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But this year, a landslide washed out the only trail leading to Lower Noland Cemetery, a place he's visited regularly since childhood. The National Park Service, which transports descendents into the park for graveside Decoration Days, postponed the visit from April until October.
According to Hyatt and others who regularly visit cemeteries in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, that was not the first time a trip has been rescheduled because the park service has not yet taken the time to fix a damaged road.
And during the past few years, it has led some to feel as if park leaders are trying to shut them out of the old cemeteries, which are home to many of their ancestors.
"They seem to be trying to freeze us out," said Lawrence Hyatt, a native of Swain County who lived with his family in Noland Creek until 1946 when it became part of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
Hyatt, who now lives in Tennessee, is one of dozens who make an annual pilgrimage across Fontana Lake and venture into the rugged Smokies backcountry to visit the graves of their ancestors. There are more than two dozen family cemeteries dotting the Swain County side of the national park. The graves date to before the national park's creation, when small communities were scattered through the hills and families tended their own cemeteries.
Family trips to visit the old cemeteries gave rise to the unique tradition known as "Decoration Days." Each family cemetery has its own scheduled Decoration Day, when flowers and decorations are lavished on the graves. There are picnics, hymns and prayers, a family reunion of sort for descendents.
But the journey into the North Shore region of the national park — the largest roadless area in the East — is a challenge for descendents, especially the older ones. The park service helps out by transporting families across Fontana Lake by boat and up the trails by jeep or four-wheelers where possible.
However, some regular cemetery visitors feel that in recent years, the park service is simply waiting for the groups of older people who still celebrate Decoration Days to dissipate.
"It is just a matter of when the older folks fade out," said Aileen McCoy, a 65-year-old Bryson City resident. "They would like the whole North Shore thing to go up into wilderness as if no one ever lived there."
People have complained that the park service does not accommodate more senior citizens who still wish to participate in Decoration Days but are not very mobile. They want the national park to improve the rough trails to give people easier, better access to the cemeteries.
For the baby boomer generation and their parents, Decoration Days are an ingrained tradition. They are something that you must do; participation is not optional. It is what they have always done.
"They are my people, and I pay heritage to them," Hyatt said. "They are the ones who built the churches and all of that stuff. It is a responsibility."
Although Hyatt's people were exhumed from a cemetery that lies under Fontana Lake and reburied at Lauada cemetery in Bryson City, he still likes to visit cemeteries such as Lower Noland. For him and others of his generation, Decoration Days were the highlight of the year, a time to gather, to pray and to celebrate.
"Most of the younger people don't understand what it meant to these older people. The decoration was the social event of the year," Hyatt said. "We have people from all walks of life. We have doctors and lawyers and Indian chiefs. And we have poor people, hard working people."
People would not just go to remember their relatives and decorate their own family's graves but also those of their ancestors' neighbors.
"It's not just a 'my family' thing. It's a whole community thing," McCoy said.
Obstacles to entry
The negative sentiments toward the park service expressed by McCoy and Hyatt are examples of why the Swain County Board of Commissioners recently established the nine-member National Park Cemeteries Accessibility Council. The hope is the advisory council will give the park service an extra push toward improving access to the cemeteries.
"That is all we are asking for, to provide access to any and all who have people buried up there," said Swain County Commissioner David Monteith.
In some cases, people have to take boats and hike at least a mile to the now-secluded cemeteries.
There is already an organization, the North Shore Cemetery Association, which works with the national park officials. Monteith said the council is not trying to undercut the existing cemetery association's efforts but rather add to them.
"We just want to enhance it and make it stronger," Monteith said. "Try to put more backbone to it."
The postponement of the Lower Noland cemetery visit seems to be the impetus for the council's creation. According to Monteith and others, it is just one of a number of incidents when people have had trouble getting to a cemetery site.
Although Decoration Day at Lower Noland will still happen, just in October, some participants complained that the park service could have fixed the dirt trail between January when they washed out and April when the Decoration Day was scheduled — especially since families plan reunions around the graveside gatherings.
Don Casada, who has made it his mission to map the forgotten and historic home sites now hidden among the forests of the national park, visited the Noland Creek area after the slide and was shocked to find the trail still damaged with just some cones setup around the site.
"It was clear that absolutely nothing had been done," Casada said. "It was kind of really surprising to me that nothing had been done to prevent further erosion."
Casada sided with critics who believe the park service has slacked on its responsibility and could have fixed the Noland Creek slide in time for Decoration Day or at the very least used four-wheelers to transport people.
"There is plenty of room to take those through there," Casada said. "If they really wanted to do it, it could be done, in my view, if it was a priority."
In documents from the 1930s establishing the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, "The tenor of those was the park service would do everything they could," Casada said. "It does seem to me that in the last few years it has declined significantly."
Rather than balancing the preservation of the land and the memory of the people who once lived there, the scales tend to be weighed away from remembering what Swain County residents gave up, he said.
"Places are very important to mountain people — home places," Casada said. "It basically becomes a family reunion."
But park representatives stated it is simply a case of not enough manpower. The remote trail system along Fontana Lake is not heavily trafficked like U.S. 441 or Deep Creek, both of which experienced slides after January's rainstorms and flooding.
With limited resources and lots of park trails and roadways, it's difficult to maintain.
"It's challenging. There are a lot of challenges with all the roads and networks keeping them going," said Tobias Miller, a trails supervisor with the park service.
Miller added that park service officials consulted with the North Shore Cemetery Association before pushing the Decoration Day event back to October.
Better than before
Leaders with the North Shore Cemetery Association disagree with Monteith and others' assessments about the park service's job of providing access to cemeteries.
"The park has been really good to help us," said Helen Vance, head of the North Shore Cemetery Association. "I have never had a problem before. If we had to postpone it, we postponed it."
Vance was a key player in getting the park service to help get people up to the cemeteries in the first place. For years, people could go but had to make their own way.
"The first couple years, we had to take our own boats," Vance said.
And if you didn't have a boat, you couldn't visit some of the cemeteries or would have to hike a considerable distance. But now, park employees use park service boats to shuttle people across the lake, and four-wheelers or buses to drive people as close to the cemeteries as possible — a long way from what it once was, according to Vance.
"What I am interested in is keeping what we have," Vance said. "The first eight years, it was nothing to what we have now."
Vance's daughter and fellow association member Leeunah Woods said she has not heard one person complain about troubles getting to the cemeteries and would have her own problems with the park service if it were true.
"We have never had anybody say anything. No, they are not trying to keep us out," Woods said.
