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Reap What You Sow: Libya's Harsh Lessons
There is a narrative in Arab countries that regards U.S. actions in the region as being mainly military and mainly harmful to ordinary Arabs and other Muslims. The less the U.S. is involved militarily in this region, the better for us in the long run.
John Tirman, Contributor
Executive Director, MIT Center for International Studies
Sep 19, 2012, 04:36 PM EDT | Updated Nov 19, 2012
A vehicle (R) and the surround buildings burn after they were set on fire inside the US consulate compound in Benghazi late on September 11, 2012. An armed mob protesting over a film they said offended Islam, attacked the US consulate in Benghazi and set fire to the building, killing one American, witnesses and officials said. AFP PHOTO (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/GettyImages)
One week following the saddening murder of U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans in Bengazi, Libya, the mystery of precisely what happened has not lifted. The claim of UN envoy Susan Rice that the violence was spontaneous in reaction to the American right-wing film about the prophet Mohammed is not convincing. But we need to look beyond the incident itself to what troubles Libya and some other Arab countries in transition, as nearly all agree it's a parlous moment.
This fragility has not constrained the usual suspects. Not only did Mitt Romney, Fox News, and the right-wing blogosphere try to disparage President Obama's handling of the fracas in Cairo and other cities, but Israel's foreign ministry piled on, saying the U.S. wasn't taking Arab radicalization seriously.
Even in the politically charged derision, there is food for thought. The Obama administration's reaction to the tumult of Arab spring has been measured and "managerial" rather than either a full embrace or a cold shoulder. It reflects Obama's own personality, it seems -- cautious, wait-and-see, let's get the facts. That is not a bad thing, really, in such revolutionary circumstances.
Caution is called for precisely because the inner tensions existing in Egypt, Tunisia, Yemen, and other Arab countries are those that beset Libya. They will be the same kinds of tensions that will trouble Syria after Bashar al-Assad leaves Damascus for his retirement villa in Iran. As many commentators have said, the long-suppressed populations of those countries are angered by dilapidated economies and a fractious and repressive social and political environment. Enemies must be found, and the United States easily fits that bill.
But there's more than just boiling-over frustration and wanna-be Al Qaeda operatives stoking the fires. There is a narrative in Arab countries -- most Muslim countries -- that regards U.S. actions in the region as being mainly military and mainly harmful to ordinary Arabs and other Muslims. Yes, the United States has supported human-rights NGOs and health care practice and other development projects in many of these countries, but the big ticket items are military aid to Egypt and Israel. U.S. diplomatic muscle is flexed mainly on behalf of Israel. And, most important, are the million dead Afghans and Iraqis that died as a consequence of U.S.-instigated wars, as well as many millions more displaced or impoverished.
That the United States has approached the complexities of the region with blunt instruments is partially what the Arab street is reacting to. Blunt indifference was also on display in Romney's statements about the Palestinians -- that they don't want peace and do want the destruction of Israel -- which will be interpreted as what American elites really think, whatever their party. And if Israel foolishly attacks Iran, the turmoil in Arab streets today will look like a picnic by comparison to the reverberations throughout the Muslim world in that event. As Netanyahu incessantly says, "We are you [the U.S.], and you are us" -- and that's how many in the region see it, to our peril.
Just one indicator of that: In a recent survey, 63 percent of those living in the Middle East and North Africa said that the United States was not to be trusted to act responsibly in the world.
In Libya, the danger apparent in the murders of our diplomats is not the work of a marginal group of bad actors. Ansar al-Sharia, the fundamentalist militants who are the main suspects, is a jihadist group that may have as many as 5,000 members. Its leader told BBC this week, "Make no mistake, there is a massive American onslaught on Muslim countries. The crusaders want to occupy our countries and act as our guardians. They do not respect our sovereignty." Their actions have been linked to Al Qaeda, and may be the equivalent of a mafia hit in revenge for the assassination by a U.S. drone attack of an AQ leader, a Libyan, in June in the mountains between Pakistan and Afghanistan.
While the intrigue of the killings links the tragedy to the war in Afghanistan, the broader picture in Libya is not reassuring. "Because the country lacks a fully functioning state, effective army or police, local actors -- notables, civilian and military councils, revolutionary brigades -- have stepped in to provide safety, mediate disputes and impose ceasefires," begins a detailed report this week from the International Crisis Group. "Central authorities have acted chiefly as bystanders, in effect subcontracting security to largely autonomous armed groups."
These militias are to some degree based on kinship, tribe, and the like, and those who were part of the effort to overthrow Qaddafi have seized the upper hand in many towns and cities. Revenge is exacted with varying degrees of violence. As in Iraq, the fragmentation of security is itself a source of insecurity. Violence begets violence. The months of civil war that brought down Qaddafi were bloody and traumatic, and while a different order or two of magnitude from Iraq's colossal carnage, some of the same dynamics are at work. Regime change that is imposed by outside powers almost always results in civil war, as the political scientist Alexander Downes argued in a Boston Review forum last year (for which I was a respondent), and one of the key reasons for that is the violence that is visited upon the country. Without a strong central state that can guarantee post-war order (and justice), the bad guys with guns will impose disorder to gain traction in the new political environment.
The news is not all bad from Libya. Elections held during the summer are bringing to power a fairly moderate legislature and government. Women, who feel coercive pressure from fundamentalists in the countryside, nonetheless won 16 percent of parliamentary seats. And of course Libya has oil, a mixed blessing, but compared with Egypt's lack of resources, a foothold for development and peace.
Republicans will persist in portraying the Libyan murders and turmoil elsewhere in Muslim countries as a consequence of U.S. "weakness" under Obama, and will persist, parrot-like, with their tiresome (and false) line about his apologies for American values. How this will wash in the election is anyone's guess. But the reality on the ground in Libya, Egypt, and Yemen is immensely more complex, and yields no easy solutions. It does argue for extreme caution with respect to Syria, however, where the bloody mix of sectarian strife and high civilian casualties will engender lasting bitterness no matter the outcome. The less the U.S. is involved militarily in this region, the better for us in the long run.
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Beauty and the Beast is a magical story of the deep dark woods, the forbidden castle, and the monster that lies within.
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Jane Kreusler-Walsh is Board Certified as a specialist in appellate practice, the highest level of recognition by The Florida Bar of the competency and experience of attorneys in a specific area of law. She has an AV-Preeminent peer review rating from Martindale-Hubbell, the highest mark for competency and ethics. Florida Super Lawyers lists Ms. Kreusler-Walsh as among the Top 50 Women attorneys in Florida. Ms. Kreusler-Walsh is also listed as one of the top 13 appellate attorneys in Florida by Chambers USA 2017. Florida Trend inducted Ms. Kreusler-Walsh into the Legal Elite Hall of Fame. Best Lawyers in America has included Ms. Kreusler-Walsh 18 times in its list and named her Lawyer of the Year in Appellate Practice for West Palm Beach in 2018, 2015 and 2011.
Ms. Kreusler-Walsh's practice focuses on civil appeals and litigation support. Ms. Kreusler-Walsh specializes in handling complicated appeals and has over 500 reported decisions. In practice for over three decades, Ms. Kreusler-Walsh has appeared numerous times in the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, the Florida Supreme Court and all Florida District Courts of Appeal.
Ms. Kreusler-Walsh is admitted to practice in all Florida state courts, the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Courts of Appeals, Fourth and Eleventh Circuits, and the U.S. District Courts for the Middle and Southern Districts of Florida.
Ms. Kreusler-Walsh was a law clerk for the Fourth District Court of Appeal in West Palm Beach, Florida. She is a cum laude graduate of the University of Florida and received her law degree from Loyola University in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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Tyler ISD responds to complaints through an attorney's letter
Executive Director's note: As a supporter of fairness in the media, The Tyler Loop is providing the following story about Tyler Independent School District's response to allegations by The Tyler Loop that school officials violated the Texas Public Information Act. The following report does not cover every issue addressed by the school's attorney but focuses on TISD's main points presented in their defense.
