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Ridge side of the Devisadero Trail (with view in the distance of sacred Taos mountain)
When I composed Devisadero (2002-2007) for solo piano, from sketches made during walks on a trail of the same name near Taos New Mexico, I regarded it as a piece that would eventually be connected to miniatures I had been commissioned to write, by invitation from member Mollie O'Meara, for the New Mexico Music Teachers Association (now the Professional Music Teachers of New Mexico), that would be premiered by my colleague Falko Steinbach at their next annual meeting in 2002. Perhaps the most misunderstood of all my titles, Four Romantic Miniatures (2001-2002) was written to be played by students, high school and up, though Falko thought it worthy of performance as part of his recitals and he programmed it many times all over the world. The use of the term "romantic" hearkens back to the 19th century sense of self and world, a philosophical stance well understood at that time, rather than solely as a "style," which was confusing for some since neo-romanticism was (yet again) all the rage and, worse, I was exploring tonality for the first time. Each miniature was influenced by a composer whose work I admired and borrowed from something characteristic of theirs. The first (and best of them I think) was influenced by Miles Davis and borrowed material from the Joseph Zawinul tune (Pharoah's Dance) that opens Bitches Brew. The second and third were influenced by Charles Ives and John Lennon/Brian Wilson respectively with the latter a "mashup" of one of my favorite chord progressions (John Lennon's opening to If I Fell) and the last chord (all vocals) before the final section of Brian Wilson's Good Vibrations. These two don't really stand alone so I didn't plan on using them elsewhere. The final one was the first I wrote, influenced by my favorite composer of the time Robert Schumann, whose work I had begun to explore in great detail following an off-hand comment by my dear departed friend, the great composer and writer Konrad Boehmer, who when discovering that I didn't like Schumann, knowing only the orchestral work and hating his awful (and badly written) timpani parts, recommended I listen to his three violin sonatas. That did the trick and I've been studying him, like the master he is, ever since. You can hear all four of my "romantic" miniatures here:
Four Romantic Miniatures (2002), Falko Steinbach, piano
Devisadero was put aside as I worked on my Songs of Love and Longing (2001-2003) and then after finishing that I started writing a four movement piece for winds and percussion, Openings (2004-2007), dedicated to my father Terry Shultis, who had begun the slow process of dying from Alzheimer's Disease. By then, I was living part time in Pennsylvania and pianist and composer Curt Cacioppo, who teaches at Haverford College, asked me to write him a solo piano piece. I finished Openings in June, sketched in the Manzano mountain wilderness in New Mexico but composed in a chapel inside Ardmore Presbyterian Church in Ardmore Pennsylvania, and using sketches from the Devisadero Trail, I composed Devisadero in that same chapel, completing it just before the end of the year. Devisadero was premiered first in 2008 by Curt Cacioppo, and my father was well enough to attend the premiere of Openings the following year in 2009. He and I sat next to each other in Popejoy Hall as the UNM Wind Symphony, under the direction of Eric Rombach-Kendall, gave a definitive performance.
By then, I had started walking in the woods of Pennsylvania, the trails along the Wissahickon at first, then the trails near French Creek, and finally along the Appalachian Trail, in particular the section that begins at the Hamburg reservoir, past Pulpit Rock up to the Pinnacle, highest point of the AT in Pennsylvania. I composed two pieces sketched from walks on these trails, (From) Waldmusik: Wissahickon, Pulpit Rock, French Creek (2009) for two pianos, one played by a percussionist and Circlings (2010) for four Gayageums, electronics and video by Hee Sook Kim. You can hear and see them by clicking on these links:
Waldmusik (2008-2009) performed by the Hoffmann-Goldstein duo, video by Hee Sook Kim
Circlings (2010) for Gayageums and Electronics, performed by the Gyeonggi Gayageum Quartet, video by Hee Sook Kim
Both pieces include field recordings, the first, a surprise recording of a siren on the Lenape Trail in the French Creek State Park (which turned out to be a warning siren for a nearby nuclear power plant), the second, field recordings in the mountains of Korea from my first visit there in 2009, including recordings of Buddhist chant (male and female) in temples found in Saraksan (male) and Gonju (female). But the inspiration of Circlings began with a disastrous walk in the woods of French Creek, the same trail where I heard the siren, where Hee Sook and I, suffering from heat stroke on a very hot and humid afternoon, got lost in the woods. A park ranger had to actually seek us out. After years of walking alone in the New Mexico wilderness, with (typically) no real trail markings of any consistency, I got lost on a supposedly well-marked trail in the woods of Pennsylvania. The text that accompanies Circlings goes like this: "In the woods, all directions seem the right ones." I'm spending some time on these two pieces because they along with Devisadero and the piece I will now discuss, the World's End Preludes, together with my electronic work Wind, Water, Walk (2008-2009), recorded on the Spruce Spring trail, the same trail where I sketched Openings, complete the piece I've been working on since 2003: Waldmusik (2003-2015) started during a Wurlitzer residency in Taos in the summer of 2003. That piece began with the following, before I'd ever written a note:
walking in woods
listening ...
what I hear :
Interestingly enough, I wasn't really walking in the woods when I wrote that text, certainly not the thick woods of Pennsylvania where the impenetrable forest changed things drastically for me--used to finding my way by the ever-present sun in New Mexico as well as the confidence of knowing that mountain trails literally go up and down, rather than the more typical circles I've found in the Pennsylvania woods. My Pennsylvania pieces are, I think, some of my very best but they are darker, troubled even. And I began to wonder why ... why such dis-ease walking in the woods? In contrast, my walks in New Mexico were a kind of meditation, a Buddhistic "sitting while walking" as the artist Mayumi Nishida once described it in conversation.
