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How the Guardian became the flagship for the false 'anti-Semitism' Smear Campaign of Labour's Zionist Right
Jonathan Freedland's contemptible attack on Ken Loach and his refusal of a right of reply
Corbyn criticises the 'subliminally nasty' Jonathan Freedland
Dear Jonathan,
For over 2 years, the Guardian has run a campaign whose aim has been to paint the Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn as anti-Semitic. You have personally insinuated that Corbyn worked with a holocaust denier, as have other contributors.
Some of us would say that Labour has a Zionist problem
The Guardian's hostility to Corbyn has surpassed even that of the tabloids. It is little wonder that in the past 8 years the Guardian's sales have declined from over 400,000 to just over 150,000 today. It is no longer seen as a paper of the Left.
The Guardian used to be the only British paper to have an informed coverage of the Middle East. Correspondents such as Michael Adams and David Hirst were renowned the world over. Today their role has been filled by Robert Fisk and Patrick Cockburn at The Independent.
Ken Loach and Jeremy Corbyn - Even when Corbyn tries to appease the Zionists he has the problem of all those people on the Left that he worked with for forty years.
When Comment is Free was established 10 years ago under the late Georgina Henry, I was one of a number of contributors. My first article for CIF was The seamy side of solidarity, a coruscating attack on the anti-Semitic Jazzman Gilad Atzmon. It was a call for the Palestine solidarity movement to dissociate themselves from Atzmon and his supporters.
My article began with the observation: 'Like the boy who cried wolf, the charge of "anti-semitism" has been made so often against critics of Zionism and the Israeli state that people now have difficulty recognising the genuine article.' That observation is particularly relevant since you have repeatedly made false allegations of anti-Semitism against people like Ken Loach.
The Zionist lobby was not happy with Jewish anti-Zionists writing under the banner of The Guardian. They therefore formed 'CIF Watch' In January 2002 in 'A new anti-Semitism?' the Guardian quoted Lord Greville Janner, a leading Zionist and a notorious child abuser, as saying that the Guardian was 'viciously and notoriously anti-Israel'.
The Guardian succumbed to the pressure and I and others were banned from contributing. CIF Watch even changed its name to UK Media Watch because, as they boasted, their work was complete.
As a senior editor at the Guardian you led the anti-Corbyn campaign with your article Labour and the left have an antisemitism problem. The strap line was: 'Under Jeremy Corbyn the party has attracted many activists with views hostile to Jews.' You provided not an iota of evidence to substantiate this.
Alex Chalmers, Chair of Oxford University Labour Club, resigned because of the Club's support of Israel Apartheid Week. It had nothing to do with 'anti-Semitism'
You cited Vicki Kirby's quote that Jews have 'big noses' but failed to correct this when David Baddiel, the Jewish author of Infidels, pointed out that this was a direct quote from his play.
You also cited the bogus allegations of anti-Semitism at Oxford University Labour Club by its Chair Alex Chalmers who resigned when the Labour Club decided to give its backing to Oxford's Israel Apartheid Week. It was later revealed that Chalmers had been a paid intern at Bicom, an Israeli propaganda organisation.
There have been numerous articles in The Guardian's Comment or Opinion sections, on the false anti-Semitism theme. Nothing contradicting this narrative has appeared. Submissions from Professor Avi Shlaim, myself and others were rejected. Far from Comment being Free, when it comes to Zionism it has been tied down and silenced as surely as Jonathan Swift's Gulliver.
The furore around Vicky Kirby's reference to Jews' 'big noses' was in fact based on a quote from a play by a Jewish author, David Baddiel
As you are well aware it is Zionism and anti-Semitism which go hand in hand. Have you forgotten the time when David Miliband attacked the Tories for their alliance with anti-Semites such as Michal Kaminski and Robert Zile in the European Parliament? You even wrote an article Once no self-respecting politician would have gone near people such as Kaminski. This of course was before the election of Jeremy Corbyn.
Kaminski fronted the Committee to Defend the Good Name of Jedwabne, a village in Poland that burnt alive up to 1,600 of its Jewish inhabitants in 1941. Robert Zile distinguished himself by marching every March with veterans of Latvia's Waffen SS in Riga.
Prominent Zionists were 'incandescent' when the Board's Vivian Wineman raised the issue with David Cameron. Stephen Pollard, editor of the Jewish Chronicle wrote about how Poland's Kaminski is not an antisemite: he's a friend to Jews.
Trump's former anti-Semitic adviser, Steve Bannon, is invited as the guest of honour to Zionist Organisation of America's gala dinner - he might be an anti-Semite but 'He's so pro-Israel!'
The alliance of Zionists with the anti-Semitic Right is a world wide phenomenon, with the Israeli government supporting the anti-Semitic attacks of Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban on George Soros. Soros's offence being to help fund Israeli human rights groups. And there is the little matter of the invitation by the Zionist Organisation of America to Steve Bannon of Breitbart and the Alt-Right to speak to its annual gala dinner.
Despite this your most recent article Labour's Denial of Antisemitism in its Ranks Leaves The Party in a Dark Place repeats the lie that there were 'loud calls for the expulsion of Jewish groups' at Labour Party Conference. What there were was calls for the disaffiliation of the Jewish Labour Movement, a Zionist not Jewish group. The JLM is the 'sister party' of the Israeli Labour Party, a party of segregation and ethnic cleansing.
Freedland's attack on Ken Loach - a right of reply was refused.
Your suggestion that Ken Loach was 'echoing ... the language of Holocaust denial' is contemptible. Unlike you, Loach has spent a lifetime confronting and opposing racism and supporting the poor and dispossessed. You have spent your career defending Apartheid when it comes in Jewish clothes.
You argued that Ken Loach, Len McCluskey and Ken Livingstone, not being Jewish, are unqualified to comment on anti-Semitism. Racism is not subjective. Non-Jews are perfectly capable of expressing an opinion. Many Jews in the Labour Party also deny your claims so it depends on which Jews you speak to or for. You also compared Jews to Black, Women's and other oppressed groups. Jews in Britain are not oppressed as Jews.
Ironically it is anti-Zionist Jews who are the primary victims of the fake anti-Semitism witch hunt. Moshe Machover, Jackie Walker and myself have been suspended or expelled. It is as if the Labour Party during the era of South African Apartheid had ostracised White South Africans opposed to Apartheid at the behest of Labour Friends of South Africa!
Jews have been the loudest critics of the attempt to equate anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism. To pretend that all Jews have one opinion, that they are homogenous, is not only fundamentally dishonest but also anti-Semitic. I expect better of you Jonathan.
People like Archbishop Desmond Tutu have described Israel's treatment of the Palestinians as similar to what happened in South Africa. Ha'aretz quotes him as saying that:
'"I have witnessed the systemic humiliation of Palestinian men, women and children by members of the Israeli security forces... Their humiliation is familiar to all black South Africans who were corralled and harassed and insulted and assaulted by the security forces of the apartheid government."
You seem to find it difficult to accept that a Jewish settler colonial state is inherently racist. You have made turning a blind eye to Israel's crimes into an art form. How can a state which demolished in January a Bedouin village, Umm al-Hiran, in Israel's Negev, in order to make way for an exclusively Jewish town be considered a normal democratic state? Or why is it that a plurality, 48% of Israeli Jews want to see the expulsion of Israeli Arabs?
Your suggestion that anti-Zionism equals anti-Semitism is based on your argument that 93% of British Jews identify with Israel. In fact just 59% identify as Zionists. But even were you correct so what? If a majority of Hindus supported Suttee would it be racist to oppose it? Jews who support Israel are identifying with the world's only apartheid state. That is wrong whoever they are.
Ken Loach is forced to reply to Freedland on the site of Jewish Voice for Labour as Freedland and the Guardian refuse a right of reply
What I really find remarkable is that having launched an abusive and dishonest attack on Ken Loach you didn't even have the courage to print his reply, Comment is Free - Guardian's One-Eyed View of Labour Politics Ignores the Palestinians. That really is cowardly.
