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Take Route 66 To A City Of Reconciliation And Growth
Tulsa, OK, downtown skyline from a park with bushes, grass, rocks, and a stream within the foreground. … [+] The park is the Gathering Place, a $465 million, 64 acre park that's the largest privately-funded group area in US historical past.
I ran right into a pal at a spiritual service in Los Angeles. I discussed that I had gotten a COVID-19 booster as a result of I used to be touring.
"The place are you going?"
"Tulsa, Oklahoma."
It's true that many Individuals, after they consider Tulsa, consider it as a dusty oil city.
Certain, the meals is nice, the persons are pleasant and historic Route 66 brings 1000's of vacationers into city. The realm has stunning parks, outside actions, and superb eating places with $10 hand-crafted cocktails. Town additionally boasts one of many largest collection of Art Deco buildings within the US. The Tulsa Remote program, which pays out-of-state distant employees as much as $10K to maneuver to Tulsa for a yr, is alleged to be extra aggressive to get into than Harvard.
However there are deeper causes to go to Tulsa, from its work to acknowledge its tortured previous to its efforts to create a greener and extra various current.
This yr marks the centennial of the Tulsa Race Bloodbath, one of many worst in American historical past. In 1921, the affluent Greenwood space, the "Black Wall Avenue," was destroyed when armed white males crossed the railroad tracks to assault the group. Almost 300 folks, overwhelmingly African Individuals, had been killed when a 35-block part of houses, church buildings and companies had been burnt to the bottom. Ten thousand had been left homeless. The latest HBO collection WATCHMAN included the bloodbath, and President Biden spoke on the commemoration this spring, to a crowd that embrace three aged survivors.
Tulsa race bloodbath Survivors Viola Fletcher (C) and Hughes Van Ellis (C R) take heed to US President … [+] Joe Biden as he speaks on the one centesimal anniversary of the Tulsa Race Bloodbath on the Greenwood Cultural Middle in Tulsa, Oklahoma on June 1, 2021. – US President Joe Biden traveled Tuesday to Oklahoma to honor the victims of a 1921 racial bloodbath within the metropolis of Tulsa, the place African American residents are hoping he'll hear their name for monetary reparations 100 years on. (Picture by MANDEL NGAN / AFP) (Picture by MANDEL NGAN/AFP through Getty Photographs)
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Tulsa is making a major effort to acknowledge its previous, comparable in some methods to Germany's effort to deal with the Holocaust. After years of neglect, town hosted a fact and reconciliation fee, chaired by famous African American historian John Hope Franklin, a Tulsa native.
The haunting John Hope Franklin Reconciliation Park is a part of the trouble to memorialize the bloodbath and inform the story of African Individuals' function in constructing Oklahoma. Some 12% of tourists to the park are worldwide, with the remainder coming from throughout the U.S.
Now a part of the African American Civil Rights Network, the park features a pair of sculptures by sculptor Ed Dwight, a former USAF take a look at pilot and America's first African American astronaut candidate. The sculpture "Hope" options three bronze figures referencing the bloodbath with themes of Humiliation, (a person along with his fingers up) "Hostility" (a person with three weapons), and "Hope" (a Pink Cros director holding a child.) The second set up is a 27' tall cylindrical "Tower of Reconciliation," depicting the complex history of "Blacks, Native Individuals and Black Indians in Oklahoma from the 1830's" together with slavery, the Civil Battle, Buffalo Troopers, the constructing, burning and rebuilding of Greenwood and in the present day's efforts at reconciliation."
"This isn't Black historical past. That is American historical past," stated a park information, including "Reconciliation is a course of, not a vacation spot."
A sculpture commemorating the Tulsa Race Bloodbath stands in John Hope Franklin Reconciliation Park … [+] in Tulsa, Okla., on Wednesday, April 14, 2021. (AP Picture/Sue Ogrocki)
Town and personal funders have additionally constructed a $30 million museum, Greenwood Rising, that discusses the historical past of the Tulsa African American group, together with the oil increase that helped create its prosperity, with multimedia shows like a barbershop peopled with holographs. One of many museum's movies features a soundtrack of poet Maya Angelou studying her poem "Nonetheless I Rise" towards scenes of Black life in in the present day's Tulsa.
The bloodbath is portrayed in multimedia with movies, textual content, and wrenching audio. As government director Phil Armstrong famous, earlier than Greenwood Rising, the 1995 Oklahoma Metropolis bombing was commemorated "however nobody was commemorating the worst home terrorism in US historical past."
As we speak, the Greenwood district is certainly rising. One space hub is the Fulton Street Books and Café. Opened in June 2021 on the peak of the pandemic, its resourceful proprietor Onikah Asamoa-Caesar not solely offered espresso and snacks from the door of the closed café, however she additionally began a guide membership to assist drive enterprise.
Onikah Asamoa-Caesar from Tulsa poses in Miami after the screening of Legacy Lives On at Regal … [+] Cinemas South Seaside on Saturday, June 15, 2019 in Miami. (Jesus Aranguren/AP Photographs for Prudential Monetary, Inc.) Legacy Lives On, which premiered June 19, 2019, examines the legacy of cash within the Black group as instructed via the tales of three millennial girls—from Tulsa, Detroit and Atlanta—who, regardless of historic and present-day boundaries, are discovering the trail for monetary wellness for themselves and making a legacy for his or her households and communities. Asamoa-Caesar is now the proprietor of Fulton Books and Cafe in Tulsa's historic Greenwood District.
The shop, now open for walk-in enterprise, is stocked with books of curiosity to the African American and normal group. It has change into a vacation spot for readers and a web site for creator occasions.
Different areas of Tulsa are awakening as properly. Tulsa has a protracted reference to historic Route 66, the "Mom Highway" (named by John Steinbeck in THE GRAPES OF WRATH), the primary all-paved US nationwide freeway stretching from Chicago to Los Angeles. Tons of of vacationers fascinated with the West and its Mom Highway, many from distant nations, cruise via every week. A Tulsan, Cyrus Avery, is taken into account the "Father of Route 66" which celebrates its centennial in 2026.
A black and white highway signal of the historic Route 66 on asphalt.
Mom Highway Market, Oklahoma's first meals corridor, celebrates Route 66 and the enterprising spirit of Tulsans. A non-profit growth of the Lobeck Taylor Basis, Mom Highway is an incubator for restaurant and retail start-ups, who get low-cost entry to kiosks and the power's 3000 sq. foot industrial kitchen. Retail consists of the 19&21 retail kiosk that includes native Black-owned companies together with the Greenwood Ave. clothes model.
Clients get meals of all descriptions, like sushi in the course of Oklahoma, native favourite Andolini's pizza, burgers, Mexican and Latin American delicacies and extra. "The demand for vegan meals is thru the roof" famous a spokesperson. A staff utilizing the on-site meals truck (an Airstream trailer) made $2000 on vegan meals in a latest week. Opened in 2018, Mom Highway, which incorporates a big outside area and a 9-hole mini golf course, has change into a vacation spot for Tulsans and Route 66 vacationers.
Mom Highway has labored with greater than 150 meals entrepreneurs, with over 50% being women-owned companies. A number of have 'graduated' to opening standalone eating places. The objective with this program and different group entrepreneurship efforts by native foundations is "establishing generational wealth," together with serving to budding entrepreneurs purchase expertise to run their companies.
Whimsical eating space at Mom Highway Market, Tulsa, OK November 2021.
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Town has change into residence to many immigrant teams, together with vital Hispanic and Asian communities. One man who got here to Tulsa from Vietnam in 1991 at 18 finally opened an Asian grocery store, a Vietnamese restaurant, and now owns a lot of the purchasing heart. A Mexican American household that moved from Los Angeles went from promoting meals at a grocery store kiosk to proudly owning three La Tapatia ice cream outlets.
