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Arnold having fun with bazookas is a movie I will watch FOREVER. MY MONEY IS YOURS, GUNTHER!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROusT3QDlZ0
This is why I always preferred Arnold over Sly as Arnold has always been able to step back and realize he's kind of a dopey actor and that he can just have fun with what he does unlike Stallone who still takes himself way too seriously. This looks really fun and with the other people involved should be pretty funny.
Sean Astin. Tom Arnold. Jake Busey. Giant Ants.
anyone see the villainess?
I saw that Villainess trailer a little while ago and I REALLY want to see it. I don't know why, but I'm more excited for it than any Asian actioner since The Raid II. I hope it's good.
And not a trailer, but when HDTGM inevitably does another Stephen King adaptation, we as a board should play this together:
If only Rose Red was a theatrical movie rather than a mini-series we'd all get a Bingo in the first half hour.
What other ninjas are June's kind of ninjas? Not ninja turtles. Not ninja terminators. Not surf ninjas (question mark because she wasn't in that episode)?
It's missing Derry. NOW I DON'T WANT TO PLAY!
New Lara Croft. Was there a lot of demand for this? I'm confused.
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They're trying to capitalize on the success of the rebooted video game franchise. Here's a side-by-side comparison of the trailer and footage from the 2013 game:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gcGxLwC29I
Edited to add: The game reboot was intended to divorce Lara Croft from her grossly objectified/male gaze-y history and, to that end, they hired Rhianna (daughter of Terry) Pratchett as lead writer of the series. Their attempts were not altogether successful. In a post-Force Awakens, post-Jessica Jones, post-Wonder Woman world, I imagine studios are scrambling to get on the Strong Female Protagonist hype train.
I didn't even realize there was a reboot of the game. This seems pretty much shot-for-shot remake of a video game. That... doesn't seem like a good idea? It didn't even work with Watchmen, which is a revered comic book. (If out dated)
Oh good attempted rape. I love attempted rape. Very excited to not watch this movie.
Yeah the last two Croft games have been very well received by critics and players, mainly because they became more survival games in an open environment rather than the linear shooter/platform that they were. I kinda understand why they are pulling almost completely from the game as that really hasn't been done in a game adaptation since the first Mortal Kombat, so it seems the studio is seeing if a direct adaptation will fare better than an original story set in an established universe. I do like the choice of Vikander as Croft as Angelina Jolie just seemed to be picked as A-list eye candy for the first two films.
On the TV side of things, I cannot wait to see Punisher, though I don't know why Netflix is being secretive with the release date, which will most likely be around Veteran's Day in order to allow viewers to not have to pick between it and Stranger Things.
Didn't the original series push Lara Croft as eye candy anyway. I avoided them at the time but that's the sense I got from friends who played them (that may have been purely teenage boys telling me how hot she was).
The new series, based on the first game, seems like it's purposefully downplaying Lara Croft as sex object even if she looks like objectively beautiful Alicia Vikander. I'm coincidentally starting the second one tomorrow and I hope that continues in that game as well.
The first one was unintentionally eye candy as it was a coding error on the part of the programmers that caused the chest to be a bit bigger by a few pixels, but the gameplay was also really solid and bolstered the game. Yet once she was marked a sex symbol, they shifted focus towards that for the next couple games. When the publisher tried to steer back into games that focused on good gameplay, they were mediocre at best, up until this most recent couple which completely overhauled the character and gameplay.
Fister and Cam Bert, you're going to watch this, right?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dt__kig8PVU
That's interesting about the glitch. I didn't know that.
Yeah if I remember right they either didn't catch it because they were rushing to meet the release date or by the time they did the game was already shipped but was getting great reviews nonetheless. It was after that where the character went from being a C cup to a full on DD that was featured in every bit of marketing. I am honestly amazed though that the series never went full on "DOA Beach Volleyball" where the characters had bustlines that made anime characters blush and would bounce around even when the characters were standing still.
This looks awesome! So excited
EvRobert 1684
http://youtu.be/bu9e410C__I
I was NOT expecting that trailer, I'll be honest.
Was not expecting it to come off as a horror film, very interesting move for the X-Men universe.
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Location: Cascadia
I'm totally stoked for that New Mutants movie, it was one of my favorite comics when I was a kid. It looks like they have most of the classic characters, with the notable exception of Doug and Warlock (who is probably too weird and silly to appear in this). Looks like Arya Stark is playing the Scottish werewolf, and that lady from Split is Colossus' little sister.
New Mutants is notable in that it was killed by Rob Liefeld -- he took it over as artist and writer, and within a year had replaced it with his own shitty creation, X-Force. This movie looks like it's adapting an old arc though, which pleases me.
To be fair, X-Force is good, without Liefeld's shittiness. Everything since Remender's run in '14 has been fantastic.
You can see Paul in the background.


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Thank you

A: Solution: I missed
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Thycotic rounds out 2019 with 'banner year' for cloud roadmap
Privileged access management (PAM) solutions provider Thycotic has published key highlights from 2019 for its work in cloud-based PAM.
The company, which opened a new cloud data centre in Singapore last year, increased its data centre count to four globally. The data centres are now in Germany, the United States, South East Asia, and Australia. Thycotic says it aims to open more data centres in 2020.
Thycotic added new customers to its cloud PAM solution roster in 2019, one of which included DXC Technology.
Thycotic vice president of product management Jai Dargan says,
"Migration of workloads to public cloud infrastructures, like AWS and Azure, has greatly increased the enterprise attack surface. We have been committed to delivering best-in-class PAM capabilities as SaaS, to ensure ROI through instant deployment, while extending our PAM controls to IaaS."
"2019 was a banner year for our cloud roadmap -- and we will be delivering several new advanced solutions in the coming months."
According to Thycotic, more than 90% of the world's data is stored in the cloud. Thus, the adoption of a cloud-based PAM solution is now more important than ever.
Thycotic's additional 2019 cloud-based accomplishments, include:
• Achieved a 405% YOY increase in cloud bookings in 2019
• Added upwards of 350 new PAM cloud customers in 2019, now accounting for more than 650 cloud customers overall
• 50% year-over-year sales growth in 2019
The company also released three new products in 2019. They include:
• Account Lifecycle Manager: Controls service accounts with end-to-end governance, from discovery and provisioning through decommissioning
• DevOps Secrets Vault: Centrally manages passwords used to access applications and services without causing friction in the development process
• Connection Manager: Manages multiple remote sessions for both Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) and SSH in a unified environment
"2019 was a banner year for Thycotic in terms of financial growth, but more importantly, in customer success and product innovation," says Thycotic president and CEO James Legg.
"We are very proud of our ability to satisfy customers which all stems from the best PAM products available on the market and a team of cybersecurity professionals dedicated to customer success. Enterprise-class customers are choosing Thycotic and many are switching from legacy incumbents because they recognise our products do a superior job of securing their data, infrastructure and users."
Thycotic was also named as Deloitte Technology Fast 500 List's No. 360 organisation and No. 1541 in the Inc. 5000 Fastest Growing Companies List.
ManageEngine recognised by Forrester for PIM and Chatbots
Ingram Micro becomes Thycotic's primary distributor in Singapore
Ping Identity acquires Symphonic Software
Average person has 100 passwords - study
Thycotic Privileged Access Management / PAM Passwords Deloitte Fast 500

