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Credibility and Troika Alarms
Antonis H. Diamataris -TNH/Publisher-Editor
The credibility of Greece is much improved from the very low point at which it once stood.
But much remains to be done, as was revealed when the World Health Organization (WHO) announced recently that about half of Greece's HIV/AIDS cases were the result of people infecting themselves so that they could receive government assistance to which they would then be entitled.
This news made it all around the world. The well-known right wing radio commentator Rush Limbaugh stated, "That's what the welfare state does to people."
The original claim, which appeared on page 112 of the organization's European report that was published in September, read: "H.I.V. rates and heroin use have risen significantly, with about half of new H.I.V. infections being self-inflicted to enable people to receive benefits of €700 per month and faster admission on to drug substitution programs."
Ultimately, however, this report proved to be wrong, making it necessary for the WHO to retract it.
The truth is, Greece has had a significant increase in cases of patients infected with the AIDS virus since the beginning of crisis, but recent government figures show that the rate is now in decline.
Perhaps this incident will teach the foreign press not to believe the worst rumors circulating about Greece.
However, another incident shows that complacency – which to some extent has lessened, may lead to more surprises – if we are not careful. Because psychology plays a crucial role in the economy, the government is struggling to alter perceptions. Thus they highlight certain cases as examples of economic improvement.
However, while these are likely to be happening, society is also sending a message of fatigue. In the cellar, the boiler is rumbling.
While the rounds of negotiations between the Troika and the government no longer make the headlines, the following incident should awaken us. The top Troika officials, including the Managing Director of the IMF, had a teleconference with Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras about delays in the implementation of its agreements with Greece.
It is not known how many times this has happened. However, it is not a common occurrence, and it is something that takes place only when there is a good reason. It thus constitutes a kind of alarm!
That is how important an issue it is for the Troika. As I have written many times, the Troika and Greece are marching in opposite directions. If that is intentional, fine. But if it is not?
Are You Going to Greece?
Andreas Dracopoulos – A Man of the Hellenic Diaspora who Teaches Excellence
The Bureaucracy is Greece's Number One Problem


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A singer-songwriter with an unconditional passion for synth-pop, Alan Dreezer announces the release of his next single, 'The Twelfth Of Never', available from May 20, 2020.
Alan Dreezer
announces the release of a new synth-pop number
The Twelfth Of Never
And it's music for our ears
right away!
Alan Dreezer is an artist about whom we have already had the pleasure of writing several times, thanks to the quality of the music he offers with every release.
From the single 'What You Didn't Say' and its music video – here the articles: Alan Dreezer // What You Didn't Say, Interview with: Alan Dreezer // What You Didn't Say – music video – to the more recent 'But It Does' (Alan Dreezer // But It Does), Alan has always managed to magnetize all our attention, thanks to the undeniable talent and the exquisite musicianship of the productions that he brings to the table every time.
What we see, following Dreezer's path in music, is a journey that is becoming increasingly interesting and engaging. Yes, because, if with 'What You Didn't Say' Alan somehow surprised us, like when one discovers an unexpected novelty, things got even more interesting with 'But It Does', that is the introduction to his sophomore album 'Healed', expected for 2021.
As the title of the album itself suggests, for the creation of 'Healed' Alan drew inspiration from a personal "healing" process from a failed past relationship and the influences of the memories surrounding it. And it's in this ascending furrow that the next release by Dreezer takes place.
We had the pleasure and the honor of listening to 'The Twelfth Of Never' in preview these past days, and it was once again a surprise. Without distorting the nature of the previous releases, here Dreezer's sound is even more compelling and exciting than ever. And while this new song tips the balance more perceptibly towards synth-pop, 'The Twelfth Of Never' sounds like a natural development of what the artist began to tell with his previous acts.
A genuine and vibrant slice of his life, full of emotions from an important part of his experiences, with 'The Twelfth Of Never' Dreezer once again shows off his creative and communicative power, bringing us emotions, feelings and passion that sound unconditionally genuine.
Alan Dreezer's momentum seems to never end, inspired and wonderful as it is.
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Schneider Electric Wins DCS Award for Single Rack, Micro Data Centre Solutions
Schneider Electric, the global specialist in energy management and automation, has won the "Data Centre Cabinets and Racks Product of the Year" at the Data Centre Solutions Awards 2017. The award was decided by popular vote. Schneider Electric single rack, micro data centre solutions deliver resilient, hyper-converged technologies to meet the ever-growing demands of the IoT and edge computing.
Receiving the award on behalf of Schneider Electric, Rob McKernan, SVP Europe and Global IT Channels Governance, said; "Racks and enclosures are the building blocks of every IT environment. We're delighted that those involved in the DCS Awards have given this accolade to Schneider Electric's Micro Data Centre solution for its innovative approach to emerging edge data centre requirements. I'd like to thank the judges at the DCS Awards and in particular, the many data centre professionals and customers that have voted for us."
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Schneider Electric's Micro Data Centre solutions allows data intensive, as well as latency and bandwidth-sensitive edge computing loads, to be deployed securely using the same standardised physical infrastructure found in some of the world's largest and most complex data centres. The Micro data centre solutions can be customised to fit specific space constraints, and also built to withstand the specific environmental considerations of individual end-user applications.
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What do sovereign power, glitter, and cotton-candy pink all have in common?
They are my three childhood obsessions. Well, that and baby-dolls, which I admit was weird.
I mean, I don't even like babies. But whatever.
My interests have always been somewhat of an oddity. When I was a junior in high school, I painted my room pink while listening to Nirvana and Pearl Jam the entire time. I've never fit into the nice, neat, category of girly-girl or tomboy. I liked biology and grunge and camping and glitter. But like, I really liked glitter.
Do not underestimate my affection for glitter.
Seriously, don't. Don't be that guy.
So, yes, I'll admit, my girlhood was chock full of princesses and glitter and pink. But that never made me less of a potential scientist, writer, or leader than the girls that liked capes. Don't get me wrong; I see the draw to swooping in and saving the day. But to me, that was too…unambitious. I didn't want five seconds of fame and glory. I craved sovereign power over a small country. On second thought, a large one would have suited me just fine, too.
And if there was pink and glitter and a few catchy musical numbers in that fantasy, so be it.
Plus, there were not enough girl superheroes when I was a kid. They were all boring dudes. Without glitter or cotton-candy pink, I might add. And yeah, princess stories are in dire need for a makeover. I wish Brave and Frozen were movies when I was kid. I admire their themes of empowerment, and I'm totally on board with their empowering and less love-interest centric themes. But I was never in it for the princes. I could care less about them. I didn't get why Ariel wanted legs so much. If I were her, I would have been far more interested in ruling Atlantis. And make no mistake, eight-year-old me would've rewritten the whole fairytale, if you'd have let her.
As for the babies? Well, I didn't stick with that interest as a young adult, but maternal instinct does not equal a weak willed woman. Not in the least. If you think that, you've obviously never met my aunt or my mother. They'll set you straight without hesitation.
But blanket scarves and muted pinks and peasant tops are a part of me, just as much as a slick leather jacket. People aren't binary; I'm grunge and glitter and tomboy all rolled into one girl. And I'm tired of the stereotype that women who like fashion or makeup or "feminine things" are shallow and dumb, or less deserving of respect and power than tomboys. It's perfectly okay to be a girl or a woman who really doesn't care much for pretty pink and princesses, but they're no better than those who do. Girls can like pink and science. Or glitter and literature. And to be honest, I don't think this binary really exists at all. I don't know a single woman that fits into either one of those categories without overlap.
So why are we expecting little girls to?
My advice? Let them play with capes and tiaras. Maybe they'll grow fond of both.


