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The Climate Movement: Australia's Patrons of Climate Change Activism
admin Sep 26, 2011 Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace, Wilderness Society, World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
"Then there's the revolving door. Some who opposed the CPRS when they worked for environmental groups now work in parliament for the Greens, where cheering for the CEF is expected. Meanwhile, like the carbon lobby, big-brand environmental groups recruit former political staffers and senior bureaucrats. Radicals have been replaced by 'realists' who know that if they collaborate with the powers that be – often former colleagues – they can secure incremental wins without threatening the system." …
The Nation Reviewed
By Guy Pearse
With Tony Abbott up in the polls, both sides saying they'll stand or fall on climate policy, and some believing effective 'climate action' and the fate of 'progressive politics' this decade are at stake, much of the environmental movement has decided it must cheer for Prime Minister Julia Gillard's Clean Energy Future (CEF) carbon-pricing package. As Abbott and an emboldened carbon lobby paint Gillard's plan as economic Armageddon, environmentalists are cheering as if the clean energy revolution has begun.
Image Caption: Aided by Purves Environmental Fund, sculptor Mark Coreth rides his life-sized ice polar bear in Sydney, 3 June 2011. © Reuters/Daniel Munoz
Image Caption: Illustration by Jeff Fisher.
It's a far cry from 2009 when the environmental movement split over the so-called Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS). The Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF), World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and the Climate Institute went one way – backing the CPRS in exchange for Labor adopting a highly conditional 25% emission-reduction target for 2020. The Greens, Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, Wilderness Society, Australian Youth Climate Coalition (AYCC) and GetUp!, among others, went another way, knowing the conditions attached to the 25% target meant it wouldn't happen. Now environmentalists are cheering almost as one, not just for 'climate action' but for Gillard's plan.
The Greens, as co-authors, declare "the old, polluting ways will have to change and a new, exciting era is set to begin"; the ACF calls the plan an "important step to start Australia's transition to a low carbon economy"; the Climate Institute calls it a "vital step towards lower pollution and clean energy in Australia"; the WWF says it "will finally create a financial incentive to change old habits and old technologies". Even Greenpeace calls it "the fundamental first step in our journey towards a clean energy future".
Everyone is emphasising that 'first step' bit, as if using the same talking points. Under the "Say Yes" banner, the message that ticking the carbon price box equals a clean energy future is being amplified. At one "Say Yes" rally, GetUp! boss Simon Sheikh declared: "Now is a moment of celebration" and "We're ready to power our economy with 100% renewable energy. We say yes!" The banners proclaim: "Say yes to cutting carbon pollution" and "Unlock clean energy". One GetUp! video affirms: "get rid of our reliance on fossil fuel". It's implied that the government's plan will achieve these things.
But will it? The Greens say the CEF package is superior to the CPRS: the official 2050 emissions reduction target was 60% – now it's 80%; the CPRS allowed unlimited use of imported carbon credits, allowing Australia to outsource almost all its obligations – now imported credits aren't allowed until 2015 and then only for 50% of polluter liabilities; there's a new Clean Energy Finance Corporation with $10 billion to spend and a Carbon Farming Initiative to encourage farmers to store more carbon in vegetation and soils. The Greens have sought to make backsliding harder by institutionalising what they can. So, for instance, governments will have to publicly explain if they choose not to accept emission cap recommendations from the proposed Climate Change Authority.
It's better than the CPRS, but here's the curious thing – most of the flaws of the CPRS remain in the CEF. Big polluters are again excused from paying for 66–94.5% of their emissions, notwithstanding Gillard's claim that "big polluters will pay for every tonne of carbon pollution they put into our atmosphere". There's the same inadequate 5% unconditional emissions reduction target for 2020; same hypothetical 25% target; still no carbon price at the bowser; billions of dollars going to emission-intensive power generators; $1.3 billion to coal producers whose exports are Australia's largest contribution to climate change; and handouts to householders still mean most Australians won't notice a carbon price. It's another huge money-go-round that intercepts the price signal a carbon tax is intended to send industry and consumers to drive a shift to lower-emission behaviour. The pledge to pay owners of 2 gigawatts of the most emission-intensive coal-fired generation to exit the industry is an admission pricing carbon this way won't achieve even that.
Perhaps not surprisingly, the emission projections are familiar. Treasurer Wayne Swan and Climate Change Minister Greg Combet say the agreed package would "closely match" Treasury projections released earlier this year. They envisage Australia's domestic emissions (excluding carbon credit imports) to "increase around 10% from 2010 to the late 2020s". With the 50% limit on credit imports ending in 2020, we'd rely mainly on outsourcing emission cuts to meet our targets well into the 2030s. Even by 2050, domestic emissions are barely below 2000 levels! Meanwhile, even with the carbon price, and well before 2050, coal-industry output doubles.
For all Gillard's hype that a carbon price will "turbo-charge" clean energy, projections show almost no increase in renewable energy deployment prior to 2020 beyond what's required to achieve the existing 20% renewable electricity target. With coal exports doubling and coal seam gas exports growing faster, renewables would by 2020 still account for less than 2% of energy produced in Australia.
In truth, there's much less difference between the two major parties than either side makes out: both have a 5% target; both price carbon – Labor through a carbon tax and emissions trading, the Coalition by effectively running a national tender process for emission reduction; both cosset fossil-fuel addiction – the Coalition mainly by paying farmers to increase carbon storage in soils, Labor by importing carbon credits.
Ask people in the movement why everyone's cheering for a plan you'd expect them to stomach under sufferance and the responses all begin the same way: "This is strictly off the record." Most cite partisan bias, driven more by Pavlovian habit than ideology. While relations with the Coalition have usually been acrimonious, Labor has delivered various groups their biggest wins and political influence. A former insider of the Climate Institute tells me its unofficial mission when established was to "get rid of John Howard". Post-Howard the CEO is said to have defined its new role as being Labor's "mine-sweeper". A "Say Yes" campaign insider recently told me: "People are so desperate to get something rather than nothing that we're all running cover for Labor; so, rather than getting a better scheme from them or the other side, it's all about helping Gillard sell the scheme."
Another reason cited for the cheering is the increasing tendency of environmental groups to focus on incremental wins. Rather than asking 'What needs to be done?', they're asking 'What's possible soon, given the lie of the land?' Rapid transitions to renewables and away from fossil-fuel exports are considered unthinkable, given the grip that coal companies and unions have on both major parties. Settling for much less ambitious goals and overstating their significance is easier.
Then there's the revolving door. Some who opposed the CPRS when they worked for environmental groups now work in parliament for the Greens, where cheering for the CEF is expected. Meanwhile, like the carbon lobby, big-brand environmental groups recruit former political staffers and senior bureaucrats. Radicals have been replaced by 'realists' who know that if they collaborate with the powers that be – often former colleagues – they can secure incremental wins without threatening the system.
Most 'suit-wearing' greenies also sport a neo-liberal faith in markets, with many building careers promoting the idea that emissions trading is the solution to climate change. Thus, campaigners at groups such as the WWF, the ACF and the Climate Institute turn 'think global, act local' on its head, believing a global carbon trade is paramount, not local action. To a worldview that cares not where emissions are cut but that cuts are made globally, at least cost, importing carbon credits en masse and ignoring coal exports fits perfectly. Never mind that a lower carbon price makes renewables deployment here less viable. Ross Garnaut's starring role on the national stage as a carbon-price Pied Piper from the neo-liberal establishment encapsulates the dominant mindset.
Lastly, there's the widespread desire to fill the tent. Many said 'never again' after the suspension of the CPRS in 2009. The Mittagong Forum, which was founded a decade earlier in the Southern Highlands, NSW, and intended to keep the environment movement singing from a similar song sheet, was torn apart. The acrimony within the ACF was intense – irate members resigned. I'm told that the Climate Institute's board ordered an internal review of strategy. Since then, the groups that did a backroom deal with then Prime Minister Rudd have been on a charm offensive – encouraging a much broader group to come on board. Frustrated campaigners explain that the more groups involved, the faster the race to the bottom. One tells me: "If you've got ACF, WWF and the Climate Institute in the tent, you can't talk about export coal; can't talk down 'clean coal' or importing carbon credits or carbon farming." As the carbon price becomes the issue upon which Labor stands or falls and the Greens' forward momentum depends, the tent is filling up with unions, celebrities and GetUp!, among others.