Ken Loach is a living legend. His films have borne eloquent testimony to the evils of racism and imperialism, as well as being a devastating indictment of the way the poor and dispossessed are treated – from Cathy Come Home to I Daniel Blake. What will you leave to the world other than a few instantly forgettable tirades against anti-Zionists plus a few thrillers?
You are living proof Jonathan that even the most 'liberal' of Zionists ends up in Netanyahu's choir singing the same songs of 'anti-Semitism'. As Israeli society moves further and further to the racist Right you find it impossible to change the tune.
Of one thing I am certain. If Jews in Britain experienced even a tenth of what Palestinians in Israel had to put up with then your references to anti-Semitism would carry some weight.
There is only one thing I don't understand. When Jeremy Corbyn accused you of "utterly disgusting subliminal nastiness" why he thought it was subliminal? It seems all too clear.
Ken Loach's Reply to Jonathan Freedland that the Guardian refused to print
Comment is free – Guardian's One-Eyed View of Labour Politics Ignores the Palestinians
Ken Loach, 5 October 2017
On 27th September 2017 the Guardian published an article by Jonathan Freedland called Labour's denial of antisemitism in its ranks leaves the party in a dark place. Ken Loach wrote a response for Comment is Free beginning "The taint of antisemitism is toxic. Yet, with hints and innuendos, your columnist, Jonathan Freedland, tries to link me, Len McCluskey and Ken Livingstone to Labour's 'dark place', for which it seems we are in part responsible. This is cynical journalism."
The Guardian has refused to carry Loach's article. We are pleased to do so here.
The taint of antisemitism is toxic. Yet, with hints and innuendos, your columnist, Jonathan Freedland, tries to link me, Len McCluskey and Ken Livingstone to Labour's 'dark place', for which it seems we are in part responsible. This is cynical journalism.
What is his evidence? Len and I were welcomed at the packed first meeting of 'Jewish Voice for Labour'. Strangely, Freedland ignored this progressive new group, which has published its own response to his attacks on us. The founding document says: 'we stand for rights and justice for Jewish people everywhere and against wrongs and injustices to Palestinians and other oppressed people anywhere'. We support that.
But Freedland disputes our right to contribute. We are 'not Jewish – a fact that might limit their authority to speak on the matter'. The matter in question is antisemitism in the Labour Party.
Many Jewish comrades say that they know the Labour Party to be a welcoming environment and have not experienced hostility as Jews. This chimes with my fifty years of involvement with the labour movement. But, for Freedland, this is a discussion to which only one group – Jews who share his political perspective – can contribute. It is exclusive – no place for solidarity or collective support. This goes against all traditions of the left where we stand alongside each other to oppose injustice.
People join left organisations to fight racism and fascism, intolerance and colonial oppression. Throughout history, it is the left that has led this fight. Racism including antisemitism is real enough and will emerge in all political parties. The Jewish Socialists' Group (JSG) acknowledges this in relation to allegations about the Labour Party: 'a very small number of cases seem to be real instances of antisemitism'. I trust their judgement.
This present campaign about antisemitism surfaced when Jeremy Corbyn became leader and drew on a number of cases that pre-dated his leadership. It has been led by his political opponents inside and outside the Labour Party, seeming in part to be aimed at undermining Jeremy Corbyn's supporters and therefore his leadership. JSG wrote 'accusations of antisemitism are being weaponised to attack the Jeremy Corbyn-led Labour Party'.
Corbyn has always opposed racism and defended human rights wherever they have been attacked, which includes the plight of the Palestinians. This will alarm apologists for Israeli occupation and expansion. Further, he stands on a socialist programme which has disturbed the right of the party.
There is a further, more serious allegation, that I gave 'spurious legitimacy' to Holocaust denial. In a BBC interview I was asked about a speech I had not heard and of which I knew nothing. My reply has been twisted to suggest that I think it is acceptable to question the reality of the Holocaust. I do not. The Holocaust is as real a historical event as the World War itself and not to be challenged. In Primo Levi's words: 'Those who deny Auschwitz would be ready to remake it.' The first terrible pictures I saw as a nine-year old are ingrained on my memory as they are for all my generation.
Like readers of this paper, I know the history of Holocaust denial, its place in far right politics and the role of people like David Irving. To imply that I would have anything in common with them is contemptible. The consequences of such a smear are obvious to all: let the poison escape and it will be picked up on social media and reputations may be tarnished for ever. A brief phone call would have clarified my position.
One thing Freedland has got right – the ages of Len McCluskey, Ken Livingstone and me (he wittily makes a rhyme of our names). Freedland is happy to embrace one prejudice – ageism.
Exaggerated or false claims of antisemitism can create a climate of fear in which legitimate discussion about the state of Israel and its actions are stifled. Antisemitism and debate about Israel should be separate issues. Once again it is the Palestinians who are marginalised or ignored. Freedland writes frequently about Israel, yet his concern for the Palestinians takes second place. So while we are clarifying our position, could he make clear whether, for example, he accepts:
that land stolen from the Palestinians should be returned to them and all illegal settlements removed, as UN Resolutions demand.
that Israel is breaking the Fourth Geneva Convention by transporting Palestinian children to Israeli prisons without access to lawyers or their families.
and that the deliberate destruction of civilian life, hospitals and medical facilities in Gaza during Operation Protective Edge were war crimes.
And will he endorse the distinguished Israeli historian Ilan Pappe when he writes about the founding of Israel: 'The ethnic cleansing of Palestine (is) a crime against humanity that Israel has wanted to deny and cause the world to forget'?
So many questions, so many injustices. Labour has much to do in developing an ethical foreign policy and social and economic justice at home. It now has principled leaders and a growing, enthusiastic membership. Let the party not throw away this great opportunity. We have a world to win.
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New Delhi, July 20: As the whole world is celebrating the 100th birth anniversary of former South African president, anti-apartheid revolutionary and Nobel Laureate Nelson Mandela, Indian beauty queen Manushi Chhillar has brought hope in the lives of millions of South African women.
Manushi has inaugurated a sanitary pad manufacturing unit in Mvezo, South Africa, the birthplace of Mandela, who was also honoured with the Bharat Ratna in 1990 by the Indian government.
Manushi is also working on a project to provide environmental friendly sanitary napkins to women.
Taking to Twitter, Manushi wrote, "It was such an honour to meet his excellency, President @CyrilRamaphosa and inaugurate South Africa's first 100% compostable and low cost sanitary pad manufacturing unit in Mvezo, the birthplace of #NelsonMandela."
The 2017 Miss World also wished Mandela on his birthday. "The sunrise of his birth centenary! Happy birthday Madiba. You will always live within us #NelsonMandela #NelsonMandela100," tweeted Manushi.
The sunrise of his birth centenary!
Recently, we saw in India how a positive conversation has started surrounding the taboo subject of menstrual hygiene. Thanks to the Bollywood film, Padman, people are not only talking about menstrual hygiene but many do-gooders are ensuring that poor women in the country get access to safe and affordable sanitary products.
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E-cigarettes are not what they seem
E-cigarettes are a serious topic that many people don't take seriously. The e-cigarette can affect people not just physically but mentally. It affects the human body and cost some their future. E-cigarettes were originally developed to help cigarette smokers a way to quit or at least cut down on their smoking. The noble beginning backfired and kids, who may never have started smoking, are now hooked on these e-cigarettes.
E-cigarettes are battery powered and deliver nicotine through a liquid, which turns into an aerosol when using the devices. Juuls is a name brand of e-cigarettes. Juuls and other e-cigarettes offer a flavoring so that they taste good. These flavorings may seem like nothing harmful, but they really just make the situation worse. The juul heats up the flavoring and turns it into aerosol. According to American Lung Association, "The aerosol that students breathe in has chemicals (formaldehyde, heavy metals, and particles) that can get stuck in the deepest part of their lungs which can later cause cancer."
