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After seeing the new movie DUNKIRK directed by Christopher Nolan last night, I wanted to recommend it to you readers. Like the top film critics, I found this film technically flawless and emotionally extremely powerful. The film's soundtrack by Hans Zimmer kept me on the edge of my seat. In September 1939, Nazi Germany's invasion of Poland resulted in a declaration of war by France and Great Britain. A British Expeditionary Force (BEF) was sent to help with the defense of France. What followed was eight months of "phoney war" with no major battles. With protection of the fabled Maginot Line and the Ardennes forest, the Allied expectation was that Germany would initiate an attack against France through Belgium as it had in WWI. German General Erich Manstein, however, decided to advance through the Ardennes Forest directly into Northern France on a route perceived by the Allies as as impenetrable. The unexpected, lightning movement by the Wehrmacht swiftly cut off hundreds of thousands of Allied troops. The only escape route was the sea. On May 24, 1940, British and French troops were trapped between advancing German Panzer columns and the English Channel. Unexpectedly, the Germans halted their advance for an unexplained 48-hours, allowing the Allies to dig in, establish a defensive perimeter and initiate evacuation plans at Dunkirk. Over eight days, 338,226 soldiers were rescued by a make-shift fleet of >800 civilian and naval craft. Reportedly, weather conditions limited both RAF and Luftwaffe air combat. Britain's limited deployment of naval vessels in the Dunkirk rescue may have been due to lack of available ships, the shallow draught of Dunkirk harbor--or possibly a reluctance, during a time when the invasion of England seemed imminent, to deploy precious capital ships to a dangerous rescue operation. The most inspiring thing about the Dunkirk evacuation was the maritime response of brave and courageous British civilians. In the film, the Jericho Trompete sirens of the Luftwaffe Junker-87 Stuka (Sturzkampfflugzeug) emit a terrifying shriek that builds as the dive bomber approaches the target. Some have criticized the failure of French generals during the Fall of France. Nevertheless, many ordinary Frenchmen fought bravely and honorably at Dunkirk. As British and French troops awaited evacuation on the beach, French soldiers 40 miles southeast of Dunkirk, put up stiff resistance against an overwhelming Wehrmacht force, allowing the Allies time to prepare.
Vichy France
Vichy France propaganda cartoon about the allied bombings of France. A Jewish radio announcer in London broadcasts the imminent arrival over France of Allied Liberator aircraft. US planes, flown by Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Popeye, Goofy and Felix the Cat, drop bombs killing innocent French civilians. Vichy France Between June 1940 and May 1945, 1,570 French cities and towns were bombed by Anglo-American forces. The total number of civilians killed was 68,778 men, women and children.
Norwegian Heavy Water Sabotage
In April 1940 Nazi Germany invaded Norway and, after a brief period of resistance, began an occupation that lasted until the end of the war. Norway subsequently became the most heavily fortified Axis-occupied country during the war with a ratio of one German soldier for every eight Norwegian citizens. Civil rule by a pro-German collaborationist government led by Vidkun Quisling was effectively dictated by the Reichskommissariat Norwegen (Reich Commissariat of Norway), while the Norwegian King Haakon VII and his prewar government escaped to London where they acted as a government in exile. As depicted in this trailer for the excellent TV series The Heavy Water War, Norwegian saboteurs carried out several operations to prevent Nazi Germany from acquiring heavy water (deuterium oxide) which was needed to produce nuclear weapons.
Nazi Cartoon
Similar to their Japanese and American counterparts, Nazi propagandists populated their wartime cartoons with animal characters. Here in der Störenfried (the troublemaker), when the rabbit father finds the fox threatening his children, the Luftwaffe (wasps) and Wehrmacht (dogs?) come to the rescue.
via:Duke Libraries Although this is a Westinghouse ad, the first radio receiver/transmitter to be widely nicknamed "Walkie-Talkie" was the backpacked Motorola SCR-300, created in 1940.
The name Auschwitz , referring to a network of concentration camps in Nazi-occupied Poland, evokes the memory of the holocaust, one of the most evil episodes in history. Auschwitz I was constructed to meet the influx of Polish political prisoners in May 1940. Auschwitz II-Birkenau, was a concentration/extermination camp beginning in September 1941. Auschwitz III–Monowitz was a factory labor camp for IG Farben, and 45 satellite camps. From early 1942 until late 1944, an estimated 1.1 million prisoners (~90% Jewish) were gassed to death with Zyklon B at Auschwitz. Warning: This video is very distressing:
Occupied Paris
German victory and occupation in June 1940 "entangled France and the French in a web of cooperation, resistance, accommodation, and, later, of defensiveness, forgetfulness, and guilt from which they are still trying to escape." - Ronald Rosbottom, professor of French and European studies at Amherst _________________________________________ Click this link for fascinating photos by André Zucca that were taken for the German magazine Signal to demonstrate a peaceful and pleasant Parisian life under German occupation.
Draft Age Lowered
In September 1940 the U.S. Congress passed the Burke-Wadsworth Act, the first peacetime draft of men aged 21-36 years in the history of the United States. In November 1942 the draft ages were extended to ages 18-37 years for the war effort. Until 1943, due to racist concerns about a mixed-race military, blacks were not drafted. In 1943 a "quota" was imposed, meant to limit the numbers of blacks drafted to reflect their numbers in the overall population (~ 10.6 %). Initially, blacks were restricted to "labor units," but as the war progressed, they were finally used in combat. By war's end, approximately 34 million men had registered and 10 million had been inducted into the military.
Fire Bombing of Coventry
As I learn more about the firebombing in WWII, I realize that I haven't given the November 1940 Luftwaffe Blitz of Coventry adequate attention. It is important because it seems to have been the first instance where a new type of tactic was used. As an industrial city, Coventry was a genuine military target for the Luftwaffe during the Battle of Britain. Seventeen relatively small raids during August-October 1940 killed 176 people and injured ~180. On November 14, 1940, over 500 German bombers carried out Operation Mondscheinsonate (Moonlight Sonata) in a new method of attack: - specially modified Heinkel He 111 aircraft with electronic navigation aids marked the targets before the main bomber raid. - the first wave of bombers dropped high explosive bombs intended knock out utilities, damage roads, hamper the fire brigades and damage roofs, making it easier for the incendiary bombs to fall into buildings and ignite them. - subsequent attack waves dropped incendiary bombs (some on parachutes) made of magnesium or petroleum. Coventry Cathedral, set on fire by incendiaries, precipitated a firestorm that quickly spread out of control. Simultaneously > 200 other fires broke out, mostly in the city-center area. In about four hours, more than 4,300 homes in Coventry were destroyed and ~2/3 of the city's buildings were damaged. ~ 568 people were killed in the raid, 863 badly injured and 393 sustaining lesser injuries. The Coventry raid resulted in such a new and severe level of destruction that Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels later coined the term coventriert ("coventried") to describe similar levels of destruction in other raids. The RAF raid on Lübeck in March 1942, designed after the Coventry Blitz, was the first time the British tested their firebombing techniques.
Holocaust – Occupied France
When Nazi Germany occupied the country in June 1940, there were ~ 350,000 Jews living in France, ~ 200,000, resided in and around Paris. Several ordinances published by the occupation force during 1940-41 defined who was a Jew, what business activities they were allowed, confiscated their radios & bicycles, disconnected their telephones, set curfews just for them, closed public places, theaters and certain shops to them, assigned them the last Metro coach, and banned Jewish music and art. The first large scale incarceration of Jews took place in May 1941 when 4,000 foreign Jews were sent to concentration camps in France. In December 1941, Parisian Jewish community leaders, including doctors, academics, scientists and writers, were rounded up. In May 1942, all Jews were ordered to wear the yellow star. Beginning in 1942, Germans deported 75,500 - 76,000 (mostly foreign-born) Jews from France to death camps. From the start, the Vichy government openly collaborated with the Nazi occupiers to identify Jews for deportation and transportation to the death camps. At the same time, many non-Jewish French citizens risked their lives to save Jews from the Holocaust.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=imtdgdGOB6Q This lovely, lyrical animated film by the Japanese manga artist and film director Hayao Miyazaki tells the story of a boy fascinated by flight and aircraft design who grows up to conceive the famous Mitsubishi A6M "Zero" fighter. Not a war story, rather the story of passion, romance and loss, the Wind Rises captures the grace (and tragedy) of Imperial Japan in soft pastels, blowing wind and falling blossoms.
The Eternal Jew 1940
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1ttJgTqpsM Nazi Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels established a film department in 1930 to ensure that the German film industry promoted Aryan philosophy. In 1937, the Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda (Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda) hosted an exhibition of 'degenerate art" in Munich entitled Der ewige Jude (The eternal Jew). Shortly thereafter, a book of 265 photographs captioned with anti-semitic remarks was published. In 1940, the motion picture Der Ewige Jude, consisting of feature and documentary footage combined with film shot after the Nazi occupation of Poland, was presented as a "documentary."
image via: tumblr_kxqjyiaO7Y1qaz1ado1_500.jpg 500×697 pixels. Low-priced monthly magazines were very important in Imperial Japanese culture with over 3,000 periodicals published for all age groups (60 for women). By 1940, leading intellectual publications such as Chuo Koron (中央公論 Central Review) were forced to abandon their former (liberal) stand and align themselves with the current conservative political reform Shintaisei (New National Structure).
Hair Safety
Ambassador Nomura Arrives in Washington
Former Foreign Minister of Imperial Japan from 1939-1940, Admiral Kichisaburō Nomura became Ambassador to the USA in November 1940. Through much of 1941, Nomura and United States Secretary of State Cordell Hull attempted to resolve issues including the Japanese conflict with China, the Japanese occupation of French Indochina, and the United States oil embargo against Japan. Nomura's recommendations for meaningful concessions were repeatedly rejected by his own government and on November 15, 1941, he was joined by a "special envoy" to Washington, Saburō Kurusu.
Winston Churchill: Time Magazine Person of the Year
Time Magazine named British Prime Minister Winston Churchill as 1940 Man of the Year for his stirring oration and tough leadership during the Battle of Britain during the summer and autumn of that year.
Imperial Rule Assistance Association
The Imperial Rule Assistance Association, a loose framework of various volunteer organizations, was initiated in October 1940 by Prime Minister Fumimaro Konoe to promote his Shintaisei (New Political Order) movement. Neighborhood associations (under the ultimate control of centralized bureaucracy) were formed to ration food, collect donations, train civilians in defense, distribute official proclamations, provide send-offs for soldiers heading to the front and look for spies and saboteurs .Greater Japan National Defense Women's Association
FDR Warns Of Danger If Nazis Win
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=idEUzGrewlM#t=0s
Japanese Government Increasingly Militaristic
Fumimaro Konoe served as Japan's 34th, 38th and 39th Prime Minister and was in power during the period leading up to World War II. Against the advice of the Emperor and political allies, Konoe appointed the fiery military advocate Yosuke Matsuoka as his Foreign Minister. In a 1941 New Year's message Matsuoka said: "It may sound unlucky, but in my innermost heart I fear the coming year will prove a most tragic and unfortunate one for all mankind."
United States Presidential Election
FDR's run for a third term was a major issue in the 1940 Presidential campaign. The Republican candidate Wendell Willkie claimed FDR failed to end the Depression and was leading the USA into another war. Roosevelt promised not to involve the USA in foreign wars if re-elected. Although Willkie revived Republican strength in some areas of the country, FDR won easily.
Imperial Japanese Army Ranks
Link to a discussion and illustrations of Imperial Japanese military ranks during WWII
There's No Medicine For Regret
Wikimedia Commons While Japan had legalized prostitution (and by extension, comfort stations for its troops), the USA outlawed the oldest profession at home and urged its troops to avoid it overseas as well.
Shifting a manual transmission involved a complicated sequence of pressing the clutch, matching engine revolutions and the shifting gear lever.The HydraMatic transmission combined hydraulic operation of a planetary gearbox (allowing much shifting to be automated) with a fluid coupling instead of a friction clutch, eliminating the need for de-clutching. https://youtu.be/LqFOt_iWgUA
Western Movies in Imperial Japan
In 1940, Japanese audiences could still view Western films like this story of a dancer and a British army captain starring Robert Taylor and Vivien Leigh. Soon Hollywood films would be banned, as Japan turned toward Axis nations for European films.
