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40 Days of Musa Ler
Posted 30 May 2008 - 09:32 PM
Posted 31 May 2008 - 09:36 AM
Can you please amend the title of your thread to Musa Ler?
As we speak there is no such thing as Musa D**h. Even those SSOs** call it Saman D**h.
To us it has been and will always be Musa(neri) Ler.
Even though many of us may know that goddam language, we prefer to not use it.
Franz Werfel was not Armenian, he did not know the difference of the furkish d**h and the Armeian LER. What is our Excuse???
We still remember when you came here with a furkish nickname, thank you for amending it.
And, please, please, if and when that Italian Stallion decides to follow suit, urge him to use MUSA LER as his title.
Thank you!!!
** SSO stands for "sun-shan-ordi"
Edited by Arpa, 31 May 2008 - 09:55 AM.
Posted 31 May 2008 - 09:56 AM
Can you please amend the title of your thread to Musa Ler?
As we speak there is no such thing as Musa D**h. Even those SSOs call it Saman D**h.
To us it has been and will always be Musa(neri) Ler.
Even though many of us may know that goddam language, we prefer to not use it.
Franz Werfel was not Armenian, he did not know the difference of the furkish d**h and the Armeian LER. What is our Excuse???
We still remember when you came here with a furkish nickname, thank you for amending it.
And, please, please, if and when that Italian Stallion decides to follow suit, urge him to use MUSA LER as his title.
Thank you!!!
That was the name of the original movie. But Ill change it the same.....
btw, how would you edit? I could this edit this now, but that first post was posted some time ago.
Edited by robertik1, 31 May 2008 - 10:00 AM.
Posted 31 May 2008 - 10:05 AM
btw, how would you edit? I could this edit this now, but that first post was posted some time ago.
Yes, we know. Did Franz speak Armenian?
Those SSOs call Masis "aghri". Shall we amend our language here too?
Posted 31 May 2008 - 10:08 AM
Those SSOs call Masis "aghri". Shall we amend our language here too?
Ok, how do you do it?
Posted 31 May 2008 - 11:15 AM
Bring up your post. Go to edit, and... good luck. Otherwise let our mods do it.
And please, please forget that goddam language. Learn to speak Armenian.
We speak Armenian here! Mountain is LER not (MUSA) qaq-d**h!
We don't allow to describe that murdere talaat qaqa as p*s*a, and Artsakh as kara***qaqa here, why should we allow (Musa) qaq-d*g*?
Do we know Armenian? Do we know that the Armenian word for mountain is LER/SAR?
When did Franz Werfel, the Austrian-German Jew, as sincere a he may have been become an Armenian linguist?
Can we teach him how to speak Armenian?
Hopefully, some day our mods and ads see it fit that that goddam D*** word never displays again, perhaps replace it it with LER??!! Just as they have placed filters to never display talat qaqa or kara-qaq= Artsakh.
Please eveyone! Don't use that cursed D word. We have more words than that drunken idiot Noah** to deascribe mountain, words like LER and SAR.
** Does any one know that the Bible never said Mountain (singular) of Ararat, but the plural thereof as MounainS of Ararat, i.e the Land of the Araratians?
If only we, and those illitero-biblio-fundamentaist idiots would learn how to read!!
Edited by Arpa, 31 May 2008 - 12:21 PM.
Posted 31 May 2008 - 01:17 PM
Bring up your post. Go to edit, and... good luck. Otherwise let our mods do it.
And please, please forget that goddam language. Learn to speak Armenian.
We speak Armenian here! Mountain is LER not (MUSA) qaq-d**h!
We don't allow to describe that murdere talaat qaqa as p*s*a, and Artsakh as kara***qaqa here, why should we allow (Musa) qaq-d*g*?
Do we know Armenian? Do we know that the Armenian word for mountain is LER/SAR?
When did Franz Werfel, the Austrian-German Jew, as sincere a he may have been become an Armenian linguist?
Can we teach him how to speak Armenian?
Hopefully, some day our mods and ads see it fit that that goddam D*** word never displays again, perhaps replace it it with LER??!! Just as they have placed filters to never display talat qaqa or kara-qaq= Artsakh.
Please eveyone! Don't use that cursed D word. We have more words than that drunken idiot Noah** to deascribe mountain, words like LER and SAR.
** Does any one know that the Bible never said Mountain (singular) of Ararat, but the plural thereof as MounainS of Ararat, i.e the Land of the Araratians?
If only we, and those illitero-biblio-fundamentaist idiots would learn how to read!!
Its ok, did mods did it.
Posted 31 May 2008 - 01:45 PM
Bring up your post. Go to edit, and... good luck. Otherwise let our mods do it.
And please, please forget that goddam language. Learn to speak Armenian.
We speak Armenian here! Mountain is LER not (MUSA) qaq-d**h!
We don't allow to describe that murdere talaat qaqa as p*s*a, and Artsakh as kara***qaqa here, why should we allow (Musa) qaq-d*g*?
Do we know Armenian? Do we know that the Armenian word for mountain is LER/SAR?
When did Franz Werfel, the Austrian-German Jew, as sincere a he may have been become an Armenian linguist?
Can we teach him how to speak Armenian?
Hopefully, some day our mods and ads see it fit that that goddam D*** word never displays again, perhaps replace it it with LER??!! Just as they have placed filters to never display talat qaqa or kara-qaq= Artsakh.
Please eveyone! Don't use that cursed D word. We have more words than that drunken idiot Noah** to deascribe mountain, words like LER and SAR.
** Does any one know that the Bible never said Mountain (singular) of Ararat, but the plural thereof as MounainS of Ararat, i.e the Land of the Araratians?
If only we, and those illitero-biblio-fundamentaist idiots would learn how to read!!
Arpa papik teteven vertsur
hima tansyon@d noren ver bid yella
Posted 31 May 2008 - 02:07 PM
Posted 01 June 2008 - 02:53 PM
Posted 06 June 2008 - 02:59 PM
I'm curious, how did Stallone's interest pique in the Armenian Genocide. I know that for years, we've been lobbying for the biggest genocide director (Stevie) but he's never commented about it. In fact, I think he just made a new film or is in the middle of making one about Ukrainian Jews in occupied USSR.
Posted 19 March 2013 - 09:12 AM
Franz Werfel
By Muriel Mirak-Weissbach
Special to the Mirror-Spectator
POTSDAM, Germany - Among the required reading for most Armenians
is the novel The Forty Days of Musa Dagh by Franz Werfel, and the
author is thus known among Armenians mainly - if not exclusively -
for this monumental work. But, as a conference held on March 10-12
in Potsdam, Germany documented, Werfel's literary accomplishments
include a large number of other significant works which deal
with a vast array of issues. The title of the three-day conference
cosponsored by the Lepsius House and the Moses Mendelssohn Center in
Potsdam already gives a sense of the scope of his activity which has
been the subject of extensive research: "Genocide and Literature:
Franz Werfel in an Armenian-Jewish-Turkish-German Perspective. In
the course of the speeches and concluding round table discussion,
speakers from Germany, France, Austria and the United States shed
new light on the many facets of this extraordinarily complex figure.
Peter Stephan Jungk, who has written a Werfel biography, introduced
the author with an overview of his life and works, and remarked that
doing research for the book took him on a journey through the first
half of the 20th century. In fact, Werfel had experienced World War
I first-hand and suffered persecution under the Nazi regime prior to
World War II. Although he was born in 1890 in Prague to Jewish parents,
as a youth Franz did not receive formal religious instruction and
became in fact enamored of Christian culture. This was due to a close
relationship he had with governess Barbara Simunkova, a Catholic who
took him to mass and taught him prayers. His early exposure to both
religious cultures was the source of a theme that was to become a
leitmotif in his thoughts and works. At 12, a passionate opera goer
and Verdi fan (he wrote Verdi. Novel of the Opera, 1924), Franz started
composing poetry at 16 and his first volume of verse published in 1911,
Der Weltfreund (Friend of the World), was a bestseller. Other works
in drama and fiction followed, many crowned with success. Musa Dagh,
which appeared in 1933, was acclaimed and rightly seen as a foreboding
to Jews in Germany. When, in May 1933, his book was publicly burned
along with others by the Nazis, Werfel's persecution began. He had
to flee Vienna after the 1938 Nazi invasion, and, after the Nazis
entered Paris, he fled Zurich via France for the US, where he settled
in California.
Who was Franz Werfel really? As Prof. Hans Dieter Zimmermann of Berlin
put it, there were three souls in the author - a German, a Czech and
a Jewish soul. A member of the celebrated Prague circle along with
Max Brod, Franz Kafka and others, Werfel was a German-speaking Jew
like the majority of his intellectual companions, but they were a
tiny minority in Czechoslovakia. Politically they stood apart from
the other German-speakers, the Sudetendland Germans in Bohemia, who
were pro-Nazis. Forced by political developments to move from place
to place, Werfel often asked himself where his "homeland" really was.
Werfel also had a Christian soul, to be precise, as Viennese scholar
Dr. Olga Koller put it, a Catholic soul. In his works, he "lived
between two religions" and "felt at home in both." Thus, Paul Among the
Jews: A Tragedy (1926) and his novel, Jeremiah: Listen to the Voice
(1937), which dealt with Jewish figures, came from the same pen that
wrote Barbara oder die Frommigkeit (Barbara, or Piety, 1929), Der
veruntreute Himmel (Embezzled Heaven, 1939) which relates the tale of
a woman seeking assurances of entering heaven, as well as The Song of
Bernadette (1941), featuring the young girl and her vision at Lourdes.
