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A Southern Soul Chat with Noel Gourdin
Soul singer Noel Gourdin is currently touring music venues across the country. Before his March 24th stop at Washington D.C.'s City Winery, Noel took the time to chat with Reviews & Dunn
Reviews & Dunn: You got your start back in 2004 working with Kay Gee on the song "Family Reunion". Prior to that, who were some of your early influences growing up?
Noel Gourdin: The film The Cookout was the first film that I've had my music in, and Kay Gee was the Music Supervisor and wanted to have a record that I cut specifically for the film entitled "Family Reunion" to be part of it. I was blessed to have had the opportunity, and because the film never released a soundtrack, I still get messaged to this day about the unreleased "Family Reunion" record. Early influences were the Artists that my Pop was listening to; Tyrone Davis, Johnnie Taylor, Marvin Gaye, Sam Cooke, Brook Benton, Otis Redding and Jerry Butler to name a few.
Reviews & Dunn: In 2007, you have a breakout with "The River" from your debut album After My Time. Can you take us back to that early success with "The River"?
Noel Gourdin: Yes, the immediate success's "The River" had was a shock to the system. I say that because it just seemed to be a testament of what people were starving for. It's a timeless record that people of all creeds, color and ages can relate to, and it was a welcomed whirlwind to be swept up in. I also believe that people are still starving for records like "The River", and in fact always will.
Reviews & Dunn: Your first album featured some big names on the production including Rico Love, Salaam Remi and Raphael Saadiq. How was your experience working with Raphael on the song "P.Y.T"?
Noel Gourdin: I was most certainly blessed to have worked with some very big and respected names in the Industry from the gate. Raphael Saadiq is one that I'd say was easy and enjoyable. We first hit it off because we had discovered that we were both fans of a lot of the chopper shows that were popular at the time. From there it got easier to be able to create together, and to see his genius at work. I learned a lot from Ray, and its lessons that I'm able to share with younger Artists that I work with, or just able to help in my day to day.
Reviews & Dunn: There was a three-year gap between your first and second album. Why did you decide to leave a major label to go the indie route?
Noel Gourdin: The three-year gap wasn't by choice, I assure you. We were actually dropped after having a HUGE Hit, being "The River". There were a bunch of reasons and most of them were not even related to music in any way, shape or form. I just wanted to make quality music, and have people around me that believed in me, my movement and vision. It's been a very tough road, and still is, but I've crossed the point of no return. Also, making music and spreading the word and messages on my heart are too important to me to quit.
Reviews & Dunn: The second album Fresh: The Definition was led by the single "Beautiful". What was the motivation for the lead single and album title?
Noel Gourdin: "Beautiful" is a record for ALL the Women of the world that have been disrespected, degraded, abused or that are called out of their name. This record will always be relevant because Women are the Mothers of the Earth and the most "Beautiful" creatures walking it. The album title (fresh: the definition) came from me breaking out of a terrible dark place of depression and fighting my way back to realizing how incredibly Blessed I was. I felt fresh, and like a brand-new person essentially, shedding a cocoon. So that's where the fresh came from, and the definition came from Courtney Harrell, she suggested it because I felt literally like the definition of fresh while talking in the studio after recording "Change For You". Hence the title fresh: the definition.
Reviews & Dunn: One of the things I respect about your discography is the omission of guest rappers and the focus on singing. Is there a reason you've never done a song with an M.C.?
Noel Gourdin: The omission of rappers has really been a semi unconscious thing. I love true lyricists and those that are great at their craft. I guess I just felt that I wanted listeners to fall in love with me, my voice and my messages more so than being loved because of an association to someone that's more popular or famous than I. It's kind of ironic that most folks today are on the complete opposite end of the spectrum, if you have an endorsement or a champion these days, you're golden.
Reviews & Dunn: City Heart, South Soul was your third album. That album had a very late sixties/early seventies feel to it in my opinion. Was that the vibe you were going for?
Noel Gourdin: City Heart, Southern Soul was a project that I wanted to make that made me absolutely happy every time I went to the studio. Not like I didn't when I was making my 2 prior albums, but these were the type of records that Artists that I grew up listening to, and that made me want to be a music maker, inspired me to make it. On City Heart, Southern Soul I was able to do that.
Reviews & Dunn: "You're My Music" is one of my favorite love songs of the last ten years. How did that collaboration with Brian Culbertson come about?
Noel Gourdin: Brian Culbertson told me that he had started creating the music for "You're My Music" and he said after hearing my records on the radio, he could hear my voice and no one else's on it in his head. He had reached out to me and told me he wanted my voice on the record, the rest is Contemporary Jazz history so to speak. So, I was ecstatic when he just recently told me the same when he reached out to ask me to be part of his "XX" album on a record we collaborated on entitled "The Truth". So, stay tuned, and a HUGE shout out to my SoulBrotha Brian Culbertson.
Reviews & Dunn: What is the one thing you would say is missing in modern R&B?
Noel Gourdin: The one thing that I feel is missing in modern R&B is "LOVE". There really is a shortage of Love in today's music, more so than feeling, which would be my second thing that's missing. But hey, what do I know, this music and these Artists are moving units that I could only dream of moving.
So……. yeah.
Reviews & Dunn: I understand that you grew up in Boston. I'm a huge New Edition fan, so if you had to pick, would you rather see New Edition with Bobby Brown or with Johnny Gill?
Noel Gourdin: I grew up in Brockton, MA which is a suburb 20 mins. south of Boston. New Edition was always HUGE in my heart, they were our Temptations, or Spinners or Manhattans. If I had a choice between NE with Bobby or Johnny, it's no contest IMO, it's GOT TO BE Bobby! Period full stop. LOL!
Reviews & Dunn: Musical biopics are one of my favorite movie genres. Is there any artist's story you would like to see told or an artist you would love to portray?
Noel Gourdin: An Artist's biopic that I'd like to see told? I'd have to say Marvin Gaye. I just think he's the best that I've ever heard do it. His voice, his swag, his messages spanned far and wide, to suit every mood you could ever be in or emotion you could go through. I'd love to be able to play him, but I wouldn't even attempt to sing his records. I mean…. its Marvin Gaye.
Reviews & Dunn: What do you have on your musical docket for 2020?
Noel Gourdin: My musical docket for 2020 has gotten off to an incredible start! I'm working on records daily, a single will be released and pushed in this first half of the year. I'm featured on records with Brian Culbertson, Canita Rogers, Kenya Johnson, and Hil St Soul to name a few. I also have other collaborations in the works with Artists that I've wanted to work with for a very long time, so fingers and toes crossed for those. Stay tuned, I'M BACK!
Reviews & Dunn: Where can your finds find you on social media?
Noel Gourdin: I'm all on social media.
(Facebook) I'm @https://www.facebook.com/TheRealNoelGourdin/
Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/noelgourdin/?hl=en
Twitter – https://twitter.com/NoelGourdin
Reviews & Dunn: Is there anything you would like to add?
Noel Gourdin: I'd like to add that I truly appreciate ALL that have supported me! I thank you, and I'm going to NEED you to continue to Support and Spread the word of my Music Movement. Thank you for the interview opportunity!
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UK Secures Major Step Forward for CFP Reform
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by Charlotte Johnson
24 October 2012, at 1:00am
UK - The Government has secured another major step towards fundamental reform of the broken Common Fisheries Policy today following agreement on the future of the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund.
Following a day and a night of lengthy negotiations in Luxembourg, UK Fisheries Minister Richard Benyon played a pivotal role in brokering a preliminary agreement, which will fund radical changes to the Common Fisheries Policy through the EMFF.
This agreement will allow funding to be used to support measures such as paying for more selective catching gear that will contribute to eliminating discards, or to fund innovative research projects to improve the economic and environmental sustainability of the fishing industry.
UK Fisheries Minister Richard Benyon said: I came to Luxembourg determined to ensure that UK fishermen and taxpayers get the best possible deal from these important negotiations. I am delighted that the Council has agreed to allocate the vast majority of the new EU funding stream towards implementing CFP reform.
The priority for me has always been to make the changes that will be so vital for a reformed Common Fisheries a reality, and this outcome signifies a major step towards that vision. We are moving ever closer to the UK goal of being able to create healthy fish stocks, a prosperous fishing industry and a healthy marine environment.

