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Fire Dance is the first commission awarded to an artist by the City of Fort Myers Public Art Committee. Located in a circle where Bay Street dead-ends at the eastern edge of Centennial Park, the 25-foot-tall Dupont red aluminum sculpture is a magnet that draws art lovers from far and wide. A medley of circles, spirals and counterbalances, Fire Dance inspires children playing on the swings and in the nearby playground to become the visual artists, sculptors, architects, civil engineers and city planners of tomorrow.
T he sculptor is David Black (depicted on right being interviewed by WINK News reporter Rachel Rafanelli). He was chosen by the Public Art Committee from a field of 162 artists who responded to the City's RFQ, a national call to artists interested in submitting their qualifications and proposals. It is not the first time Black has won a competition for a public art commission. In fact, he's won 35 national and three international sculpture competitions, one in Nagano, Japan, a second in Berlin and the third in Canada.
Black characterizes himself as a "hands-on" sculptor-innovator with a wide interest in architecture, past and present. He calls his public sculpture "proto-architecture" because it combines architectural elements such as pillars, arches, canopies and the use of light with the energy and references of sculpture. His community landmarks engage their environments spatially as well as culturally, connecting strongly with the viewer.
"When designing a sculpture," Black observes, "you have to consider the site. Here, I wanted my piece to be taller than the surrounding palm trees. You must consider the elements as well. Because of southwest Florida's intense sunlight, I've had Dupont add UV protection, like sunscreen, to the paint to retard fading."
The sculpture is open so that people can walk through it and look up. "Inside the piece are four hidden spirals that create a story for your imagination," Black told the crowd who gathered for the March 2, 2012 dedication and ribbon cutting ceremony. "I like the idea of letting people walk around the sculpture and see it from underneath," Black says. "I want them to enjoy the piece from every angle." that end, Fire Dance has been encircled by a sidewalk and landscaping, and is framed by park benches so that visitors to Centennial Park can freely interact with the sculpture from every conceivable vantage.
Fire Dance represents Black's interpretation of the park's energy and vitality during events. "My wife, K arlita, and I first visited Centennial Park at night. We walked right into a jazz festival. Fire Dance incorporates the sounds of the music and the noise of the crowd. Circles within circles; it's active, open, airy and rhythmic, just like jazz. And being originally from Gloucester [Massachusetts], I had to include some blades and sails in the design," Black explains, making reference to the sculpture's location close to the banks of the Caloosahatchee River.
"Imagination is always the fire; improv the heart," says the sculptor of his creation. "It is my hope that Fire Dance will lift each viewer's spirits and deepen their sense of community with Fort Myers by engendering a sense of civic pride."
[ Pictured above at ribbon cutting ceremony are (from left) Public Art Committee member David Acevedo, fire dancer Christar Damiano, Barbara Hill (Florida Association of Public Art Professionals), Fort Myers Public Works administrator Donna Lovejoy, Mayor Randall P. Henderson, Jr., Public Art Committee Chair and member, Ava Roeder and Sharon McAllister, sculptor David Black, his daughter and former mayor Jim Humphrey.]
Why David Black
Black's illustrious career in monumental sculpture dates back to 1980, but long before he began working with industrial aluminum, Black, now 84 (depicted to left with Fort Myers Public Art Committee member Sharon McAllister), spent 12 years crafting ceramic sculpture. He then morphed into bronze casting while on a fellowship grant in Mexico and refined his skills in Florence while in Italy on a Fulbright scholarship. From there, Black went to Berlin on a two-year fellowship during which Die Neue Nationalgalerie commissioned a 22 foot tall sculpture named Skypiece for its sculpture courtyard and held a major one-man exhibition of his gallery-size sculpture, "David Black in Berlin."
His present-day love affair with aluminum was serendipitous. After winning an "Individual Artist Grant" from the National Endowment of the Arts, Black returned to the United States and became a professor emeritus in art at The Ohio State University. "I heard one day that an aircraft company in Columbus, Ohio [Northern Aircraft] had ceased making F-14s, leaving them with tons of surplus aluminum plates that they'd previously used to make the fighter jet's wings," Black said at the dedication for Fire Dance on March 2, 2012. Each honeycomb aluminum slab was 28 feet long, 10 feet wide, an inch thick and weighed a whopping 3,000 pounds. "I didn't know what I was going to do with them, but I bought 24 plates. I had to. They were virtually giving them away. Scrounge, scrounge, scrounge. That's how you start out as a sculptor." So Black hired two flatbeds to pick them up and deliver them to an open field behind Ohio State's ceramic department. "I found I could cut them with a power-driven concrete saw, the kind they use to cut up city streets, and that's when I started making this kind of public sculpture."
Only there was a glitch. He had no prospective buyers for the four immense sculptures he made from the scrap aluminum. Nevertheless, he retired from full-time teaching in 1984 and a year later his monumental Windpoint won the Shikanai, the grand prize in the prestigious Henry Moore International Sculpture Competition in Nagano, Japan. Windpoint is permanently installed at the entrance to the Utsukushi-ga-hara Art Museum there. "I didn't have the opportunity to visit the site before Windpoint was installed," Black reminisces. "It's at the top of a mountain peak, and I'll never forget how excited Karlita and I felt when we came around the corner and saw it for the first time."
By the end of the decade, Black was at work on a monumental statue for the plaza of the Joel D. Valdez Main Library in Tucson, Arizona. As he studied the site and the region's desert environment, Black rendered a series of drawings which served as a blueprint for a "maquette" or model of the piece. The model and related drawings were given to Steelcon, Inc., a Tucson fabricator, who turned the model into the resulting 32,800 pound, 25' high by 43' wide sculpture named Sonoma (right), which was was dedicated on July 4, 1991.
Like Fire Dance, it is all red. In Sonoma's case, Black chose the vibrant color to enliven the drab black and white of the library and soften the building's stark edges. Funding for Sonoma was provided by the City of Tucson's "One Percent for Art Program." The initiative directs one percent of all bond-funded capital improvement programs to be spent on public art. Black was selected from 74 entries submitted to a jury consisting of the Pima County Public Library, the Joel D. Valdez Main Library, the Tucson Museum of Art, and local architects and artists.
H is commission prior to Fire Dance resulted in a yellow canopy-like piece called Lift Off that was installed in 2010 in front of Busboys and Poets at the corner of 5th St. NW and K Street NW in the Mt. Vernon district of Washington D.C. Black describes Lift Off as "kinetic as one passes by – reflecting the spirit and vibrancy of the new neighborhood." All Busboys and Poets feature public artworks, and Andy Shallal, the owner of the restaurant in Mount Vernon, lauds public art as "a way to connect those living in a neighborhood with each other's humanity. It soothes the soul, lifts the spirit, and touches everyone who passes by in a way nothing else can. Having such grand art next to Busboys and Poets has forever defined the corner of 5th and K NW in the boldest terms."
Of course some have poked fun at the piece, describing it as "an unfinished building construction, clad in taxi cab yellow, on steroids." But stirring controversy and stimulating a dialogue on public art is also one of its functions.
Black was chosen for the Lift Off project by a collaboration between the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities, the Office of City Planning, the Mount Vernon Triangle Community Improvement District and community organizers who wished to inspire interaction and use of the new neighborhood plaza.
At 47 feet tall by 140 feet long, Flyover is Black's largest public art installation. Located in Dayton, Ohio, it is a memorial to the Wright Brothers first powered flight (which covered a distance of 120 feet (36.6 meters) and a time of 12 seconds). The stainless steel sculpture was chosen by the National Council of Structural Engineers Association for a national "Special Projects Award" in Seattle. When asked to explain the discrepancy between the sculpture's length of 140 feet and distance covered by the Wright Brothers first powered flight, Black smiles coyly and answers, "You have to add in the length of the plane, which was 20 feet from tip to tail."