This partly explains the cheering, but it's hard not to wonder if something else is also going on here. Money explains the behaviour of many campaigning against Gillard, as those in her corner are quick to highlight; the proudly sceptical and coal-friendly Institute of Public Affairs, for example, has admitted they rarely take a position different from the "dozen energy firms" who contribute funds to them, because "otherwise they'd stop funding us". Should we expect different from those funding big-brand green groups? It might seem like a diverse range of groups are all concluding independently that Gillard's carbon price equals clean energy future, but they're largely funded through two wealthy farmers: Robert Purves and Mark Wootton.
Robert Purves is the former chair and major shareholder of health group DCA; Mark Wootton is married to Eve Kantor, Rupert Murdoch's niece. Through the Purves Environmental Fund (PEF) and the Poola Foundation respectively, they bankroll most of Australia's best known environment groups, including many of those behind the "Say Yes" show.
The Poola Foundation, established in 1995, has for years been the ACF's principal donor. The ACF's building was gifted by a Poola-linked company in 2009, providing a permanent rental income stream. A donation of $10 million from the estate of Eve Kantor's late brother (administered by Wootton and Eve Kantor) established the Climate Institute in 2005, with another $4 million invested since. Climate change "couldn't be left to the environment movement", says Wootton. Through the Climate Institute, the Poola Foundation provides office space to support the AYCC, and it is the largest contributor to the Australia Institute think tank. It originally funded the Mittagong Forum and provided resources and personnel to establish the Australian Environmental Grantmakers Network to co-ordinate environmental philanthropy.
Robert Purves is more prolific, particularly since establishing the PEF in 2004. He has given millions of dollars to the WWF, is the primary sponsor of the Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists and supports the core global team running Earth Hour. A polar bear made of ice that paraded through Sydney streets in June was also Purves-funded. Few people realise that Purves substantially funded the writing and extensive promotion of Tim Flannery's book The Weather Makers. The AYCC credits core funding provided by Purves, their only 'gold supporter', for their exponential growth in 2010. Purves has also funded Sustainable Business Australia, The Climate Group, the Climate Action Network Australia, the Copenhagen Climate Council and Clean Up Australia. He funds the Total Environment Centre and its Green Capital program, which hosted one of Julia Gillard's first speeches after the release of the CEF package. Purves funds Terrestrial Carbon Group and the Bio-CCS Group, which push all manner of cheap carbon-credit generating alternatives to switching away from fossil fuels to help Australia meet emissions targets: carbon farming, forest protection abroad, growing algae with CO2 from coal-fired power stations. Through Sustainable Business Australia (SBA) he also co-hosts Carbon Expos for those keen to profit from trading such credits.
Wootton and Purves are hardly the only philanthropists assisting green causes. Wotif.com founder Graeme Wood's record-breaking $1.6 million contribution to the Greens prior to the 2010 federal election drew plenty of attention. What sets Wootton and Purves apart is their ubiquity – especially on the issue of climate change – and their hands-on approach: Purves is a former president and current board member of WWF (Australia), a former board member of WWF (International), the chair of SBA, a governor of AYCC and the only non-scientist member of the Wentworth Group. Similarly, Mark Wootton chairs the Climate Institute board and, until recently, sat on the boards of both the ACF and the Australia Institute.
Moreover, both men appear to advocate the 'carbon price as panacea' approach championed by Rudd and now Gillard. "It's all about putting a price on carbon," says Purves; it's a "conservative, market-based solution", says Wootton. As far as I can tell, neither has publicly opposed continued coal export expansion, cast doubt over 'clean coal' or opposed the large-scale use of imported carbon credits. While both back renewable energy, they're also strong advocates of bio-sequestration options that help avoid a switch away from fossil fuels. The organisations they fund take similar views; a coterie of corporations deeply enmeshed in vast new coal- and gas-mining projects, or simply poised to gain from the carbon credit opportunities promoted by Wootton and Purves, now co-fund the same organisations.
This is not to parallel the friendly takeover of environmentalism in the past decade with the self-interested clout exerted by those funding Australia's carbon lobby. Wootton and Purves might gain from generating carbon credits on their farms, but by all reports their philanthropy is driven by genuine altruism rather than vested interest. However, they embody much of what movement insiders cite as problematic – neo-liberal minded corporate greenies chasing incremental results based on 'what's possible'. So perhaps it's inevitable that, as more groups come to rely heavily on the same patronage, the environment movement's centre of gravity has shifted.
If more people knew to what they were saying 'yes', and to whom, it's hard not to wonder whether there'd be a lot less cheering. Now, as in 2009, the Poola Foundation and Purves-backed entities are teaming up with Labor to establish a minimalist carbon price deal that allows Australia's contribution to climate change to keep increasing during the most crucial of decades and beyond. Naturally, Labor and its unions are geeing up the "Say Yes" crowd. The ACTU is again in the thick of the action and, having received a
$1.12 million donation from Australia's largest coal union in 2010, GetUp! is cheering too. There's been a cumulative cost of up to $5 million for the omnipresent 'independent' commentary produced by the Garnaut Climate Change Review from 2007–11. A $12 million advertising campaign is up and running and soon the government will distribute grants of "up to $250,000 for organisations to engage with the public on the opportunities of a clean energy future". It's a new strategy, but the same people and money taming environmentalists into backing yet another ineffective policy.
After a decade of false starts, Gillard's plan shows beyond doubt that the only carbon price Australia will adopt is one that largely defeats the purpose of a carbon price. The Turnbull-backed CPRS was probably the best deal negotiable between the two major parties, just as the Gillard plan is probably the best the Greens could expect from a partnership with Labor. Pricing carbon this way does not equal a clean energy future, but that will take years to dawn on many in the cheer squad. Meanwhile, perhaps the best that can be said of the Gillard package is that passing it makes room for issues that the current debate has kept off the table. With the carbon price box finally ticked, the massive expansion in Australia's fossil-fuel emission exports will become harder to ignore. When we finally confront that issue we'll be getting serious as a nation about a Clean Energy Future.
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Molière's "George Dandin"
Posted by michelinewalker in Comedy, Molière
Cuckolding, farce, George Dandin, impoverished nobility, jealousy, joke, Marriage, Molière, the agroikos, the right & wrong
George Dandin, Alexandre-Joseph Desenne (Photo credit: Internet Archive)
George Dandin ou le Mari confondu (George Dandin or the Abashed Husband) is a three-act comédie-ballet written by Molière and composed by Jean-Baptiste Lully. It premièred on 18 July 1668,[1] at Versailles. The comédie-ballet was part of a Grand Divertissement royal, a celebration of the French victory at Aix-la-Chapelle. On 9 November 1668, it was performed as a three-act play at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal. Devoid of its pastoral interludes, consisting mainly in a conversation between shepherdesses George Dandin was a rather sombre three–act farce. The pastoral lightened George Dandin.
Henri van Laun (the translator)
a comédie-ballet
a pastoral
sources: Guarini's (Il Pastor Fido) and, perhaps, Boccacio (The Decameron)
the Dolopatos (the tale of a woman locked into a tower)
a mésalliance
The text of the pastoral is included in Henri van Laun's (1820-1896) six-volume Dramatic Works of Molière with eleven ilustrations by Horace Vernet, Alexandre-Joseph Desenne, Tony Johannot and Louis Hersent. George Dandin appears in volume IV of Henri van Laun's translation of Molière's complete works. We are using the toutmoliere.net collection of Molière's plays, including its Notice, and the above-mentioned translation of Molière's complete dramatic works. Mr. van Laun has separated the three acts of George Dandin into a larger number of scenes.