If Martin Buber reacted to his Christian writings with accusations of
"betrayal," his wife, Alma Mahler, pressured him to renounce Judaism.
His commitment to the Armenian cause was unequivocal. It was during
his second trip through the Middle East in 1930, which took him and
his wife through Egypt, Palestine, Syria and Lebanon, that he came
face to face with the issue. In Damascus he saw groups of abandoned,
dirty, hungry children, whose huge dark eyes haunted him. When he
asked who they were, he learned that they were the survivors of the
Armenians massacred by the Turks, and that no one was caring for them.
As Prof. Andreas Meier from Wuppertal recalled, Werfel could not
get their images out of his mind and the idea for the book "became
The Werfels were not the only author couple travelling in the region
at that time, Meier said. There was also Armin Wegner and his wife,
and he too set out to write about the Armenian Genocide. The story of
how the two men approached the subject and how a literary controversy
ensued was treated by several speakers in Potsdam.
Dr. Rolf Hosfeld, director of the Lepsius House, focused on the
historical facts behind Werfel's novel, identifying the real-life
figures who inspired the leading protagonists in the novel: priest
Dikran Andreasian (Aram Tomasian) and Moses Der-Kaloustian (Gabriel
Bagradian), the former military officer who led the resistance.
In his summary of the account, Hosfeld distinguished fact from fiction:
in addition to the two historical personalities, the story of the
flight up the mountain was true, as were the descriptions of the three
Turkish attacks, the signs calling for help, the altar the resisters
built, and the fire which alerted the French ship Guichon and led to
their rescue. The dramatic encounter between the German humanitarian
Dr. Johannes Lepsius and Young Turk War Minister Enver Pasha also
corresponds to reality, as recorded by Lepsius himself in his report.
The rest, as Prof. Martin Tamke from Gottingen detailed, was fiction.
Herein lies the main difference between the approaches taken by
Wegner and Werfel. When Wegner read in a newspaper in 1933 that
Werfel was touring to present his new book, he was shocked and
accused the author of having taken his material. Wegner, who had
witnessed the Genocide as a medic in the German army, had documented
the atrocities in photographs, and later also interviewed survivors,
visiting them in camps, could not believe that Werfel could have
written such a book without having had this first-hand knowledge. In
their correspondence on the controversy, Werfel expressed his respect
for Wegner's eyewitness experience, but could not acknowledge him as
a source. He also specified that he had isolated a single episode for
his novel, whereas Wegner, in his diary, had been compiling material
for a historical account. For Werfel, Tamke said, the aim was not to
write an eyewitness report but poetry, a work of art.
In addition to researching the saga of the resistance, Werfel also
drew on his extensive knowledge about the Armenian church, or, better,
churches. As Prof. Hacik Gazer from Erlangen explained, Werfel was
familiar with the Armenian churches and cloisters in Venice and Vienna,
and the documents in the Mkhitarist archives there which provided
him with valuable source material.
Through his contact with art historian Josef Strzygowsky, he learned
about Armenian church architecture. Significantly, his references in
the novel are not limited to the Armenian Apostolic Church, but include
several figures from the Protestant churches and missionaries, thus
expressing an "ecumenical" approach. Gazer also noted that Lepsius,
before his encounter with Enver, had met with the Patriarch Zaven,
and that the fictional figure, Juliette (Bagradian's wife) converts
from Catholicism to the Apostolic Church.
The Forty Days of Musa Dagh made history, not only as a work of art,
but as a political message. Prof. Rubina Peroomian, an expert on
Genocide literature from Los Angeles, cited several ways it has been
honored. There is the new English translation by David R. Godine which
represents a complete and accurate rendition of the German original.
Werfel, "a virtual Armenian saint" and a "national hero," was
honored with his wife in New York City in 1935 by the Armenian
community. A plaque in Toulon plays tribute to the sailors who
rescued the Armenians and carries Werfel's name. The survivors of
Musa Dagh and their descendants, though scattered through the world,
have an association and members meet every year in September to
celebrate their victory. Peroomian also reported on how an Armenian
translation had been smuggled into Soviet Armenia in 1935, and later
in the 1960s inspired dissidents and a nationalist revival. In 1988,
as the political climate changed, it was republished. Now there
is a memorial plaque dedicated to Werfel at the Armenian Genocide
monument in Tsitsernakaberd alongside those commemorating Lepsius,
Wegner and others.
But if the novel has brought Werfel recognition and praise, it has
also been slandered, suppressed and officially banned. Dr. Werner
Tress of Potsdam reported that, although Werfel's earlier works had
made him famous by 1933, after the Nazis took power he was persecuted,
expelled from a writers' association, and his novel publicly burned.
With the aid of projections of actual documents from the Nazi
era, Tress showed how one after the other, political and literary
organizations issued black lists of publications considered "damaging"
and "undesirable," and therefore banned. Werfel's name features
prominently in all the documents, sometimes with several works listed
by title, other times, with "complete works." On one black list put out
by the Bavarian Political Police, among the 15 books by Werfel, there
is a "+" mark added to Musa Dagh. This sign meant that if that book
were found in the possession of private persons, in house searches,
it would be confiscated and the owners put under pressure.
Publishers and distributors were ordered not to deliver the book
and customs officials stopped any copies coming across the border
into Germany.
Even long after the defeat of Nazi Germany and in faraway America,
Werfel's monumental work has continued to spark hefty political
controversy. Most clamorous was the fight around a film version of
The Forty Days of Musa Dagh. Planned by MGM in Hollywood in 1935,
the original production never made it into movie theatres, due to
insistent, heavy-handed intimidation by Turkish authorities. As Dr.
Raffi Kantian from Hannover related, the Turkish government made
known through diplomatic channels that it wanted to stop the project,
which, if completed, would "harm" Armenians in Turkey. Other pressure
consisted of threats to ban all MGM films in Turkey, Yugoslavia,
Bulgaria and Greece, while rumors circulated that it was a
"Jewish-Armenian plot," etc.
The political impact of Werfel's work is still felt today, in the
form of the continuing strife around Turkish recognition of the
past. In a concluding roundtable discussion addressing the issue in
the context of European integration, Markus Merkel, a Social Democrat
who introduced a resolution on the Armenian Genocide into the German
Bundestag in 2005, called for an official exhibit to be organized in
Berlin in 2015. He expressed his hope that the Armenian Diaspora would
wield its influence to promote democratization in Armenia as well as
in Turkey, lending support to the expanding debate in Turkish civil
society around the Genocide.
Posted 29 November 2013 - 09:39 AM
17:23 28.11.2013
On the occasion of 80th anniversary of the first publishing of the
famous novel by the Austrian writer Franz Werfel "The Forty Days of
Musa Dagh", a cultural ceremony was organized in Vienna, by the joint
efforts of the Armenian embassy in Austria, the Armenian Genocide
Museum Institute, and the community of the Armenian Apostolic Church
in Austria, the Austrian radio, the Austrian Literature Society and
"Franz Werfel" committee also participated in the organization.
The event was attended by representatives of the Armenian community
in Austria, and Austrian intellectuals.Ambassador Extraordinary and
Plenipotentiary of Armenia in Austria Mr. Arman Kirakosyan made a
welcome speech.
During the event director of the AGMI, Dr. Hayk Demoyan presented the
photographs of the exhibits from Armenian Genocide Museum collection,
related to the heroic Resistance of Musa Dagh.
The event was followed by a concert. Specially for the occasion the
original manuscript of Franz Werfel's famous novel "The Forty days
of Musa Dagh", was brought from the Austrian National Library, and
was presented to the audience.
Posted 11 September 2014 - 09:52 AM
17:06, 10 September, 2014
YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 10, ARMENPRESS: September 10, 1890 is the birthdate
of Franz Werfel, the Prague-born Jewish poet, dramatist and novelist,
whose most acclaimed work, the 1933 "The Forty Days of Musa Dagh,"
about the Armenian genocide, was widely read as a warning about the
Nazi rise to power and the murderous threat it posed to the Jews. As
Armenpress reports, the Israeli "Haaretz" has issued a special article
entitled "This Day in Jewish History", which is devoted to the author's
life and activity.
Werfel was introduced to the Armenian saga by a chance meeting in
Damascus, and the result was a best-selling novel about the Turks'
1915 campaign against the Armenians.
He described the book to audiences as telling how "one of the oldest
and most venerable peoples of the world has been destroyed, murdered,
almost exterminated ... ." Not surprisingly, "The Forty Days" was
one of the first books consigned to the bonfires by the Nazis.
Franz Werfel died on August 26, 1945, at the age of 54.
Posted 08 February 2015 - 09:34 AM
102-year-old Armenian Genocide survivor hurries home after surgery
07/02/2015 13:47:00
Oratert News
The witness of the Mount Musa Battle and the traditional Harissa
creation, Silvard Atajyan is waiting for her 103rd anniversary in
April impatiently. The Armenian Genocide witness, notwithstanding the
respectable age, has overcome a serious surgery, which was successful.
At first sight it is unbelievable though fact that even at this age
the woman managed to overcome such a serious health problem and get
well with the help of the doctors. At the hospital ward she does not
feel lack of visitors. Surrounded with the love and care of the
members of her family, Silvard Atajyan is waiting for the soonest
recovery and for the return home.
