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Michael Gove fears 'the blob' and labels progressive educational theorists 'Marxist teachers'. So who determines policy decisions?
byJack Blythe
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In the fallout from the much-derided report from the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities, historian David Olusoga commented that the authors "stumble, ill-prepared and overconfident, into the arena of history." And this is not just Olusoga's opinion.
The day before, hundreds of UK academics had signed a letter, published online, proposing that the report had made "selective and distorted use of academic research." Business leaders have also condemned the report as "laughably simplistic in its treatment of what anyone who knows about these things and understands are complex problems". So how did this happen?
First of all, there are no university academics on the commission. There's one researcher from a right-wing think tank, three people who work in the education system, an ex-police chief and several members from the world of commerce. The three education-linked members appear to be the most controversial:
Dr Tony Sewell – famous for a reference to homosexuals as "tortured queens playing hide and seek"
Martyn Oliver – chief executive of an academy chain that hit the headlines in 2019 for its controversial behaviour policy of 'flattening the grass'
Naureen Khalid – whose principle role in education over the past decade has been as a school governor and blogger.
Why would commissions on such an important topic be comprised in this way? For this we can go back to the origins of the current government following the 2010 election, and its view of whose input is, and is not valid to policy-making, looking in particular at the Department for Education (DfE).
Michael Gove, 'The Blob' and Social Media
In 2013, Michael Gove, secretary of state for education, said he "refused to surrender to the Marxist teachers destroying our schools", claiming that they were "the enemies of promise." The following year, he struck out at education academics, bureaucrats and unions comparing them as a group to a "blob", a reference to the 1958 McQueen sci-fi film, where an amoeba was eating up the world.
Gove's associate, Toby Young, later to be disgraced for inflammatory sexist tweeting, wrote a book about Gove's battle against the so-called 'blob', titled, "Prisoners of the Blob: Why most education experts are wrong about nearly everything" which criticised what he described as the current establishment view that children are naturally curious, imaginative and creative.
The education establishment began to raise concern about Gove's approach to education, most particularly his promotion of people who appeared to have little deep knowledge of the issues they were advising on. These people, it seems, were principally drawn from caustic bloggers who were very active on Twitter, according to ex-OFSTED national director for schools, Mike Cladingbowl.
And last, not least, I recall many headteachers contacting me, when in a previous role, outraged, that various notable twitterati were in contact with me when they had been palpably, and utterly, useless in school.
— Not yet anonymous. (@mcladingbowl) June 27, 2018
The influence of bloggers at the Department for Education
Sam Freedman, former advisor to Michael Gove at the Department for Education (DfE), confirmed that bloggers had had a significant influence on DfE policy. In reference to anonymous education blogger 'Andrew Old', who gained Twitter fame for his strident tweeting and right-wing blog site 'Scenes from the Battleground', he says:
"I literally forwarded his blogs to the minister responsible for Ofsted at the time so I know they were very influential!"
Another blogger, who confirmed that she too was consulted by the DfE, was Naureen Khalid the commission member already mentioned above. Her firm support for Old was reciprocated by him once the fall-out from the report had begun, despite Old later confirming that he hadn't actually read the report at the time of his supportive tweet.
David Cameron removed Gove from the education ministry prior to the 2015 election, after poll warnings that he had become "a toxic liability among teachers". But subsequent education secretaries have kept the ministry firmly on the course set by Gove, with Gavin Williamson recently promising that Gove's reforms would be "driven further and harder".
A group of tweeters, led by controversial 'behaviour Tsar' Tom Bennett, regularly bands together to harass those who criticise this stance. This thread, where they collaborate in needling a Canadian education academic, is an example (they're referring to an incident last year, when some academics in Ontario called for links with Bennett's 'ResearchEd' initiative to be dissolved, due to its "divisive and populist" nature).
Policy and populism: what's the cause for concern?
It could be argued that ministers paying attention to bloggers in a relevant field, anonymous or otherwise, might have a democratising effect. And that may have been so, had Gove added such voices to the qualified and experienced ones within the DfE. Instead, he set a course that has increasingly replaced senior professional and academic consultation.
As the experts Gove despises have been rendered silent, government research has been increasingly blighted by what Brian Cathcart refers to as "marking their own homework", where "policy led evidence replaces evidence led policy". Controversial individuals are given far-ranging opportunities to set the national agenda from niche positions, which are frequently seen as ill-advised by the majority of those with expertise in the relevant fields.
This, then, is what brings us to the choice of Tony Sewell as chair of the commission. Had he got his way, the report would have included a plan to teach children the so-called "truth" about the development of modern Britain. Such a thing had, after all, worked successfully in Russia. Not surprisingly, this was described as simplistic, dangerous and "outrageous" and was rejected.
This concept that there is a 'truth', regardless of people's lived experience in complex issues such as race, is used on social media by aggressive, frequently anonymous accounts, to shout down those who question their perspective.
It's time to question who directs policy
It's reasonable that a new secretary of state would consult widely across a sector when taking office. But the direction set by Michael Gove at the DfE was extraordinary – deliberately insulting and silencing academics and senior professionals. It was a form of Trumpist populism, designed to provide spurious evidence for an ideological agenda.
It's time to question whose voices are directing policy for our country.
Brexit: the arrogance, stupidity and lies
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Jack Blythe


