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Villegusien-le-Lac era una comuna francesa situada en el departamento de Alpes Marítimos, de la región de Provenza-Alpes-Costa Azul, que el 1 de enero de 2016 pasó a ser una comuna delegada de la comuna nueva de Villegusien-le-Lac al fusionarse con la comuna de Heuilley-Cotton.

Demografía

Los datos demográficos contemplados en este gráfico de la comuna de Villegusien-le-Lac se han cogido de 1800 a 1999 de la página francesa EHESS/Cassini, y los demás datos de la página del INSEE.

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Adam Wade from New Hampshire
Adam Wade recalls his elementary school "Space Month" on stage before a rudimentary drawing of astronauts.
In case you haven't noticed, storytelling has been the next big thing for, like, a decade now. Thanks to shows such as The Moth, what is perhaps the world's oldest art form has been revived as a "civilized" alternative to stand-up comedy and improv shows, with countless urbanites signing up for classes in search of fame, a creative outlet or simply a way to make new friends.
That said, storytelling does remain an art form, and although there is certainly a formula to a compelling story, some artists are more talented than others. Take, for example, Adam Wade: not only a purveyor of storytelling classes himself, but winner of the above-mentioned Moth's StorySlam competition a record-holding twenty times. With the kind of quirky modesty that can only come from growing up in New Hampshire, Adam recalls, constructs, embellishes and delivers memories—mostly about his awkward childhood—with the sort of flawed perfection that draws you into every tale to the point that you feel like you're experiencing the narrated event first-hand.
In tonight's show, Adam recounted a handful of heartwarming events from his grade school days: the time an errant wasp saved him from punishment when he pushed the boundaries of being teacher's pet a little too far; the night he became the Keith Moon of the New Hampshire bar mitzvah circuit; the embarrassment a teenage boy experiences (and causes) by befriending a bus driver. Between each perfectly-executed story, Adam pauses before a projected image that serves as cover art for the following tale, with an expression on his face that suggests he might break out in tears at any moment over the emotions with which each memory is charged.
Adam opens each show with a story by a guest speaker, and Scott Gawlicki started things off with a fun tale about sneaking into a Miles Davis concert, only to have to leave again for an emergency trip to the bathroom. If you're ever thinking of breaking the law, people, be sure to empty your bladder beforehand.
It's true that you can listen to some of the best stories online or on the radio (The Moth makes it easy with both a podcast and a weekly PRX radio hour), but to really appreciate storytelling, you have to see the gestures and facial expressions of the delivery; you must sit in the audience and share the tension of the people surrounding you. That's why hundreds of people wait impatiently at their computer keyboards for tickets for a StorySlam to go on sale, only to sell out a short few minutes later. But there's an easier way: just show up at the Adam Wade from New Hampshire show and snag one of the available seats before the word gets around and the lines form out the door. You're pretty much guaranteed a great evening of heartwarming stories, full of schadenfreude laughs and the occasional moment being on the verge of tears. In other words: a night of storytelling from a true expert in the field. 4
Andrew Andrews attended Adam Wade from New Hampshire at Kraine Theater in New York on Tuesday, January 3, 2017 @ 7:00pm to write this review.
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Monett Times
Stories from Saturday, December 2, 2017
Murray Bishoff: Finding the holiday glow all over again (Column ~ 12/02/17)
Now that it's officially the holiday season, or the post-Thanksgiving rush-to-the-end-of-the-year holiday-without-end, it's time to take stock of experiences that may get lost in the hustle of what Christmas has become. In the early 1990s, Monett set off to become a City of Lights for the holidays...
Fernandez sends Wildcats to championship game (High School Sports ~ 12/02/17)
Clinging to a 48-47 lead with 50 seconds left in the game, Verona senior Dominic Fernandez found the ball in his hands on the right wing beyond the arc. The senior initially hesitated, then released a bomb that found the bottom of the net and gave the Wildcats a two-possession lead and an eventual 54-49 win...
Monett wrestling rolls Branson (High School Sports ~ 12/02/17)
The Monett wrestling team puts its 1-0 record on the line when it heads to a triangular with Webb City and Diamond on Thursday. The Cubs opened the season with a 60-15 victory over Branson on Thursday and racked up five pins in the process. "I am pleased with our start of the 2017-2018 season," said Daryl Bradley, Monett coach. ...
Purdy Academic Team competes in Clever (12/02/17)
The Purdy High School's Academic Team took fifth place in the Nov. 18 Clever Tournament.
Purdy High School holiday royalty to be crowned Dec. 8 (12/02/17)
Purdy High School will crown its 2017 Mister and Miss Merry Christmas between the junior varsity and varsity boys basketball games on Friday, Dec. 8.
Elementary Students of the Week named (12/02/17)
Officials at Monett Elementary School have chosen students demonstrating the characteristic of being responsible as Students of the Week for Nov. 27.
Verona Elementary honors students for responsibility (12/02/17)
At Verona Elementary School, Principal Melody Whitehead recognized students as outstanding examples of character, focusing on responsibility in November.
Purdy Elementary School honor roll released (12/02/17)
The first quarter honor roll at Purdy Elementary School has been announced by Principal Julie Dalton. Students named to the A honor roll follow: Third grade — Lizett Aldava, Emile Maddocks, Alexa Robles, Cyris Williams, Andelynn Vineyard, Allison Lopez, Hector Rueda, Brennan Hawkins, Alex Stubblefield, Avery Campbell, Kimberly Canales and Ryan Farris...
Purdy educators present at conference (12/02/17)
Purdy High School communication arts teachers and National English Honor Society co-sponsors Michelle Hilburn and Kayla Branstetter recently attended the National Council of Teachers of English conference.
Scott Tech welding students donate canned goods (12/02/17)
Students from Scott Regional Technology Center recently attended the Student Chapter of the American Welding Society monthly meeting. Among the activities, students had an opportunity to do community outreach. Out of several locations, students chose to donate canned goods to Body of Christ Ministries in Wheaton, selected in a drawing. Students brought in 2,018 cans, and $600 in cash. The seniors of the Scott Tech Chapter selected the number of 2018 in honor of their upcoming graduation date...
Wilkin couple celebrate 45 years of marriage (Anniversary ~ 12/02/17)
Bobby L. and Melba Wilkin of Aurora will celebrate 45 years of marriage with a come and go reception hosted by their children.
Monett family welcomes daughter (Births ~ 12/02/17)
Jordan and Ashley Williams, of Monett, announce the birth of their daughter, Ruby Ruth, born Nov. 21 at Cox Monett Hospital.
Dorothy Jones to celebrate 90th birthday (Other Record ~ 12/02/17)
A 90th birthday party for Dorothy Jones of Monett will be held on Sunday, Dec. 10 from 2 to 4 p.m. at the First Baptist Church on South Highway 37 in Monett. The daughter of Earl and Effie Clifton, Dorothy was born on Dec. 10, 1927 in Rocky Comfort. ...
Santa to appear in Marionville on Dec. 9 (National News ~ 12/02/17)
Santa will be a busy person beginning this weekend, making appearances at Jolly Mill today and the Cassville Christmas parade.
Janice Beshears celebrates 88th birthday in style (Other Record ~ 12/02/17)
Janice Beshears turned 88 on Nov. 11 with a surprise party hosted by her family.
Verona restaurant to expand (Business ~ 12/02/17)
On Dec. 17, the Guanjuato Mexican Store and Restaurant in Verona will close for major remodeling, anticipating a reopening in March. According to Clemente Gonzalez Jr., oldest son in the family-owned business, the expansion will mostly focus on the customer area, expanding seating capacity in the restaurant by approximately 50 percent...
Jack Henry acquires Ensenta Corporation (Business ~ 12/02/17)
In a major move, Monett-based Jack Henry and Associates (JHA) acquired the Ensenta Corportation, expected to vault the company into the nation's leading provider of remote deposit solutions in the financial industry. On Tuesday, JHA entered into a definitive agreement for the acquisition of California-based Ensenta, a leading provider of real-time, cloud-based solutions for mobile and online payments and deposits. ...
News in brief (Local News ~ 12/02/17)
b The McDowell Golden Jubilee will offer old-time music at 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 2, at the McDowell School, west of Pleasant Ridge. Musicians and spectators are welcome. Concessions are available. For additional information, people may call Kenny at 417-461-4697...
Full range of color offered in evening sunset (Local News ~ 12/02/17)
A striking sunset this week, seen in the background of the First United Methodist Church in Monett, showed a wide range of colors from blues, yellows and reds.
Cub Run raised $2,500 for activities, support at MES (Local News ~ 12/02/17)
Jay Apostol burned the Cub Run track to finish the 5K run in 23.37, the first place finisher for the event.
Miss Merrie Christmas royalty named (Local News ~ 12/02/17)
Holiday royalty has been named at Monett High School. By a vote of the student body, Rosa Fulton, daughter of Jock and Sue Fulton, has been named Miss Merrie Christmas.
School board filings begin Dec. 12 (Local News ~ 12/02/17)
Pierce City School District patrons interested in filing for one of two open school board seats on the April 3, 2018, ballot may file a declaration of candidacy at the office of the superintendent during normal operating hours of 8 a.m. and 4 p.m., beginning Tuesday...
Holiday activities scheduled in Monett schools (Local News ~ 12/02/17)
Christmas holiday activities have been announced for the next two weeks at the various Monett school district campuses. On Thursday second-graders from Monett Elementary School will perform their Christmas program at 6 p.m. at the high school's performing arts center (PAC)...
Monett Annual Performance Review tally drops slightly (Local News ~ 12/02/17)
The Annual Performance Review, released by the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) on the Monett School District, raised no major concerns, according to officials, and underlined the ongoing effort to improve education efforts...
Schreiber structural steel set for expansion (Local News ~ 12/02/17)
Structural steel is mostly in place for the new Schreiber Foods addition on Dairy Street in Monett. Traffic has been periodically disrupted and reduced during construction. "We're expanding our process cheese capabilities in Monett," said Andrew Tobisch, director of communications for Schreiber Foods in Green Bay, Wisc. ...
Sidewalk replace project wraps up in Monett (Local News ~ 12/02/17)
Crews for HHR (Hood Home Repair) Contractors this week put the final touches on the sidewalk replacement on the south side of Broadway from Tenth Street to the Centennial Overpass.
Ambulance board moving toward sales tax vote (Local News ~ 12/02/17)
Barry-Lawrence Ambulance District board members have opted to move forward on calling for a public vote on a sales tax to support the district as replacement for the current property tax. For much of the district's history, board members have discussed how to bring territory served by the district under the property tax umbrella paid by other patrons. ...
Purdy, Verona to meet for title (High School Sports ~ 12/02/17)
It will be an All-Ozark 7 Conference battle for the Pierce City Invitational crown on Saturday as Purdy, thanks to a 63-55 win over Billings, faces Verona. "Right now, we are focused on Verona and what we can control," said Jeremy Dresslaer, Eagles coach. "If we play our game and play to our best ability, we will live with the results."...
Weekend, December 2-4, 2017
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Q: C# make parent panel handle all event I was on my way to create a custom Progress Bar when I hit this problem [WinForm]
**The Structure:**
 -panel
   -> panel
  so I have panel which inside the panel, there another panel.

