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1904 : Jose Echegaray
"in recognition of the numerous and brilliant compositions which, in an individual and original manner, have revived the great traditions of the Spanish drama"
Dramatist and Mathematician
Notable award(s)
Nobel Prize in Literature 1904
[1/2 of the prize]
Jose Echegaray y Eizaguirre, born in Madrid on April 18, 1833, in which 16 death in September 1916, Spanish mathematician, politicians and playwrights. Received together with Frederic Mistral Nobel Prize in literature in 1904. Echegaray came from an intellectual background in Madrid, Spain, where his father was a professor of Greek. The family had Basque roots. He began his career with studies in economics and mathematics and was himself a professor at the relatively young age. After the revolution in 1868, he was taken into the Spanish Government, where he held several positions, including finance minister and Schools. When the revolutionaries then lost power, he made instead career as a writer of dramas. Echegaray had already written dramas that became refuserade, but her debut came in 1874 with El libro talonario. The pieces he wrote, on average two per year until his death, characterized by an enormous precision. The previous dramas had strong romantic tendencies, but he was strongly influenced by, inter alia Ibsens drama and later wrote several more problems debating Symbolist dramas, often with a focus on duty and morality.
Selected works:
EL LIBRO TALONARIO, 1874 – The Checkbook
LE ESPOSA DEL VENGADOR, 1874 – The Avenger's Wife
LA ULTIMA NOCHE, 1874
EN PUNO DE LA ESPADA, 1875 – At the Hilt of the Sword
UN SOL QUE NACE Y UN SOL QUE MUERE, 1875
COMO EMPIEZA Y COMO ACABA, 1876
EL GLADIATOR DE RAVENA, 1876 (based on the play by Friedrich Halm, 1856)
LOCURA ON SATIDAD, 1877 – Madman or Saint – Mielipuoli vai pyhimys
IRIS DE PAZ, 1877
PARA TAL CULPA TAL PENA, 1877
LO QUE NO PUEDE DECIRSE, 1877
EN EL PILAR Y EN LA CRUZ, 1878
CORRER EN POS DE UN IDEAL, 1878
ALGUNAS VECES AQUI, 1878
MORIR POR NO DESPERTAR, 1879
EN EL SENO DE LA MUERTE, 1879
BODAS TRAGICAS, 1879
MAR SIN ORILLAS, 1879
LA MUERTE EN LOS LABIOS, 1880
EL GRAN GALEOTO, 1881 – The World and His Wife / The Great Galeoto (translators: Jacob S Fassett, Jr.; Hannah Lynch) – Parjauksen kirous
LOS DOS CURIOSOS IMPERTINENTES, 1881(?)
HARALDO EL NORMANDO, 1881
CONFLICTO ENTRE DOS DEBERES, 1882
UN MILAGRO EN EGIPTO, 1883
PIENSA MAL… Y ACERTARAS, 1884
LA PESTE DE OTRANTO, 1884
VIDA ALEGRE Y MUERTE TRISTE, 1884
EL BANDIDO LISANDRO, 1886
DE MALA RAZA, 1886
LOCURA ON SANTIDAD, 1887 – Madman or Saint
EL CONDE LOTARIO, 1887
DOS FANATISMOS, 1887
LA REALIDAD Y EL DELIRIO, 1887
EL HIJO DE HIERRO Y EL HIJO DE CARNE, 1888
LO SUBLIME EN LO VULGAR, 1888
MANANTIAL QUE NO SE AGOTA, 1889
LOS RIGIDOS, 1889
EL PROLOGO DE UN DRAMA, 1890
SIMPRE EN RIDICULO, 1890
EN CRITICO INCIPIENTE, 1891
IRENE DE OTRANTO, 1891
COMEDIA SIN DESENLACE, 1891
EL HIJO DE DON JUAN, 1892 – The Son of Don Juan (tr. by James Graham)
MALAS HERENCIAS, 1892
SIC VOS NO VOBIS, O LA ULTIMA LIMOSNA, 1892
MARIANA, 1892 – Mariana (trans. into English 1895)
EL PODER DE LA IMPOTENCIA, 1893
A LA ORILLA DE MAR, 1893
LA RENCOROSA, 1894
EL ESTIGMA, 1895
MANCHA QUE LIMPIA, 1895
EL PRIMER ACTO DE UN DRAMA, 1895
LA CANTANTE CALLEJERA, 1896
LA CALUMNIA POR CASTIGO, 1897
SEMIRAMIS, O LA HIJA DEL AIRE, 1897 (adapted from La hija del aire by Pedro Calderon de la Barca)
LA DUDA, 1898
EL HOMBRE NEGRO, 1898
SILENCIO DE MUERTE, 1898
OBRAS DRAMATICAS, 1874-1898 (9 vols.)
AMOR SALVAJE, 1899
EL LOCO DIOS, 1900 – The Madman Divine
LA ESCALINATA DE UN TRONO, 1903
LA DESEQUILIBRADA, 1903
A FUERZA DE ARRASTRARSE, 1905
EL PREFERIO Y LOS CENICIENTOS, 1908
RECUERDOS, 1917
Twenty-five Short Plays by F. Shay (ed.), 1925
The Street Singer, 1948 (in The Nobel Prize Treasury)
TEATRO ESCOGIDO, 1955
The Great Galeoto, 1962 (in Spanish Drama, ed. by A Flores; Spanish Plays of the Nineteenth Century, ed. by R. O'Brien)
1904: Nobel Prize in Literature.
Presentation Speech:
Presentation Speech by C.D. af Wirsen, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy, on December 10, 1904
One sometimes hears it said that the Nobel Prizes should be awarded to authors still in the prime of life and consequently at the height of their development, in order to shelter them from material difficulties and assure them a wholly independent situation.
