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................................................... Section One: Table Notes ............................................................................ (Note: these notes were taken at the table and have NOT been approved or corrected by the speakers. Reader beware of inevitable misunderstandings and misrepresentations. E.B.)
At the table Wednesday 10 October 2007:
10/10/07
Jon Yerow , John Burlew, Pat Baas, Derek Lester, Bob Witanowski, Richard Reiter, Vlasta Molak, Ginger Lee Frank, Judy Cirillo, Steve Sunderland, Ellen Bierhorst. Shari Able. Mira Rodwan, (Welcome Jon, John, and Pat!)
Discussion of Cincinnati Beacon’s reprint of the NAACP voter’s guide.
PRESENTATION BY JOHN BURLEW, RUNNING FOR RE-ELECTION TO MUNICIPAL COURT JUDGESHIP, DOWN TOWN DISTRICT.
JOHNBURLEW.COM
marijuana ordinance is ridiculous. Anywhere else in Ohio possession of m.j. is like a parking ticket. Doesn’t help our society.
If we build a bigger jail, we’ll fill every d---- bed! Let’s stop the epidemic.
We should repeal the marijuana ordinance. 100 g. m.j. should not be a crime. Still illegal, but not a crime.
Ginger: Pepper told me the ordinance had been aimed at discouraging out of the city people to come in here to buy drugs.
Burlew: that does not work.
... Alcohol is a much more dangerous drug than marijuana.
Derek 100,000 deaths per year from alcohol toxicity. Does not include behavioral deaths like crashing the car while drunk.
Burlew if you eliminated alcohol half of the crimes in my court... During Prohibition there was less work absences, no DUI, less domestic violence... ... People with lots of money went to Speakeasies once a week. Abuse was much less. ... you ask why we have these laws is we are intellectually dishonest... ... best thing you could do for criminals is to keep these things illegal. I went to school with O’Dell Owens. people who commit violence crime know each other, ... they are killing each other. they are not really a threat to you and me who are not in the game.
... the law license is like a weapon. You can use it to accumulate power, wealth, or to help people.
Ginger why, do you think, the Dems. are supporting the jail tax?
Burlew: they need a different facility but not the one they are discussing. If I had that... I’d say “Buy the old Bethesda Hospital”. ON bus lines. Dorms. GED programs... I don’t know why they are for this tax. Even 4 former NAACP presidents are for the tax.
Derek I was in court a year ago. Woman was sent to a year in jail for stealing meat for her family.
Richard I’d steal to feed my family, I admit that now.
...
Burlew: 200 g. m.j. not a crime elsewhere in OHio. In Cinti. up to 200 g. is a misdemeanor.
Pat B: I met John when he was a practicing lawyer years ago. Criminal defense attorney. Is a problem solver. Respect for law, love of constitution. As a voter I like a judge who has been in practice, had experience, clients... Helping people get through difficulties... to understand the law, get through to their betterment, least damage. We see a lot of people on the bench who doesn’t have that perspective. Or people on the bench who come mostly from the Prosecutor’s office. You need a diversity.
Also great to have a judge who has actually tried cases as a lawyer! They know the rules of evidence, procedure, they follow the law. Run an orderly courtroom.
Burlew I have always represented underdogs.. the Don Quixote. My opponent is a Mallory. He took the bar three times before he passed. Has been an assistant prosecutor. Duane Mallory.
I am a former pres. of Cinti. bar assoc. I was one of five chosen by Ohio chief justice to redo the rules...
Mira any hate crimes?
Burlew Yes. Ed Felson, jewish, a co worker called him awful names, death threat ... I locked him up a year. I r equired he read Autobiog of Anne Frank. He did. Apologized. Even apologized to people in the courtroom who had to hear the ugly things he had said. ... a judge can do a lot if they will open their heart, ...
Judy do you know about Ceasefire?
Burlew: I was there when they guy was shot in N. Avondale. I hope they are successful. I believe it does have a chance.
Judy a prof. Kennedy in Chicago researched the kids who got in trouble. Found it was a core group responsible for the violence. Rounded them up, told them if you go ahead, we’ll throw the book at you. If you want to go straight, we’ll help you lavishly. People from here went to Chicago to learn... have had it here one year this month. Ceasefire. The surgeons are behind it, because they were sick seeing the same young men again and again.
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(Ellen read the “To Kill an American” essay... You can read it at http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/1565928/posts
It starts out:I found the essay both moving and disturbing... We discussed it at the table. Ellen)
“You probably missed it in the rush of news last week, but there was actually a report that someone in Pakistan had published in a newspaper an offer of a reward to anyone who killed an American, any American.
So an Australian dentist wrote an editorial the following day to let everyone know what an American is . So they would know when they found one. (Good one, mate!!!!)
"An American is English, or French, or Italian, Irish, German, Spanish, Polish, Russian or Greek. An American may also be Canadian, Mexican, African, Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Australian, Iranian, Asian, or Arab, or Pakistani or Afghan. "
An American may also be a Comanche, Cherokee, Osage, Blackfoot, Navaho, Apache, Seminole or one of the many other tribes known as Native Americans.... “
Burlew: Carib by Michner. ... thurgood Marshall said The Constitution is not an intellectually honest honest. But over time it has been corrected. Bill of Rights. Amendments to give suffrage to blacks and women. But now it is close to completion. But it was not Always right.
This group is like the Chataqua societies from a hundred years ago. That concept.
Shari the thing you read is a view of an idealized America.
Burlew: ... great public schools in Cinti. I went Walnut Hills. ... Hanover College in IN. ... Two daughters, also Walnut, both went to Spellman in Atlanta.
Pat: it is frustrating for me to see them running a weak candidate against a really good judge. Just because of the name.
Burlew ... there is evil in government, among judges... you have to stand on your integrity.
(Justice Thomas) he is proof that Justice Scallia is a ventriloquist. Ridiculous right wing. ... It was Thurgood Marshall the civil rights giant of the 20th century, ... Dr. King was easy to love, but Justice Marshall was ornery, mean, stuck to his guns.
(racism in cinti.?)
Burlew : things have changed a lot. but My brother nine years ago driving to Dayton to see a H.S. basketball game turned back because was stopped three times because they profiled him, thought he was a drug dealer in his late model car. ... racism is not going to go away in our lifetime.
Bob I saw a website with all these hate group symbols. ...
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~ End of Table Notes~
Hugs to everyone,
Ellen
Section Two: Events & Opportunities
(See Tri-State Treasures, the compilation of cultural events by Jim Kesner, at the bottom of the entire weekly. It’s juicy! E.)
Kirtan at the Lloyd House
Sat. 13 Sept
4:00 pm for two hours
Organized by Karen Berger of Shine yoga.
Drumming. Dancing. Chanting. Call-and-response. Love offering accepted.
Karen Johns Berger writes:
Hello Dearest Ones
Just wanted to take a moment to thank all of you - present or there in spirit - for a wonderful kirtan practice on Saturday. Special thanks to Ellen Bierhorst for opening her amazing home to us.
We gathered in the 3rd floor turret room, an amazing room that has held space for many a fine yoga class, drumming circle, and spiritual leader. It's a perfect place for a group this size to gather, chant and crank up the shakti. We had 10 present, and managed to kick up a fair amount of noise in the process. Instruments represented were guitar, hammered dulcimer, drums, harmonium, and plenty of spectacular voices. Plus some unexpected bells and whistles that Ellen added at just the perfect moments. Chants were some you've heard, some you haven't, and we intend to keep it going. (I've got this new harmonium burning a hole in the middle of my living room, and it's just a smokin' good time waiting to be shared with the likes of you all.)
So we will plan to gather again on Saturday, Oct. 13 at 4:00pm once again at The Lloyd House. We played for a couple of hours, and then many of us were able to move the party to Ambar India where we ate and basked in the nest of loving energy we had created. I think this may be a tradition worth continuing. Whaddayathink? I'll be sure to send a reminded, but please MARK YOUR CALENDAR!!