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State ex Rel. Kern v. Kern
Teague v. Bad River Band of the Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa Indians
The cases Teague cites are distinguishable because they involve jurisdictional conflicts between Wisconsin…
State ex Rel. Rickli v. County Court
Carl Kern and Phyllis Kern (now Mrs. Rickli) are the parents of Carl Kern II, born August 18, 1954. They were…
Full title:STATE EX REL. KERN, Respondent, v. KERN, Appellant
Court:Supreme Court of Wisconsin
Date published: Jun 29, 1962
116 N.W.2d 337 (Wis. 1962)
116 N.W.2d 337
Supreme Court of Wisconsin
June 6, 1962 —
APPEAL from an order of the circuit court for Dane county: LEWIS J. CHARLES, Circuit Judge of the Fifteenth circuit, Presiding. Affirmed.
For the appellant there was a brief by Hall Griffith of Madison, and oral argument by Laurence W. Hall.
For the respondent there was a brief by William L. McCusker of Madison, attorney, and Mosier, Mosier, Thomas Beatty of Waterloo, Iowa, of counsel, and oral argument by Mr. McCusker.
Carl R. Kern, plaintiff in a divorce action and present respondent, applied to the circuit court for Dane county for a writ of habeas corpus to compel his ex-wife, Phyllis, defendant in the divorce action and present appellant, to surrender to him the person of their son, Carl Kern II. The circuit court granted the writ, but stayed its effect pending decision of this appeal taken by Mrs. Kern.
The parties were divorced June 12, 1959, on complaint of Mr. Kern, in the circuit court for Dane county. That court gave to Mr. Kern custody of the parties' young son, Carl II, and authorized Mr. Kern to remove the child to Iowa, where Mr. Kern then lived. Mr. Kern took the child home to Iowa. Thereafter the circuit court transferred all further proceedings to the superior court of Dane county. In frequent and rapid succession the parties made numerous applications for modifications of the orders affecting custody of the child, during the course of which the superior court gave the custody to Mrs. Kern. By then Mr. Kern and the child were in Iowa and Mr. Kern ignored the order transferring custody to Mrs. Kern.
Thereupon Mrs. Kern, alleging that she acted in behalf of her son Carl II, applied to the district court of Black Hawk county, Iowa, for a writ of habeas corpus alleging that Carl II was illegally restrained by Carl, the father. Although the Iowa court was informed of the Wisconsin court's determination of custody, the Iowa court heard evidence on the merits of which party ought to have custody of the child. Before decision was rendered by the Iowa court Mrs. Kern, by force, spirited the child out of Iowa and into Wisconsin. The Iowa court then dismissed the habeas corpus proceeding but retained jurisdiction to determine the question of custody and several weeks afterward entered an order granting custody to Mr. Kern. Thereafter, on application of Mr. Kern, the circuit court for Dane county issued a writ of habeas corpus. Mrs. Kern moved to quash the writ. The motion was heard by Circuit Judge LEWIS J. CHARLES. Through him the court denied the motion to quash and ordered Mrs. Kern to release Carl II to Mr. Kern, with a stay granted pending appeal. This appeal ensued.
BROWN, C.J.
The appeal presents these issues:
(1) Was the trial court correct in affording full faith and credit to the Iowa court's decision even though the Iowa court had not given full faith and credit to the Wisconsin superior court's decision?
(2) Was habeas corpus the proper remedy in this case and, if so, was the relief granted by the trial court appropriate?
The circuit judge in this case was placed in a rather awkward position. He had before him the judgment of the superior court of Dane county granting custody to Phyllis Kern. He also had a subsequent judgment of the district court of Iowa's Black Hawk county ordering the surrender of the child to Carl Kern upon a writ of habeas corpus.
In making his decision to afford full faith and credit, Circuit Judge CHARLES relied on two recent Wisconsin cases, Brazy v. Brazy (1958), 5 Wis.2d 352, 92 N.W.2d 738, 93 N.W.2d 856, and Greef v. Greef (1959), 6 Wis.2d 269, 94 N.W.2d 625. The United States supreme court has "expressly left undecided" the question whether a previous custody judgment is made binding by the constitutional requirement of full faith and credit. New York ex rel. Halvey v. Halvey (1947), 330 U.S. 610, 67 Sup. Ct. 903, 91 L.Ed. 1133 ( 295 N.Y. 836, 66 N.E.2d 851), and Kovacs v. Brewer (1958), 356 U.S. 604, 78 Sup. Ct. 963, 2 L.Ed.2d 1008 ( 245 N.C. 630, 97 S.E.2d 96). Thus, the prior decisions of this court serve as valid precedents.
The first inquiry in a full-faith-and-credit controversy is whether the court of the sister state had jurisdiction. It appears that the Iowa court had jurisdiction over the subject matter (custody) and personal jurisdiction over the parties. Both the father and child were domiciled in Iowa at the time the proceedings there commenced. The mother, through her counsel, applied for a writ of habeas corpus thus subjecting herself to the Iowa court's jurisdiction. See State ex rel. Hannon v. Eisler (1955), 270 Wis. 469, 71 N.W.2d 376, where this court upheld a lower court's assumption of jurisdiction in a custody case. There the father and children resided in Wisconsin and through service the court had personal jurisdiction over the mother. Iowa case law is to the same effect. Helton v. Crawley (1950), 241 Iowa 296, 41 N.W.2d 60. We conclude that the Iowa court had jurisdiction (although not exclusive) and validly exercised it.
Appellant now contends that even if the Iowa court had jurisdiction it should not have examined the merits. Rather the Iowa court should have given full faith and credit to the earlier Wisconsin decision. Even so, the Wisconsin court is not the proper forum to decide this question. In Brazy v. Brazy, supra, a judgment awarding custody was rendered in Wisconsin. Thereafter a California court modified this custody judgment. After finding that the California court had jurisdiction, this court stated (p. 360):
"In any event the Wisconsin court cannot review the judgment of the California court. If defendant considers that the California court gave insufficient effect to the 1956 judgment of the Wisconsin .court, his remedy was an appeal from the judgment of the California court.
"Defendant argues that because the Wisconsin court had originally determined custody and support, had considered all the issues with all the parties before it, because it is in a better position to compel defendant to fulfil his obligations, and because the motion for approval of the trust agreement was already pending in the Wisconsin court, the California court should have deferred to the Wisconsin court. All these considerations could have been urged upon the California court, but it is not for us to say that it was wrong in rejecting them and declining to defer."
Brazy v. Brazy, supra, gives a direct answer to appellant's argument. If Mrs. Kern considered the Iowa district court erred, her remedy was by appeal there.
This brings us to the question of whether the Iowa judgment is entitled to full faith and credit in Wisconsin. Appellant urges that because the Iowa court did not give the Wisconsin judgment full faith and credit, we should treat the Iowa judgment in similar fashion. Even assuming that the Iowa court erred in examining the merits, it would not follow that the Wisconsin court should make the same alleged "error." Logically, appellant's contention means that because Iowa has mistreated a Wisconsin judgment then Wisconsin should similarly mistreat an Iowa judgment; apparently then two wrongs would equal one right.
We agree with the trial court's assertion that full faith and credit is not grounded on reciprocity. It is not given blindly to all judgments of sister states, but absent a change in factual circumstances a custody decree is entitled to "recognition in all of the courts of the several states." State ex rel. Hannon v. Eisler, supra, and Zillmer v. Zillmer (1960), 8 Wis.2d 657, 100 N.W.2d 564, 101 N.W.2d 703. The fact that the Iowa court did not apply this doctrine is not within the scope of our inquiry (see Brazy v. Brazy, supra), nor should this fact affect this decision.
Where there is involved a judgment determining custody recently entered in the appropriate court of a sister state and is then presented to a Wisconsin court with the demand that the judgment be accorded full faith and credit, in our view the Wisconsin court is not compelled to accept the foreign judgment without going into the merits of the disputed custody. The United States supreme court in New York ex rel. Halvey v. Halvey, supra, did not rule otherwise. However, when such a judgment has been recently entered, as was the case of the Iowa judgment in the instant case, this court, for policy reasons, is inclined to accord such judgment the same effect as though it were binding upon us under the full-faith-and-credit clause. We respect the determination so recently made by the Iowa court on the merits and refrain from ourselves re-examining the merits. We regard this as the better policy in such circumstances.
Appellant finally submits that habeas corpus was not a proper remedy and by granting the writ the circuit court was "interfering" with the jurisdiction of the superior court. There is no question but that the Dane county superior court has exclusive jurisdiction within Wisconsin over the custody of the child, Carl Kern II. Greef v. Greef, supra. However, when the superior court's decision on custody was entered, there was nothing to prevent the parties from engaging in further litigation in a sister state. This the appellant did and now two courts (the Wisconsin superior court and the Iowa district court) are vested with a concurrent jurisdiction. This court has said in Greef, at page 276:
"We think the principle that two or more courts may have concurrent jurisdiction over custody problems will serve better under modern conditions where people move about freely. Possible conflicts between courts having jurisdiction can be better solved on principles other than that the court of the state of the child's domicile has exclusive jurisdiction."
Now the respondent is in a Wisconsin circuit court seeking a writ of habeas corpus to enforce the Iowa district court's judgment. Custody may be determined in a habeas corpus proceeding. State ex rel. Hannon v. Eisler, supra, and Zillmer v. Zillmer, supra. See also Helton v. Crawley, supra. But, as Judge CHARLES determined, custody, as such, was not before his court. In Wisconsin, the superior court of Dane county had exclusive jurisdiction in that matter. This habeas corpus writ is sought to enforce the Iowa decision which, as we have already said, was valid and should be given full faith and credit. By granting the writ the circuit court recognized the validity of the Iowa judgment; it did not overrule the Dane county superior court or exert jurisdiction over Carl Kern II. We agree with Judge CHARLES' conclusion that "we would only be recognizing [by granting the writ] under the constitution of the United States, the validity of a judgment which in and of itself supersedes the ruling" of custody entered by the superior court.
The order of the circuit court for Dane county is affirmed.
By the Court. — Order affirmed, and cause remanded for further proceedings not inconsistent with this opinion.

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Q: Observables Handling Multiple Fast and Slow I have an app that initializes on startup and calls many observables. Some observables complete quickly and others slowly. For best performance I'd like to run observables in parallel (where possible) and have subscribe code run immediately (where possible). Some observables are dependent on one or more other observables finishing successfully.
What's the best way or structuring code to achieve this?
The following simplified example seems to be work but my understanding is nested and multiple subscribes are generally bad practice. Also, as the number of observables and inter-dependencies grows there will be more and more subscribes and nested subscribes. Also, there's no guarantee that fast observables will always run fast.
this.getAppConfig() // All observables depend on appConfig returning data successfully.
    .flatMap(() => {
        return Observable.of('If I am slow, I will block the final subscribe')
    })
    return Observable.forkJoin(
        Observable.of('If I am slow, I will block the final subscribe'),
        Observable.of('If I am slow, I will block the final subscribe')
     )
    .subscribe(() => {
        Observable.of('slow').subscribe(() => console.log('Do not block other observables'))
        Observable.of('fast').subscribe(() => console.log('Run me as soon as possible'))
        Observable.of('slow').subscribe(() => console.log('Do not block other observables'))
        Observable.of('fast').subscribe(() => console.log('Run me as soon as possible'))
    })

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Lütfiye Ercimen (born October 5, 1987) is a Turkish women's football defender currently playing in the Turkish Women's First Football League for Kdz. Ereğli Belediye Spor with jersey number 14. She is a member of the Turkey women's national team since 2006.

Early life
Lütfiye Ercimen was born in Gerede town of Bolu Province, Turkey on October 5, 1987.

Club career

Lütfiye Ercimen began playing football in the Ankara-based club Gazi Üniversitesispor after obtaining her license on February 28, 2002. She became three times Women's First League champion with her team, in 2007, 2008 and 2010.

In October 2010, she transferred to Ataşehir Belediyesi, where she plays since then. There, she continued her league championship in 2011 and 2012, three times consecutively.

She made her first appearance in the 2011–12 UEFA Women's Champions League – Group 4 qualifying round match playing against the Lithuanian team Gintra Universitetas on August 11, 2011. The next season, she took part again at the UEFA Women's Champions League qualification matches.

In the second half of the 2016–17 League season, she transferred to Kdz. Ereğlispor. In the beginning of the 2017–18 League, she signed for the Istanbul-based Fatih Vatan Spor.

In October 2018, she returned to her former club Kdz. Ereğlispor.

International career
Ercimen made her national team debut in the 2004 UEFA Women's U-19 Championship First qualifying round match against Sweden women's national football team held on September 23, 2003. After playing five matches with the national U-19 team, she became a member of the senior team in 2006. As of September 19, 2012, she was capped 20 times in the national team scoring one goal.