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Russia Is Not A Different Country, It's A Different Planet!
Russia has always been considered a bizarro-world that functions completely out of this Earth. Filled with people who just don't care, it's the perfect place to live your life!
This is an accumulation of hilariously awkward photographs straight from Russia with love! And if it's an insight into how individuals live on the opposite side of the world, then you're going to discover that Russian individuals are purely crazy!
Regardless of whether it's the marginal over the top love for swords and firearms or the exemplary Russian relationship with tanks and vodka, these humorous pictures are brimming with strange social trends.
Presently, all of it may appear to be completely bizarre to Americans or others outside the Motherland, however, on the off chance that you were in a nation as cold as Russia, perhaps you'd do insane things to take a break as well! See for yourself:
1. Only in Russia!
Source: Reddit
2. #Perfectcouple goals!
Source: Imgur
3. Dare we say something?
Source: Acidcow
4. Time to find a new planet
5. Women, beware!
6. Just overgrown kids at work!
7. Thug life
8. When you're hot and cold at the same time!
9. Spiderman's overrated
10. But why?
11. Party is where the heart is!
12. Nuthead!
13. The welcome-home gift we all deserve
14. Winning at window shopping!
15. *Pokerface
16. Like father, like son!
17. That poise tho
18. BFFs
19. True love
20. Tech-savvy


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Alibaba's Ant Financial has formed a joint venture with telecoms outfit CK Hutchison to take over the running of the Chinese conglomerate's AlipayHK mobile wallet in Hong Kong. Dedicated to local-currency payments in Hong Kong, AlipayHK attracted over 100,000 active users in the first two weeks after its launch last May. The mobile app is now accepted in over 4000 outlets in Hong Kong.


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A tetratonic scale is a  musical scale or mode with four notes per octave. This is in contrast to a heptatonic (seven-note) scale such as the major scale and minor scale, or a dodecatonic (chromatic 12-note) scale, both common in modern Western music. Tetratonic scales are not common in modern art music, and are generally associated with prehistoric music.

Distribution

Native American music

Tetratonic scales were common among the Plains Indians, though less common than the pentatonic scale. Amongst the Arapaho, Blackfoot, Crow, Omaha, Kiowa, Pawnee, and Sioux, as well as some Plateau tribes, especially the Flathead, the tetratonic and pentatonic scales used are anhemitonic (that is, they do not include semitones). Tetratonic scales have also been noted among the music of the Creek Indians, and in the Great Basin region among the Washo, Ute, Paiute, and Shoshone. In the Southwest, the Navajo people also largely used the pentatonic and tetratonic, occasionally also tritonic scales.

Inuit
Tetratonic music was known among the Inuit, including the Greenlandic peoples.

Maori
A 1969 study by ethnomusicologist Mervyn McLean noted that tetratonic scales were the second-most common type among the Maori tribes surveyed, accounting for 31% of scales used. The most common were tritonic (3-note) scales at 47%, while the third-most was ditonic (two-note) scales at 17%.

Oceania
Tetratonic music was noted as common in Polynesia and Melanesia. On Guadalcanal in particular, anhemitonic pentatonic and tetratonic scales are the predominant types, although the minor second does nevertheless occasionally appear as a melodic interval. The most often used melodic intervals, however, are the major second, minor third, perfect fourth, perfect fifth, and octave.

Africa
The main instrument in the Lobi area of Ghana is the xylophone, some of which are tuned to a tetratonic scale. In eastern Uganda, the Gwere use for their six-string harp (called tongoli) a tetratonic scale in which all the intervals are nearly equal, which to Western ears sounds like a chain of minor thirds.

In South Africa, the San use a tetratonic scale approaching 5 equal temperament, but lacking the second step.

India
Tetratonic, as well as tritonic scales, were commonly used by the tribal peoples of India, such as the Juang and Bhuyan of Orissa state.

Russia
The music of the Volga-Finnic Cheremis (Mari people) of central Russia was primarily pentatonic, but used tetratonic scales 20% of the time.

Western Europe
The second-earliest scales of Scandinavian, German, English, and Scottish folk music are believed to have been pentatonic, themselves developed from an earlier tetratonic scale. Tetratonic scales, along with pentatonic scales, account for 54% of songs in the traditional joik repertoire of the European Arctic Sami people, where the singing range extends to a tenth or eleventh.

The predominant style of traditional music from the Peloponnese region of Greece is a mixture of Christian, Albanian, and Vlach. It employs tetratonic, pentachordal, and pentatonic scales, around the notes of which microtonal ornamentation (stolidia/psevtikes) occurs.

Art music

A rare example of an art-music composition based entirely on a tetratonic scale is the early minimalist work Reed Phase (1966), by Steve Reich, which is based entirely on a single five-note cell, or "basic unit", repeated continually throughout the entire work. Because the note A occurs twice in this pattern, there are only four pitches in all.

References

Further reading
 Bartha, Dénes. 1963. "Le développement de la résonance dans les musiques évoluées: Occident au XXe siècle—La musique de Bartók". In La résonance dans les échelles musicales, edited by Édith Weber, 279–90. Colloques Internationaux du CNRS 516. Paris: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.
 Griffiths, Paul. 2001. "Dusapin, Pascal". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell. London: Macmillan Publishers.
 Ho, Allan B. 2001. "Lee, Dai-Keong". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell. London: Macmillan Publishers.

 Ramón y Rivera, Luis Felipe. 1969. "Formaciones Escalísticas en la Etnomúsica Latinoamericana". Yearbook of the International Folk Music Council 1:200–25.
 Roberts, Shawn M. 2010. "Aztec Musical Styles in Carlos Chávez's Xochipilli: An Imagined Aztec Music and Lou Harrison's The Song of Quetzalcóatl: A Parallel and Comparative Study". DMA thesis. Morgantown: West Virginia University.
 Ulveling, Paul. 2001. "Cigrang, Edmond". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell. London: Macmillan Publishers.