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Home International Across the Mideast, Palestinians Brace for Trump Aid Cuts
Across the Mideast, Palestinians Brace for Trump Aid Cuts
In this Sunday Jan. 14, 2018 photo, a Palestinian woman waits to receive food aid at a U.N. warehouse in the Shati refugee camp, Gaza City. From the Gaza Strip to Jordan and Lebanon, millions of Palestinians are bracing for the worst as the Trump administration moves toward cutting funding to the U.N. agency that assists Palestinian refugees across the region. The expected cuts could deliver a painful blow to some of the weakest populations in the Middle East and risk destabilizing the already struggling countries that host displaced Palestinian refugees and their descendants. (AP Photo/ Khalil Hamra)
SHATI REFUGEE CAMP, Gaza Strip — Mahmoud al-Qouqa can't imagine life without the three sacks of flour, cooking oil and other staples he receives from the United Nations every three months.
Living with 25 relatives in a crowded home in this teeming Gaza Strip slum, the meager rations provided by UNRWA, the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugee families, are the last thing keeping his family afloat in the territory hard hit by years of poverty and conflict. But that could be in danger as the U.S., UNRWA's biggest donor, threatens to curtail funding.
"It will be like a disaster and no one can predict what the reaction will be," al-Qouqa said.
Across the Middle East, millions of people who depend on UNRWA are bracing for the worst. The expected cut could also add instability to struggling host countries already coping with spillover from other regional crises.
UNRWA was established in the wake of the 1948 Mideast war surrounding Israel's creation. An estimated 700,000 Palestinians fled or were forced from their homes in the fighting.
In the absence of a solution for these refugees, the U.N. General Assembly has repeatedly renewed UNRWA's mandate, the original refugee camps have turned into concrete slums and more than 5 million refugees and their descendants now rely on the agency for services including education, health care and food. The largest populations are in Gaza, the West Bank, Jordan and Lebanon.
Seen by the Palestinians and most of the international community as providing a valuable safety net, UNRWA is viewed far differently by Israel.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accuses the agency of perpetuating the conflict by helping promote an unrealistic dream that these people have the "right of return" to long-lost properties in what is now Israel.
"UNRWA is part of the problem, not part of the solution," he told foreign journalists last week. Noting that the Palestinians are the only group served by a specific refugee agency, he said UNRWA should be abolished and its responsibilities taken over by the main U.N. refugee agency.
Some in Israel have even tougher criticism, accusing UNRWA of teaching hatred of Israel in its classrooms and tolerating or assisting Hamas militants in Gaza.
Blaming the Palestinians for lack of progress in Mideast peace efforts, President Donald Trump has threatened to cut American assistance to the Palestinians. UNRWA would be the first to be affected.
In this Thursday Jan. 11, 2018 photo, a Palestinian sits outside his house in the Shati refugee camp in Gaza City. From the Gaza Strip to Jordan and Lebanon, millions of Palestinians are bracing for the worst as the Trump administration moves toward cutting funding to the U.N. agency that assists Palestinian refugees across the region. The expected cuts could deliver a painful blow to some of the weakest populations in the Middle East and risk destabilizing the already struggling countries that host displaced Palestinian refugees and their descendants. (AP Photo/ Khalil Hamra)
The U.S. provides about $355 million a year to UNRWA, roughly one-third of its budget.
U.S. officials in Washington said this week the administration is preparing to withhold tens of millions of dollars from the year's first contribution, cutting a planned $125 million installment by half or perhaps entirely. The decision could come as early as Tuesday.
Matthias Schmale, UNRWA's director in Gaza, said Washington has not informed the agency of any changes. However, "we are worried because of the statements … in the media and the fact that the money hasn't arrived yet," he said.
Schmale dismissed the Israeli criticisms, saying that individuals who spread incitement or aid militants are isolated cases and promptly punished. And he said Netanyahu's criticism should be directed at the U.N. General Assembly, which sets UNRWA's mandate, not the agency itself.
In this Thursday Jan. 11, 2018 photo, Palestinian children play in an alley at the Shati refugee camp in Gaza City. From the Gaza Strip to Jordan and Lebanon, millions of Palestinians are bracing for the worst as the Trump administration moves toward cutting funding to the U.N. agency that assists Palestinian refugees across the region. The expected cuts could deliver a painful blow to some of the weakest populations in the Middle East and risk destabilizing the already struggling countries that host displaced Palestinian refugees and their descendants. (AP Photo/ Khalil Hamra)
Any cut in U.S. aid could ripple across the region with potentially unintended consequences.
Gaza may be the most challenging of all of UNRWA's operating areas. Two-thirds of Gaza's 2 million people qualify for services, and its role is amplified given the poor state of the economy, which has been hit hard by three wars with Israel and a Israeli-Egyptian blockade since the Hamas militant group seized power over a decade ago. Unemployment is 43 percent and the poverty rate is 38 percent, according to the official Palestinian statistics office.
"Nowhere else are we the biggest service provider for the population of the entire territory," Schmale said. He said UNRWA provides food assistance to 1 million Gazans, calling it "an expression of collective shame for the international community."
With more than 12,500 teachers, nurses and other staff, UNRWA is Gaza's largest non-governmental employer. It is also involved in postwar reconstruction projects.
The dire situation in Gaza is evident inside al-Qouqa's home, which is so cramped the family has made sleeping spaces with wood boards and fabric. Two male family members are unemployed. Two others are Hamas civil servants and get paid only intermittently by the cash-strapped movement.
At 72, al-Qouqa is worried about his grandchildren. "If UNRWA provides them with bread, they can remain patient. But if it was cut, what will they become? They will become thieves, criminals and a burden on society," he said. Many believe Hamas, which administers schools and social services in Gaza, will step in to fill the void.
Jordan, a crucial ally in the U.S.-led battle against Islamic militants, is home to the largest number of Palestinian refugees and their descendants — with nearly 2.2 million people eligible for UNRWA services. This has turned the U.N. agency into a major contributor to social welfare services in the country, which also hosts hundreds of thousands of Syrians displaced by war.
In this Sunday Jan. 14, 2018 photo, Palestinian women wait to see a doctor in the UNRWA-run clinic in the Shati refugee camp, Gaza City. From the Gaza Strip to Jordan and Lebanon, millions of Palestinians are bracing for the worst as the Trump administration moves toward cutting funding to the U.N. agency that assists Palestinian refugees across the region. The expected cuts could deliver a painful blow to some of the weakest populations in the Middle East and risk destabilizing the already struggling countries that host displaced Palestinian refugees and their descendants. (AP Photo/ Khalil Hamra)
U.S. aid cuts could heighten the threat of instability in Jordan, which is grappling with a worsening economy hurt by the spillover from conflict in neighboring Syria and Iraq. More than one-third of Jordan's young people are without jobs, turning them into potential targets for recruitment by extremists.
Most of the Palestinians eligible for UNRWA services in Jordan hold Jordanian citizenship, and some argue that this has ended their refugee status. But most maintain that UNRWA services are vital to propping up an important ally.
UNRWA's services are also vital in Lebanon, where Palestinians are prohibited from working in skilled professions and owning property.
Lebanon is the least-welcoming Arab country to Palestinian refugees, because it does not want Palestinians to settle and because it does not want the refugees to upset the country's delicate sectarian balance. Camps in several cities are ringed by concrete barriers and Lebanese security forces use checkpoints to control who enters and leaves. A recent census found 175,000 Palestinian refugees or their descendants living in the country.
The civil war in Syria has made many Palestinians refugees twice over. Some 32,000 Palestinians who were living in Syria fled to Lebanon, according to UNRWA. In Syria, Palestinians enjoyed the right to own property and to work in all professions. They are not entitled to the same in Lebanon.
Balkees Hameed, 33, arrived in 2013 with her husband, two children and in-laws from Damascus, where their apartment was damaged by rocket fire. The family depends on UNRWA assistance to rent a one-bedroom apartment in a ramshackle building in Bourj al-Barajneh, a Beirut camp. Her husband wipes tables at a restaurant outside the camp. Hameed, like all Palestinians, was painfully aware of the rumors coming out of Washington.
"We are already defeated and now they want to oppress us some more?" she asked.
While more than 5 million Syrian refugees worldwide are entitled to assistance from the U.N.'s general refugee relief agency, Palestinians are barred from it under the logic that UNRWA serves them. But UNRWA in Lebanon is chronically underfunded, and the wave of Palestinians arriving from Syria has strained its finances even further.
"What UNRWA provides is not even a quarter of what a Palestinian refugee needs," said Ramy Mansour, 34, who fled to Lebanon from the Yarmouk refugee camp in Damascus in 2013. "Take everything and return us to our homes. We don't want any assistance or anything, just return us to our country."
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Locket, Alexis Falize, c.1869
Gold and enamel
designed and mounted by Alexis Falize, the enamels by Antoine Tard, the cover decorated with full blown yellow peonies against a background enamelled lacquer red. The jewel is unusual in being decorated on all four of its faces, the back cover with a cockerel and a hen against a turquoise blue ground, the inside panels with a duck amongst foliate stems and two swooping cranes respectively. Gold wires are used as decorative elements in themselves, depicting grasses at the foot of the scene.
The reverse of the loop is enamelled with the letter 'T' in red, the first known instance of Antoine Tard's initial appearing on a jewel.
Paris, c.1869.
Such cloisonné enamelled pendant lockets by Alexis Falize form part of the collections of the British Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Schmuckmuseum in Pforzheim. However the only other known example to be decorated on its four faces is preserved at the Musée d'Orsay, the panels within depicting Noh theatrical masks.
Alexis Falize was profoundly inspired by woodblock prints by artists such as Hokusai and indeed owned fifty such paper bound volumes before 1871. Three volumes included Hokusai's Manga which contained sketches of a wide range of subjects including flora and fauna.
The talents of the enameller Antoine Tard were sought by such firms as Christofle and Boucheron. The technical excellence of these jewels prompted the South Kensington Museum to acquire such works by Alexis Falize as early as 1867 when they were displayed for the first time at the Exposition Universelle in Paris.
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Years ago, welcome signs graced the SR-522 entrances to Bothell. The signs welcomed visitors to Bothell "for a day or a lifetime." Over the years, they disappeared. The sign at the west entrance fell victim to an accident on the highway. The sign at the east was removed when the entrance to the UW-Bothell/Cascadia campus was constructed in the mid-2000s.
New Sign with Richard Olson and Susan Gardner Posing on Each Side (Courtesy photos)When McMenamins Anderson School opened in October 2015, residents and visitors were treated to snippets of Bothell history…in the artwork, the names of the hotel rooms, and even the buildings themselves. Bothell merchant Richard Olson decided it was time to resurrect another part of Bothell's history…the iconic welcome sign.
Olson spearheaded a petition effort to gauge the amount of public support; hundreds signed them. He even created a Fourth of July parade entry to publicize the effort. He and wife Susan Gardner then approached City Hall to discuss the feasibility of the return of the sign if its design, construction, and installation were funded privately. They got a green light and fundraising commenced.
Over the next two years, funds were collected by soliciting donations through various channels with strong support from the Bothell/Kenmore Chamber of Commerce and Northshore Rotary. At a fundraising party, additional community supporters provided in-kind donations as well as gifts that were used in a raffle.
Olson's efforts paid off. Crossroad SIGN designed, created, and installed a new welcome sign in the style currently used by the City of Bothell. It was erected in the Park at Bothell Landing, where Bothell Way and the Bothell-Everett Highway meet, in time for Bothell's Fourth of July parade. Welcome to Bothell…for a day or a lifetime.


