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Reading & Writing: Chiaroscuro
Posted by historythruthelookingglass January 31, 2016
Hi! It's still January, or so last week's blizzard tells me – the month named for Janus, the Roman/Thessalonian deity of endings and beginnings, entrances and exits – lists of "have dones" and "to dos" jumbling in a cacophony of lists. I love that those sturdy Romans, often immune to the nuance that painted Greeks, reflect the ever-present dualism humanity embraces. From either-or and neither-nor, we like our world divided into chocolate and vanilla, good and bad, right or wrong.
However, I tend to prefer the complexity of the Greeks – embracing the shadows and sparkles that dapple black and white with ambiguity and magic. There's actually a word for those departures from a newsprint world – chiaroscuro.
Chiaroscuro is one of those words, like onomatopoeia that delights both the ear and the brain. While the grass green boingy-boing of onomatopoeia explains itself rather obviously – the changing sky of chiaroscuro is a bit subtler. A book, title & author long forgotten, once described it as light kissing darkness, or darkness punctuating light. Isn't that glorious? Often, people assume it's the balance of black & white like the yin-yang of Eastern philosophy.
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It's more subtle than that – think of the Dutch masters and da Vinci – how light and shadow infuse their paintings with life, animating pigments and strokes into something that breathes and feels so natural you want them to speak and tell their story. Consider Tracy Chevalier's novel centering on Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring. She found the woman with her shadowed cheek and sunlit lips so intriguing that she created a tale that brought the complexity to the page. I love that – I used to look for the stories in the pictures I would find in the pages of the books I loved. One of my favorites was the angel, Uriel in Da Vinci's Madonna of the Rocks (the London one, it's weird, there are 2). An angel, who's very name, means light, just look at the interplay of sun and shadow – and tell me there isn't a story lurking behind those hooded eyes and shadowed wings.
Not confined to art, light and shadows collide in literature and life as well. Think of the tragic, yet noble Sydney Carton in Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities, his "far better thing" illuminates him and draws him from the shadows and self-pity that had marked his existence for much of the book.
And likewise, IRL (in real life for non-tweeters), in the midst of the amazing joy and triumph, one often looks for the shadow, the cloud, and the other shoe…. Inversely, as the shadows gather and the 3ams begin to encroach, there is a small bright light that obliterates enough of the gloom to carry on until the morning. In some ways, it's a bit of a rejection of the whole "half full/half empty" philosophy. Living, with all its messy tangledness, can never be an either-or proposition. Light shades into dark, and dark edges the light – with all the awful and wonderful and downright wacky painting a nuanced world where we smile as the sunlight strokes us and wrap ourselves in the nights' shadows painted pink and purple in the sky.
So, maybe January is the time to pull out the finished paintings of past years, and look to the pigments on this year's palette – and see where light can kiss the darkness and a bit of shading can punctuate the light.
light & shadow:
Me & my Shadow (Robbie Williams & Jonathan Wilkes) — The light patter and delighted pleasure in this duet reminds me of the Robert Louis Stevenson's My Shadow poem, found in most children's anthologies, you know the one that begins:"I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me"
Light (Wendy & Lisa) –a duo that formed from the ashes of Prince & the Revolution, they are now most known for their work composing music for television shows like Nurse Jackie & Dangerous Minds. Their early albums are quite lyrical, and have a few wicked hooks — this is a little jewel of a song
Dark Eyes (Iron & Wine with Calexico) — Sam Beam and Calexico covering Dylan — couldn't be more intriguing.
Shadows in the Rain (Sting) — originally a Police song, it becomes transformed on the "Dream of the Blue Turtles" album — in a loose, Brandford Marsalis "wait, wait, what key's this in?" kind of way
Dark Star (Grateful Dead) — one of those incredible Dead songs that if you were lucky enough to hear it at a show, you wouldn't forget. The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame actually lists it as one of the 500 most transformative songs (though I have my concerns about their reliability) —
Shadows of the Night (Pat Benatar) –this song — back in the "olden" days people sat around and watched MTV videos the way kids binge watch Netflix or SnapChat their entire day — the mini-movies told a story, quite often bizarrely irrelevant to the song — but beautifully constructed and filmed
Harbor Lights (Bruce Hornsby) — one of my favorite songs, shadowed by ghost stories fingering its edges.
Deep Dark Truthful Mirror (Elvis Costello) — I'm generally assuming everyone has, or will, go through an Elvis Costello phase — and I have to say with lyrics like, "A butterfly drinks a turtle's tears, but how do you know he really needs it? 'Cos a butterfly feeds on a dead monkey's hand" — how could you not?
I'm Beginning to see the Light (Kelly Rowland) –so one of the not Beyoncé's of Destiny's child is the fantastic Kelly Rowland. Her treatment of this standard is one of my favorite covers ever recorded. It doesn't hut that every time I hear it I recall an evening of dancing to this laughing in the rain with my girls
Moving in the Dark (Neon Trees) — while some says this song is quite a lot like Lady Gaga — seeing them live however infuses their music with an authenticity that transcends pop
Lights (Ellie Goulding) — though she dismisses some of her early work as naive, "Lights" was a huge hit — Voices I play within my head/Touch my own skin and hope that I'm still breathing,' and the lights that are home
Tangled & Dark (Bonnie Raitt) — can you believe she's 66?! Incredible performer, and preserver of American roots music — she's been transforming music forever. This number has an easy blues feel and a driving rhythm that asks you to come out and play
In the Dark (Norah Jones) — at one point, everyone had her album — and it was ubiquitous anywhere you went — one of her songs would be playing — this one, just a little smoky, a little kissy — was always a favorite
It's Good to be Alive (Imelda May) — as Monty Python would say, and now for something completely different….. I love this Irish performer — her songs are incredible and so well-constructed. I love this line, "But then standing at my window when/The night seems like it's won/And everything seems brighter/With the sign of the sun"
This Little Light (Neko Case) — This rollicking version of an old classic is quite perfect — I think if we'd done it this way in Vacation Bible School — the macaroni art and Kool-Aid would not have mattered 🙂
Shed A Little Light (James Taylor ) — James Taylor is fantastic at recycling — making music that echoes stuff he's done for 30 years. Sometimes, however, he transcends — and for me, this song does. On one of his "greatest hits" albums, there's a mashup of this & "shower the people" — which I really want played at my funeral….