Tyler Independent School District employees did not violate the state's open record law because information requested about a review of certain library books doesn't exist, the school's attorney said Monday.
Some of the requests filed by the Tyler Loop asked the district to identify members of a book review committee, its meeting dates and a list of books removed for review. The Tyler Loop officials filed a complaint with the Smith County District Attorney after not receiving the requested information.
"I will note that there are no District records to provide in response to any of these requests for information for one simple reason: no committee has been formed, no instructions have been issued, and no meetings have been held," Tyler attorney John M. Hardy wrote in a letter to Tyler Loop's executive director Jane Neal.
Hardy also contends that even if the district has removed some books from the school's libraries, officials are not required under the Texas Public Information Act to create a list of those books.
The district did provide the Tyler Loop a link to a list created outside the district by state Rep. Matt Krause and sent to "hundreds" of Texas public schools districts, he said. The list includes about 850 titles.
"The District had already provided you with the widely distributed list of allegedly offensive material and is under no obligation to create its own list of which books (from that list or otherwise) are or were on the District's library shelves," Hardy said.
The attorney also argued The Tyler Loop's request for any and all district emails or texts concerning the topic of contested library books or the vetting process is an "enormous" task.
"If you could clarify or narrow the request, that might prove helpful to providing a more prompt response of relevant records," Hardy suggested.
In his letter, a copy of which was sent to Smith County District Attorney Jacob Putman, Hardy also contends The Tyler Loop improperly filed some requests with the district and inaccurately applied state law in its complaint.
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Community Art for a Deadly Project Competition
Western Sydney University has partnered with South Western Sydney Local Health District to train Aboriginal Health Workers to improve the oral health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and their communities. Now we need the community to help us come up with a deadly name and logo for our project!
Organiser/Promoter: The Centre for Oral Health Outcomes & Research Translation (COHORT). COHORT is a research centre partnered with Western Sydney University and the South Western Sydney Local Health District.
Competition Period: The competition starts from Monday 8th July 2019 to Monday 12th August 2019, and entries must be submitted to the organising team no later than Monday 12th August 2019.
Who may enter: Entry is open to any person who identifies as being of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander descent. There are no limits for the number of entries you decide to submit.
Additional entry instructions:
Logo design requirements
Design must communicate the aims of the project
Simple colour palette
May or may not include your proposed name for the project
1 A4 page flyer incorporating the logo (on either a white or black background)
You may choose to submit your design either as a computer-generated image or use other mediums (eg. drawing, painting).
Share with us (write) an accompanying story about your art
Name requirements
Entries must not contain profanity or offensive language. Failure to do so will result in an invalid entry
Language (other than English) needs to come from country within south western Sydney (i.e. Gundungurra, Dharawal and Gadigal). Please identify the language group in your submission.
Share with us (write) the meaning behind the name you choose
You may choose to submit entries in the following ways:
Paul Talbot (Folau.Talbot@sydney.edu.au) OR
Ariana Kong (Ariana.Kong@westernsydney.edu.au) *Attachment size restricted to 10MB
Post to/drop off at:
Ariana Kong, COHORT, Level 3, Ingham Institute for Applied Medical Research, 1 Campbell Street Liverpool NSW 2170
The Bulundidi Gudaga Team, Narellan Community Health Centre, 14 Queen St, Narellan, NSW 2567
Judging process: Entries will be judged by selected members of the community, including Elders of the community.
Prize Winner: Prize winner(s) will be notified by e-mail or phone by October 2019. All the participants will be informed about the outcome of the competition.
Special Conditions: All right, title and interest in the intellectual property rights (IPRs) arising out of this Competition are owned Western Sydney University and, to the extent needed, the competition winner hereby assigns any right, title or interest it may have now or in the future in these IPRs to Western Sydney University
If you have any questions, please contact Paul (02 9351 8951 or Folau.Talbot@sydney.edu.au) or Ariana (02 8738 9352 or Ariana.Kong@westernsydney.edu.au).
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Death toll from Afghanistan blast rises to 68 The death toll could be higher and the number of injured is estimated to be more than 100. "The planners must face justice". Taliban insurgents have been conducting battlefield attacks since Saturday, focusing on northern Afghan provinces.
College volleyball team in Mo. drops their Nike uniforms for gray shirts The College of the Ozarks swapped out their Swoosh and Liberty University is reconsidering its relationship per Jerry Falwell Jr. Strahan went on to explain that Kaepernick's protest isn't about the National Anthem or the flag, as many critics have argued.
Too many teens are using Juuls, according to the FDA The use of e-cigarettes has become an epidemic among teens and needs to be stopped, Food and Drug Administration chief Dr. The FDA banned e-cigarette sales to minors in 2016, meaning they can not be sold to people under 18.
Apple permanently banned InfoWars from the App Store The tech giant has kicked Jones' Infowars app out of the online shop and it doesn't look like it'll be returning any time soon. At the moment, the Infowars app is still available in Google Play - but maybe not for much longer.
European Union to take punitive action against Hungary for flouting rule of law He has also led opposition to German Chancellor Angela Merkel and others who want Europe to take in more Muslim refugees. It was the first move of its kind in the European Union against a member state, garnering two-thirds of the votes.
Brad Keselowski wins Brickyard 400 to close out NASCAR's regular season Hamlin finished third in that stage, which was marred two competition cautions and the crash that knocked Truex out of the race . Rain washed out the entire weekend at Indianapolis Motor Speedway and the final race before the playoffs was moved to Monday.
Aaron Rodgers Injury: Packers QB Gives Update Before Week 2 Vs. Vikings Vikings head coach Mike Zimmer was not shy about the fact his team will be preparing for the future Hall of Fame quarterback. It's why the Packers aren't taking any chances on his knee, which Rodgers says is "sprained".
When Does Call of Duty Black Ops 4 Beta Come Out This is about 20 players lesser than Fortnite and PUBG , which are known for helping popularize the battle royal genre , support. Players that already have pre-ordered the game on PS4 and Xbox can already take part in the Blackout Beta.
Indianapolis qualifying canceled, Race time changed due to weather It will be part of a unique Monday doubleheader with the Xfinity Series race, the Lilly Diabetes 250, which is set for 10 a.m. Rain washed out the entire weekend at Indianapolis Motor Speedway and the final race before the playoffs was moved to Monday.
Jeff Fager Out as '60 Minutes' Executive Producer Following Harassment Claims A CBS News reporter working on a story about Fager revealed that he had sent her a text message urging her to "be careful". Mr Fager himself denies harassment, and told reporters he had been fired over a "harsh" text he sent to a colleague.
Following his Heads Together campaign in partnership with the Duchess of Cambridge and the Duke of Sussex, the royal launches his new initiative to change the way United Kingdom employers look at mental health in the workplace.
Last year a report that followed an independent review commissioned by Theresa May revealed 333,000 people lose their job every year due to a mental health problems, costing the economy between £72billion and £99billion. Furthermore poor mental health at work costs the United Kingdom economy between £72bn and £99bn.
Mental Health at Work is one of the initiatives being driven by William as part of his ongoing work with Heads Together.
Prince William, the Duke of Cambridge, was set to unveil the project, Mental Health at Work, at an event in Bristol on Tuesday. It also discovered that of the 50% who are suffering from mental health challenges, only 50% have mentioned the problems to their employers. Those staff who felt their manager supported their mental health or could spot the signs that someone might be struggling were far more likely to say they would be able to talk about their mental health at work. The UK-wide portal is a free resource for both employers and employees. Earlier this year, speaking up on the same issue, the 36-year-old emphasised that starting a conversation on mental health can make all the difference.
The Mental Health at Work initiative is available online which it is hoped will benefit small to medium companies who struggle to find the help.