Exhibitions and Educational Achievements
David Black has mounted major exhibitions at museums and galleries throughout the United States and Europe, including the Contemporaries Gallery and PS One in New York, The Gilman Gallery in Chicago, the Taft Museum in Cincinnati, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the Columbus Museum of Art, the University of Iowa Art Museum, the Dayton Art Institute, Die Neue Nationalgalerie and Amerika Haus in Berlin and the Lehmbruck Museum in Duisburg, Germany.
Black was a professor of art at Ohio State University for 30 years. A native of Gloucester, Massachusetts, he received his B.A. cum laude from Wesleyan University, where he was also Phi Beta Kappa, and his M.A. from Indiana University.
Other Red Landmark Sculptures
Turning Points sits outside University Hall at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio. It sits on six granite pillars and above complementary reddish/orange pavers. Cast in aluminum, Turning Points stands 17 feet tall by 26 feet wide and 26 feet deep. It was dedicated in 1998.
Located in the Zanesville Art Center in Ohio, Outlook stands 23 feet tall and is 27 feet wide by 17 feet deep. Also made of aluminum, Outlook was dedicated in 2007.
Fun Facts.
While in Italy on a Fullbright scholarship, David and Karlita resided in the same villa that Leonardo DaVinci lived in during the four years DaVinci spent in Florence. "It was awe-inspiring to know that I was looking out the same window and seeing the same view of the city as the greatest artist who ever lived."
While in Berlin on a two-year fellowship, Die Neue Nationalgalerie arranged for David and Karlita to stay in a mansion that was owned by the wife of Goering and Goebbels' interior designer. "I found his notebook containing drawings of the furniture he placed in their residences and at Carinhall." Black did the right thing. Recognizing the journal had both historical and sentimental value, he turned over the journal to the woman's daughters following her suicide one wintry night some months after David and Karlita first took up occupancy in the mansion.
David and Karlita are avid antique hunters. They once purchased a vase for $2 that turned out to be a museum-quality Zuni Indian religious ceremonial jar worth more than $20,000.
The fabricator Black used for Fire Dance is located in Ohio, 130 miles from Black's home. Fire Dance is the 14th public art installation that they have made for David.
The sculpture is fabricated and delivered in pre-engineered, pre-drilled parts.
The fabrication team for Fire Dance consisted of Don Barrett (orange shirt), Mike Anderson (black shirt and ball cap) and Ben Johnson, who have assembled most of the 14 sculptures produced by the Ohio fabricator.
The driver had delivered five other sculptures for Black.
Black often listens to Stravinsky while designing and making cardboard and wood models of his sculptures. "My basement, which we refer to as 'the sandbox,' is full of models," confesses Black, who is always working on a new concept or idea.
While in Fort Myers to supervise Fire Dance's installation, Black insisted on taking a walking tour of the River District so that he could see D.J. Wilkins' Uncommon Friends, Marylyn Dintenfass' Parallel Park, the Marlin Miller American bald eagle on Main Street and the Barbara Jo Revelle ceramic tile mural (Fort Myers: An A lternative History).
Fire Dance is Black's first public art commission in the state of Florida.
Black was delighted at the dedication and ribbon cutting ceremony by fire dancer Christar Damiano's interpretation of the vitality and energy of his sculpture.


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In the waning days of the second Bush / Cheney presidency, I can barely contain the seething anger that rises in me. This is not a liberal rant; this is not a left-wing diatribe nor is it a politically motivated article. This statement is what I want on the record before political amnesia settles in.
To President Bush and Vice President Cheney,
In the name of all French Expatriates across America, temporary migrants or permanent residents, in the name of Americans of French extraction, be they recent or distant, may they be Cajuns, may they be from Maine, Vermont or Michigan, I want to tell you how much you hurt and damaged the fabric of Franco-American relations, how much you made our lives difficult and painful. May your Anti-French political side-show go down in history as a vicious, petty and as a spiteful act of backstabbing cowardice.
May all Americans remember what you did, not so much in respect to our citizenship or culture, but how it speaks volumes about how you treated dissent, opinion and opposition
When you and your administration pushed the truth aside to embark upon the folly that was the Iraq war, opposition from the French Government became your excuse to operate a systematic, top down Anti-French policy from within your own office; aimed not only at French interests, but against all things Gallic be they our culture, our language and our people.
Five years of Anti-French slander and vilification was thrust upon us by you direct from the White House, from your administration †, your members of Congress ‡, from your governors * and from your lackeys in the media ¶.
May all Americans and Franco-Americans alike, remember what you did. Not so much in respect to our citizenship or culture, but how it speaks volumes about how you trampled on dissent, opinion and opposition: true constitutional freedoms you swore to uphold one cold morning of January 2000.
We shall neither forgive nor forget…
Marc St Aubin du Cormier
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51 Replies to "Adieu Bush, Adieu Cheney…"
Barney hasn't left the building says:
Very well said, Marc.
I'm worried that this administration and the disastrous side-effects of its policies will have long standing effects for French-Americans.
Surrender jokes, 'smelly' slurs; it's all become part of the background of American pop culture almost every time the French are mentioned.
And unfortunately, it's still going pretty strong.
Just last night on the Daily Show for instance…
I have the hope that an Obama presidency based on diplomacy and the respect of International Law will open many people's eyes and alleviate a little bit the anti-French misunderstandings, myths and prejudices that have emerged or re-emerged during the Bush – Cheney years.
RealityCheque says:
I apologize on behalf of my very very very stupid country. We are a nation composed of idiots. (As proof I offer the results of our 2000 and 2004 elections and the vapid drivel spewed by †, ‡ , *, and ¶.)
André Wernesson says:
Miquelon: Chapeau! Indeed, now, political amnesia will settle in; but we've still got a lot of work ahead of us; just like at the end of WWI or WWII, the catastrophe has ended, but the reconstruction has just begun!
Reality Cheque — no need to apologize for your fellow countrymen. We understand that only a very stupid minority of people actually engage in French-bashing, and therefore, at least personally, I appreciate American anti-bashers doubly.
Onion Johnny says:
Well, RealityCheque, Americans are no stupid as they elected Obama ! Whereas the french elected an hysterical rightwing (nut) dwarf with a complex of inferiority (but he has a sexy italian wife, so the situation is not so hopeless than one might think…)
Miquelon:
Let's hope that the French bashing will stop now. I've lived 5 years of insults, slander and was forced out of a job because of my French heritage.
Let's hope that attitudes and people will change, now that Obama is elected. The party of "dissent is treason" was voted out of office. I will give people the benefit of the doubt and say that they finally realized what Bush and Co. stood for and said NEVER AGAIN at the voting booth.
Miquelon says:
Denise, and everybody else of course, our documentary is now going into post-production. It is to be called [Educating Jay] which is all about Miquelon.org's cross country road trip and attempt at giving Jay Leno some French history books (summer of 2006).
We will need audio for some of the segments.
We would love to have people like you drop us a simple PHONE MESSAGE, it can be as short or as long as you wish, telling us your story.
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Hillblogger says:
Must say, there's one thing that this Bush administration, their villification of the French has done for my kids — they became more proud patriotic French who learned to combat the bashings with class and intelligence and a healthy dose of stinging humour. They received their share of villifying from their own school mates (they went to an international school) that there were times my daughter would be fuming mad, raging and almost in tears for being encountering "idiots" as she used to call those who bashed the French; my son who was 12 at the time got into a couple of fist fights…
My own experience: In the aftermath of the French refusal to countenance the US illegal invasion of and war on Iraq, things got pretty difficult for us in official and social circles where my spouse (who is English) and I "circulated" and the French were often the butt of strong gratuitous criticisms (even in my presence) and sometimes when people didn't know I was French, some people would profer virulent anti-French expletives. The first time I heard something offensive against the French, I was just dumbstruck and did a tit-for-tat.