"Grandma is really strong. Five years ago she got an injury in the
left leg, in which a metal structure was placed and the whole weight
of the body fell on her right leg, which in fact did not endure and
was broken years later", - told the grandson of the Genocide survivor,
Arshavir Atajyan to Armenpress correspondent.
Earlier Armenpress presented the story of the Armenian Genocide
witness, which is as follows:
The Armenian Genocide initiated in the Ottoman Empire during the World
War I in the beginning of the previous century is one of the biggest
crimes against humanity. Advancing the 100th anniversary of the
Armenian Genocide the new project introduced by Armenpress news agency
is dedicated to the story of the eyewitnesses and survivors of the
calamity to prove the world one more time that our demand for the
recognition of the Armenian Genocide is fair and justified. This time
the project is dedicated to the story of 101-year old Silvard Atajyan.
MAY 14, 101-year old Silvard Atajyan living in Armenia is one of the
few witnesses of the events described in renowned novel "The Forty
Days of Musa Dagh" by Austrian author Franz Werfel.
Her family, which comes from Suedia region of Cilicia, was among those
Armenians, which participated in the heroic struggle against the
Turkish slaughterers in 1915. When the local authorities tried to
realize the order to force the Armenians to leave their homes, the
Armenians had made decision to resist and they climbed up the Mount
Musa, where they organized struggle for their self-defense and managed
to throw back the attacks of the Turkish troops 53 days.
Among other things Silvard Atajyan noted: "I climbed up the Mount Musa
along with my sister, mother, and grandmother in 1911. I was three
years old at that time. My father and uncle were soldiers. My father
ordered the mother to take us and climb up the mountain."
After the 53 days of resistance the family reached Egypt due to a French vessel.
Silvard remembers how a part of the women was at the side of their
husbands and the other part supplied food and arms to the fighters.
"In the evening women usually brought figs, grapes and bread for the
fighters. But little by little our forces expired...", - the 101-yer-old
woman said with excitement and tears in her eyes. In the memory of
Silvard, notwithstanding her little age, come out the images of the
French ships, bringing assistance to the Armenians. After the 53 days
of resistance the family reached Egypt due to a French vessel.
Harissa has got a historic past for Musa Dagh people
"During the fights my uncle died, who was thrown into the river. That
was the reason my aunts did not eat fish for years after that", - says
the witness.
After living for five years in Egypt, in 1919 the family of Silvard
returned to the motherland. Then in 1939 they moved to Aleppo and
later, in 1947 - to Yerevan.
"We grew up in Aleppo, where I got married with Hovsep, born in 1911,
who was a colonel. We got a house and came back to Yerevan, from where
we were exiled to Vardenis", - remembers Silvard, who worked there as
a carpet weaver.
In 1953 the Atajyan family moved from Vardenis to Yerevan and got a
land in the Malatia-Sebastia administrative district, where they have
lived up to now.
The hero of our story states that Harissa is one of the traditional
Musa Dagh dishes and has a historic past. It is mainly prepared for
happy or sad ceremonies. And that is the reason it is made after it is
blessed by a priest and necessarily from sacrificed lamb meat.
Years after touching upon the recognition of the Armenian Genocide,
the 101-year-old Silvard says that she does not lose hope, as living
with hope is characteristic of an Armenian. "I often watch news
programs and tell everybody to watch it too, so that they know what is
happening in the world. I am not educated but my brain works", -
states the hero of the story half-seriously and half-jokingly, adding
that according to the forecast, she will live for 5 years more.
She is fond of the flowers, which she has planted and cares with her own hands.
"When I got ill, in the hospital I even told my son not to dry my
flowers", - emphasized the Genocide-atrocities-survived Silvard, who,
using her walking device, showed us all her flowers in the house yard,
the care of which she does not trust anybody.
Today Silvard has 3 sons, one daughter, 7 grandchildren, and 12 great grandsons.
Posted 13 September 2015 - 09:00 AM
A Brief History Of Musa Dagh Armenians
13 hours ago 11/09/15
BY VAHRAM L. SHEMMASSIAN, Ph.D
This essay is a brief account of the history of Musa Dagh Armenians
from mid-nineteenth century to the present. Musa Dagh was situated by
the Mediterranean Sea, in the Svedia sub-district within the Antioch
district of the Ottoman Province of Aleppo. Presently, it is located
in the Samandagh district in the Hatay province of Turkey. Armenians
are believed to have lived in Musa Dagh since antiquity. To date,
their origins remain shrouded in uncertainty. They spoke a dialect
called Kistinik, meaning, the language of Christians. In nineteenth
century, six main Armenian villages existed: Bitias, Haji Habibli,
Yoghunoluk, Kheder Beg, Vakef, and Kabusiye, with a total of about
6,000 inhabitants. The original villages from which the others emerged
were Haji Habibli, Yoghunoluk, and Kabusiye.
The nineteenth and early twentieth century proved a period of change
that transformed the Musa Daghtsis from an isolated, obscure, and
ignorant lot to a conscious collectivity fighting for its very
existence as part of the larger Ottoman Armenian community facing
total annihilation by its own, Young Turk government. Several factors
effected this transformation. A retired British diplomat by the name
of John Barker, who had a summer residence at Bitias and other
property in Kheder Beg, experimented with new vegetables and fruits
acquired from around the world, improved the silkworm seeds for
sericulture, the main occupation in the area, and introduced medicines
to fight epidemic diseases. Equally important, foreign travelers
visiting him exposed Musa Dagh to the outside world for the first time
through their published accounts. American Protestant missionaries
likewise made inroads in Musa Dagh beginning in 1840, leading to the
establishment of Protestant churches in Bitias in 1857 and in
Yoghunoluk in 1869-70. The direct or indirect teachings of the
American ideals of equality and freedom must have impacted the
people's thinking to some extent. Then came Capuchin missionaries from
Europe and established the St. Paul congregation in Kheder Beg in
1891. Their presence, too, must have influenced the locals in terms of
European notions of human rights.
Armenian clergymen, educators, and revolutionaries likewise stopped by
Musa Dagh beginning mid-nineteenth century. When the Armenian National
Constitution was promulgated in the Ottoman Empire in 1863, the
Prelacy in Aleppo dispatched clergymen to its parishes in northwestern
Syria to introduce reforms. As a result, the majority Apostolic
community of Musa Dagh underwent some positive changes, albeit with
difficulty. Similarly, as a consequence of the ongoing Armenian
social, cultural, and political Renaissance across the empire,
`national' primary schools were established in Musa Dagh, whereby
youngsters began to learn about Armenian civilization with its
Revolutionary societies penetrated Musa Dagh beginning in the 1890s.
Outside activists belonging to the Social Democrat Hnchakian Party
(SDHP) established there what they termed `absolute monarchy' from
1893-96. Many Musa Daghtsis, including large numbers of women, adhered
to the SDHP, were indoctrinated, and underwent some military training.
A degree of `racial `awareness' was thus attained. The Armenian
Revolutionary Federation (ARF) became interested in Musa Dagh during
the Zeytun uprising of 1895-96. Agents were sent to Musa Dagh in the
early 1890s to introduce the party's ideology and platform. An actual
ARF sub-committee was formed in 1908. The Reformed Hnchakian Party had
a cell in Haji Habibli beginning in 1911, and a few followers in some
of the other villages. All three parties smuggled arms into Musa Dagh
for self-defense, although their respective quantities cannot be
verified. The need for self-defense became more acute during the 1909
Armenian massacres in Cilicia and northwestern Syria. Musa Dagh was
spared the carnage thanks to the self-defensive measures it adopted as
well as the presence of a British warship that prevented the Muslim
ruffians from assailing Musa Dagh.
In late July 1915, when Musa Dagh received a deportation order,
two-third of the population chose resistance, whereas one-third
complied with the command and was deported to the Syrian city of Hama
and environs. More than half perished as a result of exposure,
malnutrition, and diseases. The defiant majority fought the Ottoman
Army and Muslim irregulars for more than forty days, and was rescued
by French warships monitoring the coastline and taken to Egypt, where
they would stay for four years in a refugee camp on the eastern banks
of the Suez Canal across from Port Said. The international press
covered this heroic saga with editorials, articles, and pictures.
Material assistance poured into the camp from around the world. In
1933, Franz Werfel, a Jew then living in Vienna, Austria, published a
historical novel, titled The Forty Days of Musa Dagh. It was
translated from its original German into numerous languages in
subsequent years. Musa Dagh became a household name globally, and the
saga itself was immortalized. It also inspired artists and
intellectuals alike to create works that heartened especially
oppressed people with messages of hope for survival. Unfortunately, a
film project by the movie giant Metro-Goldwin-Mayer (MGM) was shelved
due to pressure exerted by the Turkish Embassy in Washington, D.C.,
and the US State Department. Fortunately, another film is currently in
the pipeline.
At Port Said, the refugees lived in tents, and were fed through
bakeries, a kitchen, and a soup kitchen. Children attended the Sisvan
(old name of Cilicia) school run by the Armenian General Benevolent
Union (AGBU). The infirm were tended to in a clinic-hospital supported
by the Armenian Red Cross. Men and women alike worked in various
industrial departments operated by the American Red Cross and the
British Friends of Armenia Society. Some 500-600 youths in 1916 formed
the backbone of the French Légion d'Orient, later renamed the Légion
Arménienne. This force, augmented by Armenian volunteers from the
United States, Europe, and elsewhere, fought victoriously against the
Ottoman Army at the Battle of Arara in Palestine on September 19,
1918, thereby facilitating the Allied occupation of the rest of
Greater Syria as well as Cilicia.
