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Wilton's Eagen enjoys view from the top yet again
WILTON — Tim Eagen, with 36 seasons as head baseball coach at Wilton High School under his belt, says for him personally there's very little difference between the FCIAC championship his Warriors won less than three weeks ago and the first title he claimed 20 years ago.
Both were exciting. Both were satisfying beyond belief. And both were the product of hard work and effort by a dedicated coaching staff and determined players.
No, when he looks back, Eagen says there wasn't much difference at all.
Well, except for one thing.
"You know what was different between the two," he said the other day while relaxing in one of the coaches rooms in the fieldhouse. "I appreciate the championship more now. I realize it is extremely hard. No matter what sport it is, it's extremely hard to win an FCIAC championship. A lot of things have to fall into place."
Those things all fell into place for Eagen and his Warriors this spring as the program celebrated its first FCIAC crown since 1995.
And a lot of people can appreciate that, including The Hour sports staff, which selected Tim Eagen as its 2014-15 Coach of the Year.
While there were a number of highlights from April to June, Wilton's 1-0, eight-inning victory over Staples in the FCIAC championship game May 29 at Harbor Yard was indeed the crowning achievement in the Warriors' sparkling 19-6 season.
"Going into the season, nobody picked us," Eagen said. "But we knew we had a chance to be a good team."
The Warriors then went out and proved it on the field.
"The year before, we started 2-6 and got it to 8-6," the veteran coach pointed out. "One of my individual goals this year was to get off to a good start and we did. We started out 10-1."
After a 4-3 loss at Danbury snapped their eight-game winning streak, the Warriors won two more games to stand at 12-2. Things couldn't be better, right? Well, not exactly.
"We didn't handle success very well," Eagen said, adding all the media attention the Warriors were suddenly getting may have led to that. "We lost three in a row after that. We got pummeled by Darien 12-1. We lost to New Canaan (7-2) on our Senior Night, and then we lost to Norwalk (4-3 in eight innings)."
That completed an 0-3 week by Wilton, which was suddenly in jeopardy of falling out of FCIAC playoff contention.
"We still had to win two more games just to get into the FCIACs," he noted.
But that's when Eagen had to do his best coaching of the season. And not in a game, either.
"It was a little reality check," he said. "We had practice Saturday in the fieldhouse and I just told the guys to stop hoping and go back to doing the things necessary to win."
No yelling or screaming. No long speeches. Just a few sentences to remind his team how good they are and get focused again.
It worked.
The Warriors came back on Monday to beat a playoff-bound Fairfield Warde team 5-4. Then they beat Fairfield Ludlowe 11-6 and routed Bassick in the regular-season finale to complete a 3-0 week and clinch the No. 5 seed in the FCIAC tournament.
"That talk we had at the fieldhouse that Saturday turned the season around," Eagen said.
Wilton rode that momentum into the playoffs the following week and beat Norwalk 6-1 at Norwalk, upset top-seed Darien 5-1 in the semis at Harbor Yard, and then knocked off No. 2 seed Staples 1-0 in eight nail-biting innings behind the two-hit shutout pitching of lefty JT Morin, the tournament MVP.
"The main thing they wanted was to get to Harbor Yard (site of the semis and final) and give ourselves a chance to win it," Eagen said. "We got there and had to play Darien and Jackson Ward pitched a great game to beat them."
Two nights later, Morin pitched his second complete game in four days to bring the FCIAC championship back to Wilton.
"Our team played maybe its best three games of the season," Eagen said. "We beat a really good Norwalk team, we upset a very good Darien team, and then we beat a very, very good Staples team. All three of those teams made runs in the state tournament. Those were three very special games we won."
And for the Warriors' veteran coach, it was like 1995 all over again. After all, he did say there wasn't much difference between his two championship teams, right?
"I don't think the kids have changed. Other things have changed," Eagen said, not needing to explain the obvious. "But these kids want to be coached. They love to be coached and they love to play, just like the kids on my '95 team."
How about Tim Eagen? Has he changed?
"Tim Eagen has mellowed a little with years because society has changed," he said with a slight smile. "You have to change a little bit with time if you want to succeed today."
One thing that has barely changed, however, is Eagen's coaching staff. There are still some very familiar faces there.
"My two right-hand men, Donnie Heibeck and Mark Ketley have been with me over 25 years," the head coach said. "Ian Thoesen played on that '95 team and soon after joined my coaching staff and has been there ever since.
"My two freshmen coaches also played at Wilton. Billy Heibeck played my first year when I was a varsity assistant (1977) and has been with me over 25 years, and Casey O'Brien played for me just a few years ago.
"The only coach on the staff who didn't play here is Brandon Tegano and he might as well be one of us. He's been a tremendous help. I actually coached against him when he played at McMahon."
Eagen values his entire coaching staff to no end. Which is why when he learned he was also named the FCIAC Coach of the Year this season, he said the award really recognizes the whole WHS coaching staff.
"I share that award with my assistant coaches. They all played a big part. Not a little part, but a big part. You don't win without a good staff no matter what sport it is. My assistant coaches put a lot of time into the program and it shows."
Eagen also made it clear you don't win an award like that without the right players. And he didn't mean the most talented players.
