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Skytanking provides a full range of aviation fuelling services including into-plane fuelling, aviation fuel storage and hydrant management, investment in aviation fuel facilities at airports and engineering. Its customers are airlines, airports, and oil companies. The company currently handles 23.2 million cbm of aviation fuel per year, refuels 2 million aircraft – which is equivalent to four fuellings per minute – and has operations at 83 airports in 14 countries in Europe, Asia, Africa and North America.
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- Operate motorized fueling vehicles (fuel tank trucks, standard and automatic transmissions)
- Operate non-motorized fueling vehicles (hydrant carts)
- Fuel and de-fuel aircraft per flight crew/flight plan requirements
- Inspect fueling equipment and vehicles – report malfunctions or inconsistencies
- Perform accurate fueling calculations
- Fuel ground support equipment (gasoline or diesel) as required
- Interact with carrier personnel
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We have embarked on many new endeavors since Monday. Monday night while I was at work, Eric changed Samantha's bed to a toddler bed and moved it to our room. After my miscarriage, my parenting style changed. I am trying a suggestion from Kim. It will be a gradual transition. So far so good, she hasn't slept in our bed for 2 nights.
On Tuesday, I got these babies finished for the booth.
I found these at Summer Fest and just had to make some. Aren't they cute!
Today, while the girls played I was finally able to get my tomatoes and Lily of the Valley planted.
I had to replant these because Sammie tore them out. Wish them luck. I have never really succeeded with Lily of the Valley. They are my birth flower and I love them. Plus they are so expensive! Just once I would like them to grow like Alice's do!
I am also starting to once again to keep track of my walking. Today I did 3260 steps which means I walked 1.545 miles.
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On March 1, 2016, Heather Franco was appointed as the Managing Attorney for Mullen & Filippi's Riverside regional office after having joined the Firm in 2013. She has represented employers, insurance carriers and third party administrators in workers' compensation and related matters, including willful misconduct and unlawful discrimination pursuant to Labor Code Section 132(a) since 2012. Heather practices at the Riverside, Pomona, and San Bernardino WCAB district offices, and has formed effective working relationships with most of the Applicant's Bar and the Bench at all three venues. Heather joined the California State Bar in 2005. She practiced for seven years in the area of disability law and is well versed in the rights and responsibilities of businesses with respect to Federal and State disability laws. In 2007, as part of a team, she was a finalist for the Public Justice Foundation Trial Lawyer of the Year. In 2009, she was awarded the California State Bar Jack Berman Award of Achievement.
Heather received her law degree from Loyola Law School in Los Angeles in 2004 where she also achieved the Dean's Honor List. Upon graduation, she was awarded the Loyola Law School Post-Graduate Public Interest Fellowship. She earned a Bachelor of Arts from Mount St. Mary's College, where she maintained her place on the Dean's Honor List for eleven consecutive trimesters.
Heather is a member of the State Bar of California and a member of the Workers' Compensation Law section of the State Bar of California. She is also a member of the American Bar Association and is admitted to practice in the United States District Court, Central District of California.
I have enjoyed my career as an attorney from the very first day. Initially what attracted me to the law was the opportunity to engage in intellectual and innovative problem solving. This is still true, but being an attorney provides much more than that to me today. Some situations call for aggressive advocacy. Some call for adroit negotiation skills. Still others call for sheer persistence. I derive great satisfaction from the opportunity to hone these varied skills on a daily basis, and practicing in the field of workers' compensation defense provides that opportunity. Delivering good news to clients is at the top of the satisfaction pyramid. And, I really enjoy getting to know my clients and forming effective, gratifying, lasting, and sometimes humorous relationships.
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We are in the process of updating our Resources pages. They will build into a comprehensive library of documents, reports, initiatives etc on human rights, environmental and other issues affecting tea workers, farmers and their communities.
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In January this year THIRST CEO, Sabita Banerji, completed a three-week fact-finding and networking trip to India that will help to inform the broad research we'll be undertaking in the coming months to explore the sector's human rights and environmental strengths and weaknesses – and where change is needed and possible. The India trip provided some valuable perspectives which are shared in this blog; THIRST for Perspective – Notes on an Indian tea tour.
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Well, let's talk about it. We all do it. Yes, all of us. Even George Clooney. There are so many names for this completely natural thing that we do. I don't like to use the word "sh*t" for that. I think of that more like, "Oh sh*t, I lost my keys." Same thing with "crap."
Here are some of the popular terms used for this, very important, bodily function:
- Poop
- Poo
- Doody
- Turd
- Feces
- Droppings
- Excrement
Here are some popular saying for the act itself. I'm not saying we use these around my house. But I'm not saying we don't either.
- Dropping the kids off at the pool (or the abbreviation "droppin' em")
- Evacuating
- Eliminating
- Laying some cable
- Dropping a deuce
- Pinching one off
- Building a log cabin
- Make a deposit
- Coffee's kickin' in
Or some popular terms people use for passing gas:
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- Toot
- The winds
- Crop dusting
- Stink bomb
- Relieving pressure
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1) Name the bank that launched Tap-n-Pay Service? Ans : (2)
1. Axis Bank
2. ICICI Bank
5. Andhra Bank
Explanation: ICICI Bank has launched an NFC-enabled payment service called 'Tap-n-Pay'. . Tap-n-Pay' payment service is based on near-field communication (NFC) technology which will allow customers to make over the counter payments without using cash. . ICICI Bank has launched this service in collaboration with Tech Mahindra.2)Name the player who won Bahrain Grand Prix? Ans : (4)
1. Nicorosberg
2. KimiRaikkonen
3. Sebastian Vettel
4. Lewis Hamilton
5. None
Explanation: British Formula One Racing Driver from England, Lewis Hamilton won Bahrain Grand Prix for Second time in a row. . Lewis Hamilton's win at Bahrain Grand Prix made him tasted 36th title of his career. . German Racing Driver NicoRosberg was the first runner up3)Indian Navy Launched INS Visakhapatnam recently. Now who is the Indian Navy Chief? Ans : (1)
1. R.K. Dhowan
2. V. seshadri Sharma
3. R. Radha Krishna Murthy
4. V. VenkateswarRao
5. N. Shiva rajasekhar
Explanation: Indian Navy launches its first stealth destroyer of project 15 B class, INS Visakhapatnam. . The Warship has a displacement of 7,300 tonnes and is 163 metres in length. . INS Visakhapatnam was launched by R.K. Dhowan's wife MinuDhawan.4) Indian Railways launched ……….. to monitor rail projects online? Ans : (2)
1. E-Samvidhan
2. E-Samiksha
3. E-Sadviniyoga
4. E-railway
5. E-Rail Nilayam
Explanation: Indian Railways has launched E-Samiksha to monitor rail projects online. . E-Samiksha an online monitoring mechanism is designed by National Informatics Centre (NIC). . E-Samiksha aims as monitoring implementation of various ongoing projects of Railways on real time basis5) Recently Civil Services day was observed on …………? Ans : (2)
1. 20thapril
2. 21stapril
3. 22nd April
4. 23rd April
5. 24thapril
Explanation:Ninth Civil Services Day was observed on 21st April, 2015. . Civil Services Day is observed by all civil servants to re-dedicate and re-committhemselves to the cause of the people. Note: Prime Minister NarendraModi launched a book on this event titled "BestPractices –Tomorrow is there"6)NovokDjokovic Won Monte Carlo Masters Title by defeating Tomas Berdych. Tomas belongs to which country? Ans : (1)
1. Czech republic
2. Britain
3. Argentina
4. Brazil
5. France
