu-item>
        <md-menu-item>
            <md-button>About</md-button>
        </md-menu-item>
    </md-menu-content>
</md-menu>

<md-button aria-label="Go Back">
    Go Back
</md-button>
<md-button>Item 1</md-button>
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Here is a working Example.
http://codepen.io/next1/pen/RaYNxw

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I'm a bit behind since the holiday and I haven't yet acknowledged last week's milestone. On November 28, 2007, the California Genealogical Society Board of Directors voted to approve the CGSL blog. It was a venture started rather hastily, with great enthusiasm but little planning. I admit to losing a few nights' sleep the first week wondering how I would ever sustain it. Now I can't believe it's been two years.
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Happy anniversary from one of your East Coast fans who's looking forward to enjoying the CGS blog for many more years.
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How did Poland fare under "personal unions?"
On at least two occasions, Poland appointed as kings, rulers of other countries. Once was in the fourteenth century, when the king was Lajos of Hungary. Another was in the eighteenth century when the king was Augustus the Strong of Saxony.
In NEITHER case did Poland merge with the king's other country, so these "personal unions" did not end by uniting the two countries. On the other hand, Poland did form a partnership with Lithuania by marrying off its "king," Jadwiga (Lajos' daughter), to Jogaila, Lithuania's Grand Duke (king), although the partnership wasn't fully consummated until the mid-16th century (a century and half later.)
How would Lajos, for instance, have ruled Poland, while personally governing Hungary from Budapest. Did he appoint a viceroy? Or did he have a council of Polish nobles reporting "loosely" to him while they mostly did what they pleased?
Did Poland gain any advantage from having these kings with commitments elsewhere? Did the country do better or worse with Lajos, Augustus (and others, if applicable), in comparison with kings that did not have these conflicts of interest?
And are the two sets of questions in the two paragraphs related, that is, does HOW this kind of government worked affect HOW WELL the government worked?
Tom Au
Tom AuTom Au
You seem to have two questions here. 1) How was a personal union governed in practice? 2) How well did Poland fare under the two personal unions in its history? Whichever one isn't the main point of this should really be submitted as a separate question.
The two questions are related. How does it work? is an important corollary of how WELL does it work?
– Tom Au
How well a country fared seems separate from how (and how well) a governance structure works. You can have a governance structure that works terribly while the country fares well; you can have a governance structure that works wonderfully well and the country can fare terribly. They're not connected.
Ah. From your edit I think I see the problem: you're confusing efficacy of governance with prosperity of the governed. Those are often related in modern times (though not always), but not historically, due to governance having different purposes throughout history. When the point of governance was personal prosperity, often a very effective government resulted in a very poor country. As a result, you have to specify for whom is the government working well if you want to ask how and how well a government worked for a country.
"Poland did form a partnership with Lithuania by marrying off its "king," Jadwiga (Lajos' daughter), to Jogaila, Lithuania's Grand Duke (king), although the partnership wasn't fully consummated until the mid-16th century (a century and half later.)" - They didn't consumate the marriage for 150 years? My mind boggles.
– MCW ♦
Poland had many foreign kings and in my opinion it does make sense to include them all into this discussion, even though only a few of them were ruling another country at the time when they accepted Polish crown. The sheer fact that they were foreigners heavily influenced their politics. In one extreme case it even resulted in moving the capital of Poland from Cracow to Warsaw. But it's impossible to generalize - each case should be investigated individually. And that would take way too much time so I will just write about the two kings you mentioned.
Louis rule over Poland was pretty much uneventful. He had several lands to look after so obviously he wasn't present most of the time, delegating power to local lords. In 1374 however he reduced the tax duties of Polish gentry to buy himself some support and to secure Polish throne for one of his daughters. That was detrimental to Poland in the long term* One may draw the conclusion that he was more devoted to the idea of securing the Polish throne than to make royal power strong at the risk of losing that throne for his children.
*But it's not all that simple. One may say that the appeasement of the gentry through bribery was detrimental to any future ruler who would truly care about Poland and would need the power to make adjustements. On the other hand, it also acted as a safeguard against a ruler who would like to blatantly pursue his own interests at the cost of the Polish agenda. Louis of Hungary didn't have a chance to demonstrate that to any meaningful extent.