Pastorals – the Dolopatos
Pastorals find their origin in Guarini's (1538-1612) Pastor Fido (1590), The Faithful Shepherd. As for George Dandin, a farce, it may also be rooted in Giovanni Boccacio's (1313-1375) Decameron, 4th, 7th, and 8th days. The Decameron contains 100 tales told by young men and women hiding from the plague. These were very influential. Chaucer may have read the Decameron when he was on a mission to Italy in 1372. The structure of his Canterbury Tales resembles that of the Decameron.
George Dandin is also associated with an Indian work, the Dolopatos, written before the Common Era and translated into Arabic and Hebrew (see Salon littéraire). It was also translated into Latin and then French. It could be that Molière's own Jalousie du Barbouillé, which may date back to 1650, was the dramatist's source.
Molière has written other pastorals, Mélicerte (December 1666), La Pastorale comique (January 1667), Le Sicilien ou l'Amour peintre (February 1667). He did so just before writing George Dandin. In 1668, the year he wrote George Dandin, Molière was very ill.
The Agroikos – Impoverished Nobility
In Greek literature, George Dandin, would be called an agroikos (rustic), a stock character. He is a peasant who has married into the upper classes and wishes to be separated from his wife when he realizes that he has simply bought a title: de la Dandinière. Such incidents were frequent in 17th-century France because aristocrats wanted to be 'seen' at court, which costs a fortune. They could not afford dowries for all their daughters. Often only one was endowed.
Angélique's parents, the Sotenvilles, are impoverished nobility, but they do have a home in Paris. In order to live up to their rank, the Sotenvilles literally sold their daughter to Dandin. Nothing is more important to the Sotenvilles than their rank, which vilifies them. As for George Dandin, although he bought the title of Monsieur de la Dandinière, the Sotenvilles (sot=stupid) continue to see him as a peasant and so does their daughter. In Molière as in Shakespeare, one must to one's own self be true. Dandin's marriage is a mésalliance, and Angélique is a "lamb," as Claudine calls her.
A Mésalliance – Cuckoldry
In Act III, Scene 5, Clitandre points to the incongruous aspect of Angélique's marriage to Dandin:
(…) et que c'est une étrange chose que l'assemblage qu'on a fait d'une personne comme vous avec un homme comme lui !
[(…) and that the union of a woman like you to a man like him is somewhat strange.(III, 5)]
The marriage has not been consummated (Act III, Scene V ), but there is a contract.
Typically, in Molière, a mésalliance (marrying into a different class) and a forced marriage (un mariage forcé) lead to cuckoldry, the fate so feared by Arnolphe (L'École des femmes, 1662). Dandin was foolish and the Sotenvilles, sots, as their name suggest. When her parents will not allow her to be separated from Dandin, Claudine, Angélique's maid, says: "It is a pity to see a poor young wife treated in such a fashion; it cries to Heaven for vengeance." (Claudine, III, 12) However, Dandin is treated neither as a husband nor as a nobleman.
Woman's Head by François Boucher (WikiArt.org)
George Dandin, François Boucher, Laurent Cars
The Dramatis Personæ is as follows:
Georges Dandin (George Dandin), husband of Angelica
Angelica (Angélique), Georges Dandin's wife
Sir Sotenville (Monsieur de Sotenville), Angelica's father
Mrs Sotenville (Madame de Sotenville), Sir Sotenville's wife
Clitander (Clitandre), in love with Angelica
Claudine, Angelica's servant
Lubin, Clitandre's servant
Colin, Dandin's servant
The play is a three-act farce and the overall dramatic action, the deceiver deceived, or trompeur trompé, is reflected in each act. The action is triggered in the same manner as in L'École des femmes. Dandin is told that he has a rival, Clitandre, by the rival's valet, Lubin. Like Arnolphe, Dandin believes this intelligence will help him. He wishes to prove to his in-laws that he has a wicked wife from whom he should be separated, which her parents would never allow. However, Clitandre or Angélique always talk their way out of every ploy used by the ill-fated Dandin.
In Act One, Clitandre, who happens to be with Angélique, suggests that Angélique betrayed him.
Est-ce donc vous, Madame, qui avez dit à votre mari que je suis amoureux de vous ? (Clitandre, I. v)
[Is it you then, Madam, who have told your husband that I am in love with you?] (Clitandre, I, 6)
She defends herself by making believe she is accusing him, but if reversed her words are an invitation to Clitandre to continue the galanterie. It's a brilliant double entendre. Dandin is then asked to apologize to Clitandre who is a genuine gentilhomme. (I. 8)
In Act Two, once again Lubin tells George everything. Angélique's parents are brought to see their daughter breaking the terms of the contract, her marriage contract. Act Two, Scene 3 resembles L'École des femmes (III, 2). Dandin tries to impress upon his wife that, given the marriage contract, she has duties, but she is very quick to state that George married her parents. She was not consulted. Angélique denies that she has obligations towards George. When Dandin asks her to chase galants away she speaks as does Agnès in L'École des femmes. She will not chase galants away.
Moi, les [men courting her] chasser ! et par quelle raison ? Je ne me scandalise point qu'on me trouve bien faite, et cela me fait du plaisir. (Scene ii)
[I drive them away! and for what reason? I am not scandalised at being thought handsome, and it affords me pleasure.] (Scene 4)
Angélique is caught speaking with Clitandre, but she feigns anger at Clitandre. (Scene 10) Once again, Dandin is punished. It seems Clitandre is being hit with a stick, but George Dandin is the victim.
Act Three
In Act Three, Angélique thinks George is sleeping. She is outside with Clitandre. It's night time and very dark. Believing he is speaking with Claudine, Lubin tells George Dandin everything. But matters are as in the School for Wives, he is speaking to the young couple's barbon, Dandin. The latter asks Colin, his valet, to seek his in-laws.
In Scene 5, Clitandre is worried. Husbands have privileges. Angélique tells him that she does not make love with Dandin:
Serez-vous assez fou pour avoir cette inquiétude, et pensez-vous qu'on soit capable d'aimer de certains maris qu'il y a ? (Scène v)
[Are you weak enough to have such anxiety, and do you think it is possible to love a certain sort of husbands?] (Scene 5)
The Dolopatos
In Scene VI, Angélique and Claudine, her maid, cannot re-enter the house. George Dandin has bolted the door. She tells him she has wronged him and, in desperation, she makes believe she has killed herself. When he opens the door to see if she is dead, she and Claudine lock him out. The Sotenvilles arrive and Angélique accuses George Dandin of having spent the evening drinking.
Angélique wants to end the marriage and so does Dandin, but Angélique's father will not let her leave her husband. Monsieur de Sotenville gives himself the puissance absolue, the absolute power (Scène 7), of a pater familias. Angélique is asked by her father to forgive Dandin, a husband from whom she wants to be separated.
Moi ? lui pardonner tout ce qu'il m'a dit ? Non, non, mon père, il m'est impossible de m'y résoudre, et je vous prie de me séparer d'un mari avec lequel je ne saurais plus vivre. (Scène 7)
[I! pardon him after all that he has said to me? No, no, father I cannot possibly make up my mind to it; and I beg of you to separate me from a husband with whom I can no longer live.] (Scene 14)
As for Dandin, the Sotenvilles force him to kneel down and apologize to Angélique. Therefore, George says to himself that all he can do is go and drown himself, which is indeed all the he can do:
Ah ! je le quitte maintenant, et je n'y vois plus de remède, lorsqu'on a comme moi épousé une méchante femme, le meilleur parti qu'on puisse prendre, c'est de s'aller jeter dans l'eau la tête la première. (Scène 8)
[Ah! I give it up altogether, and I can see no help for it. When one has married, as I have done, a wicked wife, the best step on can take is to go and throw one's self into the water, head foremost.] (Scene 15)
As noted above, in Molière, mésalliance and forced marriages lead to cuckoldry. All Dandin has gained by marrying Angélique is a title: de la Dandinière, a hollow and ridiculous title. "Se dandiner" means to waddle.