One thing positive that came out of this odious period was that I've stopped taking my being French for granted and have since given the American and/or British bashers as good as I got! In other words, I never accepted crap from anybody, no matter who was dishing the crap, American or British official or not (my spouse has "more or less" an official status but not me so I couldn't care less!)
Matter of fact I have spoken openly and bashed Bush, his American neo-con cronies, et al, even to members of the US military or diplomatic corps and even to some members of the US press I used to run into in social or diplomatic functions.)
I live in northern NJ, so long distance charges wouldn't apply 😉
I'd love to tell you some of the abuse I received because of my French heritage. However, I'm really afraid of speaking out because I'm afraid of negative repercussions. I know that sounds stupid, but after 8 years of Bush, I'm scared shitless of political repercussions. 🙁 My husband is French, and we're finishing up the permanent green card business.
If i gave you some stories, could you just use my first name and not my last name?
you have my email address. If possible, could you reply to me there? I don't always get a chance to login here, and the webadmins at work like to block all blogs, social networking sites, etc.
It's always a challenge to get around their proxies 😉
Hillblogger:
You go!! I feel the same way. Since this French bashing became politically correct, I am more proud of my French heritage than ever. I have told the French bashers off, including a WW2 veteran, and I told him off in a stinging, truthful way that shut his mouth big time.
Your children should feel proud that they hail from a culture with a long, proud, artistic, strong, intellectual and creative history.
After all that, they still brag about good French wine 😀
Irish-Franco-American says:
The French bashing has effected me. I am American of partial French descent. I'm proud of my French heritage. I love the French culture. I am bilingual French.
The French bashing made me want to learn more about France and the French so that I would have plenty of ammunition to fight back.
I'm happy that our president-elect does not have an Anglo-Saxon name and does not look Anglo-Saxon either.
I'm always ready to silence the bigots.
Marc, I will call you after I decide exactly what it is that I'm going to say.
I relate to Denise's and Hillblogger's comments.
Hi Denise — they bullied you too to the extent that you resigned from your job? I am apalled at the stupidity of some people.
Way to go Irish-Franco-American!
I didn't resign. I was questioned officially by the admins if I was an American or a "Foreign national" because parents were calling up the superintendant and telling him to fire that "French woman."
I have documentation, because the union rep was with me. My 2nd year there, the students were questioning my nationality, questioning why I spoke French, I was harassed by other teachers for knowing French, for having lived in France, etc.
I was terminated at the end of my 2nd year for totally fabricated reasons. I also have documentation of this. in addition, one of the school board members told me in front of the entire school population, including other board members, parents, admins, what they did to me, WHY and how she was telling me this because she had nothing to do with their dirty politics and she thought I was getting shafted.
For the record, i was born in the USA.
I'm at my new job now for 5 years. I'm tenured, and nobody cares what my nationality is. I work with people from all over the world and you hear a variety of languages here. thus, no French bashing 🙂
Please think about telling us your story by voice mail leaving out names and traceable info, we can alter voices easily.
As long as my identity can be hidden, then I have no problem with telling you the story. I already posted it here and at SuperFrenche's site.
I have more than that one incident! This bashing happens non-stop. The insults, the harassment, I'm sick of this shit.
Denise, that is a most terrible, appaling and gobsmacking story. Words fail me…
How could they, merely on the basis of your cultural background, give in to bigots? Did you sue for discriminatory practice?
Unbelievable that lynch mob mentality in America still thrives in our day and age, and to think that this was triggered by an odious, illegal, immoral invasion of and war on Iraq. The mind boggles!
That said, we're not better off in Europe. Many Brits are as parochial as many Americans when it comes to the French. And I'm not exaggerating. To show you how bad it is, my son's best friend whose mother is French and whose father is a Brit and who is perfectly bilingual has now completely refused to speak French after he and my son experienced bullying at school because France didn't join the British-American alliance to invade Iraq (my son remains stubborn and strong-willed and continues to say he is as French as he is English and tough on those who can't accept it).
I have sparred with my own English mother-in-law for bashing the French — fortunately she's stopped because as I've said, I've made it my life's motto that I ain't accepting no French bashing crap from nobody no longer.
In any case, I'm glad you left for a better employment. Good luck!
Denise, I read your story before on SuperFrenchie's site. It's really appalling what you went through. The level of anti-French bigotry that emerged a few years ago was surprising to me. I'm happy that it has improved since then although it was better before 2003.
We all put the start at 2003, but I think it's been simmering for some time, and 2003 was the explosion they were all waiting for. For instance, Dennis Miller had already been writing his disgusting surrender jokes for some time, and the "cheese-eating surrender monkey" phrase was even earlier…
Yes, French Bashing is much older, look at the 1995 Mururoa tests and their consequences, or Howard Stern's Montréal inauguration performance, or Leno's bashing after the 1998 world cup…
Denise – let it out ! Let all the frustration out.
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Do I know if it was French bashing? NO, because there were other political forces working behind the scenes. However, when parents file formal complaints to the superintendant because of your heritage, when the principals have to "explain" to the complaining parents why the teacher taught the students French (which is required under the foreign languages part of the education law), instead of German,Spanish, Russian, Turkish, Hindi or Italian, as if any other language is accpetable except FRENCH, when other teachers slander me because I'm proud of my French heritage, and hang repulsive anti-French signs in the faculty room, then I start to see a pattern here….
Did I tell you the story about the bigoted American doctor in Saranac Lake, NY who told me and my French husband that French and Quebecois (hi Miquelon!) were dirty, unwashed, smelly, hairy women, etc… all because when my leg fractured on Wright's peak and I went to the urgent care facility, i had neglected to COMPLETELY groom myself before going to see this doctor??
Apparantly, he expected me to be perfectly coifed, shaved, etc. when I couldn't walk due to the earth giving way under my leg on the side of the mountain. He thought he was being funny by insulting French and Quebecois in front of me and French Husband. We thought he was just being an asshole. This was July, 2008.
Now, let me tell you about the postal worker from last Christmas who told me to go back to France……
This shit never ends. Long live Obama. Maybe having a person of color in the White House will change things, or at least put a damper on French bashing.
Time for a nice little prunelle de bourgogne before sleeping!
bonne nuit! 🙂
You need to add me to your facebook friends list. We knew each other on French IRC. I already have salix and chainess on my list 😉
André and Miquelon,
Right you are! But the whole French bashing exercise became an international phenomenon of incredible proportions when the Repugs headed by Bush led the onslaught — that's what I actually meant by "triggered."
Gosh! I would have bashed the doctor on the head had he said that in my presence.
Your had been through some more gross injustice than I had imagined! I am so sorry to hear that. If I may offer a bit of consolation: Your French heritage gives you a far more civilised advantage — those people who gave you the rough treatment aren't worth the ground you walk on.
Hillblogger — I agree. That's why, sadly, we can't yet engage in singing "ding dong, the witch is dead": the witch is alive and well, I'm afraid, and it's going to be decades before all these retarded stereotypes disappear.
Unless… unless of course, a strong French-American lobby could appear, thus making French-bashing as unacceptable as antisemitism or mexican-bashing, for instance.
Jean-Paul says:
No one mentions Ezra Suleiman as en expert in French bashing. But i think he would deserve it. He is more educated than Jay Leno and co of course, and speaks French. But the content of most of his articles is a systematical lecturing of France, blaming it in fact for not beeing enough like America and of course not acting enough in foreign affairs like the US. This is his message.
Kell Brigan says:
Please, please, please don't assume that just because one is proud to be French (or French-American), that one is also Liberal, of that it's suddenly OK to put down Conservatives on a site that is supposed to be about stopping hate. I'm willing to call Bush & Co. on their French bashing, but much more am I looking for a condemnation of oh-so-"tolerant" Hollywood for exploiting this hatred. And, at no time, am I willing to vote Democrat.