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Reciprocity in Fieldwork
January 20, 2022 March 7, 2020 by SFA Staff
by Jim Griffith
The relationship between folklorist and informant is, by its very nature, reciprocal. To start off, I don't really like the word "informant" for the person who gives information to folklorists and other social scientists. Not only is it impersonal, but it is too close to "informer," which has heavy negative associations. But "informant" is in common usage, so we will go with it. In an interview I get information, and the informant gets something in exchange. It is my job to make the exchange a positive one for all concerned.
As I have mentioned before, the folklorist's stock in trade is respect, shown initially by the desire to learn more about the informant's traditions. To follow up, at the very least I can write a thank you note. Some projects even print and distribute certificates to participants. If the interview results in a program or production, I keep in touch, give progress reports, send an invitation to the program or a copy of the article, and otherwise keep the relationship going. After all, I might want to work again with that person or in that community, but, more importantly, it is The Right Thing To Do.
These relationships can expand to whole families, and can last a long time. I have attended many informants' family celebrations, even funerals, in my day, and this show of respect has been welcomed by family members, with the reciprocity continuing through the years. For example, I was first introduced to Matilde Santa Cruz in the 1970s, as someone who made tortillas at home for her friends and neighbors. With a team from KUAT at the University of Arizona I planned and taped a short segment on tortilla making, interviewing Matilda under her backyard ramada. As she stretched and toasted large flour tortillas on a metal comal over a wood fire, Matilde told us, "I learned from my grandmother and my mother, and I have taught my daughter. It is a chain that will never be broken." This brilliant summation of what we folklorists are about resonated with me. Later, when I organized an exhibit at the UA Art Museum its title was "The Unbroken Chain, Traditional Arts of Tucson's Mexican-American Community."
The relationship did not stop there. Doña Matilde and her family members became regular demonstrators at the annual folklife festival, Tucson Meet Yourself. They gave tortilla-making lessons to all comers (including our grandchildren). Then when her health took a serious downturn, the festival staff rallied to her support. Once fully recovered, Matilde invited the festival staff to a thank-you party, featuring her wonderful cooking and music by a neighborhood Norteño band. We see the relationship continuing to expand and prosper, as the band is now invited to play for our events. This unbroken chain continues!
The benefits to the informant from such reciprocal relationships can take many forms. Most obviously, the folklorist might be able to put an artist into a better position to sell a product, give concerts, or offer demonstrations at a public occasion. Beyond the potential monetary rewards of this increased exposure, seeing one's work celebrated and honored by the mainstream society—including by some who might hold more financial or political capital than the artist–can go far toward validating the entire tradition, both within and beyond the artist's immediate community. One woman told me that after hearing my lecture on folk traditions she realized that those "silly things her mother used to sing" were really "beautiful Norwegian folk songs." Attention from a folklorist can also encourage the younger generation to value and carry on the traditions. It is suggestive that many of the well-known singing families on both sides of the Atlantic have been visited by a folklorist at least once in each generation.
The reciprocal relationship can be seen as the beginning of enhanced communication between communities. Early in my career, someone had explained to me that, "You can invite the Indians, but they won't show up." When we were hoping to include Yaqui musicians and dancers in a National Folk Festival my friend Richard Morales, himself a keen observer of both his own and other cultural traditions, offered to introduce me to the ceremonial group. Richard insisted that any discussion had to be conducted on Yaqui terms, on Yaqui turf. This meant visiting with the group leader for social conversation and a cigarette before moving on to the invitation to participate. He was adamant that negotiations with Yaquis were not done over the phone. So, I went to Yaqui turf and lit the cigarette and after a series of meetings, a group of Yaqui musicians and dancers traveled to Wolf Trap Park outside of Washington, D.C. that summer to perform. We followed a similar procedure to secure Yaqui participation in Tucson Meet Yourself. Today, decades later, the relationship between folklorist and informant is still strong, with deep mutual trust on both sides being handed down through generations. Now the invitations to participate are both offered and accepted over the phone. Years of experience and observation have convinced me that personal relationships are the surest bridge between "outsiders" and "insiders" of folk communities.
There, I have said it. Our work as folklorists should be a two-way street, with good feelings and benefits all around. Otherwise, we run the risk of becoming suction pumps for information, benefiting ourselves but leaving the other party dry, empty, and perhaps unhappy.
"Big Jim" Griffith is a folklorist, founder of Tucson Meet Yourself, and 2011 NEA National Heritage Fellow. His most recent book is Saints, Statues, and Stories: A Folklorist Looks At The Religious Art of Sonora (University of Arizona Press, 2019).
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An Irish journey, shared by all: We are a nation of exiles
Sean Carlson
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Theirs is a story of departure as well as arrival, a reminder of leaving home, of those left behind.Getty
Sean Carlson // Twitter: @seancarlson
The notion that St. Patrick wasn't Irish may sound sacrilegious, but Ireland's most famous patron saint was, in fact, born abroad.
Captured from mainland Britain — which was at the time under Roman rule — he arrived in his adopted land against his wishes. Eventually escaping Ireland, he later returned there on his own volition, leaving his mark as the religious figure we celebrate.
Today, crowds gather — as they do every year — on account of a saint who lived 16 centuries ago. It isn't simply that everybody becomes Irish for a day. It's rather that the Irish experience, like the experience of St. Patrick, resonates so broadly. Theirs is a story of departure as well as arrival, a reminder of leaving home, of those left behind.
My mom's parents lived their entire lives outside a small village in the southwest of Ireland. My grandmother visited England once, but my grandfather never left his country. He insisted that if the Lord had meant for him to be anywhere else, He would have put him there.
Over the course of 24 years, my grandparents had 16 children: 8 daughters, 8 sons, no twins. My mom was the 15th…
The remainder of the essay can be read through the New York Daily News.
Sean Carlson, will be reading on Tuesday, March 18 at the Irish American Writers & Artists salon at the Cell Theatre (338 W 23rd St., New York).
* Formerly a manager of global communications and public affairs at Google, Sean Carlson recently finished writing his first book, a family memoir of love and loss set against the struggles of a community and its country experiencing the great changes of the twentieth century. Learn more at: www.seancarlson.net.
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package com.hazelcast.simulator.provisioner;