"We didn't have a lot of superstars. We had a lot of ballplayers who worked together," Eagen, who had 14 seniors on his roster, said. "They were in the weight room in the winter. They went to clinics. They did all the little things.
"Those guys have played together since they were young kids," he added. "We had tremendous camaraderie and it started with our captains, Alex Jacobson and Jackson Ward. They showed tremendous leadership, especially in the offseason. They led by example."
And on the field, a number of Warriors led by their actions.
"Any team that has a successful season, it starts on the mound. It always starts in the circle," Eagen pointed out. "When you have good pitching, everything else falls into place."
Wilton's pitching was never better than in those three FCIAC playoff games with Morin in the quarterfinals and final, and Ward beating top-seeded Darien in the semis.
Then there was Wilton's defense, which continually came up with big play after big play, none bigger than the back-to-back gems second baseman Collin Kahal and centerfielder Scott Shouvlin had in the sixth inning of the championship game.
"Our defense was absolutely excellent all three games," Eagen said. "And offensively we were aggressive at the plate. You win with pitching, but so many other things have to happen and so many kids stepped up that night and in that tournament. It was a total team effort.
"Before the championship game, I got all the guys together and I told them, 'Somebody's got to win the championship tonight. Why not us.' "
Of course, the Warriors said 'Why not us' other years, only to be denied. They won four straight East Division titles from 1999-2002 and another in 2010. They went to the FCIAC final in 1990, '94 and '99, but came away disappointed each time.
This year, however, would be different.
"We've always been competitive in baseball," the head coach for the last 36 years said. "We've been to the quarterfinals and the semifinals and even the finals. But it's so hard to win the whole thing.
"You don't think Darien thought they were going to win it all this year? You don't think Staples thought they were going to win it? It's really hard. That's why it was nice to get back there again this year and go all the way."
While the memory of that championship game will live in Wilton annals forever, there was one particular point in that magical night that will stick with Eagen more than any other, even more than the final out.
"After the seventh inning, I just looked around the stadium and I could see the whole town of Wilton there, all the Little League and Babe Ruth kids and former high school players and I just said to myself, 'Man, this is pretty cool.' That's when I knew this was pretty special.
"Then we got JP a run in the top of the eighth and he closed it out in the bottom of the eighth."
It was that moment after the seventh, however, why Eagen said this was not only a championship to be celebrated by Wilton High School, but the whole town of Wilton.
"I credit the Wilton Little League and the Wilton Baseball Association. They do so much for our team and so much for baseball in the town of Wilton," he said. "When you have the success we've had through the years, a lot of people feel good because they had a part in it."
A lot of people outside of Wilton were also celebrating.
"I got emails and texts from different parts of the country from former players congratulating us," Eagen said. "That's what makes it so special. They still all follow Wilton baseball."
Of course, it was a joyful ride from Bridgeport back to Wilton that night, and when they got back to the school, all the players went right from the team bus to the Nicholas Zeoli Fieldhouse.
"We got back about 10:30, quarter to 11, and they all came up through the fieldhouse and looked at the wall where they were going to put up our banner," Eagen explained. "Those kids really wanted to win a banner. That was special and I was so happy for them. They did all the little things and the little things turned into big things.
"You know, there's an old wise coach's saying that you get what you deserve, and these kids deserved to contend for a championship."
With that in mind, their coach deserved to be The Hour's 2014-15 Coach of the Year.


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Can big brands catch up on sustainable fashion? Imagine a pair of trousers you could throw on the compost.
After years of use, they could decompose among the eggshells and tea bags to leave behind nothing but some fertile soil to help grow new raw materials. It takes the circular economy to a whole new level. This is the idea behind F-ABRIC, a range of materials developed by Swiss company Freitag. Until recently, Freitag's only line of business was making bags out of old truck tarpaulins. While natural fibres like cotton will compost over time, synthetic fibres like polyester won't, and natural fibres are often blended with synthetic. The fact that it is biodegradable does not make the fabric any less hard-wearing, says one of the founders, Daniel Freitag. H&M on Conscious Materials. ZUG, Switzerland and WASHINGTON, D.C., September 16, 2015 /PRNewswire/
Cotton and textile worker Photo credit: International Labour Organization (PRNewsFoto/C&A Foundation) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Cotton and textile worker Photo credit: International Labour Organization (PRNewsFoto/C&A Foundation) ZUG, Switzerland and WASHINGTON, D.C., September 16, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, C&A Foundation and Ashoka Changemakers launched Fabric of Change: Innovating for a Sustainable Apparel Industry, an online challenge that seeks innovations for building a fair and sustainable apparel industry.
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The North Circular is a supermodel-founded company specializing in stylish knitwear while the 'Forgotten Shirts' brand creates causal t-shirts for a good cause. Jewelry is also included in this range of fashion. Fashion future: Eco-couture, smart clothes and sustainability. Trend forecast analyst Harleen Sabharwal offers insights on why we're on the verge of the 'slow fashion era' People will own fewer but high-quality clothes Think metallic...think alien...think techno-chic!
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Pure Waste creates its fabrics in its own factory recently opened in India and they are at the forefront of the Sustainable Evolution as they produce textiles out of 100% recycled materials, yes over 100,000 products made of 100% recycled materials up to date. Detox: How People Power is Cleaning Up Fashion. Does 'Made in' matter? Fashion meets renewable energy – clothes that charge your smartphone.
