Dortmund started the game at a high pace, using a high press as well as quick restarts of possession to give Hoffenheim's defence a tough start to the game.
Tuchel's press was man-oriented in almost all positions, resulting in a spare defender at the back and Reus and Aubameyang with the task of covering Hoffenheim's three centerbacks. The two forwards were quite successful despite the underload, with intelligent positioning allowing them to sustain defensive access. The pairing would often position themselves between the centerbacks so to block the connections between the chain.
Doing so would effectively reduce the number of options available to the ball-carrier, reducing the level of protection as well as ways to progress through the field. In order to apply pressure on Vogt, they could press diagonally while keeping the side-backs in their cover shadows.
The most essential assignment was handed to Ousmane Dembélé, who was responsible for limiting Sebastian Rudy's influence on the game. The youngster would stay close to the soon-Bayern pivot, who has been a crucial figure of Nagelsmann's positional play. Thankfully for Tuchel, his trust payed off and the winger handled his task well throughout the game and instead of being the focal point of their early possession, he usually resorted to being a decoy to enable passes into other teammates. Marking a single, fairly static player is a rather simple task, but what was particularly impressive about Dembélé's defensive performance was his selection of moments to move out and press the ball-carrier while keeping Rudy in his shadow.
Despite Dortmund's best efforts, Hoffenheim were still able to develop attacks more vertically either through long balls up to Uth and Wagner or in their pre-planned combinations. In these moments, Dortmund's five-man back line provided adequate protection. But overall it added to the pace of the match, and the first fifteen minutes were end-to-end and frantic. This undoubtedly played into the hands of the hosts, who gained an early lead through Reus and nearly doubled it after winning a penalty shortly afterwards but for the miss of Aubameyang (after the visitors made a great job of delaying the kick).
Dortmund's pressing wasn't without its flaws, however. As Hoffenheim's in-possession shape decided their opponents', they could manipulate Dortmund's structure to decrease it's stability. One way in which they did this was by forcing Weigl to cover spaces high-up in the right half-space, as Kramaric began to drop more frequently in response to the opening exchanges. The six is excellent at the base of midfield, but is much less comfortable higher up in the defensive shape and with larger areas to cover.
Hoffenheim looked to access the space behind Weigl.
Not only would it put Weigl in an unfamiliar position, but it would increase the distance between him and the defensive line. This would simply provide more space for Wagner to drop into, in order to receive vertical passes from the first line and quickly lay the ball off (with Demirbay or Kramaric often balancing with a run into depth). As far as I know, this is an essential part of Hoffenheim's offensive game, and the striker times his movements well. Alternatively, Demirbay would drift further over from the right side of midfield to occupy the same spaces.
After the high-speed start gave the hosts their lead, Dortmund worked to reduce the tempo of the game with some longer spells of sustained possession. They spent more time in the build-up phase, and would patiently move the ball across the width of the pitch, looking to progress through the wide triangles formed naturally by the shape.
Interestingly, their opponents seemed rather compliant with this change and spent more time in a deeper block themselves. With Weigl dropping close to the centerbacks, it became difficult for Wagner and Uth to establish defensive access and instead they focused on blocking progressive passes while waiting for a cue to press again. Their passivity became too much at times, particularly on the left wing where they struggled to create access on Ginter and Weigl, allowing Dortmund to make some nice switches to Guerreiro and Reus.
The hosts' defence receded into more of a midfield block too, which didn't put the same impetus on pressuring Hoffenheim's first line. This doesn't mean that they didn't defend with the same intensity, but instead it was applied when Hoffenheim got closer to the attacking half. Reus and Aubameyang dropped away from the opposition's defensive line and began to focus more on blocking passing lanes, while Dembélé stayed on Rudy.
To block centre-to-wing diagonal passes from Hoffenheim's defensive line. By having a wider positioning, the two forwards could potentially use their cover shadows to block any diagonal passing routes out to Zuber and Kaderabek. This would help to reduce the variability of the visitors' attack and force them into narrower possession where Dortmund's midfield was primed to intercept passes.
Through their wider positioning, they were in better positions to immediately press the side-backs. This aspect would help to increase Dortmund's access and threaten to create tackling opportunities in a dangerous position for Hoffenheim. On a related note, they could also utilise diagonal pressing to cut off the connections between the side-backs and Vogt as they attempted to in their early high press.
Have a stronger starting position for transitions. Through their wider positioning in defence, both Reus and Aubameyang were in strong positions to make direct movements upon a turnover. Together they could attack opposing spaces and potentially stretch Hoffenheim's defenders while Dembélé joins the attack from the middle.
Aubameyang and Reus often took on wider defensive positions.
At points however, the forwards were perhaps a little too wide and it became impossible to effectively pressure Vogt. In such cases, it became quite easy for the excellent centerback to pick a safe option through the centre of Dortmund' defence.
A crucial point of Dortmund's defence was their back-line's management of the opposing forwards' movements. Sokratis and his teammates were regularly challenged with runs into depth from Hoffenheim attackers, lead by Uth with support from Demirbay and Kramaric. The two eights were often joining the front line in rotation with Wagner's typical dropping movements, and could effectively go man-to-man with Uth to isolate defenders on long balls. Two players would also intentionally make runs in opposing directions so to increase the distances between the home centerbacks.
Hoffenheim regularly threatened with runs into depth.
But Tuchel's side maintained a fairly high defensive line and were able to manage the direct threat from Hoffenheim, even when Aubameyang and Reus stopped applying pressure to their opposing centerbacks. The coordination between the five men was strong, and they timed their runs well to minimise the space available to Hoffenheim's forwards as well as catching them offside. Hoffenheim racked up 10 offsides throughout the 90 minutes, albeit with a little help from the sub-standard officiating.
Not only was Dortmund's overall adaption made to slow the pace of the game down, but to better protect the midfield gaps which Nagelsmann's side were threatening to take advantage of. There became a greater focus on vertical compactness, which supported their control of the centre. The five-man defensive line was certainly a useful feature of their strategy, as it gave greater freedom for a centerback to leave the line and pressure any recipients of vertical passes.
Dortmund's defensive line worked well to nullify Hoffenheim's vertical threat.
From a deeper position, Tuchel also likely looked to utilise the pace of his front three in transitional moments too. Chasing the scoreline from the early minutes, Hoffenheim would inevitably become more open with the ball which would in turn offer opportunities for Aubameyang and Co. to exercise their speed on breaks. Dembélé in particular caused trouble in the second half, by receiving passes on the break in the space behind Zuber. The winger played a trio of low crosses to Reus and Aubameyang in the box but only one hit its target. And although they ultimately didn't create any real chances in transition, they created some dangerous moments and perhaps the threat posed created some hesitancy with Hoffenheim's possession game itself.
With the drop in speed being a big aspect of it, Dortmund became much more focused on maintaining stability in the game. Their cautious and wing-focused build-up helped ensure a degree of security against any attempts to press or counter from Hoffenheim. Without the ball, the deeper and more compact defence gave better protection against the visitors' vertical attacks. Both sides to the strategy played a key role in ensuring that their opponents barely scraped 0.5 expected goals together prior to the late penalty at 2-0.
It wasn't all plain-sailing however, and Hoffenheim had a number of promising moments in the second half. Shortly after restarting, they became more aggressive in their pressing and would take any opportunity to engage Dortmund's back-line. The game became rather heated from their pressure which involved a number of fouls which probably aimed to disturb Dortmund's younger members. The effect was probably as desired, with the game picking up a pace closer to what we saw at the beginning of the game.
Nagelsmann altered his team's shape too, in search of a way back into the game. With the introduction of Ádám Szalai for Benjamin Hübner, the away team shifted into a four-man defence with the new player slotting into the attack. Rudy maintained the pivot position while Nadiem Amiri took on a role in the left half-space with Kramaric more central. Ultimately these changes were to increase Hoffenheim's presence on Dortmund's defensive line, which made their direct attacks more threatening. A clear example being Amiri's solo-effort in the 81st, where he was able to break into space vacated by a pre-occupied Schmelzer.
They proceeded to dominate the share of the ball and were able to further raise the speed of the game. The hosts' compactness began to decrease and gaps opened up between the lines of midfield and defence, as they were tiring both physically and mentally. In a typically-open last fifteen minutes, Dortmund were able to double their lead after taking advantage of an open and fatigued defence. They then handed their opposition a penalty which Kramaric converted in front of the Yellow Wall. From this point, Hoffenheim had a couple of attacks but they were limited due to Dortmund doing very well to run down the clock. What little opportunities they had, Nagelsmann's team wasted with poor touches and the scoreline didn't change again.
In conclusion, Dortmund were completely worth their victory in a strong performance underpinned by excellent defensive work. Tuchel managed the game well after his side took an early lead, and his team's defensive strategy was effective in reducing Hoffenheim to only the penalty for dangerous attempts on Burki's goal.


