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How Soviet maths might yet destroy capitalism
Post-Soviet mathematicians have the world in their hands, and they know all about you. Sergei Brin was born in Moscow in 1973. Six years later, he migrated with his family to the United States. He followed a family tradition by studying maths. Barely grown up, he co-founded Google.
Soviet maths doesn't need such an extraordinary outlier, who anyway went to school in America, to prove its significance. No academic subject is better suited to the robust and carefully evolving pedagogics of Russian schools. In the Soviet Union, where the demands of central planning and the arms race were so powerful, maths was a state priority. It was celebrated in school-age Olympiad competitions and children's magazines, feted in slogans and movies. High-level nuclear workers — not university types — were just one post-school group who received an effective grounding in mathematics. Entrance to maths courses at universities and technical institutes was bitterly competitive. In time, computer science would not be far behind.
From the 1950s, cybernetics developed as a serious academic discipline thanks to leading computer scientists such as Andrei Petrovich Yershov. Although it was fenced off from many developments abroad, the men and women who worked in the field were often brilliant. Their education was highly systematic and their research networks well structured, in places such as Akademgorodok (in Siberia), Kiev, and Tblisi, as well as in Moscow and Leningrad. In the middle 1970s, for example, Soviet computer scientists established mathematical models for analysing the structure of the earth's crust, as well as numerous geological formations. They conducted pioneering meteorological investigations into climate change, including — in the 1960s — into the greenhouse effect.
When the Soviet Union collapsed, the products of this academic system began to see the possibility of a more normal life abroad. The conveyor belt has kept moving over the last twenty-five years. University mathematics and physics departments in many parts of Western Europe and the United States could scarcely function without Russian imports. Russian computer programmers are globally ubiquitous. They are the analytical backbone of many a bank and investment house.
In his book about the (mathematically brilliant) high frequency traders who did so much to cause the financial disaster of 2008, Michael Lewis points out that many such traders were Russians. He tells the story of one of them, Constantine Sokoloff. For Sokoloff, Russians were so prominent in the high-frequency field because, back in the USSR, one needed ingenuity, flexibility, quick thinking and a brass neck to flourish in an economy of shortages and bureaucratic obstruction. Allied to fluency in high-level maths, such qualities ideally suited them to make money for their bosses out of the tiny flaws in the computer systems that run Wall Street.
But the intended consequences of the Soviet economy might have contributed to mathematical excellence in another way too. 'At a time of Soviet shortages,' opined one mathematician of Russian heritage to me, 'pure mathematics was a good choice. To do it well, you only need paper and a pencil.' As the global financial system, barely reformed and supremely dominant, creaks on, Soviet mathematics might yet wreak a terrible revenge.
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Porsche aims to repeat last year's victory at Florida's sports car classic, 12 Hours of Sebring, USA
Press Release 13/03/2015
Porsche 911 RSR (#911), Porsche North America: Richard Lietz, Patrick Pilet, Nick Tandy
Tudor United SportsCar Championship, round 2: 12 Hours of Sebring, USA
Porsche aims to repeat last year's victory at Florida's sports car classic
Stuttgart. The Sebring 12 Hours is the oldest and toughest sports car race in the USA. Three Porsche 911 RSR will tackle the GTLM class at the 63rd running of the prestigious classic contested on the Sebring International Raceway on 21 March.
For the Porsche North America works team and the Falken Tire customer squad, eight works drivers will do their utmost to repeat Porsche's win from last year on the airfield circuit in the heart of Florida, which is notorious for its bumpy surface. With 18 overall victories and 67 class wins, Porsche is the most successful manufacturer in the history of the Sebring 12 hour race.
The Sebring International Raceway hosted the inaugural race on 31 December 1950. Built on a former airfield, the circuit with its 17 corners is 5.954 kilometres long. Immortalised on the winners' list are racing legends like Juan Manuel Fangio, Dan Gurney, Hans Hermann, Jacky Ickx and Mario Andretti. Hollywood stars Paul Newman and Steve McQueen, who finished second overall in 1970 with a Porsche 908, have also fulfilled their racing dreams in Sebring.
Porsche drivers
Six Porsche factory pilots compete for Porsche North America in Sebring. Sharing the cockpit of the #911 Porsche 911 RSR are Patrick Pilet (France), Richard Lietz (Austria) and Nick Tandy (Great Britain).
Last year's winners Jörg Bergmeister (Germany) as well as Earl Bamber (New Zealand) and Frédéric Makowiecki (France) share driving duties in the number 912 vehicle.
Tackling the race for the Falken Tire customer outfit are the Porsche works drivers Wolf Henzler (Germany) and Patrick Long (USA), reinforced by Bryan Sellers (USA). Porsche Junior Connor de Phillippi (USA) contests the GTD class at the wheel of a Porsche 911 GT America fielded by Muehlner Motorsports.
Porsche 911 RSR (#17), Team Falken Tire: Wolf Henzler, Patrick Long, Bryan Sellers
The Porsche vehicles
The Porsche 911 RSR and the Porsche 911 GT America, which are run in the Tudor United SportsCar Championship, are based on the seventh generation of the iconic 911 sports car. As the successor to the winning 911 GT3 RSR, the 470 hp 911 RSR last season scored victories at America's most prestigious long-distance classics in Daytona, Sebring and Petit Le Mans. For 2015, the winning racer from Weissach has received improvements in many areas.
Porsche 911 RSR (#912), Porsche North America: Jörg Bergmeister, Earl Bamber, Frédéric Makowiecki
The Porsche 911 GT America, built specifically for the GTD class of the 2014-inaugurated Tudor United SportsCar Championship, features a four-litre, six-cylinder engine and also produces 470 hp. The vehicle is an improved version of the Porsche 911 GT3 Cup, the most successful and widely-produced race car in the world.