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In this article, we'll answer some of the questions you may have pertaining to court 38-2-02 in Montgomery County.
Why Did I Get Summoned To The Montgomery County 38-2-02 Magisterial District Court?
Much like the rest of Montgomery County's magisterial district courts, 38-2-02 is a court of limited jurisdiction. It handles landlord-tenant disputes, small civil actions, traffic cases, and certain criminal matters, including preliminary hearings and arraignments. Generally, people who receive a court summons to this magisterial court likely have a case that involves at least one of these matters.
If you're still unsure about why you've received a summons, your best bet is to contact a legal professional immediately (ideally, before attending court). An attorney can take a thorough look at your summons, and give you an explanation to any questions you may have about your charges, your court appearance, and the possibility of a complete mistake. An attorney can, of course, also represent you. Joseph D. Lento has successfully taken on the role as representation for many people who have acquired traffic tickets and other criminal charges.
Remember, since preliminary hearings and arraignments are held at this court and others like it, you could be summoned to this court after acquiring misdemeanor or felony criminal charges. However, your case will likely advance to the Montgomery Court of Common Pleas.
Magisterial district court 38-2-02 is located at 80 H Gravel Pike in Suite 100 in Red Hill, Pennsylvania. Red Hill is a lakeshore lowlands suburbia that's northwest of Philadelphia in the Delaware River Valley watershed. Because there are various magisterial district courts in Montgomery County, be sure to double check your paperwork to make sure you attend the right court.
Magisterial District Judge Maureen C. Coggins presides over court 38-2-02. This means that you'll appear before her on your court date.


