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Chekist Badges and the Enduring "Egg" Design
From the outset of awards for members of the state security agencies the basic shape with the oval "shield" and the sword pointing downward across it has survived - at least with the MVD - to this day. The badges shown in the chapter on NKVD badges illustrates the design that became the standard for at least four agencies with much more enamel than the earliest types.
The first anniversary badge, like the rest, was given to high-ranking officers in the Chekist and internal security agencies for "honorable" or "meritorious" service. Below is an example of the first such badge with an enamel-filled Roman numeral "V" across the obverse. Like most of the earliest Soviet awards, they were not only made from silver, but by individual or groups of silversmiths rather than mass produced in a factories or mints.*
This first design had the initials for the V. Cheka and the GPU raised from the ribbon/banner. Later versions had the letters depressed in the same locations filled with a black or blue paint, as in the following.
Examples of the obverse of both the 5th and the 15th Anniversary of the Cheka-GPU badges which were awarded in 1922 and 1932 respectively. These are some of the most difficult to find originals, but at the same time they are heavy counterfeited and sold as originals. Even the silversmith's maker's marks common on the reverse are replicated.
Typically, all awarded security service badges, including today, have serial numbers to identify who was given the award. The simple and at the same time ingenious design of these early badges was greatly in part due to the fact that silversmiths from Imperial Russia were essentially drafted to work for the Bolsheviks as were most skilled craftsmen. The swords, and on the 5th anniversary badge, the "V" were held in place on the shield by either relatively thick wires that were bent on the reverse or the same wire cut and shaped into "rivets" as pictured above. The ribbons/banners and hammer and sickle were soldered on by hand. In addition, the troughs in the shapes of the "V" and the "XV" were smooth or textured to provide a design for the enamel to enhance. The texture was especially true of the 5th Anniversary of the Cheka badges as can be seen above. A "textured design" was used in the ribbon/banner section of the KGB badges, but not the direct descendants of these designs followed by the NKVD, MVD and MGB (the last name change the Chekist side of the security services underwent before the final and renown KGB). Below is an example of of another NKVD Honored Chekist badge and a photo from the only known copy of the MGB version and is from the KGB Museum which is housed in the Lubyanka building and can be visited by prior approval only.
The above contributed photo and text below is from "Slava1stclass"* and shows "Zveryev, Yulian Lvovich. He was Russian and born on June 21st, 1895 in Saint Petersburg. He began his association with the VChK-OGPU-NKVD in 1920...His career culminated as follows: May 21st 1934 - July 10th, 1934 - Chairman, GPU of Turkmen SSR GPU; July 15th, 1934 - July 20th, 1937 - People's Commissar for Internal Affairs Turkmen SSR; October 21st, 1937 - [he was] arrested; September 7th, 1938 - [tried,] convicted/sentenced and executed by firing squad; January 23rd, 1958 - "rehabilitated" by order of the Supreme Court of the SSSR; rank: senior major GB [(state security)] effective 29 November 1935; awards: Honorary Chekist (V) Badge - serial number 472 awarded in 1929; Order of the Red Banner [pictured above] - serial number 21280/20280 awarded 3 April 1930."
Like many who were victims of Stalin's purges, he was
"rehabilitated" and awards restored sometimes decades after their murders - which was the post-Stalinist government's way there had been a mistake and the victim was in fact, innocent of whatever charges were used as a case for execution. More about "destalinization" is discussed in other chapters here.
However, before going that far forward, the main 10th anniversary OGPU badge design is essential to illustrate. As can be seen below, the design was far different than the 5th and 15th with a profile of Dzerzhinsky in the center as well as a laurel wreath and large banner behind the head. This badge was unique in that it had no sword and shield motif and the only presence of the H&S is inside the flagpole finial.
They were made from various metals and combinations of metals, enamels and paints. Some were made of solid silver, others solid brass while some of the earliest and most uncommon designs used gold for Dzerzhinsky's profile.
The rarest gold profile and wreath surrounded by red and white enamel on a base of silver. There are crossed swords at the base of the badge as well as red enamel backing the letters OGPU (All-Union State Political Directorate - both the successor and later predecessor of the GPU) and filling the star above Dzerzhinsky's head.*
And here is an example of the solid silver base and Dzerzhinsky profile and wreath together with red enamel.
Finally, the least expensive versions were produced from bronze and/or brass with red paint replacing the enamel. There were even a final lot made of only brass with no paint or enamel at all - just the design itself.
The "Honored NKVD Employee" badge resumed the oval shield with sword pointing downward atop it and the world renown hammer and sickle resting on top of the sword, but as the most prominent symbol on the badge. Designers continued to use various metals including silver and gold. Much later in the 1960s when MOOP was the name of the MVD, the base metal was an simple brass. Prior to that, real gold layers had been tried on the sword hilt and especially on the H&S, but this proved too likely to peel, tear or wear, so a gold-based allow was used to coat both the hilt and the H&S in a very thick layer that proved to hold up to use much better than previous attempts. It was this alloy that was used at least until 1991 and likely onward.
This pre-WWII NKVD badge once had a thin layer of gold coating the hammer and sickle in the center which likely wore off from everyday use and the color of the upper parts of the ribbon/banner suggest that the enamel has been repaired - which is extremely common since the enamel in early badges of this type were notoriously fragile. Rumors circulated that ingredients in the traditional red colored enamel used included blood and gold. The former was supposed to create a mystical quality while the latter was supposed to give the red its unique color. Neither have ever been found to be true.
The only widely known "Honored Chekist" MGB badge. This may have been a prototype, but curators at the KGB Museum in the Lubyanka building (and partial FSB counterintelligence headquarters) have not made an official statement about productions of these rarest of all "egg" badges. This is also the only design of this type to use text on the ribbon/banner. Later KGB badges did make use of text on the red enamel (see the top of the site page), but it was considerably thinner ribbon/banner to include text, but not on this large scale.* Also, KGB "shield and sword" badges were a unique design that has lasted well into the current era of Russian Federation FSB, SVR and MVD honor badges.
In 1962 Khruschev, in all likelihood to limit the enormous powers of the MVD (roughly equivalent to the US Federal Bureau of Investigation) accrued by Beria who had been "tried" and executed after Stalin's death, the powers that were dissolved the "all-union" MVD and created a new, localized "Ministry for the Preservation for Public Order," or MOOP. This lasted until Khruschev was forced to resign and Brezhnev took over. Since the MVD was the "supercharged" internal police with the job of counterintelligence as well as combating crime and the new regional-only MOOP was not handling the job very effectively, Brezhnev started the process of returning the all-union status of the former MVD in 1966 and formally restored the MVD, name and all, in 1968.
In the example pictured above, the base metal used for the H&S, the backing of the ribbon/banner and the lettering appears to be simple brass. Judging from other examples of brass-based badges of this "egg" type, the oval shield is likely silver plated as is the sword blade. The sword hilt still has gold plating on it and the H&S and lettering probably had gold plating that wore off since these are the areas most prone to regular contact from hands, clothing and any number of reasons including excessive polishing and a very thin layer of gold over the base metal.
Though the MGB "egg" badge is by far the most scarce of this type for obvious reasons stated above, the MOOP version is the second most difficult for collectors to find for a couple of reasons. The first is that the organization under he name of MOOP only existed for six years. The second is that, as in the case of the NKVD badge being MVD simply because the badges were so complex to make that leftovers from one name of the agency to the next were given out until supplies were depleated. Thus MOOP agents were likely given MVD badges until those stocks were exhausted, and by the time MOOP badges were fully in production the name was changed back to MVD, thus logic dictates that far fewer MOOP badges were made and awarded to officers than would be expected between 1962 and 1968.
*Most photographs in this chapter (except where otherwise noted are from Robert S. Pandis' compilation CHEKA: Distinguished Worker Awards Parts I, II and III, Ver. 8/6/01 and are copyrighted material. Formerly, these were on a website that is no longer active: http://www.geocities.com/huskeradmi/cheka.html Pandis' work is some of the best in the field of Soviet security services information and photography.
** "Slava1stclass" - which is the English for Слава класс 1 and one of the highest awards junior and non-commissioned officers could receive mainly for military duty, will appear in photo contributions extensively in other areas throughout this work. He uses that name as his "handle" on the Soviet Military Awards Page Forum where he is an active and knowledgeable member. It is also what he wanted me to call him in all credits.
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Белоусовский припоселковый кедровник — массив кедрового леса, расположенный в окрестностях деревни Белоусово, в 25 км на юго-восток от города Томска. Ботанический памятник природы областного значения. В составе древостоя преобладает кедр, сопутствуют сосна, ель, берёза, реже пихта и осина. Высота деревьев составляет до 23 м, возраст — 109 лет.