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Händel: Messiah [51 Tracks] (1990)
performed by Alastair Ross (harpsichord), Alastair Ross (organ), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), Catherine Robbin (mezzo-soprano), Charles Brett (counter tenor), English Baroque Soloists, Margaret Marshall (soprano), Robert Hale (bass), Saul Quirke (treble)
composed by George Frederick Handel
Bach: Christmas Oratorio
performed by Alison Bury (violin), Alistair Ross (harpsichord), Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano), Anthony Robson (oboe d'amore), Anthony Robson (oboe), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), Crispian Steele-Perkins (trumpet), Hans Peter Blochwitz (tenor)
composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
Berlioz: L'Enfance du Christ (1998)
performed by Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), Chantal Mathieu (harp), Gilles Cachemaille (baritone), Gilles Cottin (flute), José van Dam (bass), Jules Bastin (bass), Michel Fockenoy (tenor), Philippe Bernold (flute)
composed by Hector Berlioz
Handel: Israel in Egypt (1990)
performed by Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), David Thomas (bass), Emily van Evera (soprano), Jeremy White (bass), Nancy Argenta (soprano), Taverner Players, Timothy Wilson (counter tenor), Timothy Wilson (vocals), Taverner Choir (choir, chorus)
Beethoven: The Symphonies (2010)
performed by Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), Gilles Cachemaille (bass), Luba Orgonasova (soprano), Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique, John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
composed by Ludwig van Beethoven
Bach: St. Matthew Passion [1988 Recording] (1989)
performed by Andreas Schmidt (baritone), Ann Monoyios (soprano), Anne Sofie von Otter (alto), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), Barbara Bonney (soprano), Cornelius Hauptmann (bass), Gilian Ross (soprano), Howard Crook (tenor), Michael Chance (tenor), Olaf Bär (baritone)
Mozart: Mass in C minor
performed by Alastair Mitchell (bassoon), Anthony Robson (oboe), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), Cornelius Hauptmann (bass), Diana Montague (soprano), English Baroque Soloists, Lisa Beznosiuk (flute), Sylvia McNair (soprano), Monteverdi Choir (choir, chorus)
composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Bach: St. John Passion [1986 Recording] (1986)
performed by Andrew Murgatroyd (tenor), Anthony Robson (oboe), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), Cornelius Hauptmann (bass), Gilian Ross (soprano), Guy Williams (flute), Jakob Lindberg (luta), Lisa Beznosiuk (flute), Michael Chance (alto), Nancy Argenta (soprano)
Bach: Cantatas "Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme" & "Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben" (1992)
performed by Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), English Baroque Soloists, Michael Chance (counter tenor), Ruth Holton (soprano), Stephen Varcoe (bass), Monteverdi Choir (choir, chorus), John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
Handel: Solomon (1985)
performed by Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), Barbara Hendricks (soprano), Carolyn Watkinson (mezzo-soprano), Della Jones (mezzo-soprano), Joan Rodgers (soprano), Nancy Argenta (soprano), Stephen Varcoe (bass), Monteverdi Choir (choir, chorus), English Baroque Soloists
Mozart: German Operas (2000)
performed by Ann Murray (vocals), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (vocals), Armin Ude (vocals), Christiane Eda-Pierre (vocals), Clifford Grant (vocals), Curd Jürgens (vocals), David Busch (vocals), Dominik Orieschnig (vocals), Edith Mathis (vocals)
Beethoven: 9 Symphonies (1994)
performed by Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), Gilles Cachemaille (bass), Luba Orgonasova (soprano), Monteverdi Choir (choir, chorus), Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique, John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
composed by John Eliot Gardiner, Ludwig van Beethoven
Mendelssohn: Elijah (1992)
performed by Anne Sofie von Otter (contralto), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), Jamie Hopkins (soprano), Jean Rigby (contralto), John Birch (organ), John Connell (bass), Kim Begley (tenor), Lynne Dawson (soprano), Thomas Allen (bass), Yvonne Kenny (soprano)
composed by Felix Mendelssohn
performed by Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), Barbara Hendricks (soprano), Carolyn Watkinson (mezzo-soprano), Della Jones (vocals), Joan Rodgers (soprano), Nancy Argenta (soprano), Stephen Varcoe (bass), John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
Ultimate Haydn (2009)
performed by Aeolian Quartet, Alan Stringer (trumpet), Anne Howells (mezzo-soprano), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), Arleen Augér (soprano), Barbara Bonney (soprano), Barry Tuckwell (horn), Mstislav Rostropovich (cello), Stephen Roberts (baritone)
composed by Franz Joseph Haydn
Bach: Magnificat, BWV 243; Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen (1990)
performed by Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), Charles Brett (alto), Crispian Steele-Perkins (trumpet), David Thomas (bass), Emma Kirkby (soprano), Nancy Argenta (soprano), Patrizia Kwella (soprano), Monteverdi Choir (choir, chorus), English Baroque Soloists
Monteverdi: L'Orfeo (1987)
performed by Anne Sofie von Otter (vocals), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (vocals), Diana Montague (vocals), English Baroque Soloists, His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts (cornet), Howard Milner (vocals), John Timlinson (vocals), John Tomlinson (vocals)
composed by Claudio Monteverdi
Händel: Messiah (Highlights) (1984)
performed by Alastair Ross (organ), Alastair Ross (harpsichord), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), Catherine Robbin (mezzo-soprano), Charles Brett (counter tenor), English Baroque Soloists, Margaret Marshall (soprano), Robert Hale (bass), Timothy Mason (cello)
Gilbert & Sullivan: The Mikado (1992)
performed by Anne Howells (mezzo-soprano), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (baritone), Donald Adams (bass), Felicity Palmer (mezzo-soprano), Janice Watson (soprano), Marie McLaughlin (soprano), Nicholas Folwell (baritone), Richard Suart (tenor)
composed by Arthur Sullivan
Great Bach Choruses (2013)
performed by Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), English Baroque Soloists, London Oratory Junior Choir, Nancy Argenta (soprano), Stephen Varcoe (bass), Monteverdi Choir (choir, chorus), John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
Beethoven: Missa Solemnis (1993)
performed by Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), Chamber Orchestra of Europe (chamber ensemble), Eva Mei (soprano), Marjana Lipovsek (vocals), Robert Holl (bass), Arnold Schoenberg Choir
Messiah: The Dream Cast (2004)
performed by Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), Arleen Augér (soprano), Bryn Terfel (baritone), Charles Daniels (tenor), English Baroque Soloists, Gabrieli Consort & Players, Jerry Hadley (tenor), Joan Sutherland (soprano)
Bach: Cantatas Nos. 140 & 147 (1992)
performed by Alison Bury (violin), Alison Bury (violin piccolo), Angela East (cello), Anthony Robson (oboe), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), Crispian Steele-Perkins (trumpet), English Baroque Soloists, Michael Chance (counter tenor), Richard Campbell (bass viol)
Joseh Haydn: The Seasons - Die Jahreszeiten (1992)
performed by Andreas Schmidt (bass), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), Barbara Bonney (soprano), John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
Handel: Saul (1986)
performed by Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), Concentus Musicus Wien, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (bass), Elizabeth Gale (soprano), Helmut Wildhaber (vocals), Julia Varady (soprano), Matthias Hölle (vocals), Paul Esswood (alto)
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Last night Charlotte and I were watching Zootopia in bed before she went to sleep. We have seen this movie no less than 750 times, but it's her favorite thing to watch right before she goes to sleep. She was cuddled into me and the part where Judy Hopps leaves her parents to go work in Zootopia came on. She asked me if her parents were going with her, like she asks me every night, even though she knows the movie so well she recites portions of it, and I told her no. Judy was going off on her own to start a new job and a new life. I told her one day she would also leave home and and be on her own and start a life. And then the dramatics began.
Her bottom lip quivered. She started leaking tears and proclaiming "no! I don't want to be by myself! I don't want to go on my own! I want to stay with you!" I started to laugh because I didn't think she would get so upset over it, and of course my laughing set her off even more. I had to keep reassuring her she can always stay with me, forever and always. As she drifted off to sleep the last thing she said was "I want to stay with mommy." It was all very sweet and just one of those "awww" parenting moments where I realized my kid actually does love me and doesn't want to leave my side!
One day she is actually going to want to leave me, and I'll be the one crying my eyes out begging her not to go. I feel like that day is going to come faster than I want, so I better enjoy this while it lasts.


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'Assassin's Creed Syndicate': Everything You Need To Know About Ubisoft's Upcoming Blockbuster
Steven Schneider, Tech Times 12 May 2015, 03:05 pm
Let's be honest: Assassin's Creed Unity wasn't the most well-received entry in the franchise. Many thought that the game was a step backwards for the series, especially after Assassin's Creed IV. Unfortunately, it only got worse for Ubisoft, as the game's thematic changes were marred even further by a host of technical glitches and generally horrendous performance. Assassin's Creed games are usually some of the biggest releases of the year, but in 2014, Unity was one of the most broken games to hit store shelves.
Ubisoft knows this, and it's learning from the mistakes it made. Its clear that the developer isn't just turning its nose up at the previous game's bad reviews, but actively trying to address them. It's not about proving fans wrong, but taking what they said to heart and building a better game.
Whether or not this actually pays off in the long run has yet to be seen, but at the very least, Ubisoft is aware of and consciously trying to fix its mistakes.
The result? Assassin's Creed Syndicate, a game that builds on the foundations of Unity...and will hopefully put one of gaming's biggest franchises back on track.
The year is 1868, and the Industrial Revolution has changed the face of London. Kings and churches no longer rule the land - the power is now in the hands of the wealthy. A select few now control the fate of an entire nation, while an army of hungry and poor rot in the slums. As Jacob Frye, players are tasked with assembling an army of criminals and gangsters in order to take down the Templars of London, one body at a time.
It's a structure that Assassin's Creed is familiar with: there's a cast of colorful characters, both ally and villain, and the game's pseudo-historical take on the world returns yet again. It's the setting itself that proves most interesting: Assassin's Creed could almost be considered steampunk at this point, and few would actually challenge that. There's steam and metal and factories everywhere - a far cry from the dusty streets of French Revolution-era Paris.
The Environments
Of course, getting around the environments is paramount to any Assassin's Creed game, and traversal is where players will see the biggest changes. A grappling hook may be a bit fantastical, but it's fair trade when players can quickly zip up to the rooftops whenever they please. That's not to say that the franchise's parkour roots are gone (there is still a lot of running and jumping in the demo), but everything's faster, more streamlined - and hopefully, more fun.
There's also a new emphasis on vehicles: a stagecoach chase takes up a large portion of Ubisoft's demo, and the developer promises that trains will also play a huge role in the game's story. The footage that fans have seen isn't all that new, but with the promise of carriage-to-carriage combat and chases throughout and on top of a moving train, it's hard not to get excited.
As for the franchise's core gameplay, most of the systems from Assassin's Creed Unity seem to be intact - though they've undergone some major changes. A new 'Stealth Mode' switches Jacob from his civilian outfit into a traditional assassin's robe, which then opens up new stealth options. Even with just a brief demo, it looks like Syndicate's stealth system is quite a bit smoother than Unity's - though, there are plenty of options when things inevitably break down.