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The film adaptation of Tóibín's 2009 novel Brooklyn has been nominated for three Academy Awards.
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There have been some pretty major sightings at Harvard this year.
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You are at:Home»News»Lehigh invests $28 million in fossil fuels
Lehigh invests $28 million in fossil fuels
By Jordan Wolman — Read time: 22 minutes; Published November 18, 2019, 1:39 pm News
Three years ago, members of Lehigh's Green Action club demonstrated on the university's front lawn, demanding the university divest any portion of its endowment from fossil fuel companies.
The group of students passionately chanted, holding signs that read, "Divest Now" and "Climate Justice."
Eventually, members of the club submitted an 18-page report to the board of trustees calling on the university to divest from fossil fuel companies. Divestment is the opposite of investment, or the removal of capital from stocks, funds and bonds. The board agreed to discuss the issue at its March 1, 2018, meeting, as reported by The Brown and White.
Today, the university invests 2 percent of its $1.4 billion endowment, or $28 million, in fossil fuels, said Lori Friedman, Lehigh's media relations director. Roughly 2 percent is also invested in renewable energy.
Fossil fuels, including coal, oil and natural gas, emit greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide when burned for human activity, which is contributing to a warming of the planet and other impacts associated with climate change.
Friedman said while the endowment is not directly invested in individual companies, investments are made through private investment managers, as chosen by the Investment Office and the board's investment subcommittee.
"Investment decisions are primarily driven by the principal financial objective of the investment program, which is to preserve and, if possible, enhance the real purchasing power of the endowment principal in order to ensure the University's financial future," Friedman said in an email.
Friedman said maximizing the endowment's earnings is critical to funding university cornerstones such as research and financial aid.
Susan Cheng, '21, the president of Lehigh's Green Action club, said she feels "powerless" after like-minded students tried and failed to get the board of trustees to divest.
"They basically said it wasn't within their power to decide where this money was going because they paid an outside company to decide where to put this money. And I think it's absolutely incorrect," Cheng said. "As a (Division I school) that has the money, you have absolute control over how you're investing this money, and so I think it's just an excuse for them to say, 'We're not going to divest because we have no control over it.'"
Kristin Agatone, Lehigh's chief investment officer, referred to Friedman for comment for this article. President John Simon and Pat Johnson, Lehigh's vice president of Finance and Administration, also did not comment. Two members of the board of trustees investment subcommittee did not respond for comment. Jennifer Gonzalez, '08 '09G, a former board of trustee member and the current chief sustainability officer for the city of Hoboken, New Jersey, also declined comment.
Katharine Targett Gross, Lehigh's sustainability officer, maintains the university is dedicated to sustainability, citing its Campus Sustainability Plan 2020 and commitments from top leaders like Simon.
Still, the issue of the university's investments appears in public sustainability reports the school has filled out for each of the past five years.
The STARS report
The Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) administers the Sustainability Tracking, Assessment and Rating System (STARS). The STARS report, which was first released for public use in 2009, comprehensively scores a university on five broad categories to holistically determine how committed that institution is to sustainable practices.
The five categories are academics, engagement, operations, planning and administration, and innovation and leadership. Each category has a number of sub-categories, each with a certain number of points that can be awarded. The entire report consists of about 200 possible points.
But in none of Lehigh's past five reports since 2015 has the university filled out the "investment and finance" sub-category. Lehigh has scored a zero out of seven for the investment section each year since 2017. Because STARS reports expire after a certain time period, the university's scores for the first two reports, in 2015 and 2016, are no longer viewable, though the underlying data is still available.
One question in the investment section, for example, reads: "Does the institution wish to pursue Option 1 (positive sustainability investment)?" In Lehigh's most recent 2019 report, the university answered, "No." Another question, which Lehigh also answered "No," reads: "Does the institution have a formally established and active committee on investor responsibility (CIR) that makes recommendations to fund decision-makers on socially and environmentally responsible investment opportunities across asset classes?"
STARS rates universities and awards bronze, silver, gold and platinum ratings to schools based on their performance. Lehigh was awarded silver. Forty-two percent of the 338 rated institutions have received a silver award, according to the STARS website.
Targett Gross referred to the STARS report as "the gold standard for colleges and universities to report how they're doing in terms of their sustainability performance." She said filling out the report is a collaborative effort that requires data and information from more than 30 departments across campus, and the Investment Office is the department tasked with its investment section of the report.
"(Divestment) is a very nuanced topic and there's a lot of different pieces involved in it," she said. "It's an issue that is multifaceted and understanding all the pieces of the puzzle will be essential in any changes that would happen."
Lehigh isn't an outlier
Schools across the world have shown hesitancy to provide transparency through the STARS report on responsible investing. Of the 338 institutions worldwide that have received a STARS rating, the average institution scores about a 1.12 out of seven possible points in the investment sub-category — the second lowest sub-category average by percentage out of the approximately 20 sub-categories included in the report.
Like Lehigh, almost 49 percent of all rated institutions scored a zero out of seven on the investment sub-category. That number rises to almost 65 percent in the calculation for institutions that scored one point or less out of seven in the investment sub-category.
Julian Dautremont, the director of programs for AASHE, said the organization's main goal is to function as a professional organization in which member institutions and all of the stakeholders in higher education can learn from one another in terms of how to improve sustainability on their campuses. He said the STARS report promotes transparency and provides a common language for benchmarks and metrics in sustainability in a way that "gives institutions something to strive for."
"Historically, investments have been managed primarily to generate returns that can then be invested in the institution," Dautremont said. "In that context, it's not all that unusual for an institution to decide not to answer those questions. At the same time, leaving those questions blank would seem to suggest that responsible investment isn't a major area of focus for that institution."
The Brown and White reached out to more than a dozen institutions that have filled out the STARS report to learn about how issues of sustainability and investment look elsewhere. The institutions contacted were mostly private, middle-size and in the Northeast for more direct comparison to Lehigh.
Derek Martin, the sustainability coordinator at Susquehanna University, said his school's administration has been hesitant to have conversations related to the divestment movement. STARS rates Susquehanna as a bronze institution.
"Our (STARS report) is also blank for the investment category as well — that was also something our university did not want to approach whatsoever," Martin said. "Those conversations haven't really happened on campus…"
Martin said one reason the school did not collect data on the investment section is because of the amount of time and work necessary to approach that part. He expects to begin the conversation about the benefits of divestment with the campus community in 2020, though he added that "it is not something that will happen overnight."
At George Washington University, Kimberly Williams '13, of the university's Office of Sustainability discussed how the school, now rated gold by STARS, was deemed one of the nation's five schools that failed in sustainability by the Sierra Club a decade ago. She said the divestment movement rallied student activists together at George Washington to protest the board of trustees' financial decisions. The GW Hatchet reported that in 2015, 72 percent of students voted "in favor of removing fossil fuel companies from the university's investment portfolio."
"(George Washington University's) position has been not to divest, and so a couple of the student leaders developed a proposal for a sustainable investment fund, so they negotiated and worked with the university to come to an agreement to take a $2 million carve-out of the endowment and put that in an environmental social governance fund. The money is invested in funds that follow a set of sustainable criteria," Williams said. "That was a pretty big win for the students and a really thoughtful way for them to continue the conversation about the impact the university makes through its endowment… it's a testament to how students are really the fuel behind what sustainability progress we've made in the past…"
Jack Byrne, the 14-year director of Middlebury College's Office of Sustainability Integration, recently rolled out his institution's Energy 2028 plan. The plan, according to The Middlebury Campus and Byrne, is a result of a decade-long process of student activism that culminated in the college's commitment to fully divest from its $53.5 million investment in fossil fuels by 2034. The plan gradually phases out the college's fossil fuel investments, with a 25 percent reduction planned for 2022 and 50 percent by 2028.