The institutions charged with awarding these Prizes should like to bear such striking witness to the value of a young genius; but the statutes of the Nobel Foundation stipulate that the works eligible for such a reward must be of exceptional importance and confirmed by experience. Thus there cannot be any hesitation in choosing between a talent in process of formation and a proven genius at the end of his development. The jury does not have the right to ignore a still active author of European fame, merely because he is old. The works of an old writer are often proof of a unique and youthful energy. The Swedish Academy therefore was right to render homage to Mommsen and Bjornson in awarding them Nobel Prizes even at a time when both were past their prime. In making its choice among the candidates proposed this year for the Nobel Prize, the Academy has again given its attention to several literary veterans of recognized fame, and it has wished to renew its pledge to genius held in high esteem in the literary world.
The Academy has thought particularly of two authors who would both have been worthy of the whole Nobel Prize. Both have attained the final limits not only of the poetic art, but even of human life; one is seventy-four years old, the other two years younger. Therefore the Academy believes it should not wait longer to confer on them a distinction they both equally merit, although from different points of view, and it has awarded half the annual Prize to each. If the material value of the award is thus diminished for each of the laureates, the Academy nonetheless wishes to state publicly that, in this particular case, it considers each of these two Prizes as the equivalent of the whole Prize.
The Academy has given one of the awards to the poet Frederic Mistral. In the freshness of his poetic inspiration this venerable old man is younger than most of the poets of our time. One of his principal works, Lou pouemo dou rose [The Song of the Rhone], was published not long ago, in 1897, and when the Provencal poets celebrated their fiftieth anniversary on May 31, 1904, Mistral tuned his lyre for a poetry that in verve and vigour does not yield to any of his previous works.
Mistral was born on September 8, 1830, in the village of Maiano (in French, Maillane), which is situated midway between Avignon and Arles in the Rhone Valley. He grew up in this magnificent natural setting among the countryfolk and soon became familiar with their work. His father, Francois Mistral, was a well-to-do farmer, devoted to the customs of his faith and of his ancestors. His mother nursed the soul of the child with the songs and traditions of his birthplace.
During his studies at the College of Avignon, the young boy learned the works of Homer and Virgil, which made a profound impression on him, and one of his professors, the poet Roumanille, inspired in him a deep love for his maternal language, Provencal.
According to the wish of his father, Frederic Mistral took a law degree at Aix-en-Provence; after that he was left free to choose his career as he pleased. His choice was soon made. He devoted himself to poetry and painted the beauties of Provence in the idiom of the country, an idiom which he was the first to raise to the rank of a literary language.
His first attempt was a long poem about rustic life; then he published poems in a collection entitled Li Prouvencalo (1852). After that he spent seven consecutive years on the work that established his universal fame, Mireio (1859).
The action of this poem is very simple. A good and attractive peasant girl cannot marry a poor young man whom she loves because her father refuses his consent. In despair she flees from the paternal home and goes to seek succour at the church on the site of the pilgrimage of the Three Saint Marys on the island of Camargue in the Rhone delta. The author recounts in charming fashion the youthful love of the young people and retraces with masterly hand how Mireio rushes across the rocky plains of the Crau. Smitten by a sunstroke in the torrid Camargue, the unfortunate young girl crawls to the chapel of the pilgrimage site to die. There, in a vision, the three Marys appear to her at the very instant in which she breathes her last.
The value of this work is not in the subject nor in the imagination displayed in it, no matter how interesting the figure of Mireio may be. It lies in the art of linking together the episodes of the story and of unreeling before our eyes all Provence with its scenery, its memories, its ancient customs, and the daily life of its inhabitants. Mistral says that he sings only for the shepherds and the country people; he does so with Homeric simplicity. He is, indeed, by his own admission, a student of the great Homer. But far from imitating him slavishly, he gives proof of a very personal originality in his descriptive technique. A breath of the Golden Age animates a number of his descriptions. How can one forget his paintings of the white horses of the Camargue? Galloping, with manes flying in the wind, they seem to have been touched by Neptune's trident and set free from the sea god's chariot. If you remove them from their beloved pastures at the edge of the sea, they always escape in the end. Even after long years of absence, they return to the well-known plains which they salute with their joyous neighing as they hear again the breaking of the waves on the shore.
The rhythm of this poem has beauty and harmony, and its artistic composition succeeds on all counts. The source from which Mistral has drawn is not psychology; it is nature. Man himself is treated purely as a child of nature. Let other poets sound the depths of the human soul! Mireio is a half-opened rose, still all shining from the rosy light of dawn. This is the spontaneous work of an original spirit and not the fruit of purely reflective labour.
The poem was greeted with enthusiasm from its first appearance. Lamartine, worn out with personal cares but always smitten by beautiful poetic works, wrote A great poet is born! He compared Mistral's poem to one of the islands of an archipelago, to a floating Delos which must have detached itself from its group in order to join, in silence, the fragrant Provence. He applied to Mistral these words of Virgil: Tu Marcellus eris!
Seven years after the publication of Mireio, Mistral published a second work of equal dimensions, Calendau (1867). It has been said that the action f this poem is too fantastic and improbable. But it matches its predecessor in the charm of its descriptions. How could one question the grandeur of its ideas about the ennoblement of man through trial? While Mireio celebrates peasant life, Calendau presents a gripping picture of the sea and the forests. It is like a brilliant glistening of water in several remarkably precise scenes about the life of the fisherman.
Mistral is not only an epic poet; he is also a great lyricist. His collection, Lis Isclo d'or (1876) [Islands of Gold], contains some poems of an immortal beauty. Suffice it to recall the stanzas on the drum of Arcole, on the dying mower, on the chateau of Roumanin with its memories of the times of the troubadours that seem to evoke the splendour of the sunsets, or, agair, the beautiful mystic chant that should be spoken in the veiled twilight of the evening, la coumunioun di sant.
