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I don't like Halloween. I don't like scary stories, I think leaves that fall of the tree are super annoying (try cleaning them up) and it rains - a lot. However, to get into the spirit of Halloween (and to justify my obsession with Pumpkin Spice Latte) I wanted to read a Halloween book this year and started with what perhaps is the most traditional of all: Dracula by Bram Stoker. As this is also a classic, I'll use the Classics Challenge questions to discuss everything that you need to know about Dracula! As always, this challenge is created by the wonderful Pretty Books.
Again, this is one of those classics that I always knew. I mean, vampires are everywhere in popular culture and pretty early on, I discovered it all started with one named Dracula. Did I realise it was a book instead of a movie? Not for years, but once I did, it definitely became a book that I was dying to read.
Dracula. The fact that Bram Stoker was one of the first to put down on paper what we consider today as the stereotypical vampire is what makes this book a classic. We are still fascinated by the idea of vampires and so much credit is due to this book and the rich world of fantasy that it created.
There's no denying the impact this classic has had on the literary world and how it has influenced so many other stories - with no genre, besides horror, as indebted to this book as YA. I can definitely appreciate the sheer genius creativity of Bram Stoker. Though it might now read as something overdone, to imagine that he was one of the first to put down the idea of the vampire on paper is amazing. When considering that this is the same timeframe as The Curious Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, it is clear to see how much appeal this story must have had to contemporaries and yet still fascinates us today. This is writing at its best; to appeal to a wide audience for a long range of time.
However, I wasn't absolutely crazy about it. I found that the plot was excellent and build up in a way that is still exciting for readers today - even if you might already know how it ends. I enjoyed the use of newspaper clippings and diary entries from several characters as a way to tell the story, but I just wasn't invested enough. I felt at times, certain story lines drew on too long. I get the idea of showing the effect of Dracula on different people, but having so many characters, each with their own unique voice, made it hard to relate to one single character. This is a personal preference, but when I can't relate with one character, I start to lose interest in the story.
This is what happened with Dracula - I loved the idea of it way more than the story and kinda wish the plot was simpler, even though Bram Stoker's amazing writing means he was able to execute it excellently. It was just too much for me.
Dracula is a tricky one for this question. On the one hand, it has had such an influence on our culture that it's hard to imagine that it won't be a classic. On the other hand, those other cultural products (books, films, musicals,...) have had such an impact on our society that the original Dracula story tends to fade a little bit. I can see that it's being used by many modern creative people, but if they really appreciate the story on their own, without the context? I'm not so sure. I think the topic of Dracula will always remain a classic, but in my opinion, Bram Stoker's storytelling won't be.
This is a Halloween book, so you need to be able to handle creepy stuff. This is not scary as modern day horror movies are, but it will definitely get under your skin and give you a mini heart attack every time you hear something beat on your window. Added to that, the book also drags on a little bit in my opinion so I'd suggest it to someone who loves well-drawn plots and attention to small details.


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Gandhi on Palestine [excerpt]
"What is going on in Palestine now cannot be justified by any moral code of conduct…"
"Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French. It is wrong and in-human to impose the Jews on the Arabs. What is going on in Palestine today cannot be justified by any moral code of conduct. The mandates have no sanction but that of the last war. Surely it would be a crime against humanity to reduce the proud Arabs so that Palestine can be restored to the Jews partly or wholly as their national home. The nobler course would be to insist on a just treatment of the Jews wherever they are born and bred. The Jews born in France are French in precisely the same sense that Christians born in France are French. If the Jews have no home but Palestine, will they relish the idea of being forced to leave the other parts of the world in which they are settled? Or do they want a double home where they can remain at will? This cry for the national home affords a colourable justification for the German expulsion of the Jews…..And now a word to the Jews in Palestine. I have no doubt that they are going about it the wrong way. The Palestine of the Biblical conception is not a geographical tract. It is in their hearts. But if they must look to the Palestine of geography as their national home, it is wrong to enter it under the shadow of the British gun. A religious act cannot be performed with the aid of the bayonet or the bomb. They can settle in Palestine only by the goodwill of the Arabs…." Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi (November 1938)
Complete Text (Gandhi shows compassion for both Jews and Palestinians and desires for justice and human rights for all)
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Palestine: Remembering Murdered Italian Activist Vittorio Arrigoni · Global Voices
A DOCTOR IN GALILEE: April is the Cruelest Month
A DOCTOR IN GALILEE: Tearful April Mornings.
Once the muezzin's morning competition in praising God is over calm returns except for the melodious singing of blackbirds in my garden. By then I have prepared my morning cup of coffee and switched my computer on. I start with a quick glance at my email inbox for any special messages, loaf around cyberspace for a few minutes, and then proceed with the morning's writing assignment for the next few hours.
On Saturday, April, 09, 2011 I connected to The Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice to check if the website had acknowledged the piece of bitter sarcasm I had just added on my blog about the last two sessions of the Corries' court case against the State of Israel. Bam! Rachel's glorious smile went right through to my heart. I was devastated. How could I have such emotional crush, fatherly as it was, on a young woman I never met in person? I craved for a hug from that beautiful woman to quench my longing for her. It was two months since the last time I had held Rhoda, my daughter, in my arms. I leaned back in my chair and closed my eyes. Here was Rhoda being run over by the blade of that D-9 Caterpillar. Oh, my God! How can they do that to my sweetheart? I held Rachel closer to my heart to protect her from the biblical cruelty she sacrificed herself to protect other humans from. I squeezed hard and broke out crying. I was afraid I might wake my wife. I gulped silently for air and let my tears flow quietly down my unshaven face. What kind of man was I? I had to take control of myself. I gave Rhoda a tight hug and kissed Rachel on the cheek before I opened my eyes and walked over to the washbasin to splash some cold water on my face. I refilled my coffee cup, went back to my computer and wrote a couple of emotional pages in my novel about Galilee, Palestine and Israel.
After a breakfast of fresh citrus fruits and fried eggs from my two surviving free-range chickens I puttered around in the garden for a while. By now I felt exhausted. I took a rest. [How did He manage to slug at it for six days straight before taking a rest? Perhaps He didn't have much on His mind. Bad thoughts are more exhausting than ditch digging; take it from one who practices both regularly. It must have been before the Internet and all its disturbing tidings.] Soon I was up again with my laptop. I saw another video, this one posted by Kate on Mondoweiss, the online periodical that proclaims itself as the locus for "The war of ideas in the Middle East" and hence the place where I occasionally give expression to my frustration and bitter protesting. April 9th is the memorial day of the Deir Yassin massacre. [He simply couldn't have seen this video and kept quiet. Please, don't be upset with me. I am giving Him the benefit of the Doubt. After all, He must have slept on the job and didn't see the actual event in 1948, just as he did earlier when the holocaust was in progress. But at least, later on, when He found out about the holocaust He tried to do something about it; He compensated His favorite children politically and financially. Never mind that He screwed us, the Palestinians, in the process.] Here is the link for it should you want to rid your body of excess salt and accumulated fluid. I for one cried my eyes out: http://mondoweiss.net/2011/04/63rd-anniversary-of-the-deir-yassin-massacre.html
The over-half-an-hour-long video opens and ends with the saddest o'ud music. In between it maintains a balance between Arab and Jewish narrators and covers a range of relevant information, from the three existing Deir Yassin memorials in New York, Scotland, and Wales to the orphanage and school established by the grand Palestinian philanthropist, Hind el-Hussainy for Deir Yassin's children. In an entry in her diary she specifies 138 Palestinian liras as her total savings at the time. But she had the goodwill and the moral reserve to make a go of it after she found the 55 lost children let loose by the Irgun and the Stern gangs at Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem.