Career statistics
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Honours
 Turkish Women's First Football League
 Gazi Üniversitesispor
 Winners (3): 2006–07, 2007–08, 2009–10
 Thrird place (1): 2008–09

 Ataşehir Belediyespor
 Winners (2): 2010–11, 2011–12
 Runners-up (4): 2012–13, 2013–14, 2014–15, 2015–16

References

External links

Living people
1987 births
People from Gerede
Turkish women's footballers
Women's association football defenders
Turkey women's international footballers
Gazi Üniversitesispor players
Ataşehir Belediyespor players
Karadeniz Ereğlispor players
Fatih Vatan Spor players
20th-century Turkish sportswomen
21st-century Turkish sportswomen

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Культурне привласнення (), апропріація  — соціологічна концепція, згідно з якою запозичення або використання елементів однієї культури членами іншої сприймається несхвально, як головним чином негативне явище. В основі концепції лежить уява про те, що культура, елементи якої було запозичено, стає таким чином об'єктом експлуатації та пригнічення з боку культури, яка запозичує.
У Північній Америці концепція культурного привласнення має особливий вплив у дослідженнях та публікаціях, присвячених культурі корінного населення Америки, а також культурі афроамериканців.

Загальні відомості
Поняття «культурного привласнення» виникло в 80-х — 90-х роках XX століття в лексиконі постколоніальних критиків західного експансіонізму.

Американський лінгвіст Джон Макуортер пояснює виникнення концепції культурного привласнення «виправданим обуренням щодо білих поп-музикантів, що імітують музику темношкірого населення». Класичним прикладом Макуортер вважає творчість Елвіса Преслі.

Термін «культурне привласнення», як правило, має негативний зміст. У більшості випадків його використовують, коли запозиченню піддається культура меншин, або коли взаємодіючі культури залучені в історичний, етнічний або расовий конфлікт.

Відповідно до прихильників цієї концепції, культурне привласнення відрізняється від акультурації та асиміляції тим, що «привласнення» передбачає запозичення елементів тієї чи іншої культури в колоніальній манері: вони копіюються членами домінантної культури та використовуються поза свого оригінального культурного контексту — іноді навіть проти чітко озвученого бажання представників культури-донора. Часто в процесі оригінальне значення цих елементів культури спотворюється; їх використання може розглядатися членами культури-донора як прояв неповаги або навіть як осквернення святині. Початковий глибокий зміст елемента у підпорядкованій культурі може зводитися до «екзотичного» тренду в домінівній культурі.

Приклади
Прихильники концепції наводять, серед інших, такі приклади культурного привласнення:
 Спортивні команди, що використовують назви племен корінних народів, зображення представників цих народів як логотип або талісман команди, традиційні твори мистецтва корінних племен: професійний клуб з американського футболу Вашингтон Редскінз ( — «червоношкірі»), американська бейсбольна команда Клівленд Індіенз (її логотип — Вождь Ваху), збірна Нової Зеландії з регбі All Blacks (виконання ритуального танцю «гака» перед матчами).
 Костюми на Хелловін, такі як «ПокаХотті» (; від Pocahontas і hottie — красуня), «Індіанський воїн», «Vato Loco» (ісп. «божевільний чувак»; костюм латиноамериканського гангстера). Іноді їх одягають люди, які не належать до відповідної культури, при цьому вони називають свій наряд «жартівливим».
 Мода на бінді і головний убір індіанського воїна. Після появи на change.org  петиції проти продажу останнього на Гластонбері, організатори фестивалю заборонили поширення цього головного убору на території проведення заходу (петиція встигла зібрати 65 підписів). Подібна петиція звернена і до організаторів фестивалю Коачелла.

Правовий аспект культурної апропріації
У дослідженні, підготовленому Експертним механізмом з прав корінних народів Ради з прав людини ООН, йдеться, зокрема, про неправомірні присвоєння та інтерпретації культурних цінностей.
Багато корінних народів страждають від неправомірного присвоєння їхньої культурної спадщини, що проявляється в різних формах, включаючи її меркантилізацію, використання зображень та символіки корінних народів в процесі маркетингу і неправомірне привласнення традиційних пісень.

Неналежна культурна інтерпретація — це ще один аспект, який негативно впливає на культурну спадщину корінних народів.

Експерти РПЛ вказують на існування правових механізмів захисту від неправомірного присвоєння та неналежної інтерпретації елементів культури корінних народів, перш за все, на Декларацію ООН про права корінних народів.

 1. Корінні народи мають право на збереження, контроль, охорону і розвиток своєї культурної спадщини, традиційних знань і традиційних форм культурного вираження, а також проявів їхніх наукових знань, технологій і культури, включаючи людські та генетичні ресурси, насіння, ліки, знання властивостей фауни і флори, традиції усної творчості, літературні твори, малюнки, спорт і традиційні ігри та образотворче та виконавське мистецтво. Вони мають також право на збереження, контроль, захист і розвиток своєї інтелектуальної власності на таку культурну спадщину, традиційні знання і традиційні форми вираження культури.

2. Спільно з корінними народами держави вживають дієвих заходів, з метою визнання і захисту здійснення цих прав.

Однак у дослідженні наголошується, що, незважаючи на існування потенційних можливостей для реалізації корінними народами своїх прав, на практиці їм складно отримати належний захист, у тому числі в разі неправомірного присвоєння їх нематеріальної культурної спадщини. У 2009 році уряд Нової Зеландії визнав за племенем Нгати Тоа авторське право на ка-мате — традиційний вид «гака» (ритуальний танець корінного народу маорі). Ка-мате хака широко відомий в Новій Зеландії, оскільки традиційно виконується перед матчами новозеландської збірної з регбі All Blacks. У відповідь на скарги представників Нгати Тоа на неприйнятне використання танцю у кіно, рекламі і на телебаченні, угода встановила обмеження на комерційне використання ка-мате. Тим не менш, на виступи All Blacks обмеження не поширюється, і команда продовжує використовувати ка-мате в шоу перед матчами.

Критика концепції
Критики концепції культурної апропріації оскаржують її з ряду причин, починаючи з неприйняття конкретних положень і понять, закінчуючи повним запереченням теорії як такої. Їх позиція найчастіше заснована на протилежному баченні культурного запозичення як назагал позитивного феномену, що сприяє взаємному збагаченню культур. На їхню думку, запозичення відбувається внаслідок щирого захоплення тією чи іншою культурою і без будь-якого злого умислу. Критики також стверджують, що термін «апропріація» некоректно застосовувати до культури, яка далеко не всіма сприймається як обмежений ресурс: на відміну від апропріації матеріального об'єкта, імітація елементів чужої культури необов'язково передбачає позбавлення членів цієї культури таких елементів. Так, на початку XX століття Гарлем був «плавильним котлом», де білі музиканти переймали в афроамериканців манеру співу та гри на музичних інструментах, створюючи особливе звучання, яке згодом відіграло значну роль у формуванні музичної сцени.

Прихильники ж концепції заявляють, що такий підхід не враховує проблеми групової ідентичності, комерціалізації елементів культури, вилучення їх з контексту, а також різницю між апропріацією і взаємообміном. На їхню думку, взаємний обмін будується на рівних умовах, тоді як культурна апропріація має місце при неповазі до пригнобленої культури, нерозуміння її елементів та їх неналежному використанні поза контекстом.

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 Заохочення і захист прав корінних народів щодо їх культурної спадщини