Explanation: Novak Djokovic has won his second Monte Carlo Masters title of Tennis. . Novak Djokovic of Serbia defeated Tomas Berdych of Czech Republic. . This was Novak Djokovic's 23rd World tennis Title which brings him equal to Roger Federar and just 4 titles behind Rafael Nadal. Novak Djokovic is ranked World No.1 in Tennis Ranking.7)Pollution Management and Environment Health Program (PHEM) established by World Bank. It will focus air quality management in how many urban areas? Ans : (3)
1. 3
2. 4
3. 5
4. 6
5. 7
Explanation: :- World Bank has established pollution Management and Environment Health (PHEM) promgram which will focus on air quality management. . PHEM program will initially run from 2015 to 2020 with an estimated amount of 45 million US dollar. . The program will focus on air quality management in five major urban areas India, China, Egypt, Nigeria and South Africa.8)Which among the following won Putlizer Prize? Ans : (1)
1. New York Times
2. Forbes Magazine
3. India Today
4. American times Magazine
5. None
Explanation: The New York Times has won two Pulitzer prizes for coverage of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. . The New York Times staff won the Pulitzer Prize for International reporting. . DanialBerechulak, a freelancer won Pulitzer prize for the feature photography9)22nd April was observed across the World as………..? Ans : (4)
1.International Mother's day
2. International father's Day
3. International Mother & Child day
4. International Mother earth day
5. International Scholars day
Explanation: International Mother Earth Day was observed on 22nd April around the world. . International Mother Earth Day 2015 was observed with the theme "It's our turn to lead"10) Which country's train set the World speed record of 603 KMPH? Ans : (3)
1. China
2. India
3. Japan
4. France
Explanation: :Japanese Bullet train Maglev set a new world speed record of 603 kmph. . Maglev train broke its previous world record of 580 kmph up in the year 200311) Who is the CEO of "Make My Trip" which is the Online Travel Service Provider company? Ans : (2)
1. DeepikaPiyush
2. Deep Kalra
3. DeepaMatondkar
4. DeepthiKanetkar
5. None
Explanation: Online travel Service provider Make My Trip has acquired startup travel guideMygola. . Mygola was founded in 2009 by AnshumanBapna and prateek Sharma.12) Which country's President was honoured with Nishan-E- Pakistan recently? Ans : (1)
1. China
2. Japan
3. India
4. Nepal
5. Bangladesh
Explanation: Chinese President Xi Jinping is honoured with Nishan-e-Pakistan Award. . Nishan-e-Pakistan award is the highest civilian award of Pakistan. . The award was presented by the president of Pakistan MamnoonHussain.13) Union Finance Ministry retained the rate of Interest at how much percent for GPF for the year 2015-16? Ans : (1)
1. 8.7%
2. 7.8%
3. 9.0%
4. 5.7%
5. 4.8%
Explanation: The interest rate will apply on provident funds of central government employees,railways and defense forces. About GPF- General Provident Fund (i) Interest rate for senior citizens saving scheme hiked from 9.2% to 9.3% (ii) Interest rate for SukanyaSamridhi account hike from 9.2% to 9.3%14) Recently which day is observed as World Book and Copy right day? Ans : (3)
1. 21st April
2. 22nd April
3. 23rd April
4. 24th April
5. 25th April
Explanation: UN has observed World Book and Copyright Day across the world on 23rd April 2015. . UNESCO has designated Inchon, South Korea as the World Book Capital for the year 2015 . World Book Day was celebrated first time on 23rd April 1995 by UNESCO. . UNESCO – United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation15) Among the following who is the youngest US Surgeon General? Ans : (3)
1. Andry Murray
2. Boris Lushanky
3. Vivek Murthy
4. Ravindra Narayan
5. Ajay Kuldeep
Explanation: Indian-American Vivek Murthy took oath as 19th US Surgeon General. . Vivek Murthy's oath was administered by the Vice-President of US, Joe Biden. . Vivek Murthy succeeded Boris D. Lushniak to be the youngest ever in charge of US Public Health16) KPMG is known as ………..? Ans : (2)
1. UN Body
2. Accounting Firm
3. Financial Organization
5. None
Explanation:Renowned US Accounting firm KPMG elected Lynne Doughite to be the new CEO and Chairman. . Lynne Doughite succeeded John Veihmeyer to be the first women CEO and Chairman of KPMG International . KPMG is among the World's leading professional services and one of the four biggestaccounting firms is US. . CEO –Chief Executive Officer17)Name the actor who won Dada SahebPhalke film foundation Award? Ans : (2)
1. Salman Khan
2. Shahrukh khan
3. Aamir Khan
4. AmtabhBacchan
5. Rishi Kapoor
Explanation: Bollywood king Shahrukh Khan is honoured with Dada SahebPhalke film foundation Award 2015. . Shahrukh Khan was conferred with the award for his performance in the movie ' Happy New Year'18) Which Ministry launched a new mobile app called "Utsonmobile"? Ans : (1)
1. Railway Ministry
2. Road transport Ministry
3. Agriculture Ministry
4. Culture & Heritage Ministry
5. Home Ministry
Explanation: Railway ministry has launched a new mobile app, 'Utsonmobile' for paperless unreserved tickets. . The application will cover 15 stations between Egmore and Tambram Suburban sections in Chennai of the southern Railway. . The application is developed by centre for Railway Information Systems (CRIS). Note: Suresh Prabhu is Union Railway Minister.19)PCI was suspended for poor management and conduct of …………… National Para Athletics Championships held in Ghaziabad.? Ans : (2)
1. 14th
2. 15th
3. 16th
4. 17th
5. 20th
Explanation: Union Sports ministry has suspended the recognisation of Paralympics Committee of India (PCI) . Saravanansonwal is the Union sports Minister . Earlier PCI was indefinitely suspended by the International Paralympics Committee (IPC).20) Now The new age limit for heinous crimes is ………………? Ans : (4)
1. 18 years
2. 15 years
3. 17 years
4. 16 years
5. 20 years
Explanation: :- Union Cabinet has approved lowering of age of juveniles from eighteen to sixteen years for heinous crimes. It cleared the amendment to the Juvenile Justice Act in this regard during a meeting in New Delhi this evening. Official sources said that the amendment seeks to try juvenile in the age group of 16 to 18 years as adults for heinous crimes.21) The issue of Net Neutrality during the Zero Hour in the LokSabha recently was raised by which party leader? Ans : (1)
1. Rahul Gandhi
2. Sonia Gandhi
3. SeetaramYechury
4. SharadPawar
5. None
Explanation: Mr Gandhi alleged that the government is trying to hand over the control of internet to corporate houses. He questioned if the government is serious not to impinge on the Internet freedom why it has started the consultation process.22) Recently, The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting received the ……………. Certification from the British Standards Institute for the broadcasting and print media and films? Ans : (1)
Explanation: The Ministry has put in place a well defined procedure and measures for ensuring quality of services offered to the customers on the basis of ISO 9001:2008. It will ensure delivery of services by the Ministry in a qualitative manner.23)A device for advance assessment of damage to buildings in cities prone to earthquake was developed by which Indian Institute? Ans : (4)
1. IIT-Roorkee
2. IIT-Delhi
3. IISC Bangalore
4. IIIT-Hyderabad
5. IIT-Ranchi
Explanation: The information on the level of shaking will come from seismological inputs in a particular area. The device is now being tested for its efficacy.24) Two Indians were selected for the 2015 Yale World Fellows in which country for their exemplary mid-career work? Ans : (1)
5. Canada
Explanation: An Indian conflict reporter, Rahul Pandita and a health care founder, ZeenaJohar has been selected by the prestigious Ivy League university. They were chosen from a pool of about 4,000 applicants for the New Haven, Connecticut-based university's signature global leadership development initiative. Every year, the University invites a group of exemplary mid-career professionals from a wide range of fields and countries for an intensive four-month period of academic enrichment and leadership training.25) Numaligarh Refinery Limited of India signed a Memorandum of Understanding with which company for export of petroleum products recently? Ans : (2)
1.Dhaka Oil Corporation
2.Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation
3.Dacca Petroleum Corporation
4.Kualalampur Oil Corporation
5.None of these
Explanation: The MoU provides for export of petroleum products from NRL's Marketing Terminal in Siliguri to Bangladesh Petroleum's Depot at Parbatipur in Bangladesh through the proposed 'Indo-Bangla Friendship Pipeline.