Byrne said the college's board of trustees initially rejected a divestment proposal in 2013. But after improvements to the school's ability to track its investments, a continued student campaign and the board's eagerness to tackle the next sustainability challenge after the school's achievement of carbon neutrality in 2016, the board was ready to take action on divestment.
"This process to getting to divestment was a very collaborative and transparent process. We had two trustees and our VP of finance as well as myself and some others as a committee to working with the divest students over a nine-month period to understand what the students wanted and for them to understand how the endowment works and what will be realistic and possible versus really impossible and not feasible to do," Byrne said. "Everyone was willing to stay at the table and talk."
The divest movement and Lehigh's commitment to sustainability
Both Byrne and Martin noted the tide has changed from divestment simply being a "moral" question to a question of economics. Byrne said over the last six years, the portion of Middlebury's endowment invested in fossil fuels returned about a 5 percent annual return, compared to a 14 percent return for the sustainability-related investments.
One study by Morgan Stanley Capital International, conducted between 2010 and 2017, tracked two different portfolios — one that included companies who owned fossil fuel reserves and one that excluded those companies. The study found the fossil-free portfolio outperformed the fossil-inclusive portfolio.
The global divestment campaign now reports $11.54 trillion have been divested worldwide, with over $1.7 trillion coming from educational institutions. Institutions like Georgetown University, Johns Hopkins University and Syracuse University have divested from fossil fuels. The entire University of California system recently vowed to divest its $150 billion in fossil fuel assets because of the portfolio's "financial risk."
On campus, Cheng said she feels the university is going in the "opposite direction" of environmental stewardship, noting the school's recent decision to eliminate the sustainable development minor program.
Cheng said the school's refusal to provide transparency on its investments, specifically through the STARS reports, is a "sign saying that (its) guilty of immoral investments."
The issue has caught the eye of Don Morris, an associate professor in earth and environmental sciences.
"I think it's really important for Lehigh to make a moral statement that they are no longer going to be supporting these industries that are degrading the environment," he said.
Targett Gross, though, said the university "absolutely" understands the importance of sustainability and has gotten support from the top of the institution's leadership.
"Our university plays an active and important role in the search for solutions to the problems of climate change," reads a statement from Simon. "I'm confident that together we can build a more sustainable Lehigh—and positively influence the sustainability of our wider world."
But Cheng isn't so easily convinced of the school's commitments, and is still holding out for change when it comes to divestment.
"I honestly think (the board is) investing (its) money in a dying industry, and I would tell (it) that (its) very absorbed in these short term benefits at the moment, and (the members) really need to get their head out of that and look at the long term instead," she said. "The amount of fossil fuel, coal, it's so limited, you will not have enough to last forever on this source. By starting to invest into renewable energy, there's so much more potential in that area… All I see is a dead end in the future for them."
This report was compiled by The Brown and White's Investigative Team.
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LUEngineer on November 18, 2019 2:06 pm
The planet is not sustainable without fossil fuels so get off your high horse & recognize that you have no say in how the university elects to build its endowment fund.
Recognize that balance is important in life & these Sustainability zealots are "unbalanced "!
Amy Charles '89 on November 22, 2019 11:19 am
"The planet is not sustainable without fossil fuels —"
Gen Z, he's all yours.
Robert F Davenport Jr on November 18, 2019 2:49 pm
"At the same time, leaving those questions blank would seem to suggest that responsible investment isn't a major area of focus for that institution." My spin detector is flashing. 9 of 10 would say blank means you don't want the answers to be seen.
Susan Cheng, '21, states: "I honestly think (the board is) investing (its) money in a dying industry, and I would tell (it) that (its) very absorbed in these short term benefits at the moment, and (the members) really need to get their head out of that and look at the long term instead," she said. "The amount of fossil fuel, coal, it's so limited, you will not have enough to last forever on this source. By starting to invest into renewable energy, there's so much more potential in that area… All I see is a dead end in the future for them." Lori Friedman, Lehigh's media relations director states: "Today, the university invests 2 percent of its $1.4 billion endowment, or $28 million, in fossil fuels" Apparently from the article: "Roughly 2 percent is also invested in renewable energy."
No mention of anthracite coal which is local and relatively clean and probably one of Asa Packers favorite things.
Amy Charles '89 on November 24, 2019 5:13 pm
There is no coal that is relatively clean. The conversation isn't about particulate matter and sulfuric acid. Asa has the luxury of being dead and living 20-year-olds don't have much sense of humor about what the climate will be like here 40 years from now. Please turn off Fox and do your homework.
'82 Alumni on November 18, 2019 3:08 pm
Divesting does not stop the use of fossil fuels. If you want to stop the use of fossil fuels stop using vehicles the use fossil fuels, throw away your cell phone and computer, turn your thermostat to 50 degrees in winter and use candles.
I'm sorry, are you talking to me?
It's 64F in here, 60F at night, with new insulation happening next month and the natural-gas heat being transitioned to electric/renewable zone heating. The phone and computer run on renewably-generated electricity and are old. Gasoline use is restricted to 75 gallons per year. Light bulbs are 4-9W LEDs and are, again, run on mostly-renewable-energy-generated electricity. Our util is on track to produce at 100% renewable by 2030.
This is not difficult.
Divestiture, despite the harrumphing of people like '82 Alumni (who's plural, I guess), works. It worked in the mid-80s in South Africa despite the harrumphing of '62 LU alumni (actually plural).
CSM on November 21, 2019 11:51 am
I love how people (Ms. Cheng) who do not contribute to the pot dictate how it is to be used. It's just more faux outrage from indoctrinated leftist ideologues.
If they're indoctrinated ideologues the outrage is probably real. I think you meant "It's just more faux outrage from the rented mob on Soros's payroll."
You can't mix and match like that, baby.
The Brown and White Editors and contributors do not dictate how Lehigh University funds are used because it is the Board and Administration that has that responsibility.
I believe on the whole the student body reflects the attitude of the country with some natural rebelliousness added to it.
I don't see "faux outrage from indoctrinated leftist ideologues" as an accurate description of Ms. Cheng.
"Susan Cheng, '21, the president of Lehigh's Green Action club, said she feels "powerless" after like-minded students tried and failed to get the board of trustees to divest." She is correct, she is powerless. As many students before her, she will graduate, pursue her Green Action causes or not and accumulate more power to accomplish change.
Hold the phone. What exactly is Lehigh doing with a $1.4B endowment? Why are you sitting on $1.4B AND charging $70K US dollarinos a year?
$1.4B at 6% simple is $84M, which, at 7K students, is $12K per student. Lehigh's operating budget cannot be much more than $200M, or about $28K per student.
$28K – $12K = $16K. Not $70K.
What is Lehigh planning to buy with all this money?
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Creating a European Champion in Learning
We're an ambitious company and we are working on building a European Champion in Learning.
Last week we held our annual Capital Markets Day event in Helsinki – which is a good chance for us to share our plans with the investment community. It was a positive day. The team was in good spirits and there were lots of great questions from the participants.
I talked about our approach to building a European Champion. Check out the video of the session here.
Our starting point is strong: we serve 10m pupils and 1m teachers in some of the world's best and most advanced education systems. We're a front runner on the digital transformation and have a strong financial performance and track record. We have a solid plan and believe we can add even more value for our customers in the future.
We have a three pillar strategy to build this European Champion:
Win in local markets, by serving our customers well
Work together across borders to create one integrated company
Make selective acquisitions in current and new learning markets
We're really excited about the opportunities for the business and our team is going for it!
I'm interested to hear your views and if you see opportunities that you think we should be developing too.
This entry was posted in Education, Learning, Sanoma, Sanoma Learning and tagged Belgium, Education, Europe, Finland, Learning, Malmberg, Nowa Era, Poland, Sanoma, Sanoma Learning, Sanoma Pro, Sanoma Utbildning, Sweden, The Netherlands, Van In on 10/06/2018 by johnrichardmartin.
Winning Spirit of Nowa Era at 25
MD of Nowa Era Magda Walczak inspiring the team at the event
Last week we celebrated the 25th anniversary of Nowa Era. It was really fantastic to be there together with the team, especially in such an exceptional year!
Past to Present
25 years ago it would have been almost impossible to imagine the success that Nowa Era has become today. I wonder in those early days whether Mariusz and Magda even dreamed