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Where are the artists?
I think it's important to make art. It's important to write when you have something to say, to paint when there's a feeling you want to express. Art is an exploration, sometimes it's great, sometimes, not so much.
But that's art. You don't get it right every time. Nor should you. It wouldn't be art if you got it right every time.
That's the problem with Hollywood, they are so scared of getting it wrong that they spend as much money as they can, making sure they have enough big name actors and enough explosions. They cram the films full of everything that has worked in the past, in the hopes it will work again.
And y'know what, it usually does work again. At least, in a business sense. People like those explosions and they like the predictability.
That's been the Catch 22 that I've been trying to figure out for quite a few years now -- figuring out where I see myself in an industry that champions uninspired bullshit.
Not that 'indepedent' or 'art' necessarily means the films will be any better. Bullshit is created in every area of the industry.
What I realise for me is that 'the industry' is not what I'm interested in, it has never been what I'm interested in. I'm just interested in telling stories, and in seeing other people tell great stories. And if someone can do that in a great movie, I'd love to see it. But equally, if they can achieve that in a two minute YouTube video, then I'm happy watching that too.
Historically speaking, I would say that I love the cinema. I love what cinema has given us. It gave us Chaplin's tramp, it gave us 'Jaws' and it gave us Forrest Gump. But in recent years, there's been nothing of the kind.
I have been gradually falling out of love with the movies, it's been a slow progression which probably began around the time this blog started, but has really picked up pace in the past year or so and largely accounts for why I've been so quiet here. I've not felt like a 'kid in the front row', I've felt like the cynical guy sitting by the isle, wanting to get up and leave.
But what I really want, is to stick around. Because my point of view is a valid one. And my point of view is that nothing beats a great piece of cinema, the problem is that it's just SO RARE. What gets a film made is not a great script, or an inspired artist. What gets a film made is marketability, safety, derivative stories.
It's hard to make art. Even when you're starting out, people say 'how will you market it?', 'how will you make money?', 'how will you attract a star?'.
Those questions have nothing to do with art.
Film has always had to strike a balance between art and business, but I don't think there's a balance anymore. Most young filmmakers don't want to be artists. Most actors aren't thinking about what kind of work they're going to put into the world, they just want a job, a role.
And I get it, we all need to work. But where are the people who have higher goals? The people who are in the industry because they have something to say, and see cinema as the way of saying it?
And by 'something to say', I don't mean necessarily mean some political statement or life-changing point of view. A romantic comedy can have something to say. The great films say something about us, as humans, about who we are and what we're going through.
My friend Darren sent me an article from the BBC a few days ago, it's the same one that gets written every year, about how the Hollywood system is in trouble, how the blockbuster paradigm may be dead. Am I the only one who thinks: GREAT!!!?
Don't get me wrong, I'd hate to see people out of work. All those names you see in the credits of those blockbusters, they're hard-working, unsung heroes, and they deserve to be employed and deserved to get paid what they do, if not more.
But in terms of the ART. If the blockbusters were no more, I'd be extremely happy. They don't mean ANYTHING. A sea of vapid bullshit that dulls the mind.
And I know I know I know, there are zillions of people who love this stuff.
I'm not one of them.
Films are mostly bad, these days. I know that's what people say with every passing generation, but this time I feel it may actually be true. The great writers have flocked to TV and created their own shows - and future innovators will turn to the web, because that's where they get to make ART.
Cinema, as an art form, is in trouble. But I have to say; I'm happy about that. This trouble is what might, eventually, save it.
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STEPHEN MERCHANT - Writer/Director/Actor Interview
His new show is the HBO comedy 'HELLO LADIES'. His old shows include titles you may recognise, like 'THE OFFICE' and 'EXTRAS'. Along with Ricky Gervais he also created one of my favourite films, the subtle and brilliant 'CEMETERY JUNCTION'.
Not only is STEPHEN MERCHANT one of my favourite comedy writer/directors, we also like a lot of the same stuff , which is precisely why I began this interview with Bruce Springsteen and Billy Wilder.
We are both huge Bruce Springsteen fans. The great thing about his music is that he has a song for every mood, for every thing you could be going through. Which song of his are you relating to most at the moment?
I don't know that I'm relating to it directly but I've been enjoying a fairly minor Bruce song called 'I Wish I Were Blind'. Bruce is a very filmic songwriter, he creates vivid scenes that feel cinematic, particularly on albums like Born To Run. On 'I Wish I Were Blind' the lyrics - "I wish I were blind when I see you with your man" - immediately create an image of a lonely man forlornly watching the woman he still loves with her new guy. It's such economical and evocative writing. It's very inspiring when you're writing scripts, which also have to be tight and to-the-point.
I think 'The Apartment' is the greatest film ever - I watch it regularly and have blogged about it here extensively and I know it's one of your favourites -- how do you manage to be influenced by someone like Billy Wilder without outright stealing?
I'm influenced by everything in one way or another. Picasso supposedly said "steal from the best." I think that's good advice. Woody Allen freely admits that he has stolen from Bergman, Chaplin, Keaton. There are only a limited number of story telling techniques, everything is a variation on what has gone before. All you can bring are the specifics of your experience and worldview and bolt them on to the formulas. Is 'The Apartment' the first romantic comedy to have one of the protagonists running through the streets on New Year's Eve to be with the person they've just realized they're in love with? I don't know… but they did the exact same ending twenty-five years later in When Harry Met Sally and it's just as effective, because the rest of the film is so good and you're invested in the characters and their lives.
A recent theme on the blog has been longevity, about how long it takes to become successful. Could you share a little bit about your own journey, the failures, the near misses?
I was lucky. I knew what I wanted to do from a young age. A lot of people drift through the education system, thinking that real life will start when they've finished their studies but I figured out early on that I would never have more free time and opportunity than when my parents were still paying the bills. So while at school I was in plays, I worked at a local radio station, I was writing stories and scripts, trying to teach myself how to do it. Then at university I was involved in student radio, I made short films, I took a comedy sketch show to the Edinburgh festival.
After uni, I did more radio, started doing stand-up, wrote for a local magazine. I was very hard working and tenacious and always looking to get experience, learn from people, try a bit of everything. Basically to put myself in a position where an opportunity might arise. And when the opportunities did arise, I was ready. There are no ads in the job centre for writers or comedians or actors, so you have to muscle your way in and prove yourself to people.
How does it feel now looking back at 'The Office'? The UK has a proud tradition of incredible comedies, like 'Only Fools and Horses' and 'Fawlty Towers' - you are now a part of that. How does it feel to know you created something which means so much to people?
Like I say, that was my ambition from a young age, so it's very satisfying. I'm not doing something for the benefit of mankind like a doctor or a scientist but I still think there's some small value in comedy. It forces us to laugh at ourselves and that's a good thing.
I feel like your show, 'Hello Ladies', and Ricky Gervais' 'Derek' -- they're not always judged on their own merits, but rather, how they compare to the greatest hits. Do you find that difficult?
I'm reminded of a quote by the novelist Joseph Heller : "When I read something saying I've not done anything as good as Catch-22 I'm tempted to reply, "Who has?""
The Office took on a life of it's own that was beyond our control. It was influential and it reached a lot of people but I can't set out to repeat that success because I don't really know how it happened the first time. I try and make things that appeal to me, just like I did with The Office. I hope lots of people enjoy them but I don't chase that.
'Hello Ladies' is hilarious, but depressing to me. I have always expected my failure with women to end suddenly when I'm a successful, LA-based writer/director. Is that not going to be the case?
It shouldn't depress you because 1. the season isn't over yet, so you don't how Stuart's fortunes might change. And 2. I'm not playing myself in the show. Believe me, life as a successful writer/director is just fine.
Even though I absolutely loved 'The Office' and 'Extras' - the moment I realised you are truly among my favourite writer/directors was when I saw 'Cemetery Junction'. It's one of those rare movies that I can watch again and again and again. Did your prior success mean that it was easier to make a movie that you wanted to make, or was it difficult to get it funded and distributed?
It was relatively easy to get it made, yes, but I realized afterwards that the problem with Cemetery Junction was that it wasn't an easy sell to audiences. With movies, you need a clean, simple idea to market to people : for instance The Hangover. "Some men get drunk in Vegas and lose their friend." Simple, funny idea. Whereas Cemetery Junction was kind of vague. You have to watch the film to understand what it's about.
I would even enjoy 'Cemetery Junction' as just an audio file through my headphones, the soundtrack is that good. My favourite song in the film is 'The Rain Song' by Led Zeppelin -- did you always know you were going to use it in that way? It's really beautifully done --- I often get out the DVD just to watch that scene -- it's wonderfully edited --- reminds me of 'Tiny Dancer' in Cameron Crowe's 'Almost Famous', it took a track I already loved and made me appreciate it on a whole new level.
The hope when you're using music in a film or TV is that you can invest it with new meaning and let it work in tandem with the images. We had Led Zep in Cemetery Junction from an early cut and were very lucky to get permission from them to use it. If we'd had to replace it with score it wouldn't have worked as well. I'm very pleased with the music in Hello Ladies too, which is a lot of soft rock from the 70s and 80s. We imagined this was the sort of music that Stuart associated with adulthood and glamour when he heard his parent's playing it while growing up.
You've mentioned in many interviews your love for Woody Allen's work. Have you met him?
I have met him only briefly to shake his hand. There was no real conversation. It was way more significant for me than it was for him.
How do you like to write? Where are you? What are you listening to? How do you get 'into the zone'?
I normally write with other people, either Ricky or in the case of Hello Ladies, two US writers, Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky. So we sit in an office and just slowly hammer it out. There's no time to sit around and get in the zone or wait for inspiration. You just have to meet and work everyday until it's finished. Half way through every project Ricky inevitably says : "Is it always this hard?" And I say "Yes, it always is."
