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Terry was charged with endangering the welfare of a child, then released to await court proceedings.
Meet the Beatles is essentially a shorter version of With the Beatles, the band's simultaneously released second British album, and it leans heavily on original songs. Kicking off with the brilliant guitar riff that ignites I Want to Hold Your Hand, Meet the Beatles runs through John Lennon's vibrant vocal charge on It Won't Be Long, Paul McCartney's jubilant lead on All My Loving and George Harrison's discreetly moody Don't Bother Me (the last proving, even then, that there were three masterful songwriters in the band).
The Beatles' Second Album was the party record, a platter dominated by hearty covers of pop, rock and even Motown staples (the band makes the 1963 Marvelettes hit Please Mr. Postman very much their own). But the closing one-two punch I'll Get You and She Loves You affirms the composition prowess of the Lennon-McCartney team.
These records hardly mark the beginning of The Beatles. But as far as the American chapters of the saga are concerned, they remain the albums that opened the floodgates of Beatlemania.
Educational curricula, systems, and approaches differ among cities, provinces, and countries around the world. Yet, educators struggle with some similar issues. Facing History and Ourselves, a global educational nonprofit, whose mission is to engage students of diverse backgrounds in an examination of racism, prejudice, and anti-Semitism in order to promote the development of a more humane and informed citizenry, recently facilitated a week-long Advanced International Seminar hosted by North Country Day School to explore these issues. Karen Murphy, International Director for Facing History and Ourselves, shares the lessons they learned.
Join Facing History on #GlobalEdChat this Thursday, September 29, 2016 at 8pm ET on Twitter to discuss teaching civics and this election cycle.
How do we guide the development of civic actors who have the skills, knowledge, and dispositions to support and nurture democracy?
How do we help young people navigate the complex historical legacies they have inherited and understand the ways that identity is powerfully implicated in this process?
And, how do we, as educators, confront these issues ourselves, recognizing the power of our roles and the implications of the narratives we construct for our students in terms of what we teach and don't; how we teach; what we see and don't see; connections we make and don't make?
Community building is not a one-off effort.
Creating a challenging, safe, reflective, and inclusive space requires ongoing effort. Students need opportunities to work alone, in pairs, in small groups, and in big circles where they can see each other and sit side by side. They also need opportunities to have fun together and work on common projects and goals. We need to be explicit about these efforts, what we are doing and why, and provide opportunities for students to imagine their own community building processes. We also need to address things when they don't go well, when we miss the mark in some way.
Create time and space for new knowledge to challenge existing narratives and assumptions. Help students to first recognize that they see things a certain way, then allow them the time to think about their beliefs when new knowledge and perspectives are introduced.
Help young people better understand and navigate their complex civic and historical inheritance. Identity and membership are inextricably bound in these legacies and must be made visible. Acknowledgment of a violent past is an essential component for creating the conditions for reconciliation in divided societies. Avoiding this work or cloaking it in silence to protect young people from it will not help them in their work as citizens. It will hamstring them, obstruct relationship building, and the creation of inclusive communities. Too often it's the victims of violence, hatred, and prejudice who bear the burden of making history visible and providing evidence of ongoing violations.
Provide students with positive examples of human behavior and decision making. Young people need imaginable, accessible, and inspiring models. Integrate these stories throughout your curricula. Students need to see these efforts and the persistence and patience they require. They also need hope.
Democracy and inclusive, just civil societies require critical knowledge, skills, and behaviors. An example of a skill is deliberation. It's the ability to articulate one's ideas based on evidence and engage in a considered conversation on a controversial or difficult issue, listening to different points of view and weighing them. Sometimes it means sitting with these competing perspectives and coming to an understanding that you will not resolve your differences but you can find a way forward. Negotiation takes practice and can begin in small ways by discussing topics with lower stakes. Democratic citizenship is not a zero sum game.
Border crossing is essential. Segregation persists in many societies, especially those with identity-based divisions and conflicts. Identity based isolation weakens democracies and makes them more fragile. Relationship building takes time and has to happen in light of historical events, not in spite of them. Physical engagement might not always be possible. If virtual exchanges are the only possibility, they must be thoughtful and well facilitated.