Tulsa additionally has a rising quantity of inexperienced area. A $465 million greenback, 64-acre park by the Arkansas River, the Gathering Place, is the biggest privately funded group area in US historical past. 5 acres is a gigantic, kids's playground full with slides, swings castles and kooky animals. A waterway provides kayak and paddle board leases.
Designed by famed panorama architect Michael Van Valkenburgh, the park consists of public indoor areas the place folks can loosen up within the outsized armchairs or sit by the big indoor and outside hearth. A latest casual depend revealed vehicles from thirty states within the car parking zone. There may be Wi-Fi within the buildings however not exterior—a spokesperson stated, "We hope folks grasp up and hang around."
One other park, 600-acre Turkey Hill, repurposes an outdated drilling web site as an city wilderness with mountain climbing trails, ponds and off-road biking trails.
Tulsa has many different points of interest, together with the Philbrook Museum of Artwork and its gardens, and the Woody Guthrie Center which hosts the folksingers' archives.
However Tulsa's most fascinating attribute is its willpower to acknowledge its previous whereas it invests in its folks for a profitable future.
James Baldwin quote on the wall of Greenwood Rising, a museum in Tulsa, OK that commemorates the … [+] Tulsa Race Bloodbath of June, 1921. Picture by Michael Goldstein, November 4, 2021
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Slavery, liberty, racism and the lessons of history: An Appreciation of Delia Sherman's The Freedom Maze, a 2012 Prometheus Award winner for Best Novel
To highlight the Prometheus Awards' four-decade history and make clear what makes each winner deserve recognition as notable pro-freedom sf/fantasy, the Libertarian Futurist Society is presenting weekly Appreciations of past award-winners. Our anniversary series was launched in 2019 – 40 years after the first Prometheus Award was presented – starting with appreciation/reviews of the earliest winners in the original Best Novel category, and continuing in chronological order.
Here's the latest Appreciation for Delia Sherman's The Freedom Maze, one of two 2012 Prometheus Award winners for Best Novel:
Some stories teach the young and remind their elders of core truths about civilization, justice and humanity – such as the goodness of liberty and the evils of slavery.
One of the best is Delia Sherman's The Freedom Maze, a young-adult historical fantasy novel that focuses on an adolescent girl of 1960 who is magically sent back in time to 1860 when her family owned slaves on a Louisiana plantation.
Sophie, 13, explores a maze while spending the summer at her grandmother's old Bayou house, part of an old pre-Civil-War plantation, and makes an impulsive wish for escape and grand adventure. Thanks to a mysterious and tricky spirit, her wish is granted and she finds herself unexpectedly stranded a century into the past.
Mistaken by her ancestral family for a light-skinned slave fathered by a plantation owner, she endures great hardships, commiserates with others suffering worse, works in the household and the sugar-cane fields, and sees the other slaves demonstrating their humanity in the face of incredible adversity.
In the process, over months in the past without any hope or way to return to the present, the plucky girl confronts the humiliations and horrors of slavery at first hand, discovers her own family's checkered past as plantation owners and as slaves, and comes to appreciate the values of honor, respect, courage, and personal responsibility.
As historical fiction, the story is well researched and rings true to the dark era of slavery while challenging stereotypes of race, identity and history.
As one of a handful of Young Adult novels to win the Prometheus Award for Best Novel, TheFreedom Maze has special appeal for teenagers and other young readers – and can be read easily and appreciated by older children.
Although geared somewhat to children in avoiding some of the institution of slavery's more grisly extremes, the novel does not whitewash the past or its cruelties while exploring and affirming the universal value of personhood and, implicitly, self-ownership.
Sherman also explores the closely linked themes of family, womanhood and courage in her emotionally powerful coming-of-age novel, at about 250 pages easily readable and highly recommended for younger readers (especially grades five to eight).
Yet, libertarians of all ages can take Sherman's searing and emotionally powerful indictment of slavery to heart.
Slavery, like extreme forms of tyranny, ranks among the greatest evils possible that human beings can inflict on other people from the perspective of libertarianism – a close cousin and intellectual descendant of the classical liberalism of the 1700s and 1800s (from John Locke to John Stuart Mill and Wilhelm von Humboldt), which helped inspire the Abolitionist campaign to end slavery worldwide. Along with the earlier Revolutionary movement for freedom and independence of the Founding Fathers, the anti-slavery movement of the Abolitionists is viewed as one of the most successful mass-appeal libertarian movements in American history – and The Freedom Maze is an eloquent reminder of a great evil that thankfully is now largely gone worldwide.
(Note: Delia Sherman, an American fantasy writer and editor, also won the Andre Norton Award for The Freedom Maze, a 2011 nominee for the James Tiptree Jr. Award, and the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for her novel The Porcelain Dove.
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The latter work is one of three novels for adults – along with Through a Brazen Mirror and In the Fall of the Kings (co-written with her wife Ellen Kushner) – Sherman has written in the Fantasy of Manners genre.)
* Coming up soon on the Prometheus Blog: A 40thAnniversary Celebration and appreciation of the next novel to be recognized with a Prometheus Award: Ernest Cline's Ready Player One, the other 2012 winner for Best Novel.
* See related introductory essay about the LFS' 40thanniversary retrospective series of Appreciations of past Prometheus Awards winners, with an overview of the awards' four-decade history.
* Other Prometheus winners: For a full list of winners – for the annual Best Novel and Best Classic Fiction (Hall of Fame) categories and occasional Special Awards – visit the recently updated and enhanced Prometheus Awards page on the LFS website.
* Join us! To help sustain the Prometheus Awards, join the Libertarian Futurist Society (LFS), a non-profit volunteer association of libertarian sf/fantasy fans and freedom-lovers. Libertarian futurists believe cultural change is as or more vital as political change (and often more fun!) in achieving universal individual rights and a better world (perhaps eventually, worlds) for all.
Michael Grossberg
Michael Grossberg, who founded the LFS in 1982 to help sustain the Prometheus Awards, has been an arts critic, speaker and award-winning journalist for five decades. Michael has won Ohio SPJ awards for Best Critic in Ohio and Best Arts Reporting (seven times). He's written for Reason, Libertarian Review and Backstage weekly; helped lead the American Theatre Critics Association for two decades; and has contributed to six books, including critical essays for the annual Best Plays Theatre Yearbook and an afterword for J. Neil Schulman's novel The Rainbow Cadenza. Among books he recommends from a libertarian-futurist perspective: Matt Ridley's The Rational Optimist & How Innovation Works, David Boaz's The Libertarian Mind and Steven Pinker's Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism and Progress. View all posts by Michael Grossberg
Posted on April 29, 2020 March 13, 2021 Author Michael GrossbergCategories Appreciations, Best Novels, Young Adult FictionTags Civil War, classical liberalism, Delia Sherman, history, identity, libertarian Abolitionism, race, self-ownership, slavery, The Freedom Maze, time travel, young adult novel
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The Indianapolis Colts Can Make NFL History with an 11-5 record
by William Ricks on January 3, 2021
The Indianapolis Colts have a lot on the line coming into Week 17. They are playing the Jacksonville Jaguars with a playoff berth at stake. On the outside looking in, the Colts can sneak into the playoffs. They would need a win and losses by one of four teams in front of them. They could even win the AFC South if the Tennessee Titans lose their final game of the season.
However, they could make history if they handle their business but don't receive the help they need. If the Indianapolis Colts fail to make the playoffs at 11-5, they will join an exclusive group of NFL teams that were good but not good enough to make the postseason.