In 1919, the refugees at Port Said and survivors at Hama repatriated
to Musa Dagh. The following two decades witnessed reconstruction and
the resumption of old professions such as comb, spoon, and charcoal
making, sericulture, and farming. A new textile industry inspired hope
for a better future. Bitias, in particular, became a popular tourism
and vacationing center. The three denominations reopened their
churches and schools. Voluntary associations sought to ameliorate
religious, educational, social, and cultural life. The SDHP and the
ARF vied for political dominance through local councils and regional
legislatures, with the latter party succeeding to a larger extent.
Unfortunately, all this would come to an abrupt end in the summer of
1939, when France ceded the Sanjak of Iskenderun/Alexandretta, an
autonomous province in northwestern Syria encompassing Musa Dagh and
other Armenian communities, to Turkey. The overwhelming majority of
Armenians chose to leave the area for other parts of Syria, and
Lebanon, fearful of Turkish rule so tarnished with brutality in recent
memory. Only 6 percent of Musa Daghtsis elected to stay behind. They
are now concentrated in the village of Vakef/Vakifli, which has been
showcased in recent years as the only Armenian village left in Turkey.
The majority that departed Musa Dagh encamped temporarily at Ras
al-Basit, along the Mediterranean between the Armenian enclave of
Kessab and Latakia. They were relocated to a place called Anjar in
Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. Not only did the French High Commission of
Syria and Lebanon purchase the land, but it also constructed the
houses. With much difficulty, hard work, and perseverance, Anjar in
due course became a vibrant rural community. Last year it marked its
seventy-fifth anniversary. In 1946-47, more than half of Anjar's
population resettled in Soviet Armenia.
Wherever they may be, the Musa Daghtsis commemorate their heroic feat
of 1915 annually. Monuments have also been erected. The Damlajik
monument on Musa Dagh itself was inaugurated on September 18, 1932
with pomp and circumstance. The remains of the eighteen fighters who
lost their lives during the resistance were interred in a fenced
cemetery nearby. In Armenia, a majestic monument and an adjacent
museum stand on a hilltop in the town of Musa Ler (Musa Dagh), between
the capital of Yerevan and the Holy See of Echmiadzin. In Anjar, a
memorial complex is situated between the Harach College (high school)
and the St. Paul Apostolic Church. In Cambridge, near Ontario, Canada,
an edifice likewise attracts celebrants each September.
On this centennial of the Musa Dagh resistance to the Armenian
Genocide, challenges remain. How to preserve Musa Daghtsi identity?
How to preserve the dialect? How to impart the history? How to raise
future generations conscious of their roots? And so on. Leadership,
vision, imagination, ingenuity, technology, and other innovative
approaches are key to meeting those challenges. Relegation to oblivion
is not an option.
Posted 29 December 2015 - 09:42 AM
December 28, 2015
Soldiers are trained to do one thing above all else: follow orders.
Soldiers who disobey face the repercussions of insubordination. Louis
Dartige Du Fournet, a vice admiral of the French Eastern Squadron that
was blockading Ottoman shores near Syria in 1915, was aware of what
the consequences could be should he take matters into his own hands.
Nonetheless, he ordered the rescue of over 4,000 Armenian men, women
and children from certain death in the foothills of Musa Dagh (Mount
Moses, also known as Jebel Musa) in what is present-day southeastern
Dartige had no idea how his commanding officers would respond to his
orders, but he did not wait to find out. He was acutely aware of the
bureaucratic nightmare of intervening in such a conflict, but he was
too short on time.
The story began in the summer of 1915, when the council of six
Armenian-populated villages - Haji Habibli, Kebusiyeh, Vakif, Kheder
Bek, Yoghunoluk and Bitias - located in the Suede district, defied
Ottoman orders to join deportation marches out of the country. On July
30 some of the Armenian inhabitants obeyed the Ottoman instructions
and were eventually killed during death marches to Syrian deserts.
Others - a group of over 5,000 Armenians - left their homes and took
refuge in the foothills of Musa Dagh, on the northern tip of the Bay
of Antioch. There they mounted a valiant military resistance agaist
the Ottoman forces.
There were only 600 fighters among the 5,000 Armenians and they had
few weapons. But they were determined and well disciplined.
They built temporary fortifications around the foothills of the
mountain. Initially, the Armenian fighters resisted heroically, but
with dwindling food and ammunition supplies the situation deteriorated
In an attempt to attract the attention of allied warship crews,
the fighters raised two flags made out of bed sheets that would be
visible from the sea. One of the flags bore a red cross, the other
had "Christians are in danger" written on it. They also made bonfires
around the flags, hoping to draw attention.
Survivors from Musa Dagh with one of the flags noticed by the French
navy, The Graphic, November 13, 1915
On September 5, after nearly a month of fighting, the crew of a French
cruiser called The Guichen spotted the signals. Peter Dimlakian,
a member of the resistance, boarded the ship and spoke directly to
the French command. The French left with a promise to bring relief.
As Vice Admiral Dartige du Fournet wrote in his diary on September
6, 1915, he "received a telegram reporting on this and immediately
sailed in this direction on Jeanne d'Arc." The next day Jeanne d'Arc
approached the coast on a reconnaissance mission. Tigran Andreasyan,
one of the Armenian leaders, came onboard and asked for at least the
civilians - women, children and the elderly - to be evacuated. He
was once again promised that French navy would help.
"I realized that we had to help these miserable people," du Fournet
wrote in his diary. He sent an emergency telegram to the high command,
but was still extremely concerned about the complex bureaucracy back
in France.
At the risk of tarnishing his career, he gave the order to send all
cruisers at his disposal to Musa Dagh to begin evacuations immediately.
In his own words, "The time was scarce and whatever they [the high
command] told us, it was necessary to evacuate all of them."
Louis Dartige du Fournet, Armenian Genocide Museum Institute collection
The vice admiral also contacted the British authorities in Cyprus and
Egypt, asking them to shelter the refugees. His request was denied at
first, but he soon managed to convince the allies to set up a refugee
camp in Port Said, Egypt, without the consent of his senior command.
On September 10, 1915, on the 41st day of the resistance, two French
warships began bombing Ottoman positions around Musa Dagh in a
cover operation. On September 12, five French cruisers - Le Guichen,
L'Amiral Charner, Le Desaix, La Foudre and Le D'Estrées approached
the shore, cast anchor and dropped boats. Tiran Tekeyan, an officer
of Armenian origin on Le Desaix, coordinated the rescue operation,
which lasted three days. First the women, children and the old people
were evaculated, then the armed forces.
The total number of those rescued was 4,058. It included 1,563
children, several of whom had been born during the operation itself.
Some children born on board were named Guichen in honor of the first
cruiser whose crew had noticed the signal from Musa Dagh.
"There were poor little newborns among them wrapped in towels. The
Mussalertsi children were passed from hand to hand through the roar
of waves. They pulled through the waters and will never know what
kind of danger they managed to escape in reality," du Founet wrote
in his diary.
Refugees from Musa Dagh boarding French ships, The Sphere, October
30, 1915
When the refugees reached Egypt, they were offered shelter, food,
healthcare and schooling, as Dartige had arranged.
Three months after the evacuation, Dartige received a response to his
initial telegram. It contained only one phrase in French: "Où se
trouve mont Moise?" ("Where is Mount Moses?)" This proved that had
Dartige chosen to follow military procedures and wait for orders,
not a single refugee would have survived.
On October 10, 1915 du Fournet was appointed allied commander in the
Mediterranean Sea. In December 1916, after the landing of French
soldiers near Athens, Louis Dartige Du Fournet was dismissed. He
never had children and married a widow after his dismissal. He lived
in a small villa near St. Chamassy in southwestern France. Du Fournet
died in 1940 and was buried in St. Chamassy. At the time of his death,
and for many decades after, the French population knew nothing about
his rescue efforts.
However, in 2010, Tovmas Aintabian, a descendant of a Musa Dagh
survivor, conducted an investigation into the vice admiral's life
and discovered the location of his hometown, as well as his tomb.
Aintabian contacted the local authorities in St. Chamassy and arranged
a joint ceremony to honor his ancestors' savior. Word of Dartige
Du Fournet spread throughout France, with most French television
channels and newspapers covering the occasion. A marble sculptured flag
depicting the one waved by the freedom fighters was placed on the tomb.
Dartige's tomb has become a pilgrimage site for both Armenians and
French paying homage to the man who risked so much and saved so many.
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Posted 05 May 2016 - 09:57 AM
How novel about Armenian Genocide became bestseller in Warsaw ghetto
Werfel's true masterpiece
Holocaust and Heroism Remembrance Day, known colloquially as Yom
HaShoah, is observed as Israel's day of commemoration for the
approximately six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust, and for
the Jewish resistance in the Warsaw ghetto uprising. It was
inaugurated on 1953, and is held on the 27th of Nisan (this year it
coincided with May 5).
May 5, 2016
PanARMENIAN.Net - Edna S. Friedberg, a historian at the United States
Holocaust Memorial Museum wrote an article about the novel The Forty
Days of Musa Dagh by Austrian-Czech writer Franz Werfeland the impact
it had on members of Jewish youth groups marshalling the courage to
revolt. The article, published on The Jewish Daily Forward in 2015,
"By any measure, the Warsaw Ghetto was hell on earth. An urban prison
zone in the middle of German-occupied Warsaw, after November 1940 the
ghetto was enclosed by a ten-foot high wall that was topped with
barbed wire and tightly guarded. German authorities packed over
400,000 Jews of all ages into an area of just 1.3 square miles, with
an average of 7.2 persons living in each room. Conditions were
miserable: inadequate food, no sanitation, little heat. By mid-1942,
83,000 Jews had died of starvation or disease. Of those who managed to
survive, the German authorities deported almost three hundred thousand
of them to the Treblinka killing center to be gassed.