Porsche's successes
The first outright victory for Porsche in Sebring came in 1960 courtesy of Hans Herrmann and Olivier Gendebien in the Porsche 718 RS/60; the most recent in 2008 was clinched by Timo Bernhard, Romain Dumas and Emmanuel Collard with the Porsche RS Spyder. Porsche's list of successes also includes no less than 67 class wins at this race. The most recent success was last year with Jörg Bergmeister, Michael Christensen and Patrick Long at the wheel of the Porsche 911 RSR.
The 12 Hours of Sebring takes off on Saturday, 21 March, at 10.45 hrs local time (16.45 hrs CET) and can be viewed live in the Internet on www.imsa.com as well as on the motorsport channel Motors TV.
Comments before the race
Dr.Frank-Steffen Walliser, Porsche Head of Motorsport: "After Daytona, Sebring is the second great long distance classic on the Tudor United SportsCar Championship calendar. Although the race is only half the duration of Daytona, it is almost tougher because of the very demanding and bumpy track."
Dr. Frank Walliser, Overall 918 Spyder Project Manager
Patrick Pilet (#911): "Sebring is a very special race on a very special circuit. It's always a hard fight for victory and the avid fans give the whole event a fantastic ambience."
Porsche North America: Patrick Pilet
Nick Tandy (#911): "It's always a highlight to compete in Sebring, regardless in which series you compete for the rest of the year. On this storied track you truly breathe sports car history and that fascinates me."
Porsche North America: Nick Tandy
Richard Lietz (#911): "Sebring is a race that throws extremes at you. You can't afford to make the slightest error – if you do you have no chance."
Porsche North America: Richard Lietz
Earl Bamber (#912): "It didn't go so well for us at Daytona, so now I'm hoping we can make up lost ground in the championship at Sebring."
Porsche North America, Earl Bamber
Jörg Bergmeister (#912): "Sebring is a real classic. To drive at the limit on this bumpy track takes everything from a driver. But it's always huge fun."
Porsche North America: Joerg Bergmeister
Frédéric Makowiecki (#912): "At Daytona we weren't able to really underline the potential of the 911 RSR over the whole distance. Now I'm hoping we can do this in Sebring and fight for victory."
Porsche North America: Frédéric Makowiecki
Wolf Henzler (#17): "Last year Sebring was the first race with the 911 RSR for my Falken Tire team. Since then we've won Petit Le Mans and now I reckon our chances for victory in Sebring look good as well."
Team Falken Tire: Wolf Henzler
Patrick Long (#17): "Even though I'm concentrating on my WEC campaign with Patrick Dempsey, I'm looking forward to the chance of supporting Wolf and Bryan in Sebring."
Team Falken Tire: PatrickLong
This is the Tudor United SportsCar Championship
The Tudor United SportsCar Championship is a new sports car race series contested in the USA and Canada which was run in 2014 for the first time.
The series was formed from the merger of the American Le Mans Series and the Grand-Am Series. Sports prototypes and sports cars start in four different classes: GTLM (GT Le Mans), GTD (GT Daytona), P (Prototype) and PC (Prototype Challenge). The Porsche 911 RSR runs in the GTLM class, with the Porsche 911 GT America contesting the GTD class.
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Posted by dedeporsche on March 13, 2015 in 12 Hours of Sebring, Falken Tire, Porsche 911 GT America, Porsche 911 RSR, Tudor United Sports Car Championship
Tags: 12 Hours of Sebring, Auto racing, Bryan Sellers, Cars, Dr. Ing hc F. Porsche AG, Earl Bamber, Frank-Steffen Walliser, Frederic Makowiecki, Germany, Head of Porsche Motorsport, Jörg Bergmeister, Joerg Bergmeister, Joerg Bergmeister (Germany), Nick Tandy (GB), Patrick Long (USA), Patrick Pilet, Porsche Head of Motorsport, Richard Lietz (Austria), Tudor United SportsCar Championship, Wolf Henzler
American Le Mans Series, round 3 in Lime Rock, USA- Porsche pilots hope for first podium result of the season
Stuttgart. The American Le Mans Series picks up the pace.
After a break for the Le Mans 24 Hours, round three of the race series with the world's fastest sports cars now takes off on 9th July in Lime Rock in the US state of Connecticut.
Lining up on the grid is the five-time Lime Rock winner Joerg Bergmeister (Germany). At the wheel of the Porsche 911 GT3 RSR, Bergmeister and his Porsche works driver teammate Patrick Long (USA) are hoping for their first podium result of the season.
The Northeast Grand Prix has been a permanent fixture on the American Le Mans Series calendar since 2004. Many fans are happy to travel the two and a half hours from New York City to witness the often very entertaining race. On one of the hills alongside the track stands a small church in which a service is held on Sundays. For this reason, races are traditionally contested on Saturdays.
The circuit
The 2.478 kilometre circuit in the picturesque countryside of Connecticut is the shortest in the American Le Mans Series.
The lap times are far under a minute. The surrounding grassy hills serve as grandstands, with most of the spectators bringing their own camping chairs and coolers to witness the race action.
The Porsche drivers
Joerg Bergmeister and
Joerg Bergmeister (No. 45, Porsche 911 GT3 RSR, Flying Lizard Motorsports)
Patrick Long, the reigning GT champions and Lime Rock winners of the last two years,
Patrick Long (No. 45, Porsche 911 GT3 RSR, Flying Lizard Motorsports)
contest the GT class at the wheel of Flying Lizard Motorsports' Porsche 911 GT3 RSR.
Their works driver colleague Wolf Henzler
Wolf Henzler (No. 17, Porsche 911 GT3 RSR, Team Faken Tire)
shares the cockpit of the Porsche 911 GT3 RSR fielded by the Falken Tire team with Bryan Sellers (USA).