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For those that watch the media, the word hormone can incite fear. 93% of all media stories have a negative slant. It is unfortunate the public, and many doctors, rely on the news to provide them with their medical information. The media are not doctors, and they cannot provide a balanced interpretation of their news. Only one that is slanted based on the current events, and they prefer negative ones. Most of the bad press for hormones are based on dissemination of tainted work. Many of the initial fears regarding female HRT (hormone replacement therapy) are not based on using hormones, but based on chemicals that are altered to appear and function like hormones. The studies on Prepro (a prescription medicine still approved by the FDA), uses a horse estrogen and a chemically altered progesterone, given by mouth, that caused higher risk for cancer, diabetes and Alzheimer's disease. Not only is the drug unnatural to the human body, but taking these hormones by mouth also aggravate inflammation in the system and can cause weight gain and sugar craving due to its liver metabolism. If you give the body something foreign, it doesn't process these things well, and the results are bad. On the other hand, there have been hundreds of studies showing benefit to natural (bioidentical) hormones for health and well-being. Some of them (estradiol in particular) can give through the skin, injection, or BioTE® implant, with fabulous improvements seen in health and quality of life measures, without the risks involved when taking the wrong drugs by the wrong route . Good news doesn't sell very well and there hundreds of studies to validate their usefulness, but none of these studies are controversial enough to hit the media. If estrogen was the culprit in illness, we would see twenty year-olds dropping like flies from breast cancer. What we do see is exactly the opposite, illness develops as hormones decline or are absent.
The list of potential benefits from estradiol is huge! In addition to marked quality of life improvements in terms of energy, mood, sleep, and relief from hot flashes, estradiol benefits include, Improved bones, lower diabetes risk, maintenance of the elasticity of arteries and skin, improved memory, higher "good cholesterol " (HDL cholesterol) and lower blood pressure to name only a few. Why would you want to deprive your body of these body nourishing properties?
Testosterone, has the same media label, a wholly undeserved. Many remember there was a VA study that suggested harm, and shortly thereafter, various legal firms placed adds to sue MD's that had prescribed it if an adverse event occurred. This fear still exists, even though the study was shown to be highly inaccurate, and in fact, really showed the opposite! If you don't manipulate the statistics, testosterone actually benefited parties in that study. Many professional originations have criticized the poor study for inaccuracies, yet the VA refused to retract it. Many also hold the older fears that it could contribute to prostate cancer. The original evidence for this was based only on one patient, but over the last sixty years there has been abundance of information to the contrary, and infact LOW TESTOSTERONE, is thought to contribute to the most lethal form of prostate cancer. So if you are holding off treatment for that fear, you are INCREASING your risk. Testosterone is used for TREATMENT of prostate cancer in some areas of the world and evidence is mounting in its favor. Again, if high testosterone caused heart attacks or prostate cancer, 18 year-olds would be dropping dead from them, but it's when these rejuvenating levels decline, that the disease process starts.
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L'Isle-en-Dodon (okcitansko L'Illa de Haut) je naselje in občina v južnem francoskem departmaju Haute-Garonne regije Jug-Pireneji. Leta 2008 je naselje imelo 2.084 prebivalcev.