Not long after writing those pieces, I went camping and walking in north central Pennsylvania, finding a great WPA built campground called World's End State Park. It started in July of 2012, when I took this picture and posted it on Facebook:
I thought it was funny--the world's end in north central Pennsylvania?--and immediately decided the new preludes I would add to my "Preludes and Miniatures" project would be called my "World's End Preludes." The piece, finished in Taos, New Mexico three years later, ended up not being funny at all, instead pointing me to a new direction in my life and work.
Spending a few days there camping and walking, a beautiful place. Below is a photo from the highest point, Canyon Vista, looking down into the canyon:
The first clue that I had found myself somewhere I'd never been before, similar to how I felt getting so lost on the Lenape trail in French Creek, was when I started reading the historical markers near the campgrounds. Anyone who knows me, knows I stop for all of them, always wanting to know what they say and what in that place has such historical importance. Here's a photo of the first one I saw:
Maybe I'm the only one who finds this sign's message a bit strange. I understand the significance of the path itself, obviously a main thoroughfare and, as I found out, almost all the great Indian paths are now, like this one, turned into a road. But who was this Moravian Bishop Ettwein, so well known apparently that the sign doesn't even include his first name? And who were these Christian Indians with whom he was traveling in 1772, only one year before the Boston Tea Party sparked an eventual revolution in this country? And finally, what was the significance of this "City of Peace" on the Beaver River? I didn't even know where the Beaver river was at that point. I decided to find out the answers to all these questions and following that story became the path that led to my World's End Preludes.
I spent quite a bit of time reading about John Ettwein and the history of the Moravian presence in this part of the United States and learned about how Ettwein and a group of Lenape (known as Delaware by the Moravians) took the long journey from near present day Wyalusing to what they called Friedenstadt (the Moravian's native language was German) or as the sign translates into English "City of Peace." Here's a map of the Wyalusing Path they followed (World's End State Park is located on the Loyalsock):
Now we finally learn that it was John Ettwein (not just his last name) and that he had "200 Indians and their cows" with him. We also now know they were at this point of the trail in July 1772. The Great Shamokin Path was, as mentioned, a major thoroughfare and it was used by Ettwein and his followers to take them most of the way west across what is now the state of Pennsylvania.
The map is so big I'll show it below in two parts:
From Kittanning (the end of the Great Shamokin) to Friedensstadt, or at least the marker where Friedensstadt used to be, is around fifty miles. The nearest present day town would be Moravia near the Beaver River, alongside which (as the original Wyalusing sign mentioned) Ettwein and his followers settled. To give some basic geographical perspective, Friedensstadt is about forty miles north of Pittsburgh. Altogether, from Wyalusing to Friedensstadt would have been approximately three hundred miles, a long trip. Here is a photo of the marker, taken by me in June 2014 during a drive taken by Hee Sook and I following the path of Ettwein west:
So now more information. Ettwein did not "found"the settlement called Friedensstadt (as described in the Wyalusing Path sign) but instead did something that actually makes more sense, joining a settlement already founded two years earlier by his fellow Moravian Bishop David Zeisberger. But it's another sign, found near this same location that tells the rest of the story:
Friedensstadt was "abandoned" because it was no longer safe for them to stay there. So they moved west where they had connections with the native population. Their settlement in Ohio was called Gnadenhütten (which I translate as "Cabins of Grace") and here Ettwein, Heckewelder and Zeisberger formed a large and successful farming community with their Lenape brothers and sisters. Below is a photo of the countryside just outside of the present day Gnadenhütten, taken in June, 2014:
It is the last sentence of the marker previously shown that brought me here. I knew the story already from my research, which led to my trip west in the first place, but following their path in person and physically being in the places where Ettwein and the Lenape with him had been, convinced me that there was something I needed to do. I stayed in Gnadenhütten and visited the site of the massacre, which is described in some detail in this historical marker:
To be exact, ninety-six were murdered on the site where this marker is located, executed, as mentioned, by Pennsylvania militia who "mistook" them for "Indian raiders who had struck in western Pennsylvania," first with a club to the head, followed by each of them being scalped. The village by the way was "abandoned" because the bishops were accused of treason by the British, who by then were at war with the colonies, and were called away to testify regarding their innocence. The massacre occurred during their absence.
When I was in Gnadenhütten I visited the massacre site several times and also visited the Moravian church that still exists in Gnadenhütten, the John Heckenwelder Memorial Church (named after one of the bishops who came there with Ettwein and Zeisberger), where I was given a very informative tour by Sigrid Miller who works there. As someone who attends a Quaker meeting at home (Old Haverford Friends), I felt a strong connection to the Moravians, who, like the Quakers, share my pacifist beliefs.