A Problematical comedy
the parasites
Monsieur de Sotenville: a pater familias – fear
Marriage being a contract and a sacrament, Molière's George Dandin is a problematical farce. In L'École des femmes, Arnolphe and Agnès were not married. But the Sotenvilles are George Dandin's in-laws and parasites.[2] They married Angélique to him because of the money he could provide.
Initially, George Dandin was also a parasite. He wanted a title. But the curtain rises on a desperate husband who wishes to see the marriage terminated. We know that the marriage has not been consummated. (Scene V)
Monsieur de Sotenville is the archetypal pater familias. Claudine obeys because she is afraid of him. Fear is very much a factor in Molière. The Sotenvilles may still need Dandin's money, but more importantly, a separation could be a scandal. They are the Sotenvilles:
Ma fille, de semblables séparations ne se font point sans grand scandale, et vous devez vous montrer plus sage que lui, et patienter encore cette fois. (Scène vii)
[Such separations, daughter, are not brought about without a great deal of scandal; and you should show yourself wiser than he, and be patient once more.] (Scene 14)
Honour is invoked, but far more severe a threat is the authority Monsieur de Sotenville has given himself. He possesses his daughter.
You must, daughter; I command you. (Monsieur de Sotenville, Scene 14)
[This word stops my mouth. You have absolute authority over me.] (Angélique, Scene 14)
"Poor lamb," says Claudine, Angélique's maid.
As Angélique bemoans, it will happen again and again. The structure of farces allows constant reversals. They are like the Saturnalia of ancient Rome.
Tout ce que vous me faites faire ne servira de rien, et vous verrez que ce sera dès demain à recommencer. (Angélique, Scène 7)
[Whatever you make me do will be of no use; we shall have to recommence to-morrow, you will see. (Scene 14)]
In the world of comedy, there are no rules of marriage. The genre promotes the marriage of the young lovers. In this play, however, the dramatic structure, i.e. the reversals, dominate. However, while militating in favour of the real young lovers, the farce is unkind to Angélique and Clitandre. They cannot marry because Angélique's parents will not allow their daughter to come home.
George Dandin is filled with comical scenes, such as the double entendre. The manner in which the Sotenvilles deal with George is also comical. (I. 4) So is the way in which Monsieur de Sotenville introduces himself to Clitandre. He mentions his lineage. (I. 5) In fact, the Sotenvilles are ridiculous. In George Dandin, lineage is mocked as it has never been. Madame de Sotenville's maiden name is de la Prudoterie.
It could be said therefore that Molière rescues the comedic by pushing the farce to an extreme. Everything is a joke. When the curtain falls, the play will not have taken place. It will have been a joke.
The most famous line of the play is:
"J'enrage de bon cœur d'avoir tort, lorsque j'ai raison." (Dandin, I. i)
[It makes me mad to be put in the wrong when I am in the right.] (I. 7)
In fact, Dandin is both in the wrong and in the right. According to Will G. Moore, "Dandin is essentially in the right, but he is in all actual cases made to appear in the wrong."[3]
Destiny in "L'École des femmes" (10 June 2016)
L'École des femmes, part two (2 June 2016)
L'École des femmes, part one (29 May 2016)
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[1] There is disagreement concerning the date.
[2] Michel Serres, Le Parasite (Paris : Hachette littératures, coll. Pluriel, 1997 [1980]), p. 361-373.
[3] See W. G. Moore, Molière: a New Criticism (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968 [1949]), p. 118.
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"There wasn't an option to let this overcome us," the #SouthernCharmSAV gent said.
It's always a blast when Daniel Eichholz is around on Southern Charm Savannah. However, this fun-loving gent's life hasn't always been a party.
Daniel opened up about when his family fell on hard times earlier this season. His father, Benjamin Eichholz, was sentenced to 21 months in prison in 2010 after pleading guilty to obstructing a federal investigation into his mishandling of pension and retirement accounts in his law firm.
Daniel recently told The Daily Dish that he had a feeling it wasn't going to be easy to discuss his family's past on Southern Charm Savannah, but he knew that it would be the best decision. "Well, it's definitely difficult to make this decision to be super open and transparent about what's going on, but I think once you realize that you have to be open and honest with yourself about everything, and — because that's the best way and that's the way that you're gonna achieve happiness and [be] at peace with everything — I think that it became pretty easy just to be real and honest. And I'm a pretty open and honest guy," he explained. "Like, I'm not perfect, I don't think the person asking me the questions is perfect. I think we all have our ups and downs. And so I think just being open all the way with everything seems to make you happier in the end."
Though that was understandably a trying time for the Eichholzes, Daniel said that something good ultimately came out of the experience. "What happened to my father and my family brought my family closer together," Daniel shared. "And it really made me who I am today. I had to grow up overnight. And I think that was really great. And I actually appreciated it. I'm very happy that it has molded me and my brother both into who we are."
Daniel said that "perseverance" and "persistence" helped him get through this difficult time. "There wasn't an option to fail. There wasn't an option to let this overcome us," he said. "It was just, stay focused on the mission at hand, and just do what you gotta do, just very hard work. I mean, that really is the answer."
Daniel was graduating college in Colorado and was planning on working for a financial software company in Florida at the time of his father's legal troubles. He decided to go home to Savannah to run the family law firm and help get his family back on its feet. "Well, I feel like my family needed me," Daniel said. "And I felt like it was the right thing to do. So I went home and took care of business."
As the Savannah Charmer continues to run the family law firm today, he said he's still in the process of figuring out what's next for him and his career. "I definitely have spent so much time in the law firm, it's going to be very hard to actually walk away," he told The Daily Dish. "So I think that a part of me is gonna want to control and keep working at the firm, but I just want to do something that's helping people, in general. So I'm not quite sure what that is, and I think that it's more, really, about the road ahead than the actual end goal, because, once you get there, you're there."
Daniel said that he imagines that philanthropy of some kind will always be in his life, whether it's a part of his career or a passion in his free time. "I really like helping people. It makes me feel very good, and I'm passionate about that. So I'm sure that throughout my life and my journey, I'm gonna be focused on something about, it's gonna be all about giving back," he said. "I'm not quite sure what that is exactly, but I do think that that's going to be a core value in my future."
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August 23, 2019 8:31 AM ET
The Paramount Network recently dropped an awesome inside look at the latest "Yellowstone" episode.
"Enemies by Monday" was the ninth episode of the second season, and has set us up for a wild finale. There was a lot to unpack in the episode, but no moment was more important than Tate being kidnapped by the Beck Brothers. (RELATED: 'Yellowstone' Episode 'Enemies By Monday' Ends In Tragedy)
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"You've got to put yourself on the shoulder of everybody watching at this point because everybody watching at this point is like 'when do the gloves come off?' Well, I guess they just did," star Kevin Costner said about Tate being kidnapped at the end of the episode.
Luke Grimes, the man who plays Kayce, added, "He has nothing to do with this. He's just an innocent kid. So, they're pushing the buttons as hard as they can."
Watch the full inside look below.
"Enemies by Monday" was explosive. Literally. The cast breaks down everything from Jimmy's emotional journey to that heart-wrenching cliffhanger. #YellowstoneTV pic.twitter.com/GNb4Co81GV
— Yellowstone (@Yellowstone) August 22, 2019
I can't wait to see what we get next week in the season finale. I expect it to be complete and absolute chaos. As Costner said in the video above, the gloves are finally all the way off. There's not walking anything back at this point.
The Becks made the decision to snatch Tate. They had already signed their death warrants after going after Beth.
Now, they're just piling it on when it comes to giving the Duttons reasons to kill them.
Wednesday night truly can't get here soon enough. I have no idea how the second season will end, but I fully expect us to be on the edge of our seats the whole time.
Make sure to tune in on the Paramount Network to watch it all go down. You know I'll be locked in and watching with the rest of you.
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On Wednesday evening, GOP presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson attended a town hall meeting hosted by CNN, and he was asked about how Republicans can hold Christian beliefs while wanting to reduce social welfare programs. Without even thinking, he dropped a massive truth bomb about the true history of the GOP, and his answer is going viral.