And yet in Warsaw and many other ghettos across occupied Poland, Jews
organized clandestine schools and libraries, smuggling in books and
other cultural materials in collective acts of spiritual resistance.
Arguably the most popular book in the Warsaw Ghetto was the novel The
Forty Days of Musa Dagh, by Austrian-Czech writer Franz Werfel.
The Nazis had burned Werfel's earlier writings in May 1933, labeling
them the poison fruits of a Jewish author who advocated pacifism, love
for all mankind, and hostility to extreme nationalism and Nazism.
First published in Austria just a few months after the Nazi book
burnings, Musa Dagh detailed the systematic expulsion and murder of
Armenian Christians by authorities in the Ottoman Empire starting in
1915-16–a series of actions we now call the Armenian Genocide.
Based on actual events, Werfel shone a light on a group of Armenian
men fighting under desperate conditions. Quickly translated from its
original German into many languages, The Forty Days of Musa Dagh was
critically acclaimed and widely read in both the United States and
Europe, except in Nazi Germany where it was soon banned.
Werfel cast the Armenian characters' armed revolt against their
oppressors in a heroic vein. As the editor of The New York Times Book
Review described the novel in 1934, "[It is a] story which must rouse
the emotions of all human beings… . a story of men accepting the fate
of heroes… . It gives us the lasting sense of participation in a
stirring episode of history." Just a few years later, Werfel's tale of
a besieged people taking control of its destiny captured the
imagination of those imprisoned in German ghettos. Copies of the novel
were passed from hand-to-hand among members of Jewish youth groups
marshalling the courage to revolt. When leaders of the underground
movement in the Białystok Ghetto debated whether to take up arms, they
invoked Werfel's book.
A young man wrote, "Only one thing remains for us: to organize
collective resistance in the ghetto, at any cost; to consider the
ghetto our 'Musa Dagh', to write a proud chapter of Jewish Białystok
and our movement into history." Many leaders of the resistance in the
Warsaw Ghetto also drew strength from the struggle at Musa Dagh.
Across Europe, Jews in mortal danger looked back one generation to the
annihilation of the Armenians and saw themselves.
We study history for inspiration and for warning. But first we must
remember–and the Armenian Genocide has been almost totally forgotten
in this country. In 1915 alone, The New York Times published 145
stories about Ottoman attacks, including startling death tolls.
Millions of Americans supported food and clothing drives to help
Armenian refugees in what may have been the first public charitable
appeal of its scale. Yet how many Americans today have even heard of
the atrocities that rallied their great-grandparents to action?
Raphael Lemkin, the man who coined the word "genocide" in 1944 and who
himself was deeply influenced by Armenian suffering, wrote that "the
function of memory is not only to register past events, but to
stimulate human conscience."
Haunted by the loss of his own family during the Holocaust, Lemkin
declared, "I have transformed my personal disaster into a moral
striking force."
If we forget what happened in 1915, which forces truly prevail? Which
books will guide our actions?"
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Posted 26 December 2017 - 09:49 AM
The Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute (AGMI) has discovered 25 never-before-seen photos depicting scenes from the process of evacuating the participants of Musa Dag resistance.
Musa Dag was the location of a successful Armenian resistance to the Genocide, an event that inspired Franz Werfel to write the novel The Forty Days of Musa Dagh.Allied warships, most notably the French 3rd squadron in the Mediterranean under command of Louis Dartige du Fournet, sighted the survivors, just as ammunition and food provisions were running out. French and British ships reportedly evacuated 4,200 men, women and children from Musa Dagh to safety in Port Said.
The pictures were taken in September 1915 by a French Navy officer.
They portray the process of transporting the civilian Armenian population to French warships, the moment of their boarding the vessels and other scenes.
The newly-discovered photos will be available to public beginning from April, 2018, AGMI director Hayk Demoyan said.
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Posted 29 January 2018 - 12:16 PM
BBC 3 Radio
In 1933 Franz Werfel's epic novel "The Forty Days of Musa Dagh" was published to huge acclaim. The story of a guerilla army of Armenian villagers holding out against overwhelming Turkish forces on themountain of Musa Dagh in 1915, before evacuation by French forces to Port Said in Egypt. The mass murder of more than a million Armenians during this period had led to an international outcry during the war and, after 1919, the beginning of a campaign of denial by the Turkish government that succeeded the collapsing Ottoman empire. Germany, former ally of the Ottoman empire, also rejected any guilt by association but the assassination of Talaat Bey, former Ottoman Minister of the Interior and the key architect of the Armenian extermination, who was gunned down in Berlin in 1921 by an Armenian, caused a furore. The subsequent trial became a major media event and exposed the knowledge of the German government about the massacres. The fate of the Armenians was widely discussed and many on the right explicitly linked them with the 'Jewish question' as Hitler rose to power.
Franz Werfel, already a famous poet and well-known author, touring the Middle East in 1929 with his new wife, Alma Mahler, encountered pathetic Armenian refugee children. Their plight was the spark for his vast work. For both Werfel and its many readers "The Forty Days of Musa Dagh" was not just an epic tribute to Armenian resistance and survival but a warning. Werfel's works were burned and banned after Anschluss and in 1938 he and Alma Mahler fled to America. Hollywood's attempts to film it soon after publication began a decades-long campaign of long-distance censorship by the Turkish government. Maria Margaronis tells the extraordinary story of an extraordinary book and its impact as Europe descended into barbarism.
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An advertisement I saw over the internet and then I followed up the news. I think either she got stuck in some agency radar or she might be another victim of crime against women.
News is given below:
source : http://www.kansascity.com/2011/12/18/3327185/10000-reward-offered-for-missing.html
Family offers $10,000 reward in search for missing JCCC student
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By TONY RIZZO
The Kansas City Star
A $10,000 reward is now being offered for information in the search for a Johnson County College student who was reported missing Friday.
Dozens of volunteers worked throughout Sunday in the effort to find 19-year-old Aisha Khan. The search began at midday Friday when she was reported missing from the University of Kansas Edwards campus in Overland Park.
"We need everybody to be thinking about Aisha all of the time," said her uncle Adil Sheikh, one of many out-of-town relatives who have traveled to the Kansas City area.
Late Friday morning Khan called and sent text messages to relatives saying that she had slapped an intoxicated stranger who was harassing her.
A short time later her sister who had gone to the campus at 127th Street and Quivira Road to give her a ride found her unattended book bag and cell phone.
Besides the volunteet effort, an Overland Park police spokesman said Sunday that about 30 officers were involved in the investigation.
About 15,000 flyers have been printed and volunteers have been passing them out and canvassing the neighborhoods surrounding the campus.
Khan was studying for finals at the Edwards location, but she is actually a student at Johnson County Community College.
Besides the efforts on the ground, Khan's uncle said they are utilizing Facebook and Twitter to disseminate information. The Facebook page "Help Find Aisha Khan" had accumulated more than 5,500 "likes" as of Sunday evening.
The family is offering the reward for information leading to her whereabouts, he said.
"We are appealing for leads and cooperation from the community," Sheikh said.
Khan is 5 feet 2 inches tall and weighs about 120 pounds. She has brown eyes and dark brown hair. She was last seen wearing a yellow and black shirt, black sweat pants and a black head scarf. She may have also been wearing glasses. She was wearing a black jacket beneath a longer black and white coat.
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The U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) announced on August 17 the initial steps to develop commercial wind energy on the Outer Continental Shelf offshore of Rhode Island and Massachusetts. DOI's Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE) issued a "call for information and nominations," which invites developers to identify locations within an offshore area in which they seek commercial leases for developing wind projects. BOEMRE is also seeking public comment on important environmental issues and reasonable alternatives related to the proposed leasing, site characterization, and assessment activities in the offshore area under consideration.
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Jeff Hurley necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 35 diseños de 10 diseñadores freelance.
Viper Pressure Washing and Landscaping
Dillon is a 16 year old young man starting his own pressure washing and lawn services company. Want an edgy logo that reflects his youth and energy but also conveying a very professional operation. He will be fully licensed and bonded like his competition so he wants to compete with the big boys, but do it even better. Help this budding entreprenuer to bust on to the scene in a big way and with a bold statement.
Dillon will initially be targeting his own local community, mostly residential homes but also commercial jobs as well. But he also wants the image to appeal to the greater Seattle area if he's successsful in creating a recognizable brand and expands out of his hometown. He's interested in growing his company with other work crews besides himself, and plans for a very professional image with uniforms and hats using this logo. His services will also be marketed with direct mail pieces, door hangers, vehicle graphics and website, all using this logo you design.
Dillon wants Viper at the core of his business name. The Viper snake lends well to creating some imagery of fangs out, spraying, in this case, jets of water similar to a pressure washing spray nozzle.
To refelect the company name "VIPER Pressure Washing and Landscaping", we thought the snake could maybe be poised to "strike" with its head raised in the grass next to a driveway, shooting streams of water from its fangs angled toward the driveway next to it. When the water hits the concrete, debris deflects off the driveway as the water strikes.