Smith Act – Alien Registration
The Alien Registration Act of 1940 (Smith Act) established criminal penalties for advocating the overthrow of the U.S. government and required all adult non-citizen residents to register with the government.
Tension builds between Japan and USA
Pearl Harbor mock-up Japan 1941; Wikimedia Commons After Japan fortified the Marshall Islands in early 1940, FDR ordered the United States Pacific Fleet to move its main Pacific base from California to Pearl Harbor. This show of strength had its risks however: the American Pacific fleet was now within striking distance of the powerful Imperial Japanese Navy. read more: Increasing tensions between the United States and Japan.
U.S. Air Defense Command
Wikipedia In 1940 The United States Air Force Command was formed. https://youtu.be/5IdYMqr8WJY
2600th Anniversary – Japanese Empire
2600th anniversary celebration of the empire; Wikimedia Commons. Following the cancelation of the 1940 Tokyo Olympic Games, the anniversary of the founding of Japan by the mythical Emperor Jimmu was seen as an opportunity for a great celebration.
First Social Security Beneficiary
Ida May Fuller was the first beneficiary of recurring monthly Social Security payments.
Tokyo Olympic Games Cancelled
In 1936 the International Olympic Committee agreed to hold the 1940 Summer Olympic games in Tokyo, but, in the midst of war with China, Japan withdrew in 1938. It wasn't until 1964 that the games were played in Tokyo.
Destroyers for Bases Agreement
The 1940 Destroyers for Bases Agreement transferred fifty US Navy mothballed destroyers to Great Britain in exchange for military land rights in Newfoundland, Bermuda and the West Indies. The destroyers were named for cities common to both countries (e.g., Montgomery, Lancaster).
In this 1940 film directed by Shimizu Hiroshi, renowned actress Takamine Mieko plays Nobuko, a spirited young teacher who challenges a conservative school administration with her liberal teaching ideas.
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello were the most popular comedy team of the 40s and early 1950s. Their routine "Who's on First?" was one of their classic comedy routines.
FDR Requests $1.3 Billion for Military
"We have had the lesson before us over and over again-nations that were not ready and were unable to get ready found themselves overrun by the enemy. So-called impregnable fortifications no longer exist. A defense which allows an enemy to consolidate his approach without hindrance will lose. A defense which makes no effective effort to destroy the lines of supplies and communications of the enemy will lose." - FDR address to Congress May 1940.
Japanese Diet Approves High Military Expenditures
In 1940, the Japanese Diet announced a record high budget with over half its expenditures being devoted to the military.
American High School Girls
WavingGirls1940; Wikimedia Commons. In contrast to their Japanese counterparts, these American school girls on the way to a WPA camp in Louisiana wore no uniforms.
Japanese Schoolgirl Uniform
Japanese school uniform - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Fashioned after Western style naval uniforms in the late19th century, many such uniforms are still worn in Japan today.
Military Draft Lottery Begins
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19-8TY0LUdo
France surrenders to Axis Powers
Tokyo Population 6.8 million
Historical population of japan Year Pop. ±% 1910 50,984,840 — 1915 54,935,755 +7.7% 1920 55,963,053 +1.9% 1925 59,736,822 +6.7% 1930 64,450,005 +7.9% 1935 69,254,148 +7.5% 1940 73,075,071 +5.5% Demographics of Japan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Quiz Kids
Beginning in 1940, listeners sent in questions to the popular NBC Quiz Kids show.
Japan Controls French Indochina
The fall of France to German forces in June 1940, and subsequent establishment of the Vichy government, weakened French colonial rule of Indochina (modern day Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam). Soon France permitted the establishment of Japanese military bases in Indochina. In October 1940, Thailand attacked across the border of Indochina, launching the Franco-Thai War. Although the French won important victories, Japan demanded that parts of Cambodia and Laos, long held by France, be returned to Thai control. Vichy France continued to administer Indochina until March 1945, when the Japanese took direct control and established their own puppet state, the Empire of Vietnam.
Scored with classical music, Fantasia received mixed reviews on release. Perhaps some felt Walt Disney had gone too "highbrow." Over time, this film has been reevaluated as classic, though some have questioned Disney's politics - fueled by his early interest in the German American Bund and support of Nazi filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl and rumors of anti-semitism in the Disney studio.
Japan Bombs Chinese City with Bubonic Plague
www.heritagedaily.com According to testimony by veterans of the notorious Unit 731, in 1940 the Imperial Japanese Army Air Force dropped ceramic bombs containing fleas infected with the bubonic plague over Ningbo China. It was reported that over 100 people subsequently died of plague. The mastermind of this plan, Dr. Shiro Ishii showed a film of the operation to the imperial princes Tsuneyoshi Takeda and Takahito Mikasa.
In this classic satire, Charlie Chaplin plays a poor Jewish barber who is mistaken for the dictator Adenoid Hynkel.
In the midst of war, Imperial Japan continued to produce romantic dramas. In Totsugu hi made 嫁ぐ日まで (Wedding Day) directed by Yasujirō Shimazu, sisters Yoshiko and Asako struggle to accept changes in their home brought about by their widowed father's remarriage to a woman who in turn, is anxious about her new role.
Galloping Gertie Tacoma
https://youtu.be/lXyG68_caV4 Known for its pitching deck,the Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapsed into Puget Sound the morning of November 7, 1940, under high wind conditions. Engineering issues, as well as the United States' involvement in World War II, postponed plans to replace the bridge for several years; the replacement bridge was opened on October 14, 1950. Source: Wikipedia
Japanese Zero Fighter
Mitsubishi A6M Zero 0 Fighters, the world's most maneuverable fighter to date, were made of lightweight duralumin alloy. With a relatively weak 950-horsepower engine, armor plating and self-sealing fuel tanks were deleted to save weight. Escorting bombers against Chungking China on their first mission in August 1940, Zero fighters downed 27 Chinese and Russian-made fighters while losing only two Zeros to anti-aircraft fire. After a year in China, an impressive performance led to the belief that the Zero fighters, in the hands of capable pilots, were nearly invincible.
Imperial Japan Allies with Nazi Germany
Yōsuke Matsuoka, Imperial Japan's Minister of Foreign Affairs 1940-41 under Prime Minister Fumimaro Konoe, was a strong advocate of the Tripartite Alliance with Germany and Italy, but not Nazi anti-semitism: "...nowhere have I promised that we would carry out (Hitler's) anti-semitic policies in Japan. This is not simply my personal opinion, it is the opinion of Japan, and I have no compunction about announcing it to the world." Indeed, throughout the war, the Japanese government continually rejected requests from the Nazis to establish anti-semitic policies.
Town Meeting of the Air
From 1935-1956, NBC's America's Town Meeting of the Air reached ~ 3 million listeners and more than 1,000 discussion groups debating the issues across the nation. Listen here
London Blitz
In August 1940, Luftwaffe night bombers aiming for RAF airfields, accidentally bombed London killing civilians. The British responded by bombing Berlin. From September 1940 to May 1941 the Luftwaffe attacked 16 British cities. London was attacked 71 times in 37 weeks. More than one million London houses were destroyed or damaged, and more than 40,000 civilians were killed. Read more:
Fashion USA
In 1940, women's fashion attempted to emphasize an hour glass figure, broad shoulders, tiny waists and full hips. Dresses featured wide padded shoulders, nipped in high waist tops, and A-line skirts down to the knee.
France Falls
After the fall of Paris, Marshal Henri Petain, a military hero during World War I, was appointed to boost morale as France was falling under the force of the Nazi invasion. Instead, Petain immediately arranged an armistice with the Nazis. The armistice, signed by France in June 1940, ceded more than half of France to occupation under Germany. In July 1940, Petain took office as "chief of state" at Vichy, a city in unoccupied France. The Vichy government under Petain collaborated with the Nazis throughout the remainder of the occupation.
Merging with the pacifist Keep America Out of War Committee in 1940, the America First Committee vigorously opposed U.S. entry into world conflict. Among the 800,000 members were Walt Disney, Gerald Ford, Sinclair Lewis, Charles Lindbergh, Sargent Shriver, Norman Thomas and Frank Lloyd Wright. The group disbanded after the Pearl Harbor attack in December 1941.
The Imperial Rule Assistance Association was created by Prime Minister (Prince) Fumimaro Konoe in 1940 to promote the goals of his Shintaisei (New Order) movement. It evolved into a ruling right wing political party aimed at removing sectionalism in the Empire of Japan to create a totalitarian single-party state.
Top 10 Hits – USA
Artist Song Title Year Chart Entries 1 Glenn Miller In the Mood 1940 US Billboard 1 - Oct 1939 (30 weeks), Australia 1 for 5 months - Jan 1942, Europe 1 of the 1940s (1940), Grammy Hall of Fame in 1983 (1939), nuTsie 1 of 1930s, ASCAP song of 1940, Library of Congress artifact added 2004 (1939), US invalid BB 2 of 1940, POP 2 of 1940, Scrobulate 4 of swing, Music Imprint 4 of 1940s, Your Hit Parade 7 of 1940, RIAA 11, Brazil 12 of 1941, Holland 15 - Aug 1972 (7 weeks), Belgium 18 - Sep 1972 (2 weeks), DMDB 67 (1939), Acclaimed 477 (1939), RYM 4 of 1939, Song of 1938, Party 45 of 1999 2 Artie Shaw Frenesi 1940 US Billboard 1 - 1940 (30 weeks), US 1940s 1 - Aug 1940 (23 weeks), US 1 for 13 weeks - Dec 1940, Grammy Hall of Fame in 2000 (1940), Your Hit Parade 3 of 1940, US invalid BB 6 of 1940, POP 6 of 1940, DDD 7 of 1940, Brazil 10 of 1946, nuTsie 24 of 1940s, Scrobulate 48 of swing, Europe 71 of the 1940s (1940), Song of 1940 3 Tommy Dorsey & Frank Sinatra I'll Never Smile Again 1940 US Billboard 1 - 1940 (20 weeks), US 1940s 1 - Jul 1940 (15 weeks), US 1 for 12 weeks - Jul 1940, Grammy Hall of Fame in 1982 (1940), Your Hit Parade 2 of 1940, DDD 3 of 1940, US invalid BB 8 of 1940, POP 8 of 1940, nuTsie 14 of 1940s, Europe 17 of the 1940s (1940), Brazil 39 of 1941 4 Cliff Edwards (Ukelele Ike) When You Wish Upon a Star 1940 Your Hit Parade 1 of 1940, Oscar in 1940 (film 'Pinocchio'), Grammy Hall of Fame in 2002 (1940), Library of Congress artifact added 2009 (1940), AFI 7, DDD 9 of 1940, US Billboard 10 - 1940 (6 weeks), Music Imprint 11 of 1940s, RIAA 55, nuTsie 80 of 1940s, Acclaimed 1090 (1940), RYM 20 of 1940 5 Bing Crosby Only Forever 1940 US Billboard 1 - 1940 (20 weeks), US 1940s 1 - Sep 1940 (16 weeks), US 1 for 9 weeks - Oct 1940, Oscar in 1940 (film 'Rhythm on the River') (Nominated), Your Hit Parade 15 of 1940, US invalid BB 15 of 1940, POP 15 of 1940, Europe 24 of the 1940s (1940), DDD 69 of 1940, RYM 87 of 1940 6 Glenn Miller When You Wish Upon a Star 1940 US Billboard 1 - 1940 (16 weeks), US invalid BB 1 of 1940, POP 1 of 1940, UK 40s Sheet Music 2 - Apr 1940 (3 weeks), DDD 9 of 1940, Brazil 55 of 1940, RYM 15 of 1940 7 The Ink Spots Whispering Grass (Don't Tell the Trees) 1940 UK Sheet Music 1 for 11 weeks - Jun 1943, UK 40s Sheet Music 1 - May 1943 (21 weeks), Australia 1 for 1 month - Jul 1944, US Billboard 10 - 1940 (10...
Sino-Japanese War Stalemated
In 1940, after Nationalist Chinese victories in Changsha and Guangxi, and with her lines of communications stretched deep into the Chinese interior, Japan had reached a stalemate in the war with China. Although the Japanese ruled the large cities, they were unable to control the countryside. Japanese forces were also unable to defeat the Chinese communist guerilla forces in the Shaanxi province. Thus Japan was unable to achieve complete victory and China was unable to expel Japan from captured territory.
Literacy in Japan & USA
Literacy in Imperial Japan Illiteracy Rates USA
Imperial Japan at its Zenith
This book by Professor Kenneth Ruoff of Portland State University's Center for Japanese Studies, is a fascinating account of a culture based on heroic mythology that promoted an intense nationalism and belief that Japan was truly the light of Asia.
See black & white photos of Daily Life in 1940s New York
Kabei – Our Mother
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BrRQ7aRoug KABEI (our mother) In this beautiful, touching movie set during the rise of ultranationalism, a mother holds her family together after her husband is jailed for dissident scholarship.
In contrast with Japan's graceful homogeneity, American culture was diverse and comparatively unrefined .
The population of Japan proper in 1940 was 73,114,305. Estimated population in the exterior provinces of Korea, Formosa, Karafuto, Kwantung and the South Seas Mandate was an additional 32,423,893. Total: 105,538,198. While the USA was still deep in economic depression, Japan had essentially lifted out of it by the mid-1930s. But the 1930's were marked by political instability, intrigue, assassinations and attempted coup d'états. By the late 1930s, right wing militarists had firm control and political dissidence was vigorously suppressed. Imperial Japan's incursion into China ("The China Incident") had become a bloody quagmire with many Japanese losses. Here is a video that reminds us we are all still human.
Exotic Strangers Become Bitter Enemies
At the turn of the 20th Century, Japan admired and emulated the West in many ways. In return, it's probably fair to say that Americans found Japanese culture quaint and exotic. But, with the rise of militarism and Japan's expansion into East Asia, relations with the USA became strained as Western hegemony was challenged. Still, even in 1940, this gentle documentary about Japan was produced in the West. https://youtu.be/nyviAroBxZc