The study aimed to assess biophysical changes that take place in the peripheral blood mononuclear cell (PBMC) membranes when exposed in vitro to 10 μM quercetin or epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG) for 24 and 48 h. PBMCs isolated from hypercholesterolemia patients were compared to those from normocholesterolemia subjects. The membrane fluidity and transmembrane potential were evaluated and the results were correlated with biochemical parameters relevant to oxidative stress, assessed in the patients' plasma. The baseline value of PBMC membrane anisotropy for the hypercholesterolemia patients was lower than that of the control group. These results correlated with the plasma levels of advanced glycation end products, which were significantly higher in the hypercholesterolemia group, and the total plasma antioxidant status, which was significantly higher in normocholesterolemia subjects. In the case of normocholesterolemia cells in vitro, polyphenols induced a decrease in membrane anisotropy (7.25–11.88% at 24 h, 1.82–2.26% at 48 h) and a hyperpolarizing effect (8.30–8.90% at 24 h and 4.58–13.00% at 48 h). The same effect was induced in hypercholesterolemia cells, but only after 48 h exposure to the polyphenols: the decrease in membrane anisotropy was 5.70% for quercetin and 2.33% for EGCG. After 48 h of in vitro incubation with the polyphenols, PBMCs isolated from hypercholesterolemia patients exhibited the effects that had been registered in cells from normocholesterolemia subjects after 24 h exposure. These results outlined the beneficial action of the studied polyphenols, quercetin and EGCG, as dietary supplements in normocholesterolemia and hypercholesterolemia patients.