We're not sure how to represent the lawn mowing or landscape element of the business in this except to have the snake in the grass. Maybe show taller grass next to a fresh cut section of grass next to the driveway.
We prefer the image to be kept kind of loose and more graphic looking and abstract. Check out http://www.viperclub.org. We dig this look! A few very general images are attached below for reference and images.
The look and color of the logo, want "fire engine" red and black. The eyes of the Viper yellow. The fonts follow suit. With the font on "Viper Pressure Washing and Landscaping", we want fairly chunky, and the "Pressure Washing and Landscaping" a bit smaller and more subtle. We are open to layout, company name in a circular pattern or horizontal. Open to more complimentary colors too.
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Movie review: The Case Against 8 zooms in on gay marriage debate (with video)
The Case Against 8
Four stars out of five
Starring: Ted Olson, David Boies,
Directed by: Ryan White, Ben Cotner
Running time: 109 minutes
The most moving scene arrives right in the middle of the movie as Kris Perry talks about shame.
A progressive lesbian with ample resources and a family, Perry was one of four plaintiffs who fought Proposition 8, the successful California ballot initiative that banned gay marriage in 2008.
Perry and her partner Sandy Stier are central protagonists in this Sundance-winning documentary that captures the wheels of political history in motion, so to see her explore the nooks and crannies of insecurity as she prepares to meet the Supreme Court is a little surprising, but deeply moving.
Perry clearly had no idea she was living with a deeply rooted sense of inferiority that almost made her apologetic about her sexual preference, but over the course of the proceedings that cover five years of legal wrangling and huffy-puffy politics, Perry's understanding of herself, her sexuality and her place in the universe begins to transform.
The more she is forced to defend the fact she has a family, the more the message sinks in: She deserves to be happy. She is entitled to share love with another responsible adult, and that love has every right to be protected and enshrined by the laws and codes that shape our society.
Kris Perry knew gay marriage was about human rights when she signed on for the case with her partner, but she didn't feel it in her soul until we see the tiny blood vessels in her face flush, her eyes get misty and the sound of her voice strain for a few seconds as she finally exorcises the pain of being a social exile.
This scene is why Ryan White and Ben Cotner's documentary is such a complete success because in the end, it sums up the whole movie as well as articulating the more abstract side of the legal argument: This is about how society assigns value and meaning to other human beings, and why laws that deny some people from obtaining the same value markers as others are grotesquely unfair and arguably immoral.
That last word is important because it brings the other side of this saga into crisp focus.
Gay marriage has typically been compressed into a partisan debate about Leftie values versus Rightie retentiveness, but the Case Against 8 transcends this pallid polemic once we meet Ted Olson.
The noted lawyer with deep ties to the Republican Party steps into the mix in the first act, but not as villain.
Olson joins forces with his Democrat counterpart David Boies to fight for gay marriage because as Olson puts it, "marriage is a conservative value" that he believes in, regardless of gender.
Olson's presence in this movie not only changes the face of the whole case, it alters the very essence of the film because it doesn't have to make an argument.
The lawyers articulate the details and dramatize the effects of every nuance of legislation, freeing the filmmakers to capture the rushing stream of emotions lapping against the frame.
They don't miss a single beat in this five-year odyssey that ends on the stairs of the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C.
More importantly, they don't end up with a "gay movie," even though the entire plot rests on the shoulders of gay marriage.
The Case Against 8 is just as much a courtroom drama, a soap opera and a family channel special feature as much as it's an LGBTQ anthem because it's about people first, politics second and the fear and loathing that lasts without reason.


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A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about the "JST DRV" initiative by the Central PA Chamber of Commerce, which aims to crack down on distracted driving by using cool thumb bands and a catchy slogan.
The kids in the Building Leaders for the Susquehanna Valley helped with the initiative and they made public service announcements to launch the program featuring themselves and some other local faces.
Here are the results.
This first one is an explanation of the JST DRV philosophy, featuring BLSV advisor Jess Shaffer and his Jeep:
The next is a "pull over" featuring a real PSP Trooper:
Pretty cool stuff, especially for high school kids just trying to make a difference.


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I was going to keep all this stuff but then I figured I was due for a Mk1 Scirocco, so I'll sell it off.
Not a lot of pictures, there are over 300 miles between me and these parts
Here goes :
Euro 16v kit front valance : SOLD
Autotech 16v front upper stress bar, powdercoated end caps : SOLD
Mk2 Euro clear turns : SOLD
Uncut Mk2 parcel shelf, brown : $50.
"Like new" taillights for Mk1 Scirocco : $150.
Champagne edition Mk1 Scirocco grille (white emblem): $100.
Mk2 Scirocco flash silver drivers side fender : $50.
Mk2 Scirocco Zender wing : SOLD
Mk2 Scirocco small wing hatch with wiper hole : $50.
Pair of Mk2 Scirocco front seats, minor bolster wear on drivers side : sold
9A short block, standard bore with new rings and bearings : $200.
PL 16v head complete with cams and valve cover : sold
Known good 16v 90amp alternator : SOLD
Trunk carpet Mk2 Scirocco in good shape : $50.
Prefer local sales only.


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I work for the Public Defenders office here in Northern KY. All day long I'm on the telephone with clients who have been accused of all sorts of crimes. You wouldn't think that my job would be stressful but you'd be surprised how downright mean some people can be on the phone when they don't get their way.
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It was one of those rare weeks in the Baldwin household. Nobody broke anything. Nobody threw up.
It was one of those rare weeks in the Baldwin household.
Nobody broke anything. Nobody threw up.
And nobody experienced an unusual bathroom habit and felt the need to announce it to the rest of the family.
In other words, it was so boring, I have nothing to write about.
I'm not quite sure what to do with myself. If I can't use 750 words to make fun of someone, well, my life really has no meaning, no purpose. I'm doomed to waste away to practically nothing.
Kinda like George W. Bush. Bill Clinton. My 401(k).
History and literature are full of great, decisive battles fought throughout the ages.
David vs. Goliath.
Ahab vs. Moby Dick.
Robert E. Lee vs. Ulysses S. Grant.
And, uh, Superman vs. a Powerpuff Girl?
"Daddy, tell me a story," our 3-year-old son, Gabe, demanded one evening before bedtime.
My husband tucked him in tight and sat down next to him. "Once upon a time," he began, "there was a little boy named Gabe. And he was a superhero."
"How did you know he was a superhero?" our son asked.
Because one can't tell Gabe a story without being interrupted 367 times. It was like testifying before Congress.
"Because he wore a cape and could fly," my husband continued.
"Oh," Gabe answered. "Like a Powerpuff Girl."
My husband's testosterone level kicked up a notch after hearing that and quickly corrected, "Uh, no, like Superman."
"NO!" Gabe argued. "Like a Powerpuff Girl!"
"NO! Like Superman!" my husband hollered back. Apparently visions of the royal heir flying around like a tiny kindergarten girl wearing a skirt and pigtails wasn't nearly as manly as the image of a grown man wearing a blue leotard and knee-high red leather boots.
As I turned away from the argument my husband was rapidly losing, I thought to myself, "Ahab had better luck with the whale."
She stared at the 8 ball like Paul Newman did as Fast Eddie Felson in "The Hustler."
Which wouldn't be a problem if she was planning her next shot instead of thinking how the small black ball would taste for lunch.
"Get your nose off of there!" I chastised Chaser, Wonder Mutt of West Edwards Street, and pushed her golden-haired snoot away from our son's miniature pool table.
Ever since we'd placed it on the floor, the dog had been obsessed with the thing. Sticking her nose in the side pockets, sniffing the felt, trying to snatch one of the cue sticks and running off with it. And God only knew what she'd done with the cube of chalk.
Although the bright blue smears that marked her left tooth were a pretty good indication that we'd be finding it in the morning ...
It was time to try contacts. That was the last rational thought I had that day.
There were approximately 83 reasons why I wanted to dump my glasses and switch to a plastic lens that a person sticks on her eyeball.
But at that exact moment, I couldn't recall a single one.
"What the hell is WRONG with this thing?!" I screamed and stomped my feet in frustration.
Standing at the bathroom sink, fists clenched at my sides, staring down at the tiny piece of plastic floating amid a sea of solution in the small plastic case, I was wondering what the hell I'd gotten myself into.
"Having trouble?" my husband calmly asked as he stuck his head around the door.
Sure, he'd been wearing contacts since God was a child. He could pop in his own lenses in pitch blackness standing on one foot during an earthquake, but I was having a little more difficulty with this new procedure.
I pointed to the lens in question and answered in fits, "This ... freakin' ... plastic ... stupid ... sticks ... eye won't stay open ... pops back out ... can't ... UGH!"
He put up his hands and offered, "Would you like some help?"
Now, I'm a proud person and asking for help normally isn't my nature. So I'm not exactly proud of what I said next.
"It's too late," I answered and turned to leave the bathroom. "I, uh, already flushed one of them down the toilet."
I paused and sighed. "Don't ask me how. I'm still trying to figure that out myself."
You can e-mail Maryville Daily Forum columnist Kelley Baldwin at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Why Dial Idol Doesn't Work For DWTS
It seems as though every season, some people either freak out or get excited over what they see on Dial Idol for DWTS – maybe their favorite is in the lead, maybe the couple they hate is in the bottom, maybe a high-scoring couple looks like they aren't getting votes. While I agree that it would be great to "pull back the curtain" and get a peek at what the volume of votes for each couple might actually be, I can tell you this right now: it's a carefully-guarded secret, and TPTB have ways to keep it that way – despite the efforts of supposedly "genius" software like Dial Idol. So let's debunk this one, shall we?