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Mike Bragman's uprising was crushed by Sheldon Silver; maybe, he says now, Silver did him a favor
Sean Kirst | skirst@syracuse.com
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Michael Bragman, then-majority leader of the state Assembly, leaves a classroom in 1995 at The Main Street School, in North Syracuse. Bragman and Sheldon Silver, Assembly speaker, were there to see the results of state investment in helping children with learning disabilities; within five years, the alliance between the two men unraveled.
(Dennis Nett | dnett@syracuse.com)
It was at Madison Square Garden, Mike Bragman recalls. That's when he began to think he really had a chance to outflank Sheldon Silver. This was early in 2000, snow still on the ground. Bragman - then-majority leader of the state Assembly - met about a dozen other Assembly members during a New York Knicks game.
Key among them: Thomas Manton, Queens County Democratic chairman. Bragman, Democrat of Cicero, maintains Manton promised his support as Bragman contemplated an all-or-nothing power move.
He'd try and oust Silver, longtime Democratic speaker of the Assembly. Bragman contends Silver had become increasingly isolated, autocratic: It was impossible for fellow Democrats, much less a Republican, to move even the most enlightened idea from committee unless it met every condition of the speaker.
Bragman's coup attempt unraveled. Manton, in the end, stuck with Silver, who turned Bragman into an example: He stripped him of legislative power and influence that took decades to establish. Bragman lost his rank, most of his staff. He was relegated to a small office at the capital.
Almost 15 years later, Bragman, now 74 and long retired from the legislature, spent much of Thursday listening to messages on his answering machine. Everyone wanted to know how he'd react to the news that Silver had been arrested by federal investigators, accused of using his influence to rake in millions in bribes and kickbacks.
If Bragman wanted to gloat, to say the Assembly made the wrong choice, this was the perfect chance.
He wouldn't do it. He said he's been away from Albany for a long time. He hasn't spoken with Silver for many years. And he saw no point in rejoicing at Silver's misfortunes, now.
"If (a guilty verdict) happens," Bragman said, "it's a very sad day, and it only further erodes the confidence people have in our elected system."
Besides, as he explained, maybe Silver did him a favor.
His grievances, he said, were always procedural, not personal: Thursday's events underline just how difficult it is to change leadership in the Assembly. It can happen when a speaker becomes seriously ill while in office, as in the case of Saul Weprin, Silver's well-loved predecessor.
Democratic Assemblyman Michael Bragman addresses the full Assembly during his unsuccessful effort, in 2000, to unseat Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver.
Another route is the strategy tried unsuccessfully by Bragman, when a challenger seeks enough votes to remove the speaker.
The final option, Bragman said, is criminal prosecution: That's what drove Mel Miller out as speaker in 1991 and lifted Weprin into power - and it could be the lever that unseats Silver.
"If he's acquitted, there's a good chance nothing will change," Bragman said. "If he's found guilty, he'll be removed. But if you put in the wrong person, it's business as usual
Yet this could also be "a watershed moment, a true moment of reform," Bragman said.
He'll watch with curiosity, he said, and limited hope.
At one time, he and Silver got along. In 1993, Bragman was appointed Democratic majority leader by Weprin, who'd soon endure a devastating stroke. With Weprin ill, Bragman said he helped craft the rules change that allowed Silver to serve as interim speaker.
In what Bragman describes as an especially difficult memory, he brought the proposal to Weprin, in the hospital. The stroke had left his old friend paralyzed. Weprin couldn't speak, but his eyes were wide open as Bragman read the document and explained what it meant. He promised Weprin, once he recovered, he could step in back in as speaker.
Weprin nodded, Bragman said, while a tear ran down his face.
Bragman began urging fellow Democrats to support Silver. When a core group of supporters joined Silver for a dinner to mark his ascension at a kosher Italian restaurant in New York, Bragman was there.
"We felt (Silver) was a bright guy, an honorable guy, who could help accomplish what we wanted to do," Bragman said.
Weprin died in 1994. Silver, the "interim" gone from his title, maintained an increasingly uneasy alliance with Bragman until 2000, when the uprising began and the Assembly split into factions.
"Things were broken," Bragman said of Silver's leadership. "It wasn't working. Priorities weren't being met. Rank and file legislators had no standing."
Bragman seemed an unlikely insurgent; he was a formidable fundraiser, with his own deep network of connections, who'd learned to flourish within the system. Coming from Upstate, he built his strength upon alliances; if he'd become speaker, he says now, he would have empowered rank-and-file Democrats, and he insists he would have found ways to give deeper meaning to the Republican minority.
In May 2000, believing Manton would be with him, Bragman pushed ahead. He declared he had enough votes to topple the speaker. That was on a Wednesday, with the vote scheduled for Monday. Five days gave Silver plenty of opportunity to reclaim dozens of votes.
While Bragman said he thought he had to observe that waiting period, he wishes now he had gone straight to the floor. He believes he had the votes, at the beginning, to topple Silver. It was a mistake, he said, to allow his adversary time to regroup.
"The speaker has such power that he or she can do whatever they want, withstand any challenge," Bragman said. He took calls from several supporters who told him their Albany careers would be at risk unless they aligned themselves with Silver.
Bragman stood before the full Assembly and gave a passionate address, demanding a new era of transparency. He received a standing ovation for most of the Republicans and many Democrats, but it didn't matter: The vote went against him, 85-63.
Silver quickly - and very publicly - stripped him of rank and authority. Less than a year later, Bragman learned he'd need surgery for prostate cancer.
In 2001, he retired to his homebuilding empire in Onondaga County.
Looking back on his defeat, he sees it as a kind of blessing.
"That's why I hold no ill will, no animosity," Bragman said.
Politics, he said, had been all-consuming master. He would get up at 4 a.m. on Mondays to drive to Albany. Wednesday, as majority leader, he'd travel to Manhattan. He wouldn't return to Cicero until Friday night, and then he'd spend the weekends on the phone,
doing state business.
"My family and I spend as much time together as we ever have," Bragman said. He has a chance to fully appreciate his twin daughters. He works alongside his son. He and his wife are enjoying their first grandchild.
It makes him laugh when people ask if he hates Sheldon Silver.
"I tell them absolutely not," Bragman said. "If I saw him today, I'd probably hug him and say he changed my life for the better."
A decade and a half after his coup went up in flames, he said his enduring concern with the Assembly isn't really about Silver.
What needs to change, Bragman said, is what it means to be the speaker.
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Medical Information Is Being Suppressed To Cover Up for the False Covid Narrative
Dear Readers: There is no longer any doubt that scientific information provided by renowned experts is being suppressed in order to protect the false Covid and vaccine narratives.
The medical bureaucrats, politicians, and presstitutes tell us that the Covid vaccine provides a high level of protection and that the new cases or "delta variant" are among the unvaccinated. This is a blatant lie contradicted by official reports from all over the world. We know for an absolute indisputable fact that 75% of what are labelled "new cases," "breakthrough cases," "delta variant," are among the fully vaccinated. We also have from the vaccine adverse reactions databases that deaths and illnesses associated with the vaccines are rapidly rising. A number of highly credible experts say that the alleged delta variant is actually the illnesses caused by the vaccine.
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Q: Python string concatenation speed I am testing the speed of different speed concatenation methods by concatenating the string representation from 1 to a large number(in my case, 20000000). The three methods that I am testing are:
import cProfile

