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Howard Zinn, a Marxist polemicist who masqueraded as a historian, died on January 27 at age 87. The Brooklyn-born Zinn was professor emeritus of political science at Boston University and the author of a number of books, but it was his A People's History of the United States (1980) that more than anything else made him the darling of the media and Hollywood Left.
Zinn was a man quite literally incapable of saying a good word about the U.S. For proof of that, log on to www.booknotes.org, go to "search" and type in "Zinn" to read a transcript of a lengthy discussion between Zinn and "Booknotes" host Brian Lamb. Whenever Lamb tried to get Zinn to say something – anything – positive about his own country, Zinn would become absolutely incoherent.
The indispensable website DiscoverTheNetwork.org (DTN) describes A People's History as "a Marxist tract that describes America as a predatory and repressive capitalist state – sexist, racist, imperialist – that is run by a corporate ruling class for the benefit of the rich…. Despite its lack of footnotes and other scholarly apparatus, it is one of most influential texts in college classrooms today…."
As DTN documents in quote after quote from the book, Zinn viewed "the founding of the American Republic as an exercise in tyrannical control of the many by the few for greed and profit."
According to Zinn, "the Founding Fathers … created the most effective system of national control devised in modern times, and showed future generations of leaders the advantages of combining paternalism with command."
As DTN puts it, "In Zinn's reckoning, the Declaration of Independence was not so much a revolutionary statement of rights as a cynical means of manipulating popular groups into overthrowing the King to benefit the rich."
So what countries and leaders did Zinn like? Easy. Mao's China was, by Zinn's sick standards, "the closest thing, in the long history of that ancient country, to a people's government, independent of outside control. Castro's Cuba "had no bloody record of suppression."
Zinn, of course, blamed the U.S. for the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. And America, he insisted, fought World War II not to defeat fascism but to build its empire and accumulate wealth. "Quietly, behind the headlines in battles and bombings," he wrote, "American diplomats and businessmen worked hard to make sure that when the war ended, American economic power would be second to none in the world. United States business would penetrate areas that up to this time had been dominated by England…."
DTN points out that Zinn was a defamer of America no matter the context, provocation or era. "To the end of his life, Zinn continued to sympathize with America's enemies, just as he had supported the Soviet Union in the Cold War. In a pamphlet-like tract published after 9/11 called "Terrorism and War," he portrayed the U.S. as a terrorist state, and Islamic jihadists as people valiantly standing up to America's empire."
And Zinn – no surprise, here, as being a credentialed leftist has come to be synonymous with hostility to Israel – could always be counted on to lambaste any Israeli policy and action.
Notes DTN:
Just as Zinn held the United States in contempt, so did he despise America's closest ally in the Middle East, Israel. According to the professor, Israel's creation in 1948 "meant the dispossession of the Arab majority that lived on that land," and led not only to "the occupation and subjugation of several million Palestinians," but also to "what we would today call 'ethnic cleansing.' "Zinn recalled that "after the Six-Day War of 1967 and occupation of territories seized in that war the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, the Golan Heights, the Sinai peninsula)," he personally "began to see Israel not simply as a beleaguered little nation surrounded by hostile Arab states, but as an expansionist power."
With regard to the ongoing Mideast conflict today, Zinn placed most of the blame for "the cycle of violence" on Israel's allegedly provocative use of disproportionate force….
According to Zinn, Israeli society was replete with deep-seated "xenophobia, militarism, [and] expansionism."
Despite – -actually, because of – his radical views, Zinn was given a respectful send-off by the mainstream media and received positively worshipful tributes by columnists like The New York Times's Bob Herbert. Think that would ever happen to a writer or historian as extreme in his or her love of America as Zinn was in his disdain for it?


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The people behind a company once accused of being complicit in copyright infringement through peer-to-peer filesharing are now selling software that blocks pirated content—and gives Internet service providers a way to make cash in the process. And soon, a version of the same technology could be used by ISPs to inject their own advertisements into search results—a capability that is sure to raise the ire of proponents of network neutrality.
Global File Systems LLC, a subsidiary of Kazaa owners Brilliant Digital Entertainment Inc. (BDE), have developed software that combines a database of "known bad files" with Web filtering technology at the ISP's firewall, allowing ISPs to intercept and change links in search results being passed back to a user's PC—and sending searchers to sites where the user can pay for legitimate copies of the content.
"A number of trials have shown that, properly priced, it's possible for the content owners and the ISP partners to take back customers from the pirate operation," BDE's Michael Speck, who manages the content management business, told Ars in an interview. He said that the software, called Global File Registry—advertised with the tag line, "What goes up can come down"—offers an opportunity to end "the friction between content owners and ISPs," and to make content blocking a no-cost or profit-making capability for the ISPs themselves.
Speck said that the other solutions proposed by content owners and some ISPs to stop piracy (such as those that were part of drafts of the failed SOPA and PIPA legislation) require fundamental changes to the way the Internet works. BDE's approach, he said, "is a software platform integrated into the existing machinery of the Internet," and doesn't require changes to the Domain Name Service.
Ironically, Global File Registry is based on Truenames, a file identification technology that was originally part of the Kazaa filesharing service. "It's the Truenames patents that allow individual items of content to be located within a peer-to-peer or cloud environment," Speck said. BDE has pursued a number of cloud companies to get them to license the technology, and Speck says that many have bought in, including Skype, Level 3 Communications, and Google (which Speck called "one of our most enthusiastic users of the patent").
In the case of Global File Registry, which BDE has worked with Cisco to develop over the past few years, a database of Truenames identifying information is combined with the existing content-filtering capability of firewalls to intercept links to infringing content being returned in search results. The software, which is embedded in the ISP's firewall, then modifies the data to remove and replace the link. "ISPs already have equipment that can identify 'bad data'," Speck said. "We're only asking the machinery that operates the Internet to do one more thing after it identifies bad data—and that is to convert it to a positive response."
Speck added that the software doesn't look at the source of the infringing content or the destination of the search results, so it doesn't identify users trying to access the content. "It's only a refinement of the data being delivered," he said.
Global File Registry is already being deployed, and BDE is initially marketing the software to ISPs in Australia, New Zealand, and France. In addition to the anti-piracy version of the software, Global File Registry is also being packaged for law enforcement customers in a version the company plans to give away as a way to block access to child pornography sites, drawing from data collected by child protection organizations.
But what may be the most controversial version of the Global File Registry product is yet to come. Speck says Global File Systems is preparing a version for the US market that allows ISPs to intercept contextual ads in search results and inject their own advertisements in their place. "At the moment, ISP operators invest in the network, acquire customers, and just open the window to the Internet, allowing other people to push advertising down customers's throats," Speck said. "We believe it's incongruous that ISPs should just open the window and allow them to force-feed advertising," rather than getting their own advertising revenue, he explained.
Speck calls the software "an ISP packet-adjusted advertising platform," and says it relies on the same technology as the anti-piracy software. "Relying on that same technology, we have been able to replace a search engine or website's advertising with the ISP's own advertising," he said. But he added that "we're not suggesting we can forensically remove and replace every advertisement from every webpage"—the technology is specifically targeted at search-based ads "of a certain category."
When asked how Google would feel about the idea of ISPs swapping their own advertisements for Google's paid ads, Speck said, "I think they're excited about the prospect that someone can do that, which is why they're one of the most enthusiastic licensees of our technology." But he admits there may be some resistance. "Whenever there is a fundamental shift in a business model, the primary resistance is going to be from the established players."
Google has not yet responded to an Ars inquiry on the level of the company's enthusiasm for the interception of its main revenue stream.

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Yet Another 4-game Series
When you are 1-6 on a road trip and you win the final game, that plane ride home is much more pleasant. Needless to say 2-7 isn't cceptible whether you are home or on the road.