We are combining "practice time" with chanting time, so those of you who just want to come chant with us are more than welcome. We want and appreciate the energy you bring. Please just be aware that we're all in a learning process to play together, and may occasionally stop to teach something to one another. So if you weren't able to come this time, we'd love to have you on the 13th.
Love & Bliss,
Karen
My Friend Pat Baas writes a glowing recommendation for Judge John Burlew, running for re-election to the Municipal Court bench. Clifton/downtown district. They were at the salon last night. I love this guy!
“As an attorney, I think one of the greatest assets of a good judge is the experience he/she gained in the courtroom as a practicing attorney. John's private practice included civil litigation and criminal defense work so he is well versed in civil and criminal procedure and rules of court and evidence. Having been in private practice and having client's to represent gives one an appreciation of the impact of the legal system on individual lives. From my experience a number of judges appointed to the bench (or elected for that matter) have had little or no actual courtroom experience or experience in dealing with everyday people facing civil disputes or being caught up in the criminal system which is quite unfortunate. Also, it seams in Hamilton County that many of the judges come from the prosecutor's office, so it is nice to have someone who has a defense counsel's perspective.” Pat Baas
Judge Burlew is running for reelection to the Municipal Court bench. You may find more information about him at his website: JohnBurlew.com
Answers: Live on TV & Radio.
Wednesday October 17, 2007
Time: 7:00-8:30 (We’ll watch at the salon.)
County Commissioners Todd Portune and Pat DeWine answer
our questions. About the Issue 27 Jail Tax, Comprehensive Corrections Plan
Simulcast on CET TV Channel 48 and WVXU Radio (FM 91.7)
Additional information about Hamilton County jails, corrections and the
comprehensive safety plan will be available online at CET-Connect
www.cetconnect.org and www.lwvcincinnati.org.
For information call CCR at (513) 458-6736 or WCC at (513)751-0100.
>
> * Simulcast on CET TV Channel 48 and WVXU Radio (FM 91.7)
>Additional information about Hamilton County jails, corrections and the
> comprehensive safety plan will be available online at
> CET-Connect www.cetconnect.org <http://www.cetconnect.org> and www.lwvcincinnati.org <http://www.lwvcincinnati.org>
> <http://www.lwvcincinnati.org/> .
For information call CCR at (513) 458-6736 or WCC at (513)751-0100.
Ellen Bierhorst, Ph.D. Is a holistic psychotherapist with over 35 years experience. Specialty area: Optimizing Mental Health ~ “Better than well”. Also: healing trauma, strengthening families and relationships, alcohol and other addictions including food, and weight management, EMDR, GLBT, chronic pain and physical illness. Clifton. 513 221 1289 www.lloydhouse.com
Peak Oil Conference
Fri – Sunday, Oct 26,7,8
Yellow Springs, OH
Www.communitysolutions.org
2.
2007 Cincinnati Israeli Film Festival October 7-21, 2007
Posted by: "hollyrob" hollyrob@earthlink.net helainerobinson
Mon Sep 24, 2007 1:29 pm (PST)
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From: IsraeliFilmFestival [mailto:dbrundage@jfedcin.org]
Sent: Monday, September 24, 2007 4:29 PM
To: Robinson; Holly
Subject: 2007 Israeli Film Festival October 7-21, 2007
<http://lyris.ujcfedweb.org/t/357566/7945263/11180/0/>
The Jewish Federation of Cincinnati proudly presents the 2007 Israeli Film
Festival, sponsored by biggs, Duke Energy and the LKC Foundation. The
Festival runs at Kenwood Towne Centre Theatre, 7875 Montgomery Road, October
7-21, 2007.
For more information, contact Denise Brundage at
<mailto:dbrundage@jfedcin.org> dbrundage@jfedcin.org or call 513.985.1521
Or visit the Israeli Film Festival Website at
<http://lyris.ujcfedweb.org/t/357566/7945263/11143/0/>
www.jewishcincinnati.org/filmfestival
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KENWOOD FILM FESTIVAL SCHEDULE
Click on movie titles for descriptions and reviews
<http://lyris.ujcfedweb.org/t/357566/7945263/11120/0/>
OPENING NIGHT: Sunday, October 7 at 7 p.m.: Three Mothers
...
Thursday, October 11 at 7 p.m.: Schwartz Dynasty
<http://lyris.ujcfedweb.org/t/357566/7945263/11125/0/>
Sunday, October 14 at 7 p.m.: Sweet Mud
<http://lyris.ujcfedweb.org/t/357566/7945263/11126/0/>
DOUBLE FEATURE: Monday, October 15 at 7 p.m.: Paper Dolls & A MAISEH
<http://lyris.ujcfedweb.org/t/357566/7945263/11127/0/>
Wednesday, October 17 at 1 p.m.: Miss Entebbe
<http://lyris.ujcfedweb.org/t/357566/7945263/11128/0/>
DOUBLE FEATURE: WEDNESDAY, October 17 at 7 p.m.: Green Chariot & Like A Fish
Out of Water
<http://lyris.ujcfedweb.org/t/357566/7945263/11129/0/>
Thursday, October 18 at 7 p.m.: Janem Janem
<http://lyris.ujcfedweb.org/t/357566/7945263/11130/0/>
CLOSING NIGHT- Sunday, October 21 at 7 p.m.: SOUVENIRS, Meet Israeli
Filmmaker Shachar Cohen
<http://lyris.ujcfedweb.org/t/357566/7945263/11131/0/>
SPECIAL EVENTS AT OTHER LOCATIONS
Click on movie titles for descriptions and reviews
<http://lyris.ujcfedweb.org/t/357566/7945263/11134/0/>
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14 at 2 p.m.: 51 Birch Street at Cedar Village, co-sponsored
by Cedar Village, Free for Cedar Village residents
<http://lyris.ujcfedweb.org/t/357566/7945263/11135/0/>
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18 at 7 p.m.: Souvenirs at University of Cincinnati Main
Street Cinema, co-sponsored by U.C. Hillel and U.C. Department of Judaic
Studies, Students free with ID
<http://lyris.ujcfedweb.org/t/357566/7945263/11136/0/>
MONDAY, OCTOBER 29 at 6:30 p.m.: JANEM JANEM AT Miami University,
co-sponsored by Hillel at Miami University and Miami Students for Israel,
Students free with ID
Yoga Free at the Lloyd House
Weekly yoga practice session Wednesday mornings.
9:15 meditation
9:30-10:30 yoga exercises with Nina Tolley. However, Caveat! Nina insists I tell you that she is not a yoga teacher, only a student (though one with long experience) and cannot correct yor postures or prevent injuring yourself.
In the third floor meditation room, “the Zendo”. Bring yoga mat; cushion or whatever for meditating.
Don’t pull over for unmarked cop car...call *77
You can get a direct line to state trooper anywhere, apparently, by calling on your cell phone Star 77. You should call it if you are being followed by a car with flashing lights on hood signaling you to pull over. It is the law that you do not have to pull over for an unmarked car until you get to what you consider a safe area. Someone sending around a scary story about criminal activity perpetrated by unmarked “cop” car driver... ellen
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Section Three: Articles
Contents:
- Karen Vossler sends this on bio-fuel plan by Bush
- Bev Harris...more voting irregularities
THERE ARE SOOO MANY THINGS WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE!!! Stay informed and say "NO!" to bio fuel!
Karen Vossler
> rense.com
>
> The Hidden Agenda Behind
> The Bush Administration's
> BioFuel Plan
> Buy Feed Corn: They're About To Stop Making It...
> By F. William Engdahl
> 7-27-7
>
>
> That bowl of Kellogg's Cornflakes on the breakfast table, or the
> portion of pasta or corn tortillas, cheese or meat on the table
> is going to rise in price over the coming months as sure as the
> sun rises in the East. Welcome ladies and gentlemen to the new
> world food price shock, conveniently timed to accompany our
> current world oil price shock.
>
> Curiously it's ominously similar in many respects to the early
> 1970's when prices for oil and food both exploded by several
> hundred percent in a matter of months. That mid-1970's price
> explosion led President Nixon to ask his old pal, Arthur Burns,
> then Chairman of the Fed, to find a way to alter the CPI
> inflation data to take attention away from the rising prices.
