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Deepa Kumar: Constructing the Muslim Enemy [Web]
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In response to the events of 9/11, the Bush administration launched a "war on terror", ushering in an era of anti-Muslim racism, or Islamophobia. However, 9/11 did not create the image of the "Muslim enemy."
This presentation examines the relationship between anti-Muslim racism and the agenda of empire building. Beginning in the eleventh century with the Crusades, Deepa Kumar offers a sweeping historical analysis of the changing views of Islam and Muslims in the West, examining the ways that ruling elites throughout history have used the spectre of a "Muslim enemy" to justify imperialism.
This discussion presented by Associate Professor Deepa Kumar will show how the Arab Spring revolts of 2011 and 2012 have debunked and disproven the racist and Islamaphobic ideas and narratives present in political discourse in the US and Europe.
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Deepa Kumar is an Associate Professor of Media Studies and Middle Eastern Studies at Rutgers University. Her work is driven by an active engagement with the key issues that characterize our era: neoliberalism and imperialism.
Her second book is titled Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire (Haymarket Books, 2012) which looks at how the "Muslim enemy" has historically been mobilized to suit the goals of imperialism. She has shared her expertise on media outlets including BBC, NPR, USA Today, Philadelphia Inquirer, St. Louis Post Dispatch, Hurriyat Daily News (Turkey), Iran Fars News (Iran), Al Arabiya (UAE), and other national and international news media outlets.
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Commodities snapped out of a five-day losing streak after having suffered the biggest declines since the November sell-off, as gold eased for the first time.
Bond yields in the PIIGS hit lows not seen since pre the European debt crisis, with Ireland's ten-year yields hitting an eight-year low; Spain's ten-year bonds dropped to levels not seen since December 2009, and Greece's ten-year bonds fell to 7.43%.
To most, this yield will seem awfully high, however if you compare it to the yields Greece had on offer during the height of the crisis - near 44% - this is an amazing turnaround and suggests some stability is returning to the country.
If there was ever a clear sign that the issues of 2011 and 2012 are abating in Europe, the bond yields of the PIIGS are just that. If investors are willing to buy bonds from the likes of Ireland, Spain and Greece for yields well below the crisis levels, they believe the governments of these countries have got their houses in order, that government policy issues are under control and their economies are showing signs of strengthening after the structural heartache of past three years.
All can be seen as signs of risk-on in the developed world and that the Eurozone is returning to a place of growth.
Moving to the other side of the Atlantic, the US trade balance was a standout read, as the trade deficit fell 13% to a four-year low, as oil imports hit a three-year low showing the US is becoming energy independent and is on track to becoming the biggest net exporter of energy in the world as the shale gas revolution ramps up and the oil export hits highs. The two places this news was felt the most were the DOW and USD/CAD.
Having contracted over the past two weeks, the DOW has now rallied back within 0.4% of the all-time closing high and looks like pushing through this mark over the coming days, as employment data start to be release from tonight. Any good news here will drive US equities higher.
The other place the trade balance was most felt was USD/CAD; it is a clear energy risk pair, considering the make-up of Canada's economy, it reached the highest level since November 2009 of $1.078. This is- a clear sign of the US's upswing as an energy exporting nation and a very positive sign for US energy plays.
Similar conclusions could be drawn for AUD/USD after having seen the pair drop into the 88 cent handle overnight. The Australian trade balance yesterday was strong, with iron ore, copper and energy exports all maintaining the strength seen since August last year, while imports declined 1%.
But the strength of the energy numbers from the US trade balance have just added to the buying euphoria surrounding the USD, meaning there is no support at all for the AUD. This will put a smile on Glenn Stevens' face and could make the February RBA board meeting an interesting one considering the weight it has put on a falling AUD.
Ahead of the Australian open
With commodities experiencing such a strong rebound overnight, expectations are for yesterday's carnage in the materials space to reverse. The volumes through the likes of Atlas Iron and Fortescue were well above the 30-day average yesterday, suggesting a change in sentiment. However, there should be a reversal of this move this morning having seen the positive news in the risk environment.
Ahead of the 10:00am AEDT bell we are calling the ASX up 28 points to 5345, back seven points where the ASX started the year.
BHP's ADR is suggesting the stock will lose further ground this morning and this may be the case as investors await the release of China's trade balance on Friday; however I believe it will be swept up on the positive leads from Europe and the US. It should be a green on screen trading day today.


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NYC first jurisdiction to guarantee counsel for evictions, looks to expand
While a state may have many statutes, court decisions, or court rules governing appointment of counsel for a particular subject area, a "Key Development" is a statute/decision/rule that prevails over the others (example: a state high court decision finding a categorical right to counsel in guardianships cases takes precedence over a statute saying appointment in guardianship cases is discretionary).