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However, fashionably using solar, wind and even kinetic energy to charge devices, keep us connected and even donate our energy to non-profits is being explored by a number of design houses. Solar textiles Meg Grant, of Solar Fiber, says she and co-collaborators Aniela Hoitink, Marina Toeters, Ralf Jacobs, and Professor Derek Schlettwein from Giessen University are already pushing the textile boundaries in terms of solar fibres. "If you look around you, textiles cover so many surfaces, so why not give them a 'super power' that can take advantage of this, like solar energy harvesting," says Grant.
The idea behind Solar Fiber is a flexible photovoltaic fibre that converts sunlight energy into electrical energy via a yarn that can be worked into all sorts of fabrics. Kinetic energy Energy harvesting The sustainable fashion hub is funded by H&M. How can the fashion industry become more sustainable? How can fashion develop more women leaders? Where do your old clothes go? 11 February 2015Last updated at 10:01 ET By Lucy Rodgers BBC News Every year, thousands of us across the UK donate our used clothing to charity - many in the belief that it will be given to those in need or sold in High Street charity shops to raise funds.
But a new book has revealed that most of what we hand over actually ends up getting shipped abroad - part of a £2.8bn ($4.3bn) second-hand garment trade that spans the globe. We investigate the journey of our cast-offs and begin to follow one set of garments from donation to their eventual destination. Continue reading the main story How charity clothing donations end up traded abroad. Continue reading the main storyContinue reading the main storyContinue reading the main story UK consumers ditch more than a million tonnes of clothing every year. Continue reading the main story. Wearable pineapple fibres could prove sustainable alternative to leather.
At weddings and formal events in the Philippines, men can often be seen wearing the Barong Tagalog, a thin and transparent embroidered garment worn over a shirt.
One of the more surprising materials used in its manufacture are fibres from pineapple leaves – and long strands of the leaves could soon also be used to make a host of other products, from trainers and clothes to bags and car upholstery. Called Piñatex - piña is Spanish for pineapple - the new material was created by Carmen Hijosa, who worked as a consultant in the Philippines leather goods industry in the 1990s. She was unimpressed with the standard of goods produced and started to look for alternatives. It was the strength and the fineness of the pineapple leaf fibres used in the Barong Tagalog that first alerted her that there was another option: "I was looking for an alternative to leather. Does 'Made in' matter? Fashion Week hits New York, but what about the industry's toll on workers and the environment? A few years ago I was sitting at a meeting discussing the state of "ethical fashion" with a group of very influential fashionistas.
One of them scornfully commented, scrunching up her Botox-injected face, "Oh, but this saving the planet thing is so worthy." It was as if, on Planet Fashion, "worthy" meant dull. Today, "worthy" is the new "decadent", and we're beginning to reimagine aspirational fashion in a completely new way, taking into consideration garment workers and environmental issues throughout the supply chain. We still want to look good, but we are also looking for a sense of meaningfulness that goes beyond our mirror. The power of a carefully chosen, sustainably made garment has never been more relevant. This isn't to say that saving the planet and having a social conscience are new concepts: they were alive and well last century, culminating in the 1960s peace and love ethos.
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Diplomats at UN agree set of rules to govern Paris climate accord after two weeks of talks
Officials from around the world have agreed upon a set of rules to govern the 2015 Paris climate accord after two weeks of UN talks in Poland.
Michal Kurtyka, a Polish official chairing the talks in Katowice, sealed the deal on Saturday after diplomats and ministers from almost 200 countries approved.
The UN talks were meant to provide firm guidelines for countries on how to transparently report their greenhouse gas emissions and their efforts to reduce them.
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30 September 2013
Iran: In from the Cold?
By Gwynne Dyer
When Iran's new president, Hassan Rouhani, came home from the United Nations General Assembly meeting last Friday, demonstrators at Tehran airport threw eggs, shoes and stones. They had heard about his 15-minute phone conversation with US President Barack Obama, and they were not pleased.
But there were many more Rouhani supporters at the airport, who clearly hoped that he will make a deal with the United States on Iran's nuclear programme and end the sanctions that are strangling the Iranian economy. "I believe we can reach a comprehensive solution," Rouhani's office tweeted after the famous phone call to Obama, and most Iranians want to believe him.
Most people elsewhere want to believe him too. We have had ten years of escalating threats by Israel and the US to attack Iran if it doesn't stop enriching uranium for its civil nuclear power programme, on the grounds that this is merely a cover for a nuclear weapons programme. And everybody understands that this could end up as a big, ugly war.
That's why Obama took the political risk of becoming the first US president in 34 years to talk to an Iranian leader. When he addressed the General Assembly in New York, he welcomed the "more moderate course" taken by President Rouhani, who took office in August. "The roadblocks may prove to be too great," Obama said, "but I firmly believe the diplomatic path must be tested."
Then the chief roadblock arrived: Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. He was flying to New York to "tell the truth in the face of the sweet talk and the blitz of smiles," he said – and when he mounted the podium at the General Assembly, he bluntly accused the new Iranian president of being "a wolf in sheep's clothing."