> The result then was the now-commonplace publication of the
> absurd "core inflation" CPI numbers--sans oil and food. Stephen
> Roche was the young Fed economist who was assigned the
> statistical manipulation job by Burns.
>
> The late American satirist, Mark Twain once quipped, "Buy land:
> They've stopped making it" Today we can say almost the same
> about corn or all grains worldwide. The world is in the early
> months of the greatest sustained rise in grain prices, for all
> major grains including maize, wheat, rice that we have seen in
> three decades. Those three crops constitute almost 90% of all
> grains cultivated in the world.
>
> Washington's calculated, absurd plan
>
> What's driving this extraordinary change? Here things get pretty
> interesting. The Bush Administration is making a major public
> relations push to convince the world it has turned into a
> "better steward of the environment." The problem is that many
> have fallen for the hype.
>
> The center of his program, announced in his January State of the
> Union Address is called '20 in 10', cutting US gasoline use 20%
> by 2010. The official reason is to "reduce dependency on
> imported oil," as well as cutting unwanted "greenhouse gas"
> emissions. That isn't the case, but it makes good PR. Repeat it
> often enough and maybe most people will believe it. Maybe they
> won't realize their taxpayer subsidies to grow ethanol corn
> instead of feed corn are also driving the price of their daily
> bread through the roof.
>
> The heart of the plan is a huge, taxpayer subsidized expansion
> of use of bio-ethanol for transport fuel. The President's plan
> requires production of 35 billion gallons (about 133 billion
> liters) of ethanol a year by 2017. Congress already mandated
> with the Energy Policy Act of 2005 that corn ethanol for fuel
> must rise from 4 billion gallons in 2006 to 7.5 billion in 2012.
> To make certain it will happen, farmers and big agribusiness
> giants like ADM or David Rockefeller get generous taxpayer
> subsidies to grow corn for fuel instead of food. Currently
> ethanol producers get a subsidy in the US of 51 cents per gallon
> ethanol paid to the blender, usually an oil company that blends
> it with gasoline for sale.
>
> As a result of the beautiful US Government subsidies to produce
> bio-ethanol fuels, and the new legislative mandate, the US
> refinery industry is investing big time in building new special
> ethanol distilleries, similar to oil refineries, except they
> produce ethanol fuel. The number currently under construction
> exceeds the total number of oil refineries built in the US over
> the past 25 years. When finished in the next 2-3 years the
> demand for corn and other grain to make ethanol for car fuel
> will double from present levels.
>
> Not just USA bio-ethanol. In March Bush met with Brazil's
> President to sign a bilateral "Ethanol Pact" to cooperate in R&D
> of "next generation" bio-fuel technologies like cellulosic
> ethanol from wood, and joint cooperation in "stimulating"
> expansion of bio-fuels use in developing countries, especially
> in Central America, and creating a "bio-fuels OPEC-like" cartel
> market with rules that allows formation of a Western Hemisphere
> ethanol market.
>
> In short, the use of farmland worldwide for bio-ethanol and
> other bio-fuels-burning the food product rather than using it
> for human or animal food-is being treated in Washington, Brazil
> and other major centers, including the EU, as a major new growth
> industry.
>
> Phony green arguments
>
> Bio-fuel-gasoline or fuel produced from refining food
> products-is being hyped as a solution to the controversial
> Global Warming problem. Leaving aside the faked science and the
> political interests behind the sudden hype about dangers of
> global warming, bio-fuels offer no net positive benefits over
> oil even under best conditions. Its advocates claim that present
> first generation bio-fuels "save up to 60% of carbon emission."
> As well, amid rising oil prices at $75 per barrel for Brent
> marker grades, governments such as Brazil's are frantic to
> substitute homegrown bio-fuels for imported gasoline. In Brazil
> today 70% of all cars have "flexi-fuel" engines able to switch
> from conventional gasoline to 100% bio-fuel or any mix. Bio-fuel
> production has become one of Brazil's major export industries as
> well.
>
> The green claims for bio-fuel as a friendly and better fuel than
> gasoline are at best dubious, if not outright fraudulent.
> Depending on who runs the tests, ethanol has little if any
> effect on exhaust-pipe emissions in current car models. It has
> significant emission, however, of some toxins including
> formaldehyde and acetaldehyde, a suspected neurotoxin which has
> been banned as carcinogenic in California.
>
> Ethanol is not some benign substance as we are led to think from
> the industry propaganda. It is highly corrosive to pipelines as
> well as to seals and fuel systems of existing car or other
> gasoline engines. It requires special new gas pumps. All that
> conversion costs money.
>
> But the killer-diller about ethanol is that it holds at least
> 30% less energy per gallon than normal gasoline, translating
> into a loss in fuel economy per gallon of at least 25% over
> gasoline for an Ethanol E-85% blend. No advocate of the ethanol
> boondoggle addresses the huge social cost which is beginning to
> hit the dining room tables across the US, Europe and the rest of
> the world. Food prices are exploding as corn, soybeans and all
> cereal grain prices are going through the roof because of the
> astronomical-Congress-driven-demand for corn to burn for
> bio-fuel.
>
> This year the Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued a
> report concluding that using corn-based ethanol instead of
> gasoline will have no impact on greenhouse gas emissions, and
> would even expand fossil fuel use due to increased demand for
> fertilizer and irrigation to expand acreage of ethanol crops.
> And according to MIT "natural gas consumption is 66% of total
> corn ethanol production energy," meaning huge new strains on
> natural gas supply, pushing prices there higher.
>
> The idea that the world can "grow" out of oil dependency with
> bio-fuels is the PR hype being used to sell what is shaping up
> to be the mist dangerous threat to the planet's food supply
> since creation of patented genetically manipulated corn and
> crops.
>
> US farms become bio-fuel factories
>
> The main reason US and world grain prices are soaring in the
> past two years and now pre-programmed to continue rising at a
> major pace, is the conversion of US farmland to become de facto
> bio-fuel factories. In 2006 US farmland devoted to bio-fuel
> crops increased by 48%. None of that land was replaced for food
> crop cultivation. The tax subsidies make it far too profitable
> to produce ethanol fuel.
>
> Since 2001 the amount of maize used to produce bio-ethanol in
> the USA has risen 300%, trend increasing going forward. In fact,
> in 2006 US maize or corn crops for bio-fuel equaled the tonnage
> of corn used for export. In 2007 it is estimated it will exceed
> the corn for export by a hefty amount. The US is the world's
> leading corn exporter, most going for animal feed to EU and
> other countries. The traditional USDA statistics on acreage
> planted to corn is no longer a useful metric of food prices as
> all marginal acreage is going for bio-fuel growing. The amount
> available for animal and human feed is actually declining.
>
> Brazil and China are similarly switching from food to bio-fuels
> with large swatches of land.
>
> A result of the bio-fuel revolution in agriculture is that world
> carryover or reserve stocks of grains have been plunging for six
> of the past seven years. Carryover reserve stocks of all grains
> fell at the end of 2006 to 57 days of consumption, the lowest
> level since 1972. Little wonder that world grain prices rose
> 100% over the past 12 months. This is just the start.
>
> That decline in grain reserves, the measure of food security in
> event of drought or harvest failure-an increasingly common event
> in recent years-is pre-programmed to continue going as far ahead
> as the eye can see. Assuming modest world population increase
> annually of some 70 million people over the coming decade,
> especially in the Indian subcontinent and Africa, the stagnation
> or even decline in the tonnages of feed corn or other feed
> grains including rice that is harvested annually as growing
> amounts of bio-ethanol and other bio-fuels displaces food grain,
> in fact means we are just getting started on the greatest
> transformation of global agriculture since the introduction of
> the agribusiness revolution with fertilizers and mechanized
> farming after World War II. The difference is that this
> revolution is at the expense of food production. That
> preprograms exploding global grain prices, increased poverty and
> malnutrition. And the effect on gasoline import demand will be
> minimal.
>
> Prof. M.A. Altieri of Berkeley University estimates that
> dedicating all USA corn and soybean production acreage to
> bio-fuels would only meet 12% of gasoline and 6% of diesel
> needs. He notes that though one-fifth of last year's corn
> harvest went to bio-ethanol, it met a mere 3% of energy needs.