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Historic LGBTQ Presence on Ballots; Colorado Forgives Unemployment Error; and More
Diversity & Inclusion Election Immigration LGBT News Police Politics Racism Republicans October 14, 2020 by Brian Good
Record number of LGBTQ candidates on 2020 election ballots. If 2018 was known for bringing about the pink wave, where a record number of women were elected into office, then 2020 could be shaping up to have its own rainbow wave. According to data from the LGBTQ Victory Fund, a…
In Landmark Case, Supreme Court Declares Federal Law Protects LGBTQ+ Individuals From Job Discrimination
'Link in Bio:' DiversityInc on Instagram Good News News June 15, 2020 by Olivia Riggio
On Monday morning, the Supreme Court ruled that existing federal law forbids job discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity. The ruling is a landmark victory for the LGBTQ+ community, and a surprising decision coming from a majority conservative court. In a 6–3 vote, the Court ruled that Title…
Celebrating Success: AT&T's Latya Taylor and Dale Street Discuss the Longevity of NETwork and LEAGUE ERGs
2019 Fall Event November 20, 2019 by Olivia Riggio
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Aaron Belkin of Take Back the Court Urges Kavanaugh and Alito to Recuse Themselves From Upcoming LGBTQ Rights Cases
News November 8, 2019 by Olivia Riggio
The U.S. Supreme Court has just heard the arguments of three cases that will determine the applications of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to LGBTQ employment rights. But Aaron Belkin, director of the judicial advocacy group, Take Back the Court has written Justices Brett Kavanaugh and…
Gay Police Officer Sgt. Wildhaber Wins $20 Million in Discrimination Suit Against St. Louis County
'Link in Bio:' DiversityInc on Instagram News November 1, 2019 by Olivia Riggio
St. Louis County, Mo., police officer Sgt. Keith Wildhaber on Friday won a discrimination lawsuit against his department for nearly $20 million after claiming the department discriminated against him based on his sexuality and retaliated against him when he filed a complaint. In one instance in 2014, Wildhaber recounted in…
Ada County, Idaho's Employment Policy Now Protects Against LGBTQ Discrimination
Good News News September 4, 2019 by Olivia Riggio
While at the federal level, the Trump Administration is making moves that will prevent protections against workplace discrimination for LGBTQ individuals, Ada County, Idaho has expanded its anti-discrimination policies to specifically protect LGBTQ applicants. At the end of August, Ada County commissioners approved the broad wording of the policy after…
American Medical Association Supports Transgender Rights in Supreme Court Filing
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The American Medical Association (AMA) and other mental and health care organizations are supporting transgender individuals in demanding specific laws against workplace discrimination. A joint amicus brief the American Medical Association Litigation Center filed alongside 13 other organizations asked the United States Supreme Court to recognize the workplace discrimination transgender…
2019 Black Census Reports Issues Most Pressing In Black LGBT Communities
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As public conversation over President Trump's proposed (and rejected) inclusion of a citizenship question on the 2020 Census continues, another census is reflecting intersectional concern over critical issues facing the Black LGBT community. Related story: Republicans Are Not Giving Up on the 2020 Citizenship Question As part of the 2019…
Janelle Mone Opens Up About 'Being a Queer Black Woman in America'
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In an interview with Rolling Stone, Janelle Mone came out as pansexual and she's owning her identity. "Being a queer black woman in America," Mone, 32, said, "someone who has been in relationships with both men and women I consider myself to be a free-ass motherf***er." The singer, songwriter and…
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On the weekend of January 12-13, we celebrated the Baptism of Jesus, which marks the end of the Christmas season. In Fr. Mark's homily, he reminds us that people baptized others before Jesus, but that the Baptism of Jesus makes the waters of Baptism holy. God is present in the sacrament; in the gospel, the entire Trinity is on hand, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Fr. Mark also reminds us of the commitments we make on behalf of our children and godchildren at baptism, and that God has a special plan for each of us that is beyond our imaginations...plans of great peace and joy.
Fr. Newton, too, emphasizes the presence of God in the gospel: the heavens opening, and God once more manifesting Himself to the people. Through Baptism and the other sacraments, we receive God's grace—His very life, as a gift. This is especially true of the Eucharist, which is the Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Himself.


Burlington, VT — Luis Calderin, principal of OKAY!! OKAY!!, a full service boutique marketing & design agency, is excited to announce his participation in the renowned ING New York City Marathon on November 7, 2010. Calderin was asked to join Team Stoked, the division of runners for Stoked Mentoring. The non-profit organization, founded in 2005 by Sal Masekela, X Games and E! Daily 10 Host, and Steve Larosiliere, Huffington Post blogger, began with the mission to develop Successful Teens with Opportunity, Knowledge, Experience and Determination through action sports and mentoring. Stoked was created on the belief that at-risk and disadvantaged youth can prosper and grow by learning life lessons and skills through the teaching of action sports. The teens work with mentors and supportive communities where they gain personal development, academic achievement, positive relationships and healthy lifestyles.
"I am a Stoked kid," Calderin said. "I grew up in cities, facing many of the same challenges these kids face today. When my mother moved us to Burlington, Vermont, I met guys that were involved in snowboarding and they exposed me to a whole new world. At a young age, I was guided by people who saw potential in me and that set my life in motion and in a direction that was totally opposite of where I was headed. I believe in this program and what it can do to help peoples' lives and that's why I am committed to running 26.2 miles in the greatest city on earth to raise awareness and money for the Stoked program."
All of the money that Team Stoked raises will directly support Stoked Mentoring's skateboarding, surfing and snowboarding programs. Calderin hopes to raise more than the minimum $2,500 through a limited edition line of OKAY!! OKAY!! marathon and running-themed hoodies, posters, and pins for sale on his fundraising website, which can be found at bit.ly/okokteamstoked. A portion of these profits will also be dedicated to covering the costs of travel to send Calderin's family down to support him.
"We saw this as an opportunity to create some really cool imagery around running and our fictitious athletic program by producing limited edition pieces that folks can receive in return for their donation," Caldern said. "The profit after production costs is how we intend to raise our goals. You get some very special goods and we raise money for the group."
Other Team Stoked runners include Sal Masekela and Steve Larosiliere, Stoked founders; Tricia Byrnes, Olympic Snowboarder; Keir Dillon, X Games Host, Dew Tour Host, and Professional Snowboarder; and Michael Orenstein, Brand Manager at marketing agency 72andSunny.
The 26.2-mile ING New York City Marathon is considered one of the world's greatest road races since its start in 1970. The race draws more than 100,000 participants annually, crossing five bridges and finishing at Tavern on the Green in Central Park. The race is cheered on by two million spectators and watched by 315 million television viewers worldwide.
Tune in on November 7, 2010 to watch Calderin and Team Stoked in the ING New York City Marathon. To track Calderin's progress in the race, enter bib #611805 at http://www.nycmarathon.org/athlete_alert.htm.
For more information on the ING New York City Marathon, visit http://nycmarathon.org.
For more details on Stoked Mentoring and Team Stoked, see http://www.stoked.org and http://www.teamstoked.org.
To donate to Calderin's efforts on behalf of Team Stoked, head to http://bit.ly/okokteamstoked.