The Colts missed their chance to clinch a playoff spot
Indianapolis could've punched their ticket to the postseason already but squandered that opportunity against the Pittsburgh Steelers. All the Colts had to do was win and they'd be in. Things were looking pretty well for them in the third quarter. Indy had a 17-point lead on the Steelers, who were on a three-game losing streak entering the contest.
That big lead evaporated as the Colts' defense played football like they weren't trying to lose. The playcalling was conservative, and Pittsburgh took advantage of that. Their offense erupted in the second half, outscoring Indy 24-7. Ben Roethlisberger cooked the Colts secondary, finishing the game with 342 yards and three touchdowns. Pittsburgh completed the comeback effort, defeating the Colts 28-24.
The Indianapolis Colts entered that game as the sixth seed, with control of their destiny. That loss pushed Indianapolis to the eighth seed. Now they are hoping they get the help they need to make the postseason. A win against Jacksonville would give Indy an 11-5. If they don't receive the help they need, they'd be on the bad side of NFL history.
Since it's now possible, Colts could finish 11-5 and be on outside looking in.
Happened twice since NFL moved to 16-game sked in '78.
2008 Patriots
1985 Broncos
— Mike Chappell (@mchappell51) December 27, 2020
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Despite the Jaguars being 1-14, the Colts shouldn't take this game lightly. The lone win Jacksonville has this year came against Indy in Week 1. The two teams are completely different now than the first week of the season, with the Colts being the heavy favorites. Indianapolis needs to win their game and hope the Baltimore Ravens, Cleveland Browns, Miami Dolphins, or Titans lose their games.
If the Colts handle business, but all of the teams mentioned above win, they would miss the playoffs with an 11-5 record. They would be the third team in NFL history to miss the playoffs with such a record per NBC Sports. The last time that happened was in 2008 with the New England Patriots. Ironically, the team ahead of them in the standings that year was the Colts at 12-4.
The only other time an 11-5 team missed the playoffs was in 1985. It was Denver Broncos, led by John Elway. The Colts could be the third team to join that club if the chips don't fall their way Sunday. They should have a clear picture of their playoff chances, given that the Ravens, Browns, and Dolphins play at 1 p.m. ET. Indy plays Jacksonville at 4:25 p.m. ET.
The Colts can still host a playoff game
The end of the season could go one of three ways for the Indianapolis Colts. The first way is the Colts win their game but fail to make the playoffs because all of the teams ahead of them won. They could make the postseason if one (or all) of the teams above lose their Week 17 games. The final outcome is that they can win their game, and the Titans lose theirs. That would make the Colts AFC South champions.
That could change the entire outlook of the Colts' potential playoff run. Winning their division bumps them up to the fourth seed, which means they would host a Wild Card game. There is a big difference between playing a playoff game at home and on the road. The Colts perform better at home, posting a 5-2 record at Lucas Oil Stadium. That record could jump to 6-2 after their game against Jacksonville.
Having the four seed would also mean avoiding a potential Wild Card matchup with the Steelers or Bills. The Bills have the two-seed, and the Steelers have the three-seed currently. The Colts just lost against Pittsburgh, and the Bills are one of the more complete teams in the NFL. A four-seeded Colts squad would also take great pleasure in stealing the division crown from the Titans also.
History could be made for the Indianapolis Colts after the game Sunday, being the third 11-5 team to miss the playoffs. That isn't history Indy wants to be associated with, so they will be looking to win against Jacksonville and praying at least one of the teams in front of them to slip up.
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#Mr 8:1| In those days. That is, while Christ was in Decapolis. He called unto him his disciples. When the five thousand had been caught in similar circumstances, the apostles had come with suggestions to Jesus (#Mr 6:35,36 Mt 14:15 Lu 9:12|), but now, being taught by experience, they keep silence and let Jesus manage as he will. (TFG 405) #Mr 8:2,3| They continue with me now three days, and have nothing to eat. The multitude had not been three days without food, but it had been with Jesus three days and was now without food. (TFG 405) #Mr 8:4| Whence shall one be able to fill these men with bread here in a desert place? It seems strange that the apostles should ask such a question after having assisted in feeding the five thousand. But the failure to expect a miracle, despite previous experience, was a common occurrence in the history of Israel and of the twelve (#Nu 11:21-23| #Ps 78:19,20|). In this case the failure of the apostles to expect miraculous relief suggests that they had probably often been hungry and had long since ceased to look for supernatural relief in such cases. Their disbelief here is so similar to their disbelief in the first instance that it, with a few other minor details, has led rationalistic commentators to confound the miracle with the feeding of the five thousand. But the words of Jesus forbid this (#Mt 16:9,10 Mr 8:19,20|). (TFG 405) #Mr 8:6| And he commandeth the multitude to sit down on the ground. They were on the bleak mountain, and not in the grassy plain of Butaiha. (TFG 405) #Mr 8:10| LXX. THIRD WITHDRAWAL FROM HEROD'S TERRITORY. A. PHARISAIC LEAVEN. A BLIND MAN HEALED. (Magadan and Bethsaida. Probably Summer, A.D. 29.) #Mt 15:39-16:12 Mr 8:10-26| And came into the parts of Dalmanutha. It appears from the context that he crossed the lake to the west shore. Commentators, therefore, pretty generally think that Magadan is another form of the name Magdala, and that Dalmanutha was either another name for Magdala, or else a village near it. (TFG 496) #Mr 8:11| And the Pharisees came forth, and began to question with him seeking of him a sign from heaven. They rejected his miracles as signs of his Messiahship, the Pharisees holding that such signs could be wrought by Beelzebub. See #Mr 3:22 Mt 12:24 Lu 11:15|. They therefore asked a sign from heaven such as only God could give, and such as he had accorded to Moses, Joshua, Samuel, and Elijah, or such as Joel foretold (#Joe 2:31|). Trying him. Testing the strength of his miraculous power. (TFG 406) #Mr 8:12| And he sighed deeply in his spirit. Being grieved deeply at the sinful obduracy which demanded signs in the midst of overwhelming demonstrations of divine power. There shall no sign be given unto this generation. That is, none such as was demanded. For comment on similar language see TFG "Mt 12:39". (TFG 407) #Mr 8:13| And he left them, and again entering into the boat departed to the other side. That is, from Magdala back again to the east shore, or rather, toward Bethsaida Julias, on the northeast shore. (TFG 407) #Mr 8:14| And they had not in the boat with them more than one loaf. This loaf was probably left over from the previous supply (#Mr 8:8|). (TFG 407) #Mr 8:15| Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and the leaven of Herod. Leaven, which answered to our modern yeast, was a symbol of a secret, penetrating, pervasive influence, usually of a corrupting nature. The influence of the Pharisees was that of formalism, hypocritical ostentation, and traditionalism; that of the Sadducees was sneering rationalistic unbelief, free thought and cunning worldliness, manifesting itself among the Herodians in political corruption. (TFG 407-408) #Mr 8:16| And they reasoned one with another, saying, We have no bread. They thought that Jesus reproved them for their carelessness in forgetting to take bread, since that carelessness might lead them to be without bread on their journey. So his rebuke in #Mr 8:17| indicates. (TFG 408) #Mr 8:19| Baskets. Cophini, probably traveling baskets. (TFG 408) #Mr 8:20| Baskets. Spurides, probably grain baskets or hampers. (TFG 408) #Mr 8:21| Do ye not yet understand? See TFG "#Mt 16:12|". #Mr 8:22| And they cometh unto Bethsaida. Not the suburb of Capernaum, but Bethsaida Julias, a town on the east side of the Jordan, near where it flows into the Sea of Galilee. Jesus was proceeding northward toward Caesarea Philippi (#Mr 8:27|). (TFG 409) #Mr 8:23| And he took hold of the blind man by the hand, and brought him out of the village. Jesus increased the sympathy between