09/12/2018, Legislation, Housing - Evictions
Update: Advocates look to expand RTC law
Not content with achieving the first housing right to counsel in the county, NYC advocates have worked with Council member Mark Levine to introduce RTC 2.0, which would expand eligibility for appointed counsel from 200% of the federal poverty level to 400% and would also include hearings at some non-housing court venues. The New York Law Journal has more.
Update: Intro 214-b is now law!
On July 20, 2017, Intro 214-b was approved by the City Council, and the Mayor signed the bill on August 11, 2017. Read a piece in City and State New York from bill sponsor Mark Levine, or quotes from the NYC Council Progressive Caucus and City officials. You can also see video clips of the City Council's vote and the celebratory event at the Interfaith Assembly on Homelessness's Facebook page.
The bill's passage has been covered nationally by Marketplace, The Nation, Slate, Mother Jones, Baltimore Sun, CityLab, HousingWire, Vice, and Fast Company, and locally by the NY Daily News, Village Voice, NY 1, Gotham GazetteHarlem World,New York Amsterdam News, NY Law Journal (subscription required), 6sqft, Town & Village, DNA Info New York, GlobeSt, Curbed NY, and The Uptowner.
Update: Intro 214 will become law!
Read the NCCRC's press release, the release from the Right to Counsel Coalition of NYC, and Mayor de Blasio's State of the City Address.
On February 12, 2017, Mayor de Blasio announced that the City will be providing "universal access" to counsel for low-income people in housing court, in effect enacting Intro 214-a. A day later, In his State of the City address in February 2017, Mayor de Blasio explained:
If you're a hard working New Yorker, if you're someone struggling to make ends meet, if you're someone who needs legal help, you can't afford it, and you make anywhere up to $50,000 a year for family of four, you will now be guaranteed a lawyer to go with you into housing court. If you're facing illegal eviction, you get a lawyer. If you're facing illegal over charge of rent you get a lawyer. If you're facing illegal harassment you get a lawyer.
This will happen by increasing the City's eviction legal aid spending by $93 million, which will occur over 5 years. In doing so, NYC will become the first jurisdiction in the country to provide a right to counsel in housing cases, making this an enormous step forward for the civil right to counsel movement.
The news has been covered by the NY Times, Politico, Next City (Feb. 16), Next City (Feb. 21), the NY Daily News, the Gothamist, NY Newsday, Metro, City Limits, the NY Observer, Fox 5 NY, New York YIMBY, News 12 The Bronx (video), The Norwood News, The New York Amsterdam News, AM New York, The Real Deal, Greenline, the Law Professors Network Human Rights at Home Blog, and the Caribbean Life News.
You can also read press releases by NCCRC, The City of New York, Intro 214-a sponsor Mark Levine, the Right to Counsel Coalition of NYC, the Bronx Borough President, and AARP New York.
UPDATE: Press Conference Displays Thousands of Postcards in Support of Intro 214-a
On December 13, 2016, the NYC Right to Counsel Coalition held a press conference at which over 7,000 postcards and a letter from almost 100 faith leaders calling for the passage of Intro 214-a were delivered to the Mayor and the NYC Council Speaker. The press conference was covered by Metro New York and NY1 Noticias.
UPDATE: New York City Council Has First Hearing on Intro 214-a
The City Council hearing featured over 80 people testifying in support of the bill, including former Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman, various borough presidents, and the NYC Bar Association. It was preceded by a press conference, pictured below. The press conference and hearing were covered by the NY Times, Village Voice, Wall Street Journal, New York Law Journal, WYNC, Metro New York, Gothamist, Huffington Post, and Above the Law. A video of the hearing is now available.
UPDATE: NY Times Editorial Board supports Intro 214-a
The NY Times Editorial Board has come out in support of a right to counsel in housing cases, and called on the City to enact Intro 214-a.
UPDATE: City's Office of Civil Justice Releases Report Supporting 214-A
The Office of Civil Justice, created by the City Council and Mayor de Blasio, released its first-ever annual report in August 2016. It found that only about one percent of tenants in housing court facing eviction had lawyers in 2013, compared to 27 percent now. In the same period that housing representation increased so dramatically, evictions handled by city marshals dropped 24 percent. The NY Observer has more about the report and Mayor de Blasio's response, and a New York State real estate blog features responses to the report from various NYC government officials.
UPDATE: Public Hearing on Intro 214-a Draws Hundreds
On December 5, 2014, a coalition of NYC groups held an event called "Housing Justice: A Public Forum on New Yorkers' Right to Counsel in Eviction Proceedings", in support of Intro 214 (there is a video of the event).