We would become the market leader
Serving nearly every school in the country in some way
With such an outstanding quality of offering.
Present to Future
If you think what the team has achieved in the last 25 years – just imagine the next 25!
The key to the success of Nowa Era is our people
Who are doing extremely important work in enabling high quality education
In talented and hard-working teams
And striving to do it to the very best of their ability.
Spirit of Nowa Era
I call this the "winning spirit of Nowa Era". I believe it will help us to make the next 25 years even more successful than the first 25.
With respect and appreciation
With respect and appreciation I would like to thank the teams for their commitment and outstanding achievements. We are extremely proud of you.
This entry was posted in Education, Leadership, Learning, Nowa Era, Poland, Sanoma Learning, Warsaw and tagged Education, Learning, Nowa Era, Poland, Sanoma Learning, Warsaw, Winning on 27/11/2017 by johnrichardmartin.
The Global Search for Education: Just Imagine
"There's a real chance that more or less all schoolchildren everywhere will have access to mobile devices by 2050 and will be allowed to use those devices for learning. Imagine the profound impact on our people and planet when that generation gets access to mobile learning across the globe." — John Martin
Check out my interview with leading education blogger and author C.M. Rubin, published in the Huffington Post earlier this week. I've re-posted it below:
Preparing our students for a new world of Innovation is a theme we cover consistently in The Global Search for Education series. We invited John Martin, CEO of Sanoma Learning, to share his vision for learning in the future.
Sanoma Learning has major markets in Belgium, Finland, the Netherlands, Poland and Sweden, where the company is fast replacing the traditional textbook model by developing innovative, captivating media in multiple platforms that can be individualized to meet the demands of specific educational systems. Sanoma has been dedicated to education since 1889, when it established the newspaper Päivälehti in Finland. Today it is carrying this commitment in leaping bounds into the future. Martin believes that while the teacher remains "the killer app," edtech can personalize learning pathways for pupils and engage them in new ways, helping to develop the talents of each child. In my interview with John that follows, he shares his broad insights into how we can work towards environmental sustainability, global inclusivity, and intelligent technological adaptation in future classrooms.
How will the school of the future be more environmentally conscious?
I imagine myself as a biology teacher in a school where we have introduced "phenomenon-based learning", inspired by the world renowned Finnish education system. I'm coaching a course on climate change and teams in my class are working out how to reduce the carbon footprint of the school. I'm sure they will find new ideas and expect this way of learning will have a profound effect on their behaviour too. An earlier class encouraged us to embrace the Internet of Things in helping to limit our environmental impact. Through this network of "connected things" at school, we have reduced our use of energy, water and food, and optimized the travelling. By changing our behaviour and embracing technology we are making a difference.
"By automating workflows and giving insights, technology will super-charge the teacher as the killer app in education. As the digital infrastructure of schools matures, usability will improve too." — John Martin
How will the school of the future be more globally inclusive?
I expect that changes in demography, improved access to mobile technology and new norms in the classroom will open up the world of learning. Today, access to mobile learning is limited in three dimensions: to children in richer communities, in rich countries, and in schools where digital learning is encouraged. Consider the world in 2050 where the number of under 15 year olds will be roughly as follows: 70 million in the USA, 90 million in South America, 110 million in Europe, 200 million in China, 300 million in India and 700 million in Sub-Saharan Africa. There's a real chance that more or less all schoolchildren everywhere will have access to mobile devices by 2050 and will be allowed to use those devices for learning. Imagine the profound impact on our people and planet when that generation gets access to mobile learning across the globe. Is there a more powerful instrument for reducing poverty and inequality, and laying the basis for sustained economic growth and sound governance than this?
How will technology be integrated into the curriculum and how will the school handle the integration of continual advancements in technology?
Technology will be seamlessly integrated into the curriculum and will enable ever improving learning impact. Through personalization, technology will help each individual pupil to achieve their best learning potential. And by automating workflows and giving insights, technology will super-charge the teacher as the killer app in education. As the digital infrastructure of schools matures, usability will improve too. Teachers will be better skilled and more confident than today in deploying technology and will be supported by more advanced ICT departments.
What will be left of traditional craft work and writing?
Partly as a reaction to all things virtual, the "maker" culture will flourish, with pupils and teachers embracing learning-by-doing. Unfortunately, handwriting might eventually become more or less out of fashion, except as an art form. But expression through words will be as essential as ever.
"Handwriting might eventually become more or less out of fashion, except as an art form. But expression through words will be as essential as ever." — John Martin
Given the new trends of museums and corporate architecture integrating technology and media into their physical space and infrastructure, will schools evolve in a similar way?
I think the integration of technology with the pupil rather than the building is a more interesting development. With mobile devices and wearable technologies, new "Strava's of learning" will help pupils to unlock their potential. Regarding the physical spaces in schools, I imagine it won't be very long before screens and 3D printers are ubiquitously available in rich economies.
Given the efficiency of the Internet and home learning, how much time will students be needed in school?
The institution of the school is an important but arguably somewhat weak intervention in the holistic development of our children – after all, in most Western countries, about 80% of their time is spent outside the school. However, schools do offer scale benefits for learning, especially with regard to access to great teachers, learning resources, and to other pupils. Not to forget the added economic benefit of enabling parents to participate in the workforce. In some ways I wonder if a better question might be how we could more effectively look holistically at the learning and welfare of each pupil, rather than how many hours they should go to school?
How important will the presence of physical teachers be?
I believe the teacher is the killer app in education. A great teacher is like a great coach who can help to unlock the potential of each child. Generally, I think it's best to physically include a teacher in the journey of learning. I don't think this always has to be in the form of one teacher with 25 pupils; varying the group size and role of the teacher, depending on the situation, is likely to become more common in the future. Some of the tasks of a teacher will probably be made more efficient or even substituted by technology. And there are situations, for example, in case of a shortage of teachers or lack of access to a school, health matters or a wish to learn independently, where a virtual approach would make good sense.
"With mobile devices and wearable technologies, new 'Strava's of learning' will help pupils to unlock their potential." — John Martin
Will technology advancement lead to further personalization of education to individual students or will it also increase the techno-bureaucratic need for standardization?
Technology will surely enable the personalization of learning and I would expect that this will result in improved learning outcomes, better engaged pupils and a more efficient school. Whether or not this leads to more bureaucracy and standardization is up to the policymakers. Technology is in itself neither good nor bad but will serve the requirements of the market.
Will we teach students specific "subjects" in traditional classrooms like we have today or will classes be more about integrated/hybrid learning?
I expect the industrial model of education will be re-imagined and re-designed for the post-industrial, knowledge era. It's a personal view on the future, but I wonder if we will move in the direction of a "T-model" in the next generation. In the vertical of the "T," each child develops expertise on key "subjects," but in a much more personalized way than at present – for example, also including adaptive and peer-to-peer learning. And in the horizontal of the "T", other skills such as collaboration, communication and leadership are learned, maybe in the form of "phenomenon-based learning" programs such as those recently introduced in Finland.
Faced with increasing time spent on digital devices, how can we teach more practical skills, including coping with stress levels and interpersonal conflict?
It was hard to develop "life skills" from a book and the same holds true with devices. The thing about skills is that they generally improve with practice, especially when supported by coaching. So I think it's a matter of prioritization: don't over-do the screen time and make sure life skills are on the agenda.
C. M. Rubin and John Martin
(All Photos are courtesy of Sanoma)