himself and the man by separating him from the crowd. Our greatest blessing can only come to us after we have been alone with God. And when he had spit on his eyes, and laid his hands upon him, he asked him, Seest thou aught? The man's eyes were probably sore, and Jesus made use of saliva to soften and soothe them. But it was our Lord's custom to give variety to the manifestation of his power, sometimes using one apparent auxiliary means, and sometimes another; and also healing instantly or progressively, as he chose, that the people might see that the healing was altogether a matter of his will. (TFG 409) #Mr 8:24| And he looked up, and said, I see men; for I behold them as trees, walking. The man had evidently not been born blind, else he would not have been able to recognize men or trees by sight, for those not used to employ sight can not by it tell a circle from a square. (TFG 409) #Mr 8:26| And he sent him away to his home, saying, Do not even enter into the village. The man, of course, lived in the village, and to send him home was to send him thither, but he was to go directly home and not spread the news through the town, for if he did the population would be at once drawn to Jesus, thus breaking up the privacy which he sought to maintain. (TFG 409) #Mr 8:27| LXX. THIRD WITHDRAWAL FROM HEROD'S TERRITORY. B. THE GREAT CONFESSION MADE BY PETER. (Near Caesarea Philippi, Summer, A.D. 29.) #Mt 16:13-20 Mr 8:27-30 Lu 9:18-21| Into the villages of Caesarea Philippi. The city of Paneas was enlarged by Herod Philip I, and named in honor of Tiberias Caesar. It also bore the name Philippi because of the name of its builder, and to distinguish it from Caesarea Palestinae or Caesarea Strotonis, a city on the Mediterranean coast. Paneas, the original name, still pertains to the village, though now corrupted to Banias. It is situated under the shadow of Mt. Hermon at the eastern of the two principal sources of the Jordan, and is the most northern city of the Holy Land visited by Jesus, and save Sidon, the most northern point of his travels. Who do men say that I am? Jesus asks them to state the popular opinion concerning himself as contrasted with the opinion of the rulers, Pharisees, etc. (TFG 410) #Mr 8:28| John the Baptist; and others, Elijah; but others, One of the prophets. For comment on similar language, see TFG "Mr 6:15". It should be noted that popular opinion did not honor him as Messiah, but since it accepted him as a prophet, the people were therefore inexcusable in not receiving the statements which he made in regard to himself, and admitting the Messianic claims which he set forth. (TFG 410) #Mr 8:29| But who say ye that I am? Jesus here first asks the disciples this question, having given them abundant time and opportunity in which to form a correct judgment. The proper answer of the heart to this question forms the starting-point of the true Christian life. Peter answereth and saith unto him, Thou art the Christ. See TFG "#Mt 16:16|". (TFG 411) #Mr 8:30| And he charged them that they should tell no man of him. The people were not ready to receive this truth, nor were the apostles sufficiently instructed to rightly proclaim it. Their heads were full of wrong ideas with regard to Christ's work and office, and had they been permitted to teach about him, they would have said that which it would have been necessary for them to subsequently correct, thus producing confusion. (TFG 414) #Mr 8:31| LXX. THIRD WITHDRAWAL FROM HEROD'S TERRITORY. C. PASSION FORETOLD. PETER REBUKED. #Mt 16:21-28 Mr 8:31-9:1 Lu 9:22-27| And he began to teach them, that the Son of man must suffer many things. Since the apostles, by the mouth of Peter, had just confessed Jesus as Christ (#Mr 8:29|), it was necessary that their crude Messianic conceptions should be corrected and that the true Christhood--the Christhood of the atonement and the resurrection--should be revealed to them. In discourse and parable Jesus had explained the principles and the nature of the kingdom, and now, from this time forth, he taught the apostles about himself, the priestly King. And be rejected by the elders, and the chief priests, and the scribes. The Jewish Sanhedrin was generally designated by thus naming the three constituent parts. See TFG "#Mt 2:4|". And be killed, and after three days rise again. See TFG "#Mt 12:40|". Very early in his ministry Jesus had given obscure intimations concerning his death (#Joh 2:19-22 3:14 Mt 12:38-40|), but these had not been understood by either friend or foe. Now that he thus spoke plainly, we may see by Peter's conduct that they comprehended and were deeply moved by the dark and more sorrowful portion of his revelation, and failed to grasp the accompanying promise of a resurrection. (TFG 414-415) #Mr 8:32| And he spake the saying openly. And Peter took him, and began to rebuke him. Evidently Peter regarded Jesus as overcome by a fit of despondency, and felt that such talk would utterly dishearten the disciples if it were persisted in. His love, therefore, prompted him to lead Jesus to one side and deal plainly with him. In so doing, Peter overstepped the laws of discipleship and assumed that he knew better than the Master what course to pursue. In his feelings he was the forerunner of those modern wiseacres who confess themselves constrained to reject the doctrine of a suffering Messiah. (TFG 415) #Mr 8:33| But he turning about, and seeing his disciples, rebuked Peter, and saith, Get thee behind me, Satan. Jesus withdrew from Peter and turned back to his disciples. By the confession of the truth Simon had just won his promised name of Peter, which allied him to Christ, the foundation. But when he now turned aside to speak the language of the tempter, Peter receives the name Satan, as if he were the very devil himself. Peter presented the same temptation with which the devil once called forth a similar rebuke from Christ (#Mt 4:10|). He was unconsciously trying to dissuade Jesus from the death on which the salvation of the world depended, and this was working into Satan's hand. Peter did not mind or think about the Messiah's kingdom as divinely conceived and revealed in the Scriptures. (TFG 415-416) #Mr 8:34| And he called unto him the multitude with his disciples. Despite the efforts of Jesus to seek privacy, the people were still near enough at hand to be called and addressed. If any man would come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. Compare #Ro 8:36 1Co 15:31|. For comment, see TFG "Mt 10:38". The disciple must learn to say "no" to many of the strongest cravings of his earthly nature. The cross is a symbol for duty which is to be performed daily, at any cost, even that of the most painful death. The disciple must follow Jesus, both as to his teaching and example. (TFG 416) #Mr 8:35| For whosoever would save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's shall save it. Jesus here plays upon the two meanings of the word "life," one being of temporal and the other of eternal duration. For comment on a similar expression, see TFG "Mt 10:39". (TFG 416) #Mr 8:36,37| For what doth it profit a man, to gain the whole world, and forfeit his life? Peter and the rest of the apostles had been thinking about a worldly Messianic kingdom, with its profits and rewards. Jesus shows the worthlessness even of the whole world in comparison with the rewards of the true kingdom. It is the comparison between the things which are external, and which perish, and the life which is internal, and which endures. External losses may be repaired, but a lost life can never be regained, for with what shall a man buy it back? (TFG 416-417) #Mr 8:38| Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words. Compare #Lu 12:9 2Ti 1:8,12 2:12|. In this adulterous and sinful generation. See TFG "#Mt 12:39|". The Son of man also shall be ashamed of him. Peter had just been ashamed of the words in which Christ pictured himself as undergoing his humiliation. Jesus warns him and all others of the dangers of such shame. When he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels. The Father's glory, the angels, and the rendering of universal judgment form a threefold indication that Jesus here speaks of his final coming to judge the world. (TFG 417)
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This stone has long been known as porfido serpentino verde, a confusing misnomer as it is not a serpentinite. It is a very durable stone that is found in relatively small blocks in the area of Krokees. It was used in ancient times and reused extensively in the Cosmati pavements of churches and cathedrals in Italy and elsewhere. Corsi's collection shows a number of varieties; the paving of St Peter's square in the Vatican shows it in all its kinds.