Imagine that? A nation where the government doesn't keep its people reliant upon handouts to keep them on the plantation. What a concept, and it's a concept that was embraced by our Founders.
Sadly, the so-called "War on Poverty" was waged only so those in power could ensure they remained in power, which has led to disastrous effects on our economy and our nation as a whole. Social welfare and programs like Affirmative Action are only intended to keep people dependent upon the government, thus ensuring they vote for those who favor such special treatment.
Carson is right. It's not the government's job to take care of those who are down on their luck. If you want a good life, smarten up, make better choices, get a job, and do it the old fashioned way – hard work.


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Chandler Teammates, Future Sun Devils Talk All-American Experiences
Jordan Hamm Posted January 17, 2016 at 9:46 pm
The state of Arizona was well-represented in the various All-American games earlier this month.
For two, not only were they able to represent their high school but their future college as Chandler Wolves and ASU commits. Chase Lucas participated in the Army All-American game, and wide receiver N'Keal Harry impressed at the Under Armour All-American Bowl.
Lucas, predominantly a running back and wide receiver in high school, practiced as a defensive back, his presumed position in college. Getting a chance to prove himself against the country's elite was huge for the four-star recruit.
"I got a really good jump off to it," Lucas said. "It was a great, memorable moment and I'll never forget it. (I'm) just feeling I'm at home at safety. I can cover the ball with my speed, and I have good hands like a receiver so it works for me and I feel like I can have a good future with it."
Harry came in and instantly impressed throughout the week's practices at the Under Armour Bowl. When it was all said and done, Harry had a game-leading five receptions and also added 32 receiving yards. Scouts attending the event said he could be a matchup problem for opposing defenses at the next level.
"It's just motivation for me, seeing all that and seeing the hype that is written around me," The four-star said. "I just feel like it just made me work harder and do the little things to progress my career."
It wasn't just the reps from Chandler though. Hamilton defensive tackle Garrett Rand, Desert Vista kicker Connor Culp and Saguaro defensive back Byron Murphy participated in the U.S. All-American Bowl, Mountain Ridge long snapper Turner Bernard appeared in the Under Armour All-American Bowl and Hamilton athlete Kyeler Burke, along with his head coach, Steve Belles, and Saguaro head coach Jason Mohns participated in the Sempe Fi Bowl. With representation like that, Arizona has reached new levels as a football state.
But according to Harry, there is room to grow.
"The state of football is very slept on, I think we have a lot of athletes that people from the south don't come to see. There is just so much talent in Arizona, and if we keep getting the Arizona talent out there to All-American games, Arizona will be on the map for one of the best football states very soon."
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Castle Park is a development of 143 homes suitable for a range of buyers. There is a choice of two, three and four bedroom properties in 10 differing designs. The specification is to a very high standard with attention to detail on every property.
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Underneath Raccoon City exists a genetic research facility called the Hive, owned by the Umbrella Corporation. A thief steals the genetically engineered T-virus and contaminates the Hive with it. In response, the facility's artificial intelligence, the Red Queen, seals the Hive and kills everyone inside.
Alice (Milla Jovovich) awakens in a deserted mansion with amnesia. She dresses and checks the mansion, and is subdued by an unknown person. A group of commandos breaks into the mansion and arrests the person who introduces himself as Matt Addison (Eric Mabius); Addison has just transferred as a cop in Raccoon P.D. The commandos explain that everyone in the group, except Matt, is an employee of the Umbrella Corporation, and Alice and her partner Spence (James Purefoy) are guards for a Hive entrance under the disguise of a couple living in the mansion. Five hours prior, the Red Queen had shut down the entire facility and released amnesia-inducing gas. The commando team does not know why the Red Queen sealed the facility. The group travels to the underground train under the mansion that leads to the Hive, where they find Spence. They start the train and travel into the facility.
They reach the Queen's chamber, but it is protected by a laser defense system that kills four of the commandos, including the leader, One (Colin Salmon). Despite the Red Queen's urgent pleas for the group to leave, Kaplan (Martin Crewes) disables the Red Queen and the power fails, opening all of the doors in the Hive. This releases the zombified staff and containment units containing Lickers (mutated animals). During a battle with the zombies, Rain (Michelle Rodriguez) is bitten, and J.D. (Pasquale Aleardi) perishes. Alice begins regaining her memories, but Matt and Alice are separated from the group. Matt looks for information about his sister Lisa, while Alice encounters several infected Dobermans and surprises herself when she reflexively defends herself with martial arts.
Matt finds his sister zombified. Alice saves him, and Matt explains that he and Lisa were environmental activists. Lisa infiltrated Umbrella to smuggle out evidence of illegal experiments. Alice remembers she was Lisa's contact in the Hive and was intending to bring down Umbrella, but does not tell Matt. The survivors reunite at the Queen's chamber. The commandos explain that they have one hour before the Hive will seal automatically, trapping them inside. Alice and Kaplan activate the Red Queen in order to find an exit and rig the Red Queen's circuit breaker, so they can shut her down remotely to force her cooperation. As they escape through maintenance tunnels, they are ambushed by zombies, including a reanimated J.D. who bites Rain, who had been bitten twice beforehand. When J.D. tries to attack, Rain kills him. The group manages to get to safety, but Kaplan is bitten and separated from them.
Alice remembers that an anti-virus is in the lab, but when they arrive it is missing. Spence regains his memory, realizing he stole and released the virus. He hid the T-virus and anti-virus on the train. Spence is bitten by a zombie, which he kills before trapping the survivors in the lab, then he heads to the train. He retrieves the anti-virus, but is ambushed and killed by a Licker as the survivors watch on a security monitor. The Red Queen offers to spare Alice and Matt if they kill Rain, whose health is fading and who has been infected too long for the anti-virus to work reliably. As the Licker attempts to reach them, Rain tells Alice to kill her. Alice refuses, then a power outage occurs. The lab door opens to reveal Kaplan, who disabled the Red Queen to open the door. They reach the train, where Alice dispatches a zombified Spence and takes the anti-virus.
On the train, they inject Rain and Kaplan with the anti-virus. However, the Licker is hiding on the train and attacks them, clawing Matt. The Licker then grabs Kaplan and hurls him from the train. Alice and Matt battle the Licker. Rain turns into a zombie and attacks Matt, but he kills her. They open a trapdoor, dropping the Licker under the train, killing it. Matt and Alice escape the Hive as the containment doors close.
At the mansion, Matt's wound begins mutating. Before Alice can give him the anti-virus, the mansion doors burst open, and a group of Umbrella scientists and commandos seizes them. They subdue Alice and take Matt away, revealing he is to be put into the Nemesis Program, and they intend to re-open the Hive. Alice attempts to fight them off but is knocked unconscious.
Some time later, Alice awakens at the Raccoon City Hospital strapped to an examination table, with no memory of what happened since her capture. After escaping, she goes outside to find Raccoon City abandoned and ruined. A newspaper clipping shows that the T-virus spread to the surface after Umbrella reopened the Hive, creating an army of undead which devastated the city. Alice arms herself with a shotgun from an abandoned police car.


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The Class of 2013 Embraces "Not Unlucky" Moniker
Dubbed "not unlucky," the Class of 2013 received wise counsel from Rebecca Chopp, president of Swarthmore College, on intellectual freedom and letting their passions find them at The Agnes Irwin School's 144th Commencement Ceremony on June 6.
Many graduating classes from The Agnes Irwin School leave their mark with a memorable nickname, and this year's Class of 2013 was no different.
Georgia Fortunato '13, who gave the student address, expressed her gratitude to the collectively dubbed "not unlucky" class at the school's 144th Commencement, recalling the highlights and tough breaks of their academic journey together.
"Because of your humbling intellect, every classroom conversation I got to be a part of was meaningful and thought-provoking. Because of your energizing enthusiasm, I was inspired to involve myself in running the Athletic Board, to join clubs and to play the cello in the Instrumental Ensemble. Because of your love, I love life and eagerly await the surprises it will bring," Fortunato said.