Join me and globally renowned thought leaders including Sir Michael Barber (UK), Dr. Michael Block (U.S.), Dr. Leon Botstein (U.S.), Professor Clay Christensen (U.S.), Dr. Linda Darling-Hammond (U.S.), Dr. MadhavChavan (India), Professor Michael Fullan (Canada), Professor Howard Gardner (U.S.), Professor Andy Hargreaves (U.S.), Professor Yvonne Hellman (The Netherlands), Professor Kristin Helstad (Norway), Jean Hendrickson (U.S.), Professor Rose Hipkins (New Zealand), Professor Cornelia Hoogland (Canada), Honourable Jeff Johnson (Canada), Mme. Chantal Kaufmann (Belgium), Dr. EijaKauppinen (Finland), State Secretary TapioKosunen (Finland), Professor Dominique Lafontaine (Belgium), Professor Hugh Lauder (UK), Lord Ken Macdonald (UK), Professor Geoff Masters (Australia), Professor Barry McGaw (Australia), Shiv Nadar (India), Professor R. Natarajan (India), Dr. Pak Tee Ng (Singapore), Dr. Denise Pope (US), Sridhar Rajagopalan (India), Dr. Diane Ravitch (U.S.), Richard Wilson Riley (U.S.), Sir Ken Robinson (UK), Professor Pasi Sahlberg (Finland), Professor Manabu Sato (Japan), Andreas Schleicher (PISA, OECD), Dr. Anthony Seldon (UK), Dr. David Shaffer (U.S.), Dr. Kirsten Sivesind (Norway), Chancellor Stephen Spahn (U.S.), Yves Theze (LyceeFrancais U.S.), Professor Charles Ungerleider (Canada), Professor Tony Wagner (U.S.), Sir David Watson (UK), Professor Dylan Wiliam (UK), Dr. Mark Wormald (UK), Professor Theo Wubbels (The Netherlands), Professor Michael Young (UK), and Professor Minxuan Zhang (China) as they explore the big picture education questions that all nations face today.
The Global Search for Education Community Page
C. M. Rubin is the author of two widely read online series for which she received a 2011 Upton Sinclair award, "The Global Search for Education" and "How Will We Read?" She is also the author of three bestselling books, including The Real Alice in Wonderland, is the publisher of CMRubinWorld, and is a Disruptor Foundation Fellow.
This entry was posted in Belgium, Edtech, Education, Finland, HuffPostEdu, Innovation, Learning, Learning Outcomes, Poland, Sanoma, Sanoma Learning, Sweden, The Netherlands and tagged Belgium, Education, Finland, Future of Education, Huffington Post, HuffPostEdu, Phenomenon-based Learning, Poland, Sweden, Teacher, The Netherlands on 06/11/2015 by johnrichardmartin.
Sanoma's Learning Lab hits the right note
I love the start of the new school year: it feels like a time of new beginnings and new opportunities. I'm especially excited about the coming semester because we will be running our Learning Lab in partnership with five great innovative schools!
Improving the impact of education on learning
We're a key partner to schools and frontrunner in the digital transformation in some of the World's best performing education systems, including Finland, The Netherlands, Belgium, Poland and also Sweden. We're deeply committed to supporting excellence and equity in education. And we see that many stakeholders in education are looking for renewal: for improved learning outcomes, for better engagement and for new ways of working. Our goal with this Learning Lab is to co-create new concepts, together with our partners, that help to improve and evidence the impact of education on learning.
In time and in tune with teachers
Our target was to recruit 150 participants. However, the Lab has been heavily over-subscribed: we have received about 350 applications! We will increase capacity to take account of this. Interest has been especially strong from teachers. The subject and timing of this innovation lab seems to be very much in line with the needs of our customers. We really appreciate your trust in working together with us in developing new ways of teaching and learning.
Five innovative partners
Thanks to all the individuals and also to the five partner schools for showing their innovative colours and joining us on this journey of discovery. The partner schools are:
Sint Maria Primary School in Antwerp, Belgium: http://www.st-maria-antwerpen.be/
Kulosaari Secondary School in Helsinki, Finland: http://www.ksyk.fi/en/
Da Vinci College in Leiden, The Netherlands: http://www.davinci-leiden.nl/
V. L. O. in Gdansk, Poland: http://www.vlo.gda.pl/
Futuraskolan International School of Stockholm, Sweden: http://www.futuraskolan.se/school/stockholm-international/
It's great that you have taken on this challenge together with us.
Looking forward >>
I can't wait for the kick-offs at the beginning of October. We're going to learn new skills, broaden our networks and take a positive step to improving learning. And we'll have a lot of fun on the way! I'm excited to be working with you on this initiative in the next few months!
This entry was posted in Accelerator, Edtech, Education, Innovation, Learning, Learning Outcomes, Open Innovation, School, Teacher, The Netherlands and tagged Belgium, Education, Finland, Innovation, Learning, Outcomes, Poland, School, Sweden, Teacher, The Netherlands on 08/09/2014 by johnrichardmartin.
Learning outcomes accelerator: co-creating new solutions with schools
The future of learning is personal
As we move from the industrial age to the knowledge age, our ways of working in education will change too. Amongst others, technology will enable us to tailor pedagogy, curriculum and learning support to the needs and aspirations of each individual learner. Developing the talents and potential of individuals and helping them to make progress in their lives will be key.
Our thinking needs to shift. From inputs …
Governments have traditionally put a lot of emphasis on the inputs into education. How much do we spend? How many pupils per classroom? How many hours of class time? How much do we spend on learning materials? How many devices in the school? These things are all important.
… to outcomes
However, the value is in the outcome not the input. Are we helping individuals to make progress in their learning career? Are we preparing them for effectively for work? Are we enabling them to become good and fulfilled citizens? These are the big outcomes questions.
Maybe these questions are so big that we only know the answers when it's too late. Therefore, on a more practical level, we should break it down into something more manageable. For example, for each activity ("course" or "lesson"):
– does this contribute to a good learning result for all of the individual pupils?
– in a way that is engaging and motivating for pupils and teachers?
– and in a way that is effective in terms of time, cost and energy?
By bringing these outcomes into focus, we can reshape education for the next generation.
Enter the Learning Outcomes Accelerator
At the OPPI Learning Festival in Helsinki last week (great initiative!), we announced the launch of an open Learning Outcomes Accelerator:
"how can we improve and evidence the impact of education in the new era?"
In each of the countries in which Sanoma Learning operates (Finland, The Netherlands, Belgium, Poland and Sweden) – pretty much an all-star cast for PISA 🙂 – we would like to work with one school where at least one teacher/class would participate.
Also, we would like to ask academics (with expertise in outcomes, learning analytics, pedagogy and so on) to join us to bring an extra richness to our thinking and approach. And 75 professionals from Sanoma, with expertise about course and curriculum development, design and user experience, and lean startup methodologies will join us in creating new prototypes.
How does the accelerator work?
Participants at bootcamp
We will launch (in September, dates to be finalized) with five "live" kick-offs, one in each of the main schools participating. This will be followed by a seven week program of ideation and training, during which hundreds of ideas will be created, tested and improved. Towards the end of the process the best five ideas will be selected by public voting and the winners will be invited (expenses paid) for a four-day bootcamp in Amsterdam to build their prototype. I've previously blogged about how an accelerator works and what happens at bootcamp. It's really exciting and inspiring to be part of it!
What is it, what isn't it?
The accelerator will be above all about learning by doing! It will be fast-paced, highly practical and we will go from idea to functional prototype in less than 10 weeks. It will be structured in terms of the goals, process and support. And open in terms of ideas. It will be a journey of discovery and experimentation and this is what makes an open accelerator so exciting.
It's not a big academic exercise. We won't write a book about it. (Even if books are good too.)
Register and help us co-create new solutions for outcomes
If you would like to join the accelerator and you're either a teacher at a school in one of the five countries mentioned earlier, or an academic from there or elsewhere, please let us know at sanomalearningoutcomes.com. We will strive to have decided which five schools to work with on this particular accelerator by the end of June. Participation is free of charge. We will be accepting applications until 1 September.
I was positively surprised by the interest from other groups at OPPI too. For example, some Foundations, Universities, other companies, schools in other countries and educational journalists also wanted to get involved. If you are from one of these groups and have something exciting to bring to the accelerator, then please take contact with me and let's see if there are possibilities for us to adapt the program so you can join us.
I believe that by bringing outcomes into focus, we can reshape education for the next generation. I hope you will join us on this exciting journey!
This entry was posted in Education, Innovation, Learning, Learning Outcomes, Sanoma and tagged accelerator, Belgium, Finland, Innovation, Learning, Learning Outcomes, OPPI, Poland, Sanoma, Sanoma Learning, Sweden, The Netherlands on 14/04/2014 by johnrichardmartin.
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Al Wehda will also have the option to sign some of these players once they meet their expectations.
Lizzy Sports FC, an offshoot of the Lizzy Sports Complex owned by former France captain Marcel Desailly will also benefit from the provision of kits, equipment, logistical and technical support from Al Wehda.
Sporting director of Lizzy Sports FC Jamil Maraby believes the partnership will offer unique opportunities for their juvenile players to realize their full potential of being professional footballers.
"Lizzy Sports is interested in the development of the numerous talents in Ghana and this partnership will provide us further basis and the platform to do so," he said.
Lizzy Sports FC operate U-17, U-15 and U-13 sides that play in the colts (juvenile) leagues in the country.