E-cigarettes affects the human brain. The nicotine in them can slow down brain development. It's harder to learn and concentrate after using this device. In some users damage is permanent and can affect students as an adult. Mr. Michael Howton, Principal, said, "I am concerned about how many children are using it at a young age. I just realized that the juul is the same amount of nicotine in a whole pack of cigarettes, and people think it's healthier for you but it's actually affecting you more."
Using e-cigarettes don't just cost money, but they cost their future. Juuling can have an impact on student's school life. For example, a student might try to focus on their grades, but other things will get in the way such as meeting up with friends to Juul. Also, a student's reputation be damaged as others might see them in a negative way. Their friends could drop them, and their social life will become more invisible. An anonymous student said, "I have learned from my mistakes and I have seen how I can have a better life without putting drugs in my body. My advice to everyone using e-cigarettes is to stop while you can. If you don't it will affect your future."
Affecting the human body and the cost of their future should be put into more concern. So, the next time a commercial or news article pops up remember what the impact Juuling has on lives.
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I wanted to say a few words about a friend and colleague who, as you may know, passed away on Thursday after a battle with lung cancer.
For almost 30 years, Maria Zoupaniotis was the press counsellor at the Mission of the Republic of Cyprus. I think, if we kept track of these things, she would have been the dean of the spokespeople at the Missions.
Over the years, I had the privilege of working with her preparing quite a few Cyprus talks, whether in Geneva, Buergenstock, Greentree or right here in the Secretariat. Maria was a true professional and someone who passionately loved her country and always a pleasure to work with.
In fact, no one could deliver a demarche quite like Maria. Whenever we sometime strayed from the green vocabulary on the Cyprus issue, we often had a message to call her back at the Mission. She would make her point with tact, precision and good manners.
Maria will be remembered and missed in these halls.
All of us here … and I think you will join us in sending our deepest sympathies and most sincere condolences to her husband, and your colleague, Apostolos.
Details of the funeral arrangements are in my office. I think there is visitation today, tomorrow at a funeral home.


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For one night only on Saturday, September 23 – catch BADFISH, a tribute to SUBLIME!
Thanks to our sponsor, Brennan's Smoke Shop, we're bringing Badfish into town and you and the gang are invited! This is an all ages show in an outdoor setting so sing as loud as your little heart desires.
Who: Badfish, a tribute to Sublime playing to a field full of people who love Sublime- all ages.
What: All of your favorite Sublime songs!
Where: Running Brook Vineyard & Winery, 335 Old Fall River Road, Dartmouth (map here). Carpooling is suggested and chairs and blankets are welcomed. Please, no bags or outside food & drink.
When: Saturday, September 23. Gates at 7pm, show at 8pm. RSVP to our Facebook event page and we'll keep you posted in case you're forgetful.
Why: Just because! Who doesn't get reminiscent for Sublime, right? RBV is just 5 minutes from the Dartmouth Mall so think of how quickly you'll be home once its over.
Tickets: $20 per person in advance; all ages. You can buy them here or at the Fun107 Studios during normal business hours. Tickets do increase the day of the show and will be $25, gate only, starting at 7pm. TICKETS GO ON SALE AUGUST. 1, 2017.
Other Stuff to know: Gates open at 7pm and no sooner because before that we'll be too busy eating a ton of BBQ. But you are more than welcome to join us for that, too! This event is outdoor but please, no dogs – not even Lou Dog – are allowed.


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Robert Knepper
Name: Robert Knepper ( Robert Lyle Knepper )
Birthplace: Fremont, USA
Height: 5 Feet 10 Inches
Occupation: American theater and cinema actor
Tags: actor, theater, cinema
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Robert Knepper: biography
This talented Hollywood actor is best-known for his role as cruel maniac T-Bag in the series Prison Break. Those who have dared to watch this gloomy serial thriller will forever remember the sadist and manipulator Theodore Bagwell (or "T-Bag"), as Knepper has managed to "revive" the character with incredible realism. Later, he played a few more villains, who secured the actor the role of a genius villain-like character.
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Robert Lyle Knepper was born in the hot summer of 1959 in Fremont, which is located in the state of Ohio. He became interested in acting in early childhood. Robert's mother worked as a props-handler at the local theater. The boy often went behind the scenes and watched the actors playing with great pleasure.
In high school, he passed an interview and several auditions. He entered Northwestern University. Knepper attended drama courses, but classes suddenly seemed boring to him. Robert gave up his studies, and before the final exams, he was offered to perform on stage a famous theater in Chicago. But in 1981, Knepper went to New York, where he continued his theatrical career.
The cinematic biography of Robert, or as he is sometimes called Rob Knepper, began in 1986. Some sources state that the first actor's film was the comedy That's Life! of Blake Edwards. Others say that Knepper first appeared on the screen in the episode of the popular series The Paper Chase. But it is not very important because these projects did not bring Rob fame. But they turned out to be the springboard that opened the actor the way to the world of Hollywood cinema.
Robert Knepper in one of the films of the early period | Liveinternet.ru
In the early projects of the 1980's and 1990's, Robert Knepper mastered his acting skills. He played in the pilot release of the popular crime series L.A. Law. The actor appeared in the image of a "wild" superhero who fought against urban crime in the adventure film Wild Thing. Later, the audience saw him in the films Gas Food Lodging, Where the Day Takes You and China Beach.
The 1990's turned out to be more lavish to the actor. He managed to attract the attention of critics and spectators with virtuosic play in the comedy Search and Destroy and in an episode of the famous Woody Allen's film. The director gave Rob a bit part in his famous movie Everyone Says I Love You.
Robert Knepper in the film R.I.P.D. | Kinomania.ru
After playing in Woody Allen's movie, Robert Knepper could claim prominent roles in the rating projects. He attracted the attention of famous directors. In the middle and late 1990's, the actor starred in the sensational Hollywood movies Kidnapped In Paradise, the popular TV series The West Wing and Nikita. Knepper's villains were so realistic and terrifying that people began talking about the birth of a new star in Hollywood.
In 2001, Robert Knepper starred in the miniseries Jackie, Ethel, Joan: The Women of Camelot. He appeared in the image of Robert Kennedy. Later, the actor admitted that it was his favorite role.
But the real glory came after his starring in the series Prison Break. Since 2005, Rob has frightened the audience with a gloomy and terrible character of sadistic and maniac T-Bag. He admitted that when he first read the script and understood who he would have to play, he was horrified. At that time, Robert Knepper was already a faithful family man and father. And he had to play a rapist and murder of children. But he could not refuse the proposed work. The shooting in the last season of the series Carnivàle ended, and there were no other proposals. He had to agree to the role of T-Bag to make for a living.
Robert Knepper in the series Prison Break | Kinoafisha.info
The latest significant film projects of the Hollywood star are the action movie Transporter 3, the 4th season of the series Heroes, the movie Good Night, and Good Luck, where Knepper starred together with George Clooney, and the adventure film Hostage with Bruce Willis in the lead role.
But what is more important, in 2016 and 2017 Robert Knepper continued to play his main role of the maniac Theodore Bagwell or T-Bag. Creators of this popular series finally took pity on the actor and added to his cruel hero a little humanity.
It is little known about Robert Knepper's personal life. He prefers to attract as little attention to his family as possible to protect them from curious paparazzi and arrogant journalists. It is known that the actor is married to a woman named Nadine Kary and he has a son, Benjamin Peter.
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Focus on adventure: I plaid guilty
Maybe I should feel guilty about what I missed — or rather, what I didn't miss — at the Tahoe Adventure Film Festival.
But I always suspected I wasn't the only one.
You know, the guy secretly wishing the movie about building mountain bike trails would end so another one about riding those same trails would begin; occasionally, irresponsibly more taken with the plaid-clad go-go dancers in attendance at Saturday's screening at the MontBleu Resort Casino and Spa, say, than talking heads talking about sustainability.