Jacob is a fighter, and when armed with brass knuckles and a revolver, there are few fights he can't handle. While it's still in an early state, Syndicate's hand-to-hand combat looks notably smoother than any previous Assassin's Creed game, and the combat has an overall faster pace to it. While it doesn't look like Ubisoft is ditching the series' renewed focus on stealth (which was actually one of the highlights of Unity), the developer is clearly working on making some of the franchise's clunkier mechanics easier to use.
All in all, there seems to be a renewed focus on making the games as detailed as possible. Yes, Unity's version of France featured an extremely detailed environment, but much of it felt hollow. While there may not be gigantic crowds in Syndicate, the people of the city react much more believably when a man in a black, hooded robe starts creeping through the streets. NPCs dive out of the way of a moving carriage, citizens back away nervously from a fight - it all feels real, which is something that Unity wasn't quite as successful with.
Going by the demo that Ubisoft has shown, Assassin's Creed Syndicate could be the game that puts the franchise back on the right track. Ubisoft's been quick to acknowledge Unity's failings, and from what fans have seen, Syndicate looks like a much more focused experience - hopefully, that sentiment holds true when the game hits store shelves later this year.
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12 Measure For Measure Joseph Papp Public Theater/ LuEsther Hall 10/10/2017 Playwright
13 As You Like It East 13th Street/CSC Theatre 09/28/2017 Playwright
14 Hamlet Joseph Papp Public Theater/ Anspacher Theater 07/13/2017 Playwright
15 Hamlet Sheen Center/ Loreto Theater 05/21/2017 Playwright
16 Twelfth Night Joseph Papp Public Theater/ LuEsther Hall 04/27/2017 Playwright
17 The Comedy of Errors East 13th Street/CSC Theatre 03/06/2017 Playwright
18 Othello New York Theatre Workshop 12/12/2016 Playwright
19 Othello: The Remix Westside Theatre/ Downstairs 11/16/2016 Original Author
20 Coriolanus Barrow Street Theatre 10/30/2016 Playwright
21 Hamlet Joseph Papp Public Theater/ Susan Stein Shiva Theater 09/19/2016 Playwright
22 Troilus and Cressida Delacorte Theater 08/03/2016 Playwright
23 The Taming of the Shrew Delacorte Theater 06/14/2016 Playwright
24 Romeo and Juliet Joseph Papp Public Theater/ Susan Stein Shiva Theater 04/11/2016 Playwright
25 The Comedy of Errors Joseph Papp Public Theater/ Susan Stein Shiva Theater 11/05/2015 Playwright
26 Cymbeline Delacorte Theater 08/10/2015 Playwright
27 The Tempest Delacorte Theater 06/16/2015 Playwright
28 A Midsummer Night's Dream 47th Street Theatre 06/11/2015 Playwright
29 Macbeth Joseph Papp Public Theater/ Susan Stein Shiva Theater 05/20/2015 Playwright
30 Hamlet East 13th Street/CSC Theatre 04/15/2015 Playwright
31 The Winter's Tale Pearl Theatre 02/22/2015 Playwright
32 Pericles Prince of Tyre Joseph Papp Public Theater/ Susan Stein Shiva Theater 11/18/2014 Playwright
33 Drunk Shakespeare The Lounge 11/01/2014 Original Author
34 King Lear Delacorte Theater 08/05/2014 Playwright
35 The Taming of the Shrew Baruch Performing Arts Center 07/10/2014 Playwright
36 Antony and Cleopatra Joseph Papp Public Theater/ Anspacher Theater 03/05/2014 Playwright
37 Measure for Measure New Victory Theater 02/28/2014 Playwright
38 Hamlet Pearl Theatre 01/15/2014 Playwright
39 Much Ado About Nothing Joseph Papp Public Theater/ LuEsther Hall 12/03/2013 Playwright
40 Bedlam's Hamlet and Saint Joan Lynn Redgrave Theatre 11/19/2013 Playwright
41 Romeo and Juliet East 13th Street/CSC Theatre 10/16/2013 Playwright
42 Love's Labour's Lost Delacorte Theater 07/23/2013 Original Author
43 The Comedy of Errors Delacorte Theater 06/18/2013 Playwright
44 Henry IV Part 1 Pearl Theatre 03/03/2013 Playwright
45 Much Ado About Nothing The Duke on 42nd Street 02/17/2013 Playwright
46 Richard III Joseph Papp Public Theater/ LuEsther Hall 08/11/2012 Playwright
47 A Midsummer Night's Dream East 13th Street/CSC Theatre 04/29/2012 Playwright
48 Macbeth 47th Street Theatre 04/29/2012 Playwright
49 The Taming of the Shrew The Duke on 42nd Street 03/25/2012 Playwright
50 Titus Andronicus Joseph Papp Public Theater/ Anspacher Theater 12/13/2011 Playwright
51 Richard II New York City Center/ Stage II 11/20/2011 Playwright
52 King Lear Joseph Papp Public Theater/ Newman Theater 11/08/2011 Playwright
53 Love's Labor's Lost Joseph Papp Public Theater/ Anspacher Theater 10/31/2011 Playwright
54 Measure for Measure Delacorte Theater 06/30/2011 Playwright
55 All's Well That Ends Well Delacorte Theater 06/11/2011 Playwright
56 Double Falsehood East 13th Street/CSC Theatre 03/22/2011 Playwright
57 Macbeth The Duke on 42nd Street 03/20/2011 Playwright
58 Cymbeline New Victory Theater 01/16/2011 Playwright
59 The Merchant of Venice Delacorte Theater 06/30/2010 Playwright
60 Love is My Sin The Duke on 42nd Street 04/01/2010 Playwright
61 Measure for Measure The Duke on 42nd Street 02/14/2010 Playwright
62 The Age of Iron East 13th Street/CSC Theatre 11/22/2009 Material
63 Twelfth Night Delacorte Theater 06/25/2009 Playwright
64 Hamlet The Duke on 42nd Street 03/29/2009 Playwright
65 Othello The Duke on 42nd Street 02/22/2009 Playwright
66 Shogun Macbeth Julia Miles Theater 11/12/2008 Playwright
67 The Tempest East 13th Street/CSC Theatre 09/18/2008 Playwright
68 Hamlet Delacorte Theater 06/17/2008 Playwright
69 Antony and Cleopatra The Duke on 42nd Street 04/03/2008 Playwright
70 Richard III East 13th Street/CSC Theatre 11/13/2007 Playwright
71 The Wooster Group Hamlet Joseph Papp Public Theater/ Newman Theater 10/31/2007 Playwright
72 Hamlet Theater 80 St. Marks 09/23/2007 Playwright
73 A Midsummer Night's Dream Delacorte Theater 08/23/2007 Playwright
74 Romeo and Juliet Delacorte Theater 06/19/2007 Playwright
75 King Lear Joseph Papp Public Theater/ Anspacher Theater 03/07/2007 Playwright
76 The Merchant of Venice The Duke on 42nd Street 02/04/2007 Playwright
77 King Lear HSA Theatre 10/04/2006 Playwright
78 Richard II East 13th Street/CSC Theatre 09/17/2006 Playwright
79 Macbeth Delacorte Theater 06/14/2006 Playwright
80 Measure for Measure Theater 80 St. Marks 02/23/2006 Playwright
81 All's Well That Ends Well The Duke on 42nd Street 02/12/2006 Playwright
82 Two Gentlemen of Verona Delacorte Theater 08/28/2005 Original Author
83 Othello Bouwerie Lane Theatre 07/26/2005 Playwright
84 Twelfth Night Baruch Performing Arts Center 06/25/2005 Playwright
85 Lone Star Love John Houseman Theatre 12/08/2004 Original Author
86 Richard III Joseph Papp Public Theater/ Martinson Hall 10/11/2004 Playwright
87 Much Ado About Nothing Delacorte Theater 07/13/2004 Playwright
88 Othello Baruch Performing Arts Center 06/10/2004 Playwright
89 The Two Noble Kinsmen Joseph Papp Public Theater/ Martinson Hall 10/19/2003 Playwright
90 Henry V Delacorte Theater 07/15/2003 Playwright
91 A Midsummer Night's Dream New Victory Theater 04/30/2003 Playwright
92 As You Like It Joseph Papp Public Theater/ Martinson Hall 04/07/2003 Playwright
93 The Winter's Tale East 13th Street/CSC Theatre 01/30/2003 Playwright
94 Julius Caesar Lucille Lortel Theatre 01/19/2003 Playwright
95 A Celtic Christmas Irish Repertory Theatre 12/03/2002 Material
96 Henry V Bouwerie Lane Theatre 09/12/2002 Playwright
99 The Taming of the Shrew Lucille Lortel Theatre 05/09/2002 Playwright
100 Cymbeline Lucille Lortel Theatre 01/20/2002 Playwright
101 Othello Joseph Papp Public Theater/ Anspacher Theater 12/09/2001 Playwright
102 The Complete Works of Shakespeare (Abridged) Century Center For The Performing Arts 10/15/2001 Original Author
103 Much Ado About Nothing Theatres at 45 Bleecker/ Bleecker Street Theatre 09/27/2001 Playwright
104 Romeo and Juliet Lucille Lortel Theatre 06/18/2001 Playwright
105 Measure for Measure Delacorte Theater 06/17/2001 Playwright
106 Troilus and Cressida American Place Theatre 04/15/2001 Playwright
107 Julius Caesar Delacorte Theater 08/20/2000 Playwright
108 The Winter's Tale Delacorte Theater 07/06/2000 Playwright
109 King John American Place Theatre 01/30/2000 Playwright
110 The Merry Wives of Windsor Theater 80 St. Marks 01/17/2000 Playwright
111 Hamlet Joseph Papp Public Theater/ Newman Theater 12/19/1999 Playwright
112 The Donkey Show: A Midsummer Night's Disco Club El Flamingo 08/18/1999 Original Author
113 The Taming of the Shrew Delacorte Theater 06/17/1999 Playwright
114 Twelfth Night American Place Theatre 05/25/1999 Playwright
115 Macbeth American Place Theatre 03/18/1999 Playwright
116 Pericles Joseph Papp Public Theater/ Martinson Hall 10/13/1998 Playwright
117 Cymbeline Delacorte Theater 08/04/1998 Playwright