count = 20000000

def profileWrapper(f):
    def wrapper(*args, **argv):
        pr = cProfile.Profile()
        pr.enable()
        string = f(*args, **argv)
        pr.create_stats()
        pr.print_stats()
        return string
    return wrapper

@profileWrapper
def naiveConcat():
    global count
    string = ''
    for i in xrange(count):
        string += `i`
    return string

@profileWrapper
def improvedConcat():
    global count
    string = []
    for i in xrange(count):
        string.append(`i`)
    return ''.join(string)

@profileWrapper
def fastestConcat():
    global count
    return ''.join([`i` for i in xrange(count)])

print 15 * "=", "naiveConcat", 15 * "="
naiveConcat()
print 15 * "=", "improvedConcat", 15 * "="
improvedConcat()
print 15 * "=", "fastestConcat", 15 * "="
fastestConcat()

I am expecting to see the improved method to be faster than the naive one, and it shouldn't' be much slower than the fastest method, but the result doesn't seem like that:
=============== naiveConcat ===============
         3 function calls in 3.951 seconds

   Ordered by: standard name

   ncalls  tottime  percall  cumtime  percall filename:lineno(function)
        1    0.000    0.000    0.000    0.000 cProfile.py:90(create_stats)
        1    3.951    3.951    3.951    3.951 str_concat.py:18(naiveConcat)
        1    0.000    0.000    0.000    0.000 {method 'disable' of '_lsprof.Profiler' objects}

=============== improvedConcat ===============
         20000004 function calls in 6.990 seconds