In other lyric poems Mistral insists with fervour on the rights of neo-Provencal to an independent existence and seeks to protect it against all attempts to neglect or discredit it.
The poem in the form of a short story, Nerto (1884), offers many beautiful pages for the reader's admiration. But the epic narrative, Lou pouemo dou Rose, is more profound. Composed by a poet of sixty-seven years, it is still full of life, and its numerous vignettes of the regions washed by the Rhone are most engaging. What a superb type is that proud and devout captain of the ship Aprau, who thinks that one must be a sailor to know how to pray! Another ravishing little scene shows us the pilot's daughter, Anglora, whose imagination has been fed on old legends. One night she imagines that she has seen Lou Dra, the god of the river, in the moonlit waves of the Rhone and that she has been touched by him. The very verses here seem to stream and sparkle in the moonlight.
In short, Mistral's works are all lofty monuments to the glory of his beloved Provence.
This year is a year of celebration for him. Fifty years ago on St. Estelle's day he founded, together with six literary friends, the Association of Provencal Poets, whose goal was to purify and give a definitive form to the Provencal language. The language which is spoken from St. Remy to Arles and, without significant differences, in all the Rhone Valley from Orange to Martigues, served as a basis for a new literary language, as earlier the Florentine dialect had served to form Italian. Experts such as Gaston Paris and Koschwitz tell us that this movement was not at all retrograde. It did not seek to restore to life the old Provencal, but on the basis of dialects in use among the people, it attempted to create a national language understood by all. The efforts of the Provencal poets have not been slow to be crowned with success. In his great neo-Provencal dictionary, Tresor dou Felibrige (1879-1886), a giant work on which he has worked for more than twenty years, Mistral has recorded the wealth of the Provencal dialects and built an imperishable monument to the lengo d'O.
It goes without saying that a man like Mistral has received all kinds of honours. The French Academy has awarded him a prize four times. The Institute of France gave him the Reynaud prize of 10,000 francs for his dictionary. The universities of Halle and Bonn have conferred honorary doctorates on him. Several of his poems have been translated into various foreign languages. Mireio has been set to music by Gounod, and Calendau by the composer Marechal.
One knows the motto given by Mistral to the Association of Provencal Poets: The sun makes me sing. His poems have, in effect, spread the light of the Provencal sun in many countries, even in Northern regions where they have made many hearts rejoice.
Alfred Nobel demanded idealism from an author to be judged worthy of the Prize he established. Is it not amply found in a poet whose work, like that of Mistral, is distinguished by a healthy and flourishing artistic idealism; in a man who has devoted his entire life to an ideal, the restoration and development of the spiritual interests of his native country, its language and its literature ?
After the splendour of the Greek theatre, it is principally among the English and the Spanish that a national dramatic art has developed. To understand modern Spanish drama, it is necessary to know what conditions in the life of past periods lie behind it. For a long time Spanish drama has displayed sharp contrasts. On the one hand, there is the most luxurious flowering of fantasy; on the other, an extremely subtle and at times conventional casuistry. In one place, there is brilliant colouring, and in another, a great affection for rhetorical antithesis. Emphatic language is coupled with tangled intrigue. Striking effects are violent, the lyric order intense. Disharmonies are sharp, and conflicts almost always have a tragic resolution. Dialectic is vigorous. However, interior life is very rich, and the severe, inflexibly applied dictates of honour do not exclude the luxury of sudden expressions of fantasy. In Spanish drama the artificial has managed to become fused with a genuine originality.
The heir and continuator of these glorious and characteristic traditions is the writer who has been awarded half of the Nobel Prize this year. A son of the modern age and perfectly independent in his judgments, he has not the same conception of the world Calderon had. Loving liberty and having fought often for tolerance, he is no friend of despotism or of hierarchy, but still there is in him the same exotic ardour and the same dignity which from oldest times have been the distinctive marks of Spanish dramatists. This writer is Jose de Echegaray. Like his forebears, he knows how to present conflict, is extremely moving and vitally interested in different temperaments and ideals, and like them he enjoys studying the most complicated cases of conscience. He is complete master of the art of producing in the audience pity and fear, the well-known fundamental effects of tragedy. Just as in the masters of the old Spanish drama, there is in him a striking union of the most lively imagination and the most refined artistic sense. For this it can be said of him – as a critic otherwise unsympathetic to him declared – that he is of pure Spanish breed. However, his conception of the world is vast. His sense of duty has been purified, his fundamental conceptions are benevolent, and his moral heroism, while retaining a peculiar national character, has the features of a universal humanity.
Jose de Echegaray was born in Madrid in 1833 but spent his childhood years in Murcia, where his father held the chair of Greek Studies at the Institute. Receiving his bachelor's degree at fourteen, he soon entered the School of Civil Engineering, where he distinguished himself by his zealous application and his penetrating skill. Five years later, in 1853, he completed his engineering career after having compiled a most brilliant record. Mathematics and mechanics had been his favourite studies, and his singular understanding of these branches of learning enabled him, after one year, to be appointed a professor in the very school which he had so recently attended as a student. It appears that for some years his struggle for existence was quite hard, and he had to give private lessons in order to sustain the most modest way of life. In spite of everything, he soon became an eminent professor, distinguishing himself both in pure and applied mathematics, and became an outstanding engineer. At the same time he energetically studied political economy, embracing the ideas of free trade. Soon, that great talent, that vivacious engineer, was called to the highest and greatest tasks. Three times he has been a minister of his country's government. According to those who know him, whether they were adversaries or friends, he has always shown a singular skill in the administration of public finance and public works.