I am pleased that Hiam Hussein, the proud daughter of the neighboring Galilee Palestinian village of Deir Hanna, has done Hind justice in playing her role in Julian Schnabel's controversial new film, Miral. It is a film based on the autobiographical novel by the same name written by his girlfriend and former Dar el-Tifl el-Arabi resident, Rula Jebreal, another proud Palestinian with local roots, Haifa to be exact. Also I noted with displeasure that the video producers gave no credit to my own brother, Prof. Sharif Kanaana of Beir Zeit University, to the best of my knowledge the first researcher to document the actual number of Deir Yassin Palestinian residents murdered by the Zionist armed gangs and the Haganah and to stipulate that the numbers previously quoted were inflated by both sides of the conflict for their own convenient ends: by the crime perpetrators to sow panic among Palestinians and by the victims to maximize the blame for the crime.
Mind you, I am beating around the bush here. I am speaking of tangential issues to avoid crying again: The mere sight of the serene stone homes, now housing the Givat Shaul Mental Health Center, released a flood of tears. When I got to the part where a former Deir Yassin resident, likely the wife, the daughter and the sister of the village's stonecutters of old and the descendent of seven centuries worth of stonecutting toil and sweat, was aided to walk next to her villages current barbwire perimeter and she reached to touch a tree branch to her face, I nearly collapsed stifling my urge to sob and to scream out my pain.
The next morning, Sunday, April 10, I rose before the muezzins. By the time the village regained its morning quiet I was scouting the Internet for fresh news. A mailing from a friend contained a title that piqued my curiosity: "Juliano Mer Khamis Predicted His Assassination," it said. I clicked and followed the link to a half-minute long English language You Tube video that said it all exactly as it would actually happen to him. Here is that link. See for yourself what raw courage is. For some ten minutes I shook with silent tears of outrage and disappointment. How could someone be so stupidly misguided? And to kill such an enlightened bright promise presumably in the name of Islam! Seven guys in Arrabeh alone had just finished noisily shouting the praises of God's mercy and justice to be totally discredited by the bullet of a "fucked-up Palestinian" as Juliano had put it! . And the guy is not only insightful. He is a good actor; you can see it even in the half-minute video. And his blonde wife is reportedly pregnant with twins. Oh God! Now I am sobbing for the orphaned unborn twins.
That indeed was the ultimate conspiracy. Juliano was literally the embodiment of integration and understanding, himself the product of interracial love and idealism. I had met his parents, the Russian Jewess Arna and the Christian Palestinian Saliba, both protesting commitment to higher ideals of revolutionary justice, humanitarianism, and internationalism, all under their communist convictions before that pipedream turned sour. And I had met Juliano on more than one occasion. I remember him informing an audience in New York that, as a parachute trooper in the IDF before he discovered peaceful resistance, he took it for granted to carry an extra handgun in his backpack to plant on any civilian Palestinian he may kill. He was an acquaintance, not close enough for me to claim him as a friend. Now I was crying for having failed to open my heart wider for this former soldier, this brave comrade in the struggle for freedom, justice and equality.
The weekend before his senseless murder my wife and I had planned to travel to Jenin to see his adaptation of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland performed at the Freedom Theater, his life's unique project and answer the world's barbarity, to occupation and to apartheid. Alas, a friend dissuaded us from taking the trip with the explanation that on Saturdays it would take several hours to clear the checkpoint at the border. There were that many Palestinian shoppers from Galilee making the trip on their day off to take advantage of the cheaper prices in the depressed economy of the Palestinian Occupied Territories. Now I was crying for the poor Palestinian brothers and sisters who toil endless hours to wind up with worthless produce, not intrinsically worthless but rendered so by the imposed boundaries and regulations. That was what Juliano tried to tear down. Why didn't I bother to know him more closely? Why had I never hugged him or kissed his handsome face? I had to hear him posthumously on You Tube to fall in love with him! What a rotten deal we both have had.
Saturday, the 16th of April I slept late. The night before I had stayed up past midnight at a nephew's wedding celebration. Juliano would have felt at home at the banquet hall: a mix of village locals and communists from across the land, Arabs and Jews. The groom is one. My sister, mother of the groom, had spent the better part of a week dancing the local feminine style, alternatively clapping her hands and twirling them over her head. Finally her rheumatism kicked in and her wrist swelled up with an acute flare of inflammation. We call that "repetitive motion injury." Doctors are striking. I had to rush over at three in the morning to put her arm in a splint and give her a painkiller. Was she crying in physical pain or for her last gosling abandoning the nest?
By sunrise I was up but not fully alert, still dazed and in a contemplative mood. A dove was romancing another on the red bougainvillea bough sweeping across the full width of my view through the window of my study. I opened the window to hear their melodic chatter. An announcement on the mosque's loudspeaker lamented the death of a young man in another car accident. It ruined my joyous repose and I decided to check the news. Quickly I reached http://mondoweiss.net/2011/04/gaza-mourns-vittorio-arrigoni.html/ Another stab in the heart of solidarity, freedom and moderation. I read and reread all the standard platitudes: "One of the most passionate supporters of justice for Palestine." "Full of the joy of life." "The man with the big smile and gentle nature." I never met Vittorio Arrigoni, but he had a cause: "Stay Human," he was known to admonish all concerned. Why would anyone kill such a refreshing soul? And why the torture and willful cruelty?. Who stands to gain from this or from the murder of Juliano Mer Khamis? Or from the murder of the settler family in the outpost next to Awarta in the occupied West Bank for that matter? Not who the press reports say it is, I am sure. Check with me in fifty years when the secret documents are released and I will score another I-told-you-so point, I am sure. Or else join me in signing the appeal to keep the Wikileaks founder free.
I run the video, a collection of photos of the Italian freedom fighter set to music: He is handsome, muscular and imposing with a disarming smile and a big tattoo. Just like my son, Ty, nearly of the same age. I haven't seen my boy for four months. What keeps me away from him and his kids, God damn it? Then I reach Carlo Latuff's cartoon portrait of Vik holding the hand of Hanthala, Naji El-Ali's immortal symbol of Palestinian diaspora, dispossession, resistance and survival against all odds. The floodgates open again and I cry my eyes out, not only for Vik but also for Hanthala who lost another friend and protector and for all those among us who have not learned to heed those two friends' admonition to "Stay Human."
I wanted a fruit. I headed to the citrus side of my garden. On the way I walked over with the key and opened the cage for my dozen new chickens. I had learned a lesson: Freedom may cost a chicken its life. Only in the security of the full light of day can my chickens be safe from the murderous mongooses. I rummaged through the navel orange branches for the last fruits of the season. The perfumed scent of the flowers was overwhelmingly pleasant. Still, picking the very last orange of the season on my tree saddened me. Unexpectedly, the pleasure of admiring my citrus trees in full bloom in the rays of the rising sun evoked sadness in my heart. And my flowering apple trees and ripening kumquats and all the red poppies underneath them. How long will I have the pleasure of connecting to my chickens and trees and to the poppies in my field? Avigdor Lieberman and his fascist followers claim them as their sacred property. After all, geographically, I live in Israel and he thinks it is his exclusive property: "Israel Beitainu –Israel is our home," he proclaims victoriously.
How many times must I repeat: "Stay Human!"
"Shanti, Shanti, Shanti."
Racism, Corruption and the Class Struggle in Arizona
From Kasama
"Corruption, elite domination, and white favoritism are the most important factors in understanding Arizona's strange political history, including this latest episode. But class struggle against it is key to understanding why the nation's strangest state may soon be in the vanguard of struggles for real freedom. Those involved in such struggles stand like saguaros in this beautiful state, even as the snakes and scorpions scurry about us."
Thanks to Jed for pointing out this essay. The piece first appeared on Facebook.