One example listed by critics of the park service was the limitation of visitors to the Calhoun, Walker and Wike cemeteries in early June for Decoration Days at those sites. The park service used to take whoever wanted to go up to the cemeteries. But in recent years, the number has been limited to only about a dozen people. So even though dozens showed up the first couple of years after the change, many were left standing in the parking lot with no where to go, McCoy said.
Woods said the reason it was cut down was because many of the younger people would come to eat lunch at the cemeteries, a Decoration Day custom, and would immediately want to leave after.
After spending time boating people across Fontana Lake, park employees would have to turn around soon after and take part of the party back to their cars, leaving only one or two employees to transport the remaining individuals deeper into the park to continue Decoration Day.
Critics are also rallying around the idea of upgrading the roads to the cemeteries so that vehicles can be used to transport elderly visitors closer to the gravesites.
In some cases, older residents with limited mobility are prevented from taking part in decoration days as they had for decades because they cannot walk long distances or the way up to the cemetery is too steep.
"Some of our very elderly, they can't go there," McCoy said.
McCoy and others have suggested that the park service upgrade the roads and also make use of four-wheelers to transport the most senior members of the Decoration Day parties to cemeteries.
"I think the park could do better and needs to be better," McCoy said.
After all, they gave up their land to make the creation of the park possible.
A history of grievances
People in Swain County are naturally suspicious of the federal government, including the park service. The history between Swain County residents and the federal government is fraught with mistrust, starting with the creation of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in the 1930s. The acquisition forced people to abandon their houses, churches and family cemeteries to make way for the new national park, and make their homes elsewhere.
The construction of Fontana Dam in the 1940s forced more evacuations as the rising waters behind the dam flooded out communities and homesteads. And still hundreds more were evacuated from their homes simply because the lake had blocked access into or out of their communities in the territory now known as the "North Shore." The isolated and unreachable land along the North Shore was deeded over the national park, but the remnants of the communities and homesteads of the area still remain — including dozens of small family cemeteries.
The federal government initially agreed to build a road along the north shore of Fontana Lake to provide easy access to these cemeteries. But decades later, the road sat partly finished, without much hope for completion as promised.
Rather than continue to hold out hope that the federal government would finish the road, former U.S. Rep. Heath Shuler negotiated a $52 million cash settlement on Swain County's behalf. The county received an initial $12.8 million payment in 2010. But it hasn't seen any money since.


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From the New York Post (9/26/10):
The same day, about three miles south, a veiled Aafia Siddiqui, sentenced to 86 years for trying to kill Americans in Afghanistan and who also plotted New York attacks, charged Israel was connected to 9/11. "I'm not anti-Israel, but, yes, I have said they masterminded 9/11 and I have proof of that," said the MIT-educated Pakistani.
Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/menace_of_myths_D2F0yEdyFBqdnLmOUEV6NM#ixzz10eKMXh7C
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Aafia Siddiqui: 'I have proof Israel masterminded 9/11…big wars are being planned' -PakAlert Press
Pakistan weighing ways to win Aaafia's release -Dawn.com
JUDGE SENTENCES RAPE VICTIM TO 86 YEARS IN PRISON - Veterans Today
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So, maybe you're a bit disappointed by not getting a shiny new iPhone design revealed during Apple's announcement yesterday. You're not alone. But the real exciting stuff was all the news about iOS 5, what with the Siri personal assistant and full video mirroring through Apple TV.
Developer Firemint's going to use the latter feature to implement the first wireless multiplayer for its Real Racing 2 HD title. Right now, you can stream the current version of the game wirelessly from an iPad 2 through an Apple TV onto a bigger HD screen. But the incoming v1.2 update will feature a Party Play mode, which allows for multiplayer splitscreen—up to four players—via the Air Play wireless protocol.
Party Play will only available with the iPad 2 and the in-bound iPhone 4S and you'll need an Apple TV to take advantage.
The Real Racing franchise has been at the technical vanguard of iOS gaming, with Real Racing 2 HD being among the first games playable in 1080p with a HDMI cable. Then came the use of Apple's set-top box as a streaming hub. And now, wireless splitscreen multiplayer. This development's just further proof that the mythical Apple game console that gamers have pined away for already exists in a deconstructed form.
iPhone 4S: Massive Real Racing 2 update featuring Party Play [Firemint]
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Apple brew: Gov. Kaine dedicates hard cider operation
Promoting a new local agribusiness, Virginia Governor Tim Kaine was on hand July 13 for the grand opening of the Albemarle CiderWorks at Rural Ridge Orchard on Route 29 South, now one of only two hard cider producers in the state. Kaine declared the cider to be "spectacular" and told a funny story about serving it to his family at breakfast, unaware that the tasty stuff contained seven percent alcohol. After several speakers praised the Shelton family's new business, including County Supe David Slutzky and Secretary of Agriculture and Forestry Robert S. Bloxom, the crowd descended on the CiderWorks tasting room to mingle and sample the appley beverages.
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My first hard cider tasting was this year and wow does that stuff pack a punch--don't get me wrong I enjoyed it, but be sure to take along a designated driver if you plan on tasting more than a sip.
"Botany of Desire" is pretty informative about how apples were originally valued more as sources of alcohol than for their fruit.


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In 1973, the year I was born, Harper & Row Publishers released a book from its children's publishing division that signaled the emergence of a new racial demographic in the United States. Titled Black is Brown is Tan and authored by poet Arnold Adoff, the 32-page book's "story-poem" (excerpted above) told the tale of a modern interracial family not unlike Adoff's own (Adoff, a Jewish writer from New York City, married African-American writer Virginia Hamilton in 1960, a union that produced two now-grown children, Leigh and Jamie). Although neither Adoff nor Harper & Row realized at the time that Black is Brown is Tan would be the first picture book for children about a biracial American family, Adoff did suspect that his book would reflect the realities of a rapidly developing domestic demographic - the black/white marriage - through the eyes of its children...Mildred Loving's children.
For those who have never heard of her, Mildred Loving was an African-American woman who, with her white husband Richard, changed the United States' miscegenation laws by taking the state of Virginia — which regarded their union as illegal — to court and, with a June 12, 1967 decision in her and her husband's favor, effectively dismantled the laws in that state and 15 others that prohibited intermarriage between the races. Mildred Loving, as you also may or may have have heard, has just died at the age of 68 of undisclosed causes. (Richard Loving was killed in a car accident in 1975.)