   Ordered by: standard name

   ncalls  tottime  percall  cumtime  percall filename:lineno(function)
        1    0.000    0.000    0.000    0.000 cProfile.py:90(create_stats)
        1    5.196    5.196    6.990    6.990 str_concat.py:26(improvedConcat)
 20000000    1.322    0.000    1.322    0.000 {method 'append' of 'list' objects}
        1    0.000    0.000    0.000    0.000 {method 'disable' of '_lsprof.Profiler' objects}
        1    0.473    0.473    0.473    0.473 {method 'join' of 'str' objects}

=============== fastestConcat ===============
         4 function calls in 3.043 seconds

   Ordered by: standard name

   ncalls  tottime  percall  cumtime  percall filename:lineno(function)
        1    0.000    0.000    0.000    0.000 cProfile.py:90(create_stats)
        1    2.539    2.539    3.043    3.043 str_concat.py:34(fastestConcat)
        1    0.000    0.000    0.000    0.000 {method 'disable' of '_lsprof.Profiler' objects}
        1    0.504    0.504    0.504    0.504 {method 'join' of 'str' objects}

The improved method turned out to be much slower even than the naive method!
This doesn't make sense since the naive method are creating new binding and copying the previous string along with the concatenated string character by character ON EACH ITERATION, this method should take O(n^2), which should be much slower than the other methods which are O(n).
So what makes the improved method so slow? The only reason that I can think of is the append method, but according to this article, the append method takes O(1), so it's definitely not the reason. Then what takes so long in improvedConcat()? Thank you.

A: The ncalls column of improvedConcat shows that you made 20000004 function calls, compared to just a few for the other algorithms.    Function calls aren't super cheap in Python, so try to keep those limited.  To demonstrate, I made a new test following your pattern called nop, which merely calls an empty function definition:
def foo():
    pass

@profileWrapper
def nop():
    for i in xrange(count):
        foo()
    return ''

I get similar timing results to your other test, and this NOP (No Operation) test results in
=============== nop ===============
20000003 function calls in 4.386 seconds

So you've got 4.4s of overhead making function calls.

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Get It Scrapped!: Organize, Visualize, Create. First edition, 2008. Written by Debbie Hodge. The book that began it all for a fun online community.
You can buy the book at Amazon.com, The F+W Media Book Store, and many local Joann's and AC Moore stores (don't forget your 40% off coupons for those local stores!).
You. Can you take the challenge to Organize? To Visualize? To Create? Can you be dared to review scrapping as you know it? Dare to tweak your system so you can more easily Get It Scrapped!
Since the number one reason you are scrapbooking is to share photos and stories, we'll put our focus there. Wait! Keep reading, don't get intimidated. I promise it won't be as bad as it sounds. We will break it down into achievable goals. This month we are going to work on organizing our photos. We may not get every photo filed and organized. We are scrapbookers after all; some of us may be looking at filing and organizing thousands of photos. It's best to approach this challenge without the stress by setting simple, clear defined goals.
Step 1. Gather all photos into one spot.
Printed photos – collect them all to one area, preferably where you can have some room to spread out.
Step 2. Decide upon a system for organizing your photos.
If you currently have a system in place, take a moment to think about whether it works for you. If it does: fantastic–you're done! If it doesn't work, think about why it doesn't and how that can be improved.
If you do not have a system, let's get one. Chapter 1 in Debbie's book is a fantastic point of reference for organizing photos. Don't have the book yet? Debbie's written about this in Getting Organized to Make Scrapbook Pages.
Step 3. Set a goal to spend ____ hours this month getting your photos organized.
Those three steps will get us ahead of the game. Imagine that shortly you will find yourself with 20 minutes to scrapbook. Now imagine spending the whole 20 minutes scrapbooking, no more wasted time spent looking for photos.
I hope you'll join me in the Challenge Forums. We can share before-and-after shots, encourage each other, and help each other with our systems. I'd also like to invite you to a chat on Tuesday, January 19th at 9:00pm EST (CHANGE IN DATE TO: Weds, Jan 20th at 9pm EST). Come on in and we'll talk about where we are with our organizing, have some laughs, and maybe win a scrapbook kit!
What are you waiting for? Go gather those photos; have fun doing it. Who knows? You may find a photo you'd forgotten about.
What a terrific plan, Tami!
OH my gosh…do I ever need to be pushed along to organize pre-digital photos. Got new scanner Christmas 2008 and have been so intimidated to learn how to scan printed pics and file pics digitally. OK. can do this.Thanks. Off to buy book.
Perfect – this may be just the push I need to finish organizing those photos and get caught up on a few things.
I'm trying to get organized but it is hard. I have almost all the photos is the right place. Now I'm redoing or rearranging my scrap space. What a job!
I just found this site so I'm obviously months behind but I like the idea. Are we gonna do any scrapping until month 5? I feel like if I don't get SOMETHING scrapped each month I'll just get more behind.


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A clinical trial of an artificial pancreas system showed that it was able to outperform current treatments for people with type 1 diabetes, and helped maintain blood sugar levels throughout the day as well as overnight.
By linking Tandem Diabetes Care's T : slim X2 alternate controller-enabled insulin pump with Dexcom's G6 continuous glucose monitor, the closed-loop system automatically divides the hormones based on blood sugar readings and other data, without the need for fingerstick draws or daily injections.
month trial — part of a series within the NIH-funded International Diabetes Closed-Loop Study — enrolled 1
68 participants age 14 and older and followed them into real-world settings. They received either an artificial pancreas system, dubbed Control-IQ, or a sensor-augmented pump and a CGM combination that did not automatically adjust insulin delivery.
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The Control-IQ system was better at helping participants keep their glucose levels within a healthy range — by an average of 2.6 hours per day more compared to the start of the study, while the control group showed no gains in time.
RELATED: FDA grants de novo clearance to Tandem's plug-and-play insulin pump
Additionally, users of artificial pancreas had few moments with spikes or drops in their blood sugar over a 24-
"This artificial pancreas system has several unique features that improve glucose control beyond what is achievable using traditional methods," said study co-lead author Boris Kovatchev, director of the Center for Diabetes Technology at the University of Virginia, which helped develop the algorithms behind the Control-IQ system.
"In particular, there is a special safety module dedicated to the prevention of hypoglycemia, and there is a gradually intensified control overnight to achieve near-normal blood sugar levels every morning," Kovatchev said.
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The study results were published in the New England Journal of Medicine, and Tandem Diabetes Care has also submitted the provided to the FDA for its review of Control-IQ. Its interoperable T: slim X2 pump received a new clearing this past February.
Elsewhere, Medtronic's closed-loop system, the MiniMed 670G, was first approved by the FDA in 2016 — but it doesn't administer automated insulin boluses, and instead modulates basal delivery, or background insulin. It was dubbed the world's first "hybrid" closed-loop system.
More time spent in-range can reduce the complications that can come with diabetes, according to researchers. "These results are impressive and clinically relevant, as it has been shown that for each 10% reduction in time spent in the glucose target range, the risk of development or progression of retinopathy increases by 64% and the risk of microalbuminuria development by 40%, "wrote Daniela Bruttomesso, of the University of Padua, Italy, in an accompanying NEJM editorial.
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It's my annual "Taxes from A to Z" series! If you're wondering whether you can claim wardrobe expenses or whether to deduct a capital loss, you won't want to miss it.
L is for Late Filing & Late Payment Penalties.
This year, Tax Day is April 18. That's the due date for filing your federal income tax return and paying any taxes due. If you fail to file and/or pay by that date, you may be assessed a penalty by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
A failure to file penalty may apply if you do not file by the due date. You should file your tax return on time – even if you can't afford to pay the tax in full – in order to avoid the penalty. The failure to file penalty is generally 5% of the unpaid taxes for each month that your tax return is late (but not to exceed 25% of your unpaid taxes). The penalty begins to accrue the day after the due date. If your return is more than 60 days late, you are subject to a minimum penalty of the lesser of $205 or 100% of the tax owed.
If you can't file on time, the best way to avoid a failure to file penalty is to request an extension (here's how). An extension extends the time to file, not the time to pay.
If you have extenuating circumstances, you may be able to get a penalty waiver for reasonable cause.
Interest will accrue in addition to the penalty. The interest rate is determined quarterly and is the federal short-term rate plus 3%. Since the imposition of interest is statutory, it's unusual for the IRS will waive interest on late payments, even for reasonable cause.
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Drift, admixture, and selection in human evolution: a study with DNA polymorphisms.
Bowcock, Anne M.
Kidd, Judith R.
Mountain, Joanna L.
Herbert, Joan M.
Carotenuto, Luciano
Kidd, Kenneth K.
Cavalli-Sforza, Luca
Accuracy of evolutionary analysis of populations within a species requires the testing of a large number of genetic polymorphisms belonging to many loci. We report here a reconstruction of human differentiation based on 100 DNA polymorphisms tested in five populations from four continents. The results agree with earlier conclusions based on other classes of genetic markers but reveal that Europeans do not fit a simple model of independently evolving populations with equal evolutionary rates. Evolutionary models involving early admixture are compatible with the data. Taking one such model into account, we examined through simulation whether random genetic drift alone might explain the variation among gene frequencies across populations and genes. A measure of variation among populations was calculated for each polymorphism, and its distribution for the 100 polymorphisms was compared with that expected for a drift-only hypothesis. At least two-thirds of the polymorphisms appear to be selectively neutral, but there are significant deviations at the two ends of the observed distribution of the measure of variation: a slight excess of polymorphisms with low variation and a greater excess with high variation. This indicates that a few DNA polymorphisms are affected by natural selection, rarely heterotic, and more often disruptive, while most are selectively neutral.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Science
10.1073/pnas.88.3.839
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This page of sounds is dedicated to the Maynard Ferguson fan. Perhaps you really enjoy Maynard's music and own several CDs, but there are several albums that you don't have (probably because most of them are out of print!). Here are some lesser-known tunes from The Boss. You can download the clips in wav or Real Audio format.
Rocky2 [wav file (306 k - 28 seconds)] [Real Audio]
Many Maynard fans don't know this, but Maynard actually recorded a tune for Rocky II. It was called "Rocky II Disco," and it's not considered one of MF's finest numbers. However, I still think that it displays Maynard's range and control very well. Just listen to the screaming in this clip!
The Spirit of St. Frederick [wav file (341 k - 32 seconds)] [Real Audio]
This is from the tune "The Spirit of St. Frederick." I receive numerous requests to include this "It's My Time" cut on my sounds page. This album, although panned by critics, had some shining moments. This clip features Maynard performing a particularly sassy solo!
Watcha Thinkin' [wav file (377 k - 35 seconds)] [Real Audio]
This clip is from a tune called "Watcha Thinkin'" that Maynard recorded with his High Voltage band in the late 80's. It appeared on the out-of-print album "High Voltage II" (Saxist Matt Wallace's first MF recording), and it shows off a more melodic and lyrical side of Maynard.
Blue Birdland [wav file (358 k - 33 seconds)] [Real Audio]
Anyone who's been to a Maynard Ferguson concert knows "Blue Birdland." It's Maynard's theme song, and has been for years. This recording came from the currently unavailable album "Big Bop Nouveau." I've included a clip of the dramatic conclusion.