I had by then realized that my uneasy feelings walking the trails of Pennsylvania had to do with the sense of absence I felt walking on them. The trails of New Mexico were made by native peoples who were still there; the trails of Pennsylvania by native peoples who were gone and never coming back. For me, the path of Ettwein and the Lenape became a kind of representation of this forced absence, a great tragedy that served as a symbol of the much larger tragedy of what happened to the native population everywhere across what was, at the time of the massacre in Gnadenhütten, about to the become the United States of America. Traveling to Gnadenhütten was meant to prepare me for a reversal--I planned to walk from Gnadenhütten back to World's End, and when I got there take the sketches, some of which I'd already written, and compose my World's End Preludes.
But as we drove back, intentionally following the path's modern descendent, part of it a several lane highway, I began to understand that it wouldn't be very practical to walk three hundred miles with a heavy backpack on highways, even dangerous in all likelihood, and certainly not conducive to the inspiration I was seeking in order to compose the piece. We stopped at one point, where we had read there was still an original section of the Great Shamokin Path. Here's a photo of the sign that led us directly to it:
If you look back at the map, you can see Cowanshannock, it's not far from Kittanning, as we followed the road leading to the path, we noticed we were driving into a private neighborhood and when we parked, at the head of this section of the trail, we were met with great suspicion by the person who owned the house at the foot of the trail. And though he was fine after he found out why we were there, I was also feeling increasingly apprehensive about someone like me walking across parts of Pennsylvania that probably haven't changed much in their opinions about outsiders since the eighteen century time period that brought me there in the first place. Here's what that part of the trail looks like, with Hee Sook walking on it to give some idea of its scale:
But after I recovered from my injury and started walking the trails of Pennsylvania again, I began to also revisit my sketches. One came from a another visit to World's End, written on the Loyalsock Trail in October 2013, where I took this picture:
Here's that sketch, where I've already written what is essentially the material of the last prelude, "World's End" with the subtitle, borrowing from the last three lines of T.S. Eliot's "The Hollow Men": "This is the way the world ends, this is the way the world ends, this is the way the world ends, not with a bang but with a whimper."
Just recently, the composer Curt Cacioppo (for whom I'd written Devisadero) drew my attention to a recording of Eliot himself reading this poem. I translate the three repeated lines ("this is the way the world ends") into music, not a low D like in the sketch but just above middle C, and played at 40 mm per quarter note, very slow. In Eliot's reading the tempo is quite fast, even faster than my original sketch of 120 to the quarter.
My sketches also provided a very strong sense of form and even back then, long before I visited Gnadenhütten, I had been thinking about connecting the World's End Preludes to Devisadero. While staying at a cabin in French Creek, I sketched out the form and, thinking aloud, tried to decide whether the preludes in their completed version would begin or end with the World's End Preludes, after which I decide ("this is it") in favor of ending with Devisadero.
At this point, I'm still thinking of including the miniatures--MD for five Miles Davis influenced miniatures after the four preludes of World's End, a minute of silence, after which five Schumann influenced miniatures would come before the six preludes of Devisadero to end the complete work. The text above is my writing out of Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki's commentaries on the Ten Ox Herding Pictures (number 9 and especially number 10 describing the second version where the fat man returns bearing gifts) which were intentionally being used by me, numerically and otherwise, as a means of making decisions about the form of the piece.
Another important sketch concerns the use of sleigh bells, realizing that I wanted there to be a connection between the World's End Preludes and the "French Creek" movement of my (from) Waldmusik. In fact, the idea of having the same material came to me on the same trail where I wrote that French Creek movement, the Lenape Trail.
Walking the Lenape Trail again, like I am in the picture above, I knew then that putting Devisadero at the end, and the World's End Preludes at the beginning, not only made sense but also told me where I would finish the piece. Not in a place where the trails were empty of native peoples, but back in the place where I lived for more than thirty years, and specifically back to the place where I wrote Devisadero, the high mountains near Taos, home of one of the great Pueblo tribes of New Mexico.
Once I was back above the tree line (above a picture near Gold Hill, altitude around 12,000 feet) things went very quickly. I followed a routine that included long early morning walks into high mountain wilderness and then, thanks to permission from St. James Episcopal Church in Taos, I would spend the afternoons composing in their sanctuary on a beautiful Steinway grand. The movements had already by then been decided, four as previously mentioned, with the titles, "Wyalusing," "Friedensstadt," "Gnadenhütten," and "World's End."Wyalusing" and "Friedensstadt" were composed first, using sketches and then basically improvising at the piano, only writing down in shorthand what was needed to perform and then recording myself after it was finished. In "Friedensstadt" I refer back to the church bell chiming sound found in the second and sixth preludes of Devisadero, there influenced by the sound of church bells as I was composing in a chapel of Ardmore Presbyterian Church, but here related to what will come later in the movement: excerpts from Moravian hymns written at (or before) the time of the massacre found through research in Moravian hymn books at the University of New Mexico library. The Moravians loved to sing hymns and David Zeisberger translated many of them into the Lenape language. I chose three, (in the order shown below with the excerpts I used marked), placed at the end of the "Friedensstadt" movement that moves without pause into the following prelude "Gnadenhütten."