Crash (You Me at Six) — sort of an English Blink-182, this is one of those "outlier" songs that doesn't quite fit the theme — but it was playing as I was putting together the list, and it had a dark lightness about it that resonated
Anna Sun (Walk the Moon) — getting in my Police where I can — the band's name is from the song, "Walking on the Moon" — and despite the fact that Spin dubbed them a "poppy, art-rock quartet," their songs are just eminently listenable…. Anna Sun just sneaks up on you
The Theory of Relativity (Deborah Holland) — great smoky voice — I first became aware of her when she was in a trio with the incomparable Stanley Jordan, and Stewart Copeland from the Police (Animal Logic). — the song is a lovely paean to chiaroscuro as she looks at her life on a sliding scale
Blues in the Night (Dr. John) — it's so sexist — so, so sexiest and yet I have like 5 versions…. as much as it sounds like something that could have wandered in from the streets of New Orleans, it was composed for a Hollywood film in 1941. It's considered a part of the "great American songbook" and a single listen will make you smile for three hours.
How High the Moon (Jeff Beck with Imelda May) — another one of those classic American songs, this one a Les Paul/Mary Ford classic — naturally, there are many versions. Jeff Beck, guitarist extraordinaire has a fantastic cover — and the vocalist is the aforementioned Imelda May (this song was the 1st time I heard her)
Touch of Grey (Grateful Dead) — Surprisingly, the first Dead song to crack Billboard's top 10 — it's I will get by ethos, and the line about "every silver lining has a touch of grey," makes it so cleverly optimistic — and there is an amazing hook
"Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark." –> Kate DiCamillo
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Norman N. Holland
Norman N. Holland (September 19, 1927, New York City - September 28, 2017) was an American literary critic and Marston-Milbauer Eminent Scholar Emeritus at the University of Florida.[1]
Holland's scholarship focused largely on psychoanalytic criticism and cognitive poetics, subjects on which he wrote fifteen books and nearly 250 scholarly articles.[2] He is widely recognized for his scholarship specifically related to psychoanalytic applications in literary study. He was known as a major scholar of literary theory, primarily for having been one of the pioneers of reader-response criticism.[3] Holland's writings have been translated into Chinese, Dutch, Persian, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Hungarian, Polish, Russian, Spanish, and Turkish.[4]
1 Academic positions and professional history
2 New Criticism
3 Psychoanalytic criticism
4 Reader-response theory
5 The Delphi Seminar
6 Literature and cognitive science
7 Television appearances
8 Recent work and ongoing projects
Academic positions and professional history[edit]
Holland received a B.S. in electrical engineering in 1947 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a J.D. in 1950 from Harvard Law School. As his interests shifted from patent law to literature he was accepted as a doctoral student at Harvard University, where he received his Ph.D. in English Literature in 1956. He then accepted an appointment in MIT's School of Humanities, where he taught until 1966, becoming head of the literature section. Holland also trained at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, graduating in 1966. In the same year he accepted a position as chair of the Department of English at the State University of New York at Buffalo, where he became McNulty Professor. In 1983, he was named a Marston-Milbauer Eminent Scholar by the University of Florida,[5] where he taught until his retirement in 2008.
Holland received an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship in 1974-75 and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1979-80.
Holland served on several committees of the Modern Language Association (MLA) and was a member and nominating committee chair of the English Institute. He was also a member of the following organizations: the Association Internationale d'Esthétique Experimentale, the Shakespeare Association of America, the International Association of University Professors of English (IAUPE), the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (editor and council member, 1963), the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute (affiliate member, 1965- ), and the Western New York Psychoanalytic Society (1969-1983). He was also a founder and steering committee member of the Buffalo, Gainesville, and Boston branches of the Group for Applied Psychoanalysis.
Since 1976, Holland served as a scientific associate at the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry and since 1981 had been on the advisory board of the D. W. Winnicott Library. He participated in the Personal Testimony Group of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) and in the Tampa Psychoanalytic Study Group since 1985.
In 1993, Holland founded the PSYART online discussion group and was its active moderator. He was also the founder and former editor of PsyArt: A Hyperlink Journal for the Psychology of the Arts, which has been in publication since 1997. The PSYART activities was recently consolidated into the PSYART Foundation thanks to a generous grant from Holland and his late wife. He also served on the editorial boards of the Psychoanalytic Review and the peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary journal, Projections: The Journal for Movies and Mind.
Besides being the Marston-Milbauer Eminent Scholar at the University of Florida,[6] Holland also held more than a dozen membership roles, board positions and teaching appointments. Some such major appointments and memberships include: Member of the McKnight Brain Institute, visiting professorships at Stanford University, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and University of Paris VII (Charles V) and University of Paris VIII (Vincennes - Saint-Denis), and the director of the Center for the Psychological Study of the Arts at SUNY Buffalo.[7]
New Criticism[edit]
The First Modern Comedies (1959), the first of Holland's major publications, is a New Critical study of the three major writers of Restoration comedy.[8] This publication was followed by The Shakespearean Imagination (1964),[9] a guide to reading Shakespeare's works and Holland's New Critical analyses of thirteen major plays of Shakespeare. The book derived from a Shakespeare program on WGBH_TV that Holland gave as part of the extension program at Harvard.
Psychoanalytic criticism[edit]
Holland's publications on psychoanalytic criticism include Psychoanalysis and Shakespeare (1966),[10] which summarizes what psychoanalysis had had to say about Shakespeare up to that time and proposes that the roles of readers and audiences are more important to literary criticism than previously understood. The themes introduced in Psychoanalysis and Shakespeare led to his 1968 book, The Dynamics of Literary Response,[11] which provides a model of literary response in which the reader introjects a process of psychological transformation (from unconscious fantasy toward conscious significance) that is embodied in the literary work.
Other texts edited or written by Holland on the subject of psychoanalytic criticism include: Shakespeare's Personality (1989; with Bernard J. Paris and Sidney Homan)[12] and Holland's Guide to Psychoanalytic Psychology and Literature-and-Psychology (1990).[13]
Reader-response theory[edit]
Poems in Persons: An Introduction to the Psychoanalysis of Literature (1973; rev. ed. 2000)[14] proposes a very different model of literary processing based on a psychoanalytic theory of identity. The central argument of the text is that writers create texts as expressions of their personal identities and readers re-create their own identities when they respond. These identities can be understood as a central theme or themes and behavioral variations on them, much like a theme-and-variations in music.
5 Readers Reading (1975)[15] pursues this conclusion based on case studies of five university students who gave free association responses (according to psychoanalytic technique) to three short stories. They showed that their literary experiences were shaped by readers' identities, and not by the texts they read.