Mass violence and terrorism are real, but not normal. Young people are coming of age in a time of war, genocide, terrorism, and, in some places, regular violence within their communities. Avoiding these events does not help our students to manage them. We can help them cope by allowing them to share their thoughts and feelings; by helping them to recognize misinformation and misperceptions; by allowing them to learn about and mourn the victims; and by helping them to recognize stereotyping and other forms of prejudice that have often accompanied these events. We need to simultaneously help students cope while rejecting mass violence and terrorism as "the way things are."
Acknowledge democratic and civil practices when you see, hear, and feel them. Becoming an ethical civic actor with the capacities to protect and nurture democracy is learned. It does not trickle down. When your students do this work, acknowledge it and encourage them to acknowledge each other. You might cultivate this practice among your colleagues as well. Democracy is not something that we master. We've got to work on it all the time and value it when we see it in action.
By the end of the seminar, we had begun to create a vibrant, trusting, and reflective community. It was both challenging and revitalizing. We modeled together what we hope to create—in our classrooms, communities, and our societies. The more we reach across borders and share what we know—or the challenges we face—the more we can continue to build upon that community.
Connect with Facing History and the Center for Global Education at Asia Society on Twitter.
Photo courtesy of Facing History and Ourselves.
WESTFORD, MA: NetScout Systems Inc., a provider of enterprise-wide network and application performance management products and solutions, today announced that it has acquired the business and assets of privately held Quantiva Inc., a provider of automated analytics solutions for application performance management, for approximately $9 million in cash.
The acquisition will extend NetScout's unified network and application performance management solution by automating the process of detecting and diagnosing performance problems before they significantly impact IT end users.
Quantiva's patent-pending technology uses real time performance metrics collected from third party instrumentation (now to include NetScout's nGenius System) to establish statistically expected behavior values using advanced modeling and analytics. When a measurement such as the response time of a critical business application or jitter in a voice call is recognized as being outside of the expected range, Quantiva's software automatically performs further analysis to determine the likely cause.
"NetScout customers have been asking for more effective ways to leverage our rich performance data to directly improve service performance. Their goal is to detect potential problems before they impact application end users," said Anil Singhal, president and CEO of NetScout Systems. "Combining our superior data set with Quantiva's data-driven anomaly detection and Progressive Analytics technology, we can shorten both the time to detect problems and the time to fix them. Although other vendors are trying to solve this problem, their results are limited by a lack of access to highly granular flow-based performance data spanning the network, the servers, and the applications."
"NetScout has completed the task of consolidating performance data from many sources in complex environments through our CDM technology," continued Singhal. "Our next step is to help our users put this data set to use in the business-focused, proactive management of their mission-critical network and application services. We consider automating performance management as a key step toward the autonomic application delivery infrastructure that the IT industry is now defining."
When we heard that big-city ladies were dropping big bucks to get their hair professionally blow-dried, we shook our heads a bit. Then when we heard that King Street was getting its very own blow dry bar in the form of Tease Dry Bar, we laughed. We have indeed enjoyed the effects of a good blow-out, but pay $50 for something that'll last a day? We think not. Luckily, Tease's prices are a little more reasonable (starting at $35), and they offer a full range of styling options. It's actually pretty convenient to just pop in for a quick 'do before a date or event. Not that we've done that, ever. Because $35 is still a little too much for our poor journalista salaries.
AMES, Iowa -- Approximately 350 people gathered in Ames on Sunday night to push back against the white supremacist message displayed in Virginia over the weekend.
A rally took place at Bandshell Park, where people shared songs, poetry, and stories to promote peace. The crowd then marched down Main Street with signs asking for action. Organizers laid out the difference they see between their rally and the one in Charlottesville.
"The most important thing is it starts from a framework of love," said organizer Josh Hall. "So if our foundation is love and community, then these should look different. They should have a different feel and tone to them. The types of people involved are in some ways going to police themselves in going, 'hey, does this meet our values of inclusion?'"
Geena Davis received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center at Boston University and the Bette Davis Foundation last Friday evening, March 28. The ceremony marked the opening of “Geena Davis: Actress and Advocate,” an archival exhibit detailing Davis’ Academy-award winning career in film, as well as her advocacy for equal gender representation in media.
Davis started the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media in 2004 after watching family movies with her daughter, who’s now twelve, and noticing a severe under-representation of female characters. The non-profit research entity studies gender representation in film and television, particularly media aimed at young audiences. It works to reduce stereotypes of women by bringing attention to disparities in family films. Research from the last decade showed fewer than 1/3 characters in family films are female, and more than 95% of C-suite characters are male.