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November 20, 2012 January 5, 2013 William Eaton
My Bar Mitzvah (and Thanksgiving) Speech
FROM SEQUENCE 2012
For James and Jonah, on being called to participate
in a minyan or as citizens of these United States.
While I was never bar mitzvahed, I have learned that the Bar Mitzvah boy is given a passage of the Torah to study, and he, 13 years old, gives a speech at his family's synagogue about the meaning of his Torah portion. (This usually involves claiming to have learned something about being a good person.) My text was given to me by PBS, but perhaps also by God in a certain sense, one evening during my fifty-ninth year. The text took the form of a documentary about the dancer and choreographer Jerome Robbins.
One November Friday night, an evening before attending the Bar Mitzvah of a friend of my son's, I was, for other reasons, quite tired, and I lay down on my couch a little after 8, clicker in hand. At 9 this documentary came on. Previously I knew very little about Robbins, and I have not been a particular fan of Broadway musicals or of the American Ballet Theatre. It is possible that, except for clips on TV and a remake of his first ballet, "Fancy Free," I have never seen a Robbins production, and if I have now watched a two-hour documentary, . . . I am like a tourist who briefly visited a foreign city.
Two things struck me. One was how dedicated Robbins was to his chosen crafts: dance and choreography. For 60 years he just kept working and working, always trying to learn, always trying to get it right. This level and consistency of dedication is in and of itself extraordinary, a kind of genius independent of whatever creative and expressive talents he may also have had. Secondly, the major event of this man's life occurred on quite another stage, when he agreed to testify to the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) and during his testimony he "named names": four people who, he said, had been communists, as he in his youth had been. In doing this he destroyed these four people's careers for some period of years and turned them into pariahs. In the documentary one of the named says that for three months she and her husband did not receive a single phone call. Her friends were all afraid of themselves being caught, condemned, unable to get work.
One of the subtexts of this portion of the documentary was the anti-Semitism of the communist-hunting of the McCarthy period. I have subsequently read in Wikipedia that Senator McCarthy hired a Jew, Roy Cohn, as his chief counsel, choosing him over Robert Kennedy, "reportedly in part to avoid accusations of an anti-Semitic motivation" for his Senate subcommittee's investigations. And it is not for nothing that McCarthy and his great supporter Joseph Kennedy were Irish Catholics, anxious to be fully accepted in a country in which Catholics were a minority and the Irish considered by many to be good for nothing but manual labor and police work. The "Red Scare" of the 1940s and '50s offered them an opportunity: Catholics could fit in by identifying Jews as the real outsiders.
Ostensibly McCarthy and the HUAC investigators who proceeded him were uncovering Americans who had, typically in their youth and during the Depression, been members of the American Communist Party. But, for example, HUAC's focus was on the entertainment industry, a business dominated by Jews. The overt statement was that Americans who would join a Communist Party were not real Americans, and this both because the Communist Party had strong ties to the Soviet Union and because communism's ideology ("from each according to his ability, to each according to his need") challenged the presumably more American "every man for himself" approach. There was, however, another, less explicit statement: Jews were not Americans. This aspect of McCarthyism echoed the early days of Nazi rule during which Hitler's government, backed and advised by leading German bankers and industrialists, whipped up anti-Semitic sentiments as a way of destroying the power of the labor unions and driving down wages. In the American case, xenophobia was whipped up and used to attack leftist Jews, not least those active in labor unions.
As I understand the history, there were a series of battles in the movie industry between the workers and the studio bosses, and some of the most significant of these battles were between a set of unions (the IATSE or IA) controlled by the mob in collusion with the studio bosses, and a more democratic body, the CSU. The fundamental issues were control over the unions and workers and keeping down or raising wages. However, the mob leaders and bosses came up with the idea of accusing their opponents of being communists—i.e. un-American, traitors. E.g., in 1941 a movie producer named Walt Disney took out an ad in Variety, the Hollywood trade magazine, declaring his conviction that "Communist agitation" was behind a cartoonists and animators' strike going on at that time. Such tactics proved so successful that anti-labor and anti-Semitic politicians in Washington and elsewhere adopted them. Thus the sad irony: Americans thought the goal, right or wrong, was rooting out communists, but this was only a means for controlling workers and keeping down wages—the wages of the vast majority of Americans, however anti-communist they may have been. (Of course variations on this tactic have been used over and over again, and the vast majority of Americans continue to be fooled by it and to lose track of who is fighting for their interests and who against them.)
The documentary's position was that the Jewish Robbins (née Rabinowitz) got caught during the McCarthy period because, like many a child of immigrants, he wanted nothing so much as to be accepted by his country, to fit in, to be liked not only for who he was but also because who he was— he hoped—was a real American. (Which would be to say as unscrupulous as Walt Disney, Roy Cohn and Joseph Kennedy?) Myself, I have always felt that I belonged, that I was completely American, whether I liked it or not, and notwithstanding—likely allowing—all my objections to American values, customs and politics. It is also the case that I am, as the Nazis would say, Mischling, a hybrid. (As most Americans, Mexicans, Canadians, French people and likely "Aryan" Germans as well are, though of course the elements of the mix vary from family to family.) In my particular case, when my mother, from a Jewish family, announced to her father that she wanted to marry a man named Sam, her father joked that this Sam couldn't be Jewish because in those days no American Jews had Old Testament names. Boys from Jewish families were named Jack, Harold, Murray, Norman, Phillip, Jerome, etc., because, presumably, that helped them fit in, or at least made it clear to all, the boys included, that fitting in was the first priority. My mother belongs to a very particular linguistic grouping in the United States: Children who grew up in Brooklyn but during their adolescence unlearned their Brooklyn accents, a bit as Liza Doolittle was pushed to unlearn hers. As a result she has at times been mistaken for a foreigner, for someone who learned English very well but later in life. And it might be said that this approach to being an American was passed along to me. I learned French in adulthood and came to speak French with my wife and son in our home. As a result, sometimes when people hear me speak English—if I have recently been speaking a lot of French—they cannot figure out what foreign country I come from. In fact, I can tell them with a smile, one of my ancestors was Priscilla (Mullins) Alden, one of the famous lovers of the Mayflower. My namesake, William Eaton, was the first American general to lead an army abroad, in North Africa, against the Barbary pirates: "To the shores of Tripoli; . . . First to fight for right and freedom, and to keep our honor clean," as the "Marines' Hymn" describes it.
Again, I take this to be not only my particular story, but also just one variation on the story of so many of us. A few days after the Bar Mitzvah I had dinner with a Brazilian-born friend who ended up outlining on the paper table-covering her family history. There was a Jewish grandmother whose family had come to Brazil to escape the Inquisition, but whose members were still, five centuries later, not considered real Brazilians, not even by some of the family members themselves. This concept of real Brazilian seemed reserved not for descendants of the people who occupied the land before it was conquered by Europeans, but for Europeans who were Catholics. Thus my friend also told me of a grandfather, the man who married her Jewish grandmother. He came from Germany in the 1920s and fit right in. He was, or claimed to be, Catholic. (A Catholic doctor no less, usurping a traditional role of Jews?) So many years later, growing up in suburban New Jersey, my friend's American-born son had insisted that for Thanksgiving his mother make not Brazilian food but rather both turkey and ham, to help him prove to the world and to himself that he was both American and not Jewish.
Robbins faced a second problem when it came to fitting in. He was a homosexual, and long before the gay pride movement. He was a homosexual, and he was being hounded by FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, who has since been thought to have been a homosexual and/or cross-dresser. According to the documentary, Hoover's agent in all this was the TV personality Ed Sullivan who persisted in threatening Robbins that if he did not testify his homosexuality would be exposed. I now regret every minute my sisters and I spent watching Sullivan's TV show when we were growing up. To not have the courage and autonomy to refuse to name names is one thing; to be forcing people to testify, and to be threatening to expose their sexual proclivities if they did not testify, this is both criminal and obscene. I am also sure that Sullivan's viciousness can be found in his programs, and Robbins's anxieties and egotism in his dances, and that Disney's willingness to resort to slander as a way of making more money is there in his cartoons, and . . . . And I am sure that through these widely viewed cultural products these "values," these ways of being, have been passed along to many Americans, "impressionable youths" included.
According to the documentary (Jerome Robbins: Something to Dance About), Robbins was unwilling or unable to accept being "outed" as a homosexual because this would trash his immigrants' child's wish—to fit in. He may also have been afraid of not being able to get work. After being blacklisted, an up and coming Hollywood director named Abraham Polonsky directed only one more feature film in the remaining thirty years of his life. Robbins lived to work. To not have been able to work would have been torture. He went to Washington to testify and he named names. I have subsequently read, in a Joan Acocella piece in the New Yorker archives:
[O]ther homosexual artists, such as Aaron Copland and Marc Blitzstein, stood firm . . . His [Robbins's] testimony makes shameful reading. He fell over himself to name names. As one congressman remarked gratefully, his level of coöperation was "a bit unusual."
The PBS documentary includes some commentary from a historian of the period. It is very difficult for those of us who were not living at that time and who were not in Robbins's shoes to condemn what he did, the historian says, and then, justly, I believe, he completes the thought: But, still, what Robbins did was both despicable and wrong. And in the larger scheme of things—and in Robbins's sensitive soul as well, the film suggested—this traitorous, cowardly action stayed in his mind longer than the pride he must also have felt given his extraordinary string of wildly popular dances and shows.
I pause to note one irony, or several. This homosexual Jerome Robbins-Rabinowitz whose patriotism the US Congress challenged—in one of its shameful moments, though far from its only one—this Jerome Robbins-Rabinowitz, so afraid of not being accepted given who he in fact was, . . . This one individual has been, and perhaps as much as any American of his generation, responsible for giving Americans a way—an odd way?—of feeling proud of themselves. (E.g., through West Side Story, The King and I, Peter Pan and Fiddler on the Roof, and through ballets like "Fancy Free" and "Dances at a Gathering".) Sometime after his testimony the State Department paid for Robbins and a group of dancers to tour Europe to show the world the greatness of American/"Free World" choreography. We might say, among other things, that freedom was something Robbins knew only in the breach. Even in his work he was, as we say, driven.
So now we come to the Bar Mitzvah. Not having been raised Jewish, I have attended services in a synagogue perhaps 10 times in my whole life. Each time I attend a service, in addition to the beauty of the singing, I am struck by what my father (and my wife) might call the mumbo-jumbo (the clinging to ancient superstitions) of organized religion. These particular wordings were not used at my son's friend James's Bar Mitzvah; I am here copying from a Reform Siddar (prayerbook) I consulted subsequently:
Exalted and hallowed be God's great name
in the world which God created, according to plan
May the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart
be acceptable to You, Adonai, my Rock and my Redeemer
As the fish gives himself to the sea
As the bird gives herself to the air
So may we give ourselves to You
While such prayers are being recited, I often find myself looking around the room at the other people, wondering if they really believe this stuff. At the Bar Mitzvah service for my son's friend, I found myself wondering if the rabbi even believed in God, or in anything like the God being described in the prayers he was leading. (Going back to anti-Vietnam War days, my strongest religious connection has been to Quakerism, and above all to the power, often awful power, of Quaker meeting for worship. I taught "First Day School" when my son was little. I have read that 50 percent of Quakers do not believe in God. My own "God" is a kind of placeholder for the unknown and for the unknowable, and thus a reminder of the universe of human ignorance as well.)
Nevertheless, perhaps under the influence of the Robbins documentary I had watched the night before, or impressed by how proud James's parents were to have him going through this rite of passage and in front of all their relatives and friends—I appreciated a different aspect of the Bar Mitzvah service. It was as if there was another subtext, as if the "believers" there assembled were saying:
We probably don't really believe these words we are saying, but we are saying them because this is what our ancestors have been saying for thousands of years. We are reaffirming this historical connection, and the connection is felt more strongly because in order to reaffirm it we are saying words whose superficial content we don't even bother thinking about. And we rejoice in saying these words, and we would say whatever is asked of us, because these are our people, this is our home.
As I sat in the synagogue I found myself thinking, too, of something I had read around the time of Yom Kippur, a few months earlier. In some German concentration camp a woman or group of women asked and were given permission to hold services. They had no rabbi and none of the ritual objects. They were starving and cold and disease-ridden and had seen so many die and expected to themselves die soon. They gathered together around a candle and sang the Kol Nidre, the haunting song of Yom Kippur. My thought, now, at this 2012 Bar Mitzvah in a well-to-do neighborhood of New York City, was that this, too, was why we say these time-worn prayers. Because over the course of thousands of years of human history, and in the future, periodically there have been and will be times when it will seem that all we have left to hold onto are our communal traditions, our imaginary Gods—and this even if we are also being made to suffer, being killed, for our beliefs or for our ethnic identification. (Or in the interests of capital.)
