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THE URBAN DEVELOPMENT over the seaside
This trend of the wealthy families to commission second houses was driven by the construction of the coastal railway in 1863, which was built over the coast because of engineering and economic problems. The coastal railway determined a general move of the urban settlement towards the coast and a marked increase in tourism. It was a match point for our city. During these years Grottammare became a popular holiday resort and gave impulse to the constructions of cottages in Marino Avenue, which is Colombo Avenue today, realized by Mayor Ricciotti and Engineer Concetti in 1890.
In 1909 engineer Attilio Pignocchi developed an urban project to regulate the construction of cottages and mansions over the coast. His plan was to divide the acreage in small quadrangular allotments, where the Matricardi cottage places itself in 1913. It was the summer residence of Giuseppe Maria Matricardi, entrepreneur and engineer from Ascoli Piceno.
The cramped dimension of the allotment made the buildings raise in vertical high, with decorative turrets, seascapes and small gardens for relaxing moments. The particulars and decorative motifs of many of these mansions reveal clear signs of the Art Nouveau, which affects the whole coast of the region named Piceno, especially Grottammare and Porto San Giorgio.
The Matricardi Cottage was designed by the architect and engineer Cesare Bazzani (Rome 1873-1939), member of the Superior Council of Fine Arts, who was engaged in the project of the palace of the Cassa di Risparmio in Ascoli Piceno during that period (1913), in collaboration with engineer Matricardi himself. Bazzani managed to adorn in an original way the buildings, through the use of the same majolica that the owner of the cottage used to produce. Its realization has greatly influenced the local planning dynamics with the introduction of new constructive and decorative elements: not only the majolica, but also the turret roof-terrace, the plaster finishes and the paintings. The buildings constitutes a meaningful example of the Liberty architecture in the Marche region.
The date of realization is indicated on the west side, where a writing is chiselled on a platform of the turret and relates: «GMM/XX-VIII/MCMXIII», which means: «Giuseppe Maria Matricardi – August 20th 1913». Among the majolica there is another writing: «Maioliche Matricardi – Ascoli Piceno». The external majolica were designed by Adolfo De Carolis, who was Matricardi's co-worker. The turret is painted with a thick twist of orange trees and floral motifs, which creates a latticework in trompe l'œil of great suggestion.
The Garden
It is one of the most relevant peculiarities of the building, offering a seascape and basing its structure on a Romantic park. In fact the structure is intentionally random and asymmetrical, preserving an aspect of disorder, at first glance. The garden is separated from the beach only by a simple grating and presents a typical Mediterranean vegetation: pine woods, Holm oaks, hedges of pittosporum, bay trees, palm trees and oleanders.
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A Constitutional History of the United States
Chapter II - The Old Empire
McLaughlin, Andrew C.
In the middle of the eighteenth century Britain had a wide-reaching empire. It was beset with difficulties, for there were enemies of long standing who were not content. The empire was powerful and prosperous. Studious efforts had been made on the basis of mercantilism to build up a self-sustaining empire. Rigorous enactments were passed to ward off invasion by commercial rivals and to hold the profits of the empire within its own hands. There had been some attempts to simplify the colonial system, which was, however, still very complex; for things had moved along under no well-defined and consistent plan. There were two types of colonies: corporate colonies and the provinces. The corporate colonies chose their own officials and had charge, without substantial interference from Westminster, of their own internal affairs. There were two kinds of provinces: proprietary, with a charter granting to the proprietor considerable authority, which, however, in the course of time proved to be not easily or independently exercised; and royal provinces (only one, Massachusetts, having a charter), in which the royal governor as the Crown's agent was supposed to carry out the royal behests. It is quite apparent that the royal colonies were most directly, effectively, and immediately controlled from Westminster.
Each colony had an assembly, in which at least one chamber was elective. And these assemblies were not lacking in self-respect or in activity. Royal governors complained of headstrong legislatures desirous of having their own way and ready to ignore the orders sent from across the ocean. In large degree, the colonies managed their own internal affairs, occasionally hampered by royal instructions and disallowance of colonial acts. Their external affairs were in the hands of the Crown. Acts of Parliament, especially sundry measures directing the course of external commerce, had been passed and were more or less obeyed. Nothing like complete analysis of the situation can be presented here and none is here attempted. The salient fact is the reality of diversity, complexity, and the existence of an imperial system in which there was a large measure of colonial self-government. The colonies were daily growing in self-assurance, in economic well-being, and in political competence; and the time was near when they were prepared to announce their rights or to demand assurance as to what their rights were.
Not that there was a spirit of disloyalty or intentional independence; but the colonies had been living their own lives, not without restraint, but with considerable freedom. Virginia, for instance, had managed her internal affairs for over a century; her political capacity was high; any attempt to change the political system by encroaching upon the colonial field, especially in matters of taxation, was sure to awaken opposition. Connecticut, a corporate colony, complacent in her possession of self-government, serves as another example. Resentment was certain to be aroused by the intrusion of the hand of the British government, if it should roughly disturb the habits and the rights of the colony; The essential matter is this colonial competence which had been strengthened by decades of experience. The right or the propriety of interference with an established regime was not decided and cannot be decided on the basis of mere logic or abstract governmental theory.
In a general view of imperial administration and control, certain elements stand forth with some distinctness. Great officers of state were the agencies through which royal management was actually exercised. Among these ministers the Secretary of State for the Southern Department had chief charge of American affairs. The Privy Council had wide and in some respects effective authority. The Board of Trade was a body engaged in gathering information, in consultation, advice, and recommendation rather than in issuing direct and authoritative orders; but its influence was of importance and its views upon questions of colonial policy and management were often determinative. The royal authority was chiefly and most conspicuously exercised by (1) appointment and commissioning of the royal governor; (2) instructions which the governor was directed to carry out, and which were likely to include orders for the use of the gubernatorial veto or directions to see that certain policies were followed in the colony; (3) disallowance by the king in council of colonial statutes, probably the most effective and far-reaching method of control;
(4) review of the decisions of colonial courts by the Privy Council acting in its judicial capacity.
As a general rule, the royal control was not exercised heedlessly. The investigations of the Board of Trade were commonly painstaking and were conducted fairly and intelligently. There was little ill-considered and hasty interference with colonial affairs; and this appears to be especially true of the exercise of disallowance and judicial review. Power was used, on the whole, not for the purpose of rude intrusion, but for essentially non-local purposes, or for ends which appeared to be of imperial scope and interest.
But disallowance, though the most effective means of retaining imperial authority and building up a homogeneous empire, was often a source of annoyance to the colonies, more, it seems, because of delay and uncertainty before actual use of the power than because of its objects or effects. While the colonies legislated and colonial courts sat and issued decisions, the Board of Trade and the Privy Council strove, not altogether without result, to maintain and build up a common system of law — or at least a colonial recognition of certain principles. The colonies did not absorb in all respects the forms and procedure of the common law; but especially in those matters which dealt with civil rights and liberties, the history of English constitutionalism was by no means ignored. It is not easy to distinguish those elements in the common law which can safely be placed within the realm of constitutional principles and those elements which have to do only with relationships and responsibilities of individuals. But it is plain that those elements of constitutional right, not commonly catalogued as belonging within the field of common law, were common, in large measure, to the empire, if we use the term to include England and the continental colonies. During the century ending in 1780, 265 cases were carried from colonial courts to the Privy Council.