A large crowd listens after Chief Judge Lippman opened the event
Attended by hundreds of attorneys, advocates, New York City officials, judges, and community members, the event featured panels of city/county/state bar leaders, housing experts, right to counsel specialists, and affected community members. The event was covered by media outlets Newsweek, Truthout, Capital New York, and The New York Observer.
A view from the back, and the press conference
Introduction to Intro 214/214-A
In 2014, New York City Council member Mark Levine filed a bill (Intro 214) that would guarantee a right to counsel for low-income individuals in eviction and foreclosure proceedings. The bill was re-filed in 2015 (Intro 214-A) in order to raise the eligibility level to 200% of the poverty level. The bill has a veto-proof majority of the City Council signed on to the bill, and is awaiting the scheduling of a hearing in 2016.
The Bill Gains Support and Public Awareness
Noting the incredible disparity in representation between landlords and tenants, the New York City Bar Association endorsed Intro 214 and urged the legislature to increase the eligiblity income cap from 125% of the federal poverty level to 200% (which happened when Intro 214-A was introduced). You can read the full NYC Bar report in support of the legislation.
While New York City Mayor de Blasio has increased funding substantially for eviction defense, a New York Times article described his intention to become more "aggressive" on homelessness by taking such actions as clearing homelessness encampments. In response, NCCRC Coordinator John Pollock wrote a letter to the NY TImes urging Mayor de Blasio to rethink this approach and instead support Intro 214-A. The letter pointed out that such a bill would be a more permanent, humane, and cost effective solution to the homelessness problem.
Cost Estimates
The NYC Independent Budget Office released a report estimating the cost of providing a right to counsel as $100-200 million. Although the report factored in millions of dollars in shelter savings, it failed to consider potentially substantial savings from other areas, such as jails/prisons, hospitals, and affordable housing construction. The report was immediately critiqued by advocates, and the disagreement over costs was covered by both Newsweek and the New York Times, while two committees of the New York City Bar have supported the legislation and pointed to the likely cost savings.
In April 2016, an independent report commissioned by the New York City Bar Association concluded that rather than costing the City money, the bill would actually save $320 million annually through reducing shelter costs, avoiding the loss of affordable units, and preventing certain expenses (such as law enforcement and emergency medical care) associated with homelessness. Bloomberg covered the release of the report.
Other Information
You can read more about the bill in our comprehensive bibliography, and check out a video of tenants discussing the issue. You can also see a flyer with a description of the Dec 5 event's speakers and panels. And you can check out the website of the NYC Right to Counsel Coalition.
If "yes", the established right to counsel or discretionary appointment of counsel is limited in some way, including any of: the only authority is a lower/intermediate court decision or a city council, not a high court or state legislature; there has been a subsequent case that has cast doubt; a statute is ambiguous; or the right or discretionary appointment is not for all types of individuals or proceedings within that category.
Appointment of Counsel: categorical Qualified: yes
NCCRC helped assemble the NYC coalition, spoke at the Dec 5 event, and worked on the SRR report.


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There is an old saying in the Middle East that a camel is a horse that was designed by a committee. That thought came to my mind as I listened to President Barack Obama trying to explain the intervention of America and its allies in Libya — and I don't say that as criticism. I say it with empathy. This is really hard stuff, and it's just the beginning.
There is an old saying in the Middle East that a camel is a horse that was designed by a committee. That thought came to my mind as I listened to President Barack Obama trying to explain the intervention of America and its allies in Libya — and I don't say that as criticism. I say it with empathy. This is really hard stuff, and it's just the beginning.
When an entire region that has been living outside the biggest global trends of free politics and free markets for half a century suddenly, from the bottom up, decides to join history — and each one of these states has a different ethnic, tribal, sectarian and political orientation and a loose coalition of Western and Arab states with mixed motives trying to figure out how to help them — well, folks, you're going to end up with some very strange-looking policy animals. And Libya is just the first of many hard choices we're going to face in the "new" Middle East.
How could it not be? In Libya, we have to figure out whether to help rebels we do not know topple a terrible dictator we do not like, while at the same time we turn a blind eye to a monarch whom we do like in Bahrain, who has violently suppressed people we also like — Bahraini democrats — because these people we like have in their ranks people we don't like: pro-Iranian Shiite hard-liners. All the while in Saudi Arabia, leaders we like are telling us we never should have let go of the leader who was so disliked by his own people — Hosni Mubarak — and, while we would like to tell the Saudi leaders to take a hike on this subject, we can't because they have so much oil and money that we like. And this is a lot like our dilemma in Syria, where a regime we don't like — and which probably killed the prime minister of Lebanon whom it disliked — could be toppled by people who say what we like, but we're not sure they all really believe what we like because among them could be Sunni fundamentalists, who, if they seize power, could suppress all those minorities in Syria whom they don't like.