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Located in the vibrant city centre, Las Iguanas Newcastle serves excellent Latin American cuisine. Surrounded by shops and attractions, one can take a break from the hustle and bustle of the streets to enjoy happy hour.
Transporting you to the vibrant heart of Latin America, Las Iguanas presents an eclectic fusion of pan-continental influences, blending native Latin American, Indian, Spanish, Portuguese and African flavours. An informal yet exuberant eatery, Latin American artefacts punctuate the surfaces at Las Iguanas restaurant, and the interior features bespoke tables made from sustainable Brazilian wood, with vibrant colours throughout.
Full of authentic and tasty Latin American treats, the Las Iguanas menu features sizzling steaks, chicken fresh from the barbecue, and traditional dishes from all corners of South America. Meat and fish-free dishes and delicious meals designed for children are in ample supply, and the Las Iguanas bar stock is legendary: bursting with cocktails, wines, beers, punches and coolers.
In this central location, Las Iguanas restaurant in Newcastle is less than a 5-minute walk from Manors Rail Station.
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24. November 2018
Fantastic! And thank you for providing vegan cheese. Makes such a difference.
9. November 2018
We love las iguanas & decided to try the £19 special menu. Very disappointed with the £19:00 special menu. It spoiled our dining experience. 3 pieces of chicke & four tortillas? If it wasn't for your excellent staff we wouldn't go back.
22. September 2018
We had a lovely meal, excellent value with our voucher from Bookatable.com. Great service from our friendly waiter Tom, the restaurant is a bit noisy ( like most nowadays ) we had a window seat and it seemed slightly quieter there. I will definitely be coming back again.
23. August 2018
This was a meal to say bye to a member of staff. Of the three people, one was vegetarian and one was gluten-free. There was a wide-range of options for all requirements and it was dealt with easily and confidently. the food was lovely and the service friendly and prompt.
15. Juni 2018
Service was tip top. The food was delicious and the atmosphere terrific. I had veggie enchilada which was really tasty. I love the vegetarian choice in Las Iguanas mainly because you do have a choice, often there is only one option.
9. März 2018
Good food, well presented, good service. Pity the 2 for 1 cocktails a bit lack lustre.
22. Februar 2018
Fab really enjoyed
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20. Januar 2018
Great Dining experience with welcoming, helpful and attentive staff. Visited as part of party of six at 10am on a busy saturday to celebrate my wife and her best friends birthdays. Warm greeting and delicious complimentary cocktails complete with candle for birthday girls! Food was delicious too!
31. Dezember 2017
The fajitas were very tasty!
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From the Natural Church Development (NCD) international study, by Christian Schwarz
Interdependence (long-term thinking): Individual units are connected to each other within a larger system. Changes in one ministry will have ripple effects in other ministries in the church and community. Integrating the work of various sub-ministries with wisdom can spread one cause to hundreds of effects in both the short and long term. Structures make our values visible; likewise, interdependent structures surpass the results of isolation and individualism over the long haul.
Multiplication (parenting): Healthy disciples, groups, and churches (or living beings) do not grow endlessly; instead, they reproduce themselves. "The true fruit of an apple tree is not an apple, but a whole new orchard" (NCD, p. 68). Reproducing next generations is the highest form of health and growth. It even surpasses a church's individual growth.
Energy transformation (steering): Momentum or energy already flowing, whether positive or negative, can be redirected to accomplish God's purposes. "And we know that all things to work together for good for those who love God, who are called according to his purpose" (Romans 8:28). Like vaccinations or surfing, utilizing what is already on the move to advance God's purposes in your generation is powerful. In Acts 8, hostile energy is transformed into holy energy by steering into God's redemptive purposes, so that the blood of the martyrs becomes the seed of the church.
Multi-usage (leveraging): Resources used should increase the capacity for ongoing growth and development, and serve others directly along the way. Systems thinking and good processes allow for steady development of the group toward self-supporting, self-governing, and self-propagating capacities. Jesus' "show-how" method of leadership training utilized the same energy ministering to the crowds as apprenticing disciples in the field.
Symbiosis (partnering): Individual ministries and congregations can cultivate cooperative relationships so that the mutual benefit is greater than they would achieve operating separately. Diversity + unity = empowered growth, not monopoly or competition. Look for a win-win relationship in which you love your neighbor as yourself.
Functionality (fruit-bearing): Each ministry or church should produce discernible results in line with its intended purpose. "You will know them by their fruits…every good tree bears good fruit" (Matthew 7:16-17). Edification is the measure of usefulness of a ministry or group, according to their created design.
For further study:
Biotic Questions for Empowering Leadership
Biotic Questions for Gift-Oriented Ministry
Biotic Questions for Passionate Spirituality
Biotic Questions for Functional Structures
Biotic Questions for Inspiring Worship
Biotic Questions for Holistic Small Groups
Biotic Questions for Need-Oriented Evangelism
Biotic Questions for Loving Relationships


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Final Report
The law on cannabis/ marijuana is clearly an issue of deep social significance to Caribbean peoples. The Commission is pleased and indeed honoured that it was able, through the wise decision of the CARICOM Heads of Government in 2014, to be the mechanism through which these important voices were heard, an expression of genuine democracy. It hopes that this Report will be an important developmental tool centred on human rights and democratic ideals consonant with the sustainable development goals (SDGs) that CARICOM has embraced enthusiastically and that it will bring meaningful change to Caribbean peoples.Click here to read report
About the Commission
The Regional Commission on Marijuana was established by the decision of the Twenty-fifth Inter-Sessional Meeting of CARICOM Heads of Government , in March 2014 in St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
Heads "mandated the establishment of a Regional Commission to address the issues identified and any other deemed relevant in order to provide clear guidance to the Conference with regard to decisions to be taken.