"World's End" was already essentially complete before I came to Taos as can be seen in the pencil sketch I made at St. James (see below):
Here is a recording of me playing the last prelude "World's End" in St. James Episcopal Church, just after I finished composing it (July 2015). https://soundcloud.com/cshultis/worlds-end-preludes-movement-4-worlds-end-by-christopher-shultis
All that was left to compose was the third prelude "Gnadenhütten" which I knew had to be a sonic depiction of the massacre itself. Unable and unwilling to compose this music in a sacred place like St. James, I traveled south to the University of New Mexico where I shut myself into room 1111 in the Center for the Arts, with a piano that had received much abuse from me in the past, and it did that night as well. Ninety six high As, sempre mezzo piano, half note equals forty throughout, with the rest of the instrument played brutally like a percussion instrument--hard mallet on piano interior and left forearm on the keys, gliss on strings. I didn't leave until it was finished, exhausted, I took the long drive back to Taos. It had been only three weeks since I'd arrived and never before had I put a piece of music on paper so quickly.
In March of 2016, I was invited to be part of the John Donald Robb Composers' Symposium and Emanuele Arciuli, for whom I had written the World's End Preludes gave a solo recital during the symposium where he premiered the piece. We also recorded the Preludes in Keller Hall at the University of New Mexico for an upcoming CD. Liz Rincon was the recording engineer and below is a picture of us from that recording session:
You can hear Emanuele's wonderful premiere performance here:
I've always written music out of a necessity, a need inside me, in this case to make peace with the place where I now live and walk by acknowledging those who came before me, those who walked there before me, and who are no longer there. When I hear the World's End Preludes played alone, I always feel a deep sadness, especially when I hear those hymn excerpts just before what I know is coming next. But as with the Ten Ox Herding Pictures, the tenth picture has two versions--one is the void, emptiness, but the other is a "fat man returning from the void, bearing gifts." When paired with Devisadero, the one minute of silence after World's End depicts that emptiness, and then, when you hear the "Walking" movement of Devisadero begin, for me (and the opening of the movement is literally the pace of my walking) it is like that second Ox Herding picture, putting the tragic story of the Lenape in contact with Taos--a magical, spiritual and healing place, where I personally was healed long ago and thanks to my own return, now back in Pennsylvania, healed again. And bearing gifts.


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Skip to comments.Reid:S&P downgrade backs Dems' call for more revenue
Posted on 08/06/2011 8:43:43 AM PDT by Cheerio
Standard & Poor's decision to downgrade the nation's credit rating reinforces Democrats' call for increasing tax revenue, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said Friday.
The correct response is:
Democrats had full control of government from 2009 through Jan 2011. They had a filibuster proof majority for much of that time.
They could have proposed and brought to the House and Senate floor huge tax increases any time they wanted to.
They failed to do so.
The communists never go off-message. Never.
Steve Israel, head of the DCCC was just on with Cavuto..he called for taxing the rich..said "that's why Willy Sutton robbed banks..that's where the $$$ is"<P.
hope there's a clip...
Campaign ads.. Lots and lots of campaign ads.
The Dems want anything except spending cuts.
I think that was Steve Cohen and not Israel. In any case, he was a dumba**
Every time these guys said this, if the Media were fair they would show the chart that says you can change the tax rate to 100% and you still go broke.
Harry Reid needs to STFU!!!
I know it won't happen, but it is a nice dream.
Raising tax rates is not the same as raising tax revenue.
Reid's a relentless little bastard,he can turn any situation into a reason to get into your wallet.
So, Willy Sutton was a Democrat.
IIRC he's the guy who tried to join the Black Caucus last year?
Because we have nobody on our side (except Rush Limbaugh) articulate enough to explain why raising taxes is the wrong way to go.
Sometimes one just has to touch the hot stove once to see that it's not a smart thing to do.
Too many republicans stay in one place and sing to the choir. Often times beating up their own. While democrats beat down the Tea Party.
More revenue, eh? OK, why don't y'all start taxing the freeloading welfare deadbeats that make up the base of the democRAT party? Never mind - I know the reason - you need to use other peoples' money to buy their votes.
Exactly. They're cowards and hypocrites.
It's the jobs, stupid.
There are some 25 million un/under employed. Put them back to work earning money, paying taxes and buying things and the economy will be restored to the way it used to be.
So why is Obama now calling to extend the payroll tax cut?
Sorry Harry. The carcas is already picked clean.
The downgrade is because we are overextended; at 100% of our GNP.
Nazi socialist bastards need to be voted out and the party outlawed.
You don't get rewarded for incompetent, disastrous behavior, dingy, by getting more money to waste.
Yo Dingy! That's not how it works. When the normal family finds that all of their credit cards are maxed out, THEY CUTBACK ON THEIR SPENDING. They don't go in and ask their boss for more money. It's a fact of life there bubba. If you had spent more of your pitiful life out here where the rubber meets the road instead of living in Washington's fantasy land, you would know that.
IRS: Not enough rich to cover the deficit
You are by far my favorite City but this time you disappointed me...
I don't understand. His head is not right.
I'm leaning that way as well. Why should we prevent the rats from diving off the cliff? We simply must win the Senate and Presidency next year and any recovery that occurs between now and then will be attributed to the Won and his comrades. Any republican attempts to restructure and reform the tax code and entitlements will be used to destroy their election chances. I say get a vote on a balanced budget amendment and take names.