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The State of California is required to maintain and publish a list of chemicals known to cause cancer, birth defects or other reproductive harm. The list is administered by the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) and is updated at least once a year. First published in 1986, the list now includes approximately 900 chemicals. A full list can be found at www.P65Warnings.ca.gov.
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What chemicals are found in StoneyCreek products?
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public interface Commons {

	// Related to log
	final boolean SHOW_LOG = true;

	// Related to the database
	final String DATABASE_NAME = "islahwebdb";
	final Integer DATABASE_VERSION = 31;

	// Related to sdcard
	final String APP_ROOT_DIRECTORY = "INR";
	final String INDEX_PREFIX = "-index";

	// Image type
	final Integer DIMENTION_INDEX = 60;
	final Integer MAX_IMG_SIZE = 0;
	final boolean BIG_IMAGE = false;
	final boolean INDEX_IMAGE = true;

	// Entry limits
	final Integer NEWS_ENTRY_COUNT = 20;
	final Integer ARTICLE_ENTRY_COUNT = 10;
	final Integer INTERVIEW_ENTRY_COUNT = 10;
	final Integer ANNOUNCE_ENTRY_COUNT = 20;

	// Content type
	final String NEWS = "(1)";
	final String ARTICLE = "(2)";
	final String INTERVIEW = "(3)";
	final String ANNOUNCE = "(4)";

	// Data type
	final String NEWS_TYPE_ISLAHWEB = "0";
	final String NEWS_TYPE_JAMAAT = "1";
	final String NEWS_TYPE_SPORT = "2";

	final String ARTICLE_TYPE_DINODAVAT = "0";
	final String ARTICLE_TYPE_ANDISHE = "1";
	final String ARTICLE_TYPE_AHLESONNAT = "2";
	final String ARTICLE_TYPE_FARHANG = "3";
	final String ARTICLE_TYPE_SIASI = "4";
	final String ARTICLE_TYPE_EJTEMAEI = "5";
	final String ARTICLE_TYPE_TARIKH = "6";
	final String ARTICLE_TYPE_ADABOHONAR = "7";