Regarding Augustus the Strong of Saxony, he was elected king of Poland through bribery, scheming and civil war. Russia was already a powerful country and influenced the election. Now, that doesn't mean he was poised to be a bad king of Poland :) Well, actually his rule marked a period of absolute disaster for Poland, but still, it's hard to say it was all his fault, or that it was caused by the fact that he was a ruler of Saxony at the same time. The Polish-Saxonian alliance had the potential of being beneficial for Poland since it was naturally aimed against Prussia. I don't think there was any conflict of interest. Augustus even changed his denomination to Catholicism. On the other hand, as a ruler of Saxonia, in cooperation with Russian tsar he started a war with Sweden that ultimately utterly devastated Poland. And he was bribed by Russian tsar to drag Poland into that war. He also used Russian army to deal with internal opposition in Poland. That looks very bad but that was just instrumental use of foreign troops and most probably he would turn against Russia after he consolidated power in Poland. If he had stronger royal power in Poland, his plans might have materialise and his rule of Poland could have been appreciated. Now, I'm writing this from today's perspective when we know that weak central power was the primary factor that contributed to the demise of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. But in Augustus time, lots of Polish gentry hated his guts because of his royal ambitions.
However, recently I came across information that there came one moment when Augustus gave up in his struggle for power against Polish gentry and instead planned to partition the country. If that's true then there is no excuse for that.
Jake JayJake Jay
You've nailed the problem with elective monarchies. They are great for maintaining the nobility's privileges, but for little else besides. It's worthwhile to point out that the Holy Roman Empire suffered from the same issues a few centuries before Poland (roughly, during 10-13 centuries), with the end result that imperial power declined. It was revived for a while by Maximilian and Charles V but collapsed again after the 30 Years' War, by the end of which the Holy Roman Empire was dead in all but name. But that's a rather different story...
– Felix Goldberg
Actually, I have read that during the period of the "Imperial Reaction" after the Thirty Years War various factors such as the Turkish and French threats led to greater cooperation among the prinicpalities under the Emperor and an increase of imperial power up to about 1720/30.
– MAGolding
This is a great question! :) Basically speaking, Poland was in state of some kind personal unions for most time from 1370 (death of last Piast king) up to Poland's collapse in 1795.
Louis's rule, as Jake Jay mentioned, was somewhat uneventful, the King resided in Hungary, and reigned Poland through regents (also, worth mentioning, he took Red Ruthenia from Poland and turned it to Kingdom of Hungary).
It's worth mentioning, that all kings from Jagiellonian dynasty, 1385-1570, were de iure elected to Polish throne by the nobility. Kingdom of Poland, and Grand Duchy of Lithuania were at time two separate entities, there were also times they were reigned by different Jagiellonian rulers:
For most time of Władysław Jagiełło (Jogaila)'s rule, Grand Duke's title belonged to his cousin Witold (Vytautas)
1444-1447 interregnum in Poland, Lithuania is ruled by Kazimierz Jagiellończyk
1492-1501 Jan Olbracht is king of Poland, Aleksander (his brother) is the Grand Duke (so no personal union in place)
The main residence of Jagiellonian kings was Kraków. This period of Polish history is generally regarded by Polish people very well, it's even sometimes called golden age, for cultural / economical development and mostly successful wars.
After 1569, Poland and Lithuania formed Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Rzeczpospolita Obojga Narodów), which were ruled by common, elected kings. From which, Stefan Batory (Istvan Bathory), duke of Transilvania, is worth mentioning. Reigning from 1576 to 1586, one of most successful Polish kings, praised for victorious wars with Russia over Inflanty (today's Latvia and Estonia).
Sigismund III Vasa, (the guy who moved Polish capital to Warszawa) was for 7 years (1592-1599) king of both Polish Commonwealth and Sweden. Catholic ruler of Lutheran Sweden, he was dethroned in 1599. Despite prolonged wars with Sweden he did not achieve to regain its throne. In opinion of many, his rule of constant wars (also with Russia and Turks) and Counter-Reformation marked the beginning of the fall of Polish statehood. His sons, Władysław IV Vasa (elected in 1632) and John II Casimir Vasa (elected in 1648) kept the title of kings of Sweden.
The rule of Saxons is widely considered to be a time of dissolution of Polish statehood, Jake Jay described it more widely.
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Grim Genesis Chapter 2 Pages 29 to 33
This week's guest comic comes to us courtesy of a young artist from Chicago named Alexander Aghayere. For more of his work, visit him here: http://www.supremegrim.com/
This is the last post for Mr. Aghayere. Thanks for the submission!