First of all, a bit of background on Dial Idol. It's a software program created in 2005 by Jim Hellriegel, a fan of American Idol, that uses your computer modem to automatically "speed-dial" in votes for your favorite contestant. It then measures how often a busy signal bounces back on a particular contestant's phone number, and, assuming that a greater number of busy signals bouncing back means that more people are trying to vote for a particular contestant, then the more votes a certain contestant must be getting. The idea was pretty clever (at the time), and despite efforts by the FOX legal team to get it shut down due to copyright infringement, it's perfectly legal, and has correctly predicted the winners of 5 seasons of Idol.
So, you ask, why can't the same program work for DWTS?
REASON #1: We have a limited number of votes.
Keep in mind, this software program was created for Idol, and on that show, there is no limit on the number of times you can vote; so, in theory, you could get hundreds of votes in for your favorite contestant before the phone lines closed. Hence, the more votes you can dial in, the more often you either do or don't get a busy signal, and the more accurate the Dial Idol results are going to be. We don't have that luxury on DWTS – we get a small, limited amount of votes each week, meaning we have fewer opportunities to measure a potential busy signal. For those with a bit of knowledge in statistics, the smaller your sample size is = the less accurate your results are going to be. And the sample size for DWTS is going to be much, much smaller than it is for Idol, due to the voting limit. Really and truly, it almost seems like a waste of time to even use Dial Idol to get your phone votes in to begin with – you'd reach your limit pretty quickly, unless the phone lines are particularly busy (such as in the finale).
REASON #2: We have a larger "window of opportunity" to vote.
The voting lines on Idol don't open until the end of the show and are open for 2 hours after that; the voting lines on DWTS are open from the beginning of the show until 30 minutes after the show is over. Not only do DWTS voters get an extra half-hour to vote by phone, but we're not limited to waiting until we've seen all the performances before we cast our votes. So what does that mean? Some smart "power voters" (like Heidi) will start voting for their favorites as soon as the show starts, when the phone lines aren't so busy. Some viewers (like my mom) will wait until one performance catches her eye midway through the show and will give all her votes to them. And some voters will wait until the end of the show to cast their votes. What does this mean? With a larger time window to vote, there's also the potential for the voting to get "spread out" a bit more – meaning there's less liklihood of getting a busy signal, even though there may be just as many votes being cast for a particular contestant. With Idol, everyone is scrambling to get their votes in at the same time – meaning busy signals galore, and a more accurate estimate of just how many people are voting for a particular contestant. With DWTS, there may be a bit of a scramble to get votes in after the show is over, but Dial Idol likely won't pick up on votes that were made earlier in the show, when there wasn't the same urgency to hurry up and get your votes in…and hence, fewer busy signals to measure.
REASON #3: Dial Idol doesn't take text message or online votes into account.
Perhaps the biggest caveat of Dial Idol is that it only measures phone votes – and with more and more shows also opening up voting via text message and Internet (Idol included, as of this season), it's going to become progressively less accurate. There is absolutely no easy way to quantitatively measure text message or online votes – no busy signal to bounce back, no publicly-available statistics, etc. If you think about it, phone voting is possibly the LEAST convenient method of voting for a reality show anymore – if there's a busy signal, you just have to wait and keep hitting redial; even though the call is toll-free, you still use up minutes if you call from a cell phone; and fewer and fewer homes have landlines anymore – leaving fewer avenues to dial in your votes. I get the feeling that more and more viewers are resorting to voting online or via text – there's no waiting, there's a longer window of opportunity to vote (at least online), and you're able "cheat" the system a bit by creating multiple accounts to vote online (I can't vouch for Idol, but I think we've all seen what a boon online voting can be for some DWTS viewers!). Why even waste time and money on slow phone voting when you can get the instant gratification of voting via text or Internet? And thus our Dial Idol "sample size" gets even smaller.
REASON #4: Dial Idol gives itself a "safety net" of accuracy.
Ever notice how sometimes the results at Dial Idol are different colors? You may have written it off as the web designer just trying to make the site more "visually pleasing", but the colors do have some significance – it's basically a way to show how confident they are in the results for each contestant. And that's where the sneaky yellow-colored results come in – officially, it's a way to say that the results are "too close to call" between all of the contestants who's results are yellow; unofficially, I think it's a way for Dial Idol to save face in the event that they're completely off-the-mark, and pad their accuracy percentage. 🙂 See the column that says "Dial Idol Range"? Those numbers from 1-whatever for each couple are where they're predicted to be ranked in terms of votes. And when those numbers are yellow, it means it's too close to call, and the contestant could fall anywhere between those 2 numbers. Let's use this week's DWTS results on Dial Idol as an example. Chelsea & Mark are in the lead with a Dial Idol score of 31.92. But all of the couples' scores are yellow, meaning it's too close to call, and all of the couples could potentially be as low as 11th place. What does that mean? That if there was an elimination this week, and Chelsea & Mark get sent home, it would still count as a "correct" prediction for Dial Idol, since they said it was too close to call and that Chelsea & Mark could be anywhere between 1-11th place. Inflated accuracy percentage much? Is your faith in Dial Idol wavering yet? 🙂 That sneaky yellow "too close to call" is what lulls a lot of people into a false sense of security – their favorite couple may be in the lead with their Dial Idol score, but it doesn't necessarily mean they're safe from elimination. And even the green & red colors, which signify "likely safe" and "likely in danger", respectively, are no guarantee – Dial Idol has been wrong about those before, too. Why, you ask? Which brings me to my final point…
Remember what I said about sample size? The more people that use Dial Idol, the more accurate it becomes (in theory). The problem is – we don't know how many people are actually using Dial Idol to vote, and in order to get a decent representation of what kind of votes each of the contestants is getting, there has to be people using Dial Idol to vote for each of the contestants. The same applies to any show that Dial Idol supports – how can it measure the busy signal for each contestant if there isn't at least one person using it to vote for each contestant? Let's say no one uses Dial Idol to vote for Chris & Cheryl. Then there's going to be no busy signals bouncing back, and to those who don't know the particulars about how Dial Idol works, it's going to appear as though they got the low score and are predicted to head home. In reality, there simply isn't any data to determine whether they're going to stay, go, or how they stack up against other contestants. Or, on the other hand, let's say most of the people using Dial Idol are voting for Hines & Kym. It's going to result in an inflated score for them that may make it look like they're safe, but without equally as diverse data for each of the other contestants, there's no way to know for sure.
The bottom line? Short of forcing everyone voting on the show to use Dial Idol to phone in their votes, giving us limitless votes, and making us wait until AFTER the show is over to vote, and finding a way to measure the impact of online voting & text message voting, Dial Idol is NEVER going to have the same success on DWTS that it has had on Idol up to this point. I say "up to this point" because now Idol also has online voting, and I think that will impact the results even more. So who knows, Dial Idol may become obsolete soon…yet another reason not to put too much stock in it 😉


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My program (Test) is a basic MFC AppWizard (exe) created project. I have followed the steps in the link below to create a docked dialog box (myDialog) using VC++.
The dialog box works, however, I have 2 issues that I am trying to resolve.
1) I have added a button to the Dialog box, however, when I run the application they start as disabled (note: the Disabled option on the Button Properties is unchecked). If I add function myDialog::OnButton to the myDialog class, the button remains disabled, however, if I add the function CTestView::OnButton to the View class, the button becomes active and works. How can I make the button work from the myDialog class?
2) I would like to be able to change an Edit box in the same dialog box when I click the button. How can I access the pointer to the myDialog from the View class?
Thank you so much for the responses!!