The last time the Sunni fundamentalists in Syria tried to take over in 1982, then-President Hafez al-Assad, one of those minorities, definitely did not like it, and he had 20,000 of those Sunnis killed in one city called Hama, which they certainly didn't like, so there is a lot of bad blood between all of them that could very likely come to the surface again, although some experts say this time it's not like that because this time, and they could be right, the Syrian people want freedom for all. But, for now, we are being cautious. We're not trying nearly as hard to get rid of the Syrian dictator as we are the Libyan one because the situation in Syria is just not as clear as we'd like and because Syria is a real game-changer. Libya implodes. Syria explodes.
Welcome to the Middle East of 2011! You want the truth about it? You can't handle the truth. The truth is that it's a dangerous, violent, hope-filled and potentially hugely positive or explosive mess — fraught with moral and political ambiguities. We have to build democracy in the Middle East we've got, not the one we want — and this is the one we've got.
That's why I am proud of my president, really worried about him, and just praying that he's lucky.
Unlike all of us in the armchairs, the president had to choose, and I found the way he spelled out his core argument Monday sincere and compelling: "Some nations may be able to turn a blind eye to atrocities in other countries. The United States of America is different. And, as president, I refused to wait for the images of slaughter and mass graves before taking action."
I am glad we have a president who sees America that way. That argument cannot just be shrugged off, especially when confronting a dictator like Moammar Gadhafi. But, at the same time, I believe that it is naive to think that we can be humanitarians only from the air — and now we just hand the situation off to NATO, as if it were ASEAN and we were not the backbone of the NATO military alliance, and we're done.
I don't know Libya, but my gut tells me that any kind of decent outcome there will require boots on the ground – either as military help for the rebels to oust Gadhafi as we want, or as post-Gadhafi peacekeepers and referees between tribes and factions to help with any transition to democracy. Those boots cannot be ours. We simply cannot afford it — whether in terms of money, manpower, energy or attention. But I am deeply dubious that our allies can or will handle it without us, either. And if the fight there turns ugly, or stalemates, people will be calling for our humanitarian help again. You bomb it, you own it.
That is why, most of all, I hope Obama is lucky. I hope Gadhafi's regime collapses like a sand castle, that the Libyan opposition turns out to be decent and united and that they require just a bare minimum of international help to get on their feet. Then U.S. prestige will be enhanced and this humanitarian mission will have both saved lives and helped to lock another Arab state into the democratic camp.
Dear Lord, please make President Obama lucky.
Thomas L. Friedman is a columnist for The New York Times.


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CHICAGO – He was America's sidekick in TV's golden decades of the 1960s and '70s, and was a proud Chicago-born-and-bred performer. Bill Daily, better known as Major Roger Healey ("I Dream of Jeannie") and the wacky neighbor Howard Borden ("The Bob Newhart Show") died at his New Mexico home at the age of 91 on September 4th, 2018.
'The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters' is Tour de Force For Arcade Dweebs
CHICAGO – There's nothing more boring than sitting at a bar and watching someone manhandle the joysticks of classic arcade games like Ms. Pac-Man or Donkey Kong.
On the other hand, Seth Gordon's feature-length documentary "The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters" about obsessive arcade gamers could possibly be the most entertaining thing you could do on a Saturday night.
Billy Mitchell (center) in "The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters".
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According to experts in the world of video games, Donkey Kong is the tour de force. Only three people in the history of the game have reached the kill screen, which is the point on the final level of the game where the machine runs out of memory and kills Mario.
One of these is the so-called greatest gamer of all time: Billy Mitchell. He holds a record-perfect score on Pac-Man, the highest recorded score on Donkey Kong Jr. and, since 1982, the highest unchallenged score on the original Donkey Kong.
Steve Wiebe with his son in "The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters".
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Enter Steve Wiebe. He's the Rocky of the story to Mitchell's Apollo Creed.
A middle-school science teacher who is described as a "perpetual loser," Wiebe is humble and sweet in every way that Mitchell is boisterous and arrogant. With the support of his family, Wiebe dedicates himself to conquering Kong.
While most people play these games for recreation, this documentary studies the subculture of people who measure their worth by the ability to master them. In that, the film is about the very nature of competition and sportsmanship.
Walter Day (left) and Steve Wiebe in "The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters".
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The people – most of whom look like candidates for "The 40-Year-Old Virgin 2" – give the picture its warmth and humor.