The institute is now the leading source of research on gender depictions in media. In 2013, it partnered with the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality for a global study that will be presented at the Second Global Symposium on Gender in Media in the Fall of 2014.
I started off calling this one “Size” or “Weight”, but the reality is that in terms of the actual specifications, the iPad and Surface RT are identical in thickness at 0.37 inches each, and the difference in weight seems negligible. The iPad weighs 1.44 pounds compared to 1.5 pounds for the Surface RT. There is no cellular Surface RT option, but the 4G iPad weighs slightly more than its Wi-Fi only sibling at 1.46 pounds.
The mileage varies, though, once you get them out of the box. For starters, the overall weight and thickness are affected by your choice of case. There seems to be something intangible, though, that makes the iPad feel thinner and lighter when you’re holding it. Part of this is related to how the iPad's curved edges compare with the thicker, more angular sides of the Surface RT. Then there's the distribution of weight; although the tablets weigh virtually the same, the iPad is shorter and wider. When held in one hand in portrait mode, the Surface RT feels heavier than Apple's tablet.
State Rep. Brady Walkinshaw: "It's become so palpable to me the fear and pain this legislation is creating for so many people just trying to lead their private lives."
The Washington state Senate, on a 25-24 vote, has defeated legislation that would have repealed a new rule allowing transgender people to use restrooms and locker rooms of the gender with which they identify.
"Thank God the bill died," Sen. Kevin Ranker, D-Orcas, wrote on his Facebook page after the vote.
Conservative Republican legislators, and allies in such groups as the Family Policy Institute, have made limiting civil rights of transgender teenagers a major objective in this year's session of the Legislature.
They have attacked a recent rule by the state's Human Rights Commission that transgender persons can use public restrooms of their choice.
SB 6443, sponsored by Sen. Doug Ericksen, R-Ferndale, would have repealed the rule and forbade the Human Rights Commission from again taking up the issue. It cleared committee last week and reached the Senate floor on Wednesday.
A trio of Republicans from the eastern part of King County -- Sens. Andy Hill, Steve Litzow and Joe Fain -- supplied the votes that defeated the legislation.
"Legislation to create more uncertainty and reduce the rights of any minority does more to divide us than to bring equality," Litzow said after the vote.
"This provides our state with a powerful opportunity to educate more people about our transgender community members and the struggles and discrimination they already face."
One Democratic lawmaker, Sen. Jim Hargrove, D-Hoquiam, voted in favor of the legislation. So did a titular Democrat, Sen. Tim Sheldon, D-Potlach, who endorses Republicans and caucuses with them in Olympia.
The issue has stirred emotional debate.
"It's become so palpable to me, the fear and pain this legislation is creating for so many people just trying to lead their private lives," Rep. Brady Walkinshaw, D-Seattle, wrote Wednesday on his Facebook page.
To which Ranker added: "The fact that they (Republicans) would allow it to come to the (Senate) floor for a vote makes me question their values as well."
State Sen. Marko Liias, D-Lynwood, argued: "Transgender people aren't some nameless, faceless group. They are our friends and neighbors, our children and our parents. They face tremendous challenges fitting into our society, and we should work to welcome them -- not exclude them."
A supporter of the "bathroom bill," Rep. Matt Manweller, D-Ellensburg, recently tweeted: "It looks like the new 'let men in women's bathroom' rule DOES apply to schools. Nice job, Dems. Repeal the rule now or we'll see you in November."
While the Eastside Republican trio opposed the "bathroom bill," five Puget Sound-area Republican senators were among its supporters.
They include Ericksen, as well as Sen. Barbara Bailey, R-Oak Harbor, Pierce County Sens. Bruce Dammeier and Steve O'Ban, and Kitsap County Sen. Jan Angel.
"We did it. WE KILLED THE BILL. Thank all D's except Sen. Hargrove and thank Sen. Hill, Sen. Litzow & Sen. Fain -- all R's who were with us."
Curiously, Litzow supplied a key vote for LGBT rights within hours of being pilloried in The Stranger.
September 19, 2018 music news.
The rally for U.S. Senate candidate Beto O’Rourke, set for Sept. 29 at Auditorium Shores, was already destined to be a Texas-sized spectacle with local legend Willie Nelson headlining. On Wednesday afternoon, the show got even bigger as Leon Bridges, who recently sold out two nights at ACL Live, announced plans to join the bill.