**The Goals:**
-I want to use my parent panel as all event handler,
 while make the child panel have no event at all.

**The Problem:**
- when I press my mouse inside the child panel. the event in parent wont called.
  explanation : -> I still wanted to call parent panel mouse down
  even if I click on top of my child panel.

A: So you want the click event to fire on the parent Panel when the child panel is clicked.
I can think of 2 ways you can do this.
First way is to simply call the Click event handler method for Panel1 from inside the Panel2's Click event handler method:
private void panel1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    MessageBox.Show("Panel 1 clicked.");
}

private void panel2_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    this.panel1_Click(sender, e);
}

Probably a better way would be to register both click events to the 1 handler method:
private void panel1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    MessageBox.Show("Panel 1 clicked.");
}

Then from the Form Designer or manually register the event for the second panel:
this.panel2.Click += new System.EventHandler(this.panel1_Click);

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As a general rule, I avoid the kitchen. I can't stand cooking. Really, I can't. But even I felt the tiniest quiver of excitement when we got the CFDA's American Fashion Cookbook at work. After a few of my fellow writers borrowed and returned it with glowing reviews, I was determined to give at least one of the recipes a whack. I settled on designer Cynthia Steffe's Apple Crisp. Fruit crisps are my favorite thing in the world, and it was – dare I say – kind of fun learning how to make crisp from scratch.
Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease the baking dish.
Place a layer of apple slices in the pan and sprinkle with some of the lemon juice. Repeat the layers until all the apples are in the pan. Lightly press down on the apples to even them out.
Mix the flour, sugar, cinnamon, and salt in a food processor fitted with a steel blade. Add the butter and process, using repeated pulses, until the mixture resembles coarse meal.
Transfer to a bowl and toss together with coconut, Panko breadcrumbs and oats.
Press the crumb mixture evenly over the apples, making sure the edges are well sealed.
Bake at 350°F until the top is golden brown and the apples are tender, approximately 1 hour.
I'm going to veganize this.
An apple crisp a day.. belongs in my bellay!
I love eating apple crisp, and making it is fun, too! My favorite part is using the apple/corer/peeler/slicer!
The best thing about apple baked products is all the apple skin you get to eat once you've peeled them.
Apple Crisp is manna from heaven. I love apple crisp day at my school!
apple crisp is the best food ever invented.
does anyone know where I can get a cheap decent apple corer/peeler/slicer?
Jenn, you don't like cooking?! Is it because you feel you can't cook very well? Or the impossible…you just don't like it? I for one LOVE it, because,1:there are SO many delicious things you can make that you can't get in the shops 2:Things magically taste better if you make it yourself and you know that there isn't anything artifial in it.3: It is a great way too spent time with someone.
@Kit — I wish I loved cooking! I love the end result, but every time I try to cook I just can't wait for it to be over. Probably because I'm absolutely hopeless in the kitchen, haven't got the patience, and usually don't have to feed anyone other than myself. I've noticed that I do have fun cooking with or for other people, though, so I should try and do that more!
Do you have any recipe recommendations for a rookie cook?
I think one of the main reasons I like to cook IS because I love to see the enjoyment people get from eating it. And I love cooking with my mum, she thinks she isn't that great at it, but really she is.
Preheat oven to 160C or 150C fan-bake. In a large bowl, mix the first 7 ingredients. In another bowl, beat the eggs, oil, vanilla, and pineapple (including liquid) with a fork. Stir both mixtures together just until all the ingredients are mixed. Pour into a 23cm square baking pan lined with baking paper. Bake for about 45 minutes until the centre feels firm and if you stick a skewer in the centre it comes out with no uncooked batter on it. Leave for 5-10minutes before turning out. When cool you can ice it, but it isn't necessary.
Beat together until creamy 2Tbsp cream cheese, 2Tbsp room temperature butter, 1/2 tsp vanilla and 2 cups icing sugar. Spread over cooled cake and sprinkle with chopped walnuts.