The French philosopher Henri Bergson, raised Jewish, is famous, inter alia, for not having converted to Catholicism although he found himself drawn to it. In his last will, prepared in 1937, he wrote:
Je me serais converti si je n'avais vu se préparer depuis des années . . . la formidable vague d'antisémitisme qui va déferler sur le monde. J'ai voulu rester parmi ceux qui seront demain des persécutés.
I would have converted [to Catholicism] had I not seen the tremendous wave of anti-Semitism building over many years and now soon to break upon the world. I wanted to remain among those who tomorrow will be persecuted.
This to me comes closest to expressing my own Judaism, and my own Puritanism as well. If people are going to persecute and be persecuted for their beliefs, I will be among the persecuted. I may or may not have a choice in this, but I know my role, where I belong, where I will feel most at home.
In coming back toward Robbins's testimony to HUAC, I will pause for a moment on the Jewish rite of circumcision. Male individuals have a part of their anatomies, an intimate, sensitive part, taken away by their families and communities and before they are old enough to be consulted or say a word in their own defense. Personally I find this practice barbaric, and I refused to allow my son to be circumcised and notwithstanding the fact that current medical opinion (and insurance policies/payments?) now has most every American boy being circumcised, usually before he leaves his first hospital. My position is that if for religious or health reasons my Jonah wants to have a piece of his penis cut off when he is older, let that be his decision.
But of course penile circumcision is just one of the many forms of circumcision—or of invasions of privacy and autonomy—carried out by homo sapiens in the name of community. In parts of Spain, I believe, it is traditional during wedding ceremonies for the guests to cut off pieces of the groom's tie. And there are traditions of bloody wedding night sheets being thrown out to the guests to confirm the taking or sacrifice of the bride's virginity. In Russia and other cultures a new male colleague or visitor is not trusted until he gets drunk (very drunk) or otherwise inebriated with the established group. This is another tradition I, not a drinker, do not like, but I understand it. Once drunk one makes confessions and says and does stupid things. The community now has something to hold over you and so can trust you. (E.g., if you confess to being a homosexual or to having had some homosexual experiences, this can be used as and when necessary to force you to testify or to betray a labor movement.)
When Robbins agreed to sacrifice himself—his autonomy and his honor—before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, he was showing the Congress and Americans as a whole that he was one of them. He probably knew that one of the chief communist-hunters, Roy Cohn, was also a homosexual, and he may have understood that the people taking, recording and listening to his testimony in the HUAC hearing room had plenty of secrets of one kind or another in their closets, and had also at key moments in their lives agreed to sacrifice their own integrity and to do shameful things in order to fit in—be it to not be ostracized in high school, to get or keep a job, to marry "well," become "partner" or get tenure or win election to Congress. This, we might say, is one of the ways in which communities are made, by demanding and overseeing the sacrifice of the autonomy—and with it some of the dignity—of the community members. (It is not for nothing that my son and his classmates put on ties—cords around their necks—to come to their friend James's Bar Mitzvah service. And since Jonah as yet does not know how to make the noose, I first made it around my own neck and then slipped it off my head and on to his. And his mother, watching, complained for him about his having to button the top button of his shirt—restricting breathing and freedom of movement, it can seem. And I also saw some pride in Jonah's eyes, to be wearing a button-down shirt and tie like his dad.)
The shameful things we do in order to fit in—and in marking others to be ostracized so that we ourselves might be accepted—haunt us throughout our lives. In 1963, a namer of names, actor Sterling Hayden, declared, "I was a rat, a stoolie, and the names I named of those close friends were blacklisted and deprived of their livelihood." Scholars Paul Buhle and Dave Wagner have apparently stated that Hayden "was widely believed to have drunk himself into a near-suicidal depression decades before his 1986 death." In the large organization where I earn my living, I daily work with people who behave in Haydenesque fashion, badmouthing their colleagues (or identifying them rightly or wrongly as Jewish or otherwise abnormal) whenever an opportunity presents itself. This is how these quite ordinary people try to fit in and get ahead. And, yes, sadly, some of these badmouthers and ostracizers are people who, on account of their sexuality or for other reasons (including alcoholism, lack of interest in their jobs or lack of ability), feel themselves vulnerable to themselves being ostracized and discriminated against.
Myself, I remember once, I must have been about 18 years old, I was travelling with three people: my best male friend, a girl I was romantically, sexually interested in, and a girl who was, as the saying goes, just a friend, and Jewish besides, as the other two people were not. We all ended up in one big bed, and I played some role, likely the lead role, in communicating to this girl, the Jewish girl, that she was not wanted there, she should go sleep by herself while the other three of us stayed together. In the course of coming of age (and throughout adulthood) one has hundreds if not thousands of opportunities to behave in this way, and I am sure that this was not the only time that I was an ostracizer, though this seems to be the incident that continues to prey on my conscience, and likely because the ostracized person was Jewish, and with a "Jewish nose," like me.
What I want to stress, and by way of conclusion, is that acting shamefully and fitting in go hand in hand. And groups and communities are defined by boundaries, and in order for the boundaries to have meaning there have to be people on both sides, in and out, one of "us" and one of "them," friends and enemies, Americans and Un-Americans. And like Jerome Robbins—"like little Jerome Robbins," I find myself wanting to write—we carry the shame with us, casting its shadow on whatever we may be able to accomplish as a result of being part of the group.
I would hardly excuse Robbins for his naming names to the House Committee on Un-American Activities. There were others, including people with less money and status, who refused to testify or refused to name names. Several ended up in prison, including the scriptwriters Lester Cole and Ring Lardner Jr., who in Danbury Prison joined the former HUAC Chairman, former US Representative J. Parnell Thomas, himself convicted for embezzling federal funds. Those who stood up to the Committee or to the wave of persecution include famous people such as Zero Mostel (later the star of Fiddler on the Roof), Lillian Hellman, Pete Seeger, Charlie Chaplin, Paul Robeson. But more touching are the unfamiliar names on the various blacklists, people who may have lost more and had less to fall back on when they were ostracized. Selecting at random from a Wikipedia list of "Others first blacklisted after June 1950" I come to Anne Froelick, who
began her writing career while serving as secretary to Howard Koch, then a writer for Orson Welles's The Mercury Theatre on the Air. Taylor assisted Koch on his adaptation of H.G. Wells's The War of the Worlds . . . Taylor was involved in causes such as fighting fascism and promoting unions and desegregation, which reportedly led her to join the Communist Party. In 1951, Taylor's party membership caused her husband, Philip Taylor, to lose his job as a manufacturing planner at Lockheed. She continued to try to make a living as a writer using her married name. She wrote four plays that were produced locally, including Storm in the Sun. Along with that, she co-wrote a comic novel, Press on Regardless, . . .
This Wikipedia article on the Hollywood blacklist calls attention to John Henry Faulk, host of an afternoon comedy radio show and a leftist active in his union, the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. He was scrutinized by AWARE, one of the firms that during those years made money (paid for "nice homes", for straightening kids' teeth) by investigating other people's possible communist sympathies or "disloyalty." Marked as unfit, Faulk was fired by CBS Radio. In 1957, by filing a suit against AWARE, he became a leader of the fight to end the blacklist.
All this now set down, I would also note that, in my understanding of the Something to Dance About story, Jerome Robbins's testimony before HUAC was his second circumcision, by which he became, in addition to Jewish, fully American. He wanted desperately to fit in, and he did. He fit in better than almost any American of his generation. (And I would like to think that he was able to use his millions and his status to help, in whatever way, the gay movement or individual homosexuals. What I have heard is that he gave a lot of money to the New York Public Library for some kind of dance archive.) What he would also seem to have learned along the way is that there is a price for fitting in. It can be a terrible price.
The image used here, of a boy being circumcised, appears on many, many websites. One site I came to offered this caption: "A little boy cries as a Turkish doctor injects him with a local anesthetic before circumcising him in Kabul, Afghanistan." (N.B.: the boy is not Jewish, but Muslim.) The photo was there credited to Natalie Behring-Chisholm/Getty Images.
Excerpts from Robbins's testimony to HUAC
From Thirty Years of Treason (see "Links" below)
Committee staff member Frank S. Tavenner: What was the inducement that led you into the Communist Party?
Robbins: The Communist Political Association had been presented to me as an organization which was very much for minorities and for advancing their causes. This interested me very much. I had had, prior to my joining, several instances of very painful moments because of minority prejudice. This was naturally an appeal for me.
Tavenner: Will you give us the names of other persons who were in this group whom you can identify?
Robbins offered six names, after which Committee member Representative Bernard W. Kearney thanked him for his "very frank and unusual testimony," and Committee member Representative Clyde Doyle said, "I want to join in heartily complimenting you on doing what you have done." Doyle told Robbins that some of the people who had been asked to testified had referred to those who named names as "stool pigeons and informers. You realize, no doubt, that when you volunteered the names of other Communists whom you knew to be Communists that you would, by those people at least, be put in that class. . . . What is it in your conscience, or what was it in your experience, that makes you . . . willing to come here, in spite of the fact that you knew some other people . . . would put you down as a stool pigeon, and voluntarily testify as you have today?"
Robbins: I've examined myself. I think I made a great mistake before in entering the Communist Party, and I feel that I am doing the right thing as an American.
Joan Acocella, "American Dancer: Broadway, ballet, and Jerome Robbins," New Yorker, May 28, 2001.
Henri Bergson, extrait du « testament » écrit le 8 février 1937, cité par Floris Delattre dans son article « Les dernières années de Bergson », Presses universitaires de France, 1943.
Paul Buhle and Dave Wagner, Hide in Plain Sight: The Hollywood Blacklistees in Film and Television, 1950-2002 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003). See also their Radical Hollywood: The Untold Story Behind America's Favorite Movies (The New Press, 2003).
The Hollywood Blacklist: Wikipedia article (accessed November 2012).
The Reform Siddar quoted here: The New Reform Prayerbook, Mishkan T'filah.
Jerome Robbins: Something To Dance About – The Definitive Biography of an American Dance Master : DVD of the documentary, directed by Judy Kinberg, written by Amanda Vaill, Kultur video, 2009. )
The Noir Forties: The American People From Victory to Cold War by Richard Lingeman (Nation Books, 2012). Chapter 6, "Red Dawn on Sunset Strip," provides information about the battles in the movie industry between the workers, studio bosses and the red-baiting Mob.
Thirty Years of Treason: Excerpts from Hearings Before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, 1938-1968 , selected and edited by Eric Bentley (Thunder's Mouth Press/Nation Books, 1971, 2002). Has transcript of Robbins's testimony.
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Jericho Nograles is House caretaker for Davao City 1st district
Nov 20, 2018 1:45 PM PHT
Mara Cepeda
PBA Representative Jericho Nograles is in charge of the legislative district vacated by his brother, newly appointed Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles
MANILA, Philippines – Puwersa ng Bayaning Atleta Representative Jericho Nograles has been designated as caretaker of the 1st district of Davao City, after the appointment of his brother Karlo Nograles as Cabinet Secretary.
Jericho's office sent reporters a copy of Speaker Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's memorandum informing him about his designation as caretaker on Tuesday, November 20. The document was dated November 15.
"In the interest of the people of the 1st District of Davao City, the Honorable Jericho Jonas B. Nograles is hereby designated as the legislative caretaker of the 1st District of Davao City effective immediately," said Arroyo.
LOOK: Speaker Arroyo designates PBA Rep Jericho Nograles as caretaker of Davao City 1st District, after the appointment as Cabinet Secretary of Jericho's brother Karlo Nograles pic.twitter.com/bWinMUSGJ6
— Mara Cepeda (@maracepeda) November 20, 2018
Karlo, who chaired the House committee on appropriations, took his oath as Cabinet Secretary before President Rodrigo Duterte on November 5. (READ: From House to Palace: Karlo Nograles is next Cabinet Secretary)
The former congressman replaced Leoncio Evasco Jr, who resigned from his post as he is running for Bohol governor in 2019. (READ: Nograles says House stint will help him in new Malacañang post)
A 3rd-term congressman, Karlo had considered running for senator. But he dropped his Senate bid in the wake of the House leadership's discovery of more than P50 billion worth of "misplaced" funds allegedly inserted into the 2019 budget. Karlo has repeatedly denied the allegations.
The father of Jericho and Karlo, former House speaker Prospero Nograles, was previously engaged in a bitter political rivalry with Duterte in Davao City. When Duterte ran for president in 2016, however, the two mended ties, with the Nograles clan supporting his candidacy. – Rappler.com
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Amédée Talaru  (born in Lyon; died in Lyon on 11 February 1444) was a 15th-century French pseudocardinal appointed by the Antipope, Felix V. He is a nephew of pseudo-Cardinal Jean Talaru who like Amédée Talaru had also been Bishop of Lyon. He was also Primate of Gaul.