HBO is seen as the perfect place to have your own show - their record in recent years for great TV is astounding. What is it that is so great about them, and how do they help you achieve your creative vision?
They hire you because they trust that you know what you're doing. Unlike a lot of people in the entertainment industry, they don't assume that they know better. So they discuss things with you and they have ideas but they don't dictate. They let you take the project where you want it to go.
You have made bold decisions in the past in terms of the life-span of your TV shows -- keeping them to only a couple of seasons -- do you expect the same with 'Hello Ladies', or could you see it lasting for much longer?
It's up to HBO but there are lots of places to explore because it's about relationships. So in theory you could have Stuart get into a relationship, move in with someone, get married, have a kid. It could run and run.
By doing more stand-up and acting in recent years, you have become a lot more recognisable. What is the most difficult thing about fame?
When we first started writing The Office we could sit in cafes and pubs and listen in on conversations or watch people for inspiration. It's harder to do that now and that's a shame.
When you're not being creative - what are you up to? how do you relax?
I'm lucky that I turned my hobby into a career. So when I'm not working I like being out in the real world, with friends, living a real life instead of making up fictional ones.
At the moment I'm just waiting to find out if HBO want to do another season of Hello Ladies. If so, I'd start work on that very soon.
David Jason's Autobiography - A Lesson in Longevity
For those of you in the USA, you might not know who he is. But here in the U.K., he's television royalty.
We love him for many reasons, but mostly for 'Del Boy' in "Only Fools and Horses". I feel happy just thinking about that show. Makes me feel all warm and English and proud.
And I've not even got to the part in the book where he talks about the show. I'm still reading about his humble upbringing, the embarrassing auditions, his struggles with women and his insecurities about never having gone to drama school.
Did you know he was offered a role in "Dad's Army" which was then retracted only hours later? Did you know he was in a TV show with three Pythons in the 1960's? The show was called "Do Not Adjust Your Set".
Eric Idle, Michael Palin and Terry Jones were all on the show, but they got frustrated by the limits of children's TV; creatively stifled by the producers and the censors, so they left after two seasons.
And David Jason was left bitter, jealous and unemployed. Everyone was off making "Monty Python" and "Dad's Army", and he was NOWHERE.
But isn't it funny when you have hindsight. When you realise that David Jason on "Monty Python" would have meant no "Open All Hours" for him, and no Derek Trotter.
The year the Python's ditched him was 1969. Seven years before "Open All Hours", twelve years before "Only Fools and Horses". Makes you realise how long a career takes.
I wonder if it's a modern problem for people to want success so immediately. Everyone seems so depressed that they don't have their own "Only Fools and Horses", yet they don't seem willing to pay their dues to get there. How many years of failures have you had? How many times have you nearly got an opportunity only to see it swept away from underneath you?
And paying your dues isn't about doing enough for other people, it's not about doing what you've got to do to deserve something, it's about what needs to happen for you to be GOOD ENOUGH.
I was reading some comments on Twitter earlier, where a heap of people were ripping a famous actor to pieces -- full of criticism, judgement and hate. Some of them were actually actors themselves. They just don't GET IT, they don't realise that what they're saying comes from a place of jealousy. The person they're bullying is in that position because of years of industrious hard work.
Paying your dues means staying up late; it means reading, it means extra rehearsals, it means missing the party, it means twenty years. You can be that actress who bitches about how crap Keira Knightley is, or you can realise she had ten years of credits even before "Bend It Like Beckham", and you can be aware enough to know she's a better actor than you are.
"Only Fools and Horses", "A Touch Of Frost", the OBE, they weren't accidents. They're the result of dedication, of longevity, of a man who worked tirelessly at his craft. Who failed more times than most of us have dared to try. David Jason, you're my hero and I'm not even halfway through your book yet.
Lovely Jubbly.
The Longevity Factor: Your Acting Career Is Not What You Think It Is
Recently I watched a film from the 80's, 'Turf Turf' starring James Spader and Robert Downey Jr. Spader was the lead. Later on Downey would get the Oscars and the franchises, but for a time, James Spader was the man.
And I watched 'Say Anything' and 'Singles', where we see tiny parts for Jeremy Piven. He was fun, he was engaging on screen. But he wasn't Ari from 'Entourage.' It just wasn't his time yet -- twenty years would have to pass.
If we're gonna stick with the Cameron Crowe theme, I also re-watched 'Fast Times At Ridgemont High'. So many of those actors, you say; 'where the hell are they now?' But Nicholas Cage is one of the biggest movie stars in the world.
But wait, Nicholas Cage was in 'Fast Times..'? Yes, as an extra, just like how Paul Giamatti had one line in 'Singles'.
Some actors peak early. Ione Skye was perfect as Diane Court. But who would have thought 'Say Anything' would be the pinnacle for her? Who knew John Cusack would go on to have such a great career?
It's like when I'm making a film, some actors that know me get offended that I only had a role for them with two lines, whereas someone else got the lead.
But two lines is two lines and twenty five years from now might be your time, when you wouldn't even do my movie because you're too big for me; you're an Oscar winner who commands twenty million a flick.
But in the immediacy of right now, everyone is racing to reach the top - the top seemingly being the most lines, the biggest amount of pay.
Paul Giamatti is a bigger actor than Campbell Scott now. But in 1992, when 'Singles' came out - Scott was the right person for the role, and Giamatti was light years from 'Sideways'.
Just like Forest Whitaker in 'Fast Times..' He was hardly memorable, but he did a good job. Thing is, you just wouldn't have given him a leading role then because he wasn't the Forest Whitaker we grew to know and love -- he was just a fairly anonymous actor learning his trade, struggling for roles.
Actors size themselves up against each other. They get jealous that Marie is a regular on a sitcom, and that Fred got cast in new Ricky Gervais film. But when you look at the bigger picture, there's no need to get jealous in the short term - because someone else's career has nothing to do with your own.
Right now you might think you know what Felicity Jones' career is about, or Jennifer Lawrence, but they rarely work out how you think they will. There was a time when Kyra Sedgwick was in absolutely everything - but now the 90's are gone and times move on.
And Jeremy Piven did enough tiny roles that eventually, he broke through. I mean, there are different levels of breaking through. But for years he had only two lines in movies. Then he played the best friend sidekick in movies like 'The Family Man' and 'Serendipity'.
That is already great success.
But then 'Entourage' happened. And you think you know what his career is about and then he gets 'Mr. Selfridge.' Wow.
What a great career!
And what looked like struggling in the eighties wasn't struggling, it was the path. The struggling WAS the path. Struggling IS the path.
You don't just walk into a great role. And sometimes you do, like Patrick Fugit in 'Almost Famous', but where's he now? He just has Cameos in Cameron Crowe movies.
Right now someone is a superstar, and somebody else is nobody. But that has absolutely no bearing on where they'll be twenty years from now.
It's a roller-coaster. Maybe it's your time right now, maybe it isn't. At the time of 'Jerry Maguire' it looked like Jay Mohr would be a major actor - but eventually the roles dried up and he stayed with stand-up comedy and, eventually, podcasting.
The point I am making is that a career is long. James Spader has a fantastic career, filled with truly memorable roles. But it panned out differently to how it might have looked when they shot 'Turf Turf' back in 1985.
And Robert Downey Jr had talent in that film. But did he stand out above Spader? Well no, not really. You wouldn't have known that seven years after that he'd get an Academy Award. Or that twenty-three years later he'd be Iron Man!
You don't need to guess at your career. You don't need to have it all figured out and you don't need to win an Oscar tomorrow. You just need to get better at your craft. If you're eighteen or twenty six or thirty-two, you might feel like now is the time. But maybe you're not Felicity Jones, you're not Ryan Gosling. Maybe you're Tom Wilkinson. You're Eddie Marsan. Maybe your career is landing in a different way, in a different time.
It's a craft. And sure, there's luck involved. But if the history of film teaches us anything- it's that it takes time.
You career is not what you think it is. The way it is now is just the way it is now, tomorrow is a whole different ballgame.
LET ME WATCH WHAT I WANT TO WATCH!
"Now I have already mentioned that there was a disturbance in my heart, a voice that spoke there and said, I want, I want, I want! It happened every afternoon, and when I tried to suppress it got even stronger. It said only one thing, I want, I want! And I would ask, 'What do you want?' But this is all it would ever tell me."
-Henderson The Rain King
So, I really want to watch an episode of 'Seinfeld'. Specifically, I want to watch episode 22 from season 5, 'The Opposite', because it's such a classic and I'm just in the mood for it.
And I'm also working my way through 'Frasier' again, so there's that too.
But my brain is giving me such a hard time. On the one hand, I think watching these masterpieces of comedy is good for me as a writer, but on the other hand, my brain is telling me to branch out and watch some sci-fi or something.
But on the other hand (this is now my third hand, which either means I am an alien or that you think I'm referring to rude body parts) who gives a shit what is good for me as a 'writer', how about just chilling out for an evening and watching what the fuck I want to watch?
But my brain doesn't work like that, not anymore. In fact, in many ways I doubt it works at all. It's just a big jumble. I want to watch a film but I want to write a film but I want to watch a sitcom but I want to go and have a great random day out in the sunshine but 3 ]pokwegop]jrw pi4q[rnwp]w4 (that is my brain spazzing out).
I don't even know what I want anymore.
I want to write the best script I've ever written.
But how? Should I first get a killer idea?
Or should I just write and write because many writers just write and write?
Or should I watch a sitcom.
Or should I watch a crime thriller.
Or should I go surfing.
I don't know anymore. I have no clue where I am or what I'm meant to be doing.
And you'll give me advice. Like, 'go write,' or 'go take a girl out' or 'go surfing' and I'll be all adamant that you're WRONG because it's up to ME and not YOU. So fuck you.
But I need you.
I need you to tell me what to do without me knowing you're telling me what to do because right now I am sinking in my own lost confusion.
'I want I want I want' just like Henderson The Rain King. My heart screams for so many things all at once in so many corners of life, the world, my mind. I want everything all at once and I am utterly, utterly paralysed.
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The One Where We Gave Up Our Passions And Dedicate...