Mildred and Richard had some formidable foes. Although some states' anti-miscegenation laws came to include other ethnic groups, as Werner Sollors says in his book Interracialism, "all such laws restricted marriage choices of blacks and whites, making the black-white divide the deepest and historically most pervasive of all American color lines." Certainly, Loving vs. Virginia was not the only factor in the rapidly growing number of black/white unions and marriages during '60s and '70s, but it was an important one, and a strong indicator that something new was happening between blacks and whites in the second half of the 20th century, something more concerned with love than hate. (Those who are better schooled in these matters than I am, please elaborate in the comments.)
What I find both fascinating and inspiring is that the generation of biracial (a term I am using here to describe those with one black parent and one white parent) Americans born in the fifteen years after Loving vs. Virginia, is a generation that has, in recent years come of age both in the public and private spheres. All over the airwaves, bookshelves and movie screens one can see representatives of this generation, from athletes (Derek Jeter, Jason Kidd, James Blake) to entertainers (Halle Berry, Lisa Bonet, Mariah Carey) to writers and thinkers (Rebecca Walker, Danzy Senna and Zadie Smith). This is no coincidence: According to figures made available by Race Branch of the United States Census Bureau, the number of interracial (black/white) couples in the United States in 1960 numbered 51,000. Ten years later (almost three years after Loving), the number had risen 27.4% to 65,000 and by 1980 that number had almost doubled, coming in at 121,000. The numbers of children borne from such unions grew just as quickly: the 2000 Census states that there were 4,850 biracial Americans born in 1967; the same census puts the number born in 1977 at 9,261, almost double the number born ten years earlier, and five years later, in 1982, 14,125 biracial children came into the world in the United States. And we are better for it. As the AP reports today, "In a rare interview... last June, Loving said she wasn't trying to change history — she was just a girl who once fell in love with a boy. 'It wasn't my doing,' Loving said. 'It was God's work.'"
Mildred Loving, Matriarch Of Interracial Marriage, Dies
Related: Who Are We Now? New Dialogue On Mixed Race [NY Times]
Black Is Brown Is Tan
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Published September/October 1999Life's Fine Points The World's finest pen makers are crafting works of art that fit in the palm of your hand By Edward Kiersh
Houdini lives. So do Hemingway, Shakespeare and Michelangelo, their legends celebrated in hand-held works of art in silver and gold, diamonds and platinum. Great explorers, too, are hailed, with sculpted salutes to the voyages of Christopher Columbus and the space-age odyssey of the Apollo 11 crew. These and other great men and moments of history are the frequent subjects of the penmaker's art, exquisitely crafted homages to humanity's efforts to achieve greatness.
All this artistic activity signals a second golden age for pens, a throwback to the early 1900s when fountain pens, not cyberspace instruments, were luxurious masterpieces of engineering and stylistic ingenuity. Then, Parker and Waterman were king; today, every limited-edition pen manufacturer is trying to claim that throne by stretching the design envelope, striving to fashion gold- or jeweled-studded pieces that are worthy of museums. Many succeed, as a pen renaissance strongly indebted to the Italian spirit of highly detailed sculpturing is flourishing, with limited editions appreciating 15 to 25 percent a year in value.
But that cachet market has also become increasingly crowded with pretenders, firms that lack the blue-chip investment solidity of the companies with true brand equity. There are so many new entrants into this arena with marbleized and precious stone millennium commemoratives, space-age fiber offerings in fancy velvet packaging, and outright gimmicks, that the tag "limited" is often just flash and dance, disguising an ill-conceived, nonperforming piece destined to only spill red ink.
As Terry Wiederlight, the co-owner of New York's Fountain Pen Hospital, the world's largest writing instrument emporium, says, "While the market is still hot, buyers must now be selective. Unlike a few years ago, not every limited is going to rise 25 percent. The savvy consumer can still enjoy a terrific hobby and profit. But the investment trick is to only buy the prettiest pens, those with unquestioned craftsmanship from companies with proven track records. Do your homework. Then go for the best, the manufacturers with real history."
The most spirited of these pedigreed companies is the Bologna-based Omas, a family-run concern that has been creating legendary celluloid masterpieces since 1925, when Armando Simoni, the patron saint of penmakers (a Paris museum is dedicated to his artwork), founded the company. Now grandson Gianluca Malaguti is obsessed with leaving his own distinctive legacy.
Enthusiastically discussing his latest collaboration with New York's Museum of Modern Art, which will showcase a triangular, "ergonomically correct" "360" pen (at a comparatively affordable $400), Malaguti says, "This innovative shape has made us famous, and it's also technologically perfect. Yet I still can't say we've reached a design pinnacle, a pen that evokes all of the passion my family has for this art form. I don't want to sell two million pens, be the commercial kingpin. I just want to create pieces that set the standard for performance and beauty."
Malaguti has already triumphed. The $35,000 "Merveille du Monde" (an homage to Marco Polo released in the mid-1990s and now worth $80,000 to $100,000), the "Almirante" (a tribute to Columbus), the intricately sculptured "Hong Kong," and the $14,000 solid gold "Bernini," with inlaid mother-of-pearl and lapis stones, are such fabled collectibles that New York pen dealer Geoffrey Berliner calls Malaguti "the Michelangelo of pendom."
Despite international acclaim, the cigar-smoking, 34-year-old workaholic, who relentlessly hopscotches around the globe in search of a limited-edition concept that has "true historical significance," is still heavily burdened by family traditions. It scarcely matters to him that the president of a rival company raves about Omas's impeccably crafted Paragon collection (12-faceted pens from $150 to $5,000) and the hand-etched "Apollo 11." The recently released "Apollo 11," a solid white-gold pen embedded with gold-and-sterling silver particles, takes three months to craft and is limited to 69 pieces.
Malaguti's "symphony," however, which was three years in the making, is the "Nelson Mandela 80" collection. This four-pen extravaganza was styled in collaboration with the Mandela Foundation, and is meant to attract attention to the 80-year-old Mandela's charitable work on behalf of Africa. Though the sculptured themes on each pen vary, from Mandela's tribal roots to his life in prison and role in shaping the birth of a nation, as always Malaguti has tackled "one unifying, abstract big idea, freedom--man's unremitting quest to flee darkness, and to emerge in a brave new promised land. "The Struggle," made in red enamel with a sterling silver or 18-karat gold shield motif, depicts Mandela's life in prison. The gold-and-silver "New Nation" traces the evolution and promise of African society through a series of detailed raised-relief sculpturings. The yellow-and-orange enamel "Africa" features a raised-relief design in the shape of the continent in either sterling silver or gold.
"When we make a pen, we want to transmit a message, something of higher value and meaning, for a pen is the essence of communication, not just a piece of celluloid or metal," insists Malaguti, who has also collaborated with Israeli leaders, the Dalai Lama and European Economic Community members to style museum-worthy fountain pens.
