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Heartwarming to see a desi snack make it at the Oval
Back home, jhalmuri is a favourite in offices, on trains and buses, in railway stations and at bus stops
Jhalmuri, one of India's favourite snacks, turned out to be a hit in England
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The Telegraph | | Published 23.06.19, 07:23 AM
Sir — Amit Roy's report on Angus Denoon, a British chef bringing Calcutta to London through his 'Jhalmuri Express' ("Jhalmuri Express a hit at Oval", June 12), a colourful makeshift stall, is a delightful read for any Bengali. Jhalmuri is a favourite snack in offices, on trains and buses, in railway stations and at bus stops. It is always alluring whether one is rushing or relaxing, is either alone or among friends. During his Calcutta trip, Denoon had minutely observed the making of jhalmuri by different vendors and tasted it too. His own jhalmuri sale at the Oval on June 9 when India and Australia were playing the World Cup was a runaway hit. I wish him success.
Paramananda Pal
Sir — At the Oval, Angus Denoon's jhalmuri was hugely popular with Indians, who made up most of the day's spectators for the World Cup match. Denoon, a former chef, had tasted the puffed-rice wonder in Calcutta for the first time at the corner of Royd Street and Mirza Ghalib Street, formerly Free School Street. In his report on Denoon, Amit Roy mentions the erstwhile Dunlop building there; this recalls another British connection. William Makepeace Thackeray, a great Victorian novelist, was born nearby too.
Denoon mentioned street food at B.B.D. Bagh. But what he overlooked were the conditions under which the food there is prepared and sold. Rules of hygiene are flouted, although biryani for the gourmet or doi-chira for those with feebler stomachs does seem to leave people quite fit after their meals. Also, the food there is a great leveller, with corporate executives rubbing shoulders with peons, jostling for fish and rice. And whatever you eat, you do not have to pay through your nose.
Anjan Majumdar
Sir — Jhalmuri is one of the most popular street food items in India. It is heartwarming to see its magic spread to foreign shores as well.
Malini Roy
Sir — The United Nations secretary general, António Guterres, recently launched a new UN Disability Inclusion Strategy to raise global awareness about the rights of persons with disabilities. International governments should ratify this and make provisions to create equal opportunities for differently abled persons, who are usually under-represented and discriminated against. It is heartening that they are making history in different fields, one example being Arunima Sinha, the first woman amputee to reach Mount Everest in 2013. Disability is not inability. Sinha is a role model, who proved that nothing is impossible with dedication and a strong will.
Outdated vision
Sir — The Communist Party of India (Marxist) seems adamant about not learning any lesson from its defeat in the Lok Sabha elections. Sitaram Yechury, the party's general-secretary, squarely blamed the Election Commission for the Bharatiya Janata Party's victory. In 2014, the tampering of electronic voting machines was supposed to have been behind the Opposition's poor performance. But the CPI(M) made no noise about EVMs when the BJP lost the assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh.
Yechury thinks that the BJP used the Pulwama and Balakot narratives to win in 2019 while the government ignored the issues of economy and livelihoods. Both are important. For this, the Narendra Modi government has evolved several welfare schemes, and now has the leisure to revive the economy. But the action against the Pulwama attack was necessary to teach the militants a lesson.
With a total of three seats across the nation in 2019, Yechury's party is disappearing from the map. If the EC could make or mar the fortunes of political parties, there would be no need for voters. But in elections, it is people's power that prevails. Voters have shown that they can distinguish between good and bad, as they have done in the 2019 polls. It is high time Yechury realized that only constructive action can make the CPI(M) visible in electoral politics in the future.
K.V. Seetharamaiah
Hassan, Karnataka
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Video welcome and book content overview
Author welcome
Overview of the book's contents
About Teaching for Critical Perspectives on Technology and the Family
About the Author (or, the payoff for paying attention)
Chapter 1: Ten Truths about Technology
1.1 Ten Truths about Technology
Chapter Insights
Technology Truths
1.3 Learning Activities
1.4 Blog Prompts
1.5 Additional Resources & Readings
Staying Up to Date
Principles and Ethics
Chapter 2: Ways of Understanding Families and Technology
2.1 Ways of Understanding Families and Technology
Defining Family
Family Systems and Ecological Influences on the Family
Additional Perspectives on the Family
Theoretical Perspectives on Media and Communication
Frameworks on Families and Technology
Family and Family Theories (general)
Information and Communication Theories
Family Technology Theories
Chapter 3: Differences Within and Across Familes' Technology Use
3.1 Differences Within and Across Families' Technology Use
Family Differences
Measurement of Technology Use
Functional Differences in Use
Factors influencing use
Within Family Differences
Across family differences
Ongoing Research on Demographic Trends in Technology and the Internet (often inclusive of children and families and family issues):
Ongoing Research on Demographic Trends in Families
Digital Divide and Internet Access
Technology and Families During Migration:
Chapter 4: Technology Use and Couple Relationships
4.1 Technology Use and Couple Relationships
Background on Couple Relationships
Advancing Relational Theory with Regard to Digital Technologies
Technology Use by Couples
Technology-Related Conflict and Resolution
Dating Apps and Online Dating Sites
Relationships in the Digital Age
Online Dating/Dating Apps
Chapter 5: Technology Use and Impacts in Children, Youth and Young Adults
5.1 Technology Use and Impacts in Children, Youth and Young Adults
Perspectives on Human Development
Young Children and Technology
Middle Childhood and Technology
Adolescents and Technology
Young Adults and Technology
Special considerations for children and teen technology use
Technology Influences on Child Development
Reports from Professional Associations
General Recommendations for Parents and Practitioners
Chapter 6: Technology Use by Parents
6.1 Technology Use by Parents
About Parenting
Influences on Parenting
Parenting as Represented through Information and Communications Technology Use
Parent Technology Use as Direct and Indirect Influence on the Child
Chapter 7: Technology's Influence on Parent-Child Relationships
7.1 Technology's Influence on Parent-Child Relationships
The Parent-Child Relationship
Parenting Frameworks
Parental Mediation and the Parent-Child Relationship
Technology's Role in Parent-Child Communication
Website Articles for/About Families
Sharenting
Chapter 8: Technology Use for Family Communication and Connectivity
8.1 Technology Use for Family Communication and Connectivity
Research on Family Technology Use, Communication, and Connectedness.