We can easily understand the general astonishment when this scholar, who had published treatises on analytic geometry, physics, and electricity, dedicated his indefatigable energy to writing for the theatre. It has been said that his creations for the stage had the form of equations and problems. If the new manifestation of his genius was enthusiastically acclaimed by numerous admirers, it also found severe critics. Nevertheless, no one could deny that his works were distinguished by a deep moral sense. In a way, the critics were not mistaken who maintained that in his dramas, following the example of some surgeons, he rarely used any other method than that of «urere et secare»; still, however, there is something to admire in this Muse of romantic exaltation and austere severity which condemns any compromise with duty.
Despising the transient approval of fashion and listening only to the inspirations of his genius, Echegaray pursued his triumphal career, demonstrating a dramatic fecundity which makes us think of Lope de Vega and Calderon.
Even in his youth, when he was attending the School of Civil Engineering, he was enthusiastic about drama and used his savings to obtain theatre tickets. In 1865 he wrote a play entitled La hija natural [The Illegitimate Daughter], which was followed by El libro talonario [Book of Accounts] in 1874. The playbill carried a pseudonym instead of the author's name, but it did not take the public long to guess that the acclaimed dramatist was Echegaray, then Spain's Minister of Finance. Some months later La ultima noche [The Last Night] was staged, and since then his fertile imagination has not stopped engendering ever-new creations. He works with such speed that in one year he has published three or four works. Since lack of time prohibits a complete review here of all of his productions, suffice it to make brief mention of some which have won general attention. Echegaray scored his first triumph in November, 1874, with the drama La esposa del vengador [The Avenger's Wife], in which his true genius was revealed and in which, side by side with certain exaggerations, the greatest beauties can be admired. The public could imagine that it had been taken back to the Golden Age of Spanish drama, and it saluted Echegaray as the regenerator of the most brilliant era of the nation's dramatic poetry. En el puno de la espada [The Sword's Handle], presented the following year, was received with the same applause. The sublime power that is manifest in this noble conception so moved the many spectators that the applause did not stop with the performance, and, after the last act, Echegaray had to appear on stage seven times to receive the acclaim of the audience. But great controversies arose in 1878 when, in En el pilar y en la cruz [The Stake and the Cross], the poet showed himself the defender of free thought against intolerance, of humanity against fanaticism. Typical of Echegaray, as he himself has observed, is his Conflicto entre dos deberes [Conflict of Duties], which was presented in 1882. A conflict of duties is found in almost all of his dramas, but rarely has the conflict been pushed to such an extreme as in this piece. Two other dramas have made his name famous. These two inspired, excellent plays are O locura o santidad [Madman or Saint] and El gran Galeoto [Great Galeoto], the former presented in January, 1877, and the latter in March, 1881. In O locura o santidad there is a great wealth of ideas and profound genius. It shows a man who, moved by his righteousness to sacrifice his prosperity and worldly goods, is considered crazy and treated as such by his friends and by the world at large. Lorenzo de Avendano renounces a name and a fortune when he learns unexpectedly but undeniably that they do not legally belong to him, and he persists in his resolution when the one indisputable proof of his illegitimacy has disappeared. Such idealism is judged madness by his family, and Lorenzo is looked upon by everybody as a Don Quixote, stubborn and simple-minded. The structure of the drama is firm and solid, demonstrating that it is the work of an engineer who calculates precisely all the elements that have gone into it, but it shows us to a still greater degree the poet of mature creative genius. More than an external collision, it treats the internal conflict of an extremely sad figure. It consists of a struggle between duty and opportunism, and Lorenzo in following the dictate of his conscience reaches martyrdom. Experience has always shown that very frequently he who faithfully obeys his conscience must be prepared to bear the fate of a martyr.
El gran Galeoto made an even greater impression. In the first month after it opened, it went through no fewer than five editions and inspired a national subscription to honour its author. Because of the masterful portrayal of the psychology of the characters the play has a lasting value. It shows the power of slander. The most innocent trait is disfigured and scandalously deformed by the gossip of people. Ernesto and Teodora have nothing for which to reproach themselves, but the world believes them guilty, and at last, abandoned by everyone, they end by throwing themselves into one another's arms. Subtlety of psychological analysis is revealed with such masterly detail of observation that those two noble spirits, in no way desirous of stealing the right of their neighbour, become mutually enamoured without suspecting it. They discover the fact of their love only by means of the persecution to which they see themselves exposed. Romanticism triumphs in this drama whose poetic beauty is clearly perceptible, whose lyric details possess a dazzling colouring, and whose structure is without a flaw.
Echegaray goes on working as a dramatist. This year (1904) he has published a new play, La desequilibrada [The Disturbed Woman], whose first act is a genuine masterpiece of exposition and individualization, and which in its entirety reveals no weakening of poetic inspiration. In this play, we are shown Don Mauricio de Vargas, a clear type of that chivalry so dear to Echegaray, that chivalry which does not want to buy even its own happiness at the cost of compromising duty.
Thus it is just that the Nobel Prize be awarded to this great poet, whose production is distinguished by its virile energy and whose mode of seeing is impregnated with such high ideals that with abundant reason an eminent German critic has been able to say of him: Er verlangt Recht und Pflichterfullung unter allen Umstanden.
Echegaray has put in the mouth of one of the characters of El gran Galeoto the most pessimistic words about the world, which «never recognizes the subtleties of the genius until three centuries after his death».
No doubt this can happen. But against the general application of the above thesis we can offer the justified admiration which the work of Echegaray has aroused. To those tributes of appreciation the Swedish Academy has agreed to add still one more, awarding the Nobel Prize in homage to the celebrated poet, the honour and glory of the Spanish Academy, Jose de Echegaray.
At the banquet, C.D. af Wirsen pointed out that sharing in the Prize did not diminish in any way the value of the laureates. He recalled to mind the works – pure, limpid, and fresh – of Frederic Mistral, naming the principal ones and asking the Minister of France, Mr. Marchand, to convey to the famous Provencal poet the homage which the Swedish Academy and all those assembled took pleasure in rendering him. The speaker then reviewed the imposing work of Echegaray and expressed regrets for his state of health and explained that the Minister of Spain had been prevented from attending this banquet and from receiving the congratulations for his famous countryman.