Focusing on the "Adventure" in the film festival's name provides a wider lens to look at other topics. True, there was no documentary about providing mountaineering gear to earthquake refugees in Kashmir, but Saturday night was the first opportunity I'd had to watch a movie about Fred Beckey, after more than a decade in the Rockies and the Sierra.
The serious topics are never far away, and adventure provides a lens through which to learn about other topics: Everything I know about Khazakstan (other than from "Borat," anyway) I learned from Warren Miller and Chris Anthony in the lively segment from their 1997 movie, "Snowriders 2."
Even though messages about the environment in the T.A.F.F. weren't explicit, they were usually present: Ryan Leech wasn't exactly subtle in lamenting how the swath of British Columbia forest he was riding for "Kranked 6" was slated for logging, but he was effective. So were Tommy Caldwell and Beth Rodden in their untitled segment, marveling over the many virgin climbing routes up the Grand Canyon walls, in their 10-minute segment.
People will hear even subtle messages if they're listening. And they're better listeners when they're paying attention.
The Tahoe Adventure Film Festival shows again, beginning with a photo exhibit (and go-go dancer) at 6:30 p.m. at the Grand Sierra Resort in Reno. The movies start showing at 7:30.


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named as 12th Days of Kraków Composers' Music "Confiteor"
Malcolm Forsyth (umGcomo) (commissioned for Hammerhead Consort through The Alberta Foundation for the Arts) has composed over eighty works, including three symphonies, five concertos, orchestral and chamber music, choral and vocal music; commissions from CBC, Canada Council, Shell Canada, Banff Centre, etc.; recipient of Juno Award for "Best Classical Composition," 1987 and 1995; numerous recordings of his compositions; works performed on five continents; published by E.C. Kerby Ltd, and BMG Ariola (Italy). Former principal trombonist, Cape Town (SA) and Edmonton Symphony Orchestras; guest conductor, National Symphony Orchestra (SA) and Alberta Ballet Company; former faculty member, Banff School of the Arts; Visiting Professor, University of Witwatersrand and the University of Cape Town.
James Harley (Consort: Dances of the Borealis) (commissioned for Hammerhead Consort with CBC Radio), born 1959, Vernon, B.C., Canada, began studying composition in 1980. Prior to that, he had been active as a pianist, jazz and classical, played percussion, and also studied electroacoustics at Western Washington University. After graduating in 1982, he took up residence in the UK, in order to study composition with Paul Patterson at the Royal Academy of Music. Recipient of grants from the Canada Council and the Leverhulme Trust, among others, Harley remained in London for three years, benefitting from a number of performances and prizes. In 1985, having been awarded the prestigious Mendelssohn Scholarship, which enables British composers to spend a period abroad, he moved to Paris. There, Harley studied aesthetics (Iannis Xenakis) and musical acoustics at the Université de Paris, attended seminars at IRCAM and the College de France (Pierre Boulez), and worked extensively with the UPIC computer music system at CEMAMu. While in Paris, Harley won a number of prizes, including two in the 1986 CBC Radio Young Composers Competition in Canada. Then, in 1987, Harley moved on to Warsaw, thanks to a Polish Government Scholarship, to spend a year at the Chopin Academy of Music. He attended the composition class of Wlodzimierz Kotonski, participated in the Summer Courses for Young Composers organized by the Polish Society for Contemporary Music, and had a piece premiered at the 1987 Warsaw Autumn Festival. In 1988, Harley returned to North America, taking up doctoral studies at McGill University in Montreal. Under the guidance of Bruce Pennycook and Bo Alphonce, he pursued research there in the domain of computer-aided composition, developing CHAOTICS, compositional software based on functions derived from chaos theory. Harley graduated in 1994 with his D.Mus. in composition, having completed a large-scale thesis work, Cantico Delle Creature, under the supervision of John Rea and Bruce Mather. Over the next year, supported by a major Artist's Grant from the Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Quebec, he composed a series of chamber works, also teaching part-time in the Faculty of Music at McGill University. In 1995, Harley took up a sabbatical replacement position as Assistant Professor at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario. There, he taught composition, electroacoustics, contemporary music theory/literature, and directed the Electronic Music Studio. At the same time, he completed a major commission for the Musiques-Echanges festival in Montreal. In the fall of 1996, Harley moved to Los Angeles, and has been teaching part-time at USC and the California Institute of the Arts. For the year 1999-2000, he is teaching Music Technology at Moorhead State University in Minnesota. Harley is married to Maria Anna Harley, musicologist and Director of the Polish Music Reference Center at the University of Southern California, and has three children: Marcin (b.1979), Ania (b. 1989), and Ian (b. 1993).
Piotr Grella-Mozejko (Takussunsittuq) (commissioned for Hammerhead Consort through CBC Radio), born in Poland and based in Canada since 1989, Piotr Grella-Mozejko holds M.Mus. in Composition degree from the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, where he studied with Alfred Fisher, Henry Klumpenhouwer, and the late Christopher Lewis, as well as M.A. degree in Social Science from the University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland. Earlier, he took composition courses with the distinguished Polish composer Prof. Edward Boguslawski. In 1994, Grella-Mozejko was the only Canadian selected to participate in the prestigious "June in Buffalo" Festival and Conference, where he attended lectures by and master classes with Milton Babbitt, Donald Erb, David Felder, Lukas Foss, Roger Reynolds, and Charles Wuorinen. Currently, he is enrolled in the Ph.D. program in Comparative Literature at the University of Alberta, focusing on interdisciplinary research involving music and other arts. His teachers there include such distinguished scholars as Marisa Bortolussi, Nasrin Rahimieh, Edward Blodgett, Milan Dimic, Edward Mozejko and Paul Robberecht.
His works have appeared on Arktos and Clef Records labels, have been broadcast and published in Canada, USA and Europe, and performed at numerous festivals and concert series including CMC at 35 (A National Festival of Canadian Music Creation), Conversatorium, Dancing on the Edge (Vancouver), Edmonton New Music Festival, 25th Anniversary of Ensemble MW2, Espace Musique, Fascinating Music Festival, Fringe (Edmonton), I Gdansk Encounters of Young Composers, X International Evenings of Organ and Chamber Music, III International Festival of Organ Music (Warsaw, Poland), 1st International Organ Academy "Pipeworks '96" (Edmonton), June in Buffalo '94, Laboratorium, New Music Alberta, Open Ears Festival, Pacific Market, Poznan Music Spring, Silesian Tribune of Composers, and Warsaw Autumn.
Member of the Canadian League of Composers, voting member of the Canadian Music Centre, President of the Edmonton Composers' Concert Society Grella-Mozejko is also producer of the New Music Alberta concert series and editor of The Alberta New Music and Arts Review.
Kim Helweg (America Fantasy) - the first published work by Kim Helweg (b. 1956), Hvidheden og Stilheden from 1975, shows clearly which composers influenced his formative years - namely Penderecki and John Cage. But a chance with American fusion-music two years later drastically altered his course and led to an extended period of jazz/rock compositions - inspired primarily by Miles Davis, Joe Zawinul and Chick Corea - culminating in a couple of rock-symphonies and the rock-operas Ulysses and Black Mass (the latter recorded in 1985). By 1988, however, he had turned full circle and was again writing for classical ensembles, and his works since that time include a Violin Concerto and a Cello Concerto, two symphonies, four chamber concertos and a requiem.
America Fantasy - a tribute to Leonard Bernstein has a double structure: it is a sonata in four movements, and at the same time it consists of variations on the song "America" from Bernstein's West Side Story. It is 'America's' rhythmic structure - a mixture of 6/8 and 3/4 - that is the inspiration for the work.The theme appears briefly as a coda at the end of the work. In addition, the beautiful song 'Maria' becomes the basis for the second movement. Watch for an example of some virtuoso clapping at the beginning of the Finale.