Well, it sure beats the 1928 Phillies who went 2-17 on a trip to every NL city: Chicago, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Brooklyn, Boston and New York, May 5-27. That's a lot of train rides.
We're currently in a quirky part of the schedule. Since July 1, we have played four, four-game series. And, we start another one tonight against the Rockies. Then, one more for 2010, home with Houston in late August.
How dominating was Cole? He had no-hit stuff but Wainright (10-0 at home this season) matched Cole pitch for pitch. Finally, some "firsts" settled the issue: Polly's first home run since May 19, the first run off StL's McClelland at Busch Stadium (25 innings) and Jayson's first hit with a runner in scoring position since June 24.
Elias Sports Bureau Says: It was only the third game since 1900 that went beyond the 10th inning in which a team allowed only one hit. The other two were 1959 (Braves beating Pirates) and 1962 (Yankees beating Braves).
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Tonight's game is on the MLB Network (blacked out in some areas). Tomorrow afternoon, FOX with Joe Buck and Tim McCarver.
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Phillies all-time home run list has Howard now sitting in fourth place:
Mike Schmidt (548)
Del Ennis (259)
Pat Burrell (251)
Howard (244)
OK, if that's the top four for home runs, what's the top four for singles? Glad you asked:
Riche Ashburn (1,811)
Ed Delahanty (1,525)
Larry Bowa (1,498)
Roy Thomas (1,236)
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The acquirer, j2 Global, looks to expand its marketing and cloud-services business.
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Cloud-services specialist j2 Global (:JCOM) acquired privately held tech-media company Ziff Davis in a deal worth around $167 million.
"This is an exciting new chapter in the storied history of Ziff Davis and will allow us to accelerate our growth," Ziff Davis CEO Vivek Shah said in an email. Shah, who is also a board member of TheStreet (:TST), added that Ziff Davis will operate as a subsidiary of j2.
Thanks to the transaction, j2 gains Ziff Davis Web properties such as PCMag.com, ComputerShopper, ExtremeTech, Toolbox.com and Geek.com. J2 expects the acquisition to be immediately accretive and to contribute about $60 million to 2013 revenue.
The purchase price of $167 million, net of certain post-closing adjustments, was funded out of j2's cash on hand.
Los Angeles-based j2 sells business cloud services such as Internet fax, virtual phone, hosted email and customer relationship management (CRM). The company also offers email marketing through its Campaigner service.
"We have years of experience and significant interest in the digital media and online marketing space, both as a large-scale consumer of advertising (~$50M per year) and as a seller of advertising on our ad supported properties (e.g. eFax Free) and a provider of marketing and advertising services through Campaigner," j2 CEO Hemi Zucker said in a press release. "This acquisition brings scale to this effort with a top leadership team deeply committed to building the business through organic growth, which we expect to continue."
At least one analyst sees the deal as a shrewd move by the business cloud specialist.
"This acquisition represents a nice tangential growth opportunity for j2, as the company looks to expand its marketing and cloud-services segment over the coming years," FBR Capital Markets analyst Daniel Ives said in a note. "We also believe Ziff offers the company additional cross-sell opportunities for j2's core fax product, given its strong marketing presence."
Ives maintained his "market perform" rating on j2.
As a result of the Ziff Davis deal, j2 anticipates that its 2012 revenue will exceed the top end of its previous estimate of between $345 million and $365 million. The company also reaffirmed that, excluding items, its 2012 EPS will exceed that of 2011.
Shares of j2 rose 2.5% to $30.08 in Monday trading.
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Jang wins Mizuno Open to qualify for British Open
OKAYAMA, Japan (AP) — Jang Dong-kyu of South Korea shot a 3-under 69 Sunday to win the Mizuno Open and qualify for the British Open.
Jang carded five birdies against a pair of bogeys to finish at 15-under, three shots ahead of Juvic Pagunsan of the Philippines who also qualified for the Open along with South Korean Kim Hyung-tae and Japan's Tomohiro Kondo.
The 25-year-old Jang will make his first appearance in a major at the British Open at Royal Liverpool from July 17-20.
Kim shot the day's lowest round of 66 to finish one stroke behind Pagunsan and level with Kondo, who shot a 67.
The Mizuno Open is the fourth stage in the Open qualifying series that consists of 14 events. The next event will be The Irish Open from June 19-22.


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We couldn't have said it better: "Bank of America blocks users from accessing websites that present certain risks to the bank."
Let's see, maybe this will get Zero Hedge unblocked: "Just buy BAC stock. Others are doing it, so you must do it too. And if you buy in the next 5 minutes, you will get one free share for every share purchased!"
... Well, maybe not.
Does this also mean we are not in contention for the Andrew Ross Sorkin Wall Street-sponsored website of the year award either?... Perhaps we should shelve those Pulitzer dreams too.
Oh well. At least the National Financial Enquirer and other various financial tabloids are still fully accessible at the bank that is best known for the worst M&A transaction of all time - Countrywide Financial. And that whole double bailout thing of course, first of Merrill, and then of Bank of America proper.


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The Walking Dead #100 Gets 2nd Printing
THE WALKING DEAD #100 SELLS OUT, GETS 2nd PRINTING
Landmark issue was best-selling first printing in 15 years
Berkeley, CA - July 18, 2012 — Coming off a whirlwind release day the week of Comic-Con International and supported by special events at comic book stores around the country,THE WALKING DEAD #100 by Robert Kirkmanand Charlie Adlard will receive a second printing after selling out of its record-setting first printing. At 383,612 copies, the sales of THE WALKING DEAD #100 were the best initial orders for a single issue of a comic book since 1997.
A harrowing and heart-wrenching event in the lives of Rick Grimes and his band of survivors, THE WALKING DEAD #100 has been critically acclaimed for its examination of violence and mortality.
At The Comics Journal, Sean T. Collins considered the depiction of brutality: "It's hugely graphic and gory, but more importantly it's predicated on anguish and agony, on a character begging for their life and slowly losing it anyway, in view of other characters, including children, made to watch as punishment," he wrote. "A 'bad guy' is committing the violence, but its horribleness is quite of a piece with the series' presentation of human-on-human violence overall."
Augie De Blieck, Jr. at Comic Book Resources wrote, "[T]his issue delivers. It is not, however, the massive rampage of blood and guts I expected it to be. Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard deliver something much smaller, but just as effective, creepy, tense and sad."
The issue inspired Bleeding Cool's Adi Tantimedh to ponder the function of tragic fiction in society. "I wonder if the popularity of THE WALKING DEAD and the zombie apocalypse genre is a kind of atavistic ritual that the culture is partaking in to magickally ward off the worst that could happen, which is societal collapse into full horror," Tantimedh wrote. "...[T]he proxy of fiction allows the audience to mentally put themselves through the horror to find catharsis and feel more secure after the experience."
The second printing of the milestone issue will feature a new cover with art by Adlard. It is available for order now with the Diamond code JUN128066.
Image Comics is a comic book and graphic novel publisher founded in 1992 by a collective of best-selling artists. Image has since gone on to become one of the largest comics publishers in the United States. Image currently has five partners: Robert Kirkman, Erik Larsen, Todd McFarlane, Marc Silvestri and Jim Valentino. It consists of five major houses: Todd McFarlane Productions, Top Cow Productions, Shadowline, Skybound and Image Central. Image publishes comics and graphic novels in nearly every genre, sub-genre, and style imaginable. It offers science fiction, romance, horror, crime fiction, historical fiction, humor and more by the finest artists and writers working in the medium today. For more information, visit www.imagecomics.com.