The Commission, headed by Prof. Rose-Marie-Bell Antoine, Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus, is composed of practitioners with expert knowledge in a variety of disciplines including medicine and allied health, health research, law enforcement, ethics, education, anthropology/sociology/ culture.
Our Mandate
- To conduct a rigorous enquiry into the social, economic, health and legal issues surrounding marijuana use in the Caribbean and to determine whether there should be a change in the current drug classification of marijuana thereby making the drug more accessible for all types of usage (religious, recreational, medical and research);
- To recommend, if there is to be a re-classification, the legal and administrative conditions that shall apply;
- The Regional Commission comprising expertise from relevant professions and Institutions will be coordinated by the CCS in conjunction with CARPHA. It will collate the findings and prepare a final report to be submitted to Heads.
Scope of Work
Conduct a thorough review of documentation and findings from previous regional and international Marijuana Commissions to outline the benefits and adverse effects of marijuana useSee Full scope of work
Meet the Commissioners
Professor Rose Marie Belle- Antoine
Rose-Marie Belle Antoine, Dean, Faculty of Law, UWI, Professor of Labour Law and Offshore FinancialView Commissioners
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Mother Nature gifted organizers of the Sag Harbor American Music Festival with perfect weather conditions over the weekend and set the stage for one of the most enjoyable few days in recent village history. The streets of Sag Harbor were alive, especially on Saturday, as dozens of live performances filled restaurants, the alleyway, tents and local businesses with happy and, presumably, paying customers. The breadth of American music, from soul to jazz, blues to bluegrass, was on full display as was a breadth of musical talent that gifts East End music lovers on a regular basis. A number of the acts last weekend came from out of town — New York and New England, for the most part — but the majority of the talent was homegrown, and for that we should all be eternally grateful.
Organizers of the music festival were forced to incorporate increased fees levied by Sag Harbor Village into their operating budget this year. Thankfully, those fees didn't deter the group from pushing forward. "Fall can be a funky time folks," Nancy Atlas, who closed out the music festival on Sunday afternoon, said in a Facebook post a few days later. "While epic sunlight and crunchy leaves do indeed descend, the days get shorter and eventually grey. If you're feeling blue don't despair. Live music has healed people for centuries and we have some stellar sonic doctors here on the East End waiting for you with open arms and tuned guitars (sometimes). All you have to do is show up. We will be happy to see you."
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Lots of 19th century stuff here in Eire. But where are the medieval castles and towers and churches?
Yes. Donegal Ashley was built in 1474, while Richard III was king. But most of that part was destroyed or significantly changed in the 17th and 18th centuries. The Museum of Country Life pretty much started with basket weavers in 1800.
There are some standing stones but we won't be visiting as far as I know – maybe one in Kerry, three days from now. And Skellig Michael of course. And the Book of Kells back in Dublin… But even Paris has a number of structures dating from 1100.
Oh but we did stop at a scared well which was adopted as a Mary spot by the Catholics… Transforming the Goddess into Christianity. But that is a spring not a structure.
My brief foray into Irish history tells me that there were a lot of independent chieftains and tribes. And frequent Viking forays for pillaging.
But the history from 1700 on is one of a poor country. A hard life. And now as we drive, I see so many relatively new houses. And hear that there is a huge emphasis on education. Trying to become an intellectual commodity perhaps? In a green green country without extensive resources.
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Insentra Partners with Juriba
The Microsoft Partner Conference last month left us with meaningful knowledge, relationships and conversations that brought the partner community closer than ever before. A highlight of those relationships, is our new partnership with Juriba, a global developer of IT migration project management software.
In his previous role within Global Technology Infrastructure, Barry Angell, now the Chief Technology Officer of Juriba, realised that managing multiple IT projects, across an increasingly complex end user estate, drives a significant amount of cost and inefficiency into the IT budget. This is a problem Barry, along with the other founders, encountered continuously in their experiences.
Additionally, Barry saw that whether it be a simple hardware refresh, or a large-scale IT transformation, each project would re-invent the wheel, taking little or nothing from previous experiences and causing a period of slow startup.
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Juriba and Insentra will work in close collaboration over the next few months to expand on Office 365 and Windows migration projects as well as on-premise and cloud migrations.
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Ozil sees contribution to Arsenal cause questioned by Keown
Mesut Ozil has been warned that he needs to offer more to the Arsenal cause, with Martin Keown questioning his contribution.
The Germany international was among those to attract criticism following the Gunners' 1-0 defeat at Stoke City last time out.
Ozil has been accused of being a luxury player throughout his time at Emirates Stadium, with his attacking creativity countered by a lack of defensive application.
Keown believes the World Cup winner needs to strike a better balance between his work going backwards and forwards, with team-mate Alexis Sanchez the ideal role model when it comes to all-round graft.
The former Gunners defender told the Daily Mail: "One of the main problems for Arsenal at Stoke last week was that Mesut Ozil did not want to close down with the other forwards.
"It is very easy for Ozil to just try to be creative. If you are never pressing, you do not have to rebalance yourself when you get in possession.
"Sanchez does both sides of the game very well. Arsenal need that in their team - and Sanchez will be urging Ozil to press with him.
"Alexandre Lacazette and Sanchez will run off the ball for Ozil when he has the ball and they need him to do the same for them."
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Dr. Cornel West
Transcript No. 441 (1 October 2015)
Zeina Azzam:
Good evening and welcome everyone. My name is Zeina Azzam. I am the executive director of the Jerusalem Fund & Palestine Center here in D.C. And I am very very happy to welcome all of you here tonight. Also, welcome to our livestream guests and those upstairs in the overflow room. This is truly an unprecedented event for us, to have so many people who want to attend one of our programs that we had to move it to a much larger space. It is a real testament to the scholarship and wisdom and engaged activism and charisma of Dr. Cornel West. Indeed, we are so fortunate to have Dr. West with us this evening. My warmest welcome to you, Dr. West. Our distinguished guest will speak for about 45 minutes, after which we will take questions for about 30 minutes. We have set up the two aisle microphones for your questions after he speaks.
I have just a few housekeeping details for you before we start. Please be sure to turn off your phones and other devices. If any of you would like to join the conversation about our event on twitter, you can tweet to #ESML15 – that is hashtag Edward Said Memorial Lecture 15. We would like to ask you not to take flash photography during the lecture, and please be considerate about using devices like iPads and tablets, holding them up and blocking the view of people around you. For your information, we are recording the lecture and will be posting it to our website in a few days.
Let me turn your attention to a table in the lobby. Make sure you look at it before you leave today. There are some pieces of information about the Jerusalem Fund and our upcoming programs. Feel free to pick up the flyers and donation envelopes. Note that we have our Annual Conference on Friday, October 23rd. It is titled "Palestine and the Palestinians: Media, People, Politics." We invite you to the conference and to all our wonderful events in the next couple of months, and all of them are free. Finally, I would like to thank all the many people that helped organize and carry out this event, especially our intrepid staff and interns and volunteers. I so appreciate their cheerfulness, professionalism and hard work. And special thanks to the First Congregational United Church of Christ for hosting us here tonight, and to Byron Adams who has been most generous with his time, help and advice.
Now it is my pleasure to introduce Dr. Subhi Ali, who has been deeply involved in and committed to the work of the Jerusalem Fund & Palestine Center for over 15 years. Dr. Ali is a surgeon by training. He did his medical training here in D.C. at Howard University. He served as chairman of our board of directors for the last twelve years, and he will be introducing Dr. West.