Short version: some of the commenters here need to apologize to Conservatives, FAST, or forever be known as Grade A, premiere hypocrites.
Kell, I agree. Conservatism should not be rejected in the name of fighting against French Bashing as many "liberals" have bashed the French as well (SNL). We have to address French Bashing without resorting to Anti-Conservatism as there are many on the right who are worthy friends of France and the French.
Let's hope the Republican party will do some soul searching and walk away from the politics of extremism and über populism.
I wholeheartedly aggree. There is too much "role-playing" in the world, nowadays, anyways: "I'm a liberal, therefore I dress like this, listen to this or that music, watch this, do that", and you can't, somehow,make people understand that you can be a liberal, a conservative, or whatever, and differ in one of these "sacred points".
So, I say, three cheers for our conservative friends (and our liberal friends, too).
Kell, I agree. I belong to the N.Y.S. Conservative Party although I do not agree with them on everything. I lost alot of respect for the Republican Party because of their French bashing.
I was always proud to be an American. However, French bashing has made me feel less proud, even ashamed at times, about being American but much prouder about my French heritage. I am happy that France stood firm against the invasion of Iraq.
And now, for something completely different … well plus ça change …
"In Paris we stopped at a creperie and ordered chocolate crepes. When we wanted to order more the owner said "You'll have to leave now because we need to make room for customers."
Something completely different too:
Did you know that America owes France their Thanksgiving Day too?
Thanksgiving Day: The first European arrivals seeking religious freedom in the "New World" were French
Argh, sorry about that Miquelon: Here's a better version:
Thanksgiving Day: The first European arrivals seeking religious freedom in the "New World" were French
Hillblogger, thanks for the link. War has broken out over at Reddit over this article and a few choice words I may have posted.
Thanksgiving and Anne, my bad.
Miquelon,
Hah! N'est-il pas plus approprié de souhaiter aux américains happy thanksgiving en français ?
Btw, didn't know that Anne Sinclair had a blog… thanks for the link.
"Brit Performs, French Surrender" – Very disappointed by TMZ's French Bashing. By referring to the 1940 surrender to describe some pop culture news, TMZ is showing utter contempt and disdain for a people and their history. To the French, the 1940 surrender is as funny as 9/11 is to Americans. Please show some cultural understanding the next time you wish to write something about France or the French.
"No other national or ethnic group appears to get the same continually negative treatment in print media reserved for France and the French, with the possible exception of Arabs or Palestinians, and even there, the treatment is not so much cultural as political, linked to a specific context or event.If one were to substitute, for example, "Mexican" or "Japanese" or "Indian" for "French", what would reader reaction be?". Edward C.Knox, May 2002
The comment section is just replete with anti-French garbage.
Anti-French comments coming from parochial commenters, whatever their political or cultural colour are as you say garbage and might I repeat, pure, unadulterated crap!
They're thinking and talking from thei backsides.
I just wrote a new entry on the site.
Just when you think it dies down, French Bashing pops up somewhere else. It's just like whack-a-mole.
Bob Dobbs says:
"..This is not a liberal rant; this is not a left-wing diatribe nor is it a politically motivated article…"
Good thing you mentioned that…because it had all the trappings of it…
ClaudeDeltieure says:
So: What to do?
First, understand that if your friends like you, that's a positive for French-American relations. Public opinion is just that. If we are the fourth largest ethnic group in the country, individually we count a lot.
Second, understand that America suffers from Attention Deficit Syndrome: It gets it's messages and knowledge in sound bites. Unfortunately, lots of kids have learned to hate the French. It's going to take positive feedback, not bitter words, to change things, and you should aim at youth, because as we all know, adults believe what they believe, period.
Third, time for the French government to get off its ass and conduct a publicity campaign here. There is a Catholic modesty thing going on in French PR efforts: Americans are just supposed to know that they should include French consciousness, culture, and cuisine in their lives. Why? Nobody tells them, really. Look at this society: We have Columbus day saluting an Italian hero, St. Patrick's Day saluting an Irish icon; a pretty good knowledge of most major Jewish holidays, and now we're learning African heritage through Kwanzaa and even Muslim culture with increasing post-911 publicity about such religious observances as Ramadan. Is there one French day of note? In New york, Bastille Day is celebrated by closing off one half block. Right now, the French might as well be Bosnians as far as being in American minds. "The French? Hey, don't they make perfume and run at the first sign of trouble?" But go to France and you find the people there actually think Americans keep up with France as France keeps up with America. C'est triste.
The lesson here is that vacuums are vacuums and they will be filled by someone else if you don't step in first. Next time this happens, see you at the French-American marcgh in Washington, and in the defamation lawsuit as it reaches class-action status. But until then, see you in earnest conversations all across the country…
I think it would be vital to draw attention from the French government; this could be done with a sufficiently large petition. The petition, the existence of sites such as this and SF, and Sarkoléon's national pride could well be catalysts for the success of our mission; especially considering that, with Obama's rise to power, there's a general atmosphere of goodwill and a will to please the United States; I think it could work, especially with the positive scope offered by Claude.
Proof positive French Bashing in the media came from Rove ?
Dominique says:
Completely agree, Marc.
But I'm afraid that, when the International Court of Justice at long last indicts that sorry bunch, our grounds for litigation will be very small in comparison with those of the millions who died in a war of aggression which they conspired to launch and to wage (the very same indictment which sent a few dozen German leaders swinging from a rope in Nuremberg).
I can relay to that. I was living in San-francisco, right before the rise of dark ages in 2000 election, and I never heard french bashing that time, nor perceived animosity from the locals wasp community.
After the 2003 debate I was just settling down in Ireland, and I still can remember the french bashing starting right with the opposition of the french to the Anglo-American pathetic pissing contest in Irak.
It started in Sky news, english broadcast, and was all over interview and press conference given by neoconist like rumfield and its idiotic peers.
It remains me of the anti-french bashing that took place in germany in the 30", and which ultimatly lead to the 2nd wold war. The parrale you can draw between Nazi Germany and Neoconist USA is that for example all reference to the peace movement in France illustrated by the "la grande illusion", a reference to the stupidity of war, and the peacefull nature of simple people, where bared form entering Germany, and labelled by the nazi, as Ennemi movie no 1.
In teh same time, back to the post-2003, many french writters, movies had a very hard time being showed in the USA.
But most alarming of all, is the inclination from all American to give into that french bashing.
I think mostly, it was caused self-denial and fear.
What we can hope for, is that the USA will loose for good its hegenomy, and that it will increasingly step further in deline.
I used to love the USA before 2003, but I despise it nowadays, and do not trust it anymore, not because of the french bashing, but becuase it try to silence the voice of liberty and raison in the name of democracy and freedom.That shows a great deal about this country and how it cannot be trusted anymore.
It's time we, as continental European end our tolerance of the USA, and start governing without the meddling of USA.
Anyway, for what I see in Shanghai ( I'm running a company there), is that of all expatriates there, most of the Americans I see work either as English Teacher or for big corporation, I've been here 5 years and met only 2 American entrepreneurs, but countless entrepreneur of french nationality, starting their business here.
So much for the much self acclaimed American Entrepreneurial Spirit.
Josep says:
Hi Jean (2009-04-02 17:04)
When you were in Ireland, were the people in Ireland as hostile as in England? Last time I checked, Ireland was (read: tried to stay) neutral during WWII, so I believe the 'cheese-eating surrender monkeys' stereotype probably never caught on there unlike England, where French-bashing has become a cultural norm. Did the Irish press post any insulting articles to demean the French like the UK press did?
I just want to know. Thanks.
If it's any consolation, there is a standing summons that will be served to Rumsfeld(and I think in Belgium too) if ever he musters the courage to set foot in Germany for accusations of war crimes.

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Viacom makes videos available online
By Kenneth Li
LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Viacom's MTV Networks Group has signed deals to make videos available on five online video services and Comcast Corp's broadband site, as the company aims to increase its presence on the Web.