It is, of course, difficult to say how much emphasis should be laid on the exercise of judicial control and how much it affected later events and the establishment of American institutions. There is no very tangible evidence indicating that the American system of appeals from state to federal courts was a direct inheritance from the old imperial system; but one would not dare to deny its influence; institutional principles and practices do not spring out of nothingness; they are not self-creative. Though there appears to have been only a few cases in which the scope of the legislative authority of a colony was passed upon by the Privy Council in a manner to suggest plainly a complete parallel between the power of the Privy Council and the power of our courts in declaring an act void, the practice of judicial review, we are justified in assuming, was not without its influence upon later times.
The decisions of the Council in exercising the power of disallowance often involved constitutional principles in a very broad sense; there was an attempt to maintain the general principles of the common law and of the law of Britain, which thus became, if we use general terms, in a sort of way the law of the empire. Disallowance of colonial acts, though technically to be distinguished from judicial decisions, often in reality was exercised in such a manner as to keep the colonies within their own sphere and to preserve parliamentary acts, notably the navigation acts, from violation or impairment.
In other words, if a colonial law were disallowed because it exceeded the power of the legislature under a charter, or because it disregarded the principle that the colony should not pass an act contrary to the law of Britain, the disallowance really involved the question of the extent of legislative authority. There is therefore a certain resemblance between such disallowance and a decision, which, under our constitutional system, may be rendered by an American court passing upon the validity of state legislation which is asserted to be in violation of laws, treaties, or the Constitution of the United States.
The role of Parliament, beyond the passage of navigation acts and acts of trade, had not been conspicuous. If a thoughtful colonist had been asked concerning the extent of parliamentary power, his answer presumably would have been that Parliament was the supreme legislative authority in the empire; but the admission would have been qualified, as Jeremiah Dummer had at one time qualified it, by saying, "And shall not the supreme Judicature of all the Nation do right?"
Here again it is impossible to speak with complete accuracy in a few words, or to show with absolute certainty the extent to which parliamentary statutes had invaded or affected internal colonial concerns. But the main fact is the absence rather than the plenitude of parliamentary legislation. The colonists had lived for years in most respects unaffected by such legislation, and must have thought of the legislature at Westminster as far away from their own immediate interests.
There were a few enactments which more or less directly affected the internal legislation and freedom of action of the colonies. The conspicuous ones are the following: the Piracy Act (1700) may perhaps be thus classified though in general it appears plainly an imperial matter; but more important are the acts fixing the rates at which foreign coins should circulate (1708), establishing the post office (1710), making colonial real estate and slaves chargeable with debts (1732), providing for naturalization (1740), extending the Bubble Act to the colonies (1741), and forbidding the issue of paper money in New England (1751). But these acts were not of a purely local character; considerations of the general welfare entered into them; and at all events the very fact that such acts were passed and thus brought within the purview of actual imperial control is a matter of some consequence. This field of parliamentary legislation was occupied because of the teachings of experience or because of apparent need. And it is from the real, rather than the formal or theoretical scope of imperial power, that the empire was taking shape — a matter of importance to anyone seeking the historical foundations of the American constitutional system.
It ought to be said that, in addition to the acts referred to above which appear to have the essential quality of acts passed for general imperial interests — at all events, not to be intrusions on colonial management of internal affairs — there were certain other acts which were passed to check American manufacturing and thus to protect British interests. These measures, such as those restricting the making of woolens and, at a later time, hats and iron, rested on the assumption that the insular interests of Britain should receive particular support. But, we should notice, there were other acts or provisions of acts which were not peculiarly for British advantage.
Most of these matters which Parliament had actually dealt with do not appear, in the light of our own system, to be suitable subjects for local legislatures alone in a well-articulated system in which powers are distributed between the central government and the states.
For a hundred years, parliamentary acts had with greater or less earnestness and success regulated the external commerce of the empire. Against the barriers set up, the colonists had at times complained. The extent to which the acts were broken is not for us a subject of extreme importance. The fact is that such acts were passed, the colonists were accustomed to the regulations. One act, the West India Act or Molasses Act of 1733, was systematically avoided; it was designed by high duties to force the colonies to purchase the products of the British insular possessions and not those of the foreign West Indian colonies, especially the commodity which was one of the main articles of colonial commerce; in the mid-eighteenth century and before that date, the rum made from West Indian molasses formed the basis of many profitable New England voyages. The policy of mercantilism pointed unerringly to the regulation of trade as a main function of an imperial government, a function second only to providing for defense. The activity of Parliament in this particular was very real; every colonist, though only slightly interested in traffic on the high seas, must have been conscious of this fact.
Once again, for purposes of emphasis, it is desirable to remind the reader that the colonial assemblies managed their own "internal police." They levied taxes for local purposes; they had in reality defended themselves as parts of the empire — more or less inadequately and without concert, it is true, but fairly successfully; their local trade was in their own hands; and they in short did the many things — sometimes under pressure from the representatives of the royal authority — that concerned the daily life of the colonies. Even in the royal colonies, the legislative assemblies had little by little worn away the actual authority of the Crown. The old method of opposition, by which the royal power in England had been gradually diminished, was often used successfully by colonial assemblies, for possession of the purse strings enabled the assemblies to reach their goal.
But in certain aspects the scope of the imperial power stood forth conspicuously. Parliament regulated trade beyond the confines of any single colony. The Crown had charge of the post office, foreign affairs, war and peace, the army and navy, leaving the subordinate military forces, the militia, to the individual colony; it was in the mid-century beginning to take active general charge of Indian affairs and trade with the Indians; it had ownership of the Crown lands within the royal colonies and was soon to become busily interested in the whole western question; it had taken some part in the establishment of the colonies, though they had been begun by private enterprise; it was prepared soon after the mid-century to enter upon plans of founding and organizing new settlements. Now, every colonist must have been familiar with the main features of the picture of the empire. Some conspicuous and important powers of imperial scope must have been taken for granted; to their existence and the need of their existence the colonists were accustomed.
In the whole picture of the imperial system we see plainly the fact that each colonist was living under two governments; the colonial government which was peculiarly his own was not in possession of complete authority. The colonists at no time were wonted to the sight of a single government exercising more than limited power. If one insists that in theory the government at Westminster had complete and unalloyed power, the fact, nevertheless, if practice and habits are properly taken into account, is that the government allowed colonial governments to function. Should we admit that in theory Parliament was supreme, we must nevertheless say also that this supreme power encroached but little upon internal colonial affairs; and if we recognize the continuing power of the Crown, we must see in addition the unremitting activity of colonial assemblies. The Crown, through disallowance and judicial review, brought into light the fact of colonial subordination and the existence of a central government controlling certain matters of general importance.
This rough sketch of the empire, the reader must be warned, presents only a general picture, subject to modification or enlargement in details. But anyone even slightly familiar with the American constitutional system will see at once the similarity between the general scheme of the old empire and the American political system of federalism. Plainly enough in essentials, if we look at the actual
, the empire of the mid-eighteenth century was a diversified empire; powers were actually distributed and exercised by various governments. And if we consider the conspicuous powers exercised by the central government, we find the list strikingly like the list confided by the Constitution of the United States to the national government. If we add to the powers exercised by imperial authority the single power to obtain money by taxation, the similarity is even more evident. It is quite impossible to estimate with detailed accuracy the measure of influence of this system in the days when the Americans were called upon to organize their own empire, but that the Americans were not influenced by their own experiences and by well-known relationships appears to be an impossible supposition; such a supposition would compel us to think that the American system of federalism was a sudden creation, unbegotten by historical forces and unguided by teachings and habits of the past.