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Récréations postales – A Translation Case Study
Oxford, 2nd November 2018
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Glasgow, 13 December 2019
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The Decadent Movement originated in France during the second half of the nineteenth century, when Decadent writers and artists turned away from social and artistic conventions towards elaborate, esoteric and transgressive forms of artistic expression. By the 1890s the movement had spread across Europe and exerted its influence upon British culture. The power and allure of Decadence influenced some of the most important writers of the period, such as including Oscar Wilde, Walter Pater, Arthur Symons, George Moore, John Gray, George Egerton (Mary Chavelita Dunne), Ernest Dowson, Lionel Johnson and Michael Field (the pen name of Katharine Bradley and Edith Cooper). For these writers, Decadence offered a powerful means of affiliation with an artistic avant-garde. It also provided a set of conceptual tools to explore urgent questions about the meaning of modernity.
As a practical necessity, translation lay at the heart of Decadent writers' programme of artistic innovation and cultural inquiry. All of the British writers listed above, consumed and, crucially, produced translations in a variety of forms. These ranged from open and credited translation proper to unacknowledged embedded versions of foreign texts. Importantly, this was also true for major continental writers linked with Decadence, including Charles Baudelaire, Stéphane Mallarmé, Paul Verlaine, Gabriele D'Annunzio and Hugo von Hofmannsthal.
But translation was also a significant theoretical concern for these writers. As a form of authorship, translation helped Decadent writers to complicate standard accounts of originality in literature. In terms of politics, translation became a means for these writers to engage with foreignness and raise questions of cultural identity. This was particularly important during a period that witnessed both an unprecedented increase in international communication and an entrenchment of national differences.
In this way, translation helped to give a distinctive shared identity to writers associated with the Decadent movement across Europe. It became intrinsic to their thinking about the very nature of writing itself. This new emphasis transformed literary culture, anticipating the international perspective commonly associated with the Modernist movement in the early twentieth century. Studying how Decadents engaged with translation to interrogate their international modernity can help us make sense of similar, crucial questions of national identity and cultural allegiance that we face today.
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Translating Gabriele D'Annunzio for the Twenty-first Century Reader
'Translating Decadence' – 13th December 2019
Récréations postales: A Visit to Special Collections
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Captures the Marshall flavour. Excellent build.
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The amp-in-a-box genre is something that Wampler has specialised in with a range of individual pedals channelling Fender, Vox and Marshall sounds, as well as a couple of boutique US amps. The Plexi-Drive is designed to be a Marshall in a box, part of the Heritage Series along with AC30 and both 'blackface' and Tweed Fenders.
"Classic rock tones are delivered with ease as you turn up the wick"
Controls-wise, you get gain, volume and tone knobs to dial in the variations, plus a switchable bass boost, designed to deliver the heft of a 4x12 pushing air.
Wampler says this sits somewhere between a JTM45 and an 18-watt model, and that vintage Marshall tonal flavour and crunch is certainly apparent. Classic rock tones are delivered with ease as you turn up the wick, but there's also a range of lower-gain overdrive that doesn't immediately scream the 'M' word.
If you don't have a Marshall stack but want to give your amp that sort of voice, or you want to run a Marshall quieter while retaining the tone, try it out.
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Form Energy to build novel iron batteries in West Virginia steel town
The extremely well-funded long-duration storage startup Form Energy found an eager partner in West Virginia's state government.
An aerial view of Weirton, West Virginia (The Folkway/Marissa Fanary)
The West Virginia town of Weirton lost its steel industry years ago. But on Thursday, it gained a new kind of iron industry.
Startup Form Energy picked Weirton from among 500 possible locations to manufacture its forthcoming long-duration energy-storage technology. The novel iron-air battery is designed to store clean energy, affordably, for 100 hours, far more than the four or six hours of storage that lithium-ion batteries provide today.
The factory complex will create 750 jobs and invest $760 million in the community, a figure that includes $290 million of planned incentives from the state of West Virginia. The state Economic Development Authority greenlit $75 million to purchase 55 acres and build the facility; the state will retain ownership of land and buildings as a form of collateral for its other incentive contributions.
West Virginia Governor Jim Justice (R) announced the deal with a childhood reminiscence about watching his hometown team play Weirton in the state basketball finals in 1962, when Weirton's steel industry employed thousands and the town thrived. Since then, Weirton has experienced "tough, tough times." The new factory will change that, he said, while continuing West Virginia's legacy as a crucial energy-producing state.
"We want West Virginia to be known forevermore as that energy state that always figured it out," Justice said.
It's hard to get more cutting-edge than iron-air batteries, a technology that has not yet been installed in a full-scale power plant. Form co-founder and CEO Mateo Jaramillo left Tesla's energy-storage business to tackle the problem of long-duration storage: How can we take renewable power, which doesn't flow around the clock, and turn it into a reliable 24/7 power source?
"To reach renewable energy independence, to meet supply-chain challenges, to run the grid reliably and affordably, we need new, domestically manufactured energy-storage technologies capable of cost-effectively storing electricity for multiple days," Jaramillo explained at the announcement event in West Virginia Thursday.
Form assembled an impressive team of experts, many of them hailing from MIT, and scoured the periodic table for materials that could not just store energy but do it cheaply. They chose iron, which is abundant and low-cost relative to other storage materials. And the company's prototypes advanced quickly enough that investors poured in increasingly large sums to fund the precommercial development.
Just in October, Form raised $450 million; Jaramillo told Canary Media at the time that this money would go to doubling headcount, finishing validation and testing for the product, and building the first factory.
Noon Energy raises $28M for a whole new kind of long-duration storage
Long-duration energy storage to get $350M boost from Dept. of Energy
"It became abundantly clear that Weirton, West Virginia, that historic steel community that sits on a river and has the rich heritage, raw infrastructure and know-how to make great things out of iron, would be the ideal location for our first commercial battery production facility: Form Factory One," Jaramillo said.
He also thanked West Virginia's leadership for cultivating a "pro-business landscape" and supporting workforce development. Geographically, Weirton sits in the northern panhandle of West Virginia, nestled amid a historic industrial region. It's just 36 miles west of Pittsburgh, and across the river from Ohio; Youngstown sits 60 miles to the north.
West Virginia's pro-business attitudes historically focused on the coal and gas sectors. Coal and gas plants compete with the cheap renewable power that Form promises to store; indeed, unlocking long-duration storage would allow renewables to compete more directly with the gas plants that deliver on-demand power today.
Justice, the governor, resolved that potential tension by embracing Form's factory as a means to diversify West Virginia's economy.
"We need to embrace all the renewables, all the alternatives, while never forgetting — never, ever forgetting — our coal miners, our gas workers, and all the goodness that we have with our natural resources," Justice said.
Fellow West Virginian Joe Manchin, the Democratic senator, adopted a similar perspective in the climate legislation that he brokered as the Inflation Reduction Act. He stripped language that would have pushed coal and gas plants to close but created a decade of federal tax credits to encourage clean energy deployment.
The law includes the first stand-alone credit for energy storage installations, such as the ones Form will supply. And there is an added bonus for projects utilizing domestic content, like what Form will manufacture in Weirton.
Form Energy is the latest in a string of companies announcing new domestic factories in response to the supportive policies in that legislation. Justice recalled a not-so-distant time when "we were really, really excited when we had an announcement of eight jobs at a water bottling plant." Now Form is bringing 750 jobs, to start.