118 Macbeth Joseph Papp Public Theater/ Martinson Hall 03/15/1998 Playwright
119 R & J John Houseman Theatre 03/03/1998 Playwright
120 Richard II Theater at St. Clement's Church 02/15/1998 Playwright
121 Richard III Theater at St. Clement's Church 02/15/1998 Playwright
122 Henry VIII Delacorte Theater 06/13/1997 Playwright
123 As You Like It Theater at St. Clement's Church 05/18/1997 Playwright
124 Antony and Cleopatra Joseph Papp Public Theater/ Anspacher Theater 02/18/1997 Playwright
125 Two Gentlemen of Verona New Victory Theater 01/09/1997 Playwright
126 Henry VI: Part II: Black Storm Joseph Papp Public Theater/ Martinson Hall 11/23/1996 Playwright
127 Henry VI Part I: The Edged Sword Joseph Papp Public Theater/ Martinson Hall 11/12/1996 Playwright
128 Timon of Athens Delacorte Theater 08/06/1996 Playwright
129 Henry V Delacorte Theater 06/18/1996 Playwright
130 King Lear Joseph Papp Public Theater/ Anspacher Theater 01/09/1996 Playwright
131 Measure for Measure Theater at St. Clement's Church 01/09/1996 Playwright
132 Troilus and Cressida Delacorte Theater 08/04/1995 Playwright
133 The Tempest Delacorte Theater 06/22/1995 Playwright
134 Henry VI Theater at St. Clement's Church 03/06/1995 Playwright
135 The Merchant of Venice Joseph Papp Public Theater/ Anspacher Theater 01/17/1995 Playwright
136 A Midsummer Night's Dream Charles Ludlam Theatre 09/14/1994 Playwright
137 Two Gentlemen of Verona Delacorte Theater 08/04/1994 Playwright
138 The Merry Wives of Windsor Delacorte Theater 06/23/1994 Playwright
139 The Tragedy of Richard II Joseph Papp Public Theater/ Anspacher Theater 03/15/1994 Playwright
140 Titus Andronicus Theater at St. Clement's Church 03/03/1994 Playwright
141 All's Well That Ends Well Delacorte Theater 08/05/1993 Playwright
143 Love's Labor's Lost Theater at St. Clement's Church 03/03/1993 Playwright
144 Henry V Theater at St. Clement's Church 01/12/1993 Playwright
145 The Comedy of Errors Delacorte Theater 08/06/1992 Playwright
146 As You Like It Delacorte Theater 07/02/1992 Playwright
147 The Comedy of Errors Theater at St. Clement's Church 01/14/1992 Playwright
148 Pericles Joseph Papp Public Theater/ Newman Theater 11/05/1991 Playwright
151 A Midsummer Night's Dream Delacorte Theater 07/30/1991 Playwright
152 Othello Delacorte Theater 06/21/1991 Playwright
153 Romeo and Juliet New Victory Theater 01/25/1991 Playwright
154 Henry IV Part II Joseph Papp Public Theater/ Newman Theater 01/23/1991 Playwright
155 Henry IV Part I Joseph Papp Public Theater/ Newman Theater 01/22/1991 Playwright
156 Measure for Measure Westbeth Theatre 01/17/1991 Playwright
157 King Lear Union Square Theatre 10/09/1990 Playwright
158 Romeo and Juliet Joseph Papp Public Theater/ Anspacher Theater 09/11/1990 Playwright
159 The Tragedy of Richard III Delacorte Theater 08/03/1990 Playwright
161 Hamlet Joseph Papp Public Theater/ Anspacher Theater 04/10/1990 Playwright
162 A Forest in Arden1 Perry Street Theatre 01/26/1990 Original Author
163 Othello East 13th Street/CSC Theatre 01/11/1990 Playwright
164 Macbeth Joseph Papp Public Theater/ Anspacher Theater 12/19/1989 Playwright
165 The Tempest Union Square Theatre 10/25/1989 Playwright
166 Titus Andronicus Delacorte Theater 08/04/1989 Playwright
167 Twelfth Night or What You Will Delacorte Theater 06/23/1989 Playwright
168 Cymbeline Joseph Papp Public Theater/ Newman Theater 05/09/1989 Playwright
169 The Winter's Tale Joseph Papp Public Theater/ Anspacher Theater 02/21/1989 Playwright
170 Measure for Measure Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater 02/03/1989 Playwright
171 Love's Labor's Lost Joseph Papp Public Theater/ Newman Theater 01/17/1989 Playwright
172 Coriolanus Joseph Papp Public Theater/ Anspacher Theater 11/08/1988 Playwright
173 King John Delacorte Theater 08/05/1988 Playwright
174 Much Ado About Nothing Delacorte Theater 07/14/1988 Playwright
175 Julius Caesar Joseph Papp Public Theater/ Newman Theater 02/16/1988 Playwright
176 A Midsummer Night's Dream Joseph Papp Public Theater/ Anspacher Theater 12/07/1987 Playwright
177 Henry IV Part I Delacorte Theater 08/27/1987 Playwright
179 Richard II Delacorte Theater 06/24/1987 Playwright
180 Much Ado About Nothing John Houseman Theatre 05/11/1987 Playwright
181 Standup Shakespeare Theater 890 04/04/1987 Material
182 The Merchant of Venice East 13th Street/CSC Theatre 12/14/1986 Playwright
184 Macbeth Parish Hall at the Church of Heavenly Rest 03/21/1986 Playwright
187 Love's Labour's Lost Circle Repertory Theatre 10/11/1984 Playwright
189 Hamlet East 13th Street/CSC Theatre 12/15/1983 Playwright
190 King Richard III Delacorte Theater 06/30/1983 Playwright
191 Pericles, Prince of Tyre American Place Theatre 04/19/1983 Playwright
194 With Love and Laughter Harold Clurman Theater 06/02/1982 Material
196 Richard II Entermedia Theater 03/10/1982 Playwright
197 King Lear East 13th Street/CSC Theatre 02/28/1982 Playwright
200 A Midsummer Night's Dream Joseph Papp Public Theater/ Newman Theater 04/25/1981 Playwright
201 Twelfth Night Circle Theatre 12/12/1980 Playwright
203 Shakespeare's Cabaret Colonnades Theatre 02/01/1980 Lyricist
204 Hamlet Circle Theatre 12/12/1979 Playwright
206 Coriolanus Delacorte Theater 06/22/1979 Playwright
207 Julius Caesar Joseph Papp Public Theater/ Anspacher Theater 01/25/1979 Playwright
208 Henry IV, Part 1 East 13th Street/CSC Theatre 10/08/1978 Playwright
209 Richard II East 13th Street/CSC Theatre 09/24/1978 Playwright
212 King Lear American Place Theatre 04/09/1978 Playwright
213 Othello Roundabout Stage I (23rd Street Theater) 01/03/1978 Playwright
216 Measure for Measure Abbey Theatre 09/18/1975 Playwright
218 Hamlet Delacorte Theater 06/18/1975 Playwright
219 A Midsummer Night's Dream Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater 01/19/1975 Playwright
220 Richard III Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater 10/20/1974 Playwright
222 Pericles, Prince of Tyre Delacorte Theater 06/20/1974 Playwright
223 Macbeth Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater 04/13/1974 Playwright
224 The Tempest Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater 01/26/1974 Playwright
227 King Lear Delacorte Theater 07/26/1973 Playwright
231 The Taming of the Shrew Roundabout Stage II 01/30/1972 Playwright
232 Hamlet Roundabout Stage II 10/18/1970 Playwright
233 Richard III Delacorte Theater 06/25/1970 Playwright
234 The Chronicles of King Henry VI, Part 2 Delacorte Theater 06/24/1970 Playwright
236 Macbeth Roundabout Stage II 12/21/1969 Playwright
237 Twelfth Night Delacorte Theater 08/06/1969 Playwright
238 King Lear Roundabout Stage II 11/29/1968 Playwright
239 Romeo and Juliet Delacorte Theater 08/07/1968 Playwright
240 Henry IV Part 2 Delacorte Theater 06/18/1968 Playwright
242 Love and Let Love Sheridan Square Playhouse 01/03/1968 Original Author
246 A Midsummer Night's Dream Lucille Lortel Theatre 06/29/1967 Playwright
250 Love's Labor's Lost Delacorte Theater 06/09/1965 Playwright
251 Babes in the Wood Orpheum Theatre 12/28/1964 Original Author
252 As You Like It Lucille Lortel Theatre 10/27/1964 Author
253 Othello Martinique Theatre 10/12/1964 Playwright
256 The White Rose and the Red Stage 73 03/16/1964 Original Author
259 Antony and Cleopatra Delacorte Theater 06/13/1963 Playwright
260 The Boys from Syracuse Theater Four 04/15/1963 Original Author
261 The Taming of the Shrew Anderson Theatre 03/06/1963 Playwright
262 Macbeth Heckscher Theatre 11/15/1962 Playwright
264 The Merchant of Venice Delacorte Theater 06/19/1962 Playwright
265 Romeo and Juliet Midway Theatre 04/02/1962 Playwright
266 The Merry Wives of Windsor Master Theatre 02/03/1962 Playwright
267 The Merchant of Venice Gate Theatre 02/02/1962 Playwright
268 King Lear Players Theatre 01/02/1959 Playwright
269 Two Gentlemen of Verona Phoenix Theatre 03/18/1958 Playwright
270 As You Like It Heckscher Theatre 01/20/1958 Playwright
271 Richard III Heckscher Theatre 11/25/1957 Playwright
272 The Taming of the Shrew Phoenix Theatre 02/20/1957 Playwright
273 Hamlet Lucille Lortel Theatre 01/28/1957 Playwright
274 Measure for Measure Phoenix Theatre 01/22/1957 Playwright
275 Twelfth Night Shakespearewrights Theatre 01/04/1957 Playwright
276 Hamlet Shakespearewrights Theatre 10/27/1956 Playwright
277 Lovers, Villains & Fools of Shakespeare Lucille Lortel Theatre 10/23/1956 Playwright
278 Romeo and Juliet Jan Hus Playhouse 02/23/1956 Playwright
279 A Midsummer Night's Dream Jan Hus Playhouse 01/13/1956 Playwright
280 Macbeth Jan Hus Playhouse 10/19/1955 Playwright
281 Coriolanus Phoenix Theatre 01/19/1954 Playwright
282 Othello Jan Hus Playhouse 10/29/1953 Playwright
1Credited as Adapted from As You Like It by William Shakespeare.