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Robert E. Lee Statue Removed From US Capitol (VIDEO)
By Cristina Laila
Published December 21, 2020 at 10:01am
The statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee was removed from the US Capitol Monday morning.
The statue, which resided next to a monument of George Washington for 111 years, will be moved to the Virginia Museum of History and Culture.
Blackface-Klansman Governor Ralph Northam (VA) created a commission earlier this year to remove and replace the statue.
Each state is allowed to exhibit two statues in the Capitol and Northam's commission voted to replace the Robert E. Lee statue with Barbara Rose Johns, a black civil rights activist.
"The Confederacy is a symbol of Virginia's racist and divisive history, and it is past time we tell our story with images of perseverance, diversity, and inclusion," Mr. Northam said in a statement. "I look forward to seeing a trailblazing young woman of color represent Virginia in the U.S. Capitol, where visitors will learn about Barbara Johns' contributions to America and be empowered to create positive change in their communities just like she did."
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Q: Custom Notification View Doesn't Show Images I'm trying show an icon and a text on my notification bar. So I created a new layout for that, however only the text shows up and the icon doesn't.
This is how I create the notification:
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And this is my notification layout:
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My question is why does the icon doesn't show up in the notification bar?

A: Replace app:srcCompat="@drawable/ic_someicon" with android:src="@drawable/ic_someicon". You cannot use app-prefixed attributes with any RemoteViews scenario (custom notifications, app widgets, etc.).


The most important celebration in Vietnamese culture is Tet, or Vietnamese New Year. The word is a shortened form of Tết Nguyên Đán meaning "Feast of the First Morning of the First Day". The holiday is an occasion in which people dress in new fancy clothes and reinvent themselves. They get new haircuts, earrings, shoes, accessories. Parents and relatives also give money to and buy stuff for children. Tet's timing is based on the Vietnamese lunar calendar and usually falls in January or February.
When we set out on this trip we tried to be disciplined about what we brought along with us. Some advice we received was to pack half of what we think we'll need and bring twice as much money. After researching other travellers' packing lists, we made an inventory of everything we would bring. Anything that wasn't on that list didn't make it into our packs.
As an example, here's a shot of Nigel's clothing for the full eight months. Missing from the pile are shoes, two shirts and a pair of shorts.
We knew that we could pick up most things we needed along the way and that Da Nang would be the place to do so. Da Nang is 20km from Hoi An, a town full of bespoke tailors who can create any article of clothing that one could desire. Hoi An tailors enjoy a reputation as master craftsmen, able to copy any design they see, based on a picture, within 24-48 hours.
We could use more clothes. We have enough clothing to make it through a four-day period. Four days are fine if we have a washing machine but if we're cycling through hotels and cities, it's better to have extra shirts, dresses or shorts. Off we went to Hoi An yesterday.
It took us 90 minutes to choose material and get sized. We either left our clothes as design examples or the tailor sketched out the designs. None of us has ever had custom clothing made, so it's a sweet indulgence. And, Saga can ask for improvements on the design of the dress that she is getting: her current dress is too tight around her ankles and she hasn't been able to skip and jump as much as she needs to.
Louise and Nigel could use new eyewear. Our lenses are scratched and our frames are old. Not surprisingly, Da Nang also boasts top notch opticians. We went to a family run place operated by a father/ 2 sons team: Viet (son) Nam (father) and Ho (other son). Easy to remember. We've had glasses made for us in 48 hours. One of us has an unusual prescription and the optician needed to get a lens shipped from Hanoi.
So Tet came early for us. New fancy clothes, earrings for the girls (look at Ida's and Saga's ears above), and accessories for the parents. Now we just need to find a barber!
We so love getting these posts. It is the highlight of our mornings. : ) Looks like you are having a wonderful time. Thinking of you and hope Nigel is well on the road to recovery.  Please give our love to the girls!