Geografija
Naselje leži v pokrajini Comminges ob reki Save, 40 km severno od Saint-Gaudensa.

Uprava
L'Isle-en-Dodon je sedež istoimenskega kantona, v katerega so poleg njegove vključene še občine Agassac, Ambax, Anan, Boissède, Castelgaillard, Cazac, Coueilles, Fabas, Frontignan-Savès, Goudex, Labastide-Paumès, Lilhac, Martisserre, Mauvezin, Mirambeau, Molas, Montbernard, Montesquieu-Guittaut, Puymaurin, Riolas, Saint-Frajou, Saint-Laurent in Salherm s 4.529 prebivalci.

Kanton Isle-en-Dodon je sestavni del okrožja Saint-Gaudens.

Zanimivosti

 taborska cerkev sv. Hadrijana iz leta 1307, s štirinadstropnim zvonikom, visokim 33 metrov, zgrajenim v 14. in 15. stoletju;

Zunanje povezave

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This oblong strip of country is situated on the shores of Lake Malawi, the most southern lake of the Great Rift Valley with clear water and fish to feed the nation. It has mountainous regions from which water feeds the big lake. Tourism is not much developed and the inhabitants are most friendly and helpful, which makes the country all the more interesting to discover. The Nyika Plateau and Liwonde National Park are famous for wildlife. Visit the Island Mambo on Lake Malawi where you will enjoy exclusive service as only a limited number of guests are allowed onto the island. The Kapichira waterfall is certainly worth a visit as much as the small town of Livingstonia, where David Livingstone lived once. Malawi has fertile soil and mainly subsistence farming. There are rubber and wood plantations in the north. All year round the climate remains moderate and pleasant.


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Q: Geometric picture of attaching a 2-cell to the 2-torus Im currently reading about attaching spaces and I was wondering what is the geometric picture of attaching a 2-cell to the 2-torus via the map $f: S^1 \xrightarrow{(1,0)} S^1 \times S^1$.
For me it seems like geometrically I have filled a 1-dimensional hole, making $H_1((T^2)_f)= \mathbb{Z}$.
Is this a well-known space? What happens now with $H_2((T^2)_f)$?
For $S^2$ I have somehow obtained an idea of $S^2$ being some sort of a higher dimensional loop. Is this sound? Is there a corresponding picture for $T^2$ and $(T^2)_f$?
I am mostly wondering about the geometric interpretation.
I have very basic knowledge in algebraic topology.

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Both short loans of textbooks and overnight or weekend loans from reference collection have to be returned by 10.00 the following morning, weekend loans by 10.00 on Monday morning to that library office where it was borrowed. There are fines for overdue overnight and weekend loans. More information can be found on the service fees list.
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A pregnant model's tiny belly is causing a huge uproar on social media.
Sarah Stage, a 30-year-old model from Los Angeles, regularly posts pics showing off her eight-and-a-half-month, barely-there pregnancy belly on Instagram and other social sites. Despite being just a few weeks away from giving birth, her abs seemed to have remained sleek and toned.
"Eek officially 81/2 months... And he's now 5lbs," she posted on one of her latest Instagram pics.
Stage did not immediately return ABC News' request for comment.
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"Check this out...almost 9months pregie and look at that tummy!!!" Commented one admirer of a modeling shot depicting Stage in lingerie.
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"We should also stop being so judgmental about everything pregnant women do. Most are trying to do what's best for their fetus and for themselves under medical guidance," Ashton said.
Besides her busy social media feeds, Stage has been blogging about her maternity journey on her website. She has also designed a line of maternity clothes for the retail site Want My Look.


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Library referendum committee chosen
Farmington Area Public Library District has announced the chairpersons of the library referendum committee. Committee members include Marci (Boyer) Fletcher, Karen (Tusek) McCollough and Julie Coogan.
The committee are organizing many other volunteers who will publicize the "Library - Vote Yes" campaign.
The referendum will be on the ballot for the election on Tuesday, March 20, 2012.
Fletcher was born and raised in Hanna City, the daughter of Gary and Pat Boyer. After college, she returned to the Farmington area with her husband, Mat, where they are now raising their three children.
McCollough is an avid library patron who utilized the children's programs when her sons first entered elementary school. She continued to use the library's services both online and at the Farmington facility while continuing her education. She was born and raised in Farmington and returned with her husband in 2001 to raise their two sons near family and friends.
Coogan has resided near Hanna City with her husband Tom for the past 21 years. Their two sons attend Junior High at Farmington Central Schools. She is employed at apaceDesign, the architectural firm, who has worked with the Farmington Area Public Library District for the past three years to develop the new library design. As Interior Designer she will work with Mark Misselhorn, apaceDesign Architect, to see the building through construction. Julie has thirty years of design experience including such entities as corporate, healthcare, school and library designs. She has worked on the design for over a dozen libraries: Salem Township Library (Yates City), Dunlap Public Library, Houston Memorial Library (Beardstown), Henderson County Library (Biggsville), Chatham Area Public Library, Mahomet District Library, Forman Valley Library (Manito), Tremont District Library and Dominy Memorial Library (Fairbury).
Activities of the committee will include speaking to many clubs and organizations; designing, printing and distributing campaign literature and yard signs; and telephoning voters to remind them to vote.
The library is seeking to construct a 9,000 square foot building on a four-acre site across from the Farmington School complex on Lightfoot Road.
Some of the advantages of the new building will be a drive-up window, a meeting room, plenty of parking, and more seating, tables and shelving than in the present library.
Most importantly, the one-floor facility will be accessible to all and not require anyone to climb stairs.
The project cost which includes the building, shelves and furniture is $2,379,000. The referendum is asking for $1,995,000 with the rest of the money coming from donations, bequests and library reserves.
The library design has been reduced in size and cost after the failed referendum of April 2011. The library board has talked to many citizens through specials meetings and individual conversations to learn what the voters want. The new design is 5,000 sq. ft. smaller than the previous design. The cost of the referendum to the tax payer is $1,695,000 less than the previous referendum.
Anyone interested in helping with the referendum by donating time, talent and/or money may contact Fletcher at 309-245-4202, McCollough at 309-245-4887, Coogan at 309-264-6404, or Linda Schultz at 309-245-2994.


In the inky depths of the Gulf of Mexico, pearly white corals crisscross the seafloor, their translucent tentacles swaying to the current like flower petals on a midnight breeze. Lophelia pertusa brings life to what is often considered a cold, dead wasteland—and now, scientists are now bringing it back to the surface in the hopes that it help can restore dying coral reefs worldwide.
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Ultimately, it's an uplifting tale, which is rare in an age when most news about corals centers on death and destruction. Through a series of harrowing dives with the famed Alvin submersible, Cordes and his companions are able to collect samples of Lophelia and bring it back to the surface intact. And through subsequent lab work—subjecting the corals to a battery of tests to determine their acid tolerance—they find the "super coral" they are looking for.
"But it gives us the hope there's enough genetic variability out there that corals, in general, will make it through the worst of our effects," Cordes told Earther. "And if we can unlock the secret to how the deepwater corals are doing this, there's a lot of selective breeding and transplanting of corals starting to happen in shallow water" that could potentially benefit.
Update 11/25: Earther was originally informed that the cruise presented in the film took place in 2010. After publication the filmmakers clarified that it actually occurred in 2014. The article has been updated accordingly.