The MTV logo can be seen on a sign in front of the MTV studios in Times Square New York December 12, 2007. Viacom Inc's MTV Networks has signed deals to make videos available on five online video services and Comcast Corp's broadband site, as the company aims to increase its presence on the Web. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson
Dailymotion, GoFish, iMeem, MeeVee and Veoh Networks entered agreements, MTV Networks said on Tuesday at the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
The show where the industry trots out its newest gadgets and gizmos has been short on seismic changes this year, but Viacom Chief Executive Philippe Dauman told Reuters in an interview that even small developments have made big differences for consumers.
"We're at a phase of the development of the Internet, when we are seeing the accumulation of a lot of incremental changes that makes it easier for consumers and users to navigate information and entertainment online."
Unlike prior years when top media executives took to the CES stages, this year a handful, including Dauman and News Corp Chief Operating Officer Peter Chernin, have kept low profiles.
What is not certain is whether deals like the ones MTV has struck, aimed at finding consumers wherever they spend time on the Web, have generated financial returns.
"We're eager to get our content out there," said Greg Clayman, MTV Networks executive vice president of digital distribution said on the sidelines of the show. "Our fans are already there."
Early results have shown that its online distribution of clips or in some cases entire episodes of some of its shows have helped boost television ratings, which rebounded in the fourth quarter.
Unlike its big media peers, which mostly saw their stock fall in 2007, Viacom shares rose 7 percent.
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Viacom's Paramount is one of the minority of Hollywood film studios that currently release DVDs using Toshiba Corp's HD-DVD next generation format.
Toshiba suffered a blow last Friday after Time Warner Inc's Warner Bros studios decided to release movies only on Sony Corp's rival format Blu-ray, which now has the backing of studios representing about 75 percent of U.S. DVD market share.
"We made a good decision, which I endorse," Dauman said, responding to a question about whether Viacom would reconsider its support for HD-DVD.
However, he stopped short of expressing strong support for the HD DVD standard in particular.
"We're focused on making sure high definition technology succeeds," he said. "It will sort itself out."
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Lincoln High School Replacement Receives Design Advice (images)
The project to replace Lincoln High School with a new 6-story building is working its way through the Design Advice Request (DAR) process. Three meetings in front of the Design Commission have been held to date, with the most recent in February. The new campus is being designed by Bora architects and Mayer Reed landscape architects.
The Lincoln High School campus is located in Goose Hollow, on an 11 acre super block bound by SW 18th Ave, SW Salmon St, SW 14th Ave and adjoining properties on SW Jefferson St and Madison St.
Under the proposed rebuild the new school will be located at the western portion of the site, fronting SW 18th Ave. The existing 1952 school building at the east of the site will remain in use during construction. Once the new school building is complete the existing building will be demolished, allowing for the construction of a track and field.
A north-south pedestrian/bike connection through the site on alignment with SW 17th Avenue would be created, between the new building and the athletic field. The new connection would be open to the public, outside of school hours.
A 6-story classroom tower will be located at the corner of SW 18th & Salmon, across the street from a recently approved apartment building. The main entrance will be from an entry court located at SW 17th and Salmon. Drop off and pick up activities will continue to happen on SW Salmon St.
Larger volume spaces, including the school's theater and athletics facilities, will be located in a lower rise structure, which extends along SW 18th Ave to the south west corner of the site.
At the time of the February 7th Design Advice Request the choice of exterior materials had no yet been determined, however red TAKTL concrete or SwissPearl panels were being investigated as an option.
Issues discussed at the third DAR, and described in a summary memo, included: the building context, including the design of the north-south path and the entry plaza, which the Commission indicated needed refinement; the public realm, including ground floor program, which was applauded; and the building composition, which was praised in general, with the need for more articulation and finer grain scale noted.
A fourth DAR is scheduled for this coming Thursday, May 16th, where updated designs will be presented. In order to gain approval the project will have to go through a Type III Design Review, with public hearings in front of the Design Commission.
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14 thoughts on "Lincoln High School Replacement Receives Design Advice (images)"
This could be worse. It will be nice to have building frontage on 18th instead of the grungy overgrown fenceline there today. I'm disappointed that this project, like the one across the street, is removing the large tree at the corner of 18th and Salmon; I do wish both projects had found a way to retain their respective trees. And, at least from the drawings shown, it doesn't appear that they're proposing to widen the sidewalk on 18th, though it's sorely needed. I do like the new curb extensions shown at the intersections on Salmon, though the ones at 15th and 16th could/should cover both sides of the intersection like the one at 17th.
My main concern is that they're going to define "school hours" as something ridiculous like 6am-9pm M-F, and also designate chunks of the weekend as off-limits because sports, effectively making the public access on 17th a farce. I still think that the fencing on the 17th alignment, if they insisted on having it, should be aligned north-south, so that the field area and the building could be separately closed up while leaving 17th open at all hours. Instead, they're essentially creating an 11-acre fortress that will feel more like an unwelcoming private campus.
David Benson says:
Does anyone know the rationale for closing off 17th Avenue even during school hours?
As a teacher my guess is that it has to do with meeting whatever new school security "best practices" are being promoted by the whole new industry of school security consultants that have cropped up post-Columbine. There's shelter in place, lock downs, lock outs, lock ins, active shooter drills, and I don't know what all nonsense being propagated these days. Easier just to close off the whole perimeter of the school as security theater than actually doing anything sensible about guns.
Thanks, Kent; that was my fear. Despite the dramatic outbursts of shootings like Columbine, violent crime in the U.S. in general has fallen dramatically over the past four decades. There is a tradition of treating schools either as prisons to keep students in, (see: "The Same People who Designed Prisons Also Designed Schools" https://www.archdaily.com/905379/the-same-people-who-designed-prisons-also-designed-schools), or as fortresses to keep the dangerous, interfering world out (See Burbank High School in L.A. and Columbia University in New York City).
There is, of course, an alternative perspective that views secondary education as integral to a thriving democracy and city, and thus promotes an architecture of transparency and urban integration. Over past decade or so, an excellent example of building an environment with this approach in mind is Portland State University, where a vibrant campus has been created that invites citizens to visit and students to interact with their city.
I do tend to agree with you. Although I have worked at some older suburban HS campuses that were designed in the 1970s with open buildings with exterior classroom doors and open plazas all over the place. It can be annoying and insecure when you have too many people walking through with loose dogs and such and too many druggie types trying to creep onto campus to do deals. Or the 19 year old recent drop outs lurking around trying to hook up with 15 year old freshmen. Less frequent but still problematic are the freaky non-custodial parents trying to creep onto campus to interact with kids in violation of some restraining order. That sort of thing. So, school shootings aside, there are very real mundane daily reasons to keep school campuses relatively secure. Doesn't mean they need to be fortresses though. Just have reasonably controlled access points.
Thanks, Kent, for the practical reasons for controlling access to high school buildings. I do wonder, however, how Grant H.S. solves the security problem. Its campus is very open and even abuts Grant Park on two sides.
Claude Moss says:
How to design an urban school, see GEMS Academy, Chicago
I should have added the current design resembles a 50s YMCA.
nope says:
West side gets a brand new school while east side kids don't have pencils. Seems fair.
Billyjo says:
Umm Grant is completely being remodeled, Roosevelt got completely remodeled, Franklin got completely remodeled, Madison and Benson are next as well.. sooo what are your talking about ?
David: Grant is being remodeled. With these old schools designed 100 years ago you just kludge through and do what you can to accommodate them to modern standards such as security, ADA, seismic standards, lab spaces, etc. etc. I sometimes work at Mountain View HS in Vancouver. I think they used some off-the-shelf plans from Southern California back in the 70s when they built that school because every classroom opens to outdoor courtyards and breezeways with various buildings scattered about a campus. Ridiculously insecure and energy inefficient. No way to really secure the school. One would never design a school like that today. But they kludge through until the school is finally replaced which it is scheduled to be in a year or so.