The Minister of France, Mr. Marchand, replied to the Secretary of the Swedish Academy and recalled that in the preceding year he had thanked them for the Prize awarded to Mr. and Mrs. Curie; this time he spoke for the great poet of whom Provence is justly proud. He told of a most touching event. Forty-five years ago the French Academy, which did not have at its disposal resources as great as those with which the great Nobel had endowed the Swedish Academy, decided, at the suggestion of Lamartine, who was enthusiastic about Mireio, to award the prize of 3000 francs to Mistral. When they asked the author, who had been leading a simple life in the country, what he would do with the Prize, he answered, It is a prize for poetry; it is not to be touched! The modest poet shared his overabundance with others.
Mr. Marchand also acted as spokesman for his colleague, the Minister of Spain, to express Mr. Echegaray's gratitude.
1945 : Gabriela Mistral
1959 : Salvatore Quasimodo
1970 : Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
1930 : Sinclair Lewis
1990 : Octavio Paz
1999 : Gunter Grass
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Kanye is in the news pretty much every day now due to his seemingly turbulent relationship with his soon to be ex-wife Kim Kardashian. Ye recently took shots at Kims new boyfriend, Pete Davidson, on his latest track with the game "Eazy."
In the song, Kanye raps: "God saved me from that crash/Just so I could beat Pete Davidson's ass."
Julia Fox participated in "EAZY" it is in particular her that we hear saying "WHO?" after Kanye said "God saved me from the accident, just so I could beat Pete Davidson's ass" ✅ pic.twitter.com/hK8YW4A6ul
— Donda Times (@dondatimes) January 15, 2022
It seems as if Pete Davidson isn't taking Ye's bars lightly. Apparently he has hired more security just in case Kanye wants to make good on his promise.
Actually, according to Rap Radar, friends of Pete Davidson said he's not worried about Kanye, he's worried about Kanye fans, and thats why he's beefed up his security.
"Pete isn't worried about Kanye, but he is concerned about the massive fanbase that Kanye has. His devoted followers listen to his songs and act upon them. That's why Pete is now using security," sources told Rap Radar.
Sources added that "Until recently Pete never had security with him when he was out and about, even when he was engaged to Ariana Grande. But dating Kim (Kardashian) is a totally different level of fame. Pete is now a superstar, which comes with a price. As much as he still wants to be low-key and hang with his friends, the reality of his situation has changed."
"Pete isn't taking any chances. Whenever he is out with Kim, they use her security. But now Pete needs his own security when he is out alone," one of Pete's friends said. "He is still Pete, but now Pete comes with a 6'1, 220 lbs security guard."
Let's just hope Ye keeps it on wax.

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Under a new agreement between City Colleges of Chicago and Southern Illinois University Carbondale (SIUC), students who graduate from Daley College or have earned an associate degree are eligible to pursue a bachelor's degree in industrial management and applied engineering at Daley College's new Manufacturing Technology & Engineering Center (MTEC).
The new program was created specifically for the needs of working adults, with courses offered on the weekends.
Earlier this year, Daley opened MTEC, an advanced facility that intertwines both preparation in manufacturing design and production — something that will help students be competitive candidates for new jobs in the area in advanced manufacturing and engineering, according to a City Colleges of Chicago release.
Daley offers advanced manufacturing programs in welding, CNC machining, quality assurance and factory automation and are determining new student pathways to careers in mechatronics, sheet metal fabrication, operations management and industrial maintenance.
In order to be eligible for the program, students are required to earn an associate degree from Daley or another institution. After successfully transferring into the program, students are required to attend six days of class on weekends to complete one three credit hour course.


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News Round-up March 20th, 2015
Mayor Proposes Changes at Rikers Island:
Mayor de Blasio has introduced proposals to help reduce violence and eliminate smuggling at Rikers Island. Some of the proposals include: improving the security cameras, a computerized screening system, creating an inmate education program, and changing the policies for visitors. The proposal also includes plans to create a new inmate classification system and separate warring inmates and gang members.
Under the new visitor policy, visitor-inmate physical contact would be limited to a hug at the beginning and end of the visit. There will also be plexiglass partitions installed to separate inmates and visitors. The goal of this is to avoid the smuggling of contraband, which can lead to a reduction in violence because disputes among inmates often stem from the possession of contraband.
Critics of the Mayor's proposal, including the Prisoners' Rights Project at the Legal Aid Society, say that visitation is one of the only outlets inmates have to keep them sane in jails. Visitation during incarceration can often play a part in whether or not the inmate ends up back in jail after release.
The proposals will be presented to the Board of Correction in May and, if approved, will take effect in August.
Legislators Propose Common Core Test Opt-Out:
Legislators are proposing a bill that will allow parents to opt-out of common core curriculum tests. The bill, named the Common Core Parental Refusal Act, would require schools to inform parents of students in grades three through eight by mail, email or a letter sent home with the child that the child may refuse to take any of the standardized tests administered under the Common Core standards.
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Innovations in the Fight Against Human Trafficking: Perspectives and Proposals Open Source Innovation Development Session 3
Innovations in the Fight Against Human Trafficking: Perspectives and Proposals
Open Source Innovation Development Session
By: Rachel Searle
This breakout session involved discussion among some audience members about how immigration reform can help combat human trafficking. Immigration reform could be both beneficial and detrimental to trafficking in the United States. Some immigration visas are geared towards people who have learned skills and can work for high-paying companies. This makes it difficult for many people to immigrate into the US, especially with caps that have limited how many people can obtain certain work visas. Additionally, many companies have a limited time frame in when they can harvest and process produce for their products. In this time frame, it is difficult to find enough people so they hire outside the regulations of the Department of Labor. This hiring generally includes undocumented citizens and trafficked people.