Corruption and Class Struggle:
What It's Like to Live in Arizona Right Now
By Joel Olson
With the passage of the notorious anti-immigrant bill SB 1070 last spring, the outlawing of ethnic studies as of January 1, the gutting of the school and university systems, the collapsed housing market, the high unemployment rates, and now the shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, you might be wondering what it's like to live in Arizona right about now.
It ain't easy.
But it helps to put Giffords's shooting in historical perspective, which is defined by two things in Arizona: corruption and class struggle. And ironically, this perspective gives me hope about the radically democratic future of my home state.
Arizona's economy was founded on the "Five C's:" copper, cotton, cattle, citrus, and climate (tourism). These C's were controlled by big mining and agricultural interests and real estate developers. Corruption was commonplace as they manipulated the political system for their benefit.
A group of these capitalists, called the Phoenix 40, controlled state politics until the 1970s, when the political establishment opened up some. But even after their rule, the state capitol has always been a place to lie, bribe, and scam your way to what you want. If the names Don Bowles, Evan Mecham, AZ scam, Fife Symington, or the Keating 5 (which included Senator John McCain) mean anything to you, then you know that corruption is as plentiful as the parking here. And I haven't even mentioned Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio or State Senator Russell Pearce, the tweedle-dee and tweedle-dum of racist nativism.*
SB 1070 and Giffords's shooting, in other words, are but the latest of a storied history of corrupt cowboy capitalism.
Such tomfoolery is part of the class struggle in the Grand Canyon State. Three classes matter in Arizona: elites, the white middle class, and the working class. The elites come mainly from the agriculture/mining, tourism, and construction/real estate sectors (with an emerging tech sector). They are the masters of the corruption I described. But in a system of majority rule, elites need a junior partner to dominate. This is where the white middle class steps in.
The white middle class is the engine of suburban development here. The new housing developments, strip malls, and big box stores that pop up almost daily (until the recession, at least) are built for and fueled by this class. Many in this class run small businesses related to the main sectors of the economy, such as ranching, construction, landscaping, and pool maintenance. Many are retirees who used to manage businesses in other states. This small business atmosphere contributes to the libertarian, Barry Goldwater-style political culture of the state.
For years, this relationship has been mutually beneficial. While legal segregation never took deep root in this state (most of Arizona's explosive growth took place after Brown v. Board of Education was decided in 1954), unofficial practices have kept many neighborhoods and schools comfortably white for decades, and the best jobs have been traditionally denied to Chicanos and Natives. (With a Black population of just three percent, the racially "out" groups in this state have historically been Chicanos, Mexicans, and indigenous peoples.) Politicians have successfully tied these practices to the laissez-faire economic policies of the elites, giving whites the sense that their success is due strictly to their own work ethic rather than being facilitated by white privilege. As a result, many white middle and working class Arizonans identify with the success—and conservative politics—of the elites.
This collusion has created an anything-goes capitalism mixed with a suburban consciousness. Call my state the Wild West or suburban hell—they're both accurate to a large degree.
But the partnership has been fraying in the last two decades. Pressures to diversify corporations, universities, and governments have led elites to support various multicultural initiatives, which middle class whites resent. (Arizona voters in November voted to outlaw affirmative action by a wide margin.) The state's Latino population has outpaced white growth, and the state is now nearly one-third Latino. Areas that were once comfortably white now have Spanish-language business signs. More and more schoolchildren have brown faces—even in the "good" schools. Cars roll down formerly white streets bumping music whose percussion comes from a tuba.
Further, middle class whites increasingly see elites in collusion with the Brown working classes rather than them. They have reasons for believing this. Agriculture, construction, and tourism all depend on a highly exploitable, low-paid working class, which makes migrant labor desirable. Undocumented labor makes up 27% of all construction workers, 60% of agricultural workers, 25% of restaurants workers, and 51% of all landscaping workers in Arizona. This sets small business interests—who usually can't take advantage of such labor—into a tizzy. It sets off many other middle and working class whites as well, who feel that "they" are stealing "our" jobs. This is the political power behind SB 1070—a law that Arizona's elites largely oppose.
The frayed alliance between these two classes has created the political mess this state is in today. It is the story behind SB 1070, HB2281 (the anti-ethnic studies law), the elimination of affirmative action, the attack on the public education system, the attack on public workers for enjoying "Cadillac" pension plans, and Giffords's shooting. The alleged shooter, Jared Loughner, is not only of the white middle/working class, his addled mind is a gross exaggeration of its contradictions and confusions. Of course Loughner is probably crazy, but his mental health—and even his ideology—are not the point. What matters is that the conflict over this frayed class alliance—and all the political vitriol it has generated by Tea Partiers and others—pointed his illness toward Gabrielle Giffords.
In the face of this mess, it is the working class—largely Brown, largely poor, largely poorly educated, largely ignored—that represents the best hope to build a new Arizona within the corrupted shell of the old. Exploited by the elite, despised by many whites, and largely shut out of the political system, this class has had to make its own way through the state's crazy political landscape.
With a weak Democratic Party, a labor movement crippled by "right to work" laws, a small civil rights contingent, few political nonprofits, and almost no organized left, Arizona's working class is turning to grassroots democracy, operating outside the "official" political channels and fearlessly making political demands that challenge the pillars of laissez-faire capitalism itself. This path they are carving is quite possibly a model for working class struggles throughout the nation.
Take the grassroots fight against SB 1070, for example. The Tierra y Libertad Organization in Tucson has been a leader in opposing SB 1070. But it is also creating a new model of democracy. Declining to become a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, they raise funds through the community, which they use support their struggle for the self-determination of its base communities. In Phoenix, Puente has organized the major immigrant rights demonstrations in Arizona, but they are also organizing neighborhood meetings throughout the Valley of the Sun. In Phoenix and Flagstaff, the Repeal Coalition (I'm a member of this group) demands that all persons in a global economy be free to live, love, and work wherever they please, and they demand that ordinary people have a full say in those affairs that affect their daily lives. The undocumented workers, moms, and college students who make up the group don't seem to worry that these demands are deeply radical and disrupt the very functioning of Arizona politics as it currently operates. These groups work with others, such as Border Action Network, No More Deaths, and Arizona Interfaith, that are organized in a traditional nonprofit format but nevertheless encourage face-to-face democracy and are courageously fighting 1070 and myriad other evils.
These working-class struggles suggest a new Arizona. They suggest a world in which working people decide the fate of the community, not the rich. They suggest a world in which democracy rather than white privilege decides how to allocate resources. They suggest a world in which borders are tools of the bosses rather than walls that "defend sovereignty" or "prevent terrorism."
This class will not win for a while. The elites and the white middle classes are yet too powerful. This coming year, Arizona politicians will gut the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of birthright citizenship, defund public education until it barely operates, and do many more stupid things. But as elites and the white middle class continue to bicker, the Arizona working class continues to learn lessons, develop leadership, practice grassroots democracy, and make demands that seem "unreasonable" today but might tomorrow become as obvious as the multiplication table.
Corruption, elite domination, and white favoritism are the most important factors in understanding Arizona's strange political history, including this latest episode. But class struggle against it is key to understanding why the nation's strangest state may soon be in the vanguard of struggles for real freedom. Those involved in such struggles stand like saguaros in this beautiful state, even as the snakes and scorpions scurry about us.
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Joel Olson has lived in Arizona for over 25 years. He is a member of the Flagstaff Repeal Coalition and teaches political theory at Northern Arizona University.