Nobody, not even the Israeli intelligence services, accuses Iran of working on nuclear weapons right now. The US Central Intelligence Agency flatly says that it is not. The accusation, by Israel, its Western supporters, and some of Iran's Arab neighbours, is that Tehran is building a (quite legal) uranium enrichment capability IN ORDER TO BE ABLE TO MAKE ACTUAL NUCLEAR WEAPONS AT SOME FUTURE TIME.
Iran denies any such intention, of course. "We say explicitly that we will be transparent; we say explicitly that we will not build a bomb," said Rouhani in New York. "No nation should possess nuclear weapons, since there are no right hands for these wrong weapons."
That last was a subtle slap at the hypocrisy of the United States and Israel, which have thousands and hundreds of nuclear weapons respectively, for threatening to attack another country because it is allegedly planning to build them in the future. But Rouhani is not demanding that Israel give up its nuclear weapons and sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. On the contrary, he implicitly accepts the status quo.
So why doesn't Netanyahu welcome the possibility that Iran now seems willing to negotiate a deal that would leave it free to make its own enriched nuclear fuel for reactors, but stop it from making highly enriched uranium suitable for weapons? By all means insist that any US-Iranian deal be enforceable and free of loopholes, but why say things like "Rouhani thinks he can have his yellowcake (enriched uranium) and eat it too"?
The ten-year confrontation over Iran's alleged nuclear weapons ambitions has served Netanyahu well. It has distracted the world's attention from the plight of the Palestinians in the occupied territories. It has also given him enormous leverage in Washington: much US policy in the Middle East is driven by the perceived need to keep Israel from launching a unilateral attack on Iran, which would be a catastrophe for American interests in the region.
But if Netanyahu truly believes that Iranian nuclear weapons would be an existential threat to Israel, why would he oppose negotiations that might put an end to that possibility? Exactly what would be lost by giving peace a chance?
What would be lost, if a lasting deal emerged from the negotiations being mooted between Tehran and Washington, is the ability of successive right-wing Israeli governments to extort unconditional American military support for Israel, no matter what it does, precisely because it allegedly faces an existential threat from Iran.
Since the Russian-sponsored deal over Syria's chemical weapons has similarly sidelined the prospect of an American attack on Syria (which Israel sees as its second most dangerous enemy), the foreign policy that has sustained Netanyahu for almost two decades is collapsing.
Without a plausible military threat to Israel – and where else could it come from, if not Iran or Syria? – his ability to bully successive American administrations into ignoring Israel's illegal settlements on occupied Palestinian land, its clandestine nuclear and chemical weapons, and much else besides, would slowly drain away. So Netanyahu will do everything he can to strangle the newborn possibility of an American-Iranian rapprochement in its cradle.
As the scenes at Tehran airport demonstrate, Rouhani also faces strong opposition at home from those whose political instincts or interests demand a continuation of the Iran-against-the-world confrontation that has already lasted for a generation. Rouhani's initiative has created a great deal of hope, but its enemies are already working to kill it.
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14 September 2010
The Millennium Goals
By Gwynne Dyer
"I've been rich and I've been poor. Rich is better." It may have been Ella Fitzgerald who first said that, or maybe it was Sophie Tucker. Doesn't matter. It's true, other things being equal – but "other things" are not equal.
On 20-22 September, while the United Nations General Assembly is holding its annual meeting in New York, most of the world's leaders will come together to review progress on the "Millennium Development Goals" that the UN adopted ten years ago. All the anti-poverty campaigners will claim that change has been too little and too slow, but actually it hasn't been bad at all.
Measured against the real state of the poorest countries in the late 20th century and not against some impossible dream of a perfect world, there have been major improvements in key areas like literacy, access to clean water and infant mortality. A great deal of the progress has been due to the efforts of the poor countries themselves, but there have been big changes in the behaviour of the rich countries too.
Back in the 60s, 70s and 80s, most aid to developing countries was driven by the competition for global influence in the Cold War – so when that confrontation suddenly ended in 1989-90, the rich countries' main motive for giving aid vanished. The 90s were a miserable time when the flow of aid virtually dried up, and the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) of 2000 were an attempt to re-focus global attention on the needs of the poor.
To a surprising extent, it worked. Aid flows have recovered, much poor-country debt has been forgiven, and there have been startling success stories like Tanzania, where the literacy rate has jumped from 52 percent to 98 percent since 1991.
Even more important than the aid was the fact that the great powers stopped backing rulers in the developing countries who oppressed and stole from their own people. Once those thugs had been important, because they kept their countries on the right side in the Cold War. Afterwards, the West didn't care whether they survived or not – and many of them didn't.
Better leadership and cleaner politics account for much of the improvement, especially in parts of Africa. Ghana, for example, has cut the rate of child malnutrition in half since 1990. Some MDG targets, like halving the number of people in the world without access to clean water by 2015, would be met even without the "High-Level Plenary Meeting" in New York this month that is intended to re-energise the process.
The greatest decline in poverty has been in China and India, home to over half of the very poor people in the world, where high economic growth rates rather than foreign aid have lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty. Hundreds of millions of others have been left behind, of course, but the glass is definitely half full, not half empty.
If the story ended there, it would be an uplifting tale. For thousands of years most people everywhere lived in dire poverty and ignorance. Then one group, the Europeans, discovered technologies and ways of doing things that made them unimaginably rich and powerful. They behaved very badly for a while, conquering everybody else in the world, but that is now over, and we can all look forward to a future of prosperity AND equality.