Laughing: A Psychology of Humor (1982)[16] surveyed theories of laughter. But the book extended the reader-response argument to show, based on a case study of one woman, how what one finds funny, that is, one's sense of humor, expresses one's personal identity.
The Delphi Seminar[edit]
During the 1970s, Holland and his colleague at the State University of New York at Buffalo, Murray Schwartz, developed a style of reader-response teaching that they named the "Delphi Seminar."[17] The original seminar included students and instructors practicing free association responses to poems and stories and subsequent readings of other participants' free associations as primary texts.
In 1995, Holland published a mystery novel based on the Delphi seminars entitled Death in a Delphi Seminar: A Postmodern Mystery.[18] The story takes place in an English department, and the reader is led through the text using reader-response theory to understand the characters and the crime.
Know Thyself: Delphi Seminars (2009)[19] by Holland and Schwartz provides an overview of the Delphi Seminar teaching style and lays out the seminar's findings.
Literature and cognitive science[edit]
The I (1985)[20] extends the holistic method employed by Holland in his previously published case studies of readers. In the text, Holland proposes general processes of perception and symbolization that are applicable throughout life. The text elaborates a "model of mind" based on psychological concepts of feedback, and illustrates how individuals both use, and are constrained by, their bodies, their culture, and their "interpretive communities" as well as their personalities or identities. Using conclusions set forth by psychoanalytic theory, The I combines Holland's theory of the role of identity in people's perceptions and behavior, and the psychoanalytic stages of childhood and adult development.
In The Brain of Robert Frost: A Cognitive Approach to Literature (1988),[21] Holland draws on neurological evidence of a "growing and ungrowing" of the brain in mammalian development to show how an identity theme might come into being in the body. Additionally, this text develops a three-tier feedback model of the mind, which illustrates that the brain deals with its world by hypothesizing through physiology, through fixed codes and flexible canons derived from culture, and through personal identity.
The Critical I (1992)[22] further develops the model set forth in The Brain of Robert Frost and includes a critical attack on the postmodern idea of the disappearance of the self.
Television appearances[edit]
Holland was The Film Critic weekly from 1957 to 1959 on WGBH-TV in Boston,and he presented for Harvard's Lowell Institute a weekly 30-minute program, The Shakespearean Imagination in 1963 also on WGHB-TV.
Recent work and ongoing projects[edit]
Holland's more recent work consisted of understanding literary processes through neuropsychology and the developing field of neuro-psychoanalysis. Literature and the Brain (2009)[23] is partly based on a seminar Holland created and taught in 2004 and later years entitled "The Brain and the Book". Literature and the Brain explores the human experience of literature, explicating the processes by which the brain experiences the "willing suspension of disbelief," emotional response to characters, plot, form, and literary language, culminating in, perhaps, pleasure and evaluation. The book addresses the reading or viewing of poems, stories, plays, and films and the evolutionary basis for literature. Holland's Meeting Movies (2006)[24] extends reader-response criticism to eight classic films. His most recent project, A Sharper Focus, is an online film resource featuring a collection of essays meant to inform and enhance the viewer experience of classic movies.
Holland was born in New York City to Norman N. Holland, a patent lawyer, and Harriette Holland, also a lawyer. In 1954 he married Jane Kelley (deceased 2015). At the end of his life he resided in Gainesville, Florida. He is survived by two children and four grandchildren.
^ "UF scholar, literary critic Norman Holland dies at 90". The Gainesville Sun. Retrieved 21 February 2018.
^ A partial bibliography of Norman Holland's publications can be found here: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/nholland/bibliog.htm
^ See Tompkins, Jane P. (ed.) (1980). Reader-response Criticism: From Formalism to Post-structuralism. Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 0-8018-2401-X. Tompkins' is one of several important texts that deal with the history of reader-response and Norman Holland's role in its development.
^ Holland's translated works include Xiao. Trans. Pan Guoqing. Shanghai: Shanghai People's Publishing House, 1991 (translated into Chinese from Laughing: A Psychology of Humor, originally published in 1982) and La dinamica della risposta letteraria. Trans. Fernando Villa. Rev. Gabriella Fenocchia. Bologna: Il Mulino, 1986. Introduzione all'edizione italiana di Vanna Gentili (translated into Italian from The Dynamics of Literary Response, originally published in 1989. For further translations of Holland's texts, see his bibliography
^ http://www.uff.ufl.edu/FacultyEndowments/ProfessorshipInfo.asp?ProfessorshipFund=002339
^ The following is a partial list of Holland's memberships and appointments: Member, McKnight Brain Institute, University of Florida (2003-present); Marston-Milbauer Eminent Scholar, University of Florida (1983-2008); Visiting Professor, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (1994); Visiting Professor, University of Paris VII (Charles V) (1985); Director, Institute for Psychological Study of the Arts, University of Florida (1984-1985); James H. McNulty Professor of English, State University of New York at Buffalo (1980-1983); Director, Center for the Psychological Study of the Arts, State University of New York at Buffalo (1970-1979); Visiting Professor, University of Paris VIII (Vincennes) (1971-1972); Professor of English, State University of New York at Buffalo,Chair of the Department (1966-1968); Visiting Professor of Drama, Stanford University (Summer 1965); Associate Professor of English, M.I.T. (1962-1966); Faculty Resident, Baker House, M.I.T. (1956-1960); Assistant Professor of English, M.I.T. (1956-1962); Instructor, M.I.T. (1955-1956); Teaching Fellow and Resident Tutor, Harvard University (1953-1955)
^ Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1959.
^ New York: Macmillan, 1964.
^ New York: McGraw-Hill, 1966.
^ New York: Oxford University Press, 1968.
^ Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989.
^ New York: Norton, 1973. Cybereditions, 2000. www.cybereditions.com
^ New Haven: Yale University Press, 1975. The book was reissued under the same title by Transaction in 2011.
^ Ithaca NY: Cornell University Press, 1982
^ Holland, Norman N. and Murray Schwartz. "The Delphi Seminar." College English 36.7 (Mar., 1975): 789-800.
^ Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1995.
^ Gainesville, FL: PsyArt Foundation, 2008.
^ New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985. Reissued by Transaction, 2011
^ New York: Routledge, 1988.
^ New York: Columbia University Press, 1992.
^ Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2006.