Family Variation in Communication and Connectedness via Technology
Videogames and Co-viewing Media
Connected Learning
Joint Exploration of Media and Technology
Establishing Family Rules about Technology Use as a Family
Setting Family Rules on Technology Use
Becoming Good Digital Citizens Together
Family Connectivity
Chapter 9: What Boundaries? Technology's Role in Work and Family Balance
9.1 What Boundaries? Technology's Role in Work and Family Balance
Perspectives on Work-family Balance
Technology Integration and Work-Family Balance
Antecedents, Outcomes, and Moderators of the Process in Technology and Work-Family Balance: a Complex and Shifting picture
Work-Family Balance Policy Recommendations Reflecting New Digital Realities
Research Considerations
News Articles in Popular Press/Newspapers
Research and Theory articles Related to Work-family Balance and the Role of Technology
Chapter 10: Technology Use in Family Health and Money Management
10.1 Technology Use in Family Health and Money Management
Privacy and Safety of Information and Data
Health Information and Care: Use of Technology in Personal and Family Health
Financial e-literacy and U$e of Technology for Family Financial Well-being
10.2 References
10.3 Learning Activities
10.4 Blog Prompts
10.5 Additional Resources & Readings
Personal and Family Health
Personal and Family Financial Well-being
Chapter 11: Technology Integration in the Practice of Family Professionals
11.1 Technology Integration in the Practice of Family Professionals
Family Professionals
The Intersections of Family Practice
The Use and Value of Technology in the Delivery of Family Practice
Digital Skills Required for a 21st-century Family Professional Workforce
Family Professionals and Competency Standards Indicative of Technology Skills and Knowledge
Workplace Support and Professional Development
COVID-19 Impact on the Delivery of Family Practice and Education; The Use of the Internet and Information and Communications Technology
Recommendations for the Future
11.5 Additional Resources and Readings
Professional Practice Standards Related to Technology Integration
About Family LIfe Education
Chapter 12: Shifting the Culture: Policy, Practice and Research toward Healthy Family Technology Use
12.1 Shifting the Culture: Policy, Practice and Research toward Healthy Family Technology Use
Areas of Technology Policy
Outlets for Technology Policy for Children and Families
The Policy Development Process
Intentional Integration of Policy with Research and Practice
12.5 Additional Readings and Resources
Family Policy
Commonsense Media Resources
Technology Policy Applications
Digital Citizenship and Digital Ethics
Readings and Resources to Complement this Book
Journals that Publish at the Intersection of Technology and Family-related issues
Blogs/Websites
Technology/Family Intersection Thought Leaders on Social Media
Policy and Statistics on Technology Related to Children and Families
On Teaching for Critical Thinking
50 Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATS) by Angelo and Cross
Critical Perspectives on Technology and the Family
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Why America Needs to Beware of Saudi Wahhabism
May 18, 2015 Topic: Security Region: Middle East Tags: Saudi ArabiaUnited StatesReligion
"It is high time for the administration to face up to Saudi Arabia's embrace of the fundamentalist Wahhabi-Salafi creed..."
by Robert G. Rabil Follow @robertgrabil on Twitter L
The Obama administration issued a statement welcoming leaders from the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries—Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates—to the White House on May 13 and to Camp David on May 14. According to the statement, the gathering will be an opportunity for the leaders to discuss ways to enhance their partnership and deepen security cooperation.
Undoubtedly, this upcoming gathering is essential for improving U.S.-GCC relations, which have been affected by the GCC's perspective that United States is beating a retreat in the Middle East by pursuing a feeble foreign policy towards both the Syrian crisis and Iran's regional expansion of power. Central to U.S.-GCC negotiations is the concern about the implications of a potential U.S.-Iranian nuclear agreement for the security of the GCC countries. The GCC countries consider Iran to be the bête noir of the Middle East. This is not for irrelevant reasons, but to blame Iran for all the mayhem resulting in the creation of ISIS and the civil wars in Yemen and Syria is counterproductive, and in Arab metaphoric parlance, a derisive pat on the shoulder of American-Arab relations.
Besides the necessary steps the Obama administration must take to alleviate GCC's concerns over Iran's nuclear program and Middle East policy, it is high time for the administration to face up to Saudi Arabia's embrace of the fundamentalist Wahhabi-Salafi creed, which is at the center not only of the kingdom's official religious establishment but also of the attitudinal behavior of the Saudi state and some of its citizens. In other words, the Saudi monarchy has made some sort of a Faustian pact with the Wahhabi-Salafi school of Islam whose theological and political ramifications cannot be discounted as principal factors for paving the way for Islamic radicalism. Absent an American grasp of the relational religio-political dynamics in the Kingdom, and absent a cathartic friendly exchange between the two strategic allies, there is little hope that Islamic radicalism in the Greater Middle East might peter out any time soon.
The Saudi-Wahhabi pact goes back to the eighteenth century when Sheikh Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab (1703-1792), the founder of the Wahhabi-Salafi school of Islam traveled to Diriya, the stronghold of the Saudi tribe, and struck a deal with its chief. The pact served the interest of both parties by expanding their respective political and religious influence throughout the regions of Najd and Hijaz.
Basing his ideas on the writings of classical Salafi scholar Ibn Taymiyyah, al-Wahhab rejected shirk (idolatry, polytheism) and bid'ah (heretical religious innovation), which he believed permeated the holy land of Islam. He believed in the return to the authentic ways of the salaf al-salih (pious ancestors) and advocated tawhid (oneness/unity of God) and transcendence of God. He called for unity and the purification of Islam. His puritanical movement became known as the Muwahhidun. Significantly, he justified leveling the charge of takfir (unbelief) on those he considered engaged in shirk. For example, the failure of Muslims to observe all the pillars of Islam or direct their exclusive worship toward God alone was tantamount to committing kufr (unbelief).
In their campaign to control Najd and Hijaz, the Saudi-Wahhabi movement faced serious setbacks that left indelible impressions on its political outlook. Coming on the heels of destroying holy shrines in what is today Iraq, the movement occupied the holy cities of Mecca and Medina in 1805, thereby disrupting Muslim pilgrimage. In response, Ottoman authorities sent the army of Muhammad Ali of Egypt to crush the movement. The army, aided by tribes and natives, destroyed the Saudi-Wahhabi capital of Diriya and took the Saudi chief to Istanbul where he was executed. Consequently, Wahhabi scholars, including the grandson of al-Wahhab, Sulayman ibn 'Abdallah, issued fatwas (religious edicts) asserting that those who supported the invading army to be apostates and that the Ottomans were polytheists.