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In Our View: Herrera Beutler stands on right side of history
By voting Wednesday to impeach President Donald Trump for "incitement of insurrection," Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler has taken a stand on the right side of history.
Herrera Beutler, in her sixth term as representative for Washington's 3rd Congressional District, joined nine of her fellow Republicans — including Washington's Dan Newhouse — in rebuking a president from her own party. It is a president she supported in the November election.
"The President of the United States incited a riot aiming to halt the peaceful transfer of power from one administration to the next. That riot led to five deaths," Herrera Beutler wrote Tuesday night, the evening before the House of Representatives began impeachment proceedings. "Hours went by before the President did anything meaningful to stop the attack. Instead, he and his lawyer were busy making calls to senators who were still in lockdown, seeking their support to further delay the Electoral College certification."
Herrera Beutler's recitation of the facts is accurate, and it makes clear the need for Trump to be impeached. The president committed crimes against the nation, fomenting a terrorist attack on the U.S. Capitol and demonstrating an unprecedented disdain for American democracy.
After Wednesday's vote, which also had support from all Democratic representatives, Trump holds an ignominious status as the only U.S. president to be impeached twice. It is well deserved.
Trump's persistent efforts to erode the norms and institutions of civilized society reached a nadir last week, resulting in a deadly attack. Those efforts must be punished.
"I understand the argument that the best course is not to further inflame the country or alienate Republican voters," Herrera Beutler wrote. "But I am a Republican voter. … I see that my own party will be best served when those among us choose truth."
Arguments that impeachment proceedings are politically motivated or will further divide the nation fall flat. The centerpiece of our democracy was attacked at the urging of the president; capitulation and reconciliation are unwarranted in the wake of such an egregious action.
In practical terms, the impeachment is somewhat meaningless. Joe Biden will be inaugurated as president on Wednesday, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has indicated that he will not call a vote to possibly remove Trump from office prior to that.
For the sake of democracy and the future of the nation, McConnell should expedite the process, forcing senators to consider the facts and place their vote into the record. Trump should be marked with the stain of being removed from office, even if it is only a few days before the end of his term, and senators who decline to vote for removal should be stained with their fealty to Trump for the rest of their careers.
Instead, an impeachment trial is likely to overshadow the opening days of the Biden presidency. The situation is not ideal, but it is necessary, as Congress demonstrates to the world that our democracy is larger than a single president and that those who attack it from within will be held accountable.
In less than a week, the Trump presidency will be relegated to the dustbin of history. But the damage will linger, festered by a man who unfailingly put his own desires before those of the nation.
Herrera Beutler took a stand against that Wednesday as the House impeached a president for the fourth time since the founding of our nation. It is a stand on the right side of history.
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On July 14, 1919 Eugen Russ purchased the publishing house Vorarlberger Landeszeitung — predecessor to the Vorarlberger Nachrichten.
Eugen Russ (1877 – 1962) becomes editor of the Vorarlberger Landeszeitung, which until then had been operated by the publisher Müller in Bregenz.
The first years were difficult, but despite economic challenges the capabilites of the print office were expanded one step at a time. The company moved to Kirchstraße in Bregenz where Eugen Russ transformed the former restaurant Gasthaus Rose into a sizeable print office.
On November 16, the first issue of the Vorarlberger Nachrichten is published. Eugen Russ is editor-in-chief.
Eugen Russ buys the first dual-color printer. The very first Eugen-Russ-Fieldrip for the elderly and the handicapped takes place. This annual tradition is still a beloved event today.
On September 3rd construction on a new offsetprint facility in Lochau begins.
Eugen Russ dies. He leaves behind the Vorarlberger Nachrichten — the region's most influential newspaper. His son DDr. Toni Russ takes over and under his management the Vorarlberger Nachrichten achieves market leadership.
DDR. Toni Russ dies. His wife Rosa Russ becomes publisher, Richard Kempf becomes operations manager and Dr. Franz Ortner becomes new editor-in-chief.
Eugen A. Russ, son of DDr. Toni Russ, becomes managing director of the Vorarlberger Medienhaus Group as well as editor-in-chief of the Vorarlberger Nachrichten.
Acquisition of weekly paper "Wann & Wo", published on Thursdays.
The Vorarlberger Nachrichten is the first daily newspaper to be produced via Desktop Publishing, as well as the first newspaper in Europe to use infografics to illustrate content for readers.
The MAN Roland UNIMAN-printing press is put into operation. This results in a shift from letterpress printing to offset printing.
Acquisition of NEUE Vorarlberger Tageszeitung. On August 31st 1990 the NEUE, appearing daily from Tuesday to Sunday, was published for the first time in its new layout with a blue heading.
The first Gerber LE55 direct-to-plate imaging system is put in operation. Consequently the Vorarlberger Medienhaus becomes the first media company in the world to put the computer-to-plate technology into daily practice.
In September the assembly of GEOMAN No. 1 printer from MAN Roland with 4 printing towers starts. This printing press is revolutionary: The Vorarlberger Nachrichten is the first end-to-end four-color newspaper in the world.
Teleport Consulting & Systemmanagement GmbH is founded. With Vorarlberg Online, Teleport contributes significantly to the development and distribution of internet access in Vorarlberg. Vol.at becomes the first regional news portal in Austria. One of the most outstanding achievements is that the local portal VOL develops into a mass medium.
A new headquarters is constructed next to the printing facility in Schwarzach. The entire company is moved from Bregenz to the new office. The famous architect DI Ernst Giselbrecht designed the building, which fulfills highest aestetical and functional requirements, thus reflecting the corporate culture: transparency, both internal and external.
Teleport joins with cable TV providers to become the first private provider of broadband internet via TV cable in Vorarlberg.
On the 1st of June, ANTENNE VORARLBERG goes on air, becoming the first private regional radio station in Vorarlberg.