“Elections are coming up — so make sure you exercise your right to vote. Texas Forever,” he added.
Nelson and Bridges will share the bill with Joe Ely, Carrie Rodriguez, Tameca Jones, and Nelson’s sons Lukas and Micah Nelson.
Admission to the concert and rally is free but requires an RSVP via O’Rourke’s website.
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – A vote that would cap the number of ride share cars in the city happens this week, but Uber and Lyft have spent thousands to try to stop it.
Ride share companies are doing everything in their power to keep Manhattan streets open to their cars, and through commercials and social media they’re asking customers to help, reports CBS2’s Clark Fouraker.
“We’d like a little more time to sit down and talk to the council about this, because this whole process is moving so fast,” said Joseph Okpaku, vice-president of public policy for Lyft, noting that customers have sent thousands of emails to the city council.
If passed, New York would be one of the first cities to cap the number of ride-hail vehicles by freezing new licenses for 12 months.
Instead of a car cap, companies like Lyft and Uber want comprehensive congestion pricing that applies to not only ride share cars, but also public transit and personal cars.
Such a move would requires state approval.
The debate over the cap stems from how to solve increasing congestion in the city. The city says a study shows 42 percent of the time, the ride share cars are empty.
But ride share companies say a cap will force even more cars to come to Manhattan, creating an absence of rides in the outer boroughs.
“There is no reason beyond corporate greed why there would not be a cap on the number of vehicles,” said New York Taxi Workers Alliance executive director Bhairavi Desai.
On Monday, a gathering of Uber and Lyft drivers rallied in support of the cap and the New York City Council’s pledge to ensure a livable wage.
“Our data shows (drivers) are making about $17 per hour after expenses,” said Okpaku.
Ride share companies want more time to discuss how to handle saturation, but the city council says they’ll still plan to vote Wednesday.
The taxi and limousine commission says there are about 130,000 ride share cars on the road.
The cap, if approved, would not let companies re-hire if a driver quits.
They say their attrition rate is about 25 percent.
General government revenue (% of GDP) for Indonesia in year 2015 is 14.828 %. Revenue consists of taxes, social contributions, grants receivable, and other revenue. Revenue increases government?s net worth, which is the difference between its assets and liabilities (GFSM 2001, paragraph 4.20). Note: Transactions that merely change the composition of the balance sheet do not change the net worth position, for example, proceeds from sales of nonfinancial and financial assets or incurrence of liabilities.
This makes Indonesia No. 177 in world rankings according to General government revenue (% of GDP) in year 2015. The world's average General government revenue (% of GDP) value is 30.23 %; Indonesia is 15.40 less than the average.
In the previous year, 2014, General government revenue (% of GDP) for Indonesia was 16.47 % General government revenue (% of GDP) for Indonesia in 2015 was or will be 9.95% less than it was or will be in 2014.
In the following or forecasted year, 2016, General government revenue (% of GDP) for Indonesia was or will be 13.97 %, which is 5.81% less than the 2015 figure.
NORAH O'DONNELL: You've called your party 'lazy' and 'complacent' – that you're only reaching out to – you know, people like yourselves. Do you think there's agreement among other people in your party that that's the problem?"
Moments earlier, King connected the first part of the interview segment, which was about President Obama's handling of ISIS, to a discussion about Ryan's book, "The Way Forward: Renewing the American Idea." She asked, "When you look at this situation, do you think, 'I wish that this was a job that we were doing; that the Republican Party was doing; that we were in charge?'"
REP. PAUL RYAN, (R), WISCONSIN: We need to be a more inclusive, more aspirational party. We need to be a majoritarian party. And what I'm trying to articulate here, is if you don't like the direction we're headed – which I don't, and many people agree with that – it's not enough to criticize. We need to propose alternatives. We need to say how we would do things differently. And we need to be a party that's inclusive, principled, and aspirational, and capable of winning a majority of Americans. We can't have an Electoral College strategy with a margin of error of one state, which is kind of what we're down to right now.
And so, what I'm trying to articulate here is the ability to have a bigger conservative movement that can bring people in, and be capable of winning national elections and fixing this country's big problems, which, in my opinion, are going un-dealt with – unattended.
O'Donnell then quoted her guest's "'lazy' and 'complacent'" labels of the GOP. The Wisconsin congressman responded, in part, that "I would argue that we have...a different governing philosophy than the President's, and we need to show how we apply that philosophy – an inclusive philosophy – one that uses first principles to actually get out of the rut people are in in this country. And yes, I don't think the economy or the country is heading in the right direction."