Sharing driving duties in the sister Flying Lizard 911 GT3 RSR is Porsche works driver Marco Holzer (Germany)
Marco Holzer (No. 44, Porsche 911 GT3 RSR, Flying Lizard Motorsports)
with American Seth Neiman.
The 911 GT3 RSR entered by Paul Miller Racing is manned by Sascha Maassen (Germany) and Bryce Miller (USA).
Quotes before the race
Hartmut Kristen, Porsche Head of Motorsport:
"The season really gets going now in USA. The last race was before the break for the Le Mans 24 Hours in April, so it's almost like a second season-opener for the teams. If they want to look good for the crucial phase of the season, they'll need to pull out all stops in Lime Rock."
Joerg Bergmeister (No. 45, Porsche 911 GT3 RSR, Flying Lizard Motorsports):
"Lime Rock seems to really suit our car. I've won on this track five times in a row – that's not such a bad track record. With 30 cars on this narrow circuit you have to concentrate totally over the whole distance, you have to use your head if you want to reach the flag in such heavy traffic without bruises. It's always worked out well in the past. Still, a little bit of luck is always part of it."
Patrick Long (No. 45, Porsche 911 GT3 RSR, Flying Lizard Motorsports):
"There are normally loads of safety car phases in Lime Rock. And no wonder with all the traffic. This is a huge challenge for our strategists. The pit stops have to be carried out quickly, the right timing can mean the difference between victory or defeat. But our boys at Flying Lizard Motorsports know how to do pit stops – they've proven that often enough."
Wolf Henzler (No. 17, Porsche 911 GT3 RSR, Team Faken Tire):
"The track is very short, and hence the traffic is heavy. You're constantly overtaking slower cars and you being overtaken by the faster sports prototypes. Lime Rock is not exactly a favorite of mine. But I have good memories of last year when we qualified in second in the rain. Hopefully, it'll rain again this year. We used the Le Mans break well and tested at Road America and in Mid-Ohio. The team has invested a great deal into tyre development. That makes me optimistic for the rest of the season."
Marco Holzer (No. 44, Porsche 911 GT3 RSR, Flying Lizard Motorsports):
"This is my first race in Lime Rock and I'm looking forward to getting to know another race track in the USA. The team sent me a DVD of on board footage and loads of data – so at least I can prepare myself a bit."
The Porsche 911 GT3 RSR
The most successful GT race car of the last years takes off into the season with a raft of improvements. The output of the four-litre, six-cylinder boxer engine has increased to 455 hp (335 kW). Priority in the further development of the car was given to the newly designed aerodynamics at the front and rear. In 2010, the 911 GT3 RSR again won the environmental "Michelin Green X Challenge" classification as the GT vehicle with the best overall efficiency in the American Le Mans Series.
In the history of the American Le Mans Series, Joerg Bergmeister is the most successful driver at Lime Rock. At the last five races he claimed victory every time for Porsche in the GT and later the GT2 class.
Patrick Long was his teammate for three of these wins, Wolf Henzler once. With the RS Spyder sports prototype, Porsche celebrated three class wins on this track as well as an overall victory in 2007.
The race in Lime Rock starts on Saturday, 9 July, at 14.05 hrs local time (20.05 hrs CEST). The GT qualifying on Friday will be broadcast on the internet on Friday from 21.45 hours CEST on www.porsche.com/alms-live.
The American Le Mans Series
The American Le Mans Series (ALMS) was created in 1999 for sports prototypes and GT vehicles. The regulations correspond to those of the Le Mans 24 hour race. All classes start together but are classified separately:
GT class: This most popular class amongst car manufacturers is traditionally extremely well supported: Slightly modified standard sports cars with 440 to 500 hp and a minimum weight of 1,125 – 1,325 kilograms (e.g. Porsche 911 GT3 RSR).
GTC class: This class is reserved for vehicles from one-make race series (e.g. Porsche 911 GT3 Cup).
LMP1 class: Sports prototypes with up to 550 hp and a minimum weight of 900 kilograms.
LMP2 class: Sports prototypes with ca. 440 hp and an 825 kg minimum weight.
LMPC class: Prototype brand trophy series for the ORECA FLM 09.
SOURCE: Porsche AG Media Database
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Posted by dedeporsche on July 2, 2011 in ALMS, American Le Mans Series, Automotive Art, Automotive Photography, Autos & Vehicles, Dr. Ing hc F. Porsche AG, FLYING LIZARD MOTORSPORTS, Germany, Hartmut Kristen Head of Porsche Motorsport, Head of Porsche Motorsport, Marco Holzer, Motorsport in Germany, Motorsport News, Motorsport Newsletter, Porsche, Porsche Motorsport, Porsche Motorsport around the world, Stuttgart, Track Events, Wolf Henzler
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Enduring festival outfits: from Woodstock to Glastonbury
How can we be sure that summer has, indeed, arrived? The signs look good. The sun is out, the days are long, the flowers are blooming. But to be absolutely certain, there's really just one question to ask: is Glastonbury around the corner?
For the first time since 2019, the queen of music festivals returns this weekend. And with it the need to ready your festival outfits! But it's not all glitter and wellies.
Festival fashion has a long and storied history.
The very first festivals were likely quite tunic-based, because they, of course, occurred in ancient Greece. If you've got a peplos in your wardrobe, although you might stand out in the Pyramid Stage crowd, it's not going to be that practical. But looking at the slightly more recent history of festivals for inspiration, there's really only one choice: denim.
Revellers break through a fence amidst the excitement at Woodstock grounds in August 1969. The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty.
Over half a century ago, when 400,000 people descended on Bethel, New York for the Woodstock Music and Art Fair, an event that would define a generation, most of them were wearing jeans and denim jackets. It was the uniform of the counterculture. As William S. Burroughs would later write: "Kerouac opened a million coffee bars and sold a million pairs of Levi's to both sexes. Woodstock rises from his pages."