Dr. Subhi Ali:
Thank you. Good evening. We can do better. Good Evening. There you go. It is my pleasure to welcome you to The Jerusalem Fund's Edward Said Memorial Lecture, and it is my honor, on the behalf of the Fund's board of directors and staff to introduce our distinguished lecturer this year, Dr. Cornel West. Dr. West, we are so delighted that you accepted our invitation to deliver this important lecture for the Palestine Center and that you are with us tonight. A hearty welcome to you.
Before I introduce Dr. West, I would like to say a few words about my friend and mentor Edward Said, who is regarded as one of the most illustrious of Palestinian public intellectuals. He wrote more than 20 books and was a passionate advocate for Palestine. Dr. Said was an acclaimed literary and music critic – yes, music- and theorist whose seminal work influenced generations of academics and scholars who study the Middle East and other non-western societies. Dr. Said passed away in 2003. We are all most proud of his ideas and analysis and writings, and therefore, the Jerusalem Fund wanted to set up an annual event in his memory. We know that he would be very pleased with our choice of Dr. West.
As the Palestine Center's Edward Said Memorial Lecturer this year, Dr. West will discuss the profound legacy of Edward Said in social and political thought. Now, Dr. West is currently a professor of philosophy and Christian practice at Union Theological Seminary and professor emeritus at Princeton University. He has also taught at Yale, Harvard and the University of Paris. Dr. West has written, also, over 20 books and edited thirteen including: Race Matters, Democracy Matters, Brother West and Living Out Loud, Black Prophetic Fire and Radical King. In 1993, Dr. West was the recipient of the American Book award. He has had a diverse career in academia and as a media icon. He has appeared in over 25 documentaries and films, and has made three spoken word albums. His latest spoken word feature reunited him with Terence Blanchard for "Breathless," a tribute to the "I Can't Breathe" movement. Dr. West says that his work has been shaped and enriched by a variety of people from all walks of life whom he has invited into his world of ideas, thus keeping alive the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., which is, and I quote, "That of telling the truth, and bearing witness to love and justice." The title of Dr. West's lecture is "The Legacy of Edward Said." Please join me in welcoming Dr. Cornel West.
Dr. Cornel West:
What a blessing, what an honor, what a privilege to be here, invited by the Palestine Center to talk about my very, very dear friend and brother, Edward Said. I want to salute first the leadership of this grand institution, The Jerusalem Fund, and all the various activities associated with the branches and institutions. My new friend and brother, Dr. Ali, thank you so very, very much. And for my new sister, Zeina Azzam and also sister Samirah Alkassim, who's been very important in facilitating my coming. And for any time I get a chance to talk about a close friend who happened to be the greatest public intellectual in the American Empire in the latter part of the twentieth century, who happened to be Palestinian, too, that cuts against the grain in the history of the USA. But also for any time I get a chance to speak out against any crime against humanity, and I do consider the vicious Israeli occupation of precious Palestinians as a crime against humanity – so it's a moral issue. I speak as a revolutionary Christian, so it's a moral issue, it's a spiritual issue, so any occupation–Tibet under the Chinese— if it were Jews under anybody I would be here too. It's a moral and spiritual issue and this is what America and the world need to come to terms with. You all have a sense of what happened at the UN yesterday, with the raising of the flag, trying to keep visible the plight and predicament of a significant slice, a crucial slice of humanity–the Palestinians. But we live in a world in which Palestinian lives matter so little. Just like I come from a people in the belly of the American Empire in which red lives matter so little, black lives matter so little, poor people's lives matter so little and it was precisely this common ground that brought brother Edward Said and myself together.
It was in 1977 that I first met Edward Said. I wanted to attend his lecture. I read his masterpiece Beginnings. I had already read his Harvard dissertation, "Joseph Conrad and the Fiction of Autobiography." I had read it in the library. He has written it under Harry Levine – Harry Levine was one of the founders of comparative literary studies and the history of the United States. He actually was a Jewish brother from Omaha, Nebraska but he headed Comp Lit. Edward had worked with Harry Levine, of course coming out of Princeton undergrad and studying with Arthur Szathmary and the great Blackmur, Richard Blackmur, one of the finest literary critics, never went to college but a college went to him; professor at Princeton with just a high school degree, that's very rare, that's who Edward studied with when he went to Princeton. But I had to meet this Edward Said, because I could tell he was a dynamo. I was 23 years old and he was, at that time, he was 42, he was born in 1935, November the 1st, 1935. And I was in no way disappointed and he was lecturing on György Lukács and history and class consciousness, and then he moved on to Antonio Gramsci's Prison Notebooks and then he'd move back to Flaubert's Sentimental Education and then he'd move back to his favorite, Joseph Conrad, again. Right after the lecture I said, "My brother, we need to spend some time together. I'm a Cognac man, what are you drinking?" And he was so kind and I realize now, a 23 year old black brother, New York City, straight from Cambridge, and a Palestinian brother teaching, we came together and we remain together.
I recall when he sent me the transcript of Orientalism, I said "You've written a masterpiece, but I am still listening for the voices of the dominated. You're too obsessed with the dominator. You come from an education that looks top down; I come from an orientation that is bottom up. So I want to know what the counter voices are, the counter forces are, in the constitution of this deeply dehumanizing discourse called 'Orientalism' that would devalue and demean the rich history and decency of those constituted outside of the West as 'Orientals' on that side of the globe." He said, "I appreciate that critique, brother. I got another book coming: The Question of Palestine." Yes, covering Islam, yes, let's get into it. Here are the counter voices, After the Last Sky, the counter voices so that anytime we talk about the structures that subordinate, we want to hear the agency of those who are reacting and responding in such a way that those structures are always contingent, tentative, provisional, and therefore subject for transformation. Now he told me "Chomsky wrote me a letter very similar like that; he was very critical of that text." And I still have brother Edward's letter to me, and I say this, not to somehow elevate myself in relation to him, I'm just a fellow freedom fighter, we don't compete with each other. I come from the Black tradition that says "lift every voice" whatever your voice is. But it is only your voice, like your fingerprint, it is distinctively and uniquely yours and Edward Said had a very distinctive and unique voice. He was the last great humanist intellectual in the American Empire, and by humanist, what I mean is those who go back to the legacy of Athens on the one hand and Jerusalem on the other and begin with what the Latins call "humando," echoes of the last paragraph of Vico's The New Science, that third edition in 1744-5 and not that first one – where Vico says, "humanistic studies begins with 'humando', and 'humando' in Latin means 'burying and bury all' and the very act of burying, which is a displacement, which generates mourning and the need for the objectifying of grief, connected to memory, which is tied to language. But first and foremost, guttural cries and wrenching moans and visceral groans that are transfigured into language.