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If you go to Vienna, you must reserve a table at the famous Kornat Restaurant. One of it's specialties is a Squid Risotto made with the black ink from the squid providing a wonderful flavour and color to this dish.
Sumptuous with one of the restaurant's wonderful wines from a well stocked and tourable wine celler. Try the Polz Muskat with this dish!
My traveling buddy, Kaos awaits on the sensor for the light to change to cross the Vienna road!
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Mystery Music
By Soroh Menucha Peltz23 Kislev 5781 (December 9, 2020)January 2nd, 2023No Comments
The Tale of Johannes Of Oppido, the Norman Convert
What is the connection between: A Norman nobleman, a converted Archbishop, a lunar eclipse, the First Crusade, a messianic Karaite, and a mysterious piece of music?
The thread that ties them all together is one man: Johannes of Oppido, better known as Ovadia HaGer.
Elkan Nathan Adler (1861–1946)
Elkan Nathan Adler was puzzled. As the first European to enter the Cairo Genizah, he was in possession of a huge and extremely rare collection: 25,000 ancient manuscript fragments. One of those fragments appeared to be a strange "marriage" between the Jewish and Christian worlds. It was a beautifully composed eulogy for Moshe Rabbeinu, named "Mi Al Har Chorev," written in perfectly formed, elegant Hebrew letters. It was composed of six rhymed couplets, and Adler supposed that it had been written for either the Yom Tov of Shavuos or Simchas Torah. Yet strangely, above each delicately inscribed line hovered musical notation that obviously originated with the Italian Church.
Adler dispatched the fragment to the Benedictine Fathers of Quarr Abbey, situated on the Isle of Wight, a tiny island off the coast of Britain, hoping they would be able to identify the notation and shed some light on the rare find. The decisive response of the priests arrived during April 1918: The music notes were "Lombardic" style neumes (predecessors of today's notes and staves) of the type in use by European Christians at the end of the twelfth and beginning of the thirteenth century.
Compounding the mystery of the fragment's strange synthesis of Jewish and Christian elements was the fact that the style of the scribe's Hebrew lettering could not be attributed to any location in Europe. Moreover, the paper used was thick, slightly tan and clearly Egyptian, similar to the type seen in many Genizah manuscripts of the twelfth century.
The manuscript fragment was considered a rare treasure, puzzling scholars and students for centuries. In 1947, famed musicologist Eric Werner examined it, made a highly accurate transcription of the nuemes and stated:
Its style is closely akin to that of the Gregorian plainsong Church, if we disregard one or two embellishments which seem alien to Gregorian style… Of course, the fact that our manuscript is so similar to Gregorian tunes is not surprising since it is today proved beyond any… doubt that the root of Gregorianism lie in the music of Palestine and Syria…
He then quoted a Catholic musicologist, Father Dechevrens:
Gregorian chant is the music of the Hebrews, and there is for the totality of the Roman Catholic melodies but one modal system – not that of the Greeks, but of the sacred nation of the Hebrews.
Desc.: Quarr Abbey House, Isle of Wight
Source: Pictures in Colour of the Isle of Wight
In short, both Werner and Dechevrens admit that it is not so strange to see Church notations associated with a clearly Jewish piyyut (poem), as their original source was in fact the "sacred nation of the Hebrews." He seems almost to imply that the fragment proved that Gregorian chant, although used in the church until today, was applied to Jewish Piyyutim and sung in Shuls during the middle-ages independent of any Christian influence!
But there is a more powerful, and more likely, explanation for the odd manuscript. The answer to the mystery lies in its author.
In November 1964, Professor Norman Golb made a tremendous discovery. He took it into his head to compare the hand-writing of the mysterious piyyut with that of another piece of parchment from the Genizah. It matched. Proving that the author of both fragments was a Jewish convert named Ovadia HaGer, formerly Johannes of Opiddo.1Obadiah the Proselyte: Scribe of a Unique Twelfth-Century Hebrew Manuscript Containing Lombardic Neumes, Norman Golb.
An Unlikely Inspiration
Desc.: Obadiah Musical Compositions, Song 1 Verso
Source: johannes-obadiah.org
In approximately the year 1070, twin boys were born to Dreux and Maria, residents of Oppido Lucano, Italy. The elder was named Rogerius, and the younger Johannes. Dreux was a Norman nobleman, and Rogerius, being the scion of the household, was sent to learn the arts of war and chivalry. His younger brother was designated as the family scholar and sent to study priesthood.
While he was still a young child, Johannes heard of a mind-boggling occurrence: The Archbishop of Bari (a Roman Catholic archdiocese in southern Italy), Andreas, had converted to Judaism. Church officials of varying strands of Christianity were astonished at this high-profile conversion. Johannes writes in his memoirs (the primary source of this information) that "the Greek sages and the sages of Rome were ashamed when they heard the report about him."
Andreas left Bari, forsaking his homeland, his priesthood, his following, and his glory, and headed to Constantinople (Istanbul) where he underwent a bris milah. His life from that day onward was dogged with hardship, particularly due to non-Jews who pursued him with violent intent – but Hashem consistently saved him from their designs. He was pursued not only because he had brought "dishonor" upon the Church, but also likely because of the large number of non-Jews who had converted, following his example.
Andreas eventually left Constantinople and journeyed to Egypt, where he lived out the rest of his days.2The Autograph Memoirs Of Obadiah The Proselyte Of Oppido Lucano And The Epistle Of Barukh B. Isaac Of Aleppo, Norman Golb and Obadiah Memoir, Obadiah the Proselyte aka Megillas Ovadia HaGer Ovadia HaGer. Soon after hearing of the extraordinary events concerning the Archbishop, young Johannes recorded in his memoirs, he had a strange dream. He envisioned himself serving as a priest in Oppido when he saw a man standing to his right, opposite the altar. The man in his dream called his name, "Johannes!" The remainder of the dream has been lost to history, since the fragment found in the Cairo Genizah was torn and incomplete. One may surmise, however, that it had something to do with the previous account of Andreas recorded by Johannes, and possibly, that the man in the dream commanded him to become a Jew as well.
Nevertheless, it was to be twenty years before Johannes himself converted to Judaism. How he spent those twenty years remains a mystery, but it is assumed that he furthered his studies in the Church.
A Crusade against Judaism
A red moon before and after an ecclipse.
The next fragment of Johannes' memoirs discusses the First Crusade, which took place when he was approximately 30 years old.
He describes an eclipse which took place in February of 10953A Partial Lunar Eclipse occurred on February 22, 1095: "The Moon was strikingly shadowed in this deep partial eclipse which lasted 3 hours and 7 minutes, with 71% of the Moon in darkness at maximum." https://moonblink.info/Eclipse/lists/luncat/1081, accessed 7 December 2020. or 10964A Total Lunar Eclipse occurred on February 11, 1096: "A dramatic total eclipse lasting 1 hour and 40 minutes plunged the full Moon into deep darkness, as it passed right through the centre of the Earth's umbral shadow. While the visual effect of a total eclipse is variable, the Moon may have been stained a deep orange or red colour at maximum eclipse. This was a great spectacle for everyone who saw it. The partial eclipse lasted for 3 hours and 48 minutes in total." Ibid. as being an important omen of the evil to come. He quotes the verse from Yoel (4:4):
The Sun shall turn into darkness and the moon into blood before the arrival of the great and awesome day of Hashem.
He describes the Frankish soldiers questioning among themselves why they were bothering to travel to Jerusalem to fight their enemies, when their own hometowns harbored heretical foes. This kind of sentiment was what spurred the anti-Jewish actions of Crusaders. Golb writes, "it is clear that he knew of the persecutions and possibly was a witness to some of them."
A few years later, Johannes converted to Judaism, assuming the name Ovadya. He may have chosen the name because Ovadya the Navi was reputed to have been a Jewish convert from Edom.5Sanhedrin 39b. His inspiration to proselytize seems to come from a combination of Andreas' example and his own realization of the falsity of the teachings of the Church in which he'd been immersed for so long.
His disillusionment with the writings of Christianity is confirmed by a letter of recommendation that Rabbi Baruch of Aleppo, Syria, penned on his behalf. Ovadya described his noble ancestry to the Rabbi, and related how due to "what he read in the books of their error, he returned to the Lord of Israel with all his heart, with all his soul and with all his strength…"
When he arrived at the Beis Din, the dayanim asked him what made him want to join the Jewish nation, since the Jews, after all, were "in sorrow, oppressed, despised and scorned." The First Crusade should have been more than an adequate deterrent for any potential convert.
Ovadya responded that he knew well enough, but that he had only come out of love for Klal Yisrael. Having ascertained that his motive was indeed that of "love," R' Baruch records how the dayanim warned him about the strict Torah prohibitions he would have to observe — but cushioned them with descriptions of the reward he would accrue for keeping the mitzvos as a Jew. When he accepted the conditions, they immediately circumcised him, and when he had healed, he completed his conversion by immersing in the mikvah.
The letter concludes with an injunction that the reader should be careful to respect, and refrain from causing harm to, Ovadya, because someone who wounds the feelings of a ger tzedek transgresses three negative commandments, and someone who oppresses him, infringes upon two. The purpose of the letter is stated as being, "That it might be kept by Ovadya the Ger (for use) in all communities of Israel to which he might go."6Epistle of R. Barukh of Aleppo, Rabbi Baruch of Aleppo.
This letter was likely put to good use, as Ovadya soon took to the road. Destination: Baghdad.
Persecution in Baghdad
Desc.: Cairo Geniza – Obadiah the Proselyte, Document XVI – letter of Baruch ben Isaac of Aleppo
Author: Baruch ben Isaac of Aleppo
Source: Bodleian Library, MS. Heb. a. 3, fol. 1a
Credit: Wikimedia Commons
On his way to Baghdad, Ovadya encountered a fleeing army that attempted to harm him, but he escaped with his life. When he arrived at the city, once again his life was put at risk. In an era where every day brought news of Crusader success, it was not surprising that the local Muslims wanted to kill the light-skinned, Norman convert on sight.
He eventually escaped and reached the Jewish community, where he waited at the door of one of the synagogues. He was given a room to board in a Shul and provided with food. After some time, Rabbi Yitzchak, one of the Roshei Yeshiva, instructed him, like the legendary Rabbi Akiva, to sit at the back of the cheder to begin by learning the aleph-beis.
During the time Ovadya spent in their community, the Baghdadi Jews endured much suffering at the hands of their overlord, a Vizier named Ibn al-Shuja. After his numerous attempts to kill them failed, he imposed an edict requiring special headgear, a lead necklace and a belt to be worn by every Jewish man. Every Jewish woman had to wear unmatched shoes – one red and one black – and a small brass bell, either around her neck or on her feet.
He appointed gentile male and female oppressors to concoct ways to afflict them further. He levied taxes upon them, and if a Jew were to die without having paid his tax, he would not be released for burial until they had been paid. If a Jew died penniless, he would have to be redeemed by his brethren, otherwise, the local non-Jews would have him cremated.
During the course of his Baghdad memoirs, Ovadya also discusses the antics of the false Mashiach, Shlomo ibn Ruji and his son Menachem.7See "An Ancient Duo of False Mashiachs", Kankan, issue 16 for further details.
Ovadya's Travels
After a sojourn of several years in Baghdad, Ovadya decided to return to Syria. He described arriving in Aleppo during the siege of Roger of Antioch (circa 1118 CE). He also relates how, to his deep gratification, the Jewish community of Damascus put up a collection for him and supported him while he remained with them. In 1121, Ovadya left Damascus for Banias, in the north of Eretz Yisrael. There he engaged in a fascinating discussion with an apparently eccentric Karaite named Shlomo, who claimed to be the Mashiach. Shlomo predicted that Jerusalem, then in the hands of the Crusaders, would be liberated in two and half months! The astute Ovdaya asked him the following incisive question:
"I have heard that you are a descendent of Aharon the Kohen. Now, today it is 19 years since I converted, but I have never heard that the Jews are seeking salvation through a Kohen or Levi, but rather through Eliyahu Hanavi and the Melech Hamashiach, who descends from David Hamelech," Ovadya informed him. He then asked Shlomo to give him a sign that proves his claim.
The imposter casually responded, "I do not eat bread, nor do I drink water!"
Ovadya did not stop there. He pressed him, "So, what do you eat?"
Shlomo proceeded to outline a generous diet! "Pomegranates, figs, almonds, nuts, sycamore-fruit, dates and apples which grow from trees and shrubs, and I also drink milk."
Ovadya must have revealed his plans of continuing to Egypt, because Shlomo tried to persuade him to head to Eretz Yisrael instead and await the "kibbutz galuyos" (ingathering of the exiles). Ovadya declined, informing Shlomo that he would proceed to Egypt and return to Eretz Yisrael with the Egyptian Jews. To that, Shlomo had no rejoinder.
Considering the paper upon which he wrote his memoirs, which is clearly of Egyptian origin, and the fact that they were eventually found in the Cairo Genizah, it is evident that Ovadya did indeed arrive in Egypt. In addition to his fascinating diary, he recorded a number of beautiful piyyutim: "Mi Al Har Chorev," –'Who on Mount Sinai,' a praise of Moshe Rabbeinu, "Baruch HaGever Asher Yivtach B'Hashem"–'Praised is the man who trusts in G-d' and "V'aida mah" – 'That I might know!' – a plea that he should "know what to speak within the gates… teach me!"
All of these poems have Lombardic musical notation, a facet which puzzled numerous scholars. But knowing who Ovadya was, immediately solves the riddle: An Italian monk, familiar with the classic Church musical notation, who converted to Judaism. And when he wrote his beautiful Judaic poetry, he knew of only one method of recording the melody to accompany it – the notation of his youth.
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It's an intriguing notion to tell the story of Western gunslingers Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday -- culminating in the iconic 1881 shootout at the O.K. Corral -- with an all-femme cast of 11.
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Bess Earp - Carol Linnea Johnson
Hattie Earp - Laura Hankin
Kate Haroney - Ariela Morgenstern
Pauline Rackham - Tina Stafford
Maude - Cara Massey
Cora - Karla Mosley