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It's about 1,700 miles from Los Angeles to New Orleans as the crow flies, but likely a lot longer the way Greg Thurnher traveled on his trek to raise awareness about the Big Easy's comeback from Hurricane Katrina and its continued appeal as a college town.
In his first venture as a newly minted graduate of Tulane University's Business School, Thurnher set out from Los Angeles on May 20 in a souped-up golf cart that was inspired by his undergrad senior engineering project, making multiple stops along I-10 to stage mini-Mardi Gras parades with a contingent of 10 Tulane students and alumni.
On Friday (June 1), the good-times golf cart rolled into the Crescent City and paraded to the uptown Tulane campus.
"Learning, living and growing at Tulane clearly defined what I now know as my life. I can't imagine attending any other university in any other city," Thurnher says. "I am troubled that others may forgo the benefits of a Tulane education and a life in New Orleans based on misperceptions about what's going on there.
"So I hope this trip will underscore how much a recent graduate believes in the city and how wonderful it was for me to be part of its comeback as a student. Being there and contributing to its recovery is a great experience."
Thurnher says that, while some New Orleans neighborhoods are still struggling, no one should miss a chance to experience what is still the country's most unique city.
After receiving his MBA degree on May 19 from Tulane, Thurnher flew from New Orleans to Los Angeles, his childhood home. The next day, he boarded his golf cart and began to wend his way through the Southwest, veering off to Houston, where he works now, and finally arrive back in New Orleans.
He and his team of supporters made numerous stops along the way in Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and Baton Rouge, La., parading through towns and throwing Mardi Gras beads to promote the Big Easy's ongoing vitality and joie de vivre. Thurnher has dubbed his trip Operation Big Easy Go.
Jack in the Box restaurants sponsored Thurnher's odyssey, providing him and his fellow travelers with food and Mardi Gras-style throws throughout the length of their trip.
"I feel greatly indebted to my university and my city," Thurnher said. "My service in restoration efforts is trivial when compared to those who have 'lived' the restoration every step of the way. I want those New Orleanians and Tulanians to know that their patience and dedication to New Orleans is worthwhile."
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Boris K. In the Gym or"Something is rotten in the state of Denmark"
February 1, 2017 leilasmtrajkovicdenmark, fantasy, fiction, gym, rot, short story, smell, snobbish Leave a comment
"Something is rotten in the state of Denmark", From Shakespeare's play Hamlet (1.4), Marcellus to Horatio.
Boris K. took the "Mens sana in corpore sano" mantra deadly seriously and was on his way to the nearest gym. Out of sheer excitement, he forgot the towel. Truth be told, Boris K. never really sweated, what's more the doctors diagnosed him with some armpit gland defect. He wore his tracksuit that he usually wore when he went to the farmer's market and had sneakers on, clean, but with a tiny hole on their side.
The moment he stepped into the luxury space, akin to the gyms of Los Angeles where the Japanese Yakuza work out, the treadmill caught his attention. As he was running, green pastures went through his head where he soared as a child, running after a ball.
"Boris, get the ball!" he remembered the voice of his uncle Ivan The Terrible Fisherman, who often took him fishing.
He ran faster, catching the ball in his thoughts. Giggling, he lifted his arms up and whispered: "Death to fascism, freedom to the people", respecting the house rules.
Luckily, others noticed the new workout guy, others who ran along the treadmill with light steps, wiping off the invisible sweat, exchanging many a word between one another:
"Sweetheart, I have discovered the Café Menstrualle. You pop one Café Menstrualle and no more ovary pain."
"Such nice people, these folks", he thought after a thirty minute cardio workout, ran his fingers through his odorous hair, with but a hint of sweat to it. He reeked of sweat and it felt good to him.
As he was fantasizing about making "Rocky VII", a young man of 25-ish approached him, dark curly-haired, engulfed in a strong perfume, with buff arms, a square Lego torso and short legs, and he whispered into his ears words that almost froze Boris K. solid.
"Good evening", he shook his hand with his own, dry chapped one. "I am Boris K."
The trainer shook hands, unknowingly stepping away from Boris K., while down his tiny wrinkle on his young forehead, born out of constant frowning and grimacing, sweat poured.
"Forgive me, sir, but you stink. All the other folks that are working out are complaining about you."
Boris turned around himself, sensing the sweat and the hostile looks. He shook.
"Male or female?" he applied logic.
"Both sexes."
He felt being bathed in cold sweat. As if something had been crushing him bone by bone, his field of vision narrowed. Him? He never broke a sweat. Even when he had to go to the doctor's.
"What?", Boris K. looked at him nearly maniacally.
"Nothing", he said and wiped the sweat of his forehead. Catching glimpse of this motion, Boris K. facepalmed, merely uttering that he did not bring a towel which he would use to clear any doubt-raising link between him and sweat.
"Mistah Trainah, I have never once in my life…stunk, not even had a hint of an odor…and even if I did – is this not the right spot for it?" Boris K. was pulling these and similar arguments while counting the seconds in his head, bouncing the words around under his tongue, gulping, until finally he bent the knee and admitted defeat.
He was certain that he did not break a sweat, but this young trainer, who was a bodybuilder for at least a decade, certainly knew everything there was to know about stench.
"I've been wrongly accused!", a slight rise in his tone.
The trainer shrugged and clenched his fists. The other customers started approaching with menacing faces. Boris K. noticed that he's in a pinch and tried to apply some strategy. He smiled, to which the customers stepped back. Boris K. noticed that the workout gear was unoccupied, seeing as the people using them were surrounding him, therefore nobody was there using them. He felt the uncalm and the desire to leave, but he couldn't leave well enough alone. He had firmly decided to continue the discussion with the discount Tommy Gann here by any means necessary, come hell or high water.
He felt that he was about to cry any minute. He held himself with both arms, comforting himself gently as the trainer, his voice a chill, suggested that he brought a towel next time, more modern sneakers and a Dolce & Gabbana tracksuit, like the ones other customers had. For a while he trembled out of confusion, uneasiness, he even wanted to cry. He cursed all the towels of God's green Earth. He shook away the invisible sweat off of himself as the in-full-make-up female customers, casting a glance or two in his general direction, glared at him scornfully. One observed the sole of his left sneaker. Rolling her eyes, she whispered something to the lummox next to her who looked at Boris K., as if ready to crush him. Boris K. was smiling. He went out into the street shook up, confused, disturbed and offended, realizing that there was a stench there and that the trainer was absolutely correct.
"I know what it was! It was the scent of rot!", he concluded, and stepped into the dark streets towards a new comedy.
Tomorrow Boris K. purchased a café menstrualle deciding that, as soon as he gets the right opportunity, he would complain to other customers at the gym about the pain in his ovaries.
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ROMUALDEZ WELCOMES COMELEC MOVE
by vernoveno on December 15, 2014
Romualdez welcomes Comelec move to guarantee PWDs' role in 2016 polls
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HOUSE independent minority bloc leader and Leyte (1st District) Rep. Martin G. Romualdez yesterday welcomed the reconvening by the Commission on Elections (Comelec) of an inter-agency committee and a network of non-government organizations (NGOs) to guarantee the participation of persons with disability (PWDs) in the 2016 presidential polls.
Dasmariñas City Rep. Elpidio "Pidi" Barzaga Jr. and Quezon City Rep. Winston "Winnie" Castelo also lauded the Comelec action. "We welcome the convening of the inter-agency committee as the state's obligation to guarantee equality and the full participation of PWDs in the next polls," said Romualdez, a lawyer and president of the Philippine Constitution Association (Philconsa).
With an overwhelming 201 votes, the House of Representatives approved last December 1 on its third and final reading House Bill (HB) No. 1039, principally authored by Romualdez, seeking to exempt PWDs from paying the value-added tax (VAT) on certain goods and services to ensure their benefits nationwide.