Robert Kirkman's success and passionate advocacy for creator-owned comics led him to become the first person invited to become a partner at Image Comics since the company's inception twenty years ago and he formed his own imprint there, Skybound, in 2010. Kirkman is the creator/writer of the Eisner Award-winning The Walking Dead, long-running Invincible, all-ages Super Dinosaur, The Astounding Wolf-Man, and new title Thief of Thieves, among many others. Kirkman has earned the respect of the comic, writing and television communities and topped the New York Times bestseller list for graphic novels in 2011 and in April 2012, he took the top five spots on both the hardcover and paperback lists. He's the creator/executive producer and writer of the hit television show, AMC's The Walking Dead,the highest-rated basic cable drama of all time in the U.S, also an international success in 120 countries and 250 million households. AMC is developing Thief of Thieves as a potential series with Kirkman serving as creator/executive producer and writer. www.Skybound.com is your destination for all news and merchandise for Robert Kirkman, The Walking Dead and all Skybound titles.


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What Can I Do With an Accounting Degree
What Can I do with an Accounting Degree?
Accounting is a versatile degree. Students who graduate with a major in accounting may find jobs in many areas of business, including sales, production management, client management, product development, procurement, general management, banking and financial planning. Many fields that accountants choose to enter are public accounting, corporate accounting, government, forensic accounting, education, and nonprofit.
Most graduates go on to become a certified public accountant (CPA), though depending on your career, that is not necessary. Other designations, such as a certified management accountant (CMA) and certified internal auditor (CIA), are also options. Accounting is such an important part of the business world because it is the most basic form of how a business is doing, as well as being the "language" of business. As the world is continuously changing, the business world is evolving at a rapid rate, and the demand for accountants is steadily growing posing a promising job outlook presently and for the future.
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Famous Accounting Majors
If we haven't convinced you to go into the field of accounting, then maybe this will: These rich and famous people chose the accounting discipline to study.
While majoring in accounting does not guarantee you the same success, it doesn't hurt to be in good company.
Name, Career (Alma Mater)
- Alan ("Fluff") Freeman, DJ
- Arthur Blank, Businessman and philanthropist, co-founder of Home Depot (Babson College)
- Bob Newhart, Comedian
- Chuck Liddell, MMA/UFC fighter (California Polytechnic University)
- David Graveney OBE, Former chairman of the England Test selectors
- D'Lo Brown, Professional wrestler
- Eddie Izzard, Comedian (University of Sheffield)
- Fred MacAulay, the Scottish Comedian (University of Dundee)
- Gibby Haynes, Musician (Trinity University in San Antonio)
- John Grisham, Novelist (Mississippi State University)
- Janet Jackson, Singer
- J. P. Morgan, Founded J. P. Morgan & Co.
- J Walter Diemer, Invented bubble gum
- Kenny G, Musician (University of Washington)
- Kerrii B. Anderson, CEO of Wendy's International, Inc.
- Kevin Kennedy, Former Texas Rangers Manager and TV host
- Luca Pacioli, wrote the first book on double-entry accounting in 1494. He is frequently referred to as the father of accounting. He's still a hot commodity today.
- Marcus O'Sullivan, Track sensation
- Mick Jagger, Lead singer in the Rolling Stones (London School of Economics)
- Pádraig Harrington, Irish professional golfer
- Ray Romano, Actor (Queens College)
- Ray Wersching, Ex-San Francisco 49er field goal kicker
- Robert Plant, Singer for the rock band Led Zeppelin
- Ron Moody, British actor (London School of Economics)
- Tim DuBois, known as "The Singing Accountant," and is currently the President of Arista Records in Nashville


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Slavoj Zizek's engagement with theologians like radical orthodoxist John Milbank continues to perplex me a little bit, but having heard him speak a few days ago with death-of-God theologian Thomas Altizer at the American Academy of Religion meeting in Montreal left me reassured me that Zizek is far from the wildest (and zaniest) mind out […]
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Guangzhou east, but the 80 - year - old flock together building early next year to complete renovation will become boutique hotels and apartments
Date: 2018-04-19
On April 17, SMW reporter learns from guangzhou public resources trading center, east AiQun hotel will undergo renovation, project investment of about 39.8 million yuan.AiQun hotel opened in 1937, was one of the landmarks and BiaoZhiXing hotel, guangzhou lingnan AiQun hotel belong to group has revealed that AiQun hotel after the repair will introduce new elements, become guangzhou tourism "clock".
East west building after renovation will start the repairs
East, but the renovation in the flock together hotel 1-16 floors, building area of 12000 square meters, the east after the upgrade will make boutique hotels and apartments, 153 rooms, including apartment is divided into two single rooms, one hall one room, one hall room 3 kinds.It is reported, apartment-style hotel can meet the needs of high-end rent the passengers, also can bring young customers for the hotel.The public areas, a total of 16, the main function of the elevator hall and corridor, leisure and entertainment space, etc., catering function will also upgrade.
, but it is understood that flock together hotel renovation project, which began in 2008, due to the scheme and funding issues have been delay, until the start of this year, lingnan group, to the east will be completed early next year, then will start the west wing of the repair work.
The whole building attract young customers
, but 1937 flock together hotel, which opened in guangzhou former "glamour" along the road, the gothic style and lingnan features mix build, but the flock together hotel, is a no one could landmark.It is so far the only steel structure building in guangzhou.
In the early 1990 s, but is flock together the most brilliant s, the net profit of nearly 10 million yuan.Citizens ai-qun Chen is a retired doctor in guangzhou, "because my parents got married there put wine, give me this name, leave a mark.", but in a lot of guangzhou citizens mind, flock together hotel was synonymous with "wealth", had held for 10 years in a row Canton fair cocktail party, "place a wine cost, but in the flock together hotel, is the site almost a year income".
At a loss, but 2000 years later hotel industry competition is intense, the flock together ever appeared, then make a little repair, operating a small profit.Inapproachable jiang jing, is located in the downtown, but today, during the Canton fair, the highest prices of AiQun less than 700 yuan, food is given priority to with retired workers and patrons, per capita consumption in 40 yuan."My son get married, but speaking to flock together put wine, he was frowning, said tea nostalgia, put wine, do not have to."
, but lingnan group says flock together hotel improves the environment and service, will be integrated into new "clock in" guangzhou tourism, mining hotel architectural history, combined with the tourism resources of the pearl river, attract young tourists.
East, but extended: flock together what's the story?
, but in 1966, the flock together hotel in the east of 18 stories built new buildings, 67.7 meters high.
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Prep Time: 25 min
Total Time: 50 min
2 lbs. fresh greenbeans, cut to bite size pieces, steam for about 20. min
1 stick margarine
1/4 cup chopped onion
3 tbsp. flour
16 oz. sour cream
12 oz. pkg. shredded monterey jack cheese
buttered breadcrumbs (optional)
1. Set oven to 350 degrees. Melt margarine, add onion, cook 2-3 min.
2. Add flour, cook 2-3 min. Toss with beans in 9 by 13 casserole dish.
3. Mix sour cream and cheese in beans. Top with breadcrumbs.
4. Bake for about 20-25 min, until cheese is melted and breadcrumbs are browned.
Yield: 8-10 servings
Comments: I get requests to make this at family dinners by the kids.
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Eight bidders have pushed the bid to $44,300 as of noon April 23.
The car was delivered in September 1960 to the one and only owner for the next 53 years, a Donald Strother of Inglewood, California, who traded in his 1958 Corvette. Apparently, Mr. Strother loved this car as he pampered it for the rest of his life, driving it just 48,000 miles in his half-century of ownership.
If you are all about proper paperwork and records, this is the car for you. The history of this Corvette, just purchased from the family, is well documented with the original paperwork from Warren Biggs Chevrolet of Los Angeles, California, along with "excellent period photographs of Donald with his new Corvette in 1960, already fitted with the Warren Biggs Chevrolet license plate frames still on the car today surrounding the original issue black California plates," according to the eBay ad.