In paying tribute to his origins (Mandela was the son of a tribal king), the "Royal Family" depicts mother and son, as well as the African landscape, with red and orange enamels. The pen is crafted in silver or gold, or with diamonds with a platinum finish. The most expensive version (only 61 of these $15,000 treasures will be offered) features yellow and white diamonds from South Africa. More than 10 percent of the profits from each "Royal Family" pen will go to the Mandela Foundation.
But rather than feast on these accolades, Malaguti is hoping his "Mandela 80" collection trumpets such "a clarity in communication" that the pens "inspire people" and compel them to "rethink everything they once felt about Africa."
Unlike some other pen manufacturers, Malaguti can afford to be the romantic, as Omas doesn't have to produce profits for a conglomerate parent, or play a numbers game that has its pieces appearing in every airport and department store on the planet. He's able to remain loyal to his strictly maintained "culture of the hand" (hand-crafting) mentality, a commitment to limited production that impels Geoffrey Berliner to say that "Omas is the Rolls-Royce of fountain pens. It's unequaled for integrity, durability and performance."
Malaguti, though, isn't the only passionate penmaker. At internationally renowned Montblanc, a company esteemed for introducing collectible limited editions that soar in value like Internet stocks, Fred Reffsin, CEO of Montblanc North America, is also fervent about his newest "good life" trophies.
Insisting the Germany-based Montblanc is the market's "trendsetter," the penmaker synonymous with "prestige, unique technical innovation and quality," Reffsin is confident that the just-issued "Marcel Proust" will write a new chapter in the firm's obsessive devotion to "de-acceleration," or to a slowing down in life that "preserves the beauty of the moment." Montblanc opened its first flagship boutique, at 834 Madison Avenue in Manhattan, with a gala event in June. The store features the company's first "De-Acceleration Studio," a 1,800-square-foot "spa for the mind" where pen devotees can read, write and relax surrounded by rare books and writing instruments.
Such a philosophical bent is the beauty of writing with a fountain pen, and newcomers to this stylish world are advised that putting nib to paper demands a bow to Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, a mindset totally removed from the freneticism of day-trading on the Web. But despite Reffsin's best intentions, this thick, sterling silver $750 pen is the latest in Montblanc's "writer series" homages, following pens that have honored Hemingway, Voltaire and Edgar Allan Poe, and that limited-edition cachet invariably sparks a buying frenzy.
"Months ahead of its issuance, we already had a waiting list for the 'Proust,' for the investment values of Montblancs are like IBM and Microsoft: the market leader," says Fountain Pen Hospital's Wiederlight. "Montblanc is just magic when it comes to vintage, secondary market sales, especially with its 'Oscar Wilde' and 'Hemingway.' The 'Wilde' came out at $650 [in 1994] and is now $900, while I can't get enough 'Hemingways.' A spectacular piece, it was first $600 [in 1992], and has jumped to an amazing $2,200."
To celebrate the 75th anniversary of its signature black resin "Meisterstück" pen, Montblanc is offering four editions crowned with a small diamond, from the "Special Anniversary Edition" for $425, the "Limited Edition" with a rose-gold finish for $650, the sterling silver "Solitaire" for $1,500 and, exclusively in Montblanc boutiques, the "Limited Edition 75," a $13,800 stunner in solid white gold. Reffsin feels these editions epitomize the "revolution" in writing instruments, their becoming "a statusy hallmark on the order of fine jewelry." To further crown the "Meisterstück" line, Montblanc is unveiling a 75th anniversary collection of 75 transparent "Skeleton" watches and pens, crafted with 18-karat gold and mother-of-pearl.
"These watches are another sign of our devotion to living in the moment, and yet we're not sitting still," says Reffsin, 42. "As the limited-edition category leader, we felt an obligation to take stock of all that was wonderful this past century. That's why we made a 'retro' move with the 'Marcel Proust,' a safety-filler pen with a cartridge which is based on early 1900s technology."
Making its own statement of singular craftsmanship, Namiki also turns to the past for artful inspiration. Founded in 1918, Namiki employs painstaking hand-lacquering techniques dating back to the seventh century (called maki-e). This Japanese firm (which has been enlisted by the Vatican to style a millennium pen) will soon spotlight the solid gold $9,000 "Double Dragon Emperor."
The "Emperor" will probably follow the same august path as Namiki's $25,500 "Miyabi" series. Powdered in gold, and burnished with charcoal for extra sheen after receiving 10 coats of urushi lacquer, the three-pen "Miyabi" collection sold out almost immediately, says Namiki USA general manager Sal Esposito.
But don't despair. If the yen for "Double Dragons" proves all-consuming, geishas, shoguns and other traditional Japanese themes are artfully interpreted in Namiki's "Sterling Silver Collection," a series of $475, torpedo-shaped .925 sterling pieces (only 600 worldwide annually and covered by a lifetime guarantee) that feature a hand-etched butterfly design. "Namikis are beautiful, wonderfully conceived, sturdy fountain pens," raves Geoffrey Berliner. "Their artistry is brilliantly executed."
Italian craftstmen are equally devoted to shaping hand-wrought classics. Delta, a firm renowned for its red celluloid "Pompeii" pens and carbon fiber and titanium technology, will issue a new four-inch version of the $600 "Colosseum" pen next year, plus the "David," a $1,000 celluloid homage (about $4,000 in platinum) to Michelangelo's famous statue in Florence. Established in 1982, Delta produces only about 150,000 pens each year (compared to Omas's half-million), which allows for Old World attention to detail: the turning, threading and drilling of every piece by hand.
Grace and colorful elegance also typify Montegrappa's "Science & Nature," a sterling silver, engraved representation of a microchip circuit diagram and passion flower (only 1,912 of these $1,950 hand-enameled pens will be made), and for a lucky few, Montegrappa presents "The Cigar," an engraved silver limited edition (a mere 200 worldwide) featuring the intricate details of a tobacco leaf.
The la dolce vita style of Delta and Montegrappa is increasingly leaving its mark among connoisseurs. But these brilliant stars in the pen constellation are not the only Italians redefining the boundaries of creativity. Florence-based Stipula also sparkles, particularly its "Virtus Memoriae." The fourth installment of its "human civilization" collection, this $6,500 solid gold work ($2,500 in sterling silver) is dedicated to Homer's Odyssey. Much like that timeless saga, the pen's low-relief sculpturing honors an age-old Florentine design process known as "lost wax," whereby molten gold and silver is poured into a wax cast, then shaped to create memorable images.