Rebecca Chopp, president of Swarthmore College, delivered the graduation speech and encouraged the 66 seniors to use the intellectual freedom that awaits them in college to discover their passion. "Relish what you have learned, relish what you have done and be incredibly proud of what you have become," said Chopp.
Parents, families, faculty and staff watched with pride as the senior class welcomed a new chapter of their lives. Clad in white dresses and carrying flowers in their class color, purple, the girls embraced each other, recalling humorous moments from Middle School days, skinned knees in Lower School and the perpetually challenging yet stimulating days in Upper School that led them to today's culminating event at Goodhart Hall.
Earlier in the week, Class of 2017 (pictured below) reached a different milestone with its 8th grade graduation. Middle School Director Lynne Myavec said the rising freshmen were a talented group across the board in arts, athletics and academics. "The girls possess an enthusiasm that is contagious, and I know they will be significant contributors to our Upper School programs."
With equal enthusiasm, this year's fourth graders participated in a rite of passage on May 31 with the Lower School Moving Up Day. Lower School Director Donna Lindner remarked on the girls' positive attitude and flexibility facing some frustrating changes due to campus construction. In spite of not having some of the opportunities that previous classes have enjoyed – such as having a music room, spending recess in in the gym or marching outside for the annual Halloween Parade – the girls worked together as a team and grew as leaders, she said.
"You didn't let those obstacles stop you from being the students you knew you could be," Lindner told the rising fifth grade class. "There will always be things that come up in the future that don't feel fair, but you are strong. You are kind. You are leaders!"


With only about 72 hours before the February 27 NHL trade deadline, rumors are swirling all over the Internet, and especially on Twitter, as fake insiders try to get the attention of hockey fans by spreading out false trade rumors. I will try to dissect some of the hottest rumors around and tell you which players are most likely available.
Yesterday the first major traded happened when the Columbus Blue Jackets traded disgruntled center Jeff Carter to the goal-starving Los Angeles Kings in exchange for blue liner Jack Johnson and a 1st round draft pick in 2012 or 2013.
With their recent playoff push, the Anaheim Ducks are only looking to trade impending UFAs Jason Blake and Niklas Hagman, albeit they are not drawing much interest because of their lack of production and their high salary. The Ducks might trade veteran rearguard Tony Lydman who has drawn interest from the Chicago Blackhawks. Teemu Selanne, Bobby Ryan, Corey Perry and Ryan Getzlaf are not going anywhere.
With the uncertainty surrounding Nathan Horton (concussion-like symptoms) and the knee injury that will sideline Rich Peverley for four to six weeks, the Boston Bruins will like add a depth forward to an already potent forward group. Tim Thomas and Tuuka Rask are not going to be traded.
The Buffalo Sabres are actively trying to move Derek Roy and Brad Boyes. Pending UFA Paul Gaustad is drawing a lot of interest among the NHL as the Pittsburgh Penguins and the Vancouver Canucks are interested in his services. Overpaid veteran Jochen Hecht is off the market after he sustained his third concussion in a span of three months. The Sabres will not trade Ryan Miller during the season, but they might feel the trade market this summer.
Back in the thick of the playoff race, and following the acquisition of Mike Cammalleri and the departure of Brendan Morrison, the Calgary Flames will most likely be pretty quiet and add a depth forward in the next 72 hours as they will rather wait for their injured players to come back. Curtis Glencross who missed five weeks due to a knee injury made his return yesterday, giving the Flames an extra boost. All-Star winger Jarome Iginla will not be traded.
After re-signing rearguard Tim Gleason and forward Tuomo Ruutu to long-term contract extensions (boy did they overpay!), and trading forward Alexei Ponikarovky to the New Jersey Devils, the Carolina Hurricanes don't have much to offer other than blue liners Bryan Allen and Jaroslav Spacek. Spacek is drawing interest from the New Jersey Devils, the Chicago Blackhawks and the San Jose Sharks, among others.
The Chicago Blackhawks are looking to trade for a 2nd line center to round out their top-6 and have interest in Derek Roy and Pierre-Alexandre Parenteau, as both players are extremely gifted players that would fit very well in the team's up-tempo system. The Hawks are also looking to bolster their blue line with a veteran defenseman such as the Ducks Tony Lydman or the Canes Bryan Allen. The Hawks would also like to add a veteran goalie to the mix, but other than Nikolai Khabibulin, they are scarce this season as Evgeny Nabokov is reportedly off the market.
The Colorado Avalanche are desperately trying tu unload Paul Stastny's hefty contract of $6,600,000/year, but they are not finding any takers. The team is also dangling winger David Jones and gritty forward Daniel Winnik. The latter is drawing a lot of interest because of his affordable $950,000 contract. Impending UFA Shane O'Brien is also a good option for teams looking for a gritty and physical defenseman to round out their top six.
The Columbus Blue Jackets began their house clearing earlier this week when they unloaded underperforming center Antoine Vermette to the Phoenix Coyotes in exchange for a pair of draft picks. Then, yesterday they traded disgruntled sniper Jeff Carter to the Los Angeles Kings for defensive stud Jack Johnson and a 1st rounder. What about Rick Nash? While Nash is drawing interest from the New York Rangers, the Toronto Maple Leafs and the San Jose Sharks, I highly doubt the star winger will be traded before the deadline since the price is quite high now. He will most likely go at draft in June. As for pivot Derrick Brassard, he is not on the trade market anymore after recording ten points in his last ten games, but the Tampa Bay Lightning and the Montreal Canadiens have been sniffing around. The Blue Jackets are also trying to unload impending UFAs Samuel Pahlsson and Kristian Huselius.
The Dallas Stars, who are in the thick of the playoff race, are likely to stand pat and only make minor moves such as unloaded pending UFAs Radek Dvorak and Adam Burish. The team already traded defenseman Nicklas Grossman last to the Philadelphia Flyers in exchange for two draft picks. However, the player who's garnering the most interest is Steve Ott as the Vancouver Canucks, the Phidelphia Flyers and the Toronto Maple Leafs are kicking tires to acquire him.
The Detroit Red Wings already made their biggest move when they traded a 1st round pick to acquire blue liner Kyle Quincey from the Colorado Avalanche via the Tampa Bay Lightning. The team won't make another big move, but will most certainly add a depth forward such as Daniel Winnik and Mike Knuble. The Wings could also trade Jiri Hudler, an impending UFA, who's been on the trade market for the past two years.
Look for the next two editions of the Rumors Galore: trade deadline to be published in the next 48 hours.
Follow me on Twitter for more updates on the trade deadline and the NHL in general.


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Eight trillion microbeads enter into marine habitats every day in the United States alone. That's enough to cover over 300 tennis courts every day, according to a research paper published in September in the Environmental Science and Technology journal.
Maia McGuire of University of Florida Institute Food and Agricultural Sciences has made it her passion to spread awareness about microplastics. McGuire was awarded a Marine Debris grant from NOAA to continue her research.
"I have this great new project called Florida Microplastic Awareness Project. This was funded by a grant from NOAA's Marine Debris Project," says McGuire.
Volunteers help McGuire collect water samples along the coast and look for the presence of plastic. "Microplastics are microscopic pieces of plastic debris, generally defined as being less than 5 millimeters in size," says McGuire.
The type of microplastics that are found in everyday products such as face wash, toothpaste, deodorant and even cosmetics are called microbeads. They are made of polyethylene or polypropylene and they are contaminating the world's oceans.


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What Hollywood Boulevard looks like when COVID-19 drives the tourists away
A pedestrian passes the boarded windows of a Hollywood Boulevard business.
By Nita Lelyveld
Picture Hollywood Boulevard in the time before COVID, teeming with tourists looking down at the pink terrazzo stars on the Walk of Fame as costumed characters of all sorts, hoping to cadge tips, jostle one another to pose in their photos.
Picture it now, often eerily empty as the pandemic rages on. Ripley's Believe it or Not! is boarded up and shut down. The dinosaur on the roof wears a mask. The Hollywood Wax Museum is shut. So is Madame Tussaud's. TCL Chinese Theatre has barricaded off its famous forecourt handprints and footprints and is charging $5 a pop for a viewing, a few people at a time.