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Riccardo Stracciari
Riccardo Stracciari (June 26, 1875 – October 10, 1955) was a leading Italian baritone. His repertoire consisted mainly of Italian operatic works, with Rossini's Figaro and Verdi's Rigoletto becoming his signature roles during a long and distinguished career which stretched from 1899 to 1944.
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Birth and Death Data: Born June 26, 1875 (Casalecchio di Reno), Died October 10, 1955 (Rome)
Roles Represented in DAHR: baritone vocal
Columbia 77085 10-in. 5/31/1917 Alla vita che t'arride Riccardo Stracciari Baritone vocal solo, with orchestra vocalist, baritone vocal
Columbia 77088 10-in. 5/31/1917 O de verd anni miei Giorgio Polacco ; Riccardo Stracciari Baritone vocal solo, with orchestra vocalist, baritone vocal
Columbia 77089 10-in. 5/31/1917 Pari siamo Riccardo Stracciari Baritone vocal solo, with orchestra vocalist, baritone vocal
Columbia 77261 10-in. 8/16/1917 Elégie Riccardo Stracciari Baritone vocal solo, with orchestra vocalist, baritone vocal
Columbia 78097 10-in. 10/4/1918 'O sole mio! Riccardo Stracciari Baritone vocal solo, with orchestra vocalist, baritone vocal
Columbia 78098 10-in. 10/4/1918 Maria, Mari' Riccardo Stracciari Baritone vocal solo, with orchestra vocalist, baritone vocal
Columbia 78099 10-in. 10/5/1918 Until Riccardo Stracciari Baritone vocal solo, with orchestra vocalist, baritone vocal
Columbia 78100 10-in. 10/5/1918 Santa Lucia Riccardo Stracciari Baritone vocal solo, with orchestra vocalist, baritone vocal
Columbia 78101 10-in. 10/5/1918 Canta pe' me Riccardo Stracciari Baritone vocal solo, with orchestra vocalist, baritone vocal
Columbia 78104 10-in. 10/6/1918 Funiculi, funicula Riccardo Stracciari Baritone vocal solo, with male vocal chorus and orchestra vocalist, baritone vocal
Columbia 78363 10-in. 3/20/1919 Si, vendetta Maria Barrientos ; Riccardo Stracciari Female-male vocal duet (soprano and baritone), with orchestra vocalist, baritone vocal
Columbia 78407 10-in. 4/23/1919 When the evening bells are ringing Riccardo Stracciari Baritone vocal solo, with orchestra vocalist, baritone vocal
Columbia 78602 10-in. 7/26/1919 Just as my own Riccardo Stracciari Baritone vocal solo, with orchestra vocalist, baritone vocal
Columbia 78645 10-in. 9/13/1919 An Eden fair Marchesa Eda Passano ; Riccardo Stracciari Female-male vocal duet (soprano and baritone), with orchestra vocalist, baritone vocal
Columbia 78686 10-in. 9/22/1919 Dear little boy of mine Riccardo Stracciari Baritone vocal solo, with orchestra vocalist, baritone vocal
Columbia 79636 10-in. 1/11/1921 Barcarolle Riccardo Stracciari Baritone vocal solo, with male vocal chorus and orchestra vocalist, baritone vocal
Columbia 79700 10-in. 1/29/1921 I shall meet you Riccardo Stracciari Baritone vocal solo, with orchestra vocalist, baritone vocal
Columbia 79701 10-in. 1/29/1921 Mattinata Riccardo Stracciari Baritone vocal solo, with orchestra vocalist, baritone vocal
Columbia 79719 10-in. 2/10/1921 La spagnola Riccardo Stracciari Baritone vocal solo, with orchestra vocalist, baritone vocal
Columbia 79736 10-in. 2/24/1921 Tu sola Riccardo Stracciari Baritone vocal solo, with harp and orchestra vocalist, baritone vocal
Columbia 79737 10-in. 2/24/1921 Parlatemi d'amor Riccardo Stracciari Baritone vocal solo, with orchestra vocalist, baritone vocal
Columbia 79875 10-in. 6/3/1921 Nostalgia Riccardo Stracciari Baritone vocal solo, with orchestra vocalist, baritone vocal
Columbia 49180 12-in. 4/19/1917 Pagliacci : Prologue Riccardo Stracciari Baritone vocal solo, with orchestra vocalist, baritone vocal
Columbia 49181 12-in. 4/19/1917 Largo al factotum Giorgio Polacco ; Riccardo Stracciari Baritone vocal solo, with orchestra vocalist, baritone vocal
Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Stracciari, Riccardo," accessed January 18, 2022, https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/103650.
Stracciari, Riccardo. (2022). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved January 18, 2022, from https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/103650.
"Stracciari, Riccardo." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2022. Web. 18 January 2022.
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A new study released from the Parliamentary Library in Canberra shows the number of women in Australian and state parliaments has doubled since the last study done in 1996.
The updated research paper Women parliamentarians in Australia 1921–2013, shows there was 664 women in parliament in December, up from 303 in 1996.
These statistics provide interesting reading for those following the increasing number of women in senior decision-making roles in Australia's governing institutions.
As these changes are flowing through national and state parliaments, the challenge for local government is ensuring activities reflect and accommodate greater participation of women as councillors and senior managers.
Currently, only 34 per cent of councillors are women, despite women comprising 50 per cent of the population.
The Victorian Local Government Women's Charter section on our website has a range of materials with suggestions about ways local government can increase participation of women in senior decision-making.
Bullying is not confined to one council. Research for the NSW Local Government Association indicated that 45 per cent of women councillors had experienced bullying and harassment. Male councillors also identified bullying as a concern. We need to ''red card" bullying in local government. There needs to be a wholesale shift across NSW local government to stamp out bullying..
Perth Lord Mayor Lisa Scaffidi has been awarded the second place in the 2012 World Mayor Project. She will receive the World Mayor Commendation in March.
SNIPPET: The Acting Minister for the Status of Women, Jenny Macklin, today called for public comment to help develop the next stage of the Australian Government's landmark workplace gender equality reforms. The introduction of the Workplace Gender Equality Act in November means employers with 100 or more employees will be required from 2014 to provide information against a standard set of gender equality indicators in their workplace. Other reporting matters could be about practical ways in which employers promote workplace gender equality.
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ABC News online graph. Comparison of number of men and women in 2013 Australia Day Honours.
How can countries close the gender gap?
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Call for Artists: VOX XIV (Philadelphia)
The application is available via SlideRoom, here
This opportunity is particularly for emerging artists without commercial representation who push boundaries in terms of form and content, employ alternative methodologies and want to expose their practice to new audiences. Vox Populi is interested in highlighting work in all media that is ambitious, timely and risk-taking.
About this year's juror, Didier William:
Originally from Port-au-prince Haiti, Didier William received his BFA in painting from The Maryland Institute College of Art and an MFA in painting and printmaking from Yale University School of Art. His work has been exhibited at the Bronx Museum of Art, The Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach, The Fraenkel Gallery, Frederick and Freiser Gallery, and The American Academy of Arts and Letters. He was an artist in residence at the Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation in Brooklyn, NY and has taught at Yale School of Art, Vassar College, Columbia University, and SUNY Purchase. His work has been reviewed by Hyperallergic, TwoCoats of Paint, The La Times, and the New York Times. He is currently Associate Professor of Art and the Chair of the MFA Program at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia.
Key Dates:
Application Deadline: Sunday, May 15th, midnight (11:59 pm)
Notifications: Early June 2018
Artwork Drop-off: June 27-29, 2018
Installation: July 6-13, 2018
Exhibition: July 13 – August 5, 2018
Artwork Pick-up: August 6-7, 2018
Submission Guidelines:
Applicants should submit a short statement, resume and up to five work samples (including images, audio files or short texts), along with an application fee of $35. All submitted work must be available and ready for exhibition, if chosen.
Selected artists should provide installation-ready work, complete with hardware. Artists are responsible for shipping artwork to and from Vox Populi (or for arranging delivery and pick-up) according to the calendar above. Works will be insured in line with Vox Populi's policies while at the gallery for the duration of the exhibition. Additional insurance, including transit insurance, is the responsibility of the artist.
Vox Populi reserves the right to photograph accepted works for publicity and educational purposes. Vox Populi reserves the right to reject works that differ from submitted images. Vox Populi is not responsible for works remaining at the gallery after the pick-up date.
Vox takes no commissions for sales of artwork; all inquiries will be directed to the artist.
The application for VOX XIV is available via SlideRoom, here
Questions? Contact: juried@voxpopuligallery.org