Britain had, therefore, in the mid-eighteenth century an empire characterized in actual practice by the principle of distribution and not by concentration of authority. If Great Britain in 1760 had reached out her hand and said, "This is the law of the empire; thus the system is formed," she would have recognized herself as the most considerable member of an empire with the pivotal characteristic of federalism — many governments, each possessing its legal sphere of authority. If the empire could have been hardened or petrified into the form then existing, it would have been in essential and important particulars a federal empire.
This system, we must notice, was the product of growth largely unintended and unplanned. Its value came from that very fact, from opportunistic effort, from allowing, often heedlessly, spontaneous growth. Developments had been the product of natural forces and conditions.
A narrative account of colonial history would relate a series of controversies, not violent but argumentative in character, between the representative assemblies and the royal or proprietary governors. If these are made to stand forth, the impression is left of a steady movement forward to independence; but there was no real purpose of breaking the ties of allegiance. Disputes do disclose, however, a fairly continuous development of the sense of self-dependence and the desire of the colonists, especially the politicians, to have their own way; political controversy was laying the foundations for future action because of the steady growth of competence and the influence of practical experience. We are dealing in these pages, however, not with the causes of disruption but with a general scheme of empire, as it actually took shape and persisted; we are dealing with actual distribution of powers in a complex imperial system. The colonists might occasionally object to the power of a royal or proprietary governor, and they occasionally fretted under the prohibitions of the navigation acts and acts of trade; but the general system continued. Any attempt to overthrow the system, or to alter its essentials, any attempt, above all, to encroach upon that sphere of authority which had developed under the play of natural forces, was sure to awaken resentment and alarm.
We shall see, as we go on, various evidences of the effect produced by the dualistic structure of the old empire. The practice of that empire, as the colonists knew it and felt it, must be appreciated for an understanding of the rise and establishment of American federalism. In the succeeding chapters, covering the years before the federal Constitution was framed and adopted, this work has in mind two things: the emergence of federalism as a legal system and the protection of individual right and freedom under limited government.
Some evidence of the extent of the use of disallowance can be seen from the following statement: "Of 8,563 acts submitted by the continental colonies, 469 or 5.5 per cent. were disallowed by orders in council." E. B. Russell,
The Review of American Colonial Legislation by the King in Council
(Columbia University
Studies in History
, etc., LXIV, no. 2), p. 221. "The royal disallowance was an executive rather than a legislative act, performed not by the king but by the Council as his executive agent. It was an exercise of the royal prerogative, an expression of the king's supreme authority in the enacting of laws by inferior law-making bodies, whose right to make laws at all rested on the king's will.... The royal disallowance was, therefore, not a veto but an act of regulation and control, in the same sense that a royal letter and instruction was an act of regulation. In fact, disallowance and instruction were synonymous, for both expressed in different forms the royal will." C. M. Andrews, "The Royal Disallowance," Am. Antiq. Society
, new series, XXIV, p. 343.
Professor Andrews classifies the actual purposes of disallowance as follows: "The policy which governed the board and its advisers had four leading aspects. First, to defend the law and custom of the British constitution; secondly, to guard the interest and welfare of British subjects; thirdly, to protect the colonies or any of their inhabitants from ill-advised legislation; and lastly, to prevent the passing of laws that were extraordinary, oppressive, improper, or technically defective." The first group, Andrews says, was the largest, but "Probably the most important of all the reasons for disallowance was that an act affected the trade and shipping of the kingdom or the privileges and prerogatives of British subjects."
pp. 349, 354. See also, O. M. Dickerson,
American Colonial Government 1696-1765
, ch. V.
A. M. Schlesinger, "Colonial Appeals to the Privy Council,"
Pol. Sci. Quart
., XXVIII, p. 446. "The king in council reversed the colonial courts 76 times and affirmed their decisions 57 times.... In 77 cases no decision is recorded; 45 cases were discharged for non-prosecution. Only eleven appeals are noted in the records as having been heard
ex parte." Ibid
., p. 448.
The discussion in the Constitutional Convention of 1787 concerning the proposal to give Congress the authority to negative state acts will be spoken of in a later chapter. The proposal bore a distinct resemblance to the old disallowance. Madison mentioned the resemblance. It is interesting to see the men founding the American system considering, some of them advocating, the institutional practice which had been used by Britain for the maintenance of an empire. But it is even more interesting to see that the framers of the Constitution finally recognized the distinction between disallowance because of the undesirability of an act, on the one hand, and on the other,
judicial determination
of the illegality of an act.
"It's true, the legislative Power is absolute and unaccountable, and King, Lords and Commons may do what they please; but the Question is not about Power, but Right: And shall not the supreme Judicature of all the Nation do right? One may say, that what the Parliament can't do justly, they can't do at all.
In Maxim/is minima eft licentia
. The higher the Power is, the greater Caution is to be us'd in the Execution of it, because the Sufferer is helpless and without Resort." Italics of the original omitted. Jeremiah Dummer,
Defence of the New-England Charters
(Boston, 1745), pp. 40-41.
"Some of the interests sacrificed for the good of the Empire were British, some colonial." G. L. Beer,
British Colonial Policy 1754-1765
, p. 196.
Notice the provisions in our own Constitution concerning piracy, the post office, paper money, naturalization, bankruptcy, and rates of foreign coins. The act making real estate chargeable with debts was intended to prevent a colony from releasing persons who came to settle in the colony from their obligations to the creditors to whom they owed money before their migration; it may be looked upon as an enforcement of the principles of reasonable comity.
"Despite the refusal of the home government to accept the inevitable, the fact remains that before 1760 the royal control of the colonies was largely destroyed.... Thus colonial government was no longer in the hands of the royal officials; the authority of the royal and proprietary governors relaxed; they lost their patronage, their control over the military, their ability to employ secret funds, to check riots and revolts, to manage a police or to take any adequate measures to ensure security at home, or to protect the frontiers against the French and Indians." C. M. Andrews,
The Colonial Period
, pp. 174-175.
In an earlier paper ("The Background of American Federalism,"
Am. Pol. Sci. Rev
., XII, pp. 215-240), I said that Great Britain by the middle of the eighteenth century had a working federal empire. To this statement Professor G. B. Adams, though not criticizing the main contents of the paper, objected on the ground that an empire with a central government free from control by the empire as a whole was not a federal empire. The criticism may be sound. The important idea is, however, that the chief quality of federalism — distribution of powers — appeared in the working practices of the old empire, and that distribution, as a practical fact, does more than merely
the scheme of distribution in the American constitutional system of a later day. The similarity between actual distribution in the old empire and the distribution provided for by the Constitution of the United States is apparent and discloses the evident fact of a family relationship; in essentials American federalism was the child of the old empire.
In addition to the references cited in this chapter, see E. B. Greene,
Provincial America 1690-1740 (Am. Nation Series
, VI); E. B. Greene,
The Provincial Governor in the English Colonies of North America (Harvard Historical Studies
, VII); M. W. Jernegan,
The American Colonies 1492-1750;
H. L. Osgood,
The American Colonies in the Seventeenth Century
, III; H. L. Osgood,
The American Colonies in the Eighteenth Century
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As I said a little while ago we got in touch with the lovely folk at Indietracks who were looking for workshops. I've just heard that we've been selected to run a workshop on the Saturday - woo hoo! What more can a girl want: music, camping, knitting, crochet, science (and a railway)? Perfect!
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. government has failed to produce any evidence to show that Bank of America Corp's (BAC.N) Countrywide unit committed mortgage fraud in the run-up to the financial crisis, a lawyer for the bank said on Tuesday.