A few people is all there are most times on that part of the boulevard now.
The visitors who show up from out of town are taking a big risk to do so. And they are rare enough that if their eyes flit even for a second to those pink sidewalk stars, the few diehard characters still on hand swoop in fast, birds to birdseed.
On a recent afternoon, during a long stretch between scant opportunities, I watched two ratty Jokers sit on the steps of a mall nobody much seemed to be shopping in and lazily pass a joint back and forth and then over to a Chewbacca standing nearby.
I live near the boulevard. I keep track of it. I have watched it empty out in these pandemic months. But something caught my eye as I was driving along it a few weeks ago that seemed to me especially emblematic of this strange and unsettling time out of time.
It was right where the Hollywood Walk of Fame begins, on the west end of the boulevard at La Brea Avenue, next to the Four Ladies of Hollywood gazebo, held up by lithe, begowned statues of Dorothy Dandridge, Dolores del Rio, Anna May Wong and Mae West. Last year, someone stole Marilyn Monroe, holding down her windblown dress, from its top. She still hasn't found her way back. Now the plaque identifying Dandridge is missing too. A cigarette stub is jammed between West's silver lips.
Rochelle Begaye takes a close look at the Four Ladies of Hollywood art deco-style sculpture representing the diversity of women in Hollywood.
And in the little triangle just behind this prominent gateway to the marble stars, tucked into a stand of palms, I was struck by what looked to me like a world's end version of homesteading: an elaborate compound of outdoor living rooms and tents fenced off with found objects — the slatted sides of cribs, repurposed school banners, headboards from castaway beds, messages of protest painted on wood.
"Anarchy in the USA," read one, which seemed to fit both the place and the moment.
Here was the tourist strip just about every first-timer to the city comes to see. And yes, even in ordinary times, they're often nonplussed. The boulevard perpetually resists pressure to spiff itself up for outsiders. Its hard luck stories are often plain to see. But I kept thinking that if the usual visitors from around the world had kept arriving here in their usual numbers this year, somehow the powers that be — both civic and business — wouldn't have tolerated this encampment's existence.
I wanted to learn its story. It took me a few tries.
Several times, I stood at the fence and called out to no response as I ogled a scrawny tree just inside the perimeter festooned with Christmas ornaments and dried bougainvillea bouquets, a bird feeder hanging from one branch, an elegant Moroccan lantern with colored glass from another, a souvenir California license plate dangling from the trunk, with LOS ANGELES in yellow letters on a black background.
Rochelle Begaye in her Hollywood Boulevard camp: tents and outdoor rooms fenced off with found materials such as plywood and parts of beds.
More than once, hoping to find someone home when I returned, I parked nearby and walked the boulevard to kill time.
I spotted security guards outside some of the big-box stores but only rarely encountered the police officers often visible when crowds are present along with those who wish to make money off them, from the hawkers practically forcing CDs into their hands to the buskers and the tour-bus barkers and the pickpockets.
I saw people lying across sidewalks so deserted they weren't in anyone's way. I saw some pushing shopping carts full of their belongings past storefronts covered over with plywood, plunging their arms into sidewalk trash bins and coming up empty.
I noted that a sidewalk hawker who usually dealt in shea butter and dried sage had expanded to face masks with logos — Black Lives Matter, Biden Harris, the Lakers.
I stopped to talk to salespeople in empty souvenir shops. One told me the staff at the store where he had worked for nearly 30 years had gone down from 25 people to three. "Never have I ever seen a time like this. Never," said Pedro Consuelo of Souvenirs of Hollywood. "Very slow. Super dead. Look down the boulevard, nobody is coming."
I met a young man hawking tours of movie stars' homes in a dented open-topped van parked in front of his sidewalk stand, who said he earned nothing on the many days lately when there were no takers because he only got paid if he sold enough tickets for the operator to break even on the gas and the insurance and the driver. He told me that he lived nearby, around the corner, but I sensed from his reticence and from the dirt under his fingernails and on his clothes that it wasn't in a place with a roof.
I ran into Dale Roberts of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, as he stopped to gape at Bill Cosby's star on the boulevard. He said he had come to L.A. over Thanksgiving despite the virus risk because he had always wanted to see it. "I didn't want to leave before I saw the stars," he said.
But he and the friend he had traveled with had mostly just driven around in their rental car. "The good thing is that you can go to a big city like this now and it's not crowded anywhere," he said. "The bad thing is that unfortunately so much of it is closed."
Each time I came back to the compound in the triangle, I noticed more things that intrigued me. The initials ICU spelled out in blue duct tape on some fencing made of green plastic netting. Paintings of flowers. A tidy strip of faux grass in front of the padlocked front gate.
I was working on my last column with Times photographer Al Seib, talking to people living on Hollywood's streets about the hardships of all the indoor closures, when I brought him to the triangle and finally got lucky. We saw rustling in a tent. And out popped a friendly moon-faced woman in black-framed glasses, the right one missing a chunk of lens.
Soon Rochelle Begaye was telling her story, which was at least as surreal as the setting. She'd once come to visit Hollywood too, she said, only somehow she never left.
She had been living in this spot for three or four months, she said. She'd scavenged almost everything she'd used to build it. She had come to L.A. about four years ago, following a boyfriend. They'd camped awhile in the hills above the Hollywood Bowl, until one day they'd come back to the site they'd tried to keep hidden and found all their belongings gone.
They'd moved on to a tiny traffic island — much smaller than her current one — in the middle of a narrow Hollywood street lined with apartment buildings. She and the boyfriend had settled this spot together, she said, but he had started to abuse her by then and he left her a few days in.
It was the boyfriend, she told me, who first severed her from what had been a fairly predictable, stable life.
She'd grown up in New Mexico on the Navajo Nation and gone to college for a few years at Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, Kan. It wasn't for her though, and she'd wound up working in convenience stores. She was working at one in Harrah, Okla., four years ago, living in an apartment, driving a car she owned, when she took off to North Dakota to join the protest against the proposed Dakota Access Pipeline at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation.
She became Facebook friends, she said, with the guy who would become the boyfriend, a veteran protester. After Standing Rock, she crossed the country to camp with him near the White House.
What they were protesting was interesting. It had to do with government control of our minds. She told me about sensors we breathe in that can control our bodies and our thoughts, about how tech is "making us dumber and killing us," about how sometimes you think you're hearing your own inner voice but it's really someone else's.
She said she'd been diagnosed last year with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder and Parkinson's disease but had lost the pills she was supposed to take along the way. And anyway, they made her feel lousy.
I asked her about tents I'd seen pressed up against her fence, on the side closest to the statues. She said she didn't know the people. They'd shown up a few days earlier. She didn't like their trash or their version of art: big dollar signs scrawled in chalk on the palm trunks. (They were no joke. When I asked if I could talk to these neighbors, they told me no cash, no words.)
Begaye, 43, has no friends in Hollywood, she told me. She keeps to herself. She is out there all alone on a boulevard so lonely that some nights she feels all alone in the world.
I asked her about what looked to be a faded Virgin of Guadalupe on the cover of one of her tents. She said I was seeing the back of it. The front was on the inside so that she could see it when she needed it.
"I started painting it to make me feel better, to protect me. It's my safe space" she said. And I understood.
In this moment, in this time out of time, we all find comfort where we can, even in the wilds of pandemic Hollywood Boulevard.
Nita Lelyveld writes City Beat columns about life in Los Angeles.
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V naselju, katerega izvirno (srbsko-cirilično) ime je Црчево, živi 44 polnoletnih prebivalcev, pri čemer je njihova povprečna starost 49,3 let (45,0 pri moških in 54,3 pri ženskah). Naselje ima 15 gospodinjstev, pri čemer je povprečno število članov na gospodinjstvo 3,27.

To naselje je popolnoma srbsko (glede na rezultate popisa iz leta 2002).