At the outset, I would like to send my wishes for a speedy recovery to the wounded and to encourage the security forces.
In the 1920s, Albert Londres, who is still considered one of the greatest journalists in France, visited the Land of Israel. In his book, The Wandering Jew Has Arrived, he described the repeated terrorist attacks by rioting Arabs against the Jewish inhabitants of the Land of Israel and against the first Jewish city, Tel Aviv. Londres mentions in particular that the city's symbol contained the words from the Bible, "I will build you up again and you will be rebuilt", but he added, and I quote, "From the very day that the first stone was laid, the Arab stance has been 'I will destroy you and you will be destroyed'".
We will also vanquish this current wave of terror, through the determined action of our soldiers and police officers, by neutralizing the terrorists, as occurred today in Jerusalem, through the resourcefulness and courage of our citizens as events happen, through the mutual responsibility for one another that characterizes our people, especially when they are in danger, as the late Rabbi Nehemia Lavi demonstrated, when he, with supreme and extraordinary bravery, came to the aid of the Benita family, thereby saving the lives of Adel and her two small children.
We are working against these terrorists on all fronts. I instructed that there be massive reinforcement of forces. We added regiments in Judea and Samaria. We mobilized many companies of border patrol fighters to Jerusalem and all parts of the country. We are taking the initiative, entering neighborhoods in East Jerusalem, preventing the immunity of rioters wherever they are, destroying the homes of terrorists, working against inciters, setting up ambushes and conducting undercover operations, making arrests, advancing legislation to revoke the rights of murderers, and working to make the Islamic Movement illegal. We clarified the instructions for opening fire on firebombers and rock throwers, like those who took the lives of innocent civilians like the toddler, Adele Biton, or Jerusalem resident Alexander Levlovitz.
Members of Knesset, yesterday the Government approved legislation for minimum sentences for rock throwers and firebombers, and the imposition of fines on minors and their parents. I expect the support of the opposition parties for this emergency legislation on this important security issue, as well as for legislating the war on terror law, which will also be presented during this session. What guides us is the profound recognition that we are fighting a just fight.
There were terrorist attacks before the establishment of the country and after it, before the Six Day War and after the Six Day War, when the peace process was at its zenith and when the peace process was stopped. It must be understood once and for all: Terror does not result from frustration due to the lack of progress in the political process. Terror is the result of a desire to destroy us. It was the motivation for terrorism during the early days of Zionism and it is the motivation today as well.
After the beginning of the peace process in Oslo, during the mid-1990s, 1994 through 1996 and also in the early 2000s, more than 1,000 Israelis were murdered in suicide terror attacks and on buses that exploded. Suicide terror did not vanquish us then and the terror of knife attacks will not vanquish us now. What wins every time is the recognition that this is our home, this is our homeland. What wins is our will to live, which overcomes our enemies' will to die. I tell you, enemies of Israel: You did not succeed and you will not succeed in destroying the State of Israel. There is no way to stop the Zionist enterprise.
Even they, at least back then, could not deny the historic fact that the two temples built by the Jews – the First and Second Temples – stood on that location for a thousand years. And some people tell us today that the Jews have no connection to the Temple Mount. Apparently one can say anything because Husseini's successors today arrogantly claim that the Jews have absolutely no connection to this place. They say the Jews dirty and defile the Temple Mount. They repeat over and over again the lie that we intend to destroy the al-Aqsa Mosque or change the status quo at the Temple Mount. This is an absolute lie. The complete opposite is true: We are committed to preserving the status quo at the Temple Mount.
We stringently protect the holy places of all religions. And moreover, members of Knesset, if it were not for Israel, radical Islamic extremists would come here and they would destroy the holy places and historic heritage sites – at the Temple Mount, in Jerusalem – as they do across the entire Middle East. We are those who protect the holy places of all religions at the Temple Mount and in Jerusalem.
The distributors of this defamatory incitement, and I mention incitement because it is the source and it is explosive – explosive. This is an attempt to ignite a religious conflagration which none of us want. The President rightly said that we have no argument with Islam, but rather with the attempt of radicals to ignite a religious conflagration based on an absolute lie. This is very dangerous incitement, which unfortunately takes its toll in human lives. Its distributors include, first and foremost, Hamas and the Palestinian Authority. Regrettably, they do not educate their people for peace but rather to continue the conflict, each in their own way. They include anti-Semitic incitement in their textbooks, in the media and on social media.
Abu Mazen must renounce the incitement and defamatory statements against Jews and against Israel. He must strongly condemn the attacks, just as I condemned serious acts of terror carried out by Jews against Arabs. We are a law-abiding country and we will not allow any party, any side, to break the law. We will deal severely with anyone who lifts their hand against innocents, Jews and Arabs alike.
But there in another main party which incites all the time, which constantly spreads this great lie about the Temple Mount – and this party is the northern branch of the Islamic Movement. We will act against this source of incitement with all means. Yesterday, I asked that the legal infrastructure to declare them illegal be completed. There will be no immunity for those who incite and encourage terror.
Let it be clear, we want coexistence between Jewish and Arab citizens of the State of Israel. We are investing in the Arab sector, in Druze, in Circassians, in Bedouins, as governments before us did not, in tremendous amounts. This is a worldview. But unfortunately, in the boundaries of the State of Israel, it is not just the Islamic Movement which incites, and I think it is impossible to deal with this without saying these things.
Ladies and Gentlemen, this is unbelievable; it is simply unbelievable. A member of Knesset in Israel calls for wholesale terrorist attacks against the citizens of Israel. There is nothing more justified than initiating a criminal investigation against her. This is what should be done, period.
Members of Knesset are the first who must respect the law in the State of Israel. They cannot justify murder. They cannot call for murder. Whoever has done so or does so is not deserving of being a member of this house.
I appeal to the Israeli Arabs: You must see that Israel is the only place that is quiet, normal, in the entire area. You see what is happening to Muslims and Christians in the region, what happens to the countries that devolved into religious wars and civil wars. We will meet every challenge, but I call on you to eject the radicals among you, just as I call on the Jewish citizens of the State of Israel to do the same.
I appeal to the Israeli Arabs, citizens of this country, and I say: Will you follow a leadership which incites, which reaches absurd heights – the members of the communist Balad party, behind whom stands a trail of ISIS flags? A leadership which seeks to fragment the country? Or will you follow the path of coexistence, peace, loyalty to the country of which you are a part? Because you cannot have it both ways. You cannot have the best of both worlds, enjoying all the rights available in democratic Israel, which respects the rights of all its citizens, Jews and Arabs alike, while at the same time undermining the country. I beseech you: Chose the right path, the path of truth, the path of coexistence. There is no other choice. We will meet any challenge, but this is important for you, for your children, for all of us – for all of us.
Members of Knesset, the wave of radical Islam is flooding the entire region. Just two days ago, nearly a hundred people were murdered in the heart of Ankara, Turkey, and the flames reach us here too. All our neighbors within a very wide radius are fighting the Islamist volcano. Hundreds of thousands of people have been slaughtered just beyond our borders. Millions of refugees are escaping the expanse of extremism. I assure you, they understand very well – just ask them – they understand very well to which depths they have been dragged by those same extremist Islamic radicals, which are composed of two camps: the radical Shiite axis, led by Iran, and the extremist Sunni axis, led by ISIS. They certainly are not partners for peace, but unfortunately Abu Mazen also runs time and again from peace negotiations. Many times I have called on Abu Mazen to sit with me – most recently in my speech at the UN – to try and advance the issues on the agenda, but he persists in refusing.
I know that he knows that I do not have any preconditions for entering negotiations for any peace arrangement, but he knows that in any peace arrangement, no matter who is in this house, he will eventually need to declare an end to the conflict, relinquish the right of return and recognize Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people. He knows that he will have to give us, our people, what he demands for his own people. It is this refusal to recognize the nation-state of the Jewish people in any borders which was and is the root of the conflict.
Distinguished colleagues, at this time what we must do is stand strong in the face of the radical Islamic proxies surrounding us. Iran is expanding its activities in Syria as we speak. Just today, thousands of Iranian soldiers arrived in Syria, not far from our northern border. ISIS is also established there and it is also established in the Sinai. Our first duty is to strengthen control over our borders. I instructed that a security fence be built along our eastern border, as we previously built a 220 kilometer-long security fence along our shared border with Egypt, as well as in the Golan. Work began there one month ago.
In addition to sealing our borders, we will prevent the establishment of terrorist bases near our borders. Anyone who endangers our security and threatens our sovereignty will bear the consequences. I made this clear to the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin. During our meeting in Moscow, I stood up for our principles: Israel attacks whoever attacks it. We will not allow Iran to transfer deadly weapons to Hezbollah from Syrian territory, or at least we will do everything in our power to prevent it; and we will not allow Iran to open an additional terrorist front against us in the Golan.
In the face of the threats posed by Iran and radical Islam, we stand united with Egypt and Jordan, members of Knesset, and with many other Arab countries in the region. I choose my words carefully. Reality shifts rapidly. We reserve the right to act against anyone who threatens to destroy us. No international agreement will bind our hands.
I wish to tell you that despite the differences of opinion regarding the nuclear agreement, President Obama and I have full understanding regarding the need to oppose Iranian aggression and the need to prevent Iran from transferring weapons to its terrorist proxies. In the United States, both the supporters of the agreement and those opposed to it as a whole agree that Israel must be strengthened even more at this time in order to face the threats I described and others, and during my upcoming visit to Washington, I will discuss Israel's security needs in the coming years, the coming decade, with the President.
Members of Knesset, security and safeguarding lives come first, but they are not the most important thing. Alongside the fight against terror and the other threats, we continue building our country and acting for the benefit of all the citizens of Israel. Soon we will present a budget which includes many reforms, including those to reduce the cost of living – of food, transportation, health, credit and many other areas.
We reduced the value added tax by 1%, the corporate tax rate by 1.5%. We will continue increasing the minimum wage. We will soon continue the process of producing natural gas. We will continue developing transportation arteries along the length and breadth of Israel. You must see this every day: The road to Jerusalem is expanding, the work on the light rail in Tel Aviv has begun, we are connecting the periphery to the center of the country. These are not just empty words; it is finally happening after half a century of talk.
The Negev and the Galilee are transforming. We are moving IDF units south to the Negev, to the "training camp city". The bases we will evacuate – in Ziffrin, in Tel Hashomer – in these evacuated areas we will establish new residential neighborhoods. We will advance the plan for the train from Eilat to Kiryat Shmona. This is the vision: One uninterrupted line of transportation, a continuous multi-lane road and eventually also a rail line, a railway connection from Kiryat Shmona to Eilat. We will open a new airport in Timna soon. We signed agreements with municipalities for the construction and development of tens of thousands of housing units in Rishon Le'Zion, Rosh Ha'Aiyn, Modi'in, Kiryat Bialik, Kiryat Gat, and recently an historic agreement for 20,000 housing units in Beer Sheva. All the money earned from selling the land will be invested in the infrastructure of these cities.
My vision is clear: Within 12 years, half a million citizens will live in Beer Sheva. And this vision includes something else: Beer Sheva will become, is already becoming, a global cyber city. This is a tremendous revolution which is transforming the Negev and the country. Several years ago, from this podium, I promised that Israel would become a cyber world power.
Allow me to present you a single figure: In 2014, the State of Israel received 10% of global investments in cyber security. This is one hundredfold for our relative size, but that figure has changed. In 2015 we see that this percentage will increase to 20%. It doubled itself in one year. This is geometric growth. All the countries and companies around the world have noticed our technological capabilities, which are integrated – and this is because of the genius of our citizens but it is also because of the government's investments in these areas.
Just this month, I will meet with leaders from four continents. I know, members of the opposition, that you like to speak about Israel's isolation in the world, but this is simply not true. We are expanding our relations with Arab countries in the region, with Asian countries, with African countries and with Latin American countries. I do not deny that we have problems with some of the Western European countries.
They are captive to an old line of reasoning, a line of reasoning that is outdated, i.e. that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the source of all conflict in the Middle East. Once, people would say conflict in the singular, just one conflict – and I think it is time that they suit themselves and their countries to the changing reality.
Despite the difficulties, faced with these challenges, Israel continues to march forward in developing its economy, in making the land bloom, in absorbing new immigrants in ever increasing numbers. Our hope is not the result of burying our heads in the sand, of creating a false reality, of ignoring the difficulties. Our hope, as stated in our national anthem, is the result of fortifying our strength as a free people in our land. Our response to one hundred years of terror is one hundred years of development, creation and prosperity.
We established a country whose accomplishments are unique on any scale. I am proud of our country, proud of its residents, proud of its soldiers and police officers, who are working night and day to safeguard our security and well-being. I am proud of you, citizens of Israel. One hundred years of terror did not succeed and will not succeed. Israel will remain here forever.