1 NOMINATED 2020 Lucille Lortel Award, Outstanding Revival Mac Beth Playwright
2 NOMINATED 2018 Drama League Award, Outstanding Revival of a Play Hamlet Playwright
3 NOMINATED 2017 Lucille Lortel Award, Outstanding Revival Othello Playwright
4 NOMINATED 2010 Lucille Lortel Award, Outstanding Revival Measure for Measure Playwright
5 NOMINATED 2010 ITBA Patrick Lee Award, Outstanding Off-Broadway Revival Twelfth Night Playwright
7 WON 2002 Lucille Lortel Award, Outstanding Revival Cymbeline Playwright
8 WON 1993 Lucille Lortel Award, Outstanding Revival Henry V Playwright
9 WON 1991 Lucille Lortel Award, Outstanding Revival Measure for Measure Playwright
10 WON 1963 Obie Award, Best Musical The Boys from Syracuse Original Author


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A co-creation mixing art
with trademark thought
Freestudios
Chopard has always been a front-runner in the field of luxury and Fine Jewelry. The brand knows how to create pieces with extraordinary artistic quality and innovation, year after year, without losing its breath. In an era when questions of craftsmanship and know-how mesh with environmental consciousness, Chopard desired to create a series in the form of an interview.
For this, Chopard wanted to develop a specific visual identity dedicated to social media. This identity offers a vision of the creative work developed by its co-president and artistic director, Caroline Scheufele. A supple identity was necessary in order to add archive elements such as photos, video, sound or even sketches. As such, the brand opens a window to its fans via the artistic approach and the values it carries.
For this creative proposal, I desired to highlight the different sources of creation that intertwine with a strong visual language. On the occasion of the meeting between Caroline Scheufele and actress Marion Cotillard, we find a visual territory that evokes creation, innovation and sustainable transformation.
History designs itself
Between archives and vision
Optional design templates were proposed to offer artistic variety in the presentation of archive material and works previously done by the brand.
A set of typographies and keywords were also considered in order to develop more informative variations.
Stéphanie Bochatay
Steve Boudin
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"An alcoholic is so devious, he will even quit drinking to prove he's not an alcoholic."
Winners of the U.S. Open Beer Championship
on 05/07/10 at 10:27 pm
Winners in the 2010 United States Open Beer Championships – the only brewery competition to include professional breweries and award-winning home brewers – were announced this week. More than 700 beers in 50 different categories were submitted.
Maui Brewing of Hawaii was named Grand National Champion by winning two gold, five silver, and two bronze medals. Sprecher Brewing of Wisconsin finished second while Deschutes Brewing, last year's winner from Bend, Oregon took third.
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Calling All Bacon Lovers: 'The Better Bacon Book' for iPad Gets Interactive
By Molly Klinefelter - LAPTOP Assistant Editor 2012-03-28T15:13:19Z
Bacon cheeseburger meatballs. Bacon cornbread. Fried coriander bacon with salsa verde. Is your mouth watering yet? Ours definitely was when we checked out "The Better Bacon Book" ($5) cookbook app for iPad from Open Air Publishing. The interactive book is stocked with information on everything bacon – from recipes to where to buy the meaty goodness to a slideshow of bacon throughout time – but we wish they took the interactivity a bit further.
The book opens with a tutorial on how to use the book – a feature we thought was kind of strange. Is this book really so complicated that you need a manual to navigate it? But the how-to page does explain a lot, showing you how to bookmark pages you like, skip around from chapter to chapter, take notes and make comments. The ability to read from beginning to end or jump to exactly what chapter you want is a plus.
The intro also includes the lowdown on different types of bacon, step-by-step instructions on how to make your own bacon and recommendations for where to buy the best mail-order bacon. Throughout the book, there's links users can click on such as a contributor's restaurant Web site, and pop-up glossary terms.
Then we get into the meat (no pun intended) of the book – chapters containing recipes split into breakfast, lunch, dinner, dessert, side dishes and condiments, snacks and appetizers and cocktails. Yes, we said cocktails. Our favorites were the maple bacon sticky buns, fat kid burger (with bacon, sour cream and onion potato chips and salsa con queso) and bacon crème brulee. But there were only around five recipes per section, which seems a bit barren for a cookbook.
The presentation seemed to lack overall organization, though. For example, the Bacon Through Time slideshow wasn't consistent in its chronology, and one of the videos clearly wasn't done professionally: Butcher Tom Mylan looks disheveled and can't stop saying "like," not to mention he appears to be drinking whiskey, which could be part of his gimmick but just comes off as unprofessional. Yet another video featuring Mylan was scripted and well thought out.
The minds behind "The Better Bacon Book" hit a goldmine with their idea, but their execution wasn't as smart. More time could have been put into the book to present a well-executed experience. Although we definitely enjoyed some of the features and especially the recipes, something about the book seemed inconsistent.


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Categories > U.S. Regional Data > States > Texas > MSAs > Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX
All Employees: Retail Trade: Building Material and Garden Equipment and Supplies Dealers in Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX (MSA) (SMU48264204244400001SA)
Dec 2022: 24.59220 | Thousands of Persons | Monthly | Updated: Jan 25, 2023
Dec 2022: 24.59220 (+ more)
Dec 2022: 24.59220
Nov 2022: 23.96092
Oct 2022: 23.75688
Sep 2022: 23.79436
Aug 2022: 23.94662
Thousands of Persons,
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Source: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Release: State and Metro Area Employment, Hours, and Earnings
Units: Thousands of Persons, Seasonally Adjusted
The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis seasonally adjusts this series by using the 'statsmodels' library from Python with default parameter settings. The package uses the U.S. Bureau of the Census X-13ARIMA-SEATS Seasonal Adjustment Program. More information on the 'statsmodels' X-13ARIMA-SEATS package can be found here. More information on X-13ARIMA-SEATS can be found here.
Many series include both seasonally adjusted (SA) and not seasonally adjusted (NSA) data. Occasionally, updates to the data will not include sufficient seasonal factors to trigger a seasonal adjustment. In these cases, the NSA series will be updated normally; but the SA series will also be updated with the NSA data. The NSA series can be located here here.
Some seasonally adjusted series may exhibit negative values because they are created from a seasonal adjustment process regardless of the actual meaning or interpretation of the given indicator.
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, All Employees: Retail Trade: Building Material and Garden Equipment and Supplies Dealers in Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX (MSA) [SMU48264204244400001SA], retrieved from FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis; https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/SMU48264204244400001SA, February 2, 2023.
All-Transactions House Price Index for Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX (MSA)
All Employees: Retail Trade: Building Material and Garden Equipment and Supplies Dealers in Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX (MSA)
Annual, Not Seasonally Adjusted
Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX MSAs Texas States U.S. Regional Data
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News from St. John's Law
Welcome to See infra, our e-newsletter delivering a sampling of news from St. John's Law, including: innovative courses, programs, and hands-on learning opportunities; faculty scholarship with real-world impact; students who bring unique and diverse perspectives to the study of law; alumni who make their mark in the profession; and the many ways our community members live St. John's Vincentian mission of helping those in need.
Meet the Incoming Class of 2020
They're from near and far. An orthodontist. A TV news anchor. A former model. Baristas, teachers, CPAs, journalists, bartenders, paralegals, and business owners. Military veterans, activists, semi-pro athletes, dancers, musicians, a half dozen black belts, and more.
We're so happy to welcome our diverse and talented incoming Class of 2020 to St. John's Law. Whether with us in person or remotely, they're now part of a wonderful teaching and learning community.
As Dean Michael  A. Simons shared: "It's not the building that defines us; it's the people—all working together to create something: lawyers that our world sorely needs."
Look to your left, look to your right, and read more.
With a Pivot Came Opportunity
"After my original summer internship was cancelled, my placement with the Law School's Child Advocacy Clinic was like a light at the end of a tunnel," says Brigitte Nunez '22. She was one of 51 students who participated in the Law School's Summer 2020 Student Employment Program, which launched as the pandemic upended students' summer work plans.
"This was an extraordinary—and an extraordinarily difficult—time for our students," says Jeanne Ardan, the Law School's Associate Dean for Career Development and Externships and the program's architect. "We knew we had to do something quickly to support them. It was an all-hands-on-deck effort, but the program came together beautifully."
Spend an Evening with Dean Simons
Mark your calendars for the  Law Matters webcast on Tuesday, October 6, 2020. We're switching things up as Law School Alumni Association President Michelle Johnson '05  takes the host seat and talks to special guest  Dean Michael A. Simons  about the unprecedented past six-plus months and the start of the new academic year.
Alumni in the virtual audience will have a chance to contribute to the conversation during a Q&A session. There's no fee to attend, but please register in advance.
Run for Racial Justice
On Saturday, October 31, 2020, the St. John's Law Alumni Association's Alumni of Color Chapter is hosting a virtual 5K Run for Racial Justice.
Whether you're hitting the roads or the trails near you, we've got all the high-quality, event-branded gear you'll need to run in style for a great cause. All sale proceeds go directly to support the Law School's diversity & inclusion initiatives.
Buy your race apparel now at our online pop-up store so you'll be ready to get set and go on race day. (We'll share race registration and other details soon.)