import com.hazelcast.simulator.common.AgentsFile;
import com.hazelcast.simulator.common.SimulatorProperties;
import com.hazelcast.simulator.utils.Bash;
import com.hazelcast.simulator.utils.jars.HazelcastJARs;
import joptsimple.OptionParser;
import joptsimple.OptionSet;
import joptsimple.OptionSpec;
import org.jclouds.compute.ComputeService;

import static com.hazelcast.simulator.common.SimulatorProperties.PROPERTIES_FILE_NAME;
import static com.hazelcast.simulator.utils.CliUtils.initOptionsWithHelp;
import static com.hazelcast.simulator.utils.CliUtils.printHelpAndExit;
import static com.hazelcast.simulator.utils.CloudProviderUtils.isStatic;
import static com.hazelcast.simulator.utils.SimulatorUtils.loadSimulatorProperties;
import static com.hazelcast.simulator.utils.jars.HazelcastJARs.isPrepareRequired;
import static com.hazelcast.simulator.utils.jars.HazelcastJARs.newInstance;
import static java.util.Collections.singleton;

final class ProvisionerCli {

    private final OptionParser parser = new OptionParser();

    private final OptionSpec<Integer> scaleSpec = parser.accepts("scale",
            "Number of Simulator machines to scale to. If the number of machines already exists, the call is ignored. If the"
                    + " desired number of machines is smaller than the actual number of machines, machines are terminated.")
            .withRequiredArg().ofType(Integer.class);

    private final OptionSpec installSpec = parser.accepts("install",
            "Installs Simulator on all provisioned machines.");

    private final OptionSpec uploadHazelcastSpec = parser.accepts("uploadHazelcast",
            "If defined --install will upload the Hazelcast JARs as well.");

    private final OptionSpec<Boolean> enterpriseEnabledSpec = parser.accepts("enterpriseEnabled",
            "Use JARs of Hazelcast Enterprise Edition.")
            .withRequiredArg().ofType(Boolean.class).defaultsTo(false);

    private final OptionSpec listAgentsSpec = parser.accepts("list",
            "Lists the provisioned machines (from " + AgentsFile.NAME + " file).");

    private final OptionSpec<String> downloadSpec = parser.accepts("download",
            "Download all files from the remote Worker directories. Use --clean to delete all Worker directories.")
            .withOptionalArg().ofType(String.class).defaultsTo("workers");

    private final OptionSpec cleanSpec = parser.accepts("clean",
            "Cleans the remote Worker directories on the provisioned machines.");

    private final OptionSpec killSpec = parser.accepts("kill",
            "Kills the Java processes on all provisioned machines (via killall -9 java).");

    private final OptionSpec terminateSpec = parser.accepts("terminate",
            "Terminates all provisioned machines.");

    private final OptionSpec<String> propertiesFileSpec = parser.accepts("propertiesFile",
            "The file containing the Simulator properties. If no file is explicitly configured, first the local working directory"
                    + " is checked for a file '" + PROPERTIES_FILE_NAME + "'. All missing properties are always loaded from"
                    + " '$SIMULATOR_HOME/conf/" + PROPERTIES_FILE_NAME + "'.")
            .withRequiredArg().ofType(String.class);

    private ProvisionerCli() {
    }

    static Provisioner init(String[] args) {
        ProvisionerCli cli = new ProvisionerCli();
        OptionSet options = initOptionsWithHelp(cli.parser, args);

        SimulatorProperties properties = loadSimulatorProperties(options, cli.propertiesFileSpec);
        ComputeService computeService = isStatic(properties) ? null : new ComputeServiceBuilder(properties).build();
        Bash bash = new Bash(properties);

        HazelcastJARs hazelcastJARs = null;
        boolean enterpriseEnabled = options.valueOf(cli.enterpriseEnabledSpec);
        if (options.has(cli.uploadHazelcastSpec)) {
            String hazelcastVersionSpec = properties.getHazelcastVersionSpec();
            if (isPrepareRequired(hazelcastVersionSpec) || !enterpriseEnabled) {
                hazelcastJARs = newInstance(bash, properties, singleton(hazelcastVersionSpec));
            }
        }

        return new Provisioner(properties, computeService, bash, hazelcastJARs, enterpriseEnabled);
    }

    static void run(String[] args, Provisioner provisioner) {
        ProvisionerCli cli = new ProvisionerCli();
        OptionSet options = initOptionsWithHelp(cli.parser, args);

        try {
            if (options.has(cli.scaleSpec)) {
                int size = options.valueOf(cli.scaleSpec);
                provisioner.scale(size);
            } else if (options.has(cli.installSpec)) {
                provisioner.installSimulator();
            } else if (options.has(cli.listAgentsSpec)) {
                provisioner.listMachines();
            } else if (options.has(cli.downloadSpec)) {
                String dir = options.valueOf(cli.downloadSpec);
                provisioner.download(dir);
            } else if (options.has(cli.cleanSpec)) {
                provisioner.clean();
            } else if (options.has(cli.killSpec)) {
                provisioner.killJavaProcesses();
            } else if (options.has(cli.terminateSpec)) {
                provisioner.terminate();
            } else {
                printHelpAndExit(cli.parser);
            }
        } finally {
            provisioner.shutdown();
        }
    }
}