You see the sincerity of referee Walter Day (who compares video games to a Zen lifestyle), the questioned motives of Roy "Mr. Awesome" Shildt (who doesn't want to see Wiebe get "chumpatized") and the patience and understanding of Wiebe's wife (the "First Lady of Donkey Kong").
Steve Wiebe in his garage in "The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters".
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Masterfully portraying the competitive tension comparable to any great sports movie, the audience hangs on to the emotional roller-coaster as the underdog goes for the glory of a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records.
While the picture won't make you want to leave the theater and head for the arcade, it will make you question how hard you would work to make your dream – no matter how silly – a reality.
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Three summers prior to that I worked with Department of Transportation, and back then I was with the survey department getting roads ready for pavement. It was good to see road improvement around the little communities, and (the department) keeping up with times and putting tax dollars to good use.
This is my second winter back I call home, and I've travelled the road from Gander to Musgrave Harbour quite a bit. I can't believe how the condition of the roads has gotten so bad over time, and how the roads are looked after in the winter time.
I have a camp on Aspen Cove/Ladle Cove branch, and I travel back and forth night time, day time, summer and winter. I remember one day I left camp 10:30 to drive home in morning, and if I didn't have four-by-four, I would not have made it home. No one had made an attempt to plow road.
Another time at my camp, from which I can see the road, drive to and snowblow from main road to if necessary, it started to snow. It was 4 p.m., and you could hear the plow banging and the scrapping the pavement with its front and side plow. Sparks were flying when it passed my camp. Anyway, from start of the snow at 4 p.m. until to 8 p.m., the plow travelled two times out to Aspen Cove/Ladle Cove, and I only used a broom to sweep off my bridge at camp. It was summer-day road conditions and we hadn't had snow in three days. When traffic went by you could see dust flying off the road. To my surprise coming from my camp, I had to slow down to let the plow truck out of the sand pit the one before Carmanville. I was going slow enough I looked up into the cab to observe a little closer, and to my surprise there was what I'll call a co-pilot also in the truck. He was so comfortable he didn't know if it was day or night.
This winter, I spent some time smelt fishing in Main Point, and, like a lot of other people out on the ice, we had a good surrounding view. Anyway, it was like a warm summer's day, with no snow in two or three days, but I heard a banging loud noise and it was the plow to my surprise. That day I was surprised three times to see the truck travel and cover every mile of road to the end of Main Street and Harvey's Lane in same day.
I talked to a resident who lives up Harvey's Lane, and he said he was stuck because of snow for three days one time, and couldn't get out the lane as it was not plowed.
Someone said the roads have to be checked everyday, but can't we check it with a cheaper vehicle like a pickup truck. The area that has to be looked after I think you can look out window you can see if it's white or wet. I've seen many a times that expensive plow truck travelling the main highway when it's not needed.
I've seen it leave Carmanville on a dry road — again no snow in the past three or four days — go to Wings Point, and go back to Carmanville, fuel up, and go park for next call out or next day.
Why is it sometimes when the plow is on the move, it doesn't come up Forest Grove Road in Davidsville and also doesn't go down Main Street? I think that's what its called down to the end of Main Point. The first vehicle to travel on these parts of the road sometimes is the school bus, and this shouldn't be, especially when it comes to safety. It doesn't look like we are very cost efficient when it comes to doing the job with the resources we have to do snow clearing.
I had a misfortune this past winter when I left from Grove Road, where I live in Main Point/Davidsville, to drive to Gander to the airport to pick up my brother-in-law.
I left at midnight, and at 12:45 a.m., I put my truck off the road. It was very slippery and -13C. Ninety minutes later I got picked up went to airport to pick up my brother-in-law, stayed in a hotel room, and had to get a tow truck in the morning. I was lucky there no damage to my truck and no one was hurt.
I questioned why road condition were like this, and I was told that the road is closed in later evening hours till morning hours. During this time the department is only on call for emergency vehicles — I was very surprised. I lived in Northern Ontario for 23 years, and if roads were closed due to weather, it was controlled by a police car on both ends of closed road. If you had an accident, you were charged and your insurance wouldn't cover you.
Well I think I've made my point, and that is let's make some good changes. The roads are not very good to drive on. Do we have to save money somewhere to get fine roads? It's government money (taxpayers' dollars).
Do you remember the last polar bear that came to the island. It got a helicopter ride at a big expense. This last polar bear that visited, it had to be shot. I guess we couldn't afford the ride, so maybe our roads will go back to old days — gravel road. Let's hope not.
One more suggestion — let's contract road clearing and maintenance. At the end, government won't have to pay out big pensions to workers — another way to save money to fix our roads. Everyone is entitled to his or her opinion.