Reforms, such as implementing a guest worker program, can sometimes make these issues worse. It could create an attitude of "come pick our fruit and leave." Additionally, it could increase the number of people who are lured into trafficking situations. With the passing of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), it can be argued that the number of coyotes and the people falling prey to them have increased. With these points in mind, it could be argued that some reform could lead to increased issues in trafficking.
On the other hand, properly instituted immigration reform could help solve some issues in trafficking. If there is a better pathway to citizenship, it could lead to a better chance of other workers obtaining green cards.… <Read More>
News Round-up March 6th, 2015
New York's Campus Sexual Assault Hotline:
In keeping with Governor Cuomo's initiative to stop sexual assaults on college campuses, the New York State Police have created a 24 hour hotline to take reports of sexual assaults on college campuses. The hotline covers SUNY's 64 campuses across New York State and the investigations will be handled by the State Police. In May 2015, the SUNY Implementation Task Force will have completed its new on-campus police training effort aimed at educating students, staff and faculty in sexual assault prevention and awareness.
The hotline is one aspect of Governor Cuomo's "Enough is Enough" campaign. The other initiatives under this campaign include: adopting an affirmative standard of consent, amnesty for victims of sexual assault from being punished for alcohol or drug abuse, and the Sexual Assault Victims' Bill of Rights, which included a list of resources to help victims. Currently this only applies to SUNY schools; however, Governor Cuomo has discussed introducing legislation to make this all apply to private institutions as well.
The number is (844) 845-7269.
Suicide Prevention for Veterans Law:
Last month, President Obama signed the Clay Hunt Suicide Prevention for American Veterans Act into law. Clay Hunt, the law's namesake, was a Marine Corps veteran who killed himself in 2011 after suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. Hunt served in Iraq and Afghanistan and volunteered in Haiti after the 2010 earthquake. While he tried to work through his struggles, he did not have access to adequate resources; the waiting list to see a psychiatrist was months long.
Innovations In The Fight Against Human Trafficking: Considering Sex and Labor Trafficking Together– Open Source Innovation Development Session
By: Hayley Pine
During the Open Source Innovation Development portion of the Innovations in the Fight Against Human Trafficking symposium, a number of attendees spoke about ending the bifurcation between sex and labor trafficking. This idea is based on the concept that sex and labor trafficking are intertwined. Sex work should be viewed as labor. Part of the horror of sex labor trafficking is that it involves sexual exploitation as a means of maintaining control. Also, many trafficking experiences involve multiple forms of labor and commercial sexual exploitation. Therefore, the distinction between the two should be eliminated.
Society responds to labor trafficking and sex trafficking differently, so it may seem logical to separate them. However, one of the major differences between the two, which helps create this dichotomy, is the criminalization of sex work. Criminalizing sex work also creates other issues. Many of the problems associated with sex trafficking remain in the shadows because individuals involved in it are afraid to come forward for fear of criminalization.
In contrast to sex trafficking victims, labor trafficking victims have some level of recourse, because if they come forward with the work that they have been doing they will not be penalized. Women engaged in sex work also have little resources available to them because of the criminalization of sex work. There are resources that are available to victims of trafficking, but who falls into that category is often narrowly defined. Many women, unfortunately, are not included in that category, because they either: engaged in sex work voluntarily after being trafficked, or they entered into sex work voluntarily and were then trafficked.… <Read More>
Innovations in the Fight Against Human Trafficking: Perspectives and Proposals – Open Source Innovation Development Session 1
By: Sara Nassof
During this first session, the participants addressed ideas and innovations for continuing forward in the fight against human trafficking. Participants split into different groups to discuss various topics covered during the day. Some of the topics included: reforming law enforcement certifications, making changes to immigration policies, ending the demand for trafficking, organizing the community and lawyers, providing criminal restitution and immunity, and collaborating among organizations. After the small group discussions, all participants returned to the larger group to report back on ideas and highlights.
There were a number of common themes discussed in the breakout sessions, including the need for education, collaboration, creative approaches, and analysis. Some of the ideas highlighted were:
(1) Providing resources to grassroots organizations: Grassroots organizations are in need of funding and resources for sustainability. These organizations need to network within the community and come together to fight against human trafficking.
(2) Identifying rhetoric versus reality: targeting how the media feeds the rhetoric about trafficking.
(3) Preventing marginalization of different groups and institutions.
(4) Partnering: Also, providing a balance between private law and pro bono work.
(5) Identifying harmful immigration policies that influence and permit trafficking.
(6) Ending the practice of criminalizing victims of trafficking.
(7) Thinking "outside the box"/interdisciplinary approaches.
(8) Identifying the underlying problems and root causes.
Two articles featuring specific topics discussed during these break-out sessions will be posted later this week.… <Read More>


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Entrepreneur prepares to launch national initiative to support small business
By Anita Jaynes on 26 November, 2015
A new initiative – Champions of Small Business – will be launched next week to provide free information, resources and support to businesses across the UK.
The brainchild of entrepreneur Warren Cass, the initiative is designed to support small businesses at the heart of the UK's economy.
Champions of Small Business will be launched at the Business Show in Olympia in London on Thursday December 3.
Warren Cass, founder of membership organisation Business Scene, said: "Champions of Small Business is designed to engage the small business sector which is largely unsupported by government.
"This initiative will allow small business owners to access knowledge, expertise and resources for nothing.
"Small business often gets overlooked and forgotten and what little support was on offer has been largely withdrawn.
"The irony is small business drives our economy employing nearly 26 million people and we want to do something positive for these businesses and the entrepreneurs who drive them forwards."
There will be 50 leading business voices – or 'thought leaders' – who will be at the centre of the initiative (to be announced at a later date) along with support from brands including Volvo Cars UK, FreeAgent, Mercer & Web.com.