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PORTLAND, Oregon - Tonight, April 27 the World Forestry Center in Portland will host the Pacific Northwest premiere of Green Fire: Aldo Leopold and a Land Ethic for Our Time, a new documentary film about Aldo Leopold, best known as the author of A Sand County Almanac. Green Fire is the first feature length (72 min.), high definition documentary film ever made about famed conservationist Aldo Leopold. Emmy-Award winning narrator Peter Coyote lends his talent as the voice of Aldo Leopold, and the film's on-screen guide is Curt Meine, Leopold's biographer. The film explores Aldo Leopold's life in the early part of the twentieth century and the many ways his land ethic idea continues to be applied all over the world today.
Green Fire: Aldo Leopold and a Land Ethic for Our Time is a production of the Aldo Leopold Foundation, the U.S. Forest Service, and the Center for Humans and Nature. The film shares highlights from Leopold's life and extraordinary career, explaining how he shaped conservation in the twentieth century and still inspires people today. Although probably best known as the author of the conservation classic A Sand County Almanac, Leopold is also renowned for his work as an educator, philosopher, forester, ecologist, and wilderness advocate.
More than a dozen major premiere events are being held in during the six months of 2011, including screenings in San Francisco, Denver, New York, Seattle, Chicago, and at the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C. The Aldo Leopold Foundation has also begun nationwide distribution of the film for small public screenings arranged by community organizers. The film will air on public television in 2012. "Aldo Leopold's legacy lives on today in the work of people and organizations across the nation and around the world," said Aldo Leopold Foundation Executive Director Buddy Huffaker. "What is exciting about Green Fire is that it is more than just a documentary about Aldo Leopold; it also explores the influence his ideas have had in shaping the conservation movement as we know it today by highlighting some really inspiring people and organizations doing great work to connect people and the natural world in ways that even Leopold might not have imagined."
Green Fire: Aldo Leopold and a Land Ethic for Our Time illustrates Leopold's continuing influence by exploring current projects that connect people and land at the local level. Viewers will meet urban children in Chicago learning about local foods and ecological restoration. They'll learn about ranchers in Arizona and New Mexico who maintain healthy landscapes by working on their own properties and with their neighbors, in cooperative community conservation efforts. They'll meet wildlife biologists who are bringing back threatened and endangered species, from cranes to Mexican wolves, to the landscapes where they once thrived. The Green Fire film portrays how Leopold's vision of a community that cares about both people and land—his call for a land ethic—ties all of these modern conservation stories together and offers inspiration and insight for the future.
"The making of Green Fire has been a process of discovery," says Curt Meine, the film's on-screen guide. Meine's doctoral dissertation was a biography of Aldo Leopold, published as Aldo Leopold: His Life and Work (University of Wisconsin Press, 1988). To give the film its modern perspective of Leopold's influence in the conservation movement today, Meine was charged with conducting hundreds of interviews with people practicing conservation all over the country. "Meeting all those people has really yielded new connections between Leopold and nearly every facet of the environmental movement, including ocean conservation, urban gardening, and climate change—issues that Leopold never directly considered in his lifetime but has nonetheless affected as his ideas are carried on by others," said Meine.
"Aldo Leopold is one of our nation's most beloved nature writers," says environmental historian Susan Flader. "His A Sand County Almanac, published posthumously in 1949, has become a catalyst for our evolving ecological awareness and a classic in American literature." Leopold is regarded by many as one of the most influential conservation thinkers of the twentieth century, and the film highlights the ways his legacy continues to encourage us to see the natural world "as a community to which we belong."
The World Forestry Center is working in partnership with the Aldo Leopold Foundation and the USDA Forest Service to organize, host and sponsor the Portland premiere of Green Fire. The Portland premiere is part of each organizations' 2011 International Year of Forests celebration.
The World Forestry Center is a non-profit organization committed to promoting sustainable forestry through research and education. Founded in Portland, Oregon in 1964, the World Forestry Center operates an internationally recognized museum, demonstration forests and outdoor education sites open to the public, a conference center, and residential fellowship program for forest researchers from around the world. Thousands of local, regional, national, and international students and teachers participate in the World Forestry Center's award-winning education programs each year. www.worldforestry.org
The Aldo Leopold Foundation is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization based in Baraboo, Wisconsin. The foundation's mission is to inspire an ethical relationship between people and land through the legacy of Aldo Leopold. Leopold regarded a land ethic as a product of social evolution. "Nothing so important as an ethic is ever 'written,'" he explained. "It evolves 'in the minds of a thinking community.'" Learn more about the Aldo Leopold Foundation and the Green Fire movie at www.aldoleopold.org
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service is a federal agency that manages more than 193 million acres of public lands in national forests and grasslands. The USDA Forest Service is also the largest forestry research organization in the world, and provides technical and financial assistance to state and private forestry agencies. The mission of the Forest Service is to sustain the health, diversity, and productivity of the nation's forests and grasslands to meet the needs of present and future generations. www.fs.fed.us
IF YOU GO: Visit www.greenfiremovie.com for venue information and to purchase tickets. You can also access Portland premiere information at www.worldforestry.org
DATE: Wednesday, April 27, 2011 VENUE: World Forestry Center, Miller Hall TIME: TWO SCREENINGS: 3 PM (Doors open 2:30 PM) 7 PM (Doors Open 6:30 PM)
TICKETS: Advance Tickets Only. $6 Students with valid ID/Seniors 62+ $8 Adults To purchase tickets: http://www.greenfiremovie.com or www.worldforestry.org
LOCATION: World Forestry Center, Miller Hall, 4033 SW Canyon Road, Portland OR 97221 Free Parking. Public transportation use Tri-Met MAX Blue or Red Lines to Washington Park Station. Directions and general information: www.worldforestry.org