Barzaga, former chairman of the House committee on suffrage and electoral reforms during the previous 15th Congress, said Comelec should consider all the sentiments of PWDs during consultations. "Usually, PWDs complain about their lack of access to polling precincts. This should be addressed by the Comelec," said Barzaga, a lawyer and chairman of the House committee on games and amusement.
Castelo agreed with Romualdez and Barzaga, saying that PWDs should have more special polling places in the May 2016 presidential elections. "Empowering PWDs by guaranteeing that their rights to suffrage are always respected and upheld should always be prioritized and strengthened by the government," said Castelo.
Comelec spokesman James Jimenez said, "The committee will conduct more satellite voter registrations and other special programs and events catering to PWDs."
According to records in the May 2013 polls, there were 191,672 million PWDs registered voters and 142,601 voted out of the actual number.
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April in Paris--A Wedding Story
by Lloyd Hauskins
(Redway, California)
It was an open secret. My wife and I were married some forty years ago in what cannot be disguised as anything but a "hippie wedding." That was back in seventy - nineteen that is. Over these many years we have lived in most ways as a "normal" married couple - shared the family name, filed joint tax returns, raised a beautiful daughter who gave birth to five beautiful grandchildren. But. We never did get the gov'mint license! In our eyes, we were always married in the eyes of God.
Well...so far that's worked pretty well for us. But lately we've started losing too many of our good friends as we age, and it's been pointed out to us that in the event one of us should pass, Social Security may not necessarily recognize the eyes of God in determining survivor's benefits.
So - at sixty-two years of age - I gotta' get married? Shotgun! Fortunately we're still relatively fit and despite forty years of life together, amazingly, we still love each other.
Our first marriage, however hippie, was extraordinary. The wedding took place on a lofty prominence of green serpentine overlooking a valley way back in the Trinity Alps of northern California. We were poor as church-mice. We had no rings or fancy clothes or limousines. When we awoke that morning she and I went separate ways into the forest. She made for me a wreath of leaves - I, for her, a wreath of wildflowers. Our (quite hairy) entourage assembled on the rocky summit. We mounted the rise - her in a gown stitched from a lacy tablecloth - me, bare-chested in white jeans (couldn't pull that off today).
We wrapped a hefty rope around the wedding party in a figure eight - infinity - with all the men on one side, all the women on the other - the two of us at the hub. A good friend read some Kahlil Gibran. Another friend, a Universal Life minister, blessed us and we exchanged our wreathes.
Oh! April in Paris! So... the point is. We'd thought about an official marriage for a long time but the options just seemed so pedestrian - Vegas, Reno - an Elvis impersonator or a county bureaucrat. Hmmm. Just no comparison. What the hell could ever match that original magic?
And then our oldest granddaughter became an exchange student in the beautiful town of Pecs, Hungary - renowned for art and wine. Suddenly, we had an excuse (imperative) to go to Europe for a visit. Then the thought occurred to me. We're already so close. What could be more romantic than a wedding in Paris? We're talking simple here - a reflection of our first wedding...but a reflection in the Seine!
Uh-oh! To actually get a marriage license in France, I found out, requires three months residency. If only that were an option.
Cutting to the Chaise: We got formally hitched by an (extraordinarily beautiful and sweet) agent of the court in the US. So much for Caesar. But that has never been the important part of our lives. We made arrangements for a ceremony to solemnize (and celebrate) our lives together - in PARIS!
Researching the web for someone who could help us realize our dream, we strayed upon some recommendations for Paris Walking Tours. We found Dan Freeman and Steve Evans; two Americans who have lived in Paris for over a decade and share their love and knowledge of the "City of Light" through casual and intimate tours. We liked
some of the garden photos on their site and thought they could advise us about possible locations and logistics. They seemed enthused and amused by the prospect and we left it in their hands.
We had a wonderful visit with our granddaughter in Hungary. In her 10 months as an exchange student, she'd learned to speak fluent Magyar - no mean accomplishment. Hungarian is quite unique and often compared to Chinese in its difficulty to learn. I learned a few requisite words. The word for beer is, "Sór", pronounced, "Shure!" So that was easy.
There is a wall in the town of Pecs, fronted by a steel fence, which is covered with thousands of padlocks - padlocks hitched upon padlocks upon padlocks. It must literally weigh tons. People making pledges of love or a determination to achieve a goal will purchase a padlock and seal it on the wall. We bought a little lock. I scratched our X + Y into the surface with my Swiss army knife and together we joined it to the thousands on the wall.
We arrived at our hotel in Paris - L'Hotel St. Jacques, which I can recommend. Paris Walking Tours had left a map, a card and a note in our box. We'd discussed some possible locations over email but it was still up in the air. They had arranged for the wreaths of flowers and leaves and had found a likable, if irascible, former monk and Universal Life minister to informally officiate. I had brought a light rope to wrap around the two of us (the minister joked - "is this a wedding or a hanging?"). I told him the story about the padlock wall in Pecs and that I'd kept the keys of the lock to use in the ceremony.
What followed was three fantastic days of touring Paris with our guides from Paris Walking Tours, Dan or Steve, checking out the most beautiful sites in the most beautiful city in the world to stage the wedding - gardens, monuments, museums. They are both extremely knowledgeable about Paris - history, art and culture and food. We finally arrived at a decision - a charming little foot-bridge across the Seine, with the Eiffel Tower in the background.
Our small party gathered at the apex of the bridge in the late afternoon - Dan, Steve, Sylvie - a Parisian friend/flower girl, Brother Rasputin - the affable but surly monk, and of course, my bride and I.
Under the eyes of God, the gaze of the tower, the Seine flowing beneath our feet, a rope around us in an infinite loop, we exchanged our wreaths and spoke impromptu words of love. The one thing I clearly remember saying is that in our forty years there had been a lot of water under the bridge (groan). We teared-up a little, kissed and then held the keys to the Hungarian padlock together in our fingers - and dropped them into the swirling waters of the Seine.
Sylvie then treated the wedding party to Champagne at a nearby sidewalk cafe, and later that evening, we treated them all to a feast at a fine Brasserie.
This was the fullest realization of a fantasy and far beyond our dreams and expectations. We could never have done it without the wonderful guidance, patience and ultimately friendship of Dan and Steve of Paris Walking Tours. Their rates are very reasonable and I highly recommend their services to anyone who wants an intimate, illuminating, and fun experience in Paris.
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Emily left home as soon as she was able to, leaving behind high school sweetheart Boone. Leaving her love behind, she ventures out to follow her dreams. Now, a well known highly sought after designer; she's returned to her home town to help out her grandmother.
When a hurricane tears through the sea side town, Boone lends a hand to family friends the Castles. When he finds out that Emily and her sisters have returned to give a hand he's not sure what to think or feel. The woman that broke his heart is back, can he handle it?
Life hasn't been easy for Boone, after the loss of his wife; he's now worried about losing his son to his in-laws. I felt for him and BJ who would be dragged through all the nastiness involved in his grandparents trying to take him away.
Despite all the years that have passed, both Emily and Boone still have feelings for one another and can't get past them. So they decide to try things again – which I thought was great! But, with that comes a lot of issues. Can they work through them and not upset everyone around them?
Would I recommend this book? It was a great read. The characters were wonderful and it was great reading how Emily and Boone work through things. I'm curious what will happen with her sisters and grandmother in the up coming books. Would I read more by this author? Yes. I really enjoyed Sherryl's writing style. I think she will easily be an author I'll have permanently on my bookcase.


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N.Y. / Region|Before the First School Bell, Teachers in Bronx Make House Calls
N.Y. / Region | Back to School
Before the First School Bell, Teachers in Bronx Make House Calls
By FERNANDA SANTOS SEPT. 2, 2011
Learning Begins at Home
An innovative principal in the Bronx uses home visits to introduce his new teachers to their students' lives and convince parents that the school is taking the child's future seriously.