Amédée Talaru was canon of Saint-Just church and canon, grand canon and archdeacon of St. John of Lyon. He attended the Council of Constance as a member of the Chapter of Lyons and the Council of Basel. Talaru was elected archbishop of Lyon in 1415 which made him Primate of Lyon, Rouen, Tours and Sens. The anti-pope Felix V created him cardinal in the consistory of 12 November 1440.

See also
Catholic Church in France

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1444 deaths
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Congress and the media after Jan. 6
This week marked a year since a pro-Trump mob attacked the U.S. Capitol, trying to keep the lawfully elected Joe Biden from taking office as president. President Biden marked the occasion Thursday with a strongly worded speech to urge Americans not just to remember what happened that day but to see the threat posed to American democracy as he does, as ongoing. Here's part of what he said on Thursday.
JOE BIDEN: I did not seek this fight brought to this Capitol one year ago today, but I will not shrink from it, either. I will stand in this breach. I will defend this nation. I will allow no one to place a dagger at the throat of democracy.
MARTIN: Needless to say, that violent attack took place in the context of deep divisions in this country, divisions that had been stoked or enabled by any number of forces. But those forces has to include the media. So we thought it appropriate to start the program today with a look within, to be frank, to consider how the media is or should be covering this critical moment and these divisions going forward. It's a big topic, but we thought we'd home in on Congress because that's where the attack took place. And that's also where the repercussions continue, with some members demanding accountability for what took place and others dismissing it and even denying that it happened. For that, we've called two veteran congressional reporters who were both at the Capitol the day of the attack. Kadia Goba is a political reporter for BuzzFeed News, and Paul Kane is a senior congressional correspondent and columnist for The Washington Post. And they're both with us now. Thank you both so much for joining us.
PAUL KANE: Thank you for hosting us.
KADIA GOBA: Thanks for having me.
MARTIN: Congress has seen intense conflict before, I mean, throughout history, I mean, I think, you know, over any number of things - the Vietnam War, certainly over slavery. You know, but now it's not unusual for members of Congress to make outright false statements - about the 2020 election, about COVID-19, about vaccines, about each other. And if they're not outright false, they're certainly incendiary. How do you think the media is handling that? Kadia, how do you think the media should handle that? I mean, does your news organization have a philosophy about that?
GOBA: Yeah. It's an ongoing struggle, right? So because in order to debunk a lie, you have to give life to it. You have to write about it. So journalists - well, I'll speak to - for myself. I'm always at odds at what's too much coverage about - on misinformation or the people that spew the misinformation versus what's not enough. And this is something I came across covering the presidential election, covering Trump.
I think my editors at BuzzFeed News have the right idea. They're just always asking the question, have our readers seen this before? So not only is it about not amplifying misinformation but also not rewriting the same story just to knock it down again, which, I mean, after a while, it just starts to result in diminishing returns. So I think that's one way to handle it.
MARTIN: Paul, where are you on this? - because you're both a reporter, and you're also a columnist. You have a local audience, and you also have a national audience. And you see this argument playing out all the time. On the one hand, people say, why are you giving these statements air? You know, why are you kind of giving these statements any kind of a platform at all? But other people say, if you're not creating a record, how are you - how can you demand accountability if people don't know that these things are being said? Where do - how do you think about this?
KANE: Look, Michel, I wish we had a better answer. And I wish we had a more fulsome, detailed policy on it at The Post, but the reality is it's kind of ad hoc. It's kind of case by case. You know, I think of Congresswoman Boebert and when she was caught telling just a completely made-up story about riding an elevator with Ilhan Omar and, you know, of a fake Capitol Police officer being worried that Omar was actually a terrorist.
MARTIN: Basically, just to catch people up, Lauren Boebert is a member of Congress from Colorado. She made this - what she obviously considered a joke sort of implying that Ilhan Omar, because she is a Muslim, is somehow - you know, had a backpack, and so therefore she said that she was, you know, scared and plotting. This was played up for laughs, and it's obviously racist and offensive.
KANE: Yeah.
MARTIN: Obviously racist and offensive. And now the question becomes what should be done about this? But members are still arguing about whether she should be censured or sanctioned in some way for this. Similarly, it was a similar incident earlier where another member distributed an anime that implied that a colleague of his should be harmed. I mean, so there have been a number of these incidents. So just to catch people up on that, your take on that is what? Like, how to how to handle that?
KANE: It's really difficult because you can't ignore these things. But at the same time, the whole adage that, you know, sunshine is the best disinfectant is an adage that's built on the idea that there is shame, that people will be shamed by sunshine, and they will then clean up their act. Well, Boebert initially - when it first came out about, you know, the leaked video showing her making up this story about Ilhan Omar, she kind of apologized, and it almost looked like there was - this was going to be a moment. And they were going - she wanted to have an in-person meeting, and this was all going to happen.
Well, that didn't happen. They had a call. It fell apart, and Boebert started yelling at her. And rather than being shamed, ultimately, what came out of it was Boebert being energized. She felt validated by all of this, and she doubled and tripled down on the behavior. And so that's where you get into this, like, weird, you know, terrible catch-22 or whatever metaphor you want to use because if we keep giving air and oxygen to this in order to try and explain how bad it is, their actions, if there's no shame, then there's no disinfectant. And I don't know where the line is. I'm not sure how to handle it. And we've grappled with this for several years now, and we don't have an answer. And, you know, Kadia is being, you know, brutally honest, too. In BuzzFeed, they try to have a system, but it's not a perfect one.
MARTIN: So it just - I'm just saying, hearing from both of you, that this is still an ongoing struggle. There really is no sort of hard-and-fast rule that you feel like you can apply to these changing circumstances. I just wanted to ask each of you, is there something that is fundamentally different about the way you do your job after January 6 and before January 6? Is there something that has sort of fundamentally changed for you in doing this work as a result of what happened last year? Kadia, do you want to start?
GOBA: Sure. Yeah. I'm very pointed with my questions nowadays. I am writing, trying to be unique in writing smart stories that just don't amplify the misinformation. Buzzfeed News is really big on, like, misinformation and, like, trying to dissect it.
MARTIN: Big on highlighting misinformation, is that what you mean?
GOBA: Correct - and trying to dissect it, right? Just trying to understand where it's coming from, who it's impacting. I think one of the biggest challenges in the newsroom is how do we reach the audience that is reading the misleading information, right? I think the best examples are exploring some of that misinformation and showing how people got there and maybe what they're doing as a result of being bombarded with misinformation. I think, like, stories about familial splits are really strong - you know, where the parent is, like, ostracized because they have been watching certain types of television all day long, and they just have been convinced that the election is stolen, things like that. I didn't think about writing those stories two years ago when I came to DC.
MARTIN: Paul, what about you? Is there something that's fundamentally changed for you in the way you do your job as a result of what happened last year?
KANE: You know, I'll be honest. When it comes to stories about what happened on January 6 in the last year, it's harder, you know? We lived it - Kadia, me and couple thousand others of - that were inside the building that day. And, you know, I think about watching that vote to award the Congressional Medal, the Congressional Gold Medal to the police that were there that day protecting us.
MARTIN: And what about going forward, as you look forward to covering the events of this year, not only the sort of the policy events of this year but the sort of midterm elections? Is there something that you think is fundamentally different or that has - you - just something that you feel is fundamentally necessary?
KANE: I think, you know, the - misinformation is going to be a key thing as to whether or not that continues to play a role. You know, the voters who are in these purple-ish swing districts that are going to determine the majority in Congress, you know, I don't know how much they're still impacted by that day. And instead, are they really just - do they really just want the Biden administration to finally get its testing regimen down pat and so their kids can go back to school and they can fully reopen their suburban office parks? I don't know yet whether January 6 is going to play a big role in those elections. And that's something that I'm kind of waiting to see.
MARTIN: That was Paul Kane, senior congressional correspondent and columnist for The Washington Post, and Kadia Goba, political reporter for BuzzFeed News. Thank you both so much for doing this with us, and thank you both for your work.
KANE: Thank you.
GOBA: Thank you for having us.
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When an Order for Possession against residential or commercial tenants is made, it must be transferred to the High Court so permission from the Court can be given. Applications are made under Section 42 of the Country Courts Act 1984. Writs of Possession are issued by the High Court following the award of a judgement or Order for Possession for property or land. The order or CCJ can be transferred to the High Court for enforcement if the occupiers are regarded as trespassers. Authorised High Court Enforcement agents are required to enforce judgements or orders.
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È stato, oltre che poeta, figura profetica in ambito ecclesiale e civile, resistente sostenitore delle istanze di rinnovamento culturale e religioso, di ispirazione conciliare.
È ritenuto da alcuni uno dei più rappresentativi esponenti di un cambiamento del cattolicesimo nella seconda metà del '900, il che gli ha valso il titolo di "coscienza inquieta della Chiesa".