The remarks came at the end of a four-week trial in which the government said Countrywide lifted controls on mortgages in a process called "Hustle," and then intentionally sold the resulting bad loans to government-sponsored mortgage giants, the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) FNMA.OB and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. (Freddie Mac) FMCC.OB.
"We've been dragged down the rabbit hole into Alice in Wonderland," Bank of America lawyer Brendan Sullivan said.
The lawsuit is the first government case to go to trial over the faulty mortgage practices that led to the 2008 financial crisis.
It is also the first such case to go to trial asserting claims under a 1980s law called the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery and Enforcement Act, which the government has recently begun using to bring cases against banks.
Making a closing statement for the government, Assistant U.S. Attorney Jaimie Nawaday that Countrywide put speed and volume ahead of quality, which was reflected in employees' bonuses and the elimination of underwriters who could assure loan quality.
"After four weeks of evidence and testimony, this is still a case about greed and lies," she said.
Rebecca Mairone, the former chief operating officer of Countrywide's Full Spectrum Lending division and a co-defendant with Bank of America in the case, "didn't want to hear the process wasn't working," Nawaday said.
Countrywide earned $165.2 million selling "Hustle" loans to Fannie and Freddie, according to the government's evidence. But of the mortgages Countrywide sold them, about 43 percent were materially defective, Nawaday said.
"Quality had become a joke," Nawaday said.
Sullivan, a partner at the law firm Williams & Connolly, questioned the quality of the government's own evidence as he launched into his final attack of the government's case.
The Justice Department said that Countrywide sold about 28,000 such loans to Fannie and Freddie, Sullivan said. Yet the figure had improperly included nearly 17,000 loans produced by Countrywide field offices that weren't part of the "Hustle" program, he said.
Sullivan said the evidence showed that, contrary to government assertions, Countrywide employees were focused on improving the quality of the mortgages it produces and making corrections along the way as it launched the "Hustle" program.
"I don't think a fraud case should be an Easter Egg hunt," Sullivan said.
A lawyer for Mairone, Michael Hefter of Bracewell & Giuliani, sought to call into question the credibility of a former Countrywide executive who filed a whistleblower lawsuit that became the basis of the Justice Department's case.
The former executive, Edward O'Donnell, stands to earn up to $1.6 million if the Justice Department succeeds in the case. He also now works at Fannie Mae, Hefter said.
But Hefter said O'Donnell had "had it out" for Mairone, who today works at JPMorgan Chase & Co (JPM.N). O'Donnell blamed her for minimizing his role in the company and for not landing a high-level position following a division reorganization, Hefter said.
"Mr. O'Donnell came into this court with a grudge and a mission," Hefter said.
Should the four men and six women on the jury find the defendants liable, any penalty would be assessed by U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff, who is presiding over the case.
The Justice Department has said it would seek a penalty equal to either Fannie and Freddie's losses or the defendants' gain, whichever was greater.
The mortgage giants' estimated "gross loss" on the "Hustle" loans was $848.2 million, the Justice Department has said. The "net loss" - or the amount due to the portion of loans the Justice Department says were materially defective - was $131.2 million.
Jurors are expected to begin deliberations Wednesday morning.
The case is U.S. ex rel. O'Donnell v. Bank of America Corp et al, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, No. 12-01422.
Reporting by Nate Raymond; Editing by Eddie Evans


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Lower 9th Ward Village Events
The Lower 9th Ward Village has some exciting upcoming events. See if there are any events near you! To request an event and for bookings, please email us at email@example.com!
- Mack McClendon, Lower 9th Ward Village Community Center Executive Director and Community Organizer is traveling along the East Coast (Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maryland) to share his story of resiliency after Hurricane Katrina. The events, which are free and open to the public, will most importantly spread awareness about the disenfranchisement of this community and will aim to raise money to prevent the closure of the invaluable organizing space and community center, the Lower 9th Ward Village.
- 5/23 New Orleans, LA: Save the Village Benefit Concert at the Howlin Wolf from 7-11pm
- 6/14 Atlanta, GA: Seafood Boil from 6pm-8pm


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Brothers of Our Lady of the Fields
Congregation founded at Saint Damien de Buckland in the Diocese of Quebec, 1902, by Reverend J. O. Brousseau, to train orphans in industrial and agricultural pursuits, and the arts of colonization. In 1924 the mother-house was transferred to Squatteck in the Diocese of Rimouski. The novitiate is located at Rimouski.


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DC's Legends of Tomorrow
When heroes alone are not enough… the world needs legends. Having seen the future, one he will desperately try to prevent from happening, time-traveling rogue Rip Hunter is tasked with assembling a disparate group of both heroes and villains to...
Genre: Action , Adventure , Drama , Sci-Fi
Actor: Brandon Routh , Caity Lotz , Amy Louise Pemberton , Dominic Purcell , Franz Drameh
Director: Dermott Downs , David Geddes , Gregory Smith
Country: USA
Duration:42 mins
Quality: HD
Season 1 - DC's Legends of Tomorrow
"Time-traveling rogue, Rip Hunter, has to recruit a rag-tag team of heroes and villains to help prevent an apocalypse that could impact not only Earth, but all of time."
"The team meet Vandal Savage, who senses the presence of Hawkman and Hawkgirl. A fight follows in which Ray loses a piece of his costume that threatens to change the future. Then the team plan to correct that."
"In an effort to weaken Savage by going after his financial assets, Rip and Sara infiltrate his bank. Meanwhile, Snart and Rory take the jump ship back to Central City for a job."
"Dr. Stein sneaks into a lab and finds out that Savage is trying to create Firestorm."
"After some of the Legends are captured and thrown into a Russian gulag during the height of the Cold War of 1986, Snart leads the team in an elaborate Prison Break to free their comrades. However, Rip gives Sara a secret side mission that could prove not only to be a liability, but fatal to the team."
"A malfunction sends the Waverider to 2046 Star City where the team faces a future in which they fail to stop Savage and return home."
"When there's no trace of Savage, Rip spends time dwelling on the past and Rory continues to be a liability to the team. The crew receive a distress call from another Time Master and seek it out, only to find that the ship was commandeered by time pirates. Snart has an important decision to make."
"The team tracks Savage to a small town in Oregon in the 1950s where they suspect he's involved in a recent string of murders."
"Ray, Sara and Kendra are stranded in the '50s when the Waverider takes off without them."
"The team is divided over killing a 14-year-old boy who will grow to be a powerful ally for Savage."
"The Legends travel back to the Old Wild West and gain the aid of a true legend - a morally ambiguous gunslinger with a penchant for danger named Jonah Hex."
"A deadly assassin called the Pilgrim wants to wipe the Legends from the timeline by killing the heroes' younger selves before they become powerful."
"Rip takes the team to London in the year 2166, three days before his family is killed. He believes this to be their final opportunity to take out Savage who is, unfortunately, at the height of his power. However, the team discovers two key elements to defeating him - Savage's daughter and the means to kill Savage once and for all."
"After numerous attempts in many different time periods, the team has successfully captured Vandal Savage. However, Savage tells Kendra that he can reunite her with Carter so she struggles with whether she should kill him. Rip decides they will deliver Savage to the Time Masters which doesn't sit well with Snart and Rory. The duo decides it may be time to jump ship and return to their old life. Meanwhile, Savage taunts Ray about his place in Kendra's life."
"Being in the vicinity of the Time Masters leaves Rip and Rory incredibly disturbed for very different reasons. Meanwhile, Sara takes over the Waverider, Kendra is reunited with Carter and Snart decides he might be a hero after all."