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JASON McCORKLE, all of 11, stepped back into his family's living room in the South Bronx wearing the gray slacks and crisp white shirt his new teachers had just handed him, tags still dangling from a sleeve. He puffed out his chest, stuffed his hands in his pockets and flashed his pearly teeth, standing near a poster of a beachfront mansion, a five-car garage and the words "Justification for Higher Education" lighted by rays of sunshine.
"Is this the first time you've worn a tie?" one of the teachers, Stephen Slater, asked gingerly. The burgundy strip was flush against the skin on Jason's neck, sitting under rather than over the new shirt.
There was time to practice, Mr. Slater assured him — the first day of school was a month away — but after that, there would be no excuses. The slacks, the shirt, the tie he had struggled with and dress shoes — "no sneakers, no color other than black," Mr. Slater warned — are required at the Urban Assembly School for Applied Math and Science, where Jason would soon be a sixth grader.
The strict uniform policy would be explained in 81 living rooms over five consecutive days, as Mr. Slater and a dozen other new teachers at A.M.S., as the school is commonly known, canvassed neighborhoods in small groups to meet the incoming students and their families on their own turf.
Such home visits are common in private and charter schools, but rare among traditional public schools like A.M.S. that serve mostly poor and immigrant families in which English is not the language spoken at the kitchen table. The principal, Ken Baum, started them when the school, which now serves 590 students in grades 6 to 12, opened in 2004, because he believed it was critical for families to be involved in education. Knowing that many of his charges were being raised by single parents or grandparents, some of them living in homeless shelters, he said he "wanted to show to them that we're an unusual school that makes unusual efforts."
"I could have chosen to speak to the families from behind a podium in the school auditorium," Mr. Baum said. "But if the school wants the relationship defined in a certain way, then the school needs to make the effort."
To Mr. Baum, these early visits are a key factor in a statistic he likes to cite: 63 of the 72 seniors in A.M.S.'s first graduating class last spring received Regents diplomas, and 50 of them are headed to four-year colleges, including Cornell, Boston University, Mount Holyoke and campuses all across the State University of New York system.
The home visits are a laborious undertaking that demands a healthy dose of patience and dexterity to fulfill its most basic requirement: finding the students. Mobility is high among families in the South Bronx; contact information provided by the Department of Education is just a start.
The school's parent coordinator, Jason Rivera, spent six weeks before the visits in August on the hunt. He knocked on the doors of those he could not reach by phone and, in some cases, pleaded for help from neighbors, building superintendents and directors of after-school programs.
Mr. Rivera searched for one elusive student at neighborhood playgrounds and slipped notes under the doors of others: "Congrats! Your child has been accepted at our school. I'm trying to contact you." Of the 88 students on the sixth-grade roster, 5 remained elusive when the home visits began on Aug. 8.
For the school, the visits are intended as a welcome mat. For the families, they are a welcoming novelty. For the teachers, many of whom are in their first classroom jobs, they are an exploratory path carved under pouring rain and baking sun; past halal butchers, check-cashing joints and car repair shops; in dark, crammed apartments adorned by statues of the Virgin Mary or colorful prayer rugs.
Along the way, the young teachers tried curried chicken and cabbage, savored big chunks of watermelon with little plastic spoons and sipped from lukewarm bottles of Malta, a wheat soda that looks like stout and tastes like molasses. Crisscrossing the South Bronx by bus and on foot, they embarked on a scavenger hunt of sorts, searching for moments of connection in the 45 minutes they spent in each home.
Jerome Burgess, 23, who grew up poor and will teach seventh-grade science, yanked a smile from a shy boy by flashing a wink and a thumbs-up before they parted.
ON A MISSION Shira Collado, top right, spoke to Aichetu Traore, a sixth grader, and her mother, Kadija Traore, at their home. Credit Michael Nagle for The New York Times
Shira Collado, 24, a humanities teacher whose parents are from the Dominican Republic, expertly debated the Giants-Eagles rivalry with an aspiring running back.
Asmaa Awad-Farid, 23, an Egyptian Muslim who will teach seventh-grade English, offered an impromptu vocabulary lesson when a girl stumbled on the word "participant" while reading the contract the school asks every student and parent to sign.
For a school that has no admission requirements — a computer at the headquarters of the Education Department selects applicants according to a complex algorithm — the contract is a powerful first line of defense, spelling out A.M.S.'s rules and philosophy. At an orientation session before the visits, Mr. Baum impressed its importance upon the teachers, who went on to try to impress it upon the students, asking them to read part of it out loud in their living rooms:
I will be respectful to everyone.
I will ask for help when I need it and offer help to others.
I will wear our school uniform every day.
The teachers carried free uniforms, along with elementary-school attendance records and emergency-contact cards, as they set out from the school on a muggy Monday morning — 13 of them, split into four teams, eager to meet the minds they would try to mold.
THE Urban Assembly School for Applied Math and Science sits in Morrisania, part of the poorest Congressional district in the nation and one of the city's most violent neighborhoods. The building on Bathgate Avenue that houses it looks like a Lego creation of multicolored tiles and jutting walls. One parent calls it "the happy building."
The school's mission, spelled out on its Web site, is to "prepare students to become critical thinkers capable of successful pursuits after high school." To Mr. Baum, 45, that means getting them into college.
He was on his way to getting a Ph.D. in math when he decided he did not want to spend his life in academia. After trying his hand as a stockbroker pushing socially responsible mutual funds — "it wasn't easy to make a living doing that," he said — Mr. Baum in 2001 joined the New York City Teaching Fellows, an alternative-certification program that fast-tracks people into classrooms.
He taught math for two years in Harlem and Washington Heights and, in 2004, was in the first class of graduates from the New York City Leadership Academy, the Bloomberg administration's signature training program for aspiring principals. "I really wanted to effect change on a larger scale," Mr. Baum said, "to impact more than just the kids I saw in my classroom."
LESSON No. 1: Smile.
"Smile a lot," Mr. Baum told the teachers at the orientation session. "And remember: 'Uniform, uniform, uniform. College, success, success.' Saying those words every few minutes helps."
They were sitting in a semicircle in a first-floor classroom, facing the blackboard and the teacher's chair, from which Mr. Baum doled out tips for a successful home visit.
Lesson No. 2: Convey a sense of urgency, but do not lecture.
Lesson No. 3: Do not judge.
"The adult you are scheduled to see may not be the child's biological parent," Mr. Baum noted.
A five-page document explained what the visits were meant to accomplish: deliver a free uniform, collect contact information, help families figure out how to get students to school on time. (Sometimes, that means showing them how to set an alarm clock.)
Mr. Rivera, 32, the parent coordinator, grew up in the neighborhood, and still remembers the one time a school official came to his house to talk to his parents; his sister had been acting out in class. When he joined A.M.S. two years ago, he said, he was surprised to learn that home visits were routine, and that finding the students to set up the appointments would be the hardest part of his job.
NEW LOOK Jason McCorkle, 11, tried on his new school uniform. Credit Michael Nagle for The New York Times
He has approached the task with precision, importing student names onto a color-coded Excel file: green for those with appointments scheduled; blue for those whose admissions are pending results of summer school; yellow for children who have been accepted but whose parents are not sure they will enroll.
"Please, remember that we're counting on you to keep all of your appointments," Mr. Rivera told the teachers as the orientation session wrapped up. (As it turned out, two appointments were missed during the week; Mr. Rivera and two teachers went back out to meet those families on Aug. 25.)
This year, Mr. Baum required the teachers to use only public transportation for the visits so they would understand the commutes of up to an hour some students will have. So before the session broke up, Mr. Rivera made sure his troops all had MetroCards and helped them decipher the South Bronx's web of bus lines.
"The Bx11 and the Bx35 are your crosstown buses," he said. "The Bx15 runs along Third Avenue. The Bx41 runs on Webster."
"What's Webster?" Ms. Awad-Farid, who grew up in Detroit, whispered to no one in particular.