Biografia

Periodo formativo
Nono di dieci fratelli, Giuseppe Turoldo recepì con intensità le caratteristiche della semplice cultura umana del suo ambiente nativo e prevalentemente contadino. Colse e fece propria la dignità delle condizioni povere della sua terra, che costituirono una solida radice informante tutto lo sviluppo della sua sensibilità e della sua attività futura.

A soli 13 anni fu accolto tra i Servi di Maria nel convento di Santa Maria al Cengio a Isola Vicentina, sede triveneta della Casa di Formazione dell'Ordine Servita: dove trascorse l'anno di noviziato, assumendo il nome di fra David Maria; il 2 agosto 1935 emise la professione religiosa; il 30 ottobre 1938 pronunciò i voti solenni a Vicenza. Incominciò gli studi filosofici e teologici a Venezia. Il 18 agosto 1940 nel santuario della Madonna di Monte Berico di Vicenza venne ordinato presbitero da monsignor Ferdinando Rodolfi, arcivescovo di Vicenza.

Nel 1940 fu assegnato al convento di Santa Maria dei Servi in San Carlo al Corso in Milano. Su invito del cardinale Ildefonso Schuster, arcivescovo della città, per circa un decennio tenne la predicazione domenicale nel duomo milanese. Insieme con il suo confratello, compagno di studi durante tutto liter formativo nell'Ordine dei Servi e amico Camillo de Piaz, si iscrisse al corso di laurea in filosofia all'Università Cattolica di Milano e conseguì la laurea l'11 novembre 1946 con una tesi dal titolo: La fatica della ragione - Contributo per un'ontologia dell'uomo, redatta sotto la guida di Gustavo Bontadini. Sia costui sia Carlo Bo gli offriranno il ruolo di assistente universitario, il primo presso filosofia teoretica a Milano, il secondo presso la cattedra di Letteratura all'Università di Urbino.

Presenza milanese
Durante l'occupazione nazista di Milano (8 settembre 1943 - 25 aprile 1945) collaborò attivamente con la resistenza antifascista, creando e diffondendo dal suo convento il periodico clandestino l'Uomo. Il titolo testimonia la sua scelta dell'umano contro il disumano, perché «La realizzazione della propria umanità: questo è il solo scopo della vita». La sua militanza durò tutta la vita, interpretando il comando evangelico "essere nel mondo senza essere del mondo" come un "essere nel sistema senza essere del sistema". Rifiutò sempre di schierarsi con un partito.

Il suo impegno nel dialogo senza preconcetti e nel confronto di idee talvolta anche duro, si tradusse in particolare nel far nascere, insieme con Camillo De Piaz, il centro culturale la Corsia dei Servi (il vecchio nome della strada che dal convento dei Servi conduceva al duomo).

Turoldo fu uno dei principali sostenitori del progetto Nomadelfia, il villaggio nato per accogliere gli orfani di guerra "con la fraternità come unica legge", fondato da don Zeno Saltini nell'ex campo di concentramento di Fossoli presso Carpi, raccogliendo fondi presso la ricca borghesia milanese.

Tra il 1948 e il 1952 si rende noto al grande pubblico con due raccolte di liriche Io non ho mani (che gli valse il Premio letterario Saint Vincent) e Gli occhi miei lo vedranno, presentato nella collana mondadoriana Lo Specchio da Giuseppe Ungaretti.

A seguito di prese di posizione assunte da politici locali e da alcune autorità ecclesiastiche, nel 1953 deve lasciare Milano e soggiornare in conventi dei Servi dell'Austria e della Baviera.

La ripresa
Nel 1955 Turoldo venne dai superiori dell'Ordine assegnato al convento della Santissima Annunziata di Firenze, e qui incontrò personalità affini al suo modo di sentire, quali fra Giovanni Vannucci, padre Ernesto Balducci, il sindaco Giorgio La Pira, e molti altri che nell'ambiente fiorentino animano un tempo in cui si accendono speranze di rinnovamento a tutti i livelli. Ma anche da Firenze sarà costretto ad allontanarsi e trascorrerà un periodo di peregrinazioni all'estero.

Rientrato in Italia, nel 1961 venne assegnato al convento di Santa Maria delle Grazie, nella "sua" Udine. Ma con il rientro in Italia aveva portato con sé un progetto, nato a contatto con le nuove generazioni nate all'estero dagli emigrati friulani: realizzare un film che raccontasse la nobiltà della povera vita rurale del suo Friuli. Il film con il titolo Gli ultimi e ispirato al racconto Io non ero fanciullo scritto da Turoldo in precedenza, venne concluso nel 1962 con la regia di Vito Pandolfi. Presentato all'inizio del 1963 a Udine, il film tuttavia fu ben presto rifiutato dall'opinione pubblica friulana, che lo ritenne addirittura offensivo.

Nello stesso anno 1963 Turoldo incominciò a cercare un sito dove dare avvio a una nuova esperienza religiosa comunitaria, allargata alla partecipazione anche di laici. Questo luogo, con le indicazioni ricevute da amici, venne individuato da padre David nell'antico Priorato cluniacense di Sant'Egidio in Fontanella.

Ottenuto il consenso del vescovo bergamasco Clemente Gaddi, nel 1964 vi si insediò ufficialmente il 1º novembre.