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GRRM has a couple of updates at "Not a Blog" today. First, he has an intriguing post about Skull Island, which happens to be the fictional place where King Kong is found. Kong, of course, is his term for A Dance with Dragons. Reading into his remarks there, it seems that presently he has one POV nearly complete, another being troublesome, and one more beyond that to write. Does this mean it stands at three chapters left to call it done, with one nearly complete? That seem to be the case, but as we know, difficult chapters have sometimes only be resolved by splitting them up, or going back and rewriting other chapters to provide a new approach, so we'll have to wait and see.
The other item is a new miniature from Dark Sword Miniatures and Tom Meier, this one featuring Maester Luwin. Of particular note, GRRM points out that the rendition of Luwin's chain is very near to his own intention (Grand Maester Pycelle's chain is much more elaborate, being multiple chains woven together and ornamented). As we've noted about the Game of Thrones TV series, they've gone in quite a different direction, with a very long necklace with great, wide loops of metal making up its length.
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Students here can look forward to careers in water conservation, environmental science and media too.education Updated: Jun 25, 2013 18:09 IST
While it is known that its programmes are deeply rooted in classical knowledge, Delhi University's Department of Sanskrit has introduced stress management, acting and fashion courses to ensure students keep up with the demands of the job market today.
"Some of the major fields that Sanskrit students join as a career include teaching, research and civil services, but subjects such as library science, law, water conservation, archaeology, environmental science and media are also becoming the preferred choice of Sanskrit students," says Professor Mithilesh Chaturvedi, head of the department.
According to Yuvraj Bhattarai, who is pursuing his master's in the subject, "The relevance and importance of Sanskrit is not just restricted to culture and academics. It is much more than that and the new undergraduate degree is an example of that. Introduction of concepts such as yoga, Vedas, vaastu shastra, astrology, ayurveda and drama shows that its not just about learning the language or literature but also about tracing and studying the connection between various areas and Sanskrit."
Bhattarai, who was interested in the subject since childhood, studied Sanskrit in school at the Capital's Sharda Devi Sanskrit Vidyapeeth followed by a bachelor's degree in the subject from Lal Bahadur Shastri Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeeth. He now plans to go for the NET junior research fellowship and hopes to go to Germany for a PhD. "After India, Germany is the second home of Sanskrit as there are many scholars in that country. There are even radio broadcasts in Sanskrit and some of the institutions there even offer courses in the language," he says.
Another student, Prerna, at St Stephen's College thanks her teachers for making her fall in love with the subject. "Learning the teachings of the Bhagvad Gita, Kalidasa's Abhijananasakuntalam and the Bharavi Kiratarjuniyam were eye-openers. A course in Sanskrit has as much scope as other arts subjects like English and history," she says.
Faculty: The department has a strong faculty comprising five professors, four associate professors and three assistant professors. There are 105 Sanskrit faculty members across various constituent colleges of the university. "Our faculty has numerous publications to their credit. They are frequently invited by universities across the globe for teaching and delivering lectures," says Chaturvedi.
Programmes: PhD Sanskrit; MPhil Sanskrit; and MA Sanskrit are some programmes on offer. Scholars from India and countries such as Russia, Japan and Korea come to the department for research. "The MA syllabus aims to train students in different genres of Sanskrit learning such as Sanskrit literature, grammar and linguistics and Indian philosophy. Besides, students can choose to specialise in any one out of the eight streams which include Vedic literature, Dharmashastra, poetics, epigraphy etc thus approaching Sanskrit from an interdisciplinary standpoint," adds Chaturvedi. BA (hons) Sanskrit is offered in 28 colleges of Delhi University. In addition, 40 colleges will be teaching Sanskrit at discipline 2 level as well. The department also offers diploma and certificate courses in Sanskrit. These are part-time courses run by the department at the Faculty of Arts.
IT quotient: Apart from the Sanskrit sections available within the college libraries, the Central Library, the Arts Library and south campus library have vast collections of Sanskrit books.
Clubs and societies: Different colleges have their own Sanskrit Parishads which organise various recitations, debates, quizzes, lectures by renowned scholars throughout the year
Admissions: The department will conduc entrance tests for admissions to MA, MPhil and PhD programmes in July
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Summer is the season of many joys, not the least of which is outdoor art. Tens of thousands of people are expected to flock to Edina for the city's art fair, Minnesota's second largest, next weekend.
The fair will run from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Friday and Saturday and from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday.
More than 320 artists will be featured, along with live music and food courts.
Children will be invited to "drip paint" at the Kids Art Zone on W. 50th Street.