Initially, those who will have access to downloads, ebooks, an online business magazine and events. There is also a business prize draw worth £5,000 which is open to those who register before January 15 next year.
During 2016, a web tv channel will be launched as well as webinars, seminars and networking opportunities.
For further details visit www.championsofsmallbusiness.co.uk
Pictured above: Warren Cass, founder of Business Scene
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UN official warns against new Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict
By EDITH M. LEDERER The Associated Press
FILE - Russian President Vladimir Putin, center, Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev, left, and Armenia's Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan attention a news conference during their meeting in the Bocharov Ruchei residence in the Black Sea resort Sochi, Russia, on Nov. 26, 2021. A senior U.N. official urged the international community Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2022, to prevent Armenia and Azerbaijan from resuming their conflict over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region as the two countries accused each other of violating a Russian-brokered peace agreement.(Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)[ASSOCIATED PRESS/Mikhail Klimentyev]
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A senior U.N. official urged the international community Tuesday to prevent Armenia and Azerbaijan from resuming their conflict over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region as the two countries accused each other of violating a Russian-brokered peace agreement.
U.N. Assistant Secretary-General for political affairs Miroslav Jenča said a renewed conflict would likely impact the wider south Caucasus region and beyond. He urged redoubled diplomatic efforts to achieve a lasting peaceful settlement between Armenia and Azerbaijan "before it is too late."
The former Soviet countries have been locked in a decades-old conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh, which is part of Azerbaijan but has been under the control of ethnic Armenian forces backed by Armenia since a separatist war there ended in 1994. During a six-week war in 2020, Azerbaijan reclaimed broad swaths of Nagorno-Karabakh and adjacent territories held by Armenian forces. More than 6,700 people died in the fighting that was ended by a Russia-brokered peace agreement.
Jenča said there has been "a glimmer of hope" for progress in ongoing diplomatic efforts following renewed violence in mid-September that killed 155 soldiers from both countries. But regrettably, he said, tensions on the border and around areas put under control of Russian peacekeeping forces in the 2020 peace agreement "have not abated as hoped."
He pointed to several incidents that have raised tensions, the latest reportedly involving protests near a Russian peacekeeping post on the Lachin road, the only artery between Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh.
Jenča said it has been reported that the protests were against what the demonstrators claimed is the illegal exploitation of mineral resources and the environmental impact on the surrounding area. He said the U.N. understands the protests were continuing Tuesday but it is not in a position to verify or confirm the allegations.
In recent days, he said, both Armenia and Azerbaijan have written to U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and to the Security Council offering widely differing accounts of the situation, alleging violations of commitments by the other side, and challenging each other's claims.
The U.N. welcomes the commitment of Russian peacekeeping forces "to facilitate and ensure the safe passage through the corridor," Jenča said, citing media reports and statements from Russian peacekeepers indicating that some humanitarian and medical supplies have gotten through.
Armenia's U.N. Ambassador Mher Margaryan told the council his country called the emergency meeting because since Dec. 12, the Azerbaijan initiated "massive campaign of state-sponsored protests along the Lachin corridor" has blocked the only supply route in and out of Nagorno-Karabakh creating "an evolving humanitarian crisis."
At least 1,100 civilians have been stranded along the blocked highway for the past week, and transferring patients for urgent treatment in Armenian hospitals "has become impossible, which has already resulted in fatality of a critically ill patient," he said.
"By orchestrating an unlawful blockade of the Lachin corridor under the made-up pretext of environmental concerns," Margaryan said, "Azerbaijan has effectively targeted a population of 120,000 people by isolating them in precarious humanitarian conditions during the winter season."
Azerbaijan's U.N. Ambassador Yashar Aliyev told the council that under the November 2020 Russian-brokered deal the Lachin district was returned to Azerbaijan which committed to guarantee the security of people, vehicles and cargo moving along the road.
"Neither the government of Azerbaijan nor the protesting activists have blocked the Lachin road," he said.
"Video clips shared on social media show unimpeded passage of the various types of vehicles, including ambulances and humanitarian convoys," Aliyev said. "The claims regarding alleged humanitarian consequences of the situation are equally false. This is nothing other than another manifestation of reckless manipulation by Armenia of the situation for obvious malign political purposes."
Russia's deputy U.N. ambassador Anna Evstigneeva expressed concern about reports of blockage of the Lachin corridor, saying in recent days Russia "has been taking every effort to ensure prompt settlement of the situation." As a result, she said, natural gas supplies have been delivered to Nagorno-Karabakh and traffic on the road was partly unblocked.
Russia calls on Armenia and Azerbaijan to observe the cease-fire and no-use-of-force agreements achieved under its mediation, "to demonstrate restraint, and keep from steps that may escalate tension," Evstigneeva said.


U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet, who has been inching toward a 2020 presidential bid, announced Wednesday night that he has been diagnosed with prostate cancer.
Bennet made the news public in a release to media outlets and in an interview with the digital news site The Colorado Independent.
Bennet told The Independent that he was planning to announce his run for the presidency this month, but that he postponed his decision in light of the cancer diagnosis. He said he is committed to seeking the Democratic nomination for president if he is cancer free.
Colorado's congressional delegation released an outpouring of support for Bennet on Wednesday night.
U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse, a Boulder Democrat, also offered his family's thoughts and prayers.
"Michael is a tireless advocate for our state, and I know he will face it with the same perseverance he has always shown," Neguse said.
Bennet was appointed to his U.S. Senate seat in 2009 by then-Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter after Ken Salazar was tapped by President Barack Obama to be Interior Secretary. He was elected in 2010 and reelected in 2016.
Despite his diagnosis, Bennet has kept up a busy schedule. On Tuesday he announced the reintroduction of his Medicare X health insurance proposal with Virginia U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine. On Wednesday, he took to the Senate floor to protest Republicans' altering of vote rules in order to push through Trump administration appointees.