"After the numerous sacrifices the team has made since the beginning of this ride, Rip decides that it's time they each decide their own destiny and returns them to Central City a few months after they first left. Returned to their normal lives, each team member must individually decide if they are willing to sacrifice everything in order to save the world. Meanwhile, Sara visits with her father who delivers some heartbreaking news about her sister."
Season 2 - DC's Legends of Tomorrow
"When a new threat emerges, Dr. Nate Heywood seeks out Oliver Queen to help find the scattered Legends; once reunited, they go to 1942, to keep Albert Einstein from being kidnapped before the Nazis destroy New York City with a nuclear bomb."
"The Legends discover a time aberration that threatens the Justice Society of America, who are on a mission to intercept and seize a mysterious package in Nazi-occupied Paris."
"Nate is shocked to learn he has powers, but then accidentally lands himself and Ray in Feudal Japan."
"The Legends find themselves fighting for survival against Confederate zombies in the Civil War."
"The Legends trace a time quake to the White House during Ronald Reagan's presidency and discover that Damien Darhk is a Senior Adviser."
"The Legends find Jonah Hex in trouble with his arch-nemesis Quentin Turnbull when they arrive in the Old West."
"The Legends work with The Flash, Supergirl and Green Arrow to kill the invaders; while working out how to defeat the Dominators, Stein gets distracted by the aberration he created in 1987."
"The Legends track a Time Aberration to 1927 Chicago and realize they've been set up by Eobard Thawne, Damien Dahrk and the newest member of the Legion of Doom - Malcolm Merlyn."
"Damien Dahrk and Malcolm Merlyn create a big aberration as they attempt to capture Rip in 1967."
"The Legends must find the Spear of Destiny before they can rescue Rip, while Malcolm and Damien realize that Thawne is pitting them against each other."
"The Legends travel to the winter of 1776 to protect George Washington during the American Revolution, but Sara is forced to send out Nate and Amaya when things don't go as planned."
"The Legends continue their quest to find the Spear of Destiny before the Legion of Doom get their hands on the pieces. Their first stop is the future, after which they travel to Camelot and find Stargirl guarding a piece of the Spear."
"The Legends are left seventy million years in the past when Rip causes the Waverider to crash after his capture."
"The Legends learn where the last fragment of the Spear of Destiny is hidden when they track Commander Steel to NASA Headquarters in 1970."
"The Legends land in France during World War I and enlist the aid of J.R.R. Tolkien to retrieve the last pieces of the Spear of Destiny from the Legion of Doom."
"The Legion of Doom rewrites history after obtaining the Spear of Destiny, potentially changing the Legends forever."
"When a massive timequake rocks the ship while the legends are preparing for their next destination, they must break a cardinal rule of time travel."
Season 3 - DC's Legends of Tomorrow
"When the Time Bureau relieves the Legends of duty, they must steal back the Waverider when Julius Caesar is spotted in Aruba."
"The Legends attempt to fix the anachronism in 1870 that happens to be P.T. Barnum's circus."
"The Legends try to protect an outlaw named Zari in order to capture a rogue time traveler."
"The Legends go back to 1988 to save Ray when they realize he'll die because of their breaking time."
"The Legends run into Rip in 1897 London where they attempt to hunt down a time-traveling vampire."
"The Legends track down an anachronism in 1930s Hollywood, where Helen of Troy has started a war between two film studios."
"The team trace a new Anachronism to the jungles of Vietnam. Rory and Nate bump into someone from Rory's past."
"The gang comes together for Barry and Iris's wedding, but the ceremony is crashed by villains from Earth-X."
"The Legends investigate an Anachronism in a Viking settlement in the New World and realize the Norsemen are worshiping an artifact as their god."
"John Constantine pays the Legends a visit; they agree to accompany him to a present-day psychiatric hospital and are surprised to discover who Constantine is trying to help; Amaya and Nate once again come face-to-face with Kuasa."
"Zari finds her place on the team when she gets caught in a time loop that results in the Waverider blowing up over and over again."
"While Sara takes some private time, the Legends follow a lead on the whereabouts of the Earth Totem and find themselves in 1717 on the hunt for Blackbeard's treasure."
"After being taken hostage by the Dahrks, Ray teams with Nora to fix the Fire totem in 1960's East Germany and come face-to-face with a younger and deadlier version of Damien."
"The Legends embark on a mission to save music when they learn that a tragedy destroyed Memphis in 1954."
"When Mallus' power over Sara resurfaces, she unwittingly becomes the bearer of one of the Totems. Rory must conquer his dark side in order to wield his own Totem power to help save the crew. Meanwhile, Agent Sharpe notices that something is wrong and recruits someone unorthodox to help."
"Sara and Ray set out to find Ava when she disappears and Time Bureau agent Gary reveals a disturbing truth about her."
"The Legends must fix two anachronisms at the same time to keep Mallus at bay and form an uneasy alliance with one of their enemies."
"Rip is forced to improvise when the Legends' plan to vanquish Mallus with the totems doesn't work."
Season 4 - DC's Legends of Tomorrow
"After the Legends defeated Mallus and wiped the final anachronism from time they find themselves in unfamiliar territory with the Time Bureau. All that changes when Constantine informs Sara of a new magical threat that leads the team to Woodstock. Constantine thinks he knows how to defeat the new threat but will need the help of the team and their special klepto talents to help with his spell. Meanwhile, Nate and Rory go on an adventure leaving Nate facing someone from his past."
"When the magical Time Seismograph goes off, the team finds themselves headed to the Salem witch trials. Sara notices that Zari is taking the case personally when she promises to save a mom, who is being accused of being a witch. However, the team quickly learns that there is a magical creature in the town creating problems they hadn't been expecting. Meanwhile, Nate and Ava work together to try to keep their Time Bureau funding by proving to them that magic exists."
"When the Legends discover a fugitive is hiding in 1970's London, they realize he is part of a gang that is targeting the British Monarchy. Trying to stop the gang, they realize someone from the Legends must infiltrate them. Surprising everyone, Ray is the one to gain their trust after he is put through a series of tests with help from Sara and Rory. Meanwhile, Gary shows Nate the ropes at the Time Bureau, but it turns out to be anything other than an ordinary day at the office."
"When the Legends discover that kids at a summer camp have disappeared, Sara, Ava, Ray and Constantine find themselves as the new camp counselors. At camp, Ava struggles to get along with the kids, but Constantine whips up a potion that helps Sara and Ava bond with the children. Luckily, the team finds clues to the whereabouts of the missing kids, but the battle to save them leaves one member in bad shape. Meanwhile, Rory and Zari are tasked with watching the fugitive and Rory finds a kindship with their \"prisoner.\""
"A new fugitive is loose in 1951 Tokyo; as Constantine struggles to recover, Ray must look outside the team for help; Ava joins Nate and his family for an unconventional Thanksgiving dinner."
"Hank Heywood confronts Ava about the spending habits of the Legends; Mona tries to make a good impression with Ava, but her eagerness gets her and Ava stuck in a cell together."
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"Supreme art is a traditional statement of certain heroic and religious truth, passed on from age to age, modified by individual genius, but never abandoned." William Butler Yeats
|According to the synopsis I have read, when King T'Challa returns to Wakanda from the events of Captain America Civil War, his sovereignty is being challenged by a faction within the kingdom, and he has to work with the CIA and his country's own special forces corps to stop the unrest. Martin Freeman portrays Everett K Ross, a member of the CIA special terrorism branch, so his role will likely be significant in the film. Andy Serkis is Ulysses Klaue, who we have seen before; he is in the black market, smuggling and somehow got a hold of a piece of advanced Wakandan mining equipment,... they might be wanting that back.