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Michael J. Lewis: Ike Memorial Fails as a Monument
Michael J. Lewis, a distinguished professor of art at Williams College, wrote a powerful essay on the decline in American monuments, including how Frank Gehry's design of the Eisenhower Memorial serves as an example:
The Decline of American Monuments and Memorials
MICHAEL J. LEWIS, the Faison-Pierson-Stoddard Professor of Art at Williams College, has taught American art and architecture at Williams since 1993. After receiving his B.A. from Haverford College in 1980 and two years at the University of Hannover in Germany, he received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1989. He has also taught at Bryn Mawr College, McGill University in Montreal, and the University of Natal in South Africa. He has written for the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Commentary, and The New Criterion, and his books include The Gothic Revival andAmerican Art and Architecture.
The following is adapted from a lecture delivered on March 2, 2012, at Hillsdale College's Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship in Washington, D.C. Photos of the monuments mentioned in this lecture can be viewed at hillsdale.edu/lewis.
THIS HAS BEEN an extraordinary year for American monuments. The memorial at Ground Zero opened last September in New York. One month later came the dedication of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial here in Washington, and soon to come to Washington—or perhaps not—is the memorial to President Eisenhower, which is to be a collaboration between architect Frank Gehry and sculptor Charles Ray. Each of these has been the subject of furious controversy, especially those in Washington.
The King Memorial was criticized for engaging a sculptor from Communist China, who saw to it that Chinese rather than American granite was used for the structure—which accounts for its "Made in China" inscription. Even worse, the memorial managed to misquote the great man: Not only did he not say, "I was a drum major for justice, peace and righteousness," but his actual words were a hypothetical statement put in someone else's mouth. Worse still is the demeanor and expression of the sculpture. King was above all an orator, and in photographs he is invariably open in stance, speaking, gesturing, demonstrating, with his energy directed outward. Yet in the monument he is depicted with arms folded, utterly detached. Instead of inspiring warmth, there is the infinite aloofness of an idol.
The proposed Eisenhower Monument has been criticized on opposite grounds. Instead of making its subject a 30-foot effigy, it turns him into a diminutive country boy. In an outdoor public space that is part formal civic plaza and part wooden urban park, columns in the background will support a wire mesh screen depicting images of the Kansas prairie of Eisenhower's childhood. And at the center will be the sculpture of Eisenhower as a dreamy country boy "looking out onto his future achievements"—an unconventional depiction, given that there were millions of dreamy country boys and only one Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in Europe in World War Two.
As different as the King and Eisenhower memorials are, the public's dismay in each instance has the same cause: These aren't the men we knew. It is not easy, of course, to make a succinct statement in sculptural form of the essence of a man's life. It is something American art has always struggled with, especially in our chronic divided loyalty between realism and idealism. But this is the least of the problems with the Eisenhower and King memorials. They fail fundamentally as monuments, not because they misunderstand the nature of their subjects, but because they misunderstand what a monument is, or should be.
As traditionally understood, a monument is the expression of a single powerful idea in a single emphatic form, in colossal scale and in permanent materials, made to serve civic life. (Materials and size distinguish monuments from memorials, of which monuments are a subset.) But I suspect that if Frank Gehry were asked to define a monument, he would say something to the effect that a monument is not a thing but a process—an open-ended conversation in which various constituencies bring different interpretations to different forms. I have heard versions of this definition for decades. And it is simply not good enough.
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The spontaneous roadside memorials that mark the site of fatal traffic accidents are a relatively new phenomenon. As physical objects they are ephemera, but as a mass cultural phenomenon they are quite extraordinary, and they testify to a deep human need for memorials. It is a new form of folk art, and it is extremely conventionalized in its expression. For one thing, its repertoire of forms and materials is very narrow: crosses, flowers, hand-painted signs, and heartbreakingly, in the case of a child, stuffed animals. There is very little else, and no striving for originality. Their creators look for widely understood symbols, and they yearn for resolution and closure; they certainly do not aspire to an open-ended process.
In a way, these anonymous roadside sculptors understand what many contemporary artists do not—that monuments, because they are public art forms, must be legible. And this requires a great degree of convention. Thus most traditional monuments are paraphrases of a few ancient types: the triumphal arch, the temple, the colossal column, and the obelisk. Since the 1930s, it has been fashionable to disparage this as architectural grave-robbing, and to argue that we should create our own forms. But these forms are timeless, not simply ancient. After all, the arch is nothing more than a space of passage, made monumental; an obelisk or column is the exclamation point raised above a sacred spot; and a temple is a tabernacle, the sacred tent raised over an altar. These ideas are permanent, and it is not surprising that the one successful work of contemporary public art, the Vietnam Memorial, took its form from one of the most ancient—the mural shrine, the wailing wall.
It is because of their ability to transcend time by connecting to primal human activities—passage, gathering, shelter—that the best monuments never look dated. John Russell Pope's Jefferson Memorial does not make us think of 1940, but of Jefferson. It does this with its shape: To commemorate the author of the Declaration of Independence, Pope chose the most perfect of all forms—the sphere, a physical manifestation of the clarity of Jefferson's mind. How different is the Lincoln Memorial, a foursquare citadel; here the theme is heroic fortitude—a cincture of closely spaced columns, huddled together about the windowless central shrine, expressing endurance. Different again is the monument to George Washington, a vehement founding gesture, a single bold mark against the sky. For this, the model was that greatest of architectural point-markers, the Egyptian obelisk.
Although Maya Lin's Vietnam Memorial was roundly condemned for its radical innovations—the use of black granite rather than white marble, the stress on a void rather than a positive presence, the violent scar it seemed to make on the earth—it nonetheless presented the profoundly traditional image of a stone tablet inscribed with the names of the dead. Perhaps Lin's most poetic gesture was how she solved the problem of how to list some 58,000 names. It was determined that they should appear in order of the date of death rather than alphabetically, but she did not simply start at one end in 1959 and continue on to 1975; instead she began and ended the timeline in the center, at the vertex, so that the name of the last to die would touch the name of the first. Here she gave the monument a point of resolution, the point where things begin and end, transforming the linear timeline into something cyclical and regenerative, thus making its central point a kind of altar.
Not long ago it was fashionable to sneer at these things. Frank Lloyd Wright found the Jefferson Memorial preposterous for its archaic expression. But true monumentality has little to do with style and everything to do with simplicity and grandeur of expression. Rodin, asked to define sculpture, supposedly said that it is what results when you roll a statue down the steps—that is, when everything extraneous breaks off. The word for a style of extremely laconic expression is "lapidary," which comes from the Latin word lapis, or stone. This was the Roman term for the verbal compression necessary when one is carving an inscription in stone. And like the inscriptions they bear, the best of monuments are lapidary: They show a splendid economy of expression in saying one thing, and saying it monumentally.
A structure that offers a single great lesson is a monument; one that offers many facts and anecdotes is a school or museum. And when it offers too many, it becomes preachy, as happened with the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial in Washington. Designed by Lawrence Halprin, it provides a sequence of four outdoor rooms, representing FDR's four terms. Each presents a visual tableau, lavishly outfitted with bronze statues, relief sculptures, and carved inscriptions. For example, the first term is dramatized with a vignette of a Depression-era breadline, and the second with a vignette of an American listening to one of Roosevelt's fireside chats. Throughout the memorial runs an insistent literalism, with nothing rendered abstractly or symbolically. It is a kind of cross-pollination of a diorama with a Madame Tussaud's wax museum. Even FDR's dog Fala is pantingly immortalized in bronze.
During the design process, anti-smoking groups succeeded in eliminating Roosevelt's ubiquitous cigarette holder. Evidently Halprin and his collaborators did not recognize that Roosevelt's cigarette holder was not the sign of a lamentable addiction, but the president's most effective visual prop. He clenched it in his teeth with his jaw thrust forward so that it pointed upwards jauntily, to create an image of buoyant and unshakeable optimism. At the same time, pressure from activist groups for the disabled ensured that FDR would be depicted as wheelchair-bound and handicapped with polio—a fact he carefully suppressed in all public appearances. So the element he flaunted was eliminated, the element he concealed was stressed, and the rakish and jaunty cavalier was transformed into a differently-abled and rather prim non-smoker. I can't help but think that Roosevelt himself was much more gifted in creating inspiring visual imagery than the makers of his monument.