Festival-goers stand about the grounds of the Woodstock Music & Art Fair. The Museum at Bethel Woods via Reuters.
This side of the pond, the revellers at the Isle of Wight Festival—actually a precursor to Glastonbury, starting in 1968; and bigger than Woodstock, attracting 700,000 people in 1970—were similarly denim-clad.
Not a huge amount has changed over the years. Different aesthetics, yes. But when looking around for festival fashion inspiration, denim has returned again and again.
The jeans were still there in the 1970s. But instead of bootcut they were skinnier, and now they were being worn with a leather jacket. (Think: any photo of The Ramones you've ever seen.) In the '80s, things got more colourful, the harsher edge removed, but when Freddie Mercury stole the show at Live Aid in 1985, he was rocking a pair of jeans. The '90s grungers made everything oversized, but denim was still there (check out Dave Grohl's dungarees). And into the 21st century, it remains the go-to for festival-goers. It's hardly a surprise denim endures when it comes to festival fashion. It's timeless (see above), comfortable, versatile, and perhaps most importantly, hard-wearing; it's the ultimate fabric for festival wear.
Above: Jane Fonda at the Isle of Wight festival, 1969, photographed by Anwar Hussein, via Alamy, Below: Sienna Miller in denim cut-offs at Glastonbury Festival, 2010, via Getty Images.
But how to wear your denim in 2022? Well, perhaps unsurprisingly, at Milldred we reckon it's the summer of festival dungarees. Or perhaps that should be the decade of festival dungarees. Because the 2020s have been sorely lacking in festivals so far. But they're back with a bang this summer, and you'd be a fool not to don your dungarees with your favourite oldest trainers.
They're the denim option that go with everything, they always look cool, they keep you comfy no matter the weather, and they won't need to be thrown away when you get back home. Even better, when you're in dungarees, you've got a pocket for everything. That makes them a festival essential. Just ask the queen of Glastonbury Emily Eavis, or as Caitlin Moran has described her, "basically Jacinda Ardern, in dungarees."
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Jews demand right to
pray on Temple Mount
Israeli law forbids non-Muslim worship while
Hamas broadcasting from Judaism's holiest site
Published: 12/25/2007 at 10:50 PM
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JERUSALEM – Rabbinic leaders and Temple Mount activist groups here today demanded the Israeli government allow Jews to pray on the Temple Mount – Judaism's holiest site.
Israeli restrictions forbid Jewish prayer on the Temple Mount and only allow Jews to ascend for certain hours on some days while the Mount is open to Muslims yearlong. Muslim prayer services take place throughout the day on the many mosques and Islamic religious schools situated on the holy site.
"We demand the Government of Israel allow the Jewish people to have freedom of religious expression on the Temple Mount. This will serve as a preliminary step in confirming the Jewish people's inexorable connection with the Temple Mount, location of the Holy Temple, under the sovereignty of the people of Israel," states a letter to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert signed by the leaders of the New Jewish Congress, the Sanhedrin and the Holy Temple and Temple Mount movements.
The Congress is a group of religious Zionist leaders here while the Sanhedrin consists of prominent rabbinic leaders who in 2004 reformed the ancient group of Jewish judges that previously constituted the legislative body of Israel. The reformed Sanhedrin has been a subject of debate within some Jewish communities.
The rabbinic leaders and activists demanded the Israeli government move toward allowing non-Muslim worship by initially establishing special days for Jewish communal prayer in fixed locations on the Temple Mount.
They demanded Olmert allow prayer on the Mount on important Jewish holidays, including Passover, Shavuot, Sukkoth, Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, the first day of Hanukkah and on the Israeli national holidays of Jerusalem Day and Israeli Independence Day.
Not all rabbinic figures allow Jewish prayer on the Mount although many schools do as long as entry and prayer is restricted to outer areas of the Mount, which can be measured by a change in the kind of foundation stone.
According to Jewish law, the sanctity of the Temple Mount is structured in concentric circles. In the innermost circles, where the Holy of Holies was said to be located, the restrictions of Jewish access are the greatest. Jewish tradition and literature relates that during Temple times, only the kohen gadal, or high priest, was allowed to enter the most restricted area, and this happened once a year on Yom Kippur. The outer layers are less restricted.
The rabbis' and activists' letter to Olmert was prompted by an episode last week – reported exclusively by WND – in which Israeli forces closed the Mount to Jews during an important Jewish fast day mourning the First Temple's destruction while the Hamas terror organization broadcast from the Mount's Al Aqsa Mosque, which Muslims say is their third holiest site.
"In light of the broadcast of Hamas from the Temple Mount and the serious implications of this situation, we demand that the Government of Israel allow the Jewish people to have freedom of religious expression on the Temple Mount," stated the rabbis' letter to Olmert.
WND broke the story that Hamas Wednesday exclusively broadcast Muslim prayers from the Mount's Al Aqsa Mosque on the group's official radio station, Al Aqsa Radio. The services are broadcast alongside anti-Semitic commentary, including incitement against Jews.
The official Hamas radio network announced last week it would continue airing exclusive daily streams of Muslim morning services from the Temple Mount, and, indeed, the broadcasts continued yesterday as scheduled. Hamas radio is heard throughout Palestinian cities in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
"Our broadcast is a victory for the Al Aqsa Mosque, which is suffering from Judaization efforts imposed by the Zionist government. Broadcasting daily radio is a way to bring Al Aqsa to the Gaza Strip and challenge the siege imposed on us by the Zionist entity," said Rami Kaoud, a manager at Al Aqsa Radio.