It's an intriguing notion to tell the story of Western gunslingers Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday — culminating in the iconic 1881 shootout at the O.K. Corral — with an all-femme cast of 11. Intriguing, yes; but this concept doesn't allow us to see, know or understand Wyatt Earp. The authors and director of chamber-tuner "I Married Wyatt Earp" do put four of the gals in black hats for the final fusillade, but that doesn't illuminate matters. For all the talk about the men, Earp and his brethren remain offstage and unexplored.
The intention, clearly, is to show frontier life through the viewpoint of frontier women; the authors present the novel notion that most of the girls were former prostitutes. They fight amongst themselves, they bond, some die. And they sing; boy do they sing, innumerable songs with music by Michelle Brourman (whose credits include multiple installments of the kid-friendly animated dinosaur video series "The Land Before Time").
But when push comes to shove, and when the men start beating the women or shooting each other, the action is necessarily offstage. In some cases the authors have their protagonist — the one who married Wyatt Earp, looking back at 1881 Tombstone from 1944 Hollywood — gruffly impersonate a man by barking out a few lines, so unconvincingly as to be almost laughable.
Carolyn Mignini plays the elder Josie Earp like someone's evil stepmother, having glamorized her husband's legend, at the expense of others, for decades. Yet Mishaela Faucher, as the younger Josie, is clearly our heroine: brave, smart, and honorable. (The little-known Faucher is also the finest performer on the stage, and quite a find.) Which makes for a faulty mix; Josie is our hero in the flashbacks and the murderous villainess in real time. Do we like her or not? Whether this is a problem of acting, writing or direction is unclear; probably all three.
Heather Mac Rae and Stephanie Palumbo are convincing as the older and younger Allie Earp, sister-in-law to Wyatt. Anastasia Barzee does well as the laudanum-addicted former Mrs. Wyatt, as does Laura Hanken as Earp's young niece.
But the book by Thomas Edward West and Sheilah Rae is cluttered by those 11n women, as is Cara Reichel's staging and Joe Barros' choreography. (Reichel and Barros artistic directors of the two producing organizations.) Rae's lyrics do not impress, nor does most of the music, despite a professional four-piece orchestration by Bruce Coughlin. Show has been in development since 1994, with readings and workshops peopled by folk like Graciela Daniele, Carol Lawrence and Tovah Feldshuh.
A few musical moments show signs of life — like "Room to Breathe," a second act duet — and the show is at its best when all 11 characters are singing. But one has to wonder when they have Holliday's mistress (Ariela Morgenstern) — having been beaten, pummeled and left in the gutter by the sheriff — sing a big comedy number complete with Hungarian step-dancing.Musical numbers: "Don't Blame Me for That," "Unpacking Dreams," "Nothing Like the Girls at Home," "When a Maiden Makes a Promise," "I Ain't Goin' Back," "High Class Attraction," "Mama, oh Mama," "They Got Snakes Out Here," "Pins and Needles," "Didya Hear?" "Little Black Sheep," "It's Different This Time," "In the Cards," "Room to Breathe," "The Dust," "Games Are Everywhere," "I'd Do It All Again," "Stand Our Ground," "Shootout," "All These Years"
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Production: A Prospect Theater Company/New York Theater Barn presentation of a musical in two acts with music by Michele Brourman; lyrics by Sheilah Rae; book by Thomas Edward West and Rae, suggested by "I Married Wyatt Earp: The Recollections of Josephine Sarah Marcus" by Glenn G. Boyer. Directed by Cara Reichel; choreographed by Joe Barros. Music direction, Remy Kurs.
Creative: Sets, Ann Bartek; costumes, Ryan J. Moller; lights, Jorge Arroyo; sound, Andy Leviss; orchestrations, Bruce Coughlin; stage manager, Naomi Anhorn. Opened May 26, 2011, reviewed May 24. Runs through June 12. Running time: 2 HOURS, 15 MIN.
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Nokia C3, C6, and E5 are the latest entities to its gallery of smartphones. Keeping up its ante on fostering social interaction on the web, they are set to enter the market later this year.
Online PR News – 14-April-2010 – – If Nokia C3 and C6 are meant for the masses who love to go for social interaction, the Nokia E5 is one of the rarest smartphones ensuring smooth business messaging.
All mobile phones are in line with new QWERTY phones proposed to capture market later this year.
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Review: Prince and the Purple Rain Era Studio Sessions – 1983 and 1984
(Featured Image: Cover art for Prince and the Purple Rain Era Studio Sessions – 1983 and 1984 by Duane Tudahl, from Amazon .)
It is no exaggeration to say that without Duane Tudahl, Prince fandom and Prince scholarship would both look very different. In the 1990s and early 2000s, Tudahl was one of the amateur historians behind Uptown, the venerated fanzine that remains the chief source of what we know about Prince's work beyond the official studio recordings. If you have a dogeared copy of Per Nilsen's Dance Music Sex Romance or Alex Hahn's Possessed on your shelf, if you've ever consulted Prince Vault for information on a rare outtake, and yes, if you're reading this very blog, Tudahl is among the people you have to thank.
But Uptown's research, for all its significance, is getting a little long in the tooth. The magazine has been defunct for well over a decade, during which time new information on Prince's recording sessions have continued to emerge unabated; so it was with great excitement that many of us learned Tudahl was preparing an update. Prince and the Purple Rain Era Studio Sessions: 1983 and 1984 is the first of, hopefully, many such updates–and I don't think I need to tell this particular readership that it is absolutely essential.
As the title suggests, Tudahl takes a long view of the "Purple Rain era," beginning in the middle of the 1999 tour in January 1983 and ending with the completion of Around the World in a Day in December 1984. Obviously, setting firm chronological boundaries on the work of an artist in perpetual motion will always be arbitrary; Tudahl, however, makes a good case for his selection. The 24 months he chose include Prince's slow ascension to superstardom, and his first post-crossover left turn; the "official" formation of his most iconic band, the Revolution, and the beginning of their expansion with vital auxiliary musicians such as Eric Leeds; the club show that provided the nucleus for much of the Purple Rain film and album , and the stadium performances with which he promoted them. This is, in other words, an era that provides a fascinating microcosm for the various trends, tensions, and themes that would persist throughout Prince's career.
1983 and 1984 are also where Prince recorded some of his most popular and accomplished music: not only Purple Rain and Around the World in a Day, but also the Time's Ice Cream Castle , Sheila E's The Glamorous Life , the eponymous albums by Apollonia 6 and the Family, and many of his most renowned B-sides: "Irresistible Bitch," "Erotic City," "She's Always in My Hair." Even the songs written for other artists in this period are household names: "Manic Monday," "Nothing Compares 2 U," "Sugar Walls" (well, maybe not "Sugar Walls"). Regardless of one's personal feelings on the "Purple Rain era," it's undeniable that this was one of the artist's richest and most prolific periods, making it the perfect place to start with what could easily have been a dry, pedantic "for fans only" exercise.
That being said, it still takes a special kind of music geek to read a 550-page book about the recording sessions for (give or take) a single album. This is, by its very nature, not a book for casual fans; but it's to Tudahl's credit that it is immensely readable, as much of a page-turner as a chronological studio record can possibly be. The author brings to life the heart of his research–work orders obtained from Sunset Sound, Prince's base of operations in Los Angeles at the time–with judiciously-selected quotes from former engineers, band members, and other collaborators, as well as some (through archival means) from Prince himself. For writers and researchers like myself, of course, Prince and the Purple Rain Era Studio Sessions will be invaluable as a resource for information about this period (I just hope all of us are considerate about citing our sources). But for readers who just want to learn more about an artist working at the peak of his powers, the insight it provides is just as worthy.
I say this a lot in reviews on this blog, but I mean it especially this time: if you read and enjoy dance / music / sex / romance, you need to buy this book. Not just because it will be of interest to anyone with a desire to dig into Prince's oeuvre song by song, but because, quite frankly, we owe it to Duane for his decades of hard work, without which I know none of my writing on Prince would exist. Plus, I'm dying to get another one of these for 1985-86. Let's make it happen!
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Podcast: I Know That the Lord is Coming Soon – Erica Thompson on the Salford Purple Reign Conference
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It's been just under two months since I started interviewing presenters from this spring's interdisciplinary Prince conference at the University of Salford, and I've been absolutely thrilled with the results. But all good things must come to an end, so I had planned to make this chat with writer Erica Thompson the last of my post-conference podcasts. It would have been a great choice, too; Erica's presentation was the result of many years of research for a book project on Prince's spiritual journey, so our conversation was less about the conference in particular and more about her findings more generally: a nice segue into future, less Manchester-centric episodes.
But just when I think I'm out, they keep pulling me back in. Contrary to my own statements in this episode, I have already set up another interview with a few presenters from one of the conference's gender and sexuality panels. So basically, expect me to keep interviewing scholars from the Purple Reign conference until the next milestone in Prince scholarship comes along. And in the meantime, please enjoy my and Erica's conversation about the importance–and, sometimes, difficulty–of understanding Prince's religious faith in relationship with his art.
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By Zachary Hoskinsin Podcast September 15, 2017 443 Words5 Comments
Podcast: Empty Room – Part 4 of a Conversation with Jane Clare Jones
(Featured Image: April 14, 2016; photo stolen from prince.org)
I have to begin with another apology: I had hoped to get this last installment of the podcast up early in the week, but I've been busy with job interviews, house hunting, and most recently, an illness that is definitely audible on the outro I recorded last night. But here, at last, is the final full installment of my now month-old conversation with writer, philosopher, and fellow Prince obsessive Jane Clare Jones. This is the one we've been building up to for the last month: a reckoning with the psychological factors that led to last year's deeply tragic, avoidable death. But in case you're concerned this will be prurient muckraking in the Prince: The End/When Doves Cry tradition, please know that it's coming from a place of genuine love, and is grounded in research rather than wild speculation. And if you're also (justifiably) concerned that it's going to be a depressing slog, I promise it's not all as grim as it might sound.
And with that, the first wave of the d / m / s / r podcast is over! Jane will be back, probably sometime next month, to talk about the Purple Reign interdisciplinary conference at the University of Salford; I also still have a short, lighthearted chunk of our original conversation that didn't quite fit this episode that I'd like to post at some point. But other than that, the future is a blank slate. I'd love to hear your thoughts on where to go with the podcast–topics to discuss, suggested guests, etc.–because it seems a shame to go to the trouble of making a feed, etc. just for one month of episodes. In the meantime, as always, you can find me on any of the major podcast services–iTunes, Stitcher, and Google Play–where you're invited to leave a rating or review; you can also listen to the podcast on Mixcloud. I hope you've enjoyed these as much as I have. Thanks!
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By Zachary Hoskinsin Podcast May 19, 2017 530 Words45 Comments
Podcast: The Most Beautiful – Part 3 of a Conversation with Jane Clare Jones
(Featured Image: Mayte and in their wedding program, 1996; © Noelle-Elaine Media Consultants.)
Way back in mid-April, I spoke with writer, philosopher, and fellow Prince obsessive Jane Clare Jones for so long that our conversation ended up being split into four parts; but by the end of that conversation, we were also talking around things more often than we were talking about them. So, last week, we got together for a redo. The resulting podcast is a Frankenstein's monster–but a fun, interesting Frankenstein's monster!–of our original discussion on Mayte's The Most Beautiful (placed, for maximum confusion, at the end) and some setup for the things we were talking around–which we'll finally address in our episode next week. We also take advantage of the passage of time by discussing some of the major developments in the Princeverse last month: the Celebration, "Deliverance," and that godawful TV movie. I promise it's all a lot more coherent than it sounds.
You can listen to the podcast here or on any of the major aggregators: iTunes, Stitcher, and Google Play; feel free also to subscribe and leave a review on the service of your choice. We should have it up on Mixcloud soon, too. If you're just coming in now, you can–and should!–check out the first and second episodes here. As always, thanks for listening!
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By Zachary Hoskinsin Podcast May 5, 2017 January 25, 2018 353 Words27 Comments
Podcast: Dig If U Will – Part 2 of a Conversation with Jane Clare Jones
(Featured Image: Prince emerges from the bath in the "When Doves Cry" video; © Warner Bros.)
A week and a half ago, I recorded what was supposed to be a single, one-to-two-hour podcast with writer, philosopher, and fellow Prince obsessive Jane Clare Jones; needless to say, we ended up talking for almost six hours, which necessitated us splitting the conversation into parts. In this second installment, we begin with a discussion of Ben Greenman's new book, Dig If You Will the Picture: Funk, Sex, God, & Genius in the Music of Prince ; but that discussion quickly branches out into more interesting conversations about Prince's supernatural ability to enter "flow," his unparalleled understanding of women's desire, and his complicated relationship with spirituality and religion.
Next week, we'll dig into another recent book about Prince–the memoir of his ex-wife, Mayte Garcia–and begin to take full stock of our feelings in the wake of his passing last April. If you missed the first episode, you may want to check it out before listening; also, I'm happy to announce that dance / music / sex / romance is now on all the major podcast aggregators (iTunes, Stitcher, and Google Play), and available for streaming on Mixcloud. If you like what we're doing, please do subscribe and leave a review on your service of choice; this will help increase our visibility on the respective platforms. As always, thanks for listening!
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By Zachary Hoskinsin Podcast April 27, 2017 July 24, 2018 460 Words56 Comments