> But the farmland is converting at a record pace. In 2006 more
> than 50% of Iowa and South Dakota corn went to ethanol
> refineries. Farmers across the Midwest, desperate for more
> income after years of depressed corn prices, are abandoning
> traditional crop rotation to grow exclusively soybeans or corn
> with dramatic added impact on soil erosion and needs for added
> chemical pesticides. In the US some 41% of all herbicides used
> are already applied to corn. Monsanto and other makers of
> glyphosate herbicides like Roundup are clearly smiling on the
> way to the bank.
>
> Going global with bio-fuels
>
>
> The Bush-Lula pact is just the start of a growing global rush to
> plant crops for bio-fuel. Huge sugarcane, palm oil and soy
> plantations for bio-fuel refining are taking over forests and
> grasslands in Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador and Paraguay.
> Soy cultivation has already caused the deforestation of 21
> million hectares in Brazil and 14 million ha in Argentina, with
> no end in sight, as world grain prices continue to rise. Soya is
> used for bio-diesel fuel.
>
> China, desperate for energy sources, is a major player in
> bio-fuel cultivation, reducing food crop acreage there as well.
> In the EU most bio-diesel fuel is produced using rapeseed
> plants, a popular animal feed. The result? Meat prices around
> the globe are rising and set to continue rising as far ahead as
> the eye can see. The EU has a target requiring minimum bio-fuel
> content of 10%, a foolish demand that will set aside 18% of EU
> farmland to cultivate crops to be burned as bio-fuel.
>
> Big oil is also driving the bio-fuels bandwagon. Prof. David
> Pimentel of Cornell University and other scientists claim that
> net energy output from bio-ethanol fuel is less than the fossil
> fuel energy used to produce the ethanol. Measuring all energy
> inputs to produce ethanol from production of nitrogen fertilizer
> to energy needed to clean the considerable waste from bio-fuel
> refineries, Pimintel's research showed a net energy loss of 22%
> for bio-fuel-they use more energy than they produce. That
> translates into little threat to oil demand and huge profit for
> clever oil giants that re-profile themselves as "green energy"
> producers.
>
> So it's little wonder that ExxonMobil, Chevron and BP are all
> into bio-fuels. This past May, BP announced the largest ever R&D
> grant to a university, $500 million to the University of
> California-Berkeley to fund BP-dictated R&D into alternative
> energy including bio-fuels. Stanford's Global Climate and Energy
> Program got $100 million from ExxonMobil; University of
> California-Davis got $25 million from Chevron for its Bio-energy
> Research Group. Princeton University's Carbon Mitigation
> Initiative takes $15 million from BP.
>
> Lord Browne, the disgraced former CEO of BP declared in 2006,
> "The world needs new technologies to maintain adequate supplies
> of energy for the future. We believe bioscience can bring
> immense benefits to the energy sector." The bio-fuel market is
> booming like few others today. This all is a paradise for global
> agribusiness industrial companies like Cargill, ADM and
> Monsanto, Syngenta.
>
> All this, combined with severe weather problems in China,
> Australia, Ukraine and large parts of the EU growing areas this
> harvest season, guarantee that grain prices are set to explode
> further in coming months and years. Some are gleefully reporting
> the end of the era of "cheap food." With disappearing food
> security reserves and disappearing acreage going to plant corn
> and grains for food, the bio-fuel transformation will impact
> global food prices massively in coming years.
>
> Another agenda behind Ethanol?
>
> Uh Huh. The dramatic embrace of bio-fuels by the Bush
> Administration since 2005 has clearly been the global driver for
> soaring grain and food prices in the past 18 months. The
> evidence suggests this is no accident of sloppy legislative
> preparation. The US Government has been researching and
> developing bio-fuels since the 1970's. The bio-ethanol
> architects did their homework we can be assured. It's
> increasingly clear that the same people who brought us oil price
> inflation are now deliberately creating parallel food price
> inflation. We have had a rise in average oil prices of some 300%
> since the end of 2000 when George W. Bush and Dick Halliburton
> Cheney made oil the central preoccupation of US foreign policy.
>
> Last year, as bio-ethanol production first became a major market
> factor, corn prices rose by some 130% on the Chicago in 14
> months. It was more than known when Congress and the Bush
> Administration made their heavy push for bio-ethanol in 2005
> that world grain reserves had been declining at alarming levels
> for several years at a time when global demand, driven
> especially by growing wealth And increasing meat consumption in
> China, was rising.
>
> As a result of the diversion of record acreages of US and
> Brazilian corn and soybeans to bio-fuel production, food
> reserves are literally disappearing. Global food security,
> according to FAO data, is at its lowest since 1972. Curiously
> that was just the time that Henry Kissinger and the Nixon
> Administration engineered, in cahoots with Cargill and ADM-the
> major backers of the ethanol scam today-what was called The
> Great Grain Robbery, sale of huge volumes of US grain to the
> Soviet Union in exchange for sales of record volumes of Russian
> oil to the West. Both oil and corn prices rose by 1975 some
> 300-400% as a result. Just how that worked, I treated in detail
> in: A Century of War: Anglo-American Oil Politics.
>
> Today a new element has replaced USSR grain demand and harvest
> shortfalls. Bio-fuel demand, fed by US government subsidies is
> literally linking food prices to oil prices. The scale of the
> subsidized bio-fuel consumption has exploded so dramatically
> since the beginning of 2006 when the US Energy Policy Act of
> 2005 first began to impact crop planting decisions, not only in
> the USA, that there is emerging a de facto competition between
> people and cars for the same grains. Lester Brown recently
> noted, "We're looking at competition in the global market
> between 800 million automobiles and the world's two billion
> poorest people for the same commodity, the same grains. We are
> now in a new economic era where oil and food are interchangeable
> commodities because we can convert grain, sugar cane,
> soybeans-anything-into fuel for cars. In effect the price of oil
> is beginning to set the price of food."
>
> In the mid-1970's Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, a protégé
> of the Rockefeller family and of its institutions stated,
> "Control the oil and you control entire nations; control the
> food and you control the people." The same cast of characters
> who brought the world the Iraq war, the global scramble to
> control oil, who brought us patented genetically manipulated
> seeds and now Terminator suicide seeds, and who cry about the
> "problem of world over-population," are now backing conversion
> of global grain production to burn as fuel at a time of
> declining global grain reserves. That alone should give pause
> for thought. As the popular saying goes, "Just because you're
> paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you."
>
>
> F. William Engdahl is author of the forthcoming book, Seeds of
> Destruction: The Hidden Agenda of Genetic Manipulation, Global
> Research Publishing, and author of A Century of War:
> Anglo-American Oil Politics and the New World Order, Pluto
> Press. He may be reached via his website,
> www.engdahl.oilgeopolitics.net.
>
>
Bev Harris of Black Box Voting (a saint!) finds irregularities in voting in several rural states.
This one is amazing.
YouTube 6 minute video version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpzahSVY_GM
The report, plus photos etc., in pdf format: http://www.blackboxvoting.org/moonshine1.pdf
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E-mail version: We have had many requests to provide shorter e-mails, so we will. Full details, sources, footnotes and the interview with the elusive Joe Bolton are in the pdf file linked above, and at this web site, which has a discussion area (must log in to discuss; anyone can read): http://www.bbvforums.org/forums/messages/1954/54541.html
An original investigative report by Black Box Voting
MOONSHINE ELECTION SERIES - Part 1
Black Box Voting has found "Moonshine Election patterns" in 16 states, which together carry 210 electoral votes.
America is afflicted with many different, often overlapping election problems. In a series of new original investigative reports, Black Box Voting identifies several problem election syndromes and recommends citizen-initiated actions to take.
It was the plucky resolve of a few extraordinary citizens in places like the coal mining hills of Whitley County and the aptly named Bullitt County that convinced us Kentucky deserved a visit. What we found affects many states, has affected presidential elections, and certainly has changed many a law-abiding citizen's life.