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Cannabis Brand BLK MKT Sparks Controversy Due To Racist Marketing
BLK MKT, a Canadian adult-use recreational cannabis brand owned by LP GTEC Holdings, got plenty of attention recently. Their booth in the Vancouver Lift & Co. trade show in mid-January displayed the slogan, "Once You Go BLK . . . " Needless to say, that tagline has generated some serious controversy.
While it might be said that any attention (at least for a fledgling brand) is good attention, this marketing move might buck that assumption. Twitter was busy with people weighing in on the situation. Critics say the slogan only serves to shine a spotlight on the lack of diversity in the marijuana industry. The company says the brand and slogan were considered relevant, exciting and edgy. It staunchly defended its decision, noting it was vetted by employees, friends, family and industry experts.
Name game
The BLK MKT name could be short for what the illicit side of the marijuana industry was (and is) still commonly called: the black market. LP GTECH Holdings' corporate statement referred to the 'legacy cannabis market' as it relates to Canada's legal medicinal cannabis or Access to Cannabis for Medical Purposes Regulations (ACMPR).
Others say that the tagline is known as a reference to black male sexual stereotypes, as in, "Once you go black, you never go back."
I don't like the term 'black market' simply because I'm tired of 'black' being associated with everything negative. It may be difficult to understand if you have not experienced this stigma personally. I prefer 'legacy' or 'self-regulated' as this is where I come from.
— Miz D (@Dvibz) May 2, 2019
The company issued a highly criticized press release on January 15 that read, "The BLK MKT ™ brand is a reference to the legacy markets. We do have some cultivation personnel that has experience from the legacy ACMPR era, and we believe that cultivation is a core competency for the company that provides us with a sustainable competitive advantage."
Unconscious Bias?
Several outspoken critics have had issues with the term black market as it relates to cannabis, even before this marketing fiasco. In April 2018, Senator Wanda Thomas Bernard addressed the Standing Senate Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology. She said, "I believe that term sends a subliminal message which may contribute to unconscious bias in the criminalization of cannabis."
In the company's corporate statement, LP GTECH Holdings defended itself. The company said that the marketing tagline intended that once consumers tried the BLK MKT products, they wouldn't want to consume any other brands. They said, "while it should be obvious, we would highlight that this brand has absolutely nothing to do with race."
The company also disagreed with critics who have characterized the company as 'nothing but white men'. The statement included information on the company's ethnic and gender diversity: "Our CEO is Chinese, our CFO is Female, and our Head of Marketing is of East African descent. We also have people of colour working throughout our cultivation facilities, in both entry-level and management positions. Moreover, approximately half of our total employees are female."
In the end, LP GTEC has decided to remove the marketing slogan from the BLK MKT line of products. While this might just be a temporary glitch or lapse of judgement, the company will have to tread carefully in the future to ensure consumer confidence and brand loyalty.
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Volume of sewage surpasses world's rivers
by Geoff Ebbs
30 August, 2016 Water0
San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo and officials drink purified wastewater April 27, 2015
Humanity now produces two million tonnes of sewage every day, more than our own body weight, Canadian environmentalist, Maude Barlow, wrote this week. On an annual basis it is also more water than exists in all the rivers in the world, meaning that they are overloaded with our waste.
An equally dramatic statistic is that we pump 1,600 million megalitres of ground water into the sea each year. Half of this is used in mining and one third of all water usage goes to the production of bio-fuels.
This increase has not been gradual, the last twenty years have seen a huge acceleration in the consumption of water and the effects are now starting to be felt. Cities that rely on ground water are planning to drink treated sewage as the aquifers on which they have depended dry up.
http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/08/24/water-as-a-commons-only-fundamental-change-can-save-us
http://www.mercurynews.com/drought/ci_27999661/california-drought-san-jose-mayor-drinks-recycled-sewage
Geoff Ebbs
Geoff is an author, publisher and performer dedicated to building an independent media. He worked for Australian Consolidated Press as a Packer editor until starting his own media company in the mid-nineties. The Generator started life as a radio show on Byron Bay's Bay FM and continues as an umbrella for the Cage, the Cross and Great Notion. These digital assets have now been shared with EcoRadio.net, a radio show with a similar history.
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The Eastern Front: 1914-1920, Michael S. Neiberg & David Jordan, Amber Books, 2021, pp. 224, ISBN: 9781838861308
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When the match for war was lit in 1914, Russia alongside her allies France and Britain, quickly began mobilising their armies. For Russia, war possessed an opportunity to increase national unity. However, despite having a stronger army, in August 1914, a Russian Army were defeated at the Battle of Tannenberg. Russia soon found itself facing a disadvantaged front that stretched from the 'Baltic Sea in the West and Moscow in the East, a distance of 1,200 kilometres, and Saint Petersburg in the North and the Black Sea in the South, a distance of more than 1,600 kilometres', much larger than the fronts faced by this in the West. By 1920, the course of Russia's history had changed dramatically. The war had been difficult to sustain, the country had erupted into civil war and the three-hundred year of Romanov Dynasty had been replaced by the Bolsheviks and their leader Vladimir Lenin.
'The Eastern Front: 1914-1920', which is part of a six-volume World War I series, is an Anglo-American venture between Michael S. Neiberg, a Professor of History in the Department of National Security Studies at the US Army War College and David Jordan, a Senior Lecturer at King's College, London and part of the Joint Services Command and Staff College. This book aims to cover the vast subject of the conflict between the Central Powers and Russia between 1914-1920. The telling of each battle is not a comprehensive study, indeed there are many key battles and factors missed out, but instead the text gives a condensed background to war on the Eastern Front including Russia's defeat at the Battle of Tannenberg and the Battle of the Masurian Lakes in 1914, the Battle of Lodz and the Gorlice-Tarnow Offensive in 1915, Russia's short-lived success in 1916 during the Brusilov Offensive and Romania's entry into war. It also gives some background on Russia's internal breakdown including the first and second Russian revolutions and outbreak of civil war in 1917 and the following Russo-Polish War in 1920.
While Neiberg & Jordan set out to cover complex and often-neglected subject of war on the Eastern Front during the First World War, the text failed to give any new insight or further understanding for those who may be more familiar with this period in Russia's history. There are over 300 images, some of which did not appear to link to the text/page they were included on, as well as accompanying fact boxes, maps and some interesting, previously unpublished primary sources scattered throughout such as Tsar Nicholas II's Abdication statement and two of Lenin's Ten Theses from April 1917. Overall, 'The Eastern Front: 1914-1920' gives an accessible, clear and brief overview of the Eastern front and the impact of the war in Russia but sadly lacks depth and insight. It therefore would be useful as a reference guide for those who are more knowledgeable on the subject but it could be an ideal starting point for those looking to get a brief understanding of this period or for those new to the subject of the war on the Eastern Front.