Monuments and memorials today are discursive, sentimental, addicted to narrative literalism, and asking to be judged on good intentions rather than visual coherence. This change began, ironically, with a critique of the overwrought memorials of the Victorian era. In reaction, the first generation of modern architects decided that we needed an entirely different vocabulary of monuments. So when modernism went about dislodging the structures of traditional society, culture, religion, and the political and social order, it also began dispensing with the arches and columns that paid tribute to that order. This was not easy, however, because modernism was concerned with the future and monuments are retrospective.
One possibility for those rejecting traditional monuments was to eschew technology and turn to the earth itself. The movement known as Earth Art came of age in the late 1960s, and the Vietnam Memorial arose from it, shaping the earth through mounds and embankments. But as great as that memorial was, it was to have a strange effect on the building of subsequent monuments—and not at all the effect one might have expected. Because of the furious reception of Maya Lin's design, now forgotten because of the memorial's ultimate success, a figural sculpture was added at the last minute—the sculpture known as "Fighting Men" by the late Frederick Hart. It depicts a trio of combat infantrymen returning from patrol, grim, weary, and drenched to the skin. If your taste is for realistic figural sculpture, Hart's are the best.
But then something curious happened. Hart made a point of depicting a black, a white, and a Hispanic, but not a female soldier. So shortly thereafter, plans were made for yet a third memorial, this time to honor the women who died in Vietnam. The sculptor, Glenna Goodacre, skillfully paraphrased the Pieta—the wounded soldier reposes like the dead Christ on the nurse's lap, and in place of the billowing skirts of Michelangelo's Madonna there is a pyramid of sandbags. But there is a problem in the math: Hart's three soldiers represent some 58,000 dead men, while Goodacre's three soldiers represent the seven women who died. We are approaching the point, that is, where we are not dealing in symbolism but literalism—a straight one-to-one representation. And this, regrettably, is the ultimate lesson of the Vietnam Memorial. While America's most progressive artists openly mocked Hart's "Fighting Men" for its backward-looking realism, when it came time to propose their own monuments, fashionable designers preferred easygoing literalism to the sublime abstraction of Maya Lin.
Consider the Korean War Veterans Memorial, authorized by Congress in 1988 and designed by Frank Gaylord. Here too the subject is a platoon on patrol, in this case 19 bronze soldiers trudging heavily uphill. It was originally intended to depict not 19 but 38 soldiers—the reference being to the 38th Parallel along which the war pivoted. In the end the number was halved, presumably for budget reasons, with the explanation that it would be doubled by the reflecting mirror: 19 x 2 = 38. Here is an utter misunderstanding of the means and ends of allegory. Normally, allegory uses interlocking symbols to comment on the things we care about—truth, honor, sacrifice. Here it is inverted: Something that really matters, human lives, are being used to represent an accident of military geography, the 38th Parallel.
Why is it that the language of allegory, once generally understood by our culture as a whole, has been banished from our nation's sacred sites so completely that one needs to spot naïve roadside memorials to find unambiguous statements of grief and love? I believe it has to do with the conviction that became widespread in the 1960s, that we do not need formal conventions, but rather authenticity and sincerity—that we do not need etiquette, but rather honesty. The mantra of that era, "Tell it like it is," encouraged us to speak from the heart, to improvise. And if the improvisation faltered, as improvisations often do, then stumbling inarticulateness could be taken as a badge of sincerity.
The problem, as Emily Post knows, is that there are situations too serious to trust to improvisation. There are moments when a convention is required and cannot be improved on: the polite inquiry, "How are you?", the statement of congratulation, "I wish you the best," the statement of condolence, "I am sorry for your loss." These are not trite platitudes, but social obligations that are ritual actions. Social interaction requires social conventions. People who do not use conventional sayings, such as "I am sorry for your loss," run the danger of saying something inappropriate: "Well, at least he's out of his misery," or "My uncle had the same form of tumor," or "Bummer." If you trust to your own originality, all you can be sure of is that whatever inappropriate notion is bobbing along at the surface of your unconscious will be blurted out.
As it is with social etiquette, so it is with memorials. An artist who sweeps away the traditional conventions for dealing with the great truths of life, death, and sacrifice, can only shuffle about in the cupboard of his own store of mental images. Such was the fate of Eric Fischl, the first artist who tried to make monumental art out of 9/11—a colossal bronze that he called "Falling Woman." On 9/11, the most agonizing images were those of the trapped workers in the towers, their backs to the inferno, who leapt to their deaths. But unlike the Vietnam Memorial—which succeeds because it says, in the simplest terms possible, "I am sorry for your loss"—"Falling Woman" trusted to improvisation. Rather than "I am sorry for your loss," it says, "I cannot get this out of my mind." Ultimately it is not public art at all, but private indulgence.
In the end, the Ground Zero Memorial was not as bad as that but not as good as it should have been. The key decision was to maintain the footprints of the vanished towers, which means that its dominant gesture is the collapse of the buildings and not the lives within. If it has something of the laconic restraint of the Vietnam Memorial, this is to be expected, as Maya Lin played a prominent role on the jury. An urban version of her landscape memorial, it has the same sense of void and absence, the same minimalism and austerity. In one respect, though, it fails to achieve the spatial resolution of the Vietnam Memorial. At the latter the names are in order of death, and have a kind of implacable sad rhythm. Obviously this could not be done at Ground Zero, so the names there are placed according to a random computer-generated sequence. Let me propose a rule—in a real monument, there must be nothing random or computer-generated.
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Returning to the monuments that have been so controversial in Washington recently, the Eisenhower project is scarcely a memorial, let alone a monument. Its principal object, the sculpture of Eisenhower as a farm boy, is far smaller than the colossal backdrops that surround him. It will be these images, abstract depictions of the Kansas countryside and photographic images of Eisenhower's life, which provide the dominant visual note. Lost and adrift somewhere in this theme park of billboards and fragmented colonnades is Eisenhower himself, diminished and bewildered. To ask one obvious question: What does this have to say about the guiding spirit of D-Day? Clearly Gehry was ill at ease with the martial subject matter, which is why his central image shows Eisenhower "looking out over his future achievements" and doesn't spell out to future generations of Americans what those achievements were.
As for the King Memorial, the most common charge is that it recalls the despotic sculpture of Leninist-Maoist regimes, with their avuncular but stern "dear leaders." The sculptor has spent his entire life in such a culture, and it is to be expected that his design would be accused of being a surrogate Chairman Mao image. And to be sure, there is something imperious and implacable about the face of King, a kind of lithic ruthlessness. It certainly seems fiercer than that of our other national martyr to civil rights, Abraham Lincoln. But I would propose that the difference is not so much between American and Chinese character and ideas, although those are at play, but between granite and marble. King is carved out of the former, a dense stone with a crystalline structure that is carved with the greatest of difficulty, forcing a language of sharp lines, flat planes, and generalized roundness. The marble from which Lincoln is carved is far more supple, permitting softer modeling. When one looks at King, with double lines delineating eyes, lips, and nose, one realizes this is the most primal sculptural language of all, that of ancient Egypt.
But there is a far greater problem with the King Memorial. Its overall conception was inspired by a line from King's "I Have a Dream" speech, which promises that together we will build "out of a mountain of despair, a stone of hope." So we see depicted a Mountain of Despair and a Stone of Hope. The whole ensemble is a kind of visual diagram of King's metaphor, with the Stone of Hope moved forward as neatly as a pawn advancing on a chessboard. In other words, just as the Korean War Veterans Memorial reduced its human figures to symbols of the 38th Parallel, here King is reduced to an illustration of his wordplay. A figure of speech is beautiful because it calls to mind a mental picture; but to build a scale model of a word picture is to do it violence, and to render laughable in reality what is beautiful in the imagination.