MOONSHINE ELECTIONS - FOUR OR MORE OF THE FOLLOWING CHARACTERISTICS:
1. Rural location
2. Family members hold multiple positions in the local government
3. Problems are noted in financial audits
4. Felony convictions of local officials
5. Questionable election situations
6. Obstructs or ignores Freedom of Information (public records) requests
7. Uses computerized voting systems serviced by small subcontractors
Black Box Voting has identified several of these kinds of election jurisdictions in Kentucky, West Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and parts of southern Illinois, Ohio and Indiana, as well as some of western Pennsylvania, eastern Missouri, and scattered locations in Texas.
THE POLITICAL TERRAIN
A surprisingly large percentage of our national vote comes from rural locations, even in states like New York and California. In Kentucky, 109 out of 120 counties are rural; overall, 60 percent of Kentucky's votes come in from rural election administrations.
In swing states, small rural voting pockets can tip the state's electoral votes. The moonshine elections territories have been known to influence presidential races -- in 1960, the moonshine sections of West Virginia helped deliver John F. Kennedy's nomination. According to witnesses, the total paid to buy the election was over two million dollars.
In close elections, a single rural location can flip control of the U.S. congress.
The public pocketbook and the public safety is at stake -- several of these jurisdictions have an unfortunate history of electing people who dip into the public till, along with law enforcement officers who commit felonies. In Kentucky, one newspaper calls this the "colorful political landscape."
Kentucky is a swing state where 87 out of 120 counties had a majority of Democratic registered voters, yet 106 out of 120 counties voted for Bush in 2000; 108 voted for Bush in 2004. It wasn't low turnout -- in fact, turnout has been going up. It was Kentucky politics: Registered Democrats went into the voting booth, Republican votes came out.
(Details at links above)
In Nov. 2007, Kentucky voters will get to choose between two pearls for governor: Steve Beshear (D), who wants to change the state constitution to allow gambling, or Ernie Fletcher (R), who has been embroiled in a criminal controversy involving attempts to build a patronage army.
Perhaps the most vulnerable races of all in Kentucky are the gravy train positions: Sheriff, Judge Executive (similar to a super-commissioner or being chief of the county supervisors), and the county clerk position. Even the jailer position has good opportunities for personal remuneration if one is unscrupulous, due to poorly controlled "jail canteen accounts."
Kentucky elections are mostly rural affairs, with the exception of Louisville, Covington, Lexington and Frankfort.
THE HUNT FOR JOE BOLTON
We discovered that a man named Joe Bolton has inside access to nearly 200,000 votes, most of them in the most troubled areas, locations that have a history of vote fraud, family-run government, drug-dealing sheriffs, what-have you.
I don't want to give you the wrong impression. Whether or not you choose to trust Joe -- when we eventually located him we found him to be friendly and forthcoming, but then again, what does that mean? -- at any rate, procedures that give one guy access to voting machines that count nearly 200,000 votes with no oversight whatsoever do not secure and protect voting rights.
Computerized election systems are based on the strange assumption that voters should trust the government and its contractors to count votes in secret. As voting rights attorney Paul Lehto likes to point out, you can no more secure a computer against an insider than you can secure your laptop from yourself.
In 23 Kentucky counties, citizens are required to trust their votes to someone named Joe Bolton, who is not an elected official and who is not even a government employee. They probably don't even know they're trusting Joe with their votes, because newspapers don't mention him and the county clerks have no line item for his checks in their published financial statements.
We went through all manner of investigations trying to even locate Joe Bolton, and those are chronicled in the short video and the full reports. Eventually we caught up with him. He has been programming the voting machines in his home in a remote location that even the county election officials don't know much about.
AMONG THE MOST INTERESTING COMMENTS:
BH = Bev Harris
JB = Joe Bolton
BBV: Okay. Well you've been doing this for 35 years, has anyone ever asked you to do something that made you uncomfortable?
JB: Oh, absolutely, get it all the time, I get that all the time you know. "Could you rig this machine?" And I don't know whether it's a conspiracy or a joke, you know, "Could you rig these machines for me Joe? How much would it cost me?" I've heard that for 35 years.
Joe told us all kinds of things, like the Appalachian tradition of vote-buying -- whatever you may have heard, it is alive and well. He mentioned that his ex-wife, who had been an elections official while they were married, was "run outta town" -- and we soon found out why. She was indicted. This, after her uncle, who was the elections official before her, was also caught stealing.
We have a few more articles to go on the Moonshine series, and then we'll get to the "Godfather elections" series.
The entire voting machine industry and the kingpins -- politicians and bureaucrats -- who run our current election system have based this system on "trust." Our current investigative work explodes the "Trust Me" model altogether. While investigating the Moonshine jurisdictions, we learned a great deal about the specific mechanics of fraud -- information that has been very hard to come by, and without it, proposed remedies won't necessarily work!
We also were delighted to find that a few of the moonshine states have devised innovative methods to dismantle rural pockets of corruption, and we'll share some of those with you as this series progresses, along with some exciting new things citizens can do to protect elections.
You may be getting e-mails from us more frequently over the next three months as we distribute the information we've uncovered during the last several months of under-the-radar investigations. We believe the biggest target for fraud in the 2008 election will be the primaries this time. Let's get ready for it.
Enjoy the articles and video. If you find this unpalatable, wait until you see the next one!
Bev Harris
Founder - Black Box Voting
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Autumn Freedom Road Trip Along the Ohio River: Follow in the steps of the cast for Cincinnati Opera's "Rise for Freedom: The John P. Parker Story" (http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/AB/20071007/ENT03/710070326/; see opera info below in TSTs) to enjoy a beautiful & enlightening day-trip to Ripley, OH, just 1 glorious autumn hour drive up the Ohio River from Cincinnati. Go high on the bluff overlooking the river town to visit the Rankin House that stood as a beacon - literally - for fugitive slaves fleeing across the river from the southern slave states. Appreciate the house's furniture, photographs, papers, & basement & attic nooks where fugitives were hidden. If feeling energetic, walk the 100 steps leading up the hill to the house. Take in the spectacular vista overlooking the river valley. Then go down to Front Street to the John P. Parker museum, home of the African American who bought his own freedom, moved north, & risked his life with minister John Rankin to help guide hundreds of run-away slaves along the Underground Railroad, for which Ripley was a key station (www.freedomcenter.org/learn/underground-railroad/). Experience a bit of what the fugitives felt by either swimming across the Ohio River, as did "Rise for Freedom" librettist David Gonzalez, or catching the ferry 10 miles west of Ripley (2 miles east of Higginsville) & riding across to Augusta, KY, to stroll through another charming river town. More info @ http://ohsweb.ohiohistory.org/places/sw14/index.shtml, www.johnparkerhouse.org, www.higginsportohio.com/places.html.
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Celebrate National Coming Out Day [Thursday 11 October @ 8 PM]: Pride is all year long. The Fourth Annual OUT! True Coming Out Experiences. The Queen City’s best actors will perform the pieces on National Coming Out Day. “And yet another closet door lies in shatters at the base of our family tree.” True stories, essays, recollections, memories, poems, anecdotes, etc. about coming out as gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender & the challenges faced performed by the tri-state area’s best actors. Presented by Know Theatre of Cincinnati. Admission $10 (suggested donation); proceeds benefit Know Theatre of Cincinnati. At Below Zero, 1122 Walnut Street, Cincinnati, OH 45202. More info @ 513.300.KNOW, info@knowtheatre.com, www.knowtheatre.com, & www.hrc.org/issues/coming_out.asp.