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Q: Android SQLite not autoincrementing I have been trying to figure out why my autoincrement id column isn't working.  The table inserts fine, however, as soon as I try and insert another row, the id column isn't incrementing.  It just tries to insert the next row with id of 0.  Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Below is the column metadata (name and type) and my create table sql within the db.execSQL() method:
ID(BaseColumns._ID, "INTEGER"),
YEAR("year", "real"),
MAKE("make", "text"),
MODEL("model", "text"),
STYLE("style", "text"),
COLOR("color", "text"),
ALT_COLOR("altColor", "text"),
CLASS("class", "text"),
CLASS_CODE("classCode", "text");

db.execSQL("CREATE TABLE " + TABLE_NAME + " ("
+ Columns.ID.getName() + " " + Columns.ID.getType()+ " PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT" + ", "   + Columns.YEAR.getName() + " " + Columns.YEAR.getType() + ", "
+ Columns.MAKE.getName() + " " + Columns.MAKE.getType() + ", "
+ Columns.MODEL.getName() + " " + Columns.MODEL.getType() + ", "
+ Columns.STYLE.getName() + " " + Columns.STYLE.getType() + ", "
+ Columns.COLOR.getName() + " " + Columns.COLOR.getType() + ", "
+ Columns.ALT_COLOR.getName() + " " + Columns.ALT_COLOR.getType() + ", "
+ Columns.CLASS.getName() + " " + Columns.CLASS.getType() + ", "
+ Columns.CLASS_CODE.getName() + " " + Columns.CLASS_CODE.getType() + ");");

A: 01-16 05:51:09.882: E/Database(1177): Error inserting model=SHELBY CONV. style= _id=0 color=KONA BLUE classCode=JCA class=JCA - 2012-15 - ALL year=2012 altColor= make=FORD
01-16 05:51:09.882: E/Database(1177): android.database.sqlite.SQLiteConstraintException: error code 19: constraint failed

You should not define the ID column value in the insert, as evidenced by _id=0 in the exception. Autoincrement only works if the column value is not specified:

If no ROWID is specified on the insert, or if the specified ROWID has a value of NULL, then an appropriate ROWID is created automatically.

A: I found out that when sending in ContentValues to the context.getContentResolver().insert(uri, values) method, your ContentValues should not include a key/value pair containing an id.  This is what was causing my _id column not to auto-increment.

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Contract drafting: The things that really bug me
By Rudi Klein2015-10-23T06:00:00+01:00
Poorly written and ill-considered drafting of contracts is costing our industry a fortune each year - and placing a severe strain on a man's sense of imperturbability
Consultancy Arcadis recently published the results of a survey on the causes of contractual disputes. At the top of the list was poor contract administration, followed closely by poor and ill-considered drafting, and errors and inconsistencies in contract documentation.
Here are some of my own bugbears:
Throwing everything into the contractual "pot" If one is on the receiving end of a pile of documentation - which often comes in a variety of digital formats - it could take days to unravel the verbiage. Nobody has bothered to work out what is relevant. Guidance documents, for example, are inserted or referred to which, by their very nature, cannot be enforced.
Lack of drafting precision "The contractor shall do everything necessary to design and install…" (my emphasis). Armed with this clause, the employer complains that the contractor has not done X, Y and Z which are all "necessary". Then, why didn't he specify X, Y and Z? This clause appeared in the works information of an NEC contract. The excellent NEC "How To" guide on drafting the works information places great emphasis on the need for precision.
Unless the context helps define the meaning, open-ended words are likely to be given an interpretation by the courts that is against the interests of the party relying upon them.
Failure of drafting to anticipate likely scenarios or risks "The works shall have a design life of 20 years before the first major maintenance is required." From a commercial point of view this clause means that the works should be constructed so that they are able to function as their intended purpose for 20 years. Has that purpose been clearly defined? Does it apply to all parts of the works? What happens if after eight years there is a change of use that requires major maintenance? When does maintenance become "major"? Did the person drafting these words think about all these issues? Probably not.
But there is another issue here. A structural engineer will point out that BS EN 1990 contains a definition for "design working life" which is the "assumed period for which a structure or part of it is to be used for its intended purpose with anticipated maintenance but without major repair being necessary" (my emphasis). BS EN 1990 later goes into more detail about the indicative design working life for various structures. The point is that a clause like this is immediately setting up a conflict that is likely to lead to
disputes down the line.
Failure to include contractual yardsticks "The works shall be designed and constructed with due regard to minimising future maintenance and running costs." Apart from the fact I dislike the use of "due regard", which is a meaningless term, there is no yardstick against which compliance with this obligation can be measured. It, therefore, becomes unenforceable. Also, consider the constant references to "reasonable endeavours" and "best endeavours". Why are these phrases used without any kind of yardstick? It's not surprising that there have been numerous court cases on their meaning.
Another good example is: "The contractor shall proceed regularly and diligently…". Without a yardstick these words make difficult the enforcement of the obligation and, not surprisingly, have been the subject of legal cases.
Seeking to re-write statutory requirements in contracts Over the years a common "amendment" has been to extend the statutory seven-day notice period of suspension to 42 days. Why stop at 42? Why not make it 42,000? This practice is sheer stupidity because what matters is compliance with the statute. Another example are clauses that state payment notices will not be issued for amounts less than, for example, £2,000. This is simply flouting the Construction Act. If quantity surveyors are doing this I can excuse them (because they know no better) but I cannot excuse lawyers.
I'm not sure whether drafting standards have slipped or whether all my bugbears are just cack-handed attempts at risk transfer. But what I do know is that the industry is picking up a massive bill (for both the transaction costs and the cost of the inevitable disputes) each year for the indecipherable verbiage that we respectfully refer to as "the contractual documentation". Over the longer term this bill ends up in the prices charged to the industry's clients.
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World War Two Was a Charade – The Proof!
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Martin Bormann, who signed Hitler's pay checks
and knew everything about the Nazi war effort,
was an Allied spy. The book "Op JB" (1996) by
John Ainsworth-Davis describes in detail
his rescue by the British
from the ruins of Berlin in April 1945.
This book is the smoking gun that proves the Second World War was a charade. While most Nazis were sincere, the movement was sponsored and controlled at the top by the Masonic Jewish bankers in order to start a war to kill "goyim" patriots on both sides and advance world government. Non-Illuminati Jews were also sacrificed in this evil agenda.