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Q: SyntaxError: Failed to execute 'evaluate' on 'Document': Can anyone please tell me, if there is any mistake with my xpath. I have made it dynamic, to accept values from the parameter passed.
Xpath used in my code as :
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Xpath I am getting on run time in the console after execution:
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If I try to inspect above(runtime) by mentioning xpath in Firpath console, it is getting detected. But selenium is not able to detect this element.
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Church of Earth, Magmatic
BLDGBLOG here proposes an ecumenical cathedral for the holiday season, made entirely of magmatic architecture.
The cathedral would consist of nothing but igneous rock, extruded directly from the earth and diverted through a complicated system of pipework and trenches. These would act as a plumbing system, shaping eruptive flows, giving the lava architectural form as it cools.
The lava would therefore be frozen in place on-site, taking the final form of the building; it would steam for a bit, perhaps, maybe hiss if it's raining – but then it's architecture.
A kind of lava-fountain; a domestication of the earth's magmatic dynamism.
The red eddies of liquid glass from an ongoing eruption – Hawaii, or Iceland – would be shaped immediately into the buttressed vaults, nave, tracery, and cloisters of this, the world's largest cathedral, larger than most towns and continually growing. A crystalline crypt, glassine, geothermal.
New wings and side-chapels appear with every eruption.
[Image: The flying buttresses of Notre-Dame, from a Boston College Gothic architecture page].
The resulting volcanic glass could even be shaped into thin sheets of polished obsidian, fed through a filigree of pipework till you've got stained rosate windows, readymade. Perhaps you could color the flows using a salt of various metals.
Churches were always geological, monuments to stratigraphy –
[Image: The cathedral at Amiens, from Boston College's High Gothic architecture page].
– this just more so.
The earth, printing itself upward into arches and barrel vaults; new Gothic mountains, shaped by the creative process they celebrate.
[Images: Arnaud Friche, Senlis Cathedral, Gothic Vault, Senlis, Oise, France; The Great Organ, Saint-Eustache, Paris; and the Crypt of the Plaimpied Church, Cher, France (many more beautiful photos at this site; spotted via things magazine)].
Alternatively, of course, you would not need a volcano. You'd simply build an earth-melting platform anywhere in the world, and it would melt its way down through the earth's crust.
As a boat passing through water creates a wake, the platform's passage through the earth would create cathedrals, lava curling up in buttresses and freezing into place.
Frozen wakes of igneous rock in the form of sacred architecture.
Or a volcanic pasta machine: extruding churches from terrestrial dough.
[Image: Viollet-le-Duc's ideal Gothic cathedral, prior to the era of magmatic architecture – which hereby begins].
(And for a bit more on volcanic landscapes, see Mount St. Helens of Glass).
Author Geoff ManaughPosted on December 25, 2005 December 16, 2015 Categories BLDGBLOG
4 thoughts on "Church of Earth, Magmatic"
Alina Chau says:
WOW!! These are tooo amazing!!
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Cathedrals are a good start, given that they are meant to be enduring, imposing structures, of the earth but also gravity-defying. Containers for fleeting and immaterial activities. So how about we extend the concept to include planetoids, encapsulated seeds that will travel through the cosmos, rather like gelatin capsules as spores, but with the architectural branding of their home planet: The Taj Mahal sailing through interplanetary space. Tourists like Arthur Dent or Kilgore Trout might come across the Chartres Cathedral somewhere between Andromeda and Pegasus. In fact, it may become customary to send replicas of architectural marvels across the galaxy, partly as an alternative to burying them here on Earth. Deep Space is an ideal museum, plus, chance encounters between an encapsulated marvel and an oxygenated planet are one way that terrestrial species extend their longevity. Start here.
Geoff Manaugh says:
So that would be the earth, belching aqueducts and bridges from volcanic rifts. Igneous-concrete archipelagos in the shapes of motorways and flyovers boiling upward from the bottom of the sea, strange stadiums molding outward from Mount St. Helens…
Or small planetoids, of course.
A new moon! Blasted into orbit. We could change the rate of the earth's rotation, or insert a fifth season, somewhere between winter and spring… The 26-hour day.
Yes, of course. Forget about bio-engineering and nanotechnology. The future is about geo-engineering on a near-planetary scale, where molten rock is channeled through sophisticated shaping and sandwiching machines. Raw magma will be converted to an endless ribbon of highway, gedoesies, stone sarcophagi, pyramids, multiple-arch bridges. Worm-casings on a much larger scale. A continuous tube of stone will be sent moonward, then detached from this end, swung round to the dark side, and extended some more from lunar rock. The resulting tube will be wound into a spherical coil, sealed, the inner sphere populated with plants, people and some sort of energy conversion/supply then sent off to find more planetary material to gobble.
Meanwhile, the ribbon of highway will allow people to drive between planets, where the perennial question of 'are we there yet?' will take on a whole new meaning.
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Builder International Car Co.
Built May 1980
Type Steel Bay Window Caboose
Length 37 feet 0 inches
Original cost $181,538
Operating weight 55,700 lbs
Acquisition Donated by Union Pacific
WP 484 represents the Western Pacific's final order for cabooses. While boasting the latest accessories when it was built, overall the 484 is very similar to the first steel cabooses the WP acquired 25 years earlier. There are some differences, however. Unlike the railroad's other steel cabooses, which used a common design, WP 484 and her five sister cars were based on a Southern Pacific Railroad design and were built following a big order for the WP's main rival.
Western Pacific was an early convert to the bay window design, building their first version in 1942. The Southern Pacific debuted bay windows in 1949 and both railroads stayed with the design. In contrast, fellow California railroad Santa Fe remained with the cupola design until the end of widespread caboose use.
The 484 was retired in June 1988 only eight years old. WP 486, the final caboose in the order, was the last WP caboose in service, retired by the Union Pacific in April 1983.