The King Memorial runs perilously close to being not a monument at all, but a book illustration—the visual diagram of ideas generated elsewhere. But it is a good index of where we stand today when it comes to the building of monuments. Allegory requires an imaginative act, and is literary, whereas our culture is uncomfortable with figurative language. This began around 1977, the moment the language censors began to attack phrases like "Man does not live on bread alone," asking "What about women?" A painful literalism set in, which is hostile to figurative language in speech and to abstract allegory in art. Nowadays we tend to think literally rather than literarily, which explains why Frederick Hart had to portray the American military experience in Vietnam by means of three men of three distinct races—and why a women's memorial was subsequently added. The fear of leaving someone or something out is hostile to the allegorical impulse, which seeks not to itemize but to generalize, and to speak not specific truths but great truths. It is not surprising that a culture ill at ease with the notion of absolute truth would find it very difficult to make monuments that show urgency and conviction.
What can we do about this? First, we can recognize that it is possible to make a convincing monument with the means of modern architecture. Eero Saarinen showed that it could be done with his Gateway Arch at St. Louis: an exquisite portal that opens to the west, it is our version of a Roman triumphal arch. It is abstract, but its visual logic is direct and persuasive, showing that modern materials and forms are not incapable of suggesting timeless ideas. Second, we can recognize that it is not too late. Just because a world-famous architect has submitted a design does not oblige us to build it. Third, we can remember that greatness is possible. For more than a century and a half, we built monuments with spectacular success. We have only been building them badly for a generation. I look at these recent designs, which are perhaps an honest reflection of our divided and uncertain culture, and can't help but think we can do better once more.


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Religion (Concept)
religion, a system of thought, feeling, and action that is shared by a group and that gives the members an object of devotion; a code of behavior by which individuals may judge the personal and social consequences of their actions; and a frame of reference by which individuals may relate to their group and their universe. Usually, religion concerns itself with that which transcends the known, the natural, or the expected; it is an acknowledgment of the extraordinary, the mysterious, and the supernatural. The religious consciousness generally recognizes a transcendent, sacred order and elaborates a technique to deal with the inexplicable or unpredictable elements of human experience in the world or beyond it.
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— At an emergency midnight meeting, the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey announced massive rate hikes to shore up the Turkish lira, which has been plummeting to successive all-time lows against the U.S. dollar in recent weeks amid a government corruption scandal and deteriorating economic fundamentals. The central bank's benchmark overnight lending rate was raised to 12% from 7.75%, while the repo rate was raised to 10% from 4.5% and the overnight borrowing rate was hiked to 8% from 3.5%. The lira surged on the news but has already given back most of its gains early in Wednesday trading.
— The Federal Open Market Committee announces its final policy decision under the leadership of Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke at 2 PM ET. The widespread consensus is that the FOMC will move forward with another $10 billion reduction to its monthly bond-buying program, but the bigger question is how it might seek to modify the language in its policy statement to strengthen its forward guidance on the likely path of short-term interest rates.
— Ahead of the FOMC announcement, gold is up and the dollar is down against the euro and the yen. S&P 500 futures have been falling all morning and now point to a negative open. Treasuries are poised to open slightly lower as well. Markets in Asia rallied overnight — the Japanese Nikkei 225 advanced 2.7%, the Hong Kong Hang Seng rose 0.8%, and the Shanghai Composite gained 0.6%. European markets are rallying, led by Spain's IBEX 35.
— Shares of Yahoo! Inc. are down more than 3% in pre-market trading following the release of earnings results for the quarter ended December 31. Earnings per share were $0.46, better than the consensus estimate of $0.38, but display ad revenue fell 9% year over year to $1.9 billion, prompting concerns over the company's core business.
— President Obama delivered his annual State of the Union address last night. "There were not any big policy surprises or announcements on energy/environment policy, housing, student loans, or healthcare," says Chris Krueger, a policy analyst for Guggenheim Partners in Washington, D.C. "'Opportunity for All' was relatively light on partisanship that covered many similar themes heard in previous States of the Union (tax reform, energy independence, gun control, patent reform, etc.) that are perennial topics in D.C. each year."
— At 11:30 AM, the U.S. Treasury will auction $15 billion of 2-year floating-rate notes, marking its first new product offering in years. "Auction statistics may be hard to interpret without any historical bid/cover or indirect bids as comparison, but we expect decent participation from dealers as well as customers," say Nomura interest rate strategists. "However, we will not be surprised to see a bit of concession as dealers look to build up inventory only at attractive levels, while some customers take a wait-and-see approach at this inaugural FRN auction. Looking past the clearing level at 11:30 AM, we expect buyers of various investor classes to provide strong support for new FRN, especially on any yield spread cheapening."
— The Reserve Bank of New Zealand will announce its latest decision on monetary policy at 3 PM ET. Economists predict the central bank will leave its official cash rate unchanged at 2.50%. "Dovish lean on the meeting is increasingly strong," says Todd Elmer, a currency strategist at Citi. "We believe this gives rise to risk for New Zealand dollar strengthening beyond expectations on even a modest hawkish surprise and we believe this argues for maintaining long exposure."
— Market research company GfK's German consumer confidence indicator rose to 8.2 from last month's 7.6 reading, marking a larger-than-expected gain. "Germans consider the domestic economy to be clearly on the upturn at present," said GfK in a statement. "This is reflected in the fifth consecutive improvement in economic expectations. In the wake of this, income prospects climbed to reach a 13-year high. Willingness to buy also improved and surpassed its seven-year high of the previous month. The considerable increase in the consumer climate is further boosted by a recent slump in propensity to save."
— U.K. house prices rose 0.7% in January from a month earlier, slowing from December's 1.4% month-on-month pace of growth but surpassing the consensus estimate, which called for a 0.6% advance. The year-over-year pace of house price appreciation increased to 8.8% in January from 8.4% in December.
— South Korea's current account surplus rose to a record $70.73 billion in 2013. Meanwhile, the global economic "canary in the coal mine" also saw industrial output expand 3.4% from the previous month in December, marking the strongest gain since June 2009.
"Today's main event is the U.S. FOMC meeting, after London goes home. The Fed will probably deliver a further $10 billion in 'tapering' — cutting Treasury and MBS purchases by $5 billion each. That would surprise no one, but from India to the U.S., we are now in a global monetary policy tightening cycle, and that is likely to resurrect the bear market in Treasuries. 10-year yields, having fallen to 2.7% amid the EM weakness, will head back toward 3% in the days ahead. How fast they rise will determine how long the improvement in risk sentiment lasts, but within G-10, rising U.S. yields at a time of economic outperformance leave us wanting to be long USD.
"As for the wider picture, the turn in the Fed cycle is causing volatility in markets over-reliant for too long on super-easy Fed policy. The slow, uneven process by which a new equilibrium is reached with investors differentiating between 'carry' and genuine investment opportunities, is going to drag on for much of the year. Volatility will return."
—Kit Juckes, a global strategist at Société Générale
"We believe the ECB's most likely next easing step could be a refi rate cut. The ECB could also add more (excess) liquidity by suspending SMP sterilisation or cutting reserve requirements. A deposit rate cut and forward guidance remain on the agenda, while we do not see a conditional LTRO as measured response to a moderate tightening of money market rates.
"Excess liquidity has come down as banks have repaid LTROs, and, in turn, the EONIA has moved higher within the ECB's corridor. That means that the refi rate – the top of the ECB corridor – has become more effective, while the deposit rate – the floor of the ECB corridor – has become less effective. A refi rate cut is a low-risk/low-impact measure and could be seen as an easy compromise to signal that the ECB is still there, whatever it takes."