I was suspicious that Simon & Schuster published this book amid great fanfare and a large advance. However, I have come across an account of the circumstances of publication which authenticates Ainsworth-Davis' story.
by Henry Makow Ph.D.
Formerly, Martin Bormann was Rothschild Agent — Damning Evidence
(from July 1, 2009)
The second most powerful man in Nazi Germany, Martin Bormann, Hitler's Private Secretary and Head of the Nazi Party apparatus, was an Illuminati (i.e. British) agent who ensured the destruction of both Germany and European Jewry.
Thus, he advanced two of the Illuminati's main goals: integrate Germany into a world government by annihilating its national, cultural and racial pretensions, and establish Israel by threatening European Jews with extinction.
When I first made this case in June 2007, a reader suggested I read the book "OPJB,"(1996) Lieut. Commander John Ainsworth-Davis' account of how he and Ian Fleming led a 150-man team that rescued Martin Bormann from war-torn Berlin on May 1, 1945 using river kayaks. According to this book, Bormann lived under an assumed identity in England until 1956 before dying in Paraguay in 1959.
The title of the book stands for "Operation James Bond." Ian Fleming took the name of the author of "A Field Guide to the Birds of the West Indies" for the Bormann rescue and later gave it to the hero of his spy series who was modelled on Ainsworth-Davis, who used the name, Christopher Creighton. He died in 2013 at age 89.
Talk about the hiding in plain sight! The evidence that Bormann, the man most responsible for the holocaust was a British agent has been on bookshelves since 1996! The book includes a 1963 letter from Ian Fleming confirming that he and Creighton led the Bormann rescue. It also includes a photograph of a 1954 letter from Winston Churchill giving Creighton permission to tell this story after Churchill's death, "omitting of course those matters which you know can never be revealed."
According to Creighton, Martin Bormann was actually sitting in a private visitor's gallery at the Nuremberg Trial when he was condemned to death in absentia! (p.243)
The cover story was that Bormann supposedly would help the Allies retrieve Nazi wartime plunder and return it to its rightful owners. If you believe that, I have some swampland in Florida. Bormann had been an Illuminati British agent all along and was largely responsible for the Nazi defeat. Louis Kilzer estimated he was worth 50 divisions. Hitler covered for him. World War Two was a monstrous Rothschild fraud on Germans, Jews and the human race. The plunder ended up in Illuminati hands.
REAL "JAMES BOND" WAS AN ILLUMINATI SEX SLAVE AND MASS MURDERER
The real James Bond helped kill thousands of people, mostly British allies. He was haunted by the ghosts of "perfectly loyal and innocent people who had been caught up in our operations…" (79)
He was just "following orders" which made no sense from a patriotic p.o.v. "We were not acting from patriotism or high moral principles. We were not doing this for England or Uncle Sam. As usual, we were doing what we had been told to do: we were carrying out our orders." (170)
For example, Creighton tipped the Nazis off to the exact time and location of the 1942 Dieppe raid which cost 3000 Canadians their lives. He was told that the British wanted to test Nazi defences. The real reasons: convince Stalin it was too early for a second front, and build up Creighton's credibility when it came time for the Normandy Invasion.
Creighton also talks about "Operation Tiger" in April 1944, a training exercise at Slapton Sands, Dorset that was rudely interrupted by eight German torpedo boats. The toll: over 800 US drowned. (Gestapo Chief Heinrich Muller wrote that the Nazis were tipped off by a German spy.) The fiasco was kept secret to protect D-Day morale. Creighton says survivors were interned or killed by a sea mine in order to keep the secret. (p.25) In spite of the fact that the Dorset shoreline resembled Normandy, the Nazis supposedly failed to draw the logical conclusion.
Agents who stumbled on the "true secrets of World War Two" (i.e. the fact that the Nazis were infiltrated and run by the "English") were often betrayed and met death in action. This happened to Creighton's girlfriend, Patricia Falkiner. Morton confessed that Falkiner was his ward: "He had done his utmost to keep Patricia out of operations…only when she had stumbled on the most vital secrets at Bletchley that he had been forced to deploy her…" (p.85)
Creighton,left, also made sure Pearl Harbor, another example of Illuminati chicanery, was kept secret. On Nov. 28, 1941, a Dutch submarine, the K-XVII intercepted the Japanese Fleet en route to Pearl Harbor and alerted British naval HQ. In order to maintain the illusion that Pearl Harbor was a surprise, the submarine and its crew were destroyed. Creighton "wiped out the entire ship's company with two tiny cylinders of cyanide inserted into their oxygen supply, and a box of high explosives disguised as whiskey…the war had turned me into a fiend and mass murderer…" (p.81)
"M SECTION" (For Morton), A PEDOPHILE PARADISE?
Officially Desmond Morton was Winston Churchill's "adviser." In fact, he was in charge of a top secret Illuminati organization dedicated to advancing world government dictatorship through skullduggery. It was funded by the "Crown" i.e. the Rothschild's Bank of England. It answered only to Churchill who, of course, answered only to Victor Rothschild. The Director of the Bank of England, Montagu Norman, recommended Ian Fleming to Naval Intelligence. (Fleming was 15 years older than Creighton.)
"M SECTION" had the resources of the Royal Navy and Marines at its disposal and was responsible for rescuing Martin Bormann, and possibly Hitler as well (see below.)
Morton never married and there are rumors he and Churchill had an homosexual attachment. He accused Churchill of having homosexual feelings for FDR. (Winston Churchill, by Chris Wrigley, p. 268)
Top agents and commandos like Creighton were chosen from men and women in their late teens who were personally known to the Illuminati. Creighton was only 21 years old in 1945. Often the youths were orphans or separated from their parents. For example, Creighton's parents were divorced but Louis Mountbatten and Desmond Morton were family friends. Morton took Creighton under his wing and became his "uncle." In a moment of crisis, "I hugged him as I had hugged him so often in the past." (85)
Creighton speaks of his service in Section M in sinister terms: "ghastly years of betrayal and horror into which I had been forced." (78) He speaks of the "Svengali-like influence and control that Morton had exercised over me since my early childhood."
At age 15, Creighton had an apparition of a "Black Angel" who possessed him as an "Angel of Death."