Professor Renee Nicole Allen's article, "From Academic Freedom to Cancel Culture: Silencing Black Women in the Legal Academy," will be published in the UCLA Law Review. The article updates and contextualizes the treatment of black women law professors, exploring the ways white academic norms, like academic freedom and hierarchy, explicitly and implicitly silence black women and "cancel" their academic careers.
In "Integrating Originalism and Stare Decisis," an essay for Law & Liberty, Cary Fields Professor of Law Marc O. DeGirolami diagnoses the problem stare decisis poses for originalism and surveys recent doctrine and scholarship on the subject.
Professor Elayne E. Greenberg's co-authored article, "Designing Binge-Worthy Courses: Pandemic Pleasures and Covid Consequences," will appear in the Negotiation Journal, a publication of Harvard's Program on Negotiation. In her latest "Ethical Compass" column for the New York Dispute Resolution Lawyer, Professor Greenberg highlights what arbitrators and mediators could consider when they transition their in-person persona online.
"The Cognitive Power of Analogies in the Legal Writing Classroom," by Professor Patricia Montana, has been accepted for publication in the Southern Illinois University Law Journal. According to the article, law students traditionally learn better when they can connect what they're learning to a familiar, non-legal experience. One way to help them make that connection is to use analogies in teaching legal analysis and writing.
During this unusual summer,  Professor John Q. Barrett  delivered virtual lectures and participated in online conversations on the life and work of the late U.S. Attorney General and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson. You can catch up on his recent appearances and view some of the recordings via our Faculty Scholarship Blog.
In the latest episode of their Legal Spirits podcast, recorded especially for our 1Ls (and law students everywhere), Professors Marc O. DeGirolami and Mark L. Movsesian, who co-direct the Law School's  Center for Law and Religion, explore legal themes in the classic film about Thomas More, A Man for All Seasons (1966). Listen in.
On Thursday, September 17, 2020, at 5:30 p.m. join us on Zoom for a special event celebrating the publication of Predatory Lending and the Destruction of the  African-American Dream  (Cambridge University Press) by Professor Cheryl Wade and University of British Columbia Law Professor Janis Sarra.
The book is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand how systemic anti-black racism has caused, and continues to widen, the racial wealth gap between black and white Americans. It provides cogent insight in the aftermath of the ongoing global protests against institutional racism and is a crucial contribution to the discourse about why black (economic) lives matter.
With a distinguished panel, the authors will lead a conversation about 21st  century economic exploitation through predatory lending practices that intentionally target African Americans.
There's no cost to attend the program, but please register in advance by completing and submitting the  webinar registration form.
Ciara Villalona-Lockhart '22 was devastated when her summer fellowship was cancelled due to the public health crisis. But, instead of giving up, she pivoted and spent the summer serving people in need remotely through the Nassau County Bar Association's COVID-19 Law Student Pro Bono Program. Read her story.
#MySummer2020
As we have for the past few years, from June to August we ran a social media campaign to spotlight our students' summer work. Here's just a sampling of those #MySummer2020 posts:
St. John's Law Summer Public Interest Fellow Ashley Williams '21 is a summer honors intern in the New York City Law Department's Commercial and Real Estate Litigation Division, where she's working on a range of real estate disputes and commercial leasing/contract issues.
Working with Apple's Products Law Group this summer, Marcela Pertusi Hernandex '22 is seeing what in-house attorneys do at the intersection of law, business, and technology and learning about the role of IP in innovation and new product development from a global view.
It's a busy summer x 2 for Ed Belotte '21. As a Legal Intern at Oppenheimer he works on regulatory issues, litigation defense, risk management, and other assignments. He's also learning the law hands on interning for Hon. Larry D. Martin in the NYS Supreme Court Commercial Division.
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Entries in air traffic controller (6)
Two Planes in Close Call After Rookie Air Traffic Control Error
Comstock/Thinkstock(HONOLULU) -- A Federal Aviation Administration probe into the rookie mistake of an air traffic controller, which brought two planes perilously close at Honolulu International Airport, has led to the resignation of a longtime air traffic controller.
A Japan Airlines 767 jet arriving in January to Honolulu from Tokyo and a United Parcel Service MD11 jet also coming in for a landing were involved in a near miss, only 15 miles west of the Hawaii capital, as first reported by Hawaii News Now.
The FAA now admits that because a rookie air controller froze while handling the planes, the two jets came within 300 feet of each other. The near miss caused both pilots to react to cockpit warnings of impending collision.
"UPS 36 heavy, fly heading 180. Japan Air 72 heavy, descend and maintain 1, 3,000," the air traffic controller said during the Jan. 14 incident, leading the JAL pilot to radio, "Japan Air 72 heavy, now TCAS descend."
The reference to TCAS means the pilot's collision alarm went off.
"One of the aircraft's computers said, 'climb,' and the other aircraft's computer said, 'descend'. So that they wouldn't go on this collision course and hit each other," ABC News Aviation consultant Steve Ganyard explained.
At one point, their altitude separation dropped to 0, meaning they were headed straight for each other, Hawaii News Now reported.
The novice controller who caused the near miss was handling eight planes at once, traffic the FAA considers of "average complexity," according to an FAA error-deviation report.
The FAA managers on scene at the time never reported the near miss. It wasn't until the UPS pilot told the National Transportation Safety Board that FAA headquarters found out.
The FAA said in a statement that as soon as the agency learned of this incident, it took quick and decisive action, which included retraining for the young controller and the resignation of his manager.
The FAA placed air traffic control manager Bob Rabideau on administrative leave in February. Rabideau, 65, who had been an air traffic controller for 20 years, later chose to retire.
The controllers union says it works with the FAA on safety.
"We take incidents like this very seriously," a spokesman said. "We are working collaboratively with the FAA on a wide array of initiatives that improve safety, which is our No. 1 priority. We are striving to make the world's safest system of aviation even safer."
Wednesday, May 2, 2012 at 9:11AM by Rebecca Fenton Permalink
tagged FAA, Hawaii, air traffic controller in National News General
Colorado Air Traffic Controller Accused of Drinking at Work
Comstock/Thinkstock(LONGMONT, Colo.) -- An air traffic controller in Colorado is under federal investigation after allegedly being caught drunk while at work.
ABC News affiliate KMGH-TV in Denver reports that Federal Aviation Administration officials conducted a random alcohol test on the veteran controller on July 5, six-and-a-half hours into his eight hour shift. His blood alcohol content, sources told KMGH, registered at twice the legal limit.
The controller, who has not been named, has since been removed from his position at the Denver Air Route Traffic Control Center in Longmont while officials investigate the matter, KMGH reports. He has reportedly entered an alcohol rehabilitation program, according to ABC's Good Morning America.
It is not yet known if the air traffic controller was consuming alcohol while at work or if he went to work already drunk.
Tuesday, July 19, 2011 at 12:56PM by Jeanette Torres Permalink
tagged Alcohol, Colorado, Denver, Drunk, Federal Aviation Administration, air traffic controller in National News General
FAA Says Air Traffic Controller Caught Watching Movie
Comstock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) -- On the same weekend that the Federal Aviation Administration announced sweeping schedule changes in an effort to reduce incidents of air traffic controllers sleeping on the job, the agency says a controller at an Ohio control center was caught watching a movie on a portable DVD player.
The controller and a manager have been suspended as a result.
The FAA says in the early morning hours of April 17, an air traffic controller at the Cleveland Air Route Traffic Control Center was watching a movie on a portable DVD player while working at a radar position. The government agency says the controller's microphone was on during that time and the sound of the movie was transmitted over a radio frequency used in that airspace. The FAA learned of the incident from a military aircraft.
An unnamed government source says the controller was watching the 2007 Samuel L. Jackson film, Cleaner.
U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood and FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt announced a number of changes in scheduling last weekend, including a new rule that controllers have no fewer than nine hours off between shifts.
Tuesday, April 19, 2011 at 4:19AM by Jeanette Torres Permalink
tagged Cleveland, FAA, Movie, Ohio, air traffic controller in National News General
Resigning FAA Official Defended Lavish 2009 Conference
ABC News(ATLANTA) -- The Federal Aviation Authority official who resigned Thursday after a series of air traffic controllers were found sleeping on the job was also featured in an ABC News investigation into a controversial $5 million FAA conference in 2009.
Hank Krakowski, formerly the chief operating officer of the FAA's Air Traffic Operations, attended the Atlanta conference which critics said was little more than a chance to throw a lavish party. Krakowski defended the conference to ABC News' Chief Investigative Correspondent Brian Ross, saying the three weeks of meetings and social events were necessary to train managers on the new contract that went into effect months earlier.
Three groups of managers attended the conference in one-week spans.
The costs the event incurred were worth it, Krakowski said, "because we have to get the frontline managers onboard with what we're trying to do."
At the time, FAA whistleblowers questioned why, if the meetings were so important, they were held more than two months after the contract had been enacted.
"It seems a little extravagant," said one whistleblower in a message to ABC News then. "One would think a PowerPoint or even a videoconference would suffice."
Undercover video taken at the conference showed FAA managers drinking heavily and making the rounds of Atlanta bars after a day of meetings.
One FAA manager told an ABC News undercover reporter, "Anytime you get a bunch of FAA guys together, it is nothing but a party." Another said, "It beats being at work."
Krakowski submitted his resignation to FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt Thursday as the FAA continues to investigate five incidents of possible napping air traffic controllers in recent weeks.
In his announcement of the resignation, Babbitt said, "Over the last few weeks we have seen examples of unprofessional conduct on the part of a few individuals that have rightly caused the traveling public to question our ability to ensure their safety. This conduct must stop immediately."
Friday, April 15, 2011 at 4:07AM by Jeanette Torres Permalink
tagged Air Traffic Operations, Conference, FAA, Hank Krakowski, Resign, air traffic controller in National News General
COO of Air Traffic Organization Resigns Over Sleeping Controllers
John Foxx/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) -- Following reports that a third air traffic controller was caught sleeping on the job, the chief operating officer of the Air Traffic Organization announced Thursday he was resigning from his position.