Hand-carved treasures are also a staple of Aurora, an 80-year-old Turin firm that delighted collectors last year with its virtuoso-inspired "Giuseppe Verdi." While then a bravura treat in vermeil, guilloche engraving and delicate fine lines, the "Verdi" is now poised to write even prettier music, as it's being offered in an all-platinum version with 14 fully cut white diamonds on the cap, for $18,500. Sapphires adorn the equally lustrous "Verdi" done in 18-karat solid gold, for $7,000.
Aurora is following up the "Verdi" with the gold-plated "Jubileaum." This cream-colored, lacquered resin pen will sing praises to the millennium, and promises to be a New Year sensation at $1,100.
While the Italians are steeped in tradition and elegant refinements, the pen world also has its maverick, a cutting-edge force that is not afraid to flirt with what some critics call gimmicks.
In the past few years Krone has offered its "William Shakespeare," a deep purple celluloid pen enhanced with an embedded piece of the playwright's Stratford-upon-Avon mulberry tree; the "Abraham Lincoln," complete with a crystallized form of Abe's own DNA in the cap; and the rugged-looking "Sir Edmund Hillary Mount Everest," containing an authentic piece of rock from that legendary peak's summit.
"We want to make the collecting of pens fun, give this whole legacy business a shot of unique attributes," says Krone president Robert Kronenberger, who's taken to collecting vintage pens himself. "Everyone loves our pens--they're cool, different and, due to our added touches like the DNA and the Bard's own tree, they're the ultimate in personal connection."
Increasingly popular (Terry Wiederlight says Krone is a "definite comer which is doing all sorts of wondrous things"), these pieces are meant to capture the spirit of men facing challenges, and to be "living history."
Kronenberger is hoping to tap into the charms of an even greater "miracle worker," the spine-chilling monarch of mystery, mayhem and magic, the great Houdini.
While the limited-edition "Houdini" ($1,275 in smoky gray resin, $2,800 in white gold, $9,500 in platinum) won't open any padlocked chests, handcuffs or bolted coffins, the special reserve "Houdini" is adorned with his image and fragments from a key that the conjurer actually used, and is packaged in a sumptuous black lacquered magician's drawer box that performs its own mind-boggling trick. "If you don't possess the magic, the pen can disappear before your very eyes," Kronenberger says with a laugh. "For we've created a special box with a drawer that works wonders."
Insisting that he has a limitless array of possible "personality" projects, Kronenberger, 43, won't disclose his next creation. But in the meantime, he intends to dazzle us with an affordable surprise that also recalls Houdini's era. Krone's "Vintage Select," like many pens of the 1920s, is equipped with a compression filler system. Press a button on this $250 gem and the ink flows into the pen, again dramatizing Krone's gift for designing mind-over-matter marvels.
Drawing from the Incas for its own historical inspiration, France's S.T. Dupont has crafted a tribute to the artistic brillianceof that New World civilization in its "Nuevo Mondo" collection. Styled in eye-catching blue Chinese lacquer with semi-precious stones and gold plating, this two pen and two lighter set is a hand-carved paean to the Incas' "spirit of discovery." Priced at $6,000, only 500 sets will be available worldwide.
Usually the firm would make just one limited edition a year but, in preparation for gala millennium celebrations, it is also offering the "Perspective 2000," another multiple pen-and-lighter combination that will contrast black Chinese lacquer with the radiance of white palladium, a metal of the platinum family.
Cartier's "Diablo" line is another French joy. Handsome complements to the company's striking watch collection, the mini "Diablo" with an 18-karat-gold nib is made of a composite material with gold-plated accents, while a larger version of this classic-looking piece is finished in alluring platinum or gold. Both pens are sleek, elegant and regal successors to the solid gold "Pasha," a one-of-a-kind $65,000 fountain pen adorned with sapphires and diamonds that evokes all the splendor of palatial Arabian nights.
Though uniquely colored celluloid treasures have shaped Pelikan's proud history since it launched a piston-filling fountain pen in 1929, this industry stalwart is also issuing a golden delight. Its $2,000 "White Gold" pen with an Art Deco look is an exact replica of a work introduced in the 1930s, and while slightly smaller than the much-acclaimed marble jade "1935" or deep blue "Concerto," this gold-over-brass divertissement still carries the weight of Pelikan's corporate credo, "the best functioning pens in the world."
"Indicative of German precision, Pelikans are extremely well made," says Geoffrey Berliner. "They have one of the softest nibs in the market, and overall, are a throwback to timeless pen virtues."
Such high praise was once reserved for Parker and Waterman. Now owned by Gillette, both companies have tried to recapture their former marketplace pizzazz by fashioning pens that evoke 1920s glories. Parker has reissued its fabled emerald-eyed "Snake" at $12,000 (the original classic fetches about $25,000 in the secondary market) and also offers an 18-carat "Duofold Presidential," while Waterman tickles a cigar lover's fancy with its sapphire-blue "Edson," a torpedo-shaped collectible that salutes company founder Louis Edson, the patriarch of pendom's golden age.
The 1920s look is also a staple of six-year-old Bexley, the company that produces Cigar Aficionado-logoed writing instruments. After the smokin' success of its colorful cast-acrylic "Cable Twist" and filigreed gold or sterling silver "Decoband" pens, this rising star is now flaunting a "Gold Line," arctic blue, granite and terra-cotta hued pieces with cast acrylic barrels and vermeil caps, for $390.
"While we've only been known for making larger pens, now we're designing writing instruments for both genders, those with large and also small hands," says Bexley president Howard Levy. "Discerning males are still vital to us. But the trend these days is towards smaller pieces."
Taking its cues from the legendary craftsman Peter Carl Fabergé, his workshop lieutenant Michel Perchin, and their Czarist-era fantasies, the Renaissance Pen Co. is styling guilloched and bejeweled pens suitable for any royal court.
The firm has already immortalized Czar Nicholas II with the "Coronation Yellow," a gold plate or sterling silver ensemble with 14 layers of translucent enamel. Now there's the "Blue Serpent" pen. Modeled after Faberge's fabulous Blue Serpent Clock Egg, the $3,900 pen from the "Michel Perchin" line is a sweet-stroking medley of cobalt-blue enamel over guilloche with a white metal serpent coiled over the clip. The hard-fired glass "Fleur-de-Lis" and sterling silver "Blue and Gold Ribbed" are in a sense, "revolutionary."
For pens that just might be mightier than any sword, Renaissance presents its "Couture Collection." An assemblage of solid 18-karat gold and pavé-set diamond collectibles, these one-of-a-kind trophies are all glorious, particularly the $160,000 "Crown Jewel." Patterned after the Vatican's papal crown and studded with diamonds, sapphires, emeralds, pearls and rubies, the "Crown Jewel," due out next year, is guaranteed to signal heavenly wealth.