"I awoke in the middle of the night, soaked in sweat and there he was, standing at the foot of my bed. …I could not move. With a feeling of utter degradation and terror I realized I was powerless to stop him possessing me — as he would often do in the weeks, months and years that followed." Sound like Creighton was the victim of a pedophile?
That Black Angel was probably Morton. Creighton directly continues: "Looking back I can see how completely I was in Morton's grip throughout most of the war. From 1940-1945 I was his puppet, manipulated by him and executing his orders." (18)
The final endurance test for "both boys and girls was 12 strokes of the cane administered by a Marine Commando Sargent across their bare buttocks in front of their class." (69)
It's possible that like some MI-5 and MI-6 agents today, some Section M agents may have been mind controlled sex slaves. Greg Hallett has a different, occult, explanation.
PAWNS IN THEIR GAME
Morton's MO was "deception and double-dealing," says Creighton. It is amazing he's alive to tell the story. Perhaps it 's because he accepted the spin that Bormann was saved in order to restore Nazi plunder to its rightful owners.
Like Creighton, we are all pawns in their game. For example, Otto Gunther, Bormann's double, was a POW found in Canada. Bormann's records were altered to fit Gunther so when his dead body was found, people believed he was Hitler's Deputy.
The commandos accompanying Bormann on his escape had no idea of his identity. Many were Jewish "freedom fighters." What an irony!
Great nations, England, the United States, Germany, France are all Illuminati pawns. What good is democracy when the Illuminati Order owns the politicians and controls information?
Think of the millions who died in World War Two, all to destroy and degrade mankind so the Illuminati inbreeds can own and control everyone. They are still busy dividing us against one another, so we will never unite against them.
Correspondent Greg Hallett describes "body jumping" and how Hitler was also saved.
http://www.henrymakow.com/_by_greg_hallettat_age.html
http://www.henrymakow.com/_from_an_email_from.html
Article linked within, my "Bormann Ran Hitler for the Illuminati" and Hitler & Bormann Were Traitors are must-reads in this connection.
http://www.savethemales.ca/002026.html
http://henrymakow.com/hitler_and_bormann_were_traito.html
Was Hitler an Illuminati Agent?
Hellstorm – Exposing The Real Genocide of Nazi Germany
What Illuminati Did to Innocent Germans
Trailer for the film Other Losses
Henry Kissinger and his secret spy network of old Nazis
Treason: Illuminati British Collaborated With Nazis
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Ann Arbor voters approve $1 billion school bond proposal
by Maeve O'Brien November 5, 2019 April 20, 2021
Ann Arbor voters approved a $1 billion school bond proposal on Tuesday. The bond passed by a six-point margin, with 53 percent of voters in favor and 46 percent opposed. The 30-year bond will be used to make improvements to Ann Arbor Public Schools' infrastructure, sustainability and technology.
In the first six years of the construction window, the bond will be used to add air conditioning, LED lighting, solar power, kitchens, outdoor classrooms, collaborative learning spaces and improved security to the schools, in addition to constructing the two new schools.
In a statement to The Daily, Superintendent Jeanice Kerr Swift said the city currently has 32 schools, which are housed in 35 buildings that are an average of 63 years old. She said the bond plan was developed by various stakeholders in the Ann Arbor community.
In 2018, AAPS commissioned an independent company to conduct a facility condition assessment across the district's schools. The results of the assessment showed that while the schools are overall in fair condition, without substantial investment, many will fall into poor ratings within a few years.
The assessment estimated it would cost $823 million to keep current buildings in good condition, not including other capital costs such as buses, technology, equipment and school additions, which is estimated to cost an additional $618 million. Together, the bond and the Sinking Fund, an Ann Arbor millage levied to aid in repair and construction of school buildings, provide enough funding to cover these costs.
As Michigan is one of only about a dozen states that does not provide state funding for school infrastructure, many districts across the state also face the costs of improving aging infrastructure. AAPS points out in the bond proposal website that surrounding districts such as Saline, Dexter and Whitmore Lake have all started voter-backed facility upgrades in recent years.
According to the website, Ann Arbor residents with a home taxable value of $138,000 — the average in the school district — will see annual tax increases of $228.
The Ann Arbor Education Association, the teacher's union in Ann Arbor, remained neutral on the bond proposal. AAEA President Frederick Klein said the union is trying to send a message that teachers are feeling neglected in the district's school budgeting process. He said teachers have been taking pay freezes and are not advancing up the year-to-year salary steps, while watching their take-home pay shrink because of rising out-of-pocket costs for health care.
"It was more of a statement of position that the teachers took to say, 'Hey, we want to also be a priority,'" Klein said. "You prioritize infrastructure and all that, which is essential. But you also need to prioritize one of the most important cogs in the wheel, which is the teachers."
Klein said the teachers were not consulted when AAPS was deciding how the bond would be spent until late in the process.
"They did not come to the teachers until the middle of September to seek our input and support, which is really just superficial at that point, because the vote was a month and a half later," Klein said.
While the union does not openly support the bond, the group is also not speaking out against it.
"The union is not coming out and saying we're anti-bond, we're just remaining neutral," Klein said. "Individual teachers, some will support it and some will not support it. It's up to them to make those decisions when they reach the ballot box."
The Ann Arbor Education Association is expected to begin bargaining with the district about financial issues on Dec. 11.
Public Policy senior Bernadette King Fitzsimons attended Eberwhite Elementary School, Slauson Middle School and Pioneer High School. She shared some of the concerns voiced by Klein, but King Fitzsimons said while the schools were outdated, she did not feel they were a detriment to her education.
"I do think the district needs to invest in infrastructure updates," King Fitzsimons said. "But I think the district's lack of investment in teacher salary over the years is deeply troubling, and needs to be addressed."
Prior to the election, King Fitzsimons said she was not sure how she was going to vote. She said she was initially in support of the bond, but grew concerned that teacher salaries would not be raised along with the investment in infrastructure.
"In my time as a student in AAPS, the dedication of my educators impacted me far more than any state-of-the-art classroom could have," King Fitzsimons said.
Additionally, new with this election, voters were able to check the projected line wait times at polling places via the Ann Arbor City Clerk's Office. The office is piloting an initiative to share the number of people in line and the estimated wait times reported by the election inspectors in real-time.
Ann Arbor City Clerk Jacqueline Beaudry said in 2018, poll workers submitted line information to the City Clerk's Office so the office could deploy more resources where needed. They decided to share that information with the public in Tuesday's election so that voters could decide when to vote.