MR. SLATER dashed across Claremont Parkway, dodging traffic to reach a stopped bus so he could ask the driver for directions. By the time he got there, one of his teammates, Katy Cheung, already had it all figured out.
"Google Maps says it's 35 minutes to the destination, between riding the bus and walking," she announced.
Ms. Cheung, 24, is starting her third year as a teacher, which makes her an exception: 10 of the 13 home visitors will be teaching full time for the first time this fall. Of those, 5 are Teaching Fellows and 2 are in the Teach for America program; their average age is 24. (The average age of the school's 51 teachers, Mr. Baum said, is 27.)
From a seat at the back of the Bx11, Mr. Slater, Ms. Cheung and Ms. Collado divvied up tasks: Ms. Cheung, who carried the uniforms in her backpack, was charged with distributing them. Ms. Collado, who had the attendance records, would stress the importance of never being late. Mr. Slater could handle the contracts.
A few minutes later, they were on a couch on the second floor of a two-story house on Woodycrest Avenue where the curtains were drawn and the walls were a shade of pink. Mr. Slater asked that the television be turned off, as Mr. Baum had instructed.
"How do you wake up in the morning?" Ms. Collado asked the sixth-grader-to-be, Alicia Capellan, who is 10 and too small for the smallest of the uniform pants Ms. Cheung had with her.
"My mom," Alicia said.
Her mother, Clara Peña, 31, is a city bus driver. She relies on a niece to watch Alicia and her 12-year-old brother while she is at work. They live in a quiet patch of the Highbridge neighborhood, not far from Sacred Heart, a Roman Catholic school Ms. Peña said she could not afford.
Alicia would be commuting 30 minutes on the Bx11, alongside a cousin who is starting seventh grade at A.M.S.
"Is it safe to walk from the school to the bus stop after dark?" Ms. Peña asked. Other parents would echo the question, along with some other favorites: Is there an after-school program (yes, until 4:30 p.m.), does the school serve breakfast (yes, at 7:50 a.m.), and is there a football team (no, but there is soccer).
Ms. Collado, Katy Cheung and Stephen Slater walked to their next visit. Credit Michael Nagle for The New York Times
If Ms. Cheung was the fast-talking disciplinarian and Ms. Collado the older sister every girl wished she had, Mr. Slater played the levelheaded uncle, reassuring student after student that there could be deep meaning in the simplest of actions, like putting on the school's uniform.
"Getting used to it, understanding why we ask that you wear it and wearing it with pride," he told Alicia. "That's going to help put you on a path to success, on a path to college, and that's what we're preparing you for."
Mr. Slater is on a quest of his own, having converted to Judaism two years ago after growing up as the son of Christian missionaries in West Africa.
"I was looking for a way to live the biblical myth that I had been taught as a child," he said, "like keeping the Sabbath, and to have a community to do it with."
Teaching, for Mr. Slater, "is my mission." Teaching Fellows allowed him to get into a classroom quickly while helping underwrite his master's degree in education.
Mr. Burgess, the teacher who got the shy boy to smile, took a more traditional route, paying his way through a master's at Fordham University — he owes about $70,000 in student loans — before applying for a job.
Mr. Burgess has wanted to be a teacher for as long as he can remember. He grew up in Rochester, one of seven children, supported by housing subsidies and welfare checks.
"We had these little desks our mom got for us," he recalled, "and I'd have some of my brothers and sisters sit there, then I'd stand by the wall and pretend I was teaching them."
THERE were problems the teachers could fix and those they quickly realized they could not.
They could tell the parent who became confused and went to the school to meet them to come on back home; they would be waiting.
They could reassure a boy that he looked handsome in his school uniform, but they could do nothing about the cockroaches scurrying around him. They could list the great things that awaited a 12-year-old girl in sixth grade, but they could not convince her mother, who has an 8-year-old with a learning disability who failed kindergarten three times, that schools cared equally about their charges.
Each morning of home-visit week began back in that first-floor classroom, where Mr. Baum teased out of his young teachers the small victories and the unwinnable battles they had experienced the day before.
Ms. Awad-Farid made everybody laugh one morning as she told of drinking soda out of colorful cocktail glasses at one student's home, "like those glasses you get at a Hard Rock Cafe."
"The mom kept on saying, 'No one has ever done that to us before,' " she added. That is, no teacher had visited to introduce the family to the school.
"That's really awesome," Mr. Baum said.
Then, he posed a question to the room: "What's one big thing that you've learned so far?"
"The funny thing is, I'm the teacher, but I feel like the kids have a lot to teach me," Mr. Slater said as he left. "And there's still a lot for me to learn."
Correction: September 11, 2011
An article last Sunday about teachers' visits to the homes of students who attend the Urban Assembly School for Applied Math and Science misidentified the street in the Bronx on which the school is located. It is Bathgate Avenue, not Bainbridge Avenue.
Rachel Ohm contributed reporting.
A version of this article appears in print on September 4, 2011, on Page MB1 of the New York edition with the headline: House Calls. Order Reprints| Today's Paper|Subscribe
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It definitely gets us thinking about our interactions with people – at least, it should.
Pray for, care for. That's convicting. It certainly isn't what I feel about the Phelps family/Westboro.
So I think you're on exactly the right track with the Jonah analogy.
But even if they want us to rebel and die, what gives the Westboro people the presumption to lie about God, making him a hater, to accomplish that?
Sorry for the butchered external reference.


1. September is singing the praises of autumn. The leaves are falling everywhere.
2. I closed the pool yesterday, with some help. I was happy to get it closed because the leaves are already falling from the trees, they look like big snowflakes falling to the ground.
3. Closing the pool makes the ending of summer a reality.
4. Sports from Sunday: Winners: Orioles (not that it matters much), Ravens, Steelers, Redskins. Losers: Cowboys.
5. New puppies are a lot of work. They are cute and playful which almost makes up for the added work.
6. The weekend's 80 degree days were an enjoyable respire from the colder 60s and 70s we have been experiencing.
"So, remember, in this vast and wonderful world that God has given us, it's not what's inside the Earth that counts, but what's inside your minds and hearts, because that's the stuff that dreams are made of, and America's future is in your dreams. Make them come true."


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Gunvor Marianne Gustafsson Ericson, född 8 augusti 1960 i Vargöns kyrkobokföringsdistrikt, Älvsborgs län, är en svensk politiker (miljöpartist). Hon var ordinarie riksdagsledamot 2006–2014 (även tjänstgörande ersättare 2004–2005), invald för Södermanlands läns valkrets.

Ericson var sammankallande i partistyrelsen 1995–1997, kanslichef och biträdande partisekreterare 1997–1999 och landstingsråd i Södermanlands läns landsting 2004–2006. Hon kandiderade till riksdagen i 2006 års allmänna val och blev invald för Södermanlands läns valkrets. Hon var tjänstgörande ersättare i riksdagen för Maria Wetterstrand under dennas föräldraledighet 2004–2005.

Ericson kandiderade till posten som partisekreterare 1999, men förlorade mycket knappt mot valberedningens förslag, Håkan Wåhlstedt.
Hon har dessutom varit partiets talesperson i folkhälsofrågor, jämställdhet och socialförsäkringar. Hon  var politiskt sakkunnig i Statsrådsberedningen 2014–2015 och statssekreterare på Miljö- och energidepartementet åt Åsa Romson 2015–2016. Sedan den 9 juni 2016 är hon statssekreterare vid Statsrådsberedningens samordningskansli.

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 Gunvor G Ericson / Miljöpartiet de gröna
 Gunvor om hälsa, jämställdhet och politik

Ledamöter av Sveriges riksdag för Miljöpartiet
Svenska landstingsråd
Svenska politiker under 1900-talet
Svenska politiker under 2000-talet
Personer från Västra Tunhems socken
Födda 1960
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Levande personer