And public transit will make it easy to get around. Metro Transit will provide a free shuttle running from the northeast corner of the Southdale Mall at W. 66th Street and York Avenue to the fair and back. The shuttle will operate from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. all weekend long. Also this year, for the first time, Metro Transit will offer free rides to the event (that is, rides terminating at 50th and France) Saturday and Sunday.
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TICONDEROGA-"What's in a name?" Shakespeare asked.
Plenty, according to the Ticonderoga High School music department.
Student musicians presented their annual pops concert - "The Name Game" - March 31 to a capacity audience. Performances by the band, chorus, Sentinel Big Band, Night Shadows male choir and Trebled Voices female choir featured popular songs based on names.
Killer Joe, Sweet Caroline, Hey Jude, Rikki Don't Lose That Number and other hits filled the auditorium and had people singing along.
The Ti High music department is ambitious, Principal Mike Graney pointed out. The pops concert is the second of three concerts this academic year. There will also be two coffee houses this spring. Graney noted more than 100 students are part of the music program, about 40 percent of the school.
"We have a very busy, very talented music department," he said.
Nelson Shapiro, who directed the concert, praised the work ethic of his students.
"Whenever I ask if we need more practice the answer is always 'Yes,'," he said. "It's a great group to work with. It's a real privilege for me."
Shapiro said the pops concert is a fundraising event for the music department, which is taking students to New York City on a two-day trip to see the Broadway play "Spiderman." While in New York students will also tour the city and its sites.
The chorus included Keeley Andrushko, Michael Barber, Rebecca Barber, Alaina Bevilacqua, David Bevins, Derek Bevins, Randolph Bevins, Christopher Burns, Megan Campney, Riley Chapman, Brandon Charboneau, Michaela Connors, James Cook, Matthew Cook, Jeannette Coon, Anthony Costello, Ashley Costello, Francis Cox, Jacob Crowe, Morgan Dean, Ty Denno, Kevin Densmore, Kaitlyn Diskin, Mark Donohue, Anthony DuShane, Alyssa Fuller, Jordan Fuller, Adam Geiser, Skyler Gilbert, Martin Glazer, Joseph Gonyeau, Michael Graney, Coleman Granger, Jaelyn Granger, Jarryn Granger, Ciarra Gray, Abigail Gurney, Rhyan Hall, Sadie Hamel, Haley Harris, Jay Hebert, Cody Henthorn, Hannah Herbst, Miranda Holman, Paige Hughes, Francis Jebb, Maura Jebb, Chelsea Kearns, McKenna Kelly, Alyssa LaRock, William Lawrie, Nathan Lenhart, Patrick Lonergan, Adam Losher, Brittney Lynch, Karney Manning, Logan Mars, Katelyn Mercer, Brianna Morse, Marissa Morse, Megan Moser, Emilee Namer, Cody O'Hara, Katherine Palandrani, Sara Plude, Anthony Priest, Tanner Purkey, Tiffani Purkey, Clifford Raymond, Alyssa Rodriguez, Joshua Ross, MaKayla Saunders, Logan Schryer, Megan Scuderi, Courtney Shaner, Kady Sharrow, Shelby Spaulding, Ariana Stevens, Tabitha Taylor, Markie teRiele, Sarah, teRiele, William terSteege, Amelia Towne, Katelyn Troche, Harley Trudeau, Nicole Trudeau, Karissa Tucker, Victoria Walters, Tucker Ward, Laura West, Rebecca White, Ryann Wiktorko, Destiny Wood, Anthony Woodard, Shauna Woodard, Sierra Woodard, Jordan Woods and Tanner Wright.
The Trebled Voices featured Rebecca Barber, Ashley Costello, Kaitlyn Diskin, Brittney Lynch, Megan Moser, Sara Plude, Alyssa Rodriguez, Megan Scuderi, Shelby Spaulding, Victoria Walters and Rebecca White.
Performing with the Night Shadows were Michael Barber, Christopher Burns, Riley Chapman, Matthew Cook, Jacob Crowe, Mark Donohue, Skyler Gilbert, Martin Glazer, Joseph Gonyeau, Jarryn Granger, Jay Hebert, Nathan Lenhart, Patrick Lonergan, Adam Losher, Cody O'Hara, Joshua Ross and Jordan Woods.