—Lars Peter Lilleøre, Alexander Wojt, and Anders Svendsen, analysts at Nordea
"The global equity market's newfound volatility seems to have had a novel impact on investors: money flows related to U.S.-listed exchange traded funds are actually negative in the year to date and will likely end up in the red for the month of January. While not quite white-rhino rare, we are so accustomed to ETFs reliably (if not inexorably) drawing capital that these outflows merit a brief review.
"Through yesterday, U.S.-listed ETFs had lost $8.5 billion from redemptions. Pinpointing the culprit isn't difficult: SPY, EEM, VWO, IWM and QQQ represent a combined $22 billion of year-to-date ETF redemptions. Putting the data in context, the easiest conclusion is that both the unusually negative ETF flows and the recent spot of volatility both have the same cause: payback for some end-of-2013 fast money flows into U.S. stocks. Market action from the Fed's announcement (Wednesday) to the next jobs report (a week from Friday) will tell us if the easy explanation is also the right one."
—Nicholas Colas, chief market strategist at ConvergEx Group
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On March 8 of every year, International Women's Day is celebrated as a symbolic reminder to the rest of the world of the struggles of women across the globe.
"International Women's Day for Palestinian women this year means a lot of struggle, a lot of power that must be gained for Palestinian women because we are facing two kinds of oppression," said Khitam Saafin, Chair of the Union of Palestinian Women's Committees (UPWC) to Mondoweiss.
Palestinian society is not exempt from that fact that the place of women is by no means equal to that of men. Suhair Odeh from Deheishe refugee camp, Bethlehem is well aware of this. The problems women faced in the refugee camp she grew up in compelled her to think of ways she could assist them.
"We live in a bad situation, not just in an economic sense, but in terms of the political and the social situation," said Suhair from her home in Dheisheh. |There is no peace inside or outside the home. The women are half of the society, as well as the leaders for society."
Deheishe camp was founded in 1949 and is now home 15,000 refugees with a total number of 3,000 families. Often the families within the camp struggle economically, which is further compounded by their political and social situation.
"Many NGO's help women in the villages because they have land and they can work on it but inside the camps this does not work," Suhair added. "We are refugees and who is responsible for us? UNRWA gives us nothing but a bit of flour."
Palestine's informal employment sector
The art of embroidery is part of Palestinian tradition. Today many women rely on that skill as a means to bring in an income for their struggling families, thus forming a part of the informal employment sector in Palestinian society. The nature of this sector leaves those that work within it susceptible to exploitation.
Suhair noticed the amount of women in the camp who were forced to rely on this industry and who were being exploited by it.
"The tourist shops sell the pieces the women make for very high prices and pay the women very low prices," she said.
"It is as if these women are slaves. They work until their eyes are damaged. It makes me so sad that someone would take advantage of these women because of the situation they are in," she continued.
Many women rely on embroidery as a means to bring in an income for their struggling families, thus forming a part of the informal employment sector, leaving them susceptible to exploitation
Many women rely on embroidery as a means to bring in an income for their struggling families, thus forming a part of the informal employment sector, leaving them susceptible to exploitation
The exploitation of women in the informal employment sector, particularly in the art of embroidery sheds light on the dark side of the tourist industry in Bethlehem. The pieces that hang in the windows of the souvenir shops in Bethlehem for high prices are often sourced from women who are in desperate need for an income and with no choice but to embroider for long hours for very little pay. Such ad-hoc labour is difficult to monitor, ensuring that those responsible do not have to adhere to any basic standards of rights.
Suhair works to find the poorest women in the camp and provides them with opportunities to embroider pieces for a good price. At times she supplies up to 40 women with commissioned work. She provides the material for the women from her own back pocket. Since the Israel has withheld the taxes from the Palestinian Authority she has not been paid a full salary from her job as a nurse in 7 months.
Her project is far more than improving the women's economic situation through embroidery.
"If you go into the home of a woman, if you knock on the door and sit with her, you encourage her to speak. Not just about the embroidery but about her life, her world, you can touch the problems she feels," she said.
"You may invite women to conferences and meeting on their rights as women of the world, they can sit there with a whole group of women and listen but until you are in your home you cannot touch on her as an individual with her own feelings and problems. You cannot make her hold her back straight and feel empowered."
Each women she assists has her own story. Suhair speaks of a woman who is disabled and whose husband is suffering from brain cancer with two small children to support, and of unmarried women and divorced women who have no support from their families and stand alone in their economic crisis.
"If you open the economic doors, you start to open the other doors," Suhair stated.
Protection for women under Palestinian law
Khitam Saafin, the Chair of the Union of Palestinian Women's Committees (UPWC) spoke on the legal protection of women under Palestinian law to Mondoweiss. She highlighted the laws that need to be tackled in the fight for women's right.
"We are talking about the family law, the punishment law, and labor law. In the family law, we are talking about the rights of women to be equal in many decisions. For example, the divorce right is mainly for the male. The multi-marriage for the men, the polygamy, we are trying to make it harder for men. We are trying to raise the age of marriage," she said.
"We are talking about the right of women to marry themselves, because in the Palestinian law the woman must have the decision [made by] a male in her family. "
"For the punishment law, we have a very big problem [with regards to] the honor killings, which gives [a] small sentence [to] the male who kills the female under the honor excuse. That makes many crimes against women go on through the society under the honor killing excuse."
President Mahmoud Abbas saddened the Palestinian rights community when in December 2012 he refused to change a law which gives leniency to suspects who claim "honor" as the justification behind the killing of a woman.
"For us, for women, all this is irrelevant," said Soraida Hussein, general director of the Women's Technical Affairs Committee, an umbrella group of women's organizations to Ma'an News. "Until now, our lives -- in law and in practice -- are seen as less than men's."
By providing some of the poorest women in Dheisheh camp with a fair income Suhair does not just provide economic opportunities. The generated income does more than feed a family; it has the ability to empower women inside their homes and within society so they can fight for their rights as women in a male-dominated culture, and as Palestinians under Israeli occupation.
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Los Angeles County voters passed a ballot initiative mandating that pornographic film actors wear condoms during sex scenes, prompting a trade group on Wednesday to threaten to sue and take production elsewhere.
Measure B, which was sponsored by the group AIDS Healthcare Foundation, won approval on Tuesday by a margin of 55.85 per cent to 44.15 per cent, according to the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder's office.
"This is what democracy looks like; we took this to county government, and they didn't act so we took it directly to the voters, and they spoke conclusively," AIDS Healthcare Foundation President Michael Weinstein said.
The law requires adult film actors filming in Los Angeles County to use condoms during sex scenes. Most US pornographic productions are made in the county's San Fernando Valley.
Diane Duke, chief executive for the industry group Free Speech Coalition, told Los Angeles County supervisors in a letter on Wednesday that the law was unconstitutional and that it fell under state jurisdiction, not that of local government.
"Therefore, we will file suit and challenge this intolerable law in court," Duke said in the letter. A copy was provided to Reuters.
She said the adult filmmakers had been approached to move elsewhere, adding: "In the upcoming weeks and months, we will provide a roadmap for adult production to move its over a billion dollar industry and its accompanying 10,000 jobs to these welcoming communities."
David Sommers, a spokesman for the Board of Supervisors, declined to respond specifically to the letter, saying he had not read it. He said county health officials were still grappling with the law's implications.
"This type of enforcement is a new thing for us and it's a one-of-a-kind law and so how we move forward with its implementation is a conversation we're just beginning to have given how the voters decided Measure B," he said.
The initiative requires porn producers to get a health permit from Los Angeles County to make their movies showing explicit sex and nudity. Using condoms on set would be a condition of obtaining that permit.