All broadcasts from the Mount must be approved by the Waqf, which guard the Muslim entrances to the Temple Mount along with the Israeli police. Broadcasts in theory must also be approved by the Israeli police, but cameramen and reporters routinely enter the site from Muslim gates to broadcast without prior police approval as long as Waqf agents allow the entry.
While Israel again has not yet acted to halt Hamas broadcasts, for most of last week it barred all non-Muslims from ascending the Mount, even on a Jewish holiday held last Wednesday.
Last Wednesday marked the start of Muslim holiday of Ein ul-Adhaa, which commemorates the Islamic belief of Abraham's willingness to sacrifice his son Ishmael for Allah. According to Jewish and Christian tradition, Abraham nearly sacrificed his son Isaac, not Ishmael.
Also last Wednesday, Jews commemorated the Jewish fast day of the Tenth of Tevet, mourning the First Temple's destruction and the siege placed on Jerusalem leading up to Temple's destruction during the reign of the Babylonian ruler Nebuchadnezzar.
Jewish organizations and Temple Mount activist groups here were planning visits to the Temple Mount in observance of last Wednesday's Jewish day of mourning. Rabbi Chaim Richman, director of the international department at Israel's Temple Institute, a Mount activist group which planned to lead a tour of the site this week, said Israeli police informed his group earlier this week that they had decided the Mount would be closed the rest of the week to non-Muslims for fear of offending Muslims on the Islamic holiday.
Due to Israeli restrictions, the Temple Mount is open only to non-Muslims Sundays through Thursdays, 7:30 a.m. to 10 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m., and not on any Christian, Jewish or Muslim holidays or other days considered "sensitive" by the Waqf, the Mount's Islamic custodians.
The Temple Mount was opened to the general public until September 2000, when the Palestinians started their intifada by throwing stones at Jewish worshipers after then-candidate for prime minister Ariel Sharon visited the area.
Following the onset of violence, the new Sharon government closed the Mount to non-Muslims, using checkpoints to control all pedestrian traffic for fear of further clashes with the Palestinians.
The Temple Mount was reopened to non-Muslims in August 2003, but only on select days for certain hours.
The First Jewish Temple was built by King Solomon in the 10th century B.C. It was destroyed by the Babylonians in 586 B.C. The Second Temple was rebuilt in 515 B.C. after Jerusalem was freed from Babylonian captivity. That temple was destroyed by the Roman Empire in A.D. 70. Each temple stood for a period of about four centuries.
The Jewish Temple was the center of religious Jewish worship. It housed the Holy of Holies, which contained the Ark of the Covenant and was said to be the area upon which God's "presence" dwelt. The Al Aqsa Mosque now sits on the site.
The Temple served as the primary location for the offering of sacrifices and was the main gathering place in Israel during Jewish holidays.
The Temple Mount compound has remained a focal point for Jewish services over the millennia. Prayers for a return to Jerusalem have been uttered by Jews since the Second Temple was destroyed, according to Jewish tradition. Jews worldwide pray facing toward the Western Wall, a portion of an outer courtyard of the Temple left intact.
The Al Aqsa Mosque was constructed around A.D. 709 to serve as a shrine near another shrine, the Dome of the Rock, which was built by an Islamic caliph. Al Aqsa was meant to mark where Muslims came to believe Muhammad, the founder of Islam, ascended to heaven.
The letter to Olmert called the Temple Mount "the holiest place in the world for the Jewish people, yet Jews are denied the right to pray in groups, and even as individuals … they are granted no opportunity for any religious expression whatsoever on the Temple Mount."
"However, let it be known that the Jewish people will never accept the total refusal of Jewish communal prayer on the Mountain," the letter states.
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Women from various corners of the country intervene to prevent forest dwellers' evictions
MAKAAM (Mahila Kisan Adhikaar Manch), a national alliance comprising of individuals, women farmer organisations, civil society groups, NGOs, and academics, referring to the controversial February 13 Supreme Court order which seeks to evict forest dwellers, has pleaded for environmental sanity , quoting women forest dwellers as saying, "We are the true custodians and protectors of the forests; recognize our roles as environmental soldiers." Text of the statement:
Women forest dwellers have been organizing meetings and yatras as part of the MAKAAM campaign for protecting and asserting their forest rights. From Rajasthan and Maharashtra, Gujarat, Kerala, Telangana and Uttarakhand across to the North East in Manipur and Nagaland, women forest dwellers have been rising in agitation and voicing their anguish at the Feb 13th Supreme Court order which threatens to evict them along with 8-10 lakh more forest dwellers from their traditional abodes and livelihoods rights. There is indignation at the statements about forest dwellers being the cause for deforestation and destruction of the forests. "We protect the forests like own children, we would not destroy the forests. Forests are our life source, the forest and we are one! Let the courts come and see how we live" they proclaim.
Despite provisions of joint titles for IFR (individual forest rights) included in the FRA, women are often denied such rights. The absence of gender disaggregated data renders it impossible to ascertain and monitor progress of womens' rights as embedded in the Forest Rights Act. Nor are they encouraged to participate in the decision making process although studies have pointed to improved livelihoods as well as forest conservation when women take on decision-making roles in forest management.
The Urgency
We urge the Ministry of Tribal Affairs (MoTA) to fulfil their responsibility and fully implement the Forest Rights Act 2006. The Supreme court judgment of February 13th (currently in abeyance) in a petition by a group of self-proclaimed conservationists with the Supreme Court has created an atmosphere of panic and fear for tribal and other forest dweller communities across the country.
In view of the immediate threat to forest dwellers' and adivasis' rights from the Supreme Court case, and to mark the World Environment Day MAKAAM Mahila Kisan Adhikaar Manch launched a month long campaign on 10th June2019 to draw attention to women forest dwellers contribution to forest conservation and management, and the atrocities being meted out to them by state and other agencies.