It sounds naive when you put it so baldly, but that is really the notion that lies behind things like the Millenium goals. It is certainly not an ignoble ambition, and ten years ago it seemed almost attainable. Today it seems much less so.
The problem is not the current economic slump. That is cutting into living standards in many places, but even if it lasts for years it is essentially a transient event. The real worm of doubt is the gradual realisation that seven billion human beings cannot all live the current lifestyle of the billion richest without causing an environmental and ecological catastrophe. It is inherently unsustainable.
Clean water, literacy and healthy children do no harm by themselves, but that is just a way-station on the path to a full "developed" style of life. We do not really imagine that the billions of poor should or will accept a permanent existence as healthier, more literate peasants who still live lightly upon the earth. They will demand the whole package, and it will be the ruination of us all.
Even one billion people consuming resources and producing pollution at the current rate may be unsustainable over a period of more than a generation or two. Seven or eight billion people living like that would be unsustainable even over a couple of decades: global warming and resource depletion would swiftly overwhelm our emerging global civilisation and its high aspirations.
Yet that is the road we have put ourselves on, because maintaining the gulf between the relatively few rich and the many poor is morally offensive and politically impossible. Rich really is better than poor, in the sense that people who are physically secure and have some freedom of choice in their lives are generally happier people. But we have to do a serious re-think about how we define the concept of rich.
To shorten to 725 words, omit paragraphs 6 and 7 ("Even…process").
April 13, 2003
Anarchy in the Streets
By Gwynne Dyer
Watching Iraq's cities dissolve into anarchy, many people wondered why the American and British soldiers didn't intervene to stop the looting and revenge-taking. Some assumed that this is what always happens when dictatorships fall. Others, however, were struck by how thin the civilised veneer of law and order really is.
The foreign troops didn't act because they were trained for combat, not for police work. They don't speak Arabic, and if they intervened on a large scale they would end up killing too many civilians. But this is NOT what automatically happens when dictatorships end.
There were no scenes like this in Manila after the overthrow of the dictator Marcos in 1986, or in East Germany after the Berlin Wall came down, or in Moscow when the Soviet regime collapsed, or in Belgrade after the overthrow of Slobodan Milosevic three years ago. But those were all non-violent democratic revolutions coming from within, whereas this is a foreign invasion that drove all the police off the streets.
The police are the heart of the matter, and the phenomenon has nothing to do with Iraq being an Arab country or a recent ex-dictatorship. No city is more than 48 hours away from violent anarchy. Consider two films that are making the rounds at the moment.
One is Martin Scorsese's 'The Gangs of New York', a vivid and meticulous recreation of the terrifying slum called the Five Points (where Foley Square is now) from the 1840s to the 1860s. The other is Fernando Meirelles's 'Cidade de Deus' (City of God), a jittery, hand-held pseudo-documentary chronicling gang life and death in Rio de Janeiro's teeming, ultra-violent Zona Norte from the 1970s to the 1990s. The two films could not be more different in style — but they are essentially the same film.
The arc of the stories is identical: twenty years in the life of the gangs, as youthful apprentices murder their way up the local power structure, enjoy their moment of glory, and are eventually deposed by the next lot of ruthless juvenile killers. What's curious, given that New York and Rio de Janeiro are cities of about the same age, is that the stories are set more than a hundred years apart. Rio didn't have gangs like that a hundred years ago, and New York City has not had them since. How come?
There were certainly criminals operating in Rio in the 19th century, and there are lots of organised criminal groups still operating in New York today. But what you didn't have in Rio then, and haven't had in New York for over a century, are large gangs of violent criminals, drawn from the poorest class, who openly control whole neighbourhoods, wage pitched battles against each other, and sortie out into the wealthier parts of the city to rob, terrorise, pillage and kill.
So what causes them? If you only watched 'Cidade de Deus' you might say it was drugs, for that is the main source of income for the gangs of Rio and the main cause for wars between them. But there was no drug trade of the same kind in New York in the 1840s, and the gangs thrived anyway.
Poverty, then? You need a critical mass of desperately poor people to get gangs of this sort, certainly, but why do we not see the same phenomenon in Mexico City, Cairo and Delhi, cities that have millions of desperately poor people? There is plenty of crime in those cities, but nothing to compare with brazen, lethal gangs of 1840s New York and present-day Rio.
The real answer is in the films themselves. A dominant theme in both 'Gangs of New York' and 'City of God' is the corruption of the police, who are in league with the gang bosses. The entire structure of city government, police force and gangs is one vast criminal conspiracy, and everybody thrives except the public. The key is the police: so long as they have a basic commitment to the preservation of law and order, anarchy and gang rule can be avoided. If they lack that commitment, or simply are not present on the streets, all hell breaks loose.
It's not that everybody is a potential criminal waiting for a chance to break loose, but such people do exist everywhere. In small societies, the discipline that keeps them under control comes from social pressure, backed by direct action when necessary. In societies so big that most people are strangers to one another, social discipline has to be backed up by a police force. It's as true for Boston and Bombay as it is for Baghdad: if the police stop doing their job, it's a matter of hours before the wicked and the desperate seize their opportunity. Anarchy is never that far away.