Athens-based shipping company Diana Shipping Inc. ("Diana") has secured a US$165 million five-year term loan facility with Watson Farley & Williams ("WFW")-advised BNP Paribas, secured over 18 dry bulk carriers in the Diana fleet.
The funds from the loan facility were used to prepay in full the balance of a pre-existing US$195 million revolving credit facility with the Royal Bank of Scotland plc. WFW advised BNP Paribas as Agent, Security Trustee, Bookrunner and Swap Bank.
Diana is a global shipping company, specialising in the ownership of dry bulk vessels and its fleet currently consists of 41 dry bulk vessels, mainly Panamax class, but including Capesize, Kamsarmax, Post-Panamax and Newcastlemax class vessels. It currently has four newbuild vessels – one Capesize, two Newcastlemax and one Kamsarmax – on order which are expected to be delivered within the next 12 months. The company's vessels are primarily employed on medium to short-term charters and transport a range of dry bulk cargoes, including iron-ore, coal, grain and other materials.
The WFW team was led by WFW asset finance partner and head of Greece, George Paleokrassas. He was supported by senior associate Vassiliki Georgopoulos and associates Erica Lacombe, Nadine Akleh, Eirini Portokalaki and Georgia Theologidou.


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Posted on 9 Aug , 2017
No more Count Arthur Strong on BBC TV for now…
We would like to announce that, as already reported in the Radio Times, the BBC One sitcom Count Arthur Strong is regretfully not going to run to a fourth series. A recent BBC announcement stated: "There are no current plans for a further series of Count Arthur Strong on the BBC'. Series co-creator Graham Linehan took to Twitter to thank the BBC Comedy department for their support but also noted that it was difficult to impossible for any series to establish without the support of repeats. On seeing the announcement on Twitter the Count Arthur fans took to social media to voice their surprise and disappointment, even setting up a Change.org petition which clocked up thousands of signatures in the first 24 hours.
The show, written by the characters creator Steve Delaney and Graham Linehan, first aired on BBC Two in 2013 was instantly recommissioned and transferred to BBC One. The second series, aired in summer 2015 (with its transmission run unfortunately interrupted by that year's general election), drew around 1.2m viewers in 10:35pm slot. Production on a third series was completed in the Autumn of 2016 and the show finally aired in May 2017 in the 8:30pm Friday night slot. The series opened to wide critical acclaim, however, broadcasts halted after two episodes with the snap election resulting in a two week break. Further transmission changes included the penultimate episode being moved to BBC Two due to Wimbledon coverage and series three ended up drawing a similar audience to series two.
Having set out in partnership with Steve Delaney in 2002 with the main objective of creating a Count Arthur Strong TV sitcom, Komedia Entertainment are thankful to the BBC for their support of the character and to their production partners in realising the creation of 20 high quality episodes which will be enjoyed by existing fans and discovered by new ones for years to come.
The three series were co-produced by Komedia Entertainment and Retort TV and the most recent series has just been released on DVD by Network.


Mrs. Lisa Maisto is excited to join the staff at TCS. She received her B.A. in Music Business from Western Illinois University, where she studied both piano and flute, and participated in various ensembles. Professionally, Lisa has held various teaching positions with the YMCA's after school program for several years. An Illinois native, she and her family moved to Thomasville in 2013. Lisa and her husband, Dax, have been married for nine years. They have three beautiful children, a daughter, 7, and a son, 5. In May 2017, their youngest daughter, at the age of 2 months, went home be with the Lord after a hard fight with Trisomy 18. The Maisto family are members of First Baptist Church in Thomasville. Each Christmas, Lisa takes part in FBC's annual Christmas At The Keyboard concert. We welcome and look forward to Lisa being part of the TCS Family this year.