Costruì accanto allo storico edificio del Priorato una casa per l'ospitalità, che chiamò "Casa di Emmaus", titolo ispirato all'episodio della cena a Emmaus, in cui Gesù risorto si manifestò ai due discepoli nello spezzare il pane. La casa costituì un simbolico richiamo alla semplice accoglienza, senza distinzioni di censo, di religione, o altro: aspetti che caratterizzarono tutta la presenza e la multiforme opera di Turoldo. Costituì inoltre un punto di riferimento per molti protagonisti della storia culturale e civile italiana ed estera, in particolare dell'America latina; per molte personalità del mondo ecclesiale e di altre confessioni cristiane; un solido incentivo al rinnovamento di linguaggi e di strutture; un laboratorio di creazioni liturgiche e celebrative, di cui continuano a essere testimoni la versione metrica per il canto dei Salmi e migliaia di inni liturgici. Insieme con altri frati, impegnati particolarmente in iniziative di rinnovamento spirituale e culturale, diede avvio alla pubblicazione di una rivista, il cui titolo è ispirato all'Ordine dei Servi di Maria: Servitium, e ad altre pubblicazioni che si ricollegavano all'esperienza editoriale della Corsia dei Servi. La pubblicazione della rivista continua tuttora con cadenza bimestrale, unitamente all'edizione di altre proposte librarie edite sotto l'omonimo marchio Servitium.

Innumerevoli furono gli interventi di padre David sui media, dalla carta stampata alle trasmissioni radio e televisive; innumerevoli i luoghi e le circostanze in cui è stato chiamato a intervenire con la sua avvincente parola. Da ricordare in particolare i suoi "viaggi della memoria" nei luoghi della Shoah, tra cui spicca quello del maggio 1979 a Mauthausen. In quell'occasione compose una preghiera, poi recitata nella cerimonia conclusiva, pubblicata successivamente nel libro "Ritorniamo ai giorni del rischio" (1985).

La morte
Colpito alla fine degli anni ottanta da un tumore del pancreas, visse con lucida consapevolezza e trasparente coraggio l'ultimo periodo della vita, dando una incoraggiante testimonianza sul cammino verso "sorella morte". Morì nella clinica "San Pio X" in Milano il 6 febbraio 1992. Migliaia di persone sfilarono accanto alla bara in cui era esposto il corpo di padre David. I funerali a Milano videro la partecipazione di una numerosa folla nella chiesa di San Carlo al Corso, dove presiedette le esequie il cardinale Carlo Maria Martini, che, qualche mese prima della morte, aveva consegnato a padre Turoldo il primo "Premio Giuseppe Lazzati", affermando la propria opinione secondo la quale «la Chiesa riconosce la profezia troppo tardi». Un secondo rito funebre venne celebrato nel pomeriggio a Fontanella di Sotto il Monte, presente ancora una folla che copriva tutta la collina circostante l'antico Priorato. Nel piccolo cimitero locale riposa sotto una semplice croce lignea, in mezzo alla "sua gente".

La rivista Servitium dedicò perciò alla sua figura un quaderno alla fine del 1992: «David M. Turoldo, frate dei Servi di santa Maria»; e ugualmente fece nel decennale (n. 139, gennaio febbraio 2002): «La grande passione. A dieci anni dalla morte di D.M. Turoldo».

Opere

Raccolte poetiche
 Io non ho mani, Milano, Bompiani, 1948.
 Udii una voce, saggio introduttivo di Giuseppe Ungaretti, Collana Lo Specchio, Milano, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1952.
 Gli occhi miei lo vedranno, Collana Lo Specchio, Milano, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1955.
 Se tu non riappari. 1950-1961, Milano, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1963.
 Poesie, Collezione Poesia n.23, Vicenza, Neri Pozza, 1971.
 Il sesto angelo. Poesie scelte - prima e dopo il 1968, Introduzione di Angelo Romanò, Collana Oscar poesia, Mondadori, 1976.
 Fine dell'uomo?, Milano, Scheiwiller, 1976.
 Lo scandalo della speranza, Udine, Benvenuto Editore, 1978; G.E.I., 1984. [raccolta di poesie dal 1935 al 1978, con inediti]
 Laudario alla Vergine, Bologna, Edizioni Dehoniane, 1980.
 O sensi miei... : Poesie 1948-1988, Note introduttive di Andrea Zanzotto e Luciano Erba, Postfazione di Giorgio Luzzi, Collana Scala italiani, Milano, Rizzoli, 1990, ISBN 978-88-176-6854-5. [raccolta complessiva delle poesie]
 Canti ultimi, Collezione di poesia, Milano, Garzanti, 1991, ISBN 978-88-116-3730-1; Servitium, 2017, ISBN
 Mie notti con Qohelet, Postfazione di Gianfranco Ravasi, Collezione di poesia, Milano, Garzanti, 1992, ISBN 978-88-116-4013-4.
 Poesie sul sagrato, con tre note Luciano Erba, Giannino Piana e Roberto Cicala, incisioni di Mauro Maulini, Novara, Interlinea, 1993, ISBN 978-88-8612-111-8.
 Ultime poesie (1991-1992), Milano, Garzanti, 1999. [contiene le due raccolte Canti ultimi e Mie notti con Qohelet]
 Nel lucido buio. Ultimi versi e prose liriche, a cura di G. Luzzi, Collana La Scala, Milano, BUR, 2002, ISBN 9788817172721.

Traduzioni poetiche
 I Salmi, Bologna, Dehoniane, 1973.
 «Lungo i fiumi..» I Salmi, versione riveduta con Gianfranco Ravasi, Milano, Edizioni Paoline, 1987, VI ed. 1992.
 Salmi e cantici. Nuova edizione riveduta della versione metrica per il canto di David Maria Turoldo, Servitium, 2015, ISBN 978-88-816-6354-5.
 Il Salterio corale. Salmi, inni e cantici della Liturgia delle ore, Bologna, Dehoniane, 1976, ISBN 978-88-108-0598-5.
 Salmi e cantici, Servitium, 2015, ISBN 978-88-816-6354-5.

Saggistica e spiritualità
  - Queriniana, 1979, ISBN 978-88-399-1720-1.
 Tempo dello spirito, Prefazione di Alessandro Pronzato, Collana Il sudore di Dio, Gribaudi, 1966.
 Alla porta del bene e del male, 1978
 Nuovo tempo dello Spirito, Brescia, Queriniana, 1979.
 Bibbia storia dell'uomo, Milano, Fabbri Editori, 1980.

 Amare, Cinisello Balsamo, Edizioni Paoline, 1982, ISBN 978-88-215-0345-0.
 Il diavolo sul pinnacolo, Collezione Il pozzo, Cinisello Balsamo, Edizioni Paoline, 1988.
 Il dramma è Dio. Il divino, la fede, la poesia, Collana Osservatorio italiano, Milano, Rizzoli, 1992, ISBN 978-88-178-4190-0.

 Sul monte la morte, Servitium, 1992, ISBN 978-88-807-8004-5.
 La morte ha paura , Servitium, 1994, ISBN 978-88-816-6030-8.
 Via crucis. Cammino verso la vita, Servitium, 1995, ISBN 978-88-816-6078-0.
 Salmodia della speranza, IPL, 1995, ISBN 978-88-783-6404-2.
 Lettere dalla Casa di Emmaus, Servitium, 1996; nuova ed., 2016, ISBN 978-88-8166-006-3.
 La parabola di Giobbe, Servitium, 1996; nuova ed., 2012, ISBN 978-88-8166-360-6.
 Santa Maria, con Giovanni Vannucci, Servitium, 1996; nuova ed., 2013, ISBN 978-88-8166-377-4.
 Pregare. «Forse il discorso più urgente», Servitium, 1997, 2001, ISBN 978-88-816-6020-9; nuova ed. ampliata, Milano, Mondadori, 2004, ISBN  978-88-045-2753-4; Servitium, 2010, 2020, ISBN 978-88-816-6334-7.

 Mia Chiesa. Una terra sola, Servitium, 1998, ISBN 88-8166-077-6.
 Parole per vivere, con Andrea Zanzotto, Casagrande, 2000, ISBN 978-88-771-3200-0.
 Come i primi trovadori, Servitium, 2005, ISBN 978-88-8166-224-1.
 Colloqui con Papa Giovanni, Servitium, 2000; nuova ed., 2012, ISBN 978-88-8166-364-4.
 Il sapore del pane, Prefazione di Gianfranco Ravasi, Collezione Il pozzo n.27, Milano, Edizioni Paoline, 2002.
 Profezia della povertà, Servitium, 2002; nuova ed., 2012, ISBN 978-88-8166-361-3.
 Chiamati ad essere, Servitium, 2002 ISBN 978-88-8166-021-6.
 È Natale, Servitium, 2002, ISBN 978-88-8166-188-6.
 Mio amico don Milani, Servitium, 2003; nuova ed., 2012, ISBN 978-88-8166-362-0.
 Anche Dio è infelice, Edizioni Paoline, 2013.
 I giorni del rischio (con Salmodia della speranza e DVD della rappresentazione in Duomo a Milano con Moni Ovadia e Maddalena Crippa), Servitium, 2013 ISBN 978-88-816-6373-6.
 Padre del mondo, Servitium, 2014 ISBN 978-88-8166-387-3.