Even the finest pens, however, are fragile, and must be treated as delicate objets d'art. They can be stored in velvet-lined chests or leather cases, if desired. If you're not the type to give such meticulous care to life's finer points, Alfred Dunhill has borrowed a page from Superman: it claims that its black, carbon fiber pen with a white gold nib is virtually indestructible.
If savoring life's pleasures is more enticing than soaring over tall buildings, light an A. Fuente Hemingway (not the pen), and describe your blessings in earnest with an Omas, Namiki, Montblanc or other fine example of the penmaker's craft.
Edward Kiersh writes frequently for Cigar Aficionado. Pen Places
BERLINER PEN 928 Broadway, Suite 604, New York, New York 10010. Phone (800) 440-7367; fax (212) 614-3025. Web site: www.Berlinerpen.com. Berliner Pen offers vintage pens and limited editions.
FOUNTAIN PEN HOSPITAL 10 Warren Street, New York, New York 10007 Phone (800) 253-PENS; fax (212) 227-5916. Web site: www.fountainpenhospital.com. "The world's largest pen store," this shop is avid collector Bill Cosby's favorite.
ARTHUR BROWN & BRO. INC. 2 West 46th Street, New York, New York 10036 Phone (800) 772-PENS; fax (212) 575-5825 Web site: www.artbrown.com; e-mail: email@example.com. This shop offers about 800 different writing instruments, desk sets and limited editions.
For the name of your nearest quality pen dealer, contact thse manufacturers: Aurora (800) 741-0005 Bexley (614) 351-9988 Cartier (212) 446-3436 Alfred Dunhill (800) 860-8362 S.T. Dupont (800) 341-7003 Krone (847) 215-0011 Montegrappa (201) 612-0151 Montblanc (800) 388-4810 Namiki (203) 381-4808 Omas (617) 426-3607 Parker (800) 237-8736 Pelikan (888) 735-4526 Renaissance (314) 207-0550 Stipula (800) 466-1951 Waterman (800) 523-2486


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On a night when senior Blake Gjerde earned his 100th career victory and Estherville Lincoln Central honored all its seniors, a couple of freshman made their mark on Tuesday.
ELC was tied with Pocahontas Area at 33-33 heading into the final two weights in the nightcap dual. The Midgets had just forfeited at 113 pounds as Coach Dan Hewitt elected to move Juan Castro up a weight in trying to get the non-conference.
Castro took on Poky's Clayton Reis with the two wrestlers tied at 2-2 heading into the final period. But Castro came up with a reversal that caught Reis on his back and Castro earned the pin in 5:28 to give ELC a 39-33 lead.
That gave the Midgets some breathing room for the final match as Clay Budach took on Edgar Ayala at 126 pounds.
Budach simply needed to avoid to pin so that ELC wouldn't have to worry about criteria. He trailed 2-0 after giving up an first-period takedown. That was still the score starting the third. But Budach pulled an escape to cut the deficit to one. Then in the final 20 seconds, he came up with a takedown for a dramatic 3-2 victory that gave ELC a 42-33 victory.
"With it (the dual) coming down to a couple freshman, I just hoped they understood the situation," said coach Hewitt. "They both made some mistakes during their matches, but the outcome worked out in our favor."
In the first dual of the night, Gjerde (152) recorded a pin against Alta-Aurelia's Ben Stange for his 100th career victory. Gjerde went to work immediately in the match and came up with the win in 1 minute, 34 seconds.
Gjerde's second match against Pocahontas Area's Tyler Hubrich proved tougher. But Gjerde scored a pair of takedowns in the first period, a reversal and a takedown in the second and ended up with a 9-3 victory.
"Hubrich is similar to (Spirit Lake's) Kenten Murray in that he looks for the pin late in the match," said Hewitt. "That's the way a lot of the kids wrestle that Blake will have to face."
ELC senior wrestlers honored Tuesday were Gjerde, Oscar Ramirez (132), Thomas Bortvit (138), Jake Bortvit (195), Cole Budach (145) and Billy Snyder (170). Thomas Bortvit recorded a pin against Pocahontas and received a forfeit from Alta-Aurelia. Budach had a pin against Pocahontas and a loss to Alta-Aurelia. Jake Bortvit had a pin against Alta-Aurelia and did not wrestle against Pocahontas. Ramirez and Snyder both received two forfeits on the night.
Castro and Chase Bonner (220) were the only two ELC wrestlers with two pins on the night. Kelly Clabaugh (160) also had a pin against Alta-Aurelia.
Estherville Lincoln Central High Sh (ELCH) 54.0 Alta-Aurelia (ALAU) 26.0
120 Colten Larson, ALAU, forf. 126 John Tuttle, ALAU, maj. dec. Clay Budach, ELCH, 14-1 132 Oscar Ramirez, ELCH, forf. 138 Thomas Bortvit, ELCH, forf. 145 Cody Cameron, ALAU, pinned Cole Budach, ELCH, 5:43 152 Blake Gjerde, ELCH, pinned Ben Stange, ALAU, 1:34 160 Kelly Clabaugh, ELCH, pinned Junior Molina, ALAU, 1:24 170 Billy Snyder, ELCH, forf. 182 Jake Bortvit, ELCH, pinned Manuel Murillo, ALAU, 3:52 195 James Walter, ALAU, maj. dec. Austin Egeland, ELCH, 14-4 220 Cole Anderson, ELCH, forf. 285 Chase Bonner, ELCH, pinned Neal Felten, ALAU, 1:02 106 Skylar Solko, ALAU, pinned Zackary Snyder, ELCH, 1:53 113 Juan Castro, ELCH, pinned Chris Langner, ALAU, 1:47
Estherville Lincoln Central High Sh (ELCH) 42.0 Pocahontas Area (POAR) 33.0
132 Oscar Ramirez, ELCH, forf. 138 Thomas Bortvit, ELCH, pinned Connor Schoening, POAR, 2:47 145 Cole Budach, ELCH, pinned Adam Brown, POAR, 1:35 152 Blake Gjerde, ELCH, dec. Tyler Hubrich, POAR, 9-3 160 Daniel Sommerlot, POAR, dec. Kelly Clabaugh, ELCH, 9-2 170 Billy Snyder, ELCH, forf. 182 Matt Lenz, POAR, forf. 195 Tyler Case, POAR, pinned Austin Egeland, ELCH, 1:05 220 Chase Bonner, ELCH, pinned Jesse O`Tool, POAR, 0:31 285 Zach Schott, POAR, forf. 106 Joe Minkler, POAR, pinned Zackary Snyder, ELCH, 5:18 113 Mitchel Brinkman, POAR, forf. 120 Juan Castro, ELCH, pinned Clayton Reis, POAR, 5:28 126 Clay Budach, ELCH, dec. Edgar Ayala, POAR, 3-2


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Jerusalem protests "a turning point for non-violence"
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Palestinian national pride seems at its peak after the events of Jerusalem in July, largely considered by Palestinians as a victory achieved for the sake of the al Aqsa Mosque, and against the ongoing Israeli military occupation.