Started with state level meetings and a twitter campaign for #ForestRight4Women which received significant traction, the campaign has wound its way through village and district level meetings and rallies, interactions with state officials and evidence gathering on cases of wrongful rejections to its current stage sending postcards to the Prime Minister to compel him and his government to attend to womens' call for justice in the matter before the court hearing on July 24th results in mass evictions.
Why Women are Demanding a Hearing
We seek to challenge the discourse constructed by pseudo conservationists that people are themselves the destroyers of the forests, women protect and carry their legacy of knowledge and practices of living with the forests. "The forests are where our birds nest and our food comes from, we are connected to the forests as a life giving source. Can you imagine a life without the forests? Where would we go? What would we do?", says Gemti bai of Sirohi district Rajasthan.
"Tell those (foresters that) we have protected the forests all these centuries, they should come and learn from us, we are the real foresters, it is our home!" says one of the women sitting in the dharna and commenting on the mono-plantation approach of the forest department. "How would you feel if they came and took away your home and called you thieves in your home, would you sit silent? Would you watch while (they) chop all the trees as if it is only dead wood? These are life!" asks Chanda ben of Dahod, Gujarat.
"Our goats our animals have grazed in these forests, now we can neither take the goats nor fetch grass from these forests, they (FD) dig trenches around us to prevent us from going into the forests" the women explain while pointing to their traditional pathways across the forests. "Our children and animals fall into the trenches they have dug around our homes to prevent us from moving about freely in our villages and forests", women report from Telangana.
"These heartless people are destroying our lives and the environment by doing this digging and fencing as the species are not able to move about freely, but do they even care?" decries activist MangeLal who works with these communities. "We pick the berries and fruits with care to avoid destruction of new shoots, we pick the dry wood and leave the new wet branches to flourish, who will destroy an entire tree or bush?", says Samli bai with her baby strapped on her back as she carries a bundle of dry twigs in her arms. "By giving us a small patta they are taking away the entire forest and destroying it, for some business mans greed. It is all of us who will suffer! Your children, our children. Do they not understand?" another older woman laments.
The Forest Rights Act was formulated to correct the centuries of historical injustice perpetrated against forest dwellers by denying them the rights to the forests and ignoring the environmental role they play in the protection and conservation of the forests. The Act creates titles but more importantly it restores the dignity to the forest dwellers of their knowledge and ways of life within an ecological rhythm, and recognizes their rights to livelihoods as well as to management of the forest resources. The Supreme Court judgment is a mighty blow to this tradition, and the women express anguish that those sitting in judgment are unaware of this reality.
Thousands of women are writing postcards to the prime minister to intervene on their behalf to prevent the evictions and to represent their interests from various corners of the country- from Kerala and Telangana, Manipur and Rajasthan to the courts and protect their rights to address the historical injustices of displacement denial and oppression they have been experiencing on their person and against their communities.
We have written to the prime minister, perhaps when we remind him with our postcards he will listen and the government will listen to our appeal to recognize our rights rather than threatening us with evictions and all sorts of schemes that displace us from our forests and the resources on which our lives have depended for centuries.
Women from Uttarakhand (Khatima) and Gujarat (Dahod) raise cases where they have been sexually and physically harassed by forest department officials and restrained from accessing their forest lands, and instead the forest department has falsely filed cases against them; elsewhere women are raising the issues of destruction of their crops and houses by forest department using JCBs and heavy machines despite statements by senior officials and assurances by the Forest and Environment Minister in parliament itself that FD will not threaten people with eviction.
Women in Telangana have won legal victories to restore their rights, but continue to be threatened by the manoeuvrings of the forest department as it seeks to adopt strategies to divert from the FRA and to invoke other means to divert forest lands and dispossess communities. "The biggest threat today is the fact that the government itself is willing to give our lands and squander our resources for profits to the corporate and mining lobbies, exclaim people who have been displaced in Chattisgarh and face threats of eviction in Jharkhand and Odisha.
"We are gathering these evidences and have sought time from the Ministry of Tribal Affairs and SC and ST Commissions to represent these issues again before them" proclaim women leaders from these forest dwellers' sangathans. "We women will not budge, for us there is no option. Our lives are woven in with these lands, the future of our children is at stake", say women emphatically.
"Policy makers and the judiciary must ensure justice, that is why we are running this campaign", explains Shubhada Tai of Gadhchiroli. "We appeal to the courts and to the law makers to recognize women forest dwellers as the true protectors of the forests and to work on solutions beyond this impasse tooo ensure ecological wellbeing and dignity as well as restore the means of livelihood for those who live most closely with the forest".
"We must ensure their rights as citizens and implement the laws meant for their protection… Instead new proposals to amend the Indian Forest Act and the CAMPA legislation only pose bigger challenges and nneed to be unequivocally rejected", says Richa from Rajasthan, who is also a coordinator of MAKAAM
Our collective voices must reach the government, they must see the sense and talk to us, say Kumari bai and Navlli Bai. "We are not the encroachers, we are the protectors!" Is anybody listening to these women's voices for ecological justice and environmental sanity? Only time and the decision in the Supreme Courts pending judgment will tell.
The specific demands being made by these brave women of MAKAAM are:
An appeal to the Supreme Court for an annulment of its February 13, 2019 eviction Orders annd recognition of women and forest dweller communities and especially the women as the riightful protectors and managers of the forests .
Ministry of Tribal Affairs at Central and charged state departments must take full responsibility of reaching out to tribal and other forest dependent communities and ensure the implementation of FRA 2006 in its letter and spirit. They should educate tribal communities and other forest dwellers through local dialects/languages, about their forest rights and facilitate processes for securing the same.
In the implementation of the Forest Rights Act, structures should be strengthened at every level and participation of women at least as envisaged by law should be ensured.