The chaos in Iraqi cities will subside in coming days as the occupying powers get the local police force back on the streets. Most of the looting could not have been prevented — but a curse upon the commander who ignored the pleas of archaeologists from all over the world and failed to guard the National Museum of Iraq from the looters. For the want of a dozen soldiers, tens of thousands of irreplaceable artefacts from the earliest human civilisations have been lost. In the broadest sense, that officer is guilty of a crime against all humanity.
To shorten to 725 words, omit paragraphs 8 and 9. ("So what…Rio")
24 September 1979
The Great Crash
By Gwynne Dyer
LONDON: The ideal capitalist enterprise, it was once suggested, would be a brothel over a five- minute carwash. But all the best ways of making one's capital multiply involve the owner no work at — like the stock market. What goes up must come down, however, and 50 years ago next month Welt Street came down with a crash that still reverberates in Western memory.
The Crash of 1929 inaugurated the grim decade of the Great Depression. In the United States, one quarter of the population was out of work by 1932. The gross National Product of the U.S. dropped by a third in four years, and it did not recover to its 1929 dollar value until 1941.
Much the same happened in Europe, although rearmament – and so recovery – came earlier. Nor was what we now call the Third World spared: Most of the world lost a full decade of economic growth.
Most historians also blame the Great Depression for Hitler's rise to power in Germany and for Japan's desperate grab for an economically self-sufficient empire in East Asia. On that reckoning, the Crash of 1929 also led eventually to the Second World War, – and so to the end of the European empires, the Soviet conquest of half of Europe and the Communist victory in China.
Somehow it all seems much too large a result from the mere fact that the average value of industrial shares on the New York Stock Exchange declined by half between mid-September and mid-November of 1929.
That is why the popular memory has embroidered and dramatized the events of late 1929. 'Everyone' in America was caught up in the speculative fever, we are told, and everyone lost their shirts when the crash came. The crash was supposed to have happened on a single day – most often called 'Black Friday,' October 24th – by the end of which ruined speculators were raining onto the sidewalks of New York in formation suicide leaps.
The facts, as usual, are rather different. The total number of customers on all American stock exchanges in 1929 was only 1.5 million in a United States population which was then 120 mIllion. The panic of 'Black Friday' was over by the afternoon, and the market closed for the day only 12 points down. The suicide rate in New York in the autumn months of 1929 was no higher than normal.
And yet the slow-motion Crash of 1929, beginning with a slight downward movement in stock values September 5 and accelerating into a sickening slide in late October, really did cause the Great Depression. The reason was that it came at the end of one of those mercifully rare bouts of specutative lunacy which leave hang-overs of historic proportions.
The major economic advantage of the capitalist system – renamed free enterprise for propaganda reasons during the Cold. War – over the various models of centrally planned economies is its greater flexibility. But the flexibility comes from tens and hundreds of thousands of companies and individuals making independent decisions, which naturally also means unpredictability.
And unpredictability inevitably brings speculation. Each individual's business decisions depend on his estimate of what all the other individuals, and so the economy as a whole, will decideto do. The business cycle is basically a product of collective psychology, and the stock market is its most sensitive barometer.
Normally the collective expectations of economic growth or recession move within quite narrow and rational limits, and so does the stock market. But once in a great while people will be seized by the belief that the expansion of the economy (or more precisely, the rise in the stock market prices) will be rapid, continuous and unlimited., In fact, only the most naive believe this literally. Insiders know that the rise in stock values must end some time, and plan to, sell out just before that moment. But since the whole momentum of the expansion is psychological, they must not give any hint by word or deed that they think this will ever happen for fear of breaking the spell and precipitating the collapse.
When such a speculative fever hits the market (for reasons that would be best understood by lemmings), speculators will buy any stock, at any price – usually with a great deal of borrowed money (on margin) – in the belief that they will be able to sell it again in a few weeks or months at a far higher price. The true worth of a particular stock, or even what kind of enterprise it represents, entirely ceases to matter.
Just before the first great crash of modern history, the South Sea Bubble of 1720, speculators willingly poured their money into, amongst other curiosities, a promotion 'For an Undettaking which shall in due Time be revealed.' The same get-rich quick psychology had taken over in1929, with expectations of infinite rises in stock prices. When the collapse came, as it eventually had to, the disillusionment was correspondingly deep and long lasting.
The higher you rise, the farther you fall. By November 13, 1929, the prices of industrial stocks had fallen by half. There followed a brief recovery, but the decline then continued relentlessly until June, 1932, by which time the prices were on average only one-eighth of their value three years before. And it was the psychological hang-over of the Crash – the ever more deeply entrenched belief that things would go on getting worse – that made the Great Depression so deep and so long.
Could it ever happen again? The human capacity to suspend disbelief under the goad of greed has certainly not diminished, as witness the ever green schemes for chain letters and pyramid selling. Stock markets are more closely regulated nowadays but that did not prevent utterly implausible but hugely successful promotions like Bernie Cornfeld s Investors Overseas Services (Do you sincerely want to be rich? ) in the late 1960s.
The, main deterrent to another round of lunatic speculation like that before the Great Crash of 1929 is the memory of that event. In the present pessimistic economic climate it could not possibly happen. But some day the economic prospects may seem rosy again, and memory fades.