The next important setback took place during the campaign of Saudi chief Abd al-Aziz (also known as Ibn Saud) to conquer Najd and Hijaz (1902-1932). Radical Wahhabis, known as the Ikhwan, fighting on Ibn Saud's side had begun to oppose him once he started to negotiate with the British. Preempting their budding rebellion, Ibn Saud rallied moderate Wahhabis and a number of tribes and harshly clamped down on the Ikhwan. Before long, he completed his conquest of Najd and Hijaz, and in 1932, he proclaimed himself king of the newly established Saudi kingdom.
Early on in their rule, the Saudis recognized that their assumption of power, unlike that of other tribes in the Gulf, was bloody and that opposition to their rule could emerge under certain circumstances within both Saudi society and the Wahhabi religious establishment. They recognized that their rule has to be based on a tripod of 1) appearing pious Muslims worthy of being the custodians of the Holy mosques, 2) conferring state benefits on Saudis to maintain their loyalty, and 3) supporting the Wahhabi religious establishment as a key source for legitimizing their rule. The Saudis institutionalized the Wahhabi-Salafi school of Islam as the official religious establishment of the Kingdom and strove to support its proponents in return for their political obedience. This division of labor between the two parties was in line with the initial pact whereby the Saudis were in charge of politics and the Wahhabis in charge of propagating (da'wa) their version of Islam.
This division of labor came under duress during the Cold War when Saudi Arabia led the pro-Western conservative camp and Egypt led the left-leaning nationalist camp in the Arab world. The two countries fought by proxy in Yemen. During that time Saudi Arabia welcomed many members of the Muslim Brotherhood when President of Egypt Gamal Abdel-Nasser clamped down on them for trying to assassinate him. The Saudis assumed that nobody was better suited to taunt and criticize nationalist Nasser than the pious members of the Muslim Brotherhood. As it turned out, their assumption proved deeply flawed and harmful to the security of the royal family. Once in the kingdom, the Brothers joined the burgeoning field of education, in particular the newly established universities. It was there in the universities of the kingdom that a theological cross-fertilization took place blending the political outlook of the Muslim Brotherhood with the dogmatic stance of Wahhabism. The corollary was that a number of Wahhabi-Salafists became politicized and consequently began to air their displeasure with the rule of the Saudi royal family.
Soon enough, this displeasure grew into opposition to the royal family, which manifested itself in the seizure of the Grand Mosque in 1979 by Juhayman al-Utaibi and his followers in the religious establishment. Al-Utaibi anathematized the Saudis as corrupt and illegally rulers of the holy land because they did not belong to the Prophet's tribe, the Quraysh. With help from Pakistan, Saudi authorities stormed the Grand Mosque and either killed or detained the miscreants. Subsequently, Saudi authorities beheaded al-Utaibi and his followers.
This episode in the history of the Kingdom has had tremendous impact on Saudi domestic and foreign policy. Domestically, the royal family removed all Brothers from their educational positions and supported the apolitical camp within the religious establishment. This camp rallied around two illustrious scholars: Sheikhs Muhammad Aman al-Jami and Rabi' al-Madkhali, who professed unquestionable loyalty to the Saudi regime. Doctrinally, they endorsed the view of Sheikh Nasir al-Din al-Albani's (1914-1999) scientific Salafi school, which is also known as the quietest Salafi school.
As a Salafist, the principal tenets of al-Albani's scientific school are: tawhid, itba' (following only the Prophet), and tazkiah (purification). He, like classical Salafists, adhered to the broad principle of tawhid. In respect to the tenet of itba', al-Albani stressed following only the Prophet in affirmation of the Muslim pillar of shahada (testimony): "I testify/bear witness that Muhammad is the messenger of God." This testimony would not be complete without the belief that Muhammad was a human being, who received a divine revelation: the Qur'an and the Sunnah. And this testimony would be completed by loving the Prophet and emulating the beneficent first three generations in Islam. It follows from this that Al-Albani categorically rejected what he considered reprehensible innovations introduced to Islam by "rationalist" groups; innovations that tarnished the creed of and worship in Islam. In respect to the final tenet of tazkiah, al-Albani considered it as the primary purpose for which the messenger of God was sent. Its objective was "to cleanse and heal the soul," and "purge it of its abominations," by abiding by the revelation and creed and ethics of Islam, which achieve justice and benevolence.
For al-Albani, these aforementioned tenets of scientific Salafism could not be properly understood and applied without engaging in da'wa, the vehicle of societal change. Da'wa is a priority for al-Albani's scientific Salafist school, for without which neither the upright Muslim nor the Muslim state could be brought about. Correspondingly, al-Albani premised the methodology (manhaj) of change inherent in his da'wa on the concept of "al-tasfiyah wa al-tarbiyah (purification and education)." He believed that, in order to effect the exemplary Muslim, and by extension the Islamic State, Islam should be purified of everything that is alien and fraudulent. To that end the Sunnah (customs and traditions of Prophet Muhammad) must be purged of all forged and weak hadiths (sayings of the Prophet) so that the revelation can be understood in light of authenticated hadiths. As for tarbiyah, al-Albani believed that only by instilling into the youthful generation the authentic Islamic creed, as outlined in the Qur'an and the Sunnah, could a pure Islamic society be formed as the basis of an Islamic state.


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The 5 Most Crazy World Records Set By Metal Bands!
They're in the Guinness Book Of Records you know!!
Posted on July 30, 2017 by Tyson Keating in Features
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Worship Metal selects the 5 most crazy world records set by metal bands…..
Agonizer – Deepest Underground Concert!
Finnish melodic/power metal outfit Agonizer seemed to have a different take on underground metal and in April of 2007 they took the term literally….very literally in fact, performing a CD release show for their debut album, Birth/The End, in the belly of the Pyhäsalmi Mine in Finland!
The mine is the second deepest metal mine in Europe (and it's certainly now the most metal metal mine in the world) and is also home to the worlds deepest sauna. Guinness World Records has the official depth at a staggering 1271 meters below sea level. At that the depth you could fit thirteen Big Ben's or four Eiffel Tower's stacked atop one another and still have more than enough room left over.
So whether or not the lyrics or music on Birth/The End makes you look at your cup of coffee of a morning and question the meaning of life, there's clearly no arguing that it's the deepest album ever (so far)!