Eugen A. Russ takes full ownership of the Funk Verlag GmbH in Hungary, in which he had a stake since 1991. As an associate company of the Vorarlberger Medienhaus, Inform Media in Hungary maintains a similar portfolio: daily and weekly newspapers and later online portals.
Inform Media starts publishing Sunday newspapers in three regions. The first regional newsportal www.haon.hu begins operations, followed by www.boon.hu and www.szon.hu.
Wann & Wo adds Wednesdays to its publication days, including the print version of the .com sites. In March, Teleport launches 1036hallo!, a private telephony provider in Vorarlberg.
Inform Media buys two regional newspapers in Oradea/Romania: Bihari Napló and Jurnal Bihorean.
In Romania further expansions follow: Inform Media GmbH launches the newspaper Jurnal Banatean in Timisoara and acquires two more in Resita (Timpul and Jurnal de Caras-Severin). In Timisorara an offset-printing facility is constructed and begins operations.
In Hungary and Romania, www.onlineapro.hu and the Jobportal www.bihorjob.ro are launched. In the north-east of Hungary free weekly newspapers (Szuperinfo) could be purchased.
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Vorarlberger Medienhaus acquires a 100% stake in Germany-based Quoka, a publishing house headquartered in Lampertheim, near Mannheim. At the end of May, Vorarlberger Medienhaus presents the new business and lifestyle magazine "kontur".
Quoka acquires publishing house AVIS, thereby expanding Quoka's strong classifieds web portal on a national scale. Quoka, Search & Find and "das inserat" work together to found the larges classifieds portal in Germany.
On the 7th of June, the company's flagship newspaper Vorarlberger Nachrichten is awarded "Newspaper of the Year 2006" at the 59th world congress of newspapers in Moscow. Quality journalism, innovation, use of multimedia and economic efficiency are the principle criteria. Further job, real estate and car portals are launched.
At the end of 2007, the Vorarlberger Medienhaus Group launches the wholly owned investment subsidiary "VM Digital" in order to speed up the increase of its online businesses. VM Digital (today Russmedia Digital) is a group of classifieds and special interest websites in Germany. The company additionally invests in minority stakes.
CV Online, the leading job portal in Hungary is bought. Furthermore the Szuperinfó Hungary group is acquired – along with the franchise network of Szuperinfó with 68 newspapers across Hungary.
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VOL is the first german-speaking news portal app for the iPad and is released even before the iPad is officially available in Austria.
Inform Media (Russmedia CEE) launches further niche portals and acquires the free weekly magazine Budapest Piac, which has a weekly circulation of 700,000.
erento.com, the world's largest online market for rentable goods, is acquired and marks an important step in the growth and internationalisation strategy of the company.
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In October Medienhaus.com (today Russmedia Digital) makes the very first HTML5 news app in the German-speaking world available on iPad.
Russmedia Digital is recognized as the first sales partner for Google AdWords in Austria and, asa premium SME partner, is part of a unique group of highly qualified companies that have achieved this status.
Medienhaus becomes Russmedia — the most progressive multi-niche media company in Europe.
Russmedia Digital receives 4 "Local Media Awards" in the United States.
Russmedia Digital wins two awards at the INMA Awards in San Francisco: Second place in the category "Best New Mobile Service" and third place in the category "Best Marketing Solution for an Advertising Client".
Successful premier of a new convention in Dornbirn: The international conference for marketing, technology and innovation "Interactive West".
Russmedia wins two awards at the INMA Awards in San Francisco: Second place in the category "Best New Mobile Service" and third place in the category "Best Marketing Solution for an Advertising Client".
Europes largest independent online ski equipment lender, ALPINRESORTS.com, brings Russmedia further growth.
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Russmedia Digital wins the INMA Global Media Award in the category "Best Native Advertising" at the World Congress in Harvard Club in New York.
Russmedia was again awarded 5 INMA Global Media Awards.
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Rich LeFevre (nickname "The Locust") is a competitive eater from Henderson, Nevada (suburban Las Vegas). Rich and his wife, Carlene LeFevre, are said to form the "First Family of Competitive Eating" in spite of having normal weights and ages around 60, and are both top ranked members of the International Federation of Competitive Eating. The childless couple has combined to take two of the top seven places in Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest in 2003, 2004, and 2005. He competed at Wing Bowl XIV in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in which he placed second behind Joey Chestnut, another IFOCE champion.
LeFevre was originally known as a superstar in the long game of competitive eating who didn't care for the short, eight- to 12-minute contests of the IFOCE. Since the earliest days of his career, LeFevre has excelled in longer, 30- to 45-minute events. However, the distance man has adapted recently, competing in the shorter contests and compiling an impressive list of victories. He has won several difficult contests and seems as comfortable with a short contest as most other eaters on the circuit.
He is known for his strong jaw and for his capacity, which seems to increase, not decrease, as a contest progresses. Previously considered an outsider in the competitive eating community, Lefevre embraced the formal eating circuit for the first time in 2002, participating in hot dogs, all-you-can-eat buffet and chili. Since then his prowess and reputation have grown.
*Birthday cake: 5 pounds in 11 minutes 26 seconds on May 10, 2005
*Chili: 1½ U.S. gallons Stagg Chili in 10 minutes
*Corn dogs: 12 Fletcher's Corny Dogs in 10 minutes at State Fair of Texas on September 28, 2003
*Pizza: 7½ extra large Bacci pizza slices in 15 minutes in Chicago on July 9, 2005
*Smoked pork: 7 pounds 1 ounce smoked pork in 10 minutes at Bluffs Run Casino on August 21, 2005
*Spam: 6 pounds of Spam from the can in 12 minutes on April 3, 2004
*Tex-Mex rolls: 30 rolls in 12 minutes at GameWorks at Great Lakes Crossing on March 12, 2005
*Jalapenos: 247 jalapenos in 8 minutes to set new world record on 10 August or 8 October 2006
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Манастир Путна је манастир православне цркве у Румунији и једно је од најважнијих места у румунскоме саборном и културноме животу, и зато га називају "Јерусалим румунског народа". Према старим хроникама основан је 1466. године од стране кнеза Стефана III Молдавског, који је манастир подигао у знак благодарности за освајање тврђаве Чилиа и у њему саградио гробно место за себе и своју породицу. Иако великодушно обдарен поседима и опасан зидинама, Манастир Путна, није могао да избегне различите тешкоће прошлих времена, као што су паљевине, похаре и земљотреси.