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The Mystery/Thriller Book Group generally meets on the 4th Thursday of each month from 9:15 to 10:15 a.m. in the library's large meeting room. Join us for some interesting reading and lively conversation. No registration is required. All are welcome! Free coffee, tea, and hot chocolate provided by the Friends of the Germantown Community Library!
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The Humanity of Infrastructure: Landscape as Operative Ground
by Dane Carlson
Published in SCENARIO 03: Rethinking Infrastructure
The ubiquity of contemporary infrastructure cannot be overstated; it silently conveys, inhibits, facilitates, mediates, and in so doing forms the foundation of humanity's existence. As a result, infrastructure as we know it has become both culturally and physically peripheral, resigned to crumble and rot as it waits to be replaced. In recent years, landscape historians, urban theorists, and designers have turned their gaze once again to focus on the vast networks of infrastructure that underlie our cities and metropolises in order to begin to address the ever increasing pressures placed on contemporary cities and the innumerable biophysical systems with which they interface. The study of infrastructure as an industrial urban phenomenon, however, neglects millennia of infrastructural practice in the city, its periphery, and far beyond. It is necessary to recontextualize landscape, the common medium for human inhabitation, as infrastructure; a practice inexorably tied to the history of human civilization.
Introduced hydrology: The Central Arizona Aqueduct is a 336 mile canal that diverts water from the Colorado River in order to irrigate a million acres of farmland in central Arizona and to provide municipal water in Pheonix and Tucson. Image by USBR on Flickr.
For the purpose of this discussion, infrastructure can be defined as those systems, works, and networks upon which the function of any system of human inhabitation is reliant. According to Bhatia, it has become apparent that "the natural environment is perhaps the only issue that affects all of humanity equally," and a renewed "emphasis on the collective natural environment repositions the role of infrastructure as the foundational spatial format, as it allows for the interconnection between the human and environmental spheres [1]. Landscape is Bhatia's infrastructure. Landscape is inherently infrastructural: it mediates, produces, facilitates, and transports. As a network of infrastructural function and flow, landscape (here considered to be a result of human modification of an environment) becomes the operative platform of human existence; where landscape exists, so does infrastructure. Landscape is the medium through which culture, society, and the individual interact with biophysical, meteorological, and geological fluctuation or stasis. Landscape is a conduit, an exaggerator, a proliferator, an inhibitor, an enabler; herein lies its timeless operative capacity.
Evolving platform: Ice floes serve as an ephemeral productive platform in the Arctic, continually moving, forming, and melting. Image by oh contraire on Flickr.
In his piece "Redefining Infrastructure," Pierre Belanger proposes the replacement of this state of infrastructure with an infrastructural system aligned with ecology and other biophysical systems, recognizing that "the economy is now inseparable from the environment" [2]. While this piece sets the stage for this new proposal, it does so without referencing several key components of infrastructure and its history. Belanger, in his recent work, operates with a much more narrowly defined definition of infrastructure, limiting it to "the set of systems, works, and networks upon which an industrial economy is reliant—in other words, the underpinnings of modern societies and economies," and as "the basic system of essential services that support a city, region, or nation" [3]. Systems of transport, water, commerce, and production are these underpinnings, the "system of essential services."
Belanger argues that, in the era of the megalopolis and industrial state, infrastructure has gained a new degree of visibility and complexity which separates it from the entire pre-industrial history of human life and culture. This perception, perhaps largely due to disastrous infrastructural failures as discussed in the piece, is flawed [4]. Infrastructure is an inherently human and cultural phenomenon not limited to industrial and contemporary civilization, but something which has been continuously produced and managed for millennia to sustain human civilizations of many scales and levels of technological capacity.
In "Redefining Infrastructure," infrastructure is investigated through case study as a series of systems hard rather than soft in nature (concrete/steel/asphalt/aggregate) and largely divorced from biophysical function. Belanger's redefinition of infrastructure proposes to reevaluate this separation. However, it is possible that Belanger's definition and treatment of infrastructure itself contributes to the separation between "hard" and "soft" infrastructures – ignoring the historic spaces of overlap, the productive grey zones in which landscape has historically functioned as dynamic, adaptive and managed infrastructural systems. Landscape is defined by human intervention, created through the interactions of humans and a given environment. If we understand landscape to be the result of modification or utilization, and facilitation of program is the intent of modification, landscape becomes infrastructural whenever it is created. When landscape is modified and inhabited, it becomes the medium through which humanity can produce, move, and live. As landscape fulfills these roles, it becomes infrastructural. By proposing the integration of ecology and economy, as well as the creation of synergistic design through "interconnectivity and interdependence," Belanger suggests the necessity to understand landscape, and the processes and systems which inhabit it (such as ecology) as an operative infrastructural ground [5]. Through this understanding, Belanger's proposal to integrate contemporary infrastructure with biophysical systems can transcend the reappropriation of current infrastructural typologies to develop an infrastructural proposal utilizing landscape as operative ground.
Delving deep: A qanat system in an Iranian desert tunnels deep into the mountain profile, tapping subterranean water for agricultural use where water is otherwise unavailable. NASA image created by Jesse Allen, using data from NASA/GSFC/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS, and the U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team.
Infrastructure, by definition, sustains and defines all human settlement and activity. For example, a series of canals to a remote farmstead provides an essential service in the form of irrigation, thus becoming infrastructural, and in turn represents part of a much larger system of food production and distribution vital to the support of human settlements. Even a network of fruit trees connected by footpaths is an infrastructural network; a physical intervention and selective management regime designed to provide essential services (production of food) to a specific population. In Nicaragua, harvesting of fruits from the tamarind tree results in the emergence of an ephemeral landscape infrastructure as the ground underneath each tree is cleared before harvesting, resulting in network of circular clearings below the dense tree canopy. Transhumance practices, such as the veranadas of South America, also create a landscape infrastructural network defined by seasonal and climatic flux through the movement of livestock to different seasonal pastures.
Livestock ranchers in South America, shown here in Chile's Tierra del Fuego, undertake seasonal journeys, or veranadas, to bring livestock to winter pasture in the high mountains. Image by Robert Cutts on Flickr.
The Indomitable Yak: Yaks are able to survive in the arid, high altitude climate of the Tibetan plateau and provide many Tibetans with myriad supplies and products which are integrated into daily life. Image by Steve Hicks on Flickr.
Recent urging for a new ecological infrastructure that integrates biophysical systems and engineered, infrastructural elements could more accurately be described as a re-integration of ecology, landscape and infrastructure in the city. Oyster-tecture and A New Urban Ground, projects completed for the MOMA Rising Currents exhibition of 2010 by Scape Landscape Architects and ARO/dlandstudio, are canonical examples which recognize biophysical function as an integral component of the survival of the city.
By calling for reintegration rather than integration, the diverse and complex history of human infrastructural works is recognized. The cradles of civilization in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Indus Valley, and Yellow River valley provide a strong precedent. For these civilizations, the river was the infrastructural backbone of life. Each culture was initially defined by a river which provided transportation, irrigation, and fertility. Although human interventions during the initial evolution of civilization were relatively minor compared to contemporary infrastructural systems, the infrastructure of the ancient world was no less integral to human survival and prosperity. For example, use of a river by a fishing boat transforms it into an infrastructural entity through the introduction of a system of production derived from the landscape, and this system of production was part of a much larger network of food provision. The Tigris, Euphrates, Indus, Yellow, and Nile rivers were the physical operative platform for the systems which provided basic services and necessities for each civilization.
The river, reimagined: Maine's Kennebec River, one of the many worldwide to be utilized as an infrastructural conduit for transit. Image by Leslie Jones, 1922. Courtesy of Boston Public Library Digital Collection.
Road infrastructure, perhaps the most ubiquitous infrastructure of the contemporary era, has a deeply historical presence in the evolution of the human narratives of commerce, industry, governance, and communication. Although historical road infrastructure tended to be limited in function, typically intended for imperial, commercial, and military purposes, its scale was at times no less grand or complex than that of the industrial age. Roman roads, the Silk Road and its caravanserai network, the Persian royal road, and even Saharan trade routes were far-flung trade and transportation networks designed to facilitate the movement of troops and goods (usually accompanied by ideas), much like the American highway system. For example, the Persian royal road was the backbone of the empire's communication system, providing an official conduit for the movement of goods, imperial edicts, and messages [6]. Rest houses were located at every twelfth mile and stocked with fresh horses to expedite transport. The planning of the road even responded to biophysical conditions, having been diverted in various locations to avoid lands which were subject to frequent flooding [7]. These highly complex systems were integral to the function of the imperial state, and as such can be considered infrastructural.
The Silk Road, stretching through Asia and Europe for many centuries, is perhaps the most intriguing precedent of a vast infrastructural network that transcended regional, cultural, and religious boundaries. The Silk Road was a network on which innumerable economies were reliant, playing instrumental roles in the movement of goods overland through vast territories. Although the trade routes of the Silk Road were often little more than a trail through the mountains or a directional heading, the network enabled the integration of a vast Eurasian network of production and consumption. In addition to a network of connection vectors, the route was punctuated by a point matrix of caravanserai which facilitated the movement of goods by providing secure lodging, storage, and a site for cultural and commercial exchange [8]. Understanding the Silk Road as a commercial infrastructure meant to facilitate trade and exchange, as well as the smaller, peripheral infrastructural networks which allowed it to function, allows us to again consider a definition of infrastructure as "those systems, works, and networks upon which the function of any system of human inhabitation is reliant."
Although none of the economies served by the Silk Road were industrial, it was undoubtedly a system upon which these economies, and the economy of Eurasia as a whole, were heavily reliant. Goods and money were not the only things being exchanged along this trade route; the Silk Road was also largely responsible for the evolution of several syncretic cultures in Central Asia, aided by the presence of numerous monasteries along the great roads which facilitated the spread of Buddhism, Islam, and Nestorianism [9]. Khotan emerged as one of these syncretic city-states, becoming a merchant crossroads for the silk and jade trade as China reached beyond its western borders toward Parthia and Bactria [10]. This cultural evolution demonstrates the capacity of landscape infrastructure to act as a strategic agent of culture through facilitation of movement, an argument well articulated in the work of Simon Swaffield [11]. As with contemporary infrastructural networks, the complexity and dynamism of these pre-industrial networks was so vast that it was almost impossible to understand them as single systems, perhaps because such a thing is almost mythological in its rarity; both ancient and modern infrastructures are inclusive of many systems and complexities.
While the industrial revolution may have exacerbated the apparent conflict between economy and ecology, as noted by Belanger, this seemingly intractable tradeoff is not a historic constant. We can also look to historical infrastructure to provide precedents of balanced ecological environmental and economic function long before the onset of the industrial age [12]. For example, the chinampa agricultural system of the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan was formed by a series of canals which provided continuous subsurface irrigation to island agricultural plots fertilized by nutrient-rich muck from the bottom of Lake Texcoco. By utilizing the existing network of biophysical systems and creating an infrastructural landscape specifically designed for this production system, the chinampas were able to produce an astounding amount of crop yields (up to seven crops of corn per year) [13]. Not only was the provision of food an infrastructural system in itself, but the series of canals joining the chinampas allowed goods to be directly taken to market via waterway in addition to providing fertilization and irrigation.
In North America, the agricultural systems of the Eastern woodlands Indians are also a valuable precedent of infrastructure and ecology functioning closely in tandem. Through the introduction of a dense and continually evolving matrix of forest burns, these Indians created a continuous infrastructural surface designed to produce food and facilitate movement of people and game through vast areas of edge habitat and managed production zones. This burning regimen recognized temporal flux, seasonal or otherwise, as a critical component of landscape and infrastructural process (the production and supply of food), resulting in varying types of cultivation and gathering through seasons, etc. [14]. The burn matrix actively facilitated the accumulation of soil organic matter, increased growth rates and opportunities for gatherable plant species, and increased edge habitat for game species. Successful management ensured that this system was propagated in conjunction with biophysical function. If infrastructure is to be defined as "the basic system of essential services that support a city, region, or nation," every element of the eastern woodlands agricultural system can be seen as infrastructure.
La Prusia: Growth defined by adjacency and productive capacity. Image by Dane Carlson, 2012.
Increasing magnitudes of hydrological, meteorological, and geological flux have revealed many of our vulnerabilities as builders and inhabitors of landscape. Within this context, the precept of planning for failure through adoption of systems "reliant on a culture of contingency and preparedness" identified by Belanger is increasingly becoming recognized as necessary, potentially providing a framework for a systematic response to all degrees of flux [15]. Flux is process, whether it be succession of plant communities or changing of the seasons, and "process engages the dynamic conditions of the landscape—living material that changes over time" [16]. The reference to living material is not limited to plant matter, but also water, soil, biota, and every other minute component of landscape. All of these components are integral to the function of landscape as an infrastructural platform defined by process and change. Flux may be gradual or cyclical, but it also has the potential to be violent and immediate. Fisher acknowledges a recent history of disasters caused or exacerbated by ignorance of potential flux or attempts to prevent, rather than adapt to, fluctuation; perhaps most notably the post-Katrina flooding of New Orleans in 2005 [17]. These failures stem from what Fisher defines as fracture-critical design, "in which structures and systems have so little redundancy and so much interconnectedness and misguided efficiency that they fail completely if any one part does not perform as intended [18].
Landscape is not purely a temporal or biophysical phenomenon; culture is an integral component in the formation of both landscape and the infrastructural systems which transverse it, many of which are unique to place and people. Denis Cosgrove says of J.B. Jackson: "more evident perhaps is the influence of his consistent demonstration that landscapes emerge from specific geographical, social, and cultural circumstances; that landscape is embedded in the practical uses of the physical world as nature and territory" [19]. These "practical uses of the physical world" are infrastructural: transport, production, mediation, facilitation. The geographic, social, and cultural origins of landscape, as stated here by Cosgrove, mark landscape and infrastructure as human, not pre or post- industrial, and rooted (in origin) in biophysical systems specific to place and time.
Ritual infrastructure: Ghats, seen here on the Ganges at Varanasi, perform many ritual functions for Hindu adherents. Image by Samuel Bourne, 1865.
The recent trend of soft infrastructure proposals and "ecologically driven landscape infrastructure proposal is necessary and timely, but tends to be limited in scope and ambition through the overemphasis of an artificially bounded urban condition. Understanding infrastructure as an industrial or urban phenomenon limits the potential of infrastructure to be redefined, essentially only allowing us to reevaluate existing infrastructural typologies. Expanding our view to include historical precedents of both pre-and post-industrial infrastructures and landscape may serve to elucidate potential intersections between infrastructure and biophysical, meteorological, and geological systems, providing fertile ground for the expansion of infrastructure that is defined by landscape rather than the reverse.
By understanding landscape as the operative ground for infrastructure, and any landscape intervention as inherently infrastructural, our ability to radically redefine infrastructure is expanded and solidified. Recognition of the combined cultural and biophysical parentage of infrastructure also brings historical case study (beyond the industrial age) to a point of particular relevance. Integration of infrastructure with biophysical systems is not a phenomenon limited to a potential future, but has been achieved on a significant scale for thousands of years; rather than discovering this anew, we have the opportunity to rediscover biophysical infrastructure as an integral component of landscape.
Dane Carlson is a landscape architectural designer currently pursuing an MLA at Harvard's Graduate School of Design, and received his Bachelor of Landscape Architecture from the College of Architecture and Planning at Ball State University in 2011. Currently working to investigate landscape as a productive cultural phenomenon through design and research, his interests vary geographically from Chilean Patagonia to Nepal. As a Community Service Fellow at the Graduate School of Design, Dane will pursue the development of productive cultural landscape design in sub-Saharan Africa at MASS Design Group in Boston.
[1] Bhatia, Neeraj. "Resilient Infrastructures." In Goes Soft: Bracket 2. Ed. Lola Sheppard and Neeraj Bhatia. Barcelona: Actar, 2012. p219.
[2] Belanger, Pierre. "Redefining Infrastructure," Ecological Urbanism, Mohsen Mostafavi and Gareth Doherty eds. Baden: Lars Muller Publishers, 2010. p345.
[3] Ibid. p333.
[6] Schreiber, Hermann. trans. Stewart Thomson. The History of Roads: from Amber Route to Motorway. (London: Barrie and Rockliff, 1961), 13.
[7] Ibid. p13.
[10] Ibid. p33.
[11] Swaffield, Simon, "Introduction: Theory in Landscape Architecture," Theory in Landscape Architecture: A Reader, ed. Simon Swaffield. Philadelphia: Univ. of Philadelphia Press, 2002
[12] Belanger, Redefining Infrastructure, 345.
[13] Aguilar-Moreno, Manuel. Handbook to Life in the Aztec World. New York: Facts on File, Inc. 2006. p318.
[14] Cronon, William. Changes in the Land. New York: Hill and Wang; a Division of Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2003. p37.
[16] Berrizbeitia, Anita. "Re-Placing Process," Large Parks, ed. Julia Czerniak and George Hargreaves. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2007. p177.
[17] Fisher, Thomas. Designing to Avoid Disaster: The Nature of Fracture-critical Design. New York: Routledge, 2013, p5.
[18] Ibid. Introduction.
[19] Cosgrove, Denis. "Introductory Essay for the Paperback Edition," Social Formation and Symbolic Landscape, first published 1984. Madison: University of Wisconsin, 1998.