But that doesn't mean you follow old design templates when building new schools like Lincoln.
Kent, I get that the school buildings need to control accessibility, but what I'm less clear about is the permeability of the surrounding grounds. Surely security concerns are incorporated into the very expensive remodel of Grant, and yet so far I see no evidence of barriers that would separate the campus from the public sidewalks and adjacent park. This suggests that easy student-public interaction outside the buildings will continue. And certainly PSU has made efforts to BETTER connect with the surrounding public realm as seen by the street car stops on campus, turning over most of the campus to the food market on Saturdays, the creation of new entrances along Broadway when remodeling old buildings, and devoting significant ground floor space to retail uses in some remodels and new construction.
Based upon the drawings and description above, I'm not sure how fortified the envisioned Lincoln campus will be. Although the creation of a pedestrian & bike path on 17th Avenue is a step in the right direction, I think it's probably a mistake to close it off during school hours, especially if this closure encompasses the entire super block. During school hours parts of the campus could serve as a welcomed green space for preschoolers, retirees, and others.
I don't think schools are trying to fortify themselves. But I do think there is a greater focus on controlling access through a smaller number of points than might have been the case in decades past. Most schools these days are going to try to funnel all visitors through some sort of checkpoint where IDs can be checked and so forth.
You can't really compare high schools and universities. At a HS the administration is responsible for 1000+ minors who are apt to do all kinds of crazy things. At a university it is all adults. Completely different situation.
There is also a big difference between urban schools with lots of pedestrian traffic and big suburban campuses where the schools are set back and accessed primarily by cars.
All I am saying is that I suspect that the closing off of Lincoln's campus is in response to security concerns and the architects and school district is no doubt dealing with school security consultants these days who are pushing to close the place off and restrict access. There are a bazillion companies and consultants these days trying to sell every imaginable software, hardware, and architectural solution they can invent to "solve" the issue of school security. That sort of thing barely even existed pre-Columbine.
Tim Smith says:
Grant had an entire security assessment done. It's pretty creepy to read. They've definitely thought about it in the new design, and it improves some of the choke points in the old design that would aid shooters in confining students.


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Malthouse defends club over Didak
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COLLINGWOOD coach Mick Malthouse has brushed off questions about the Alan Didak controversy while strongly defending the club's handling of the matter. Video: Malthouse supports Didak (high-res) | (low-res)
Malthouse added he was confident Didak would be able to keep playing a key part in the team, despite his significant off-field problems.
When asked at the start of his weekly media conference today about the fallout from the matter, Malthouse said: "That's not an issue and that's not an issue I will be talking about today.
"I'm talking about the game today.''
A journalist then tried to press him, pointing out he was yet to comment publicly since last Sunday's match.
"You won't be (hearing from me) either - I mean, hello - what day did you wake up (on) this week?,'' he said
"The club has already made a statement about it, it's an issue that will not be spoken about by the coach pre-match, post-match while there enquiries taking place.
"Let's get it right, let's not waste each others' time.''
Didak kicked two goals in Sunday's loss to Hawthorn and Malthouse said the small forward had handled the unique pressures of that game very well.
On Thursday last week, news broke that Didak had been drunk in a city strip club on June 12 and then had accepted a lift from Christopher Wayne Hudson.
Six days later, Hudson allegedly shot dead a man in the Melbourne CBD and wounded another man and a woman.
Police have also laid charges against Hudson for a shooting incident on June 12, after he had given Didak the lift.
There is strong speculation that Didak was in the car at the time Hudson fired the shots and he is a subject of police investigations over the June 12 incident, as a witness.
Earlier this week, Didak and club chief executive Gary Pert refused to answer questions about the June 12 shooting incident on legal grounds.
The Magpies have imposed a set of guidelines on Didak that he must accept or be sacked, but he will not face suspension over his June 12 actions.
Didak, 24, is not allowed to drink alcohol or attend nightclubs, must attend alcohol counselling and abide by a 1am curfew.
The forward said he had been "reckless, embarrassing and stupid'' in accepting a lift from Hudson in the early hours of June 12.
Malthouse did not attend Monday's media confernece where Didak and Pert fronted the media, but the coach denied his presence was necessary.
"Do his teammates stand next to him? I don't think there's any relevance whatsoever,'' Malthouse said.
"By me being there, players being there, doctors, club officials, anyone else ... you don't need a whole army of people sitting next to people.
"Support comes from various ways, I am very, very confident and comfortable that the club has handled it the best they possibly can.''
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As we carry more than one brand we can suggest the best door for your situation - be it an electronic/magnetic door to prevent other animals entering your home or a door to blend in to your surroundings.
For homes where a traditional pet door can't be installed, ie: in safety glass, we may be able to create an alternative access point, such as through a wall.
Catwalk Superior pet doors have been designed to be maintenance free by eliminating problems often associated with pet doors such as broken flaps, broken opening and closing systems, noise and sealdamage by pets, rusting screws and difficulties with large cats.
To overcome these problems the cat flaps are made from high impact Polycarbonate (Makrolon) plastic from Bayer of Germany, a world leader in plastic technology. This high impact plastic is also used in the manufacture of bullet proof vests and aircraft windows.
The G-CD model has been designed specifically for glass installation. The slim line design allows the door to be fitted into both single pane and ranch slider doors.
They are available in both clear and white colours. This door may be fitted into a single glass panel by cutting a 245mm (9 5/8²) hole into the glass.
NOTE:We do not advise installation by the home handy man, this is a job for your local professional glazier.
4-way locking system for manual use if required. In, Out, In & Out and Locked.
Catwalk Superior pet doors have been designed to be maintenance free by eliminating problems often associated with pet doors such as broken flaps, broken opening and closing systems, noise and seal damage by pets, rusting screws and difficulties with large cats.
Our wooden door model W-CD is designed to fit into external wooden doors or wall panels from 15mm (5/8²) to 53mm (2 1/4²). This model may be easily fitted by the home handy man.
A major advantage of this door range is the upgradeability at a later date to the new Multi-Magnetic System should stray cats become a problem.
All upgrade kits come complete with 2 collar magnets and may be purchased from your local supplier. Further collar magnets may be purchased if required.
The all new Multi-Magnetic System has a similar action to that of electromagnetic doors, without having the problems often associated with these types of doors, such as battery or electrical failure.
No batteries are required also eliminating ongoing running costs.
This system is operated with ever-lasting Multi-Super Magnets. No maintenance is required other than the occasional clean. You may leave town without worrying about your pet being locked out or in due to battery or electrical failure. This is a unique feature of this patent pending door.
A small magnet is attached to the pet collar, which activates the Multi-Magnets operating the opening latch to allow pet entry. Once the pet has entered the system will automatically close the latch.
NOTE: Magnetic doors are designed for cats older than 9 months of age, we do not advise fitting magnetic collars to kittens. We do not advise installation by the home handy man, this is a job for your local professional glazier.
The all new Multi-Magnetic System has a similar action to that of electromagnetic doors without having the problems often associated with these types of doors, such as battery or electrical failure.
This system is operated with ever-lasting Multi-SuperMagnets. No maintenance is required other than the occasional clean. You may leave town without worrying about your pet being locked out or in due to battery or electrical failure. This is a unique feature of this patent pending door.
Our wooden door model W-CD is designed to fit into external wooden doors or wall panels from 15mm (5/8²) to 53mm (2.1/4²). This model may be easily fitted by the home handyman.
NOTE: Magnetic doors are designed for cats older than 9 months of age, we do not advise fitting magnetic collars to kittens.


Many stories from around the Episcopal/Anglican world emerge in any given week that we aren't able to develop further here at the Cafe. So, here is a roundup of stories you might have missed.