* For the uninitiated or un-Arizonan: Don Bowles was an Arizona Republic reporter who was murdered by a car bomb in 1976 while investigating connections between Arizona elites and the Mafia. Evan Mecham was a racist governor (he was a John Birch Society supporter) from 1987-1988 who was impeached for obstruction of justice and misuse of government funds. The Keating 5 were five U.S. Senators, including Arizona Senators John McCain and Dennis DeConcini, who were accused of corruption in 1989 for illegally intervening on behalf of Charles Keating, whose Lincoln Savings and Loan bank collapsed, causing thousands to lose their life savings. "AZ scam" was a bribery and money laundering scandal that several state legislators were convicted of in 1991. Fife Symington, the governor of Arizona from 1991-1996, was impeached and indicted for 23 counts of fraud and extortion.
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Pasolini's 1963 Film on Palestine
Pasolini recorded his observations in the documentary A Visit to Palestine while scouting locations for his moving biography of the life of Jesus, The Gospel of St Matthew.
The sophisticated hasbara / sophistry that created the hologram of "democracy" and "chosenness" was the very first of Israel's chief exports (to be followed by human organ smuggling, pornography, espionage and shocking weapons) and that it was and is a very "successful" endeavor in every part of globe, meant to convince not only hawks and politicos, but the academic world. Could Pasolini's ambiguity re the brutal colonial nature of Zionism be due to the fact that in the 50s and 60s he and many intellectuals saw Israel as a progressive experiment in socialism that needed time to live up to expectations? The halo effect over Israel still hangs on in Europe and the USA for decades after al-Nakba.
Although the true nature of Zionism was little known in the West for decades– either in popular culture or among the intelligentsia — the mask of righteousness has slipped off Israel's PR-drenched narrative and a truly demonic face has been glimpsed by more people than ever before.
Could these two films of Pasolini's — one celebrating Jesus' life, and one recording contemporary Palestine — be connected to Pasolini's very tragic, unexpected and unsolved murder?
Pasolini filming Palestine
Pier Paolo Pasolini's 1963 film Sopralluoghi in Palestina (English title: A Visit to Palestine, though it would be more accurate to call it Scouting for Locations in Palestine) showcases the director's preparation for filming The Gospel According to St. Matthew. (Parenthetically, in Italian the latter film's title is Il Vangelo Secondo Matteo, about which my film professor has posed a good question: do Italians erase the 'saint' in Matthew's title or is Pasolini being irreverent?) The film is more evocative and personal than the average making-of documentary that often accompanies a major film as a voyeuristic sidebar. It is also not without its problems on the question of Palestine.
It's clear from the outset that Pasolini is filming here because he is fed up with the industrial world: you can't shoot a film about Christ near Milanese factories. He has come here for the Jesus 'look.' It's not an aberration to point this out since it's a stake Pasolini constantly claims: only in the Terra Santa itself can he strike the 'poetic and archaic… extreme smallness, poverty and humility.' His favorite part of the journey is a narrow strip close to Jordan because that's 'where Jesus spent his last days.'
In a rapid, breathy voice-over that runs the entire course of the film, Pasolini sounds almost like a tourist, both eager and disappointed to find comparisons with sites and sounds from home. He compares the rolling, grassy landscape of Palestine to southern, rural Italian cities like Bari, Calabria and Sicilia. Unfortunately, while he is certainly not the average tourist and though he does struggle some to decode what he sees, one gets the sense that he's not really struggling enough—at least not any more than necessary to furnish scenes for his film. Coming to terms with not being able to film in 'modern' Nazareth, he says in a defeated tone: 'You understand that in this period of our trip, I had set out as a problem, as the purpose of my research, the finding of those villages, places and faces which could replace modern villages, faces, places.' (Avrai capito che in questo periodo del nostro viaggio, io mi ero posto come problema, come scopo della mia ricerca, il trovare dei villaggi, dei luoghi, delle facce, che potessero sostituire i villaggi, le facce, i luoghi moderni.)
His scouting tour takes him to much of pre-1967 Palestine/Israel, from the Jewish kibbutzim to the habitats of impoverished Palestinian farmers. While he interviews a young family at a kibbutz at length (conducted in Italian) he never films himself talking at length to Arabs. There is the linguistic problem, of course, but this distancing act reinforces something troubling that Pasolini repeats at least twice in the film: the Palestinians just seem 'more authentic.' They are 'allegre, animalistiche'—happy and animalistic—far closer to his archaic Gospel characters than the new inhabitants of the modern settlements/colonies dotting the hillsides.
Indeed, it can often seem like Pasolini takes the colonial project for granted. In the poem 'The Southern Dawn' (L'Alba Meridionale),* published a year after the trip to Palestine, he writes about finding 'millions of men employed only to live as barbarians descended recently on a happy land, strangers to it, and its owners' (milioni di uomini occupati / soltanto a vivere come barbari discesi / da poco su una terra felice, estranei / ad essa, e suoi possessori). Are the recent Jewish immigrants the 'barbarians' descending in 'millions' on a 'happy land'? How does Pasolini reconcile their relationship to this land as both 'strangers' and biblical 'owners'? The film is fraught with these same unanswered musings.
In this screen grab, Pasolini stands in front of a map of Jerusalem, surrounded by those likely objects of his disdain, modern advertisements for cigarettes. It's hard to pinpoint a poetics to Pasolini's critiques, but if there is one solid critique it is, again, his disappointment at what has become of his imagined Palestine. For the most part, his monologue is deeply concerned with the technical and aesthetic concerns of making his film. But the jabs he makes about modern, industrial Israel can be found if one is looking for them. They express sorrow at a lost aura he is sore that small, white Israeli settler/colonial houses on the plains appear soulless and uniform. 'You could easily find [them] in the Roman countryside, or in Switzerland.'
One of the most moving moments is Pasolini in a Bedouin desert, encroached on 'day by day by the Israelis.' The footage is beautiful, but as he says again in that breathy disappointment, unusable.The Bedouins make look authentic, and they may even be the victims of colonialism and land grabs, but he still hasn't found what he's come looking for.
Where Pasolini's musings lack any overt colonial critique, the camera highlights it. The shots of Jerusalem surrounded by barbed wire are particularly compelling. As Pasolini's voiceover expresses awe at the natural beauty of these surroundings, the camerawork displays the indignities of everyday life for Palestinian inhabitants. As seen above, the camera zooms in and out of a shot of birds perched on top of barbed wire, in and out and in and out, a syntactical repetition of a sublime and sordid reality.
*Thanks to http://www.twitter.com/revsocialist for sending me the reference to that poem.
(All screengrabs by South/South)


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This week's selection is Quantum Object #1 by sculptor Frederik De Wilde. It's a trippy piece we first noticed at this year's London 3D Printshow, where it was on display among many other spectacular pieces.
Visually, it's a plane with drips extending in opposite directions, defying gravity in two different directions. But why is it named, "Quantum Object #1"? According to De Wilde:
Quantum Object #1 is 3D model generated by using a live data feed from quantum fluctuation measurement devices used by the Australian National University, Department of Quantum Science lead by Dr. Thomas Seymul.
In other words, it's a sculpture of space-time vacuum fluctuations that occur around and inside of you every picosecond. It doesn't look real - but it is. De Wilde says:
Yes, space is only noise if you can see it.


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TRAILERS: 4 films in UAE cinemas this week
The Lego Ninjago Movie
There's no way on earth this won't be one of the biggest, most popular films of the year – and a certified franchise-creating, merchandise-shifting mega-bucks success story. It simply has too many of the ingredients that define such things: with its quip-trading team of six crack ninjas, a fleet of Paw Patrol-style customised vehicles and a back-story of high-school teens in the city of Ninjago, it has branded-pyjama-style obsession writ large across it. If they're not already making a second, someone should lose their job.
Based on a real toy range already in production, the Ninjago adventure sees young Lloyd (voiced by Dave Franco) and his five friends secretly studying the ways of ninja craft under the tutelage of the wise and wise-cracking Master Wu (Jackie Chan). Their job is to confront evil warlord Garmadon AKA The Worst Guy Ever AKA Lloyd's dad – and by doing so, come together as a team and unleash their inner power of Spinjitzu.