Grim Genesis Chapter 2 Pages 8 to 14
Interview with Alexander Aghayere, Creator of GRIM GENESIS
September 4, 2017 ~ redemptionwebcomic
Hello there, and welcome to redemptionwebcomic.wordpress.com! Could you start by telling us the name or names of everyone on your creative team?
My name is Alexander Aghayere.
Where are you all from?
I am from Aurora, IL— a small town about an hour away from Chicago.
Share a little bit about yourself: childhood, education, family life, etc.
I was raised in a very open and loving household with my older sister. My dad was originally born in NIgeria, where his household life as a child was practically "black" to my "white". However, in contrast, my parents made it really important that me and my sister knew we were loved and more than that fully supported in whatever we loved. Unfortunately that didn't stop me from being misunderstood early in my childhood especially in school. I had no sense of how others felt about me when I was young so as a result I never really understood myself. Art really saved me from that.
Tell us your latest news. What kind of projects do you have going on?
So, aside from my graphic novel, Grim Genesis, which is still in progress. Im also a fine artist working on building my portfolio for the gallery scene. I recently was invited to sell my work through Artbuys.net and artworldcollection.com, two prominent art publications, so that's pretty cool.
When and why did you begin writing/drawing?
I fell in love with cartoons, like real love, when I was in junior high. I found the ability to create a whole world, a whole actual story extremely interesting. I also had been a fan of comics for some time so when the two loves collided in high school I found a voice and a reason/ muse to tell my own stories, whether it be through fine art, illustration, or most presently, Grim Genesis
What inspired you to start expressing yourself artistically?
Art really is a mirror. When we look at any image we don't just see the art and the narrative and or feelings it holds, we also see ourselves by reflecting on our perceptions of artworks. It's with that idealism that I found art to be my craft of expression, I loved seeing my feelings, raw and unfiltered. Art honestly showed me who I am.
How has your style changed since you began?
It's strange when I think back, I really don't think that I had a style through all of highschool and a lot of college as well. Grim Genesis truly came from the "heavens" solidified a perspective within my artwork that eventually turned into a style that I feel is really recognizable as my own.
What do you find the most challenging and/or rewarding about writing/drawing?
I think the biggest challenge of creating anything is being able to balance creating something for yourself that is genuine and authentic for yourself only, instead of for others or commercial success. People can tell the difference, I feel. I know I can with my own artwork. Luckily I feel that writing and drawing is much more rewarding than it is negatively challenging. I love storytelling and I honestly think there is no better way to do that than through comic books and graphic novels.
How much of your work is based on reality, whether it was experiences or people you know/knew?
When I think about it I feel that it's about 50/50 between my own experiences and things i've either been inspired by or made up. Naturally, I think farther into that question and come to the conclusion that I don't think that there is much of a difference. We are all connected, the ability to express emotional empathy is proof of this. I truly believe that my story is not really "my story" alone, there is only one story with multiple perspectives and billions of actors.
What have you learned while working on your latest project?
Going big is worth it, every time. When I started Grim Genesis I had nothing but nostalgia fueling my reasoning, I wanted to do something to help escape the close mindedness of college, subsequently, I brought to light a story that I feel has taught me how to survive, how to actively live.
Do you have any advice for other writers/artists?
Make. Keep making, for only you so others can get learn from your perspective. Also, don't worry about making good looking art, that goal is overrated and is objectively impossible to achieve without giving up who you are.
Do you have any links where we could find your work?
Go to my website Supreme.Grim, and you can see all of my illustrations, fine art and other things.
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Many rivers flow to the sea, and likewise, many creative tributaries in pianist and composer Steve Rivera's life have led him to the level of consummate artistry he has achieved today. Steve started learning to play the piano from his father at the age of eight and after high school, he knew that music was his life's ambition.
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Q: Tikz: Too large dimension for radar graph I have a radar graph like below, however, I am not sure why I am facing "too large dimension" error.
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A: Slightly adjusting the parameters and commenting out the last tkzKiviatLineFromFile command, which caused too many treated as zero errors, I got the following picture:

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Prostitution in South Africa is illegal for both buying and selling sex, as well as related activities such as brothel keeping and pimping. However, it remains widespread. Law enforcement is poor.

In 2013 the Sex Workers Education and Advocacy Task Force (SWEAT) estimated that there were between 121,000 and 167,000 prostitutes in South Africa.

HIV, child prostitution (including sex tourism) and human trafficking are problems in the country.

Legal and regulatory framework
The Immorality Act, 1927 prohibited extramarital sex between "Europeans" and "natives". This was redefined by the Immorality Amendment Act, 1950 as illicit carnal intercourse between "Europeans" and "non-Europeans",

The Immorality Act, 1957, later renamed the Sexual Offences Act, 1957, repealed the 1927 Act (as amended) and introduced new offences for brothel keeping, pimping and procuring. Interracial sex was now criminalised as unlawful carnal intercourse between "white" and "coloured" people.

The Criminal Procedure Act 51 of 1977 criminalised "committing an immoral or indecent act with such other person" and also soliciting for the same.

Municipal by-laws also contained provisions about prostitution.

As part of the repeal of many apartheid laws under the government of P. W. Botha, the Immorality and Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Amendment Act 1985 repealed the interracial restrictions of the Immorality Acts.

The Immorality Amendment Act, 1988 renamed the Immorality Act, 1957 to the Sexual Offences Act, 1957 and criminalised the act of prostitution. It also made the provisions of the 1957 Act gender neutral.

In 2002, an appeal by brothel keepers and prostitutes in the country's Constitutional Court, submitting that the laws on prostitution were in breach of the constitution, was dismissed.

The most recent legislative change was the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Related Matters) Amendment Act, 2007, section 11 which added Section 20(1)(aA) of the SOA, which states that any person who has unlawful carnal intercourse or commits an act of indecency with any other person for reward, is guilty of an offence, effectively criminalising the client as well as the prostitute.

In 2017 a report by the South African Law Reform Commission, recommended that the current law be retained (preferred option), or that prostitution should be decriminalised but third party involvement should remain illegal.

Decriminalisation
Decriminalisation has been under active discussion since 2009. Currently the South African Law Reform Commission has four proposals that were submitted for public discussion ranging from criminalisation to decriminalisation.

In the run-up to the 2010 Football World Cup, there were calls to decriminalise and regulate prostitution when an estimated 40,000 prostitutes were expected to travel to South Africa for the tournament.

In March 2012, the ANC Women's League came out in favor of decriminalisation, and stated that they will campaign for this to become an ANC policy. It is argued that decriminalisation "would challenge the stigma that surrounds sex workers. It would help secure their human rights and dignity, and make for safer work and living conditions for them." Decriminalising prostitution would limit the power the police have on sex workers and it would stop the police or law enforcers from taking advantage of sex workers. Police enforcement is rigorous and police taking and accepting bribes by the sex workers and their clients is common place.

In April 2013, the Commission for Gender Equality also stated its support for decriminalization. They argued that current laws violate sections of the constitution, and that sex workers would be better protected if the law is changed.

Sex Workers Education and Advocacy Task Force (SWEAT), is a group based in South Africa that has been working to decriminalize sex work and eventually legalize it. They also provide health services for sex workers since they can't access them elsewhere. They have launched different programs to bring awareness to problems facing sex workers such as Sex Work Empowerment and Enabling Environment (SWEEP), #SayHerName, advocacy and law reform, and Sisonke movement.