A profile of Phil George, Chief Executive Officer of the Lambeth Conference Company. I confess to not knowing there was a Lambeth Conference Company.


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Batavia City, a beautiful city that can no longer be safely inhabited. Robbery, violence, and a variety of increasingly rampant criminality. In the midst of this chaotic city, Srimaya, a cafe waitress who dreams of becoming an actress never thought that dream would change her life. Her meeting with Bono, a film director, and his friend, Wawan, will take her on a dangerous adventure full of thrilling action with lives at stake. Turning her from an ordinary girl into Batavia City's heroine of hope, Valentine.
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Gripped is a feature length rock-climbing survival epic that takes place on the side of a thousand foot cliff in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California. Gripped tells the story…
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Many thousands of years in the future, Earth's cities roam the globe on huge wheels, devouring each other in a struggle for ever diminishing resources. On one of these massive…
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Only God Forgives (2013)
Julian, who runs a Thai boxing club as a front organization for his family's drug smuggling operation, is forced by his mother Crystal to find and kill the individual responsible…
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Following the events of Age of Ultron, the collective governments of the world pass an act designed to regulate all superhuman activity. This polarizes opinion amongst the Avengers, causing two…
Crime boss Rex hires Frank and his crew to steal a priceless jewel stash — but the job goes wrong when someone tips off the cops. After Frank suffers a…
Jake Speed (1986)
Jake Speed (Wayne Crawford) is the lead character in some of the biggest page-turners of the 1940s. A chiseled, heroic action figure, Speed saves lives on paper, but when a…
The harrowing true story of the crew of the USS Indianapolis, who were stranded in the Philippine Sea for five days after delivering the atomic weapons that would eventually end…
Barely Lethal (2015)
A 16-year-old international assassin yearning for a "normal" adolescence fakes her own death and enrolls as a senior in a suburban high school. She quickly learns that being popular can…
Stealth (2005)
Deeply ensconced in a top-secret military program, three pilots struggle to bring an artificial intelligence program under control … before it initiates the next world war.
Rev (2020)
A young thief with a history of grand theft auto becomes an informant and helps police bring down a criminal enterprise involved in the smuggling of hundreds of exotic super…
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After a nuclear war, society breaks down into two groups, the evil Euraks and the rebel Federation. A mercenary named Parsifal is hired by the Federation to infiltrate New York…
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Team Member Michael Swainston is among the 50 people building trains at Hitachi, Newton Aycliffe.
THE North-East is once again making trains, as the production lines have started up at Hitachi's £82m facility, The Northern Echo can reveal.
The first pictures of work taking place on the new train carriages offers a much-needed filip to the region's manufacturing industry following the succession of job losses led by the closure of SSI iron and steel plant.
Hitachi's County Durham rail manufacturing facility is a few hundreds yards from the site where, in September 1825, Robert Stephenson's Locomotion No 1 was assembled and test runs began on what became the world's first generation of passenger engines.
The new Newton Aycliffe factory, that was opened by the Prime Minister in September, is now a hive of activity with work on the first two train carriages underway after body shells arrived in the North-East from Hitachi's Kasado Works in Japan.
Darren Cumner, Aycliffe plant manager, explained how North-East workers were quickly getting to grips with the challenge of delivering new trains that will eventually replace rolling stock on the Great Western and East Coast lines.
"In Kasado, workers are trained for many years to ensure they build trains worthy of the Hitachi brand," he said. "We have been sending teams from Newton Aycliffe across to Japan to learn from our Japanese colleagues and we currently have some of our colleagues from Japan over here to support us in the manufacture of the first carriages. We are starting production here with a brand new multi-skilled team. We need to learn quickly from our colleagues in Japan so we can transfer this renowned Hitachi quality to the North-East.
"We have approximately 50 people working on the first two carriages and over 150 people at the facility overall. This operational team will train the next group of team members who will be joining us at a rate of 20 people per week from February," added Mr Cumner.
Production Manager Lee Nockels had a career in the Armed Forces before joining the team at Hitachi Rail Europe.
He said: "Every day I'm amazed by the variety of people we have recruited. The guiding principle of the recruitment process was finding people with the correct values and standards, values and standards that match the team here.
Mr Cumner added: "The key focus for us here in Newton Aycliffe is building skills. Currently we are investing heavily in getting our new workforce ready to make the next generation of rolling stock. We are also employing apprentices and graduates and plan to increase the number of these every year.
February 2016 – Recruitment stepped up with about 20 people joining every week and testing begins on the first two completed carriages.
Summer 2016 – First full train completed at Newton Aycliffe rolls out of the facility for further testing.
Summer 2017 – First train enters service on the Great Western Main Line.


SKU: C446. Categories: Crystal Meanings, Crystals, Crystals F - I, Herkimer Diamond, Quartz. Tag: Herkimer Diamond.
Herkimer Diamonds stimulate inner vision and assist mediation, astral travel and psychic sensitivity. They assist in bringing the Light of Spirit into dark places, purifying and cleansing the energetic field by removing blockages and debris. They are also believed to support one's eyesight and stamina. As amplifiers they will increase the energy output of any other stone.
Herkimer Diamonds are named after the county in New York USA where they were first found in the late 18th century. They are also called Middleville Diamond or Little Falls Diamonds. These crystals are double or triple terminated very clear quartz which form like an embryo growing very slowly suspended in water inside a vug hole or pocket in the rock. They can be found with inclusions of minerals or water bubbles.
Herkimer Quartz Diamonds are a silicon dioxide mineral with a hardness of 7.5. They are short, double terminated with highly glossy surfaces and often occur in skeletal shaped formations. They are found in Herkimer, New York, USA.
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San Francisco's facial recognition technology ban, explained
San Francisco is the first major city to ban local government agencies' use of facial recognition, becoming a leader in regulating technology criticized for its potential to expand widespread government surveillance and reinforce police bias.
The "Stop Secret Surveillance" ordinance passed 8-1 in a vote by the city's board of supervisors Tuesday. The ordinance will implement an all-out ban on San Francisco city agencies' use of facial surveillance, which tech companies such as Amazon and Microsoft currently sell to various US government agencies, including in Amazon's case, US police departments and in Microsoft's case, a US prison. These technologies can detect faces in images or live video streams and match those facial characteristics to someone's identity in a database.
Today, facial recognition technology is widely used by the Chinese government for Orwellian mass surveillance of ordinary citizens in public life — most alarmingly to target the Uighur Muslim ethnic minority in what's been called "automated racism."
In the US, the tools are far less ubiquitous but becoming increasingly popular with law enforcement agencies. Dozens of local police departments across the US use the technology to match driver's license pictures and mug shots to criminal databases. It's also used (in some cases by private citizens, not police) to monitor crowds at events such as protests, shopping malls, and concerts to identify potential suspects in real time, which has caused alarm among civil liberties advocates, who say this use can have a chilling effect on free speech.
The ban is just one part of San Francisco's surveillance oversight ordinance, which will also require city agencies to get city approval before purchasing other kinds of surveillance technologies, such as automatic license plate readers and camera-enabled drones. It won't stop private citizens or businesses, however, from using these facial recognition systems. (So, Taylor Swift, if you're reading this — you're still in the clear to welcome San Francisco concertgoers with a face scan.) And of course, everyday San Franciscans can continue to willingly participate in pervasive facial recognition technology like the rest of us when we unlock our iPhones, or tag a suggested friend in a Facebook photo, for example.
Supporters of facial recognition technology say that it has the capability to help police departments more efficiently identify and arrest criminal suspects, but critics point to examples of misuses that they say prove it can do more harm than good.
In a particularly egregious example, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) ran a test of Amazon's facial recognition software and found it incorrectly misidentified 28 black members of Congress as criminals. Researchers at MIT found that, overall, the software returned worse results for women and darker-skinned individuals (in both cases, Amazon has disputed the findings). And in places like Maryland, police agencies have been accused of generally using facial recognition technology more heavily in black communities and to target activists — for example, police in Baltimore used it to identify and arrest protesters of Freddie Gray's death at the hands of law enforcement.