Agonizer
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2 Comments on The 5 Most Crazy World Records Set By Metal Bands!
Jeff // August 16, 2017 at 5:54 pm // Reply
The most important, we set the record for the Loudest Band in the World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JJr4mU8QT0
Chris Jennings // August 17, 2017 at 3:10 pm // Reply
A glaring omission! Thanks for the heads-up Jeff \m/


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It shares borders with the canton of Basel-Landschaft, the canton of Bern, the canton of Neuchatel, the canton of Solothurn, and the French régions of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté and Grand Est.
Located in west-central Switzerland, it borders the canton of Jura and the canton of Solothurn to the north.
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To the west and south lie the cantons of Jura and Bern, to the east is Aargau.
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The Jura was French-speaking and Roman Catholic, whereas the canton of Bern was mostly German-speaking and Protestant.
It is spoken as a first language (in descending order of the number of speakers) in France, Canadian provinces of Quebec, Ontario and New Brunswick as well as other Francophone regions, Belgium (Wallonia and the Brussels-Capital Region), western Switzerland (cantons of Bern, Fribourg, Geneva, Jura, Neuchâtel, Vaud, Valais), Monaco, parts of the United States (Louisiana, Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont), partly in Luxembourg and in northern Italy (region of Aosta Valley), and by various communities elsewhere.
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The area is now known as Bernese Jura.
Of the remaining four, three seceded as the canton of Jura in 1979, while the fourth, the Laufen district, joined the canton of Basel-Landschaft in 1994.
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Roman Catholic Diocese of Basel
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The King of Burgundy donated much of the land that today makes up canton Jura to the Bishop of Basel in 999.
Today the diocese of Basel includes the Swiss cantons of Aargau, Basel-Country, Basel-City, Berne, Jura, Lucerne, Schaffhausen, Solothurn, Thurgau, and Zug.
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Other cantons in Switzerland using the title "Republic and Canton" are Ticino, the canton of Geneva, and the canton of Neuchâtel.
As is the case in several other Swiss cantons (canton of Ticino, canton of Neuchâtel, and canton of Jura), this canton is referred to as a republic within the Swiss Confederation.
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The Republic and Canton of the Jura (République et canton du Jura), also known as the canton of Jura or canton Jura, is the newest (founded in 1979) of the 26 Swiss cantons, located in the northwestern part of Switzerland. Other cantons in Switzerland using the title "Republic and Canton" are Ticino, the canton of Geneva, and the canton of Neuchâtel.
In 1979 areas from the canton of Bern attained independence from the Bernese, forming the new canton of Jura.
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It consists of parts of the Jura mountains in the south and the Jura plateau in the north.
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Delémont District (Delsberg) is one of the three districts of the canton of Jura, Switzerland.
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Porrentruy District (Pruntrut) is one of the three districts of the canton of Jura, Switzerland.
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The region borders Grand Est to the north, Île-de-France to the northwest, Centre-Val de Loire to the west, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes to the south and Switzerland (the cantons of Vaud, Neuchâtel and Jura) to the east.
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30 Years After the L.A. Uprising, Multi-Racial Organizers Rebuild the City
South Central L.A. residents gather on a street corner to ask fellow residents to stop the violence. Los Angeles had undergone a bloody rebellion due to the acquittal of the LAPD officers who beat Rodney King.
The 1992 L.A. rebellion was a wake-up call for a deeply segregated city. Where authorities have failed over 30 years to rebuild what was lost, multi-racial organizing has succeeded in leading progressive change.
By Sonali Kolhatkar
Thirty years ago, in the wealthy Southern California city of Simi Valley, a majority-White jury acquitted four Los Angeles police officers of all charges in the videotaped assault of a Black man named Rodney King. The acquittals sparked five days of violence that came to be known as the "1992 L.A. Uprising" (some preferred the term "riots," others "rebellion," or even "civil unrest") during which an estimated 63 people were killed, at least 16 of them Black, 14 Latino, and the rest White, Asian, or unidentified by race. More than 2,000 people were injured.
Thousands of buildings were burned down, and more than $1 billion worth of property was damaged. A massive multitiered army consisting of tens of thousands of local, state, and federal law enforcement agents, including from the U.S. Border Patrol, was mobilized to end the rebellion and arrest more than 16,000 people.
It was a stunning chapter in Los Angeles and United States history, one that continues to mark local decision-making around issues of race, policing, inequality, community investment, gentrification, and political representation.
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In the months that followed, political commentators on the Right increasingly linked the uprising to a "poverty of values," to quote then-Vice President Dan Quayle. President George H. W. Bush asserted that the actions during the uprising were "purely criminal." Such logic framed the official city, state, and federal government pledges to investigate the causes of the uprising and provide restitution—pledges that either remained unfulfilled or exacerbated existing problems.
Most of the progressive changes in L.A. since 1992 have instead been led by grassroots organizers and community members who have rooted their work in cross-racial solidarity, finding common cause in the abolition of incarceration and police, tackling the housing crisis, uplifting arts and culture, and encouraging civic engagement.
After the Uprising: How Authorities Failed South L.A.
Leslie Cooper Johnson, vice president of organizational development at Community Coalition, explains that her South L.A.-based organization was founded just two years before the uprising. One of its first campaigns was to tackle the heavy concentration of liquor stores, which local residents identified as a major source of crime and other social problems.
"As we were engaging in the campaign … the civil unrest happened and hundreds of liquor stores were burned down," says Johnson. "And so the campaign then shifted to rebuild South L.A. without liquor stores," she adds.
Former Mayor Jim Hahn remembers South L.A. being the site of "1,100 liquor stores down there, which I think was more than the entire state of Pennsylvania had."
L.A.'s first Black mayor, Tom Bradley, immediately promised to rebuild the devastated parts of the city and announced a public-private partnership that would take the form of a privately funded nonprofit organization called Rebuild L.A. Initially headed by a White corporate executive from neighboring Orange County named Peter Ueberroth, Rebuild L.A. seemed doomed from the start.
Although the organization's leadership was eventually diversified in response to complaints, it never managed to accomplish what Bradley set out to do, either in rebuilding what was destroyed, or in changing police-community relations.
According to an in-depth analysis by Melissa Chadburn writing for Curbed Los Angeles, "The board operated on the assumption that the neighborhoods and its residents were insolvent, inefficient, lazy, corrupt thieves, and that an overreliance on public subsidies had run them into the ground."