And here our Jewish brothers and sisters are very helpful. There's a wonderful moment in the Talmud where they say the fundamental human response to deep suffering is first tears, then silence, then song. And it's no accident that for Vico, the first human language was poetic language that was linked to music. And Edward of course, the great musician that he was, the classical musician that he was, played beautiful Brahms, beautiful Beethoven, unbelievable. And his writing, his musical elaborations, wonderful texts on the limits of music. Very attentive to this issue of humando, how do we, featherless, two-legged, linguistically-conscious creatures born between urine and feces – that's who we are – how do we deal with suffering in our brief moves from our mother's womb to tomb? A short trek, trying to come to terms with our sense of what it means to be human, and for Edward Said as a humanist intellectual, following Vico but going back to Athens but specifically going back to Socrates. But Socrates was a hero for my dear brother, Edward Said, because Socrates embodied the willingness to interrogate, to criticize, to call into question, the most fundamental assumptions and presuppositions of his time and that's also what Edward wanted to do. Socrates says philosophy itself is a meditation on the preparation for death, five loaves, Sofia, love of wisdom, philosophy. A lover of wisdom is always preparing for, wrestling with forms of death. But as a humanist intellectual, Edward Said understood that you have to learn how to die in order to learn how to live. Here he follows Seneca, "He or she who learns how to die unlearns slavery."
Freedom is fundamental for Edward Said but it is not abstract like [it is for] Vico. It begins with the graves, the songs, the body, the group, the souls expressed given the brief move from womb to tomb. But when Edward talks about humanist critiques of narrow forms of humanism, when Edward talks about "I am one fundamentally committed to the dictum of Terrence, formerly himself a slave, who says nothing human is alien to me. And as an intellectual going back to modern times with the Russians over against the powers that be, going back to France and the Dreyfus affair, going against the powers that be like Emile Zola," he says, "I am going to be an intellectual like Socrates," echoing line 38:30 that says "An unexamined life is not a life of a human" and from 24 of that same dialogue of Plato's Apology, Socrates says, "My unpopularity is caused by parrhesia." What is parrhesia? Frank speech, plain speech, fearless speech, unintimidated speech. And for Edward Said, my dear brother, your dear brother, he took that seriously. He said "I am going to so thoroughly examine and interrogate myself, my society, my world; the structures of domination, the forms of oppression, but also the structures of feeling, what sets of prejudices and presuppositions are at work because any time you give up assumption, presupposition, any time you give up a dogma or a doctrine, it's a form of death. And that is why humanism is so inseparable from what the Greeks called paideia, deep education, different than the cheap schooling that is so pervasive these days, because cheap schooling is market-driven, skill-acquisition, and oh-no, paideia is about learning how to die, giving up certain assumptions, presuppositions and letting them go so you undergo transformation to become more mature, more cultivated, more politically awake, and more spiritually sensitive, more morally courageous. And these are the things that brother Edward and I talked about over Cognac…and I won't tell you what he was drinking but we both liked it. But this is serious talk because when you look at his social position, what does it mean to be a Palestinian in the Ivy League? Coming out of Princeton in 1957, PhD from Harvard in 1964, going to Columbia University in '64. Having friends like Lionel Trilling, and a whole host of others who will help facilitate your tenure and at the same time, being true to who you are and still being in solidarity with those who are suffering beginning with your own people. Not stopping there, but beginning there.
It's so easy to be assimilated outsiders – Palestinian, black, brown, red, women – and love everybody but your own people. That might guarantee some success. I love brother Edward Said's commitment; he was never satisfied with being successful. He was concerned about what he would be faithful to. How would he use his success in such a way that he could embark on frank speech and unintimidated speech? That would attempt to tell the truth? And as one of his other heroes put it, in the early part of the Negative Dialectics of Theodor Adorno, Adorno says the condition of truth is to allow suffering to speak. For humanists, [it is] beginning with burial linked to learning, to die into life but be faithful unto death in the quest for truth, to allow the voices of those who are rendered invisible to be heard. And it is in the early sixties that Edward writes his first reflections on predicament, journalism. But he is still very much tied toward, as you can imagine, his profession. And his blessed family, we should say a word about Hilda and Wadie, his mother and father; I don't like to talk about figures without talking about their mommas and their daddies. They played a role, you know what I mean? Brother Edward wouldn't be here if it wasn't for Sister Hilda, his momma, and Brother Wadie, his father. You can imagine throwing that brilliant young Palestinian boy into U.S. circumstances in the fifties and sixties: what will be the result? Edward Said decides he's going to be a humanist intellectual; that's not some cheap title. It's something to be earned. Just like Socrates. But Edward also knows that the legacy of Socrates associated with Athens has its own limits. The intellectual integrity of Socrates inspires Edward Said. But Socrates never cries; he never sheds a tear. Anybody who's never really cried and never shed a tear has never really loved. Concrete human beings and classes with Vico. Socrates loves wisdom in the abstract. He doesn't love concrete persons. Like Hamlet, he doesn't love others and suffers with a spiritual malnutrition and moral constipation. Edward's connection with the legacy of Jerusalem begins with tears. It begins with nakba; it begins with catastrophe. It begins with domination. It begins with internalized mis-self-perceptions among Palestinians themselves, vis a vis other Arabs, vis a vis themselves, vis a vis Israelis. Clarity, intellectual clarity, wedded to tears. And tears do what? Shatter the numbness. Tears do what? Reorient the soul. That's what we love about the legacy of Jerusalem.
That's what many of us love about Hebrew scripture: it begins with tears and cries of an oppressed people vis a vis a Pharaoh and a Covenant that says, "You are to be human at your best when you do justice, mercy, and walk calmly with thy God." When you let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream for all of the nations, that's the beginnings of a legacy of Jerusalem that says the world is to be looked at through the lens of an orphan and the widow and the fatherless and the motherless: the oppressed, those Franz Fanon called 'the wretched of the earth'. It's a very different orientation, a very different angle of vision of that of Socrates. Edward Said, the highly westernized brother that he was – and we can talk about this in question and answer, because I meet a lot of young folks these days, you know, and they say, well, that brother Edward Said, he was influenced a bit by the West – I said, "A bit?" Brother Edward Said was westernized through and through, but he had a magnificent Palestinian difference. And you could write a dissertation on that, too. So he wasn't completely subsumed under the West, but he was so deeply rooted in the West, and he taught Western humanities every year of his nearly forty years when he was there at Columbia, and I was also blessed to teach both of his children at Princeton, Sister Najla and Brother Wadie. And the instructions they received from their father was that of a highly Westernized Palestinian brother. Of course, Sister Mariam, his wife, she brought in her wisdom to help create a balance. But my point is this: Athens on the one hand, Jerusalem on the other, beginning with tears, beginning with the angle of vision from the vantage point of the oppressed, but most importantly, allowing the expression of fearless speech to be said on behalf of oppressed people.
What does that mean for a Palestinian in the 1960s and 70s; what's going on in the world? Well you can imagine: Soviet empire on the one hand, American empire on the other. Europe, the age of Europe is over, Europe is now a divided continent in the forties, dependent on either the Soviet empire or the American empire. The Middle East is undergoing transformation, anti-colonial sensibilities are spreading. Africa's undergone decolonization. It is a different social configuration that is taking place, and it is one in which freedom and liberation are not just slogans; people are willing to live and die. In the United States American apartheid is being resisted with unbelievable courage. With lynchings and murders and so forth going on, but they keep coming, which is to say what? This is where Marcus Garvey is very important; you all remember at Marcus Garvey's rallies he always would have at the beginning of the rally, "The negro is not afraid." Even if they're sitting there shaking, even if they're shaking, sometimes, "The negro is not afraid." Why is that important? Because in the Middle East, in Africa, in other parts of the world the oppressed people began to straighten their backs up and say, "We have broken the back of fear, we're willing to tell the truth about our suffering, we're willing to organize and mobilize, we're willing to die, we're willing to go to jail, we're willing to stay in the streets. We are not satisfied." They were becoming well-adjusted to injustice. That's called a hot moment. It's hard to imagine; we've been living in an ice age for 35 years. The neoliberal epoch is an ice age for most of the world, which is not to say that there hasn't been resistance, collective and otherwise, in the West Bank and other places. But those are the pockets.