Don't you just love it when an insane Reid asks everyone to go along with the insane thoughts of Reid, and give up on ever being sane again? Shows how terribly zer0 and the democRATS are losing this war of words. America is gaining her legs and starting to stand despite ried's and the democRATS attempt to knock America back down. I can see 2012 from my house, dingy.
I think the word out of S&P's horses mouth that the ONLY thing that would've prevented the downgrade was $4 TRILLION in spending cuts which would show we are serious about the debt...
Reid, Pelosi, and their talking twit Wasserman-Schultz are delusions and what's more, they're lying...
Or it's obvious Senate Majority leader Reid is planning on more damage to the private sector;
By Christina D. Romer and David H. Romer
Our baseline specification implies that an exogenous tax increase of 1% of GDP lowers real GDP by almost 3%
In other news scientists expect sun to continue to rise in the east.
the 'progresssives' desire a European style welfare state who have long had groups like Why Work.org.
Welcome High unemployment, high taxes, large black market as the new normal.
We have legislated a savior:
Faster than a subsidized bullet train! More powerful and with a loco motive! Able to heap tall buildings into a single mound. Look, up in the sky! It's a berg! It's a plague! No, its SuperCommittee! Yes, its SuperCommittee, strange visitors from another planet who came to Earth with powers and liabilities far beyond those of moral men.
SuperCommittee, who can change the discourse thru mighty givers, defend the steal with their Care hands, and who, disguised as Clark Spent mild-mannered reporter for a great metropolitan newspaper fights with never-ending prattle for truce, injustice and the anti-American way.
Yup, let Harry Reid have his vote on raising taxes. The republicans will be on recorded voting against it. Let them do it. If they raise taxes and things get worse, we win!
Excellent plan! I hadn't thought of that...
How about collecting from the tax cheats in DC-can anyone say Tim Geithner?
"Reid:S&P downgrade backs Dems' call for more revenue "
Explain to us what "more revenue" is?
Or is hiding behind a chickenshit way of saying higher taxes is as far as you can go?
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I inherited a Golden Replicas of United States Stamps program from my grandmother and if I am reading the first page correctly it says that she is eligible to receive a 22kt Gold Replica Stamp for each important new stamp issued. It also says that the Gold Replica will be enclosed within an official First Day Cover bearing the First Day Issue postmark of the First Day City designated by the U.S. Postal Service. And then is signed by Steve Gordon.... So... Do enherit stamps she was suppose to receive since she past away in 2003?
As these 'programs' require that you pay (e.g. per release or monthly) nobody can come around after years demanding items that where never paid for.
Also, gold replicas of stamps were not issued by the post office itself, but rather by private (and sometimes dubious) companies seeking to profit from the hobby of stamp collecting. These are normally not cataloged and the value per item is speculative in nature, these items sell for $1 to $5 on eBay as they are not stamps per definition and the gold percentage is microscopic.
Stick to the term 'gold replicas' as the term 'stamps' for these items has been turned down by various (international) court decisions more than once (Scottish STAFFA affair, etc).
That is not true. They are worth more than that. if you have a book that is 100% full it is worth $1,200.00 approximately on Amazon.com.
I have ONE such COMPLETE BOOK of replica stamps neat and clean. Is there any buyers available for this. I'm ready to sell it off.
I have a book as well, but what is considered a complete set? The book I have has 40 stamps with the replicas and are marked first day of issue from mainly 1986 an 1987, but one is marked from 1981 Kennedy Space center.
I believe it's 70 I have a book with 63 and some other randoms
have no value in the stamp world.
Mine has 74.
I have not seen $1,200 anywhere. Of course, you can ASK for whatever you want on sites like eBay, CraigsList, etc. What I have seen is complete books, containing approx. 75 stamps, going for around $100. (See http://www.amazon.com/GOLDEN-REPLICAS-UNITED-replicas-gleaming/dp/B003A797YK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1318524764&sr=8-1)
That sounds more logical. People tend to over estimate the books they have. Maybe because it was made to look 'important'.
i have 3 books
well*i have 3 of em,.....and they have my name in gold lettering
It's amazing how much stuff you can learn on this site. Now everybody knows all about golden replica stamps!
did you ever sell your book and if so how much. I receuived a full book 75 and I am looking to sell.
Dadzpil, I think there's no point in getting your hopes so high. I just checked Amazon and Ebay and those books are sold there for less than $100. Check here: http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_kw=Golden&_kw=Replicas&_kw=United&_kw=States&_kw=Stamps&_ipg=
Unfortunately, replica stamps don't carry a collectors value like they do to the owner of them. But it's a good way to start a stamp collection that might increase in value over the years.
no monetary value.
The stamps are so thin it would take thousands to equal the weight of a penny. Some books will fetch $10 bucks complete. I saw a set of 4 complete books that got 1 bid for 9.99
I have 2 complete books -reselling these items illegal/counterfeit and could be prosecuted depending on country and or State......Don't let yourself be fooled like me I spend 900 dollars in two years my Visa card
Why is it illegal? It isn't real stamps but it is a legal collectible and there are people who collect those replicas. Check ebay. There are many such books for sale.