Human Rights Watch in its August 2019 report claimed that the sex workers in South Africa faced frequent arbitrary arrests and police profiling. In order to avoid police harassment, workers are forced to work in dangerous areas. Out of the 46 female sex workers interviewed by HRW, most of them had been raped by men purporting to be clients, and almost all had been victims of robbery or serious violence, including being beaten, whipped, and stabbed. Liesl Gerntholtz, acting deputy executive director for programme at Human Rights Watch, said "Sex workers in South Africa face arrest, detention, harassment, and abuse from police, which also deters them from reporting rape or other brutal attacks against them."

In December 2022, the government published a draft bill that would legalise sex work.

Police violence
There are numerous allegations of members of the South African Police Service committing acts of violence and abuse against sex workers. 70 per cent of sex workers who approached the Women's Legal Centre to report a violation said that they had experienced police abuse in some form, including beating and rape. In an interview, one sex worker in Cape Town said: "The coloured police officer grabbed me, and my clothes came off. Then they pepper sprayed me in my mouth and beat me". Sex workers are often afraid to report police violence to the authorities.

2010 World Cup
There were fears of increased prostitution in connection with the 2010 Football World Cup, some sources estimating that an extra 40,000 sex workers would enter South Africa for the competition. As a result, there were calls for prostitution to be legalised and regulated to help control AIDS and STDs and for the protection of the sex workers. However, this generated considerable opposition and no changes were made to the laws.

Despite the fears, there was little evidence of increased prostitution.

HIV

South Africa has one of the world's largest HIV epidemics. A study by the SA National Aids Council (Sanac) estimated that there was a 60% infection rate, although this varies from area to area, for example, Johannesburg 72%, Durban 54% and Cape Town 40%.

The reluctance to use condoms has contributed significantly to the epidemic. However condom distribution by the government AND HIV communication programmes have reduced the rate of new instances.

Child prostitution
Child prostitution is a problem in the country. Whilst there are no reliable figures available, it has been estimated that there are as many as 30,000 children involved.  South Africa has become one of the major destinations for underage sex tourism in Africa. Cape Town, Johannesburg, Port Elizabeth and Durban has become popular destinations for this.

Criminal gangs recruit children from poor rural areas and take them to larger cities for commercial sexual exploitation.

Sex trafficking

South Africa is a source, transit, and destination country for women and children subjected to sex trafficking. Local criminal gangs dominate child sex trafficking. Nigerian gangs control the sex industry in several provinces. Thai and Chinese nationals control the sex trafficking of Asian women. Russian and Bulgarian organised crime control trafficking in Cape Town.

Hundreds of Women from Thailand, China, Brazil, Eastern Europe, Asia, and neighboring African countries are trafficked into South Africa and forced to work as prostitutes.

South Africa is listed as a Tier 2 Watch List country by the US Department of State's Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons.

See also
 Asijiki Coalition for the Decriminalisation of Sex Work
 Sex Workers Education and Advocacy Taskforce
 SistaazHood
Prostitution in Cape Town, South Africa During the Late Victorian Era

References

External links
US State Department 2017 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: South Africa
UNESCO. Human Trafficking in South Africa: Root Causes and Recommendations
Cape Town promotes sex tourism
Liesl Gerntholtz: Sex work and the law in South Africa – hit and miss?
ISS/SWEAT submission to SALRC June 2007
Women's Net: Decriminalisation of sex work

Women's rights in South Africa
Society of South Africa

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More crazy dreams! The night after the lost keys dream, I dreamed I was at a retreat where I kept losing my shoes. So of course I had to draw them, just to be sure they were still here.
Lately my every-day sneakers have started untying themselves several times a day. So then I dreamed that Justin Bieber and Justin Timberlake were giving me hands-on shoe-tying advice.
They unlaced my shoes and then snipped the laces into small pieces. They explained that you need a separate piece for each set of holes and then you knot each piece to the next. We started running out of laces. I think I'll just start double-knotting them, thanks. Or maybe it's time for new shoes?
Yes those are magenta polka dots on my ancient Birkenstocks: I painted the funky old shoes with acrylic paint dots and it worked great. I'm definitely not a high heels kind of girl as you can see.
Easy Spirit makes good soles and zipper tops so you can't trip on untied laces.
Love the composition and color. I have been thinking about doing a pile of my shoes. I was inspired by Barry Combbs who had his class paint a pile of shoes. What fun! PS I have to double knot my white tennis shoes too. They always come untied when I have a dog leash in each hand.
How great that you have two dogs but that must make it challenging to tie your shoes. After the third time stopping to tie my shoes on a walk with a friend she made me double knot them and now I do it automatically.