Како је кроз векове постао важан културни центар, са богатом манастирском библиотеком и ризницом која поседује бројне рукописе, драгоцене минијатуре, везена платна, верске реликвије, иконе итд.

Године 1992., Свети синод Румунске православне цркве канонизовао ктитора манастира Стефана III Молдавског, и упис га у православни календар под 2. јул, који се од тада сваке године слави у манстиру.

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Манастир Путна налази се на приближно 700 метара надморске висине, на крајње источним огранцима Карпата, у историјској покрајини Буковини, у северној Молдавији, Румунија.

Удаљен је 33 km од града Радауци (трећег по важности град у округу Сучава), и 65 km од града Сучева (у истоименом округу).

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Према старим хроникама Молдавије манастир посвећен Светој Деви Мајци Божијој, изградио је Стефан III Молдавски (1433—1504), познат и као Стефан Велики или Свети Стефан Велики, кнез Молдавије између 1457. и 1504. и најистакнутији представник династије Мушата (чији се гроб налази овде). Градња манстира започела је 10. јула 1466., након освајања тврђаве Цхилиа (1465), а завршена је изградњом осталих објеката у манастирској порти и утврђења 1481. године,  о чему сведочи сачуван натпис на натпису на кули из "6989 године" (1481).

Освећен је 3. септембра 1469. године, од стране митрополита Теоктиста.

Убрзо по осниивању Путне из манастира Неамт Аббот Јосапхат, заједно са неколико монаха, доведено је и неколико мајстора калиграфа и миниатуристс, који су организовали скрипторијум користећи листове пергамента папира и филигран из Западне Европе. Такође, у овој фази почела је да ради, радионица за вез (у којој су везиље радиле са златним и сребрим нитима, свиленим концем и драгим камењем), радионица за израду керамике, икона и скулптура од дрвета и камена. Првобитно планиран као краљевска некропола, манастир се постепено развијао у значајну духовну и културну ризницу

Током векова Путна је прошла кроз многа разарања; пожаре, стране инвазије и окупацију, земљотрес, али никад није прекинут развој монашког живота. Обимнији радови на реконструкцији манастира започели су у време кнеза Василија Лупуа 1653, настављени у време Георгија Стефана (1653-1658), а завршена у време владавине Еустратија Дабија 1662.

Реконструкција манастира обављена је неколико пута, у 18,, 19, и 20. веку:
 између 1756 и 1760. у време митрополита Јакоба,
 између 1852. и 1856. под окупацијом Хабсбурга, када је саграђен нови конак
 1902. године, када је кров на манстирској цркви обновљен од стране бечког архитекте Карла Ромсторфер
 између 1969 и 1988. године (последњи пут), када је након завршетка поправки и обнове манастир  освештан 15. августа 1988. године од стране Патријарха Румунске православне цркве.

За овај манастир, кроз историју, везују се важне личности Православља, као што су Свети Данило Отшелник из 15. века, Монах који је убедио Стефана Великога да настави борбу против Отомана, тако и Свети Илија Јорешт, Апостол Православне цркве у Трансилванији 18. века.

Такође везано за овај манастир у науци је остало отворено питање још једног евентуално Јефимијиног дела – реч је о плаштаници рађеној око 1405. године, која се данас налази у манастиру Путна. Ова плаштаница спада у најраскошније радове у средњовековној примењеној уметности на Балкану. На свили је златним и сребрним концем извезен лик мртвог Христа са збором анђела, а натписи су на грчком језику. У обради фигура постоје стилске сродности са хиландарском завесом за царске двери и Милешевком плаштаницом.

Чак и пре установљења Велике Румуније као државе 1918., манастир је био симбол политичких захтева Румуна, тада подељених између Румуније и Аустроугарске и Руске Царевине.

Данас Манастир није само важна туристичка дестинација у срцу питоме Буковине, већ и место ходочашћа за све оне који желе да се помоле на гробу Светог Стефана Великога, Кнеза Молдавије.

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In 1996, Old 97's recorded Too Far to Care. It was their major-label debut—following two independent releases. But rather than venture into some state-of-the-art studio in New York or LA, the band decamped to Village Productions in Tornillo, Texas, a remote facility in the middle of two thousand acres of pecan trees near the Mexican border. Now over twenty years later, they have returned to record their eleventh studio album, Graveyard Whistling. "[Too Far To Care] is the sound that best defined us," says Rhett Miller, the lead singer and primary songwriter. And so when it came time for the band—which still consists of the same four members: Miller, guitarist Ken Bethea, bassist Murry Hammond, and drummer Philip Peeples—to record their newest endeavor, producer Vance Powell brought up the idea of returning to Tornillo. "We knew instantly that it was the perfect move," says Miller. "We weren't trying to remake Too Far to Care, but to make something where fans would say, 'This band hasn't lost a step in twenty-some years.'" The result is the eleven songs of Graveyard Whistling, from a group that has earned the respect and veneration as one of the pioneers of the alt-country movement, while still retaining the raucous energy, deceptive cleverness. Returning to Tornillo was more than just a novelty, and proved key to the album's direction. At some point renamed Sonic Ranch, the studio has been expanded and updated, but the band went back into the same recording space. They even stayed in the same bedrooms— "It was a beautiful feeling of completing a circle—we're the same people, but we had grown so much as bandmates and friends. It really made me believe in the power of experience and that you do get better with time. We're capable of so much more now than we were two decades prior, After all this time, Old 97's also found themselves in the interesting position of following up the most critically acclaimed, highest charting record of their career, 2014's Most Messed Up. The emotional range and musical scope of Graveyard Whistling also benefits from the contributions of some remarkable co-writers. Miller had long wanted to collaborate with Nicole Atkins when they found themselves with one hour together backstage at Chicago's City Winery. Her sketch of a chorus and a wordless bridge developed into "Those Were the Days," the album's closer. "Drinkin' Song," co-written with Butch Walker, revisits territory that has long been at the heart of the Old 97's work. "I've made a career out of singing songs that glorify drinking," says Miller, "so I wanted to battle with the idea of drinking as a lifestyle." Setting out to respond to the themes raised on Most Messed Up (which Rolling Stone described as a "round of airtight songs celebrating life-as-sublime-train-wreck"), Miller says that they considered album titles like The Hangover or The Aftermath. "The trick Old 97's have held on to is to take a song that may have a darker theme and present it as something to be screamed along to in a club. I don't want to sing sad songs in a sad way. You don't even realize there's a tombstone sticking out in the middle of it until the eighth or tenth listen."