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Karen Bartlett's burn surgeon called her life "hell on Earth," and there is no reason to believe that is an exaggeration.
In 2004, after she took the anti-inflammatory drug sulindac at her doctor's direction to relieve shoulder pain, she developed a rare but known side effect: a form of Stevens-Johnson Syndrome, or SJS/TEN.
It caused the outer layer of her skin to deteriorate until it became an open wound over more than 60 percent of her body. She spent months in a medically induced coma. She underwent 12 eye surgeries, with more to come. She has lung damage and esophageal damage and is now legally blind.
She sued Mutual Pharmaceutical, which manufactured the drug, and a New Hampshire jury awarded her $21 million.
But Mutual's attorney told the Supreme Court on Tuesday that because sulindac is the generic version of the brand-name drug Clinoril, the company could not take the precautionary actions the New Hampshire jury said it should have.
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Lefkowitz and David Frederick, representing Bartlett, received tough questioning.
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December 16, 2019 • 12:31 am Comments Off on Das Beethoven-Jahr: Es Geht Los
Das Beethoven-Jahr: Es Geht Los
And so it begins. Bonn opens the anniversary year with a collage by Paul Griffiths.
And here's a slew of Beethoven-related stories from Deutschlandfunk — including such matters as the transformation of the "Ode to Joy" into Europe's hymn and Liszt's piano transcriptions of the symphonies.
Filed under: anniversary, Beethoven, music news
May 21, 2019 • 1:50 am Comments Off on Heinz Holliger at 80
Heinz Holliger at 80
"My entire relationship with music is such that I always try to reach its limits."
The extraordinary Swiss oboist, composer, conductor, teacher, and all-around musical personality Heinz Holliger turns 80 today — his creativity undimmed.
Later in the week, ECM is releasing Zwiegespräche, an intriguing gathering of "dialogues": works for oboe by Holliger and György Kurtág, who share a strikingly similar aesthetic. Both studied under Sándor Veress and, notes Roman Brotbeck in his liner notes, "both use the entire history of music as a frame of reference, both love miniatures, both speicalize in homage to friends and colleagues and cultivate a living 'Davidsbund' with living and departed soulmates."
Holliger plays oboe, English horn, and piano on the album and is joined by fellow oboist Marie-Lise Schüpbach, bass clarinetist Ernesto Molinari, soprano Sarah Wegener, and Philippe Jaccottet reciting seven of his poems for another remarkable dialogue here: Holliger responds to the poems with various formal strategies in Lecture pour hautbois et cors anglais (2015-16).
Last year at Zurich Opera I was mesmerized by Holliger's latest stage work, Lunea. In this opera to a libretto by Klaus Händl, Holliger returns to one of the figures who has haunted him throughout his creative life: the Romantic poet and polymath Nikolaus Lenau, who was institutionalized in his final years. Holliger's exquisitely refined musical sensibility and aesthetic of fragmentation, indirection, and dislocation work to tremendously powerful effect here in depicting the search for love and longing for eternity.
Holliger has been a formative presence for decades at the Lucerne Festival. Here's an insightful interview (in German) with Christian Wildhagen.
And here a radio interview with Dorothea Bossert for SWR.
Filed under: anniversary, Heinz Holliger, new music
November 11, 2018 • 10:27 am Comments Off on Eleventh Hour
In honor of Armistice Day, on the 100th anniversary.
Gustav Holst: Ode to Death, H. 144, Op. 38 (1919), which sets a passage from When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd by Walt Whitman.
Come lovely and soothing death,
Undulate round the world, serenely arriving, arriving,
In the day, in the night, to all, to each,
Sooner or later delicate death.
Prais'd be the fathomless universe,
For life and joy, and for objects and knowledge curious,
And for love, sweet love—but praise! praise! praise!
For the sure-enwinding arms of cool-enfolding death.
Dark mother always gliding near with soft feet,
Have none chanted for thee a chant of fullest welcome?
Then I chant it for thee, I glorify thee above all,
I bring thee a song that when thou must indeed come, come unfalteringly.
Approach strong deliveress,
When it is so, when thou hast taken them I joyously sing the dead,
Lost in the loving floating ocean of thee,
Laved in the flood of thy bliss O death.
From me to thee glad serenades,
Dances for thee I propose saluting thee, adornments and feastings for thee,
And the sights of the open landscape and the high-spread sky are fitting,
And life and the fields, and the huge and thoughtful night.
The night in silence under many a star,
The ocean shore and the husky whispering wave whose voice I know,
And the soul turning to thee O vast and well-veil'd death,
And the body gratefully nestling close to thee.
Over the tree-tops I float thee a song,
Over the rising and sinking waves, over the myriad fields and the prairies wide,
Over the dense-pack'd cities all and the teeming wharves and ways,
I float this carol with joy, with joy to thee O death.
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June 30, 2018 • 3:14 am Comments Off on Happy Birthday, Esa-Pekka Salonen!
Happy Birthday, Esa-Pekka Salonen!
Today the Maestro turns 60 years young.
Great conductor, great composer:
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January 24, 2018 • 12:10 am Comments Off on Gottfried von Einem at 100
Gottfried von Einem at 100
Gottfried von Einem was born exactly 100 years ago today. Boosey & Hawkes has a useful introduction: Einem at 100
Also from Boosey & Hawkes:
Gottfried von Einem was son of a military attaché and educated abroad in Germany and England * Studied composition with Boris Blacher in Berlin * First ballet, Princess Turandot, won him post of composer to the Dresden State Opera * Radical use of jazz elements in the Concerto for Orchestra led to conflict with the Nazi authorities * After the war, closely associated with the rejuvenation of the Salzburg Festival * Operas, including Dantons Tod, Der Prozess, Der Zerrissene and Der Besuch der alten Dame, soon brought recognition as Austria's leading composer, and rapidly attracted international performances * Orchestral music conducted by the twentieth century's leading maestros including Karajan, Furtwängler, Böhm, Ormandy, Sawallisch, Giulini, Dohnányi, Ozawa and Mehta.
Gottfried von Einem believed that it is only possible to experience the unexpected as new when it is presented against the background of music which seems familiar to a listener. If exclusively new elements are employed, this leads to a dulling of receptiveness to what is new and may even result in boredom. And to be boring – according to Gottfried von Einem – is the greatest sin an artist can commit. All his life, Gottfried von Einem knew how to avoid and avert this transgression. –Harald Kunz, 1998
—New York Times: "Saving Konrad Latte"
—profile by Tobias Sedlmaier (in German)
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May 13, 2017 • 5:35 pm Comments Off on Lou Harrison's 100th
Lou Harrison's 100th
May 14 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Lou Harrison. NPR's Tom Huizenga has this lovely appreciation:
The composer's motto was "Cherish, Conserve, Consider, Create." He was a published poet, a painter and a calligrapher, and was openly gay back in the 1930s. […]
Harrison was fond of saying, "Enjoy hybrid music, because that's all there is."
"He knew that all music actually comes from other musics and combinations," [biographer Brett] Campbell says. "There's no such thing as a pure music."
And from Brett Campbell himself, at Oregon Arts Watch:
Since Harrison's death, his music is played somewhere every day, often in dance works, several choreographed by his great friend and colleague Mark Morris. It's a colorful story, told in Eva Soltes's film Lou Harrison: A World of Music, and in the new biography I co-authored with Bill Alves, Lou Harrison: American Musical Maverick— and it all began here.
Harrison's legacy extends into this century: his work with Asian musical forms and instruments and his exploration of new tuning systems opened a whole new world of possibilities to modern music, allowing composers to take resources from various cultures and use them to make new music.
Filed under: American music, anniversary, Lou Harrison
August 25, 2016 • 9:14 am Comments Off on Remembering Lenny
Remembering Lenny
In honor of Leonard Bernstein's birthday — just two years away from the centenary now! — I'm reposting a link here to some thoughts from a few years ago.
Filed under: American music, anniversary, Bernstein
July 10, 2016 • 5:56 pm Comments Off on Proustiana
Proustiana
July is my favorite birthday month for artists (Mahler, Kafka, Hesse, Neruda, Thoreau, GB Shaw, Klimt, Janáček, etc.), so it's always pleased me that Proust, one of my supreme idols, managed to be born in the heart of summer.
In honor of Marcel Proust's 145th birthday (10 July), here are some reflections that have been circulating recently.
Biographer William C. Carter, who believes À la recherche du temps perdu is "arguably the best book ever written about perception," on Why You Should Read Proust:
I think he helps us to see the world as it really is, not only its extraordinary beauty and diversity, but his observations make us aware of how we perceive and how we interact with others, showing us how often we are mistaken in our own assumptions and how easy it is to have a biased view of another person.
Daniel Mendelssohn, one of Literary Hub's Six Writers on the Genius of Marcel Proust rails against the cheapening of the term "Proustian," which has come "nowadays to refer to pretty much anything sepia-toned, anything having to do with 'memory.'" Time, he asserts:
is not just the subject, or one of the subjects, of In Search of Lost Time; it is also the medium in which the novel must be read, if it is to be understood. To read this novel takes time; there is no faking it, there are no short-cuts, like five-minute yoga (one of the many fatuities of a frenetic era that is obsessed with "wasting" time, as if to spend time on anything were somehow a loss).
And Laure Murat ponders How the French Reread Proust:
To read or reread Proust brings about this symbolic identification at every level. From the first example to the last, it has really only ever been a question of being named or naming oneself: from "I am a writer" to "I am asthmatic"(or both), the Remembrance systematically determines names given and names taken individually, thereby establishing a relationship between the reader-rereader, the author, and the book that has no other parallel in the accounts of rereading other texts I have gathered.
Filed under: anniversary, Proust
July 2, 2016 • 12:08 pm 3
Happy 101st, Randolph Hokanson!
Randolph Hokanson with pianist Judith Cohen – a day before he turned 100 (photo by Thomas May)
This is a belated birthday salute, as Mr. Randolph Hokanson's actual birthday happened on 22 June. He's now into his second century. Today I'll be attending a recital by Mr. Hokanson. In honor of the occasion, here's a profile I wrote a couple of years ago about this remarkable pianist (also at work as a composer these days):
"I've seen it all!" announces Randolph Hokanson before losing himself in a mischievous gale of laughter. With someone else, you might be tempted to indulge that as hyperbole. With Hokanson, who was born in 1915 in Bellingham, it's tempting to take it literally.
This gifted pianist and teacher has witnessed almost a century of not just ceaseless but accelerating change: epochal shifts in technology, in education, in how music and the arts are valued.
Filed under: anniversary, pianists
February 21, 2016 • 10:12 am Comments Off on An Auden Birthday
An Auden Birthday
Today marks the 109th anniversary of Wystan Hugh's birth. I managed to find a link to an early poem Auden wrote for his friend Christopher Isherwood's birthday here [pdf, p. 7]:
TO A WRITER ON HIS BIRTHDAY
August for the people and their favourite islands. Daily the steamers sidle up to meet The effusive welcome of the pier…
And here's an interview Aidan Wasley (author of THE AGE OF AUDEN: Postwar Poetry and the American Scene) conducted with John Ashbery:
John Ashbery: I first met [Auden] when he gave a reading at Harvard, I think in the spring of '47, perhaps … He said he preferred America, though he preferred the English countryside because it was much tidier looking… I was always a bit intimidated by him, as I think many people were.
Filed under: anniversary, Auden, poetry
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Ken Burns Says U.S. Has 3 Viruses: COVID-19, White Supremacy And Misinformation
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Gov. Pritzker raises death benefits for families of fallen first responders
by: Kevin Schwaller
CHICAGO — Gov. J.B. Pritzker has signed legislation that doubles the death benefits for families of fallen law enforcement officers and firefighters, a day after Fulton County Sheriff's Deputy Troy Chisum was killed in the line of duty.
The governor signed HB2028 on Wednesday. The previous law, set in 1999, capped state reimbursements for burial costs at $10,000, but the new law raises that cap to $20,000, effective for deaths from June 30, 2018, onward.
"While no amount of money can ease the terrible grief of families who have lost their loved ones because they were killed in the line of duty, I hope we can at least lessen the financial burden of an immeasurable loss of our state's finest," said Pritzker. "My heart breaks for the families, friends and fellow first responders every time a brave soul leaves us in the noblest of ways. A grateful state will always honor your legacies."
Shots were reported shortly before 2 p.m. in rural Avon on Tuesday. Illinois State Police and Fulton County Sheriff's Office deputies were on the scene. Earlier in the day, ISP said the suspect involved was barricaded in a home in rural Avon.
The suspect was identified as 42-year-old Nathan Woodring of Avon. He was transported to McDonough County Jail.