Johnson says, "There are still to this day lots in South L.A. that were made vacant during the civil unrest. … And we still haven't seen the investment, or the development in those spaces."
As to the fundamental issue of police violence, she adds, "We haven't been able to move the needle as much as we would like to."
A Backdrop of Inter-Community Tensions
King's beating ignited a fiery debate about police brutality and race in the early 1990s in the city. Communities of color, especially Black residents, had long charged that police brutality was commonplace, but city officials ignored them. The nearly all-White jury that eventually acquitted King's assailants believed the victim had resisted arrest and that the police had acted reasonably to subdue him.
"What prompted the unrest was just anti-Blackness, to be frank," says Johnson.
Less than two weeks after King was beaten and a year before the uprising, Soon Ja Du, the Korean American owner of Empire Liquor in South L.A., shot and killed a young Black teenager named Latasha Harlins, who Du believed was stealing orange juice. Although convicted of voluntary manslaughter, Du did not serve a prison sentence for the shooting, and anger over the incident simmered within South L.A.'s Black community, where convenience and liquor stores were largely owned and operated by Korean Americans.
When jurors in Simi Valley acquitted King's assailants, hundreds of protesters gathered in the San Fernando Valley, near the site where the assault took place, and marched to the local divisional headquarters of the Los Angeles Police Department.
In South L.A., anger spilled out into the streets centered on the corner of Florence and Normandie, an intersection that is now considered "ground zero" of an uprising that went on to spill into neighboring areas. There was a collective rage at the injustice of the acquittals, exacerbated by Black–Korean tensions. Residents set fires, demolished liquor stores, and beat those perceived as outsiders.
Korean American immigrants, many of whom in the early 1990s were relatively recent arrivals to the U.S. and L.A., were deeply impacted by the uprising: 40% of economic losses during the five days of violence were borne by Korean American businesses, according to Edward Chang, a professor of ethnic studies and founding director of the Young Oak Kim Center for Korean American Studies at the University of California, Riverside.
The date was such a momentous incident for the Korean American community that it is still referred to as "Sai-i-gu," which means April 29 in Korean, "just like 9/11," says Chang. He calls it a "watershed event," and "one of the most important historical events for more than 100 years of Korean immigration history."
"They had to leave, they had no choice," says Chang of South L.A.'s Korean American store owners. "Many of them decided to relocate to other cities, such as Las Vegas, Seattle, or even Atlanta." Others who decided to stay restarted their businesses as stores in indoor swap meets.
Although there has been less attention paid to the role of Latinos, Chicanos, and Latin American immigrants, the uprising directly affected them as well. Latinos were among the victims of violence, in addition to comprising 51% of those charged with crimes. Many Latinos also lost businesses in the uprising.
Local Communities and Leaders Are Rebuilding South L.A.
Eunisses Hernandez was only 2 years old when the uprising happened, and in adulthood, she went on to become the co-founder of La Defensa, an abolitionist organization tackling mass incarceration in L.A. To Hernandez, the horror of the '92 uprising highlighted systemic social problems in the city that persist even today, and that are "a constant reminder that not many things have changed," she says.
"We have taken some steps toward progress," Hernandez says, "but the systems that have harmed us—law enforcement, special interest groups, corporations—have continuously beat all the efforts that we have made."
"Paying more people to have guns and badges in our communities doesn't make us safe," she says.
In addition to her work with JusticeLA, which helped to push for the closure of the Los Angeles County Men's Central Jail and to stop the expansion of new jails, Hernandez was co-chair of Measure J, a countywide ballot measure passed by voters in November 2020 to divert funding from incarceration into a "care-first-jails-last" approach to social problems.
Activists have identified community-based needs on which the county can spend money freed from the building of jails. Hernandez explains that the ballot measure stipulates moving "10% of locally generated tax dollars into two buckets: community investment, such as youth, minority-owned businesses, and housing, and the second bucket, which is alternatives to incarceration."
Those alternatives include community-based pre-trial services (such as conducting needs-based assessments, trauma support, and alternatives to pre-trial incarceration), mental health services, drug treatment, and job creation. The first year of funding under Measure J has already been distributed toward projects aimed at mental health and youth services that serve primarily "Black trans women, elders, young people, LGBTQ communities," says Hernandez.
Johnson's organization has a similar approach. "We want to see investment in prevention," she says. Today, Community Coalition is working on a campaign with other organizations to explore alternatives to armed police enforcement of traffic stops. What should be a routine interaction often starts with racial profiling of Black and Brown motorists and, far too often, results in violence and even death. But the city's transportation department has been accused both by activists and the City Council of dragging its feet on completing a promised study as a first step toward implementing alternatives to policing in traffic stops.
In the meantime, Community Coalition is building a Center for Community Organizing that, in Johnson's words, will help "train up more organizers from across the country to be well-versed in the strategies and methods that have proven to be successful."
Johnson's definition of rebuilding her city includes expanding access to arts and culture for low-income communities of color. Community Coalition's "cultural organizing" is based on the premise that "art is power." Musical concerts and art exhibits provide opportunities to engage local communities in progressive causes and to encourage civic duties, like registering to vote. Moreover, she explains, "Black and Brown people … are interested in changing the community around them and the outcomes for their families. We also want joy. We appreciate beauty."
"What does a human being need to thrive and to be happy?" Johnson asks. The answer to that—public safety, affordable housing, living wages, health care, arts and culture—is what she and other local activists are demanding for their community. "It's not so radical, it's not so different than what anyone else would want for their family."
Solidarity Between Communities of Color
While Hernandez sees little progress by city authorities to rebuild South L.A. since 1992, she says, "We have grown in certain areas, like around solidarity between Black, Brown, and Indigenous people of color and other low-income communities." Hernandez, who is running for a seat on the L.A. City Council, cites the strong multiracial coalitions she works with as integral to making progress on such issues as transitioning L.A. County and L.A. away from a carceral system.
Another example of solidarity between racial groups was the evolution of KIWA, a grassroots organization that was launched two months before the uprising as Korean Immigrant Workers Advocates, and years later renamed itself the Koreatown Immigrant Workers Alliance. The organization's new name reflected the growing evolution of an area where Korean Americans had traditionally lived into one that has become increasingly populated by Latinos and other immigrant groups.
According to Chang, Asian Americans have been part of this cross-racial solidarity. "There is a conscious decision made, particularly by the 1.5 and second-generation organizations, that are trying to reach out to other communities," he says, calling younger Korean Americans the "children of Sai-i-gu."