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In Translation: March Fiction and Poetry
Rachel Cordasco Mar 16, 2017
We here in North America are slowly, slowly emerging from our winter doldrums and thinking about/hoping for spring. What better way to celebrate the approach of birdsong and green things than by picking up some great fiction and poetry in translation?! This month includes fiction from Italy, the Balkans, and China; as well as some Chinese poetry. Let us know what you're reading in translation!
The Breaking of a Wave by Fabio Genovesi, translated by Will Schutt (Europa Editions, 432 pages, March 2
This is the story of Luna, a stubborn, imaginative teenager living in a small town on the Tuscan coast. Despite a series of family tragedies and setbacks, Luna refuses to give up and insists on facing her future with optimism and determination. The Breaking of a Wave received the Strega Prize in 2015.
The Walnut Mansion by Miljenko Jergovic, translated by Stephen M. Dickey & Janja Pavetic-Dickey (Yale University Press, Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters, 456 pages, March 28)
"An epic novel of 20th century Balkan Life," The Walnut Mansion tells the complicated and often violent history of this region through the life and family of Regina Delavale. The end of the Ottoman Empire, Nazi atrocities, the death of Tito: Regina witnesses it all, and through her 97 years of life, we are able to see a bigger picture of conflict and hope.
Wild Geese Returning: Chinese Reversible Poems by Michele Metail, translated by Jody Gladding (New York Review Books, 312 pages, March 14)
In the 4th century, a woman named Su Hui embroidered a silk for her distant husband- it consisted of a grid of 840 characters, that, as a poem, might be read as many as twelve thousand ways. Wild Geese Returning focuses on this extraordinary work in its exploration of Chinese multidirectional poems- one of the most ancient forms of experimental poetry.
Frontier by Can Xue, translated by Karen Gernant and Chen Zeping (Open Letter, 470 pages, March 14)
In a surreal place called "Pebble Town" live men, women, and children for whom such concepts as time and geographical location seem meaningless. "Frontier", then, is quite the appropriate title, given that this particular word conjures up images of liminal spaces, unlimited possibilities, and mystery. Innovative and challenging, Frontier invites many re-readings.
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Barbara has a warmth about her. That infectious kindness that makes you hug a little longer and squeeze a little tighter. The first to pour you a glass so you can cheers to being together. She sings pop songs at the top of her lungs in the car after a tough day at work and spends her free time visiting patients at the hospital with her rescue dog Bailey.
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I hope you all have an amazing holiday season wrapped in the warmth of your family.