Thousands of people took to the streets of Jerusalem in what turned out to be the largest spontaneous protest by Palestinians in years. Jerusalemites symbolically refused to enter the Al Aqsa compound until the removal of all security measures, and instead held mass prayers outside.
The mobilisation of Jerusalemites against new Israeli security measures at the doorsteps of the mosque, alongside diplomatic statements by countries such as Turkey or Jordan, put pressure on the Israeli government and ultimately forced the Israeli police to remove the metal detectors and smart cameras they had installed after an attack on July 14, when two police officers were killed at the site - as well as the three attackers, who were Palestinian citizens of Israel.
While Palestinians are now back at the compound to pray without new security measures, the situation may not be settled. In Jerusalem on Wednesday night, 15 youths were arrested, bringing the number of Jerusalemites arrested since the beginning of the week to 50. Israeli forces raided the neighbourhoods of Wadi Joz, Beit Hanina, Ras Al Amoud and Tour, rounding up youths they accused of participating in the recent clashes in the city.
We asked Mustafa Barghouti, a prominent Palestinian activist, former presidential candidate and head of the Palestinian National Initiative, what he makes of the recent events.
PM: What did Palestinians get from the events in Jerusalem in July?
Two powerful conclusions were reached for East Jerusalem. First, Palestinians realised the power of nonviolence. If practiced well, including a lot of people and discipline, it's a very powerful tool. It also gave Palestinians the feeling that they are able to achieve something. The fact it happened when there's unbalanced power such as nonviolent Palestinians facing the Israeli army matters a lot in that sense.
PM: What is the general feeling among people you met during the street prayers in Jerusalem?
: There is now a feeling of hope and the two feelings we encounter a lot in East Jerusalem such as hopelessness and depression are defeated… for now. People are also realistic, they also know it's still a long struggle to achieve the end of the occupation.
PM: Some analysts have qualified this spontaneous movement as mostly religion-based because in the end, neither Fatah nor Hamas have been of much relevance to the mass protests – why do you think of this perception of things?
: To me it's more about national unity than anything religious. Christians actually took part in the prayers, and not to be seen nor to perform, but rather from a genuine sense of solidarity. Some Christians joined the same street protests I was attending myself, and I only noticed them later; that's to tell you that they were not there just to be noticed.
PM: So why do people highlight the religious side of this movement to access the holy site?
: There was maybe a mistake by foreign media about this religious element prevailing… Because of course there's a religious element but it's not the only thing. I was hand in hand with the Supreme Islamic Council and I can tell you that no decision was made only by religious leaders: both politicians and grassroots organisations were active in the decision-making process.
PM: The street prayers and many other elements of the campaign are labelled as "unprecedented." What is still new in a struggle that has been going on for decades?
The fact that it's a mass movement, popular and nonviolent is quite new, even though we witnessed similar things during the first intifada. The beauty of it is a certain discipline. When you see nonviolent people facing an army, it is a very strong image. After the resolution of the crisis, when all "security measures" were removed, people wanted to go back inside the compound to pray. But on Friday access was denied to men below the age of 50. Well, all the men prayed outside the compound. And when in the end of the prayer, they just stood up and left quietly, it shocked the Israeli police. Mainly it was quiet, even if there was very few cases of small confrontations. So it's all very powerful, clearly, but I would not call it 'unprecedented' because a lot of activists have been advocating nonviolence for more than 15 years (with resistance villages, boycott, peaceful protests…). I feel we went from lab to larger scale though.
PM: Could this victory help in any other fields, including the peace process that has been frozen since 2014, or international support against the occupation?
: It will all depend on whether or not other political movements align with practicing nonviolence. It makes me optimistic that people in Jerusalem told me that they now understand why we advocate for nonviolence. They were telling me "before we never understood what it meant", or "we used to disagree" but now they get it and they feel it works! I believe we're on a road very similar to what happened in South Africa, and it's leading to the end of apartheid. We are also building international support and even if now we feel disappointed about international community reactions regarding this crisis, it's still building support. It's a turning point for nonviolence and hopefully it will spread to a lot of other activists. It was a clean struggle, without politics, and no security coordination for instance; from the people themselves. This is hopeful.
PM: What do you think of the situation in East Jerusalem now?
It is very serious. The fight in Jerusalem more than in other places is a clear symbol of our fight against apartheid. In Jerusalem or in places located in Area C, there is no buffer between Palestinians under occupation and the Israeli occupier.
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No_One (4) 2014-01-14 0:54
Hi Sareh
what a unique scene! The balls of bright colour are a big surprise in front of this very grey background and they look superb. The lines running through the shutters at all those angles creates a very unique vision as well. These elements combined make a fascinating image. Beautifully spotted.
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willperrett (13985) 2014-01-14 1:07
Hello Sareh
Welcome to TE, and I hope we'll see plenty more of your work if it's as interesting as this! It's a simple composition, stark almost, intensely graphic, and near monochrome apart from those brightly coloured balls. The title too is perceptive and thought-provoking. Excellent work.
yquem46 (38752) 2014-01-14 1:25
hello Sareh
An original shot
I like the contrast between the gray dull metallic structures, nicely arranged in a graphical pattern, with the colorful balls hanging
Just a detail, maybe there could have a little more room at the bottom of the image
Well observed and well done
Best regards, have a nice day
dale54 (17456) 2014-01-15 11:45
sareh hello..beautiful work..i love it!with just the color of the ball's.very nice! tfs. dale
siudzi (34141) 2014-04-06 14:01
Hello Sareh,
What a brilliant observation as well as execution of this scene! It's graphical impact is extremely strong to give an eye catching result. Bravo!