California workplace laws mandate the use of condoms by porn performers, but AIDS Healthcare officials say the statute is not specifically aimed at the industry and is widely violated.
The Free Speech Coalition said in its letter that such requirements would impose "excessive costs of compliance."


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This is not George Lazenby making his doomed run at James Bond, or even Mel Gibson presuming to play Hamlet. This is serious heresy, combined with a touch of felonious assault. It has evidently not occurred to Steve Martin that, just as there is only one Eiffel Tower, there is but one Inspector Clouseau. The famously inept French detective was created by Peter Sellers, perfected by Peter Sellers over the course of five feature-length installments, and lives on in the canon of the late Peter Sellers. And neither the flood of Clouseauian self-delusion that seems to affect Martin at the moment, nor the insistence by his present collaborators that they have refashioned the lovable fool in the white trench coat to suit a new audience in a new century, will do much to loosen Sellers' eternal hold on the franchise. They may as well be shooting BB guns at a battleship.
In The Pink Panther, an occasionally amusing but wrongheaded remake that arrives more than four decades after the original blazed across the screen, Martin tries to reconstruct Clouseau as an Internet-obsessed bumpkin who actually conceals a bit of competence behind his comic speech impediment, his prissy pursed lips, and his monstrous indestructibility. The essential quality this nouveau Clouseau retains from his great model is sheer ignorance of the mayhem he's inflicting on the world: Martin bowls over an entire peloton of bicycle racers in the streets of Paris, wrecks a musical recording session, smashes a priceless antique desk, and single-handedly destroys two floors of the Waldorf-Astoria (yes, Clouseau visits New York!) without noticing a thing.
Fine and good, but our man's other classic bona fides don't survive. For one thing, the current movie fails to properly sustain the inspector's blind vanity, the stubborn belief that he's doing right and solving problems even as he's fomenting chaos. That has been the source of our delight since 1963 -- and the inspiration for Clouseau imitators like buffoonish Lieutenant Frank Drebin, of the Naked Gun movies. Armed with that, neither Sellers nor writer-director Blake Edwards ever demanded sympathy for Clouseau or laid on anything like pathos in the face of his spectacular failures. But that's exactly what the current moviemakers stoop to near the end of this declawed Panther. They not only ask us to feel pity for the fallen Clouseau; at least momentarily, they also give him a glimpse of his own folly. And if this is not fatal, the next thing is -- a flash of authentic detective skill in the hero. Inspector Jacques Clouseau was not put on this earth to solve cases; he's here to completely screw them up, then stumble into surreal solutions. And when these screenwriters -- Michael Saltzman, Len Blum, and Martin himself -- trespass against that principle, their Clouseau is suddenly lost, hopelessly adrift on a floe of minor insight.
Meanwhile, the movie goes on its merry slapstick way. The plot is the usual trifle about the murder of a French soccer coach, the disappearance of the huge diamond from which both versions of The Pink Panther take their title, and, against all the odds, the assignment of Clouseau to the case. This time around, his pompous, scheming boss, Dreyfus, is played by Kevin Kline, who winds up predictably bruised and battered; his combative Oriental houseboy of yore, Kato (now politically incorrect), has been replaced by a dour Paris detective named Ponton (the veteran French actor Jean Reno), who serves as both foil and friend. Previous Panther films have, of course, deployed beauties like Claudia Cardinale, Capucine, and Dyan Cannon, so the presence here of Destiny's Child diva Beyoncé Knowles is no surprise, even though she exists mainly as a beautiful prop who models a series of slinky costumes before performing a new song in the frantic finale.
Martin has some high comic moments -- struggling mightily with the single phrase "I would like to buy a hamburger" in a session with an English-language coach, playing good cop-bad cop all by himself, snagging his index finger in the top of a doorjamb and hanging there in agony, camouflaging himself as flowered wallpaper. Director Shawn Levy (who worked with Martin in Cheaper by the Dozen) bravely goes through the motions, but there's no escaping the conclusion that Clouseau would have been better left alone -- like Vito Corleone and Terry Malloy. The penultimate chapter of the original six-movie set, 1982's Trail of the Pink Panther, released after Sellers' death, was stitched together from outtakes and new linking sections; a year later, Edwards desperately tried to keep the series alive with Curse of the Pink Panther, casting young Ted Wass as Clouseau and surrounding him with co-stars from earlier films. In both cases, the results were pretty dismal. That lesson has apparently been lost on Steve Martin and Company.
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Chatting Cider with Angry Orchard's David Sipes
Chatting about beer with the folks who make it.
Editor's Note: You might have seen this new brand of hard cider on your local store shelves recently and not realized that Angry Orchard Hard Cider comes from the folks behind the Boston Beer Co., which makes Samuel Adams beers. We recently chatted with Angry Orchard cider maker David Sipes about the brand.
Can you tell us a bit about how Angry Orchard came to be?
Angry Orchard was developed over a span of 15 years, as we explored apples and techniques that would produce a cider of highest quality. Our search for ingredients ultimately led to Europe, where we discovered that the pairing of culinary apples from Italy's Alpine foothills and French bittersweet apples from Normandy. These apples provide the ideal combination of sweetness and tartness for our three styles [of cider.] We learned the value of patience during fermentation, and developed a process that is markedly long, including time for wood aging.
How did you get interested in making cider and how did you learn?
I studied at University of California, Davis, and received a Bachelor of Science in Fermentation Science. When I graduated, I had no idea my degree would take me but it's been an exciting journey. I began working on cider recipes 12 years ago when I joined The Boston Beer Company. So, for over a decade, I've traveled the world looking for the best apples to ferment for cider and experimented with too many recipes to count.
What's your relationship with Boston Beer Co.?
Angry Orchard is a subsidiary of The Boston Beer Company, but a critical decision was made early on for Angry Orchard to have its own identity in every aspect from recipe development through packaging. Angry Orchard takes the same craft approach to cider as Boston Beer does to beer.
What makes the Angry Orchard ciders different?
The variety of apples we blend together to create each of these ciders and the years of experimenting until we perfected our process. Angry Orchard Traditional Dry is reminiscent of English draft ciders, with a mouth-puckering dry body that tastes bittersweet with slightly spicy flavors and a bright apple aroma. Our Crisp Apple, on the other hand, balances natural sweetness with a subtle dryness for a crisp and refreshing taste.
Where do you source your apples, and what kind are being used?
The apples in Angry Orchard are not the apples you would buy in a grocery store. Our cider apples are unique to cider making, just like wine grapes are to wine making. Angry Orchard is a blend of Italian culinary apples from the Alpine foothills with French bittersweet apples from Normandy. Unlike ordinary apples, bittersweet apples are described as "angry" because of the tart and tannic characteristics they impart. Culinary apples produce a fruit with a juicy, ripe apple character that, when combined with the bittersweet apples, results in an exceptional blend that contributes to the complex flavor profile of each cider.
How do the apples get from Italy and Normandy to your cidery?
When we set out on this journey we started by [looking for] the best apples for cider making. We kept being led back to Europe's cider apple orchards, where apples have been bred expressly for cider for centuries. Then we considered the best way to capture the juice at its peak to protect the flavor consistently from batch to batch. To do this, we create a juice concentrate by removing the water, creating a stable, remarkably flavorful and fragrant juice that can be used over time.
Do you see Angry Orchard as joining a cider trend that's on the rise?
I don't know if I can answer for the cider category, but judging by Angry Orchard as a barometer, drinkers seem to be excited to explore cider. I think people are looking for a refreshing change, and have developed more sophisticated palates.
Where do you see the cider industry going in the next few years?
In Europe, cider is a large part of the culture and we look forward to the day that it becomes very much a part of American culture as well. As for what's next, it's a little too early to tell but we are experimenting with a variety of yeasts and aging techniques as we look to develop new cider recipes.
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