The band included Keeley Andrushko, Michael Barber, Rebecca Barber, Alaina Bevilacqua, Randolph Bevins, Christopher Burns, Riley Chapman, Jeannette Coon, James Cook, Anthony Costello, Ashley Costello, Jacob Crowe, Devin Davis, Kevin Densmore, Mark Donohue, Taylor Dorsett, Anthony DuShane, Skyler Gilbert, Martin Glazer, Michael Graney, Hannah Herbst, Paige Hughes, Corey King, Michael LaFountain, Nathan Lenhart, Adam Losher, Brittany Lynch, Karney Manning, Katelyn Mercer, Jordan Millington, Matthew Nolan, Cody O'Hara, Carly Pinkowski, Sara Plude, Anthony Priest, Sean Smith, Katherine Towne, Harley Trudeau, Victoria Walters, Tucker Ward, Laura West, Sierra Woodard, Wen Na (Anita) Zhang, Marcus Moser and Dale Quesnel.
Playing with the Sentinel Big Band were Keeley Andrushko, Michael Barber, Rebecca Barber, Alaina Bevilacqua, Christopher Burns, Riley Chapman, Anthony Costello, Ashley Costello, Kevin Densmore, Taylor Dorsett, Anthony DuShane, Skyler Gilbert, Martin Glazer, Hannah Herbst, Nathan Lenhart, Adam Losher, Katelyn Mercer, Jordan Millington, Cody O'Hara, Carly Pinkowski, Anthony Priest, Katherine Towne, Victoria Walters, Marcus Moser and Dale Quesnel.


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7 October 2016
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Schwarzer Kopf mit blauem Ohr (Black Head with Blue Ear)
signed 'GB' (lower right); dated '10 IV 85' (lower left); titled, dated and signed 'Schwarzer Kopf mit blauem Ohr 29.III.85 + 10.IV.85. G. Baselitz' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
57 ½ x 45in. (146 x 114.5cm.)
Painted in 1985
Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne.
Galleria Cleto Polcina, Rome.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
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Basel, Galerie Beyeler, Georg Baselitz, 1986, no. 47 (incorrectly titled and numbered no. 46; illustrated in colour, unpaged).
Barcelona, Centre Cultural de la Fundació Caixa de Pensions, Georg Baselitz, 1990, no. 14 (illustrated in colour, p. 99). This exhibition later travelled to Madrid, Sala de Exposiciones de la Fundación Caja de Pensiones. Karlsruhe, Städtische Galerie im PrinzMaxPalais Karlsruhe, Georg Baselitz, Gemälde, Schöne und häßliche Porträts, 1993, p. 210, no. 22 (illustrated in colour, p. 182). This exhibition later travelled to Linz, Neue Galerie der Stadt Linz.
"The hierarchy where the sky is at the top and the ground down below is in any case only an agreement, one that we have all got used to, but one that we absolutely do not have to believe in." (G. BASELITZ, quoted in W. Grasskamp, 'Georg Baselitz in conversation with Walter Grasskamp' in Georg Baselitz: Collected Writings & Interviews, London 2010, p. 84)
Schwarzer Kopf mit blauem Ohr (Head with Blue Ear) (1985) is a typically bold example of Georg Baselitz's thrilling inversion of illustrative structure, literally flipping art on its head. A clownish visage grins, upside-down, from a morass of black impasto. His features – apart from the titular blue ear – are picked out in pink and green; his hands are held to his forehead as childishly covering his eyes. Indeed, this playful suggestion of 'see no evil' gestures towards the eye-opening quality of Baselitz's overturned art, which aims to radically disillusion the viewer from a state of passive acceptance. Rather than inverting a finished painting, he begins and ends the work in this format, working in an entirely new compositional logic that carries an undeniable and revitalising visual shock. 'Whenever I start a painting,' Baselitz has said, 'I set out to formulate things as if I were the first one, the only one, and as if all the precedents didn't exist – even though I know that there are thousands of precedents ranged against me. One has always to think of making something, something valid. That's my life' ('Georg Baselitz in conversation with Jean-Louis Froment and Jean-Marc Poinsot' (1983) in Georg Baselitz: Collected Writings & Interviews, London 2010, p. 71).
Baselitz's radical and dissonant paintings break aggressively with convention, taking to task traditional modes of thinking and seeing with uncompromising pictorial force. Born in Soviet East Germany, he was expelled from the Academy of Art there in 1956 for 'sociopolitical immaturity.' Moving to West Berlin, he rose to prominence amid frequent controversy in the 1960s as a pioneer of German Neo-Expressionism, his distinctively tense and agitated works exploring the identity of the artist in Post-War Germany through a voracious and impudent treatment of art history. Apart from his inversion of the picture plane, he also often employed obscene, offhanded subject matter and painted with his fingers rather than a brush, making profane and bathetic the sanctified art object. This self-conscious immaturity is clear in Schwarzer Kopf mit blauem Ohr, the figure's irreverent expression sharpening Baselitz's iconoclastic edge: this is an image of upheaval, contravention and taboo-breaking, confronting us with a wicked and knowing smile.
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