Euro Trivia [Register by Thursday 11 October; event is Thursday 18 October, cash bar @ 6 PM, dinner & trivia @ 7 PM]: Expanding on the phenomenal fun & success of Le Trivia sponsored in years past by Alliance Française de Cincinnati, the European-American Chamber of Commerce is proud to present Euro-Trivia, a multimedia game, played in teams of eight. Enjoy a 3-course dinner: a culinary tour of Europe. Tickle your tastebuds with wine tasting & chocolate tasting. Create your own team of 8 with the best possible cultural mix of people. Or companies can sponsor a table to provide visibility to the local international business community, to build company team spirit in a casual atmosphere, & to showcase your company’s international dimension to your employees, clients, & the audience. Corporate table: $600. Individual seat: $50 EACC member, $60 non-member. Space is limited; see registration form @ www.europe-cincinnati.com; RSVP by fax, email, or post (European American Chamber of Commerce, 201 E. 5th St, Cincinnati, OH 45202). At The Phoenix Restaurant, 812 Race, Cincinnati, OH 45202. More info @ 513.852.6510 (tel), 513.852.6511 (fax), eacc@europe-cincinnati.com, & www.europe-cincinnati.com.
Building International Cultural Bridges [Thursday 11 & 25 October @ 7:30 breakfast & register; 8-9:15 AM]: Global business requires leaders to master the art of verbal & non-verbal communication in a variety of different business cultures. These workshops help prepare for cross-cultural communication in an international business environment. Workshops cover countries & business cultures from Scandinavia to the Mediterranean. Participants may request specific countries outside of Europe, e.g., Japan, India, Middle East. The Workshops: Thursday 11 October: The 1st meeting & negotiating the contract - discuss the concept of Individualism vs. Collectivism, plus behavior during business meetings. Thursday 25 October: After the meeting & after-hours - follow-up after business meetings & behavior in social settings; discuss the concept of Uncertainty Avoidance. Workshops are presented by Paul Bergé who has conducted business on 5 continents. He helps companies establish a successful presence overseas. Mr. Bergé speaks 4 languages fluently & is an experienced trainer as adjunct professor at Xavier University. EACC members: $30/workshop; Non-members: $40/workshop. At Gallagher Student Center, Xavier University, Cincinnati, OH. Registration to European-American Chamber of Commerce, 2200 PNC Center, 201 E. 5th Street, Cincinnati, OH 45212. More info @ 513.852.6510, eacc@europe-cincinnati.com, & www.europe-cincinnati.com.
French Film Series [Fridays 12 October @ 7 PM]: Arsène Lupin (2004; 131 min) will be the first in a series of 5 French films co-presented by Alliance Française of Cincinnati & Northern Kentucky University. The film is a retelling of the glamorous life of Arsene Lupin, the celebrated jewel thief of belle époque Europe. Tired of boring rural life at the family's luxurious castle in Normandy, Arsene's father instructs him to steal a necklace once worn by Marie Antoinette. Through twists of fate, Lupin then saves the life of Countess of Cagliostro, beginning their intertwining lives of mutual dependency as alternatingly lovers or enemies. Directed by Jean-Paul Salomé; cast includes Romain Duris, Kristin Scott Thomas, & Marie Bunel. Free. In French with English subtitles. At NKU University Center Room 102 (Budig Auditorium), Nunn Drive, Highland Heights, KY 41099. More info & film synopses @ 513.389.9100, afpostmaster@france-cincinnati.com & www.france-cincinnati.com.
Red Tree Art Opening [Friday 12 October @ 6-9 PM]: A solo show featuring Cincinnati artist Anthony Baysore; an exhibit of a series of his paintings that use hand-cut, multi-layer stencils about bicycle life in the city. Live music & light refreshments. The exhibit runs thru November 5. At Red Tree Gallery, 4409 Brazee Street, Oakley, Cincinnati, OH 45209. More info @ 513.321.8733, mbusch@redtreegallery.net, & www.redtreegallery.net.
Olestra: A Role in Detoxification [Saturday 13 October @ 10 AM]: Ronald Jandacek studies metabolism of lipids; the physical & biological properties of dietary & metabolic fat. He focuses on the development of a rapid method to measure the absorption of dietary fat; this method is currently being tested in a trial at Cincinnati Children's Hospital. He is also studying the interactions of fat with persistent organic pollutants, such as PCBs & DDT. His work includes following the absorption pathways of these materials & searching for ways to remove them from the body; the latter area is the subject of this talk. His website is @ http://gri.uc.edu/individual.php?user_id=331. Free. Presented by Association for Rational Thought. At Molly Malone’s Restaurant, 6111 Montgomery Road, Pleasant Ridge, Cincinnati, OH 45213. More info @ rrdavis@fuse.net & www.cincinnatiskeptcs.org.
Jack & the Beanstalk [Saturday 13 October @ 11 AM]: The story of Jack, the traded cow, his angry mother, the magical beans, & of course the giant are presented by the Frisch Marionettes. Single tickets are $7 for adults & $5 for children. At Covedale Center for the Performing Arts, 4990 Glenway Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45238. More info @ 513.241.6550, Jenniferperrino@covedalecenter.com, & www.cincinnatilandmarkproductions.com/CCPA/find_us.htm.
Tango D'Amore with Artur Gotz & Beata Rusnak [Saturday 13 October @ 7 PM]: Polish actor & singer Artur Gotz is joined by pianist Beata Rusnak for a recital. Presented by the Polish Art Society of Cincinnati. Tickets by reservation or at the door: $20; $15 for students. At the Recital Room, Premier Pianos, 6449 Allen Road, West Chester, OH 45069. More info @ 513.458.5244x106, jbaranki@aol.com, & www.pasc.us.
Acrylic Gels & Grounds Workshop [Saturday 13 October @ 10 AM - 3 PM]: A 1-day hands-on workshop to explore Golden gels & grounds. Applications of iridescent & interference paints for use in realistic or abstract paintings. Create small sample paintings & many test pieces. "Possibilities to make unusual surfaces & textures are limited only by your imagination." These diverse products can be used as supports for watercolors, oil paint, graphite, charcoal, colored pencil, oil, soft pastel, & acrylic. Bring brushes, paper towels, foam paper plates for a palette, colored pencils, dry or oil pastels, & other drawings materials you favor, plus a bag lunch & drink. Paint, gels, & grounds are provided by Golden Artist Colors. Receive free product samples & literature packet with color charts. Fee is $85 plus $10 for materials. At Suder's Art Store, 1309 Vine Street, Cincinnati, OH 45202. More info @ 513.241.0800, 513.681.2477, merlerosen@fuse.net, & www.goldenpaints.com/artist/wap/artist.php?uid=44.
Bringing Dreams into the Body - a Jungian Perspective [Saturday 13 October @ 9:30 AM - 12:30 PM]: A workshop featuring Karen Herrmann, Jungian Analyst, will explore the symbolic language of dreams, & use artistic expression to facilitate the healing process of bringing dreams into the body. The workshop will include experiential activities. Presented by the Greater Cincinnati Friends of Jung. $35 for members; $45 for non-members. At St. John's Unitarian Church, 320 Resor Avenue, Clifton, Cincinnati, OH 45220. More info @ 513.984.2059, sejemoore@aol.com, & www.jungcincinnati.org.
ART Off-Pike Arts & Music Festival [Saturday 13 October @ 11 AM - 7 PM]: Over 50 local & regional juried artists in booths & galleries. Student art exhibit. Music by Drew Thomas, The Medicine Men, The Delusionals, Lagniappe, & Dakota. Wine tasting from local wineries. Performances by My Nose Turns Red's Youth Circus, Boho Dance Troupe, Rueda Dance Team, & the Roving Draw Box. Open galleries, shops, & restaurants on Madison Avenue & short Pike Street. Hand-on activities by Covington's Arts & Cultural Organizations. Parking in lot at Washington & Pike & in the City Garage on West 7th Street 1 block past Madison Avenue. At Pike & West 7th Streets between Madison Avenue, Washington Street & Russell Street, in the heart of the Arts District of Downtown Covington, KY 41011. More info @ 859.491.2220, mburke@fuse.net, & www.20days20nights.com.