Like the previous Lego movie successes, the action here is relentless, with an almost ceaseless assault of technicolour block-shredding. But with very sharp writing from a team including Paul Fisher, Bob Logan and Hilary Winston, it's also got plenty of multi-levelled, reference-packed humour that will appeal across the generations.
It's great. You'll love it. And you'll love the next one, too. In fact, if Lego decided to remake 47 Ronin, you'd love that as well. They're really good at this stuff.
In cinemas from September 21
Kingsman: The Golden Circle
Buzzy Brit-flick starring Taron Egerton as a Bond-like secret agent who teams up with a shadowy US organisation when The Kingsman HQ is destroyed. We can't show the full trailer here due to the rating.
Victoria and Abdul
Judi Dench does the Judi Dench thing as Queen Victoria in this well-intentioned but flawed tale of her friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim.
Lucknow Central
Farhan Akhtar stars as a young man in an Uttar Pradesh jail awaiting trial for murder, whose looming date with destiny is offset by his role in a prison band.
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Expert Opinion: Potential changes to Obamacare that may impact your business
HR Morning recently reported on a series of potential changes to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (also known as PPACA or Obamacare). After interviewing experts in the field, HR Morning explains how the latest iteration of the healthcare reform law could be much different to the one that first took effect in March 2010. Again, these are possibilities and something that we are sharing in order to help HR executives remain prepared:
A return to the 40-hour per week threshold: In an effort to prevent employers from reducing employees' hours so that they fall just shy of full-time status and therefore are outside of healthcare obligations, the PPACA put a new standard in place that reduced the minimum amount of hours employees have to work to be considered full-time under the health law to 30. However, this change was met with a barrage of questions on the variables that impact an employee's full-time status. Therefore, experts suggest that the law may be changed to use the 40-hour workweek most federal laws recognize in order to clear up any confusion and create a more uniform policy.
Changes to out-of-pocket maximums: The government recently delayed fully implementing the law's limits on out-of-pocket costs (deductibles, premiums, etc.) for medical care. Even when the full regulations take effect, which is now estimated in 2015, there will still be no limit on the charges individuals can incur for using out-of-network doctors. With the system as is—and remember, it could be subject to change—it is important to remind employees of the importance of using medical services and physicians within their insurance network.
A cap on hospital stays: Effective 2014, insurance plans can't impose dollar limits on the costs of essential health benefits, leading some experts to question how this change will impact plans that currently limit hospital stays. We recommend that you stay vigilant of any changes to this facet of the bill and consult your insurance provider as needed.
An increase in coverage-related fines: This year, individuals will be fined $95 for not obtaining healthcare coverage and current regulations call for that fine to shoot all the way up to $695 by 2016. However, some experts believe the feds may start increasing fines if they continue to have trouble convincing young and healthy individuals—the insurance exchanges target audience—to sign up for coverage on the exchange marketplace.
So tell us, what facets of the PPACA have you concerned? What changes would you like to see implemented?


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Jailed Attorney Makes 911 Call: Full Disclosure Breaking News Audio-Video
Los Angeles CA The Full Disclosure Network® received a 911 call from prominent Anti-Trust Attorney Richard I Fine who has been confined in the L A County Mens Central Jail, in isolation, since March 4, 2009 following a contempt hearing in the Superior Court room of David Yaffe in Department 86.
In the telephone recorded conversation, Fine describes to Full Disclosure the conditions where he was being held and that he was being denied his Constitutional right to represent himself and even access to paper and pencil, thus preventing him from filing an IN PRO PER writ of Habeas Corpus in Federal Court that could possibly free him and provide him an opportunity to fight what he calls Judicial Corruption.
The contempt sentence was imposed following attorney Richard Fines request that Judge Yaffe disqualify himself from hearing the case, due to the fact the Judge had received unconstitutional payments from the County of Los Angeles that was party to the case involved (Marina Strand Colony II Homeowners Association vs County of Los Angeles).
Judge Yaffe ordered Fine taken into custody indefinitely, until he provided the Court with his personal financial records. The Judges order did not include a provision for bail, a release date and at this time there are no future court hearings scheduled.
Details of the contempt hearing and arrest of Richard I. Fine can be found here on this webpage. http://www.fulldisclosure.net/news/2009/03/attorney-jailed-in-attempt-to.html
An exclusive Full Disclosure® interview featuring Attorney Fine prior to his sentencing examines issues from various legal perspectives including the State Bar,Supreme Court and Constitutional Attorneys, to be released to 40 cable systems upon completion.
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I love podcasts. And I love when my friends on the internet share the podcasts they love.
One of the most common ways people share their podcast recommendations is with a link from their podcast player app, which, more often than not, is Overcast. I, however, am primarily a Castro user.
I can't count how many times I've opened an Overcast link on social media, switched over to Castro, searched for that podcast by name in the Castro "Discover" tab, then added the recommended episode to my Queue for listening later. An incredibly inefficient and annoying workflow.
Oh, how I wish I could just press a button and have that Overcast link open in Castro, showing me the episode ready to be queued.
URLs, Links, Etc
Both Overcast and Castro support public URLs for sharing shows and individual episodes. This is in addition to the apps' specific iOS URL schemes.
I have no idea how either of these apps are generating their episode-specific URLs, but the URLs for the main feed of a podcast use the podcast's iTunes ID. The Overcast and Castro links for the Defocused main feed are
https://overcast.fm/itunes891398524 and
https://castro.fm/itunes/891398524, respectively.
Which means I can create a quick Shortcut to swap an Overcast link for a Castro link.
Half of a Solution
Since this shortcut only works on a podcast's main feed URL, not an episode specific URL, I still have to do some work to get the podcast episode into my Castro Queue. I have to open the Overcast link, tap on the name of the podcast at the top of the player to go to its main feed, run the shortcut, tap the "Open in Castro" button, tap the button that allows Safari to actually open Castro, then find and add the specific episode to my Queue.
Not ideal, but much more pleasant than manually searching for the name of the show. Especially if episode being shared by the Overcast user happens to be the most recent episode of the show since Castro loads with the Action buttons for that episode ready to tap.
Maybe one of these days I or, more likely, one of you much smarter people, will figure out how to translate episode specific URLs that open directly within Castro (or Overcast), avoiding all these Safari links as a bridge. Heck, while I'm wishing for unlikely things, maybe Castro will finally get timestamped URLs, too. One can dream, right?


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The last decade has witnessed a lot of development in the Healthcare sector. Healthcare now ranks among the top sectors in terms of revenue and continues to generate a lot of employment. The healthcare industry is one of the fastest growing industries in India and estimates suggest that the overall market is around US$ 65 billion. According to the data provided by the World Bank, our healthcare expenditure is 4% of the GDP. Pharmaceuticals account for 13% of the total healthcare revenues. India is set to become the 3rd largest healthcare market by 2020.
With a population of more than 1.2 billion, India is the second most populous country in the world. The per-capita healthcare expenditure has augmented with the growing population. According to the 12th Five Year Plan, India is determined to achieve Universal Health Coverage for all. This would provide comprehensive health security to every citizen of the country.
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Artemis Hospital, the first JCI and NABH accredited hospital in Gurgaon, wanted to conduct online reverse auction for procurement of Examination Gloves (S, M &L). The hospital needed transparency throughout the procurement process. Hence the system was designed in such a way that it revealed only the information which was required and was also role based.