UPDATED: Ulysses' last name is pronounced "KLAW," and he gets a high-tech prosthetic, so it's the opposite of the "claws" of the Black Panther.


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A friend told me that if I ever wanted to sell a home for a good price, I would need to have the best looking shutters put on it. I didn't understand how the shutters on a home would make the home more or less desirable than any other part of it, but my friend did. I bought a cheap home in Orange County with the idea of fixing it up and selling it for a profit. I contacted a local orange county shutters company to have new shutters put on the home to test if there was any truth to what my friend was saying.
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25 September 2014
Last updated at 11:23
The public has been warned to stay out of former school grounds in Clydebank after asbestos was discovered.
West Dunbartonshire Council said the the potentially cancer-causing substance was found at the former St Eunan's Primary by contractors.
The building was demolished in 2011 but some local people have used the site as a short cut since a fence was breached.
The council is repairing the fence, erecting warning signs and removing the asbestos. Investigations continue.
'Public safety'
West Dunbartonshire Council said the asbestos was discovered by contractors during "routine" land investigations.
Councillor Patrick McGlinchey, convener of infrastructure and regeneration, said: "Our first concern is for public safety and we wanted to let people know of this situation as soon as possible.
"Signage has been ordered and will be erected immediately. We would ask that people respect this advice and do not access the site.
"The asbestos found on the ground is being removed and the council is awaiting further detailed reports on this occurrence. We will take all further action as required."
Asbestos found at former school site


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Personal Trainer
Lou has been involved in fitness for a very long time. Starting with this childhood playing soccer, football and golf to his years in High School where he was on the Swim Team and played Water Polo for 3 seasons. A 6-year enlistment in the Navy was next where he found his true passion: working out and training clients in the gym for fitness.
For the last 20 years Lou has been learning on a daily basis different aspects of Health and Fitness. Whether it is Nutrition, Medicine or Strength Training, Lou has dedicated his time and efforts into learning so he can help his clientele from ages ranging 8 years old to 70+ years old reach the highest levels of fitness or health. A firm believer in weight training and nutrition techniques to improve clients in the fastest way possible has Lou working hard to achieve his career goal of training Olympic and Professional caliber athletes.


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PRISYM 360 Vision to help remove risk of print errors, reduce costs and ensure compliance
We are announcing the general availability of PRISYM 360 Vision, a new automated print inspection module for our flagship PRISYM 360 labeling platform. PRISYM 360 Vision delivers the industry's only label lifecycle management software to be fully integrated with print inspection hardware, reducing costs and removing risk whilst ensuring regulatory compliance.
As regulations tighten, the need for medical device manufacturers to examine their systems, processes and operations is intensifying. The roll-out of Unique Device Identification (UDI) requirements is placing unprecedented levels of scrutiny on the labeling of medical devices; companies must ensure that label content is aligned with FDA requirements.
Simon Jones, VP Global Product, PRISYM ID, comments: "Despite advances in labeling technologies, a surprisingly high percentage of companies still rely on either manual inspection of medical device labels, or disparate systems for label production and print inspection, both of which are clearly time and resource intensive, and leave organizations open to risk of print error and non-compliance."
As a fully integrated solution, PRISYM 360 Vision overcomes these constraints by automating the creation of inspection masks through the label design software, which in turn also makes the training of the print inspection hardware a significantly easier process. In doing so, PRISYM 360 Vision allows organizations to perform inspections on both label design and specific label content in real-time through the PRISYM 360 user interface, whilst inspection results are automatically recorded in a single, secure electronic audit log. The result is a seamless process for verifying the accuracy, quality and compliance of the printed medical device and clinical trial label.
Jones adds, "With a recent PRISYM ID survey indicating that only 40% of companies polled are confident that they are ready for an FDA inspection that includes UDI activities, the need for organizations to be assured of their label compliance has arguably never been greater. PRISYM 360 Vision removes all the constraints of traditional print inspection processes. It reduces the cost, effort and expertise associated with the management, configuration and testing of disparate print hardware solutions, making them truly viable for widescale adoption. This reduces risk as more errors will be detected and rectified; and, critically, improves compliance and auditability."
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The Thannhauser Collection at The Guggenheim Museum
In the Galleries: Artists and Photographers
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Dr. Roberta E. ZlokowerApril 8, 2011
See The Guggenheim Restoration and The Wright
See "The Great Upheaval" and "Kandinsky at the Bauhaus"
(Assisted by Guggenheim Press Notes).
After exploring "The Great Upheaval" and Kandinsky exhibits, I wandered into my favorite corner at The Guggenheim, The Thannhauser Collection. Justin Thannhauser was the son of a renowned art dealer, Heinrich Thannhauser, and he helped his father in their Moderne Galerie, which opened in 1909 in Munich. Exhibitions that they mounted were French Impressionists, Post-Impressionists, German artists, and Italian futurists. The Moderne Galerie featured The Blue Rider in 1909 and 1911, with works by Vasily Kandinsky, and also Picasso's first major exhibition in 1913. Thannhauser eventually opened more galleries in Lucerne and Berlin (which had replaced the Munich space).
The Galleries Thannhauser closed in 1937, due to political and cultural pressures, mainly by the growing Nazi movement, and Thannhauser and his family moved to Paris and then New York in 1940. Thannhauser, assisted by his wife, Hilde, established himself as a private art dealer. The Thannhausers and Solomon R. Guggenheim were all compelled to promote the trajectory of artistic progress, so, in the memory of members of his family that had died at young ages, Thannhauser donated a large part of his art collection, highlighted by many works of Picasso, to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in 1963. When Thannhauser and Hilde had both died, a bequest of 10 additional works was received, and this collection became permanent to The Guggenheim Museum.
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Metro's Dorothy Robinson presents the top photos of the day from the celebrity world.
Metro's Dorothy Robinson presents the top photos of the day from the celebrity world.
1: Gerard Butler and Michelle Monaghan arrived at the "Machine Gun Preacher" Los Angeles premiere at the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences on Wednesday in Beverly Hills.
2: Beyonce attended the launch of her new fragrance PULSE at Dream Downtown on Wednesday in New York City.
3: Maggie Gyllenhaal posed for a photo during the unveiling for her 'got milk?' ad at City Bakery on Thursday in New York City.
4: Levi Johnston visited Dave & Buster's Times Square on Wednesday in New York City.
5: Toni Morrison spoke at Lisner Auditorium at The George Washington University on Wednesday in Washington, DC.
6: Eva Longoria attended the "Desperate Housewives" Final Season Kick-Off Party at Universal Studios on Wednesday in Universal City, California.
7: Cookie Monster and Elmo visited "The Morning Mash Up" on SiriusXM Hits 1 at the SiriusXM Studios on Wednesday in New York City.


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The past decade has been a real spiritual journey for me. I moved through several Christian sects before finally moving beyond Christianity as most people know it. At the same time I began studying Buddhism. For a long time I was both: A Christian Buddhist. Not really impossible and many people (including prominent Christian clergymen and women) practice Buddhism and Christianity. Buddhism is non-theistic and non-dogmatic. The Buddha is neither god nor final decider of the rules. He tells his followers to ignore what he says and find out for themselves.
After I moved out of Christianity (I don't like to say I "left" or "turned away" or "renounced" because I really feel like Christianity was part of my path and that it was the thing that pointed me to my current place. I didn't "Leave"; I followed where it led) I called myself a Buddhist and an atheist. I thought it was important to differentiate myself from people who believe in god, especially the christian "Father"-type god. I was still practicing Buddhism so that title seemed fit.
