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An activist's experience of the planning process
No full textThis article provides a look at the planning
process in Ontario from the point of view
of a citizen. Ben Bennett is representing
Residents for Sustainable Development in
Guelph, which opposes two big-box proposals
before the Ontario Municipal
Board. As co-author of a new book on
what has become a seven-year-long saga,
Bennett shares his insights into the planning
profession and the system from the
perspective of a non-lawyer and nonplanner.
The proposals, one anchored by
Wal-Mart, the other by Zellers, were
rejected by city council in the late spring
of 1997. The date for the hearing was
originally set for July 1998, but was
repeatedly delayed. After five years of
legal wrangling, court challenges and
political intrigue, the hearing finally got
under way in April of this year. It is scheduled
to run for twenty weeks.Le présent article trace le portrait de
l'aménagement urbain en Ontario tel que
perçu par un citoyen. Ben Bennett, porteparole
du groupement Citoyens pour un
développement durable, de Guelph, auprès
de la Commission des affaires municipales
de l'Ontario, s'oppose à deux projets de
grande surface. Co-auteur d'un livre
traitant de la situation qui dure maintenant
depuis sept ans, Ben Bennett nous fait part
de ses réflexions sur la profession du point
de vue d'un intervenant qui n'est ni
urbaniste ni avocat. Les projets, l'un
présenté pour Wal-Mart, l'autre pour
Zellers, furent rejetés par le conseil
municipal à la fin du printemps 1997. Une
audience, prévue pour juillet 1998 et
reportée plusieurs fois, après cinq ans de
contestations, de guérilla juridique et
d'intrigues, sera tenue en avril 2002 pour
une durée de quelque 20 semaines.https://viurrspace.ca/bitstream/handle/10613/5482/Article003.pdf?sequence=3Abstract in English and French; text in English
Ben L. Bennett letter to Warren G. Harding, December 5, 1919
No full textIn this letter dated December 5, 1919, Ben L. Bennett, secretary of the Republican County Executive Committee of Columbiana County, Ohio, writes to Senator Warren G. Harding stating that the Committee has adopted a resolution to support his campaign in the 1920 presidential election. The resolution reads "Be it resolved that the candidacy of Warren G. Harding for United States Senator be endorsed and that this Committee express to the said Warren G. Harding its desire that he be a candidate for the Presidency and hereby pledge to him our endeavors in his behalf." After he announced his decision to run for president, Harding received many letters and resolutions, like this one, from Ohio businesses and organizations formally pledging their support of his campaign.
This letter is part of the Warren G. Harding Papers (MSS 345). This collection includes correspondence, business records, and other materials documenting Harding’s business career as owner and editor-in-chief of The Daily Marion Star, as well as the various stages of his political career. A significant portion of the collection, and what’s available on Ohio Memory, highlights his 1920 presidential campaign, spanning just before publicly announcing his candidacy to handily defeating Ohio Governor James M. Cox in the election. Correspondents include both Ohio and national businessmen, political figures, and ordinary citizens writing with questions, support, congratulatory notes, and campaign advice. Some of the most interesting insights into the tumultuous political climate in the U.S., the extreme factionalism within the Republican Party in Ohio, and Harding’s campaign strategies are described in letters between Harding and his campaign manager, Harry M. Daugherty. Some of the topics addressed include women’s suffrage, Prohibition, the League of Nations, African American representation and issues, and lingering peace negotiations following World War I
Weisheit von Sirach
No full text"Ben Sira, wisdom of (also called Ecclesiasticus), a work of the Apocrypha, which, though usually known by this name, may have been called by its author, "The Words of Simeon b. Jeshua," the title found on the Hebrew fragments" (Encyc. Judaica, CD-Rom Ed., 1997)Erscheinungsjahr nach Vorlage: 279 [i.e. 1519]Ben Sira folgen noch eine Reihe anderer Abhandlungen cf. Steinschneider p. 203 No. 1363. Die wichtigsten NZ!Siehe auch Karl Heinz Burmeister, Sebastian Münster, in: Basler Beiträge zur Geschichtswissenschaft, Bd. 91, 1963, S. 8
Autoworker and acclaimed author Ben Hamper speaks at the Michigan Writers Series
No full textIn an appearance at the Michigan State University Main Library, autoworker and acclaimed author Ben Hamper talks about his career at the General Motors Truck and Bus Plant in Flint, Michigan and reads from various works, including his forward to the book "Working words: punching the clock and kicking out the jams" by M. L. Liebler and from his most famous work, "Rivethead", a cynical and humorous view of life in an auto plant. A question and answer session follows. Hamper is introduced by Michigan State University Professor John P. Beck for the Michigan State University Libraries' Michigan Writers Series
Martin Loughlin, Public Law and Political Theory
No full textIn this chapter, Ben Yong discusses Martin Loughlin’s Public Law and Political Theory. Drawing in part on conversation with the author, Yong explores the significance of a book that, despite interrogating the nature of public law as a discipline in a novel and methodologically important way, is often poorly understood
Idan Ben-Barak: Cook Prize 2024, Silver Medal Acceptance Speech.
No full textAuthor Idan Ben-Barak gives an acceptance speech for We Go Way Back (Roaring Brook Press)https://educate.bankstreet.edu/cook/1010/thumbnail.jp
Book review: Contemporary Scottish plays, edited by Trish Reid
No full textBook review: Contemporary Scottish plays, edited by Trish Reid. London:
Bloomsbury, 2014; ISBN: 9781472574435 (£17.99)Publisher PD
Habit, Attention, Governance
No full textIn this chapter, the author takes the relations between habit and attention as his point of entry into a broader set of questions concerning how we should write habit’s political histories and the lessons that we should derive from such histories regarding habit’s role in governing practices. The role of habit in the governance of conduct is thus inseparable from its role in this broader set of relations, requiring its redefinition as ‘an engineering issue’ involving ‘the establishment of arts of education and social guidance’. The author focuses on the work of Sara Ahmed in developing an 'archival perspective' as a means of engaging with the complex sets of such relations in which habit’s varied political uses are inscribed. If habit thus forms a part of the mental states that have to be eliminated if voluntary attention is to be produced, it also plays a positive role in the processes through which such attention is produced and sustained
War that never ends
No full textSet against the backdrop of the impending 1991 Persian Gulf War, Thucydides' history of the events leading up to the 27-year Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta is re-enacted. The film demonstrates, by using simple staging and plain costumes, that the politics of men and nations on the verge of war have changed little since ancient times.Cast: Alec McCowen, John Bennett, David Calder, Ben Kingsley. Editor, Spencer Hill ; music, Leo Cottakis
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