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Microsoft has landed Chivas and Volvo as sponsors for a pair of two new MSN video series (no drinking and driving jokes please). A travel show called This is the Life will be tied to a Chivas Regal ad campaign, and Driving School will either be a "hidden camera series" or a comedy about a driving instructor who imparts life lessons to his students. Both series will be produced by Reveille, the production company behind monster MSN hits like The Big Debate and Chef to the Rescue. What's that? They aren't monster hits? Well, Reveille is also responsible for the Emmy Award-winning The Office on NBC, Ugly Betty on ABC and of course the immortal Date My Mom on MTV, which sounds like it should be a hit.
Microsoft announced the sponsorships at the Strategic Account Summit (SAS), an annual event Microsoft uses to wow the advertising industry with its technology and initiatives. Also at the SAS, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said he will focus his attention on developing advertising and online services. "Search, buyers, and sellers... That will be my biggest thing," he said. His comments may be directed at the rumbling of discontent from advertisers and marketers over MSN's dismal search share and "slow and wonky" performance from adCenter. They may also be designed to soothe the fears of investors who believe Microsoft missed the boat—again—by not hooking up Yahoo.


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December 13, 4:30-6:30 pm Boulder Ranger District Office 2140 Yarmouth Avenue, Boulder CO Add to Calendar Note the connection between Denver Water's funding the Forsythe Project, DW's plans to expand Gross Reservoir, and FS treatment plans for Gross. Read More
MFG's Alternate Forsythe II Plan
Purpose: Forest Health Watershed Protection Wildlife Habitat Improved Home Protection from Wildfire Reasons: Given that: the area of the Forsythe II project is all above 7600′, in the northern half of Colorado, and falls into the upper montane zone, with a historical fire rotation of 100+ years, fire exclusion has probably had little effect on Read More
Forsythe II Proposal – Does It Pass Muster?
Fire in the WUI (Wildland Urban Interface) is a threat. The question is how to best address it and minimize the risk. I think most of us want it all: a safe place to live, a vibrant ecosystem with varied wildlife, and a place to find joy. The question is whether that is possible. It Read More
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Mitigation or Misguided? (Updated) The US Forest Service has issued a new proposal in Boulder County for "forest restoration" and watershed protection (Forsythe II Project). They are cutting patches of forest using both clearcuts and aggressive thinning. Will these cuts actually help, or is this activity misguided? The USFS would have us believe that they Read More


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About Us
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New Stanton Volunteer Fire Department
New Stanton Volunteer Fire Department Relief Association
Westmoreland County, PA
Station 25
New Stanton Borough is located in Westmoreland County in Southwestern Pennsylvania and spans
4.4 sq. miles. It was incorporated as a borough [from Hempfield Twp.] in 1972. Here are some interesting facts about our town as reported by the U. S. Census Bureau:
The population is 2,172. The 2016 estimate is 2,314. In 1870, there were just 145 inhabitants.
The median age is 41 years
32% of the population is of retirement age (62 or older)
There are 967 occupied housing units and 136 vacant units
Of the 967 occupied units, 427 are renters [44%]
95.4% of the population are high school graduates (or higher)
The median household income is $57,422
12% of the population is at or below the poverty level. For a two-person household, the current poverty level is: $18,670 and $28,290 for a four-person household
There are 197 veterans [9%] residing in the borough
There are 14.41 mi. of borough-owned roads and 5.77 mi. of state-owned roads in New Stanton
Monthly, we will post an article, picture or story of something of historical interest about the New Stanton VFD. Here's the latest installment.
If you have an old clipping or photo of a fire department-related nature, send it to us for consideration in a future posting. Email a .jpeg image to:
Don't forget to include as much factual information about the item that you have, such as date, place, names, etc.
Centralized dispatching arrived in late 1971, relieving the department of handling the telephone calls for help. County-wide dispatching began in early 1979. Our emergency phone number was: 925-7232. The 'fire phone' originally was answered by the folks at Mitchell's Garage, located where the Dollar General store is now. Later, the guard at Robertshaw Controls took the calls and activated the fire whistle. We've come a long way with the implementation of a county-wide, digital, 800 MHz. communications system and centralized call taking.
The fire department received its non-profit charter from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania on
July 3, 1951 as decreed on the 10th day of August 1951 " . . . on a motion of Howard M. Whitehead, Attorney of petitioners, it is hereby ordered and decreed that the said articles of incorporation, together with this order, that the subscribers thereto and their associates and successors shall be a Nonprofit corporation by the name and title of STANTON VOLUNTEER FIRE AND RELIEF ASSOCIATION, for the purposes and upon the terms therein stated." By the Court, John M. O'Connell, Judge. No. 498 August Term, 1951.
Coin Cards were a way to raise funds through local residents and by placing them in businesses and encouraging customers to make a small donation. In this case, 16 quarter slots on the inside and an envelope on the back for cash were provided by the printer, Don Evans Co., So. Greensburg, Pa.
Note none of the sponsoring businesses are operating today! 925-7714 was an earlier emergency number.
The National Fire Incident Repporting System (NFIRS) has been around since the 1970s. New Stanton VFD used an early, paper-based NFIRS form long before today's computerized software made data collection much easier. Here's a report from a vehicle accident on Aug. 9, 1991. Page two allowed for the collection of local data and member signatures. Note: 16 firefighters responded back then!
Here are five folks next to the 1957 Ford/John Bean pumper sometime in the late 1950s. We know the adult facing the camera is member Wilbur Bussard. The member holding the Motorola walkie-talkie is believed to be Jack Theis. The two boys and the third man are unknown. Can you help us identify them?
From the Greensburg Tribune-Review, September 7, 2010
Oct. 9, 1991. The house has since been raised.
Dick Smith, M. R. Stoner, Lynn Ganter and Jerry Reagan in front of 1957 John Bean fire engine. Note the playground equipment in the background.
Tribune-Review, Dec. 14, 1976
The Advisor, Sept 5, 1985
William "Bill" Fox, Keith Loucks and John Druschel [l-r] inspect a new set of Vetter air bags purchased through the Westmoreland County EMS Council, Aug. 1979.
Marching down Post Ave. is the NSVFD Majorettes, sometime in the 1950's. Note many of the homes are no longer there.
Rural Free [mail] Delivery [RFD] had it's early Pennsylvania roots in New Stanton on Nov. 24,1896 according to the Historical Marker located at the post office. The nation's first five routes started in West Virginia about a month before. See the link: http://explorepahistory.com/hmarker.php?markerId=1-A-137
The fire department still gets its mail at the post office [P O Box 20]. Earlier, mail deliveries were received near the Stanton Mill, located along the SW Branch of the PA Railroad, via train car and mail hook!
New Stanton's first playground was located on what is now the parking lot of the fire station, installed by the Hempfield Twp. Supervisors. [See photo below.] The equipment was moved in the late 1950s to the elementary school grounds because of the Interstate 70 interchange project.
Wabash Park is the name of the plan of lots that were laid out in the area surrounding the fire station.
It was named for the Wabash Park Co., who held a real estate auction on Sat., June 9, 1906. A. W. Cummings was the Auctioneer for J. M. G. Brown, Mgr. of the Wabash Park Co. There was a ball field area that once attracted local community baseball teams during the summer months. Much of it was located on what is now the six lanes of I 70 across from the fire station.
Rachel Drive gets its name from the wife of an early fire department charter member and land owner,
David K. Bair. Another street, Virginia Drive, is the namesake of the wife of Pete Colisimo, builder of many of the homes in the Stanton Heights plan [originaly known as the Greenbrier Plan].