"As a result of that work in 2018, we thought that this information made public might also be useful to voters," Beaudry said. "So we will still get that information as poll workers are entering it, for us to react, but then the public could also use it to make decisions about when is a good time to go vote or just check in on things."
In the future, the office is planning on implementing the virtual line checker for the 2020 primary and presidential elections.
"If everything works as expected, and we see that it's a positive benefit for the public to have access to this when there might be more chance for them to make a decision about when is a good time to get out (when they) don't have a long wait, then in 2020 they could use that information," Beaudry said.
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ACTIVITIES: Member of the choir at school and church; cashier at Price Chopper; involved with the music ministry at Lee's Summit Bible Church and member of the youth group at Lee's Summit Bible Church.
What advice do you have for next year's freshmen?
Get involved. Honestly, high school taught me a great deal about time management and prioritization. Do a sport or two, join choir or band, try some clubs, take those classes that sound fun. Make the most of your time and you'll be surprised at how much you learn about yourself and life in general.
Well, I'm a choir nerd, so I'm a little biased. It's a toss up between Nathan Rudolph, my choir teacher for the past three years and Kathy July, who was my college algebra/college trigonometry teacher. Mr. Rudolph took my "like" of singing and turned it into a passion and never fails to introduce new perspectives in both music and life. Mrs. July not only taught the curriculum, but taught life. I learned so much about college and such just from her discussions.
When you were not in school or studying, what did you most enjoy doing?
Sleeping. Seriously, my entire senior year, if I wasn't in school, rehearsal, church or work, and if I wasn't doing homework, I was sleeping. In all seriousness, though, I really could be found at work or with my youth group when I wasn't doing something school related. They were my escape when I needed it.
What college do you plan to attend and why?
I'm attending Missouri State University this fall. I chose MSU basically for its many options. My plan is to go pre-med, majoring in cell and molecular biology and minoring in music. MSU has many paths to take within each field and gives me possibilities to do a specialized major and stay heavily involved in music.
Ten years from now, I se myself wherever God wants me. I'd love to be in a hospital or clinical environment, either performing research or practicing medicine. I'd also love to be heavily involved in a church's music ministry and stay involved in choral ensemble opportunities.


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Dislocating Masculinity
Comparative Ethnographies
Andrea Cornwall
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Dislocating Masculinity: Comparative Ethnographies
Originally published in 1994, and now a feminist classic, Dislocating Masculinity offers a penetrating critique of writing on and by men. Bringing together anthropologists, sociologists, linguists and historians, it raises important comparative questions about how gender operates, addressing issues of embodiment, agency, gender inequality and the variety of masculine styles.
1. Introduction, (Andrea Cornwall & Nancy Lindisfarne)
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11 'Real True Boys': Moulding the Cadets of Imperialism, (Helen Kanitkar)
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Andrea Cornwall is Professor of Anthropology and International Development in the School of Global Studies, University of Sussex.
Nancy Lindisfarne long taught Anthropology at SOAS, University of London and is now a visual artist and blogger on sexism, class and violence.
More than twenty years after its first edition, this book brings reflections that are still relevant in the contemporary context. Essential reading for all those who are interested in learning more about men and their masculinities. - Marcos Nascimento, Men Engage Network and Instituto Fernandes Figueira, Fiocruz, Brazil
Dislocating Masculinity was a landmark publication that contributed to a then small, but growing, body of scholarship on men and masculinities. This new edition is needed now more than ever in our deeply divided times. Dislocating Masculinities will once again inspire scholars to think carefully and critically about the diversity of men and masculinities. - Jonathan Allan, Canada Research Chair in Queer Theory and Associate Professor in Gender and Women's Studies and English and Creative Writing at Brandon University, Canada
The publication of Dislocating Masculinity opened an entirely novel field of anthropological enquiry, and this edited collection continues to set the intellectual agenda for the cross-cultural exploration and theorization of gender relations. - Filippo Osella, Professor of Anthropology and South Asian Studies, School of Global Studies, University of Sussex
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A timely volume with an important introduction by the editors which will set the terms of the debate on issues of men and masculinity for some time to come. -Sherry B. Ortner, University of Michigan
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Mr. Kris Kerschner is joining the Trojan Family as our district's first Coordinator of School Safety & Security. Mr. Kerschner brings a wealth of law enforcement background to the district having served as police officer in the Tulpehocken Area. Kerschner most recently served as the police chief of the Tulpehocken Township Police Department where he retired after 24 years of service to the department.
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Welcome to the Alternative School for Pontotoc County School District. The Alternative Program for Discipline for Pontotoc County Schools was established in 1993 for the purpose of providing an alternative to expulsion. It was determined that if a place could be provided for the student to continue his/her studies it would benefit both the school and the student in the long run. This Alternative School has served over 800 students since its inception. We operate during regular school hours and students are bused from both North and South Pontotoc daily. We provide the core subjects for the students and have highly qualified teachers working with those students daily. This school is a very structured environment with a student ratio of 8:1. Counseling is provided for the students and also behavioral modification is offered. We have a full time therapist from Region III who works daily with our students. These are both group and individual sessions. We do have some students that are behind in their academics and we are able to work with these students on a limited basis. We are trying to assist in providing the very best education we can for the students of the Pontotoc County School District. Mr. Wilson Speck is the director and also a teacher, Mr. Steven Newell serves as a teacher, and Mrs. Linda Coggins teaches Special Services.
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London may lose up to £700bn in financial assets as roughly 37 finance companies plan to move operations and assets to Germany, a lobby group has revealed. 29.11.2018, Sputnik International
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London may lose up to £700bn in financial assets as roughly 37 finance companies plan to move operations and assets to Germany, a lobby group has revealed.
Banks will relocate to German finance hub Frankfurt no later than March 2019, lobbying group Frankfurt Main Finance said in a press release on Thursday. Around 30 banks and financial firms have confirmed their preference for the European business hub, with other banking titans such as JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs spreading operations across other European cities as Paris and Dublin. UK banks such as Credit Suisse, Standard Chartered, Lloyds, Citigroup and Nomura also plan to relocate and expand their presence in Frankfurt after Brexit.
Professor: No-Deal Brexit Is Bad for EU, But Not as Bad as It Is for UK
Companies are rushing to manoeuvre the bureaucratic hurdles of a British withdrawal from the EU after UK Prime Minister Theresa May revealed her Brexit draft plan in November, with fears that billions in assets will flee to Germany.
Multinationals will struggle with lost passporting rights that allow businesses to tend to EU clients if a no-deal Brexit fails to negotiate financial services.
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