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The Namib Desert is the oldest and most arid desert region in the world, having been around for more than 80 million years. All maps, graphics, flags, photos and original descriptions © 2020 worldatlas.com, The 10 Coldest Cities In The United States. It's located in 3 different countries in southern Africa, 3. It covers a vast area along the Atlantic Ocean, 2. The Namib desert is a unique desert that extends to reach along the coastlines of Namibia. Not far from Namibia's coastal town of Swakopmund, one of Southern Africa's top adventure-activity capitals, there are mountains of sand that provide perfect slopes to carve down. km), the Namib is a coastal desert, situated along the south-western coast of the African continent. Namib Desert Lodge is situated at the foot of a red sandstone cliff, made up of the fossilized dunes of the ancient Namib Desert. The name Namib itself is of Nama origin and means "vast place". It's home to one of the weirdest plants on the planet, 12. That makes mining the largest contributor to Namibia's economy of any sector. The Namib Desert, one of the top travel destinations in Namibia, is a must-see on safaris to this fascinating part of Southern Africa. In the Nama language, 'Namib' means 'vast'. These are called "Sossusvlei," a salt and clay pan surrounded by large red dunes. Along the coastline, the Atlantic Ocean ensures that the temperatures remain relatively stable. eval(ez_write_tag([[580,400],'listerious_com-box-4','ezslot_5',111,'0','0']));Near the coast, the landscape is defined by sand seas, a relatively flat area that is covered in sand and can best be described as a "dune field.", As the desert runs inland to the east, the landscape changes as the elevation increases. The park is the largest game park in Africa, and a surprising collection of creatures survives in the hyper-arid region, including snakes, … It has one of the most fascinating natural tourist attractions in the world, 15. The Namib Desert is protected by a number of national parks. It is the most versatile conservation region of Namibia, and is one of the country's main tourist destinations. The central plateau is over 2,000 metres/2,650 ft. high and borders the Skeleton Coast with the Namib Desert in the West, the Orange River in the South and the Kalahari Desert in the East. About Namib Desert About the Namib Desert. The Namib is a coastal desert in southern Africa. Another prominent feature of the Namib Desert is its massive sand dunes. 1. The property covers most of the 320 km-long by 120 km-wide southern half of the National Park, encompassing the cool coastal fog desert of the Namib Sand-sea. Its dark-colored coat along with its athletic appearance is similar to that of the European riding horses. It gives way to the Central Plateau to the west with the Kalahari Desert located further inwards. The herd of feral horses is very hardy, living in the harsh environment of the desert. The Namib Desert, one of the top travel destinations in Namibia, is a must-see on safaris to this fascinating part of Southern Africa. Did you know that one of the most famous deserts in the world completely borders the Atlantic Ocean? It reaches inland 80 to 100 miles (130 to 160 km) to the foot of the Great Escarpment. The tiny private town of Solitaire is the only stopping point between Sesriem and Walvis Bay. The westernmost part of the country is the Namib Desert, kept hyper-arid by the Atlantic's cold Benguela Current. Located 60km north of Sesriem and only 5km from the main road, the lodge is the ideal gateway to Sossusvlei. Etymology. The Namib proved to be the perfect setting for a dystopian action movie, 15 Incredible Facts About The Atacama Desert. Tungsten, diamond, salt, and uranium are mined within the Namib Desert, much of which is extracted by some of the major mining conglomerates of the world, such as the Rio Tinto Group who leads all other companies operating in Namibia in the field of uranium mining. Namib, Portuguese Namibe, a cool coastal desert extending for 1,200 miles (1,900 km) along the Atlantic coast of Africa from Namibe (formerly Moçâmedes) in Angola southward across Namibia to the Olifants River in the Western Cape province of South Africa. The name Namib is of Nama origin and means "vast place". It is estimated that the area has been dry for at least 55 million years, making it the oldest desert in the world. The Skeleton Coast is covered with over 1000 of shipwrecks, 11. One can explore thousands of acres of Namib desert, grasslands, and rocky foothills on mapped hiking trails, fat tire bikes, scenic drives and by hot-air balloon. About Namib Desert About the Namib Desert. Stretching over 1200mi (2000km), the Namib crosses Angola, Namibia and South Africa. Running north to south through the middle of the country is the Central Plateau, home to the country's arable land. Namibia is the world's 2nd least densely populated country. km), the Namib is a coastal desert, situated along the south-western coast of the African continent. The coastal Namib desert, the treacherous reefs and shoals of the coast (half aptly named the "Skeleton Coast"), the near deserts along the Orange River, and the dry Kalahari region to the east explain the late conquest of Namibia and form a geographic frame around the country. The Namib Desert is the oldest and most arid desert region in the world, having been around for more than 80 million years. Whether you want to rough it out in the bush or treat yourself to a little bit … Desert. It contains the second-largest sand dunes on the planet, 8. Some of these shipwrecks are now located up to 50 meters (164 feet) inland as well because the desert is slowly moving into the sea. Austerely beautiful, with winds swirling sand off the top of the dune as you watch the sun setting. One specific creature called the Namib Desert beetle has even adapted to conditions of the desert by also extracting moisture from the fog. The name 'Namib' translates as "vast place", which is apt given that Namibia … The coast of the Namib Desert has been referred to as "The Land God Made in Anger" by the Bushmen who used to live in the area and as "The Gates of Hell" by Portuguese sailors.Sipreck in the desert / Hp.Baumeler / https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en. In the Nama language, 'Namib' means 'vast'. Near the coast, hardly any animal can survive due to the extremely harsh conditions. In this area of the desert, the annual temperature ranges between 9 and 20 °C (48 and 68 °F). This plant can survive by extracting moisture from the thick fog of the desert and is sometimes described as a "living fossil."Welwitschia in the desert / Thomas Schoch / https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en. The name Namib itself is of Nama origin and means "vast place". Namib Desert Horse is a breed of rare wild horses native to the barren Garub plains of the Namib Desert in Africa. The … According to the WWF, these Welwitschia mirabilis have only 2 leaves, but can have a lifespan of over 1,000 years. Here the landscape is defined by gravel plains and outcrops of mountain ranges near the Great Escarpment, the steep slopes of the Southern African plateau.The landscape of the desert / Source. This description perfectly suits the miles of barren landscape stretching endlessly along Namibia's Atlantic coastline. At 55-million-years of age, its believed to be the world's most ancient deserts and one of the driest. You can't say you have been to Namibia if you didn't visit the desert. With the original Tsondab General Dealer, Dutch Reformed church, and Solitaire Petrol and Tyre Repair, it's a snapshot into the past and a much-needed oasis when crossing the vast stretches of the Namib. mi (81,000 sq. eval(ez_write_tag([[580,400],'listerious_com-large-mobile-banner-1','ezslot_6',115,'0','0']));Even though life in these harsh conditions is rare, some plants grow in the desolate landscape of the Namib Desert. The Namib desert stretches along the Namibian coast all the way up to Angola. The name of the country is derived from the Namib Desert, the oldest desert in the world. The most parts of the country lie on a high plateau. Still, this harsh ecosystem is able to sustain 3,500 plant species, half of which are endemic. The Namib Desert is located in the southwestern part of Africa and runs for over 2,000 kilometers (1,200 miles) along the coast of the Atlantic Ocean, which makes it a true coastal desert.eval(ez_write_tag([[250,250],'listerious_com-medrectangle-3','ezslot_7',123,'0','0']));eval(ez_write_tag([[250,250],'listerious_com-medrectangle-3','ezslot_8',123,'0','1'])); It has a maximum width of just 200 kilometers (120 miles) and covers a total area of 81,000 square kilometers (31,000 square miles). Daylight temperatures at the desert can be as high as 60 degrees centigrade, and at night fall below 0 degrees centigrade, according to the WWF. Much of it is protected as part of the Namib-Naukluft National Park which covers almost 50,000 square kilometers, making it larger than Switzerland. The reason these fogs are formed is because of the collision between the relatively cold Benguela Current, which comes from over the Atlantic Ocean, and the extremely hot Hadley Cell, a tropical current coming from inland.eval(ez_write_tag([[300,250],'listerious_com-leader-4','ezslot_26',128,'0','0'])); The benefit of this fog is that it provides moisture for fauna and flora in the desert!Naid Desert Fog / Matthias Bruhin / https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en. Let's be honest, they couldn't have chosen a better setting to film this movie, right?Sosusvlei area / Diego Delso / https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en. The inland temperatures fluctuate immensely, 9. Covering an area of 31,274 sq. There also are rock engravings at Twyfelfontein of such animals as rhinoceroses and ocher-painted elephants, ostriches, and giraffes. There have also been human and animal footprint fossils discovered at Twyfelfontein, according to UNESCO. Knowing where the Namib Desert starts and where it ends is pretty simple because it's bounded by two natural barriers. Formed around 180 million years ago, the Escarpment is a complex geographical feature best thought of as a mountain range reaching up to 1000m. According to the broadest definition, the Namib stretches for more than 2,000 kilometres (1,200 mi) along the Atlantic coasts of Angola, Namibia, and South Africa, extending southward from the Carunjamba River in Angola, through Namibia and to the Olifants River in Western Cape, South Africa. If people want to see a real desert, then the Namib is the place to go. The reserve's dry southern location provides every visitor with exquisite views. The Namib Desert is both rocky and sandy. So do people live in the Namib Desert? The Namib Desert is protected by a number of national parks. Here's why it's one of the country's most visited attractions. Namib Desert Facts. This description perfectly suits the miles of barren landscape stretching endlessly along Namibia's Atlantic coastline. These can range from anywhere between 45 °C (113 °F) in the daytime and freezing at night!The desolate landscape / Thomas Schoch / https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en. The only longer sand dunes recorded on earth are in China's Badain Jaran Desert… But these are mere grains of sand when compared to the overall size of the Namib. These spectacular linear and crescent-shaped dunes reach elevations of 300 m. While the harsh conditions in the desert make it virtually impossible to permanently live there, the desert is world-famous for one of the most amazing natural phenomenons on the planet! One of these plants is the "Welwitschia mirabilis," mostly referred to as just the Welwitschia, a shrub-like plant that only grows in this part of the world which is bent and twisted from the harsh desert winds. Stay at Stunning Camps. The colours are amazing and some took hot air balloons to fly over these sand dunes. This type of damage is caused largely by mining vehicles on prospecting missions in the desert, according to the WWF. The Namib Desert is located in the southwestern part of Africa and runs for over 2,000 kilometers (1,200 miles) along the coast of the Atlantic Ocean, which makes it a true coastal desert. Formed around 180 million years ago, the Escarpment is a complex geographical feature best thought of as a mountain range reaching up to 1000m. The Park has some of the most unusual wildlife and nature reserves in the world, and covers an area larger than many countries. The name Namib is of Nama origin and means "vast place". Its dark-colored coat along with its athletic appearance is similar to that of the European riding horses. Before that, there were some tribes living in the desert commonly referred to as "bushmen," but these have all moved away, making it one of the least populated areas in the world.eval(ez_write_tag([[336,280],'listerious_com-leader-2','ezslot_14',130,'0','0'])); The only human activity in the desert at the moment are some ranches in the southern area, and some Herero People who raise livestock in it, but that's about it.Mountains in the desert / Harald Süpfle / CC-BY-SA-2.5. The Namib Sand-sea is a coastal fog desert, 50 to150 km wide, which covers most of its southern half, encompassing two immense, complex and visually striking dune systems, one ancient and half lithified, one active and younger overlying it. The Solitaire Lodge is located at the edge of the Namib-Naukluft National Park in Namibia featuring spacious rooms, an outdoor swimming pool and a delightful desert garden. NAMIB SAND-SEA NAMIBIA. Another one of the fascinating facts about the Namib Desert is that it's considered to be one of the foggiest places in the world. The Great Escarpment comes from the south of the country upwards, lying predominantly in South Africa and Lesotho, and separates the Namib Desert from the Central Plateau in Namibia. While the sea coast extends for hundreds of miles, one of the best places to see these dunes is at Swakopmund. Between the Kalahari in the east and the Namib Desert in the west lies the Namibian central highland with the capital Windhoek in its centre. With a population of nearly 2,4 million … It's one of the driest places on the planet, 6. According to the World Wild Fund for Nature (WWF), some of the desert's sand dunes are over 300 meters in height, placing them among the tallest in the world. Off-road driving on the gravel plains leaves tire marks that may last for over 40 years because the minimal levels of rain experienced there can't erase them. The central plateau is over 2,000 metres/2,650 ft. high and borders the Skeleton Coast with the Namib Desert in the West, the Orange River in the South and the Kalahari Desert in the East. Few animals can survive in the harsh conditions of the Namib, 13. The desert's surface area is 80,900 square kilometers,and it extends inland from the Atlantic Ocean to cover parts of Angola and South Africa as well. Only the Atacama Desert in South America might be arider and older than the Namib Desert. The Namib, at 55 million years old, is the world's most ancient desert, as well as being one of the driest. Many of these are located in the Namib-Naukluft National Park, a national park in Namibia that covers large parts of the Namib Desert. 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Our wonderful Chancel Choir brings music and joy to Sunday morning services throughout the year. These volunteer artists generally meet on Wednesday evenings to rehearse with Director of Music Tom McCoy. Our choir performs both classical and contemporary sacred music from many traditions. New choir members are always welcome! For more information, contact our church office at 1presbyterian@gmail.com or (845) 265-3220.
Experience Jazz Vespers, a contemporary concert worship service performed on select Saturdays throughout the year. Jazz Vespers features professional jazz musicians, including talented Philipstown friends and neighbors.
Vespers is an ancient service of evening prayer, practiced by many denominations. The word comes from the Greek ἑσπέρα (hespera), and the Latin vesper, meaning "evening."
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Director of Music Tom McCoy is an accomplished jazz pianist who curates the most wonderfully diverse, beautiful, and inspiring music programs for our services throughout the year. Music at FPCP is performed by Tom, our chancel choir, and by musicians from our congregation and community.
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NY Times: Trump Should Not Fight ISIS - "Let ISIS Be Assad's, Iran's & Russia's Headache"
New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman said Wednesday that President Trump should not fight ISIS terrorists in Syria, instead he "should let ISIS be Assad's, Iran's, Hezbollah's and Russia's headache."
Thomas Friedman, in his column "Why Is Trump Fighting ISIS in Syria?," first suggested Trump arm the rebel terrorists fighting alongside ISIS so they can shoot down "Russian, Iranian, Hezbollah and Syrian helicopters and fighter jets and make them bleed":
We could dramatically increase our military aid to anti-Assad rebels, giving them sufficient anti-tank and antiaircraft missiles to threaten Russian, Iranian, Hezbollah and Syrian helicopters and fighter jets and make them bleed, maybe enough to want to open negotiations.
He then called for not fighting ISIS terrorists in Syria and letting them be Iran's, Russia's, Hezbollah's and Assad's "problem."
What else? We could simply back off fighting territorial ISIS in Syria and make it entirely a problem for Iran, Russia, Hezbollah and Assad. After all, they�re the ones overextended in Syria, not us. Make them fight a two-front war � the moderate rebels on one side and ISIS on the other. If we defeat territorial ISIS in Syria now, we will only reduce the pressure on Assad, Iran, Russia and Hezbollah and enable them to devote all their resources to crushing the last moderate rebels in Idlib, not sharing power with them.
...Trump should want to defeat ISIS in Iraq. But in Syria? Not for free, not now. In Syria, Trump should let ISIS be Assad�s, Iran�s, Hezbollah�s and Russia�s headache � the same way we encouraged the mujahedeen fighters to bleed Russia in Afghanistan.
Friedman's words almost perfectly echo those of the powerful "Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies" Israeli think tank, whose director Efraim Inbar said last year that ISIS "can be a useful tool in undermining" Iran, Hezbollah, Syria and Russia.
There are no "moderate rebels" to support as Friedman claims.
As Representative Tulsi Gabbard told CNN after her trip to Syria last year:
"I'll tell you what I heard from the Syrian people that I met with, Jake, walking down the street in Aleppo, in Damascus, hearing from them.
�They expressed happiness and joy at seeing an American walking through their streets. But they also asked why the U.S. and its allies are providing support and arms to terrorist groups like al-Nusra, al-Qaida or al-Sham, ISIS who are on the ground there, raping, kidnapping, torturing and killing the Syrian people.
"They asked me, why is the United States and its allies supporting these terrorist groups who are destroying Syria when it was al Qaida who attacked the United States on 9/11, not Syria. I didn't have an answer for them,� Gabbard said.
�The reality is... every place that I went, every person that I spoke to, I asked this question to them, and without hesitation, they said, there are no moderate rebels. Who are these moderate rebels that people keep speaking of?
Regardless of the name of these groups, the strongest fighting force on the ground in Syria is al Nusra, or al Qaida and ISIS. That is a fact,� Gabbard said.
�There is a number of different, other groups -- all of them essentially are fighting alongside, with, or under the command of the strongest group on the ground that's trying to overthrow Assad.
�The Syrian people recognize and they know that if President Assad is overthrown, then al Qaida -- or a group like al Qaida, that has been killing Christians, killing people simply because of their religion, or because they won�t support their terror activities, they will take charge of all of Syria.
�This is the reality that the people of Syria are facing on the ground, and why they are pleading with us here in the United States to stop supporting these terrorist groups. Let the Syrian people themselves determine their future, not the United States, not some foreign country.�
Friedman wrote similar in 2015 when he asked: "should we be arming ISIS?"
O.K., so we learn to live with Iran on the edge of a bomb, but shouldn�t we at least bomb the Islamic State to smithereens and help destroy this head-chopping menace? Now I despise ISIS as much as anyone, but let me just toss out a different question: Should we be arming ISIS? Or let me ask that differently: Why are we, for the third time since 9/11, fighting a war on behalf of Iran?
The New York Times' top columnist openly supports using ISIS terrorists -- who massacre Christians and chop of peoples' heads in killings ten times more brutal than even the gassings in Syria -- as a tool of US-Israeli foreign policy, and yet there is no outrage and the media doesn't even give a sh*t.
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After having 15 months off on maternity leave mothering my first child, returning to work has crept on in. Its been amazing being able to spend my days with my daughter and knowing that no matter what she would have me right by her side. Every mealtime, nap time, and any time she felt sad or needed me id be just a whinge away. I wish it could of gone on like that until she started nursery but it just was not practical for our family. We've been lucky to have gone this long already. I know many parents that have chosen by preference or are forced back into work sooner by life circumstances.
I hoped we'd be sharing each day together for a while longer but our pockets need some extra pennies in them. To be able to buy you nice things and to take to you fun places mummy has to go to work, only for a few days a week. I know it will be different and perhaps may seem rather disowning to you at first. Mummy has definitely not disowned you little P in actual fact I'm doing this for you because I love you and I want you to have everything.
I know your having fun when I'm not there I've seen the amount of toys on the living room floor from a day with daddy, hasen't it been nice to have some quality daddy time just you two? I've seen how happy you two are together, your such a crazy pair. For now while daddy can take care of you (that is until we make other fun arrangements for you) you have this special time to enjoy each other and that makes me happy, its easier for mummy to know that your with someone you love and trust.
Leaving you behind is the hardest part of all, seeing you follow me around as I try to get ready for work makes me sad. Your at that age in which your starting to recognize when its time to go out only on certain days your not coming with me. Your'll grab your shoes and hold them up to me to put on you and this saddens me so, it tugs at my intensely tangled heart strings a little more than normal.
Having to distract you with daddy while I skip out the door is sometimes easier for me if you don't notice me going. I don't leave hearing you cry. Instead I get to see you snuggled up with your daddy cosy and content. On a day when you see me leaving I have a lump in my throat and have to fight back my tears because knowing your sad, confused as to where I've gone, and left feeling like mummy has left you are the worst days for me. I hate knowing your upset and that you want me there. Days like that I have to force myself to leave you because i'd easily throw off my shoes and coat to come right back to you. Its hard being a working parent, and now I can understand how daddy must feel having to do this 5 days a week to support us all.
Coming home the first thing I want to see is that little smile you give me, I love being able to play with you again, being silly on the floor. I smother you in kisses and cuddle you till you go pop. Only, bedtime comes rather quickly it'll be time for work again soon, time to leave you behind again, just for a short while...but rest assured the days we are together mummy will do her best to make those moments count.
I hope you know that everything we do or say is for the good of you, and that nothing in this world means more to us than you. I will never disown you little P mummy will always be back, everything is for you.
I'm lucky that I can work from home so I haven't had to go through this yet. I can imagine that it's so hard!