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In this article I want to explain to you how to use the Tarot to help in understanding illness. This is something you can do for yourself personally. (If you are a professional reader you need to be aware of your code of ethics when talking to someone else about their health.)
If you have a physical or psychological disorder it is possible to go deep within and talk directly with it, using the Tarot cards as a medium. Whether it is a simple rash, psoriasis, arthritis, or cancer – your health condition has a voice if you give it one!
Here is a Tarot technique I use to help clients in understanding their illness. Try it with yourself.
Make sure you have a quiet space where you will not be disturbed…
Shuffle your Tarot cards.
For each question only pull one card. Write in your journal what you feel it means for you in this moment. How does this card answer your questions. Then put the card back into the pack and shuffle for the next question. Repeat this process until you have answered the four questions below.
If you get a Major Arcana card the question and answer are extra important and please pay extra attention to them. Major Arcana cards are archetypal in their energies and usually explain deeper causes and triggers.
Here are the four questions:
Why did you enter my body?
What do you want from me?
What can I learn from you?
What changes do I have to make – no matter how radical?
Next put down the Tarot cards and place your hands on the affected area (in the case of psychological difficulties place hands on the head) and imagine heat coming from the ground and light coming from the sky, through your body into your hands and onto the chosen area. Decide what form of love is most suitable (e.g. healing, compassion, nurturing, etc) and channel this into the area. Do this for as long as possible and then rest.
This healing hands energy is something you can do as often as you want, anytime, anywhere. By believing you are connected to the energy of the earth and the creator the process should be easy and straightforward. You may have emotions arise when you do this exercise. See it as a way to process what has been kept inside.
The real work then begins.
With the knowledge you received from the Tarot cards in understanding your illness, create a story line of your illness and all the ways it affects your life.
Create a drama, a picture or painting – put it out into reality.
You want to understand the illness from its own perspective (strange as it may sound) and thus slowly take power away from it and back into your own hands. Then either decide to try and heal yourself alone or else ask for help. If the illness is serious I do not recommend going it alone.
Of course never use Tarot as a substitute for medical help. The Tarot is a guide, just like a best friend is. Tarot cannot perform surgery and either can your best friend (unless of course they are a surgeon!).
There are many methods of releasing stored energy and no doubt you will find the one that suits your own personal requirements whether it be guided visualization, ritual, breath, re birthing, bodywork, drama, art, counselling, flower essences, emotional Herbalism, Naturopathy or Homeopathy.
Processing the information may be painful but once released leads to more questions being asked to the Tarot, such as:
Who am I?
What do I really want in my life?
What is my purpose for existing?
How can I bring more love into my life?
Tarot has so much to offer on so many levels and as you can see, can be applied to most situations in life.
If you feel the above process is too deep or scary to do alone, find a professional therapist or Professional Tarot reader who uses therapeutic Tarot who can work with you.
I hope you find healing and information in this article. I have used this process many times with my clients and it is very healing and revealing.


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A single Last Dose of Flower Power On Holiday
Here's a new nail art design guide. I'm providing you a vibrant as well as gleaming design despite the fact that wintertime is beginning to obtain below approach. If the customers are in the least just like me, they are going to need to enjoy each final minute of sunshine prior to a center of winter takes hold. That layout characteristics refreshing colours that can leap out at them as well as hot their hearts.
We will be utilising polymer colors within this tutorial, so with regard to corporation as well as effectiveness I will advice that you utilize a color colour scheme. This will assist to settle arranged and moreover could make clean-up less difficult afterwards. Currently, let us force out a tiny area of green polymer color upon the pallet.
Right now wring out some yellow color into one more a part of the palette. You'll need about double yellow as green, so prepare appropriately, remember any time all is alleged and also done you may not require very much of EITHER color. So never wring out much more than you really require.
Okay. Since we've the colour scenario determined, we could begin working within the nails on their own! Step one should be to include a smaller component of the nail surface that has a little bit of yellow acrylic used that has a gentle nail art clash.
With no hesitating, go to apply a layer of green color on the yellow layer. You don't have to make use of greater than a individually layer of green as you would like to permit the yellow showing to develop a nice gentle green colour.
Utilize them and achieve accomplished this particular fundamental tone, apply a different layer of green towards fringe of the nail so that you can possess a group of ranked colours shifting through yellow, to light green, to green. Abandon this for just two minutes roughly to ironic.
In the event the patters is dry, utilize a black liner to get started painting several tiny flowers above your design.
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Color involving 2 and 4 flowers on every nail, ensuring that include them as seem organic as well as unequal.
To present your style a elaborate quality, you can contribute basic circles from the space between your flowers.
Whenever you hold the flowers constantly in place, utilize a dotting instrument to put tiny uneven yellow polymerdots all all through the style.
Are now using a similar dotting device to feature golden centers for your flowers going for a vibrant glitter loaded look. If you wish, you may use Swarovski crystals or rhinestones in this particular stage alternatively.
Ultimately, fetch up your style that has a coating of top coat.
That's the idea! Currently your customers possess a smart and also enjoyable style to embellish up these dim winter days. Since an option, should you prefer a more specific appearing style, use the Konad way to accomplish properly shaped flowers in a very more stylish appearing configuration.