Here come the holidays- a time for light, love and perspective, often fraught with stress and misgivings. How do we hold onto compassion, care and forgiveness in our hearts? What helps us bypass any regressions or transgressions. We all need a tool to shut out the noise and step over any garbage. Try Mindfulness.
Mindfulness is about the awareness you bring to everyday living. Rather than letting your mind control you, you can practice managing your mind for greater presence, focus and peace. Mindfulness means to direct your attention to only one thing in the present moment.
When you practice mindfulness meditations, you will get remarkably better about being responsive rather than reactive in your daily living. You will be able to assert yourself appropriately where needed but with greater pause and perspective.
Most important, mindfulness is the way to acceptance and wisdom over judgment and fear. We are all at risk for feeling separate, distorting reality and misinterpreting situations in a manner that sabotages our positive intention.
Make it your intention to spend 20 minutes a day in a quiet place, just breathing slowly, through the nose and out the nose. Just let the breathing "breathe" you and cradle you, rock you and remind you of the calmness you crave.
As you adjust to getting yourself quiet, it will become easier. Think about how challenging it is to learn any new skill until it becomes second nature. Try to hang in there and trust the health benefits, such as lowering your heart rate, building a better immune system and restoring the parasympathetic nervous system for healing.
Just breathe and let go. Breathe all the stress out and let restorative breath back in. Let go of the negative and hold onto all the positive blessings in your life. Focus on those who love you and with whom you feel acceptance, care and compassion.
Try Mindfulness. Bring yourself back into the present when you notice your mind in bad habits of rumination, worry and regret. As you become a more compassionate, calm and caring person, your experience of daily living will change substantially. You will better attract to those who are also compassionate and caring. And, you may cultivate more JOY this holiday season.
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Bucchero cup on high foot decorated with heads and studs. The production of bucchero is a typical Etruscan shiny black pottery. It began as imitation of bronze with embossed decoration. The shops that produced bucchero among the last decades of the seventh and sixth BC were scattered throughout Etruria: Vulci, Tarquinia, Cerveteri, Chiusi, Orvieto, Roselle and Vetulonia.


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Vaxxed The Movie – Censorship
CENSORSHIP AND VAXXED THE MOVIE
People are flipping out over "Vaxxed."
This new film reveals fraud in the vaccine industry, courtesy of a CDC whistleblower.
I haven't seen it. But, I know the plot.
I've gotten a thousand emails about it.
The film was banned by the Tribeca Film Festival. Under pressure from the media (which is owned by Big Pharma), Tribeca's co-founder, Robert De Niro, caved in and decided to pull the film from the festival.
Interestingly, Tribeca's other co-founder is real estate investor Craig Hatkoff — the brother-in-law of billionaire equity moghul Alan Patricof. Patricof is the founder of Apax Partners, one the world's largest private equity firms that invests heavily in pharmaceutical and biotech corporations! Patricof's son, Jonathan, happens to be the President of Tribeca Enterprises, which owns the Tribeca Film Festival!
Vaccine fanatic Bill Gates is also a sponsor of the festival, too.
See what I mean when I say Big Pharma OWNS the media?
I love how these organizations are called "sponsors." Where I grew up, this was called a fucking bribe. In science, it's known as a gross conflict of interest. And in real life, it's just wrong.
Like amoebic slime making its way up the evolutionary chain, the vaccine drug companies are all over the censorship of Vaxxed.
The media is under their control, too. The preppy talk show hosts don't know anything other than what is spoon fed to their their mushy brains…
Reporters were told to criticize "Vaxxed" EVEN BEFORE THE FILM WAS RELEASED. And they did it.
How can someone be so complacent in life to comment on a film they even haven't watched?
It's just like dumbasses leaving negative reviews on Amazon for a book they haven't even read.
Meanwhile, moms suffering day and night with kids damaged by vaccines are fuming over the "outrage" of censorship.
Rightly so. They need a voice.
Ironically, the censorship is actually giving them a much bigger platform to cry out for help from!
Nobody would give two shits about the film, if it was not banned from Tribeca. But, since Pharma and the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) know they're about to be exposed…they're working hard to censor the film (and the science) by getting journalists to criticize it before it's even been released.
Keep fighting moms!
The plot clearly has merit and they clearly don't want you to see it! The science is too sound! Its too perfect. It's too damning!
In contrast, if this movie had the conspiracy nut Alex Jones and his obese-induced, raspy voice hooting and hollering about vaccine science, it would be screened coast-to-coast. The powers that be love to make anti-vaxxers look nuts by choosing nutty, whack job opinion leaders who eat too fucking much…
In sum, never fear censorship. It bolsters the truth.
And if you ever forget this, just read the interviews I've done with experts in the field who are very much are aware of the widespread, vaccine fraud and other prescription drugs:
"If I could do it all over again, I would have NEVER vaccinated my own children," says a professional nurse that I interviewed.
"The court system has made it very expensive for claims to be made against pharmaceutical companies for injuries," said an attorney I interviewed, who explained how the U.S. court system is designed to PROTECT Big Pharma from all liability. (Gee, I wonder why?)
Hell, I even interviewed Dr. Leemon McHenry, a prominent Ph.D and professor of 30 years who has closely investigated medical ethics and ghostwriting. He exposed the fraud in medical journals — and how Big Pharma manipulates scientific journals on a daily basis!
Sadly, the people who made Vaxxed are now positioning it as "pro-vaccine" just to brand their way into the mainstream… "We just want safe vaccines"…blah blah blah.
Yeah, like I just want safe poisons for morons who speak more than they think.
Where' s the film that comes right out and says, "Yea, I'm fucking anti-vaccine and here's why: Vaccines are killing kids."
Stop and think.
You were given an immune system for a reason. You don't need multiple shots full of toxic sludge to be "healthy." You just need to ramp up your immune system's natural ability to fight illness and disease on its own.
…The morons are spouting that, "babies under 2 have weakened immunity." Bullshit. That's the vaccine sales ploy.
If everyone simply gave their immune system the nutrients it needed (as provided by Mother Nature) to be STRONG and healthy, then nobody would fucking need any drugs, outside of an emergency situation.
There's no excuse for being stupid. The truth is out there, if you search for it. And when it gets censored, it gets the spotlight. Go watch Vaxxed.
Dare to live young,
The People's Chemist
P.S. By banning the film "Vaxxed," the media gave it even more publicity. Good. This just proves that real vaccine science is winning the "info war" on vaccines. It shows how THREATENED Big Pharma is by this film. Make sure you see it, and tell your friends!
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New El Paso Downtown Branch and Public Art Exhibit Celebrated
In recognition of our move to the renovated second floor branch of 201 E. Main, Sunflower Bank announced a new partnership with El Paso Children's Hospital (EPCH) with a ribbon-cutting and unveiling of a public art exhibition for the Child Life's Therapeutic Arts Program on November 20.
The event was held live on Zoom and hosted by Estela Casas, Executive Director, El Paso Children's Hospital Foundation. Estela and Ernesto Avila, regional president for Sunflower Bank, were at the location. Remote participants included Mollie Carter, Sunflower Bank Chairman; Cindy Stout, EPCH CEO; and some of the pediatric patients whose work is on display. More than 70 people attended online.
Sunflower Bank has made a $25,000 donation to Child Life and its Therapeutic Arts Program that supports the emotional well-being of pediatric patients and their families through art instruction. An exhibit of children's art created in the program will be on display to the public during branch hours through 2022.
Sunflower Bank, with three branches in El Paso, is now the anchor tenant in the iconic downtown landmark known as ONE San Jacinto. Our full-service downtown location contains a retail branch offering personal banking and Guardian Mortgage services. The El Paso commercial team, led by regional president Ernesto Avila, is also located on-site and includes business banking, international banking, treasury management and credit specialists, in addition to the commercial relationship team. The location is open from 8 a.m. – 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.
"It is very exciting to share our incredible new space on the second floor of 201 E. Main with El Paso," said Mollie Carter, Sunflower Bank Chairman. "At Sunflower Bank, our mission is 'Bringing out the best in the lives we touch . . . Creating Possibility.' This means not just providing the financial services our community needs but also supporting the invaluable services of local institutions like El Paso Children's Hospital."
"As a dedicated children's hospital, one of the most key and unique programs is our Child Life Department. I see every day how our child life specialists work to create an environment of hope and healing for not just our patients but their families as well. During this time, in particular, their efforts have often been heroic as they continue to engage and help children as they go through their hospital journey," says Cindy Stout, CEO, El Paso Children's Hospital. "Child life specialists are experts in child development, who promote effective coping through play, preparation, education, and self-expression activities. Thank you, Sunflower Bank, for your support of our important program."
"The El Paso Children's Hospital Foundation is grateful to Sunflower Bank's donation to help support our Therapeutic Arts program. We are thrilled that everyone who walks into the bank will see how young patients dealing with an illness can heal more quickly when they are able to share their feelings on a canvas and create something beautiful!" adds Estela Casas, Executive Director, El Paso Children's Hospital Foundation.
EPCH Contact: Estela Casas, 915.487.7987, E[email protected]
Sunflower Bank Contact: Jeanne Lipson, 915.881.6785, J[email protected]
About EPCH: El Paso Children's Hospital is the only separately licensed, Joint Commission certified, pediatric hospital in El Paso solely dedicated to pediatric care.
About EPCHF: El Paso Children's Hospital Foundation (EPCHF) is the designated 501(c) (3) charitable organization for El Paso Children's Hospital (EPCH) and Children's Miracle Network (CMN).