I already check E bay.Looking the biding history no history..Why? No value.
You are almost right. There's no bids on most of them. Only 2 with bids ask for lower prices ($30,$40) I guess the demand is not that great.
I ALSO HAVE SOME FOR SALE SO GIVE ME A <phone> A.S.A.P THANKS
I have one book with 125 stamps.2 Years ago I sold 25 from the year 1973 and made $835.00.Don't let them rip you off.Do the work know so you don't get rip offed.
where do i start to sell? Grandma left 4 books on stamps ans 2 on flowers and birds.
wow ,i have 73 in a book plus the real stamps that thy put on the envelopes,where do i check to get a price and to sale them/
Check the completed listings of golden replica stamps on ebay. It will give you a good idea about what people are willing to pay for it.
Amazon sale for $100 is for 18 of the stamps, not 70ish
It seems it is much better to try to sell via Amazon. I checked ebay and you can find those there even for $20 per 75 stamps. See here: http://www.ebay.com/sch/?_nkw=golden%20replica%20stamps&clk_rvr_id=424102752709


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According to the indictment, which was filed last week, the 15-year-old "intentionally or with gross negligence" made the previously uploaded films available to filesharing sites such as tankafetast.com and tankaner.com.
While the teen has admitted to making the films available to the sites in February 2011, he denies having committed any crimes.
"He claims he didn't know his actions were criminal," prosecutor Fredrik Ingblad told The Local.
The boy's age makes him almost too young to face criminal charges in Sweden and means he is one of the youngest Swedes ever to face charges of violating the country's copyright laws.
However, Ingblad emphasised the boy's age played no role in his decision to bring charges.
"If a crime is reported and we think we can show that one took place, we pursue the case regardless of age," he said.
According to trade publication Computer Sweden, the boy was reported to the police by his school after the IT department discovered in March that his computer, which had been provided by the school, was infected with a computer virus.
When the boy was confronted about the matter, officials from the school found downloaded films on the machine, which was later confiscated by police.
The Swedish Anti-Piracy Bureau (Antipiratbyrå), which represents the film companies that hold the rights to the movies shared by the 15-year-old, is serving as the plaintiff in the case.
According to Ingblad, the case should serve as a warning to other potential filesharers.
"The case is important because it will show people that if you share copyrighted material without permission, there is a risk you may get caught," he said.
"When you are trying to create a (digital distribution system) that is legal, it's important to show what isn't legal."
Ingblad is confident the boy will be convicted, in which case he will likely face fines or a time spend in community service for young offenders.


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Rally against climate bill exposes anger against govt
A rally in Richmond, Virginia on Thursday was supposed to be a protest against Washington's climate bill. But like the raucous healthcare townhall meetings of recent weeks, there was plenty of anger to go around.
Sponsored by a powerful oil lobby and other business groups, the Energy Citizens Alliance event was a pep rally of sorts to encourage residents to rise against the recently passed House of Representatives climate bill that would limit greenhouse gas emissions.
Many of the protesters grumbled not only about the issue at hand but the direction of government in general.
"It's a lousy Congress, they're doing nothing," said Ray Oberleitner, a retiree who brought his wife Rita to the event. The couple said they are also worried about the plethora of so-called czars appointed by President Obama — such as the Health Czar and the Green Jobs Czar — to oversee issues, calling them dangerous.
Another woman said she was worried the United States would become a third world country, while others fretted about Washington's growing deficit.
Some carried the signs provided by organizers with phrases like "Congress don't take away my job!" while others milled around eating hot dogs and hamburgers while taking in the sounds of local of rock band.
Speakers at the event painted a dire picture of U.S. economy if the House climate bill becomes law.
"Our small businesses will whither and entrepreneurship will suffer," said Karen Kerrigan, president of the Small Business and Entrepreneurship Council.
They seemed to be preaching to the choir, as the crowd loudly applauded calls for more energy production and booed when the climate bill was mentioned.
"I don't want $4 gas, and I know with that bill, I won't even be able to afford to even have heat," said retired loan officer Nancy Graham, of Richmond.
On a large cardboard petition some wrote things like "Don't kill capitalism" and "You have no constitutional authority to do this."
With financial backing from the American Petroleum Institute, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and others, environmental groups have derided these as little more than "company picnics" held by big polluters.
"This is really an effort to confuse the public about what comprehensive, strong and effective energy legislation will do. It's misinformation," said Greenpeace spokesman Michael Crocker.
Cathy Landry, a spokewoman for API, objected that some call the rallies "astroturf" or manufactured events. "It is organized, but does that make it less grassroots? I don't think so."
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As with adherents of other religions, pious Muslims naturally experience a desire to cleave to the exemplary beliefs and practices that had characterized the faith at its very start. In principle this adhesion should not be difficult In a famous statement, Ernest Renan wrote in 1851 that, unlike the other major religions, the faith founded by Muhammad "was born in the full light of history" ("L'islam naît en pleine histoire.").
There is of course a standard narrative of the life of the Prophet: birth ca. 570 CE in Mecca; marriage and successful career as a merchant; first revelation in 610; flight to Medina in 622; triumphant return to Mecca in 630; death in 632. In Muslim-majority countries this narrative is taken as a matter of course: that is simply the way things were, and fidelity to this era and its precepts offers a sure guide for all significant aspects of Muslim conduct. The account is echoed by prominent Western scholars such as John Esposito and Karen Armstrong.