For community rights, federation of Gram Sabhas should be formed at block and district level and the equal and substantive participation of women in these structures should be ensured. Funds should be made available for Gram Sabha for which a trilateral agreement can be made between the government, the Gram Sabha and a credible assisting organization.
Leadership of women should be promoted and ensured at all costs.
The funds from the CAMPA scheme should be given to the Gram Sabhas so that they will be able to carry out the forest conservation work, and such funds should be used keeping women's priorities to create local diversity-based forests and not monoculture plantations.
Priority should be given to single/differently-abled women in terms of personal rights and immediate action as Targeted Beneficiaries and Areas through the Forest Rights Committee while also ensuring participation of other women.
The government should ensure the implementation of the Forest Rights Act in conjunction with PESA.
Every possible help should be given to ensure that indigenous tribes, PVTG, Noomadic groups get their domicile rights.
Gender disaggregated data with regard to claims as well as representation in decision making bodies- Gram Sabha as well as district and block levels- should be maintained and put out.
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Lyle Cooper
March 16, 1943 — October 9, 2016
Obituary for Lyle Cooper
Lyle Cooper, age 73 went to be with his Lord on October 9, 2016 with his wife by his side.
He was born the son of Dale & Sylvia (Ranney) Cooper on March 16, 1943 in Stanton and is preceded in death by his parents along with his brothers, Eugene Cooper, David Cooper and his sister, Audrey Parrish.
Lyle is survived by wife of 53 years, Carole; daughters, DeeAnn (Kurt) Ruiter of Big Rapids, Allison (Shane) Stanton of Ormond Beach, Florida; sons, Lt. Col. Stephen (Marilyn) Cooper, USAF, Ret. of Colorado Springs, Colorado, Col. Wayne (Christal) Cooper, USAF Ret. Of Mascoutah, Illinois; grandchildren, Emily (Dustin) Cooper of Denver, Colorado, Nicholas Cooper and Caleb Cooper both of Mascoutah, Illinois, Danielle Ruiter, Dustin Ruiter, Jessica Ruiter, Andrew Ruiter, Braden Ruiter and Ari Ruiter all of Big Rapids, Gavin Stanton and Evin Stanton both of Ormond Beach, Florida; sisters, Avis Cooper of Stanton, Margaret Cooper of Stanton; sisters-in-law, Janet Cooper of Gowen, Lois Cooper of Stanton and several nieces and nephews.
Lyle served in the United States Air Force for four years where he learned to repair medical equipment, which he continued to do right up to his death. He enjoyed traveling the country visiting his children and grandchildren. He liked flying airplanes and helicopters and taking his family for rides. Lyle was a member of the First Baptist Church of Stanton where he served as a church deacon, song leader, AWANA Commander and children's church leader. Because of his illness, Lyle spent the last decade ministering to fellow dialysis patients.
Visitation with Lyle's family is being held on Friday, October 14, 2016 from 5-8 PM at the Simpson Family Funeral Home in Sheridan.
Funeral services for Lyle will be on Saturday, October 15, 2016 at the First Baptist Church in Stanton beginning at 11 AM with Pastor Robert Parr officiating. Lyle will be laid to rest at the Evergreen Township Cemetery in Sheridan.
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It's finally here, the biggest and best series yet between the Pittsburgh Penguins and top-ranked Washington Capitals. Everyone had a soft spot in their hearts for the Rangers and Flyers, but this was the series the people want to see.
These two have met many times in the playoffs before, but this time around Sidney Crosby and Alex Ovechkin are no longer boys; they are now men. Not to mention, both are also now their team's captains. Ovi led the league in scoring this season with 50 goals, while Crosby finished third in the NHL with 85 points.
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The Pens didn't exactly make short work of the New York Rangers in the opening round of their playoff run. This could be due to the fact the Pens used two backup goalies to finish off the blue shirts. Jeff Zatkof started and won game one. After his game two loss though, his opportunity was no more. The team then turned to Matt Murray and never looked back. M&M went 3-0 with a shutout and .955 save percentage.
He'll be back for Pittsburgh in game one of their second round series with Washington. It won't be Murray's first glimpse of the Caps or the Verizon Center this season either, as he and the non-flying birds beat the Caps in OT on April 7th 4-3.
Out of the crease, what the team has going for them is resurgent playoff form of their superstars Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin. #87 has eight points in six games, while Gino has seven through five. If the Pens want to have any chance in this series, they'll be looking to their big men more than ever to help keep their heads above water.
Watch for the Pens to crash the net early to try and bounce Braden Holtby off his game. He can get rattled as the Flyers briefly showed in round one. The key for Pittsburgh is achieving that and riding the momentum. The Flyers never quite got that far.
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The big challenge for the Caps will be countering that Penguins attack with some fire of their own. As we well know, Alex Ovechkin led the league in scoring this season, but he is struggling a little so far in these playoffs. Against arguably the weakest opponent to make it into the postseason (Philly), he only managed five points through six games and only a +1 plus-minus.
If the Caps want to be in this series, they can't rely on their solid season or first round. Everything resets now. Ovi and Holtby will have to once again be the backbone of this team.
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Author, 'Five Minutes on Mondays: Finding Unexpected, Purpose, Peace and Fulfillment at Work'
The Rabbi Who Believes in Zeus: Why All Intuitions of God Are Incomplete
Writing blogs for the Huffington Post's Religion section -- in which I often attempt to present a nuanced, personal understanding of God, and a defense of the inherent goodness in the impulse toward religion -- has been a challenging experience. I have discovered that for many readers the terms "religion", "God", "faith", and "belief", carry such negative images, predetermined parameters, and intricate emotions that the dialogue is stopped dead in its tracks. These are complex subjects that resist short explanations, and for which words themselves are often inadequate at best, and misleading at worst. For example, in response to a recent blog, "Can The Existence of God Ever Be Proven", one person wrote,
"Humans have worshipped thousands of gods throughout the ages. Which of these does this discussion refer to? Remember, they were convinced that they had it right too. Just as you don't believe in Zeus, I don't believe in your god."