Randy Babbitt, administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration, accepted Hank Krakowski's resignation and said David Grizzle, the FAA's chief counsel, will step in temporarily to fill the spot.
Babbitt added that a nationwide search will be conducted to appoint a new, permanent COO for the ATO, which is responsible for operating the country's air traffic control system.
The resignation comes amid news that an air traffic controller reportedly nodded off Wednesday morning while a plane carrying a critically ill patient was trying to land at the Reno-Tahoe International Airport in Nevada. The controller, who was out of communication for approximately 16 minutes, was suspended while the Federal Aviation Administration investigates the incident.
The latest incident marks the third time in less than two months that an air traffic controller has been caught sleeping on the job.
Last month at Washington, D.C.'s Reagan National Airport, a controller on his fourth consecutive overnight shift left the radio tower silent after apparently falling asleep. Two commercial airliners were forced to land on their own.
In February, a controller in Knoxville, Tennessee went to sleep on the job during a midnight shift. Sources told ABC News that the controller made a bed on the floor of the control tower with couch pillows.
In response to Wednesday's incident, the FAA and the Department of Transportation announced that additional air traffic controllers would be immediately added on the midnight shift at 27 control towers that currently have only one person working overnights -- including Reno.
Thursday, April 14, 2011 at 10:58AM by Jeanette Torres Permalink
tagged Air Traffic Organization, Airport, FAA, Hank Krakowski, Resign, air traffic controller in National News General
Another Air Traffic Controller Asleep on the Job
Comstock/Thinkstock(RENO, Nev.) -- For the third time in less than two months an air traffic controller was caught sleeping on the job while a plane carrying a critically ill patient was trying to land.
The controller at the Reno-Tahoe International Airport is believed to have nodded off on Wednesday morning and was out of communication for approximately 16 minutes. The controller was the only one on duty handling the few overnight arrivals and departures.
An aircraft transporting a critically ill patient was unable to reach the Reno tower during it's approach, but the pilot was in communication with the Northern California Terminal Radar Control and ultimately landed safely without assistance from the tower.
In response to the incident the Federal Aviation Administration and the Department of Transportation announced that an additional air traffic controller will be immediately added on the midnight shift at 27 control towers that currently have only one person working overnights.
"I am totally outraged by these incidents. This is absolutely unacceptable," said Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood. "The American public trusts us to run a safe system. Safety is our number one priority and I am committed to working 24/7 until these problems are corrected."
In February a controller in Knoxville, Tenn., deliberately went to sleep on the job during a midnight shift. Sources told ABC News that the controller made a bed on the floor of the control tower with couch pillows.
And last month at Washington, D.C.'s Reagan National Airport a controller on his fourth consecutive overnight shift left the radio tower silent after apparently falling asleep. Two commercial airliners were forced to land on their own.
Wednesday, April 13, 2011 at 2:55PM by Matt Siegelheim Permalink
tagged Airplane, Reno-Tahoe International Airport, air traffic controller in National News General


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I still want to leave the EU, but I absolutely cannot support the [Government's] Bill as it stands.
Published on January 31, 2018 February 23, 2018 by iwin1961
My speech to the Lords yesterday here and below
My Lords, I did something very controversial during the EU referendum campaign: I went against my own party's remain position. I campaigned to leave the EU because the EU is a top-down project designed to promote endless industrial development and economic growth. It remains my strongly held belief that we can have a greener, fairer, healthier country by leaving the European Union. In taking this view, I feel a strong personal responsibility to Greens everywhere and to the country to do what I can to ensure that Brexit is a success for the environment. I still want to leave the EU, but I absolutely cannot support the Bill as it stands.
The Constitution Committee has described the Bill as "fundamentally flawed from a constitutional perspective in multiple ways", but it is fundamentally flawed from an environmental and social perspective too. It remains government policy that through Brexit we will strengthen our democracy, protecting and enhancing environmental and social laws in the process. In its current form, though, the Bill will fail on all those aims and, sadly, the gaps in it will leave the environment as the biggest casualty.
The Bill does not do what it was promised it would do: it does not ensure that existing EU law is retained. In fact, it explicitly excludes certain aspects of EU law without any justification. For no clear reason it drops some fundamental principles of EU law, such as the precautionary principle that must currently be applied by courts, businesses and government. Additionally, the Bill retains EU laws without their accompanying preambles. This misses out, for example, the "polluter pays" principle from the environmental liability directive and loses the aim of biodiversity conservation from the habitats directive. These omissions lose crucial interpretive aids for the courts in some obscure attempt to squash a square peg into a round hole as we bring the body of EU law into the literal system of English law. I struggle to understand how the courts will continue to apply retained EU law when these essential principles are gutted from our jurisprudence. Indeed, senior judges have expressed the need for Parliament to make this as clear as possible. We are setting ourselves up for decades of legal chaos while we needlessly undermine our environmental and social protections.
I am warmed by the many promises this Government are making about ambitions for the environment and their pledges to bring forward legislation. However, I note a very deliberate change of tack in their approach to the Bill. No longer is it seeking to retain all EU law and bring everything into order to prepare for Brexit. The Government are now saying that a whole raft of other Bills are the correct place for retaining some of these really important parts of EU law. It is the promise of jam tomorrow, which we more or less do not accept. I suspect that this repositioning is a government tactic to avoid some very important amendments being made to the Bill while passing through scrutiny. There may well be better legislation in future in which we can establish the lasting legal frameworks that will define our post-Brexit lives, but we only have the Bill before us now and we cannot allow deficiencies in it to prevail in the hope that some future Bill may address them. We must amend and repair this Bill so that it is fit for purpose, and I hope there is sufficient will in this House for that to happen.
I shall speak on two issues in particular. First, on animal sentience, there has been a surprising amount of public support lately for this rather technical-sounding principle. We are a nation of animal lovers who understand in our hearts that living creatures deserve respect and care, and that humans should avoid their suffering as far as possible. The Government's attempt to head off amendments to the Bill has been to publish a draft Bill recognising animal sentience, but that achieves the opposite of their intention by setting out a perfect example of how the Government could well fail to replace EU law with equivalent provisions. A legal opinion commissioned by Friends of the Earth has compared the provisions of the draft Bill with Article 13 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union. Article 13 requires the state and its bodies to "pay full regard" to animal welfare. It has a very narrowly limited set of permitted exemptions. Contrast this with the draft Animal Welfare (Sentencing and Recognition of Sentience) Bill, which requires Ministers only to pay "regard" to animal welfare, balanced against other matters of public interest. This makes the relevant considerations a matter of fact to be assessed by the decision-maker, subject only to the relevant legal test of irrationality.
So animal sentience and animal welfare is an ongoing example of the withdrawal Bill failing to bring EU law across into domestic law, and of the Government's proposed alternative legislation failing to give the same level of protection as exists in EU law. Far from setting a gold standard, it is a significant undermining of the current position. Accordingly, this makes me quite sceptical that the Government will be able to protect and improve on EU law in other Bills. It seems incumbent on us to fix whatever deficiencies exist in the Bill now so that we can be sure, when it goes to the other place, that they will have a good Bill to comment on.
The second issue is the Henry VIII powers contained in the Bill. The reports of the Constitution Committee have done a fantastic job of setting out these issues. I am sure that many learned Members of this House will cover the detail of the constitutional implications, so I will focus on the principles that are at stake. The Government are giving themselves some very broad powers, which could even be used to grant themselves more powers. I know that many civil liberties organisations are very concerned about human rights. Stonewall, for example, would like a clear commitment that LGBT people's hard-won rights will be protected.
I want to be constructive; I remain supportive of leaving the EU, but the Bill before us is the wrong way of going about it. I am confident that the collective wisdom in your Lordships' House will bring this Bill into a much more palatable form but, as it stands, I cannot possibly vote for it.
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79. Closing the Tribal Ways of Life
Posted on July 6, 2015 by yoricksblog
It upsets me that while the media steadily run stories about the vanishing wildlife species, ranging from rhinos to frogs, sparse coverage is given to the rapid demise of primitive tribal groupings. Perhaps it is because these human beings are too close to us and we don't want to face up to our own precarious future. I think I expected more from the experience of descendants of immigrant Europeans who slaughtered most of the native American Indian tribes in the 19th century and then confined the remainder to vast tracts of infertile land on which their offspring live today as impoverished, second-class and largely denigrated Native Americans. Evidently we are slow to learn.
This blog, however, will not focus on them nor on the plight of similarly threatened tribal people in the upper reaches of the Amazon or the forests of New Guinea. It will focus on the tribes being threatened with extinction in the southernmost corner of Ethiopia in what is one of the last remainders of true wilderness in Africa. At a private meeting in London with a despondent visiting Hamar spokesperson, he said: "My people now live in fear. Our traditional way of life is under threat. The government in Addis thinks of us as savages. We shall soon disappear."
Indeed, the Hamar, like other tribes living in the lower Omo Valley, are victims of an Ethiopian government development program. This is pushed by the completion of the huge Gibe III hydro-electric dam which started storing water earlier this year. The dam will completely alter the seasonal pattern of the Omo River whose waters have been the life-force of the ten principal tribes living along its banks. To the administrators in Addis Ababa, the pastoral way of life of the Hamar, Geleb, Mursi, Bodi and Kara people — to name a handful — is anathema. They are regarded as uncivilized. The Westernized technocrats in Addis want modernization in the form of electric power, paved roads, vast agricultural tracts and the introduction of small scale industries. Towards this end they are enforcing a policy of "villagization" in which the tribespeople are being evicted from their ancestral lands that have been auctioned off without consultation to make way for commercial plantations.1
Since 2008 an area the size of France has been leased or sold to giant foreign agricultural companies cultivating sugar, cotton, cereals, palm oil and biofuels. All these crops will be exported for foreign markets while some of the local inhabitants are already suffering from starvation as the river levels fall.