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Cherry Creek School District > District News > CCHS tennis coach named High School Coach of the Year
CCHS tennis coach named High School Coach of the Year
Art Quinn, boys' tennis coach at Cherry Creek High School, has been named 2017 High School Coach of the Year by Tennis Industry Magazine.
Quinn, a former varsity tennis player, has coached the CCHS boys' tennis team for the past 12 years. In fact, he has never coached at another high school. Under Quinn's leadership, the CCHS tennis program has established a remarkable record and tradition of excellence. During Quinn's tenure, the team has won ten 5A State Championships and players have earned 78 individual or doubles state titles.
Cherry Creek, which is the largest high school in the state of Colorado with more than 3,600 students, often has as many as 225 players try out for and stay involved in the tennis team, making it one of the largest no-cut programs in the state.
"We are a challenge-match-driven team. Those who are willing to put in the time will get to play," Quinn said during an interview with Tennis Industry Magazine. "We strive for excellence and for well-rounded participants, which is a tribute to their parents and other coaches, as well."
Fritz Garger, Colorado Executive Director for the U.S. Tennis Association, told Tennis Industry Magazine that Quinn's commitment to the sport of tennis and tennis players extends far beyond Cherry Creek High School.
"It takes a lot of passion and dedication to make all the pieces work," Garger said. "In addition to running such an impressive program, Art is supportive of Colorado tennis in general and steps up time and again to help."
Quinn is one of 24 people or organizations honored as 2017 Champions of Tennis by Tennis Industry Magazine.


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Private Philanthropy and the Economics of Public Radio
Arthur C. Brooks, Syracuse University. Center for Policy ResearchFollow
public radio, allocative efficiency, cost-benefit analysis, altruism, publicly provided private goods
Public radio in the United States receives both direct and indirect government funding. Direct subsidies come in the form of lump-sum and matching grants, while indirect subsidies proceed from tax revenues foregone on deductible private donations. Each of these sources of government money impacts charitable giving to public radio. This paper estimates both of these effects, using data on a national sample of public radio stations in the United States from 1990-96. I find that public funding to stations has a positive impact on private giving, but this impact rapidly decreases as the level of government subsidies increases, ultimately becoming negative. The analysis also indicates that increases in state tax rates correspond with higher donation levels. This paper explores the implications of these and other findings for policymakers, public administrators, and nonprofit managers.
Brooks, Arthur C., "Private Philanthropy and the Economics of Public Radio" (2001). Center for Policy Research. 116.
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Millions laundered by FBI targets in Calif. Sen. Yee case
News // Crime
Henry K. Lee
April 5, 2014 Updated: April 5, 2014 4:15 p.m.
Reputed San Francisco Chinatown gangster Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Chow and his associates were making money in illegal ways and needed to hide it from federal authorities, so they funneled it into fake business accounts, according to the FBI - the classic definition of money laundering.
Money-laundering charges are at the center of the criminal case filed by federal prosecutors last month against Chow, 54, and 28 other defendants, including now-suspended state Sen. Leland Yee, D-San Francisco, and his fundraiser, former San Francisco school board President Keith Jackson.
In some cases, money laundering is easier to prove than the underlying crime that gives rise to it, said Beth Simmons, a professor of international affairs at Harvard University. "Money laundering might be sort of another angle to try to get at the consequences of illegal activity," she said.
Yee, 65, and Jackson, 49, have each been charged with conspiracy to traffic in firearms without a license and defrauding citizens of honest services. Neither has been charged with money laundering, although Jackson - in a conversation with an undercover agent - quoted Yee as saying there would be an "opportunity to launder the proceeds from the sales of future weapons," according to an FBI affidavit.
Gone straight?
Chow, meanwhile, portrayed himself as a reformed gangster who was on the straight and narrow, the affidavit said.
In a wiretapped conversation, Chow told associates "he stays out of the transactions" and that if one of his acquaintances was caught doing something illegal, "it would be bad for all of them," the affidavit said.
Chow said his defense to any criminal accusation would be that "he doesn't really know what the rest of them were doing," the affidavit said.
But federal officials say Chow knew exactly what was going on.
The affidavit that FBI Special Agent Emmanuel Pascua filed in federal court said Chow and his associates participated in money laundering with the help of an undercover agent known in court records as "UCE 4599," short for undercover employee.
Drug money
Four defendants, with the help of Chow and UCE 4599, laundered $1.5 million in drug proceeds in Georgia, New Jersey and Massachusetts from August to December, according to the FBI. Chow allegedly got a $30,000 cut.
In many instances, the FBI affidavit isn't specific about how the money was allegedly laundered. But the crime often involves "smurfing," or breaking up large amounts of money into smaller chunks to avoid arousing the suspicion of the FBI or Internal Revenue Service.
The smaller amounts of money are then deposited into legitimate bank accounts by numerous people - the smurfs.
Another laundering method is hiding the cash in legal businesses, blending the dirty money with proceeds of, say, a restaurant or casino. Money launderers can also create shell companies that exist solely to "clean" dirty money.
Hiding the source
In both cases, launderers create fake bills or invoices to make it appear as though the money coming into the business is from legitimate sources.
"You might be able to take, let's say, $50,000 and methodically put it through the proceeds of a restaurant," said Steven Gruel, a defense attorney and former federal prosecutor.
"You might even conjure up some phony bills to help support the alleged earnings from that cash. Or you might use a bank," Gruel said. "That's what they did in the '80s in Miami. A lot of the banks were used to launder millions of dollars from the cocaine distributions."
In the Chow case, according to the court affidavit, the FBI itself also supplied money for laundering through an undercover agent. The idea was to bolster the agent's credibility with the investigation's targets by saying the money came from gambling, drug sales and other crimes.
Chow and five of his associates laundered $2.3 million in "purportedly illicit funds" supplied by UCE 4599 from 2011 to 2013, Pascua wrote in the affidavit. UCE 4599 forked over a 10 percent commission to each launderer, the FBI said.
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Such cash typically comes from government seizures or a fund that authorities keep "for stinging people," said Robert Weisberg, a Stanford University law professor.
In one of many instances cited by the FBI, UCE 4599 gave $20,000 in cash to 44-year-old George Nieh of San Francisco - one of the defendants - to be laundered and $2,000 in a cash commission, the affidavit said.
Nieh, whom the FBI described as the leader of a local street gang, then allegedly wrote a personal $20,000 check, made payable to a fake business account that UCE 4599 had set up, to disguise the source of the funds.
In such stings, federal prosecutors would have to prove that although the laundered money didn't come from crimes, the defendants thought it did, Weisberg said.
Keeping track
A challenge for prosecutors is to ensure that they differentiate between ill-gotten gains and money derived legally, said Seth Chazin, a defense attorney not involved in the case.
"Often there are legitimate funds that are somehow conflated by the prosecution into allegations of money laundering when, in fact, often the funds alleged to be laundered money are, in fact, legitimate funds," Chazin said.
Attorneys for the accused could also raise entrapment as a "potential viable defense," Chazin said.
But Weisberg said he believed the undercover agents would be deemed "very credible witnesses," and that "entrapment (as a defense) really almost never works, and it's not going to work here."
Defendants with criminal histories like Chow - as opposed to those who have shown "no predisposition toward crime" - will be hard-pressed to argue that they were goaded into laundering money, Weisberg said.
"My view is that this is a case where the law is very simple and the facts may be unclear," he said. "In other words, if the government can prove the facts alleged in this affidavit, I don't see terribly complicated legal issues here."
Additional stories, including earlier reports, are online at: www.sfchronicle.com/lelandyee.
Henry K. Lee is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: hlee@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @henryklee
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Henry K. Lee has been a reporter for KTVU-TV since 2015. Prior to that he worked for the San Francisco Chronicle for more than a decade. He covers breaking news, crime, courts and aviation. He has appeared on television and radio programs to discuss high-profile cases and is the author of "Presumed Dead - A True-Life Murder Mystery," about the Hans Reiser murder case in Oakland.
He studied premed at UC Berkeley before graduating with a psychology major and was a reporter and editor at the Daily Californian student newspaper on campus.
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