I still use Buddhism in many setting because it quickly gives an overview of some of my core values. But it isn't really true. Buddhism isn't a fit label for me and the concept of the labeling is itself damaging. This is the journey I'd like to describe for you.
Do you know this song?
I first heard this song in 2006. This was before kids. Before my worst bout of depression (2007). Before I moved out of Christianity but just shortly after I began actively studying Buddhism.
I LOVE this song. From the very first time I heard it there was something so compelling about it. I used to listen to it multiple times a day or even have it on a loop in the background while I worked. The words moved me. The music was both soothing and rousing. It never got old for me. I felt the same powerful emotion each time I heard it. No matter how many times I heard it.
I bought the rest of Matisyahu's songs (and still do). He is really talented mixing beatbox with reggae beats and soaring, passionate lyrics. I shouldn't really need a reason to like his music. But my friends considered it weird that I was so moved by the lyrics when it is so overtly Jewish. I tried to put it into words: When he says,
What's this feeling?
My love will rip a hole in the ceiling
Givin' myself to you from the essence of my being
You really BELIEVE he means it. If I put the passion of every Brittany Spears song together it wouldn't equal the raw passion of his words.
The song moved me they way my religion moved me. Not all the time, of course, but when I wasn't defending the faith to the world against those twisting it to sanction hate, I really felt my religion. The words Matisyahu spoke were how religion was supposed to feel,
You're like water for my soul when it gets thirsty
Without you there's no me
You're the air that I breathe
Religion, when it felt right to me, was like air and water – everything I needed for perfect contentment. Peace.
When I look to the sky where my help come from
And I've seen it circling around from the mountain
You feel it in your chest
Yes! You feel it in your chest. A brief moment, in the words of the Christian bible, of a "peace that surpasses all understanding."
That's the Thing. The single anchor of desire that kept me searching. Seeking for answers to spiritual questions. Or, rather, THE spiritual question: Who Am I?
The answers Christianity gave me: I am a child of god, a sinner in need of a savior, on trial for my every behavior with punishment expected for behavior deemed bad were becoming incompatible with my inner "truth" meter.
If you've known me at all you know that, as a parent educator, I point out not only the benefits of non-punitive, gentle parenting but I also share what science is learning about the human design for non-punitive, gentle parenting. We are literally biologically-primed for freedom and choice and to resist coercion or control. Like a plant deprived light, humans deprived of freedom and choice wilt. Plants need water to thrive and humans need to be free.
In the public sphere of my life this looked like my talking about feminism (the right of women to thrive without the control of patriarchy), racism and colonialism (the right of brown people to thrive without the control of white colonists) and parenting (the right of children to thrive without the control of their parents).
What I had was cognitive dissonance – discomfort experienced by an individual who holds two or more contradictory beliefs, ideas, or values at the same time, or is confronted by new information that conflicts with existing beliefs, ideas, or values (source:wikipedia). Everything I believed about secular life – freedom, choice, absence of violence was in direct opposition to everything I believed about my spiritual life – that I was constrained by rules, my choices could be judged "evil", and a religion both founded on and perpetuated by indescribably horrific violence and genocide.
Cognitive dissonance must always be reconciled. It isn't possible to live in your mind with two opposing views. You can read on wikipedia if you want to read some of the ways people resolve cognitive dissonance (trigger warning: their examples are fat phobic) but I believe this is what kept me searching. I knew where I was wasn't comfortable. I had to keep looking.
Of course by this time I'm learning more about Buddhism and experiencing the amazing affect of meditation and particularly, metta meditation which is like body building for your compassion muscles. I had experienced that my mind wasn't me and was, in fact, kind of a pain in my ass. Telling my brain to shut up became a new mantra. (Now I love my mind even when I tell it to shush. I say, "old friend, you aren't trying to pull that again are you?").
The Buddha said,
We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.
This began to coalesce with my studies of feminism in the context of cultural/social constructs. In my book, Gender Neutral Parenting, I spend some time explaining how to step outside our cultural constructs like "gender" by thinking of the compass. There is no objectively described "north" or "south". We collectively decide to label these places with these words to helps us communicate about our environment. There is no north (or spoon, ha!).
In The Teaching of Buddha by the Japanese Buddhist organization, Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai, it says,
In the sky there is no distinction of east and west; people create the distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.
Here the beliefs of my secular life combined with the beliefs of my spiritual life. I will probably write much more about spirituality and feminism since this is an area that I've received much push back from other feminists. For now though I'm going to focus on my journey.
So one day, I'm listening to King Without a Crown again and I notice this line,
Strip away the layers and reveal your soul
Got to give yourself up and then you become whole
You're a slave to yourself and you don't even know
You want to live the fast life but your brain moves slow
This captures the practice of Buddhism well: pick through all these thoughts. Quiet them and see who you are underneath all of your cultural constructs and conditioning.
Looking up to the sky and searchin' beneath the ground
Like a King without his Crown
Yes, you keep fallin' down
You really want to live but can't get rid of your frown
Tried to reach unto the heights and wound bound down on the ground
And how hard it is. From the moment of our birth we begin to layer ourselves with words. Words aren't all bad – they help us know each other, love each other – but without understanding that they aren't you, words can be dangerous.
We say I'm Paige.
I'm a girl.
I'm intelligent.
I'm an American.
I'm white.
And we forget who we really are without all the words.
For me, Buddhism is a great practice for removing the words. It isn't religion. I don't "believe" in Buddhism. I practice it. I find the suggestions that are credited to that ancient Hindu man name Siddhartha Gautama really work for me when I practice them each day. I do metta meditation and I see tangible results in myself. I see a grouchy bank teller and I feel love not annoyance.
I know there are people who have taken the words credited to the Jewish man named Jesus and interpreted them in a much different way than the mainstream Christians and they use them to practice what Jesus taught. The same is true for nearly every mainstream religion. It is a thread connecting all religions and it is spiritual not religious.
When the philosopher, Jiddu Krishnamurti, broke away from the Theosophical society of white colonizers he said,
I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized; nor should any organization be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path. You must climb towards the Truth. It cannot be 'stepped down' or organized for you.
This was even stronger than what the Buddha said. There is no way to go, no directions to find bliss. Which, let's face it is the primary purpose of all religion. Buddha said to find out for yourself. Krishnamurti expounded that finding out for yourself is the only way. There is no path but the one you are on.
The problem is that we have all these ideas. Religion gives us ideas. Buddhism is an idea for how to find bliss. It has worked for me but it also tethers me. If Buddhism is a label I wear that creates an anchor to my thoughts then I'm not really free to move past the circle of my beliefs.
Like a dog on a chain is "free" only in the circle allowed by his chain (please don't do this). When we label ourselves as Buddhist or Christian we drive a tether into the ground and cut ourselves off from understanding.
Matisyahu says this too,
You want God but you can't deflate your ego
If you're already there then there's nowhere to go
If you're cup's already full then its bound to overflow
If you are identifying with a religion, or any label, then your are filling yourself (your cup) and it is no long open to receive new understanding. Krishnamurti again,
Psychologically I think it is true, because self-discipline implies a mind that is tethered to a particular thought or belief or ideal, a mind that is held by a condition; and as an animal that is tethered to a post can only wander within the distance of its rope, so does the mind which is tethered to a belief, which is perverted through self-discipline, wander only within the limitation of that condition. Therefore such a mind is not mind at all, it is incapable of thought. It may be capable of adjustment between the limitations of the post and the farthest point of its reach; but such a mind, such a heart cannot really think and feel.