28 Jun The New iMac Pro is the Most Powerful Mac Ever, and That's Amazing!
Apple recently announced the new iMac Pro, the next-generation iMac designed for professionals and meant to blow the competition (and all past Mac's) out of the water.
On the outside, the iMac Pro doesn't look too different from past models. It's got the trademark slim profile in space gray, with a 27″ Retina 5k screen that is glossy and beyond gorgeous. On the inside, it's got a Xeon processor with anywhere from 8 to 18 cores, with a 4.5ghz Turbo Boost. In other words, this thing is fast, and perfect for 4k video editing, rendering graphics in enormous detail, or creating real-time audio effects – without a hint of drag.
The impressive graphics capabilities are powered by Radeon Pro Vega, which is completely separate from the CPU and three times faster than previous Mac GPU's. There are a mind-boggling 22 teraflops of graphic power, and either 8GB or 16GB of High Bandwidth Memory. Again, mindboggling. Game settings can be maxed out, 4k video renders in seconds, and you're apt to feel as if every video is a piece of VR.
And if those specs aren't impressive enough for you, the iMac Pro can handle up to 128gb of RAM. Yes, 128GB. That's about 8 times more than you ever should need for everyday computing, and still more than enough for professional tasks. Apple has also included a 4tb SSD, with 3 Gb/s throughput for maximum speeds. There are 4 Thunderbolt 3 ports, which allow you to connect up to two more 5k monitors for up to 44 million pixels of display. There are also new speakers, and the new thermal cooling system has almost 75 percent more airflow and an 80 percent increase in system thermal capacity.
So, unless you're into 4k video editing or some serious 3d graphics, you probably don't need this kind of power. If you are, there's no better choice. Either way, Apple has re-asserted itself as the brand of choice for those who need high-end power and looks – and just a little bit of cool.


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Working Up Work
November 27, 1975 issue
Reviewed:
Work and Play: Ideas and Experience of Work and Leisure
by Alasdair Clayre
Harper & Row, 217 pp., $11.00
Here is a book on a subject of obvious importance; it is based on serious though unobtrusive research and meditation; and it is written in a lucid and unaffected style. Reading the early pages one has little doubt that one is in for a quite memorable course of instruction, and that one had better be thinking of the appropriate ways of celebrating an investigator of insight and originality. However, something goes wrong: the author's hand, elegantly opened, stays open, the fist is never made, and the material dribbles away.
Mr. Clayre undertakes to examine the notion, which according to him is about two hundred years old, that work should be the central interest of every life. The antithetical faith, which he takes to, be of more recent origin, holds that the right course is to drop out of the cycle of production and consumption into freedom and nature. In between there is a third term, the "instrumentalist" belief that the object of working is to finance leisure and pleasure.
The first task of the book is to look at the tradition of the primacy of work. This tradition is middle-class-intellectual, to be sought among people who talk about physical labor rather than do it. Such people, says Clayre, are apt to dismiss any dissenting views held by the workers themselves, attributing them to alienation or self-estrangement or "false consciousness," concepts which he thinks have not traveled well down the years that have gone by since the end of the sixteen-hour day. Believing that workers are entitled to their views, Clayre wants among other things to measure the gap that exists between those views and the doctrines of the intellectuals.
Many of the theories about work that are still current have eighteenth-century origins. Rousseau, who believed that membership of society entailed an obligation to work, wanted Emile to be a carpenter and avoid monotonous and repetitive labor, even though this was before the power-machines came in. Schiller argued that individual liberty would be possible only after a transformation of the state, and also introduced the notion of play—creative activity of a disinterested, Kantian kind—as the sole satisfaction of the legitimate demands of men living in society, and indeed an index of their humanity. Fourier thought work and play need not be divided and set great store by variety of tasks. The early Hegel saw machines as mechanizing workers, and sketched the concept of alienation.
Evidence of this kind suggests to Clayre that there may be "a tendency in critical concepts to outlive the cosmology and methods of argument which gave them their original force." This is in fact a commonplace of the history of ideas; it might even be said to have outlived its own epoch. The classical instance is the survival for centuries of antithetical primitivisms, labeled "soft" and "hard," and reflecting complementary attitudes to work. Both kinds are involved in the story of Adam, who lived in a paradise of pleasure but had to cultivate it: a situation Milton found a bit difficult, for having declared the work virtually unnecessary, a mere disinterested tidying up of superfluous growth with prelapsarian secateurs, he gave Eve victorious arguments for the division of labor. The interesting question about all such perennial survivors is not whether they are true today, but why thought and feeling tend, over extremely long stretches of time, to assume these forms of expression.
In fact it is not very surprising that, for example, the concept of alienation should be older than the machinery we now identify as its principal agent. There has always been repetitive labor and it has always been stupefying; this of course does not entail the view that powered machinery may not be more stupefying than nonpowered, or nonpowered machinery than repetitive manual labor. Mr. Clayre's real point is that he is disinclined to believe that the stupefaction of workers is so great that they do not know what they are talking about, and this is why he is keen to prove that the intellectuals are too ready to apply to modern conditions "methods of argument" designed to deal with conditions as they were over a hundred years ago, closing their ears meanwhile to the views of the workers themselves. For this reason they perpetuate the error of William Morris, and are quite unable to understand that some people actually like machines and are fascinated by their precision, just as they cannot understand that workers rarely entertain lofty ideals of work in the manner of their betters.