Yellow Springs Street Fair [Saturday 13 October @ 9 AM - 6 PM]: Over 200 booths selling fine arts & crafts, clothing, jewelry, fair trade items, unique gifts, massages & much more join the international selection of cuisine from Vietnamese shish-kabob to Mexican empanadas to Thai wraps to hot dogs. But Street Fair in Yellow Springs is much more than an arts & food fair; it's an all-day festival with entertainment throughout the day. The incredible Aerial Angels high-flying acrobats return. Part of the "New Circus" tradition, these amazing women perform feats of grace, beauty & strength on the aerial silk & entertain with their fire-eating & comedy. Local favorites, the Egyptian Breeze Belly Dancers, will delight the crowd throughout the day. Surprise street entertainment will include musicians, clowns, magicians & more. Live music from noon until 6 PM at the Mills Lawn Elementary School next to the Street Fair. Free; handicapped accessible; no pets. Sponsored by the Yellow Springs Chamber of Commerce. At Downtown Yellow Springs, OH 45387. More info & map @ 937.767.2686, info@yellowspringsohio.org, & www.yellowspringsohio.org/street_fair.html.
Rise for Freedom: The John P. Parker Story [Saturday-Sunday 13-14 & 20-21 October @ 3 &/or 7 PM]: Building on the success of its 1st commission, Margaret Garner, Cincinnati Opera has commissioned a family opera based on the life of John P. Parker, a leading local conductor on the Underground Railroad. The project marks the 1st collaboration between composer Adolphus Hailstork & librettist David Gonzalez. Kentucky Symphony Orchestra’s James R. Cassidy will conduct & Sheila Ramsey will direct. In addition to public performances, Cincinnati Opera will present school-day performances & a series of related community programs leading up to the opera’s premiere. Born into slavery in 1827, Parker bought his own freedom at the age of 18. He moved to Cincinnati & settling in the thriving abolitionist community of Ripley, OH, where he worked as the owner of an iron foundry & inventor by day, & Underground Railroad conductor by night. For nearly 15 years, Parker risked his life to help 100s of fugitive slaves escape to freedom. Parker’s story was not widely known until his autobiography, His Promised Land, was published in 1996. His home in Ripley was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1997 & is open to the public (free admission with a Rise for Freedom ticket). Parker’s story is featured in the “Brothers of the Borderland” exhibit at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center. Tickets are $15 for adults & $10 for children. At the Jarson-Kaplan Theater, Aronoff Center, Arts 650 Walnut Street, Cincinnati, OH 45202. More info @ 513.241.2742, jbellin@cincinnatiopera.org, www.cincinnatiopera.org. Schedule a school performance @ 513.977.4116 & finn@cincinnatiarts.org.
Ohio Regional Puppetry Workshop [Saturday-Tuesday 13-16 October; various programs available]: Hosted by the Cincinnati Waldorf School, come join international puppeteer, Suzanne Down, for an evening lecture, 2-day intensive workshop, mini-workshop, or all three. Ms. Down will share the concepts behind the "healing art of puppetry." Ideal for healthcare providers, librarians, early childhood teachers, grandparents, & parents. Prices vary by program. At Cincinnati Waldorf School, 745 Derby Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45232. More info, details, prices, & registration flyer @ 513.541.0220 ext. 38 & www.cincinnatiwaldorfschool.org.
Black Cat Party & Open House [Sunday 14 October @ 1-4 PM]: O'Bryonville Animal Rescue presents a festive party & open house with refreshments, raffle baskets, old & new friends, & lots of kittens & cats to love. No RSVP required. Raffle tix @ www.theanimalrescue.com/open_house.html. At 5619 Orlando Place, Madisonville, Cincinnati, OH 45227. More info @ 513.871.7297 & www.theAnimalRescue.com.
The Dragon of Wawel Hill [Sunday 14 October @ 2 PM]: The most famous dragon in Poland is the legendary Smok Wawelski. This is the story of how the beast met his terrible end & how the city of Krakow got its name. Presented by Polish actor & singer Artur Gotz Sponsored by Polish Art Society of Cincinnati & Nativity School. Tickets are $5 before performance. At Nativity School, 5936 Ridge Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45213. More info @ dragonfromwawelhill@gmail.com, www.pasc.us, www.nativity-cincinnati.org, www.arturgotz.prv.pl, & www.icbleu.org/artur/dragonwawel.htm.
Artists Workshops: Learn a variety of drawing & painting experiences reinforced by an exposure to art history & the fundamentals of art. Weekly subject matter includes still life, figure drawing, & portraiture. Participants will draw & paint with media including charcoal, pastels, acrylic & watercolors. Enjoy a time of creativity & fun. Instructor is Jennifer Bortz Schneider.
<> Drawing & Painting for Adults [Thursdays 18 & 25 October & 1 November @ 7-9 PM]: $45 & $15 supply fee.
<> Drawing & Painting for Kids [Saturdays 20 & 27 October @ 9-11 AM]: $35 & $10 supply fee. Open to grades 3-8.
Both workshops at Redtree Art Gallery & Coffee Shop, 4409 Brazee Street, Oakley, Cincinnati, OH 45209. More info @ 513.321.8733, mbusch@redtreegallery.net, & www.redtreegallery.net.
Matthew Barney: No Restraint Kicks-Off Film Series [Friday 19 October @ 7:30 PM]: Manifest Creative Research Gallery & Drawing Center begins its 3rd season of Art & Design on Film (ADF) Series. The series strives to present short & feature films from local & international filmmakers, students & professionals, from around the world. Seven screenings are scheduled for this series: 3 will feature professional work; 4 will feature juried selections from submitted entries. The series runs thru 20 June 2008. Free. Refreshments provided. The series opens with "Matthew Barney: No Restraint" (2007; 72 min), a documentary that follows the contemporary artist & his collaborator, singer-songwriter Bjork, through his most recent artistic project, Drawing Restraint 9. The project uses 22 tons of petroleum jelly, a factory whaling vessel, & traditional Japanese rituals to realize a “narrative sculpture” of 2 characters transforming into whales. Filmed in New York & Nagasaki, the film is a study of Barney’s creative method, including interviews with Barney, Bjork, & contemporary art critics & theorists. An Official Selection of film festivals in LA, Buenos Aires, & Berlin. At Manifest Gallery, 2727 Woodburn Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45206. More info @ 513.861.3638, news@manifestgallery.org, www.matthewbarneynorestraint.com, & www.manifestgallery.org/adf.
Embracing Diversity [Friday 19 October @ 8:30 AM - Noon]: The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, Global Lead Management Consulting, & the Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber present a seminar that goes beyond diversity awareness to the practical application of the key skills related to diversity & inclusion, which can positively impact your business. Samuel E. Lynch, co-founder of Global Lead Management Consulting, will illustrate how understanding the differences of others' thinking & working styles can benefit you when building relationships, forming teams, & obtaining & retaining customers. Lynch has over 25 years of consulting experience focusing on strategic planning, diversity & inclusion, & is responsible for training & development at Global Lead. Cost to attend is $250 per person; bring 2-3 people from the same organization & get $50 off each registration. At the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, 50 East Freedom Way, Cincinnati, OH 45202. More info & registration @ 513.579.3111, community@freedomcenter.org, & www.cincinnatichamber.com.
Greater Cincinnati Calligraphers' Guild Open House [Saturday 20 October @ 10 AM & Noon - 2 PM]: Teachers, students, & anyone interested in the lettering arts are all invited to this open house. At 10 AM, attend a Teachers Testimonial, an informal sharing of how to best instruct calligraphy. Informational packets will be provided to teachers. From noon until 2 PM, lettering demonstrations will feature the styles of Roman/Foundational, Black Letter/Uncial, Italic, & Script. There will also be demonstrations of fun & helpful lettering tools, an exhibit of Guild members' work, & slide presentations of high school student work & the 2007 International Calligraphy Conference. At Cincinnati Junior League Hall, 3500 Columbia Parkway, Cincinnati, OH 45226. More info @ 513.791.8100 & klm225@cinci.rr.com.
Cincinnati Fire Ball [Saturday 20 October @ 8 PM]: The hottest party of the year; party until the fire goes out. Benefit for the Cincinnati Fire Museum. Red Hot attire requested; wear something red. Live music, open bar, hor d'oeuvers, complimentary parking. $50 per ticket. At the Cincinnati Fire Museum, 315 West Court Street, Downtown Cincinnati, OH 45202. More info & tix @ 513.621.5553x13, cincyfiremuseum@yahoo.com, & www.CincyFireball.com.