The Ethiopian government resettlement program known as, "The Growth and Transformation Plan," involved "changing the life style of pastoralist communities." No adequate environmental nor social impact assessments were carried out on the projected plantation and irrigation schemes nor were the inhabitants along the valley properly consulted nor given the opportunity of giving their informed consent. Despite an increasing number of reported human rights abuses, some 929 protesting Mursi households were forcibly resettled into a "model" village close to partially completed plantations and mills. Without their land and their cattle, their pastoral way of life simply has been destroyed.
Historically, the Omo Valley peoples made their decisions only after extensive community meetings by the adults. As few speak Amharic, the national language in Ethiopia, they had little access to information about either the planning nor the construction of the dam which was about to transform their lives. The government had published a decree in February 2009 that any charity or NGO which receives more than 10 percent of its funding from abroad (virtually every charity in the country) could not promote human or democratic rights. The aim of this decree was to limit debate on controversial policies and restrict awareness of human rights among the primitive peoples.
Environmental and human rights groups, as well as UNESCO,2 have questioned Ethiopia's agenda or the implementation of the Constitutional guarantees of the rights of tribal peoples to "full consultation" and to their "expression of views in the planning and implementation of environmental policies and projects that affect them directly." However, the now deceased Prime Minister, Meles Zenawi, had lashed out at the dam's opponents asserting that even though the south Omo "is known as backward in terms of civilization, it will become an example of rapid development."3
Survival International, the global association for the rights of tribal peoples, has received disturbing reports that one of the smallest and most vulnerable tribes of the Omo Valley, the Kwegu, have been on the edge of starvation as a result of the destruction of their forest and its beehives as well as the slow death of the river fish on which they depended. "How will we feed our children when the fish are gone?" asked an elder of one of the 1,000 remaining Kwegu people. Those tribal leaders who have opposed their removal from their homes have been brutally beaten and jailed by the military who patrol the region and guard the construction of roads and pylons for the forthcoming electricity lines from Gibe III.
Tensions between the native people and the military have been rising steadily as the result of evictions and, at the end of May, Hamar pastoralists were repeatedly attacked by soldiers with mortars and semi-automatic weapons. A news black-out by the government made it impossible to know the exact number of casualties. Survival International received reports that a "massacre" had taken place. According to an interview with Pink Bull, a tribal elder: "The soldiers said, 'We are going to clear the Omo River area. You move out to the grasslands.' 'Why?' we said. 'This area is our land,' said the government. 'You are few. Now leave this land and stay in the grasslands.'"4
Part of the social tensions that have arisen are caused by the younger generation of men who no longer look to their elders for guidance. They view the elders as sell-outs to 21st century "progress" and take to the jungle with G-3 rifles and Russian Kalashnikovs — their only available modern tools. They then show their hostility to the government by acts of violence and when this occurs, the military respond by sending masses of troops to "restore order." Where previously there had been tribal battles with sticks, killing had been strictly forbidden between tribesmen. This taboo has now been broken by the forced resettlements.
The technocrats in Addis are not so blind to the economic opportunities offered by the foreign journalists, photographers, film makers, anthropologists and rich tourists eager to visit the different existing tribal units. Its usually naked peoples were not accustomed to having themselves covered with body paint and tattoos but the government is now encouraging them to parade for photo-tourists.5 Some of the women display their remarkable lip-plates for higher fees. Little children are bribed into painting their bodies for the cameras. Susan Hack writing about her embarrassment of experiencing this, confessed: "Essentially, I am a voyeur, a gawker, and already my trip's eleven-thousand dollar price tag and the business of intruding on people who have little control over the forces of tourism have me feeling a bit uneasy. Some of my encounters will prove so troubling that I will, at points, wish I had never come to this place… To attract the lens, the women riff on their culture, for example, by wearing old puberty belts on their heads. The resulting scrum is full of antagonism, as foreigners compete with one another for camera angles and the Mursi vie for attention from these human ATMs."6
Many of the visitors wonder how the tribal communities would like to deal with such tourism as the elders often are divided on the issue. Some accept it as the only way to earn some money and improve their lives, others see it as an intrusion which is destroying their way of life. Exodus, one of the operating tourist groups, pulled out of Ethiopia two years ago because they no longer could provide "ethical" or "authentic" experiences for their clients. Justin Francis, the managing director of Responsible Travel, respected the decision of Exodus and admitted that the lack of regulation and the growing visitor numbers meant that the situation was becoming increasingly problematic. Pulling out entirely "would help no one," he said, including the discriminated Omo people.7
The Bodi, Mursi and Suri who are now being pushed into resettlement camps will become dependent on government aid to survive. Services and food aid are often of poor quality and sometimes non-existent. This spells the end of an Eden-like way of life for peoples who have been part of the natural world and wedded to its beauty, its cycles and its bounty. No need for Victorian prudery or American hypocrisy in their lives. Yes, guns have replaced spears in order to prevent neighboring tribes from stealing cattle, but within each community there had been little violence. The numerous rites of passage had been crucial to the individual members of the tribes by giving them a strong sense of identity and belonging. The continued existence of their social culture had been crucial.
The Hamar or Mursi mothers who are forced to send their naked five year olds to one of the newly built school-rooms are horrified to see them return on their first day with dirty tee-shirts and shorts. To a mother it seems as if her son or daughter had taken on the role of an alien. Moreover, she has never washed any "clothes" except for the wrap-arounds which she rubbed in the Omo River. Cleaning a muddy youngster had been easy as well: you sent the little ones to wash in the river. No mother in these camps had ever heard of soap or hot water – never mind a washing machine. "Progress" has becomes an invasive force. Jane Baldwin, who has visited tribeswomen over the past decade writes that "the women were noticeably tired and thinner. The women showed less pride than was so evident in past years." 8
Anthropologists have found hominid fossils along the Omo's river banks and the earliest existence of mankind is believed to have started there. DNA analysis suggests that all human beings, Homo sapiens, carry African genes and testify to the origin of humankind in Africa. Based on the discovery of modern human skulls from the lower Omo Valley, dated to 200,000 years ago, suggest the possibility that humanity may have originated in this area. Perhaps these are fragments of the founder populations that gave rise to the diversity of ethnic groups living today in the Omo Valley, making this area humanity's womb.
Among these tribes today, the Kara represent one of the smallest ethnic groups in all of Africa. For centuries the Kara have kept goats and cattle, planted sorghum and beans, and held on to their traditional rituals. They enjoy turning their entire bodies into works of art with streaks of white, red and yellow finger paint. Polka dot patterns mimic guinea fowl feathers, stripes are inspired by zebra, and larger spots are there to remind them of leopards. Photographers and writers like Carol Beckwith, Angela Fisher have been captivated by the extraordinary skill and artistry of the Kara and have remarked on the humor, the pride, the empathy and the hope manifest in their eyes.9
The Kara and their tribal neighbors along the Omo River have never focused on such material aspects of the arts as wooden sculptures, woven fabrics or carved masks. Their overwhelming preoccupation has been with the beauty and appearance of the human body. Artistic scarification of the arms and stomach have added to their attractiveness. The object of this self-decoration has been to celebrate their beauty, health, strength and sex appeal. They add vibrancy and grace to the human form. They exude an aesthetic purity with their designs and colors and there is no hint of the artificial or the vulgar. And it is to be noted that when a man ages and has lost his youthful powers, he will stop decoration altogether.
Much of the artistry of Africa's tribal peoples people has been photographed and immortalized by the camera work of Eliot Elisofon, Sam Hastings, Leni Riefenstahl, George Rodger and Sebastião Salgado, as well as the primary work on the Omo by Beckwith and Fisher.10 As the writer and photographer Peter Beard has written, "Art is the barometer of civilization." Alas, as Beard also points out, the arts do not enhance our chances of survival.
You may ask what the globe is losing with the extinction of the tribes of the Omo Valley? I believe it is the vision of another way of life which was natural, beautiful and viable. The loss of authenticity and identity of these tribes people is not replaceable. The material "advances" decreed by insensitive Ethiopian administrators will leave no cultural traces. The invasion of western technology, competitive capitalist economics, and increasingly globalized media and communications are destroying what were remarkably spirited social communities. With our contrived and conventionalized perspectives, our nations do not tolerate differences easily. Conformity and assimilation, disguised by words such as "progress," and "growth," demand similarity and uniformity. This presents us with a bleak outlook for all of mankind — a digital future which the generations of the Omo Valley people could never have contemplated.
Kara men body painting by the Omo River © Carol Beckwith & Angela Fisher/African Ceremonies.
1Megan Perry, "Ethiopia: Stealing the Omo Valley, destroying its ancient peoples," The Ecologist, February 16, 2015
2In 1980, UNESCO declared the Lower Omo Valley a World Heritage Site in recognition of its uniqueness.
3Susan Hack, "Twilight of the Tribes: Ethiopia's Omo River Valley," Conde-Nast Traveller, January 2012.
4Will Hurd, "Ignoring Abuse in Ethiopia," Oakland Institute, (July 2013)
5Matilda Temperley, "Nothing to smile about," The Observer Magazine, May 24, 2015
6Hack, op.cit.
7Oliver Smith, "Exodus abandons Omo Valley tours," The Telegraph(Travel), February 28, 2013
8Jane Baldwin, "Ethiopia's changing Omo River Valley – Diary" (2005-2014)
9Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher, Painted Bodies (2012)
10See Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher's comprehensive work African Ceremonies ( 1999) which won the United Nations Award for Excellence for "vision and understanding of the role of cultural traditions in the pursuit of world peace."
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2 thoughts on "79. Closing the Tribal Ways of Life"
riccardo rizzo on July 22, 2015 at 12:49 pm said:
Sad, angry disappointed,great piece Yorik
No Water No Life Blog on August 12, 2015 at 3:33 pm said:
Thank you for posting on such an important topic. No Water No Life is focused on freshwater conservation and the Omo River Basin is one of our case study watersheds. I'd like to share a few blog posts with Omo photos: http://bit.ly/1L5Qfdp http://bit.ly/1J44xZD This is a video by International Rivers featuring many NWNL photos: http://bit.ly/1f7WbUR We have many many more photo galleries and related information on the Omo Valley, tribes and Gibe 3 on our website: http://www.nowater-nolife.org


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