I've always struggled with my weight. I was an overweight child, an overweight teenager, and an overweight college student. (In short: so much teasing and so few dates!) It wasn't until after graduation when I decided to do something about it. I joined Weight Watchers and two years later, I lost 75 pounds and weighed in at 130. After wearing a size 16 for so long, I didn't realize a size four was even possible! It didn't last long because that weight was far to low for me to maintain. The scale crept up to a comfortable 145 to 150, which I was able to stay at for quite a few years. Unfortunately, that's not really the case anymore.
Now that I'm in my 30s, my metabolism has taken a nosedive. Beer fests and dining out has caught up to my waistline. So much so, that I didn't believe the scale could be correct. It was so high! I was convinced it was broken (it wasn't) and bought a new one last week.
So, I'm back on the Weight Watchers bandwagon, I've done the Jillian Michaels 30 Day Shred video everyday after work for two weeks, and I'm already seeing a difference. I've lost two pounds, .5″ from my waist, and an inch from my hips.


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Ecolog International ist ein Militärdienstleister mit Hauptsitz in Dubai, die deutsche Niederlassung hat ihren Sitz in Düsseldorf. Bekannt wurde das Unternehmen unter anderem für die Versorgung von Truppen der ISAF in Afghanistan und der "Koalition der Willigen" im Irak.