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text: A Blue View is a weekly perspective on the life aquatic, hosted by National Aquarium CEO John Racanelli. From the smallest plants and animals invisible to the human eye to entire ecosystems, every living thing depends on and is intricately linked by water. Tune in to 88.1 WYPR every Tuesday at 5:45 p.m. as John brings to the surface important issues and fascinating discoveries making waves in the world today. February 13, 2013: Seal Season Click here to listen to John discuss the upcoming seal season and how to spot seals in need of medical assistance. Seal sightings are rare for even the most frequent beach-goers to the Mid-Atlantic shore. In a typical year, about 20 are spotted in Ocean City, Maryland. Because seals prefer a cold-water environment, they tend to visit our area as they travel south from subarctic regions in the winter months and return north during summer months. Healthy seals regularly rest on land in a behavior called "hauling out." This seal was spotted near 28th street in Ocean City, Maryland! Photo via Maryland Coastal Bays Program If you're lucky, harp, gray, hooded, and harbor seals can be spotted on our beaches from late winter through spring. These four seal species are semi-aquatic, meaning they can survive for lengths of time both in water and on land. When seals are spotted on land, they are usually resting after long swims or warming up in the sunlight. Seals will also haul out on stormy days to wait out the rough seas. Because seal sightings are rare, people often assume that a seal on land is injured or sick. Fortunately, there is a fairly easy way to determine if an animal is healthy. The key is to observe the animal's posture. When a seal is lying in a "banana-shaped" position with its head and body curved and facing upright, the animal is simply resting and will more than likely return to the water when it's ready. Enjoy the sight from a distance, though, as seals are federally protected under the Marine Mammal Protection Act, and it is illegal to disturb them. A seal lying in the normal, "banana-shaped" position. If a seal is lying in a "bear rug" position, however, with its stomach and head on the ground, the animal is in need of further monitoring and, potentially, rehabilitation. In those cases, contact local authorities or animal control. It's important to remember never to approach a seal that looks like it may be in distress. Even though your intentions may be good, the animal will be under an enormous amount of stress. The animal may flee, even if injured, decreasing the chances that a rescue team will be able to help it. If you see a seal on the beach, give the animal lots of space, at least 150 feet, and avoid loud or sudden noises. Stay downwind from the seal if possible. Keep pets on leashes, and if you have to walk around a seal, walk on the land side to avoid blocking its path to the water. And never offer food to a seal—it's not only bad for the seal, but it's illegal and could result in a large fine. Disturbing the seal by making it change locations or flee back into the water is against the law. The National Aquarium's Animal Rescue team works with local authorities and a network of animal rescue and response organizations along the East Coast to respond to reports of seals on beaches and animals that appear to be in trouble. Our team of first responders is specially trained to evaluate an animal's health and behaviors. They are looking for any signs of injury such as entanglement, sores or abrasions, open wounds, bleeding, cataracts, dehydration, or emaciation. The team will determine the appropriate intervention for the animal, and may bring the seal back to our Animal Care Center for rehabilitation and later release. If you see a seal that may be in need of medical attention, please call the National Aquarium's Stranding Hotline 410-373-0083 or Maryland's Natural Resources Police 1-800-628-9944. In a real emergency, you can simply call the local police or beach patrol, and they'll contact the proper authorities. Tags: blue-view, Conservation, marine-animal-rescue-program, marine-mammal-protection-act, mid-atlantic-shore, national-aquarium-2, npr, sea-rescue, seal-season, wypr Categories: Animal Rescue, Animals, Conservation, News Previous Post Next Post


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Lincoln is why Hollywood should exist. Steven Spielberg's wonderful film about our 16th president isn't a war epic or a maudlin biography. The film only follows Abraham Lincoln for a few months; the earlier details of his political and personal life largely have to be intuited through his dialogue. And yet, Lincoln seems wholly complete, an emotionally satisfying retelling of an incredibly monumental part of American history. I struggle to think of another director who could have pulled it off with Spielberg's wit, confidence and utter mastery as a storyteller.
Lincoln opens, naturally, with Lincoln (Daniel Day-Lewis), shortly after his 1864 re-election in the throes of the Civil War. The hundreds of thousands who have died fighting weigh heavily on this president's slender build—Day-Lewis hunches his body, his craggy face a mirror for the carnage that Spielberg rarely chooses to show on screen. He's strong, but sagging. He's burdened, but resolute. Day-Lewis's Lincoln is a thoughtful man, prone to the kind of teachable stories that seem ripped from The West Wing. It's a reverent performance, but when you're playing a man who prevented an entire country from tearing itself apart, I'd say that reverence is well deserved.
Daniel Day Lewis as "Lincoln"
With political winds at his back, Lincoln delivers a message to his cabinet: his famous Emancipation Proclamation is not enough. He wants to pass a constitutional amendment — the 13th Amendment — to outlaw slavery in the United States. Lincoln concerns itself with the congressional battle that unravels during that quest to abolish slavery. Thankfully, Spielberg challenges his audience to work through the political intricacies of that story as he tells it. (The differences, for example, between anti-slavery advocates and abolitionists are integral to Lincoln, but Spielberg never outright explains it. Instead, he shows it.) He's practicing a historical minimalism of sorts, giving us the bare minimum of exposition we need to understand what's happening, while the more subtle aspects of his filmmaking lead us to draw the right conclusions.
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Benton Reed begins his fourth year with Lipscomb's cross country and track and field coaching staff. He is an assistant coach for distance.
Since joining the staff, Reed has helped elevate the men's program in several areas. They have won three cross country Atlantic Sun Conference Championships. In the past four cross country seasons, 22 runners earned all-conference honors. Two student-athletes earned all-region honors in cross-country as well.
On the distance side of the men's track program, Reed has guided his athletes to break 22 school records in the indoor and outdoor seasons. Including 7 individual conference champions. At the 2017 Atlantic Sun Outdoor Championships, Ryan Speer led a one-two-three sweep for the Bison in the 800m run. Juan Gonzalez won the 1500 and the 5000. Juan also qualified for the Outdoor National Championship Prelim in the 10,000.
In the last four years, 32 other distance performances have earned a podium finish for all-conference honors at the championship meets.
Reed also helped coach the women's distance programs in the track season of 2016, including Madi Talbert as she competed in the U.S. Olympic Trails in the 3000m steeplechase.
Before Lipscomb, Reed served as an assistant coach at The University of the South, in Sewanee, Tenn. During his time with the Tigers, the women's cross country team matched the highest finish in school history in conference. He also coached men and women in events ranging from the 800m to the 10,000m.
As an athlete Reed competed for Lipscomb, and was a member of Coach Bill Taylor's first recruiting class in 2008. He served as a team captain for three years.
He also served on the Spiritual Direction Team through the years and was one of the leaders on the team mission trip to Belize in 2011 and to the Dominican Republic in 2014.
He graduated from Lipscomb in 2012 with a Bachelors of Business Administration in Corporate Management and in May of 2015 he completed his MBA.
Reed holds a USTFCCCA Program Management & Technical Coaching Certification and Endurance Event Specialist Certification.
A native of Scottsboro, Ala., he is married to a former Lipscomb distance runner, Emily (Longden) Reed. They live in Nashville with their dog, Dakota.


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A proposal to build one of the world's largest solar farms south of Silicon Valley took a major step forward this week when a state appeals court rejected a lawsuit by environmental groups who have tried to stop it on the grounds it could harm endangered species.
The project, a $1.8 billion, 399-megawatt solar farm, is proposed for Panoche Valley, an arid expanse of rangeland and barbed wire 50 miles southeast of Hollister. If built, it would cover an area the size of about 3,000 football fields with photovoltaic panels and provide enough electricity for more than 100,000 homes.
"We're pleased with the court's decision," said John Pimentel, president of PV2 Energy, a San Francisco firm partnering with Duke Energy to develop the solar farm. "We've been working hard to build a project that is good for the environment and good for the community."
Pimentel said he hopes to break ground on the project by the end of 2014. However, environmentalists who oppose the project say they plan to keep fighting.
"Obviously we're disappointed," said Shani Kleinhaus, environmental advocate for the Santa Clara Valley Audubon Society, one of the groups that sued. "We feel the court didn't really understand the importance of the valley for endangered species in California."
In 2010, the San Benito County Board of Supervisors voted to approve the project, saying it would make the rustic county — known more for its cattle and condors than solar panels — a national center of clean energy.
But the Santa Clara Valley Audubon Society, the Sierra Club and a local group called Save Panoche Valley sued to block it, arguing that the 4 million solar panels that would be constructed across the roughly 3,000 acres west of Interstate 5 would harm disrupt the rural character of the area, and harm endangered species such as the San Joaquin kit fox, blunt-nosed leopard lizard and giant kangaroo rat.
The environmental groups lost the first round in 2011. Then a San Benito County court rejected their arguments that county supervisors who approved the project had violated the California Environmental Quality Act and the Williamson Act, a state law that preserves ranchland by blocking development in exchange for lowering ranchers' taxes. The court noted that the developers agreed to buy 23,000 adjacent acres — an area of cattle grazing land seven times the size of the area the solar panels would take up — and place them in permanent conservation easements as a way to offset the effects from the project.
The environmental groups appealed. But in a ruling filed Tuesday, the San Jose-based Sixth District Court of Appeal agreed with the lower court. The court's three-judge panel noted that although the environmentalists said the county should have considered other locations, such as property owned by Westlands Water District contaminated with selenium, a site that was 60 miles away in Fresno and Kings counties — but the developers had attempted to do a deal there but couldn't come to an agreement on land prices.
In the opinion, written by Justice Eugene Primo, the court also turned down environmentalists' assertions that the adjacent lands the developers would be setting aside for endangered species wasn't good enough habitat because surveys have shown it already has giant kangaroo rats, San Joaquin kit foxes and blunt-nosed leopard lizards living on it.
Before the project can be built, it still must clear several more hurdles. Most important, company officials need to secure an agreement with Pacific Gas & Electric or another utility to buy the electricity it generates. Second, it must obtain permits from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the state Department of Fish and Wildlife, which may require more study of the effects on endangered species.
"This is a setback, but it is not the end of the road," said Kleinhaus of the Audubon Society.
She noted that her Audubon chapter, the Sierra Club, the Center for Biological Diversity and other groups have written letters to utility companies urging them not to sign deals to buy the solar power because of the project's effects on endangered species.
Kleinhaus said she is not opposed to all large solar power projects, but she prefers smaller rooftop arrays on individual buildings, which have less effect on wildlife than large projects.
In recent years, California Gov. Jerry Brown and President Barack Obama have pushed for construction of large solar projects, saying they are vital to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming. But some environmental groups have sued over large proposals, particularly in the Mojave Desert, where species such as bighorn sheep, desert tortoises and others live.
Several of the projects have failed because of delays, lawsuits, cost overruns and problems getting permits. Others are moving ahead.
Most notably, the $2 billion Ivanpah solar project, developed by BrightSource Energy in Oakland, is 95 percent complete. Located on the California-Nevada border 50 miles from Needles, it will supply solar power to 140,000 homes.
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