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- LKD said...
I leaned in close to read the words and felt....let down. I can't exactly say why. Still, I liked that feeling of anticipation, the leaning in of it. Reminded me of that oft-told story about how Lennon first met Ono in that gallery. He climbed up a white ladder, all the way to the top and peered at the tiny word on the ceiling: Yes. I love that story. And I love art that makes me work a little, makes me lean into it. Makes me want.
I wrote a poem for this. At the rate I'm going, I could write a book of poems based solely on your collages, Scott. (which brings to mind one of my favorite songs: If they asked me, I could write a book about the way you walk and whisper and look; I could write the preface of how we met so the world would never forget...)
Thanks for inspiring me always. Your images, even when they leave me wanting, always stir me.
Oh, and the reason I felt ever so slightly disappointed by the actual words on the shack is because, thanks to my allergy-blurred vision, I'd misread, or misanticipated them as: Missing you.
(unrelated question: does the word verification thingy in your comment box prevent spame? if so, where do get one of these thingies?)
- tearful dishwasher said...
Hey Laurel-
No fair. You're only supposed to be wowed by my work!
Well, sorry you didn't really like the text. But I do, so you're stuck with it.
The word verification thingy DOES stop spam. Go into your settings, and just turn on "Word Verification" under "comments" and you'll be good to go. It's a tiny pain in the ass, but it's better than wading through spam any day.
Thanks for dropping by. I'll go check your poem out.
- LKD said...
I never said I wasn't wowed. And my feeling of being let down by the text was more my personal reaction to it which counts for nothing. I mean, seriously, more often than not, I want what can't be gotten from any poem or novel I read or piece of art I see and so on. I don't know that it's the art or artist's duty to fulfill my specfic wants and needs, is it?
Oh, this makes no sense. Nevermind.
Nevertheless, I don't recall ever saying I wasn't wowed.
- tearful dishwasher said...
Hey Girl-
I think you should go follow my directions. Hope your wasp stings are feeling better soon.


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Here's something I'll bet that you didn't know but that Justin Lin's Annapolis will tell you. The point of attending the United States Naval Academy -- at least if you are a blue collar kid from the wrong side of the river (not the Severn but the Delaware, by the way) and employed in the local ship-building industry -- is to find yourself a pretty midshipwoman, get her to teach you all she knows about boxing, and then climb into the ring with the Academy's heavyweight champ so as to win you a place in the elite company of midshipmen. Oh, and by the way, you may from time to time have to put up with some sort of educational activity in the intervals between boxing matches.
Welcome, once again, to Hollywood's bizarro world. Just think of all it has taught us that we wouldn't otherwise know -- for example, that the Vietnam War made the impact that it did on American POWs because they were forced to play Russian roulette with their captors or that Pearl Harbor, nasty as it was for the American armed forces, at least had the virtue of sparing Kate Beckinsale the embarrassment of having two boyfriends at once. More recently, we have learned from the movies that the English settlement of North America was chiefly notable because it coincided with Captain John Smith's mid-life crisis and that the man charged with avenging the terrorist atrocity at Munich in 1972 retired from the Israeli secret service to take up moralizing.
It's all a matter of proportion, isn't it? And the fact that Hollywood so regularly gets the proportions wrong tells you something about the culture that I hope I am not alone in finding disturbing. Back in the 1980s, the advertising folks in charge of Army recruiting came up with the supremely silly slogan, perhaps pitched at the teenage audience for superhero comic books, "An Army of One." I can't remember whether it preceded or followed the almost equally silly one inviting would-be soldiers to "Be All You Can Be." They still use both, I believe, which must mean that there is a certain potency, a certain resonance to the idea of reconciling the philosophical individualism of the American teenager with traditional ideas of military honor.
There is also probably some resonance to the ideas of perpetual motion, thinking and growing rich and squaring the circle.
In theory, the former ship-builder and amateur boxer Jake Huard (James Franco) goes to the Naval Academy to serve his country, but as that ambition appears to have zero cinematical interest, Mr. Lin and his screenwriter, David Collard, don't bother to show him serving his country but only boxing, and displaying his determination to be all he can be as a boxer. Perhaps because most of us have seen a boxing movie before -- and because there is a certain sameness to boxing movies -- the usual formula is varied by the elimination of the crusty old trainer and his replacement by the pretty and shyly devoted girlfriend (Jordana Brewster). After all, Annapolis and the Navy itself have already been co-ed for a generation.
Anyway, Mr. Franco is just as pretty. Fresh from his soulful Tristan, he is here a soulful Jake who is suffering from the deprived, working-class background in which he grew up. He tells us that he has been told all his life -- and his hypercritical dad (Brian Goodman) is there to prove it -- that he's not good enough. Piffle! Does Hollywood think we can't recognize a golden boy when we see one? Here's a guy who can't even begin to persuade us that he hasn't been told all his life just the opposite. But remember, it's Hollywood bizarro world, where Naval Academy plebes say things like: "I know we're four guys in a shower, but can we keep the testosterone to a minimum?"
It should be obvious by now that any resemblance to an actual institution in Maryland is purely coincidental.
James Bowman is a resident scholar at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, media essayist for the New Criterion, and The American Spectator's movie critic.
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