Geschichte
Der Unternehmensgründer Nazif Destani wuchs im Rheinland auf, sein Vater Lazim Destani sorgte bis zum Bosnienkrieg gewerblich für den Transport jugoslawischer Gastarbeiter von und nach Deutschland. 1998 erfuhr Nazif Destani in der Kosovo-Hauptstadt Priština von den Problemen der Bundeswehr beim Waschen der Soldaten-Wäsche und gründete Ecolog zunächst für diese Aufgabe.  Mit über 13 Millionen US-Dollar lag der Anteil der Bundeswehr an diesen Einnahmen um 10 Prozent. Im Jahr 2010 sind im Haushalt des Bundesverteidigungsministeriums 50 Millionen Euro für Aufträge an Ecolog vorgesehen.

Ecolog International erweiterte sein Tätigkeitsfeld und den Umfang der angebotenen Dienstleistungen seit der Unternehmensgründung durch Destani: Neben der Versorgung von Truppeneinsätzen etwa von KFOR und ISAF stehen inzwischen Öl-, Gas- und Minengeschäfte sowie Dienstleistungsangebote im Logistikbereich, bei Konstruktion und technischer Planung. Ecolog wirbt mit dem Werbeslogan:

Seit 2005 hat Ecolog International Deutschland GmbH seinen Sitz in Düsseldorf, wo zuvor bereits Nazif Destanis GIED GmbH ansässig war, die sich mit der , insbesondere in Mazedonien, befasste.

Unternehmensstruktur

Management und Mitarbeiter
Vorstandsvorsitzender ist der Ecolog-Gründer Nazif Destani Ali Vezvaei ist Vize-Vorstandsvorsitzender. Mitglieder des Verwaltungsrates sind Thomas Wachowitz – seit 2002 in verschiedenen Funktionen beim Unternehmen – sowie Steve L. Arnold. Der 1997 in den Ruhestand getretene General und zwischenzeitliche Manager des Konkurrenzunternehmens KBR (Kellogg Brown & Root) leitet die Ecolog Inc. seit 2007. Seit 2010 fungiert zudem António Gonçalves als CEO von Ecolog International. Sevri Destani repräsentiert Ecolog-China in Shanghai.

Nach Unternehmensangaben arbeiten im Jahr 2014 rund 12.000 Mitarbeiter weltweit für Ecolog International. Laut Berichten der Wirtschaftswoche stellten im Jahr 2006 Mazedonier, vornehmlich aus der Gegend um Tetovo, aus der auch die Gründer-Familie Destani stamme, 90 % der Mitarbeiter. Die deutsche Ecolog International GmbH beschäftigte zu dieser Zeit lediglich zwei bis drei Dutzend Angestellte. Seit 31. August 2020 sind Dr. Stefan Liebing zum CEO und Fisnik Demiri zum stellvertretenden Geschäftsführer der Ecolog Deutschland GmbH bestellt.

Niederlassungen
Unter Berufung auf  berichtete die Frankfurter Rundschau im Jahr 2006, dass die verschiedenen zu Ecolog gehörenden Unternehmen juristisch nicht miteinander verbunden seien. Durch diese  sollten  vermieden werden, da der damalige Vorstand Wachowitz  führe und

Im Jahr 2014 besteht Ecolog International aus mehreren unabhängigen Niederlassungen weltweit: Neben dem Hauptquartier in Dubai bestehen Unternehmens-Depandancen in neun weiteren Ländern: Ecolog Inc. in den Vereinigten Staaten, Ecolog International Deutschland GmbH, Ecolog DOOEL in Mazedonien, Ecolog Enternasyonel Servis ve Hizmet Çözümleri Ticaret ve Limited Sirketi in der Türkei, Ecolog Consulting in China, APK ISS Ecolog Eurasia LLC in Russland, Ecolog International Iraq, Ecolog International Afghanistan, sowie APK Integrated Service Solution in der Mongolei.

Ecolog ist Mitglied verschiedener Lobbyorganisationen der Rüstungsindustrie, darunter die German Defence Technology Group, der Förderkreis Deutsches Heer, die Association of the United States Army, die International Peace Operations Association und das Corporate Council on Africa. Auf verschiedenen internationalen Rüstungs- und Sicherheitskonferenzen präsentiert sich Ecolog, unter anderem als "Goldsponsor", setzt sich für die  ein und vertritt das Konzept des Public Private Partnership im Militärbereich. Ecolog betrachtet sich selbst als Vorreiter

Während die  in der deutschen Öffentlichkeit bis 2009 fast unbekannt war, ist Ecolog für in Afghanistan oder im Kosovo eingesetzte Bundeswehrsoldaten hingegen ein fester Begriff, da das Unternehmen in den dortigen Feldlagern Dienstleistungen wie Müllbeseitigung, Abwasserentsorgung und die Reinigung der Schmutzwäsche erledigt.

Unternehmensportfolio

Geschäftsfelder

Nach eigenen Angaben ist das Unternehmen in den Bereichen Flugdienst, Logistik, Catering, Treibstoff, Container, Hoch- und Tiefbau, Telekommunikation, Reinigung, Wäscherei, Mobiltoiletten, Wasser- und Energieversorgung sowie Abfallentsorgung tätig, was es zusammenfassend als "mobile Infrastrukturleistungen" bezeichnet.

Als Haupttätigkeiten in Afghanistan gelten Wäscherei, Treibstofflieferung und Müllentsorgung der ISAF-Truppen. Anfang 2007 reinigte beispielsweise die Ecolog-Station in Masar-e Scharif mit 40 Waschmaschinen und drei Großwaschmaschinen rund 700 Beutel mit Schmutzwäsche täglich.

Kunden
Zu den Kunden von Ecolog International zählen nach eigenen Angaben im Irak amerikanische, britische und italienische Streitkräfte, sowie der wichtige amerikanische Militärdienstleister KBR, der etwa 2008 Verträge mit einem Volumen von rund sechs Milliarden US-Dollar mit der US-Bundesregierung schloss und Ecolog als Subunternehmer mit Teilen davon betraute. In Afghanistan ist Ecolog außer für diese Kunden auch für die ISAF-Soldaten der deutschen Bundeswehr und das Projektbüro der Deutschen Polizei (→ Auslandseinsätze der deutschen Polizei), sowie für die Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ), die Deutsche Botschaft und die Deutsche Entwicklungsbank tätig. Ebenso zählen oder zählten in Afghanistan das NATO-Hauptquartier und die verbündeten belgischen, bulgarischen, estnischen, finnischen, französischen, kroatischen, norwegischen, schwedischen, spanischen und türkischen Streitkräfte zu den Ecolog-Kunden, außerdem die Kanadische und die US-amerikanische Botschaft.