If you can completely untether yourself from all thoughts and identifications (Buddha calls them distinctions), you will know the real you, which Buddhists call enlightenment. Although I think it is a horrible thing to focus on. Spirituality shouldn't be goal oriented. That's what religion does. It says do xyz and avoid jkl and you will receive bliss.
It isn't about the answer or the goal. It isn't about rules or a path. It is about questioning, seeking, and remaining open.
And see, I lift up [in] my eyes where my help come from
And I seen it circling around from the mountain
You feel it in your chest
You keep my mind at ease and my soul at rest
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There may be some debate as to who the greatest male distance runner of all time is, as both Haile Gebrselassie and Kenenisa Bekele have pretty impressive (and in my mind, equivalent) resumes. But one thing is certain, Haile Gebrselassie has done much more outside of running than his countryman.
As this article illustrates, Haile Gebrselassie is far from just a distance runner these days. He is also the head of a construction company that builds "cinemas, convention centres, petrol stations, schools, sports stores, cafes and fitness centres" as well as the Chairman of the Great Ethiopian Run, an event with over 32,000 participants. He's also a father of three. (You can also see some videos of Haile's daily life at the link in his name above.)
I more or less knew that, though. Two new things struck me from this article. First, Haile's efforts on behalf of women in Ethiopia should be praised more publicly. I have read extensively about Haile, but didn't know about this aspect of his business. My admiration for Haile the person continues to grow.
Second, think of the focus that Haile must apply to his daily activities in order to achieve the level of success that he's reached. It's one thing to run a great marathon, and quite another to do so while holding down a full-time job. I have no doubt that Haile's built a great team around him at his company. But to be able to continually excel at his running despite the myriad distractions that inevitably arise when running a business is extraordinary.
I have long been of the opinion that the best athletes are able to excel not because of physical talent or how hard they work, but because of how focused they are when they are working hard. Haile is a man whom one can easily see falling into the "Multi-Tasking" or "Over-Extended" categories of The Engagement Scale. But you can tell from his performances that he never does.
He manages to stay firmly "Committed" to his running, if not "All-Consumed". With everything else in his life, that can only be accomplished through unparalleled focus. When he trains, he uses his time and energy as effectively and efficiently as possible. And when he isn't training, he obviously approaches his other commitments with an equal focus.


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Both projects I'm posting here today have been shamelessly borrowed from other bloggers. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!
Unfortunately, I can't find the blog that posted the dragonflies last year, I think to give credit for the idea. I thought it was Deep Space Sparkle, but I couldn't find the lesson there, so now I'm not sure. If it's your lesson, please let us know! Please note the artwork posted has both a sun in the corner and a face on the sun. I did not say no to the 9 year old artist, and frankly, I absolutely love the joyful look of the whole piece.
The zebra project (that's a complete bulletin board in the photo) came from Anne at http://useyourcolouredpencils.blogspot.com/2010/08/zebras.html. She credits someone else at her blog, but it was her post that really grabbed me.
Back to the dragonflies ~ they were done by grade 4 for the fundraiser project I'm currently completing for our PTSA. The PTSA is very nice to me, subsidizing much of the cost of matting and framing student artwork for permanent display, so I would never say no to the fundraiser. But it's a struggle to come up with ideas, as I consider it sort of a throwaway lesson, that is intended to sell rather than for learning, and that never gets displayed in the school. I have to get them done quickly to meet deadline, so we dive in, complete them, and then move on to my 'real' lessons. I do something different with every grade level, and I change it each year so siblings don't bring home the same artwork as their older sibling the year before.
These cardboard and clothespin zebras are not a typical lesson for me, but just couldn't be resisted. My son went to South Africa and took this photo of a zebra on safari, which I showed the kids:
Then the 3rd grade teacher told me they were studying South Africa, and with Open House coming soon it seemed like a fun way to get a bulletin board up quickly, so in between steps on our PTSA project, the 3rd graders also made these adorable zebras. They are a real hit in the school!
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Fun and fundraiser
Labels: 3rd grade, 4th grade, dragonflies, elementary art lessons, painting, zebras
4 comments:
I just love that zebra mural! I've got to do one. I did the dragonflies on flowers in the spring. But I got the idea from Art Lessons (elementraryartfun.blogspot) where she had a variety of close-up insects. That top dragonfly is wonderful. Glad you didn't edit the artist too!ReplyDelete
I love those zebras jumping over the moon, phyl. Looks great!ReplyDelete
Fab!!! I just love how it looks! Very cool!ReplyDelete
Love the dragonflies for your fundraiser idea...I might have to try that one. I'm getting bored with using the same projects every year for the fundraiser.ReplyDelete
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text: Second Heart Sounds Second Heart Sound: Fixed Splitting, Decreased Aortic Intensity Lesson Waveform Anatomy This example shows a second heart sound (S2) with fixed splitting and an aortic component with decreased intensity. Once again, we are using fixed splitting to help you hear the difference in intensity between the aortic and pulmonic components of S2.This pattern is seen in the presence of long-standing severe pulmonary hypertension where the pressure in the pulmonary artery is markedly increased.Note the increased thickness of the right ventricular free wall. After reviewing the sound, use the waveform and anatomy tabs for more information about this sound. play pause Position: Pulmonic Maneuver: Sitting Chestpiece: Diaphragm Table of Contents 1Second Heart Sound - Physiologically Split #2 2Second Heart Sound with Persistent Splitting 3Second Heart Sound with Fixed Splitting 4Second Heart Sound: Fixed Splitting, Increased Aortic Intensity 5Second Heart Sound: Fixed Splitting, Decreased Aortic Intensity 6Second Heart Sound and Late Systolic Click 7Second Heart Sound and a Tumor Plop 8Opening Snap and Second Heart Sound Practice Drill


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|Induction day for the new MSc programmes
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The International Hellenic University opened its doors to the students of the new intakes for the MSc in Management and MSc in Banking & Finance. The induction day took place at the university's premises in Thermi Thessaloniki on Friday 9 October 2009. During the day students had the chance to tour IHU's premises, receive their programme schedule, and meet the other students as well as the academic faculty and administration staff.
The Chairman of IHU, Prof. Kostas Grammenos, welcomed the new students on behalf of the Governing Board. Presenting the university's growth over the last two years, Professor Grammenos illustrated how new structures had been developed in this short period of time, including new academic programmes, computer labs, library, data bases, support services, etc., which could be compared to those in educational institutions abroad. Professor Grammenos encouraged the new students to take full advantage of the possibilities that the university offers, so that they can succeed in their studies and in their professional life later on.
The Dean of the School of Economics and Administration, Professor Mario Levis, presented the programme in detail together with the student handbook. He also gave a general introduction about the way the university operates and stressed the fact that "The university is built around the student, with the sole purpose of providing high class academic expertise in order that our alumni secure entry into the international job market, especially during this period which is characterized by a high degree of uncertainty and insecurity due to the international economic crisis."


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Uber's APIs: Giving Developers the Keys to Innovation
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Uber aims to make transportation as ubiquitous and reliable as running water. One way the company has done this is by opening its APIs to developers.
Join Chris Messina, Uber's developer experience lead, Alexander Graebe, Uber's developer advocate, and Apigee's Alan Ho learn how businesses are using Uber to convert digital engagement into real-world action. In this webcast replay, we demonstrate how Uber lets you:
- enable your users to request a ride in any context with the Rides Request API
- reach your customers while they're on the go with the Trip Experiences API
- power your on-demand delivery needs with the UberRUSH API
Learn about all three APIs and see examples of how partners have used Uber's technology to drive innovation in their own businesses.