CHARLIE ROSE: And who best can articulate those visions in the 2016 presidential election?
RYAN: We will find out. I don't know the answer to that question yet. What matters to me is that we get the policies right. What matters to me is that we offer people an alternative.
ROSE: Does it include you?
RYAN: It may. I don't know.
ROSE: You haven't made a decision yet.
GAYLE KING: Well, some would say that the timing of your book is a little suspicious – that it's a way of getting the people to know you. It's no coincidence, I think, Congressman, that it's coming out now. Would you at least agree to that – that there's a strategy here?
RYAN: I don't want to have another 2012. I want to have a 2016, where we can get this country on the right track, and have elections where we actually give people a real choice – so that if and when we win that election, we have the mandate and authority to actually get this country's problems solved.
O'DONNELL: But you reveal in this book that your father was an alcoholic. We knew that he had died at an early age of a heart attack. You found your father when he died. Why – why didn't you reveal that before?
RYAN: I didn't want to do it in the middle of a presidential campaign. I just didn't think it was appropriate to get into those issues at that time. And look, everybody goes through difficult knocks in life, and the point I'm trying to make, is you can have these tragedies in your family, but you can bounce back from these things. You can pick yourself up, and you can make the most of your life. And so, I learned great lessons from these problems that we had – and my family really bounced back. And I think it was an important story to share, but not in the heat of a presidential campaign.
Past CBS This Morning interviews of Rep. Ryan were much more contentious. Back in December 2013, O'Donnell took aim at the Republican over a bipartisan federal budget that he proposed with Democratic Senator Patty Murray: "Military members want to know why you asked them to take a cut, in terms of cost [of] living increases...the men and women in this country, who fight and die for this country, want to know why they should not get a cost of living increase like they have in the past." The CBS anchor also went after Ryan during four separate interviews in 2012.
British Prime Minister Theresa May leaves Downing Street to attend parliament, in London, on Jan. 21, 2019.
British Prime Minister Theresa May is hoping to tweak her failed Brexit deal with the European Union in order to woo skeptical parliamentarians poised to wrest control over the Brexit process while the government flounders. But she’s facing long odds and EU officials have already said they won’t agree to changes.
Ms. May has been struggling to come up with a new Brexit strategy ever since her deal with the EU was soundly rejected by parliamentarians last week by an overwhelming 230-vote margin. That has put Brexit in chaos with just more than two months to go before Britain leaves the EU on March 29.
Ms. May acknowledged that the biggest obstacle to her deal was what’s known as the backstop; a provision in the withdrawal agreement that guarantees the Irish border will remain open by tying Northern Ireland closely to the EU while the United Kingdom and EU negotiated a comprehensive trade deal. The Democratic Unionist Party, which is propping up the government, has said it would pull its support if Ms. May strikes any deal that would treat Northern Ireland differently. Other MPs argue the backstop could keep the U.K. linked to the EU indefinitely, which they say defeats the purpose of Brexit. They want the backstop either scrapped or time limited. Ms. May didn’t offer any proposals on Monday, but she said she planned to keep discussing ideas with MPs.
It’s hard to see how changes to the backstop are possible. Ms. May has already received written assurances from the EU that the backstop would be temporary and only put in place if trade talks dragged on longer than four years. That hasn’t satisfied dozens of MPs who want legally binding changes to the withdrawal agreement to weaken the backstop or remove it. Many of Ms. May’s fellow Conservative Party MPs reiterated that position on Monday, demanding that she return to Brussels to renegotiate the agreement. However, EU officials have insisted that the agreement cannot be reopened.
"The withdrawal agreement with all its dimensions, including the backstop, is the best deal possible,” the EU’s chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier told reporters on Monday. Ms. May also rejected reports that she may try to reopen the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, which ended years of sectarian violence over Northern Ireland and eliminated border controls, in order to reach a separate deal with Ireland that could avoid the need for the backstop. “I have never even considered doing so – and neither would I,” she said.
The only real proposal that surfaced on Monday came from Poland’s Foreign Minister, Jacek Czaputowicz, who suggested limiting the backstop to five years. But that too was quickly shot down. "Putting a time limit on an insurance mechanism, which is what the backstop is, effectively means that it’s not a backstop at all,” said Ireland’s Foreign Minister, Simon Coveney.

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