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Phillies: 3 players who could make the All-Star team
MIAMI, FL - MAY 2: Aaron Nola #27 of the Philadelphia Phillies is congratulated by teammates after leaving the game in the eighth inning against the Miami Marlins at Marlins Park on May 2, 2018 in Miami, Florida. (Photo by Eric Espada/Getty Images) /
PHILADELPHIA, PA – APRIL 05: Starting pitcher Jake Arrieta #49 of the Philadelphia Phillies delivers a pitch against the Arizona Diamondbacks in the second inning at Citizens Bank Park on April 25, 2018 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Drew Hallowell/Getty Images) /
The Phillies prized free agent ace Jake Arrieta has been everything fans have hoped for this season. Reinventing himself slightly after his Cy Young season in Chicago, Arrieta is 3-1 with a terrific 2.59 ERA in seven starts.
While the statistics aren't mindblowing with 27 strikeouts and 14 walks in 41.1 innings, Arrieta has been consistent with a .432 home runs per nine innings, fourth best among National League pitchers.
Name recognition and effectiveness will push Arrieta into the All-Star conversation when players and coaches get their votes in. Six strong weeks could make up for Arrieta missing the first week of the season, and potentially have him appearing as a reliever during the All-Star game.
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Players to watch: Carlos Santana, Edubray Ramos, Cesar Hernandez, Maikel Franco, Rhys Hoskins