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The mass popular protests against the investor rights agreements that masquerade under the rubric of "free trade" have been a matter of deep concern for years to those who are described in the business press, with only a touch of irony, as "the masters of the universe" (Financial Times). To avert popular reaction, negotiations are conducted mostly in secret, with the participation of the business world and of course known to the media, but scarcely reported. Nonetheless, through independent means (Internet, popular organisations, etc.), information has reached a great many people, leading to fears that opponents of these agreements have an "ultimate weapon," the general population (Wall Street Journal), and that it is becoming "harder for negotiators to do deals behind closed doors and submit them for rubber stamping by parliaments" (Financial Times, quoting "veteran trade diplomats").
The US leadership is desperately eager to reinstitute "fast track legislation," which permits international economic agreements to be reached Stalinist-style: by the state executive, with Congress granted only the right of ratification. The International Financial Institutions and G-8 have been compelled to modify their rhetoric, to a limited extent their programmes, in fear of the "ultimate weapon." Future meetings are planned in remote places (e.g., Qatar), to marginalise the public even further.
The doctrinal systems (government and corporate media) increasingly resort to extensive campaigns of defamation, denouncing protestors bitterly in often ludicrous terms, while rarely allowing them to express their actual views. Police violence has increased, most recently at Genoa, including attacks on offices of nonviolent organisations so extreme as to have aroused some censure even in the mainstream business press. It is not unlikely that at least some of the violence attributed to demonstrators results from the classic tactic of police provocateurs. These actions should be understood, I think, as part of the effort to defame, intimidate, and deter popular protest.
In the background is a general matter of profound significance. The protestors generally understand very well that the primary thrust of the "neoliberal programmes" that are instituted in the international agreements, with their complex array of liberalisation and protectionism, are a device to restrict the public arena — the arena of democratic participation, to the extent that countries enjoy a measure of meaningful democracy — and to transfer decisions over human affairs into the hands of unaccountable private concentrations of power, linked to one another and to the most powerful states.
The demonstrations are only the froth on the rising tide of popular protest against this attack on fundamental human rights, a tide that is becoming increasingly difficult to resist.
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Top 10 Most Lavish Weddings in the World
Those wedding ceremonies that cost thousands of dollars are considered to be very costly and unaffordable for most of us which forces some, if it is not most of us, to borrow money from others to complete preparing everything and purchasing all the necessities of this important day. If it is like that, what should we say about those weddings that cost millions of dollars? Do you imagine that they may be found on earth? To know the answer to this question and more, take a look at the following most expensive weddings in the world and their stunning costs that are more than five million dollars.
10. Elizabeth Hurley & Arun Nayar – $7 Million
This wedding was held on June 29, 2006 for Elizabeth Hurley and Arun Nayar who is an Indian businessman. It took place in Sudeley Castle, which is a 15th century castle, in Gloucestershire, Britain. The celebration took 8 days across two continents which are Asia and Europe as it started in Sudeley and moved after that to Umaid Bhawan Palace in Jodhpur, India where the cost of the suite is approximately $10,000 per night.
9. Delphine Arnault and Alessandro Vallarino Gancia – $7 Million
This wedding was held in 2005 for two of the wealthiest couples who are Delphine Arnault and Vallarino Gancia. Delphine is the daughter of Bernard Arnault, who is a rich French businessman, and her wedding dress was designed by one of the most renowned designers who is John Galliano. The wedding took place in Cote d'Azur in France with 5000 white roses for decorating the venue only to make it a magnificent wedding.
8. Wayne Rooney & Coleen McLaughlin – $15 Million
It was held on June 12, 2008 in Italy for Coleen McLaughlin, who is a television presenter and celebrity product endorser, and Wayne Rooney who is a famous football player for Manchester United. Coleen McLaughlin's wedding dress was embroidered with pearls and crystals to cost about $4 million. The wedding lasted for 4 days and took place in Villa Durazzo. There were five private jets that were dedicated to flying about 64 guests. There was pizza for the reception and Britain's OK Magazine was allowed to publish different information and pictures of this wedding for just $5 million.
7. Vikram Chatwal & Priya Sachdeva – $20 Million
It is one of the costliest and most luxurious weddings that took place in India. It was held on February 18, 2006 and lasted for 10 days to be celebrated in different Indian cities such as Udaipur, Delhi and Mumbai. The bridegroom's father is a manager of a New York hotel while the bride is a model and actress. There were jets that were especially chartered for receiving about 600 guests from different areas around the world. Among the most important guests who were on the list was Bill Clinton.
6. Andrey Melnichenko & Aleksandra Kokotovich – $30 Million
It was held for Miss Yugoslavia Kokotovic, who is a Serbian model, and her husband Andrey Melnichenko , who is a Russian billionaire and the founder of MDM Bank, on September 3, 2005. The wedding took place at Cote d'Azur in France and was attended by many famous guests from around the world in addition to famous singers such as Whitney Houston and Christina Aguilera who gave their performance for celebrating this event for $3.6 million each.
5. Prince William & Kate Middleton – $34 Million
It was one of the most important weddings that took place in recent years as it was watched by millions of people all over the world through different ways such as the television, radio or via the internet. The wedding was held in Westminster Abbey, London on April 29, 2011 for two of the most famous couples in the world. Kate Middleton's wedding dress that was especially designed for her is known as one of the best and most expensive wedding dresses in the world. The cost of the wedding cake, which was an 8-tier fruit cake and was decorated with 900 sugar flowers, was approximately $80,000 while the cost of the flowers was nearly $800,000.
4. Prince Charles & Lady Diana Spencer – $70 Million
It is another wedding for the same royal family. It was held on July 29, 1981 at St. Paul Cathedral, London and was watched on the television by more than 750 million people from around the world. The wedding dress that was made for Princess Diana is considered now as the most expensive wedding dress as it is embroidered with 10,000 pearls and has a 25-foot train. The engagement ring which is priceless now cost $60,000 while the security of the couple and guests required spending $600,000. This marriage unfortunately ended and the couple got divorced in 1996.
3. Vanisha Mittal & Amit Bhatia – $78 Million
It is an Indian wedding that was held in 2004 in grand chateau, Versailles and was attended by 1000 guests from different countries around the world after receiving their invitations that consist of 20 pages and were placed in silver boxes. The celebration lasted for five days and there were 100 dishes that were prepared for the guests by professional chefs from Calcutta. Among the famous guests who attended this lavish wedding were Aishwarya Rai, Kylie Minogue and SRK.
2. Seemanto Roy & Chnadano Toor and Sushanto Roy & Richa Roy – $123 Million
It is a double wedding ceremony that was held on February 10, 2004 in Lucknow for the sons of Subrata Roy who is the founder of Sahara India Pariwar. There were 11,000 guests who attended this event including many famous characters. There were 110 dishes prepared for the guests and there were also performances by a British symphony and Shiamak Davar group which allowed the guests to enjoy their time. The total cost of this lavish wedding was $123 million to be the most expensive Indian wedding in the world.
1. Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid al Maktoum & Sheikha Hind Bint Maktoum – $137 Million
Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum with his second wife Princess Haya
It is the most lavish and luxurious wedding ceremony ever held in the whole world. It took place in Dubai which is known as one of the richest countries. This wedding was held in 1979 for celebrating the marriage of the Ruler of Dubai who is Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid al Makhtoum and his wife Sheikha Hind Bint Makhtoum. There were five days which were declared as an official holiday in Dubai for celebrating this important event. The ruler celebrated his marriage through going from one village to another riding his horse to feed the people of these villages. The celebration took place in an oversized hall that has the same size of a stadium and was especially built to be wide enough for 20,000 guests from around the world.
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