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Purely Wrong: Judah Leib Magnes and the Jewish State
July 4, 2008 May 5, 2008 by Haim Watzman
According to a legend, the sage Rabbi Shimon bar-Yohai and his son spent twelve years hiding in a cave and delving into the esoteric truths of the Torah. When they emerged, Rabbi Shimon was so immersed in divine truth that he raged when he saw Jews plowing their fields. His anger was so fierce that his mere glance burned up every working man he saw. God ordered him back to the cave.
The publication of the diary of Judah Leib Magnes, the leading Jewish pacifist and peace activist in Palestine in the years leading up to Israel's War of Independence, offers an opportunity to consider another man whose attempt to adhere to absolute truth and purity led him to misunderstand entirely the world around him.
I first encountered Magnes's name as a college student, when I was struggling with my discovery that the Jewish state was not the ideal country I had been taught about in Hebrew school. Instead, I was appalled to learn, it was a country of flesh and blood that committed injustices. Magnes seemed like a prophet to me then–a man of principle who had called for a binational Jewish-Arab state based on mutual respect, rather than the Jewish state that the Zionists were fighting for in those fateful years.
I had a chance to revisit Magnes and his thinking a few years ago when the Hebrew University historian Joseph Heller published (in Hebrew) a new study of Magnes and Ihud, the peace movement he founded. Magnes was president of the Hebrew University when Heller was a young student there. Heller told me that he and his fellow-students thought Magnes was a purveyor of injustice for advocating a Jewish-Arab state.
If you grew up, as I did, on the values of liberal democracy, calling a man who fought for equal rights and inter-ethnic understanding "unjust" seems oxymoronic.
But in his efforts to avoid war and be fair to the Arabs, Magnes was unjust to his own people, the Jews, Heller told me. A quarter of a million displaced Jews were sitting in camps in Europe with nowhere to go, yet Magnes, attempting to win Arab agreement for a Jewish presence in Palestine, announced his willingness to forego further Jewish immigration.
"Magnes and his associates were an intellectual elite of the first order who rebelled against the common wisdom," Heller related. "They could not accept a situation that they believed ensured perpetual war with the Arabs."
In other words, Magnes wasn't wrong and was even admirable in absolute terms. In an ideal world, his ideals might have made good been policy. But in the unideal world in which he lived, his purity, if put into action, could kill his own people.
In any case, Magnes never found any Arabs who were willing to accept his terms, so his influence was nil. We can admire him today for his ideals so long as we don't forget that what works in a cave doesn't work in the world outside.
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6 thoughts on "Purely Wrong: Judah Leib Magnes and the Jewish State"
The Other Alan
We don't know if Magnes' bi-national state would have worked, but a national state for the benefit for all citizens may still. We do know though that Herzl's "Jewish State" has given us a number of wars, been a thorn in the side of the Middle East, made the lives of Palestinians miserable, caused Jews to be fearful that every year is 1938, enabled an endless search for sources of what best can be described as a Jewish commodity to stock the land with, and, as Jewish scholar Ahad Ha'am warned in 1897 it would, "beget in us a tendency to find the path of glory in the attainment of material power and political dominion, thus breaking the thread that unites us with the past, and undermining our historical basis."
Magnes' idea of creating a mutually agreed upon binational state may have come a generation too late. I understand until the late 19th century's start of Zionism-driven mass immigration to Palestine the relations between indigenous Arabs and the equally indigenous Yishuv were amicable enough. Among the latter there was resistance against mass immigration precisely for the reason that relations would severely deteriorate, as sure enough did happen soon. I wonder if the fear and loathing the thought of a possible return of even a fraction of the Palestinian refugees (or their descendants) evokes in many Jewish Israelis is in part an echo of this early experience.
When Heller (not the one of Catch-22 fame, I suppose?) spoke of the quarter million Jews "sitting in camps in Europe with nowhere to go", who were in danger of being killed, what year was he referring to? In particular, pre- or post-May 1945?
In the last years of the war the Nazis weren't letting Jews emigrate anymore, as that would've made the "Endlösung" ineffective. Relief of the European Jews' plight couldn't come then from moving them to Palestine, but from defeat of the Nazis. After that happened, the genocidal threat was gone, and apart from the catastrophic health condition of the concentration camp survivors – Jews and non-Jews alike, of course – the Jews were no worse off than the other multi-millions displaced European victims of that war. If that sounds heartless, consider what many of those same survivors and those ostensibly acting on their behalf should soon prove to be willing to do to not one quarter but three quarters of a million Palestinians. In an ideal world the land would really have been "without people", in our unideal world, as we all know, it wasn't.
Magnes tried not to fight one injustice with another, and for that I can't banish him to the cave.
To my recollection, Ben-Gurion advocated bi-nationalism, or hinted at some kind of de facto support for it, possibly because of his party links towards Labour. Nevertheless, I think Magnes is being too unfairly faulted here especially that Ben-Gurion himself openly stated that he was more than willing to sacrifice Jewish lives for the sole purpose of a Jewish state. Whereas Ben-Gurion felt that war was inevitable with the Arabs, Magnes for his optimism wanted to avoid it with the same conclusion that he is being excoriated for: resisting "further Jewish emigration" towards Palestine whereas the Zionists resisted emigration of the able-bodied towards Western Europe and the US.
The Ghost of Jacob Talmon
One day while staying with [Lewis Namier] I began to lament the lost glories of the Mount Scopus landscape, to which he remarked that he had never set foot on the former campus of the Hebrew University. I expressed astonishment that he had never found time in the course of his numerous visits to Jerusalem to visit Mount Scopus before the road to it had fallen into Arab hands. "I would not shake hands with traitors," he said. "Traitors?" I murmured with raised eyebrows. "Well, Magnes," came the reply.
–J. L. Talmon
lennybruce
Interesting article. I was just doing some research for my own article on Israel's 60th anniversary and googled Ahad Ha'am's "Truth from Eretz Yisrael" and found my way to Magnes' letters to Chaim Weizmann. Also of interest along the way was Jabotinsky's polemic "The Iron Wall (We and the Arabs)" from 1923. Looking at today's situation and reading the writings of these 3 very different Zionists from 1891, 1923 and 1929 makes me dizzy. With a bit of language and grammer updates, all three could have been written today, 10 years ago, or 60 years ago. With all the things we can proud of and grateful for, there is something fundamentally wrong when we, in our relations with the Palestinians, have not progressed one iota in over 100 years of our national venture. Regardless of one's viewpoint – Ahad Ha'am, Magnes or Jabotinsky – it is clear that we are no closer to finding an accommodation with the indigenous residents of Palestine then when these gentlemen wrote what they wrote. And like I said, that makes me dizzy, akin to the feeling of being caught in a time warp.
I am reading a section about him in a very authoritative book.
It seems like he was a Man for Peace, and he did warn many that if things went on like they did do, would doom it's inhabitants to endless bloodshed and war. It seems he was on the mark on that one.
I can understand the need to help one's own people, but is it right to kill to you can live? The man and his history should not be so easily dismissed, and let's not compare him to a man in a cave. It's both insulting and ridiculous.


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