"The propensity for facial recognition technology to endanger civil rights and civil liberties substantially outweighs its purported benefits," reads the San Francisco ordinance, which was authored by City Supervisor Aaron Peskin and five other supervisors on the 11-person board, "and the technology will exacerbate racial injustice and threaten our ability to live free of continuous government monitoring."
Other cities are following San Francisco's lead. In nearby Oakland — and across the country in Somerville, Massachusetts — the city council is set to vote on a bill that would implement a similar ban.
"These ordinances shift power from law enforcement to the people and ensure democratic debate and oversight," said Mana Azarmi, policy council for the Center for Democracy and Technology. Azarmi praised San Francisco and Oakland as a "vanguard" in developing legislation that is a "unique accountability tool to end secret surveillance."
The San Francisco Bay Area is home to a robust network of civil liberties and racial justice groups, so it's no surprise that city governments there are leading regulation on technology that could strip privacy and reinforce societal inequalities.
But with tech giants like Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Facebook in a race to build all-seeing AI, the ban is a sign of something that we don't often see — governments trying to get ahead of a potential technological Frankenstein.
The ordinance isn't without its critics, and it attempts to oversee a complex network of public-private partnerships on surveillance technology that will likely change over time. Here's some context on what it actually does, and the precedent it could set.
What the ban will — and won't — do
The facial recognition ban will most directly limit the San Francisco Police Department, which doesn't currently use facial recognition technology but has tested it in the past. If the ordinance passes, SFPD won't be able to restart any testing of such tools. That means that they won't be able to, say, connect security cameras installed on public streets to image-processing technology and databases of criminal mugshots.
In other cities, police departments have been major proponents of facial recognition technology, arguing that it helps them in criminal investigations. In Washington County, Oregon, the Sheriff's Office said that Amazon's Rekognition product has "greatly increased the ability of our law enforcement officers to act quickly and decisively" by reducing the time it takes to "identify criminal suspects" down from two to three days to minutes, according to a testimonial on Amazon's customer website for the software.
It's easy to see the appeal of these tools. Although the SFPD has shied away from publicly supporting facial recognition (or disavowing it), the department has called for amendments to the legislation that address the privacy concerns of technology "while balancing the public safety concerns of our growing, international city."
The ordinance will also restrict local police from sharing some information with federal agencies such as Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to Matt Cagle, a technology and civil liberties attorney for the ACLU. Cagle said in a public hearing on the ordinance that the immigration agency responsible for deporting undocumented immigrants has previously requested information from the San Francisco Police Department. San Francisco is a sanctuary city, which means that it in most cases, it doesn't cooperate with federal agencies like ICE to deport unauthorized immigrants.
However, restrictions on surveillance technology won't apply at the San Francisco International Airport, where federal agencies such as the Transportation Security Administration and Customs and Border Patrol have jurisdiction — and are free to use facial recognition systems and biometric scanners as they please. (Of course, the public is also free to push back on this as well, and has.)
Several San Francisco residents at a recent public hearing were concerned that the measure would make it harder for local businesses to catch and deter shoplifters. The new ordinance allows for private businesses and citizens to share security camera footage, including from tools that use facial recognition tech, with police to help investigations. However, it outlines procedures for how citizens can share that footage.
Another criticism of the legislation is that it stops local law enforcement from using facial surveillance technology to identify suspected terrorists at mass events, such as concerts and parades.
"Do we really want to say to every white supremacist — 'Hey, San Francisco's holding a Lunar Parade, but they're restricting security cameras,'" said Frank Noto, president of STOP Crime SF, a grassroots group for criminal justice accountability, at a recent public hearing on the ordinance.
The spread to other cities
In many ways, San Francisco, and California in general, is setting a trend for urban areas across the nation that are increasingly demanding more oversight of surveillance technology.
Back in 2016, the ACLU started the "Community Control Over Police Surveillance" effort to provide a framework to local governments for passing legislation to improve police surveillance. Bay Area regional authorities and cities such as Santa Clara County, Oakland, and Berkeley were some of the first places to pass such legislation.
"Symbolically, it's important that we're creating most of this technology in the Bay Area, and now we're putting regulations in place around it," said Brian Hofer, chair of the City of Oakland Privacy Advisory Commission, who has been helping lead efforts to place a facial recognition ban there.
Just under a dozen US cities — including Seattle, Nashville, and Cambridge, Massachusetts — have passed laws using that framework to give their local officials more power to regulate the use of surveillance tools. And about 20 more cities are actively working on similar legislation. Meanwhile, many have called for federal legislation — including Microsoft, a major vendor of facial recognition technology. But at least in the short term, a patchwork of local regulation seems more likely and achievable, according to privacy researchers and advocates in the field.
American consumers may have willingly given up an expectation of digital privacy, as our appetite grows for always-listening smart devices, always-location-tracking mobile technology, and always-hackable social media apps. And so far, regulators have largely been slow and ineffective in curbing that addiction or regulating the privacy intrusions.
But the expectation of being able to cross the street without Big Brother knowing where you are is a civil liberty deeply ingrained in American culture, and one that makes government use of facial recognition technology ripe for regulation, before it's too late, Hofer said.
"These kinds of technologies are spreading so fast in the private sector, but we still have the chance to keep the genie in the bottle with limiting government use of them," he said.
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Started in 2009 ScubaXcursion is owned and run by Nicho and Maaike who have prided themselves on being a family friendly dive centre making it a great place for dive holidays for the whole family. ScubaXcursion are based at the Cutty Sark Hotel situated right on the main beach of Scottburgh, amidst 14 acres of beautifully manicured grounds surrounded by lush indigenous vegetation.
Ideally located for all scuba diving enthusiasts, simply park your car, kit up in the comfort of the dive centre and stroll down to one of the most popular sheltered bathing beaches in South Africa, perfectly positioned right in the middle of the Aliwal Shoal Marine Protected Area, rated as one of the top ten dive sites in the world. The beach with its terraced lawn is geared for holiday fun for the whole family, simply laze in the sun on the beautiful beach or enjoy the tidal pool and supertube.
For accommodation you can stay on site at the Cutty Sark Hotel. Centrally located Scottburgh offers wonderful activities for all age groups, from visits to the nearby CrocWorld, leisurely hours spent on one of the many surrounding golf courses and adventure sports activities at Oribi Gorge, you are assured of enough activities to keep divers and non diving family members entertained.
When diving with ScubaXcursion, the adventure starts with your boat ride off Scottburgh beach. Enjoy breath taking encounters with humpback whales, dolphins and off course during the months of November through to February, Whale Sharks, so make sure to take your snorkel on the boat for that once in a lifetime experiene to free-dive with these majestic giants.
Once on back line you have the option of heading North to any of Aliwal Shoals amazing reefs or Wrecks, or you can go South to explore the untouched Southern reefs. The Southern reefs consist of mostly advanced dive sites and have a great selection of Coral and marine plants. Descend to a colourful welcome in shades of pink and purple with branched black coral trees, untouched whip coral twirling towards the sun and large green coral trees decorated wth goldies and other colourful reef fish, makes this dive a spectacular and colourful experience. The Southern reefs have structures that invite you to explore with indescribable swim throughs, canyons and crevices to explore its an aquatic playground.
Aliwal Shoal is often rated by seasoned divers as one of their best diving experiences. The swirling mass of marine life and game fish found throughout Aliwal Shoal brings in the predators like few other reefs. It's not uncommon to have encounters with Ragged Tooth Sharks, Oceanic Bllack tip Sharks, Zambezi's and off course Tiger Sharks during our summer seasons.
No words can truly describe or justify the life changing encounters that Aliwal Shoal have to offer, you simply have to come and experience it for yourself.