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KOREA 118: Humanities Core: Everybody Eats: The Language, Culture, and Ethics of Food in East Asia (CHINA 118, HUMCORE 22, JAPAN 118)
Many of us have grown up eating "Asian" at home, with friends, on special occasions, or even without full awareness that Asian is what we were eating. This course situates the three major culinary traditions of East Asia--China, Japan, and Korea--in the histories and civilizations of the region, using food as an introduction to their rich repertoires of literature, art, language, philosophy, religion, and culture. It also situates these seemingly timeless gastronomies within local and global flows, social change, and ethical frameworks. Specifically, we will explore the traditional elements of Korean court food, and the transformation of this cuisine as a consequence of the Korean War and South Korea¿s subsequent globalizing economy; the intersection of traditional Japanese food with past and contemporary identities; and the evolution of Chinese cuisine that accompanies shifting attitudes about the environment, health, and well-being. Questions we will ask ourselves during the quarter include, what is "Asian" about Asian cuisine? How has the language of food changed? Is eating, and talking about eating, a gendered experience? How have changing views of the self and community shifted the conversation around the ethics and ecology of meat consumption?
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KOREA 120: Narratives of Modern and Contemporary Korea (KOREA 220)
This introductory survey will examine the development of South and North Korean literature from the turn of the 20th century until the present. The course will be guided by historical and thematic inquiries as we explore literature in the colonial period, in the period of postwar industrialization, and contemporary literature from the last decade. We will supplement our readings with critical writing about Korea from the fields of cultural studies and the social sciences in order to broaden the terms of our engagement with our primary texts.
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KOREA 121: Doing the Right Thing: Ethical Dilemmas in Korean Film (KOREA 221)
Ethics and violence seem to be contradictory terms, yet much of Korean film and literature in the past five decades has demonstrated that they are an intricate and in many ways justifiable part of the fabric of contemporary existence. Film exposes time and again the complex ways in which the supposed vanguards of morality, religious institutions, family, schools, and the state are sites of condoned transgression, wherein spiritual and physical violation is inflicted relentlessly. This class will explore the ways in which questions about Truth and the origins of good and evil are mediated through film in the particular context of the political, social, and economic development of postwar South Korea. Tuesday classes will include a brief introduction followed by a film screening that will last on average for two hours; students that are unable to stay until 5 pm will be required to watch the rest of the film on their own.
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KOREA 122: Translating Cool: Globalized Popular Culture in Asia (JAPAN 122, JAPAN 222, KOREA 222)
Did you grow up watching Pokémon and Power Rangers? Have you danced along to "Gangnam Style"? As we become increasingly exposed to Asian popular culture and the Internet facilitates instant access to new media, previous localized forms of entertainment--animated cartoons, comics, video games, music videos, film, and soap operas--have become part of a global staple. However, these cultural forms have emerged not only in their original form with mediation of subtitles. Many have undergone various processes of adaptation and translation so that we no longer recognize that these products had ever originated elsewhere. This course will immerse students in a range of Japanese and Korean cultural phenomena to reveal the spectrum of translation practices across national boundaries. We will inquire into why these cultural forms have such compelling and powerful staying power, contextualize them within their frames of production, and explore the strategies, limitations, and potential of translational practices.nnContact instructor for place. email@example.com 201.
Last offered: Winter 2017 | UG Reqs: WAY-A-II
KOREA 151: The Nature of Knowledge: Science and Literature in East Asia (CHINA 151B, CHINA 251B, JAPAN 151B, JAPAN 251B, KOREA 251)
"The Nature of Knowledge" explores the intersections of science and humanities East Asia. It covers a broad geographic area (China, Japan, and Korea) along a long temporal space (14th century - present) to investigate how historical notions about the natural world, the human body, and social order defied, informed, and constructed our current categories of science and humanities. The course will make use of medical, geographic, and cosmological treatises from premodern East Asia, portrayals and uses of science in modern literature, film, and media, as well as theoretical and historical essays on the relationships between literature, science, and society.nnAs part of its exploration of science and the humanities in conjunction, the course addresses how understandings of nature are mediated through techniques of narrative, rhetoric, visualization, and demonstration. In the meantime, it also examines how the emergence of modern disciplinary "science" influenced the development of literary language, tropes, and techniques of subject development. This class will expose the ways that science has been mobilized for various ideological projects and to serve different interests, and will produce insights into contemporary debates about the sciences and humanities.
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LINGUIST 148: Language of Advertising
A good ad takes the language we all share and manipulates it in creative, sometimes unique ways to influence our thoughts and our behavior. This course explores the range of techniques that advertisers use to express propositions that we consumers will notice, enjoy, and accept. Because advertising is quick to pick up on new trends, tracing the changes over the past century will allow us to re-experience the huge shifts in culture and media that have happened since then. The most effective advertisers understand us really well. Their choice of words, structure, image, and sometimes sound together form a careful composition. By taking apart some great past ads, we'll indirectly be looking at ourselves, as seen by the advertiser. Many of the techniques in ads are adapted from our own normal linguistic behavior. For example, think of how you adjust your vocabulary and tone to the person you're talking to, whether a friend, a professor, or a parent. This lecture course will include weekly input from students, who will present examples to form the basis for discussion and discovery.
Last offered: Spring 2017 | UG Reqs: WAY-A-II
MUSIC 1: Musical Genius: Exemplars in the History of Organized Sound
How does music work? A broad exploration of music as defined by three major components (i) Theories of Music (elements and parameters), (ii) Histories of Music (cultures and people), and (iii) Practitioners of Music (musicians and scholars). Lecture, discussion, guided critical listening and viewing of audio, video, and live performance, and creation of self-curated mini-projects.
Last offered: Autumn 2018 | UG Reqs: WAY-A-II
MUSIC 1A: Music, Mind, and Human Behavior
An introductory exploration of the question of why music is a pervasive and fundamental aspect of human existence. The class will introduce aspects of music perception and cognition as well as anthropological and cultural considerations.
Terms: Win | Units: 3 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
Instructors: Berger, J. (PI) ; Noufi, C. (TA) ; Zhu, J. (TA)
2020-2021 Winter
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UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II |
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit Exception |
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MUSIC 2A: The Symphony
Symphonic literature 1750 to the present, with emphasis on developing listening skills and preparation for attending a live performance. Ability to read music not required.
Last offered: Winter 2019 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
MUSIC 2C: An Introduction to Opera
The lasting appeal of opera as a lavishly hybrid genre from the 1600s to the present. How and why does opera set its stories to music? What is operatic singing? Who is the audience? How do words, music, voices, movement, and staging collaborate in different operatic eras and cultures? Principal works by Monteverdi, Handel, Mozart, Verdi, Wagner, Strauss, Britten, and Adams. Class studies and attends two works performed by the San Francisco Opera.
Terms: Aut | Units: 3 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
Instructors: Grey, T. (PI)
2020-2021 Autumn
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