High Pressure Fog [850 psi at the pump] was once a fire suppression pumping system developed by
John Bean, a maker of farm-grade high pressure spraying equipment. An orchard owner used his spraying equipment to successfully fight a neighbor's house fire and John Bean Fire Apparatus was born in the late 1930s. It was purchased by the Food Machinery and Chemical Corporation [FMC] and eventually closed in 1990, after moving from Michigan to Indiana and then to Florida. Ironically, now Ultra High Pressure Fog is making a return to the American fire service. New Stanton VFD had three such FMC units: 1957 and 1969 Fords and a 1977 Hendrickson, which may be viewed on our Apparatus Page.
Turnpike Bryant was one of the more 'famous citizens,' having been born on the PA Turnpike and appearing on a popular TV show, the Dating Game. He lived in a home not far 'up the street' from the fire station, now part of the I-70/Center Ave. intersection.
The Junior Order of the United American Mechanics, Painterville Chapter, held meetings on the second floor of what was commonly known as the Clover Farm Store [later Seehoffer's Store, then Family Market, 313 S. Center Ave., now an apartment building]. Members included: Ira Harrold and Hurley Watson, early New Stanton VFD firefighters. A small electric fire siren mounted atop a pole was also there for a time and was manually operated by the store owner, Amos Seehoffer, also a fire department member.
William and Laura Latta lived across the street and towards Walt's Garage along a portion of Main Street that was taken for I-70. Children included boys: Ferris, Paul I., Emerson L. and Charles F. and girls: Rose, Amber, Jane, Sarah and Patricia. Paul, Emerson [Augie] and Charles [Chuck] were early active members and officers of the fire department and Sarah was an active Ladies Auxiliary member who married J. Paul Calhoun, also an early member and long-time Trustee. Son, Paul 'Howard' Calhoun was also a member and officer in the department.
The 'original' fire station was a small garage loaned by motel operator, Harry Smith. Smith's Rest Nest Motel was located on lands later occupied by the Conley's Motel, around the bend from the fire station.
A freak summer storm damaged the garage in August 1951, necessitating a more permanent fire station to be constructed later at the corner of Main St. and Stanton [now Stan] Ave., our current location.
Prior to the installation of the four lanes of Rt. 119 into Mt. Pleasant in the 1970s, Thanksgiving weekend traffic jams were quite a problem. Traffic would back up on 'old' Rt. 119 S towards Mt. Pleasant as traffic jammed I 70 east bound toward the Turnpike. The fire department was often called on those Sunday afternoons to re-route traffic through town to Arona Rd. then back onto the PA Turnpike. Even then, we were the Highway Hub of Western PA!
Before becoming a borough, the town [and the fire department] were part of Hempfield Twp. We were the seventh [7th] fire department formed in the township. Grapeville VFC was the first and Fort Allen VFD was the thirteenth [and, probably, the last].
The FCC issued call letters to fire departments using the low-band fire frequency 33.70 MHz. New Stanton's call letters were: KGF 560. Youngwood had KGE 879, Hunker used KK 3573 and the 'Civil Defense' office in Greensburg used the call letters: KGE 225. Mrs. Adams conducted the monthly 'air raid' county-wide siren test on the first Friday of the month at 7:00 p.m.
Parading down Byers Ave., June 1979, is a marching group. This was probably the last fire department-sponsored parade in New Stanton. Texaco and Arco gas stations are long gone as is the Pagano's two-story building on the left.
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Toms River, New Jersey – April 25, 2018…Shore Community Bank (OTCPK: SHRC) today reported net income of $838,339 or 27 cents per diluted share for the three months ended March 31, 2018, compared to net income of $539,272 or 17 cents per diluted share reported for the first quarter of 2017. The improvement in net income represents an increase of 55.5%.
The Board of Directors also announced a quarterly cash dividend of $0.075 per share. The dividend will be paid on May 18, 2018 to all shareholders of record on May 8, 2018.
Commenting on the results, Robert T. English, President and Chief Executive Officer stated, "Multiyear success in expanding the loan portfolio combined with the recently enacted lower federal income tax rate has propelled Shore Community Bank's quarterly earnings to the highest level in our 21 year history. The loan portfolio increased 3.0% since year end 2017 and 11.2% since the end of the first quarter of 2017. Achieving a 1.25% return on average assets and 12.0% return on average equity is outstanding for a bank of our asset size." Mr. English further stated, "Our 2018 forecast for the local economy remains positive. We anticipate that eventually the Fed's interest rate hikes will impact important sectors of the economy later this year but at present, our loan pipeline is strong as we head into summer and we foresee growth even in light of a number of expected second quarter loan prepayments."
Total assets at March 31, 2018 were $273.9 million compared to $271.1 million at December 31, 2017. Total loans increased $6.1 million and stood at $209.0 million compared to $202.9 million at December 31, 2017 while total deposits increased $2.4 million to $244.6 million at March 31, 2018 compared to $242.2 million at December 31, 2017.
The provision for loan losses totaled $20,000 for the three months ended March 31, 2018, compared to $40,000 in the first quarter of 2017. Net loan recoveries in the first quarter 2018 totaled $25,969 compared to net charge-offs of $8,093 recorded in the first quarter of 2017.
Non-performing assets totaled $3.7 million at March 31, 2018 and included $2.6 million of non-performing loans and $1.1 million of other real estate owned (OREO), compared to a total of $3.7 million at year end 2017 which included $2.8 million of non-performing loans and $0.9 million of OREO.
The allowance for loan losses, as a percentage of period end loans, was 1.41 percent at March 31, 2018 compared to 1.43 percent at December 31, 2017.
Book value per share at March 31, 2018 was $9.15 compared to $9.04 at December 31, 2017 based on 3.1 million shares outstanding in each period.
Shore Community Bank is traded on the OTCPK under the symbol "SHRC".
Shore Community Bank operates five banking offices located in Toms River, Jackson and Manahawkin, New Jersey. The Bank was founded in 1997 by a group of local business leaders with the objective of returning community-based banking to the Toms River, Ocean County, New Jersey area.
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Dining | B&B near Aracena | Andalucia | Spain | Luxury bed and breakfast near Seville
Find out more about dining at Finca Buenvino Bed & Breakfast near Aracena, Seville, Andalucia, Spain in the Sierra de Aracena National Park. Set amongst a chestnut and cork-oak forest we operate as a family B&B and self-catering holiday cottages. We run cookery courses, photography courses, creative writing retreats and fitness retreats. Hiking trails and stunning views.
Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Our food comes highly recommended by chefs and journalists including Thomasina Miers, Darina Allen and Sikke Sumari. Sample the best of Andalusian produce at Finca Buenvino near Seville.
Our cookbook, The Buenvino Cookbook, was published in 2014 by Bene Factum. You can order a copy here.
The cooking at Buenvino is much more than your average B&B fare. Jeannie trained in the 1960's with Rosemary Hume and Muriel Downes at Le Cordon Bleu in London; over the intervening years she has cooked in shooting lodges in the Scottish Highlands, bars and restaurants in Edinburgh and far-flung Hong Kong, private chalets in the Austrian Alps, and for many years in the catering kitchens of By Word of Mouth in London.
Jeannie has brought her knowledge and experience to Spanish and Mediterranean cooking. Her personal style incorporates the pounded picadas of Catalonia – a mixture of garlic, bread, spices or even chocolate added to a dish at the end of cooking – as well as the use of fruit and spices in savoury dishes that is typical both of Andalusia and of the Maghreb.
Charlie, Jeannie's son, has grown up with the house style of cooking, and having completed the three month diploma course at the Ballymaloe cookery school in Ireland, he's been working in professional kitchens in Scotland and London for 7 years, before returning to join the team here, last year.
In our kitchen, we use fresh local ingredients: Iberian pork, mountain lamb and wild venison and boar. Fish comes mainly from the Huelva coast and we have eggs from our own hens. We kill our Iberian pigs and cure our own jamón ibérico and bake fresh wholemeal loaves and Moroccan flatbreads from organic flour shipped down from Albacete. Honey comes from the mountain hives dispersed among orchards and forests.