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Exploring London in 1987 – walk # 1
Posted on 07/02/2018 by Nick Kelly
When moving to a new place, its important to have a good look around and get to know where you live. In London there is no shortage of places to explore. Having visited London prior to moving here I had a bit of an idea of things. But there is always more to see and do. Before moving here I found this wee gem:
The 1980s Automobile Association Book of London.
This was purchased by my maternal grandparents when they came over to visit London in 1987. My Grandparents had both visited London during and after the second world war. My Grandad was stationed in North Africa and Italy for much of the war. My Nana was a Sargent at Trentham Army camp in Upper Hutt. After the war she visited London for the Victory Parade:
Above Left The London Victory Parades 1946, Right my Nana Pat Oram (nee Darroch) in her Army Sargent's Uniform while in London.
40 years later my grandparents decided to come back to the the UK. This would be their last visit as they both died a few years later. I was 5 years old at the time and vaguely remember them being away.
Above, My Nana Pat Oram with her pen friend Hilda in Halifax in 1987
So 30 years later I was curious to see how accurate the The Book of London of the 1980s still was. There was no London Eye, no Shard, and no Walkie Talkie building. The Jubilee line stopped at Westminster and Surrey Quays station was still called Surrey Docks (should have kept that name according to the locals). Coventry City F.C were the FA cup victors and Sananda Maitreya's Wishing Well was top of the pops. Much had changed in 30 years, but just how much?
Walk 1 in the 1980s book was of Westminster and Millbank. The walk commenced at Westminster Station and headed to the Cenotaph. The book advised the following:
In the centre of Parliament Street is the Cenotaph, a simple yet moving pillar of Portland stone, that was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens and unveiled in 1920 on the anniversary of Armistice Day. It was originally built to the memory of the men who lost their lives in World War 1. Now memorial service for the dead of both world wars are held here in every year on the second Sunday in November.
Above: The Cenotaph, Parliament Street London. Photo taken 6/1/2018
30 years later it would be great to report that this monument was to a time when humanity fought and killed each other. That his practice has now ceased and that humanity has learned to live together in peace and harmony. Iraq, Afghanistan, Kosovo, Rwanda, Croatia, Bosnia, Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Algeria, Somalia, Yeman, Israel/Palestine, Congo, Chechenia, Macedonia…I could keep going
The next stop was Downing Street:
This world famous street was built by Sir George Downing, a secretary to the Treasury, in about 1680. At first it was an unimportant residential street with a pub – the Cat and Bagpipes – on the corner. In 1732 Gorge II offered No 10 to Sir Robert Walpole as a town house and since then it has been the official residence of the
British Prime Minister. No 11 is the official residence of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The buildings themselves have unpretentious Georgian facades, but have been extensively modified inside.
Above: Downing Street 6/1/2018. Neither Theresa May nor Philip Hammond invited me in for a cup of tea – rude!
Next stop was the Government Offices:
Sir George Gilbert Scott, the distinguished Victorian architect designed this imposing building. His first designs were in the Gothic style and Lord Palmerston rejected them all. He insisted on something Italian, so Scott bought some books on Italian architecture and 'set vigorously to work to rub on up it,' with the results that can be seen today.
Above: Scott vigorously rubbed on up the Italian style – this was the result.
Next is Parliament Square:
In and around Parliament Square there are many statues of British Politicians. Foreign statements men are also represented, and include Field-Marshal Smuts by Jacob Epstein, and (outside the old Middlesex Guildhall) a rumpled figure of Abraham Lincoln. The latter is a copy of the statue by Augustus Saint-Gaudens in Chicago.
Above – Parliament Square 6/1/2018. Today Nelson Mandela, Gandhi and Winston Churchill stand tall in the square. What happened to Smuts? Is he now in storage somewhere? Or was he melted down to make frying pans and sold at Tesco's?
Next the Middlesex Guildhall:
This Renaissance-style building was opened in 1913, and stands on the site of an earlier guildhall. It once functioned as the administrative centre for the old country of Middlesex. The friezes on the facade depict Magna Carta, Henry II granting charter to Westminster, and Lady Jane Grey accepting the crown from the Duke of Northumberland.
Above: Middlesex Guildhall 6/1/2018
Next the Methodist Central Hall:
Built in 1849-51, the Methodist Central Hall stands across the road in Storey's Gate. It was once a meeting place for the infant United Nations Organisation.
Above: The Methodist Hall
Next, Little Dean's School Yard and Westminster School
Westminster Abbey probably had its own school before 1200. When the abbey became a cathedral in 1540, the school became the King's Grammer School, with 40 scholars. It was re-founded by Queen Elizabeth I in 1560. The custom known as Pancake Greeze is observed here every Shrove Tuesday. The cook, dressed in a cap and apron, comes in with a frying-pan and has to toss a pancake over the 16-ft high iron bar which separates the old Upper and Lower Schools. As it falls, representatives from each form scramble for it, and the boy who gets the biggest piece get a guinea from the Dean. On the north side of Little Dean's Yard is Ashburnham House, built shortly after 1662, and the best example in London of a stately mid-17th century house.
Above: Me and Julio down by the (Little Dean's) school yard.
Next Barton Street:
Barton Street contains some exceptionally well-preserved Georgian houses. Nos 1-14 (except for Nos 2 and 8) are original and carry a tablet dating them to 1722. T E Lawrence ('Lawrence of Arabia') lived at No 14. An inscription on the wall of No 2 reads 'Peace on Thy House O Passer-by.'
Above: Barton Street, and Lawrence of Arabia's old digs.
Next, Smiths Square:
This square is named after Sir John Smith, who owned and developed the land. Some of the houses were rebuilt after World War II, but NO 5 dates from 1726. In the centre of the square is Thomas Archer's fine church of St John. Concerts are often broadcast from the church, which has been specially adapted for the purpose. St John's also has its own orchestra, now of international repute. Other buildings in teh square include the headquarters of both the Labour Party (Transport House, in the south-east corner of the square) and the Conservative Party (No 32).
Above: Left – The church of St John. Right- Building in South East corner of Smith Square, was the Headquarters of the British Labour Party in the 1980s. In 2018 it is now Europe House, London Headquarters for the European Union. This building appears to the the patron saint of lost causes.
Next, Vauxhall Bridge Garden
A large bollard here marks the approximate site of Millbank Penitentiary from which, between 1816 and 1867, convicts sentenced to transportation embarked on their journey. The garden also contains a sculpture by Henry Moore, foundations and seats.
Above: Left – view of Vauxhall Bridge from Vauxhall Bridge Garden, Right Henry Moore's sculpture. This Garden no longer contains a fountain and the seating looks uncomfortable – the results of austerity no doubt.
Next, Lambeth Palace:
Much of this historic structure, which has been the London residence of the Archbishop of Canterbury for 700 years, was rebuilt during the 19th century. Extensive damage was caused by bombs during World War II. Of the old place, the most interesting parts are the Lollards Tower and the Gatehouse, both of the 15th century, and the 13th-century Chapel Crypt. Parts of the palace, and its grounds, are open to the public. Adjourning the south gateway of the palace is the former church of St Mary, now being restored as Museum of Garden History in memory of John Tradescant, Charles I's gardener. Captain William Bligh, of the Bounty, is buried here.
Above: Lambeth Palace
Next, Victoria Tower Gardens
In the thin Triangle of Victoria Tower Gardens are the Buxton Drinking Fountain, Commemorating the emancipation of slaves in the British Empire in 1834, a statue of the Suffragette Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928); and a copy of the famouse statue by Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) called 'The Burghers of Calais,'
Above: The Buxton Memorial, Victoria Tower Gardens.
Next, the Jewel Tower
This inconspicuous moated tower is in fact a survival of the medieval Palace of Westminster. It was built in 1365 to house the monarch's personal treasure, and this remained its function until the death of Henry VIII. It now houses a collection of pottery and other items found during the excavations in the area, and is open to the public.
Above: The Jewel Tower, very inconspicuous.
On conclusion of this walk, I was freezing cold. I caught a tube home on a line that wasn't build until 1999. Some things had changed in 30 years, but overall walk 1 was pretty close to how it would have been in the 1980s. Would the other walks be the same?
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Two weeks ago, my son's grandmother unfortunately passed away. She was a very strong woman who had been battling lung cancer for over two years.
I remember being with her and a friend when she was diagnosed causing us to immediately burst to tears knowing the long painful journey ahead of her. She endured chemotherapy and immunotherapy in an attempt to rid herself of the cancer but it became too much to beat. When she finally passed, she closed her eyes and painlessly slipped away.
Although it was sad to see her leave, we found comfort knowing she was in a better place. At the funeral, my son was one of pallbearers to honor his grandmother.
Family from all over the world gathered to celebrate her life and reconnect with one another. My sons were able to meet their older sister for the first time today as well and make that connection they never had.
Their grandmother lived a beautiful life and she will be sincerely missed.
My prayers and sympathy to you and your son in the loss of his Grandmother. Life is short. Embrace those you touch with love. Blessings. @yuliana.


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Dorothy Hyman
Medals OG
Dorothy•Hyman
9 May 1941 in Cudworth, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England (GBR)
Hickleton Main YC
A junior champion at every age group from 13 upwards, Dorothy Hyman was a world record holder as part of England's 1958 Commonwealth Games winning 4×110 yard relay team at the age of just 17. In that same year she also took part in the European Championship where she was part of the silver medal relay team. Hyman's first AAA title victories came in 1959 and she would win the 100/200 double in 1959, 1960, 1962 and 1963. She emerged into world class at the 1960 Olympic Games where, although not considered a potential medallist, she won each heat she contested and led the final until the remarkable Wilma Rudolph powered ahead for victory. Hyman also won a bronze medal in the 200 in Rome. The best year of her career was 1962 as she won the sprint double at the Commonwealth Games and emerged with a medal of each colour from the year's European Championships including the 100 m gold. Although there were no major championships in 1963 she was dominant in domestic and international races and was voted Britain's Sports Personality of the Year ahead of motor racing world champion Jim Clark. A fit Dorothy Hyman would have been a serious contender for honours at the Tokyo Olympic but her season had been ruined by injury and she salvaged only a relay medal from the Games. Still only 23 she became tired of the commitment needed to excel at the sport and retired from track at the end of 1964. Although she later said that regretted her decision to retire, she was unable to return to international competition due to profits earned from writing her autobiography in 1965. Hyman turned to coaching and set up the Dorothy Hyman Track Club based at the stadium in the home town of Cudworth that have been named in her honour. She was allowed to run in domestic races in 1969 and added a further AAA title to the eight she had won previously but otherwise she confined herself to coaching the next generations of British sprinting. The daughter of a coal miner, Hyman herself worked in the offices of the National Coal Board for 30 years before being made redundant. She later worked with people with learning disabilities.
Personal Bests: 100 – 11.54 (1964); 200 – 23.2 (1963).
1960 Summer Olympics Athletics GBR Dorothy Hyman
100 metres, Women (Olympic) 2 Silver
200 metres, Women (Olympic) 3 Bronze
4 × 100 metres Relay, Women (Olympic) Great Britain AC r2/2
100 metres, Women (Olympic) 8
200 metres, Women (Olympic) 5 h2 r2/3
4 × 100 metres Relay, Women (Olympic) Great Britain 3 Bronze
Listed in Olympians Who Won a Medal at the British Empire/Commonwealth Games (3–1–0 1958 Cardiff ATH gold: 4×110 yards relay (competed for England); 1962 Perth ATH gold: 100 yards and 220 yards, silver: 4×110 yards relay (competed for England))
Listed in Olympians Who Won a Medal at the European Athletics Championships (1–2–1 1958 Stockholm silver: 4×100 m relay; 1962 Beograd gold: 100 m, silver: 200 m, bronze: 4×100 m relay)
Speed skating was conducted outdoors at the Winter Olympics until the advent of indoor ovals in the 1980s. Since 1994, an indoor oval is a requirement, and the last time speed skating was held outdoors was in Albertville, 1992.


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