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ANDREW LITTON'S FINAL SOMMERFEST CONCERTS FEATURE DANCERS FROM NEW YORK CITY BALLET SALOME
Richard Strauss' Salome, Sommerfest's Opera Finale, features soprano Patricia Racette and an all-star cast of soloists, August 5
Minnesota Orchestra performances on August 4 and 5 mark Andrew Litton's final weekend as the artistic director of Sommerfest, which is presented by TCF Financial Corporation. The first concert, on Friday evening, features the Orchestra playing a recently-completed arrangement of Aaron Copland's famous Appalachian Spring. On the same program, four dancers from the New York City Ballet join the Orchestra onstage for a performance of Who Cares?, a medley of iconic George Gershwin songs, with choreography by George Balanchine. Then, on Saturday evening, Litton leads the Minnesota Orchestra and an all-star cast of vocalists in the Sommerfest Opera Finale, a concert-staging of Richard Strauss' Salome, featuring soprano Patricia Racette in the title role.
Both concerts are held at Orchestra Hall in downtown Minneapolis. New York Rhythms: Gershwin, Litton and Broadway occurs on Friday, August 4, at 8 p.m., with tickets priced from $30 to $70; Opera Finale: Strauss' Salome occurs on Saturday, August 5, at 8 p.m., with tickets priced from $30 to $80. Tickets are available at minnesotaorchestra.org and by phone at 612-371-5656. For further purchasing details, refer to the information section at the conclusion of this press release.
Andrew Litton, artistic director
Andrew Litton, the Minnesota Orchestra's Sommerfest artistic director since 2003, has a distinguished international reputation and a warm relationship with Minnesota Orchestra musicians and audiences. He holds several additional major posts, notably assuming the role of music director for New York City Ballet in the 2015-16 season. He serves as principal guest conductor of the Colorado Symphony, conductor laureate of Britain's Bournemouth Symphony and music director laureate of Norway's Bergen Philharmonic, where he recently completed a 12-year tenure as music director. Most recently he was named principal guest conductor of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, which welcomes him to the new role this fall. For further information, visit minnesotaorchestra.org or andrewlitton.com.
New York Rhythms: Gershwin, Litton and Broadway (Aug 4)
Aaron Copland's ballet Appalachian Spring is pure Americana, telling the tale of a young pioneer couple in rural Pennsylvania through square dances, country fiddling and a famous finale built on the Shaker song Simple Gifts. In 1945, a year after Appalachian Spring premiered, Copland composed an abbreviated version for full orchestra instrumentation; that suite is the form in which the music is best known today. The Orchestra's performance on August 4, however, features the first-ever hearing at Orchestra Hall of a newly-compiled version, completed in 2016 by arranger David Newman on a commission from the Aaron Copland Fund for Music. It features the complete ballet music, expanded for full orchestra from the original's 13-player instrumentation. (Please note: New York City Ballet dancers will not be performing this work.)
Who Cares? is a song from the 1931 musical Of Thee I Sing, for which the 33-year-old George Gershwin won a Pulitzer Prize. This song, along with 15 other Gershwin Broadway favorites, has been incorporated into an orchestral medley, also title Who Cares?, to which George Balanchine, choreographer and founder of New York City Ballet, added choreography in 1970. Sommerfest Artistic Director Andrew Litton, who was recently appointed the sixth music director of New York City Ballet, has invited four dancers to perform selections from Who Cares? with the Minnesota Orchestra for this concert. The dancers—Sterling Hyltin, Ashly Isaacs, Megan LeCrone and Andrew Veyette—are current soloists or principal dancers with New York City Ballet.
Opera Finale: Strauss' Salome (Aug 5)
Salome debuted in 1905 in Germany and was based on the play written in 1891 by Irish playwright and poet Oscar Wilde. The opera was instantly notorious for two scenes, Salome's Dance of the Seven Veils, and the love scene between Salome and John the Baptist's severed head, leading censors in cities around the world to ban Salome for years. This performance marks the first time Salome has been presented as the Sommerfest Opera Finale, and the first time the Minnesota Orchestra has performed the opera in 33 years.
Soprano Patricia Racette, who sings the role of Salome in this performance, has appeared in the most acclaimed opera houses of the world including the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Canadian Opera Company, Royal Opera House, La Scala, Paris Opera, Theater an der Wien, Teatro Liceu, and the Bayerische Staatsoper. She has gained particular acclaim for her portrayals of the title roles in Madama Butterfly, Tosca, Jenufa, Kátya Kabanová, and all three lead soprano roles in Il Trittico. In December, she stepped in at the last minute to sing the title role in Salome at the Metropolitan Opera.
Sommerfest Entertainment
At all Minnesota Orchestra concerts from July 13 through August 5, audiences are invited to enjoy live music pre- and post-concert, and an array of food and beverage items, available for purchase both inside and outside Orchestra Hall. Featured food vendors include Blue Moon, Cavalcade Creamery, Curds & Cakes, Kramarczuk's, Ten 01 Social and T-Rex Cookie, plus $5 Happy Hour specials. See concert details below for more information or visit minnesotaorchestra.org for a full event schedule.
Sommerfest is presented by TCF Financial Corporation.


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