Almost more importantly organic vegetables and herbs come from our gardens when nature allows. We grow beans, aubergines, tomatoes, peppers, fennel seed and feathers, basil, lettuces of various kinds, rocket, garlic, coriander, courgettes, spinach, chard, beetroot, carrots and potatoes as well as various types of cabbages, cauliflowers, broccoli and leeks and onions. Our trees give us pears, quinces and apples; some years we are lucky to have plums, figs or cherries.
In autumn, wild mushrooms spring up in the woods, whilenewly-picked chestnuts from the forest below the house, roasted in the open fire, are perfect with a glass of rich, dry Oloroso Sherry specially blended for us by Gonzalez Byass in Jerez, and served straight from the barrel which sits in the conservatory. At Finca Buenvino we believe that good simple food and honestly produced ingredients are the way forward.
Breakfast; Start the day happily and healthily!
Depending on the time of year, breakfast is served on the terrace, in the conservatory with a wonderful view of the forests and hills, or in the dining room.
Home made granola, local yogurt and honeys, our own orange marmalade and jams; home made breads, sourdough or organic wholemeal; eggs from our own hens, home cured bacon, local olive oil and organic tomatoes from our garden, all go into making this the perfect way to start the day.
Try our creamy eggs scrambled with green, grassy olive oil.
Breakfast is served from 9 am until 10.30am although we can bend the rules towards later if you want a lie-in.
Convivial, Social Dining or an Intimate Table for Two: take your pick, when you are staying at Finca Buenvino B&B in Andalucia, Spain.
Dinner is always three courses, with Spanish wines.
Beforehand tapas are served; perhaps our own home killed and cured jamón or caña de lomo, or a purée of chickpeas, garlic, lemon and olive oil, sprinkle with toasted cumin; or thin strips of toasted sourdough bread spread with our green fig caviar. In summer, tapas are served on the terrace while the sun goes down behind the blue mountains, and the sky flares to orange, pink, purple and turquoise.
In winter you will find a blazing log fire in the drawing room , and perhaps you will enjoy a glass of Oloroso Seco as you nibble roasted chestnuts with butter and salt, or a dish of grilled Boletus mushrooms, or thinly sliced raw Caesar's Mushrooms dressed with lemon and olive oil.
In summer, guests dine out on the terrace after dark, with candlelit lanterns dotting the table, and floodlights in the old cork trees. In winter, you will dine in the panelled and candlelit dining room.
We use fresh local ingredients where possible, including our own meat, eggs, fruits, vegetables, herbs and freshly home-baked bread.
If you have a special diet, we will happily cater for you, but please let us know in advance.
Typical Dinner Menus
Sample Menu
Butter Beans with Clams and Tomatoes
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Fillet of Iberian Pork with red peppers, Oloroso and cream., Saffron mashed potatoes and green beans
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Rosemary Sorbet with Rosemary honey
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Squid ink pasta with prawns and sun-dried tomatoes
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Roast Quails with quinces, cous cous with butter and coriander leaves and string beans
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Chocolate and Rosemary cream with fino sherry
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Poached farm eggs with raw spinach and toasted pine nut salad
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Magret of Duck with quince alioli, rosemary-sautéed potatoes, hot beetroot in butter and lemon.
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The aim of this is to get kids thinking about why we choose certain materials for different object. We adapted an idea from this great website and tried it with preschoolers from the lovely Orchard House Nursery in Tamworth.
Introduction activity
Start with some different objects and put them in a cloth bag. Get your child to reach into the bag and choose an object. Before they lift it out, get them to describe it. Some words you can prompt them with are…
You don't have to put the objects in a bag, but it helps for getting your child to focus on touch and texture rather than what the object looks like. This activity could also work well as a scavenger hunt. Look around the house for a crinkly object, a soft object etc.
The objects we chose were a wooden spoon, a metal spoon, a ceramic egg cup, a fluffy glove, a paper bag, a plastic toy and a swimming hat. With older children you can ask them what different objects are made from.
Teddy goes camping
The aim of this experiment is to work out which material is best to make teddy's tent out of. It works best in the garden as it involves water! You will need:
- 3 teddies (I got 3 from a charity shop)
- Small watering can full of water
- Frame for a tent – I built a simple one using bamboo sticks and tape
- Materials to cover the tent – I cut these out of a plastic bag, a large piece of tissue paper and a cotton sheet
The experiment
Start with the tissue paper. Cover the tent and tape the paper in place. Then start the story.
Three teddies decide to go camping. The first teddy made his tent out of paper. He climbed inside and lay down to sleep.
In the middle of the night it started to rain! Oh no! (at this point, get your child to tip the watering can over the tent) What happens to teddy's tent?
Poor teddy got wet!
Repeat the experiment with a bit of cotton sheet and plastic sheet. You should find that the cotton sheet isn't as bad as the tissue, but it gets wet and eventually drips through. With the plastic, point out to your child that the water runs straight off.
The learning point from this experiment is that in our everyday lives, we use different materials for different things. Plastic is good for teddy's tent because it's waterproof. The rain runs straight off it.
This is a great introduction to some of the ideas they'll meet in school during Key Stage 1. They will learn to identify different everyday materials such as wood, plastic and glass. They will also learn to describe physical properties of materials. Are they hard or soft, rough or smooth? What are different materials used for?
Going further…
In our session, we went a bit further to talk about some problems with materials and introduce our group to environment and recycling. You can explain to your child that plastic is really useful for lots of different things because it is waterproof. But a bad thing about plastic is that it doesn't rot down. If it ends up in a river or in the sea it will just keep floating around.
Keep the concepts fairly simple. With our group we said "if the plastic ends up in the sea, something might eat it". What creatures live in the sea that might eat the plastic? The children had a lot of fun naming different sea creatures.
We wanted to introduce the children to the idea that plastic can float around in the ocean and swirl around in the currents. A lot of scientists study this by taking samples of the ocean and then building up computer models of where plastic is most concentrated. The most famous of these areas of high plastic concentration is in the North Pacific Gyre.
To introduce this in a simple way (and to create a lovely artwork in the process!) we painted a canvas with different rings of colour. We then collected lots of bits of coloured plastic, such as bottle tops. The children then glued the coloured plastic onto the picture to make this beautiful and powerful mural.
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Under the direction of Father Serra and an order from King Charles III of Spain, construction began in 1769 of 21 missions along a trail stretching from San Diego to Northern California. Mission San Fernando Rey de Espana was the 17th.
Father Fermin Lasuen built the mission, named for King Ferdinand III, in 1797 approximately 25 miles from Los Angeles. It served as a sanctuary for travelers who were terminally ill.
The mission harvested corn and wheat, raised livestock and maintained vineyards. Resident neophytes (converted natives) tended the grapes and learned to become weavers, carpenters, ranchers, blacksmiths and soapmakers.
Following Mexico's liberation from Spain, the missions were auctioned off and Mission San Fernando became the headquarters of Governor Pico in 1846. In 1863, President Lincoln ordered all 21 missions returned to the Catholic Church. Mission San Fernando had reverted two years previously.
The 1842, the discovery of gold flakes in an onion patch near the mission grounds sparked rumors of buried fortune. As if the mission weren't damaged enough from an 1812 earthquake, the zeal with which prospectors hacked up its floors nearly reduced the mission to rubble.
It was abandoned in 1847 and left to ruin until the 1920s. In 1971, an earthquake undid all restoration efforts. In 1974, a replica was constructed. In total, the mission has been rebuilt five times.
In addition to being an active parish, the mission is the repository for archival records of the Los Angeles Archdiocese and a popular backdrop for Hollywood movies. It is also the final resting place of Bob Hope.
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