 Povero Sant'Antonio, Il Messaggero, Padova, 2016.
 Luminoso vuoto. Ultimi scritti,, Servitium, 2016, ISBN 978-88-816-6409-2.

Narrativa
 Mia infanzia d'oro, a cura di Vanni Scheiwiller, Milano, Scheiwiller, 1991, 1992; con il DVD allegato Ritratto d'autore di Damiano Tavoliere, 1990), Servitium, 2012, ISBN 978-88-816-6366-8.
 ...e poi la morte dell'ultimo teologo, Torino, Gribaudi, 1969.

Film
 Gli ultimi, Regia di Vito Pandolfi, soggetto di David Maria Turoldo, sceneggiatura di Vito Pandolfi e David Maria Turoldo, 1962.

Teatro
 La terra non sarà distrutta, Milano, Garzanti, 1951.
 La passione di San Lorenzo, Dramma cristiano in due tempi, Prefazione di Mario Gozzini, Brescia, Morcelliana, 1961.
 Teatro, A cura di E. Bertazzoni, Servitium, 1999, ISBN 978-88-816-6106-0.

Epistolari
 David M. Turoldo-Loris Capovilla, Nel solco di Papa Giovanni. Lettere inedite, a cura di Marco Roncalli e Antonio Donadio, Appendici di Gianfranco Ravasi e Bruno Forte, Servitium, 2017, ISBN 978-88-816-6415-3.

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Bibliografia
 Mariangela Maraviglia, David Maria Turoldo. La vita, la testimonianza (1916-1992), Morcelliana 2016.
 Daniela Saresella, David M. Turoldo, Camillo de Piaz e la Corsia dei Servi di Milano (1943-1963), Morcelliana 2008.
 Giuseppina Commare, Turoldo e gli «organi divini». Lettura concordanziale di "O sensi miei...", Olschki, 2003.
 Una vita con gli amici - Il mondo delle amicizie di Turoldo, documentario a cura di Renzo Salvi, Roma, Rai-Educational, 2009
 Antonio D'Elia, La peregrinatio poietica di David Maria Turoldo, prefazione di Dante della Terza, Firenze, Leo s. Olschki, 2012, ISBN 978 88 222 613 42.
 Marco Cardinali, Il Dio Inseguito. Viaggio alla scoperta della poesia di David Maria Turoldo, Edizioni Pro Sanctitate, Roma, 2002.

Voci correlate
 Óscar Romero
 Ernesto Balducci
 Camillo De Piaz
 Nazareno Fabbretti

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What Keynes can teach us about government debt today
Keynes believed government investment should encourage consumption by raising the overall level of output.
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Linda Yueh Oxford and London Business School economist ,
John Maynard Keynes, the British economist whose theories dominated the industrial postwar West, argued for government spending as a means to counteract slow economic growth. Especially during a recovery from a recession or depression, he reasoned, private demand is insufficient, so extra spending by government is needed to ensure that aggregate demand remains high enough to maintain full employment. But what would Keynes have made of the debate over governments borrowing to invest in times outside acute crises or recession?
The cash hoarding that he predicted is evident in the post-crisis economy.
Since Keynes believed that the normal tendency was for the propensity to save to be stronger than the incentive to invest, he was supportive of governments borrowing to invest. He believed the economy usually operated below its potential, and that public investment should therefore supplement private investment.
Does Keynes's theory still hold up?
Is it time to turn back to Keynes?
His idea was to use fiscal policy to maintain a high level of public or semi-public investment. Investment should encourage consumption by raising the overall level of output, and thus raising income. The more consumption there was, the higher the national income, and therefore the greater the savings of the society that could be used to finance investment. A permanently high level of publicly directed investment would offset fluctuations in private investment, and contribute to the economy remaining in a "quasi-boom".
Keynes expected the government to take on a greater role in investment as the need became clearer. His notion of "socializing investment" may well encompass a government-backed infrastructure bank or fund to help get projects off the ground. He might not have viewed private sector participation as necessary, but would have been willing to include private investors who would pool their money with the government to build infrastructure.
The suspicion that this policy would lead to persistent budget deficits was one of the criticisms of Keynes. It's why governments have historically been reluctant to borrow to invest: they fear that bond investors will ask for higher returns to lend them money, increasing the borrowing costs for a country, which could in turn jeopardize its economic growth.
The verdict on Keynes's vision today is far from settled. The Chicago school of monetarists say that his counter-cyclical policies are bound to fail since their effects will be anticipated, either immediately or after a short lag. The influential Harvard economist Robert Barro argues that future tax rises to pay for government deficit spending are figured into long-term interest rates by investors and savers. This process will lead to higher rates in the future and make government borrowing more expensive and the budget deficit less affordable.
The Keynesian Cross: output is on the Y axis, with spending on the X
Image: The Expenditure-Output (or Keynesian Cross) Model
The view can be traced all the way back to the 19th-century British economist David Ricardo. Under Ricardian equivalence, rational people know that the government debt will have to be repaid at some point in the form of higher taxes, so they save in anticipation and do not increase current consumption that boosts growth.
Still, the perceived need to increase investment and economic growth during our current struggles has shifted the public debate closer to what Keynes advocated even during non-crisis times. There is also a growing inclination to separate capital from current spending in government accounts, so that investment doesn't count the same as day-to-day public spending.
Given the debate over low investment, the record low borrowing costs and our concerns over growth, Keynes's lesser-known views on public investment could have a greater impact on the structure of an economy than his better-known arguments about government deficit spending.
This article is an extract from Linda Yueh's book The Great Economists: How Their Ideas Can Help Us Today (Viking).
Linda Yueh, Oxford and London Business School economist ,
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Alhaji Lawal M-Liman, Zamfara Commissioner for Health said on Thursday that 340 health personnel including doctors, nurses and midwives would soon be recruited by the state government.
M-Liman stated this at the School of Nursing and Midwifery, Gusau while addressing participants at the Mandatory Continuing Professional Development Training Programme, organized by the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria.
The commissioner said that the recruitment had been approved by the state government and was to improve the healthcare delivery system in the state.
"We are also working on how to improve the general welfare of health workers in this state.
"You know that adequate and competent health personnel are prerequisite to an effective healthcare delivery.
"That is why, we are always calling on you as health professionals to be dedicated, transparent and discipline while discharging your duties," he said.
He thanked the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria for organising the training, saying that the knowledge acquired would help the health workers embrace modern healthcare practices.
M-Liman commended the management of the nursing school and that of College of Health Sciences and Technology, Tsafe on their efforts to provide competent health personnel in the state.
Earlier, the Facilitator of the programme, Mr Abubakar Ango, said the training was organised by the council to update the knowledge of health workers in the state, particularly the nurses and midwives.
Ango, who is a director in the state Hospital Services Management Board, said over 50 nurses and midwives from secondary and tertiary health institutions attended the training programme.
Updated: April 5, 2018 — 5:46 pm


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MEI Realty
Edward J. McKeegan III
Founding Partner /Managing Director
Mr. McKeegan is the founder of MEI Real Estate Services in 1987 and a founding partner of MEI Capital Partners. He heads the company's real estate acquisitions department and oversees all fundraising efforts.
Prior to establishing MEI, Mr. McKeegan worked in the acquisitions and management departments for Jones Lang LaSalle, then known as Jones Lang Wooten International. His primary focus of responsibility was the acquisition and repositioning of class "A" high rise office buildings for off-shore investors. Mr. McKeegan has served as President of the Institute of Real Estate Management – Los Angeles and is an active member of the Urban Land Institute. Mr. McKeegan received a BA in business Marketing & Economics with a minor in Political Science from Niagara University, as well as a Juris Doctorate from Western State University School of Law. He holds real estate licenses in both California and Arizona, is a Certified Property Manager and additionally is a Certified Commercial Investment Member.
You may contact Ed at [email protected].
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