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import com.intellij.psi.*;
import com.intellij.psi.util.TypeConversionUtil;
import com.siyeh.ig.psiutils.ParenthesesUtils;
import org.jetbrains.annotations.NotNull;

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Providing collaborative and empathetic psychotherapeutic treatment, with a focus on helping creative adults as well as new mothers and fathers.
Many adults struggle with major life transitions and benefit from the support of a therapist to overcome any roadblocks that impede their growth and fulfillment. I provide sensitive, non-judgmental treatment and will support and challenge you to achieve your goals and dreams.
I have specialized training and board-certification in art therapy, which is an extraordinarily healing process that uses images to express thoughts and feelings that are hard to put in words. I additionally have extensive experience working with new parents, teaching Parent & Me classes and leading groups for new mothers. As a therapist, I am collaborative, empathetic, honest, practical, and real.
In therapy, I focus on creating a safe and trusting relationship as a base from which we will explore your needs, fears, and desires. My approach incorporates elements of psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral, and post-modern theories. I will help you to identify tools and techniques to develop your inner strengths and resources.
"A picture is worth a thousand words." Art therapy invites you to express experiences and feelings through visual, tangible images. No artistic skill is needed. Art therapy is widely used in schools, hospitals, and private practices, and its effectiveness has been demonstrated through research and clinical experience.
I have extensive experience supporting mothers and fathers of babies and young children. I provide treatment for post-partum depression and anxiety, relationship challenges after baby, and development of a new parent identity, with awareness and education about baby development. I facilitate Parent & Me groups through the Pump Station & Nurtury.


Mobile patrol units offer high visibility and presence to business as an added means of deterring social crimes, burglary and even arson. A mobile unit is not just a drive by unit; these security officers perform special functions such as locking and unlocking doors, physical inspection and monitoring. They are designed to be a tool of prevention that can also be used as a force to stop or prevent property crimes.
The mobile unit offers a cost-savings to businesses who need periodic, scheduled, or random security presence. Each patrol unit is equipped with security grade technology such as GPS and satellite reporting. These units are effective against graffiti, vandalism, drug dealing, burglary, and as a means of improving safety to the building.
Sacramento Elite Patrol provides quality mobile patrol service in Sacramento, West Sacramento, Fairfield, Citrus Heights, Rancho Cordova, Roseville, Suisun City, Vacaville and Woodland.


Kickstarter project showcases the men of cosplay.
Let's face it. Guy cosplayers don't get a lot of respect. Even Syfy's Heroes of Cosplay only features one guy, and it almost seems like he's just there as a token. Fortunately, someone has decided to create a project on Kickstarter for a 2014 calendar that focuses on nothing but men in costume. And with 28 days to go, it's already over 60% funded.
The calendar features some absolutely gorgeous photography and some of the best cosplayers on the planet. I actually did a piece on the now-defunct Rant Gaming website that featured one of them: Kevin Bley – who does an amazing Alistair from Dragon Age: Origins (that's him in the above photo). The rest of these guys are equally as good.
So what can you do? Show your support. At just $15, you can get a copy of the calendar to hang on your office or bedroom wall. See how easy that is? Visit the calendar's Kickstarter page here.


On a scorching hot day in July, far above a busy Tribeca street, Design Wild installed one of our favorite residential gardens of the summer. This multi-terrace garden brings three uniquely tailored green spaces to our clients' newly renovated home. First, a dynamic and overflowing kitchen terrace garden sparkles with everything from herb-filled window boxes, to a flowering understory and large shrubs. The second terrace is a sensory-filled, planted border to compliment a child's play space. The third garden is a bedroom terrace where a subtle plant palette creates a calming atmosphere. Check out before and after photos of this transformation on our website.


Mr Kevin Koay Jun Yi, who became involved in the project after joining the Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics in Taiwan at the end of 2016 as a post-doctoral fellow, said he was among a group of about 20 people to see the images first.
In one of the most momentous breakthroughs in astronomy history, scientists revealed that they had captured the first-ever image of a black hole.
The image, which resembles a fiery ring of swirling gases, was captured using the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) - a planet-scale array of eight ground-based radio telescopes forged through international collaboration and designed to capture images of a black hole.
One of the scientists behind this ground-breaking achievement was Malaysian Kevin Koay Jun Yi, who became involved in the project after joining the Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics in Taiwan at the end of 2016 as a post-doctoral fellow.
"I was invited to join the Greenland telescope and EHT group because of my background and previous experience in radio astronomy. Of course, this project was too exciting for me to turn down," he said in an e-mail interview.
According to him, the collaboration consisted of some 200 members internationally, and he was among a group of about 20 people who saw the images first.
"I was part of the observing team at the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, on April 2017, when these observations were carried out," said the 37-year-old from Penang.
"I am also a part of the data processing and imaging teams, so was heavily involved in processing/ validating/checking the data and turning them into the images."
Announced on Wednesday in a series of six papers published in a special issue of The Astrophysical Journal Letters, the image reveals the black hole at the centre of Messier 87, a massive galaxy in the nearby Virgo galaxy cluster.
"We have taken the first picture of a black hole," EHT project director Sheperd Doeleman of Harvard and Smithsonian's Centre for Astrophysics said in a media statement. "This is an extraordinary scientific feat accomplished by a team of more than 200 researchers."
Creating the EHT was a formidable challenge that required upgrading and connecting a worldwide network of eight pre-existing telescopes deployed at a variety of challenging high-altitude sites, including volcanoes in Hawaii and Mexico, mountains in Arizona and the Spanish Sierra Nevada, the Chilean Atacama Desert, as well as Antarctica.
An Associated Press report said the project cost US$50 million (S$68 million) to US$60 million.
Mr Koay is now actively involved in the commissioning and observing activities at a newly constructed telescope in the Arctic which joined the EHT global array of telescopes early last year.
He reckons that the black hole image is merely the first step in heralding a new era in black hole studies.
"There is much more to learn and much to improve, like the inclusion of new telescopes to achieve better image quality," he said.