Alongside KIWA, Chang cites Koreatown Youth and Community Center, an organization founded in 1975 to serve primarily new Korean immigrants, as another example of a Korean American-led community group that pivoted to multicultural organizing. According to its website, "After the L.A. civil unrest in 1992, KYCC expanded from being an ethnically focused agency to one that included the surrounding community, aligning with its evolving needs." Another local grassroots group, Korean Resource Center, has similarly evolved, and, according to Chang, its main activities now are centered around "building coalitions with African American and Latino communities."
The Black Lives Matter protests of 2020 were a stunning display of cross-racial solidarity in L.A., where young people of color, starkly aware of ongoing systemic racism, marched together against racist police brutality.
"In 1992, South L.A., Koreatown burned down," says Chang. "But in 2020, they made a conscious choice to protest in Beverly Hills, Santa Monica, and West Hollywood, White affluent neighborhoods." Chang sees that decision as "a signal that racism is part of White America, and White America needs to take ownership and participate in eradicating racism."
Johnson agrees, saying, "The only way that we're going to achieve what we want is together."
Sonali Kolhatkar is currently the racial justice editor at YES! Media and a writing fellow with Independent Media Institute. She was previously a weekly columnist for Truthdig.com. She is also the host and creator of Rising Up with Sonali, a nationally syndicated television and radio program airing on Free Speech TV and dozens of independent and community radio stations. Sonali won First Place at the Los Angeles Press Club Annual Awards for Best Election Commentary in 2016. She also won numerous awards including Best TV Anchor from the LA Press Club and has also been nominated as Best Radio Anchor 4 years in a row. She is the author of Bleeding Afghanistan: Washington, Warlords, and the Propaganda of Silence, and the co-director of the nonprofit group, Afghan Women's Mission. Her forthcoming book is Rising Up: The Power of Narrative in Pursuing Racial Justice (City Lights, 2023). She has a Master's in Astronomy from the University of Hawai'i, and two undergraduate degrees in Physics and Astronomy from the University of Texas at Austin. She reflects on her professional path in her 2014 TEDx talk, "My Journey From Astrophysicist to Radio Host." She can be reached at sonalikolhatkar.com
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The niece of former chief water engineer for Londonderry, George Paxton Findlay, has been in touch with some of her uncle's poetry.
Hilary McClean, from the Waterside, happened upon a case of her uncle's writing, contained in a range of items which she inherited, and sent in the poem 'The Girls in the Mayor's Parlour', thinking it a topical read given the recent changes at local government level.
Written by Mr Findlay while he served as a superintendent, or chief water engineer for what was at the time the Londonderry Corporation, the precursor to the City Council, it records the employment of women in the authority for the first time, and some of the humorous and sobering effects it had on the menfolk.
Part of the poem, entitled 'The Girls in the Mayor's Parlour', is reproduced to the right.
Sending in the 22 stanza poem, Hilary explained that she found the work among her late uncle's effects, and recalls how he was a published poet locally.
"He wrote a poem every week for the old Standard newspaper or Sentinel. I have a case load of them," she said.
"This one relates to the very first time ladies/girls were allowed into the Mayor's parlour in the 1940s. I thought it may be of interest with the change over of the councils.
"He was from Kilmarnock in Scotland and while he was with the authority he looked after the water and all that, but his hobby was writing poems and he always sent one in every week to the 'Standard'.
"They were all basically written about the city and included everything from the Yanks coming over during the war to the Foyle.
"He was a great man. When we were young we used to visit him and it was an amazing experience because he had a telephone. He lived in Marlborough Street in the Cityside and when his house was cleared out after his death some of his effects came to an aunt of mine, Matilda, who was a sister of his wife. All this stuff came to her house and somehow or other this case of poems came to me and my sister Edna and we shared them.
We read them all several times. He kept them all.


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WASHINGTON, DC - Senator James Lankford (R-OK) made the following statement on today's South Korean announcement regarding the possibility of North Korea denuclearization: "The US wants a world safe for all families, including the people of North and South Korea. Currently the people of North Korea live under the oppressive reign of a dictator that has been determined to threaten the world with a nuclear weapon. I welcome any conversations that could lead to a path to denuclearization, but I am… Continue Reading
Senator Lankford Calls For Regulatory Relief for Oklahoma Small Banks, Urges Dodd-Frank Reform
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Senator Lankford Encourages President To Reevaluate Tariff Proposal
WASHINGTON, DC - Senator James Lankford (R-OK) today sent a letter to President Trump expressing concern over how his proposed aluminum and steel tariffs could impact national security and strain relationships with international allies and partners. Lankford was joined by Senators Michael Rounds (R-SD), John Barrasso (R-WY), Dan Sullivan (R-AL), Ron Johnson (R-WI), Lamar Alexander (R-TN), and Joni Ernst (R-IA), who led the effort. In the letter, the Senators stressed that, "As outlined in bot… Continue Reading
Senator Lankford Discusses Reforms for Security Clearance in Open Intel Hearing
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Senator Lankford Announces New Chief of Staff and Legislative Director
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Subcommittee Examines Solutions to Federal Hiring Challenges
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Senator Lankford Honors Billy Graham on Senate Floor
CLICK HERE to view the video. WASHINGTON, DC - After today's Congressional ceremony to honor the late Billy Graham as he lie in honor at the Capitol Rotunda, Senator James Lankford (R-OK) spoke in honor of Dr. Graham on the Senate floor. In the speech, Lankford spoke about Graham's visit to Oklahoma, and the impact Graham had on his life and ministry. Excerpts: Mr. President, it was an exceptionally moving service in the Rotunda today. For a man to be able to lie in honor in the Rotunda and … Continue Reading
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OKLAHOMA CITY, OK - Senator James Lankford (R-OK) issued the following statement this morning on the passing of the Rev. Billy Graham: "Billy Graham was one of the greatest spiritual and moral leaders in American history. His ministry of love, reconciliation, hope, and salvation was world-changing. I thank God for his life and legacy. Graham's clarity and love for people was contagious - he was, and will always be, a role model of integrity and grace. His work was also very impactful to me as … Continue Reading
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The largest fines under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act were imposed by a US court last week against Scotts Miracle-Gro Company in the United States. According to Scott's, the Company ordered a recall of it wild bird seed products in 2008 when it discovered that they had been treated with a pest control product not authorized for use on wild bird food. The company voluntarily disclosed the matter to the government.