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'The Mandalorian' Is A Good Show About How Hard It Is to Be a Single Parent
Every episode of The Mandalorian is a totally new adventure. Each week introduces a new supporting cast, a new location, and even a new style of story; "Chapter 6 - The Prisoner," was a Star Wars twist on a classic prison break tale. Since this is basically a space anthology series, there are only a few constants from episode to episode: The Mandalorian himself, the baby Yoda he's unofficially adopted, and the inescapable feeling that being a single parent is the hardest job in the world.
While The Mandalorian's space setting makes the rigors of rearing a child (let alone "The Child") a bit more exotic and exciting than they would be for an earthling, the parallels to real-world father- and motherhood are all over the series. While Mando's helmet — and the fact that it keeps the character's emotions obscured, including from the audience — continues to frustrate me at times, the nice part about that featureless metal dome is it's easy to see yourself reflected in its opaque visor, and the show's unvarnished depiction of raising a kid.
One complaint I've seen raised a few times regarding The Mandalorian is the fact that Mando repeatedly leaves Baby Yoda — who he has destroyed his own life and career to protect — in the hands of relative strangers (or sometimes totally alone!) while he goes off and takes various jobs as a mercenary. And it is true that Mando does shove his Li'l Yoda Jr. into assorted closets more than probably another parent would (or, fine, should). The caretakers he finds around the galaxy are not always the most trustworthy, either.
But what is he supposed to do? He needs to earn credits to keep their ship fueled and operational. He needs to buy food for both of them. (It's not until you have kids yourself do you realize just how much goddamn bone broth kids can eat. They eat so much bone broth every day!) Mando's all alone. He has to do everything.
As a parent, I mostly see The Mandalorian as a slightly exaggerated versions of legitimate parental problems and fears. Unless you're a stay-at-home parent, Mando's dilemma is basically your life with slightly more aliens. Every single day of your life, you leave the most precious creature in the world to go to a job you probably don't want to be doing anyway to earn the money you need to keep them in coaxium and kyber crystals. Granted, hopefully you're leaving the kid in the care of someone you trust and not, like, on a pile of smelly old blankets in a bulkhead. But hey, most kids aren't one with the Force or 50 years old, either.
In "The Prisoner," Mando reluctantly reunites with a crew of mercenaries he'd worked with at some point in the past, and accepts a job as muscle on a team that's going to bust a criminal out of a New Republic starship. The team wants Mando because his ship, the Razor Crest, is not known to the New Republic and is better at evading radar detection. That means that Baby Yoda, hidden inside yet another compartment, is inevitably discovered by these reprobates that Mando has partnered with, thrusting the widdle cutie into yet another dangerous situation. Not surprisingly, the prison break goes poorly, the team turns on Mando, and their droid pilot Q9-0 attempts to kidnap Baby Yoda to collect the reward on his head. At the very last moment, Mando escapes the prison ship, returns to the Razor Crest, and blasts Q9-0. If he'd been just a few seconds later, we might have been writing The Child's obituary this week.
Again, these are probably not the wisest choices a single dad could make on behalf of his space son. Objectively speaking, the Mandalorian sucks at being a dad. And that is why The Mandalorian is such an appealing show about parenthood — because that, in my experience, is what parenthood is all about. You suck at it, you make terrible choices you quickly regret, and 98 percent of the time you are moments from catastrophe. You do everything, good and bad, with the best of intentions, in order to give that little child that you are responsible for the best possible life you can. Everyone remembers and quotes the adult Yoda's line from The Empire Strikes Back about how you do or you do not, there is no try. But with Baby Yoda — and babies in general — it's all about trying and failing over and over. And then trying again.
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November 2017Reviews
Reviews – November 2017
Advent reads
Advent for Everyone: A journey with the apostles / Unearthly Beauty: Through Advent with the saints
Tom Wright / Magdalen Smith
SPCK, £8.99 each, ISBNs: 9780281078387 and 9780281077182
In Touch with God: Advent meditations on biblical prayers
Michael and Rosemary Green
SPCK, £7.99, ISBN: 9780281078127
Christmas Through the Keyhole: Luke's glimpses of Advent
BRF, £6.99, ISBN: 9780857465207
If you are a daily reader, then two of these books will help keep your Advent reading focused over the four weeks. If you are a more 'dip in and dip out' type reader, you might choose any of these books and read by topic or theme.
In Touch with God offers prayers from some of the most well-known Old Testament people and then offers some psalms and looks at Mary, the shepherds and angels. It takes the biblical text and makes contextual comments, followed by a thought and prayer for each day. The information shared is thought-provoking and comprehensive but some of the 'thoughts for the day' are simplistic.
Advent for Everyone has set readings for each day and a week each for themes of thanksgiving, patience, humility and joy over the Advent period. Each day offers a Scripture reading and a relevant reflection to 21st-century Christian living. It is relevant, full of information and easily read.
Unearthly Beauty addresses the issue of keeping faith while living in the world today, and finds answers through Christians of the past. As I work in a tradition that does not focus widely on saints, this was a refreshing and thought-provoking book. Its author writes of the lives of 25 saints but also of her life and the world in which we live. Smith also offers challenges to our thinking and a range of prayer topics.
Christmas Through the Keyhole focuses on Luke and gives a daily reading. Again, it reflects Scripture passages, this time songs. Each week one long text is broken down day by day. Derek Tidball takes the songs – of Mary and Zechariah, Simeon and the angels, then John, Paul and Hebrews – and uses them to glimpse the story of the first Christmas in all its richness, joy, pain, agony and hope. Each day ends with a short Scripture as a focus for meditation.
Jenny Mills is Minister of Newport Pagnell United Reformed Church and West End United Church in Wolverton, Milton Keynes
Art-filled analysis of Revelation
Picturing the Apocalypse: The book of Revelation in the arts over two millennia
Natasha and Anthony O'Hear
£12:99
Martin Luther was no great fan of Revelation. In his 1522 preface to the book, he stated bluntly: 'I can in no way detect that the Holy Spirit produced it.' But that didn't stop his brilliant visual propagandist, Lucas Cranach, from exploiting its imagery (like the whore of Babylon) as they ratcheted up anti-papal rhetoric during the 1520s. Revelation still divides opinion. Scholars trace its apocalyptic cousins in the undergrowth of the literature of Second Temple Judaism whilst fundamentalists frighteningly incorporate it into a Baedeker's guide to the end times.
What the O'Hears (a father daughter team: Anthony is a philosopher and Natasha a theologian; both have acute art-historical eyes) establish is that it is an intensely visual text. Visions aren't sequential arguments. The mind's eye can be imprinted with a veritable panorama, and artists can reproduce that in a way that eludes commentators. For example, Hans Memling's St John's Altarpiece holds God in glory, a woman clothed with the sun, four horsemen of the apocalypse and other images on the same picture plane. In these ways, artists become profound exegetes of John's vision on Patmos and are allowed to be theologians on their own terms.
This sumptuously illustrated volume ranges across the centuries, from the 12th-century Lambeth Apocalypse through Turner, Blake, John Martin and on to Gordon Cheung, James Chadderton and Yolanda Lopez. The material is organised thematically around the central images of Revelation with exemplary clarity, and, as an added bonus, the authors cast insightful peripheral glances towards music, film and literature.
Picturing the Apocalypse invites the reader to ponder new perspectives, to see the familiar strangeness of Revelation through artists' eyes. As the O'Hears do so, particularly in their exposition of Blake, they restore to the book the centrality of Christ the lamb, and therefore the paradox at the heart of the faith – that it was by sacrifice and passivity that salvation was accomplished, by the cross that God's victory was won and the New Jerusalem fashioned.
David Cornick is General Secretary of Churches Together in England
Discover two Welsh hymnwriters
Flame in the Mountains: William Pantycelyn,
Ann Griffiths and the Welsh hymn
E Wyn James (Editor) and HA Hodges
(essays and translation)
Y Lolfa Cyf
This book is a collection of pieces by the English scholar who, with his colleague AA Allchin, did most to persuade the wider ecumenical and international Church to recognise the value of Welsh hymnody, as literature and as theology. Here are collected his reflections on two Welsh hymnwriters with Welsh texts and English translations of their work.
This might sound a rather obscure book, for the expert alone, but there is much here to draw many readers of Reform. Flame in the Mountains brings to our attention something beautiful that is in danger of being lost. In the time of William Williams and Ann Griffiths, Nonconformist chapels in Wales were flourishing. Many chapels are now closing, but they carried traditions of faith that we need to treasure – traditions carried in these hymns. In the case of these two writers, their work combines deep feeling with a biblical vision for human life, with intuitions of God and poetic language of 'wind and water and rock'. The language, even in translation, is simply stunning and deserves to last. Both have an intensity of expression, an appreciation of the sheer 'Godness of God' and a love and longing for God. Both were Calvinists in the sense of celebrating the 'infinite beauty and unquenchable love' of God.
William Williams (1717-1791) of Pantycelyn wrote around 1,000 hymns – possibly only one is well known in most of the United Reformed Church today ('Guide me, O thou great Jehovah') – but his poetry and skill fed churches for decades. Ann Griffiths (1776-1805) wrote from her quiet life on the family farm, only 70 stanzas and eight letters, but with great skill and effect.
Hodges wanted the rest of the Christian world to know this deep well of faith. It is one from which we should take the opportunity to drink too, for this is our family. Hodges also wanted us to hear these distinctive voices from a place he loved: 'Wales has a voice of its own, and has something to say.' He has helped us to hear it.
Susan Durber is Minister of Taunton United Reformed Church, Somerset
On YHWH, God and Israel
God, Neighbour, Empire: The excess of divine fidelity and the command of the common good
SCM Press
This wonderful, inspirational book is vintage Brueggemann, and anyone familiar with his writings will recognise features of his work that have made him, arguably, the world's leading Old Testament expositor. Once again, the Scripture is expounded with contemporary and prophetic urgency (a favourite Brueggemann word) and we are presented with a rich word in season.
The book begins with a chapter on the nature and mission of God, an examination of God's relationship with Israel expressed in terms of relationship and fidelity. This creates the context for an exploration of basic biblical themes, with chapters following on justice, grace and law. In each case, we are treated to close readings of the biblical text and new perspectives on familiar terms. Over it all, there broods the liberating (though sometimes troubling) figure of Yhwh, the God of Israel, who opposes Pharaoh and his relentless and destructive Egyptian economy, and who subverts the Medes and the Persians with their immutable and binding law. In a wide-ranging exposition, Brueggemann explores trajectories in the Old Testament that point us towards new horizons. Justice is read not 'from above' – from the perspective of the king and those in charge – but 'from below', through the eyes of those whose cries summon Yhwh's attention. Grace is expounded in all its excess, in terms of the second-chance offered to recalcitrant Israel, and beyond. Brueggemann's account of law leaves behind the narrow, rigid confines of the quid pro quo, drawing us into uncharted realms of divine excess and generosity.
Under Brueggemann's sure touch and with his profound insights, the Old Testament comes alive and excites, addressing us powerfully (though obliquely – as always with Brueggemann there is no rush to 'application' or 'relevancy'). This is scholarship at its very best, made available to the Church at large. Read this book thoughtfully and carefully, as it requires – and then re-read the world and the mission of the Church in these deeply troubling times.
Lance Stone is a minister of the English Reformed Church in Amsterdam
This article was published in the November 2017 edition of Reform
Commitment-Phobe: Church stress
Chapter & verse: Psalm 71


The route is provisional and not signposted as yet. You can cycle from Seurre to Chazelle along a towpath, although the track isn't good; alternatively, use the D 35d road. Then follow quiet roads across the plain to Verdun, but take care entering this town.
Between the trees, over the small Doubs river, take time out on the Saint-Jean Bridge and its tall arches spanning the river since 1810. If you are not too absorbed in the landscape, you can always reflect on the fact that in the Middle Ages, the bridge was not moored.


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