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ANTI-RUSSIAN SANCTIONS
Russia managed to replace imported components in defense products, says weapons exporter
According to Rosoboronexport, the Western sanctions had a negative impact on the global arms market as a whole
CEO of Rosoboronexport Alexander Mikheev
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KUBINKA /Moscow Region/, June 26. /TASS/. Russia has coped with the replacement of imported components in its defense products, Alexander Mikheev, CEO of Russia's weapons exporter Rosoboronexport, told TASS. He was speaking at the 5th international forum Army-2019 forum.
"The existing conditions, when international cooperation collapsed and we did not receive engines, components, electronics, challenged us and gave a chance to develop and create our own. We adopted an import substitution program. Today there is no such problem," Mikheev said.
According to him, the introduction of Western and American sanctions had a negative impact on the global arms market as a whole.
"The rules of civilized foreign trade, like any trade, do not accept such requirements: don't buy from them because they are bad guys - buy from us. Any pressure and blackmail should be excluded," the head of Rosoboronexport added.
Mikheev said that the order book of the Russian arm exporter has orders for about $50 bln now and they should be delivered within 3-5 years.
"It is not difficult to imagine the scope of work behind this figure," Mikheev concluded.
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The forum Army-2019 is held on June 25-30 at the theme park Patriot in the Moscow Region. Some shows will be arranged in other regions of Russia. According to preliminary estimates, more than 1,500 enterprises and organizations are to participate in the forum. More than 27,000 product samples and technologies will be on display.
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PORT CLINTON – The man charged with robbing a smoke shop April 1 was indicted Thursday on charges of making a bomb threat to Port Clinton High School as a diversion for the robbery.
A grand jury indicted Alex Fletcher, 24, Portage Township, on one felony count each of inducing panic, disrupting public services and aggravated robbery in Ottawa County Common Pleas Court.
Fletcher is being held without bail in the Ottawa County Detention Facility.
Fletcher admitted to Port Clinton police that he robbed Mickey's Smoke Shop on Perry Street with a baseball bat and called in the bomb threat to the high school to draw police away from the area of the smoke shop, according to a Port Clinton police report.
"I asked (Fletcher) if he made the bomb threat call, and he lowered his head and said he didn't mean to scare anyone and he wouldn't hurt anyone at the school," Detective Sgt. Corbin Carpenter wrote in police reports.
Fletcher told police he was on heroin and crack cocaine during the robbery, reports show. He got away with $576 and at least two cartons of cigarettes.
At 9:29 a.m. April 1, someone called 911 and said he was going to bring a bomb to Port Clinton High School at 10 a.m.
"He claimed to be a student who was being harassed by 'seniors' and had a bomb on his person and was going to take it to the school at 10 a.m.," according to police reports.
The call was made from a disconnected cellphone, which can still call 911 but can't be traced.
The call put all Port Clinton City Schools on lockdown and caused police to search cars in the area. The police and fire department then evacuated the high school, on Jefferson Street, and searched the building as a safety measure.
Around 10 a.m., a man covering his face with a hood walked into Mickey's Smoke Shop on Perry Street with a baseball bat and had the clerk empty the cash register, reports show.
Port Clinton police arrested Fletcher last week on the robbery charge because they had received information he might run, Carpenter said. Police had planned to wait to arrest him until the grand jury reviewed the case and determined what charges to file.