Yet on closer inspection matters are not so simple. First, the seemingly copious documentation about Muhammad stems from much later Arabic texts - chiefly collections of the prophet's sayings and doings found in the Ahadith, and biographies that make up what is called the Sira - the earliest of which date from a century and a half after his death in 632. This long lapse of time left much room for embroidery, as well as omissions. External considerations were not absent, for the Arabic texts emerged from a climate of intense partisan quarrels over the prophet's life and his succession.
Moreover, the earlier sources on the prophet's life that do survive are not in accord with the standard narrative outlined above. Typically, these are texts in languages other than Arabic (such as Armenian, Greek, and Syriac). There are also material remains, such as papyri, inscriptions (such as those found in the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem), and coins). Although the problematic status of the Arabic literary sources has been evident for at least a century, only recently have scholars begun to explore its full implications, aided by the historical critical method long in use among scholars of the Hebrew and Christian Scriptures. The godfather of this approach in Islamic studies is John Wansbrough (1928 –2002), an American historian who taught in London at the School of Oriental and African Studies.
He caused a furor when his research on early Islamic manuscripts, including the analysis of the deployment of monotheistic Jude0-Christian imagery found in the Qur'an led him to conclude that the rise of Islam constituted a mutation of what was originally a Christian sect seeking to spread in Arab lands. As time evolved the Judeo-Christian scriptures were adapted to an Arab perspective and mutated into what became the Qur'an which was developed over several centuries with infusions from various Arab tribal sources. Wansbrough's research suggests that a great deal of the traditional history of Islam was little more that a fabrication of later generations seeking to forge and justify a unique religious identity.
In the spirit of "interesting if true," the critics in Wansborough's wake have approached the Arabic written sources with skepticism, some concluding that these are a form of "salvation history" - self-serving, unreliable accounts devised by later generations of the faithful, not companions of the Prophet.
The great mass of traditional documents, so revisionist scholars find, requires constant challenge. Patricia Crone holds that the key features of Muhammad's career took place not in Mecca but hundreds of miles to the north. Yehuda Nevo and Judith Koren hold that the classical Arabic language was developed not in the territory of today's Saudi Arabia, but in the Syriac sphere of the Levant, reaching Arabia only through the military incursions of the Arabs.
Most broadly, "there was no Islam as we know it" until two or three hundred years after the traditional version has it (more like CE 830 than 630); it developed not in the distant deserts of Arabia but through the interaction of Arab conquerors and their more civilized subject peoples. A few scholars even doubt the very existence of Muhammad - a view that probably goes too far.
Recent scholarship, much of it German, has continued this critical endeavor. Günter Lüling's highly technical work of 1974 (A Challenge to Islam for Reformation, Eng. trans., 2003 ) observes the likelihood that the original text, following general Semitic practice, had no vowels. Later editors in supplying pointing often made wrong choices. Let us suppose that in an all-consonant English text one had written btr, intending to mean better, but the editor read it as butter. This analysis, Lüling believes, affords the discovery of a pre-Islamic (Christian) substratum underlying the Qur'an as we know it.
A similar approach, detecting a Syriac lectionary as the basis of the Qur'an has been pursued by the flamboyant Christoph Luxenberg, best known for his assertion that the "virgins" offered the faithful in paradise are actually white raisins.
For his part, Luxenberg is associated with the INARAH group headed by Markus Gross and Karl-Heinz Ohlig. This group has produced six hefty anthologies, of which two have been translated into English. The findings of the INARAH group may be summarized as follows: 1) Islam originated as a sect of Christianity. 2) Its central theological tenets stem from a pre-Nicene, Syrian Christianity. 3) The lingua franca of the Middle East at the time, Aramaic, significantly influenced the Arabic of the Qur'an with regard to vocabulary, phraseology and script. 4) Finally, it was not until the end of the eighth and ninth century that Islam emerged as a separate religion. For it part the Qur'an experienced a period of historical development and reshaping that lasted for some 200 years.
Wednesday, August 03, 2016
A hundred years ago a British author of East European Jewish origin, Israel Zangwill (1864-1926), coined a phrase that was long to remain resonant in this country. The expression stemmed from his play "The Melting Pot," which enjoyed great success in the United States in 1909-10 Among others, Theodore Roosevelt was a great admirer of the play, which found a counterpart in his decrying of the concept of the "hyphenated American."
Of course the metaphor of the melting pot captures the content of the more prosaic notion of assimilation. In nineteenth-century America immigrants from Scandinavia and Germany assimilated very easily; the Irish a little less so. Since Americans place such emphasis on an individual's outward appearance, blacks and Asians proved problematic: they were"unmeltable."
Nonetheless, the assimilation model remained popular. In the 1960s, however, it was challenged by increasing evidence of a countermovement - termed "deassimilation" by the sociologist Stephen Murray. In due course, Hispanics, feminist women, and LGBT people began to deassimilate.
Recently the deassimilation process, abetted by multiculturalism, has yielded a new slogan, that of "intersectionality," which asserts that the new tribes (if I may use the expression) need not subsist in separate enclaves but can join together in a common enterprise, assured we are told by the prospect that white people will become a minority in this country by 2055.