But Edward Said, he was coming of age in a hot moment, not just in the States but around the world. And what is most significant is that he was willing to make the connection between what is going on in the American empire, and the American empire is center stage, uncontested world power. Only the Soviet empire is in some ways competitive, in other ways very uncompetitive. It is trying to reshape the whole globe in its image and for its interests, primarily corporate interests. And Edward Said says what? He says, "Oh, but there's a people locked into a settler-colonial experiment." It's complicated because it's one of precious Jewish brothers and sisters who jump out of the burning buildings of Jew-hating Europe, but they land on the backs of some Arabs and they act as if these Arabs don't exist. They act as if there's land, but no people, but that's a lie. That's a lie. And the world is emerging in such a way that who can deny the depths of the evil and the suffering of millions of Jewish brothers and sisters in barbaric and bestial modern and civilized Europe? The land of Beethoven and Goethe and Brahms and Schleiermacher and Nietzsche and so forth. No, Hitler is for real. So they land on the backs of these people and their humanity is rendered invisible. And Edward Said says, "No, the condition of truth is to allow suffering to speak." We've got to ensure that their voices, both from the grave and from the quick has a role and place in this historical moment.
And I could speak for hours about the depth and scope of his courage. The death threats – each time you go to his office, he's got bodyguards because they're trying to kill him in his office at Columbia University. We were marching against the New York Times, we were talking about this in 1982 with the ugly invasion of Lebanon. The New York Times wouldn't even use the word "occupation," oh no, that's "ideologically biased." Please. Step by step by step we look back, and there's no doubt that we're still in a very difficult and nightmarish situation when it comes to precious Palestinian brothers and sisters, here and in the diaspora, in so many ways. But in those days, it was the dark ages, and Edward was a Socratic and a prophetic light. And he does it in the context of the academy. Literary studies, literary criticism, and he said we must be committed to secular criticism, and by "secular" all he meant was mustering the will, the heroic will, to be contra any method, any system, any orientation, any school of thought, that thinks it has a monopoly on truth, especially when it is rendering the voices of oppressed people invisible or marginal. By secular he had to fight against the post-structuralists, the Foucaults and the Derridas and Deleuze and others.
People run around and think, "Edward Said is a postmodernist;" no, that's not true. He's calling into question human will; he's calling into question human volition. That's not true; he's using any insights he can from any form of intellectual weaponry, be it Deleuze, Derrida, or Foucault. But he's got his own trajectory, and it is one of a radical, humanist intellectual trajectory. The same would be true of his talk about worldly criticism. You always begin with the complex circumstances. You always begin with being situated so you know formal system will make sense of the lived experience of persons. There's no algorithm; there's no framework that is deodorized that can do justice to the funk of everyday people's struggles. That's why he loved C.L.R. James, because James' Marxism was always tempered by that which didn't fit. That's what he loved about Adorno, the cross-grains that are not subsumable under any system, what the Greeks call a topos, the unclassifiable things. That's one of his reasons why he remained distant from Marxism, he and I had long discussions about this because Edward Said had a way of lecturing about Antonio Gramsci for an hour and a half, and you'd never know Gramsci was a Marxist. He just called him "counter-hegemonic," in opposition. And I said, "Well, he's more than that, he's a Communist now, brother." "Oh, that's not important, Brother West." Well, it is important, he's got a class analysis here. But his formation was one in which he was always suspicious because his conception of Marxism was one of a method and a system, and his conception of secular criticism is to hold all methods and systems at arm's length. To be flexible and fluid enough to keep track of what is true of the lived experience of people who are struggling, and at the same time ensure that those oppressed people are self-critical too.
And we can talk about his critiques of the PLO, his struggles with Yasser Arafat, his willingness to take a stand in the Palestinian context and ensure that self-criticism held across the board, even if that made him unpopular among Palestinians themselves, even as he was living under death threat in the American hegemon. Boy, that's a special brother. Very, very special brother indeed. He and I had deep struggles over popular culture, and I think, when we talk about Edward Said and all of his genius, and all of his capacious imagination, there are a number of blind spots. I want to note just one or two before we move into the present situation. Edward Said had a certain disparaging view of popular culture. He was a high-brow radical humanist. He thought Adorno was right about jazz, which upset me deeply. Adorno had a very, very negative view about jazz. He didn't see the genius bubbling up from Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Sarah Vaughn, John Coltrane and Miles Davis, but the jazz that he was talking about was Glen Miller, so I can understand. You just had to be very mindful which particular slices of jazz you are talking about. Somebody might write a dissertation about Kenny G. and say jazz is not worth spending a lot of time. I understand. Okay, fine. Listen to a little Coltrane, straighten you out. But it was popular culture in general, and this is very interesting, because really the first time that I saw Edward embrace popular culture was when he wrote about Palestinian culture. You can't write about Lester Scott, you can't write about the poetry, you can't write about the songs unless you immerse yourself in, not just high-brow humanist culture, but the genius that is flowing from below as well. I would try and catch him on this. He said, "Well, I'm talking about Palestine, I'm not talking about America," because he followed Adorno, and Adorno was about mass culture. Popular culture is mass culture manipulated from above, market driven, tied to instant gratification, body stimulation, and titillation. And he's right about much of American popular culture, but that's not all of it. That's not all of it.
But the challenge is, especially with a younger generation who have been so shaped by popular culture, how will you connect with them, if your discourse is centered on Jane Austen and Flaubert and Gramsci and Kakfa and T.S. Eliot and does not in any way have something to say about the popular artists of the day. It could be a Bob Dylan or Carole King, Gil Scott Heron or the Last Poets or the Cornel West Theory these days. I've got brother Tim Hicks [who] is the leader of the Cornel West Theory. I say that not because they named the group after me, but because they are telling some musical truths from the bottom up. Mumia Abu Jamal and Angela Davis [are] on the album making that connection. It's a challenge for Edward Said's legacy, a very difficult challenge it seems to me. At the same time, given the changes that have taken place since he died in September 2003 in the United States as well as in the Middle East. how do we keep his legacy alive? Speaking truth to power, bearing witness tied to the most sophisticated analysis of the day, the economy of culture, but also of self-transformation. Edward was in no way hermetic or privatistic, but he was deeply individualistic in style and sometimes very lonely and isolated. How do you keep his legacy alive in a moment in which the market now saturates every nook and cranny of our culture including the academy. The corporate ties and commercializing and marketizing taking place in the academy. It's a very different academy than [what] Edward Said was a part of – the culture in which everything is for sale, and everybody is for sale. Not just here, but in the Middle East, too. The need to muster, the courage to think critically, the courage to improvise, the courage to organize, the courage to hope is more and more difficult in such a market saturated empire and world.