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John David Logan (San Diego, 24 september 1961) is een Amerikaans scenarioschrijver, toneelschrijver en producent.

Biografie
John Logan werd in 1961 geboren in San Diego (Californië). Zijn ouders waren via Canada van Noord-Ierland naar de Verenigde Staten gemigreerd. Hij heeft een broer en een zus, die beide ouder zijn. Hij groeide op in Californië en Millburn (New Jersey), waar hij ook naar school ging. In 1983 studeerde hij in Chicago af aan de Northwestern-universiteit.

Carrière
Na een succesvolle carrière als toneelschrijver in Chicago maakte hij midden jaren 1990 de overstap naar film. Hij maakte zijn officieel debuut met de films Bats (1999) en Any Given Sunday (1999). Zijn script over de totstandkoming van de filmklassieker Citizen Kane (1941) werd datzelfde jaar verfilmd als de tv-film RKO 281 (1999).

In de daaropvolgende jaren groeide Logan uit tot een van de succesvolste scenaristen in Hollywood en werkte hij met bekende regisseurs als Ridley Scott, Martin Scorsese, Gore Verbinski en Tim Burton samen. Zijn scripts voor Gladiator (2000),  The Aviator (2004) en Hugo (2011) leverde hem telkens een Oscarnominatie op.

Met regisseur Sam Mendes werkte hij samen aan de James Bondfilms Skyfall (2012) en Spectre (2015). Daarnaast ontwikkelde het duo ook de horrorserie Penny Dreadful (2014–2016) voor Showtime.

Filmografie
Film
 Bats (1999)
 Any Given Sunday (1999)
 Gladiator (2000)
 The Time Machine (2002)
 Star Trek: Nemesis (2002)
 Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (2003)
 The Last Samurai (2003)
 The Aviator (2004)
 Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)
 Rango (2011)
 Coriolanus (2011)
 Hugo (2011)
 Skyfall (2012)
 Spectre (2015)
 Genius (2016)
 Alien: Covenant (2017)

Televisie
 Tornado! (1996)
 RKO 281 (1999)
 Penny Dreadful (2014–2016)

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Amerikaans scenarioschrijver
Amerikaans toneelschrijver
Amerikaans televisieproducent