Kritik und Kontroversen

Entführte und getötete Mitarbeiter
Im Irak wurden 2004 vier für ein Ecolog-Subunternehmen arbeitende Wäscherinnen erschossen. Drei mazedonische Bauarbeiter wurden dort im selben Jahr entführt und getötet. 2005 wurden im Irak vier Mitarbeiter nach Lösegeldzahlungen durch Ecolog freigelassen, weitere entführte Mazedonier sollen freigelassen worden sein, nachdem die Entführer feststellten, dass es sich um Muslime handelte. Im Februar 2006 ließen Entführer zwei Ecolog-Angestellte nach Zahlung von angeblich einer Million US-Dollar Lösegeld frei. In Afghanistan, wo damals rund 80 Prozent der Ecolog-Mitarbeiter tätig waren, wurden am 11. März 2006 vier mazedonische Ecolog-Mitarbeiter entführt und getötet, darunter ein Onkel von Nazif Destani. Gleichzeitig wurden vier afghanische Ecolog-Mitarbeiter wieder freigelassen. Beim Transport der Leichen starben neun afghanische Polizisten durch eine Landmine.

Ecolog zahlt keine Gefahrenzulagen, da in ihrem Geschäftsfeld jeder Einsatz gefährlich sei.

Vorwurf der Qualitätsmängel
Nach Recherchen der Frankfurter Rundschau und der Wirtschaftswoche wurde 2010 scharfe Kritik an der Qualität der Ecolog-Dienstleistungen laut:

Es habe  gegeben, berichteten die Zeitungen unter Berufung auf das Verteidigungsministerium. So habe Tarnkleidung nach mehrmaligem Waschen durch Ecolog einen "rosa Stich" bekommen und sei mit Nachtsichtgeräten zu gut zu sehen gewesen, weil sie  enthielten. Daraufhin änderte die Bundeswehr die entsprechenden Ecolog-Verträge. Das Verteidigungsministerium schreibt dem Unternehmen seit 2009  vor. Auch Diesel-Lieferungen bereiteten Probleme, da sie bereits bei leichtem Frost ausflockten. Um dies zu verhindern habe die Bundeswehr  eingeführt. Ecolog setze inzwischen ein eigenes mobiles Prüflabor ein, um sicherzustellen, dass der Treibstoff mit den nötigen Zusatzstoffen versehen sei. Außerdem seien die Abwässer, die Ecolog  zu entsorgen versprach, 2006  auf Felder verrieselt. Die Aufbereitungsanlage , wusste das Verteidigungsministerium seit 2007, als die Bundeswehr die Abwasserentsorgungs-Verträge kündigte, neu ausschrieb, und wieder an Ecolog vergab.

Ecolog-Vorstand Wachowitz sprach in Bezug auf die Qualitätsmängel von "Leistungsstörungen", deren Auftreten an sich "nichts Ungewöhnliches" sei.

Die Bundesregierung berichtete im April 2010, eine Überprüfung der Mängel von Ecolog-Leistungen beim Waschen von Tarnkleidung und bei der Lieferung von Diesel hätten  ergeben. Die Mängel seien zudem nach ihrer Aufdeckung abgestellt worden. Bekannt seien der Bundesregierung zudem Mängel der Entsorgungsleistungen von Ecolog in Afghanistan 2008:  Die Berliner Arbeitsstelle Frieden und Abrüstung beurteilte in ihrer Informationsplattform Bundeswehr-Monitoring die Angaben der Bundesregierung als weitgehende Bestätigung der Medienberichte über Freihändige Vergaben und sicherheitsrelevante Pannen.

Debatte um Militär-Outsourcing

Von der Fixierung auf Ecolog löste sich die Debatte durch den allgemeineren Blick auf  "Militär-Outsourcing", das in den Vereinigten Staaten in größerem Umfang betrieben wird als in Deutschland, wurde zum Gegenstand einer öffentlichen Diskussion. Einerseits könne es die Kosten im Verteidigungsetat reduzieren: Die Einsparungen der US-Armee durch Outsourcing betrügen etwa allein . Auch Ecolog hatte in der Vergangenheit mehrfach die Vorteile der  hervorgehoben. So betonte der damalige Ecolog-Vorstand Horsmann 2006 auf einer Konferenz vor

Andererseits könnten neue, schwer kontrollierbare Kosten entstehen, unter anderem, weil Wettbewerbsbedingungen in diesem Sektor nicht vorherrschten, da  anbieten. In Deutschland verbiete zudem das Grundgesetz das Outsourcing hoheitlicher Aufgaben und schränke so dessen Möglichkeiten ein. Der Verband der Beamten der Bundeswehr (VBB) kritisierte die wachsende Tendenz zur  Während der VBB bei gleicher Wirtschaftlichkeit der Verwaltung den Vorzug gibt, forderte Ecolog, staatliche Verwaltung nur dann einzusetzen, wenn sie . Der verteidigungspolitische Sprecher von Bündnis 90/Die Grünen Omid Nouripour warnte vor zu viel Outsourcing bei der Bundeswehr. Auch mangelnde Transparenz beim Outsourcing von militärischer Logistik wurde kritisiert: Mit der Ecolog-Debatte gerate  Das Verteidigungsministerium unter Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg (CSU) strebte zwar eine Erhöhung des Auftragsvergabe-Volumens an Privatunternehmen an, hatte andererseits aber eine Prüfung aller derartigen Ausgaben angekündigt.

Kritik an COVID-19-Testzentren und Vergabepraxis
Während der COVID-19-Pandemie trat Ecolog als Betreiber von Testzentren auf. Wegen einer Panne in der IT von Ecolog verzögerte sich die Auswertung von COVID-19-Tests bei Urlaubsrückreisenden in Bayern im Sommer 2020 erheblich. Das Unternehmen war deshalb kritisiert worden. Betroffen waren nach einem Bericht des Bayerischen Rundfunks etwa 10.000 Urlauber, denen zugesagt worden war, sie würden das Testergebnis 48 Stunden nach dem Abstrich erhalten. Aufgrund dieser Panne wurde der langjährige Leiter des Bayerischen Landesamtes für Gesundheit und Lebensmittelsicherheit Andreas Zapf von seinem Posten abberufen und ins Gesundheitsministerium versetzt. Außerdem wurde gegenüber Ecolog laut dem Bayerischen Rundfunk der Vorwurf geäußert, in den Testzentren "ungelerntes Personal einsetzen und zu wenig schulen". Nach Angabe von Nordbayern gab es zudem in der Vergangenheit "immer wieder Kritik an der Vergabepraxis an Ecolog. Medien prangerten bereits mehrmals eine 'freihändige' Vergabe ohne Ausschreibung an."

Trotz der vorhergegangenen Panne in Bayern, erhielt das Unternehmen zum Ende des Jahres 2020 vom Landkreis Offenbach den Zuschlag für die Einrichtung und den Betrieb des COVID-19-Impfzentrums für den Landkreis in der Stadt Heusenstamm.

Weblinks

 Christoph Heinzle: . In: tagesschau.de, 10. Dezember 2009.
 . In: tagesschau.de, 26. Februar 2010, abgerufen am 1. März 2010.
 Nach umstrittenem Bericht: NDR droht Millionenklage. In: Werben & Verkaufen, 5. März 2010, abgerufen am 7. März 2010.
 Peter W. Singer: Outsourcing War. In: Brookings.edu, März/April 2005, abgerufen am 9. März 2010 (Essay über Militär-Outsourcing).
 Die Auftragsvergabe der Bundesregierung an die Firma Ecolog. Antwort der Bundesregierung auf die Kleine Anfrage der Abgeordneten Tom Koenigs, Omid Nouripour, Marieluise Beck (Bremen), weiterer Abgeordneter und der Fraktion Bündnis 90/Die Grünen. Drucksache 17/1390 des Deutschen Bundestags, 16. April 2010, abgerufen am 10. Mai 2010 (PDF, 110 KB).

Einzelnachweise

Militärdienstleister
Dienstleistungsunternehmen (Düsseldorf)
Gegründet 2003