Scott's claims that the pesticide was authorized for use on the wild bird seed products by a rogue employee without the Company's knowledge. The same employee had created fraudulent documentation that allowed certain lawn and garden products to be marketed without proper approval from the US Environmental Protection Agency. The employee is still facing charges.
The pesticides were apparently added to the seed to protect it from insect pests during storage.
There is some disagreement between the Company and the press over the amount of the penalties. The Company claims that they total about $4.5 million while some press reports put the total over $12 million. Either way they are significant only as numbers, representing a tiny percentage of the Company's $366 million profit in the quarter ended June 30th 2012. Greater harm may come from customer response, especially as Scott's has claimed many of its lawn and garden products as "organic".
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MELBOURNE, Australia — After weeks of unrelenting heat and bushfires across the continent, torrential rain and flooding in northern Australia have forced hundreds of residents to evacuate their homes in what weather officials describe as an "unprecedented" event.
Since Jan. 26, there has been close to two feet of rain on average in the Townsville region, a coastal city in the state of Queensland, and up to twice that at some weather stations, eclipsing records set in 1998 during a flood known as the "Night of Noah."
"In seven days, we've received our annual total rainfall," said Jenny Hill, the mayor of Townsville. "We've never seen weather like this."
Townsville on Monday.CreditDave Acree/EPA, via Shutterstock
Ms. Hill said that about 18,000 residents had lost power and that hundreds of others had evacuated, including some who left their suburb on a garbage truck. Elsewhere, two police officers were stuck clinging to trees for half an hour after their car was washed away by floodwaters, while residents reported snakes and crocodiles roaming the streets.
"Cannot stress it enough stay out of the water," one woman urged on Facebook.
The downpour pushed the nearby Ross River Dam to almost 250 percent of its capacity, forcing the floodgates open as officials instructed people to move to higher ground. Emergency crews, including about 1,500 members of the Australian military, helped rescue people and their pets with inflatable boats and treat others who were injured.
As of Monday, state schools in Townsville and the surrounding areas were closed. Officials also urged residents to save water after the flooding burst pipes and put pressure on local treatment plants.
A woman posted this photo of a crocodile outside her father's house in a Townsville suburb. "Cannot stress it enough stay out of the water," she wrote on Facebook.CreditErin Hahn, via Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
"This continued heavy rain and flooding has damaged homes, isolated communities and displaced people from their homes," Shannon Fentiman, the acting communities minister in Queensland, said in a statement.
The floods have been declared a "catastrophe" by the Insurance Council of Australia, while the government is giving each displaced resident up to 180 Australian dollars, or $130, to help cover the cost of food, medication and clothing.
Karl Sullivan, the general manager of risk at the insurance council, said that the high density of homes in "hazard areas" had increased the risk and cost of flooding.
Volunteers rescuing residents in a Townsville suburb on Saturday.CreditAndrew Rankin/EPA, via Shutterstock
"We're building more things that are more expensive" in "risky places," he said.
Mr. Sullivan said that thousands of properties were at risk and that the insurance council had already received about 2,500 claims in the Townsville area.
The floods follow weeks of unrelenting heat across Australia, which caused mass animal die-offs, raging bushfires, and prolonged and severe drought. The back-to-back events have stretched the capacity of Australia's emergency services to respond, said Martin Rice, the acting chief executive of the Climate Council, an Australian research group.
He said that while it was difficult to attribute any one extreme weather event to climate change, warming air temperatures had increased the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere, "causing more frequent and intense rainfall in northern Australia."
If greenhouse gas emissions continue unabated, Dr. Rice added, rainfall around the world is likely to become more intense, creating challenges for infrastructure, the environment and human health.
A blocked road in a Townsville suburb on Friday.CreditAndrew Rankin/EPA, via Shutterstock
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HOPE Speak Steven Rombom (Rambam) Charged
It turns out yesterday one of the planned speakers at HOPE Number 6 was arrested on Saturday and is being charged by the FBI.
Security Fix obtained a copy of the complaint against "Steven Rambam" the private investigator arrested Saturday at the Hope Number Six hacker conference in New York City. The government document says Rambam is an alias, and that his real name is Steven Rombom, so that is how he'll be referred to here henceforth.
The complaint, available here as a PDF, charges Rombom with obstruction of justice and with witness tampering, alleging that in April 2006 Rombom impersonated a federal investigator at the request of a client who had hired him to locate a government informant who was central to the client's money-laundering indictment in 2003.
Seems like it's not unjust though, he is getting what he deserves. He was taking things a little bit too far.
The government claims that in April Rombom located and visited the California home of the informant's in-laws, and introduced himself as an FBI agent, flashing what the informant's mother-in-law described as "a laminated card with an official government gold seal or badge."
The complaint says "ROMBOM told [the mother-in-law] that he was investigating the [informant], and that her son-in-law was a very bad and dangerous person, and that there were many things about the [informant] that the in-laws probably didn't know," such as that the informant had been in jail many times. Rombom also told the mother-in-law that her daughter was in danger because of the informant and that he was afraid for the safety of their daughter, the government says.
1 less speaker for HOPE next time then I guess?
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6 Responses to HOPE Speak Steven Rombom (Rambam) Charged
Fraud Hunter July 28, 2006 at 12:08 pm #
Steve Rombom has a terroism felony conviction, and spent 8 year in a mental institution. Much of his credentials are bogus, and his work exposing Nazi war criminals has previosly been proven to be a hoax. Big deep enough int ohis background and you will see he has a histry of fraud, of being a snitch, and of being illegally protected by the feds.
Rombom is not jewish, and is actually born into a Italian Catholic family. He was give up for adopting shortly after birth, and was given to a jewish family with the last name of ROMBOM. When he was 6 years old the state put him in a mental hospital, where he spent 8 years. Afterwords, be joind a terrist group in NYC and waas involved in several bombing before be caught, chrged, ad convivted. He spent 40 months in Federal prison in Tallahasse, FL for the felony convictions.
When he got out of prison the chnaged his name to hide his past, and became a government snitch and con artist.
Dig below the surafe and you WILL find the truth.
Snitch, Snitch, Snitch.
Darknet July 28, 2006 at 12:56 pm #
Indeed, interesting reading out there.