2007 Women's Day of Prayer [Register before 20 October & save $10; Event is Saturday 3 November @ 10 AM - 3 PM]: An interfaith dialogue in dance. Creative movement runs deeper than dogmas & suspicions. It opens our primordial voices. Women of diverse spiritualities will be guided by Fanchon Shur in an embodied dialogue. The event will combine personal reflection & creative ritual-making. Participation is limited. $25 registration before 20 October, $35 afterwards, ask about scholarships. At Corryville Community Center, 2823 Eden Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45202. More info & registration @ 513 542-7334 & JBlackburn@fuse.net.
Midnight Ramble - Film Screening [Saturday-Sunday 20-21 October @ 2 PM]: "Midnight ramble" was a phrase used to describe a custom of African-American audiences to attend movies between midnight & 2 AM at segregated or black-only movie theatres. "Race movies" were those created by independent black filmmakers in the 1st half of the 20th Century. Cincinnati World Cinema will present "Midnight Ramble," the story of the black film industry from 1910 to 1950, highlighting the 500+ race movies, the filmmakers, & their impact on American society. The film documents the emergence of black cinema in America, providing insight into black American culture & society from 1910 thru WWII. In contrast & in response to negative stereotypes perpetuated by Hollywood, these films portrayed black values & lifestyles in a more realistic way; genres included romance, comedy, mystery, drama, musical & western. Many of these films addressed topics avoided by Hollywood: racism, religion, personal responsibility, poverty, crime & alcoholism. The film includes several Cincinnati connections; for example, learn how vocalist Herbert Jeffrey's visit to Cincinnati in the 1930s inspired him to create a series of black cowboy movies & to become America's 1st black singing movie cowboy. Producer Pamela Thomas will talk after each screening about director Oscar Micheaux, race movies, & early black cinema in America. Tickets: $9 for general public; $7 for students & Art Museum members. At Fath Auditorium, Cincinnati Art Museum, 953 Eden Park Drive, Cincinnati, OH 45202. More info @ 859.781.8151, worldcinema@fuse.net, & www.CincyWorldCinema.org.
Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption Concert Series [Sunday 21 October & intermittent Sundays thru 9 March 2008 @ 3 PM]: The Series presents instrumental & choral music from the rich traditions of western liturgy & inspired classical music, presented in a suitable visual & acoustic environment. Donations support all series expenses & costs to preserve the Historic Matthias Schwab Organ (1859). In other words, the Cathedral Concert Series combines music of extraordinary range & quality in arguably the region's most magnificent space. Concerts include Musica Sacra Chorus & Orchestra, Vocal Arts Ensemble of Cincinnati, Advent Festival of Lessons & Carols, An Epiphany Epilogue, Concert in Memory of Dr. Louis Schwab, & JS Bach's 323rd Birthday. At St. Mary's Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption, 1140 Madison Avenue, Covington, KY 41011. More info @ 859-431-2060, timbrel@fuse.net, & www.cathedralconcertseries.org.
Ongoing Tri-State Treasures
2007 Cincinnati Israeli Film Festival [thru Sunday 21 October]: This annual festival, presented by the Jewish Federation of Cincinnati, showcases some of the best films from Israel. This year's festival boasts 16 films: romantic comedies, family dramas, documentaries. Films explore Israeli culture & people, while tackling issues that of universal relevance. The Festival primary venue is the Kenwood Towne Centre Theatre; additional venues are Cedar Village, University of Cincinnati, Xavier University, Center for Holocaust & Humanity Education, National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, & Miami University; screenings at these other venues are free with student I.D. The Festival closes with the documentary "Souvenirs," with Israeli director Shachar Cohen taking Q&A at a chocolate dessert reception after the film. Closing night will kick off community-wide Israel@60 celebrations. A special screening of "I Am You Are" will be shown Sunday 4 November @ 5:30 PM @ National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, followed by discussion. This film documents Israeli & Palestinian teens building mutual understanding & respect through film. Tickets are $8/person; $6/seniors 65+. Films include English subtitles & mature subject matter. At Kenwood Towne Centre Theatre, 7875 Montgomery Road, Cincinnati, OH 45236. More info, schedule, film descriptions, & tix @ 513.985.1500, dbrundage@jfedcin.org, & www.jewishcincinnati.org/filmfestival.
Miami University Italian Cinema Series [Tuesdays thru 4 December @ 7:30 PM]: Curated & presented by Professor Sante Matteo. Movies are in Italian with English subtitles, unless otherwise noted. Free & open to the public. In 46 Culler Hall (north side of Spring Street, 2 buildings west of Route 27 (Patterson Street), Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056. More info @ matteos@muohio.edu & www.miami.muohio.edu/about_miami/campusmap/.
Oct 16: Django (Sergio Corbucci, 1966, dubbed in English)
Oct 23: La strategia del ragno (The Spider’s Strategy, Bernardo Bertolucci, 1969)
Oct 30: Una breve vacanza (A Brief Vacation, Vittorio De Sica, 1973)
Nov 6: Pasqualino Settebellezze (Seven Beauties, Lina Wertmuller, 1976)
Nov 13: Lamerica (Gianni Amelio, 1994)
Nov 27: La meglio gioventù, I (The Best of Youth, Marco Tullio Giordana, 2003)
Dec 4: La meglio gioventù, II (The Best of Youth, Marco Tullio Giordana, 2003)
Guided Walking Tours of Downtown Cincinnati [2 weekends per month thru October]: Guided walking tours of various Cincinnati neighborhoods, focusing on the history & architecture of the areas. The tours are conducted by a group of trained volunteers organized by the Cincinnati Preservation Association. Six tours cover areas such as Downtown, Over The Rhine, Mount Adams, & Clifton. More info including schedule @ www.cincinnatipreservation.org/architreks.html.
A Slave Ship Speaks: The Wreck of the Henrietta Marie [thru December 31]: This is the 1st major traveling exhibit devoted to the transatlantic slave trade, focusing on the Henrietta Marie, the most complete slave ship ever discovered in the western hemisphere & the only one to be fully identified, recorded, archeologically examined & preserved. This exhibit examines the economic & social forces that drove the slave trade & provides insight into its impact on the material life & culture of Europe, Africa & the Americas. This exhibit uses artifacts & the ship’s records as touchstones for the entering the daily lives of the Africans on board, the seamen who manned the ship, & the traders who ran this notorious enterprise. National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, 50 East Freedom Way, Cincinnati OH 45202. More info @ 513.333.7500, ETurner@nurfc.org, & www.freedomcenter.org.
Pure Movement Dance Class: All In One [Mondays @ 6:30-8 PM & Wednesdays @ 9:30-11 AM thru December]: “Motion is Life. Taste It. Feel It. Honor It.” Offering cardio aerobic based movement class supported by personal attention to individual alignment & exploration of authentic expression. All classes have a stretching & strengthening warm up that expands your range of motion. The class achieves a balance between dynamic arousal & meditative peace. Four consecutive classes @ $12 per class. Individual classes @ $20. Free introductory class with Fanchon Shur, Growth In Motion Inc. master teacher. At 4019 Red Bud Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45229. More info @ 513.221.3222, fanchon@growthinmotion.org, & www.growthinmotion.org.
Julian's Stanczak Exhibition [thru 3 February 2008]: The exhibit of work by this internationally significant artist coincides with the unveiling of his design for Fifth Third Bank's 6th Street Façade facing the CAC. In addition to the models & preparatory drawings, a collection of Julian Stanczak's work from throughout his career provide a context for his newest monumental project. Polish-born Stanczak trained under Josef Albers & Conrad Marca-Relli at Yale University's School of Art & Architecture. He brought this background to the Art Academy of Cincinnati where he taught from 1957-1964. Stanczak's work is characterized by scientific precision & the illusion of pulsating motion. Using repeated line patterns, his work studies the optical behavior of colors in close proximity to each other. His work earned him the moniker "Father of Op Art." At Contemporary Art Center, 44 East 6th Street, Cincinnati, OH 45202. More info @ 513.345.8400, pr@cacmail.org, & www.contemporaryartscenter.org.
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Tri-State Treasures is compiled by James Kesner.
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