Since loss of work entails the ruin of leisure—the two, by long habit, are thought of as complementary—people who work rarely waste their time in fantasies of total idleness. They do of course discriminate between different kinds of work; it needs no academic investigation to convince them that clockbound workers are worse off than men who regulate their own time, or that noisy work, or work carried out under strict surveillance, or work with a very short cycle, is more exhausting than work which, though physically tougher, is more varied or spontaneous. Most obviously, they are aware that hours spent at work are stolen from leisure, which is why the major effort of unions has hitherto been toward shorter hours and higher wages, rather than toward sophisticated improvements in working conditions. What they go for is more leisure and more money to pay for it.
It is when he turns to the question of what workers think about work that Mr. Clayre, it seems to me, begins to waver. He has little difficulty in demonstrating that nineteenth-century workers, unlike their bourgeois sympathizers, liked leisure and play more than work, and would not have understood Engels when he pitied them not because they had to work but because they had to work for money. This is strictly a gentleman's worry. And even in Engels's Manchester, work was inextricably involved with play—with the jokes, songs, and rituals of the workshop (in so far as masters permitted them) and the finery of the holiday processions, deplored by Marx for the waste of money involved. Then as now, says Clayre, workers set a higher value on play than writers do, which partly explains the gap between their views on work.
As my account no doubt suggests, Clayre is somewhat obsessed with this difference. And yet it cannot come as a surprise to anybody who is or has been a worker, or has known workers, to learn that they like playing better than working, and combine to improve the rewards of work rather than to make it more varied or productive or even safer. To develop an interest in Ruskin or Morris or Marx was a fairly sure sign of upward mobility and a changed style of life. The capacity of the working classes to spend all they earn, even in the best of times, though it invariably irritates the middle classes, arises naturally enough from their conviction that they spend the week doing what they do not freely choose to do in order to purchase the right to do as they please in their "own time." There are plenty of reasons, no doubt, for thinking this an unfortunate or even a false attitude; perhaps, as Clayre suggests, there was a primitive state in which work and leisure were undissociated, where the satisfactions now associated with leisure were intrinsic to hunting or agriculture; but it seems clear that this is over.
At this point Clayre worries about the possibility that the lowering effect of repetitive work in modern factories may have a damaging effect on the worker's leisure. The automobile worker often dislikes his job and does it only for the money; but it has tired him in a peculiarly destructive way and may have impaired his creativity in leisure tasks also. He cites some evidence that this is so, and it does not seem improbable. But on the whole his promised treatment of the workers' view of the effect of their jobs on their lives is disappointing and sketchy.
There is a great deal of evidence he does not use, for example on the element of play in nineteenth-century work: the rough fun, the songs that not only lamented the passing of a traditional way of life but sometimes celebrated the virtues of the new order, the vitality of town life, the pretty clothes that the new money could buy, even the achievements of ur-Stakhanovite workmates, and the traditional craft obscenities. Clubs and unions fostered a class-ideology, and with it a new concept of the dignity of the working man. The music-hall songs of the later years of the century, a commercialized development of working-class play-songs, can be used to show how complex were the interactions of work, play, and status; such are the subjects of Martha Vicinus's book The Industrial Muse, published last year. By comparison Mr. Clayre often sounds very abstract.
Moreover, like the predecessors he condemns, he concentrates on the theory of work, relying largely on Huizinga for what he says of play. It may be, as D.W. Winnicott remarks, that "the natural thing is playing," but it does not follow that the concept needs less exploration than that of work, especially in a book like this. If work is the social reality, leisure is the space between it and the soul of the individual, the space in which he makes the rules, runs the clock, and is necessarily creative. It is the modern version of what Morris called creative activity and Marx free work. And it is, of course, precisely the space that advertising seeks to invade and corrupt. Of the forces which act upon playtime, and which, in their more complicated fashion, attempt to fulfill the failed prophecy of the nineteenth-century economists and keep labor at something like subsistence level by taking its money in exchange for trash, Mr. Clayre has nothing to say, though they must be at least as important as the carry-over of ill effects from tedious work into leisure; and they also have a bearing on the question of "false consciousness."
We should need, in short, more generous and subtle notions of playcreativity and its enemies before we could add to Clayre's book the final section it lacks. They would not be easy to develop, and we should have to be especially careful not to give play to our own false consciousness, for example by undervaluing leisure activities which are to us inexplicably tedious or insipid. On the other hand we should not simply ignore the intrusions of a stupefying propaganda into the space of play.
For want of such discriminations this elegant and in its way rather distinguished book seems in the end tentative and inconclusive. It is also, despite its initial claims, uninformative on the opinions of workers—further testimony, indeed, to that "gap in consciousness" between them and their intellectual sympathizers of which Clayre so often complains.
More by Frank Kermode
A Bold New Bible
The Dear, Dear Friend
Heroic Milton: Happy Birthday
February 26, 2009 issue
Frank Kermode (1919–2010) was a British critic and literary theorist. Born on the Isle of Man, he taught at University College London, Cambridge, Columbia and Harvard. Adapted from a series of lectures given at Bryn Mawr College, Kermode's Sense of An Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction remains one of the most influential works of twentieth-century literary criticism.
Leonard Schapiro (1908–1983)
Murray Kempton
Dying for Life
J.M. Cameron
Dorothy Day (1897–1980)
January 22, 1981 issue
Czesław Miłosz
Discreet Charm of Nihilism
Cheer Up, John Paul II
Creighton Gilbert
Tolnay's Michelangelo