Especially this.
irv rubin August 4, 2006 at 10:48 pm #
hey steve rombom, you are nothing and you will always be a zero in my book…..
you are so repulsive that your picture made my daughter puke…
so i hope you go to a federal slammer and become a maytag for some hardcore prisoner…..you had better order lots of ky jelly in your commissary
hank the skank August 4, 2006 at 11:11 pm #
HEY RUBBLEBUM,
I HOPE TO HEAR THAT YOUR ANAL CHEER HAS BEEN PENETRATED WHILE YOU ARE IN THE FEDERAL SLAMMER…..
YOU ARE NOT JEWISH AT ALL!!! YOU ARE A REJECT THAT WAS DUMPED BY YOUR ITALIAN MAMA!!! SHE DIDNT WANT YOU AT ALL!!! SHE PUKED AFTER SHE GAVE BIRTH TO YOU!!!SHE WISHED SHE COULD SEND YOU BACK!!!
THAT CAUSED HER TO VOLUNTARILY DUMP YOU!!! YOU WORTHLESS PIECE OF GARBAGE
AJ August 5, 2006 at 5:45 pm #
The latest documents on Rambam can be found at http://jdo.org/rambam
bill diaperman August 5, 2006 at 9:48 pm #
HEY SCUMBUM,
YOUR MAMA SHOULD HAVE ABORTED YOU WHEN SHE DISCOVERED THAT SHE WAS ABOUT TO BRING AN UGLY, DISGUSTING RAt-faced asshole into the world..
YOU MUST REALIZE YOU ARE NOTHING BUT A RECTAL DWELLER!!!
YOU ARE A DISGUSTING WORM PLUCKED OUT OF YOUR MAMA'S COLON..NO WONDER YOU ARE SHIT!!!
NO AMOUNT OF HYGENIC CLEANSING WILL REDEEM YOU!!!
YOU ARE SLIME THRU AND THRU!!! YOU ARE A RAT FOR THE STATE!!1
NOW THE STATE TURNED ON YOU!!! HA HAH HA!!!


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In my script, I have the following:
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« Twice Fifteen
The Year In Night Music »
Home, to Sir Simon Rattle, is the familiar musical repertory we most often
hear at concerts and on the radio, music from the 19th century or before, when
the tunes and the harmonies were friendly and set the mind at rest. Leaving
Home is the television series that Rattle and some friends dreamed up at
the BBC some years ago, to tell where music has gone since then. Produced in
1996, the series is now being released here on ArtHaus DVD and is, I think,
the best package of music-plus-information I have yet come across on any medium.
One of the "friends" who worked on the series, by the way, was the late Sue
Knussen, who later came here in the Los Angeles Philharmonic's education department.
Those of us who came to love her in her time here will, I think, recognize her
spirit and her remarkable level of imagination in these programs.
There are seven, each lasting 50 minutes. Rattle is at the center of each, with
his City of Birmingham Orchestra. His eyes skewer you to your seat as he talks
with spellbinding intensity about the directions that music has followed through
the 20th century. He traces the unfolding of rhythm, starting (as expected)
with the ecstatic outbursts in Stravinsky's Rite of Spring but moving
further afield toward Steve Reich's purely rhythmic concoctions and the wild
mechanical creations of Conlon Nancarrow's player-piano rolls. On another episode
he steers us through the dark passions of Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle,
the tortured elegies of the late Shostakovich. The great Polish composer Witold
Lutoslawski is on hand to join Rattle in an explanation of his ideas on chance
music, the technique of allowing performance choices to be decided in part by
the players themselves.
One program is all about American music, a topic I entrust to British speakers
only with extreme hesitation. This one is gorgeous, however, starting with Gershwin's
Rhapsody through the lithe curve of pianist Wayne Marshall's playing,
and continuing on with a splendid collage of short works (Feldman, Carter, Ives,
Copland's Appalachian Spring with Martha Graham's first dancers, Cage,
and the smallest shard of West Side Story) set against New England autumnal
scenes of heartbreaking beauty. The whole 50 minutes becomes a tone poem about
American music, an achievement in itself.
The marvel of these programs – the three that have been released so far (by
Naxos) and the four on the way – is their extraordinary success in reaching
a level of seriousness and importance that is informative, valuable and totally
free from condescension. This is a rare happenstance. People my age were supposed
to go all weepy at the reissue, several months ago, of a large box of Leonard
Bernstein's New York Philharmonic Young People's Concerts, and those discs are
supposed to rekindle all the first things we ever learned about music, on top
of which all our future artistic wisdom has been erected. I respectfully bow
out; these programs are riddled with misinformation, glibly delivered and intended
to establish points about musical history or sonata form or what-have-you that
are simply wrong. For all the famous Lenny charm, a quality arguable at best,
I find these programs next to unwatchable. Thirty-eight years separate the first
of the Lenny series from these excellent essays by Simon Rattle and his musical
forces. Let that stand, then, as a measure of civilization's advance in those
Words, Words
What makes it great? asks Rob Kapilow about Mozart's "Jupiter" Symphony,
but he leaves the question, alas, unanswered. Composer, pianist, lecturer, former
student (at 19) of the legendary Nadia Boulanger, the first-ever licensee granted
access to the words of Dr. Seuss, leader of the "What Makes It Great Players,"
Kapilow has somehow not crossed my path up to now, although I understand that
he sets up shop at the Cerritos Center now and then. His "What Makes It Great"
number on Mozart's Symphony, issued on Vanguard's "Everyman" Classics, is at
hand. On it he talks his way through selected passages of the "Jupiter" Symphony.
Once in a while he will identify a previously mentioned theme as "bub-bub-bup,"
so that we will know what he's referring to. About halfway through the first
movement, just before the first appearance of one of the juiciest themes, he
gives up and moves on to the second movement. That strikes me as strange. Maybe
there wasn't room on the disc for discussion of the whole symphony, although
the theme he leaves out is one of the things that makes the "Jupiter" Symphony
great, or so it seems to me. The point is: Discs are cheap and easy to make,
and you don't need to have much going for you nowadays to turn out lousy product
like this. (The actual performance of the "Jupiter" on the disc is a Vanguard
recording first issued in 1960.) I understand that quite a few people buy tickets
to Rob Kapilow's lectures, and that makes me wonder what makes him great.
You don't need the 29 volumes of the latest Grove's Dictionary, and you
can probably squeak by without the six volumes of the New Oxford History
of Western Music. But everybody feels kindly toward penguins these days,
and the Penguin Companion to Classical Music is by some distance the
best single-volume reference I have ever encountered. Paul Griffiths is its
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