And then, the other blind spot of Edward Said, which is that of religion. You can tell by his name, Edward, that he is named after the Prince of Wales, Edward VIII. He was very popular in 1935, when he was born. He grew up Episcopalian whose grandfather was a Baptist missionary. He married a Quaker. His own formation vis a vis religion was one that he pushed back in regard to any religious identity and affiliation. In the most market saturated moment in the history of the species, our moment, is also the moment in which religious revivals escalate and intensify. Therefore, an analysis of both market and religions, which go hand in hand, are necessary. But Edward himself was secular, and religion for him usually meant blind dogma. I would tell him over and over again, my dear brother, you're wrong. Malcolm X was a revolutionary Muslim because he grew mature. He learned how to die in order to learn how to live. He called into question dogma and doctrine and remained a Muslim. Martin Luther King Jr. called into question dogma and doctrine, elements of himself, but he remained a revolutionary Christian. Bell Hooks, a revolutionary Buddhist. I can go on and on. Edward would always tell me, he would say, "Brother West, 95% of what you and I do together convinces me that you're thoroughly secular." I said, "No, brother, I am a Jesus-loving, free black man. Now, don't try to subsume me under your secular project." I'll just add a quick footnote— when we got the call in September 1991 that he had Leukemia, we cried tears. I called him up and said, "My brother, I am going to bring some prayer warriors to your house." James Ford, one of the greatest preachers and pastors of the 20th century, pastor at Riverside church. James Melvin Washington, the editor of A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr. – the three of us went straight to Edward's place, and we prayed in his living room, and he allowed us to pray. I told him, "My brother, you've got to get in on this." Marian said, "I think that is a good idea, Edward." It was quite a moment. The radically secular Edward Said with three Jesus-loving, free black men, and he knew it was about the love because we loved him and expressed a yearning. September 1991. He dies 2003. That's twelve years. We don't know if the prayers contributed to those twelve years or not. Probably not, but you never know! I've been praying for the elimination of poverty in the world — God doesn't hear me. It was a solidarity felt. It was the affirmation of his vocation, of his calling as radical humanist intellectual telling America about the truth of its relation to a settler-colonial experiment, like America itself being initially a settler-colonial experiment losing sight of the people in the land, saying there are no people in that land, and sooner or later, truth crushed the earth will rise again, the voices will be heard, chickens come home to roost, you're gonna reap what you sow. There was a parallel, you see, and Edward understood it.
Where does that leave us now? First, more than anything else, I want to end with this quote from the great W.E.B. DuBois. DuBois was at the end of his life. He'd been in handcuffs in U.S. courts by claims that somehow he had been connected to the Soviet Empire. This is the height of the Cold War, McCarthyism. He lived in 31 Courts street, Brooklyn Heights, the greatest borough in the world, Brooklyn, and he had one visitor that was the most popular Negro in the world in 1939, but he was under house arrest in Philadelphia. His name was Paul Robeson. Those two meet, and DuBois says, "I have to send a love letter to the world." To come to terms with four questions, he had embarked on writing a trilogy of three novels. The first is called The Ordeal of Mansart. Turned to page 275 in that novel and Du Bois says, first question: "How shall integrity face oppression?" I've been wrestling with that intellectual integrity, moral integrity, spiritual integrity, political integrity. The second question: "What does honesty do in the face of deception?" We know that we live in a world of such massive mendacity and criminality of lies and crimes that are cast as normal. We are told to be indifferent toward it. The third question: "What does decency do in the face of insult?" And the last query, "What does virtue do to meet brute force?" Edward Said, the best since the radical humanist intellectual tradition, exemplifies an integrity in the face of oppression his whole life. Intellectual integrity, moral integrity, integrity is not purity; integrity is not always being right. What Jane Austen calls "constancy." Edward has a fascinating essay on Jane Austen. It's dialectical. It's a critique. But constancy, having courage of your convictions regardless of the cost. To take a risk. Honesty, sheer intellectual honesty. "Bernard Lewis quit lying!" is probably what he was saying. No matter how much erudition you've got, the bias, the tilt, the hermeneutical orientation that you have loses sight of the humanity of Arabs and Palestinians in a significant way. Quit lying and be honest. Hermeneutics of honesty. Edward Said tried to be honest. Decency in the face of insult. All of the various narratives and analysis you see today.
Can you imagine 500 babies being killed in 50 days and there not being a wave of righteous indignation in every corner of the country or globe. It's indecent that that could take place. And there to not be those kinds of waves of moral outrage and holy anger. Said says, "Honesty in the face of insult is disrespecting the folk." To have that kind of relative silence given the dominance of certain conceptions of what is going on in the Middle East that allows the Israeli Defense Forces to do what they want in the name of self-defense. No, there are some moral limits. No, there are some ethical constraints. And there is some imbalance, asymmetry of power and domination when you're talking about the clash of those peoples. And last but not least, virtue in the face of brute force. Said very much like those of us in the black freedom movement, we understood that when we talk about intellectual work it's never just academic and abstract, because when you take a stand you better be willing to die because the repressive apparatus of the nation-state is coming at you. It will generate, not just character assassination, but actual assassination, brute force. Something that is hard for many of our mainstream liberal and neoliberal intellectuals to come to terms with because brute force is not part of their world. When I'm told that there are over a thousand white supremacist militia groups operating in America, and my name happens to be on half of them, that's not an abstract issue. My momma loves me. When Said had to deal with the vicious attacks and threats that is not an abstract issue. Mariam, Cornel, Naja, Wadi loved him. We stand right with him because we loved him. That's what we are talking about. That's what Du Bois is talking about. That is part of the undeniable greatness— and by greatness I don't mean Alexander the Great, I don't mean Napoleon, and I don't mean Julius Caesar— I'm saying he or she is greatest among you who attempt to serve in the form of the gifts that they have such that truth telling and witness bearing can be a force for real good, to use the language of John Coltrane, in the short time that we are here. And that is what is so magnificent about our brother, our comrade, our grand intellectual friend, Edward Said. Thank you all so very much.
Dr. Cornel West is Professor of Philosophy and Christian Practice at Union Theological Seminary and Professor Emeritus at Princeton University. He has also taught at Yale, Harvard, and the University of Paris. Dr. West has written over 20 books and has edited thirteen, among which are Race Matters, Democracy Matters,Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud, Black Prophetic Fire and Radical King. In 1993, Dr. West was recipient of The American Book Award. He has had a diverse career spanning from academia to media icon. A frequent guest on the Bill Maher Show, Colbert Report, CNN, C-Span and Democracy Now, he also has appeared in over 25 documentaries and films including Examined Life, Call & Response,Sidewalk and Stand, as well as science fiction feature film, The Matrix – for which he was the commentator (with Ken Wilbur) on the official trilogy released in 2004. In addition, Dr. West has made three spoken word albums including Never Forget, collaborating with Prince, Jill Scott, Andre 3000, Talib Kweli, KRS-One and the late Gerald Levert. His latest spoken word feature reunited him with Terence Blanchard for "Breathless" – a tribute to the "I Can't Breathe" movement. Dr. West says that his work has been shaped and enriched by a variety of people from all walks of life whom he has invited into his world of ideas, thus keeping alive the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. – "that of telling the truth and bearing witness to love and justice."


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