In this process of tribalization, it should surprise no one that nonelite whites should now be coalescing into their own tribe. In this light, the denunciations of Donald Trump as an irresponsible demagogue, a sociopath, or a child who has never grown up will prove futile, for when he goes he will leave behind a large disaffected segment of the population - not unlike, to reach for a remote comparison, the Huguenot minority in France before the revocation of the edict of Nantes. In all this, there is great latitude for discord.
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Some gay men are known for having a multiplicity of sexual partners. Yet there is no generic term for this kind of person. Straights do much better. There are three, derived from personal names, for heterosexual womanizers: Casanova, Don Juan, and Lothario.
Casanova (1725 – 1798) was a real person, best documented via his Memoirs (Histoire de ma vie), just published in a sumptuous new edition in France.
Don Juan (Tenorio) is a legendary figure who may never have existed; he first appears in a 1630 play by Tirso de Molina, "El Burlador de Sevilla."
Lothario, originally a Florentine, figures in a story, "El Curioso Impertinente," embedded in Cervantes' Don Quixote. The character takes on fuller form in a 1703 play by the Englishman Nicholas Rowe.
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Since I read Sarah Bakewell's brilliant book "At the Existentialist Cafe," I have made a renewed attempt - the third or fourth over the course of as many decades - to come to terms with the vast oeuvre of Jean-Paul Sartre. Despite the disdain shown by some, including Analytic philosophers unprepared to grapple with his magnum opus "Being and Nothingness," Sartre without question ranks internationally as the most influential intellectual of the 20th century.
He was massively active in a number of fields: fiction, the theater, literary and artistic criticism, political commentary, and philosophy. Nonetheless, his reputation declined after his death in 1980. This decline reflected disillusionment with his seeming dalliance with Stalinism, a fault especially glaring after 1991; his tendency to make provocative judgments which he then had to correct (or should have corrected); and the appalling style of some of his later works, so much in contrast with the careful crafting of his Nausea (a short novel), The Wall (short stories), and No Exit (one of six or seven plays).
A graphomane, he ground out the later works under the influence of opiates and alcohol. Yet now, as often happens, Sartre's reputation is reviving. Perhaps the most important aspect of this recuperation lies in his tireless defense (equalling that of Voltaire) of the downtrodden and dispossessed, especially people of color. With rising inequality both within and between societies today, these interventions seem very timely - though of course some of the details have not held up. His critique of anti-Semitism, though challenged in some respects, was courageous and innovative. Likewise the rare but generally sympathetic comments about homosexuals. Not to be forgotten is his close partnership with Simone de Beauvoir, whose feminism he encouraged.
A graphomane, he ground out the later works under the influence of opiates and alcohol. Yet now, as often happens, Sartre's reputation is reviving. Perhaps the most important aspect of this recuperation lies in his tireless defense (equalling that of Voltaire) of the downtrodden and dispossessed, especially people of color. With rising inequality both within and between societies today, these interventions seem very timely - though of course some of the details have not held up. His critique of anti-Semitism, though challenged in some respects, was courageous and innovative. Likewise the rare but generally sympathetic comments about homosexuals. Not to be forgotten is his close partnership with Simone de Beauvoir, whose feminism he encouraged.
I continue to struggle with my ambivalence, inflected by great admiration, with regard to J-P Sartre. As far as I know there is no comprehensive account of the fluctuations of his reputation since his death 35 years ago. At this distance, the dialogue is hard to trace as much of it is in periodicals.
Still, there seem to be three main areas of contention: 1) the record of Sartre and de Beauvoir in WWII, which was less sterling and more procrastinating than later accounts often have it; 2) his tendency to excuse Communist and third-world dictatorships as somehow the party of humanity (very late, he partially recanted); and 3) his tortured effort to reconcile existentialism and Marxism in the two ultraturgid volumes of the Critique of Dialectical Reason.


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- Mobile devices
- National Security and Medical Information
- National Security Letters
- Net Neutrality
- No Downtime for Free Speech
- NSA Spying
- Offline : Imprisoned Bloggers and Technologists
- Online Behavioral Tracking
- Open Access
- Open Wireless
- Patent Busting Project
- Patent Trolls
- Patents
- PATRIOT Act
- Pen Trap
- Policy Analysis
- Printers
- Privacy
- Public Health Reporting and Hospital Discharge Data
- Reading Accessibility
- Real ID
- Reclaim Invention
- Search Engines
- Search Incident to Arrest
- Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act
- Security
- Shadow Regulation
- Social Networks
- SOPA/PIPA: Internet Blacklist Legislation
- State-Sponsored Malware
- Student Privacy
- Stupid Patent of the Month
- Surveillance and Human Rights
- Surveillance Drones
- Terms Of (Ab)Use
- Test Your ISP
- The "Six Strikes" Copyright Surveillance Machine
- The Global Network Initiative
- The Law and Medical Privacy
- TPP's Copyright Trap
- Trade Agreements and Digital Rights
- Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement
- Transparency
- Travel Screening
- Trusted Computing
- UK Investigatory Powers Bill
- Uncategorized
- Video Games
- Wikileaks