There are two assumptions in this statement that I'd like to challenge:
First, not all religious people are convinced that they have it right. That is an assumption that simply is not based on facts. Unquestioned certainty is a fundamentalist position, but is not an inherent -- or even desirable -- quality in a spiritual life, and is not the position taken by a vast number of believers or by most theologians. There is a long history of debate in all religions about the nature of the Divine, the meaning of scriptures, and the purpose of doctrines. In Judaism, for example, the Talmud records vigorous debates between the most educated and dedicated Rabbis in order to remind us that disagreements in search of truth are holy acts, that simple answers are to be questioned, and that we must resist the lure of certainty.
Second, I do believe in Zeus.
No, I don't think that there is a huge bearded guy dressed in a toga sitting in a palace on a mountain in the sky, looking to hurl his thunderbolt or abduct a beautiful human woman. Such a literal view may have been taken by some ancient Greeks, just as some today read their religion's stories literally, but this was not how the great philosophers and educated people of that time saw Zeus, and it is not the intent behind those who first described the many Greek deities. I believe in Zeus in the same way that Parmenides, Pythagoras, Plato, Heraclitus, and later, Plotinus, did -- as a poetic vision of a true aspect of the Divine. Plato makes this clear in Phaedrus, his mind-boggling treatise on the nature of the soul, where he wrote, "But of the heaven which is above the heavens what earthly poet ever did or ever will be worthily? There abides the very essence with which true knowledge is concerned; the colorless, formless, intangible spirit, visible only to mind, the pilot of the soul."
In other words, above the constructs that humans make to describe the spiritual realm is a higher, truer realm that is beyond our ability to adequately describe or fully comprehend. Zeus, Plato knew, is a symbolic manifestation of the essence of creative power, and those who followed Zeus sought to deepen these qualities, just as followers of Athena sought to partake of the essences of wisdom and judgment. These essences, Plato taught, emanate from the same Source, and are implanted in physicality. People who intuit these essences give them form, which may be human in characteristics, but these forms are not the essences. The pantheon of gods were human attempts to describe the spiritual experience in an anthropomorphic story.
Similarly, in the Hindu Chandogya Upanishad, written in the first millennium BCE, we hear, "In the beginning was only Being, One without a second. Out of himself he brought forth the cosmos and entered into everything in it. There is nothing that does not come from him." (Interestingly, this language is almost identical to the Medieval Jewish poem "Adon Olam" -- "Master of the World".) The myriad of Hindu deities are aspects of the infinite and indescribable One, Who imbues all creation. Ganesha, the human/elephant deity who rides on a mouse, is obviously not an actual physical being, but a symbol of the soul's desire to remove obstacles so that we can live free of attachment to outcomes.
Jewish mysticism teaches that the true nature of God is without limit, and completely beyond human comprehension. The Jewish mystics imagined an upside-down "Tree of Life", with roots in the heavens and branches pointed toward the earth, composed on 10 energy emanations -- "s'firot" -- such as Wisdom, Understanding, Beauty, Judgment, and Mercy. It is through these emanations that we can know and connect to God, but these emanations are not God -- only the shadow that is capable of being perceived by humans. The famous first sentence of the Tao te Ching makes this same point, "The Tao that can be named [known] is not the True Tao."
There are realms of reality for which our five senses, our frail physicality, and the current evolution of our minds are incapable of fully grasping. Access to the non-physical spiritual realm is through the gift of intuition, which is a dim remembrance of the world from which we came, and that "speaks" to us in images and metaphors. Like James Watson discovering the reality of the DNA double helix structure in a dream of intertwined snakes, we can access deep truths that appear as symbols and metaphors. There are those who, for a variety of reasons, will concretize these visions and insist that these images are literally true, but the initial vision that brought these visions to us, whether Zeus, a man/elephant, or a pair of snakes, are not descriptions of actual people of objects, but are mystical poetry that contain a truth.
In this way I believe in Zeus, as a human intuition of a true aspect of the Divine. One could ask if I also believe in Santa Claus or the Jolly Green Giant. The difference here is that every adult knows that Santa Claus is an invention to please children, and that the Jolly Green Giant was designed to sell vegetables. Now one can then say that any image of God is also an invention to appease the childish part of our nature that is confused by the world and afraid of death, and that religion was designed to sell mind control and submission. These simple bromides, though, are not supported by the facts of history or people's real experiences. No adult has come to a belief in and develop meaningful connection with Santa Claus, while countless people have come to find truth and relationship in their tradition's interpretation of the unknowable realm of Spirit. And no one has ever struggled with the obligations to be charitable and compassionate as demanded by a can of peas, while billions are elevated by and supported in a religious community and tradition that feeds the poor, cares for the ill, and comforts the bereaved.
Throughout our history on this planet, humans have known that there is an invisible, higher, truer realm that gave birth to our reality, and those that have caught glimpse of this realm have attempted to describe their vision. Zeus, like all the representations of the Divine that humans have intuited, including the God of monotheism, is partial, incomplete, and flawed -- perceived in clouded and flickering glimpses. I love and honor this search, in its halting steps, imaginings of powerful deities, yearning heroes, and colorful stories, because it represents our highest yearnings.
Yes, terrible things, like child sacrifice and abuse of women, were done as "religious" acts to appease imagined gods, but these were acts of barbaric cultures disguised as spirituality, and have been -- and are being -- eradicated as we evolve. Like the process of science, art, and culture, our spiritual intuition matures as we mature, gains intelligence as we gain intelligence, and builds on the findings of predecessors. This process has been the force driving humanity forward toward a future in which we know more fully who we are and why we have been placed here.
Of course I could be wrong.
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