In an interview with The Colorado Sun on Tuesday about his CORE Act effort to protect some 400,000 acres of land in Colorado, he made no hint of his diagnosis and declined to talk about his presidential ambitions.
"I got nothing to say today," he said.
Bennet is slated to visit New Hampshire on Saturday, Sunday and Monday as part of his exploration of a presidential bid. Those plans were announced earlier this week and no subsequent announcement has been made about them being altered.


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Creativity is at the heart of 21st century work, says Dan Pink
By: Chuck Frey
NYT best-selling author Dan Pink shares some valuable insights into the new paradigm of creative work in this Business Thought Leader interview.
Creativity in Business Thought Leader Series interview number 11 is with celebrated New York Times best-selling author, Dan Pink. Dan is the prolific author of several provocative books about the changing world of work, including Drive, A Whole New Mind, The Adventures of Johnny Bunko, and Free Agent Nation.
Dan's latest book, Drive: The Surprising Truth about What Motivates Us has been called "an integral addition to a growing body of literature calling for a radical shift in how businesses operate" (Kircus) and "a new model of motivation that offers tremendous insight into our deepst nature." (Publishers Weekly) A must-read for anyone who wants to create an innovative work culture!
Q. How does your work relate to creativity?
Pink: I like to think that what I do itself requires creativity. But what's probably more important is that the arguments in my books are in some senses arguments for creativity. For instance, in A Whole New Mind, I argue that routine, rule-based, "left brain" abilities, such as simple accounting, basic computer programming and so forth, have become easy to outsource and easy to automate. That makes abilities that are hard to send overseas or reduce to software – for example, artistry, empathy, and big picture thinking – more valuable.
Q. What do you see as the emerging paradigm of work?
Pink: It's non-routine. That is, you can't reduce it to script, a formula, an algorithm or a series of steps that lead to a correct answer. It's multi-disciplinary. It involves elements of design, empathy, and symphonic thinking. It's self-directed rather than "managed." And it's animated by a sense of purpose.
Q. What is the role of creativity in that paradigm?
Pink: It's threaded through the entire fabric. If you look at the work and the abilities that are disappearing, or at least becoming less important, they're the antithesis of creativity – routine, rule-based, single discipline, and managed. The defining work of the 21st century is conceptual, empathic and big picture.
Q. What attitudes are essential for effectively navigating the new paradigm?
Pink: At the heart is a sense of intrinsic motivation – doing something not for the extrinsic rewards it brings, but for the inherent satisfaction of the task itself. Beyond that, it demands a sense of autonomy and self-direction as well as a yearning to get better at something that matters – all of which are pointed toward a cause larger than one's self.
Q. What is one approach for bringing more creativity into work and business?
Pink: One of my favorites comes from the Australian software company Atlassian. Once a quarter, they say to their software developers: "For the next 24 hours, go work on whatever you want, any way you want, with whomever you want." All the company asks is that people show what they've created to the rest of the company at the end of those 24 hours. They call these things "FedEx Days," because you have to deliver something overnight. It turns out that those one-day bursts of intense, undiluted autonomy have produced more innovation and creativity than just about anything else the company has done.
Q. What is Creative Leadership to you?
Pink: It's providing the context and environment that allows people to do their best work and then getting out of their way.
You can engage with Dan Pink in person about the concepts in Drive at the Interactive Dialogue with Dan Pink event in Washington, DC on March 11, 2010. The Creativity in Business Thought Leader Interviews are conducted by business creativity catalyst Michelle James, CEO of The Center for Creative Emergence.
Sarah Vandenberg2020-08-05T13:29:29-07:00February 22nd, 2010|Categories: Interview, Trend Alert|Tags: argument, artistry, big picture thinking, Creativity, empathy, Interview, purpose|


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Dr Rajib Basu
Qualifcation MBBS (Cal), MRCS (Edin), FRCS (Edin), MCh Orth (UK)
Specialities Orthopaedics and Joint Replacement
Area of Interests
His expertise is in Primary and Revision Joint Replacement, Arthroscopy surgery, and Complex Trauma.
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Dr Rajib Basu graduated from Calcutta National Medical college in 1995 with the basic medical degree. After completing my medical training in Kolkata, I proceeded to the UK for higher surgical training. I completed my MRCS and FRCS from the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.
He joined the MCh (Master in Orthopaedic Surgery) course at the University of Dundee and secured the Ian Smilie Award in 2004 for securing the first position in the exit examination.
After obtaining further surgical training in various hospitals in and around London, He returned to Kolkata and joined AMRI Hospitals.
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Oxynium Black Knee Implant Patient: Namita Saha
A state-of-the-art knee replacement implant built from oxynium, which is much more resilient, was done for the first time in Kolkata. Oxynium is a derivative of titanium, with a special coating that is black in colour, giving the implant its name. Unlike knee implants made of cobalt chrome, which last around 15 years and need to be replaced, oxynium knee replacements can survive without any hassles for around 35 years. It is much better for younger people, there is no debris like is noticed in ceramic implants, and the lubricating surface is much better, causing minimal abrasion.
Mesh & Glue tape Patient: Sheikh Salim
Mesh & Glue is the latest technology where sutures are not needed for surgeries and there is hardly any scar. The technology as used for the first time in Eastern India on a patient of TKR, where instead of stitching or stapling, the Mesh & Glue tape was used like a Band-Aid. The mesh was put on the knee that has undergone surgery, and glue was applied on the layer, using a glue pen that has a brush attached to it. The glue dries up within a few minutes and a bandage dressing is used as an extra layer of precaution. Mesh & Glue is disposable, with there being no need for the patient to return to the hospital for dressing or cutting of stitches, and they can peel it off like a Band-Aid even at home.
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