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Document Meeting/Workshop Publications
National Social Security Strategy (NSSS) of Bangladesh
July 21, 2015 March 23, 2021 mahfuzul.bari 0 Comment NSSS, Strategy
The Government of Bangladesh is strongly committed to reducing poverty, improving human development and reducing inequality. This commitment is reflected in Vision 2021, the Perspective Plan 2010-2021 and in the Sixth Five Year Plan FY11-FY15. The Government seeks to build on past progress with poverty reduction and further deepen this progress by addressing the root causes of poverty and by lowering the impact of risks faced by the poor and vulnerable population. The Government appreciates that notwithstanding the past impressive progress with poverty reduction, there is a substantial population that remains exposed to poverty owing to various vulnerabilities. This includes the population that remains under the poverty line and those that are just above the poverty line but could easily fall below the poverty line because of these vulnerabilities. Evidence shows that the poor and vulnerable group cannot cope with all the downside risks and shocks with their own resources.
The present safety net programmes reflect the Government's response to support the poor and the vulnerable population manage those risks. Household Income and Expenditure Surveys (HIES) show that the coverage of these programmes for the poor and vulnerable households has increased and they have helped lower poverty. But data also suggest that a large proportion of the poor and vulnerable households do not have any access to these programmes. The average benefit of safety net programmes is low and in many cases falling in real terms. There is considerable leakage of allocated funds and a significant percentage of household beneficiaries are non-poor. Consequently, the impact on poverty reduction from the amount of money spent in these programmes is much less than is possible with a better Social Security system.
In recognition of these concerns, the Government of Bangladesh has embarked upon the formulation of a comprehensive National Social Security Strategy (NSSS). The Cabinet meeting held on 10th September 2012 entrusted the General Economics Division (GED) of the Planning Commission to prepare the National Social Security Strategy (NSSS) under the guidance of a Central Monitoring Committee (CMC) for the Social Safety Net Programmes Chaired by the Cabinet Secretary. The CMC provided the terms of reference and overall guidance to the formulation of the NSSS. A Framework Paper was prepared by GED, endorsed by the 11-member Sub-committee of CMC led by Cabinet Division and approved by the Ministry of Planning. A strong process of regional and national consultation helped shape the contents and recommendations of the NSSS. In this regard, the NSSS is fully home-grown and based on the political, social and economic realities of Bangladesh.
The NSSS builds on the past rich experience of Bangladesh and seeks to streamline and strengthen the existing safety net programmes with a view to achieving better results from money spent. It also broadens the scope of Social Security from the narrow safety net concept to include employment policies and social insurance to address the emerging needs of a middle income Bangladesh in 2021 and ahead. By broadening the scope and coverage and by improving programme design the NSSS will help lower income inequality and contribute to higher growth by strengthening human development. While the NSSS reflects the realities of Bangladesh, to the extent relevant it also draws on good practice international experience. To facilitate the preparation of the NSSS ten background papers, prepared by a team of international and local experts, were commissioned on the various issues relating to the NSSS.
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3Discography
Quintette du Hot Club de France
French jazz group
Quintette du Hot Club du France
Continental jazz, Gypsy jazz, swing
1934 (1934)–1948 (1948)
Louis Vola
Joseph Reinhardt
Roger Chaput
The Quintette du Hot Club de France ("The Quintet of the Hot Club of France"), often abbreviated "QdHCdF" or "QHCF", was a jazz group founded in France in 1934 by guitarist Django Reinhardt and violinist Stéphane Grappelli and active in one form or another until 1948.
One of the earliest and most significant continental jazz groups in Europe, the Quintette was described by critic Thom Jurek[1] as "one of the most original bands in the history of recorded jazz." Their most famous lineup featured Reinhardt, Grappelli, bassist Louis Vola, and rhythm guitarists Roger Chaput and Joseph Reinhardt (Django's brother) who filled out the ensemble's sound and added occasional percussion.
According to Grappelli, the group evolved from a series of backstage jams originated by Django Reinhardt, with Stephane Grappelli, at the Hotel Claridge in Paris, where the two were engaged as members of a band led by bassist Louis Vola. After a series of informal jam sessions at the Hotel Claridge, concert promoters Pierre Nourry and Charles Delaunay (leaders of the "Hot Club de France", a society chaired by Hugues Panassié devoted to the appreciation of jazz) urged the formation of a permanent group.[2] With the addition of Reinhardt's brother Joseph on second rhythm guitar, the quintet popularized the gypsy jazz style. The group began its recording career in September 1934, releasing two titles on the Odeon label under the name "Delaunay's Jazz". A December 1934 session produced the first recordings released under the name "Django Reinhardt et le Quintette du Hot Club de France, avec Stéphane Grappelly" (with Django's name misspelled as "Djungo"). Throughout 1935, the group recorded both under this name and as "Stéphane Grappelly and His Hot Four featuring Django Rheinhardt". Grappelli and Reinhardt maintained active schedules as freelance musicians during the early years of the Quintette, recording and performing with French pop artists such as Jean Sablon, Le Petit Mirsha, and Nane Cholet, and with jazz artists such as Coleman Hawkins, Benny Carter, Rex Stewart, Larry Adler, Alix Combelle, and André Ekyan. Between 1934 and 1948, the Quintette du Hot Club de France recorded more than 130 titles in the studio for the Decca, Swing, HMV, Ultraphone, and Odeon labels.
A series of European tours were very successful, with the group enjoying particular popularity in the UK. Several bassists and rhythm guitarists rotated in and out of the group, with Django and Grappelli remaining the sole constants. In 1937, the American jazz singer Adelaide Hall opened a nightclub in Montmartre along with her husband Bert Hicks and called it 'La Grosse Pomme'. She entertained there nightly and hired the Quintette du Hot Club de France as one of the house bands at the club.[3][4] As World War II broke out in September 1939, the Quintette was on a concert tour of England. Reinhardt, who spoke virtually no English, immediately returned to France, where he thought he would feel safer than in the UK. Grappelli, meanwhile, stayed in England.
Django continued using the Quintette name with a different group, featuring Hubert Rostaing as the first of several clarinetists backed by a more conventional rhythm section with drums, bass and a rhythm guitar played by Django's son Lousson Reinhardt, or his brother Joseph. This version of the Quintette often featured six, not five, players, and was usually billed as "Django et le Quintette du Hot Club de France", or sometimes as Django's "Nouveau Quintette". Due to wartime shortages of material, this version of the Quintette did not issue many recordings (some 70 titles were recorded between 1940 and 1948), although they did issue the first recording of the Django Reinhardt composition Nuages, later to become a jazz standard.
In 1946, after the war, Grappelli and Django re-teamed intermittently under the Quintette banner in an all-string format, while Django continued to record and perform with his "Nouveau Quintette" and as a freelance soloist. As before the war, the Quintette cycled through a number of rhythm guitarists and bassists. This last iteration of the Quintette performed and recorded until about 1948. In early 1949, Django and Grappelli traveled to Rome to play a live engagement. While in Rome, the two made their final recordings together, a total of 70 titles, with a piano trio composed of local musicians.
Main article: Gypsy jazz
By the late 1940s, Grappelli's style of violin swing was out of fashion, and Django, no longer performing regularly, had become interested in playing modern jazz inspired by American bebop musicians such as Dizzy Gillespie. Django pursued modern jazz until his death in 1953, while Grappelli played and recorded mainstream swing music throughout the 1950s and 1960s when he was active on the music scene.
Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, a handful of European guitarists continued to play acoustic jazz guitar in the style of Django Reinhardt, largely ignored by the jazz press and with few opportunities to record or tour. Musicians such as Baro and Matelo Ferret (both of whom were sometime-members of the Quintette du Hot Club de France), Etienne Patotte Bousquet, and Tchan Tchou Vidal kept the sound of the Quintette alive, often mixing musette waltzes and traditional tunes with the American popular songs and original compositions favored by Django and Grappelli.
In 1973, British guitarist Diz Disley helped persuade Grappelli to return to performing with an all-strings jazz group inspired by the Quintette du Hot Club de France, and Grappelli toured and recorded often using this format during the 1970s. Simultaneously, a revival of the Quintette's sound by a younger generation of artists was underway, with musicians like Fapy Lafertin, Raphaël Faÿs, and Biréli Lagrène helping to establish the Gypsy jazz subgenre as a popular style worldwide.
Discography[edit]
Main article: Django Reinhardt § Discography
^ Quintette du Hot Club de France at AllMusic
^ Delaunay, p66
^ "Midnight in Paris, Performer Adelaide Hall and her husband/Manager". Archived from the original on October 5, 2013. Retrieved May 13, 2013.
^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on October 21, 2014. Retrieved March 10, 2012. {{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
National Geographic's World Music site
Djangology (1961)
Paris 1945 (1968)
Jazz in Paris: Nuages (2003)
"Minor Swing" (1937)
"Nuages" (1940)
Babik Reinhardt (son)
Joseph Reinhardt (brother)
Lousson Reinhardt (son)
Quintette du Hot Club de France (Jazz group)
Django (2017 film)
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